Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-13
EXPECT GREAT THINGS
10 MARRIES 50-NOT SO BAD
WAKE UP, HENRY FORD
WHICH IS GREATEST?
DEAD TOGETHER-AND HAPPY

Under Monroe, Florida was added
| to Unltd States territory in 1920 by
treaty with Spain. That should be re-
membered by ladies and gentlemen
now buying mid Summer garments to.
be worn in mid-Winter at Jackson
vile, St. Augustine, Miami, Palm
Beach and thousand other places i'll
wonderful Florida. By the way, the
season there begins earlier every year;
1t has begun now.
w. J. Connors, of Buffalo at his OWN
expense and risk, has built an aduira
Bile motor road from Miami to the West
Coast. See Florida.
his IS growing country, and bus
mess grows much faster than the pop-
ulatlon. In 1900 the population was
/o,OO00OO. 1t has grown to l1OO0OOOO
IN tWenty-three years, about As per
cent; not bad. But consider steel. In
: l9OO this country produced 100000
tons in year. Now it produces TO-.
OO00O0 tons, an increase OF 800 per
cent.
If you sell this country short" Won
will lose. And don't listen to anv talk
about "a bad Presidential year" Pre-
pare tor good times, in the words of
the distinguished optimist, Mr.. Upper
cut, expect great things"
A boy sixteen marrieS a widow Iady
fltty years old, who owns a hotel. The.
lady puts $4,000 in trust for the Young
husband when he reaches twenty one.
The boys parents, shocked. would
set aside the marriage.
Yet the widow was only carving cut
Plato's idea. He thought middle aged
women should keep very vounp war
riors out OF mischief by looking after
them. There is no greater parental prob
lem than the management on a boy
from fifteen to marriage.
Wake up, Henry Ford, and get to.
work on cheap, safe flying machines.
| hey, are selling them in Germany. all
metal, safe, doing sixty miles an hour.
less than gallon OF gas for sixty
m1les-price 81, 100
Farmers, statesmen buy the machines
by thousands.
Ford could sell them for $500. Amer
lca needs them. Texas especjai1v
Where is the young Ford to do for
america IN the air what Ford has
done on earth?
The three estates OF olden times.
a trinity ruling all earths affairs were
Royalty, Nobility, Clergy.
Journalism was rcconiized. in com
descending way, as the fourth-estate.
John Galsworthy. writing for the
London Times about fair play in ia
terhational thought, says that the .f1ree
estates now ruling mankind are Sci
encs, Finance and the Pless.
OF the three, science is incompara-
ply greatest Newspapers come next.
finance third. Newspapers can voer-
rule all the power of finance ii the
newspapers happen to be in the right.
Newspapers and finance combined can
do nothing against science EXCEPT
postpone its benefits.
mere are nearly seven thousand
million dollars i'll our savings banks
deposits have increased more than
tive hundred millions in the last wear.
. hat sounds prosperous. Savings bank
deposltors alone, if they drew out their
savings all at once would cali for
nearly all the money in the county,
only eight billions is the total.
s.
This will interest millions of ms
bands and wives more than anv o+her
news OF the dhy:
jean Francois Pennel and his wife
Marie died at their home near Lille
III France at exactly the same min
ute.
Ill IN separate rooms, neither knew
OF the others illness.
Where did those two souls that had
lived SO long together go as they left
the earth simultaneously?
How fast did they travel and in
what direction?
Did the souls recognize each other
as they started off? What are doing
and saying now?
Can they talk without vocal cords.
tongue, teeth and the other machinery
tor articulate sound? Are they united
at last, never to be separated, to live
thru ali eternity, never worried. never
i'll, never poor, above all, NEVER
$3.50
JEALOUS?
The postal deficit is cut thirty mil
lions. And if the post office charged
the people one quarter as much as a
private corporation would charge, post
office profits would amount to- hun
dreds OF millions. Bear that in mind
when you discuss public ownership
You know that about 20 per cent of
the worlds automobiles are in the u.
S. A.
ID d YOU know, also, that New York
City uses more telephones than all
OF Great Britain and Ireland?
his is an up-to-date country
wonderful in mechanical efficiency.
But it doesn't do enough thinking
apart from material problems.
6o6 quickly relieves Colds, Fever