Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-09-21
EDETTES
By Mrs. Gelders

The Woman's Club of Atlanta was
doing comnendable thing last
week through its exchange department
by pushing the sale of articles made
IN the crafts shop of Hospital q at
Augusta where the mentally ailing
men who served in the world war are
given interesting occupation to aid
them in regaining thei1 mental health
and physical strength. The plan is to
have the soldier make two articles one
to keep and one to sell SO, that more
materials may be purchased to keep
up the work without further govern
ment outlay.
The American Legion, War Mothers
and other patriotic citizens had their
attention called to the soldiers craft
work on display last week and which
consisted of baskets, both plain and
beautiful for every household use.
porch and bath rugs, and pretty and
useful things in wood, including TOYS.
An open air or convalescent school
is to be built in Atlanta the Junior
League having agitated the matter and
contributed a fund toward that end.
A dental clinic with two school dent
lists and two hygienic assistants and
portable dental chairs will make the
work continuously effective in Allan
ia this year. The hygienists will keep
busy cleaning teeth and inspecting and
reporting while the dentists will be on
the job every day for emergency cases
and free service to those unable to
employ their own, The loss of time
due to acute troubles Of the teeth is
not only to be prevented, but the I'M
proved sanitary condition of the school
chlldren's mouths will no doubt prove
an effective measure against so many
contiguous diseases that also lower the
standard of attendance detracting from
the efficiency of the schools.
Hancock, Indiana, goes on record
tor banning ultra stylish clothes, rouge
and bobbed hair in the school rooms
and by their teachers.
Probably not since the Civil war
has the phrasing of the preamble to
the constitution of the U. S. ito pro-
mote domestic tranquility" been open
to such divergent viewpoints as in this
past season of industrial troubles
Quite timely then is the adfocacv
OF DR.. M, M. Parks of thorough study
OF the whole constitution which is not
SO volumious as some might think
embracing 7 articles and 10 amend
ments and which he thinks should be
studied by every school child from
the 9TH grade up and continued thru
the college courses. 1T is stated that
the Japanese are teaching our consti-
tuition in their public schools. Surely
1t is time for us to do no less"
This sounds too good to be true
but we'll worth aiming for.
OUR TOWN.
(From Silver Lake, Ore, LEADER
Our town is the town of happiness.
We strive for something more than
business. We strive for friendliness,
one with another, which makes life
worth while. We have family circle
in which every inhabitant counts one.
Our motto is One for All, and All for
One. And we want to play the same
gameswith our neighbors everywhere.
Life is the game of Brotherhood, and
Our Town is building on that basis.
The State Board of Health is send
ing out comparative tables of vital sta
tlStics with the reluctant admission that
the absolute accuracy cannot be vouch-
ed for as many registrars are Stacking
in their records and this can only be
shown by conspicuous discrepancies
There is a law that every birth and
every death in the State shall be made
of public record and indictments may
follow the violation of this law as of
any other, but up until this time they
do not.
According to the published records
Ben Hill County has fallen in her
birth rate OF 142 in the first half of
1920 to 119 in the first half of 1922