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" Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897
Official Organ of the City oi Fitzgerald
B DOR GELDERS oo eo - Editor
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 PRESS
ASSOCIATION, foreign Adv. Representatives,
THE NEW BUSINESS ERA IS BEGINNING--
In Saturday’s Macon Telegraph a note was sound
ed that means the ushering in during the next few
months of a new retail business era in Georgia as
in other states and sections of the Union. The
Leader quotes the following news story :
“First sell Maton to Macon people,” Mr.
Swincheart advised in his address, “It should
be written on the heart of every citizen that
Mecon 1s the prettiest place, the best home
city in the south. Sell Macon to its citizens
so that they would fight for its good name.
Sell the city to its business men so that they
will cx.»-'n"pvralc in bringing trade of the out
side here, and hold the trade that is here."
] “The biggest things that are being done
are being done by co-operative advertising.” :
~He told of the organization of the eighteen
. counties in the Wabash Association, of the
educational campaign and people there, and
of the results of truthful advertising, proper- @
ly placed, the large volume of business, .
' Stand By Newspapers, He Urges 4
i “We must stand by the newspaper,” he de
clared after explaining that he is a merchants
“We must give them moral and financial sup
port, and they will return the same to us.
When we help them grow, our power of
reaching the outside world is increased, and
your trade circle is extended.”
He cited instances of the cities in the Wa
bash valley whose business and advertising
men co-operated in - advertising having a
growing trade volume in the face of indus
trial declines. He urged the merchants to
incessantly push his goods before the public,
building a reputation for his city in truthful
‘advertising,
“Bring new customers from longer distan
ces,” the speaker advised. “Hold weekly or
- monthly co-operative sales on which all out
of-town customers are given special induce-
ments to come to town, and the results will
be tremendous and surprising as we have
found them. 1 know of towns which increas
ed their trade volume 23 per cent by co-oper
ative advertising where the towns neighbor
not using it had a loss of 17 per cent in three
months.”
The gentleman quoted is one of the biggest
advertising men in the world. He buys approx
imately five million dollars worth of periodical
advertising space cach year. He is not connected
in any way with selling ads ertising or with any
business is selling advertising. He speaks from
the standpoint of the buver.
Mr. Swinehart's advice, as readers of the
Leader may recall, covers in a few words the
identical points that the Leader has been mak
ing in editorials for nearly ten years. The ideas
expressed by Mr. Swinehart are not claimed to
be original with him any more than the same
ideas have been claimed as origill by the
Leader. They are the sound product of years
of experience in advertising and, more (o the
point, in merchandising.
Within a few months Macon will have put
through her plans for a giant scale co-operative
selling program, not an annual or semi-annual
event, or a short drive through a short period of
time, but a perpetual campaign. Smaller ‘towns
and cities in the Macon district, which includes
Fitzgerald, who fall in line with the idea and or
ganize and push the same sort of campaign will
thrive and prosper more than ever before, even
as the towns he mentions in the Wabash valley.
Other towns and cities in the district who are
content to let a meager “well enough alone” are
going to dry up and blow away. It is coming
as sure as fate. The reform or rather the devel
opment in business interests is as certain as was
prohibition and woman’s suffrage. No one be
lieved they would come until they did. :
Some dissatisfaction has been expressed by
individual merchants oyer the outcome of Fitz
gerald’s first attempt at g co-operative sale, her
first experiment with the co-operative selling
idea. It stands point hlank as a matter of fact
that if the idea did not bring the hie redults to
Fithigerald that it has brought to other w WIS,
WRONG NAME USED IN
\ NEWS STORY FRIDAY
Joe Stroud and not Fred Stroud
was the young man réreased from the
State Farm after beginning service on
a sentence for forgery, The mistake
in pames was accidental, Fred Stroud
has heen an emloyee of an Atlanta
bank for several years, according to
his ~fa)her, and bears the highest kind
*of reputation- with his employers and
busmess associates. The Leader is
. sorry the mistake was made, ,’
« Mr. W, Stubbs, tormer agent for
AL B, & A at Mystic was %the‘
city today on business, i
it was not the idea that was at fault. but its ex
ecution. Fitzgerald naturally has more attrac
tions over her competitor neighbor cities that
any other town that has used the idea has over
its competitor cities. Fitzgerald is ideally fixed
to capitalize on the idea, The leider has said
that time and again for ten years. Neosha, Mo.
and Dawson, Ga. and the Wabash Valley towns
didn’t have half the start Fitzgerald has. They
are drawing big dividends on the idea.
It 1s planned to have another co-operative sale
in Fitzgerald in November., Why November?
Better to seriously consider now wherein the
first effort could be improved upon and wherein
it was different and inferior to the efforts of
these other places who made a success of it. Then
do the thing like the successful places did it and
depend more surely on reaping the same sort of
harvest. The first co-operative sales effort made
its biggest success in establishing good will and
confidence among the people it drew to Fitzger
ald. It did not draw as many as these other
towns have drawn with théir co-operative sales
for the simple fact that it was not staged in the
same fashion as were those of the other towns.
WHERE THE HARM WAS DONE—From
Tifton Gazette—lt was not to the negro, John
Henry Williams chained to a stump in ("ulquiu‘i‘
county Saturday and burned, that the harm was
done; he was a brute unspeakable; an animal ini
human shape, and he deserved everything he got,
and more. |
It was to the community that the harm was
done; it is the community that will pay, through
the years and into the centuries.
It is said that there were one thousand people
11 the crowd that participated in burning
the negro, Fhe effect on the minds of one thou
sand men witnessing and participating in such a
thing cannot be calculated. The restraint that
respect for law and observance of order puts,
unconsciously, upon every normal man cannot
be torn aside without leaving a scar. One thou
sand people cannot take part in torture and kill
g with no after-effects. Such a thing brutal
izes; it lowers the standard of humanity; it
leaves an underground feeling of contempt for
law ;it creates a blood lust that lurks, perhaps
unrecognized, back in the recesses of the mind,
where it may flame out at the most unexpected
time in homicidal frenzy. No man can take the
life of a fellow-man without due process of law
and be the same man afterwards. Saturday’s
scene will remain, indelibly written in scarlet
letters, on the mind and in the heart of every
man who took part in it until his dving day. It
will go with him into the silent watches of the
night: it will come in nightmares to bhreak his
-slumber; it will be with him at his fireside in the
‘midst of his family; it will go with him when he
sits in the sacred precinets of the church and lis:
tens to the Word of-the-Man_who said, “Ven
geance 1s mine, saith the Lord”. He may bluster
and brag, but deep down in his heart, far back
i the recesses of his mind, that Thing will be,
and he will never escape it. It will be with him
on his death-bed.
Therefore, we say again, the harm done Sat
urday wis not to the brute, Williams, for whom
there is neither pity nor regret, but to the com
munity.
It is not to the County, although it was Col
guitt’s first Tynching, and it is a large and popu
lous county ; it was not to the State, although
Georgia has suffered much in this respect; it was
neither of these that the greatest injury was done
——it was to the white race.
In the South, the white race took the reins of
power by assertion of superiority and divine right
to govern. ‘The negro in the South has no part
in State and County government, hecause he has
no vote. The white race cannot take authority
without at the same time accepting responsibil
ity. Therefore, it is the white race, and not the
negro race, that is on trial. It is the white race
and not the negro race that suffers from such
things as took place Saturday, because, before
the civilized world, the white race will be judged.
We believe, firmly and consistently, that the
white man should govern; that to him has been
given those qualities that fit for government.
But at the same time, those who believe this,
must admit for the same reasons that back up
this belief that the white man must govern fairly,
justly and with dignity, He cannot afford to
misgovern, for that would demonstrate his un
fitness to govern. Not only this, but he must
show his superiority by his example. He can
not adopt the methods of the brute without low
‘ng himself to the level of the brute; he cannot
take the law in his own hands to execute with
out bringing that law which he himself made,
into contempt, he cannot violate the daw with
out setting the example before that other race of
law violation.
Therefore, tlie Caucasion race, and the cause
of the Southern White Man suffers most through
Saturday’s incident.
We may argue and orate as much as we please,
but these facts we cannot escape. :
'ABE KRUGER WILL
GET CITIZEN PAPERS
| Mr, Abe kruger will go to Alhany
}i'i.v:rn‘_;uy to he initiated into the
!“\\‘stl‘rit'\ of American citizenship by
Uudg\- Evans of the U_S. Court. Mr.
H. Feinberg will accompany him as
:(\fiicial voucher,
i idib 8
"CORDELE SCOUTS PICNIC
| AT BOWEN'S MILL
Genial Perry Clegg, scoutmaster
for Cordele youths, has his troup of
26 fine youngsters at Bowen’s Mill
‘this week, teaching them woodcraft
[‘and out door sports.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS WEDNESDAY, JNNE 22, 1921
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take HAYES' HEALING HONEY, a
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HAYES' HEALING HONEY. The salve
. should be ru on the chest and throat
of children syffering frem a Cold or Croup.
| The healing of Hayes' Heallninlzoney in
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| Grove's O-Pen-Trate Walve through the pores of
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HEALING HONEY.
i HOOSIER CABINETS, all col
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"ments. Feinberg Furniture Store. tf
:
The Story of .
i
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE :
XXXIV.—~KANSAS :
—— AY <back -
/S o mnlon Wi Ba
(o 7 i ‘\o‘ Coruvnado, the
O e, =)\ Spanish ex- .
_}2@*,,;’ plorer, is re-
N\ penetrated to
L 6827 Kansas in
search of a mythical wealthy In- |
dian tribe. It was not again vis
ited, however, by white men until
nearly one hundred and seventy
five years later, when the .
¥rench in Louisiana sent out an
expedition to investigate the re
mote portious of what was then
their territory. Most of the pres
ent State of Kansas was a part
of the Louisiana Purchase and
so passed from French hands
to the Unpited States in 1803.
A small additional part was
later added in 1850, being ceded
by "Pexas.
The Lewis and Clark party
traversed this region in 1804,
wind Lieutenant Pike passed
through Kansas two yeurs later.
Kansas history really becomes
interesting in the middie of the
century, when the slavery agita
tion gave it the name of “Bleed
ing Kansas.” It had been an un
organized territory since 1821,
at which time it had been con
sidered a portion of the Terri
tory of Missouri. According to
the Missouri Compromise, if
Kansas became a state it could
not be a slavery state, The op
position of the South was so
strong the Kansas-Nebraska bill
was passed in 1804, making this
vital question optional with the
inhabitants in each preposed
state. With this law in force,
the two factions actively started
colonizing Kansas, Immigrants
from the slave states of Arkan
sas and Missouri immediately
founded Leavenworth. The Mas
sachusetts Emigrant Aid soci
ety sent out anti-slavery settlers,
who founded Lawrence, Topeks
and other towns. Conflict be
tween these two parties broke
out at once, and it was only put
down by the intervention of fed
eral troops. The Northern set
tlers came in such numbers that
they soon were in the majority
~ and in 1861 an anti-slavery con
stitution was adopted, so Kansas
~ was admitted to the Union in
. that year.
; The political dispute over Kan
«as was the cause of the forma
. ticn of the present Republican
party.
. (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Pullman Loses
.
- Open Shop Fight
Labor Board Holds Company Did
Not Obey Law
CHICAGO, June 22—The Pull
man Company lost its open shop
fight bhefore the United States Rail
road Labor Board when the board
upheld the contentions of the union
leaders that the company had not
oheyed “the letter and spirit” of the
transportation act when it conferred
with its employes in mass meeting,
The board threw. out the com
pany’s petition for a cut in the
wages of its shop employes and in
structed it to. go back and meet the
“duly elected representatives” of the
employes,
The shop crafts and clerks in the
Pullman works are involved in the
case. The hoard's decision will de
lay any action on a reduction in
their wages for several weeks,
NOTICE OF BANKRUPTCY
GEORGIA—Irwin County:
Under and by virtue of an order
granted June|lBth, 1921 Hy Honorabie
U. V. Whipple, Referee in Bankrupt
cy, will be sold Friday, July Ist, next
at the late place of business of said
Bankrupt in | Abba, Georgia, within
the legal hougs of sale to the highest
bidder for cash, subject to the confir
mation or rejdction, the assets of .
\V, Ballenger, nkrupt, consisting of
stock of merchaMNse, Furniture, and
Fixtures, notes an ccounts, Same
will be offered in separit¢ parcels and
as a whole, Certfied chogks for 10
per cent of the successiul Nds must
accompany same. See undeéxsigned
for list of assets and full partiqulars,
This June 20th, 1921,
J. R. PLAYER, Trustee,
Mr, C, C. Persons spent Sunday in
Cordele,
NOW'’S THE TIME
| WHEN H'OLD
HENGLAND CAN'T |
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Nobody Can Tell When You Darken
Gray. Faded Hair with |
Sage Tea i
© Grandmother kent her hair beauti
fully darkened. glossv and attractive
with a brew of Sage Tea and Sul
phur. Whenever her hair took on
that duil, faded or streaked appear
ance, this simple mixture was applied
with wonderful effect. By asking at
any drug store for “Wyeth’s Sage
and Sulphur Compound,” you will get
a large battle of this old-time recipe,
improved} by the addition of other
ingredient}, all ready to use, at very
little cost{ This simple mixture can
‘be depend{d upon to restore natural
‘color and Deauty to the hair.
A well-kdgwn downtown druggist
says everybo uses Wyeth’s Sage
and Sylphur Comgpound now because
it darkens so natrally and evenly
\lh'nt nqho(ly can teN it has been ap
r;x.]n:d—-n’s SO easy toyuse, too. You
simply dam.p('n a comy or soft brush
and draw it through \our hair, tak
ing one strand at a ti’\e. By morn-
Ing the gray hair disaypears: after
' another application or two, it is re
-1\7,()"(‘(' to Its natural color and looks
Ziossy, soit and beautiful —(adv.)
| (ADVEKTISEMENT)
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Rev. Lawrence :
; Preaches H
|
| The Rector of St Matthews' Epis
j‘\'k‘}l}iz Church exchanged pulpits last
Sunday with Rev. Lawrence of
| Amcricus, who is always a welcome
visitor here, The services were well
attended and excellent music fur-
The solos hy Miss Dorothy Cass
' #t the morning service and by Miss
hizabeth Smith at the evening ser
e were greatly enjoyed. Miss
abeth Smith, one of the charm
¢ visitors in our city, delighted
| the congregation of St. Matthews
. Episcopal church Sunday evening
|by singing “Ave Maria.” Her voice
iis very sweet and clear and gives
i(‘-\'idcnc:c of careful training, She is
1;1 student at Glen Eden, Conn,
SRR R T S
|A{I’LANT‘A CONVENTION -
k CITY OF FARM BUREAUS
CHICAGO, June 22 —Atlanta, Ga,
l\\‘as awarded the natiinal convention
|of the, American Farm Bureau fed
'vr;uion in November by the execu
sti\'(‘ committee today, The .conven
| tion dates were set for November 22
fto 25. The invitation was presented
{by James W, Morton, of Atlanta
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BEGINNING MONDAY, JUNE 13th.
Men 's Halt Soles, sewed opndiled >.. ... ..., .. $lOO
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OTTO HARNISH, WManager.
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Chiropractor
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Farmer-Gaibutt Bldg.
Office. Hours. $:3O-12-1:30-5
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