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Mail Matter under Act of Congress, March 18, 1897
Official Organ of the City of Fitzgeral&
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OUR BEST MARKET—A very illuminating ed
ite rial-of the Athens Banner will also bring com
jort tothe thoughtful readers in this section, who
arc despondent and think eyerything has gone
arong. Along with the journals in all of the ag
r.cultural sections the Banner has been interested
in the discussions that have been had on finances,
markets and other problems of the farmers and has
come to certain conclusions and sets them very
aptly as follows:
As to Finances—We have pointed out that the
South can be flooded with money to raise diversi
fied crops and livestock, provided our country
banks iwll join the Federal Reserve System, and
extend 6 to 12 months credits to their farmer cus
tomers, whose notes can be promptly discounted
with the Federal Reserve Bank.
As to diversified crops and the raising of live
stock, the South can hold its own with any section
of the country in this respect. You cannot starve
the South. if the South ever makes up its mind to
raise its own meat and bread.
. As to Markets—We wish to stress the point that
the Southern farmer’s best market is and always
w:ll be on his own farm. There are millions of
bushels of corn on *he farms of the South today,
aud the proper nlace tor most of this corn '« in the
feeding of more hgs and cattle an! chickens.
When the Sout*'i realizes th «, half of :ts ‘loubles
are o\ 1. e e
Let us see how the South has been spending its
cottor madney. In round figures, Georgia raises
2 million bales of cotton. At the old price around
570 a bale, Georgia's revenue from its cotton crop
was around 100 million dollars. On such an ag
ticultural out turn the Seuth has done business
and prospered for fifty years. But the farms of
the South taken as a whole are still just about at
the place they started fifty years ago. For the reas
on, that after the-financing charges or advances
were paid, by which the cotton crop was grown,
and after ‘the marketing charges were paid where
by the cotton crop was turned into money, the rest
of the 100 million was promptly and regularly
sent West to pay for the food and feedstuffs that
was necessary to keep the South alive. What the
Mest didn’t get, the fertilizer bill ate up, and the
aext year the South started out where it was be
fore, with practically nothing on its farms to show
for the labor of last year's crop of cotton.
This year there is more on the farms of the South
than ever before. And the place for most of it
to stay is on the farms of the South. Next year’s
crop ought to largely add to what is on the farms
of the South this year, in the shape of more to eat
in more hogs, and cattle and chickens, more barns,
and silos, and more smoke houses, etc.
When the farmers of the South realize that their
best market is on the farm itself, when the South
really hegins to live at home and to sell its surplus,
whether that surplus is food or meat or cotton,
then real and lasting and permanent prosperity
will come to the agriculture of the South and to the
thousands of towns and villages that trade with
the farmers of the South and furnish the local mar
ket places for the exchange of Southern agricul
ture.
—_—
HOW EVERY MAN CAN HELP—How many
ol you men under whose eyes these words fall
znow o a boy just growing up who secems to have
70 ambition; who either goes dully through his
days or is plainly as reckless of the things of to
morrow as he was of the things of vesterday.
Are you, who knows such a boy, tao hus'y. sir,
1o take a real interest in that growing young fel
low? Don’t you know that what that boy needs
as much as anything else at his stage in life is a
friendly advance from somebody older; that he
needs advice not given as mere advice but. quite
plainly from a sincere desire to be of service to
him and to his future..
Do not feel that the boys father and mother are
eriough. God knows that they try to do their best
by their boy, but the fact is father and mother
have been advising and governing him all his life
and the young fellow takes it from them as a mat
ter of mnrmt«mous duty and dull home routine.
\ "hen he is 16 or 18 or 19, he needs something
more: he needs a rub from the world without. and
if the rub is friendly, good natured and manly, all
the better for the bay, b iyt
Man, the touch you give that boy acquainance
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
-~ Corner Palm and Johnson Sts,
Elder Walter-M. Blackwell, Pastor,
Ereaching 15t and Jrd Sundays gt
H;Sfi#.;@.ggdgp.h b Ay
Bible Study every g:mday 10:30 a.
m.
Prayer meeting each Wednesday
8:30 p. m.
mw»; Ads Bring Results.
may mean a good citizen or a bod citizen a few
ycars hence. Forget his surliness; forget even
jseemingl ystupidity-——they may be masks that cov
er the yearning for an understanding heart.
But whatever you do, Mr. Busy Man, take no
tice of your neighbor’'s growing boy when he is in
your vicinity or when you meet him. A cheerful
word and a smile will go a long way even if you
haven’t time to stop and talk to him as one man
to another
GREAT RECORD FOR SOUTHERN RAIL
WAY EMPLOYEES—EmpIovees on the Hawk
msville branch of the Southern Railway have es
tablished a notable record for courtesy to the pub
li.. and for loyal and efficient service. Pleasant
testimony to this effect was recently given in a
letter ‘received by the management from the Ki
wanis Club of Hawkinsville,
A Southern Railway family is employed at the
Hawkinsville freight station consisting of A. H.
King, agent, Mrs. A. H. King, Clerk, and Miss
Bessie King, cashier. Scott Rozan is check clerk
and Henry Holmes (col) is porter. Ticket agent
11. L. Nelson is in charge of the passenger station
~vith Anderson Williams as porter. These cmploy-'
ces take great pride in the appearance and clean- |
itess of the station and its surroundings. '
J. D. Beck is section foreman in charge of thc:
track maintenance on the Hawkinsville branch. |
The train crew operating on the branch line, |
which extends from Cochran to Hawkinsville, (}a..'
iO.l miles, has a combined service record of 135/
vears with the lines now forming the Snuthernl
Railway, as follows: {
J. W, Stricklgnd, condactor ._.__.__._ . . 3dvre|
C. K, Stong, sugificer >.L. L. oo AT s
A S Durdemanrentin, .. ...oocoo -oo SOONe
vho g Lowty, Blapman, . . i cooo o 0 1) Ui
Warren Love (col.) brakeman, __________ 29 yrs.
/ i apdienir
wrotal e o soe il e 3 _vrs‘l
As this short line has not heen making cxp(‘nses‘
tar several years, it is evident that the Southern
Railway continues the operation of this line, as a
sort of a pension for these old employees. .
OUR OWN UNDERNOURISHED BAIRNS—
A Writer ina New York paper protests against the
11ovement to have the school children of the city
raise unds for the relief of poor underfed children
of France, on the grounds that many of New 'York
school children are also underfed.
There is a lot in this. In every city in this land
we ¢are not which one you name, there are too
many poor, ill-clothed and underfed children. In
cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and
Beston, in act, in all of the 10 to 15 larger cities—
there.are many thousands of such children, pathet
ic examples of man’s inhumanity to man; patheti
cally attending school; pitiful bearing up under
l their lot nothing about their gnawing stomachs.
~ We are sending ship loads of food and clothingi
t. Russia, Germany, Poland, Treland, and else
- vhere, forgetting that we have tens of thousands
of shivering, undernourished little ones in our own
country. |
Organized charity? Oh, yes, every city has its
public charity organization, but it fails to find
many of the needy in every city and the food, fuel
and clothing it gives to the rest is nearly always
of the aneagerest sort.
Missionary work is fine—we do not criticise it
at all, but we simply can’t overlook our own sad
little bairns.
‘ Someone shculd put in a corn sheller here, to
save the farmes some of the 23¢ difference between
corn in the shuck and shelled corn, for which there
is a strong demand. ‘The individual small farm
er cannot afford to put in a sheller of his own, the
lmst is about six hundred dollars, but some local
Imncern, cotton oil mill, or warehouse could make
a good dividend on the investment and at the same
time create a better market for home grown corn.
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HOMEY PHILLOSOPHY FOR 1921—Ignorance
iz slavery wheresoéver ignorance exists As an ex
ample, the ignorant Russian masses are slaves of a
fvw dozen highly educated and shrewd men led by
i.enin and Trotzky. On the other hand there is
no place for ignorance in a democracy. Where all
men are equal, every man should be educated in
order that he shall enjoy the same freedom and
picasures and blessings that the educated man
enjoys. There is too much illiteracy in every
state in the Union, and we hope that the women
with their newly given right to the vote, will
speedily put an end to that.
el Al
THE HOME TOWN—How They Hold The
Funeral of a Town—A town that never has any
thing to do in a public way is on the way to the
cemetery. Any citizen who will do nothing for
Lis town is helping to dig its grave. A man that
“cusses” the town furnishes the coffin. The man
who is so selfish as to have no time from his busi
ness to give affairs is making the shroud. The man
who will not advertise is driving the hearse. The
man who is always pulling back from any public
enterprise throws bouquets on the grave. The
man who is so stingy as to be howling hard times
p-eaches the funeral, sings the doxology. And
thus the town lies buried from all the sorrow of
"l_\e worlu-—-EWax:.gaw, Ky. Independent.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
R. G. Shannonhouse, Rector
Sunday School 10:00 A. %.
Church _seryices. Supday morning
at 11:00 (except on .second Sunday.)
Sunday night at 8:00 (except on
2ad and 4th Sunaays.)
Every Eriday afternoon at 5:00
Social service.
Viitors cordially invited to make
church home with us.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1921.
PRESBYTERJIAN CHURCH
SRR
South Grant and Kast Palm Streets
Hours of Worship are as follows:
Sunday School 10 a. m,
Morning Service 11 a. m.
Christian Endeavor 7 P, M,
Eyening service 8 P. M.
R. M. MANN, Pastor.
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Where Your
Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct
ing Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Author *‘Washington Close-Ups,” *‘Banks and
Financial Systems,’”’ cte. Contributor Political
and Economie Articles to Leading Periodicale
and a Writer of Recognized Authority on the
National Government’s Business Methods.
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MAGNITUDE OF BILLIONS
[ have been throwing the incredible
figures at your head. Neither you nor
~uanybody else has the faintest concep
tion of what one billion dollars really
i, We speak familiarly of billions as
1 commonplace, but most of us live
our llves in terms of hundreds,
I have shown you that every one
of us, man, woman and child, in this
country, paid last year $53.77 each
toward the support of the government.
Of course, every persoin does not pay
exactly $53.77. A great many pay
more and soue pay less; but those‘
who pay the most try to take it out
of those who pay the least by increas
ing the prices of what they have to
sell, or of services rendered or work
performed, so that it averages out at
SH3.OT. Some pay more than their
share, others pay iess. This is called
an incident of tauxation. The whole
point is that we all pay; that we pay
now more than we ‘ever paid before;
and there 18 no present prospect of our
paving less for some years. :
In this way we have all paid our
share in the World war. The net cost
of that enterprise to date has been
$24,100,000,000, or, including our loans
to foreign governments, which have
not been repaid, $33,455,000,000. These
are official treasury -figures. Do nof
let your eyes run over them lightly.\
Thirty-three billion four hundred and
fifty-five anilllon dollars is an almost
incomprehensible suni. The cos, -
running the national governm: i
now around $5,000,000,000 & yea:. ‘i
experts say that for the next two or
three years the cost of the goveri.ment
will- not descend below - about $4,000,-
000,000 a year.
I want you clearly to understand the
immensity, the magnitude, the over
whelming size ‘of “such sums, sWe
chatter about billions nowadays -with
-out in the least knowing ‘what is a
‘billion. | Let me ‘try to“bring it home
to -you. It is mow, roughly -speaking.
1920 years since the hirth ef Christ.
"We do not know precisely ‘and accu
rately at what hour and on what Cay
Christ was born. But under the Gie
gorian calendar, according to which
we now reckon time, “we have a
record of the dayvs since January first
of the year.one, Anno Dem'ni. From
the heginning of the year.one to Jan
nary 1, 1921, there alapsed.about 701.-
267 days, or, to reduce it further,
16,830,408 honrs. which be'ng reduced
again. means 1009 824 480 minutes.
' I will aBk you to remember that the
whole history of the modern world
from the first secomd of the gyear-one
to the last second of the year 1920
lins heen compressed: into' 1,000;824,480
ainntes,
Now let us suppose that with the
permission of the Roman - authorities
the United States had .established a
dishursing officer gt Jerusalem on..the
ficst day of the year omne with instruc
tions to pay .out §5 a minute day. and
hight,- Sundays; and holidags included,
right dewn through - the centurles to
"New Year's day. 1921,
Suppose he had been glven -$5,686.-
005,706 to start.him on his long spell
Lof spending. That is one estimate of
the sum that it eoct to run this gov
ernment in 1920. On the morning of
January 1, 1921, this mythical disburs
ing officer, giving_noney away at the
| rate of $5 a minute. would have spent
only $5,040,122.400, and would still
be one of the ™Mchest men in the
world, for he wculd have left on
hand $636,885.206 of the original sum.,
Paying out at the rate of $5 a minute
for more than 1900 years, -he would
not have kept pace with the cost of
' upkeep of this government for the one
| single year 1920,
‘ Suppose this imaginary government
|S|wnllPl‘ had been authorvized to pav
out at the rate of $22 a minute through
the centuiies. He would not have
| finished, on January 1, 1921, paying
* for our share of tha cost of the Waor
war by some $784.036.960. He wou'd
bave that much left over after paying
oat 823225962040, He would have heen
prying out nearly 40 cents every Sec
ond the clock ticked for more than 19
Ir‘(-l-tln'i(‘s without being able to d's
churge our share of the World war
cost
Do you ever bother yvour head about
ihese husheis and bhushels of dollars
that you contribute to the support of
the government? You earned them.
You know whether they came casily or
net. Do vou know where they go
after they le:ve -ou how they are
spent, whether wisely or foolishly?
It’s all yonur money, contributed for the
preper and economie conduct of your
husiness Tiere i no such thing as
vavernmen! money. The government
‘nm"o:'{ earned a 1‘09!.
You own the govern “ent and you
suppore it. and it is merely adminis
tered by nen o yeur <e'ection. I
have alwavs heen puzzl 4 abont why
you do not take an active and .eager
‘nteres in what become: of your
money that yvou pay in taxes,
l But Jet's go on and get down to
cnses,
‘.Drs.l"Holtaen'dorf
~ and Turner
DENTISTS
Upstairs, Next Door to the National
Drug Company
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lDear Santa Claus:—
I wanta train and a track and a
electric pistol,
; JULIAN KASSEWITZ,
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Fitzgerald, Gae
Dear Santa Claus:— |
I wanta drum and a pair of boy
scout gloves and a electric pistol.
JACK KASSEWITZ,
Fitzgerald, Ga,
Dear Santa Claus:i—
I want you to please bring me a
‘[foot ball, a raincoat, and if you can
‘l'd like a BB shot gun and don‘t for
‘get little brother. ;
HARRY PADGETT.
Fitzgerald, Ga,
Dear Santa Claus:— %
I'm a little boy in the third grade.
Chrigtmas I want a drum, a horn, a
box of candy and please bring my
little brother 3 toy pistol and a rubber
ball; T want you to bring me a Bible
and don’t forget mamma and papa
and last of all bring me a bicycle,
Your little friend,
BERTIE GELDERS,
Fitzgerald, Ga,
Dear Santa Claus:—
511 West Central Ave,
-Please send me a bycile and a cow
boy suit to and a football and a ouija
board and some fruit.
Please send them, That is all now,
My mname is E, J. Jackson. house
number 223 N. Maine St, Goodbye.
& Fitzgerald, Ga,
Dear Santa Claus:— ‘
I am a little girl ten ycars old and
in the fourth grade and T am study
ing ‘hard to make my grades well. and
will you please bring me a sleepy doll
“ith curly hair, and a set of furs and‘
ome fruit and candy and don't for
get my mother and sister. |
~ Your loving little friend. |
CLARA MAHONEY’
Fitzgerald, Ga_
Dear Santa Claus:—
1 htought T had better write vou a
few lines to let you know what I want
for Christmas. I .want -a-wheel and
a kimona, a pair of bedroom slippers,
a doll and if you can’t’bring me..a,
wheel please bring me¢ a sewing ma
<hine auts fruit and candy, and dont
forget my little brother,
Your little friend
g JUANITA HARNISH
Tunnel Ventilation Tried.
The test ‘of the wventilation system
in a model vehictlar tumnel, a replica
of the proposed Hudson River tunnel
from ‘New York to-. Jersey Oity, con
ducted at the. experimental mdilesi4
the United :States: bureau of mines-a’
Bruceton, near Pitishurgh, -wa.s-cg?
sidered a success by the . bipéan’s
ofticials and members of the New Jer
sey Bridge and Tunnel commission
who attended. !
Experiments were made to deter
mine the effeets of .motor . exhaust
gases, the heat and the smoke, and the
hest methods of eliminating . all ;suck
effects on Inotorists .in - tunaels.
.Discovered at Last.
A change in the function of the pitu
itary body, one of the smallest of ‘the
ductless giands, which is about the
size of a pen and is hidden en the
underside of the brain, is responsibiae
for the increase of -djvoree, according
to Dr. Ernest K. Tucker, of New:York
.This statement was made at the an
nual convention of the American Os.
teopathic Associatfon of America. The
growing wealth of the country and the
Increased standard of living is partly
responsible for the change of functinn
in the gland and also contributed to
l the divorce epideniie.
Bacteria Thrive on Ice. g
It has long been known that no de
gree of cold yet attained will Kkill
bacteria. Yet it might be suppnsed!
that they must at least be dormant
when embedded in eternal ice. Yet
Dr. A. L. McLane found them alive
and active in the ice many feet below:
the surface in the Antarctic expedi
tion conducted by Sir Douglas Maw
son in 1911-1914.—Detroit Free Press.
Amphibious Auto Trailer,
An automohile trailer shaped like
oo ot AdRCU G »-U W 0 navigate
vouter bas been siented. ‘
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OU WILL BE WELCOME IN
OUR MEN'S BARACA CLASS
NEXT SUNDAY :
\\'¢ meet at 10:00 o‘clock every Sun
diy at the First Methodist Church—
Corner of Lee ana Magnolia Streets.@
\We want you to he with us,
Come, ge the Baraca habit,
Come next Sunday Sure!
No questions will be asked. |
Fitagerald High School Business Callege
Is new offering standard and distinet courses in Twentieth Centu
Bookkeeping, Gregg; Shorthand, Touch Typewriting, .and the allig
commercial subjects. W e
e ter now and through its efficient instruetion and practical trainin
inerease your earning capacity, and at'thie end of the sehool ywfi
~ ready to accept the awaiting positions, !
,880.00 Tuition Covers all Subjects
For further information, see or write: MRS. WALTER MORGAN,
;, Principal, or ULRIC J. BENNETT, Superint:ndent, Fitzgerald, Ga.
’Workman Crushed
As Theatre Falls
' NEW YORK, } J—Sylvester
‘Rosenthal and Samuel Moskowitz,
owners and general contractors of the
American theatre building, Brooklyn,
the roof and north wall of which col
lapsed Tuesday killing eight men and
injuring 18 others, were arrested la
later on order of District Attorney
Harry E, Lewis, on a charge of man
slaughter in the first degree,
Lewis declared he would make ev
ery effort to hold the men without
bail, The arrests followed examina
tion of 25 witnesses concerning the
cause of the cave-in, Onc theory was
that the wind and rain of the last few
days beating in on the work, might
have weakened the structure.
“If my theory is correct, the wind
and rain had nothing to do with the
collapse,” ‘said the district attorney.
“If my theory is right some one is
going away for a long time.” -
Six of the bodies recovered from
the debris have been identified. Four
workmen are still missing and may
be buricd in the ruins, Eighteen oth
‘ers were injured, ten of them being
removed to hospitals.
Small hope was held for the rescue
of any of the men buried beneath the
steelwork which in some- cases was
piled ten feet high. The caving in of
the roof caused the collapse of a brick
building adjoining the theatre, but no
‘one was believed to have been, pinned
under this debris_
The great weight of the fallen mass
precluded the possibility thaht the
bodies of all' the huried' men would be
recovered at once, ‘Some of the.beams
were bent around others.and defied
thecrefforts of volunteer -workers to
lift them.aside, -
When interviewed. Moscowitz, one
of the : contractors “arrestéd, .said -he
was at loss «to explain .the disaster.
The theatre -was to cost?s7so,ooo, he
asserted and to facilitate its comple
tion by February 15, the builders were
paying: bonuses.
~ Dog Had“ Many Friends.
V. thousand :persons signed :a - pe
“rion’ to suve-the dife: of:a ‘dog :which
v .genden (England) magistrate *had
laperedtto-be:killed.on aceount of its
Neged ferocity
Name “Bayer” on Genuine
L IBAY EBR
Beware! Unless you see the mame
“Bayer” on package or on tablets you
are not getting gennine Aepirin pre
soribed by physicians for twenty-one
years and ]proved safe by millions. Take
Aspirin only as told in the Bayer package
fer_Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, Rheuma
-tism, Earache, Toothache, kumbago, and
for Pain. Handy tin‘boxes of twelve Bayer
Tablets of Anf)irin cost few cents, Drug
gists also sell larger packages. Aspirin
18 the trade mark of Baver Manufacture
of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid
Dennison’s Crepe Faper
Plain in all Colors:
Decorated Christmas Crepe
Paper, Cards, Seals an(
Stickers at the
Leader-Enterprise Office
RICKETS®
Cod-liver oil is the
best thing ih the
‘ world for rickets.
Scott's Emalcion
contains richest cod-liver
oil, abundant in the vita
mines that every rickety
child needs.
-AT ALL DRUG STGRES
FRiCL, $1.20 and 89%c.
Scott & Bowne, Bloom#field. H. J.
———ALSO MAKERS OF-
B FRETR
Ki-Moid
(Tablets or Cranules)
For [NDIGESTION
- Sl B 21-12<k
Nicke! Hignhiy Prized Metal.
Nickel is regarded as.one of the most
useful metals, though it lacks the
prestige of silver and gold. It is.
bright .-and hard and noncorrosive and
in cowbination with fron it has been
in great demand for war equipment
and for bridges and other :structurad
work.
H. A. MATHIS
OPTOMETRIST and
MFG. OPTICIAN
“Eyes : Examined, . Glasses Furnished,
‘BROKEN "LEENS ‘DUPLICATED
We Grind Our Own Glasses.
~ Phone 359
i Tor Better Than Average
. Altering,
.~ Dry Cleaning,
. Dyeing,
. Pressing,
' Tailoring,.
*We are equipped to -do quick
Work That -will -last long.
. THREE-FIVE-NINE
~ Pressing Club
| ‘W. ROY BRAGG, Proprietor
Manon -Grocery Co., _
“WHERE .QUALITY TELLS
AND PRICES SELL"”
‘PROMPT' DELIVERY .
Octagon Soap, 8ar.............. 5¢
Arbuckles “Coffee .............. 25¢
White House Coffec ........40c Ib,
Chiarmer ‘Coffee,. lb. ............ 25¢
French Market Coffee, ......30c Ib.
Luzianne Coffee ...... ...... 85¢ Ib.
Best. Green Caffe cib, ...........:15¢
L‘?M sv.‘w Rk ..'......---..s“c
Sugar, per-pound ................7¢c
‘Best “Whole < Grain ‘Rice.......... 1 7¢c
Dry‘Salt‘Meat, ib, .............. 14¢c
Smoked ‘Meat, Ib. ..............109¢
‘Best :Self-Rising Flour ...........$1
Scratch Feed, Ib, ..............3%¢
Kerosene, -'Gallon ..............ilB¢c
Green Cabbage, -head, Ib. ......615c
Irish Potatoes, petk ............ Bs¢
All 5c Soapy: 7 bars..... .. ... Zs¢
Dont Forget the Place!!
Manon Grocery Co.,
Phone 520 226 :‘Fast Pine St
