Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-03-06

10 Mayors OF Cities.
Go to Jacksonville, Fla.,-this is writ
ten about that city-call on Mavor
A1sop, and learn about Jacksonvil1e's
municipality owned electric light and
power plant.
There is no cheap water power in
Jacksonville-oil is used, at cost
equivalent to $3.50 ton for coal. Rut
the people of Jacksonville buy their
current at price lower than any
where in the United States, except per
haps, Seattle. So says John H. Perry
whose newspaper, the Jacksonville
Journal prints this column.
Selling at low cost the people of
Jacksonville make a profit of three
quarters of million on their plant.
They are building an addition to the,
plant costing eleven hundred thousand,
dollars, and their taxes are low.
Henry Ford, who will shock the
nerves of big financiers. as quickly as
he would chop off the head of a leg
horn hen, has recently startled gentle
men that manufacture fertilizers here.
The Ford agent at Jacksonville got
word that so many carloads of sui
plate of ammonia in bags ready for
distribution to farmers would present
ly arrive and they must sell it.
Shipments came and have contin-
ued. Jacksonville understands that
Ford's ammonia sulphate is a by-pro-
ducts of his coke plants What inter-
ests the farmers is that fact that Ford
sells his fertilizer, of the highest grade
$40 ton below the market price.
Apparently Ford is trying his hand
at cheap fertilizer without waiting for
Muscle Shoals.
Aristotle
Even in religious emotion, excess
is a mistake, and brooding leads to
trouble. Frank Mcdowell got it into
his head he had committed the unpard-
enable sin.
The idea stayed, and by way of 'ex-
piation' he killed his two sisters, burn
ing them as they lay asleep in their
beds. That also preyed on his mind
and added to his religious worries. So,
by way of further 'expiation he shot
his mother and father to death.
Such religious hallucinations were
not unusual in the old days. They drove
men and women into the desert where
they lived in filth and semi-starvation.
imagining that such conduct pleased
the Lord
1t didn't occur, to them to ask why
the Lord had provided fertile earth
and clean water if it pleased Him to
see hermits dirty and hungry.
Many have seen the holy man of
Benares" deluded pagan, sitting on
sharp spikes and accepting little con-
tributlons, convinced that it pleased
his particular God to see him sitting
there.
The calming down Of our religiouS
emotions is most important forward
step in civilization, Men begin to real
lze that the mysterious Power above
gave us this beautiful planet, that we
might take care of it like faithful gar
deners and find happiness in the pro-
cess, leaving the hereafter to a high
er judgment.
Will the State of Florida accept
or reject fifty million dollars worth
of free advertising?
If Florida sends William Jennings
Bryan to the National Democratic.
Convention he will go at his own ex-
pense and Florida will get free of
charge in all the newspapers in the
United States advertising as could not
be bought for fifty or hundred mil
lion dollars.
If Florida allows herself to be de-
celved by political gentlemen who be-
eng to the East Coast Railway, which
doesn't want Mr.. Bryan to 90 to the
convention, then Florida will lose very
valuable advertising.
President Coolidge asks thirteen
millions for the coast guard to deal
with smugglers. The authorities inter
cept five per cent of the whiskey now.
Spending ten millions more they might
seven per cent of it. They
can't stop it. Smuggling cocaine and
other drugs is a part of rum running.
The questions are, what is this gov
eminent going to do about it? And
how long will the public be content to
let things drift?