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. SOCIETY NEWS NOTES C. A. Holtzendort DENTIST 2ad Floor Rooms 208-9-10 Garbutt-D>novan Eldg. Miss Chester Wilbanks, of Qsierfield, was in the city yester day shopping. Mr. Chas. W. Merck las re turned from 1 week’s visit to Gainesville, Ga. - Mr. and Mrs. Guy Robinson announce the arrival of a fine boy at their home on Central Ave. Mrs. Fred Waller has returned -+to her home in Atlanta, after a visit of several weeks in the city. Mrs. Smith, of Reynolds, arriv ed in the city today to visit her daughter, Mrs. Guy F. Robinson. Mrs. Wright Garbutt has been quite sick at her home on South Lee Street for the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. C. U. Gaines an nounces the birth of a pretty baby girl at their home on Pine street. Mr. Frank Haver will come up from Brunswick to morrow night .to spend Sunday with friends in the city. : Mr. Hugh Turner, of Jackson ville, is home for a week or more with his mother, Mrs. J. W. Tur ner, on North Lee St, Mrs. Olin Easterlin, after a pleasant visit with Dr. and Mrs. Louis Turner, left yesterday for her home in Americus. Mrs. G. C. Smith, of Bruns wick, is expected in the city next week, comi~g b nd Fair week with hor wasthes, Mrs. L. H. Keim. Mrs. J. Sherman Campbell, of e Pittshurg, and Miss Mary Davis, of Ligoneer, Pa., are the guests of Mrs. Shallenberger and Mrs. Maldoon. Mrs. S. W. Bivins and little daughter, Vivian, left yesterday for their Tampa, Fla., home. af ter a visit of two weeks with her sister, Mrs. Lucian O, Tisdel. A large number of visitors from Ocilla are expected in the city tonight to attend the Woman’s Club home talent play, “The Ben Hill County Fair,”” at the Opera House. Mrs. James Marston and little daughter, Helen Janet, left this afternoon for Brunswick to sperd the remainder of this month with Mrs. Marston’s father, Mr. Put am. - ' Misses Mary Lewis and Ruth Putnam came up from Branswick one day this week to superintend the moving of their household furuiture to that city. Mr. and Mrs.- B. F. Knapp have vacated the J. G. Knapp place on West Central Avenue, and are now located closer in, ozcupying the D. Burnett cottage at the corner of Pine and Johnscn streets. . Mr. Paul Ellison, the new cash jer of the American State Bank, is boarding at Mercer’s on South Main street until the arrival of his wife and children. who will come about the first of next month. : Mr. Alex Koplin, of Atlanta, will arrive in the city in the morning to spend the week-end with his brother, Mr. Pinkie Kop lin. He attends Georgia Univer sity, and made 2 host of friends when here sometime ago with the Glee Club. Mrs. Francis Shallenberger left for Atlanta to visit her brother, Dr. Shallenberger, before return ing to her home, Edgewood Park, Pittsburz, Pa. While here she was entertained by her aunt, Mrs. Shallenberger and Mrs. Mal doon at six tables of rook. Dr.G. W.McLean DENTIST Rooms 512-513. PHONE 438. Garbutt Donovan Building Fifth Floor Sunday by Appointment Lorinz Brown, the famousl poultry expert, will judge the ex hibits at the Ben Hill Fair. Mrs. W. V. Chureh, who isin an Atlanta sanitarium, is report ed improving, after a successful operation performed about a week ago. The Girls’ Canning Clubs ex hibits of the Tri-County Associ ation will be a special feature of Domestic Science Depart ment a the Ben Hill Fair. WARREN-CORNWELL. Miss Maggie Warren and Mr. Ed Cornwell were united in mar riage at Fitzgerald Sunday night, leaving immediately afterwards for Atlanta, where they spent a few days before going on to Rome, the home of the groom. The wedding came as a sur prise to their friends in Tifton, as the youny people quietly slip ped off without informing anyone of their plans. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Warren and has many friends in the city. The groom has only been in the city a short time and was connected with Brooks Phar macy while here -Tifton Gazette. J. F, Sheahan Is Doolittle’s Successor Mr. J. E. Sheahan has arrived in the city and assumed the duties of Master Mechanic at the A, B. & A. Shops, recentlv resigned by Mr. R. L. Doolittle, who has taken up a position in Atlanta. Mr. Sheahan comes to the A. B. & A. irom the Georgia and Florida Railroad, Fire at Macon. Reports are received here of a conflagration in Macon. Tt is said several cotton warehouses have already been consumed and tue fire is still raging as we go to press. o : City Loans. Immediately after Wilson was elected, the board of directors of the Calvert Mortgage and Deposit Company met and lowered the rate of interest 2 per cent. See me now for city loans. 86 tf C. B. TEAL. Sheriff’s Sale. GrorciA BEn HiLL County. Will be sold at the Court house door in said county between the legal hours of sale on December 3, 1912, one bay horse mule about six years old, 15 hands high named Tom. To be sold under an execution in favor of Scarbrough Buggy Company against J. E. Whittleissu'ed from the City Court of Fitzger ald. This November, 8, 1912, e G Pozler, Deputy Sheriff. Sheriff’s Sale GEORGIA, BEN HiLL COUNTY. Will be sold at the Court house door in said county between the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in December 1912 one Wing, Plilanlo Style 23, walnut wood, case No. 87510. To be sold as the property of E. A. Witham under an execution issued from the City Court of Fitzgerald in favor of Wing and Son against E. A. Witham ~ This November 8, 1912. ' C. C. (ozier, Deputy Sheriff. THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1912 Dr. J. M. Adams DENTIST Rooms 304-305 3rd Floor §-Story Building Phone 226 : Chamber Of Commerce Organized At Enthusiastic Rally of Businessmen Membership Will Reach 100 by Saturday Night In response to the invitation of Presidéent D. L. Martin, of tke Fair Association, thirty five progressive business men assembled at the Aldine Hotel. : Mr, Martin stated the object of the meeting and the need of un organized effort towards building up the City and County. ¢‘Co-ope ration 1s the keynote to the success of this movement” said Mr. Martin “and an era of development of our natural resources isat hand. Every citizen should lend a band and put his shoulders to the wheel.” Amd great enthusiasm Mr. M.artin was elected presiient of tle new organization, A. H, Thurmond, vice President, J. E, Turver treasurer, and I. Gelders secretary. Encouraging speeches were wade by Messrs W, R. Bowen, J. E. Turner, F. J. Hanson and others. The membership committee consisting of Pres. D. L. Martin, A. H. Thurmond, I. Gelders, W. R Bowen, B. T. Strickland, J. B, Seanor and L. L, Griner, pledged 100 members by the next meeting of the Chamber. : Thirty-two gentlemen present envoiled their names on the mem bership list and paid their entrance fee of $l.OO. The Chamber will have headquarters at 117 East Pine street and a bureau of information will be opened for visitors to the Fair, The members present pledged themselves to decorate their places for the week of the Fair and the merchauts generally will be requested to make this week a Gala season for Fitzgerald. The harmony prevailirg in the organization of the Chamber of Commerce speaks well for tle obliteration of factional differences and may be construed as being the beginning of a new era of good feeling and co-operation among the ‘business element. Members present were: W, R Paunlk, H. L. McLendon, Claude Wilson, Harold Besll, J. A. Justice, W. G. McNelley, Wall & Fre’- well, J. Kassewitz, F. J. Hansen, W. W. Martin, J. A. Jones, J. I, Mayes, W. A. Adams, L. L, Griner, J. B. Seanor, C. A. Renard, Isidor Gelders, C. A, Miller R. L, Hilliard, T. J. Luke, F, R. Justice W. B. Moore, Davis & Higgs, N. N. Lattlefield, C. A. Holtzendorf, H. M. Warren, J. C. Glover, J. E. Turner, D. L. Martin, R. 1. Maf fett, P. B. Owen, J. W. Scarboro, A. H. Thurmond, B. T, Strick land, W. R. Bowen, E. L, Dorminey, C. L. Sandersand H. M. Dedd. Democratic Victury Complete Electorial Vote. Waleaw . . e 4l Boosewele, .. 0o .. .0 u o O Tt o e . B Popular Vote, Wilsan. . ... e BAOILERO Roowevels, ..o L 8108080 TG o i e i RRNERD Dehs, o 0 iy B 0 Result In Georgia. Wilson, 92,804; Roosevelt, 21,147; Taft, 5,505; Debs, 637; Chufia, 40. W ilson’s grand total over the combined field is 65 475. His Total over R)osevelt and Ta!t is 66,153; his total over Roose velt is 71,657. Out of the 146 counties Wilson swept 141, Roosevelt: carried five—Cherokee Douglas, Haralson Paulding and Pickens. Taft car ried 31 in 1908, . e Yacht Racing Cleanest Sport In the World By Sir THOMAS LIPTON, English Yachtsman o O MY MIND YACHT RACING IS THE CLEANEST AND .H'.‘ST i SPORT IN THE WORLD. IT IS A GOOD THING, TOO, ¥oR A NATION TO FOSTER. IT BREEDS IN YOUNG MEN A LOVE FOR THE SEA THAT PREPARES THEM FOR THE NAVY IN TIME OF WAR. : . Look at Germany, for instance. In that country the yachting game is nationally encouraged. The kaiser sets the example by taking a personal interest in the sport, and as a consequence there are & lot of young chaps of the right sort TAKING TO THE SEA AS NATURALLY AS DUCKS TO WATER. They go in for the sport of it and stay in for the PURE LOVE OF IT. From the decks of their yachts they go finally, many of them, to the quarter decks of the kaiser’s warships. - Germany’s strength as a sea power is, T believe, accounted for to a considerable degree by the fact that YACHTING IS MADE SO POPULAR THERE. The Fitzgerald Press, the new weekly newspaper, has opened their business in the Garbutt-Ware building on Central Avenue, and are now engaged in getting ready for their first edition, which will be issued in about two weeks. Mr. W G. McNelly is manag ing editor of the néw enterprise. having come here from Atlante. Mr. McNelly was formerly traveling salesman for the Atlanta Newspaper Union, and is known to quite a few of our citizens. Registration books for the city election. The books close next Tuesday, Nov. 12. The poultry show at the Ben Hill County Fair will eclipse any previous effort in this section. A t_housand birds will be on exhibi tion. ° Chas. S. Barrett Discusses ® @ o Landlordism in America To the Officers and Members of the Farmers’ Union: Discussion the country over is raging ,around the subject of rural credits. At the outset I want to say I have made some in vestigation of the matter, and that I believe a meodified system of rural credits feasible in America that lam convinced the time has come for action and not merely talk, and that rural credits may be used to stem the tendency toward landlordism, which I know to be one of the gravest menaces facing this nation. There is little use for me to dwell upon the various plans offered whereby some system of rural credits can be made effec tual. It is only essential to say that the Raiffoisen and other plans have been followed in Germany and other old-worid countries with signal success for more than a century. It is possible, under one of these plans, for a number of farmers in a given community to become mutually responsib!e for loans extended to their respective members. It is also possible for rural credits to be materialized by cons'ituting the land itself the basis of loans—and that plan is meritorious and economically sound v the simple reason that in the last analysis the soilis the source of : 1l wealth. The International Institute of . : culture in Rcme, under the direction of David Lubin, has mal horough inquiry into all these plans and if any American farm desires detailed informz tion Dr. Lubin will be glad to furnish I want to stress right now to -+ farmer in this country who is talking excitedly about ‘‘plans’ . :d who thinks that all that is necessary to succeed with rural cred ° anyth'ng elseis to find “‘plans’’—that there are plans galore. v 'at is needed right now is men bold enough and with sufficient rl.itiative in every commun ity to carry their plans into execution, and to do it in the face of discouragement, diffculties and sacrifice of time and health, if that is necessary. It'is just as well, therefore, to stop worrying so much about *‘plans’’ and think more about how we are going to find the men to execute the plans, not just for one week but right on to the end of the chapter. - It is necessary toremember, however, that Germany is a coun try of thickly settled, smail communities and that the plans which have proved advisable there may have to be altered to take into account separation of agricultural unitsin America. This process resolves itself, however, into a matter of detail and the main por tion of the task is, as I have stated, the locating and training of the men to carry into effect any system of rural credits that may be devised, whether under governmental or private supervision. Now, to the second feature—that of landlordism in America. I believe that a perfected system of rural credits can do much to overcome or at least lessen this evil. If you doubt that it exists I only ask that you investigate in your own neighborhood as to the number of men who own their farms, and as to the number of acres, wild or cultivated, owned by an absentee landlord. After all is said, it remains that America is a land the pros perity and progress of which are founded on agriculture. If we allow to form in this country a class of controlling land owners, and a corresponding class of tenants subject to these landlords, we cre ate a system that is the direct opposite of democratic government |and that will eventually lead to a condition of land monopoly, be side which the problems of the so-called high cost of living and other muchly-agitated issues will dwindle to insignificance I was astonished when, in conversation recently with Professor E. C. Branson, of Athens, Ga., he gave me figures relating to Georgia alone of absentee ownership which are almost incredible. Had not the figures been based on conditions of which I am personally aware, I would have doubted him, Unless it is checked. ownership of land by a {few in each com munity is going to strangle individual and collective prosperity in America. If every farmer, every American, who reads these lines and who is genuinely concerned for his individual welfare and that of the country will deliberately study these condition, I have out lined, he will be convinced as to the need and the duty of securing leaders who will materialize rural credits or any other sound, proven agency that wili prove a remedy for the drift toward landlordism. Finally, don’t fret so eternally about the plans. The men to execute them constitute the real problem—the men and the spirit of co-operation in every community. CHARLES S. BARRETT. , Union City, Ga., November 5, 1912, It Is Not Drink That Causes The High Cost of Living. The High Cost of Living and Other Kinds of Anxiety, on the Contrary, Cause Drunkenness and Drive Men to Drink Eugeune Chafin, who was the earnest and -interasttng presidential candidate of the Prohibition party, made a remarkable statement the other day. He said: ““Liquor is the real cause of the high cost of living.” Liquor is nothing of the kind, Nothing is more foolish than to say that drunkenness is responsi ble for all the ills of society. The ills of society, on the contrary are largely responsible for drunkenness. | Men drink to excess when they are underpaid, underfed worried and distressed. ' Those that are foolish say that drink causes poverty. It is pov erty that causes DRINK. ; } When a man lives in a state of anxiety and whisky holds out ‘temporary relief, the man is apt to take whisky. i When the high cost of living drives mien to despair, and they find it difficult to provide for their families, and when whisky holds out temporary happiness and contentment—too many of them take whisky. It is not drink that causes poverty so much as poverty that causes drinking. : And the same is true of dirt, disease and ignorance. Ignorance causes drunkenness. Pirt is caused by poverty, and dirt and poverty combined cause drunkenness. ; Take away the high cost of living, fight ignorance with education abolish poverty with opportunity, good Mr. Chafin, and you will be surprised to find how quickly you will diminish drunkenness, and how rapid!y you will solve the problem presented by ‘“the demon rum.”— Atlanta Georgian. Nov. Tth, ;