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PACE TWO DAILY TlMES-ENTERPRiUl. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 27, 1922. DAILY TIMESENTERPRISt iwprlM. Published « ASSOCIATED SUOSCRITPION PAYABLE I 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. CAPITAL AND PROFITS, SJJZWO We do general Banking business. Commercial and S avings Accounts Solicited. Our Motto is: Service, Courtesy and Helpfulness. DO BUSINESS WITH US. J. T. Culpepper, Prest W. J. Bowen, Jr., Cash. cO&ncl SERVICE 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 —c , v ,, .y "v^'’ MrHHU'zJokL-.