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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
A COMMUNITY TEST

At the close of the year, when business men,
merchants and accountants are checking up
the years losses and gains, is it not good
time to take an inventory of ourselves in rela-
ton to what we have done for our community?
It is so easy to criticise others, including
public officials as we'll as leaders in nom
official, yet highly important, phases of civic
work
Far be it from the editor of this paper to
claim exemption from the test. Each one OF
us should ask these self-directed questions, and
profit by the astounding results shown up on
the wrong side-the red ink side-of the COM
munity ledger Here is the test:
During 1926 what have done to help TINS
city. my community?
problems have I attended?
If my answer is that have not been asked
to attend such meetings still my alibi is not
complete. For why have not placed myse1
in position to be asked?
How many committees have served on to
help my community or it's churches schools,
charities, or it's civic, commercial and indus
trial growth?
Have stood on the street corner and crltl-
cized. or have | aided in the construction ana
in the discussion of problems to help bring
about remedies for my towns condition!
Have I clicked" about certain CIVIC leaders
and officials and then smiled in the faces OF
my accused?
Have really understood, or have honestly
fried to understand what this city is facing IN
regard to its future growth and the prosperity
and happiness of its people? In short nave
| cared?
Have cleaned the rubbish off my own lot
before criticising my neighbor for not clean
ing his?
Have had the spirit of calmness, the quail
ity of -mindedness, the love and charity
OF. community life?
Have seen any higher than my own coun-
ter or looked any farther than the curbstone
in front of my place of business?
Have realized that, comparatively speak
ing, few men and women of my community
have actually supported it in civic way, while
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our friends fol
the beautiful floral offerings and fol-
their kindness and sympathy during
the lines and death of our dear wife
and mother. May Gods richest
blessings rest upon you.
J. D. MCLAUGHLIN,
Miss Inez MCLAUGHLIN,
J. C. MCLAUGHLIN.
Mrs. ]. r. Sanders,
Mrs. C. A. Baggett,
Mrs. Wright Terrence,
Mrs. Malcolm Pridgen.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
DIR. FRANK CRANE SAYS
BE YOURSELF
A Common slang phrase now is "Be
AZ Yourself"

Yourself"
1t is used in various instances.
It has a good deal of intelligence in
it. Few people object to you when
your motives are considered to be
sincere and genuine. You are only
Objectionable when you put on mo-
tives that do not belong to you.
The thing people do not.like most
of all is to have you think that you
can deceive them. AS long as your
actions are genuine and real, they
know how to deal with them, but
when they are convinced that you are
endeavoring to overcome them by
trying to borrow words or actions or
motives from someone else, they do
not like it.
So they tell you to "be yourself. :"
Of course we cannot express all
of our emotions or feelings perfectly.
There is a certain amount of self
control required by ordinary decency,
but at least those feelings that we
express should be those that are ours
unquestionably and not those we
think we should have.
A good many people are sorry for
themselves, not because of the hard
time they have, but because of the
hard time other people think they
ought to be having. It is very easy
for a preacher or an actor or some
such a one to think that he is work.
ing hard when everybody says that
he is. If he would honestly look at
himself and consult his own feelings
alone, he would realize that he is not
working hard at all.
Self pity arises from a sort of
narrowed notion of ourselves.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said that
there were several Johns in one per-
son-the man John is, the man John
thinks he is, and the man John other
people think he is.
If everyone of us could distinguish
between the man we are and the man
other people think we are, it would
do much to facilitate our getting
along with each other.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
EMANCIPATION EXERCISES AT
SALEM CHURCH SATURDAY

The colored people of Fitzgerald
will hold Emancipation exercises at
Salem Baptist Church Saturday at
1880 p. m, Starting from Bethel
A. M. E. church down Monitor Drive
the parade will wind up at Bethel
Baptist Church, where an extensive
program will be given.
1t is expected quite large hum
Der of out of town colc1ed peoples
viii attend, as this has beck the an
nual celebration with the colored peo-
pie here for number of years. Rev.
W. A. Tucker is master of ceremonies,
L. C. Smith, president and ]. E. Var
nedoe, chairman of the program COM
mittee. W. H. Williamson of the ar
rangement committee and Ida B.
Morton, of the financ committee.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
Novel Christmas Tree

In Chicago movement to FURNISH
a Christmas for children in the re-
mote mountains of Kentucy and Ten
nessee was started by the setting up
of a bare tree which was provided
foliage in the shape of Gv"e:l5acks do
mated for this use. N"+,i 1alrly
leaved out, Christmas boxes began
to be fitted out and moved on the
wav Footballs and dolls and other
Christmas gifts were within. AS fast
as possible others followed. The tree
was we'll "leaved out" before the good
work was completed.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
Authorship Brought Death

IA young Protestant who was for IL
years a New York newspaper man
and editor of the Austrian branch OF
a New York paper produced novel
called The City Without Jews, which
envisages what would happen to a
city if it expelled Jews. He brings
out the idea that business is about
to collapse after few months and
that at the end of three years the
Jews are welcomed back. Fifty-eight
German editions of his book, or $780,
900 copies in all, naturally caused
some controversy in the reading. The
author was shot few months after
the publication of his book by an
anti-Semite of Vienna. This book
has just now been issued in an Eng
lish translation. Mr.. Henry Ford
should read it. Perhaps he would be
more interested in the fatal denoue-
ment of the author.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
The Calendar

Every one feels the awkward ar
rangement of the calendar 1t IS al
ways problem to figure either back
ward or forward very far, with the
months coming in on different days OF
the week and also being of varied
length. Russia and the Balkan states
had a church calendar in use since
46 B. c., that was changed in 1928,
to more nearly conform to that OF
the rest of the world. There is
plan proposed by the head of the U.
S. Weather Bureau to change the
present calendar by dividing the year
into thirteen months of 28 days each
to begin on Sunday and end on Sat
urday and with the extra day tucked
in as a holiday between December 2S
and January / and on Leap year
with two such extra days together.
This would be simple and easy re-
membered calendar and would suit
the astronomers and statisticlans
equally we'll with the present plan.
1t will probably have to meet the ap-
prevail of the organizations of Eu-
rope working under the direction OF
the League of Nations before general
acceptance will be given this or any
change. Another plan is to make
Easter a permanent date instead OF
movable one and involved in this
is greater stability to the sale OF
spring merchandise, as it virtually es-
tablishes the line between winter and
spring in the matter of dress.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
Just Like Daddy

The youngest member of the
household had heard his father talk
ing about going away on their vaca-
ton and about getting his work done
in advance. Sc he spoke to his moth
er.
"Mama, 1 want to go to bed early
tonight"
"Why dear?"
eff we go on our vacation I gotta
get my prayers said couple weeks
ahead"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
This is Said to Have Happened
in South Africa

An inspector of schools in South
Africa invited some boys to join
him in a swim in the lagoon. The
boys watched him undress and go in,
but themselves remained on the bank.
After along and enjoyable swim
the inspector chaffed the boys for not
coming in,. and said. 81 suppose you
are afraid to battle with an inspec-
tori"
"No SIR" said one of the boys,
''but we saw crocodile in this lagoon
yesterday"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
Finder and Founder

Finder and Founder
Both titles may be claimed by Cap
tain Roald Admundsen, explorer of
both the north and the south pole.
He has organized Polar League with
Lincoln Ellsworth and Commander
Richard Byrd as associates. The OBJ
ject of the league is to strengthen the
position of those men who have reach
ed the pole and to commemorate the
memory of those who have passed
away, most prominent of these being
Admiral Peary and Captain Scott.
Emblems of the League are a polar
bear reaching up for the polar star.
This emblem has been sent to the wild
ow of Peary and the son of Scott,
Mr.. Peter Scott, of England.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
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Single Parties
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Single Parties
Something new in social way are
"shingle parties" in London given by
members of English society to forti-
fly their inclinations for bobbed hair
and lacking courage to put over the
innovation alone. "In union there is
strength" also misery loves COM
pany," which will help if there are
regrets afterward. Apropos the MILL.
ners are planning larger crowns fol-
hats for 1927 on the assumption that
bobbed hair will be on the wane,
and hair dealers are looking over their
stocks of braids and transformations
against the the day they will be need
ed. Those who saved their shorn
locks will afford renewed business
for the hairpin and hairnet manufac-
turers. The world will be seen to be
one of change and transformations"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

The foundation of the prosperity OF the
United States is not its natural resources
though these are of great Importance, but the
fact that there is almost complete agreement
between capital and labor as to the basic eco
nomic principles which must be followed If
the whole community is to enjoy full employ
ment at a steadily rising standard OF living
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
Widows Pensions

According to custom, congress
would be presented with bill to
award a pension of $4,000 to the wild
ow of vice-president, Mrs. Thomas
R. Marshall, along with other bene-
ficiaries which included Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt and Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson. Mrs. Grover Cleveland also
received this annuity though it may
have ceased with her marriage to Mr..
Preston. Mrs. Marshall however has
asked that the bill for her annuity
be withdrawn, stating that the reve-
nues from the sale of her late hus-
bands memoirs has been so substan-
tial that she does not feel justified in
accepting a pension. Her scruples
are not shared by her predecessors
in this award as Mrs. Roosevelt and
Mrs. Wilson are Independently veal
thy too. Few are the persons how
ever conditioned who will feel that
they have enough wealth when more
may be had for the asking.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

A PICK UP-503 N. Grant street.,
diagonally across from the old Cath
olic church; Z room, two story house,
Lot No. 12, Square Is, Block 3.
Price $4,000. Terms 5000 cash, bal
ance $500 per month with z percent
interest. All notes payable on or be-
fore title is perfected. Buy your
wife Christmas present. Here it is.
For further information write to w.
M. Scott and Co., 514 Gould Building,
Atlanta, Ga. Decl6-zS-So
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
Out of the Question

Doctor: "And how is Mr.. Mulasky
this morning? Did he follow my in
structions about dieting?"
"Indade no! He says he'll never
starve himself to death for the sake
o. Twin few years longerw
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
Obliging

Father entered unexpectedly and
found the music master kissing his
daughter.
81 say, is this what pay you
for?"
"No sir. l lido this free of charge"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
WE THOUGHT "UNCLE BEN" WAS TOO
CHIVALROUS TO OPPOSE A LADY

Pearson's first woman candidate for mayor
has been elected Mrs. Bertha Kirkland, wife
of the late JEFF Kirkland, who was mayor of
Pearson for several years, defeated Editor B.
T. Allen by four votes in Tuesdays election.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

25 ACRES in the Blue Ridge Moan-
tains; hours drive from AtlaRta;
where the fishing and hunting are
good, price s975.00; $500 cash,
$500 per month. Fl. e. Hawkins,
(owner) Jasper, Ga. where Spring
fingers Till Fall" 1T
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

GENUINE 23-in. gauge Double DeR,
Galvanized metal shingles, gusr-
anteed Is years, sold by CASPER
LUMBER YARD, Phone soc.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

TWELVE THOUSAND pounds Pc
cans this year from anly fourteen
acres-$3OO.0O per acre. You can
do as well. Buy fine pecan trees
from VIM. P. Billiard, Albany, Ca.
d3Op
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
IN GRAND VIEW ESTATES

IN GRAND VIEW ESTATES-A
nice wooded one acre lot with
three-room log cabin and running
water on lot, in the heart of the Blue
Ridge Mountains; hours drive from
Atlanta; access to 15-acre lake;
price complete S475.00; $500 cash
and $500 per month. Fl. E. Haw-
kins, Jasper, Ga. Where Spring
Lingers Till Fall" 1T
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
VETERINARIAN.

WE will buy Dry cows and Heifer
yearlings for cash. See Broadhwzt
& Williams, or H. NJ. Paulk. tf
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

Visitors in town-Raymond Ellars
Athens; John E. Ericsson, Waterville,
Iowa; Mrs. Will King and Miss Mat
tie King, Salem; Judge H. A. Mat
thews, Macon; Mr.. and Mrs. A. E.
Day, Hawkinsville; Capt. Jack Mayes
Jacksonville; Barry Claire, Americas
DIR. George Russell, Rochelle;< Mr.
Vernon Gates, Georgia Tech; Mr.
Wimberly Wilson, Douglas; Miss Ma
ME Goethe, Palatka, Fla; Mr.. Lon
Sheehan, Georgia Tech; Mr.. and Mrs.
R. H. Trip, Vienna; Randall Bryan,
Brunswick; Mrs. W. H. Bailey, Doug
las; Mrs. Agnes Dixon Barrett, Doug
las; Mr.. D. B. Holtzendorf, Atlanta
Mrs. Clifford Baggett, Atlanta; Mrs.
Ike Eads, Gainesville, Fla; Miss
Grace Dickinson, North Carolina.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
AnniversaryColunn
10 YEARS AGO


Visitors out of town-Mr. and Mrs.
P. o. Campbell, Atlanta; DR.. Dixie
Brinson, Waycross; Carl Fellers, N.
Carolina; Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Gran
than Douglas; DR.. Fred Keefer,
Lakeland, Fla; Mrs. E. j. Goodman,
Columbia, S. c.; Mr.. and Mrs. L. o.
Tisdel, Miami, Fla; Mr.. c. Patter-
son, Talladega, Ala; Mr.. Geo. g.
Martin, Columbus; Miss Mildred Han
ger, Salisbury, N. c.; Miss Exa Ben
nett, Marietta; Mrs. D. E. Jackson,
Macon; D. B. Oliver, Americas; Mrs.
L. L. Griner, Milledgeville; Miss Co.
rhine Womble, Ashburn.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

FARM FOR RENT-Two horse farm
for rent or sale. Apply to Robert
L. Barnes, West Roanoke. tip
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

A party composed of Mrs. G. S.
Flournoy, little Miss Josephine,
Misses Athleen Dickey, Margaret
Wise, and Louise Montague, left yes
terday for "Deerland," Mr.. Dickey's
farm, to spend several days. Mr..
John Wise will join them today.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

Miss McCarty entertained a num-
Der Of her friends in her playhouse
Thursday. A Christmas tree was en-
joyed with Ralph Adams acting as a
real little Santa Claus.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

YOU CAN make money with pecans.
Some orchards produced $4,000
per acre this year; one $4,000 per
acre. Get fine dependable trees from
VIM. P. Billiard, Albany, Ga. dS0p
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

20 ACRES of fine land for rent or
lease. Good for trucking, poultry or
dairying. 7-room house and Broom
house and large barn. " miles from
Fitzgerald. Apply Leader-Enter-
prise. 1tpo
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

PLANT PECANS-For prompt de-
livery of best budded Pechns Of all
varieties, write Dr.. S. L. McEiroy,
Ocilla, Ga. Stad
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

Recently farmer near Pelham
killed a quail in whose craw were
found twenty-three boil weevils.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30

4-FOOT WOOD for sale. / can make
prompt delivery of Aft. wood. Phone
1902. M. Dickson. d-12-So
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-12-30
THIS NEW YEAR OF OUR LORD


Let byganes be byganes,
Wha's huffed at anither
Dinna cloot the auld days
And the new anes thegither;
WI the faults and the failings
o" past years be dune,
WI grip O. fresh freen'shlp
A New Year begin.
Co sang Scot. Beneath the burr OF his
HIGHLAND tongue the meaning of some OF the
words NAV be obscured, but the meaning OF
the verse as whole is plain enough.
Let bygones be bygones. The year OF 1871
goes to join in history the years that nave gone
before. Throw away the Ratchet along with
the 1926 calendar.
With the faults and the failings OF past
years be done. This is another year.
Begin it with grip of fresh friendship
Evening star., 1926-09-23
500 Handbags, 1896

A very special purchase OF
aIl-Ieather handbags. Pouch
STYLES of lizard, calf, morocco
and patent feathers. All are
nicely lined and fitted with
middle change purse and
bevel edge mirror. Smart
coIors, such as black, tan,
brown, green and gray. 3.95.
Evening star., 1926-09-23

the bishops are rightly commended by
the bishops of the United States as the
defenders Of the inalienable rights of
man. The rights which they are de-
Tending are not only liberty of re-
ligion, but also liberty of speech, OF
thought and assembly, equality before
the law, trial by jury. property and,
in fact, practically all those principles
Of right and justice which, in this
country. we hold to be the sacred
heritage Of free men.
Mexican Writer Quoted.
"The consul quotes at length from
Hubert Howe Bancroft as an author
ity on Mexican history. Why doesn't t
he quote from a Mexican authority,
like Lucas Alaman, whose writings
are a credit to the people Of Mexico
an eminent Mexican of today, G.. Mar
tinez Riestra, has to say ab6ut the
church in Mexico:
"'In the presence of these wonder
full relics of colonial architecture, our
minds recall the heroic lives of those
great Spanish missionaries devoted un-
reservedly to the spiritual redemption
of all the savage peoples who in
habited the American continent.
Guided by the light Of faith,
they carried on a marvellous work of
evangelization and of education.
Their work will never perish because
it has it's root in the consciences Of
men.
"'For the Spanish missionary no
obstacle was too great. He never hes
itated when duty called. In the
depths of the forest or on the arid
plains of the highlands; neither the
violence of the storms, nor floods, nor
pestilential fevers, nor wild beasts,
nor the poisoned spears and arrows
Evening star., 1926-09-23
Jersey Dresses, z.95

to a
"A
'front.'
blue jungle and Don't miss this opportunity Sizes 30 95
Evening star., 1926-09-23

Continued on Twenty-second Page
Evening star., 1926-09-23
Mems Linen
Handkerchiefs, SOC

Mill ends of Plain White
Linen Handkerchiefs. An op-
portunity to save on linen
handkerchiefs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-04
Pillar of Cloud and
Fire in Memory
World War Dead

Kansas City, Sept S-(Pl-A pill
lar of cloud by day and of fire by
night, thrust heavenward atop
giant shaft of stone. soon will be a
living reminder of the sacrifices of
Kansas Citys soldier dead of the
World war.
Experts in color effects have lab
ored for weeks to produce the correct
effect OF fire at night, and at last
have succeeded. Steam and electric
lights are used. On the cloud of
steam. swaying gently in the night
breeze, is reflected through lenses of
the proper color the light from cleo
trio lamps. The effect is that of a
cone shaped pillar of fire. In the
daytime the effect is that Of a pillar
of smoke.
The steam floats from a great bowl,
borne aloft by a grey stone shaft 217
feet high. The bowl is supported by
the upstretched wings Of carven an
gels. The shaft rises from a wall
more than four hundred feet long,
fanked by large buildings. The mas
sive Liberty memorial is located on a
hill directly south of the Union Sta
ton.
The memorial site was dedicated
Nov. 1, 1921, during the American
Legion national convention, in the
presence Of President Coolidge, then
vice president: General John J.
Pershing, General Baron Jacques Of
Belgium, General Diaz of Italy, Mar
shall Foch of France and Admiral
Beatty of England.
The cost of the memorial has been
estimated at $4,000, 900 raised by pub
lie, subscription.