Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-05-29
Florida-Great Empire to Be
Two Political Questions
Deep Flowing Pays
Dress Up, Girls, Dress Up

The stock of the Atlantic Coast
Line in Florida reaches new high
Big profits are made, and the stock
holders exult. If Florida interests you,
or railroad profits, find out what S.
Davies Warfield, president of the Sea-
board Air Line, is doing with his new
railroad in Florida When he finishes
the short cut from the West Coast of
Florida across to Palm Beach and
other points, establishing direct con-
nection between New York and
Southeast Florida, over, his own rails,
there will be an active fight for busi-
ness and profits.
There will be plenty of business for
both roads, however. No imagination
can foresee what the prosperity of
Florida is to be.
That State, which, as the Jackson
vile Journal tells you, Jefferson could
once have bought for five cents an
acre, and ultimately did buy for fifteen
cents an acre, is apt one day to be in
several difErent ways the Greatest
State in the Union.
Two question that interest politi-
clans are these:
Can the Democrats be persuaded
to give up the rule that compe1s a
man to get two-thirds of all the dele
gates before he can be nominated?
And will the Democrats put in their
national platform a plank denouncing
the XII Klux Khan, and thus outlaw
ing many Southern States on whom
the Democrats must depend to win?
1t is a delicate question and may
be solved by some vague generaliza-
ton concerning all secret societies.
In Baltimore, farmer named Mey-
erly is said to be blowing up a good
wheat field, with sub-soil pillow, hav-
ing been told there is gold in his land.
He won't find gold, but if he plows
deeply enough, and plows his wheat
under, he will improve his soil, and
increase his farms value.
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In the second part of Faust, Goethe
tells of the farmer blowing deep be-
cause under the Emperor's law he
was allowed to keep all buried trea-
sure, turned over by the plow." That
was probably an ingenious scheme to
make the farmer pillow deeper, make
his soil richer, and thus be able to
pay heavier taxes.
The State of Kentucky killed three
men by electricity, two white, one
colored, one white man seventy years
old. Forty-six minutes after they be-
gan walking to the death chair, one
after the other, they were all dead.
Only one spoke, as he was strapped
into the chair. 1t was Frank Thomas.
white man, who said, as the light was
shut out from his eyes forever by the
electrocution mask, GOOD night, I'm
gcnig home" -
Wouldn't it be interesting to know
where, how, in what home those three
men will awake-if at all. Will the
black man still be black, when he
comes to and dimly remembers how he
died? Viii the gray-haired murderer
still be seventy years old, or begin
again as new taby? Interesting oues
tons.
College young ladies, of the Young
Women's Christian Association. tell
working girls to dress PLAINLY and
demurely" for their souls sake and
to impress possible husbands with
their good qualities. Sensible Helen
Gwynne, retiring president of the Y.
w. c. A., who is factory worker.
and has presided over an assembly of
3o,oOO factory girls, tells these girls
to dress as conspicuously as thew can.
"even flashily."
The rich girl, says Miss Gwynne.
can afford to dress plainly. That Sets
her off in her luxurious surroundings.
But the working girl, in her plain
home, must dress as we'll as she can.
by way of contrast with her surround
lngs, if she wants to marry. Sensible
Miss Gwynne.
An autombile smash-up with Jesse
James hurt reveals the fact that the
SON. OF the great highwayman now
works as a patrol to prevent highway
men holding up automobiles.
Everywhere you see verified Foul
rier's saying Contrast in character
between father and son."