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in the way
of Georgia’s progress now?
Not many years ago, stage coach companies ob- Exactly how much of the local railroads’ total reve
jccted to the establishment of railroads. “What will nue comes from hauling petroleum products? Only;
our stage coach employees do?” they asked. 5.1 per cent—according to the Interstate Commerce!
More recently, canal transportation systems fought Commission of the U. S. Government. Surely not ft
against extensions of railroad service that would major proportion.
throw canal employees out of work. Exactly how much of this small percentage will be
But the railroads won —and deserved to win—be- affected by the pipe line? Less than 1%, even if the
cause they represented progress .. . improvement new Jine is operate d at full capacity. Certainly this
.. . increased efficiency. Progress is always fought . g enQugh tQ lead
to serious loss or unemployment,,
but always wins. ag the railroads would have you believe. . ■ 1
Now it is the railroad interests themselves who
are standing in the way of Georgia’s progress—a In addition, there will probably be an increase in
strange reversal of roles. the railroads short haul business, resulting from the
The railroads are fighting the proposed pipe line pipe line, to offset all or part of that less than 1% loss,
from Port St. Joe, Fla,, across Georgia to the Ten- Twenty-four progressive states now enjoy the bene
neasee border. fits of p j pc ]j nes> n 0 railroads have been bankrupted
They claim it will cause serious unemployment ... or ser i ous | y injured by pipe lines. The citizens of
seriously impair the railroads’ business—a highly those states have benefited from them,
exaggerated prophecy on the basis of official figures _ . .
which have boon easily available to all. Why shouldn t the citizens of Georgia .
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The Fireplace Glowed With Logs. I
13 RICE HARPER stepped from
-*-* her train happily. A whole
month, with Christmas only ten days
away. That meant nearly three
weeks for after-Christmas jollifica
tion, skating, visiting round with
old friends and just squatted before
the big fireplace reading and talk
ing. Wouldn’t Aunt Margaret and
Uncle Jake be pleased and sur
prised, for she had not written.
After three steady, grinding, monot
onous years in the department store,
it would be heavenly.
She flashed a look down the plat
form. Yes, there was wooden
legged Sam, the expressman.
Things hadn’t changed a bit in three
years.
“Hoo-hoo!” she challenged.
The old expressman looked up,
stared, then stumped forward.
“Blest if ’tain’t Brice Harper!”
he cried. “Back among your old
friends ag’in. Fine! Come to stay,
or a-visitin’?”
House Is Deserted.
“Just visiting, Uncle Sam—two
whole weeks, though. Out to Aunt
Margaret Holmes. After three
years! I’d never have believed I
could stay away that long. But 500
miles—too far for a 1 poor girl to af
ford paying fare for a few days’
vacation. Now it’s a month, though,
because I haven’t taken a vacation
in so long. Can you take me and
my trunk right out? I’ll ride with
you, and—”
“Ain’t ye heered—had no letter
ner nothin’?” asked the old man,
whose face had been growing trou
bled.
“No-no. Anything the matter?”
“No, except they ain’t there.
Your Aunt Marg’ret said Christmas
was so lonesome here she couldn’t
spend another like the last. So two,
three days ago she an’ your Uncle
Jack went into the next county to
spend Christmas with a cousin who
has a passlo o’ children. I was by
there yes-day, an’ the house did look
dismal all shot up.”
“Isn’t there any one to look after
it?”
“One o’ the Dill boys was asked
to, I b’lieve. He—”
A shrill hail came from a store
front across from the station.
“S-say, Brice,” wheedled the old
expressman, “would ye mind wait
in’ three, four seconds? That mad
shouter was Storekeeper Tomson.
Been ’spectin’ a box o’ Christmas
stuff more’n a week, an’ ’twas jest
throwed off this train. S’pose I take
the box ’cross to him, then come an’
carry you an’ the trunk out to any
o’ your girl friends? They’ll all be
glad to have ye visit ’em.”
But Brice had been thinking rap
idly.
Invites Girl Friends.
“Take the box over to the store,
Uncle Sam,” she said, “and I’ll run
across to the post office while you’re
gone. I want to write some postals.
And no, I won’t embarrass any of
my girl friends. You may carry me
right out to the farmhouse. I know
where Aunt Margaret hides the
keys, and I’m perfectly sure she and
{ Uncle Jack would want me to go
right there and use everything as
my own. I’ll take care of the poul-
I try,” enthusiastically, “and I’ll
roast one of the turkeys for Christ
mas and cook everything that goes
j with it, pies and cakes and all.
Won’t it be fun!”
“You can invite a lot of your girl
friends to eat with you,” grinned the
expressman, entering into the spirit.
[ “Afterward,” agreed Brice.
“They’ll all want to eat at home on
Christmas. Then we’ll have a round
German Priest and Schoolmaster Wrote ‘Silent Night
“CILENT NIGHT,” the favorite
Christmas carol, was written
by a German country priest and his
friend, the schoolmaster of a neigh
boring village, for a Christmas now
a century gone. After its first use
in 1818, in a little Austrian town, it
gradually made friends until it
came to be known in all Germany
and, in translation, in many other
countries, observes a writer in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
L The author of the verses of “Stille
of nice times. But for the real
Christmas I’m going to depend on
their postals. There are lots of nice
girls in the department store who
haven’t any home and who will have
to depend on the cheap boarding
houses they live at. I’ll write a
postal to Aunt Margaret and to five
or six girls I know will be glad to
■ spend a week or ten days with me.
And say, Uncle Sam, I’ll look round
■ and then make out a list of gro
ceries and other things I want you
to bring out, and—any place where
• I can buy a Christmas tree?”
"Ain’t none better than grow right
down on your uncle’s place.”
1 “All right. I’ll get the Dill boy
to help, an’ we’ll rig up a nice
one.”
’ “Need any Christmas present
stuff?” chuckled old Sam. “Mebbe
ye’d like to see Tomson pry the
I cover off that box.”
< “ ’Deed I would,” promptly. “I'll
be right over from the post office.”
The girls condemned to a pros
, pective boarding-house Christmas
; accepted Brice’s invitation relieved
. ly. On the third day Old Sam
; brought the hilarious five out in his
I ancient express wagon.
Then the girls piled in like a whole
jolly Christmas in itself, and the old
farmhouse seemed like to burst it
[ self. The Christmas tree was cut
[ and drawn home with all the appro
i priate songs and carols and huzzas
they could think of, and trimmed
■ as never a Christmas tree had been
trimmed before. Dressed in all sorts
of costumes, the happy girls sang
hymns hour after hour, quitting
only when they were too tired to
continue.
. And then, right in the midst of it
: the hearty voice of Unole Jack
roared through the door, mellowed
[ by the softer, happy laugh of Aunt
, Margaret.
, “I’m going to have that dinky
- post office over there indicted,” guf
; fawed Uncle Jack. “Kept that post
al four days before the R. F. D.
. delivered it. Fifteen minutes after
that we were on our way. Of course,
[ we had to come. Five more girls
to help wake the old house up!
. Whoopee! Why didn’t you write so
we needn’t have left the lonesome
[ place?”
Need More Food.
1 “Why didn’t you write so I’d have
known what to expect?” retorted
1 Brice.
• “Lucky none of us did,” laughed
| Aunt Margaret, “for then we might
not have these five extra nice girls.
’ Come, I must get into the kitchen.”
1 “But we’ve cooked and cooked,
and cooked, till—”
“Not enough,” declared Aunt Mar
garet firmly, “no matter how much
you’ve done. There are all your old
friends that must be invited to
i come—though they’ll come anyhow.
: And we must invite a lot of extra
young people in evenings to help
: keep things going. Then—my land,
i There’s a wagon-load outside. Cous
’ in Mary didn’t want us to leave, so
i we brought ’em all along. Jack s
going into town this evening to buy
i what he can find. If any of yo^ r
; girls want to go along he’d like
• your company.”
[ “But, Aunt Margaret, we’ve got
a tree ram-jammed full,” protested
i Brice.
“Not enough,” firmly. “We can
pack on the floor under the tree.
Now I’m going into the kitchen.
Can’t you see, girls,” her firm voicfl
dropping pathetically, “being Christ
mas, I’ve just got to cook some 1 *
thing.”
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Nacht! HeiJige Nacht!” was Joseph
Mohr, born in Salzburg, Austria, m
1792. He was ordained a priest m
1815, and when he wrote the song
was assistant at Laufen, on the Sa *
za, near Salzburg. Later he hel
pastorates in various other places,
and died in 1848. .
The schoolmaster of Arnsdorl,
near Laufen, who wrote the music
of this and also of a number o
lesser known hymns, was FranJ
Gruber, born in Hochburg in I* B **
