Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-14
GUS EDWARDS
GIRLS ON job
Musical Comedy Beauties Join
Forces With Santa Claus for
RtIanta'S Poor.
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any religion at all This isn't case Of
I religion-its brotherhood. You fell
| lows with the Elk pin on your lapels
or the Red Mems button or the Shrin-
er's emblem, or you who just belong to
! the general crowd-you're all in on this.
If some poor little girl with her toes
| sticking out Of the holes in her shoes
came up TO you at the cigar stand and
| told you she hadn't got a thing for
! Christmas and didn't believe in Santa
| Claus any more, you'd dig up the price
mighty quick. wouldn't you? If you
didn't I'll bet my pay envelope against
beer check the cigar you bit off would
taste like a rubber boot on fire.
We're Not the Real Hard Luck Kids.
! The trouble with us fellows is that
we can't see other folks troubles until
we jam right up against them. We
don't know what's going on just around
the corner. We think were in hard
luck because we can't afford racing
car and have to take Milwaukee brew
instead of bubble water.
| l heard a friend of mine raising
long howl last night because he had to
|
wanted to have tailor survey him for
la $50 l1imono with fur around the edges
Hard luck, wasn't 1t?
I'd like to take that guy over across
the tracks beyond the gas works and
show him some of the kids playing in
the dirt and making believe a broken
beer bottle wrapped in a rag was Il
sure enough doll with a Papa and
Mamma" attachment on it's insides
Why. you fellows don't know what hard
luck is.
This Goes For the kiddos.
Remember, this collection doesn't go
to buy hymn books for the Choctaws
or flannel chest protectors for the Sa-
hara Arabs. 1t doesn't send any mis-
sionaries to Gool-a-B oola or teach Lat
in and Greek to first-rate cotton field
hands 1t goes every cent of 1t, to fill
the stockings Of a hundred or so poor
kiddos with dolls and jumping jacks
and toy steam engines and all that sort
of truck that you used to think was all
there was to Christmas when you were
kids.
The Georgian isn't going to ask
whether Johnnie or Susie go to Sunday
school once a week or whether they
know the alphabet backward or for
ward. 1t doesn't care a continental
whether the kids have been good or
bad during the year.
All 1t asks is: as this little fellow
going to have toys and candy on Christ
mas day, or is he going to wake up and
find nothing in sight, but an empty
stocking with a hole in it and a mighty
poor breakfast to start his Merry
Christmas on?"
Join the Big Brothers!
That would be a nice kind of Christ
mas for a kid, now wouldn't It? And
it's up to you to fix 1t the right way.
Chicago has bunch of good sports
called the Big Brothers. They're club
men and officemen and fellows who
work hard for their weekly pay envel-
ope. Some Of them are married and
some of them just stays; some of them
are Sunday school superintendent and
, a lot of them take theirs straight and
have a ringside seat at every fight
that's pulled off. But they all get busy
a week or two before Christmas and
riase enough coin to give every poor
kid they can find enough to eat and
something to play with on Christmas
morning. And they don't confne their
enthusiasm to soliciting money from
other folks They dig most of it out of
their own jeans.
Why not join the Big Brothers of
Atlanta today? You don't need a badge
Ia
dues are just a quarter or a half in the
barrel at Five Points. where Gus Ed
wards and his girls will give you some
thing to amuse you, and the pass word
is Keep the Change" Are you on?
Don't give me that stall about having
little nephews and nieces of your own.
Sure, you've got TO send them some
thing But you can rake off a quarter
or so from their outfit without their
missing it. 1t would surprise you to
know how far the price of couple of
drinks will go toward filing a stocking
No Limit on the Ante.
These kids in The Georgian's list
don't expect SO-cent candy and the
latest dolls from Paris You could take
what you're going to spend on one of
your sisters children and give a merry
Christmas TO a dozen youngsters |
know. Not that I'd advise you to cut
out your own folks. Just split It two
ways. that's all.
Remember, it's at Five Points. this
afternoon. open to all corners and no
limit on the ante If you're going out
, of town or too busy to take a walk, slir
a note in an envelope, address it to the
Christmas Editor OF The Georgian and
drop it in the mail chute. You can put
your name on it If you like, or you
needn't That's up to you.
But you can bank on it that every
dollar you chip in for the Empty
Stocking will give you the biggest dol
lars worth Of feeling right you ever
had in your life
Take "a chance and see if I'm not
! right
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