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— — ■'■■■■• ROBERT L. DUKE. Editor and Publisher. >— — — {A. G. JONES Superintendent r - ■■■-—■- Entered at the poatoffice in Griffin, Georgia, as second-class mail matter. RATES OF ADVERTISING. and will be furnished upon application. WEEKLY, Per Year $1.50 Griffin, Giu Dec 27 1918 Paris has demonstrated that it is large enough to accommodate two presidents. o The Covington News thinks if that "fellow Mooney, out in California, who ■was convicted of trying to disperse a peace celebration by dynamiting the Celebratory, insists on being hanged he should be accommodated. o The Savannah Press has figured it ©ut that Christmas dinner this year wil cost $7.75, which is considerably more than it figured in 1917. Very "well, here's ten dollars —keep the change. It’s hog killing time in Georgia, but the weather has not been very fav orable for it so far. Many farmers as "well as quite a few city folk have had to feed their hogs on expensive •corn for several weeks because it was too warm to kill them. What Griffin an<l Spalding county need is a com munity cold storage plant where they can kill and keep their meat and oth er products at any season of the year. —1 o — The county commissioners of Cobb County have agreed to appropriate the num of $250 toward the erection of a monument in Marietta to the heroes ■of Cobb county in the war. Ry reso lution, the commissioners have re requested the mayor and council of Marietta to appropriate a like sum. Thus the noble and patriotic work in honor of Georgia’s brave boys goes on throughout the State.—Macon Ev ening News. . I I 0 The poor editor catches it on all Hides. The doctor buries his mistakes, and goes right on looking wise. The * lawyer covers his errors with a thick camouflage of technicalities that no body can see through, but the busy editor, hanging over the forms until ' he is ready to drop, goes to press per fectly sure that everything is in place only to find as he looks on the printed page that the type has been dancing a jig, and little mistakes that look as big as box car type stare him in the face in fiendish glee over his helpless ness. The Dawson News. i OCR EXEMPTION BOARDS. One special class of our citizens has done patriotic duty of the highest im portance. They have not had much publicity nor have they received very finich praise. We understand that they are now to be disbanded in their official capacity, and we feel that a ’Word of appreciation is due them. TtS; refer to our exemption boards. Their service has been a diffcult one, calling for quick discrimination and excellent judgment. Many of the men appointed have carried out the ■work at the sacrifice of their own pri vate interests. They have had to deal With men of every kind, rich and poor t—the patriotic, the slacker, the con scientious objector. ’ & ! Yet how little criticism of then! there has been—how few accusations of unfairness! The overwhelming ma jority of these men have performed their duty with strict honesty, great fairness and infinite patience and Jcindness. Many young men are grate ful to the members of their exemption board for fatherly interest and kind advice. The influence of the boards has been strongly for good. The nation owes a debt of grati tude to these real and unostentatious patriots. RECLAIMING WASTE LANDS. At the close of the civil war the United States possessed a western public domain which seemed almost boundless in extent. Many of the soldiers, accustomed by their military experience to an out-of-doors life, felt the call of the land. In large numbers they took up government claims and devoted them selves to a farming life. Our great army, also coming back from a vigorous out-of-doors life, is likely to feel the same call. Secretary Lane, realizing that we have not the desirable public lands of forty-three years ago, wisely proposes the reclamation of waste lands owned by the government, to furnish the soldiers with the opportunity of be coming farmers or fruit-growers. The secretary states that there are over two hundred million acres of waste land in the United States ca pable of such transformation. They consist of arid lands requiring irrigation for fertility, swamp lands requiring drainage, and cut-over for est areas, needing further clearing. Bringing these lands to usefulness would require a large expenditure of money, but under good administra tion would give an immediate oppor tunity for labor, and would eventually provide many thousands of soldiers with their own farms. It would also add materially to the national wealth. If he confers a ben efit to humanity who ‘‘makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before,” certainly a plan which makes land hitherto useless grow valuable products also benefits humanity. THE SPIRIT OF CHRISMTAS Tomorrow is a day commemorativi of the Christ. It is a celebration of a great event. It is a reminder of a lofty life. It is an inspiration to bet ter living. Every day ini the year and every year in a century and every century in a cycle of time, and every cycle in the never-ending eternity should be full of the Christmas spirit. Men should not take on a supply of love for one day and dispense with that great ingredient of human happiness for the other days of the year. The celebration of Christmas does one little or no good unless the heart is filled with the spirit of Christmas. The man who carries narrowness anti selfishness and greed and debauchery into the celebration of Christmas gets nothing out of the day except narrowness land selfishness and greed and debauchery. The man who loads up on the Christmas spirit of love - on this day gets everything out of the day that is good and noble and up lifting. Tomorrow is the day of service. The lowly Nazarene went about doing g-obd His followers today are falling short of the real lesson of His life if tin v fail to follow’ in that one great and overshadowing feature of His life while on this earth. *a kind word, a simple gift to the poor, a word of cheer to the sorrow ing and the afflicted, an outstretched hand to the needy, a soothing touch to the sick, a gentle warning to the sinful these are some of the things that make Christmas a time of happi ness and a benediction to the world. The day may never dawn when the spirit, of Christmas and the true les son of the dav we celebrate will take *■ hold of the hearts of the world over on every day of the year, but it is a great goal to which we may direct our efforts. No greater work can possi bly engage the attention of men and women and children the world over than that of bringing all human lives to that point where they will be full of the true spirit of Christmas. No better way can there- be to put this spirit into the hearts of the people than by all the churches calling their people to service on Christmas day ami making the sanctuary more than ever the rallying point for this great work. There will be difficult.\ in resolving to get on the water wagon this year. Your only trouble wil be that you will nrobablv find it crowded. SYLOES IN AMERICA. Syloism is the greatest modern sav ing system ever yet communicated to the American farmers. It saves the bargaining for stock feed during the winter months by saving and trans forming into exceptionally invigorat ing food the supplies given off the land during the summer. It will not exhaust its capacity during the win ter unless the possessor has an enor mous pasture of stock. In that eas the maintaining of two syloes will, by far, prove the economy and conveni ence of these “hold uvei'’ barns by cylindrical form. The present flourishing field of these I instruments is in Illinois, lowa and the western States. Their origin was) in the ever-thrifty European fields during the period closing the middle ages. Economy was then the key note of soil propaganda just as it is now. Once found, it is discovered to be not only an advantage but a ne cessity. The ancient builders of these barns constructed them of wood and placed them separate from his barn. Today they are made of stone, cement and wood and are attached to the barn so that in many cases stock are fed di rectly from them. Syloes are a saving to the farmer in money, time and labor and he se cures everything and wastes nothing, from the smallest produce of his soil by storing it into these sour vats. Q The first Christmas song was one of peace and good will. The message comes with added power to the world today. The horrors and heartaches) of war are not many days in the past? There are many wounds which are; yet unhealed, but these things add to the blessedness of the peace which has : been ushered in. The world should not fail to fitly celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace. — o In our moment of rejoicing for the boys- who will return to their homes and loved ones, let us cast a look to ward Him who holds the souls of the fallen who will not return and whose glittering valor rests alone on the simple band of his mother’s, his fath er’s his sister's or his brother’s arm in form of a golden star. 0 Now that the stringyness of eating is renewed let us hope that the ser vice will fry up some- Spagetti a la Talian rather than Kraut ach Sour mir Hun. Or even an unwound on ion would suffice to obliterate the hungyy, hunnish, humbuggishness of edorous cabbage shrapnel. o - The city council of Dublin, Ga., has placed another star in its crown by appropriating six thousand dollars for the purpose of increasing the salaries of the teachers in the public schools of that thriving and progressive mu nicipality, and set a splendid exam ple' for other cities to follow. ■ —o— It certainly takes nerve for a visi tor, uninvited in the first instance, to make a second visit without an invi tation. Yet this is what the flu is do ing throughout the country. o CATARRH CANNOT BE ([RED with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot ream the seal of the disease. Catarrh is a ■ local disease, greatly influenced by constitutional conditions, and in order to cure it you must take an internal remedy. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was prescribed by one of ’he best physicians in this country for years. It is composed of some of the best blood purifiers. The perfect combination of the ingredients in Hall’s Catarrh Medicine is what pro- ; djlk't’S wonderful results in ca tarrhal conditions. Send for testi monials, free. KJ. CHENEY A CO.. Props., Toledo, O. All druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. How He Ended Kidney Trouble. "1 had a severe attack of kidney trouble and for three weeks could not get out of doors and scarcely out of bed," writes C. E. Brewer, Village Springs, Ala. "Could not bend over at all without the most excrutiating pains. I purchased a bottle of Foley Kidney Pills. Was relieved after first few doses and continued their use un til completely cured. I consider Fo ley Kidney Pills the best kidney rem edy in the world. No recurrence of my trouble." Sold everywhere.—Adv. Father may or may not have been | remembered Christmas, but he will i now be remembered with the Christ mas bills. —— O “Christmas comes but once a year,”; and very fortunately Christmas bills 1 follow the same custom. -w’ < ’ — ; O Griffin observed Christmas in a quiet and appropriate manner. o It was a fair Christmas, and as we predicted a dry Christmas. FATHER IS DROWNED EN ROUTEFORSANTA TRIES TO CROSS STREAM FOR! TWO SISTERS-IN-LAW WHO 1 WERE CARRYING PRESENTS I FOB LITTLE ONES. i MACON, Dec. 26.—Responding to j a signal from his two sisters-in-law’ to ferry them across the Ocmulgee river at Dame’s Ferry yesterday morning, J. W. Barron, aged 35 years, a well known planter of Jones county, was carried to his death in the swift current of the river when his small boat was capsized in mid-stream. Mrs. A. H. Broach of this city, and Mrs. C. G. Hodge, her sister, whose husband is in the army in France, .were on the river bank trying to get across to spend Christmas Day with Mr. and! Mrs. Barron, according to a previous engagement. REV. SIWONS MTM 81 HIS CONCBEGITION Showing They Are Keeping Tab on Him Parishioners of Baptist Church Present Pastor With Watch. Rec. J. E. Sammons, the popular pastor of the First Baptist church, was watched by his congregation dur ing the holidays. His parishioners kept an eye on him and noticing that his pocket timepiece was not as hand some as they desired him to possess, they presented him with a beautiful open face gold watch as a Christ mas present, in appreciation of his services and their warm personal feel ing for him. Anil it all came about so unexpect edly that Mr. Sammons was over come with emotion and appreciation. The pastor noticed that an unusually large congregation was present at prayer services Wednesday night, but he had no idea what it all meant un til Chas. S. Westbrook arose and in troduced Judge Lloyd Cleveland, who presented the valuable gift and made an eloquent presentation speech. Mr. Sammons expressed his sincere appreciation for the kind remem brance and was, showing his lovely present to admiring friends Christ mas and the day following. In extending our most cordial CHRISTMAS GREETINGS we hope that this New Year will bring to all the world PERPETUAL PEACE and the BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY. STRICKLAND- CROUCH I COMPANY. FINE CHRISTMAS TIM EJJOfEO 81MERMNTS Following Great Rush. Business is Suspended and Griffin Spends a Quiet Christmas. The merchants report a record breaking Christmas trade. The rain previous to Christmas threatened to play havoc with business, but Monday and Tuesday proved pleasant days and great crowds came here to trade with home merchants. All the stores used extra clerks and report the big gest holiday trade in many years. Following the great rush the first of the week, the city closed up shops and spent a quiet Christmas Wednes day. There were untoward events, everything passing off nicely. There was a noticeable absence of the usu al displays of fireworks and less pop ping of guns than in many years past. Business was resumed as usual Thursday morning and in a few days merchants will begin the annual stock taking, making preparations for the new year. MAN AM TWeTHILDREN KIItEO 18 AUTO MISHAP BRISTOL, Tenn., Dec. 26.—Charles 0. Godsey and three small children were killed last night when his au tomobile turned turtle on Bluff City pike at Orway. The bodies were found early today. MR. RILEY JONES WEDS MISS MARY FRANCIS PEEK Mr. William Riley Jones and Miss Mary Francis Peek, both of Griffin, were united in marriage Christmas morning at 9:30 o’clock. The cree mony was performed by Rev’V. E. Summons at the Baptist pastorium on West Poplar street. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are popular among a wide cir cle of friends and start life’s journey together under the brightest aus- Hog Killing Time We have everything you will need. Butcher Knives, Sticking Knives, Skinning Knives, Sausage Mills, Sausage Stuffers, Meat Cutters, Lard Cans and Roasters. PERSDNS-HAMMOND HDN. CO. GRIFFIN, - - - GEORGIA. “If it’s Hardware, We Haie it.” it bolsheviki now restoring - ORDER IN RUSSIA ■ TIME SINCE FALL OF CZARBO.'I. IT IS DECLARED. g LONDON. «M.li«>- that the Bolsheviki, ‘ a ] declaration that ! now supported by many of then lot I mer opponents, are effing real e- ’storation of order m Russia is co - gained in the current issue new Statesman. ■ I The newspaper is regarded as a so ’ 1 ber publication with a large contnbu- \ I tion among the Liberals. The article has undoubtedly height- > ened the impression that the lull truth has not yet come out in Russia. 1 Order is more thoroughly re-estab- 5 fished in Russia now than at any time % ’ since the- fall of czardom, the paper declares. ARMENIANS FAVOR GREEK CLAIMS ON CONSTANTINOPLE ATHENS, Dec. 24.—More than one hundred and fifty thousand Armenians . | and a hundred thousand Jew’s express cd themselves in favor of Greek claims of possession of Constantinople and Smyrna, it was learned here. Y oung . Turks are continuing their attack on ’ the Greeks, the latter being killed and wounded nightly. DELCO-LIGHT The complete Electric Light and Power Plant Runs the washer. Turns the wringer. A real help for the housewife. IjII, i- { •-*■ — - ►'••*-•*. ; T2bA Tl- T'y'vj (>’ -■ - ■[ ll I GEO. SCII’LE, JR., Telephone No. 95 Griffin Ga.