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ATHENS HERALD READERS ARE SUBSTANTIAL CUSTOMERS FOR ATHENS. HERALD ADVERTISERS —
FOUR
—I .. . MONDAY, DECEMBER IK-
con at, ^be" Gaiety theatre and the able likeness to that,,
New •Toflc 1 reviewers' ! praised
W6ric enthusiastically. It is fitting
that he has been, chosen to head
the cast that will introduce
“Lightnin’ ” to London next
THE ATHENS HERALD
666;-"both of which opened and
dosed ;on Broadway during 1
“Lightnin’s” stay. Adding “Light-
ninV* performances in other New
York theatres not on Broadway it
has . registered the imposing total
of 1,365 performances in the great
city in the past four years, a rec
ord that is likely to stand for all
time.
John Golden demonstrated with
“Lightnin”* that the public pre
fers clean plays. All the Golden
plays reflect the genius of Win-
chell Smith, either as author 'or
director. '
“Lightnin* ” .has given the Am
erican stage the most lovable
character since Joseph Jefferson :
immortalized the role of Rip Van
Winkle. As Bill Jones, the liquor-
loving, yamsplnninfl whimsical old
mountain truant ’Milton Nobles
has Won the affection of playgoers
of all ages and classes. He alter
nated in the role with Frank Ba^
elders. Little toques j r
poke shapes are 'made
fj^sette °f ribbon ar
ribtan erS ° r c
' , SERMONETTE
' He that refuseth instruction
despiseth his own soul; but he
that heraeth reproof, getteth
understanding.—Proverbs 15:32.
J Five great intellectual profes-,
sions have hitherto existed in
■ every civilized nation; the sol
dier’s, to defend it; .the pastor’s,
to teach it; the physician’s, to
keep it in health; the lawyer’s,
to enforce justice; and ^he mer
chant's, to provide; and all
these men,; on due occasion, to
•Hu* if. Pnebin
the Week Except i Saturday, and
Publishing' Company, Athens, Ga.
■ By T. LARRY GANTT
A gentleman yesterday suggest-'
ed to mo that a inodt desirable
site for a tourist encampment
would be the vacant lot belonging
to W. J. Morton, ojid opposite th«l
Y. M,"" C. A.. A part of this lot
has been loaned by,Mrs. Morton
as an athletic ground tor the Y.
M, C. A.,' :tnd which has - ViOetV
graded.' Bht
beautiful H&f, apd fsbvehj Wf 4 ,
will be vacant to furnish, a pamp-
ink piaqe for a number Qf.tourlsts.
This is a 'splendid idea, ana I
would suggest that ; ouj # Chamber,
of Commerce investigate the ppssl-'
billty of leasing this property^. ‘It
•:s in the center of t£e city , ,amj
near the Y. M. C. •
' to - churches, cafes and, places of
amusements” ft,tl\e
can be secured It would" gtv'e' Ath
ens thet best tovMst camping
ground in the South, and be' an
inducement to travelers to stop
over in* Athene The Morton fam
ily has* been very generous in aid
ing public enterPrises^aiid if practi',
csl would, no doubt arrange for tl>o
ARL B. BRASWELL
Publisher and General Manager
Managing Editor
akuuuleD WITH WEA»r
KIDNEYS ^
‘‘Have been troubled with W(
kidneys since childhood - wrl
Mrs. G. Hyde, Benoonia, Michi-
Now past forty yew, and
had. terrible backache and ;
tired out feeling, hardly role to
my work. By using Fo.e Kkl,
Bills accompanied with Foley i
Tablets I soon felt ;
new person.” Backache. ‘ rh
piatrc pains, oizziness arid .
vision are symptoms of kid,
trouble. Foley Kidney Pjij 6 ,
quick relief. Sold evervwh "
HAKLES R MARTIN
CHICACrO — Chicago's x -three
“leaning, towers," skyscrapers built
during the nineties, now are rest
ing firmly on bedrock foundations
eighty feet below -the surface.
The -thre'e big cffice buildings,
hnoons’ the first in th£ skyscraper
cpisg,' originally bu. lt on pile
fOundatlpnb; j and' when/ the piles
settled, tb’ejn . ( w4i‘e£' lfeft' h6ticeably
ou't'dT^plCimbj . ‘ f
. "An^ inquiry disclosed vthat all
WwAn VirfrJ ' Kftmv '1 Ori . . iiU * -V. 11 ry
foupdaticl’TW were* continued; down
,tONthb ^blid l iocK and .that £ince
the altfe ration w&S mpdb* there has
been no further' settling.'
Ifthfraaci fs irtideridia by a solid
d lurian. depos t of Niagara lim'e-
- Stone, fromN forty to eighty feet
dbv» n. Over it'is aldose'de posit of
blue clay and ofher ■ material.
. Seme of the fi’xof skyscrapers,
i {following building methods, then
in .vogue, were erectejl otaj forests
of filing, but' the foundations prov
ed unsulted to holding .the im-‘
mense weight of the big office
structures.' -M \ >
Chicago's bitldidg laws , limit
the height cf office buildings to
L*GO- feet. It- is impossible, geolo
gists at the University of Chica
go say, ^o. pile up enough, weight
within that,limit to cat&sd any shift
r ing .'of slipx>ing of the' bedrock'
ifo,unda,tiohs. The clay deposits
above the neck,, -a the other hand,
are subject ‘.to a "alight slipping
movement.-,v j L ., { , •,* r
Workmen? dug the sixty
railes.|of:.freight subway under the
loop 6t/*eet3 foupd that blue clay
had: about the consistency of well
worked putty,' and ;that it was im
possible to : handle-it _by any r- ;
dina-f tfiethods.' /They finally gqIv
ike Problem , fa .equiping: steel
ifk’ltls thcea tebt long with handles.
:ilke.a cross.-cutt'ssiw.
Hiding the l)la<je';n‘ both' bands,
'.the :■ workman wbujd bend it into
;JJie torn of a horseshoe and. hack
out thg . soft clay from thefaunael
heading, while compressed air held
hack .the mass until forms could
ho placed aiid the concrete wails
|terpd at the Athens Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter tpder
K '. - 'the Act of Congress March 8, 1879.]
\ Member of the Audit Bureau,
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The; Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repli
cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited
i-this paper, an dalso the local news published therein.. All rights cf
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-publication of special dispatches
'out'oljplhmb.. ‘ >! Mu;
. “An , inquiry disfcloeed .that all
three had 'been- - jacked up while
Berton Braley’s
• Daily Poem,
RANKNESS
H. X Rowe,
Vice President.
irriet Gray abd Emory
ndrew C.
. JUVENILE STYLES
- Miliinery. for children and jUnforf
for eojthem wear, sP-*”- r ' I
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COMPANY
.Quality Furniture Since 1884
10.000 MURDERS , .
More than 10,000 murders were committed in the United
es during 1921. This is revealed by a check-up conducted by
the Vigid entoresment of the t af-' ™ —Milton Nobios,- Sthart
Tic laws a marked improveipet^r >Fox, Percy' Winter and sevari
t-as taken place in the reckless ’«f»» fhvorftco w/iSn frcquentl-
Bi’ ving of cafa. Nearly every-day-appeered - during . the Now Yor!.
Vr.sosare made, but motorists arc inn “Lightrtin”’ will bo presented
j'eamiflfe about the regulations AaiL..htJte .Colonial Theatre for a sin '
-obey them.. . While the city Is de. glejoerformance Tues'dav eveninc
termjned to protect'pedJstraire, jp
Mens*not wish to he unduiysotSH “Lightnin’4” .
• . . on Broadway i -
have been, made mq light- as .pdssv; partillejeHnih American' theatrical
hie. But when a party. conUnc»*j hisfilryA Its 1,291 conuccutive per-
violate the laws be-is tWghbmforucaEccs rat tHo Gaiety Theatre
a lesson by having an Mncreagsd., di*:tted the p-pvious record of 657
.One imposed on him. /he Potfsb (performances held up |to the time
3 y , r >r ,“/ rr ; winchell ,Smith-Frank Bacon
Irrarro't^ h!, f etma f'V OlHteefi^.^ns-.itcre ackeve'd
oortment ofonroltvi. m I Performances and “Irene” _with
. Frederick L. Hoffnian. consulting statistician of the Pruden-
1 Insurhncc Company. Hoffman found that 28 leading cities;
th combined population of 20,558,770,' had 1,910 murders last
KD On a population basis, this is over 10,000 known murders
■ the whole country.> To them must bo added the unknown'
jthferr ofl murders -that -'fite adceeSsfnily concealed andedyinofa
dw up ih, the police reports, Thesd probably run into the thous-
ds. The death toll should draw a grim smile from the : Turks;
st time America gets excited about Armenian massacres,
0 Open pigeonhloes in your memory, compare -records, and the
mght occurs to you that just about as many Americans are
Irdered ps are killed by autos. Hard to decide, which of the
p is more amazing. Picture a-town of 10,000 inhajjjtants, all
irdered in cold blood during one night. A frightful picture.. But
j a true picture of the murder situaiton in so-called civilized
iierica. Spread out over a "gigantic territory and divided among
r. millions of people, with a murder here and there, day after
JL and we lose sight of the terrible total.
Dr. Hoffman found that the 1921 murder rate was a fraction
>ro than nine out of every 100,000 Americans. Allowing for.
nceated murdres that aye never defnitely discovered. (including
my “missing persons” cases), a conservative estimate is that
e American in every 10,000 is murdered yearly. Idcahjngt
sapphire blue.
........11. .............. ; uub not wisu U> Up unmi!;' user. •LlgltMUB
handkerchiefs includes not only the j -.b technical,violators and ttuf-llnrM '.stljit' -iklr:
OOOS’ • bn.t novelty j have been,made‘aq light- as .posst,-. partiliedeHni
4,29/ consecutive
an increased., dwUfed-the previous record o:
line imposed on him. /he poli? r -- --
ing' of. congested corners is - als^ ; ;h-' fffSi
having a benol'iclaL eBJeo/-,-\, OB a ,™ u ,
Thornton also says- ovqn ora-.,the,, f, ra j% ’{A. rpyjn
verge of. Chdetmas... tew.,pqr£les« ^
a^e arrested for violation’ of the
tended to give a decorative touch to
j*tlie costume, as.wejl as colorful
A Puzzle A Day
r A MERRY CHRISTMAS
and
A HAPRY NEW YEAR
Take all the letters in the Christ
mas greeting shown above, and re
cast them to form a new sentence
which tells the thought of the, mes
sage.
a a a a a a c d e e e h h i ni m n n
pprrrrsstwyyy
- The above 31 letters make up the
greeting. .
A London Craze
j Hamilton Douglas
Dies In Atlanta
!r li,
YESTERDAY’S
ANSWER
‘ ATLANTA/ Ga. — IlamilMn
Douglas, Sr., 64, one of the lead
ing lawyers of the state and dean
{ of the Atlanta school, tL’ed
l.here Sundayi'night, rifter an illness
I of several weeks. Ho is survived
j by .his wid-cw and four children./
I Mr. Douglas was born in iUexan
j dria county. Va.. and came, to At-
{lanta in 18$7. He was member
! cf the Grand council of the'flgpiSi
S’Chi fraternity, and of the Capital
/city and Atlar-.ta athletic clubs.
J • Funeral services we^e to bo held
l Monday afternoon.
The Christmas Gift
A full-page ad’rin colors on the back cover of the Ladies'
me Journal costs 515,000 for just one issue,' You have often
idered what those big ads cost. Fifty years ago there was ho
iness man who'Wouldn’t have fainted at the thought of $15,000
one ad. Today there -are many willing to spend the 515,000,
[ftse business has learned that advertising in the long run is
'most effective and least expensive way to sell goods. ’
DRAWFUNNIES ,
Drawings by Bill Holman. Verses by Hal Cochran.
The fastest-moving thing irt the universe is discovered by
ronomCrs at Harvard’.College Observatory. It is'RZ-Cepliei, a
^rushing through sjiace 2,500,000 miles an hour.. Some auto
edsters fitust imagine they are .riding RZ-CepheL This swift
r is so fat-^way that intakes light5,800.years to reach us.
astronomers see it now ^s. it was 3,800 years ago. • Jf it ex-
ded this y^ar and/disappeared, its light would continue shining
iil the year 5722 before the star vanished fyop’our sight. If
■kl study astronomy. No greater marvels. ' •
^rawbtoes^ rushed: ^pni? Florida, ini-refrigerator, cars^iejl!
New York-city for . $2-50 a quart, wholesale. Served in small
tions in ’hotels, rptebably $5c* or nii>te : a
uldn’t pay- that’tnuch/for a quart wilLpay 'cens or more W
Few dished up . in cracked, ice. , Principltfji. 4^ ,
perors dined oin humming
relays of „swift. runners. / Modern ' money; emperors go them
• better, with strawberries at-$2.50 a tpiarti ‘wholesale; - ^
The natipnal ‘debt was cut $40,000,000
! ,-^ P & v 0t tho little crea.
,tiorts‘that>our*3San«-ican girls have
{been sporting, but real, honcst-tqi
Igoodness hoots. .latost
Let us show you, it's a pleasure. : ;1r *1.';
J. BUSH
RELIABLE JEWELER
I Next to Kress’
PIP ixi November; bringing
wn to $22,624,786^. This is something to crow about, for
iearly $3,792,000,000;less than the debt,totaled August 31,
The drop Will he slower, from now on, for considerable of
eduction came by salvaging war materials. Not much left
tie junk-man.
Clayton Street
Tar.. Contains no
.printed, on
He’s very bravfa, they Say.
But when his lion starts to roar,
serving three
- Kenerations.
everywhere. — (Advertise-