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It is more vitally' necessary
than the city or state gov
ernment.
Supporting it does not mean
doling out gifts as to prof
itless institution.
It starts your children on the
right path and so insures
their steadfast happiness.
It sets the moral standard of
the community.
It furnishes comfort when
sorrow and death comes.
It flavors all social life.
; BUT
It cannot exist iinless ~ you
wish it to.
How much support do you
give it?
How often do you come to
church.
It's just a question of whether
the church is necessary
enough to you to be contin
ued in the community or
whether you want it to shut
up shop.
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CHURCH OF CHRIST
CONGREGATIONAL
Rev. Will B. O'Neill, Minister.
SUNDAY SERVICES
Church School, 9:45 A. M.
A graded school with classes for
all.
Morning Worship, 11 :00 A. M.
J. P. S. C. E., 4:00 P. M.
WEDNESDAY
"Quiet Hour", 4:30 P. M.
A friendly welcome awaits you!
BAPTIST
Regular services each Sunday
11 A. M. and at 8 P. M.
Special Music Evening Services.
Sabbath School at 16 A. M.
Public Cordially invited.
Thomas L. Justice, D.D., Pastor.
CATHOLIC
St. John's Church, corner Mel
rose Avenue and Lanier St.
MASS ? Sunday, 9 A. M.
Rev. J. A. Manley, Rector.
METHODIST
First and Third Sundays at 11
A. M.
Second and Fourth Sundays at
7:30 P. M.
Sunday School every Sunday at
10 P. M.
Rev. R. B. Fikes, Pastor.
EPISCOPAL
Sunday Service :
Holy Communion 7 :30
Sunday School 10:00
Morning Prayer and
Sermon 11:00
Friday 5 P. M., Litany and in
tercessions for the sick.
Rev. C. P. Burnett, Rector.
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Moorish Mosqua it Cordova.
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(Praparad by the National Olographic Bo
claty, Waahlnf ton, D. C.)
Spain, whose sons once dominated
Europe and through their language
and civilisation dominated much of the
western world, has not yet been
spoiled by the tourist. Cut off from
the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees
and the sea ? forming, in fact, a de
tached bit of Africa ? Spain has gone
on through the centuries preserving !
countless ancient traits which give her
life and people a peculiar stamp.
Nowhere else does the past, with its
great warnings against pride, intoler
ance, and extravagance, so impress
even the casual passer-by. Journey- ,
ing into Spain from France, the trav
eler is promptly notified by a change
of gauge at the frontier that even the
railroads In Spain are different Their
gauge is over a foot wider than that
of central Europe and of America ; so
passengers must change cars and
freight be trans-shipped. This wide
gauge is a great advantage, and Amer
ican railroad men sigh for it. It en
ables more powerful locomotives and
more capacious cars to be used, though
the Spaniards have not yet risen en
tirely to their opportunities.
Travelers who know a little Spanish
and have learned by experience in oth
er lands that the genuine ? people,
whom one comes to know, travel third
class, go in with them, regardless of
bare wooden seats and crowded quar
ters. One can be very comfortable
with a rug or two; and, Instead of
sophisticated French-speaking travel
ers, one has as neighbor an intelligent
Castilian farmer, who uses an Amer
ican harvester, and who laments
Spain's Illiteracy and official corrup
tion as the chief cause of her trou
bles; or It may be a Barcelona com
mercial traveler, who lays Spain's Ills
? which all admit, saying, "Pobre
Espana 1" (poor Spain)? to her highly
centralized administration, which. tax
es the whole country, and especially
rich and populous Catalonia, for Ma
drid officeholders.
The ancient divisions of Spain, for
centuries Independent and often hos
tile countries, stfU hold somewhat
aloof from each other. The Catalans
even speak a different language, al
lied to Provencal, as different from
Castilian as Dutch is from English.
Baroeiona It Attractive.
As one comes from the north, the
first Important town ts Gerona, mem
orable for the heroic defense against
the French a century ago.
Barcelona, Spain's largest and busi
est city, is a most attractive place, pos
sessing the best climate in the west
ern Mediterranean ? more equable than
that of Nice. A stroll along the Ram
bla, the chief boulevard, is full of in
terest. One can take a delightful ride
on the top of a double^decked trolley
car to the Tlbidabo, a pine-covered hill
overlooking the city and its magnifi
cent harbor.
A few miles down the coast is Tar
ragona, whose stately aqueduct Is a
reminder that she was the chief city
of Roman Spain. A few hours further
south lies Tortosa, on the Ebro, the
only large river in Spain emptying
Into the Mediterrgner.n. Its waters
are largely diverted into Irrigation
canals, whlcfi make the fields and gar
dens a delight to the eye; and the
combination of date palms and waving
wheat shows what a variety of prod
ucts the country produces. One can
still see on the streets hug* Jars which
remind one of All Baba and the Forty
Thieves, and in the wine stores wine
is sold in pig skins which give It a
taste much like that of the dilute
spruce gum into which wine degen
erates in Greece.
Turning Inland one l's soon met by
the strangely toothed ridge of the
Montserrat (about 4,000 feet high), the
traditional home of the Holy Orall.
Now the train labors up to the bleak
highlands of Castile, bare and forbid
ding. Central Spain is a high plateau,
crossed by rugged mountains, scorched
In summer and frozen stiff In winter.
Here and there shepherds accom
pany their heavy-fleeced merinos,
A Powerful Kick
/, ' it ? * ' r
? A flivver, immediately after knock
ing down an old man, ran into a truck
not ten yards away. There It lay
minus two wheels and the steering
gear. -- ',??
Presently the old man, who was hot
hurt, got up, and one of the. bystand
ers directed bis attention to the ruined
flivver on the other side of . (be road.
The pedestrian rubbed his eyes as If
to take In the situation bett< then
which nibble even u they cross plowed
land- ; The good-natured herdsmen,
with their rough coats and skin trou
sers, have not much changed since Don
Quixote's day. ....
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^ Madrid and Toledo.
Madrid la a well-built, modern city
with busy offices and bustling trolley
ears. It Spends upon the govern
ment, tourists, and society for its sub
'aistencev Its picture gaBery, 111 the
Prado, is the peer of any in the world,
*?d must be visited by students of
Titian, whose paintings here pre
served rival those of Velasques.
A greater attraction to the populace
Is the huge bull ring, seating nearly
15,000. On Sunday afternoons a gay
throng gathers there; the bull-flghters
march out In their brilliant costumes,
and the ceremony of slaying the bull
begins. It Is almost a ritual, and ev
ery detail must be punctiliously ob
served. >
Not far from Madrid lies Toledo,
the ancient Vlsigothlc capital. The
Tagus flows about it In a deep gorge
on almost every side. High above the
I old mills looms the Alcaxar, the one
time castle, now a military school.
Toledo is a fascinating city, with nar
row, winding streets, and shops where
one can still buy Toledo blatfes, tem
pered In the Tagus, and Inlaid with
gold.
At Cordova one enters southern
Spain, with Its highways bordered
with aloes and prickly pear (both
American Importations, like tobacco,
maize* and potatoes), and its groves of
olive trees. A thousand years ago
Cordova was the Intellectual and ar
tistic center of western Europe; its
university drew students from every
where, and its products, especially
leather (cordwaln, L e., Cor4ovan),
were famous. Today its narrow and
sunny streets, with their picturesque
churches, seem deserted ; but the ca
thedral chapter has preserved one me
morial of past magnificence In the
Moorish mosque, the greatest Moham
medan building west of Mecca.
The mosque itself is a forest of
pillars, which divide Uie huge, low
building Into a score of naves. There
are over 900 of these columns; some
were sent here from the East, mates,
perhaps, of those sent at the time of
Charlemagne for his palace at Alx-la
Chapelle. Those were the days of
Haroun-al-Ra8chld and the Arabian
Nights; but the splendor of Cordova
rivaled that of Bagdad. Abderrahman's
wonderful palace ? far more sumptu
ous than the Alhambra, to Judge from
the descriptions of the Arabic histo
rians?has perished utterly; but the
mlhrabs, or prayer niches, In the
mosque give some Idea of the beauty
of Cordova at the height of her glory.
Romance of Granada.
Granada, long a decaying provincial
city, Is now alive with trolley cars and
electric lights, and tourists are so com
mon here that the small boys have
even learned a few English words with
which to coax away small coin. But
the herds of goats, and an occasional
cow ? an economical milk delivery sys
tem ? give a pastoral touch to the town.
Granada lies at the point where the
Darro and the Xenll, running down
from the mountains, unite as they en
ter the fertile plain of the Vega.
Above the city rise the foothills? one
crowned by the Alhambra ? and be
yond them the snow-capped ridges of
the Sierra Nevada, 10,000 feet higher.
Granada has, therefore, a singularly
beautiful situation, and It enjoys a !
mild fend agreeable climate. The ro- ?
mantle Interest of its history com- (
pletes the spell. Here was the last J
Saracen court In western Europe ; here (
Isabella of Castile, with the money J
loaned her by a Spanish Jew, financed i
the Genoese adventurer's foolhardy J
quest ; here Ferdinand and she, in that i
same momentous year of 1492, decreed J
the expluslon of the Jews from Spain ; <
and here their ashes now repose, In J
the great Renaissance cathedral which t
they built In gratitude for their trl- J
umph over Islam. j
gazed intently at the battered car, af- i
ter which he exclaimed In a loud voice:
"Gracious, I must have given the thing
an awful kick to have done so much
damage." i
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Refute to Admit Idleness
Work Is as much a necessity to man
as eating and sleeping. Even those
who do nothing ' that can be called
work still *lmaglne they are doing
something. ' The world has not a man
Who Is an idler In his own eyes.? W.
Humboldt
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Oil GOMKISSION NECESSITY
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SECRETARY WORK MAKES AN
: NUAL REPORT WITH RECOM
MENDATIONS.
Washington.? Creation of a perman- 1
ent federal oil commission with u !
to conservation, congressional action
on the new reclamation program, im
provements in the administration of
the country's island possessions, and
legislation to increase the interna:
department were recommended by
retary Work in his annual report
The secretary did not discuss th?
oil situation at length, but he declar
ed formation of a commission of cab
inet officers to* deal with it was an!
urgent necessity." He likewise tout li
ed but briefly on the new reclamation!
program which was worked out by a i
special commission but which fail, d
of congressional approval at the ,u.?t'
session. Enactment of the legislation
contemplated in the program, he said
was one of the tasks with which th**
present session should deal promptly.
He suggested that within the in
terior department itself there was
need for a new bureau of public works,
in which all construction and engi
neering work performed by the gov
ernment could be centered. He also
advocated the construction into one
department, and under one member
Of the cabinet, of the territorial af
fairs of Alaska and Hawaii.
Declaring the problem of directing
federal guardianship of 225,000 In
dians is one of great concern to him,
the secretary urged that centralized
authority with decentralized respon
sibility is essential in the Indian ser
because of the distance between the
bureau in Washington and its wards.
"States should be impressed," he
said, "that ultimately the Indian prob
lem is theirs to solve, and the govern
ment's participation should eventually j
be co-operative rather than initiative i
in character."
Describing the growing popularity
of the nationl park system ? visited
last season by record crowds in spite
of conditions adverse to travel ? Mr.
Work said he hoped Congress would
see fit to create and outdoor play
ground, readily accessible to the mil
lions of persons from densely populat
ed centers of the east. He observed
that the western states so far have
virtually a monopoly on national parks,
the only one in the east being Lafay
ette National park, in Maine. A com
mittee has inspected proposed sites
for a national park in the Southern ,
Appalachian mountain region, and its
recommendation will be presented to
the present Congress. ?
Marked Slump in Exports of Grain. {
Washington. ? Grain exports from
the United States last week were 5,
438,000 bushels against 9,027,00 bush
els the week previous.
Figures for this week made public
by the Commerce Department and
comparisons for the week before fol
low: Barley, 87,000 bushels, against
907,000 bushels; corn, 38,000, against
138,000; oats, 44,000, against 85,000;
rye, 106,000, against 363,000; wheat 4,1
373,400, against 7,544,000; Canadian
grain in transit cleared from United
States ports 972,000 bushels, against
2,024,000. Wreat flour, United States
and Canadian in transit 449,000 bar
rels, against 443,000 barrels.
Money Meet Postponed.
Paris. ? The meeting of finance min
isters at which it is planned "to allo
cate definitely the reparations receiv
ed from Germany under the Dawes
program, has been set ahead to Janu
ary 6. The delay is said in diplomatic
circles here to be due to the fact that
the British are not in accord with the
French and Americans concerning the
way in which the American war dam
age claims should be met.
Think Mother Put Children to Death.
Seweren, N. J. ? The bodies of James
Antal, four years old, and his brother
John, aged six months, were found in
a creek here. Mrs. Elizabeth Antal,
their mother, was killed a week ago
by a railroad train, about a mile and
a half from where the bodies were
found. |
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plating a weekly alrsb JJ
between the United Siat^^fJ
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i that end. ?
i Paul Henderson, setoii
postmaster-genera!, ?b<>fcj
the air mail service, la, |
ing the possibilities o! csl
of the Zeppelin type a
with the future of the fajl
recent acquisition of the m J
Los Angeles. Tbere hn J
sion among army, narv^,
ficials, and some idea of t_
mate costs has been worktd i.
government is in a friesir,
toward any proposals
mit of trans-Atlantic mail:
by airship at a cost withii
thus far no proposals haret
to Washington by airship i
turers.
Southern Railway- After (
Cincinnati? The Sontl
system, through itspre?:d*|
Harrison, has submitted i<
posal for the purchase of!
nati Southern railway froc
Cincinnati, it was leaned
Mr. Harrison, in aletterai
tees of the Cincinnati ni
way. said the Soutlr.i
negotiations leading tie tk I
tion of the only mauipilf!
railroad in the world,
no specific plan outiini^'*
way of consummating i*:
Washington? The utMi
party went to Secretary!
a vigorous protest agaJfii
which would bar womKiti
in the naval or marine ?*?
A deputation from the ptf'j
quarters declared senate uM
bills now pending met^l
these services should beta
"male citizens" and
showed discrimination ig*W
Among other things tfcej "
such legislation would
from serving as "yoemiitf*
Declines to Review LuM1
Washington ?Another efonl
the supreme court redeb<'
of the federal employers !iM
ed when the court reM'ili
a case involving the
the law applies only :o
juries or may be extended
traceable to employment T*
question originated from ti<
Exra R. Singer, an MP*
Baltimore & Ohio, which
suited from escaping 5te^
run from Willard,
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