Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-01-06
GOOD NEWS.
CANALS, CROPS, PROSPERITY.
We ARE HOMOGENEOUS.
AL ALIKE.

WE ARE HOMO EN0uS.
AL ALIKE.
It's really a prosperous country
VIC live in, and the prosperity has
osily commenced. Arthur Rey-
acids, able Chicago banker, says
our prosperity will last through
1927. It will also last through
1927 and beyond, If we give it
caance, really, work and do not
c'4cat each other too much. =
Revised Government reports on
cgops put corn for this year at two
hIlion six hundred and forty-five
niillion bushels, wheat at eight
hundred and thirty-two million
Esree hundred and FIVE thousand
Aasheas-vand forty million bushels
o. rye, forty-one million bushels of
rice. eighteen million six hundred
ard eighteen thousand bales of
cotton, thirty-three million nine
hundred thousand boxes of oranges,
ETC., and you have slight idea Of
what prosperity means.
And unlike oil, those crops are
not exhausted, but go on forever,
increasing. Land in France
planted to wheat for centuries pro-
Gucas more bushels per acre now
tran it did 200 years ago. The
pity is that when farmers have big
crops they get small prices. Com
hination sales and voting could
help. that, but farmers do not 5-es
know how.
Other good news for all AmeEi-
cans is this: "The lake cities will
be connected with the Mississippi,
the Gulf and all ports of the world
by navigable waterways through
legislation that should pass this
Winter. And canal from the
iknf 70 the Atlantic also seems
probable if an agreement can be
made with Canada for Joint use of
the St. Lawrence.
The right plan would be an all
American waterway from the lakes
through New York State, and that
will come. But it would cost five
or six hundred millions more than
the low cost of the st. Lawrence
canal, which probably will come
fist.
Farmers are, deeply interested IL
these canal projects, for whics,
Secretary Hoover deserves great
est praise. He is q worker. The
canals will cut an average of
twelve cents from the freight or
export wheat and add twelve
cents to the. farmers price.
Harvesting the Colorado River
seems not far away, thanks to
number. of earnest men, including
Senator Hiram Johnson, Secse-
taries Work and Hoover. arl
others. The remaining difficult
seems to be arranging an agree
ment between California and Arr
zona. The dam would be in
AfiZ0na, great part Of the power
and irrigation would be used in
California. The prosperity of orc
State n reflected in all States.
california cannot thrive without
baneftting Florida and Maine.
Arizona, the great State Of coz
per, cotton, citrus climate and
the Colorado, will prove itself tha
State Of brotherly conciliation.
The thing designed is to use
the country's wealth, water and
power especially, and thus build up
the entire nation. Arizona will
not unwisely withhold from devei-
opment and use that which, st the
moment, she herself cannot use.
This is written on the writer's
eleventh trip across the continent
in fourteen months. The cftener
you cross, the more uniformity of
life and manners in America
aTnazes you.
The young man in seni-balloon
trousers, left in New York, you find
again in Chicago. Kansas City,
Topeka, Gallup, Albuquerque, R,r-
stow and tens Of thousands Of him
Iii Leg Angeles.