Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-10-23
NATION OF INIBICILES.
GOOD START, BAD END.
WASHINGTON'S TEETH.
RELIGION In SCHOOLS.
TO BE RICH AND USEFUL.
BY Arthur Brisbane

ing machine carried up with it a
small airplane, as a fish hawk car
ries up fish. Two thousand feet
up the little airplane was released
by the big Zeppelin and went fly
ing off on it's own account. That's
interesting in this country which
has made no preparation to meet
the danger Of invasion through the
air. y
Imagine similar machine, ten
times as big, leaving the coast Of
Asia, or Europe, carrying beneath
it dozen high powered bombing
machines. Imagine that big ship
coming out of the early morning
sky, releasing it's brood Of swift
destroyers to wreck cities - the
mother ship and the little ships sub
sequenSly landing on safe neutral
ground in Canada. .
This nation will have the worlds
greatest fighting feet of airships
soon, or the United States of 1924
will be known in later history as
"THE NATION OF IMBECILES."
In the Middle Ages not only
men but animals were tried for
murder when they killed a human
being and, if guilty" were exc
cuted. On certain occasion sow.
with her litter of sucking pigs, had
killed and eaten young child. The
sow mother and her offspring were.
tried in court. The sow was con-
derlned to death, the little pigs were
{; ered, on the ground that "'be-
cause of their extreme youth they
could not be held responsible"
Some murderers h ave been
BANGED in the United States, with
Intelligence not far above that OF
the sucking pigs spared by medlae-
val justice.
Among letters by George Wash
ington, to be sold in London, one to-
his Philadelphia dentist tells how
much trouble Washington had with
his false teeth. They were strung
on wires and got loose. They
looked about as natural, when he:
wore them, as a set of small golf,
balls, being cut out Of solid ivory
Civilization does not realize what.
it owes to dentists and oculists,
good false teeth and good spec
tacles.
Think of the ancient Greeks, to-
whom false teeth and eyeglasses
were unknown. The marvel IS that
SO many of them lived to be old.
In California decision, the State
Attorney-General forbids, in public
schools, even the Lords Prayer, IN
the way Of religion. There is no
doE&5 that the public school system
should teach the three RS and other
positive knowledge, leaving relIgl.
! Gus teaching to the discretion OF
| parents.
It is wise to keep all religious
teaching or favoritism out OF pub
lie schools. On the other hand, it
is unwise, and an outrageous inter-
ference with the rights of parents
to tell them that they cannot, at
their own expense, send their chill
dren to private or parochial schools
where religion is taught provided
that educational requirements are
met.
Young man, do you want to be,
rich and useful? Learn something
about electricity and try to invent
a light storage battery. Electricity.
| which in itself weighs nothing, will
not always be carried about stored
in heavy metal, weighing as much
as the vehicle that the electricity
propels.
Don't be discouraged by the fact
that you are not an electrical engi-
neer or a scientist. Som etir1es
knowing too much about thing
prevents seeing its possibilities.
clearly.
The man who invented the sew
ing. machine couldn't sew. His.
v,ho,e idea was putting the needles
eye at the point Of the needle in.
stead of at the other end. An exz
Tsrt seamstress would have said,
that's nonsense"
A Filipino laborer, working in the
Hamakua sugar mill, is deal Of 5u-
hor'" plague in Hawaii
Thran rats infested ~ fhe,
plague have been caught.
y Wy soon will orr eyalfn4 aiv;ii-
Eat On. which gladly sneu1s r L.
satds Of millions to kill other hu-
man beings, spend the few ne"es--
sary millions. to get rid of rats and
other disease-spreading vermin.?