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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-08-02
Automobile Contest Ended.

The contest is over and we have
increased our subscription list to
very satisfactory proportion.
We have not made any great for
tune, neither has the contestsbeen a
failure. Our total receipts amount
to twenty two hundred seventy one
dollars and seventy cents. We paid
out in prizes and commissions fifteen
hundred, seventeen dollars and fiji
teen cents, leaving net balance
paid on the subscription price OF the
paper of seven hundred and fifty four
dollars and fifty-five cents, about
seventy cents per subscription.
Of course we could not afford that
but for the one reason, that of hav-
ing a subscription list practically
covering the territory. The largest
and best list any paper has had In
the history of the colony.
We give the above facts for the rea-
son there are so many conflicting ru-
mors and misleading statements.
This is written in the interest OF
truth. The judges report as printed
above speaks for itself.
We the undersigned judges of the
FITZGERALD subscription contest, at
ter counting all ballots in the pres
ence of each other. report as follows:
Miss IneZ Dorminy N5,O25
Mr.. W. C. Wilkerson 406,70O
Miss Evelyn Thompson 3O6,445
Miss Fannie Boyd 268,77O
Fred j. Clarke
Representing Miss DOrminy
Drew w. Paulk
Representing Mr.. Wilkerson
A. B. Cook
Representing Miss Thompson
7. j. Dickey
Representing Miss Boyd
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-08-02

Don't forget the dance, at the arm
DRY hall, Thursday night. Everybody
welcome. Come and dance to some
of the best music Fitzgerald affords
Mr.. G. W. Campbell and little
granddaughter, Mabel Cambell, left
for Cordele yesterday morning after
spending a week with his daughter
Mrs. E. j. Dorminy.
Mrs. J. C Bush leaves today fol
Mynon Springs.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-08-02

a paltry $4,000 year to keep up
his chicken farm and goat herd, while
Carnegie and Rockefeller may want
a million month for their Libraries
and foundations. 1t all depedns on
the man and the point of view-Sa-
vannah News.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-08-02

municipal receipts in 1908 by the
1913 largest cities in the United
States, each having an estimated
population of $4,000 or more in 1908
amounted to the enormous total of
$1,288,635, 496, according to the cen
sus bureaus annual report on the
statistics of cities for the yaer 1908
OF the 158 largest cities in 1903
24Were mo license" or prohibition
cities. Of the ISL cities for which
complete returns were available for
1905, 1907, and 1908, there were 10
no license" cities in 1905, II in
1907 and IS in 1908.
The number of places licensed,
for the sale Of intoxicating liquors
by the drink was 1885 in 1905,
67131 in 1907 and 1884 in 1908.
This decrease was not confined to
any section of the country, but is
apparent in every groupe of state
except in certain parts of the
Hockey mountain states. The
decrease has been marked most
in the cities of the Sonth Atlantic
states.
The increase in the number of
places selling by the drink from
1907 to 1903 was 100 percent in
Chelsea and Fitchburg. Mass, as
these cities changed from no Ii
cense" to licens e. The only other
cities showing an increase of as
much as 1 per cent. were Yonkers,
27.2 per cent; Wilmington, 25.7 per
cent, Newcastle, 1877 per cent, and
!, Spokane, 14.6 percent.
REVENUES HAVE INCREASED.
Despite a large decrease in the
number of licensed places, the re-
ceipts from liquor licenses and taxes
by the 158 cities mentioned above
increased from $3O,81O883 in 1905
to $39,234,223 in 1907, and to $41,-
95O,188 in 1908. The reason is a
general increase in the amount of
license fees.
The largest number of places Ii
censed to sell by the drink in proper
, ton to population is shown for the
cities of Texas, Wisconsin and New
York, the smallest number for the
cities of Pennsylvania, Massachu-
setts and Nebraska. The smallest
and LARGEST number of inhabitants
to each place selling by the drink
in cities of the different groups were
as follows: Three hundred thOus-
and population and over, Milwaukee
142, Philadelphia 758; 100000 to
100000, Paterson 231, Fall River l.
O42; $4,000 to 100000, Hoboken IT'S,
Lincoln 2,O38, and 10000 to $4,000,
Galveston 1873 and Chelsea 1884.
To meet municipal payments, the
1873 mentioned cities collected $685.
334,58O from the taxes, licenses, spe-
cial assessments and other revenues,
and borrowed $5OO,9O5,414.
The balance of the municipal re-
ceipts, amounting to $135,395,5O2,
was made up of refunds, investments
disposed of by city funds and gen.
eral transfers. The total municipal
receipts amounted to 81, $685. 96.
PROPERTY TAX LARGE.
Taxes and other general revenues,
including licenses and permits, fines
and forfeits and subventions, grants
and gifts were the chef source OF rev.
y enue for nearly every city. Receipts
from the general property tax form
ed the chief item of general revenue,
and for the cities of Massachusetts,,
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa,
Louisiana, Virginia and Georgia
comprised more than IS per cent OF
the total.
Liquor licenses and taxes formed
1874 per cent of the general revenues
in the cities of Ohio and 1912 per
cent in the cities of California, New
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-08-02
Why Labor Hard to Build Great Strong Bank and Not
Let 1t be Known?

Let 1t be knOWn!
Now and then we
strictly than We
against by
protection of de-
pos1ors Therefore we kno" the la" and live up to IT,
these laws brought
depository for States
States reports by bank
be harmony with the Government
The these
laws the fact that we have
very nearly this county
This that the people are OF
strength safey our large
stockholders desire to thro" every
accounts of dpos1tors leave eaon
the bank has passed up to
viii stands as
needy people The Law
not require US to show such large surpnos ot our
is the largest surplus In Ben
knowing that we have
loans and careful management na
rates, but rather have been considered live oil" " "
stttutton.
for amounts the wealthy class of
who are very
Our time Indicate special
special 0srefu set OF
believe in other set Of bank tnan
in the following:
j. B. CLEMENTS, Capitalist and planter
VIM BOWEN, Empire Mercantile Co. and planter
M DICKSON, Planter and Naval Stores
BEN DREW, Capitalist
J. j. DoRM1NEY Pres Dorm1ney-Prtce Co., in
Naval planter
PRICE, shley-Pr1ce Lumber
W. T. PAUIK, Planter and Naval stores
JAMES, Planters Warehouse Loan Planter
E. F. cHANB1Ess Consolidated Grocery Co.
Attorney-at-1aw and planter
Pres
Active V1ce-Pres1dent
D Cashier
special effort to meet and direct
list OF stockholders
believe there is stronger bank In the Uni
and for the most rapid develop
territory
Our Capital is SOVVOVVO
Our is 0O'VOVOO
Our Deposits z|AOOVEz
Totad sOf ALL $55475222
Tt
~ rue ing him n opening Of an account
The Exchange National Bank,
Of FitZ9erald, Georgia. June.3O 1910
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-08-02

Miss Josie Bost. of Macon. is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. L. E. Ashurst.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-28

DISCUSSES, while an unknown number an
nually enter the United States as stokers
on steamships.
On the first roundup at Carbondale. Pa,
a man was arrested who arrived here last
June. He has been behaving himself since
his landing. has broken no laws in Penn
sylvania, and yet because he had served
time in Italy for number OF petty Of
lenses. he was technically classed as I'M
desirable and set aside for deportation.
1t is quite possible this man might
make a good American citizen. Some
time change of scene serves as
moral tonic. But the chances are against
continued good conduct. especially In
neighborhood like that OF the coal mines.
on the part of one who has formed a habit
of lawlessness in his own land. This case
suggests that possibly justice to the i'm
migrant may more surely be done by the
adoption of a system of probation. The
man who has been here for six months
without misconduct might be formally no
titled that he is under observation. and
that IL he continues to observe the laws
and conduct himself as good citizen for
a specified term he will be given a GER
tificate of standing which will relieve him
from further scrutiny, but upon the first
infraction of the law he will he sent back
to his own country.
The desire to rid the country OF a po-
tentially criminal class OF immigrants
springs from the frequency with which
crimes have been committed OF late
years by the so-called black hand or
CARNATIONS, Matchmaking gangs formed to
prey upon well-to-do Italians. If this
evil is not checked. It is only question
of time when it will spread until victims
are found in all grades of society and
among all nationalties. Crime breeds
rapidly upon success. There is today no
more serious problem before the police
and the courts of the country than the
detection and punishment of the organ
lied groups of extortioners and assassins
who contribute regularly to the news
columns a shocking tale OF crime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-28
Philadelphia's Problem.

PhiladelphiaS strike situation has as
sumed an aspect of unusual gravity in
the decision reached yesterday by the
Central Labor Union to order a sympa-
thetic strike of all the trades for next
Saturday if meanwhile the Rapid Transit
Company does not agree to submit TO ar
bitration the differences between the cor
poration and the former employees. If
the company does not yield upward of
100000 men of all trades will leave work
at the end of the week, throwing Phila-
delphia into state of Industrial chaos
never before known in that city.
The company has thus far taken the
position that there is nothing to arbitrate
between it and the men who have al
ready left it's service. There have been
no demands for increased wages or
shcrter hours or changed conditions of
employment. The walk-out was occasion
ed by the charge of the 'Amalgamated"
leaders that the company was discrimi-
mating against its members, diSmisSing
them to make room for members of an
other organization, recently formed for
me purpose of breaking the power of the
.'Amalgamated." The company answer
ed that the men were dismissed solely
for the good of the service, on such spe-
cifc charges as neglect OF duty and dis
honesty.
1t is difficult to see how such a ques-
ton can be arbitrated unless the company
is willing TO produce before referees the
books and reports bearing upon its re-
lations with individual employees to sus-
tain its contention that men have been
dismissed solely for cause. If the public
should be admitted to share in the
management OF the railway companies
in this manner the question arises wheth-
er the day of the independent traction
corporation has not ended. Submission
of such a case to arbitration virtually
means turning the detailed management
Of the lines over to the operatives. If a
few aggrieved employees can enlist the
sympathies of their organization leaders
they can under this system of adjust
ment hold the company to a strict ac-
counting for every disciplinary move.
The sympathetic strike is a tyrannical
method OF settling labor troubles. 1t is
unfair 10 the members of trades drawn
into a dispute in which they have no di-
rect and only a faint indirect interest
Tt arrays against corporations engaged
in the public service an army of work.
ers actuated by partisan and class preju-
dices. The unorganiZed users of the pub
lie utilities and consumers suffer the
chief penalty of delay and inconvenience
and danger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-28
Prison Reform.
From the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post.
Since the abuses Of the Texas peni-
Tertiary system have challenged the at
tention OF every citizen in the promotion
of the cause of humane civilization 1t is
well enough in seeking to remedy the
evils SO shamelessly apparent to gather
from the experience Of other states in
their efforts to improve the system,
which at best is necessarily a perplexing
problem. Several of the older states Of
the Union, however. have addressed
themselves to the problem OF the real
intent Of the law In consigning men to
prison-that is, reformatory punishment
In the interest of society-and have made
commendable progress In the direction of
establishing a humane system which ac-
complishes that purpose. Among west
ern states which have successfully ex-
perimented along that line Is Missouri
In connection with what has been &C
complished In that state by the adoption
OF a prison rule simple as 1t is effica-
cious. the Kansas City Star says: "One
Of the best Of the penitentiary reforms
promised by the Hadley administration
has been put into effect. This Is the
change in the convict garb from the
coarse striped clothing to uniform suits
of an unoffending color and Of ordinary
civilian cut In accordance with the
teachings of the best prison discipline
the stripes. denoting degradation, are to
be reserved as a mark of punishment
within the penitentiary."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-28
Italian Immigrants.

The difficulty attending the process of
keeping undesirable aliens out of the
United States is illustrated by the work
of inspectors of the Department of Com
merce and Labor who have been sent to
the anthracite coal regions of PENINSULA
MIA to hunt for foreigners with criminal
records who have slipped past the immi-
grant agents at the ports. 1t is we'll known
that numbers of Italians with unsavory
regulations at home are located in the
mining districts Every strike in that in
dustry is marked by the malicious activ-
aty OF these imported workmen, and the
crime records are largely made up of their
acts OF violence The law prohibits the
entrance into the United States of aliens
who have been convicted and imprisoned
for crime at home within three years, but
numbers of them slip past. some by chang
Ing names and others by the adoption of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-28
That "Good Southern Man" Found.

About that good southern man" for
first or second place on the democrats
presidential ticket. How would Col.
Gordon do for second place? He has
made his jack He awoke the other
morning and found himself famous. He
is now not only a national figure. but
a national influence. His words OF
patriotism uttered in the Senate are
echoed and re-echoed from every quarter.
Democrats. republicans and populists;
ex-Confederates and ex-Federals: white
and black; everybody says amen.
Although asking for an obliteration OF
Mason and Dixon's line. Col. Gordon
is still a southern man. North, south,
east and west would remain. What
he wants is the dropping of the old
line traced by slavery conditions. Slavery
having been abolished. Col. Gordon thinks
that all things relating to 1t or recall
ing it should follow it into limbo. One
country, and one national spirit in all
the states. A noble proposition and as
piration.
AS for first place. the east. the west
or the middle territory might supply
the man without impairing Col. Gordon's
availability. The Mississippian would an
swer very well with Mr.. Bryan, Gov
Harmon. Gov. Marshall or Judge Gay
nor. The west and the south, the mid
die section and the south. or the east
and the south, would meet the geograph-
fcal requirements usually recognized in
the selection OF presidential ticket.
The ticket Of Gaynor and Gordon would
roll smoothly from the tongue. And the
democracy would get the benefit OF al
literation's artful aid" It Is not to be
despised. The party has tried many
other aids without effect. Why not try
that? And then the platform might carry
matters still farther. Why not ''Gaynor,
Gordon and Get There for a cry? It
would be very pat. and fall in exactly
with the patter of the spellbinders. They
would glory in it.
While Col. Gordons age would he a
barrier as respects first place. 1t could
not be justly urged I'm the matter OF the
second. The vice presidency makes no
heavy draft on the physical powers. Col
Gordon would be easily equal to the
Office on that score as on others. He
duties of presiding officer in the Sem
ate, and likes them. The experience of
half an hour spread over four years
would suit MIN Wells ana should Mr..
Sherman become a senator, Vice Presi-
dent Gordon could, and would, return a
compliment. and call the New Yorker to
the chair.
Col Gordon has seen just enough of
national life to like IT, and national life
has seen enough Of Col. Gordon to like
him. Why permit him to retire perma-
nently to his plantation, or subject him
to the temptations Of the chautauqua
managers?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-28
Abuse of Mr.. BRYAN.

Mr. Bryan is fortunate in some of his
enemies Unable. or unwilling. to distfn-
guish between criticism and abuse. they
create sympathy for rather than opposi-
ton to him.
For an instance, the New York Times.
coupling the name of Mr.. Bryan with
that of DR.. Cook. speaks of the appear
nnce of the two men in Chile at the same
time as "a delicious coincidence" de-
scr1bes them as '1eaders of lost causes,
men out of suits with fortune and re-
krets that both are not to remain in
South America.
Now that is simply an ineXcusable af-
front. There is no sort of likeness be-
tween the two men. The one is clearly
ifaker-boId, and for the moment persua-
sive, but too bold. Discovered in
startling trick. he ran away. and has been
hiding. Flight in the circumstances was
confession. His best friends were Obliged
to abandon him. His name is byword
the world over, and when discovered in
Chile and asked for an interview he re-
ouested to be let alone. His reappear-
ance in America seems most unlikely.
The finger of Scorn and ridicule points
steadily at him.
Mr. BRYAN is no faker. Candid men
who differ radically with him on all public
questions concede his absolute sincerity.
He is bold and persuasive, but does not
run away. Although three times defeated
for the presidency, he has not abjured
single issue he championed in any one of
those contests. His latest deliverance-a
challenge of the saloon in politics-is
Startling when the democratic situation in
Ohio and Indiana is considered, but he
means what he says and is girded for bat
tie on that line.
DR.. Cook is a hunted man in Chile, and
angry when discovered. MIR. Bryan is
guest of honor, escorted by his country's
representatives, and partaking of the hos
pitality of the leading Chilean officials. DIR.
Cook, as suggested, will probably never
return home, or if he should will be an
object of derision. Mr.. Bryan will return
20 q large personal and political following
impatient to see him, and his reception
may be almost as enthusiastic as the one
that marked his return from the trip
around the world. And soon afterward
he will plunge into the contest for con-
troll of the next House. and be the top
yawyer on his side of the mill.
Mr.. Bryan's policies are legitimate sub
gects Of criticism. They have three times
been rejected by the country. and are
likely to meet that fate il again pre-
scented. But the man himself is clean and
sincere, and bracketing him with a no
torious faker is poor politics and per-
bonally outrageous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-28
Mr.. Taft as Traveller.

The statisticians have been keeping tab
on the President. His miles of travel and
the number of his speeches have been
computed. He holds the record for a
twelvemonth. Well, we have a great
empire, and there are many important
subjects for discussion. The President
talks well, and the people note all he
says. He could not be better employed
than by meeting as many of the people
as possible at their homes and talking to
them face to face about their interests
and asking for their support in what they
have committed to his hands. May his
health continue and his tongue keep in
good working order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-28
Special attention i

Women's Fine Batiste Shirt Waists
yoke in front Of Swiss embroidery, Ger
man valenciennes insertion. beading and
baby Irish motif; front finished below
yoke with fine tucks, German valen-
ciennes beading: long sleeves trimmed
with German valenciennes bead
ing, and six-inch cuffs to match.
Women's India LinOn Shirt Waists,
front cluster tucked. with Swiss embroid-
cry panel and fastened on side under lace
trimmed plated ruff1e; back and collar
cluster tucked: tucked long sleeves, with
deep cuffs tucked and lace trim
mcQ. fLdCH fD'IJ
Women's Batiste Shirt Waists. front Of
fine tucks, Swiss embroidery. motifs and
German valenciennes insertion: back Of
clusters of tucks and German valen-
ciennes insertion; collar of German val
enciennes insertion and fine tucks; long
sleeves tucked and finished with deep
cuffs. tucked and trimmed with German
valenciennes insertion; fasten in a.
back Each. Observation-Disclosures. 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-28
Infants
Short Dresses.

HmNFANTS' Nainsook Short
Dresses, in several styles ;
some with square yoke of
tucks and insertion; others
with round yoke of tucks and
featherstitchlng; deep hem on
skirt; neck and sleeves finished
with hemstitched rufnes.
soc each.
Infants Nainsook Short Dress
es, in several styles; some with
square yoke of lace, tucks and
featherstitching; others with yoke
of cluster tucks and insertion
deep hem on skirt; neck and
sleeves finished with lace.
75c each.
Infants Short Dresses, some
of lawn with box plaits between
rows of hemstitching; skirt trim
med with hemstitched hem; neck
finished with collar; others of
nainsook, with yoke formed of
tucks and insertion, and deep
hem on skirt; neck and sleeves
finished with lace.
$I.25 each.
Third door. Eleventh st.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-28
Another Woman's Right.
From the New York World.

Through the courtesy of Collector Loeb,
women have been lifted another round in
the slow climb to the emancipation OF the
sex. While our fashionable restaurants
still frown upon the lady who lights q
cigarette within their giddy precincts. at
the custom house dead-level Of equality
Is to be the future rule. Without regard
to habit. etiquette or theories Of morality.
henceforth women are to be granted the
same privilege as men to bring In duty
free limited supply cigarettes or cigars
for personal use. Nothing is said about
pipes and smoking tobacco. but that may
be due to oversight and not discrimina-
ton. Collector Loebs ruling may lead to
unforeseen results. The idea of getting
anything free past the customs, officers
may prove so alluring that some young
ladies may be tempted into practices un-
thought of before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-28
Stamping Out the Dens of Vice.


mot only are you to stop the sale Of
intoxicants in resorts which have no city
license. but under no circumstances are
you to permit the sale of liquors i'm sa-
looms. concert halls or disorderly cafes
where women are permitted to congre-
gate" Such are the orders Of Chief
Steward to the inspectors, and their Wig
orous enforcement will rid the city Of
many plague spot. We have spoken
already of the value OF the campaign
that is to be directed against the resorts
that sell liquor without license. The
saloons, concert halls and disorderly
cafes referred to are now arraigned with
them. and their influence Is Of the most
demoralizing kind. They are the abOdes
Of vice. are part of the vicious system
to which the resorts belong, and exercise
a most malign influence, especially over
the young. They advertise themselves
as amusement places. attract their vic
Tins by the hundred and act as schools
Of indecency.