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ROBERT L. DUKE
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Official Organ of the dity ol Griffin.
Official Organ of Spalding County.
Official Organ U. S. Court, North
era District of Georgia.
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« Some folks are getting mighty up
to-date. The editor of the Washing¬
ton News-Reporter is so modern that
he doesn't even believe the ground
hog fixes the time when winter will
break. The tfuth of the ground hog
theory is amply and ably proven this
year by the weather we have had for
several days.”—Lavonia Times.
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. l It is not the money you have that
will make you happy during the next
year. It is file life you have lived
and the service you have rendered to
those % about you. The greatest hap¬
piness comes from above, from within,
from those you love and those you
have made to love you. Your vision
must transcend material things to
find out real happiness.”—Dawson
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WHY NOT- ONE PRIMARY FOR
ALL?
“The Atlanta Constitution laments
the fact that the presidential pref¬
erence primary will not be generally
observed throughout the State, due
to many county primaries having been
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held or set for dates other than March
19th. No funds are available for
holding the presidential primary and
even in counties where arrangements
are made for voting for a candidate
for president, it is not expected that
a very large vote will be polled unless
there is some local interest to bring
out the vote.
“The Constitution thinks the legis¬
lature should remedy this condition,
by amending the primary law so as to
provide one date for holding all coun¬
ty primaries. The plan has much to»
commend it. With the election of
county officers every four years, we
see no good reason why all the coun¬
ties could not hold their primaries on
the same date. As for this matter,
why not hold the county, State and
presidential primaries all at one time,
and let the voters kill the aspirations
of a whole bunch of office seekers at
one voting.
Under present conditions, the coun¬
ty candidates begin running in the
fall and keep running and agitating
for an early primary until the exact
tive committee sets the date as a mat¬
ter of self-defense. With , the pri¬
mary date fixed by law, the candidates
would know when the running was to
take place, and maybe they would
keep quiet until a few months before
the primary. 1 ’'
. t Georgia has too many primaries,
any way, and a move to consolidate
some of them is a move in the right
direction.”—Tifton Gazette.
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THE BIG THINGS.
Theodore Roosevelt once said of a
consular agent, whose ability he rec¬
ognized and whose friendship he
prized; /
i. If a man disappoints me the first
time, it is his fault. If he disap¬
points me the second time it is mine.
I never blame a man who fails from
accident * * * * He is kindly, cour¬
teous and successful in all the small
things but he fell down in the one big
things that came his way.” |
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How true that is today a* it wa*
in the days when Mr. Roosevelt occu¬
pied the white house. But how many
men measure up to the former pres
ident’s standards?
So many of ua fail to realize that
when we disappoint our superiors,
we loSe their confidence, and when we
find what our failure to meet the ex¬
pectations of others has brought
about, we are very apt to lose our
self respect, our grip on ourselves.
The two thoughts expressed by
Mr. Roosevelt link up together. Dis¬
appointing those who have confidence
n us that we can do the right thing
at the right time an3 falling down on
the one big! thing that comes our
way.
Inability to recognize the big thing
when it does come is the fault that
is inherent with most of us and that
causes us to fall down. Most any
man can be successful in small thihgs,
little daily detail, routine work, but
the man who gets ahead and rises
above the ordinary type is he who sees
the big things when it presents itself.
You^Tfcn kick out the men in this
community who have been successful.
Study th*eir characteristics and most
of them you will find to be very sim¬
ilar to other men’s. But they have
that one trait that has caused them
to forge ahead—^he ability to sec
their opportunities when they come
and to make the most of them.
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You will have to admit, however,,
since all the come-back and the scorn¬
ing and poo-hoo-ing and* tut tut ing,
that the emphasis in that “seofflaw”
epithet is upon the “flaw” end.—Sa¬
vannah News.
We hope that none of opr friends
will again ask us to suppress legiti¬
mate news and thus force us to re¬
fuse. We have made up our mind on
the- subject and there is no recanting
on it. In future, it’s news; we are
going to print it.—Brunswick News.
Announcement that the special ap¬
propriation for prohibition enforce¬
ment, amounting to over ten million
dollars has been agreed upon by con¬
gress will please a lot of people who
see the opportunity of getting easy
money.—Brunswick News.
Some candidate announces that he
is in the race for pure politics. Pure
indeed. That man had just as well
retire right now. Wherever the car
cass is, there will the eagles be gath¬
ered together.—Commerce News.
A barometer in common use in some
parts of Europe consists of a pan of
water and a frog and a little step
ladder. When the frog comes out of
the water and sits on the steps it is
said injFhllibly to indicate ram.—
Valdosta Times.
When a great sensation occurs in
Atlanta the city papers fill the front,
middle and bafk pages with the stuff,
and -then some people denounce the
papers for feeding their readers on
putrid stuff. Another great sensa¬
tion develops and the Atlanta papers
suppress it and then the same critics
denounce the papers for not publish¬
ing all the dirty/ details. So it is be
damned if you da and be damned if
vou don’t.—Commerce News.
The disposition on the part of the
people of Rome to give earnest
thought to the school building pro¬
posal with the view to avoiding blun¬
ders that might be regretted is most
encouraging. Virtually everybody
wants better schools for Rome. The
only difference of opinion arises over
the methods of procedure and the
question of what iq needed. Before
anything is done there should be a
definite understanding of what the ap¬
proximate cost will be, how the money
is to be raised and the extent to which
the needs are to be met. Rome could
spend a million dollars^ on school
buildings without getting more
could be used. But on the contrary
we could spend $100,000 without get¬
ting enough.—Rome Tribune-News.
Marine engineers at an English
•iort have devised a “loud speaker” to
tid in docking incoming vessels. ,
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GIMFFIN D LY NEWS AND SUN
HOUSE HA8H'T REALLY 8TARTED
AND SENATE IS BUSY WITH
MANY INVESTIGATIONS.
By EDWARD B. CLARK
ttnlesS Washington.—predictions are that
a lance la thrust into the flank
of congresf It will be found in session*
during the early cold weather time of
next fall. It seems to be assured now
that even if apeed shall develop com
gress will sit through the time of the
national convention**
When thls ls sald, the meaning is
tiiag it is congress and not congresa
raen that will do the sitting. There
will, be Just enough members left here
to keep up the semblance of organiza¬
tion. Thp rest Will be In or around
and about the convention halls. This
is what happened ill the ye»r 1912
and In one or two other .comparatively
recent presidential election years.
The house has not started at Its
real legislative work. A score of ob¬
stinate gentlemen are throwing ob¬
structions on the track in front of a
locomotive, which hasn’t any too much
steam up anyway. Whether the ob¬
structionists are right cannot be
known, of course, until the days of
the future.
Over In the senate things are worse
than they are In the house. Some of
the senators^are engaged today in .the
of course perfectly proper investiga¬
tion of the Teapot Dome scandal,
some others are at t work trying
to prove the wickedness 6f Edward
W. Bok of Philadelphia in asking
people to submit plans, one of which
possibly might bring peace Jnto the
world.
Many Senate Investigations.
The senate ns it is viewed here no
longer is a legislative body, it has
become almost wholly an Investigat¬
ing body. It has seven or eight in¬
vestigations on its hands today, most
of them Instigated by a desire of this
group or that' group, this bloc or that
bloc, or this or that larger group to
make public .its suspicion that some¬
body or other possibly may have done
something wrong. This kind of in¬
vestigation, lias been going on in
congress ever since the legislators
first met. Frequently they have re¬
sulted in nothing but a loss of time
hnd money.
The difficulties in the way of legis¬
lative progress at the present session
are inerensed materially by the fact
that this Is a presidential nomination
and a .presidential election year.
Polities plus investigations plus the
fact that no party has a majority that
it can cotint upon are placing rocks
in the road. The wonder probably Is
not that Nicholas Longworth, the lead¬
er of the Republicans in the house, is
accomplishing so little, but that he Is
accomplishing as much as he is with
the conditions that confront him and
almost daily confound him.
There seems to he no reason today
to change opinion that finally Long
worth will succeed in effecting some
kind of tax legislative compromise
which will secure fod a tax reducing
bill the sanction of the house and
ultimately get the approval of the
President, provided, of course, that
the senate does not force such changes
In the face of the measure that the
President will refuse to recognize it
as worthy of anything but condemna¬
tion.
President Not Disturbed.
Congress bns been In session for
nearly two months. It apparently has
been regarded as an achievement by
the two houses that afteT some eight
weeks of ‘sessioning’ they have
passed a bill which wllV allow certain
cattle once driven across the line In
Mexico to escape the drought to re¬
turn Into tills country duty free.
Probably this speedy achievement will
he one of the legislative acts to which
the pointing finger of pride will be
directed in the coming campaign.
It is said that President Coolidge is
unperturbed by the slowness of things
on Capitol hill, lie realizes probably
that the political party of which he
is the nominal head cannot do much
In l(he house so long as certain mem¬
bers of it refuse to stay on' the res¬
ervation. It may he that President
Coolidge sees in obstructive tactics a
.certain element of strength for his
own position on matters of legislation,
for generally silent as he is, he has
spoken his mind freely upon the mat¬
ter of the things that lie wants done
and ihings he wants to he left un¬
done.
Not many years ago one session of
congress continued until it expired by
limitation of law, to be succeeded Im¬
mediately by the, second session of the
same congress. In other words, con¬
gress remained in session until noon
of the first Monday in December aiid
the second session began the Instant
that the first session ended. To all
effect or purpose there was one ses¬
sion of congress to last from Decem¬
ber of one yenr until March-fourth of
the second year thereafter,
It is perhaps unfair to discredit
congress, certainly this year, with a
do-nothing spirit. The trouble Is that
some of the members want to do sorne
quickly one way while other
members want to do the same thing
quickly another way. In the house
this year It is not so much a desire
to take things easy ns it is a desire
not to let the other fellow have his
way.
New York city entertains about
100,000 visitors every day and has be
t tween 300,000 and 400,000 commuter*.
Can’t Be blarfe to Work. v
A good many so-called perpetua
motion machines have? been invented
and the patent office records disc-lost
hundreds of these. Tiie chief difficuitj
with all of them is the same, the fact
that they do not work, Scientist!
have shown that perpetual motion J,
an Impossibility and Inventors an
wasting their time and energy by at¬
tempting to produce such a. machlnt
that will work. V
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Japanese Story-Tellers.
Public story-tellers still earn a good
livelihood in Japan. In the large
cities and towns hundreds of them ply
their trade, provided with a small
table, a fan and a paper wrapper to
illustrate end emphasize the points
rf their tale#
to Btep Mine Wire*.
A new reeuiod of checking are »
slues it by means of boxes of line roc
Just suspended across the roof <>f th
runnel. Any shock due to an
don Is sufficient to cause them to farea*
sway from their supports, and th
tnely divided dust falls Wto the pa*
•age and prefect* the flames fro®
threading.
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.„
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.
E. S. McDOWELE
Real Eistate and Insurance.
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Andlourinew Spring suits are coming in every day now. a
The bestpines we’ve ever had. a
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Students’lSuits, Frat Suits, and Stein Black
| Three of the best lines in America.
Specially Priced $25.00 to $55.00
Be swre to see them.
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MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 25, 1924
Coal Waste In Uncovered Pipe*.
It is estimated, that a ton of coal
a year is wasted by each uninsulated
hot-water tank in use in American
homes. Greater economy Is possible
if all bo.t-wnter and hot-air pipes be
Insulated, preventing a hour four-llfth?
of this toss. ' “
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant;
©nd reason why the fools who used
to drive horses instead of cars had’so
few-accidents was because the horses
at least Imp some Sense. A car hasn’t
any more than the driver.—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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Best Grade High Grade Fertilizers Cotton Seed Meal
COAL Nitrate Soda Hulls, Dairy Feed
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FOR SALE BY
HOMER WILSON
% Phone No. 81.
Walker Biros. Co. Mill No. 1.
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There Were More
WILLARD BATTERIES
Manufactured and Sold During 1923
Than any other year in the history Of the Willard Com¬
pany- We sold our part last year and believe'we will over¬
sell our quota this year.
Let us take care of your battery troubles—we are
well prepared.
GBfFFIN BITTED! SERVICE
H5 N. 8th St. (Willard Service Station) Phone 879
Cat# In Churches.
M'>st of the churches In Nsples h»v%
three or four cuts attached to them.
They are kept, for the purpose of
catching the mice which infest ail an.
dent Neapolitan buildings. Thf aid
mats-may often he seen walking eh<mt
among the congregation dr stretched
before the altar.
Yes, Indeed.
•‘I see the helicopter which cost it#
builder $225,000 to build has lifted him
20 feet into the air.” “But that’s
too expensive a way to get upstairs
to ever become popular."— Houston
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