Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-07-10
The Nordic Craze.
To Live With Monkeys.
Tailless Alligators, Etc.
Foot and Mouth Cure


The purely Nordic" craze has
gone far. A scientific association of
German "racialists" proposes to plan
a new State in which only those pure
w Nordic" will be admitted
The scientists allege that blood tests
will distinguish the purely Nordic
from the mixed breeds.
That's interesting, as there is not
on all the surface of the earth, any
single sample of pure breed,
whether of "Nordic," Aryan, Seme-
tic, Monaghan, African or Malaysian
strain. All the breeds were mixed up
long ago, altho they don't know it.
That new Nordic state, by the wayS
would exclude the founder of Chris
tianity. whose mother was Jewess.
He.certainly, was not purely Nordic."
Here's one original thought. John
Gromardie, citizen of New York,
writes to the Franklin Park Zoo in
Boston, saying he'd like to be ,exhi-
bited in the monkey house, with the
other primates, ito show the public
how much man resembles the ape, in
accordance with the Darwinian the
ory."
Some that live in the open spaces,
Texas, Washington, California, Flor
ida, etc, will probably suggest that
if all New Workers adapted to demon
strating the Darwinian theory were
locked up in the Geological Garden
there would be many vacancies in
Fifth avenue and at Newport. s.
How many little boys know that
our word muslin" comes from Mosul,
or that our able Italian Mussolini got
his name from that land of the Mo-
hammedans? Read in Marco Polo's
Travels that great merchants who
convey spices and drugs from one
country to another are termed mos
sulini."
Herr Schomburgh, an African t@x-.
plorer, is accused in a Berlin co,
of stealing from the holy grove -
Liberia the SACRED stone of the alli-
gator without any tail"
Tribes of the African West Coast
have worshipped that sacred fetish
for years and want it back to bring
them luck.
Schomburgk says he bought the
fetish for S..
Only those NOT afraid to walk
under ladder Or. sit thirteen at table
have right to laugh at the worship
pers of the tai1lesss alligator.
Arthur Harris, of the I. w. W.,
stabbed in a fight with farm hands,
learns the value of scientific educa-
ton A knife thrust penetrated his
pericardium sac containing the heart
and made a wound three-quarters of
an inch long. The sac filled with blood,
the heart couldn't work. But while
Harris, fully conscious, saw every
thing that was going on, surgeons in
Kansas City removed three of his
ribs, drained the pericardium, permit
ting the heart to continue pumping,
put back the ribs, sewed him up, and
he lives. Thanks to local anesthetic,
Harris felt no pain. "a
Six million bonus applications ar
ready, five millions more will besA
pared and sent out. Some pocket
triots are weeping about that. ~
makes them sad to pay few dollars
in taxes to men that won the war, ans
saved them all their money.
Yet the paying out of that bonus
money will be to general prosperity
like pouring water on dry soil. Every
body will share in the prosperity that
the bonus distribution is bound to
bring. Every dollar of it will be
SPENT. It's the money SPENT that
counts.
A Berlin scientist has found and
isolated the germ that causes foot
and mouth disease That news will
be worth many millions to this coun-
try directly, and billions perhaps, in
directly.
1t is reported, altho fortunately
NOT proved, that agitators in the
West have purposely spread foot and
mouth disease by means of dogs and
otherwise. California is bad State
in which to play game of that kind.
The perpetrators would find it more
dangerous than stealing IN
Texas in the old days
Newspapers print story that SEN
ator Robinson, of Arkansas, having a
little dispute with Dr. Mitchell at
golf, knocked him down and out with
one blow. Farmers in Arkansas will
not only forgive but cheer their Sen
atOr for knOckino man down and