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Official Orff an Ben Hill County.
Meeting Held At
The Leader Office
Subscribers to Cotton and
Corn Contest Met Yes¬
terday
Fitzgerald, Ga., April 18, 1911.
—The meeting was called to order
by Mr. L. Robitzsch, Chairman,
who was elected to that position at
a former meeting. Mr. F.R. Jus¬
tice, who was elected secretary be¬
ing absent, Mr. W. R. Bowen was
requested to act as secretary in his
place.
Upon roll call, it was found that
a majority of the subscribers were
present, and the chairman declared
the meeting was in order for pro-
ceeding with the business for
which it was called to attend to.
At this time W. R. Bowen stat¬
ed that the object of the meeting
was to discuss the ways and means
of handling the funds which were
ing offered for prizes and the
general distribution among the
various contestants. The matter
was thoroughlty discussed by those
present in many phases.
Upon motion of I. Gelders,
duly seconded by A. B. Cook, a
committee composed of five be ap¬
pointed with the full power to act
in handling the funds offered by
the subscribers. Motion carried.
The chairman appointed the fol¬
lowing, E. T. James, A. B. Cook,
W. R. Bowen, L. L. Griner, and
T. F. Hemminger as the commit¬
tee.
Chairman L. Robitzsch stated
that the Fair Association Commit¬
tee had held a meeting this after¬
noon and that he and his associate
committee present was requested
to invite those present to meet
with the Fair Association Commit¬
tee at the American State Bank at
2:30 o’clock Monday next.
Upon motion of J. E. Turner,
seconded by L. L. Griner, the
committee of arrangements com¬
posed of five was instructed to
meet with the Fair Association at
the American State Bank at 2:30
o’clock Monday next as per invi¬
tation extended by L. Robitzsch.
There being no further business
on hand, the subscribers to the
prize fund adjourned.
L. Robitzsch, Chairman.
W. R. Bowen, Secretary.
Berger Arrested
By PosteJ Officers
Savannah, Ga., April 17.—J. S.
Berger, of New York, proprietor
of the Berger aviator plant now
t
here with his machines and his
fliers, and who has been giving ex-
hibitions in the towns and cities of
south Georgia, was arrested here
today charged with using the mails
with intent to defraud.
United States Postoffice Inspec¬
tor Britton caused the ariest to
be made on complaints filed with
the government that Berger had
written letters to arrange meets,
claiming that he had the world’s
greatest aviators under his control.
Berger claims he is being per¬
secuted by the ‘ ‘Aviation trust”,
which endeavored, he declares, to
get him to enter a plan to charge
exorbitant prices for exhibits.
This he refused to do.
There are but eighteen aviators
worthy of the name in the world,
says Berger, “and I have three of
them.” He gave bond in the sum
of $1,000 pending an investigation
of the charges against him by a
United States commissioner on
Saturday
Messers. P. Nesbit, Harry Bur¬
nett and Philip Robinson, spent
Sunday in Macon.
Mr. Pigford Sandlin left Mon-
day tor Jacksonville, Fla., where
he will spend the week.
SEMI-WEEKLY
The Fitzgerald
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, APRIL 19, 1911.
BILLBOARD
246 Miles The Short Route 246 Miles
Macon to Jacksonville
Via
Perry, Hawkinsville, FITZGERALD, Douglas,
Waycross, Folkston, Callahan.
IF IT’S THE BEST WE GET THE TRAVEL.
Lets Build It Anyhow.
President Barrett Denounces Fallacy
That Opportunities Are Fewer Today
To the Officers and Members of the Farmers’ Union:
I have no patience with the complaint that, in our day, opportun¬
ities for the young man are dissapeering.
IT IS THE CRY OF IGNORANCE OR LAZINESS.
In every line opportunities are greater, and rewards more prom¬
ising, than at any time in American history.
The only individuals with cause for grievance are the boys who
will not equip themselves for success, in its highest sense, or those
parents who are guilty of criminal neglect in seeing that the boy is
properly equipped.
During the past several years I have visited every section of this
country, and directly and. indirectly investigated conditions in practi¬
cally all branches of commerce and industry.
EVERYWHERE THE DEMAND IS FOR YOUNG MEN OF
ABILITY TO DO THE WORLD’S WORK; AND THE SUPPLY
IS FAR BELOW THE DEMAND.
The great fortunes that have been made in this country, and the
luxuries of the age in which we live, combined with lack of parental
discipline, have done one wrong to our boys—many of them have
grown to have a contempt for humble beginnings.
That is the secret of the complaint that the “doors of opportunity
are closing”, and that success is only for the chosen few.
The boy of twenty years ago was willing to work his way
to success. He was willing, and anxious, to begin with the most un¬
pretentious labor, and apply himself and deny himself, if he saw re¬
rewards at the other end.
The boy of our day—too often—wants to begin at the top instead
of the bottom.
He wants to step into a “snap”, an “easy berth”, without once
reflecting that, save in exceptional instances, such positions are held
by men who have demonstrated their fitness by long training, concen¬
tration and experience.
The sort of opportunity for the proper kind of education!
AND EDUCATIONAL ADNANTAGES ARE MORE PLEN¬
TIFUL, AND CHEAPER, TODAY THAN EVER BEFORE.
It is the educated, the equipped men who rule this country, and
who reap its greatest rewards in every branch of endeavor.
It is those whose education is insufficient, whose training has been
neglected, that feed the armv of failures and the band of malcontents.
The boys, or men who are now complaining of “lack of opportun¬
ity ’ and giving an excuse for their indifferent success, would have
done no better twenty, forty, or sixty ) ears ago.
Conditions have changed, of course. Business is organized upon
different lines, competition has grown keener, and the qualifications
for success more exacting.
That is why we cannot over-emphasize the value of education,
adapting it in every case to the peculiar needs and abilities ot the in¬
dividual.
In the battle for success and distinction, the ODDS ARE ALL
ON THE SIDE OF THE BOY WHO IS EQUIPPED. The boy who
is not equipped, and who thinks to reach top without hard work, is
practically whipped at the start!
As long as the world lasts, the great fundamental principle of
success will survive all changes in business or industrial methods of
administration; and that is, you must Earn Success Before You Get It.
^ ou complain that you have no chance against the rich man’s son
or the young man with “Pull” and influence.
If you have kept even a casual watch on the drift of affairs in this
country, you will have discovered that to-day Rich Men’s Sons and
Young Men With “PULL” Are Required to Make Good” Just As He
Who Rises From the Ranks.
If the scion of wealth can’t “make good” they relegate him from
the world of active affairs, back to his task of merely spending money
and dawdling in society.
The call ever goes up for Ability!
It is better paid today than ever before, and those who are an-
xious to reward it cannot find enough able younff men to fill the posi¬
tions that demand competent handling.
The farmer-who does not equip his son for success and for pro-
gress is handicapping him, as against the son of the man who isprepar-
e d for life’s battles.
Diversified Farming Is Solution
To The Boll Weevil Problem
In connection with their offer in
Sunday’s paper to give a pair of
Peroheron brood mares as a prize
to the farmer making the best
record in diversified farming dur¬
ing 1912, the Macon Telegraph
had the following story:
Georgia is the second largest
cotton-growing state in the United
States and the United States grows
just about all the cotton grown in
the world. Oue state grows more
—Texas—but Texas is an immense¬
ly greater state in area than the
Empire State of the South.
It is estimated that $500,000—a
half billion—of foreign gold comes
to the United States every year
for cotton products. The total
crop is estimated at $1,000,000,000
—a cool billion—all of which finds
its way into the pockets of South¬
ern men, three-quarters of it going
to the farmers. Georgia’s share is
about$200,000,000—a very consid¬
erable item in the economic growth
and support of the state forsooth!
In fact, Georgia’s cotton crop is
her very life, for hardly any com¬
monwealth in America can rise
greater than the advancement of
her agriculture will support. The
land and its products must support
the nation.
Several years ago an insect
called the Mexican boll weevil
crossed the Rio Grande and some
how or other made his lodgement
among the cotton fields of South¬
ern Texas. From a small begin¬
ning, counted as a sort of local
freak to that special territory, the
destroyer has, at the rate of fifty
miles a year, advanced until now
Georgia and South Carolina are
the only two Southern states not
infected. Last Summer he got in¬
to Western Alabama. When the
cotton crop of 1911 is harvested
he will be fifty miles further along
and it is estimated by careful ex¬
perts that in 1912 the ravager will
enter Georgia, lapping into Deca¬
tur County, the extreme western
and southern county of the state.
And here is the tragedy of it—the
He must, some day, face a reckoning for sending his boy into the
world pre-doomed to failure for lack of preparation.
This does not mean that every boy should be given a college edu¬
cation. I am aware, too, that the financial circumstances of some
families militate against their giving the boy the squarest kind of a
deal.
But in this day of democratic educational facilities, and medium
prosperity, it is indeed a poor fanner who cannot find a chance to tit
least begin his boy in the right educational path.
And it is a poor boy who is not willing to pay the price of suc¬
cess by hard work, by burning the midnight oil if necessarj, instead
of cigarettes, in order that he may compete with the other fellow up¬
on terms at least partially equal. CHAS- H. BARRETT.
Union City, Ga. April 17th. 1911.
second greatest cotton-growing
state in the Union is not ready for
it.
No state has been ready for it.'
Texas had warning, but Texas
paid no heed until the deadly sap¬
per of her agricultural wealth was
all over the state. Then it was
that Texas men invaded Louisiana,
Mississippi and Arizona and plead¬
ed with their neighbors to quit
planting cotton, to do anything to
check the terrible advance of an
army that was draining an empire
of its most prolific source of reve¬
nue. It had no effect. Louisiana,
Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma
and Arizona were warned, -but to
no effect. The Southern farmer
apparently could not realize that
Providence would allow anything
to cut off his cotton crop. Worse
than that, the great majority of
them did not know how to grow
anything else. They had to grow
cotton to live and the boll weevil
waxed fat and propagated his
species at an enormous rate. He
was fruitful and multiplied.
It has not been hurried, this dis¬
aster—it has come with crawling
but relentless feet, the spreading
arc of an ever-opening fan. Ala¬
bama did not heed. Or, maybe,
Alabama did heed, but Alabama
farmers did not know what to do.
At any rate, the weevil is in Wes¬
tern Alabama now and no really
effective precautions have been
taken to check him or even to sup¬
port the hapless husbandman who
loses his all when his cotton goes
and has not wherewith to feed his
family.
Thus all eyes turn on Georgia.
Many nave said, quit growing
cotton tor a year all over the
South and you will have no weevil.
That sounds good, but it simply
cannot*be done. Even with the
weevil there must be cotton plant¬
ed and there will be a great deal
planted in the South, weevil or no
weevil, for all time to come.
But—here is the rub—the farm-
continued on page five)
Official Organ af Ben
County. $1.50 a
Year.
VOL.
Fair {Association
Met Tuesday
Blue and Gray Park Will
Be Location For The
Fair.
The Board of Governors of the
Ben Hill County Fair Association
met at the Commissioners Court
room April 18th at 2:30 o’clock.
The meeting was called to order
by Pres. D. L. Martin, with the
following members of the board
present: L. Robitzsch, L. L.
Griner, A. B. C. Dorminey, C. A.
Newcomer, W. R. Walker, James
Fletcher, J. W. Pearson, J. C.
Buckley, C. W. Hayes, J. E.
Mercer, and R. Davis.
The Board went into permanent
organization, electing the follow¬
ing officers:
D. L. Martin, President.
L. L. Griner, First Vice Presi-
President.
L. Robitzsch, Second Vice
President.
R. Davis, Secretary.
J. E. Mercer, Assistant Secre¬
tary.
A. B. C. Dorrainy, Treasurer.
It was moved and carried that
the American State Bank be select¬
ed as a depository for the Fair
Funds.
The vacant places of Messrs D.
Ewing, J. C. Boney, and J. G.
Minshew on the Board, were filled
by the selection of the following
gentlemen: I. Gelders, Wm. Wil¬
liams, and J. A. Bond.
In the report of the location
committee, it was suggested that
the Association accept the proposi¬
tion of the Blue and Gray Park
Association.
On motion the report-of the
cation committee was accepted,
and it was voted to retain the com¬
mittee, and that they be empower¬
ed to draw up a contract with the
Blue and Gray Association for the
use of their grounds and report
at the Lext meeting.
L. L. Griner, L, Robitzsch, L.
O. Tisdel, C. A. Newcomer, W.R.
Walker, and James Fletcher were
named as the Finance committee.
Moved and carried that we meet
Monday, April 24th at 2:30 o’clock.
Meeting adjourned to meet on
above date.
D. L. martin, President.
I. W. Pearson, Temp. Sec.
Georgia Corporations
Irvcrea.se Taxes
Atlanta, April 18—Georgia cor¬
porations will pay the government
probably $100,000 more in taxes
this year. Henry S. Jackson, in¬
ternal revenue collector for Geor¬
gia, believes that the government
will get about $350,000 from Geor¬
gia corporations.
Last year’s collections from the
corporations was about $250,000.
The government taxes corporations
at the rate of 1 per cent on all of
their net income that is in excess of
$5,000. So far about six thousand
corporations have made returns to
Mr. Jackson.
This probably is one thousand
more than made returns last year.
The collection of $350,000 in cor¬
poration taxes will show that the
net income over $5,000 of Georgia
corporations during last year was
$35,000,000. Last year’s collections
showed that the corporate income
was $25,000,000 an increase of
$100,000 in taxes would indicate an
increase of $10,000,000 in net in¬
come.
Notice
Rev. W. S. Harden former pas¬
tor of the Presbyterian church of
this place, will preach at the even¬
ing service at that church ne*t
Sunday the 23rd inst. All his
friends in this city are cordially
invited to hear him at this service.
R. L. King, Clerk of Session.