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THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE.
And Pres
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Under Act of Congress, March 18th, 1897
OFFICIAL ORGAN Sty ofFitagerald’and
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Local Readers 10c per Lino for each insertion. no ad
takean for less than 25e¢.
A good way to burst the Democratic party in Georgia is to
talk about selling the State Road instead of extending it to the
sea. We may just as well make up our minds that the masses of
Georgia voters will not stand for any man or set of men whose
euection to office in the State may lead to the sal: of the State’s
greatest asset, the Western and Atlantic.
The “dear people” are likely to draw another blank in the distri
bution of political pap. Under ths misnomer of “Rural Credits,” a
farm mortgage bill is in the course of passage through Congress in
tended to satisfy the demand for Rural Credit legislation. The
Federal Reserve Banks are already amply supplied with funds and
laws to make loans on well secured farmer’s notes on short time
from one to five years, under a special act passed last year. What
the farmers demand is a home purchasing power instrument that
will enable willing workers to purchase land on terms from 20 to
50 years at a low rate of interest and on a plan which will enable
them to liquidate their indebtedness at not exceeding an 8 per cent.
annual payment, including princisal and interest. A lesser scheme
will only be a subterfuge and inteaded to serve the political arpira
tion of political hacks who are riding on the credulity of the farmers
votes into fat places. From every aspirant to congressional honors
the people this year should demand compliance with certain natinn-l
al demands that are destined to make for better conditions among
the farmers and the industrial workers of the Nation. |
i THE WISE CANDIDATE,
The secker for public office who possess the wisdon necessatry
to qualify him for the position is alive to the fact that the voter of
today has to be shown, that deeds count more than empty words or
cheap cigars. A few years ago the candidate circulated around
passing out rag weed in the guise of cigars and declaiming upon
the glories of the republic in gene al and the voter in particular. He
promised everything and delivered little or nothing. Today he goes
to the editor of the local paper, ¢ ntracts for a liberal amount of
legitimate display advertising space, and talks tothe voters in an
honest and manly way. lln the old days he reached only a few of
the voters, whereas, by the prese it method he talks through the
m’cdium of his sulvcrtiscmcn't to every voter in the. community.
What he says is on record in cold type, and carries conviction.
It is the mehtod thn_t prnflu(‘cs tangible results, that gets the votes,
that appeals to the intelligence o" an honest people. Keey your
eye on the advertising columns of this paper, and sec what your
candidates have to say. \
A LITTLE TALK ON POLITICS.
People are doing quite a little talking and reasoning on politi
<al topics these days and they will continue to buzz around until
after the year’s elections have become hist ry. They will prompt
tly forget all about it and the people they have placed in office will
proceed to do as they please throughtout their terms and there are
times when what pleases the office-holder is anything but pleasing
to the men who put him there.
Right there, Mr. Voter, is where we make a very' great mistake
We should keep right after the office holder with as much persist
ency after election as hg employed in pestering us for our votes be
fore election.
We should talk things over among ourselves, and decide what
~'we need, and what is best for ourcollective welfare, and then we
should hang onto the office holder like a hungry dog grips a bone
until he gets what we want or it is shown not to be within the
bounds of possibility.
If the efficial goes veering off on some fool course it should
be up to us to tell him in pointed terms to veer back again and
travel the road that we select for him.
He may be governor, or congressman, or sheriff or county of-
Ticial, all of which looks and sounds bi gto those who like it. ~ But
we are the people and we are a whole lot bigger than all of the
governors, and congressmen andother officials combined. Offi
cials are merely the hired servants of the people who place them
in office and who pay them their salaries, and their duties are to
obey the will of their masters.
Keep right on talking politics, and discussing. men and condi
tions, and pointing out the needs and requirements of the people of
our section and of the state. And don’t be afraid to let our pub
lic servants hear you talk, and it will help us as a people and as a
community.
After we have talked people into office we should continue
right along and talk them into doing the right thing after they get
there. If any office holder doesn’t like our brand of talk then we
are justified in assuming that we have made a mistake in placing
him there.
Sane discussion of conditions, and people, and events is good for
this community, for it serves two distinct and wholesome purposes.
It brings forcibly to the fore those things that are best for us, and
it lets our officials know that we.are keeping both eyes o nthem
with a view to seeing that they perform their duties as expressed
by our will in a manner acceptable to us.
Every day should be campaign time with us and especially
right now when so many aspirants to office are beginning to look
us up. '
Our Advertising
Columns Are
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Merchant's
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J. B. Linton, of St. Mark, Fla,, ar
rived in the city to open a retail Fish
and Oyster business, -
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On Tuesday evening at seven thirty
o'clock a reception will be tendered
the men of the First Baptist church
and congregation by the Pastor, Rev.
L. A. Cooper, assisted by the ladies
of the Woman's Missionary Society.
Dr. W. L. Pickard, President of Mer.
cer University, Macon, Ga,, will be
present, and deliver an address. An
enjoyable evening is anticipated.
THE LEADER-ENTERPR SE AND PRES, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1916.
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'SOME FACTS ABOUT :
COTTON AND PEANUTS.
Oil Millg to Encourage Peanut Cul
ture.
Cotton seed oil ig 79 cents a gallon,
which is at least twice or even more
than twice its normal price. A friend
of mine this season sold his cotton
seed to the oil mills for $7,500, and his
cotton lint for only $20,000. If the Pan
ama Canal were open, and there were
an abundance of idle ships, thou
sands of ship loads of Manchurian soy
beans would be heading westward to
day, for grinding up.
Personally, I see no great hope for
the cotton growing industry under boll
weevil conditions and where there is
locally an abundance of Spanish hang
ing moss, Cotton growing these sec
tions and in the long run, will be dan
gerous and uncertain. In this section
other crops than cotton and as suc
cessors to cotton, are clearly indicated
Owing to the uncertainity of the cot
ton industry, and probable shortage
in given localities of cotton seed for
’pressing many of our cotton oil mills
‘arc getting quite disturbed as regards
the future for themselves in the oil,
:nil meal and oil cake industry. And
let it be said that this industry is
easily one of universal interest and a
prime necessity the world over. Ev
en now it is seen that some of our
cotton oil mjlls are turning to soy
beans and peanuts. There is no radi
cal amount of differnce in the value of
both the oil and cake from these three
products. Soy beans and shelled pea
nuts in the pressing for oil and cake,
are treated in the same way as cotton
seed and the same machinery that is
used for cotton seed can be used for
soys and shelled peanuts. Some of.
our cotton oil mills are now doing all’
of this above combined business. In
fact one of the oil mills in North Ca-i
rolina has actually called itself the
“Universal Qil Company. \Vhy‘
should not all cotton oil mills, in the
future, be resolved into Universal Oil‘
Companies?
This, of course will open up in the
South new industrieg in the growing
of soys, and White Spanish peanuts.
In fact within the past month, be
cause of their increased use for pres
sing purposes by oil mills, growers of
soys and peanuts have been getting 20
DUST CLOUDS OF ALASKA.
Volcano A'm Make the Hills Appear
<0 Be Snow Clad.
As we approached Kodiak strange
dark clouds were seen obscuring the
horizon at several points, one of which
was so heavy and black #hat it resem
bled smoke from a great forest fire.
Captain Jensen startled us by explain-
Ing that this was dust blown by the
stiff breezes from the lofty hills all
about us. These hills seemed covered
with snow, but the whitish deposit
proved to be ashes rained down sev
eral feet deep upon all this section dur
ing the eruption of Mount Katmai in
June, 1912. Katmali is still smoking.
The sun looked like a dull silver dol
lar as it shone through the ashy mist.
The dust cloud was so thick that it
held our steamer up for four hours
until the way was ciear. Passing your
hand over the rail of the boat, you
found your fingers streaked with the
impalpable gray powder. When we
landed at Kadiak we found piles of
goft gray ashes and large and small
pieces of light, friable stone, like pum
ice stone, which had been thrown out
by the volcano. The explosion of the
volecano was heard at Valdez, 400 miles
away from Kadiak, and sounded like
a cannonading. It was followed by a
deposit of fine ashes in Valdez.
In Kodiak the ashes covered every
thing. They half buried Colonel Blod
gett’s big cannery on the dock and put
him temporarily out of business. They
completely filled up a pond four feet
deep which had been the skating re
sert for many years of the children of
Kodialk.—Jolin A. Sleicher in Leslie’s.
CORE OF THE EARTH.
Its Form a Mystery, but the Globe, as a
Whole, 1s as Rigid as Steel.
The theory that the crust of the carth
is only a few miles in thickness and
rests upon an intensely heated molten
interior is »o longer tenakle, It is now
krown that the carth, as a whole, pos
sesses a high degree of effective rigid
ity, as great as if it were composed
throughout of steel. It is no doubt
true that the interior of the earth is in
an intensely heated condition and that
it appears to possess some of the qual
itiecs of a fluid. At the same time it
hehaves in many respects as a solid.
Professor Milne concludes from the
velocities of seismie waves at different
depths that the materiais and general
characters of the crust of the earth
that are found at the surf.B> may ex
tend to a depth of a“out thirty miles,
but beyond that the material seems to
merge into a fairly homogeneous nu
cleus. This state probably extends to
a depth of six-tenths of the radius, but
the remaining four-tenths form a core
which differs in its physical and possi
bly its chemical constitution from the
outer portion. What the state of this
pucleus is must be a matter largely of
conjecture until we have a fuller
knowledge of the state of matter when
subjected to the vast pressure such as
exists within the earth’s intsrior.
Additional evidence that the earth, as
a whole, is at least as rigid as steel is
furnished by a study of tidal phenome
na and also by the variation of latitude.
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY
Corner Main and Altamaha Sts.
First Reader Wm. R. Jewell
Services 11:00 a. m.
Sunday school 10:45 a. m..
Wednesday evening testimonial
meeting 7:30 p. m.
All are cordially invited to attend
these meetings. : |
per cent more than the prices that
ruled 60 days ago.
Both of these products are fairly
productive per acre. Soys frequently
\turn out 40 bushels per acre, and pea
inuts from 35 to 75 bushels per acre. If
these industries, however, are carried
on in a large way, both crops need
machinery. In North Carolina mow
machines and also threshing machines
for peanuts are necessary. The ma
chine owner, however, may do com
munity work in the above matters.
Soys all ripen at one time and must be
gathered at once. Land for soys must
always carry inoculation, and peanut
land must have carbonate of lime in
sufficient quantities, in it. Half of the
peanuts in South Georgia, Florida and
Alabama is offered to the trade today
are unmerchantable because they are
only one-half filled and because so
many are “pops”. The sole trouble
is a deficiency of lime in the soil. |
' The soy beans and peanut industry
is rapdly growing. It will assume huge
}proportions in the future. The cotton
oil mills should encourage these mat
ters At present the soy bean industry
is largely confined to Eastern North
Carolina and Eagtern Tennessee; but
it is spreading not only in this portion
of the country, bu* as far up as Mich
igan and Wisconsin. The peanut in
dustry is strictly southern. It has
practically covered in a minor way the
whole South, and fiere and there we
find quite large growers. One man
near Augusta sold 1,500 bushelg this
year, most of it to a peanut crushing
factory. One man in Alabama the
other day sold to the oil mills 3,000
bushels of his own growing. The
threshed hay of soy is of considerable
value, and peanut vines as a by-pro
duct are worth at least $lO a ton.
When peanut are pressed in the pod,
the cold process 6il mill is used —N.
L. Willet in The Augusta Chronicle.
Sweet Potatoes
801 l Weevil Can’t Destroy
—_—
All Farmers who are interested in growing early SWEET
POTATOES at a f. 0. b. price of 90c, 70c and 60c per
bushel for July delivery are invited to meet me at the Court
house, Fitzgerald, Ga., on
Saturday, February 26
At 10:30 A. M.
C. D. DISMUKE
PROFIT IN PEANUTg
The Thomasville Times-Entcrprisc‘
says: ‘
There has been a lot of adcie dish-I
ed out to the farmers during the past
year or more, and they have been
urged not to plant too much cotton
during this year—good year of 1916.:
The advent of the boll weevil has
served to demonstrate that this pest !
will add greatly to the burdens of thcf
farmer who attempt to ‘raise cotton,
and the weevil will make greater in
roads upon the profits from this crop
than any other one thing. ‘
It is realized that the farmer must
have a moteéy-crop; that is, one that
will bring in the cash and be saleable
at all seasons of the year. The farm
er needs such a crop and until he can
be shown that he can raise this ready
money from the growing of some oth
er commodity, he will—of necessity,
if not by choice—continue to plant a
large acreage in the fleecey staple. He
will favor a bumper crop, that the
ravages of the boll weevil will not be
so great but that there will still be a
profit for him, and, lastly, that the
market will not be so overburdened
that the product of his labor must be
sold for a little more than a song.
It has been demonstrated that pea
nuts, ground-peas, “gubers” or.what
ever you care te call them, will grow
abundantly in south Georgia, and that
they make a most-excellent feed on
which to get the fall porker ready
for the market.
. Of late years, however tachinery
‘has been perfected, whe: Sy a very
’valuable oil can be extract_d from the
peanut, and this oil brings a good
jprice, at all seasons of the year.
The farmers of eastern North Caro
lina have taken up the growing of
peanuts for the oil mills, and they
have found it a very lucrative crop
from every viewpoint. The mills are
always ready to buy e raw material
of thesoil. A visitor to the eastern
part of the Old North State, espec
ially in Perquimmans, Hertford and
Chowan counties, sees great stacks of
peanuts, drying in the sun, and when
this prBcess is gone through with,
the growers send them to nearby mills
where ready money is to be had for
their product.
We are indeed glad to see that this
Idea is &+ taken up in a limited
way in South Georgia. We under
stand that a large land-owner in Mil
ler county will plant every acre of
land formerly given over to cotton,
in peanuts this year, and he is mak
ing plans to erect a mill wereby he
can crush the peanuts, and make them
into the valuable oil. If his venture
proves profitable, and it deubtless will
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thing you wish i SAY‘ “ of good Station
to sell, adver- \ j-' ery— and good
tise it through NG business men
the columns of use no other—
The Leader-En- PHONE let The Leader
terprise. 328 Enterprise do it,
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Why You Shold Let :
Me Shoe That Horse :
I do good work. :
I use good shoes. :
I put them on properly, and |,
they stay. i
I am gentle and kind to hors- :
€s. [
Your horse soon learns this and |
loses its nervousness. |
That is good for the horse :
and the horses’s owner, |
Blacksmithing and all kinds of |
repairing. :
W. K. EDWARDS,
115 S. Sherman,
| Mrs. A. E. Deyo left last fiight ‘or
“Atlanta for medical atten ion. :
Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Ellington have
received the sad news of the leath of
their little three year old grandson,
Murice Elligton. While playing
Thursday he was severely burned and
expired that night at 8 o'clock. He is
the beloved twin son of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Ellington, of Brunswick, who
have many friends here who deeply
sympathize with them in their gredt
Col. Alex Koplin received a decid
’ed compliment from the Department
of Justice. He writes that he has been
’placed in charge of the Safety Appli
ance Law litigation, with two assist.
ants under him.. We congratulate Col.
'Koplin upon his rapid progress in hig
bereavement.
Sea ni
! HEREAFTER I shall deposit in
the EXCHANGE NATIONAL
BANK. I surely can make no mis.
take to deposit my money where
many other people have deposited
thousands and thousands wuntil the
bank has larger deposits than any
other bank in this portion of the
state and where the HONORABLE
TREASURER of the UNITED
STATES deposits U. S. Government
moneys.—Mr. Prudent.
many other farmers in that county
and section have assured him o’f\_their
co-operation in the growing of pea
nuts for the market.
We believe it is not predicting too
much to say that before many years
kave passed, these mills will become
more plentiful, and- even the smaller
communities will see fit to erect and
operate them. Then the Georgia
farmer, and the farmers of our home
county will feel that he can rely on
some other crop than cotton for his
money crop.