The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-31

in Atlanta and he Immediately upon
request of Secretary Clarke rushed to
the front and headed the parade in
Atlanta and when at Clayton all MEM
bcrs of the party were afraid to go
farther north on account of roads and
rain he said to Secretary Clarke DO
you want to go to Rabun Gap?" and
when Secretary Clarke said, Il CERTAIN
ly do want at least one car to go the
full length of the tour" Joe Brewer
said, well come on, we've done gone
to Rabun Gap" and go they did with
Mrs. Brewer in the car while the
crowds lined the verandas of homes
and stood in store fronts and cheered
the car and its occupants along as it
fought its way through rain and mud
to the highest land in Georgia.
The tour would not have been COM
plete without quiet Captain Jack Clio
yer, who was there all the time with
a good word for everybody and
ready to do his part of the tough
work" whenever it arrived and it sur
prised no one to hear Captain Jack
be the first one to volunteer with his
car at 200 A. M. at Tallulah Falls
to go back over the dangerous road
just traversed to find the missing car
of the tour, and back he went at
thirty or forty miles an hour for ten
, miles until the car was located and
brought safely back in line with the
tour
Another plucky member of the
party, who was seldom heard from
but who was always on the job if
needed was Ed Hussey, who braved
the dangers of running with a brok-
en- frame rather than fall out OF the
tour and thus weaken the showing of
the party at the various towns. In
all the hardships of the tour neither
he nor his party members were heard
to complain but always had a word
OF good cheer in his quiet, easy style.
The tourists would have been
deadly quiet" at their stopping pla-
ces had it not been for the music rem
dered by Homer Waters, whose me
neither shout became a pass word
of the tour. At the speaking places
he sang and played and made the
crowds roar, and with his bugle
brought thousands around the tourists
who would have never known they
were in town.
Then there was long. lean and
lanky" Judge Harden, one of the few
real farmers" on the tour. He
proved himself one of the best of
good fellows" and when it comes to
pouring it into her" and rushing the
road at forty and, fifty miles per hour,
he stuck the nose of his car up under
the pace-maker and kept her there
all the way. In the drawing for posi-
tons in the tour he drew number Is
but the crowd insisted that he draw
again lest thirteen be unlucky and the
second time he drew number two
and no place was left without the nose
of his car right under the pacemaker
and he was in for everything on the
trip from start to finish
The tourists used the car of L. c.
Montague as the utility" car Of the
tour because his own disposition and
that OF his happy hearted wife allow
ed the tourists to pack their car fuil'
of people and baggage all along The
tour. 1t became common saying or
the tour when some one wanted a
grip carried or an extra passenger
provided for "Oh, give it to Monta-
que, he'll take it along" He had par
ticularly unfortunate luck with his car
as he had more punctures than all the
rest put together, but he neved COM
planned and was booster for the tour
all the time.
The two children of L. L. Criner.
LUDLOW Jr., and Thomas Comm who
were the only children on the tour.
proved themselves real sports of the
road" and Ludlow, Jr., was continual
~ heard urging his father, the pace
maker, to pour it in her, dad" Little
Thomas was also vigilant in distribut-
ing literature.
AT Atlanta Mr.. Earl Griggs and his
wife, of the Atlanta Georgian staff
joined the tour on behalf of the Food
Administration, and his speeches were