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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-12-25
COMMUNICATING JUDGE cRUM (Abbeve

Chronicle)-A four weeks session OF Wilcox SUI
perior Court has just closed, and many important
cases have been disposed OF during the term. 1t is
Std by court attaches that the docket, both civil
and criminal is in better shape than it has been for
many years on account OF our able Judge uiltilis
efforts with view to that end.
We take special pride in not only the statement
but the fact that we have the best Judge to DC
found anywhere, which seems to be the universe
opinion of the people Of this county. Judge rum
has made many friends since he has been Judge
of this circuit, and it is predicted that he will be
Judge of this circuit until moss grows on his back
if he wants it.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-12-25
BACK GIVEN OUT
Then Follow the Advice of A Resident
of This Loca1itv

of This Locality
Are you dragging along day after
day with dull, nagging backache?
Do you feel tired, lame and achy;
suffer sharp, torturing pains at every
sudden move? Then look to your kid
neys! Colds, strains, and overwork
weaken the kidneys and bring on
throbbing backache and knife-like
twinges. Don't risk serious kidney
disease! Use Doan's Pills-a stimu-
liant diu-etic to-ethe kidneys. Read
what a resident of this locality says:
J. E. Yawn, R. R. Engineer, 220
Jefferson ST., Douglas. Ga, says: "The
Earring and joltnig OF the engine weak
ened my kidneys and caused lame
back, When I went to get in or out
of the cab. a sharp pain struck me in
the small of my back and could
hardly move The kidney secretions'
passed too often and couldn't sleep
nights as I had to get up. Doan's
Pills cured me-"
6Oc at all dealers. Foster Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y. adv
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-12-25
STATIC TURNED TO USE

STATIC TURNED TO USE-It seems that al
most everything has its uses. Static, that BURGLAR
OF all radio fans has now been put to work, and
is proving of real value to naval aviators who are
using it in the warmer climates to detect brewing
thunderstorms and follow their movements They
tune in on the static to its maximum intensity and
hy changing their loop secure the location OF the
storm and the direction it is going, together with
its speed Not only for aviators but for seafarers
is this use of static and the radio of exceptional
value.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-12-25
MAY PATTERN OUR GRANDCHILDREN

MAY PATTERN OUR GRANDCHILDREN
ANEW-Figurcs giving the death rate in the
United States for 1923 just made public show
MORALLY of 1873 per thousand against llo TOR
1922 Seven states, however, show lower mortality
rates than obtained the preceding year. In years
to come statistics such as these probably will be
regarded more with curiosity than with interest
What changes in longevity the human race is des-
tined to experience in the next five hundred years
cannot even be surmised, but what some radical
change will be brought about seems certain
c. NJ Child under professor Of the Department
of Zoology University of Chicago, has been exper-
imenting with the lower animals and with plant
life for the last twenty years Finally he has proved
it possible artfically to alter the general pattern
of an organism. Using chemical agents, temper
ature and electric currents, animals have been de-
veloped with small and incomplete heads, others
have been developed without any heads, and some
abnormally large heads
One of these days the human species may be
reproduced with all its imperfections, only to be
perfected by the application of natural forces that
await the Harvesting by science
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-12-25

Since the gathering of editors in Monroe, we
have known the inspiring influence of his envir-
onment but Ernest Camp, the popular editor of
the Walton Tribune has given renewed evidence
of his cultured surroundings, in his beautiful
Christmas booklet, for which we are deeply in
debted to him. Editor Camp has poetic soul and
his expressions thoroughly appreciated ;
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-12-25
Ma and Pa Take A
Rest and Go
Travelling

En- route:
Middle-aged women on this tram
have beautifully quiet, peace1m
faces.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-12-25

Mr. T. P. Murdough left this after
noon for Barlow, Fla. to spend the
HOLIDAYS with his parents.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-12-25
taking care Of him.

Here is not the face that
launched thousand ships or
burned any towers, anyway. It's
better than that.
It's the face that weaned a
thousand calves, cooked thirty
thousand meals for family and
farm hands, sewed and mended
and washed for family Of chill
dren, caring for them in sickness
and health, helping with the chores
and economical on herself.
''The little girl with the curls
and the plaid dress, she is our
Youngest granddaughter. Our
daughter will be lonely without.
her. But they are letting US take.
her for a little while so she can see
the country while she is young.
we had to wait long while"
Every dollar they take with
them, to provide for well-earned
old age of peace, and rest, is a
dollar raised by hard work. Crops
raised by their hands have fed
thousands. For every dollar they
have had, the public has had ten
dollars in value.
Happy is this nation in possess
ing such States as California and
Florida, in which those that have
worked hard may spend thoir lat
ter years., prolongipg theil, lives
and enjoying the results CT hard
and useful work.
Those now living will see in
California and in Florida cities
greater than any now on earth.
They will not be cities of crowded,
windy streets, but citieS that will
cover millions of square miles,
spreading over hills and valleys,
with beautiful roads and great
landing fields for flying machines,
that will bring swiftly through
the air passengers that the trains
now carry slowly.
The Est and Northeast will
send the millions to Florida.
The mid, West and Nor. h,vcst
will send 1em to California. Ca.i
forn;a and Florida will send BAG.
to the Nc h energetic young pso
pie to wo1k in the colder clilaatc
The Development Of this aatio
has only gun. California o. ut,
ida could easily feed, under into
sive cultiH ton, the entire po.H
lation of /! United States, Z
Texas corl feed the populat
of the wo&i...
With The flying machine fur
dc---clo.7ed all the people of the
earth cculd find beautiful dwell
ing places on hills and mountains
now uniahabited.
Nothing to worry about, over
crowding least of all, if the people
combine imagination and common
sense.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-12-25

Consider the couple sitting across
the aisle in the dining car. They
come from a farm, their hands
and complexion show it.
The light and fire are dim IN
his pale gray eyes. Many weary
miles his feet have walked behind
the plow and the harrow; many
miles he has driven over bad
roads in a slow, rocking buggy to
and from the town.
= His shoulders are bent by heavy
ueirhts. and worry has left deep
wrinlIles. But that is over, the
life of hard work has brought ITS
coward. The children are settled
She sits next to the window,
looking out at the kind of country
She has known for fifty years. Big
brown fields, stretching away to
the horizon. Stacks of straw that
world be worth $50 ton in the
citv. but it doesn't pay to ship
them. houses in the hollow where
the cold settles, trees planted to
break the force of the WIND from
the north.
der race is peaceful, happy as
she rests with her hands In hef
lap. For the first time IN her me
there is nothing that she ough
be doing.
Earnest, patient, calm and beau
+if11i is her face, as she looks out
at the changing scene. And still
more beautiful her expression, as
she tales the things that the
waiter brings and arranges her
husbands breakfast. She will not,
while she lives, lose the habit OF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
SUGGESTS COLLEGE OF DRESS English Woman FavOrs Introduction To
 The Dressing Department


 wonder when a college for the in. struction of girls in the art of deport- ment, dressing and coiffing themselves will be established, or when some enter prising finishing school will include a dress expert on it's teaching staff?
 Many girls, whose mothers cannot afford clever maid, go through agonies of nervous self-consciousness when the moment comes to put up their hair and lengthen their skirts Very few fully realize all their physical assets or de. feets. Their lives have been too full of studies and sports and youthful fun and frolic to have time or inclination to consider how best to dress their bodies and their hair when the moment of emancipation from school shall come
 And when it does come, and they make their first appearance in society, how many of them appear to advan. tage? Adverse criticism will probably erise merely because Mary" has chosen style of coiffure unsuited to her youthful face; a frock fatal to her figure; or a color too crude for her complexion.
 In few years time that same Mary will probably be talked of as one of the prettiest girls in town-when she has carefully studied the dresses, cultures, and general style of various leaders of fashion throughout two or three sea- sons, and has learned what to copy and what to reject.
 But why should she wait so long for her triumph? Why should not lectures be given to girls to emphasize the dan ger of blindly following the prevailing fashion in gowns and millinery without first .ascertaining whether it be suitable to their faces and figures?
 Such lectures could be Illustrated by colOred lantern slides. Or, preferably, motion pictures could demonstrate these dangers by throwing pictures of inar- tistic dresses and dressing upon the screen and contrasting them with pie lures of the right dress worn by the right person in the right place and in the right way.
 I have never yet watched the film version of any important social func- tion in company with some of those who took part in it without hearing hor- rified calculations when they see them selves as others see them for the first time.
 How many wedding scenes have been ruined by the ungainly gait or deport- ment of the bride-too long a stride in a slim sheath dress-or Q sideways wad- dle in a short one, a swinging arm, a trick of the head. If they could once see themselves do it they would at once strive to rectify the fault.
 I suggest that motion picture should be taken of every girl with a bad car riage or a bad walk, and that she should see it every day, until she be cured.
 If careful training were given to our girls in the matter of dress much money would be saved to the husbands of the future.-The Hon. Mrs, John Fortescue in the continental edition of the Londol Mail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
LAST DRINK WAS
 FATAL TO GRECIO

\ NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Ignoring his wifes' plea that he had had enough Ferdinando Grecia, 54, 1O8 Central avenue, insisted at a. m. today:
 'No, must have one more drink be- fore I go to bed w
 He had come in from a night of cele- brating and she had waited up for him. Their two children were asleep in the next room.
 Going back to the kitchen shelf where he kept his bottle, he reached up in the dark, got what he supposed was the liquor, and took long drink. His wife heard him fall heavily, and turn ing on the light found he had drunk most of bottle of rat poison.
 Dr. Wagner of Wyckoff Street hos pital said Grecio lived only short time,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
By JOHN c. COLwELL, JR.

As day breaks through steel blue sky with a moon set and the stars fading into infinity, the light for Mo bile bar flashes out. Slowly the light of dawn changes and clouds drift idly overhead until to the east appears the first flushes of dawn lighting sleep ing world and heralding the rising sun. The bay is steel blue and with surface of a mirror reflects back the light of the new day. But short distance away sleeps the city of Mobile in peace and calm. But for how long, Oh Time !! Will the day break on the unruffled calm of these southern waters. Destiny {; controller of all things, visible an in- visible, it is your will that this south crn city arise and go before the world proclaiming itself and its importance to mighty nation? If SO, with the first rays of Phoebus, Mobile must be up and away aiding the winds to the point of the compass. For by the shades of Bienville it was written by the gods, and hastened by the inter- nuncio from the court of neptune, that this thorp of Dixie should become a great seaport. Defy not their will for hOluihS sCdu pTcfcHt tHlS ITOIu DcCOulnS a fact. For there is no other American port where all the clements of both natural and economic are more pro- nounced and point more directly to the fulfillment thereof.
 These factors are few but of the greatest importance. Suffice to state that competitive rates, communications, port facilities and services combined with geographical position gives this port an advantage on traffic to and from the Latin Americas, West coast, of South America, the Orient, and the Pacific coast, not enjoyed by any other American ports.
 A study of the freight rate situation will show that Mobile is in a position to compete for the traffic of a large and productive section of the interior, and particularly is this true of traffic destined to and from this territory and the above mentioned countries.
 The advantages given the port in freight rates is materially added to by Mobiles geographical position. As the shortest rail point on the Gulf of Mexico, Mobile is from some of the more important shipping, receiving and distributing centers:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
TOO WIDE
 FOR MANS HANDS
Astronomers Therefore Conclude
 Mars Is Inhabited

LICK OBSERVATORY, MOUNT HAMILTON, Cal, Sept. '6.-The score or more of astronomers, who have been manning the giant telescopes here since Mars has been in opposition, have con cluded the planet is not inhabited.
 The supposed canals" which long have been the chief basis of scientific belief that Mars boasted animal and probably human life much like our own, they say, are too wide to be man-made affairs, fully 100 miles across. Also they are declared to be too winding in their courses to be the result of any Martian engineering project.
 Observations and photographs vir- tually have established that Mars has clouds and atmospheric conditions sim liar to our own, and also rivers and mountains, land and sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

tive and black prime minister of the capital of Uganda went into one of the little shops and bought a can of Ha- waiian pineapples for the equivalent of one dollar in our money when on his own property, few feet away, the finst pineapples in the world were rotting for want of picking.
 Uganda Progressive
 "But Uganda is a very progressive protectorate notwithstanding" she de tended. Since Sir Stanley's expedi- tion, ac ourt has been established there with a prime minister and parliament similar to that of England's."
 It was during her first trip that she learned to make use of her supersti- tions to secure curios for the Field mu- scum in Chicago, under whose auspices she was then exploring. Her hair, which was prematurely white, attracted considerable attention among the Xii kuyu, who could not understand how a woman with a young body could have an old head, as they expressed 1t in native tongue, They beat upon their drums, summoning men and women from miles around to come and view this strange youn-old woman.
 At that time it was becoming in- creasingly difficult to get genuine cu- rios, due to the fact that enterprising traders were importing limitations from England and selling them to the na- tives, who were, as has been mentioned, lazy to the extreme. The consequence was that very few native-made articles could be secured, especially by visitors. Knowing that among certain natives of this tribe there were still many native curios, Mrs. Akeley made it clear to them through an interpreter that in ex- change for watching her perform the ceremony of combing her hair she want ed them to bring the real curios. In this way she secured very fine col lection of hand-carved :. ornaments, spears and paddles, as well as valuable strings of pearls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
WOMAN USURERS TO BE UNDER BAN OF PARLIAMENT
Homes Broken, Lives Sac rificed By Blackmart
 Methods ..~ :.
(By Associated Press,)

LONDON, Sept. 6.-Women money lenders who loan shillings to the wives of laborers at penny weekly for each shilling, which is 433 1-3 per cent in terest, are likely to have their excess sively- profitable financial activities curtailed when parliament reassembles.
 A committee of Liverpool women has exposed the methods of these lenders, who work in the poorest districts sup plying pittances to workmen's wives during momentary distress and then, by threats, intimidation and even blackmail, forcing a penny weekly for each shilling borrowed.
 Many homes have been broken up and suicides caused, 1t is said, by the money lenders threats to expose their debtors, who will generally do almost anything to keep their husbands from finding out that they have borrowed Of the 1880 registered money lenders in Liverpool, more than . l 100 are women. =.
 To Beautify Children
 English children, whose rosy cheeks and flaxen curls have inspired both poets and painters, are to be even more beautiful in the future, it is predicted. The importance of this lies in the fact that the beauty of the future will be the beauty of better health.
 England's little folks are growing steadily more robust, according to the report of the medical officer for health, which says the babies are not only handsomer, they are taller, stronger, more intelligent and better developed in every way.
 "Our school children are by actual measurment a half-inch taller" says the report. "The next generation will be handsomer in the sense that they will be well developed with better teeth and eyesight and more regularity of features.
 ''The type of man with retreating chin and forehead will disappear. One has only to look at the keen faces of the slum dwellers to be convinced that in many cases they are more mtelli- gent than those born higher up in the social scale."
 Revive Mans Heart
 The Westminster hospital is able which a man was restored to life after his heart had stopped beating. AL though this is not the first instance of a person being restored to life by massaging the heart the hospital au- thorities say that in almost all such cases the subject has died immediately after resuscitation.
 But in the present instance the pa- tient is looking forward to his early discharge as cured.
 While being given m anaesthetic in preparation for an operation the pa tient's heart unexpectedly stopped working. Surgeon Edwards, who was standing by, after resorting to the usual methods without avail, hastily made an incision, inserted his hand and massaged the heart, with the result that the first flicker of returning pull sation was perceived after lapse of nearly two minutes.
 Ghosts Walk
 Strang manifestations, associated by some with the unseen world, are re- ported from Hall place, the beautiful old house down in Kent, where tradi- tion says the black prince wooed and won the fair maid of Kent" For centuries stories have been told of tn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

appearance from time to time of the armored ghost of the black prince whose visitations say the Kentish peo pie, always are made at times when England is in peril.
 Lady Lamerick, who lives in the haunted house, says she has seen the ghost three times, twice during the war and again recently. .,-~
 Tt has always been the same," she says, "and resembles a youth wearing armor while a light partially shroudy the body. It stays only for a second and then disappears"
 Brighter Colors Prevail
 Brighter colors are the dominant note in Woman's dress as disclosed in the seasons fashion shows. Both day and evening gowns and coats appear to be cut on long straight lines, giving a tubular effect, while here and there may be seen a suspicion of the new flute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
P ellagra Cured!
Simple, Home T. ,atment Is Guaranteed to Relieve and Cure Pellagra Sui.
 ferers or Money Refunded

Pellagra sufferers who have any of the symptoms of this health destroying dis ease-sore mouth. red hands, skin peel red with much mucous and choking you can now be cured. No more suffering from this dreadful and dangerous disease.
 This treatment which is guaranteed to cure Pellegra and relieve the suffering which 1t causes Is fully described in a booklet which will be sent free to anyone who writes to the American Compromising Co.,. Box 3175, Jasper, Ala.
 Send for this booklet now and free your self from torture and pain of this disease. Baughn's Pellegra Treatment Is sold on a money-back guarantee. so you take no risk. Write for the free booklet now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
MAD AT JANITOR,
 KILLS DAUGHTER
Girl Jumps In Front Of Weapon
 As It Is Fired

NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Vincenzo De- salco rushed down the stairs of No. 23O Mott street last night, a .3S caliber re- volver in his hand and determination in his heart to shoot the janitor, Cirio Guerra, who had complained of De salco's children. Behind him, terror stricken, came his 1S-year-old daughter, the eldest of eight children.
 The father kicked open the janitor's door and leveled his revolver. The daughter, Lizzie, flung herself in front of him with a shriek. There was a crash and the acrid smell of powder, and Lizzie slumped forward dead, shot through the head.
 Desalco was arrested as he attempted to escape
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

the Pacific figured by the way of the Panama canal.
 Although Mobile has in the past. in her foreign trade, been more or less dependent for her commercial impor- tance on the handling of a few bulk commodities, such as came from the Alabama coal, ore fields and timber lands and from Mississippi as a big lumber producing state, for export, this Is now no longer true. Today this distributed through Mobile in consider able volume. Besides the molasses from PortoRico, Mobile is the import port for bananas and chicle from Honduras, sisal from Mexico, cocoanuts and rose wood from Central America, hides from Cuba, Hines from the West Indies, shingles from British Columbia, alumin ore from British Guinea, nitrate of
 soda and potash from Japan and China
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
AUSTRALIA GOES
 INTO WHEAT POOL
Is Willing To Enter Co-opera-
 tive Plan For Three Years

MELBOURNE, Sept. 6.-The premier asserted the day informed the four wheat-growing states that the common wealth was willing to cooperate in vol untary wheat pools for three years, with one selling organization for over seas sales and one >chartering agency for the control of shipping and freight arrangements. Premier Bruce of Aus tralia More
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

Environment alone is not the cause i; 1t is the individuals reaction to en- vironment. If the environment wears on this individual it causes functional OF organic trouble"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

With these short rail distances to Mobile from interior points, it is per tinent to compare the distances in nautical miles from this port and from those on the Atlantic seaboard to Mexico, Cuba, the West Indes, Central America, west coast South America, and the Orient, distances to point on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

.rt;d,a E;D,aIShS N NOTE; Ihe % %doloWlns thority on port development and ex- port trade Is the first of series of ten. which will be published in The The first article paints a glowing picture of the possibilities of the fu- ture for the port of Mobile.