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FAGE TWii - il V ROBERT L. DUKE Editor a nd Publisher. Entered at the pektoffice in Grif fin, Georgia, as second class mail matter ______ RATES OF ADVERTISING Reasonable- and will be furnished upon application 1 - ■ ..... ............. .......... MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusive¬ ly entitled to the use for republica- credited tiou of all new* dispatches credited in to it or not otherwise this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights dispatches or re¬ publication of reserved. special herein are alio THE NEWS AND SUN Is the Official Organ of the dity ol Griffin. Official Organ of Spalding County. Official Organ U. S. Court, North era District of Georgia. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Daily, one month $ .50 Daily, one year months -5.00 Daily, six 2.50 Daily, Weekly, three months 1.25 one year ----- 1.00 « 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. -0 . 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 News. W - 0 - 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 , 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. -0—, 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.” | i 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. •0 ♦ WITH OUR EXCHANGES ♦ ************* 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. , •< 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 S3 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. fet. -< Art' S*jg£3g.’J i Yes have hat m we 'your new 5 O 1 v tor Spring in the newest - * / shapes and shades and the /A conservative styles for older m 9 ' m men. rv v * • t ■£ Stetson Hats * T i Si ■*7 *# $7 .00 and $ 0 00 i •es Si Outfor Spring I Hats / Mallory No Name Hats R: P {Best Known) tor a SC. 00 $J.50 to* $^.50 '-'A ’tejj I Be sure to see^our new hats before buying, They can ’t & be beat. t :~v> Andlourinew Spring suits are coming in every day now. a The bestpines we’ve ever had. a t 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. > ' t 0 • THE DE PEND ON STORE if t! 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. ' ; rv ‘ *" „ . 1 Best Grade High Grade Fertilizers Cotton Seed Meal COAL Nitrate Soda Hulls, Dairy Feed X FOR SALE BY HOMER WILSON % Phone No. 81. Walker Biros. Co. Mill No. 1. ; 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 Chronicle. ' « "■' ' - > - * < .