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• ¥■ 120 East Solomon Street PHONE No. 210 Entered at poatoffice 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 otherwise dispatch es credited to it or not and also credited in this paper the local news re-publication published herein. of All special rights dispatches or herein also are reserved. OFFICIAL PAPER City U, S. of Court, Griffin, Northern Spalding District County. of Georgia. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS 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 Daily by Mail One month, year, in advance______ . $4.00 Six in advance____ 2.00 Three months, in advance _ 1.00 Ope month, in advance____ .40 Semi-Weekly 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 year, three $1.50; six months, 75c; months, 40c. THANKSGIVING FOOTBALL. Thanksgiving football games recently received a gentle rap from the Missouri College Union, an organization comprising the 14 major educational institutions of that state. Although the union is primari ly concerned with such matters as the essentials of a college educa tion and the requirements for a bachelor of arts degree, it must pay attention to anything that looms as large in college life as does football. The adverse criticism of the Thanksgiving games which are now played in so many different states and communities is based on the belief that they prevent realisation of the spirit of the day. Thanksgiving should be a day of piety and worship, they say. Football is making it a day of money-making and big crowds. This seems an unnecessary dig at football. Thanksgiving day lost its strict observance before football became so generally popular. Theaters, concerts and dances, not to mention huge and expen sive dinners, have long been ac cepted methods of celebrating Thanksgiving. -In the midst of such a variety of entertainments the football game rpally has a few things in ita favor. It takes thousands of people outdoors during Thanksgiving day afternoon wno otherwise would simply sit around at home waiting for the over-size dinner to be served. These thousands at least get some exercise and a good deal of fresh air, as well as a better ap petite for their dinner. OUR FRIENDS AND OUR FAULTS. There are two ways In which we learn our faults—from our friends, who tell us in kindness, to help us, and from our enemies, who fling them at us vindictive ly to hurt ns. ______It. ia what might he considered the unimportant little things which make or mar our lives. We know people who have not much gray matter but who are moderately successful from being merely agreable and courteous and devoid of obnoxious faults. Others, with twice their ability, amb^on and industry, fall short of their goal, or make the gain ing of it doubly hard for no other reason than that they are personally disagreeable. There is a man who is a gen ius in his line; he has much power and wealth. Every door upon which he has knocked, save one, has ultimately opened to him, and the one which remains cloked in his face leads into society. He stays outside, not because he is a self-made man, as he believes, or because he is “in trade,” but because he £s personally objectionable. He has never had, nor ever will have a friend courageous enough to lay his finger upon his fault and say, “Overcome it.” There is a woman dependent upon her own efforts who is ca pable and well trained in a cer tain kind pf office work, yet she moves from one place to another with a rapidity that is bewilder ing. She has not the faintest idea why it is that she has little more than arrived before her em ployer begins to talk of “reducing the force,” curtailing expenses, »» etc., and he always begins with her. It is because she has no breed ing and her real ability does not offset her bad manners. She ealls her associates by their last names and rests her self tilted on the hind legs of her chair with her heels hooked in the rung. She has never been anything but unfortunate and can not be anything else unless there is someone who cares enough to tell her and convince her that these things, which she undoubt edly considers trifles, are respon sible for her failures. We have eyes like hawks for the shortcomings of others, but we are astonishingly blind to ward our own, and if there is someone sufficiently interested in us to point out the flaws in the right spirit we should know him for our friend. TESTS FOR MOTOR DRIVING Not everybody is p'nyarcaily or mentally qualified to drive a motor car. That ought to be self-evident. A blind man is unfit for the job; and So is one without the use of his hands. A person subject to epileptic fits or other sudden and violent seizures is certainly better off away from the steering wheel. The question of deafness is just now being much agitated, and there are strong protests against refusing drivers’ licenses on the ground of that infirmity. Of course the sense of sight is by far more important than hear ing, and when the latter failij the former usually becomes nfore keen and vigilant. Yet there are many cases in which it is desirable if not ab solutely necessary to hear as well as to see signals, as when ap proaching sharp curves in the road. It would Seem to be a hardship to debar otherwise perfectly com petent drivers, solely because of deafness; yet there is no doubt that a deaf driver would often subject himself and others to peril which would not be incur red if he could hear. In New York state it is now being ruled that ability to read read English must be required for the granting of licenses, the reason that a driver should be able to read not only “Stop” and “Go" signals on fic posts at street but also the numerous signs warning or instruction which posted along highways. For requirement there also seems be strong reason. Such tests and rules will less seem a grievance to individuals. % But that is not to the point. - The question is whether are needed to insure the of the public on the roads city streets. If they are needed, the individuals must not stand in way of the welfare of the majority. One of the unsolved or radio is that, when a set howls, whistles or squeaks fades out, it is always else’s set mussing up the air. Detroit is building a highway” 200 feet wide, and tice inspires the hope that it making Henry pay his share the cost. When winter makes disagreeable, and church come by radio, a family can most get the Sunday paper through. . i I GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS fii‘fiilé x W. Wu W“... 171912,! m] ,_ MESH W- COMPLETE SELECTIVE IMMI GRATION POLICY FAVOR ED BY DAVIS, LABOR SECRETARY. “We are operating in the United States under a new immigration law, which became effective about four months ago, aad which, while establishing our immigration con trol on a numerical limitation basis, is a step toward selective immigration. “I favor a complete selective system, under which we would examine and qualify in their na tive countries only such applicants for admission to this country as conform to our standards as estab lished by law and can fit into places in this country where they are needed. >» So said James J. Davis, secre tary of labor, just before he sailed MOW WINSTON CHURCHILL. For a time after ©avid Lloyd George was forced out of office in England the picturesque and irre pressible Winston Churchill re mained faithful to the Welsh bar rister. But it became evident that a “comeback” for Lloyd George was impossible or at least improbable, and so Churchill decided to ar range a “comeback” of his own. There was no hope in the Liberal party; Churchill was astute enough to read this fact. Accordingly, without materially altering his political principles, Churchill went over to the Con servatives. He has not been compelled to wait for his reward. Stanley Bald win announces his cabinet, and lo, the name of Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, leads all the rest. Was “Talkative” as Boy. When Churchill was a youngster he was, speaking Americanwise, a fresh youngster. They used to make him run round the cricket grounds at school a set number of times for talking too much. When he was a subaltern wi\h his regiment he suggested that Lord Kitchener—even then the great general—should be brought >ver and introduced to him, instead of going over to be introduced to Kitchener. Saw Indian Service. He went into the army when was 21, and saw service in in Africa and elsewhere. He war correspondent, has been a turer, has written several all of them excellent, and biography of his father, Lord dolph Churchill—a work that been held to be one of the best English life stories. Twice-Told Tales Most anybody can criticise what the other fellow does, but it takes a man of real brains and ability to step out and take the lead—in politics, industry or any other line.—Tifton Gazette. Anyway, the Democrats have the distinction of furnishing the first woman as United States sena tor, and the two first women as governors.—LaGrange Graphic. The best place for a woman is where she wants to be, but a few of them never want to be in the same place long. — Thomasville Times-Enterprise. Having turned his pipe upside down, we guess Dawes thinks he can do the same thing with the Senate.—Savannah Press. IIow many, many hours she poses patiently to acquire that charming naturalness.—Baltimore Sun. The value of manufactured products in Georgia grew from over $94,500,000 in 1899 to over $202,850,000 in 1909, and over $693,200,000 in 1919, according to the United States census. recently on a lour of seven South American countries, which he ex -1 plains are immigrant receiving na tions like the United States. He will study the policies and methods of these countries in deal ing with immigrants and the im migration problem, particularly in relation to European arrivals. Young Jake had just returned from the city, and his chum was asking him about the experiences, in particular how he enjoyed eat ing in an automat restaurant. a How do they work?" the friend asked. If Well, you put your nickel in the watchemacallit and press the thingumbob, and the doohinkus turns around and gives you your food,” explained Jake. a Isn’t that marvelous?” echoed the chum. “I knew they were wonderful things, but I ain’t heard the details before. tf As the parting instructions were being given, the young traveler picked up his bag and started on his initial trip. i* Good luck to you, said his chief. << Wire us important news. <» Reached here safely, good room with bath, feeling fine.” His chief wired back: “So glad, love and kisses, good-by.” A girl, winner of a local beauty contest, in which the first prize was a part in a big film play, left her native town the envy and ad miration of all. Weeks passed without news. Then one day she returned and esumed her former occupation. .1 But what about acting for the pictures?" she was asked. “Didn’t they give you a part?’’ (4 Yes, they gave me a part," she answered, bitterly. “They told me I could be the hand that held the bottle marked ‘Poison’ in the vil lain’s nightmare! GETTING FED IIP Moscow, Nov. 20.—Leon Trotz ky, the solemn, mirthless student of Roman nature, who built an army for Russia suuch as no czar ever had succeeded in creating, may be read out of the bolshevik party because he is too individ ualistic to subordinate his person ality in accordance with the true theory of Marxian socialism. Campaign Spreads. A campaign against Trotzky, originating among active party workers in Moscow, has spread through the soviet union, and the dimensions of the movement now are such that the man who, with Lenin, was synonymous with bol shevism and its achievements, may be subjected to drastic dis ciplinary action. Ostensibly the current feeling against Trotzky has to do with Eli recent book, “The Year 1917,” which is the third volume of the “History of the Bolshevik Revolu tion. M Book Is Denounced. Active bolshevists irf Moscow condemned the book in a resolu tion branding it as a gross dis tortion pf bolshevism and of the revolution. Indignation was expressed at Trotzky's version of Lenin’s lations with the communist ' Best Organizer. The uproar of condemnation of the man who is admittedly the best organizer and most shrewd ly alert of all communists may be an effort to head him away from the position Lenin held. But for the fact that he is a Jew, Trotzky probably would have succeeded Lenin when the latter died. It is not improbable that the Slav elements of the bolshevik \ THE LATEST PARKING PROBLEM 4 / . •S* : ’ c ‘ x^ \ui x 'j i ' ->• vv t it 'V Y J M \ - */->'■ \ i I 41 t f bw to. AW m ' Vi fi k I ! V £x I a .. - m n y 4/ 't I o> t t m € i ■w--- JOHN W. DAVIS New York, Nov. 20.—John W. Davis and his wife sailed on - the French liner Paris • yesterday for three months of rest and recre ation in Mediterranean countries. En route homeward the Davises will visit at London, where Mr. Davis formerly was American ambassador. He intends when he returns here in February to resume the law practice which the democratic nomination for president caused him to lay aside last June. Not Dodging. A reporter jokingly accused Mr. Davis of having tried to slip abroad without making known his plans. No I didn’t,” said the lawyer. u I told anybody who wanted to know. But nobody appeared to be interested. That shows how soon a man is forgotten. ' i Another man ventured that if the nation had voted as New York ship news reporters did, Mr. Davis would have been president elect. U I am glad so many persons of discretion are still attached to the press,” said Mr. Davis, and he laughed. No Forecasts. He said he had read published forecasts of a reorganization of the democratic party, but de clined to comment on a question whether the party would “have a chance" four years t ence. " jfe said that he was willing to say that the party “will carry on and will be up and fighting in the next campaign. .. STUDENTS OF FAYETTE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL ARE INJURED IN WRECK Fayetteville, Nov. 20__Doctors last night expressed fear that C. B. Thornton, 16, and Frank North, 17, injured when a heavy school truck carrying 14 students to the Fayette county high school here overturned yesterday morn ing had fractured skulls. The youths were unconscious when moved from the wreck. All other occupants, though bruised, were not injured serious ly. Thornton, who was driving, is reported to have lost control of party are endeavoring to destroy Trotzky as an available candidate for party leadership. Are^ou a Father? O. /aurrenceTfawthome I Are A you sturdy, the father playful of little a boy— lad, O — li v A restless bit of energy i Who tries so hard to be like dad? Are you the father of a boy 1 Whose life just overflows with joy? J Are you the father of a girl— A sweet, romantic little miss, A dainty parcel of delight Who runs to greet you with a kiss? V Are yoirthe father of a girl pearl? More precious than the choicest You are a father, for I see vgflSi The father-spirit in your eyes And in your face the tenderness That such relation signifies; ^ ^ Yours is the greatest gift that can Enrich the life of any man! So priceless is that child of yours, So confident its faith in you, ^ That you must guard its happiness A# With everything that you can do \ To bless each day, and guarantee ft l Protection for the years to be. 4s l L V 1® o, itvutNce mvTHotNt the car as it sped downhill to-* MOUNTAIN FIDDLERS TO wards a bridge, and the machine PLAY IN FAYETTEVILLE overturned just before reaching it. A bunch of old time Georgia mountain fiddlers are scheduled A fresh water lake 30 miles in to play in Fayetteville Saturday circumference near which live and in Newnan Monday and Tues hundreds of blacks who never day. had seen a white man before, was found in Australia last summer. Hungary is to issue new coins. TURKEY CARVING MADE -i* -.»{ EASY i • There is just one thing you must have if you are going to carve the Thanksgiving Turkey properly—that is a good carving set—a strong fork and a sharp knife. CARVING SETS GAME SETS ROASTERS COMMUNITY SILVER GRIFFIN HARDWARE COMPANY a Everything in Hardware” PHONE 91 November 20, 1924.