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Two p; 120 Bast 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 pindication of the news dispatch es credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights or re-publication of reserved. special dispatches herein are also OFFICIAL PAPER City of Griffin, Northern Spalding County, U. S. Court. District of Georgia. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS One Daily in by Carrier Six months, year, in advance______$5.00 advance---- 2.50 Three months, in advance _ 1.25 One month, payable at end of month .50 One Daily in by Mail Six month, year, in advance______$4.00 advance____ 2.00 Three months, in advance _ 1.00 One month, in advance____ .40 One Semi-Weekly in Edition year, advance...... $ 1.00 «ix If months, within in advance, __ .25 of sent 30-mile radius Griffin. Beyond 30-mile zone, one three year, months, $1.50; six months, 75e; 40c. 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. " > • . 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. ___ 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 ‘ 4»~‘ 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 ff‘vrmnrz331m7"» .! .' 4}] “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. wHosm •WWCl PAYS NCW5 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. t 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. 3 ’ r 1 ANOTHER FALLEN ANGEL V T V ■J \ iV V r V h M A h rx t 9 excuse- y J 6oi§%'*S / me! :iw iZ E k , / '> A < ( Cl , / '-‘V V • /-> / **■ '/ c A. ~~ k K ST <r ^ \ v; ■m % \ f y/j fee m >■ * y KM . 4_ * w//r 4 7 1 " V -A \ r/ i (/ \ C ^ ' ■- Y * M \ f A i 'A V. A I, ) 84 r I* *\1 <14 T \ k -■ ! _v... A* _ « • 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 x\\ I’ O. Lawrence Hawthorne / 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! , & * 2 . i mm •.» i 1 *11 m l 4 0 w ZA 7 • O. IAVRLNCE HAWTHORNS 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.