Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-12-07
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arrived dt successful and satisfactory
way to make his way thru the state
university by making doughnuts for
sale on the campus. With two student
helpers he makes them by the hundred
dozen on a Saturday and disposes of
them too. One college wit says that
Saturday is a 'holey' day with them
and the boy is dubbed the "sinker-
shiek'. His output between January
and June of last year was 10000 dough
nuts
The last legislature of Georgia de-
cided upon the plan by which the
memorial busts of her two great men,
Alexander H. Stephens and Dr. Craw-
ford w Long should after all these
years, be placed as her contribution
to the Hall of Fame in Washington,
d. {. A committee was appointed by
the Governor to act with a committee
from the Georgia bar association and
another from the medical association
which will now proceed to raise the
necessary funds from their membb
and from the public by subscription,
an amount of about $500 in all, be-
ing necessary. Georgia has been slow
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Fame, but not from parsimony as we
believe, but rather because as she has
been fortunate in producing a good
many really great men, it has always
been little difficult to make the
choice However, the work of these
two, Stephens and Long, has been so
distinctive that the public will gener-
ally approve their being selected
The WGM radio station of the Con-
stitution has been conducting a Music
Memory Contest the prize winner be-
ing named today and receiving an a.
ward of some SIS head phones con-
tributed by an electric company, the
contestants having to submit a list of
choruses played by the Constitution
orchestra on different evenings in
medley style and further to name the
song from which the chorus was ia
ken No little interest was taken by
the radio fans.
Lloyd George believes that woman
can keep secret for he has had one,
the same one, for his confidential secre-
tary for nine years, during all the
stress of wartime and his premier
ship of England. Her name is Miss
Frances Louise Stevenson and after
earning an A. B. degree she entered CT
vii serbice where Lloyd George discov-
cred her She attributes her success to
her thorough education, and holds that
women have the qualifications for
public service.
Have we let the Santa Claus idea
run away with us? In most homes
the whole idea ofChristmas centres
around our mythical friend Santa I'M
til the story of the Saviors birth and
the real reason for loving and giving
is relegated into the background.
There is harmful tendency too in
letting the children too long have the
notion of getting from an unknown
and imaginary giver the gifts that rep
resent the love and kindness of their
parents and friends. Qualification and
not gratitude is the outcome. Is this
wise, if too long continued, will it not
rather encourage selfishness than that
other beautiful trait that the gift oil
Gods love should inspire? Love is
the first sentiment that little children
feel and gratitude should be one Of
the earliest to be taught as on these
two depends all his future relations
with God.
Santa Claus is delightful myth and
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Christmas festivities every year, we
love him for the recollections of our
own childhood and for his jolly low
able self as our earliest acquaintance
with him made him to be, and Just so
long as there are very little children
in the home to believe in him he will
have proper place just as Mother
| Goose and all the good old fairy stories
do. But earlier than we often think
there comes to every child sudden
appreciation of what is true, So that
in their request for stories they like
to know first if this one is to be a
really true" story, Or a make be-
lieve' story and while they enjoy both
equally well it becomes a greater sat
isfaction to know which it is. AS soon
as the question is raised about Santa
Claus by any little child as to his
reality just then is the time to let him
into the secret and to get and keep
his confidence and avoid the later in
examinations that older children and
even grown-ups have made against
their parents for lying to them, as one
devout young woman at one time said
Il can never forget how my parents
sank in my estimation when I first
learned from others how they had lied
to me about Santa Claus"