Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-01-24
ABOUT EARLY SUCCESS
1,400 FEET DOWN.
FORD AND MUSCLE SHOALS.
NOTHING LIKE SUCCESS.
HARSH WORDS FOR GIRLS.

1t Gbesn't pay to make children
work too hard. What they need in
youth is warmth, affection, exercise,
good food, long sleep. Heavy learning
can come later
You have read about William JAM
es Sidis, the boy phenomenon, who
at eleven Years of age, was in Har-
ward University, debating with profess
sdrs on the fourth dimension 'and
came out of Harvard at thirteen.
That young gentleman is working
now as a clerk at $23 week and
doing his higher mathematics" on
a cash register. He says he hates the
name of Harvard! He is discouraged
and from a published interview, he
appears to lack the greatest of assets
mental courage. It's easy to take that
out of human by over-forcing in
childhood
The vanity of parents ends some
times in destruction of the child's
chances.
Wireless signals in the code of the.
United States Navy have been heard
| 400 feet down in mine in Arizona.
Sound without wires going through
| 400 feet of solid earth" seems mar
velous. But we must remember that
there is no such thing as Solids
earth. And there is no such things as
solid matter, only electrons, that form
atoms, atoms that form molecules,
and molecules that form that we call
matter, the particles of that matter be-
ing as far from each other, in pro-
portion to their size, as the earth is.
| from the sun. There is no reason why
radio waves shouldn't go anywhere.
since there is no solid matter to stop
them.
Various concerns offer to rent Mus.
| Gle Shoals, suggesting in a feeble,
doubtful way, that they will make fer
tilizer. The farmers of the United
States have Henry Fords positive
promise that he will produce cheap.
fertilizer at Muscle Shoals The
farmers and others want Henry Ford
to make good on that proposal and
should have the opportunity
| -Oe
Ford shows you in the state of
New York, one of his new plants, an
industrial building, twelve hundred
teet long, with not a smoke-stack on
1t, everything done by the power of
water changed into electricity.
Give Ford the chance at Muscle
Shoals and he will DO everything
possible to keep his pledge to give
the farmers cheap fertilizer. He
Will do what is infinitely more i'm
portant, showing the people of the
United States how the water power of
this country should be used for the
peoples benefit.
A distinguished lady writer saws:
When deep, powerful love coo1s, mar
rage should end in divorce. News
papers discuss that because it sounds
new.
Yet it is what the monkeys said.
or would have said if they could talk.
half million years ago. Mr. Monkey
would say: when I am tired of one
lady monkey, I go off and find an
other. That's my idea of !ove."
Marriage is an institution not es-
tabllshed for the amusement of mon
keys or men, but for the protection
OF children, to establish respect for
women, and to make men gradually
more decent.
we should be even closer to the
monkeys than we are now, but for
the institution of marriage, which has
trained men to suppress the monkey
within them.
Dry Charles ]. Smith, president of
Roanoke College, Virginia, has this
to say about the modern girl. Reading
it, you will hope that nothing un.
pleasant was left unsaid:
Some women in every age drank
liquor, few even enjoyed a smoke.
many of them threw away their
honor, but the world has never
known the turning loose of such an
army of hard drinking, cigarette
putting, licentious Amazons as walk
the streets and invade the college
campuses today"
1t may be or seem true, but. as
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little better than those before it.
Providence attends to that, and max
es very good mothers of the "1icen-
tious Amazons" that worry good Doc
tor Smith, He must remember the
famous Olympias, who danced stark
naked, with serpents wrapped around
her, consulted magicians, killed the
baby of her husbands second wife.
But she was the mother of Alex
ander the Great.
People talk of "a saturation' in
the motor industry. There is no such
thing as "saturation" in the automo-
bile world. People buy cars, use them
up, buy others.
The farmers in the country used to
buy two million buggies every Year.
We only manufacture four million
AUTOMOBILES year now. At this
moment the country ought easily to
absorb six or seven. million cars a
year. Every car pays for itself in time