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The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-01-30
JUCGE SPEER
CALLED CAR
BY OSBORNE

Savannah, Ga. Jan. 29-W. w.
Osborne, a we'll known attorney
of this city, was the first witness
in the Speer investigation today.
He declared Judge Speer was a
car. He said Speer was a good
lawyer, literary man, but unfair
and has colossal conceit. Accord
ing to Osborne Judge Speer loves
the spotlight and notoriety. "The
Department of Justice should take
steps to relieve the situation"
said be.
Osborne also charged that when
there were two electric traction
companies in Savannah and rate
war started Judge Speer sided
with one and issued a bankruptcy
order against the other. In less
than an hour, he charged, the af-
fairs of the opposition company
the books, all papers and other in
formation, were in the hands of
the competing company.
Osborne declared he believed
Judge Speer was officially corrupt.
Judge Speer's attorneys did
not cross examine Osborne.
Judge Speer was not present.
Counsel for Speer stated the
judge was at work on a statement
to be presented to the committee
after adjournment, ]. L. Craw-
ley, an attorney of Wayeross,
testified today, corroborating
testimony given by Osborne and
Lawrence.
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To The Advertiser

Perhaps some ofyour news
paper advertising has not
been as resultful as you had
expected.
Do you ever consider whyY
Outlines an advertisement
brings results for which the
ad gets no credit.
But the newspaper can not
do it all. Did it ever occur
to you that some times your
ads do not appeal to the pub
lie? AS a rule, you read in
teresting things. And there
you are. Put some lite in
your ads.
We want youto get results
and when possible, we will
always be glad to assist or
advise you In your advertis-
ing campaigns.
Call S2S anytime and our
ad man will call.
The Leader Enterprise.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-01-30
Announcement
For Tax Receiver

I hereby announce my candidacy
for Tax Receiver of Ben Hill coun-
ty subject to the white primary,
date to be ordered later. will APP
preciate the support of every yo-
ter, and will be glad to meet them
and oatIire my views on this i'm
portant matter. My promises will
be few, but if elected, l promise
to serve every voter alike, with
special favors to none.
Respectfully,
George DorminY.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-01-30
Delegation From 100 Gen.
tiers Gather at Macon For
First Semi-Annual
Meeting.

Macon, JAM 29-Delegations
of ernest, enthusiastic men from
more than 100 towns and cities
gathered here today, at the call
of the State Chamber of Com
merce, for the purpose of dis
cussing ways and means of de-
veloping and exploiting the re-
sources and products of Georgia's
fields and factories. 81
The convention, the first an
nual meeting of the organization
since its formation, was formal
ly opened at the City Auditori-
UNI this morning, with an at
tendance surprisely large sAt-
anita, Decatur, Kirkwood, Au-
gusta, Columbus and Athens
sent delegations of considerable
size, and so did a number of the
middle Georgia towns which are
in easy reach of Macon by auto
mobile. Moultrie and Albany
were especially we'll represented
the former having a band here.
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Confederate Veterans

Ali members of Ben Hill county
Camp are urged to attend . meet
ing of the Camp Saturday Feb. 9TH
at the Office of w. B. Moore. Ar
engagements are to be made for
delegations to the Reunion at
Jacksonville, Fla.
M. Luke, Com.
]. H. Hicks, Sec.
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Card of Tho nks

We wish to extend our thanks
to those who so kindly assisted us
during the ILLNESS and death of our
beloved brother and son, Theodore
Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Chester
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Taylor
Miss Ruby Taylor
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Jurors For The April Term
Ben Hill Superior Court.
GRAND JURY
L. L. Mercer J. N. Ennis NJ NJ Stevens
j. E. Dykes L. T. Stone j. A. Parrott
6. P. Mingledorf Thomas Marlborough s. S, Young, ST.
Will Adams j. A. Tripp Sr. W. R McLendon
G. c. Ball W. B. White VR Davis
A. Swanson G. A Fetwel L. N. Chasteen
W. o. Brett s. 7. Gibbs w. A. Taylor
John T. Mathis J. Patterson G w. Garrison
e. Z. Parker VIM Roberts E. I. James
j. G. Holder John H. Mays.
TRAVERSE JURY. 1st WEEK
R L. Powell E. L. Weldon F. A. Jackson
A. S. Dorminy is Smith . T. j Baggett
l. +. Tyler L. I. Young G. A. Kent
O. c. Mink H. A. Pickard Az Movers
u. W. Rogers A. S. Huling G. H. Conay
II A burkhart Z. NJ oimons H. c. Mcdaniel
F. NJ Malcum j. c. Stokes c. H Owens
A. W. Da Lee WILDER Alexander w. R. Luke
" A. Mckay R. B. Fletcher J. NJ. Reeves
W. R. Dykes w. E. Taylor L. W. White
D. W. Hopson D. " Williamson W. C. Wikerson
WIN. Gillespie j. Clements j.. NJ Nixon, Jr.
SECOND WEEK
Wiley Mcmillan Nose Mccall j. B. Russell
W. O. Wooten w. H. Dykes C. M. Anderson
c. S. Isler Larkin Cot II A owans
H. H. ba"on geo. Drexler W. H. Hendricks
H. E. Ashley w. H. Ellington j. o. McCulen
w. ~ M&on 0r' D. T. brown Geo. F. Kircher
Robt Cooper G. A. Gibbs Homer Adams
AA0nA0l TAudn1S
j. A. Bond E. E. Robtzsch T. r. Tnka G.
Z. Davis j. o. Prescott J. T. Walker
r. g. Arnold E. D. Paulk Panl MorrOon
W. V. Evans H. L. Stone d. B. Broadhurst
c. G. SandIn W. j. Stone G. w Howe
W. o. Luke e. NJ Young J. T, Dorm,nov
H. L. Griffin S. B. Billiard
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NAV Nesd II in a Hurry.

Wall street CONTINUES to ship gold
to Europe. Has President Wilson the
plans and specifications of his Haman
gibbet?
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The Flower Of the Day.
To this day the Italians call the or
ange portugalli because they had this
fruit first from Portugal.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-01-30

Scientist says that love making
is to become obsolete. This is no
news to Pittsburgh.
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seourne Cure Revived,

After having been practically aban'
doned, the scheme Of treating tubercu-
losis by compression of the lungs with
nitrogen gas has been revived.
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No Escape.

Why travel in search OF health?
You cannot escape from your bwain or
your stomach.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-01-30

Don't overlook the importance of
the motto: A full days work for a full
days pay.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-01-30

Dallas reporter was held up and
robbed Of two bits. How dared he
have so much money!
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-01-30

Where They Lacked.
Poet-"What do you think Of my
verses?" Critic-"Too many feet and
too little head"
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The TOrrenS Way

Smple-Economical-
Easy to Transfer.
Protected Against Litigation
Guaranteed by the State
Safe Land Titles Beget Cheap Rate of Interest
The Government Will Demand Land Securities for Rural
Credits.
Land Titles Must Be Secure
No Better Way Than the Torrens Way
Georgia Must Adopt the Torrens System.
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Oi9contentment,

Discontentment.
The poor are discontinued because
they can't get all they want; the rich
because they can't want all they get.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
Two Great Inventions.
(Boston Globe.)


So many wonderful inventions anu
discoveries have been made wlthiii
the last quarter of a century IT is not
remarkable that We accept the latest
maryels of science with caimness
that is almost akin to apathy.
over in London an inventor has per-
feeted flying train which goes
through the air at tremendous speed
and vet does not have wings or proper
Ter such as an aeroplane. 1t is kept up
in the air by machinery which actualiy
defies the law of gravity. England Is
really getting worked up over the loe2'
and when England gets worked UP you
NAV be sure that something IS nap
pening.
Another English inventor is perfect
ing a machine which will do Tor me
ewes what the telephone does for the
ears. Seeing by wire is coming, ana
the good old days when one could nave
a comfortable telephone chat without
any worries about appearance are go
ing beyond recall.
The greatest problem, however, is
what to call this new invention OF
seeing by wire. Telephone is all right
as a word for what it means, but we
already have a use for the word tel
escope." AS seeing is often believing
we might invent the word telis-the
dope"
This would mean an origin in slang
but more than a quarter OF the WORDS
in the English language are or no pet
ter origin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
The Marvellous American Tongue.
New York Tribune. }

New York Trfbune.)
If there were no other defence for
the fearful and wonderful words which
Americans invent, the wrath which
they inspire in the London Saturday
Review would do amply. That
crotchety periodical is just now pom
dering such slangy authorizations as
phone" wire" taxi" and bus" 1t
expresses little hope for a purist
propaganda against these American
isms, and goes on to this interesting
lament:
Meanwhile. we are coming in this
country America nisms' on a scale lit
tie dreamt of by many people. Some
of these forms and phrases are more
shocking than the most barbarous eff
fort of the guessing, negotiating
American. The East End of London
appears TO be one of the chief hot
beds of this prurient, perverted Ian
guage.
We like the Saturdays" generic
use of "Americanisms' to cover pure
ly British barbarities. But We can
not go the whole way with the ad-
jectives .prurient" and perverted
Even its own example of East End
slang we suspect. o put ou 3"
pipe" in the sense of ito smoke
pipe" is the one it gives, with the COM
ment that it is startling and brutal
in its disregard of the meaning ana
value of words" But may not the new
phrase come from the opium layout,
where cooking a pipeful' is stock
speech?
AT any rate, we take very little stock
in the idea that slang is either
prurient, perverted or heinously DIS
regardful of the meaning of words. II
is glib raw, immederate, without re-
spect or reverence; but it rolls forth
in obedience TO an instant need OF man
and is the best proof of lively. grow
ing race that we know.
One column of baseball prose wouia
probably send the Saturday Review
into an insane asylum. Therefore, at
the risk of some dislocation of the
British Empire, we present Tor
the Saturdays" consideration the
"Hoofeds." Startling and brutal!
Not at all. Merely a further con-
iugation of "Chifed" and "Brookfed,
and designed to describe briefly the
Indianapolis baseball team of the FED
eral Leag que. 1t is only another small
late item-from Chicago-in that
never ending movie, the American
M
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
Every DAY 1t Is Palmer.

Senator John Sharp Williams of
Mississippi, who was the Democratic
leader in the House before Under
wood, and who berated his colleagues
in the Senate Wednesday for quar-
reling over the selection of reserve
cities and other matters, declared the
party was beginning to do just what
it could be counted upon doing every
time.
THE poor, dear, old, foolish Demo-
cratic party" said the Democratic
senator, lis going through the same
game that she can be generally trust
ed to go through soon after she gets
into power.
THAT is the Democratic party, true
enough" he continued. That is it's
history. That is what led Speaker
Tom Reed to say in 1894 and 1895:
You can't last long because you are
not accustomed to governing any
body or anything; you cannot govern
the country because you cannot gov
ern yourselves. You are incompe-
tent."-From the Washington Post of
April s.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
Spoilers, New Type.
Bangor News)

(Bangor NeWS)
In every efficient and progressive es-
tablishment the merit system is ap-
nlied as a matter OF course. That Is,
men are appointed and promoted sole
ly on the basis of fitness, ability ana
successful performance OF their func-
lions. 1t follows that some method OF
discovering merit has to be adopted.
Not all capable and efficient employees
high or low, are in position TO pro-
claim their merit, or to make the ST.
nation proclaim it for them
The Canadian Pacific Railroad. 1t is
reported. has created a new type o<
"spotter" for the purpose of discover
ing modest and obscure merit ana IN
Surfing it reward and recognition. This
spotter travels like the ordinary varie-
Nv of that species, but instead OF look
ing for lapses, failures, errors, he looks
for evidences of zeal, industry,
LOYALTY, method, system, progressive
ness. The men reported by him are
placed in the line of promotion.
Many industries and establishments
would be benefited by this sort of spot
ting. 1t is necessary to punish viola
ton Of rules or dishonesty, but it is
also necessary to encourage good
work, TO reward particular efficiency,
to cooperate with nature in selecting
the fit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
The Solution Not Yet.

The other day the L. S. Department
of Labor took up the functions of a
free employment agency when it set
machinery in motion to supply Okla
homa with from 1900 to $4,000
harvest hands, whom State Labor
Commissioner Daugherty claims will
be necessary. Mr.. Daugherty, 1t
seems, had appealed for aid to Secre-
tary Wilson. and the latter, after a
conference with the postmaster gen.
eral, arranged to have notices posted
in 10000 first, second and third-class
post offices containing Oklahoma,s ap.
peal for harvest hands. The work
will last from four to six months 90
and the pay will be from 81 to $3.50 a
day and more, says a Washington dis
patch. Railroad expenses, of course,
will not be paid The labor secretary,
Furthermore, has instructed labor
commissioners in other States TO ,util-
ize the Federal department to find en-
ployment for laborers.
Men who have been out of work
some time and are most needy of
wages. have not the necessary funds
for expenses to Oklahoma. And, be-
sides, the returns from $3.50 day for
a few weeks barely pays the passage
to and from Oklahoma from the CEN
tiers of unemployed-wha about their
families?
The only real solution of the
problem is wholesale reduction of
population in the cities and cor
responding increase in the agricultural
districts
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
Monday, June 8, 1914.
Next to acquiring good
friends, the best acquisition is
that of good books.-C. c.
Cotton.
EnoIand's Increased Exports.

While American exports of cotton
clothes under the new tariff show
decline for the first three months of
1914 amounting to over s1,3O0,o00, the
cotton mills of the United Kingdom
largely increased their export trade.
Piece goods shipped from British mills
to foreign customers increased S.
600. 900 yards over the same months
last year This is an increase OF
$4,000, 600 in the value of cotton
goods exported from British mills in
the first three months of 1914. The
United States, during these three
months, has increased its purchases
of English made piece goods by near
ly 100000. Our purchases of cotton
cloths from France. Germany, and
Switzerland are three times as large
as they were a year ago. In Janu-
airy, February and March of last year
we imported cotton cloths to the value
of $2,407, 600; for the same months
this year the importation of cotton
cloths has increased to s4,539,000.
The following table shows the in
crease in imports of cotton cloths by
countries for the first three months of
1914.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
What Is Your Favorite ~. b.?

A blushing correspondent from up
river writes to the Kennebec Journal
to inquire: What do the initials j. B.
stand for?" And we answer: Dear
B. c., the Letters referred to some
times stand for John Bull (meaning
Great Britain) but at this season of
the year may safely be set down as
for June bride However, our first
offhand thought was just busted be-
cause of our financial condition.
There are, also. several other things,
including June bugs and jag bind
ers'"
From the scent of the paper and the
fine. copperplate script in the epistle
signed with initials. we judge that
June bride" is just about a fit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08

been worked" the big and bright
fact remains that under it conditions
and moral stamina have improved,
while under rum trust domination, to
remain in a semi paralytic or wholly
''ossified' condition is just as respecta-
BILE as ever it was. And that is what
grieves the Sentinel--that Maine peo-
pie are shocked and disguised when
men make swine of themselves while
exercising their personal liberty"
under the tutelage of such as the
Sentinel.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
Under the Democratic Tariff.
(Truth.)

Belgian girder rails are being I'M
ported at Galveston for use on Texas
street railways. Belgian bars and
British pig iron are being unloaded
at Seattle and San Francisco and are
taking business away from American
mills and forcing our steel and iron
workers into idleness.
The concerns in Philadelphia which
make cast iron pipe used to use pig
iron from Alabama and Tennessee.
Under the Wilson Underwood tariff
they are now buying their pig iron in
Canada
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
S95S, m7 81, $50, &5
"Mr. BurIeish on Prohibition"

The Waterville Sentinel quotes
James B. Morrow as voicing U. S.
Senator Edwin c.. Burleigh on prohi-
bition, and then Attempts to twist the
facts into liquor traffic logic to please
the element TO which it appeals. Sen
ator Burleigh is quoted as follows:
We have had prohibition in Maine
for many years. There is drinking in
the State, but it is done in secret.
Liquor is hard to obtain. and that is
morally helpful. With US, drinking is
not respectable-it is clandestine
violation of the law and is done in al
Ieys, cellars and back rooms.
In my youth men got drunk, were
seen on the street and there was no
sense of shock to the community. Ships
freishted with rum were unIoaded at
our docks. There are no such ships
nowadays, and an intoxicated man, if
seen in public, brings disgrace on him
self to degree unknown in the past
Prohibition educates because it
asitates and men divide, the good and
successful men on one side and the
least desirable men and weddings on
the other side. This division becomes
more or less permanent on all CUES
tions affecting community's gen.
eral welfare. And that is another ad :
vantage.
With US prohibition has been prac-
tieabIe. Very little liquor is consumed
in Maine. IF prohibition is workable
in one State it can be made workable
in other States. Moreover, am IN
favor Of letting women vote at all cleo
tons, municipal and national.
The Sentinel in its comment on the
above, forgets or ignores the one
great, joyful fact that under prohibit
ton and the disgrace that clings to
outlawry, conditions have constantly
grown better. Drunkenness is no long,
er a laughing matter; it excites pity
and contempt, and the moral fibre OF
communities is strengthened. The
sneaking traffic and the shamed, hid.
den patronage have led to far bette,
conditions today than yesterday; II
will produce better conditions tomor.
row than exist today. That is the rea
value Of prohibition which such as the
Sentinel struggle constantly to cover
up.
Some men persist that drinking Is
respectable, because it is an evidenc,
OF personal liberty; that man ha,
perfectly respectable" right to roll
himself of intelligence for his owl
pleasure" regardless of the rights o
others, their outraged modesty an,
sense Of natural decency, and the dis
gust and fear inspired by the infictiol
Of an abnormal person upon a com
munity. The Sentinel seems to appea
to the personal liberty" class Of men
At least 1t never misses an opportuni
ty To sheer at a Christian presentation
Of moral facts, OF TO encourage out
lawry In everything where dollars o
the liquor interests are concerned.
However much prohibition may hay'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
Editorial Comment.
Democratic Prosperity.
Oath Times.)

(Bath TimeS.)
The Democratic freeing of the
duties on ship machinery made
abroad and sent into the country by
foreign machine works by the steam
er load makes it more of struggle
for American manufacturers to COM
pete with them and their lower scale
of wages. This affects Bath in sew
eral ways, as well as the rest of New
England.
The schooner City of Augusta,
Capt. Dunton, is tied up at Reeds
wharf at the South End waiting for
charter. She brought cargo OF
coal to Gardiner three weeks ago and
up to the present time has not been
offered a living rate charter. This is
an unheard of condition in merchant
marine for vessels in the class of
the City of Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
BOWDOIN.

Joe Byron was taken to the hospital
at Lewiston Tuesday and was operat-
ed upon for appendicitis. He is as
comfortable as could be expected.
Charles Arno is quite i'll, being con-
fined to the bed.
Mr.. Ripley of Pejepscot was in this
vicinity Wednesday.
Joseph Schnerr has bought a farm
in New Hampshire and is about to
move there.
Timothy Small is the proud owner
of fine young colt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
His Recollectio

marine was testifying about the ex-
plosion of a gun on war vessei-an ex-
plosion which had sent him TO the hos
pitai for some months.
please give your version of the ex-
plosion" he was asked
WELL" he said, II was standing beside
the gun, there was an awful racket, and
the doctor said: Sit up and take this. =
Ladies' Home Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
Editors Letter Box.

The publication Of a letter in this
department is not to be taken as
an endorsement of its view by the
Kennebec Journal. This column
is maintained for the discussion OF
matters of general public interest
when kept within bounds OF rea.
son and not OF a libelous OF abu-
sive nature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08

The Philadelphia North American
says: Still, it is conceivable that
there are men in this country who are
willing to become railroad presidents,
right under the guns of the Interstate
Commerce Commission" And the
Boston Transcript adds: Where
Angels Fear to Tread" AS though
anybody ever heard of a railroad
president being accused of angelic
tendencies!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08

Mr.. Plowman of London, who has
arrived here from Mexico, homeward
plods, so to speak, his weary way
Exchange.
Beg pardon! But wouldn't you bet
ter have said: Mr. Plowman of Lon
don, who has arrived here from
Mexico, his weary way, plods home
ward, so to speak?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
A Serious Proposition.

las a Boston manager. you ought to
like this. This is a comedy of life in
Boston
Sir, you are presumptuousi How can
there be any comedy about life in Bos-
ton?''-Judge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
Railroad Amenities.

Passenger-That last station was my
destination sah Why, sab, didn't you
stop thar?
Condctor-We don't stop there any
more. The engineers mad at the station
administered Heart Review.