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chel Stanton, the morning of Christ
inas eve, looked admiringly at the
brilliant tree in the pleasant living
room, then hurried to brush snow
from Harris, who, stamping in
from the back porch, panted:
“I’ve cleaned the driveways to
barns and road but will have to do
it again today. What were you
saying?” he was interrupted by
Rachel.
“The radio announces that the
snow plow from Warnton has stuck
at the corner and will have to be
dynamited out. No one can get
through highways farther than the
crossroad’s corner,” Rache’. hur
ried to the telephone’s jingling.
“It was Martha calling. She and
Gene and the children started here
but are blocked in at a home of
kind strangers. I wish we could
get food to the Harrison family in
the Bottoms. They have no tele
phone, no near neighbors, and
would freeze if they tried to get
here through high drifts. Such a
winter! It looks as though our
Christmas will be “we two,” she
sighed at the color-lighted tree.
“Well, I see I’ll have to shovel
out the driveways again,” Harris
announced, pulling on jacket and
gloves.
, Later when he went inside to
warm his fingers he heard Martha
humming and was thankful that
she was cheerful over the disap
. pointment of Christmas eve without
; her relatives. Odors of savory food
and the attractive table with
; Christmas colors, were inviting as
jhe stamped in after evening chores
were finished.
"Tonight will be the worst so far
this winter. The wind is rising and
snow blowing. A terrible night.
Surely no one would venture on
■ highways—why—where is the tree?
' Did you dump it outside because
our company didn’t come?” he
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The Visitor Pointed Toward the
West. “That Light Guided Us.”
then at the empty corner where
the tree had stood.
“Yes, the radio announced the
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'son, so far."
’ “The tree, Rachel! Did you
'throw it out?”
■ “That’s exactly what I did—only
didn’t throw—”a shout from out
side sent Harris quickly to the
door.
“Come in from the terrible bliz
zard, you poor frozen—how did you
get here?” Rachel helped Har
ris unwrap five shivering visitors,
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison and chil
dren.
“Oh, it’s been terrible getting
here. But it was either to freeze
and starve at home or risk get
ting here,” Mr. Harrison wheezed.
“But, how did you?” Harris be
gan.
“Outside see the dogs. We
hitched them to the sled. The
blessed creatures helped us over
drifts which are now frozen.”
Steaming food was soon on plates
and faithful dogs were lapping milk
and broth near the kitchen range;
"How did you find the direction—
the way in blinding snow?” Harris
looked puzzled.
“Well, we got to the top of King’s
Ridge in the pasture, and came to
ward the light. The light near
your grove, back there,” the visitor
pointed toward the west. “That
light guided us.”
“What light?” Harris stam
mered.
“Harris, dear, will you please
carry our Christmas tree back into
the house? I carried it outside
this morning to the grove and put
food on it for birds, wild ducks
and any other wild animah that
need food and shelter. Then, tonight,
I hung that large lantern with the
strong light on top the tree to guide
whoever might need it.
Merry laughter rang into the
night as nuts were cracked and
corn popped. Christmas morning
Mr. Harrison helped keep snow
from driveways and a path to the
grove where the children carried
food to a stack of fodder which
the men had placed for the wild ani
mals.
“Snow may be drifted high out
side. But kindness inside of me
needs never be blocked so it can
not fee scattered and be a guide to
others,” Rachel mused after the
happy Christmas of the worst win
ter.
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RAND’THER, isn’t that
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—** you ever saw?” The little
hand tugged at the hand of the
tall man. He looked down at the
childish figure beside him. “I wish
I had one like her,” the child said
in a low tone.
The man mused with a tender
smile, “It is very beautiful, dear,
—but I thought I heard you say
that you had all of the dolls you
could care for.”
“Well—l did,” came the falter
ing answer “but”—as though an
inspiration had presented itself —“I
could give some away I s’pose.”
The man’s clasp tightened on the
child’s hand, and then he reminded
her gently that they must hurry on
if they were, to be home in time for
luncheon. Although there were
many other interesting toys in the
department of the great store, the
child showed little interest in them,
and managed to work their way
back to the object of her affection,
and stood enraptured before it un
til her grandfather again remind
ed her that they really must be on
their way home.
As the child reluctantly followed,
the man recalled another dark eyed
Marcia standing before just such
a doll and' heard again almost the
same words this Marcia had used
today. “Isn’t,” she had said, “that
doll in pink just beautiful? I wish
I had one like it.” And he heard
the man beside her reply: “You
have more dolls now than you know
what to do with," and he had add
ed, “That is too expensive any
way.” “Oh is it?” the child had
Mm
asked in surprise. “Yes, every
thing in this store is.” He hadn’t
known whether it was or not, but
he had led the child away. Later
he asked himself many times why
he hadn’t given the doll to the
child, and he resolved that never
again would he be the cause of a
hurt look such as he had seen in
the little one’s eyes that day. From
then on, he determined to grant
her every wish that he possibly
could and so atone for the unnec
essary suffering he had caused.
Christmas night John Grant sat
alone before the fire, his head
against the back of the chair, his
eyes closed and a smile of con
tent upon his face. The door opened
and a young woman’s voice called
softly—“ Father.”
"Yes, my dear,” he answered as
he turned toward her.
“Mother wants to know if you
aren’t coming to bed,” the young
woman said as she came into the
room.
“Tell your mother I’ll be there
in just a minute,” the man replied
with a laugh.
“Do you know, father, I think
that you have made Marcia the
happiest little girl in the world to
night,” Marcia Field said as she
went and sat on the arm of her
father’s chair.
Her father put his arm around
her. “I’m glad if I did,” he told
her.
“Do you know that doll reminds
me of one I wanted many years
ago. I thought that I never would
be happy if I didn’t have that doll,”
Marcia laughed at the memory.
“And I wouldn’t buy it for you,”
her father frowned.
“Why father, do you remember
that?” the daughter asked in sur
prise.
“I have never forgotten it, and I
resolved never to be the cause of
hurting you or anyone as I had
you that day.”
“Why, you old dear.” Marcia
laughed as she hugged him. “I
haven’t thought of it for years.”
And then she said suddenly as a
light of understanding broke upon
her. “That is why you always have
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done so much for me, and why you
gave Marcia that doll today, isn’t
it?” John Grant’s smile was the
only answer he gave for a mo
ment, and then he said: “If I have
succeeded in making both or either
of you happy, I shall be happy,
too, for I shall feel that I have at
least in part paid a Christmas debt
long overdue.”
“Dear, dear father,” Marcia lov
ingly assured him, “you don’t know
how well you have succeeded.”
“Then I am indeed content.”
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To Chattooga County Farmers
WHEAT PRICES BOOM.
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STRAWS ON CROP CONTROL.
PEACE TALK AND FACTS.
(Special Washington Correspondent.)
Wheat prices have moved upward
during the past few weeks, with em
phasis placed upon a stronger world
demand and a diminished “carry
over” that is estimated to be only
271,000,(00 bushels next summer by
the International Institute of Agri
culture at Rome. This compares with
the 1933 figure of 789,000,000 bushels
Apparently the wheat-importing
nations will need more than the
surplus raised by producing coun
tries. To this is added, perhaps, a
measure of apprehension in several
sectors over adequate food supplies
in the event of warfare.
The jump in wheat prices shows
that the world is running true to
form in coming out of the depres
sion. Usually, such crops as wheat
and cotton, difficult to adjust to new
conditions, suffer heavy price losses
when depression straddles the globe
and, later, when recovery sets in,
they begin to pick up lost ground.
The resettlement administration,
with its rolls swollen to by
the addition of 250,000 families re
cently dropped from WPA, will need
new funds after Feb. 1 if it is to con
tinue its work of rehabilitation.
Cash grants of about S2O a month
will be given to destitute families
during the winter and, besides, the
RA has certain definite commit
ments for other rural rehabilitation,
proper land use and rural resettle
ment. When the drought brought
about the grave emergency it was
ealized that some work would have
to be provided for the destitute, that
live stock must be kept alive and
that assistance in farm financing
was necessary.
The WPA had the major responsi
bility in providing work relief in
line with its function eleswhere but
in the past few weeks many families
have been removed from its rolls and
put in charge of the resettlement
administration.
What is the future for crop con
trol ?
Here are three straws that drift
ed through the meeting of the Amer
ican farm bureau federation early
this month.
Edward A O’Neal, president of the
federation, said that farmers will de
mand changes in the constitution, if
necessary, in their effort to obtain a
program for parity of income for ag
riculture.
H. R. Tolley, administrator of the
AAA, said “if I understand the tem
per of farmers correctly, they are in
no mood to let legalistic barriers and
fine-spun interpretations keep them
from having equality with large cor
porations in meeting nationwide
problems of production and prices.”
Henry A. Wallace, secretary of ag
riculture, pointed out that normal
production would produce a situation
in which the welfare of the farmer
and the nation will require that the
farmers again have power equal to
that which they once had under the
AAA and of which they were depriv
ed by decision of the United States
supreme court.
We have commented several times
on the willingness of Secretary Wal
lace to face facts and to talk plain
ly about a situation. Take, for ex
ample, his recent remarks to farmers,
saying that they “like to talk peace”
and then stand for “highly national
istic trading policies which inevita
bly lead to war.”
Danger of the United States be
coming involved in war lies in the
fact, among others, that 68 per cent,
of our agricultural exports go to five
countries certain to be involved in
any major difficulty in Europe or
Asia. Should war come, one side or
the other will interfere with that
trade, meaning the loss of some of
our markets.
Farmers “suffer more from the
nievitable post-war deflation than
any other class” and hence should
be willing to make their contribution
to the cause of peace. Mr. Wallace
suggests that this may require the
acceptance of small increases in im
ports of certain agricultural products.
EMANCIPATED
A lonely bird in a gilded cage,
Flitted from perch to perch;
With longings deep from day to day,
For freedom it did search.
It lacked not food nor tender care,
Beneath its prison dome;
But in its heart was uppermost
A wish for mate and home.
Its selfish captors gazed and gazed
Upon this lonely bird,
They rolled their eyes in ecstasy
When its sweet voice was heard.
But in their utter selfishness
They did not seem to know,
That this rare bird had ever longed
To freely come and go.
When Fate by chance its cage did
ape
And it did sail away;
In holy wrath they gatherer ‘round,
And for it they did pray.
Hypocrisy was so ingrained
Into their souls and life,
They did not wish that it should have
A refuge from all strife.
May that lone bird, in days to come,
Secure itself a mate,
And build itself a little nest,
And thank the stroke of Fate
That freed it from those prison walls
And gave it life anew,
And let it freely come and go
As other birdies do.
ROBERT J. DOBBS.
Lyerly, Ga., Dec. 17, 1936.
EAGLE TAKES PIG.
FARGO, Ga.—An eagle, with a
s ven-foot wind spread, swooped
down and captured a forty-pound pig
as it fed near the Suwanee river. The
bird took off but, heavily laden with
its victim, gained altitude slowly.
Hardy Johnson witnessed the capture
and shot the eagle. The pig was kill
ed by the fall.
H. A. Chichester
County Surveyor.
P. O. Box 207
Summerville, Ga.
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