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“STRAINING AT GNATS »*
The' crime wave continues with
increasing fury, says the Atlanta
Constitution. It has reached the
menacing position of a cataclysm
—a veritable tornado of lawless
ness, running the gamut from
murder of unthinkable brutality
to highway outlawry, burglary,
theft, arson—everything in the
category of the underworld, the
Constitution adds.
The wave spreads like a great
holocaust—and organized outlaw
ry thrives as never before.
It is useless to speculate on
the causes. The duty of the hour
is to arrest the crime momentum.
Hfere is a brave man, defending
3 rty he was employed to
i at night, “ganged” by a
band of murderers, who were not
satisfied to kill from ambush, like
the cowards of the dark, but
punched his eyes out in their
merciless greed for gore.
Jealousy leads one man to shoot
another’s eyes oat—barbarity of
the dark ”
ages.
Killings on the road sides, in
the streets, in cafes—everywhere,
where the fires of malice and
vengeance and jealousy and even
personal affront, burn.
Where has the sacredness of
human life gone, in this whirlpool
of lawlessness? Where has jus-
1 tice, and law and authority gone?
And yet, with the fires of crime
sweeping Atlanta and other cities
and sections, the Constitution con
tinues; with organized bands of
highwaymen moving unmolested
on the streets of this city, intoxi
cated with their aparent security,
officials of Atlanta courts, who
might be better engaged in run
ning down the desperados who
are killing innocent victims, are
rounding up legitimate dealers on
the cotton exchange and institut
ing a crusade which can have no
other effect than to drive busi
ness away from the city.
The stock exchange, unless
there is proven “bucketing,” is
not only legitimate and legalized,
but it is an essential. Hedging
against contracts is a recognized
feature of trading, and is held to
regulate and to stabilize the
markets in the interest of fair
ness and justice to all.
And yet, while gangsters crowd
the thoroughfares of this city,
and the major crimes against life
and property rage with the force
of a typhoon, officers of the law,
swallowing camels and straining
at gnats, are busy with pink tea
affairs like the stock exchange
raid, concludes the Constitution.
INDIVIDUAL INDIFFERENCE
In Europe it is not uncommon
to find buildings several hundreds
of years old, that have never seen
a fire other than in a fireplace;
there are whole villages that have
not aeen a runaway fire in cen
turies. .
The more extensive use of brick
and stone, as compared with the
almost universal use of wood for
American homes, reduces the , fire
hazard somewhat.
But the great difference is in
the care taken to prevent fire.
America has ten times as much
fire loss as the most incendiary
part of Europe.
To eliminate that nine-to-one
differential in America, would not
invalidate the principle or change
the practice of fire insurance; it
would only make fire insurance
more universal, at far lower cost.
We now pay about $5 per cap
ita for fire loss.
Nobody wants unnecessary pun
itive or restrictive laws; but laws
more sharply defining personal
fire responsibility, and making the
earless fire builders civilly or
even criminally liable for fire
losses or death, might seem only
justice to the careful ones who
keep down the shameful record.
TEA
Drinking more tea?
If not, you’re behind the Ameri
can procession.
The British this year are selling
us 13? pounds of tea for every 82
pounds last year.
Such things do not happen by
chance.
In this case, the reason is adver
tising.
British interests, as you have
noticed, have been advertising
heavily, portraying tea tempting
ly, urging its use.
Advertising talks to tens of
thousands while the individual
salesman talks to one.
An American in London was
bragging about his automobile.
He ended his eulogy by declaring:
. . It runs so smoothly that you
can't feel it, so quietly you can’t
hear it, has such perfect ignition
you can’t smell it, and as for
speed—boy, you can’t see it.
But, my word, old dear,” inter
rupted the Briton, anxiously,
o how do you know the bally thing
is there?”
The man in the corner seat was
heard to groan so terribly that
he frightened the other passen
gers, and one hastily produced a
flask and told him to take a good
swig at it.
Which he did.
Do you feel better now?” ask
ed the giver.
it I do that, \id the man in
the corner,
“What wer you suffering
from ? ft
«< Suffering from? ft
Yes;- what made you groan
so?”
“Groan. Why, counfound you,
1 was singing. ft
As the model was leaving an
artist’s studio he called to’him:
<i Tomorrow I have to paint a
foot. For goodness sake don’t
forget 'to wash.
The model was already on the
street when a most important
doubt occurred to him. Hurriedly
he made his way back to the
studio.
.. Pardon me, he said to the
painter, "which foot is it that you
wish to paint?”
Twice-Told Tales ]
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The Washington farmer said to
have raised a lot of wheat from
seed that he got from some
Egyptian tomb, over three thou
sand years old, could have done
the same thing at much less trou
ble by using the seed that we
have on every hand.—Thomasville
Times.
There is happiness enough in
the world, but not enough people
adjusting themselves to it. You
have to work yourself into a
happy frame of mind before you
feel the tingling influence of true
happiness.—LaGrange Reporter.
The apples that we get from
California cost more than the
(Georgia kind, but they are not
worth the difference.—Thomasville
Times.
Weather conditions for picking
cotton have been so favorable that
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS'
VALUE PROVED,” SAYS
COOLIDGE IN ANNI
VERSARY LETTER.
The Federal Reserve System on
November 16 will celebrate its
tenth birthday.
In anticipation of this annivers
ary the “3-C Book,” a publication
of the Philadelphia Federal Re
serve Bank, has compiled a sym
posium of the opinions of admin,
istration officials, bankers and
business men as to the value of
the system.
The symposium is led by a
statement from President Cool
STANLEY BALDWIN
The man who overthrew the
Lloyd George government two
years ago, only to find himself
forced to step down in fayor of
A
the labor government, now as
sumes once more the reins of
power in Great Britain. He is
Stanley Baldwin.
A Diplomat.
Baldwin is known as a diplomat
but the diplomatic service is a
business with him. He handles
his duties as premier in the same
decisive style that he directs the
activities of the Baldwin Iron
works, enormous Welsh concern
of which he is the head.
His first position of importance
was the financial secretary to the
treasury, which office he held
from 1917 to 1921, It was in this
department that his financial
genius was first realized. He was
sent to the board of trade as
president with a seat in the cab
inet. .This position corresponds
to that of the American secretary
of commerce.
Hoover of England.
Baldwin was, in vi truth, the
Hoover of England, ajnd he quick
ly added to the reputation which
he had already eWned at the
treasury. The post-war trade of
England prospered as his own
business has prospered with a
Baldwin at the head.
He was one of the first cab
inet ministers to revolt from the
coalition. Therein lay his cour
age. Not many men of that time
had the temerity to try to break
down Lloyd George’s political des
potism.
But Baldwin, comparatively a
young politician, not only did so,
but had as much to do with the
success of the succeeding move
ment as anybody else. He was
one of the leading spirits in the
Carlton club meeting which
brought the break to a head. The
coalition was dead, after seven
years of stormy rule.
England’s revision to party gov
ernment brought the conserva
tive government to power for the
first time since 1906. Baldwin
was then in the office of the Bald
win iron works. * He had two
more years to go before he even
entered the house. ’
He was chancellor of the ex
chequer in the Tory # ministry that
succeeded the coalition govern
ment.
Handled Funding Debt.
One of the thorniest problems
he was called upon to tackle was
the funding of the American debt.
His predecessor, Sir Robert
Horne, had made arrangements
for the funding operation before
the coalition fell and Baldwin had
to take up the task. He came
over to America at the head of
a small mission of bankers and
aids and put through an arrange
ment that was subsequently ac
cepted by both the American and
the British governments. *
almost all of it is out of the 'fields,
permitting the farmers to plow
under the stalks and otherwise
destroy the few remaining boll
weevil nests before the first frost.
This winter may not be as severe
as last and a few weevils hiber
nating through a warm winter
could mean the loss of the cotton
crop in Floyd county next year.
Better play safe and get rid of
them this fall. —Rome Tribune.
idge, submitted as a letter to the
editor from the White House.
Unfair Criticism.
“The unfair criticism of the
system during the last few years,
the president declares, “causes me
to welcome the opportunity to say
a ice word the in appreciation of its Federal serv- j
to country. The
Reserve banks have operated dur
ing the first ten years of their
existence under abnormal condi
tions. They did not have an op
portunity to adjust themselves to
the normal economic life of the
country bfefore the severest tests
came.
Is Infant.
“The system is an infant, meas
ured in time, compared with the
long-established central banking
systems of the world. But it has
proved itself a bulwark of strength
in times of emergency. Its func
tion has been to bring the country
through this trying period without
financial collapse and with mini
mum of strain. This task it has
performed. Perhaps some deflation
was too abrupt. That error will
not be repeated.
“Our banking system emerged
from perhaps the greatest crisis
of modern times without impair
ment of its essential strength and
solidarity. Its service to business
and to the public in preventing a
financial collapse is inestimable.”
ABBEVILLE POSTMASTER
IS CHECKED UP SHORT
Macon, Nov. 13.—Following the
discovery of a shortage of $2,300
in the accounts of P. D. Wooten,
postmaster at Abbeville, postoffice
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Pearl Warren as postmaster at
that point, it became known here
last night.
Thursday, N<weml f3,
The bridge chapel at Rother
ham, England, almost 450 years
old, has been in turn an alms
house, a gaol and a cigar store.
Several impressive monuments
mark the spot in the Forest Con
piege, where the Armistice was
signed on Nov. 11, 1918.