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DAILY TIME8-ENTERFRI8E, TH0MA8V1LLE, GEORGIA
SATURDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER ii, 1922
Christmas Tears
BY HENRY VAN DYKE
r E days returns by which we date our years;
Day of joy and giving—that means lore;
Day of the joy of living—that means hope;
Day of the Royal Child—and that day brings
To older hearts the gift of Christmas ears!
Look, how the candles twinkle through the tree.
The children shout when baby claps his bands.
The room Is full of laughter and of song!
Your lips are smiling, dearest—tell me why
Your eyes are brimming full of Christmas tears?
Was It a silent voice that joined the eong?
A vanished face that glimmered once again
Among the happy circle ’round the tree?
Was It an unseen hand that touched your cheek
And brought the secret gift of Christmas tears?
Not dsrk and angry like the winter storm
Of selfish grief—but full of starry gleams,
And soft and still that othres may not weep—
Dews of remembered happiness descend
To bless us with the gift of Christmas tears.
THE FAMILY WILL ENJOY S
SET! *
There's a Radio fhthusi
ast In every family thes«
days, and he’ll appreciate
And there should be a Radio Set In every home, as they're in
structive and amusing to th e entire family.
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WE SELL
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Syrup Cans
Lard Cans
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Feed Store
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KANSAS GOVERNOR TO URGE
ENACTMENT OF HIS PLATFORM
Topeka, Kan. Dec 22. (By Mail)—
In his message to Kansas legislature
which convenes January 9, Governor
elect Jonathan M. Davis will, he as-
serts, emphathize the main points of
the party platform on which he was
elected. Repeal of the Industrial
lourt law is one of the planks. It
fas a democratic platform and the
legislature is overwhelmingly repub
lican, the house 96 to 29; the senate
38 to 2.
Other points are: Reduction
taxes? abolishment of “many useless
boards and commissioners and
solidation of many others”; abolition
of the State Highway Commission;
place control of highway construct-
tion with boards of county commis
sioners; restore “home rule” to cities
in regulation of its public utilities
(powers now vested in the state pub
lic utilities commission) and passage
of an act creating a board of concili
ation and meditation with full power
to investigate, advise and recom
mend and give all said facts, advice
d recommendations to the public.
Announcement by the Stats Tax
Commission that it favors a state in
tax and will have a bill intro
duced in the legislature, has crested
much interest. Other important
measures in sight are:
List of child wslfars laws pre
pared by a commission appointed by
the state; revised edition of the Sts-
tues of Kansas; establishment
state grain warehouses; establish-
of farm marketing bureau;
codification end revision of state
school laws; adaption of state high
way system to be constructed by the
state and financed by $60, 000,000
bond isue defrayed by automobile
license revenue; reclassification ol
property for taxation, revision down,
ward of saleries of state officials.
The legislature is obligated through
adoption of the soldier bonus amend
ment last election, to vote $25,000,
bonds to pay this compensation
—$1 a day for each day in service.
Didn't Knew Hie Good Fortune.
“Mister," began the eeedy-looklni
nu, “1 haven't got no home and—*
"No taxee to pey," interrupted the mao
addressed; "no coal bills; no worry
teat the landlord raise your rent
Permit me to congratulate you." “1
have no Job and—” “Lucky chap I Ne
danger of getting fired." “But I’m escL
"No temptation te spend It fobUshly
en able-bodied beggars. Why, Jrgtn
the very child of fortune Good OBjf*
—Bos too Transcript.
TSINGTAO, GERMAN-
JAPANESE-CHINESE
CHAMELEON
“The relinquishment of Tsingtao
and the Kiaocbow leasehold by Japan
December 10, and It* subsequent
troubles with Chinese bandits mark
the pissing of one dream of Japa-
expansion in the Flowery King
dom, just as the surrender of the
ame territory to Japan almost exact-
y eight years ago marked the tragic
•nd of the dream of German in
pcrialism in the country,” remarks i
iulletin from the Washington, D. C.
headquarters of the National Geo
graphic Society.
“This 200-square-mile slice of
famous old -Shantung,” continues the
bulletin, “for millenniums had little
..> us lot to distinguish it from similar
neepy patches of China’s coast coun-
.cy. Suddenly it awoke twenty-four
years ago with the world’s spotlight
seating fully upon it. It has been in
the glare ever since: the bore of con
tention of empires, and an object for
rful if immaterial diplomatic
forces and ultimatums, when it was
the target for all too material j
naval guns and their high explosive j
“Tsingtao, the port of the Kiaochow
leasehold, has been a veritable
Cinderella among Oriental corn-
unities and to mix the metaphor,
chameleon nationally. Snatched
om its existence as a shabby fish
ing village it was made into a ‘Spot
less Town,’ to serve first as a gate
way for German Kultur and
and later as an entreport for
Japanese influence and goods.
When Germany decided to compete
with other European nations that
were taking possession of slices of
Chinese territory, and landed her
forces at Tsingtao in 1898, it con
sisted of little more than a narrow
main street lined by low Chinese
buildings with paper windows and
straw roofs. One of the few groups
of buildings of any consequence was
the ’Yemen* of the Chinese Gover
nor of Talngtno, with its central
structure, its courtyards and sur
rounding houses. These the Germans
took over for the headquarters of
their governor.
“Once on the ground the Germans
worked feverishly at making over the
village and constructing the combi
nation of 'Little Berlin* and ‘German
Hongkong* of which they dreamed.
Chinese houses were taken over and
made clean; and temporary barracks
built, followed by permanent
ones. Wide streets and avenues were
and lined with shade t
substantial business buildings and
residences rose. Drainage systems
were established and other sanitary
measures taken, and a supply of pure
water was piped in from the hills.
Massive granite breakwaters and
piers were constructed; the harbor
was dredged to a depth to accomodate
the largest ships. A huge floating
dock capable of accommodating
merchantman or warship provided the
finishing touch which made the
sleepy little Tsingtao into a full-
fledged commercial and naval base
and outpost of empire.
By the outbreak of the World
War Tsingtao represented a brilliant
result of ’German efficiency.* Sixty
million dollars hsd been spent in tbe
transformation. An excellent rail
road tapped the interior of Shantung,
mines were being opened and shipp
ing was steadily increasing. Of the
city itself the Germans who then
more than 4,000 shop
keepers, professional men and other
civilians, in addition to the military,
boasted with considerable Justifica
tion that it was 'a paradise on earth. 1
Even the surrounding hills, previous
ly denuded, had been replanted ^o
forest. Good German schoola
established. The excellent bathing
beach had been capitalized by the
building of hotela and the place
fast becoming a pleasure resort for
Europeans resident in China.
“The character of this most Ger
man of towns was ebanged In 1914,
almost as radically and aa quick aa a
motion picture setting Is transforemd
from a representation of London
one of New York. The German flag
came down in November and most of
the Germans Wdre sent to Japan
prisoners. Civilian Japanese as well
as soldiers poured In; and while the
architecture of 'Little Berlin’ remain
ed for the most part unaltered, the
whole atmosphere of the place be-
cuine that of Japan. On their part
Japanese displayed greater
energy even than had the Germans
to give the city is second transfor-
n. There, amid the incongruous
German buildings, blossomed the in
fluence and culture of Nippon. In
deed the Japanese were more thorough
than their predecessors. By the
middle of 1920 more than 28,000
Japanese had moved to the city.
Schools had been established for
The Thomasville
Bottling Company
In hearty appreciation of the business you have so
generously given us, and the many friendships
this firm enfoys, we hereby tender to you
and those near and dear to you-, our
best wishes for the
• iL Merriest Christmas
' ' and most
Happy New Year
of your life
| H. L. KEjY, Mgr.
317 W. JACKSON 8T.
teaching Chinese to the newcomers,
well as the regular system of
lower and higher Japanese public
schools. Commerce through the port
grew amazingly, most of the ships,
of course, flying the Japanese flag.
'Tsingtao is remote from America,
but through commerce it has its
contacts with this country. When
you see a suit of Shantung silk on a
summer day, the chances are high
that the fabric took ship at Tsingtao;
and tons of the almost Invisible hair
nets that hold America's unhobbed
feminine tresses in place also start
their sea journey at this German-
Japanese port which In name now be
comes Chinese.”