Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-10-18
MEN NEED FEAR
HOW LONG CAN YOU THINK?
DIVORCE AND CANCER.
HOW RICH ARE WE?

as follows: nv III ''S
= III IS per cent of young men enter
college believing in Christianity and
nearly all OF them have lost their
faith on leaving college, we are teach
ing Christianity in the wrong way"
Very likely hard facts of science
are taught in way that crowds ont
belief in miracles. 1t must be remen1-
bered, however, that bows in their
teens do not exactly believe anvthino.
They only take for granted what has
been told them.
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1T takes long mental medicine to
plant religious belief i'll a young mind
beyond all possibility of uprooting. A
man, known all over the country, said
at the recent Lloyd George luncheon
in New York:
Only the Catholic church stands be-
tween property and red radical confis-
cation. The Protestant church lost its
power when it stopped teaching that
there is an actual blazing hell, Men
need to be frightened"
The gentleman is good Protestant
and goes through all the usual motions
but he is discouraged II it's true that
tear OF hell fire alone will keep men
honest, that's sad. But is it so? The
American Federation of Labor, which
IS no1-sectarian, comes out strongly
and officially against Communism,
conHscation OF property and other ex-
IRENE radicalism. High wages enable
men to acquire property. And when
a,enan owns something, he at once
objects to any plan for dividing even
lly Capital will learn, perhaps. that
its safety lies in making the little man
a'ittle property owner. A house paid
tor and a savings account will inspire
more conservatism than any fear of
hell.
Harvard will teach freshmen to
think, Perhaps it can be done But it
recalls the old saying about leading a
horse to water.
Il write, not that you NAV read,
but that you may think. Montesquieu
put, that in his Spirit OF Laws" long
ago. Socrates showed where true
thinking begins when he said he sup
posed he was called the wisest of the
Greeks because he knew that he knew
nothing
Thinking cannot be taught, exactly.
But II can be stimulated. When the
apple fell, that started fmportant
thought in Newton. When Columbus
made the egg stand up, that probably
made the spectators think for a few
seconds.
E ut how can you teach or provoke
PROLONGED concentrated thinking
-*Select your subject, matter unlim-
tied in infinite space" or time without
beginning or end or ''the logicai~prob
ability of personal immortality. The
average mind will find it hard to stick
to one thought for three minutes.
For seven marriages in the United
Estates there is one divorce. For seven
people OF middle age one is sure to
die of cancer.
Some call the divorce cancer worse
than any other malignant tumor.
II we understood cancer and di-
vorce we might find them not SO far
apart.
Both come from ignorance, both
could be prevented.
The voters of Oklahoma seem to
have decided against Governor Wal
ton, in favor of the Ku KluX by an ov-
erwhelming majority. Governor Walt
onon secures an injunction to prevent
an election that would impeach and
put him out
If it be true that the Ku Klux COM
pletely control a great state, that in
terests all other sattes. 1t may be that
Oklahoma voted not so much in favor
of the Ku Klux as against Governor
Walton's use of militia to prevent vot-
ing.
Statistics put the wealth of the
United States, everything included, at
three hundred thousand million dol
lars. Taxation assessment on New
York City's real estate is increased,
this year, more than one thousand mil
lions The total assessed value of New
York is eleven billion and a qilarter.
1t would be impossible to guess the
total wealth of the United-States, with
several cites that will be bigger than
New York is now,-Chicago, Los An
geles, Seattle, Detroit, among others.
$3.50
When old Germany finishes building
the big Zeppelin ordered by this coun
try, the great ZEPPELIN plant must be
dismantled and destroyed. Such are
the. orders of France. A plant that the
world needs for its progress is to be
made junk pile because it might make
machines for war. It's natural for
France to maintain her dictatorship in
Europe and protect herself against
numbers. while she can. But could not
France herself run that factory, or
sell the plant to be transported to this
country All nations share the burden
OF such wilful waste.