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THE MISLEADING STRAW
The outcome of the election
showed clearly the defects of the
straw vote method of forecasting,
along with its merits.
.The biggest and most elaborate
effort of the kind ever made, that
of the Literary Digest, proved to
be just about half right.
It forecast the election of Pres
ident Coolidge by a landslide, sure
enough; but it was as far wrong
about the. other two candidates
as it was right about Coolidge.
Its final verdict with all the
straw returns in; indicated that
la Follette would run ahead of
Davis.
Instead, as everyone knows, La
Follette was swamped by Davis
about as effectively as Davis was
swamped by Coolidge. I
The editor-in-chief of the Di
gest explains: “There obviously
m was a big swing in all parts of
the country from La Follette to
Davis in the closing days of the
campaign.
Quite so.
And that is a possibility which
makes untrustworthy any straw
vote not taken within one day of
election—an impractical condition.
* The straw vote does indeed
■
show which way the political wind
blows.
But it is the wind of the mo
BE ment, which is often merely a
cross current, not a steady breeze.
BLIND BUYING.
The average housewife is given
to shopping around to find a good
quality of goods at a reasonable
price.
But, according to the depart
ment of agriculture, she is
strangely careless about the re
lation of quantity to price.
A buyer who may count his or
her change carefully, frequently
fails to look at the scales as the
retailer weighs the articles
bought.
Few persons know the difference
between the legal quart for liquid
measure and that for dry meas
ure.
The external appearance of a
carton, can or bottle frequently
ia no true indication of the
amount it contains.
The law now requires that the
quantities in food packages must
be stated plainly on the label, but
very few persons note those la
bels or compare one package with
another. f
It is said that a popular break
fast food was originally put on
the market in a Urge carton.
When the manufacturing company
found it necessary to raise the
price of this product it did So by
.. slightly decreasing the size of the
' package. No one saw the dif
ference. A similar decrease in
size occurred again, the contents
. of the package being correspond
ingly diminished. Empty cartons
kept over a period of years could
be fitted into one another like a
nest of boxes. But since the ap
pearance of the packages was al
ways exactly the same, the de
crease was never observed.
Uncle Sam is doing ail he can
to protect the public against false
v‘.
weights and measures, but it is
a difficult job when the average
buyer is so unobservant on his
own behalf and fails to take ad
vantage of the labels required by
law.
PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER
Americans felt a thrill of patri
otic satisfaction the other day in
reading this brief cable from Te
heran:
*1 In compliance with the de
mands of the governmc.it of
the United States, two of the
murderers of Major Imbrie,
wht -a execution had been de
layed, we-e put to death this
morning."
That mule three Persians in
all, executed for the brutal kill
ing of the American consul in
the Persian capita] a few weeks
ago.
All had born condemned to
death, and c::c hud been shot by
a firing s^uad.
The remaining two, however,
had their sentences commuted to
life imprisonment.
Thereupon the American gov
ernment protested, declaring that
from past experience it knew
that fffe sentences are not effec
tive in Persia,” and expressing
the fear that “unless those found
guilty and sentenced to death by
the court are executed, they will
ultimately escape.
This action, as seen, was effec
tive.
But doesn’t the whole business
seem like mockery, in view of
what goes on in our country right
along?
The hand of American juslite,
which can reach half way round
the world to punish foreign slay
ers of an American citizen, is
usually powerless to inflict ef
fective punishment at home, when
the killers are Americans.
There may politics in honesty
but not always honesty in poli
tics.
Political prophets are about as
accurate as the other kind.
We do not care for knickers in
girls nor knockers in men.
A man who gets boiling mad
also knows how to roast.
Self made men have lots of
power but very little gas.
An ounce bf “I did it” is worth
a ton of “I told you so. ♦>
The political prophets are the
strongest optimists.
There are no state rights in the
state of matrimony.
A man is a true American if
he agrees with you.
The underdog gets sympathy
but nothing else.
Money doesn’t talk in its sleep;
it dreams.
Twice-Told Tales
After a careful reading of
Judge Soper’s decision in the Hill
cider case we have about conclud
ed that he left the Volstead act
about where it was. At all
events he has made no material
change in it.—“Home Brew” in
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
A large number of people in
this country, especially living in
the larger cities, live largely on
“hot dogs.” Which causes the
Sylvester Local to surmise: "May
be that is the reason we hear so
much growling.”—Tifton Gazette.
If it is, as reported, the final
snicker that counts, the Literary
Digest’s straw vote department
probably is trussed up with a
stitch in its side along about now.
—Macon Telegraph.
<« The jay birds are busy lay
ing up a supply of food for the
winter. Are you as smart, as a
jay bird?—DeKalb New Era.
This is fathers and sons week.
Santa Claus Week usually lasts
something over a month.—Spen
cer in Maqon Telegraph.
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DAILY NEWS
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FEDERAL CRIME BUREAU IS
‘ URGED BY ENRIGHT, NEW
YORK POLICE COMMIS
SIONER.
Establishment and maintenance
of a national police bureau will be
provided for in a bill to be in
troduced when congress convenes
in December, according to Rich
ard E. Enright, police commis
sioner of New York.
The measure will follow the
lines laid down at the Interna
tional Police Conference in New
York in 1922 and 1923, Enright
said recently in discussing the
proposed measure.
“Experts on police methods and
crime investigators generally de
clare the establishment of such a
clearing house of information re
Raiding criminals is a matter of
prime necessity,” Enright said.
Organizations Back Measure.
The idea has attracted the at
tention of police officials and of
law enforcement officials all over
the United States, and I am in
clined to believe it has the sup
FRED M. SACKETT.
The new senator Kentucky
sends to Washington to succeed
A. O. Stanley, veteran democratic
politician, had never held any
political office until the recent
election gave him a senate seat.
He is Fred M. Sackett, of
Louisville. He is republican, a
leading business man of his home
city and an uncompromising
“dry. ft
Sackett was born December 17,
1868, at Providence, R. I., and
went to Louisville 25 years ago to
practice law, having been grad
uated in law at Brown and Har
vard.
Coal Business.
However, he became engaged in
the coal and cement business af
fairs and amassed a comfortable
fortune.
His wife was Miss Dorothy
Speed, society girl of Louisville.
Sackett was indorsed by the
State Women’s Christian Temper
ance Union and was backed by
the dry forces. He long ago de
S'
dared himself an uncompromis
ing dry.
He served as federal food ad
ministrator for Kentucky during
the world war.
«r
Blinks was a supreme optimist;
nothing ever worried him. One
day during a flood, he was seen
by a neighbor lucky enough to
possess a boat, sitting peacefully
on the roof of his house as the
water rose.
“Hullo, Blinks, flf cried the
neighbor.
a Hullo, Sam,” responded Blinks
cheerfully.
“All your poultry washed away,
I suppose?” inquired the sympa
thizer.
“Yes,” said Blinks, “but the
ducks can swim.”
Apple trees gone too, eh?”
Yes, but the crop would have
failed anyway.”
*t So will you, M retorted
other, if you sit there much
longer. Why, the water’s covered
your ground floor windows al
ready.”
I know,” assented Blinks, “and
a good thing it is, too. Them
windows did need washing. "
The head of a large
house noticed that one of his
clerks had been looking off
for some months, and one
ing, when he was looking
paler than usual, he tackled
on the subject.
*4 You look tired this
Jones, M he said kindly. *.
you sleep well? tf
“No, sir,” was the reply. it
fellow I share a room with
I suffer from alternate insomnia.
“Alternate insomnia? What
that? f*
“Whichever gets to sleep
keeps the other awake all
port of every great civic organi
zation that understands the value
of such a service to the country
at large —and, in fact, to the
whole world.
*< The possibilities seem almost
unlimited. Not only could there
be a general reference to this
central storehouse of crime rec
,
ords, finger prints, photographs,
etc., but there has recently been
opened a wonderful vista, to the
detective eye, of the thorough
ness with which the country may
be bound together through the
newly acquired facilities for send
ing pictures by wire. Then too,
we have the new Hakon-Jorgen
sen system whereby a fingerprint
can be described in a telegram so
accurately that identification is
certain.
Crime Reduction Predicted.
“A clearing house of the char
acter indicated would result with
in five years in a tremendous de
crease in crime in this country. It
would give us a firmer grip, a
continuous grip, upon the crimi
nal element, and it is resonable
to expect that through it there
would be within a few years
a decrease in crime approximat
ing 50 per cent.”
GRIFFINITES PRAISED
FOR SHOWING HERE ON
<< FORGET-ME-NOT” DAY
Dr. L. M. Gable is in receipt of
a letter from Dr. Louis Proster
man, of Atlanta, general state
chairman of the “Forget-Me-Not
Day” drive, congratulating him on
the showing made in Griffin last
Saturday when $45 was raised.
Dr. Prosterman alse expressed
appreciation to Mrs. Sam Mc
Cracken and her co-workers who
conducted the drive here.
ALABAMA TO USE
TEAR GAS TO STOP
CONVICT MUTINIES
Montgomery, Nov. 14. — Tear
gas will be used in the future
to quell convict mutinies which
may develop in Alabama, it was
announced by the state convict
department. Following a demon
stration of the practical effect of
tear gas held at Maxwell Field
by the Alabama national guard,
Roy L. Nolen, associate member
of the convict hoard, announced
that a supply of the chemical
will be secured for future emer
gencies.
INTERESTED
They had been driving ail day
and were in a hurry to get on.
Nevertheless the tourist slowed
down suddenly, stopped his car,
and proceeded to gaze long at the
shop of the village blacksmith.
“What impresses you about this
shack?" demanded his wife impa
tiently. Q
“The fact that it doesn’t ad
vertise a chicken dinner. tr
Money back without question
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car for shopping, calling or
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Driving the car themselves,
have the same privacy and
ure that they would have with
privately owned car.
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Fayette, Ala., Nov. 14.—In a
dispute over a road survey Har
vey Mitchell, farmer, was shot and
killed near here today. Sherrill
Killingaworth was placed in jail
here in connection with the shoot
ing.
HANDICAPPED.
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girlie. Why can’t you get an en
gagement in vaudeville?”
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the in tights.”
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Taxes and Telephone Service
$ HE cost of all forms of The increase in taxes has
government has grown been a continuing process, the
greater during the past taxes last year having been at
few years and necessarily Ihe rate of $5.15 for each tele
these costs are reflected in the phone in service and an in
increased taxes every one crease of 168 per cent over the
pays. tax bill of $525,334 in 1917. %
The cost of rendering tele- In Georgia alone last year’s
phone service has also in
creased, but the rates charged tax bill was $485,345, an in
for telephone service have not crease of more than 191 per
increased in anything like the cent since 1916.
same proportion as taxes, Although form
wages and other expenses. taxes such a
The Southern Bell Com- large part of telephone operat
pany’s tax bill for the year ing expenses, the Telephone
1923 in the five states of Ala- Company has no objection to
bama, Florida, Georgia and paying its just share of taxes, . ft
the Carolinas amounted to and pays cheerfully.
$1,410,267, or an increase of These facts published
than 235 per cent over are
more that telephone users may
the tax bill of $419,997 paid so
in the same States during know the details of some of
1916. During the same pe- the major expenses which are
riod the investment in prop- reflected in the cost of their
erty increased 82 per cent. service.
Jf- jr 1 - C. G. BECK, Georgia Manager
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November 14, 1924.
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