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Official Organ Ben Hill County.
Slaton Gives Account
01 i His Stewardship
The following message, re view-
ing his work as governor, was sent
to the legislature in special ses¬
sion by Gov. John M. Slaton Wed¬
nesday.
State, of Georgia,
Executive Department,
Atlanta.
Jan. “24, 11)12. j
To the General Assembly:
The Hon. Hoke Smith having
resigned as governor e ec i\e on
and after November 15, 1911, on
no tice fro oi the secretary of state
.k-a&k. . rtUe 0t . tie . ° nStl ... U 10D .
tdiblv^ laws, I was sworn m as
acting governor on November; 16,
1911. Shortly tnerea ter, in com
p.iaticc with tie aw, i-.,uic a
proclamation, ca ing a speua e-
lection to till tie vacancy us
created ana convening y om ioc y
in session to canvass the returns
and declare the result, or, in case
of no election, to choose a gover-
oor as by law.
TheConstifcution defines thepur-
pose^of this session of ycur o Y
tmd limits your work to
fined in the call. Therefore, it is
not incumbent upon me to advise
With yon further than to review
brwifiy * .V tw eul» nf the crovern-
--•*
iment at the present time*
Entering upon the
*exec utive office only a month * b
____ final
half before the close of the
‘year and remaining therein f° r a
few weeks after the opening
new fiscal year, it fell to my
lot t(? JiMndie eiorn than one half
of the reunites bf 191L
On November .16. there W83 £
balance of $253,879. j $ in the stale
Treasury, Since that time approx-
iraately $3,000,000 has been col¬
lected, mainly from ad valorem
taxes. I liave used
ly $2,800,000 in meeting obliga¬
tions of the state. There is now
a balance of approximately $400,-
000, of which only about $100,000
is available for meeting genera;
appropr rations. This sum will be
augmented by one half to a mil¬
lion dollars during February.
On November 16, 51 per eer.tot
the 1911 appropriation to the corn-
mou schools had been paid. Since
that time I have paid 59 per cent,
excepting some small amounts not
yet applied for. My payments a-
mountid to a total of $1,639,645,-
52.
Requisitions were made for ov¬
erdue balance on the school fund
r ^Mounting to approximately $1
jyj,i,000 and for 1912 pensions of
-rout the same amount at practic-
ally the same time. Despite the
high deserts and appealing claim
of the latter, I felt that the state
was morally and legally bound to
meet overdue obligations of last
year before undertaking to make
large advances ori this year’s
propriations, and I so decided.
However. I am pleased to report
that I was stiii able to pay nearly
50 per cent of the pensions duet’ e
deserving Confederate veterans
and their widows. 1 found, after
paying the teachers, that more
than $500,000 not immediately
needed for the expenses of the gov¬
ernment was left in the treasury.
I, therefore, issued my warrent
for $548,915 to be paid on the pen¬
sion fund. After conference with
the pension commissioner, the
counties for early payment were
selected by drawings, which re¬
moved the embarrassment of hav-
ing to favor some others.
I am advised by the state treas-
urer that he will be able to meet
all pension payments by February
15.
Outside of schools and pensions,
my expenditures have been for the
ordinary and miscellaneeus ex¬
penses of tlie government.
I f became ra.v duty to reinsure
the property of the state for a
SEMI-WEEKLY
The Fitzgerald Leader
FITZGERALD, DEM HILL COUNTY GEORGIA, JANUARY 30, 1912.
provided for !
term of live years as
by special appropriation at vour,
last session. This I have done to j
the best of my ability.
Ap\ lications for executive elem-
ency on behalf of convicts have)
occupied much of my attention,
lu dealing with th ; s phase of the
duties of the office I have endeav¬
ored to act with that discerning
care and caution necessary to the
protection of society and yet with
full recognition of the demands of
j us ^j ce Owing to the long
jn Dess Q f General Evans, and the
subsequent illness of two other
commissioners, a large number of
such appeals accumulated before
j became acting chief executive.
Under the )aw> the approval of
t [ ie full board of prison coromis-
g * l0ners j s uecessary to granting a
p ftro j e ^ atld this law is equally
b j nd j n g U p 0n the governor,
J herewith submit a report of
cases in which I have exercised
cxecutive clemency> (Exhibit A.)
Tfae gtate o{ the government and
the commonwealth in general has
undcrg0Q8 no changcs that caHs
for advice from nae at this time,
The ou ti 00 b j s good f or a prosper-
year, and for this we should
f ee j d e e ply grateful
1 DOW „ await your r nlwicnre pleasure. r*
Respectfully submitted, ’
John M- SlATON.
Jj . . C fltp and
overnor
Unnr jtfnoii liual j^ppf DCvl MflV Uiuj
Become Real Beer
Lffort To Throw Off
Subterfuge in Present
S&le In Georgia,
AHstita, »taft, 29.—Georgia is to
haCe no let Up on the prohibon
question this summer, A deter-
mined tight Will 1 e made to pass
the Tippiks anti-near beer bid;
whose object is' to abolish entirely
the near beer buLncss in Georgia.
Most of the legislators who op¬
pose the Tippins bill frankly ad¬
mit that near beer saloons amount
practically to real beer saloons,
but believe that the beer saloons
possibly afford just tiie safely
valve necessary to keep the prohi¬
bition lid from blowing off entire-
ly-
An amendment will probably be
offered to the Tippins bill to
change the present law so as to
provide that real beer may be sold
without any such subterfuge as
the present, in order that both the
oeer dealers ar c! the officers of the
law may be relieved of the pre ent
useless pretenses.
Young People’s Socie¬
ty Fleets New
Officers
At the last meeting of the Young
Peoples Home Missionary Society
ot the Central Methodist Church,
the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year:
Lady Manager, Mrs. H. M.
Warren: President, Miss Rosa May
Adams; First Vice President, Miss
Dovie Blair; Second V, P. Miss
Pauline Jones: Secretary, Miss
Atba Myer: Treasurer, Miss Lot¬
tie Drew.
The Society meets at the church
every second Sunday afternoon at
3:30 o’clock. These meetings are
devotional and uplifting. All tne
young people of the church are
cordially invited to come worship
with us.
Every first Thursday evening'
at 7:30 o’clock we will have a busi¬
ness meeting at the home of the
members. On Feb. 8th, Miss
.May Adams will entertain
Society. All the members and
their friends are urged to come.
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PILAMtl iwm W8R mmwm ©BEAT i$m s|J& TO
the Champion cab trft VV.K.KEUOGC TRQI%V
“Just a country man—that’s all,”
is the way the grower of this re¬
markable ear of corn, Mr. Fred C.
Palin, styles himself. Though he
is admitted to be one of the lead¬
ing corn experts in the country—
one whose services are greatly in
demand as a judge of corn exhibits,
Mr. Palin asks for no greater
honor or distinction than to be
known as a plain Hoosier farmer,
and while lie openly professes a
reasonable pride in the achieve¬
ment ol growing the famous ear of
corn which was adjudged the most
perfect ever grown, it is without
a shadow of ostentation.
The World’s Greatest Eevr Of Corn
Corn Flake Yellow, ‘"Named after winning the W. K. Ke'lpgg
81,000 Trophy"
A. HYBRID—The seventh year production.
PARENTPLANTS— Male—Reids Yellow Den;
DIMENSIONS— Length, 10>g inches. Circumference, inches. Number of rows,
2 0. Length Qf kernels. ofan inch. Width of kernels, about % of an inch,
Thickness oi kernels, one sixth of an inch. Arrangement, very uniform, kernels
running in straight row's tho entire length of the ear without a misplaced grain,
holding their length well to the ends of the ear, tip being well covered with
Weight, (NJ p ounds, gstinnited proportions-eorn. 9? percent; fob,
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The champion ear Of edm
not an accident. There cuff h* uo i
greater less, a i in the value of fin re-
fu! study and painstaking
of seed an i reeding t-baiv tf.e x-
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periences o, srmi:*
farmer who ... thin us he stands a
chance , to . go into . Ins corn held ,, and , j
, by a piece o; luck pick out a:> ear
which Nature has fashioned I
more perlectiy and wAu it «test
honors from this Indiana mmi,.
cannot do ix iter to (ii .nltuse 11 s
mind of this lahucous '.mion tluin •
to read the story of Palin and his!
champion ear.
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IKED (j. PALIN.
In the first place, Palin knows
co £ . I there were no more proof
of ~ iis ct than the bare story of
the development and discovery of
the champion ear, it would' be
enough. \nd in proof of this fact,
here is the slorv as he told it
self:
“It was in November, 1910, and
we were just harvesting our crop.
The weatiier had be: n good, but
we were a little late with the har¬
vest. The men were going through
the fields with the wagon in the
usual way gathering the corn, and
the harvest was a promising one.
“We have a sort of corn show
at my farm all the time, and there
is always an award for exception¬
ally good ears of corn—ears suili-
ciently true to type to permit of
their being exhibited. There is
a small box on every corn wagon
in which the most per Let ears are
[thrown. These, when properly
selected, constitute the seed corn,;
and among these more perfect ears
we occasionally find an earth,.* we
are* willing to exhibit in a contest.
"On the day the champion ear
was found, 1 was at the house and
at dinner time one of the men
brought r it m and laid it, with a
_mber ot , other , ears, upon the
nu for
window sill in the well room
me u. take and pat aw»v m
seed house.
“Well,’ 1 said, ‘do you think
vcu’ve got a good ear there?’
t ‘ ‘It looks to me like a good
ear’, lie said, ‘What do you think
of it?”
it up and iobked
over'. ‘ V*. el|,‘ I said finally, ‘I
thod: h i: the most pet Let CUr
^ It? , ( .„ mi , rh
to . win . the , u W . K. .. Keitogg. v j, CM $1,000
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trophy .!?, tins J( . year at . Omaha.’ .. .
And . I r confident . , the
was
t . and . looked , it
m ill saw it, over,
that l held the trophy wint er in
my hand. So much so that when
j j e ^ f or O ina iia to exhibit the ear
[ p, 00 k it cut .of ruv grip mtd sliow-,
ed it to the station agent with the
words> ‘That's the ear I'm going
to win the $1,000 trophy with ”
So there’s the story of the cham¬
pion ear as Palin loid it himself, j
And on the strength of it who will j
say that Fred C. Palin doesn’t
.1 lastly merit t.he title. J) “The Man j
who Knows Corn”?
But that’s not ..II o(M„- s story.
He tall, it willinplv, U.<-u 2 h
modestly, tor he knows that his
story whenever told is a source of
great encouragement of the
sinds of farmers who ever had a
better chance than he had himself ’
Palm was bom and brounht. up on
a farm near Newton, ind. He. has
never owned a foot of farm land
in his life,- and the 360 acre farm j
on which the champion ear of corn
wUicli won the Kellogg J.rophy|
was grown is a rented farm,
-'- r * Lai in’s real experience as a
farmer began about sixteen
He had been on the road as
a grocery specialty salesman, when
lie took a notion that he would
be an agriculturist, so be
took a few short courses at Purdue
University and lentcd a portion oi
the farm he now occupies. Nine
years ago he began carefully breed¬
ing tins new variety of corn. For
two years he planted two rows of
Reid’s Yellow Dent, then two of
Alexander’s Gold .Standard, detas-
scling the Gold Standard. From
the detasseled rows he picked for
seed only the ears carrying the
characteristics he wanted to re¬
produce, planting these in breeding
plots and maintaining careful se¬
lection. that n ni"o verbs’ time
he had developed u well-settled
type.
Palin champion ear was the ,
iirst winner of the XV. K. Kellogg
National Corn Trophy, a handsome
silver and enamel cup made by
Tiffany of New York at a cost of
$1,000. Mr. Kellogg as the origi¬
nator and manufacturer of Toasted
Corn Flakes naturally has a deep
interest in the development of the
higher grades of corn, for the
company of which lie is president,
the Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake
Co ^ requir£8 ten thousand bushe!s
of corn a d iy for the making of
jts p rod uct. The Kellogg trophy
was ottered , v , to , be awarded , , in . annu-
al competition for the best single
,. ‘ u ar „ ot C0 ‘ n untl * wor * twice by the
same producer. , The fact . that . .
Kellogg product is made only ^ from
sdected „ h|te c ., n , wi|) _
ning ear was of a pronounced yel¬
low type, was a feature.
The Kellogg trophy was won in
1910 at Columbus, Ohio, by K. A.
James, of Charles, III., with a
magnificent car of Reid’s Yellow
Dent, but not so perfect an ear as
that which originally won the tro¬
phy and which has become known
as “the best ear of corn, ever
grown.”
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Twice Awarded. To be Com
peted for a^ain at the next S.C.^
Corn Show at COLUMBIA,
The next award of this trophy
will be made at the next National
Corn Exposition, which be held in
February. 1913, at Columbia, 8.
C. It. is planned to make this ex¬
position much broader in scope
than any held in the past, and con
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exposition, the. main building to
be 400 by 167 tcet, ground mea¬
surements. The -how will last ten
(lavs. The state of South Carolina
has appropriated $40,000 for the
expenses of the exposition and the
prospect is that Dixie will “do her-
proud” in an effort to make
this exposition the greatest of its
kind ever held.
Sea Claimed Lives
All These People
Washington, Jan. 27.—The
claimed the lives of 196 person-,
with 325 American vessels
the fiscal year of 1911, according
to a summary of losses published
in the list of merchant vessels of
the United State.-, just issued by
Comnilst.inner Cbambr rlain of the
Burc-au <.f Navigation, (Epartroent
of comtee and labor.
The Ios- : f ■ •tiling ve-sf ls. orin-
cipuii.V bv foundering, resulted in
the death of 107 persons; with
steam w- 87 live ■; were lost.
The principal di.-r.ster of
year was the foundering of the
steamy Arkadis, which srd'rd
front New i irleans.
Official Organ of Ben
Httl County. Si.50
a Year.
VOL. XVII. NO. 6
A Trip to The fast.
By Percy Ford Ciark.
How our hearts shiuld thrill
with pride when we ponder
upon the wonders and achicve-
ments of this great country of
ours. The very thought that we
are citizens of the United States
should imbue us with enthusiasm,
should buoy us up to great achieve¬
ments and thrill with pleasure a
the mention of the
lliiuk ot the unprecendented
progress this country has made in
the few centuries accredited to it.
Like some fair bride adorned for
her husband, she invaded a new
realm and now can point to her
large family within the confines of
()f t|mt new|y disc0V( ,. pd country,
mark their achievements, their
conquests, their struggle for in¬
dependence and honor and their
own true mother love, which
springs eternal in the human
breast. Although still a young
mother, she ha,s enfolded within
her domain many loyal sons and
daughters and her family is con¬
stantly increasing in numbers and
The United States covers only a
little over 5 per cent of the earth’s
and contains but slightly over
5 per cent o! the. world’s popula¬
tion, but the United States now
produces
76 per cent of all r-' Corn
grown in the world.
79 per cent of all the cotton.
59 per cent (( (i “ copper.
37 per cent (( “ silver.
21 per cent • : it “ wheat
62 per cent “ “ 4 i oil.
43 per cent “ “ “ Pig iron.
51 per cent “ “ “ tobacco,
21 per cent “ “ “ gold.
And contains—33 per cent of all
the wealth in ilie civilized world.
Do rot these figures send a thrill
of pride to you breast? If not,
von cannot be a true sun of a gen¬
erous and doting like mother, but we
prophesy that the prodigal
■ on, \ou who seek other climes
rathe;* than remain at home, will
-uine day look back over the years
md yearn for your old mother
•'nullify v, here there jy
cceturli 0t
good things to spare—aiiO you
vyill return, -1 he microbe of rest¬
lessness which causes many of our
good good citizens to seek oil; ,-r
countries for habitation, is truly a
disease germ for no country on
earth is more favored than our
own bright, sunny United States.
My trip East was full of novelty
a : d delight. Kn route, I met sev-
end interesting persons and glean¬
ed some information from them in
regard to financial and industrial
conditions of the South and East.
Mr. Wilbur Keblinger, secretary
Mexican Boundary Commission re¬
ported that in his journey from
El l’aso, Texas, to Atlanta, Go.,
he was agreeably surprised to find
the cotton fields bereft of their
fleecy adornment, nearly all of the
cotton having been picked. While
the yield of cotton the past season
has been abnormally large, still
the supply of 50,000,000 addition¬
al inhabitants for the world, which
it is claimed for births against
death, this large crop should have
brought a better price than it did.
The law of supply and demand
amply justified 10 and 11 cent cot-
ton this year, while we all know
it has not not averaged 9 cents.
Mr. Keblinger reported that the
whole South was under water;
that fields were inundated, forests
were like swamps and the fa te of
the Earth was deprived of the ben-
eficent rays of the sun by o’er-
hanging clouds on his entire jonr-
ncv. Never in years had the rain-
full been so excessive; however,
the rain fulfilled a providential mis
sion and wells were replenished,
stagnant streams began to How
-»nd navigable rivers, which were
hitherto sand beds, had swollen to
useful streams. It is not wMl to
mil at Prodidence, for we car not
fathom the.....stories of d^tiny.
Continued in Friday’s Paper.