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BIBLE THOUGHT
Ye shall not steal, neither deal false
ly, neither lie one to another.—Lev.
19 : 11 .
Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and
truth atone is lovely.—Boileau.
A Lesson From
Minneapolis.
In the city of Minneapolis, Minn,, three men
were found dead, seated at a table in the home
of one of them, On the table was a flask
partly filled with moonshine whiskey.
A fourth man, who died later, said they
only had one drink out of the bottle, which
was enough to give them the quietus.
This White Mule was rank poison.
It is dangerous, nowadays, to drink any
kind of whiskey.
You can never know what the stuff is
which they sell to you.
Even the stamp of the government has
lost its potency and protects no longer.
There were moonshiners in the old days,
but even their stuff could be consumed with
comparative safety. *
They distilled their illicit whiskey from the
grain of corn and rye, and while their stuff
wasn’t aged or rectified, it didn't kill, at least
not on the spot.
The stuff they make nowadays is rank
poison.
Much of it i is made right in this ^tate.
There is a well organized bootlegging gang
right in Georgia.
Moonshine whiskey is bottled by the whole
sale by this organized gang who sell the
product over a wide range.
' They label the poison "Old Crow, "Grand
dad," "Antique, and "Sunny Brook "
They paste genuine government stamps
over the cork.
Instead of corn and rye, they used pois
oned whiskey and denatured alcohol as the
basis and the raw material for their output.
Obviously, the chemical processes employed
are not applied by experts, nor is there any
kmd of government supervision and inspec
tion.
It is not made by competent mechanics,
but by money hungry gangsters.
How many people they murder with their
decoction is not known, and wili ever remain
art unsolved mystery.
They coin money by the wholesale, how
ever, and certainly reap a rich harvest.
They will not be detected in their vile
operations until they get to fighting among
themselves.
That this thing is going on is only too true.
Every man, who drinks their stuff takes his
life into his own hands, every time he takes
a swig.
This thing is going on in free America un
der the name of temperance, right living and
morality.
What a farce, what a menace, what a
crime.
Health
Food.
Montana has just been found to be the
"healthiest" state in the union,, its death rate
being only 7.8 per cent per year per 1,000
population.
But don't hasten to Montana. For the
secret of the death rate lies in the birth rate,
which is the smallest in the union.
Many babies die shortly after birth. If
few babies are born, fewer still die. and
-
death averages are consequently lower.
Parking space for tin cans is as hard to
find as for automobiles.
THE GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
Woodrow Wilson
College.
We have asked Prof. R. C. Mizell, the
original Woodrow Wilson College man in the
south, to furnish The News with a condensed
statement of the purpose of the proposed me
morial to the war president.
Mizelle has sent the following reply to
our letter:
"Woodrow Wilson 'College will be Geor
gia's tribute to a Georgian—Georgia, Wilson's
home state, has initiated the movement to
build a national memorial to America's great
leader.
Instead of bronze or marble, the monument
to Woodrow Wilson will be a distinctive
college- a living, working memorial", dedicat
ed to the aim of keeping increasingly before
the world President Wilson's high purposes—
a most fitting memorial to The scholar in
politics."
The memorial college will be located, not
in the northern part of Georgia, where most
of the other colleges are, but in the great
i southern section of the state which now has
no men's college.
, It will be built at Valdosta, where a 100
acre tract has been purchased for a campus
by local citizens who have already raised
$500,000 toward the sum needed to properly
finance the memorial college.
The plans for the new college have been
worked out by former members of Wilson's
cabinet and others of his personal friends.
It will be governed by a board of trustees
chosen nationally from Wilson’s intimate as
sociates.
The new college will be different from any
other college in America.
Its chief aim will be to build character and
inspire young men with ideals similar to those
of Woodrow Wilson.
It will seek to educate men thoroughly
rather than to graduate them.
Students will be "hand-taught” through
intimate association with their instructors—
the perceptorial method of Oxford and Cam
bridge.
The educational lockstep will be broken—
students will advance according to to their
abilities and development, not according to
classes.
Emphasis will be placed on cultural courses,
history, literature, art, economics, government,
international relations and similar studies.
The aim will be to make a man first, and a
member of a profession afterward.
The educational principals which Wilson
fought for as President of Princeton Univer
sity will be carried out in detail at Woodrow
Wilson College.
The faculty will be chosen as far as pos
sible from among Wilson's educator friends;
it will be composed of men big enough to
exert an influence on the affairs of the nation
and the world.
Since it is to be a national memorial, rep
resenting all of Wilson's admirers in America,
it will not be affiliated with any religious de
nomination.
The new college will be a noteworthy ad
dition to Georgia’s facilities Ifor higher educa
tion. one that is certain to elevate the state s
educational standing, "the spark which will
light an educational bondfire in Georgia."
It will not ask money from public taxes
and will be free from political control.
It will not compete with existing Georgia
colleges for support, for it will be adequate
ly financed before it is started and will grow
as gifts come to it from all parts of the
United States.
Eventually approximately $10,000,000 will
be needed to build the kind of college which
will appropriately memorialize the great lead
cr ; experts have estimated, however, that the
college can be begun when one-fourth this
sum—$2,500,000—is in hand.
Upon the strong recommendation of na
tional leaders who have already interested
themselves in the Wilson memorial, an addi
tional million dollars is to be obtained in
Georgia, as "evidence of faith" in the project,
before Wilson's friends elsewhere are invited
to contribute. * -
The movement to erect Woodrow Wilson
College has already focused nation-wide at
tention upon Georgia—both because of "the
unique educational features of the new insti
tution and because it will be America’s first
living monument to her great war president.
Eugenics.
Wisconsin is discussing the application of
its eugenic marriage law to women.
Regulation of this sort may or may not
produce a healthier race, but it certainly will
not be effective until all states have uniform
laws.
It's too easy to cross state lines.
The prime reason behind the uprising of
the Riffs against the French and Spanish is
crop failures in the native regions.
Famine spurred the French revolution.
Famine put over the Russian revolution. If
Wilhelm could have kept his subjects well
fed. he'd still be emperor of Germany.
-.A/w*ll fed populace seldom revolts. \
Griffin In Ye
Olden Days
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
May 12, 1905.
Dr. J. M. Thomas returned
home last night from Chatta
nooga, where for ten days he
has been attending the convention
of railway surgeons. He reports
a fine time and says some COO
directors were present at the con
vention.
M. J. Daniel, W. H. Beck, T.
E. Patterson, W. E. If. Searcy,
Jr., and Roseoe T. Johnson have
returned from Augusta, where
they attended and took a prom-'
inent part in the great council of
i
of Griffin
y
There are 400 boys in Griffin between the ages of
12 and 18 years who should be given the benefit of
Boy Scout leadership. I
At the present their leisure time activities are
not now being directed by any sort of Community
V,
Organization. 4
What these boys worth the city of Griffin i
are to k
as future citizens?
The leisure time of the boy, beginning when he
leaves the school house at 2 o’clock p. m., and con
tinuing through the balance of the day, is the danger
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period of his life. It is during these hours that he falls
into bad companionship and forms habits, either i
good or bad, which shape his future character. A
Shall the boys of Griffin be left to drift as they
will during these leisure hours, or will the people
of Griffin provide competent community leadership
for them?
THIS IS A BURNING QUESTION! IT MUST BE
ANSWERED! THINK IT OVER!
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0 C. C. THOMAS, Campaign Director
REV. M. R. WILLIAMSON J. K. BERRY J. R. BYRD
A. K. MADDOX E. SHAPARD, JR. P. M. CLEVELAND
F. H. WILSON REV. L. M. LATIMER J. A. BURNETT
J. H. CHEATHAM J. P. NICHOLS, JR. M. J. DANIEL
JNO. V. CHUNN REV. G. E. ZACHARY
W. E. II. SEARCY, JR. J."W. HAMMOND
REV. JNO. F. YARBROUGH I). F. PATTERSON QUIMBY MELTON
WALTER GRAEFE B. B. BROWN L. P. GODDARD
L. M. LESTER OR. 0. K. CULL H. B, MONTGOMERY
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Griffin Council Boy Scouts
I of America
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Red Men. They report a pleas
ant -trip. Brunswick gets the next
great council next year.
Rev. J. J. Bennett, the able
and popular pastor of the First
Baptist church, will leave the mid
dle of June fof a two months’
tour through England, Scotland,
Ireland, Wales, Frace, Italy and
the Holy Land.
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
May 12. 1895.
Adjutant General and Mrs Kell,
of Sunny Side, were in the city j
yesterday. | j
MfSs Virgin Hale went to Car- ;
rolltcn yesterday week (
to spend « !
or Mrs so with W. relatives. E. H. Searcy, Jr-„ j
1 I
.
of Guthrie, Okla., arrived in the *
Tuesday. May 12, 192:?.
city yesterday and will spend
some time visiting relatives.
Miss Mamie Edwards returned
yesterday from a visit of two
weeks to relatives in Hampton.
Miss Lois Hudson went down
to Bjsrnesville yesterday on
visit to Mifs- Julia Harris. . _
Rev. W. G. Woodbridge wiil
speak to men only at the Y. M.
C. A. at 0:00 today.
ATTENTION, MASONS.
All members of Meridian Sun
Lodge No. 26, F. & A. M., are
requested to meet in their
room* at ten o’clock Wednesday
morning for the purpose of at
tending the funeral at 10:30 of
Brother J. G. Rhea. John H.
ers, W. M.
^ c E R fJ| T ®“ A ?^ B SOaE T V
LONDON, May 12.—Young men
should be taken out of the city
settlements, transferred to the
country and taught how to work
they, were taught during t e
war how to fight, George Lands
bury, newspaper ec itoi an ot '
aiist member of -parliament told
the House of Commons during a
on what he described as
miserable dole sys- '
tem ” of the state, and its effects
■ on young men between the ages
j of 18 and 25.
| Angeles rich man's wife
j Los washed
sks divorce because she
dishes. May he why he is a
! rich man.