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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1924.
William’s Bright
Remark
1 By RALPH D. PAINE
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(© by DotibUday, Page & Co.)
K T SOMETIMES wonder whether a
A beautiful young daughter Is
blessing or a curse,” groaned Mr,
Henry Torrance as he dropped with a
thud into the nearest chair. Aggrieved
and horrified, the daughter exclaimed:
a | never dreamed that a fond
could say such a frightful thing as
that What kind of a break have
made to deserve it?”
“Ernestine, before you rave, let your
father explain himself,” chimed in her
mother. '‘Sometimes his ideas are
quite sensible."
Mr. Henry Torrance a bald,
nervous man whose shoulders were
bowed from years of service at an of
fice desk. A quizzical twinkle tem
pered his outbreak as he went on to
say:
U It’s not Ernestine’s fault. It’s those
boys that come to see her. This one
tonight was the limit. Not
He doesn’t pack a flask on his hip as
far as I know. But when he thinks
he is starting to go home at the end of
a perfect evening, his feet get glued
to the floor. You know what I mean.
Yes, $hd, I get you,” sighed the
fair young Ernestine. “ ‘Ticky’ ‘Bal
lard is certainly shy a self-starter. He
is dreadfully young, only seventeen,
arnPhe hasn’t learned how to break
away. Lots of nice boys are afflicted
that way.”
i. Take tonight as a sample,” grimly
pursued Mr. Henry Torrance. “He
quit fussing with that little Honolulu
banjo dingus at eleven o’clock. Mother
and I, having mid-Victorian manners,
11110 the bul1 t0 sa > good-night,
thirty-five minutes. Yes, he did. And
then he pried his feet loose and stalled
again in the porch for God knows how
long. It was not your fascination,
Ernestine, my child. He could see
you were yawning your head off. And
he was too sleepy to hold his own head
up. He simply could not make the
grade. What passes for his intellect
got jammed.”
“A very common disease, like
mumps,” said Mrs. Torrance. ‘Good
ness, Henry, don’t I remember you at
that age? My father said he felt like
spanking you.”
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unreasonable man In spots. Well, I
stayed to the bitter end tonight, Era
estine, as an interested observer,
Whew, but my legs ache.’’
“Here comes our own upstanding
son,” said the mother as a flivver rat
tied and coughed in the driveway. .
“Let’s ask him if he has the same dlf
Acuity. *»
Presently slipped yoang William stumbled entere<|/the j
room, on a rug, over
rocker, and dived for sofa. He 1
a a
was too busy growing to be graceful.
Several days later William, the
woman-hater, experienced a sudden
change of heart. The cause was a
fluffy little person who was visiting
the Ballard girls. William announced,
In aggressive tones, that he intended
to run over after supper. Mr. 1'dt
rance displayed a lively interest and
ventured to suggest: -
“Take war a lug from the reluctant
footed ‘Ticky’ Ballard, son.”
“Huh, 1 guess I won’t make a holy
show of myself.”
■ You never can tell, William. As
man to man, take a tip from me. On
your way over, try to think of a bright
remark. Something snappy, with a
sure-fire laugh. Then when you get
ready to pick up your hat, shoot the
bright remark and depart. Go out on
It. Don’t linger for an encore. H
M That sounds good to me, dad, the
best thing yet. The dickens of it Is
I may not find any bright one in the
old bean.” —
“Oh, yes, you will, if you prepare
yourself beforehand.
William was impressed. He was al
ways serious when hls father took this
man-to-man attitude. In fresh flannel
trousers, silken socks, hair slicked
back, he spurred the flivver out of the
drivewny when the little stars were
shining in the sky. The family ad
justed Itself for a quiet evening. Ern
estine was alone, for once. Phono
graph and piano, were silent She be
came absorbed In a novel with a kick
to It.
No more than three quarters of an
hour later they heard the flivver re
turn. This was perplexing. In stalked
William, glowering. He registered
bitter dislike for hls family. His fa
ther demanded:
“Here, William, what went wrong?
Did she hurt your feelings or some
thing? M
I’ll “Not her. Huh, One classy it llttl^ jane, that
say so. was you
spilled the beans.!’
<■ t For heaven’s sake, explain your
self, son."
“Well, it was like this, understand?
I did think up a bright remark and It
was a corker. Well, I had been there
a little while when I accidentally
slipped the bright remark. It popped
out before I could stop It. Huh. It
was the only one I had. So I grabbed
my hat and heat It. You said I must
go out on It, didp’t you? Well, I did,
didn’t I?"
The family was silent. Wotds failed
them. The boy on the burning deck
bad nothing on William. Then Ern
estine snickered but her father
frowned at her.
<• William," said he, “what was the
bright remark? i
“Huh, forget It. Now see here, I’ve
got some studying to do and I don’t
want to be Interrupted. Goo'nlght.’’
Washington When Ball Wild
Team
Wins Pennant
Washington, Oct. 1.—Transform
ed from the staid and dignified cap
ital of a great nation into a wildly
excited Main street town, Washing
ton was in a college campus frenzy
yesterday over the success of the
Washington Senators in winning the
American league pennant.
Rain, which has drenched the city
for 36 hours, was still holding out,
but it failed- to dampen the enthu
siasm of the town or to restrain
the demonstrations of pride in the
success of Washington’s pennant
winners.
Downpour May Continue.
The weather bureau warned that
the downpour might continue through
the week, and that a tropical ctorm
might arrive from the gulf region
on Saturday, but the city went ahead
with plans to give the team a royal
welcome when it returns Wednesday
night, and to see the first two games
of the series.
Sixty thousand applications for
tickets have been made to the club
office and almost half of them will
have to be rejected because the park
will hold only 36,000 without crowd
ing.
Hoping to reward the boys who so
i loyally supported the team all sea
son, the club officials are honoring!
applications first from Washington,
then from Maryland and Virginia,
and then other out of town points,
Seats are sold in sets of three,
for the first two games and the
Declares
, He Whipped Stone
In Recent Battle
There has been a lot of newspa
per comment recently on the Strjb
lin £- St ° ne fi * ht whicb award
ed to Stone by newspaper decision,
The sports editor of the Macon
Tel h had the following to say
n this morning’s paper:
Honest Boy.
U William ' Lawrence Stribling, Jr.,
the kid himself, is an honest youth
and as bashful and reserved as he
is honest. A little more than three
years ago the youngster made his
debut as a boxer in a local ring and
began To rise slowly up the ladder
, the ,, to . notch . , Portion ...• which , . , , he
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holds today. We have" watched him,
j have traveled with him and done nu
j merous other things and believe
that we know him like the well
! book, We have never yet seen him
j take a false step. In our estima
j j tion he is the cleanest boxer in the
game today. f
i “There is a difference of opinion
J to who the Stribling-Ad
33 won
,
; Stone battle in Newark last week.
i New york b critics are unani
mous in their opinion that Stone
I won the fight, Three out of four
'
Newark cHtks ive the bout to
: Stribling. The other critic in New
ark based his decision on what he
iinterpreted the action of the crowd,
e clalmed that spectators cheered
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for Stone and he believed that Stone
| earned {be popular verdict.
j Question . Settled.
I
“Stribling arrived home yesterday
morning and the question of who
won tbe Striblmg-Stone fight „
was
settled shortly after his arrival.
“ He admitted that Stone was all
that . , bls . ut , ation . called „ , for; , that ,
re P
he was about the toughest he had
ever met; that his blows had plenty
of steam and that he was a rin «
general, but “I whipped Stone. I
worked my left to his stomach and
, head , at . will T 1 dld j.. , best , to , , knock
‘ m y
him out and failed. In the twelfth
roU nd I slipped and fell to the can
vag n
U Stribling is an honest boy. Had
Stone whipped him, Stribling would
have readily told the truth.
Long Statement.
“And with all our dealings with
Stribling the above is the longest
statement we have ever been able to
pull out of him.
u The youth stated that he
was
feeling in first class shape and was
many miles from the stage of being
“burned out” as critics have pre
dicted.
*» . The trouble about it now is
that I haven’t enough to do j yy stat
ed the youngster, Strib came home
in advance of his mother and fath
er, who stopped off at Gainesville,
Ga., to see Herbert, who is now at
tending Riverside Academy. yy
Automatic Lighting
Small stations along the lines of big
western railroads, which do not have
.night agents, are lighted at the ap
proach of the train and the lights ex
tinguished at its departure by menus
of automatic switches placed at short
distances from the buildings.
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GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
TROUP COUNTY PLANS
AGRICULTURAL FAIR
LaGrange, Ga., Sept. 30.—Under
the direction of M. F. Gaddis, farm
demonstration agent, Troup county
farmers will hold a one day agri
cultural fair in LaGrange Saturday.
The fair is being sponsored by the
LaGrange Retail Merchants’ asso
c * a ^* on £ nd is 'for the purpose of
stimulating interest in Troup county
products. Rural schools will have
charge of the community exhibits,
while a large 8 " numbers of farmers
will have individual exhibits.
Dr. T. H. McHatton, horticultur
ist of the state college of agricul
ture, at Athens, will deliver an ad
dress.
Barnesville Game
Scheduled Here
Friday Cancelled
The football game scheduled here
Friday with the Godron Institute, of
Barnesville, has been cancelled, ac
cording to Coach Taliaferro, of, the
Griffin high school.
The game was made by a letter
received from Barnesville September
23, and after seeing advertisements
in Atlanta papers announcing a
game with Gordon and Boys high
school of Atlanta on October 3,
Coach Taliaferro telephoned Barnes
ville and was told that nobody there
knew anything about the game in
Griffin.
Efforts are being made to book
a game here Friday with some oth
er team.
Only One Mother
Most of all the other beautiful things
in life come by two and threes, by
dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses,
stars, sunsets, rainbows; brothers and
sisters, aunts and cousins, but only
one mother in all the wide world.—
Kate Douglas Wlttain. 4r
PLUMBING
To my old customers and
friends—
L I have opened up a
plumbing business in Grif
fin again and will be glad
to serve them and public
generally when in need of
plumbing.
T. E. WILLIAMS
Office 522 N. Eighth St.
Phone 465-J
sixth if necessary. If the series is
decided , ., , five the for
in games money
the third ticket will be refunded.
$19.80 per Throw,
Box _ seats are selling for $19.80
a set and grandstand seats $16.50;
bleachers $9.90. A limited number
of bleacher seats will be sold at
the park before game time for $1.10
each.
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$250,000 IS OFFERED
FOR CAPTURE OF FOES
London, Sept. 30.—Chang Tso Lin,
Manchurian war lord, has offered a
reward of $250,000 for the capture
of either President Tsao Kun, of the
Pekin government, or General Wu
Pei Fu, according te the Shanghai
correspondent of The Daily Mail.
He wants them alive. According
to the correspondent, the canny
Chang will pay only $75,000 apiece
for them dead.
HALF MILLION BALES
OF COTTON ON DOCKS
WAITING FOR SHIPS
Washington, Sept. 30.—Five hun
dred thousand bales of cotton are
on the wharves of South Atlantic
and Gulf ports for shipment to
South America, with no ships avail
able for transportation, Senator Dial,
democrat, of South Carolina, said to
day. He asserted he had brought
the case to the attention of the ship
ping board and that Chairman
O’Connor had promised to seek au
thorization from Present Coolidge
to have not less than 30 ships al
locate dto this service.
Fortunate Mortals
There are some people whose smile,
the sound of whose voice, whose very
presence, seems like a ray of sun
shine to turn everything they touch
Into gold.—Lord Avebury.
English is a compulsory study in
many Japanese schools.
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trying to lift you closer to contentment.
Each day, records of this progress flash in advertise
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No Short Cm to Sueeotm
There Is no easy road or short cut
to success. It means constant hard
work and saving, and many sacrifices.
However, the ultimate satisfaction of
having accomplished something or
having succeeded Is greater than all
the so-called pleasures Indulged In by
the lazy mau or th, spendthrift—
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon.