Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-06


tial year" will not be bad year, IN
less merchants and people combine to
make it So
A good year depends ON good buy
ing Nothing in the election of a pres
ual supplies, from ice cream sodaS to
fur coats, from factory sites to bun
galc'vs.
This Presidential year ought to be
our most prosperous year. The cleo
ton reminds the people that ths
country is managed by its inhabitants,
for the benefit of the inhabitants, when
they take the trouble to vote thought
! fully
Europe is worried, harrassed, ma
lions mistrustin9 each other, taxing
each others products. Here we have
one hundred and ten millions of people
living at peace i'll forty-eight different
states, all trading freely, back and
forth. from ocean to ocean.
While other nations lack food and
raw materials, our problem is to get
rid of our surplus on profitable basis
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We haven't even begun to scratch
the wealth of this country. Wages are
higher than they ever were; prosper
ity is greater than it ever was; and
there is more money to be spent than
.Eere ever was.
! Nineteen hundred and twenty hour,
the presidential year, ought to be the
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ity for all time
low it.
The King OF Denmark, who was
told a while ago that DR.. Cook had
discoaercd the North Pole, has now
been told that DR.. Cook is sentenced
to fourteen years in jail for sw.ndies
in connection with oil wells.
Psychologists, if they examined Dr.
Cook, would probably find that he
has the brain and imagination OF
young school boy.
Years ago he exhibited himself in
dime museum i'll New York, with Es-
quimau dogs, sled and heavy furs, and
gradually imagined himself real Elk
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had discovered the North Pole-per-
haps he almost believed it. There is
no penalty for imagining that.
But when he imagined that he had
discovered valuable oil wells and sold
stock-that was different offense
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The Methodist Episcopal Board of
Public morals has things to say about
the stage in New York. Young ladies
It seems, many at time, troop
down to the footlights naked from the
waist up and practically naked from
the vast down-don't call it nude,
just plain naked SO say the board
Much seems to depend on what neO-
pie are doing and why, and where. In
ancient Greece young CIR ran il the
races entirely naked without hurting
anybodE's morals. Their intentions
we're good That makes all the differ
cnCc.
Many things on the stage are both
immoral and stupid Intentionally I'M
moral, unintentpnally stupid, BIT new
cr the ,oss stupid Wcmcn as TOW
presented to The public are about as
Interesting rs so many sides Of
dressed heel hung ~ in butcher snon
Managers ought to know that.
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a few years ago, even Henry Ford
wouldn't have thought this possible.
He will talk through the sir, from his
WWl station at Dearborn, using his
500 metre wave, across thousand
miles of this continent, three thousand
miles of the Atlantic Ocean, to men
and women listening in in England
That miracle would have astounded
those living when the Old Testament
was written.
Let's hope that in few thousand
years, with every human being able
to talk at will with any other on earth,
men will decide to stop numbering
each other, and follow Joseph Pulit-
zer's advice: Don't fight; advertise"
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Young ladies OF Chicago's Co ed"
University decide that "all men are
takers" and are all dull Some with
dulness, combine seriousness, others
roth, Others trivality, but all are
dull
Nothing new in that truthful state
ment. The miracle is that women have
endured mems dullness, pretending to
be interested in their conversation, for
so many centuries, from dull moderti
man back to Adam. He must have had
nothing at all to say, being SO freshly
made and having no gossip to bring
home to his wife. You do not wonder
that, in the despair of boredom, she
talked to the snake.
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