The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
ORGANIZING LAND OWNERS
ASSOCIATION

From the cambridge SearcIllight:
The owners OF approximately 100
coo acres OF choice lands in Decatur
and adjoining counties have joined the
Georgia Land Owners Association OF
which Alex X. Seasons. large land
| owner OF Cogdell, Ga, is president,
and which includes on its Board OF
| Control the names Of L. Ball, of Balm
bridge, and J. s. Shingler, of Ash
burn.
Before the association will call up
on the members for any portion OF
the small membership fee of one cent
an acre per year for the period OF
three years of its proposed activities,
it is understood that the membership
shall reach a minimum of 100000
acres which gives the board of con-
trol $4,000 year, should such sum
be required, to carry out the purpose
of the landowners. The progressive
| landowners of this section who have
already joined are enthusiastic as to
the possibilities of the Association and
individually, as we'll as through a
special committee are endeavoring to
increase the membership of Southwest
Georgia to at feast 100000 acres.
Since one of their purposes is to
seek cooperation from the state and
federal government in the solution OF
the problems which at present stand
between them and the highest possible
! development OF this part Of the state.
| they desire on their list Of member
ship, the name of every progressive
| farmer and business man who owns
| land, whether in large or small acre
age and they are appealing to such
land owners to call upon any mem
Der of the committee mentioned here
matter, or upon Mr.. S. T. Carter, pres
dent of the cambridge Chamber of
Commerce and leave their names.
The movement in this section was
started in cambridge on March 18th
at conference of about fifteen land
owners in the City Hall, at which Mr.
Carter presided to meet Mr.. Seasons,
who explained the purposes of the as
ISOLATION
| Mr.. Seasons said that the Asso-
citation was born at meeting of land
owners representing more than 1,0O0,-
600 acres of land, held in Waycross
last fall, and that the Board of Con-
troll appointed at that time received
its instructions by resolutions, en-
dorsing statewide tick eradication, the
Torrens system of land titles and a
nationwide campaign OF truthful pub
licity for the purpose of attracting
live stock farmers from other states
to the possibilities of the livestock in
dustry in this section.
| Mr.. Seasons displayed some sam
Piles of leather made from the hide of
a tick-infested COW and read letter
from the Bona Tllen Tanning Co., at
Buford, Ga, showing that the annual
loss from hides alone would be suffi-
Gent to pay the small assessment to
the Land Owners Association and in
addition pay the whole cost of tick
eradication not to mention the loss of
from S. to $40 per head for the beef,
which is the present toll demanded by
the cattle tick.
Referring to written endorsement
OF the land owners movement from
Hon. ]. J. Brown, Commissioner of
Agriculture in Georgia. Mr.. Seasons
declared that SO long as a single red
spot on the government map, mark
ing tick infested county in the state
of Georgia, every land owner in the
state would suffer from the reputation
that Georgia is still a tick infested
state and that every citizen should be
interested in statewide tick eradica-
ton.
He said that Dr. w. NJ. Mcclellan,
IN charge of tick eradication work for
the U. S. Government at Atlanta was
his authority for saying that Georgia
could be made tick free in three years
with sufficient support, whereas under
present conditions the work could not
be accomplished in five.
He also dwelt upon the advantages
to every land owner, whether he had
land to sell or not, of securing legis-
lation that would cure land titles in
the state, and of the advantages to
them OF putting in a little of their
own money to help solve their own
peculiar problems, instead of leaving
them to the other fellow.
He pointed out that the land own
erS were about fha o,,i1y otoee 49,