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COL. BUGG'S TALK
TO THE LIONS : :
Col. B. L. Bugg, ex-president and
Receiver of the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic railroad made a talk to
the Lion’s Club in Atlanta in which
he made threec bad errors: he erred
in tact, he erred in fact and he erred
in judgment.
He erred in tact when he deliber
ately and brutally classed laborers
as a commodity. Labor is a commod
ity when labor is defined as the prod
uct of human effort not considered
in connection with the other ingred
ients—raw material and capitol—that
go into a finished article, whether
that go into a finished article, wheth
that article be a bale of cotton or
traversing a unit of distance by a
freight train. The men who create
this commodity are not commodities,
not in this blessed year of 1921. A
laborer was a commodity in Georgia
in 1862 before Abe Lincoln set the
negroes free. Col. Bugg, if correctly
quoted by the Atlanta Constitution,
considers the “price” of laborers, as
fixed in wages, subject only to the
action of the laws of supply and de
mand, just as coal and iron and horses
and cows. Such a thought is horrible.
We hope Col. Bugg did not mean to
say what the news story seemed to
say he meant.
Col. Bugg erred in fact when he
said that the employes sought under
the Cummins-Esch law to have a
scale of wages fixed the same for all
sections and climates without regard
to local conditions. The Cummins-
Esch law, better known as the Trans
portation Act, specifies seven ‘differ
ent things which are to be taken in
consideration in fixing wages and has
not been construed to contemplate
anything of the sort Col. Bugg said.
The men are standing for the obsery
ance of the Transportation act.
Col. Bugg erred in judgment when
he tried to draw a parallel of the
present case here with the situation
in Russia. From the supposed fact
of the Russian debacle, Col. Bugg
deduced that it was the fault of labor
in demanding more than its employers
could pay. Others as wise as Col.
Bugg have déduced from the same
bunch of facts that the fault was in
the employers who had absolute sway
over their employees and so oppressed
them by refusing to consider what
was fair and just in pay that they
finally rebelled against their employ
ers, convicted them of oppression of
their people, and killed them. The
fault, these reasoners deduced, lay
in the employers who oppressed their
men beyond endurance. As a matter
of fact, no one who has all the avail
able data on both sides of the Russian
situation and the railroad situation
would consider that there was a par-]
allel or even a remote 'analogy be
tween them. In that Col. Bugg made
a second error in judgment. !
The untruth, fostored both in the
news columns and editorially by
some newspapers, that the present
“strike was called” at the order or
on the initiative of national officials
of the Brotherhoods in order to pro
tect national union interests, should
also be nailed in passing. The
men themselves have engineered ne
gotiations in this controversy. They
walked out by agreement and not on
orders. Not until they had walked
out were the national executives of
the unions given executive authority
in the matter. The men themselves
‘voted to walk out shoold a certain
situation develope. Such a situation
developed and the men walked out.
INVETIGATING AUTO
SHOW PROSPECTS
A committee of Fitzgerald ‘auto
over the automobile show there and
mobile dealers is in Atlanta looking
investigating the prospects for a show
in. Fitzgerald this Spring. It is at
present considered doubtful whether
an automobile show will be held here
at all. For the benefit of the auto
mobile dealers, users and potential
buyers and for the city of Fitzgerald
the show should be held if any way
possible, even if on a smaller scale
than heretofor.
The automobile is no longer con
sidered a luxury by even the most
conservative of people. Even the
‘passenger car has become a neces
sity,' a broadening influence that
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ooyP OB S M L MNP L I o T B R Y T
is impossible to expect as great a‘
volume of automobile sales as last
year for many years to come, normal
prosperity will bring constantly in
creasing use of automotive vehicles
and the rate of increase will be de
termined to a great extent by the
vigor of the sales effort.
To quit trying because trying did
mot bring the results it once did is a
foolish course. Retrenchment in bus
iness should be made on everything
else before it includes sales effort.
Just waiting for good times to come
around and send one to prosperity
on the crest of the wave won’t al
‘ways work. Hard times result from
stoppage of buying as often as stop
‘page of buying results from hard
times. It is best to use every effort
to keep the wheels of business turn
ing and when they seem to be slow-i
ing down to fight the hardest to keep\
therfi from stopping. |
" Fitzgerald has'in the past received
a lot of good advertising from the
automobile show and Fitzgerald as a
whole, as well as the dealers, is inter
ested in the continued success of the
show.
ALLIES TO MAKE'
GERMANY PAY
In the Allied invasion of Germany
this week one who has been follow
ing the international situation and
the railroad situation finds some
thing interestingly suggestive. The
Allies have fixed an enormous sum
as Germany’s fine for going to war.
Germany says she is unable to pay.
The Allies send troops into Germany
to force her to pay, to collect the in
demnity at the conquered nation’s
sources of income. Whether they
will ever be able to collect what they
want or not is still a matter of con
jecture.
Dropping the thought of th- [int
analogy, the process of ¢l ¢! )|
will probably lead to another vi.or as!
soon as this generetion of people is
dead and the horrors of the late war
have become only hearsay in the
mind of the living.
Whatever else may lead finally to
aholition of war, it will not be the
increasing horribleness of warfarc.'
The world is good for only one big!
war in each generation. It hasn’t
the resources to stand more than one
war in each generation. The horrors
and the hardships act as a check on
the belligerency of only the individ
uals who experienced them. The
next generation will march as blithe
ly to the slaughter as though war
were still the thing of pomp and
glory it was in the days of the good
King Arthur.
IMPROVEMENTS FOR s
CURB MARKET
Several farmers who brought prod
uce to the Fitzgerald Curb Market
yesterday suggested that the markets
could be made a great deal more pop
ular with both farmers and the house
wives of the city if long tables were
built on each side of the park in the
middle of Central avenue in front of
the Post office on which the farmers
could arrange their goods attractively
and from which the buyers coulfl
select what they wanted at a glance
without ‘having to walk aound and
look into each wagon and automobile.
The tables could be built very
cheaply out of rough lumber about
three feet high and two feet wide
along.the curb sides under the trees.
A Sermon to Live By
" By Rev' Elam Franklin Dempsey, D. D.
THE WORLD BEYOND
Scripture: Luke 16: 19-31.
In the parable of Dives and Lazarus, the veil was lifted from the
world beyond. While it is perhaps true that the narrative is not his
tory and the characters are not actual persons, yet we feel sure our
Saviour made His parables of the other world to be as true to that
mysterious land as His parables of earth are true to this world.
Viewed thus, we find here a glimpse of what shadowy country be
yond the grave that haunts the dreams of every heart.
First, we learn that there is such a country. In fact. This is
not the only world. Here is a land of weird despair. He who says,
“This is all the world and man shall perish like the beast at death.”
Is here taught the error of his vain imagination.
Second, we learn that the soul persists after the body is dead
and buried. Men pass at death, into another world. “This is not the
only life, nor death to die,”
Third, 'we learn that the soul beyond is the same soul it was here.
Its identity is unchanged. Dives is Dives and Lazarus is Lazarus.
In that realm just as definitely as in this. Each recognizes the oth
er. Personality is not altered by the mere article of death.
: Fourth, not only is it the same soul, it is the same kind of soul.
It has the same charecter. If it was good here, it is good there.
If it was bad here, it is bad there. Lazarus is with the good ; Dives
is with the bad. He is the same self-indulgent, self-centered fhater
ialistic man there that he was here.
Fifth, there, in that land beyond, destiny is decided by charec
ter. Lazarus good character secures for him a good destiny; for
there, affinities of character, companionship, and circumstances, are
given free play. Dives being bad in character by this same affinity,
went to his cwn place—a piece of torment. Ideal jusiice exists in
that land in full manifestation.
Six, pain and pleasure exists there as here. Annihilation and a
mere neutral condition of conciousness are hereby declared vain
imaginations of man’s deluded heart. e S b
~ Seventh, in that land, destiny is unchanged, Before men go
hence the utmost exertion of Divine wisdom and merey has been made:
for them. He who will not be made good here, will not be made
din any world, because in_this world Divine love exhausts even
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THE FITZGERALD LEADER THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1921.
The farmers could drive their wagons
and automobiles up to the curb ‘of
the park, unload and arrange their
produce on the tables. The ends of
the park should be left open and the
buyers could pass through between
the two rows of sellers. The protec
tion of the shade trees will he much
needed in a few weeks more for the
comfort of the people and to lessen
the chances of the green goods wilt
ing and spoiling under the sun.
The cost of such an arrangement
could not be .very much. Either the
Farm Bureau or Womans® Club
should get estimates on the cost and
share the expense equally. City
Council, the Woman’s Club, the Farm
Bureau and the Chamber of Com
merce could quarter the cost without
an appreciable drain on the resosrces
of any and Fitzgerald, would have a
really permanent curb market and
the beginnings of a sure enough city,
market. 1
}RAIN HELPED WATER
MELONS SAY FARMERS
The showers yesterday will make
watermelons come through theground
like the well known Jack’s equally
well known bean stalk, according to
farmers interviewed today by a Leader
reporter. A large acreage of water
melons has already been planted and,
barring a freeze or very cold spell be
tween now and May, Ben Hill will
produce the largest crop of the lucious
fruit of the vine this year that it has
ever produced.
The Ben Hill Farm Bureau is get
ting in touch with foreign watermelon
markets and many thousands of dol
lars worth of Georgia melons will be
shipped North and East this Summer.
Cantaloupes are also being planted this
month with the expectation of ship
ping to foreign markers. »
KIDDIES PLAYGROUND
REOPENED AT PARK
The children’s playground at the
City Hall Park has been thronged
every afternoon this week by romping
kiddies who are taking full advantage
of the firemen’s work in rebuilding,
rearranging, and refinishing the appa
ratus. The playground looks like new
again and is filling a big place in the
child-life of the town. {
~ The playground was first built by
the firemen after the Community Ser
vice Council, the Woman’s Club and
the Junior Red Cross had furnished
the plans and funds. The firemen are
eeping it up at their own expense and
effort during ldisure time.
In South America. '
A visitor to South America, speak
fng of his observations there. said:
“The home life of the people Is so full
of music that even the ‘newsies’ sing
theilr wares, and peanuts, and sweets,
fresh fruit and cool water are adver
tised in recitative. Such fitinerant
artisans as scissors grinders announce
their advent by means of a piccolo,
The tired workmen still solace thelr
evening hours with the guitar and the
phonograph is to be found in the homes
of all but the poorest classes.”
S L e O
Whatever the type ot your figure
there is a Gossard Corset to suit at—
. Miss Virginia Gaines tf.
Conslderate Request.
Peggy (who has been forbidden to
g 0 near brother, who has measles)—
“Please, God, make poor Teddy bet
ter—only don’t go too near him)”
FRILLS AND THRILLS ‘
AT CURB MARKET
(Contributed.):
In our interest concerning the strike
let us not forget that Ben Hill county
is learning to feed itself. If you dom’t
believe it, come to the Curb Market
at nine o’clock Saturday morning, op
posite the post office, and see for your
self the assortment of country: pro
duce, everything from pigs to peanuts,
the frills thrown in.
' By the frills, we mean fresh straw
berries, garden peas, asparagus, cot
tage cheese, big hominy, sasafrass
roots to make the tea our grandmoth
ers were rased on, and just lots of
other things including stove wood and
cooks, yes, cooks, who are listing
' with the communities for jobs for
themselves and their families. And'lit
tle potted plants already blooming for
Easter, as well as fresh flowers for
your table. i
Then the thrills, that come from the
assembling of the people from all over
‘the county, and the ladies gathering
from the four corners of the city to
‘this central point to buy vegetablesi
wth the dew still on them, meats fresh
ly butchered, and chickens already
dressed, freshly drawn butter for al
most half what you pay for creamery
butter shipped from thousands of miles
away. -
To Clean Brass.
To clean brass cut lemon in halves,
#tp it in kitchen salt and rub over the
jrass till the stains disappear. Then
rinse in warm water and polish with a
luster dipped in powdered whiting,
—and the weather is hot, and you don’t want
your milk to sour, or you vegetables to wilt, or
a dozen things to eat to spoil, you aant to be
sure that your refrigerator is one you can trust.
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Get ““The Daddy of
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---There are refrigerators and refrigerators.
Some of them hold ice and food; some of them
do little else. The Eddy Refrigerator, whose
first model was built in 1847, conserves ice
and preserves whatever is entrusted toits care.
Good Refrigeration
Is Economy |
To keep food as it ought to be kept,
to make it go fartherand taste better,
to preserve it with least waste, in the
most wholesome way, with absolute
: safety, economy, and perfection of
refrigeration, the sure solution is the
Eddy Refrigerator.
We have some new models in stock,
which are real beauties and we
would like to show them to you.
Call and look them over.
Carries the Red Star Stamp;--- Tested and appro\ved by ;ile
\ Good Housekeeping Magazine.
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Company
East Pine Street - - Fitzgerald, Ga,
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WHEN YOU BOUGHT
~ THAT SUIT
—llast year you thought one season’s wear was all you could normal
ly expect.
BUT the clerk was right—there was GOOD quality of wool in the
material.
Of course were it not for DRY CLEANERS and modern clean
ing methods—you could not think of using it for GOOD wear again
this season.
All right there is where we fit in. Our methods are modern.
And if we have that suit or. light coat NOW—we will have it ready
for delivery the first spfing day.
White Swan Laundry
DRY CLEANING AND PRESSING