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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. S. W. RADIO CO. WE SELL Syrup Barrels Syrup Cans Lard Cans WE BUY SYRUP Neel Brothers Feed Store South Madison St. Phone 780 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.”