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THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
"There is a better thing than the
observance of Christmas Day—
and that is keeping Christmas.
The spirit of Christmas ia so
fine and so big, so geaerous, that
we surely know what it should
he.
The greatest joy ia life is in
contributing to the happiness of
some other individual—to the boy
or girl, or the needy and desti
tute.
A miser is the most pitiful ob
ject in the whole world, the most
loveless and wretched of God’s
ertiatures. He has stifled the Crea
tor’s purpose in giving him life
and has ceased to grow.
While there are few misers, it
is also true that slowly and sure
ly there is u gradual awakening
to the fact that Christmas means
more than the giving of presents;
that it means a fitness between
the gift and the giver’s mode of
living; that we give with common
sense and out of the fullness of
our hearts.
The Ideal Christmas should em
body the cheer and good will of
the English Yuletide with the
charm of the German celebration
and yet be thoroughly American
in its application.
Let us give out of the fullness
of our hearts appropriate and
useful gifts to our immediate
families, to our dearest and best
friends.
Christmas without toys would
be very sad to the little folks and
this part of the program should
never be changed.
We will remember our dozens
and hundreds of relatives, friends
and acquaintances with an ap
propriate message of good fel
lowship.
We will try to trim our lamp so
that it will give less smoke and
more light; to make a grave for
ugly thoughts and a garden with
an open gate fsr kindly feelings.
Remember that the biassed life
which began in Bethlehem nine
teen hundred years ago is the
•mage of- the brightness and eter
nal love.
yotr can keep Christmas.
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WHEN THE MOON HIDES
THE SUN.
A total eclipse of the sun is the
mqst spectacular display the skies
can show us, and in “The Golden
Bough,” Sir James Frazer tells
of a man’s early efforts to placate
the heavens when the sun Was
hidden.
The Ojibways shot fire tipped
arrows at the sky, hoping to re
kindle the sun’s dying light.
The Chilcotin Indians leaned on
staves and walked in circles till
the eclipse was over, believing
apparently, that they could sup
port the failing steps of the sun
aa he trod his weary round.
In the basin of the Orinoco riv
er there were tribesmen who
buried firebrands because, they
said, if the sun were to be extin
guished all fire on earth would
be extingished with him except
such as was hidden from his
sight.
These ceremonies the medicine
men prescribed, and the early
peoples of the earth believed their
men of medicine implicitly.
And modern man?
No less a trusting creature.
It is predicted now than on the
24th of January next the sun will
be eclipsed; that the eclipse will
cut a narrow path across the
North Atlantic, and that for peo
ple living in this arc the sun
will be completely hidden.
So bold is the modern medicine
man that he dares foretell the ex
act fringe of this eclipse.
And we believe MnL
Here is the moon, some two
hundred thousand miles away,
and the sun no end of millions
more.
Here are all manner of intricate
computations by which it is fig
ured just when an eclipse will
come and just what corners of the
earth will see it—computations
not in the least bit understood by
one man or woman in a million.
Yet thousands of good people
»re convinced that their soothsay
ers will not fail them.
We live in an age when mere
man predicts his miracles, and the
prophet, no longer relying on a
four leafed clover and a rabbit’B
foot, performs his work with bet
ter tools.
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WIT AND WISDOM
FROM THE STEPPES.
If you are afraid of the wolf,
don’t go into the forest.
Men carry their superiority in
side; animals outside.
When money speaks, truth
keeps silent.
Should a peasant become a
landlord he will flay the peasants.
Today’s instalment of this se
ries of presentations of the pro
verbs of the Various peoples is
devoted to proverbs from Russia.
Time does not bow to you, you
must bow to time.
If all fools wore white caps vie
should look like a flock of sheep.
Trust in God, but mind your
own business.
Measure thy cloth ten times,
thou canst cut it but once.
If you be a cock, crow; if a
hen, lay eggs.
A great head has great cares
The greatest king must at last
be put to bed with a shovel.
Seven never wait for one.
The burden is light on the
shoulder of another.
Pray to God, but keep rowing
to the shore.
Better under the beard of the
old, than the whip of the young.
The future belongs to him who
knows how to wait.
Select your wife with your
ears rather than with your eyes.
There is only one wicked wo
man in the world, but every hus
band thinks it is his wife.
A woman laughs when she cam,,
and cries when she wishes.
The first wife is from God,
the second from man, the third
from the
Wash a pig as much as you
Hke, tt wttlalways go into the
mud.
The seller can manage with one
eye, the buyer requires a hundred.
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Of course balloon pants may
be stylish and all that, but you
can’t deny that they look funny
when the wind gets up them.—
Macon Telegrnph.
Why be surprised that women
thought less of the ballot after
getting it? That’s the way they
are about husbands.—Associated
Editors (Chicago.).
Let’s not fight for more liberty
until we learn to handle what
we’ve got.—Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Record.
If at 15 be likes to say 'wo
men instead of “girls" he is de-
Hm mam m u;- sign
“TURBULENCE IN EGYPT EX
PRESSES TRANSITION TO
NEW IDEALS,’’ SAYS
COLLEGE PROFESSOR,
Egypt, for the first time in
her centuries of varied history,
is in a state of transition to the
modern, dropping the shackles
of her past and seeking to start
life anew.
Robert S. McClenahan, dean of
the American university at Cairo
and for more than 35 years an
educator in Egypt, pointed in a
recent address to this transition
as the cause for the recent sput
tering of a flame of nationalist
feeling that has seethed for years.
Mr. McClenahan is in the Unit
ed States to confer with interests
associated with the university—
men whose efforts joined with
groups in many cities to estab
lish the institution in 1916. ft
<4 The affair in Egypt is not re
bellion; I see it as the turbulent
condition of a people who are
modernizing at last,” Mr, Mc
Clenahan said.
Britain’s Entry in 1882.
“British first entered Egypt in
1882 to quell a rebellion and
bloody argument with Turkey.
It was the understanding of a
great many people that within
a few years, with the restoration
of order, the British would with
draw. They have been 42 years
policing Egypt.
“The Khedive of Egypt was de
posed by British proclamation in
1914. His uncle became sultan—
a new title. Upon his death an
other member of the family be
came sultan, and in 1922 the
sultan was proclaimed king, the
A man was arguing that Aber
had no sense of humor,
and instanced a case where a man
entered a cigar shop and was told
by the dealer that if he bought
1.000 cigars of a certain brand he
would get a present of a hand
painted dinner service, if 2,000 he
would get a gold watch, and if
5.000 a grand piano.
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I smoke the 6,000 I shall probably
get a harp.
This story was told to a man in
Aberdeen and it did not raise a
smile. Two days afterwards the
Aberdonian called upon the story
teller and said, “I see that joke of
yours. It would be so much eas
ieh to carry a harp than a grand
piano. If
The wife of a village! - in Poitou
became ill, and presently fell into
a tr&nce, which Received even the
physician, so that she was pro
nounced dead and duly prepared
for burial. Following the local
usage, the body was wrapped in
a sheet to be borne to the burial
place. . on— the.. shoulders- - of.™ -four
men chosen from the • neighbor
hood.
The procession followed a nar
row path leading across the fields
to the cemetery. At a turning, a
thorn tree stood so close that one
of the thorns tore through the
sheet and lacerated the woman’s
flesh. The blood flowed from the
wound, and she suddenly aroused
to consciousness.
Fourteen years elapsed before
the good wife actually came to
her deathbed. On this occasion,
the ceremonial was repeated. And
now, as the bearers of the body
approached the turn of the path,
the husband called to them:
u Look out for the thorn tree,
friends. M
veloping normally. — Baltimore
Sun.
Modern version: Let me vamp
in a car by the side of the road.—
Baltimore Sun.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
first king Egypt had had in cen
turies.
“The proclamation of the Brit
ish declared Egypt independent.
There were four conditions, how
ever, and upon these hatred has
fed itself,”
These reservations, he said,
were settlement of the control of
the Sudan; clearance of a public
debt, held principally by British,
of about 91,000,000 pounds; guar
antee of safety for foreigners in
Egypt, and British control of all
land necessary to communication
with the far east. This involved
the Suez canal, army and naval
bases and wireless stations.
WHO'S WHO
,u TH C ?AVi 5 NEWS
JESSE HOUGHTON METCALF
The man who will step into the
senate March 4 as Rhode Island’s
new member in the upper house,
started life as a wool sorter in
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Now, a millionaire, he is de
voting his time to politics and
many charities and philanthro
pies.
He is Jesse Houghton Metcalf.
Metcalf was born in Providence,
R. I., Nov. 15, 1860. He is a re
publican. Although he has held
many minor appointive offices his
election to the senate gives him
his first real important
He has made many important
to charitable and educational
institutions. The beautiful Me
morial Hall, a part of the Rhode
Island School of Design, is one
monument to his philanthropic
spirit.
CAL WON’! GO 10
THEATRE; SO THE
Washington, Dec. 11.—While
President and Mrs. Coolidge arc
abstaining from attendance at
theatrical performances, some of
the troupes which visit Washing
ton are carrying the theatre to
the white house.
The first of these, an artist of
stage magic, yesterday afternoon
moved to the executive mansion
with a large van and 20 members
of his company, entertaining Mr.
and Mrs. Coolidge for an hour in
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the east room, while geese, pig
eons, ducks and rabbits flocked
and fluttered about.
President Coolidge showed his
enjoyment of the performance
even when the magician took n
watch presented to him by the
Massachusetts legislature and ap
parentlystruck it a solid blow
with a hammer. The president
was relieved, however, when the
watch was recovered from a loaf
of white house bread.
GIVES TWO FRIENDS
SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS
AS CHRISTMAS GIFT
Mrs. R. 0. Moore, of LaGrange,
and J. T. Pennington, of Hollon
ville, have been presented with
a year’s subscription to the Semi
Weekly News as a Christmas gift
by Mrs. Georgia Huff, of Six
teenth street.
Mrs. Huff is a great admirer
of the paper, thinks it makes a
very appropriate present.
Alexander Means, a professor
of Emory university (Ga.), was
the discoverer of electricity in
1841, lighted a lamp and ran a
small toy car with the power he
generated, which was two years
before Thomas Edison was born.
the Wanskuck
mills near his
home to learn
the wool indus
try His ap
p r e n t i c eship
served he went
to Yorkshire
college, Eng
land, to study
textile manu
facturing.
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FACTS ABOUT
GEORGIA
The first Sunday school in the
world was originated in Savan-
50 years before Robert
Raikes’ great movement in Lon
don.
Blind Tom, the great world
wide blind negro pianist, was born
in Georgia and raised by the
Bethune family near Milledgeville.
Coal is mined in Dade, Walker
and Chattooga counties; supply
estimated to be' 920,000,000 tons,
which would require 1,500 years
to mine.
Wesleyan Female College, at
Macon, was the first college in
the world to be chartered for the
graduation of and granting dip
lomas to women.
The wife of Robert Goulding,
of Georgia, was sewing on her
own machine (1844) two years
before Howe and Thermonier ap
plied for patents.
The first ice-making machine
was made in Columbus, the
tion of Dr. John Gerrie, in 1850.
His patents were filed in
The first steamer to cross
Atlantic ocean was the
nah,” which sailed from
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SAVINGS BANK OF GRIFFIN
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Thursday, December II, 1924.
nah, Ga., May 26, 1819, and land
ed in Liverpool June 20, the same
year.
The first cotton gin was made
by Eli Whitney at Augusta at the
suggestion of a Mrs. Hillhouse.
The brush was invented by Mrs.
Nathaniel Greene in 179^.
Dahlonega, Ga., gets its name
from the Indian meaning “yellow
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money, A government (U. S.)
mint was established there in
1838 and continued until 1861.
During its operation there were
coined 1,318,748 pieces of gold,
valued at $6,115,569.__ .
Railroads insist that employes
watches do pot vary more than 30
seconds a week.