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Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897
Official Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
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STEWART F. GELDERS____Managing Editor
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ASSOCIATION, foreign Adv. Representatives,
THE BAND ‘WAGON CRANKED UP—The
mecting of the Fitzgerald Merchants Association
Friday night was productive and promising for
a greater future for a greater Fitzgerald. The
spirit of co-operation and team work was evident
at the meeting and on a foundation of willingness
to co-operate can be built the splendid structure
that co-opreration makes possible.
Fitzgerald must reach out for new territory
and Fitzgerald merchants are prepared to make
the effort it requires to reach that new territory.
The future looks exceedingly bright, and it should
look bright. A declining market has no terrors
for a business man who can sell his goods today.
The get together spirit will pull any town thru
the bog of uncertainty and thru the valley of bus
iness depression and send it spinning along the
high smooth road of prosperity and expansion.
The spirit has always been here, but latent. The
new organization will give it a chance for expres
sion.
TO PUT THE BURDEN ON THE POOR]
MAN—A well organized movement is under way
to repeal the excess profits taxes and make the
income tax lighter on big incomes and to replace
the revenues gained from these sources by plac
ing a tax on sales. The Leader is already receiv
ing regular installments of propaganda under
yarious guisgg which paint in shrieking colors the
Horrors of the excess profits taxes and sing a
sweet melody of praises for the sales tax system
which is being experimented with in France,
Mexico and Canada.
As a matter of fact, the sales tax in France has
thus far proved to be a miserable failure. Less
than half of the estimated income has accrued
from the tax. The system is necessarily compli
cated and the law is even more difficult to comply
with than the present income and excess profits
taxes. And aside from its superficial weakness
the sales tax places the burden of government on
the poorer classes directly instead of on the class
es which own mast of the taxable wealth and own
it in greater amounts than they can very well
use,
A local business man and financier comment
ing on the two types of tax several months ago
declared himself in favor of the present system,
“If T make the money,” he said, “I don’t mind
paying a tax on it but I would dislike very much
to pay the same proportionate amount of tax
when I am losing money.” He was one of Fitz
gerald’s wealthiest men.
The class of people that are advocating the
sales tax is the class of captains of finance and
industry largely centered in the eastern states
who have little direct dealing with the consum
ing public and whose profits would not be affect
ed by increases in the cost of goods to the actual
consumers. This class of people has the means
to conduct expensive campaigns of propaganda.
The plain people and the small business men can.
not spend huge sums on propaganda and in em
ploying lobbyists to press unwanted legislation
through the halls of congress. Only in the “un
kept” press of the nation does this class find a
friend and defender.
The argument that the excess profits tax *is
eventually passed along to the consumer just the
same as'the sales tax is placed on him directly is
specious argument. The only way the tax can be
avoided is for the extremely rich people to make
«less money, to give the consumer the benefit of
Jower prices, or for these very rich people to re
invest their profits by taking them in stock divi
dends, which have recently been declared by the
Supreme” Court not to be liable to excess profits
tax. This means stimulus to industrial expan
sion. Uncle Sam simply puts in one pile the
money that has in past years been spent' on pet
monkeys and extra steam yachts and harems and
speculation and other things. Uncle Sam says,
“You can cither put that money back into your
legitimate business to produce more goods and
give more people employment and expand Ameri
can industry and ultimately give me more nation
al wealth on which to collect taxes, or else you
can pay it to me in taxes now.”
A tax on production is always more scientific
than a tax on consumption. Production will al
ways equal demand, will equal consumption. The
correct economic principle is to stimulate con
sumption and not to check it by taxing it. If the
demand exists, the goods will be produced. Let
production bear the burden of taxation. Govern
ment, in its last analysis, now functions largely
1> protect production, to guarantee property
rights and that sort of thing. Then let the great
est beneficiary pay for what it is getting.
Don’t let your congressmen and senators get
wrong on this sales tax proposition, voters of
Ben Hill county. We've got the system of taxa
tion we want right now, We. don’t want taxes
so infernally heavy. We had much rather dis
pense with such luxuries as gifts of $25,000000
to little nations to buy their good will, and inci
- dentally oil rights for John D. And we are per
fectly willing to dispense with other little luxur-
ies like a huge navy that will scare the rest of
the nations of the world into building navies of
their own at least as large. Congress has plenty
to do in the way of cutting down expenses with
out worry about a new and complicated system of
taxation by which those expenses can be met.
TO MAKE COTTON PROFITABLE—The
Leader prints today brief outlines giving the main
points in the two co-operative cotton marketing
plans which are being advocated this season for
the'purpose of giving the cotton grower at least
a chance at a profit on his crop. The Leader
urges all its rcaders who are interested in the
price of cotton to read these two plans with great
care and dccide for himself whether either plan
would work successfully and which of the two
plans would be best for this section and this time.
[t secems necessary that farmers work togeth
er more this year than they have ever worked in.
the past. Conditions, financial, commercial,
industrial, and agricultural, are .demanding
more co-operation and more intelligent co-opera
tion between individuals of the same group inter
ests. Competition, if there is to be competition,
has got to be between large and well organized
groups if individuals inn those groups are to pros
per. " .
The situation in the cotton industry is espe
cially acute in that respect. Cotton is down,
probably to very near the level it will remain.
The day of thirty and forty cent cotton is gone
If the cotton farmer is to make money from his
crop he must not only produce it cheaply but he
must sell it cheaply, he must be able to get as
much as the spinner can afford to pay, and not as
much as the middleman thinks it is safe for him to
pay. Some new cotton selling machinery is nec
essary.
The “Sapiro Plan” or compulsory contract
plan of co-operative cotton marketing will create
a new channel for cotton selling. Using largely
the same warehouses and the same real cotton ex
perts who now do the work for the middleman, it
will use them for the farmer instead of for the
middleman, The United States Burcau of Markets’
plan, or optional contract plan, uses the same chan
¢l for cotton selling that is now in wuse but it
straightens out a few of the kinks and eliminates
some of the lost motion, saving a good many dol
lars to the farmer that how go to more or less un
necessary agencies,
Boiled down to its analysis, there are only
two ways in which cotten may be kept at a price
sufficient to permit its being produced” in the
South,, ‘Ehe first way, the sensible way and the
safe way is to get an efficient marketing system
on -somezco-operative plan. The other way. o
short-sighted and dangerous way, is to make a
permanent drastic reduction in cotton acreage.
Conditions peculiar to this year, resulting
from uncertain industrial and commercial condi
tions, warranted the drastic reduction in cotton
acreagd that has been made. The reduction is
estimated at one-third. The Georgia crop in 1920
was a little less than a million and a half bales.
This year it will be about one million bales, This
year that reduction was warranted and was safe
because the mills of the world actually are not 1n
positon to use more than that much new cotton.
the people of the world need more cotton cloth
than ever before, but they are not in position to
buy. The 1921 reduction is necessary.
But in the future it will not be safe for th
South to reduce cotton acreage heavily. Cotton
can be grown in Egypt, India and South America.
It can not be grown as well in those regions NOW
as it can be grown in the South, but with a few
years of careful seed selection and cultivation, the
present handicap could be overcome and the South
would lose its practical world monopoly on short
staple cotton. However, the spinners of Europe
will not spend the gigantic sum necessary to get
the cotton industry started profitably on a large
scale in these other regions if they can continue
to get all the cotton they need from the South.
They will develop these potential competitors to
he South only in self defense if the South threat
ens to adopt a “hold-up™ policy.
The situation, figuratively, is this—the South
is a well trained and efficient workman for the
cotton users of the world. As long as it stays on
the job and gives satisfaction, it will get all that
its good business sense will warrant. However,
if it goes on strike the cotton users of the world
~1l find at least three great regions of the worla
ready to “SCAB” on it. These regions are prac
‘tically untrained but they could be in a few years
developed to break the strike and to break the
South’s short staple monopoly as well. No concern
wants to hamper itself and incur the loss entailed
by hiring and training strike breakers to take the
place of efficient men. But they will do it rather
than vield to a strike. ;
The cotton farmers of the South this year are
not on a strike for higher prices. They are re
ducing production to accomodate themselves to
overproduction of last year. The South must
not even' think of trying to force up prices by
permanent under-production. It will not work.
The only practical means of getting a more certain
profit out of cotton is for the farmers to organize
on the selling end and cut out the waste and inef
ficiency that now drains the industry.
The Southern farmer should be safe in raising
as much cottgn as he pleases any year, as many
acres to the plow and as many plows as he can
afford to run. He is not safe in doing that now
and never will be safe until he is organized so that
his own agencies can reach the consuming market
for his cotton and can get for the farmer the
amount of money per pound that it is actually
worth to the spinners. :
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Small Girl—‘Give me a bite of your candy, Jim
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Small Boy—*“No, but you may kiss me while
my mouth is stickv."—Atlanta Constitution.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS MONDAY, MAY oth, 1921.
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PLAN FOR CO-OPERATIVE
MARKETING COTTON CROPS
(Continued from Page 1)
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7. Any grower failing to -deliver
cotton to the Association in accord
ance with terms of this contract is
obligated to pay the sum of 3c per
pound as liquidated damages for the
breach of this contract. He is also
bound to pay all expenses arising out
of or caused by the litigation and any
reasonable attorney’s fees expended
or incurred by it in such proceedings:
and all costs and expenses shall I
included in the judgement and sh..
be entitled to the benefit of any lien
securing any payment thereunder.
1. Three State Associations may
unite in the formation of an overhead
sales agency known as the American
Cotton Grower’s Exchange.
' 2. The Exchange shall be formed by
Trustees signing an agreement. Each
State Association . shall elect one
Trustee for every two hundred and
fifty thousand bales or major portion
thereof, covered by the standard mar
keting agreement of the respective
Association.
3. The Exchange shall create an
Executive Committee of five persons
to carry on the business.
4. The Exchange shall organize by
the election of a Chairman, @ Vice-
Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer. .
5. The Exchange shall supervise all
the inspection, grading, classing and
warehousing, transportation, process
ing of the cotton delivered to the un
dersigned Associations; and shall sell
and market for and on account of the
undersigned Associations, all of the
cotton of the Associations not sold
directly by the Associations them
selves.
6. The organization plan for the
overhead sales agency provides for
the creation of twelve departments
to handle the business of the organi
zation. All functions of the State as
sociations are under the supervision
of the Exchange.
7. Each Association is to maintain
its own inspecton and grading forces,
8. Each State Association is bound
to support the general sales agency
in proportion to the amount of bus
iness transacted by and for it.
9. At the completion of the sales
of the cotton delivered in any crop
season, the Exchange shall calculate
the equalizing amount which every
particular grade, quality, color, char
acter and staple length of cotton
should have received; and settlement
shall be made, through the Exchange
between each and all of the Associa
tions on this equalizing basis, regard
less of the amounts ’previously paid
to the Associations through the Ex
change or by the Associations to their
respective members.
(b) Each Association agrees that
all payments are made and all moneys
received and distributed by it subject
to this obligation to equalize the pro
ceeds.
10. All expenses of the Exchange
shall be borne by and pro-rated from
time to time among the undersigned
associations on the basis of the gross
proceeds of the cotton of each crop
season sold by each of the Associa
tions, directly or through the Ex
change or otherwise; and the Associ
ations agree to pay such proportionate
share of the expenses of the Exchange
11. The pro-rating and apportion
ment of expenses as determined by
the FExchange shall be conclusive.
NOTE—The above are the essentials
of the plan. Many of the minor de
tails are not discussed.
Would You Believe 1t?
The game of croquet does not de
velop experts and enthusiasts to the
exient that golf and tennis do; but
more people play it and more wood
is consumed in providing the balls,
mallets and stakes than in the pro
duction of golf clubs and tennis rack
ets combined, says the American For
estry Magazine of Washington. The
entire playing ‘outfit of croquet is
made of wood except the arches, and
sometimes these are of bent wood.
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Some Large Emeralds.
One South American country has
produced an emerald of 630 carats
size and claimed it was the largest
emerald in the world, and then learned
that fields in the Ural mountains have
produced emeralds that weighed six
and three-quarters pounds, while the
Scouth American stone weighed only
one-third of a pound. The six an¢
three-quarter pound emerald wa:
ameng the crown jewels of Russia, anc
its location now is unkrovm
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strain.
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Urinary troubles may set in.
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Kidney Piyq.
" +>gerald people tell you how they
J. F. T. Williams, retired farmer,
1505 W. Suwanee St., Fitzgerald,
isays: "I hive used Doan’s Kidney
Pills when my kidneys were weak
and I had a dull aching across my
back. My kidneys acted irregular
ly and this annoyed me, especially
at night. I began using Doan’s Kid
ney Pills from the Denmark Drug
ICO., and they helped me, regulating
lmy kidneys and svwrengthening my
back. I have great confidence in
Doan s~ Pills.” * -
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simply ask for a kidgey remedy—get
_Dian’s Kidney Pills—the same that
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Perhaps the strangest of causea
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ant hill. There is a species of ant
known as the wood ant which makes
a nest entirely of vegetable matter.
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begin to swnolder. Then comes 8§
breeze which fans the spark inte
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I have rented the Burkhart Gasoline and Oil
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Main and Central Avenue in front of Burkhart’s
Automobile Sales Rooti, where I will be pleased
to see all my old customers.
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wvith powerful guns,
Lard Prices
Slashed
3 Ib. Bucket -88 c
4 Ib. &x}ket - 48¢
110 Ib. Drums
per pound - - 10¢
45 Ib. Drums
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