FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 12, 1924
What's Going
GUY FAWKES
CUSTOM—
EGYPT—.
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On in World
BY CHARLES P. STEWART
NEA Service Writer
Just before each Parliament
meets in London, a lot of offi.-ials
in funny old clothes like the kind
people wore 318 years a<ro,''ran
sack the big building where the ses
sions are held, looking for infernal
machines.
King James I started this custom.
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Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes et al. lad decided!
to blow up Parliament, and King
James with it, for he was going to
be ther e on the opening day, to de
liver his royal message. They
smuggled a great store of gun
powder (there was no TNT in
those days) into a cellar under the
Parliament houses and had every
thing all ready,
But at the last minute they were
discovered.
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Royal Orders
It was a narrow escape, however.
The king gave orders that never
again m,ust Parliament meet—at
any rate when royalty was going to
be present—without a preliminary
search of th e premises for high
explosives.
Through all the years this order [
always has been carried out religi
ously.
In a couple of cent irks the offi
cials got' over their nervousness and
didn’t expect to find anything but
they' looked anywav. It was a
habit they couldn’t break.
When Parliament met Dec. 9, 4 his
year, however, for once r was con
siderably more than mere habit.
It was a real search, with a fine
tooth comb, too.
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Egypt
England is having with
Egypt, which wants more freedom,
whereas England’s plan is to take
away Some of what she has already.
Lord Allenby is British “high
commissioner” in Egypt. A compe
tent man, he knows what’s going on
there. So when the London govern
ment got word from I’m a few
days ago of an Egyptian plot he’ had
discovered to kill King George and
all available cabinet members, lords
and commons, it scared the authori
ties.
The attempt, according t< Lord
Allenby, was to be made at the opn
ing of Parliament.
Parliament opened according to
schedule but there was nothing per
functory about the search this time.
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Well Guarded
The king drove from his palace
to th e Parliament houses under a
huge bodyguard. Ex-jerf gftnpjen
of tested loyalty and courage sur
rounded Queen Mary, the Prime
of Wales and other members of the
royal family. The cabinet members
were similarly guarded. Some hun
dreds of Egyptian residentyor visi
tors in London are under surveil
lance or locked up on suspicion.
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Popularity
Congress shows no intention of
doing much this session except ap
propriate money, and as little as
possible of that.
Apparently the lawmakers are be
ginning to get the idea that the
president is popular— and the last
election seems to have demonstrat
ed that he is popular—principally
because he’s so very economical.
Being popular is a large part of a
politician’s business and congress
men are politicians. If the presi
dent can be popular by being eco
nomical, why can’t they, too?
thereby getting re-elected. That s
To Sure
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Huge Loan to „
Power Company '
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tinued, “that struggled ..long foij
twelve of fourteen years not earn-|
ing enough to meet its m ods, ham- I
pered and getting nowhere. M< re j
power was needed in the territory 1
than it’s equipment could rurnish,
but it couldn’t get any more equip
ment couldn't enlarge its plant, be
cause it’s earnings w r re so poor
that no hanker or bonding 1 bouse
would underwrite it's securities.
“Now look at the change which
fourteen months of fair trfehtd w'A
have brought. In September of laijt
year The Public Service CorrpfF
sion, granted the company a 19 per
cent increase in its wholesale power
rate, after the General Manager, L.
A., McGraw had exjjlr.ined to his
wholesale customers —large inndus
trial consumers —that Hey womci
ha ve to consent to tie increase or
all of Macon’s business interests
would wither, together on the same
bus’S.”
“ Within fourteen months after
the increase went into effect," put
ting the company on its feet -for
the first time financially, it was
able to borrow $2,500,000. Tne
loan has just been announced, this
money, will go into additional equip-
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But He Found Three When Fie Returned!
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Wilbur Tuncon, •. neinuati bak
, cry driver, left home nt 3 a r.i.,
; the father of twiic The stork had
1 laid two visits' to his house within
an hour. But when he came back
he found three instead of two. The
ment, sub-stations, transmission
. lines and the bthef appara us requir-
ed to give Macon a supply of 4.1,-
000 horse power. This will be en
ergy enough to furnish the town
when its magnificent dream of 100,-
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last <rf the triplets arrived while
he was op his route. So, if Wilbur
got his orders mixed up that morn
ing, the customers really will have
to excuse him. Here the babies
are seen with their mother, Mrs.
000 population has bee n reali-.ed.”
“It does this not onl.v for Macon
itself, but it puts the Macon terri
tory in position to evand eco
nomically, to bring naw industries
here with payrolls and people and
Clara Duncan. They were less
than 21 hours old when this pic
ture was taken. The Duncans now
, have seven youngsters l —all boys.
new money. It means Hint Thomas
i ville, Forsyth, Jackson, Griffin,
Monticello, Hampton, Thi. aston
- and Jonesboro will be able to <lo
J the same thing. It means expan
l sion, growth, prosperity for a vvholc
section in the very heart of Geor
gia.
“And what did the rate in
crease really amount to?
“A fractional increase in the pow
> er bill of the town’s largest con
sumers, the very industries which
wjll now profit from the anticipated
expansion. •
“The retail rates for home and
the like were not changed. The in
crease enabled the company to stand
on an equal footing with other enn
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ing for a loan, \
“By that one act, that one in
crease which was shown by the
facts of twelve- ye«H er-wwe-oi-
to be nccespary. Pirg''
public service comipwpjn rx‘ s T ow
&cn to Havr done a fninly enec /
tivc thing for the state’s advance
ment.
“The commission is to be con
gratulated and so are the people
of Macon, who constenied to the
increase."
