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Congress of March 18,1879,
Official Organ of Ben Hill Couniy snd City of Fiizgeraid
Rates for Display Advertising furnished on Application. -
Local Readers 10 cents the line :or each insertion. No ad taken ‘or
fess than 25 cents.
Supply and Demand.
Every few days farmers, especially] cotton-growers, are sol
e unly warnad agaiast co-operating to control prices, on them
t lat prices must be left to supply and}deman 1.
The play of supply and demand hasrelatively little tc do with
the price of anything. It governs fluctuations injprice, which are
usually only a small vart of the total price. Probably at this writ
ing the demand for ¢2ll, relatively to the supply, is much stronger
than the demand for diamonis; but coal doesa’t seli higher than
diamonds. It would be absurd to say a table costs fifty dollars and a
chiir fiv: bacius : the d2manl for tah'es, relativel s to the 312 y,
is ten times as strong as the demand for chairs. The first factor
in fix‘ng price is the cost of production.
Farmers are quite righ: in insisting upon the first and
greatest factor—cost of production. Moreover, their co-operative
plans, instead of flying in the fac:of thelaw of supply and demand,
work in conformity with it. They propose to control fluctuations
in price precise'y by controlling the supply. Only that part of the
supoply that is off2red on the market,; or that jbuyers, believe wili
soon be offered, effects price.
For practical purposes, billions of tons of coal under the
ground have no influence on the price, The Brazilian coffee valor
ization schame, for example, has controlled fluctuations in priee by
controlling supply. Ifjthe Steel Trust management operated its
mill always at full blast, offering the product right and left at
whatever buyers would bidl—with a blind and simple-minded notion
that it must leave prices absolutely to the law of supply and de
mand—t would be brouzht before ajcomiission in lunacy. —Satur
day Evening Post.
A Nation's Appreciation Expressed in
Monuments.
Monuments to commemorate great men and events that have
p'ayed parts in the onward march of civilization are the expression
of appreciatien of gosterity for the part their {forebears had in the
history of their country and the race. A Nation that fails'to mark
the periods of National achievements will pass into oblivion as the
unmarked grave of a forgotten dead. One ofjthe world’s greatest
conflicts that history records, was the conflict between the North
and the South, the fra‘ricina! wa~ of the Nation. Two generations
will soon have passed since the clos» of these memorable”events,
and the erection of a monument to the haroes of the Northjand the
South, those who d'ed in the defense of the principles that they
espoused, and those who through the fortune of war still survive
to tell around their campfires the story of their valor. To those
survivors especially wou!d this memorial be as roses tendered them
during life. Let every child in the public schoolsjof the Nation
contribute a dime to this Monument and fix upon them(the unity
of the sections. We suegest that Fitzgerald and Ben Hill county
schools start the movement for the school childrens’ fund to the
Blue and Gray Monument.
Ben Hill County Corn Club Boys
Again our Boys demonstrated that they are wiser than their dad-}
dies and that Booklearning ‘‘does count in farming as well as in other
business.” The disappointing results in 1911 of the corn contest of the
d.eader deterred us in 1912 from undertaking another Corn raising
coutest for the farmers for the results last year showed that our grown
up farmers could raise more ‘‘cane” than corn, Pursuant to the wise
polioy adopted by the county school board some years ago, the Ben
Hill County School board this year again organized a contest among
the school boys of the county. The result this year is very satisfac
tory, 1o fact we don’t know of a farmer 1n the county that can match
with the little fellows as corn producers.
Laudie Minchew, aged 13, ... .. ... .yeild per acre. ... . ... 84 bushel.
SR el WL o MM L Y
D Minchew IRI e e R R
Paul Bowers e TR AR R R eTTR | '
B Eon: > 28 . 0 MR e 0 8
The prizes awarded by the county board and the individual citizens
will be delivered to the coatestants at the Fair on Saturday Nov, 23.
Ia ddition to the local prizes by these boys they will recieve some
viluable books offered by the A. B.and A. R. R. Company to the
Pbovs raising the most corn per acre in the counties traversed by that
Rail Koad. _
A WISE MAN.
Once upon a ime a wise man
penned a letter full of confidential
statements, and at the end he wrote
this line, heavily underscored, “Burn
this letter.” Then, being a wise
man, he took his own advice and
burned the letter himself. —Lcadon
Opinica.
LOVE.
“Self is the only pnson that can ever
bind the soul ;
Love is the only angel who can
bid the gates unroll;
And when he comes to call thee
arise and follow fast ;
His way may be through darkness,
but 1t leads to light at fast.”
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22, 1912
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A PRAYER FOR THE BABIES. ;
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Written for the Milk snd RBaby Hy- ¢
gicne asgociation of Boston.| :
O God, since thou hast laid the ¢
little children into our arms in °
utter helplessness, with no pro- :
tection save our love, we pray
that the sweet appeal of their |
baby hands may not be in vain.
Let no innocent life in our city
be quenched again in useless |
pain through our ignorance and ¢
sin. May we who are mothers |
or fathers seek eagerly to join
wisdom to our love, lest love it
self be deadly when unguided |
by knowledge, Bless the doc- -
tors and nurses and all the -
friends of men, who are giving .
of their skill and devotion to the
care of our children. If there °
are any who were kissed by love .
in their own infancy, but who
have no child to whom they may
give as they have received .
grant them such largeness of
sympathy that they may rejoice
to pay their debt in full to all
children who have nead of them.
Forgive us, our Father, for
the heartlessness of the past.
Grant us great tendernsss for
all babes who suffer and a grow
ing sense of the divine mystery
that is brooding in the soul of
every child, Amen. ,
—~—Walter Rauschenbusch. '
ARTISTIC STREET SICNS
ON EVERY LAMPPOST.
Baltimore and Kansas City Start Pro
gressive Campaign.
Many cities, otherwise progressive.
are still backward in providing proper
street signs for the convenience of their
citizens and visitors. 'wo cities in
which campaigns are now under way
for providing such signs in an artistic
manner are Kansas City and DBalti
more.
In Kansas City Mr. IFrank 8. Land.
president of the Municipal Art league,
ts advocating combination street name
posts and street lights. Mr. Land
points out the fact that many of the
street signs put up several years ago
are torn down or have become un
recognizable through stress of weath
er If placed on decorative posts the
sizns would be in a position where all
could see and would be less easily de
stroyed. The Municipal Art leaguve has
geveral lantern slides showing these
combination posts in use in various for
eign cities.
In Baltimore Superintende.:t of
Lamps and Lighting McCuen has be
gun to paint the street names on the
slobes of the new lamps installed in
the Great White way system. The
lettering on the new Ilamps will be
artistic, Mr. McCuen declared, and of
such a nature as not to interfere to
any extent with the light thrown out
by the new lamps.
CITY TO GIVE CHEAP DANCES.
Cleveland to Conduct Municipal Dance
Halls to Combat Dives.
To fight the daunce hall evil Cleveland
is preparing to conduct municipal
dances under the supervision of city
employees. Admission will be 3 cents
a dance. Dance tloors will be put in
shelter houses at city parks.
The Edgewater dance hall will be
opened in two weeks. Workmen are
already laying the tloor in the shelter
louse, and as soon as it is opened
dances will be held every evening ex
cept Sunday. “This is just a sturter,”
Park Secretary Sindelar announced.
“We shall start dances in Brookside.
Gordon and Washington parks at once.
The shelter house at Garfield is too
small, but might be enlarged.”
“We must carry this enterprise
further and open dance halls in the
crowded districts next winter,” sald
City Dance Hall Inspector Bartholo
mew. “We made experiments at Hi
ram house with such dances last win
ter and succeeded admirably.”
Park attaches will have charge of
the tickets, and the city will have a
floor manager to regulate the dancing
and the music.
A “MUNICIPAL RECORD.”
San Jose, Cal, Issues Monthly About
; City Doings. ~
The first issue of the San Jose Mu
nicipal Record has appeared. It is a
monthly publication, which will be de
voted solely to setting forth facts of
interest concerning the business of the
city. In the initial issue a host of in
teresting facts and figures is given.
each department of the city govern
ment being treated by the head of this
division. The first article and one of
the main features is the inaugural ad
dress of Thomas Monabhan upon his
assuming the mayor's seat.
It is the intention of the publishers
to set forth each month the business
of the city In such a way that all may
know what is going on in the city hall
and to do this in a much more elab
orate mannper than it is possible to
give it in the daily press. From the
typographical viewpoint the Record
is pleasing. it being printed on a heavy
paper. with the lillustrations all in
brown tones. The paper will be mail
ed anywhere in the city for 50 cents a
year, or it wny be obtained by any tax
payer who applies at the city hall
1 e et sttt
| Warsaw Plans Vehicle Tax.
‘ A wheel tax for Warsaw, Ind.. is now
under consideration by the city council.
| Councfiman . C. Cronon, chairmuan of
the street and alley committee, will
present a new teaffic ordinance, and it
will provide for a tax on automobiles,
i drays and other vehicles.
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Interesting Experiment at Goie
brook Academy.
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TRY “COMBINED EDUGATION.
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New Hampshire Board of Education to
l.ay as Much Stress on Agriculture
and Domestic Science as Languages
and Mathematics.
How can the high school best meet
the needs of the community? The peo
ple of Colebrook, N. H., think they
have soived the problem. Their exper
yment is interestingly described in a
bulletin just issned for free distribu
tion by the United States bureau oi
education.
Colehrovk academy is located in a
town of about 2000 population in
northern New Humpshire. Starting as
a private school. it later became part
of the public system of education. For
years it has successfully done the work
expected of a high school in the tradi
tional branches of the New lEngland
school. Now it is trying to do some
thing wmore. Without lowering its
standards. without ceasing to furnish
the training necessary for those going
into the professions, it is endeavoring
to provide an adequate education for
the great mass of boys and girls who
ought to remain and grow up with the
country.
It is seeking. in other words, to read
just itself to the needs of the particu
Jar community in which it is. Jus
what this readjustment means may be
seen from the following four signifi
cant additions to the school plant—the
greenhouse, the dairy laboratory, the
domestic arts department and the
workshop. including a carpenter and
blacksmith shop. Complete courses are
given in agriculture and domestic sci
ence. Colebrook is the center of a ru
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TRICITY,
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terests of a large part of the popula
tion.
Colebrook academy does not propose
to become a vocational school. It re
mains a general bhigh school. The
courses in agriculture and domestic
science exist side by side with thor
ough courses in the traditional high
-school subjects. as well as the com
mercial branches.
“Its purpose is not primarily to make
good farmers or skilled mechanics or
professiona! housekeepers,” says Hon.
H. C. Morrison, state superintendent of
New Hampshire. “The primary object
is the education of the boy and girl to
become a sincere and efficient and
happy man and woman, capable of be
coming an educated worker with ma
terial things. capable of getting life's
happiness out of work rather than out
of the leisure which comes after work,
if indeed it comes at all.
The significance of the Colebrook
movement lies in the fact that it dem
onstrates the basic principle upon
which the American high school must
stund or fall; that it shall be a direct
source of strength to the community
that pays for it. The feeling exists
that secondary rural schools have in
many instances weakened the com
munities which supported them; that
by the very efficiency of their work
they bhave trained young men and wo
men for other fields ef usefulness and
have thus frequentiy deprived the com
munity of tire services of its best citi
zens. It is said that New Hampshire
has been a notable sufferer from this
process and that readjustment is neces
sary if the process is to be checked
and the upbuilding of the country dis
tricts is to go on again.
Particularly important is the part to
be plared by the reconstructed raral
high schnol in the conuntry life move
ment. The Colebrook ucndemy digni
fies the fundamental aris of agrical
ture and home makine (iven schools
of this type. with a program of studies
matcehing the real luterests of the com
munity. and rural civilization may ia
truta be made as efficient aud satisfy
fng as other-eivilizations.
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Philander H. Fitzgerald =
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The Guest Of The City.
* Fitzierald Day” At The
Tri-County Fair Friday.
Judge Curtis Wise and '\dr J. B. “eanor as a comiittee from the
Chamber of Commerce met the eaily m-rning train that brought the
guest of the Fair and the City of Fitzg:rald, Mr. P. H. Fitzgerald.
‘They escorted him to the Lee-Grant Hot.!, wiiere previous arrange
ments had been made for his entertainme: t during his visit to the eity.
An informal reception was held in the pa:'ors of the Hotel at 10a. m,,
‘and a score of old soldiers and others welcomed the guest to the city.
“This scene was inspiring, oid men, who i ined their fortunes with his
in the old colony days and whese fidelivy to him and to his plans
‘made possible the success of the City »ud colony, vied with each other
in making our guest feel the welcome thiey had for him and the appre
ciation they felt for the vision of thi- wan, realized beyond expecta
ton in the grandeur of the City that Le plapnel. The nathos of the
occasior. made itself felt, wher ujon the sng estion of Lomrade Prun
ner and Mr. W. B Bowen, tlie scscruuvled Veterans and Colonests
gathered 1n a group to have the occasicn preserved through tne pho
tographers art, Of the old board of directors of the colony company,
bat one answered to the call, Col. Thomas Wilson, all the rest of the
i« Imate associates of the early Colony Company had answered the
1 stroll call. Curtis,Wise, sccretary of the Colony Company, and
Mr J. B. Seanor its first bookkeeper were the sole survivors of the
o 'iginal official family of the American Soldiers Colony Company, of
which Mr. Fitzgerald was the author ard President during its legal
existence. '
The comrades of the early days, who were present were:
A. Hageman, J. L. Wellman, Col, Thos. Wilson, J. C. Buckley,
0. P.iWebster, Wm. McCormick, Geo. Whitman, Joseph Burkhart,
J W. Manbeck, L.ee Scott, Joseph Buck, Perry Booker, M. K.
H itchinson, Sam Haveifield.
Prominent amosg;thote gathered to do horor to the founder of
t 1e colony who joined their efforts with the colonists in fostering the
inf wnt town were W. R. Bowen, J. M. McDonald, £d Whitman, A.
H. Denmark, J. A. Justice, J. E, Turner, W. T. Paulk, C. B. Teal,
S ca Greer, F, J. Hanson, Tom Hopper, W. W. Pickens J, W. Pic
k>ns, Charles Renard and J. B, Denistcn whese father was the origi
nil promter and a director of the Colony Company and J. R Monroe
of Abbleville, who is largely respounsible for the colony being
1, :ated here. ' '
Mr. Fitzgerald will be shown the city and colony by Mr. W, R.
B)wen, in his car, acccmpanied by Ccl. Wilson, J, B. Seanor and
‘J idge C. M. Wise. Friday the Fair Association has charge of Mr.
¥ zgerald and special features are planned to make ¢ ‘Fitzgerald Day”
at the Fair ore cf irterest eld future importance.
Mr. Howard Brown was the artist of the orcasion and photcs of
tle meeting may be had from him at his studio.
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Thursday’s Races
A large and enthusiastic crowd was on hand at the Fair Grounds
yesterday afternoon when Starter George W. McDowell, of Marion,
Ohio, fired the signal for the first race—the free-for-all pace, which
was followed by a 2:25 trot.
Interest in the horse races seems to increase daily, and a
la~ger crowd turns out every afternoon. There have been some
fine horses from different parts of the country brought to the city
for this meet, and those who fail to attend the the fair, are miss
ilg some fine sport. Following is the score that resulted in yester
day’s races:
FREE FOR ALL PACE,
; Heats. Time
Senator C, Baer, of Montgemery, owner, 1-3-3-3 2:274
. Marie Bradley, Tansey, Chattanooga, ‘* 3111 2:28
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Sir Alcourted, Paget, of Renaler, Ind., owner 2.2.2.2.
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First—George Sidney, Lowell, owner 1-1-1 2:38
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' 2:35
Third—Bell Thurman, Tansey, cwner 3-33
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