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HALLOWE’EN
All Saints Day or
is an ancient festival of th«
Christian church, introduced be
cause of the impossibility of keep
ing a separate day for every
Saint.
In the fourth century, following
the cessation of the persecution
of Christians, the first Sunday af
ter Easter was observed for com
Monwrarting the martyr’s general
ly, and in 610 A. D. the old heath
en pantheon in Rome was conse
crated to the martyrs.
The real festival of All Saints
was designated for November 1,
and made obligatory by Gregory
IV in A. D. 835, and is still recog
nized where the church calendar
» closely followed.
During several centuries Hal
loween, the night before Novem
ber 1, has been observed in all
Christian nations in various ways.
Just when or why witches, gob
lins, black «eats, etc., were intro
duced as part of the service is
shrouded in mystery, but it was a
custom of the ancient Druids.
Halloween—there’s something in
the name that suggests merriment
and mystery, a sort of spooky hi
larity that relates to w^ches,
jack-o-lanterns, goblins and
ghosts.
It is a time for revelry, and the
young folks usually make the
most of It with spook parties,
MAsquerade bails and mummers’
parades, '
The entertainment on this oc
casion usually includes fantastic
Costumes with decorations of
Mack cats, owls, bats, witches and
illuminated pumpkins.
Then there’s tubs of water with
apples to hob for; fortune boats
made of walnut shells with little
candles in them; if they sail to
the other side of the tub without
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upsetting your wish will come
true; luck fishing is catching fish
with numbers on them; biting at
swinging apples; throwing the
peelings over your head to form
the letters of your sweetheart’s
name; making the charm cake and
sleeping on a piece of it; a gypsy
tent where an old witch tells for
tunes, and sweet cider, doughnuts
and cookies for refreshments.
Every boy and girl in the land
anticipates the occasion wth elab
orate preparations for a good
time, and in this they are aided
and abetted by the older people
who never forget their own child
hood joys.
EVER MOUNTING TAXES
Ten billion dollars was the cost
of conducting the federal, state
and municipal government of the
United States last year, according
to figures collected by the Nation
is al Industrial Conference Board.
In the face of such a sum the
people, who must supply all this
money, may well ask when a limit
will be reached, for the cost of
government is in an ascending
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scale each*year.
The $10,000,000,000 was divided
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The » • •.;-i of the figures
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is to be found in the two latter
expenditures.
In 1915 the forty-eight states
spent on their government $379,
000,000. A jump to $1,460,000,
000 in 1923 is no unimportant ad
dition to the cost of living to the
taxpayers throughout the country.
But municipal spending is what
is making the shoe pinch people.
For instance, in 1915, the ex
penses of 146 of the leading cities
were $996,061,502, as against $1,
984,322,234 in 1922.
These figures are supplied by
the United States department of
commerce.
Just how many cities are in
cluded is not indicated in the re
port of the National Industrial
Conference Board, to bring the
total costs of local government up
to $5,136,000,000 in 1023, but is
is obvious that municipal expendi
tures are rising rapidly.
A growing city will have grow
ing expenses ; that is to be expect
ed ,but if the cost of municipal
government is to be doubled every
ten years, the people of the cities
of the United States may well de
spair, or speak in such a voice
that , their public servants will un
derstand not only that spending
must be kept to the lowest possi
ble point commensurate with good
service, but that for every dollar
put-out there must be had a dol
lar’s worth of work.
EXERCISING THE MIND
O. K. is stamped on the cross
word puzzle by the psyschological
department of the University of
Pennsylvania, a current fad or
craze for once, at least, meeting
professional approval.
It in'the belief of the psychol
ogists that hunting for the words
to fill the spaces in the puzzle not
only enlarges the vocabulary but
stimulates the mind. •
To which a cheerful “righto n
may be subscribed.
The benefits of theS <jea f bathing
were picturesquely extolled. But
there was nothing doing. As a
last effort, the b. m. o. offered to
deliver a couple of pails of the
briny deep at the billets of the
two recruits on the understanding
that they were to give it a trial,
per the sponge route, and if found
refreshing, they were to pay six
pence per pail for it. The offer
was accepted.
The next morning the recruits,
duly refreshed, went down to the
water front to pay their sixpences.
They arrived at a time when the
tide was at its lowest ebb and
were met by a broad expanse of
sand where water had beeh the
day before.
ti Good Lord,” said one Of them,
(< that fellow sure does do a big
business. »» *Bv
In moving and settling down the
Jones family had subsisted on
short rations, and one mprning
Mrs. Jones found herself facing
an unknown deficit.
Mary,” she said to the maid of
all work, “what is there in the
storeroom ?”
“Every blessed thing is given
out but the tea^ an’ coffee,” Mary
informed her, “an* sure they will
if they last long enough.
of way whether or not it belongs
to him may be destined to meet
one like himself sooner or later,
and that would be for the public,
in effect, to get two birds with
one stone.—Dawson News.
Well, one thing, if Uncle Saip
can’t find gas enough to run his
new airship he can cut it in two
lengthwise and have a couple of
pretty good sized canoes anyway.
—Macon Telegraph.
Since New Yorkers “will drink
anything that is set before them”
they would probably regard the
kick of Georgia “white mule” as
a special dispensation.—Atlanta
Constitution.
They say the farmer’s dollar
has gone up to 83c. Wonder why
t is that it won’t buy but 67c
forth of stuff—Moultrie Observer.
Anything Which makes
think, really think, ■ is valuable,
even if the subject is of no great
importance in itself.
The mind is exactly like the
muscles of the body.
If it is not given exercise it
grows flabby and weakens.
Presently, from lack of use it
will not respond when called upon
for effort, and hard thinking be
comes as impossible as hard play
ing to a man who has been in the
habit of taking his exercise from
a stand seat or an arm chair.
Notwithstanding the fact that
the ax has been used since the
dawn of civilization, more persons
get hurt using it tharf with any
other common implement. The ax
is safe enough in itself but noth
ing is safe in the hands of
thoughtless people,
The village loafer moves that
the word “child” be stricken from
“child labor amendment" and the
measure added to the law.
Mr. Dawe’s speeches are begin
ning to sound as if it is about
time to have the brakes tested.
Uncivilized peoples are the ones
who don’t buy their beads in jew
elry stores.
Twice-Told Tales )
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State officials entrusted with
the task of preparing the official
ballot for the general election ap
pear to have at last arranged a
satisfactory ticket and copies of
these were mailed out this week
to the ordinaries. It is too late
now to make any more changes,
so right or wrong, these will have
to go.—Tifton Gazette.
We are for John W. Davis and
the democratic ticket through to
he end. We are not fixing your
»allot. Do that yourself—-but go
nd vote.—Cordele Dispatch.
The reckless motorist who is al
ways determined to take the right
‘W
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itsiness Woman, Not House !
wife, Shirks Duty at Polls," '
Says Leader.
Who is the woman who is most m
apathetic about casting her vote
The professional or business wo
man.
Who is the woman who is most
interested in politics? The wo
man in the home. #
Mrs.-Edward- S. Van Zile, who
is a member .of the republican
campaign committee in New York,
is busy with these questions. and
from her experience supplies the
answers.
Mrs. Van Zile has had many op
portunities before this to compare
these two types of women. She
carried the campaign for suffrage
to the lower east side of New
York, where she has also conduct
ed classes in civics, chiefly for
women of foreign birth.
At the time of the Harding
campaign she was a captain in
the tenth assembly district, where
the majority of the women are
wage earners.
Part of Daily Life.
“The woman in the home be
conies interested in politics
through the simple civics, which
are a part of her daily life,” Mrs.
Van Zile began. “She is inter
ested in the affairs of her neigh
borhood. She is interested in the
schools, through her children who
bring home much information and
Millionaire.
The other day Sir Thomas Lip
ton, many times a millionaire, the
world’s greatest tea merchant,
knighted by king and crowned
prince of sportsmen by the sport
ing world, stepped from luxurious
quarters in an ocean liner
to the dock in New York and was
received as befits a popular hero.
Sir Thomas—the stowaway cf
1869—had come to challenge
America for the fifth time in an
effort to lift the yachting cup,
the most prized trophy in the
yachting game for some 20 years.
Sixtieth Trip.
His recent trip to New York
was his sixtieth across the Atlan
tic to these shores. He is now
74. His smile is just as young,
however, as it was 25 years ago.
Sir Thomas avers that, should
he fail in his efforts to capture
the cup on his fifth attempt the
quest for it will be carried on un
der provisions in his will, which
commissions the Royal Ulster
Yacht club of Belfast,® Ireland, to
continue the challenge until the
cup is lifted. Which shows that
four futile races for the cup have
not dulled his determination.
Baron in 189. ==•
Sir Thomas was born in Glas
gow, of Irish' parents, on May 10,
1850. He was made a baron in
1892, and six years later was
knighted by the British king.
In addition to his tea interests
he has vast rubber holdings. He
is one of the world’s most famous
bachelors.
COMMUNITY MEETINGS
ARE SUCCESSFUL IN
MT. ZION DISTRICT
Sp interesting and successful
was the recent community gather
ing in Mt. Zion district that it has
been decided to continue holding
these meetings on occasions when
the people can conveniently come
together.
.Everybody is urged to meet at
the Mt. Zion church next Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock. The Rev.
John F. Yarbrough will speak.
DEFECTIVE MEMORY
A well known bishop, famous
for absent mindedness, met an old
friend in the street and stopped
to talk with him. When about to
separate, the bishop’s face sudden
ly a'ssumed a puzzled expression.
“Tom,” he said, “when we met,
was I going up or down the
stree ?”
14 Down,” replied Tom.
It’s all right, then, I had been
jjome to lunch.”
WIFE’S WAY.
Wife: D’ye know, you’re grow
ing quite handsome John?
Husband: Yes, Mary, it’s a way
I have when it gets anywhere
near your birthday.
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At one lime A. Hamilton Gibbs,
the author, was statiqped at a
training camp situated near the
sea shore. Some of the recruits
who hailed from the hinterland
had never seen the sea before.
Strolling along the water front
one morning, a couple of rookies
were importuned by a bathing ma
chine operator to « * ave a dip, M
recounts
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many new ideas to her. From
what she learns from her children
she has added reason to keep her
home clean and to make it as
attractive as possible.
She Is Different.
“If you ask a professional or
business woman why she does not
vote her answer is invariably, T
haven’t got time—and I don’t see,
anyway, how politics concerns me.’
I heard this excuse a few days
ago from a woman who is intel
ligent enough to conduct a most
successful business, which brings
her thousands of dollars every
year, but who cannot see how the
government of the country can
affect her prosperity.
H : AY» NEWS
SIR THOMAS LIPTON.
Fifty-five years ago Thomas
Johnstone Lipton staggered ashore
in New York harbor black with
coal dust and gasping for breath
from the furnace room of a Char
leston steamer.
He had secreted himself on
board in the English harbor as a
stowaway as he had not enpugh to
pay his passage. Discovered by
the ship’s crew he was forced to
work his passage.
! LEAGUE QF NATIONS
« AVERTS WAR BETWEEN
ENGLAND AND TURKEY
Brussels, Oct. 30.—Anglo-Turk
jsh war in the Near East has been
averted by the decision of the two
countries to accept a temporary
League of Nations adjustment of
the difficulties over the boundary
between Irak and Turkey. V
Representatives of Turkey and
England Wednesday pledged be
fore a special session of the league
council here to respect a tempor
ary boundary until representatives
pf the council can visit the area
and trace a permanent frontier.
The settlement marks a new
triumph for the league.
Both England and Turkey were
talking war and orders for a Brit
ish advance actually had been is
sued when the council attacked
the problem.
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who Is in command of the Chinese
army Shanghai. attempting to gain control of
A machine which produces mo
tions similar to those of ar. earth
quake has been invented in Ja
pan to test different types of con
struction.
FRANCES H. BURNETT,
FAMOUS AUTHOR, DIES
AT LONG ISLAND HOME
New York, Oct. 30.—Frances
Hodgson Burnett, author arid play
wright, known particularly for her
novel and play, “Little Lord Faun
tleroy,” died last night at her
home, Plandome Park, at Plan
dome, Long Island. She was 75
years old. She had been in poor
health for several months.
* She was born in Manchester,
England, November 24, 1849, as
Frances Eliza Hodgson. Her fam
ily moved to Knoxville, Tenn., in
1865. Two years later she began
contributing to magazines. She
was married to Dr. Swan M. Bur
nett in 1873.
Many unusual photographs have
been obtained by a motion picture
machine capable of taking 2,050
pictures a second.