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EERNS GELDERS _..______________________. EDITOR
& STEWART F. GELDERS ________MANAGING EDITOR
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E AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION, Foreign Adv. Representative
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~ When a fellow feels that he is nearing the point of perfection he
complains of being continually misunderstood. .
_ Some people say that half a loaf is better than no loaf at all,
but it depends upon who does the baking. L :
). The attainment of success is easy. It only requires knowledge,
energy, perseverance, good judgment, and an iron determination to
‘surmount all obstacles. Go after it. v
- AND WHAT DO YOU THINK OF OUR LIBRARY NOW?
~ Fitzgerald’s public library ranks fourth in Georgia as to daily
‘circulation of books, according to the report of the State Library
Supervisor as embraced in a letter to Miss Louise Smith, local li
brarian. ' The letter will be published Friday. This means that as
far as interest in books is concerned, Fitzgerald is outranked in Geor
get. If the farmer wants to keep from having the cotton market and
appropriation, however, is eighth in Georgia,
: This taste for reading demonstrated by the book circulation ot
our library is something for Fitzgerald to be proud of. It doesn’t
necessarily mean that Fitzgerald is “highbrow,” in fact such a con
clusion would be entirely unjustified. It does mean, however, that
Fitzgerald people have comparatively a little more intellectual taste
than people in most other cities in Georgia, and means most em
phatically that the Fitzgerald public library is the most efficient li
brary in the state, o
Theére are said to be fewer private libraries in Fitzgerald than
in average cities of the size, fewer people who possess a variety of
many books of their own. "T'here are very few books sold in Fitz
gerald. +. Most people in Fitzgerald depend on the library for refer
ence books and fiction. It performs a very real service to the Fitz
gerald reading public, larger than one would suppose without having
investigated its service. i
We all should be proud of our Carnegie Library. The ILeader-
Enterprise is especially proud of it, because the Leader-Enterprise
worked hard to get the library for Fitzgerald.
ARE THE FARMERS ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH?
; The Ben Hill County Farm Bureau Federation is making a pro
found impression all over the state with the real work it is doing for
the farmers of Ben Hill county. Also it has introduced, Ben gl
county to people in at least fifteen states of the Union that ptahably
never heard of Ben Hill county and Fitzgerald before. “°
But the accomplishments of the Farm Bureau in Ben Hill coun
(tiy to date have been largely the work of a few individuals who have
one most of the planning and most 6f the work. The average atten
dance at the meetings of the advisory board is less than fifteen.
Some members of the board have never attended a meeting. Some
community councils are woefully lax in attendance. That sort of
thing won'’t do.
1f the Farm Bureau Federation is to amount to anything big in
Ben Hill county it has got to have the active support and patronage
of all the farmers, or at least of all the farmers who are members,
The Farm Bureau is not a charitable institution that is going “to do
something for the farmer.” It is a medium through which he can
do something for himself. -
Despite all the political clap trap about the farmer being given
the raw end of everything, the fact of the matter is that is is the far
mer’s fault that he gets what he gets, doesn’t get what he. doesn’t
get. If the farmer wants o keep from having the cotton market and
potatc market and the peanut market break and break him every so
often, he has got to start using his head in his business. And he has
got to stand organized with every other farmer. ‘United the ag
ricultural class is the mightiest in America, nearly half of all the pop
ulation of America is rural. Individually the average farmer is
mighty weak.
The farmer whe doesn’t try to help himself out of his hole hasn’t
much moral right to cuss the hole, and the man on the edge who
didn’t fall in. The farm bureau isn’t going to make the farmer rich
overnight, or place a charmed circle around him in which he can be
as darned a 00l as he pleases without hurting himself. TEe‘.farm
bureau does give him a medium for using his shrewdness hnd* his
common sense to good effect. Fortunately it now has officers who
have been able to make a good showing without much active back
ing from the membership, but a head without a body can’t build
many bridges. -
If you are a farmer and are not satisfied with the price of your
products, join the Farmer’s Bureau. 1f you are a member, come to
its meetings and give your fellow workers the advantage of your
ideas, and your support. This is an agricultural section ;no one can
prosper unless you prosper ; but business men can’t force you to pros
per. They are willing to co-operate with-you but they have to make
a living themselves.
THAT GOLD STANDARD SUPERSTITITION AGAIN
~ Our good friend who moulds the dreadnaughts for the Macon
Telegraph is again “viewing with alarm” on the currency question.
This country is about to run out of gold, he avers, and something
has got to be done to save the situation. The McFadden Bill, to
place a fax of ten dollars per ounce on all gold articles sold in the
United States and to pay a premium of ten dollars per ounce on new
gold to producers, is recommended.
"Fhe tax of ten dollars an ounce could hit everybody ha¥der than
one might think at first glance. Dental work, which the poor man
‘must buy as well as the rich, would bear a heavy share of the burden,
-as well as luxuries like jewelry. Still, the government needs the
money and we won't kick over the traces if they put that tax to us
any more than the hundred and one other new taxes that solons have
invented in order to satisfy the appetite of the great God Mars, who
consumes ninety-three cents ouf 0} every dollar the government col
lects in taxes.
" The ten dollar an ounce subsidy on new gold is another propo
sition entirely. Such a proposal is not only “bad politics” but is bad
statesmanship and is economically unsound. It is based on the sup
position that without gold we can have no money and without money
we can have no business. If these premises were true, it would be
worth the while of the people to subsidize the gold mining corpor
ations, although such a course would probably be puzzling to miners
of coal, and iron, and other things that are really much more needed
than is gold. Those enterprises must stand on their own bottoms.
As a matter of fact, however, gold doesn’'t mean any more to
business than does the salt in the deep blue sea. . Without an ounce
of gold in all the world, business would roll on just as™ briskly just
the same. The “gold standard” is just one of the superstitions of
this comparitively enlightened age. If it is true that production of
old is falling off and that more is being used than is being pro
suced, then the immutable law of supply and demand, ungreased
and all alone, will send the price of raw gold up where it will be
rofitable to mine it. And that won’t affect the “price” of the dol
far ny more than the steady flow of the tides." .
?floney has its real value in the taxing power of government,
which is based on corn and coal, and iron, and wheat, and cotton,
and cane, and watermelons and elbow grease. A paiper dollar is
‘worth as much as a gold dollar and always will be. Fluctuations in
the value of iold might possibly make the gold in a gold dollar
worth more than a dollar but the DOLLAR will be worth the same.
_ This gold standard hocus pocus has led statesmen before Mec-
Fadden’s time to make donkeys out of themselves but when T. E.
- W. goes to the Senate he will keep their ears flopping prettily. And
_in the meantime, if any congressman or senator YOU voted fot, dear
. Teader, casts a vote to take YOUR money to pay the losses of gold
Mining gamblers, et that congressman or senator hear from you.
THE LEARER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2,192 i.
A Thought for the Evening
A VERSE AND A VIGNETTE
By Dan G. Bickers'
THE INNER HANDS
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Not every face that seems fine, beautiful and fair Z
Shows forth a-shine a lovely spirit dwelling there ;
Not every rugged, rough, deformed, ill countenance -
Is quite enough to evidence a soul virtues enhance.
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Suppose I had the gift to feel and see
In every hand I take in mine its inner quality !
I hold a hand that seems as soft and white
And warm as princess hands; my magic sight
Beholds it clammy, cold and gnarled and hard,
Like grasping talon of a beast; then I regard
Some rough and twisted hand, horny with toil,
Unsightly in.its outward shape, as if the soil
Of humble work were on it ____ lo! e
It is revealed-a hand as white as snow,
As soft as angel’s:zdown, and fine
In all its beauty radiantly divine. . 7
gUEER PARTNERS
Once the Man banished Honor ___
And with Honor went Shame ___
For, different as they are, Honor never goes but that
Shame goes after him.
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- ADermon to Live
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. By Rev* Elam Franklin Dempsey, D. D. g
“JUST ONE LIFE”
“Only one life to live—what shall T do with it?"”
[Zssentially a problem of youth, this query is not entirely iim
ited in its interest and value to the young. ‘
Many times, the middle aged, and even the old, have asked 1t in
a spirit of ecarnestness and secured a Divine answer that has 10t only
¢hanged their own lives into a triumph but that has advanced the
kingdom of God far down the, generations.
Most notable was the career of a minister who at fifty years of
age asked this question and found that the Divine answer was tlat
‘he should invest his remaining years as a missionary to Japan. =
The mission board to which he applied was, and not nanz. a'ty,
hesitant, but was finally prevailed upon to send him out to Jap:n:
the sequel was, a great and successful work there, both to their . ur
prise and to the amazement of the modest man himself.
Our own Georgia woman, Miss Laura Haygood, was well pas’
middle life when she went to China, and her going was a great bene
diction and to this day her name is as ointment poured forth in that
distant land as well as in our own.
“Just one life to live—what shall I glo with it?” /
: The answer,is “Invest it with God for his Kingdom!”
Let not anyone think either youth or age forbids the asking of
this great question. :
The Lord of life will surely -answer in such a way as to give 10
each honest inquirer a deep peace and satisfaction.
“Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah,"
Pilgrim through this barren land,
I am weak but Thou art mighty, :
Hold me with Thou powerful hand!” -
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Grady on Diversification
A lefter from our friend Tom
Dickey, containing attached clipping
from the Ashville citizen, was re
ceived this morning. Of coufse Mr.
Grady’s famous statement is known
to all of our readers, but we are so
glad to get this direct indication of
the improvement of our friend
Dickey, that we print it again, for
his and our readers edification. Judg
ing from the writing. T. J. is getting
O. K. and his hundreds of friends
among our readers join us in sending
him the best wishes for his complete
recovery. ;
Grady’s Message
~ Visited again these past months by
financial depression due to misplaced
confidence on one great crop, the
South has remembered once more
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Carlos Peterson and Virginia Lee in the Flirtation dance . with
Geo. M. Cohan’s Comedians “ MARY ” (Isn’t it a grand old name?)
Grand Thursday, February 3rd.
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THE 'REX
Cigars and Cigarettes
Pocket Billiards
A Place for Gentlemen
~ to Spend the Evening
209 East Pine Street
Henry Grady's vision of a sclf—re‘iant‘
South, a prophecy spoken by that far
seeing interpreter of the New South
but not fulfilled these 30 years since
it was uttered. " Lately Southern news
papers have reprinted and sent out
again the picture that Grady drew of
his people turning their energies to
agriculture with the forethought that
would make it forever unnecessary for
the cotton states’ to send delegations
to Washington asking for relief from
the disasters of a brokeh cotton mark
et.! Here is Grady’s ideal of every
Southern farmer‘s economic condition:
When every farmer in the South
shall eat bread from his own fields
and meat from his own pastures and
slaved by no debt, shall sit amid his
teeming gardens, and orchards and
vineyards, and dairies. and barnyards,
pitching his crops in his own wisdom
and growing them in independence,
making eotton his clean surplus, and
selling it in his own time, in his
chosen maa(et, and not at a master’s
bidding—getting his pay in cash and
not in a receipted mortgage that dis
charges his debt, but does not re
store his freedom—then shail be the
breaking of the fullness of our day.
Until the South learns this lesson
there w'll recur inevitably the same
visitation that today that today holds
back the progress‘of this region. The
attractions of ready money, the ap
peal to the speculative tendencies in
man,—these things combine to make
cotton a temptation that apparently
cannot be resisted. We refuse to
believe, and live up to it, that bread
and-meat farming is the only safe
farming that can be followed.
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Don't delay, becatuse there are oniy 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 every working day
“during the entire year; Foiflson repairmen are ready to show you how to get best results.
Fordson service insures your 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. o
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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 3llst, 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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‘Beauchamp and Eads
Phone 620 - - 223'East Pine Street
> " Hubby’s Hue. ]
At Deauville women are alsing cop
ered face powders to match their
frocks. But whatever the hue of the
latest purchase, the husband always
looks a little blue.—Lady’s Pictorial.;
L eacßee FEBRUARY
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Venss el m 8 On Sale Today
e Bradshaw’s--Music
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T. J. HAILE & CO. Druggists.
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When the stenu;..apner shows signs
of restlessness and spends most of her
time looking out of the window, it's:
almost a cinch that she’s getting ready
to tell the boss she's going to be mar
ried.—Detroit Free Press.