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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03
Vast System of National
or Interstate HIGHWAYS

TAere was day, not very far back,
when vision in road building was
about as broad as mans farm or
community's interest. Pork barrel
methods and political pull, not yet a
memory, were a big part of the ac-
cepted order. Then it became possible
to see to the county limits and still
later 1t gradually was revealed that
roads leading from one county to
another might be convenience to q
reasonable number Of travellers Thus
emerged the idea Of state systems.
1t has remained for recent months,
however, to bring into potential exist
ence vast system Of national or in
terstate roads that in few years may
reasonably be expected to lie, like
long ribbons of white, across every
section Of the country and link up the
states. the cities and counties even
more closely than they were Joined In
the construction of railway lines. The
Idea isn't dream, but thing Of ma.
tional statute, provided for in the fed.
eres highway act of last November and
now rapidly assuming form through
cooperation of the state highway
departments with the United States
bureau Of public roads.
The system will comprise more than
175,O00 miles, Z per cent of the entire
public road mileage of the United
States. OF this amount three-sevenths
will be composed of interstate roads,
the remainder to make up connecting
state systems. There is state and fed
eral money enough in hand or in sight
to start the actual work, and nearly
all the states now have submitted to
the national bureau plans for the Sec
tons of road that will go into the in
terstate system. And the bureau is
seeing to 1t that the sections meet at
the state lines. No federal aid will be
allowed on any highway which does
not fit into the general scheme Of
national or state system.
This is vision in road building
bounded only by the limits of the coun-
try itself. 1t will mean results in the
shape of roads that link up and lead
somewhere and bring service to all
rather than favored few.-Kansas
City Times.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

EDDETTES
ON
TH II
ALMOST FORGOTTEN
w. By M:
= ss6M4A0oGAN

Large picturer. carried By the Sun
day Atlanta Journal OF handsome
drinking fountains erected by w. c.
T. e organizations recently at Way
cross and at Cairo recalls the indif
ference and neglect of tie memorial
drinking fountain that our local w. c.
I. L. erected on our Main and Cen
trail street park thirteen years ago.
This was considered fitting monu-
ment to the memory of our leading
woman citizen and ardent temperance
worker of the early days. Mrs. Nettie
c. Hall, who because of her continued
publicity work in connection with the
Enterprise of which she was at one
time owner and with this and other
papers in an editorial way gave her
the fonder appelation OF Mother En-
terprise" which is engraved upon the
fountain. Some defect in plumbing ar
rangement in the beginning SO that
overflow was not adequately provided
for. caused the fountain to be shut
off for such long time as to fall into
disrepute as convenience. Since
that time sanitary drinking arrange
ments have been installed elsewhere
making our fountain to appear the
more old fashioned and useless. No
doubt campaign to improve and
modernize its service could be effected
if the present w. c. T. u would car
~ il on.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03
LEGAL NOTrcE

GEORGIA., Ben Hill County;
Under and by virtue of power of
sale contained in a deed to secure
debt executed by T. N. Parish to !.
d. Mclaughlin on the fifteenth day of
November nineteen hundred twenty,
and recorded in the office of the Clerk
OF Superior Court of Ben Hill county,
III book 20, page III, the undersigned
will sell at public sale, at the Court
House in said county, during the legal
hours, Of sale, on the 81 day of Aug
ust, 1928, to the highest bidder for
cash, the following described property
to- wit
City Lots numbers Five, Six and
Seven in Square Number Seven, in
Block Number Seven in the CITY of
Fitzgerald, Georgia, as shown by NE
recorded plat of said city. For the
purpose of paying four certain promis-
sorry notes bearing date November Is.
1920; one due on or before June 1.
1923, and one due on or before the
first day of June each successive wear
thereafter until paid, together with in
terest thereon at 8 per cent per annum
also balance of $63.52 on note dated
November Is, 1920, due on or before
the flrst day OF June 1922 Made and
executed by said T. N. Parish. each
OF said notes stipulated for interest
from June =. 1921, at the rate of 6 per
cent per annum
The total amount due on date of
sale being $2,612.32 together with the
cost of this proceeding.
Said notes maturing by virtue of
default in the payment of note due
June /, 1923 and of balance due on
to the stipulation in said deed to Sc,
cure a debt.
A deed to the purchaser will be ex-
ecuted by the undersigned as author
lied by said power of attorney in said
deed to secure a debt.
This the second day of August, 1928.
J. D. Mclaughlin,
Attorney in fact for TN. Parish.
D E. Griffin
Attorney for Payee. Ag23
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03
WE WILL NEED MORE
SCHOOL HOUSES

The vital statistics report just is
sued shows a splendid birthrate for
Georgia During 1922 the births aver
aged 1913 per day and me proportion
OF white and colored shows one babv
to each eight white women and one
to each twelve colored. The far great
er mortality OF the colored babies in
sures large proportion of the white
race. Many Georgia cities note a
marked decline in marriages this sum
mer especially for June the usual peak
in wedding events.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03
FROM THEM THAT
HATH NOT

From them that hath not shall be
taken away even that which they
have. This must be the permeating
thought of those legislators who would
take away the agricultural schoolsof
Georgia at this time. Surely no one
thinks that the agricultural interests of
this state are sufficiently served even
with these district colleges doing as
effective work as they are everywhere
acclaimed to be doing. This is an agri-
cultural state and the business has
hardly yet been touched as it will ul-
timately be, but it will be sooner by
the aid of these schools and all other
possible educational means. The alter
native of a county agent or of a voca-
tional teacher for agriculture in
central high school in every county
might be weighed with some distinct
advantages in the latter plan, for
young men and boys will easier learn
at school and demonstrate more read
lily to their elders new methods and
scientific facts about their work than
can the county agent dealing with the
farmers of settled ways and opinions.
But let us add to, not subtract from,
our present facilities for making our
boys and girls of Georgia fitted to the
work of bringing the largest possible
results from our natural wealth of soil
and climate, affording themselves a
well-earned livelihood and bringing
prosperity to their communities.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03
Z
OUR LADY LEGISLATORS

Justiiylng our prediction as to the
conscientious application of women to
matters of state is the following quot
ed from a man member in interview.
Speaking of Mrs. Napier Of Bib coun
ty he says 'She is the most level head
ed member in the House"
Many of us are agreed on this" he
said. "She studies every proposition
carefully and she never misses COM
mittee session. She is making a SPLEEN
did representative, and we old-timers
give her due credit Miss Kempton the
other lady member, is also doing splen-
did work. 1t will not be long before
Georgia will have many women in the
legislature
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

SPOTL.IGHTS
ON
PEOPLE =
CANADA VOTES
RECOGNITION

The whole medical world has been
concerned over the recent insulin
treatment for diabetes discovered by
the Toronto physicion DR.. F. G. Ban
ting. Everywhere the treatment is
being given the test for that all but
hopeless disease of diabetes. The gen
eral verdict is of conspicuous i'm
provement, though some hold that re-
lief or arrest and not cure of the dis
ease is the extent of the remedy. How
ever, thousands of sufferers acclaim
DR.. Banting as the help and hope of
their lives and the Canadian govern
ment is rendering him in recognition
OF this an annuity sufficient to permit
the scientist to devote his life to med
ical researrh.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03
ALICE IN FLAPPERDOM

But not long did Miss Alice Robert
son eX-congresswoman allow flapper
customs to pervade the official sane
tums of the veterans hospital in
Okmulgee, Okla, where she is filling
a federal appointment as director in
chief. Her orders have been toward
the more modestly conventions ala
mode of dress, not so recently in
vogue and for more restraint of man
ner with the patients than she found
in evidence on her assumption of du-
ties there. With her new rules she
also offers some plain wholesome ad-
vice to the young women employed
there, which is of equal value to any
self-supporting women anywhere.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03
THE NEGRO AS A
MUSICIAN

Claiming the negro spirituettes as
American folk songs, along with In
dian music which is of another distinct
class, it might sometimes seem that
the American people were disposed to
appropriate something not altogether
their own. An editorial in the Atlanta
Journal would seem to substantiate
the claim by the following: "The
negro got his musical start from the
white man as he got everything else.
No music other than the staccato of
tom tom and his wierd banjo, originally
a gourd cut and dried, did he bring
from Africa were brought into the
South by the immigrants who came
by thousands. TIL BY 'abounded in
duet, the response, the refrain, and
the chorus. There were run over"
effects, the faraway ,ancestors of
jazz. With his sole IDEA of music
conferred in the rhv,hm and a ,sense Of
rhythm developed to a high degree,
the negro adopted this form of ex-
preston and has chung to it ever
since. The negro did not write or
originate one of them Not one Song
of the ante-bellum south was written
or composed by negro. What he
did for them was to show his white
neighbor how to put heart and soul
in them, and to add one more part"
- the feminine alto-an octave high
err than the male, the wierdest feature
of plantation music and farthest heard.
1T is in fact a sound from the birth
place of the savage, bark back to
the minors of the wild .-Atlanta Jour
nal.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03
THANKS ED

We received a cordial invitation to
join the Triton Board of Trade in their
official opening of the Triton Tobacco
Market today and attend Chicken
dinner given under its auspices. Them
Triton folks are doing the thing
right--last week they visited all of
their neighboring counties and this
week they are having them as their
guests. This kind of push will get re-
suits. Keep it up.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03
UP TO FITZGERALD PEOPLE

what is people make it. With every natural ad-
vanage town will not grow unless its people have
faith in it, boost it, seek to improve it and ron
SANITY work to make it bigger and better town
Fitzgerald people are doing these things for Fitz-
gerald IN splendid way and results are being
shown. Butythere always is danger that we NAV
become satisfied with what has been done and
VIII not make the efforts we should push the good
work on There can be no let up in city building.
II much has been accomplished, there is greater
reason tor accomplishing more. What has been
done will help in the effort to make the showing
better and the important thing is to keep the eff
fort up
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03
DREW STRAWS FOR
CALLING

Rather hazardous appears the plan
now under operation by twelve COLL
eye graduates to accept as their future
profession the one named on a slip
of paper drawn from hat. This IS in
tended as a return of Edison's chall-
enge that college graduates are too
limited in their ability to take a job.
One of these men trained as metal
allurgist at Cornell, is in the motion
picture business and if the other II
are established in their allotted pro-
fessions by September first he prom
Uses to continue in it, The other as
signments were as follows: Motion
picture actor, stage actor, steel, lum-
Der, farming, cattle, automobile, build
ing, construction, electrical engineer
ing, steamship transportation and un-
dertaker.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03
NOTABLE FOOTPRINTS

AS a part of the formal opening of
the Bridge of Remembrance comment
Grating Bib County heroes in the
World War span of a 215 foot
bridge across the Echeconnee River it
is planned that TIE first to cross the
bridge shall be General Gou-ad, the
French general who, will be The guest
OF the Rainbow division veterans and
OF the city of Macon at that time.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03
LAST AND -LONELY TOAST

This is to be the final and fitting
end Of the Last Mans Club" organ
lied SO years ago from the remnant of
a Minnesota Company serving in the
Civil War and meeting annually ever
since. In 1896 bottle of rare old wine
was presented to the Club and has
graced the banquet table ever since
but stands unopened in honor of that
last sad day when but one remaining
member shall drink toast to all the
departed comrades of his company.
Year by year the company diminish
es. -Four members still survive but
oreof these now living in St. Cloud,
Fla, wrote his regrets with the excuse
of having to spend the rest of his days
in wheel chair. The other three sat
down on July 21st the anniversary day
at a handsomely appointed table in
the hotel dining room of Saltwater,
Mich, with table extended to its full
length and 81 vacant chairs draped in
black.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

You can't expect foreigners to under
stand a language that says a man Is
down and out when he is hard up and
all in.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

Lots OF people are like some theoriess-they Just
will not work
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

AT least in aviation there won't be any detour
signs, any chickens nor cows in the roads.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

some OF these so-caled presidential possibilities
look more like impossibilities
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

y lot OF men think the world is hard ON them he
jcause they can't land soft berth
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

Mrs. c. c. Persons left Tuesday for
her home in Manchester accompanied
by her mother Mrs. S. @. Pryor
who will be her guest for week.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

Looks like the dove OF peace is about to degen
crate into piece of dove.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

LOIS OF these folks are not babies, but they con
t'nue to cry for the bottle
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

Mrs. w. A. Newsome IS enjoying a
visit from her mother Mrs. A. u. Har-
ris and her brother Leon Harris both
of Bradley, arriving Tuesday to re-
main a week.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

In this age, wise chicken doesn't cross the ro,d
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-08-03

VIM. H. Anderson, Supt. of the
New York Anti Saloon League, who
faces Grand Jury indictments charg-
ing forgery, extortion and grand
larceny Until recently, the league
was generously subscribed to by
John d. Rockefeller, Jr.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-09

The rifiemen flew to their places,
cut down. With him fell the courage
of the left wing, who now being fierce
ly charged, gave way, and retreated to
their camp. But scarcely had they
entered it, when the Americans, with
Arnold at their head, stormed it with
in~conceivable fury; rushing with trail
ed arms through a heavy discharge of
musQuetry and grape shot. The Brit
ish fought with equal desperation, for
their all was at stake, and the Ameri-
cans like a whelming flood, were
bursting over their entertainments,
and, hand to hand, with arguments Of
bloody steel, were pleading the cause
of ages yet unborn. Hoarse as a mas
tiff of true British breed, Lord Bal
carras was heard from rank to rank,
loud-animating his troops; while on
the other hand, fierce as the hungry
tiger of Bengal, the empetuous Arnold
precipitated his heroes on the stub
born foe. High in air, the encounter
ing banners blazed! there bold-waving
the lion-painted standard of Britain.
and here the streaming pride of Column
bias lovely stripes-while thick below,
ten thousand eager warriors close
the darkening files, all bristled with
yengeful steel. No firing is heard;
but shrill and terrible, from rank to
rank, resounds the clash of bayonets-
frequent and sad the groans OF the
dying. Pairs on pairs, Britons and
Americans, with each his bayonet in
his brothers breast, fall forward to-
gether faint-shrieking in death, and
mingle their smoking blood.
Many were the widows, many the
orphans that were made that day,
Long did the daughters of Columbia
mourn their fallen brotehrs! and often
did the lovely maids of Caledonia roll
their soft blue eyes of sorrow along
the sky-bound sea, to meet the sails
of their returning lovers.
But alasi their lovers shall return
no more. Far distant, on the banks
of the roaring Hudson they lie, pale
and helpless on the fields of death.
CLASSY now and dim are those eyes
which once beamed with friendship or
which famed in war. Their last
thoughts are towards the maids OF
their love; and the big tear glistens
in their eye, as they heave the part
ing groan.
Then was seer the faded form of
Oceans Queen, far-famed Britannia,
sitting alone and fearful on her west
ern cliffs. With downcast look her
faithful lion lay roaring at her feet;
while torn and scattered on the rock
were seen her many trophies of an
cient fame. Silent, in d~ishevelled
locks, the goddess sat, absorbed IN
grief, when the gale of the west came
blackening along the wave, laden
with the roar of murderous battle.
At once she rose-a livid horror
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-09

ish ambassador at Paris, Lord Stor-
mont, that the king of France had
taken part with the Americans. he
waited on the French minister, De
Vergennes; and with great agitation
mentioned the report, asking if it was
possible it could be true.
Very true, my Lord, replied the
smooth Frenchman.
well, I'm astonished at it sir" con-
tinued Stormont, Exceedingly aston
'ished. America, sir, is our daughter!
and it was extremely indicate to
"the French king thus to decoy her
from u embraces, and make a
I've of herr"
why, as to that matter, my Lord
quoth Neragennes, with the rue Gallo
shrug, there is no great harm done.
For the king of France is very will
ling to marry your daughter, and
make an honest woman of her"
ITO be continued)
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-09

spread her cheeks-distraction glared
on her eye-balls, hard strained to-
wards the place whence came the
groans of her childrenl the groans of
her children fast sinking in a distant
land-thrice she essayed to curse the
destroyers of her race; but thrice she
remembered that they too were her
sons. Then wild shrieking with a
mothers anguish, she rent the air with
her cries, and the hated name of North
r%esounded through all her caves:
But still in all its rage the battle
burned, and both parties fought with
an obstinacy, never exceeded. But,
in that moment of danger and of
glory, the impetuous Arnold, who led
the Americans, was dangerously
wounded, and forced to retire; and
several regiments of British infantry
pouring in to the assistance of their
gallant comrades, the Americans, after
many hard struggles, We're finally re-
pulsed.
In another quarter, where the
strength of the Germans fought, the
Americans, led on by Morgan, carried
the intrenchment sword in hand. The
face of Morgan was like the full moon
in a stormy night, when she looks
down red and fiery on the raging deep,
amidst laundering wrecks and cries
of drowning seamen: while his voice,
like thunder on the hills. was heard,
loud-shouting his heroes to the bloody
charge. The tall regiments of Hesse
Cassel fell or fled before them, leaE-
ing their baggage, tents, and artillery
in the hands Of the visitors.
This was a bloody day to both ar
mics: but so peculiarly disheartening
to the British, that they were obliged
to retreat that night to Saratoga,
where in a few days, ton the 18th of
October. 1770 they surrendered to
the Americans, under Gates, by whom
they were treated with a generosity
that perfectly astonished them. For,
when the British were marched out to
lay down their arms, there was not
an American to be seen! They had
all nobIy retired for a moment. as II
unwilling to give the pain, even to
their enemies. of being spectators OF
so humiliating a scene. Worthy
country men of Washington! this deed
of yours shall outlive the stars; and
the blest sun himself. smiling shall
proclaim. that in the wide travel OF
his beams, he never looked upon its
like before.
Thus, g~loriously for America, end
ed the campaign of II. That Of rs
began as auspiciously. In May, Silas
Dean arrived from France, with the
welcome news of a treaty with that
powerful people, and a letter from
Louis XVI. to Congress, whom he
styled-very dear great friends and
allies.