Newspaper Page Text
120 East Solomon Street
1111 PHONE No. 210
■
TCnfjircwl at A postoffice in Griffin,
as ond class mail matter.
MEMBER OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRE8S
The Associated Press is exclus
' sly entitled to the use for re
blication of the news dispatches
■rifted to it or not otherwise
in this paper and also the
al news published herein. All
dispatches hta or republication herein also of reserved. special
are
OFFICIAL PAPER
City of Griffin.. Spalding County.
U. S. Court, Georgia. Northern District of
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS
Daily by Carrier
One months, year, in in advance......... advance....... 95.00
Six 2.60
Three month, months, payable in advance...... 1.25
One at end of
...... .50
One Daily in by Mail
Six months, year, in advance.............. advance.......... 94.00
.. 2.00
Three months, in advance...... 1.00
One month, in advance.......... .40
One Semi-Weekly in advance..?........... Edition
Six months, year, in advance.......... li.oo
.50
Three months, in advance...... .25
If sent within 30-mile radius of
Griffin. Beyond 30-mile zone, one
months, year, |1.60; six months, 75c; three
40c.
THE ARMISTICE AND PEACE
No subsequent celebration of
Armistice day has equalled in
enthusiasm that first spontaneous
outburst in 1918 when the actual
fighting in the World War came
to an end.
Yet the day seems to be grow
ing in importance.
In the first place it is observ
ed, something like Memorial day
w^hin our own country, as a day
for paying tribute and respect to
the men and women who lost their
lives in the World War, and par
ticularly to the unknown soldiers
burled in the different allied coun
tries.
. = Its significance is enhanced by
the fget that so many different
countries observe it.
Wherever the day is taken note
,
of at all, two minutes of silence
are held at eleven o’clock in the
morning.
One thing ought to be empha
sized about Armistice day.
The original day marked not
ao much joyous outbursts because
of a victory won, as joyous out
bursts because a terrible war was
ended.
The chief purpose of its con
tinued observance then might well
be to promote in every possible
way such acts and thoughts as
will work ultimately, if slowly, to
the achievement of lasting peace.
GETTING SOFT.
Dr, Jane Walker, distinguished
woman specialist of London,' per
forms a service for male Ameri
cans by- enabling us to see our
selves as others see us.
Her published interview is a
bawl-out for our unfortunate
British cousins, with a back-hand
ed slap at us.
She says Englishmen are “get
ting too soft,” and will soon be
as as bad as Americans. yy
Now with tragic particulars:
.V The Englishman’s tub, once
historic and universal, is rapdly
going out of fashion.
“The cigarette habit is grow
ing faster and faster.
M No one can condemn chain
smoking—one after another—too
much.
“If a man is going to smoke,
let him smoke a pipe.
“Another Bign of growing soft
ness is the use of spats, No
doubt they keep the ankles warm.
“But what about women. They
, wear the thinnest of silk stock
: ings and suffer no harm.
“It is well enough for the man
of 60 to wear spats, but not for
one younger.
“Wooly waistcoats (does the
^lady mean sweaters?) are an
other modern way of getting soft.
“And as for fur-lined overcoats,
whenever I see a man wearing
one of them I know I am dealing
with a decadent.
People nowadays stay in bed
too long.
“You ought to get up as soon
as you wake.
“Beds, too, are too soft
“No words fit young men who
go and have their hands mani
Kfl 1 “Central heating instead of in
mm
dividual fire* is a sign of soft
h too. I admit it is very nice,
but it is enervating.
“And look how cushions have
spread. 1 never use one. Their
prevalence is simply disgusting.
i If people were more Spartan,
they would be far more moral
and less inclined to fall into tem
tation.”
Attagirl. This feminine T. R.
certainly knows how to jot those
effeminate English chaps—eh,
what ? i
Let ''em go in a bit for the
Spartan stuff, and they’ll jolly
well benefit by it.
As for us over here—well, to
tell the truth, her recommenda
tions wouldn’t do any harm to a
lot of cake-eaters, bun-dusters
and fag-burners.
The Rooseveltian lady ought to
come over on a lecture tour.
We would like to know, though,
if the dear doctor ever sat on a
soft pine seat during an extra-in
ning baseball game or at a cir
cus?
GERMANS DREAM GOLD
The 5,000 villagers of Neiden
burg, in East Prussia, are said
to have gone mad with the vision
of a king sitting on a golden
throne, upon a hilltop overlook
ing the village.
First one old peasant saw the
vision.
He reported that the king had
spoken to him and told him there
was gold enough in the hill to
pay the great German reparation
bill.
He told the neighbors, and they
all poured out of their homes and
gasfed at the hill untli many of
them, too, saw the vision.
Their imagination added rooms
full of gold and silver, caskets of
jewels' and all sorts of treasure.
They have been praying to the
dream king to open his hill and
pour out the gold among them.
It is a pitiful thing to contem
plate.
The poor people of Neidenburg
must have suffered much, to be
in a state of mind enabling them
to see such visions and dream
such dreams. 4
The gold they seek is “fooi’s
gold," and their time and pray
ers are wasted.
It will be harder still, after
that, to face the stern reality.
There is, indeed, 'gold in the
hills and valleys of Germany to
pay reparations.
But it must be sought and
gathered in the sweat of their
faces, according to the natural
law of economic production and
the moral law or reparation.
Twice-Told Tales
From reports in the state press,
there seems to have been held in
Georgia this yeer an unusual num
ber of county fairs. When ti
county has energy and ambition
enough to put on a real good fair,
that county is not dead by a
jugfull. — Washington News-Re
porter.
It has been a glorius fall up
here in the heart of Georgia. The
season has been used to harvest
crops and to plant a large acreage
in grain and winter cover and
grazing crops.-—Jackson Progress*
Argus.
If we could put all the law
breakers in stripes and to work
building roads, this country would
wag along all right, no matter
who was elected president.—Com
merce News.
The grasshopper invasion of
Mexico confirms us in *our sus*
picion that the grasshopper ain’t
right bright.—Macon Telegraph.
Ifs getting time for the warn
ing word: “The early Christmas
shoppers gets the best of the bar
gain.”—Atlanta Constitution.
Take your home paper, pay
your preacher and boost.—Walton
Tribune.
WANTING AND GETTING
Clerk *4 Well, Johnny, what do
you want—chocolate ?
Johnny—“Yes; but I have to
get soap. yf
Y NEWS
,v :
“COMMON SENSE OF BRITISH
VOTERS DEFEATED LABOR
PARTY,’’ SAYS EDITOR
“The danger which confronts
America is the danger which con
fronted Great Britain,” said Cecil
Roberts, editor of the Nottingham
(England) Journal, and famous
poet, author, lecturer, humorist
and war correspondent, in a re
cent address.
The British journalist was eluc
idating the overwhelming defeat
of the Labor party in England
and its bearing upon politics the
world over.
The meat of his analysis was
that the Labor party overthrow
demonstrates that politics and
economics are indissoluble and
that idealism must travel side by
side with materialism for “the
basis of humanity is an industrial
basis.’’
Thinking our idealism was
essential to the spirit of the age, yy
he said, “we in England forgot
that our materialism must be
brought up to the same level that
we wished to proclaim for human
ity. yy
Politicians Same Everywhere
“An analysis of human nature, »»
he continued, “whether it be in
Timbuetoo, Chicago^ London, Pa
ris or Rome, will produce exactly
the same types in whatever phas
es of life you investigate. We
shall discover that politicians the
world over appeal to the same in
terests, employ the same methods,
suffer the same defeats, and claim
that they have the same monop
oly of virtue.
“You are going to have in
America,” continued Mr, Roberts,
PAYS NCW3
THOMAS W. MILLER
The election of Thomas W.
Miller as president of the Feder
ation of Inter-Allied war vet
erans, was proposed by French
members of the federation.
His nomination was seconded
by Italian veterans.
Which truly makes his election
an international affair.
Heads 10,000.000 Veterans.
As president of the organiza
tion Miller becomes head of ap
proximately 10,000,000 war vet
erans.
Miller is now alien property !
custodian, directing the handling
of seized property in all parts of
the United States and territories.
He has held the posh since 1921,
having been appointed by the late
President Harding.
Ex-Congresman
He is an ex-congressman, hav
ing served from Delaware, his
home state, from 1915 to 1917.
When the war came Miller enlist
ed in the infantry as a private,
served eleven months, won sever
al citations for gallantry in ac
tion and emerged a lieutenant
colonel.
He was one of the incorpora
tors of the American Legion.
The flivver, containing the
guide driver and a tourist, was
bumping over, a steep pass in the
Rockies when a knocking sound
became manifest. The chauf
feur made an inspection.
“Are you insured?’’ he asked
the nervous traveler. '
“Y-y-yes,” stammered the oth
er, glancing fearfully at the
precipice.
44 Weil, that’s all right then, yy
so is the car,” was the reply.
Two men, evidently business
partners, took their places in the
line that was wending its way
toward the ticket window for the
evening performance. Suddenly
one of the men seemed to remem
ber something. He dapped one
hand to his forhead. gasped and
in consternation said to his part
ner:
it Abe, I forgot to lock the
safe."
u Huh, yy said the other. n Why
worry about the safe ain’t lock
ed? We’re both here ain’t we?”
“I venture to prophesy this—you
have not got it now but it is com
ing—a new phase to your public
existence, a phase in which the
mental and the intellectual is go
ing to battle with the purely
physical and the purely industrial.
That is the conflict. God help that
nation that has to face it. But if
it can resolve itself into harmony
whereby industrial efficiency is
coupled with a spiritual outlook,
there is no end to the geograph
ical, the political and physical su
premacy of the United States. yy
MIA POLICE
CAPTURE 24,000
Atlanta, Nov. 10.—Plans for a
huge shipment of expensive li
quors from south Atlantic coast
to northern points were thwart
ed SunSay night wheri Police
Captain Grover C. Fain, acting on
information obtained from per
sons living near the tracks, dis
covered 24,000 quarts of liquors—
Scotch, rye, champagne and vari
ous varieties of wines—hidden in
a false shipment of lumber in an
Atlantic Coast Line freight car
just as the car was ready to be
pulled out over the L. & N. rail
road for its northern destination.
The big consignment, reckoned
at “bootleg” prices, is estimated
by officers to be worth in the
neighborhood of $225,000.
Gets Car Uncoupled.
Upon his discovery, Captain
Fain, who was powerless to con
fiscate the liquor consignment, as
it came under the head of inter
state commerce, immediately got
in communication with the chief
clerk of the Georgia railroad, and
had the whiskey car uncoupled
from the northbound train.
Christmas Liquor Shipment.
Prohibition officials are of the
opinion that the big cargo was
sent from some large liquor syn
dicate on the south Atlantic coast
to be distributed at northern
points as “Christmas liquor. yy
The car, which arrived in At
lanta Sunday morning over the
A. B. & A. railroad from Bruns
wick, bore as the name of its
consignee “Johnson,” Chicago, and
as its consignors, Jakysin and
Johnson, Brunswick.
1
TOOTH IS COSTIV;
Jl,000 ft MUTE
Washington, Nov. 10. — More
than $1,000 worth every minute
was the rate at which confection
ery and ice cream were manufac
tured in 1923, census bureau sta
tistics issued yesterday disclose.
’ Confectionery valued at more
than $1,000,000 a day and ice
cream at moae than. $700,000 daily
were reported by manufacturers.
Total value of confectionery, in
cluding corn balls, salted nuts,
etc., was $365,265,659 and ice
cream and ices were valued at
$258,666,575.
Those values were computed on
manufacturers’ prices; the retail
value was not stated.
Value of confectionery showed a
16.3 per cent gain over 1921 and
ice cream 21.3 per cent.
GEORGIA NEGRO SAYS
FATHER RAISED 75
CHILDREN; 4 WIVES
Tifton, Nov. 10.—Jim Clark,
Worth county negro, says that his
father, who died a few years ago
at the age of 120 years, was the
father of 75 children. When the
old man died the youngest child
was 7 years of age. He says that
46 of his brothers and sisters
were born in the same cabin. He
says his father was married four
times.
■ —.....
— ■—N
NOW PLAYING AT THE OLD STAND
\
~ v
* '4t
mi
■n
CC1I ©N
/ FEET I
r #>■
/ Q '0 02- 3
/■»> ft Q sV
o
bus 2 (/& % <0
V'l, i I V i ^2) 'S
w J>
V\ r V llllllilib.
/) 7 %
• •
9 \\\! if nr
mz&mm i
I /.
w % 1111k ‘So
SSS2 tm W,* i.
DIES SUNDAY
Scotland Neck, N. C., Nov. 10.
W. W. Kitchin, former governor
North Carolina, and brothfer
the late Claude Kitchen, dem
house leader, died here
after a long illness.
William Walton ’Kitchin was a
of a family long promi
in North Carolina politics
it has furnished, at various
three members of congress.
His father, Capt. William H.
represented the second
district in the forty
congress and later his broth
Claude Kitchin, represented
same district,
o In Congress 12 Years.
Former Governor Kitchin repre
sented the fifth district for 12
years prior to being elected gov
ernor.
He continued in congress until
1908, when he was nominated for
governor, In 1912 he was defeat
ed for the democratic nomination
for United States senator by Sen
ator M. F. Simmons.
He then retired from politics
and was a member of the law
firm of Manning and Kitchin un
til 1918 when he retired because
of ill health.
ATLANTA WATCHMAN
BEATEN TO DEATH
BY FOUR THUGS
Atlanta. Nov. 10.—J. L. Aren
dale, 60, night watchman for a
local lumber company, was at
tacked Saturday night by four
unidentified white men and beaten
into unconsciousness with 15
pound window weights.
He died a few minutes after
being discovered and taken to a
hospital, but not before he had
made a statement in which he
told how one of the men pierced
him through one eye with a paper
file while another hammered out
his other eye with a pair of brass
knucks.
I offered resistance to the
end,” were the aged watchman’s
last words.
FOURTH MEMBER OF
FAMILY TO DROWN
Duluth, Minn., Nov. 10.—
Charles Grove, who committed
suicide in Lake Superior, was the
member of his family to
by drowning.
.A..
- -
Monday, November 10 , 1924 .
Stanley Loses
To Republican
In Kentucky
'M
;X X .'
■ . :
-4,
• ..A.
Senator A. O. Stanley, of Hen
derson, Ky., former governor of
Kentucky, ex -congressman and
senator for many years, was de
feated in the election las Tues
day by Fred Sackett, republican,
by a decisive majority.
GOVERNOR PRAISES
RED CROSS; URGES
AID IN ROLL CALL
Atlanta, Nov. 10.—Gov. Cliff
ford Walker Saturday issued a
proclamation formally designating
the period from Armistice day to
Thanksgiving day as the time of
the American Red Cross roll call
or membership campaigns in
Georgia.
From southern headquarters of
I
the Red Cross here came the an-,
nouncement that 102 Georgia com
munities would conduct member
ship campaigns during the period
named and that 600 cities of the
south also will participate in the
roll call.
The proclamation of Governor
Walker said, in part:
“In rehabilitating 5,200 disaster
victims in the south this year,
caring for the sick and diseases
in 130,000 homes and in many oth
er ways giving assistance to those
in need, the Red Cross has per
formed a service that elicits our
praise and merits our support.
Every citizen of Georgia is urged
to answer this call to service.”
DAI) WHO SPANKED
9-MONTH-OLD BABY
GIVEN SIXTY DAYS
Cleveland, O., Nov. 10.—Spank*
ing a nine-months’-old baby ii
nothing less than assault and bat*
tery, a police judge ruled in sen
tencing John O’Boyle, 22, to thi
workhouse for sixty days.
TIFTON YOUTH
Rockville, Md., Nov. 10.—Thom
as A. Sims, 52, wealthy contract
or, was stabbed to death short
ly before 6 o’clock Sunday night
at his home, Kensington, near
here, by Fred A. McClellan, of
Tifton, Ga., 22 years old, a board
er and former business associate.
The youth made no attempt to
escape, walking to a nearby store
and summoning Magistrate Rob
ert E. Lee and telling him of the
stabbing.
Later he made a signed confes
sion claiming self-defense, and
gave it to State’s Attorney John
A. Garrett.
Jealousy over Sim’s wife, Mrs.
Ida Sims, 48 , is believed by the
police to have precipitated the
quarrel which led to the killing.
Prominent Family.
Tifton, Ga., Nov. 10.—Fred Mc
Clellan, who, it is reported, stab
bed to death an aged Maryland
contractor, is the son of Mitch
McClellan, prominent farmer and
lumberman of Tift county.
Only meager details of the af
fair have reached this city, al
though relatives of the boy are
expected to go immediately to
Maryland to lend aid to the youth
and ascertain details of the stab
bing.
The McClellan youth was born
and reared in Tift county and left
here several months ago.
He is well known and promi
nently connected and bore a
splendid reputation here.
G. S. W. C. PRESENTED
WITH RADIO BY
CLASS OF 1924
Valdosta, Nov. 10.—The Geor
gia State Woman’s College at
Valdosta has been presented with
a radio system of the most mod
ern type by the graduates with
the class of 1924. It was installed
just in time for the students to
receive the returns of the recent
election. It will be used in the
future to present the students
with concerts, returns of the vari
ous interesting games and news
of state-wide importance.
INQUISITION
Mistress (engaging new maid)
—“And above all, I expect you to
be discreet.”
Maid—“Yes, ma’am; and what
is there to be discreet about? tf