Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-02-28
THE WONDERFUL SOUTH.
STARTLING QUICK RESULTS
BUY LANDS OF NO REGRETS
THE "IH" CANDIDATES.
FALSE, FOOLISH ECONOMY.

This is written at Palm Beach, hap
Ply lands where those with nothing to.
do are doing it energetically. The
blue sea is beautifully calm. the
breezethat sweeps across it is mild.
The water is warm Human beings
are bohbing up an down in it.
The big hotels are packed
TIL NIX what it will be few years.
hence at. Palm Beach, Miami, ST.
Augustine, Jacksonville, all the mar
vellous resorts of Florida, Georgia,
and the Carolinas when the flying
machine annihilates distance.
Buy land in the South, we'll chosen.
and you won't regret it.
Those that live North know little,
about the South and the rapidity of it's:
growth, surprising all growth else
where.
Thirty-seven million people live in
the South. The value of their property
is estimated as sixty-five billion dol
lars. That sum, sixty-five times one
thousand million dollars, is good
deal. But it represents, only a fraction
of the real wealth of the South. Flor
ida alone is worth several times what
is called "the true value of property
in Southern States"
The thirty millions of acres now
unemployed in Florida would yield,
under ordinary cultivation an annual
profit of one hundred dollars an acre.
that's low estimate
That alone would be three billion
dollars a year, five per cent on sixty
billions of dollars. Under intensive
cultivation, with irrigation and proper
fertilizing the thirty million unused
acres of land in Florida would easily
produce a net profit of $500 an acre,
enough to pay off all public debt of
the United states with ease in less:
than four years.
This is real wealth, and all that is
required to develop it is more good
population and capital.
Millions of good agricutursts that
would eagerly come here from Italy
and elsewhere should be welcomed
with open arms and helped to get a
start instead of being stopped at Ellis
Island and turnel back with strange
stupidity
The growth of the South within the.
last few years is the marvel of indus
trial and financial history. Southern
bank resources, exceeding eight thou
sand millions, are IS per cent greater
than in 1910. Capital invested in manu-
featuring has increased from three,
billions to over nine millions in eight
years.
Mr.. Denby's resignation clears up
the political situation. President Cool
ldge is as fortunate in conditions that
face the Democratic Party as he is
in the fact that the public thus uEiar
holds him free of all responsibilities, in
the oil scandal.
What is supposed to be the e1irni-
nation of Mr.. .McAdoo actually leaves
the Democrats without any recogniz-
ed conspicuous leading candidate
with the convention only few months
away.
Nearly every Democrat mentioned
is an eff" candidate
They say Senator Copeland might
get it IF it should prove impossible
to nominate Al Smith
Senator Reed, of Missouri, I'M
doubtedly the most forcefu1 and avail
able candidate might get IF he had
not made so many enemies.
It is said that William Jennings
Bryan might be drafted. because of his
known capacity to get votes, IF he
had not been Secretary of State.
Nominated or not, Mr.. Bryan will
have a good deal. to say about the
man that is nominated and also ABOUT
several that will not be nominated.
The House Of Representatives pas
sed bill for $729,000O00 to provide
funds for the Post Office and the
Treasury. and strikes out an item al
lotin% $1,500,000 to MAINTAIN an air
nianr service between New York and
S9n Francisco
That piece of unfortunate petty,
narrowminded, short-sighted, false
economy reminds you of the day
when members of Congress were de-
feated for reelection because they
voted money "for such a nonsensical
scheme as trying to send messages on
telegraph wires"
That item of million and half
for a flying service between New
York and San Francisco would be
the best possible investment thNt the
country could make We appropriate
tens of millions for old-fashioned
shirs of the navy and their upkeep.
Five millions spent on the dIevelol1a
ment of the flying machine and 90
craftsmanship in bomb dropping
would make our naval collection of
floating steel Junk unnecessary and
enable us to sink any fleet approach
ing our shores.
Flying ships above the water. invis-
IDLE submarines below the water, will
supply all the protection this country