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PI:- Tm: ■ i 12$ Eaat Solomon Street PHONE No. 210 at postoffice in Griffin, , aa secon d class mail matter. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Press 1s exclus ively entitled to the use for re publication Credited to of it the news not dispatches otherwise or credited in this paper and also the local rights news republication published herein. of special All or dispatches herein are also reserved. OFFICIAL PAPER City of Griffin.. Spalding County. U. S. Court, Northern District of Georgia. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS Daily by Carrier J* One year, in advance........ .00 Six months, i§ advance............ 2.60 Three months, in advance 1.26 One month, payable at end of month ...................................... .60 Daily by Mail One year, in advance...... ..$4.00 2.00 Six months, in advance .. Three months, in advance........ 1.00 One month, in advance.............40 Semi-Weekly Edition One year, in advance $1.00 Six months, in advance m Three months, in advance .25 If sent within 30-mile radius of Griffin. Beyond 80-mile zone, one ye&r, $1.50; six months, 76c; three months, 40c. “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 ] _ j 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 ‘l. Ta 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 1 \ i i \ ' f « » tfTT * : $pf M-ff ~4 f A £ \ \ v l N t ■A M \# I ' . \ 7s. r^-Qk • \ fjrli i) > v ,fy m/ ■i 4, & • it- a % X, si i .i^Jk j - , H / I j if . 3 ■ /i . 5-^j II u . I V/ 1 i m i if. ' ’ i !i I * f < I < r« I *1 I • i a *% 4 9 k 4 rt. X* '"'m - ^ rr> ' Ihn rJlPl m ^ Jr rfrW- m - % • ' m i t l ■ * r # i r 1 " i /*} 1 Paul Whiteman / and h is famous Concert Orchestra t Such popularity must be deserved T O convert critics into enthu- swift rise, look to the cigarette siasts,whether for a new school itself, its tobaccos, its blending— of music or for a cigarette, re- in short, its taste. This one thing quires something more than luck. alone — its decidedly better taste There’s sound reason for every — explains' why thousands of big swing in popular taste. smokers are changing from other So, to account for Chesterfield’s cigarettes to Chesterfield. Chesterfield - ft 5f CIGARETTES^ -millions! Copyright 1924, Lwonr & Mtim Toascco Co. l IM: s i A' A NEW VERSION 1 - ' ■ V W * % 5 N i !»• % f JL Si YOU ARE v aw \\^ u % / W WS, (fa \a ' / I 3 THE LABOR v 1 5. if GOVERNMENT ■ i. w f vm > } £ <3 inspectors have a installed Miss 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.