Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-06-05

planet isn't the important thing.
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What can be done on wires can be
don thru the ether that separates this
earth from other planets in our fami-
1y.
We shall get from these planets
radio portraits showing faces of their
strange inhabitants and radio "blue
prints" from Mars showing us how
to dig canals to store the waters of
the oceans when frost, rain and attri-
ton make this eartA perfectly round,
leaving no natural cavities to hold
the water.
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If the earth were absolutely round,
as it will be in a few million years.
the ocean would cover it about mile
deep everywhere. We must know how
to prevent that Mars, tens of millions
Of years older than Earth, will reach
us by radio.
If that sounds preposterous, remem-
Der what you would have said twenty
years ago if you had been told that a
preacher in Chicago some day would
be heard in Los Angeles and New
,foundlandl in the same second.
Republican gentlemen, that tried to
frame up" Senator Wheeler, as cor
rupt detectives once in a while frame
a victim when they need scapegoat
are in trouble. Men in Montana who
thought that copper should control
the State, and the men in Washington
who thought oil should control the
Nation, both disliked Wheeler and de-
cided to put him in Jail. They wilt
wish before the thing is over that
they hadn't made that attempt 1t was
not a good time for it, altho it has
doubtless often been done before.
Here's hope for the hopeless, the
victims of hay fever. Mr.. Coolidge,
who has rose cold" sits for forty,y
fiveminutes in an air-tight room,
breathing in air mixed with chlorine
gas He leaves saying "the trouble is
gone"
Chlorine gas cures colds in men
and epizootic in horses. Why should
it not cure, or at least relieve, hay
fever that tortures thousands for weeks
every year?
When European nations decided to
take what money they could get from
China after the Boxer uprising, the
United States got some of the indem-
nifty cash, and then realizing that it
was international blackmail the money
was sent back to China to be used for
education. China now thanks the Unit
ed States Minister, saying that other
nations have followed our example.
$50 shines a good deed in naughty
world" 4
The Dutch Reformed church Of
South Africa opposes prohibition, say
ing: "Wine is the gift of God which
no one should desecrate."
That church takes seriously the
Bible statement that the founder of
Christianity by a miracle turned
water into wine, to make avoiding
more cheerful Some American preach
ers say the wine thus produced was
non-alcoholic. But is it likely that the
wedding guests would have considL
cred that miracle worth while?
The Senate Committee of Agricul-
ture rejected the Ford bid for Muscle
Shoals by vote of 10 to E. That is
not final, but it shows how difficult
it is to get anything thru in Wash
ington sometimes. 1t isn't quite so
difficult if there is little black bag"
with the right kind of lining in the
ofing. (
Wall Street men will discover that
Secretary Mellon who had no trouble
in cutting hundreds of millions off
the national expenditures, will easily
find a way to finance the soldiers
bonus.
Tens of thousands gother at Louis
Vile, Kentucky, all excited, eager.
specializing, betting on "the great
American Derby" The winning horse
will get $4,000. For half the money
that good jockey earns in a week
you can buy an automobile that will
run any ten race horses to death every
day and never get tired Speed in hors-
es no longer means anything useful.
Racing, betting, horse excitement VIII
continue, for it takes men long titAA
to get over anything they have been
dong TOR a thousand years.