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“PRIMPING” IN PUBLIC.
Oud compliments to the girls
of the Asheville high school, and
our most confident assurances that
there are none more fair and 'win
some in all the Old North State.
That is not because we have
ever seen them, or even pictures
of them, nor yet because we have
heard anything more about them
than is known to the entire public.
It is because of what Is known
to all, through an item of press
mews some time ago.
That the aforesaid girls of the
Asheville, N. C., high school, in a
resolution “almost unanimously »>
adopted, promised "not to pow
der or primp in public, either in
school or outside of school,” and
called upon all other schoolgirls
in the state to quit “powdering
their noses in public. M
Girls who have the taste and
gumption to make that pledge are
all right.
That there should be occasion
for such action is, however, a
grave reproach upon our social
manners and customs.
,For the practices which these
North Carolina girls renounce and
deprecate are, unfortunately,
. wide-spread; not merely among
schoolgirls and “flappers,” but al
so among their'mothers.
It is no uncommon sight in any
considerable city to see girls and
trons powdering their noses
and cheeks, painting their lips
or penciling their brows, while
they walk along the street, or
ride in cars.
Worse still, since bobbed hair
has been fashionable, it is a com
mon practice for women at the
theater, after removing their hats,
to apply a comb to their locks and
ply it diligently until the desired
degree of fluffiness is attained.
And perhaps worst of all is it—
•nd it is far from rare—for these
mysteries of the toilet to be cele
brated at table in a restaurant or
hotel dining room.
The extent to which these arti
ficial aids to physical attraction
should be employed if at all, may
he an open question. —
question whatever that their ap
plication should be made in the
privacy of the dressing room.
To flaunt it in the public is to
affront good taste, and is also
to defeat the very purpose for
which the thing is done.
“In vain is the net spread in
ttte sight of any bird. ••
In vain are these supposed en
hancements of beauty applied in
the sight of those whom they arc
intended to allure.
An artificial bloom will never
incite admiration "when it is pub
HHy exhibited and proclaimed to
■* the product of the drug shop
os beauty parlor.
Publicity of such practices is fa
Ut to their efficiency.
The Asheville girls urge their
aigera throughout the state to
*Veturn to the ways of our moth
«* and grandmothers. ft
It U to be feared that there are
mothers and grandmothers who
need T to return to the way to
which these girls have pledged
themselves.
DRINKING AMONG STUDENTS
A tremendous furore has been
t
caused in England by the publica
tion in a medical journal of an
article which says in effect that
there has been a great increase in
the use of alcoholic stimulants
among university undergraduates.
Paterfamilias and, especially,
materfamiliaQ have deluged the
authorities of the various institu
tions of the higher learning with
anguished letters on the subject,
and everyone concerened has been
busy on investigations as to the
truth or falsity of the accusation.
The net result appears to be
that the charge is, in the language
of the Scottish verdict, 'not
proven.
College officials, proprietors of
hotels and managers of clubs aver
that beer in small quantities is the
staple beverage of the under
graduate.
The vice chancellor of one of the
older universities commits himself
to the statement that the amount
of drinking is much less than it
was 30 years ago, adding, naively,
that it is very rare indeed for a
man to be seen drunk, “except on
special festive occasions. i»
He further alleges that wine as
a form of private entertainment
is almost extinct.
When one remembers the prices
to which whisky, brandy, wine, and
even beer have soared in England
under the pressure of the heavy
taxes in force on these commodi
ties, and remembers also that few
British undergraduates are pluto
crats nowadays, one will all the
more readily incline to the belief
that sobriety among the students
is the rule rather than the except
Two well known actors were
playing golf and every stroke
proclaimed that they were novices
at the game. Several fair sized
pieces of the turf had been sent
skyward and when one unusually
large piece departed from its
native soil one of the accompany
ing caddies turned to the other
and whispered:
ii Did yer tell me they were
actors, Bill? ft
'Yes, ft answered the other.
U Well, ft was the reply, “all I
can says is they ought to be
scene shifters.”
Mr. Mulligan was lying upon
his death bed. Mrs. Mulligan
was seated at his side, giving
what small consolation she could
offer in the circumstances.
“Sure, Mike,” said she, “is there
innything I cud do for yez be
fore yun lave us?”
“Margaret, me darlint,” said he,
H I think I smell the odor of roast
in’ pork. I belave I cud eat a
bit of it.”
“I’m sorry, Mike,” said she,
“but we can’t cut into that pork
roast. We’re savin’ it for the
wake. 1
An English nobleman was
boasting to an American about
the antiquity of his family.
“See here,” said the American,
“when 1 was last -over in the
S t a t es —by dad—showed fire my
pedigree. It filled yards and
yards of paper, and near t4ie mid
dle of the list there was a margi
nal note, saying, “Somewhere
about this time the world was
created.”
Twice-Told Tales
We shall never have safe high
ways until motorists stop driv
ing with one hand on theshrdl
ing with one foot on the acceler
ator and the other in the grave,—
Brooklyn Eagle.
Read an account of a man who
slept past the time for his wed
ding. That’s nothing. Lots of
men don’t wake up till after mar
riage.—Los Angeles Times.
The latest thing in hen pecked
husbands is the fellow that waits
at the barber shop while his wife
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“RAILROADS FACE INABILITY
TO ATTRACT CAPITAL FOR
FUTURE NEEDS.”
“Can the railroads meet their
obligations and attract new capital
under existing conditions?” was
the question put to Gen. William
Wallace Atterbury, who has just
assumed the presidency of the
Pennsylvania railroad system.
"That question touches the most
important factor in the railway
situation today,” said General At
whoswho tN E PA V3
hi ews
GIACOMO DE MARTINO.
Commendatore Giacomo de Mar -
tino, who is slated at Rome to
succeed the universally popular
Prince Gelasio Caetania as the
ambassador of Italy at Wash
ington at the end of the present
year, is one of the ablest members
of King Victor Emanuel’s diplo
matic service.
He bears a name which is fa
maliar to the editors and proprie
tors of, a number of the biggest
newspapers of the United States,
for his father spent a considerable
portion of his diplomatic cateer in
the Far Orient, was for a time
charge d’affaires first at Pekin
and then in Japan, was through
some intrigue against him in po
litical circles at Rome suddenly
dismissed on a fallacious pretext
and compelled to earn his liv
ing in the Orient by writing for
American daily newspapers. Af
ter a few years, through the down
fall of his enemies at home, he
was restored to the diplomatic
service, promoted to the rank of
minister plenipotentiary and dieh
while filling that office at Tokio.
Sister Known in U. S.
The new ambassador’s sister
will be pleasantly remembered at
Washington as the charming wife
of that Count Albert von Quadt,
then counselor and charge d'af
faires of the German embassy in
America. 1
Italy’s new ambassador to the
United States speaks English
without any trace of foreign ac
cent. He spent his boyhood in
London, where his father was
then counselor of embassy.
Throughout the world war he
was principal under secretary of
state for foreign affairs at the
palace of the consulta at Rome,
and as such he took part in all
the many conferences between the
premiers off .the Entente powers
in London, Paris and Rome while
the restoration of peace was in
progress, After the restoration
of peace he became one of the
chief representatives of Italy at
the epoch making congress at
Versailles.
FACTS ABOUT
GEORGIA
Howell Cobb, who for eight
years was speaker of the house of
congress; secretary of the treas
ury under President Buchanan,
and governor of Georgia, served
as a major general in the Confed
erate army.
There are 285 concerns in Geor
gia handling plants and nursery
stock, according to the board of
Entomology. Atlanta leads with
12 such concerns, and Albany
comes second with 9.
The infantry school, located at
Fort Benning, near Colubus, with
several thousand officers attend
ing classes every year is the only
military school of its kind in the
world.
Over 180 carloads of calcium ar
senate was distributed to Georgia
farmers in 1924 for use in fight
ing the boll weevil.
Charles Wesley, Georgia, gave
to the world its first hymn book
in 1735.
In 1540 the first Christian bap
tism was performed in Georgia.
has her hair
ville Times-Union.
The test of patriotism is to
revere forefathers while paying
the war debt they left.—Baltimore
Sun.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
terbury. "It has been estimated
that the railroads in order to keep
pace with the rapid development
of the business of the country re
quire 11,000,000,000 a year of new
capital. Since 1916 practically no
new money has been raised by the
railroads through the issuance of
common stock. Recently there
have been one or two exceptions.
What this means is that the rail
roads have had to issue bonds in
order to finance improvements.
That means mortgaging the prop
erty.
Railroads Like Homes.
* I Now, you can mortgage a house
only up to a certain point. The
same thing is true of a railroad.
A railroad seeking new capital
must compete for the savings of
those who have money to invest
with industrial and other enter
prises which are able to offer in
vestors far greater inducements
than the railroads can offer.”
IS URGED WITH
VIOLATION OF LAW
Atlanta, Dec. 4.—The Atlanta
Commercial Exchange yesterday
was indicted by the Fulton county
grand jury on a charge of violat
ing the Georgia law prohibiting
dealing in futures on margins.
The indictment of the exchange
follows closely the accusation by
the body of about sixty individual
members of the exchange and
other brokers about two weeks
ago, and comes as a result of a
raid recently on the exchange by
Solicitor General John A. Baykin.
No Bill First.
A former session of the same
grand jury returned a U no bill
when it first investigated the case
against the exchange. There was
no explanation as to why the first
attempt of the solicitor general to
indict the corporate body was un
successful and the second was.
If the exchange is convicted in
the courts and the conviction is
upheld by the supreme court of
the state, the entire state will be
denied New York and New Or
leans cotton exchange quotations^
according to a statement given out
here recently by Louis Brooks,
member of the board of managers
of the New York exchange. The
New Orleans exchange, two days
afterward, indicated it would fol
low the New York exchange’s
lead.
Mr. Brooks was one of the in
dividual brokers indicted several
days ago. ’
More Indictments.
It was hinted at the office of
the solicitor general late yesterday
that bills against more individual
brokers are being sought and
probably will be forthcoming with
in the week.
The brokers have stated /they
intend to fight the state prosecu
tion in the federal court under the
Smith-Lever cotton futures act,
but so far no move has been made
in that direction.
SENATOR *
GEORGE l
WILL CO-OPERATE
WITH COLLEAGUES
Washington, Dec. 4.—Senator
George, of Georgia, in a formal
tatement Monday gave notice that
he would not resort to obstructive
tactics during the coming short
session of congress, but stated that
he would co-operate to push
through the regular appropriation
bills and other necessary legisla
tion before March 4, so that an
extra session would not be re
quired. He expressed the opinion
that other democrats would fol
low this course.
Chronic laziness should in many
cases be regarded aa .a--4isease,
says a pfominent London physi
cian.
Joseph Aspind, an English stone
mason, invented Portland cement
100 years ago.
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BRITISH REACH
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London, Dec. 4.—In coming with
surprising alacrity to a trade
agreement with Germany the Brit
ish have struck a shrewd blow at
their political allies and commer
cial competitors, the French.
The agreement gives them most
favored nation treatment and the
significance of this is seen in the
fact that Franco-German negotia
tions are now being carried on,
in which France, for many excel
lent reasons, hopes to obtain im
portant special treatment from
ern , any
Now Germany will be able to
say to France: “We cannot give
what you want without giving it
to Britain also, and to give it to
both is impossible.
Consideration.
, France,, for example, is expect
iing to have special consideration
shown in Germany to goods man
ufactured in Alsace and Lorraine.
These provinces economically
belong still more to Germany than
to France. It is essential to their
well being that for a while they
function more or less as belong
ing to the Germany economic sys
tem.
But the Germans are now put in
a position to argue that they can
not give special treatment of this
sort. For if they let Alsatian
tiles and other manufactures into
Germany cheap, they must like
wise let in British gods of the
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Protection for Britain.
In general the British have pro*
tected themselves against what
has been one of the big post-war
bogeys in Europe—too intimate
co-operation between France and
Germany. And to do that they
paid a handsome price. They
have scrapped all anti-German
commercial legislation.
No longer will it be possible
to shut out the Germans from the
British mercantile marine or to
clamp the lid on German banking
legislation against German dump
ing under the safeguadring of
industries act.
The British cannot protect
themselves specifically from thd
( -' crmarl3 the future.
So far as British commercial
legislation is concerned, the war is
over.
An elephant consumes about 200
pounds of hay daily.
Thursday, December 4, 1924.
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u I’ve noticed this,” says Old Josh Plum, m
“It makes no difence when they come
Or how, they ain’t be’n here a day _
Before they puts their pride away
An’ every one of ’em, it seems, +~r St
Has settled down to pleasant dreams; N.V
There surely ain’t no finer sight
Than fellers waitin’ for a bite! A
jjjgt age Or “ Somehow else it makes they all ’em seems boys more again— like men
But, anyhow, the poorest lad
SS. Is jest as free an’ jest as glad K,
As any millionaire can be;
\ An’ what seems best of all to me
l Is how most everybody lends U
A helpin’ hand that makes ’em friends.
"The An’ But life toilin’ I’ve fer observed us world jest is now far that is away play. fishin’ brings n *
A lot o’ help for other things:
Men learns the worth of patience here
An’ what it means to persevere;
They learns that nothin’ counts unless
It helps ’em share their happiness.
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RECTOR ASKS TRAINING
FOR PREACHERS’ WIVES
Chicago, Dec. 4. — Preachers’
wives need special preparation for
their tasks, the Rev. Dr. C. E.
Hay, rector of the Baltimore
THE REWARD OF THRIFT
The CITY NATIONAL BANK will, on January 1st,
add approximately THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS
in interest to the balances of its Savings Depositors.
That means that those who have had the foresight to
deposit their savings in the City National Bank are
Three Thousand Dollars better off than they would
have been had they kept the money in their pockets
or at home.
Make your money earn money for '’you. Open a
Savings account at this strong National Bank today
so that you will share in the future interest payments.
All deposits made by Dec. 8th will draw int/i rest
from the 1st. .
4 PER CENT PAID ON SAVINGS
CITY NATIONAL BANK
SERVICE SAFETY
GRIFFIN GEORGIA
Mother House, said in an address
before the convention of the Lu
theran church here. The fiancees
of theological students are receiv
ing special training for their life
as wives of ministers and as mis
sionaries in the foreign field, he
I said.