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The Fitzgeiald Leader
Enterprise & Press
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Entered at the Post Office at Fitzgerald as Second Class
Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897
Official Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
EStba GRET DERS .= - = . .- . FEditor
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 PRESES
ASSOCIATION, foreign Adv. Representatives,
THE BOYS IN GRAY—The remnants of the
brilliant ranks of boys who wore thes gray for
Georgia in the fire-haloed sixties have met in
in Albany and have returned to their homes. Re
turfied to enjoy for another year, perhaps, hap
piness that pervades all of the New South, the
South which they risked and fought and bled to
bring about. They have passed their allotment of
three score and ten years, have these bent and
white haired heroes who gathered for a few
hours of reminiscing and day-dreaming together,
in the peace and happiness of 1921, of the days of,
1861, sixty years ago.
These white-haired and aged men who fought
so valiently under the stars and bars and the
other heroes who fought with equal val
or to keep all the stars shining in the blue, will
not be with us long. At each annual encamp
ment the ranks form thinner and thinner. After
a while they will not form at all.
Time has healed the wounds that were made
sixty years ago. The “bloody shicc” in North and
South has been waved until it has worn out and
can be waved no more. Two wars in which
sons of North and South stood shoulder to shoul
der for a common cause have welded all sections
together~again as though they had never been
sévered. Blue and Gray are as much in harmony
as the glorious color scheme of Red, White and
Blue.
Why not have joint reunions of warriors of
G. A. R.and U. C. V, from this gcod year hence
forth until the survivors of both armies havc
heard taps sounded for last time and have gone
to join the hosts that march where there are no
wars and are no flags or sections or nations. In
every G. A. R. national encampment in the grand
parade may be seen marching a few aged men
uniformed in gray. At the Confederate reunions
a few blue uniforms can be seen, in evidence of
the spirit of reborn love between the men who
crossed swords and then sheathed them so long
ago. Why not a Blue and Gray reunion in Geor
gia in 19227
“IT ALL DEPENDS”—The Einstein theory of
relativity may be whatever it is, which no one
seems to know exactly but the author himself and
a bakers’ dozen of other savants, but everything
on this earth bears out the general story of “rel
ativity.” As has often been remarked in the past,
a Californian speaks of going to Denver as a trip
East and a New Yorker who goes to Newark has
gone South. Washington is in Dixie to New
Englanders and is “Up No'th” to Georgia crack
ers. Recently the victory of a Kentucky horse
at the Kentucky derby was acclaimed by sport
writers as a “victory for the west.”
All is a matter of point of view and all a mat
ter of proportion. One man may say “this is
this” and another with equal certainty may de
clare that “this is that_” and both of them may
be right. There is so much to truth that a good
many may tell different things about something
and still tell but a small part of the Whole truth.
It has been said that a single honest witness
witness telling the truth and nothing but the
truth covld either convict or acquit a man ac
cused of any certain erime, It all depends on
which side 18 clever enough to get him to tell
most of the truth. A man is foolish to make up
his mind positively and declare himself unchange
able on any one thing. He may have heard vol
umes of testimony and fact, and every word of
it true, on any one side of a proposition. Still,
the other side, or one of the other sides—for there
are usually more than two sides to any question
—may be able to present twice as much evidence
and fact in its favor. So he is really not justified
in declaring that only he is right and everyone
else is wrong. It is a mighty narrow subject
that hasn’t at least two right sides as well as one
wrong side,
There are a great manv things in life that must
be taken for granted. If one determined to he
lieve nothing that wasn't proved to him he would
die a universal skeptic even though he lived
longer than Methusala. Still, just because one
has taken a thing for granted is no reason for re
fusing to change.
One of the many things that is “wrong” with
human nature is that too many people are too
sure about too many things. Another equally
“wrong” thing is that too many people are not
sure €mough about enough things. They are only
proportionately foolish—not as foolish as some,
more foolish than others, A thing may be right
and wrong at the same time, it is all a matter of
relativity, Arthur Brishbane says Newton is right
and Fingtein is wrong. Some other people, in
cluding Finstein. say differently. Both know
what they are talking about. Perhap® both are
right and both are wrong. It is eminently possi
ble. When great minds like this differ, it behooves
s of limitted mentality to always sprinkle a few
ig‘f;.i:"“nmy‘.,\;‘," and “might’s” along in ocur conversa
"tion and cut out the “positively’s” and “abso
b 2" " There are no such things.
In The Listening Post
FACTS, FIGURES AND FICTION
(By R. E. Porter.)
I see from the press of the State that a bill will
be introduced in the next legislature having for
its purpose the putting of a tax on gasoline. This
is to be a consumers’ tax, and the amount gener
ally accepted is to be one cent for each gallon. It
is generally conceded that it will have the support
of the governor-elect Hardwick. This has always
appeared to me as being the one just tax that we
are m need of. We are spending barrells of
money on our roads and they are being worn out
largély by a crowd of tin-can tourists and thick
haded joy-riders who are not accustomed to leav
ing any taxes behind them. :
I sce our representative will try to pass a bill
through the next legislature to have the children
taught singing in our rural schools. It is a good
thing so far as I can sce. Nobody objects. I also
notice he is not going to tackle anything construc
tive such as a city-manager form of government,
unless the people rise up in their power and re
quest it. This is good politics. Mr. Garfield is
reported to have opce said, “If you wish to hold
office, do nothing.” Lots of people have thought
this good advice.
WHERE THEY MAKE “GOOD TIMES”—
Down Moultrie way the farmers are snickering
up their sleeves over the hesitation of the great
minds on the Interstate Commerce Commission
over lowering freight rates on water melons.
They have got a water melon marketing associa
tion down there to which the product of 4,200
res is pledged. Say the organized farmers
“Go to it, old freight rate profiteers, the harder
vou make it on the other poor devils who are try
ing to eke a living out of the soil, the more com
plete will our monopoly be.”
The railroads are going to take about twice as
much money for carrying a melon from Georgia
to New York as the farmer is going to get for
raising it. “All right,” say these organized farm
ers, “We will let you have your graft but we'll
cut out the middleman’s graft. The consumer is
going to pay the same price, which has always
been jjust as much as he can be ‘stuck’ for, and
we are going to get the same price we always
have. Let the middleman pay for once in his
life.”
People down in that section of Georgia arc!
manufacturing good times. When one line of
business plays out, they find a new one—not all
of them, of course, but enough to sort of stabilize
things. A big crowd of people took a motor trip
to Selma, Ala. last week to find how the people
in that section got rich on milk when the boll
weevil hung up the “Verbotten” sign over the
cotton business. “If Selma can do it, Moultrie
can,” they say. And Moultrie will. Moultrie has
done a lot of things like that this last ten years.
The cenisus figures show it. And if the census
figures didn’t show it, the farms and fields around
the little city show it. In growth and in gross
wealth Moultrie ran by Fitzgerald like a flivver
past an ox cart during the last decade. Fitzgerald
had a big lead over Moultrie during the prev
ious decade which is evidence that Fitzgerald
can get a similar lead during the next ten years.
South Georgia boosters want Moultrie to con
tinue to grow, as fast as she wants and as fast
as she can. No one would stop the development
of that section even if anyone could. BUT Fitz
gerald has got to get a move on if she expects
to again assume the place as the leading city of
the section. Moultrie’s development is not go
ing to slow down. Fitzgerald’s has got to take a
marked accelération. e
After several years of agitation by the Fitz
gerald Leader, the merchants of Fitzgerald have
taken a step that will lead to an acceleration of
Fitzgerald's development. The Co-operative Sale
that is going to be put over next week is
going to give Fitzgerald a good start in the right
direction. If it is made a monthly affair, which
it can be made by putting the co-operative adver
tising of the city in the hands of tne man who
understands co-operative sales work and giving
him all the responsibility, Fitzgerald can pass
every city in Georgia anywhere near its size.
Co-operation is a producer that never wears out
nor tires, nor loses its effectiveness. In fact, it
produces a constantly increasing amount of ma
terial good.
Portrait Photographer:“Look pleasant please.”
Major Jack Allen: “I can’t. I'm thinking what
this is going to cost me."—Rutgers.
Mrs. Gabbie (showing photo to husband)—
“This is an instantaneous picture of myself.”
Mr. Gabbie—"l can see that without having it
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told. Your mouth is shut. :
CO—"Well, why don’t you kiss me?”
Ed-—T was mn doubt” 5
Co—" Why not give me the benefit of it »'—The
Kansas Lawrentian.
TEACHER—"Some terrible things can be
aught from kissing.” s
Bobby—*“Right! You ought to see the poor
fish my sister caught.”~Cornell Widow.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS MINDAY, MAY 16th, 1921
Himes Says He Couldn’t Have Held
Out Another Month, But For
Tanlac
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‘ Yes Sir, I'll go out my way to rec
ommend Tanlac since it has put me
‘back in such fine health, said A, J.
Himes, of 1223 Franklin street, Tam
pa, Fla.
My health was all braoken up and
at the rate I was zoing d.wr hill I
couldn’t have held out another month,
My liver was out of order and caused
me to feel sluggish, tircd and no ac
count all the tyme. >Malara was all
through my system and that sapped
my strength unti! I got so wea% I
could hardly pull through the day,
‘My appetite went back on me and it
lcoked like I was in for a long spe’l
of sickness. -
But I began taking Tanlac just in
time and three bottles of it have put
me back to where I feel as fine as 1
did the best day of my life. My liv
er is"in good condition, the malaria
has all been driven out of my system
and my appetite is so bg that every
time I go to the table I feel so hung
ry it seems that I missed last meal.
I'm as strong as I ever was, and am
glad to give thjs statement for I
make no secret of what Tanlac has
done for me, (adv,)
fizkes a Good Breakfast.
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one. <ave the American Forestry Mo
zine, and_as a rule, they do run moe
than half that weight to the catch.
They are easy to capture, for they
largely take the right sort of bait
and few kinds make a better breakfast
for the hungry woodsman.
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HIS HONOR: “Get the prisoner’s name, so we
can tell his mother.” / ~
Rookie: “He sez his;nithe'r knows his name.”—
Vaudeville News.
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Proud Mamma—*“What do you charge for tak
ing children’s pictures?”
Photo Man—*“Ten dollars a dozen.”
Proud Mamma—“But, I have only eleven
children.”—Hazz W hiskers. :
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They Stick Together
TOINETTE--“Are policemen fraternal fel
lows?” i
TONY—“Positively ! They are all club men !
‘Rutgers.
THE GROUCH—“My wife‘s kisses are just
like an old maid’s kisses.”
Old Fogey—“Howzzat?” ]
The Grouch— “No kick to ’em.”—Vaudeville
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