Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-05-08
SELECTING CANDIDATES
THE IDEAL FREEDOM
BIDDING AGAINST FORD
ONE ROCKEFELLER YEAR

VIII soon be selecting Presidential can
aldates-or rather the country will
nave them selected for it.
President Coolidge will be the Re-
publican nominee. What about the.
democrat? How do you think he will
De chosen? Here's description of the.
coming process, probably accurate
given by an able politician:
"'Iaggart will vote for Ralston Of
lnd1ana; 1ammany will vote for Al
Smith They will work along those lines.
until they eliminate McAdoo. Then
they will go to a back room and de-
eide who is really to be the Democratic.
nominee and the name they choose
Will be the one nominated"
Ii you think that's imagination. vol,
don't know United States politics.
In 1923 the Rockefeller Foundation
dld these things, among hundreds Of
others:
Fought malaria in seven foreign
nations from Brazil to Palestine. 9
Combined with twenty outside gov
ernments to fight the hook worm.
Contributed more than a million DOL
lars to medical education in the British
Islands, gave half million to the I'm
iversity of Alberta, pledged quarter
of a million to the University Of Pen
nslyvania
Supported medical schools and Is
hospitals in China.
Granted 1914 fellowships in Germany
to support scientific workers. And
that's only l per cent of it.
If there were not a great deal of
water going over Niagara you couldn't
get any power there.
1t there were not a great deal of
money in the Rockefeller fortune alb
that work couldn't be done.
The longer you live the more YOU
realize that Providence knows what
is about
Every publisher and printer will be
interested to see W. P. Leech's new
printing process, an inexpensive pro-
cess of printing from plates, that prom
1ses to do away with steel engravings.
The process is actually more difficult
to counterfeit than any steel engrav-
ing.
In an investigation of this Leech
printing process called "aqutone,' held
before the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representative
1t was shown that in printing money
by the new process an appropriation
of $4,4H 500 necessary under the old
methods would be reduced to $1,050,-
900.
If you are interested write w. P.
Leech at No. 22o West Twenty Eighth
Street, New York.
What are "America's Idea1s?" The
Declaration of Independence express
es some of them, the Constitution ex-
presses others. The most important of
all ideals is the ideal of freedom.
And as regards freedom. FREE
SPEECH and FREE PRESS, which
means free expression of thought,
whether in books, newspapers, moving
pictures or speeches, are most i'm
portant.
Napolean knew it, when he said that
if he granted complete freedom of the
press, he would not be able to mair]As
tain his power-which was that of IA
dictator-for three weeks.
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Various interests not discouraged
by recent Washington revelations are
bidding on what may be called Fall
Sinclair" basis, for Muscle Shoals.
The difference between Ford and
the others is this: Ford knows how
to produce the power and how to use
it after he produces it. Ford would do
the work with his own money He has
the money honestly and usefully made,
to do it and he is interested in public
service and water power development
not in adding to his fortune.
Professor MacAlister reports the dis
covery in Jerusalem of trench built
before Abraham was born, and used
three thousand years before the birth
OF Christ for the defense of the city.
Such antiquity is not surprising
Jerusalem, located on the route that
camels and merchants took on thew
journeys from Egypt to the head
the Persian Gulf and to the rich lands
between the Tigris and the Euphra-
ties, must always have been an import
ant spot, commercially and historical
ly.
We know it only as Jerusalem, aft
er it had become the "home town" of
the Jewish people, originally Bedouins
of unusual intelligence and fighting alb
ility. But it had long, interesting his
tory before that.