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dffkial Otjan tf Ben Hill Co
If •pporlnaity effers itself for a
Gooih Georgian fer Governor,
judgiag tHc man by his public tit,
terarvees, Cel Roecee Iiuke would
do bbnor to his section and a cred-
it to the f'tate, In his platform he
favors a change in the system of
taxation, free school books, for
more agricultural training and a
reduction of the memoers of the
R.R. Gommission to three instead
of five as constituted at present
Col. («uk *5 fives at Thomasville
has been a prominent figure in
ki.v; m this section for many
year;,
Governor Brown has made a re¬
markable record to the great dis¬
appointment of his enemies. His
State pa pen will go down in litera¬
ture as geine of thought and will
furnish the procedonti for admm-
istratw&i for generations to come.
It is Governor Mmith of Geor
gift-
Governor Smith’s inauguration
today i;; a repetition of the demo¬
cratic simplicity established by
Governor Brown and is a decided
contrast to the pomp and display
of the first inauguration of Govern-
or Smith.
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THE FITZGERALD LEADER. SATURDAY, JULY I. 1911
Georgia's Need of A Game Law.
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One of the most practical and far-reaching services the incoming
legislature can render the people of Georgia is the enactment of a law
adequately protecting the state’s game. Such a .reealiire is not only
(iesired by true sportsmen, but it is also essential to agrrc^tural in-
terests and to the conservation of our natural resources.
The time has come when we must either check the ruthless siaugh-
net of birds or, through long decades, pay the cost of our shortsight-
edness, The existing statutes on this subject are altogether insufii-
cient. Season after season the senseless butchery goes op until a
nutnber of the most valuable species of birds are fast becoming ex-
tinct. rfo one realizes this more keenly than intelligent spprtsmep.
who through their national and their state organizations, are urging
the passage of remedial laws. Our own general assembly capnot af-
ford to ignore their plea.
No one has deeper cause to be interested in this protective
went than the farmer. Government scientists calculate that insects
are costing the farms of the country one billion dollas a year, and that
this destruction is due. in a very large measure, to the reckless killing
of birds. Many of the parasites that ravage fields and orchards could
be resisted far more easily and eradicated more quickly if the birds
were given a fairer chance.
PK>f. R. H. De Loach, of the State Agricultural College of Geor¬
gia, hftfj shown that in Texas there are thirty-eight different kinds of
birds that feed on the boll weevil. Yet, that state has been losing
from forty to fifty million dollars a year on its cotton crop because
a failure to protect these insect destroyers.
Auether scientist has declared m this connection
the farmers of the middle and eastern states are pay mg out four-
teen to fifteen million dollars annually for Paris green to put on then
potato vines. And why ? Because the birds that formerly preyed on
| this insect and kept iFunder subjection have been killed off . Each
i the great apple producing states is paying out a million to three mil-
j hon dollars a year for sprayin apple trees to keep down the codling
| moth, otherwise known as the appfi worm And all because the birds
that formerly preyed on this insect have been killed off.
V7hat is true of the country at large is eminently tr ue of Georgia.
Indeed, while many other states have.hastened to enact effective.game
| several laws, we have past, done bills practically relating nothing to this in subject this important have field. introduced
I years been
in the legislatu re, but one circumstance or another has pi evented them
from coming squarely to a vote.
It is now purposed to reintroduce such a measure at the approach-
ing session of the general assembly. We earnestly trust that it will
be given a clear right of way, and will soon become operative, As a
state whose principal resource is agriculture, Georgia cannot afford
longer to neglect this vital matter.—Ex.
Imports from Atlanta say there
will be no such Coronation Cere-
monies tomorrow as Georgia’s
chief executive “biowed” himself
and his friends to four years ago.
Perhaps they realized they couhl
not hope-to eclipse the English
event of the past week. -Tifton
Gazette.
The Fitzgerald Fire .Department
(paid) is just five years old, W.
0. Wilkerson, the present chief
has been head of the department
ever since its organization and has
given general satisfaction. The
boys will celebrate the Birth of
the deoartment oi the evening of
the 4tb. with ; band concert and
ice cream social at Fireman’s Park,
WILL CHANGE DAYS OF PUBLICATION
We wish to notify ail the subscribers and advertising patrons of
this paper that beginning next week, the days of publication will
changed from Wednesday and Saturday to Tuesday and Friday. We
believe such a change will meet with the approval of practically all of
our patrons, and especially the R. F. D. subscribers, as then, they
will get their paper on Saturday.
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However, will be no paper issued from this office, after to-
day’s,“until next Friday, as Tuesday is the Fourth of July, and the
management has deemed it proper to give the force a well earned hol-
iday, and an opportunity to celebrate the ann.versary.^f the. Declar-
ation of Independence. So if you readers of the Leader will and ojslcrpy
your time Tuesday, celebrating the glorious Fourth in a safe
way, we think possibly you can do without the paper until Friday,
when we hope to give yog all the news in one big heap.
Number Of Dope Fiends •
Is Increasing
According to statistics collected
by government investigators, we
are becoming a nation of drug
fiends. The number of persons ad-
dieted t<j this degrading and de-
basing habit is placed at 4,000,000
a nd tbe evd j g constantly growing,
With the object of warning the
coun try, the United States govern-
ment has issued a bulletin, cau-
tioning the people against wbat is
known as the “habit-forming”
compounds. The experts employed
by the government are certain that
new drug fiends are being the' created
every year through insidious
patent medicine and the soft
that contain a trace of the narcot-
ic a(rents which finaliy form the
terribIe drucr habit> fhere are 100
. sanitaria throughout the the conn-
try for the cure of this mind-
wrecking h ahR and there are him-
dreds of graves fceiiig filled every
year with unfortunate victims of
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the drugs. : y.' - - .
Never a day goes by that some
murder, death, defalcation 1 or sui¬
cide, because of the drug fails to
occur. Tired workers driven to
the ragged edge of of human en¬
durance learn to use opium or eo-
caine or other seductive drugs and
so,,DC- or later they depart ties
life by means of a rope, carbolic
acid or a leap from a bridge.
ciety girls'in search of a new sen-
sation take up the habit and drift
down to the under world. The ev¬
il spreads its ravages in all classes
of life.
The bureau of chemistry, under
the direction of its chief, Dr, H.
W. Wiley, which made a fai-
reaching investigation of the drug
habit, was appalled by the results
of its inquiry. It found that the
amount of opium being imported
into the United States has doubled
within the last generation. It dis¬
covered that hundreds of prepara-
t i 0 ns for the cure of headaches and
the relief of pain that are beim*
sold every day were filled with al-
luring, enslaving agents that create
the drug user’s lotos land. It found
that over 150,000 ounces of cocaine
were being consumed annually by
the drug users of the country—E x
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Card of Thanks
We desire to extend our sincere
thanks to the many neighbor and
friends for their kind assistance
during the last illness and death
of our mother, Mrs. Lula B. Ry-
man.
Glenn B. Ryman,
Lula M. Hyman,
Dean E. Hyman.
Graham’s Lumber Go. have
'Leir office to their Mill on
reC e‘vf pro,‘p!'S»toL 4 'SlTne
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First Baptist Church
At the First Baptist Church the
subject for the.morning discourse
w ill be, ; ‘Searching for Heavenly
p '» at n , 0 .^ «^ Q Xe<ta-
^^dcL'-bed”’
The Lord’s supper will be ob¬
served at the morning service.
A cordial invitation is ’extended
all to attend these services.
T.M. Callaway, Pastor,;
Centra.? Methodist
Church
Guyton Fisher, Pastor.
Preaching by the pastor at 11 a.
m. and 8 p. m.. .Sacrament of the
Lord’s supper at the morning ser¬
vice.
All are cordially invited to these
services and strangers are espe¬
cially welcome.
PERSONALS
FOR SALE—Peas $2.10 Bush¬
el mixed, pure vinegar at 16 cents
a gallon in barrels,
W. H. Davis Vinegar W’ks,
35-4wk. Atlauta, Ga.
FOR SALE- A number of good
milch cows. Family broke. Apply
Leader Office. tf.
FOR RENT—Store house, near
A.B. & A. Depot Good location
for retail grocery., A pply .Leader
Office. tf.
Mr. Clayton Piopp^r’hasarrived
in the city to spend - the * summer
with his parents..
Mr. Chas. H, Matthews, form¬
erly of this city but now of Fort
Valley, transacted business in the
city yesterday.
A number of dwellings were
minus electric lights last night,
owing to the damage done to the
wires by the electrical storm.