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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
SURPLUS ARMY SUPPLIES AID
Bureau OF Public Roads Has Allotted
S1eo,ooo,000 Worth of Road
Building Material,

prepared by the United States Departnoannt
Of Agricultural
approximately $190,O00,0O0 worth OF
bodybuilding machinery, and Other
supplies from the surplus war material
OF the army, including 10000 motor We
hicles, have been allotted by the bu
reau Of public roads, United States De
partment Of Agriculture. This mate
rial, OF which approximately $3.50. 600.
600 worth has been delivered saws the
bureau in it's annual report, has en-
abled many of the states to organize
and equip maintenance divisions to pa.
troll the entire state road system.
The largest item Of materials deliv.
cred consisted of shop machinery and
shop tools and equipment. This en-.
abled the state highway departments
to equip shops for reconditioning and
repairing motor vehicles and other Do,
tor-driven machinery received from
the government. The shop machinery
consisted mainly of lathes, tool grind.
ers, milling machines, cutting ma.
chimes, planers, drill presses, and cleo.
trio motors.
Approximately 100000 pounds OF
picric acid haze been distributed 70,
bodybuilding and land-clearing pur.
poses. In addition to the material dis,
tributed from the excess stores al
camps and arsenals in the United
States, there are now being returned
from Germany and France 80 motor
trucks, % Cadillac automobiles, and
100000 pounds of spare motor-vehicle
parts, shop machinery, and machine
tools.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
4 EDDETTES
ON
y THINGS
. - By IA
Opera By Radio
. By M:
SllEGMGA.A0SHN

Opera By Radio
Last February marked the first broad
Distinguishing of opera anywhere. The
experiment was made with Wagner's
Flying Dutchn1an" in New York City
and without previous notice. 4,
1t was considered an experiment
both as to possible popular
pertinent both as to possible popular.
ity or the opposite as Wagner operas
are very long ranging from three tc
four and half hours. Also the in
fluence on boxoffice receipts was tc
be considered. Results here were neg
ligible and the operas were picked up
in Cuba, northwestern Canada and
Germany.
The reception was so surprising and
enthusiastic that others of the Wagner
repertoire soon followed and opera by
radio was an assured success.
Now ST. Louis which provides light
operas in the summer time from an
open air theatre seating 10000 people
started this week to broadcast them
twice week.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
from the ocmuIgee River to the SOUTH Carolina

from the Ocmulgee River to the South Carolina
border
The Atlanta Constitution in commenting upon
the matter sets forth that the Jefferson Davis
Highway seems at last to be materalizing. For
the last few months, constant activity to bring it
into being has been reported along its line, and es-
pecially from South Georgia This seems to have
been due in great measure to the work of Isidor
Gelders, editor OF the Fitzgerald Leader pro-
gressve Georgian who has done much for the de-
velopment Of his state
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Scientific Study of Sand

In the elder days of art builders
wrought with greatest care each min
ute an unseen part" said Longfellow.
This is true today. In Lewis Institute
OF Chicago there is laboratory on
whose shelves are $500 bottles of care
fully tested sand, the specimens COM
ing from all parts of the world, and
the object being to determine the rel
alive suitability of the various grades
for concrete and mortar work. The
results of these tests forms a library
III itself as every experiment is re-
corded in a permanent file.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Charges of Cruelty

Here are some of the most recent
charges of cruelty that have in diff
erent places caused arrest of individ-
uals. One was for organizing and par
ticipating in perambulator race in
London in which babies sat for many
hours in their carts during a gruelling
Marathon of 81 miles, Both father and
mother were hailed into court.
Another case has been raised against
broncho busting and steer .roping ex-
hibitions in Washington for the Shrin-
ers' convention, on the plea of'the HUI
name Society that suchdemonstration
are typical of "savagery". Would
1t be facetious to mention in this con-
nection that another form of cruelty
IN the matter of overcharge Oh eating
prices was drastically threatened BY
arrest for profiteering during this con-
vention?. In Illinois a commission
merchant dealing in frogs legs as
| food was arrested on the charge OF
cruelty to animals. The question rails
ed In court will be to determine wheth-
er frogs are animals or fish. The legs
were cut from the frogs and they were
thrown into the garbage alive.
A man in Indiana was fined for
letting crumpled horn grow into his
cows head Z.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Swedish Jubilee

Journalists from all parts, of the
world including six from the United
States are visiting Sweden this week
in celebration of Centennial Jubilee
Exposition. After the congress they
will be taken on pleasure tours thru
the country and from this inspection
much of value may be expected to
appear in the press accounts as Swed-
en- certainly has set a pace in many
progressive laws for the public good,
many more than our people generally
have herd about.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Team Work for Giant and Dwarf

Not only does the amplifier and the
n1icrophone used together make broad
casting of opera and all stage pro-
grams possible with radio, but pop
ular use of them now is in paging ho-
tel guests from the clerks desk in
stead of having leather lunged pages
roaming through the Hobbies bawling
Cut names.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
ROUTE MARKED THRU
BARBOUR COUNTY. ALA

Through the courtesy of J. Open
hei1ner, chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners of Barbour
county, Ala, the Jefferson Davis High
way thru his county and from George
town, Ga, thru to the city of Eufaula.
Ala, has been marked.
Signs and markers have been for
warded to him by the Association and
they were placed in time for the Cen
tennial celebration, which is bling cele-
brated in Eufaula this week
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
MILLIONS FOR BETTER ROADS
AT Beginning OF Next Year There Will
Be $63,375 600 Available
for Building,

There will be $63,375,OOO available
for building better roads in the United
States at the beginning of next year.
according to an announcement Of the
American Farm Bureau federation.
The amounts allotted to the following
states are Illinois, S2,797,OO; Indiana
Sl'692,OOO; Iowa, S1,S13,OOO; Wiscon.
SIN Sl,6SSOOO, and Michigan, $1,942.-
900.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
JeffersonD Davis Highway
An Assured Success
Montgomery Monitor, Mt Vernon,
Georgia.

The Jeff Davis Memorial Highway
leading from Vicksburg, Miss, to
Richmond, Va, is assuming definite
shape as far as Georgia's eastern half
of it is concerned, thanks to the tire
less efforts of Editor Isidor Gelders
O; Fitzgerald, chief promotereof the
enterprise in Georgia
Mondays meeting at Vidalia pre-
sided over by Judge Walter Sheppard
Of Claxton, chairman of the territoryr.
east of the Ocmulgee river, was we'll
attended by representatives from the
counties east of the Ocmulgee river.
the meeting at Vidalia concerning this
territory entirely.
Talks, in which were reflected the
South's reverence for the memory of
Jefferson Davis, president of the Con-
fedcracy from 1861 to 1865, were made
by Judge Sheppard of Claxton, Gen.
D. B. Morgan of Savannah, Rev. Jos.
w. Smith of Reidsville, Coils Hal.
Lawson and N. M. Patten of Able
vile and others.
The route to Savannah is agreed up
on and later branch route to Angus
ia will be mapped out and designated.
Most of the counties through which
the highway will pass in this section
had delegates at the meeting, includ-
ing both Augusta and Savannah.
The proposed route will be appro-
priately marked and from time to
time the broken links will be filled in.
The route from Fitzgerald east will
come by way of Abbeville, this hav-
ing been definitely settled at the meet
ing Monday ~
Jefferson Davis was born s Chsis
tian County, KY, June 3, 1908 and
not nj Mississippi, as has been re-
ferred to number of times since the
inception of the movement to con-
struct the highway. He took oath of
office on the porch of the old state
capitol at Montgomery Ala, and
brass plate still marks the spot on
which he stood
Captured by northern forces near
lrwinville, Ga, shortly after the close
of the war between the states, he was
ircarcerated in prison under the
charge of treason, but was never tried
on the trumped up charge, thereby
being deprived of a right given him
under the Constitution of the United
States. The South knows and the
world knows that the motives of
Davis, and Lee, and Jackson and Cor
Con and the hosts of other Southern
leaders was pure and undefiled and
while it has taken the North over half
century to admit this, it is true new
ertheless-truth recorded indeliblv on
the pages of time
What could be more appropriate
than the Jefferson Davis Highway.
and what movement could better en-
gage the ate 1tio1 dilG material SUE
port of the South than such an entes@
prise? What territory could it more
appropriately span than between
Vicksburg and Richmond? 1t is hoped
that every county through which il
may pass will give it unstinted sup-
port.
Among those attending the meeting
in Vidalia were M. B. Calhoun, D. A.
McRae, DIR. ] E Hunt, D w Folsom,
w A Peterson, c A Mason, n L
Spooner, M McRae, Jas. A Stacy,
DR., J F Currie, and Henry Johnson
OF Mt. Vernon and Hon. Hugh Peter
son of Alley
The Ladies of the Wo1nens Club OF
Vldala entertained the visitors with
sumptuous luncheon at noon Monday.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
requested.

Now comes Craig Arnold of Dahlonega, away
back from railroad, and proposes to repeal the
Georgia Prohibition law. Now we thought bet
ter OF Craig, he is very likeable fellow and we
wouldn't think that his close proximity to the hot
bed OF moonshiners would have such bad effect
on his judgement Craig will not succeed in his
pet measure Georgia is dry to stay for while and
well give the government all the support that our
laws will be capable of giving in enforcing the ma
tional prohibition act
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
SYLVESTER SELECTS ROUTE
THRU WORTH COUNTY
Hon. w. o. Bozemsn and DR.. ]. T.
Ieffords Take Active Charge of
Local Organization

Worth County's Jefferson Davis
Highway Association is taking def
mite shape under the leadership OF
Hon. w. o. Bozeman, representative
of Worth county and DR.. T. ]. Jeff
crds, one Of Sylvester's leading citizens
The route selected, connecting with
Turner County, carries the project thru
the finest farming section in that ter
ritory, where Investigation of crops
and The dairy industry is being feat
ured.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
EIches From Inventions.

Sir Henry Bessemer, who invented
Tue steei-making process, was a DOOR
10Y VINO went to London from a coun.
Try town to seek his fortune. CYRUS
Mcoormlck' who created the reaper
ana self-binding harvester, died worth
S2o,o0o'cOO. w. L. Bundy wees watch.
maker. He invented the se clock
winch keeps tab on employees III fac.
tories and places of business. and II
made him rich.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Birds and Animals Extermtnsted.

outs Agassiz Fuertes. tho we'll
known naturalist, says that about fifty
species OF birds and animals have been
eSterminated in the United States,
while several others are on the verge
OF determination. The buffalo Tor
oison) Is not extinct, there being near
" 10000 living buffaloes in the United
States TODAY.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Locust Year

Locust Year
This is the year for the II year To-
Gusts to make their raids. Already re-
ports have come from the PHILIPPINES
that the sugar planters are much alarm
ed at their appearance and are taking
heroic measures with chlorine-picric
gas to kill them in the breeding spots
From Oregon comes the report of
another invading host in the shape of
armies of caterpillars that have strip
ped everything in their path, not only
from orchards but even the needles OF
the fir trees and the tender bark of
trees, Telegraph and electric light poles
have broken under the weight of their
massed onslaughts.
Lying more than an inch deep on the
roalroad at one point the train was
delayed more than an hour while the
crew exhausted their supply of sand
trying to make the grades on their
mountain stretch. The best part of Wi
lamette Valley is threatened with de-
vaStation.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14

SPOTLIGHTS
ON
PEOPLE q
I Bar of Greed Lowered
elders =

1t is somewhat significant Of en-.
larged ideas OF brotherhood, that. the
northern Baptist convention should
have abolished their former custom of
allowing none but Baptist to be the
president of the University of Chicago.
The decision was almost unanimous
though warmly debated.
Use amendment allows the authori-
ties a free hand in choosing their head.
True the institution started as Bap-
t;st Theological Institute and of $780,
100000 donated to it since its estab-
lishment, the Rockefellers have given
S32,0OO,000, but it docs not appear that
any strings went with their donation
and the institution has long since out
grown any UNCONVENTIONAL barriers,
seeming more national than denomina-
tional in character and scope.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14

A telegram received this afternoon
by Mr.. A. ]. Day informed him that
his brother Sam Day, VITO is in a SAN
itariu:n at Sandersville, was success
fully operated on for appendicitis and
is reI orted improving.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14

Mr.. Jay Rhorer left Tuesday for At
lanta to attend the Pan-Hellenic dance
at Georgia Tech and from there will
&C to Aberdeen, Miss, to enter sum-
mer camp of the r. o. T. c. for a
term of six weeks.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
OF Bio Interest to Farmer.

Motor transport is of particular In
terest to the farmer, since 1a3. 400 600
tons of farm products are Transported
over the highways to the railwavs
annually and additional Thousands of
tons are carried on the highways di.
rectly to the markets.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
A Novel Contest

There is an art in milking cows. 1t
is not fine art of course and vet
fine in way. Our forefathers may
have known it but maybe not so
well nor was it emphasized so much
as now. In these days of contests,
champions, and endurance records of
this that and the other, convention
even cattle club convention can
hardly get by without one. SO at
Kansas City last week, a Missouri
girl and Kansas Girl were pitted
against each other in a milking con-
test. There was valiant roofing from
spectators for each side while the four
minutes of milking was furiousIy exc
cuted At the end of two minutes the
girls changed cows that the excuse of
one being harder to milk than the 9TH
cr might not be offered.
At the end of the time the milk was
weighed and the Kansas girl had ex-
tractd four and eight tenths pounds
of milk as against three and five tenths
pounds by the Missouri girl. The win
ncr received a solid gold wrist watch
and was declared the interstate milk
ing champion.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
\ 4 4
Forgiveness Week.

After falling in line with all the va
r;ous weeks that preachers were ask
ed to observe in the pulpit, the pastors
of New Jersey town have decided
to put on a Love Your Enemy" week
and preaching from this text on next
Sunday make every effort to get their
town people to hunt up all their en-
emies and extend the hand of forgive
ness and good fellowship during the
following week.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
FARMERETEs MAY PROVE ANGELS

experiment of the farmerette in some of the east
ern states may prove of greater import to the farm
er than he magines. If the experiment be extended
to the young men of the colleges there will soon
be an intelligent awakening to the fact that the
farmer at best gets poor share of the value he
produces. When thinking men are compelled 70
work for small wages because the industry iii
which they are employed cannot afford to paw
them decently, the wheels will soon be set in mo-
ton to bring about new order of things
The farmerette movement has taken deepest root
IN the Catskill mountains where New York girls
are invited to spend their vacations" bv the Safe
Department of Labor The girls will pick berries
and fruits. They will earn from So to St2 4 week
above expenses. They will keep house COO per.sye-
ly and live in cottages, converted barns and tents
OF course only the ghtest work on tie farm can
be affected until the plan is extended to include
man labor. There are thousands of bov. working
their way through college. The state colleges OF
agriculture might prove excellent distributing
points.
While farm labor is supposed to be uask;lled Ia
Dor, the tact is that the average city man is quite
useless on the farm. At the same time one of the
best investments the farmer could make would be
gathering to his aid young men of understanding
and seeing to it that they learn first hand WHY the
farmer has been compelled to keep wages down
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Driving Over praaaed Roads

when the roads are first dragged
after very muddy spell the wagon
should drive, if possible, to one side
until the roadway has chance to
freeze or partially to dry out.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Silence Infectious.

1t is always observable that silence
propagates itself, and that the longer
tax has been suspended, the more
difficult it is to find anything to say.
Samuel Johnson.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
JEFFERSON DAVIS ROAD

JEFFERSON DAVIS ROAD-(NIacon Tele-
graph It is more than interesting that the birth
day OF Jefferson Davis should be celebrated in
Georgia by good-roads meeting But those who
believe in Jefferson Davis as man of construct
i've mind will declare that the celebration was hioh
ly appropriate. as il looked towards the further
building up of the South, in whose welfare and
destiny he was so deeply Interested
Citizens from a number of counties assembled
IN Vidalia this week for the celebration which was
characterized by the execution OF further arrange
ments for the Jefferson Davis Highway route
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
NOTICE

Beginning Monday, June 18th, Miss
Ethel Mayo will coach 3rd, 4th and
5th grade pupils who are conditioned
in arithmetic or language. Rates SIS
for one subject; $3.50 for two.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Over Their Heads

A scheme to reduce the number Of
large cash robberies so much n"
increase of late and to incider..n'v -
duce expenses of money transporta-
ton as well has been considered BY
the Federal Reserve Board This plan
is to send money by airplane. We can
suppose that "air bandits" will be the
next innovation.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14

A FRIENDLY TALK-We wish every subscrib-
er thought enough of this paper to pay his or her
subscription strictly in advance Many Of them do
but some do not, We think a great deal of our
subscribers There is nothing within the bounds
OF reason we would not do for them But some
thoughtess souls overlook some facts concerning
this newspaper which we bring to their attention.
Subscriptions do not sustain this paper. 1t takes
lots OF advertising to make up the deficit between
the cost OF running the paper, and the subscrip-
ton revenue
1t costs money time and effort to secure sub
scribers and keep them renewed That cost must
be passed on to subscribers and advertisers The
losses IN the business must be absorbed in the
profits, if there are any
Certain credit arrangements are essentially nee
essary IN any business. We have been pleased to
extend reasonable credit on subscriptions to
subscribers who needed credit But we cannot be-
ieve that all who accept credit really need it. Ger
tainly credit should not be considered for an in
definite period
Our subscription list is permanent asset of this
paper Many subscribers have been listed for
years and years. They are like old friends to a
publisher. II we had to go out and renew every
subscriber our subscription costs would be pro-
hibitive We are striving to furnish high class
publication at lowest cost Your co-operation in
the matter of subscription payments is earnestly
requested
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Poetic Conception.

No poem is horn in the daylight; IT
:an be written in the sunshine, but il
IS conceived in the silence of night
tbsen.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14

Mr.. B. M. Harper spent Sunday in
Nashville, Ga.
Evening star., 1923-10-07
mary street are leaving Chevy Chase
ma Will make their home In Hoches.

mary street are leaving Chevy Chase
ma Will make their homo In Roches-
Mr.. and Mrs. o. c. Merrln OF Mel
'ose street left Friday. for New York
ity. and from there they will motor
0 Lake Placid, N. Y, where Mr.. Mer-
II Will attend q conference
The executive board OF the wom-
as Club OF Chevy Chase Will meet
Wednesday, October 10, at / o'clock
Eugene e. Stevens. on Thornapple
'treet. for luncheon and business
meeting.
:. Mrs. Stephen Lyman Tabor OF Pat
terson street entertained Saturday
morning at a party In honor of the
nephew. Dick Hite. Saturday even
ing she entertained at dance in
honor Of her niece. Miss Clay Hite,
who was her house guest.
Mrs. Brackett Kirkwood Thofogood
of Newton Center. Mass, has been the
Wriley Jacobs Of ssth street.
Mrs. s. J. venable Of quincy street
entertained the Altar Seeiety Or the
Church of the Blessed Sacrament at
luncheon Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon E. Hodges OF
East Kirk street have returned from
New York city, where they met their
IN Emerson. who has been travelling
n Europe for three months. Emerson
odges Is now student at Harvard
Tniversity.
Miss Helen Elisabeth Hodges, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Vernon L.
Hodges of East Kirk street, who has
been a student at the University of
Paris for year. has returned with
her aunt, Miss Jane Hodges, after
travelling through Italy, Switzerland,
England and France.
Hamlin Hodges, the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Vernon e. Hodges OF East Kirk
street. and Robert McNa,ly, the son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. MeNally of New :
land street. are freshmen IN Brown
University, Providence, r. l.