Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-27
WHAT LABOR WOULD DO.
HARDING AS DECORATION.
WE'RE DOING WELL.
GERMANY'S SMALL CHANGE.

Labor may rule the British En-
pire. Lloyd George says Labor has
the right to show what it can do: 1t
won the recent election. Ramsay Nc
Donald, head of the Labor Party,
would be the Prime Minister. He tells
of Labor Party plans.
First, it would tax wealth, not the
income. That is only child's play. 1t
would take piece out of every for
tune above $4,000. The bigger the
fortune, the bigger the piece taken.
Small fortunes would lose | per cent
of principal, big fortunes so per cent.
Two or three men in America would
lose in one lump hundreds of millions
if we had that here. The capital tax
will be taken gradually, to- avoid de-
stroying values by forced sales That
is something for our big men to think
about, prayerfully.
Whether the experiment would work
we'll no man can say. The nomad1c
Tartars, driving cattle with them, cut
pieces off the living animals as they
went along. That was capital tax
Oil the animal, but not good for cattle
in the long run. s
If Labor came to power it would
avoid many things that it now plans
and tolerate many things that it now
hates. To run nation, and keep the
complicated machine going, is not
easy. 1t is especially dangerous to in
which stimulates energy and accomp-
lishment
The Republicans are planning con-
vention decorations for the great pub
lie hall in Cleveland. American flags,
with pictures of Washington, Lincoln,
and Harding, are suggested Things
happen suddenly How little President
Harding imagined a little while ago
that he would be only a decoration for
the 1924 convention.
President Coolidge has released,
with unconditional pardons, all the re-
naming thirty political war prisoners.
That's common sense, although it will
annoy certain national security" gen.
tlemen who have found patriotism
great help in graft and profiteering.
The men released by the President
were, some of them, fools; others were
unbalanced mentally; others were
men of character and courage. Not
one had actually "done anything" In
every case the Crime" was verbal All
other nations have released such pris-
Oners.
The President of Germany has his
salary cut to $500 a year. Ambas-
sailors get $1,750. Guards employed
by the government railroads get $3.50
year, woe to the vanquished," es-
pecially financial woe.
England has given up temporarily
the scheme to fortify Singapore. That's
the first result probably of the Labor
victory in the last election.
Recent study of cancer shows the
vicious growth within the body to be
separate existence, stimulated by its
own excretions and growing with the
furious energy of embryonic life.
Cutting out or destroying with X
rays or radium is the only cure now.
But way may be found to check
growth by scientific control of growth
stimulating substances. Cancer is to
some extent an embryo in the wrong
place, body within the body.
La Toilette says: "There is little
in the Coolidge message to satisfy the
mass OF American people" One thing,
however, satisfies many of the Ameri-
can people, and that is Mr.. Cool
1dge's intention to leave we'll enough
alone. La Hire, fighting the bear, pray
ed the Lord, II don't ask you to help
La Hire, l only ask you not to help the
bear"
Many Americans will be quite con-
tent if nothing happens to interfere
with their present condition, and Mr..
Coolidge represents that policy of non
interference.
Germany prints notes for one billion
and five billion marks each. most an
propriately decorating them with
thistles and thorns. The note for one
billion, which would have been worth
two hundred and fifty million dollars
before the war, will be used ''for small
change"
Miss Muskrat, an Indian girl of the
Cherokee tribe, had luncneon with
President Coolidge and his wife at the
White House and talked American
common sense. Eve don't want anv
government providence looking after
us. We want a chance with other Am
orleans. We don't want to be kept in
our original state of slavery, for tour
lists and artists to look at us, and
slushy sentimentalists and writer's to
write about us"
An able young Indian woman is
Miss Muskrat, of Mount Ho1voke
College.