Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-16
This Week
DANGEROUS DECISION. '
THIS THRIFTY COUNTRY.
WATCHING TEDDY.
NEW OCEAN TO RULE.

Laymen, out of respect for the
courts, assume that the Supreme
Court judges of California inter-
preted the law accurately when, by
a majority of only one, they de-
cided that La Follette's electors,
although duly named by petition,
should not 60 on the ballot in No
vember.
The people do not like to be told
by a Judge, or anybody, that they
may not vote for their own choice.
For a court by a majority Of one,
in disregard of established custom,
to say that State electors are the:
servants and agents of political
conventions, and therefore the peo-
pie have no right to name their
own electors by petition, is DAN
GEROUS.
This California decision will be
worth a great deal to those who
believe that the public, having
power to put judges on the bench,
should also have the power to take
them of.
Louisiana follows California by
refusing La Toilette electors a.
place on the ballot. President
Coolidge, much to his credit, ex-
presses regret that any American
should be forbidden to vote for the
man of his choice. The Presidents,
statement will be applauded by
ninety-nine per cent of American
voters.
Somebody is saving money in
this country, because of higher
wages or prohibition, or whatever
you choose. Savings deposited in
1928, as revealed at the bankers
convention in Chicago, amounted
to more than EIGHTEEN THOU
SAND MILLION DOLLARS.
While the population Of the
country increased fourteen per
cent, savings bank deposits in
creased 108 per cent.
Business men that put Detroit
on the map and Detroit products
all over the world, propose to add
control of the flying machine in
dustry to their automobile indus
try. Edsel Ford supplies money
for airplane research, and puts a
flying field near his Dearborn plant.
at the service of all working on
metal airplanes. The Hudson and
Packard motor companies are
spending money generously IN the
same direction.
All that is good news for those
interested in this country's indie
pendence of foreign domination.
Two thousand years ago the land
in Palestine was marvellously fer
tile, real earthly paradise. Money
would restore that fertility, and
strangely enough the money, more
than Palestine ever dreamed Of in
all it's glory, may be taken out of
the Dead Sea.
That great body of intensely salt
water is found to be heavily
charged with potash. 1t can be
got out simply, at cost of S. a
ton, and marketed in Europe at
SIS a ton, against the now prevail
ing price of $50. There is a chance
for enterprising Americans.
Americans will watch with in
terest young Theodore the Second,
following in his fathers footsteps
The original T. R. went to the
New York Legislature, so did his
son. The original T. R. ran for
Governor and was elected. His
son is now running for Governor
Whether he will be elected or not.
remains to be seen.
Georges Clemenceau celebrates
his eighty-third birthday in his lit
tie house on the French coast, look
ing out on the wild waters where
ancient Basques used to catch
whales.
Clemenceau's health is good, be-
cause he is wise. A fighter all his.
life, he avoids all controversy now
Anger poisons men always, and in
old age it kills them.
Picking rose in his garden ne
says, 81 like flowers; they have.
an advantage over men, they are
silent"
The average citizen in this coun-
try pays less attention to news of
the war in China than he would to,
mes about someone falling of a.
horse.
Yet there are 100000 men lined
up for the decisive Chinese battle
that is expected. And that is no,
ch,ld's play. The Chinese like the.
Japanese are building fighting fly,
ing l-lachines. Let that be remem-
bere! by elderly naval gentlemen
doz ne' sweetly, unconscious of the,
fact tnat the battleship is obsolete,
out of date, a joke in war. The
flying machine is the new weapon,
the ONLY one that courts. The
air is the NEW@"CEAN. Who
rules that ocean, rules the world.