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The Newa and Saa is the
D® C )»J 0**«n of the City of Griffin.
Official Organ U. 8. Spalding Ceunty.
District of Georgia. Court, Northern
People who make the most noise
generally have the least to say.
^here's a master mind in every
home, hut sometimes it isn’t spelled
that way. *
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Of course, If you haven’t an auto
you are not entirely out of luck. You
.have the pleasure of dodging them.
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This ia a prodigal world, after all.
Men pay 50 cents for a haircut and
then go right out and let it grow
again.
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Some men draw lemons in the gur
eta of love, but they are an irapiove
tnent over the persimmons the women
occasionally get.
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Broad shoulders ajid narrow hips
will be the style for men this spring.
Bui that won’t bother us—we never
did care for atyle anyway.
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Courtesy requires that you laugh
heartily when your friend tells a joke.
If you atart at the wrong time he’ll
merely think he has Improved upon
the* telling.
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When a judge seeks re-election he
promptly announces that women ju¬
rors may rear their hats and powder
Yheir noses, but so far we have not
heard of one who has had the courage
to declare a recess for the operation.
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Billy Sutlive is very pessimistic
sometimes. He said Monday: “The
shortest month of the year will start
tomorrow. It will help the thirty-day
note to become due Quicker than us¬
ual.” (Perish such a thought.
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Says the Savannah Press: “There
are some farmers we know who would
like to see mules made legal tender
They have a few they would like to
apend.” Let them speak to Senator
elect Watson about it
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EXTENSION WORK AND THE
SMITH-LEVER ACT.
According to recent newa from
Washington, county agents who are
alleged to have been used by private
and co-operative agricultural institu¬
tion* will be shown that they have
departed from their proper duties as
provided for government extension
work under the provisions of the
Smith-Lever act.
An investigation has been inaugu¬
rated and the committee on banking
and currency will conduct a hearing
which will begin at once. The Smith
Lever act established the county
agents with the idea that they should
be for the benefit of all the people
and the evidence is said to be plentiful
that one of their particular duties of
late haa been in assistance given
to the organization of private so
called co-operative bureaus on a mem
bership basis.
It doe* not seem fair that the whole
people should be taxed to support a
public officer and that public officer
should be need for the furtherance of
the plan of a group of people whose
aims and purposes may be all right,
but whose experience in the field in
which they are operting is extreme
iy limited, or in other words, that the
county agents who are supposed to be
for the benefit of all the people should
assist in the organization of any pri
r event these matters will re
' Uation at tho hear
lavaatigation that
WHICH APPEALS TO YOU.
When you open your mouth what
kind of * noise do you make?
Every time you speak a good word
for Griffin you speak two for your¬
self, for the home booster is always
respected by home lovers.
It’s an easy thing to make a nasty
remark about your home town, but
it Is difficult to stop that remark
from traveling after it has once been
uttered.
The monkey in the jungle swings
limb to limb and from tree to
tree at remarkable speed, but the
monkey is a snail compared (to the
caustic comments of a chronic pessi¬
mist.
The monkey does not berate either
the limbs or the trees, for they are
his home—they mean safety and
comfort to him.
The pessimist, however, is not as
considerate.
His happiest moments are when
he is slamming his home town.
Nothing is right.
None of its numerous citizens pos¬
sess the ability to perform civic duties
in the proper manner.
Other people' are unable to see the
glaring defects that are so plain to
him.
He lives In darkness and radiates
gloom.
He is simply a pessimist, and the
work of the pessimist is too often de¬
structive.
But why be a pessimist? Why not
be an optimist instead?
Pessimism is worse than rheuma¬
tism. The one puts a few joints out
of proper working order, but thle
other is a drag to the mind, the body
and the soul.
Station yourself on a street corner
and watoh the people go by for an
hour. Ninety-nine out of a hundred
will be happy, and cheerful, and
contented, and will give you a cheer¬
ful greeting. They are optimists un¬
awares. The rays of the noonday
aun are not brighter or warmer than
the smiles upon their lips or the hu¬
manity in their hearts. «.
The hundredth man may be differ¬
ent. He may be the odd sheep in the
flock, the cloud that dims the bright¬
ness of the community light.
He is a pessimist, and he knows it.
His soul is shrouded in gloom from
he never seeks to escape. He is
a bore even to himself.
The pessimist is never happy—the
optimist is seldom sad.
It is possible to be either,-but nev¬
er both.
Which appeals to you.
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SPEND AND HELP THE OTHER
FELLOW.
Says the Albany Herpld:
Recently a Moultrie man wrote a
communication which was printed in
the Moultrie Observer, and in which
the writer argued that in times like
these the man who has a dollar
should swing onto it. He believes
these are “saving” times, and that
the way to save is to nail down all
the dollars we can get our hands on.
The Observer takes issue with the
writer of the communication, and
mentions some of the inevitable re¬
sults if everybody were to act on
his suggestions. The Observer says:
If everybody took Mr. Womble’a
advice conditions might grow worse.
If every fellow closed up like a clam
and ‘ stopped spending money we
would have conditions about like
this:
Stores would close.
Shops shut down.
BankB cease doing business.
Railroads would stop-all trains.
Mills and factories suspend.
There would be no employment.
No production.
No market.
No income.
Every fellow would have what he
began with and nothing to do with
it. Editors would have to eat news¬
papers. Merchants would have to
sleep on their “ready-to-wear,” Far¬
mers would have to wear hay cos
tiimea. The cold drink makers
would have enough to swim in. We
would get nowhere.
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WILL YOU SAVE A LIFE?
If you were starving in your home
and your neighbors passed you by in
total indifference to your sufferings,
what would you think of them?
In China there are thirty millions
of unhappy people who are starving
today because their crops have failed
and there is no more food for them
to eat, except such as may be sent in
from outside sources.
The president of the United States
has appealed to all Americans—to
come to the relief of these
people, many of them help¬
babes in arms.
Great contributions are being made
the large cities, and supplies are
being rushed to the famished land
as rapidly as possible. '
Blit the heart of America is not
alone in the metropolitan centers of
population. It is everywhere. It is
in Griffin. )
Nowherehvthis broad land is great¬
er compassion and generosity to be
found in proportion to numbers than
that possessed by our own citizens.
But what are we doing for these
starving millions?
If our people would contribute on
,ly a mite each—25 or 50 cents—it
(would be a godsend to many ip starv¬
ing China. It wpuld save human
lives which otherwise might perish.
What warm-hearted lady or gentle¬
man will undertake to lead a move¬
ment for the collection of a fund
here, relying upon this newspaper to
render every possible aid, and upon
the editor to make the first contri¬
bution?
The Chinese are. not begging for
bread. They are miserably dying in¬
stead!
Norman Davis, Under-Secretary of
State, Washington, D. C„ has been
designated by the president as treas¬
urer of the fund.
As we do in this world, so must
we expect to be done by in the next.
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* THE GOLDEN DAYS OF ♦
♦ THE NEWS AND SUN. ♦
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♦ By W. E. H. Searcy, Sr. ♦
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Fifty years ago today the News
and Sun was born, and now, brighter
than ever, it comes to celebrate its
golden anniversary. '
We watched its coming with inter¬
est, for We were then publishing the
Temperance Watchman, the first tem¬
perance paper in Georgia, and per¬
haps of the South, after the civil
war.
It was bright and newsy, as our
old friend Speights was a splendid
newspaper man.
' Well through the fifty years that
have intervened between that first
issue and this golden day celebration,
we have faced the newspapers of
Griffin like the heath flower faces
sun. Hardly one of their issues
we have not read, and none of them
can say we have not dipped our pen
in the ink well and drew up a thought
to be laid like a flower upon the bos¬
om of their pages.
What' a vision comes to our mind
today as we think of the noble com¬
pany of editors who have said their
word to the world, and then passed
into eternity, for all the old editors
of the News and Sun, except perhaps
one, have gone to tell what they have
done. We would gladly refer to each
of them, but the kind words we would
say would fill all the paper.
Let us pass to this golden day. What
have we here? We have the best of
the dailies of the smaller towns of
the State—a paper that gives Grif¬
fin a name and fame wherever it
shines.
Our editor’s name is a household
word in the State. Who has fot
heard of Brother Duke? Who can
excel him? \
Our young local editoT, Clharles
Hammond, has walked into the rep
ertorial profession like one specially
endowed for the place.
Who can excel Mrs. Walter Beeks
in her social writings?
Where is there an equal of our dear
old friend, A. G. Jones, as foreman?
He was our lieutenant-general wjien
we were publisher of the Alliance
organ in Atlanta. None Van excel
him. \
Then the other fellow-workers—all
good.
.astly, but not leastly, is the pro¬
prietress. Mrs. Boyd, whose fair name
am I grace of manner, business tact,
>d judgment and best of all, noblest
of mothers, is worthy of our highest
honors.
What must we do with this great
paper ?
Everybody should take it. A home
without the ho^ie paper is worse than
the dark hole in Calcutta. It is not
up-to-date. There is no news there—
no light in the house.
Everybody should advertise in it.
The only merchants that succeed are
those who advertise. There are thou¬
sands of Atlanta papers, with great
big advertisements, coming into Grif¬
fin every day. Our merchants can
only hold their own by advertising.
If they can’t see this they ought to
go out of business. Who has the
great stores of Griffin today? The
men who advertise.
I congratulate Griffin and the News
and Sun on its fiftieth anniversary,
bid it Godspeed in the helpful up¬
lift of the community in which it oc¬
the front seat.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS AND SUN
FIRST HOUSE PILGfffMS BUILT
Plymouth Venerates Site of Structure
Where Settlers Modeled Civil
Form of Government
Until they have gazed upon the
Rock, visitors to Plymouth town de¬
cline, as a rule, to see anything else.
Having performed that duty, they
usually stroll or spin up Leyden street,
which extends from a point con¬
veniently near the Rock, to the foot
of Burial hill, where the Pilgrim fort
and watch tower used to frown down
upon the Indians. Leyden street Is
New England’s oldest thoroughfare.
Once It was called, quite aptly," First
street
On one’s way up Leyden street one
must stop to look at the site of the
first house which the Mayflower pas¬
sengers erected in the wilderness. In
this structure the settlers had their
fling at the purest form of democracy.
Here, modeling their civil govern¬
ment upon the compact which had
been, drawn up lh the cabin of the
Mayflower while she was anchored
In the harbor of Cape Cod, they dis¬
cussed laws for their guidance, and
elected Myles Standlsh, by majority
vote, captain of the Plymouth home
guard.
A True Philosopher.
A retired sea captain, who lived in
Orland, Me., was Inordinately fond of
his garden and very proud of its neat
and well-kept appearance. One Sun¬
day ha returned from church and
found five hogs busily engaged in
wrecking his garden—the finest in all
Orland. «
Leaning on the fence, he looked l^ng
and earnestly at the result of their
depredations, and his wife shed a few
tears. The passing neighbors paused
to look, and many a furtive glance
went to the face of the captain to
see how he was taking it. At last
he heaved a deep sign and put his
hand on his wife’s arm.
"Never mind, Polly" he said. "Von
never can lay dirt to suit a hog."—
Youth’s Companion.
May Be in Earnest
“This burlesque queen says she’s go¬
ing to play Hainlet.
** For why?"
She says she wants to do better
work.’
“She’s bluffing.”
needn’t (“I don’t think she’s-bluffing. She
hunt for an excuse to wear
tights.”
DR. CRANE ON EFFICIENCY.
Dr. Frank Crane gives the
ing definition of, efficiency. Read
what he says and see if you measure
up to the specifications:
“What is efflicency?”
It is doing things, not wishing you
could do them, dreaming about them,
or wondering if you can do them.
It is the power to learn how to
do things by doing them, as learning
to walk by walking, or learning to
sell by selling them.
It is knowing bow to apply theory
to practice. It is the trick of turning
defeat into experience and using it
to achieve success. *
It is the ability to mass one’s per¬
sonality at any given time or place;
it is skill in quick mobilization of one’s
resources. 1
It is making everything that is past
minister to the future.
It is the elimination of the three
microbes of weakness—regret, worry,
and fear. ,
It is self-reliance clothed with mod¬
esty.
It is persistence plus politeness.
It is the hand of Steel in the velvet
glove.
It is alertness, presence of mind,
readiness to adjust one’s self to the
unexpected.
It is sacrificing personal feelings
to the will to win.
It is impinging the ego against the
combination of events—luck, fate,
custom, and prejudice—until they
give way.
It is massing the me against the
universe.
It is tho sum of the three quanti¬
ties—purpose, practice and patience.
It is the measure of a man, the
real size of his soul.
It is the ability t*> use one’s pas¬
sions, likes, dislikes, habits, experi¬
ence,'education, mind, body and heart
—and not to be used by these things.
It is self-mastery, concentration,
vision and common sense.
It is the sum total of all that’s in
a man. »
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I Sheep Shearing In Australia.
i Shearers In Australia are paid by
the number of sheep they shear, but
| week. the ranch Averaging helpers everything, are paid by from the
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young wethers, which are hard, to old
I ewes, which are easy, a good man will
1 shear about 90 to 100 sheep a day.
The actual record Is 327 sheep shorn
by a Queensland shearer In nine hours
1 And other big records have been made.
jBut that was probably years bach
I with the “blades,” when the fleeces wert
! five-pound and six-pound, and not nine
pound and ten-pound, as they are to
1 day.
Application Wins.
The ancient fable of the tortoise
and (be bare tells the whole story of
success ami failure.' It was the con¬
stant application and unswerving de¬
termination of purpose that brought
the tortoise In ahead of his fleet-footed
antagonist, in that quaint race de¬
scribed hjr Aesop.
Leo, the great pontiff, was an early
riser in opder that he might not lose
a moment of time in the fulfillment of
his great and sacred duties. Thomas
Jefferson, though endowed by nature
with a brilliant mind and surrounded
by every environment conducive to
success, knew the need and advantage
of constant application. During his
school days he held himself to a rou¬
tine of 15 hours of work a day, and
during all his career he was an ex
emplsr and exponent of the thrift of
time.—Boston Globe.
Coal as Congealed Gas.
Attention has been Invited to an In¬
teresting explanation of the burning
of coal Goal, petroleum and Illumi¬
nating gas are related to one another
much as Ice, water and steam. For
this reason perfect combustion of liq¬
uid fuel is already a long step to¬
ward vaporization, just as Ice is ad¬
vanced toward steam, when turned in¬
to water. The volatile elements of
coal are locked up In the solid form,
or virtually frozen solid. It has been
demonstrated how great an amount
of heat must be taken from the so
called permanent gases to make them
liquid, and how much more to make
them solid. Vet nature has solidified
gas Into the form of coal, and solid
coul, like solid ice, will dissolve into
vapor only through the expenditure of
heat.
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True Friendship.
But what is a friend? Someone said
■ it Is another name for God,” and
he Is right Inasmuch as true friend¬
ship is almost divine. A true friend
is one who unbosoms freely, udvlses
Justly, assists readily, adventures bold¬
ly, takes all patiently, defends cou¬
rageously and remains a friend, un¬
changeably. What a great blessing
is a friend with a breast so trusty that
we may safely bury all our secrets la
It, whose conscience we may fear less
than our own, who can relieve our
cares by his conversation, our doubts
by his counsels, our sadness by his
good humor, and whose very looks give
comfort to us.—Exchange.
Indications of Trouble.
Johnny—Mil Moses have dyspepsia
like whnt you’ve got?
Dad—How on earth do I know?
Why do you ask such a question?
Johnny—Well, our Sunday school
teacher says the Lord gave Moses two
tablets.—London Mall.
A Come-Back.
**I wouldn’t be a fool if I were you I”
“That’s the only sensible thing
you’ve said during this discussion. If
you were I you certainly wouldn't be
a fooL"
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It la stated upon the authority of *«
less learned a body than the bureau ol
biological survey that all insects ob¬
tain their oxygen supplies through
•mail holes in their bodies. When such
an oily substance as' gasoline comes
contact with the pests the source*
sf their oxygen supply a irfcCloeed, and.
lacking breath, they oat uritlly die la a
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SPECIAL Saturday
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3 lbs. SUGAR
1 lb. Good Coffee
Fresh Water Ground Meal, 1 pk, .30c
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1 lb. Maxwell House Coffee .36c
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3 lbs. Maxwell House Coffee $1.07
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1 lb. Royal Scarlet Coffee..... .43c
1 lb. French Market Coffee .32c
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No. 2. Libby’s Sliced Pineapple (Extra) . .35c
No. 1. Sliced Pineapple ------- ,20c
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No. 2 1-2 Hunt’s Sliced Pineapple .. •39c
No. 1 Gold Bar Peaches............ ,28c
No. 2 Gold Bar Peaches............. ,39c
No. 2 1-2 Gold Bar Peaches ......... .52c
Gold Bar Asparagus Tips........... .39c
White Rose Asparagus Tips ....... i 23c
Libby’s Asparagus Tips............ .30c
White Rose Tuna Fish............. .24c
Blue Sea Tuna Fish ............... ,19c
White Rose Com ................. ,19c
Thanksgiving Corn ................ •17</ 2 c
Oak Leaf Corn ................... .10c
Black Eyed Peas ,1b.................... ,7‘/ 2 c
6 lbs. Good Bulk Coffee............ $ 1.00
No. 2 Extra Fine Sifted Sweet Violet Peas ,27c
No. 2 Sweet Violet (Petit Pois) Peas .. .39c
No. 1 Midget Peas.................. .20c
No. 2 Sweet Violet Red Pitted Cherries .52c
No. 2'/i Gold Bar White Cherries..... ,48c
Chum Salmon, can ,10c
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Phone 304 Corner 8th and Meriwether Sts.
' Pronunciation of Z.
The pronunciation of tte
K zee is an Americanism. The Eng
ish pronnnelation Is from the Oh*
rrench zede, which In tarn is ae
rtved from the Latin zeta. the nam*
ft the sixth letter of the Greek al
jbabet, eorresponrtlni; to the English
;ed, Shakespeare In King Lear, act U,
icene 2. gives the English pronuncia
lon, which is atlll m vogue: “ZedI
bon nnnecesaarv •
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