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ON MAKING RECORDS
The business of making rec
ords extends far beyond records
for talking machines—it is a bus
iness that should engage the ear
nest attention of every young
man and woman in the nation.
The woods are full of men and
women who have made records—
some good, some bad—but the rec
ords we refer to are records that
you and your parents and friends
will be proud of.
Make a record.
It pays to make a record
whether you are a mechanic, a
clerk, a stenographer, a laborer,
a manager, an executive, or q stu
d«nt.——-------
Make a record or some kind.
You can make a record by stick
ing to your job, or by doing your
work beter than it has been done
before.
The young man or woman who
makes a record either in school
or on their job, no matter how
slight it may be, is the one to be
promoted.
It pay* to make a record.
Do your work and go through
life in suchxa way as to stand out
from the common crowd.
Don’t be mediocre.
Remember* the words of Andrew 1
Carnegie: <
u Db HP! content with only
doing your duty.
“Do' mere than your duty.
“It is the ht)rst> that flnishe ■ a
Heck ahead that wins the race.”
Let this be your New Year’s
resolution.
THE NEW WOMAN
“Eternal individualism” is the
watchword of the modern feminist
movement.
No more “clinging vines,” no
^ore housewives fretted with the
cares of dishpans and mops.
The new woman will be as good
a business leader as her husband
and will stand by the side of her
husband as a judge, clergyman
or football player.
The new woman protests
against being considered a mere
mechanishm in life’s activities.
objecta. to-being classed as
a typewriter, or as a_carpal.
sweeper, or as a brush with a
long handle and two legs.
She objects to staying at home
and let her husband hand out a
sum of money each week /for
maintenance, and possibly steks
some other woman who is his
mental equal outside the home.
She objects to being known by
her husband’s name if her own
name means more to her.
She demands complete equality
in law with that of man on a bus
iness basis, and proposes to “make
the man like it.”
Alcohol is a good preservative,
but only of late has it been used
to preserve a social rating.
Skinny people have another ad
vantage. They don’t feel cramped
in a breakfast room.
Nomadic people hold the record
for longevity, but they are not
pedestrians. t
As a means of enriching fire-
arms people, jealousy is a fair
substitute for war.
As a rule the "jjood fellow” is
liberal only while showing/himself
a good time.
Perhaps base metal can be
turned into gold; base practices
have been.
Fortunately, the heathen are
told about civilization and not
shown.
A conscience is a good thing.
Bachelors need something of the
kind.
The greater the house, the less
it lies about its imitation wares.
The beginning of economic wis
dom is an empty stomach.
Mll ■op P MSI
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A VIRTUE
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OF FEW
“More men know how to flat
ter,” said Wendell Phillips, "than
how to praise.”
To flatter_is easy, to condemn
is easy, but to praise judiciously
and indiscriminately' is not easy.
“Extravagant praise defeats it- I i
self, as does extravagant blame,”
John Burroughs opines.
■ A man is rarely overpraised
during his own time by his own
people.
“If he is an original, forceful
character, he is much more likely
to be overblamed overprais
ed. He disturbs old ways and in
stitutions. 'v
u We require an exalted point
of view to take in a great char
acter, as we do to take in a great
mountain,”
We are likely to overpraise and
overblamc our presidents and our
leaders. Lincoln was overblamed
in his day, but we have made it
up to his memory. Wilson won ap
plause from both sides in his first
term, but how overwhelmingly did
the tide turn against him before
the end of his second term.
'*A president of the United
States must ever be the target |
of intelligent ridicule and criti
cism, not to mention a secondary j
of bean-shooters, cus
t&rd pies and asafoetida bombs,”
observes a contemporary writer.
A little of the Scottish moder
ation is not so bad; it is always
safe.
“A wise man will always pre
fer unjust blamo to fulsome
praise,” Burroughs says.
Extremes in the estimation of a
sound character are bound sooner
or later to correct themselves.
Wendell Phillips, who said,
More men know how to flatter 1
than how to praise,” got more
than his qjmre of blame during
the anti-slavery days, but the
praise came in due time.
Tacitus, in Agricola, avowed
that flatterers are the worst kind
of enemies, and another ancient j
Fhaedros, oplnw l .....tt ' gr ;~lfeey"''whb''l
de light to be f latt e r ed, pay* for
their folly by a late repentance.
Worth repeating here is La
Rochefoucauld’s time-tested obser
vation to the effect that we some
times’vthink we hate flattery, hut
we only hate the manner*in which
it is done.
“Gallantry of mind,” he averred,
'consists in saying flattering
things in an agreeable manner?”
Twice-Told Tales')
Having discovered how easy it |
is to borrow money from us, per- !
haps the nations of Europe will
hereafter see the folly of fighting
to take It away from each other.
—Columbia Record.
While interested in the state
ment that France can now “stand
albnd, we would be more cheered
by the news that she could now ,
pay a loan.—Columbia Record.
It must be disappointing to the
would-be athlete to spend four
“ALASKA DREAMS OF STATE
HOOD WITHIN FOUR YEARS,
SAYS ITS GOVERNOR
Statehood within four years is
the dream of Alaska, according
to Scott , Bone, governor of the
territory, who recently visited
Now York and Washington.
“Alaska is slowly getting ready
for statehood,” said Governor
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a steady growth.
We believe that with the develop
ment of Alaska’s natural resources
and the onward march of industry
there will be an incidental jump
in the population in the next four
years which may warrant a de
mand for statehood.”
Six hundred thousand square
miles in area, Alaska has only
60,000 inhabitants, of which one
half is made up of Indians and j
Eskimos and one-half of whites.
Alaska, according to its chief
executive, is now beginning to
come face to face with serious po
litical problems. One is the en
franchisement of the Indians. Gov
ernor Bone believes this may call
for some action by congress, im
The boy hurried home to his
father with an. announcement:
“Me and Joe Peck had a fight
today.
The father nodded gravely.
“Mr. Peck had already called
to see about it. **
The little boy’s face brightened.
“Gee, pop, I hope you made
out as well as I did.”
It was after dinner and the talk
had turned to psychology. This
disturbing question had just been
“When does old age really
To establish a formula was
rather difficult, when one
lady who did not look her years,
the following:
“To me, old age is always 15
older than I am.”
Uncle Silas had been entertain
ing a city relative, who desired to
do a few chores on the farm by
way of exercise.
“First time you ever milked a
cow, eh,” asked uncle one morn
ing. “Well, you do it 100 per cent
better than most city fellows do.”
“It seems to come natural,
somehow,” explained the city
youth. “I have had a good deal of
practice with a fountain pen.”
A schoolmaster had been giving
his class a lesson in physical geo
Craphy, and had explained that
the world is made up of land
ami water.
TheriUih order“to see if they
hwd- Ww i n l y i n g attt-ntwn-, hr nsk
ed—-“Now boys, can you tell me
what it is land and water make?”
Presently a little boy put up his
hand and replied, “Mud, sir.”
years in college and have nothing
to show for it but an education.
—Detroit News.
Common sense is undefinable.
The only thing that may be said
of it with certainty is that it is
not common.—Little Rock, (Ark.)
Gazette.
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Mix tin and copper and you
have bronze; mix tin and brass
and you have a road hog.—-Eugene
(Ore.) Guard.
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The effort to exterminate our
wild life seems easy for every
body except the grand jury—Oil
City Derrick,
Prohibition is working smooth
ly how, and the only job left is
to stop the sale of liquor.—Easton
Express.
Bone. “As yet
we suffer from
a lack of popu
lation which
would militate
against us with
congress un
doubtedly. There
has been no ma
terial gain since
the 1920 cen
sus although
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
posing an educational test. *For
the most past tfrese new voters
are illiterates, intellectually but
poorly equipped to exercise the
right to vote. Nor are they own
ers of any considerable property
and the white property owners in
the southern part of the state fee)
quite as badly about this new
emancipation, as did the southern
whites when the negroes were en
franchised.
Natives Voted in Blocs
“This is particularly true in
elections where questions of tax
ation or the choice of legislators
are concerned, >> said Governor
Bone. “They are frequently voted
in blocs by bosses of their own
race in this is bitterly resented
by persons whose property may
be affected by legislation. We have
a small legislative body, compos
ed of only 8 senators and 16 rep
re&entatives.”
The Alaskans feel that their
territory, with its tremendous
hoard of natural* wealth, has been
the neglected stepchild of tJncle
Sam long enough, according to
the governor.
u Alaska, he said, “is the least
understood civilized commonwealth
on the earth. It is not the vast
upheaval of 8now and ice that it
is generally supposed to be. It
has an equably climate and is an
inhabitable and even an inviting
land. Its ports, with one exception,
are open all the year around, SO
that there is constant communica
tion with the outside world
through Vancouver and Seattle. >>
The tourist trade, Governor
Bone said, was on the increase. It
is the nearest spot where Ameri
cans can view the midnight sun,
the governor himself' has
seen on the Yukon. But for the
shortage of tourist hotels, Alaska'
in June, July and August, with
twilight that lingers until
11 at night and the sun rising at
in the morning, would be a
for the visitor. The win
ters are bitterly cold in the Behr
Sea territory, but at Juneau,
capital, which is located 1,000
from Seattle, the tempera
on the coldest day last win
was 8 degres above zero.
WHO’S WHO
PAYS NEWS
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HOWARD MASON GORE
Possible changes in President
cabinet after March 4
are intimated. Ono change is cer
tain. As a result of the Republi
can landslide that swep't West
Virginia during the recent nation
al election, the president will have
to name a new secretary of agri
culture.
UPon the death of Secretary of
Agriculture Henry C. Wallace in
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Ile was born in Clarksburg, W.
Va., 47 years ago and has for a
good many years been actively in
terested in agriculture and stock
breeding.
From 1912 to 1916 he was presi
dent of the West Virginia Live
stock Association and from 1918
to 1921 he was president of the
West Virginia Hereford Breeders’
Association and was chosen a
member of the first board of di
rectors of the National Producers’
Livestock Co-operative association.
During the war he was appointed
a member of the committee of fif
teen of the American Farm Bu
reau Federation. He also served
as assistant food administrator of
West Virginia and as a member
of the council of defense during
the world war.
■ Gore is a breeder of shorthorn,
Hereford and Jersey cattle, also
of Berkshire hogs. He is a direc
tor of the Clarksburg, West Vir
ginia Trust Co., and a director of '
the bank of Ripley, W. Va. He is
life member of the International
.
November Howard
a\I. Gore was ap
pointed to that
post, a promotion
from the assistant
secretaryship to
[which office he whs
appointed Sept. 17,
f 1923.
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The last meeting of the year!
this year was the first year
our history! 1924 saw the com
to Griffin of Percy Wright,
to the national secre
it saw Percy gather about
at the lunch table in the par
on the second floor of the
Griffin a small group of
men; it saw those men be
interested in what Percy
to say; it saw those ten go
to secure fifteen additional
and it saw those fifteen se
That was the start of Ex
in Griffin.
At the time the Griffin Club was
there were three other
in the state; one a live club;
fairly live; and the third fair
ly dead. As this years comes to
end there are four live clubs
in the state, and there exists be
those four clubs the true
of Exchange, Unity for
Service.
So we see at a glance that 1924
was a great year for Exchange in
Georgia. 1925 should be even
greater. The national program for
intention looks toward the estab
lishment of several new clubs
within the borders of the state.
opr own club there is much to
be done; many classifications ave
vacant. They can be filled, most
of them. Its merely up to us to
start the new year- off right.
In the current issue of the Na
magazine these Ii” ah ar
f.irle by ..mir —nation al—prasid®»U
Dr. Sabiehi. It is well worth read
ing, but assuming that most of
you won’t read it, I will comment
on it briefly. He says that from a
careful study of government re
ports and the corporation and in
dividual sources of information
that the United States today fares
better than any of the country.
There is less than normal volun
tary idleness and less than the
normal involuntary idlness and
this fact indicates that we are a
remarkably industrious people. A
study of the r.aine figures indi
cates that the masses are earn
ing far more than at any other
period of our national existence,
and despite the fact that the cost
of living has increased, there has
never been a time when the man
seized with an ambition to be
thrifty could save so large a pro
portion of his income as nbw.
We learn, therefore, that the
Livestock Exposition, and a mem
ber of the West Virginia Board of
Education.
December 30, 1924.
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y Across the rolling hills of life r - ■ l
Is: A friendly highway leads,
A road whose every wondrous mile
%/, Is paved with noble deeds. \:
& For any man this course begins
m My Where will and judgment meet, Z
ie Where solemn purpose points the way
m And kindness guides his feet.
ii | I 1 1 This highway is the only road'
j . !(j No That other leads trail, to great sidelong success;. path
no /
Will find true happiness. /
Though up and down its route may run
It carries straight and far '
And gains at last that haven where
Life’s great possessions are.
The youth who sets a worthy goal
) And formulates a plan
Of progress that enables him
To serve his fellow man
^ Begins That at glorify once and to know bless the joys
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The lives of those who daily walk
The Road of Happiness.
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tjtit- O t AVRtNCt g** HAVTHOMNt cA? ’ r y ~*
period of depression has passed
and that we are now out in the
open once more. We can start the
new year with our head high in
the air, knowing that we can
make of the new year what we
will. Progress or decay, you hold
the answer; it depends on you!
And say, how about those new
jm a r._____ resolution s—ye a--ma d e last
year. Dig down and find them,
blow off the dust, and use them
again this year. The old ones will
do as well as new ones.
My Bonnie bent over the gas
tank,
The height of its contents to see,
She lighted a match to assist her:
Chorus
Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me.
ANOTHER GLASS HOUSE
The judge was giving his regu
lation lecture on the evils of gam
bling. “So you see,” he conclud
ed, “what a wicked thing it is to
shoot craps, especially on the Sab
bath. Have you nothing better
than that to do on Sundays?”
“Oh, yassuh, Judge,” replied the
prisoner. "Most gen’ally ah cad
dies fo’ yuo when you plays golf
with Mistuh Edwards fo’ a dolluh
a hole.”
SHORT OF VICES.
“So you’ve taken up
have you?”
“Yes, I want to have
to swear off on New Year’s
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Crawford county was created in
1822 and named for William H.
Crawford. Knoxville is the coun
ty seat, the county comprising an
area of 319 square miles, with a
population of about 9,000. It is
in the sixth congressional district
and the 23rd senatorial district.
Macon is the judicial circuit.
The women of Augusta and
nearby sections in the period of
the civil war, are credited with
having made about 80,000 car
tridges in a single day, and saved
the Tennessee army prior to the
Battle of Atlanta, according to
historical records in the archives
and history department.
Three hundred and thirty con
ventions were held in Atlanta dur
ing the year 1922.
The first home for wayward
girls was started in Georgia.
ON THE WAY.
"Last night I woke up with the
strange impression that my. watch
was gone,” said Jack, “so 1 got u p
and looked.”
“And had it gone?” asked Tom.
“No, but it was going.”
A perfectly white hedge spar
/ow has been found in Glasgow.