Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-08-24
SPOTLIGHTS

SPOTLIGHTS
Some time ago the papers of the
country took notice of the interven-
ton of President and Mrs Harding in
protecting fine dog which was
confisticated by the police from an
alien--a poor man without money or
friends and which was doomed to be
shot, or indifferently cared for. An
other instance of their humane senti-
ments is evidenced in recent gift by
Mrs. Harding of check for $500 to
Glover" a so year old horse owned
by an elderly man in Pennsylvania,
writing to whom she said she was
deeply moved by "the sense of +. tee
and gratitude and faithfulness ,@Il;cll
compels you to sacrifice your own
comfort rather than to kill splendid
horse, which has given you a long
life Of willing service"
y 4 2ss i AaH. II ~. 1 az s;;a@ss
Jerusalem as the holy city of the an
cient Jews, the Mecca of the early
Christian crusaders, and a sacred city
with the Moslems as we'll, bids fair to
be bone of contention not only tc
Great Britain which exercises the
present political control, but may even
be an issue before the League of Ma
tons as different Christian countries
particularly the Catholic countries con-
tend for prior right as granted by the
Pope in protection Of certain holy and
historical places within its walls.
y. s. Ambassador Harvey has gone
from London to Scotland for the hunt.
ing season, although he does not eX
pect to use gun and will enjoy only
, the soclal side. When he returns Il
S London, he will occupy the new En-
' bassy building which was the forme
, home of ]. P. Morgan and recent,
-, proffered by him for a permanent res
derce to house our diplomats who hitl
c er to have had to shift for themselves
e Whrtelaw Reid at one time paid $85,
10 600 year ;or his official home
A wonder boy to match the 'won
i der girl" Winifrcd S,oner, mentionc
o before in these paragraphs, is now dis
covered in an Oklahoma town H
is thirteen years old, and having fin
5 shed high school is ready for colleg,
he Northwestern University being hi
choice ii cut4ancc rules can be sus
5 pended to admit one so young.
E His amazing progress began as
two yea, cd baby sitting by his bin
y father while his mother read his tex
: books to him and allowed the child t
play with a typewriter which fascinat
ed him b.. the hour to the exclusio
] OF all other toys. Picking at the key
he learned to read as he learned t
: talk aud cXperinced no strain as it wa
all play to him. From this to read
= ing books and entering school at fou
+ years, away beyond his mates in in
tellivence and covering the curriculum
n nine years is the rest of the story
No not all fer this child is not a boo
7 worm or freak. He is of extra siz
. and strength, an expert swimmer
+ good boxer, enjoying base ball and a
other athletic sports like any other boy
He is Boy Scout and has the rec
ord OF having saved the life of
drowning boy last summer. The nam
OF the boy is Willmore Kendall am
+ he lives at Mangum, Okla, where hi
blind father is pastor of the First NJ
T Church.
: You can not tell much by child
early tastes as an indication of wha
his future work or success may be, bu
1t is interesting in looking backwar,
to note what they have been in som
instances. Take DR.. Alexander Graham
| Bell, who invented the telephone, h
first showed a love for music. anC
out of this grew his interest in tn,
study of sound. he himself thought.
Out OF his collecting fad which i
common to all children at a certain ag,
and in his case embraced objects O
, natural history, he cultivated clos,
observation of lil<enesses and differ
ences, also orderly arrangement which
was good preparation for scientifi,
: wor Another contributing influenc,
/ was the profession of his grandfather
and his father who were teachers O.
correct speaking employing for this
methods TO show the mechanics Of
of speech designed TO correct defect.
i've utterance". The instrument that
might be termed the father of the tel
ephone of today was the one that l
developed as an apparatus to enable
deaf pupils to see forms of air vibration
characteristic of the elements of