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m street 210 itered at fat Griffin, second class mail matter. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS be Associated Press is exclus y entitled to the use fer re on of the news dispatches to it or not otherwise in this paper and also the •Al al news republication published heretn. All :bts or of special .patches herein are also reserved. OFFICIAL PAPER City of Griffin... Spalding County, U. S. Court, Northern Di strict of Georgia. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS Dally by Carrier One year, in advance.............. $r,.oo Six months, in advance 2.50 * three months, in advance...... 1.25 One month, payable at end of MOBth ................................. .60 ip (Me Daily in by Mail year, advance............. $4.00 Six months, in advance........ 2.00 Three months, in advance 1.00 One month, in advance........ .40 One Semi-Weekly in Edition year, advance............. $1.00 Six months, in advance......... .50 Three months, in advance........ u. a If sent within 30-mile radius of Griffin. Beyond 30-mile zone, one BtoShs 1 * iX month8 ’ 75c; tbre€ 40c 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 4 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 i scale each*year. The $10,000,000,000 was divided * -s The » • •.;-i of the figures * 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 ) >■■■■■ ■> 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 / 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. -ft 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 . 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. 4 c *4pointer on tobacco: t u f Of course its what's inside that counts m a but notice also the wrapper heavy sensible foil, snug, J makes real saving possible a hence the price,IOC Grange? RoughCut made and cut exclusively for pipes * Liggett A Myers Tobacco Co. Thursday, October 30 * ' ' ** “* & W * j % gcSf OUCH! n ',; < >■ ■ ; / [a / > mi / OUR SB to "DO&S n 1 f-U \ / // „ WAR •V to N S‘,.> /■ i, i • * I m N W/ a \ \ ! / ' & , l Xi '• l ‘S/x mm // m L IV III yrr>.\ A I We? ■'mill it >■ 1 ! ili ., ' ysa. ? szae -it / y ■ y- * r-r' ■ ■- -V /S4- GEN. CHI HSIEH-YUAN : - V ,,1 ■tv.; * ix& I v' V M wBam to !&:> I ‘■■'■to .. ' t Gen. Chi Htieh-Yuan of Kiangsu, 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.