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A NEW SOUTH.
"'That admirable index of pros
perity, the Manufacturer’s Record,
aums up in a recent issue the re
generation of the South.
The south, says the Record, has
* captured the cotton manufactur
ing business, now having an in
vestment of over 11,000,000,000 in
this industry as compared with
1882.000. 000 for the entire country
in 1910,
It is capturing the coal trade
with an annual output of about
200.000. 000 tons.
It has one-third of the world’s
petroleum production and more
than one-half of the output of the
country or 367,000,000 barrels out
of a total for the United States
of 732,000,000 barrels.
It is now capturing the paper
trade, as illuminatingly proven in
“The South's Development;” and
even now two fl0,000,000 paper
making enterprises, to b« located
in the south are being made ready
for the early announcement of de
tails, one of these plants being
pfbposed transfer of a great con
cern from New England to a lo
cation already secured in the
south.
People have been accustomed to
think of the west as the land of
empire.
It begins to look as if they were
in for a surprise sou’west by sou’
east. .
ELUSIVE CHARM.
What is that elusive something
we call charm?
According to chroniclers of
romance, beauty andjeharm are
inseparable. For t!$m, beauty,
like the king’s daughter, is “all
glorious within.”
Most pretty women, and all
young actresses are labeled
«> charming,’’ and although pret
a
ty woman’s undoubted mission in
life is to charm, she does not al
ways fulfill It
Beauty of feature and caprici
ousnees of temperament often
pass for genuine charm. But no
odtward perfection can bestow
those rare inward graces com
manding the homage of both
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Charm is not inalienable from
youth nor yet to be learned al
dramatic academies. If it were
the price of tuition would be pro
hibitive to all save the wealthy.
. Charm is that infinite variety
which custom can not stale.
It is latent in all Eve’s daugh
ters, but, like a glorious voice, it
must be cultivated and brought
to conscious perfection.
It is not the prerogative of silk
ei» Indolence, because the > women
with the greatest power to charm
have often gauged life’s exact
indues from a close-knit struggle
with it.
On closest analysis, charm is
•rental harmony-personality at
tuned to the hidden music amid
lift’s blatant discords.
No woman, hemrever, who is
WUJfconciled to the inevitable lim
idtious of existence, can embody
MB> radiation of inner disc’pUns
although most women have a
facet of It that glitters responsive
ly in the glow of selected mo
ments.
The recipe ‘for charm was once
given by a very old lady who,
t
throughput a long life, had test
ed it with the happiest results:
Take equal quantities of humor
and sympathy and mix with lots
of charitable thoughts. Add a
dash of sentiment and moisten
with plenty of the milk of human
kindness.
Apply freely to the rough ‘sur
surfaces of human nature when
ever encountered.
People’s Forum
DOES POLITICS
AFFECT PROSPERITY?
(By John J. Hunt.)
There » a notion in the minds
of many clever people that pros
perity comes with a republican
administration, and persons hav
ing such opinions are not ignorant,
but they are surely not well in
formed.
We trust a prosperous era will
be with us during Coolidge’s hold
of place, bnd we shall most prob
ably have better times, for pros
perity had set In several months
before the election in November,
as is shown by reports of manu
facturfera and tradesmen and bank
ers.
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Some will point to the activity
in the stock market immediately
followirtg the election; but that
was simply psychological—it was
in the <ir, so to speak. It was a
speculative boom.
! Facility consume to produce and capacity
to brings prosperity.
Speculation does not. Such spec
ulation Jwas not, and reasonable could not
have bden based op a
hofce that Coolidge would “do
things,” as the saying goes, for
the conditions as to his ability to
accomplish results are practically
the same, politically speaking, as
they were prior to the election
when he had substantially the
same congress he will have after
March 4.
Coolidge alone can do nothing.
Everyone knows that his pet
measure of reducing taxation by.
the Mellon scheme waa signally
defeated, and a better one adopt
ed by congress against his wishes.
His plan was to relieve the very
rich, who are few, and reduce
their taxes heavily, while the tax
of the many thousands of medium
incomes were reduced slightly.
Congress, under democratic ini
tiative, reversed that plan and re
lieved the many of small and
medium incomes and declined to
cut heavily incomes of the very
few rich.
He opposed the soldiers’ bonus,
but congress passed the law, run
ning rough shod over his veto.
Then came the issue on immi
gration, The president favored
consideration of the demands of
Japan, but congress paid no heed
to him.
So, improvement of the situa
tion, or even a change, is not
promising though we should hope
for the best.
But the country may prosper
anyhow and projoably will in spite
of anything the administration
may do.
‘ The Literary Digest of Novem
ber 1 reproduced a table showing
the country’s condition during the
last 40 years, when the republi
cans were in power 24 years and
the democrats 16 years, and says:
“During this time business has
gone up and down between the
depths of depression and the
heights of prospefty. It has
been a fairly simple matter, there
fore, to study the curvee (in the
diagram cited) representing bus
iness conditions and discover what
percentage of the months during
tlM MBMbl tam va i n h a va
prosperous and the same for the
democratic years. tt
At the outset of its article the
editor, referring to the opinion
of the compiler of the statistics,
says:
Much of the talk about the ef
fect of politics on busines% seems
to be ‘bunk’ to the Cleveland Trust
Company,” (which gathered the
statistics on the subject).
So it seerhs “business is not
so mindful of politics,” as many
people believe.
Yet it is known to the common
S bserver of the past sixty years
hat spurts of violent and incon
siderate legislation have affected
the prosperity of the bulk of the
people most disastrously, at the
same time enhancing the interests
of a favored few.
As instances of this, the re
sumption of specie payment under
a republican administration in the
early “seventies” legislated the
debtor class of this country into
poverty, wrecking millions who
owed and had to pay a big gold
do'lv when they had promised tc
NUT“ mummy!" "1
"FRANCE IS SINCERE WORK
ER FOR INTERNATIONAL
PEACE” SAYS ABBE.
France has been a leader among
the Rations working for world
peace, especially in the last six
months, declared Abbe Ernest
Dimnet, French churchman, writ
er and teacher, in a recent ad
dress, "France Herself Again. tt
Abbe Dimnet, who was a lead
ing figure at the 1923 session of
the Institute of -Politics at Wil
liamstown, Mass., said that this
sincere desire for peace was not
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appreciated by many people, who
still insist that France is unreas
onable in her demands and is in
every way “rocking the boat.”
Not Militaristic.
Far from being a militaristic
nation in the last decades of the
nineteenth century, said the
speaker, France never thought
of war to wipe out her humilia
tion and defeat of 1870. French
literature, especially as represent
ed by Remy de Gourmont and
Anatole France, reflected an al
most cowardly fear of war, until
repeated warnings from 1906 on
ward of Germany’s plans for war
implied in the kaiser’s utterances
brought France to a realization
that was was inevitable.
<< In the past six months France
has shown in a different way that
she is herself again, this time as
M. Le Vicompte Sorigny, a dis
tinguished member of the French
embassy, was present at the sil
ver, wedding celebration of a bish
op. • i 1 'it i ;
Leaning over to his neighbor,
the vicompte asked, sotto voice:
"Tell me, mon cher, vot ees
dis silvaire vedding vitch ve cele
brate? I do not quite understand. t*
(4 Oh,” replied Forster Blythe,
(the bishop’s nephew), “don’t you
know? Why, my unde, the bishop,
and my aunt have lived together
for twenty-five years without ever
having been separated, and with
out any angry word having passed
between them. ft
“Ah! exclaimed the diplomat
heartily, a light breaking in upon
his understanding: “And now ’e
marry her? Br-ravo!”
“It’s a queer world, declared
the young broker. “Only a month
ago I was asking that young lady
stenographer for references. tt
“Well ? tt
“Now her dad has come to me
to furnish references.”
ti Huh?”
Yes, I asked her to marry m,r
last week. tt
Samuel Goldwyn tells about a
meeting of Charlie Chapfip with
Elinor Glyn, who is reported to
. .ur so this is
Charlie Chaplin? Do you know
you don’t look nearly so funny as
I thought you would.”
To this reassuring message
Chaplin is said to have responded
promptly, “Neither do you. tt
pay in a depreciated currency,
or an inflated dollar.
And it also legislated the credi
tor class, and those who had in
vested in U. S. bonds, who were
creditors of the government, into
wealth, by more than doubling the
purchasing value of the plain dol
lars, which increased in value
by such legislation were to be
paid by the debtor.
Although the sudden demoniti
ration of silver had the same ef
fect, an<j the recent sudden defla
tion of the currency which
swamped and bankrupted mil
lions of honest -farmers and others
the country survived all this and
recovered as the patient does from
the surgeon’ knife, and in tht
long run may be healthier to a
newer coming generation.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
a sincere worker for 'internation
al understanding and peace. Out
side nations do not realize this,
and especially in the American
press, both metropolitan and pro
vincial, I have been amused to
note the frequent editorials stress
ing the right of nations to man
age their own affairs. France has
accepted in many instances a set
tlement of her affairs by other na
tioiys. I wonder what would hap
pen if foreigners, friendly for*
eigners, to be sure, attempted to
settle for the United States the
Japanese question, for instance.
Will Take Advice.
It is unjust to say that France
will not listen to reason, that she
is the spoiled child of the world.
She has repeatedly taken advice
on issues most vital to her. She
has accepted the Dawes plan,
which even if it works out—a
mighty ‘if—will bring to France
only 18,000,000,000 francs, a sum
less than she has already spent in
rebuilding her devastated regions.
She also agreed to evacuate the
( Ruhr. Nor is she sorry for all the
sacrifice she has made, for there
is in France a real desire for
peace and a willingness to sub
ordinate her interests to that
end. tt
WHO'S »N THE WHO
PAYS -
NEWS
DR. KARL ARNSTEIN.
The extraordinary achievement
of the German Zeppelin which
crossed the Atlantic some weeks
ago has fired the imagination <?f
the whole world, and has elicited
admiration for the German peo
pie. i "%'j .
But in the many laudatory com
ments here and abroad little has
been said of Dr. Karl Arnstein,
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a Czecho-Slovakian Jew, who#both
designed and built that marvel of
air flight.
A Berlin correspondent of a
Viennese paper contributes a most
interesting article about the ZR-3
and its builder.
Jew.
He points out that while the
Germans are so proud of the ship
that they regard it as a product
of their national ability and in
genuity, the builder and design
er of this latest Zeppelin is an
alien resident of German soil, a
Jew who came from Prague be
cause in that city his promotion
and advancement were sorely han
dicapped by the anti-Semitic activ
ities.
The builder and designer of
ZR-3, born in Prague 37 years
ago, was a child of poor parents.
Parents Deaf Mutes.
There is a remarkable fact con
nected with Arnstein’s career, and
that is that the parents of this
mathematical genius are deaf
mutes who met each other in an
dieted. Their three children, how
ever, are perfectly normal. \
The zeppelin is qot the only
thing that this wizard has built.
It was also he who laid the foun
dation for the famous west wing
of the great Strassburg cathedral.
Arnstein made it possible that the
tower, which has been closed for
so many years because of fears
of collapse, can now be safely
used.
US GIRLS.
Mary: Why does that man al
ways refer to you as his baby
girl?
Enid: I don’t know. I suppose
it is because I keep him up so late
at night.
BAD STOPS.
Joseph: John broke his leg in
two places.
Colleen: John ought not to go
near those places.
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BEGINNING OF
A SERIES
ON PROVERBS
We are usually the best men
when we are in the worst health.
However early you get up you
cannot hasten the dawn.
Nothing is easier than to cheat
an honest man.
He who knows he does not
know is never a fool.
These are Spanish proverbs.
The proverbs of a nation crys
tallize its national temperament
and popular habits of thought.
They are an epitome of its wis
dom.
For some days this column will
be devoted to the presentation of
the proverbs of the various coun
tries and peoples.
Today the maxims are Spanish:
Lock your door so that you
may keep your neighbor honest.
Three helping one another will
do as much as six men singly.
He who sajrs much must be
right sometimes.
The imagination easily sees
what it desires. .
To reply to an evil word by
another taunt is like trying to
clean off dirt with mud.
If you are vexed or angry you
will have two troubles instead of
one.
He wh* has drumk his fill soon
turns his back on the fountain.
He will never worship well the
image on the altar who knew it
when it was a trunk of wood in
the garden.
We have the most to fear from
fortune when we have the largest
handful of her.
Beware of risking much if he
who gives advice is a poor man.
Even in hell one finds com
panionship.
A wall between best preserves
friendship.
There is a remedy for every
thing but death.
The creditor always has a better
remedy than the debtor.
To make excuses before they
are needed is 1 to blame oneself.
If you would know the worth
of a ducat, go and borrow one.
MERCY.
Zasu: If that’s a chop, then I’m
an idiot.
Butcher: You know best, mad
am,, but that’s a chop.
Saturday. December 6. 1924,
Is DaddyHome ?
O. Lawrence Hawthorne
I hear Bob shout a block away,
ti Is Daddy home?
When Mother calls them in from play,
While 44 IsJDaddy who home?” older
Bower, .is grown* *
Employs convention’s milder tone ,/a fja V
And yet his eagerness is shown,
44 Is Daddy home?” »
Then Dick and Phil'take up the call, M V'o rft
“Is Daddy hope?”
When Mother tells them in the hall,
“Yes, Daddy’s home!”
I hear the four begin to tear 9M
Like little wild men up the stair,
While lustily they all declare
That Daddy’s home! 5i
Oh, what a blessed thing to hear,
"Is Daddy home? ft
From voices so intent and dear, 7 m
44 Is Daddy home? N
I hope that in the years to be
My boys will know such love for me
That often they will call to see .
If Dad is home.
• a LAVRENCE HAVTHORNE
PACTS ABOUT )
GEORGIA
Records in the Archives and
History Department show that the
oldest live oak in America is lo
cated at Thomasville. It is«aid to
be more than 600 years old, has a
150 foot spread; 28 1-2 feet in
circumference at height of three
feet from the ground.
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Marble quarried from Georgia’s
hills is the stone Italy is using to
fashion the Piave Memorial in
Rome to commemorate the Italian
heroes in the World War.
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The first negro ever ordained as
a minister of the gospel, was or
dained in Georgia in 1774.
The first manual training shool
was inaugurated in Georgia in the
year 1803.
Georgia observed the first legal
Thanksgiving Day in the year
1735. _
The first Georgia Railroad Com
mission was in Amreicus in 1803.
It was in Georgia that the first
free school was inaugurated.
It was a Georgian who invented
the first sewing machine.
Twice-Told Tales
There are so many persons
nowadays who want to be of ser
vice to mankind that it is rath
er difficult for an old fashioned
politician to get within arm’s
length of the pie counter. —Co
lumbia Record.
The Prince fif Wales recently
saw bis Arst ball game. What a
fine Tom Sawyer type of sand
lot leader he’d have made if he
only had been born in the right
country—Cincinnati Enquirer. *
Oh, well, life has its compen
sations. John W. Davis won two
prizes at the Nassau chrysanthe
mum show.—New York Herald
Tribune.
No one car, look more as if
life were a total failure than a
man towed to the garage in a
brand new car.—Ohio State Jour
nal. M
The objections * to high
most
brow literature is its pompous way
of saying something everybody
knows.—Quincy (III.) Whig-Jour
nal.
There’s a brighter side. Japan
and America might be farther
apart if they were nearer.—Balti
more Sun.