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Subscription Rates One Year....... $t 50 Bix Months......ee. 75 T} ree M0nth5....... .30 Official Organ Ben Hili County, A Gorrection. The Leader wishes to call tke attention of the voters to the can didacy of J. C, Peavy, fer Coro ner. Through an error Mr. Pea vy’s name was omitted from the list of candidates published 1n our last issue. We take pleasure in calling your attention to the fact that he is in the race for Coroner. ““ Why did you chose to bring this de posit to The Exchange National Bank.’’ we asked a new depositor recently. He answered, ‘‘Because I hear so much of your unusual strength, fair mindedness and common sense deal ings. Isaw also a long list of large de positors, who bank with you, and I thought if they preferred The Exchange National Bank, I might wisely do the same.’”’ We frequently ask new depositors such questions as the above, and from their frank and open answers we learn positively of the high and increasing fa vor in which this bank is held by the public. This makes us more and more deter mined upon being a bank of exception= ally high rating. We invite new accounts. Interest paid on Savings Deposits. THE EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK Gapital Stock Strength, $200,000.00 Deposits, : \ . $400,000.00 —"'"‘—-7”_“” = , i ; Here’s real money for you—men! 300 Suits Hart Schaffner & Marx fine clothes for Spring! 235 Suits Miller Bros. fine Spring and Summer clothes! At a clean saving of 10 per cent—on every suit! BLACKS, blues, tweeds, crashes and fancy worsteds, in the choicest patterns and styles. - NE‘WEST and snappiest clothing of the season at a reducs tion that’s worth while. TRUTH of the matter is we’ve just a few too many suits and we’re going to give our customers the reductions right now at the openining instead of waiting till the seasons close. The stock is in prime condition right now, men. Come in and get thatsuit you’ve been wanting and save the 10. $3O Black, Blue or Mixed Suits $27.00 $25 . e 6 6 $22‘50 $2O o . £ - $lB.OO $18.50 *° v - . $16.65 a 7 (7 * . $13.50 $12.50 - - i $11.25 $lO 6 66 66 66 $9 OO The new NoFade Shirts we’ve just put on sale are fine The 4-cuff Shirt—in all the new patterns, stripes and figures. ““Another shirt if they fade,”” Priced at Only $1.25 THE FITZGERALD | . EADER. Catholic Church There will be mass, confession and cormmunion Saturday, April 13th, at 7:30 a, m.; also mass Sun day at 10 o’clock. At the latter service special music will be rep dered by the Eckert Trio. You are welcome. " L H. A. Schonhardt. Stbscribe For The Leader. FITZGERAILD, BEN HILI, COUNTY GEORGIA, APRII 12, 1912. 9 : 9 “Stand-Patter.” and “Progressives Among Farmers as Well as Politicia | g 61l 45 FoLITICIAns, Says Barrett--Which Pays Best. ‘To the Officers and Members of the Farmers’ Union: l We hear much today about the ‘‘standpatters” and ¢ ‘progressives” in the two great political parties, not to mention the socialists and three or four other more or less important groups. There aré ‘‘standpatters” and ‘progressives” among farmers as ‘well as politicians, and lam pinning my faith and the future of the farmer in America, to the latter class every time. The standpat farmer believes he has learned everything about his business and that no one can show him aay new tricks or any better methods. Generally, he is the tellow who inherited his calling from his father, and who has made no effort to improve upon the system handed Jown from sire to son. He ridicules scientific agriculture, Instead of subscribing for papers and magazines that will keep him abreast of what the labora tory aid experimentor are doing for nim, he is content to go on plant ing and reaping by the way the moon happens to sit in the heavens, How ne can save monev by seed selection and rotatior, liow he can get the most out of his soil, doesn’t seem to interest him. His main concern is i. rocking along from year to year in the old rut, content if he skimps through the season or gets an extension on the mortgage that is pretty apt to roost on his roof, Standpater in his business, he is apt to be in his union, in his at titude toward public affairs and toward his own family, He is not of‘en found joining in whole-heartedly in movements to better the community, It doesn’t seem to occur to him that by msking the county a better place to live in, he enhances his own happiness and‘ prosperity as well as that of his neighbor, and does more to keep his son and daughter on the farm than all the preaching under the sun. The progressive farmer, on the other hand, doesn’t let his mind stop expanding when he reaches the voting age. He goes to school every day in the year, and his school-teachers are many and varied. They may be agricultural journals, daily newspapers, close observa tion ot the causes which explain the success of his prosperous neigh bor or taking warning by the manner in which the broken promises of politicians or hand-shakers have kept the farmer from coming into his own. | Visit any agricultural community in America, and you will find the line drawn with tolerable sharpness between two classes of farm ers. You are also pretty apt to find that the progressive farmer is the man who is complaining‘about his hard lick and laying the blame for his ragged children or his over-worked wife and upon every source but the right one, | l“ A B ESNOY (T ‘( = . | QA &) Ve 3 ’ !‘ k — Y ‘ - \ | /“\ /r I G T ‘i ‘\s : >\ 4\/ i / 4 \\;\ ' \ A N Y / & 4 ‘ U \ ) ‘.v‘ 3 . . 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N The new %'ans, Blues, Greys--with all the new points in style and trimming $lO.OO Suits $9.00 $7.50 Suits $6.75 $6.60 Suits $5.40 $5.00 Suits $4.50 THE- == | Pichlers new Pumps and Oxfords T PI R for Children=-Just opened ! ] This is perhaps the best line 6 hitle (Ul [hocs 1n e ST@HE I ica—in looks, style and good wear, Si’:ic(;?i;rom T N Teosdent K HOUPHY. Micask Infants $l.OO to Childs $2.50 SEMI-WEEKLY A S = £ o =(NATIONAL) =2 %, DAN S/ o‘//'?O5 s3®~® By this, I don’t mean that there is not a great deal in old, estab lished methods and iz inherited customs worthy of adoption. Nor do I advise the farmer to follow every brand new notion coined by visionaries or the peddlers of free counsel as to how to operate his affairs. There is always a middle course as between these two extremes and the wise farmer seeks it out and keeps his feet in it. But as be tween the two classes—the standpat or the progresssive—l should gamble every time on the prospects of the latter. Do a little soul-searching and see what class you belong to. The answer may help to explain why you haven’t as much of this world’s goods as your neigitbor, snd while hard luck seems to knock at your door every day, opportunity literally dogs his footsteps. Charles S. Barrett. Union City Ga., April 11th 1912. " Torturing eczema spreads its burning area every day. Doan’s Ointment quickly stops its spread ing, instatly relieves the itceing cures it permanently. A$ any drug store. 24-Bt, Official Organ of Be_l Hil County. $.50 a Year, VoL. XVII. NO. 27 Don’t use harsh physics. The reaction weakens the bowels, leads to ch r o nic constipation, Get Doan’s Regulets. They operate easily, tone the stomach cure con stipation. -8, -