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The Fitzgeiald Leader
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Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897
~ Official Organ of the City of Fitzgeraid
ISIDOR GELDERS é: 8 usiit .- . . " Editer
STEWART F. GELDERS.___Managing Editor
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Local readers 10c per line for each insertion. No ad
taken for less than 30 cents. AMERICAN -PRESS
ASSOCIATION, foreign Adv. Representagives.
SACRIFICE SOUTH TO EAST?-The public
ity committee of the Republican party is sending
out a “feeler” to see how the public will look
upon the most enormous governmental crime
ever proposed since Secretary Houston and Gov
ernor Harding of the Federal Reserve Banks
sucked the blood out of the credit structure of
this country. They propose to sacrifice the cotton
farmers of the South, to use them as pawns in
the international game of chess, to use them as
a bruised and shrinking catspaw with which to
pull Eastern industrial and shipping chestnuts
vut of the fire.
¢ the collosal crime that the Republican party
1S now suggesting is, in a nutshell, this: English
industry has refused to use any foreign goods or
materials unless they are shipped into England
in linglish vessels. The Republican party, as a
veprisal against this blow at American shipping
monopolists, propose to place an embargo on cot
ton and refuse to let American cotton =go into
England. '
It is only a suggestion now, thank heaven, and
there is time to show the fools who made the
suggestion the collosal proportions of their folly.
The publicity committee of the Republican party
has as one of its principle purposes the “sound
ing” of public sentiment of the country in regard
to administration programs along various lines.
The committee sends out stories about what
“may” be done and then listens to the reception
these proposals receive in the press of the nation.
If the reception is favorable, the proposal is writ
ten into a bill and put into law. If unfavorable,
the proposal is dropped.
* Let us sce what the “retaliatory” measure
would do to the South and to the nation if car
ried into effect. The South has been generally
harder hit by deflation than any other section of
country, hit below the belt by the unfaithiul of
the South's own admimistration. Should an em
bargo be placed on cotton going to Ingland
cotton would drop to three or four cents. The
crop that has been planted would as well be
plowed under. Fhe cotton that is being held
would as well be burned up, Where the cotton
farmers of the South were facing ruin, they
would face starvation. '
England's spinners would buy raw American
cotton from German, French, Swedish, Belgian
and other European brokers if it wanted Amer
ican cotton. It would feel the embargo not at
all. If an embargo was placed on all cotton ex
ports to Furope, the English spinners would turn
to India and Egypt for their supply. An Amer
ican embargo on cotton would mean certainly
and inevitably that England would develop those
vast potential cotton regions. She will not do
this unless forced. If the American government
forces her she will.
It is folly “to believe that even such a heroic
measure would preserve to the Eastern ship
owners, or recoyer for them, the inflated and
mushroom growth of the last seven years. The
shipping industry has got to fedl a more tremen
dous deflation than most other industries, Dur
ing the war more ships were built than during
the previous hali-cenfiry. The immense inter
ocean traffic in war materials is over. The only
way in which any nation can preserve its mer
chant marine is in lowered rates and increased
efficiency. . The eight or ten per cent dividends
American ship owners demand will preclude all
possibility of the United States retaining its pres
ent tonnage or even its proportionate place
ameong maritime powers of the world, President
Harding says that the American merchant mar
me must he preserved. The only way in which
it can be preserved is for the United States gov
ernment to take it over, to nationalize it, or fed
eralize it, or whatever vou may want to call it.*
In place of a giant navy of fighting ships that
keep the shoulders of the tax paver howed under
the weight of their cost, why not a giant navy of
merchant ships, each armed with one of the giant
16 inch naval guns, a torpedo tube or two and a
few smaller picces of naval ordnance? With a
Hotilla of airplanes and fleet of submarines
to support these armed merchant Vessels,
which would outnumber any war tleet
now on the water at least ten guns to one, the Uni
ted States would be well protected against inva
sion from abroad and, better, would be protected
from the ambitions of any empiristic dreamer who
might in future be clected to the presidency.
& That is just a suggestion. It is as sound a
gestion and as sensible a one as that pyt forth
; this week by the Republican publicity committee.
'ffil.-v it is immeasurably fairer, if the administra
e n really wants to save our merchant marine.
% The South must never be offered up as a sac
~ ce to the ship owning. or any other class of
captains of industry o fthe East.
The South must not be sacrificed to preserve
.Athc American Merchant Marine nor to give temp
‘orary prosperity to the Cotton Mills who would
for & year get three or four cent American cotton
~anl after that be dependent on the cotton English
soionies grow--because the Southern cotten farm
|er, fixed though his cotton habit may be, will not
Iknmvingly starve himself to grow cotton.
The Republican party has made a mistake in
ever allowing such a suggestion to be made thru
a semi-official source. It once.had an opportun
ity to break the solid South. The Leader believes
| that opportunity has been lost. It should be lost
‘b_v this criminal proposal to lynch the South on the
| vard arm of Eastern shipping.
JTO PULL GEORGIA OUT OF THE BOG—
Summarizing the deplorable condition of the
state government's finances, Dr. 3.2 B Me:
Pherson, professor of political economy at the
!l_,'ni\'crsity of Georgia, member of the state tax
commission and recognized the nation over as an
Cexpert on things connected with those two posi
tions, makes the following remark :
| “While the United States government
takes $106,000.000 out of (icurgia'for federal
é purposes, the state is trying to get along with
'~ less than one-tenth of this amount. and it
- will have to continue to get along with an
. insignificant sum until its taxation system is
- enabled to meet the task which confronts the
E-‘l;ztv. Other states have modernized their
i taxation laws. Georgia will be compelled to
- follow in their footsteps.”™ ;
i State Treasurer W. |. Speer has- wisely recom
mended in his official report that the governor's
mansien be sold to meet an unsecured bond issue
of $207,000 which falls due next year. Governor
cleet Hardwick is faced with the task of cutting
ta the bone appropriations for many lines of the
state’s activity. He also proposes to abolish
many commissions and alleged “erafts” in the
state. In the process, necessary, it is all too true,
some good must go with the bad.
The state of Georgia needs an income of $20,-
(00,000, about twice what she is getting now. The
cducational institutions of the state from the
smallest school in the poorest school district to
the University of Georgia all need, absolutely
NIEED, twice as much and more money than they
are getting now or have any prospect of getting
What the schools need, he people need and
“state” needs. No state, no community of peo
ple“are more advanced than are their schools
'rogress follows education,
Great progress is impossible as Georgia's
government now functions. The state is string:
gling in the dark, bound hand and foot, under its
present constitution. The present constitution
was written by somé of the wisest men and great
est statesmen Georgia has ever produced but was
written by them at the end of the reconstruction
period to fill a certain need which is no longer
operative, to guard against a certain danger
which no longer threatens,
The present constitution successtully protects
the people at large from wanton and <wilfull in
jury from the governor or legislature. But it
also prevents the governor and legislature irom
making any great progress on any constructive
program. It protects the people from any hasiy
or wilfully injurious action by their officers clos-
st home, the county and city governments, But
m so doing it clutters up the table of the legisla
ture with petty odds and ends and matters of no
"'mpnrt:nm‘v that the solons have no time during
their long annual sessions to really work out any
big constructive legislation. The present consti
tution has served its purpose, just as the present
systepr of taxation has served its purpose.
Other states have changed their constitutions,
written them to be more modern and certainly
more elastic. and other states have changed t.h(“lx
system of taxation. Must Georgia drag along
behind, living from hand to mouth from year to
year, sending her public institutions begging for
the crumbs on which they must exist, even una
ble to meet her own public school warrants?
Must Georgia children continue to “learn” from
little girls with hardly more than a high school
‘ducation and certainly no training in pedagogy,
imd must they recite their lessons to these child
cachers in shacks and shanties hardly substan
fal enough to keep out the rains of spring or the
vinds of winter?
How long must the country children of Geor
via suffer for the lack of ambition and imagina
tion of the leaders and public men of Georgia?
\iid these children are the men and women of
comorrow. As they are denied opportunity
oday -so will they fail in accomplisment
tomorrow. -
On May 18h Ben Hill county farmers and farm
women will vote to levy a school tax in Ashton
ind Lynnwood districts. This tax must be au
~ horized and collected if the children of those dis
ricts are to have reasonable educational facili
‘ ies. Heavy local school taxes must be levied as
i ong as the state continues to operate on its pres
nt haphazard and unscientific “system”. Edn
~ation should be a matter of state responstbility
t must be if school systems are to be really co
rdinated and made really efficient. Rut as long
is the present taxing system 1s retained and the
srevailing constitutional handicaps exist, the
‘ocal school tax must supply the greater part of
he funds if education is to be education and
farce.
OLD MOTHER GOOSE—"Georgie, 1 hea:
hat you kissed the girls and made them cry.”
Georgie Porgy—"Aw shucks! They were jus
rying for more."—Montreal Star.
“OH Mama! Ther's a man in the nursery
‘issing the nurse.” :
Mama dropped the sewing and rushed for the
tairway,
“April Fool!™ said Bobbie gleefully, “It's only
"a."—Wisconsin Foolscap.
ek s L
HE--What would you do if I should kiss yor
n the forchead ?” .
She-—“l'd call you down."—Carolina Tar Babv
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1921
Charter No. 6082 Reserve District No. 6
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
AT FITZGERALD, IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA AT THE CLOSE
OF BUSINESS IN APRIL 28th, 1921.
- RESOURCES:
1 a Loans and discounts, including rediscounts,
(except those shown in b and ¢) ——————____sl,lll,so3.6l :
| el Toans. - o L e SETTESO% 64
| Deduct: :
- d Notes and bills rediscounted with Federal
| Reserve Bank (other than bank acceptances :
‘ S Tt e e e D 8106/ 860 949,825.01
2 Overdrafts unsecured_.__._...... $12,800.84 -12,800.84
4 Government Secturities Owned: i :
| a Deposited to secure circulation (U. S. boands
| BRE SRy S o s T s T 100.000.00
| b All other United States Government
| foiities - v e e e ARI eST 70300
| TEIERE eoG o e s 251,723.00
5 Other Bonds, stocks, securities, etc.,______/.__ 29.694.22
- 6 Banking House $15,542.31; Furniture and
| fegebticasts 0 0 s el 0 §5.00000 £.2.20,542.31
i 7 Real estate owned other than Banking hduse. - . 1.251.91
d-ash o wanlt. - o oL R 27,059.25
- 9 Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bynk_. 43.208.98
11 Net amounts due from national banks_[____ 16,168.63
| 12°Net amounts due from banks, bankers gnd trust
E companies in the United States (other than 3
| inclided oy items 9,10 oradle oo L 48 ,286.45
14 Checks on other banks in same city or{town
| as reporting bank (other than item I§)___ 2,260.75
‘r Total of items 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 _-_ .. 109,924.81
’l5 Checks on banks located outside of city &r °
| town of reporting bank and other cash
I ffeme gp sy S cnan e e - 2,814.16
16 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and
| due from U SiTrpasurer . o Jvail s ; 5,000.00
- et o
TOTAY, =¢ #ioe FSE e 1,410,635.51
LIABILITIES:
18 €aptalestoek 00l gmo (L L 8 e 125,000.00
19 Shrplu Tuted. 2 2TR e s 125,000.00
20-Undwvided Brofits: | hes 002 o o 0 49,79%.66
¢ Less current expenses, interest and
taxes maid ;oo s iesa s L eiy 30,11A28 19,676.38
21 Circtilathig notes dutstandiip o = 70 =0 000 93,800.00
23 Net amounts due to national banks _________ 2,194.88
24 Net amounts due to State banks, bankers, and
trust companies in the United States and
foreign countrics (other than included in
ITemS P oy 23) ¢ ieradne el ek e R 6.577.79
25 Certifiod ‘ehecks outstanding _e-a 0. ofr 319.98
26 Cashier's checks on own bank outstanding __ 8,343.40
Total ot itenis 2223 24. 25 and 26. .=t 17.436.05
Demand Deposits (other than ba k ceposits) subject to
Reserve (deposits payable w:t'- 12 " Cays)
27 Indvidual deposjts subject to che b ° o 381,530.66
28 Certificates ef deposit due in liss -ii.o L 0
days (other than for money borrowed)___. 30,000.00
a 1 Bvidends tigpaid: e S 0 s o 610.00
Total of demand deposits (other than han¥ : d
deposits) subject to Reserve, [tems 27, 28,
29580 3 and 32 el e mn oo vt]l 2-140.66
Time deposits subject to Reserve (payable
after 30 days, or subject to 30 days or more
notice, and postal savings): X
33 Certificates of deposit (other than for money
DOIEOWEA ) - o sstTR e 192942 40
S 5 Other e deposifs oi cvii fiean 0 vt 219,640.02
Total of t'me deposits subject to Reserve
Itemis: 35, 3435 and 36 oik D 0 - 41258249
40 Bills pavable other than with Federal Rescrve
Bank (including all obligations represent
ing money borrowed other than rediscounts 25,000.00
41 Bills payable with Federal Reserve Bank____ 180,000000
FONAL 0 s b Salanegesa \],410,635.5i
STATE OF GEORGIA, Ben Hill County, ss: |
I, D. A. BRAGG, Cashier of the above-named bank do solemnly swear
that the above statément is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
' D. A. BRAGG, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to beforeane this 11th day of May, 1921.
IRENE JONES, Notary Public
CORRECT—ATTEST: M. W. Garbutt, Jas. L. McCarty, J. B. Seanor, Di
rectors.
Mesdames C. S. Isler and Jesse
Grantham were the recent guests
of Mrs. Grantham's parents Judge
andand Mrs. W. P. Ward in Douglas.
Mrs. C. R. Walker of Ocilla was
the guest of Mrs., Herman Feinberg
recently at her cozy home on South
Main Street.
No Worms in a Healthy Child
All children troubled with Worms have an un
healthy color, which indicates poor blocd, and asa
rule, there is more or less stomach disturbance.
GROVE'S TASTELESS chi!ll TONIC given reguiarly
for two or three weeks wi'l enzich the blood, im
prove the digestion, and act s a General Strength
ening Tonic to +h:e whele system. Nature willthen
throw off or dis el the worms, aud the Child will Le
in perfect healty . Pleasant to take. €oc per bottle
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AND PRICES SELL”
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Arbueklgs Coffee . ... ... 0 000 24
White House Coffee ........ 45¢ Ib
Charmeri Coffee, 1b .. .:....... 25¢
French Market Coffee, Ib. ...... 35¢
Lusianne Coffee ...... .i.... 35¢1b.
Best Green B R
Compound Lard, 1b\.........v:..15¢
$ IBs Vegtole .. ... \.... 50000008
DMIRE sii nn eXit o B 0
Best Whole Grain Ride, 1b,.......8¢c
Jrish Potatoes, peck .J.......... §s¢c
Ory Salt Meat, Iho .. {540 wili)7¢
Soked Mot 1B Yoo 200
Best Self Rising Flour.\sl.2s & $1.30
Sctateh Feed, Ib. ... . 7.5 . 00048
Kerosene, Gallon & 25¢
Seed Irish Potatoes, peck ...... 60c
Green Cabbage, head....,........5¢
New Irish Potatoes ......,.......7¢
Dont Forget the Place!!
Manon Grocery Co.,
Phone 520 226 East Pine St.
Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Coffee and
pretty little daughter have returned
home after a brief visit to Mrs. Cof
fee's parents Mr. and Mrs. M. D.
Burch in Eastman.
$35.00 Oak Round Dinning Tables
at $15.65. FEINBERG FURNI
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For Porch and Laws Furnture.
For Radiatoers, Stoves, Picture Fcames, Etc. .
. For Buggies, Autos, Boats, Etc. -
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Any Contractor or Architect will advise you to buy
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Then Buy----Sherwin-Williams. '
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123 East Pine Street Fitzgerald, Ga. Phone 60
Stops Smells!
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smells of every kind. Use it 2% =~ i
in toilet, ¢chamber or out- / .\\\//
. house, on garbage, in thesink. A‘ ,
Wash out the ice-box with ,\Q “/17 ¢
\ water made soft with Red ” W"” £/
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It kills smells! It disinfects. (/
And it helps get rid of flies. \#
Flies spawn in filth... Red &
Devil Lye dries up filth, and - i
withers the fly-eggs before the S #
vile pests can hatch. Fight Y
the fly with Red|Devil Lye. '
Let it keep your home clean, 1 '
sweet and sanitary D
Always keep the handy\can handy \ « N
for everyday household tadks. Use ED
it washday and save tiresome toil: /
Let it get your dishwashing done EVIL
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rainwater.d 'tlt hetlps in Coufitifis \ 4 i i
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SATURDAY, MAY 14th
Come buy a Red Pig, a Black Pig, a Listed Pig or a
Spotted Pig. Boars and Gilts, all bsauties. All are wel
come to come and buy, (either Pig Club Boys or older
folks). Sale starts at 10:00 a. m., sharp. HOGS TO BE
SOLD MUST BE DELIVERED DAY BEFORE SALE.
We will be glad to assist our friends in selecting and buy
ing your pigs. Have a limited number of gilts bred to
farrow in August for sale at private treaty.
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VISITORS WELCOME
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