Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-10-04
On Plates of Gold
w why Fighting is Respectable
$4,000 Miles Second
WhiSkey, Champion Crirn;n.,

W1MsKey champion Criminal
One hundred years ago Josenb
onl,th' prophet, founded the Church
III Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,
Tie reserved from Heaven gold plates
milysteTriousy engraved and from them
a,Vne'y guided, translated the Book
of Mormon. '0''N
AT least, that is his story His fol-
lowers say It should not be questioned
by Christians that accept a similar
story from Moses, about the tablets
OF the law '''N TO
Those that wisely respect all rel;-
gions, denying none, are Interested &c.
Pecialiy IN the changes that have come
over Mormonism, still full of VITALITY
after l0o years. Joseph Smith made a
particular virtue of many wives for
one man-so did wise King Solomon,
by the way.
Modern Mormonism, rallying under
the the purple, blue and gold banner,
Cumorah- Ramah'', says "one wife is
enough. That does not mean repudi
at1ng Joseph Smith. Many good Chris
tlans tone down Jonah and the whale.
knowing that the earth is round, do not
INSIST that the four angels actually
stood at the four corners of the earth,
All lite is compromise
he Department of Commerce Blu
reau of Census, calculates the total
wealth of the United States as about
three hundred billions of dollars, three
thousand dollars for every man, wo-
man and child, nearly double the total
wealth of 1912.
One hundred per cent seems encour-
aging, and the Census Bureau figures
may be technically accurate, but they
don't mean anything.
A lady asks why the Dempsey-F
po fight is allowed. "Once" says she
:@prize fighters had to hide away in
barns, like dog fighters. Now they have
the police to keep order for them while
they knock each other down. How can
you explain that?
Easily. A big prize fight now is
worth two million dollars to the pro-
1aoters That makes it Respectable.
The owner of little gambling house
stock or produce exchange where they
bet millions, is respectable and pro-
tected. We have our weaknesses in
this country, but we do show respect
for anything above one million.
One single IDEA might be worth
three hundred billions-for instance, an
idea supplying men with unlimited
free power from sun or tides
There are many times three humid
red billions worth of wealth below the
earth in mines, oil, gas, coal and in
the earth's thin crop producing carpet
of soil
There are more than three hundred
billion dollars worth of nitrogen in
khe air above us. This is a rich country
but we need more people, and instead
of encouraging them to come in, we
foolishly keep them out.
N%A
Henry Ford is studying better kind
of boat to carry freight and passengers
If he produces it, he will add bill
lions to the nations wealth. The
height of mechanical folly is carrying
on pounding rails and wheels, freight
that ought to glide, without friction
or wear, along thousands of miles of
canals and rivers.
To enjoy a good headache, read Sir
Ernest Rutherford, great British Sci
enlist, on the atom. A thousand atoms
in the corner of your eye wouldn't both
er you. You wouldn't know they were
there.
The atom, complex unit of pure
electricity of which all substIcccs, ell
ements, wealth, rocks, buildings, mon
ey and men are made, is miniature
solar system. 1t has a central elect
ron which is like the sun.
Around it revolve dozens of small
er electrons like planets. The cleo
irons farthest away from the cen
tire, in this miniature solar system,
travel slowly in their obits - only
five hundred miles second. Those
nearest the center travel at the in
conceivable speed of ninety-three
thousand miles a second.
What horrible forces are locked up
in those minute particles of matter?
In such an "infra- world"
i 4 4
Who knows what may happen. what
generations may be born and die in
the fraction of second? Who knows
that this milky way cosmos of ours,
compared to which the earth is as big
as an atom compared with the earth
itself, may not be a mere atom in
bigger cornos?
The power that holds together the
atoms in a glassful of water would,
if released, run, all the machinery of
the United States for an indefinite
period.
There's another headache in that
thought
A man asleep and drunk COM
plains because thieves took his spec
tacles, false teeth and money.
That man shouldn't complain of
thieves, but of the whiskey that he
drank Whiskey is the champion thief,
stea1ino Dt only money. but health,
reputation, character. and finally life