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The Fitzgerald Leader
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o MERICAN PRESS A ‘.l'v(.u‘.'l'l()‘\i. |
GET CITY AND COUNTRY‘
BOYS TOGETHER County
Agent C. T. Owents proposes
next month to get the county pigl
club boys and the Fitzgerald Boy
Scouts together in a boy scout
organization to include both,
Chief W. C. Wilkerson, scout
master of the single local troop,
has assured his co-operation,
The help of other men compe
tent to serve as scoutmasters
wiil be sought. The immediate.
purpose of the boy scout work‘
for pig club boys will be to get
them in shape to make a super
ior showing at the Irwin-Ben
Hill county pig club boys’ camp
in August. The club boys will
be taught scout craft and the
various fundamentals of group
camping and scout drill. The
ultimate object is to get country
and town boys together on a
sympathetic basis, to develope
mutual interests and ambitions,
to sow the seeds of city-county
co-operation, |
The boy of today is the man
of tomorrow. On the training
of the boy of today depends the
attitude and the activities of the
man of tomorrow. Could the
seeds of mutual understanding,
friendship and respect be freely
sowed among the youngsters of
pig club and boy scout age to
day, from 12 to 16, ten years
from now it will be much easier
to get those young men to work
in _harmony for themselves, each
other, and their section.
Today there is too much clan
nishness of rural and urban
youngsters. The country boy
feels himself in a way superior
to the town boy; the town boy,
knowing in some things and ig
norant in others, appreciative of
his knowledge but unrealizing of
his ignorance, returns the feel
ing of superiority. Neither fully
appreciates the other, nor can
appreciate the other unless
thrown with him more frequent
ly in play.
As the boy plays, the man
will work. That is what the big
educators say. It is not hard to
find corroberative evidence in
any commmity, in any family.,
The Boy Scouts and “the Pig
Clubs, and other c¢lubs, teach
boys how to play. Club work is,
largely, productive play. Boy
Scout works is productive play
although it is productive of
health and weight, and the fine
points in human flesh that the
club work aims to inculcate in
animal flesh.
Both organizations have as a
first consideration the welfare of
the members and the betterment
of the members. Both organiza
tions should be supported, the
¥ one by the town, the other by
the country. Each can help the
other through contact.
If joint camping trips could
be made a regular thing by
scouts and club boys, and, per
haps, the same sort of thing by
girl scouts and club girls for
understanding and mutual in
terest among the more impor
tant sex, a great good could be
accomplished. ;
L Rl SRS e e
New York Statistics,
For the varlons expenscs of Its own
government, New York city spends
almost &W.(N)O.OU\O a year—more than
the Japanese empire. It has 1,000
theaters, 1500 hotels and 1.600
churches. It turns out one-tenth of
all the manufactured goods of the
country, one-fourth of all the printed
matter. and one-hatf of all the cloth.
ing. The snnual output of its 38.000
factorles is“worth more than $3,000,
000,000,
The Story of
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE
I.—DELAWARE
= O DELE
- S TW ARE
4 ) 7 falls the honor
& y/’fl{}s{r‘) M\ ©\ of being the
= "@C’:'%” SJ| first of the
el f-';{gl»‘,;;m_. y/ original thir
. ',.‘o‘ teen states.
w" December 7,
1787, it ofiicially adopted the Con
stitution and thus was made a
beginning of our present Federal
government. According to the
seventh article of the Constitu
tion, however, it was necessary
for nine states to ratify it before
it actually came into force. So
it was not until the following
June, by which time eight other
states had accepted the Consti
tution, that the United States of
America actually came into be
ing.
'l'he early history of Delaware
was a varied one. It started in
1638 when a small party of
Swedes settled at the mouth of
the Delaware river and called it
New Sweden. In 1655, Peter
Stuyvesant, the governor of the
Dutch colony of New Nether
lands, annexed this territory. But
it did not long remain Dutch,
for in 1664 the English took
possession. When Pennsylvania
was deeded to Willlam Penn he
desired access to the seacoast
and at his urgent request Dela
ware was transferred to Penn’s
proprietorship. From the be
ginning of the eighteenth cen
tury, however, Delaware had its
separate legislature, and at the
time of the Revolution it be
came an independent state.
Delaware is next to the -1)
"est of our states, haviug . .
of only 2370 square miles. i
participation in presidential elec
tions is limited to three electors.
This is arranged according to
population. Each state is entitled
to the same number of .presiden:
tial electors as it has- nmembérs’
of congress, so the influence of
the different states in voting, for
the President varies from Dela
ware's three electors to New
York's 45.
As to the derivation of the
name Delaware, this was appro
priately given to the state from
the river, which in turn was
named after the bay and the bay
was called Delaware in honor of
Lord Delaware, who was gover
nor of the Virginia coleny in
1610.
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Christian Education i
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Talk At Centr. 1 M. F
Next Friday, April 15, 8:00 p. m.
there will be an illustrated lecture on
Christian Education at the Central
Mecthodist Church. These are beauti
ful pictures. If you desire an hour of
helpful instruction be sure-to: be.pres
ent. Vo
Rev J. A. Harman, of Macon will
deliver the lecture. No charges and
no collection will be made. Every
body invited. Church at corner of
Central avenue and Lee street.
Parents with children to educate
and young people considering a col
lege course should be sure to be
present.
ISAAC P. TYSON, Fastor.
Mrs. G. W. Willis of Ocilla was a
visitor in our city Tuesday.
Talent Served Him Well.
A story is told that in the time of
Frederick the Great there was a sol
dier who played the jewsharp so well
that his fame spread. When on guard
one ‘day he was asked by Frederick
to go to the palace to play for him,
the soldier refusing as he would be
punished if he left his post. How
ever, when he ar i1n&1 played at the
palace the king was so pleased that
be gave the soldier honorable dise
sharge from military service.
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Must Surprise Their Stomachs.
| Toads in India are so used ¢o
lsnmchlng at objects that they have
been known to snap up and eat reg
hot charcoal.
Discovery Cr-¢ Icd to Cattle,
It was owing r¢ cattle refusing to
drink from an inipregnated spring on
Epsom common in 1618 that Epsom
salt was discovered. Doctors exam-
Ined the spring, and In consequence
of their verdict all the aristocracy of
England were hurrying to Epsom a
few years later to take the waters.
Ever Catch a Micropterus?
The black bass are of two species—
the small-mouth black bass and the
nrge-mouth black bass, writes Dr. R
W. Shufeldt in the American Forestry
Uagazine. Both belong to the genus
Micropterus, and are readily distin
guished through che fact that in the
'ast-named form the angle of the gape
of the mouth is buck of the imaginary
vertical line frow the center of the
pupil ot the eye upon cither side. So
[gnmy are these fish that they nre}
known as the “grnetish of the North,”
ind anglers prefer to fish for them
ahove all other kinds X
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1921,
HILLIEST OF WORLD’S CITIES
San Francisco, With Its Many Eleva.
' tions, Outranks Any of the Cen
ters of Population,
As to the question of the seven seas,
perhaps it is contributing a little ta
similiar geographical information to
refer to the seven hills of Rome and
to say that many descriptions of San
Francisco incorrectly speak of “San
Francisco on her seven hills.”
As a matter of accuracy, says the
writer of a letter to the editor of the
New York Herald, San Francisco is
the hilliest of the world’s Jarge cities.
Occupying the end of a fifty-mile-long
peninsula, which is flanked on the
ocean side by the Pacific and on the
inland side by the southern arm of
San Francisco bay, the city itself cov
ers a rumpled, hilly area of approxi
mately 30,000 acres, as compared with
the 14,000 acres of Manhattan island.
The city contains not just seven
hills but a total of forty-four. The
highest of them, Mount Davidsen, is
957 feet. Two at the apparent end of
the main business street, under which
the thoroughfare passes by long tunnel,
are 728 and 732 feet and are called
Twin Peaks, to the summit of which
there is a scenic automobile drive.
Strawberry hill, in the middle of Gold
en Gate park, which is a third larger
in area than New York’s Central park,
is a conical hill 420 feet high, and it
is girdled half way up by a pleasure
lake, while Lone mountain, famed these
lust eighty years as the site of a mass
ive sixty-foot cross upon its summit,
also is 420 feet high,
Practically all of the forty-four hills
of San Francisco are almost twice as
high as any hill in Rome and nearly
ell of them are about twice as high
as the Acroplis hill in Athens or Wash
ington Heights iln New York or the
river bluffs of Hoboken or West New
York on the New Jersey side of the
Hudson,
Except for that fourth of San Fran.
cisco’s hills which have been complete
ly built upon or changed by man, this
interesting fact I have observed on the
summits of some thirty of them—wild
Calitornia yeilow violets growing and
a-bloom in spring, lingering suggestions
perhaps of the floral abundance that
may have characterized the least fav
ored parts of the peninsula in the old
days before the gringo came or be
fore the world learned that a mag
nificent landlocked and hill-sheltered
harbor nearly 100 miles long and from
three to six miles wide lay snugly be
hind that narrow slit in the hills, but a'
mile and an eighth in width, forming
the picturesque western ocean portal
Enown as the Golden Gate,
Twing and Quadruplets.
Once in a while one reads about a
birth of quadruplets. Very rarely
quintuplets are born, and there have
even been instances of sextuplets.
When four or more babies come into
the world at a birth, almost never do
more than three of them survive. A
tendency to the production of twins is
undoubtedly hereditary; it runs in
families. A woman whose mother and
grandmother have borne twins may
fairly be expected, if married, to bring
one or more pairs into the world. That
curious armored mammal, the arma
dillo, common in Texas and Mexico,
nearly always produces four young at;
a birth; nd the most remarkable
thing about them is that they are
“ldentical” quadruplets—i, e., pro
duced by the splitiing of a single fer
tilized cell. The phenomenon of split
ting is known to occur only in the ar
madillo and in mau. Identical human
twins (produced by a single cell) are
very exceptional, but not extremely
rare. They are in effect duplicates of
one individual, and might almost be
said to share a common identity. Or
dinary “fraternal” twins may be more
or less alike, but identical twins resem
ble each other so closely that it is hard |
to tell them apart. |
Improved Paint-Spray Guns.
Painting or varnishing by the spray
method has so clearly proved its ad
vantages that improved tools for its
use are of general interest. A spray
ing nozzle, of automatic-pistol form,
now being made in Missouri, handles
all kinds of liquid coatings, including
heavy asphalt paint, with pressures of i
80 pounds and less. One model is
made to fit the top of an ordinary
screw-top jar or metal container. Jars |
containing different colors may be in
terchanged in -about 30 seconds, the;
nozzle being cleaned by blowing kero- |
sene and air through it, This method
covers up to 30 or 40 square feet of
surface a minute, while a larger t_vpe}
arranged for connection to a special |
vressure tank, covers as much as
85. An important feature is its easy
adjustment from fine shading to |
heavy-flow coating.—¥Popular Mechan- |
ies Magazine. |
The “Drys” of Bombay. i
Mohammedans in Bombay have
started an anti-drinking campaign to
“reform” their co-religionists. They
are picketing the liquor shops and the |
Moslems coming out have their faces
blackened and are marched through
the streets. One man found drunk
was decked with a “garland” of old
shoes and was taken round the city by |
an escort beating empty oil tins.—}
London Mail. e ‘
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Corrugated Cardboard for Incuhton. 1
Corrugated cardboard of the! kind
used for packing cases can be used for 1
insulating buildings against the cold,
such insulation being particularly de
sirable in barns and poultry heuses.
The hoxes are opened along the joints
and flattened out, the material being
applied with short nails and tin wash- |
ers, such as used for the application |
of roofing paper.
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declared Mr .Marshall, entered a con
spiracy with . the Merchants andl
Manufacturers' "Association to flood
the country with unemployed men inl
order to reduce wages and break the
ranks of organized labor. The A. B.i
and A. happened to be the first road
Where the strength of their plan was
treid out, |
“The road was deliberately led to
bankruptcy. Col. Bugg just before
the strike refused a daily train of
forty cars of coal for a haul over the
entire road. And yet the road was|
not making money. |
Many Officials -
“Officials, many of them unbéfiev-‘
ably overpaid, were everywhere on
the road. A general manager with a
salary only two thousand dollars a‘
year below the pay of the president
of .the Louisville and Nashville Rail
‘road. General superintendents and
to mention, Superintendents of mo-I
tive power and general foremen were
another numerous class. All these of-‘
ficials on 600 miles of road.
“There were fiftcen hundred men;
quit work on the A. B. and A, and]
fourteen hundred ninety-six are still|
out. And they're going to stay outl
until the fight is won. |
“The road has not the money tol
continue paying our wages, yet I am
told on good authority that five hun-l
dred dollars a month is being offeredj
engineers to break the strike. If the|
strike lasts a year, the engineers are
guaranteed a bonus of one thousand‘
dollars.’ |
M. J. Mecks, representing the rail-‘
way conductors, was the next speak
er and declared that the conductors
had already sent money for the relief
of the A., B. and A. men. |
W.E. Yeatman, of the engineers, J.
B. Cox, of the carmen, A, M. Hull, in
ternational vice-president of the elec
tricians, were other speakers on the
program,
The mecting, which was an ex
tremely lengthy one, lasted from 8:15
‘to 11:30 o'clock. J. G. Valentino pre
isidcd.—Savannah Press. :
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Sunday Fire Caused
By Careless Smoker
Considerable damage to electric
wiring and motors in the basement of
Garbutt-Donovan building was caused
Sunday afternoon by a blaze which is
thought to have been started by a
live cigar butt or lighted match acci
‘dentally dropped down the side-walk
}air hole. .
~ The fire department was called and
checked the blaze before it gained a
strong hold on the building. The fire
burned out the electric wiring in the
‘basement and water put one of the
‘motors out of commission for the
‘morning. Elevator service was re
sumed in the building early Monday
afternoon.
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Original “Limerick.”
The word is sald to have been
adopted as a name for a certain kind
of nonsense rhyme because an old
song current in Ireland, which had the
same verse construction, contained ‘
the place name “Limerick.”
Like A Breath
From the
Frozen North
We all know how cooling and soothing are the
summer foods, erispand cold from the refrigerator.
- Of course, though, there is a difference in re
frigerators. : | |
Some are merely “ice boxes,” in which food is
kept—at”a terrific cost of fast melting ice.
Our Eskimo Refrigerators
are built scientifically. Charcoal packed walls that
defy Old Sol’s scorching rays.
Food from such a refrigerator as this is doub
ly tempting. We can prove it.
Fitzgerald Furniture Co.
“The Store of Low Prices” :
~ Corner of Main and Pine Telephone 49
FOR GOOD SOLES
Demand Your Shoes
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Patronize Home Industry
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REFRIGERATORS | i
THERE IS ECONOMY o
in a refrigerator---providing, of course,
that it is a well-built and of standard
American make.
Time was when folks considered an
‘‘ice box” a luxury---intended only for
the rich and very well-to-do folks.
Today, though, every well-informed
American knows there are economy
and health insurance arguments back
of thg wide demand and use of refri
gerators.
First of all---the economy is in the
saving on foods which normally would
spoil during hot wheather.
No home in Fitzgerald can afford to
be without a refrigerator, this summer,
Let us show you our new and com
| plete line of Leonone refrigerators.
$15.00 to $lOO.OO
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