Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-15
WE SPEND, ASLO SAVE
FULL BEARD AT FOUR
WHY EXCEPT LARORERS?
OLD MEN CRAVE LEARNING
MONEY IN THE BIBLE

never before, and prohibitionists will
find comfort and ammunition in that.
Savings bank deposits increased last
year one billion one hundred and forty
million, good deal of money, and
that's only small part.
Other hundreds of millions were
invested in real estate, bonds, stocks.
etc. In the worlds history there is
nothing like the way in which the
American people both SPEND money
and SAVE money.
Savings average thirty million dol
lars day, about thirty cents day
for every man, woman and chi1d-not
bad
Yet you have pessimists predicting
hard times and sensible business men
] actually frightened by their own talk
about "a bad Presidential year."
We are indeed "fearfully and won
derfully made" and we'll may we
praise the Lord. What horrible things
MIGHT happen if our glands ran
wild, as in the case of little Russian
boyo four years old. He wears a full
beard and has such abnormal power
that he Wrestles successfully With
grown men and must be watched lest
he strangle his playmates, having the
brain of child and no realization OF
power.
Doctors say the unfortunate boy
has excessive development of various
glands, especially the thyroid.
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Marvelously we are balanced, and
we should be grateful. At the Equator.
temperature l40 or the North Pole,
81 below zero, the temperature of
your blood remains the same, not a.
change of one degree, while outside
temperature changes two hundred
degrees.
And the earth, that floating hothouse
in which you live, sails thru frightfully
cold ether permanently at absolute /.
zero," cold inconceivable to us, ana
we are protected from it. "
{ Washington predicts that postal
employees will get an increase of $500
year, "all except laborers."
WHY except laborers? Their chill
dren eat as much, wear out as manv
shoes as Others. The Government can
afford to pay its workers we'll, and
should remember that the child of the
laborer may be the most important
citizen of the future, and, anyhow.
should be well fed. Keats, the poet.
worth ten million average human be-
ings, was the son of livery stable
groom.
lhe Governor of Connecticut, past
fifty, will enter Yale University. to
specialize in history and psychology
when his term ends and that is normal
AT fifty, men really want knowledge
and value it. In early youth theyx.
crave exercise and excitement. "a
In childhood we lock them I'D in
schools, forcing knowledge into them
by pumping process, when they
ought to be out of doors. And when
they are old we turn them out into
the golf fields and let them make
geese OF themselves, when they really
ought to be studying.
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The Labor Government OF England
has abolished all duties on automobiles
motor cycles, moving picture films
and watches-and that, in spite of
Great Britain's terrific war debt.
This highly intellectual American
Republic is planning a tax on radio
sets, which is about as intelligent as it
would be to tax school books or new
ideas. To allow twenty billion dollars
worth of securities to go untaxed and
put tax on human ingenuity is fool
ish, to put it mildly.
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Mason ]. Aldrich bought Bin
at auction for twenty-five cents. am
found in it two bills, one for $1OO. the
other Tor 81. A wonderful bargain.
newspapers call it. But there are bet
ter things than $1O2 to be found in anv
Bible. There is salvation, most inn
portant, and if you are more inter
ested IN money than salvation. as
some are, you can even make money
by reading the Bible.
Isaiah Job, the Psalms stimulate
the mind, make the brain work. A
stimulated mind succeeds. whether
In making money, or avoiding Sin.
10 lend dignity to their bobbed
heads, English women wear fllets
OF green and gold. or little spikes.
IN Goddess of Liberty fashion The re 4
dignity of bobbed head is a weE
shaped SKULL, Nothing is more digni-
ned than the symmetrical head of an
intelligent woman, bobbed or not.
Eventually all women will cut their
hair in c,,cb foeL:.- -,