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‘The Fitzgerald Leader
Enterprise & Press
Published Every Monday, Wednesday and Frniday of
Each Week By
THE LEADER PUBLISHING COMPANY
Subscription Rate: per annum______ oo __....._53.00
Enterea at the Post Office at Fitzgerald as Second CFss
Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897
Official Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
BIPDOR GELDERS, .. ... ... . Editar
STEWART F. GELDERS____Managing Editor
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ASSOCIATION, foreign Adv. Representatives,
A DIRECT HIGHWAY DOWN THE WEST
COAST OF FLORIDA—"“There is no official
highway connecting the Georgia seaboard with
the Florida West Coast” says the Fitzgerald
(Ga.) Leader-linterprise and Press, and this pa
per thinks “such a Guli-Atlantic highway should
bring many additional tourists to swell the tide
of those the Dixie Highway brings.”
The value of such a road can be quickly seen,
for, while a persistent effort has been made to
develop roads feeding the East Coast of Florida,
the West Coast highways have not received the
attention they descrve.
As it is, many of the automobilists bound for
points on the \West Coast have been entering the
state by eastern routes, then, by following trans
versing routes, arriving at their destination along
the West Coast. Direct routes are more to be
desired, because they distribute the traffic more
evenly and climinate unnecessary mileage, and
most important are big factors in the develop
ment of territory that is reached only by circuit
ous routes under the present system of roads,
The ILeader-Enterprise and Press outlines the
proposed route as follows:
“From Savannah, in Chatham, to Clyde in
Bryan, to Reidsville in Tattnall, to Lyons in
Toombs, to Mt. Vernon in Montgomery, to Mec-
Rae in Telfair, to Fitzgerald in Ben Hill, to
QOcilla in Irwin, Nashville in Berrien, Valdosta
in Lowndes, where it will intersect with the Na
tional Highway and get many tourists coming
north in the sprng, thence to Madison, Perry,
Mayo and other Florida points on down the West
Coast to Tampa.”
Taking it from the Florida point of view, this
route would give Tampa and intermediate points
north a direct highway up the West Coast and
the necessity of such a route is already general
ly recognized, although no concentrated effort
has been made to secure it.
Florida cannot have too many inlets and out
letsfor travel. Every additional one is an asset
to the state, and with the co-operation of other
states there is no reason why they could not be
constructed.—Florida Metropolis, Jacksonville,
It is gratifying to this Georgia country editor
that our Florida contemporaries at last have come
to recognize the importance of the automobile
routes this editor urged upon them some six years
ago. Then the metropolitan papersof Jackson
ville belittled our efforts to connect Jacksonville
with the central route of the Dixie Highway and
both of them threw their jnfluence at the time
to the Eastern (Savannah) route, almost impos
sible route for nine-tenths of the northern travel
to Florida. 'This belated recognition of our early
efforts and their readiness to again co-operate
with building an additional highway is appreci
ated by The Leader-Enterprise and we trust
that we may be able to create enough interest in
the Georgia counties affected to have this higho
way constructed by the State Highway Commis.
sion ere long.
FIXING THE BLAME—llcre's where the farm
er and the wrongfully abused retail grocer get the
blame from many a town and city housewife
When milady goes to the store and buys any of
the various breakfast foods made out of wheat,
she finds that the price is as high under $1 and
$1.25 wheat as it was under $2 and $2.50 wheat.
If, here and there, the price has been reduced a
bit, it is because the neighborhood grocer has
ghaved his own profit almost to the vanishing
point—he, himself, pays just as much as ever at
wholesale.
Cause? The cause is the millionaire millers
of Minneapolis, who insist on war profits, when
war and inflation have long passed.
Our keehly alert contemporary, the Fairmont
(Minn.) “Sentinel,” decided to look into the thing.
First, the editor wrote to the editors of the Minn
eapolis daily papers and asked them for a report
on why the millers continue to charge $9.50 for
case of breakfast foods which they make out of
by-products of flour. The millionaire millers are
a great power in Minncapolis so “The Sentinel re
received no replics.
Then “Thc St‘ll\ifl(’ln called on thc Minnesuta
State dairy and FOOD Commissioner for an ans
wer. Inasmuch as the food of the two or three
millon people of Minnesota are not the concern of
that State’s food commissioner,he passed the buck
to the commissioner of agriculture. |
And so “The Sentinel's” insistent search for
light goes on. There can be only one result; the
millers will be shown up. Meanwhile, every de
cent .American will applaud the Fairmont “Senti
nel” in its efforts to expose breeders of Bolshevism
NO sit in high places ‘
| Gngle Joiin
—a= 33 [|VE MOVED TO TOWN
When a feller sells off his farm
g [ lin' truck and goes to live in
' ’ ¥S~ I town. he's actin’ on the impulse
-. that it's time to settle down.—
8 4 ‘ I'he children’s all growed up, you
| \ . _l\-rt..\w, an’ Mother needs a rest.—
| I'he farm ain’t what it used to be
| —perhaps the change is best_-__But still, there’s
|little by-thoughts, which it seems is bound to
| come____The painted cracker box in town, don’t
| seem to be like home! There ain’t no mantel on
tne wall, nor fireplaces anywhere.___The livin’-
f room is cluttered up with little, dinky cheers____
\r.4 then we've got a folding bed, that’s built to
set on end—l may be its companion, but I'll never |
be its friend! And then, it seems so lonesome,
without a batch of chores; the only bird I know
' oi. is my neighbor, when he snores.--_._l want to
tend a sow-an-pigs; I want to kill a snake! I want
to hear my rooster crow of mornin’s when I wake.
I'd feel a lot contenteder among the apple trees,
‘than tryin' to squeeze myself, to fit apartments
‘sech as these____But I must try to hold the pill—
that I have swallered down,—an’ try to act like‘
other's that’s retired, moved to town!
PELLAGRA MAY OCCUR IN ANY STATE——!
The fact that 10,000 of our fellow citizens may die
of pellagra before the year ends, and that a much
Jarger number may be invalided for months, if
not longer, should bring home a warning to all
of us that we cannot afford to neglect nature’s in
xorable Jaws. To put it popularily, each of us
s a walking laboratory, and we are ill, indisposed,
or vigorous agreeably to the chemical reactions
that take place within us
Pellagra is evidence of nutritional derangement
’-lmmf that essential physical changes are not
taking place within the body simply because of
a deficiency of protein in the food eaten. In a
kindred way, man suffers when his dietary lacks
a sufficiency of vitamines; he may have beri-beri
or he may be stricken with scurvy. Again the
infant may be afflicted with rickets—i. e., faulty
bone growth, owing to the absence of that elemert
in its food which builds up the supporting frame
work. :
While pellagra is at present virtually localized
in the South, still it has occurred at times in pretty
nearly every State in the Union. Climate has no
direct bearing upon the appearance of the disease;
The basic cause of the malady is a faulty diet. The
appetite may be satisfied, yet the body will weaken
and the nervous system become gravely deranged
by reason of shortage of protein in the food eaten.
It is well for everybody to know- this fact and to
see to it that his self-contained *laboratory be
furnished daily with enough of each nutritive el
ement to insure health s
A properly balanced diet should include, accord
ing to the U. S. Public Health Service, cereals.
starches, sweets, fats, fruits, green vegetables, lean
meat, and a sufficient quantity of milk. And of
all of these, the experts tell us that milk is the
most important single food in balancing a diet
and in preventing or curing pellagra. Where this
cannot be had in the fresh raw state, then a thor
oughly satisfactory substitute is available in con_
densed or evaporated milk. Now we know why
Dr. E. V. McCollum of Johns Hopkins University
has persistently urged that each of us consume a
quart of milk daily,
HOME SUPPORT COUNTS—Not long sin.
in discussing the District Agricultural Schools
The Gazette said that those schools located in
communities where they had a strong local sup._
port were doing well. The same applies with
equal force to other institutions. It is local sup
port that cunts. Not long since, the South
Georgia Normal at Valdosta needed $50,000.
The money was loaned by a Valdosta man. Re
cently the same school wanted to buy its winter
supply of coal and had no money. The City
Council of Valdosta authorized the Mayor to
sign a note for $3,000 to provide the funds. That
is what local support means. There were many
times during the carly days of the Second Dis
trict Agricultural School at Tifton when it would
‘have been obliged to shut down had it not been
for local men who came forward and provided
what was needed to keep it going. Now it is ac
cepted as the best of the twelve District Schools
in the State. Tifton got returns, ten-fold, for
',(‘\'cr_\' cent it put in the Second District School :
Valdosta will reap big interest on every dollar
it puts into the South Georgia Normal, We be
‘]ic\'c that if those District Agricultural Schools
' that are not doing well were moved to commun
lities which would take an active interest in their
behalf, there would be no longer cause for com
plaint that they were not fulfilling their mission.
—Tifton Gazette,
Yes, if Captain H. H. Tift would have failed
with his generous support, the second district
Aggie would have failed to function and over in
Americus we know that had the late lamented
Crawford Wheatley not come to the financial
support of the Third District School, it also
would have had to close down to the detriment
of hundreds of farmers’ boys and girls, who are
now filling valuable places in the agricultural
development of the state. The districts should
build these men monuments in their home towns.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS FRIDAY, AUGUST 12th, 1921.
A DELIGHTFUL ROW
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ach and liver trouble fur muny years
and hzd taker medninc e ough to
sink a ship; so when I brought home
a bottle of Mayr’'s Wondcrful Rem
edy, \on the advice of my eiployer.
she fused to take it, Her liver
troublé hadn’t help=d her disposition
any, \We had a big row, but she
tork it Ythe next week, Her ailments
have all\dissappeared ” It is a sim
ple harm Mess preparation that re
foves the Xatarrhai mucus from the
intestinal tract and allays the inflam
mation, whick causes practically all
stofach, liver and intestinal ailments
including appendicitis, One dose will
convince or money refunded. —Mec-
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CHEAP EXCURSION
VITLIRAT LAVUNWDIVI
$2.00 To Macon,
$3.50 To\ Atlanta
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.
Old Business
'I O You who have favored
Wilson and Company so
generously with your patron
age for the years past, we take
this opportunity to thank you.
{ Notice is being published
in this issue of the dissolution
of said firm by mutual. Mr.
Dykes has\bought Mr. Wil
son’s interest and the busi
ness will be,conducted in the
future by Mr. W. R. Dykes in
the name of\ W. R. Dykes.
g Mr. Dykes |has been connected
with the grocery business in Fitzger
ald since itsinfancy, and can and will
buy the best for \you.
¢ It will be his purpose to give you
the best, best in quality;best in serv
ice, and his best in\pleasing you; and
we bespeak for him~the continued
patronage of you who Rnow his ef
forts to serve you in the|past; and to
you who have not been our customer
we ask that you give him an oppor
tunity to demonstrate what service
and quality mean.
Yours Appreciatively,
2 J. C. WILSON,
W. R. DYKES.