Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-04-10
REMEMBER THE MIDDLEMAN
ANOTHER ICE AGE.
GOODBY, ROADSIDE SIGNS
NO TELEPATHY
FOOLISH ATTACK ON MELLON

FOOLISH ATTACK ON MELLON
The Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee votes unanimously to- give
farm products the lowest possible trans
portation rate on railroads. It's a good
idea, for farmers, and good for those
that eat farm products.
But what about the middieman? Cur
the freight rates all you please, and
that won't help the farmer if the mid
dleman cuts the reduction in freight
from the price he pays the farmer.
And it won't help the consumer if
a middleman adds to the cost of food
what is saved in the freight rate.
At the little ferry that crosses the
Hudson River opposite Kingston. N.
Y, farmers were unloading magnifi
cent apples in barrels. The price at
which the farmer sold them was about
8 for cent. At little stand inside
the ferry house lady with a pleas
ant face was selling apples not So
good-price 1Oc a piece.
You can't do much for that situa-
ton dntil you do something about
controlling middlemen.
Scientists fear the approach of
of another Ice Age. The last one last
ed about 1000 years, long enough to
make human beings forget almost all
they had learned.
1t would be hard on business, real
estate and prosperity generally if we
should have two or three years of
winter, with no summer between and
then ice gradually creeping down from
the Pole, covering the continent, as far
south as San Francisco or Santa Bar
bara.
But, perhaps it won't happen, or
science might handle the situation
with artificial heating. Anyhow, it
would not disturb old earth. She has
still several hundred million years to.
live. We are only $4,000 years from
the Stone Age. 1t matters little to-
Mother Earth whether we become CT
vlized now or forget our lore and
postpone civilization 100000 years
more. There are living animals whose
evolution represents ten million wears.
the whale, for instance, that used to
live on land and was smaller than a
gray squirrel
Colonel Bryan need not believe that
If he doesn't want to. It's only what
scientists say.
William Ferree, war veteran, has
had two-thirds of This stomach re-
moved and has gained thirty-five
pounds in weight. He is now able to
work and enjoy life.
Nature and science combined work
wonders, and will take care Of us, if
we give them half a chance. Many a
man with his stomach whole would
be better off with half of it if he
learned to take care of what he had
lett. II men, occasionally, would throw
into pail what they throw, half chew
ed, into their stomachs, and then look
at the pail, they would know what so
many die too soon.
With Standard Oil setting the ex--
ample, fifteen great corporations have
agreed to discontinue roadside adver-
tislng that disfigures landscapes. Man
utacturers of tires, automobiles, soap,
flour, motor parts, oil, yeasts and pro-
ducts are included among corporations
that will discontinue disfiguring the
landscape with billboard advertis-
ing.
This is more than a concession to-
public opinion and good taste; it is al
50 GOOD business. Roadside advertis-
ing is wa'''f:'' advertising.
a.. 1..-,:;,;.:l :. 2.icmen-whg4'
might be more usefully emp1oyedl
will undertake thought transmission,
OF telepathy, from Harvard to. Paris,
across the Atlantic Ocean It's a harm
less pastime, and if the gentlemen on
both sides have enough imagination
they will believe that they have accom-
plished something.
Meanwhile it is fortunate for the
human race that slowly, thru the ages,
men have learned with the spoken and
printed word, that they can transfer
thot from one brain to another salts
tactorily. There never will be any such
thing as telepathy on this limited pla-
net.
Most foolish activity is the attack
made on Mr.. Mellon, Secretary of the
Treasury Those that attack him
should thank him for his service to the
Government.
No longer young man, overwork-
ed, with gigantic interests of his own
that needed his attention and that no.
body else could attend to, he dropped
his own business and took up the fl
nancial affairs of the United States.f
He did this at a time when, as everV
body knows, the best brain in the
country was needed to manage United
States finances.
He has managed finances we'll has
made possible reduction in taxation,
has cut down by hundreds of millions
yearly the national debt.
He is giving to the public, for the
salary of junior clerk, the service
of one of the ablest business and fl
nancial minds in the United States.
He should be thanked, not nagged.