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THE FITZGERALD FAIR—
Fitzgerald and Ben Hill County
may have a fak this fall, as it has
had for the last two pears. If it
does have a fair it will be as muclt
better than the one last year at
the one last year was better than
the one the year before. But if
it is to be better the people of
Fitzgerald and Ben Hill County
have got to do less advising and
criticizing and more HELPING.
Three men have shouldered the
biggest part of the burden of
work and worrying and planning
and arranging for the last two
fairs. They have pocketted ev
ery penny of the losses, and the
losses have been larger than most
people know. Those three men
are willing to take a third year’s
loss if they can be assured that
the good people of the city and
county, the people who really
have the public interest at-heart
are going to try to make the fair
a better bigger fair. They can’t
accomplish this end by giving ad
vice to the world at large or by
waiting until it iy ail over and
then picking flaws,
The Fitzgerald Fair has been
criticized very little. 1t has had
probably more compliments and
less criticism than any other of
county fairs in Georgia. Sonle
of the little criticizing that has
betn done has been well-inten
tioned and simply ill-informed.
Most of it has been malicious
and simply aimed to hurt rather
than to help anything under the
shining sun. But this sort of a
thing is to be expected. Nothing
was ever done that amounted to
anything without enjoying a lit
tle cold water throwing. |
Splendid assistance has been
given the Fair the past two years
by various public spirited indi
viduals who were generous with
real work and were too busy
helping with their shoulders to
the wheel to offer anvthing but
cnnst_ruvti\} criticism, But ¢ a
county fair” cannot reach its full
est success as the work of indi
vidyals. It must be the work of
groups of people, a result of or
ganized cffort.
The Leader has i years past
urged and pleaded with county
boards of edycation and com
missioners and civic organiza
tions to take the risk a county
fair involves and give the county
a big annual exposition of agri
culture and live stock. It is use
less to epumerate the benefits
that accrue from county fairs
here. They are ample enough
to warrant a public interest in
such an undertaking. But no
civic organization nor official
board took any step toward or
ganizing or even encouraging
such a thing in a material way.
For a number of yvears, ever
since the dissolution of the Ben
Hill Fair Association in which a
number of stockholders lost their
money, the present managers
of the Fair tried to induce some
other agency to give the farmers
a fair. Nobody would.
Failing to get a county fair for
Ben Hill County in any other
way, the editor of the Leader and
two other publie spirited men
took the initiative and the risk
and have given, the word “giv
en” is used advisedly, the farm
ers of the county a fair with the
as:istance of a numtber of other
really public spirited citizens.
Now the present managers
have learned enough through
costly experience to engineer as
good a fair as any in Georgia.
But three men, with other busi
ness affairs on their hands, can
not single handed and alone make
a successful county fair. It takes
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1921
In The Listening Post
FACTS,(BF}}%L,I%F%OieS)ICTION :
City Primary is over, and if you
are not satisfied at the results,
lay it to the ladies for they won't
care. However, don’t expect one
reform to run over another, for
nothing like that is going to hap
pen. This set of officers will not
go into office for a long time yet.
The State of Georgia has crea
ted what we are pleased to call
a securities commission whose
duty it is to investigate all com
panies who desire to’ sell stocks
and Bonds and if found all right
to issue a permit for the same.
‘.\!r. T. P. Conner, who is the
chief investigator for the i§ com
mission says that during the year
1920 the people of Georgia bought
and paid for in perfectly good
money, millions of dollars worth
of perfectly worthless stocks in
all kinds of wild-cat schemes in
cluding such well kxnown propo
sitions as oil wells, gold mines,
and the League of Nations. |
However it remains for Georg
ians to develop the smoothest one
of all, viz: To sell you a lot of
land in a “Georgia Oil Field.,” At
one time there were three of thest
schemes working in this state,
taking in thousands of dollars,
often from people who could not
afford to lose it. Just now, one.
of these propositions is dead, an
other is dying and the other is
expecting (?) to strike oi! next
week. Wonder when the “col
killer will pass this way a_ i,
. ]
You cun’t make a “City Beau
tiful” so long as our city author
ities allow vacant land owners to
grow crops of various kinds of
weeds and briars, at the same.
time permitting these. owners to
allow the side walks to grow_the
the co-operation of every organ
ization and every agency and ev
ery individual with public inter
est at heart. If a county fair is
to he truly representative of the
county or section it represents,
it must be the work of every in
stitntion and organization of the
county. In no other way can
the fullest measure of success be
reached.
The Fitzgerald rawr Associa
tion has made a presentable
showing without extensive organ
ized co-operation. + With a full
measure of organized co-opera
tion it could give South Georgia
a real eye opener.
There is a very good chance
thdt the Fair Association will re
ceive organized co-operation this
year. Committees from the Wo
man’s Club, Chamber of Com
merce and Farm Bureau will
meet Saturday with the Fair
management to “talk it over.”
It is possible that a plan will
come out of that meeting that
will start something big in Ben
Hill count in the way of co-op
eration between city man and the
farmer. ‘
WHAT HOGS CAN, DO—For
ty-two per cent profit in ninety
days was made in a Worth coun
ty hog raising contest. recently.
At the last farm bureau co-oper
ative hog sale in Ben Hill there
were not enough hogs to make
a full car load. That means there,
are not enough hogs being rais
ed in the county. On May 7th,
the Pig Club boys are all going‘
to have a chance to buyv a good
blooded animal to enter in the
Pig Club contest. Ben Hill coun
ty boys may be able to do as well
as Worth county men.
The story of the accomplish
mnt is cliped from the Cordele
Dispatch as follows:
Worth County Hogs
Forty-two per cent profit in
ninety days would make the des
pised profiteer sick with envy
but that is just what one of thc
contestants in the ninety day hog
ieeding contest received. Start
ing with ten pigs on January 1.
that weighed 735 pounds, with
careful and intelligent fceding,
they weighed 2,016 on April 1, a
gain of 1,281 pounds. In arriving
at the profit, the cost af the pigs
wid the expense of every kind in
feeding was charged up. Forty
two per cent profit in a vear. Do
vou know of better investment?
It is one that is open to every far
mer in Worth County. There is a
market for number one hogs ever
day in the year. Ninety days from
April 1, it is probable that the
winners could duplicate what was
done this time.—Worth County
Local. |
Those of our hog raistrs who
have longed for all these years
for a way to get in on the proflt-‘
ering business so one might .
same kind of crops. I have in
mind a block on the west side of
Main street, south. Property
owners along this entire section
have as a rule improved and beau
tified their property, but this one
block on Main street and it is
flanked on both sides by vacant
‘property as first described.
Here is something discovered
by studying some recent statis
tics: In the limited States out
of every 1,000 children entering
the first grade in the schools,
830 will reach the sixth grade,
343 will enter th High School.
and 139 will finish the four-year
course, only 72 will enter the va
rious colleges, and 23 will grad
uate. If this means anything, it
means we are a long way from
being an educated people.
It is said that President Hard
ing allows no cabinet mecting
adjourn without discussing the
Transportation question. This is
the one great question before the
American people, and should re
ceive definite attention first of
all things.
Private management has be
come so incompetent and inef
ficient that it is impossible to
give any kind of reasonable ser
vice. Mr. Harding and his cab
inet will find a great obstacle in
the way of the anly solution will
be the managers, Superintend
ents, General Freight and Pass
eroer Agents, ete. together with
tLe armies of satellites surround
iug them. This is the crowd who
recerves big salaries, rides in pri
vate cars with-unlimited expnse
accounts, gives very little to the
road in the way of service. i
know it should know more about
this Worth county contest which
‘was recently conducted in hog
fraising. :
It was a movement intended to
determine just what could be
done. It revealed things which
most of us do not know—princi
ple among which is the fact that
hogs can be raised in this coun
try at a very small cost.
We understand also that they
can be raised at a heavy 'mst.i
That is the thing most of the
stock raisers know, but the stock
raiser who is not willing to learn
how to grow them at less expenst
is not the kind who will succeed
at the business—and he is not
the kind who has a bank account
vhen one is needed. That kind
of man ought to quit farming and
get him a position some where
that pays ‘well and works none
at all,
There is more possible ready
cash in ho raising in this section
than in anything else we can do
on the farm. We say it again be-!
cause it is so. The Worth Coun
ty folks have demonstrated it and
have done it so well that the ex
periment reads like fiction. 11
some of our graduate stock rais
ers and farmers will go into this
and study some there will be some
very encouraging results to re
port latet. We know it. They
know it. It is theirs to enjoy
if they will—the profits from the
stock business in this country. |
} April 9th, 1921.
Editor Leader-Enterprise,
Dear Sir:
Will you please ailow me space in
vour good paper to make one more
appeal for my people? I have no
ticed in your issue of the ecighth inst.,
Youv set forth four distinct needs for
Fitzgerald. There are five needs and
fiith one is one that I now want to
make appecal for. My direct appeal
is to the Board of Education with an
especial appeal to the City of Fitzger
ald at large, for a safe and proper
school building for the colored citi
zens,
1 was informed just the other day
by one of the teachers that on bad
windy days or on days when a storm
is threatenng, she (the teacher) ord
ers her school out doors for a drili
in order to get the children out of the
building for safety. The reason for
this is the unsafe condition of the old
rotten school building. It is known
that this building has not been safe
for some time,
This knowledge has caused a num
ber of parents to take their children
out of the school and place them in
the pay school ia Fairview, preferring
The Story of
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE
VIIIL.
SOUTH CAROLINA
L AS MARY
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Go\ g,w,\ had been
“.@E'dgfilfl } made a pro-
B S \ ity § Drietary gov
\\\'%\.,, ;{\.;W/ ernment, in
%“"fif/ lik e manner
the territory
extending from Virginia to Flor
ida was granted by Charles II
in 1663 to eight gentlemen as a
reward for their efforts in his
behalf. The name Carolina
comes from the Latin, Carolus,
meaning Charles. It was not
really named after Charles 11,
but originally in honor of Charles
IX, king of France, by Hugue
nots who built a fort near Beau
fort in 1562,
The fact that the Cagplinas
became later two distinet colo
nies was due to chance. It hap
pened that the earliest settle
ments located at points far re
moved from each other. The
first permanent settlements in
South Carolina were about
Charleston, while those in North
Carolina were around Albemarle
sound. The life in the two sec
tions also was quite different.
South Carolina was largely de
voted to the cultivatjorn of rice
and indigo and the planters soon
#rew very rich with their large
estates on which the labor was
performed by slaves. In fact,
just before the Revolution the
population showed twice as many
blacks as whites.
In 1729 the government, of the
Carolinas was turned back by
the lord proprietors to the king
and there was then formed the
two sebarate provinces.
South Carolina was the eighth
state to adopt the Constitution,
the vote of ratification being
passed in May, 1788. The Pal
metto state, as Souith Carolina
is sometimes called, extends over
30,989 square miles, and it par
ticipates in the presideptial elec
tion to the extent of nine elec
tors.
(© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
|to pay extra tuition to taking the
lch:mccs of sending them where they
belong.
I It will be one dreadful black spot
'on the fair name of Fitzgerald if thru
aeglect someday. two and a half or
three hundred ‘nnccent children are
destroyed by the collapse of that old
unsafe building. This is likely to hap
pen at any time in a heavy wind,
. My peop'c with :n exception here
%;md there, have not got the courage to
2o before the propur authorities and
'make known their needs and for this
reason I am making this appeal for
them, but it is much more for the in
nocent children who will some day
be sure to suffer from a disaster ii
something is not done for them.
I am going to beg one thing of the
School Roard. that is that they, for
the sake of these children, do in a
body with an efficient building en
gincer make a careful inspection of
the old hulk used by us as a school
building, If they will do this T feel
sure after a careful ispection . they
will deal justly by these little ones.
when they know the true condition.
Respectfully yours,
J. H. McMillan, M. D
Colds Cause Grip and Influenza
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Mrs, G. Cameron Smith of Bruns
wick is the attractive guest of her
varents M and Mrs. Lou's Keim on
Vorth. Lee Street.
needs. nourishment
that not only sus
tains strength but
also_ p{:)mota nor
mal growth.
SCOTT’S
is a food-tonic that is
of special significance
4& to children.
,fi P Those who are
r{ mnot thriving
" ought to take
45> Scott’s Emulsion
Scott &Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J.
———ALSO MAKERS OF =
Ki-MOoIDS
(Tablets or Granules)
For [NDIGESTION
Mr. D. O. Benson, whose unfor
tunate death was recorded in
the papers of the city Tuesday,
was in our employ but a short
time, and did not own any fin
terest in the firm or hold a
managerial position.
Femberg Furniture Store
. L. FEINBERG, Prop.
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ly expect. \
BUT the clerk was right—there was GOOD quality of wool in the
material. ! )
Of course were it not for DRY CLEANI;RS and modern clean
ing methods—you could not think of using it for GOOD wear again
his season.
t :f\ll ?ight there is where we fit in. O#fr methods are modern.
And if we have that suit or light coat NOW—we will have it ready
for delivery the first spring.day. ’
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Patronize Home Industry
Casper Hide and Skin Co.,
Wholesalers and Jobbers, Dry Goods, Sewer
Pipe, Auto Accessories. Springs, Leather
and Ffndings. :
We will buy one million pota
to plants at $1 per thousand,
dehvered at the warehouse.