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BT.eN T B AT AA A B 0 ST T
PRESIDENT HARDING =
IN WAGE CONTROVERSY
The Leader was informed over
long distance telephone last night
that President Harding had been
asked by the United States Board
of Meditation to take a hand inl
the A. B. and A. wage controver
sy. President Harding, in spite
of his loyal Democratic traducers,
is no small man. No small man
ever grew even moderately well
to-do out of a small town news
paper, nor won an election as one
of the two senators from the great
state of Ohio. President Harding
knows a lot and thinks straight.
“I've never cheated you,” Pres
ident Warren G. Harding is said
to have told his men, with tears
streaming down his cheeks, when
his employes on the Marion Star
gathered around to congratulate
him on his election to the high
est political office on the Earth.
“Boys, I've played fair with you
here and I'll play fair with you
in Washington,” was the senti
ment the great Ohioan seemed to
express to the men who had wor
ked for him and with whom he
had worked.
He has gone to Washington,‘
with a union card in his pocket.
He has never cheated yet. We
believe he will still play fair.
“I've ‘never cheated you,” he
said that chill morning in Novem
ber, 1920. Oh, that he may prove
faithful now. What interests con
tributed most of the $10,000,000 it
cost to elect Warren G. Harding
president the Leader does not
know. What strings were tied
to him when the “people” put him
in office we don’t know. We can
only hope that Warren G. Har
ding is as strong a man as he
looks to be, and as big a man as
he has seemed before.
God save America from a pup
pet president today, or a president
that “cheats.”
KEEP YOUR EYE :
ON TOM WATSON
The United States is fortunate,
and will within the next six years,
realize that it is fortunate, in hav
ing Thomas E. Watson in the
United States Senate. Other
than Georgia boys in the war,
Tom Watson is the most valuable
contribution to the Union that
Georgia has made in many a year.
Especially at this crisis in Amer
can affairs will Mr. Watson’s
value be felt. He stands as
the recognized spokesman for the
man who works with his hands.
He stands also as the recognized
advocate of public ownership of
public utilities, including govern
ment ownership of railroads.
And where he stands he stands
with power,
A few people still affected by
the sickening gas attack launched
by the daily press during the 1920
campaigns, still refuse to accept
Mr. Watson at his true worth or
to expect from him the things he
is sure to accomplish. They
seem to think that the man who
thirty years ago almost single
handed and alone, did the essen
tial work that placed the Rural
Free Delivery laws on our stat
ute books; the man who thirty
years ago almost single handed
and alone forced through a law
compelling autocratic couplers tnl
save working men from being
maimed for life; the man who
thirty years ago, still single han
ded and alone and fought with all
the bitterness and power of the
liquor interest, forced the sa
loons out of the nation’s capitol
at Washington; they seem to
think that man has not grown in
strength and ability during the
succeeding years he has devoted
to literature and history that has
made him world famous, and the
battle for the common man that
has caused him to be looked upon
by fifty thousand Georgians as
the Moses of the children of Isre
la who are still in the house of
bondage.
If the United States Senate in
vestigates the railroad situation
as it probably will, we rredict
that Thomas E. Watson of Geor
gia will be one of the investiga
ting committee, placed on the
committee because he is a man
who knows and placed there as
a spokesman for the common
man’s side of the question. It
‘may be that Calvin Coolidge, a
recognized autocrat and advocate
of the “upper classes,” although
he'is a poor mgn himself, will
‘have influence enough to keep
’him off the committee if he wish
‘es. However, the Leader does
know that whatever action the
Senate takes will be influenced
imightily by the white haired but
still red’ headed fighting Senator
from Georgia.
Those who elected Thomas E.
Watson to the Senate may well
congratulate themselves on the
fact that they have got a man
who made his success in life by
being their friend, who owes
nothing but opposition to their
enemies, and who has learned
through more than sixty years of
fight, how to do his fighting well.
ITHE CURB MARKET
CONVENIENCES
’ The need for the long tables
for display of goods at the new
’Fitzgeral(l Curb Market, sugges
ted in Thursday’s Leader, was
emphasized today. Many hurried
housewives of the city spent
twice as long as they could well
afford to spend and twice as long
as they should have had need to
spend in searching out the pro
duce they wanted to buy. ik |
It is very difficult for a farmer,
or anyone, to make a good displayi
of what he has to sell in the body
of a wagon or the tonneau of an
automobile. If the stuff were
placed on long tables, extending
the full half block on either side
of the park in front of the Post
Office, the service rendered by
the Curb Market could be | irgely
improved.
As far as esthetic is con ovon
ed, the park in front of the l'ust‘
Office is not so beautiful as to
make passershby gasp with pleas
ed amaze as-it is, or as it stands'
any good chance of being in the
next two or a dozen years. The“
shade trees are pretty but they
would be much more appreciated
if used as shade trees as well as
‘ornaments. Fitzgerald has eigh
ten of these little parks running
down the middle of Central Av
enue and Main streets . Only
one of them, that in front the Ca
tholic Church and 7lentral Meth
odist Church, really makes any
pretense of being a beauty spot.
Certainly one of them could be
well sacrificed to the convenience
of our farmer friends and the
housewives of our city. The cost
of a couple of 150 ft. tahMs would
not be prohibitive. Let’s have
them by next Saturday.
HIGH SCHOOL GOING l
AFTER HONORS
We glean from the columns of
this hardworking outpost of prog
ress and proponent of possibilities
that the Fitzgerald High School
intends to cut a wide swath, which
is the vernacular means “be some
pum’kins,” at the district high
school meeting this Spring. One
of the instructors has started the
young hopefuls of the hardier sex
to digging the dirt with their toes
in track practice. The boys and
girls of histrionic bent have got
together in a live literary society
in which the Bryans and Demos
thenians of the future can soar
and soar to their heart’s content,
and the Mary Gardens of tomor
row can give their talents plenty
of exercise. And the music teach
ers are taking the fairy fingered
damosels into frequent executive
session to develop a tickler of
ivory keys who with the exotic
beauty of her music will woo a
golden medal from the flinty
hearts of the contest judges. And
business generally is picking up
around old Fitz-Hi.
Ah, little one, as the sanants
say, that IS the stuff. Even if
Fitzgerald High School hasn't
got an auditorium it has got some
young folks that, if they want to
bad enough, can make the walls
of an auditorium in some one's
else school house prick up their
ears and say “Well I'll be gosh
dinged, ain't that just plumb
nice?”___ at least that is what an
auditorium wall would probably
say if its language were that of its
usual occupants,. And the chan
delier would reply, “I'll say it is,”
and the chairs would just natur
ally shimmy- with delight. But
all that is, of course, just possi
bilities, we aren’t saying for a fact
that it would happen.
Just the same, it would certain
ly be great if Fitzgerald High
School could this year again
start carrying home the laurels
that once were its annual portion,
We believe the school is awake,
the high school news Ralph Coh
en is serving up to our readers
certainly points that way. Good
work, keep it up, and more
strength to you, folks. We need
your help too in putting Fitzger
ald on the map in big red letters.
THE FITZGERALD LEADER SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1921
A Sermon to Live By
By Rev' Elam Franklin Dempsey, D. D.
THE SUPREME WORD
Text: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
‘with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Thou shalt love thy neigh
bor as thyself.” Matt. 22:37 and 39. :
We award the palm of genius to him who can generalize.
Here is the realm of morals and religion, is a supreme genera
lization. ' .
A vast economy of mental effort, a vast gain in moral security,
a vast scope in religion are each and all obtained by this comprehen
sive summary of our Lord. . _
| Common to each sentence is the verb “love.”
The one thing in this universe against which there is no law is
love, and it the one thihg that is the fulfilling of the law.
“Life without love! ‘ i
' It is life without the sun— :
Cold as the snow-capped mountains,
Dark as Myriad nights in one— .
A barren waste,
Without one spot of beauty, loveliness, or taste!”
But, with love, life is full of light and vital warmth. |
Love! Its presence mal:es Heaven and its absence means Hell:
As this universe swings around some central sun, so all true life
revolves around that “sacred fire” of Infinity, the God,~—our God !
who is love.
Love is God ; and every one that loveth is born of God, and know
eth God.” I John 4:7.
NO INCREASE IN TAXI |
FARE IN FITZGERALD l
The Leader was misinformed in re-‘
gard to the Taxi schedule for inter
urhan traffic. It was stated on author
ity of one traveling salesman last Sat
urday that fares had doubled. That
proves to have been an isolated case
and the taxi men as a whole have
made no concerted move nor have
they individually raised their tariffs.
NEWS ITEM
(By Mickie)
That commotion that you heard
about 10:00 a. m. ths morning wasn’t
nothing to do with the strike, wreck
on the road or anything. It was just |
because our good lookng hook-keeper
recached into the drawer of her desk,‘
where she kept her pencils at and
found a mouse had got there first.
The mouse will recover.
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NEWS ITEM :
(By Mickie)
Our circulation maneger walked in
this morning and the foreman re
‘marked, “that fellow looks like Col.
'Bugg." A riot was averted by the
bravery and superhuman effort of the
‘forcmau in jumping over two impos
ing stones before the cyclone hit the
place where he was at when he said
what he said. We don’t think . our
circulation manager likes Mr, Bugg.
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We thank you for your liberal patronage in the past and we are
; striving to serve you even better in the future.
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Thick Coal Bed.
The brrwn coal beds of Vietoria
are sald to be the thickest in the
world. At Morwell 780 feet of coa
has been passed through in a bore of
L,OlO feet. The four principal areas
of occurrence cover approximately
1,200 square miles of an average
thickness of 50 feet. The depth of
the coal seams below. the surface
varies from 60 to 500 feet, the aver
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On Solid Foundation.
Certain world-old principles are the
basis of every form of representative
government, and each succeeding era
but proves the soundness of these
fundanientals. The clock may strike
thirteen, but this 1s no proof of any
thing other than that it is n need
of repair—~Exchange. :
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: Our “rortunes.”
- What we call our fortunes, good or
fll, are but the wise dealings and dis
tributions of a wisdom higher, and a
kindness greater than our own. I sup
pose that their meaning is we should
learn, by all the uncertainties of our
life, even the smallest, how to be
brave and steady and temperate and
bopeful, whatever comes, because we
believe that behind it all there lies a
purpose of good, and over it all there
watches a providence of blessing.—
Henry van Dyke.
Where Publicity Really Hurts.
It is not our wrong actions which it
requires courage to confess, so much
as those which are ridiculous and fool
ish.—Rousseaun.
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~ Bill Steedum says that if a young
married couple can live through Sep
tember without having a fatal quarrel
over whose duty is to get up and get
the extra cover, the chance is pretty
fair to live until the next green to
mato ple season, anyhow.—-Wilming.
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Nor was servitude confined to Afri.
lcans. Spain long used Porto Rico as
a penal colony, ari. when public works.
no longer required them, the convicts. A
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selves. Most of them took to the moun
|tains, where the “poor white” popula
tion is numerous to this day. Yet the
later generations are no more crim
inal than the Australians; if there is
Imuch petty thieving, it is natural in
a hungry, overcrowded community.
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To dream of skating denotes that
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