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THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE
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Under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897,
Offician Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
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AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION, Foreign Adv. Representative
.
The people who see the dawn of a new day, may be the same ones
who won’t go home until morning.
Protective tariff on peanurts is favored, but peanut politics is
thriving without any encouragement, ?
Not merely do the roads have to be resurfaced because of auto
mobile traffic, but is becomes necessary to rebuild and strengthen
the fences. »
A DOLLAR DAY FOR FITZGERALD |
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“Marked improvement in the credit situation in so far as it relates
to the dry goods business is reported,” writes the New York financial
correspondent of the Atlanta Georgian Tuesday. “Jobbers are
rapidly paying off their obligations to the manufacturers who in turn
are cancelling their loans with the banks.”
That means a reduction in manufacturing costs for dry -goods
and a general improvement in merchandising. It does not neces
sarily means further drops in the retail price of clothing but it means
that retail merchants will not have to continue to lose huge sums of
money in disposing of their stocks of goods at prices which the buy
ing public will pay. It means that within a short while the retail
merchants, IFitzgerald merchants included, will be able to stand a
heavier expense in reaching out after more trade than they are able
to stand at present when nearly every sale they make entails a loss.
It is therefore time that Fitzgerald merchants were reaching out
for more trade from more people in a wider trading radius. One of
the ambitions of the Leader-Enterprise, shared by every Fitzgerald
business man, is to sce the day when Fitzgerald will be the shopping
center for'all of Central South Georgia. We believe that now is as
good a time as there ever will be for Fitzgerald merchants to make a
serious effort in that direction. Such an end, however, is too big to
be successfully achieved by one merchant, or by many merchants
working individually. It must be acheived by cooperative effort of
all the merchants and business men of the city.
The dollar day idea has been found to work successfully in other
American towns and cities of Fitzgerald’s size and smaller. FEach
merchant makes a special offer for one dollar for the one day of the
community sale. He makes a price that is actually below cost on
this offer, a price which will be good enough to command interest.
With fifty such special offers on a double page+ circular and in a
double page newspaper advertisement circulated all over the poten
tial trading radius, it has been found in other places that remarkable
results can be obtained. Neoslio, Missouri, for instance, a town of
less than 4,000 has conducted such a Sales Day regularly for cach
month for five years. ;
i The logical time to try the first Dollar Day Sales experiment
in Fitzgerald will be Monday, February 21st, when the Veal Bros.
Shows and the Spring Poultry Show will offer additional induce
ment for visitors to come to Fitzgerald. That date is little more
than three weeks from now but time enough to put it across.
A LITTLE COOPERATIVE CRITICISM¢ t
The Leader-Enterprise has always made a practice of construc
tive rather than destructive, criticism. It has chosen wherever pos
sible to point out things that should be done rather than things that
should not be done, of things that should be adgded rather than things
that should be dispensed with. The negative phase of progress us
ually takes care of itself when the postive phase is accomplished.
The Leader-Enterprise does not want to have to specify faults be
cause such a course always embarrases someone.
The Fitzgerald public schools are among the best in the State but
they are not perfect. Some improvements could be made. Many of
these could be accomplished by raising the morale of the school, the
school spirit. This can best be done by making school more inter
esting to the pupils. Give them more opportunity “express the ego”
of their natures.
The High School has two basket ball teams playing light sched
ules now. The Leader-Enterprise would suggest that plans be made
now for winning the district high school meet which is to be held
April 22 and 23. Ready writers, Spellers, Debaters, Declaimers and
Musicians must be developed to at least win one place in every event.
Fitzgerald is paying more for her schools, and rightly %, than any
other city of it size in Georgia. It has a right to expect its high
school to show marked superiority over the others.
When an Automobile Show comes off in May, the high school
could furnish a good drawing card by playing three games of base
ball against Ocilla Douglas and Ashburn teams on the three days of
the show. By setting a high standard of scholarship for members
of the high school teams, and sticking to that standard, the general
tone of the school could be raised. Somehow it is human nature
that school boys and girlsghad rather play than work; this can be
turned to advantage by making play a reward for good work.
The Leader-Enterprise congratulates the High School on the
formation of a literary society last week. We knew that the student
body this year was as live as any of previous years and that an ex
pression of the interest of the town in its activities was all that was
necessary to get it started. The experience of the past at Fitz-Hi
has shown, however, that with only one society interest soon lags.
Fitz-Hi has never had a finer spirit than it had years ago when the
Jeffersonianand LanierSocieties were bidding for honors.
BEN HILL COUNTY AIR TIGHT
Ben« Hill county is to be congratulated upon its financial con
dition. Says the Augusta Herald:
“Ben Hill County, of which Fitzgerald is the county seat, comes
to the front with a fine showing, indicating that the county finan
ces are in excellent condition. The floating debt has been wiped
out in that county and there is cash a plenty on hand to meet current
bills. All improvements made in the past year and all operating ex
penses have been settled promptly. In addition to this happy state
of affairs there is provision for a sinking fund to meet all future ob
ligations of the coutny that may be incurred requiring a bond issue.
Ben Hill county is resting on a solid foundation.”
Fitzgerald is a live town that co-operates with the county with
the result mentioned in the above paragraph.—Atlanta Journal.
BEN HILL COUNTY POULTRY SHOW
Fitzgerald excells in many things and not least among its “brag”
g‘oints is poultry breeding. Probably more fancy poultry is bred in
itzgerald than in any other city of its size in Georgia.. The coun
ty has eight breeders of prize winning birds that have in the past and
will in the future advertise Fitzgerald to advantage in fairs and ex
positions all over the South. Pigeons and rabbits raised here have
also proved winners. It will be a fine sight when Fitzgerald's
mny breeders get all their best birds together for the Ben Hill
County Poultry Show Febuary 19-26. The sight will be well worth
seeing. White Leghorns, White Rocks, Buff Orpingtons, Barred
Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and other fancy breeds of chickens will be
on display.
~ If the 1921 Spring Poultry Show is a success it will probably- be
made an annual event and next year will be open to breeders all over
the state. It will beta good “appetizer” for the annual Fitzerald
Livestock and Agricultural Exposition in the Fall. The Exposition
is an institution that should be boosted by every farmer and bus
iness man in this section. It has already made a reputation for its
wonderful poultry show. The Farm Bureau is cooperating this
year to strengthen its livestock and agricultural shows. The good
women are lfuttli;i away exceptionally fine pieces of fancy work,
indgall in all it s like Fitzgerald is going to see a lot in 1521.
PR e o 5 '
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 26th, 1921,
In The Listening Post
{ Another publicity hound, we don't
‘mention his name because that is what
he is cutting the fool for, is promising
to introduce a bill in the legislature
prohibiting the manufact}:rc, sale or
wearing of a heel more than an inch
and a hal{ high. While it is perhaps
true that,a pretty____er, foot, has
wrecked as many lives and homes, and
the like, as has booze, enforcement
officers would find a great deal more
difficulty in suppressing illicit traffic
in dainty footwear than in common
or garden varietyi of bootlegging, and
that, we understand, is a man’s size
job in itself. |
Railroad Shops for Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald, one of south Georgia's
most enterprising cities, is to have!
the shops of the Ocilla Southern rail-;
road, according to the Fitzgerald
Leader-Enterprise, which says: ‘
“It became known today that an ef
fort is being made by local business
men and capitalists interested in the
Ocilla Southern railroad to have the
railroad shops and general offices
moved from Ocilla, where they have
been since the road was organized
about ten years ago, to Fitzgerald.
At a special meeting of the chamber
of commerce here last night a com
mittee was appointed to confer with
the receivers and superintendents of
the railroad.”
At one time the Ocilla Southern
had a bright future, but it got caught
in the financial avalanche with several
short lines.—Atlanta Journal.
And it still has a bright future,
Jack, and many prosperous years
ahead of it.
Speaking of Luck.
No one has left
H'is wealth to me,
And yet I chuc-
Kle full of glee.
This is the rea-
Son I am glad:
I've an old pair of shoes
I forgot 1 had.
—Columbia Missourian,
My name is not
In any will,
And yet I gig-
Gle fit to kill.
The reason I
Poke out my chest
Is 1 found two bits
In a cast-off vest,
—Macon. Telegraph.
No chance to “Gar-
Land” have I had
And vet I snic-
Ker as I add
In joyful vein
This line o' type:
I cleaned my desk
And found my pipe.
' A Thought for the E.
ought lor the fvening
7 : 7
é A VERSE AND A VIGNETTE 2
| By Dan G. Bickers
ON THE DAY O’ BOBBY BURNS :
“Wad some power the giftie gie us to see oursil’es as others see us!”
Today’s his birthday, Bobby Burns’ ____
The old man sits and turns .
The leaves, thumb worn and yellowed now,
He said the thing that fits__ And then, '
Thinking of this and that, of men
And of philosophy of life, his smile
Lights up the evening for the while; .
“Never a thing more true was ever writ
I think than it ___
That saying neat regarding such a gift |
As would allow us just to lift
The egotistic curtain and behold
Ourselves as others see us; 'tis an old
True saying___one I've often thought
About when doing what 1 ought
Not to have done; a sermon’s thére \
If slyly put, a sermon keen, for fair.”
RESULTS
I know the children of folly__
And the children of wisdom
So I knew their parents!
A Sermon to Live By
By Rev' Elam Franklin Dempsey, D. D.
SPIRIT OF LOVE VERSUS RULES OF CONDUCT
Scripture: Exodus 20:1-11.
In both tables of the Law, given on Sinai, there is a common
verb-the verb of love. Our Saviour’s summary of the Ten Com
mandments authorizes this statement (Matt. 12: 34-40). Paul with
piercing ethical insight, and plenary religious inspiration, has said,
“Love 1s the fulfilling of the law.”
But love is a spirit, and a law, is a rule.
How are we to reconcile this anomaly of a religion of love embod
ied in a code of mandatory laws? Can love be coerced? Can affec
tion be forced? We know that this is impossible, and, therefore, we
come to appreciate these other words of Paul, “The Law is a school
master to bring us to Christ.”
The law, this set of rules, does not exist for itself. It exists that a
further end may be attained. It is a mears to the end-tha: a man’s
life may be “hid with Christ in God.” “Perfect love casteth out
fear.” He who is fully “in Christ,” lives thus fully in love, without
fear.
But where is “perfect love?' Hence, need for watchfulness, and
rules, and reminders of highest ideals and of consciious, struggling
effort to advance toward them. i
The law is God’s description of the highest ideal life for man:
Love for God and man (in all its phases and without alloy or admix
ture of selfishness) makes compliance with ideal life instinctive, for,
through love, self is forgotten, and duteous remembrance of others
only remains.
Growing in love, we will leave behind all conscious struggling ef
fort and become more and more automatic in this excellent life of ful
filling the law. / 4 ,
[ “President asks that soviet be given
a chance,” announces the Georgian.
We understood that the Soviet had al
ready taken all the chances that were
not nailed down.
A lot of people who have been all
worked up over the poor Belgians of
late will be glad to hear that the
Guaranty Trust Company has negoti
ated a loan of $30,000.000 for them.
And the G. L. and T. doesn’t lend
money to bankrupts, not while it’s in
its right mind, and nobody’s charged
it with lunacy recently.
Wherein Editor Brown Utters a
Large and Luscious Mouthful
We hope the employees and the of
ficials of the A. B. and A. railroad
get together on some plan whereby
an opportunity for the line to pay its
way. It would be hard to suggest
through a newspaper the best course.
We hope that course can be found and
the line will be permitted to keep
heads up in earnings. All we want is‘
an opportunity for the line to pay
its way. It would be hard to suggcst'l
through a newspaper the best course.
can be found and pursued. People
who operate railroads for a business
a living are the best people to settle
that.—Cordele Dispatch. 7
Fitzgerald High School boys and
girls both play basketball games Fri
day afternoon with Cordele, and Ab
‘beville teams as opponents. It would
' be nice if all former students of the
‘High School would show their inte -
est in the lads and lassies by attendin:
the game. Nothing would help more
to a real live enthusiasm for work as
well as play as the knowledge on the
part of the boys and girls that the
rest of the town was interested in
them and pulling for them.
Down Here in South Georgia She
Pesters the Old Gent Nearly
All the Time
Spring leaped right into the arms
of winter yesterday and cuddled up
and the bewhiskered old gent grin
ned and enjoyed it.--Rome Tribune-
Herald.
“What has become of the old-fash
ioned store keeper who used to give
us a cigar when we paid our account?”
queries Johnny Jones, who is making
things zip down LaGrange way. Ac
cording to some of our leading store
keepers. they would be tickled stiff
if a few more folks would give them
that sort of an excuse for passing out
the seegars.
A Chicago man held up by a
beautiful gal bandit. refused to give
her a kiss. Is he a better man than
you' are, Gunga Din?—Macon Tele
graph.
My, my, what a cold climate some
cities do have? 4
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Advertising
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When The Serpent Told Eve
Of the wonderful qualities of the Apple
and of the advantages she would gain by
eating i, " - | .
He Used Direct Advertising
By Word ot Mouth. Eve, in turn, adver
tised the advantages to be gained from
eating the apple and “sold” its use to Adam - -
There Were Only Two People Then
Now there are a billion and a half people
in the world. The trading territory reach
ed by the Fitzgerald Leader-Enterprise
and Press has about thirty thousand of
those people and the merchant who de
pends on the kind of advertising the Ser
pent used, and Eve used, when there were
only two people alive, won’t get results.
We Sell Direct Advertising Matter
Circulars, circular lettets in type-writer
type, business cards, and a hunnred and
one other ‘‘direct advertising’ devices.
They are good advertising and.effective.
We Sell Newspaper Advertising
The Leader-Enterprise and Press carries
regularly more paid advertising than any
other newspaper published in Ben Hill,
Irwin, Wilcox, Turner and Coffee counties.
Advertising Is the Yeast of Business:
You Can’t Raise the Dough Without It
Leader Publishing Co.
107 E. Pine St. Telephone 328
