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T*.„ __ , I * 120 East Solomon Street . PHONE No. 210 Entered at postofflce in 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 credited in this publis pane and also the local news d herein. All special rights dispatches or re-publication herein of are also reserved. OFFICIAL PAPER City of Griffin, Northern Spalding District County, of V. S. Court, Georgia. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS One Dally in advance____ by Carrier $5.00 months, year, . She in advance---- 2.50 Three months, in advance . 1.25 One month, payable at end of month _______________ .50 Daily by Mail * One year, in advance______ $4.00 Six month, in advance---- 2.00 Three months, in advance - 1.00 One month, in advance_____ .40 Semi-Weekly Edition One year, in advance $1.00 Six months, in ftdvaqce, __ .26 Grinin. *ettf Beyond within 30-mile Fatffinr 6? 30-mile zone, one jmar, three months, $1.60; si* months, 75c; 40c. 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 [rfi'm‘i "A?” firm; 3?} “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> «tl 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 ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD 1 ✓ r & 8 1 $ V A] ' i ’ A. il « uj k\ \ \ i. ss imi m s\ 1 % t / WA 7 (tCc yt* I, z 7 \ / •? £ $ 727 / $4 3? / aa. 1 2V M m 7 a <? o C '%£ * •S' c #75 ^ ^ ■ o 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, II 'Wi s ti T hs ! 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 And Till we’ll we l\eed never its be friendly contented call. J f i & as "IfViA yr rs NO . a; tM ■ m n r m ra V,, g o H pr-i w/ 7 90 UVUtNCE V\ HAVTHOtNJ & ■—^ 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.