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FRIDAY
EDITION
VOL. XXVI, No. 96
A. J. Sword Will Head Farmers
Body; James Secretary.
GORMAN MAKES SPEECH
Union Official Urges Farmers to
Organize As Only Salvation
from Wall Street
Temporary organization for a Ben
Hill County unit of the Georgia Co-
Operative Cotton Marketing Associa
tion was made at a mass meeting at
the Court House Wednesday aftcr-;
noon at which W, T. Hanson ' of
Cobb County and O, D. Gorman of
Mauk, Ga, spoke. A, J. Swords is
temporary chairman, H. H, James,!
secretary, L. F. Ashurst, T. M, Wil- |
banks, W. J. Wilson organizing com
mittee, Mayor J. L. Pittman pre
sided at the meeting and introduced
the speakers. About three hundred
farmers from Ben 'Hill and Irwin
counties heard the addresses, No
contracts were signed at the first
meeting and actual organization will
not be perfected until a later meeting.
O, DI Gorman, who lis general
chairman of the railroad telegrapher’s
who are on strike against the A B &
A, assrted that the farmer's only
salvation from his well known pres
ent condition was organization. He
pointed out that every other interest
in the world was well organized and
that as a resklt the farmer was con
tinually being ground between the
upper and nether millstones, organ
ized labor and organized capital,
Farmers Can Stick Together
Mr. Gorman charged that the in
terests who exploited the farmer had
for years been spreading propaganda
against farmer’s organization. “The
old whine that the farmers cant stick
together, can’t organize, is nothing
more nor less than ag insidious prop
aganda that has been spread so thick
that even the farmers are saying it
and believing it, Mr. Gorman said,
but it is not true and the farmer whe
,says the farmer can‘t organize ought
to be hit in the head with a stick and
put out' of his misery”
Mr. Hanson went straight into the
practical details of the organization
of the Georgia Cotton Grower's Co
operative Association, describing its
main features and its objectives, The
distinctive feature of the ‘Sapiro plan’
is the compulsory contract which the
farmer can break only by dying, quit
growing cotton‘or moving out of the
statc,
Mr, Hanson plead with his hearers
to do their own thinking on the ques
tion of co-operative marketing ‘and
in justice to themselves and their
families to study the question thor
oughly bhefore they either refused it
or accepted it in order that they might
make their decision intelligently No
contracts were signed at the meeting,
Irwir Comes Interested
Seven farmers from Irwin county,
including W. A. “Uncle Bill” Tank
ersley, former representative, H. B.
Harper of Wray, farmer’s Union head
in Irwin, were at the meeting and re
quested Mr, Hanson to come to Irwin
county to organize a unit as soon as
he possibly can., The Irwin farmers
are intensely interested in the plan,
they said.
. The factional fight between the
State Department of Agriculture
which has espoused the Sapiro plan,
and the State College of Agriculture
which has tentatively endorsed an ovo
tional contract plan worked out by
the Federal bureau of markets, is
impeding the progress of the move
ment toward an effective marketing
association in this and other countive
of the State. A certain prejudice ex
isting in some quarters against the
State bureau of markets is obstruct
ing the Sapiro plan‘s advancemeat
and a similar prejudice in other quar
ters against the state college and the
extension department is seemingty
pretty sure to wreck any movement
toward swinging optional contract
plan. At a meeting some time ago
at which a Farm Bureau leader spolke
the optional contract plan was en
idorsed but no steps wete taken towawd
organizing a co-operative marketirg
association under that plan
Orgamization Is Necessary
It is generally agreed among the
farmers and merchants in towns whei e
agriculture is the chief industry that
some plan of co-operative marketing
is necessary but many close observs
ers of sentiment in this section are du
bious over the success of any plan ua
less the State Bureau of Markets and
the State College Exetnsion depait
ment become agreed on it. With
the oil and fertilizer inspectors and
other men scattered throughout the
state who are partisan to the State
Bureau of Markets working'with the
ctrunty agents and other partisans af
the State College, the success of any
one sound plan would be insured
A. J. Swords and H, H. James the
temporary officers of the local asso
ciation, are chairman and secretary
respectively o the iFtzgerald council
of the Ben Hill Farm Bureau,
Misses Mildred and Virginia Haile
are visiting friends in Tifton ond
Tyty.
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Threatening Letter Epidemic :
Breaks Out In Strike Situation
Mayor J, L. Pittman and Sheriff E.
H. Dorminey Are Warned to
Get Out of Office
Sherif E. H, Dorminey and
Mayor J. L. Pittman have both
been warned to get out office under
penalty of serious personal violence.
The Sheriff received his love letter
Thursday morning through the
mails. The Mayor received his bil
let doux Friday morning. Neither
official seems to be very much
worried over the threats and
both declare their intentions of con
tinuing to do their duty as they see
Mayor Pittman's letter is written
on plain white stationary with a
typewriter and enclosed in a cheap
rag envelope. It is very bitter in
denouncing him and is signed by
“committee of so-called scabs.)” The
letter follows:
Hon. Mayor Pittman
‘Fitzgerald,’ Ga,
Dear Mr. Mayor:
I have never had the pleasure of
your personal acquaintance, but
know fully the attitude you have
taken against the employees of the
A, B, & A. railroad. We have come
here to make an honest living and
have only taken the jobs that the
other men quit, and had nothing to
do with them quitting, and feel that
any man can take a job after the
other man leaves it, and says he
quit without being criticized,
You have made a dam fool out
of yourself as Mayor of this town,
anl we can prove it by some of the
best citizens of this town, and they
are with us, and do think that it is
now time that you should pull in
your horns and drop this matter as
far as we are concerned, and I am
now giving you fair warnihg, that
we will give you 10 days to decide
what you are going to do and if you
decide to continue to harass us as
you are doing, it will be better for
yvou to leave town and hunt a more
healthful resort, as we mean just
what I have said, so take warning
for we.mean to take action if you
do not,
Committee of
“So Called Scabs”.
Sheriff E. H. Dorminey yesterday
morning received a threatening lete
ter in which he was ordered to re.
sign within twenty_four hours. Vio.
lence is inferred as the alternative.
The twenty_four hours expired this
morning and the sheriff was still on
the job and, Mrs, Dorminey said,
“will be until his term expires.”
A meeting to which reference is
made is not thought to be the mass
meeting Wednesday night and it is
considered doubtful - whether really
a meeting was held. The sheriff has
continued to perform his duties
without escort or guard of any kind.
The anonymous letter is as follows:
A meeting was held last night for
the purpose of considering number of
charges that have been investigated,
for the purpose of impeachment, it
was decided that it would take too
long. A more preemptory action
was decided on, personally the peo
ple have no fear of you. You are
yellow through but they are com
pelled to respect the office you hold.
If you care to vacate the office of
Sheriff within twenty-four hours, you
may feel safe to go where you will
and assured of protection. If you
think this a joke and still able to
travel on Sunday attend the evening
service take your gunman with you.
Whatever is done, will be done in a
crowd, we never expect to find you
in the woods.
The Leader went to press Satur
day morning instead of Friday af
ternoon because of a break down
Wednesday afternoon on our Lino
type machine.
Fitcgerald Leader WANT-ADS
Quick Results, Phone 328.
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1921.
WHAT! A
CITY COURT?
Editor Fitzgerald Leader-Enterprise,
Dear Sir:—
- Sidney Clare's inconsistency re
garding public affairs cannot be ig
nored by the good women of Fitz
gerald and Ben Hill County.
The call for a bond election in ouf
city for the sum of $68,000 for the
purpose of enlarging our schools and
better taking care of and educating
our chidren brought forth from Mr.,
Clare a- howl for mercy and a plea
against a burdensome tax, but above
all, that unpardonable accusation di
rected against the good ladies of the
town regarding the colored women
voting in the bond election, The di
agnosis of his article giving his reas
ons for another City Court shows thed
he is in desperate straits in the upper
portion of his human make-up, and
that hé has no regard whatever for
what he says. Mr. Clare went to the
lowest ebb in denouncing the bond
issue, which was for educating our
children that they be informed and
guarded against the pitfalls in life,
Mr, Clare's inconsistency is evidence
sufficient to prove that it would take
the entire bond issue of $68,000 to en
lighten him and get him out of the
frame up for a City Court in which
he has been caught and is willing to
be taxed to support the graft, but not
willing to stand by the good women
who favored bonds for the education
of the rising generation,
"0, Consistency, thou art a jewel!”
O, Politics, thou art rotten!
Mr. Clare is densely ignorant or
else he must think the women voters
nothing more than a buynch ‘of num
skulls: “The Court that Mr, Walker
abolished was entirely under the fee
system.” To know how ignorant
Mr. Clare really is about the City
Court that was abolished, the act
creating the court should he read,
Every officer that will be on a sal
ary by the proposed new City Court
was on a salary under the Court that
was abolished, The judge drew $l,-
200 and the Solicitor $l,OOO per an
num under the old City Court bill,
and the same salary is provided for
ithe Judge and Solicitor under the
proposed new bill, and every officer
that drew fees under the old city
lcourt will draw fees under the new.
Therefore, the same motive for
graft would exist under the new bill
as existed under the ‘old. The new
court bill, the way it is drawn, will
be more expensive than the qld city
court bill, for the reason that theyi
only used a panel of 15 jurors as pro
vided for in the Superior Court, Un
der the new city court bill the same
procedure is rovided for asp is provid
ed for the Superior Court; the same
rule for continuance, the same rule
for lawyer’s sickness, the same man
ner of selecting and impaneling a
jury and the same number of jurors.
Under the old city court bill the
same provisions with reference to the
surplus going to the schools was
provided for, as under the new city
court bill. Did the schools get a
penny? No, The difference in ex
pense is the city court only tries the
misdemeanor cases and the Superior
Court has jurisdiction in all cases.
Important. Read carefully and see if
you want to be railroaded, In the
Superior Court there must be an in
dictment returned by the Grand Jury
against a person, and in the City
Court you can draw an acquisition
against any person based upon an
affadavit and put him on trial, and
you are forced to hire a lawyer or
be railroaded. In the Superior Court
the Grand Jury must first investigate
evidence to authorize the defendant
to be tride before a Petit Jury.n In
the Superior Court the Judge costs
the county nothing, so the Judge's
ENTERPRISE and PRESS
First Bale of Cotton
Ginned Here Today
The first bale of cotton for the seas
on was ginned today by the I{nion
Cotton Qil Company for J.W. Vaughn
and sold through the Ben Hill Com
pany at 14 3-8 c per pound. Last yvear's
first bale was brought to town on
August 13th and sold for 47c. pound,
Elder Blackwell
.
Returns To City
Elder W. M. Blackwell returned
yesterday from Richland where he
has bee conducting u successful reviv
al service for the last few weeks. He
will hold the regular services at the
Primitive Baptist Church Sunday,
The morning sermon will be on
“The Lord’s Supper and Feet Wash
ing.” The communion service will
be observed n the evening,
salary and the Solicitor’s salary of
the City Court, amounting to $2,200,
would be addeq to the expense of the
county which would more than pay
for the time of the Grand Jury for
every term of the Superior ‘Court
held for a year if one is desired,
Who are the people that started the
demand for a new City Court? A
few lawyers aided by the officers
who are not willing to let well
enough aone. The City Court would
be a fine thing for lawyers, because
one member of their number would;
be Judge and another Solicitor, and |
these two would be given a .\u]ary.!
We make this statement fully believ
ing that it can be verified by thc;
Judge of the Superior Court, and by
every member of the bar who is
Lenest, that, if the people want their
nrsiness distesed of, and if the law
yers would get ready to try them,
Judge Gower could come here, sum
mon 36 jurors, the same number
that \\';ls':l]\\-3.\'5. and will continue
to be subpoenaed for the Superior
Court, and dispose of cases as speed
ily and with less cost to taxpayers
than cases can be disposed of in the
city court, for the reason that they
pay the Judge of a Supreior Court
no part of his salary, the State pay
his salary, The July term of Ben
Hill Superior Court was not held,
why. Did not every lawyer in Fitz
gerald request Judge Gower to ad
journ the term court? Was this
done for the purpose of getting a
City Court? Yes. If the lawyers
want the business disposed of, and
the Judge be firm and make the
lawyers do business or throw their
cases out of court, we father the
thought, express the belief, and are
willing to stake our judgment, that
if they will unanimously or even if
a majority of them, will quit ‘politic
ing” with our court, and through our
court, and get down to Business, we
will have all the court in the Super
ior Court we want, and when the
time rolls around for another county
election, vote these agitators out of
office. .
Mr, Voter, don’t you be deceived
about the City Court being less
expensive than the Superior Cdurt,
The Superior Court, if the City Court
is established, will meet and organ
ize, the Grand Jury will be charged
just the same way and with the same
expense as it now disposes of the bus
iness. How many cases have the
lawyers who drew the City Court
bill now pending, in the Superior
Court undisposed of? We are not
informed as to who drew the bill,
nor do we care, We remember in
‘what disrepute the old City Court be
came before it was abolished, just
‘why we cannot say, but we do know
that the people grew tired of it and
wanted it abolished. If a néw city
court is established, wi’l it funetion
better, mqre expeditiously and less
expensively than the old city court?
If it will, tell us how, and wherein, it
Tells Citizens He Tried to Elim
inate Factionalism
MAYOR PITTMAN SPEAKS
Denies Letting Personal Views Inter
fere with Administration of
His Office
Fatlure to bring about a harmoniz
ing compromise between the factions
of citizens who have dividéd on the
issue of the A. B. & A, striike was
admitted by O D. Gorman, general
chairman of the striking telegraphers
of the road at a mass meeting Wed
nesday night, About six hundred |
people attended the meeting, including
more than one hundred ladies,
Mr. Gorman declared that peace |
and harmony in Fitzgerald were skat- |
ing on thin ice and any more friction !
might cause them to break througl:,!
He said that he had conferred \\'ithi
the leaders of the two committees of |
citizens, the “citizen’s committcc'"
named by the faction on which op-|
poses the strikers and the “business
mens committee which was named |
by the faction favoring the strikcrs,*
in an effort to bring them together
for conferences Monday night and |
again Tuesday night and each time
the citizen‘s committee leaders hadl
agreed to meet and had failed to meet.
Mr. Gorman stated that his object
in coming to Fitzgerald was to try
and get a joint committece named
representing ‘Hoth interests which
could work together without concern
for the outcome of the strike but to
simply insure peace and public safe
ty. The net results of his three day
stay here were two tmass meetings
and a number of fruitless private
conferences with members of thq
committees.
Mr, Gorman.declared that the con
dition pointed out by Col, H. D, Rus
sell, who commended the troops sent
here July 7 and Bth still exists, The
sheriff is recognized as a partisan of
the rairoad and the strike breakers,
and the mayor is recognized as a par
tisan of the strikers,
Mayor Defends Position
Mayor J. L. Pittman introduced
Mr, Gorman and in his remarks he
‘defended himself against charges of
‘unfairness or bias in doing his duty
as an official. “I hold that any man
no matter who he is, has a right to his
own personal views,” the Mayor de
clared, “but I as firmly hold that no
public official has any right to let his
private personal views influence him
in doing his duty as an officer of the
law and I believe that any pubic of
ficial who is so inffuenced is too small
to hold a public job. My personal
views jn this strike are known but I
challenge any man to cite me to where
they have influenced my actions one
iota in performing my public service
as mayor of iFtzgerald.”
Will S. Haile chairman of the bus
iness men‘s committee, presided at
the meeting, Mr. Haile is also pres
ident of the Retail Merchants Asso
ciation which was organized several
months ago and whose membership
includes men of hoth the citizens and
the business men’s committee.
Leader Want Ads bring lesults—
just try one, :
Weather Report Shows Too Much
Rain In Many Sections of State
‘will we will not vote for it. If the
City Court is established just now
when we are having the greatest
financial stringency ever known fin
the history of our country, won‘t un
conscious creditors immediately file
suit against you and put you to all
the unnecessary expense and trou
ble and costs that he can, Mr, Voter?
Consider this,
Mr. Voter and Mr. Taxpayer, you
had best study this court question
diligently, even if it does purport to
be bringing a gift in the way of all
surplus to the city and county
schools, This provisfon is true with
the Superior Court, yet how many
dollars have ever been turned over
to the school fund by the Superior
Court?
Don’t think we women voters are
numskulls, The foregoing facts are
‘obtained from the bill and from the
records of the old court, and to
show our interest in public affairs,
’and as voters, we are protesting
against another court in view of the
’a.bovc stated facts.
~ “Yours from the ‘Kitchen to the
Bedroom’.”
Executive Board of ‘Womans Club,
Regent D. A. R,
President, U. D. C,
Chairman Ben Hill Co, League of
Women Voters
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Marshal Foch, will veceive § pers,
sonal invitationito attend the an
nual ‘convention of the American
Legion. Major Charles W. Barte
lett, of Kansas City,'sails to deliver
the invitation to the great French
man. While in France he will se
lect a site for the memorial to be
crected by the State of Missouri in
Ronor of its sona whe fell there, |
Gershon Returns From
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Poland With His Bride
ATLANTA, August s—Sam Ger
shon, widely - known in Jewish chari
table circles, has just retvrned from
Poland, where he disbursed $llB,OOO
to hospitals and orphanages, He
brought a bride back with him and
was being congratulated by his
friends Wednesday.
The fund was raised by the Kobri
ner Relief Association and Mr. Ger
shon, due to his wide knowledge of
Poland and his activities among
charitable institutions, was selected
to distribute the fund,
While in the city of Brest-Litovsk,
Poland, he married. He and his wife
will live at 212 Washington street.
“Conditions in Poland have slight
ly improved,” Mr. Gershon said.
Conditions there are pretty bad,
however, and the work of the Kobri
ner Relief Societfwas badly needed ”
Editor’s Note—Mr. Gershon is the
Senior partner in the Fair Store and
has a large circle of acquaintances
and friends in this city who will be
interested to read of his return to
the United States and extend to him
and his bride congratulations.
2,500 Pounds Tobacco
Sell At 7.75 Averrge
S
Twenty-five hundred pounds of
tobacco sold for an average of 7.75
on the floor of the Lon Dickey To
bacco Warchouse Company here
Friday. The quantity was less than
other days this week and the market
a little off. The price ranged from
two cents to 225 (¢ nts,
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~ Warren Skinier leaves Saturday
for New York to sign a contract
with an FEastern newspaper syndi
cate for his cartoons. He was car
toonist in the United States army re
cruiting service during the war and
has brilliant prospects as a cartoon
!ist and illustrator
Condition of Crops Vares in Differ
ent Sections on Account
. of Weather
- ATLANTA, August 5, During
Ithe past week heavy rains occured in
Ithe southern division and in portions
of the central division and many
areas of lowlands have been under
iwater; elsewhere the rainfall was
‘moderate in amount. Temperatures
were high in all sections, with abund
ant sunshine in the central-north,
The weather has favored the increase
of the boll weevil and the damage to
the cotton crop in Georgia by this
pest has been enormous. The con
dition of cotton is very diversified;
fine fields of cotton are to be seen
side by side with very poor ones,‘
but in all cases the plants seem to
be fruiting poorly; considerable,
shedding is reported in consequence
of heavy rains; cuitivation has ceased
except in the north and the crop has
been laid by. Cotton has begun to‘
open in the south. Corn has also
been laid by and fodder pulling has
begun. Late and 'lowland corn is
good; upland and early corn is not
so good, Early corn is mature,
Sweet potatoes are doing well; dig
ging early varieties has begun, with
excellent yields. Peanuts, sugar
cane, sorghum, rice and minor crops
are doing fairly well, Pecans still
promise a good yield. Shipments of
peaches are nearly over. Cantaloupes
and watermelons are abundant and
good. Generally crop conditions
may be designated as fairly good ex
cepting only cotton, which is very
poor,
FITZGERALD COTTON
Good Middling ___._____lo 7-8¢
No Sales No Receipts
Official Organ City of Fitzgerald
Charge of Interfering with Em
ployes Sustained
BOND FIXED AT $lOO
Case Will Be Tried in the Superior
Court; Defense Confident of
Winning Out:
Misdemeanor charges against Troy
Lindsey: striker ac ‘used of interfer
ing with the present employes of
’lin- Atlanta, Birmingham and ° At
| lantic railroad, were sustained by
| Fred M, Powers, justice of the peace,
at a committal trial at the county
court house today. The trial began
Tuesday afternoon, Mg
The case arose outof armed pick
eting by the strikers, ;
Attorney McDonald declared con
fidence that his client would be freed
by a jury in Supreior court when it
.comes up for trial there,
~ T. H. Linneman, A, W. Kirkland,
Harry Myrick and Butler were the
witnesses examiined this afternoon in
‘the case of the State vs Troy Lind
sey, charged with interfering with
‘the present employes of the A, B.
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The court house was filled with
interesting = citizens who attended
the opening session of the case last
Tuesday. :
- The testimony this forenoon, as
given by Linneman, conductor in
charge of thé Shop train, whichs«
makes cight round trips daily, and
Master Mechanic A. W, Kirkland
weakened the State’s case considera
ble, especially the former’s, who de
nied that his train or anyone on it,
had ever been interferred with since
the strike began,
Attorneys A. J. and Carlyle Mc
‘Donald represented the defendant
and Judge D. E, Griffin represented
the prosecution before Justice Fred
Powers. Recess for dinner was tak
en at noon,
At 2 p. m, five more witnesses
were introduced for the State,
Messrs. Joe Morris. J.. W. Scarbor
ough, Cleon Howell, Paris and Mrs.
Jowers, whose testimony did not ap
parently strengthen the case for the
State. .
Attorneys for the defense were ap
parently satisfied with the lack of
testimony by the State witnesses
and did not introduce any evidence
for their client, Attorney Carlyle
McDonald opened the argument for
the defense,
The trials of the strikers accused of
misdemeanors for carrying arms to
the picket lines were begun before
Judge F. M, Powers Tuesday even
ing but were continued to Friday
morning. A. J. McPonad attorney
for the defense, tried to-make Judge
Powers disqualify himself in the J.
D, Huckabee and Troy Lindsey cases
on the grounds that he had disqualified
himself in the Fred Stubbs and Jim
Smith cases, identical cases. In those
cases Judge Powers stated that he
had already expressed an opinion that
armed picketing was in violation of
law and a menace to the peace of the
community,
Habeas Corpus For Daniel
® Another devglopment in the courts
phase of the strike situation today
was the filing of habeas corpus pru
ceedings for John Daniel, " negro
striker, who is being held without
bond on charges of carrying pistol
concealed, carrying pistol without
license and pointing a pistol at an
other. The usual bonds assessed in
such cases here are $lOO.OO in each
of the first two cases and $5OO in
the last case. It is understood that
IShcrifi Dorminey has heard that
;Daniel was connected with threats
against the sheriff's life and is afraid
to have him at liberty, Judge Gow
er set the habeas corpus hearing for
Saturday August 6th, at 10 o’clock at
the Ben Hill court house, :
Bugg Is Granted $lOOO
. &
Month For His Services
ATLANTA, August sth—Col, 8
L. Bugg, receiver for the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad,
has petitioned for a monthly pay day
for himselif,
Colonel Bugg, who formerly was
president of the A, B, & A. Rail
road, and who was appointed le
ceiver for the road when it weat
into bankruptcy, pointed out in a
petition to Judge Sibley of the fed
era court that he has directed the
affairs of the road without compen
sation since Feb. 25 and asks
$lOOO a month for his services, The
petition was ordered carried out by
the federal court, and Colonel Bugg
will receive $5OOO back pay and
$lOOO monthly.
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