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The Douglas Enterprise DOUGLAS, GEORGIA Established 1888 Published Every Friday By The Enterprise Publishing Company W. R. Frier, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE: ONE YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS 75 OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR COFFEE COUNTY Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Douglas, Ga., under Act of Congress of Mch. 8, 1879 Member: —Georgia Press Association and Eleventh District Press Association. : : t TO OUR CUSTOMERS ANI) FRIENDS “A MERRY CHRISTMAS” Christmas, the season for the renewal of old friendships, for the forgetting of differ ences, for the expression of good will and kindness is here. May your Christmas be tilled with joy and happiness, un marred by sorrow, and may you carry with you through the coming year the spirit of the Yuletide. THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE W. R. Frier, Editor o Santa Claus is in the land and all the kid dies in Coffee County are anxiously awaiting his arrival. o The subscribers or members of the Coffee Gouty Chamber of Commerce will have to be more prompt about paying their dues, also may have to increase their monthly payments, in or der to meet the current expenses. As matters now stands, it takes practically every cent paid in to handle the overhead, such as $5,000. per year for the Secretary, rent, and other inciden tals. We hope the members will give some thought to this and increase their amounts or get some new members, so that every item of expense may be taken care of promptly, and without delay. GOOD EATS for The HOUDAYS After a whole year of waiting the holidays are here—so eat, drink cider and be merry. This is the season for putting extra leaves in the tables and unusual activity in the kitchen a —because feasts are again in vogue. jpTlp A 7^77^ But we’re ready for all the man sized appe- vv\\y^ tites with the largest and most complete store of good things to eat imaginable. i i § § § CHRISTMAS AGAIN. • The Enterprise goes to its readers this week with a sincere wish for a Merry Christ mas, days full of peace and full of happiness for all. What more could we wish? The year has been good to all of us, parti cularly to the people of this county and section. Coffee county has been blessed, and has been rated as one of the few counties which has not suffered the setbacks of many other counties in the state. Douglas, the Pride of the Wiregrass, has gone forward as no other town in the state. A review of the activities of the Douglas Kiwanis Club which appears in another part of this is sue, will convince anyone of the strides made by our city. Then there have been other influen ces which have worked for the progress of Douglas and Coffee county, all meeting with success. Many plans have been made for 1927 which will soon be ushered in. Our various organiza tions are preparing for a great campaign for a greater Douglas and a greater county. Roads will be built and improved, many institutions of great value to any community are in the making, and we enter the new year full of hopes, ready for the task before us. May each one of us possess the spirit of the Christmas season, and put it into execution. It will be a great period for all of us if we do. The opportunities are many for making others hap py, and if we grasp them, we will receive the major part. If there is any season of the year when hard hearts are softened, it is now. Then let us take advantage of this condition of our make-up, and do something for somebody, while the iron is hot, and before it cools again. The satisfaction that wll come to us in the days to come will be worth its weight in gold. o The Boy Scout reorganization has-about been completed, and Douglas is going to have a, splendid troop in the next few weeks. o The activities of the Douglas Kiwanis Club for 1926 are many, resulting in great prosperity for our city and county. It is the lives! organi zation in the county, bar none. o A large number of business firms of this city are extending the people of the county a merry Christmas thru cards of greetings which appear in a double page ad in this issue. Read them. THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, DEC. 24, 1926. Noted Music Bowl Self Sustaining .* Symphony music is now within reach of the hundreds of thousands and even at the modest fees of twenty five and fifty cents, the very finest of symphony music in America can pay for itself. This is revealed by the annual re port Just made by Raymond Brite, manager of the Hollywood Bowl, America’s greatest outdoor music au dience chamber. The Bowl seats twenty thousand persons. During the summer just past concerts were given three times weekly. They were lis tened to by 293,082 persons who paid $110,188.79. This gives a surplus of nearly SI,OOO over expense. The series of concerts will be given next summer with world famous conductors drawn from all over the world. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a raa-ma doll, car riage, tea set, lots of fruit and candy. Please bring my baby sister a rat tler. Thank you. Mary Nell Grantham. Douglas, Ga. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me tricycle, pop gun, ball and bate, lots of fruit and candy. Please bring my little brother a tri cycle and a teddy bear. Wishing you a Merry Christmas. D. W. Grantham, Jr. Douglas, Ga. Dfear Santa Claus: 1 am a little boy 8 years old and go to school and I am in the third grade. I want a pump air rifle, a football, some fire crackers, and some fruit. Don’t forget my little brother just two years old. He wants a baby doll, some sandy and some fruit. Please don’t forget us. Cecil Moore. ETouglas,. Ga. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a coaster wagon, skooter and a foot ball. I will leave you some cake where you can find it. Bring something for Billie. Your friend, J. B. Jardine, Jr. Douglas, Ga. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a pretty doll, a desk, a bath robe and a little china tea set, also some fruit and nuts. Don’t forget my little sister, she wants a mama-car and a little doll that won’t break. Your little girl, Lucia Janelle Griffin. Douglas, Ga. Dear Santa Claus: I want you to bring me a carriage for my doll, and other nice things you wish me to have. My mother says I am a good girl. Esther Weintroub. Douglas, Ga. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring: me a bicycle and a foot ball. I am going to school and study my lessons and am a very good boy. Leo Weintroub. Douglas, Ga. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy four years old. Mother says I’ve been a good boy this year and I want you to bring me a pop gitn, a little automobile, a ball, a train, a top, and some fruit and nuts. Your little boy, Glenn Max Strickland. Douglas, Ga. My Dear Santa, I guess you have about forgotten me by this time as I am on the tip of Florida, but please try to remember me. I am fourteen years old and about to complete the eighth grade, and I want you to please spare me a kodak, wrist watch, slippers and a set of “Gollen Boys” books, and any thing else nice for a girl my size. Bring my little brothera little car and my baby sister a rocky horse and •remember allof the small children, but come tothe “Magic City” first. Murial A. Maine. Miami, Fla. KING COTTON is yielding to QUEEN PECAN. Leant why and how by writing J. B. Wright, Cairo, Ga. FOB HOME AND STABLE The extraordinary Borozone treatment for flesh wounds, cuts, sores, galls, burns and scalds is just as effective in the stable as in the home. Ilorse flesh heals with remarkable speed under its powerful in fluence. 'The treatment is the same for animals as for humans. First wash out infectious germs with liquid Borozone, and the Borozone Powder completes the healing process. Price (liquid) COe, 60c and ? 1.20. Powder 30c and 60c. Sold by DENT’S DRUG STORE Jflljat (SHjrtßtmafl Srallij 3a By DR. FRANK CRANE The Christmas season is the season of the horizon line. The earth and the sky, the clouds and the land, meet at the horizon line. And so at Christmas* time the practical and the ideal meet; what is, for the day, reaches up and joins hands with What Ought To Be. Talk that is dubbed airy idealism during other seasons is the guiding plan of action when Christmas comes around. On that day men think of others as well as themselves, they feast their bodies, but also their hearts. Thoughts concern juicy brown drum-sticks and heaped white mountains of mashed potatoes, but they also concern the welfare of the unfortunate and the relieving of want. One deals with the so-called “practical” part of life, the other with the “ideal.” They both have part on Christmas Day. No other season comes nearer humanity. It deals with the needs of the present. It takes men as they are and tries to bring the best in them to the top. It is the most kindly, human season. It doesn’t cen sure or lecture. It doesn’t attack or berate. It melts the ice from the springs of human kindness and refreshes the world. The significance of Christmas is apparent to all. Its rites are simple. There is nothing of the mystic ritual which is comprehended by only a few initated. It is for all, understood by all. It comes down to earth and deals with practical things, translating kindly impulses into kindly acts. It touches life as we live it and for one day lifts the world nearer what it should be. Like the parables of the Master, Christmas infuses idealism into the thoughts and acts of our everyday existence. Those who look only at the sky, fail to see the eaiffh, and those who gaze only at the earth do not see the sky. Only those who look at the horizon line appreciate them both and see them joined together. During most of the year, in many minds the idealism of the Golden Rule and similar teachings and the practical actions of everyday life seem to stand far apart. It is at the horizon line of the Christmas season that they are universally se'-n to draw together. It’s Not So Much How to Buy a Car as Where to Buy It It’s easy to buy a car. Today’s prices and terms put the price less boon of automotive trans portation within reach of prac tically everyone. The detail that needs careful judgment today is where to buy one. Here we sell local responsibility and ample facilities for operation and maintenanc e—in other words, satisfaction in ownership —as well as a car. Stop in the first time you’re around this way and we’ll give you tangible evidence of our ability to assure satisfaction to - the Dodge owner. Jardine Auto Co. 213 Peterson Ave. Telephone 110