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BE LOYAL TO YOUR HOME
TOWN
The LaGrange Reporter recently
carried an excellent editorial on
loyalty to the home town. It was
ao well said that we are printing
a part of the editorial here for
“home consumption.” Read and
ponder it well, then resolve that
your first and foremost new year
resolution will be loyalty to Grif
fin and Spalding county. Here’s
what the Reporter said:
M What is a city? Webster Bays:
'In the United States a city is a
municipality, incorporated and
governed, usually by a city coun
cil consisting of a board of aider
men or a board of councilmen.’
H In one sense of the word a city
is a business corporation, com
posed of officers, and citizens di
recting the moral, civic and edu
cational welfare of the community.
"It is a partnership where every
living citizen should be deeply in
terested in the welfare of the
whole.
"A city is composed of barkers,
merchants, professional men, man
ufacturers, tradesmen, mechanics,
blacksmiths, carpenters, barbers,
laborers, in fact all kinds of busi
ness men working and plying their
trades for individual profit.
“It therefore behooves every in
dividual citizen, it matters not
what his calling may be, to pull
hard together for the benefit of
the whole, if for no other reason
than the genuine prosperity of
the whole means a greater oppor
tunity for each individual.
u The merchant depends upon his
community for his support and
every dollar spent outside of thiff
town is lost to the home home
merchant who pays taxes, helps
to support our churches and
schools and donates to our public
enterprises.
44 The same thing applies to
practically all other business en
terprises in this community.
Withdraw your local support from
our banks, they would have to
close up,
“The same thing would apply to
our blacksmith shops; barber shops,
shoe shops, garages, carpenters,
and all other enterprises.
“In fact, these men are going
to prosper just in proportion to
the business that they get out of
this community.
It is the people behind a town
and • the loyal support that they
give to it that will make it pros
per more than anything else. »*
Twice-Told Tales
--
Each ought to carry himself at
thia holiday season as an orange
tree would if St Could walk in the
garden, swinging perfume from
every little censor.—Henry Ward
Beechsr.
“All waste Is ain,” aays The
Cairo Messenger. Yes, and it is
just as mfich a sin to waste your
time and talents as it is to waste
food—Tlfton Gazette.
4 not enough
- re were
ubles in this country we are
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EBEST
OP
A
TREAD-MILL
PROGRESS
It is a wondrous age in which
we live. An inventor announces
that he has perfected a device that
makes “seeing” by radio possible
and practical, and the world ac
cepts the statement without scep
ticism, for it is an era when seem
ingly nothing is impossible.
But with all the striking exter
nal evidences of progress, is Socie
ty advancing ?
Emerson contended that society
never advances. "Itrecedes as fast
on one side as it gains on the
other. Its progress is only appar
ent, like the workers of a tread
mill. It undergoes continual charg
es; it is barbarous, it is civilized,
it is christianized, it is rich, it is
scientific; but this change is not
amelioration. For every thing that
given, something is taken. Socie
ty acquires new arts and loses old
Instincts.”
* * *
As Emerson opined, “The civil
ized man has built a coach, but
has lost the use of his feet. He
is supported on crutches, but loses
so much support of the muscle. He
has a fine Swiss watch, but he has
lost the skill to tell the hour by
the sun. A Greenwich nautical al
manac he has, and so being sure
of the information when he wants
it, the man inthe street does not
know a star in the sky. The sol
stice hedoes not observe; the equi
uox he knows as little; and the
whole bright- calendar of the year
is without a dial in his mind. His
notebooks impair his memory; his
libraries overload his wits; the in
surance office increases his care
lessness; and it may be a question
whether machinery does not en
cumber; whether he has lost by
refinement some energy, by Chris
tianity intrenched in establish
ments and forms, some vigor of
wild virtue. For every stoicism
therl was a stoic; but in Chris
tendom where is the Christian?
* * *
No greater men are now than
ever were.
Emerson observed that a singu
lar equality may be seen between
the great men of the first and last
ages. Nor can all the science,
art, religion and philosophy of this
century avail to educate greater
men than Plutarch’s heroes, three
or four and twenty centuries ago.
The arts and inventions of each
period are only its costume, and
do not invigorate men, he averred.
Hudson and Behring accom
plished so much in Arctic explor
ation in their fishing-boats as to
astonish Parry and Franklin,
Whose equipment exhausted the
resources of science and art of
their time. Galileo, with an opera
glass, discovered a more splendid
series of facts about the world
than any one since.
We reckoned the improvements
of the art of war among the tri
umphs of science, and yet Napol
eon conquered Europe by the biv
ouac, which consisted of falling
back on necked valor, and discum
bering it of all aids.
* * *
Emerson compared Society to a
wave. The wave moves onward but
the Water of which it is composed
does not. Ita unity is only
phenominal. The persons who
make up the nation today, next
day die, and their experience with
them.
now threatened with an extra ses
sion of congress.—-Dalton Citizen.
“Four ages of man: “Bossed by
mother, bossed by sister, bossed
by wife, bossed by daughter,”—
LaGrange Reporter.
Ancient Egyptian noblemen
speared fish in much the same
manner as do Americans today.
The gpear handle was tied to the
wrist and the weapon was thrown
at the fish.
Art and music are among the
professions hardest hit in Ger
many since the war.
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SUPERIOR DISCIPLINE MADE
GERMAN SUPERIOR SOLDIER,
SAYS MAJ. GEN. BULLARD.
Major Gen. Robert Lee Bullard,
who commanded the famous 1st
Division in France and later the
2nd American Army in France,
and who is now in command of
the 2nd Corps Area, United States
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GCN, BUL
cussion on the effectiveness of
organization, training and discip
line.
Gen. Bullard based his compari
son between the Allied and the
German soldiers in the World War
on their comparative casualties,
asserting that, because of his dis
cipline, the German soldier dis
posed of three of his enemies be
fore he himself became a casualty.
Disagree in Principle
Major Gen. John L. Hines, Chief
of Staff of the Army; Brig. Geri.
Dennis E. Nolan, Deputy Chief
of Staff, and Major Gen. Tasker
H. Bliss, member of the Allie^
Supreme War Council during the
war, all disagree with “the gen
eral principle or statement” laid
down or made by Gen. Bullard.
Gen. Bullard, a West Pointer,
had ample opportunity to observe
the effectiveness of the German
soldier while this country was in
the war. Troops commanded by
him met the Germans in some of
the hottest engagements of the
war, and when the armistice wa3
signed he was in command of the
Second American Army, number
ing not less than 500,000 men and
perhaps the largest army in
France.
“The German soldier,” Gen. Bul
lard said, “put out between two
and three of his enemy before he
himself was put out of business.
That was the ratio of the German
losses to the casualties of the Al
lied Army. Discipline is the es
sential factor of effectiveness in
war or in peace.
Allied Man an Individualist
He added that he found the Al
lied soldier a pronounced individ
ualist compared with the German
soldier and lacking in the discip
line which he said made the Ger
man soldier superior to his op
ponents.
As a further proof of the value
of discipline he cited West Point,
which although it ranks only as
an academy, was held by Dr. John
H. Finley to be more effective
than nineteen other colleges and
universities scrutinized so far as
the success of its graduates is con
cerned.
« I do not agree with the general
principle enunciated by Gen. Bul
FACTS ABOUT
GEORGIA
Georgia’s favorable climate Is
shown by the fact that the grow
ing season in North Georgia is
210 days; in Central Georgia 230
days, and in the Southern part of
the state 260 days.
During the season of 1923 more
than 13,000,000 pounds of prawn
were gathered from Georgia wa
ters, according to State Game and
Fish Commissioner Peter S.
Twitty.
Nearly 18,000 licenses, state and
county, for fishing w4re issued by
the state game and fish depart
ment during 1923. The 1924 total
will far eclipse that figure, it is
said.
Woodrow Wilson began his ca
reer as a practicing attorney in
Atlanta, Ga. His first wife was
a Rome girl and is buried in that
city.
Georgia ia distinguished with
having the largest tobacco planta
tions in the entire world.
at Gover
Island, has
a contro
versy in army
Circles by declar
Ing he “found the
German soldier
equal to three
Allied soldiers.”
His statement
Was made in the
of a dis-
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
lard," Gen. Hines said last night,
“It is true that there was bettet
discipline in the German army and
that the Allied casualties were
greater than the German, but 1
do not think that you can con
clude that the German soldier was
worth three Allied soldiers. »
Gen. Nolan expressed similar
opinions.
“If Gen. Bullard meant that one
disciplined German was worth two
or three disciplined British or
French or American soldiers, then
do not agree with him,” Bliss
“As to just how many un
disciplined foes a disciplined
man was equal to—Well, you
could argue all day on that ques
tion.”
WMO3WH0
air NEWS
WILLIAM GREEN
“Bill” Green, new president of
the American Federation of Labor,
is recognized as a man with few
if any enemies in labor move
ments. Since 1913 he has been
secretary-treasurer of the United
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VUXffiKBREEK:
took a front stage position in la
bor circles, he was regarded as a
member of the conservative wing
and had the reputation of a con
ciliator rather than a radical.
Author of Mine Run Law
He was instrumental in putting
the mine run law through the
Ohio senate, of which he was a
member for two terms. This law
provided that coal companies be
required to pay miners for coal as
it was taken from the mine.
His name also was affixed to the
Ohio workmen’s compensation law
of 1913, first of its kind in Amer
ica.
Labor’s new chief was born
March 3, 1870* in a cottage on
“Hard Scrabble Hill,” Coshocton,
Ohio, the son of High and Jane
Green, who came from Wales. He
was the youngest of six children,
but need' of his services to bolster
the family exchequer forced him
to give up school at the age of 16
and enter the mines.
Father of Sfix ,
On April 14, 1892, he was mar
ried to Miss Jane Mobley. He
has six children, three of whom
are married.
In 1900 he was elected president
of Sub-district No. 6 of the mine
workers, comprising six Ohio
counties. He served five years
and in 1906 was elected president
o|Jhe Ohio United Mine Workers,
and|twice this\ime was re-elected. From
his rise in labor circles
has bden rapid.
In 1910 and 1912 he was elected
to the Ohio senate, and served one
of the terms as president pro tern.
In 1913 he was elected secretary
treasurerof the United Mine
Workers of America, which office
has held continuously since that
time. He was a delegate to the
Ohio constitutional convention in
1912.
Also he has been fourth vice
president and a member of the
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor since 1913
and served on the labor commis
sion at the peace conference in
Paris.
In 1912 he was delegate-at
large from Ohio to the Democrat
ic national convention at Balti
more. In 1920 he was alternate
at- large from Ohio to the Dem
ocratic national convention at San
Francisco.
The new labor chief is a mem
ber of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, a
Baptist, an Odd Fellow and an
Elk.
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the Shraiberg Mfg., Co., in Chicago. Eight persons, four of them girls, were injured. Photo show
interior of the plant after the bombs exploded.
Mine Workers of
America. With
$2,000,000 in the
treasury and an
;annual income of
$1,000,000, he has
s o administered
the funds as to
be reckoned as a
man of astute
[business skill.
While he never
The retired insurance agent was
telling a friend some of his ex
periences :
“I once got a man to take out
a $50,000 life insurance policy,”
he said, “only the day before he
was killed.”
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“My word!” replied the friend.
That was rough on the company.
I expect you wished you had not
sold him the policy.”
It was fortunate for me; I am
his heir. ft
May I ask the cause of all this
excitement?” asked the stranger
in the little village.
a Certainly,” replied the country
man. (( We are celebrating the
birthday of the oldest inhabitant
sir. She’s a hundred and one to
day. *•
«. Indeed! And may I ask who is
that little man, with the dread
fully sad countenance, walking by
the old lady’s side?”
Oh, that’s the old lady’s son-in
law, sir. He’s been .keeping up
the payments on her life-insurance
for the last thirty years! tt
The story is told of the impe
cunious and notorius Marquis de
Saturday, December 27, 1924
♦ A
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O.jQwrence j e
Do not deny your little ones
The blessed ministry of song.
The days of childhood are so brief V f
And after years are often long,
But music in the twilight brings M J
Sweet memories of long ft*
ago,
And in our hearts we live again 1
Those happy times we used to know.; .
The songs my mother sang to me, s
The songs I sang in later years,
So closely bind me to my youth
I find it hard to check the tears
When now I hear their soft refrain.
How fine that sentiment that clings
In wistful loyalty to home
And. memories that music brings!
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C O. UVU*Ct.M*VTNO*m
Favieres who visited a Parisian
named Barnard, and announced
himself as follows:
<< Monsieur, I am about to as
tonish you greatly. I am the Mar
quis de Favieres. I do not know
you, but I come to you to bor-
row 500 luis."
Barnard answered with* equal
politeness:
"Monsieur, I am going to as
tonish you much more. I know
you, and I’m going to lend them
to yon,’* ! ...Ul