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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
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SOME FACTS IN THE PRESENT RAILROAD
CRISIS—The railroad labor leaders have called
a general strike for October 30th. not on account
of 12 per cent reduction in wages made July 1, but
because of the general tendency of railroad execu
tives to make still further reductions m pay. to
make changes in working conditions, to restore the
piece-system of work in all railroad shops, and to
adopt other measures tending ti destroy the rail
road unions,
To enable them to resist this tendency the union
leaders recently asked authority of the workers to
order a strike if, in the judgement of the leaders.
one was necessary to stop further reduction
wages. :
The railroad exccutives at thhs juncture gave
public notice of their intention to follow the first
l\\'u;:('-rn-«]nrlmn promptly with another. The rail
roads could not lawfully make any such further re
Juction without first obtaining the official sanction
of the Government Labor Board after hearing both
sides,
But the labor leaders had no assurances that the
lailroad exccutives would not take the law into
their own hands and go ahead withtheir reductions
of wages without the consent of the government,
because several railroads, including the great Penn
sylvania system and A, B. & A, had already defied
the l.abor Board,
It is to be noted that, while the executives of
these railroads have defied the government, as rep
resented by the labor board, the labor leaders have
not yet done so.
The railroad labor leaders probably had no
tention of using the authority conferred upon them
by 90 per cent of their fellows to order a strike on
account of wage reductions already in effect. In
the face of threats of additional reductions by rail
road executives, with or without the consent of the
railroad fabor board. the labor leaders felt that they
must take some decisive action
A they did not fight their unions would be de
stroyed. Disintegration of the unions would be
certain.
If they did strike, they admit their unions may
still be destroyed, through defeat. But in the event
of a strike compromise is also possible.
So the labor leaders intend to strike, as the mat
ter stands, and will do all all in their power to make
the strike effective.
There are also some reasons for helieving that
the railroad exceutives (some of them are marvel
ously able and efficient as railroad operators, but
nearly all of whom are unskillful, or willful, in deal
ing with the public) intend to do nothing to avert
the strike, but upon the whole welcome it as the
only way of settling decisively a |
The railway exccutives with a {
tions, have never been in the habi
law, or considering the interests o
If the Railroad .abor Board fail
way to prevent the great strike, wi
the labor Unions and without surr
without giving railroad executives
way either, then President Hardi
have to exercisc his great autho
interest to stop the war, until Col
the experimental Fsh-Cummins
provide a less divided authority
and railroad wages and workin
eryone having knowledge of m
knows that act will have to be amended. The pres
ent railroad situation as to rates and other condi
tii)fl.\" ¢an not continue
The Georgran winks that unions are necessary
to protect railroad workers in their relations with
the highly organized emplovers, The destruction
of unions would be a public calamity. Without
the unions, there would have been no eight-hour
day. f
President Roosevelt met a crisis nineteen vears
ago in the great anthracite coal strike by calling in
such broad-guage business experts as George Gray
and such skillful, unbiased statisticans as Carrol D.
Wright, head of the census. They established a
“peace with justice” that composed all strife and
pleased everybody, especially the mineworkers. It
continued more than ten vears without complaint
by consumers or operators—Atlanta Georgian,
KEEPING THE YOUNG PEOPLE AT HOME-
All country people like to see their bright young
tolks settle down in their home towns, ‘but often
Ihe yfail to take any steps whatever to accomplish
athat result. The first thing to be done to keep
m, is to give them a chance from early child-
Wood to have little enterprises of their own. The
“eld time farmer’s boy had practically nothing he
could call his own. Sometimes some calf or other
‘animal to which he became attached would be
called his He would give time and thought to its
care. But when it was sold, his father would pock
gflw money, telling the boy he would use it to
T RIS e
' buy clothes for him.
The boy felt he was entitled to the clothes any
way, so he was getting no return for all the effort
lhe had made to bring up that calf. This tends to
\develop a feeling of resentment in his mind, and a
dislike for rural life. He would make up his mind
that the first chance he got he would strike off for
himself, and go out in the world where whatever
he did would count directly and vizibly in his own
{ mterest.
f The boys and girls clubs formed all over this
country have furnished to a large extent a solution
21.:‘ this problem. They encourage country families
to let their children have their own enterprises,
their own gardens and pigs and calves and other
|].rur!u('t> A boy who has these projects of his
own comies to look at country life in a wholly dii
ferent way. He is incited to study scientific
'methods and he can see ways by which rural‘indus
}n'im can become more profitable He gets inter
csted in competing with other young people.
Instead of dreaming about fabulous fortunes in
somie great city he is pondering how he can make
that calf grow faster. Country life scems full of
hope to him, he gets the rural point of view, and
loses the restless desire to wander,
SHUTTING OFF IMPORTS—It is gcn(-rnll_vj
agreed among business men th_m prices of mznm»-;
fatcured goods ought to come down still further.
The cost of living is still so high as to stop the cur- '
rent of prosperity. Yet in the face of this uni\'cl'—%
cal demand, the Republican majority of ('ungr('ss‘
s planning to go alicad and pass a high tariff law, |
the purpose of which is professedly to raise priu'.\‘
still further, |
The protected manufacturers offer as an :-\:("Usvi
for such a propostition, that they can not operate |
their factories tull time, owing to the <'un|p('tilinn{
of the so-called pauper-labor of lLurope. Now i
their complaint is true, the result of shutting uff%
these FEuropean products, would be to permit Am
crican producers to sell their goods at higher prices
than now prevail.,
This is a proposal to lift prices or a wide range
of manufactured goods, the selling figures of which
are now somewhat afiected by European competi
ton, up to a new attitude, The American people,
Just as soon as they understand the real meaning
of this idea, will never stand for it, and i it 1s in
sisted upon, they will elect a Democratic Congress
next fall.
Imports at the present time are not heavy. \We
need to take all the foreign goods we are now get
tmg, to pay for the stuff we are exporting. \We
cught to take still more, so that ILurope could
make a beginning on paying principal and interest
on its enormous debt.
Shutting of our present meager imports, will
close down factories producing goods abroad, and
adjourn all payments on the foreign debt. Manu
facturers who can not stand competition with the
very limited amount of imported goods now com
ing in, are in a line of business that is on too in
secure a foundation to live, They should either
improve their methods so they could compete with
Europe. or go into a line where they can produce
better results.
CO-OPERATING WIiTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS;
THE HOME ATTITUDE—Many people seem to
teel that ceducational progress is a matter princi
pally of equipment and text books and new meth
ods and all that. Yet there are certain forces af
fecting school work very intimately, that are nev.
crer touched by any mere change of methods and
svstems,
The success of the school depends primarily on
Wich the children take hold and
TR BWT S LU A LTI
rt the discipline. If the pupils
careless or inattentive, there is
hostility and indifference against
cacher is almost liclpless,
i the children is modified I)_\' the
1c homes maintain toward the
uldren, of they are corrected or
ing word to their parents that
wn on them.” The parents get
teacher is unfriendly and they
onceal the notion from the child
rage the children i an attitude
b e Cid make them feer thet the
her is at fan't
Fiven it the teacher may he partly re:pensible
for wrong conditions, the situation is macte worse
by permitting the children to lose respect for the
authority over them,
Parents can help their children a great deal by
urging them to obey the rules, to work hard to get
their lessons, and to enter into the spirit of enthu
siasm which each school room should manifest,
When children are encouraged to take that atti
tude, they are apt to fall in with the desires of the
teacher and a spirit of work and co-operation pre
vades the room that promotes good results. But
if the parents encourage the children in an attitude
of opposition or criticism, a feeling of sullen dis
content gets root in a room. It spreads from one
to another, and soon it proves almost impossible
to arouse any spirit of work or emulation.
Strict Father—lf T should die you would have
to beg for money.
- Son—lt sure would come natural.—Michigan
‘ Gargoyle. d
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“~Dks{-;\\'9flld you be satisfied if you had all the
money vou wanted? i el
Owens—l'd be satisfied if T had all the money
my creditors wanted.—Boston Transcript.
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Exceeds Speed Limit :
Pezzi Mystic—The dollar bill doesn‘t go half as
far as it used to.
Opty Mystic—But, it goes twice as fast—Vaud
cville News.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1921
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When Babe Ruth ignored a big league baseball rule, that no World
Series player should engage in “barnstorming” games aiter the close
of the series, he established an issue as to which was the biggest in
baseball, he or Judge Kenesaw -\ Landis, of Chicago._ Chief Com
missioner of baseball. Landis warned Ruth not to play. - Ruth said it
was an unfajr ruling and played. Fans the land over are wondering
" the “King of Swat” has met his Waterloo. .
ADVERTISING BIG FACTOR
IN BUSINESS REVIVAL
ATLANTA, Oct., 17—All the busi
ness experts here agree that the worst
of the depression is past and that bha
sic conditions have been improving
for two or three months, They say
there is no need to rehearse the evi
dence which appears from day to day
in the newspapers, All that is necess
‘:n'_v‘ say these experts, is to point out
the tendency which, because day to
day progress is slow, may not always
be clear to the casual observer, That
tendency, they declared is unmistak
ably upward
The only difference of expert in
ion has to do with the rate of im r v -
ment and the fixing of the time when
the growing activity is destined to de
velop into a boom recognizable to ev
erybody
Joel Hunter of Atlanta one of the
most conservative of professional bus
iness observers, expects a decided up
swing in the coming winter or spring
He thinks that there should be con
siderable improvement, though before
that, coming in the fall, as the result
of the special activities in sales and
advertising campaigns now being p'an
ned by some of the foremost manufac
turers and merchants, Mr, Hunter
who is a business counsellor of many
years experience, supervises the aud
its of probably more concerns than
any other man in the South,
Advertising unquestionably accord
ing to Atlanta publishers will have a
great deal to do with the revival of
business. The industries that have
got on their feet are the ones that
started early and advertising heavily
along with their price revisions, A
big market is just about ripe for the
manufacturers and merchants who are
wise enough and hold e¢nough to make
a strong appeal at the strategic time,
according to various advertising ag
encies here,
CREAM FOR CATARRH
OPENS UP NOSTRILS
Tells How To Get Quick Relief
from Head-Colds. It’s Splendid!
In one minute vour clogged nostrils
will open, the air passages of your head
will clear and vou can breathe freely,
No more hawking, snuffing, blowing
headache, dryness, No struggling for
breath at night: vour cold or catarrh
will be gone,
Get a small bote of Ely's Cream
Balm from vour druggist now. Apply
a_ little of this fragyant, antiseptic,
healing cream in your \ostrils, Tt pen
etrates through every hir passage of
the head, sobthes the iflamed or the
swollen mucuous membrine and relief
comes instantly,
[t's just fine, Don't stay stuffed-up
with 4 cold or nasty catarrh—Re'ief
comes so quickly, adv,
H. A. MATHIS
OPTOMETRIST and
MFG. OPTICIAN
Eyes Examined, Glasses Furnished
BROKEN LENS DUPLICATED
We Grind Our Own Glasses,
ATLANTA, GA.
Entirely New Management
356 Rooms; Modern; Fire
proof. Roof Garden Seat
ing 500 for Conventions.
Rathskeller and Six Private
Dining Rooms. Cuisine
Equal to the Best. :
LOUIS J. DINKLER,
President
CARLING L. DINKLER,
Vice-Pres. and Manager
FRANK T. REYNOLDS,
Executive Assistant Manager
Wire or Phone Us Your Wants
Telephone Ivy 1100
U. S. Department
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Of Agriculture
Cotton Quotation Service; Bureau
of Markets and Crop estimates; At
lanta District, B, R, Oastler in charge,
NOTE-—The following prices are
from reports of actual sales received
by this office and are not estimated
prices:
Reports of sales at Interior Markets.
CRAWFORDSVILLE
Date Grade Staple Price
14 Striet Middling. 7-8¥ i jOI4
140 - Maddhher =2o 78" |8
14 __strict low middling 7-8% ____l7l4
FITZGERALD
Date Grade Staple Price
13 __strict low middling 7-8* ____l63/
4 Middhng. - . 728" 18
i 4 __strict low middling 7-8¢ ___.:l7
14 __Low Middling__._ 7-8% . 155¢
1o Middling o 7. Q 0 0734
15 __strict low niiddling 7-8" ____l634
MADISON '
Date Grade Staple Price
14 __Strict Middling..__ 7-8* ____l9l/4
19 Maddishg .o oo JiBE G
14 __strict low middling 7-8% ____l7
BANKRUPT SALE
By Order of the court of Bankrupt
cy, there will be sold between the le
cal hours of sale on October 27, 1921,
for cosh to the high:«t bidder, in front
of the store room at 1 ember 117 ¢zt
e street, Fitzgerali, Georgia, ail of
the assets of L, Femlierg, bank "t
consisting principally o stock o! fur
niture and notes an‘t azcounts This
Octeber 15, 1021,
Claywon Jay, Trusicc,
Ever Catek a Micropterus?
Tne black buss :re of two species—
the swull-mouth tiwek bass and the
large-mouth Hinst bass, writes Dr. R
W. Shuteldt i the American Forestry
YMagazine. Both helong to the genus
Micropterus, and are readily distin.
guished through the fact that in the
last-named form the angle of the gape
of the mouth is puck of the imaginary
vertical line from the center of the
pupil of the eye upon either side. Se
gamy are these fish that they are
known as the “gajetish of the North,”
wnd anglers prefer to ek for thems
vhove all other kinds
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What a Real Pear Is,
The real pearl—that is the fing
spherical, iridescent gem—is not &
product of the mother-of-pearl or nacre
lining of the oyster shell, as are the
barocque and seed pearls, but is forms
ed in the gills and never grows in
size. They begin as a small blister
contalning a hyaline fluid which con.
denses slowly and gradually hardens
[n concentric layers. The iridescence
fs due to the minnte films of air or
gas that are co ] between the
‘ayers.
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Burning Cork ®ungent and spicy,
To remove the ador of hurned food
and to sweeten the »ir o a voom zen- |
erally, put a piece of ordinary cork |
on a hot stove lid or other iron plate |
and let it smoldar and tupp black. It |
will give off a fresh ana fragrant odop |
which will overcome any other odor |
Qresent, :
Use Our Oils and Save Money
- Open for Business -
United Service Station
Central and Sherman Streets
High Grade Gasoline and Qils
Free Water and Air :
ACCOMMODATING ATTEN DANTS
J. C. WILSON
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SPECIALS
12 Ib. Government Bacon - 2.00
Fresh Fla. String Beans - 15¢ Ib.
Gardners Cake --\ - -40 c Ib.
New Cane Syrup - - -75 c gal.
Smoked Shoulder - - -20 c Ib.
Plolieds? - 9958 @ikl
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MR. O. W. FLETCIIER,
Fitzgerld, Georgia,
Dear Sir:
With reference to the Vesta Battery I purchased
from you in September 1919, will say it has given
perfect satisfaction. lam still using it and only
had it recharged one time. I find I get more pow
er out of this battery than any Battery I ever used.
It turns my starter faster and gives me a good
bright light all the time. I feel quite sure that if
the people that are having battery trouble would
try one of yours, they would always be your friend
zs a Good Battery is the real Life of any car.
Hoping you much success, I am:
Yours very truly,
WM. ROGERS.
_ Any Vesta Rattery Owner Will
Verify Mr. Rogers Experience
. W. Tletcher's (arage
“From§Tire.To Top”
Phone 417 301 S. Grant St.
Orange Squeeze
“The Drink With the Genuine Orange Flavor”
Let us send you a case to your
home---the kiddies thrive on it,
For sale at all Fountains and where
Soft Drinks are sold.
Ssc - EVERYWHERE - 5¢
Bottled Exclusively by
Chers-Cola Bottling Co.
Fitzgerald, - - - Georgia.
