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THANKSGIVING ROOTS
It is usual to think of the first
Thanksgiving Day as purely a
feast of the Pilgrims, originated
by them and observed by them
when they achieved their first
good harvest in their new colony.
That idea has inspired inter
esting verses for school children
to recite and helps considerably
in history class to emphasize the
hardships and the religious char
, acter of the Pilgrim Fathers.
It is likely, however, that even
that first Thanksgiving in the
Massachusetts colony had its roots
~4»»y-Jiack^jn~the ^story ^o#-man
hind, and the Pilgrims had simply
transplanted to the New World
the English “harvest home” with
which they had always been fa
miliar.
The English harvest home, too,
has an ancient lineage.
Many nations have an “in-gath
ering” feast.
Reference* to such occasions
are numerous in the Bible.
Admitting the antiquity of the
Thanksgiving idea need not af
front any patriotic American's
pride in his nation’s history.
New ways, new ideas, new cus
toms and methods are essential to
growth, but there are some old
ideas so great and so important
that their survival is inevitable.
m Thanksgiving is such an idea.
One writer on the subject re
fers to the giving of thanks as
“spiritual TNT,” one of the most
tremendously dynamic forces in
human thought and action.
The thought or expression of
gratitude in thanksgiving is a
liberation or expenditure of force.
It does things to one’s own soul
and one’s creative thinking and
acting that enlarge powers as
well as vision.
Probably nothing good is im
possible to the truly thankful
being.
And so we have Thanksgiving
Days in spite of ourselves, and
the wisest and happiest of man
kind are those who give thanks
not only on this day but on all
days.
AGOOD MOVE
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Because of the increase in
crime throughout the country, and
because of the moral issue in
volved, the mail order house of
Sears, Roebuck & So., announce
that it has continued the sale of
all forms of firearms.
The question of controlling the
sale of firearms has been discuss
ed in congress, and it is altogeth
er probable that some action in
that direction will be adopted in
the near futuft.
WOMEN IN PULPITS
The International Association of
Women Preachers has just closed
an interesting session at Chicago.
Mrs. Irvine, a Methodist
preacher, was chairman of the
meeting:.
Women have made a hard fight
to be admitted to the pulpit and
with the rising tide of sentiment
’ in favor of women preach
it is only a question of a lit-
tie lime until every denomination
will open its doors to women min
isters.
Coolidge never split any rails
to speak of back in Vermont, but
he did swing a mean sap bucket.
The importance of this fact dur
ing the buckwheat cake . season,
cannot be discounted.
The decadence of Christmas
started with the use of gas in
the fireplaces. Santa just can’t
get used to carbon monoxide.
Since that Maryland decision,
says a jubilant wet, "everybody
can make home brew.” But not
everybody can drink it.
The estimate that 5,000 boot
leggers reside in the national cap
ital explains the interest some
folks take in politics.
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While the world wasn’t made in
a day there are, any number of
folks who could improve it in less
time.
And now, if you want to know
how many shopping days till
Christmas, ask the children.
All work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy—but it does make
jack.
In criticizing some proposed
changes in a bill before the sen
ate, changes which seemed to him
to be alterations in phrasing
rather than in meaning, a sena
tor told a story of a lady who was
inspecting a house for rent.
“The house suits me very well,”
she said to the /landlord, “but
there is just one feature of it to
which I object. *»
U Well, madam, any reasonable
alteration,” the landlord murmur
ed, suave, “wrould be made, pro
vided you take a* three years’
lease—”
“I’d take a three years’ lease,”
she said, “if the house had more
closets."
“The number of the closets
shall be doubled, said the land
lord.
ti Very well,” said the woman
and she signed the lease.
When she had gone the landlord
turned to his clerk and said:
“Henry, take a carpenter over
to No. 1777 and have him divide
each, of the closets in two.”
Mrs. Beech was engaging a new
cook. She was particular about
any servant she took into her
house and, in spite of the short
age, she always insisted on highly
satisfactory references.
“Have you any references?” she
inquired of one applicant who
seemed more or less suitable.
“Yes, ma’am, M answered the
applicant, brightly, “a lot of ’em.
“Then why didn’t you bring
them with you?" asked the pros
pective mistress.
“They’re just like my photo
graphs, ma’am— none of ’em do
me justice. »»
“Effeminized America Would Fall
An Easy Prey to First Attack
ing Nation. »»
That an unprepared and “ef
feminized” United States would
fall an easy prey to the first vi
rile nation which attacked it,
was the warning recently sounded
by Rear Admiral Bradley A.
Fiske, U. S. N, retired.
Smug in its plenty, the naval
officer pictured the United States
as eyed enviously by Russia, Ger
many dnd Japan, who “want what
we have. n He described those
WHO’S IN THE WHO
PA bra NEWS
WLADISLAW REYMONT
Poland draws the attention of
the literary world as one of its
authors, Wladislaw Reymont, is
awarded the 1924 Nobel prize for
literature by the Swedish Acad
emy. The award comes as just
recognition of Reymont’s efforts,
the board believes.
Reymont, a member of the later
school of Polish poetry, has had a
career which reads like fiction.
He is now 56. He was born in
what was then Russian Poland,
the son of poor parents witlj 12
children.
His father was a member of
one of the patriotic bands which
staged the rebellion of 1863 and a
strong sense of nationalism was
instilled into all his children.
Expelled From School.
Reymont was expelled from sev
eral schools because he refused to
speak and write Russian. He
pursued a number of careers be
fore his writing was recognized.
Clerk, farmer, actor, telegraph
operator and clerk again, he final
ly retired to a monastery, but
spent only a few months there.
Then he took up literature, at
first in the form of poems, which
attracted considerable notice.
His first short story, "Death,
was published in 1894 and two
years later he followed it with a
novel, “The Comedienne,” which
was an immediate success. There
followed “Fermentation,” "The
Promised Land,” “The Vampire, ft
“The Peasants,” and “The Dream
er.” Reymont has been widely
translated into nearly all the Eu
ropean tongues, but least of all in
English.
Review of Poland.
The award was for his novel,
Polish Peasants,” in four vol
umes, issued between ip04 and
1909. The novel in reality is a
review of Poland’s history since
that country’s partition to the
close of the eighteenth century.
The volumes are entitled, “Au
tumn,” “Winter,” “Spring” and
“Summer.” Reymont was born in
1868.
MONTEZUMA MAN WHO
WAS SHOT IN EYES
LEAVES HOSPITAL
Macon, Nov. 26.—Walter An
derson, confined to The Clinic here
for 15 days with a gunshot wound
in the left eye inflicted by James
W. McKenzie in Fort Valley, Ga.,
on November U, waw permitted to
leave -the local institution yester
day.
Whether he returned to his
home in Montezuma, to the home
of friends in Fort Valley or re
mained in Macon, attendants at
the Clinic were unable to say.
Anderson left the institution
without saying where he would go,
it was said.
Mrs. Effie Little McKenzie, the
wife of the man w!ho shot Ander
son, and who has been with the
wounded man nearly every day
since the shooting, visited him
yesterday, morning before he left
he hospital, it was said. Sh(
vas not with him when he left ir
he afternoon.
Anderson can see only with hi
>ght eye. The other is blindn
id it is considered probable the
nderson will return at some tim
the future to have the eye
11 removed.
Mistletoe is considered a per
a the southwest.
( Twice-Told Tales
this wouldn’t . b e s o re s t
less an age if the - uutomebiie
hadn’t made it possible to be rest
less sitting down.—Little Rock
Arkansas Gazette.
And if the civil war in China
goes on another year it may kill
as many people as there are hom
icides in this county.—Dallas
News.
The glow of health in a lot of
fair cheeks sometimes denotes
that she is healthier on one side
than on the other.—Detroit News
Eating of the tree of know
’dge constrained Eve to put oi
'othes, but it is different wif
t daughter.—Columbia Record
Some are born hateful and som
•et that way trying to seem ir
rtant.—Baltimore Sun.
The test of the social elect is t
ossip about the right people.
laltimore Sun.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
inraftf AvrRII
nations as poor and hardy. Amer
he found, was rich and indolent.
He called for an awakening that
would stimulate preparedness.
Links Religion and Patriotism.
Rear Admiral Fiske, in his ad
dress, called attention to the fact
that religion and patriotism had
ever been intertwined in nations
that grew great, and that their
decline was concurrent with the
recession of religious fervor.
u At the present day,” he said,
U the nation which exemplifies the
most clearly and the most spirit
ually the intimate relation be
tween patriotism and religion is
the nation of Japan. To the Jap
anese, patriotism and religion are
inseparably entwined, and both
are embodied in the person of the
Mikado.”
He stressed the need for compe
tition as an impetus to progres
sive civilization, and applying
this idea to the situation of the
United States found this nation
surrounded by nations intensely
virile, ambitious, intelligent and
poor.
| The Griffitarian
•‘SERVICE ABOVE SELF »»
(Published Weekly by the Rotary
Club of Griffin.)
THANKSGIVING
We walk on starry fields of white
And do not see the daisies;
For blessings common in our sight
We rarely offer praises.
We sigh for some supreme delight
To crown our lives with splen
dor, - l
And quite ignore our daily store
Of treasures sweet and tender.
Our cares are bold and push their
way
Upon our thought and feeling.
They hang about us all the day,
Our time from pleasure steal
ing.
So unobtrusive many a joy
We pass by and forget it,
But worry strives to own our lives
And conquers if we let it.
There’s not a day in all the year
But holds some hidden pleasure,
And looking back joys oft ap
pear
To brim the past’s wide meas
ure.
But blessings are like friends, I
hold,
Who love and labor near us.
We ought to raise our notes of
praise
While living hearts can hear us.
Full many a blessing wears the
guise
Of worry or of trouble;
Far-seeing is the soul, and wise,
Who knows the mask is double.
But he who has the faith and
strength
To thank his God for sorrow
Has found a joy without alloy
To gladden every tomorrow.
We ought to make the moments
botes
Of happy, glad Thanksgiving;
The hours and days a silent
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And so the theme should swell
and grow
As weeks and months pass o’er
us,
And rise sublime at this good
time,
A grand Thanksgiving chorus.
—Eller Wheeler Wilcox.
Those who were so unfortunate
i to have been absent Iasi Thurs
day missed a rousing good meet
ing. Bruce and “Pink,” with the
able assistance of Chamber of
Commerce Thomas and Lyndon
Patterson, put on a fine program.
There will be no luncheon mect
ng Thursday of this week l|Ut
fil Rotarians are expected to b<
>n* hand for “Ladies Night” a*
he Country Club, Friday, Novem
■er 28, at 7:30 p. m. The ladic
re planning plenty of fun ant
utertainment so you will mis:
omething good if you are no'
here. All members pre expected
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10 HALT PROBE
Atlanta, Nov. 26.—Atlanta, New
Orleans and New York cotton
brokers who were indicted by the
Fulton county grand jury on
charges of violating the Georgia
law prohibiting buying and selling
of cotton futures on margins, will
appeal to the United States fed
eral courts for an injunction halt
ing Solicitor General John A. Boy
kin in his efforts to bring the
cases to trial. -Al.
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Coincident with this announce
ment, which was made
by N. L. Vickery, chairman of*' a
committee of brokers named
the indictments, Winfield P. Jones,
attorney • for the Atlanta Com
mercial Exchange, gave out a
statement in which he declared
that/’the action of the grand jury
in failing to indict the exchange
was “naturally anticipated.
Mr. Jones declared that the so
iicitor’s policy could only result in
ultimate detriment to the com
munity or in amendment to the
laws.
DALTON MAN KILLED AT
HOME OF BROTHER-IN-LAW
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Dalton, Ga., Nov. 26.—Bee Par
ker was shot and instantly killed
here yesterday at the home of his
brother-in-law, Leonard Collins.
Immediately after the shooting,
Collins surrendered and is being
held pending an investigation.
.......Mrs- Angie Parker, who was
near her brother when he was
killed, was slightly wounded.
Collins told officers that Parker
was attempting to force his way
back into the house, from which
he had been ejected, and was
pointing his pistol at Mrs. Collins
at the time he was killed.
ATLANTAN KILLED BY
TRAIN AT EAST POINT
Atlanta, Nov. 26.—H. T. Hol
brook, president of the Cement
Concrete Culvert Company, East
Point, was instantly killed yes^t
day when an automobile he was
driving was struck by a Central
to be present and any who find it
impossible to attend are requested
to notify the secretary’s office not
later than 4 p. m. Wednesday,
November 26, 1924.
RASH & RARRY
(Watch Friday’s Paper)
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Wednesday. November 26. 1924.
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P" You bet they can’t stuff fool about me no Santy-Claus! more
VA With that old a
I’ve always fell fer it before
An’ swallered all the gags they sprung
because
I didn’t know no better. Now
I’m wise to what my folks ’re givin’ me.
I’d like to have my dad tell how
A guy could be where all they say he’d be
V- On Christmas Eve, an’ be in all .
Thehouses in the world at once! Gee whiz,
I wonder what my folks’d call
li. A yarn o’ And mine then as I’d big like as that to see one as is. fat ■I
|| I A A chimbley; feller as his when pitchers it show to that come down
comes
There ain’t one half his size in this whole
ml EwsK rfrh town!
amMh Last year they had me guessin’ some;
They had a tree at grandpa’s house, an’ all
■=§ *2 Km/li Us kids hoped all of Santy Claus’d enough come, t’ fall
'Cause us was green
* Fer that. An’ then he come! By gee,
A I’m tellin’ you us kids was awful glad—
E -4 And then, right there where we could see,
I i\ His face fell off an’ it was jest my dad!
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occurred at East Point.
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(Watch Friday’s Paper)