Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-04-23

county fair, or anyone else that |
works with him.
The Elks Club and Woman's
Club took up the Christmas phil
anthropy on smaller scale and
merit generous support from
others in charging their work.
A few years ago there weren't
any hogs in this county, four
footed ones we mean. The farm
ers were raising cotton and did
not know very much about hogs.
Someone had to introduce hogs,
four-footed hogs, TO the farmers.
1sidor Gelders started the first
"chain pig" in South Georgia,
buying "Mother Leader" an d
Lady Enterprise" as the sows
were named, and giving away
the pigs to country boys and
girls on condition that one of
each litter should be passed on
to some other boy or girl who
had no pig. The young men and
young women who got those
| pigs are not afraid that Isidor
Gelders will 'commercialize" the
Ben Hill county fair to their
injury.
A few years ago Fitzgerald
needed a Carnegie Library and
didn't have one. The ladies of
the Woman's Club said the city
needed Carnegie Library and
looked around to find someone
to help them get it. Isidor Gel
ders had plenty of burdens of his
own at that time without shout
dering those of the people of
Fitzgerald who liked books and
couldn't afford to buy all they
wanted, or of the Woman's Club
which was growing rapid ID
needed new meeting place, or
of the musically inclined az. -
erarily inclined and biblically in
clined people who needed new
meeting place in which to hold
recltalS and hear lectures and
hold bible classes. But no one
else offered to shoulder the bur
den of getting a Carnegie Libra
ry for Fitzgerald.
And Isidor Gelders threw all
the influence of the Fitzgerald
Leader behind the movement,
got out among the people and
solicited subscriptions for the
library fund, when he could bet
ter have afforded to have beer
soliciting advertising. w h r
every dollar that public spirited
citizens of Fitzgerald could af
ford to give was turned in, anc
: ninety per cent of it secured anc
collected by Isidor Gelders, i
/ was found there still was no
! enough to provide a Woman
q Club room or an auditorium.
The good ladies were disappoin
ted.
/ They wanted a new club room
1 badly. Other people who wanted
an auditorium were dissappoi
ed, SO lsidor Gefders gave. il
G addition to his labor and supper
e OF his newspaper, a piece of Ian,
worth about $500 at that time, an,
+ much more now, in order to max
t 1t possible to carry out the orig
t inal library plans,
n People who want education
d musical, biblical, and literary
and who are being assisted il
:. getting it by the use of the Ii
k brary that Andrew Carnegie an,
i lsidor Gelders gave Fitzgerald
Y should not be afraid that Isido
/ Gelders will "commercialize" tn,
i Ben Hill County Fair to their in
= Jury or will make it any less ed
d ucational, and moral and alto
gether worth while, than it i
:, within the power of the fair man
c ayers to make it.
: Mrs. Whitchard and Mr. Walk
: err are estimable and public spirit
e ed people. The Leader thinks
f great deal of them and has full
c measure of appreciation for tn
c work Mrs. Whitchard has don,
i III the Ben Hill Farm Bureau an,
e Ben Hill Civic League and tina
S Mr.. Walker has done in tn,
i Farmers Union and the Stat,
n legislature. The management O
S the Ben Hill County Fair would
= welcome those public spirited in
t dividuals into the ranks of thos
= who are striving to give the farm
ers OF Ben Hill and the citizens o
fitzgerald good, moral, uplift
: ing and popular fair
But the Leader does believe
= and fhn E>1,,- $40