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The Fitzgerald Leader
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Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897
Official Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
ISHOR GELDERS .- ... .- . - . Bditor
STEWART F. GELDERS____Managing Editor
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Local readers 10c per line for each insertion. No ad
taken for less tham 30 centss. AMERICAN PRESS
ASSOCIATION, foreign Adv. Representatives,
EAT MORE SWEET POTATOES, THE
GEORGIA YAM—Sweet potato growers are up
against it, iust like all other producers, who in
the hope of producing a money crop, have al
lowed themselves to believe that Providence will
take care of them when the crop is ready for the
harvest. Providence help in production of na
ture’s gift but does not concern itself with its
final disposal; that is left to human ingenuity
and judgment. This the growers do not seem to
possess or fail to put into operation. A product
which is as valuable to the human family as a
food product and which is only sparingly used,
requires special attention in bringing it to the
attention of the ensuming public. This matter
has been entirely neglected by Georgia Growers
of this valuable farm product. The “Georgia
Yam” has a reputation all its own, in the regions
where it is known at all, but that territory is lim
ited. To secure a wider distribution of Georgia
Yams it is nccessary that the country at large
should be made acquainted with the special vir
tues as a palatable food product of the Georgia
sweet potato; it will require judicious advertis
ing to increase the demand of the Georgia Yam.
We have an enormous acreage of sweet potatoes
grown in Georgia this yecar, millions of bushels
that will go to waste unless something is done to
prevent this loss. Carry the message to all sec
tions of the country, that the Georgia Yam is
The Sweet Potato that has specific value all its
and make them a regular part of the diet of the
Nation. Uelike the Irish potato, the sweet po
tato through the curing houses, may now be
prepared so thaat they will keep almost indefi
nitely in the home, which in the past was not
possible. For that reason an advertising cam
paign may be made profitable for the growers.
Curing houses, private or commercial should
band themsclves together to stage a national
advertising campaign for the general use of their
product and .not stint themselves as to the cost
of the campaign. If ten cents a bushel of cured
potatoes were plled for such a nation-wide cam
paign the entire potato crop could begmarketed
at a big profit to the growers and cur:w“' -
Georgia alone could consume three times the
amount of yams that do, if this campaign of edu
cation is properly handled.
ARE WAGES TOO HIGH OR FREIGHT TO
LOW?—Henry Ford raised wages on his road
beyond the established war scale and reduced
freight rates on his line twenty per cent, simply
by adopting a system of economy, which other
roads could also adont.
To the question “Are freight rates too high?”
was well answered by the Albany Herald in a
recent editorial in answer to a letter received by
its editor from President W. Winburn of the
Central of Georgia, in which he took issue with
the editorial in question from the railroad stand
point*The Albany Herald replied editorially :
“It is true, of course, that if the shippers of
perishable produce always received prices
which would insure satisfactory profit above
transportation charges, however high the latter
might be, there would be no disposition to find
fault. But that, infortunately, does not always
happen, nor can it be expected to happen. Geor
gia ships neither common clay nor gold barg to
New York, but does ship many other commodi
ties of considerable value.
“The complaint that freight rates are too high
is general. It comes from practically all classes
of shippers, for it is interfering with the revival
of business, which seems just now to be all-im
portant. The question as to whether freight
rates are too high is a big one. Those vast in
terests which are embraced in the term ‘business’
insist that they are. The railroads, with the ex
ception of Henry Ford, speaking for the line
which he owns and operates, contend, on the
other hand. that rates are not too high.
“What contributes to the uncasiness of busi
ness is the insistence of some spokesmen for the
railway lines that freight rates are not high
énough. When the Railway Labor Board au
thorized the reduction of employes’ wages re
cently, the roads complained that the cut was not
sufficient, and said the roads would either re
quire another increase of rates or a further re
duction of employes' pay.
It is interesting for the laymen, who knows
little or nothing about the intricacies of railway
tariffs, to consider that, while the cost of all other
things is declining, freight and passenger rates
remain at the peak. There is no staple commod
ity produced and shipped in the United States
which is not materially cheaper now than it was
during the period of high prices which followed
the World War. Lumber, brick, tile, stone, ce
ment, and other Ypilding materials; iron and
steel, coal and coke; grain and meat; groceries
and produce; dry goods and shoes: automobiles,
machinery ; wire fencing, oil—it is too long a list
to be made all inciusive, and whatever exceptions
there are, if indeed there are any, are inconspic
uous and relatively unimportant. Labor is cheap
er and the man who works with brain or muscle
is receiving less for what he does than he re
ceived while the tide of prosperity ran high—and
here, too, the exceptions prove the rule.
“Yet freight rates are as high today as they
‘were carried by the successive increases author
ized by the Interstate Commerce Commission
and arbitrarily put into effect by the Railroad
Administration while it was in charge of the
common carriers. The same is true of passenger
rates. They have declined not the fraction of
one per cent from the peak to which they were
carried by the last increase. Is it surprising that
the public, which ‘pays the freight’, believes the
existing transportation rates are too high?
“Reverting to Henry Ford, at mention of
whose genius as a railroad executive a good
many other railroad men may smile, it is worth
noting that Mr. Ford took over a line that had
never earned a dollar and was steadily losing
money, reorganized it and now reports‘ that it
is a paying concern. ‘We cut freight and pass
enger rates 20 per cent and we boosted wages
and it won’t take long to reduce the rates 50 per
cent,” says Mr. Ford. His formula is simple.
Lower rates have greatly increased the road’s
business. Dead timber among the employes has
been weeded out, and the better-paid employes
remaining have their hearts in their work.
“The point will be made that other roads can
not do what the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton has
done. WHY NOT? Have they tried? The
roads are not getting more business largely be
cause rates are burdensome—so burdensome
that they hamper the revival of industry. Just
as the most successful merchants in America
have piled up fortunes on enormous volume of
business with quick turn-overs and small profits,
so might the carriers profit greatly by applying
that principle to their own problems. It costs
but a trifle more to a haul a day coach with 60
passengers at 2 1-2 cents a mile per passenger
than it does to haul the same coach with 30 pass
engers at 3 1-2 cents a mile per passenger.
“The ability of American industry to reduce
materially the cost of moving raw materials and
finished products would give a stupendous boost
to trade, and the railroads would profit as great
ly from such a revival as any class or interest.
Could there be better answer to the railroads’
insistence that rates cannot come down than their
own complaint that they are barely able to keep
their heads above water with rates unprecedently
high? |
“We want fair treatment for the carriers, but
we are also interested in fair treatment for the
public. The problem is to know what is fair. It
is that we are chiefly concerned about, and (m‘
that we are secking light,” : Mol
PUBLIC HONESTY~—Some educators recently
tried to find out how many children had been
taught anything about honesty. They gave $l.OO
cach to a large number of children. None of them
knew about any other child being subject to the
experiment. Each of them was to go to a store
and buy certain specified articles, the aggregate
cost of which in cach case would be less than
$l.OO. ;
Consequently, on completing the purchases,
cach child would have a balance out of the $l.OO.
It was found that only about 30 per cent of the
youngsters returned this balance. The rest pock.
eted the change and said nothing. This indicated
to the experimenters, anyway, that most of them
had a dishonest streak and had been given no ef
fective moral teaching,
It would perhaps be wrong to blame the child._
ren. No one may ever have given them any in.
struction on this point. From most of the talk
they might hear, they might conclude that it was
all right to get all the mney they could in any
possible way. Many grown ups would do the
same thing if they thought no one would know it.
Ii young people grow up without instruction.
the next generation will play a cut throat game
in the world of business,
The Sunday schools are supposed to teach mor.
als. But great numbers of children do not attend
such schools. If they do come, there is no author._
ity by which you can make them attend to their
lesson. The day schools may be crowded with
the many subjects they have to teach. But no
‘matter how much information they impart, if the
lchildn-n miss these vital truths of honesty, they
‘miss all.
Our teachers must go beyond their regular cur
iculums to impress our children with these mpor
tant truth and thus lay foundation for civic right
!vuusncss and honesty. Unless the children are
thus trained, many of them will go astray and the
jrcspunsibi!it_\' rests with their teachers as much
]su as with the parents.
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'MATERIAL PROGRESS AND HUMAN LIFE
'—lf you visit a town and ask someone what ad-
E\um:a}:us it has, the majority of people will speak
qu its hustling business. They will show you its
factories and banks and farms, and show what a
!guod place it is to make money in,
| The majority of people think first of material
};ul\':mmgcs and secondly of human progress. But
the struggle for material prosperity reacts on it
lsclf. It was this spirit that produced intense
commercial competition in the world, and led
directly to the recent war,
Struggle for material advantages alone, pro
duces a spirit of greedy grabbing. People get
to competing so bitterly, that they won’t co-op
erate. The community that makes the advance
‘ment of human life its first object, comes out
fbest._ If Fitzgerald can become noted for its fine
schools, its welfare work, its absence of poverty,
its care for the sick, etc., its reputation will o
farther than that of any mere dollar chasing com
‘munity.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS MONDAY, AUGUST 15th, 1921
It Happened
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In Fitzgerald
And Is Happening to Fitzgerald
People Every Week
The case told below is not an un
common thing. The same occurs fre
quently and will coutinue to happen
as long as folks have kidneys and ov
crtax the kidneys,
J. F. T, Williams, retired farmer,
505 W, Suwanee st.,, Fitzgerald, says:
“I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills
when my kidneys were weak and I
had a dull aching across my back,
My kidneys acted irregularly and
this annoyed me, especially at night,
I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills
from the Denmark Drug Co., and
they helped me, regulating my kid-‘
neys and strengthening my back. I
have great confidence in Doan’s Kid
ney Pills”
Price 60c, at all dealers, Don't
simply ask for a kiduey remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr, Williams had, Foster-Milburn
Co., Mirs, Buffalo, N. Y.
Advertisement.
“Robinson Crusoe’s” Musket.
The musket said to have been giv.
en to Alexander Selkirk when he was
put ashore on the island of Juan Fer
nandez, 400 miles off the Chilean coast,
has been going the rounds of British
museums,
It was Selkirk’s adventures upop
which was based De Foe's famous
story, “Robinson Crusoe.”” The mus:
ket is inscribed with the name of “A
Selkirk Largo, 1771.” It was pur
chased by Randolph Berens for $6.25,
but the owner has insured it for $10;
000.
- Selkirk owned a tavern near Clap
“ham, but died in 1726 at sea as a leu
tenant aboard a naval vessel,
Washington Made Custom,
It was Washington’s cabinet that es
tablished the custom for all future in
wugurations to be made in puhlie,
When the time for Washington '~
ond: inaugural came around he wus
‘n doubt as to the proper method of
taking the oath for his second term.
He addressed a note to his cabinet
asking for their opinion as to whether
it should be public or private. The
cabinet at that time was divided, Jef
ferson and Hamilton recommended
that it should be private. Knox and
Randolph reported in favor of making
it publir. which was done.
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Miss Bernice Thornton who has
been visiting Dr, and Mrs, L. E,
Thornton for the past two weeks re
turned Friday to her home in Union
City. |
AGHANGINGWORLD
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~ “We are living in a changing
‘world, T never thought I could ever
be cured of my stomach trouble.
Medical science seemed unable to
help me, But thank God we are
progressing and now Mayr’s Won
derful Remedy has delivered me
from all stomach symptoms., I am
again able to eat anything” It is a
simple, harmless preparation that re
moves the catarrhal mucus from the
intestinal tract and allays the inflam
mation which causes practically all
stomach, liver and intestinal ail
ments, including appendicitis,. One
dose will convince or money refund
ed —McLemore and Nationa! Drug
Cos, and druggists everywhere,
Advertisement.
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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 everybodyf 89 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. ‘
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“Tanlac is my stand-by, for it re
stored me to health four years ago
‘and I have kept in the pink of con
dition ever since by taking an occa
sional dose,” said Paul Snodgrass,
229 West Capital street, Little Rock,
Ark. Mr, Snodgrass nas been in the
fancy grocery business for thirty
years and is known as a man whose
word is as good as his bond.
“In all my life I have never known
a medicine like Tanlac, When I be
gan taking it I was in such an aw
fully weak, run-down condition I
was hardly able to attend to busi
ness. I had had no appetite for a
long time and the little I managed to
eat did not digest properly and
caused me no end of trouble, I was
nervous in the daytime and restless
at night and I felt so miserable in
the mornings it was all I could do to
force mysclf to get up and go to the
store,
“I hegan to imvrove almost f:om
the first dose of Tunac anl it was
not long before I was my old self
again and feeling just fine, It built
be up wonderfully; why, in a few
weeks’ time I gained fourteen pounds
in weight, There is no doubt about
it, Tanlac certainly delivers the
goods.”
Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
everywhere, Advertisement.
| GEORGIA RAILROAD
and
!-THE WEST POINT ROUTE
| offer |
SUMMER
EXCURSION RATES
to
NORTH CAROLINA
SOUTH CAROLINA
COLORADO
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Which includes attractive Steam
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. J. P. BILLUPS ;
General Passenger Agent
Atlanta, Georgia “
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| Origin of Freemasonry Unknown.
The society of Free Masons avte
dates all other societies by centuries.
its origin is so ancient that the place
!lnd time of its birth are unknown.
Its legend say that it was orgaunized
at the building of the temple of Solo
mon, but this is not accepted with
much credence. By some writers its
origin has been ascribed to the
Druids, by others to the Knights
Templar and to Pythagoras, and it
has not escaped the fad which in mod
ern times has attributed so many
of the uncertain productions to the
nimble brain of Sir Francis Bacon
Within recent years traces of the
organization are said to have been
discovered in Palestine or the Egyp
tlan obelisks and in the pyramids
In facy, it has been asserted that im.
vestigators have become satisfied
that the soclety grew directly from
an organization engaged in the come
®mction nf the wvramids.
The Real “Muiner Goose.”
| “Mother Goose” was a real charac
ter, and not an imaginary personage
'u has been supposed. Her maiden
name was Elizabeth Foster and she
was born in 1665. She married Isaae
Goosse in 1693 and a few years later
became a member of the Old South
church, Boston. She died in 1757,
aged ninety-two years, The first edle
‘tlon of her songs, which were orig-
Inally sung to her grandchildren, was
ipublished in 1716 by ber son-in-law,
| Thcmas Fleet.
PIEDMONT COLLEGE, Demorest, Ga.,Non-scctarian; positively
Christian
Standard Four Years Senior College for men and women, No college or uni
versity in Georgia with higher standards, Large outside income and its own
supplies reduce Board, Tuition and fees to $259 for nine months. For cata
logue and full information, write
Dean J. C. Rogers, Piedmont College, Demorest, Ca.
Next week see announcement of High School of Piedmont College
“To do each job as well as it can be done, earning a fair
wage and a fair profit; building each day’s effort on the
foundation of the good will started the day before, guided
at all times by the principle of the Golden Rule.”
That’s the policy under which we operate in repairing
your magnetos, generators, and starters or other automobile
work.
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' GENUINE
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tobacco makes 50
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Taking Nothing Along,
The womanly woman’s idea of trave
eling light, as we have learned from
wetual observation, is to erowd every=
tng else into a steamer trunk and
«n curey all her hats in separate
and Qapide Press