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THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE
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Under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897.
Offician Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
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STEWART F GELDERS ________MANAGING EDITOR
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FROM YESTERDAYS
DAILY
Several stories in todays paper are
reprinted from yesterday’s daily and
to the out of town subsc.ribers who
did not receive the daily we wish to
explain that the news is reprinted for
their especial benefit. We want our
out of town subscribers to know every
thing that is happening in our live
little city. In explanation further to
those who read the daily, we wish to
state that none of today’s news was
left out in order to make room for the
yesterday’s but its publication was
permitted by the co-operation of two
of our advertisers who consented to
have insertion of their adds postponed |
until tomorrow. \
Just in passing, we would like to ask'
our friends and subscribers who have |
complimented us on our first attempt |
at a daily paper to give due credit tol
the advertisers whose patronage is
making its publication possible.
The subscription price barely covers
cost of white paper, ink, and carrier
service. The cost of telegraph ser
vice, labor, and everything else comes
from the advertising.
KEEP THE CURB
MARKET GOING
" Today was the second day of the
Fitzgerald Curb Market. The iar
mers of Ben” Hill and surrounding
counties brought in a good lot of good
goods, * despite threatening weather.
and the good women of the city patro
nized them liberally. }
However, the novelty will soon
wear off and some patrons and some
farmers will drop out. From the
point of view of view of both farmer
and consumer the curb market is the
best thing that has happened recent
ly. It must be continued and must be
given liberal support from both ends
to grow into something big, into some
thing of the kind Mr. Paulk suggested
in his platform last week._a city mar
ket under cover where rainy days and
scorching hot days will not bother.
It is important that the advocates of
the curb market keep vigorously be
hind it now in its infancy as it was be
fore its birth. . It.woutd be a crying
shame to lét"so good a thing die for
lack of sufficient interest. Not that
the market has shown any signs of
weakness at so early a date, but other
good things have been boosted for a
good start and then died of neglect
afterward. Let's don’t let the curb
market suffer such a fate. {
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
FOR FITZGERALD ¢ ‘
The city eouncil Monday night voted
unanimously in favor of an election
on the question of a bond issue for
funds with which to build an audi
torium and additional class rooms at
Fitzgerald High School.
A committee from the Woman's
Club and members of the board of
education convinced the councilmen
and convinced many who had pre
‘wiously been opposed to spending a
large sum of money on the high
school building, that such an expen
diture was warranted and that the aud-
Jdtorium and additional class rooms
should be built. : .
That much has been accomplished.
But if the project is td be carried
through to success, the good women
who are behind it and its other ad
vocates must realize right now that
the battle is not won, indeed, it has
not even started. There is a vast dif
ference in convincing a body of men
like the city council that the money
should be spent and in getting a ma
_jority of the registered voters of the
city to go to the polls and vote to tax
themselves to spend it.
' The Leader was not one of the ad
. vocates of a high school auditorium
before the council meeting Monday
night. The Leader believed that it
would be better to wait a few years
until the city was able to afford a big
new high school building more pre
tentious than the present one and
could make the present high school
building a Fourth Ward primary and
grammar school. # s
However, tho we may dream in the
future , we must live in the present
and present conditions seem to warrant
the expansion of the present high
school building. The city has ample
unexhausted bonding capacity to make
the improvement and now is the time
to make it. The Leader knows bet
ter than to say that the “auditorium is.
assured” or to predict that it will be
built this year or the year after, or
any time. But does believe that the
auditorium and additional classs rooms
are needed and would like to see them
built.
The Leader would suggest further
that Chief Wilkerson’s proposal that
an additional $5,000 for extension of
water mains and better fire protection
be included in the bond issue. A
great many voters who will remain
luke warm toward the auditorium pro
ject, will strain a point and vote for all
the bonds in order to assure better
fire protection for their property.
THE FITZGERALD
DAILY LEADER
i (From Yesterday’s Daily)
The Fitzgerald Daily Leader makes
its how today to the Fitzgerald and
Ben Hill County public. How long
it will continue to appear is a matter
of conjecture. It will be published all
this week. That is assured. @ How
much longer depends entirely on the
wishes of our advertisers, We would
like to make the Daily Leader a per
manent institution but a nevin ;-;»rl
cannot be published entirely 1 '
air. .
Although the Daily Leader is vub
lished in diminutive size and sells for
the regular price of five cents per copy
the expense of the telegraphic news
service is so great and the additional
work required to publish it is such
that it will not be profitable to the
publisher even though the full limit,
240 inches, of advertising is carried in
each issue. The “little Leader” is of
fered simply as a service feature of
‘the Leader Publishing Company and
will be discontinued after this week,
or as soon as normal mail service
nlakes the' service not absolutely nec
essary.
The Daily Leader and the Leader-|
Enterprise and Press will carry tele
graphic news that happens up to five
hours after the local edition of the
Macon News is pringed, fifteen hours
after the Macon Telegraph is printed,
sixteen hours after the Atlanta Con
stitution is printed, and twenty-three
hours after the Journal and Georgian
are printed.
FAIR AND IMPARTIAL
NEWS SERVICE
(From Yesterday’s Daily)
The Leader wishes to call attention
to the two “partisan” news stories an
the front page_.. one written and
signed by Mr. W. W. Croxton giving
the side of Col. B. L. Bugg as receiver
for the road; one furnished by Messrs.
W. M, Martin, C. L. Fox and P. C.
Collins, the press committee of the
Joint Federation Committee striking
employes of the A B. and A.
In this controversy the Leader has
found it impossible from the start to
include in a single news story a fair
and balanced prescntat?fin of both
sides of the controversy. It has pur
sued policy of giving each side, un
censored by the editorial blue pencil.
a hearing and letting the reader draw
his own conclusions and form his own
judgement. We believe the reader to
be just as capable of drawing a fair
conclusion as is the editor. That
holds true for the new columns.
THE LEADER’S OPINION
ON THE STRIKE
(From Yesterday’s Daily)
The Leader in this controversy
takes the positien that the present
difficulties of the A. B. and A, rail
road and other roads of the country
are the strongest possible evidence in
support of its contention that the gov
ernment should own and operate the
railroads. While the government was
operating the railroads under an ab
surd arrangement that required it to
pay six per cent on all outstanding
securities of the roads._. water and
all___criticism upon criticism was
hurled at the government executives
and at the principle of government
ownership.
Now the railroads are back under
as great a degree of private control as
the sad experience of years have
shown to be safe. Immediately, all
over the nation begins the creaking
and rumbling that threatens a ftre
mendous crash. Remember... the
present almost prohibitive freight
and passenger rates were put into ef
fect AFTER the government had re
linquished control of the roads and
the present scale of pay was fixed
BEFORE the government relinquish
ed control. i
Consider critically ithe two sides
of the wage controversy as theyhave
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1921.
been presented since December 28th.
[ No concrete evidence has been pre
[scnted by the A. B. and A. railroad *o
show that the 1920 wage scale is un
just and unreasonable in itself, Re
cently President, now Receiver, Bugg
SAID it was too high and deduced
reasons why it was too high, or would
be too high now.
Col. Bugg says simply<and force
fully that the A. B. and A. has not the
money wherewith to pay the present
'wage scale. Col. Bugg further
states that the road has no means of
increasing its earning caphcity. In
other words, undér the present system
of private ownership and operation of
railrgads, under competition according
to the operator’s own statement, it is
impossible for the A. B. and A., and
supposedly for other roads similarly
situated, to earn enough money to pay
a FAIR AND JUST scale of wages
to the men who do the work.
The A, B. and A. railroad is abso
lutely necessary to this section. It
can not be operated and it can not be
dispensed with, if the statement of‘;
Col. Bugg are true—and the Leader
has the utmost confidence in Col.Bugg
as a business man, a.gentleman and
a man. There is but one way to avoid
the dilemma.. OWNERSHIP OF
ALL THE RAILROADS.
It is to the interests of the United
States and every tax payer and every
shipper in the United States that
South Georgia and the other territory
served by the A. B. and A. be devel
oped to the highest degree. Its de
velopment is absolutely - impossible
without the service normally given by
the A. B. and A. railroad, But can we
ask that fifteen hundred of our fellow
men, with the families dependent on
them, shall be offered up as an he
roic sacrifice on the alter of South
Georgia Progress by forcing them to
work for this railroad, to assist our
sect’onal development, at a wage that
will not permit them the full measure
of the necessities, comforts, and lux
eries of life that self-respecting, hard
working men and women are justly
entitled to enjoy?
God grant that the day has passed
when the man who works with his
hands could be distinguished from ail
his fellows of less arduous pursuits by
the shabbiness of his clothes and the
leanness of his stomach. God grant
that the day has passed when the wife
of the man who works with his hands
was a drudge and a slave to the stove
and wash tub; when his children was
confronted with an almost, impassable
barrier to something better than their
fathers had. Because God so con
structed a man that his life’'s work
must be done in overalls, did He in
tend that man’s wife to wear calico
and calloused palms, and that man’s
children to forego the full, measure of
childish freedom from responsibility
and toil and the right of youth to a
complete education and an equal op
portunity with others to take a Gen
eral's position in life’'s battle, even
though his father marched in the
ranks? :
t. The REAL opponent of the
strikers is not Col. Bugg, nor Mr.
Croxton, nor Judge Sibley, it is the
SYSTEM that holds that public util
ities should be operated for private
gain and the devil take the little fellow,
or the little railroad, that can’t stand
the pace. Ty
Take a Glass of Salts If Your Back
Hurts or Bladder Troubles You
No man. or woman who e/its meat
regularly can make a mistake/by flush
ing the kidneys occasibnal}y. says a
well-known authority. eat forms
uric acid which excites ;ze kidneys,
they become ov worked from the
strain, get sluggish and fail to filter
the waste and ois'Zzs from the
blood, then we get sick. Nearly all
rheumatism, headachés, liver trouble,
nervousness, dizziness, sleepliness and
urinary disorders come from sluggish
kidneys. |
The moment you feel a dull ache in
the kidneys or your back hurts or if
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
‘sediment, irregular of passage or at-i
tended by a sensation of scalding,
stop eating meat and get about four
}ounces of Jad Salts from any phar
‘macy; take a tablespoonful in a glass}
of water before breakfast and in a
few days your kidneys will act- fine
iThis famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, com
‘bined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to flush and stimulate
‘the kidneys, also to . neutralize the
acids in urine so it no longer causes
irritation, thus ending bladder weak
ness. i !
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
injure; makes’a delightful efférvescent
lithia-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active and the
blood pure, thereby avoiding serious
kiduney complications, Advertisement.
A Thought for the Evening
A VERSE AND A VIGNETTE
By Dan G. Bickers :
NOT THE WRITE WAY
Professor, I've been readin’ how that out Chicago way.---
Where odors of the fertilizer plants have full sway,
Where free verse runs to lie-sense, that a school-man’s
~ come to see
That I’ve got a right as an American to answer ‘“it is me.”
An’ makin’ this his will and law___if right or not I won’t
Admit__he adds a codicil, says I may say, “He don’t;”
In other words he gives it up, thejob o’ teachin’ grammer__
Says, “Go to, now; say what you please__l'll hide my tu
tor’s hammer.”
But me? I take the license to talk proper if I want to.__-
Or split infinitives to just my utter freedom flaunt, to
Be just as free to follow rules as break them, say “I seen.”
“I done,” “I taken,” or if I should please, “I wist,” “I ween.”
I’ve got the right to say “you all” as singularly used.__
And if I do not say it still I should not be abused ; ‘
T'll drap my aitches and my g’s, say “tote” and “git” and
“fotch” :
And for the past of “ketch” I'll use the well established
“cotch.”
In other words_or just the same__l’ll.lynch the language, be
A law unto myself and say just what I choose, you see..
Nobody’s got the right to spot my language for its taint._.
And anyhow, that Windy City man__l know “he ain’t.”
A Sermon to Live By
By Rev' Elam Franklin Dempsey, D. D.
MAN’S FAITH IS GOD’S OPPORTUNITY |
Scriptdre. Genesis 12: 1-9. The initiative of every good thingl
is from God. He is “the solitary place in which arise the streams that
turn the mill-clappers of the world.” (Verse One.) 5
God is the Great First Cause of every act and epoch in a good
man'’s life. (Verse Four.) . |
Old age is no impediment to a new departure in the life of a man
of faith. (Verse 1-4.) ;
Man’s faith is God’s opportunity "to work on earth. Oddly
enough without it, He is hindered. “He could ther do no mighty
works becausé of their unbelief.” (Verse 1-4.) L
Men are pilgrims through the earth—not sojourners here.(Verse
9
Greatness of name that shall endure in earth and survive in
Heaven, is the gift of God and not the wage of man’s effort. It is
an ob\tainment from God and not attaiment of human ambition. (Ver
se 2. )~
The issue of a life of unwavering faith is certain success, both
here and hereafter. And into the land of Canan they came!”
Ten generations only between Abraham and the flood and men
have begun to forget God. What of that vow we made in money
trial, in sickness, in affliction, in threatened loss of loved ones? Have
we also forgotten? | 5
In The Listenng Post
: A FACTS,(;;%J%F%OfiefgCTION
(From Yesterday’s Daily) (3
HELPY M R C
TO BE SUCCESS
There are some fathers in Fitzger
ald who did not attend the banquet
Friday night and those fathers missed
something that would have done them
a world of good. For their bénefit I
would like to stress a few pertinent
points. Let us give our boys a chance
to make good citizens.
I am afraid' we do not realize how
many boys never havg a respectable
chance in this world. Let us prepare.
for them a place where they can have
wholesome sports under the proper
conditions. Let us” fathers get bet
ter acquainted with our boys. Know
what they are doing and where and
with whom they spend their recrea
tion hours. You could not invest a
dollar in any institution where the re
turn would be greater in the move
ment known as the Y. M, R. C.
“LEAVE WILSON |
TO HISTORY” o
Woodrow Wilson -is now a private:
citizen. His place in History will be
determined by future events. No
president of this country ever had‘
such a stormy career, and the vast]
majority of the people are fully con
vinced' that he handled the most of
the “issues with a maximum of mis
takes. G
~ Ex-president Wilson was a victim
of too much power. The people of
‘the United States gave him more
power ‘than any autocrat in all the
history of the modern world, and it
made him lose his head. He believed
he could tell one crowd the Prohibi
tion law was in force, another crowd
it wasn’t. He could tell one delega
tion' the war was over—another it
wasn't over, and that the American
people would stand for it. But they
wouldn’t, :
In many respects he is a great man
and future historians will so record it.
GEORGIA SHOULD :
BUY A, B. & A,
Back in 1911 or 1912 the writer of
this article addressed a communica
tion to the late Jas. R. Gray, then ed
itor of the Atlanta Journal, suggest
ing that.the State of Georgia purchase
the A. B. & A. He saw fit to publish|
this letter and gave the suggestion
his endorsement in a lengthy editor
ial. The Legislature was in. session]
at that time and after having person
ally talked to several of the most in
fluential members we saw that it was
impossible to get any encouragement
from that source. So after awhile the
matter was dropped.
But an idea never dies, and since
that time I have noticed a good many
suggestions along the same line. I do
mot remember the details as it was
worked out at the time, but in a gen
eral way that the state could pur
. chase the road by substituting its
own Bonds for the uotstanding Bonds
of the railroad. Those who remember
anything about politics will recall that
during those years a great deal was
said and written about extending our
State Road to the sea, and there are
still some of us who believe it would
be a good idea yet to do so,
The A. B. & A. was having its
troubles at that time and after hav
ing been reorganized and operated for
8 or 9 years we find those troubles are
still as aggravating as ever. ‘
There should be some statesman
in Georgia with enough Vision and
sufficient power to make the people
of the state see that the extension of
our road to th sez can best be accom
plished bythe purchase of the A. B.
& A.
A GENTLE HINT
TO THE COPS ;
In Georgia the cnforcement of the
law is left largely with the sheriffs of
the various counties, and they are a
kind of law unto themselves. In some
states the Governor can dismiss a
sheriff when he fails or refuses to
enforce the law but not so in Georgia.
Here he can do just about as he
pleases” when it comes to enforcing
the laws of the state.
In a neighboring county a sheriff
was said to have remarked that he
had given the boys a few days in
which to procure their tags. In other
words, ‘this Sheriff was annulling a
plain, law of the land, and allowing
automobiles to run after March Ist,
without a tag and license. The Sec
retary of State has requested all sher
iffs to look after this one particular
matter for there can be no excuse for
violating this law,
In towns the size of Fitzgerald we
have learned to look to the police
force to do for us what the sheriffs do
for the state, and we find the same
rule applies in town as in the country.
Here is where the Civic League faces
trouble in the cleaning up process.'
WANTED .
LADY OR GENTLHEMAN AGENT
Wanted in the city Fitz/gei‘ald to
sell the genuine J. R.‘ ians Medi-.
cines, Spices, . Extrhct oilet Prep
arations, etc. All pare time. A
wonderful opportunity tp get into bus
iness for yourself. Wtite today for
free particulars and s mple.: J. R
WATKINS CO., 62 M.mphis,, Tenn.
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TRUCK AND PASSENGER CAR
to exchange fog stock/of 'merchandise.
Phone or write at yoy have. Lang
& Co., Omega. Tift Co., \Ga. ddM4
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WANTED—WiII pay for issues of
Leader-Enterprise, Janil te May i
1920. Advise by letter dates availa
ble. Address Leader-Enterprise. tf
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WANTED—WiII buy any quantity of
Fryers, Hens, Roostefs, Turkeys,
Geese, Ducks, Guinaes delivered. Cas
per Hide & Skin Co. Phone 306, tf
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FOR SALE
SEED CANE—Red can;, average of
three feet long. Can be had4t $25.00
per thousand. Call at J. D. Thornton
207 East Pine street. dsp.
Sl e e
FOR SALE—Easter Lily Bulbs; 302
W. Cypress St. X d4p
FOR SALE—We buy an:i—:ell auto
parts for all make cars. Sell us_your
scrap automobiles and saw mill ma
chinery.. CASPER Hide & Skin Co.,
Phene 306. ; tf
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FOR SALE FLOWERS—Pink Vine,
Queen’s Wrath 1 year old, 25 ¢ or ;/for
$l.OO. Pink Dorothy Perkins Kose
25 c large two year old plants. d 9
Mrs. H. G.Powell, Fitzgerald, Ga.
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FOR SALE—Large white Crysan
themums. ~Mrs. W. L. Watson 710
W. Suwannee Street. it
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FOR SALE—Settings of Minorca
eggs, ‘'guaranteed fertile, $2.00 pe(:et-v
ting. Also registered cockerels. Phone
547 or call at 512 W. Ohoopee. d2sp
CORD WOOD—For 4it, Cord wood
and prompt delivery, phone 227. 3
FOR SEED CANE Call 880 r see
Dr. M. L. WILLIAMS, 516 €. Jessa
mine Street. dMBp
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FOR SALE Or EXCEANGE—WiII
sell one of the best payyi;y" busgé
nesses in Fitzgerald or wil exchange
it for Farm Lands. Address P. O.
Box 494, Fitzgerald, Ga. tf
FOR SALE—Rhode Islagd Red
Chickeng and eggs. Saff Willcox,
405 South Grant Street. ik
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FOR SALE—Abouu?/(ead good
farm mules, cheap. Ch or Terms.
J. C. BUSH. % Af
FOR SALE OR Rm:/'{—m room:
house in, first class sh pe and ten
acres, just outside of city. For par
ticulars see A, G. BROWN, 406 W.
Orange St. / tf
FOR SALE—Rhode Esland Red
Chickens and eggs. Sam Willcox,
405 South Grant Street. M,
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FOR SALE—Plants, prize/ winning
Red Carnations, 50c doz.; Larnations,
Marguerite, mix col(fi/[fi to $1.00:
dozen. Daises 10c¢ en.. Mrs. H.
Pollard, 714 W. Oconee. Phone 115.
y dilp
Bl ——eees
e FOR RE NT -
ROOM & BOARD—At reansonable’
rate. Mrs. J. S. Harris, 401 E. Mag
nolia Street. tf
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LOST!
M_—_—q
’ FOUND
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SOW TAKEN UP—A bla¢k and
white spotted sow has by/at(aken up
at my farm for the past s ty days and
can-be had for the payment of its feed
and this advertisement. A mile north
of Cotton Mill. Mose M. McCall d 4
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WHEEL FOUND—A bicycle has
been found and can be had by paying
for this- ad after identification at the
Leader-Enterprise, tf
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Mrs. A. F. Graves who has been
spending the winter with her daughter
Miss Eula Lee Graves in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. G. P, Mingledorf on
West Magnolia Street left Tuesday for
her home in Atlanta,
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Mr. and Mrs, Charles S. Isler and
two children hdve returped home after
a pleasant visit to Mrs:sler's parents
'Mr. ahd Mrs. W. S. Rifich in Amer
icus. =t
Mr. B. B. Vaughn left Monday for
Sanford, Fla. Sygrq'gb ms a position
with the Atlantic Refining Company..
