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THE SPIRIT OF
THANKSGIVING.
The coming of Thanksgiving
recalls the decline in the obser
,y«nce of the day.
Long before modern times it
ceased to bear any relation to the
original ceremonies. They were
established by the Pilgrims (not,
be it noted, by the Puritans) in
place of Christmas and New
Year’s.
The original “last Thursday of
November," in 1621, was a day
of solemn dedication. Soberly the
little band marched to the house
of worship there reverently to give
thanks ffi* their preservation by
prayer and song.
Afterwards, gathering together
_________ with few friendly Indians,
a they
partook at one board of the fruits'
of their harvest.
The happy custom adopted by
the government of setting aside
this November day as they had
done, has not perpetuated the
spirit which prompted the Pil
gri ms.
For lhahy years it was regard
ed as a family day, reserved for
reunion of kindred; but gradually
it has lost even this significance
and is now a rather empty hol
iday wherein one does what one
will.
Churches still hold services, but
attendance is not common in most
communities.
In the welter of confusion and
choas abroad the American people
have reason to turn back toward
the original conception of this
day.
Never did they have greater
cause to rejoice; never were their
blessings nor their prospects
brighter.
Let preachers and those having
authority urge upon their fellow
citizens the fitness of returning
thanks to the Creator and Pre
server of all mankind whom each
one is free to worship after his
own conscience.
RAIN MADE TO ORDER
For hundreds of years mankind
has longed to control cr regu
late the rainfall. —......
\The rainmaker has resor ted to
Tnlintatlons, to the use of so-call
ed charms, and to what, in the
estimation of the superstitious,
have been cruder and no Jess in
effective material methods in his
effort to wring moisture from ob
durate clouds.
As industriously, though per
haps less persistently, have others
sought ways by which fair weath
er might be produced.
Now comes the “cloud shooter II
who instead of attacking from be
neath, as formerly, utilizes the
modern delvces which have been
provided to aid him and claims to
be able to “shoot down” moisture
from the skies or to dispell and
' scatter hovering banks at will.
Dr. L. Francis Warren, of Har
vard university, who devised the
process employed at the recent
Successful experiments over Boll
ing Field, Washington, D. C., as
sorts that: a Commercial rainmak
ing now lies within the grasp of
man and he can employ to this
end one of nature’* cheapest com
modities, namely common or gar
den silica, at a cost of about $3
a ton, which, outside of maintain
ing the equipment and operating
the planes, will be the only
charge.
So now, it may be, there will be
divisions and blocs, composed on
one side of those who want rain
for their corn, and on the other
side of those who want fair
weather for their hay.
In the city, there will be those,
perhaps, who will be known as
the Picnickers' League, or Fair
Weather Party, demanding that
fog and rain clouds be dispersed,
while those comprising the league
of back yard gardeners insist that
the clouds be “shot” for rain.
Who shall decide?
THE WEST IN THE POLITICAL
SADDLE.
The west certainly has no cause
for complaint in the organization
of congressional affairs.
With General Dawes, of Chi
cago, presiding over the senate;
Mr. Borah.of Idaho, heading for
eign relations; Mr t Smoot, of
Utah, chairman of finance; Mr.
Warren, of Wyoming, chairman of
appropriations;' Mr. Johnson, of
California, chairman of immigra
tion; Mr. Norris, of Nebraska,
chairman of agriculture; and Mr.
Capper, of Kansas, Mr. Stanfield,
of Oregon, Mr. Jones, of Wash
ington, and half-dozen others in
important chairmanships, the wes
tern country will be fairly in
command of senate proceedings.
In the house, with ways and
means, agriculture, appropria
tions, immigration, military af
fairs, public lands and veterans’
legislation, et al in western hands,
and Martin'B. Madden, of Illinois,
as speaker, it will be their own
fault if things do not go as they
Want them.
u Griff in reports the bi rth of
triplets. Some ambitious Griffln
ite stirred on by the census re
ports showing the rapid growth
of Atlanta.” — Savannah Press.
Oh, well, it shows Griffin is grow
ing just the same.
A graduate who gives Columbia
University $100,000 for a chair
of Chinese literature says he
saved the money by giving up
smoking. And now everybody
wants to know what he smoked.
Georgia editors are blaming a
trip to New York next’ spring
when railroad passes are expect
ed to be a little more plentiful.
The Moultrie Observer thinks
Columbus owes the mystery girl
a debt of gratitude for getting the
town on the A. P. map.
A mob cut off Los Angeles’ wa
ter supply the other day, but no
body has interfered with its
liquor supply.
Do your Christmas mailing ear
ly. But do your shopping first.
Twice-Told Tales j
Scientists, we read, are still try
ing to discover what it is that
makes women close their eyes
when they are kissed^ Of course
we don’t know any more than a
ibblt, but couTdn’FTt be that
lots of times it would take all the
kick out of it if they looked at
what wns doing the kissing?—
Macon Telegraph.
Coolidge says that America ere
long must buy foods. What does
he think most of us have been
doing all this time? Billy Sunday
doesn’t send us Thanksgiving tur
keys.—Savannah Press.
There’s something wrong some
where. Eastern papers announce
right on tha eve of Thanksgiving
that turkeys are getting cheaper.
—Macon Telegraph.
“Switzerland has fewer and bet
ter laws”—because it saves the
holes for the cheese and does not
shoot the laws full of them.—San
Antonio Express.
«As long as there are still some
mothers who have not had it
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“DAWES PLAN ALONE WILL
NOT BRING PEACE TO EU
ROPE," SAYS HUNGARI
AN DIPLOMAT
AUTHOR.
“Now that the Dawes plan has
been sanctioned by the vote of
the German reichstag, the world
has become imbued with the idea
that at last the magic fermula
is found that will eventually save
Europe and the world for peace.
Let us be careful in order that
the wish should not remain the
father of the thought,’’ said Er
nest Ludwig, former member of
the Austro-Hungarian and Hunga
rian foreign service and an author
of note, in a recent interview.
« No doubt peace would apd
flhould mean a general recovery
of business and a brighter out
look for export trade. But this
result in itself does not yet mean
peace. Peace means the harmony
of souls—a state of mind which
is generally missing in all former
warring countries of Europe to
day and which eliminates the
grounds for new conflicts. The
great, perhaps tragic mistake of
the Paris peace conference is that
it created a League of Nations to
perpetuate the conditions of the
peace treaties before it actually
accomplished peace.
Other Things .Necessary.
U There are other things neces
sary for Central Europe besides
the Dawes plan or the interna
tional loans that have been floated
in favor of Austria and Hungary
under the apspices of the League
of Nations and with the aid of
American and English capital.
Jeremiah Smith is no doubt an
excellent general commissioner in
Hungary—this is what all Hun
garians believe, and they ought
to know—but this loan of $50,-
1NNE
Five year old Humphrey wri
standing in the kitchen with his
eyes upon a dish of cakes when
his mother came in and found
him.
(( What are you doing here,
Humphrey?” said she.
a I was just thinking, mother,”
replied the youngster.
“Thinking? Well, of what were
you thinking? I hope you haven’t’
touched those cakes?”
That’s what I was thinking 1
about,” came the ready answer.
“I was wondering whether they
were good enough to be whipped
for.”
Life was overwhelming, The
young artist raised the revolver
to his head. But hark, a rap at
the door, and the landlady en
tered.
For heaven’s sake, what are
you doing?” said the methodical
soul, seizing the revolver from the
artist’s hand. “Trying to commit
suicide, eh? Don’t you know that
this boarding house is run along
the strictest lines and it is one of
my inviolable rules that there
must be no noise made in the
rooms after ten o’clock?”
Wtih a view to guiding the
cook- -to- select ion -of ti quieter
summer hat that she had worn
the previous year, Mrs. Smith
spoke of some violets she had
seen in a milliner’s window.
“They’re almost exactly like
those in our garden, Mary,” she
said. <* You’ve seen those often.”
Indeed, I have, mum,” return
ed Mary. I was after waterin’
them this very morning, Ain’t it
wonderful, mum, how natural the
Lord can make them?”
bobbed men will continue to look
forward to Thanksgiving Day.—
Baltimore Sun.
A man who drinks only cistern
water has been discovered out
West, but what to do about it is
still under advisement.—Cincinnati
Times-Star.
This old world could be a lot
worse. For instance, there might
be beauty contests for men.—
Leavenworth Times.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
000,000 is, after all, a mere stop
gap at its very best. It does not
mean peace for Hungtry. Don’t
us get away with the idea that
it does.
u Hungary has probably been
the greatest loser of the war. y>
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BEN SANFORD PAULEN
Governor-elect Ben Sanford
Paulen, who will climb into the
governor’s chair in Topeka next
January by virtue of his over
whelming defeat of Governor Jon
athan Davis, will not have to take
such a long step, for he has been
lieutenant governor of Kansas
since 1922.
The democratic landslide, which
took Governor Davis into of
fice over W. Y. Morgan, the re
publican candidate, did not extend
to the rest of the ticket, and
Paulen,. a republican, was swept
into office along with the demo
cratic governor.
Mr. Paulen haj3 lived practically
all £is life at Fredonia, but he iS
not a native of Kansas, having
just missed being a native of that
state by the narrow margin of
three months.
He was born in De Witt county,
Illinois, July 14, 1869. His father
was Jacob Walter Paulen, a farm
er of DeWitt county; his mother
was Lucy Bell Paulen.
Traveled in Covered Wagon
From Illinois his parents moved
to Wilson county, arriving at Fre
donia is a covered wagon exactly
three months to the day after the
birth of the baby boy who was
destined to be governor.
Ben Paulen was educated in the
Fredonia schools and spent one
term at the University of Kan
sas. But after this one term, he
War Department Apply Urges Veterans
f To at Once for Bonus
Out of a possible 4,5000,000
;War veterans entitled to
adjusted compensation, (sol
bonus) only 1,500,000 had
appliad for same up to November
10. Out of this million and a
applications, 300,000 had
returned because the veter
ans had failed to sign their appli
cations.
.
The war department is trying
to hold down the expense con
nected with the handling of this
matter, and requests as a meas
ure of economy, both to the veter
an himself as well as to the gov
ernment, that applications be filed
promptly.
Protection.
As a matter of protection to
those dependent upon them, the
veteran should send in his appli
cation now, as the war depart
ment is daily receiving cases
where veterans considered them
selves in perfect health, but have
died or been killed by accident
without having submitted their
applications. Their widows and
children, many of them in needy
circumstances, receive only ap
proximately one-third of what
ttvey ’WoUld FavF 'receTved in one
payment in cash, had the veteran
made application prior to his
death.
For instance, should a veter
an, who is entitled to the maxi
mum credit, $625,, die without fil
ing his application, his dependents
will receive that amount only, in
ten quarterly installments, while
if he had filed his application pri
or to his death, his dependents
would receive approximately $1,-
580, in cash in one payment.
Another reason for prompt ac
tion is that the face value of
the insurance certificate furnish
ed him is dependent on the age of
the veteran, the amount decreas
ing as the age increases. By de
laying, thq veteran may place
himself in another insurance year,
thereby reducing the amount of
his policy.
Lastly, the cash payments of
the act become due on March 1,
1925, and unless the veteran ap
plies in time to have his claim
adjudicated and forwarded to the
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returned to Fredonia to go) into
his father’s hardware store. He
was given a one-third interest.
Even after the retirement of
his father, the younger Paulen
continued in the hardware busi
ness until 1918, when he sold the
store and became associated with
the Wilson county bank of Fredo
nia as its president._____He has held
that position since that time. %
Veteran’s bureau, the payment
will be delayed.
Sooner The Better.
As a taxpayer, the veteran
should remember tha£ the sooner
all applications are in and set
tled the less will be the cost of
carrying out the provisions of
this law.
Application blanks can be se
cured from the following persons
and .organiztions: The American
Legion, Red Cross, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, Disabled American
Veterans> The National Guard>
Army, Navy and Marine Corps
stations, Veterans Bureau Agen
cies, all postoffices, recuruiting
officers of the army. Recruiting
officers are prepared to assist
veterans in preparing their appli
cations without pay.
TlW^'adjwta’frfc* general makes the
following three requests:
If you intend to put in an ap
plication,, do so at once.
If you do not intend to make
application, notify .the adjutant
genera] so he will know when his
task is completed.
If you are one oi the many
thousands ri veterans who have
not corrected and returned your
application, please do so at once.
PUTS BOMB IN MOUTH;
•BLOWS OFF HER HEAD
Sofia, Nov. 24.—The headless
body of Vashtina Bosieff, a pretty
Communist, has been sent back to
Russia, whence she came to work
for a revolution in Bulgaria. Sent
here with plenty of funds for pro
paganda, she became known to the
police and in some way the pur
pose of her visit was revealed.
This was reported to Moscow and
she was recalled with a sharp
reprimand. Instead of leaving,
she made a small bomb, placed it
in her mouth and lighted the fuse.
The explosion blew her head to
pieces.
NOT SO BAD.
First Suburbanite: Good show,
eh?
Second Suburbanite: Well, it’s
worth missing the 10:58 train, but
not the 11:10,
Monday, November 24. 19Z4,
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! Where Every Let’s Where Nestled find day there’s the a cozy with little blessed happiness in hope homestead the sunshine and hills, and promise; laughter, fills .maivinori ^
ffi H We can work with eagerness
Where we know that every effort
Serves to bring our own success. (5! v-r
I home where friendship •‘‘i*
iff! want a f.
Lives with kindliness and rest,
^1 Where all nature smiles a welcome
J|F And where life is at its best,
For there always comes a yearning
When the evening shadows fall
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TRAFFIC 11 BY
Paris, Nov. 24.—Radical meas
ures are being planned by the city
council here- to relieve the ever
growing traffic jams of Paris.
The latest rulings proposed to
the prefect of police by Council
man Barthelemy Robalgia are as
follows:
That it shall be forbidden be
tween the hours of 10 a. m. and
7 p. m. to drive trucks, heavy
cars, all horse driven carts, as
well as push carts of all kinds in
the center of Paris and within
a radius yet to be determined.
Two Lines of Vehicles.
That traffic be more strictly
controlled on the more important
roadways of the city; for in
stance, that no more than two
lines of vehicles be allowed to
circulate in the same direction
at the same time.
(At present as many as four
lines of traffic can be seen mov
ing in the same direction, each
one trying to get ahead of the
other, thus causing accidents, or
to say the least, traffic entangle
ments of a serious nature.)
M. Robalgia said today: n Auto
trucks slow down traffic consid-
erably, owing to their clumsy
sizes.
“Horse trucks and carts are
even worse on account of their
slow rate of speed. As for push
carts, in our days of civilization,
they should be done away with
entirely. It is inhuman to make
them drag loads which are often
heavy, over sometimes long dis
tances through the crowded
streets of our cities. 5 ’
$500,000 IN BONDS
FOUND IN BUSHES
Youngstown, Ohio, Nov. 24.—
Bonds and stocks valued at about
half a million dollars, said to
have been stolen from Bentley’s
bank at Springboro, Pa., were
found in a city park here and
have been recovered by postal au
thorities, it was announced here
today by Postmaster Edward
Westwood and Postal Inspector
Harry Tavinor.
JUDGE KING RESIGNS.
Atlanta, Nov. 24.—Judge Alex
C. King, of Atlanta, member of
the United States circuit court of
appeals, has forwarded his resig
nation to President Coolidge, to
take effect January 1, it became
known here Saturday.
Judge King, who is known in
all parts of the south, will re
enter the practice of law in At
lanta, it was said.