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Statf a Savings Account
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We are pleased to announce to the people of Griffin and Spalding
County that we have completed all arrangements to open a Savings
Department January 1st. To appropriately celebrate the opening of
this department and to further encourage t'hrift and the savings
habit, we are going to credit $1.00 to. the account of the first 100
men, women and children who call at the bank and open a savings
account of $1.00 or more’ in the new department op or. before
January 10th.
Under this arrangement, which applies only to the first 100 peo¬
ple who make a deposit of $1.00 or more in our Savings Depart¬
ment between January 1st and 10th, 1924, we are Jieipiftg you start
a savings account by adding $1,00 to your deposit, it being expressly
understood by all who take advantage of this opportunity that .
$2.00 of thi3 deposit will not be withdrawn for a period of one
year from the date of the deposit or opening of the, savings ac¬
count. In other words, the depositor agrees to maintain a balance
of $2.00 in his‘or her savings account for a period of one year.
We have small savings banks to loan,each savings depositor so
that it will always be easy and convenient to save small amounts
in the home that can be deposited to your credit at convenient in¬
tervals by bringing the bank to our Savings Department.
The Coupon Below is Good for $1.00
if You are Ooe of the
First 100 to Open ao
' Account in Our
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I ’ SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
Saving is an easy habit to form after the start is made. Resolve
today to start the New Year by opening a savings account in our
savings department and take advantage of the opportunity \Ve are
offering to help you. We pay 4% interest on savings accounts.
Deposits made on or before January 10th will draw interest from
the first." -
GRIFFIN, GA;
Cut out this Coupon and bring to City National Bunk
COUPON <
e* > $1.00 SAVINGS CREDIT S
To the first 100 per sops who cut out, bring this coupon to >*
the City National Bank arid open an account in the Savings If
Department with a deposit of $1.00 or more, same will be ac¬
4 M cepted as $1.00 and be added to the deposit, provided a bal¬ ■
maintained for B
ance of $2.00 or more is one year.
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GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS AN
STIR UNCLE Si
ATTACKS ON FOREIGN CONSU¬
LATES IN PHILADELPHIA
BEING INVESTIGATED. .
RADICAL PLOTS EXTENSIVE
By EDWARD B. CLARK
* Washington.—Department of ’ Jus?
tiee officials are busy these days
trying to find the true inwardness of
recent bomb attacks on Italian and
Spanish government offices in the city
of Philadelphia. The department, and
in fact all the government police au¬
thorities, are doing what they can to
prevent any further bomb throwing at
foreign officialdom as represented ln
this country;
Americana are easy-going, and they
probably hgve nb realization of the
extent of the foreign radical plannings
and plottings in this country. Even ln
Washington there does not seem to be
full realization of the menace, and cer¬
tainly'there is a strange forgetfulness
of things that have been done in the
past.,,
It was only three or four years ago
that a bomb thrower, known to be con¬
nected with a foreign group working
in America, tried to kill the attorney
general of the United States under the
Wilson administration, A. Mitchell
Palmer. The scars of that bomb
throwing % to be to this day
are seen on
the Palmer residence and on one of
the adjoining houses.
The man who had designs on the
life of the attorney general literally was
nolst with ills own petard, for he stum¬
bled as he was about to mount the
steps of the Palmer residence, and a
premature explosion of ids bomb blew
him.into bits.
It was only a few years ago that a
bomb was exploded by a foreign an¬
archist in the senate wing of the eap
itol. Nobody was killed, but later it
was discovered that the bomb thrower
whs the man who shot and badly
wounded the present J. Pierpont Mor¬
gan.
Usually the Work of Aliens.
The United States would have a
great deal more trouble on its hands
because of bomb outrages or attempts
at such ln and about the foreign con¬
sulates and embassies, were it not for
the fact that usually the principals in
the case have proved to be men of the
nationality of the officials occupying
the attacked quarters.
It readily can be seen that Italy or
Spain or Great Britain or France or
any other country cannot press claims
for reparations as strongly for the
criminal actions of men of their own
citizenship as they could if .it were
proved that the offenders were Amer¬
ican citizens.
During the war all of the foreign
embassies in Washington were guard¬
ed night and day because of the pos
sible activities of enemy agents. Al¬
most immediately after the war the
guards were withdrawn, but they were
replaced .temporarily when the attempt
was made on the life of Attorney Gen¬
eral palmer. It was thought'at that
time that the animosity against the
the attorney general might extend to
representatives of the allied govern¬
ments.
It was 41 years ago that several sub¬
jects of Italy were killed in the city
of New Orleans. These men were
shot as the result of public resent¬
ment, which took punitive form
against certain elements In the com
munlty which had committed out¬
rages. The Italian government brought
the case of Its subjects Who had been
killed to the attention of the Ameri¬
can government and demanded action
The matter was settled by the pay¬
ment to the families of the Italians
who were* killed of a considerable sum
of monfcy which was taken from a con
ttngent fund in the keeping of the
State department of the government.
Our Government Is Lenient.
The United States government is
notoriously lenient in Its treatment ol
men who think that all government is
bad and who agree that any means to
get rid of It are proper. The people
are Jealous of the free speech and free
press guarantees, and as a result men
can preach Virtually anything that they
desire and escape punishment provided
they do not directly urge the overturn
of the government by force of arms.
It has been shown time and again
that anarchist orators can stir up theli
followers to the commission of out
rages without subjecting themselves tc
the operations of the law. A man whe
Is told that all government Is bad does
not need apparently to be urged tc
throw a bomb. He Is a half-thinkei
and his half-thinking moves him al
once into a direct action channel.
Nobody knows yet who was respon
slble for the bomb outrage In VVjjl
street, New York, In the summe i
1920 whed many Innocent, person?
were killed. It Is known, of course
'that It was an anarchistic attempt, t<
strike terror Into the heart of what
the haters of all government call tin
monster of capital.
It is hard for the authorities to es
-tlmute how many actual anarchist*
there are In the United States. There
are many preachers of philosophical
anarchism who are well known to tin
police, but the direct action fellow. 1
are the ones who are hard to lay
hands on.
The Kick.
First Fair Samaritan —My dear,
don't y om Just adore charity work? It
makes one’s home seem so palatial
afterward!—Judge.
LURED. PIRATE TO HIS OOOM
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Bellamy Betrayed by Captured
Captain Who Feared" He Would
Plunder Provineetown, Maaa. #
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In his history of the Massachusetts
Bay colony, Governor Hutchinson tells
of the notorious pirate Bellamy, who,
in 1717, wac decoyed to his doom by
the captured captain of a now obsolete
craft called a -“snow, . Bellamy had
promised to give back the snow if the
captain would piipt him safely Into har¬
bor. But the good captain, fearing the
pirate meant to plunder Province
town, hung his lantern in the shrouds
Just as a violent storm arose, and
bugged the shore, with the pleasing re¬
sult that Bellamy’s whole fleet was
wrecked, and many of the pirates who
were not drowned were executed by
the town fathers. t
Alden’s “Collection of Epitaphs"
says that for many years after his
shipwreck a man of a very singular
and, frightful aspect, who was sup¬
posed to have been one of Bellamys
crew, used, every spring and autumn,
to be seen traveling on the cape. Aged
people related that he frequently apent
the night in a private house, and that,
wherever the Bible or any religious
book was read, or any family devotion
performed, he Invariably left the
room.
It was also stated that dating the
night it would seem as if he had in
his chamber a legion from the lower
world, for much conversation was over¬
heard which was boisterous, profane,
blasphemous and quarrelsome In the
extreme.—Detroit News.
RULER ORDERED WIFE SLAIN
Emperor Constantine Had Faustina
Smothered to peath Because
She Accused Stepson.
Flavla Maximinna Faustina was the
second wife of Constantine the Great.
In the year 306 her father took her to
Gaul, where he gave her in marriage
to the Emperor Constantine. She was
for a long time a most exemplary wife
and mother. Her devotion to her hus¬
band was such that she even sacri¬
ficed her father’s life to him, after dis¬
covering that her parent was involved
in a plot against Constantine’s life.
Faustina has been accused of stain¬
ing the last years of her life by the
commission of many crimes, among
others that of causing the death of
Crispus, the son of Constantine by a
former wife, by making false accusa¬
tions against him.
Constantine revenged himself on
Faustina for having caused his son’s
death by having her suffocated in a
warm bath.—Detroit News.
Three Thousand Fold.
Seventy ears were raised from one
grain of wheat ln an experiment at
SJouth Hornchurch, Essex, England.
The seed was sown ln March In a pit
a yard wide and 18 inches deep. As
soon as sprouts appeared they were
lightly covered with earth, and from
then all through the summer the
sprouting grain was covered over and
over again until the pit was full and
its surface covered with a grass of
wheat. The shoots remained quiescent
during the winter, but in spring grew
rapidly, and eventually, in the follow¬
ing autumn, 85 stalks, were cut, of
which no fewer than seventy had
ripened ears. These seventy ears
weighed over a quarter of a pound
and averaged forty-four grains to the
ear. Surely an amazing harvest from
■“one seed.
India Introduced Diamonds.
India’s ancient diamond workings
were scattered over a wide area, b^t
the distributing center or mart was
the town of Golconda, a name which
1ms always been highly suggestive of
opulence. , -
As far back as that ancient epic, the
“Mahabharata," diamonds have figured
largely in the life and history of the
Hindu, and it was from India that they
were introduced into Europe. With
the development of diamond cutting in
Antwerp and Amsterdam in the Fif¬
teenth cefitury, diamonds began to be
more widely used by the western na¬
tions. Such travelers as Jean Bap¬
tiste Tavernier brought back from the
East stories of the magnificence of the
diamonds owned by oriental poten¬
tates. 1
Unable to Prove It.
One afternoon a stranger debarked
from a train at a hustUng town in the
West and headed up the street. Final¬
ly he met a man who looked like a
native.
“Pardon me,” said the stranger, “are
you a resident of this town? *»
“Yes, air," waa the ready rejoinder
of the other. “I have been here some¬
thing like fifty years. What can I do
for you?
4* I am looking for a criminal law¬
yer,” responded the stranger. “Have
you one here?” i /
Well," said the native, reflectively,
•» we think we have, but we can’t prove
It on him. »» *
How to Hord a HuabaRd.
Lean on him, coos the clingy one.
Dress for hfm, says the .stylish
spouse.
Feed him well, hints the homebody.
Flirt with him, chirps the coquette.
Love him, says the tender helpmeet.
Boss him. orders the hefty woman.
Flatter, whispers the dear deceiver.
Understand him, says the soulful
one.
But the wise woman knows that
you have to do about all of those
things to really hold’ a husband, and
even then It is sometimes a* gamble
whether it Is worth while.
Wednesday afternoon, January 2, 1924.
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Public story-tellers still earn a good
, lvelihoo(i }n j apaa . ln the large
cities and towns hundreds of tlieni ply
their trade, provided with a sriiall
table, a fan and a paper wrapper to
u ,„strate and emphasize the points
of tlle!r
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Our New Year
Resolutions v
Resolved that we will strive to give our
friends and customers better service than ever
if possible, and bigger and better values.
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We wish to thank each and every one of our
Customers, who have made it possible for us to
increase our business, from year to year, and as
this past year, has been our best one in a busi¬
ness way we wish to extend to all of you our
1 Happy New Year Greetings, and best wishes for
a prosperous yeay , and may you have many
happy returns. /
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hot-water tank In use in American
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if all hot-witer and hot-air- pipes be
insulated, preventing ' about four-fifths
of this loss. £