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Our senatorial re-distriction is in a dilemma. Hon J. B. Clements
of Irwin, who had a bill pending making the 46th Senatorial District
out of Irwin, Ben Hill and Telfair, and who is on the committee for
constitutional amendments, is opposed to the selection made by the
convention which met in this city on June 22nd, which offered to
place Wilcox county in the 46th with Irwin and Ben Hill. Both par
ties intend well, and are presenting a needed piece of legislation. We
see no reason why Mr, Clements on the one hand could not accept
the proposition présented by the convention, nor do we see any par
ticular reason why the former’s proposition may not suit the people
most interested in the re-distriction of the several large districts, and
especially the people in the 15th Senatorial District, out of which
Mr. Clements proposes his new district. The main object that is to
be served, is to give more frequent senatorial representation to some
of these counties, which now can only furnish a senator each decade
or more,
WE DON'T WANT A MAKE-SHIFT
Three montfi; schooling per year is not sufficient and the Legis
lature should turn down promptly any effort to make the compulsory
school year three months. ' The inefficiency of the rural schools is
unfortunately well established in Georgia, and nothing can be added
to the evidence of its short coming. After the state has appropriat
ed more than a million dollars for its common schools, has put an
expensive plant at the disposal of the children of school age, has an
expensive machinery in running order to supervise and maintain a
school system in the rural sections, it is up to the parents of Geor
gia, whose monies are thus being expended, to either voluntary or
by compulsion make use of the schools placed at the disposal of their
children. The school year should be at least seven months, and no
excuse save that of providential causes should keep any white child
from the school house during the school year.
CORDELE DENIES RESPONSIBILITY
From the Cordele Dispatch:
Friends of Hugh Dorsey are making a mistake when they put
him on a community for a political performance to occur during the
Woodmen’s Log Rolling. Dorsey himself or his friends here are
responsible for setting his date to meet the Woodmen'’s occasion, and
such a move is certainly not showing the proper respect for either
host or visitors at the Woodmen'’s event.
If the Woodmen, as a body, had invited Hugh Dorsey and made
his political address a part of the program, no matter how little re
.gard for the visitors the candidate may have had in wedging himself
in, his coming would have been altogether different. Somebody has
acted with poor judgment and Hugh Dorsey will not turn this occa
sion into a political affair if he has the proper appreciation of the
rights of the people of Cordele who have for more than nine months
been busy with plans to entertain the great number of visitors who
will be here at the time Dorsey wishes to be heard.
The local Woodmen have carefully laid plans for entertainment
cvery moment of theé time the two days the visiting members of the
order are here. Hugh Dorsey’s show must detract from the other
features, if he has any show at all.
Let the community help the Woodmen keep Dorsey off the pro
gram and make him come under his own steam power at a time when
Dorsey will be the attraction. Then he can and should get a welcome
and a hearing such as the people are always glad to give one asking
for the office of governor.
Hardman came to suit his own occasion—and made a splendid
impression. Consider the difference in the two men if Dorsey should
consent to grab off half the last day of a two day program which has
been planned to do honor to the order of the Woodmen.
KILLING THE GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGG
_ For more than a generation the American Federation and simi-
Yar organizations of labor have battled for the right to arbitrate their
grievances arising between labor and capital and have built a healthy
Qublic sentiment among the American public in behalf of mutual ar
bitration., The threatened strike of railway traffic employees, now
l%«ing.vgicd on by the rank and file of the brotherhaods involved,
promises to be the most far reaching in its effect on the public wel
f*re that has ever been inaugurated in this country.
{ The entire shipping of the nation is involved, trade will be
stagnated, farm produce may rot in the field, and cotton become a
rug on the market for the reason that the railroads may be tied up.
he public has a direct interest ih this matter, a greater interest than
ther of the parties to the controversy and the great' American public
may be called upon to demand legislation for compulsory arbitra
tion by the Federal Government. Such laws are in operation in a
numbet of countries and strikes and lock buts are a thing of the past
with those countries. !
The American pubtic has been and still is largely in sympathy
with organized labor ; their reasonable demands have always receivg
el the suppost of pubdic sentiment and many battles have been won
Hy organized labor tlirn?lgh the friendly attitude of the people to
“vards these organized efforts to better the conditions of the working
leopley Kxtreme do;'in:md& and arbitrary enforcement of them, by
11}&@1!1.\‘111131 will cripple evety other industry and gake the great
body of innocent “bystarders” bear the brunt of the battle, may
ercateßreversion of that favorable sentiment that has so ofen ‘come
to the relief of the workers. Arbitration anfl not &orce will be the
b&ét&siflf%he ‘general welfare of all fabor and its organif?at*:ons. oy
THE LEADER ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, FRIDAY, JUMLY 14, 1916.
SIRANGE STORY ‘
OF ROBT. E. LEE
The following taken from an
article in a recent magazine, was
sent us by Mr. Geo. A. Duck
worth, one of Warren County's
Confederate Veterans, with re
quest that it be published:
“Much has been said of Gen.
Robert E. Lee by historians great
and small, but during my last trip
South I came across a man in
Kentucky who told me something
which no historian has ever yet
written as far as I have ever read
or heard of. It is so strange that
any writer who wished himself to
he believed might well hesitate
to put it down in black and white.
But 1 have it from Gen. Lee’s
grand-nephew, Warfield Lee, of
Catlettsburg, and it is that Gen
eral Lee was born fifteen months
after his mother had been laid to
rest in the family tomb at Arling
ton across the Potomac from
Washington, now the site of the
Arlington National Cemetery.
Such a statement as that; without
explanation, would at once brand
itself as false to any man, but Mr.
Lee had an explanation and it 1s
most interesting. According to
his story, the wife of Henry Lee
—“Light Horse Harry”—was ex
tremely ill and growing worse
steadily, a consultation of physi
icans was called. During the con
sultation, or while the physicians
were in the house, Mrs. Lee sank
into unconsciousness and not be
ing able to restore her, the phy
sicians pronounced her dead. For
four days she lay in state in the
big porticoed house on the hill
and on the sixth the body was
placed in the family vault an the
estate. On the following day the
sexton entered the vault to lay
some flowers on the casket and
sweep the floor as visitors with
muddy feet had left much dirt.
While sweeping, the sextgu heard
1 faint cry for help anli being
much frightened he ran out of the
vault, but once outside he gather
ed his wits and concluded that he
had only imagined he heard the
cry. After some argument he
convinced himself that he was
mistaken and he went again in
side and resumed sweeping. He
finished his work and just before
leaving he stepped to the casket
to rearrange the flowers and
again he heard the cry, very faint,
but three times repeated. He was
standing over the glass front and,
looking into the coffin, as badly
frightened as he was, he could see
the lips of the supposed dead wo
man moving. His professional
sense now overcame all fear and
he at once removed the casket lid
and hurried away to get help to
remove the living woman to the
house. Here she received every
attention as before, but now the
efforts were successful and she
recovered to live to a good old
age. Fifteen months after this
strange incident, a'son was born
to her who afterwards became
General Robert E. Lee, Com
mander in Chief of the Confeder
ate arniies. '
“The Kentucky Lee is rather a
remarkable man himself and
bears the scars of seven or eight
wounds received while fighting in
the Confederate army. He enlist
ed before he was 13 and stayed
until the end. He is now sixty=
seven and has been living in Cat
lettsburg for nearly 40 years,’'—
Mrs. D. B. Mull and grand
daughter, Miss Annie May Mull,
of Washington, D. C., are the]
guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. H
Btightman, on McKinley Ave.
Casper Hide & Skin Co.
228-229 EAST PINE STREET.
Baiys Hides, Fur, Wool, Wax,
Tallow, Brass, Copper, Pewter,
Aluminum Turpentine Stills, Old
Auto Car I'ires, Rubber, Etc.
All'kinds of Automobiles, except
Kords, from $lO.OO to $150.00.
The Store That
Advertises
Is the :
‘Store That Does
The Buginess
" .GET YOUR bk
Hogs and Cattle
In good shape for market by feeding them on |
It Wi]l‘expell fhe WOrms, makes tiem slick and
fine for the market. Ask the man‘who uses it-
In 10, 25, 40 and 100 pound Package
R TS
NATIONAL DRUG CO.
“A Good Drug Store”
WOULD REPEAL TAX
EQUALIZATION ACT
Atlanta, Ga., July 13.—Incredi
ble as it may seem when the state
of Georgia’s financial condition is
considered, a movement is afoot
among members of the general
assembly of this state to repeal
the tax equalization act. The tax
equalization matter will be heard
by the senate and house ways and
means committee sitting jointly
this afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Nothing but this tax equaliza
tion act, which has compelled the
return of millions of dollars worth
of taxable property that formerly
paid little or no taxes at all, has
saved the state from the necessity
of issuing bonds to meet current
obligations ; and for the act to be
repealed, when appropriations are
considerably growing, would re
sult, according to financiers, in fi
nancial ruin ruination for the
state—unless every state institu
tion and the common schools
were cut far below actual opera
ting expenses.
The tax equalization act was
one of the administration meas
ures of Former Governor John
M. Slaton. It will be recalled that
Mr. Slaton was criticised by his
opponents for the active part he
took in having the tax act prepar
ed and finally passed. As
soon, however, as the benefits of
the act were recognized, many of
the governor’s most rampant crit
ics flopped over on his side and
became champions of the act.
Later n when efforts were made
in the legislature to repeal the
act, they were overwhelmingly
defeated.
Now the question comes up
again in the legislature of 1916,
and what that body will do with
it remains to be seen.
Representative H. J. Fullbright
fo Burke county, chairman of the
appropriation committee. of the
house, has scored the rules com
mittee of the house unmercirfully
for proposing to help the tax act
repeal by making it a special and
continuing order.
“Nobody wants to pay taxes,
yet everybody wants appropria
tions,” said Mr. Fullbright. “The
state already is having to borrow
money to pay appropriations. If
the tax act is repealed, the legis
lature might as well not meet
to make appropriations at all. If
it were not for the act, the taxable
values of the state last year would
hgve been one hundred and fifty
million dollars less than what
they ‘were. N
“The members of the legisla
ture who are running for re-elec
tion may find it wvery easy to.
promise your tax-dodging consti
tuents to vote to repeal the tax
act, but you will find it very diffi
cult, if you get re-elected.on such.
a platform, to secure an appropri
ation for these same fellows
if you go ahead and repeal the tax
ack” & |
FARMERS!
Attention!
WE have plenty of money
| ' to loan on five year terms
on FARM,LANDS in Irwin and
Ben Hill ®ounties. If you are
y in need of money, it will pay.
<. you to see us, for we are pre
pared to make quick loans.
- McDonald & Bennett
DAVIS BROTHERS CEMENT
H 3 COMPANY MAKE ANNDUNCEMEN
Five years ago we started a new kind of business for this city.
A business run on the plan of selling “direct to you” at “wholesale
prices.” The people soon showed that they were in favor of saving
the money they could save by trading with us in such a number that
we soon had some others in competition with us trying to get some
of this kind of business. W
We sold at a low price because we did a big business at a small
expense. Now we propose to go one better and are going to cut
the expense still more and here is what we intend to do:
On and after August first we will deliver no order under five
dollars to any one. This cuts the expense about half and gives us
an opportunity to pay closer personal attention to our customers and
to buying our goods at rock bed price. Many of our customers call
at the store and take home with them any small articles they care
to purchase. Do you know that many of the big cut price stores in
the big cities do not deliver an article purchased from them? We
would not change this way if it were not for the fact that we want
to save our many friends the burden of paying for delivering the
small articles that some one else buys when they buy a big bill frpm
us.. The ones who buy the big bills of course have to pay for the
delivery of the small article customers. Do, you like td®do t’at?
It costs as much to deliver a can of tomatoes as it does to deliver
a $5.00 order. Let’s put the burden where it belongs. Send your
boy to the store, or call yourself, and we know we will save you
money by saving us the expense of delivery.
Just watch for some of our special prices on articles you can
carry home with you when you see our advertisement in the paper.
Let ’s get together on this proposition and improve our business
methods. We feel that doing business n a New Low Expense Basis
will help us all—Low expense of Living is a great advertisement for
a city. Let’s boost our city—as well as save money.
The farmers tell us that they are glad to see this change take
place as they do not like to pay for delivering small articles in the
city when they purchase from us and take their groceries with them.
See, it helps us all. ;
Come see us—We want your help. We can serve you well—
and give you better service, too—quicker deliveries and better ser
vice to our farmer friends. 3
Y¥%urs Truly,
DAVIS BROS. COMPANY.
-2 s ’L‘ ;1 __._h“_—_—_——-
> Rtdll WHEN YOU WANT
L ¢ ; L
/"fi p 0 il "“’x anything in the auto supply line,
K . g Y¥ it will pay you to call on us before
AL C} U[ g‘ Y ' coing elsewhere, for our stock is
Sv‘ _f‘;(i g «LA a very complete one, and -our
g i s & ' prices are such that you can save
'.5“ =) B} ' money by purchasing of us. Get
A ;/(" 4 ' cur supply list and check off what
P :5’./,’l( / you need and we will deliver it to
9{\.‘%‘ :\\ A you.
RUI Fitzgerald Auto Supply Co.
DID YOU EVER WANT TO AND COULDN'T? . ‘
Want to what? No matter what. Bad to want to
and can'te No matter whether he, she or it ;
ants to and can't, it's bad. 'j
Many a person, good person, has wanted .to,?
do something worth while and coulidnt. Couldi
n't just because had no momey. Had spent éll;
the time for trashiness. Money hard earned
gone forevermores Getting older all time ang
less able to earn but RESONSIBILITIES facirg
you. It!s BAD. .‘ ;
| OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT will assist yourto .
'save and we pay you hard earned money to save.
’ TRY - US. :
Ne lead all other banks im this portion
of Georgia in Deposits.
- We.are doing & BIG BUSINESS. . :
THE EXCHANGE NATIONAL 'BANK
Entered on Honor Roll July, 1912 for Supe
Strength, _ ’
Deposits over HALF MILLIONs ;