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: Under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897.
; Offician Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
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E STEWART F. GELDERS _______-MAl\_l_/_\GING EDITOI_{
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’ AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION, Foreign Adv. Representative
OTHER TOWNS ARE WORKING ON TRADE
EXTENSION IDEA
' Commenting on a recent article in the Gazette, stating that
Tifton by its advertising campaign had drawn trade from a number
of neighboring towns the past year, the Ocilla Star says:
“Sq that's where it went, is it? We heard a drummer talking
about rotten business to another of his tribe. The other one asked
him if he believed in hell. He said no. Then, asked his friend,
where has business gone to? c
“A left-handed compliment for Tifton, no doubt; but you
can’t get by the fact that Tifton merchants went after business by
advertising in all the newspapers of this section, and she got the
business. The Star will not concede the issue far enough to say
that Ocilla merchants were hurt to any great extent by Tifton mer
chant’s activity, that is in the city and immediate surrounding ter
ritory but the Tifton merchants bid for and did get business that
Ocilla could just as casily have had had we organized and gone af
ter it as they did, we do concede.
“Our hat is off to the progressive business men of Tifton —but
Ocilla is a fine town.” : :
Fitzerald’s position as the central city of Central South Georgia
is not any too sccure. Fitzgerald is not now a trading center for
much more than Ben Hill county, with a slight lapping over into
adjacent counties. Fitzgerald has only a natural advantage of loca
tion that CAN be capitalized if Fitzgerald business men are willing
to invest in it. 1 they don’t, those of Tifton will continue to do so
until Fitzgerald’s opportunity of reaching out strongly to the South
and Southwest, is badly stunted if not quite gone.
Some small city within forty miles of Fitzgerald is going to be
the predominant business center and the hub of the section. The
cheap automobile and good roads has placed merchants of neighbor
ing citics into competition that will in the course of a very few years
become as keen competition as now is between individual mer
¢hants. If Fitzgerald can not organize a strong enough community
spirit to excell, some other town will. The automobile makes it
inevitable.
NINETY-THREE PER CENT FOR WARS,
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
The revenue derived by the United States from the tax on
cigars and tobacco alone pays more than the total cost of adminis
tering the civil affairs of the federal government, including reclama
tion of waste lands, building roads, improving rivers and harbors,
supporting the consular service, federal judiciary, agricultural aid
and like civil work, according to figures compiled by Dr. Rosa of
the bureau of standards. All these governmental endeavors con
sume but seven per cent of the nation’s gross revenue.
Wars, past, present and future, consume the other ninety-three
per cent of the people’s tax money.
We must continue to pay thebills for our past wars. Our little,
but expensive, wars in Siberia, Haitti, the Phillipines, of the prcs—{
ent and our foolish army of occupation in Germany can, should, and
will be stopped. When Harding is innauguarated immediate steps
will be taken to bring our troops back from Siberia and Germany,
where their very presence violates every principle of Americanista.
The Phillipines will be given their indcf’xdcncc. We will leave the
little Republics of Central and South América alone.
But it is the cost of future wars that must be eliminated if the
United States and the world at large is ever to become free from
suffocating tax burdens. Congress has made a modest step toward
reducing our army to a decent size. It must take a bolder stride in
slashing naval appropriations. Neither big business nor littie busi
ness can longer afford to support the farce of huge armaments. A
republic, especially a Republic of the size of the United States which
has absolutely no need for a program of aggression and conquest,
has no business with a huge and expensive navy. y
At the present time, the United States will be cutting its own
throat in two ways by sending its millions out to sea in monster bat
tleships, and in submarines and airplanes, and torpedo boats. A
program of warship building by the Unijted States will force the
nearly bankrupt debtor nations to spend money for armanent that
they can not spare. -It will make it harder for France and England
to pay us what they owe us, and will force the American tax pay
er to continue to bear the burden of not only his own governments
waste, but that of France and England and Italy.
| It is nonsense for our politicians, self-styled statesmen, to talk
of waiting for other nations to set the pace or exacting agreements
from other nations to cut first. The United States holds the whip
hand today and will continue to hold it for decades to come. It is
the United States that must set the pace. The United States, and
each tax payer in it, has the most to gain or to lose.
Let’s get rid of the cost of future wars. These wars do not
come unless a part payment is made in advance. If the advance
payment is refused, they will not be delivered, in spite of all the
jingoes on the American continent.
A REGULAR WATERMELON MARKET FOR
THE FITZGERALD DISTRICT :
Says the Adel News: “We look for much good to come to the
watermelon growers of this section in their organization. Better
marketing facilities ought te be one of the splendid results of it
~ And better preparation of the melons will be another. The organi
~ zations of the fruit and vegetable growers in Florida and other states
. have helped wonderfully in proper distribution of products and con
_ sequently betten prices have been obtained.” 4
The agricultural extension agents of the A. B. & A. railroad and
. the Ben Hill County Farm Burcau Federation will lend active coop
~ eration to Central South Georgia farmers this year in growing and
- gelling their watermelons. Around Moultrie and in Southwest
Georgia a watermelon growers association has been formed to ren
der that assistance. :
| The watermelon is too perishable, and toa valuable, a product to
~ be handled in any loose or harum-scarum fashion by the grower. It
_can be made to pay good profits if grown and sold right, or it can
~ simply waste a few acres of land for him if grown wrong. The sec
/ tion needs melon money as much as any other kind and can get it.
" It is up to the individual farmer.
-” 1f the farmer will agree with the farm bureau, C. T. Owens,
secretary, Fitzgerald, Ga., to plant a certain number of acres of
watermelons of a specified variety during a specified week, the farm
~ bureau can induce Northern produce concerns to send buyers here
_ to bid for the crop and pay cash for the melons at the freight car.
_lf the farmers fulfill their agreement and deliver the melons, of
. standard size, variety, and quality, an almost unlimited market can
.~ be opened up. If the farmers would agree to guarantee their melons,
§—~wbuld be possible for the farm bureau to secure contracts from the
" Northern produce houses and save for the farmers the salaries and
expense ofp the professional buyers sent down here. The selling price
~of the melon on the retail market is always as high as the consumer
will bear; any saving in getting the melon from field to table will
fingdded onto the farmer’s price for his melon, °
~ Fitzgerald is a logical center for watermelon buyers in Central
~ South Georgia. They could cover the local territories around Ocilla,
Douglas, Nicholls, Abbeville, Rochelle, Cordele, Ashburn and Tii
~ ton very conveniently from Fitzgerald. If the farmers join the mel
- on movement in sufficient numbergaround Fitzgerald, we will see
~ a really competitive melon market here, and a pile of money coming
. No crop.is sure to pay a profit. The farmer knows that. With
th btatd j@" is wble: on any crop, be it cotton, cane, po-
RS wateanss o hatnot, | 80l watermelons do offer attrace
% Prospects Jf bandied properly and CO-OPERATIVELY., .
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1921.
| A Thought for the Evening |
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THE SHARED THOUGHT >
A wise man saide, “A thought is never really mine
Until I share
: It with another.”___There -
Is thought like love___Both are divine___ :
And God himself is no the Father ’til
According to His will
He has revealed himself__And so,
. 'Tis thus I know - L
No thought is really mine ’til I G
: Have shared it with another who
| Can feel, appreciate it as true.
/ THE DIFFERENCE
Once Grief sought a place to abide___
And found a Solitary One___
But Happiness searched 'til she found___
Two congenial Souls together.
S R R TE R E R O
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ermon to L.ive
7 By Rev' Elam Franklin Dempsey, D. D. 7
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AR HEEEEEEEEEE AR R
MY NEIGHBOR
Exodus 20:12-17 and Luke 10. ; x
“And who 1s my neighbor?” : -
The Master’s answer to this question in Luke 10 is complete.
The yerses below are valuable, not as poetry, but as a voicing of the
sincere and artless earnestness of “a babe in Christ.” Found among
the manuscripts of a certain young Christian, they have heretofore
remained unpublished. Happy is that soul that has such a guileless
prayer among the memories of its “first love.”
Oh, IFather, in my walk today,
«~- Should I a sad heart find,
Help me some cheering word to say,
To do some deed that’s kind.
And if a careworn heart I meet, .
That groans beneath its load,
Then may I teach the lesson sweet
That God’s a helping God.
Give me to help each one I can,
And thus like Jesus prove:
My neighbor is the needy man,
Whose need I may remove.
In The Listening Post
Emerson’s remark that the land
scape belongs to the man who looks
at_it, was made a long time before
billboards. ~ became rampant—New
York Globe.
The 1921 automobilist who drives
slow enough to look at either scenery
or billboards is usually driving so be
cause he is looking at something clse‘
entirely. |
EXTRA! EXTRA!
TWO MORE MILLIONAIRES
ASSURED FOR FITZGERALD.,
(harlie Newcomer, well known
far‘lcr and business man of this city,
and W. R. Tucker, equally w. k. A. B.
& A. Agricultural Agent and premier
air castle architect of the Earth, Mars,
and Jupiter, have completed plans for
joining the already numerous ranks
of the Fitzgerald Millionaire club. The
filthy lucre will come through a per
sirfmmn'iswiet potato-syrup corpora
tion to be launched the day cotton
goes back to forty cents a pound.
The idea in this: the persimmons.
sweet potatoes and syrup will be put,
up in standard containers. Each con
tainer will be labelled something as
follows, the blanks being properly fil
led in: a
WARNING—Do not under any
consideration mix....pounds of swee
potatoes,....pounds of persimmons
and ....gallons of syrup in a barrel,
allow to stand for ....days,, add..... '
gallons of water and drain off, because !
if you do you will have the hardest‘
kicking persimmon beer you ever tast
ed and that would be a violation of the
prohibition law,
These packages of persimmons,
sweet potatoes, and syrup will be sold
at a reasonable price and on the first
vear's profits Mr. Tucker will be able
to achieve his ambition of buying St.
Simon’s Island and turning it into a
second Pasadena, Calif. We have se
cured a contract for handling the ad
‘ vertising and printing the stock certi
ficates for the corporation.
The stock cetficates are very pretty
things, The color scheme is sky blue
and dark brown, with ornamental
dashes of red and pink. There is deep
significance in the color scheme. The
par value of the stock has not been
fixed, all those little details will be ar
ranged when cotton gets back to forty
cents a pound. If necessary a special
free offer will be made with every pur
chase of stock. The officers will ex
plain that to interested parties.
Glancing over the exchanges from
all parts of Georgia, we observe near
ly all of them, city and country pap
ers, are carrying big fires, murders,
and burglary stories spread all over
their front pages. The Leader-En
terprise hasn’t carried a report of a
violently criminal event in this town
in months. Folks, do you really ap
preciate what a fine little city you
have? \
And Here's a National Danger that
Needs Mitch Palmer's Immed
iate Attention.
New and radical measures are being
advanced every day. Some revolu
‘ionary national economist now sug
gests solving the government’s finan
cial troubles by reducing expenses in-
stead of increasing taxes.—Southern
Lumberman.
We extend our condolences to Ed
itor Hugh Rowe of the Athens Ban
ner. After spending twenty odd years
to make a city out of Athens, half
the “own burns down and he's got
to start over. However, Athens is a
good town and its business men cour
ageaus enough to overlook a little
thing like a $2,000,000 fire. It will take
a lot of work and a lot of advertis
ing to repair the damage and to build
the businesses back, but they’ll come
back.
Words of Wisdom From Our Colquitt
County Contemporary:
~ Farmers should remember that only
%those who have a monopoly are mak
ing a profit now. Where there is
competition there is business at a loss.
Railroads are losing, merchants are
losing, lawyers are losing, doctors are
losing, contractors are losing, lumber
men are losing, laborers, many out of
jobs, are losing.
We do not think that a farmer had
any chance to make profit or to
break even in 1920. We do think he
has passed the worst. We are sure
the farmer who continues to grieve
over his losses of last year makes a
mistake. Grieving brings no relief.
Complaining wins nothing. It is
cheerfulneds that wins. Cheerfulness,
industry, frugality, hard work and
wise management. The man who is
looking back is as practical and sen
sible as Lot’s wife. If he keeps look
ing back, he will turn to salt or vine
gar—Moultrie Obs%‘r\'er. .
With fourteen billion dollars in the
United States treasury, including a few
billions “hocked” to your uncle by
foreign nations, we would say that
America is a long way from being
broke.
| One or two of those fourteen bill
ions in the U. S. treasury would re
| claim every acre of desert and swamp
land in America, giving employment
to thousands now unemployed, making
immigration restriction unnecessary
by providing farms for millions of im
migranis and netting Uncle Sam a
nice little profit in the sale of those
lands to the immigrants. Boy. page
'L’\.ir. Watson and Mr. Harding
More Honored in the Breach?
New Year's resolutions have by this
time become more or less like the
Eighteenth amendment. Dublin
Courier-Herald.
“Liars will be cast into a lake of
fire,” the Bible<promises. and if jus
tice is done hereafter the dealers in
scandal and half truths will swim in
the deepest, hottest hole.
Women are not more naturally in
clined towarc‘-flahat sort of thing than
are men; it 1s a product of idleness
and as long as their are more female
than male loafers, the feminifie sex
will have to bear the onus. &
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Now Wasn’t That Clever of :Those
Egyptians To Date That Paper
That Way? 3
A papyrus on geometry dated 1100
B. G. has been preserved.from an
cient Egypt.—Cordele Dispatch.
FORMER NEWSPAPER MAN
’ VISITS ATLANTA HOME
Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 31.—J. S. (Jack)
Oliver, former Atlantian, is in Atlanta
‘on a business trip through the South.
Mr. Oliver now is located in New
York where he had splended success
as senior member of the tim of Ol
iver & Houéhton, cotton brokef’s,
members of the American Cotton and
Grain Exchange Clearing Association,
with offices on Pearl street,
Mr. Oliver formerly was with the
Atlanta Journal as a member of the
advertising department and also was
associated with some of the leading
advertising agencies of the south and
west.
To Measure Molasses,
Grease the measuring cup before
measuring molasses or syrup and the
Ingredients will not stick to the sides
of the cup. Thus there wil be no
waste.
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Don’t delay, becanse there are only so many Ford
son tractors to come to this territory. Get your
order in now, and remember that the Fordson after
service 1s prompt and safe. :
The after service that goes with the Fordson Tractor is second to none. Fordson dealers
are located in every community with stocks of repair parts and employing skilled mechan
ics who know just how the Fordson should be repaired and be taken care of to do its work.
This Fordson service that means your tractor can be kept busy eyery working day
during the entire year; Fordson repairmen are ready to show you how to get best results.
Fordson service insures you against delay in getting parts. It is your protection. It is a
protection now being enjoyed by more than 100,000 Fordson farmers in the United States. .
Let us tell you all about the Fordson Tractor and Service. Let us demonstrate the Fordson
on your own farm. Come in and let us prove everything we say.
For the benefit of the public we wish to state we
- give with each Fordson Tractor one year
Free Service.
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E. L. Dorminey Motor Co.
Authorized Ford and Fordson Dealers '
South Main Street . - Fitzgerald, Ga.
NOTICE! (-
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Beginning Monday, January 3lst, we
will make two deliveries each day, one at
9:30 in the morning and the other at 4:30
in the afternoon. No orders for morning
delivery after 9:30 or for the afternoon
delivery after 4:30. Be sure to place
- your.order in time. . .
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Beauchamg\ and Eads
Phone 620 - - 223 East-Pine Street
SPECIAL MEETING
Fitzgerald Council'No. 59 R & S.
M. will hold a special meeting Mon
day evening Jan. 31st at 8 o’clock for
clection of officers and other busi
ness that may come before the meet
ing. All companions are requested to
attend. z g
J-8.. RUSSELL, I. M.,
J. W. PEARSON, Recorded.
R. A. M. NOTICE
Fitzgerald Chapter No. 32 R. A. M.
will hold a regular Convocation Tues
day evening February Ist at 8 o’clock.
All companions are requested to at
tend. :
S: G PRYOR, Jr., I™ P
e W PEARSON, Sec.
Advertised goods are good goods.
Advertisers -can’t afford to misrepre
sent.
Leader-Enterprist Want Ads are
Business Getters. Try Them.
Tonight sure Let a pleasant,
harmless Cascaret work while you
sleep and have your liver active, head
clear, stomach sweet and bowels
moving regular by morning. No
griping or inconvenience. 10,25 or 50
cent boxes. Children love this candy
cathartic too.—Adw.
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I many ills; for you to be aciive ard i
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