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PAGE TWO 120 East Solomon St. Entered at the postofflce in Griffin, Georgia, as secon d class mail matter. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusive¬ ly entitled to the use for republic*- credited tion of all news dispatches credited in |0 it or not otherwise tWa paper and alio the local news published herein. All rights or re publication also of reserved. special dtt|wtcb«* herein are OFFICIAL PAPER City of Griffin. tf. Spalding County. Northern District of S. Court, Georgia. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS Daily By Carrier One year, in advance, — _____$5.00 Six morfths, in advance,----- 2.50 Three months, in advance, __ .. 1.25 i)ne month, month, payable at end of .50 -------------- Daily By Mail One year, in advance, — $4.60 8ix months, in advance, . 2.00 Three months, in advance,_____ 1.00 One month, in advance,---- .40 One Semi-Weekly Edition yeai, in advance,________$1.00 Six months, in advance,___ .50 Three months, in advance, . .25 If sent within 80 mile radius of Grif¬ fin. Beyond 30 mile zone, one year, <1.60; six months, .76; three months, .40. BEING A FIREBUG NATION News reports of the recent million dollar sawmill fire at Hoquiam, Washington, say “Covered by insur ance. Everybody breathes easy, fort there is no actual loss. ... ’ But a million dollars’ worth of property has been destroyed; a mil¬ lion dollars’ worth of labor and ma¬ terial is lost that had been available for making men more comfortable, in wages, profits, freights, in struc¬ tures that the lumber would build. Every stick of timber, every day’s wage, every item of comfort that a million dollars can buy, is first paid for in insurance rates. Whether you have never had a fire of your own, or whether you have been a regular firebug in setting forest fires or carelessly burning your own property in city or town or country, the loss of every scrap burned must be paid by someone. Unless restored by insurance/every item of property destroyed by fire is ' gone forever, and the nation is that much poorer. Estimating a human life by the wages it would earn, life comes ter¬ ribly high. Any one of the 15,000 lives destroyed annually by fire may be worth tens of hundreds of thou¬ sands of dollars. So with property estimated by its usefulness, even though its physical value is covered by insurance. Insurance only spreads and equal¬ izes fire or death losses, so that the few do not go bankrupt while the many go unscathed. Most of the $500,000,000 annual fire losses of the United States are preventable. They need never occur. If normal business and home life could have the proportion of that sum that is paid out for preventable fires every year the United States would soon hardly know itself ia, its new era of decorum and prosperity. Being a flreburg nation is hardly decent. The majority of fires are prevent able. It’s time for our country to save property that is utterly, foolishly wasted, that is so wrongfully said to be “covered by insurance. THE DAY WILL COME The San Francisco Chronicle says that the most dangerous disease at¬ tacking Americaat present is the law-making mania of 48 state legis¬ latures and the national Congress. No man living today knows for a certainty that he is not breaking daily some tasks. law when he goes about his j j The day will come when we will elect men to the legislature and to Congress not to make new laws, but to clean out the rubbish that has accumulated in the statutes. --- The old-fashioned farmer who uaed to exhibit his calves at the county fair now has a daughter who does the same thing. ‘:y, EXTENDING USE OP SILVER Professor Irving Fisher, Yale Uni-, versity international economist, says that gold is no longer a stable stand ard of value, and that its purchasing power should be stabilized to pre¬ vent evils of inflation or deflation by larger use of silver all over the world. i The treasury has embarked upon a campaign to restore the silver dollar to general circulation. An initial step was taken when one of the coins was placed in the pay envelope of each of 6,000 Treas¬ ury employes. Similar action will be suggested to other government de¬ partments. Paper has been supplanting silver dollars, but upkeep of paper money costs the government around 3 per cent of its total face value, while maintenance of silver dollars costs practically nothing. | A Laugh Or Two | A camera addict went big game hunting in Africa. One of his com¬ panions was chased by a lion, and fled for camp with the lion at his heels. As the poor fellow fled he heard a shout, and looked hopefully to¬ wards the thicket whence the sound came, for he thought salvation was at hand. But it was the camera addict in¬ stead. The addict came bounding with his camera raised. M Hold on, there,” he yelled sav K el >’- "Slower! You’re too far I can’t get you both in.” It was an appeal case in a Colo¬ court, and on one side was a testy lawyer and on the other a nunw ber of inexperienced attorneys. The arguments on both sides had been heard. Suddenly one of the inexperienced lawyers got up and addressed the court once more. The testy lawyer stood it for a moment, but losing patiehce, he also rose and addressed the court in this wise: a Your honor, I would suggest, with all respect to the court, that my learned friend opposite is entirely out of order in addressing the court and, if I may be permitted to- say so r the court has no right to be listening to him. The judge, who at the time was writing, said: << Mr. Smith, it is a great piece of Impertinence on your part to assume that the court is listening to him. ” Tom was a man who indulged free¬ ly in the luxury of inertia. (< Tom,” he was- &:kc;!, “which do you think are the lo-i .t undesirable, sins of omission or ains of commis¬ sion!”...... ........ «• Sins of omission, • i he replied. .. They don’t take so much work. >> GEORGIA WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Stillmore—Movement launched for establishment of tobacco market here. Amerieus—4,132 bales of cotton re¬ ceived at local warehouses during Moultrie—Commercial egg hatch¬ with capacity of 12,000 eggs, for fall season. Bainbridge—Storm and sanitary systems being installed at cost $60,000. Valdosta—Construction of two con¬ bridges on Valdosta-Quitman to begin soon. Brunswick—Jekyl View hotel sold, purchasers to improve property and new building. Irwinton—Rapid progress being made in preparations for building new courthouse. Albany—Georgia ‘ Peanut Growers’ distributes between $175, 00 and $200,000 to peanut growers of state; another delivery season coon to open. Atlanta—Plans being made for building $150,000 addition to Grady hospital. Greensboro—All crops in Greene county particularly good this year; cotton production to total 6,000 to 8,000 bales, as compared with 1,600 year, Swainsboro—Ginning to date this has broken all former records, two big gins here running day and ight. Valdosta—Swift & Co. to sell un own label all butter made by Creamery. Hawkfnsvijle—Cotton being brought local gins from adjoining counties; GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS AN D SUN about 600 bales marketed here this season, Lafayette Consolidated Textile Co rpoTation, with mills here, in At¬ lanta and at Pelham, to- be com¬ pletely reorganized. Macon — Chamber of Commerce committee to promote tobacco grow¬ ing in Macon territory. Augusta—Twelve miles of perma¬ nent paving laid on city streets this year. Hahira—At close of fourth week of operating, local market had sold practically 3,000,000 pounds of to¬ bacco; two warehouses crowded every day during season. Macon—Total of 131 building per¬ mits issued during August, aggregate value $78,033. Valdosta—Valdes hotel nearing completion, furnishings installed, Columbus Central of Georgia spending $8,000,000 on improvements between this city and Birmingham, Ala., which will make line the best railroad in United States. Macon—Georgia Cotton Oil com¬ pany, new concern, to maintain of¬ fices here. Atlanta—Southern railway to con¬ struct engine and coach cleaning ter¬ minal near intersection of North avenue and Marietta street, esti¬ mated cost $1,500,000. Quitman—People’s National Bank constructing addition to building. Macon—Central of Georgia rail¬ road to build $1,000,000 ice plant here for accommodation of peach growers. LaGrange—Road from this point to Franklin being graded and filled to Heard TT , county . . line. .Vi/ •MAh'-1 ■ Valdosta—Up to September 2, to¬ bacco sales in city since opening of, market totaled 2,101,251 pounds, for which Georgia and Florida tobaC co growers received $513,773. / West Point—Atlanta & West /Point railroad installing reinforced concrete poles to replace all wooden telegraph poles on line; concrete poles being unloaded in local yards. / Fitzggrald Hatchery/ of 10,000 eggs capacity opens foi/ season. Forsyth—State highway depart¬ ment calls for bids On construction of 314 miles pavipg on Atlanta Macon road, part/ included within this city. Valdosta—Bank clearings in this city for week ending August 25 show¬ ed increase of/ $300,000 over corre sponding week / of last year. BILL BOOSTER SAYS M O ADiA\RE 'me KAGDEST CHAP WHO GOES. ABOUT U\S BUSiHESS. W\TVA WO EOSS UOR BLUSTER* JUST QUIET, EEFIOEWT AWO M\aH-POWERED) Remember., -xw! cheaper. 7 THE AUTOMOBILE, THE WOiSIER IT IS) „ / 3 a gjr ( 70? w. ■v* ■vv-v-4$ *y T/> / i«> Many who sing to kill time have a mighty good weapon. Before we run out of “weeks,” why not have an “honest week’s-work week” ? A man may be a millionaire as the bank teller counts, but a bankrupt as the Good Lord counts. A porch light may be very dim yet have an enormous scandal power. SHE CALMLY KILLS BURGLAR Oxford, Eng., Sept. 21.—Finding Charles Hopkinson burglarizing her home, Mrs. Margaret Payne shot 1 him to death and then calmly j telephoned the police. Washington Zoo Gets Singing Dog /v ';' . i ■ 1 1 I • >; V ,-x %% *: i ■ A. m csxhje An gnlraal described as singing dog’ is the latest arrival at the Capital He is described having “web fee£ ...... « head like anteate/, , zoo. as an cauliflower ears and at times sings like n bird. The singing dog was brought from a region along., the Amazon ver in Brazil and it was said that he was caught while he was practicing his scales. 7 American Expert Praises Work of League / of / Geneva, Sept. 22.—(By the Asso¬ ciated /Press.) — Following an ex¬ tensive / visit to the Ruhr, Berlin and Vienna, Harold G. Moulton, an American expert on economics and prector of the Institute of Econom ics at Washington, came on to Ge neva and spent some time investi gating the economic and financial f' Devil Dogs Out on Their Annual Maneuvers wmmm. * v/O' ■m x ' ' Wm % J * c w<*>' ’ A.' * % * tv, v-. §§ *-'■+'** : /■X.'-Sfc I I 5* r * i i ff * W ' X m .4$j£ m ^ w*: I 11 I 'l i;.. • A % 'V« >■■4 OP I S ; fv. 'V ■■■ ■ ’ 7 tf} •j II >| | -:;/ T; it 1 X ,'7 v ' 7 :/ J, 1 I } "z i ■ ,7 11 ii :< w • ;V: X - xit# % m m ■ mm j . x<-- I . $7 m Three thousand United States marines, commanded by Gen. Dion Williams, encamped at Shnrpsburg, Md., pre¬ pared to restage the historic battle of Antietam of Civil war days on the original battle ground. Some of the devil dogs are shown here shining -their shoes before the daily inspection. PLUNGES HEADLONG TO DEATH IN BOILER OF MOLTEN ASPHALT Wauchula, Fla., Sept. 20.—R. J. Nipper, operator of an asphalt dis¬ tributing machine, was burned to death here Friday when the asphalt boiler caught fire. He attempted to leap to safety, but fell headlong into the burning material. He died in a hospital in a short "time. He leaves a widow and one child. HARTSELLE, ALA., FLOOD BRINGS HEAVY DAMAGE TO BUSINESS SECTION -p. Hartselle, Ala., Sept. 20.—Flood waters overran Hartsell today after a night of torrential rains, causing, thousands of dollars damage in the business section. Main street was a running river, with water a foot deep rushing through the town. Leading stores were flooded and merchants forced to suspend business while they work¬ ed to salvage their stocks. THIRTEEN YEAR OLD BOY ENTERS CINCINNATI COLLEGE Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 21.—Ben¬ jamin Frederick Dryden, 13, of Youngsville, La., was admitted to the University of Cincinnati today. He matriculated in the liberal arts college and is the youngest student ever to enroll in the history of the institution. He weighs 66 unds. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1924. j mechanism of the League of Na “The Austrian and Hungarian re tions. Mr. Moulton expressed the opinion later that the ..world owes a pro¬ found debt of gratitude to the leu jgue for the excellent work it hcs ac¬ complished in connection with the economic reconstruction of Europe. He said that the numerous statis¬ tical and economic analyses made by the economic section of the secre¬ tariat have been of invaluable aid alike to independent students and to governments charged with the responsibiilty of effecting a solution of post war economic problems, construction plans,” Mr. Moulton ROYAL ARCH MASONS TO MEET Savannah, Ga., Sept. 22.—The thirteenth district convention of * & Royal Arch Masons will be held in Savannah at the temple of the or¬ der on Wednesday of next week. VAlSta-ai»*KBAE) fi| I > motor mm 7& (pone of the new '' w ” TJuick models cm 1 lies ail of ihe features mil and qualities that have made Buick (amous. Jt the new prices you the can Buickyou afford to own want. T-io-a-4 SLATON MOTOR COMPANY €. W. SLATON, Prop. 109 East Solomon Street Phone 680 When better automobiles are built, Buick will build dared, originated by the league and administered under league aus pices, represent the first construct¬ ive efforts to rehabilitate disordered European finances. Without the pi¬ oneer work of the league, the Daves report on German reparations would have been possible. Indeed the Dawes plan is closely modeled after the Austrian and Hungarian ex periments. If the League of Na¬ tions had accomplished nothing else, its work in Austria and Hungary would have justified its existence many times over. ti An elephant's trunk contain 40, muscles. Father and Children For he who has acquired the habit of lying or deceiving his father will do the same with less remorse to oth¬ ers. I believe that it is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect, and by gentleness, than by fear.—Terrance. „