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Official Organ City of Fitzgerald
T 0 JUNK A.B. & A. WOULD JUNK FITZGERALD, SAY CITIZENS
Curb Market Joint Committee
Meets Thursday Afternoon
MAKE DEFINITE PLANS
Chamber of Commerce Govern
ors Will Meet Friday Night
- The joint committee of the Woman'’s
Club, Chamber of Commerce and
Farm Bureau appointed to make def
inate plans for a Fitzgerald curb mar
ket to handle farm produce direct
from producer to consumer, will meet
at the Chamber of Commerce Thurs
day afternoon at 3 o’clock.
The board of governors of the
Chamber of Commerce will meet
Friday evening at 8 o’clock to hear the
curb market plans, consider going af
ter the Georgia Primitive Baptist
College location , hear an address byi
W. L. Robuck of Cordele. decide‘
whethe to move the headquarters of
the organization, and discuss other‘
important matters.
The committee that will arrange
the details of the market project at
the meeting Thursday is composed of
Mrs. Lon Dickey, president, Mrs. G
D. Carroll, Mrs. S. L. Smith, repre
senting the Woman’s Club; Marionl
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; Wil] A.|
Adams, secretary, J. E. Turner, vice
president, J. J. Dorminey, J. A. Jus
tice, representing the Chamber of
Commerce. i ‘
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Demonstrate Yams In
Two Northern States
C. T. Owens Returns from Athens
Where Advertising Plans Made
The South Georgia Yam will be in
traduced to the appetites of northern
people this spring by a demonstration
car, carrying an old fashioned negro
mammy to cook the sweet potatoes in!
approved southern style, it was statedi
today byC. T. Owens, county agent.
and farm bureau secretary, on his re
turn fromr Athens where he attended
an Advertise Georgia conference. |
' Acommittee composed of F. H. Ab
bott, of the Advertise Georgia Assicia
tion, Frank T. Reynolds of the Geor
gia Automobile Association, W. R.
Tucker, of the A. B. & A, G. E. Mc-
Whorter of the Central of Georgia,
W. J. Lyon, of the State Marketing
Bureau. M. C. Gay, of the State Col
lege of Agriculture, and Mr. Owens,
outlined the plan. A sub-committee
is going next week to Pittsburg, Cleve
land, Columbus, Cincinnatti, and
Chicago to make arrangements for
the demonstrations.
Mr. Owens stated that he secured
from Mr. W. W, Croxton, genera]
passenger agent of the A. B. and A,
assurance of the utmost degree of co
operation of watermelon growers of
this section in marketing their melon
crops this year. Railroad agricultur
al experts will aid in growing and
traffic experts will aid in getting the
crops to the markets quickly. '
County Schools To -
Have Improvements
Heating and Sanitation Improvements
. Will Be Sought by Board
At their meeting Tuesday, the
Cunty Board of Education partially
adopted plans to install complete
heating and_ ventilating heaters in
each school room and install sani
tary closets in each building. The
approximate cost will be between‘
ten and twelve thousand doilars, to
‘be met by a special tax of the prop
erty in each school district in the
county, if the p:cple in the district
give their consent. The heaters and
closets are in the nature of a needed
improvement, but as the Board has
‘only limited funds to carry on the
regular work of the schools, a special
tax will be needed for these improve
ments. It is planned to call meet
ings of the citizens in each school
district at an early date to place this
matter before them. Mr. Anderson,’
‘a repesentative of a manufacturing
concern making the theaters and
closets, spoke before the Board.
N s T
Francis W. Clarke. managing edi
tor of the Atlanta Constitution, and
wife passed through Fitzgerald yes
terday en route from their winter
home 'in Florida to Atlanta. :
Mr. G. R. Womble has returned
from a business trip to Macon
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Emmett Cline Smith, formier “devil dog” of the United States
Marines, who was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for valor in
action. He and Walter A. Holt of Rochelle, who was awarded the
D. S. C. for bravery, were both accepted as members by the Mars-
McDonald Post of the American Legion last night.
Local Post Mew Officers
at Meeting Last Night
WAR HEROES JOIN POST
Smith and Holt, Both Decorated
for Bravery, Join Post
About thirty members of the Mars-
McDonald Post, American Legion,
attended an enthusiastic meeting last
night at which application of two
world war heroes were accepted and
a new staff of officers elected for the
year 1921.
Cleon Howell, who served in both
the rFench and American armies
during the war, was elected Com
mander of the post to succeed C. Roy
Adams. Chester Strickland was
‘elected adjutant, Robert Fretwell,
finance officer. Herbert Bradshaw
chaplain, E. L. Dickson, vice com
mander, and Mulkey, historian.
Walter A. Holt, of Rochelle, who
was awarded the Distinguished Ser
vice Cross for valor near St Juvin
on October 1918, was presented to
the post and accepted as a member.
Emmett Cline Smith, who won the
French Croix de Guerre for valor
while he served with the marines, also
joined. .
Past Commander Adams in a short'
speech of welcome expressed the!
pride of the post in having among its
members two men who d'isting‘uishul|
themselves for valor in action.
The local legion post conducted the
ceremony at Rochelle in which the
cross was presented to Mr. Holt., Mr.
Smith, who is in Augusta, was not
present at the mucoii =
~ Plans were discussed for organiz
ing a woman’s auxiliary tu the Le
gion post. . A district officer from
Americus will attend the-March meet
ing and organization of the auxiliary
wil]l probably be made after that
meeting. .The post will make an ef
fort to double its membership before
January 1922 and contemplates ex
tending its activities in non-political
civic affairs during the year.
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Mr. C. T. Owens has returned from
Atlanta where he transacted business.
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY S 1921
Decision of President Not to In
tervene Is No Surprise
WANTS NO PRECEDENT
Might Induce Similar Tactics in
Event of Another War
} Washington, Feb. 2. Recom-j
mendation by the Department of Jus
tice that the ten-year sentence of
Eugene V. Debs, long a prominent
Socialist leader and now serving g 3
lten-year sentence at Atlanta, Ga., for
violation of the War Time lfipionage
laws, be commutted effective Febru
’arylZ, next, Lincoln’s birthday, was
rejected to-day by President Wilson
‘and commutation refused.
1\ The decision of the President came
refusals to intervene in the case on
as no surprise because of his previous
the ground that Debs had sought to
handicap the Government through op
position to the Selective Service Act
during the war. and that the granting
of clemency in this case might in
duce similar tactics on the part of
others in the event of another war.\
The case was reviewed by a special
board now taking up all convictions
under the Espionage Act and their
findings were indorsed by Attorney
General Palmer. The findings are
understood to have pointed out that
Debs would be eligible for parole
on August 11, 1922 and that his sent
ence, in case of good behavior, would
expire on December 28, 1925. The
recommendation is understood to
have suggested that Debs had been
adequately punished by his confine-‘
ment since June 15, 1919,
SCREWS TO PREACH TO
PRIMITIVE BAPTISTS
Elder W. B. Screws of Graymont,
one of the leaders in the Primitive
Baptist ministry in the South and dis
tinguished bible student, will deliver
a series of lectures on the bible at the
Fitzgerald Primitive Baptist church
next week, beginning Monday even
ing. Elder Screws is conducting .a
series of meetings over the South and
is in Birmingham. Ala. this week, |
Cotton Oil Mill Operator Advises
More Food Crops and Less Cotton
Stockholders Make Good Deficit,
Opens Doors Again
SEE PROSPEROUS .YEAR
Luke Succeeds Henderson, John
_son Becomes Cashier
The Citizens Bank-of -Ocilla was
reopened for business yesterday after
having been closed and in the hands
of the state bank examiners since
December 7th when a shortage of ap
proximately $50,000 in its resources
become known.
The stockholders of the bank made
good the shortage, which was caused
by a loan to D. J. Henderson Jr. who
was then President. Mr. Henderson
made over al] his assets to the bank
to assist in putting it back on its
feet.
J. C. Luke was elected president of
the bank to succeed Mr. Henderson
and R. H. Johnson, for years cashier
of the First National Bank of Ocilla
‘was elected cashier and assumed his
position with the Citizens Bank when
it reopened yesterday.
G. Sam Willcox, second vice presi
dent, in an interview with a Leader-
Enterprise reporter today, declared
that the bank reopens in the best fin
ancial condition it has ever enjoyed.
The. capital stock is $78,000 but the
resources of the bank on its reopen-‘
ing are in excess of quarter million
dollars. Mr. Willcox said that thc‘
officers of the bank are looking for
ward to a period of prosperity this
vear as good as any normal pre-war
year. Except for the stockholders no
one has sustained any loss by the
closing of the bank.
The officers now are J. C. Luke,
president. D. R. Henderson, G. S.
Willcox, J. C. Hollingsworth, vice
presidents, R. H. Johnson, cashier;
and A. L. Nobles. J. R. Bussell, A.
S. Harris, E. L. Harper, G. W. Willis,
S. H. McAllister, W. M. Hudson, di
rectors. 3
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Fitzgerald Library Is |
~ Fourth In The State
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fState Library=Commission Secretary
‘[ Compliments Librarian
Fitzgerald’s librarry ranks fourth
in circulation of books of all public
libraries in Georgia. according to
statement by the secretary of the
state library commission in a letter
'to Miss Louise Smith, local librarian.
The letter follows: |
Miss Louise Smith, |
Fitzgerald, Ga.
My Dear Miss Smith: .
I have just received your annual re
port and wish to congratulate you on
the splendid work accomplished in
1920. You may be interested to know
that your Library stands fourth in the
state in circulation; only Atlanta, Sa
vannah and Columbus ranking above
it. while your circulation per capita
population is much higher than that of
these cities.
I hardly see how you can handle so
much work without assistance and
with so small a book and binding fund.
Such a large circulation would be very
hard on a much larger collection of
books than you have, and the fact
that it was made on a book stock of
less than 5000 volumes means a serious
depreciation in your book collections;
without a much larger expenditures
for books, you are very soon going to
find yourselves with a seriously de
pleted collection of books.
While your Library is fourth in cir
culation it is eighth in appropriations,
and I am sure that your citizens, who
make such wonderful use of your
libgary,would be very unwilling to
see it going down, through insufficient
support for the work it is doing.
It has been my experience that tax
payers never object to taxes for things
they really wish. By the demands
which are made on your library, they
are demonstrating that it is one of the
institutions which they want, and I'm
sure they would be willing to pay a 3
reasonable amount for its support.
~ And let me say for the library in
terests of the state, that the Fitzgerald
library is an inspiration to the whole
state and its splendid work and incen
tive to better and broader service to
us all,
With best wishes to you, I am,
Cordially yours,
Charlotte Templeton.
Secretary Ga. Library Commission,
“I can not helieve Fitzgeald will fail
to give its Library adequate support.
Too much is at stake. I have been
in close touch with its good work,
both in the city and county and I do
not believe we have a more useful
Institution.” Signed,
M. W. Garbutt.
Wright T. Paulk Gives His
Views on Present Cotton
Situation; Will Cut Crop
Advises Sweet Potatoes, Hogs,
and Grain with Small Amount
' of Cotton
The present intensive drive of the
American Cotton Association for cot
ton acreage reduction and crop diver
sification and the effort of the A. B.
& A. railway extension department to
have the farmers along its line diver
sify, have been a source cof so much
interest and discussion that the Lead-‘
er Enterprise is trying to sccure for
its readers the opinions of large bus
iness men and farmers of our coun
ty in regard to the change in crop
ping methods for the South.
In an interview with Mr. W. T.
Paulk. Secretary and Treasurer of
The Fitzgerald Cotton Oil Company
who is also a large breeder of Spotted
Poland China Hogs and owner of
considerable farm interests in Ben
Hill and Irwin counties, Mr. Paulk
outlined to us his plan for reducing
his cotton acreage this year.
Mr. Paulk said “I firmly believe
that we should all reduce our cotton
acreage and on my farms in both this
county and Irwin I have inauguarat
ed a plan which will in effect reduce
the cotton acreage and increase food
production and which I believe will
be far more profitable to both my
tenants and myself. :
“Figuring on a one horse crop, my
plan is that in lieu of planting a full
cotton crop, I haveyplaced with each
of them pure bred Spotted Poland
China Sows and have agreed to give
them half of what each sow raises,
then, I have planned to plant my crop
on this basis:
15 acres in corn and beans,
5 to 10 acres in grain
5 to 10 acres in sweét potatoes.
“Sweet potatoes in my opinion is
the proper feed for fattening of hogs
and as cheap a feed as one can grow
since one acre of sweet potatoes will
last twice as long as any other crop
for hogs and will take care of twice
as many hogs.with the smallest ex
pense. * Sweet potatoes not only are
the most economical feed for fatten
ing ‘hogs but simply finishes them
hard and bright for either keeping or
for the market.
“Then, each one horse cropper can
plant enough cotton to produte one
bale and in this way his cotton as
well as his“ entire crop will be free
from a heavy accumulated debt for
supplies since he will have a grain
crop for his own use and plenty of
‘bacon and lard for his consumption
and for sale. :
“I believe that to each plow the
cropper can raise and fatten 30 to
40 hogs each year which at an es
timatated weight of from 150 to 200
Ibs. will give him 6000 to 8000 Ibs. of
meat at a value of between $600.00
and $BOO.OO, out of which he can
keep what he needs for his own use
and the balance can always be dis
posed of on a ready market.
“This in my opinion is far better
than expectations from ‘bo]l weevil’
cotton.”
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Cotton Association
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Postpones Big Meet
’Cbnvenfion Will Not Be Held This
' Month As Originally Intended
ATLANTA, Feb. 2.—Announce
!ment is made here today that the an
'nual convention of the American Cot
ton Association will not be held this
[month at Dallas, Texas, as originally
}intendcd.
’ The associatioil has invitations froifl
Dallas. New Orleans, Montgomery,
Birmingham and Columbia still pend
ing. Theé Guestion of city and date
for the conference, it is stated, will
be taken up when the cotton acreage:
campaign has been brought to a suc
cessful conclusion. While the Febru~‘
ary date for the convention has been'
postponed temporarily, association
officials say the conference “will be
called lateron and at the earliest pds
sible moment.
“It requires an enormous volume
of work to prepare for the conven
tion,” says Harvie Jordan, national
secretary, “since the widespread or
ganization and activities of the asso
ciation have developed so extensively
‘throughout the cotton-growing area
of the United States,
“The intense ‘campaign now on for
cotton acreage reduction and for in
creased acreage in food and food sup
ply is taxing the limited force at na
tional headquarters to the utmost, It
is felt that every effort possible
should be concentrated by the associ
ation in pressing forward that most
important feature of the work.
“The very great financial depres
sion throughout the cotton belt at
this time would also act as a deter- ]
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Resolutions Offered Declaring Fitzgerald’s Ab
~ solute Need Of A.B. &A. Railroad
And Urging Preservation Of Road
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At a mass meeting at the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon
resolutions were offered the sense of which was that the junking of
the A. B. &A. Railroad would junk Fitzgerald and denying that
the road could be dispensed with in this section.
The meeting was called this morning after imformation had
been received here that a union official in Chicago made a state
ment that the road was unnecessary and its territory could be well
served by other roads now operating. Nearly one hundred citizens,
including railroad employes, business men, bankers and farmers, at
tended the meeting.
The employes here are understood not to have authorized the
ctatement made by the union officials and individually many con
demned it both as untrue and unwise.
The resolutions offered had not been passed as the Leader-
Enterprise goes to press but it was assured that either they or
closely similar ones would receive unanimous endorsement. The
resclutions offered gave a brief history of the development of Fitz
gerald and the surrounding territory since the establishment of the
road and largely because of the road. They asserted that to junk
the A. B. &A. would practically ruin Fitzgerald and would he a
grievous setback to the entire section around Fitzgerald.
The resolutions coffered no opinion on the relative merits _f the
operators’ and employes’ sides in the present wage scale contro
versy. They simply expressed the position of the generai public
served by the road, and that was, in brief, to declare that the junk
ing of the road would mean the junking of Fitzgerald.
BUGG SUSPENDS l
Sends Out Notice to Employes
of A. B. & A. Railroad
AWAITS BOARD ACTION
Suspension Based on Federal
Board’s Resolution
Atlanta, Ga. Feb. 2.—Notice givenl
all employees of the Atlanta Birming
ham and Atlantic Railroad, effective
Febuary, Ist of a decrease in pay to
the amount of fifty per Eent of the in-|
creases made since December, 1917.
officially suspended. §
The following communication was
dispatched from the office of Presi
dent B. L. Bugg of that railroad:
“Atlanta, Ga., Jan, 31.
“Te all Employees:
“The Railroad Labor Board, having
adopted a resolution on the 27th day
of January, 1921, to the effect that in!
case of disputes, which have arisen
between the Atlanta, Birminghan, and
Atlantic Railway Company and irs
employees, by reason of the carricrl
having given thirty days notice to the
employes in the various classes of its‘
service of certain reductions in their
pay which would be effective Febuary
1, 1921, and that objection having been
made by the employes, and a dispute
having arisen in regard to the propos
ed reduction. and the matter having
been brought before the Board, and
that the Board will proceed with the
hearings a'<nd further consideration
of the case and sets Febuary 10, as
the date for such further presentation
of evidence or argument as the par
ties may desire to offer, and that, in
‘the meantime, the Board suggests fur
ther conference between the parties
and an effort on their part to agreg
on a settlement, this is to say that
the effective date of the notice sent
to all organized employes, under the
date of December 29, 1921, to all em
ployes, that on account of present
conditions the rates of pay for all
employes of the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic Railway Company -will
on and after Febuary 1, 1921, be re
’duccd by one half of the sum oftujl
’lncreases effective since December 31,
1917, is suspended and no change of
rates as hetetofore in effect shall be
made except by agreement or by or
der of the Labor Board until the dis
pute is heard and opportunity is given
for the Board to decide it or until
otherwise advised.”
A. C. L. Reduces Force
|
At Shops In Waycross
Waycross. Ga., Feb. 3.—A reduc
tion in forces announced last week by
officials of the A. C. L. Railroad,
which will effect every department of
the A. C. L. shops here, became effec
tive this afternoon. |
The, reduction amounts to approxi
mately 10 per cent of the men em
ployed at the shops, which means that
there were about 150 men cut off,
The reduction effects every depart
ment of the shops, those being in the
service the shortest time being cut off.
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rent factor in securing the attendance
of delegates, and those who would go
would necessarily be forced to make
a sacrifice for the expenses of travel
incurred.”
FITZGERALD COTTON
Good Middling ___________ 13 1-2 cts.
Monday Receipts Sement iU AR
VOL. XXVI. NO. 14
NEAR, SAYS BUGG
Issues Statement Calling on
Georgia People for Aid
A. B. & A. JUNKING FEARED
Conference Is Held by Labor
Leaders and Rail Head
Atlanta, Ga., Feb.2—There will be
no change in the matter of the wage
dispute between th A. B. and A. Rail
road Company and its employes until
it has been passed upon by the Fed
eral Labor Board. In themeantime
everything stands status quo.
Following a conferance held be
tween B. L. Bugg, president of the
road, and representatives of the or
ganized men employed by it, the
statement was made that, after con
sidering the situation up one side
and down the other, from every pos
sible angle. the friendly agreement
‘was reached to agree to disagree,
It was decided that nothing can be
done by further conferences to recon
cile the different views or to better
the situation as it stands, and there
the whole matter wil] be allowed to
! stand in its present shape until it
can be submitted to the Federal Labor
Board on February 10,
President Bugg issued the following
statement directly to the people of the
State, calling attention to the calamity
which will result from junking the
road.
He says: “The controversy between
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlan
tic Railroad Company on the one kand
and its employes and the International
Brotherhood members of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor on the other,
concerns the people of Georgia te a
far greater degree than merely their
interest in the wage troubles involy
ing public facility. . 3
“However, important that interest
ilay be, the officers of the railwa&
company have stated that unless the
road can get a lower wage level” it
cannot much longer continue to oper
ate and perform its function as publi¢
carrier., $
“The question has already been
raised at the hearing before the Rail- ;
’ road Labor Board at Chicago whether
| or not the road is a sufficient value
as a public servant to justify its coni
tinuance, and if in case it shovldbe
scrapped the necessities of the com
munities it serves would be cared for
by other existing roads in stronger .
financial condition, then if the people
of Georgia feel that this road is of
value to the State and its citizens
‘and that it performs a public service
‘that cannot be dispensed with with
out great inconvenience upon the in
dustry of the State and loss upon
its citizens, calamitous in magnitude,
is it not time for some expression to |
be given and not wait until decisions
and judgements have been rendered,
which will start this property on the
way to the junk pile and when it
will be too late to stop this colossal
debacle? s
Has not the State of Georgia andiits
citizens an interest here that is super- ~
ior to that of the owners-of the prop
erty or its employes?” " 5
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Miss May Edmiston, daughter of g
Dr. and Mrs, G. A. H, Edmiston, is
spending a few weeks in Macon se
lecting fixtures for her beauty par
lor which she will open in: Fitzgerald
in the near future, T 4 0
g s S S et st