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■ 120 East Solomon Street • PHONE No. 210 Entered at postoffice in Griffin, Ga., as second class mail matter. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclus ively entitled to the use for re publication of the news dispatch es credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news re-publication published herein. of special All rights dispatches or herein also are reserved. OFFICIAL PAPER __ City of Griffin, Northern Spalding County, of U. S. Court, District Georgia. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS One Daily in advance by Ca.rier $5.00 Six year, ----- . 2.60 Three months, in advance .. . months, in advance . 1.26 One month, payable at end of month _______________ .50 One Daily in advance by Mail year, ... - $4.00 Six month, in advance . _ 2.00 Three months, in advance _ 1.00 One month, Semi-Weekly in advance_____ .40 Edition One year, in advance______$1.00 Six months, in advance, .25 If sent within 30-mile radius of Griffin. Beyond 30-mile zone, one three year, months, $1.50; six months, 75c; 40c. MODERN FARMING Fifty-eight Spalding county club boys planted an acre each in cotton. The 68 acres yielded 24,902 pounds of lint cotton, which brought $6,074.09 at public auc tion. The cost of production was $1,- 10T|?5, leaving a profit of $4, 966 . 84 , not including the seed, which is worth more than $600. This is an excellent showing for the club boys in this boll weevil time, and teaches a les son to older farmers that it will profit them to follow. It shows most convincingly that the day of intensive farming is here. Stumped, well broken lands, well fertilized and cultivated like a garden—that’s the program. m And the man with the culti vator, the machine that will fin ish the row at one trip, the har row and the sulky plow, will get twice the amount of work done for his money that the farmer will get in the old way—negro and and mule and scooter plow day after day wasting costly time while the crops over in another field are calling. One acre of land properly han dlled, will give four times the yield of the average acre as it is cared for in Georgia. That’s one of the greatest troubles with farming in this state—the negro and the mule and the old way. The boss gone fishing or frol icking and studying other people’s business and the whole place speaking in tragic language of nothing better than a negro boy’s ideals—that does not insure farming returns in this day. When men give their full time to it, they should have returns, and will have returns if they give intelligent work. That’s what the boys clubs are for—to learn the way of bringing in tha best returns from each acre. Each boy on each farm in the cotton belt with his acre in cotton —for the purpose of studying in tensive farming would revolution ize the income. We need more of this kind of farming and less of the old style. DANISH DISARMAMENT The Danish legislature has been asked to consider a bill pro viding for complete abolition of the army and navy of Denmark, and the substitution of a small force of land and sea police solely to maintain boundaries and pre serve international peace. In 1914, some Danish papers point out, the general staff ad mitted that the country’s fleet could not protpet Copenhagen from a hostile force and that the army was too feeble to repel any invasion. The situation has not been im proved since, and yet the nation is spending $6,500,000 a year to Maintain its inadequate defense forces. The minister of defense intro / '1 “ T] l {I T wit” i Q y”-.. ,3" M“; -~ ‘ nL'Wr, 4L", -~ '1 L .\‘.V 431' duced the bill, saying: "If by paying $6,600,000 a year to the League of Na tions we could keep Denmark from future wars, then we would gladly pay it. But this is not the case. Hence we are introducing this bill, since we look upon the present military arrangement as not only insufficient but positive ly dangerous. >> Compulsory military service and government enlistment bu reaus would be abolished by the bill. This is a startling suggestion, yet one that catches the imagi nation. Denmark, like most other na tions, want? peace. Obviously she has no thought of attaching or harming in any way the countries that are her neighbors. If any of them wished to hurt her, they could easily do so in her present condition of inade quate defense. But apparently she trusts them. And so, with this sane outlook upon the rest of the world, Den mark is willing to entertain the idea of dropping her military es tablishment entirely and putting those millions of dollars to more constructive uses. Denmark contemplates this as a simple matter of common sense. Will a time ever come when the whole world feels the same way and all countries are not only sure of their own honest at titude, but also trust their neigh bors ? PROSPEROUS 1925 IS PREDIC TION OF AYRES, FINAN CIAL EXPERT. “The stage is set cnce more for a period of sustained pros perity,” Col. Leonard P. Ayres, vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co., Cleveland, and recog nized as an authority on financial and economic conditions, said re cently. Higher Wages. For 1925 Col. Ayres forecast rising interest rates, rising bond and stock prices, increasing em ployment, higher wages, greater iron and steel production and an automobile output of 3,500,000 cars. He summarized his view of 1925 in this way: U Early in 1925 interest rates will be low with a rising ten dency. U Bond prices will rise, reach their peak and start to turn downward . “It will be a year of large vol ume of building construction, but not record breaking, not like 1923 or 1924. “Building costs will remain firm. “The volume of wages will im prove. “The cost of living will rise. “The volume of iron and steel production will be much greater than in 1924. “Tho aggregate output of truck and passenger automobiles will approximate 3,600,000. “Or enormous importance are the prospects for the automobile and farm equipment industries re sulting from the improvement in agricultural purchasing power. The farmer can now buy as much gasoline and tires with 15 bushels of wheat as he was able to get a year ago for 32 bushels. I One Condition. One condition, Col. Ayres warn ed his listeners, might spoil all “No, sah, ’ said the negro, “dat ar new doctor ain’t no use. t > “How is that, Sambo? asked the missionary. .. Well,, sah, replied Sambo, it am like dis. Dat doctor he tole me to eat chicken for my dinner, and be sure to go to bed at 10 o’clock. But, sah, if I go to bed at 10 o’clock, how am I gwine to git chicken for mah dinner?” The young man and the young woman were musing on the strangeness of life in general. “Photography is a strange pro fession,” said the young man, apropos of absolutely nothing at all. *. Because it develops nega tives?” inquired his companion with a knowing look. (( No, not exactly. The other day I had my photograph taken in my riding things—not on a horse, you know, just standing with my crop in my hand. Today the photographer sent me word the portraits were ready, and, do you know, he says that they are mounted. if Mother’*- face wore an-exasper ated look as she rapped her little son smartly on the knuckles. Johnny would persist in put ting the food into his mouth with his knife instead of his fork, and time and again mother had told him about it. • * Sonny,” she said angrily, “how many times have I told you that you must not eat with your knife. Use your fork. • • ,“Yes, but mamma, II objected the little boy, 4* I must use my knife ’cos my fork leaks.” Times-Enterprise. That surely ap plies here in Griffin. Magnus Johnson’s political career was short, but we hope sweet. We felt that when he was defeated in a milking contest all was lost.— Dalton Citizen. There'll be a lot of fruit cakes without the usual “seasoning I * as a result of the big seizure of “lum ber” in Atlanta.—Tifton Gazette. THE RED CROSS ASKS— At the cost of $1 a year any American becomes a partner in a vast benevolent enterprise like nothing else on earth in any re corded time; one that cuts straight across national boundaries and constantly reipinds us of the les son—how necessary now—that men are brothers; an enterprise that considers no race nor clime too remote when widespread suf fering from man’s folly or na ture's unkindness calls for aid. The Red Cross works near the line in war. It is on the spot where an earthquake or a great conflagra tion has left a job for it. It bears no flag except its own, but honors equally all flags. Its ambition is to serve as finely in peace as in war. It rivals in efficiency the finest type of profit seeking private en terprise. If all Americans old enough to know its work sought its member ship it would need no more funds to work with. Those who have not been for tunate in their own lives should not stop at the dollar. More will be needed and it will be well used. No resourcefulness is compara ble to that of a mother who raises eight children on day tapor wages. The most sublime of all courage is often manifested by those who merely sit tight. In hitching your wagon to a star be sure to provide plenty of rope. Beware of the man who asks for • • three minutes of your time. Being democratic is not being careless and disorderly. Twice-Told Tales Some of the boys are beginning to worry, over what “Ma” Fergu son shall be called after her in auguration as Governor of Texas. Some want to know whether she shall be called “governess,” “gov ernette”—or what. Well, they needn’t worry, but had as well make up their minds to call her .. Governor,” for she has announced that she intends to be just that.— Albany Herald. If you don’t believe Thomasville needs houses advertise that you are going to build a few and see how quick you can get a rent con tract on them all.—Thomasville GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS his forecasts and that would be a very cold winter and a cold summer next year. “Scientific long distance weather forecasting has been making some astonishingly accurate gen eralizations,’’ he said, and the weather prophets of whom he spoke are now looking for an other cold year.” JOHN BURKE. Three times governor of North Dakota. Treasurer of the United States. The honors, distinction and power that go with the offices named came to John Burke. Also came offers of financial opportunities from friends who knew that his prestige, experi ence in public affairs and wide ac quaintance list would help them. And then the crash! Now John Burke, “Honest John,” has come back. Favorite. Always a heavy favorite with citizens of North Dakota, who, although he is a member of the Democratic party while the state is overwhelmingly Republican, elected him three times as gover nor, “Honest John,” as his friends have dubbed him, made a sweep ing victory in the race for mem bership on the North Dakota su preme court bench. (4 Honest John’s »» experiences since the day he left North Da kota for Washington as treasury head, April 1, 1913, are colorful. After serving in the treasury he returned to North Dakota. Lucrative offers from New York financiers caused him finally to associate himself with Louis Kar dos, New York broker, organizing the brokerage firm of Kardos & Burke. The firm, caught in a swirl of brokerage failures, went to “the wall” on February 1, 1922. Lived Up to Name. It was here that “Honest John’s friends claim he lived up to his sobriquet. Every cent of his per sonal fortune was turned over by Burke to the firm’s creditors, even a paid up life insurance policy, and at the age of 63 he faced life admittedly penniless. Burke was born in Keokuk county, la., February 25, 1859. He attended the public schools there and later was graduated from the State University of Iowa with the degree of LL.B. For a while he practiced law in Des Moines and in 1888 moved to North Dakota. In 1889 he was elected to his first public office, that of county judge of Rolette county. Later he was sent to the house of repre sentatives and subsequent to that, to the senate. THE GRIFFIN EXCHANGITE <4 UNITY FOR SERVICE” We are indebted to Bill Beck and Til Wynne for a most enjoy able program last week when we had as our guests at luncheon the Griffin high school faculty. It was a pleasure to have these ladies and gentlemen. They are rendering a great service in training the coming generation to take their places In the world and the entire community should co operate one hundred per cent. What is Griffin’s present great est need? What is the most im portant thing that can be done right now to hasten our march to progress ? It would be well to plot our line of progress and note the “dips” for the line must be straightened to continue our ad vance, No one part can go for ward without the other, no chain is stronger than its weakest link. The answers to these two ques tions can best be given by solv ing this curve, our line of prog ress. It would show graphically where improvements are most needed and by concerted effort, = OUT DAMNED SPOT _ _ '"4 «y cf* 1 i << A •m ,Mjf’-V r/\ \ * Safr<* i % ‘rjw 5ft 5*’ ifl . - V ■ -& ■ mi v » Wfi yfSs i , ■; ■-< L u ,,r\- m * lift « » if:'- V- :*!. r 4 •s: **r p i, ‘I M wmmm) V' hHRSi S> ; SV ad the various functions of the com munity could be strengthened and prepared to perform its part in the onward march of the un broken line. Each one of us carries in his own mind an ideal of personal conduct, of mental honesty, of proper response to moral obliga tions. And yet all too frequent ly we do things we can neither approve or justify; we assume an attitude toward persons and conditions which is politic and self-serving rather than honest and sincere; aai we neglect, or definitely decline, to undertake the deeds of service which in our deepest consciousness we know we should endeavor to per form. The value of an ideal does not lie in its mere contemplation but in the faithful endeavor to at tain it. Can Anyone Figure The Value Of A Smile? It was only a sunny smile, And it cost little in the giving; But it scattered the night Like morning light, p And made the day worth living. Through life’s dull warp a woof » it wove In shining colors of hope and love; And the angels smiled as they watched above Yet little it cost in the giving. -1 The present dope is that the Rotaryanns are going to pull off an entertainment at an early date. Guess that’s one way to get 100 per cent attendance. The oftener you look back the faster you don’t go. The man who would be a lead er must never keep the proces sion waiting. Is your household peaceful and content or trying to work a cross word puzzle ? The following is addressed to those who- , well you know: * 4 Ef you don’t pay the fiddler you’ll have to depend on de wind ter whistle for you when you wants to dance.” Our program this week is go ing to be good; don’t miss it. Hotel Griffin, Thursday, 12:05. EFFICIENCY MINUS 44 What’s worrying you dear?” “I’ve just figured out a way of getting down to the office ten minutes earlier, but I won’t know what to do when I get there. Wednesday, November 19, 1924. father awl tk Stove , ~1>y O./gu/rence 'Jfawthovne — The other day my father wrote; ‘The time is drawing near When we must move the hard-coal stove; I wish that you were here! The message wakened memories Of days when, as a lad, I wa$ compelled to answer such A summons from my dad. t I well remember how we tugged Cm V.'.r.vv.Vi t Until the blamed thing stood Exactly on a certain spot y. As Mother said it should; ill w And then about the time I thought lm fz fj I might at last retire - I had to hold the bloomin’ pipe A While Father fixed the wire. ^ Now, To sterilize Father never his soul; said a word -dbj V m He didn’t think that “damn” “hell ’ or Would help him reach his goal; He grieved and suffered silently sg Unless And didn’t in confidence cuss at all— he told “f [ r His troubles to the wall. 1 1 5 ft The While That melancholy Father filled that battled atmosphere old front with room stove I == J 2 a And Was yet like tonight the fall I’d of like doom; to gQ -jgaa -©I,' In answer to his call— ' To see if Father still confides - His troubles to the wall! Thirty-five tons of paint and i 45,000 square yards of cloth are | COAL COAL COAL Why waste money buying the cheapest coal? We have best grade TENNESSEE JELLICO at a reasonable price. PEOPLES ICE COMPANY PHONE 287 AN EYE OPENER G. G. G. I For the Kidneys, Bladder, Diabetes, Cystitis and Dropsy. Relieves backache, headache, sleeplessness, scanty urine, too frequent passage urine, bed wetting, and in fact all disorders of the kidneys and bladder. Every Bottle Guaranteed to Give Results. Manufactured by Griffin Medicine Co., Griffin, Ga. For 8a*le by Druggists, $1.00 per 8-oz. bottle. MANUFACTURED BY GRIFFIN MEDICINE CO. GRIFFIN, GA. llllllllllllllllinnnilllllHtimi mm i miniiiifliiauiiiiniuniiitmiiia used every season by the Chicago Opera company for its scenery.