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* Four est Griffin News Miss Esther Harnric I Correspondent. Miss Lillian Mallory, of Thom aston, has returned home after spending several days with Miss Etta Jones. Mrs. Reeves and Mrs. Moseley, of Macon, spent Sunday with Miss Vesta Rhodes. * Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hand, of Atlanta, spent Saturday and Sun day with their father, Ben Hand. The many friends of M. H. Hambrick will be sorry to learn of his serious illness at his home on Lake avenue. Mrs. Annie Bane, of Atlanta, is visiting friends and relatives in West Griffin. All members of the W. M. U. of Oaik Hill church are requested to meet at the church immediate ly after Sunday school on next Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Mallory, of Tbomaston, have been spending several days with W. B. Watson and family. The many friends of little Miss Ruth Jones will be delighted to know that she is improving after her recent attack of appendicitis. The Sunbeams of Oak Hill church will hold their regular meeting at 2:30 o’clock on Thurs day. Mrs. J. F. Rhodes, who has been seriously ill at her home for sometime, was resting better Tuesday. Her many friends trust that she will soon be entirely well. Aubrey Westmoreland, of Bel fontaine, Ohio, is spending several days with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. V. Westmoreland, at their home on Lake avenue. Roy Norton, of Atlanta, is vis iting his parents, Rev. and Mrs. John Norton, on Lake avenue. The West Griffin correspondent is very glad to be out again and able to get up the news. C. OF C. EXTENDS r GREETINGS ■ (Continued from Page 1.) in the ranks of American cities. An American City. What splen did forces—latent and active—are implied in that name. * Let us miss no opportunity to bring to our service the best thought and experience of the world, in city planning, city build ing and city living. Let us not only proclaim our selves a conspicuous place among our sister cities of the state and nation, but let us deserve to be arrayed with the most progressive among them. Only by exempli fying the truest and best in Amer ican urban life, shall we make our city worthy of being an integral part of the greatest state of the greatest nation the world has ever aeen. REIDSBORO MERCHANT DIES SUDDENLY John W. Cook, 50, died suddenly at his home at Reidsboro, a small station on the Southern Railroad about 12 miles from Griffin, late Tuesday afternoon. Death is said to have been caused by drinking an extract. Mr. Cook was a merchant at Reidsboro and a member of a prominent family of Pike county. survived by his son, John W. Cook, Jr., and two sisters, Mrs. John Allen and Miss Minnie Cook, both of Reidsboro. t Fueral services will be held to S. Pittman, of Griffin, funeral di morroW at Zezulon and burial will be in the family plot there. Frank rector, will have charge. __; Ordinary’s Court I Applications for Marriage Licenses Luther Tinney, 20, and May Cook, 18. Marriage Licenses Issued William J. Buffington and Selma Hadden. Howard Connell and. Myrtle Si ' monton. Eugene Coggin and Willie Rob inson. Hugh E. Crowder and Sadit Anderson. D. P. Phoenix and Ruby Bivins. Trimmings and Accessories Show Originality ' | J - '-w [U ' ' Yy. W%i \!§:-> m pi i m > m I WmmM-. Si ft '■m & ■X m Is v.x r ..: : ' » . -x m V X mm ■ : s mm « i if ■ •V ; - ■ JMl ' x . ■V; ■y-;fyy i ■" h-/ti M -y'y;/-* s m 11 % : ZM '‘K' % Yii&fe me i:yY :• • m. y ; Lf'j & : XX A x r- xv. ;V f Y/.y. < I "-li ' f.-: .< v:-x ys. : XXX V XV: _ x:X ' ,: >. Yi s m / m /■ ; / J. m , Eve " thc trimmings and small accessories of milady’s wardrobe show originality. A clev erly draped one-piece frock of flannel (left) buttons down the back to the waistline and is trim- 1 luntted mfid on the sleeves only with embroidery in red and green wool. On the right is & simnle littlf i dress of^ corn colored wool suitable for JPalm Beach wear. And insert in center shows the ggjatest in gloves. ^Tfrwcjriack. »od .white *ld yl oves h^ gaibtlets^of.soaU o^vsricoloreA-; Griffin Circuit Notes By Rev. B. L. Betts The most Interesting and help meeting of ministers ever at by the writer was held in prayer meeting room of the Methodist church Tuesday Nearly all the preach braved the exceedingly bad and attended.« Outlining plans for the year Dr. J. H. Eakes, the presid elder, said he knew of no being disgruntled and of dissatisfied people in the dis Rev. Charles C. Jarrell, D. D., the conference concern thc work of the Golden Cross informing us that Wes Memorial Hospital will add much money to the charity as tlje people will raise. It also brought to our attention this great hospital give! the courtesy, medical treatment the very poor as it does to the rich, who are able to pay for treatment in this insti Dr. Sterling P. Wiggins, con missionary secretary, in a speech, gave the minis present reasons why they preach on the subject of Unless interest quick and passion-for the world’s is aroused, he told our missionary operations in lands must cease. Our mis will be called home and than 50 per cent of our work wi\J be discontinued. payment ol sntenary pledges the confei ce benevolences will carry on the work begun several years ijga. Our with the.....facts' ^ before .....them,.......can.. not fail to respond to the church’s urgent call. - Dr. Elam F. Dempsey, confer ence secretary of education, was at his best in presenting the claims of the Christian education WHAT’S THE USE By L. F. Van Zelm Now What’s the Use of Arguing © Western Newepaper Union '■0 W AW ClGHT / AW PIGHT/ WELL, <T05h / - All Right/ YOUta FOUW9 APE BUUE-CIOODS ALL Gouy / you're The | !\ '-i’ll Mvnvt At>MIT ahything- IT — you i'll Sat A<3(?EE NX/SLL RIGHT , f well, "all I Said / RIGHT / ALL WORST ONE GET — ALWAYS ThE * A WELL ' ALL right WANT TO ALL \ A&OUT finish ’EM my — story NO*/ LET NE > ALL RIGHT/ SAID LAST ALL YUORD RIGHT IN — - T bight/, ? PlffMT r ALONE T^CN NO*/ LET ME £ r (t C\3|- ^ ^ , 1 Gvft £* ■ /* * A * ,a>U ^ --- \ts 7 r~ - _JL <77, T J A rv: ’ A: / o 0 t* j U' m W _r f 1 IT V A )I dll VAN CELM j l/i 1 movement. He told us that it is unknown whose child will lead the nation in right paths, and for 'that reason every child is entitled to intellectual equipment for life’s battles. The colleges owned and controlled by the church, he told us, are producing more leaders than the college under state man agement. Rev. A. M. Pierce, editor of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, made a forceful and earnest ap peal for more subscriptions to the church paper. Only by read ing religious literature can one be informed on what iS taking place in church circles. Rev. John F. Yarbrough offered a resolution, making February Advocate month in the Griffin dis trict. During February every preacher will be expected to preach upon the importance of reading the scriptures and the Wesleyan Advocate, and it is hop ed several thousands of our peo ple will subscribe to the church paper. Rev. M. A. Franklin, realizing that suffering and want await our mission preachers here in North Georgia, as well as the superannu ates and the other donferenee claimants,, unless our jiiople rcy spond immediately to thfe call for payment of the benevolences./of fered a resolution /o designate January, February^/*- ..larch a:-; a time for special effort to raise the quotas of the several His resolution was unanimously adopted. New Palindrome Found New palindromes are rare, blit western newspaper writer lias re veuled several especially good ones. A palindrome is merely a that spells backward and forward, A classic example of the palindrome is the speech put into the mouth of Napoleon: Able was I ere I saw 'KTlW^‘’ - ATOttng^ttw-TOWxaneK»Heftt was the following purporting to lie sign which a store manager placed over u rat-catching prepara tion composed of Dutch cheese and tar: “But trap made a la Edam, part tar. • • Years ago when “red root” was popular ns a cure-all, u druggist’s sign ran: “Red root put up to order.” GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS KING OF IRAK WANTS TO BECOME A TAXI DRIVER IN LONDON London, Dec. 31.—Taxicab driv \ who would like to become kings will be interested in contemplating King Feisal of Irak, who would like to become a taxi driver. Irak is a state in Mesopotamia —said to be the site of the Garden of Eden—over which the British hold a mandate. The King confided his humble predilections to Tom Griffiths, la bor whip in the Commons, who has just returned from the Near East. Driving a taxi in London, the King ‘ thinks, would be ah ideal way of earning a living and ranks a plose second to the king business. BRITISHERS WEAR SPECS BECAUSE OF OVEREATING London, Dec. 31.—Overeating at an early age is largely responsible for the increasing number of be spectacled people in Great Britain, according to Clement Jefferey, eye necialist. [ Diet, he says, is an important factor in determining the efficiency of the eves, and the purer the food consumed the niore normal will the eye tissues become. Overeating and undereating dis turb the vision, while adulteration 0 f foo<L is a productive cause of defective vision. - When I was cycling through England,” writes R. B. YV., “I started off one morning to ride from Clacton to St. Osyth. After a while l bedtime uncertain about the road and meeting a laborer 1 inquired, ‘Am I right for St. Osyth?’ The man looked puzzled and said lie never b<*d heard of any such place. | “A second wayfarer whom I asked was equally ignorant. Then came a third. This fellow scratched his iieitd. kill look -of com prelierslon dawned upon his face. ‘Ay. to he sure. I have it now— it’s Snosev ye mean!"' Mrs. L. M. Oope, of Alamo, will arrive in the city tomorrow to be the guest of Mrs, J. M. Brisendine. Twain's Description of Missouri River Water In one of ills return trips to the state of his boyhood, Murk Twain wrote a friend he had found one thing that had not changed—the mulatto complexion of Missouri river water—und probably a score of centuries would not change it. “It comes out of the turbulent, bank caving river,” be explained, “and every thimbleful of it holds an acre of land in solution. [ got this fact from the bishop of the diocese. If you will let your glass stand half an hour you can separate the land from the water as easy as Genesis, and then you will find them both good—the me to eat, the other to drink. The land Is very nourish ing, the water is thoroughly whole some. The one appeases hunger, the other, thirst. But the natives do not take them separately, but together, as nature mixed them. When they f.nd an Inch of mud in the bottom of the glass, they stir it up und take a draft us they would gruel. It is difficult for the stranger to get used to tltis hatter, but once used he will prefer it to water.”— Pathfinder Magazine. Opal Diggers Work Hard for Small Remuneration Of all the rough "outback”, jobs in Australia, digging for opal is about tiie worst. Coober Pedy lies in the heart of the Stewart range, 170 miles from the nearest sta tion on tl « East-West railway, and its whole population ot between 70 and 80 diggers lives underground in borrows Scratched out of the hill side. A tin shanty, in which the' diggers keep their tools, is the only sign of life showing above ground. Every morning the diggers come out of their holes and set ou; for the through opal the fields, to cut patijently rock in tiie hoi e of finding the beautiful black (them dia monds lying beneath. Between they have dug runny thousands of ollars’ worth of opal in the] last four years, though they 'have worked only a small area of ai field said to be 40 miles long. In nor mal times opal but is worth abou^ $15 an ounce, now that there is practically the diggers no demand have opal, for tiie but ^ems no money. Almost Evened the Series Mrs. Smith wanted to go to the movies. Mr. Smith said he had put In a hard day at the office and was tired and would rather sit at home and smoke. could Knowing have the Smiths, anyone they predicted' that would go to the movies!. Let’s sit down near the front, M said Mrs. Smith. front,” But Mr. I don’t Smith like to p't nea^ the protested. “When I do that the pictures hurt! my eyes.” “Nonsense!” scoffed Mrs. Shilth. .. I like to be down close so I can watch the musicians.” comfortable Soon the two seeing were distance seated i ithin the orchestra'. X Oh, don’t you just love to! hear the nimble of the kettledrums?” Mrs. Smith gushed. And then the worm turned, albeit ever so slightly. Yes,” Mr. Smith replied, ‘Keep quiet!”—Kansas City Star. Surveying the Seas Plans for the most complete sur vey of the ocean ever attempted have been inaugurated by a! con ference representing scientific branches of the allied United Stated gov ernment and institutions. One or more ships will be; fitted out with a complete laboratory and equipped with the latest scientific apparatus for the first cruise. The sea bottom will not only be mapped, but the composition of the water, its density, temperature, and cur rents which affect the distribution of marine plant and animal life, will be studied at all depths. Five-sevenths of the surface of the earth is covered by water. This water area can produce more food tiian all the land can ever be made to yield, and one of tiie purposes of the expedition will be to 1 take an inventory of such food possibilities. Unharmed by Long Falls Among tiie classic English falls may be mentioned that of a steeple jack, who fell from the top of the church tOilhe-groirnd, of St. George in Bolton-Ie Meors the whole dis tance traversed being some 120 feet. Tiie man’s skull struck some sheet lead Upon the eartli and left its Im- 1 ot upon it. but though tills fall was quite unbroken tiie man was only slightly injured and resumed work in a few days. Not !ong ago a man his shoes on fell from the top of a cliff at Dover, the height of whiqli was afterward found to be 4(H) feet. He was picked up floating insensible in. some five feet of water, but ills shoes were off, which .proves that he must have retained sufficient consciousness on reaching the water to enable him to draw his shoes from his feet. And Blame the Clubs Hardware Dealer—I’ve decided to take up golf. Don’t you think It would be a good advertisement If I used the brand of clubs we sell? ; Clerk—No. While I was learning I’d use the brand our rival dealer sells.—Good Hardware. Wednesday. Dec. 31. 1924. Bathing by No Means a Universal Custom In Japan we would learn what the Japanese Idea of cleanliness Is. In this quaint country of beautiful sunsets and colorful costumes peo ple bathe twice daily. Anti there Is no question that many of them have no convenient bathroom us we do. Ih China the family lias a large stove which Is used for a bed at night so they can l.eep warm. Between this picturesque empire and India, separated by miles and miles of lonely country and ocean, a great change of customs would be seen. In these out-of-the-way pluces we find people living in mere hovels. They enjoy no running wa ter systems and other conveniences us the most segregated parts of our country enjoy. "continu In India, where plagues ally cause the death of thousands of families, you will find towns that nave no water and sewerage sys tems. You cun see the Indian wom en balancing on their heads huge jars which they have filled with water drawn from the town well or the sluggish and muddy river. From Calcutta, to Bagdad, thence to Constantinople, you will set' that bathing is considered only for the white man and the native aristoc racy. On the deserts of Arabia, where water is necessarily used only for drinking, the desire to keep clean is accomplished in a rather “rough” manner. Instead of using water for the hath the Aral) vig orously rubs himself with the sand of the desert. Long and Short Lives in Scheme of Nature Qne of the most wonderful tilings in Nature is tiie manner in which things,are balanced up. The long lived tilings propagate tlieir species slowly; the short-lived, rapidly. For instance, elephants, whales, tor toises and carp have been credited with lives of anything from four hundred years downward. Aud at the other end of the scale we find insects which have a life of hours only. Many theories have been put forward to account for these re markable distinctions, but the one now most commonly accepted is that the slower tiie creature is in reaching full maturity and the less its powers of reproduction, tiie greater will be its average lon gevity or length of natural life. Na ture’s object in such an arrange ment is fairly plain even to our limited human intelligence. For if such creatures ns locusts, breeding with incredible rapidity, had them selves a life of centuries, the world would be within a little while Im possible for other would existence. And the same result occur did an elephant with a life of perhaps a couple of hundred years, breed like a locust. In some way, which as yet we may not fully understand, the principle of Nature Is to main tain a balance of power in our world. We wish you a Happy, J Prosperous New Year. % fj X 1R T. H. WYNNE S, X J eweler-Optician. r \ I? lass* N & % X The \ / Thrift Habit/ With the New Year resolve) to cultivate habit* Join Our Christmas Savings Club Safety Boxes For Rent. City National Bank u OPERATIC STARS TO GIVE RADIO PROGRAM TOMORROW NIGHT A real treat Is in store for raJio fans in Griffin tomorrow night, ac cording to J. M. Barrenger, of the Varner Electric Company, when broadcasting programs will be given IV which the most famous in operatic and concert stars will be heard. Stations in 'New York City, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Buffalo will be “tied” together by the American 'elegraph and Telephone Company, and for the first time will broad cast a musical program furnished by noted singers of both the Vic tor Company and the Metropolitan Grand Opera. Mme. Lucrezia Bori and John McCormick are the two outstand ing features and will be assisted by Amalita Galli-Curci, Jascha Heifetz, Maria Jeritza, Giovann^ Martinelli, Tito Schipo, Mischa El man, Feodor Chaliapin and Reinaid Werrenrath. J. M. Brisendine and Allen Bris endine have returned to Orlando, F!a., after spending the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Brisendine. Joo Late to Classify WANTED Several live wire salesmen or ladies; for a quick selling proposition. Call at 110 E. Solomon between 10:00 a. m. and 12:00 a. m. Friday. Have you joined our Christmas Savings Club? Savings Bank of Griffin. STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Second Na- . tional Bank will be held at 10 o’clock, a. m., Tuesday, January 13th, 1925, for the purpose of electing officers and the transac , tion of such other business as may properly come before them. M. J. JANES, Cashier