Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-03-05

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TAX ON TOURISTS
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TAX ON TOURISTS
The French Chamber of deputies
has raised the foe for identity cards
that are obligatory for al foreign Wis
itors, OF longer than 2 weeks dura-
ton, within 48 hours OF their arrival
and which will now cost II francs.
These cards are valid for three years
and can be renewed for fee OF 200
francs, as these more or less perma-
ncnt residents are expected to pay
more to the French revenue than the
other inhabitants who are liable tor
military service Foreign students and
workmen have an exceptional fee OF
10 francs either on issuance or renew
al. This tax will yield approximately
300,000000 francs yearly.
TRAIL OF PINK PETALS"
The stage is being set for the an
nual celebration of the peach blossom
festival at Fort Valley. Hundreds OF
performers and thousands of dollars
are being put in service for larger
and better than ever demonstration
this year, which is planned to extend
over two days March 20, Il. Thirty
thousand visitors are expected.
TEXAS RANGERS
RANGE ON
The former legal status of the Tex
as Rangers has been upheld in lex
as court of appeals after an injunction
standing for some time against their
further activities. The Rangers have
been self constituted or volunteer
body of mounted police in Texas since
the early riotous days OF that com
monwca1th Not only historic is Their
prestige but very practically effective
to the latest outbreak which dealt with
railroad strike situation is their pres
ent usefulness.
WOMEN AND CIVIC
BEAUTY
Through Women's Clubs and other
organized efforts, women n cities and
in villages are increasingly launching
campaigns for civic improvement with
health and beauty as the, IN
some instances they have a lie h.
CITY dump which usually ] cs in full
view Of the railroad travel, and have
turned it mo well ordered park,
cgain they have taken a swamp III the
center OF a town and made it a place
with public buildings grouped around
it. Concrete swimm ng pools, automo-
bile camping grounds, community
houses and libraries are everywhere
the monuments of WOmcnS' enterprise
Our own city can point to its public
library and to its railroad station park
and its street parks with walks and
flower borders, and drinking fountains
and its other public grounds well kept
as a particular evidence of Fitzger-
aid womcn's activities Soon the high
WAYS and cemetery road will show the
the attention that has been given them
by the different organizations and the
recent cooperation ofthe city authori-
ties will give impetus to this improve
ment.
TO BE UNITED OR NOT
The question of union between the
Methodist churches of the north and
the south seems in some cases to re-
vive "old embers of the Civil War and
the resumption OF that old prejudice
about d Yankees" in the opinion
of our Cordele contemporary, Mr.. L.
f. Brown, which we quote from This
is the red glow of prejudice, he says
and not Christian feeling at all.
The bugaboo of the northern negro
bishops is being used to defeat the
prandest movement American method
ism can make. Any appeal based on
race hatred alone cannot be worthy
appeal. Unihcation does not mean ra-
cia1 equality, it does not bring the
negro into white congregations on a
more equal footing than now 1t Will
put all American Method'sm in one
Christian program and put greater,
power into the Methodist dollar and
behind the Methodist Missionary,
method SIN is great militant ele-
ment of American protestant c1vlllza,
ton. The great wide world has asked
the question, what is the secret OF
our Greatness?" and the great heart OF
Christianity in America has respond
ed. Is the call of God to all Christian
itv worthy of a united answer? The
answer is ours to make. O, that it
could be made in the right way" &C.
z. Brown in Cordele Dispatch).
Xxx
COOKING COURSE FOR
BRIDES :,
An eminent diet;tian in New York
CITY has opened a cooking course for
engaged girls and young brides with
this propositions eff every girl who
becomes engaged would spend as
much time penetrating the mysteries
of the culinary art as she does in pre-
pairing her trousseau there would be
many more happy marriages and less
tragedies of breakfast married by Ill
cooked foods"
SESOI CENTENNIAL
Philadelphia is asking all the states
to participate next year in the l5Oth
anniversary of the signing OF the Dec
laration of independence. Some of tine
states placed the matter before the leg
islatures. Georgia will find some way
to cooperate by indications from her
governor.
DISINFECTION OF THE
THEATRE
Protests of New York audiences
against too much realism and nause-
ating spectacles on the stage met with
fro,,, tho rn1ica author