Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-10-05
SPOTLIGHTS
By Mrs. Gelders

An unfortunate incident was the poi
sonlng sickness that resulted from the
unSanltary school lunch served at the
lunch counter of the Birmingham high
school last week causing the illness of
ECO pupils in all though 400 were able
to return to school next day and no
fatality occurred This should be a
reminder to people that there is dan
ger ir stale food of which mayonnaise
dressing is one of the most FREQUENT
risks as it seems to be forgotten that
raw egg is still raw egg even when
disguised with oil and vinegar and
subject to decay with day or two.
Many people make up large enough
quantities to last week or more and
only the fact that very small amounts
are used individually prevens more
acute troubles and in most cases the
disturbed digestive troubles that are
noticed are attributed to some other
more innocent food that forms part
of the same meal or perhaps another
part Of. the sandwich filling.
An illusion at sea like that Of the
mirage of. the desert is reported and
corroborated by many of the 800 pass
engets on the steamship Caronia which
landed at Cherbourg last week. 1t
seems to have been phantom iceberg
that looked to be a towering mass OF
wilderness 100 feet IN height and about
niles distant. Jagged peaks seemed
to catch the suns rays and reflect
them in thousand facets, when in a
moment It faded into nothing.
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Portland, Oregon is to celebrate .
day unique among all the days that
we hear o from time TO time. This is
to "rlusicless day" At first thought
it would seem to have had its instig-
alton from the neighborhood crouch
who without music in his soul would
take delight in day in which his
tuneful neighbors and their phono-
graphs and the varied music of the
streets would be hushed On the con-
traly it is a movement of the music
lovers who are planning a music week
early in November and who hope to
demonstrate by this drab day of no
musical sounds anywhere just how
cheering and inspiring music is in the
daily life of people even when unnoted
as real contributing factor to their
happiness.
For long ime Henry Ford has been
in class by himself as successful
business man with original ideas and
practices relative to his employed. II
is just of late that in the public eye
ne has seemed to step all at once into
the multi-millionaire class with Rock.
efeller and the late Carnegie. Inter.
viewed by a Wall Street journal few
days ago as to what public benefactiors
he might be planning to bestow out O.
his surplus wealth, he replied that il
was his hope to stimulate production
in order to give employment to every
able man. That is is his idea of hap.
Ply people where there is work under
good and comfortable conditions for
everybody. This recalls the PROPOSE
tons he made some time ago as to
Mexico He said if he were to invade
Mexico with modern machinery and up
to date methods in agriculture and
manufacturing industries that would go
with these that he could sooner stop
war in Mexico than our government
could with an army.
Geraldine Farrar is burning her
bridges behind her as to her grand op-
era career. On October 18th she is go
ing to sell at auction her lavish stage
wardrobe, some of the items being