Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-09-24


gardng Fitzgerald
TO Pull Out.
Ship calls him sEthe idol of the people of
Georgia." Just between Shipp and us he is not
entirely mike some of the idols we see in the pic
ture books-but we promised to cut this out until
after the election.
Puu fol- Fitzgerald or
When man gets drunk he usually has some
sorry white man to back him up; in some instances
lionizing him. When the fellow realizes that he
is considered as sort of hero by the tough
est cuss in town he finds it an incentive to get
drunk again whereas if left to himself and the
hogs his folly might force itself on him.
Pull for Fitzgerald Pull
According to Dun's Review, there is a grad
ual improvement in the commercial situation that is
encouraging
Resumption of work at manufacturing plants
is best evidence of progress.
The number of unemployed is steady decreas
ing.
Idle freight cars decreased by 38, O33 cars last
week.
Steel mills have more business in sight.
Northwest flour mills have increased the out
put to nearly normal proportions.
Cotton mills in all sections are resumlng.
Lumber mills, especially in the southeast, are
again at work at almost their full capacity.
Pull for Fitzgerald o Out
Every community, especially the size of Fitz-
gerald, needs within it's confines place where the
young men can congregate when they are at les-
ure, where the atmosphere is socially pure and
wholesome.
Such causes was the father of the first Y. M.
G. A. and the formation of that wonderful institu
ton has been the means of keeping hundreds of,
thousands of young men out OF places which would
by their influence, tend to lower their moral stand
ards.
The work that the A. t. O. club is doing at
this time is most worthy and the young men who
form its membership deserve the earnest, substan
tial support of every man and woman in the city.
They have started out with view OF eventually
securing Y. M. @. A. here To succeed they
must have money and they are, none of them rich.
They are brave, however, and have faith in the
people Of Fitzgerald, many Of whom have given
them their word that they would support them.
They started out without anything-not enough
to pay the rent of three rooms in the BULGE block
for month; but they went ahead and secured the
rooms and from time to time, and by constant eff
fort, have fair start and if the people will give
them the help they ask for they will do the rest
This is practical effort by young men-the
ones who are most greatly sought after by the
crowd that lives off the earningsof young men-and
every man whether he be father or not cannot
afford to neglect this opportunity Of building
'social home' for the young men. A home where
the influence will lead them up and will give them
a place where they will find panionship-and
the desire for companionship has lead many boy
to drunkards grave or worse fate-ot others
who like themselves, are DESTROYS of being men, in
the trueSt sense of the word.
Full Fitzgerald
We have never believed strongly in the navi-
CATION of the air. and we do not now think much of
the dirgible balloon idea, which is a gas bag with
propeller and rudder and which must at least be
largely at the mercy of the wind; but the flying
machine that naturally gets up in the air like
bird and spins around high or low fast or slow, at
the will of the man at the wheel is an inspiring
thot and we are glad it has been accomplished in
our time.
Wilbur Wright who went to France, starting
just before the accident to his brother at Fort
and in the presence of ten thousand people, wild
with enthusiasm, made worlds record, fly
ing at the rate of nearly a mile minute for
more than an hour and half
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