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The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
WEEKLY WAR
NEWS DIGEST
Stories of Activities and Conditions,
Throughout the United States and
on the Battle Fronts, from
Washington, D. G.
Victory Bread" Must
Contain Not More Than
80 Per Cent Wheat Flour.

Any baker will be permitted to ad-
vertise his product as victory" bread
if it contains not more than 80 per
cent wheat -four. No stipulation is
made as to what ingredients shall
compose the other 20 per cent, so
long as they are selected from the
list recommended by the Food Ad-
ninistration, which includes corn
-four and corn meal, barley -four, oat
meal, rice and rice -four, potato -four,
etc.
Until March rye -four may be
used in making victory bread. After
that date it will be placed on the
same basis as wheat, as rye -four is
now being shipped to the allies.
Bread made of graham or whole
wheat -four may be termed victory
bread.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
HE WAS SOME HOOvERIzER

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 14.-At least one
man in the United States has gone
so far in conserving food that he got
himself into trouble not anticipated
by the efficient and able Mr.. Herbert
Hoover.
"Hooverizing wasn't circumstance
to his idea of food conservation" de-
clares Mrs. Reba Sorrels, his wife.
He didn't stop at meatless days and
wheatless days. He didn't bring
home any food at ALL"
Wherefore, and on which ground.
Mrs. Sorrels asks the court to give
her divorce and remove her disabili-
ties.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
AUTO THIEVES EMPLOY
ABLE ATTORNEYS

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 14.-The first
prosecution in Solicitor John A. Boy.
kin's crusade against an alleged SYN
dictate of automobile thieves was
started yesterday when Al Swords
employee of a local vulcanizing plant
was placed on trial.
To the surprise of the solicitor,
Swords turned up three of the ablest
criminal lawyers in the city to de-
fend him, and it is understood they
have been retained to defend all of
the defendants indicted by the grand
jury in the solicitors effort to break
up the syndicate.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
Miller's Antiseptic Oil, Known as
Snake Oil
Will Positively Relieve Pain in Three
Minutes.

Try right now for Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, Lumbago, sore, stiff and
swollen joints, pains in the head,
back and limbs, corns, bunions, etc.
After one application pain disappears
as if by magic.
A new remedy used internally and
externally for Coughs, Colds, Group,
Sore Throat, Diphtheria and Tonsi-
litis.
This oil is conceded to be the most
penetrating remedy known. Its
prompt and immediate effect in re.
lieving pain is due to the fact that
it penetrates to the affected parts a,
once. AS an illustration, pour ter
drops on the thickest piece of sole
leather and it will penetrate this sub
stance through and through in three
minutes.
Accept no substitutes. This grea
oil is golden red color only. Every
bottle guaranteed; SOC, 60c and $1.O(
ia bottle, or money refunded at Den
mark Drug Co., Fitzgerald, Georgia
ev is. dedM4
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
PLANS FORMULATED FOR
SALE OF WAR STAMPS

Atlanta, Ga, February 14-Plans
for promoting the sale of War Saw
ings Stamps were formulated in At
lanta yesterday by the executive
council of the Country Bankers AS
ISOLATION of Georgia, which has 800
members throughout the state.
The association will hold its an
nual meeting in Atlanta on April Is
and 26. In addition to promoting
thrift and war savings, the associa-
ton will also help win the war by
promoting the movement for increas-
ed food crops.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
TREASURY SCRIPT FOR 1918
TEACHERS SALARIES
SOLD AT STA

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 14.-Five Allan
ia banks on yesterday bought the
state of Georgia's 1918 issue of ST.
100000 worth of treasury scrip for
school teachers salaries at rate of
5.74 per cent discount. In previous
years the state has sold its script for
3 to IL per cent. Governor Dorsey
attributes the high rate of discount
this time to the state of the money
market.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
FORCED TO WEIGH ICE.
DEALERS RAISE PRICE

Savannah, Feb. 14.-Relations be-
tween the ice manufacturers and the
consumers in Savannah are acute.
The city authorities have just order
ed the enforcement of the old law re-
curing the dealers to carry scales on
the wagons and weigh the ice before
the purchaser. The dealers imme-
diately "histed" the prices to 90 and
IS cents per hundred pounds. Con-
sumers are kicking vigorously.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
ROUNDING UP MooNsH1NERs

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 14.-Revenue
Collector A. o. Blaiock's branch
Walkers" as Uncle Henry Branham
facetiously calls the revenue officers
who trail moonshine distillers, have
just made raid on ten stills in
counties north of Atlanta, and their
crusade is not more than we'll started.
Orders have recently come down
from Washington to put the moon
sinners out of business owing to the
fact that white lightning is being sold
to soldiers at training camps in guam
titles entirely too liberal to suit the
military authorities.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
LET POTATOES FREEZE:
FOOD LICENSE REVOKED

Washington, Feb. 13.-Allowing
carloads of potatoes to freeze in the
railroad yards has led to the revoca-
ton of the food license of the Weiner
Fruit and Produce Company, of Fl.
Wayne, Ind, the food administration
announced today. The concern has
been ordered to close its business by
February e.
Refusal of consignment of pota-
toes, which ultimately were allowed
to rot, resulted in the refusal of IL
cense to J. L. Engler, of San Anto-
MO, Tex.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
COUNTY SEEKS TO BAR
BIG TRUCK FROM ROADS

cambridge, Feb. l4-Judge w. M.
Harrell refused the County Commits
sioners of Decatur county perma-
nent injunction against J. H. Gary,
sawmill operator here. Mr.. Gary
hauls timber to his mill with large
two-ton truck, and the Commission
ers contend that this truck is too
large and is very destructive to the
roads.
There is no legal precedent for the
action, but Judge Harrell refused the
injunction on the grounds that we are
living in a progressive age and that
problems of keeping up the roads will
have to be met in some other way.
The case will be carried to the SUI
preme court.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
NEARLY HALF THE NUMBER
OF SOLDIERS AT CAMP
GORDON CATHOLICS

That over 40 per cent of the sol.
diers at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, are
Roman Catholics is the statement
made as the result of the religious
census taken by the officers in charge
of the personal survey of the Eighty,
second Division. The total num-,
of Catholics is put at 14,159. Tie
figures for all the leading denomina-
tons represented at the camp fol-
low:
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
Religion

Jewish Reformed church, Isl; United
Brethren, las; Reformists, 1903; Evan
gelical, ga; Angelicians, 70; First Re-
formists, 90; Jewish Orthodox, 66;
Unitarian, 4S; Primitive Baptist, S.;
Agnostic, So; Christian Scientists, 81;
Dutch Reform, 81; Adventists, "a,
Church of God, 10; Universalist, Is;
Dunkard, IL; Holy Roller, Is; Mo-
hammedan, IL; Reformed Protest, 10,
Armenian National Church, TO-
Moultrie Observer.
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NOTICE

Cases will be made against all auto
drivers failing to observe city regu-
lations. All machines must be equip
ped with an efficient muffler and speed
limit must not be exceeded.
c. F. DIXON,
tt Chief of Police.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
NOTICE

All persons, firms and corporations
that have not paid their occupation
taxes are hereby requested to call
at the City Hall and pay same. as
they are now past due.
c. F. DIXON,
tt Chief of Police.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15
Shippers of Food and Feeds
Should Apply for Cars
Through Railroad Agents.

Director General McAdoo and the
Food Administration have arranged
to cooperate in the distribution of
cars for the food and feed trades.
The grain and grain product and
feed shippers are to first apply for
cars in the usual way through rail-
road agents; in case of not being
furnished within a reasonable time
they may then apply to the zone rep
resentatives of the Food Administra-
ton grain division at the various ter
nimals, stating the cars required,
point at which it is desired cars
should be sent, character of the pro-
duct to be loaded, the destination of
shipment, and the consignee.
The shippers of sugar, beans, rice,
vegetables, live stock, meat, and per-
ishables generally, should first apply
through railroad agents; in case not
being furnished within reasonable
time they may apply directly to the
Food Administration in Washington,
stating the cars required, the point to
be sent, the character of the COM
modify to be loaded, the consignee,
and destination.
Through volunteers alone many
colleges have already given to the
Army and Navy so per cent of their
students.
Frequent reports come from Hol-
land of the death of stall-fed animals
attributed to spoiled or otherwise un-
wholesome food. In many cases the
animals had been given acorns, chest
nuts, and beachnuts, shelled and I'M
shelled. 1t is said horses have died
within "a hours after having eaten
raw and unshelled beachnuts in con-
siderable quantities.
Daelers in feedstuffs are again
warned that after February IS they
will not be permitted to trade with
out license from the Food Admins
tration. Every manufacturer, import.
err, dealer, handler, or storer of about
so of the principal ingredients used
in making commercial mixed feeds i:
included in the requirements. Thi:
covers baled hay, shell and ear corn
No individual licenses are now re
CURED by the War Trade Board fo
the expectation of horses to Canad;
and Newfoundland. Shippers will b,
given notice through the press i
there should be change in this rul
ing in the future.
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wc:..::,. Remembering.

The world would be both better and
brighter If we would dwell on the duty
Of happiness as well as the happiness
of duty.-Sir John Lubbock.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-02-15

Through volunteers alone many
colleges have already given to the
Army and Navy so per cent of their
students.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-22

condemnation of Hunism, yet do we
hold out our hands to accept his
works, what will he think and with
what measure shall he estimate the
sincerity of our expressions of re-
pugnance and horror of what he has
done since the sun arose this morn
ing? What mitigation can we claim
| in the thought that America was not
yet overseas when these trinkets
were fashioned? Even while the
gaudy paint was yet fresh upon
these trinkets were Belgian girls
being dragged into slavery worse
than death.
We do not lack for toys; toys by
| the trainloads made in American fac
tories, by hands which are clean.
Even were there none, far better our
boys and girls should go without
than find pleasure in the handiwork
of nation which made a public hol-
iday to celebrate the loss of the
"Lusitania, and which in these lat
ter days is stepped in the "glory" of
monstrosities. Could our little men
who sacrifice many a childish pleas
ure to buy war stamps and contribute
pennies to the Red Cross, and
our little mothers who knit so pa
tiently with hands that can barely
hold the needles, would one of these
knowingly find pleasure in any toy
"Made in Germany? Editorial in
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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crushed and broken? Toys whose
very contact communicates and
leaves upon the touch of babyhood
invisible clots of blood? AS well
bring a deadly serpent into he home
to spew it's venom on the cradle.
Why shall we befoul and faint the
purity of American childhood with a
reminder of the fiendish treatment
the Huns have gloried in ever since
that fateful August of 1914? Can
one ever look upon Noah's Ark
"Made in Germany" and put from
his mind those hundreds of helpless
innocents whose silken locks are
twined with sea weed? Can one
hold German doll in her arms and
forget the thousands dead from fam
inc who once made glad mothers
arms? Can boy find delight in the
contortions of a mechanical Hun
clown and forget the brave young
men who writhed in agony when cru
Gifted on castle walls by these same
Huns? Can a ball colored with the
red of Huns fail to suggest the
flame from bursting grenades
hurled by arms uplifted in the at
'titude of 'rkamerad"?
Let those who would invite fear
some ghosts into the home to hover
round the Christmas tree buy Ger
man toys. If one would hang the
boughs with evil omens, and bid the
wall of agonized spirits float through
the branches and fan the Pickering
flame of candles, let them buy Ger
man toys.
And what of the merchant who for
sordid gain would barter these SOU
venirs of loathsome nation and in
suit the loyalty of lisping lips?
What could more delight the cunning
Hun, what more quickly bring the
sneering smile to cruel faces, or
gladden. heartless hearts, or encour-
age him to hope that even now we
tolerate his brutality and welcome
what he wants to sell? If now,
when as nation we are in universal
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"Old Man" Atkinson of the Mesaba
Ore thinks we should be tickled to
death because we were not elected.
He says that we are mentally, moral
ly and financially better Off"
Maybe so. However, the makeup OF
the state legislature needs few
newspaper guys to give it tone and
the newspaper member from the Hib-
bling district will help out. Had we
been elected, we would have been
sure of two good new men at least
and with the others could have been
of some service to the range country.
Having always helped the other fell
low, we thought the other fellow
would help US. Nix on that stuff
however. While we were not elected
we are nevertheless going to stand
solidly behind Senator Boylan and
Representatives Murphy and Gill in
everything that is good for the dis
trict. We expected, if elected, to
call on the voters and find out what
was demanded of the legislature for
their benefit. In this way we would
have helped our mentality, not hurt
our morals and been financially as
well off as at present. By not
being chosen, we are out our ex-
penses and time but ahead some
knowledge of human nature which is
worth much. We have discovered
that gratitude is an unknown guam
tity in politics and also that it is a
mistake to treat some men like hui
man beings. While the ranges lost
a good friend and booster they also
got rid of an avowed enemy when H.
P. Bjorge, father of the tonnage tax
bills, was defeated. This helps some
to alleviate the hurt of our defeat.
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Before the war a million pairs of
eyes year rested on the Statue OF
Liberty as they entered the port OF
New York. And it is safe wager
that not one per cent of them are
sorry of the sight they saw that day.
For the next few years this will not
happen and we shall be short-handed
on alien labor. And this will make
for better times for the boys who are
to return. The women are now filling
the places Of those who are gone, will
thus stay on and there will be room
for all in the great fields of industry.
Reconstruction over there will de-
mand of every man his best efforts.
At home the huge factories now ma
king munitions will call for tens of
thousands Of both men and women
and there will be places for all. Am
erica is on the threshold of the bus
lest era of it's existence and no more
the work or Fight" order will be
needed. It will simply be a disgrace
to be idle in busy old world.
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bill remedying this should be drawn
and brought to the attention of the
Legislature. To do this intelligently
the citizens should express their views
on the matter and bring a united
action and support for the passage of
this Bill. We have the game and the
fish, it is shame that we cannot
make proper use of the natural re-
sources found at our doors. We need
better protection as well as enlarge
ment of the territory in which to pro-
cure this resource.
8. Propagation of Forestry and
Agriculture is also among our future
possibilities. Ely is, fortunately,
headquarters of the Superior Nation
al Forest comprising over a million
acres of land. The United States
government has an able body of men
on its staff here. Their work should
be appreciated and every assistance
given them. This reserve is going to
grow in interest and value. Would it
not be possible for the citizens of Ely
to induce the government to build a
government building in this city to
house the Forestry headquarters and
the post office? Our Congressman
and Senators at Washington have al
ready promised to- help us. Would
not this be worth going after?
4. We could also have good deal
more agricultural development if we
go after it. At the last session of the
State Legislature the lawmakers gave
this district serious slap when they
withdrew all state owned lan6 north
of Allen junction from the market
and put it into the State Forest Re-
serve. Now there are thousands of
acres of good agricultural land in
cluded in this right in our midst and
that are thus withdrawn from the
farmers. This is unjust to our COM
munity and all pressure should be
brought upon the next legislature to
abolish this law. We have plenty
of land for the forest reserve that is
not fit for anything else, hence all
tillable land should be made open for
settlement.
5. Last but not least, is our
tourist business opportunity. Can
you find country anywhere in the
United States with so many beauti-
full lakes and wilderness for human
enjoyment? How many people of
this country know what we have? Is
it not an opportune time to start a
campaign of education and informa-
ton? True, the Ely Commercial
Club has done much in the past sea-
son through the Minnesota Ten
Thousand Lake Association, but the
good work must be kept up and the
Legislature urged to appropriate suf-
ficient funds to help carry this cam
paign in the future, in the fashion of
other western states. The tourist
business will bring people of wealth
and reputation, all of which will ben
eft and popularize our community.
It will be money in every Taxpayers
pocket.
These are only few of the many
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CITY ELECTION
DRAWING NEAR.
CANDIDATES ARE COMING OUT
SLOWLY--LITTLE INTEREST
is SHOWN.

1t may not be generally known
but it is nevertheless a fact that on
December 3rd, a general election
will be held to elect three aldermen
and mayor for the next two years.
Tomorrow, or November %, the
filings will close for these offices.
Those whose terms of Office expire
are Mayor Knutson and Aldermen
Brozich, White and Eisenach. All
of these men have been active on the
council and should be reelected
without opposition. 1t was limited
about yesterday that some Of these
would not become candidates but we
sincerely hope that this is not the
case. All have been painstaking,
progressive officials and the citizens
should see that they are returned.
The management of this city has
gone past the political and expert
mental stage and it requires men Of
experience and judgement to handle
the affairs of Ely. The council as at
present constituted has done much
towards the betterment of the city
and for the benefit Of it's people.
Three of last years council will re-
main until the next election. They
are Aldermen Harri, McCurdy and
Somero. The others should also be
returned in order that the council
may keep up the good work begun.
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1W.S.SE

Perhaps some have taken it upon
themselves to laugh and sneer at the
Home Guard of the state of Mime
sofa. Thousands of the ardent sup
porters of the foes of the state and
government have shouted themselves
hoarse in TRADES of abuse, baseless
and senseless accusations, spewing
their idiotic maledictions upon Gov
ernor Burnquist, Minnesota's loyal
war governor. All this and more in
frantic attempts to tear down the
structure of government and revert
to license and lawlessness at the
hands of horde of malcontents of
anti-Americanism.
The terrible holocaust, which
swept miles of the most prosperous
portions of the great state of Mime
sofa, which took dreadful toll Of
nearly a thousand lives, red-blooded
settlers, their wives and children,
swept all the earthly possessions Of
the survivors, including their very
body covering, left thousands of lit
tie ones fatherless, and motherless,
SCARED and MANNED for life, stamped
indelibly the merits of the Home
Guard of the state of Minnesota.
Among the first to leap to succor of
the devastated district, they worked
heroically, battling flames, rescuing
victims and caring for refugees They
did everything that humans could do
in such crisis. They performed
their duty nobly and are entitled to
the highest commentator possible
to bestow.-Bemidji Pioneer.
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-EWS!SF
MADE IN GERMANY

A dispatch from New York of
October %, says: Several thousand
cases Of German made toys arrived
here today"
Toys! For whom? For the in
nocents carried down when the "Lu-
sitania" sank? For those tear-eyed
Belgian children who stretch forth
little arms from which the hands
were struck off by the swords Of Ger
man officers? For those French
boys and girls with pitiful sightless
eyes? For those whose little bodies
rest in the churchyards of Italy, that
died in pain from poisoned Hun
candy? For those other children slow
ly starved to death in Poland or
massacred in Armenia?
Toys? Toys made by Huns to
whom innocence and childhood are
but toys to be played with and then