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DAILY TlMES-ENTERPRiUl. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 27, 1922.
DAILY TIMESENTERPRISt
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TEXAS IS A BIG STATE.
Our good friend, R. M. Maler, man
ager of the local Post office, hands In
the following on Texas, which re
cently came Into bis possession—not
jTexas, you understand, but these
-acts about the one Star state.—Tri
bune-News, Cartersville, Ga.:
j Texas occupies all the continent of
North America,expect the small part
'set aside for the United States and
'Canada. Texas ownes the north of
the Rio Grande, the only dusty river
in the world; also the only one with
the possible exception of Trinity.
as is bounded on the north by
y-flve or thirty states, and on
ist bv all the oceans of the world
t the Pacl ie, and on the south
3 Gulf of Mexico and South Am-
and on the west by the Pacific
, Milky Way and the real side
universe.
rexas were chopped loose from
for the accusations, and that has de
manded. We hope the House will
tinuo to Insist that his antagonists
produce the goods or keep their
mouths abut.
HARD TO DISCOURAGE
The riots in Cologne must be
Panhai
i that his fath-
atly disappointed, perhaps.
The average southern farmer is not
discouraged about the possibility of
raising cotton, despite the ravages of
the boll weevil. The weevil has done
much damage but he has brought
about the interest and the scientif'fl
efforts of every raiser of cotton
agaln.-t him and he has created a dt>
termination to make cotton despite all
-at can be done against it.
This determination has caused farm
's to give time and Interest to the
:tual problem of weevil infestation
has long since become a theory that
itton can be made in weevil Infested
territory and It has been proven down
this section of the country.
But along with it has been proven the
fact that it cannot be done except at
of the United States at the ' "> 8 f rlce ° ! vldlance and of-
le, It would float out Into ihe j tort along scientific lines,
ocean, as it ress upon n vast subter- 1 H nothing else, this Idea will prove
ranean sea o. fresh niter arj oil. fruitful to the average farmer, because
To\-.s is so big that the people of it has convinced him that experts
Brownsville call the Dallas people j know what they are talking about and
Yankees and citizens of El Paso sneer i can deliver the goods. When they are
at the citizens of T»cark:in:i as being - the cotton crop is made, and a fairly
big snobs from the efTete East. good yield. It takes time and It takes
If is 150 miles farther from El Paso. wor ^ ,0 kill him, but ibe farmer would
Texas to Texarkana, Texas, than it Is i be willing to put out both if he could
roin Chicago to New York City; Fort I get cotton sufficient to make it pay.
Worth is nearer to St. Paul. Minn., j TI >at is another of the problems
than it is to Brownsville. Texas. ,hat enters into the game and the
The chief occupation of the people P rIcp Is being watched now and hold-
of Texas is trying to keep from mak- j ing associations are planning to bring
ing all the money in the world. The j to cotton farmer of the South not
chief pursuit of the people of Texas j only a means of raising cotton but a
was formerly Mexican bandits. But ; means ol selling it tor a fair profit
now it is land buying, steers. Texas. niter it has been raised. The weevil
crop records, and oil. bai d °ne us much harm but much good
The United States with Texas off has come from it.
would look like a three-legged Boston 0
terrier. GREECE HAS SURVIVED MANY
^ REVERSES
Texans are so proud o Texas that
Ihey cannot sloop nt night. II a Tex- , nyonj ,«17"inclmed to fear
an’s head should he opened the map .that Greece is in the way to pass
of Texas would be photographed on j whololy from the world stage because
his brain. This is also true of his [of the tremendous reverses which she
heart. Unlea. your front gate |„ has suffered recently," nays a bolle-
ei hteen miles from your front door r' n from t * ie Washington, D. C.,
j j headquarters of the National Geogra.
>ou do not belong to society as con-1 phic Society, “he has only to glance
| t:tu!ed In Texas. Mrs. King's gate is back into history to change his mind.
'15o miles from her front door, and! “There are few parallels,” con
i'he is thinking of moving her house ;tinues the bulletin quoting a commu-
ck farther so that she will not he i nication to The Society, “to the strik.
r.oved by passing automobiles and
eddlei
Senator Newberry knew he was
•anted, even If they persuaded him
■pend a lot of money to get there wh
racial phenomenon of Hellenic they needed bis services to defeat t
continuity throughout the vicissitues ( best measure ever presented to t
’of 2,000 years. Modern research iSenate.
which was concluded by the Protocol
of London in 1830; and, witnessing
the progress which in hat brief span
has been made in a land of such
sparse resources, one cannot see how
praise can be withheld from a people
who have accomplished so much.
“It is only in the islands or deep
f country, where the Alabanian
flood which swept across the Attic
plain has never reached, that one
finds the facial lineaments and the
bodily grace which the ancient sculp-
has taught the modern worl
being common to all Greeks of classic
time. And this survival persists
chiefly among the children, because
incessant toil and scanty nourish-
Boon deprive both boys and
girls of their native grace and stamp
them with the ineraciable marks of
a life of labor.
‘Greece is essentially a land of
agriculture, preeminently intended
such; but, owing to the tremen
dous drain by imigration from the
rural districts, the progress of agri
culture has been painfully deficient.
my places the land is tilled only
by women and girls, Many of the
en have gone off to America.
"Throughout Greece and indeed
throughout the entire Balkan region
English is much heard, because of
e great numbers of Greeks who
ve returned home from America;
and few travelers in the Peloponne
sus will fail to recall at almost every
•ailroad station the eager face thrust
n at the carriage window and quiver-
ng with the demand, You fellers
“The ancient Athenian democracy
ay be said to have projected itself
well-nigh intact into the life of
Greece as it is today. Class distinct-
are unknown. Titles of nobility
forbiden by theconstitution even
though every native of Corfu claims
e a Venetian count, and the
n Prince is known only as the
Diadochos, or Successor. Neither
alth nor education hinders the
lociation of all upon terms of the
most absolute equality.
‘One unfortunate result of this
extreme democracy, so firmly fixed
Hellenic characteristic, is the
disinclination to obey a reader, when
has had a strikingly disastrous ef
fect upon the politices and the com-
mrece of'the nation.
The public library here Is planning
' materially enlarge its scope of ac
tivity. In other words, the books have
to be read more, if they would do
the necessary amount of good.
i If h«
orld with a tract five by i
The hunter who can’t hit the aids
of a barn maybe will find some good
friend to lend him a few bird* to show
Congresswoman Alice Roberts*
>eeved at not being elected, even If j *' og * le wou,d be ab I® 10 dlg 0
ihe did get a soft berth for a lame ’ ma caDal ln three roots,
luck. j If all the Texas steers we
steer, he could stand with hJs
feet In the Gulf of Mexico, one hind
foot in the Hudson Bay, the other in
the Arctic Ocean, and with hfs horns
punch holes In the moon, and with his
The baseball teams are planning ‘ tall brush off the mist from the Au-
start their claims for the pennants 1 r °ra Borealis.
- soon as the football season crashes' f all the cotton raised ln Texas an-
Thursday. naully were made Into one mattress,
all the people in the world could take
a nap at one time.
Texas Is rightly named the Garden
of the Lord, and if all the Bermuda
onions grown around Laredo were
ness is necessary if you want niade into a necklace it would encircle
-lthy or godly, or socially, or ithe globe.
• way, and yet some folks
to
The naughtiest books of the day are
sa ; d to be those that sell most fre
quently to the kind of folks that ought
not even to understand them.
'And yet, with all this continuity
iof language, there has existed in
Greece for some years a linguistic
condition of affairs around which
centers a controversy at once comic
or tragic; for there are in Greece
two languages, or, rather, the one
language in two forms—one written
by the newspapers, spoken by the
educated classes, and used in parlia-
lary debates and in public docu
ments, including the Scriptures, the
circulation of which is regulated by
law; and the other a varnacular used
by the masses of the people, contain,
ing many words of foreign origon,
They i
ies and mosquitoes are going Other Texas landlords have whole ^as penetrated the dark byways of
a little time off for carrying n ' r '“ntain ranges and rivers on their, medieval Greek history, and we know
devilish work among humans, ranches. One Texan has forty miles that the Greeks, whatever their tem-J j etters t0 Governor
o or navigable land on his farm. If th .porary fate, have preserved unbroken j there thpy w| „ f , nd
*> is hard put for publicity propo rtlon of cultivated land ln Texas , thc thread ol their national existence!
, complain, about hi. oar , ere ,„ e „ m . Im „„„ the value o: ! “™ e «™“* b °" d ^ “ ltM ' ,
,, _ the Greek today with his illustrious ine 7 c
’“ ,Ue 1,8 ’ aS crop, would equal that ot the o|Jc „ h jJ.ou.
• forty-seven other states. J Greek language, the essential ele-
you ask a fellow to give even Texas has enough land to supply j ments of which remain as they
ml child in the j >n the d»ys when the tongue served
as the medium of the noblest poetry
and the sublimest philosophy which
, feet and haie enough left oier for the ■ ^ race j, as yet pro d ucc d. This ton-
—«—— | armies of the world to march around gue traces its unbroken lineage back
m that is always in a hurry | ih e bo rder five abreast. * through medieval and New Testa-
here sooner and that applies Texas ha* grown enough aKalfa If ment Greek to the classic speech of
well as the pursuit of happi- | >nIe(J and bujJt , nto a gta lrway to plato nnd ot his contemporaries,
j reach to the pearly gates.
If all the hogs ln Texas were one
>g he would he able to dig a Pana
we are disposed to spend more money
because of so many more worthy ob
jects on which to spend It for the
public good.
Atlanta wants 500,000 people by
1930. and there isn't anything ot thi
kind that Atlanta can't do in one wa
another, even if it has to take in
r more counties.
Have you gone out or your way
Join the Red Cross, yet?
» have found it {
t yet.
bsg of g
he air, and won't, unless
Is possible to snatch the
t the end of the rainbow.
A RECORD tN SUPERIOR
COURT PROCEDURE
Tifton, Ga., Nor. 27.—So tar as Is
known, a new record in Superior Court
procedure was set by Judge Eve In
Irwin county the past week. A total
of 161 cases were disposed of and not
single case went to a Jury for a de
ipecially Turkish and Itallian, aris- iclsion. Of those 175 were civil cases,
ing from those periods of foreign J six criminal and one equity. Juries
occupation, with a much simplified iwere selected on a great many of the
grammar and rarely reduced to writ- cases but In each case a verdict was
ing, except for private communica- directed by the court. Only one argu-
tions. The former is the cultured ment was made by an attorney during
tongue; the latter the popular idion»t|the week and that argument was very
and between the two there rages o'short The decision was against him.
merciless warfare, in which fanatL j When Judge Eve first went to Ocllla
cal students of the University have he found the Irwin county Superior
lost their lives, ministers their port- Court docket very much congested.
[folios, and a MetropoliUn of Athens special effort was made to clear It and
Attorney General Daugherty Is being his miter. jwlth the co-operation of the bar, the
hounded by certain elements charging! “The controversy is too intricate wo rk done the past week has left the
crimes sufficient to bring Impeach-, be briefly ammarized, and like docket In excellent condition. This
ment proceed!.*,. Thl. occurred lm- ” 10,t PUMtions which divide the week be devoted to work on th.
- . - “ " ‘ *“ lerimlntl docket. The grand Jury ad.
FIGHT IN THE OPEN
mediately after the Injunction proce.1' if’*"’ 1 ."j iSiiV" ---- --|vr.mn,.. oov.e., me kr.no jury an-
- he fettled wholly in fevor of either journed Saturday, alter turning about
When .man gnaw, at a big old l”™dted at hi. ln.tig.tlon or with hla extreme party. .'thirty-live Indlctmenta. The grand
cigar like he could chew It up and approval, at lea.t, agaln.t the atrlkun. | “The etc of theae two tongoe. tl JurT recommended the adoption of the
•wallow it. he isn't so fierce as he wI »o were tr/ng up the business and j of much confusion to the visitor In new fl.jj which prohibts taking
looks, but he is merely anxious for a Industries of the country. [Greece, especially If he has reckon. f| B h b y anjr means other than hook and
chew. I W. bar. no alibi for Daugherty.! ^ ■ p “ * ■*"° a °< «*" »
„ ... .. . .. „ .. Crack to assist him In his travels, recommended the adoption of the Ellis
doot particularly admire him or hi. H e will be ablo indeed to read thel|, w pr0 „ d |„, , or „ coa „ t , mInM er:
The schools in the rural districts
tbos* (hst need most money snd t
for the benefit of those precluded from
coming to the more comfortable
schools schools ln towns.
The Wisconsin lady who wants a
million dollars from another woman
(or the alienation of her husband'e
affections, ought to get It for being so
properly appreciative of iti ml
, record, but we do think he should be
i fought In the open, that the grounds
, for the charges against him should be
; told snd without hiding anything. The
'attorney general Is a public official and
hie acts are those which the people
newspaper* without much difficulty
but he will be utterly lost In conver
sation, not only because of the pro
nunciation, which is vastly different
from the Erasmian method i n which
Wetternernrs are schooled, but be
cause the spoken tongue, being de-
have a right to know as far as theyjmotic, will have a vastly different
concern the conduct of hie office. vocabulary from that which he has
If b. 1. gum J l.t him b. oulted Iron. Ul “» ,r » m “| e dl 5«»”"r-
oud PO.,.h.d. Dot th. on,, SLt
to find that out la to know the reason origlon in th , War for l n det>«Qd«nca
| also the adoption of the Australian bal
lot system, which requires the recom
mendation of two grand juries. For a
long time Irwin county has been no
torious for the corrupt use of money
and whiskey In primary elections. A
determined effort Is being made
this practice.
F. A. STROBEL, D. C
Licensed Chiropractor
Chrenle Olseass and X-Ray
Work e Specialty
Office Phone, S«2
Dr. R. B. O'Quinn
DENTAL 8URGEON
Office in Medical Bldg.
Extracting a Specialty
The Smart Shoppe o!
Beauty Culture
Upchurch Building, Snd Floor
Room S10, Phone il
Permanent Waving $1. per carl
Anna M. Lljrhtfoot
Graduate In Beaaty Culture
FMVEL RENEWED
Let me renew the enamel on
your hood and fenders. Can
make them look aa bright at
new without the use of paint
or varnish.
DAN ROBERTS
AUTO CLEANING 8TATION
Next to Grand Theatre
MADI80N 8TREET
You Are Lucky
If you pass through life with
out lots of time or property—
TAKE A
Fire Policy
Health and Accident
Policy
for your protection.
A Life Policy
to protect your family.
W. M. Parker
A Riddle
“Why get along with just one
pair of Cuff Buttons?” That's a rid
dle to ask a man.
He’ll have three suits, as many
pairs of shoes, a dozen shirts—but
inly one pair of cuff buttons.
Some men make one pair do for
evsry occasion from tweeds to
evening clothes.
Have at least two or three pairs
of cuff buttons; on# pair for drees
occasions.
We have a large selection of dif-
ferent designs for you to choose
from in gold—gold and platinum—
and platinum with Jewels. And a
lot of good-looking soft collar pins
Louis H.Jerger
TOY8I TOY81
•• our line before you buy. We wl
store and deliver them for you.
EMPIRE FURNITURE STOftE
Webster’s
Tested
Seeds
Large Packets
5c
CHARTER
CHOCOLATES
Assorted Nuts and Brazils
The best candy we ever
sold.
JJ.
Square Desl Drug-fist.
104 E. Jackson St.
PHONE 606.
Citizens Banking & Trust Co.
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We do general Banking business.
Commercial and S avings Accounts Solicited.
Our Motto is: Service, Courtesy and Helpfulness.
DO BUSINESS WITH US.
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cO&ncl
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What It Really Means
It means Genuine Ford Parts,
50 per cent of which retail for
less than 10 cents. It means a
Repair Shop where expert Ford
Mechanics perform the work.
It means giving Honest, Cour
teous, Prompt attention to the
Ford Owner’s every need
It moans to constantly supply
you with a Ford Service that
will make you and keep you an
enthusiastic member of the
great Ford family.
We ore Authorized Ford Dealers.
We can supply you with any pro
duct the Ford Motor Co. makes.
Thanksgiving Day
For good things to eat; for health and happiness;
for good friends and true—let us give thanks this
Thanksgiving Day.
Let us count ALL of our blessings—that’s what
Thanksgiving is for!
This Institution will be closed all
day Thursday, Thanksgiving Day
Bank of Thomasville
Depository of State of Georgia, County or Thomee
and City of Thomoovlllo.
Buv a V'vrd -
andSpend the difference
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