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VOL. XVII.
BELGIAN KING AND-QUEEN LIKELY TO VISIT AMERICA
LOB ANGELES, Dec. 13.—Affording
an ohject for deep study by psvehol
ogists and rr\minnlngisels_)“f‘nlhprt
Gardner, aged 14 ‘years, has heen re
vealed by probation officers as &
£IOO,OOO byrglar and one of the most
unusual yvouthful offenders iy the
history of the loecal courts,
Gardner was declared to have start
ed his career in Venice in 1914, when
hnt 10 years old,
Since then, money and valuables
gtolen by him in nearly every State
of the Union wag=declared to total
approximately SIOO,OOO in value.
Gardner and his “buddy" of the last
wyear, Ernest Randall, 18 jyears old,
are in|custody of Juvenile officers.
ilowever, it was stated that Randall
never took part*in the burglaties, but
dided in disposing of logt and in
helping Gardrier escape from of
' ficers. T T
Three times the youthful burglar
‘ has edeaped from jails. His first es
cape was mtade from the Alabafha
Reform Schdol at Fastlake, Ala., when
13 years old. L |
Several months ago he was arust-l
ed in 1 Paso, but escaped from Jail.
The last ’osvape was made from the
T.os Angeles city jail on September
28, The lad is a puzzle to the author
ities. He has freely confessed, they
gay, to a‘long lits of offensea
The desk of County Probation Of
ficer J. W. Libby is piled with letters
received from officers throughout the
Fast telling of the activiey of Gardnér.
Father Was Officer. J
‘Gardner is the son of a man now
“living in %labama. #n 1914 the fam
ily lived at Vemice and for a_time the
father was a police officer.
At Venice the lad began his career
by stealing several hundred dollars
from stores and concessions. Abofi(
this time he went to Pasadena on a
burglary tour and stole some jewelry
from a room in the Maryland Hotel.
He was arrested, but placed on pro
bation. The family then moved to Al-
Mbama. B
Next the lad was arrested at Mo
bile, Ala.,km('- burglary. Other thefts
were uncovered there, and he was
sent to the reform school, from which
he escaped.
A letter from detectives. in Bir
mingham said Gardner xvas “one of
the cléverest sneak thidves ip the
United Statds,” It told of the theft of
several thousand 'dollars’ worth of
Jewelry and money there,
~Randall’s Story.
Randall, ir his statement, said he
met Gardner in Chattanooga, Tenn.,
and they immediately decided to be
come “buddies.” TFhe next few weeks
took them through Cowan, Nashville
and Memphis, Tenn. Then they went
through Alabama, where burglaries
were commijtted in several towns.
Next the lads reached Mtlanta, Ga.,
and from there want to Jacksonville,
where an SBOO diamond ring and other
jewelry were said to have been sgtolen,
On through the South the lads trav
eled, and a short time later were ar
rested in mansas ity There Ran
« 'all said he “steaTled’ the officers and
obtained his “buddy’'s¥ release.
Asithe lads walked from the Kan
sas City jaik it ‘was said, Gardner
went into a near-by rooming house
and robbed severa! roomns A few
hours later he obtained $45 from the
safe of a creamery compan)
They went to Texas and when Gard
ner was arrested in K 1 Paso the youths
hecame separated Randall sald he
rext heard of Gardner when the lad
escaped from the los Angeles ¢ity
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Gardner was arrested when he ap
peared befere Juvenile Judge Reeve
in an attempt to obtain theyrelease
of RandaMq officers said
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London Paper Sees
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Another Germadu Trick
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Dec, 13.--"The Evening News
vegterday, under a streamer which H-.uy.
“Huns' Latest Conftidence Trick,”” sas#:
“The German armistice delegates’ res
:Pl-:h for an extension of the armistice
dnhd the strengthening of the area by
Allled oceupation in order to assist Lhe
:unLnan‘ is more camonflage T™he
real purpoke 18 to induse the Entente
to embark upon a wider military scheme
with resulting complications and diglh
culties, but the rAply of the Allige wi'l
he the strict execution of tha armistice
terms and guarantees for security of
payments of thel alm
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Soldiers’ Aid Bureau
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“Head Is Appoinited
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1%-The ap
pointment of Harold Stone, of Roches
ter, N. Y., as national superintendent
of aly bureaus for aldin resirning sol
diers, sallors and marines In securing
employment, was anwounced Thursday
by the Labor Department Fdward
Faston, Jr., of Albany, N. Y., was aps
pointed assistant superintendent
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Four Skate Into Air
Holes and Are Drowned
(By International News Service.
\'A{'('lll'\'l‘!l( B. C, Dec 13.-~Miss
May Leatherdale, Miss [Ella Johnson,
Leslte Todd and William Southam are
dead at Vernon, B (', today as a result
of skating into alr holes in the ice coy
ering Goose lLake The voyng peaple
ware skating in the dark and sank
w the lee and perished before ald
Full International News Service.
Deputy Lost Hi
Jeputy Lost His
Hat and Thief, But
He Got Experience
(By International News Service.)
[ SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Dec. 13.
Lou McKeNy, depnty sheriff at Kel
cyville, Lake County, camé to San
‘lrancisco to have; the police here
help him find some cracksmen who
tobbed the postoffice there.
McKelly wore a big broad-brim
med white_hat with a rattlesnake
skin for a }find. It is a hat he was
Ul‘O\l}d of. Sdid he' to pe-mmiva
George Hippe)éy:
“I have shewn some of vou fel;
Jows how' to‘hunt for big game up
there in the summgr timg, Now
you show me about your hunting
down here.” >
\\ Then thev went t3* dinner in a
fashionable case. MeKelly hung up
his rattlesnake skin hat. They sat
down and a turkey, while Me
}iflly cxplair&uhout the way the
cracksmen did the job in Keley
ville. / -
When they had finished McKel
ly's big rattlesnake hat was gone.
There was a pow, but it-was no use.
The best that Hoppeley could find
oyt was that & woman at the next
table had been heard to remark: /
© *I would like to bave that hat
~over there to <lotol~at(\.lohvl's den.”
| McKelly bought a brand-new hat,
called a “beanny,” and went backes
te Keleyville without the cracks
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" SAVANNAH, Dec. 13.—Four soldiers
now stationed at Camp Hancock have
mapped out -an interesting world tour
which they will undertake upon being
discharged fronll the army, friends in
Sayannah have been _advised. Advices
were sent here because the quartet
plaps t 6 start upon this tour from Sa
vanah, probably shipping here on some
Cargo vnsseflor_ some undetarmined port. |
The four men are F. €. Weld, Walter
;R. L. Blackwell, Alvah W. Young and |
Walter L.. Murphy.
. Rccording to tentativh plans, beside
s : 2eels \
calling in~most of the civilized partsof of
the,.gnr!d, including the Orient and the
Occident, the intend to try livipg on
wome ofs the uninhabNed islands, on
which they will grow such foodstuff as
they may be able to producel Ear route
on this tour they will earn their way by
such employment as they may be able’
to find. .
Fredetick Coldon Weld, of New York
City, studied at the Chicago Art Univer
sity, and Also the Washington Univer
sity at Bt. Louis. Prior to his enlistmenty
he had a studio at Riverside Drive, New
York €ity. He took a course in camou
fiage work at the State School of Mili
tary Camouflage, New York City, and,
c-merinfi the serviee May 5, he came to
Camp Haneock to engage in camouflage
work in.econnectjon with machine gun
nery, He is a member also of the Sev
enty-first New York National Guard
Reglment,
Walter R. I Blackwell hails from Pe
terhoro, Ontario, Canada. He is a grad
uate of tha Ufii\'orsnysuf Toronto and
also of Columbia University, New York
City. He”is an architect, and at camp
is in the experimgntal section. He join
ed the colers May 30,
Alvad W. Young, of Boston, Mass.,
was employed as a segretary at the time
!n( enlistment, May 10. For a year prior
tyjoining the service he ac ted as a chief
clerk in the War Department. He was
for four yvears an assistant movie direc
tor with the Universal Film Company at’
' Los Angeles. He is in charge of sn.hhu j
cations for operdtons sections at the
machine gun center, .
Walter 1. Murphy comes from ’l‘wn‘
Harbors, Minm., and has a Ph. D, degree
from Haghlime University at St. Paul,
Minn. PFor six years he was a theatri.
cal mana@Br, operating his own Hn»mw'
He algo was an inspector of safet)y ;md‘
welfare for the Puluth and lran Range
Railroad. At Camp Hancock he is in!
charge of publidations at division head
quarters. He jgined the service April 16 ‘
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Forsyth to Get Next - |
Baptist State Meeting [
MACON, Dec. 13.—Forsyvth was se.
lected for -the next session of the
Georgia Baptist convention :n\ the
cloging of its annual convention here,
Efforts to make Macon the perma
nantehecting place were defeated, as
was the plan to pay delegates
The Rev. O, C. Gilbert, of Bruns- |
wick, was electhed to preach the con
vention .flr‘rmw next year, with the
Rev. J. M. HRymore, of Jamesville
alternate, '
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Tunnel Bill Not 0. K.d
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By Senate Commitlee
(By International News Service.) I
WASHINGTON, Dec, 13.-<The Senate
interstate commerce committee hag de
elined to apgrove the Caller bill for the
eonstruction of a tunnel between New
Jorsey and the igland of Manhattan,
partly at Government expense
While refusing to report the bill in its
present form, the committee Indlcated
its willingness to approve a measurs
that would give permission for the con
struction of the tunne! {f the States of
Néw York and New Jergey wished to
undertake the work entirely at their
own expense. 5 '
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Sold by Government
(By International News+Service,)
ALBANY, N. Y., Ded. 13.~The Bayer
Company Rlnnl in Rensszelaer, manufae
turers of Aspirin, was sold Thursday at
auction to the Sterling Remedy Come.
pany, rx Wheeling, w. Va. This is one
of the German-<owned concerns that was
taken over by the Government, and its
xale wan ordered by A. Mitchell Pal.
mer, nmh{llun of ulien property, Other
bidders ireluded a number of New
York bankers and combinations of drug
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AVERICUS, Ded 13,—Although
Miss Monida Hill, a prett¥ young
\\fll‘Llli.Uf New' York City, maced 1,500
miles On fast trains to be with the
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mman she loved, she arrived at the
paost hospital at Southar [Feld, the
iviation training camp hers only' a
few lours after he had diea of influ
enzi-phneumonia
Asilley Leonard and M Hill Wwers
engaged tow be married when this
country entered the war with Ger
many, but the wedding wast post
poned, that he miight gerve hiz coun
try
After being sent to~Americus for
tfraining as a military flyer,, he was
sgtricken with influenza, which devel
oped seriot complications His
fiancce whs telegraphed for, and hur
ried southward to be at his bedside
When she alighted from the trafn at
Arles, the rlaudroad station for the
camp a military guard informed her
Cadet Leona wa ddad, and an
army antomohile brought her to
Americus., where she viewed the body
repdsing in a carket and covered with
a silken flag
Mi Hill" aecompanied the body,
which was gsent vesterday to . New
Bedford, Mass., while a squadron of
airplanes hovered abeve the train
bearing the boay aways from Ameri-
Cus
. CAMP GORDON, Dec. 13.—The .de
| mobilization of the colored _casnal troopd
stationed here, which began last Mon
day, reached its height Thursday. aft
ernoon when I.oo¢ colored sgldiers who
had received their discharge - papers
cbngested the street railway tratfic for
several hours while leaving the camp
for Atlanta, from -where they entrained
for their homes in various parts of the
State, - A -
The physical examination of the col
ored casual troops has been -completed
and examigation of the white casuals
was started on @ large scale Wednes
dy morning. 'All of the white casuald,
who live within a radius of 350" miles
of Camp Gordon are being examined
physically and all who are in as good
physiocal condition as when they entered
the service, will be given discharge
papers beginning next Monday.
A large number of Georgia, IFlorida,
Alabamd and TepnesSee men will be
affected By the order for immediate de
mobilization, all mew in classes A, R
and € who pass the required physical
condition being eligible for discharge.
'l‘fnis means that all Georgians in this
cantonment whose physical condition
has not deterioraged since entering the
service, will be discharged in ample
time to spend Christmas day at home
and that the o¢ld glogan of getting the
boys ‘‘out of tha trenches by Christ
mas’’ wil be made good, at least for
the /boyvs stationed at this camp.
No definite information has been re
ceived with reference to dates for the
transfer ©f other casual troops stationed
here to the cantonments from which
they will be later demobilized. A large
numher of lowa, Tllinois, Ohio and New
York men are still here and they will
be transferred to the cantonments near
est their homes before being discharged,
It is assumed that this movement will
bhegin as_soon as the discharge of all
local casuals has been completea,
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Commissioner Can Not
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" Remove Oil Inspectors
| The office of oil ihspector has been held
by the Swpreme Court to béfa public of
fice, although sagcured by appointment
':nm that the nm.&r is not subject to re¢
moval without offieial procedure
| This decision was rendered in the ®4se
’ur Ledbetter vs. Reese, the plaitniff clain
| ing that he had been appointed for a ter
of two years, and was removed in favo
tul' Reese when a new Coninfssioner of
Agriculture took office The plaintsrf e
clared that he had comgplied with the law
’m every respect, and {.l\ contention that
the commissioper sheuld l!‘l‘ have removed
}lll”l, was upheld by the Supreme Court
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Y. M .C. A. Plans Feasl
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For Gymnasium Classes
" The hig ¥. M. C. A. gymnasium will be
the soeme of a banguet and enfertainment
f&r the men's classes of thd association on
the evening of Thursday Decamber 19
Arrangements are under the upervision
of Physical Director Bgrber and an elal
Orte program ‘of varied stunts is preygised
An anticipated attendance of over QD‘ aned
the marked interest which s being man
fested render it certaln that this year's
ogeasion Will be the most successful of its
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Dr. I. Sprole Lyons Gels
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Good News From France
Dr. and Mrs, J. Sprole Lyons had re
ceived pleasing information Friday cob- |
cerning their two sons 1{ Europe, to
the effect that Chaplain J. "™Sprole I,_\-m-‘!
Jr., of the 118th Infantry, has been dig
charged from the American Wige hos-,
pital in London, and soon will start’
home, and that Second Liettenant Wil
Hagn Wallace Lyons has been prémoted
to a first leuetnancy ‘
Lieuetnam Lbyons graduated !:‘ny' the |
first officers’ training school at® Fort |
McePherson, and has been ovefseas h»l!
the past year He hap seen mnch ac- |
tive wmepvice as has neg 1'»\‘.1»:-.,‘1
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Narcotic Fiend Gels |
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_ Advice, But No l)ope‘
{By International News Service.) |
AKRON, OHIO, Dec, 13.-~Declaring
Le was in torment, an 18.5 ear «old Mex|
can lad who had travoled all the way
from Kl Paso, Texas, appealed to Health |
n};hw- Nesbitt tor permission to obtain |
Lis customary dally supply of dope. Good ‘
ndvice was the substitute giverr the boy
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ALABAMA CONFERENCE CLOSES. |
COLUMBUE, Dec. 13.-<A unanimous |
decision ghat the next’ session will be
held at Lanett, Ala., where couferen nl
Was postponed this year on acogunt of
influenza there, and )hfi r@«rlm?um,uf
the Rev. J. W, Eldré, of Richland, as
pregiding eldor, rlosed. the Annyal ses.
slon of the Alabama Christinn Vonfer
ence, held at she North Highlands "h,\h
tian Chureh hera, »
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1918 *°
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By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES,
Staff Representatives of The Atlanta
Georgian,
' NEW YORK, Dec 13.—Just as
Carter (ilass is made Secrethry of the
:'l‘l‘.‘nmj\ in recognition of hig expe
st e Y rience and ability
| R g| s chairman of
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P e e the banking -and
7;4\;\-« 2o &1 currency commit
e e gt ) tee of the House
««,.;,',»% i to f Representa
R P = ') tives, Senator
*»~ ; ,«.) Robert .. Owen,
G o - 5 '_"‘"\ o f Oklahoma,
} i B X:i | chairman of the
o o committee on
} . m% banking #nd cur
g rency.of the U'nit
{ { : ed States Senate,
3 is on his way to
| 2 I Europe to study
} f' international fi -
i nance and the re
construction prob
‘ (s " lems which must
| ‘.""vii“ ® follow peace
! - : MNe Federal re
serve act, Kknown as the "Owen
(Jlass ' Act, has proved §7y be
the greatest financial system”in the
world. It was this act, which enabled
the United States to finance the Allies
on a gigantic scale and to mobilize
the industries and resowrees of Amer
ica. at a time vital i the great war
l'nr'llw Jiberties of tiie Wworld
Senator Owen has just written the
history of the Federal reserve act, in
which it appears that®* the principles
of this act were advocated by him in
the public press in 1899, and very
elaborately grvwnlml by him en the.
floor of the Senate just aftéer the pan-
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. Big Factor in War.
The Comptroller of the Currency
recently stated that this one measure
won the war-—geertdinly it was a pow
erful factor in mohilizing '“the re
sourtes of America
Senator Owen, as chairman of the
committee on banking and currency
in- the Senate, and Carter Glass
chairman of the committee on bank
ing and currency of the House, engi
neered this act to compistion in 1913,
. 1 met Ssenator Owén at the Astor
Hotel and aske.d him his purpose in
visiting urope.
‘l‘ replied that he was going to Eu
rope to study international finance
with a view to proving the necessity
for.a Federal reserve forelgn bank
that such a bank was needed to fur
'nish banking accommodations to
Américan comumerce throughout the
world, and to establish the American
aallar at par in the financial, centers
of the world, so as to make the Amer
jcan dollar the preferred measure of
Linternational contracts, and make
L New York what it ought to be, the
| great finoncial world center.
He said he infended also to study
‘Hm metheds of Great Britain and
} France in their reconstruction plans,
s 0 as to bring to America some con
}\utw sugeestiond that micht be use
ful in cstablishing and maintaining
American prosperity, in kKeeping men
!l«z'mil.‘m?\ employed, and in prevent
' ing fallen prices or industrial de
pression, \
[ Not Partisan Proplem, ’
| * 1 asked the Sefator what would be
thel effect on his plans of a Remybli
car Congress coming in after the 4th
of March He replied the reconstPuc
tion problems oughit not to he treated
in a partisan way, that he could vol
laborate dnd would be glad to collabe
orate with tee Repoblican Progres
sives in doing the thinzs necessary to
keep American labor profitahly em
ploved »
I asked him what he thought was
the cause of the 'defeat of I.m’lh mo
crats in Nove mber® He replied that
there wers several ontributing
CAUSCeS F'irst, the people wad heen
greatly irritated. by Garfield.. Hoover, |
by the war trade board, by priority |
orders, by inperference with indus !
tries through the stopphr of non- |
wssential indwsiries, and hile 11..-.~rl
measyres seem d to be inavoidable
for proper comeentiution for war and
to give the righ f way for war ma
terials, nevertheless it offended many
men who coull no” realize the rgen -
{ of the war domands l
Moreoys 1 1, the Republpcans
| heen Tving on bt but {
silful camoaign w + the wl.nrq
gument M O r politelen vhich '
to a consid b axten m.srepre ;
sonted th dministration !
But the great Tacior in th fefeat |
e sald, wn the iletter of President |
Wilson and bi nidnrference in va
r States- with local election
Incensed Republicans. |
He twought the President ofter |
great incensed the Republican citi- |
zen¥®, who, until that time, swere qule |
cent or friendly to L admiaistra l
tion: but, rightfally. or wrongtull)
they-regarded the President's letter |
as unappraciative of the o) I"A|>"l'|
they had given the administration in |
the great wur mensyjres The Sena
tor sald
You will remendber thar the coun
try was undery the impression that the
President had declared polities ad
fourned, and it had Interpreted this
phrase ag meaning that partisanship
would be avoided during the period of
the war
“When he made a partisan appeal
within’ the last wee preceding the
election and ought he election of
Democrats on the sole ground that
they were Democoratic candidates and
opposed . Republicuns on the soles
groundSthat thgy were Republicans,
without dise rnn‘n‘n.m as to what
they stood for, it nuturally incensed
the Republicaps and even offended
miany Democrats
“I know an numbepd of Democrats
who deliberately voted th Republi
can tleket because of their anger ut
this letter, and the RepubNeans out
West became intensely active in the
lagt week before the election
| greatly regretied the issuance
of this letter, because, In my own
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Don’t let this happen in Atlanta this Christmas, fellows! It will, though, unless Atlanta
opens its big heatt and its purse te the gréatest apepal in the world—the appeal o boys and girls
whom Santa Claus is likely to forget, unless he is reminded by your dimes and dollars
The s=pirit of the Little Boy has
come ag@gin to bless the KEmpty
Stocking Fund and make it a_ holy
and tender thing. .
You don’t know about the Little
Boy? ’ .
Here is the story, reprinted from
The Georgian of Dedgraber 15, 1917,
when it appgared in the Saturday
Kvening column of James B. Nevih:
A LITTLE BOY.
Along about this time every year
there comes to The Georgian offige .
letter containing o check tor(flo, and
@ slip upon which is wriften, *ln
Jnemory of a lttle bay.”
The check ix for the Empty Stock
ing Fund, and the name of the sender
is pot known to any person In The
(Jrsorx:nn office, :
Sonichow we have esse to center
prauy‘mm-h the whole spirit of the
Empty Stocking Fund about this an
nuul remembrange. It seems to carry
‘within itsej)f alon:éun about all there
1% to be said In alf of the work.
The money I 8 as bled entirely
and wholly for the uko\f little boys
and girls—that they may ‘know fhme
thing of Santa Claug. We seargh out
the very, very poor-<genesally gpeak.
e ———————
State, I had appealed to thé Demo
cratic orgunization to-ralse no pars
tisan fssues in !IL. State? and to
avoid all partisan bitterness, for the
yeason that our boys, regardless o{,
political opinions, were fighting sid
by side the battles of Wherty nnd cive
illzatfon, and eur people 4t home
uh?uld not he embroiled in partisan
politics during the war,” v
lssued Datly and Entered as Second-Class Matter at
the Postofiice at Atlanta Under Act of March 8, 1879
ing, the homes we enter with this
sunghine and Christmas cheer are
homes that otherwise would know
nothing of the same,
You see little boys and little girls
are pretty much the same thcgorlo
over, The little boy of the poof Is
just a little boy the same ag the little
boy of the- rich; enjoys the same
things and plays in the same way.
He wants ‘o grow up’rnd be a big
man like his daddy tho same as the
lttle rich boy wants to grow up and
be a M'x man like HIS daddy. In the
eyes of all little beys their verysown
daddies are the best and most won«
derful daddies to be found anywhere,
The Way It Should Be.
That's one of the fine and dandy
things the very own daddies of this
world have the privilege and oppor:
tunity of being proud of,
If you had had a little bey, a very
little boy, possibly with bright btue
eves, and maybe curly hair—and one
day he passed away and left you
wondering why, all unable to under
stand, you would migs his precious
little presence along about Christmas
tune more than you ever had, per
hapt . And when vou saw otherflittle
boys, bright-eyed and hapvy, romp
ingg an@® making themselves rackety
anfl noisy all over creation, it would
raise % mighty big lump In your
throat when vou recalled your OWN
little boy of the long ago and happy
yesterday. < ‘There would be an added
and emphasized grief in yo‘ur heart. of
heartg—n v{lvma and intimate grief
kept quite to yourself for the most
part, for vou couldn't make canybody
really understand, anyway
But maybe it wouldn't be quite so
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bad, so heartbreaking, if, in the phys.
ical absence of the dear, dead little
one of vour very own you could once
more, recall his sweet spirit to your
side and have him cohtemplate with
you in silence the joy a little bit of
that thing we call “mogey” had pro
duced for a lot of little boys here on
earth,
Whose Boy? ~
1 do not know whose dearslittle boy
it _was that I 8 called 10 memory
through pur Empty Stocking Funa
every year so tenderly, but lam sure
Tie was a sweet ahd precious little
boy, and I know his mother and his
father loved him very, very*much and
are sad and lonely without him to
day. §
But I also feel that the day will be
made brighter for them in the knowl
edge that the bit of money they in
trusted to our care “ih memory of a
little boy" will he very tenderly*and
very carefully placed where it will
make old Santa Claus a reality, a_joy
and undisputed fact, i
To this lonely mother and father—
"nOmPW":l‘t‘ in Atlanta'--The Geor
glan gives assurance that u?.l.r little
memory ?oy‘u spirit, in all of lts qual«
ity of brightness and gladness, shall
be roafiing among the very poor lits
the children on Christ’'s birthday to
muqu that day brighter and more
Joyful” for them, ‘T'hey may be sure
of that. .
It's the best work The Georgian
Adoes of the three hundred and sixty
five days of thé year-—the very best,
this Kmnpty Stocking 1-’um‘. 2
And it @'n pretty well all done “in
memory of a little boy"” whose name
wo do not even know, .
NO. 113
By JOHN T. PARKERSON, £
Staff Carrespondent of the I, N, 8,
LONDON, Der. 13 -—America may
bhe visited by Kinz Albert and Quesn
Klizabein, of Belgium, !next year.
While no definit> arrangenents have
been made, % | oxpectid that “If
'l‘m\ul:-m Wilson vigits ~ Brussels,
which Belgians are taking tor grant
ed, formal annowmeement will he madse
that the Bdlgian rulers will returh
the visit ~
King Albert is Anown (. bhe desirs
ous of personally expr tns hisz grais
itude for Americyp aid. He often
refers to his visit to America as &
reperter, hefur: sscending the throne,
ad one of the most pleassht events
his Ijfe.
Both King Alhert and ueen Ehize
heth are keenly interested in Ameri
can activities. (They are familfay
with the literature of the couniry angd
enjoy reading American newspapeirs
-
and magazines
The entire time of the King now is
taken rup with problems of recon
struction, to which he has devoted
special study, even while leading his
armiés during the latter days of the
war, !
Hotel Men to Meel in ,
r ol B
Atlanta Next Summer
CAOLOMBUS, Dee. 13.—A decision to
hold the midsummer session at Atlanta,
but no agreement as to t‘hn neXt apnual
meeting place, although Americus, Ma
con and Gainesville sent invitations,
were cutstaniing features of the ses
sion of thetGeorgia Hotel Men's Asgocia
tion, which closed late yesteplayl The
following committees were appointed
Legislative, T. . Hooks, .of *auou,
chairman; J. Lee Barnes, Atlanta L. J.
Durken, Atlantay J¢ W. Andrews, La-
Grange; J. A, Hobbs, Gainesville. 16x
ecutive, C. A. Creighton, of Atlantis
chairman; . Kuhn, Atlanta; Homee
Geiger, Savannah: O. W, Donnell, Co
lumbug; 8. .J. Newcomb, Augusta; E. @
Powell, Macon
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Grant Buys Cennally
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Property on Broad St.
Ownerghip of the entire bloek boundeil
by Alabalna, Broad and Whitehall stfreets
and the rallfoad, with the exception or
three buildings, has beeu obtatned by John
W.'Grapt through his purchase of the hal
interest' of Mrs. Mary V. Conselly in ths
property at Nos. & and 4 Soutn Broad, &
was anpounced Friday. 'l‘l‘nf three excep
tions are thie buildings occupied by “Woals
worth’'s store, the Liggett Drug 5(0!‘&. alu
the Ligen Store. }
Mr. Grant psid $2,000 a front foot for
the Broad street’property, or a !o!al‘hm
$656,000, He gave as part payment a 30l
in Peachtree road, valued at $7,000.. The
sale was made by Thomas W. Connally,
acting tor his mother 2
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Tick Quarantine Frees -
..g y L o
7,186 Miles in Georgia
David Houston, Secretary of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture, has congratuiated Georgia,
through Governor iorcey, for its good
record in fighting the cattle tiek, wilh,
especial reference to the action of the
veterinarian a week or so ago in lift
ing the quarantine from twenty coun -
ties, Thes listings of the quarantine
has freed 7,186 square miles of land
in the State for free cattle develop
ment,
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Brown Declares Cotton
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Estimate Too High
The Government v.x‘tll}]\lte fixing.
the South's cotton crop for 1918 at
11,700,000% bales is teo high#®in the
cpinion of J. J. Brown, who declares
that the crop will not run more than
11,600,000 bales. As head of the Cot~
ton States Advisory Marketing Board,
Mr. Brown has had ample opportunity
to get inside information on evely
phase of the cotton hdustry.
Al . . y i
Flag Raising Day Is
Observed at Benning
COLUMBUS, Dec. 13.—An mlp‘.fll.
address by George C. Palmer a music
by the Fort Bemning band lutuMJ‘u
duy at Fort Benning yentamfl isg
wina Caroline Benning, daughter of
(ieneral Heaning, for whom the camp
was named, raised a beautiful American
flag at the camp, tollowing its pre
gentation by Mrs. Rhodes Hmno.&n
ident of the Women's Federated Clubs,
and-an address of ;uwrr;fl‘uwo by Colonel!
Eurges, commandant Q he camp,
$4,000,000,000 Unaudited
Aecounts ,Says McAdoo
(By International News m} v
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13-
in the accounts division of the
for the War Department m
in unaudited accounts, with “m more
to come,” according to correspondence
submitted to the Housé Th&flg by
Secretary MeAdoo rc-g:u‘dm war claims
clvil and military —including those of
soldiers’ relatives.
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T'albotton Man Dies
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Suddenly at Columbus
COLUMBUS, Dea, 13.-4 J. R Carter,
60, fell on the street here "1
two hours later at the City i
without regainiug THnaclousness. e
tonight the poliea found that My Carter
was A prominent citizen of Talbotton,
Relatives will take oharge of his bodyy