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Kdiior’s Deak
IS
A MUCH NEEDED LAW
Police chiefs throughout the country
In convention assembled, have under
taken to give the world th© benefit
of their advice on tome subjects that
seriously concern the public welfare.
None will dare deny that these men
come closest In contact with and know
more about these things than any
other class of
The chief suggestion (no pun
meant) is that the various agencies
which control the sale of fire arms
pass regulatory laws, safeguarding the
public in a measure from the Indis
criminate, use of these weapons, by
preventing their sale or licensing them
In some measure that will make It
more difficult to buy and carry them.
How many deaths and tragedies and
sorrow are due to the pistol In this
state alone every year? Any reason-
ably posted man will hesitate to snm
up all of Ihpm. It would bp a task
that would reflect on the sanity of the
state in a way. Tet the sale of guna j
and pistols goes
ports ware gathered from outside
sources. Too much light sad loose
tglk goes oa la th* world anyway, but
without newspaper It would b# a
on earth In leas time than a week.
FINE, FINE, FINEI
iKis! Kiss again! Kiss all you want
! Klaa everybody who la kisaable
For many years doctors have heart
lessly told us tp avoid kissing, claim
ing that the kiss is a spreader of dls-
ise germs. ,
But now comes Dr. Louis Kajzoff,
poled physician and psychologist, who
advises us to itiss to our hearts'
Just barken to his words of Arl«-
many men confess their sins
■agadoclo spirit?
The birth
France, and the di'
tng in America.
a.cactus thorn.
“Back home the tailor has con.
solidated with the bootblack; here he
has usurped a apace in the market,
so that when the native calls for the
supplies he may have his sarong
mended. The loose, single nether
garment of the Javan, skillfully
twisted about the waist, is peculiarly
liable to tears and rents.
"To the American woman traveler
this garment la apt to be a matter of
particular interest. For the last
few years bhe United States - has
fallen vietim to the lure of batik.
The Javans are the exponents of
this subtle and colorful art. Unique
geographical conditions have foster,
a unique art.
Volcanoes Fertilised Java
'Java is extremely fertile—made
so by its numerous volcanos tho3<>
much maligned - beneficent forces.
The entire island Is the most luxuri-
ant garden spot in all the world. It
densely populated that its
inhabitants must till the soil, and
cannot pluck their food from trees
ie South Sea isles. But
they do live by a minimum of labor
and they require for shelter only a
agency for courage, optimism; hope, J roof over their heads to protect them
a | health and longevity." from frequent rains.
Hurrah for Ratzoff! He's human. | “The result of these conditions has
find all of them a™ duit.roM.tor .11' "IM' 1 that th. present day Javan haa
“Soma bacterologtsta," he says,
'would have us carry around a Jugful
of carbolic acid or other germicide to
wash our Hps before kissing. They
forget that heat is th£ greatest anti
septic known, and tbat the heat gen
erated by a kiss destroys the supposed
without material, * enn -
*h0“ *hat „,. lrlct loi. , na p, rlon with a 1 "“heart., ,ki..ln, .end.
grudge or a pint of .bine can get on. '»«» «“"•*' *” d «"*•
to carry on hi. devlli.b work. . traveling with great velocity, electrl-
It I, the a.mo,way all over th. coun. 'I' 1 ”* and rejuvenating over, call
try and firm, and manufacturing In- ot ,h » "“‘I'- *° neIt ,0
T* rail.., acbedule 1. ope o! th. tercet, have recently flooded tb.;>°« «*'« 11 '>«■>““ "» "">*•
paper -'orthl'tropics,’-fastehed with
KAlUWAQSOiaiUUES
V rlT V. Sf? ee mm
wains at Thomssvta* A. C UR
»BiTCSisrv
not bound to keep, country with advertisements ot cheap
guns. They are brought down
is still decreasing in ( p j ace W h ore any 0 id spor t can get one j
I ot them Will shoot.
The barber that sells hair restorer
Is no salesman, merely a skin gamo
er forward
or backward, depending on thilr make.
The more pistols that are carried In
dfcates the number of increased trage-
The ratio grows with the
bill SutHre la a smart fellow but bei . of
not smart enough to keep out of j„ the country. Yon can't get
politics. ' away from the fact that the pistol is
Th. union that puntihed lta radical. dangeiou. weapon and la used la-
won't have to ho panl.bed for My dl.clrlmlnately .bene "
thing it does.
Is carried.
If there were no pistols allowed ex
cept for military and official use much
It dependf on whether you want to 0 f t b | 8 would cease, although it might
buy or sell as to your reception in pr0Te discomforting
some quarters. % j those, who would protect their homes
The Turks artTkllling^ulI those they | * nd Property from unl..wful lura.lon.
don't lik-3 and there Is nobody
ing to say them nay.
A GOOD PLACE IN WHI-H TO LIVE
If It isn't pne thing It's another, sa
the fellow that had the flu a year a;
sow now is threatened with dengue.
' W. O. Woodall, of the Industrial
Index, one ot the most reluble and
, Interesting trade Journals published
: in this section of the country, visited
Disarmament is a question that Thomasville last week for a few hours
might be applied to the Turks, except and as usual ho looked around to i
on the battlefield, with much success how things were going.
An extract from his Hally column
the Enquirer-Sun at Columbus, will
read with much Interest here.
"Thomasville—but you know already
When a fellow likes you he don’t what the writer thinks of Thomssvllte.
have to be telling you every day *1n The same charming city, the same de-
Tho Republicans who played politics ^
with the bonus are sore with th*
minority tbat spoiled their little game.
the week. Likewise ditto vice versa, lightful people. One of its apprecia
tive citizens was speaking of Us b.*au-
ty-and its livability. 'Thera are three
cities in Georgia which are peculiarly
desirable as 'home cities—places to
live in—on account of their fJoe social
The horn of plenty is seen quite of
ten these days, but it pays to eat what
you grow more than to sell It some
times.
When we consider the plight ot tho Atmosphere, culture and beauty.' he
Neaj East, we wonder how far this said. These three places are Thomas-
world has progressed in twenty cen- ville, Athens and Columbus.' Another
turies. | outside impression of Columbus—you
' see how they accumulate.
Tallahassee Is going to have
tary club and there is nothing that
will do it as much good in as fine and
big a way.
The pumpkins of last season are all
gone but there are a lot of nice big
ones almost ready for the Thanks
giving season.
The kaiser will have another wife,
which shows that he doesn’t think he
can live and be happy without some
other creature.
The Turkish situation makes us all
f>el that England Is Just right In
shooting the Turk whenever he tries
to get into Europe.
The obey part of the ceremony Is
not the only thing they seem to
to eliminate, when they try to ge
of the whole thing.
Ths husband that doesn’t growl
when the meal Is late or something
goes wrong, Is the one w bo will
hare It happen often.
The. cheap European money Is a
very attractive proposition to the fal
low that can pay his debts to Europe
with good old American money.
Lord Robert Cecil Is going to corns
to this country to lecture, but we hope
he will have more success than soma
Englishmen or women In the past few
* The boys near the railroad yards
don't throw coal at each other any
* more. They play pst sad take with
*L so as to as* which one gets^flr*
The spirit ot progress and Improve
ment la encountered all along the line
in South Georgia cities. Practically
all industries were found to be run
ning at full tilt. Albany is now ex
tending fts sewer system and Is pre
paring to pave more streets. Thomas
ville, now enlarging its lighting and
water system. Is preparing to extend
Its street paving. The spirit of the peo
ple fs cheerful. With the settlement
of the coal and railroad strikes, there
is general sentiment that tho pathway
is at last clear—that the last obstacles
have been, or rather, are being
moved—and that prosperity's return
can no longer be delayed.’’
NEWSPAPER DEPENDENCY
'
The unreliability ot rumor Is unques
tioned. The reliability of newspaper
reports of all kinds ace not seriously
questioned by any well informed per
son, unless they are of a nature and
character that at once brands them
propaganda or Ilf advised and ill timed
advertising.
The world doesn't realise to what
extent It Is dependent on newspapers,
not. only for news but for the truth of
the news. Very few newspapers, no
respectable ones, will print anything
unless they are morally sure It la the
truth, unis»a they state vary plainly
that it is mere rumor, which
should discredit It unless the newspa
per explains that the means or estab
lishing the facts beyond' question la
practically Impossible
The dty of Vienna with without a
” ’ _ I newspaper for a week aud before that
Bet yon a double doughnut that th* time esdid there were so many rum-
no t be* ors and reports that the people were
i, he would not rob us ot oue Jjad slight need to concern himself
’ our greatest delights. jwith architecture, making machines.
Kiss up. and keep kissing!—Griffin
News and Sun.
And these from Bachelor Duke.
jor household decorations. Hence
| his craving for self expression has
J expended itself In his personal
- adornment
I “The tedious process of batik
Judge R. C. Bell hung up an enviable making—application of wax to tha»
record in the recent race for the Court!part of the design which Is not to
AN ENVIABLE RECORD
of Appeals. This young Jurist, only ( take the dye, the steaming out of the
on the Superior Court bench for less wax and its further application ns
than one term, carried every county I each successive color is employed,
in the state except the home county of j and he knowledge of color required '
his opponent and one other. Judge ‘to obtain the delicate shades and
Bell is not a man that craves publicity huea i onir were mysteries which
in any way. He never haa stepped amazed the occasional visitor to
aside to court public favor, he haa j aT# , Now they are known and
never sensed the political activities pract!ced with varying degreea of
that are sometimes characteristic of proficiency in var io U s art center, of
those who tulnk more of their office J Americ , n communities. This Javan
than of the ability to fill it. duties ‘ , neriubIy 8U ^ e sts a comparf-
worthily. I son with that distinctive American
Yet he wins by one of th. largest» color prln ting. which employ.
jthe same basic principles in achiev-
majorities ever polled In the
over a most worthy and able opponent.
It Is another of the unusual Incidents
of politics, one tbat we sometimes see.
but rarely ever aa worthily bestowed
as In this case. The politicians will be
figuring with Judge Bell before long
tor something else and whatever he
decides to do he won’t make politics
paramount and the office a subsidiary
consideration.
DJOKJAKARTA, IN LAND OF BATIK
VOLCANOES ANO THI BORO
BOEOOER
Grandfather, who saw Niagara
Falla and went to Chicago for the
World’s Fair, lived out his days on
the farm, a wall-traveled mas.
Grandson, scanning the week’s^--* — —■—
tradq opportunity ,lancln, through pi—h: roth.r «>• principal U on. of
hi, daily paper, or listening to on blending n rainbow of fl.ror., and
evening*, radio concert to umlied “>• P*l*to &T • chromatic
by the yaried facta that carousel, i*" 1 ' of taste, In much the tame way
and mimeograph, maybe sold In.••**« batik maker atrtoea for naw
Jamaica, that tha Turka hare combination, of color.
ing the finest gradations of color.
A Dinner Table Masterpiece
“Djokjakarta beckons to the
epicure as well as to the asthete. Its
rijst-tafei, or rice table, affords a
rare gastronomic experience.
Japanese dinner beguiles the visjting
diner with a series of exotic tidbits
served separately. The Javan numl
is a veritable symphony, with its
underlying nutif a stratum of rice,
and upon that riles a structual
harmony of foods—vegetable upon
egg, curry upon fish, fowl upon
meat The casual observer’ must
conclude that this la a tort of
variant of the alleged Chinese Chop,
suey of American invention,
bud wanting"wkra It coma, to retina almoit la a state of rebellion. I» *
thafr coertctjcw. and knowing what'eaiy to fmagic, how this would ho* L ^
thoy are eotteg om. -MdalU If nA Munt»«. l jrtddt' ta , h„, oJUd
smashed into Smyrna, that agents
for portable typewriters and kodaks
needed in Peru, that Constanti
nople offers an excellent market for
lip sticks and cosmetics, and that the
tourist steamers qre stopping for a
ide ‘trip to DJokjakarfe. . (
Epics is Tea Words
“Every item spells an epic of
modern progress, whether you won.
at the trade conquest of
the shaggy Andes, or the intimation
that when the Moslem Julia O’Grady
drops her veil she is determined
rival her occidental sister In beauty
of the skin,” says a bulletin from
the Washington, D. C. headquarters
of the National Geographic Society.
“But Djokjakarta stands out. It
Is unpronounceable, it hitherto has
been all but inaccessible, and it is
among those wanderlust sirens
which wisper in day dreafn moments,
'You may come here some day.
"One of the most fascinating
spots in this most Javan of JrVa
eitiea la the- market The slutch
have roofed It- over, but hnder the
tile shelters the na**/es display
baskets of rice, Jmnelies of bananas,
and leaves bearing preparations of
betel, pepper, and ground coconut
just as they do in every Javan town,
where the market or passer, Is a
snl.r of .n terest
Baasas Leaf is Wrapplag Paper
"If yoor purchase brffaull enough
tr warrant wrapping yon get a neat
hqasttff leaf,
Though the modern Javan is not
concerned with architecture the is
land people of thousands of yean
ago built temples and monuments
which dttday are objects of wonder
to the student and fragments of
beauty to the artiat Notable among
these is the Great Buddha, or Boro
Boedoer a mighty terraced temple,
containing a massive image of
Buddha and a remarkable series of
bas-reliefs.
“To the scientist the island of
Java la a potential laboratory for
studies of volcanic actiiyi. Mt
Katmai, in Alaska, is the largest
active volcano in the world, but
some of the !ong.silent craters of
Java are greater even than giant
Katmai. Vulcanism Is a branch of
natural science which is attracting
ever wider attention as it is realized
that volcanoes have played an
important part in making the earth
habitable for fnan."
Tom ty.tson says he would have
voted to override the veto of the
President had he not been so very UL
Tom’e Idea of a veto vote le too wellj
known to heed much explanation.
Principles are Ironclad but there are
a lot of people that don't know the
difference between principle and pr*>
Movies of Man win b* put on short
ly, bat they want worry Mari.
It is (any how much yaa cais give
up if you have, to. 1
BOatlH