North Georgia citizen. (Dalton, Ga.) 1868-1924, December 29, 1921, Image 2

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Page Two THE DALTON CITIZEN. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 192L. Tbe Dalton Citizen . - - -- V. PUBLISHED EVENT THUMDAT. 8. SHOPS 8. HeOAXT Aaaeoiat* EdiWr Zditor OZUUI Organ of the United State* Circuit and District Oooria, Horthweoters division, Northern District of Georgia. OITICIAL ORGAN OP WHITPIELD COUNTY. Ose Tear Six Month* Fhree Months Term* of Subscription $1.*0 Payable in Advance Advertising Ratos on Application. Entered at ths Dalton, Ga., postoffice for transmission through the mails se second-dag* .matter. DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1921. Folks who are always asking favors are seldom willing to grant any. _ ^ VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS Maybe by this time next year father will have his Christmas bills paid. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS l&mM m jV. A Christian Christmas in Dalton. BONDS 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS We love “Marse” Henry Watterson most of all because he wasn’t a hypocrite. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS Editorial heading in Columbus Enquirer-Sun says, “Chicago Will Be Dry.~ When? VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS Whoa, Emma! BONDS 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. BONDS 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS There is no use arguing with a fellow who is against school bonds. It is a waste of time. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS “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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS “Marse” Henry Gone to His Reward. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS 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? VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS The Mountains of North Georgia. BONDS 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS The 1921 Lynching Record. BONDS 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. ♦ ♦ CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ “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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS 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 ” VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONOS 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? VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS 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. VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS SK**SKKX**«*X**XSS**** ♦ EXCHANGE OPINION * * * *x* ******************* ** 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. ***•*•' Holiday Song. Home brew! Home brew Stewing in the ceHar. Home brew! Home brew Makes a feHer mefler. ****** 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. «»#*** 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. ****** That Christmas Racket. I wish St. Nick, On Christmas morn, Would bring the kids A noiseless horn. ****** 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.