Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-08-21
Never Something for Nothing
Nearer Perfect Bigger Returns
A Surprise for Elijah
No Population Scare

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No Population Scare
Charles Fox offers to the United
States Government an engine tina.
consumes no gas or other fuel and
runs forever
The inventor says, "You just start
her up and let her flicker" and he
thinks it will bring millions. 1t won't
bring a cent. A Power wiser than
Charles Fox, wiser even than Calvin
Coolidge, won't allow us to get
something for nothing" That would
be bad for us. Therefore there is no
perpetual motion, nothing worth hav-
ing for which we don't give effort
and value in return.
1t pays to develop perfect thing
from cows to radio. Mrs. H. NICK.
Twombly, of New Jersey, owns
Guernsey named Langwater Fairy,
No. 9797o. She looks like any Other
COW, but gives three times as much
milk, four and half times as much
butter fat as the average cow. Her
amazing record just announced is
1905 pounds of butter fat in one
year. In that kind of prosperity there
is no speculation, no manipulating.
Just plain, simple production of wealth
thru intelligent attention to breeding.
Daily the radio offers something
new. This time it is "broadcasting
church music for rural weddings"
The bride, trembling, will give the
last poke at her hair, the last tug at
her veil The sexton will tune in"
and up she will march, in Farming
dale, N. J., to the tune of Faithful
and True" played in Chicago, Ill.
Florida says, Come The rich
will answer, I'm hurrying." Have
you an income? Florida offers you at
fractions over and above the fine eli
mate. Florida intends to put into her
constitution a provision that will x
empt incomes and inheritances from
all taxation This is intended as "a
courtesy to prosperous people from
the North" They will appreciate it.
No death tax on inheritance, no State
tax on income! Oh, joy! Oh, rapture!
Florida says, "Come to Florida. Here
your income is all yours to spend. We
chop off nothing and your heirs get
all you leave them when you die. We
won't tax dead men,"
A long time ago Elisha took hold
of his own clothes and rent them in
two pieces" when he saw Elijah go
up in "a chariot of fire and horses of
fire"
What are Elisha and Elijah, now
in heaven, saying to each other as
they see the Right Reverend Harold
Roberts Carson, Bishop of the Epis-
copal Diocese of Haiti, calmly riding
from one parish to another in fly
ing machine? The navy lends him the
flying machine and he visits places
otherwise inaccessible.
All that men can IMAGINE they
can DO.
DIR. Pearl, professor of biometry
and vital statistics at Johns Hopkins,
says our population will be 1917, 100000
in the year 210o That will be our
maximum and then will come de-
cline.
With all due respect to the learned
professor, any child could make as
good guess.
DR.. William Allen Pusey recently
told the American Medical Associa-
ton that population would reach u.s.
100000. And with that density of
population, the pressure of existence
will become so strong that the death
rate, particularly infant mortality,
will overtake the birth rate"
That is another poor guess Under
intensive cultivation, as it is now I'M
derstood, the State of Texas alone
could feed the earths entire popula-
ton, and that is at least sixteen hun
bred millions.
There will be a thousand million
human beings in THIS country, in
fnitely happier, richer, better off in
every way, than any population that
ever has lived.
In 124 years, since 1900, our popu-
lation has risen from 100000 to
112,000,000 What is the use of CUES
sing what will happen in the next
100 years? 1t would have been i'm
possible to guess how many people
this country could feed before har-
vesting machinery was invented Inn
possible before the arrival of the
tractor.
Lack OF food won't limit population
Mems brains will always provide for
their stomachs. But a higher race will
gradually produce fewer children.
| Disease breeding cities will be brok-
en- up by the flying machine, taking
us to live on mountain tops, where
there is fresh air These mountains
are not to be forever uninhabited.