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The Fitzgerald Leader
Entcrprise & Press
Published Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday of
i Each Week By
THE LEADER PUBLISHING COMPANY
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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
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STEWART F. GELDERS____Managing Editor
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Local readers 10c per line for each insertion. No ad
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ASSOCIATION, foreign Adv. Representatives,
A PRODUCING YEAR—From the Atlanta
Constitution—Speaking of the push and progress
in many of the smaller Georgia towns, the Fitz
gerald Leader says that this is going to be a
producing year—“a rewarder of hard work and
aggressiveness.”
And the working plan which will be the win
ning one, is given as follows—
“ When dollars begin to go farther, one
must go farther to get the dollars. The
additional exercise necessary is going to be
only an advantage to the hustler.
“The hustling town is the one that will
reap whatever harvests will be sown during
the ensuing years of ‘unsoft’ times. The live
ly communities and cities, full of enterpris
ing and aggressive business men are going
to continue to thrive and prosper. The
others are going to dry up.”
That is the plain, business view of it, as to
individual as well as general community work—
it must be hard work all around.
It is stated that the town of Fitzgerald is mak
ing a brilliant start toward kecping on the busi
ness map, and covering a bigger place there than
ever before, and that is to be this year's high-wat
er mark for every live town,
They are going to make this year “deliver the
goods,” and that is the spirit which assures a
greater prosperity from the certain rewards of
work.
THE MENACE OF THE STRAY DOG—A
dreadful thing happened in Fitzgerald yesterday.
A little boy, curly headed and handsome, the
pride of loving parents, the light and inspiration
of a happy home, died the most horrible death a
human being can dic, in the convulsions of hydro
phobia. He was just a laughing prattling little
five-year old boy when he died. What might he
have been had he lived? His heredity was good,
he had all the prospects in the world of growing
into a good and useful citizen, a benefit to his
race . But he is dead, the victim of a mangy, no
account, homeless, friendless cur dog. A dirty
beast that wasn’t worth the price of a license tag
has snuffed out a life that was priceless, the life
of a human being. And such a way to die!!
It ws a pet puppy that bit the child. But it
was a stray mongrel that gave the rabies to the
puppy. An unhappy, stray cur who for his own
sake as well as the sake of humanity had better
bcén killed e'er his teeth grew sharp enough to
gnaw a bone.
!‘:'.‘ery summer for years passed, the Leader hasl
appealed for enforcement of all the laws on the
statute books aimed to protect children from rabid
dogs. The Leader has asked that dogs be muz
zled or held on leash and that all doge not so kept !
be killed. The Leader has warned that some day
some child would be sacrificed on the altar of the
sentimentality that restrains officers of the law
from carrying out their duty in clearing the land
of the menace of the stray dog. The Leader, as
have all good citizens, has hoped that its warn
ings of danger would never be justified in this
community by the loss of innocent human life.
But today they have been justified, and in an
awful way. A little cold still body, its muscles
drawn in pain, lies in a little white coffin under
the sod this afternoon in mute testimony to the
danger of the stray dog. Perhaps in the wisdom
of the power that directs all things, this sweet
child died for a purpose, to stimulate and com
mand the interest of all good people in protecting
all other children from the menace in black and
and tan that stalks our alleys and slinks through
our streets and highways. Shall this sacrifice
have been in vain? Shall the menace be tolerated ?
Shall your child, or your neighbor’s child be the
next victim for the fangs of a rahid beast? Or
shall you sce to it that your child or your neigh
bor’s child is protected from danger of such a hor
rible death? It is up to you. You are the public.
What you want you may have. Policemen and
sheriffs are your servants they are hired to do
what you want them to do and nothing more.
You people who own dogs and love them for
their loyalty and devotion, this is your fight as
well as the fight of those who love children. 1f
_your dog is worth its keep, it is worth protecting
aganst the vicious homeless beast that roams the
_streets, subject to every disease and distemper.
If your dog is worth owning, it worth keeping in
a kennel, or on a leash or muzzled as a protection
to itself and to the children. It is your duty to
protect your property by seeing that the worth
less unowned dogs are exterminated. Nothing
_less will avail. They must be exterminated.
~ There are sentimentaliste in this community
pWho will weep large salty tears over the “suffer
gs” of the muzzled dog, and the hardships of
P the leash. There are thoughtless people who
will rend their souls in sorrow for the poor little
doggies. People, people, don’t you know that all
the dogs on this earth aren’t worth the one little
life that was snuffed out in agony yesterday from
the bite of a rabid puppy? -
It is useless to “tear passion to tatters” in con
sidering this thing, this menace. It is necessary
that action be had in order to remove the menace.
No Fitzgerald child has yet suffered for the care
lessness of those who suffer the potential mad
dog to wander unrestrained. Make it your bus
ness to see that no Fitzgerald child shall suffer.
FITGERALD’S FIRE RECORD—In defending
Dublin from rumors that fires are more frequent
than natural the Courier-Herald makes an un:
warranted and odious comparison. The editor
says:
Dublin, since January 1, has just had 37
fires, including all minor blazes, automobile
fircs and blazes where the damage possibly
did not exceed ten dollars, a record which is
not at all bad. May, an exceedingly dry
month, brought ten firees, and since June
first we have had three fires. There are cit
ies in Georgia that have been aflicted much
worse, Fitzgerald, for instance, and with
much more damages and property loss.
From Atlanta it was reported only a few
days ago that the department had had 2¢
runs within 24 hours, or a fire every 55 min
utes.
itzgerald, as a matter of fact, has had only
one fire this year which caused any considera
ble loss, the Lockett Motor Company fire the
last week in May. That fire would have caused
much greater loss had it not been for the splen
did work of Fitzgerald’s incomparable fire de
partment. Since the first of the year there have
been only three other fires worth mentioning
and the loss in all three would hardly reach four
figures. Very few fires break out in Fitzgerald
and none of those that it is humanly possible to
check ever get far enough out of control to cause
much damage. Fitzgerald’s fire loss record is
one of the best in not only Georgia but the en
tirc South. The annual loss per dollar of the
total property valuation of the city is so small
that it would take a handful of ciphers between
the decimal and the figure to write the amount.
Fitzgerald has one of the first, and one of the
few, completely motorized and completely
cquipped small city fire departments in Georgia
The fire trucks are manned by young men who
have been thoroughly trained in their work by
one of the most experienced and able fire chiefs
in the country. They know their wok and they
liave the equipment to give their knowledge of
fire fighting fullest effectiveness.
The Teader knows that our good friend on the
Dublin Courier-Herald must have been misin
formed in regard to Fitzgerald's fire situation
and that he intended no hurt to this best little
city in Georgia. However, as he says of the un
true rumors about Dublin’s fire situation, “it is
well known that light and irresponsable talk cunl
put a perfectly solid and solvent banking insti
tution into bankruptcy, and so, if people persist
in insinuations regarding the frequency and ori
gin of fires, similar effects may be looked for.”
That applies several ways.
GOVERNMENT REGULATION THAT
WILL REGULATE—One thing that stands
out clear cut above all the less distinct and more
jumbled phases and features of the transporta
tion tangle in the United States is that there
must be found a plan for government regulation
of railroads that will regulate. The laissez faire
system has been thoroughly tried out in the
carly days of American railroading and found
abfolutely impractical. The railroads niust have
government regulation of some kind. The prob
lem is what kind. The right kind certainly has
not been effected yet. There are no immediate
prospects of government ownership. There must
be more effective government regulation, a sort
of regulation that will remove the strike bug
bear.
For fifty years the railroads have been strug
gling along in a state of constant guerilla war.
fare between capital and labor. Now one sidc
would seemingly win, now the other. With ev
ery victory, the public lost. \With every strike
all three lost, labor, capital, and most heavily,
the public. The present Transportation Act is
the last of a series of federal legislative meas
ures intended to lessen the friction between cap
ital and labor. It has largely failed in that pur
pose. All crafts are now on strike on three
railroads in the United States, one in the
South, one in the West, one in New
England. They prove that the railroad trouble
is not confined to any section but that the Trans
portation Act in its present form has failed to
answer the problems of any section,
It has been suggested that the present rail a
bor board, composed of three representatives of
railroad owners, three representatives of labor
and three representatives of the public, should
be given mandatory power to fix wages. This
would give it the same power in regard to reg
ulating expenditures of the railroads as the In
terstate Commerce Commission has in regulat
stateing income of the railroads. Such action
would prohibit strikes but would insure justice
to labor as to capital. Most of all, it would pro
tect the public. \Whather this will be done or
can be done is problematical, but it looks like a
good idea.
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“BOBBIE, said the techer sternly, “where
were you yesterday? “I had a toothache.” “Has
it stoped aching?” “I don’t know. The dentist
kept it.”—American Legion Weekly.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1921.
DREW ON HIS IMAGINATION
To Put It Mildly, Longfeliow was Nc¢*
Always Accurate in His De
scriptive Poems.
The poet Longfellow has set an ex
ample of inaccuracy in dealing with
our Pilgrim ancestors which has been
widely followed. His charming poem,
“The Courtship of Myles Standish,’
bas been read by millions of his coun
trymen and doubtless accepted by
great numbers -as gospel truth. Yet
it has no historical basis, says a writ
er in the Boston Transcript. There
is not a scintilla of évidence that the
fearless captain, who was small of
sStature and red-haired, but every inch
a soldier --+ld any desire to win the
affections of Priscilla Mullins. He
wag a very husy man during the first
years at Plymouth. And, but for his
wisdom, skill and heroic actions, there
is little doubt but what they would
have all been murdered by wild sav
ages, who were not wholly restrained
by Massasoit. It seems too bad that
so brave and unselfish a man as Stan
dish was should now be paraded he
fore his descendants as a rejected
suitor. He and they deserve a better
fate.
Tie poet is no more accurate in
dealing with him than he is in de
scribing the marriage of John Alden
and Priscilla. What a pretty bit of
fiction it was to place Priscilla on a
“milk-white steer,” when there was
not a cow, nor a steer, in all New
England!
STOPPED ANGRY WIFE’S TEARS
Woman’s Emuiation of the “Cinderella
Act” Probably Averted Dire
Domestic Tragedy.
Mrs. G. started - for the shoe repair
shop the other day with a slipper that
needed mending. Once in the street
she remembered an important mes
sage and stopped to telephone in a
little office on the ground floor of the
building in which she lives, The pro
prietor showed her the instrument ir
the rear,
Just then the proprietor’s wife er
tered the office, and first of all s
saw Mrs. G.’s slipper lying on a ta! '
“So you even have her shoes here !’
she cried and began to weep. Hei
tears quickly turned to anger, and
in a moment she began to upbraid her
hushand.
Then Mrs. G. interferea.
“That’s mine,” she said, appearing
from behind the screen.
The angry wife looked at her dur
.ng a pause in her heated language.
“T don't believe it,” she snapped.
“I'll show you,” said Mrs. G, and,
like Cinderella, though the prince was
missing, she tried on the slipper.—
New York Sun.
What Is Art?
The conclusion is that heaven born
geniuses are a myth., Actors are nc
fonder of thinking hard and laboring
hard than any other set of humans.
The manager, seeing that there doesn’t
appear to be very much difference in
their caliber, has taken to selecting
them by their physical appearance
The actor is the cause, and the man
ager is the result. The public is
quick to respond to really fine acting
—that is what fine acting is, for if it
doesn’t make the public respond it
isn't fine acting, You often hear it
said that the public doesn’t want art
It would be just as sensible for a
man to take a broken watch to be
mended, state his wants to the watch
repairer and then add that he mustn’t
employ skill in the operation! For
what is art in its practice? It is
skill—accomplishment,—John E. Kel
lerd, in the Forum,
Wenderful Nevada Opal.
The mines of Humboldt county, Ne
vada, have produced every kind of
opal known to science. The great
black opal found there some years ago
aas the largest ever discovered, weigh
ing 16.19 troy ounces, or, in jewelry
phraseology, 2,565 karats. It is nearly
4 inches long, 3 1-8 inches wide and
averages 2 1-8 inches in thickness. It
is, in short, about half the size of an
ordinary brick. At $6 a karat its
value would be more than $15,000, but
its great size increases the value to
the point where it is worth whatever
a gem fancier will pay for it. The
highest rating ever obtained for an
opal was that for a gem from Hun
gary, which was estimated to be worth
$250.000. On the same basis of rating
the Nevada gem would be worth as
much.
Had Peculiar idea of Tree. %
Bathed in the warm waters of the |
Gulf stream, the climate of the He-‘
brides is warm rather than cold, coun- '
sidering the latitude, and there is an l
average rainfal over the entire group |
of 47 inches per annum, which often
mounts to sver 100 inches at the coast.
In spite of this, the islands are for
the greater part treeless. Hope Mon
:rleff tells of a woman who, having
Jdved all her life there, had no con
ception of a tree except that it must
+ook like a cabbage. They present
more often than not a bleak monoto
nous aspect orf rock (granite or gneiss),
~ater, sand and bog, *where the sea
{s all islands and the land is all lakes.”
Not Very Deep.
He (calling)—Resding poetry, are
you?
She—Yes, I'm wading through Ten
nyson,
He (glancing at page)—Ah! Apd
you've just got to the middie of “Ihe
Rrook.”—Boston Transcript,
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For Fire and Life
Insurance
See C, W, QUEEN, Special Agent
for Southern States Life Insurance
Co, Office with G. S, WILLCOX,
‘n Old Third National Bank Bldg.,
Fitzgerald, Ga. eitf
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His Testimcny Will Interest Every
Fitzgerald Reader
The value of iocal evidence is in
disputable. It is the kind of evidence
we accept as true because we know
we can prove it ourselves. There
has been plenty of such evidence in
the Fitzgerald papers lately, and this
straightforward testimony has estab
lished a confidence in the minds of
Fitzgerald people that will not be
easily shaken.
S. M. Garrett, section foreman, 605
Suwanee St., says: "My kidneys were
in bad condition and I had rheumat
ic pains in my limbs and joints. My
feet and limbs swelled and I could
hardly keep going. I used Doan’s
Kidney Pills as directed and they
helped me wonderfully. They re
lieved the rheumatic pains and other
symptons of kidney complaint, I
know Doan's Kidney Pills are a
splendid remedy. ‘Chey are worthy
of a trial by anyone having kidney
trouble.”
60c at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Ca., Mirs.,, Buffalo, ' N: Y.
Advertisement.
The nut,
The common peunul grows in a pe
culiar way that is distinctly original
The little plant sends up its shootg
with the fruit on the end of a some
what stiff stalk. and then before i
’ ripens the stem heuds over and carer
fully pushes the fruit underground. As
- plgs are sald to he especially fond of
these, it has been humorously sug
zvsted that the plant does this to hide
te nuts from the porker's too inquist
tive investigations.
Old Bell Splendidly Preserved.
In an old graveyard in County An.
arim, Ireland, a farmer, while plowing,
unearthed a bronze church bell weigh-
Ing more than 160 Ibs., and believed
to be over 300 years old, The bel is
'n a splendid state of preservation,
with a clear, powerful tone. The old
Kirkmoyle parish church, where the
find was made, has been in ruins since
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fhe One Thing That Really Counts
N¢ man can afford to work for mon
ey alone. Simply accumulating wealth
adds nothing permanent to human wel
fare. Wealth is only a means to an
end. [t is the purpose of life that
counts most.—Grit. ;
- Marriage
“The triumph of hope over? experience.”
This was Dr. Samuel Johnson’s definition
of matrimony.
It fits other things as well. Consider for
instance, the printing buyer, who persis
tently zseeks the low price, trusting to
luck that he will “muddlelthrough in some
fashion. ‘
His experience, with that of most others;
has doubtless been that if he pays less he
will get less, but each time he hopes
against hope that the impossiblej will
happen.
There comes a time when the buyer re
alizes that in most cases the very cheap
bid is a delusion and a snare. It becomes
patent to him that there is no absolute
standard of quality in printing and that
he can buy only “so much for so much.”
We do not attempt to sell gold dollars at a
discount, but we do try to give each customer "
good value for every dollar he spends.
Leader Publishing Co.,
Producers of .
| Distinctive Job Printing
Phone 328
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THAT SUIT
—llast year you thought one season’s wear was all you could normal
ly expect.
BUT the clerk was right—there was GOOD quality of wool in the
material.
Of ceurse were it not for DRY CLEANERS and modern clean
ing methods—you could not think of using it for GOOD wear again
this season. L
All-right there is where we fit in. Our methods are modern.
And if we have that suit or light coat NOW-—we will have it ready
for delivery the first spring day.
White Swan Laundry
DRY CLEAN!NG AND PRESSING
’ Ant Hiils Start a Fire. 2
~ Perhaps the strangest of causes
which ever produced a fire was am
ant hill. There is a species of ant
known as the wood ant which ma
a uest entirely of vegetable mat?
Under certain circumstances this ma
fermez:t until it gets hot enough te
begin to sinolder, 'Then comes g
breeze which fans the spark inte
flame, and the result may be s semiems
forest fira. .
Drs. Holtzendorf
and Turner
DFNTISTS
Upstairs, next door to che
National Drug Company
PHONE 57
