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THE HANNEK-nERAr.n. 'ATHENE, BBORRM - SUNDAY. DECEMBER }J, „ 2 S. THE BANNER-HERALD ATHENS, GA. Published Every Even In* During the Week Except Saturday and Su- day and on Sunday Horning by The Athena Publiabing Company, Athene, Ga. EARL R. BRASWELL Publisher and General Manager JJL J. ROWE Editor CHARLES a MARTIN Managing Editor (Entered at the Athens Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. Who Said There Was No Santa Claus? SUBSCRIPTION RATES ^ (Effective Nor. 12, 1923) Vf* By city carrier delivery, One Week, 13 cents; Two Weeks, 25 cents; fpne Month, 56 cents; Three Months, $1.65; Six Months, $3.25; One r pear, $6.60. Mail Subscription Rate, $6.00 Rer year. ■ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS • l The-Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repub- ilication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited , Bn this paper, and nlso the local news published therein. All rights {of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. Address all Business Commutations direct to the Athens Publishing i fcompany, not to individuals. News articles intended lor publication should be addi^sscd to The Banner-Herald. [ E - - ; L Thoughts For The Day Be ye angry, and .in not; let not the sun go down! upon your wrath.—Eph. 4:26. , A woman moved is like a iountain troubled, mud- 11 dy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.—Shakespeare. ! TOMORROW IS CHRISTMAS EVE he The call of Santa Claus will be heard throughout i the depth and width of America tomorrow night and ' j millions of little tots will be dreaming of Old Santa 1 Claus who will be making his rounds to every home j where there are good little boys and girls. The H Sweetest dreams a child has ever had is that of Santa I Claus aild his coming with jingling bells and snow t covered! deers'. It'is a time in the life of children I T when happiness is supreme and e-cry thought is that I', of Santa Claus and his visit down the chimney and I the many beautiful things he will leave for them." I The coming of Santa Claus is the most beautiful cus tom observed in this nation. It would be a dreary T life for the children if there were no Santa Claus; & there 'Would be no faith left for them in things of m life. There is a Santa Claus—“Thank God—; he *-■ lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from i now, nqy.ten thousand years from now, he will con tinue to mpke glad the heart of childhood.” GIVE THE BOY A CHANCE In this day and time the boy who is taught a trade ; in .asset which will carry him through life and i him to be independent and self-sustaining. The “white hollar” jobs may be easier to perform and b>ss ; laborious, but the revenue from such positions arfe not remunerative. The boy who haB a trade to fall back on can at any time find employment and at a living vjage. Tli ere are too many of our boys growing up with out the proper knowledge of practical training and when they are thrown on their own resources they fire not qualified or capacitated to meet the emergen cy and their failure in business is bound to come. Whether the trade to which a boy has been trained is ever used or not, it is a good asset to have. It does not hurt anyone to be independent and capable tn fill positions whether they are clerkships, book- k i eiiers,or salesmen. A time may come when a trade would enable a man to earn a great deal more than icould be earned by him in dome office job. Positions are awaiting competent men and men of trained minds and hands. Even the bricklayer has a high er wage scale than the college professor, who has spent years in preparing, for teaching, giving his time, money and study to a chosen profession. It does not upppar to be equitable, however, it is a fact which goes to prove the absolute necessity . of giving to every boy a trade whether it is used or not. Teach the boy to work and to work in nnv call ing which is honert whether it requires overalls and brogans' or “white collars” and starched shirts. Work will not hurt (dm; it will build character and make of him a better man, father, husband and citizen. I . SLOW TO PAY OBLIGATIONS I England is the only foreign country which has shown any material interest in meeting loans made to them' by this country during and immediately billowing the war. France and Russia, beneficiaries K kot America’s financial aid have not met their obliga- t ions. England has met two payments. Her war this coun'ry amounted to $600,000,000, a re- l#ij!!BB a5 ’m ,m t of $02,000,000—an interest install- BHB^Vvus made. The mother-country is showing her ^^^reeiation of the aid given to them at a time when n:, ney meant the snvings of property and life and 1!> rough the action of the government officials of this Ration, (he Eu-opean countries were enabled to •tarry on the great war—otherwise, Germany would lo in cojitrol of the foreign allied nations today. Liberty bonds and some gold were used in making ■ the payment by England. Under an existing con- * r.xt, the British government has the option of pay- flng in United States government securities having b"'ght bonds at a discount of 2 per cent, roost of their purchases being the second and fourth 4 l-2s. It I he other European countries indebted to America would cbme forward as readily and with as liberal payment* on the amounts which they arc due as has Englandt conditions in this country would show a wonderful improvement and aid in relieving obliga tions this country is carrying and cause a reduction in taxation. \VI. i!i! we do not feel that this country should “bear down” on France and Russia, yet these coun tries should show some spirit of appreciation by mak ing in:mat payments, if not payments on the princi pal. - It is near "hanging up stocking time.” . . Santa Claus will be here tomorrow night to make happy all the little children who believe in him and t are good and obedient to their parents. One more day for the last minute purchasers. Make *?vour selections from the advertisements in tlje col- i umns of this newspaper. I Berlon Braley’s | Daily Poems j FINE AS SILK Maybe it's wrong for the shop girls to wear ’em, Highly extravagant, there Is no doubt. Stock Inga of silk—It I s to tenr Soon they are finished, completejy. worn out. Yet I am glad that the working girls don 'cm, 'Spite of the frugal and folk of , that Ilk; Nothing the daughters of Eve can ■ put on 'em Looks quite ho wel as their Hock Inga of silk. Uneconomical? Shiftless and shocking? Feminine ankles are worthy the best! Give me the gloat# of ft smooth silken stocking; How can n leg .be more fittingly dressed? Where Is the fabric . It looks quite so trim in? I’m no economist, anyone knows. But I am proud thnt American women— Rich ones and poor ones—choose silk for their hose. Out in the country or up in the city Leader of fashion or plain Mary Ann Women—Ood bless ’em ^cre rmant to be pretty. They should help Nature as much ns they can. I’m for silk hoso for the flapper of twenty. Alro the grandmother, gray with hor cares; 811k hoso forever! May women have plenty, Fortune brim; each of them six eight pairs! : DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU? A Llttl. at everything And Not Much of Anything, •y HUGH RCWt VELOCIPEDES nt IIUGGINB. 52.58 to 815.00. 423* ITCH KILLED In 80 Minutes wl Par-n-sit-i-cid- Ho from H. R. PALMER A SON*. 5515 .. . . iSM-«wth?t,Bia3tuuiPty«iunitie SOLD El DXDGOoIS tVtf-.Lim piilrd Your Health j PSS£S5D»| VR£vkNWE?cTMENi Black tv-cilr CAPSULES CUNFUVRB Cl AT OMICCIST6. M ’•BSSSj&'o fraui sox by mail go'- Ihinny sr. moowyx. kv. OF IMITATIONS - Let Santa Clatia bring your home a Buick Car this Xmaa. At this season of the year, the children occupy our time and thoughts and they are ut most in our hearts and souls. Their sayings ami doings appeal to us as only that of tin; little tots can. I heard of an Incident a fan days ago which brings to mind recollections when we had In our home little ones. The little two- year-old, Jeannle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miles Lewis, of Greens boro, and the grand-daughter or .Mr. and* Mrs. Toombs DuBose, o! this city, tho Idol ot tho household was being told about Santa Claus by her mother, and of h*s snlng around cutting down trees to car ry to tho children for Christmns— when little Jeannio Interrupted by saying—‘‘No Santa Claus ain’t cut ting down trees, Cither, Georgy .Washing’s cutting down tho trees.” Hor mother had told her tho story of George Washington and the hatchet. While on the subject of children the foregoing incident reminds me of a beautiful tri bute paid to children by the greatest scholc- tho world has ever known—Robert G. Ingcrsoll. Here it Is: “A CHILD’S LAUGH “Thu laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still. Strike with tho hand of Vre, O wplrd musician, thy harp strung with Apollo’s goldon ha!*.*: fill tho vast ccthodral aisles with sym phonies sweet and dim, deft touch er of the organ key; blow, bugler, blow, unt'I the silver notes do FRUIT CAKE That Is Fine Just Made N In Decorated Containers. BENSON’S Let us show you Rrenlin MS Utahns wearing window oi'Q'i- material A shade of Brenlin will outwear two or three of the ordinary kind. Exclusive Dealer Bernstein Bros. MANY PARTS FOR MANY CARS Ant—, Tractors, Truck, ACCESSORIES, SUPPLIES, TOOLS HUGGINS & SON 24$ Broad St. ATHENS, GA. .touci and kiss the moonlit .waves I and c harm the lovers wandering ■’mid the vineclad hills. Hut know (your sweetest strains are discord* j all _ compared with, childhood 1 | happy laugh—the laugh that fills • the eyes with light and every !he*ct with joy. O rippling river of , laughter, thou art the blessed boundary line* between beasts and men, and every wayward wave of thine doth drown some fretful fiend of care. O laughter, rose lipped laughter of joy. there c-re dimples enough In thy cheeks to catch and hold and glcrlfy all the tears of grief.” i The Athens Lodge of felka will see to it that every de serving-family in Athena Is made happy on Christmas mom* Ing. Every child In Athens who docs not receive a visit from Santa Claus will be carried toys, candles, aid many of the necessities of life on Christmas day. For many years the Banner Commissary pro vided tfce charity work cf the com munity each year, being co-oper ated with by the Elks. However, this year, the b*^-hearted members of this well-known charitable or der will see to it that the deserv* ing subjects of the community shall be made happy and the flow or Chriatmas cheer nnd good thlngr will be carried into the homes of e\ery deserving family who are unable to provide for themselves those things which are so much desired at this season of the year. F.erd Johnson* wsll-known newspaper man, has been elected mayor of Watklneville. Mr. Johnson is an enterprising citizen and under his guidance of tho affairs of that town, 1924 promise* ‘to be one of the r successful years In its history. He is a grandson of the late John Calvin Johnson, one of the ablest am* best known masters | n tbs state during hi* day and time. Two thousand German fam ilies, representing 8,000 peo ple will come to America next year and locate In Akrdn, Ohio, whore they have been engaged to work In a large manufacturing plant TJie Germans are the moat •resourceful people In the world and practically all ImmglranU from that nation prove to be thrifty, honest and hard working i»eople. Several colonies of these people Icould find profitable employment by locaUng on the farms In this jRtato devastated by the departure Jof the negroes. Germany i* an ag ricultural country and a majority | of the German people are trained and. educated farmers. The late Lon! Kitchener was called the “mQrt distinguished bachelor In the world.” Con sequently many stories such as • this are told about him: [ a young member of his staff when he was in India asked for a furlough In order to go home and jget married. Kitchener listened to I him patiently, shook bis bead, then , said'; j ‘Kenilworth, you’re not yet J twenty-five. Walt a year. If then ;you still desire to do this thing j you shall have leave.” | The year passed. The officer once more proffered his request { “After thinking It orcr twelve 'months,’* said Kitchener, “you still {wish to marry?” | “Yea Air” j “Very well, yon shall have you? furlough. And frankly, my boy, 1 } scarcely thought there was ao much constancy in the world." ! Kenilworth marched to the door, ‘but turned to any as be was leav- ATHENS TWELVE YEAR8 AGO Saturday, December 23, 1911. Cotton: 9 1-4 to 9 6-16 certs. Weather: Cold and clear. • Mr. and Mrs. Billups Phlnizy an nounced. tho engagement of their daughter Bolling, to Me*. Hughes Spalding, of Atlanta. Road officials of every county In the state invited by Dr. C. M. Stra- han, of the university, to visit Ath- is. i University of Georgia baseball team scheduled games with Tech, NaVy, at Anapolis; VIrgllna ,at Charlottesville; Trinity at tflir- bam. Delivery wagon stolen from Webb & Crawford. W. C. Woodall* editor of the Co lumbus Index here. oApp le §auce Around Athens With Col T. HUrry Gantt Ed Clark, of Cornelia, says ho has recently vegan his subscription to the Banner-Herald and the pa per brings him the very news he wants to hear—the happenings in Athens, the news from all the neighboring counties, and also what progress farmers ore making. Mr. Clarks says he looks forward with Interest to receiving his pa per. It gives him the home news, just what he Is most interested in. Tho now proprietors of Thorn ton's Cafe say their business is improving and growing right along, and with the New Year will make Important Improvements in their futnlshlngs and service. The publi cation of their menu each day in the Banner-Herald sure helps their busmens. They will make a spec laity In their cigar line. t Several of our leading business men say there is a fine opening in Athena for a wholesale tobacco and cigar house and they hope that such nn enterprise will be estab lished' here for It would be liber ally patronized. If a cigar factory was <added Its success Is assured, some of the most popular brands of cigars on the market were once manuracdured In'our city. Why not the Chamber of Commerce go to work and secure for Athens such an enterprise. Mr. J. H. Beusse often buys extra copies of the Banner-Herald to mall to relatives and friends In Germany, that they may. know all about our city and especially our farming operations. Wo see that Germany will ask our government to open its gates and admit five million skilled German formers. They are badly needed In tho south to take the place of the negroes who have exodusted, end Georgia can absorb at least one hundred thousand. They would certainly make our country blossom as the rose. The Germans are Intelligent ind trained farmers. The water pipes are now being dlivered for the Oglethorpe avenue section of the city and the<r laying will soon start. Now give this new division a few lights, and then the property owners will lay sidewalks to the city limits; This is a beau- tful residential section of Athens but the citizens have.been handi capped by lack of sewerage, water and lights. In our drives, around Athens wo* noto that a number of new resi dences are going up. A beautiful bungalow of pressed colored brick 'a nearing completion at East Lake, and houses are building around Barbervllle and in other rural sec tions. Tributary countVy la Improv ing^ about a» fast as the city. A*tourist from New Jersey camp ed for several days last week in Athena and had his car made into a regular house. He told us that his car caught on fire and burned with clothing and bedding Maryland, but they had It rebuilt Tourist travel la picking up some but not the number as at thla sea son last year. Some of the cars have pets along, like team bears, monkeys and other animals. Athena has always at this season of the year Imported tomatoes from Florida, but the local market Is now supplied with ripe tomatoes by farmers around’ the city. Just before frort they gather green to matoes from the vines and wrap them In paper lay on shelves. They conUne to ripen as well as on the vino and soveral parties told us tjiat they had enough to supply the curb market until near spring. A number of farmers around the city will set aside a few acres for veg etables and truck crops n&t year. Btr. Paul of Oglethorpe county, •ays they hate made excellent crew this year and farmers are In much better condition than a year ago. The lumber business and high price for cotton have placed them on their feet. They will not much. If eny. Increase the cotton acreage. MARYLAND TO CON8IDER LIQUOR ENFORCEMENT ACT ANNAPOLIS. Md.—Chief among the important legislation which will come before the Maryland General Assembly at Its biennial session next month. wUl be a state en forcement act fathered by the Anti- Saloon League. Twice the mea sure has failed of passage and In terest Is certain to center .around the struggle. No definite Idea has been obtained, as yet. as to the standing of hte legislature on the liquor question. The drya claim the Senate la dry,-but privately ccr.- in'* that the House la doubtful. On the other hand, the weta main tain that the House la wet but they do not appear to be sure about the Senate. Notice by the papers where Billy Bryan is for a Southerner for the Democratic nominee and adds that he doesn't mean Underwood. Let's see, Bryan lives down south Miami now doesn't he? They pardoned Pebba and called him to Washington for a reception that was tantamount to an apology and the president’s going “award” a gang of I. W. W.'a and a bunch of unpatriotic dogs guilty of espionage, sabotage and other acta to hinder the progreaa of the late war with pardona for Chriat mas gifts. First thing we know an official apology will be forward ed .Grover Cleveland Bergdoll and an honorary escort furnished him for a grand entree into this coun try he didn’t think’ enoJUgh of t< fight for. ♦ VERILY. VERILY? 18 THE POWER AND INFLUENCE OF THE VOTE CONTROLLER. Col. Hex Heck ses that ar legislator wod’er had ter pas? er tax law ter pay it self off with 3f Christ- hedn’er come erlong f and busted the ding- ■ blasted do nothing thing up. QUITE 80, QUITE 80. It Is noticed, either from the kitchen recipe hook or the ad vice to the love-lorn, that if you warm a lemon up a bit be fore squeezing About twice as much Juice will be had. This Is A Radiographic Picture Oi The Absent Minded Guy As «* He Awakens Next Tues day Morn. He who forgets and Slumbers away will Awaksn to Regret It „ Christmas day! And speaking about- those Christ man gift pardona.what about those true American boys who had ’the “abdominal equipment” to at least want to fight but wife quit their posts, through the' lack of nerve, under fire or out in a lonesome outpostr Wouldn’t It be ; safer to turn these boys loose on the world wihr-tkfrewtfwittvrf than ** would be to unleash those I. W. W. ingrates? BUT THESE BOYS HAVEN'T GOT 1 AN* ORGANIZED VOTE ? ION GUN T HOLLER UKUANIZAHOI BACK OF THEM. Maybe somebody'll write Gerry Chapman a letter and tell him he. needn't worry about being apprehended that nothing more will be done to him than has been done to hie two ae* complices up Ifs New York who have been indicted and that's all. THAT THIRD PARTY MIGHT HAVE KNOWN THAT IT NEVER COULD MAKE THE GRADE TO THE WHITE HOUSE WITH FORD. TIMID ABE. Right after he was named presi dent of the 8quanls club the other day Abe Wier hurried up town so fast to wire a friend in Atlanta of the honor thnt it was reported all over town that he fell down and sustained a broken ler. To dis prove* this report Apple Sauce's fotographer sought a picture of him to broadcast over the country through the N. E. A. but Abe be came shy and said with all those radio sets he’d do his own bro*d< casting. MU« Marianna sayi she's been gettfag so much candy here of late the cant tall whether to get all ex cited ever having to lay “yes” or “no” or if these punch boards are all to blame. WHEN MAKING NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS KEEP IN MIND THAT LITTLE VERSE BY ROB- ERT COLLYER: “Go make thy garden as fair at thou canst. Thou workest never alane; And he whose plot Is next to thine May eee it and mend HU own.” FORMER IMPERIAL PALACE NOW PUBLIC DINING PLACE BERLIN.—Mrs. Frit* Krelaler, the American wife of the Austrian violinist, and a number of other Austrian women have worked won ders In the kitchen of the old (m FOREST Hit 11BEIS IE i SINECURE, DUTIES IRE LEGION SAN FRANCISCO.—Fire light ing Mid fire prevention form but a amtll part ot s foreat ranger-, duties, it la pointed out »t hesd- quartera o, the California dlitWct of the United States forest lervlce. “Time wsa,” mild a ranger who works in one of the California na tional parks, ."when if a felluw could wrangle horaea and throw a diamond hitch he had about alt the neceiaary qualifications to hold down the Job of ranger: But no more. “Ine ts an ordlnarjr-alted' foreit district, about 200,000 acres' 1 'of rough mountainous country, most ly timbered, but with some grazing land, mining, water power sites and quits a number of < summer homes and free public camps: "Right now the heat part of my week 1. handling Umber Bales,‘a. I’ve got a gang of lumbermen int- Ung government Umber on my dis trict I have to know all the trees and what they're good for; how to cruise and e.t'mate the ttahd; how to mark green timber ter cut- Ung'under forestry rules; ell about scaling ent logs I must see that the brush Is piled and burned, ahd that the young tree, lett for u fu ture crop are not Injure dor des troyed.” Troop No. One Holds Meeting The regular meeUng of Troop 1 on Friday night at headquarters, 5,8 Prince avenue, was an unus ually InteresUng one.' After the opening In charge of James IMcCotlo sixteen members answered roll call. Four new members htv* recent ly Joined tho Troop: Nathan Cox, Tom Elder. John jPtordue c ' Short - Largely for their benefit i tying dmonstraUan was put i Assistant Scoutmaster Lee Grig Jr., and David Campbell, and ,ev- eral of the new boys made excel lent progress. During the meeUng. Donald Campbell, In a neat Uttl* speech, presented to Mr. Sexton on bq)jsll of the Troop, a handsome pair tot military brushes In appradpUon of Ills two and one halt years servlco as scoutmaster of tho Troop. In acknowledging the gift he said than the splapdid record pi Troop No. I was due largely to Wie loyal ty and IfalthfulneM ot the old boya and hr hoped that the new boys would keep up the pace that had been set them. All pledged • anew their, alleg- '.*P£S.T r S 0 f and. determined Af<afflt , W«ne# year a brighter one In tha history of BeonUng. LETTERS FROM I THE PEOPLE • ! -SWAT THE PE8KY FLY" If you daslre to get rid of th. pesky germ carrier, "Th. Howe Fly." swat ahd keep swatting dur ing ths winter months. By actual experience we hare learned that If you swat the fen left during the winter thsrs will be fewer next spring. The heat In the buildings will hitch out ths tggs deposited dar ing the warmer months, and If you do not kill ths few left during the winter months these will deposits more eggs. If you will take.the prscautloi In warm weather to awat tile, con- aregstsd on ths outside of screens before showers of rain, you will soon set that, you have less files. It hai been a raying from time Immemorial that If you *vwal_ gne fly two will com. to Its funeral." s Experience has taught us that that Is not true. \ Files do not travel mors (h*n two hundreds yards at best, and wry few, ever go mors than half that distance. we certainly hop. that all who raad this will profit by our experi ence and wags war agalnrt - th. “Pesky House Fly" which it4rl« death and dlerase from home - to home, everywhere In our landr" Fdom on. who has expjBMM the'above. NEW TYPE OF 8TA AUTOMOBILES at I1UGGINS, J perlal palace overlooking tho l.hould remain In the coui $7.00 to $35.00. d23e(Sprec In Berlin. GENEVA.—Tho meeting In Part* o, tho Council ot tho Leagso^of Nation* has drawn attention to one of the striking personaUUee In European politics. He Is UdOMra Benes, the diplomatic leader ,of Czechoslovag'.i, and represent* W« country on the council. Judged, by the standards of Europe, he jp • new typa of foreign mlnUter:- not a calamity howler, a well 1 man who believes that r graduaUy are getting atead ot worse. PRE88 WELCOMES PRINCE BACK TO QERMAN SOIL OEL8, Silesia—'While Wl ll ‘ a “' the former crown prince of many who returned recently^* castle at Ode. perhaps t moat popular person In with the press and the B •srjsusstsxsS. lowed to remain here m#»U Ft Immediate rSMntment. The public generally ha* thle attitude. It i» quit* became protest. **aln«. 4»nUMt return emanate from FrenW, ' cal peper. declare thet has the sympathy of mans; that Germans F en * r ** J pleased at hla return, end that « . ■hare the burdens of the pW'-