Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-10-12
SPOTLIGHTS
By Mrs. Gelders

TIC interest taken in naming the
new school buildings in Alanta is akin
to that of naming the new baby. Scores
OF names have been suggested to the
school board SO committee met last
Friday to make limited selection
which was offered for discussion at a
general meeting on Saturday
The board decided to name the
schools for people rather than for
streets or localities would afford rec.
ognition OF the services of many early
school board members and teachers
as well as paying honor to MANY of the
distinguished men of the state or ma
ton whom it is an opportunity to me-
morialize.
he names chosen are: Thomas F.
Watson, Woodrow Wilson, John B.
Gordo, Joel Chandler Harris, Henry
w. Grady and others of local fame and
service, twenty in all, including the
colored schools for which one is to be
he Booker Washington.
A movement has been started bv
rural mail carriers of Georgia which
they justly hope may become nation
wide in scope to erect a monument to
Thomas E. Watson in recognition of
his initial work in congress years ago
tor the free rural mail service, he being
the author of the bill and its success
full sponsor
Another Georgian is about to dis
tinguish himself as a discoverer of an
anesthetic which he claims has some
merit superior to chloroform as dis
covered by DIR. Crawford Long or Of
ether of later preference. This man
is DR.. L. G.Hardman of Commerce
SO we'll and favorably known through
out the state as to command the at
tention of his colleagues in the pro-
fesSion
Preparatory to the convention OF
the American Legion in New Orleans
on the Goth and to which a crowd of
l5O,0O visitors are expected, that city
is putting on cleanup campaign in
a moral way that has caused some
200 arrests of undesirable idlers
gamblers and the like within a very
short time and notice has been served
by their police called the 'flyine
squadron" that they will be on the
alert to check disorderly and lawless
behavior.
Hawaii has been hampered by a short
age of labor for two years and for that
length of time has kept a measure be-
fore congress asking the privilege Of
importing coolie labor from China to
work on their sugar plantations. Relief
has not yet been granted, but they are
still hopeful.
Anticipating the need of some social
connections and diversion for his bride
ex-kaiser William has himself recent.
tered society by inviting some of the
influential citizens of Doom to a S
O'Clock tea, They came and he show
ed himself very affable host and in
vited their return after his marriage
The wedding gown of the ex-kaiser's
tiancee is being made in Berlin and
is wonderful creation of mauve chit
ton and velours, embroidered with
rhinestones and steel. The color was
chosen in Difference to the taste of the
former emperor whose favorite it is
land was always worn by the late en-
press on state occasions.
The interest of about 10000 club
women over the state is focused on
the federation meeting at Athens this
week. here has never feen a more
attractive meeting place due not only
to its historic prestige as the home of
the university near to many mothers
heart, but because of association with
many loved names III the Federation's
memoirs, such as Mrs. M. A. Lips
comb, lamented president; Miss &C.
leste Parish, whose life and love were
divided between her teaching and the
Club, and numerous others. Then
too the Clubs have taken a special in
terest in the co-educational develop
ments of the university and i'll contrib
uting to the furnishing of the woman's
dormitory where a number of the del
egates will have lodging. There will
be a great inspiration in the classic at
mosphere of this college town where
the old and the new seem so happily
blended.
Mrs. D. c. Ketchum, the third dis
trict president Of the Woman's Club
has been chosen for one of the dele
gates to the democratic convention on
the 2Sth of this month.
Mrs. w. H. FELTON, in accepting the