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VOL. XXXIV. No. 28.
THOMA8VILLE, GEORGIA SATURDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER 23, 1922
$540 PER ANNUM
CHRISTMAS TIME ON KARS AND VENUS
SUBJECT FOR THE SPECULATIVE MIND
> hundreds of people who
asks, and Is told that It Is named for
Christ He wonders wbjr it Is not
called CHRIST-mas, and very few
answer except that euphony and
tom has connived to change the ap-
pelatlon of the day to the detriment of
its real meaning.
Why the giving? Why the feeling
that yon must give when you
afford It? Why the lack of sentiment
and feeling in some of the givers?
These and a hundred other pertinent
questions would be shot at the mayor
and some logical and sensible reason
expected therefor.
What would be the answer to those
questions? How would he be able
explain that in celebrating the birth
of the Saviour of the World, a divine
being, son of the living God, the ma
terial and mercenary feelings and sen
timents so contrary to the doctrine of
the lowly Nazarene had crept Into the
celebration of the day? How would he
Justify the Idea that the day has been
prostituted to commercialism, through
all the channels and Sources of our
civilisation? How would he be able to
persuade the visitor that the birth of
w Christ was the reason for the cclebra-
learnlng the ways of this world, its | tlon, rather than mere custom and
tiablts, customs and ideals. Having bahlt and that the pertinent idea in
gained a somewhat cursory knowledge hearts of our people was the ef-
of the things earthly and assumed at Tort to be properly Joyful because
least the forms and language of this Christ had been born to bear the sins
planet, this visitor comes to Christmas' of world?
week. } What would he think of swapping
He visits Thomasvllle and sees all J presents because It was Christ's birth-
the hustle and bustle, the shops with I day. What would he say to the reck-
their gaudy windows, their elaborate < less expenditures of some men to the
have conjectured the form and habits
•of the supposed inhabitants of the
planet Mars. This form of Imagina
tive skill has been remarkably devel
oped In the novel called "The Gods of
Mars," In which a mero mortal is
translated into the planet and takes
part in the various activities that
•carried on in that planet Venus is
•considered now to be more nearly like
the earth than Mars and its inhabi
tants, perhaps, are very similar to
those on the good old earth.
“WerVTt"possible to translate
habitant of Venus to earth, there
might result some remarkably Inter-
«st!ng deductions and speculations
his part, regarding the customs and
liabits of earthly folks. It might fur
nish untold copy for the novelist or
the newspaper man, and certainly
would be met with grave and spectac
ular Interest by those, who love to
read the Ideas and thoughts of those
whose training and environment has
been conducive to a varied and differ
ent mode of living than that which we
enjoy.
Let's speculate a Veneian coming to
earth In early spring and gradually
HARVARD ASTRONOMERS DECLARE THAT
STAR TRAVELS TWO MILLION MILES AN
displays of Christmas wares, the pic
tures of Santa Claus and his reindeers.
After viewing these he sees men and
women buying gifts of one kind or an
other, all more or less worried' and
perturbed over the necessity of giving
something that will be acceptable.
Mr. Venus approaches the mayor
and asks him, casually, “Why all this
buying? What ia Christmas, any
way?"
He Is told that these gifts are for
friends and relatives, something given
voluntarily, even it sometimes under
pressure of a fear that there is a
drastic necessity for reciprocity. He
gets the Information that It is the
birthday of Jesus Christ
"Why is it called Christmas?” he
detriment of their honest debts con
tracted for more necessary purposes?
What would be the dominant Idea In
his mind, presuming that It be of earth
ly texture, on viewing all this orgy of
giving, when he hears no Joyous peals
of song to echo the glad paeans of
“Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men,"
that he reads in the Biblical account
of the birth of Jesus Christ? When
he sees no person in prayer and
thanksgiving for the sacrifice that was
made In Jesus’ earthly life and Ignomin-
UNDER
THE HOLLY-BOUGH
Ye who have scorned each other,
Or injured friend or brother,
In this fast-fading year;
Ye, who by word or deed,
Have made a kind heart bleed,
Come gather here!
Let sinned against and sinning
Forget their strife’s beginning,
And join in friendship now.
Be links no longer broken,
Be sweet forgiveness spoken
Under the Holly-Bough.
—CHARLES MACKAT.
Cambridge, Mass., Dec.
Mail) Nearly two and a half mil
lion miles per hour, or 1,100 kilo
metres per second, is the speed-record
set by the star RZ Cephei, which, ac
cording to a bulletin issued by the
Harvard College Observatory, has
been found by Harvard astronomers
> be moving through space with a
greater velocity than that of any
i other star whose'speed has yet been
determined.
This star, a variable star of the so-
called cluster type, has long been
known to astronomers, but its
velocity was never measured until
recently. It is far too faint to be
seen with the naked eye, being of
the tenth magnitude. It is in the
constellation Cepheus, and is 3800
light years distant from the earth
which means that the lignt from it
: which astronomers now see through
their telescopes stai *«d on its journey
i tht. earth in the time of the
| shepheru kings of Egyj,v, nearly 1900
years before Christ That distance
ia only a small fraction of the distance
from the earth to tome of the more
I distant star-clusters, but the out-
unding fact about RZ Cephei ia
that its velocity as it flies through
, space is the greatest yet known for
i star.
The speed of the etar
sured at tha Harvard Observatory by
a complicated process of observations
and computations, including among
other things the comparistfi of photo
graphs recently taken at Harvard
with others taken 31 years ago, when
the Observatory was just beginning
its task of preserving a photographic
history of the entire sky. Since that
time a “sky patrol” has been kept
without intrruption at Cambridge,
supplemented by photographs taken
at the station at Arcquipa, Pen, and
the history of the stars down to the
eleventh magnitude ha* been written
by the stars themselves- on over A
quarter of a million photographie
plates weighing in all one hundred
and forty tons.
Most of the discoveries made by
Harvard astronomers, it is said at ’
Cambridge, are not made by looking
through a telescope at night, as is
popularly supposed, but by doing
what was done in the case of this
discovery of the speed of RZ Cophei,
by studying and measuring by day,
in the laboratory, photographs taken
night, and by computing the
significance of the changes in the
brilliance or position or spectra of
the stars as recorded on these plates.
The discovery of the immense
speed of RZ Cephei is said to be
important to astronomers as suggest
ing that this type of variable star
escapes from the globular clusters, a
i hypothesis suggested also by other
recent observations.
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and all good wishes for
CHRISTMAS
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concern it is, we trust that the
New Year will bind us closer
through mutual co operation
for your protection. We will
ever strive to serve you better
being cognizant of the fact
that when our customers are
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Rome, Nov. 28.—(By Mall)—
Benito Muullnl, the man who at
thirtyeight years of age has become
vitually the legal dictator of Italy,
has a great capacity for work. Since
he assumed charge of the Ministries
of Foreign Affairs and the Interior,
ous death, when he feels nothing but j Mussolini has averaged over eighteen
th. Mld.1T Mrit. i. w. term It, Mil-! hour, of hard worlt ercry d.j. At
or than . hot, nod re.er.nt Jot thot, hi. 'dealt promptly at the .troke of
the world la freed of the bondace of eight, ho ie still busy nt midnight ot-
tending to the business of the two
most important ministries in nis gov
ernment.
During the eighteen months in
which he was engaged in the organi
zation of the Fasclsmo movement
culminating in the peaceful entrance
of a hundred thousand of hit follow
ers into Rome October Slat, Mussolini
worked an average of twelve hours
every day, including Sundays.
Mussolini eats little and drinks leas,
He sleeps about five or six hours out
of the twenty four. His beverago la
a light Italian wine with about fifty
percent of water added.
His favorite recreations are fenc
ing and walking, and he is said to be
a cheat player of no mean ability.
Italy’s man of tha hour was aa
enthusiastic advocate of hla country's
a HV— U0 ■**•* PI- 10 * °W aauujue
side of the Allies. He served
corporal until wounded »o severely
that he had to be sent to the r<
unfit for further active duty. It Is
said that hit body bears the acai
one hundred and twenty wounds,
caused by shell splinters and thrapnei.
is not endangered.
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Vmay your new year
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BE ONE OF PROGRESS
AND HAPPINESS
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J. T. Culpepper & Son
Fire Insurance Agents
ThomMVille,
Georgia
Wise Men ot the East, who. although
alien to Christ and His people, brought
gold and frankincense and myrrh to
place In the manger, as a token of
their belief that He was divinely ap
pointed for the salvation of men?
These and a thousand things c<
to the minds of the people of thla
earth, when they soberly and religions-
1 r ponder on the day and its meaning.
Yet how far have we strayed from Its
original purpose and idea? How
plnely and irreverently have we re
garded Its customs today? How
have we really caught the idea of loTe
and service? Christmas la somethlhg
ore than we commnly term it, and
en those of us, who fail In our
proper observance ot It. can well un
derstand the feeling of thla man from
another world, as he sees the hollow
mockery ot so many and the careless
ness of so many more.
re would bring Joy for Christ’s
sake,‘let's give to the poor, to those In
sorrow and distress, to those whose
hearts are hungry for a word of love
or a handclasp of friendship, to those
little children, who haven't yet
understood why they were out of it
all, poor, cold, hungry, and friendless,
deprived ot oven tho customary Mass-
lags of life. Wo do aot discount the
firing, wo scorn tho spirit In which
ao many gifts are made. Whan we
giro to those In need we can’t tarnish
and points tho motive, for wo are giv
ing to Hla Own, and, therefore, bless
ing ourselves an hundred told.
Can’t Thomasvllle make this more
sen before?
JAPAN THIRD IN
MERCHANT SHIPPING
Toklo, Dec. 1.—(By Mall)—Dis
cussing the figures of Lloyd’s Shipp
ing register showing that tha amount
of mercantile marine tonnage Japan
is third among the nations, being
surpassed only by the United States,
the Oriental Economist, a Japanese
commercial monthly, says the chief
causes for the empire’s development
in this line have been the protection
and assistance afforded by the gov
ernment and the three wars in which
Japan has been engaged in the last
25 years-
“The protection of the Govern
ment to the shipping trade of the
country dates as far back as 1872”,
says the paper. "In 1875 the original
company was dissolved and a new
one established. The Kyodo Unyu
K a trim was established in 1885 and
in the same year the two companies
were amalgamated and the present
Nippon Yusen Kaisha came into
existence. The government guaran
teed the new company payment of
8 percent dividend. This arrange
ment was later changed Into the
grant of a fixed amount of annual
subsidy.
The termination of the Rnss-
Japanese war saw further develop
ment of Japan’s shipping trade and
various nftw liners were opened to
many porta in China, Korea and in
Eastern Russia. In 1909, the Osaka
Shoscn Kaisha opened a new line to
Tacoma and in January 1910, the
Toyo Kisen Kaisha reopened its line
to South America, suspended since
July 1908 under an annual subsidy
of 800,000 yen. In 1912 the Nanyo
Kisen Kaisha opened a new line to
Sourabay under an annual subsidy of
150,000 yen.
“That the European war gave
rest impetus to Japan’s shipping
trade will be atill in the memory of
Another important factor has
been the plentiful supply of cheap
labor In the shape of seamen and of
fuel. The course of events in re-
•ent years, however, has shown that
these factors in favor of Japan have
been disappearing and Japan's shipp
ing trade in common with many other
industries ia confronted with a
serious crisis
‘Considering that Japanese ships
require a larger number of
the handling the comparative low-
of the efficiency of the Japa
nese seamen will be clear although
their wages are comparatively high."
BUILD NEW STADIA FOR
SPORT LOVING CROWDS
Syney, N. S. W. Nov. 26—(By
Mail) Details of a comprehensive
immigration scheme, Involving thfc
expenditure of 36,000,000 pounds
„ _ sterling have just been announced by
New York. N. Y„ D.c. U.-Oro»ln, prim , Minirter HD( . hei
poputar (ntareit In outdoor .port. The p i, n (, outprowth of tho
throughout the metropolitan area, j agreements reached at the confer-
especially in baseball and tootball., ence of British Premiers last year
will result in largely Increased ac-!* nd provides that the initial cost of
commodations for apectator* in 1923, * " ew ** raer ia to be assum-j
settlers are to be introduced int»
that state at the joint expense of
the three governments, with a total
loan expenditure of 6,000,000 pounds
sterling. The premier has undertaken
to introduce 75,000 new settlers with
in five years.
A similar arrangement has been
reached with the Victorian govern
ment, and the premier has announced
that he is ready to negotiate with all
of the states as soon as they indicate
willingness to provide farms.
At present the flow of immigrants
ASK THAT DISABLED SOLDIERS
BE REMEMBERED CHRISTMAS
Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec.21. (By Mall)
—A proclamation urging that the
ties which existed o n the battlefields
of France be remitted and that every
disabled veteran who remains In a
Ital be made happy on Chrlst-
day, has ben Issued to every
poet of the disabled American Vete
rans of the Warld War by C. Hamil
ton, National Commander.
Commander Cook urged that every
'chance to talk over old times."
Chapters were urged to spend a part
of their funds for backets contain
ing cheer for the men. Women
members of Chapter Auxilaries
were requested to cooperate.
In centers where many disabled
soldiers are quartered, arrangements
according to present indications ****** k° Te mment* concern- to Australia is between 25,000 and
Conservative estimates place at 500,- e< *—**"*’* ® r *^** 1 Empire, the Com- so,000 annually, but with the new
the total sbtfUtancoos seating nn d the state. scheme, for which 36,000,000 pounds
capacity which scores of fields and | An arrangement has been com- is available, it is expected that the
few larger stadia wTIT Have wBSn Pleted with the premier/of .West number will reach approximately
plans now under way are completed. Australia under which 6000 new 100,000 a year.
While more than half of this!
capacity is scattered among smaller
school, college and athletic club
enclosures, approximately 316,000
will be accmmodated in four big
arenas. These are the three major
league ball (tnarks._JPolo Grounds,
Yankee Stadium and Ebbets Field
and Baker Field, Columbia's new
stadium,
Yankee Stadium, home of the
Amorloan League Baseball Club
In the Bronx, is rapidly nearing
completion and if not entirely finish
ed will be ready, nt any mto, for the
formal opening of the 1923 basehall
season In April. A 400 yards cinder
path will offer facilities for traek and
field sports, while footbaJJ and box-j
ing also will be staged In the big
arena, whose seating capacity will be
from 70,000 to 80,000.
World’s series attendance last fall
at the Polo Grounds exceeded all
previous records there, and as n
suit the home of the New York
Giants is being enlarged to seat 54,'
000, about 17,000 more than its
present capacity. Football and box
ing also figure as attractions at thii
field. Ebbets Field, grounds of the
Brooklyn National League Club, with
seating capacity of 22,000, has been
used for boxing and occasionally
football. .r*,..,, tv ,
Plana for Baker Field, Columbia'
projected stadium, to be erected at
118th streets and Broadway, call for
bow] seating between BO,000 and
60,000 but it is doubtful if this will
be realized for sometime. Work on
the playing field* is expected to
start in the spring, with the possibility
that football may be played there in
the fall, but university athletic au
thorities point out that the develop
ment of the whole project ia y«t in
its infancy.
Next fall, with the Yankee Stadium
an added neutral battleground,
football is expected to claim much
greater public interest Already
Syracuse and Pittsburg Universities
have agreed to play their annual game
the American League park, and it
is probable that New York again will
be the scene of the Army-Navy
classic, which for several years has
been held at the Polo Graunds.
Hail Ye Happy Brick Owners
We know you are the happiest car owners in the
world, for you have bought the best the auto
mobile world affords, and have no regrets,
but to let you know we too are happy
at your rare judgment and fore
sight, we extend to you and
your neighbor too
HEARTIEST GOOD WISHES
FORA
CHRISTMAS OF GOOD CHEER
AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR
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