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Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897
Official Organ of the City of Fitzgerald
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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,
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Is now offering standard and distinet courses in Twentieth Century
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’ 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
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