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"a?” A, kw” ~ ,4“ East Solomon Street No. 210 Entered at postoffice In Griffin, Ga., as second class mail matter. 4- MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Pres* ts exclus S entitled to the use for re cation of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the ' local news published herein. All rights or republication of reserved. special dispatches herein are also OFFICIAL PAPER City of Griffin... Spalding County. U. S. Court, Northern District of Georgia. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS t Daily by Carrier One year, in advance |5.00 Six months, in advance ... 2.50 Three months, in advance .... 1.25 One month, payable at end of month...................................... .50 “s Daily by Mail One year, in advance............ $4.00 Six months, in advance........ 2.00 Three months, in advance.. 1.00 One mouth, in advance...... .40 m. Semi-Weekly Edition One year, in advance............. 11.00 Six months, in advance.......... .50 Three months, in advance.........25 If sent within 30-mile radius of Griffin. Beyond 30-mile zone, one year, |1.60; six months, 75c; three months, 40c. f; ELECTION EXPENSES A bill is being prepared for in troduction in congress to make the government pay the expenses of presidential and congressional campaigns. The idea is not so much to save the candidates money as to pre vent their spending too much money. The sum suggested to cover the whole national campaign of a presidential year for both par ties is $1,000,000. Most people will smile at that, Iff despite its moral purpose. Many millions have been spent Z in recent national campaigns. 4 In some cases, unquestionably, the expenditure was larger than ■ gg the occasion warranted, and was pot all devoted to legitimate pur poses. Yet, the public remains rather ' apathetic to charges of lavish po litical expenditure, evidently con sidering that it is a rich, popu lous country and it takes a lot of money to bring an issue be fore the electorate. | ? The government presumably could finance campaigns more Cheaply than party committees can. In particular, it could get the essential publicity matter before the voters with less expense than private distributors, through the postoffice and other routes. But there is a public feeling that though .office holding is pub lic business, running for office is private business, and should be paid for privately. The average voter and taxpayer :>■ may say that it is too easy to run for office as matters stand. "AMERICAN MILITARISM” A Bolshevist is, generally speaking, chiefly remarkable in knowing so many things that are not so. Here is our gentle friend, Trotsky, running tdue to form iikw nightmarish vision of Amer ican militarism. “The United States,” he says, “is assuming a place in the arena of militarism beyond the dreams oS Calkanized Europe. _ "American industrial and gold power is being transformed into the steam of American militarism. “American capitalism has reached the limit of Us power in home markets and is compelled to seek expansion abroad. This be ing impossible by economic means the United States will be compell ed to overthrow European coun tries by military power. n "American militarism is rais ing its head high above the whole world as an advancing, destruc tive force.” We fought in the World War, declares Trotzky, to gain suprem acy over England, which country in turn fought for supremacy over France. Now we are going to beat up the world in general to make it buy goods from us. He sees Bolshevism as “the only real ob stacle in our path. ft All of this, surely, is news to Americans, to be taken for what it is worth. V Of more importance, perhaps, than the statements quoted above, is the fact that Trotaky made them to the Red army created by him as the good right arm of the Soviet government. > The rest of the world is prob ably more interested in Herr Trotsky’s brand of militarism than oars. BUILDING WITH ADVERTISING Some of the greatest industries of America have been developed through advertising. Some oi the large personal for tunes are the result of judicious advertising. Many household articles owe their popularity to advertising. The bureau of advertising of the American Newspaper Publish ers Association has made up an interesting list of the big ad vertisers of America. Ten of them spend a million dollars or more annually. ScoreB of them spend more than one hundred thousand dollars a year. It makes an interesting study to glance over the list of those spending one hundred thousand dollars or more and see how prominently these big advertis ers are associated in the indus try of the country. Here are their newspaper out lays for 1923: American Tobacco Co., $1,700,000 Lever Brother# Co____ 1,500,000 Standard Oil Company of Indiana ....... 1,500,000 Victor Talking Machine Co. 1 , 2000,000 Calumet Baking Powder Co. 1 , 200,000 Dodge Brothers _ 1 , 200,000 U. S. Rubber Co. 1 , 100,000 Literary Digest ...... 1,080,000 Liggett A Myers To bacco Co. _________ 1,000,000 Wm. J, Wrigley, Jr., & Co. 1 , 000,000 Pepsodent Company___ 800,000 Buick Motor Co. _____ 600,000 B. F. Goodrich Co.___ 600,000 H. J. Heinz Co., _____ 600,000 Clicquot Club Co. ...... 500.000 Hupp Motor Car Cor,._ 530.000 Goodyear Tire & Rub ber Co., Inc. _______ 425,000 Firestone Tire & Rubber * Co, 500.000 IS it, eral Schaffner Cigar Company & Marx 500.000 500.000 Sun-Maid Raisin Grow ers Association _____ 485.000 Kellogg Company _____ 450.000 Armstrong Cork Co.___ 430,000 Proctor & Gamble Co. 400,000 Packard Motor Car Co. 400,000 Colgate A Company ... 430,000 Quaker Oats Company 400,000 Chevrolet Motor Car Co. 325,000 Atchison Topeka & San ta Fe_______________ 300.000 Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. 300.000 Portland Cement Asso. 300.000 Union Pacific R. R.._. 300.000 Franklin Automobile Co. 285.000 Borden Sales Co., Inc. 265.000 Autostrop Safety Razor Company ___________ 250,000 International Magazine Co., ________________ 250.000 Pompeian Laboratories. 250.000 Southern Cotton Oil Trading Co. ....... 250,000 N. Y. Central Lines____ 240,000 California Fruit Growers Exchange __________ 240,000 Coca-Cola Company ... 225,000 Eastman Kodak Co. j 225 ‘ 0Q0 Anheauser-Bush, „ Inc... 220,000 Simmons Company . 20.1,000 Johns-Mansville Co..... 200,000 Andrew . Pergens _ Co... 200,000 Hurley Machine Co_____• 200,000 , Alfred H. Smith (Djer Kias) _____..I_______ 200,000 A Stean & Company.. _ 200,000 Pond’s Extract Co______ 200,000 Vick Chemical Company 200,000 American Radiator Co. 200,000 Famous Players-Laskey Corporation 165,000 B. Kuppenheimer & Co. 150,000 Northern Pacific R. R. Company ___________ 150,000 Metropolitan. Life Ins. Company ........ 125,000 Edison Electric Appli ance Company______ 115.000 Vacuum Oil Co._______ 105.000 McCall’s Magazine___ i 100,000 Washbum-Crosby Co. -- 100,000 If you make so much noise knocking the other fellow you GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS can’t hear when opportunity knocks at your own door. The man who thinks the way to emphasize a point is to raise his voice in speaking about it has the wrong idea of emphasis. All gall is ..divided into three parts; that of politicians, that of labor unions and that of the boot leggers. The people who live on Easy street these days have to keep on tearing it up to put in improve ments. Philanthropy, is the art of tak ing money from one class of the public to give it to another. C * ^ A joker once went into a book shop and told the clerk he wanted some lamb, about two pounds. “But this is a book shop,” said the clerk. “It must be fresh,” continued the joker, pretending to be deaf. “But, sir, this is a book shop, not a meat shop. ft Attracted by the hubub, the proprietor came up and brushed aside the clerk. “Now, sir, bawled the pro prietor M we sell books and noth ing but books, What is it you want?" “Lamb,” stated the joker quiet ly. “If you sell books you must have the Essays of Charles Lamb.” Little Grace went into the coun try for an outing this summer. She and her little brother had been out of sight of their nurse for 10 or 15 minutes, when Grace came running to her. Nurse, ft she asked, eagerly, “blackberries don’t have legs do they? ft “Of course not, dear.” Grace replied, after a pause, Then’* Oswald's eaten a cater pillar. An American woman went to Scotland to visit some When she returned one of her friends accompanied her. As they neared New York the American woman said: “In a little while we shall see Sandy Hook.” Oh,' said her Scottish friend, Do not tell me when, because i am sure I would know a Scotsman anywhere. 1 I i Twice-Told _ ~ -- Tales ....... . The girl that killed the deer with the arrow didn’t use the kind that Dan Cupid is credited with possessing whenever he has his picture taken—Thomasville Times, - Let’s talk about something else. Why worry because neither Davis nor Bryan carried his homo state? This thing is over. We have big fighting for the future. Let’s equip for the task and be at it.—Cordele Dispatch. A Cleveland police court judge has held that spanking a nine months old baby is assault and battery. He sent the spanker, the baby’s father, to the workhouse for 60 days. We are not sure ! the sentence was not deserved, Be we are quite certain it would necessary to enlarge the work houses |f ^ c]evdand jdea of j US q tice became normal. We have met . . months .. old ... babies that— nine well, .. they . needed , . something.— iU . Albany Herald. Something else this country needs is a disarmament move ment aimed at the one hand driv er who shares the front seat with a cutie.—Detroit News. There is significance in the story that Joseph had a coat of many colors. He became, later, the greatest politician in Egypt.— I Columbia Record. Considering the fact that one is born every minute, Luther Burbank seems to be wasting his time producing prunes.—Philadel phia North American. Work was recently resumed in a British gold mine after a lapse of 1,700 years. IS SLAIN BY HIS Atlanta, Nov. 17.—John Quinn, youthful vegetable broker of At lanta, is dead and Turner Gibbey, his brother-in-law, is being trail ed by blood » hounds as the result of a f am jj y row late Sunday which culmihated in the shooting to death of Quinn by Gibbey, ac cording to witnesses. „ t i The men were not only broth ers-in-law, but were cousins. Cousin. I Quinn married the 17 year old sister of Gibbey recently and the j disagreement said between the men i was to have begun over the expressed determination of Quinn , to submit to a blood transfusion in an effort to save the life of an aunt who is critically ill. Wife Objected. The young wife objected to her husband’s taking what she con sidered such a risk and her fam ily is said to have sustained her. Quinn today informed them that his mind was made up and he would undergo the. operation. After Quinn had informed his wife of the decision, Gibbey be gan remonstrating with him and the discussion and argument be came heated, ending in the fatal i shooting. A young child was a witness and states Gibbey fired the shot which killed Quinn. ! ! jt I JOHN J BERNET. . It is ge neral ly believed that John J. Bernet, president of the present Nickel Plate lines since i 1916, will become head of the new great Nickel Plate system, now in the building under the masterful I guidance of the Van . Sweringen brothers, of Cleveland, Ohio. Bernet was summoned from the vic «-P resi dency of the New York Central lines eight years ago to head the Nickel Plate lines and he is given full credit for the de velopment of that road generally and the speeding up of its service, freight and passenger. ' Bernet through the came up j New York organization in what j has been called “the A. H. Smith [ school of railway executives—ad mittedly the best in the world.” Telegrapher. [ His October, tryout as telegrapher came in 1889, and in 1895 he became dispatcher at Buffalo, in 1901 trainmaster of the eastern division. After that promotion was rapid. By 1903 he was assistant super int endent of the eastern division, 1905 division superintendent, then to Cleveland the same year as assistant general superintendent of the western lines, 1905 general superintendent, finally to Chicago as assistant vice president, and in 1914 vice president. In a curious way his career par allels that of the new president of the Central, P. E. Crowley. Both “pounded the key,” then both were superintendents—Crowley of the east, Bernet of the west. They ^ cach 6ther w611 - ^th came of the Irish stock that furnish SO many men to run the “heavies”— the railways, mines, steel mills and building construction. Now it appears Mr. Bernet is to operate a system ranking next to that of Crowley’s—they are rivals now. ’ At home in Cleveland Mr. Ber net is a family man. He married young and has three sons and two daughters. INJURED MESSENGER BOY LEFT HOSPITAL SATURDAY Frank White, Western Union messenger boy, who was injured in an automobile accident late Friday night when a bicycle on which he was riding was struck by an automobile driven by Clar ence Barron, left the hospital Saturday afternoon and will be ready to report for duty today or tomorrow. MORE “POWDER” TO HIM A: A: - A w . p/ I / t n A 4 L WfJRST t ■ Mm Mff .. I election s.1 xrruRNs H ( t I 7/ Wfi >/> j I 4 j I/, I / A* A I i\ vvAi 3 l m i E*> Si i 1 1 A JR Ik i v. o 1 ilA- « \'v ISiiUia.v vuahuluMj u LONG RANGE FLYING WILL PLAY PART IN THE NEXT WAR,” SAYS GENERAL “Discussing the next war is, of course, talking about something that everyone hopes will never happen. But the millenium has not come yet, and the last war, terrible as it was, does not seem to have converted the world’s gov ernments to the arts of peace, ex clusively. As witness of which is the preparation everywhere of armaments that will make the equipment of armies during the World War seem feeble by com parison.” So declared Major General Chas. G. Summerall, in a recent inter view. General Summerall com manded the famous First Division in France. He is now commander of the Eighth Corps Area at Santa Barbara, Calif. “Terrible indeed will be the methods of destruction in the next war, if it comes,” he went on. It was in the development of mobility and the science of mov ing and supplying troops that the H. M. TURNER GETS “KINDER” MAD, BUT SOON CALMS DOWN H. M. Turner, of Concord, was a mad man Saturday. He stormed into the News office, planked down $1 for ttpre e months’ subscription to the Daily News and exclaimed: “Where is the man who stopped my paper? I’ve been taking it for more than forty years and don’t want to miss a single issue! I” Nobody would admit being re sponsible for stopping the paper, so Mr. Turner’s wrath subsided and he admitted maybe he was to blame. “The next time you notify me my time has expired, I’m going to renew before you stop it. But I’m mad because I missed it, anyway.” TRIPLETS BORN HERE SATURDAY NIGHT '*4? • Triplets were born to Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Tanksley Saturday night, three boys. The mother and children are doing well. Mr. Tanksley resides at 207 West Cherry ’street and is an operative at the Georgia mills. There were already five mem bers in the household. The Red Cross, on learning of the birth of the triplets, sent many needed articles. Monday, November 17, 1924 5 : jAi'j ■ general seemed to be interested -in if the war comes. “Long Range Flying.” But as professional soldier he is interested from a scientific stand point in contemplating what a commanding general can do with his troops.' And he believes that the airplane will be a big trans portation factor. “Long range flying,’ he said, “has been so perfected and the size and lifting power of airplanes has been increased to such a de gree that we wonder if a force of men could not be transported in quick time to a given spot, a thing which was virtually impossible during the late conflict. “In the matter of ammunition supply for large bodies of men also the airplane will be a much more important factor than for merly. “I think it is possible also,” said the general, “that the greatest in dividual development in any one factor of warfare will be in the tanks. The possibilities of these machines were scarcely scratched in the World War.” Here’s Some More The following have entered their names on the mailing list of The News in the past two days: Mrs. Goodrich Manley, Griffin, Route A. Robert Miller, Edwardsville, Ala. A. L. Beckham, Milner. L. B. Nelson, Ensley, Ala. P. F. Mann, Milner, Route 2. D. A. English, Milner, R oute 2. G. E. Bell, Jackson, Route. W. E. Bethune, Griffin, Route 6. W. O. Coggins,, Williamson. H. M. Turner, Concord, Route 1. J. F. Peugh, Williamson, Route 1. ' F. H. Woods, Brooks. , T. M. Whatley, Griffin, Route B. J. E. Latson, Jackson, Roqte 6. THREE NEGROES LODGED IN JAIL HERE SUNDAY Amos Jackson, charged with carrying a concealed pistol, and Alf Martin and Roger Gamble, charged with being drunk on the highway, were jailed Sunday by Officers Brown and McGhee. They are negroes. CHARLES G. DAWES UNDERGOES OPERATION Chicago, Nov. 17.—Charles G. Dawes, vice president-elect, under went a successful minor operation 7 IS CLEARED DP Moultrie, Nov. 17.—Having been acquitted by a jury in Cook supe rior court of the charge -of big amy, Rev. R. B. Chitty, Colquitt county preacher, whose strange marital mix-up caused him to be arrested twice, is now a free man. One of the first things he ex pects to do is to bring suit for divorce against his second wife, with whom he lived less than a month after he married her in July, 1918. Own Statement. At his trial Chitty relied on his own statement and the argument of his attorney to save him. The jury sitting in the case and of which some of the best known men in Cook county were mem bers, returned a verdict exonerat ing the minister after brief de-* liberation, despite the fact that the state showed that Chitty’s second, wife was still living and had not been divorced. After reviewing his marital ex periences in detail, the Rev. Mr. Chitty declared that three years before he contracted marriage with Mrs. Sarah J. Roberts, the daughter of T. J. Meadows, a Tift county farmer, he was told by relatives of his second wife that she was dead—a victim of influ enza. No Reason To Doubt. “I had no reason to doubt the truthfulness of the information, t* the preacher said, “so I then dropped my plans for a divorce from my second wife, who was Mrs. Fannie J. Strickland. I left her less than a month after our marriage when I learned that she had been guilty of misconduct. » Chitty steadfastly refused to believe that his second wife was still living until the trial last week when the state, by sworn testimony, showed that she was. While in jail here the minister declared that “If it is shown that my second wife is still alive, when I get out of jail, I am going to bring suit for divorce against her on statutory grounds and after i get my divorce I am going to try to win back my third wife, my real wife, whose relatives are seeking to - poison her mind against me.” 3* at the Evanston hospital id Evanston yesterday afternoon and' last night was reported resting 1 comfortably.