Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-04-03
LET LION ROAR VIA RADIO
AND NOW FIRPO
THE LAST SILVER THREAD
THREE KINDS OF WEALTH
LET THEM DANCE

aNEE hINDS OF WEALTH
LET THEM DANCE
Here is a new radio idea British
broadcasters will install a micnophone
and very small transmitter in some
wild wood, frequented by nightingales
and the wonderful bird mot born for
death will be heard all over ENGLAND.
Suggestions for American broad
casters. Instead of bedtime story.
let youngsters hear the lion roaring,
elephant trumpeting, hyena laughing
and baboon yelling from the ZOO. 1t
could be arranged by adjusting the
feeding hours. Every boy would like,
especially the lions roar.
iii fight no MORE says Firpo, gil
ant of the Pampas, latter this one
fight with Reich"
The Argentine giant means to live
his own life and leave the atmosphere.
OF the prize ring, which does nor
please him. He even refuses the DOS
sibility of making half million bv
one tight in the United States,
F1rpo has met "a worse knockout
than Denmpsey's". A lady from paris
VINO acts, wants Firpo to go to France
Who vast betrayed the capital?
"A woman!
Who lost Mark Antony the world?
"A woman
VINO was the cause of long ten
year war, and laid at last old Troy
in ashes?-A woman. ~
And now it's Firpo's turn.
Just fifty years ago, Young Hart
Pease banks and his wife lived hanniN
~. lie even wrote song to tell her
that his affection would last forever
Silver. Threads Among the Gold" was
the title of that song, YOU remembeT
1t, well, if you're fifty. It's a pretty
song. Many have butchered it. II
made money and when prosperitvts
came IN one door, harmony flew out Of
the other. banks and his wife separat-
ca. His son and daughter have quar-
relied about royalties on the song.
In 1908, an old man was found dead
kneeling beside his bed in a Phi1ade1,
PIMA lodging house. On an old copv-
OF Silver Threads" he had written
this Its hard to grow old alone"
nat was banks. Last Friday his wife
was buried. She had died at eightv-two
IN a Brooklyn rooming house. where
she lived alone.
construct your own moral, and be
sure to include this: ITS better to
put a good house and lot in YOUR
W1te's name, or build up for her
respectable bank account, THAT YOU
can touch, than to sing to her eyes.
my. darling, you-will be always Young
and fair to me-"
Round the world fliers encounter;nor
heavy weather, were temporarilv
checked, and geese that never learn
say the tying machine will never be
practical"
It isn't so long since railroad time,
tables announced that trains would
run at such an hour, weather permit
ting Weather doesn't stop them
now. 1t won't stop flying machines.
either, in another twenty-five years.
There arethree kinds of wealth on
1.-THE EARTH, on which YOU stand.
II Me and mans INTELLIGENCE,
How wealth increases and time is ac-
tually increased or saved is shown bv-
research of the National Association
OF Farm Equipment Manufacturers.
thanks to machinery saving labor
american farmers saved last wear -
5Sz, 539,2O4 days of actual work.
x x
Figured at So day that would
be gain to the farmers of four bill
hons OF dollars. Farmers will wonder
where the money is.
The tact, unfortunately, is that the
saving. of time, money and cost due
to pertectlng of machinery, goes 1arg-
ly to mlddlemen-not much of If to
those that do the actual work.
You would say that big muscles ON
arms and back are more valuable earn
ers than deep convolutions in the
Draln, as you read of offers made to
Mr. Jack Dempsey. He has a moving
picture offer of million, and two Of
fers running from half million to a
million tor few minutes of fighting.
Muscle is king you say, but then
you remember that John D. Rockefel-
Ter. Jr., leaning over for his 2l foot
putt, might have one little thought that
would earn him fifty millions and he.
wouldn't have to be photographed, or
fight, to get it.
DIR. Guthrie rector of St. Marks
tine Episcopal Church in New York;
believes in dancing as part of. relie-
ious service. Bishop Manning, his Sill
perioor, forbids dancing in the church
service. Nevertheless, DR.. Guthrie will
have the dancing.
How would it be, since human be-
ings are different, and their concep-
tons of what pleases Divine Power ev
Ell more different, to let those dance
that want to dance, those prav that
want TO pray, and those sing that want
to sing. Omniscience above knows
what they all mean and can sort out
the good Intentions
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