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FITZGERALD SYRUP AND PULASKI
ONIONS—The Leader reproduces below an ed
itorial from Saturday’s Atlanta Journal in refer
ence to Georgia’s untapped possibilities and the
promise held out in isolated instances of the glor
iously brilliant future in store for Georgians who
awake to those possibilities. The Leader has been
trying for fifteen years to “sell Georgia to Geor
gians”, to make our home folks wake up and take
uotice of the pot of gold at this end of the rainbow.
Along this line we want to mention one of many
farmers who are really taking advantage of the
possibilitics of Georgia agriculture, Mr. D J. Seig
ler. Mr Secigler is a “four scason farmer.” His
harvest time is. fifty-two wecks in the year. He
is selling something, live stock, or garden truck,
cotton, or tobacco, or melons, or scmething, from
New Year’s eve to New Year's morning, the vear
‘around. Mr Scigler was in the office Saiurday
morning and he said something thav started che
editor to thinking along a new line:
“You are talking about its heing tinte for the
business man to get up and do something. 1 think
it is time for the farmer to do something. it is the
business man and not the farmer who is taking
the big losses this year. The farmer got his mon
ey when cotton was high whether he sold it for
cash or secured advances of credit on it. He has
‘blown his money and now he is kicking al ut
hard times. It is time he started digging more
money out of the ground. There is plenty of it
left.” ’
Mr Seigler doesn’t know what hard times mvan.‘
He is digging gold out of his land all the time,
Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter, prices may
rise or fall but he has always got something to
sell at a profit. And every man who follows a
plow through Georgia's fertile fields can do the
same,
But all this is off the subject. The Journal
says: j
News comes from Fitzgerald that the first stage
has been completed in the experiment of the Jnit
ed States government to make syrup from sweet
potatoes. The ormula was tested, thirty barr s
of the new syrup were produced, and those who
tried it declared it was at least equal to the famous
Georgia cane.
That is one interesting item in the day’s grist of
news
Another comes from Hawkinsville, where fr.
C S. Glisson, a succesful farmer recently shipp :d
a carload of,onions to the Atlanta market, thereby
planting a milestone in the onion industry so far
as it concerns Georgia.
Here are two illustrations of the vast possibili
ties in Georgia agriculture to which the state ap
parently has not fully awakéned—The use of the
Georgia yam for syrup, and the opportunity for
Georgia to become as great an onic m-growing state
as Texas
The yam as an edible has long been famous, It
ranks today with the watermelon and fried chick
en as one of the most luscibus dishes on Georgia
tables. But should its potentialities for syrup be
sufficiently developed, it will enter the commercial
field on a greater scale than ever. Already it is
planned to submit samples of the syrup to candy
manufacturers, i nthe helief that production can be
started immediately on a large scale, should the
leading manufacturers contract to take sufficient
of the supply.
The opportunities in onions as a cre p loom even
greater, according to Mr Glisson, who for ten years
has grown them on his ten-acre farm and who
claims to have produced the world's record vield
of onions per acre.
Texas hitherto has been the onion state. From
$35,000,000 to $40,000,000 worth of onions are pro
duced each year in south Texas. Most of Geor
gia’s onions come from Texas. Georgia consum
ers pay the freight on them, when, could they ob
tain from their own fields, the saving would be
more than $5OO to the carload.
Morever, the Texas onion crop is financed at a
far heavier expense than would be necessary in
Georgia. Practically all Texas onions are grown
by irrigation. Mr Glisson is authority for the
statement that there is no spot in Georgia where
onions could not grow without irrigation—partic
illarly in middle south Georgia—direct from ‘the
seed, not from the set plant.
Ye t Georgia has produced scarcely any onions
worth the menttioning. It is authoritatively sta
ted that so much as a carload has never been ship
ped to a market outside the state. The proposal
of Mr Glisson that the onion growers association
‘be formed in the state, undoubtedly should He
~warmly greeted by farmers everywhere. The gen
eral patriotic interest to serve in putting Georgia
to the forefront in the onion market, since the
profit as well as the Geor
A SHAME AND DISGRACE TO GEORGIA—
South Georgia has been disgraced in the eyes of
fair minded and clear visioned men within the
state and all over the union. It has been disgrac
ed in the usual way, by a few score blood mad
individuals with brains that had better been
placed under kinky hair where the fit would have
been 'more accurate.. A mob lynched a negro
who had been duly tried, convicted and sentenced
to hang in twenty days. The crime was murder
of a young girl. The court’s punishment fit the
crime. Justice was being done. The mob not
only dethroned reason and struck the balance
from the hands of justice, but it committed aj
grievous crime agaitlst_ the people of the state of
{#orgia in breaking her faws. Tt stiuck another]
blow at the spot at which the Bolshevists are strik
ing and weakened that much more the prestige nf‘
Rovernment, our government : ‘;
If laws can be so easily broken, if justice can be
sidetracked ever and anon at the whim of a few
score impassioned men, how can any man feel ce
cure? How can any man go to bed at night and
slecp peacefully when for all he knows ere morn
ing breaks, his barn may have been burned, or his
laborers driven away, or even his life imperiled.
It is not enough that the crime of the mob be ex
tenuated by the fact that a crime has been com
mitted by its victim. The mob constitutes it
seli a law unto itself. Its law may by happen
chance coincide with the moral laws but they are
as likely to decree that injustice is just and con
stitute moral misdemeanors as capital crimes, or
declare that things which are no crime at all are
felonies and punish them with death,
If the mob is to be permitted to take over the
machinery of justice in any case it wishes, how
long will any laws have the repsect of any people?
Mob violence in itself constitutes a crime. Every
member of a mob is guilty of murder. If this
sort of criminal is to be condoned and encouraged
by public sentiment, how can we expect any man
to respect law as law, autthority as authority, gov
ernment as government?
Mob law is anarchy. The whole people make
the statute law through their duly elected rep
resentatives. When the moral incendiaries who
form the nucleus of a mob break these laws they
declare that they are superior in judgement and
superior in might to all the people of the state of
Georgia, to all law and all government. Such is
the conceit of the mob. And the pity of it is that
officers of the law tactily admit that the lie is true
and make the state powerless to defend its honor
and to protect its laws and institutions,
For the lynching in Moultrie Saturday there is
no excuse, absolutely none. The law had funec
tioned justice and ordered the law to be executed
which demands an “eye for an eye, a tooth for a
tooth, a life for a life.” Nothing more could be
asked.
Fvery land owner, every man of affairs in Geor
gia should make it his business to create a pres
sure of public sentiment that will demand the se
verest punishment for members of mobs and de
mand the fullest measure of respect for law which
is the only protection they have for their property
rights. .If human life can be so casily taken by
lawless mobs, as cotton and connton gins were de
stroyed in Alabama by lawless mobs, and as to
bacco fields and barns were destroyed in Kentucky
by the same sort of hoodlums, then other sorts of
property are ever liable to confiscation and de
struction by these self constituted tribunals of
Fate which function so quickly and so ruinously.
How may Georgia expect to coax into her bor
ders settlers from other states, families of people
to till the soil, swell the total of her crops and
contribute a share te the trade and commerce of
Georgia business men, when almost weekly the
news is spread abroad that another mob has
formed and functioned and that laws of Georgia
have again proved weak and worthless? 1t is not
the negro against whom the crime is committed,
it is against the state. A lynched negro is always
a martyr in the eyes of his race, a tocsin callir € to
battle rather than a warning. It is law, order and
justice that suffer, :
NEWLYRICH: "I'm geeting an autom ' .
What is the first thing one ougth to lears about
running it?
Wiseacre: “The telephone number of ‘the near
est repair shop."—Boston Transeript,
THE time to buy a used car is jus: before yvou
move, so people in the new neighborhood will
think you were the one who used it—Kan s ity
Star.,
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“TOMMY, Can you spell?”
“Sure! Ica neven spell words of fonr viia s,
—Motor Life.
KITTY: (playfully) “Oh Tommy hoy, vhy do
you call your motor kitty®” Tommy - (mechani
cally) “She has such a gentle purr.’
Kitty: “Tomd ? 2.2 CAT!!! -—Ruteers,
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BOBBY'S dog was limping alnaa on three. icet.
“Look, daddy! Tige's not hitting on ail cvlind
ers”. ——Motor Life
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MOTHER: “Did that man kiss you last night?
Daughter: “You don’t suppose he drove ninety
miles to hear me sing?"—Paterson Press 73 iard
ian,
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“WHY, Teddy! How did you catch that chick
en?” “Oh I des runned him and runned him
till his gas gave out.”—Motor Life.
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A man refers to his automobile a= “<.e” prch
ably because it is something he can’t resaon with.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1921.
MANY [KDUSTRIES
TIED TO TOBAGES
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Prohibition of Weed Would Meai
« Big Financial Loss to
¢ Alied Trades.
WHO USES THE MATCH?
The Smcker Main'y—Alio Responsibla
for Spending Hundreds of Millions
Annually for Liccrice, Sugar,
N Coal, Cigar Boxes, Tin
=N Foil, Etc. A
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=% By GARRET SMITH '~
“Got a match?”
How many times a day is that ques
tion asked in these United States?
How many more times ig the question
unnecessary bhecause most pockets are
kept well supplied with the useful
little article? Anyhow, inasmuch as it
ie estimated that there are 30,000.000
tobacco users in the country, we would
guess that the answer to that question
would run into the hundreds of mil
lions, ;
IFor if it weren't for the smokers in
these days of electric blghts how many
matches would bhe used? A pretty
smail proportion of the number of
these “sticks of blazes” produced in
the country every vear. Abolish to
Liceo and the mateh business would be
shiot to pieces,
But the mateh business is only one
of 4 dozen or more allted industries
which derive large revenues directly or
indirectly from the tobacco trade and
wonld suffer heavily if national pro
hibition of toluicco were to go into
effect as gome of cur reformers would
have it. The annual sales of tobacco
products, hased on retail prices, is es
tinated at $1,937.000.000. Of the cost
of producing and selling this quantity
of cigarg, cigarettes and other forms
of the weed. some hundreds of million
dollars are paid out for other things
than the raw tobacco and labor of
making it up,
$25,000,000 a Year for Boxes
For example, the tohacco trade con
sunes each year 45.000000 pounds «f
lHearice, 50,000,000 pounds of su oy
Voth used in flavoring tobacco, 00!
GOO OCO tons of coal. Tis est'matc:!
that the value of wooden cigar hoves
used s §25,000.000 a year, quite uan
item to the hnnber husiness and to
manutactorers of the hoxes,
In making t(hese bhoxes 550.000
nounds of nails are emploved. Other
large items uszed in making and pre
paring tobacco for sole are tin and
lead foil, paper for bags and cigarette
wrappers, cloth for tobacco bags, la
heis, coupons, ete, involving the print
ing trade extensively.
Then huilding contractors and manu
facturers of machinery are largely in
terested. Investments in plants and
machinery ewmplored in manufactur
ing tohacco are estimated at $102,000,-
i), Replacement, up-keep’and inter
estoon the investment make no small
sum anntally,
And let realty men note there are
approximately 325,000 tobacco farms
in the country, with a total estimated
valuation of $160.0460.000, Of further in
terest {0 real estate men is the fact
that there are 700,000 retail establish
ments selling tobacco, involving a total
rental and np-keep impossible to esti
mate, hesides the large amount of of
fice space oceupied by administrative
hranches of the general business.
The insurance men, too, have their
share of the pickings. The tobacco
hus ness pays out annually $7.000,000
in preminms in the United States,
And there are the railroads who rearp
reventie from 2,210,000 tons of tobacco
produets every vear,
As for the advertising business.
here again it is impossible to form
any estimate of the enormous annual
outlay.
The prohibition of tobacco would also
knoek a good-sized hole in the receipts
of the United States government.
The infernal revenue receipts from
tohacco for the fiscal year 1920 amount
ed ro 5L0G500855.44. Customs duties
provided an additional $25.000,000 in
round figures, making the total revenue
return to the government $320,000,000),
Influence on Pooular Sentiment
It is this interlocking of the tobaceo
bus'ness with so many other interests
and the vast amount of financial loss
that would he involved in the abolition
of tobaceo that is one of the moest se
vlous aspects of the proposal to pro
hilfit the sale of tobacco, a proposal,
however, which has little support by
public sentiment if the newspaper edi
tors of the country are “orrect in their
estimate of that sentiment.
In a poll of the editers made recently
by the Tobaceo Merchants' Association
of the United States, throneh the Press
Nervice Company of New York City,
03 rer cent of the TB4T editors who
veplied expressed the opinion that the
people of their commun ties were on.
nosed to ary law araingt tobacco, A«
these oditors represert same SO.000,00:
readers the results form & pretty gen
eral test of national opinion.
In their remarks accompanvying thofr
replics many of the editors expressed
it gs their opinion that the oppos tion
of their communities to the abolition
of tobhacco was based to some oxteng
least on the damage such a change
wonld do to the business interests of
the community. This was particularly
true in the tehacce growing states and
centers where there were large tobaceo
plants.
~ But when the extent of the business
Anvolved in the allied interests of the
Etnhnw-u trade is considered., as above
’hricfl_\' outlined, it is clear that there
is hardly o section of the country that
would not be affected directly or in-
Idlrectly by abolishing tobacco,
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