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IHailn Himes enterprise 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. DEVISE A COMPLETE NEW IMMIGRATION PLAN MUSSOLINI ABSTEMIOUS AND A HARD WORKER ► ««HEcqHPC€«qw'C<qw«c ( ccqHPc«<< Greetings and all good wishes for CHRISTMAS 0M Tlappy is the thought that we have served you so suc cessfully and that your good will toward us has made this Agency t he ever-growing 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 fully protected, their success 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. M a Vmay your new year i BE ONE OF PROGRESS AND HAPPINESS a a 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 % WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WILL BUILD THEM M. C. McManeus