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THE COMING HOLIDAYS
The holiday spirit, that great
American characteristic, is al
ready felt in every walk of life
and quickens the pulse of busi
ness men as well as buyers.
Three great national holidays
are at hand: Thanksgiving Day is
close at hand; Christmas is well
within hailing distance; New
Year, the twin of Christmas, not
onty in point of time, but in the
extension of Yuletide colorfulness
and the opening of a new leaf
in life’s activities.
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Thanksgiving, that festival so
significant in itself and so inspir
ing as the herald of others, is
focalizing an attention which is
intensified every hour, f yery
family of this town, and of all
other towns throughout the na
are making ready for the
household reunions that mark the
occasion, and opens wide the door
to that greater spirit of good will
that characterizes the Christmas
season.
Business is in the full tide of
mobilization for Christmas.
The holiday trade has started
in finely and is increasing by
leaps and bounds with every day
that goes by.
Millions upon millions of dol
lars laid aside as Christmas sav
ings funds, will soon be released
and the joy of giving will find the
fullest expression this year. The
holiday trend of the commnuity,
manifesting itself so markedly in
advance of the events, is a whole
some, vigorous and helpful phe
nomenon.
It testifies to the spiritual
qualities, which amid all stress
and hurry, never fail to strike
vibrantly a responsive note in
the hearts of our citizens.
THE TAX PUBLICITY LAW
There is no doubt that congress
will be asked either to modify
or repeal the publicity provision
of the income tax law.
There will be general agree
ment that it should do one or the
other.
For the application of the law
recently has been extraordinarily
confused and confusing.
The lack of clearness in the law
itself is evident.
Lawyers are unable to say ex
actly what it means.
The attorney general is doubt
ful and passes the buck to the
courts.
Newspapers and public are left
in the dark as to what congress
really intended, or whether con
gress itself knew what it meant
when. it enacted the provision.
Congress may have intended
merely to allow inspection of in
come tax payments by such of
the public as were sufficiently
interested to take the trouble of
going to internal revenue offices
and consulting the records.
Or it may have intended to au
thorize the spreading of income
tax payments before the public
by newspapers, as recognized in
struments of publicity.
The courts will decide that
point.
But whatever they may decide,
congress would do well, during
the winter, to clarify the lan
guage of the law.
The treasury department is
said to feel sure that the coun
try is opposed t<j newspaper pub
lication of the income tax pay
ments.
Unquestionably business men as
a class are opposed to it.
But the general public has
seemed to* relish such publication
as there has been.
It might be a good thing if
there could be a dependable ref
erendum on the subject, for the
guidance of congress.
AN ANARCHISTS
AWAKENING
Emma Goldman, who left Amer
ica on request five years ago, seek
ing an economic and political para
dise in Russia, has now sought
asylum in England.
There she is speaking her mind
freely about Soviet Russia, which
she knows as few interpreters
have been able to know it.
Emma is sadly disillusioned.
She says:
44 It is superstition that confuses
part^ the revolution with the ruling
of today; there are thou
sands in prisons and concentration
camps in Russia, not for opposing
the government but for opinion’s
sake.
To call the present soviet gov
ernment a workers’ experiment is
the most preposterous lie ever
told.
“The party in power has emas
culated the revolution; it is slowly
undermining all that is best in
Russia.
“The Russian Bolsheviks are the
arch-counter revolutionaries of the
world.
For what is revolutionary that
does not hold high ideals?
“All ideals have been discredited
in Russia.”
— For once in her life; teasi
this brilliant, erratic and defiant
woman is right.
Tyranny is tyranny, whether in
flicted by one or many, whether
by an absolute monarch or by an
organized class.
Freedom is necessafy to man,
and so are ideals.
Both have been stifled in Rus
sia.
Emma seems on the way to dis
covering that they canot flourish
except in a genuine democracy,
and that “capitalism” is probably
inevitable in the present stage of
hutnan development.
Says the Tifton Gazette: “The
lucky man gets that way by horse
sense and not by a horse shoe,”
remarks the Griffin News. The
man who has “something in the
bank” also got it there by work
ing and saving, and not by stand
ing around criticising what some
other fellow was trying to do.
Success isn’t a just happen-so—
it takes sense, grit, work and de
termination to make Dame For
tune smile.
The Thomasville Times notes
that the elastic currency is not
that which is kept in the banks
around the knees.
The ice bill is going down, but
the coal bill is running up.
There is something doing in
Griffin all the time.
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Nearly time for Old .Santa
Claus.
Twice-Told Tales
Little Sermon on Patience
Sylvester Local: Patience is a
moral quality. The penitentiaries
are full of men Who were lmpa
tient. They wanted to get rich
and made an effort to take a
short cut to reach their desire.
A great many troubles of this
old world may be attributed to
the effort of so many trying to
get rich quick. The short cut
is a perilous path.
Another Sure Money Crop.
Ocilla Star: Peanuts, are now
being marketed, and while the
price is not as high as in former
years they are bringing lots of
money into circulation, Those
who have grown them this year
are well pleased with them even
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at the low price and in a good
cotton year.
Both Helpful and Satisfying
Douglas Sentinel: It’s a fine
thing to develop faith in folks. If
you can’t find anybody else, then
start believing in yourself and
pretty soon there’ll be another
and another and another.
Not Too Late to Plant Oats.
Fort Gaines Georgian: Feed for
work stock will be high next
spring. Right now western corn
would^cost nearly $1.50 per bush
el delivered in Fort Gaines. Other
grains suitable for mule feed are
far from cheap.
The One and Only Way.
Jackson Progress-Argus: A
number of suggestions have been
put forward to remedy conditions
in Georgia. These ^ll take into
account hard work, strict econ
omy and staying on the job.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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“Soviet Regime Has Reduced
Russian' Laborers to State of
Serfdom.”
Although the Herriop ministry
has extended recognition t6 the
Soviet government, public opin
ion in France is as yet far from
converted to the soundness of
accepting the fraudulent Red re
public as a political equal. In
“L’Echo de Paris,” M. Serge de
Chessin published the other day
a scathing article expressing the
enslavement and impoverishment
of Russian labor under the So
viets, and the utter hopleasness
of the present Russian economic
system. He said:
4 it The least that can be asked
of a proletarian revolution is
that it turn to the profit of the
proletariat. Now in Russia, the
first to date of the workers’ re
publics, the real pariah, the serf,
Is precisely pretended beneficiary
of the communist dispensation—
the laborer.
Soviet Wage Scale.
I. French workmen, do you wish
to know how much your Russian
comrades draw at the cashier’s
window of the Russian Heaven on
Earth? Read, in the ‘Izvestin,’
of April 9 last, the official decree
establishing the scale of Soviet
wages. Labor receives, according
to the importance of the indus
The bright young bookkeeper
was always eager to render as
sistance to his chipf. One day
his chief walked to his desk, laid
down a letter without an address
and without a signature, and ask
what he would suggest” doing
with it.
The bookkeeper read it through
and then gave an answer that at
least showed his willingness to
be helpful.
u Well, we’ll have to send it
back to him and ask who he is.
An amusing story is told con
cerning Dr. W. B. Pope, once fa
mous. Wesleyan professor of the
ology, and his son, Sam.
The son was preparing for the
bar. Occasionally he tried his
prentice hand at preaching the
gospel in village chapels. One
Sunday morning his father said
to him: “Sam, I’m not feeling at
all well today. You will have
to preach for me this morning,”
Sam demurred. The father in
sisted and suggested that he had
two hours to make a sermon, and
if he could not do it in that time
he was not fit to be a barrister.
Well, Sam,” said he on his
son’s return, “I’ve heard you
preach and a poor thing you
made of it. I thought you could
have done better than that.”
“You think the sermon was not
good?” the son inquired.
Good?” the old man replied.
“I think it was one of the worst
sermons I have listened to.”
“Well, father,” said Sam, “I
thought it was a poor thing my
self, but I turned over a big pile
in your study, and it was the
best I could find.”
trial region, a maximum of 6
gold rubles a month, about 60
paper francs, and a minimum of
4 rubles and 20 kopecks, or 42
francs. The price of breatf hav
ing risen by 800 or 000 per cent,
it is no exaggeration to conclude
that the Russian workers have
been reduced to starvation wages.
Bukarin recently made an an
nouncement in the Communist
Congress that more than 80 per
cent of the Russian workers have
no beds to sleep in.
Workers “Chained to Anvil. »»
Slavery in Russia has merely
changed its character, Once
agrarian, it "has become indus
trial. The factory has been
transformed into a prison. And
while the slightest protest of the
worker is made a crime against
the revolution, audacious retori
cians preach the general strike in
all capitalistic countries.
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JOHN PRILIP SOUSA.
The other day John Philip Sou
sa, an infant prodigy wno never
outgrew it, but ins’ ., became
the greatest band master in the
world and one of America’s
greatest composers, celebrated his
seventieth birthday.
He celebrated it by giving two
concerts at Madison, Wis. And
he intends to celebrate many com
ing ones the same way. For at
70 he works as hard, and feels
able to, as he did twenty years
ago.
Boy Violinist.
Sousa started his musical ca
reer He did as a «£ oy stick wonder violinist.
not long to_ “fid
dTIngl” however. In his long and
busy life Sousa has been a mu
sic teacher, first violinist, orehes
tra conductor, band master, com
poser, traveler and writer. He
has composed suites, symphonic
poems, musical comedies and op
erettas, as well as the marches
associated with his name. He has
written at least two novels, as
well as many magazine articles.
He was leader of the famous
marine band from 1880 to 1892,
playing at the white house in the
days of President Hayes, Gar
field, Arthur, Cleveland and Har
rison. Resigning from the ma
rine corps to organize his own
band, he made forty or more
tours of the United States.
Toured World.
lie has toured the world with
his organization /
and taken it to
Europe several times. He went
back into the naval service in
the war period and did his con
spicuous bit. He played in the
orchestra with Jacques Offenbach
at the Philadelphia centennial in
1876 and he has been one of the
big attractions at about every
world’s fair held since then.
MANY VARIETIES OF
VEGETABLES GROWN
BY C. C. SANDERS
G. C. Sanders, of 423 West
Broad street, declares he has
about the best garden in the city
of Griffin. Mr. Sanders, by the
way, also said he had been a
subscriber to The Griffin News
for 32 year s* -
His entire l<)\%is 60 by 210 feet
and his garden patch is about
60 by 100 feet and is in the rear
of his home.
Mr. Sanders said he has one
pecan tree that brings him an av
erage of $40 a year, in addition
to several apple"*’lrees.
Among the vegetables grown in
his garden are cabbages, spinach,
cabbage-collards, a new variety
which was perfected at the Ex
periment station, four varieties of
onions, cabbage plants, two va
rieties of ^turnips, beets, lettuce,
butterbeans, mustard, rape, sage,
kale, carrots, peppers, sweet po
tatoes. He also has several va
rieties of flowers in the garden.
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Mr. Sanders devotes his spare
time to his garden and is just
ly very proud of it.
Amplifying horns have been in
stalled on the ceiling of the house
of representatives in Washington.
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FRANCE READY
TO TALK ABOUT
Paris, Nov. 21.—Discussion of
an inter-allied debt conference to
consider the settlement of war
time obligations in buzzing behind
the doors of the Quai d’Orsay, and
it has been semi-officially an
nounced there that the United
States would be expected to par
ticipate in the projected meeting
and to agree to a reduction of the
French debt.
Time Has Come.
With the American elections out
of the way and the Dawes plan for
European rehabilitation safely
launched and apparently sea
worthy, France considers the time
has come, or at least is coming
soon, when the United States will
listen to a proposal that some of
the money loaned during the war
shall remain in France forever.
To Drop Sentimental Pleas.
France has done with pleas for
debt cancellation or reduction for
sentimental reasons such as the
exploits of Lafayette during the
American revolution. It is now
possible, it is believed, at the
Quai d’Orsay to negotiate a busi
ness-like debt reducing and fund
ing scheme without recourse to
sentimental arguments. France
hopes to see a conference con
vened to "that end at a yet un
specified date, following the ad
journment of the conference of
allied finance ministers, soon to
convene in Paris. ______
The new situation created by the
Dawes plan, whereunder France
agreed to reduce German repara
tions obligations from approxi
mately 68,000,000,000 gold marks
to 20,000,000,000, will be instanced
the United States as a worthy
precedent for reduction of the
French debt.
Ask Rebate From England.
It is semi-officially stated at the
Quai d’Orsay that United States
participation in the projected con
ference is vital to its success, and
there is no effort made to disguise
the French intention to ask debt
reduction.
England as well as the United
States will be requested to forego
some of the capital advanced to
France during the war.
FUR-BEARING HUSBANDS
Peggy: How is your husband
behaving?
Polly: Oh. badly enough for a
new fur coat.
Friday, November, 21, 1924.
m moufiySwhine
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Winter days are often dreary ■A.
But when springtime comes along
b We’re a heap more interested !
In the robin’s cheery song!
m Momin’ always seems most Welcome
When you spend a restless night. •
After clouds ’re black an’ heavy,
That’s the time the sun looks bright!
Seems to me there’s somethin’ like it
In the way life deals with men:
Prospects always seem the darkest
Just before things boom again.
9| And I’m thinkin’ that<the worries
An’ hard-knocks he gets before.
Help a fellow prize his blessings
Andgood fortune.all the more! ,
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CHIEF POWELL PLANS
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN
Noting that. 345 children
marched to safety during the de
struction by fire of a school house
in Gulfport, Miss., Wednesday,
Fire Chief Powell stated today
that he is taking extra precau
tions here for the safety of school
children and prevention of fires;
holding weekly drills and teach
ing the children the use of chem
icals.
The chief also said he was
making daily inspections in the
business section of the city and
had found general conditions
good.
Business men are co-operating,
he said, and he urges them to
continue keeping all buildings
clean and free from inflammable
material.
Fire bells and fire extinguish
ers have been ordered for the
Daniel Memorial Home, he an
nounced, and as soon as they ar
rive he will instruct the children
in fire drills.
NOT HIS FAULT.
Tramp: Pardon me, I haven’t
had anything to eat for over a
week.
Absent M in d e d Gentleman
(walking on): Oh, don’t mention
it.
GEORGIA OFFICER
IS ACQUITTED OF l
RUM HUNT DEATHS
Sylvania,. Ga., Nov. 21.—After
deliberating for an hour, the jury
in the superior court here yes
terday returned a verdict of not
guilty in the case of J. V. Dolan,
county officer, who was tried for
the murder of Joe and Herman
Bazemore.
The defendant contended that
while on duty on a county road
in the enforcement of t^e prohi
bition law, he approached the ma
chine in which the Bazemores
were riding for the purpose of
searching for whiskey, and that
he was forced to shoot as the
alleged liquor runners made an
effort to fire upon him.
Deputy Sheriff Dickey, who was
with Dolan at the time of the
double killing, was not indicted
by the grand jury.
U)TS OF TERRITORY.
^rainard: Does Hartman drink
to excess?
Brainless: Well, I reckon he
does. He drinks to purty nigh
everything else.
FAME IN THE MAKING
Author’s Friend: What did you
do with the money you received
from the magazine.
Author: I spent it buying com
plimentary copies for friends.