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WHAT DOES CHRISTMAS"
MEAN TO YOU?
Is Christmas time a seasqf^of
happiness and joy for you, or is
it a time of worry anxiety and
foreboding, asks the Tifton Ga
zette. /
It all depends on the way you
look at it
We know some folks who begin
to worry about Christmas months
before it arrives, and then they
keep worrying about the Christ
mas bills months after Christmas
has passed. ,
That’s the trouble.
It is a season of reckless and
uncalled for spending on their
part.----------......
They know beforehand that
they can’t afford to buy what they
are going to buy, but they go
ahead and buy it,* and then worry
for months about where the
money is to come from to pay for
it.
That's not the spirit of Christ
mas.
If you are not able to pay for
the presents, don’t buy them.
That person whose love or
friendship hangs in the balance of
the scales of gifts isn’t worth
having anyway.
Old Santa must come to see
the children of course, and bring
ihem lots of fruits, nuts and can
dies and anything else he is able
to secure along the way.
We wouldn’t think much of a
parent who was not willing to
skimp, save and deny himself, if
necessary, in order that Santa
Claus might be seen and his an
naul visit arranged for.
But why make Chriatmas the
occasion for the exchange of
gifts between adults, when the
said adults are not able to pay
for the gifts?
One of the worst of our modern
evils is this desecration of Christ
mas—the birthday of Him who
came to give all.
Give to the children, the poor
and the needy, of course, and as
far as you can, sacrificing in or
der to do so, and you will get
real true joy from your giving.
But what joy is there in giv
ing to those from whom you ex
pect gifts in return?
,That’s selfishness, and selfish
ness has never yet brought hap
piness.
Remember the occasion for
which we observe Christmas—the
birth of the Savior—and in that
spirit only will you find the true
happiness of the Christmas sea
son.
Everybody is a fool some of the
time, but he is a double fool who
is a fool all the time.
Rich men and young boys seem
to be equally adept at getting
into mischief.
A good example is always more
potent than a horrible example.
Opportunities are like flowers—
they wilt when picked.
1E8T
OF
A, ■ s
SAMPLES OF
THE BRITISH
MIND.
Some have been thought brave
because they were unafraid to run
away.
The noisiest drum haa nothing
in it but air.
A good occasion for courtship
is when the widow returns from
the funeral.
The first breath is the begin
ning of death.
English proverbs make up to
day’s instalment of this series:
There is nothing new except
what hath been forgotten.
He that goes a great way for
a wife is either cheated or means
to cheat.
He that hath no children doth
bring them up well.
He that is needy when he is
married shall be rich when he is
buried.
Commend not your wife, wine
nor house.
A cool mouth and warm feet
long.
A book that remains shut is
but a block.
God deliver me from a man of
one book.
One hair of a woman draws
more than a team of oxen.
Pride is as loud a beggar as
want, and a great deal more sau
cy.
The thief is sorry that he is
caught, not that he is a thief.
If you would have a hen lay,
you must bear with her cackling.
A barren sow was never good
to pigs.
Weapons bode peace.
A bird is known by its note, a
man by his talk.
A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders
sees the farther of the two.
Time tries all.
Tis late ere an old man comes
to know he is old.
Cooks are to be taught in
own kitchen.
Who would do ill never wants
occasion.
Girls are like birds, and the
breed comes out in the feathers.
One college man was telling the
other of his new girl.
She’s wonderful, Jack, he
said, “in the first place she is the
most beauiful thing I ever saw,
and on the other hand—”
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"On the other hand,” finished
Jack who knew her, “she has an
engagement ring."
A wealthy young man called at
the undertaker’s and identified a
corpse as his father. He gave
orders for elaborate burial. Just
as he was leaving he took a last
look and observed that the lower
jaw had fallen, exposing a set of
false teeth. “That’s not my fath
er,” said he, and immediately left.
The undertaker yanked the body
out of the handsome coffin, slap
ped it down on the slab, and said:
“You d fool! If you’d kept
your mouth shut you’d got a first
class funeral. »♦
A wild eyed, disheveled looking
woman burst into the local police
station.
“My husband has been threaten
ing to drown himself for some
time,” she cried hysterically, “and
he’s been missing now for two
days. I want you to have the
canal dragged. ■>
“Anything peculiar about him
by which he can be recognized,
supposing we find a body?” in
quired the inspector.
The woman hesitated and seem
ed at a loss for a minute or two.
Then a look of relief slowly over
spread her face.
“Why, yes," she exclaimed at
last, "he’s deaf. M
TfSSiSMS \i
admitted to be a function of the
treasury department. Even with
the justice department in charge
of enforcement, the treasury de
partment would still have to
maintain a large force to inves
tigate complaints and supervise
alcohol users. >»
Wheeler said that divided con
trol is responsible for most of the
bootleg offenses today. The <ji*
version of 6,000,000 gallons of
alcohol, released by the internal
revenue collectors, he said, has
supplied much of the illicit trade,
as the prohibition unit has no
control over the release of this al
cohol.
"Centralised authority in one
bureau,” he went on, “the closing
of the present easy access of boot
leggers to alcohol supply, elim
ination of politics in prohibition
through civil service, and the cut
ting out of costly delays due to
divided responsibility, will meet
the demands of the American peo
ple who insist that prohibition
be effective. The Cramerton bill
will do this.
Prohibition Cuts Death Rate.
•< Prohibition reduced the death
rate equivalent to> saving 1,000,
lives in five years, lowered in
dustrial accidents by 250,000 per
year, eliminated 75 per cent
of drink caused poverty, halted
the growth of penal population
and emptied many of our jails,
cut the alcoholic insanity ratio
throughout the nation and reduc
ed the number of drink cures by
nine-tenths, at the same time
stimulating all legitimate business
and helping to boom home build
ing.* It gave men a chance to
take their foot off the brass rail
and put it on an auto starter;
also altered bar flies to movie
fans and made them fond of out
door sports. The nation doubled
its investors and broke records of
savings banks and insurance com
panies. Such a policy is worth
the best kind of enforcement and
it will get it.
“INTERNAL REVENUE COL
LECTOR LET ALCOHOL
SLIP TO BOOTLEG
TRADE” CHARGES
WHEELER.
“The general success of prohi
bition make sensationally notice
able any weakness in enforce
ment,” said Wayne B. Wheeler,
general counsel of the Anti-Sa
loon League of America, recent
ly.
ii We have cut the former del
uge of intoxi
cating drinks
down to a com
paratively pal
try trickle. Most
of that can be
stopped by clos
ing the avenues
through which
1 internal revenue
collectors allow
VLB. WHIRLED” alcohol to es
cape to the bootleg trade, now
that the coast guard is choking
off the smuggler.
u The suggestion of some feder
al circuit judges that the depart
ment of justice have charge of
enforcement, would create more
opportunity to shift responsibil
ity and pass the buck. We need
an enforcement bureau with full
authority and held rigidly respon
sible if it does not do its work.
The Greatest Problem.
« The greatest enforcement prob
lem lies in the permissive fea
tures of the law controlling the
alcohol supply. This is generally
Griffin Circuit
Notes
By Rev. B. L. Betts
The Psalmist says the joy of
the whole earth is Mt. Zion. The
privilege of preaching to the
splendid congregation we had last
Sunday brought real joy to the
pastor's heart.
On the sick lisi^ are Mesdames
Dr. Byre, Walter Crowder, Mari
on lWis and Bennett. Our pray
er is that the Great Physician
will guide the attending phys
icians.
In the home of Mrs. Judith
Connally is to be found a much
used, but remarkably well pre
served Bible in which are family
records as ancient as 1786. Mrs.
Connally attends church, loves
her neighbors and is well ac
quainted with the Lord.
The Sunday school class of
Miss Ella Touchstone was largely
attended last Sunday.
The pastor wishes the names
of those who have Contributed
to the offering suggested last
week.
Iceland ponies are fed mostly
on fish heads during the winter.
Responsibility develops some
men and wilts others.
ffiPHETTY! TURN
Try Grandmother’s Old Favorite
Recipe of Sage Tea and
Sulphur.
Almost everyone knows that
Sage Tea and Sulphur, properly
compounded, brings back the nat
ural color and lustre to the hair
when faded, streaked or gray.
Years ago the only way to get
this mixture was to make it at
home, which is mussy and trouble
some. Nowadays, by asking at
any drug store for Wyeth’s Sage
and Sulphur Compound, you will
get a large bottle of this famous
old recipe, improved by the addi
tion of other ingredients at a
small cost.
Don’t stay gray! Try it! No
qne can possibly tell that you
darkened your hair, as it does it
so naturally and evenly. You
dampen a sponge or soft brush
with it and draw this through
your hair, taking one small strand
at a time; by morning the gray
hair disappears, and after an
other application or two, your
hair becomes beautifully dark,
glossy and attractive.—(Adv.)
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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CENTRAL CONSOLIDATED
SCHOOL OF LAMAR TO
GIVE CHRISTMAS TREE
The Central Consolidated
school of Lamar county invites
it* friends and patrons to a
Christmas tree Friday, December
19, at 6:30 o’clock.
Bring your gifts and let Santa
distribute them for you.
The following tentative pro
gram hat been arranged:
Song—“Hark! The Herald An
gels Sing—School.
Reading— “Orphant Annie —
Ruby English.
Solo—Mrs. Douglas Sanders.
Reading—“Story of the Christ
Child."
Song—“Silent Night Carol
Singers.
Distribution of gifts by Santa.
PROFITABLE INVENTION
She—You say that gentleman
you just nodded to acquired a for
tune from an invention ?
He—Yes, he invented a long line
of aristocratic ancestors and cap
tured an heiress.
It’s easy to be generous with
other people’s *
money.
666
is a prescription for
COLDS, GRIPPE, DENGUE,
HEADACHES. CONSTIPA
TION, BILIOUSNESS.
It is the most speedy remedy
we know.
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Follow The s :
Crowds
And You Will Eat at The
BLUE GOOSE
CAFE
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Tuesday. December 16, 1924.
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