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Official Organ of Ben Hill Co
The Increased Respect For
Office Of Governor
It is not long now until Gover¬
nor Joseph M. Brown retires
from office, and so it will not bejout
of place for us to speak aoout one
f e a t u r e of his administration
which, we think, especially de¬
serves ourpraise. We refer
to the emphasis whichhe has
consistently and persistently
put upon the execution of
the law. In so doing he has had
to resist strong pressure, and in
one case at least has had
to go directly contraiy to loudly
expressed public sentiment. We
believe that by his course in re¬
fusing to exercise the pardoning
power save in cases where it was
clearly due he has increased the
respect which the people of the
state feel for the executive office,
and lias greatly helped to mold
that much to-be-desired public
sentiment which will one day lead
eu r people to insist upon the exe¬
cution of the sentence passed by
the courts upon criminals.
The abuse of the pardoning
power, both in this and other
states, has been one of the prime
causes which have led to the de¬
velopment. of the lawless spirit in
pur country.—Christian Index.
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Mow People Lose Their Money * 3
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8 8 * * it By vip concealing in skirts and it about ticks; their by tucking person; it by under stowing the couches it away andcarpats. in mugs, jugs in and cupboards jars; by and sewing bn- * * s 8
8 8 I? * * times raau drawers. THEIR LIVES These are some of the ways by : which people lose their money and some- * % I
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1 * Didn’t Trust Banks; Fortune is Burned *
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* Because he had no confidence in banking institutions, Myer Daniels, of Hoosick Falls, * 8
O * \ R.ennslaer County, Now York, is today mourning the loss of $4,700.00 in greenbacks, which *
* were burned only a. few days ago, when his home was destroyed by fire. He nearly lost his *
* life in futile efforts to save his hoarded cash. V *
* How People Save Their Money * ft 8 8
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* By depositing it in THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF FITZGER.ALO. Confident that *
8 * * this the SAFE bank fully SIDE. meets the public’s needs, we tender its service to all who believe in keeping on * *
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¥ ¥ E. K. President. FARMER, First National Bank of Fitzgerald, A. H. THURMOND, Cashier. * *
¥ M. W. GARBUTT, Vice-Pres. T. F. BEMMINGER, Vice-Pres. *
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THE FITZGERALD;LEADER, SATURDAY, 1913
Is This Socialism?
A former mayor of New York
recently declared that our large
cities were rapidiy progressing
toward state socialism. Probably
he would be confirmed in this view
by the report of a council commit¬
tee at Chicago in favor of muni¬
cipal construction and ownership
of passenger subways. New York
built a passenger subway and
! , hamJed it over to private lessees
under , a fifty-year contract renew-
j able for twenty-five years. The
; private lessees have made immense
profits out of the subway and have
issued a vast quantity of watered
stock thereon. For several years
the city has been trying ineffect¬
ually to get the subway extended.
With the profits from the present
subway it could have financed ex¬
tensions without waiting upon the
private lessees.
Private owners made great
profits out of Chicago street rail¬
ways. The city went through a
ten-year struggle with those own¬
ers, enduring abominable service
all the while, before it could bring
them to reasonable terras. It is
numberless experiences of this
sort, and not the political dogmas
of Karl Marx, that have brought
the inhabitants of large American
cities to that attitude toward pub¬
lic-service corporations that the
ex-mayor of New York describes
as socialistic.—Saturday Evening
|> os t
The Boy Scouts
It is unfortunate for the Boy
Scouts movement, that newspapers
and the public generally do not
sufficiently differentiate it from
the Boys’ Brigade, a strictly mili¬
tary organization. Because of its
name and because of wearing a
uniform, and particularly because
of the example given by the Boys’
Brigade, there is the natural tend¬
ency to consider and to speak of
the Boy’s Scouts as a military body.
This is far from the truth. There
is a little drill for the exercise and
THOMAS E. WATSON COMING,
Thomas E. Watson requires no introduction to a Geor¬
gia audience; everybody knows him, his public utterances
throughout the State and his political efforts have either
made you a partisan Watson man or else caused y.our hatred
of the man there is barely room for a middle ground. A
Strong man in public life invites the antagonism Of those
he opposes for the fear he creates by his Strength. His op-
ponents hate him, his Friends love him for the same reas-
on. Powerful in oratory at all times he becomes more so
when engaged in what he feels to be his public duty to the
people and at those times the malignant opponents become
busy with pen and tongue to arouse trie bitter leelmg
through facts or fiction that would cause prejudice to the
man and his theories. They have tried to spread the false-
hood that he is ‘‘crazy”, failing in this they are shouting
that he is opposed to the “church”. The ladies Of the Bap-
tist church of Thomson, his home town, recently had him
to address them at one of their church gatherings, which
seems to put a quietus to this new false charge. Mr. Wat¬
son will address the people of Ben Hill county on next
Wednesday and all who want to hear him will have
to come early as standing room will be at a premium,
wherever he may speak.
discipline, but nothing more.
Fighting as a business is not
taught, nor are guns placed in the
hands of the boys. When the boys
go into the woods, it is not for the
purpose of killing anything. They
carry staves and cameras instead
of guns. The squirrel in the tree
is an object of study, not of slaugh¬
ter. The birds and their nests are
sought, not to kill the one or rob
the other, but to learn bird life.
We have been having in the
sham fiattles of the Boys’ Brigade
a very fine illustration of what the
Bo} Scouts do not do. They do
not fight battles. I hey arei
training themselves for soldiers,
biu for big hearted capable men
Oi peace.
Strange as it may appear, the
organization whicn is teaching
boys to light is a part oi church
work. It is associated with the
various Sunday Schools. The
churches, which are supposed to
spread the gospel of peace, are
teaching their boys the game of
war. On the other hand, the Boy
Scouts, who are showing the way
to better things for boys, had its
birth in the mind of a layman and
was first organized entirely out¬
side church influences.
It is an anomalous situation, that
the fighting organization belongs
to the church, and the peace
organization does not, but so it is.
By this it is not intended to say
that church members are not in¬
terested in the Boy Scouts, for
such is not the case. In St. Louis,
for examp i e , the movement is
ehjgfly m the hands of church
mem bers and church brotherhood,
though not officially church or-
ganizations. This leads us to the
hope that the Boys’ Brigade will
he abandoned and the Sunday
School will take the gun out of the
hands of their boys and put into
them the staff and the camera of
their boys.
We shall not lack for volunteers
to defend th country if the youth
of the land are taught the Scout
The Farmers State Convention
The final arrangements for the entertainment of the big conven¬
tion have been made, the committees have ail reported good progress
and nothing has been overlooked to properly take car ■ o ube large
crowd. The reception committee will begin their duties Monday
morn ing with the arrival of the train from Cordele, when the stock¬
holders^! the Union Phosphate company will arrive for the their Lee-Grant annual
HoteL°where . ^ alfo The meeting will be held at
wm be the headquarters of the Farmers Union Con-
j vent j 0 : n The State officers and of the Union will Tuesday arrive 6:00 Monday a. m., to per- the
f ec t their own arrangement program. Hotel
band will meet the train and escort the delegates to the and at
9 a. m., to the Court House where the convention will hold its sessions.
^iTnolllr^the visitorThe ’£££
Drew W. Paulk will deliver the Welcome address for the city
and iion< D L Martin for the Ben Hill County Union. Hon. E.
Cabannis, President of the Union, will respond to tne address on be-
half of the State Union. Other prominent members of the Union will
make short addresses during the morning session,
Law, and are made true men and
loyal citizens, while getting the
physical benefit of scouting. Every
mother who has a boy and wants
him to grow up into a true aDd
noble man, should bring him with¬
in the influence of the Scout Law.
It is the greatest character build¬
ing influence the youth of the
world has ever been subjected to.
Woman’s National Weekly.
First M. E. Church *
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At the First M. E- Church to-
morrow the theme of the
ing sermon will be '
lems for Personal Evangelism-”
Theme at the evening sermon
will be, “Drifting.” Special mu¬
sic at both services, Sabbath
School and Epworth League as
usual. The general public, espe¬
cially strangers, will find a cor¬
dial welcome at every service.
Accidents will happen, but the
best-regulated families keep Dr.
Thomas’ EclecticOil for such emer¬
gencies. It subdues the pain and
heals the hurts. 29 St.
FOR SALE—Peas $2.10 Bush¬
el mixed, pure vinegar at 16 cent?
a gallon in barrels.
W. H. Davis Vinegar W r ’ks,
35-4wk, Atlanta, Ga.
C < Doan’s Ointment cured me of
eczema that had annoyed me a
long time. The cure was perma¬
nent”—Hon. S. W. Matthews,
Commissioner Labor Statistics,
Augusta, Me.
Centred Methodist
Church
Preaching by the pastor, Rev.
Guyton Fisher, at 11 a. m. and
8 p. m. Subjects—-morning dis-
“The Lust for Life.”
Evening, “Making Good.” All
are cordially invited to these ser-
vices, and strangers are espeeial-
jy welcome,
“Suffered day and night the tor¬
ment of itching piles. Nothing
helped me until I used Doan’s
Ointment. It cured me permanent¬
ly.”—Hon. John E. Garrett,
Girard, Ala. 29-8t.
DR. J. W. ELLIOTT,
OSTEOPATH,
at
FITZGERALD!
Wednesdays aid Saturdyas
Office Hours: 8.00 So 12,00 a., m
2.00 to 6.00 p. m.
At Lee-Grant Hotel