Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-11-27
This Week
BUY NOW OR PAY MORE.
THE BRAIN GROWS.
FLYING PULLMAN CARS.
MELLON WILL STAY.

Mr.. and Mrs. Careful Citizen, 50
now and buy what you need with
out further delay. Prices are low
because merchants whose distribu-
ton of goods has been checked by
abnormally warm weather in many
big cities, have cut prices regard
less of cost. But cold weather Is
coming. And, more important, the
boom is here already. When prices
go up on the stock exchange, you
know that you will soon see prices
yoing up in the stores also. Do
Jour shopping early, and for the
Jake of your pocketbook this time,
not merely for the sake of the over
worked Christmas-time statesmen.
Thu human brain is capable OF
unlimited development and there rs
no such thing as overwork Tor
brain properly developed. Thinking
Nth intense concentration makes
the brain actually grow at any age:
The latest proof Is the increase N
one-uuarter Of an inch In the slS
of I,loyd Georges head since l9oa-
quarter of an inch makes
great difference when the space rs
filled with the right kind OF Drain
matter.
Also. thinking changes and In
creases the size Of the nose, deVel0l's
the chin. We are what our tnousntS
make US.
Judge Soper In Baltimore decides
that the "one-half of one per cent
clause in the Volstead Act doesn't
annlv to drinks made at home Tor
home use. If that decision stands
At win make a big hole in prohiof-
ton. Incidentally it will mean
more prosperity for graveyaros.
Homemade beverages, as the oOc-
tors will testify, are the under
takers best friends.
Fat men and men with hobbies
that engross their thoughts are
rarely thieves, says the head OF a
bonding company. And the married
man. is six times as safe, from the
point of view of stealing, as the
unmarried man. That says good
deal for the influence Of wives and
children.
Marriages, as compared with d.
yorces, are falling off in the United
States. The Census Bureau shows
that in 1929 the number of divorces
increased y per cent, the number
of marriages only 8 per cent more
than the previous year. That isn't
good news.
Mr.. Hungerford writes to this
column, asking for a definition or
the great social problem" of the
present day. The greatest problem
is to make a real success OF the
average marriage.
The fault. of course, is with men.
1t will take several centuries, prob
ably, to educate them up to the only
kind of life worth while.
Big steamship companies think
more rapidly than do our United
States railroad companies. At least
the big lines already are planning
flying boats for carrying passengers
across the Atlantic. IF anything Is
to make their ships obsolete they
want to own the thing fiat does It.
American railroads seem content
to watch their stocks Booming and
boiling, without worrying about the
fact that in twenty-five years p3s-
senger trait" VII De cut down to
short haulS. l'HsG trains across the
continent or oni$ half way across
will be only nc,;iory.
George r. Baker, boss of several
roads, and yo1lng ia spite of his
eighty odd years. should set the
Young rnen an example. Mr.. Carry,
head of the Pullman Company, has
long been at work Oh plans for light,
hat strong living Pullman cars"
News from Washington that Sec
rotary Mellon will consent to re-
main in charge of the Treasury Is
good news The management OF
United states finances, including
the paying Of billions of debt rolled
mp so swiftly, takes real nnahcaai
an' business ability.
-. Mellon has both. The PEG
pie will he fortunate if he con
rinucs working for them for moth
ing, neglecting profitable busi
ncsS OF his own.
Youth and beauty go forward II
Germany more rapidly than here
The German newspapers discuss
this question: Should modern bob
haired women tip their hats to eacl
other?"
: Another subject discussed is this
us smoking pipes ladylikeY'
Let's hope that chewing Tobacco
by ladies will be postponed for
while.