Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-04

telligent survey of textiles, outline.
and colors as we'll as economic rea
sons for changes in style being laugh
by the exhibit, which is different in in
tent than the usual style show, where
the beauty and costliness of the fab
RIGS and the perfect face and figure
and style of the model orr mannikin:
are made the important features o.
( the revue.
Thru Work
| The Atlanta women are notable fo1
their success in carrying out large en-
terprises. The Atlanta League of Wo-
men Voters is holding up their city
prestige by the thoroness of their
present campaign to know their cand-
dates and to increase the voting list
They are staging weekly luncheons in
Atlanta which candidates are invited
to attend with the opportunity of pre-
senting their views and their intentions
regarding the official work tj'uy might
do. In some wards repcrs IRE read
at these luncheons by present incum-
bents in the various offices to show
what the former accomplishments
have been The League has no parti-
son influence. Their only object is to
promote a larger and more intelligent
vote this year than has ever been
known in the city.
Look Backward and Forward
This is the aim of the society of the
D. A. r. Venerating the glorious past
of our country, allowing no worthy
incident of its history to- go unnotived
nor notable places unmarked. Still
there is a very great and engrossing
work of Americanization always in
hand. One of these deals with Ellis
Island and its problems. there being
national fund and a per capita as
sessment to further the work, the lat
ter being used to print an immigra-
i ton manual Then there is the gift
/ Scholarship fund, one interesting
phase OF state and local work. Anoth-
er being the loan fund which many
chapters have, including our Local
chapter. Also there is endorsement
and aid for twelve schools in ou1
tountry by the national body. Two Of
which are the Martha Berry schoo
and the Tomassee school, both being
in Georgia.
w. c. T. U. Platform
In the case of two "dry" candi
dates for office, w. c. T. U. member!
are advised to use as a measuring roc
the attitude of these candidates OF
those other points also vital to the w
C. T. u platform, including law Ell
forcement, against masks and DISCUS
les, against lynching, for child welfar
including the Ellis health law, supper
of Sheppard Towner act, eugenics
motion picture censorship, anti-cigar
cite, against street carnivals, gambling
and immoral shows.
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Mans Inhumanity to Man
A terrible arraignment of Georgia
) inadequate care of her unfortunate,
given in an official report to Congress
by the expert for the U. S. department
of Labor, in his survey of 2,234 poo
houses in the country. Of Georgia h
said Forty per cent of inmates, feebl
minded. All classes thrown together
Ninety-four counties do NOT have poo
houses and paupers cared for in con
vict camps" So there are 90 othe
counties in georgia besides Ben Hi
county without a poor house, or bet
ter, poor farm Any thinking perso
can see the manifold advantages to b
gained by such investment and inst
tuition properly conducted Here is
splendid work for either civic o
church societies, or both, to initiate.
To Remake Georgia
Mr.. Sam w. Small in The Atlant
Constitution pictures a Greater Geor
gia. Some his suggestions are to Civ
her an up-to-date constitution H
declares it is absolutely Jetfersonia
to revise a state constitution at leas
every twenty years, that progress /
every line makes this imperative. II
further says "decapitate political para
sites by competitive civil servic
system" and he advocates four yea
terms for state officers. The electlo
OF judges and solicitors by nomlnatlo
of three by the governor or the su
preme court and the selection OF on
by joint ballot of the house and Sc
mate. Added to the biennial sessio
-ofo-.,, he WOULD lie RI see a redIIC