Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-07-06
DR.. SOULE URGES
80 MORE OPTIMISM
Says New Day Of Great Prosper.
ity Is About To Dawn
URGES SCHOOL BONDS
Says Nothing So Important AS
Widespread Education

In one Of the best public addresses
that has ever been made in Fitzgerald
DR.. Andrew M. Soule, president Of
the State College of Agriculture, and
wartime food administrator for Geor-
gia. urged a renewed optimism on
the part OF all the people and advo-
Gated the passage of the S68,000 school
bond issue in Fitzgerald.
Dr. SouIe was introduced by the
Hon. J. E. Turner, after Stewart F
Gelders, editor of the Fitzgerald Lead
er had made short address in favor
of the school bond issue, at the re-
quest of the committee of ladies who
are heading the bond campaign. DR.
.Soule continued the trend of thought
suggested by first speaker in a pow
erful appeal for wider educational OPP
portunities for Georgia children. Il
want to see Fitzgerald and Ben Hill
county set a shining example for the
State in education. he declared, land
| would come here to speak twenty
times gladly if my doing so would
turn even one vote for bonds
"The world needs leadership" he
declared, "and there may be genius in
the mind OF some child in this crowd
genius that if developed would prove
a great boon to the county and to the
state but if neglected because of poor
educational opportunities will be lost
to society. | have seen shining thru
the eyes of little children great souls
that would have done much for man
kind; | have seen those children grow
I'D untutored and unframed into posi-
tive detriments to society. We must
not permit such waste of brain pow
err"
DR.. Soule then launched into an ex-
hortation for better feeling among the
people toward the general conditions
of the day and for a more optimistic
attitude toward minor set backs of the
times.
"We have not lost anything worth
while" declared the speaker, "the
land is still here, the people are still
here, the government is still here and
the little children on whose shoulders
rests the fate of the future are still
here.
Tomorrow is a. great new day
with a new sun shining c" new and
bountiful opportunities. Lit us make
the most of our privilege G looking
to the brilliantly promising future iii
to which we are about to enter. II
the soldier boys who for~i.t il. |-2oc>
could wade through mud neck deep to
fight, if they could rush across the
trenches into the face OF almost Ger.
tain death, if they could lie for days
freezing in ice and mud with shell
fire blowing comrades into eternity
on every hand, if they could 90 thrr
all the hell of war and still sing that
greatest song that came out of the
war-"Pack up your troubles in youl
old kit bag and smile, smile, smile,
surely we in this peaceful and Goo
blessed land can take Our little trou
bes lightly and through them all
sing that song and smile, smile, smile
DR.. Soule told little of his owl
experience in fighting handicaps
Fourteen years ago he came to Geor
gia to take a post as head of an ag
ricultural college that consisted of the
land and the buildings of one small
abandoned farm in the red old hills o
Georgia In that time he has bull
up, despite all opposition, into tht
second greatest agricultural college
in the world with twelve hundred
students in attendance annually will
an extension organization that liter
ally makes it "the college with al
entire state for its campus"
The speaker concluded his address
with a picturesque illustration taket
from an experience during his resi-
dence in. the west. A COW punche
loved and respected by his fellows
died. Over his grave they erected ;
homely slab on which was crudel!
carved by one of his comrades:
Here lies Jim. He done hi
derndest. Angels could do no more.
THAT is all any man can do-'hi
derndest-and angels can do nj
more nor man expect or ask more,
he said. "To do ones best is al
life asks of any man and all a mai
must do to get the most out of life.
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