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TUESDAY
EDITION
VOL. 1,
NUMBER 20
FEDERAL RAIL CHIEFS TO CONFER WITH HARDING
" FOR COUNTY BOYS
Blooded Hog Breeders Co-oper
ate With County Agent.
SALE ON MAY 14TH.
School Which Has Most Club
Members To Get Prize.
The “better live stock,, move
ment in Ben Hill County received
a big impetus today when C. T.
Owens, county agent, announced
that arrangements had been made
with breeders of blooded hogs to
sell to Pig Club members on
terms when the boys can not pay
cash.
A sale of blooded hogs will be
held for pig club boys on May
14th at Wright T. Paulk’s Red
Village Farm sales pens. Ar
rangements can be made so that
the hogs can pay for themselves
as they are bred and new pigs
sold. |
Mr. Owens announced also the‘
offer of a prize award 'to the
school having the most pig club‘
tmembers, follows:
FFA nice' banner or a regis
tered pig will be awarded the
school which furnishes the great
est number of Club members who |
complete the work this yc:n‘.l
The prize will be awarded ac
cording to the number of lmy.\‘;
in school eligible to Club mem- |
bership. [
Notice. to Pig Club members |
and parties who have registered |
pigs to offer Pig Club boys: I
have arranged with Mr. Wright
T. Paulk for the use of his sales
pens Saturday May 14th, to as
semble all registered pigs of the
following breeds Spotted Poland
China, Poland China, Duroc andl
Hampshire, in the county to be
offered at auction to the Pig Club
boys. This will give the boys a
chance to make their own' selec
tions in the purchase of their pigs.
Reasonable terms can be made
for the purchase of these pigs
ere the boy is not in position to
no¥y cash. The sale will begin
ibout 10:00 p. m., dinner at 12:30.
It will be necessary for all Club
boys and their fathers to be pres
ent. Don't forget the date and
hgve your crates ready..
. €. I OWENS,
&‘. County Agent.
John Justice Will
Recover From Hurt
Prominent Business Man Hurt in
Auto Wreck
J. A. Justice, prominent business
man and realtor, who was painfully
injured by an automobile Saturday
evening, will recover, according to
information from Fitzgerald Hospital
today. He sufferel painful \\'oundsJ
from being dragged over the pavement
but no bones are thought to have been
')brokcn.
~ The accident occurred at the corner
of Central and Main streets. Mr. Jus
tice was walking toward the Post Of
fice and paused in the street to al
low one automobile to pass him when
a second one, driven by Mrs. Green
awalt, ran into him. The driver un
nerved, according to witnesses, re
leased the steering wheel, and the car
circled around the corner, mounted
the curb-and came to stop against the
small metal building next to the old
post office building. Mr. Justice
was dragged more than thirty feet un
der the car.
The injured man was rushed to tht:l
hospital and given immediate atten-'
tion. Although the injuries are ex
tremely painful and the shock was con
siderable, Mr. Justice will recover.
He is forty-nine years of age.
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Yapp Question Not
Loaded Says Jap
Believes Solution near in Dispute
over Pacific Naval Base
Copy Right 1921
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, March 29.—The
question of the island of Yap is a
most delicate one but there is every
reason to believe that diplomacy will
find a solution of the problem, ac
cording to Baron Megata, a member
of the Japanese House of Lords and
Japanese delegate to the League of
Nations who is in Washington on
his way back to Japan. ‘
Baron Megata expressed a belief
that the controversy over the former
German cables will be cleared up sat
isfactorily in communications to the
conference in session here,
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crop prices have taught agriculturists in southern states, say Texas
farmers—and one that might well be observed in every state in the Union..
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Farmers Union President Endorses
Sapiro Plan For Marketing Cotton
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IEXPLObION WRECKS
(By International News Service)
CHICAGO, March 29.—Six bodies
terribly mangled, have been recov
cred . Many persons were injured
in a terrible blast of unknown origin
which wrecked four story paper
warchouse in the Southwest side this
morning. Women employces rushed
from nearby business houses in panic,
CHICAGO, March 29th,—Several
are reported killed in an (-xplosion‘
that wrecked a tenement house hur(‘..j
The explosion is believed to have or
iginated in a paint store undomoath.'
The coroner estimated ten dead and
sixty injured. Three bodies have been
recovered. i
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British “Wait And
See” U. S. War Debt
Make No Move Toward Paying
or Cancelling Huge War Loan
(By International News Service) ‘
LONDON, March 29.—The Brit
ish government has adopted a “wait
and see” policy upon the question of
the United States war debt and will
not make any move immediately ‘to
pay or cancel it. It was learned from
official sources that the decision of
the government not to send Lord
Chalmers to Washington presumably
means abandonment of the wvarious
suggestions for underwriting or can
cellation of the great sums owed to
the United States.
British officials believe nothing def
inite could be settled so early in the
Harding administration.
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Veteran’s Plight To
.
Be Probed By Harding
(By. International News Service) |
WASHINGTON, March 29—The
definite step toward the formation of
a government policy toward war vet
erans was taken today. President
Harding appointed a committee of
‘nine men and women to investigate
‘the war risk insurance bureau and
iother war bureaus.
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1921.
Accepts Apointment on State Com
. mittee to Prepare Report For At
lanta Meeting April 11.
Announcement was made here Sat
urday by O. E. Tate, of Elberton that
'Charlcs S. Barrett, national president
of the Farmers Union and chairman
!91‘ the national board of farm organi
zations has accepted appointment as
ia member of the state-wide commit
tee to work out a plan of organiza
’tion for Georgia cotton growers on
the California (or Sapiro) plan for
presentation for the state wide mass
'meeting to be held in Atlanta on
iApril 15
~ The object of forming this state
&widc committee in advance of the
meeting was to get the benefit of
state wide advice. Mr. Tate is pres
ident of the Elbert County Cotton
Growers Association, which indorsed
‘the Sapiro plan some wecks ago and
launched a movement for state wide
‘organization.
A tentative association contract
‘and marketing/ law for Georgia is
being prepared by Aaron Sapiro.
originator of the Sapiro plan, and
this will be submitted to the state
lwide committee for such modifica
tion as they see fit to make on it. :
No other member of the state-wide
committee has yet been announced
lby Mr. Tate. His acceptance from
Mr. Barrett was received in a very
lremarkable letter which praised the
'Sapiro plan and ventured the predic
;tion that the long expected day of
ico-opcrative marketimg by the cot
ton_growers is about to come to pass.
In this letter Mr. Barrett says:
“I think you are engaged in a great
work, which, from all I can hear, you
are going about in a splendid way,
and with a brilliant prospect of suc
cess. I have known both Mr. Sapiro
and his plan for a pretty long time,
and fundamentally I believe both of
them are sound. I refer to his prop
osition in regard to cttoon particu
larly.
“It has been my opportunity, in
twenty years of almost ceasless
travel from coast to coast and from
the gulf to :Canada, to keep in inti
mate touch with farmer enterprises
of every conceivable sort, and in that
experience I ought to have learned a
thing or two about co-operative mar
keting,
“I am intimately acquainted with
the workings of the splinded Pacific
coast organization, many of which
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H WASHINGTON, March 29 l[
|| The total population of Georgia, ||
|| 2,895,839 comprises of 1,444,823 l
|| males and 1,451,009 females. The ']
{| male population increased 10.7 per ||
|| cent and females 11.3 per cent ’\
.; during the last decade. The white |
|| population increascd 18 per: cent t
/ and the negro 2.sper cent. |
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P.A" CHAUTAUQUA
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FOR FITZGERALD
Chautauqua Association Officers
Elected Last Night
GET 75 GUARANTORS
Chautauqua Will Hold Septem
ber 20-25th Is Plan
Chautauqua for Fitzgerald this
fall was assured last nicht when a}
small group of the seventy-five men
who signed as guarantors for tho'
Chautanoua met at Carnecie Hall and
elected officers for the ("!raut:mqu:\l
Association, '
The officers named at the mc(-tingi
last night were Rev. R. M. Mann,
president, Oscar 1. Bradshaw, vice
president, J. 'E. Turner, vice presi
dent, D. A. Bragg, treasurer, S.. G
Pryor, secretary, W. A. Adams, chair i
man of the ticket committee, Ed'
Hussey, chairman of tre "1'(\:11:"'\1
committee, W. C. Wilkerson. (‘ht‘;il'~£
man of the advertisine rnv:rv‘niftw.!
Mrs. R. E. Lee and Mrs. Yeatman
chairmen of the junior chautauqua
committee,
The dates tentatively set for the
attractions, which will run five suc
cessive days, are September 20th to
25th. The program wi]l be given
under canvas, a tent being provided
by the company. Five hundred sea
son tickets will be sold before the
‘opening day, it is planned. The pro
spectus of this year's performance!
includes musical, dramatic and edu
cational numbers of more than pass
ing interest.
The success of Chautauqua here
last year if followed by equal success
this year will lead to establishing
Fitzgerald permanently as a Chautau
qua city. Speaking of prospects for
success, Mr. Bradshaw, vice presi
dent, declared complete confidence
that by September this section of
country would be as prosperous as
it had ever been in the briskest per
iods of its history and said he had
no doubt as to the willingness of the
public to liberally patrorize a high;
class entertainment. |
Mr. Alton Walker was host at a‘
singing given at his home Sunday
night, about fifty guests were present.
‘\\'('n‘ in operation a decade or more
‘before Mr. Sapiro, with his improved
lidcus. entered the field, but necarly
‘all of them are being run in accord
‘ance with the fundamental theories
which he so well advocates.
“It is not only sound, but in its
fundamentals it is not at all ncw.'
Except in details, Mr. Sapiro has had
deep-thinking predecessors of my
personal acquaintance. But that is
a point in favor of, rather than
against, his plan, and the milk in the
cocoanut at this hour is that, in the
opinion, his plan is today feasable
when it was not so heretofore.
“The storm of farmer interest in
co-operative marketing, which is the
result of years of hard driven educa
tion by farm organizations, coupled
with the farmer’s painful predica
ment today, is glorious and intense.
There has never been anything like
it, and unless I give the farmer credit
for less intelligence than years of
close association have taught me to
think he has, he is going to shake
himself free from the shackles which
have enslaved him.
“What'’s more, your ‘‘ncle Ruben’
in Georgia is not near as far behind
his brethren clsewhere as I some
times like to fool him into thinking
for his' own good. And if some city
folks realized the amount of horse
sense he has in his head, they’'d spend
their lives wondering how it is that
he has allowed himself to be the
goat of our economic system for so
long.
“But there’s an end coming to
that. The farmer is just waking up
to the fact that God (including the
times)’ helps those who help them
selves. And he is now out to act
upon that information,
“You have got a fine scheme, and
if you /don't make mistakes you've
got a fine opportunity to put it over
in Georgia and be a blessed mem
ory. All strength to your good right
arm. I will be with your commit
tee when it meets, and insofar as I
can be helpful otherwise, let me know.”
ATLANTA MAYOR
MAY ViSIT HERE
Might Come to Fitzgerald to In
spect Municipal Plant
SPEAKS AT ABBEVILLE 1
To See Municipal 6wncrship a‘:’
| Work in Fitzgerald
Mayor James L. Key of Atlanta
may come to Fitzgerald tomorrow to
inspect the Fitzgerald Water and |
Light Plant in order to lay in \'(‘l'l»:\‘:J
ammunition for his fight in behalf ”ii
municipal ownership in Atlanta and
clsewhere in Georgia.
Mayor Key will speak in Abbeville
tomorrow, at the invitation of the
’maynr. who asked him to divide time
with Joe Hill Hall of Macon, a bitter
opponent of municipal ownership and
famed as the “watch dog of the treas
‘ury" during many terms as represen
‘tative to the legislature from Bibb
county. Several car loads of people
plan to motor to Abbeville tomorrow
to hear the two men debate.
Mayor Key was advised to come
to Fitzgerald by Isidor Gelders, edi
tor of the Fitzgerald Leader, who
wired him yesterday when he heard
that Mayor Key intended to visit
;\l)h(-\'ille.. as follows: “When visiting
Abbeville Wednesday come to Fitz
gerald and inspect the best and most
successful - experiment in publicly
owned water and light plants, owned
and operated by Fitzgerald since the
birth of the town. Tt will he an in
spiration to you in your campaign.”
Mayor Key replied that he ‘would
include Fitzgerald in his trip if it
proved possible for him to do so. |}
BURROUGHS, MAKER
OF FLOWERS, DEAD
(By International News Service)
BUFFALO, N. Y., March 29--John
Burroughs, world famous naturalist
died on a New York Central train in
Ohio while enroute to his home in
West Park, N. Y., from California.
Burroughs had been in feeble
health some time. He was born at
Roxbury, New York, April 3, 1837.
Corporal Mashburn
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Buried at Unadilla
Delegation of Fitzgerald Vets Attend
‘ Funeral of War Hero
S
Betwen parallel lines of the com
rades with whom he had fought in
France, the body of Corporal Wil
liam B. Mashburn was carried to its
last resting place near his Unadilla
home Sunday on the shoulders of
others who had been his friends in
peace and his comrades in war.
Corporal Mashburn, who was a
son of Mrs. M. L. Mashburn and a
brother of Mrs. H. B. Varnadoe and
Miss Claire Mashburn, all of Fitz
gerald, died at Beauvais, France, May
21st, 1918, as a result of gassing suf
fered in battle May 3rd, 1918, After
temporary interment in France, the
body of Corporal Mashburn was
brought back to the United States for
interment at his home.
The funeral services were at the
Baptist church® under general charge
of the American Legion Post at
Vienna, Ga. He was buried with mil
itary honors, The active pall
bearers were members of the Vienna
post and were attired in service uni
forms. More than fifty other ex
service men in civilian clothing
formed an escort of honor,
From Fitzgerald, representing the
Mars-McDonald Post of the Ameri
can Legion, went Commander Cleon
Howell, Past Commander Roy Ad
ams, O. D. Mulky, historian, Will
Mashburn, Sam Story and B. E.
Wilcox.
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Bandits Loot Mail
Truck; Cash Saved
(By International News Service)
CHICAGO, March 29. Four
armed bandits kidnapped Robert Bur
nett, mail truck driver, threatened to
kill him if he resisted, and escaped
with two pouches of first class mail.
Burnett saved the money pounch
when he threw off the first rlass
pouches as the bandits demanded
the money pouch. Shotgun squads
are searching for the criminals.
FIREMEN CHAIRMAN |
CONFERS WITH MEN
W. D. Cargyle, of Manchester, gen+
eral chairman of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive firemen, was here today
in conference with facal union offi
cials an dmembers of his craft,
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Dr. James R. Angell broke a 200-
year precedent when he was elected
president of historic Yale coliége
recently, the first time the directors
have gone outside the faculty or
alumnus to fill the office, In his
first _address-—-l_te went on record ag
favoring athletics—the moral qual
ities of the coaches to be first ror
sideratios. ®
RUSSIAN “WHITES”
CLAIMNEW VI“TORY
’
(By International News Service)
LONDON, March 29—According
to a Central News dispatch, “Russian
rehels have captured Minsk and pro
claimed a white republic. Ukraini
ans have surrounded Kieff where
fighting is progressing” There is no
official confirmation of the report of
success of the new revoltion in Russia.
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Strychnine “Candy ‘
-
Ends Infant’s Life
Ocilla Baby Licks Tablets for Candy,
Death Results Few Hours Later
OCILLA March 29.—At five o'-
clock Monday morning, the twelve
months-old child of W. H. Brown, a
prosperous farmer of this county, who
lives five miles from Ocilla, died of
strychnine poisoning.
Yesterday at noon his three-year
old brother found a box of% one
sixticth grain sugar-coated strych
nine tablets and thinking they were
candy, licked the sweet coating off
and fed twelve of them to the baby.
A physician was called at once, but
was unable to relieve the little
sufferer.
.
German Communists
.
And Police Battle
(By International News Service)
BERLIN, March 29, Four
teen were killed and forty-six
wounded in a violent battle be
tween the security police and
communists at lissen in the Ruhr
District. Issen is the seat of
the Krupp works. |
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Librarian To Study
New Library Methods
Miss Louise Smith, librarian at the
Fitzgerald Carnegie Library, is in
Atlanta to attend a two weeks special
course in library methods. During
her absence Mrs. J. B. Wall and Miss
Lillie Mae Hughes will handle the
details of the library work here.
.
Fruit Crops Saved
By Weather Flurry
(By Internatiunal News Service)
ATLANTA, March 29th., A
weather disturbance occurred in Flor
ida which has deflected the expected
cold wave which had seriously threat
cned the Georgia peach and other
fruit crops. The forecast for Florida
is generally fair tonight and Wednes
day and cooler tonight.
Ford Agency In ‘
New Quarters]
- The E. L. Dorminy Motor Com
pany is moving the Ford Agency to
the building formerly occupied by
the Buick Agency, which has been
moved to the sales rooms of the
Leonard Brothers Auto Company,
the new agents for the Buick line,
Miss Ruby Barnes is visiting her
aunt, Miss Bessie Fountain, this week.
SHORT AND SNAPPY
NEWS OF THE WORLD
BY TELEGRAPH
Official Organ
City of Fitzgeral
Commerce Commissioner and
Labor Board Head Called
U. 8. MAY INTERVENE
Economist Says Manageriol In
efficiency Is Trouble
(By International News Service)
; \\fl\.\'lll.\'(i'i’f).\(, Mareh 29 =
The growing seriousness of the
1!':[;]1‘1&1(! situation was considered
by President Warren G, Harding
and his cabinet for two hours
to the exclusion of everything
else today.
President Harding, who re
ceived newspaper men after the
conference, announced he had
summoned Chairman Clark of
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission and Chairman Barton of
the Railway Labor Board to
confer with him at the White
House as soon as the Railway
Labor Board concludes its hear
ings.
BAD MANAGEMENT
IS AT FAULT
CHICAGO, March 29th., —The in
efficiency of railroad management
rather than the National agreement
fixing wages and working conditions,
is responsible for the railways’ finan
cial plight, said W. Jett Lauck, con
sulting economist of the railroad la
bor organizations, in a statement to
the Railway Labor Board at its hear
;!?}' here today.
Gevernment Money
For Railroads
G. & 7. Authorized by 1. C. C. to
Borrow from Government
WASHINGTON, ‘March 29.—Re
ceivers of the Georgia and Florida
Railway were authorized by the In
terstate Commerce Commission to
day to issue $1,600,000 of receivers’
certificates with an interest rate of 8
per cent and to pledge $BOO,OOO of
them to the Government for a ‘loan
to sell $600,000 of them at par and
the account of the uncertified indebt
edness of the receivers incurred prior
to January 1, 1921.
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Railroad Officials
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Visit Fitzgerald
Messrs. J. F. Shechan and C. E.
Brower, officials of the Atlanta, Bir.
mingham and Atlantic railway com
pany, are in Fitzgerald, it is under
stood, making a general survey of
the strike situation and the condition
of the railroad and service. Both
gentlemen are former residents of
Fitzgerald and well known here.
Chief Construction Engineer Bell ac
companied Messrs. Sheehan and
Brower,
Mr. Brower, general superintend
ent, stated to a Leader reporter that
the party which is now here has no
statement to make to the public. “All
information of interest to the public
is being issued from Atlanta offices,”
Mr. Brower said. He stated that they
might return tomorrow.
Man Can Become
Member Of W.C.T.U.
By International News. Service.
EVANSTON, I, March 29.—Have
you a white ribbon in your button
hole? If not, look out; the W. C. T, U,
will put one there!
Departing from its traditional poli
cy the Woman’s Christian Temper
ance Union has launched a campaign
for 1,000,000 members. It was an
nounced tody at national headquarters
here. The membership campaign is
in connection with the organization ju
bilee in celebration of the passage of
the Eighteenth Amencdment.
Income Taxes To Be
Cut, Says Penrose
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, March 29.—Slash
big and little income taxes, cut them
to a point where they will stimulate
rather than retard production and
consumption, Senator Boies Penrose
of Pennsylvania, declared in advocat
ing a practical panacea for the oner
ous burden on the tax payers. He
indicated he would throw the full
weight of his influence as a Republi
can leader and chairman of the Sen
ate Finance Committee to bring
about a revision of the present tax
scales. ' ]