Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-06-08
EDDETTES

| The National League OF Women
voters has started a canvas of unus-
ual interest to answer the question o.
prominent Chilean delegate to the
| recent Pan-American Conference of
Wo. zen. This is who ars twelve
greatest women in the United States ;"
Everybody who will may help t. ans
wer this question.
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After seven long years a man has
been found who is willing to do the
diving and blasting necessary to SAL
wage the treasures in the Lusitania. AS
! there were many millionaire passen-
gers on the illfated steamer, it is es-
timated that several millions in gold
and jewels must be safely stored away
IN the strong rooms which must be
blasted open to reach the treasure at
ter the diver has successfully touched
the sunken ship. His adventure will
be ore of the most wonderful ever
attempted and will read like fiction.
The mans name is B. F. Leavett of
Philadelphia and he has been having
a special diving suit of his own inven.
ton prepared for his hazardous I'M
dertaking which is to occur this month
1t is we'll known that WESLEYAN
Female College was the first female
college to confer degrees, but it is
interesting to hear that this happened
IN 1870 and five years after admission
had been begged for women to the
University of Georgia and refused as
we know. Well. in due ii ne,
matter OF sixty years We ID
are accepted it is true, but to take the
wordot one of the goods they are not
made welcome by their brother stud
ents yet. That will come in time At
first their presence was treated as an
intrusion and only time and custom
can change that sentiment.
The w. c. T. U. has endorsed a
moving picture entitled The Ruling
Passion although it is a comedy.
savannah has conceived a unique plan
OF exposition in 1926 by which she
means to advertise herself as great
sea port. The plan is to have a fleet
OF vessels from all nations which will
display their different products and in
dustrles and also their inventions, par
ticularly the labor saving devices. Sa-
vannah would like to stage this ex-
position at the same time with Allan
Ia putting on one OF the more con-
yentlonal type possibly another Worlds
falr, SO that the two cities operating
excursions between may draw on the
whole country and the world for their
visitors at the same time and these
would probably number hundreds OF
thousands. These exposition ships
could atterward be Transported TO
Central and South American ports or
harbors OF any nation and so contin-
Jung the advertising value of the Ex-
position wherever they might go.
Incredible as it NAV seem the u 6.
Pension Bureau record shows that
49 widows of the war of 1872 are still
!lvlng-the eldest is nearly los wears
the next is nearly l04, the third is lO1.
Three OF the number live in Georgia
Mrs. Gilmore Ward of Winder, aged
IS; Mrs. Lydia Smile of Glennville,
aged 80 and Mrs. CorneIia Clopton of
AmericuS ag-d 81.
The Northern Decoration day Nav
%0tl has also been chosen as a me.
moral day for the World War Veter-
ans and the wearing of a red poppv
the symbol of its observance.
Mrs. Cora Harris of Georgia is one
OF the first to be named among the
greatest living dozen" women in the
=. ,. She was so nominated bv
Democratic leader at WASHINGTON who
further claimed she was an American
george Elliott and the greatest LIVING
woman novelist nj this country.
Savannah's plan to introduce her
self to the world as a sea port of i'm
portance becomes more urgent as if
is realized how hard il seems 70 he to
get fair play in her country's great for
eign commerce which has always been
forced along railway lines to the north
east through glutted channels and at
congesed terminals just because the
X, X. systems could serve their own
interests better. Disregarding Savan-
nahs location which is 1O3 miles near
er to Denver, l22 miles nearer Kansas
City and 40 miles nearer St. Lonis
than New York City, rates were made
that would exclude Southern lines and
ports Protests against sending Geor-
gia products to Cuba or South Amer
lea by the way of New York would be
answered that Southern ports lacked
sufficient ships. A request for ships
would be answered witha refusal ow-
ing to lack of sufficient business and
so on around.
The Federal r. R. Administration
was the frs to take public notice of
this inequality and injustice seeing it
both as wrong and danger to the
countrys common interest and since
war time more real reform has taken
place through government intervention
than at any time previous and much
more. is needed until the commodious
and ice free ports of Georgia and all
the South may be fully utilized as nat
ural gateways from the great West
and of all America.