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THE DALTON CITIZEN. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 192L.
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DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1921.
Folks who are always asking favors are seldom
willing to grant any. _ ^
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Maybe by this time next year father will have
his Christmas bills paid.
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A Christian Christmas in Dalton.
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Santa came and Christmas was celebrated, but
the happiest part of Dalton’s holiday season was
the knowledge that every empty stocking that
could be found, was filled, and in every depleted
larder provisions were stored.
If there is a family in need, that for any rea-
son was overlooked, their wants will be taken
care of.
Jt is in a spirit of thanksgiving, rather than of
praise, that we speak of the charity work done,
for we realize we can give, only that which we
have been fortunate to receive.
Through The Citizen the heads of ■'{he organ
ized charity work wish to thank each donor for
his gift, and we hope the joy of giving equaled the
comfort their donations brought.
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We love “Marse” Henry Watterson most of all
because he wasn’t a hypocrite.
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Editorial heading in Columbus Enquirer-Sun
says, “Chicago Will Be Dry.~ When?
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Whoa, Emma!
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Press dispatches have recently been stating
that Emma Goldman was trying to work her
way back into the United States, from which
country she was deported a little more than
two years ago. The latest reference to the
notorious anarchist and mischief-maker that
we have seen comes from Riga, and quotes her
as saying:
‘T am not returning to the United States as
a prodigal daughter throwing herself upon
its mercy. While in some cases I have dis
agreed with the Soviet government, my stay in
Russia has only served to convince me that I
have always been right, and that anarchy is
the only sound system.”
This seems to imply that Emma expects to
come back all right, as she speaks of “return
ing” as if it were merely a matter of her own
choice. But she will be disappointed. Even
if she had ever had any chance of being ad
mitted, the above quoted little speech would
be sufficient to keep her out. Her only chance
to come back would be through the United
States courts, and she would have trouble in
f etting into the jurisdiction of these, in the
rst place, and even if she did get a hearing all
that would be necessary to throw her out
would be to confront her with her little
speech at Riga.—Albany Herald.
Old Emma is not going to get back here very
soon. If the soviet government of Russia is right,
which is nothing more or less than an anarchist
form of government, and Emma likes it so well,
why does she want to return to the United States?
It must be that the Bolshevists want her to re
turn as a missionary of sovietism which has made
Russia a vast domain of starvation. Her industry
is paralyzed and utter destruction is the order of
the day.
No, Emma, we don’t want you back over here.
We have Tom Watson, and he is quite enough of
your sort for the present.
Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
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As showing the high esteem in which Woodrow
Wilson is held by the American people it is only
necessary to point out that the membership of
the Woodrow Wilson Foundation is growing a
great deal faster than it was expected. The re
sults are most gratifying to the promoters.
There is to be no drive for funds. The friends
of international peace and good will are back of
the movement. A million dollars or more is the
sum to be raised, and is to be used for the pur
pose of endowing awards for “meritorious ser
vice to democracy, public welfare, liberal thought
and peace through justice.”
The movement is endorsed by the leading
clergymen of this country, because the principles
involved are the very essence of Christianty.
Peace, good will, service, public welfare, liberal
thought and peace through justice, are the prin
ciples for which Woodrow Wilson has all but
given his life.
Says the Savannah Press:
Leading clergymen of many denominations
and from all parts of the country have accept
ed membership on the Church Committee of
the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, according
to plans announced for the co-operation of the
churches in a national movement to raise a
fund of $1,000,000 or more to endow awards
for “meritorious service to democracy, public
welfare, liberal thought and peace 'through
justice.” The head of the committee, as an
nounced from he headquarters of the Founda
tion by Hamilton Holt, executive director, is
Dr. Frederick Lynch, secretary of the Church
Peace Union.
These will be asked to use their influence
to interest the. widest possible body of clergy
men of the country in the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation, according to Dr. Lynch. After
the opening of the campaign on January 16,
Dr. Lynch will call upon thousands of clergy
men to preach on a certain Sunday on Mr. Wil
son’s contribution to idealism in international
relationships. .
Dr. Lynch further comments upon the work,
stating specifically the aims of those promoting
the organization:
The movement to honor Mr. Wilson will
not take the form of a drive, said Dr. Lynch.
The whole spirit will be that of a free-will
offering. For those who want to make forever
memorable the work that Mr. Wilson did, the
opportunity is to be given by .the Foundation.
Campaign methods will not be necessary to
rally Americans to the support of an American
institution, created in honor of a great Amer
ican, and dedicated to the perpetuation of
American ideals. The organization has been
extended to the schools and churches on a
national scale simply to present to as many
people as possible the opportunity to share in
the founding of an institution that will play
a significant part in the world ? s progress
toward a higher civilization.
It is a great movement and one worthy of the
support of every patriotic American.
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the number in each state, are as follows: Ala
bama, two; Arkansas, six; Florida, five; Georgia,
eleven; Kentucky, one; Louisiana, five; Missis
sippi, fourteen; Missouri, one; North Carolina,
four; South Carolina, five; Tennessee, one; Texas,
seven; Virginia, one.
This is a shameful record, and one we sincerely
hope will he improved upon during the coming
year, but we have misgivings about it. If the
south does not stop lynchings very soon, the fed
eral government will, and all the protests of all
the southern people will not very much longer
deter federal legislation regarding the lynching
menace.
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There is no use arguing with a fellow who is
against school bonds. It is a waste of time.
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“Billy” Sutlive, of the Savannah Press, sent
us his picture for a Christmas present, and hanged
if it doesn’t look like the picture was taken in
jail—at least “Bill is enclosed” and he is on the
inside looking out. Nevertheless, we appreciate
his card and good wishes. He is one of the best
editors in Georgia—a king of optimists and good
cheer.
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“Marse” Henry Gone to His Reward.
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They shoot ’em down in Atlanta most every
day, and nobody is ever caught. What is the mat
ter with Atlanta? Where is that boasted Atlanta
spirit?
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The School Bonds.
BONDS
A" week from next Friday will be a momentous
day in Dalton. On that day the people will de
cide by their votes just what they are going to do
With their public school system—whether they
will go backward or forward.
Dalton has outgrown her school system, every
grade of which is over crowded. Neither pupil
nor teacher can have a square deal under such
conditions.
The people of Dalton, the great majority of
them, are in favor of the bond issue, and if .they
will only bestir themselves on election day all
will go well, but they must do this. Staying away
from the polls is just as harmful as voting against
the bonds. The friends of the issue must remem
ber this and act accordingly.
And another thing, it must not be taken for
granted that a bond issue will carry itself, no
matter how .popular it is. Work must be done
just the same as if there were determined, organ
ized opposition. Secret sniping can do a lot of
harm, and a? it is irresponsible it does not stop
to consider the -truth. Misrepresentation and
false propaganda are generally the instruments it
employs, and as falsehood usually travels with
winged swiftness, while truth limps on leaden
heels, it is most important that all people inter
ested in the success of the Dalton public schools
he alert and ever ready to do what they can to see
~ that the people go to the polls on January 6th and
vote for school bonds.
Don’t forget that there are some people who
will even vote against school bonds—some people
who are against everything—and they are to be
contended with when there is any forward move
ment on foot.-
Therefore it behooves the friends of the
schools to be industrious and persistent and to
remain that way until the election is over.
Dalton has a good school system and it should
not be permitted to become otherwise.
The best investment any community can make
is .in schools.
What would a community be without them?
Can you, can anybody, afford to be against
them? . ~
A vote against bonds is a vote against the
schools.
Fifteen million dollars were spent on roads in
Georgia during the year 1921. Within a few years
Georgia ns going to have a very fine system of
highways.
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The Mountains of North Georgia.
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Surrounding us, protecting us, and oftentimes
calling to us, are the mountains, and while most
of us love them, delight to gaze upon them, and
when possible answer their call with alacrity,
how many of us really appreciate these majestic
works of nature?
All of our lives we have lived in the foothills
and been able to feast our eyes upon the beauties
of. the rocks and trees that form the great moun
tainous outline against the western sky, and have
seen the sun rise over the blue line of the Cohut-
tas, but never have we tired of the magnificent
views created by changing lights and shadows as
the shafts of sunlight flood the wooded moun
tains. And never can we forget the pictures made
when the winter snows cap the hills, or there is
a summer rain on the mountains while the valley
waits for its refreshing drink.
As a people we are awakening to the fact that
the mountains are wealth, and each succeeding
year finds more of us thinking of Conservation of
the resources they hold. We are yearning that
fires should be checked; if possible, prevented.
We are coming to know the true beauty of the
holly and other evergreens that grow on the
mountain-sides; we are beginning to realize there
can be a scarcity of the hard woods even in the
densely wooded sections. If, knowing these
things, we lend our efforts to stop the wanton
waste of trees, encourage the persons who cut
timber, to the best advantage and harm not the
young growth, and make war on the -scalywags
who, through ignorance or deviltry, cut chestnut
or other trees to more easily gather their fruits,
then we may say we appreciate our mountains.
If, however, we do not use our influence for the
conservation of our forests, and encourage the
planting of trees to counterbalance the ones that
must be cut for industries, a few generations
hence North Georgia’s mountains will not Be the
playground in summer, the all-the-year back
ground of beauty, the stalwart protection they
are today,'and have been for years.
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Governor Hardwick may not so intend it, but
just the same his wholesale pardoning of criminals
is not going to do anything toward checking the
crime wave.
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The 1921 Lynching Record.
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Georgia still retains her disgraceful position
with reference to lynchings. Only Mississippi for
the year 1921 is ahead of her. The lawless element
seems to be in the saddle in this state, and it is
not any wonder when the recent history the state
has made is looked over. In the United States
senate is the representative of the - mobs and lynch
ers, and in the governor’s chair of the state is a
man who has just turned out of the penitentiary
an army of criminals as a “Christmas present.”
Such work as this is certainly most encouraging
and gratifying to the criminal elements.
When there is any doubt of a man’s- guilt he
should receive clemency, and if there is evidence
sufficient to convince that the criminal is repent
ant and intends to go straight the balance of his
life clemency is the right thing to grant, but the
wholesale pardoning of criminals is simply an
abuse of executive authority, and will not prove
good for the state.
According to information received at this office
there were sixty-three persons lynched in this
country in 1921. Sixty-two were in the south and
one was in the north. Of those lynched fifty-nine
were negroes and four were whites. Less than
One-third were lynched for the “usual crime.” So
here is to be seen just what mob law and lynching
will lead to. If people are lynched for one crime,
be it ever so unspeakable, soon it will lead to
lynching people for small misdemeanors and trivial
crimes.
The states in which lynchings occurred, and
The death of “Marse” Henry Watterson re
moves from life one of America’s most eminent
editors. He ranked with the greatest newspaper
writers of modern times, and perhaps was the
greatest of them all, because of his matchless per
sonality, originality and forceful way of express
ing himself.
In discussing public questions he never took
the round-about way. He shot straight. He de
spised pretense, hypocrisy and sham. He was the
foe of all kinds of sumptuary laws, which at this
time are working great harm in America, encour
aging, as they do, lawlessness in many forms.
Mr. Watterson was in his eighty-second year,
and his mind was vigorous, and shone with its
usual brilliancy to the last.
We mourn his passing more because there is no
one to take his place.
May his soul rest in peace.
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“Debs Given His Liberty.”—Headline. Now
that he’s got it, what’s he going to do with it?
—Macon Telegraph.
Abuse it, we suspect, just as he always has done.
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HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
where debts accumulate and men won’t pay.—
Augusta Chronicle.
How is this: “HI fares the land to hastening
Hi’s a prey, where debts accumulate and men
won’t either, pray—or pay ”
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A ten-year holiday for Senators Borah,
Reed, Pat Harrison and our own dear Watson
would help that much.—Macon. Telegraph.
An eternal holiday for the latter would not he
a bad thing. Ditto Reed. Borah and Pat Harrison
are not yet totally depraved, even if .they do talk
too much.
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If- the decree of fashion that skirts be made
longer is obeyed the fair, sex will be deprived
of visible means of support.—Augusta Chron
icle.
Has amnesia made you forget the disphanous
creations that used to entertain the drug-store
crowd? There wasn’t any low visibility then.
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If all the booze that has masqueraded as
Johnnie Walker and Haig & Haig this Christ
mas could be arrested for operating under
false pretenses, the sheriff’s office would be
fuller of liquor than it is now.—Bill Biffem, in
Savannah Press.
You mean fuller of poison, don’t you, Mr. Bif
fem?
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Bishop Alma White, head of the Pillar of
Fire denomination, places the responsibility
for women’s immodesty in dress squarely on
the cupidity of man. t)f course we knew they
were going to lay it at the door of man some
where along the line.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
The' truth of the business is the talk about
women’s clothes is far more immodest than the
clothes.
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Eugene- V. Debs and twenty-three others,
convicted of hindering the government during
the war with Germany, got Christmas par
dons. It does not lie within the power of
President Harding to appoint these men to
places in the United States Senate, or as gov
ernors of their various states, yet perhaps the
voters at home will attend to that.—Tifton Ga
zette.
The pardoning of Debs was a mistake in our
opinion, and a slap at the American Legion, as
weU as all other patriotic organizations. We
haven’t it in our heart to feel that clemency to an
unrepentant traitor is right, or even justified by
political expediency.
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The Dispatch has been a loyal defender of
the girl of today in all her efforts to improve
her beauty. But when with the paint brush
and the powder barrel she spreads on that
crust of which false faces are made, we “take
out” and quit. We have come to the conclu
sion that the fresh, pinkened cheeks that na
ture gave the maiden have more beauty than
any she can devise with the paint brush and
powder puff. If she wHl strive hard to keep
her cheeks cleanly—absolutely free from all
artifices, and then add” the frills of hair dress
ing and aH the dainties of dress in good taste,
she will have herself outclassed in real
womanly beauty. We do not expect them to
follow this suggestion. It is merely our opin
ion about the matter.—Cordele Dispatch.
Soap and water, properly used, with proper ex
ercise and proper food, and a correct mental atti
tude, will beat all the cosmetics ever compound
ed for making women beautiful.
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The White Hope.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
The golden dream will come true. The white
hope will be realized. Peace will yet enfold the
nations. Humanity will yet be bound together
with the holy bonds of brotherhood. Justice will
yet be made the foundation of government, and
love the law of the world.
The road of the ages has been a long and weary
one. It has lain through many a wilderness and
dipped into many a darksome vale and wound
through many a fearful jungle.
Men have divided themselves into clans and
imagined their interests apart and distinct. They
have thought that one clan could bring prosperity
to itself by bringing oppression to another. They
have thought the power of the sword supreme.
They have thought they could serve their own in
terest by ruining another. Always there have
been a few great minds that knew better—a few
great souls that realized the oneness of interest
and the oneness of humanity. These minds have
held the thought, and these souls the dream and
the vision of peace.
It is beginning to dawn upon the world-mind
that national lines are purely imaginary—that the
different nations are hut different members of the
same body. Also it is beginning to dawn upon the
world-mind that peace and security and prosperity
are not insured by battleships and immense armies
—that these insure nothing but jealousy and strife
and bloodshed.
Sometime the world-mind will realize that noth
ing that is unjust can endure; that nothing that
oppresses the many for the enriching or the glor
ification of the few is everlasting. The civiliza
tions of the past carried within themselves the
seed of decay, because they carried within them
selves the fatal virus of injustice.
Humanity learns slowly, but in tears; and some
time it will be clear to all minds that there are
no classes and no distinct interests, and that a
prosperity built upon destitution cannot continue.
JESSIE BAXTER SMITH.
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The Arms Conference.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
So after all there is to be a League of Nations
with the United States as a member. It is called the
“four-power league” because it only has four mem
bers now, Japan, France, England and the United
States. This league, considered from the stand
point of economic strength and man-power, is
one of the most powerful combinations the world
has ever known. The combined navies of these
four countries, after the scrapping of all the ships
provided for in the recent agreement, will be able
to dominate the world. As long as this'coalition
works for peace and justice, as long as racial dif
ferences do not cause a breach in the ranks of this
great union, we can expect to have a tranquil war
free world.
Of course it is a profound pity that we did not
go into the Wilson league so that instead of four
members we would now have almost fifty, an asso
ciation-of nations that would have combinedprac-
tically all the civilized peoples of the earth. The
danger now before us is the possibility that the
dismembered parts of the German Empire, Russia,
and a few minor countries may feel that the “four
power league” is a menace to their welfare and un
der the stimulus of that thought may form a third
league', or combine, that might destroy the peace
of the world.
Any way the die is cast. We are in a League
of Nations—have signed our name on the dotted
line of an agreement that is a stupenduous “en
tangling alliance.”
The impressive thing about all of this is the
futility of any man or set of men trying to hinder
a world movement. Under the leadership of the
“poison squad” of irreconcilable republican sen
ators the American people repudiated a great man
and a great idea. In their hour of triumphant hate
these senators thought they had discredited - Wil
son for all time and that the idea of a League of
Nations was dead. But it is not so. Wilson is
greater man than he was before and there is a
world movement toward individual and national
cooperation. It is cosmic in its nature, irresistible
in power, and it will yet overthrow all barriers
and restraint in such a way that aH the nations
of the earth will come together in one great family
and be at peace. GUS HALL.
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GHEERY LAYS
for DREARY DAYS
By JAMES WELLS, The Printer-Poet
Why They Suffer.
“Agriculture,” says a dispatch from Washington,
during the last year has suffered the worst de
pression in its history.”
The dispatch is in the form of an epitome of an
exhaustive report by Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace who says— -
“The purchasing power of 40 per cent of our
people (the farmers) represented as it is by the
exchange value of the crops they grow and the
live stock they produce, is considerably lower
than during the pre-war period 1910-1914.”
‘This,” Secretary WaHace goes on to say, “is
in large part responsible for the severe industrial
depression;” for, obviously, “when any consider
able group of our people suffer through economic
conditions, aH other groups must suffer with
them.”
Farm crops, the report continues—
have been selling for less than the actual cost of
production. They have been selling for very
much less, relatively, than other basic commod
ities. This is but another way of saying that the
Wages of the farmer are far lower now than
the wages of any other group. This has resulted
in a condition which, if continued, wiH, within
a relatively short period, impose a heavy burden
upon domestic consumers. The farmer cannot
continue to produce at a loss.
There seems to be a tendency to regard the
complaints and appeals which are being voiced by
the farmers and the people who speak in their be
half as simply a recurrence of grumblings which
have been heard from farmers in past periods of
depression.
“Now the truth is that we are passing through
the worst agricultural depression we have ever
experienced.
It is not simply a case of low prices for farm
products. We have seen low prices in times past.
The trouble is now that whereas prices of farm
products, speaking generally, are lower than be
fore the war, prices of the things the farmer must
pay for, including transportation, wages, taxes
and the loan of money, remain near the war
levels. Hence the purchasing power of the major
farm crops is lower than at any time in our his
tory.
“This condition is undermining agriculture, the
base of the pyramid which represents our national
life, and justifies the use of the most vigorous
means to cure it.”
This report is significant, first, in that it is a-
true statement of fact, so far as it goes; and, sec
ond, because it is a remarkable confession, from
the inside, of the failure of the republican admin
istration, not only to effect a “cure” of the con
dition, but even to attempt it!
Furthermore,it is a striking and bold indictment
of the policy to which the republican party stands
committed, for the condition it sets forth is un
questionably due very largely to our repudiation
of the principle of political, economic and com
mercial co-operation with the rest of the world.
The farmers of thh United States are suffering,
says Secretary Wallace, from the worst conditions
the history of agriculture—from conditions,
which, he says, “are undermining agriculture, the
base of the pyramid which represents our national
life”—but why?
And he says, very truthfully, that this condition
justifies the use of the most vigorous means to
cure it;” but he does not suggest the “cure.”
The truth of the matter is, the condition exists
because the pary to which Secretary Wallace be
longs has committed this country to an unscientif
ic, incongruous, unreasonable and utterly un
workable policy of isolation from and utter disre
gard for the affairs and welfare of the balance of
the world; and the only way under God’s heaven
“cure it” is to revoke that policy!
The action of the republican senate in repudiati
ng the Versailles treaty has cost the farming in
terests of the United States untold millions; it
administered a blow to agriculture fronti which it
will require years to recover, and it has levied
tax of not less than $50 on every bale of cotton
that the south has produced since the senate “got
even with Wilson,” by forcing the defeat of the
Versailles treaty.
The country is awakening to a realization of
this fact—the truth of which is emphasized by
this statement by the• secretary of agriculture-r-
nd to the further fact that, in absolute control of
every department of the government from cellar
o garret, the republicans nave done nothing thus
ir to remedv the situation by undoing the mis
chief they did in the repudiation of the Versailles
treaty.—Atlanta Constitution.
Playthings.
Oh, the little doll is lying
In a corner, all forlorn,
And the horn is mute which greeted
All who came on Christmas morn;
In the corner sits the tea-set
And old Santa in his sleigh,
For the kiddie has grown weary
Of the toys of yesterday.
All we, too, are only playthings—
Playthings in the hands of fate—
Using one which suits her pleasure
While thfe others idly wait.
Just a toy—a little bauble—
For a trace her joy and pride,
Then, in one of her caprices,
To be rudely thrown aside.
Sing a Song of Autumn.
Sing' a song of autumn,
Tramping o’er the lea,
Looking for a ’possum
Up a ’simmon tree.
—Athens Daily News.
Sing a song of autumn,
And the autumn thrill,
Tramping o’er the mountains
Hunting of a still.
—Dalton Citizen.
Sing a song of autumn,
With its golden hue;
Tramping o’er the kitchen
A-mixing home brew!
_ —Quitman Free Press.
Sing a song of autumn,
Shiners cut a dash
When the ’nooers catch ’em
A-mixing of a mash.
—Cedartown (Ga.) Standard.
Sing a song of shopping,
Ring the Christmas bell,
The bill collector’s coming;
He’U surely give us H- .
Piedmont (Ala.) Journal.
Sing a song of New Year— .
Resolutions rash;
In about four hours
AH have gone to smash.
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Holiday Song.
Home brew! Home brew
Stewing in the ceHar.
Home brew! Home brew
Makes a feHer mefler.
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Head and Foot.
Here’s just a piece of good advice,
If you’d not know defeat:
The feHow who would get ahead
Must first get on his feet.
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Not Always.
“The fates help those who help themselves,”
So goes the saying, brothers;
But not the guy that helps himself
To things that’s owned by others.
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That Christmas Racket.
I wish St. Nick,
On Christmas morn,
Would bring the kids
A noiseless horn.
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Go to It.
(Many high resolves and resolutions to do
better will be made New Year.)
Got a stunt you think you’ll do?
Go to it.
That’s the way to put it through—
Go to it.
Drive ahead with all your soul—
Shuck your coat and let ’er roll—
That’s the way to reach your goal—
. Go to it.
Think next year you’ll try to win?
Go to it.
Go ahead and try like sin.
Go to it.
Don't get cold feet in your shoes—
Trembling, fearful lest you lose;
You can win if you but choose.
Go to it.
No Empty Stockings in Atlanta.
‘Jimmy” Wells, of the; Dalton Citizen—the
printer-poet of Northwest Georgia—turns out a
lot of good verse. Recently Mr. Wells was moved
to consider the question of empty Stockings on
Christmas Day—and this was the result:
There’s a little empty stocking
' Hanging by the chimney place,
And a tear of little sorrow
Running down a childish face;
"And a little cry of anguish,
As he sees no-toy or drum,
Breaks forth from a little kiddie—
“Oh, Old Santa didn’t come!”
There’s a little empty stocking —
Hanging up beside the wall,
And a little girl is dreaming
Of a precious “sleepy doll.”
Oh, what bitter disappointment,
As she sheds a childish tear,
While her little red lips tremble:
“Dear Old Santa was not here.”
Oh, the little empty stockings
Through the land on Christmas morn!
When the w-hole -world is rejoicing
That the blessed Christ is born.
Let us fill the empty stocking
With the things the children love,
Spreading cheer and gladsome laughter
. In the name of Him above.
The Georgian believes Poet WeHs will be re
lieved and gratified to know that there will be no
empty stockings in Atlanta on Christmas morning.
We think that is literally true.
The Georgian’s Empty Stocking Fund—thanks
to the good people who subscribed it—has seen
to it. It’s the most tragic thing in childhood—an
empty stocking on Christmas Day.
Aren’t you glad. Atlantans, that there is not to
be even one in Atlanta this year?—Atlanta Geor
gian.
The writer of this column is indeed glad there
were no empty stockings in AtTantar—nor in Dal
ton either—thanks to “Empty Stocking Funds :
and if the effusion reprinted above was the means
of even one little stocking being filled the writer
feels amply repaid, and right here he wishes to
take the opportunity to thank The Georgian, and
particularly Jas. B. Nevin. for the many nice
things said about him and his verse from time u>
time in the columns of that-paper, as well as other
members of the state press who occasionally, copy
from this column. It is this need of appreciation
which sheds the sunlight of cheer over a writers
none too flowery pathway and gives inspiration
to do one’s best.
Bright Bits.
Gene Debs is for the open door.—Dallas Nev.s.
Where moonshine comes from is a secret still.-
New- York American.
Doesn’t freedom in Ireland make you feel wist
ful?—Wall Street Journal. . i-j
The Mad Mullah seems to have taken his last
death quite seriously.—Punch (London).
mosquito-
“Microscope reveals 22 teeth in
We believe it.—Asheville Times.