Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-02
EDET TES
By Mrs. Gelders

After a free for all discussion by
the celebrities and the press OF the
country regarding the twelve greatest
women of America the National
League of Women Voters to whom
the question was first submitted by
the Chilean newspaper woman have
decided on formula by which to
arrive at the most satisfactory list
First they have named seven fields
OF activity out OF which leading au-
thorities from each will be asked to
name one representative woman and
these names are to be canvassed by
a final committee of eminent men and
women five of each and from their
selection the ultimate choice will
be made. Popularity does not consti-
titute eligibility but the woman must
have made definite contribution to
the welfare of humanity
The range of activities is very
wide embracing; home economies,
ture; drama including motion pictures,
literature including playrighting; So
cial service under different heads; pol
itics. and education both religious and
secular.
For some time there has been a
steady increase of discomfort and of
distrust OF the U. S. Indian Bureau.
1t is said to be unfair to the Indians,
depriving them of the full rights of
citizenship which they by all the
rights of justice should have and fos-
tering the commercial interests of
any but the Indians themselves giving
the plainest indication of graft and
political trickery. A society of Amer
can Indians has begun campaign for
the adjustment of the bureau
Because moral ideas are greater
than political ideas and because wo-
men take most interest in the home
and the child are the reasons our new
senator Mrs. VIM. H. FELTON, gives
for affirming that women will bold
the balance of power in this republic.
Education for the people, of the peo-
pie, and by the people seems is about
to be effected by our new state school
commissioner NJ. M. Parks in his ques-
tionaire system just instituted, invit-
gestions from a thousand sources rel
alive to the educational conditions in
our state.
Will it not be a strange circum-
stance if our own Woodrow Wilson
should find himself at the time of the
November election that unthinkable
anomaly a "man without a countrv?"
Yet by a recent ruling of New Jer-
sey county board to live up to the
letter of their state law, former pres
ident Wilson who does not any longer
reside there cannot return to vote as
he did while his tenure of Office kept
him away. Neither can he vote in
the District of Columbia where no
voting is done though it entails a great
hardship on thousands of government
employees yearly who must have the
trouble and expense of trip to their
home towns or be derived of the priv
ilege of the franchise.
Such a conspicuous demonstration
of the incongruitv of thousands of
people living so close to the heart of
of our country in the shadow of the
capitol building Itself being disfran-
chised NAV arouse sufficient public sen
timent to hasten a correction Of this in
Justice and restore the voting nrivi-
1ege to the citizens of Washington.
Following the time-honored custom
of disparagement for purely home
products in music we note the an
noIInCen1c1t that fOur American mil ,