Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-12-04
EDUCATION WEEK.
WHAT KILLS B0LSHEVlSM?
A BIGGER DiN0SAUR.
ITALIAN IMMIGRATION.

President Coolidge's message
announcing Education Week, was
as brief and as sound as any mes
sage on education since Jaures's
Message to the school teachers or
france:
"Teach the children to read in
telligently and all knowledge Is
open to them"
Fathers and mothers ,eed not
WORRY because their children lack
college education" if they have
been taught to read intelligentiyp
and if they read the right books,
because their minds crave informa-
ton.
A better, more useful education
can be got from two years sys---
tematic reading Of the right kind
tnan the education planted in the
average young student in his four
years at college.
Lord Ashfeld, Englishr1an VINO
thinks, says that Bolshevism is
kept down in America by the fact
that almost everybody has an au-
tonobile. Almost everybody hasn't
an automobile. But almost every
body can reasonably hope to have
ore. OF to ride in one owned by a
son, daughter, brother or sister.
They have found in Africa, weR
preserved, bones of dinosaur,
twice as big as the biggest thus far
known. The history OF that dino
saur would show that the bigger ne
grew. the nearer he was to extlnc-
tion. That thought should occupy
the minds of our financial dino
saurs, "Providence arranges it 80
that the trees shall not grow into
the heavens" That's also true OF
dinosaurs and corporations.
Mussolini complains, justly, that
our immigration laws are har0-
ship for Italy. They are an mfi-
l...., ~s.., Ia. .dsnip Tor the
United States. The skillfui work.
ers that Italy would send to us, and
that we stupidity refuse to admit
represent the very wealth that this
nation needs.
Florida alone could usefully take
care of all Italian immigration for
the next ten years, and be enriched
thereby to an extent inconceivable.
Why not permit the different
States to establish their own
quotas, regulate their own immi-
grafton, and agree to keep imnai-
grants thus admitted within their
own borders for a certain number
of years after their arrival?
A German scientist demonstrates
his ability to get fakes of real gold
from mercury. An American Is
working at the problem. Don't
worry yet, however. The manu-
factured gold costs much more than
the other kind. And mercury, hav-
ing so great an affinity for gold,
may have small particles of gold al
ways stored away within it.
The Massachusetts Historical
Society has a genuine lock of Ma
poleon's hair. Thousands will game
on It in awe that would never take
the trouble to study the brain that
once worked under that hair.
Read his letters to those that
represented him in the government
of his various conquered territories
and you will know something about
Napoleon's power. Read Of his at
titude toward women, a little above
that of a chimpanzee, and you'll
know about his weakness.
A young man, eighteen years
old, set fire to seven barns on
Henry Ford's estate last April.
He was convicted, and ordinarily
would have been sent to spend his
early manhood in some prison uni
versity Of crime.
Henry Ford appealed to the
Court, and had the young man put
on probation, guaranteeing that he,
Ford, would send the young man
that burned his barns to the Ford
trade school.
More trade schools and more
Fords might make jails less num-
eroGS.
A scientist in the British Mu-
scum, reading ancient papyri, finds
one Of the third century, containing
thirty verses of the twenty-sixth
chapter Of Matthew. Thus we
know that three centuries after the
birth of Christ men were warned
that 'they that take the sword
shall perish by the sword" Men
nevertheless went on taking the
sword and perishing by the sword
through all the centuries up to now.
This discovery will be useful be-
ssuse it will cause many to read
over again st. Matthew's descrip-
tion Of the Last Supper.