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r. ~ MOTORS and MOTORING -
AUTO SHOW ESSAY
PRIZES ARE AWARDED
Nationwide Interest Aroused In
Vast Amount Of Analytical
Reasoning.

AS a result of two months Of inten-
sfve comparison of several thousands
Of essays submitted in the contest
inaugurated in December by the Ma
tional Automobile Chamber of Com
merce to disclose the value of the
national automobile shows to the
public, the manufacturer Of motor
were made last Thursday. The win
ners of three Tiffany watches are as
follows: First prize, Z. Phil Merrill,
o. II. Wills & Co, Marysville, Mich. ;
second prize, w. w. Hodges, u Su-
burban road, Worcester. Mass; c. A.
Byers. s10 California building, Los
Angeles. Calf
The awards were made by a commit
tee made up OF executives of the No
tional Automobile Chamber of Com
merce in this city, headed by S. A.
Miles, manager of the national shows.
The other judges were Harry Meisell,
H r. Cobleigh and John c. Long.
The contest aroused nationwide in
terest and was productive of a vast
amount of analytical reasoning that
will be OF value in the conduct OF
future motor car expositionS. Almost
without exception the essays submit
ted were meritorious, making the de-
cisions a task of much difficulty.
That the first and second prizes
were won by men connected with the
industry will hardly occasion sur
prise 1t had been anticipated that
the most logical reasoning on the
subject would be done by contestants
who had long been connected with
automotive development and to whom
the national shows each year had
opened a new era in the amazing ad-
vance of the motor vehicle.
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used car dealers will not take on any
car unless 1t has received the hest
of care.
Message for Motorist.
Here, then, Is a vital message for
the motorist who forgets that some
day he will be used car salesman.
He may sell the car to the dealer
in part payment for new one or
to used car dealer or to the indi-
vidual who answers the want ad. in
the newspaper. but, regardless of the
details. he will be plumb up against
the fact that the time to have started
selling the car was the day he no
tced the rust on his nickeled radiator
and said. I'll polish that Saturday
afternoon or Sunday"
There is another angle to the situ-
alton. Who are the potential buy
ers of used cars today? Are they
strangers who take the motorists
word for it that the machine is what
he says 1t is. or are they acquaint-
ances of his who know what the car
is because they have seen him work
ing on it?
The more attention motorist
gives his car. and the more particular
he is to keep II running right, the
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best afford TO neglect.
The final touch is advertising. Ad-
vertise the fact that you are giving
your car the best of care and peo-
pie will come to realize that you've
got a valuable piece of automotive
merchandise. Every display of good
Judgment in the operation of the car
or attention to its ailments marks
the owner as d conscientious motor
ist. The public has a habit of judg-
ing a car by its owner quite as much
as they judge an owner by the car
he drives.
SaIesmanship Counts.
With proper advertising the
neighborhood comes to know that
John Jones drives a good car. When
word goes out that he is going "a
sell, every one. from his dealer to
his next-door neighbor, will know
that his car is worth more than the
average Some one will buy it on
the strength of its individual repu-
tation. And they'll never know that
its unusually high resale value can
be attributed to the fact that Jones
is salesman first. last and always
Anybody with the good coin car
buy car. but ability to sell A cal
that has seen it's best days is diff
ferent story.
The best owner makes the best
salesman. He sells as he drives.
Buyers know his arguments are
clean by the grease on his hands and
the oil-Stained overallS on his back
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AUTO OWNERS URGED TO KEEP
MIND ON RESELLING CARS
Value of Used Machines Depends on Care
Taken of Them, Says William
Ullman.

even more to his pocketbook. Con-
sptcuous among these is the attitude
OF the larger and more successful
dealers toward the trade in."
swamped with used cars a year or so
ago, the tendency was to swing to
| the opposite extreme of not taking
any cars in trade. Many dealers
| tried to break down this time-hon-
ored custom by one sensational burst
! of the new policy" but 1t was de-
cidedly more than the public could
digest. Most of them have gone back
| TO the old custom, but trade on terms
| that give them the benefit of the
! doubt.
Many dealers, however. stood firm
| in their decision to abandon the
trade allowance. They were deal
| erS in new cars: why should they
| stock UP with dilapidated merchan-
| disc? That was the attitude. 1t was
| logical enough, but just a trfle radi-
| cal TO the motorist who was accus-
toned to asking: How much will
! YOU allow me-?
To absorb the shock some of the
| more progressive dealers undertook
to operate a branch department for
the specific purpose of disposing of
! customers old cars without charging
! d commission. The motorist. there
| fore, began to have his first taste OF
| remorse, for here every evidence OF
| neglect and lack of car care was
| more pronounced than ever before
| The machine was offered for what IL
was, and many an owner realized
| for the first time that it was not
| what it should be.
| Points in Resale.
| The majority of car owners fool
ishly decided that this was an injus
| tice, besieged the dealers for a re.
| turn to the old custom and uncon-
sciously brought to head the point
ness hinges. The dealers began tc
see light Immediately after they hac
| agreed upon certain definite allow
! anceS for all makes and models OF
cars and then agreed to disagree
| In the last few months they nave
! come TO realize that the resale value
of a car, in nine cases out of ten
| depends upon the car itself. Iht
| figures largely. as it always will
but the individuality of the car Is
! receiving attention today which
| would not have been regarded as
| necessary a year or two ago.
The market for used cars is chang
| ing. That is the answer. 1t is this
light which must glimmer through
| these remarks If they are to help the
! reader see how he can get the very
maimum price for his car when he
| comes to sell II.
| Today man can walk along auto
mobile row with hundred dollars. q
job and an honest face and a new
| car will be his. ! won't be a Rolls
! Royce. but it strikes him as being
prefera Bile to taking a chance on a
used car which may be stacked with
| jokers. This automatically elimi-
! mates from the market the So-calleo
| green motorist who, not so long ago
| was willing to throw his first auto.
! mobile investment into anything tina,
| locked like motor car.
| The real purchasers of used carr
| today are motorists who know auto
! mobile valueS-people who are hunt.
= ing for bargains. The market has
so completely changed that many
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2-STORY STREETS
BELIEVED COMING
Considered One of Few SoIu-
tions of Traffic Problem
Daily Increasing.
PLAN ALREADY IN USE
Grand Central Terminal Has Dou-
ble-Deck Thoroughfare-Sub-
ways Also Built.
PLAN ALREADY IN USE

"Double-deck streets and HIGHWAYS
are coming" says Colin Campbell, gen
eral sales manager Chevrolet Motor
Company.
while it is becoming increasingly
evident that the only saturation point
Of the automobile industry is the ca
pacity of the highways we have al
ready reached capacity in various city
streets and some highways near large
cities.
1T is iuconceivablc that such space
limitations viii be permitted TO stop the
universal adoption Of the most
economical efficient means for trans
portation OF goods and people ever
devised.
Already in Use.
"CiviIization is directly dependent on
transportation facilities and no man
should be denied the right to avail him
self of the best of such facilities yet
that is what We are coming to rapidly
Already large cities have established
oneway traffic and assigned special
streets for commercial vehicles.
The double-deck street is in use
right now in the approaches TO the
Grand Central terminal in New York.
also automobile subway for taxIcabs.
sixteen Cars Abreast.
There is an automobile subway il
the approach to Belle Isle III Detroit.
City engineers think there is moth
ing exceptional in building elevated
tracks, subWays and tunnels for rail
roads. The railroads carry less pas
sengers than do automobiles and ele
waited and subway roads for motor
traffic seem even more logical
THE engineer who designed In"
new Hudson River bridge provided Z
broad automobile level wide enoug D
for sixteen cars abreast.
Time Now for Action.
"Municipal engineers should realize
that in large cities the increase Per
month in the number of automobiles
in use Will soon compel. first, a gen
eral system of oneway streets. and,
second. special doubie-deck streets
The time to meet this situation =
now. because while extra streets are
being built the increased registration
in Detroit, for instance. is about 2.hHA
cars per month, allowing for replace
ments OF old cars.
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less the models change radically the
year of the car doesn't count like
it used 10. The cars the thing"
The details of how the car should
be taken care Of so as TO insure the
owner against unnecessary loss
through depreciation are not clearly
understood. Most drivers think they
know what ought to be done to boost
cars resale value, but. judging
from the enormous losses which most
motorists are forced TO take when
they sell their cars. the problem is
not seen with suitable glasses.
Cnrs Need Attention.
For example, there is the i'm
portance of knowing what parts OF
the car to give most attention. Fail
ure to grease the universal joints
may mean a repair job and a re-
placement; but what is the owner TO
do if he doesn't keep the instrumen
board looking right? or the up
holstery? He can always procure a
new part for the chassis from the
stockroom, knowing beforehand the
cost; but when, for instance. the up
holstery OF closed car is gone the
resale value of the car is knocked
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into a cooked hat. for most people
buy for looks.
This. OF course, should not be con-
strued as meaning that the owner
ought To keep dolling up the car and
neglecting the mechanical essentials.
for this practice is nearly as bad as
giving car slipshod attention. The
point is. when the motorist finds he
must sacrifice some point in caring
for the car on certain day he
ought TO sacrifice the least impor-
tant. l have seen drivers going to
great pains to keep their spark plugs
clean while the hood of the car goes
dull from lack of polish.
In local garage there is a car
! owned by mechanical engineer VINO
is a nut" on valve adjustments.
The motor runs like new. without a
tap or slap. But when he comes
| The keynote of car care, he will
! less receive a shock 10 find that,
| though his engine is in remarkably
excellent condition. the remainder OF
the car has been sadly neglected.
| The keynote of ca rcare. he will
| discover, is moderation as well as
judgment in knowing what units and
parts 10 care for most frequently
and those which. in a pinch. he can
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better are his chances Of disposing
of 1t. irrespective OF the make or
model
Frequently certain make or
model OF car will have one bad fault
which If watched may never occa-
sion the owner any trouble. This
fault. encouraged by neglect, may
give the car a bad name and cause
IL to have very poor rating in the
used car market on the average. But
any person who has observed the
life OF one of these cars III the hands
of a diligent owner won't be likely
to be influenced by the general situ-
alton in the market. The used car
market reports are no guide to the
man who is buying what he sees is
worth the price asked.
The individuality of the car counts.
The owner OF car which sells for
about $500 recently refused $3.50 for
il. Several friends agreed to give
him more than the best allowance
from any dealer. But he didn't sell.
because he was informed that the
car would bring more money later
in the spring. regardless of the fact
that 1t would then be technically a
year older.
AS used car dealer told him: I'm
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BY WILLIAM ULLMAN.

Have you ever paused to wonder,
as you burn the road and drink in
temperately from your cars cup of
usefulness. Just what that car will
be worth a year from now? Or,
which is even more important, what
you will be able to sell it for?
All motorists at some time reach
Che point where the disposal of the
old car becomes a problem. Some
think they are lucky because a dealer
hands them big allowance on A
trade for a new car and never sense
their problem until they try to find
their moneys worth in the new
proposition. Others have a knack OF
selling their cars to the Insurance
companies, while still others have the
problem solved automatically through
tho process of elimination. the pain
full details of which are OF no inter
est here. But these are the eXcep-
tions.
DImcult to Sell Cars.
Most of us have to go out with our
and play salesman. We have TO be
fast workers. but the job is a Levia =
than proposition for all that.
It's easy enough to buy d car when
the old bank balance is running over,
but selling that car to some one after
having literally driven il 20 death
frequently requires what appears to
the uninitiated as magic ability. AT
the man who never gives the matter
of selling his car moment s
thought until the problem has a
strangle-hold on him.
To the motoriSt who begins to sell
his car the moment he buys it the
situation is quite the reverse, with
the result that his motoring is far
easier on his pocketbook. He un-
derstands his problem clearly at all
times, and when the new superb Six
rolls into used car row, with all the
latest frills, he knows that the job
of getting rid of the encumbrance
isn't going to be a nightmare.
The whole thing resolves itself into
A matter of craftsmanship, no mat
ter how you view IT. One can say
that the resale value of n car de-
pends upon the care the owner has
given it, the demand for such a car
or the reputation of the particular
make. but in the final analysis what
the owner gets for the machine when
he sells II depends on how good a
salesman he happens to be. But the
salient point is, the selling begins
the very moment he sails out with
the sparkling new bus; he prepares
for the eventual sale the moment he
raises the hood and does "a needed
job on the engine.
Conversely the motorist who tells
himself that he'll fix II tomorrow is
simply falling down on his sales
manship. literally killing his chances
chine -hen he gets right down TO
brass tacks with the man who is in
terested in buying, granted he finds
that particular individual.
Auto Business Changing.
A number of very interesting
changes are coming about in the
automobile business, changes which
mean much to the car owner an
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HEAVY TIRE EXPORT.

The available market for automo-
bile tires outside the United States
for 1923 Is approximately 100000
castings Considering the rate at
which American tires were exported
the first ten months OF 1922 1t seems
reasonable TO suppose that the 1929
export figures will be about 1,350,0O0
or about 90 per cent of the total
available, Miller tire officials say.
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COMPENSATION RECORD

AS result Of excellent prevention
devices and rst-aid measures in prr
venting infection in minor injuries. the
Oakland Motor Car Company has set
A new record for the last six months
Of 1922 when the compensation cost
the company less than i9 cents per
man for the six months period.
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A number of very interesting
changes are coming about in the
automobile business, changes which
mean much to the car owner anc
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-04-05
glad if any one interested would at
tend our exercises and encourage us
by their presence.
PRELIMINARY CONTESTS IN
EXPRESSION AND MUSIC

Never has the need of an adequate
auditorium been more urgently felt
than by the congested audience at the
contest in recitation and defamation
held in the Study Hall at the High
School Monday night. The hearers
generally have asserted their great en-
jcyment of the excellent program off
cred notwithstanding that handicap.
Many protested their utter inability
to have made a personal choice of mer-
it so close were the contestants in
rank, and the number was so large,
thirteen girls and seven boys in all.
The judges from Triton arriving an
hour late allowed time for the Fitz-
Hi spirit to get in full swing with
school songs and cheers. RI
Mr.. A NJ. Stephens presided and the
judges were Miss Sarah Wesley and
Miss Meta Murray, both experienced
teachers of expression and Mr.. Wesley
Hargrett of college experience.
The winners who will go up against
the best of the other towns of the dis
trict at the meet next week in Cuth-
bert include Misses Helen Will
Jams, Frances Denmark. and Doris
Watkins in recitation and Marvin
Morris, Furman Smith and &c. Ches-
ter in defamation.
Miss Clara Madden was the express
sion teacher.
On Tuesday night the study hall
was again filled with friends of the
music students who were trying out
for the first, second and third places
and out of the twelve contestants who
presented a program quite classic in
quality and of great individual merit,
the winners were declared to be Miss
es Julia L6vett, Marjorie Denmark,
and Helen Williams.
Their teacher was Mrs ]. B. Nor
man. Mr.. U. ]. Bennett presided and
judges ali of Ocilla were experienced
music teachers, including Mrs Grady
Castellow, Mrs. Frank Brannon and
another.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-04-05
EARLY FORM OF CIGARETTE
Columbus Historian Tells Of Methods
Of Using Tobacco as Practlced
by the Indians.

or all things American, nothing Is
more so than the cigarette. When
for the first time European set foot
In the western hemisphere, those In.
dian natives of San Salvador, who SO
startled the brave Genoese by blowing
smoke from their mouths and nOstrils
were really smoking crude and primi-
tive cigarettes-tobaccO wrapped In
the leaves of Indian corn. BartholO-
milo de Las Casas, the apostle of the
Indies, who edited the journal of Co
lumbus, in his Historic de las Indlas."
tells of two men Of Columbus party
who returned from an expedition in
land with an account Of how the
aborlgines were accustomed to the
solace Of tobacco. Their manner of
smoking, as narrated by Las Casas,
plainly suggests the cigarette, and this
is accounted the earliest reference to
the use of tobacco in that form.
The natives Of the New world. said
the Spaniard. wrap the tobacco in
q certain leaf. In the manner of a
musket formed of paper" and, "having
lighted one end of it, by the other they
suck, absorb or receive that smoke
inside with their BREATH"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-04-05
Seventh Grade School News
Second Ward

In order to understand about bank
drafts better, we had two banks on
Monday and Tuesday and played the
matter through. Florence Myrick was
cashier of the Exchange N1tional
Bank of Fitzgerald and Russell Hunt
er cashier of the Atlanta National
Bank.
Pupils bought drafts and sent them
away to pay debts; others drew fH.
goods sold with sight draft, bN OF
lading attached; while others drew for
goods sold on thirty days time, the
buyer accepting the draft and seller
dlscounting it at his bank.
We all enjoyed the lessons and feel
that it was a good way to make the
subject plain.
Another departure, and one we are
gong to get much benefit from, is
the taking over of the morning exer-
clses by the school. Each row will take
two mornings in succession. If the
other rows do better than the first
one did on Monday and Tuesday, they
will have to go some" On Monday,
Evelyn Jeffords read from the Bible !;
Florence Myrick gave a tax on the
telephone, what it is composed Of and
the countries from which the material
is obtained; Viola Nelson recited Car
lyle's To-day"
Florence's talk was so good that she
was. asked to repeat it in the fifth and
sixth grade rooms.
We cannot give all the programs but
we will mention some good things
from time to time and we would be
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-04-05

WEALTH inherited Is valued like wealth
wv earned. Victory Is great the battle Is hard.
There is short road to real triumph That which is
gained easily Is lost easily. Easy comes, easy goes
The plant that grows Fast withers rapidly. The
tree that grows slowly endures
Steadfast application will do more than the quick,
hard blow Of impotence. Dropping water will cut Its
way through granite.
Mountains not made In moments; they are
the work of ages.
Great deeds are done not by strength but by per-
sistence.
Want thing hard enough work for 1t long enough
and you are pretty sure to get it.
A single purpose Is the first essential to success
Stick to It, Tenacity is the primary element of great
1t Is wisdom to build castles in the air; but 1t is
folly to stop there. Go at foundat ton pile stone
upon stone until you reach your castle. Then it is
yours
Stay with it" is the slogan that makes the cowboy
master Of the bucking broncho
Don't give up the ship was the command to his
men that brought Perry victory.
Perpetual pushing puts difficulties out Of counte-
nance and makes seeming impossibilties give way.
Copyright 1923. by
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-04-05
I{eL1a1d lYdIonesS4E1
PRESERVE lance
COUNTS MOST

The weak wait for the opportunity to strike while
the iron is hot The strong make opportunity by strk
ing the iron until 1t is hot.
Perseverance rather than bri1nancy IL the best in
a long
The tortoise knows he has 10 do his utmost all the
time to even hope to cope with the hare. The hare,
knowing his better speed, often relies upon sprints
and delays too long.
Over-confdence foreshadows neglect Don't go to
sleep at the switch. It isn't worth the risk.
The pick and spade persistently applied at fixed
place may penetrate mountain.
The oceans have been welded through the Suez and
Panama Canals by just plain digging
He who attains eEninence spends his energies in
pursuit.
There is creature so humble but who, armed with
determination, may not gain his point
By gnawing through dyke even rat may drown
a nation.
No soldier ever decorated with shoulder straps
for marking time.
Brand the word forward" on your brain. Always
obey 1t. Go ahead and keep going.
Don't worry about what the other fellow can do
He may be better than but you stick to your job
You may be the tortoise that wins the For-"He
that shall endure unto the end the same shall he
saved"
Richard Lloyd Jone~
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-04-05
SCHOOL NEWS

things said of the Preliminary Decla-
nation and Reading Contest The ord
er was excellent with crowded stu
dy hall and judges from Triton one
hour late. The school spirit was fine.
Mr.. E. A. Pounds, State High
School Inspector, was a distinguish
visitor of last week. His talk was
along educational lines and he stress
ed the note of optimism.
DR.. Richardson, from State College
of Agriculture was also visitor last
week
Mr.. c. T Owens, County Agent,
brought to the pupils a project for in
tcresting more young people in the
chicken industry. Mr.. Owens work
among the boys and girls of the coun-
~ has brought about much good al
ready. 1t is hoped he will continue
to work up interest among town boys
and girls.