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We are glad to see Savannahians, among them men of state
wide reputation who formerly opposed the extension of the West
=rn and Atlantic and generally opposed the state ownership of any
public utilities, are now through self interest awakening to the im
portance of the state ownership and extension of the Western and
Atlantic Railway. Of course, the promoters are not to be counted
as comverts to Government ownership through principle or the good
t will do the state or its people, but solely through self interest, see
mg the possibilities of getting something worth having for their
city. "The people along the line proposed by Mr. J. A. J. Henderson,
whose plans have practically been taken by the Savannah crowd,
will make their fight for the extension of the road through central
Georgia and thus develop another sea port for the state. However,
should the commission decide for the Savannah route and the road
&ets to the sea, we shall still'be proud of the achievement as the peo
ple will have gained a valuable asset and future generations will reap
the benefits of this great undertaking. i
BEATING THE LOAN SHARK
The Carr Cotton mills of Durham, N. C., has solved the Loan
Shark problem as far as their ‘employees are interested. Some
months ago the Leader-Enterprise outlined a similar proposition as
“easible for the A. B. & A., and we are elated to find that the plan at
that time suggested by us, is and perhaps has been in operation suc
cessfully on so large a scale. We quote from the Atlanta Constitu
faon : ¥
“The Carr Cotton Mills, of Durham, N. C., has set apart a fund
of $lO,OOO from which remedial loans are made to employees. The
fund is managed by directors chosen by and from among the em
ployees, and loans are made in such amounts as occasion requires,
in cases of ilh'less, death and other distresses which are beyond the
powers of the individual to control. .
“The loan is made at the very reasonable interest rate of 6 per
cent, and is paid off in small weekly installments, which do not em
barrass the borrower., Although the loans are made without other
security than the reputation of the borrower for the payment of his
/,'c'ms, the geatest loss covering a period of twelve months is only
Ҥl7.
It 1s a genuine case of helping the employee to help himself.
Where a loan of $5O, when needed, costs the borrower but $3, and
is repaid in easy weekly installments of $l.OO, he would probably
be mualmy interest payments at anywhere from 5 to 50 cent a month
1o a money shark for two or three years, and still owe the original
prmcipall |
It is a principle and a program by which other corporate organi
zations throughout the South and the country might well profit. It
isn't simply a question of taking care of these employees, but it is a
method of making better men and women, better workers, of them.
There are enough. causes of dissatisfaction among workers in
most industries ; anything which tends to alleviate or diminish them
not only benefits the workers, but is of as much, if not more, advan
tage to the employer. It is a comforting feeling to know there is
provision made against human distress; that there is opportunity
for taking care of whatever unforseen crises may arise within the
family. 5 o
The Carr Cotton'Mills are setting a splendid example ; there are
others which make similar provision and which, also, furnish educa
tional and recreation opportunities for their workers. Tt is part and
parcel of the new and now well-groven policy of rebuilding the man
and woman worker, and keeping them “fit.X It makes both for con
fentment and better service.” : : ag oA
- PROFITS FROM PEANUTS ;
In the decade 1899-1909 the peanut acreage in the United States
mcreased sixty-eight per cent; the yield ingreased from eleven mil-
Bon, nine hundred and sixty-four thousand bushels to nineteen mil
lion, four hundred dnd fifteen thousand; and the value of the crop
from seven million, two-hundred .and seventy thousand dollars to
eighteen million, two hundred and seveiity-one thousand. It is es
timated the outputifor 1915 will be considerably. larger than for
1909 ; ;
. These hgures aftest the development of an imh}str_v the begin
. mngs of which werg almost ludicrously trival. - “Peanut’ has been =
h_ignonym for “palt‘gf\"." But the peanut and its by-products, now
fighly valued for tlfi'}:ir food properties, bid fair to become more and
mare commercially important. .
. According to a fecent bulletin of the federal Department of Agri
<ulture, it costs from twenty to twenty-five dollars to raise thirty
fve-bushels of peanuts, which is the average acre yield of the Span |
41 variety : this reckoning includes labor and interest on investment
/it seventy cents a ‘l"mshe‘l, the revenue thus derivable §s twenty-fou:
<y Jars and fifty cents an acre. The hay, which is worth about te:
« ¥ /lars, brings the total ép to thirty-four dollars and a hali.
The New York Commercial notes that this margin of profit i
‘too large and that if peanut oil is to be sold in competition witl
i seed oil, even under present conditions, “the mill nman vanno
to pay more than seventy cents.” The way to increase th
of the peanut industry, thinks the*Commercial, is to improv:
sariety grown !‘therby obtaining a higher grade of peanut oi
arket”—Atlanta Journal. ¢ @
TH= LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBLER 25, 1916.
M—_‘*A__ bt by HeiE
CHIEF OF POLICE |
Popular Official was Confined to
Bed Three Months. Now Hale
and Hearty Since Taking Tanlac.
If there is a man in Macon who
is universally known and liked,
that man is Geo: Samuel Riley,
the popular and efficient Chief of
Police of that city. Chief Riley
has been prominently identified
with Macon’s public affairs for a
number of years, and is highly es
teemed and respected for his high
character and integrity by all who
know him. In an interesting in
terview with Dr. W. B. Logan
at the Taylor-Bayne Drug Com-]
pany Thursday morning, Chief
Riley said: |
“I came to Macon when I was
only a 16-year-old boy from
Houston county, and have been
living here for 38 years. I have
always enjoyed very good health,
and haye been what you would
consider a strong, healthy man.
Last June I was taken very sick,
and was confined to my bed for
three months with a trouble that
developed into pleurisy with se
rious complications, and I had to
‘undergo several operations. For
a while T was entirely helpless.
“After getting out my right
side continued to pain me. My
breath would get short, and I had
l terrible pains and swellings in
my legs and feet and catching
pains in my hips and the small of
my back. This trouble made me
very nervous and I lost sleep. To
tell you the truth, I was in mighty
bad shape, and nothing in the way
of medicine seemed to do me
much good. :
“My kidneys botheréd me a
great deal and my whole system
seemed to be filled with Uric Acid
{mison. For a while I had little
ontrol over my kidneys and this
bothered me a great deal. Like
everybody else 1 got to reading
about Tanlac, and decided to give
it a trial. T can understand now
why everybody is praising this
medicine, for it helped me right
from the start. The pains in my
side have left me entirely and 1
now have control over by kidneys.
The swellings have all gone down
and I feel like a new man ni ev
ery way.
“Yes, sir, this Tanlac just filled
me with new life and energy and
I feel more like myself than in
months. Everyone has noticed
the wonderful improvement in my
condition, and I am only too glad
to say a good word for Tanlac:
[ had taken medicines ever since
[ was taken sick and nothing
secemed to help me, but two bot
tles of Tanlac have put me on my
feet and I fecl like myself again.”
Tanlac is sold by Denmark
Drug Co., Fitzgerald, Ga.: Giles
Drug Co., Pitts, Ga.; ' Paxon’s
Drug Store, Abbeville, Ga.; Vis
cher’s Pharmacy, Rochelle, Ga.;
Wilson’s Pharmacy, Pineview,
Ga. adv.
SR S e T T
HENRY JONES SPENT
$1,300 FOR NOTHING
Atlanta, Ga., September 24
Additional reports filed today by
candidates on their campaign ex
penses are as follows:
William:A. Wright, Comptroll
>rtGeneral—Printing and station
ery, $317.05 ; postage and express,
318236 ; advertising, $74.80; au
tomobile hire; $25.:. entrance fee,
5125, Total 73421
Roscoe Luke, Court of Appeals
—Entrance fee, $125. newspaper
ad \’crtfs'ing,' $4§.420; stamps, $160;
‘tenographer, $45. Total, $378.-
30. R : '
tdnry S. Jones, Court of Ap
eals—Entrance fee, $125; print
‘ng and advertising, $1,179.50.
Cotal, $1,304.58. :
HEREAFTER 1 shall deposit ‘ir
the - EXCHANGE NATIONA]
BANK. I surely can make no mis
ake to deposit my money wher:
nany’ ther people have depositer
housands and thougands until th
ank has larger deposits than am
ther bank in this portion of th
tate and where the HONORARBLF
FTREASURER of the UNITED
STATES deposits U. S. Governmen:
moneys.—Mr. Prudent.
LEADER-ENTERPRISE PRINT.
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‘oung companies. - ‘
J. E TURNER, at J
ixcharge National Bank
PLOW COTTON STALXS
UNDER BEFORE FROST
Athens, Ga., September 23.—1
PTow under cotton stalks.two or
three weeks before frost, is the
advice of the Georgia State C_ol—?
lege of Agriculture, as given out
by Prof. Ley E. Rast, of the di
vision of Cotton Industry. Noth
ing is so important ni growing
cotton under boll weevil condi
tions, he says. Observations
have been made in weevil terri
tory and crefully kept records
made which prove this conclu
sively. As soon as frost strikes
the cotton fields, the weevils no
longer have feed and go into win
ter quarters where they remain
dormant, taking no feed until the
spring. A great many of the wee
vils fly out in the field and hiber
nate in hay or fodder stacks, un
der buildings, along fences, round
der buildings, along fences,
around stumps and under any
form of litter such as dead grass,
leaves and weeds. In South
‘Georgia the gray moss hanging
from trees offers an excellent hi
bernating place.
1 The object of plowing the cot
ton stalks early, therefore, is to
put the weevil under ground be
fore he goes to winter quarters.
'lf plowed under four inches or
more the weevil will never do any
"more harm. When a cotton stalk
15 shaken the weevil does not take
to flight but feigns death. Pastur
ing off the cotton plants by cat
tle, Prof. Rast says, coes not de
stroy the weevils, for the reason
lthat they drop off on the ground
and are not eaten.
From data collected by Prof.
Rast obtained by experts who
have made close observations in
badly infested territory, when
cotton stalks are plowed under
about three weeks before frost,
9998 per cent of the weevils are
destroyed. If plowing is delayed
until frost about two per cent of
‘the weevils escape destruction
‘and if stalks are not plowed under
‘at all during the fall, about 12
per cent escape destruction.
Counts made on badly infested
‘arcas show that there are about
5,000 weevils per acre. On this
‘basis, stalks plowed under three
~weeks before frost, leave only ten
~weevils per acrfe to begin their
- work of destruction in the spring.
- When p}nwed under immediately
‘after frost 100 weevils are left to
begin work on the cotton in the
spring. 1f the plowing is left un
~done, as is the custom, until late
iwintcr, there will be 600 weevils
to start ecating cotton in the
| spring. |
Many farmers in the boll wee
vil section failed to make a crop
of cotton this season because
they had larger areas to cotton
last year than they could harvest
before frost, thus delaying plow
ing until the weevils had made a
safe retreat from the fields.
The slogan going out from the
College of Agriculture now to the
county agents and through them
to the farmers of the state is:
“Have every cotton stalk plowed
under not less than four inches
deep at least three weeks before
frost.”
Elwood, “The Boy Wonder,”
trick and fancy skater, ‘at the
Grand tonight, Tuesday and
Wednesday., - R Y
In as much as our county com
missioners, unoffigially, Jhowever,
are making the trip to Macon on
the Central: Route today, we trust
that the splendid improvement'of
the Highway through Wilcox,
Pulaski, “‘Hotiston Mad: Bibb coun
ties will inspire them to' make the
necessary improvement on the
Dixie through Ben Hill. The
road from Lulaville to the Wil
cox county line especially needs
their immediate attention to
bring it within line of these other
counties by comparison. Former
ly travelers could tell Ben Hill
county was entered by the good
~ondition of its roads and it is said
now they recognize them for their
bad qualities.
FARMERS!
Attention!
WE'haye plenty of money
te loan on five year terms
on FARM LANDS in Irwin and
Ben Hill Counties. If you are
in nced of .noney, it will pay
you to see us, for we are pre
pared to make quick loans.
McDonald & Bennett
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EASTMAN, GA.
October 17-18-19-20-21
Distinctively Different. New and Novel. Big and
Busy. Live and Progressive. The Fair for the Family.
; Complete and Comprehensive Exhibits of Agricultural
Products and(Live Stock, Woman’s Work, Girl’s Canning
Clubs, Boy’s Corn and Pig Clubs.
Mammoth street parade, fast harness races, spectacular
acroplane flights, dazzling displays of fireworks, Monster
Midway.
%
_———t—_—___“——_
One Fare plus 25¢ Round Trip
on all Railroads.
“Every Day A Big Day”
W. C. T. U, ATTENTION
One of the most important and
interesting meetings of the W. C.
T. U. was held at the Carnegie
Library Friday afternoon, Sep
tember 22nd.
In the absence of the President,
Mrs. C. E. Emeory, Mrs. Conly
presided. After earnest prayer for
guidance by Mrs. J. H. Burke
and Mrs. W. L. Waits, the Bible
lesson was given by Mrs. E. P.
Wightman. This was especially
helpful, bringing out the rest and
peace that comes to God’s child
ren, emphasizing Phil. 4, St.
Paul’s wonderful chapter on re
joicing and strength.
The election of officers, for the
ensuing year was then held, re
sulting as follows:
President, Mrs. E. G. Ora
hood.
Vice President at Large, Mrs.
J.-B. Seanor.
Vice President Central Metho
dist church, Mrs. Harold Beall.
Vice President M. E. Church,
Mrs. J. H. Burke.
Vice President Baptist church,
Mrs. D. B. Ware.
- Vice President First Ward Bap
tist church, Mrs. Gipn. ..
Vice President, ~Christian
church, Mrs. Fred Keeffer.
Vice President, Presbyterian
church, Mrs. R. M. Mann.
- Vice President U. B. church, to
be supplied. .
Vice President Episcopal
W. RAINE
222 EAST'PINE STREET
New and- Second Hand Furniture
= —Heaters and Stoves— .
a . : Bl U iy e
s Ve Ik oF PR ) B G
Low Faresto Atlanta
= And Return L
®.b ® :
Via A. 8.& A. Railway
" ACCOYNT ;
The Great Southeastern Fajr
ANE
Grand Circuit Harness Races
OCTOBER 14th to 21st INCLUSIVE
The New Fair Grounds and Race Track LOW ‘represents én.'
investment of $700,000.00, and additions and improvements are he.-
ing added daily.
The forthcoming fair promises to surpass any Fair held in the
Southeast since the Great Cotton States Exposition.
Specific fares, date tickets will be sold and return limit will be
announced in a few days. Make your plans to attend.
. 'W. W. CROXTON, G. P, A, L
. 3 A Atlafita, Ga- .
church, Mrs. J. W. Turner.
Cor. Sec., Mrs. C. A. Holtzen
dorff. ;
Rec. Secretary, Mrs. W. L.
Watson.
Treasurer, Mrs. C. M. Wise.
Press Supt., Mrs. E. K. Farm
er. |
A full attendance at the next
meeting, Oct. 6, is urged, as a
delegate will be elected at that
time to represent Fitzgerahd,.&?
the State Convention which wil
be held in Waynesboro, October
17
Ocilla Star: Mrs. W. K. Ed
wards, of Fitzgerald, was a visi
tor to friends in Ocilla this week.
Messrs. W. R. Bowen and Isi
dor Gelders, together with a par
ty of friends from Fitzgerald,
passed through Ashburn Tues
day afternoon en route home
from Americus, where they went
as delegates to the congressional
convention.—Ashburn Wiregrass
& Farmer.
MONEY to LOAN
- Unlimited amount on
Farm and city property
OFFICES;
Davis Building - Fitzgerald,
Bank Building - Rebecca.