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A SAILOR BRAVE—The rccorid of Mr. Charles
AV, Morse. well known aln].pm{; magnate, 1s bheing
watched with some uncertainty, :
11is movements are being followed with a great
deal of interest. He is said to have left the coun
trv before the New York Grand Jury hegan to in
s estigate recent ship contracts,
Mr. Morse will be well remembered. e was
arrested in 1908 for misapplying funds and was
scntenced to fifteen years in the Federal prison in
Atlanta.
In January 1912, President Taft commuted the
vanker’s sentence on the ground that he was “in
curably ill” The president was evidently flim
fammed, for Mr. Morse recovered his health and
tour years later resumed business in New York.
Since then he has been subject to various atten
tions fron the Grand Jury. -
His present flight to Lurope is <aid to he upon
shie advice of his physicians. e will probably be
rought back at the suggestion of the President "of
Ithe United States. Savannah Press.
THE AMERCAN VALUATION PLAN—The
worst feature of the Fordney tariff bill, over which
+his procrastinating and factional congress will
*end most of its time this winter, is the so-called
- merican valuation plan, Here is a scheme that
proposes to do away with the method of assesing
tariff dutics that has been in force for 100 years,
. d which long ago réached a point where it work.
=1 smoothly and secured substantial justice.
The proposed plan of taxing imported goods by
a duty based on the valuation at which similar and
competing products are sold in this country, will
1y a large extent permit manufacturers to fix the
rates of duty which imported merchandise must
pay. Manufacturers could combine to raise pri
es. and imported goods would consequently pay
1 higher duty.
Importers could not tell what duties they must
pay until they got their goods into this country,
vhich would make it a very risky adventure to
unport anything.. These tendencies would large
lv cut off imports, thus permitting American prof
teers to soak the people whatever they saw fit,
And if you stop importing goods, vou kill our
export trade. Goods sent abroad must be paid for
cither in gold or merchandise. They have no gold
to give us, and if we refuse to buy their merchan
d'se, they have no recourse but to stop buying the
American goods.
Thus our export trade would be ruined. bring
mg disaster to manufacturing and agricultural in
dustrics, that depend largely on foreign trade, and
throwing great numbers of people out of employ
ment.,
At a time when the welfare of the country de
rends upon reducing the cost of living, this law
would greatly increase the price of everything im
-lorted, or everything that formerly came into com
netition with imported goods. It seems incredible
that Congress should pcrpcirats,\wh an act of in
¢ neeivable folly, but it may do so, unless the peo
ple rise in protest.
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Jesse Mercer Resigns |
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As Prohibition Officer,
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Lot osse B Mor- |
eor foderal prehibition enforceme ut of- |
ficer. who f'gured it a recont cont ‘
versy w.th Futlon (', 1
which subs que g l
ing nade poa Ik . 1
P e marked
2 Y x Y!" rart ' A LT re
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e ae the cause of the resion;
but strongly hinted - |
ing of the enfreement officers had |
a great deal to do with it ‘
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| Asheville, N. C., passed an ordinance prohib
{iting slandering of pupils in the city schools. The
“ue is $50.00. The punishment does not fit™ the
I»‘rimc in this case, a sound thrashing. would be
jmore in keeping wih the offense and no™ doubt
{niore effeetive in its prohibition, :
| The state is agogover the differences which have
%:ni.svn between the department of agriculture of
fi”l\. State and Senator Thos, E. Watson. Since
H mmnis.\i'mn"' Brown and Sen. Watson have been
assoclated for a genceration, the offense must be 2
serious one for Mr. Watson to break off friendly
celations with th: former vice-president of his pub
[hishing company. Of course we are betting on 1.
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| Some of our exchanges attempt to minimize the
alue of Senztor Watson's efforts to keep Lincoln
Hohnson from being confirmed by the Senate. Un
Lder previoGs rcpu%lic:m administration negroes
were appointed to fill this position, and invariable
(the dull democratic strength was Ditted against
[ these wppointees, but only in this instance have
[they been able to defeat the nominee, so that it
Lanpears that My, Watson was able to bring enough
irvnnl»lir:m\ to his view point and that of the sen
{lor Senator Mr. W. [, Harris.
'THE TRUTH ABOUT CORN IN THE HOG—
Cne of our city newspaper editors tells us that
corn in the hog is worth 90 cents a bushel. while
corn in the raw for cash is worth only 48 cents &
toashel. The <aid learned city writer draws the
conclusion, therefore, that it will be very profit
#ble for hog raisers to feed their corn to hogs this
winter,
We don't pretend to be corn experts, or hog ex
perts, or experts on corn in the hog, but we believe
‘hat our city friend has overlooked a few things.
‘That which lies between the 48 cents for cash
corn and Y 0 cents for corn in the hog, 1s nof mere
v corn. /
When vou have sold your bushel of corn for 48
cents and delivered it, the bushel of corn has pRrSS
ed from your life. But if you refrain from selling
it and feed it to hogs instead, you add some things
that should count as expenses, The labor of feed
mg the bushel of corn into the hog, the labor of
taking proper care of that hog, the work and risk
of keeping that hog alive, the expense of provid
mg him with a comfortable home, the measures to
protect the feed from predatory animals, and fin
«lly the toil, trouble and dangers of moving a liv
ing bushel of corn rather than an inanimate bush-
And then when that *corn in the hog" gets to the
el of corn to market.
market, you may very well find yourself receiv
ing very much less than 90 cents a bushel for him.
SAY, BOYS, GIVE US LESS LATIN—( e of
the things we don't understand is why statesmen,
who are clected to their jobs by the people, insist
o using words at highly important public confer
ences which most of us don't readily understand.
Take that armament conference. The public,
he mass of the pe ple. down to the least educated
of us, are millions of times more interested in that
meeting, its deliberations and its results than are
the men who are participating in it, no matter how
great they are, or think they are. Every o often
yvou hear Briand or Balfour or Hughes or some
ther fellow speak of “the last plenary session.”
“Plenary nothing! Plenary means “full, com
rlete.” Why not say “the last complete session ?”
“Vhy use words that fuddle folks or drive them to
a dictionary?
Then, there is the word “agenda,” which iliey
fove to roll around under their tongues at the con
ference. No doubt it is a Latin word ~probably a
derivative of the word “ago, to treat, to discuss”
but there isn't one of us fifty every day folks
that numbers Latin among our accomplishments
If diplomats responsible to peoples must have
imgo of their own, let them speak it among them
selves in their secret sessions, of which you may
li sure there are plenty at Washington nowadays,
netwithstanding the American government’s ef
forts at publicity.
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In accentine the rosignation, Mr,
Dismuke said:
L reerot thére s vo i ace in m
Prestiit propram fas (Be foria
Favieiie sarvicps’ nl ot iung '
vark of th s offic With the to) i
e ol the Inwain il S 0 Bt et
e of the State.
The resignation will be eff ot ve on
December 14t
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No more hawking, snuffing blowing
headache, dryness, No struggling for
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Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist now. App'y
a little of this fragrant, antiseptic,
healing cream in your nostrils. It pen
ctrates through every' air passage of
the head, soothes the inflamed or the
swollen mucuous membrane and relief
comes instantly,
It's just fine, Don't stay stuffed-up
with a cold or nasty catarrh—Re'ief
comes so quickly, adv.
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THE LEADER-ENTERPR'SE AND PRESS MONDAY, DECEMBER, 5. 1921
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct
i2g Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Author '‘Washington Close-ITps,’" ““Banks and
Financial Systems,” etc. Contributer Political
and Eeonomie Articles to Leading Periodicals
and a Writer of Recognized Authority on the
National Government's Businees Methods
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Copyright, Western Newspaper Union
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~When | oset our 1o discover for you
where the nm; you pay as federal
taxes goes 1 did not have far to iook.
It goes for wars, past, present and
prospective. Last yeur a little over 9u
per cent of the national income went
that way. In the report of the secre
tary. of the treasury subunitted to con
gress in Decewber, 19200 he remarks:
Al anuiysis of government expenditures
for the liscal year %2, on the basis of
daily treasury stajements, develops the
striking fact that of the net ordinary dis
bursements or b 0,0 about 9 per
cent conhsisied of expenditures under the
foillowing heads;
Purchase of obligations of for-
CIBI ZOVETTINEnts .........0.. .8 421,000,000
War department . ~....ceeeneee. 1,611,000,000
Navy delartinent ......cceceeee-e. 736,000,000
ShHnplß - BORER . s 981;000,000
Federal control of fransporta
tion systems and payments 7
to the railroads under the
transportation act, 1920 ....... 1,037,000,000
Interest on the public debt,.... 1,020,000,000
RENBIONG i catime s oas ranovave st 238000000
War-risk insurance .........5.. 115,000,000
Purchase of federal farm-loan
HONGR il biv i tvsaits s 30,000,000
ROCAL. Set s Tyt ss cvviasns i B A 000000
Substantially all the expenditures
entering into this total, and a large
share of the expenditures on various
minor accounts, represent burdens di
rectly traceable to the war, to pagt
WHI'S or 1o preparedness for future
wirs. These figures serve to indicate
the direction which sincere efforts to
reduce the cost of the goverio o
must take, s
Then 1 found Mr. Gilbert, the iier
secretary of the treasury, saying:
There has been much idle talk to the
effect that the excessive cost ol govern
ment is due to inefliciency and extrava-
Kance in the excculive deparunénts.
Without doubt there has been waste-and
inefficiency in the various government de
partments and establishments, and much
can be accomplished, and has already
been accomplished, by the introduction
of efficient and economic methods of ad
ministration and the elimination of du
plication and unnecessary work. 1t might
well be possible to save as much as
$50.000,000 or $100,000,00 by careful and sci
entfic reorganization of the government's
business.
The figures show that over Y je:
cent of the total annual expenditures
of the government are related to war.
Out of total e.\w-r(ulilurus auring 1920 of
whout $6,400,000.006, about ilz billions rep
resented expendilines directly traceable
to the war, Lo past wars, or to prepared
ness for future wars. Of this, about
§2,0600,000,6000 went for the army and navy,
over sOeooo.ooo 16r¥the shipping board.
over $l.OO 000000 lor the railroads, another
SLOOO,OOO 660 for interest on the public debt,
amost gO, 000 for purchase of obliga.
tions of Toreign goveraments on account
of their war expenditures, and the remauin
der for pensions, wiar risg allotments and
miscellniieous items related 1o war. An
analysis of the expenditures of the tirst
siv menths of the fiscal year 1921 gives
similar vesults, ‘The figures alsc show
that the total cost of running what ma,
be termed the civil establishiment proper,
that is to sy, the various governmen:
departments, boards and commissions and
the legirlative eéstablishment, have not
mich exceeded $20490.000 even in the ab
normal war yeavs.
I sought detuils. 'f more than 9%
per cent of the entire disbursements
of 1920 went for past and prospective
wars, how much had we been spend
ing-1o keep the werld safe for democ
racy? We are all familiar with the
argument that the best way to prevent
war is to be jgcpared for war. 1
thought I might ’md out whether that
was true. 1 went back into the rec
ords and found that year by year
frogr 1854 to 1919 inclusive, the treas
'ur,\' department had kept an account
of the actual disbursements-—not ap
propriations, .mind you, but actual
money expended—of the War depart
ment, the Navy department and for
pensions, When 1 got all the figures
before me 1 coulin’t add them up.
In the bureau of internal revenue
they louned me a machine and an
operator, and so I know and-can tell
you that from 1834 to and through
1019 the War Department actually dis
bursed £23.002.390,008.65. In the same
period the Navy Department spent
SEOO7T. 36003284 aud pensioners of
past wars got 85,634079.604.23, -
That is a thundemng tota! of $2O.
Q 0075004149 for the avmy and navy
wlone, leaving out of account the
SHGHHOTH6OL2S Tor pensions,
I wlil let you deecide whether any
part of the twenty nine billion dollars
spent for preparedness and for war
prevented our going to war or feund
us ]\l'nlnul't‘tl when we went to war.
The three itewms 1 have enumerated
are only ribs of the skeleton of the
cost of war preparation and activity.
I have not been able to exeavate any
other detail figures. But it is known
that the war of 1812 cost about $133.-
TOB 880, $
The costof the Moxican war is esti
mated to have heen 863,605,621,
The total cost of the Civil war, tak
ing the pericd from June 30, 1861, to
June 30, TSG6, may be Hgured closeh
at $3,500,6000000,
The treasury in the winter of 1920
21 estimated in a repor? sent to con
gress through the secretary that the
cost of the World war to us to that
date had héen $24.100,000.00Q exclu
sive of our loans to the allles and
other foreign nations,
So you see the cost of wars is go-
Ing up, no matter how much meoney
we spend by way of preparation,
Drs. Holtzendorf
and Turner
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MISS FRANCES NEWMAN,
LU Chicago, 111, ?
“OUnly a medicine of truly wonderfu’
mer.t could have done what Tanlac
did for me and there is nothing half
good enough for me to say about ‘t."
said Miss Frances Newman, 2639
Hirsch St., Chicago:
“I dont’ think anybody ever suif
ered any more firm indigestion than 1
did and for over a year I was in
wretched health. [ had smothering
spells and my heart palpitated so v'o
lently T thought 1 had heart trouble,
[ know now it was all caused from
my stomach,
“Since taking Tanlac | feel and look
bke a different person, I have o
splendid appetite and my digestion s
just perfect, I slecp eight or nine
hours ever vnight and get up in the
morning feeling fresh and happy. My
friends tell me T’m always smiling
now and [ certainly cught to be for
I'm enjoying life jgain.”
Tanlac is sold in Fitzgera'd by T,
I. Haile & Co,, and by leading drug
gists everywhere adv,
[t Happened
In Fitzgerald
And Is Happening to Fitzgeralc
People Every Week |
The case told below is not an un
common thing. The same occurs fre
quently and will coutinue to happer
as long as folks have kidneys and ov
ertax the kidneys,
J. F. T, Williams, retired farmer.
505 W, Suwanee st Fitzgerald, says:
“I have used Doan’s Kidney Piils
when my kidneys were weak and |
had a dull aching across my back.
My kidneys acted .irregularly and
this annoyed me, especially at night,
I began using Doan's Kidney Pilis
from the Denmark Drug Co, and
they helped me, regulating my kid
neys and strengthening my back. 1
have great confidence in Doan's Kid
ney Pills” .
Price 60c, at all dealers: Don’'t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—oet
Doan’s Kidney Pil's—the same that
Mr. Williams had, Foster-Milburn
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Advertisement.
Rev, Bruce Nay of Atheas was th
guest over Sunday of Dr. and Mrs, 1.,
‘A, Turner, He preached two fine sor
mons at the Christian church yester
day,
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iCentral Avenue, Tires and Tubes vui
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Eat Less Meat
if Back Hurts
;
Take a Glass of Saits to Flush
Kidneys if Bladder Bothers
You
Eating meat recalarly - eventually
vroduces kuinéy trouble in some form
or other, says a well-known authority,
boecause the uric acid in meat excites
the kidneys. they become overworked;
get sluggish; clog up and cause all
sorts of distress, particulary backache
and unsery in the kidney rog on; vheu
matic twinges, severe headaches, acid
stownach, constipation, torpid ¢ vir,
sleeplesaness, bladder and urinary ir
ritation,
The moment your back hurts or
kidnevs aren't acting sight, or if blad
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macy; take a tablespooniul in a glass
vi water before breakfast for a few
days and your, kidneys will then-act
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Kidneys and stinmulate them te normal
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the urine so it no longer irritates, thus
tcndin; bladder disorders.
- Jad Sa'ts canmot injhire anyone; it
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the kidneys and urinary organs clean,
thus avoiding serious kidney disease,
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Hooper Alexander
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Honored By Associates
ATLANTA, Dec., 3—Hooper Alex
ander, who recently retired as United
States attorney for the northern dis
trict of Georgia after serving two
terms, ‘was presented with a handsome
leather brief casec Friday by his form
er office force. /
In response to a telephone call Mr.
Alexander called at his office where
he found his former co-workers gath.
ered, Hal C. Lindsey_ assistant dis
trict attorney. made the presentation
specch and Mr, Alexander responded
Mr, Alexander has resumed the pri
vate practice of law with offices ir
603 Peters building.
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We ¥ish To Announce
the opening of a Family Washing Department in
cur laundry. It has always been our aim to give
the public the hest service and work possible and
m placing this Family Washing Service to the
public our aim is to giye a grade of work and ser
vice that will be out of the ordinary.
The rate for.this service will be by the pound
Vifteen cents per pound for everything ironed.
Seven cents per pound rough dry (this means
Bed and Table linen ironed, wearing apparel wash
¢d and starched ready to iron.) .
These rates do not include shirts or collars
We will appreciate your patronage.
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ior guaranteed Hosiery, Underwear,
and all grades of dress goods. Infants
Crocheted Goods, ; Dec, 9
FARM FOR SALE— To the highest
bidder at pubic outery will be sold
on December 10th, 1921 at 10 o'clock
A. M, on the premises of Dr, G. W,
McLean farm, consisting of two hun
dred and twenty seven acres cleared
stumped, with hrick house, tenant
houses, harns and necessary outhouses,
located three miles west of Fitzgerald
on two graded sand-clay roads, to
csether with seven mules, feed stuffs
and modern farming implements, A
modern farm ful'y equipped,. conceded
to be the finest .n Ben Hill County.
TIERMS—SmaII cash payments and
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