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THE NEWS AND SUN is the
Official Organ of the City of Griffin.
Official Organ of U. Spalding Court, County. North
Official O rgan S.
era District of Georgia.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
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one year ... ..... 1.00
It may be that there are “fewer
criminals in Georgia, M but it seems
that they are still effective.
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You'll see it in the Atlanta news¬
papers after the other dailies of the
State have blazed the way.
The esteemed Atlanta Constitution
seems to be doubtful concerning the
alleged merits of that savior of the
rural counties, the unit system. We
imve always argued that people and
gw counties, vote.
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SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYS AND
OTHERS.
“If Shakespeare were alive today
and drawing royalties usual to the
business he would receive $7,000.00
a week from the production of his
plays in this country, and $5,000 a
week from abroad, with a probable
income of $300,000 for the 1922-23
season,” says the Moultrie Observer.
While the News and Sun has made
no effort to verify these figures they
are in all probability essentially ac¬
curate, for Shakespeare’s plays have
stood the exacting tests of time and
criticism. They are popular today
largely because they portray a period
of romance that now seems unreal.
Deeds of gallantry and love the en¬
dured and burned marked the Shake¬
spearean age and the great author
knew how to grip the interest of the
public. *
Many of the modern plays of re¬
cent years arouse appreciation for a
few seasons, but they are soon for¬
gotten. Not because they are without
merit or unworthy of patronage, but
the public clamors for new productions
in harmony with the times—some¬
thing that appeals to the present day
emotions and fancies. »
However, many plays of decades
ago never fail to attract and arrest
attention. Denman Thompson’s “Old
Homestead” will be witnessed by ap¬
plauding hundreds wherever it is
presented. No less a favorite is that
simple masterpiece, “Lightnin', %
which always strikes a responsive
cord and receives a cordial welcome
, from crowded houses.
Frank Bacon,’as ‘‘Lightnin’” Bill
Jones, made the play popular. He is
dead, but Milton Nobles is proving his
rjght to assume the title role. He un¬
derstands the part thoroughly and in¬
terprets it well.
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A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A
DIFFERENCE.
** When is a jitney not a jitney?”
It was a twisted interpretation of the
law by the city attorney of Atlanta
that declared that automobiles
charging fares in excess 6f seven
cents and following no regular route
was a “taxicab" and not a “jitney. •*
According to this elastic opinion, an
automobile charging more than seven
cents and maintaining no regular
schedule does not come within the
provisions of the ordinance requiring
jitney operators to make bond for the
protection of their passengers. ,
“Automobiles conveying passen-
ggi* to and from the ball game at
Ponce DeLeon park, which charge
twenty-five cents each tyay, are ex¬
empt,” says the city attorney. This
absolved from all responsibility the
drivers of the automobiles whose pas
Mongers are subjected to the greatest
menace of any who patronise the jit¬
neys or taxies. ft would seem that
they should be required to post bond,
hut not so says this wonderful inter¬
preter of Atlanta’s laws.
It is a clear case of "a distinction
without a difference.” The operator
who demands a fare of saves cents is
forced to execute a bond, while the
one who charges twenty-five cents
and up is allowed to enter into eom
^etition with the Georgia Railway
and Power Company upon the pay¬
ment of a nominal licenae tax. If the
ordinance I in its present form doesn’t
include taxis it should be amended at
an early session of the city council. «
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A TIMELY PROGRAM FOR THE
FARMERS.
Kiwanis Clubs throughout the State
have adopted the following sensible
slogan—
“ The cow, the hog and the hen:
A little cotton now and then.”
With the Kiwanians supporting* 1 a
hog and hominy program,
tory results may , be expected ... in all i,
counties which have a club. This
would be true in Spalding county,
whose citizens have , long been noted . .
for education, culture and material
achievement. The most important
movement before , , the , people , of „ Geor- _
gia today is diversified farming and
co-operative production and market
The . of , the , destructive ,
ing. invasion
boll weevil has rendered absolutely
necessary a revision of the one-crop
schedule, and farmers throughout the
State are being urged to participate
in this great educational campaign. 1
Georgia, Empire State of the prolific
South, abundantly endowed by nature,
perpetuated in story and song, glori¬
fied in history, rieft in tradition, rare
in agrievement, must maintain its
position and prestige as premier State
of the South. The citizens must un
derstand the situation and go forth
with renewed endeavor to prepare
for the abundant harvest that may be
expected.
Of the twenty-six varieties of soil
in the United States, Georgia Jeads
witit twenty-three; California, adver¬
tised from sun to sun and sea to sea,
ranks second with nineteen. Of the
nine climatic conditions in the. United
States, Georgia has seven. Essen¬
tially this is an agricultural State,
but many opportunities are offered
for the profitable production of hogs,
poultry and cattle, and diversified
crops.
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THE BIBLE WILL SURVIVE
A movement has been originated in
New York to “modernize” the Bible
and thus make it conform to presFfft
day conditions. Most movements of
that sort have failed ingloriously, as
the Bible’s charms are largely due to
the fact that it is not a present daj
creation, but * deals with sentiments
and conditions, which have been much
the sairte in all ages.—Valdosta
Times.
The Bible cannot be changed. II
will endure as long as time shall con
tinue, for it is founded upon Holy in
spiration. Every effort that has
jeen made to qualify the book and
•‘revise” the Ten Commandments^as
failed, for the written word of the
Almighty God must prevail.
The fact that the Bible has stood
he enacting tests of time and criti¬
cism is conclusive evidence of its ac¬
curacy and origin. Despite the bom¬
bardment of the enemies of Chris
ianity the Bible is more universally
oopular today than at any time since
t was written. And there is a pen¬
alty attached to perverting the scrip
ures for personal reasons.
Tri4h is right and shall prevail de¬
spite the devil and his rapresenta
ires. “My Mother’s Bible *♦ will
lever be modernized.
a
JSat spinach greens if you want a
H perfect 34,” advises America’s
Venus De Milo. Still, we have no
douty that a slight variation of
he menue would disrupt her “meas
trements.
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HOOVER AMD OTHER8 ORGANIZE
TO TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO
LIVE MORE COMFORTABLY.
By BttWARD B. CLARK
Washington.— One at the minor
grievances of Theodore Roosevelt
against his successor in the White
House, William Howard Taft, was that
the rural life commission brought into
existence by the colonel 'was allowed
bf M* auccensor to pass away. Its
report never was printed bythegov
It Is a long while ago now. but there
are some persons who will remember
that Roosevelt’s desire was to In¬
crease the comforts of country living
to the Untied. Sts tea, to And means to
make more contented the people who
were „ living . at ... a distance from the
pop
nlou , center*, and to do other things
In behalf of the ruralite.
There was some resentment at the
time the appointment of the commts
skm wa . 8U gge.ted, bnt It died away,
and when a few of the findings had
been given place In the public prints
there was general applause of. the ef¬
fort.
The report of the rural life commis¬
sion Anally was printed by private sub,
scrlptlon, but It never received the
It if the government IS™ had put it out “Z® as
a public document
Now there has been incorporated a
noncommercial organization ^ with Her
bert Hoover M [Aent fop m pur .
pose at securing better homes for all
*he P®°ple °f the United States who
need them. This effort is not to. be
^ned to the rural communities
where, as a matter of fact, many If
not m08t °f the homes are better than
those to be found In the cities,
Better Homes week Announced.
Dr. James Ford, now on leave of ab
Bence from Harvard university, is the
executive director of the organization,
jjj g a j m j s “to help the man of small
Income to learn how to live In more
certainty co,llf ^’ * that 0r f h ^ ls al children * h ’/ nd will ^ fegard “° r !
the home as the center of Interest,"
The week of May 11-15 has been des
‘ gnated “ a B f. er Home s Week ’
Communities are being organized i 1 on a
nationwide scale to prepare exhibits
of homes properly planned, built and
furnished. It is said that no commer¬
cial features of any kind will attend
the exhibits and that all efforts will
be confined to services for the indi¬
vidual home owners in the communi¬
ties at large. 1
To the guide book of the Better
Homes plan Herbert Hoover has writ¬
ten a foreword. He says among other
things: shortage
“There Is danger that the
of homes which was occasioned by the
great war and the increasing drift to
the cities may deprive an Increasingly
large portion of our population of the
inestimable values which lie In the
true homes. Through organizations,
however, it is possible to increase the
amount of available housing. It is
possible find desirable also to maintain
and develop high standards, not only
of safety, convenience and Comfort, but
also of privacy and beauty, which may
be expressed In the house Itself, its
equipment apd Its surroundings.”
“One definite objective, M Doctor
Ford said in outlining the purposes of
the movement, “will be the inclusion*
th high school curricula of
courses In hoiqe-maklng and the care
of a home. The one sure product of
every school is an army of men and
women who will head homes, yet for
this most Important function in life
ther'e Is often not even a pretebse of
practical training."
Bits of Valuable Advice.
A host of simple but collectively im¬
portant ways to improve small homes
are being recommended by the group
behind the new organization that aid¬
ed informally in the setting up of ap¬
proximately 1,000 Batter Homes ex¬
hibits in 1923.
Here are some of. the prosaic bits of
advice:
Put the Wltchen sink under a win¬
dow so that the homemaker may en¬
joy the fresh air and the beauty of
nature while engaged at necessary
household tasks.
Put rollers on the kitchen table and
save about fifteen miles of walking a
month for the housewife.
Place >our bed in relation to the
bedroom windows so that you can have
plenty of fresh air without a draft.
Dedicate the sunny south bedroom
to your children instead of to occa¬
sional guests.
Build your house so that the living
room and dining room constitute one
big room. Then your daughter can
have dances, parties and other social
events at home Instead of somewhere
else.
Give the housewife the share of the
living expense money which should
come under her jurlsdibtton, and let
her be responsible for the, budgeting
of It.
Woman Has Big Job
One of the most important muni¬
cipal positions filled by a woman In
the United States is that of Miss Nell
J. Roche, who holds Ihe office of
comptroller of the city of Nashville.
Wanted to Beat Her to It
«• Why do you drink so much
Edwin?" asked a mother of her
year-old son.
"So you won’t have so much to
I-me the
GRIFf AND SUrs
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•fA’ , < ‘Fear and Angar. ~
Feo-r and anger are differently do
reloped In different animals. A frog
or a rabbit has only feur. while tigers
and weasles usually show only anger.
Some men are built the same way.
Fear and anger are, therefore, op¬
posite moods, the first the impeller of
flight, the second of, fight.
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Yes, Indeed.
•« I see the helicopter which coat Its
builder 1225,000 to build has lifted him
20 feet into th* air.” “But that’s
too expensive ■ way to get upstairs
to 'ever become popular.”—Houston
Chronicle. 1
8ufi, Moon and Earth.
If the sun were a hollow ball, and
the eayth anq.tpopn could be, ptaeft#
In the center In their relative posi¬
tions. the moon could continue round
the earth Inside the sun and leave
plenty of room to spare.
Ideas of Recreation.
One Idea of rest Is to do nothing,
another Is change of occupation and
environment Most people And It diffi¬
cult to do nothing, and In 1 recreation
seek complete change, thus exemplify¬
ing the philosophy of living.
For Sale
Farm lands in Spalding
county, close to city.
City property — Dwellings,
well located and V-lots.
Several nice farms, small
and large. Will rent .for year
1924.
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A few small farms close to
city for rent.
Your fire insurance busi¬
ness will be appreciated and
it will be to your interest to
see us.
9
e. s. McDowell
Real Estate and Insurance.
WrWAV.Wt'
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Sale of New Dresses
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H At 14.75 to 24.75 /
NewjBoyish Models
New Sport Dresses
New Street Dresses & k
% New Coats and Capes
New Boyish Suits
Hundreds of New Dresses in all the new cloths, models
that look fully ten dollars more than the garments are
marked. We don’t think you have ever seen..such values
and this group is specially priced
$24 E
Fro II $ 14 75 " 75
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Special Sale New Heather Suits $10.00 £
New Suits for tlfe business general ’ wea£ a
25 woman or
Made of Heavy all-wool cloth in all popular shades, the
Suits are regularly worth $19.75, but a special purchase
makes it possible to offer these to our customers for only
t $10.00 X
Come in tomorrow and see New Millinery and Ready-to
Wear Departments, the handsomest show rooms in Griffin.
We are proud of these departments and we want you to
t see them.
The Style Center for Griffin
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 22, is
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;.fr .r: to Stop Mine flrw.
A new method of chocking ore ii
Is by means of boxes of line rock
suspended across the roof of tbs
Any shoe* due to an explo¬
Is suiBeient to cause them to break
from their support*, and the
dlvWed' dnst fall* tntoufhe pan
and prevent* the
Value of Conventions.
One aspect of conventions which
people who declaim against them loss
Sight of Is that conventions make both
Joy and suffering easier to hear in a
becoming manner.—Joseph Conrad.
Best Grade IJigh Grade Fertilizers - Cotton Seed Meal
COAL Nitrate Soda Hulls, Dairy Feed
FOR SALE BY
HOMER WILSON
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Walker Bros. Co. Mill No. 1. Phone No. SI.
BOYCE-ITE TAKES
OUT THE KNOCK • * • •
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Is your' car so badly carbonized that it knocks if it
does over fifteen miles an hour on the level? Does
it refuse to go up an easy shill without pounding?
Why not put the new super-fuel ingredient, BOYCE
ITE, into its gas and breeze along at from thirty
five miles per hour smoothly or drive through the most
crowded traffic jams without stuttering or choking
down ? /
Boyfce-ite eliminates carbon, saves gasoline and makes
the motor start easier.
• “BOYX3E-ITE makes poor gasoline good and the. best
gasoline better." Increase your mileage.
l YOU CAN BUY IT FROM
6RIFFIN BATTERY SERIF
115 N. 8th st- (Willard Service Station) Phone 879
To Make Hot Water tt!^ Stay M«, ;
To All a hot-water bottle for an ljTf
valid, fill It half full and tay the 3
bottle flat, holding the rpouth 1
up 1Jnt |,
water appears to the neck of the
bottle. Then screw in the stopper, L.
thus excluding the air. The bottl* ;
will be soft anq the water will
hot longer.—Designer.
Cleanlng JSewIng Machine, ,
Use sewing Machine oil on a soft oiotb
to clean the wood parts of a sewing t
machine. It appears as it polishing r
also keeps the finish from cracking ®
and makes it look like new. Or any
good furniture polish will do.