Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-16

.EDDETTES
ON
THINGS
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" HUGH ulSCuSSiOn at the sessions
OF last week. THE opposition was
based on the objection OF adding $4,000
to an already full conference budget.
Inc measure carried in the end. The
pitlable condition OF any preachers
widow and dependent children has
too often been seen and deplored to al
low any general dissatisfaction with a
provision So wisely made for their pro
lection and no doubt the laymen Of
the church will rally to cover the add =.
ed amount in the budget.
Police OF Japan claim newspaper
publicity given to their Investigations
OF crime has too frequently assisted
the criminal TO escape and so they are
taking the authority to order news OF
progress IN such events to be suppress
sed. Consider what such ruling
would mean to the American public
who feast on such news, to the Amer
lean daily paper who fills the front
pages with this stimulating food and
last but not least to the criminal who
is able to hedge his way by the warn
ing bulletins that each days paper
affords him.
This is Cancer Week. Two out
standing propositions for a special and
informative campaign are that cancer
is taking fearful toll of lives unncc-
ccssarily as Is per cent of the fatalities
could be prevented by early treatment
OF the right kind, and perhaps not 9TH
er disease has been the pawn of med
ical quackery and OF patent trickery
to such an extent
The second is that the disease
is not hereditary nor Infectious
How long this ancient belief has hung
like Damocles sword over the heads
of mentally tortured relatives OF all
unfortunate victims of the malady and
in some cases has caused the more
frightened and the less tender cnes
to hold aloof from contact and al
from leprosy, when the disc tas
made great advance.
Scientific knowledge and the won-
derful power of radium has done much
for this malady, whose cause is still
undetermined. The state board of
health is trying to give the widest
possible circulation to informative lit
erature that will teach the earliest de-
lection Of symptoms which is the main
hope of arresting the disease in in
dividuals and in mass,
Here is suggestion for the use
of Fitzgeralds' park reserves at the
northeast and southwest corners OF
the city. Why not plant them in
peaches and pecans? A small town of
Riverside county. Cal, planted mu-
nicipal peach orchard Of forty acres
which pays their taxes for them. This
was a bad crop Year and still the prof
it was $4,000 and i'll a good year they
count on $4,000 net
Much interest is being taken in At
lanta i'll the unique exhibition of a
Home Electric, as it is called, a
practical demonstration of what vari-
ETY. of electrical contrvances are to
be had and what convenience and plea
sure they can afford, including the ra-
do equipment as well. There are some
200 leCtric outlets in all, probably the
largest number for the greatest num-
Der of uses of any private dwelling
yet on record The parties interested
i'll its construction are building COM
pany and an electrical association and
after it has served its purpose as an
advertisement, being open daily to
public inspection, with favors and SOU
venirs being bestowed upon ali lady
callers. it will then be offered for sale.
The consolidated apple growers ex-
change, comprising 80 commercial
apple orchards of two counties of
north Georgia claim that their section
is soon to be the apple growing cen
ter of the United States. Packing
houses are being erected in many
OF these mountain towns, heretofore
only important as summer resorts and
already showing the material gain OF
their new enterprise. The summer vi
Sitors are struck with the number of
new brick buildings and cement side
walks, and especially with the modern
convenienccs i'll the hotels. so missed
in former years Referring again to
apples. how many of us knew that
we h had an apple week, Nov,
list to 9Th, and that all should be re-
minded OF the old slogan, "An ap-
pie day will keep the doctor away.
The present traffic in narcotics is
said to present problems of as great
magnitude and as vital in moral eff
feet as the liquor traffic of the past,
not that this is past, we say in shame,
but that both evils are now the
more sinister in their methods as their
Illicit use calls for secrecy in manufac-
ture and smuggling in distribution
Great rings of Smugglers with apparent
'neNhaustible resources in deception
and unlimited in money are interna-
tional in scope, aligning Japanese, Chi
h"e. Russians AMI Ahicr. .t1s ~ the
t. ltfic of narcotics, with the Hawaii
lsiandsp and SAL Erlrcist as the
Chef distributing - rs for L 5.
In the northern part OF China and
above the Manchurian border both
Russians and Chinese are growing
opium at an alarming increase Even
boys clubs are formed to stimulate
it. Unscrupulous military governors
i'll China, with the chance of Increasing
their tax revenues compel the farmers
to raise opium instead OF wheat. which
is another cause of famine there, and
until there is a way to limit the grow
ing of the crop there is a certainty
that ultimately it is going to reach the
consumer to whom only death will
stop his insatiate demand for his drug.
Like a moral leprosv too, it contami-
mates every person who is involved in
its snake-like methods Of distribution
and sale. Here is problem that tho
good men and women Of the world
must combine to meet. The w. c.
T. L. IS International in Sconc an
lhorouehiy organized, can It lead the
fight: