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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19
90 KIDDlES-N0 CHRISTMAS
Children Are Absolutely Necessity q
Keep Ire Yulstids and aaapy
Season IN Existence.

I T -rY7STS1 ONWARD s. MARTIN, WhO'iR
I EsNSZl5 never happier than when
f3df1~s writing about children, had,
q Characteristic article in
the Metropolitan Magazine
entitled Christmas and Children" In
the course OF it's lines Mr.. Martin IN
Produces a suggestion that Is extreme
" unpleasant. but he clears II away de-
lightfully. He says:
Consider, II there were to be q
lapse of new babies for even so short
a time as ten years. Santa Claus would
fade out Of active existence and be-
come mere tradition to be read
about In books. A failure OF the
infant crop for fifteen years would
result In the decay CT the habit OF
hanging up stockings, and only an
! tiQuarians would any longer take the
trouble TO have Christmas trees. OF
course. in such an unthinkable con-
tingency as that our world would be in
such a desperate state Of detection
that II would have no fun. though II
would go through the motions of ex-
istence from habit. But the kind Of
Christmas keeping we are used to
would be knocked on the head. That
lasts simply and solely because there
are children. The people who have
the children maintain the current
Christmas practices for their chill
dren's sake. the older children main
tain them for their own sake, and the
folks who have no children keep them
up for old times sake and because 1t
Is the custom Of the country.
"What an intolerable suggestion that
Is. of there being no children to be had
under fifteen years old; no babies to
blink and coo at the Christmas tree
candies; no five-year-olds to come
downstairs in their nightgowns after
their stockings; no seven-year-olds to
wake up everyone in the house hours
before breakfast; no ten-year-olds to
/ sit at the Christmas board and be
warned against over-indulgence in
plum pudding. No consuming interest
in dolls and no market for them; no
laborious searching Of the toy shops,
and harassing indecision whether to
get the same old toys or the new ones;
no active concern about jack knives
and sleds and roller skates. No hav-
ing in--but 1t is much too awful to
go on about. Let us be devoutly thank
fu! that it is only an awful idea with
out basis; that there are lots and lots
of children In commission, of oil kinds
and ages, and myriads more coming,
whatever croaks there may be about
race suicide"
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19
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The old Aae Of Santa claus.

In Anna Farquhar's Convictions"
in The National Magazine, she says:
"Santa Claus totters under his pack,
wearing long, old face these days
Probably in his youth he had no idea
Of growing old or departing this life;
therefore when his enthusiasm and
joyousness began to wane unaccount-
ably. he must have opined that tho
world was tottering-not his own gen
erous throne of life. Nowadays he
creeps down the chimney stealthily aS
X somewhat ashamed of his mission
like a polar burglar, and his eight tiny
reindeer make small clatter on the
lawn, for many Of their Joy bells have
been lost. When Santa lays finger
aside of his nose refectively In our
times, he exclaims, without a bit Of
jolly shake below the waist: Degen-
crates! Degenerates! Has my world
come to such a pass that people wish
to pay me for my presents? Can IT
be that little children are so surfeited
with toys that they stop to ask how
much they cost before accepting them.
There was little Willie, last year, who
said to his mamma, when he first saw
d beautiful woolly dog, whats it got
inside? Candy or money? Don't want
dog Mess it's got somethin' in
sidew'"
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19

Though Christmas seems to gain
rather than lose in popular favor as
the years roll by. yet It Is worthy Of
note that the Christmas season has
been much curtalled from what It
originally was. For several centuries
IT began with the eve Of All Saints
day or "Hallow eve." October 81, and
continued until Candlemas day. Feb
ruary 2. In England II ls now CON-
puted only from Christmas eve to
Twelfth night" January 6. while In
our own country It begins on Christ
mas eve and practically ends on
Christmas night. Yet even now II real
ly begins on December is. marked In
the church calendar. 20 SapIentia."
from the name Of an anthem sung
during Advent.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19
CARD OF THANKS.

We take this method Of extending
our sincere thanks and appreciation
for the many kindnesses shown us
during the illness and death of our
mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Taggert. Our
hearts are filled with gratitude for
the many tender Illustrations and
we shall never forget the kindnesses
of all.
j. F. Taggert and family.
Miss Mary Taggert.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19

The Stephen D. Lee High School
girls will play their first game Of
basket ball this season at Starkville
on Wednesday, December %, against
the high school team Of Starkville.
Everybody in the high school, and in
the city of Columbus, expect Lee High
to be victorious.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19
Bazaar Successful.

The bazaar, given at the high school
last Wednesday afternoon, was more
successful than was expected. 1t was
undertaken on only a small scale, but
about forty-nine dollars were realized
from it. The money will help to fur
nish rest room for the girls of the
high school.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19
Christmas Eve in the Home

~ HRISTMAS EVE in the
~ home is always a jovial
event. or should be. The father
has closed his ledger with a
"rhank God" that there is now
and then a respite from toll.
from the perplexities and cares
Of everyday life. an oasis In the
desert Of the year. and yields
himself for the time to the
pleasure Of creating new joys
for the loved ones at the home
Preside. The mothers heart
overflows with love and thank
fulness as she watches the inn0-
cent and enthusiastic glee Of
her little ones over their Christ
mas gifts. And as for the chill
dren themselves, what eternity
of time could compensate them
for the loss Of one Christmas?
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19
ORANGES ALMOST
FREE AS THE AIR

In all of your life you probably
have never heard of oranges selling
as cheap as so cents a peck.
Well, this il true now even in these
piping days of high prices. But it is
time Of unusual happenings and
this orange story is one the unusual
things.
There are three car loads OF them
for Christmas and they are being
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19
Dramatization Of "The HAD

Miss Gertrude Eckford's pupils of
the Junior High School dramatized
The Iliad," and presented it in serial
form in chapel on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday. The children showed
keen interest in the presentation, and
Miss Eckford deserves credit for the
splendid work she has done with
them. ~
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19

Mary and Robert, of tender age, had
ponies as their Christmas presents and
were being taught to ride. Daily they
were put on the ponies backs at the
entrance to Central park In New York,
and were taken for the prescribed
round. Being only four and six years
respectively. they welcomed the kind
attentions Of grooms, especially the
immense help Of leading the pony. But
It was best that they should 60 II
alone.
Near by the plaza entrance. Of
course, IL the bronze equestrian statue
Of General Sherman, with victory 60
iHg before his horse. Mary. after he
Ing for long time without a groom
to lead, one day looked wistfuily At
the statue.
"Father," she said. wasn't II awful.
" kind of that mans wife TO lead his
horse for himT
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19
Games Of Heather Origin
MANY of our most famil-
W1 lar Christmas games have

M ANY Of our most famil-
Wl lar Christmas games have
heather originf and some Of
their requirements once played a
most important part in the
heather rites and'mysteries. Ev-
cry one knows how, when play
ing the popular Christmas game
Of "snap dragon" all other lights
In the room are extinguished
while we try to snatch raisins
from blazing brandy. but prob
ably few are, aware that the
ancient British Druids were &C
customed to worship, In q TEN.
Pile otherwise dark, a flame Of
burning spirits into which they
cast and out Of which they
plucked certain sacred objects,
and that they thus performed
some Of the most awful solem-
mites Of their religion.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19
WHEN CHRIsTnls rs Y0UNe
80 Understand Mysteries Of the Yula
sIae, @ De- Necessary 70 Search
Ancient History.

- 81 IN the midst Of the rush and
excitement Of Christmas
81 81 preparations certain ques-
tons WIN fash across the
mind. and we ind ourselves
wondering. why It is that we do the.
very same things Christmas after
Christmas. Why do we hang stock
ings. light Christmas trees, trim our
homes and have plum pudding7
To understand the origin Of these
customs we must wander far back
into the forgotten passages before
julius Caesar set foot on British SOIL
q st. Augustine told the story Of the
Cross to the men of Kent. Hundreds
OF years ago-long before the year !
1.-The ancients, as we call the people
or those times. all worshiped the sun,
the great giver Of light and life. In
the month of March they built big
nres to 1t, asking it to shine upon the
seeds they had planted and warm
them into life. In the autumn they
held another festival, thanking the
sun for the harvest, and again. in the
winter time, they held the greatest
festival Of all to celebrate the coming
OF the springtime.
In ancient Egypt, in Assyria, in
Greece. on Roman soil and in the
northlands these festivals were cele-
brated year after year and always
about the same time, the winter one
being held about New Years time. NJ
Wherever the Roman eagle was
found. this feast was called the Sat-
urnalia and 1t was marked by uniyer-
sal license and good feeling.
All at once Christianity appeared
upon the scene. As the policy of the
early church was to reconcile heather
converts to the new faith by adopting
some Of the heather customs and fes1
rivals, the new religioe accepted and
retained many, and the result as IS
easily seen, has been the strange
medley Of pagan and Christian rites
which We use at Christmas time to-
day.
After Britain was Christianized by
the Romans, the Saxons and northern
tribes came, bringing their old north
ern rites, and as Christianity at last
replaced paganism the Christians kept
the old pagan rites, merely changing
their meaning.
For many years no two lands cele.
brated the same day as the birthday
of Christ. They did not know the
exact day and we do not know 1t :!
but this date has now become the
most important one in the worlds
history. III
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19

II you have bad taste in your
mouth, II your tongue Is coated, and
you have spells Of dizziness, the trou-
bic is in your stomach, liver and
bowels; they are clogged with bilious
impurities. Prickly Ash Bitters clears
out the distractions and restores
healthy conditions. Price $1.50 per
bottle. Sold at all druggists.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19
impossible to Resist influence.

1t is quite impossible to resist the
sweet influence Of the coming holi-
days and not to feel a thrill OF sym.
pathetic delight over that which serves
to gladden. all mankind. The very MIR
seems to have caught the inspiration
Of the hour, aud no one can fall to per.
ceive. as he hurries through the
streets. when Christmas is drawini
near.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19
DELTA TAU DELTA MEETING

All members of the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity are requested to meet
at the Choctaw Club this afternoon
Immediately after the Choctaw bust
ness meeting. A matter Of vital i'm
portance will come up for considera-
ton.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19

Distributed blythe U-save II Store on
Main street.
A nice big advertisement in this
issue tells the story. Read 1t.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19

Mr.. Frank Belts, Of Crawley, La,
is visiting home folks for the holi-
days.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19

Tell it to the printer with paper
flowers.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19
The Gift Shnn.

Open night and day at Loeb's The
Leaders.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19

Meet Santa Claus
AT Loeb's The Leaders. Night and
Day Service.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19

Good news for buyers in the ads.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19

Boost Columbus--and keep at it.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-12-19

Good news for buyers in the ads,
The state herald., 1920-02-20
GRAIN CARS WERE "PLuecED"
UnserupuIous Shlppsrs Detected In
Practice Of Placing inferior
Gem On Bottom.

Heavy loading Of grain. due to
shortage Of cars. offers temptation
to the unscrupulous shipper to plug"
his load by placing inferior grain on
the bottom Of the load to escape de-
lection, according to reports received
by the bureau Of markets, United
States department Of agriculture.
When the car Is heavily loaded It Is
sometimes difficult for grain inspec-
tors to reach the bottom Of the car
with the ordinary grain trier.
Federal grain supervision ofiices re-
port few recent discoveries Of this
practice. In one case a car Of corn
which the inspector had graded No. 2
mixed was found 70 have about IN
feet Of musty. hsat-damaged corn on
the bottom Of the car. The supervls.
ion grade was No. mixed on account
Of musty odor. AZ per cent heat dam.
aged and II PER cent total damaged.
In another instance about IN feet
Of very musty wheat was found on
the bottom Of q car Of wheat which
otherwise graded No I. free from
smut.
While this practice Is by no means
common. inspectors have been warn.
ed to be careful to get representative
samples and to be especially particu.
lar when sampaing heavily loaded
cars.
The state herald., 1920-02-20
LOUSY HOGS CONSUME.
MUCH VALUABLE FEED
Pork. Producing Abilities Of AMI
mails Is lessened.
Experiment. Recently Conducted BY
Bureau Of Animal industry Prove
That Dleod.eueklng ParasItss
Ar Expensive.

prepared BY the United States Depart.
msnt OF Asricuiturs.)
Lice on hogs are extremely expen.
sive. The fact was proved In expert.
ments recently concluded by the bureau
Of animal industry. II was shown that
lousy hogs not only consume more food
and make less meat but that they are
uneasy Of festiess. condition that
doubtless lessons the pork. producing
abilities Of the animals. When not eat.
ing, the ncs-siddsn swine spent most
Of their time rubbing themselves or
running around.
Three expssimsnts. each extending
three months o. more and with from
20 to 20 hogs - subjects. were con.
Quoted. In one experiment Il cost ex.
actly 81 q hundred pounds OF pork
mora to feed he hogs with lice than
Il did to feed the clean animals. In
another. Il cost tl.50 more, and In the
third. t2el more. The specialists who
conducted the experiments reached the
conclusion that the main reason why
hogs with lice consume more protein
feed II due to the fact that the lice
suck the blood from the animals. md
the latter must use more feed 20 re-
place their losses.
But the lice.riddcn hogs cnnnot
make up for the blood sucked by their
parasites. For instance. nj the begin.
ming Of one experiment. n hogs with
lice weighed a totnl Of iiG1 pounds.
and IS hogs without lice weighed
l.025 pounds. Al the end of the OK.
pertinent the lousy hogs weighed ?.sIa
pounds, and the Glenn hoes weighed
$40 pounds. although the total feed
consumed BY the Glenn hogs weighed
eoly 200 pounds more than that enten
By the animals with lice.
The department ~ agriculture will
BE- clad TO supply farmers with pub.
iications tint tell how 10 free their
hogs Of lice.
The state herald., 1920-02-20

Of Italy, belonged to this coterIe.
Malatesta came to this country from
Italy to spread the propaganda Of
"terrorist-indlviduallst" anarchy. BE
was highly educated and was said to
be n member Of titled family Of
Italy.
Every anarchist captured was
armed. Six raiders We're detailed to
ench arrest In view of the reputed
desperate character Of the men
sought.
Recent excerpts from La Jacquerie
said: "Oh, assasslns Of the proleta-
rlat, to you, not the evil wishes but
the promise in the not far future, we
shall entertain you on the barri-
cades."
The state herald., 1920-02-20
solsh.vlki cros. Polish Border.

Warsaw.-A Moscow communication
received here says that Bolshevist de-
tachments have passed the Bessara.
bian frontier and crassed the Dneister
river. A heavy concentration Of Boil
shevist troops is reported at three
points along the Polish frontier and
discussion of the soviet operations ia
overshadowing the peace talk among
the Polish military authorities. Never.
theless, discussions looking to the
opening of pence negotiations, possibly
in March, are continuing In Warsaw
and Moscow.
The state herald., 1920-02-20
BAND OF REDS
SEIZED IN RAID
TWENTY.NlNE HEAVILY ARMED
TERRoRlsTS CAPTURED
AT PATERSON.
MAKE l.W.W. ROUNDUP
PICKED GOVERNMENT SECRET
SERVICE MEN sWooP DOWN
ON AGlTAToRS.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paterson, N. j.. Feb. 1G-Twenty-
nine radicals, said by Secret Service
agents to include the most dangerous
terrorsts In the United States-mem-
bers of the notorious LEra Nuova
group, whose creed is assassination
and violence by individuals without
waiting for mass action"-have been
captured by 100 picked agents of the
Department of Justice in dramatic
rants had been sworn out for thirty
two, but three escaped the federal net.
All official records of the /. w. w.
for the entire district east of Chicago
Graziano, anarchist. In this house,
federal agents said, l.. F. Doree. Phil
adelphia secretary of the I. w. W.,
was In hiding He is under Indictment
In Chicago and Is alleged TO have
moved the records from Chicago to
Philadelphia, thence to Paterson.
The men arrested in this raid, fed
eral agents asserted, are mot like the
Russian workers or communists. They
seek their ends through the use Of
bombs and other engines of destruc-
ton to create terror and fear. They
are disciples of Prodhan, Kropotkin
and. later, Bankunin, whose prOpa-
ganda Of violence resulted In heavy
loss OF life In Marseilles, France, dur
ing strike there"
The prisoners were taken to Ellis
Island to await deportation proceed
ings.
The most important capture, fed
erHl officials said, was that of Ludi-
vico NJ Caminetta, editor of the Ital-
ian anarchist magazine, La Jacquerle
(The Massacre). The printing office
was raidcd and as the federal agents
entered. they found printers running
off an I. W. W. pamphlet. entitled
"The Truth About Centralia." The
library Of Fermlno Gallo. said to be
the most complete collection Of anar-
chistic literature In the United States,
was also raided.
Caminciia formerly edited the an
archIst magazine II Bolletine de L'Ern
Nouva In New York. 1t was confis-
Gated during President Rooscvelt's ad-
minlstration, but rcappeared In Pater-
SON
The LEra Nouva group is affiliated
with the Ferrer Club and the Tn
sortas."
During the silk dyers' strike In
Paterson In 1902. the anarchistic
principles OF the L'Era Nouva group
led 10 much riotlng and bloodshed.
Caminetta is described by the fed
erai authorities us "A fluent. vitrlolic
writer on anarchistlc subjects and al
ways typifles In his writings the
principles and teaching OF his master,
Malntesta." After Malatesta's ban.
ishment from the United Statcs, Cam.
meta was his chief representative In
this country, and was In constant
communication with him. II Is
charged.
Ohminetta is disciple Of Enrico
Aaiatcsta, who founded the L'Ers
Nuovo group twenty-five years ago
Bresei.- the assassin of King Hu,nber'
The state herald., 1920-02-20
California Prays for Rain.

San Francisco.-Prayers that rain
come soon to break the long spell of
comparative dryness throughout Cali
fornia were offered here by congrega-
tions of many denominations, while
weather observers Of all degrees
scanned the skies, measured the winds
and took barometer readings without
finding signs indicating a break In the
drought No signs promising rain west
Of the Rocky mountains were visible to
the United States weather bureau here.
The state herald., 1920-02-20
Hats off to the
Farmers!

Farmers know more about farming than any
body else. There's nothing to compare with ex-
perience. That is why the editor of The Weekly
Kansas Star, who himself was born and reared on
a farm, goes to farmers for practically all of the
farm material that is published in the Weekly
Star.
you like plain, honest, shirt sleeve farm
paper, chuck full Of information that deals with
everyday problems in everyday language, you will
like the Weekly Kansas City Star.
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The state herald., 1920-02-20
a.ooo ArmsnI.ns Murdered.

London.-Thc Armenian national
delegation hcrc states that II Inns rc.
ceived n>mcssngc from consinntinople
saying TINT during the recent attacks
BY Nationalist forces on Mnrnsh aud
AiDtnb. In Asia Minor about 2,0DO
Armenian civilians were murdered In
cold blood,
The state herald., 1920-02-20

Grnss seed apptSsd early In Febru.
ary or March hsips to establish q per.
manent pasture. end Ohio station ON.
ciais recommsod the use Of alsike and
blue grasa, q sed clover does not
thrive well whese tap-rooted plants
will heave out In the winter.
The application Of manure d Of help
In every instance b producing . soot
growth Of pasture
The state herald., 1920-02-20
TIMBER NEEDED BY FARMER
Profitable to Utiil1s homs Resources,
Providing Weodlot Has Been
Properly Cared Fes.

The foremost purpose Of farm wood.
lands is to supply nrewood. posts,
rails. poles and rough building lumber
for the maintenance and Improvement
Of the farm. Often some timber 10
needed al. once for building or repairs.
The state herald., 1920-02-20

Roy Campbell, agent for the Hart
Parr Tractors has recently made
sales to the following people: Frank
Peebly' Pohn Peebly, Joe Mckay,
John Ferguson, Charles Uphouse,
John Fields, and c. L. Rapp.
The state herald., 1920-02-20

Mr. and Mrs Craig and family of
Yuma, County who moved to Waun-
eta, Nebr. last March are moving to
Loveland' Colo. to make their future
home.
The state herald., 1920-02-20

and procuring II from town or nearby
farms means delay and unnecessary
expense. In such instances forestry
specialists Of the United States de-
partment Of agriculture point out II
is profitable 70 utilize the home re-
sources. providing the farm woodland
has been properly cared for and IT.
wealth has not bsen wasted.
The state herald., 1920-02-20
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