Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-08-07

ON -
PEOPLE,
Queues Must Go

A vigorous campaign Vi tWo IMMUNE
for abolishing the queues OF the CHI
namen will be conducted in the Chih-
lin province, and then the civil COVER
nor will stake a queue cutting party
in which the appendage will be IN
voluntarily removed and fine OF ap-
proximately ST be placed upon. those
who have failed to observe the order
which is made very conspicuous thru
hand bills and posters, and instruc-
tons of the police in the villages.
Must Take Serum
The Cubans have no choice in the
matter of typhoid incubation. On Aug
ust 2, the president issued a decree in
which every person is ordered to take
the serum. There have been several
| hundred cases of the fever in Havana
showing this week, however, a mark
ed decrease.
Comrades True
A post card. shower that assumed
the proportions of food was that
rendered General James A. Stuart, at
Chicago, on the morning of his Sind
birthday. The 10000 birthday cards
came from veterans of three wars, in
all of which General Stuart command
ed regiment, record that is not
borne by any other living American!
So it was that the idea OF the Ameri-
can Legion gathered momentum as
it passed along the veteran organiza-
tons of the country.
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First Editions
The record plice of $1,000 was paid
at auction for the first issue of the
Pickwick Papers, 1869, in the orig
inal numbers and wrappers. Ameri-
can collectors bid high, but-a Lon
doner got it. Bidding over American
buyers, another Englishman secured
the first edition of Gray's Elegy, print
ed in 1851, for $1,750.
Speaking of Peaches
Ty Cobb, the Georgia Peach, has
announced his determination to, quit
playing as regular in baseball this
wear, and to become bench manager
|Of course, he will continue to enjoy
occasional games but says that ~
years of the game is beginning to be
felt and that his health does not per
init the regular strenuous work of form
Ter years
Work for Women convicts
Judge T. E. Patterson, of the
Georgia Prison Commission, advo-
Gates the purchase of. machinery at
the prison farm, that will enable the
women convicts to make the garments
and knit the hosiery that they wear,
making saving many times over the
cost of the machinery. This is JUS
tifable proposition, not like that used
in the Florida prison, where con-
vict labor is placed I'M absolute COM
petition with free labor on cut price
system for garments not used by the
state. A valuable feature of the con-
vict work at >Milledgeville, would be
to give the women prisoners some
thing to do.
The Defense Test
Another test comes in the kind of
response given by the various states
to the plea Of President Coolidge and
the War Department for national
demonstration on September II. gov
errors Bryan, of Nebraska, and Blaine
of Wisconsin, withhold endorsement
of the movement and cooperation in
it, for reasons of diplomacy. Cover
nor Blaine cites the record of Wis
consin enlistments in each war, to re-
flute any charge of lack of patriotism
in his people.
Judges and Justice
Several recent instances indicate the
treal justice that a judge may show
| in the passing of sentence. A man
in a neighboring county was found
guilty of bootlegging and given a
six months sentence in May.e The
Judge allowed him to- go home and
work his crop first and few days ago
he delivered himself to the court read
| y for his penalty. In Lincoln, Nebras-
ka, Judge who realized the suffering
J that would fall on a mans family if
they were deprived of his earnings
while he served sentence for intoxi-
cation has permitted him to work at
his trade by day and to, spend 70
nights in jail.
The First Quaker
On July S, at a small village in
Leicestershire.. England, there was a
large gathering of the Society OF
Friends or 'Quakers,' even from
America, honoring the tercentenary
date and the place of George Fox's
birth He was the founder of the sect
1.-The parish church, the first he attend
ed as boy, and even the fount in
which he was baptized, were viewed
with interest by the visitors, altho the
fount had degenerated at this time to
the village horse trough.
For "Evangeline's" Sake
The Nova Scotia people at Crane
Pre- are making ready to erect mon
ument in their memorial park. to
Honor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow