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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-03-12

Many people in love-have no, RI
walls for the simple reason that they
are in love with themselves.
FAIR ENOUGH
First student: When | graduate l
am going to the jungles of Africa to
study wild men.
Second Student: Well I'm gonna
stay right here in the U.S.A. and study
the wild women.
AN HONEST BOOTLEGGER
Reformer: You have no conscience
at all. You absolutely ignore the law.
Bootlegger: You're wrong mister.
All of my business activities are gov
erned by the law OF supply and de-
mand
THAT'S FIGURING
Look like business will be just fair
to middlin' for soap makers up until
May. There are five Saturdays in May.
If you get Just what we mean.
ED PURDY'S PHILOS
"There's many an agricultural mis-
statement in popular sayings of the
day. F'rinstance: How can man sow
wild oats and raise cane"
THEY WENT ANYHOW
He lover phone) Say Beatrice how
would you like to take little spin in
my new car?
She: Fine. Drive right over, Os-
valid.
He; This isn't Oswald speaking.
She: This isn't Beatrice either.
X II Il
SIGN IN RESTAURANT
ALBANY, ALA.
"We have an agreement with the
bank. We will cash no checks. The
bank will serve no meals.
**<
A. WISE BOY
Dullard: Why do you work night
and day to get an education?
Scholar: So l will learn just how lit
tie I know.
STORY WITH MORAL
Once there was a captain of boat
He didn't like his job.
In the same boat was an engineer.
He didn't like his job.
They got to talking.
And each thought the other fellow
had a job that was alright.
So they traded.
The captain went below.
The engineer went to the wheel.
Finally the captain came on deck oil
begrimed and perspiring freely.
81 can't make 'er 60" he admitted
to the engineer.
81 expected as much. said the en-
gincer. "She's aground
Moral: Write in lesson learned
here.)
NEWS IN VERSE
You cannot sing the old songs,
You have been singing, Joe.
The instalment man came around to-
day,
And took our radio.
AMT 1T so?
Hello, Lem, how's your automo-
bile? Having any trouble these days?
Yes about once a month ! have
quite a time.
Gee, that so? What's causing all the
trouble?
The payments.
THIS RADIO AGE
Study, practice, think and plan,
Make yourself better man.
If another can. you can
Get station "XYZ"
At Pingville.
NIGHT IS RIGHT
The gray-haired veteran engineer
came out of the Division Superintend-
ent's office. His shoulders dropped.
There was a look of depair in his eyes.
What's the matter Bill? asked a
fellow workman.
Canned" said Bill, dry sob in his
throat.
"Gads-Canned- after these forty
years of service? Why, Bill, what for?
Oh, l didn't know that | was being
watched. Ill tried to beat one of
them big 1925 Twin-twenty automo-
biles to a grade crossing this morn
ing and the big chief says if my tram
had been struck there wouldn't be a
splinter left"
A CONTRACT
Now listen. dear quit Fostering me,
In April I'll plant those seeds.
If you will only promise now.
In June you'll help pull weeds
PART OF BARGAIN
Smythe-"Never borrow trouble
Tones-"I didn't only borrowed
$50 and the trouble was thrown IN.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-03-12
AT ST. WILLIAMS
CATHOLIC CHURCH

Service every second and fourth
Sunday of month at 9:30 a. m.
IT, Rev. Voge1, Pastor.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-03-12
Agricultural Exports

Agricultural products exported by
this country each year are valued at
$1,8OQOOO,OOO.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-03-12
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Two good carpenters. Reference and
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Apply Leader Enterprise. 1tpd.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-03-12

lbs. of $40 fertilizer mo potash he
did bet9r for he got return of $3.50
per acre. However, when he added
1919 potash derived from sulfate of
potash to the above mixture, his
yield and quality improved to such
an extent that he got $191 per acre.
$500 worth of sulfate of potash gave
him an extra return of $41.00 per
acre.
BY adding 1919 potash from sui
fate of potash, Mr.. ]. S. Curtis of
Steuben County, New York, in
creased his yield of Cigar Leaf to-
bacco by 800 lbs. per acre over
plot where he applied only nitrogen
and phosphoric acid. 5000 worth
of sulfate of potash gave him an
extra income of $4,000 per acre.
Sulfate of potash makes tobacco
with a longer burn and better aroma
and these are the qualities that
command higher prices. Wherever
there is a possibility of sand drown,
you should use sulfate of potash
magnesia which is a potash salt
especially adapted to combat this
disease.
The new edition of BETTER
TOBACCO" explains just how
sulfate of potash should be used for
quality results. You can secure a
free copy by writing for it now.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-03-12
Mr.. Tobacco Grower!

Since the best prices are received
for high quality leaf, it is natural
that you should be more interested
in improving your grades. When
this can be done and the yield also
increased, you have combination
that spells real profit.
And it can be done. The expert
ence of many growers, confirmed by
scientific experiments, proves that
you can both increase your yield
and improve your grade by the use
of fertilizer containing plenty of sui
fate of potash.
Take the case of Mr.. L. B. Knott
of Wake County, N. c., who raises
Bright F1ue-cured. Where he used
no fertilizer he got 800 lbs. per acre
Of 15c. tobacco; where he tried 1000
lbs. per acre of $40 mo potash fer
tilizer he got $40 lbs. of 18c. tobacco
and on the plot where he applied
1000 lbs. of 8-4-10 PINK fertilizer
Containing sulfate of potash) he
raised 100 lbs. of 23c. tobacco. Sui
fate of potash costing only 5000
brought him $63 20 more income per
acre.
Then there is Mr.. w. L. Crouch, a
grower of Burley tobacco in Coffee
County, Tenn. With no fertilizer
his yield and quality were so low
that he got crop return of only
$92.5O per acre. When he tried 1000
Evening star., 1925-01-09
The Annual School Increase.

In discussion of the Districts need
of more school buildings, provision for
which is contained in the now-pending
bill for five-year program of con-
struction, reference has been made re-
peatedly to the annual increase in
school population, which represents
the year -by-year requirement of build
ing enlargement. No actual figures.
however, have been heretofore pre-
seuted Supt. Ballou has now made
comput ation, which has been just an
nounced. showing that the average an
nual addition to the school enrolment
since 1914. q period of 10 years, has
been 793 pupils. Any adequate build
ing program. he says, must make pro
vision for the increased enrolment in
the elementary schools of 800 pupils
year. This means that at least 30 ad-
ditional classrocms should be opened
each year, regardless of other con.
structions designed to take care of the
present congestion.
Twenty classrooms represent two
large or three smaller grade schools
yearly. That should be the minimum
Evening star., 1925-01-09

ing to tighten the taxation of the peas
ants and other burdens.
For about four years the bolshevil1
government of Russia has been modi-
flying its extreme radicalism. Lenin
started by gradually relinquishing the
anti-capital view. His successors have
carried out the amended Lenin pro
gram, and have gone much further in
the encouragement of foreign capital
to enter Russia. This latest amend
ment is i'll another line of develop
ment. 1t is a move Of safety through
concession and. compromise.
Although bolshevism was conceived
as a means of making all classes
equal, it has worked out to the point
at which the peasantry and agricul-
tural classes have been exploited and
subjected to more severe burdens than
even under the old regime. Class has
not been abolished The industrial
workers and the revolutionary intel
lectuals have been the ruling class.
The farmers, who are in the great ma
Jority in Russia, have been the sub
ject class. Now they have revolted
and have gained valuable concession
which may have an important effect
upon the future Of Russia.
1t is noted in the dispatch from Mos
COW that this concession resulting
from the permanent conference was
forced by an increasing discomfort
among the peasantry. Revolutionary
outbreaks have occurred in various
provinces that have been rigidly sup
pressed. Now the peasantry is to have
a voice in the government, with the
right to name candidates. If the elec-
tions are honestly conducted the peas
ants are likely to have a ma jority in
the representative assembly, and the
Moscow government may undergo a
material change.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
VITAL THEMES
Cancer and Terror
BY VERNON KELLOGG
Head of the National Research
Council

The newspapers and magazines are
giving wide publicity to news, some
of Ii true and some not true, about
cancer. Now II Is all very well to
call the attention of the public to
the seriousness of cancer, but II is
not well to create in the public mind
a state of terror or panic.
In the first place we should know
that the statements and figures indi-
eating a material recent increase In
deaths from cancer need critical
scrutiny. They cannot be accepted at
their face value. The figures given
for earlier years do not include all
deaths from cancer. Many deaths re-
corded as due to "old age" were in
reality cancer deaths. With increase
of knowledge and better diagnostic
methods cancer Is now more readily
dlscerned. The older figures, used to
determine an average death rate, are
also not perfectly comparable with
the the figures of later years, because
Of certain differences in geographical
and age distribution of the recorded
death cases.
At best, however, the figures are
bad; they put cancer on a plane with
such murderous diseases as pneu-
monia, tuberculosis and kidney af-
fections. But there is nothing in this
Whlcn need create panic.
Cancer is not an infectious disease.
1t does not sweep over the country as
an epidemic. 1t is not even caused by
a germ. AT least 1t is not proved that
II Is. Nor is 1t definitely heritable.
What cancer is is well known.
What actually causes cancer is not
known. 1t is a riotous growth of cells
in one or more spots in the body,
which instead of becoming specialized
to perform a particular useful func-
| ton. preserve generalized or primi-
| tive character and continue their null
tiplication without regulation. Unless
this unregulated and ever increasing e
group of cells is cut out by a surgical
| operation or killed by radium or
X-ray radiation, ii may so invade and
interfere with the normal tissues and
| organs of the body as TO cause death.
Cancerous growths do not usually be-
| gin before middle age, and deaths
| from cancer occur mostly in old age.
In that respect II is at least a be-
| nign disease compared with those
other deadly Affections that cut of
the child or adolescent before reach
| ing the years of achievement.
What causes or starts this anar-
chistic behavior of cells in a body in
which all other cell growth is regu-
| lated by the needs of the body is so
far undetermined. The most that is
! known about II is that cancer often
| begins at a point of chronic irrita-
| ton, either external or internal; a
| broken tooth against which the lip
| rubs, pipe held always at one place
in the mouth, a spot of chronic in
| ternal Inflammation.
There are many reputed and adver-
! tised cures for cancer. Some are
| conscious fakes Some are honestly
| believed In by their more or less ig-
| norant originatora The real cure for
| cancer will probably not come until
| the real cause for cancer is known
| Scientific men are working hard al
/ the problem. 1t will be solved
| Copyright)
Evening star., 1925-01-09
Peasants and Soviet.

Evidence that the autocracy of So
vietism is waning in Russia is at hand
in an announcement from Moscow
grant the peasantry q more active
part in the Russian elections. This
has come about from a conference
held at the kremlin between Soviet Of
ticials and representatives OF the peas
antry. The latter class are to be per-
mitted TO name their own candidates
as opposed to purely communistic
candidates. They are to be granted
what is termed greater revolutionary
Justice which would seem to mean
an increasing share in the affairs of
the country. The Soviet is undertak-
Evening star., 1925-01-09
No Rights Abandoned.

Recognition by the British govern
ment OF the equity" of this Govern
ment's claim to a. share in German
payments for the liquidation of
American war damages is a legal as
Well as a diplomatic triumph for
President Coolidge and Secretary
hughes. This Government advanced
lts claims both as a matter Of equity
and as legal right. The British gov
ernment side-stepped the issue of le-
sality by admitting the equity, so the
legal question becomes an academic
one, with the status OF having been
forcibly advanced by this Govern.
ment, accepted by France and Bel
gium and not controverted by Great
Britain 1t is unlikely that it ever
again will be argued that the United
states lost any rights or standing as
a belligerent because it failed to ratify
the treaty Of Versailles.
Secretary Hughes was on firm
ground when he argued that both in
law and equity our rights were unim-
paired. Those rights. he contended,
did not arise under the treaty of peace.
but by reason Of the fact that we were
a co-belligerent and a co-victor in the
war against Germany. He also took
the ground that no two nations could
make treaty which deprived a third
nation of its rights. The British gov
ernment had either to admit or evade
this contention, or else, by denial, es-
tablish a precedent which was certain
to prove embarrassing in the future.
The British government chose the
way of evasion, but the contention
having been advanced and not con-
troverted the force Of the Hughes ar
gument, either in the present instance
or for the future, is unweakened.
The British government would not
deny, of course, that as a co-bellig-
erent we acquired equal rights with
our associates in the war. Therefore,
unless it was willing to argue that
two nations could make treaty which
deprived a third nation of its rights
il had to concede that our rights were
unimpaired or avoid pronouncement
upon the issue raised. 1t avoided this
pronouncement by conceding the
equity OF our claims. The British eye
may be able to discern some advan-
tage in this strategic retreat from an
untenable position. If SO, the Ameri-
can Government, having all the fruits
Of victory, will not be disposed to in
sist upon unconditional surrender.
Both governments are to be con-
graduated upon the removal of one
more obstacle to complete cordiality
and full cooperation between the Eng
glish-speaking peoples. Each such Oh
stacle that is removed is one more
pledge for the future happiness and
prosperity of all the world.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
Removal of University Head Seen
AS Unfortunate Political Tangle

Editors from all sections of the
country seem to be unanimous in the
opinion that the removal by Gov
Jonathan Davis OF Kansas of Chan
cellor e. Fl. Lind1ey of the State Uni
versity almost on the eve Of the gov
ernor's retirement from ONCE has
been another of those unfortunate
moves which show the error of po-
litical control Of education.
Says the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
Whatever the facts may be in the
particular case, this controversy IL
lustrates again the danger to higher
education of political or semi-political
control" In the opinion of the Bal
tinore Evening Sun: "At this dis
tance 1t is matter of little concern
whether the chancellor of the Kansas
University ought or ought not to be
fired. The point of interest lies in
the fact that just such rows are in
evitable when education enters a
mesalliance with politics. One of the
charges made against the deposed
chancellor is political activity 1t
is not likely that any such charge
would be laid had the alleged politi-
cal activity been in the interest of
the present State administration. Po-
lftical activity is sin only when It
Is detrimental to the powers that be-"
= = :: !:
From Indiana, whence DIR. Lindley
went to Kansas, the Indianapolis Star
says: Gov. Davis merely discredits S
his State and its educational system.
in the estimation of Hoosiers, when
he undertakes to oust DR.. Lindley
from the post of chancellor of the
university. The people of Indiana
have known DR.. Lindiey too long and
tn1 al 40 tol- ri he
plants of Kansas politicians concern
lug his administration" Those who
best know DR.. Llndley. says the La
fayette Journal and Courier, declare
that the charges brought against him
by the present and outgoing Gov
ernor of Kansas are unfounded and
most absurd Lindfey Is charged
with holding aloof from the students;
with being aristocratic, with insuhor-
dination, partisanism and procrasti-
nation"
The Worcester Gazette quotes Gov.
Allen as having said: "Td like to
know If the university, under Lind
ley, Is running the State, or il the
state Is running the university" and
comments: 'If DR.. Lindley tried to
run Kansas, how could he have re-
mained aloof? And If he was aloof
how could he run Kansas? And, any
how, how could anybody run Kansas
with both Henry and Me- In that
State, alive and kicking. particularly
kicking? There may be something
the matter with Kansas, after all, but
IL isn't ennui that's a cinch."
THE schools must be taken out of
politics everywhere" declares the
Kansas City Journal. Already edu-
cational circles throughout the coun-
try have been infected with the be-
lief that Kansas Is under the same
system of political manipulation which
Gov. Walton established in Okla
homa." However, in the opinion of
the Spokane Spokesman Review,
broadly speaking, State institutions
Evening star., 1925-01-09

Of annual construction. II less than,
say, three buildings should be provided
for each year the congestion will In
crease. The five-year building pro-
gram should be regarded as an addi-
tional project.
The problem OF distribution is diff
cult OF solution. The superintendent
points out that in fve-year period,
OH the basis OF 90 classrooms a year
to care for the normal population in
crease. the resulting 100 rooms must
be distributed as uniformly as prac-
ticable. There are 13 elementary
school divisions Much care, therefore.
must be taken to allocate the new
buildings designed to prevent further
congestion in sections Of the greatest
growth. Yet other sections should not
be steadily neglected. New buildings
should replace old ones without refer
ence to increasing congestion. These
replacement needs may be made part
of the extraordinary building program
comprised in the f1ve-year construc.
ton plan.
There are three phases in this ques-
ton: The provision Of additional
schoolrooms to take care Of the nor
NAL increase Of population, the con-
struction Of new buildings to relieve
the now congested schools and the re-
placement of old, obsolete, insanitary
and generally unsuitable buildings
with new ones. In all Of these con-
structions the greatest care should be
taken to give the District the best
equipment, the most sanitary and the
best located. with generous provision
Of recreation space.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
Uncle Sans Sidewalks.

While there is ground for complaint
against householders who have failed
to remove the snow from sidewalks in
front of their premises, there is rea-
son for the citizens themselves to feel
agSrieved at the failure of the Govern
ment to clean its own sidewalks fully
and effectively. The sidewalks border
ing some of the public squares in this
city have been left untouched in many
cases during the present snow condi-
tion, and in others have been cleared
only for a narrow space, inadequate
for public accommodations.
The other day when the snow was
melting the sidewalk in front of one
of these downtown public reservations
had cleared space about feet In
width, while the remainder of the
walk was in slush, with puddles in the
depressions OF the harder glacial
formation. Pedestrians on the outside
of the meeting lines of travel were
forced to slop through the water.
Inasmuch as the courts hold that
the sidewalks are Government prop
erty, and as there is doubt as to
the right to compel a citizen to re
move the snow from the walk in front
of his own house-though a new law
on the subject has been enacted-it is
surely the duty of the Government to
set an example in good citizenship by
cleaning Its own spaces promptly and
fully. The sidewalks around the parks
should be the first to be cleared, how
ever prompt householders and busi-
ness men may be for their own con-
venience to remove the snow from in
front of their own premises.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
SHOOTING STARS. .
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Getting No Forwarder.

w NAt
We have talked of Evolution
With an interest immense;
But it never seems to get us any.
where.
Every learned institution
Shows an interest immense
In the theory which Einstein
framed with care.
There are lines of erudition which we
patiently pursue
Until the landlord sends a gentle note:
Your Bill is Due"
The scientists amaze us. Yet they
leave us rather blue,
For they never seem to get US
anywhere.
In Summer they remind US
That the moons a frigid spot;
But they never seem to get US
anywhere.
In Winter they will find us
Distant suns exceeding hot;
For us they haven't any heat to
spare. s....
They tell US of a future race that will
be free from guile
And hint that Wen be perfect in a
very little while.
They lecture and they publish while
we wear hopeful smile
But they never. seem to get us
anywhere. X