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Hold On Savings
Has Halted Trade
Leader News Bureau i
4th National Bank Bldg.
ATLANTA, March, 22—That the
business depression through which the
South and the country generally hasi
been passing for several years is but
a tempoary affair, not justified by.
lack of financial strength, is the state
nient made here by bankers who have
received reports from all sections of
the country. ‘
The figures given out show that
saving bank deposits throughout the
United States for last year eclipsed all
previous records. ‘
Conditions prevailing throughout the
rest of the country unquestionably pre
vail in the South, according to reports
received here. Southern banks show
‘heavy deposits of savings. {
There can be no long period of fi
nancial or business depression with
savings of the people mounting into
the billions and exceedong in volume
any previous year, it is pointed out by
Atlanta bankers. It is shown that
there is an abundance of money in the
country, and the only reason that
money has been tight is because the
funds saved by the people were not
disturbed by tkem.
“There is an indication of caution
and frugality waicn ultimately wiil be
to the benifit of the individual’ sa'd
one Atlanta banker. “Bucines: suvi
fers because the savings are not spent,
but if the avings had been spent, the
people would not be in the substantial
financial condition that they are now.”
Atlanta bankers declave that it is a
fine thing and an assurance of con'in
‘ued prosperity that the people of this
country are saviag -h:ir money.
FRANK C. GILREATH.
Prof. and Mrs. J. J. Gainey an
nounce the birth of a daughter Sun
day night, March, 20.
Abbeville, Rochelle,
Douglas and Ocilla
Readers Attention: :
If a general strike is called on all railroads in the
Southeast, the Leader Publishing Company will
start two automobile routes with its daily ‘- paper
out of Fitzgerald the day it is called. One route
will carry six hundred papers to Ocilla and Douglas
and one will carry four hundred papers to Abbe
ville and Rochelle. We want to get in touch AT
ONCE with a live wire man in each place who will
be competent to handle the local distribution of the
Daily Leader.
Should a general strike be called, mail service
will be cut off entirely, no big city dailies will reach
this section, and the Leader, by automobile, carry
ing the telegraphic news of the world by Interna
tional News Service, will be your only reliable com
munication with the outside world. The demand
will be large enough to enable a hustler to make
considerable money as agent for them.
The following schedule wiil be put in effect in
case a general strike is called and the out of town
circulation of the paper will be limited as specified
in order to conserve our supply of newsprint paper:
Arrive Ocilla, 300 copies, 4:15.
Arrive Douglas, 300 copies, 4:45. ¢
Arrive Abbeville, 200 copies, 4:30.
Arrive Rochelle, 200 copies, 4:45.
Resigoqsi.ble parties should wire or write AT
ONCE giving at least two references in order that
contracts and instructions may be forwarded and
the organization for a satisfactory distribution sys
tFel!ld‘perfected, immediately. No applications after
riday. § i
ADBRESS— ¥ %
CIRCULATION MANAGER,
LEADER PUBLISHING COMPANY,
FITZGERALD, GA.
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Big Atlanta Bank Plaas
To Enlarge Skyscraper
ATLANTA, March, 22—With the
purchase by the Fourth National Bank
of eighteen feet four and one-half in
;ches, adjoining its building on Mariet
ta Street from the Crumley estate for
-$200,000, a record breaking price for
central Atlanta real estate___it is the
purpose of the bank, according to an
nouncement just made, subsequently
|to use the newly acquired property
for the expansion of fts banking house
to meet requirements,
' The subsequent expansion of the
Fourth National to cover the addit
- pnal property it has acquired will con
-~ pert practically all of the south side of
' Peachtree and Broad street, into bank
ing houses, so that, it will, in fact,
!hccome Atlanta bank block, and the
financial center of the city both in
‘name and in fact.
~ The continued growth of the bank,
‘now recognized as one of the South’s
largest financial institutions, has made
Fit necessary to enlarge its quarters,
Efrom time to time, and only recently
%tho Fourth remoddled the lower floors
of the big office building it occupies at
“Five Points,” taking in as a part of
its establishment three additional
floors. .
| The price of $200,000 paid by the
bank for the property makes the per
front foot price over $ll,OOO, which,
considering its 110 foot' depth, is one
of the highest ever paid in Atlanta for
central reality. .
St s el
BUTCHER STARTS SCANDAL
NEWS ITEM— There was con
siderable scandal in our town Satur
day night when P. A. Cash, our local
butcher, was found in an ice box with
a lot of undressed chickens.—Ruthers
Neilson.
THE FITZGERALD LEADER TUESDAY, MARCH 22nd. 1921 i.
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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE
STRIKE—Macon County 'News
—Did you ever stop and think
that the more wage earners get,
the.better for the merchants and
business men?
Practically every nickle a wage
earner draws is put right back
into circulation, going to the
merchant and business and pro
fe§slonal men. Take the striking
railroad men who patronize
Oglethorpe merchants--and there
are quite a bunch of them too.
When they get their pay checks
every merchant in town knows
It, aad gets a part of it.
Is it wrong for the wage earn
€rs to organize, as some folks
seem to think
| Did you know there was an
‘organization called “The Associ
ation of Railway Executives?”
‘ Did you know the bankers are
all organized?
Did you know that the doctors
are all organized
~ That the wholesalers are or
‘ ganized ? :
~ That in most towns the retail
‘ers are organized ? |
Why cannot the wage earners
do the same? ‘
As to the cutting of wages and
lowering of living costs: Will
banks lend you money cheaper
now than two years ago?
Have the doctors cut their
prices?
Have any professional men
cut their prices?
Do the lawyers work any
cheaper? 5
‘ How much has house rent
come down? |
! Can you buy drugs any cheap-‘
er?
Freight rates have gone up
about 60 per cent and passengér
rates about 40 per cent, and still
the cry is “cut the price of labor.”
If the price of labor is to come
down, then in the name of com
mon fairness, everything else
should come down in proportion;
it is certainly not fair to make
labor the goat for all the profit
eering that has been‘and still is
giong on.
‘ In fact, mighty few commodi
ties have come down, :so why
pick on the laboring man, and
try to force him to do enough
cutting for everybody? |
Unless the wage earner earns
a decent salary, how can be buy
the farmer’s products?
Think over these things and
see if you can blame the wage
earner for kicking—if labor is to
come down then let everything
else come down also.
There are two sides to all
questions; be fair to the laboring
people and give their side a fair
deal. :
We submit .if there is a good
reason for business and profes
sional men to organize, then it
is good for the laborer to -do
likewise. They organize for the
same purpose—self protection.
Did you know there are over
thirty union men in Oglethorpe,
who spend every nickle they
make with the merchants here?
Have you ever stopped to think
that the more these men make
the more they spend right here?
NO LESS AUTOMOBILES
RUNNING IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA, March, 22—Georgia's
revenue from its automobile license
tax will probably equal the same in
come of 1920, Secretary of State Mc-
Lendon has announced. Mr. McLen
don was quoted as stating that the
revenue from this source would be
20 per cent less at the end of the year
tharn in 1920 :
The secretary stated that he inten
ded to give the impression that the in
come to date was twenty per cent tless
The Daily Leader
---has been published for the last
ten days to best serve the public
interest of Fitzgerald.
The Daily Leader was not ex
pected by its publishers to bea
money maker but they do not con
sider themselves obligated to con
‘tinue to lose money with it for any
length of time.
The circulation of the Daily
Leader has grown rapidly, but the
subscription lists have been so ar
ranged that the paper can be dis
continued at any time on one
week’s notice.
If the business people of Fitz
gerald want to give their ' custom
ers a local daily. newspaper, they
- should concentrate their advertising
in the local daily - newspaper in
order to enable it to live.
| Every dollar that is spent with
the Leader Publishing Company, in
advertising or *Job Printing, helps
to insure the permanence of the
Fitzgerald daily paper. ‘
Daily Leader advertising is
read by all classes of people
in Fitzgerald. It is good advertis
ing. And the advertising receipts
are what make the paper possible.
~ Subscription receipts pay approxi
“mately only one-fourth of its cost.
If you have anything to sell,
Advertise in The Daily Leader.
If you want to buy anything,
Buy it from Leader advertisers;
The Advertisers are the ones
who are giving you the paper