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Official Organ Ben Hiii County,
* SLATON ADDRESSES
CORPORATIONS SHOULD BE
THE SERVANTS AND NOT
THE MASTERS OF THE |
PEOPLE. |
ERECEEEE S i
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Men of na.-“
tional prominence discussed problems
of the day at the annual dinner of the‘
Rockefeller Bible class of the Fiifth
Avenuue Baptist Church last night in
the Aldine Club, They included for
mer President William H. Taft, for
mer Governor John M. Slaton, of
Georgia, and Charles M. Schwab.
Mr. Tzit repeated his frequently ex
pressed views on preparedness, de
claring incidentally that. ‘“the, Lord
looks after childres, drunken men and |
the United States.” :
Each of the 400 diners wore a large
white tag on his' lapel bearing his
name. This is a custom at the Bible
class dinners. : -
° “What is Real Progress?”
“When I thought of the purpose of
your organization,” said former Gov
ernor Slaton, “and remembered that
the literature of your calss—its po
etry and its prose, its sciemce and its
philosophy—consisted of ‘one book]|
which changing centuries Have not
altered, the one monument to stability
which mas has left untouched in the
restlessness of his activities and de
sire for change, it occurred té me:
“What is real progress?” And may I
suggest that your studies are in vain
if their lessons are not applied to the
problems of daily life, whether “in
business or 'in the {jer.ormance of
civic duties,
“I3rring. seventeen years’ service in
th;fi.egislature 1 have constantly
heard the demarnd for progress. The
c‘rfy for it has been the Mareseillaise
provoke the acclaim ofthousands.
‘What is real progress?” ‘When are
we sure that change is not retrogres
sion? } -
“The historian reveals a sfrange
repetition of the events transpiring
about us each day. From him we learn
the decline and fall of nations and
the destruction which produced it.
The demagogues are not madetn in
ventions but lived before the days of
Christ in that Hellenic land whose
language offorded the-word and whose
wisdom has enriched the world.
“Justin McCartlly - deseribed in
glowing .phrases that English Pre
mier Minister, Lord Palmerston, whwe
swept triumphatly to success his
party by declaring he was protecting
the English flag from the audacious
heathen and advancing tke rights of
a Christian nation, when in fact he
was imposing upon the Chinese the
lucrative opium traffic, from the curse
of which China wag seeking to relieve
her people.
Simple Rules Forsaken,
“And we read that one great and
remarkable people, unsurpassed in
their learning and wonderful in their
resources and superlative in their ef
ficiency, express as the most advanced
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PANAMA CANAL WILL
BE OPEN IN SIX MONTHS.
Boston, Feb. 10.—The Panama canal
will be reopened within six months
and will then be open for all time, in
the opinion of John R Freemaus, and
engineer who recently inspected the
Gaillard cut for the National Acad
emy of Science He made this pre
diction at a banquet of engineer so
cieties here tonight -
thought of the twentieth century a
contempt for treaties as scraps of pa
per and urge the sacredness of the
doctrines to have and to hold in ruth
lass disregard of the rights of others.
“Have not nations reached their
golden age only to find the zenith of
their prosperity a prelude to rapid de
cay when their rulers have forsaken
the old and simple principles.
“There are those who believe that
progress” is' to be acheived by legis
lation and they would multiply acts
until they became as numerous as the
words of the Koran. The principle of
fewness of the laws is despised and
through some legerdemain they invest
acts of the legislators, whose indi
vidual opinions they would spurn,
with some peculiar divinity. ¢
“No statesman or sage can measure
the suffering and wrong done by leg
ilative dilettantes. They play with
laws as a child plays with its toys,
forgetful that they operate upon mil
llions of people and multiply their
’burdens and deepen their déspair.
They appal to unthinking ‘prejudice
‘by giving unlimited powers to new
‘burdens for the oppression of capital
without seflecting that they dre sub-‘
stituting the uncertain and partial
force of personal government for that
of fixed and impartial laws.
Inrury to the People. '
“Corboration, large or small should
be the servants and not the masterg
of the public. Directed by men
of the highest intelligence and
possessed of the greatest power, their
trangressions of ‘laws passed to pro
tect the public should be visited with
penalties sufficient to prevent a peti
tion. But a wrong to them is an in
jury to the public; and once the ex
ample is established no citizen is safe
from a similiar injustice.
“The Governor and other State
house officrs are elected by majori
ties and in political affairs are ex
pected to represent them. The judge
has no concern with them, but if the
most hated man is entitled to justice,
it should be rendered him against the
protests of an entire State.
The Great Reformer. did - not hesi
tate to answer, ‘render unto Caesar
the things that are Caesar's’ And
when He thought, never did He lessen
the force of the old commandments,
but quoted from the old prophets and
urged eternal obedience to the ancient
law. May not the thoughtless and ir
reveremt guidance of the opportunist,
mindful only of the moment, tempt us
to follow the false lights and forsake
the gafe course that has ever carried
us into port.”
Among other’s at the gpeaker’s
tdble were John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
Police Commissioner Arthur Woods,
&dward James Cantrell and George N.
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, FEB. 11, 1916.
ATLANTA GOES SAVANNAH
ONE BETTER; SHE DOESN'T
_ WAIT FOR MAY THE FIRST
Atlanta, Feb. 10—The recent ar
rest of the manager and headwaiter
of a big local hotel and their arraign
‘ment in police court for serving whis
key in the rathskeller, coupled with
numerous other arrests for prohibi
tign violation and gambling, are taken
to indicate that the Atlanta police de
partment is entering upon a camipaign
for a more rigid enforcement, or rath
€r a more active enforcement of the
law.
Only a few days ago five business
men including one proprietor of a
store on Peachtree street were arrest
ed for a quiet little poker game going
on in th basement of the store, and
numerous other so-called social games
where money was being bet have been
pulled recentl, ‘
Particularly with regard to prohibi
tion it looks as if the police are going
to endeavor to enforce rigidly the pres
ent laws as a sort of preparation for
the enforcement of the stricter laws
which will be co-operative in May:. \
FITZGERALD’S €REDIT :
BEST IN THE STATE
Mr. John D. Dorminey of the Water
and Light Bond commession returned
from Macon this morning, where he
went to purchasé some of the Fitz
gerald Paving Bonds, offered for sale
in that city at an administrators sale.
A number of the bonds of other cities
and tpwns of Georgia were offered and
sold at prices ramging from par to 7
1-2 above. Fitzgerald's Thousand
dollar bonds, of which ten were of
fered for sale brought $1,750 per $l,OOO
the best price offered for any. 'Mr.
Dorminey represente dthe Bond -Com
migsion, whose object in bidding for
the bonds was the re-investing of some
of the sinking fund of the city, is
rapidly accumulating in the hands oj
the commission. The bonds were
bought by an Augusta concern. Mr.‘
Dorminey made the trip to Macon it
an auto and reports the Dixie High
way im evcellent condition to the Cen
tral city. . !
Let the Leader-Enterprise figure
with you on your next Job.
This is My Resolution
WHEREAS, Whether I am already a member, The President
of the United States and the Governor of Georgia have issued their
Proclamations calling upon all men of the Nation and Georgia to at
tend Sunday School next Sunday, and
WHEREAS, The Sunday School movement all over the world
is getting to be the biggest international ‘movement in the history
of the world, and :
WHEREAS, there is a busy class of over a hundred busy men
and busy young men at the Library Building 9:30 each Sunday
morning for a free and easy fight for all for good,
THEREFORE, I resolve that'T will do the thing I have not dotie
in years meet with a Men’s Bible Class at Sunday School this once,
if never more, and thereby righteously observe a Sabbath at Sunday
School ; and,
FURTHERMORE, I will take along with me another, or oth
ers, and help Fill the Auditorium to over-flowing; I WILL, GOD
WILLING.
THRICE-A:-WEEK
PARENT-TEACHERS HOLD
AN INTERESTING MEETING.
The Pavent-Teacher Association met
lat the First Ward school building on
Tuesday afternoon. Much enthusi
asm and iterest is shown in the work
and nineteen new names were added
to the already large membership list.
Much business wag transacted but
the election of officers was the main
feature of this meeting. It was
thought best, as Mrs. Andrews is al
ready familiar with the work that she
act as chairman of this body until the
work is thoroughly understood. Mrg.
C. A. Fretwell was elected Record.
ing Secretary and is from the Second
Ward. Msr W. E. Hale received the
greatest number of votes for Corres
uonding Secretary and is from the
Fourth Ward and Mrs. W. E. Carney
from the First Ward was elected
}Treasurer. As Mrs. Andrews lives in
Ithe Third Ward each Ward hag an
officer in the Association. Mrs. An
drews will also appoint her commit
tees in groups of four, taking one from
each section, by which method is
hoped to stimulate interest and get
each section thoroughly familiar with
the work and in perfect harmony and
understanding.
' The next meéting will be held at the
Library, the fourth Thursday of this
kmonth when an interesting program
will be arranged.
UNUSUAL PAWN
BROKER'S BARGAINS
. Account of illness,
I will sell my stock
from day to day at
cost and, on Saturdays
will sell at auction,
until stock is sold.
I have Bargains at
all times in unre
deemed pledges, but on
the above plan you
will find unusual bar
gains, G. W, RODGERS.
FAMBOUS BLIND SENATOR
COMING WITH THE LOCAL
SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA.
All detail arrangements have been
closed for the Southern Chautauqua
and Artist Festival which will be pre
sented here in February 17th under the
auspices of a committee of leading cit
izens. That the program bids fair to
iequal anything given in the state,
is evidenced by the fact that the great
Dblind statesman, U. S, Senator, Thos.
P. Gore is numbered among the at
tractions.
- The most unique character in the
United States Senate today, and the
the senator who is invariably pointed
out to gallery visitors, ig the blind
senator from the young state of Ok
lahoma.
Nor is Senator Gore remarkable be
cause he is blind. He is conceded to
be the most brilliant and eloquent sen
ator in the upper house, whose speech
es are listened to with attention and
enthusiagm, not only by the crowds
hat fill the galleries, but by the staid
and dignified senators on the floor, as
well.
When in action, no spectator unac
quainted with the fact, would suspect
him of blindness. He has a trick of
holding a piece of paper in his hands
and occassionally turning towards it
as though consylting notes, ‘which
make the uninitiated think he is read
ing fro mit. He is an earnest, ener
getic speaker, and with a reasonant
voice which makes it heard in all parts
of the senate chamber, and a delivery
emphasized by wild shakings of the
head, which seriously muss up his
hair. :
He has amother trick. Always
when speaking, he has a large book on
the table in front of him. Upon this
he places one hand, while with the
other he gesticulates. ‘He alternates
the hands frequently, but ‘always
when one hand leaves the book, ti.»
other seeks. In this way he retains
his sense of pesition. :
The blind senator has to haye ev
erything read te him. His wife and
his secretary do this for him and it is
no easy job. He listens with close at
tention, and when a point is reached
upon he disires further enlightment,
he insists that other books of refernce
shall be found and that point elluc
dated before proceeding further. The
reading covers a wide range of sub
jects and his mind reains what he
hears, so that when he takes the floor
to make a speech, he is well aquipped
for the debate as other men who pos
sess aM their senses.
Mrs. Earl Thurston and little daugh
ter, Geraldine, are spending the week
end in Abbeville, the guest of rela
tives. !
The Loyal daughters will hold their
next social session at the ‘home of
Mrs. J A. Parrott on the evening of
February 14. There will be a Valen
tine Party and all members are cor
dially ilnvited to attend.
Sl D B R
WANTED—Young couple to occu
py ‘nicely furnished front room, ev
erything convenmient, also hoard. Ap
ply Leader-Enterprise office. 3T
Mondayv
Wednesday
Friday
VOL. XXI. NO. 18
DFFICIALS AND OWNERS
E. K. FARMER PLACED ON A.,
B. & A. DIRECTORATE g
As pecial train is scheduled to arrive
at 5 p. m., from Atlanta bringing the
new directors and the officials of the
road over the line for a personnel
inspection. The party will go to Thom
asville tonight and return to spend the
night at the Lee-Grant, Saturday
morning they will proceed to Bruns
wick. The new directors, who held
their official meeting in Atlanta this
morning are:
Mr. E. T.' Lamb, Atlanta; Mr. F. R.
Hart, Boston; Mr. C F| Ayer, Boston;
Mer Percy R. Payne, New York City;
Mer. Geo. C| Clark, New York City
Mr. Howard Bayne, New York City:
Mr. John Outley, Atlanta; Mr. Mell
R. Wilkinson, Atlanta; Mr. Brooks
Morgan, Atlanta; Mr. E. K. Farmer,
Fitzgerald; Mr. F. D. M. Strachan,
Brunswick; Mr Elijah Lewis, Monte
zuma; Mr. W. C. Vereen. Moultrie and
Mr. A. H. Woodward, Atlanta
With the party of directors are Mr.
B. L. Bugg, Mr. J L. Edwards, Mr.
R K. Slaughter and Mr. W W. Crox~
t.on,
PROGRAM SUNDAY NIGHT AT
CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH
~ Voluntary.
Hymn.
Antheum—Ye Who Toil in Rowing
—Wilson.
Scripture Reading.
Solo and Chorus—Follow Me—Dr.
L. A. Turner and Choir.
Prayer.
Antheum—Great is Jehovah—Lo
renze.
Announcements.
Offertory—Male Quartette—J. M.
;T)avis L. Bryant, L. A. Turner, L. P.
North.
Sermon, The Converison of a Good
Weoman” i
Hymn. )
Benediction. !
The Epworth league of the First M..
E. Church will give a St. Valentine:
social in the league room and on the-
Volley ball grounds Monday evening
Feb. 14. Free to everyone. Come
and bring a Valentine. :
' Single tickets for the Chau
tauqua for all eight attractions
$2.60.
PACKING PLANT PROPOSED:.
Valdosta, Ga., Feb. 10.—Plans are
rapidly mearing completion for the
erection of a packing plant in this
’city during the coming spring and
summer and unless plans miscarry
|such a plant will be in operation in
Valdosta before thr year is out. Sey
ieral well known business men of the
city are back of the movement and
}they state that the time is ripe fos
isuch an enterprise.
FOR SALE—A Brand new HUDSON
(40) a bargain. Address J. T. Stilwell
3Jr., Montezuma, Ga. 3T