Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-06-22
SPOTLIGHTS

t The Chicago Tribune is offering
prize OF $4,000 for the best archi-
tectural design for their new building
with which they expect to commemor-
ate their 18th anniversary. They spe-
city that this Tribune building shall
be a glory 20 the city and to journal
ism, that il shall combine practically
and business effectiveness with arts
tic nobility and shall be the most
beautifulbuilding in the modern world
certainly a requirement to stimulate
the highest effort of competing archi-
tects, the achievement being worth
more than the $4,000 prize to the
one who carries it through.
The highest honors at Massachus-
sets Tech were conferred this year up
on LOUIS Woodruff of Columbus, Ga,
He graduated at Columbus High
school in 1915 and from both electrical
and mechanical engineering courses at
Georgia in 1917, an unusual record. He
entered as Senior at Boston and due
20 war interruptions graduated in 1920.
Now he wins a masters degree as a
side line VIII lie he works as an instruct
or.
Marconi, perfector of the, wireless,
and most jealous student in mprov-
ed methods now claims that radio
messages can go all around the world,
with a new invention he is perfecting
and also that he can determine the di-
rection of the waves instead OF broad
casting as hitherto. He has come in
his yacht the Electra which contains
the most perfectly equipped radio room
in the world, to exchange technical in
formation with scientists of the U. S.
whom he declares to be the! foremost
in the world today. He is keeping in
close touch with radio flashes, having
Kept vigil of two weeks in midocean
hoping to get some communication
from Mars which is nearer now than
1t often gets and nearer than any
time since radio as employed. If
| this idea of Marconi seems visionary.
others at least are not for he is work.
ing on mechanism now to increase
transmission speed of 100 words a
minute across the Atlantic where it
| is now SU
On Flag Day 40 mothers received
diplomas IN citizenship at public
school in New York City, conpr. ia
ten months course. The yoa IS
was 10, the oldest was more than 10
and among those receiving highest
marks was the mother of five children
and being one who knew no English
at the beginning of this class of Amer
| iCanization.
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George Henry Peabody whose name
is so well known as a northern contrib
utor to southern education, was A
former resident of Columbus, Ga. and
mas been paying visits to his old town
and intimate friends there during the
past week.
VIM. Randolph Hearst quits his Euro
pcan tour across the Atlantic to N. Y.
by steamer and thence by rail or DOS
sibly by aeroplane across the continent
TO attend the funeral of his intimate
friend Guy Brinton Barham, publish
er OF the Los Angeles Herald. TIC
make hurried trip from Paris, France
to Los Angeles, Cal, for the purpose
OF attending a funeral is an unparal-
leled incident and but a short time
since would have been impossible. In
the near future with transportation
speeding up in every way and espe-
clally by air navigation, hurried trips
OF such length may not be so unusu-
al.
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Alexander H. Stephens was award
ed by proxy at the last University OF
Georgia Commencement the diploma
that he had won in 1882, but failed tc
procure for the lack of the So that was
necessary to pay for the actual cost
OF the shdepskin. In this years class
was his great great grand niece Miss
Queen Elizabeth Holder and she was
given the custody of the belated hon.
orary document and attached to it the
resolutions prompting its bestowa
which had been introduced by Gov.
HardWick and passed by the Board Of
Trustees.
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