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AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION, -Foreign Adv. Representative
We once heard of a very beautiful woman who never looked
into a mirror. She was blind. ;
Some married men take an awful lot of comfort in their pipes.
But pipes, you know, can’t talk.
If you want to keep a friend never ask him to lend you a dollar.
It embarrasses him to refuse you so small an amount.
e
Prize fighters are becoming active again, which would indicate
that we are not in any immediate danger of another war.
Society welcomes the new millionaire, but it frowns upon his
telling how he made his money.
Fifty American families control more than one hundred million
dollars each. But we are not guilty.
Beauty, they say, is only skin deep. But possibly that is be
cause somg skins are so thick they can’t be penctrated.
A healthy appetite is a priceless possession, but an expensive
thing to have. ) :
It’s comparatively casy to offend a witty person. Just laugh at
the wrong time when he tells his favorite joke.
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Some women are never so happy as when they fondly l)clivvc‘
that they are supremely miserable.
GOOD ADVICE TO FARMERS
The man who holds his cotton, at the same time taking care of
it, has some argument to back him. But the man who piles it out in
the open, subject to the elements, has no excuse for wanton waste.
Even at fifteen cents, cotton is worth taking care of, and its produc
tion in yolves too much hard work to be thrown away carelessly and
improvidently. And throwing away work and good money is what
piling cotton out in the open field means. Such piles, from which
the covering is rotting, are not uncommon sights.—Tifton Gazette.
KEEP GOING!
Everybody expects 1921 to be a prosperous year, but that is no
reason why anyone should slacken his efforts. That is the one thing
that should be avoided.
The situation calls for energetic and persevering production on
the part of all people, regardless of how great or how humble their
' station in life may be.
We can not expect great prospetity to come to us if we leave
the burden of production to a few, nor can we expect confidence to
be maintained if idleness and shiftlessness prevail where thrift and
energy are possible.
We have reached the trough of our wave of depression which
follows every great war, and are ascending safely on the other side.
What we want to do now is to keep going until we float into the
harbor of commercial sanity and permanent prosperity.
Production, conservation and the squat® deal in business will get
us there. '
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THE BANKS ARE HELPING TO
RESTORE BUSINESS CONFIDENCE
“A glance through the advertising pages of the leading newspa
pers of the big cities shows that the local banks are just now doing
advertising on an unprecedented scale. What they advertise is ser
vice in general, or else new departments, or the value of thrift. The
example set by these banks and their advertising has an excellent
. effect on other institutions, as no week passes without new banks
coming into the advertising line. The more advertising they do,
the more they find that advertising pays.”—lExchange.
“Just at this time banks could do nothing better than to talk to
their clientele through adverising space in the newspapers. Such
action, if directed along the right line, would go far towards restor
ing confidence.”—Washington News-Reporter.
A Thought for the Evening |
A VERSE AND A VIGNETTE ::, |
. 7
By Dan G. Bickers %
Y
» FEBRUARIUS
Now February comes. Long since have died
The living things of earth; and now is purified
The soil of forest, vale and field!
For what? That in fertitity it now may yield
A newer harvest . . . . So, in every life
Must come mild-winter surcease from the strife,
The utter death of all‘h:ll was, the day
Of fresh refinement. \We are purified.
For what? That there may be, inside \ \
And outside, purity complete
For real fertitity that shall be meet
For larger growth and greater harvests in :
The coming season than have ever been.
: TWO SERVANTS o W
I knew a man who had Talent ______ _
And he was powerful ; .
But I knew another who had Tact ...
And he was skillful. ‘
. 7
7
A Sermon to Live By
By Rev* Elam Franklin Dempsey, D. D. %
“JUST ONE LIFE TO LIVE, WHAT SHALL I DC WITH IT?”
He who has never asked this question—essentially a query of
youth—has a soul that is yet asleep.
At once, and earnestly, let him ask it and rest not until he has
the Divine answer—whatever his age.
No man ever seemed so completely wrapped in the coils of de
lusion than Saul of Tarsus, yet because he followed with an honest
heart “the present highest light,” he came at last (as everyone in his
state) to a full realization of “that Light that lighteth every man
‘that cometh ino he world.”
g He thus found his appointed place and task in the scheme of
things.
: g‘sl.')o the duty that lies.at hand,” and continue faithfully in this
course and you cannot fail to discover “God's plan in your life.
~ For there is'such a plan made by him who notes “the sparrow’s
fall.” Are ye not of more value than many sparrows "
n&fib‘he is taorn. ;o w‘hat end, and what is his Di
_winely appointed task is cursed with a feeling of the futility of life
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THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 1921.
NO “EASY MONEY”
Term Is Used as a Joke Among
Real Financiers.
Great Wealth Seldom Gained Without
Actual Hard Work, as Men in
High Position - Know.
The Ponzi case in Boston affords an
excellent example of the need of a bet
ter understanding of the principles of
thrift in this country, S. W. Straus,
president of the American Society for
Thrift, says.
"It is very rare that great wealth is |
gained overnight. There have been oc- ‘
casional instances where men have
found gold or struck oil or written a
successful novel, or brought into being
a great and useful invention, with the
result that the floodgates of money
have been turned loose for them; but
such instances are of such rare occur
rence that they can be eliminated as
not within the range of possibilities for
the average man.,
The processes of thrift must be ful
filled in the preparation of a success
ful financial career.
The so-called Napoleons of finance
generally meet very early Waterloo.
Success in the material things of life
means a slow but substantial uphuild
ing. First of all, the foundation must
be right, just as it must be in the case
of a great building.
The practice of thrift in the early
years of one’s life not only gives one
money with which to make a start, but
it gives what is even more important
—business understanding. In practic
ing thrift, we are demonstrating one
~of the essential funetions of business
success. This does not mean that
through thrift alone one can build up
a great fortune, but it does mean that
in gaining whatever success we attain
in life in a material way we must first
of all learn the principles of true
economy.
The fate of Ponzi and the luckless
ones who are striving to regain the
money they intrusted to him is just an
other example of the fallacy of easy
money.
Something cannot be created from
nothing.
New capital alone must come from
what is earned and saved.
If you are employed on a salary
your profits are what you save, not
what you earn. What you have left at
the end of the month or at the end of
the year constitutes your new capital,
If you wish to get ahead, to get out
of the rut yoeu now feel you are in,
you must build up that ecapital; you
must create new wealth for yourself
and put it to work for you.
These are the only processes through
all the ages, and the only ones through
which one ever will succeed in ages
to come. .
Historic Tennis Balls,
A historical fact that was impressed
upon the minds of children of a past
ieneration was that a certain king
was playing teunis when he was told
he had to ascend the throne of Eng
land. It may bring back to some the
remembrance of schoolroom days when
they hear that two tennis balls have
been found among the dust and cob
webs of the old rafters of Westmin
ster hall. They are said to date back
to the time of Henry VIII, who was
an ardent player of the “royal game.”
The balls are made of leather and
stuffed with human hair, all balls of
an early period being made in that
way. “ The leather ha% burst in several
places and faint traces of white may
be seen on the surface. The halls are
not both the same size, one being two
and a half inches in diameter and the
other only an inch and a half, Whom
was King Harry playing with, and did
he feel impatient when he sent the
balls spinning into the rafters? It
was not lawn tennis then.—Christian
Science Monitor.
Saving European Chiidren,
Work among the starving children
of Europe is being participated in by
the Young Women’s Christian asso
ciation of the United States through
the Polish Gray Samaritans, the
Polish-American girls who trained
for social service in Poland under the
American Y. W. C. A. and are now
with the American Rellef association
in charge of the distribution of food
to children in outlying districts of
Poland. According to recent letters
from them, they are feeding 1,300,000
children a day, through the food
kitchens and distributing stations.
The Y. W. C. A. is one of the eight
organizations in the European relief
council formed under the direction of
Herbert Hoover for the relief of Eu
ropean children,
Forced to Return to Coal.
The oil-burning engines of the Can
adian Pacific railway in the Canadian
Rockies are now being converted to
the use of coal. It is expected in a
short time all the engines running west
from Field, British Columbia, to Van
couver will burn coal instead of oil.
The Canadian Pacific steamers in the
British Columbia coast service also
will be converted into coal burners,
This is due to a shortage of fuel oil.
Needed investigation,
An appropriation of $85,000 has
been authorized to the bureau of
standards for the investigation of
measurements of publie utilities, such
as gas, electric light, electric power,
water, telephone, central station heat
ing and electric railway service and
the solution of the problem arising in
connection with standards in such
service.
Dr. G. W. McLEAN
DENTIST
Rooms 512-513 Phone 438
Garbutt-Donovan Building
‘Rifth Floor
Sunday by RMT.:"‘
In The Listening Post
MOVIE MORALITY
By J. D. McC,
In Rome Tribune-Herald
I do not believe in censorship for
motion pictures. Such government
al regulation is apt to be more or
less of a farce, and it really neither
necessary nor desirable. But the
way in which ‘maoyvies are advertised
has a good deal to do with the hue
and cry for such a censorship. The
aewspaper advertising is clean and
unobjectionable, as a rule, because
the newspaper reading public does
not like unclean or suggestive pic
ture phrases. On the contrary the
bill-board and the photo stands in
theatrical lobbies go to just the other
extreme. If there is anywhere in
the picture, though it may be a very
minor part in no way related to the
general theme, any display of the
female form, that is seized upon for
pictorial presentation in the lobby.
The movie is not as bad as it is
painted in front of. the theatre.
Commenting upon this phase of
the movie problem a writer in
World’'s Work says:
A picture which is made to bear
the name “Tainted”. “Hell Morgan’s
Girl,” “The She Devil” (I know of
two separate pictures of this name),
“Shackled Souls,” “The Courtesan,”
“The Libertine,” “The Littlest Mag
dalene,” “The Gutter Magdalene,”
“The Sin Woman” by its very title
appeals improperly for public sup
port.
Even when a film story is adapted
from a well-known play, opera or
book it may be given -a new name
selected for commercial purposes. 1
have in mind “La Gioconda,” which
when it was picturized, became “The
Devil's Daughter;” “La Tosca” made
into “The Song of Hate”, and “The
Jewels ‘of the Madonna” which was
offered to us as “Sin.” More recent
ly, Barrie’s “The Admirable Crich
ton” has been filmed as “Male and
Female,” Clyde Fitch’s “The Bach
elor,” is the “Virtuous Vamp,” and
a story founded upon the play, “Du
Barry”, is “Passion.” The pictuse it
self may be unobjectionable; it may,
indeed, have postitive value. The
disheartening, really disquieting
sympton, when we diagnose the
- Alabama Minister Relieved
Stomach Troubles Made Him Feel Sick at Meal Times,
But Now Always Enjoys His Meals.
O YOU-enjoy your meals? Eat
D without the dread of the after
effects?
~ Lack of appetite, and a disgreeable,
gick-at-the-stomach feeling after meals,
usually indicate that your digestive
organs are not werking properly. /As
@ result, you will feel weak, lose wfight
and lack the energy that is to b ;
rived from well-digested food &
A valuable help in correeti._ such
¢onditions is mentioned by the Rev.
¥ K. McKenzie. of Route 1, Section,
Wiley Williams, Pres. J. Kassewitz, Sec-Mar. Jlt Mayes,\V-Pres.
FITZGERALD FURNITURE COMPANY
I Just Receiveddirect from the factory,
a Large Shipment 0f...
Our display of Steamer Trunks, Wardrobe Trunks,
and Utility Trunks is the largest and most attractive
ever,made in the city. We invite the public’s special
attention to our display of Trunks in our large Show
Windows this week.
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B WEESTILL HAVE SOME Of THOSE EXCELLENT
; NEW PERFECTION OIL STOVES. .
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[case, is that those who are in close
touch with our amusement business
and follow it for gain feel that they
must resort to such contemptible de
vices to attain success.
So, too, will recourse be had to
unfair, if not false, advertisement for
the sake of what the picture man
calls “ballyhoo.”. I do not allude
so much to*the appearance of bath
ing girls in the street or in the foyer
of a theatre, or special advertising
scemes if this kind, as to the plac
ing upon the highly-colored posters,
which flare in front of our picture
houses, of sensational, if not lecher-‘
ous, scenes to arrest the attention of
passersby. It may be that the
views which are depicted do not ap
pear in the film at all. The unhap
py fact is that the maker or dis
tributor of the picture is of the opine
ion, as a result of a more or less
boad 'experience, that such appeals’
are strong, and that thus shekels
may be taken in, when there are not
outstanding attractions of an honest
kind to sell his wares. And by good
fortune there are other attractions.
Though the name of a book or
play is at times discarded, at other
times this name is accounted to
have great value. A star or a com
pany of stars may seem to enjoy fa
vor enough to draw a crowd to the
door. It is assuring to know that
Mrs. . Humphrey Ward’s “Lady
Rose’s Daughter” and “The Servant
in the House” of Raun Kenedy, to
n:rien very recent cases, have
b« v il to need no such extrinsic
acveitisement, and that players who
arc always in clean pictures like
Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks
and Marguerite Clark, in whatever
they may be seen, have had enor
mdus popularity. With such instan
ces in mind there has beea and still
is a substantial demand for the good
and legitimate on the motion pic
ture screen.
How many girls do you consider
fast, or worse, not because of any
thing you have seen them do or
heard them say, but just because
someone told you they were, or in
sinuated they were.. You can hear
anything you WANI ‘o hear about
Ala., who writes: “I had stomach trou
ble. When I would go to eat, I would
turn sick. I took one bottle of Ziron,
and it cured me. Am always ready
for my meals and enjoy them. I think
it is a fine medicine.”
If your food‘huftfn‘e;o/u, if your appe
tite is poor; 1f you are pale, weak and
run-down, and have other symptoms
that indicate your system needs help,
try Ziron. It will put iron into your
blood and help build you up, Take it
according to directions, and if not
benefited by the first bottle, the meney
back guarantee wiil protect you,
Ask your druggist,
anyone you wish. The one who says
unkind things he does not know, of
his own experience to be true, is a
‘scoundrel; the one who believes is
a fool; the one who repeats it is‘a
generous portion &f both, and a bit
}of a buzzard, too.
Toc 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 will be no
waste.
’ YOU ARE THE JURY
Hear the Testimony of Fitzgerald
People and Decide the Case.
Doan’s Kidney Pills are on trial—
are being .tried every day for weak
kidneys—for exhausting kidney back
aches. What is the verdict? Read
Fitzgerald testimony—personal expe
riences of Fitzgerald witnesses. There
can be only one verdict—a chorus-of
approval. Agk your neighbor! "
W. R. Skifiner, 608 W. @ctmulgee
Ave., Fitggerhld, says: 4 had kidney
trouble andfl was-down with my
back. I ach{d all-6ver and had rheu
matic pains my limbs. My kid
neys acted irregularly and the secre
tions contained sediment. I reid of
Doan’s Kidney Pills and used them
according to directions and they help
ed me from the first. I continued
using Doan’s and they rid me of the
aches and pains in my back, relieved
the rheumatic pains and put my kid
neys in good condition.”
Price 60c, at all dealers.” Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Skinner had. Foster-Milburn
Co., ‘Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Say JACK, DID YOU
EVER SEE A DOLLAR
BILL THAT HAD NO
FRIENDS.
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Friday/Evening, Feb. 11th.
Prizes for Four Best Costumes
Everybody Come Masked
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