Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-03-19

SP0TL.IGHTS
ON
PEOPLE q


/ known as the man of the Silver
Mask. Some think he is John Nc
! Cormack himself.
| TO TELL OR NOT
| 1t has a long time been an ethical
point and with advocates on both sides
| of the question whether it is right and
whether a wholesome practice to re-
port to the faculty or even to a stu
dent council the fact of fellow students
cheating. This question was raised last
week in a mass meeting of students at
the University of Georgia where the
reporting system was attacked and al
so defended. Since that meeting mum
Der of students have posted the notice
that they will not report any one. This
is the sentiment which has prevailed
quite generally in schools beginning
with the early grades when "tattling
and telling tales out OF school have
ever been held in disdain. Hardly any
one but recalls that same viewpoint
as regards school fellows, though to
cover wrong doing of any kind when
one assumes citizenship takes a differ
ent color.
RINGSIDE SEATS AT
SPANKINGS
A bill has been introduced in the
Indiana Legislature by which parents
will be formally notified when their
children are to receive corporal pun
ishment and may be present if they so
desire to see the punishment given.
If the time set, proves inconvenlent to
the parent the hour would be deferred
to time when they can attend.
Spanking bees" have been jocular-
" suggested when number might
be served at one time and quite a
group OF interested parents might come
together.
Seriously the real purpose is a good
one, and in most schools is effected
by having another teacher witness the
punishment This serves to restrain
the angered one from being too severe
for it seldom happens that both will
lose control of their temper at the
same time and bv their combined sew
Gritty reach a limit not far short OF
cruelty.
TAXES AND TUITION
The good people of Forsyth are
getting a double dose in school ex-
penses, through some mismanagement
of their funds. If debt of 100000 at
a local bank is paid the funds will be
exhausted and all pupils attending
school from this week are to be charg-
ed tuition which sounds quite excess
i've being So per month in the pri-
mary grades and SIS for grammar
grades, and 81 for high school. We
suspect there will be change in the,
school board personnel at the next
election.
FIGHT NARCOTICS
WITH APPROPRIATIONS
Richmond Pearson Hobson who
worked long and zealously in the
prohibition ranks is quite as vigorous
in his attitude against dope. He is
advocating a federal appropriation OF
$4,000 for literature to instruct and
aid in the fight. He thinks this small
amount to spend in such cause as
compared with the appropriation OF
$2,500,000 allowed to combat the foot
and mouth disease in animals. Hobson
discovers with other reformers that
money for human needs and improves,
ments comes more slowly from our
government than does much larger
amount for property interests especl-
ally live stock.
GIVING l TO 5
Mr.. Adolph Ochs has become not
only a big money maker, but sue
cessful money raiser. His own interest
in educational institutions he proposes
to have met by others on detnlt
terms. To the Martha Berry School
he gave a conditional amount, setting
the rich men of Georgia to working
to meet it. Last week he rendered
$4,000 gift to the Chattanooga Uni
versity for a professorship in city
government, providing other friends OF
the institution will get up an additional
donation of $150,000. Already $500 600
is forthcoming and in total these COM
bined gifts will be augmented by an
other cond ;tional gift of 100000 from
the general education board.
FOR CIVILIZATION
Some one has computed the inven-
tons of Thomas Edison to have adj
ded nine billion dollars to the wealth
of the world But the wealth is the
least OF his benefits when we consider
the comforts and conveniences made
possible by his genius.
RADIO BULLETINS FROM
THE SICK
A Colorado man who conveyed his
wife to the hospital at Rochester, Mimi
noticed an amateur code transmitting
station there, whose ownership he dis
covered and Herewith arranged for
definite schedule of bulletins from
his wife's bedside Her illness was of
long duration and his business kept
him distant so much of the time that
this radio bulletin plan was most
satisfactory medium during the inter
val
ALL FOR SPORT
Stewart Edwards White popular au-
thor and DR.. Saxon Pope a professor
of the University of California have
set out on a unique sporting expedl-
ton. They are going to the jungles of
East Africa for big game and they are
expecting to use only bows and arrows
and a moving picture camera for which
third man is added to the party. They
made their own bows and arrows after
the pattern used by British bowmen
in the 18th century. They are 2 feet
3 inches long and tipped with steel.
They have 5000 of these in their equip |
ment.
SO OLD
That celebration planned for Ans
terdam, Holland. commemorative its |
II, 107S I-eS all others |