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THE NEWS AND SUN is the
Official Organ of the of Griffin.
Official Organ of Spalding County.
Official Organ 17. S. Court, Northern
District of Georgia.
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SMITH OR JONES?
Smith gets there—Jones stands
still.
Which are you going to be in 1924—
a Smith, or a Jones?
Some people live from hand to
mouth because the mouthy is always
reaching out for what the hand con¬
tains. That is the reason they will
never have anything tomorrow that
is left over from today.
We hope you are not in that class,
but if you are the beginning of the
new year is an opportune time to do
some serious thinking.
People who do not cultivate the habit
of saving have no legitimate reason
to complain because they have noth¬
ing. Yet much of the complaining is
done by those who make no effort
whatever to save. They are never
quite satisfied until the dollars In
their hands are transferred to some
other person’s pocket.
As an example, take the case of Mr.
Jones, a purely mythical person
whom we advance for purposes of
illustration.
Jones has a family. He is brainy
and draws a salary of, say, $300 a
month. But one essential to success
is missing—he is minus the balance
wheel which should induce him to
save something each week from his
earnings.
He couldn’t tell you how’ his money
goes. It simply disappears. He
never knows what his household ex¬
penses are, he has no idea how much
he spends on clothing for himself and
family his benefactions are liberal but
he is at sea as to the amount, and
all of his other expenditures are con¬
ducted in the same manner—tqtally
without system. The money comes in
regularly each month and goes out
as it comes.
Now consider the case of Mr. Smith,
another mythical gentleman.
He is on a par with Jones in
way, except that he has a balance
wheel, and it functions perfectly.
He knows exactly how much be
afford to spend.
l^eing a married man also,
thought is for clothing and the
ly household expenses. He,
estimates the cost of each for
year. In like manner he
estimates the cost of all other ex¬
penditures for the year, itemizing
them as he goes along. Then
strikes a total.
If he finds that his expenditures, as
estimated, will consume all of his
salary, he revises his list,
the estimate where it can be best
duced. Whence pairs them down to
75 per cent of his earnings he feels
kale—and the family lives within
that estimate. Twenty-five per cent
goes into the bank each Wnth.
Smith, jtou will observe, prepares
annual budget of expenditures at
beginning of each year. He
touches his savings, and he always
has money. He is getting there.
Jones doesn’t bother his head
about a budget, has no check on hla
expenses, end has no bank account.
He is standing still.
The beginning of the year is an
ideal time to compare the records oi
their u will
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USING THE NEWSPAPERS
The tendency to use the news¬
paper for free advertising is per¬
sistent and seems increasing, the
genius developed in this line to
procure advertising space with it
being shrewd beyond description.
Some of it is plain labeled nerve.
Here comes one of the largest
advertising agencies in the world
asking the newspapers to advertise
advertising, l^hen we do that, what
this same agency can realise on the
campaign is put into the magazines
and billboards. The newspapers are
thus used to stir advertisers into
using more space, hut not in the
papers. For two full years this
same agency has practically aban¬
doned the newspapers for the hill v#
jboard and the magazine. Yet we
asked to advertise advertising
for this agency. Would you do it?
And the propagandist who holds
up all newspapers is the nerviest
man of them all. At our hand are
several news items from, one- of
those who chooses to call himself
a publicity man. He gets his money
from his clients—and then uses the
newspapers without cost, so far as
the newspaper is concerned. Let
us run {trough these items.
The first is about a man in poli¬
tics who pays the publicity agent
regularly for monthly services. The
item it not fit for strict news. The
second item is about another man
n palitics. He, likewise, pays for
his regular monthly publicity—
this is not legitimate news matter
for' any real " newspaper, tml
for any real newspaper. It might
oork fine as political propaganda in
such a sheet. * , ]
The fourth capitalizes on Ford in
its announcement for Coolidge for
the presidency—and makes a Georg
gia republican-whoop up the parti
in such a way as to-reveal beyond
question that this too, is intended
as stuff that will do the Grand Old
Party good in this state.
The fifth is paid for by one of
the carriers—a big railway line
which is trying in this winner to
fool Georgia farmers into believeing
that Georgia is becoming the “truck
garden” of the nation. It is a
shrewdly designed—a studied effort
—to hide the fact that high freights
on all truck, vegetables, fruits,
melons—everything that grows on
the farm that might he sold in dis¬
tant markets at a price the consu¬
ming public might pay were it not
for the fact that we are now paying
double freight j charges. This item,
too, is not in any sense strict news,
—it is not fair news. It ought to
be dumped into the waste basket in
onethird of a second after it reaches
the desk. And to tell the truth
the ATLANTA, session Ga., Dec. M,—‘Since
extra 6 fthe Georgia
Legislature adjourned, the State
house experts have been figuring
on the additional money-which will
be raised under the new taxes and
they estimate that the iState will
get $4,000,000 more in 1924 than
was collected in 1923.
This gives the present Legisla¬
ture the championship belt for
raising money. Never before^in the
hsitoTy of the state has there ben
a Legislature which put s much
new tax on the people in one year
or even in two years.
In 1014, the State collected from
the pockets of the people a little
less than $6,000,000. v
In 1918, the collections were a
little more than $7,000,000, an aver¬
age gain of $200,000 a year.
In 1924, the State will collect be¬
tween $16,000,000 and $17,000,000, if
the new laws are enforced. 1 A
The politicians are wondering
about it, we think there is where
it lands. Wje never saw any of
these five items appearing in any
of our exchanges.
We have arrived at a day when
the newspaper man cannot sleep
on the job and run a plain, honest
newspjaper. He miay think he is,
hut the chances are all against him.
that he is running something in the
form of propaganda that is either
arguing directly* or indirectly for
something somebody else has to
sell or to i the public into be
lieving something which some power
or interest somewhere has studied
and presented in most clever form.
It is a job to dodge all of this
—quite a job. And as for us, we
(jelieve it is time to begin dodging.
—Cordele Dispatch.
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Wisdom is often best displayed by
the things one does not do.
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A fellow doesn’t have to go to war
to smell powder these days.
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people get what they want un¬
til they first earn what they get.
People often praise their own
goodness in the hope that some one
will believe them.
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Ten Years of Hla Life. Wasted.
A Frenchman spent ten years of his
Ufa Inventing a noiseless clock. After
b«, had succeeded, he found that no¬
body would buy 9 noiseless clock.
People do not hear the steady tick
tick of the old clock on the mantel
shelf, but the moment the clock Is
silent, they miss the familiar noise.
Faces In Profile.
file taken vu that of Antlgonus, who
was thus portrayed because he had
only one eye. Most of the Roman
emperors were also thus pictured.
Tradition Easily Acquired.
There is a peculiar flower growing
In Central America which bears in
the center of the petals a snow-white
Image of a dove. The Spaniards, upon
discovering this peculiar blossom, v
called it the Holy Ghost flower, and
soon created a tradition according to
which It came down from heaven.
Steady Going.
The way to get a great deal <4 work
done is to be continually doing a
little.—Boston Evening Transcript.
It is one thing to h
quite another thing to know how
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The fellow who “knows it all”*
coji’t resist the temptation to tejl
what he doesnifr know.
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To really cultivate your own brain,
keep in touch with those who have
more brains than you hive.
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If 1923 was a good year for you
you should not be satisfied until you
have made 1924 a better one.
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Start your boy right, r and if there
is anything in him he irtU travel the
rest of the way on his own merits.
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If you do it a little better today
than you did yesterday by tomorrow
you may be doing something worth
while.
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If we could convert our baseball
teanhs into a standing army congress
would not hesitate to vote scads of
funds for preparardness.
Congress exhibits indications) of
of continuing' its generosity to the
service men. It has handed them a
choice lemon in the shape of again
sidetracking the bonus.
‘Chalnpionship Belt” Goes to Last
Legislature For Raising Money.
Revenue Estimated $16,000,000.
David i. bailey
IBL ESTATE & INSURANCE
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Splendid small farm, one mile
from Griffin; with good,
strong land, ew five room
dwelling and all necessary
outbuildings. Well adapted
for truck farm or dairy. Will
lease for, term’ of years to
right party. Possession given
January 1, 1924.
DAVID I. BAILEY
flEAL ESTATE & INSURUNCF
114 E. Solomon Street.
’Phones:— Office, 2. Res. 1.
what the people are going to say
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about it. Some of .the legislators
are said to |be feeling,uneasy over
it. The Macon platform^ adopted
in October 1922, declared that taxes
must not be increased. In the face
of that,’ the Legislature made the
greatest increase ever known in. the
history of the State. Some of the
members are wndering if they did
npt go too far. In the past, it has
usually happened that Legislators
who increased taxes, were left at
home the next time they ran.
Representative Moore Praised.
Several of the lawmakers made
“a hit”, so to speak in their tax
talks. Gossip at the State Capitol
still points to one South Georgian
who made a “real reputation” in
the House. He is Hon. J. W. Mioore
of Appling. The lawm(akers, here,
during the holidays and discussing
the aftermath of the extra session,
are unanimous in saying that Rep¬
resentative Moore was always sound
and forceful, and while not al
ways with the majority, there were
times when his 'proposals were
carried by almost unanimous vote.
He made, it is stated, a fine im¬
pression on the House as one of
the most solid, clearf headed mem¬
bers. 1
Reports coming in from business
men all over Georgia are very fav¬
orable to the Senate for defeating
the inconfo tax bill. They say that
$4,000,000 in new taxes is burden
enough without adding an income
tax.-
MONDAY FTERNOON. B!
Cape Town, So Africa, has aj
bean annual temperature similar to i
that of Nice and the Riviera.
The United States consumes two
fifths of the world’s entire annual
wood supply. Its share is about
22,500,000,000 cubic feet each year.
Paper-macne is taking the place
of ice in the shipping of fresh figs
from the Pacific to the Atlantic
coasts.
The human (body generates en¬
ough heat during the day to melt
44 pounds of ice and raise the liquid
fco 'boiling point.
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Not Much Soil.
The reason a floorwalker wears a
flower in his buttonhole is because It
won’t stay in,his hair.—Malteaser.
Q U I C K MONEY
----We have unlimited funds to loan on choice lands In
Spalding and adjoining counties. Loans closed promptly.
It will pay you to figure with us.
We hRve several nice farms, large and small, for
sale. We also have some good bargains in city property,
vacant and Improved.
FOR SALE: One Underwood Typewriter. Good as new.,
FOR RENT: One 4 room house on 17th St. $12.50 per
month. r
' W. G. CARTLE'DGE
Real Estate & Insurance
116 E. Solomon St. GRIFFIN, GA.
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in the shops. Great economy in
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ing and ^reding the av
the' milk production of the^-Unite
States would he doubled, aocorc
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ture. #
Odd Kind of Fish. I 1
No fish is stranger than the little”
sea-horse. It bos a body encased in "
rings of bony mail, a horse-shaped
head set at right angles and a pre¬
hensile tali .0 grasp seaweed In which
It hides. It always floats with
queer head up and erect. Another *
culiar thing about the qea-horse
that the male fish carries the eggs In a 1
pouch situated under his tail until the
young are hatched ana large enough
to look out for themselves.
Mark of Highest Genius.
The highest genius never flowers la
satire, (but culminates In sympa thy
with that which is best In human
ture, and appeals to it.—Chapin.