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LEGAL LIGHTS A NUISANCE
“Legal lights,” as that term is
now applied to automobile practice,
are a gross misnomer.
They have become a nuisance,
■aking driving by night more peri
lous than before.
The fiction of “legal lights” has
operated to do away with the
courteous habit of “dimming” the
headlights when passing and to
make practically universal the em
ployment of a blinding glare that
is both ruinous to the eyesight
and the cause of many accidents.
Whatever may have been the
good intention of those who de
vised the “legal lights” device—
with its indispensable requirement
of a fee for the “adjustment of
headlights”—the results have been
intolerably bad.
Driving after dark was once
made more comfortable than at
present through the mutual courte
sy of many drivers dimming their
lights in passing, but that whole
some and safe practice has given
Place to a brutal disregard of de
cency and good manners,
Apparently the only effect of the
«©Jcial certification of the “legal
ity” of headlight adjustment and
patterns has been to relieve driv
ers of the obligation to observe
the ordinary duties of prudence
and kindliness.
The dimming of lights has be
come so unusual that the care
ful driver is the exception, in
stead of being as he should be,
the rule.
The contrary practice has as
sumed the dimensiops of a public
nuisance, which ought to receive
the immediate attention of those
charged with traffic regulation.
There is no part of traffic regu
lation that is more urgent, no vi
olations of rules that are more
deeply fraught with peril and dis
comfort to those who, by reason
of necessity or for pleasure, use
the highways by night, than is the
proper control of lights.
Today, under the baleful and
misleading fiction of “legal lights,”
this control is wholly lacking.
It is time some drastic remedy
was applied. ——- ~
THE CROSS-WORD CRAZE
No sooner do we emerge from
the strife of a bitter national polit
ical campaign than we find our
selves confronted by another per
plexing situation, namely, the
cross-word puzzle crisis.
Never before as a nation have
wet been so universally puzzled,
aays Harry Daniel in Thrift.
On every hand throughout the
Nttgth and breadth of our fair land
people find themselves suffering
fiKom sudden and serious attacks
of white spaces.
Everywhere from Maine to Cal
ifornia and return our citizens are
ace to face with words that are
too long, or, whA is equally alarm
ing, with words that are not long
etfthigh.
Knots of people gather on street
••fljers, staid business men sudden
excuse themselves from import
conferences, barbers desert
perplexed patients reclining in op
erating chairs with faces covered
with lather, and crying babes are
left unspanned in their cribs.
What the people are asking
themselves up and down this broad
domain is what word of exactly
nine letters did Demonthenes em
ploy the day his sister-in-law was
vaccinated ? Also, what word
of thirteen letters iB used fre
quently as a term of endearment
for the hairless dog of Mexico?
What word with four letters,
means heated to 250 de
grees Fahrenheit equals twice
the sum of its own common
denominator? What is the Rus
sian colloquilism for “Attaboy? II
Answer with a word of 97 letters.
In order to excel as a cross
worder it is advisable to be equip
ped with a general knowledge of
all trades and industries; et post
graduate course in law, medicine
and theology; and at least a cur
sory familiarity with Egyptology,
anthropology, pedagogy and the
postoffice business.
It is also well to be provided
with a very acute and quick wit
ted lead pencil.
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Thirteen years ago a man was
convicted of killing his wife. He
was recently paroled and another
woman married him to reform
him. The other day he shot her
and then killed himself. There
are lots of people in the world
willing to risk anything once.
If you want popularity get
money and spend it.
Modern definitions: Satisfaction
—something coming.
Worry is the most expensive
pleasure that some people have.
Twice-Told Tales
Every married man knows that
the jokes about women shopping
all day long and buying nothing
are not true.—New Orleans Times- 1
Picayune.
A cross word puzzle is one of
those things in the home that lead
one from one word to another.—
Philadelphia North American.
A wife is a great comfort dur
ing all those troubles which a
bachelor never has. —i Columbia
Record.
Don’t pity the missionary. Sup
pose his task was to convert the
heathen at home.—Associated Edi
tors (Chicago).
Every once in a while you see in
a fountain pen that doesn’t leak.—
It’s empty,—Baltimore Sun.
And yet, thanking the jury is
much like congratulating a man
for being honest.—Baltimore Sun.
The closer a man is the more
distant his friends are.—Columbia
Record.
WHO’S »N THE WHO
DAYS NEWS
MRS. MARY T. NORTON
The recent election, among other
interesting results, sends to con
gress Sts fifth woman member
nd its first fair congresswoman
from the east. She is Mrs. Mary
Norton, elected to the house of
representatives from the Twelfth
congressional district in New Jer
sey. She is also the first demo
cratic woman member of congress.
Mrs. Norton was a delegate to
the democratic national convention
at Madison Square Garden, and,
like the rest of the New Jersey
delegation, cast her vote faithfully
for A1 Smith for the presidential
nomination until New York’s gov
ernor withdrew from the race.
Mrs. Norton believes in a gradu
al assumption of political rights by
women.
“We ought not to have equal
rights immediately,” she said dur
ing the campaign, “We must
creep before we can walk.”
She promised in her campaign
appeals to help get a raise in
pay for postal employes as her
first concern on taking her seat in
Congress.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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‘Medical Science of this Genera
tion Will Master Unconquered
Ailments,” Says Health
Head.
Medical science of this genera
tion will master diseases yet un
conquered.
This was the prediction made by
Dr. John E. Monger, state director
of health, in his recent address
before the annual conference of
Ohio health commissioners. The
prediction was based, he said upon
the achievements of the past.
“Unfolding to us,” Dr. Monger
said, “are new discoveries and
new developments that bid fair to
make the wildest dreams of other
days pale into insignificance.
♦ * With the control of typhoid and
malaria an accomplished fact; with
diphtheria controlled except for
the matter of administrative ef
fort; with a means available for
combatting the dread scarlet fever;
with that stealthy killer diabetes
in leash: with trachoma, ophthal
mia, hook worm, pellagra and
plague in the means closed inci
dents; with new discoveries, the
significance of which makes us
whisper our fondest hopes, we can
truly js»y that this is the golden
age.
Realizing Dreams.
"The Tight against disease D
realizing its dreams, and none is
Two Scots were playing a match
at golf and ‘were getting over the
course slowly. At length one said:
“Man, Sandy, do ye no think we
rnieht speed up a wee bit? The
twa players behind us will be get
tin’ exasperated and drivin’ intae
us.
“Nae fear o’ that, 1 chuckled
Sandy; “one o’ them is owin’ me
10 shillins.”
Although he wps a particularly,
long suffering parent, there were*
times when his nerves gave away’
under the fire of the innumerable
questions of his small son.
One evening as he was settling
down to a quiet perusal of his pa
per a small voice piped, “Dad, am
I made of dust? II
I think not,” was the weary re
sponse, “otherwise you would dry
up now and again. >>
*» How’s your baby getting on?”
asked Green. “Can he .talk yet?
n No, he’s only beginning to,
replied Black. _________
II He’s a bit backward, surely,*’
said Green. “He’s older than ours
and ours can talk splendidly. II
a Well, ours can walk across the
room without being held,” counter
ed the other.
II My dear chap, ours toddles
down the street to meet me every
evening. How about your baby’s
teeth ? II
“Well, he’s got a few. »»
Ours has got them all but
three and he’s—”
Here he was interrupted by the
xasperated Black. “I say,” he ex
claimed, “does yours use a safty
razor or aft ordinary one?”
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
HOLD DISTRICT MEET
IN WAYNESBORO
Waynesboro, Ga., Nov. 28.—An
enthusiastic district convention of
Knights of Pythias was held here
yesterday. The visitors were wel
comed to Waynesboro by Mayor
Frank S. Palmer. At the fore
noon session the reports of all the
lodges were read and showed pros
perity. Two lodges, Midville and
Milien, are planning to erect lodge
buildings.
At the conclusion of the busi
ness session a barbecue dinner was
served at the Masonic temple.
During the dinner music was ren
dered by the Eighth Infantry band
from Fort Screven.
COOLIDGE TO ATTEND
ARMWAVY GAME
Washington, Nov. 28.—President
and Mrs. Coolidge plan to leave
here Saturday morning by auto
mobile for Baltimore, where they
will attend the annual Army-Navy
football game.
brave as to venture a prediction
as to what the future will bring
forth. Dreams realized have been
the result of patient effort and
those visions of what will come
are based on the accomplishments
of the past.
ii Few problems have been able
to stand against the mind of man
vhen serious, whole minded, whole
hearted efforts have been made
for their solution, and while we do
pot pose as a prophet, we believe
that many in this audience will
see the solution of the problems
which remain to be solved. >>
Dr. Monger did not specify the
diseases to which he referred.
Health authorities agree, however,
that there are two with which
every resource known to medical
research for years has been grap
pling: Tuberculosis and cancer.
“The science of public health,”
Dr. Monger declared, “in only at
the beginning. >1
AS LEADER OF
THE BOLSHEVIKS
London, Nov. 28.—Leon Trotzky
has been deposed by the bolshe
viks, according to a dispatch from
Riga to The Daily Mail. It is
rumored that Lenin’s former co
creator of the soviet union state
may be banished to the Caucasus
or relegated to a foreign diplo
matic post.
The position of commissar of
military affairs, ably filled by
Trotzky since the red revolution,
has been declared vacant, and the
ormer leader’s other high offices
have been taken from him.
Trotzky has been condemned for
recent writings and speeches in
which he was seen to be slipping
from the pure bolshevik faith of
1917 toward the more moderate
beliefs of menshevism. Trotzky
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was a menshevist leader before he
deserted that party to help Lenin
erect the soviet union government
structure.
BOY PRISONERS
ELUDE GUARDS;
JUMP FROM TRAIN
Baltimore, Nov. 28.—Two boys,
14 and 15 respectively, federal
prisoners en route under guard
from Muscogee, Okla., to the 'Dis
trict of Columbia house of cor
,
rection, escaped last night by
jumping from a window of the
compartment when the train on
which they were being transport
ed, stopped at Union station here.
The boys, Robert Sanders, 14,
and Price Skipworth, 15, had been
sentenced to five years’ imprison
ment each on separate charges of
automobile theft.
JUITS POORHOUSE;
NO PAY COMING
Moultrie, Ga., Nov. 28.—J. N.
Ashbury has “quit” the poor
house of Colquitt county.
He recently asked to become an
nmate, telling officials he was a
citizen of the county and was
without funds to support himself.
On being admitted, he was as
signed several tasks to perform.
At the end of the week, Ash
bury asked for his salary.
He was informed no salaries
were paid the inmates.
WILD AUTO DRIVES
NEGRO THROUGH DOOR
Savannah, Nov. 28.—Julius Har
is, a negro , was hurled
hrough the closed door of the en
room of the DpSoto Hotel yes
erday morning when struck by
an automobile.
The driver lost control of the
machine and burst down the door
of the engine room of the DeSoto
Hotel, carrying the negro, a pass
ing pedestrian, with it.
BAND1TS RAID
DANCE; SECURE
SI.000 IN GEMS
New York, Nov. 28.—Within a
block of a police station, five arm
ed men held up 20 girls and 25
men dancers in a social club last
light and escaped in, an automo
bile with money and jewelry esti
mated at $1,000. Two youths,
who entered the club prior to the
hold-up were locked up, charged
with suspicion of robbery.
AMERICAN GIRL
WANTS JO SLAP
London, Nov. 28.—Nellie Taorn
ley, an attractive young woman of
about 25? was charged in the Bow
street police eoiirt today with us
ing insulting words, and bad be
havior outside of Buckingham and
St. James palace. The girl- was
evidently ill and under a great
mental strain, and was remanded
for a week for observation as to
her sanity.
Police said she stood outside of
Buckingham palace abusing royal
ty and shouting:
“Why: should the king have all
this luxury while decent, respec
table girls walk about and
starve?”
When moved away she went to,
St. James palace and called for
the Prince of Wales to come out
so she could slap his face. The
girl was well dressed and refined
and said she was an American.
COLUMBUS KLANSMEN
PARADE IN GRIFFIN
A Ku Klux Klan parade was
staged through the principal
streets of the city Thursday morn
ing, when members of the Colum
bus Klan stopped over in Griffin
en route to Atlanta, where a cere
mony in observance of the found
ing of the order was held on top
of Stone mountain.
About 200 Columbus Klan mem
bers traveled on a special train.
New Way to Stop
Night have Coughing the
Those who suffered tor
tures of sleeplessness due to con
tinual coughing at night, and who
as a result often feel utterly worn
out and useless during the day,
need no longer permit their systems
to be weakened ahd their vitality
sapped by this distressing ailment.
For through a very simple treat
ment the trouble can be stopped al
most at once, and people often get
their full night’s rest undisturbed
after the very first trial.
Here is the method: Simply get a bot
tle of the prescription known aa Dr.
King’s New Discovery from any good
drug stone. Then to-night before re
tiring take one teaspoonful and hold it in
your throat for 15 or 20 seconds before
swallowing it. This prescription has a
double action. It not only soothes and
heala the soreness ar.d irritation, but it
quickly loosens and removes the phlegm
and congestion which is the real cause
of the cough. So your throat is left
wonderfully soothed and cleared of irri
tating gatherings, you can sleep soundly
and restfully, and the cough is usually
gone in a very short time.
Dr. King’s New Discovery is a remark
able reritedy for coughs, chest colds,
hoarseness, sore throat, spasmodic croup,
bronchitis, laryngitis and bronchial asth
ma, At all good druggists. Ask for
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DYNAMITE BLOWS COIN
FROM YOUTH’S POCKET
AND THROUGH HIS LEG
Chester, Nov. 28. — Suffering
from a wound sustained when a
five-cent coin was blown through
his leg, Eli Cummings, Jr., 21, of
Rockdale, is a patient in the Ches
ter Hospital.
Cummings met with the unusual
accident when a charge of dyna
mite exploded prematurely.
The five-cent piece was in his
pocket before the explosion and
was driven through his flesh as
cleanly as a bullet.
NECESSARY
u Would you marry a man to re
form him?”
“No, but every wife has to effect
some alterations. II
(< The Store of Dependability ”
Diamonds Are
The Gift Supreme
Every piece of
Latham Jewelry from
& Atkinson
is guar anteed to be
exactly as it is D IAMOND and Platinum
represented and Diamonds are the
one gift whose welcome is al
I * ways assured. We are offer
ing many beautiful pieces
designed with all the infinite
pains and artistic ability that the world’s master
craftsmen can put into them.
If it is not convenient for you to come to our
store, we will send memorandum package to you.
| Look them over, pick out what you want and re
turn the rest. Out-of-town people who have no
account with us may take advantage of this by
giving their references.
Latham & Atkinson
Jewelers and Platinumsmiths
47 Whitehall—Atlanta
Successors to Davis & Freeman
■Mail orders filled day received
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at a reasonable price.
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PHONE 287
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a A police dog! He looks like a
poodle.”
<< S-s-s-h! Secret police dog. He’s
disguised.
Judge: Five dollars or 10 days
in jail.
Prisoner: What kind of a jail
have you got?
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