Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-16

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Another poet to be memorial;zed
lgan. His works apparently not so well
known now as in the SOS had that par
tlcu.ar quality similar to J. Whitcomb
Rlleys to touch the homc1y settings
and the common doings of obscure
people with such tender sentiment and
such dellcacy OF poetic description as
to create in the reader a sympathy
OF feeling with them, not pity but real
huinan fellowship.
A Will Carleton day in the schools
is observed by legislative enactment
and boulders have been placed with
ceremonies on the homestead where
he was born and on the hill not far
from his home that was made famous
his Over the Hills to the Poorhouse.
Farm Legends and Farm Ballads
were two popular collections of his
early writings.
Responding to DR. Parks question
are soliciting comments toward i'm
proving the public schools of Georgia.
Secretary OF State S. G. McLendon
expresses his desire to see the fifteenth
psalm committed to memory by every
pupil of the fifth, sixth, seventh and
eighth grades OF every school, saying
1t is the every day psalm and impress
es on the minds of children will tend
to make them better citizens and bet
ter neighbors.
A factory owner of Cologne, Ger
many is offering to give the property
to anyone who will assume his obi
cations along with his rights. the
condition being that while the factory
is leased for ten years at $4,000 marks
year, the cost OF new roof which
cost several million marks has been
placed by provincial court On the
owner contrary to the agreements
made between himself and renter.
The owner has no money to paw the
bill, neither to fight it. What can the
poor man do?
Tie significance Of Armistice Day
rs il was and as it should now be, not
The end but the beginning Of greater
things, called Woodrow Wilson on
Saturday from his past seclusion to
the front porch of his home where he
addressed some 5000 enthusiastic lis
teners with much of his old-time fire
and eloquence on the subject nearest
his heart the League of Nations.
His bodily infirmities were very no.
ticeable but there was no apparent
weakening Of his convictions and his
confidence in the ultimate accomplish
ment OF his cherished ideals.
That in union there is strength and
that by coordination there will be
an elimination of much of the over
head expense now incident to the sep
arate operation of various social ser
vice agencies now working in Atlanta
will soon be tested out by their recent
amalgamat.on in financial way. This
federation will comprise the Boy
Scouts, Atlanta Coucil, Associated
Charities. Travellers Aid Anti--T. B.
Association, and Y. w. c. A. all to
be reached through the central office.
Seldom have the dreams of one man
especially such ambitious ones as those
of John Alexander Dowie the found
er of the church and the promoter OF
the City of Zion, had such perfect real?
iHation under successor as has his
under the notable Wilbur Glenn Vol
iva. The wonder is that a sect SO
peculiar and at such odds with every
other, knocking religious tradition and
established civic customs to the right
and left could SO long maintain itself
without dissensions and divisions with
In hopeless of reconcilcment On the
contrary their progress is now DEM
onstrated by the latest and one OF the
greatest movements vet launched, the
building OF huge tabernacle on
which the work is now begun. On a
high and imposing site in the centre
OF the city il VIA stand 200 feet high
and 1874 by 254 ground measurements.
There will be costly set of chimes,
grand pipc-organ and something that
old John Alexander had not dreamed
of, a powerful radio set that will
broadcast the sermons and music of
Shiloh Tabernacle even to the ships
lar out at sea.
Alice Robertson, congresswoman,
just failing OF reelection, does not
take her defeat individually but as
serts that it is because men do not
want women to hold offices, though
she admits that eX-ServiCe men might
have objected to her stand on the bon
us and Daugherty's injunction. ALICE
Paul rampant woman's party leader,
declares that women will not stand
by women is the trouble. She is sore
over the comparison she finds with
the proud British parliament having
two women on the roll and ''benight-
ec Germany" having thirty members
in the Reichstag. Sue White OF the
Woman's Party finds sarcastic con-
ISOLATION in the quality of the men now
in congress. I'VE have no super man
in congress, why should we have to
ilnd super-woncn to fill their seats?
Think OF the doddering and senile
men, she says and we cannot have
one brilliant and capable woman.