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The Fitzgerald Leader.
Published Evert Wednesday
and Saturday by
THE LEADER PUBL!SHIKG CO.
ItiCOR Gelders Managing Editor
Earl Braswell City Editor
$1.50 Per Year.
Applioation pending to be entered as
Second-Class Matter under Act of Con¬
gress of March 3. 1879.
ADVURTiailDU RATES!
Rates for Display Advertising
furnished on Application.
Local Readers 5 cents the line
for each insertion. No ad taken
for less than 25 cents.
Official Orjran of Ben Hill Co.
A Health Day for Georgia
Governor Brown, upon direct
request of Federation of Women’s
clubs lias designated the fourth
Friday in March as 11 FA FT II
DAY in Georgia. The public
schools throughout the state on
that day will have special programs
on hygiene in the home and in the
school, teaching the little ones how
best to preserve their bodily health
by proper attention to food, clean¬
liness and sanitation.
FARMERS CONVENTION
C. A. Newcomer, L. Iiobitzsch,
and George Drexler on behalf of
the Farmers Union, and Isidor
Gelders for the citizens committee,
interviewed the hotel proprietors
of the city and have the assurance
for satisfactory rates from all of
them and ample provision is being
made to care for the convention.
All the leading hotels have made
special low rates for the entertain¬
ment of the delegates and this co¬
operation of the hotels is highly
appreciated. It's this pulling to¬
gether which will build our citv
and County, and no class of people
will advertise our resources more
than the farmers who will assem¬
ble here.
We have several meritorious
propositions owned by home peo¬
ple, too limited in finances them¬
selves to properly exploit their
patents whioh could give some of
tiiat loose money an opportunity
for investment that now finds its
way into various doubtful specula¬
tive channels. The several thous¬
and dollars recently lost in foreign
companies would have established
a furniture factory, coffin factory
or some other much needed home
enterprise. Some of our enterpris¬
ing boosters could find profitable
employment for their money and
talents in organizing a home com¬
pany to develop some of our en¬
terprises.
The city of Fitzgerald is to be
congratulated upon the enterprise
displayed in securing an “Aviation andj
.Meet” on Thursday. Friday,
Saturday. March 10, 17 and US,
when J. S. Berger will have his
biplanes and monoplanes with his
troupe of aviators to fly. This is
said to be the biggest company of
aviators in the country, and they
have all models of fine machines ’ i
and will he worth the time of any!
citizen in the state to see—furnish¬
ing an opportunity for the people
of this section to see what they
have been reading so much about
during the past several months. Itj
is more than possible that a large |
number from this city and i mmed-
iate community will go to Fitzger-'
aid and sweii the tremendous
crowd that will attend this extra-
ordinary event on the dates named
.bov..-corid.
l lie date for this exhibition has j
been changed to March 22 to 25th.
and at that time, the Leader hopes
to have the pleasure of welcoming
many Cordelians to our city.
For Sale
Selected planting peas, all kinds
any size order, write for prices.
II. M. Franklin,
11 10 t. Tennille, Ga.
THE FITZGERALD LEADER. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1911
Tom Watson’s Poem
I. S. Jonas, ad writer for the
Chrmberlain-J o h n s o n-Dubose
Company, of Atlanta, repute to
be the greatest ad writer in Ameri-
ca, made the following comment
recently on lorn Watsons ate
printing press poem, the same ap-
pearing in the Atlanta papers in
Cnamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Com-
Pany’s advertising space:
In connection with t le
ing press we wish to say that, in
our opinion, Thomas E. W atson’s
blank verse, “The Song Of The
Piess” in this month’s Jeffersonian
Magazine, is one of the finest—if
not the finest—-poetical productions
we have ever read. It is a crown-
ing literary wonder. The seizure
of the theme and its presentation
were an inspiration possible only
to the loftiest strain of genius.
“We believe it will live as long
as the English language endures.
A century—ten centuries—From
now it will be read as a pure clas¬
sic, and Watson’s name will be
made glorious.
“All newspapers in the South
should produce it At Once for the
benellt of their readers.
“Editors, don’t let the North,
don’t wait for France, Germany
and England to Discover Watson
for us.
“The writer has heard Ambas-
dor Jusserand, who will be in At¬
lanta this week, tell how France
found Edgar Allen Poe for
America.
“Forget petty political wrangles
and render Watson the great trib¬
ute his Art merits.”
The following is the article by
Mr. Watson as it appeared in his
magazine:
THE SONG OK THE I’BINTING PRESS.
(Explanatory note: The sight
of big machinery in motion exerts
a fascination over most of us. The
wonderful work of it, and the or¬
ganized power of it, thrill one,
through and through.
When our immense Babcock
Press was put together (it has more
than 9,000 separate parts) and the
electric connection was made, the
DoddSupplyCo
Wholesale and General Supply Merchants
Collect on Delivery.
FOR cash:
Clover and Timothy Hay $1.25 ■
Cotton Seed Meal per sack 1.50
Cotton Seed Hulls per sack I / •
.
5 bushel sack Oats, per sack 2.50
2 1-2 bushel Corn, per sack 2.00
Bran and Shorts per sack 1.40
Self Rising Flour, per sack .80
jdest Patent Flour, per bbl. 5.50
25 pound Granulated Sugar 1.45
Arbuckles Coffee 22 1-2C lb
Luzianne Coffee 27 1-2C lb
$ French Market 25c lb
Best Green Coffee 20c lb
10 pounds fresh grits 2 ' /1 c
10 pounds Chicken feed for 25 c
2 cans fancy dessert Peaches 25c
2 cans large pie Peaches 20c
lo pounds fancy head Rice 1.00
Wc have a new delivery wagon now
on, and no orders 1 under $1.00 will be
delivered . .. . at tliese » •«--
prices. I»ioriey re-
funded if not pleased. Try ' us and
save at least $150.00 in # your grocery
and feed bills each year.
DODD SUPPLY CO.
212 East Pine Sreet,
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA
roar and rhythm of it was some-
thing altogether new to my ex¬
perience. I listened, enthralled.
Then the history of printing hash¬
ed across me: and I recalled the
almost numberless ways and de-
grees in which the tvpe . set word
atfects humanity .
Then and there, the conception
of the foIlowing p ieC e of blank¬
yerse occurred t0 me.
At first I had no idea of giving
it the present form: but when,
a f ter severa j days of occasional re-
"
Hection 0Q the subjec t 5 i came t0
write it out, the words of them¬
selves took the metre, which is a
verbal reproduction of the sound
of our big press.
If one >hould recite the poem,
while the machine is at work, he
would find that the long line of
nine syllables, follows exactly the
length of the long stroke of the
levers, while the short line of
seven syllables, corresponds with
the second and shorter roar of the
press.
I .repeat, the adoption of this
peculiar rhythm was due to the
fact that the song of the machine
had fixed itself in my head: I un¬
consciously transferred it to the
poem.
No other poem has that peculiar
tilt, and the swing of it was due
to the sub-conscious of the brain
Many a time you do a thing in¬
voluntarily: sometimes you do and
say things that you can’t recollect:
in such cases it is the sub-conscious
intelligence which guids. We all
have it; but in some it. acts oftner
and does more, than in others.
Of course, you will understand
that in the “Song of the Printing
Press,” the reference is to the
work done by the machine, rather
than to the machine itself.
T. F. W.)
(Continued on 8th Page.)
Dr- D. F. Thom pson,
Specialist In Chronic Diseases.
Admisters Electrical, Xray, Violet Ray
High Frequency Vibratory and Inhalation
Treatment 5or the cure of Chronic Diseases
Office hours 9 to 12 and 2 to 5. Evenings and
Saturdays by appointment. Offices 201. 202
and 204 5-Story Building. ConsuRation free.
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Central Avenue.
We have by fair dealings with our customers
competitors and creditors succeeded in building up
tne largest Buggy and Wagon business in this sec¬
tion of Georgia. We have lived among you now
close to four years and you have always found us
trying to do the square thing. Last year when
every thing and every body was behind and
couldn’t pay up, the firm of Griner Sons Co., did
not foreclose or sue a single note due us. We are
among you to stay and we want to say this one
thing that you will not do yourself nor family jus¬
tice if you fail to come to see Griner Sons Co., when
you need a Buggy, Carriage, Wagon, Piano, Organ,
Plow ’tools of all kinds, Harness, Rakes, Whips, et
Don’t forget and buy before you look all around.
Then we are satisfied.
Our business last year has been very satisfactory in
all of our lines. We realize that our success is due
in large part |to the wonderful developement this
section is undergoing. Our farming interests are
still inljtheir swadling clothes and we are looking
forward toMandfpreparing for a largely increased
patronage this coming year. Our faith in FITZ-
GERLDjiandjBEN B LL COUNTY is unbounded,
we have built our HOMES here and have invested in
FARM LANDS; we believe in the FUTURE of this
section. Our business plans are all made upon the
basis®of future 25 wm transactions with all of our patrons,
we expect by honest dealing to retain our old cus¬
tomers and make our name a household word for
square! dealing in every FARM HOUSE in BEN
iwfc w ' A , "ry **a
HILL and adjacent COUNTIES. Call on us when
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in townjyow are always welcome here.
Griner * Sons Co.
Central Avenue f