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. Official Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
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“ISIDOR GELDERS ____________________Editor
"STEWART F. GELDERS_.__Managing Editor
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_Local readers 10c per line for each insertion. No ad
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"‘":‘AASSOCIATION,‘foreign Adv. Representatives, ‘
A BRILLIANT FUTURE FOR BEN HILL
“COUNTY—In Monday’s Leader there was a
“a little story on the front page about the action
“of the boards of trustees or Lynnwood and Ash
“ton in increasing the appropriation for teachers
“salaries and voting to make certaifimprovements
_in the school equipment. That was just another
of the lamp posts along the route of Ben Hill's
road to success, a light flashing to show that thei
electric current is flowing underneath. A few
‘years ago those lights used to be seldom scen.‘
Now they flash frequently and brightly, forming
.a veritable white way along the road of progress,
‘because Ben Hill county is progressing fast.
After Lynnwood and Ashton schools have
‘operated on an eight month basis for one year,
‘with an improved staff of teachers and the other
g!aetter things they are going to .have this next
‘year, the good mothers and fathers of other dis
‘tricts are going to be more ready to fall in the
v('procession toward better things and consolidate
their schools with better schools and give their
little Johnny and Mary a better chance in life.
The people of Ben Hill county are at heart an
‘ambitious and progressive people. They want
‘better things but they have got to be shown. On
‘the shoulders of the estimable and able men on
the schobl boards and at the head of the school
system is a heavy burden of responsibility in
SHOWING the people what can be done and
what good can come of doing it.
~ There is no more important post that a man
can hold than a post of responsibility in the
public school system. Civilization is supported
on three man made pillars—the home, the church,
and the school. The church can not be improved
through outside agency. It must grow from the
inside. ‘A man's home is his castle, and can be
changed or improved only by its lord and master.
The school room is the only open field in which
the battles of civilization can be fought for all
clgsscs and all creeds. The success of the work
in the school room is reflected in church and
home. The two are improved by the improve
ment of the third. The quality of the contribu
tiorl made by the home to humanity is improved
by the kind of folks the schools send back to the
homes. The quantity of service that the church
"'lcg[l render to humanity is increased by increas
ing the individual effectiveness of the work of its
members. Education and religion, religion and
‘education, go hand in hand. The soul developes
with the mind; the mind with the soul, |
EM%hat the people of six school districts in Ben
‘eHil} county had the courage and the ambition to
force through improvements and to increase their
taxes in these so-called tight times is a wonder
ful evidence of the good work that has already
been done in Ben Hill county. It is a promise of
more good work to come. .
THE WORLD LOVES A GAME LOSER—The
Leader’s editorial columns are usually filled with
recitals of the feats of winners and whatever
mer suggestions the Leader can make as to
how Fitzgerald and its surrounding section be
‘made a winner. Life is too short to pay much at
;_ttntion to defeat and loss. Defeat and loss are
the exception. Victory and gain are the rule.
Else the world would not progress. It does.pro
_gress. That is prima facie evidence that success
18 the general rule of life.
But in building up their is also a tearing down ;
_in the general trend of humanity toward success
~and achievement there are some who are left by
" the wayside, some losers, whose losses make the
~gains of the winners seem more worth the effort
-by comparison. Even winners lose sometimes.
LAnd it is the losses that really prove the man, or
the community or the nation. A game loser is a
*z :' suffering momentary set back. The world
wloves success; it loves the game loser for the same
. general reason. - The game loser is a success,
47 :/',’c course of a life time it is inevitable that
4 ust suffer loss as well as gain. A little ad
syersity is the blue flame that tempers the baser
"Mietal of man into fine steel. The man who can
gake his losses with a smile, or even with a forced
i , md can start over again to build success
S@t of failure will win success, and more, he will
' * ect of his fellow man.
o 8 gh:m: who bears his losses with bad
Sgémper, who hates the man who has won and
Wrévenge against his more able adversary, is
,-_,%.?,_le&is a failure no matter how gguch
SERix be may pile up tempot
§ S S Rrosperods moments he is simply a
. fgure Bijoying momentary and undeserved, and
eN S &
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@ &he merence in the world beween
the e say die,” the “Never give up™ spirit
@t'has clfried thousands through the shoals of
; "‘”‘*’% safe *fi uiet harbor of prosperity ; more
" crence thisy can well be sand. between that
< ,%&h ,:?d little spirit of the man,
like Samson, would pull down the pillars of the
temo¥e. and leave all.in ruins because he alone
was already doomed to failure. The spirit of re
venge is a cowardly spirit and one that can never
be of benefit to the man who cherishes it. He can
injure the other fellow, it is true, but in so doing
he hurts himself and hurts other and innocent
people. :
In mapping out any course of action the sensi
ble plan is to see how much good it will do the
doer. The amount of damage it does some one
else, even though the other deserves to be hurt,
has no place in the reckoning. A man can not
build for himself and destroy for another at the
same time. While plans of revenge occupy the
foreground of a man’s mind, he can never find
time or energy to make practical plans for his
own salvation.
This editorial is not intended as a lecture or a
sermon to anyone in particular. It is a general
observation on things in general. It may apply
to some who read it. There are no communities
without some to whom success, permanent suc
cess, is a stranger. There are no communities
without a sprinkling of people to whom revenge
is sweet, These people should consider carefully
what they do, else they may injure themselvcsl
far more than anyone else could or would injure
them. The world is never “down on” any manl
unless he is first “down on” himself.
EDISON TROUBLES THE SCHOLASTICS—
Some titne ago Thomas Alva Edison, the great
est experimenter and inventor of ali ages, found
that he needed new brains in his huge business
in which brains are the principle “raw material.”
In order to get these brains he prepared a list of
questions ranging rom “Where s Magdalena
bay” to “What fabric is used in automobile tires”
and “Who was Bolivar.,” These questions cov
ered all important fields of knowledge, geography,
physics, chemistry, physicgraphy, literature. A
group of college men applied for the positions of
fered, attempted to answer the questions and
found they knew less than half of them . Edison
expressed- an opinion that college men “wern’t
so much” after all and the educators. of the na
tion got their dander up considerably and started
saying a lot of unpleasant things about Mr.
[idison’s mentality.
The controversy, if it can be called that, has
consumed already as much white paper as Ein
tein’s theory of relativity and the real point
scems to be almost as little understood. The
magazines and the daily newspapers are carry
ing on the discussion, pro and con, with consid
crable enthusiasm. It makes good reading in
these quiet times when nothing is happening
more important than the destruction of civiliza
tion, the reconstruction of Mexico, and the col-
Japse of industry.
The mismulerstanding seems to center around
the object of Mr. Edison's test. It was intended
to. discover the intellectual capacity of the appli
cants rather than the mental ability. There is a
lot of difference between intellectuality and men
tality. The first is rated by the fund of know
ledge; the second by the ability to think. Edison
wanted to find out how much those men KNEW,
not how much they were capable of learning. He
found that they didn't know much. He did not
find, or has he thought he found, that those men
were stupid or unintelligent.
The real meat of the thing that most people do
not understand the purpose of education, Edu
cation is not primarily intended to give a fund
of information and fact. Anyone who can read
can amass information, knowledge, without go
ing near a school. Education is purposed to teach
people how to THINK. Its object is to train
minds to use the knowledge and information they
can collect outside of school rooms. In teaching
a student how to think, he is given, incidentally,
a certain amount of information, pure facts,
“knowledge.” But that is incidental, not the
main thing in education.
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MOTHER LOVE HEROISM ISN'T HEROISM
—This is the story of a mother who has been
refused the hero prize by the Carnegie Hefo
commission,
Mrs. Norman Girling, of White Pldins, N, Y.,
arose one morning with the expectancy of becom
ing mother of a fifth child by night. During the
morning her youngest, a lad of two and a hali,
was playing in the back yard. There was a sud
den cry and all was still, but the mother heard the
cry. She rushed out to an open well and 15 feet
below could sce her tiny boy splashing about in
the water which she knew was several feet deep.
Mrs. Girling did not hesitate. Shé climbed dnwn‘
into that well, gripping the slippery stoneé sides
with feet and hands and then she climbed out by
the same wet, dangerous path, but somehow with
her baby boy in her arms. Hurrah! |
That night the other baby was born,
Enthusiastic people in all parts of the country
wrote her letters and sent her telegrams and
flowers and other gifts. Somebody called the
attention of the Carnegie Hero commission to the
case, but that body has calmly ukased that she
is not entitled to the medal of heroism.
All right. And all we have to say that Mrs.
Girling has better than the Carnegie commission
can possibly award—she has her two babies.
And anyway, if all the hero mothers in this
country were given medals, the Carnegie fellows
could never keep up. There would be millions
every year and the commission would soon go
bust.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE Ist, 1921
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MANNING GUILTY;
"GOES UP FOR LIFE
COVINGTON, June I.—Clyde
Manning, negro farm boss for John
S. Williams, was convicted of mur
der in Superior Court here late yes
terday and sentenced to life impris
onment the same sentence passed
upon Williams when kg was convict
ed here a short time ago,
Manning testified he aided Wil
liams in killing negro farm hands to
halt a peonage investigation, but
claimed he acted in fear of his life,
- The jury was out thirty-five min
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