Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-04-23

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The Calhoun County Courier has again chang
ed management and is anonymously edited. We
regret that the name Of the editor is not pubsheds
This is city court week and a full criminal
docket the result of transfers from the superior
court, will engage the court several days.
FITZGERALD is indebted to her delegation to the
State Medical Association at Savannah, last week,
for securing the next convention of that august
body. 1t will probably be the greatest convention
Fitzgerald has ever entertained
The weekly press should convene in Fitzger-
alp next year-OciIla Star
You are "a witch for guess Wallace, that's eX
actly what we expect to do. Meet us at San
dersville and vote for Fitzgerald.
There will be an effort to take the next associ
alton back to north Georgia on the ratation plan,
and will have to have lots of friends there to over
come that
Hokesboro which is being advertised i'll todays
paper will be one of Ocillas popular SUI
burbs. 1t is appropriately named, by the pro-
moters who expect it to be success and who are
admirers OF the governor elect
We will deliver the Enterprise by carriers,
beginning Thursday so as to be in good shape by
Nav the first after which date we cannot use the
post office for the city list, therefore it is mpor
tant that every subscriber within the city limits
furnish us with street and number Phone us at AZ
or write a card as soon as you read this, if you
live in the city.
No room for Gamblers in Atlanta
The Atlanta Constitution, notifies the gamb-
lels in Atlanta from other cities, that things
will not be pleasant for them in Atlanta. The
Constitution says in part.
''Members ofthe sporting fraternity whose
particular vocation is that of reaping where
they have not sown, or, in other words, coax
ing coin from the pockets of those who, de
spite experience, have never yet learned
that they cannot beat a man at his own
game, by the various and devious methods
of cards, dice roulette wheel, faro layout and
the like, NAV as well dsilIusiOn themselves
of any impression they may have gained that
they are now to find an asylum in Atlanta"
1t will be mistake and cause for lasting re-
gret if the first tax return of Ben Hill county is
taken on the old basis of the conscience OF the tax
payer There is too great latitude in
the conscience test. Very few tax payers return
their property at its actual market value es-
pecialy if it is real estate. Some who do not put
the true valuation ON their tax returns would be
Glad to do so if they knew that their neighbOrs
were paying on true valuations. If the tax receiv-
er will start out right and insist on true values,
and not on conscience every man will get justice
and the determinations of the conscience system
will disappear.
1t does not mean more taxes, for only so much
money is required. and the rate is fixed after the
consolidated returns show the amount OF proper
ty to be taxed, which is divided by the estimated
revenues necessary to run the county. This, of
course, applies to the county tax only, its true
there is disadvantage as against the county re
turning taxes under the old concience system.
Governor Northen is quoted as saying:
Can it ever be supposed for moment, that
the incarceration of boy one day or sixty days,
in jail, chaingang or penitentiary with
expert criminals, will ever tend to make either OF
them better member of society in later years?
Did it ever enter the thought of any citizen that
the average Jesse of convicts ever consider, for
moment the moral character of the men who for
a specified term furnished the muscle to dig out
profits for him are in turn to compensate society
by increased theft, burglary and murder and
criminal assaults after the cOnVictS become free