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. ! Sr 120 Eaat Solomon Street * PHONE No. 210 Entered at postoftice in Griffin, Ga,, as secon d class mail matter. v,vw-.'/v V* MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press » exclus ively entitled to the use for re publication of it the news dispatch es credited to Or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local rights * news re-publication published herein. of Ail or ate^jglao special dispatches herein reserved. OFFICIAL PAPER City C. S. of Court, Griffin. Northern 8palding Di«i J ict oi G eorgia. ______ ______ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS Daily by Carrier One year, in advance----- |8.00 Six months, in advance____ 2.60 Thre4 months, in advance _ 1.26 One month, payable at end of. month --------------- .50 One Dally by Mai) year, In advance______$4.00 Six month, In advance «... 2;00 Three months, in advance . 1.00 One month, in advance---- *1 .40 One Semi-Weekly Edition year, in advance---- <1.00 Six months, in advance . M Three months, In advance ...... .26 If cent within 30-mile radius of Griffin. Beyond 80-mile zone, one year, three months, |1.50; six months, 76c; 40c. CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART It is Christmas in the mansion, Yule-log fires and silken frocks; It is Christmas in the cottage, Mother’s filling little socks. It is Christmas on the highway, In the thronging, busy mart; But the dearest, truest Christmas la the Christmas in the heart. —La Grange Graphic. Merry Christmas! Stay sober. All’s In now except the bills. it 1 men. 1» Here’s hoping you get what you wanted. There are no empty stockings here. We’ll rest tomorrow just like Other folks. And the vexatious shopping problem has been settled. Those who yet the most out of Christmas are the ones who give. Old Santa Claus is a mighty good fellow and he will find a welcome everywhere tonight. CONCERNING GROUCHES Lr,'"-... ..... , , . # If you really must get a grouch out of your system go alone down to the swamp and kill a snake. Go out on the plains and break the bleaching bones of some wild animal. Smash a window in some aban 9 doned factory, but for the love of Mike! let other folks alone. If you have a grouch challenge some big man for a fist fight. Perhaps a good beating is what you need. Try a cold plunge. Try going to bed early one night in the week. Try anything that is fair to the other fellow. But let men, children, servants * Innocent people alone until you regain your sanity. ! When yea feci as cranky as a holy friar fed on hail stones eat an angle worm. ^ When you are as mad as a bull covered with hornets steep a cup of lotus leaves and charm your self to sleep. The grouch throws all his as sociates into desperate inconveni ence, and for his temper pays a big price. Few business men can afford to get grouchy when in company with their associates, customers, friends or when at home with the family. When you feel sulky, ill-humor ed and surly as a butcher’s dog, bite a mule’s hind leg.—Pearson Tribune. GOLF AND WORLD PEACE A distinguished jurist address in * a meeting in Chicago asserted that the game is more potent than any alliance to pre vent international discord. It is a sport that is played everywhere under the same rules. If one can play it or play at it in the United States, he can tee up on top of Mount Everet—if he could get there—call “fore" and shoot, knowing that nobody could pull some new and unheard-of regulation on hint. . It is not necessary to speak the same language as your opponent. f he If will h€ fai,B know to exactly C0Unt hl what * atrokes you * mean when you bring the fact to Ms attention by the sign language or by any other method indicat ing suspicion and disapproval. When you beat him he knows it as well as he would if you told him about it in forty different tongues. Pursuing the thought'of the cos mopolitan character of the game, the judge says: “We hear every day of the meeting of statesmen and diplo mats on the golf links and we golfers know what this means in establishing good accord, for there is something in the game that in spires mutual confidence and gen erous fellow-feeling. n There may be something in the thought, though we believe there are in the present British cabinet —which is accused of pulling a good deal of rough stuff in Egypt —a number of men who are quite handy with golf clubs. The game has not seemed to diminish their international punch and forcefulness. Perhaps the Chicago explana tion of this apparent departure from the general theory of golf’s soothing effect on the relations be tween statesmen is that the Egyp tians are known as the worst sort of duffers. Their exhibition may have ruin r temeper. Such a thing is possible and should be taken account of ih any thesis such as that outlined. flU r oc E BEST in Hi V-JJr - C L ARK, ham I KiH SAYINGS OF THE IRISH. A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly. There is no thing wickeder than a woman of evil temper. To die and to lose one’s life are much the same thing. Many a shabby colt makes a fine horse. The familiar proverbs that make up today’s installment of this se ries of presentations of exioms of the various peoples, are, of COUi Irish. A hufNhf a palace to a poor man. \ Great minds li ve apart; people may meet, but mountains and rocks never. An Irishman carries his heart in his hand. The only time England can use an Irishman is when he emigrates to the United States and votes for free trade. ... We live as......long as we’re let. Praise youth and it will advance l Uf ft ll i ....................-...................... Wherever there are women there’s^ talkinfi. and wherever there are geese there’s cackling. Everyone lays a burden on the willing horse. 1 A secret is a weapon and a friend. It is difficult to soothe the proud. The shoemaker’s wife an’ the smith’s mare af’en goes bareflt ted. It is the hope of recompense that ruins the card-player. If you buy a bad thing you will soon buy again. It’s no secret that’s known to three. A good horseman is the man on the ground. There never was a scabby sheep in a flock that didn’t like to have a comrade. The beginning of a ship is a board, of a kiln a stone, of a “EUROPE MAKING SOUND GAINS TOWARD FIRM FOOT ING,” SAYS OTTO KAHN. ■ This is the way Otto H, Kahn, American financier, sizes up the general economic and political sit uation in Europe: England. it England, which during and since the war has shown nothing less than economic heroism in her * jCTTTO" vance in the value of the pound sterling to within a fraction of its par value is an expression of the world’s •unques tioning confidence in Great Brit ain’s economic ways, methods and character, and of its estimate of what the future has in store for her. France. “France, industrious, prosperous, with abundant employment for her people, and with a favorable bal The student had been spend ing somewhat too freely, and was short. It was near the holidays and he hated to write home for money. As a last resort he pawn ed his dress suit. (» i 'tl V I When the time came to leave for home, the suit was still unre deemed. He hurriedly scraped up cash enough to get it back, packed it in his grip and was off. His mother was helping him unpack. U Henry,” she said, “what is this ticket in your coat for? » •‘Why, mother,” he replied, “I went to a dance the other evening and had my coat checked. yt She continued putting away his garments. Finally she lifted the trousers. They, too, were ticketed; u Henry!” she excliamed, “what kind of a dance was that? tf The wife of a great botanist beamed at him across the supper table. “But these,” she exclaimed, pointing to the dish of mushrooms that had been set before her, “are not all for me, Llewellyn, are they? tt Yes, Mabel,” he nodded, u I gathered them especially for you with my own hands. She beamed upon him • grateful ly. What a dear, unselfish old husband he was! In five minutes she had demolished the lot. At breakfast the next morning he greeted her anxiously. “Sleep all night?” he inquired. .. Splendidly,” she smiled. Not sick at all—no pains?” he pressed. it Why, of coure n o t . Ll ewellyn.* she responded. “Hurrah, then! •• he exclaimed. « I have discovered another spe cies of mushroom that isn’t poi sonous. THE REAL TEST. Marcella: Some of the new Christmas dolls can walk and say mama” and “papa.” They could not be much more lifelike than that, could they ? Waverly: Only one more thing I can think of. *» What’s that?” “To be perfectly lifelike they should ask for money. ** king’s reign salutation, and the beginning of health is sleep. A sword, a spade and a thought should never be allowed to rust. A good laugh and a long sleep, the best cures in the doctor’s book. Good humour comes from the kitchen. (Steadfast adher ence to sound and tested principles, has thereby es tablished an as set of Incalcul able value, the returns from Which are bound to be large and Blasting. The ad- GRIFFIN DAILY NLWS ance of trade, has enacted the necessary measures of taxation to establish the equilibrium of her budget, and is preparing to ad dress herself to the permanent solution of such other questions within the province of govern mental financial policy as may be said to constitute the one remain ing signal problem before her, Italy. a Italy, which throughout the dif ficulties of the post-war period has resolutely followed the dic tates of a wise and correct fiscal policy and imposed upon herself great sacrifice in pursuance of that policy, has made extra ordinary progress under the clear sighted and far-visioned guidance of Mussolini, and is steadily forg ing ahead. Germany. « Germany, freed fronf the curse of a fluctuating currency and from the reparations chaos, and the re sulting bitter hopelessness ir bucking down again to disciplined, efficient and intelligent effort and is finding and applying anew the qualities which enabled her to at tain so high a place in commerce and industry prior to the war, a place the recovery of which the enlightened public opinion of the world would not begrudge to a Germany which will loyally fulfill its obligations to the best of its ability and co-operate toward the peaceable progress of the world. Southeast Europe. Of Southeastern Europe, Kahn says the “injustice, the political maladjustment and the economic faultliness of the territorial ar rangements in Southeastern Eu rope, as determined by the peace treaties, have been further in tensified by the maintenance of unique and threatening military force, by the harsh and unfair treatment of racial minorities, and by a narrow and invidious nation alistic policy on tLp part—to a greater or lesser degree—of those states who were the beneficiaries of those treaties. r> WHOSWHO N THE ?AY3 NCWS JOHN VAN A. MACMURRAY A thorough first hand knowl edge of conditions in the Orient is one of the assets which will make John A. MacMurray’s pres ence in the state department of fices valuable to Secretary of State Hughes. MacMurray was recently named assistant secretary of state by President Coolidge. Mr. MacMurray has been for 4$ W: Xv m ><■ V.VSNA. The new assistant secretary first entered the diplomatic ser vice in 1907, becoming secretary of the legation at Bangkok. Later he filled posts in the capitals of -Greece, Montenegro and Russia, and then was brought to Washing ton for a tour of duty in the state department. He was made chief of the Near Eastern division in 1912. A year later he went to Peking as secretary ofi,the Ameri can legation, and iny^917 was transferred to Tokio as counsellor of the American embassy. Mr. MacMurray is 43 and was educated in law at Princeton and Columbia. He is a native of Sche nectady, N. _ Y., but at the time of his appointment to the diplo matic service he was living in Princeton, N. J. COMPLETE DESCRIPTION. Sailor: What sort of a place is this Mesopotamia? Soldier: Wot sort? Why when it’s 'ot it’i ’ot as ’ell—and when it’s cold it’s as cold as ’ell—and when there’s a wind it blows like ’ell. t a number of years at the head of the de partment’s Far Eastern division and has served in the diploma tic corps both at Peking and To kio. He succeeds the late A. A. Adee. «•** * V 7, ij V * *•**••« t *"**.. • - ***• .. 'r\ m. t Vt j< ‘ '***. 'is *• • V m \ n 0 ws® 1 w.:; nrWAS M the night before V ***** Christmas, when all * through the house WA Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, hjtkjsp . In hopes that St. Nicholas n • soon would be there; ii; F •- B The children were nestled A > ■ all snug in their beds. & While of sugarplums & visions Jt mm danced in their heads. >: w . v , - ’ 'O. ;-v: ■ > m m mm . , mm . & ■ /:■' v.; •• >'> ' :v,; w '' ■ ■: • : / > W Zi i 'e. ; ■ ■ yX; : m v. :; r v m • % m $ -v ;:x 1 mm ■■ fri- -Jr >' t , I :• | t ' i ■ $ : y’-. imM ■if' St ■> ; *> i : m ■ < A : wi • ill - M m % k 5 M * t* - V * Xv m y AND filled all the stockings; «e_ then turned with jerk, 'M yjj a And laying his finger, aside of his nose, And giving nod, the « a up w chimney he rose; k He sprang to his sleigh, to his VO team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, I ere * & # he drove out of sight, Happy Christmas to all, and I Nit Yl to all a good night! » —Clement Clarke Mo are. W &ro*o &4y/t>r<acGiM/.///cho//j Twice-Told Tales Said the Governor of Texas to the Governor of Wyoming: n Oh, goodie! I’ve just found out where I can get something to go in my fruit cake!”—Macon Telegraph. Dr. Carver of Tuskogee can make 65 different things out of a peanut, but we doubt if he could make anything out of a peanut politician.—Columbia Record. , We are a patriotic people, al ways filled with a zeal to save the country from one another.—Wood stock (Ont.) Sentinel-Review. Mellon told us how much they make. Now we are even more eager to discover how they make it.—Jackson Clarion-Ledger. If everybody works in heaven, as Doyle says, we shall insist upon being an efficiency expert.—Spring field Sun. 4 Women governors aren’t new, but these two will be first to draw the pay direct.—Youngstown Vin dicator. Wednesday, December 24. >924. NO FURTHER ASPIRATIONS. “In a few years,” said the elo quent guest, “I expect to see myr iad light shining from Crimson Gulch to apprise the traveler of his approach to a great metrop olis.” .........— — -------—" it Friend,” said Cactus Joe, “sev eral of us have been to Chicago. Crimson Gulch don’t want to see no great metropolis. We’re tough enough as it is. *» In 1728 diamonds were discover ed in Brazil. PAZO Ointment A Guaranteed Remedy FOR BLREDING^R PROTRUDING PILES It is now put up in collapsible tubes with detachable pile pipe making it very easy to apply. 75c DRUGGISTS refund money if it fails to cure. I' f Special directions enclosed with each . package. Your druggist will order it. (Also put up in old style Tins, 60c.) One bat will eat 250 mosquitoes in one night. Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION cQ vn I) 6 Bell-ans Hot water Sure Relief ELLA NS 25<t and 75« Package* Everywhere