Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-08
MONSIEUR'S ARITHMETIC BAL
LIGHT FOR HENS AND TREES.
THERE AND HERE.
MEN AND WOLVES
THE DOCTOR MILL.

Monsieur Loucheur, ablest finan-
cial mind in France, tells Americans,
"You must put out OF your minds
all idea of getting the money that
France owes you. Payment is inn
possible Consider the stupendous
sum France owes YOU
The amount that France owes us
is a~little over four billion dollars.
Loucheur may be right, payment
may be impossible.
But this puzzles you Poincaire con-
sentlng to a conference, says there
mustn't be any suggestion OF cutting
down the amount he thinks Germany
should pay. That amount is thirty bill
lions.
If France can't pay the stupendous
sum- OF four billions, how can Ger
many pay more than seven times as
much? Will the world conference an
swer that question?
Ordinary arithmetic won't answer.
Cotton sold Off little, but it is still
above 80, and il you want it you might
as well buy it now. 1t IS going to be
a scarce commodity.
Fortunately, the cotton growers will
get somewhat better price, not because
they deserve it, as they do but because
the crop will be small.
Chickens lay more eggs when you
light the coop at night, prolonging the
period OF eating. Everybody knows
that. Nov it is shown that prolonging
the day by electric light will make
plants increase their growth.
1t seems we are getting poorer, es-
pecially the richest among US. Only
one man in the United States this year
pays tax on income OF five million dol
lars. The Government doesn't tell who
that one is. Income tax reports are
kept secret The tax that man pays
on d small home is public property.
Only twenty-one Americans reported
incomes of one million dollars or
more.
In 1920 seventy reported incomes OF
d million. The solitary income OF five
millions represents five per cent on
one hundred million dollars. Several
Americans would laugh if you offer
cd them a hundred million, for every
thing they own. This doesn't mean il
legal or criminal evasion of income
tax. The laws are drawn so that they
reach small men, doctors, lawyers,
moderate sized business men. They
don't reach the really great fortunes
Everybody knows that several great
fortunes, Henry Ford's, John D. Rock,
efeller's and two or three others are
worth many times one hundred mil
lion dollars But the money is in cor
porations. The owners OF the corpor-
atins do not draw the money out. They
re-invest it, good thing when 1t is
re-invested in labor giving enterprises,
not 50 good when invested in bonds
that pay no tax whatever
Ii the election of anybody for presl-
dent would hurt your business or your
feelings, "Lloyd's" of England will
insure YOU against that election. One
concern paid down $4,000 and Lloyds
agreed to pay 100000 in case of Fords
.election-issuing a policy, which is a
good way of Disgusting bet.
, $50
: The question is: Can Ford, by any
chance. stampede the Democratic
convention? Political leaders believe
that if Ford had a regular nomination
it would be impossible to beat him.
If the Democrats believe it earnestly
in 1924. and if Ford had somebody that
could produce Gross of Gold" speech
for him, stampeding the convention
might not be difficult What politi-
clans want, first of all, is to win.
Last week Communists were march
ing on Berlin to upset the Republican
government.
In this blessed country, at about the
same time, the public was learning OF
a tobacco combination amounting to
two hundred and fifty millions of dol
" lars, combining big interests, simplify
ing business-all excellent, provided
the public keeps track of what is done.
things TO pieces Here we are building
up. Happy we.
With a loaf Of bread in Germany
costing five billion nfarks-which
would have been $l,250,000,000 in the
old days-the intellectual Allies are be-
ginning TO set aside all questions of
reparations. They are wondering
whether they can hold Germany to-
gether and prevent the appearance OF
another and worse Russia
The learned Harvard Professor
Shaler in his book on the mob declares
that even a gathering of clergymen by
certain influences could be turned into
a murderous lynching mob Our ami
NAL ancestors are still alive in the
brains that we inherit from them.
The ST Louis Star renders great
service to the country in its exposure
OF a medical diploma mill, turning
loose upon the country men equipped
with diplomas authorizing them to
practice medicine and destroy life
$50
Medical men who have been content
to sit on State Boards, combining their
activities to attacks on other schools
of healing, never finding time to in
vestigate their own house and put it
in order, ought also to be interested in
the work that the St Louis Star has
done for them.
Rev. J. H. Elder accompanied Mr.. C
A. Titus OF Atlanta on his homeWard