Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-01-03

MOSES AND WILBUR WRIGHT.
The public, thanks to Senator Bor-
all, will learn all about that dreadful
Russian conspiracy to plant the red
flag on the White House.
Already part of the horrible truth
has leaked out A secret Service man
says that Russian Communists, dis
guised a a literary society, met in a
hall in New York.
You don't need to be told that from
such meeting, it is on y one step to
Selling a nation of one hundred and
ten million and planting the bloody red
flag on the White House.
The people can never be grateful
enough to Secretary Hughes for pre-
venting that. Paul Revere, in his ride,
the gentleman that carried the news
from Client to AK or the Greek SOL
der who set the first Marathon rec
ord, must make way for Charles Ev-
ans Hughes, who kept the red flag
off the roof OF the White House.
| King George OF Greece, was notl-
| fled that Greece could do without him
and was sent from the country, taking
his Queen with him. King George will
not, like Henry the Second of England
eXclaim, "Shame on a beaten King"
turn his face to the wall and die. He
will turn his face towards Paris or
Monte Carlo, excellent cooking and
plenty of snobs in both places, and
play King in safety. That's better than
being a real King anywhere outside of
England now.
Things are better than they were,
even for kings. In CromWell's and
Danton's day their heads were cut off,
The Greek King goes away, with a
pension OF $4,000 a Year for life,
$4,000 cash being paid on his leaving.
The Greeks will have to pick and dry
currants to pay for that.
This earth has hard core, like a
gigantic sphere, bearing pressure of
$4,000 pounds to the square inch, &C
cording to reports made to the Wash
lngton Academy of Sciences.
jill
While that central sphere, 1000
miles in diameter, is probably made
OF iron, great magnet, perhaps some
believe it may be made largely of
gold, platinum or both. Those heav-
lest metals would work downward to-
ward the center. What desperate eff
orts men would make to dig down
to that central core, if they could be
sure that the gold and platinum were
there. Men will dig hole through the
earth some day, using the suns pow
er to dig, but by that time gold will
no longer be money, and money will
no longer be so important.
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Platinum, more va liable than gold,
may be worth $500 a pound. That
sounds costly But think of rad
ium, with which the market is now
glutted We had almost a monopoly
OF the precious substance here for a
while. But great deposits of radium-
Welding pitch blende found in the
Belgian Congo have upset the market
and the price dropped to about thirty
five million dollars pound. A short
time ago it was thought there was not
more than half an ounce of radium
IN ali the world.
1t is now, believed that radium in
IN the sun accounts for the enduring
power OF that star, sending out light
and heat through hundreds of mill
ions OF years, with a certainty of last
ms hundreds of millions of year more.
We had plenty OF radium here, once,
If it be true that lead is radum that
has lost its power. If the stars are
fountains OF radioactive power, do
they grow quite like our earth and be-
come planets Of some bigger sun when
their radio active energy dies?
The golden lid of Tutankhamen's
magnificent coffin has been aised.
showing glorious decorations in blue
and gold, with plenty of space for
an extra corpse or two. There are still
one or two doors of the coffin to be
opened. Then will be found the re-
mains OF the creature who once ruled
all Egypt, now dried mass of skin
and bone, preserved to prove, three
thousand years later, that nothing mat
tiers except what you do while you are.
still alive.
he bonus bill is back in Congress
capital, fearing to be taxed, tells you
with tears in its eyes, ct will cost
seventy million dollars next year if
you give the soldiers their bonus"
Another Year of war would have
cost this country FIFTY THOU
SAND MILLION DOLLARS. The.
men that went across, lost their Jobs
and watched the prosperous people.
prohteerlng prevented that.
ne Government railroad in Alaska
ends at Nenana. From that point mails
to Fairbanks are drawn by dogs. TAX
ing twenty days. Now the dogs will
get a rest, and the letters will 60 fly
ing in four hours. That's progress
Moses with his friends wandered
around the desert forty years. Start
ing after a comfortable breakfast. flv-
ing machines would have taken them
to the land OF Promise in time for
luncheon.
Moses surely is interested in Wilbur
Wright, who he ped his brother invent
the Tying machine and is now in