The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, January 28, 1921, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPUBLISHED MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY Official Organ City of Fitzgerald A.B. &A. EMPLOYEES WIN FIRST SKIRMISH IN WAGE FIGHT FITZGERALD WILL 4 9 SHIP.WATERMELONS Farmers Thursday Pledge To Grow 154 Acres This Year FARM BUREAU TO I.ABEL Foreign Buyers Will Make Head quarters Here Is Plan Plans for making Fitzgerald a wat ermelon shipging certer for central South Georgia were threshed out at the meeting yesterday of the Ben Hill County Farm Buceau Federation ad visory board at the Chamber of Com merce. G. B. Eunice, of the A B. & A. Railway Eytension department, re ported that twenty farmers at Fitz gerald and Ambrose had pledged themselves to plant at least 154 acres of watermelons this year and Sccre tary Owens of the advisory Dboard stated that he believed at least 400 acres in all would be planted in the Fitzgerald district. Get Competitive Buying Market With such an acreage plarted near Fitzgerald, it will be possible to get several buyers to come here during the watermelon season and take the crop from the farmers at good prices. Fitzgerald, it was %rought oul at the meeting, is logically situated for the headquarters of wat:rmeion bus ers to. work the entire Central South Georgia section, as far South as Tif ton, as far east as Nichols. as far north as Abbeville and as far west as Cor dele. ! The Farm Bureai plans to render active assistance to watermclon grow ers in the county. Arrangements will: be made with the farmers to label and guarantes the melons. in order to get top prices fcr the fancy melons All the farmers in the Fitzgerald dis trict will be asked to plant during the same week and oi the sae variety in order to make it worth while for several northern produce concerns to send buyers here duing the maturing season and make competitive bids for the crop. Increase Acreage Next Year .. If the first year’s experiment is sat isfactory and the farm bureau suc ceeds in getting the farmers to give ~zomplete satisfaction to the buyers ‘and thus establish confidence in Northern markets, the acreage will be largely increased next year and handled entirely through the farm bu reau. This will enable the farmers to get a higher price because the high salaries and expenses of the buyers and representatves of the produce houses which must all come out of the price of the melons, will be saved. Among those who talked at the meeting yesterday were Secretary ,Owens, of the farm bureau, G. B. Eunice, W. R. Tucker, F. H. Also " brook of the A. B. & A. Agricultural extension department. The railroad’s experts will assist the farmers in ‘growing the crops. The farmers who have pledged themselves to grow a specific acreage of melons this year are John Baisden, H. ‘L. Vickers, M. R. Jowers, J. S. Dickerson, T. H. Brown, J. M. Fer guson, D. B. Buchanan, Geo. Paulk, M. M. Seymor, H. H. Meritt. J. M. Richardson, J. D. Harper, R Kirkland, W. B. Jowers, I. L. Sey v mor, T. J. Holland, George Harper, all of Ambrose, L. Robitszch, F. R. Hager, of Fitzgerald. Practically every farmer who has been interviewed has expressed will ingness to plant some melons in co cooeration with the farm bureau and the other farmers who have entered the melon growing movement. While the risk is heavier than in other _crops, the profit for a good crop is bigger and it is considered an attrac tive venture. The most important thing for this year’s crop, according to the railroad men who are looking toward business in future years, is to develop a steady market for the future by giving sat isfaction and a square deal to the buyers and developing confidence in } ’the products of this section this year. Mrs. H. F. Kenton and son H. F. Jr. have returned from a pleasant visit with relatives and friends in At lanta. s ' Mrs. J. W. McCray returned to her home in Thomasville after spend ing several days with her daughter, Mrs. H. Kenton. > ¢SSP PP PP PPrPrO S ¢ WHY SHOULD THE CITY ¢ ¢ INCREASE THE LIBRARY ¢ % APPROPRIATION FOR 1921 4 + —_— 4 % . “I consider the welfare of the 4 # library of the most vital impor- 4 # tance to the public schools, It is 4 & essential that the splendid work 4 ‘y'he library is now doing, both 4 €/ in the city and in the county 9 # schools should not only be con- 4 ® tinued but extended.” . 4 € Signed. g ® - Mrs. George Brown. 4 FEF T E EEEEXEXEIXEXXIEEE THE LEADER=ENTERPRISE Chamber of Commerce Going After Georgia Primitive Baptist College 1T PRESIDENT’S WIFE . 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Resolutions urging the immediate passage of the Johnson Bill by the United States Senate. closing Ameri can ports to immigration for a perioi of one year and otherwise restricting immigation, were passed last night by Washington Post, No. 21, Patriotic Order Sons of America. Similar res olutions have been requested of all the posts in the order by national headquarters. E. H. Addington was installed as president last night to succeed H. A. Porter. Other officers installed were W. H. Davis, master of forms, S. F. Gelders, conductor, W. H. Hogan, guard, A. F. McNaughton, inspector, H. L. Manon, secretary, M. D. Hall,l treasurer; T. J. Luke, trustee; J. E. Etheljdge, chaplain; Earl J. Manon, right sentinel; James Bearer, left sen tinel. The application for membership of Drew W. Paulk was approved and he will be initiated at the meeting next Thursday. T To Get;Expert Help . Growing Watermelons Mr. W. R. Tucker, H. L. Also brook, and G. B. Eunice, Agricultur al Agents of the A. B. & A. railway met with the Ben Hill County Farm Bureau and discussed the growing and marketing of watermelons for all who wish to grow watermelons in this territory. The following agree ments were arrived at: They will assist me in helping to secure the proper kind of seed and pruning of the water melon vines to insure a merchantable size water melons, also to treat the stems and label the melons with the proper label of guaranteeing the meions. This as sistance will be rendered all parties who will list with me the number of acres they wish to grow this year. We will need to plant two hundred acres in this territory in order to in duce the buyers to establish headquar ters here to buy and pay for the mel ons when loaded on cars. So please list with me as early as possible the number of acres you wish to plant. We now have something like two hundred acres listed | Yours truly, C. T. Owens, Sect. Mr. and Mrs. A. Archer Foster have as their guests at their home on West Magnolia steet terir son and daughter Mr. and Mrs, J. M. Mc- Clellan of Florida. Miss Effie Cleo Brewer and Miss Genevieve Spier have returned after a pleasant visit to the former’s par ents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C, Brew er in Douglas. ; FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY GEORGIA FRIDAY, JANUARY 28 1921 Meeting of Board of Governors Called for Friday Evening to Launch Move Will Hear Cordele Speaker and . Consider Curb Market Com | mittee’s Report Fitzgerald is going after the college which the Primitive Baptist Church is going to establish in south Georgia this year. A special meeting of the board of governors of the Chamber of Commerce has been called for Friday evening to consider recommendation of a special committee that is work ing on the project and te frame a bid for the college. > A committee of the Primitive Bap tist Church met in Thomasville Mon day and received a proposition from Thomasville embracing the offer of about two acres of land and three buildings for college purposes. Elder‘ George D. Goddard of Atlanta, T. J. McArthur and R. A. Barwick of Cor dele, T. E. Sykes of Vidalia and W. M. Blackwell of Fitzgerald. Elder Blackwell stated to a reporter that the church intended to invest $200,000 in the plant and offer the reg ular collegiate courses. A seminary for training ministers will be intro duced after the college is well estab lished. It is planned to open the col lege of September of this year. No information is available at pres ent as to what Fitzgerald will be able to offer the Primitive Baptists but Sec retary Will Adams of the Chamber of Commerce in calling the special meet ing. expressed a belief that Fitzgerald would be able to make a proposition as least as aitractive as Thomasville’s. The board of governors at the meet ing Friday will also consider the plans for a curb market wich will be for mulated by a joint committee of the Chamber of Commerce, the Womans Club, and the Farm Bureau. This committee meets Thursday. W. L. Robuck of Cordele, who was one of the party that took the Georgia Tech Industrial Tour thru the East will describe the trip and explain its purpose and effect. The governors will also consider moving the head quarters of the organization to a better Jocation than it now has. o / Now Is Time For ‘ . 3 Live Stock In South Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 27—“ Conditions are now ideal for building a real live stock industry in the South,” says Roland Turner, general agricultural agent of Southern Railway System,, who declares that the present depi-es sion, due largely to the one crop sys tem, would be impossible under a well balanced system of diversified farming and live stock raising. “Good pure-bred. legistered dairy cattle, beef cattle and hogs,” says Mr. Turner. “can now be bought at prices in keeping with conditions and with the market prices for dairy products and meat animals. To succeed at live stock raising we must improve our old pastures and prepare new ones. We must raise more leguminous feeds. Proper crop rotation with live stock will build up the fertility of our devas ted soils and will also help greatly in improving farm labor conditions by better distributing the farm work. “The Southern Railway Develop ment Service,” Mr. Turner adds “de sires to aid farmers in starting right with live stock, will send its live stock bulletins on request, and offers the services of its trained workers to far mers wishing advice and assistance in feed production, care of :J.nimals,J and the locating and selection of ani-! mals for breeding purposes, stockersl or feeders.” ° Atlanta Irish Favor Lord Mayor of Cork‘ Atlanta, Ga.,Jan. 27.—That Donal O’callahan, lord mayor of Cork, who recently entered the United States without the formality of having a pass port, be permitted to stay in America as long as he chooses was the burden of telegrams which have been sent to Secretary of State Colby and Secretary of Labor Wilson by members of the Atlanta branch of the American As sociation for the Recognition of the Irish Republic. The message was authorized in a resolution passed at an executive meeting in the offices of J. Henry Lynch in Atlanta, over which Judge W. A. Brown, President, pre sided. . Funds for the relief of the suffering people of Ireland have been raised by the local society and a telegram has been sent the officials in Washington asking what disposition be made of the money. ‘ T VIR R JOINT MEETING T 0 Joint Committee of Three Or ganizations Will Meet CALLED 3:00 THURSDAY Woman’s Club, Chamber of Com merce, Farm Bureau Join " Following the action of the Fitzger ald Wonan’s Club Wednesday auth orizing a committee to confer with committees from the Chamber of Commerce and Ben Hill County Farm Bureau to make definite plans to es tablish a curb market, a conference of a joint committee from the three or ganizations was called today to mect at the Chamber of Commerce at 3,0- clock Thursday afternoon. The plans made by the joint com mittee Thursday will be placed before the board of governors of the Chamber of Commerce for ratification Friday, before the advisory council’ of the County Farm Bureau for ratification the following Thursday, and the Woman’s Club the Wednesday after that. All three organizations have previously discussed and approved the curb market idea but no definite action has been taken to get one in operation, . The committee that will arrange the details of the market project at the meeting Thursday is composed of Mrs. Lon Dickey, president, Mrs. C. D. Carroll, Mrs. S. v Smith, repre senting the Woman’s Club; Marion Dickson, chairman, C. T. Owens, sec retary, Mrs. S. M. Whitchard. vice chairman, of the County Farm Bu reau board, W. R. Walker, of the Ashton council, A. J. Swords, chair man, H. H. James, secretary of the Fitzgerald council; Mrs. R, L. Stone, vice-chairman of the Vaughn-Taylor council, and L. Robitszch, all repre senting the Farm Bureau; Will A. Adams, secretary, J. E. Turner, vice president, J. J. Dorminey, J. A. Jus tice. representing the Chamber of Commerce. “MARY”. TUNEFUL MUSICAL COMEDY, HIT, AT ATLANTA By Linton K. Starr in Atlanta Journal From the time the chorus first bounces into view with a sort of a half skip half hop, until the whirl wind finale,. “Mary,” which is eeing presented at the Atlanta theatre all this week by George M. Cohan’s co medians, proves the most delightful musical comedy of the season. The superlative is used with full rega-d for the winter garden extravaganza and all the rest. As one man put it after the show‘ Monday night, “the chorus moved so fast you couldn’t tell whethér it was pretty or not.” Yu've certainly got to hand it to “Mary” for being about the liveliest show on record. “Mary” has fluff and pretty girls; music and comedy; gorgeous set tings and just enough of a plot; it sends you home whistling “The Love Nest,” and wishing you could sece the same show over again. And dancing—! It's a regular dancing show, with graceful dances, eccentric dances. the “toddles” dance, built for exercise, and a whirling dervish dance that makes you dizzy. The particular “Mary,” of the show is Marguerite Zender, a girl who makes the grand oid name all the more delightful. Richard Pyle, as “Jack”, gives a splendid performance and Joseph McCallion, as “Tom Boyd,” is worth enthusiastic praise. Joe Smith Marba, as the Frenchmais, “Gaston Marceau” is a comedian of sterling worth. And there’s’ Carolyn Lilja, who as Jack’s mother, is the most fascinating of widows; Tiney Belmont, a mite of a girl who can dance like a cyclone; Carlos Peter son, eccentric dancer; Inez Hall and many others. Whoever is respopsible forr the stage and electrical effects in “Mary”, should have his share of the praise. The whole affair is presented in elab orate and wonddrfully beautiful style and there wasn’t a hitch in the open ing performance, regardless of many evidently difficult cues. ° Youngest Georgia Mother Is Twelve ATLANTA, Jan. 28.—More child ren are born in Georgia to mothers in their twenty-third year than at any other time, the percentage being 6.12, according to certain relative statistics compiled by the State Board of Health, It is shown by these fig ures that 22.54 per cent of births\are by mothers between 20 and 53 years old. The figures were compiled among 10,418 white families in which births occured in the months of June, July and August 1920, : These families averaged 3.5 child ren each, including all births during and prior to the months named. The ‘youngest mother on record was 12 iyeau old. | - o . Rt RRO Py ee F B ISR —y l A GOOD START i TR "/ eil e o o e \’- (‘/r / "’ F@?\\\ \\\}\\\s\\ X P //”C& U\&\‘w Wt R R %, b/ Ao\ 80, S ¥ \ NN 277 iy ]|l IR N \ 2 2 / \\\ Y N { %4//,/; 1 "\\J&\ g ‘!,, IT? il , &' "/ > 2(‘ / $" )\ xx:.\, ;/‘:/ /7(% //// %@@ é"‘:’t lﬂ{(‘."’l///yz, 2 o S = #(' ) \“h« ‘ (,////, 7’ 7¢ \\;\\‘g\{ Q) ! “.x ' f //é :\\§<\\‘\s ." Ryt ’ ol f_*\\\‘ , ’ ‘& LY ENNC Y o )D : \ s e . . SURN <SG é//\“* M& /4 e ( : = ,"r',,:.r =.N :: PV { 7, __t‘;‘-“"“""’t/ / ;’/5///’{3 e a Q@ ?/ // / ///’/[{7/:/ ~§\\ \&\\ i | AN N MM &/% i TSN " "'-'.i:" O j @)./\\" SRR s VM U ""UIIEJ?%; ,;L/\\.\\_ s ANNOUNCE PROGRAM Attendance Contest For Sunday School Convention WILL AWARD BANNER Convention Open Two Days, Monday, Tuesday, Feb. 7-Bth A County-wide attendance contest has been organized in connection with ! the approaching Ben Hill County | Sunday School Convention, to be hold? at Fitzgerald in the First Baptist Church on Monday and Tuesday, February 7 and 8, according to R. D.l Webb, General Superintendent of thei Georgia Sunday School Association. | At this convention an attractivcg banner will be publicly awarded to the Suntay School having the larg-‘ est number of delegates in proportion‘ to the distance traveled. Under this plan, ten delegates coming ten miles cach to the Convention . count the same as twenty delegates traveling only five miles each, thus making it fair for all, both near and far. The banner becomes the property of the Sunday School winning it, and may be taken home for perman ent display in the Sunday School room. . Georgia Has Sold 1 $3,500,000 Warrants Purchase by Atlanta Banker Is Larg est in Southeast ATLANTA, Jan. 28.—The sale of $3,500,000 of Georgia’s school war rants, which has just been made here, was the largest in several years. The successful bidder was R. N. Berrien, Je. & Co., of Atlanta, The rate of discount offered by Mr. Berrien was 6.92 per cent. It was over 1 per cent higher than his suc cessful bid of 583 per cent for the! 1920 school warrants and 2 per cent higher than his successful bid of 4.90 per cent for the 1919 school warrants.‘ While the recent financing has been accomplished by indreased rates from year to year, Mr. Berrien called the attention of the governor to the ifact that the theoretical discount rate 'should be 7.25 per cent, which is ar ‘rived at on the following basis. ~ Since January 1920, U. S. Victory notes are selling 190 per cent in crease; typical high-grade issuing bodies in the states of New York and Massachusetts are paying an average increased pd- centage of 129 per cent; the Federal Reserve discount rate has been increased 1 per cent; and the average renewal call money rate in New York has increased 1.48 per cent. The average of these four impo:- tant short term money rates shows 142 per cent, which added to the successful award last year, 5.83 per cent, would show the theoretical rate to be 7.25 per cent. Mr. Berrien shaded this arbitrary figure 33 points. or one-third of one percent, because of his firm convic tion, as he told the governor, of the wonderful recuperative powers of the people of the State of Georgia. He declared further that the State, in his opinion, was on the verge of the greatest period of prosperity it had ehjoyed in a number of years. It is stated at the capitol that the warrants will be issued from month to month to pay the school appropri ation of the state for 1921. The wa rants will be due February 1, 1921, The sale of the warrants is the largest transaction of the kind since the bond issue of $3,500,000 in 1915, all of which issue was bought by Asa G. Candler, of Atlanta. Mrs. Yeatman Heads * offe Hospital Auxiliary Officers Elected Wednesday at En thusiastic Meeting of Women The first meeting of the Hospital Auxiliary for the year 1921, was most auspicious, with a larger than usual attendance, despite the inclement weather of Wednesday and with a pleasing program consisting of thc; devotional exercises led by Mrs. S, A. Strawn, a most thoughtful papcr‘ by Miss Pollard, in which she cx—‘ pressed her gratitude as head nurse for the wonderful aid and inspiriation given by the Auxiliary, and for the cheer of visits, books and flowers for the sick, “whose days” she said “are long, lonesome, and wearisome.” l Another number was a reading by Miss Effie Brassell. ‘ The election of officers, postponed | from November, was held, Mds. Ben ton, presiding. The ticket previous-' ly prepared by the advisory board was voted by acclamation as follows: President—Mrs. W. B. Yeatman, | First vice-president—Mrs. S. G. Pryor, Sr. | Secretary—Miss Maude Glover. | Treasurer—Mrs. J. A. Parrott. | Parliamentarian—Mrs, I. Gelders. Reporters—Mrs. 1. Gelders and Mrs. S. G. Pryor Jr. | Chairman of Yard, Mrs. J. A. Day; Cut Flowers. Mrs. J. C. Glover; Lit erature, Mrs. J. M. J. Luke; Automo bile, Mrs. G. E. Ricker; Visiting, ‘Mrs. T. P. Pounds; Devotional, Mrs. T. R. Hendricks; Finance, to be sup \ plied. A social half-hour was arranged by Mesdames G. P. Mingledorf and S, L. Smith and G. E. Ricker during which sandwiches and coffee were served by Mesdames Ted. Myers, J. M. J. Luke and little Miss May Gillispie. Members are expected to pay their dues for 1921 in February. The reg ular meeting time is the fourth Wed nesday of each month. Mrs. I. Gelders, Reporter . Mr. Ralph Herring is expected to arrive in the city tomorrow from Gal veston, Texas to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Herring. Pre-war prices on that good NU DO bread at Weyman’s Cash and Carry Grocery for 10 and 15 cents per loaf, Here Is a Way to Know \Vhether or Not The Leader—Enterprise : Pays Its Readers for Reading Its Advertising: ' Take your Leader-Enterprise tonight and - read the advertisements. Make a list of merchandise fyou want and the prices for which it is offered. Shop from this list and not from memory or by chance, You will find that you have saved money. Put that moneß intoa saviri%s account and BUY THE LEADER--ENTERPRISE WAY EVERY DAY. At the end of the {\;ear ?rou will find you have saved a substantial sum of money through systematic shopping. Read Leader—Enterprise Advertising M‘Carefully. ' FITZGERALD COTTON ~ Good Middling ________l33; cts. Friday Receipts ._________None VOL. XXVI,NO. 12 OF A. B. &A. VGID United States Railway Labor Board So Announces ROAD MUST PETITION February 10 Is Date for Open ing of Hearing CHICAGO. Jan. 27.—8 y a decision of the United States Railway Lahor Board here today, notices of wage reductions on the Atlanta, Birmingi ham & Atlantic Railroad, whicih were to have been effective IFol rvary I, were ordered rescinded. The Board, in making this decision, decided that the railroad companies must present a petition before the Loard for any reduction in employes’ wages. The board set February 10 as the date on which pubhe hearings will begin. The railroad in presenting its case before the board Tuesday, declared it was unable to meet oper ating expenses and that a loss of $lOO,OOO monthly made wage reduc tions necessary as forces had been ‘already cut and operating expenses ‘reduced to a minimum. E. P. Curtis, vice-president of the ’Order of Railway Conductors, and the chairman of the employes’ com mittee in presenting the employes’ side, asserted that inasmuch as work ers were restrained from any action prior to a hearing before the Railway Labor Board, the railroad likewise was restrained from any wage reduc tions under the.transportation act. Consider General Reductions. , General wage reductions on the larger railroads all over the country will be considered tomorrow by the labor committee of the American Railway Executives in an effort to solve what railroad officials say is a precarious transportation situation. The meeting will make definiite recommendations with a view to bring ing the matter before the United States Railroad Labor Board. - W. W. Atterbury, vice?-president of the Pennsylvania Lines and chair man of the labor committee, arrived today to convene the committee but no action was taken. Tomorrow’s meeting will be behind closed doors buf it was predicted by railroal offi cers that the corhmittee’s recommen dations would be for some sort of re duction in wages. Reason For Action | The labor committee, besides Gen eral Attorney Atterbury. is composed of W. G. Besler, president of the Cen tal Railroad of New Jersey; H. E. Bryan, president of the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul; C. H. Markham, president of the Illinois Central; N. D, Maher, president of the Norfolk and Western, and W. R. Scott, president of the Southern Pacific Lines in Tex as and Louisiana. Failue of increased rates to earn the expected revenue, decrease in business the present large payroll and high operating expenses were given as the reasons for probable action before the Railroad Labor Board to cut the wages. PIANO RECITAL A piano recital of Miss Genevieve Speer’s smaller pupils will be Friday evening January 28th at 8 o'clock at the Library. There will be solos, duets and readings. The public is invited to attend. tf Mr. and Mrs. John D. Davis and handsome young son John D. Jr. are at home to their firiends in the Sligh apartments on East Central avenue,