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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
CLEANSING THE UNCLEAN

The ancient and hopeless disease
of leprosy as it was formerly consid
cred is about to be conquered is the
claim of the U. s. Public health Ser
vice. A close record of the treatment
| given during the last ten years at the
Federal hospitals in and about the
Hawaiian Islands shows a large per
centage paroled in less than two
years about 20 per cent and of these
Is per cent suffered relapse, and in
second treatment only a fourth re-
turned for frI Their attention 1t is
true of leprosy as OF cancer. that
early recognition and early treatment
hastens the degree of Improvement
and the idea OF parole is of advantage
IN causing the victims to disclose their
condition sooner than in former wears
when the fear of permanent isolation
caused so many to conceal their con-
d'tion and thus spread the disease in
their community. Chaulmoo6oa oil and
its derivatives has proved the success
tul specific for the cure of the dis
ease.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
THE HEAT IN PARIS
CREATES BIG THIRST
Demand Exhausts Supply of Cafe
Liquors. Six Million eBers Sold

PARIS,-About 100000 beers
were consumed in $4,000 bars and
cafes in Paris in the last "a hours.
Thousand of cafes supplies of
booze became exhausted owing to the
tremendous demand due to the ex-
cessive heat in Paris. Ice cream man.
ufacturers are working night andI daH
to supply the demand, utilizing t.
plant of American machinery provided
by doughboys and left after the
armistice and never used until now.
Thousands of American tourists are
the best booze customers, picking up
champagne at SIS bottle as a relief
from the exorbitaht demands. of boot
leggers in America.
Women living in the Crillon carry
entire cosmetic layouts with them go
ing to dinner at night, applying rouge
and powder in the restaurants ladies
rooms, as they are unable to see to.
apply the makeup in the dim lighted
rooms of the hotel
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
Oddities
ON
THINGS
GA. P. A. BECOMES DONOR
. - By M
J NEdud@SNy0Id@T

Something quite new in the activi-
ties Ut the Georgia Press association
is the recent movement; not quite
achieved through the contributions OF
the larger state papers and the indi-
vidual editoss of smaller papers and
under the personal canvass of Mr..
John Paschael of the Atlanta Journal
to secure a printing press for the Mar
tina Berry School Not only III this
afford another means of vocational
training for large numbc D. ,..
ents but will give opportunity for
much greater publicity to the work OF
his school through the frequent is
suing of literature concerning it. 1t
will keep educators and the alumni in
closer touch with its progress which
will have beneficient result to the
school. SO far the editors have had
naught but altruistic motives in this
gift but it may prove, as suggested by
one at their last convention, that it
will be of value to the newspaper field
of Georgia, that trained printers will
be available at times without the more
expensive method of training in the
EDITORS own shop-where time is per-
haps the most important considera-
ton.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
LOCOMOTIVES AND
AUTOMOBILES

In the case of an engineer, a license
to run locomotive is obtained after
four years of hard work and is granted
to no man OF effective vision or hear
ing or under p years OF age. He then
operates over steel track and goes
only forward or backward without
turning to one side and the other. In
the case OF the automobile which is
p;ling UP victims both dead and MAIN
ed tor life at a rate exceeding that
of railroad accidents per year, any
child tall enough to reach the wheel
with his hands and the accelerator
with his feet is turned loose upon the
public roads to do what damage he
may. Laws on the statute books max
ing 10 the minimum age are hardly
ever observed anywhere. Laws as to
speed and physical condition of driv-
ers are not even enforced as a pre-
ventive, only considered in making
cases after an accident. In our state
and many others. a motorists license
is simply unheard Of As for grade
crossings since the motorists will not
stop, either let us do away with them
or put it up to the railroad engineer
to do the stopping. Human life Is
worth some sort of protection.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
SPOTL.IGHTS
ON
PEOPLE g
LEADS REFORMATORY
WORK

Mrs. Manson the able and inspir-
ing director of the State Training
School for boys at Milledgeville has
presented her cause in a fervent eff
fective manner before the state edi-
tors at Lavonia and before the state
legislature to which she introduced
as demonstration two of the schools
bright specimens, i'll her appeal Ter
an appropriation. Three years ago her
board of directors took these young
boys of ten to twenty years out of
stripes, from behind bars, from the
range OF threatening guns and began
to treat them as homeless waits need
ing love and care which was in truth
the head and front OF their offending -
To hear her story of their improve
men., the success in paroling them,
and the absolute certainty of making
good future citizens instead of hope
less criminals, was most thrilling and
convincing The edtois, promised pub
licity to the work and4 the legislature
is bound to take some recognition in
financial way.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
MRS. BIGHAM WRITES FROM
IOWA OF TRIP WEST
July q, 1923

July 81, 1923
Leader Enterprise.
We left Bement, ILL.,, July 9TH, spl Mt
a night at the home of Mrs. Treadbas
mama's old school mate at Harvey
Then through Chicago past the North
western University, camping in Zion
City at the home OF Mrs. Bert Brown
and family. Mr.. and Mrs. John How
der, Mrs. Partridge and sister Morri-
son lives near the Browns and we
visited them also Mr.. and Mrs. P.
b. Newcomer also called on us. These
were all once Fitzgerald people. We
enjoyed the visit.
We heard the choir of five hundred
voices. The choir robed in white. The
band, orchestra and pipe organ all large
and granG The ushers were robed in
black Guards in uniforms watched
autos OF those inside anc kept the
chauifeurs from crowding or stopping
ping in the wrong place.
We also visited the publishing plant
where we saw wonderful machinery
The lead melted, was kept hot while
being made into new type. Other
machinery for printing. folding, pack
ing, throwing out any torn or imper
feet work. The Bakery where two
car loads day are baked and shipped,
OF fig bars and other plain and fancy
cakes. Then the apron factory where
many kinds OF ginghall were made in
to pretty bungalow APRONS. Then the
candy factory. a. addition is being
made to this. The handkerchief factory
was not in Operation SO we did not see
this.
All these institutions give Zion mem
bers work, and the workers give one
tenth of their wages to Zion which
has between fifty and sixty thousand
members.
Two or more good school buildings
and recreation grounds are used, and
good instructors employed to educate
the children who, am told, have the
chance to learn anything they wish.
Great attention is given to music
All schooling is free. Each member, at
a rally called Marching Around The
Barrel, puts in barrel what they feel
able. The barrel is nearly filled fol-
schools.
We are now visiting Mrs. Balls sis
ter at Algona, Iowa after going to
Milwaukee.
Mrs. F. l.. Bigham.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
PLAGUE OF MOTHS


Coming in swarms like MOSQUITOES
were the moths recently Fostering the
cities of Washington through out the
Columbia River Valley. Sothick would
they gather around the street lamps
as to dHrken the globes and falling to
death by the thousands fairly Uttered
the streets to the danger point for
walking and automobile driving. Fresh
paint acted as fly paper to the swarm
ing insects and walls so covered were
ruined. These moths were four times
the size of house flies and began fly
ing at shutdown The only endurable
feature of their onslaught was their
short life OF 80 hours.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26

can be made effectively non-existent. 1t is the
weapon dearest to the heart of the boss because
through it that opposition which is closest to him
which comes from his own State--which knows
his weaknesses and his failings-can be slenced
There have been times in the New York dele
CATION, for instance when forty OF the representa-
tive men OF the party from the State, have been
made through the unit rule simply the tools OF a
party boss whom they despised, and the assets of
A system of control against which their Judgment
revolted Yet because the boss had majority
it may be only of one vote in the delegation
has assumed the right to vote the entire delega-
zion and has been permitted to do so by the con
vention No man named by such body represents
anything but the will of the bosses-which is an
ether way of saying he has been chosen only by
the masters of the bosses. The unit rule is a
relic of the stone age in politics and it should be
discarded
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
LEGAL NOTICE
GEORGIA, Ben Hill County:


UHder and by virtue of a power of
sale contained i'll the deed executed by
w r Dykes to Isler Grocery and
Produce Company on the first day of
March, 1923, recorded in the office of
OF the clerk of Superior Court, Ben
Hill County, Georgia in Book 81, page
III, the undersigned will sell at public
cut croy, at the court house in said
county, during the legal hours of sale
en- IT, Goth day of August, 1923, to
the highest bidder for cash the follow
ing property, to-wit:
City lot number Six in Square mum
Der Sixteen i'll Block Number Fifteen
in the City of Fitzgerald Georgia. as
shown by the recorded plat of said
city on file in the office of the Clerk
OF the Superior Court, Irwin County,
Geo eia
Also: Forty Nine and ten sixteenths
ceres in land Lot No. 10 IN the third
and district of originally Irwin, now
Ben Hill County. Georgia. and more
Particularly described as follows: Be-
ginning at the northwest corner of said
lot, + zee down the original west line
of said lot twenty six chains and sir
ty tour feet to a fence, thence in a
southeasterly direction along said
fence distance oil, "a chains and sixty
feet, thence in northerly direction to
the second branch, thence north along
the run of said branch to the head Of
said branch, thence in a norther'y di-
rection along an established\line to the
original north line of said lot; thence
west along the original north line of
sad lot to the starting point
FOR the purpose of paying thirty
notes dated March 1st 1923, each be-
ing for the principal sum of $4,000
each stipu' ating for interest from date
at the rate of eight per cent per an
mum, signed by w. r. Dykes, maker
and PAYABLE to Isler Grocery and Pro
duce Company, the first one being due
May lst. 923. and one on the, first dav
OF each succeeding month thereafter
until thirty of said notes are due. Said
Mortgage provided that in the event
that said first party fails to paw any
Ct &2ld noses promptly at maturity,
time being of the essence of this con-
tract----then the principal debt sec,1r-
ed by this deed, together with the nm
paid interest there-1 shall become due
and payable at once, at the option of
the holder. and
WHEREAS, three OF said notes
having matured and the maker thereof
having defaulted in the payment of
same and the same remaining unpaid
the said lS'er Grocery & Produce Com
p"ny tn holder of said notes having
exercised its option, and having de-
cared FL of said notes due. The am
orn' Dire on said notes at the date of
50 e VII be Three thousand Dollars
n~'ncipai and interest S11333 and the
cost Of This advertisement
A conveyance will be executed to
the purchaser by the rLlrsic.d as
authorized in the said deed. This July
10Th 1923.
'sler Grocery 3 Produce Company.
A. L. Z 7. c. Mcdonald,
Attorneys Auo16
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26

MORAL EXPEDIENT

In, the different obnvict camps OF
Georgia and Florida since the elimi
nation of the lash as corrective meas
ure, more or less trouble has caused
the guards in the exercise of discip-
line. In one Florida camp where the
negro convict grew insolent even to
the point of striking or their job
The suggestion of cutting off hot
BISCUIT and coffee from the bill of fare
was acted upon with the result OF
putting the 26 negroes back on the
public road within "a hours, and sing
ing while they worked.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
CITRUS ADVERTISING A SUCCESSIVE Florid


Citrus Exchange is making appeal to the growers Of
grape fruit cooperate instead OF compete in the mar
kctng of their product and that the keynote of its
to date has been found in newspaper adverts
ing Ten years the exchange says started to ed
ucate the American housewives to the food and health
values OF grape fruit Today, as result of newspaper
advertising onefourh of the American people eat grape
fruit There remain however three fourhs of the peo-
Ile yet to be reached.
The potential market for the CANNED grape fruit alone
is staggering to contemplate The canning of grape fruit
now has been perfected
All that remains is to have the people told about it
The citrus exchange is to be complmented its vision
in seeing that only newspaper advertising can accomplish
such mutually beneficial education The housewives of
every small town in the country will learn through ad-
vesng in their local newspapers all about grape fruit
Then everybody will profit.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26

A TELEPHONE NATIoN-In 1877 the number Of
telephones per hundred population in both the United
States and Europe In 1890 the United States
has less than telephone per hundred population and
Europe had barely fraction of the telephone In 1921
Europe had little better than telephone per humid
red population while the United States had risen to more
than thirteen telephones per hundred population and
has total of 45OOOOO in use which is two-thrds of all
the telephones in the whole world.
In this country there is about telephone to every
farm dwelling, convenience unheard of in other coun-
tries. This wonderful telephone development is due to
efficient organization, the cumulative effect and inn
portance of investments great and small in all the appar-
atus and equipment required for the transmission of
speech well to the foresight and business acumen
those who have directed the policy of the Bell System from
the beginning and to the fac that in this country tele-
phone development has been left to private enterprises
under reasonable governmental regulation
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
INSURANCE GROWING cHEApER-Not long aa

NANOE GKOWING OF1EAPEK-NOt long
the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reported
that electricity the only large in the cost of v-
ing which had shown any reduction in cost to the con
sumner since 1917
Whether not this indicates recognition OF the
truth that the expense for fire insurance protection rep
only small percentage OF the individual over
head not made clear or whether it, was merely an
oversight OF the Bureau in overlooking this buwark of
modern society 1t is matter OF record however, that
between 1912 and 1922 the average charged in the
United States for fire insurance coverage declined to the
extent of for each 500 OF insurance carried
The astonishing feature of this situation is the fact
that the reduction took place in the face of heavy adva-
for railroad fares rents supplies wages advertising
and other necessary expenses
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
7ALLAcY OF BUYING BY MA1L-How

FALLACY OF BUYING BY MAIL-HoW
would you like to journey to the nearest city for
pound OF sugar, yard of muslin, or a spool
ct thread, a smoke? And how would YOU like
to make the trip when you need prescription
titled in hurry with death running you a race?
You would make some noise if forced to such
to such an extremity-and then more noise
You would say-and justly so-that town in
which you can not buy pound of sugar, or yard
OF muslin or spool of thread, or smoke or even
get prescription filled, is mighty poor excuse
tor town and not worth living in.
Yet our merchants only afford to keep these
things tor your conveniences as long as you buy
things from them. IL is not doing this town anv
good to buy the little things here and then chase
OIL to city or send to a catalogue house when
You want something on which the merchant has a
chance to make a dollar. Neither is it doing YOU
any good for the prosperity of each citizen is de-
pendent to large extent upon the prosperity of
the community as a whole
we are not telling you something you do not
know We are simply refreshing your memory
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26

a small clique OF men can de-
feat public opinion. They car
wear down the majority of the
delegates and compel them in
despair to take the candidate
Of the bosses However, there
is another device OF bossium that
must be examined before the
palm is given to this as the chief
evil. And that is the unit rule
This is the means by which a
great minority Of a delegation
a,,,, ,,,,,,,1n, cLo-+ 1E -. l. II
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
MODERN ROADS As ADVERTISING

cost OF building and maintaining good roads seems
SO great that many taxpayers are inclined to lie
down. and say they simply can't be afforded Yet
before taking that attitude, it is well to reflect
the returns that good road brings
The news that certain town county has
good roads spreads for many miles around. Mot
ofists drive that way when out for pleasure, or
will go in that direction when seeking trading
center. They will go many miles out OF their way
if they can strike good road into some business
center.
The convenience and comfort of good road is
thus magnet that draws trade and business that
spreads prosperity into the surrounding country
1t makes town seem like live one. The streets
OF its business center we'll filled with visitors
while town with poor outlying roads find visi-
tors going elsewhere. 1t costs something to solve
the good roads problem, but it costs more not to-
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
LIBERTY OR DEATH

The National Womans Party is il
full swing in the Alabama Legislature
having entered 40 bills that will brin.
about equal rights for the women O
the state II they are successfully car
red through. In some states blank
ct measure is sought to cover every
statute of inequality.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
WHY GO TO CHURCH?-Going to church sal

WITT 20 TO NI1UNNI1!-NOInS 70 Church sat
istes need. We eat to satisfy physical hunger
We sleep to refresh our tired and worn bodies So
church going satisfies mans longing desire to
know God The finest fellowship that is found
among men is furnished to those who avail them
selves of the privilege of church attendance
Where learn the lesson of the Heavenly Faith
crs love and care better than at church? Where
is the lesson OF brotherly kindness taught better
than at church? Here it is cultivated consdera-
ton and responsibility for others that makes the
worlds best Citizenship
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
WHY WE BOOST THE scHooLs-Newspa

WHY WE BOOST THE SCHOOLS-Newsna-
per readers, particularly those who have no child
fen often wonder why newspaper editors take
Such keen interest in the building of new schools
ana the encouragement of education Sometimes.
when the cost of school extension seems partic-
uiarly heavy efforts made to have it appear as
IL the local editor were unmindful of the public
interest in forever boosting for new avenues of
learning But let us lift the professional curtain
50 that you may see there is usually helpful
thought behind the writing of an editorial
The growth OF population places succeeding gen
erations at disadvantage. Original stores of nat
ural wealth are being depleted They must be CON
stantly replenished
Caretree folks say that by the time exhaustion
is IN sight we will have taken care of the situation
some other way; that when new fuel is found
coal and mining won't be necessary. And there
IS exactly the point The great need of the hour is
for the development of all those characteristics
that can find root only in the trained and educated
mind That is why we always boost the schools.
even when they are hard to pay for
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26

THE UNIT RULE (By Daniel F Cohalan, Su-
preme Court Justice State of New York )-Atten-
ton has been called to the two-thirds rule by
which junta of bosses representing the worst
forces OF organized machine politics are able to
exercise veto power on the activities OF the Dem
ocratc National Convention Through that rule
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26

= The home town Newspaper
= as we know it in North Amer
= lea is the worlds greatest sales
y man.
= Everyday, everywhere, it is
= carrying the great message of
= commerce, bringing buyer and
+ seller into profitable rontact.
= The sales it makes per Year to-
= tai i'll the billions.
y Its customers are in every
= home, in every office, on every
+ farm.
= Its cost per sale is less than
= any other salesman, for not
= only is it the worlds greatest
= salemna in VOLUME but also
+ in efficiency.
= The biggest problem in mer-
= chandislng today is high selling
= costs. Newspaper advertising
= sent on the job of looking for
" sales where iuying habits offer
: profitable opportunities, is the
surest means of keeping down
= this vexatious item.
= These are the days of scien-
title selling. Haphaard selling !
is the road to red ink figures.
Newspaper advertising is the :
easy road to all the people in all :
markcts-and newspaper adker- :
Using and scientific selling go =
, hand in hand
: The great increase in news .
paper advertising reflects the 4
tendency of the times.
Merchants of Fitzgerald, we
are offering you the services
OF the Worlds Greatest Sales
man every week in the Year. a
u
THE FITZGERALD 1
, LEADER-ENTERPRISE !
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26

Some folks seem to think the best way to make
the country dry is to drink up all the available
liquor
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26

Miss Sophie Borsuk of Triton is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Tatel.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26

in hopes the time may come when our people will
conclude that town is worth living in is worth
trading in.-THAT'S ALL.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26

grade crossing just will not stand for being
double crossed.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26

Mr.. Clarence Kennedy of Jackson
' lie scent the week end in the city
the guest of Clyde Hussey.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26

The home town Newspaper
as we know it in North Amer
lea is the worlds greatest sales
man.