Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-05-04
EDDETTES

What terrible thing that millions
OF tons of valuable fertile soil are be-
ing washed from the rich farm lands
now under water and wasted in the
Gulf of Mexico. One man saws it
is possible to divert and use the sur
plus waters to irrigate the great des-
erts OF the west. Some day we will
grow more liberal with funds to fight
floods and reclaim our lands. Perhaps
not while We still have. so much more
than we seem to need as at present
Henry Ford has two mines in Ken
lucky. He bought them in July of
1920 He does not worry about strikes
he has 375 miners both Union and
unorganized with large waiting list,
He pays s. a day above the usual
wage scale and treats the workers
and their families with the greatest
consideration. One instance of this
is his safety firt plan in regard to
carrying the men to and from the
mine entrances. The man car climbs
an incline of 65 degrees and means
certain amount of danger, although
no accident has yet occurred Still
as protection for the family in such
an event, no father and son or two
brothers are allowed to ride on the
same trip that no family shall be rob-
bed of all its male support in case of
fatal accident.
The Executive Board of the State
Federation of Woman's Clubs meeting
in Atlanta last week endorsed the
plan of instructing Georgia's delegates
to the Biennial at Chautauqua, N. Y,
in June to invite the next convention
to Atlanta. Another mission of the
delegation will be to pull for the cleo
ton of Mrs. J. f. Hayes as General
Federation Secretary. Mrs. Nichols
Peterson of Triton will lead them as
campaign manager. In fact a great
deal OF the campaigning has already
been accomplished through cores
pondence. 1t is expected to put a
solid south" issue.
This last season of Grand Opera in
Atlanta is pronounced brilliant
cess from the artistic point and inc. cas-
es the prestige of Atlanta even more
than ever as a great cultural centre
not only of the South but of the en-
tire country, however the guarantors,
four hundred in number, face a defi-
cit which they will cheerfully meet and
will let it cause no hindrance to the
plans of next year, which are being
put over with the usual enthusiasm,
and they have added to the Board of
Directors three more men of national
prominence, Warfield of Baltimore,
Otto Kahn OF New York and Mr. Rob-
ert S. Parker of Atlanta.
A we'll known medical writer in a
recent article makes startling an
nouncement when he says We do
not absorb disease germs throu breath
ing, some few germs breathed in on
dust particles as a rule are harmless
bacteria" Also No known disease is
spread thru the air Disease germs
can only go where they are carried
! They can't travel of their own activ-
ity."
He says before the actual cause OF
infectious or epidemic diseases had
been found, that it was imagined that
there was such thing as miasms car
ried long distances, even hundreds Of
| miles. Now we know the hand and
mouth are the most certain conveyors
of disease.
Only forty-three years ago the first
telephone directory was published in
New York City, and contained only
names. no numbers of 252 subscribers
while now force of 100 clerks never
get through revising and starting a
new directory as quickly as one in
finished.
1t is said that the government ex-
perts hardly know whether 10 use the
prevailing lingo that radio activities
has brought out, when they are max
ing official reports, but since we have
law OF precedent, that usage makes
good grammar and that new sciences
always introduce new terms or new
uses of words, they may as we'll fall
in to the accepted lingo so that anna
teurs may understand and be under
stood, since no science before ever
had such an army of amateurs at
work.