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Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897
Official Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
BSIDOR GELDERS io . ii o BEdytor
STEWART F. GELDERS____Managing Editor
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ASSOCIATION, foreign Adv. Representatives,
CO-OPERATION NEEDED AMONG THE
CO-OPERATORS—Through all the discussion
pro and con through the state and controversy
between the State Bureau of Markets and the
State College of Agriculture and its ally the
farm burcau, one fact stands out: more co-oper
ation is needed.
The Leader sces in the state bureau of markets
a splendid opportunity for service to the Georgia
farmer. If the assertions of the state college ad
vocates are true that the bureau is not now giy
ing the fullest measure of service, the commis
sioner of agriculture should see that it does, or
it he can not, the governor of the state should
see that improvement is made,
Governor-elect Hardwick promised to sweep
the grafters out of the capitol and to abolish use
less commissions and bureaus. If the burecau of
markets has no possibility of good, we have con
fidence cnough in Mr. Hardwick’s sincerity to
believe that he will relicve the people of its costs.
If it has possibilies of good we have confidence
enough in Mr. Hardwick’s statesmanship to see
that it delivers the goods.
There can be no question of the value of the
state college of agriculture’s extension work. Many
farmers have questioned the value of the farm
demonstrator and the home economic agent. Those
are the farmers who haven’t availed themselves of
the service of these agents. The farmers who have
used them and used other facilities of the state
college of agriculture and farm home improvement
are agreed that the extension department is of
great service and is worth all it costs,
There can be no question of the value of the
farm bureau federations. FEven if the members
did nothing but meet occasionally and swap ideas,
the farm bureau would be worth its cost. The bu
reaus are however, really doing business and a
growing business. In Fitzgerald the curb market
stands as an evidence of what an organization em
bracing even a small proportion of farmers can do
when it’s assisted by organizations of townspeople.
With the facilities of all three thrown in the pot
together to help find market for the farmers pro
duce, this old state could make progress toward a
prosperity hitherto undreamed of. Fighting each
other they weaken each other and strengthen
themselves not a whit
A FAIR SYSTEM OF POSTAL CHARGES—
Although much eriticized and much maligned,
the late administration of the United States pos
tal service saw the innauguration of the fairest
system of postal charges for newspapers and.
periodicals that this country has ever enjoyed.
It is a monument to an administration that left
many things behind it that had better not be
memorialized and an administration that accom
plished many things that will be remembered
with thanksgiving through coming ages.
The postal zone system makes the newspapers
and magazines pay for what they get. The
newspapers have always very nearly paid for
their postal service. It used to be that the na
tional magazines were, in effect, subsidized by
the government through a ridiculously low and
disproportionate rate of postage. The present
zone system, makes a publication pay for trans
portation practically as any other manufacturer
would pay for shipping his product, so much
per pound per mile. When the government hauls
a ton of advertising matter a thousand miles it
pays the railroads and the postal employes more
for hauling and handling and makes 2 higher
charge than for a hundred miles. Suth a sys
tem is fair to the public and fair to the publish
ers. It should be upheld and continued. Any
attempt to change it, unless the change be to
make the charge more nearly fit the cost of the
service, should be fought to the last ditch,
The people of the United States have had
enough of subsidizing industry. They have sub
sidized until the tax burden is positively unpleas
ant. The protective tariffs are subsidies just as
much as the railroad “guarantees” were subsi-
ASHTON NEWS
Mrs. James Findley and daughters
Misses Carric Lou and Johnnie May
from town are the guests of her sis
ter Mrs. H. J. Nippei this week,
Mr. Theo. N. Miidiebrooks left
Wednesday for Eatorien whore be
will visit relatives
Mrs. L. E. Kilpatrick is on the
sick list this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Dykes were the
guests of Mrs. Jno. Barnes near Os
ierfield Monday.
. Mr. and Mrs. S. P, Dykes and
daughter Miss Nora from
bR R R e e R Y
"dies and the “averaged” postal rates on second
!class matter were subsidies. They cost too much
for what doubtful good they accomplish.
THE SAPIRO PLAN GAINS SUPPORT—In
last week’s issue of the progressive Farmer the
Sapiro Plan of cotton marketing is thoroughly dis
cussed by Clarence Poe, one of the South’s best
informed agricultural writers. Mr. Poe closes his
discussion with the following endorsement of the
man who is at the head of the movement:
Aaron Sapiro (prnounced Sa-pee-ro, with accent
on second syllable) is one of the most powerful,
effective, convincing, resourceful speakers in
America today. He makes no attempt at elo
quence, maks no appeal to prejudices, and makes
little or no appeal to the emotions. He uses but
few stories and but little humor. Nevertheless,
he talks straight business—the actual business of
how to get better prices for farm products—in
such’a way as to hold men practically spellbound
for hours. And I believe nobody can see and
talk with the man publicly and privately day af
ter day, as I have done, without- believing abso
lutely in him and in his devotion to a great cause.
Said a thoughtful friend of mine recently: “I
imagined at first that Sapiro was probably capi
talizing the interest in co-operative marketing to
his own advantage. But after coming to know
the man, I became fully convinced that co-opera
tive marketing is a real religion with him and
that he is willing to sacrifice health, strength,
money, time, or anything else to further a cause
in which he believes with his whole heart.”
This impression is also my own. I have seen
Sapiro whole-heartedly going ahead with his cam
paign for co-operative marketing practically with
out financial return, when his doctors told him he
was going on at the risk of his own health and
when he had not averaged one day a month in
his hom e for several months previously,
The co-operative associations he has organized
pay him a good salary, it is true. They ought to,
for he is one of the most able advocates in the
United States. But I believe if he had chosen to
serve the great manufacturing and corporate in
terests of the country, he could make $5 for every
$1 he makes now—and with less strain and dis
comfort than he is undergoing in the cause of
co-operation,
Farly left an orphan and reared in an orphan
asylum, educating himself later with the inten
tion of entering religious work, he knows what
poverty means and yearns to help to a better
means of existence those now condemned to
poverty. He is working in a cause in which he
can thrown his whole heart and soul, and when
some great manufacturering interests recently
tried to induce him to represent them in Wash
ington, he did not listen for a minute Farly in
life he came under the influence of David Lubin,
the great old California agricultural philosopher
who founded the International Institute of Ag
riculture in Rome. Ever since that time Sapiro
has been giving himself whole-heartedly to the
cause of rural betterment, .
'A SLIGHT CHECK FOR RURAL PROG
RESS—Crisp school district refused to levy. a
mill local tax yesterday. Crisp should h;l\'("
a better school, and the products of Crisp
school education will be better, more capable,
better equipped citizens, Next month other
'sch(ml districts will hold elections and the long
lhcadcd, far sighted intelligent farmers of those
districts will provide their children with better
schools. Next year further consolidations will
be made in the county’s rural schools. The pro
gram of school improvement in Ben Hill county
can not be carried through in one year or five
years. It is a perpetual campaign. The schools
will never be as good as they could be but al
ways they will climb a little nearer toward per
fection, toward the heights that rise higher and
higher as one comes nearer to them. And al
ways as the schools improve, the country served
,by the schools will improve. Good roads and
'good schools, and better roads and better schools,
those are the nceds “of today and of tomorrow
“and of all time. They are the most important
tools of progress.
| Fitzgerald has good schools. In the college
‘commencements this year was gratifving evi
idcncc of how good Fitzgerald’s schools are. At
;thc University of Georgia, at Georgia Tech, at
Atlanta Law School, and at other colleges in the
South products of the Fitzgerald high schools
Ewere graduated with honors or were awarded
rundergraduate honors, Those honors were not
,only a tribute to the individual talents of those
‘who received them, but a tribute to the prepar
_ation those students received in the Fitzgerald
‘public schools. Good schools produce leaders,
The world needs leaders, many of them in every
line of human activity.
| The average man is the backbone of civiliza
tion, the framework and the foundation. But
civilization needs more than backbone,
Sunday with the former's sister Mrs,
H, J. Nipper.
Mrs, H, H. Hooker was the guest
of Mrs. J. D. Bishop Wednesday.
Mrs, Bryant Dykes ¢f Rockingham
is visiting her brother Mr, Macon
Pridgeon who is quite ill,
Ashton Correspondent,
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Thres Religions in China.
Chin® has three religions with many
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Southern Railway System
Effective Sunday, May 29th,
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lish through sleeping car service
from Macon, Ga,, to Asheville, N* C.
S'ceper will lcave Macon each after
noon on Southern Railway train No.
26 at 525 p. m. and returning from
Asheville will arrive Macon 11:50 a
m,
For further information relative to
schedules, Round Trip fares and Pull
man reservations, apply to nearest
Southern Railway Ticket Agent, or
C. B. Rhodes, Division Passenger
Agent, Southern Railway System,
Macon Ga. Advertisement tf
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Gold Found In Ireland.
The receit discovery of goid in the
streams of County Westmeath, Ire
land, calls attention to the fact that
the ancient tribesmen of that coun
try must have heen expert metallur
gists. Although not noted as a gold
producing country. Ireland is one of
the greatest storehouses of antiqui
ties in the waorld, It is a literal mine
of personal ornaments, implements,
rings, torques snd other Celtie an
tiquities, Kemble observed that.
“with the sole excepiion of the mu
seums of Seandinavia, there is scarce
v one Lurcpean collection whieh
shows anything like so great a
weaith of personal ornaments made
of the precious metal as Ireland.” Tt
fs almost certain that the gold orna
met ts found in sauch abundance were
made froin the precions metal found
n Iricsh streains.
Elevated Railroad for Cuba.
Why sanyone in Cuba wants an e
vated railvroad thrusting ils s
props through ithe palm fronds ao
making the tropic nizht hideous with
shrieking and rwabling s a puozzle (o
an inhuabitant of a northern city, but
one thing is cicar from an item in a
Havana newsuaper, Controversy has
begun long before the tirst riveter has
put the lustiest tori-tom beaters of
the island to shawme. The question now
under discussion is: Shall state, prov-
Ince and municipality share the ex
pense of constructicn with the trae
tion company? Sirikes, legislative
inquiries and franchise suits may
follow,
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REVOLVER INVENTED BY BOY
idea of Deadly Small Arm Was Born
in the Brain of Fourteen-
Year.-Oid Runaway,
The revolver, that until the invention
of the automatic pistol, was the most
deadly small arm known to man, was
born of the braiu of a fourteen-year
old boy, Samuel Colt. Colt ran away
from school and shipped on board a
merchant vessel bound for the East
Indies. He had a good deal of idle
time on his hands once the ship was
well at sea, and a long period of calm
weather followed its movements. He
began to seek an outlet for his active
imagination and mechanical urge. Ha
attempted various things to aid sailing,
but without any great success. Hae
then took to planning a pistol that
would shoot several times with a
single load. He had only bits of wood
and a jack knife to work with, but be
fore the voyage was over he had cut
out a mode]l for a revolver very simi
lar to the pattern still in use.
Once at home again, he went to
work in his father’s factory, but the
revolver idea was still in his head, and
he worked at it from time to time un
{il: he was twenty-one. At this point
his experiments had so far advanced
that he asked for and obtained patents
in America and European countries
A stock company was organized, and
from this humble start the great Col:
arms factory was begun, and the re
velver put on a market that soon car
ried it around the world.
SCIENTISTS HOLD TWO VIEWS
Are Not in Accord in Their Expiana.
tion of Origin of the Planetary
System.
Seientists explain the origin of o
planciary system in two ways. One
of these is the familiar nebalar hy
pothesis of Lapace. The other is the
planetesmal theory of Professor Moui
ton, whieh is probably the most cor
rect one. According to this thecr)
our planetary systein was originally
a vast spiral nebulae. The planets
weore formed by accretions of matte:
ti the spirals of the nebulae. Ow
e and its satellite, the moon, were
formed in this way. The moon beiny
a smaller accretion of matter, was
naturally attracted by the earth, which
was possessed of enough gravitation
to hold the moon. The moon there
fore is not a child of the earth, but
speaking in everyday parlance, we
might call it an adopted child. This
theory explains a great deal that the
nebular hypothesis does not. There
are vast numbers of such spiral neb
ulae in the heavens, indicating tha!
this is nature's accepted way of cre
ating new worlds, and it is for these
reasons that I accept this view of the
fermation of the earth and the moon.
—Pittsburgh Dispatch. .
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