Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-01-31

States admit picked immigrants
How will you pick them? A pick
ing system would have rejected
Steinmetz, crippled hunchback, who
came here as boy, became head
electrician of the General Electric
Company, and created work for many
thousands.
The picking system would have
rejected Napolean, had he come to
the United States when he went
down to Iitaly and beat the Aus
trians. He was undersized, pallid,
thin and suffering from the itch.
The picking system would have
turned away Pope, who wrote the
Essay on Man" and some other
things worth while He was such
sickly little creature that he had
to be sewed up in canvas jacket
each morning, that he might sit up
straight and write.
! The safest picking system is to-
allow immigrants, in future as in the
past, to be selected by their own am
bition and energy.
Money in the stock market was
cheap last week. You could bor-
row it at per cent if you wanted
to speculate in stocks. 1t cost a
little more if you wanted it for some
slower, duller business. The stock
market went up and down like the
pulse OF nervous lady expecting a
proposal Gentlemen that are gamb-
ling Cor as they would prefer to put
it, investing') don't quite know what
is going to happen with General Daw-
es in Paris and the Labor Party in
the House of Parl ;ament
There was some comfort for the far
mers, corn and oats going to new high
prices for the season. Of course, the
new high prices come, as usual. after
nearly all the farmers have sold their
corn and oats
The fourth anniversary of the 18th
amendment was celebrated in Wash
ington last week. How do you think
prohibition has worked thus far?
It's enemies tell You, truly that boot
leg liquor born of prohibition is the
worst ever drunk-it blinds, poisons
and kills.
Friends of prohibition tell you, al
SO truly, that fewer people go to jail,
the poorhouse and the insane asylum,
and many more millions are deposited
| in savings banks than in the old days.
1t is for you 70 choose. Mean
while, be sure of this: Nobody
will know anything about prohibition
for at least sixty years 1t will take
that long to prove whether alcohol is
necessary n Nnrtharp
er Orientals have amounted to little
because they drink no alcohol, or i'm
spite OF the fact that they drink no al
coho1.
L. I. Herman, manufacturer of
handkerch els, gives his business to-
employees, saying Il am rich enough"
and that surprises us.
We should all be rich enough, ten
times too rich, as regards what we
really need if the earth were properly
developed and competition were re-
placed by emulation.
This earth would produce more than
enough OF everything for all the people
ont it, and for ten times as manv peo-
pie. II It were intelligently developed.
as 1t will be some day.
1t happens once in a while, as
Senator Capper tells YOU. Swim
dlers persuaded Dave Taper, of To-
wa 10 BUY some land in a Texas town
to be built Immediately" Taper paid
Soo and got deed. When he tired of
paying taxes, his sister, Mrs. Hester
EgDert, took the land and went on
paying. Now, after twenty-three wears
an an on OIL company has paid Mrs. Egbert
9io,o0O tor her land and one-eiphfh nf
a, an oth the oil. That eighth" paws her
99i'OoO month. The swindlers swim
dled themselves out of fortune
But observe that Mrs. Egbert did
not buy stock-she bought land and
-, teNas land at that There is nothing
ike owning part of the earth.
dinosaurs used to lay eggs. Won
knew that Did you know. also that
tney hadl glzzards and that scientists
! iind III skeletons of dinosaurs laroe
timely polished pebbles with which in
the dinosaurs gizzard ground I'D food
as the hen now grinds her food with
gravel in her gizzard?
And did you know that the hen Of
today is the direct descendant Of the
dlnosaur seventy feet long? The hen
would probably object to that state
ment, while Mr.. Bryan objects to Bar
wins theory. But in both cases the
facts are overwhelming.
ooA A big dinosaur would weigh 2OO.-
OO0 pounds. What Burbank will re-
verse evolution's process and give us.
chicken of that size?
New York is quite a city. The 1924
telephone book contains more than
100000 listings. That one citv has.
more telephones than all of England.
Scotland and Wales put together. On
ly while ago. when men in the fifties
were starting out in life, you could
have bought the original telephone
stock at Your own price.
1t was called an interesting toy" {