WEDNESDAY
- EDITION
WOL. XXVI, NO. 124
O.C. FAIRFIELD TURNS STATE’S EVIDENCE TODAY
Power Should Not Be Vested In In
terstate Commerce Commission
ATLANTA, Oct, 12—Public or
government ownership of public util
ities, either with public or private
operation was vigorously opposed in
the report of the Public Ownership
and Operation Committee, submitted
this afternoon to the thirty-third an
nual convention of the National Assc
ciation of Railway and Utilities Com
missioners, in session at the Georgian
Terrace Hotel, ;
The committee whose report was
submitted after an exhaustive inquiry
into matters of government and pri
vate ownership both in the United‘
States and abroad went on record as
favoring privately owned and privately
operated public utilities with the pro
viso that all utilities should have pub
lic regulation, Strikiag .instances of
the failure of government ownership
are cited, !
The report declares that “the pub
lic must be given fair and adequate
service at a reasonable cost” and that
the safeguarding of these 'essential
rights of the people make the exist
ence of regulatory bodies a real
necessity,
Such regulatory bodies how. ver—
says the report, at the same time must
be sufficiently wise and fair and far
seeing to stand between the utility
in question and unthinking, hasty,
public clamor not based upon fulll
knowledge and careful thought. ‘
Public utilities are subject to thei
same financial laws of operation as
are private enterprises, They must
operate successfully in order to suc
cessfully and adequately fulfil their}
duty of service to the public, not only
in the present, but in the near future,
This is peculiarly true at the pres
ent time; and for the reason that for
the last five years their revenue rates
r’mt proportionately increase with
4eit increased cost of operations,
Tt therefore follows that, in order
to maintain a just, equitable balance
and to even keep -such utilities out
of bankruptcy, it is necessary to main
tain their higher rates longer than
would to the layman seem necessary,
judging bv the surrounding decline
in commodity prices. To follow any
other policy would be to put such
utilitic.- out of business, and to dis
continue that service to which the
public is justly entitled, and wihch
is now more necessary to the return
of the vast bulk of private business
to the desired goal of normalcy, (
The report was submitted by a
committee consisting of ommission
ers A, G. Patterson of Alabama, chair
man; W, G, Eliss, Rhode Island; F,
R, Spinning, Wash’ngton; H, H, Wil
liams, New Mexico; H, A Russell
Kansas; L, H, Porter, Vermont; J.
Cansler, South Carolina,
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$200,000 Fire At
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Dawson Monday Night
DAWSON, Ga, Oct, 11th—The
Planter’s Warehouse was burned here
Monday night about 7:30 and it was’
some time before the firemen had ‘the
big blaze under control, For a time
due to the heavy wind, it seemed as
if the whole of South Dawson was
doomed,
The Planters’ Warehouse is one of
the oldest firme of the city and this
is the first time any amount of cotton
has been lost here, Andrew Hill and
Miles Hill are proprietors of he con
cern both are away from the city,
The warehouse was under direct man
agement of J, T, Coker,
Stored in the building were upward
of 2000 bales of cotton and every thing
is a total loss. At the present price
of cotton the damage totals $200,000.
Most of the cotton was\completely
covered by insurance, The office was
in the building and whether the rec
ords were burned is not yet known,
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Notice 1o Farm l
Bureau Members
Arrangements have been made with
our local merchants whereby Farm
Bureau members can buy in club ‘ots
of 1000 ten pound syrup cans at 8 \.2
cents each,
If you want to take the advany
age of th's price make up a list among
your neighbors and see your secre
tary,
The only way to secure cans at this
price is in club lots,
The Ben Hill county Farm Bureau
will meet at the Chamber of Com
merce Saturday October 15th,
. M. Dickson, Chairman,
C. T, Owens, Secretary
THe FITZGERALD LEADER
STENING IN ON THE WORLL;
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most amazing | g ol e
thing of this cen- " SEEEIA ’*%%%&K@< 3 e :‘%
tury, perhaps, 'is ETRETER g %‘é» i
the way the wire. TS o e «34
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in America. The 'SHEE> ~?§§“ fiEY e :
erts thr Toay CRIENES LO a 5 N
Serts ‘that 500,000 ‘& R {%fi,\ REGTe J& =oy
boys, girls and et Ny T Qf?s:‘:., e %
young men have &{% BN Y ‘*::\»“__ sr”p\;?g, A
such radiophone @y PREDE L SRR g;'k " "‘;\4; N R
plants, most of ¥ R R Lrae X .&?llx&aé:my‘ fi%
them cogs ting &85 3% W o :“? L R ;%z;§%éq~=%fi;§ 3
from $lO to $25. ‘,‘ffi‘*‘, RS o\ 3% R,
This is an average % Lo Y v'ga X %‘\x‘ :
of 10000 'to “each 9L '.’;,*\‘v\ Yo 4ik et T A PWY g
state—but of HKES gl %i : o 8 &
course some “f°7{§"‘ oy oR R "”‘i‘%;, ¥
srates have sov. |BE ANLAPNE R - S? AR R
eral times 10,000. 4% S S i TR PR ;w&
Every night Rs S B Rl o Y
news in Morse a'wt':;gfu"‘y\*"a i ~"”‘K}'}Q
e or Jectures & Hhpß iSp S e i w
iddresses or %*% s L eLU o A
COrts are sent SRR Gl eoTN T R
from central 3 %fi*fi@g@%{ i :,:E.gg:-; # }4}"% HLN R ,v}"
wns i cities Ry SEERRE R GRS o e SR
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'he United
States Navy exercises a certain control over these amateurs through what
is known as the “Navy Radio Amateur Bureau.” This bureay sends the
amateur copies of secret codes, arranges concerts and lectures for them
and otherwise interests them. An amateur writing to Popular Science
_Mpn::'\ly says the bureau even sent him & personal message soon after he
joine:
The same writer says that when he first got his apparatus together,
hie took it out on the porch. The wire touched a standpipe on the porch,
ind instantly he heard music. Wireless sounds come through the air like
cipples on a pond, and washed against the receiving wire. In this case they
washed against the metal standpipe, and the minute the wire touched it,
the concert that was in the air at the moment began to reproduce on the
apiy) “tus in his house, : |
if any of owr community boys are interested in becoming amateur
radiograph operators, they should write “United States Navy Radio Amae
i~ Bureau, New York City.”
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Prizes To Be Awarded 1
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To Ben Hill Club Boys
Offers To Corn, Wheat, Pig and Calf
Club Boys In the County
In order to stimu'ate more interest
in ‘Live Stock and Agriculture in our
County we donate the amounts oppo
site our name as prizes won by Club
Boys in the county,
The Ben Hill Board of Commission
ers and the Ben Hill County School
Board each donate a $25.00 Scholar
ship to the Summer short course at
the Georgia state College of Agri
culture, One of these prizes to be
awarded the boy winning first in the
Corn Club contest and the . other, to
the boy winning first in, t!pf’g"‘gub‘
contest, -
All other prizes to be awarded ac-(
cording t odecisions of the *judges
which have been so generously dona
ted by the following parties:
Ben Hill County Farm Bureau $10:
Exchange National Bank $l5; First‘
National Bank $l5; Union Cotton Oil
Co,, $5; Fitzgera'd Cotton Oil Co,
$5; Lon Dickey $250; G, W, Rodgers}
$1; T. J. Griffin 50c; J. M, Williams
$l, 1
Empire Mercantile Co., suit of
clothes $2O; C. A, Fretwell, first years
premium $22 14 on %1000, 20-pay life
insurance; Fitzgerald Motor Supply
£ipply Co, One Ford Tire. $12.50;
E. L, Dorminey Motor Co , Ford Ac
cessories $l5; W, T, Paulk, one reg
istered Spotted Po'and China Boar
Pig $3O; Guy C, Johnstone, Haber
dasher, pair shoes $7.50; J. H. Church
well Stetson Hat $6.50; Bazaar Store
one pair Bostonian Shoes $7.50; The
Home Furniture Co,, one rocking
chair $7.50; Fitzgerald Furniture Co,,
one pair comforts $5; Bradshaw Mu
sic Co,, record $5; Davis Bros, Co,,
one hundred pounds of sugar $6.50;
Watt, Holmes Hardware C 0.,, Planet
Junior Cultivator, $l3; Johson Hard
ware Co., One cu'tivator, $7,50: Fitz
gerald Hardware Co, One Hyde Cul
tivator $9; National Drug Co, One
Fountain Pen $6; T. J, Haile Drug
Co,, Kodak $6; Fowler Drug Co,
'One Pencil, $350; McLemore Drog
Co., Onc Fountain Pen $4; Hussey &
Bowles, Flash Light $250; Owen's
Studio, Pictures taken $7.50; Grand
Theatre, 25 complimentary tickets;
Abe Kruger, Dress Shirt $4; Sam
Abram_ Shoes $4.50; J. A. Jones One
‘Silk Necktie $3; Moore Bros,, One B.
‘Shirt, $1.50; Fitzgerald Tai'ors, 10
Suits pressed $3.50; Fitzgerald Supply
Co., One sclf feeder for pigs, $lO 00;
Ben H'l! Co., one bushel cotton seed
meal, $5; Planters Warehouse Co,
Cotton Seed $5: Herald, one-year's
subscription to each C'ub member,
which amounts to $333.65,
The above prizes will be awarded
at our County Club Fair which will
‘be he'd in front of the Chamber of
Commerce, Tuesday October 25th
All bove should he on hand with
their exhibits by 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning, Octoher 25th, 1921,
C. T. OWENS, County Agent,
Miss Lizzie Fusse'l had as her guest
Sthday, Mrs, Fussell, Miss Ethelyn
Fusiel, Mrs, Warren and M'ss Annie
Lauie Warren of Fitzgerald.--Cordele
Dispitch,
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1921
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New Criminal Court
Needed In Atlanta
Boykin Declares Crisis Has Been
Reached Due to Congestion -
Of Court Dockets
ATLANTA, Oct, '2—That a cri
sis has been reached in the operation
of the criminal division of the Fu'ton
Superior court due to the congested
condition of the trial docket is the
declaration made gy Solic’tor-Genera'
John A. Boykin, the noted prosecut
ing officer who exposed and drove
from At'anta the most notorious band
of swindlers the South has ever known
There is such a mass of business
confronting the court that unless un
forseen remedy is found I do not see
how the docket will ever be cleared
Solicitor Boykin said to the corres
pondent of this southern news serv
ice. “I think the creation of another
division of the criminal court would‘
wive the necessary aid, but all the
efforts T have made in this direction
have come to naught”
’ Solicitor Boykin said that he has
}('recently sent out questionnaires to
a large number of judges throughout
lthe state asking them to say when
they would be availab'e to assist in.
the work of the criminal division of
the Fu'ton superior court, |
The criminal division has been act
ive practically every court day this
vear said Solicitor Boykin, but the
ever increasing mass of cases seems
unaffected by our efforts, ‘
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Library Association
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of Georgia To Hold
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Meeting In Albany
The annual meeting of the Geor
gia Library Association will be held
in Albany October 26 and 27, it is
announced by Miss Tommie Dora
Barker, president, It is expected
that a large number of librarians will
be in attendance, as most of the pub
lic libraries in the state are in South
Georgia, and many of them in towns
easily accessible to Albany, This is
the first time the Assoc‘ation has met
in the southern part of the state,
An interesting program is being
planned and many problems connect
ed with public library work will be
discussed, It is expected that many
club women will also be in attend
ance, as one session will be devoted
to the subject of the club woman's
nart in the development of libraries,
This session will be charge of Mrs,
T. K. Ottley, chairman of the Geor
gia library commission, who will talk
on library conditions In Georgia; con
tribution of clubwomen to the move
ment, and needs at the present time
for development of librarles,
Officers of the association are Tom
mie Dora Barker, Atlanta, president:
He'en Eastman, Rome, First vice
president; Louise Smith, Fitzgerald,
second vice-presidene; C, Seymour
Thompson, Savannah, secretary and
‘treasurer,
Mr, C. L. Ware of Fitzgerald, was
i‘he gvest for the week end of his pa
rents Prof, and Mrs, A, F, Ware,
ENTERPRISE AND PRESS '
West Alleged To Have
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‘Made Money Out of
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State Printing Bill
Former Executive Secretary Georgia
: Faces Serious Charges
ATLANTA, Oct, 10th—Claude A,
West former secretary to three gov
ernors of Georgia and employed for
‘two months by Governor Hardwick, to
‘assist his secretaries and clerks get
ting their work started, was held at
police headquarters this morning on
a blanket charge of suspicion pendin
the issuance of a warrant charging
embezzlement of state funds, which
Governor Hardwick had directed his
secretary D, B, Blalock to have is
sued,
Mr, ‘West was arrested at 1 o‘clock
this morning at the home of his
father, 91 DeSoto Avenue by Detec
tives Austin and Armstrong, who act
ed upon orders of Detective Chief
Poole, The matter had geen laid be
fore the chief by Mr, Blalock with a‘
request for the arrest to be made,
At police headquarters this morn
ing Mr, West was asked if he cared to
make a statement for publication, He
replied that his lawyer, Joel B, Mallet
would see him about 9 o’clock and he
might have a statement then, He said‘
he would like to have it made clear.
that he accompanied the detectives to.
headquarters without a warrant, |
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Alleged Dynamiters
1 Taken To Douglas
| i iy
. Special agents of the A. B, &A,
and the sheriff’s office arrested Wil
liam Busse!l and Preston Ware today
charged with a felony in connection
with a wreck on the A, B, & A, near
Ambrose, which was alleged to have
been caused by dynamite and with
which these former smployees are now
charged,
f gheriff Dorminey and W. H, Foun
tain. took the accused to Douglas this
afternoon and will present their ev
idence to the Coffee County Grand
Jury in session there now, -
S. A, Thomas, a machinist has also
been taken into custody on a felony
charge connected with one of the re
cent wrecks on the road,
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“Bringing Up Father’ ‘
In Wall Street
To Play Grand Theatre Here Next‘
Tuesday Night ‘
When “Bringing up Father in
Wall street” the latest verson of Geo.
McManus is shown at the Grand Op
era House where this side-splitting
comedy of two acts and five scenes
will ho'd the boards Tuesday, October
18th with the customary matinees the
public and especially those who have
followed the fortunes and adventures
of the well-known Jiggs Mahoney
family will have an opportunity of see
ing and enjoying a play in which all
the ingredients of laughter and happi
ness have been retained along with
unusual features and other novelties
certain to arouse new hope andi inter
est in the joy of living, Here we
have an example of what a resource
ful and enterprising manager can do
in the way of providing real up to
date entertainment, In three acts nec
essary to unfold the plot there is said
not to be a dull moment; surprise af
ter surprise is followed by some uniq
ue innovation and novelty with the re
sult that one is both amused and
thrilled and in addition compelled to
laugh out loud as it were, something
we humans must adthit is not always
possible in these days of rapid theat
rical competition, The cast contains
fully fifty peop'e, including 2 bevy
of beauty qualified to make Aphro
dite in her most halyecon days Yook
up and take notice, This attract'on
comes direct from the Mauhattan Op
era House, New York, and the Met
ropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia,
the homes of Grand Opera,
WOMAN'’S MISSIONARY
UNION CONVENTION HERE
The Woman's Missionary Union of
the Little River Baptist Association
will hold its annual convention in the
city October 20th beginning at 10:00
o'clock, Every charch in the asso
ciation is urged to send delegates to
this convention.
We will have Mis Maude Powell
with us; also hope to have a foreign
Missionary and believe the program
will be intcresting and instructive,
Come one and all,
Mrs, W, B. Owens, Supt,” Rochelle,
‘Georgia, i g s
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Near Ft. Worth, Texas, the other night, a band of bandits planned
%o hold up a train, kill the mail messenger, and rob the mail car. Know
ing his danger Chief Clerk Page, of the mail service, took the messcn-.
ger's place. The band was badly shot up and Page was unwounded.
Picture shows Page (on right) telling the story of the hold-up to Post
master-General Will Hays. Two of the robbers were killed by officers
who were concealed on 's car. &
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Rail Unions Going To
- President Harding
To Be Asked To Take Steps To
Prevent General Strike
- CHICAGO, Oct, 11— President
iHarding is to receive an appeal from
the chiefs of the railway brotherhoods
to take steps to avert a nation-wide
railroad strike it became known Tues
day. The appeal probably will be
sent to the President Tuesday after a
conference of the brotherhood heads
here, X
It is understood that the rail union
leaders will point out that defiance of
its edicts by the Pennsylvania sys
tem and other roads has made inaf
fective the services of the Railway
Labor Board, They will ask that he
’establish some other tribunal to func
tion in the present grisis,
- T mcmhbi"?“fi brotherhood
it was announced have voted five to
one in favor of a strike. Although
count of the ballots is incomplete ,the‘
vote so far shows 220,150 favoring a
strike and 38,850 opposing it.
The union chiefs were scheduled to
meet Tuesday although the meeting
may be postponed to Wednesday un
less thecount of the strike ballots is
completed sooner than expected,
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Alumai Raised $3,000
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At Banquet Last Night
University Alumni made a good
start last night at a banquet given at
the Lee-Grant Hotel at which $3OOO
was pledged to the war memorial
fund of the University, An organi
zation was formed with L. L Grinet
as president,
Sweet Potato Growers
We are ready to buy your
Porto Rico Potakpes
at our Storage Housé\.\
Monday, October 17th. .
Come and get your Grates.
Union Cotton QOil Co.
C. A. NEWCOMER
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County Library Exhibit l
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At Southeastern Fair|
Mrs, T, D, Barker president of the
library department of the southeastern
Fair, announces that she has obtain
ed for the big fair this year a county
ilibrary exhibit prepared by the Amer
ican Library Association in Chicago,
The exhibit consists of a dozen or
more posters showing county library
service in operation, The different
Imethods employed to carry books to
the people are demonstrated such as
the book wagon, the traveling library
in the post office, the grocery store
drug store or rural school.
This exhibit will be of especial in
terest to Georgia as every effort is
being made to encourage the devel
opment of county library systems so
that the small towns and the rural
communities can have access to the
Several counties in Georgia are suc
cessfully operating county library sys
tems and in Ben Hill County the work
is being developed monthly in sacks
by parcel post,
This exhibit will also be shown at
Albany at the meeting of the Geor
gia Library Association in October
and later at Savannah at the meeting
of the State Federation of V\’oman‘sl
clubs.
| SCHOOL NOTICE
l There will be a box social and en
_tertainment at the Ashton School
House Friday night October 14th—
‘AII are invited to come and get ac
|quainted and enjoy the evening.
| Mr._ A, C. Jones of Atlanta is in the
city today on business,
Mrs, C, A Walker of Ocilla was
shopping in the city today.
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Official Organ City Of Fitzgerald
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MORE INDICTED
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BY GRAND J‘URY%
Grand Jury Given Full Details Of
Pickets On Night Of July sth
The Grand Jury was given a full
list of the pickets and their equipment
on the night of July Sth by O, C.
Fairfield, who is said to have turned
etate’s witness before the Grand Jury
™ session today, Fairfield who had
bi®n actively engaged for several
webm prior to the sho6ting in con
veying strikeérs fo their picket posts
in his automobile and who was so en
gaged the evéning of July Sih, was
himself indicted by the last Grand
Jury for the murder of W. T. Reed
with five other strikers, and was also
convicted at the last term of court
for intimidating present employees of
the railway coinpany and given twelve
month in the State prison and three
months in jail, Up to the time we
go to press no definite report has been
given out by the Grand Jury but it
is said that indictments may be re
turned for a number of strikers not
now under arrest,
Crowder Cates was the last one ar
rested charged with murder,
~ Those arrested on this charge are:
J. M, Smith J T, Liles, Carl Ellison,
Quarterman Lee, E. M. Bishop, J. L,
Malcolm, S, A Morris, Ed Brown, A,
Wilmer Rozar, Crowder Cates and
Harvey Booker Gerald Myrick, J, W,
Hornsby and Perry Booker, Jr, are
out on bond, Thos, Hendrix has not
yet been apprchended.
12 Indictments Returned
When the Grand Jury adjourned
at 3:45 this afternoon they returned
twelve indictments for murder in con
!nection with the death of W_ T, Reed,
IThn indicted are: Car! E'lison, Fred
i Stubbs, J. M. Smith A W Rozar,
l]ames Mead, P, R, Harris. F' Brown,
John T. Liles, J. R, Malco'n and
| Crowder Cates, Harris, Stubbs and
Meade are still at large,
The Grand Jury adjourned to meet
again next Monday when the criminal
!docket of the court will be called,
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Gerald Myrick Is
Now Out On Bond
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Gerald V., Myrick, jindicted Ilast
August with John W, Hornsby, O,
C. Fairfield, Harvey and Perry Jr,
Booker and Thos, Hendricks ,was
let out on bond Tuwesday afternoon
by Judge 'Gowdr, The amount /of
bond fixed at $l,OOO which was im
mediately made by his parents Mr,
and Mrs, Chas, Myrick, Myrick on
being released went to his home on
north Grant stireet, During his im
prisonment Myrick was confined to a
room by himself said to be infected
with tuberculosis.
His case will probably be called
next Monday, when the criminal
week of the Superior Court will be
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