Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-03-20
LABOR IS POWER.
CLAIMING THE ETHER
THE 10 POUND BABY.
THAT POOR CALIP.

Ramsay Mcdonald, managing eau
tlously the Labor government that
manages the British Empire, has trou-
bic, with his most radical followers.
Macdonald sensibly wants to COM
plete the great irrigation system in the
Sudan, to help cotton growers, in
crease crops and general welfare. Rad
lcal labor men say private individuals
own the cotton fields, and they don't
believe in doing anything for private
| property.
The irrigation, on which gigantic
sums have already been spent, millions
OF pounds. would give employment in
the Sudan, and guarantee cotton sup
ply to England. But that makes no
difference t. radicals"
Sometimes reaching out too far
is dangerous. People have fallen out
of windows doing that The Telegraph
and Telephone Company does pretty
we'll for its stockholders and itself with
its firm monopoly of communication
by wire On the surface of the earth.
That ought to be enough. The import
ant patents on radio are dead or dv-
| ing. A1d the bitterest enemy of single
tax vii, admit that the people should
OWE the air.
Housewives for miles around flock
to Ogdensburg, N ] to see Mrs. Will
liam Henion's little boy, just born
and weighing nineteen pounds Such
a baby is interestin~ but you ask your
self, Why does Providence send a 10
| POUND baby to a human mother
weighing 1870 pounds and 10 OUNCE
baby to female bear weighing 800
pounds? There's a good reason, of
course, but who can understand it?
H. c. Wells, tells school teachers
shy, retiring souls, he calls them
to buck up, be arrogant and take hold
of the world"
| He says teachers alone can improve
! lite. That's true and that is what they
have been doing ever since teaching
began.
If teachers from Socrates. Aristotle.
and Plato, to the young woman that
teaches Your little boy in the public
school, hadn't taken hold of the world
civilization wouldn't be where it is,
now.
To understand what the drop in the
French franc means to Frenchmen.
imagine the United States winning
war, and then finding its dollar worth
less than Zoe apiece, with bread at
50 cents a loaf, eggs $4 dozen, etc.
Renal Pasha, new boss of Turkey
and the Mohammedan world. tries ex-
periments almost as radical as our pro-
hibition. He will end the caliphate. do
ing away with the powers Of the all
powerful religious head, supposed to
represent Mohammed, and inherit his
i authority.
The Caliph, Prince Abdul Mediid
Effends, will be driven out, and not
allowed to take the treasure of the ca
| liphate with him.
That is serious step to Mohamme-
dams as it would be to Catholics if
Mussolini were to drive out the Pope
and seize the property of the Vatican.
The harem of the Caliph is in de-
spair, and the Caliph's eunuchs have
refused food for three days. That
probably won't help the Caliph. The
question is, What effect will all this
radicalism have on Renal Pasha and
his modern wife in the knickerbockers?
And how much did Kemal's Russian
Bolshevist friends have to do with
kicking out the Caliph.?
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The J. I. Case Company, that makes
threshing machines and other things
for farmers, skipped dividend and the
stock dropped with an unpleasant thud
last week Things of that sort NAV
cause financial "best minds" to inter
est themselves in the poor farmer.
| What happens to HIM isn't so import
ant in the realm of high finance. But
what happens to STOCK is most i'm
portant.
| Can man succeed after 4O?"
Real success is usually made after
forty. You can't Judge moderns by
Alexander, Napolean, Pitt, Keats or
such prodigies. 1t takes thirty years
now to get the start of an education.
forty to get half an education, eighty
to get fairly good education. You
are hardly ready for real work until
forty.
Somebody discovers, with horror.
large sums of money are spent taking
care OF insane aliens. That being the
case. aliens should be kept out, saw
the horror-stricken ones.
What about the thousands of mill
IONS OF dollars that aliens, not insane.
have added to the wealth of the Unit
ed States? What about the fact that
they build practically all the railroads,
most of the other roads. and that they
contribute at least 90 per cent to the
building of all houses? Doesn't that
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