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THE WEATHER
ATHENS COTTON
NO MARKETS—HOLIDAY.
Increasing Cloudiness and War
mer Monday Night and Tuesday.'.
ATHENS. GA„ * MONDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1928.
Aaaodated Press Service. United Press Dispatches.
6 Ceuta Sunday.
CHRISTMAS!
HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS SEASON GOES I
| BACK INTO DIM AGES; NATIONS THE i
| WORLD OYER JOIN IN CELEBRATING |
Ole Santa Claus with h.s pranc- year, with his reindeer. There
jng reindeer team and all the is an ancient tradition in Hoi-
pretty presents for Mary and land that St. Nichclns, as he is
John, anJ father end mother, and known there, makes his journey
i the others, will silently steal into on Woden’s horse. Sloipner. In
:Z (Jermnny in ancient times, seme-
, every cdy is one in every town acted as Santa
.nd with a timid, quiet and made his trip on Christmas
Eve night before the children had
t:d. Ho collected the
gifts be fort hand/from the parents
with the nami/ oi the child r.n
the package. He would inquire
ns to vhether the child had been
good curing the year, and would
reward it accordingly. If he
I Santa Claus will find Athens Athens in the wee hours of Mon-
I decorated in his favorite colors , day night, whii
when he descends on the city to-' sleeping, K - - - -»
tv.. •• , .. . ,. t step for fear of waking anyone, ... 0 .. ; --
n'^ht to distribute his gifts to the ( w j]j make his anual deposit cf gene to bed.
kiddies. There will be gaily glit- assorted gifts in the stcckings
tcring trees in every section of hung up by the cozy fireplace
i the city to light Ida way. Where long before his arrival. |
trees arc missing there will he ! Mother already has all the
lvmut'ful wreaths burning cr Christmas cookies, including the
Christmas bells or holly shewing big fruit cake, and dad has his
through the windows. guns spick and span and cvcry-
Sontn’s visit thi? year will not thing in readiness for the hunt,
h* *~*rko,| bv ahv special occas- -.r may.e he plans to pass the
ion 'but »t is hardly probable t^‘ time otherwise; at any rate, ev- I
any expectant child or f shu» n erything is in readiness for the!
will be overlooked. The annual celebration of the birthday of the
dispenser rf good cheer and gifts “Savior of Mankind”, who was |
hasn’t had much concerted co-on- born 1928 years ago in a manger
oration on the part cf the public in “The Little Town cf Bethle-
this year but dozens cf ind.vidu. bem” in far off Asia,
als and organizations have pro- At an early hur Tuesday
that morning, the eye. of little tote,
h Athens n nnipf Hnv < and other * to ° tiT that "latter)
h T nt£ H2
had tngirChr.tmaa services Sun- nm fr cheerful^ man with, rosy
• „ v y»“v..vu nuuicTci mure
is even a small fraction of the 600,000,000 persons
who derive their religious-faith from the man born
1928 years ago in a Bethlehem barn.
. ■_ Monday night there will enther
SO® PM ^rs.%
"1 1 1 1 8nU - pent persons In Palestine to hoar
If 11 “WHITE
hastening down the road Ifru
CHIHSTiS” ss
ulllltu 1 IlinU through its undersized door nnd
reverently feel their way through
08 OIU
UI3 Uinil ne j* to the cranny in Um hall
- * * that hc.used Mary and Joseph
, because there was no room for
AJ30ARD THE U S- S. Steamship sctieduies have been
UTAH. _ (UP) —'Pres- £%* Bethlehem”? S^tmre
ident-eiect Herbert Hoo- n$L er J Ur nit ,n ?
rcr and the party which hirthpbice. ‘ 00 0 Tc *
lias accompanied him on , Iil * le thi. chH»tm»i
lis South American four, at 'peace" except’ ,n an 1bIc»S
ivill celebrate a “White ^
. iirlstinas ’ Tuesday. The etui Paraguay apparently have
LTtah, carrying the party
lomeward after a trip of bed, tut the Empire takeoiMw.
i e a r 1 y'10,000 miles
hrough Latin-Amcriea, King George was implying. %-
; re<t coat trimmednn whlfe. PiB-
. od with shrieking joy id, nniie [ia-
1 tion of what Santa has left them,
they will race to the' fiflplace.
: long before daddy has' tullt the
’ i fire, and cxnm.ne with thahkful,
1 hearts what goo'd ole St. Nicholas
has brought them, and wonder
why the kind old gentleman does
tlct como but once in the long
’ year. .' ' - .. .
Father will soon have to get
1 up nnd build the firo (if John-
; nib is not large .enough to got
it . started.)* And It isn’t long
before .mother and all ' ‘
behoM-, the lr- ~
once a year
oep.t:..,—
and' all the
B? a source
them to watch little Johnnie fly.,
Life -UndT P ^ gfZ 3K
Untie in, or Mary,-!,:. .. .. v „.
doll, with the pretty curly imir, Claus'
nnd one she can put to it'-ep . tonis
When she wants to.'../’. ( have L , -.
Santa Claus, or St. M-'aoBt'.'-celebrating, the'' general purpose
as some call him, Is pr>:ably" j„ st.il the aan>e<—to worship the
known the world over, out few b.rth of a Christ.child and to be
people know his history. - I jovful and make others happy on
It >1 generally conceded that celebration of the occasion when
the Idea originated In Holland. the angels sang “Peace on Earth
many centuries ago, and that per- and Good Will Toward Men.” •
haps it had Its origin in pagan. Therefore, a Metre Christmas
timer. The custom varies m <JIf-1 to everyone.^
ferent countries and there has —— •
been some changes -in. fustoni flflM Ifim* II fl T ft
'since its beginning, but on the I 11||| i||t {. || Lj I L L
whole the’ purpose Is about the UUUUUOL 11 D U LU
sanje m all narts cf the world.
TIIIT rinij nriirr
mistletoe 'was' worshipped by- pt
pagans because it was ; fpUnd
growing on the csk—the favorite
tree of their god, Tutanel, while
the worship pf- the latter origi
nated on the. Scandinavian Pcmn-
fua, where thev burnt the Yule
log in hatter of their god. Thar, j
The custom prevails yet In some |
parts of. the -world.. Yuletide—,
.sometimes used (pstead of Christ.
mas—has its origin front thU. I
‘ The custom of having;Christ-1
mas Trees at the YulelMe’ season |
seems to have started in Ger-1
' I. a I 'J* VI.- I i
and many p&er things they Will
- dlseovas-at 'ah early hour Tuerdav.
.'rovrnMgras.theyoi'rcep into living
T"'k.w'-’b^gf;Sr,- effort noce3-
.ictv to-arouse- them. - I
Of edurso. there will be the
.opening of packages by tile oliel'
ones too and -then the Christmas
dinnerywith a . bridge or radio
perty jg « visit to the tnpvle^fer |
the evening.
. Priicftics'l/, all the busines.
hoUaes-.wiil be Closed Tuesday and
the day nil).be enjoyed al a Kent
cm holldsjs hcrc.
i); started.)’
t£~Lu&ir, whiio'the 'idea'if ex-
gratification. to { Day. It was thought- hettef. to
Johnnie ily'., give the . gifts at Christmas In
stead of the first of the yeor. I
, Although the celebration .of
nor new [ Christmas with “Dear Old Salita
Clsue” and the many other cus-
■ toms is old and many changes
' have been made in the manner of
general purpose
—to worship the
Bolivia Sends A
Denial Of Troop
Movement To The
League’ Cf Nations
; LAipAZ, Bolivja—(UP)—Bo
livia has sent another note to the
League o( Nations denying Para-
guayair chnrgi; that -Bolivian
are. -makjpg . aggressive
*ovc* in the Chaco,.region.:
Unofficial Paraguayan circles
bad; dpeiarod that 3M Bolivian
troops were moging tpwkrds Ba-
Wa Negta, hew the Paraguayan
A similar note wus forward to
the' Dsn-Amer.ean Ad.itratlon
and Cun iliation Conforcpco at
Washington,
-—- A Christmas Editorial ——
THE MODERN MIRACLE
BY BRUCE CATTON
Miracles don't happen these days—not very
often, anyhow. We put our faith in things that
we can handle and understand and diagram. A
matter-of-fact and skeptical age hns stopped look
ing for marvels, and for that reason it doesn’t
see any.
But, for all that, wo still have one miracle left.
not as blind stragglers in a losing 'fight with a
hostile creation, but ss irloridus sons of light
rising to claim an everlasting heritage.
That vision is still with us. On Christmas
day, os we re-read the old story of the little
town, the "Ur in the sky, the wondering shep
herds, the devout wise men of the cast and the
caroling’ angels, we realize, once more, the full
significance of it.
And that works a miracle within us. For thg
moment we are Lftcd cut of bur daily shells ov
caution, reserve, fear ami aur;»icion. W»j get a
glimpse of the deathless nobility of all human
lives, and it transforms tj|. We can greet the
straYigers all ubout us er tjre are meant Jo greet
thorn—as brothers. We forget to be jealous, re
sentful, cold. Wc become what vro have always
wished we might become. *
The transformation does not endure. A few
days after Christmas we go back to qur old ways.
I ll I IUL that even tne most case-hardened of us can ex*
HI ] fir periencc. Every year, when Christmas* comes,
ii ■ CAC h one 0 f us cun trunsform himself, for a space,
_ from what he is into what he would Lke to be.
OLCC llm Christmas—though thj glittering shop windows
TlrTITIIIIlH sometimes lead ua to forget it—is more than a
ULUUIUI1 day on which we exchange gifts, cut hearty din-
I ners nnd speak'cordiaily to- strangers, ft is- a
celebration offthn greatest miracle and the most
beautiful. story the world has ever known. And,
U lUWe- as ire celebrate it,'wa unconsciously absorb some-
jirinnt f'nnl- thing of the reflection of that m:racl c and that
m j l j fctory and hecorae better ‘men' and women than
lied leaders w* knew we were.
< ft f r nn. The world 20 centuries ago. wrs not a very re-
, M u \ fined or civilised place. The southem fringes of
!iall>S tnat Europe, A sift. Minor, and the north of Africa were
to !tnvp fl under the dorm n‘on of Rome. Beyond, in all direc-
, • ** tions, strotchcd barbarisnl. The world’s stock of
1 passed be-hu^ in, fet large.
evnires I BBt Intu;, that world came something new—a
I hope, end rf promise! Before . the eyes of thoee
mfnd! who wpokfAronhie to look there vas raised a new
’ilj JiLOtZ' -Visiont a iVislon that showed mankind proceeding
“JJ?, along sn'oyvr-iiuiunting read, that, showed men,
E' pKadA'A. Cal. — (UP) —
•t V>r4. : rumblings of the Georgia
BajaVMrfwS!' jHrnado will be
. Iiekad; Mcpday vshen. the team
begins practice' for the ganie with
CaliffaubsytehL enONow; Year's
( / 1>C’ soutbetu eliampiona ar-
, •Adi'tJAsoTrfaw.aaJ'spparegtly are
; - Jn Jitfe -eftMiwn, 'despite their
•s three day train trip fkom Atlanta.
| *i GsnMi AJrttlinder-sepmed highly
Isplea-ad with • the - pnnpects for
s’-,ending- Te:hV Di8 season atUl
Spphililf sis Cr* -.
L “This ejwrf^pr i, great”, he it,
^clsre^. .TTb,'sun will pot us In
;_ , .*sh»4e.ir. a.day or two,” i -
S, Three' dayr " al hard workouts
K are Ihowing .their effoct'onl the
Califcrnbi squad- The Golden
Bears practiced in lav Resa Bow’
Sunday and ran through a hard
drill. Play against the rents was
spirited, and the first string men
looked much better than’ In for
mer workouts when they, seemed
stale. ■•*.. . • t..-
Benny lium was -In peak form'
-kicking idng, high spirals^that
rlomnnafvdtnsl dkwb fliaiui uiool'o ol
UV VVV litre/ vvMtBh*.
leaves us a little better than it found. us. , Each
year, as the tfny lights blaze, out on the little
green trees, the race moves a little bft elosaj- t©
the ideals for which we’should strive.
NO BANNER-HERALD TUESDAY
- vd the resolution at the start of
; the session three wteks ago nodi
seeertavy of Agriculture Jardine
: announced a ftp dflyr ago that
vet, Merry Christmas and a Bappy New
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