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Shoot the Works
Mother—Did you givc your pen
ny to the Sunday School gollection,
Jonny?
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Canadian Northwest
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Californiaßesorts, etc.
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Yes, Mother, but that darned kid’s
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LEADER-ENTERPRISE and PRESS, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927
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'BEVERIDGE AND PHILLIPS
iA BETTER NATIONAL TUNE
gWHEN BABIES TWIDDLE TOES
'RAILROADS AND BUSSES.
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Some one not satisfied with the
“Star Spangled Banner” offered $l,-
500 for a better national tune. Nine
hundred and fifty one composers tried
and failed. The “Star Spangled Ban
ner’” will continue to make Americans
stand up. To do a thing well you
must get excited about it. Socrates,
oreatest Greek teacher of oratory,
said, ‘“To convince others, be your
self convinced”. There will be no im
proved ‘“Star Spangled Banner” un
til real danger inspires somebody to
produce the right song.
‘Albert J. Beveridge died last week,
sixty-four years old, of heart disease.
'An automobile stops when the engine
'stops; a man, when his heart stops.
‘One hundred men understand a motor
engine for one that knows his own
heart.
There is no ‘“resale” price on a
second-hand heart, and heart disease
is increasing as consumption dimin
ishes, but you must cure your own}
heart, once you have been warned. ‘
Beveridge and David Graham |
Phillips were schoolmates in Indi»l
ana, and represented their state well,
Phillips in literature, Beveridge in
national politics. Both are gone. Is
it “entirely illogical,” as some say, 'Lo‘
hope that they have met again, or is
it, as others say, “a perfectly reason
able hope?”’
A voung Woman’s Christian As
sociation committee says: “The mod
ern wife who works after marriage
and continues to bring money into
the home is the best type of young
wife, better than the young wife who
sits at home twiddling her thumbs”’.
Reai wives can testify that there
is little time at home for twiddling
thumbs, especially after the first baby
begins to twiddle its toes. Every
young man ought to support one wo
man, and be proud to do it, while she
takes care of the children. Working
wives, respectable and admirable,
should not be necessary.
This country treats'the Mississippi
problem as a poor man treats his farm
never spending enough to get it in
good shape. Scores of millions have
been spent on patch work against
flood danger. Now comes a flood
causing five hundred million dollars’
damage. That sum properly spent,
under one comprehensive plan would
have prevented this flood and future
floods. .
Railroad men, doing their best to
stock holders, as they are bound to
do have concentrated on getting in
creased passenger fares and freight
rates from the public authorities, and
that has seemed good business. The!
time is not far off when good busi
ness will consist in finding a way to
carry passengers and freight for
LESS and thus making more money.
The danger to the railroads is a
small rediculous looking thing on four
wheels running along the highway,
paralleling the highway on a “right of
‘way” that costs the motor omnibus
and motor truck nothing but the price
of their license. Every day four mo
tor busses leave Los Angles carrying
passengers to Chicago. That doesn’t
amount to much. But they can carry
twice as many passengers as there are
on this magnificant Santa Fe ‘“Chief”
'Express. And the bus overhead is
one man driving and another man to
:reliex‘o him. & e .
| Omnibus trfi\'cf is uncomfortable
| with the express train. But WHAT
\ABOUT THE FLYING MACHINE
that will soon be here? g
And what about the freight hauling
by omnibus? On the Mojave Desert
farmers buying agricultural machin
ery from Los Angles do not ask the
railroad to carry it.
_ The farmer calls up the truck line
at Victorville. The, freight motor
truck delivers the mowing machine,
plow or ‘“seed drill” right in the farm
er's barnyard. The freight bus costs
a little more per hundred than the
freight train. But what you order
today you get tomorrow and it is de
livered at your door.
‘ACCIDENT
i COST NEEDLESS
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Com
pany insists that its employes wear
goggles at their work, to prevent the
eve accidents that were coming to be
a severe physical and social drain
on the company and its workers. The
company lays off any miner found
working without goggles, three days
for the first offense; six days for
the second; and the third time he is
discharged. The company goes yet
‘farther; it fights to have an eye in
jury award reduced by 50 per cent,
where the employe neglected to wear
TRUETT T 0 LEAD
BAPTIST FORCES
PROGRESS IS REPORTED
Promotional Work of Convention
Continued With Slight Revision
in Personnei—Large Objec
tive Set
Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas,
one of the best known Baptists in
the world, was the unanimous choice
of the Southern Baptist Convention
for president at the recent session at
Louisville, and he entered upon his
new relationship by challenging the
people and churches of his denomi
nation to a deeper spirituality and
a fuller consecration to the task of
extending God’s kingdom in the
world.
Despite the fact that the -floods in
the Mississippi Valley curtailed the
year's collections somewhat and the
¢ivil war in China halted the opera
tions of the Foreign Mission Board
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there during much of the year, re- |
ports that were gratifying to a large |
degree were pregented by the var.ous l
agencies and institutions of the Comn- |
vention. ‘
Missionaries Do Effective Work
The Foreign Mission Board Tre
ported 531 American missionaries
and 2,644 native helpers in its em
ploy. A total of 12,085 baptisms
were had on the foreign fields during
the year. Today the Board reports
1,215 churches with 140,488 members
and 1,818 Sunday schools with 76,-
991 pupils on the foreign fields,
along with 3,247 preaching stations
other than churches, and nine hos
pitals in which 69,683 patients were
treated during the year. The For
eign Mission Board believes order
will be restored in China soon and
that larger mission opportunities
than have ever existed before will
soon be presented there.
By the Home Mission Board 923
missionaries were employed during
the year. These reported 36,233 ad
ditions to the churches, the organi-‘
gation of 168 new churches and 406
new Sunday schools, and the build
ing or repair of 278 houses of wor
ship.
From its current receipts of $l,-
806,416.27, the Sunday School Boardi
was able to put $444,028.41 into gen
eral denominational work, while itsi
-Wducational Department reported
103,145 teacher training awards
given to Sunday school workers, and
the Architectural Department gave
assistance to 1,476 churches in plan
ning their buildings.
~ Ajd in the sum of $156,252.07 was
given to aged or disabled preachers,
or dependent members of their
famliies by the Relief and Annuity
Board, the total number of benefi
ciaries carried by the Board now be
ing 1,145. .
The promotional work of the Comn
vention for the support of its mis
sionary, educational and benevolent
interests was continued, though un
der the direction of a somewhat dif
ferent and enlarged personnel. Mem
bers of the new ‘executive commit
tee will represent the several states
on the promotional body; the state
and general secretaries are retained
as before; while the editors of the
several Baptist state papers are
added to this group this year. The
total financial objective set by the
several states for 1927 is $8,096,668,
and if this amount is realized in
distributable cash it will net approxi
| mately $3,887,000 for the various ob
- jects of the Southern Baptist Con
. vention, the remainder going to the
l various state enterprises of the de
' nomination. - Every effort will be put
forth to attain this total objective.
Expenses Will Be Controlled
In an effort to bring the fiscal
affairs of the Convention into better
shape, the Convention voted to estab
lish the policy of budget control,
whereby each board and agenc‘ oi
the Convention will be required te
bring its expenditures each yeai
within lits cash receipts, thus pre
venting the accumulation of debis
Indicating the progress in the sev:
eral churches during the past asso
ciational year, the report of the
Statistical Department shows 26,008
white Southern Baptist churches with
a total of 3,708,258 members; 21,771
Sunday schools with 2,784,367 purb;
19,775 8.. Y. P. U’s, with 498,42¢
members; 21,660 W. M. U. organiza
tions which made contributions {r
the sum of $4,149,383.59; local clfird
property with a valuation of 84,
719,387, and total contributions fo!
the year to all objects in the sum
| _of $40,106,852.31.
fgoggles for protection.
This making the employe join in
the safety campaign, is the short sure
‘road to minimizing industrial acci
\dents. Some similar form of pro
gressive penalization for motor acei
'dents or hazards, might do as much
‘for the highways as for the coal and
'iron mines. The four-billions-a-year
accident cost in the United States is
a load that the public cannot afford
to pay, nor needs to pay, if all will
join in making life safe.
iTax Reduction De- l
' pends On Management
Objectives of taxpayers’ associa
tions, as revealed by a survey of
ltaxpayers associations of the United
EStates by the National Industrial Con
ference Board, may be distinguished
as (a) the prevention of current ex
travangances in appropriations of
public funds or instances of faulty
financing, and (b) general improve
ment of the system of taxation.
! Miller McClintock, Director of
Municipal Research of Harvard Uni
versity, whose work takes him over
the country, and who has a large ac
quaintance with city halls, makes
some interesting statements on the
workings of government in the Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, Tribune of
iApril 23. Mr. McClintock claims that
ithe types of government dependsl
[more upon the kind of men who are
!administering it than upon the sup‘er-{
ificial changes in the form itself. He|
\points out that no government is as|
bad as its opponents try to make out,.!
fand none so good as its proponents‘
'claim. The public gets the kind of .
.government that it has the interest
.and intelligence to demand.
i Mr. McClintock likened govern
ément to business and said that indus
try is no longer made up of only
}Capital and Labor. A new group has
jcome into industry known as the
Management group which performs
‘duties for both Capital and Labor.
These duties have become more and
'more of a profession. Had it not been
so ,industry would never have reached
!its present stage. {
‘ Stockholders (owners) rarely ex
ercise any discretion at all he declar
ed, and asks, “Does that not teach us
something of government as well”?
Municipal government after all, isn’t
2 matter of politics, he continued, but
a matter of complicated business.
Business is having a substantial ef
fect upon government.
Farm Phones Time
And Money Savers
Out of 200,000 Pénnsylvania farms,
124,000, or 62 per cent, have teles
phones.
The diversfied farmer’s time is
worth something every day in the
year; and the telephone is the cheap
est, best time-saver ever invented,
for much of the business of the farm.
The telephone is a hired man who
eats nothing, who will not forget his
orders, who will not flirt or elope
with the hired girl, who will not set
fire to the farm with his careless
pipe or cigarette, who will not strike
for higher wages just when the need
is greatest. A farm phone is al
most as necessary as land or house
or barn.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Jimmy Black!
He went to Chicago and never came
back.
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Jimm Casper
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We had a great.Sale--Abram’s stock of
merchandise attracted big crowds and
all were satisfied with their bargain
purchases.
We have still several thousand dollars
worth of Shoes and Drygoods that
must go NOW. Come and get yours
before it’s too late. |
We are giving wonderful bargains in
all departments, the stock mustgoand
prices cut no figure with us.
For Saturday and Monday we offer
some Specials that will pay you to come
and get, if you live fifty miles from
Fitzgerald. Come and take a look.
Sam Abram
In Charge
228 East Pine Street Fitzgerald, Georgia
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Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets
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Notice Farmers
We are not cultivatihg our own farms this
year, and we will he in the market for fifty
thousand (50,000) bushels of Porto Rican
Sweet Potatoes to be delivered at our Curing
House at Gyco, Ga., located 14 miles west of
Fitzgerald, five miles east of Rebecca, on A.
B. & C. Railway.
We will buy everything but cuts, skins and
strings, and pay best price possible, owing to
quality, and condition of market. We have
never paid under fifty cents and have paid
ninety cents per bushel.
Our plant will store thirty thousand bush
els and we will market at harvest time the bal
ance we purchase.
~ Vines produce more and better potatoes
than slips.
. GEORGIA YAM CURING CO.,
: Jno. A. Manget, President.
T. W. Mcßryant,
In charge Gyco Plant.