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The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE SOIL

Sotber, farmers are faced the loss OF millions OF dollars
year largely because OF false attitude the feaera reserve
The exact has not been figured by the experts and un
the slump prices beaches its trough the loss can mot DC
estimated The Kansas wheat farmers VIII lose @'oG DC
cause OF slump wheat from inc sdhF edu9e@ iS "'u0 "a
farm credits.
What will be the result!
Next year the cotton crop will be in half although the
sivenc millions worlds popuace need every pound
cotton raised need crop fifty cent larger
than this wears crop of the Southern and will
Charity begins home Tho Southern farmer
fool indeed he raised large cotton clothe
the world and his own children forced rags
result The hungry millions OF the worlds populace need
every buse pound wheat that be raised need
fifty larger the raised this But the West
wheat farmer would be fool he raised that crop and as
result his wife and children go hungry.
The greatest actual result the farm credit restriction Will be
cutting OF the acua! supply OF cotton and wheat which
must made by the farmer Under present conditions
in order equae fictitious of supply demand
to get down to bitter facts and freeze the world into
recognition the fact that lie farmer has right to prosper
tightening West makes the wheat farmer sui
fer this will make the cotton farmer and all who eat wheat
suffer year from reduction The credit Tightening the
will the farmer suffer this and will make
the wheat and all who cotton clothing suffer next
year hcm reduction in actual cotton supply
The interest of the West and Of the South in this is
identical One agricultural region regardless of what
connected by unbeakae bonds of economic sympathy with
other agricultural There brotherhood of the soil that
untes strongly than any oath eay in any
the should be prejudice
shbboleth party faith lead conditions
stronger political union between the fertile paes Of
the West and the arabic fields of the South than the nation has
The Democratic party has many years BEEN than
any other the party the West and South the farmers party
would be soowful thing should the Democratic party
fall dsfavo with its oden supporters and defenders thru
hardening of the heart toward the OF the fields 1t
couragng that Democratic Virginia
Democratic of Georgia who LEADING what has
veoped of political fight pfothe farm interests by rvis
gresham will enlist the hghthefeTe November End will
long way toward putting Jimmy Cox in the White House
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
DIVORCE THE VAMPIRE

Telegraph yesterday morning carried of the
most striking cartoons the face pen OF Darling has executed
several weeks 1t pictures
ragged farmer with his three ragged children wheat and
urnp before the judicial bench which sits Uncle Sam
The Judge reading petition for divorce and absolute custody
of the children while bedzened female wheat pit gambling
vamps around the foreground.
She takes everything make and doesn't of work
around the place. mourntuy tesfes the
grounds of cruel and nhuman title the cartoon
That cartoon ymbozes the condition of
wheat farmer OF the cartoonists home state but the condition
the Georgia and the Southern cotton farmer The
the New Orleans cotton exchanges vampire precedent
threw around the farmer of intangible imaginary aura
OF seeming protection and help
w will stabilize price, sweety vamps the siren market
M you want to play safe you hedge the the crop
showing what cotton worth and the will always know
what to offer you" ~ '' NA'o" just
30 weety does the vampire vamp and so completely b,
e Vlcm Subservience that evehe South drained
every year OF millions commissions which have no earthly
o existence and drained probably of billions in prices fixed
oo row, even mere the Exchange has its defenders
one takes all make and doesn't lick of work declares
@ ana pleads give me complete divorce and absolute
custody OF the children have raised from soil by the
OF my arm and the sweat of my face" ~ e
the N the difference between quotations futures on
widely divergent that it impossible hedge in conservative
way me lotion Exchange removed its to RIGHT to live
II now exists solely of the lot
terry only far than the lottery was
involves the prosperity and safety the thousands who
play it but of millions of women and children in The ST.
who profit dollar fortunate turn Of ts
and only suffer loss as the bears and bulls fight paper
The Cotton Exchange has long enough sucked the Hood g
southern farmer the Southern merchant banker and
ona man. every Southener who handles money or wants TO
handle money Divorce the vampire DESTROY
The hight has got to from the ranks the farmers and
business men whose interests affected won't come from
start with the farmers of Ben Hill county Georgia and the bu
ness men OF Fitzgerald Georgia and the farmers Whayomay
held the power regulate the exchange egaze and protect
It, since II was established Congress holds the power to DESTROY
IT, what have Southern ay They
to echo the words Of the Southern farmer Then more to the
what has the Southern farmer o say?
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
GROCER UP AGAINST 1T

Il have been up against it for past
3 years suffering from pain in my
stomach and side until | was consid-
ering giving up my grocery business.
Doctors and medicine did not help
me. l heard of Mayr's Wonderful
Remedy through friend in Buffalo.
The first dose gave me more benefit
than all the medicine had taken be-
fore and am now feeling as we'll as
ever in my life" 1t is a simple,
harmless preparation that removes
the catarrhal mucus from the intesti-
nal tract and allays the inflammation
which causes practically all stomach,
liver and intestinal ailments, includ-
ing appendicitis. One dose will con-
vince or money acknowledgements
and National Drug Cos. Adv.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
A Thought for the Evening
A VERSE AND A VIGNETTE
By Dan G. Bickers
SUCH IS LIFE!
By Dan G.. Bickers

SUCH is LIFE!
Inc back yard is Uttered with remnants and scraps
WITH pieces OF piping ard brasses and taps,
Wit lnn1merable wheels and with pieces of tin
With parts OF "scudder' that's nearly all in
y seat OF a bicycle, some skates and carts,
a nashight discarded, some once-wagon parts
ne small indicator oil-stove bore
And photograph horn that will phone nevermore;
And a lot OF my tools and of their the two BOYS
VINO intent on their work produce numerous noise"
With materials at hand they are building today
a push-automoble in ingenious way
30 absorbed and intent the task they're about
And such eager enthusiasts, they've never a doubt
Ot success of their ceverness-everv detail
Has been pictured iii brains that are active to fail
Has not once entered into their plans They can see
! heir machine speeding swiftly sure as can be!
For day and an hour they busy as bees,
Then their wonderful is completed and these
Wee inventors and builders find when it is done
That their labor is vain for the will not run!
DO think It's slight disappointment? All, mol
Have my aims, made with hopes ended just SO?
Have | not been eager intent on some plan,
On some dream of maturity work of man
But to find, when it seemed to be perfectly done
Just ready for marvellous work 'twouldn't run?
But l learn from my laddies the lesson of life,
A rule for the struggle guard in the strife:
He abandons the failure and is intent
On a newer device he's resolved to invent
STEPPING STONES
sOnce Man made many Efforts and many Failures
And discouraged
Till he learned the Failures with new Efforts
AS Material for the construction of Success!
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE
SECOND ROUND


I will be at the places named below
for the purpose of collecting state
and county taxes for the year 1920.
Ashton, Monday Oct 18th, from
9 to $50.
Dickson's Mill Monday, Oct. 18th
from 10 to 1890.
Bowen's Mill Tuesday Oct. 10Th,
from 9 to 9:30.
Vaughn, Tuesday Oct. 10th, from
10 to 1880.
Williamson Mill Wednesday, Oct.
9th from 10 to II.
And will be at the court house ev-
cry day when not making rounds.
F. M. GRAHAM,
If T. c. Ben Hill County
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
BRANDED AS Stacker
AND THEN ASSAULTED,
HE GETS $1,000 DAMAGES

WASHINGTON, Oct 20.-Dam-
ages of $1,000, awarded by lower
courts in Louisiana to Glenn L.
Breakey against John J. Dimmitt,
will stand as result of the refusal
of the supreme court today to review
the case. Breakey charged that Dim
mitt and others on May II, 1918,
characterized him as a Stacker and
assaulted him.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
TWO RECORDS MADE
BY PIG CLUB BOYS
CONTINUED from First Page)

community Display
Ashton Community Council, first
prize. Best stalks cotton; best sor-
ghum syrup; best display sheaf OF
oats, hay and grain; best display OF
velvet beans; best bale pea vine hay;
best brooms from broom corn.
Vaughn-Taylor Community Coun-
Gil, repreented by Mrs. R. L. Stone
second best community display. Best
bushel COW peas, second sheaf hay,
oats, grasses; best cured meats less
than one hundred pounds; best dis
play of onions; best pumpkins.
Agricultural Exhibits
w. A Turner, first ten best ears
corn; first six stalks corn.
w. M. Gentry second ten best ears
corn.
Mrs, T. G, McCau, first ten best
stalks ribbon cane.
r. V. Sword, best bushe1 wheat.
Mrs. J. w. McCaskell, first uni
form size sweet potatoes.
J. A. George, second potatoes, and
best garden exhibit
0. W. Bell, Irwin county, best ten
ears yellow corn, no competition.
A. w. Mccall, best bushel White
Spanish peanuts, and first rice.
Corn Cluh
Lonnie Russell, first prize for yield
OF seventy bushels to one acre; w
E. Murray, second yield, 81 bushels
first prize, best record book; Lester
Stuart, third yield, forty bushels; Pat
Dunn, yield forty-two bushels, first
and sweepstakes over all ten ear ex-
hibits
Lonnie Russell, who won first on
yield, also won first on lowest cost
He used only barnYard manure fol-
fertilizer.
Assisting Mr.. c. T. Owens, Ber
Hill County agent, i'll Judging agri-
culture was County Agent MCGEE Of
Irwin County. Judges in live stock
were Messrs. Marion Dickson, G. B
Eunice, and Burch.
Lake Dunn's Spotted Poland-Chi
and Mr.. Wright Paulk's prize hog
will be exhibited at the Georgia
State Fair in Macon.
One of the features of the agricul-
tural display was complete exhibit
of tobacco furnished by the A. B
& A. through Extension Agent G. B
Eunice.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
REGISTRATION NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the
Registration Books are now open,
and will remain open at the City Hall
until the 9th day of November, 1920.
Voters must register in order to
qualify for the regular City election
to be held December 21st, 1920.
This the 4th day of October, 1920.
DAVID L. PAULK,
dN9 City Clerk
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
R & S COUNCIL MEETING

Fitzgerald Council No. 50 R & S.
M. will hold a meeting on Thursday
Evening, October 21st. 8 o'clock at
which time the Degrees of the Order
will be conferred, E. A. McHan,
Grand Recorder to be here to assist
in the work all candidates and mem
bers are requested to attend.
j. 3. RUSSELL, l. M.
J. w. PEARSON, Recorder.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

LOST-Tuesday, pointer bird dog,
male; liver spotted, II months old;
light green eyes. For reward return
to w. A. bowling, Fitzgerald Stor-
age Battery Co. dig
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

LOST OR STOLEN-One big red
butt headed cow. Lost about Oct s.,
or a. Finder notify undersigned and
get reward. D. w. Garrison, Phone
1881. tt
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
FOR SALE
SPECIAL OFFER

On my 10 room house and ten acres
for balance of Oct. You can save
$500 by buying now. Place adjoin-
ing city. Just the thing for dairy
man and trucking or keeping board
ers, and roomers. House nicely fin
ished- Cash or terms. A. G.. Brown,
400 w. Orange. Phone 1l8. If
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

HOME FOR SALE-l5 Acres, good
pasture, 8 room house, barn, poultry
and other buildings, fruits and nuts,
IS minutes walk from Post Office,
good comfortable home on Washing
ton Ave. M. J. Small. d24
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

THE DIR. TIBBOT HOME FOR
SALE-Good corner location, two
lots and well built convenient house
OF seven rooms, pantry, closets, etc.
Corner West Altamaha St. and Long
street Ave. See Daisy M. Tibbott,
SOB West Altamaha ST., Fitzgerald,
georgia. aus dlSp
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

FOR SALE-Dodge Touring Car,
1918 model, good condition, see Ray
Frey at P. o. building or $40 South
Lee ST. d2lpd
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

FOR RENTING nicely furnished
front rooms for light house keeping
on first floor. See Mrs. L. Frink, 41o
w. Central Ave. tt?
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

Mrs. S. L. Smith has just returned
from Greensboro. N. c, and reports
that her husband is doing we'll and
will soon be home.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

We will buy your Corn, Potatoes,
Velvet Beans etc. and load at your
station. Best prices paid. OCILLA
SEED & PRODUCE CO. Ocilla, Ga.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

WE WILL RENT 2-3 of our store
space reasonable, Malcolm & Nipper.
207 S. Grant ST., Fitzgerald, Ga. If
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

BUNGALOW FOX SALE-Will
take good used car in trade and cash
difference on South Main ST. Address
]. G. Williams, Triton. If
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

FOR SALE-2 good milk cows and
one good mule. w. D. Watkins, R.
r. ID. No. 2. d25pd
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

Mrs. nellie Frazer Moncrief is Wis
iting her uncle and aunt Mr.. and Mrs.
E. Powell Frazer in Macon this
week.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

FOR SALE-Two Bungalows, close
in, on easy monthly payments. M
GOTTLIEB. DE-
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20

TYPEWRITER RIBBON S-We
garry ribbons in stock for all kinds
Of Typewriters. Leader Enterprise If
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
100 FoRDS

Want to buy one hundred used Ford
cars and rs Dodges.
FITZGERALD AUTO EXCHANGE
los w. Central Ave. Phone 90 If.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
70 R r E N T

FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT
Two furnished rooms, down stairs,
for light house keeping See Mrs. M.
S. Railey, 40S N. Grant St. dl3
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-20
CLASSIFIED ADS
PHONE 32S
WANTED

WANTED-By responsible party
four rooms furnished or unfur-
nished. Furnished preferred. Per-
manent. Phone 4179. P. o. 100. d17
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-16
ARMY NURSE PRIVILEGES
AND RIGHTS DEFINED

Rights and privileges of members oil
the Army Nurse Corps (all women
are defined in War Department orders
in conformity with the provisions of
the Army reorganization act Under
that act, the superintendent of the
corps is given the relative rank OF
major, the assistant superintendent,
director and assistant directors the
relative rank of captain, the chief
nurse the relative rank of first lieu
tenant, and the head nurse and nurses
the relative rank of second lieutenant
while under this bill the Aurses
are not commissioned officers, says
the War Department statement, their
relative standing in the army cores
ponds to that of commissioned officers,
and they will be accorded the prece-
dence indicated by their relative rank
and the same respect in their posi-
tons as commissioned officers"
They will be accorded the same
obedience from enlisted men and pa
tients in and about military hospitals
as is accorded commissioned officers.
and while they are not eligible for de-
tail as members of courts-martial they
may prefer charges against any mem
Der of the military service. In order
to denote in their relative rank, nurses
will wear on their uniforms, in the
same manneras is prescribed for Off
GERS. tho insignia of rank worn by
commissioned officers of the cores
ponding grades, and hereafter nurses
will salute and be saluted in the same
manner and under the same condi-
tons as prescribed for commissioned
officers. The nurses will be entitled
to the same allowances and privileges.
except mileage, as are prescribed for
commissioned officers of the grades
corresponding TO their relative rank
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-16
LABOR CONDITIONS
INFLUENCE COST Of
NAVAL CONSTRUCTION

With prospects OF further increases
i'm the cost of material and with the
Navy Department confronted with de-
mands for increases in wages at navy
yards that will amount TO about $780,
600 900. which is certain, if granted, TO
have its influence upon the rates OF
pay for similar work at private plants
ii is not seen how the Navy Depart
ment can submit any definite, reliable
and ineligible estimate 10 Congress
as to costs of new ships that II may
ask for the navy Previous limits OF
cost, where they have been made fpr
ships authorized or under constitute
ton. are destined to be increased, and
for future work there must be the
same uncertainty
The conditions of labor throughout
the country are such that no one in
the shipbuilding industry is in posi-
ton to make more than the toughest
sort of calculation as to the cost OF
labor and material.
One of the Illuminating incidents in
this connection was the recent OPEN
ing of bids for construction of Naval
Transport No. .. With identical de-
signs and with such alterations as arc
not OF consequence an influencing cost
there was a range of bids in the six
proposals received from $2.493,000 to
$6,950,000 This was nothing short OF
amazing to the naval experts, notwith-
standing they possess a very accurate
knowledge of the situation in he
private shipyards.
1t so happens that the highest bids
received were from concerns of the
greatest and longest experience in the
| industry, and it is concluded that the
lower bids are to be accounted for on
the theory that the bidders were will
ing to take grave risks in the market
where prices were constantly upward
in trend. The naval authorities are
frank enough to predict that the
amount of the lowest bid would in
yolve loss to the contractor on that
basis. 1t was certain that this must
be the situation or that a contract
placed at the highest bid represented
an enormous profit, for it is not pos
sible to assume that one shipyard pos
/ sesses such advantages over rival
establishment as would make so great
difference in the amounts named fol
the same work.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-16
MAI. THORNTON TO
STAY At WCKSBURG.

Mai. Gardiner p. Thornton, well
known in Annapolis. where for some
years he was Superintendent OF the
National Cemetery. and one of the
best it ever had. viii remain two
more years in Vicksburg. Miss.
The vicksburg Evening Post" of
August 10 says:
Maj. G. r. Thornton, for the past
IA years superintendent of the beau
tiful National Cemetery viii not re-
tire on the goth OF this month as he
had contemplated but has decided TO
take advantage of his privilege of
requesting two more years of service
and will remain with US.
"This will be the best sort of news,
not only for the visitors to our fam
Gus show place but also TO all the
citizens of Vicksburg and Warren
county, who have gotten to look on
the genial cemetery official as one of
the most indispensable of our local
officials. To many of US visit to
the beautiful city of the dead above
town is not to see the cemetery but
to see the Major.
Major Thornton's decision was
very pleasing to Congressman Collier
at present in the city, for to him and
others who are anxious to see the
cemetery road put in proper condi-
ton. by permanent improvements, ii
means that the work will be we'll done
and according to specifications under
the experienced officials personal
supervision. A special appropriation
will soon be available for that pur-
pose and everyone will be pleased tc
know that Major Thornton will SUI
pervise it's expenditure.
Major Thornton announced several
weeks ago that he intended to retire
on August Goth and after visit to
his son Seeley, in Mobile, he would
spend a year in travel and then set
tie down in Vicksburg, but all of us
are glad to learn that he will remain
here for another two years in his of
fetal capacity"
Major Thornton is an uncle OF Mrs
Harry E. Feldmeyer, of Belmont
Farm" near Annapolis.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-16
CHIEF photographer
COMPLIMENTS CAPTAINS

Rear-Admiral L. H. Chandler,
hydrographer at Washington, has
sent Lieutenant Commando 0lendorf,
in charge Of the Baltimore branch Of
fee. who succeeded Lt.-Consdr Owen
Hill. L. S. n. of Annapolis, notice
in which he pays tribute to masters
Of merchant vessels.
@The United States photographic
Office" the Admiral writes, has al
ways greatly appreciated the freedom
with which the Offices of the merch-
ant marines of all nations have made
use of the facilities afforded in the
United States branch photographic
Offices. The photographer desires,
however. to inform such officers that
they will always receive an equal
welcome at the photographic Office
itself. in the Navy Department, Wash
ington, ID. c.. and that it would give
him much pleasure at all times 10 re-
ceive at that office any of them who
may be able to come to Washington,
whether the purpose of their visit be
professional or merely social, and to
render TO them while in Washington
any servcie that may lie. within his
power or within that of the office"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-16
GASOLINE At 40 CENTS
OR RAT|ON|NG PREDICTED

Gasoline will cost more than 40
cents a gallon throughout the United
States by September Is. officials at
Washington believe. unless refners
succeed in persuading Joy riders to
curtail consumption.
Officials now are studying tenta-
tive proposal of big refiners to cut
down consumption through an infor-
NAL system of rationing to apply in
al As States. The system would be
applied entirely by refiners and be
without Government authority, though
It probably will have the moral back
ing of Government officials Approx
nfately 100000 owners of auotmo-
biles, power boats and airplanes
would be affected.
The gas situation now is more SER
ious than it has been for months
Consumption is reported as between
l3,O00,O 900 and 100000 gallons daily.
Production, however, is running ap-
proximately 100000 gallons below
consumption The difference repre-
sents the amount by which the re-
serve supplies are being drawn off.
Reserves now are reported as lower
than at this time last year, despite
the fact that at the beginning of
spring the stores were the biggest in
years.