Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-08-14
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A Small Beginning
Approximately it is a small begin
ming for DR.. Robert Goddard, the sci
enlist, to shoot off. sky rocket this
summer that will go ten niles, because
he has long cherished the ambition to
send a rocket to the Moon, 239,OOO
miles away. This rocket will be hive
feet long and six inches across. just
what it is expected to do has not been
explained but probably it will get
something off the professors mind at
any rate.
Post Card Souvenirs
| 1t is tod Of Heinrich LANCE, a
German stationer in Gottingen, that
he was the first German to bring out
view post cards, these being designed
by a Gottingen artist and put on sale
in Langes art and stationery stores.
No souvenir has been more popular
with tourists and especially with Ger
mans who order their post cards where
they order their meals and beer IN
any town they are passing thru, PIC
ture post cards have made brief mes
sapes popular the world over and
while in some cases they abbrevlate
the correspondence, substituting for
letters. in far greater degree they
establish pleasant correspondence be-
tween casual friends otherwise ne
elected. The advertising value OF the
view card for any community is fair-
lily we'll appreciated;
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Everybody hopes Lieutenant Wade
will reach it with the rest OF the
globe encircling aviators who negot-
ated the first $1,000 miles SO arduous,,
w but successfully. When WADE ana
his companion, Ogden, arrived IN
Reykiavik Harbor, Iceland, aboard
the u. S. S. Richmond instead OF
their unfortunate plane, the Boston,
wrecked at Farce Island, Wade burst
into tears, when he met his telloW
travellers and they were similarly at
fected. However, they console6 him
with the news that Major General
Patrick, of the U. S. Air Service was
dispatching another plane to New
foundland for his use in finishing the
world-Aight with his companions,
which the whole world now. awaits
with bated breath to see safely &C
complshed.
Notable Meeting
There was a meeting of the nation
al association of Colored Woman
Clubs in Chicago last week. Mrs:
Booker T. Washington vas one OF
the speakers, her topic beng Inter
Racial Cooperation at lusResee.
fund of $4,000 has been raised by tne
combined state delegations present 10
send worthy negroes of the ooutn "
private negro schools.
Down on the Farm"
Glow you going to- keep EN- down
on the farm" is solved in the opinion
! of a millionaire farmer OF virginia
by large farm owners providing nignt
" moving picture shows tor their
help and the small tenants OF tnelr
district. So obsessed with this ldea
is the gentleman farmer, named Jonh
Armstrong Chalmer, that he has start
ed a country wide tour to personally
advertise his theory and urge its prac-
teal adoption by wealthy land own
ers.
Illuminating Memoirs
Nothing can be better than letters
to reveal the character, the ambitions
and the views of any person, especial
| Nv of those who are not now living
| The correspondence of Theodore
Roosevelt has but lately been given
to the public and they make most IN
teresting reading, giving most accu-
i, rate insight into his traits OF dlspo-
sition. his affections and his antlpa-
thics. A series OF family letters are
being published in the Saturday Even
ing Post and Senator Lodge, OF Mas
sachusetts. has almost completed a
volume of 100000 words which re-
veals the intimate letters passing be-
tween himself and Roosevelt. over a
period of thirty years and IN erect
gives an inside story of politics. state
craft and human progress during
! that period.
! Farrar in Carmen
After two wears on the concert
stage. Geraldine Farrar is arrang,,
ling an operate tour. in modernlzed
version of Carmen" and carrying
her own company. She will visit the
principal cities of the United States
and Canada, giving the initial per-
Torrance at Portsmouth, N. H., on
September 70.
Franklin's Versatility
Not many know that Benjamin
Franklin perfected the harmonica, a
musical instrument in greater favor
formerly, indeed it is further noted
that Beethoven and Mozart wrote
compositions for the harmonica. The
sounds were produced by friction OF
the fingers on metal tubes OF cups
Ieither of glass or metal.
Distinguished Citizen
Such is Miss Martha Berry, by
resolutions of the Georgia legislature
in recent session. The resolutions
eulogize Miss BerrY's splendid con-
itribution to the state in her industrl-
al school for mountain boys, work
that has given her national fame.