Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-05-04
SPOTLICHTS

The Oklahoma women are getting
ready to put up another woman can
didate against Miss Alice Robertson
who they were so proud to send to
Congress two years ago. She is not
aggressive enough they tthink-they
have watched her every vote with
greatest concern and think She has
not always used it wisely Dos-tnen
keep the searchlight on their represen-.
tatives to- this extent? 1t might be
well to do so.
Madame CALI Curci is building a
studio on the top of Bellaire Mountain
where there are excellent landing
facilities for airplanes. Flying she
says is excellent for singers lungs
Sunday American.
Sinclair Lewis, author of Main
Street" gave his English hosts a ter
rible shock at an exclusive gathering
of authors, publishers, actors and
dramatists when invited to speak to
them instead of the usual compliments
and platitudes he handed them hard
slap for the way you Britishers'' treat
American writers and literature.
On Saturday the Grant Memorial,
second largest statuary group in the
world was dedicated at Washington.
II took fifteen years to complete and
it is twenty-one years since its cree
lion was authorized by Congress, but
numerous delays were caused by dis
pute and injunctions over exact loca-
ton. cutting of historic trees and so
forth. The marble foundation is 262
feet long, 90 feet deep and five feet
above ground. In the centre is the
massive equestrian statute of Grant,
in most familiar dress and pose ap-
parently overlooking colossal groups
of struggling men and horses, which
at one end indicate cavalry and at
the other artillery, while the base re-
'ef of the sides. of the pedestal por-
trays fort troops on the march on
the one side and infantry in action on
the other. Twenty seven designs
were submitted and the one awarded
was Henry W. Shradu who died just
few weeks ago and the architect,
Edward Pierce Casey of New York.
Miss Geraldine Farrar quits the op-
cratic sage for immediate concert work
which is said to be much easier and
more remunerative to artists of her
rank and also to study the dramatic
art with David Belasco which means
future career on the stage as an ac-
tress with talent which has displayed
itself to marked degree in her opera
work and also in her screen portray
al.
Geogia Women Subject to Poll Tax
Voting or Not
Women of Georgia are on the same
footing as men in the matter of paw
ing poll tax, and the tax act is effect
I've upon women between the ages OF
Il and 90 years, whether thev qualify
to vote or not, Attorney General Geo
M. Napier stated Saturday in reply to
inquiries coming to his office from all
over. the state.
The attorney general received in
formation that one or two county
newspapers in South Georgia had quo
ted him as saying that women did not
have to pay poll tax this year.
This is entirely erroneous and
must have been due to Typographical
error. said Attorney General Napier.
The act itself expressly fixed January
1922 as the time the law became eff
fectlve: Women are on exactly the
same footing with men now with re-
spect to paying the poll tax"
Stories had been carried in the At
lanfa papers to the effect that women
did not have to pay a poll tax for
last wear in order to vote this wear.
and IT is the opinion of the attorney
general that this ruling might have
been misread. He never has issued a
statement to the effect that women
need not pay roll taxes now, which
they are compelled by law to do.
whether they wish to avail themselves
OF the privilege of voting or not
A well deserved honor has been con-
ferred upon Miss Mile Rutherford
formerly president of Lucy Cobb in
her election as member of the Ma
tional Geographic Magazine of Wash
ington, D. c. Miss Rutherford stands
preeminent in the state for research
work in historic lines, ond no doubt
this won her recognition in the ma
tion's capitol.
There is o joke told on Henry Ford
that one time in London few years
ago he bought "a Rolls Royce. This