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VOL. XXVI, No. 92
WILL SEEK TO BUY A.B. & A. RAILWAY FOR STATE
FORDS PROPOSAL AS
10 MUSCLE SHOALS
To Take Over Power Projects
And Nitrate Plant
EXPERTS STUDY OFFER
It Is Expected that an Offer Will
Come from Another Source
in Near Future
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 27.
Details of Henry Ford’s proposals
for taking over the Muscle Shoals,
Alabama power projects and nitrate
plant were given out today at the
War Department, and Secretary
Weeks said Mr. Ford’s tender would
have to receive considerable modifi
cation before they could be accepted.
Mr, Ford requires a practical guar
antee from the government to devel
op 600,000 horse power at Muscle
Shoals, which cannot be given, the
Secretary declared, though his tender
is being studied by financial and en
gineering experts, There is a possi
bility, also, Mr. Weeks added, that
an offer for the properties would
be made from another source,
The Ford proposals, carefully car
ried out into detail, involve money
payments to the government suffi
cient to return to it $40,000,000 with
in the hundred year period for which
he asks a lease, and in addition a
rental of 6 per cent. on the same
value, Mr. Ford asks further expen
ditures of $28,000,000 to complete the
power and nitrate plants, agreeing
to make additional payments on the
same basis. Proposing to use the
plants for the manufacture of ni
trates, he agrees to hold it in readi
ness for turning over to the govern
ment in case of war, and to allow his
profits to be limited to 8 per cent.
on fertilizers produced in peace time,
with the establishment of a board of
representatives of farmers’ organi
zations to supervise accounts and
see that the limitation be made ef
fective, ¢ 5
Mr, Ford’s proposal was based on
prompt completion of the govern
ment of the Wilson dam power pro
ject to produce 600,000 horse power
for which he proposed to pay a lease
fee each year of $1,200,000 together
with $35,000 for maintenance and
$35,537 against amortization of the
government’s investment in ninety
four years, On dam No. 3, also to
be completed and developed 250,
000 horse power, he proposed to pay
$480,000 in annual lease fee, the
payment in each case being 6 percent
on the government’s investment,
Based on acceptance of these two
lease proposals was the offer to pur
chase “all the property at nitrate
plant No. 2, nitrate plant No. 1, the
Weco quarry and the steam plant
at Gorgas, Ala,” for $5,000,000,
“If the United States agrees to sell
and the company purchases the sev
eral properties,” the letter said, “the
company will operate nitrate plant
No. 2 to approximate present capital
in the production of nitrogen and
other fertilizer compounds with the
following special objectives:
“To determine by research wheth
er there may be produced fertilizer
compounds of higher grade at cheap
er prices than the fertilizer using
farmers have in the past been able
to procure, and to determine whether
in a broad way, the application of
electririty and agricultural industry
of the country what they have econ
omically accomplished for other in
dustries, :
“To maintain nitrate plant No, 2
in a state of readiness to be prompt
ly operated in the manufacture of
materials necessary in time of war
for production of explosives.”
It is added that if the project is
carried through “it will naturally and
reasonably follow” that buyers of
fertilizers will desire assurance that
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Service Suggestions
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Declare Policy Of Giving Public Best
Possible Service On Mails
The following notice to Post Office
patrons was handed the Leader today
by Postmaster W. A. Adams:
“In keeping with the general policy
of the Honorable Postmaster General
and the Postoffice Department in im
proving the service at all points, I
again appeal to you to not hesitate in
offering suggestions for improving the
service at this office whether connect
ed with the city carrier service, the
rural service or the post office service,
“We also invite constructive criti
cism of the service and I will welcome
any and all suggestions for improve
ments at any point, aud will promise
you again that any good suggestion
made to me will have my earnest at
tention, If you have complaints of
any nature if you will communicate
with me either by letter, tlephone or
personalcall atmyofficel shall be glad
to go into the matter fully with you
and will promise that any such com
plaint made shall be considered of
sufficient importance to be inve‘stiga
ted, To give the best service of any
post office in the United States is my
desire and in this, I am backed up by
my entire force, clerks, city and rural
carriers.”
Respectfully,
W. A. Ada¥%s, Postmaster.
Miss Jimmie Wasserman who has
been delightfully entertained in the
city while guest of Mrs. R, E. Lee
has returned to her home in Talla
poosa,
Miss Elizabeth Hill of Savannah
who has been the guest of Misses
Thelma and Eulalie Dorminy for
several days has returned to her
home,
the product be marketed “without ex
cessive profit.”
“To meet this reasonable expecta
tion on the part of the farmers of
the country,” the letter said, “the
company proposes that the maximum
net profit which it shall make in the
manufacture and sale of fertilizer
products shall not exceed 8 per cent.”
Designated representatives of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
the National Grange and the Farm
ers’ Union, together with a repre
sentative from the Bureau of Mar
kets and two representatives of the
company is proposed as the compo
sition of the board on profits and
distribution.
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1921,
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Farm Bureau Wants
Ag Schools Helped
Plan Co-Operative Marketing Thru
Committee of Organization
The Ben Hill County Farm Bureau
met Saturday July 23rd. On account
of the absence of M, Dixon, chair
man, Mr. L. Robitzsch presided over
the meeting, ;
Minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved, The secre
tary read an agreement from the Geor
gia Farm Bureau Federation Ex
change to be entered into with the
Ben Hill County Farm Bureau as to
the sale and handling of farm pro
ducts. This matter was turned over
to a committece composed of C. T,
Owens, H. H. James and A, J, Sword
to decide as to entering into this con
tract with the Farm Bureau Exchange
A resolution was passed requesting
our representative and Senator to use
their influence in defeating a proposed
bill which was to be introduced in the
present legislature to junk the 12
District A. & M, Schools and to cut
the free school appropriation.
It is plainly set out in the resolution
that the Ben Hill County Farm Bu
reau is greatly interested in the edu
cation of the boys and girls and are
very much opposed to any such meas
ures being passsed by our Georgia
Legislature, : \
H, H. James and A. J, Sword made
a report of their investigations as to
the working condtions of the present
Farm Loan Association in our county.
Upon the strength eof this report a\
resolution was passed authorizing the
chairman to appoint H. H, James, E, |
T. Dunn, and J. Roscoe Kimball as a
committeee to organize a new Federal
Farm Loan Association to work in
conjunction with the Ben Hill county
Farm Bureau,
After several interesting discus
sions as to the necessity of co-opera
tve commodity selling Organipations
the meeting adjourned to meet Satur
day August 3rd, 1921 at 2:30 P. M,
L. Robitzsch, Acting Chairman.
C. T. Owens, Secretary,
NOTICE TO CLUB MEMBERS
There will be a picnic at Bowens
Mill Saturday July 30th, for all Club
Members and their families and
friends.
All are invited to attend and make
the day a real succes for the Club
Boys and Girls of this county,
There will be some contest and
prizes awarded,
Don’t forget the day. Come early
and bring your lunch,
Very truly, ‘
C. T. OWENS, County Agent,
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Boy’s Kaynee Blouses
Special table of these wonderful garments in
beautiful selection of patterns including stripes
and checks, also plain white and blues,
$2.00 BLOUSE now.. ... ... ....... $1,50
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ENTERPRISE and PRESS
Adams Qualified To
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= Try Picket Cases
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Judge D, P, Adams is not disqual
ified in the cases against strikers
charged with carrying arms while
picketing Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic railroad property. When
Judge Powers voluntarily disquali
fied himself in the case and left the
selection of a commital magistrate to
Judge O. T. Gower it was said that
Judge Adams was also disqualified.
It later develops that he is qualified
to try t!f ca¥es and it is considered
posgible- that if the cases come to
trifil;t’i'l'_iégvill be named by Judge
G?Wesl to hold the hearings.
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lSouth Georgia Dailies
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Meet At Thomasville
THOMASVILLE, July 27.—The
members of the Associated Daily
Newspapers of South Georgia will
meet in Thomasville today for a
regular business session. They will
be the guests while here of the Times
Enterprise. The meetings will be
held in the parlors of the Tosco Ho
tel and at 1 o’clock the visitors will
be the guests of the Thomasville
Rotary Club, a special program of
entertainment having been arranged
for them, All of the daily papers of
South Georgia will be represented at
this meeting which is expected to be
a very interesting one, |
Atlanta Negro Steals
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A Brick Building
ATLANTA, July 27.—Found guil
ty of stealing a two-story brick
house, Ben Chapman, a negro, was
sentenced Monday morning by Judge
Humphrey in Fulton Superior Court
to serve twelve months on the chain
gang, Chapman maintained that he
had not stolen the house, but the
court was shown that the building
was gone and many witnesses testi
fied to the fact thar Chapman was
the man who had removed it, “lock,
stock and barrel,” from its former
location at 591 Whitehall street, The
building prior to its theft was the
property of Jacob Elsas,
Mr., and Mrs, P, C. Collins, Mr,
Barney Rowe and Preston Collins JE
left Tuesday for Jacksonville Florida
and Pablo Beach where they will
spend a few days, They made the
trip by automobile,
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Wesley Walker Does
Not Want City Court
Says Would Eost Too Much and
Election To Be Held Too Soon
Fitzgerald, Ga. July 27, 1921.
Fitzgerald Leader,
I notice our State Senator Hon,
Wiley Williams and our Representa
tive Hon. T, J, Luke has introduced
and will pass a Bill establishing a
City Court. *As "I understand this
Bill it will be submitted to the vot
ers of the County to be ratified. To
this I say is right and fair, When
this court was abolished in 1915 by
myself it was done through the vote
of the people electing me to do the
job and I did it, It has been a bone’
of contention ever since then to re
establish it and I was satisfied that
the present administration would es
tablish it and they have done the
right thing to submit it to the people
as the voters know I have fought the
proposition from the start purely
from a financial, taxable standpoint
and now under the great financial
strain burden down so to speak with
taxes and more and more heaping up
on us every day that could be avoid
ed. Yet I made up my mind to say
nothing for or against the establish
ing of this court knowing full well
that the stand I have taken in the
past against this court has lost me
quite a few friends that I regret hav-.
iing lost but T was serving my county
for the best interest of the people as
1 saw it regardless of those friends
I lost. And T would not say one
one word but for the unfairness of
taking the advantage of the voters of
‘the county in submitting it to them
practically on ten days notice. Why
take a snap judgment on this impor
tant proposition where the people are
so vitally interested and pull the
election off before the rural voters
of the county have time to know
anything about the elegtion and a
handfull of city voters possibly the
friends of the bill would be the only
ones to get their friends out to vote.
To pull off this kind of stunt does
more harm than good and really rep
’resents the court, A snap judgment
Court, Why not be fair with the
voters and give them a legal notice
of thirty days and advertise the Bill
so that thee. voters will know just
what they are voting on, I dare gay
that most of the voters are intelli
gent enough after having read the
Bill to cast their vote intelligently.
Of course I am always butting in
and possibly in someone’s way but
just why I don’t know. Either a
natural born “kicker” or a duty to
perform. Thirty days would be a
legal notice and the voters should
demand that and that the Bill be ad
vertised, |
Why should we be in such a hurry
to run this election over the people
in a ten days’ notice, We have been
doing without this court for six
years and we have been getting
along all right, Of course we have
not been railroaded through court as
fast as some folks would possibly of
liked, Nor railroaded into the chain
gang as fast as we ought to be but
that hasn’t nothing to do with giv
ing us a square deal in casting our
vote on this Bill when the wvoters
have got to finance it by taxation.
If the advocates of this Bill wishes
to settle this for all time let them
be fair in the matter and then if it is
carried it will settle it. I have just
read a notice in The Fitzgerald
Leader where the Bill was introduced
in the Legislature last Tuesday and
calls for an election on the 10th day
of August.
The Bill is not yet passed and it
will take the rest of this week to get
the bill through and the governor’s
signature to it. Some hurry isn't it,
What will be the verdict at the polls'
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Patrolman Joe Bokau, who came
bere from Bulgaria but is now a
rmber of the American Legion at
¢ledo, has been notified that he is
sole heir to an estate of 3,600,000
fey. Before the war this would have
amountcg. to 95:‘).@ in Amefical;
mo s at the t rate o
cxcfi!ge is wo,m'_i’atrolman
Bokau {ys, “1 fought™ for this
coun’ v, qand I'll stay and enjoy sy
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National Highway
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State Maintained
From Bibb to Florida Line, as Soon
Present Projects Are Completed |
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Mr. W C. Caye, Jr., of Americus,
Engincer for the State Highway De
partment for the Third District with
headquarters in Americus, was in
Tifton Tuesday afternoon, coming
over on a trip of inspection of that
part of the National Highway from
Tifton to the Dooly county line
which is being maintained by the
Highway Department.
Mr, Caye says he found the High
‘way in excellent shape, When then
‘State first took over that portion
from the Dooly line to Tifton there
was a few soil problems of surfac
ing to solve but these have been met
and the work is gomng forward very
satisfactory, the motorist being ahle
to make thirty miles an hour on the
fifty miles of road with ease.
} Dooly county is rebuilding and
surfacing the National Highway thru
‘that county, said Mr, Caye. The
Highway Department expects also
to take over the maintenance of the
National Highway through. Houston
county, he stated, which will give a
State maintained highway along the
National from Bibb to the Florida
line,
As soon as building work south of
Tifton is finished, the Second and
Eleventh Districts will take over
supervision of maintenance from the
Turner line south, Mr. Caye looking
after onl y that portion in the Third
District, He came a little over his
District line in the first place be
cause the project stopped at Tifton
at that time, Now State maintenance
reaches. through Tift, Cook and
Lowndes.
Half Roads State Maintained
In Georgia there are now practi
cally 2,000 miles of the total of 4,-
800 miles of highway under State
maintenance. Before the close of an
other year, the Department expects
to have the entire road mileage un
der state supervision.-Tifton Gazette.
b e ol
Mr, J. J. Dorminey and three
daughters Misses Thelma, Eulalie and
Elizabeth left for Atlanta today to
see Mrs, Dorminey,
Leader Want Ads bring results
Try one Phone 228,
Mr. and Mrs. Forest H. Farmer
went to Atlanta Tuesday to spend
several days.
in a hasty proposition like this,
Yours Respectfully,
WESLEY R. WALKER
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Special table Women’s and Missess’ PUMPS
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Store shoe values that are real Bargains.
Entire Stock of Low Shies at One-Fourth Offt
Special table Ladies Low Shoes Half Price!
FITZGERALD COTTON
Good Middling _________lo 7-8¢
No Sales No Receipts
Official Organ City of Fitzgerald
NAME COMMITTEE
Blalock of Ware Will Introduce
Resolution This Week
TO LINK WITH W. & A.
Says Purchase of Road Now Will
Protect Value of State’s Present
Rail Property
Action by the State Legislature on
the proposal to have the State of
Georgia buy the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic railroad is assured by
Representative J. D. Blalock of Ware
County, Mr. Blalock states in a card
in the Atlanta Georgian today that
he will introduce a resolution in the
House of Representatives to have a
committee appointed to investigate
the possibility of buying the railroad
for the State,
Mr Blalock thoroughly discusses the
‘proposition of adding the Atlanta,
\Birmingham and Atlantic to the W.
& A, now owned by the State, He
considered that the A. B, & A, prop
erties would not only be valuable in
themselves but would protect the val
ue of the W, & A. for all time to
come. Mr. Blalock’s views are as
follows:
“I was much interested by a publi
cation in a Brunswick paper a few
days ago, in which the chairman of
the W, & A Committee of the House
was quoted aas saying that a bill would
be introduced probably at the next
session of the Legislature, proposing
that the State buy the Atlanta, Birm
ingham and Atlantic Railroad, and
make it a part of the W. & A. System,
connectifg the TFennessee River at
Chattanooga with the sea, '
In the same paper the following day
Governor Hardwick is quoted as in
dorsing the project in connection with
Mr. Kittrell's bill of establishing a
State port on the Georgia coast.
This idea of extending the State
road to the sea is a dream of long
standing and every few years some
legislator brings it to the surface in
the House or the Senate, It in
variably meets with great favor, but
never gets anywhere, At this time
it is especially interesting in view
of Governor Hardwick’s strong
statement in his recent message to
the Legislature in which he empha
sized that Georgia’s credit was made
doubly strong by its ownership of
the W. & A., and recommended that
our financiali dilemma be straight
ened out by discounting the income
from the W, & A.
I do not take it that the governor
is in favor of “government owner
ship” of railroads, and neither am
I, and if we did not own the Western
and Atlantic, I would never consider
the purchase or building of rail
roads by the State, but I am not
afraid of a fetish, when practical
business is at stake, lam sure no
good business man is, and as this
idea of extending the State road to
‘the sea has always met with great
favor among the people, I am sure
a large per cent of the Georgia peo
ple are in favor of taking care of
Inur fine railroad property in the very
best way possible,
In the first place, the preservation
of the W. & A. as a highly paying
piece of property is somewhat de
pendent on its having a seaport con
nection. The road will always have
a good local business, but if it
should ever be paralelled, its through
business might be cut off and it be
reduced to a purely local road, That
would reduce its earnings and rent
als, and in order to prevent this, I
would be heartily in favor of link
ing up the A, B. & A, to it and
making it one of the great systems
of the South. Of course, I would be
in favor of leasing the addition just
as we are leasing the original line.
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