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The Fitzgerald Leader
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Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897
LoNEeRE RS s Liil s e e
Official Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
ISIDOR GEIDERS - :oo ... . s Bditor
STEWART F. GELDERS_.__Managing Editor
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ASSOCIATION, foreign Adv. Representatives,
ON LEAVING FITZGERALD—It is with
some regret that I finally decided to leave Fitz
gerald, my home town and the town around
which my ambitions have been centered for a
long time. However, the newspaper field here
is small even under normal conditions and under
the conditions that prevail now it is out of the
question to expect anything better in the way
of newspaper service than Fitzgerald is getting
now, except at a greater loss of money than any
one in Fitzgerald would be willing to make.
This is a great section. It is without question
the “promised land of tomorrow” provided those
who have the most to gain by its development
and prosperity broaden their vision and the scope
of their efforts sufficiently to develope it. Those
who would see this section grow must first un
derstand that the most important element in
making the wealth of an agricultural region is
the human element. Every business in this sec
tion, however great or small, and the aggregate
wealth of this section depends for its size success
on the success of the small farmer, the one-horse
farmer, the cropper It is that man who really
produces the real wealth of the section.
Industrial development means nothing to this
section. The so-called Labor Problem is impor
tant here only in its human and personal phase,
whether it is solved with justice and fairness and
humanity. This country, South Georgia, can
never be anything but agricultural and it can
not be developed without educated, intelligent,
straight thinking small farmers. Agricultural
and technical education is the crying need of
South Georgia. Our wealthy men can never be
come millionaires until the small farmers are able
to produce, year in and ' year out, millions of
wealth where they now produce half-millions and
hundreds of thousands.
Fitzgerald is handicapped and always has been
handicapped by petty factionalism. It is no
worse in this than other towns and cities of the
South but the condition has been brought to the
surface by the tense feeling caused by the strike.
In the effort of one faction to cut into the follow
ing of another faction, of one business man to
get the trade from his competitor, enough ener
gy is wasted every year to make a real city out
of Fitzgerald and win enough additional trade
to satisfy everyone. Too much personal and
commercial jealousy is hurting the town. It crops
up in almost every important public measure.
People who have their minds centered too much
on destroying something can not have great suc
cess in building up something else.
The A., B. & A. strike will last some time yet
and will handicap the town temporarily, Tt is
the most important railroad strike that has oc
cured in many years and “capital” and “labor’
the nation over will strain their resources fer
their respective sides. Fortunately for the town
and the entire section served by the railroad, the
strikers are largely a good class of people not in
clined to violence and the sabotage and blood
shed that usually accompanies a strike will 1.:
be suffered. The nresent employes of *4 A, 0.
& A. will soon see that most of their alleged
friends are sreally friends to their pay checks and
will smile on them only so long as the pay checks
come. Those people who have tried to profit by
making a show of partisanship for the new em
ployees will find their disguise too thin to last.
The one big thing Fitzgerald needs to develop
is a better spirit of constructive co-operation. It
has plenty of the clannish spirit that will exert
itself in destroying certain things but has not
enough willingness to fall in line and work with
a will to build things. In this it is not much dif
ferent from the average community.
The one man who has given more of his time
and his energy and his money in trying to build
big things in Fitzgerald is Isidor Gelders. He
has started a great many good things in Fitzger
ald, too many to enumerate here. For more than
20 years he has worked to build up Fitzgerald
lagely betause he holds high ideals and has a vis
ion that sees things that ought to be and he is un
selfish enough to spend his efforts in trying t bring
these things into being. He hought this news
paper for public service rather than for profit
because he was making more money in real es
tate than he hoped to make with a newspaper.
He bought the old Leader to help in his cam
paign to put the land sharks out of business who
were stealing the property of widows and or
phans and poor people generally, Those thefts
have stopped. Since that time this newspaper
has been the first to advocate every movement
suggested for the betterment and improvement
of this city and section, Most of these movements
have been started by this paper because Isidor
Gelders has had the vision to conceive and the
unselfish public spirit to work to bring them
about. He has been a valuable servant of the
people in the past and will continue to be in the
future.
The Leader will be quite as good a paper
without my help as it has been with it. I would
not have come back to Fitzgerald last fall except
with the hope of launching a daily because my
work is not needed on the thrice-a-week paper.
[ am leaving onlp because all prospects of a suc
cessful daily during the next several years have
gone glimmering. Under present conditions here
the kind of daily paper it would take to com
mand general public interest and patronage
would be a heavy losing business proposition.
No newspaper can command public respect and
support and’circulation if it is known that the
policies and editorial purposes are dictated by
a clique or group of business men with personal
and selfish ends in view.
Fitzgerald is as good a town as any in the
‘country ; it has as good people as any in the world ;
it has had some hard luck and must fight some
handicaps but its future is promising. I wish I
could afford to wait for that future to become
present but time flies and life is too short to wait
for one thing when something as good or better
can be had by going after it.
Stewart F. Gelders.
BILL BIFFEM PULLS A BONE—“Ben Hill
county has marketed its first 1921 season bale,”
'rcmark,s Bill Biffem of the Savannah Press quite
truthfully, and then he adds this entirely unnec
essary averance, “Thank goodness there is some
thing to take its mind off rioting for awhile.”
Look here, man, we would just like to take
you for a walk through our broad acres of fertile
fields, with rich green patches of tobacco, and
row upon row of stately corn stalks as far as eye
can see, with veritable oceans of sweet potato
vines covering the rolling expanse of good South
Georgia soil; we would like to take you for a
ride over Ben Hill county’s sand clay roads that
are the next thing to the best road there is, what
ever that is, through shaded woodland reaches
and over purling brooks and past pecan groves
and fruit orchards and enticing vistas of sweet
smelling hayfields; we would like to pilot you
through our paved and white-way lighted busi
ness section and watch the busy crowds in our
‘metropolitan-looking stores and through our
tree-lined residence districts by our beautiful
homes where the smartest children in the world
are produced; and then we’d like to stand you
on the First National Bank corner and let your
practiced eye get filled with a view of those child
ren’se big sisters; and then, sir, we would just
dare you to suggest that we need anything,
ANYTHING, to keep our minds on pleasant
subjects.
It is a dangerous and short sighted policy for
advertisers to curb the independence of a news
paper by trying to break it if it attempts to ex
press the dictates of its editor’s conscience. No
weathercock newspaper whose editorial policy
is sensitive to every slightest wind of whim or
fancy of a faction can never command the respect
of any large class of people and can never be of
any value as an advertising medium. Before a
newspaper’s advertising columns can command
the attention and interest and respect of its
readers, they must have interest in and respect
for the news and editorial columns of the paper.
That is not theory. It is fact. An insincere edi
torial policy and wilfully biased news policy may
win the misplaced favor of short sighted people
Hut a paper so handicapped in its popular appeal
‘an not hold its subscribers and can not carry a
lorceful advertising message to those it «
hold. Until the general run of people
appreciate sincerity as a material asset in busi
-less, which it most certainly is, people who are
sincere may suffer some hardships.
WILL GEORGIA EVER PROSPER?— The
state legislature is threatening to reduce Geor
yia Tech’s appropriation. It has threatened be
‘ore but this year the threat may.:qo through. To
an informed mind the first thought that occurs is
Pope’s much quoted one, “What fools these mor
tals be.” To save a paltry hundred thousand
i\pllars or so, the legislature of the great state of
Georgia would actually strangle . the industrial
development of this state. They are also threat
ning to cut the University at Athens. That will
nurt the state college of agriculture which bene
fits to a degree by the University’'s money be
cause it is a close integral part of the University.
Where do these people who make up our leg
islative body think that the tax money comes
from? It comes first, last and always from
wealth, whether it be corporation wealth or real
estate or personalty. Due to our lovely ad val
orem system of taxation very little comes from
personalty because personalty could not bear the
ate of taxation. As a matter of fact, real estate
“im not bc.ar it cither but it can not be concealed.
But that is beyond the question at hand and is
mnother thing that makes one wonder at the
f""f""“ss of mother love that raised some of our
‘egislatorical examples,
To prosper Georgia must have a vast degree
f industrial development which her natural re
sources, her water power, her forests, and her
boundless supply of raw products warrant. In
dustries are not created by any one thing so
much as by trained minds. A the capital in
the world will not make a paying cotton mill or
other manufacturing enterprise. It takes execu
tive and administrative” heads who KNOW
HOW. Georgia Tech produces that sort of
leads, that sort of trained brains. With a great
Georgia Tech giving the best of technical edu
cation to every Georgia and Southern boy ({vho
may ask .it, Georgia and the South stands i
chance of becoming a factor in the industrial
world within the next ten years. Without this
technical education the South must continue for
THE' LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1921.
ages to come to look supinely' to the well in
formed and trained East to use our wealth, to
exploit our farmers and our farm labor, and to
reap where we have sown and profit by the sweat
of the Southernor’s brow.
This is written by one whose slogan for three
years was T. H. W. T. and who would rather
have séen Georgia Tech’s athletic teams defeat
ed than to have won a medal for scholarship. No
“college spirit” prompts this writer to plead for
a more intelligent attitude on the part of our
legislature toward Georgia Tech. It is simply a
realization of Georgia’s great need for industrial
progress THROUGH scientific technical educa
tion. It is the simple knowledge that Georgia
¢an not become wealthy until Georgia trains
men to produce wealth on a grand scale.
And before any progress can be made in any
line in Georgia, a new arrangement must be
made concerning our state legislature whereby
the best brains in our state can afford to offer
themselves as candidates for office. Biennial
sessions of the legislature is a first step.
WHEN A JOKER JOKES ON HEREDITY—
Our newspaper jokesmitihs had better take care
these days that they have their science on straight
when they dash off a funny one invelving Na
res laws. Here’s a supposedly funny joke that
loses all its wit when it is run down and examin
ed:
ASHTON NEWS
The revival services closed at Pinel
Level Friday evening with an unusual
large attendance Eight young people
were enrolled as members, On th:
28th day of August will Christening
day, All mothers are invited to com: |
and bring the babies. ;
Mr, John Bishop is on a !)v.wincs.:l
trip to Tifton this week.
Mrs. Walker Maddox is able to he
out again after a severe illness,
~ On her fifth birth month the baby
daughter of Mr, and Mrs, W, H.
Robitzsch has at last decided on a
suitable name for the little lady, Ava
Nell,
Rev. James Bishop is conducting »
revival meeting at Wolf Pit this week
and is being assisted by Rev, G €
Ball.
Mrs. Mattie Middlebrooks has re
turned home after a pleasant visit to
relatives in Jones County. She was
accompanied home by her niece Mrs,
A. C, Wheeler,
Mrs. R J. Bishop spent Monday
near Osierfield with her sister Mrs,
J. D{ Hesters, |
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Rice and Mr.
Frank Hudson of Macon were the
week-end guests of Mrs, Rices’ broth
ér, Mr. . 'J. Lipsey:
Miss Leona Barnes and Mr. Jas.
Grantham gave their friends a sur
prise. Monday when they ran away
and were married at Mystic by Rev.
Biase Boykins,
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CHEAP EXCURSION
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$2.00 To Macon,
$3.50 To Atlanta
VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
Tuesday, August 16, 1921
On Tuesday, Aug. 16, excursion tickets will be sold by Georgia
Southern & Florida Railway to Macon at $2.00 and to Atlanta
at $3.50 for the Round Trip. Excursion train will leave Cordele
at 11 a. m. arriving Macon 1:45 p. m. eastern time and arriving
Atlanta 4:15 p. m. central time. Tickets will be good returning
on any regular train leaving Atlanta and Macon prior to mid
night ot Aug. 18th. Excursion tickets will not be honored in the
sleeping or parlor cars. Ample coach accomodations will be
provided for everybody. 8% war tax additional.
For turther information, inquire of any Agent of the company,
or address C. B. RHODES, Division Passenger Agent, 131 Ter
minal Station, Macon, Georgia.
First Citizen: “Do you believe in hered
ity ?”
Second Citizen: “Of course I do; I've
got one of the brightest boys i the world.”
The point the joke maker wanted to put over is
that the boy got his brightness from his: father,
the said Second Citizen. But niture doesn’t work
that way; notwithstanding our ancient misinfor
mation on heredity, boys and girls are not clever
because their own fathers and mothers are clever.
All scientists now agree that the Medel law of
heredity is correct. This because it has been ex
tensively and thoroughly tested out during the
past half century and has been found clearly in
fallible, not only in the animal kingdom but in the
vegetable world also. All the most successful
breeders of cattle, fowl and plants now operate
under that law, although many of them don’t
know why. Here is why:
By the Mendel law, the characteristics of a male
descend through his daughter to her son. A fe
male characteristiecs descend through her son to
his daughter.
There is a lot more fo the law of course but
=e two rules afe, #n brief, the chief fundament
als. Hence, if our Mr. Jokesmith will kindly per
mit we will revise his joke thus:
First Citizen: “Do you believe in hered
-Ihyiol2
Second Citizen : “Of course I do; my dau
ghter’s son is one of the brightest boys in the
world !” |
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