Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

/ ■ IfF - 120 East Solomon Street PHONE No. 210 Entered at postottica in Griffin, Ga., as second class mail matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Preas k exclus ively entitled te the use for re pu blication of the news otherwise dispatch es credited to it or not credited in this paper and also the local news re-publication published herein. of Ail rights or also special dispatches herein ate reserved. OFFICIAL PAPER City of Griffin, Spalding County, U. 8. Court, Northern District or Georgia. — TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS Daily by Carrier One months, year, in advance----- $5.00 Six in advance---- 2.50 Three months, in advance . 1.25 One month, payable at end of month .......-------- .50 Daily by Mail One year, in advance------$4.00 8ix month, in advance---- 2.00 Three months, in advance _ 1.00 One month. In advance---- .40 Semi-Weekly Edition One months, year, in advance___ < 1.00 Six in advance .. .50 Three months, In advance .......26 If cent within 80-mile radius of Griffin. Beyond 80-mile zone, one year, $1.60; six months, 75c; three months, 40c. 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 - 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. f awma 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 I w m : V 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 i 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. A good road costs $30,000 a mile, not counting subsequent fun expenses.—Schenectady Ga- r I But Will He? / i 7 W rA > depression w ft# / HOSPITAL 3»< c. t & 1 “geTut - VrigwX/ VESS»Vi,sjS\ ET . / ' /> xf»A R/ frmmn. f v Diet vM *0. w r i ipo»Gii^ D v y^j vm > im i v WM o / { ' K, > (//, Isis .0 71 Am*( If 7 k § ^llliw \H 1 w ill f iTifi mw/ 5 m T I i W > V / '// I A jM % o — Mystery'‘Bombs Wryeck. Chicago Garment Plant ...... i ■[y-A:-., m ■ ■> f - ■ ■ - v I s '1 SffiS: : •; < -*.■•*4-oft* i p ■ . Poll* are working on the theory that labor troubles caused the bombipg of the factory cf 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.” M. v?l “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 i n 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! .-.i a £ 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