Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, November 30, 1921, Wednesday Edition, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textg e The Fitzgerald Leader Entcrprise & Press ‘Published Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday of : Each Week By THE LEADER PUBLISHING COMPANY Miubscription ‘Rate: per annum-_ao -ooL a 0 §3.00 Fntered at the Pcst Office at Fitzgerald as Second Class Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897 Official Organ of the City of Fitzgerald ISIDOR GELDERS . ... - Hditor Rates for display adv-rti.ing furnished on application. Tocal readers 10c per line for each insertion. No ad taken for less than 30 cents. AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION, foreign Adv. Representatives. CLIQUES AN FACTIONS—Towns might be di vided into three types: l-—" Those that are dead from the ground up. 2-—Those that are wide awake and which go ahead and do things. 3—Those that have bright and wide awake veople, but which spend so much time in personal and factional bickerings that they have no energy to push community projects. The first class of towns is hopeless, the second will' go ahead all right, but the third class repre sents many regrettable instances of possible devel vpment stopped. Sometimes it secms as if a town had too many clever and capable people. Too many of them want to be bosses. They line up into cliques and fac tions, and if one party takes up some idea, the oth er will sit back and criticise. As it take union of all resources in a country town to accomplish re sults, the party that takes up the new project can not put it over, owing to the undertone of opposi iwon. They become discouraged, and reach the conclusion that the town is dead and it is no use trying to accomplisr anything. That puts a damp er o nimprovement projects for some time, before aryone has the courage to go ahead and trv to accomplish any thing new, While that spirit does not exist to any extent in Fitzgerald yet there is in most towns some little tendency in that direction that needs to be check ed. People everywhere do incline to line up in cliques and factions. Then if some one starts some kind of a new movement, people are influen ced in their attitude to it by the question whether that person helongs to their faction or not. All of us who want to see our home town go atead should welcome signs of progress wherever they appear, and if anyone takes hold of a good wdea, he should get the most hearty encouragement whether he belongs to “our crowd” or not. The progressive town is too broad minded for cliques and factions. CARE OF FIREARMS—The hunting season al ways brings the usual number of narrow escapes, shooting accidents, and some fatalitics. ' These mischances happen to people ordinarily considered careful. Some one was telling the oth er day of going out with a friend. They were walking over rough ground, and one of them slip ped, caught at the branch of a bush, and in so do i °g jerked back his thumb that he had on the ham- . School Girl Hangs ‘ Self At Athens | Coroner’s Jury Finds That Student’ Committed Suicide i ATHENS, Ga, Nov. 28—Miss Ruby | Landrum, 17 year o'd normal school | student from Stephens, Ga, hangcd‘ herself in the bath room on the third | floor of the Bradberry dormitory ;uf the State Normal School here Monday at 1 o'clock. She died of str:mgula—g tion according to the three doctors who were members of te coroner's jury that made the inquest shortly after the tragedy occurred. ‘ Her lifeless hody was discovered hanging by a rope of twsted towels from a stea mpipe running through the bath room, The discovery was made about noon by Miss Minnie Per- . rv, student rooming on the same floor, who climbed up on a chair and looked through the transom to ascertain the reason why the bath room door was , SIGNS *OF THE TIMES PN XMAS SHoppe— i | é PNNG E =Se SHOp i e H ONLY|.Avopne ROS MAS BLYIP - :33'5‘; = SHOP | _ MORE i pp e c Rs B S| s R e Sett [\ LY oSI —es oo 0 O T E o H. = SHOP NOW! % A\!SE\D o \XMAS! e v ) x s L RUSH BTt J= . (%3 = - . > E el T : Fl ONL | @@ V@@h\? == —\ SHQP e . MORE| D 0 YOUR £ 2 B/ET——-=ARWN i , SHOPPI XMAS BUYING = XMAS 8(= m%@ ANDRA‘O‘SQ‘ ~e— / - I pavs 7 Rlf! 15. sHePPING ¢ HE RV N\ L XMAT Y eS\ NOW_ B 7= el | WR et SHOPWNG \= NV '{""s2’ T\ . Y 57 e | = mier of his rifle. The hammer snapped back ,the cun went off, and put a bullet close to the feet of the other man. No one was hurt that time, but it showed how accidents often happen. It is well to remember that it is the gun that is not loaded that always kills people. Keep in mind ti ¢ old pioncer’s saying that “a gun is dangerous, cven if it hasn‘t lock, stock, or barrel”. Every “ay should be taught to handle fircarms, and at the rame time should be sharply warned of their dan ¢er and of the necessity of constant caution while handling them. “HE NEW INTERNATIONAL COURT—An other attempt to settle international disputes with cat war will come into organized form next Januw ary 23, when the new international court meets a. ‘he Hague It will have to command better support than the old Hague tribunal, if it is to accomplish much. There are alwavs two wavs by which these dis putes can he settled other than by war. The first 15 through conferences where representatives of the powers try to bargain with each other and reach harmonious agreement, And there is the method of referring the controversies to a court whose decision cach party is pledged to accept. Up to now the nations would not place their vital interests at the disposal of such a tribunal S-me day they will find that it is infinitely cheap °r to abide by the decisions of such a court, than to rush the world into the awful catastrophe of war,. THE COST OF CRIME—The thieving business s lively. Crooks got $1,500,000 by robbing a mail vagon in New York the other day. Many people Aho carried payroll money through the stréets have been robbed, and the carnival of crime still ~oes on unchecked. More guards will have to he provided when cash is transferred through the streets. The easy going times when big sums ould he sent from one business place to another and through the mail traing without much protec tion, have gone by, There are too many vultures lving in wait, hop g to make easy money by threat of murder, or through some one’s negligence. The cost of ad cauately protecting valuables from the growing ranks of criminals is becoming very considerable. And this is only one of the minor items of the cost of crime. There are also the bills for police jails and the courts. Some day people will wake up and conclude that i they would spend more money on schools, less would have to be spent on guards and police and ilss For eriminals are largely uneducated people THE HOME OWNERS—It is commonly said that the United States is becoming a nation of the neople who live in rented dwellings and have no Lomes of their own, Iy large cities, anvway, wan dering tribes of nomads drift around from one artment to another. ' Buit ad'a whele there are more home owners than some of us have realized. The 1920 census figures show 10.866,960 who own their homes, compared with 12,043,308 who rent. The farmers and other country people, are a class that still provide many home owners. There aceds to be more effort to induce people to own their own dwellings, through loan associations and otherwise. When folks acquire a stake in the soil. thev begin to make permanent improvements and work for community improvement. locked, At the inquest it was decided death of Miss Landrum, at her own hands came about as the result of insanity, 1 climax to the melancholia -of which she had been suffering for the past three weeks. , Dr. S, S, Smith stated: ; “I am sure that the death at her own hands was through insanity." Dr. H, I. Reynolds, stated: “This is but a climax to a three week's pe viod during which she was ment;\llyl unbalanced” | Dr. Ralph Goss stated: “Undoubted lv at the time she did this she was insane, This insanity was perhaps the clima xto a period of melancho | lia.” Miss Landrum, accordiug to the tes tmony that was given at the coroners inonest was attending the normal schoo! through the generosity of Miss Dowdle of the State College of Agri colture and has made a very high record. For some wunknown reason, how ever, according to the testimony given Iy =B, ] hy Miss Dowdle, Miss Landrum thought she was not doing as well as expected of her and for the Inst. three weeks hiad heen writing Miss | Dowdle Tett rs in which were such ex- | pressions as. “I wish that T were tl‘(':\(l'{ I know it is sinful to say such, l\uti it is the truth” J‘ The physicians who were members | of the -oroner's jury used this as il‘ basis for their verdict | M 5 Landrum has a father, J. \\'.‘ Landrum, and two brothers living, Al' of them are residents of Stephens vho were notified immediately. ATTENTION RURAL PG The monthly Teachers Tnstitute to be held December 2nd. will convene at the Third Ward School Ruilding in this city at 10:00 A M. next Sat urday. THE LEADER-ENTERPR'SE AND PRESS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1921. Taxes Go How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money in Conduct i%2 Your Busiress By EDWARD G. LOWRY Author “‘Washington Close-Ups,”” *“‘Banks and Finapcial Systems,” ete. Coatributor Political and Economie Articles to Leading Periodicals and a Writer of Recognized Authority on the National Government’s Business Methods s Cdﬂ;ﬁghl. Western Newspaper Union 1. UNCLE SAM AS EMFLOYER The United States governent is the turgest single cmployer of men anc women in this country. At the present time in the executive civil service of the Federal government, and exclusive of the army and navy, there are em ployed approximately 650,000 workers or one in 73 of all residents on Ameri can soil, ten years of age or over, en gaged in gainful occupations, A little while ago, when the number of federal employees was even larger than it is now, one person out of every 68 in the United Stutes who had any sort of € Job at all was working for the govern ment. These calculations are hasec on recent estimates of the bureau of the census in anticipation of the re sults of the fourteenth general census Prior to the outbreak of the war in 1914, the number of men and womner in eivil positions in the executive service was approximately 385.630. Tlr 1916 it had grown to 398.832. In 1917 after our entry into the war, it was HN.798 On June 30, 1719, the numbe wis 707,448, The number on July 31 1920, wax 691,116, These fizures are confessedly ap proximations, Since the signing of the armistice the number of federal em ployees has heen decreasing. Un doubtedly the decrease in force wil continne to he made for months te come, but the growih of the govern ment husiness in the past few vears has been such as to make it a lov-o employer in the post-war perio’ ' it had ever heen in the pre-war nerol These thousands of men and womer working for the government comprise | every type of ability and intelligence | Their duties cover n range of activities | that far exceeds that exercised for | other public or private employers: for ! hesides its task of lawmaking and law | enforeing, of national (Jefense :mnl national finance, the government is | charged with promoting the health -anc l welfare of its people, of prnmntln;i their home interests, their agricultural mining, manufacturing, shipping, fish ! ing and transportation interests. To do this it must Investigate. con trol and eradicate diseases that attack persons, plants and animals, It must Inspect livestock, foods and drugs, Ti must study conditions and progress in education, labor and commerce, Tt must prevent individual men or groups of men from using unfair business methods, whether in banking., trans portation. trade or manufacture, The covernment must administer public Jandsiand the affairs of the Indians. and educate children in Alaska, It grants patents of inven tion, it sets the clocks of the country, foreeasts the weather, and makes observations of the stars and heavenly hodies. It construets buildings, docks roads, bridges, irrigation works, huild« canals and acroplanes, makes ordnance and ammunition, clothing and other supplies “or its soldiers and saflors. Tt makes all its own money and does all its own printing. It dis fributes all mail and many packages. The government does everything that any employer in the United States does, fii additioh fo a great many things that no other employer does. How does it treat its people? Is it Siaas savesl OV RISELE D NSDVIES o 4 a good employer or a bad employer? Are its employees contented? These are questions that T should advise the railroad men, the miners and othe: workers who seek nationalization of industry, to look into before they com mit themselves. Let them find out for themselves what government ownership would mean to them. The first thing they will discover, as I discovered when ¥ began the present inquiry, is that nobody knows, and nobody in the government service is charged with knowing, the exact number of emplovees in the service from day to day. Even more astound ing, nobody knows, or is charged with knowing, even approximately, the sum of the payroll of tle United States, It is not passible to find out within hundreds of thousands of dollars how much the United Siates pays yearly or monthly in salaries and wages, 1 went to the Treasury department, to the approprintions committee of con gress, and elsewhere where 1 thought the information mizht be lodged, but nohody knew. T was told vagzuely that the government was not run on an asset and liability basis, and therefore it was not necessary to know the exact nuwber of employees on the payroll. If the average compensation is $l,- 100, the federal civil service payroll now amounts to more than seven hundred million doliars annually. The largest single branch is the Post Office department. with nearly ‘300,000 em ployees. The War department has more than 125000 civilian employees, the Navy department about 90,000, and the Treasury department about 60.000. No other branch has as many as 25.000 employees. Any institution that em ploys one in seventy-three of all this country’s workers and calls for the expenditure of such a large part of our anvual revenues is entitled to vour serious consideration. You and you alone put up the money, Drs. Holtzendorf and Turner DENTISTS Upstairs, Next Door to the National Drug Company PHONE 57 'SIDE LIGHTS ON THE FIRE "ui\ll\" A (By M. C. Thomas) We were asleep at the switch, Mias ‘ed something as per usual, but thon ‘things like this are to be more or less expected when one has been missing trams meals etc., for so long a time, But to get away from our partic ular troubles, it was some fire. In fact it was just a little too much fire as the windows of the business houses across the street plainly show. Plate glass cracked, paint scorched and ev en the talking machines mutely (for a wondcr) tell the casual observer that the vicinity of the fire was a very good place to be away from, At eight o’clock when our corres pondent arived on the scene, most of the scenery looked as it a small sec tion of the far famed devasted region of France had been moved into our midst, Walls that looked to he wobb ly, and were, reared their heads out of the mass of debris, little spirals of smoke curled upward and here and there little groups of men congregat ©d and looked as if they were talking over just what HAD happened any way, . One of the first things we noticed made us glad that we were not a tel ¢phone man. Talk about things be ing messed up. Wires were wandering all over the landscape, yes, and under it. Big cables with their insulation strangely missing looked like a veri table rats nest, but the telephone peo ple were on the job before the ruins were cold. The electric light people were gum med up a little also, but they were fortunate in having a little more time than the telephone company to repair their damages. Both companies are now laboring under a big sign “Bus iness as Usual.” Speaking of things to be thankful for even if it is after Thanksgiving. lots of us can truthfully say that we didn't even losc an eve brow. (Firemen are not in this category however.) We don’t say this in a spirit of unusual lev ity, but still its' a fact, B-ing practically a stranger here, we are not in position to discuss loss es except to say that three hundred thousand dollars is a heap of money, several wheel-barrow loads we imag ine, but from the looks of the wasted block the loss could have well been' a million, and it is to the credit of this little city, and its fire fighters in par ticular that the loss was not a million, Wide streets and capable firemen saved Fitzgerald without a doubt, Had' the distance between the husiness houses heen as it is on some of the other streets—Fitzgerald would have been WAS, surely, We have a sneaking idea that we would like to be in the fire insurance ‘business for the next few days, Bus'- uess should be excellent, and a man 'wouldnt have to talk his head off i:.hout potential risks efther, | This is about the best we can do 'xin(‘--_ @we said hefore W owere asteer at the switch, lik» Case, Jones, ! ‘T owhoever it was that went te sleep at dhe aforesaid switch, Fu then after all is “a’'d and done we werc not ‘alone hecanse 99 per cent of the Pop ulation were pounding *heii cars in l\pm- of the ire, A TONIC Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic restores Energy and Vitality by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengthening, invigorating effect, see how it brings color to the cheeks and how it improves the appetite, you will then appreciate its true tonic value. Grove's Tasteless 'chill Tonic is simply Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So pleasant even children like it. The blood needs QUININE to Purifv it and IRON to Enrich it. Destroys Malarial germs and Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigor ating Effect. 60c. BEYOND A DOQUBT The Impreved Remington Typewriter represcats the highest achieve m-°nt in ithe tyrewriter industry. Show us a goud feature in any other typewriter and we'il show you the same thing---or better---in this machine. REMINGTON DEPENDABILITY is alec built into its “Little Brother,” The Remington Portable---built iike a boack, ; Call and see these machines, or ask for demonstration. 3 y CREWS BICYCLE COMPANY Lecal Representative “Ii We Can Get It In The Shop We Can Fix It” Fitzgerald High School Business College Is now offering standard and distinet courses in Twentieth Century Bookkeeping, Gregg Shorthand, Touch Typewriting, and the allied commercial subjects. Enter now snd through its efficient instruetion and practical training, increase your earning capacity, and at the end of the scnool year be ready to accept the awaiting positions. $50.00 Tuition Covers all Subjects For further information, see or write: MRS, WALTER MORGAN, Principal, or ULRIC J. BEN“EIT, Superintendent, Fitzgerald, Ga. I T TT T T T T TTTTT T T T T e ’ TRESPASS NOTICE ~ All persons are hereby warned against hunting or fishing or other wise trespassing on mv lands in any anncr whatever. This means one and all alike, J. W. Morris, D26p A two-year guaranteed battery at a low price —3Ol South Grant St, erson, Fitzgerald Vulcanizing Co,, 215 E, Central Avenue, Tires and Tubes vul canized, tf [./‘::.‘\_\ il A m.»-::.‘;.'-m . S;l Eodr PR e R & ff 8 .555 R B R 2 o :E:~ R —— i g WAY Copyright 1921 Hart Schaffner & Marx ? _ : o You cant afford it o --neither can we Cheap clothes---wearing materials and making--- are usuallylcostly; to you We can’t afford to sell them. 3 Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes are best for us to sellfbecause they’re best for you§to' buy. They’re tailored right Fine all-wool fabrics ' The styles are right " Prices low tor quality. - - .'.- ¢ Empire Mercantile Co. Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes BRING YOUR OLD WINTER CLOTHES TO ° ° Fitzgerald Tailors We'll Make them like ’ 208 E, Pine St,, Phéhe 266