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ROBERT L. DUKE,
j Editor and Publisher,
4 G. JONES Superintendent
Entered at the postoffice in Griffin,
Georgia, as second-class mail matter.
WEEKLY, Per Year $1.50
Griffin, Ga.. Dec. 20, 1918
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Shopping early?
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Shopping in Griffin? '
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Jt will soon be McAdieu.
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Already the Christmas cards are
in.
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By the way, get your new year res
olutions ready.
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Christmas is only a week oft It
■Twill soon be here and gone.
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Have- you enrolled in the Red Cross
Christmas roll call ? Do it now.
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The Savannah Press is in favor of
"“■woman suffrage. Sutlive delights in
pleasing the ladies.
It has been suggested that Henry
Tord will get out a rattling good
newspaper, says the Savannah Press.
Henry has the money all right. Now
if only he had the brains!
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Let us all spread our o’eoats; and
ait down on the piers of our great
joy to await the ships that bring home
jjons of marvelous mothers and the
granite pillars of a great nation.
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“Griffin has installed a commission
form of government or perhaps it
may be caleld a city manager plan,
but it is installed and the people are
pleased with the prospects of a fair,
impartial and business-like manage
ment of city affairs.—Thomasville
primes-Enterprise.
K prosperous looking farmer who
had just received sixty-five cents a
dozen for his eggs and fifty cents a
pound for his butter, told us the other
day that the price of our weekly
newspaper was mighty high. He had
his nerve, all right, but as he is the
only man who has yet complained we
let him go without telling him what
We thought of him.
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• AMERICAN EFFICIENCY.
General Pershing’s recent war re
port gives us a history of the work
which the American army has done
in France. The report is a concise
and soldierly document, evidently
without trace of exaggeration. But
reading between the lines we see the
high courage of our American boys
clearly revealed. The general closed
with a wonderful tribute to tin pa
tience and heroism of his oftietrs and
Soldiers.
The work which the Americans
have done in the war is far more than
military experts foresaw as possible
in so short a space of time. It was
not to la- expected that a body of
young im n drawn from peaceful civi
lian life and with a training brief
though intensified, should be able to
prevail wherever they were used
against Germany's seasoned troops.
Their success can only be attribut
ed to the national American charac
ter. The American is resourceful. He
has initiative and is full of latent
possibilities. As Kipling says, he
“turns a keen, untroubled fact*
Home to the instant need of
t kings.”
If he undertakes a new job he uses
him mind upon it, applies the princi
ples of his last work, so far as they
are applicable, figures it out and be
comes master of it.
Great efficiency doubtless arises
from the drilling of. men to some one
Met task. But it is not the efficiency
of the American, which comes from
his innate adaptability and the use of
his reasoning powers.
Our young Americans took hold of
war as they would of any other new
work. Inspired by glowing patriot
ism, they attacked its difficulties and
mastered them. They brought to war
• the American idea that “the job had
to be done and it was up to them to
do it.”
The page of history for 1918 will
I show how our boys carried out their
idea. General Pershing’s words are
’ norre too strong: “Their deeds are
j immortal and they have earned the
, eternal gratitude of their country.”
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HOW CANADA VIEWS WILSON S
VIEWS
(Literary Digest).
Canada welcomes the president’s
trip to Europe and thinks that noth
ing but good can come of the presi
dent’s persona) association with the
’ allied leaders. The Manitoba Free
Press says that “no one outside the
United States regrets hte president’s
decision”; while the Montreal Herald
hints that when the president sees
the results of war at close quarters
there- will be less idealism and more
practical assistance at the peace ta
ble. The Toronto Mail and Empire
writes:
“It will be a good thing for Presi
■ dent Wilson to attend the peace eon
! ference in France, and the benefit
ought to react upon his party and up-1
on the United States. He- will come*
into close touch with men like Poin
care, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Bal
four, and others, and he will be deal
ing with them as equals. President
Wilson seldom meets men on that
footing. The tradition which has so
long held the chief magistrate in the
United States has kept him from per
sonal contact with the chiefs of state
in other countries. This tends to fix
his mind too much on the things that
are desirable and too little on the
things that are practicable. Presi
dent Wilson’s advisers have been his
personal appointees, most of them
apparently attached to him by strong
personal ties, and some by a sense of
admiration that rendered them useless
as candid critics. The one man by
whom it is generally believed the
president is influenced is Colonel
House, and nobody but the president
has any data on which to form an
opinion of the practical value of Col
onel House’s advice.
“In going to Europe and talking
with the statesmen and military lead
ers who have borne the burden of
four years of war, who have been
grappling with the most momentous
problems that ever arose, and in see
ing some of the effects of the- war,
President Wilson will come to close
quarters with realities. He is not
more likely to instruct and inform
those men than they are to instruct
and inform him. They are his peers.
Their experience of the matters in
hand is greater than his. Their good
, will is as' little likely to be questioned.
Sensible of the great debt they owe
to the United States, there will b<
every disposition on the part of the
representatives of the allies to defer!
to the president, and on his part an j
. appreciation of what the United;
, States owes to the allies will forbid j
, any suggestion of dictation. Ihe con
. ference can not fail to be highly in-.
• structive to all who take part in it
and to no one more than to the presi- 1
• dent of the United States.”
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I France inspires a wonderful patrio
tism in its people. Alsace and Lor
raine had been separated from their
mother country for forty-seven years
, They had been entirely under Ger
, man domination. The German lan !
guage had been enforced in the!
schools, in the courts of law and ini
the churches. Comparatively fee.
people are now alive who were of ma- j
ture.age at the time of the cession of!
the provinces to Germany. Yet the!
announcement of a return to France!
was received with delight, and the!
entry of American soldiers took i
place among public acclamations.
Fortunate indeed, is the countrv which!
inspires this special brand of loyalty!
and affection.
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A Pennsylvania judge lias ruled that !
a widow is a woman. How very)
startling!
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COLD STORAGE, ROADS AND
TRANSPORTATION.
The United States congress will
pass a bill at the present meeting ap
propriating six hundred million dol
lars to build roads. This is in addi
ton to the money already in hand for!
that purpose, which amounts to two I
hundred million dollars. The bill has }
: the approval of the president and the
secretary of agriculture and has been
introduced by Senator Bankhead with
every certainty of its passage at an
early day. This immense sum will be
apportioned under the same plan as
at present used in the federal aid to
States and counties.
The unprecedented production of
farm products has overcome the fa
cilities c' the country for transport
ing them to market and the govern
ment and everybody interested in food
conservation is advocating the imme
diate use of the county roads and
trucks for handling this great excess
of freight. The present railroads will
be utterly unable to meet the require
jnents and the chances are that no
more will be constructed in the near
future, so that it has become the plain
duty, in fact a necessity, for the pro
ducers themselves to form some sort
of an arrangement to meet the situ
ation.
I Again, when the rural business man
■ realizes the enormous loss he sustains
each year on account of the weather
conditions when it comes to “hog
killing” time, he will begin to investi
gate establishing a cold storage de
pot where hogs can be killed at any
time and meat preserved when the
proper time comers for slaughtering
the animal. Rural business men have
only to figure what it is costing them ■
to keep hogs now that have been fat
tened for weeks, to show that the cost
of the meat that will be produced in
the long run will have become a pro
hibitive amount, not to mention the>
great loss sustained otherwise.
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SIMPLICITY OF LIFL.
The war has taught us many things
and among them to discriminate be
tween the essential and non-essential
things of life. We have found that
when inspired by anxiety for a great
dominant cause we could easily dis
pense with many things which had
always seemed to us mere necessities
and comforts. From a great civiliza
tion of luxury ami extravagance we ■
were transformed to a body of people |
willing to sacrifice new cars and fur
niture and to wear last year’s suits
for the one purpose of “winning the
war.”
Now the war is over, but the obliga-!
tion of renunciation is still upon us.
We have practiced it for the sake of
our sons and our country and we
must continue for the sake of hu-1
manity.
We could not sit at a banquet with I
any comfort —if there were starving!
people looking in at the window. And!
we will come to the point where we (
! cannot indulge in luxuries and feel i
i that whole nations- are starving and I
' suffering on the other side of the j
' world.
Perhaps this will lead us to a new!
simplicity of life. When Europe is.
! once more self-supporting, we may !
istill feel inclined to lay aside the non-'
: essential things. We may realize
■that simplcity in our aims!
and in our lives will really in the end i
give us more satisfaction than a rest-[
less striving for luxuries.
BY W \Y OF EXCULPATION.
It. i's a barren mind that can’t think
j up excuses, and now some well-mean-
I ing apologists have come forward to
'excuse the kaiser.
( areful scrutiny of his recent de
l meaner in Holland, they say, indicates
that he is insane. His grandiloquent
and theatrical behavior points to pa
: canola. He has for some years suf
fered from a form of mania, mani
fested in his frequent allusions to the
Almighty as his confidential partner.
And if he is insane he deserves pity
(rather than blame.
This lets out Wilhelm. The Ger
! man people have already been let out.'
I ■ cause we have been repeatedly told
'that they entered the war at the be-
hest of their emperor, and not of their
own desire.
So no one is to blame. Million? of
homes have been desolated, millions
of men have been unspeakably muti
lated, millions more killed. Millions
!of women have been atrociously mis- !
l treated. No one’s fault.
| And yet one wonders why a nation
failed to detect insanity in its sov
ereign when he precipitated and pro
longed the bloodiest catastrophe of
all time. A nation that countenanced |
such a sovereign without imputing I
to him either lunacy or crime is itself
either a crimnal or a lunatic.
THE PERIL OF PATERNALISM.
There is abundant logic in the ten
dency lately shown to entrust im-l
portant private industries to the gov-1
eminent. We have been passing l
through acutely critical times.
It is necessary even under normal i
conditions that industries should be'
supervised by the government, par
ticularly when they grow to such a
size that they are public utilities. It
is the only way to provide safeguards ;
against private tyranny.
When a man invents a new product j
or a new field of industry he invests,
time and money in the hope of sue-■
eess. And if it becomes so useful
that everybody wants it, it is a util
ity. But if it is taken from him with
out compensation every one else will !
take care to prevent his own product j
from becoming generally useful. He (
will stop short of making it good
enough to be universally popular.
Several years ago a group of scien
tists conducted experiments with her
metically sealed jars and tins, and
worked out procseses of preserving
I animal and vegetable products. The
result of their experiments was com
mercialized and the outcome was the
packing business, which many people
declare to be a utility. It is. And
there are others—the barber business,
! for example. Whiskers are pretty
general among males.
Without the promise of a fair bar
gain in the case of municipalization
no one will try to develop anything
into real usefulness. He will expect
it to be taken from him as soon as it
becomes really worth while.
Our Americans can now certainly
be called seasoned troops. Their ,
fighting showed no lack of pepper.
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Mr. Sugar Bowl, a friend long with
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| drawn from the public eye, is with
! us again..
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President Wilson did well to test <
the freedom of the seas before he
! spoke of them.
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When the collector calls with Eng
land's forty-billion-dollar bill, he will 1
probably find Germany “not at home.” ,
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Just the Thing for Johnny’s Xmas Present
A Brand New Suit of the DOUBLEBUILT
! or the RIGHT POSTURE Kind.
f\Ve have an immense assortment of
good suits for boys from 6 to 18.
Prices $8.50, $9.75, $lO. up to J 16.75
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1 b go with these suits we have■.
Shirts with or withour collars
Ties of all description
Buster Brown Hose
Scout Gloves
' Soft Collars and Belts
Hats and Caps I
Handkerchiefs j
Shoes !
M 11()W and avoid the rush
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THE NATION’S OPPORTUNITY.
That the United States is in a per-1
fectly sound economic condition and is
facing the greatest opportunity that
ever came to any nation in the woi Id -
history to build up her foreign trade,
I were among the striking statements
made by J. N. Tregore, secretary of
the National Association of Credit
Men, addressing a meeting of the;
credit men of Atlanta at a dinnt r
given in his honor.
j "The country, said Mr. Tregoe, is.
! facing one of the great opportunities,
• of history to lead the world in main
taining sound commercial principles. |
We have the greatest opportunity
that ever came to any nation to es
tablish a reputation for honest and'
I skillful production that will make our
| goods accepted and relied upon by
(foreign markets. Our merchant ma
' rine is of the utmost importance in j
I carrying out our program of ovei-|
seas trade.”
“The American people have got to
put over another bond issue. I hey
have got to do it; that s all there is
to it,” says the Columbus Enquirer
! Sun. The American people have prov
'en very conclusively that they aie
i both willing and able to put over bond
issues, and they will put over the ap
proaching one. What are you fret
ting about?
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i We see so many pretty things in
the stores and shop windows that we
really can not decide what we would,
like for a Christmas present. We will
leave the matter entirely with our
friends and be pleased with anything
they think will suit us.
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Premier Clemenceau, on being
shown President Wilson's “fourteen
.points,” it is said stated: “Fourteen
commandments! Why, that is pret
ty strong. The good Lord only had
tern.”
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Down in Thomasville Jerger says
the supply of Christmas spirits is so
low that nobody even expects to have
a rumor of an eggnogg. The same
thing at this end of the line, old
man.
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The total production of the war
gardens was so enormous that it was
hardly credible. Jt represented the
effort of amateur farmers —backyard
agriculturists who never did anything
1 of the kind before and probably never
will again. But why shouldn't they?
If we are capable of producing so
gigantic a surplus of foodstuffs, why
.don’t we go on producing it. or some
thing equally necessary? The same
applies to all our war-time efforts.
With similar standards of production
and achievement maintained every
, body in the country would have an
automobile, a steam yacht and a sum
i mer home. Why quit?
LET ■ cow
GET ON U TRACK
ATLANTA, G-
j ingt hat the i» the most usrful
a „d valuable doubt.
leM everyone will
Uia State Council Defense asks .V
pertinent quest of a cow per _
“Whv does the own
Anit her to get on a railroad track a J
be killed . babies, meaJ
‘ for grown people, and h.des for ha,-
and leather an.l .nnnmerab e
”b„ articles used by mankmd. In
I” w of her usefulness. h« value and
would keep her off the
I railroad tracks. *
| In its campaign for the conserva
tion O s leather and food the State
Council will undertake to bring tie
matter to the attention of live stock
owners-including owners of hogs and
horseS as well as owners <> f c «ws ami
bee f cattle— throughout the State.
When a cow is killed on a railroad
track she. becomes a dead loss. Ihe
meat is lost, the hide is lost, the
money paid in damages by the rad
road is lost.
The late Sam Jones used to tell a
story about a boy hanging on to
tail of a bull yearling that was lead
ing him a merry go round. The boy’s
father threw up the window and lean
ed out and shouted: “Hey, Johnnie,
don’t you know you can’t stop that
yearling?” The boy turned his head
1 without loosing his hold and shouted
back: “No, but 1 can cheek him a
little.”
The Georgia State Council of De
fense does not expect to stop the iaie
-1 less habit of allowing live stock to
. walk on railroad tracks, but it ex
pects to check it considerably.
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KTM IN KNIH Bill
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Resolution Would Place Senate on
Record as Favoring League of Na
tions After Peace Is Signed.
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WASHINGTON, Dee. 18.—The sen
ate foreign relations committee todiuL
postponed final action on the
resolution which would place the sen
! [ ate on record as favoring consideiA
■ j tion of the league of nations after tne
| i peace treaty had been signed.
lIIL IS INWEQ
' TO PUNISH THEM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—A reso
-1 lution putting congress on record as
favoring trial and punishment of the
1 former kaiser was introduced in the
house today by Representative Bar
row of Pennsylvania.