Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-27
This Week
A Giant Airfish.
Mr.. Eel-Worm is Here
The Devils Ink Stain
Your Eye and Auto.
= By ARTHUR BRISBANE

Dy AM II - X BRISBANE -
The United States built a giant dir.
igible in ENGLAND. 1t fell, killed 81
Another built in Italy fell, killed "a
Last week the United States Zeppelin
FRI, built HERE, by the American
government, flew over New York anc
started for Philadelphia, having first
travelled 100 miles over New Jersey
Those who think the Government can.
do anything and must always hire pri
vate assistance, take notice.
That great machine looking like {
silver coated fish, slowly travelling thru
the air above New York was warn.
ing to the six millions of that city anC
the whole country.
In the morning, with the sun OBJ
scured by clouds, the air giant wa:
barely visible. Had the captain chos
en- to go few thousand feet higher
it would have been absolutely invis
ible.
Such a traveller coming out of the
misty dawn, above the edge of thu
ocean, would first make itself known
by dropping enough bombs to destroy
New York, enough deadly gas to xii
three-quarters of the inhabitants
The next war will be an air war
This country should be ready for it.
Important. Bad news for farmers
in rapid spreading of the eel-worn
disease, imported from South Africa
The eel-worm, fatal to alfalfa and 9th
er plants in two years has spread
from Eastern Oregon to Californi;
and Colorado.
Kansas, great alfalfa State, Colo
RADIO and other states, should figh
this enemy as they would Asiatic chol
era. The tiny deadly pest might cos
farmers hundreds of millions yearly.
Yesterday you could buy a thous
and million marks for $780, In 1914
one thousand million marks wer,
worth $250,000000. German money
then worth two and one-half millol
dollars, is worth 81 now. That's wha
the war does when you lose. But tina
won't discourage the next mar-1ilo
nation.
The castle of War-borg is cioset
for lack of money to keep it in re
pair. The public can no longer see tn
room in which Luther translated tn
Bible, nor the big black spot on tn
wall made by him when he threw tn
inkwell at the devil.
American Lutherans perhaps will
contribute to repairing the old castl
and supply ink to freshen up the ink
stains, which have doubtless beer
made fresh many time in the past
1t is a pity to let old stories die,
American school children savec
$9,500,000 in the last school year Th
money is nothing, the saving habit i
everything
To teach children that poverty i
slavery, and can be avoided by rea
sonable saving, is the first duty O
parents. The second duty is to teacl
children that after they have saved
they must help others.
Exercise your eye muscles ant
avoid automobile accidents. That
the advice given by DR.. Needle Whel
you are in a car going forty miles al
hour, you go about fifty eight fee
every second. Unless your eye cal
roll from one side to the other a
least twice in second, you can
keep track of both sides of the roat
and travel safely at that speed. Prize
fighters, fliers, automobile drivers, al
require eye exercises to strengthen
the eye muscles. At best, they ge
weak with old age. And a closed ca
requires better eyes than an open car
The Prince of Wales, under tn,
name of Baron Renfrew, is in Can
ada resting. In spite of his disguis,
a crowd met him when he arrived
The English know the value of Can
ada now, and in the future. The rea
England may be Canada some time
with the British Isles maintained a,
a central business office in Europe
As the great Roman Empire wa.
the seat of power change from Italy
to Constantinople, so Britons of an
other century may see their imperia
Parliament and whatever is left of thu
royal family transplanted in Montrea
or Australia.