Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, April 13, 1921, Wednesday Edition, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text° The Fitzgerald Leader ENTERPRISE AND PRESS Published Daily, Tri-Weekly—Mon day, Wednesday, and Friday of each week by THE LEADER PUBLISHING CO. Istet s A i HARRREIRN ot Isidor Gelders ........... ...Editor S. F. Gelders ...........Man’g. Ed. —Official Organ City of Fitzgerald— s Entered at the Post Office at Fitzger ald as Second Class Mail Matter Under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897, Subscription Price—Daily BENt Wk, 0y e 20 e Moty . I 8 I WRRES eST Moue Months ........«........$2.00 RN NONERE . .. 3300 lOE Ny . 8600 Tri-Weekly, Year ..............$3.00 RIS Motwhe .oo 00 8150 Rates for display advertising fur nished on application. Local readers, 10 cents per line for each insertion. No ad taken for less than 30 cents. { " Forei n Advertising Representative o I THE AMERICAM PRESS ACSOCIATION 1 GEORGIA’S SHAME, AND] THE WORLD’S Readers of The Leader have probably ful-' lowed with interest the horrible Williams case in Jasper andl Newton County in which a large planter is charged with haveing enslaved fourteen negroes and had them put to death in order to prevent their testifying against him. He has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, | - With this case as a text, that small class of Northern newspa per editors who hate the South and that larger class that is sus picious uand ready to driticize be cause it doesn’t understand the South, have leveled their editor ial guns at Georgia and at the South and poured into it a stream of excoriating abuse. They cen sure its laws, and they censure the people who are ultimately responsible for those laws and for their enforcement. | That criticism may-be in part warranted. Perhaps lax en forcement of law made the peon age possible. But it could have occured in any state and in any section. It was the crime of a man, not of a commonwealth. In giving Williams a life scntcnce‘ the State has vindicated itself. True, if the impression gets a broad: tha pconage is even pos siblg in Georgia it will work an economic fnfury that many.ad vertise Georgia campaigns could not overcome. Substantial farm-] ers of other sections will not read ily come to Georgia if they think that they will have to work in direct competition with virtual slave labor. But cases like that in Newton and Jasper counties are rare. They are becoming. rar er. And Georgia is not the only guilty state in that regard. The real shame to Georgia, in the Leader’s opinion, that relates to the Williams‘ case arises from the argument used by the attor ney for the defense in his fight to save his client’s neck. ‘ The lawyer invoked not la\vi and justice so much as SEC TIONAL PREDJUDICE. The burden of his speech, as quoted by the press, was that Williams was being prosecuted by a “gang in Atlanta”, or words to that effect. He tried to arouse the provincial ire of the jurors to such an extent that they would, show undue mercy to the prison er at the bar because he was he ing prosecuted “from Atlanta.” The shameful thing is that law yers know they can use suih ar gument with some effect before any jury in Georgia and that they resort to it contiually when their case is weak. AND IT SAVES THE NECKS OF MURDER ERS. - Georgia is too much torn by sectional jealousy for another. Too many Georgians have an’ “ox cart patriotism,” the patriot ism that is given to a section of country which is measured by the distance an ox cart can travel and return in a day. The appeal to sectional predjudice by clever lawyers is not so much the dis eace as the symptom, the rash. And it is only one symptom., Georgia’s first great need is to have all Georgia “sold” to all Georgians. Advertise Georgia to Georgians first. Then it will be easy to “sell” Georgia to the world. g A WORLD HOUSE DIVIDED All humanity, each mortal man with a spark of the same Divine fire in his breast, is torn by petty hatreds and “patriotisms” and jealousies. Half of Europe 1% now in ruins because of the same short visioned attitude of on¢ man to ward his brother that makes it worth while for lawyers to play the section issue to save men's necks. The people of all the world are being burdened with taxation for armaments and ‘THEIR CHILDREN BEING LROBBED OF A DECENT ED UCATON because of this same sort of suspicion and jealousy «nd %gﬁ “the man who lives ov- er the 'hill.” Ever and anon when riots break out in the north, or mobs form for their unholy work in the ‘South, the papers of first this section and that are surcharged with animosity and hatred and abuse. And only when a great er hatred is stirred for someone who lives still farther away, is the pettier hatred forgotten in satisfying the petty one. | H. G. Wells, the famous Eng lish historian and publicist ai: novelist, is painting a beautiful picture of world brotherhood in a series of articles now running in the Saturday Evening Post. He is a thousand years too soon with his dream. . As long as one gtate, one sec tion of one state, can be divided against itself with petty suspi cion and hate, it's centuries too carly to think of nations being joined in sympathy and undcr-.‘ standing. And untii that Millen ium comes, this so-called civil ’ize(l world of ours will spend ‘more for a single gun for a war ship than it will spend on all of its finest public school house, and will spend more for a single war ship than a great university would need to teach and train thousands of young men for lives of tremen dous accomplishment for human kind. Recently a battleship was laun ched that cost, complete $40,000, 000. That was enough, tied up in bristling’ steel, built to deal death and destruction, to know eight “Greater Georgia Jechs.” cach capable. of training five thousand men to positions of in dustrial leadership each year. For the price of six such battle ships, a “Greater Georgia Tech” could be placed in every state in the union. Every working man’s son and every farmer’s son could be trained to be capable of doing something big in the world all for the price of six such battle ships, And this civilization! How our descendants a thoasand years from now will laugh as they read in our books or what other rec ‘or(ls may be preserved for them, of our vauntings of civilization ‘an(l devlopment. But the world does move. Moore’s Utopia and Plato’s Republic were the best ideal the past could offer in polit ical development. Then came Wilson with the ideal of a union of nations, and now Wells with the ideal of a world nation. That is about as far as mortal imagi nation can extend, GET CITY AND COUNTRY BOYS TOGETHER County Agent C. T. Owents proposes next month to get the county pig club boys and the Fitzgerald Boy Scouts together in a boy scout organization to include both, o 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 will 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, o 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 tomortow. Could the seeds of mutual un(l(‘rst;nulin;:.‘ iriendship 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, cach 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, mnor 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 community, in any family. The Boy Scouts and “the Pig Clubs, and other clubs, teach boys how to play. Club work is, largely, productive play. Boy Scout work 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. FEach can help the other through contact. I joint camping trips could be made a regular thing by THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1921. ‘ 7 Announcements . . For City Offices FOR MAYOR To the Citizens of Fitzgerald: Recognizing the importance of the changes made through the addition or the Women voters for the election of officers of the city, and appreci ating fully their laudable aim to help to make Fitzgerald a bigger and better city in conjunction with the former voters of the city, I have consented to become a candidate for Mayor at the solicitation of numerous friends among the men and women of the city. who have the wellfare of the commun ity at heart, Should the voters honor me with this office, it shall be. my purpose to administer the affairs of the city in the interest of all of the people, without prejudice or favor, to the end that the moral and material welfare of the city may be properly advanced with due regard to the tax burden from which the tax-payers are entitled 1o reasonable relief. It shall be my aim to enforce rigidly all ordinances lead ing to a higher morality and to the pro- | tection of life and property. | Assuring you of my fullest appre ciation of your careful coasideration of my candidacy, 1 am,, Drew W. Paulk. FOR CITY TREASURER To the Voters of litzgeraid: I respectfully announce my candi ;dacy for re-election to the office of Treasurer of the city of Fitzgerald, ‘subject to your approval in the com ing primary, . G. P. MINGLEDOREF. FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE At the request of a large number of citizens, I hereby anaounce for Alder man at Large. If elected I shall serve the city to the best of my- abil ity. ; CLAYTON JAY. - FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE At the solicitation of many firiends [ hereby announce muyself a candi ~date for re-election as Alderman at ‘Largc, subject to the choice of the voters at the* coming primary. | GEO. L. KILCREASE. ——%_ FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE After careful consideration I here by announce my cafididacy for Alder fman at Large, subject to the prim ary to be called by the executive com | mittee. | E. J. DORMINEY. ' FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE After conferring with my friends I have decided to be a candidate for Alderman at Large in the coming primary to be held for the election of city officers and will appreciate the support of all the voters, | A. H, THURMOND. } e et e+ ’ FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE My friends having requested that [ be a candidate in the coming prim ary for re-election as Alderman at Large, I hereby announce -myself a candidate and will appreciate the support of the voters. \ Wi R PAULK. G i A | FOR MEMBER OF SCHOOL | BOARD FROM 2nd WARD At the solicitation of many friends, I am a candidate from 2nd Ward for member of school board. I promise the faithful discharge of the duties of this office if elected. Your support will be appreciated. . & CCPETTY. et FOR WATER LIGHT AND BOND COMMISSION At the urgent request of many of my friends I hereby announce my candidacy for the Water, Light and Bond. Commission of the city of Fitzgerald, subject to the coming primary. If elected 1 pledge by best altention to the city’s business in this office. HUBERT ROUSH. FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE At the very carnest solicitation ofl many I have decided to become a candidate for Alderman at Large, and ‘ hereby annoupce my candidacy for the office, subject to the desire of all, to be expressed by the vote in the primary called for April 18th. As suring each that I will greatly ap preciate your support, and if so hon ored, shail do my very best to.right ‘-ly. justly and impartially perform the duties of such Alderman. } CLIVE L. WARE, FOR BOARD OF EDUCATION Dr. W. D. Dorminy, President. Mr. Lon Dickey, Member for the Ist ward. \ Mr. G. C. Petty, member for the 2nd ward. -~ Mr. G. A. Jolley, member for the 3rd ward. Mrs. Frank Ward member for the 4th ward. : No Worms in a Healthy Child All children troubled with Worms have an un healthy color, which indicates poor blood, and asa ra'e, there is more or less stomach disturbance. GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularly for two or three weeks will enrich the blood, im prove the digestion, and act es a General Strength ening Tonie to the whole system. Nature willthen, throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child wiil be in perfect heaith Pleasant to take €oc per bottle * (Advertisement) 2 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 | ant sex, a great goud could be accomplished. : J - About | Datteries Q.—ls there really any difference in batteries? A.—Yes, but there are really only two kinds of batteries. Those with wood seperators and those with Threaded Rubber Insulation. Q—ls Threaded Rubber Insulation the only feature that puts the Willard Threaded Rubber Battery ahead of ordinary automobile battery? ~ A—By no means. The Willard Threaded Rubber Battery has all the improvements that have grown out of Willard’s years of specializa tion in building starting lighting and ignition batteries. Ask us about it. Fitzgerald Storage - Battery Company +219 East Central? Ave. Telephone :5’\73 ’ Batteries To Stop a Cough Quick ! take HAYES' HEALING HONEY, : ! cough medicine which stops the cough b, ' healing the inflamed and irritated tissues. A box of GROVE'S O-PEN-TRATE SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds and Croup is enclosed with every bottle of HAYES' HEALING HONEY. The salve should be rubbed on the chest and throat of children suffering from a Cold or Croup. The healing effect of Hayes’' Healing Honey in side the throat combined with the healing effect o. Grove's 0-Pen-Trate Salve through the pores of the skin soon stops a cough. Both remedies are packed in one carton and the cost of thg combined treatment is 35¢c. Just ask your druggist for HAYES HEALING HONEY. NOTICE There were registered for the White Primary Election to be held April 18th, 1921, 1474 persons. This notice is in accordance with Section 33 of the City Chrter. Dated this 12th day of April, 1921, DAVID L. PAULK, City Clerk. For Better Than Average > Altering, Dry Cleaning, ‘Dyeing, - Pressing, Tailoring, We are equipped to do quick Work That will last long. Pressing Club W. ROY BRAGG, Proprietor T TSI A . ? ! *“Rat-Snap Kills 48 Rats” ! { Writes Irvin Merhood, Penneylvania asays: " i large package, ¥ " I\l’; ‘cl'l))-.,l»n‘(e(?igetl‘el::inf(&:.e" ,\“}‘{ Ari:- § N :\[E‘ } ¢ kills 'em, dries up the carcass, and leave: § ' nosmell. Cats and dogs won't touch it. | Cornes in convenient size cakes ; no mixing wvith other food. Get n package today. | Threae sizess 35¢ for kitchen or cellar: 65¢ | for chicken house or corn crib: $1.25 for | barns and outbuildings. Your money back g if RAT-SNAP doesn'tdo the work. ! { { K“.ls RAYS - Lllts SM[LE RN e - b ¢ .4-;*\'\? o \.~ 3 Ve ' ) Sold and Guaranteed by National Drug Store F. E. Wyman and Co. 0 " ? Meron Grocery Co., “WHERE QUALITY TELLS AND PRICES SELL” PROMPT DELIVERY Octagon Soap, N Sc Arbuckles Coffee ............... 24c White House Coffee ........ 45¢ Ib.! Charmer Coffee, Ib. ............ 25c| French Market Coffee, Ib. ...... 35c Luzianne Coffee ...... ...... 35¢ lb.‘ Best Green Coffee b ........... 15¢ Compound Lard, Ib, ISc‘ SIBO VR vl T 70c SUREP oi s 108 Best Whole Grain Rice, 1b....... 10c Irish Potatoes, peck ............ 55¢ DEY Salt Meat Ib . .00 ooi.o 286 | Smoked Meat ....i..... .0 23¢ b, «Best Self Rising Flour .. $1.45 & $1.50 Serateh Baed Ib. i iil e ‘Kerosene, Gallon .............. 25 ‘Seed Irish Potatoes, peck ...... 60c Green Cabbage, head .......... 10¢ . Dont Forget the Place!! Manon Grocery Co., Phone 520 - 226 East Pine St 5 A GOOD INDIAN I Malone Farmer: I F. N. Merriam, an old subscriber! of the Farmer, sent the following with his remittance: “An Oklahomai editor tells of an old Indian who} came into his offile to subscribe for' the paper. The editor took the money then the Indian wanted a receipt. The editor tried to talk him out of it. but Mr. Indian making it the editor wanted to know why he was so per-| sistent about wanting a receipt. The Indian said: ‘Me die some time. Gol to big gate and St. Peter asK me if | I been good Indian. I say yes. He! say, did you pay editor for paper I I say yes. He say, where is reg(’ij)t | I no have it. I have to run all over hell to find you and get rece'pt.” —Lix. - Security Owners Urge R . Ll Conciliation With Labor NEW YORK, April 12. Haly Fiske, president of Metropolitan Life Insurance company and member of th exccutive committee of the National Association of Owners of Railroad Se curities, nformed A. H. Smith, presi dent of New York Central Railroad in a letter given out here today that some railroads are making a mistake in their attitude toward labor. It was in reply to Mr. Smith’s letter to S. Davies Warfield, president of the asso ciation, taking exception to the posi tion of the association’s executive com mittee in conferrng with representa tives of railroad emuvloyes. “Your assumption,” Mr. Fiske wrote “that in seeking a conference with the lahor representatives, the most im v riart element in the present prob ©+ were pretending to represent yeu or your board, was quite unwar ranted. We very frankly put our real posit’c = helore these organizations and the public. We -think the present truculent attitude of some railroad ad ministrations towards the operatives and the unions a great mistake which may lead to disaster and that it is time that all concerned in the prop erties should show some conciliatory disposition at least to the extent of endeavoring to get the point of view of labor, to scek some method of ne gotiation to end the present impasse.” ~ Mr. Fiske stated that the Metropol itan Life Insurance Company holds ‘sccu‘ritics of the New York Centrai ‘Rai]road and its subsidaries amount ‘ing to nearly $23,000,000 par value. In ‘addition, it has cn its"books loans and ‘agrecments to lend more than $9,- 000,000 on bonds and‘mortgages upon real estate “to finance your opera tions in the neighborhood of your ter minal.” “Although,” he added, “our finan cial interest amounts to $32,000,000. This is about 15 per cent of our total investment in railroad securities, “Frankly it disturbs us,” Mr. Fiske added, “to have your board of direc tirs say that they represent in their. idealings with the present condition of ‘affairs the stockholder, without any jrecognitio_n of the superior obliga ‘tions of the railroad companies. It may very well be that as matters are wow threatening, the stock will be come-a rather negligible quantity, the ‘bonds will never become so. Our in terest in your company is a vital one, ;It is very disturbing to read that vou are disposed to ignore this interest. [t is even more disturbing to find yourself and the board resent any action on our part to protect our in-} terests.” ‘ ' B::: Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head ‘ gvﬁnix;?n‘éé:ﬁf&ﬁﬁ;&:ﬁgg gy glo | IRS SR St o e (Advertisement) Like A Breath From the Frozen North We all know how cooling and soothing are the summer foods, crispandcold 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 LUNCH HOUND—“I just had a ‘plate of oxtail soup and feel bully.” Counter Fiend—"l just had a plate of hash and feel like everything.”— Winnipeg Telegram. Sun ol e . Habitual Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days “LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN” is a specially= prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual Constipation. It relieves promptly and should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days to induce regular action. It Stimulatesand Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60c per bottle. | (Advertisemerit) l/)emand Your Shoes Mended With - ﬁ%@ ‘ &j \'ASPEQHIDESSKINCO | | FuzemALD GA Patronize Home Industry %Casper Hide and Skin Co,, WSN st ARG 000 g S R I B, i) REFRIGERATORS [ i hes =\ Il ' ‘ THERE IS ECONCMY 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 economly: and health insurance arguments bac of the 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 HOME FURNITURE Coo. £ O L e ot o A ua&" »:~ﬁ-'~’.a?t¥- T R e SR B B ARGt SNI T S D A : il N 8 AN b R Y F efl ] Batce? Ssg DY PRI DA DECATR o 3 e Y Gepe i N ol S ss DR B T s L TS f .z:wyhb.nmgﬁ? 3.—,,);«;:.:,‘_,«;';..,(;'),';;9:‘;:;:;»;_, SRS A Z :2’ Qs vl BECOTT R D b ¢ v TR T RETR L el aTR RBT A BTG N 1T el ek b 2 Dot et JEe sl e iR ESge ALY LD Tt o] BT | e N RORS e R e i | it Bl d fEati S S N i Pl T T It aaEneeY P ,;!iﬁm=lv"?‘.a\,l B"N e v ‘R:’*"‘i’ ) g i@..sag;:- e e i r Rey e Sk L / . ;.~-‘- iy i Sg’*» e ?"iws‘? s, i R ¥ | T 7 L G it ILI i’ 4 \JE;Z-Q‘!.: eJ | \ g : A TONIC Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic restoreg Ener% and Vitality by Purifying and Enriching the-Blood. When you feej its strengthening, invigorating effect, see how it brings color to the cheeks ang how it improves the appetite, you wil] then appreciate its true tonic value, Grove's Tasteless chill’ Tonic ig simply Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So pleasant even children like it. The bloog needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to Enrich it. Destroys Malarial germs and Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigor ating Effect. §oc.