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Christmas came regu- larly to the homes on the higher ground, but in the trough all days were alike, Sammy was errand boy in a down- town office, and it required all of his $12 per week to pay the rent for two small rooms and buy plain food for his invalid mother, himself and two little sisters, The clerks in the office were beginning to talk about Christ- mas. Sammy had never seen but one Christmas tree but he believed in Santa Claus. He wanted a Christmas for his mother and sisters, but Christ- mas was not for the poor. He tried to imagine what it would be like if Santa Claus came to the trough and brought Christmas to everybody. To Mr. Munson, a kindly young clerk in the office, he confided his wish for a Christmas in the trough. “Why don’t you organize a Christmas cor- poration and put on a Christmas of your own?” responded Mr. Munson. He went on to explain a co-operative company could be organized and shares sold and a Christmas given to the trough with the money. You could be president. I will buy a few shares. And Iknow a rich lady, a Mrs. Bennett, who will be here this after- noon, and I will ask her to be gen- eral manager of your corporation. The young man went to his desk, took out a corpor- ation blank and filled it out in reg- ular form for a co-operative cor- poration, He gave it the name of “The Sammy Christmas Corpo- ration,” and fixed the capital stock at $2000, to be subscribed at $1 per share. Sammy was named as president, and Mr. Munson one of the directors. Mrs. Bennett came during the after- noon, and after she had talked a few momenfs to Mr. Munson, Sammy was called-over to the eclerk’s desk. Mr. Munson explained the proposition and all the details, Sammy was in the seventh heaven of delight when Mrs. Bennett consented to become manager and subscribed for fifty shares of stock. Mrs. Bennett said she knew the superintendent of the Mission Sun- day school in the trough and she would ask her to take charge of the tree. Sammy told her about his home, his mother and little sisters, and some- thing about the children in the trough. AAH — FAPUAEL Two newspaper reporters came in and were told about the corporation and the proposed Christmas for the the poor. Cameras clicked, and in the morning papers big headlines told the story. There was a picture of Pres- ident Sammy. The article played up the story of poverty and made a plea for help. It told what was needed to make the tree a success, and pointed out that the name of Mrs. guaranteed the integrity of the cor- poration. Sammy's employer called him into the private office and asked about the trough, about his corporation and his own family. He also subscribed for The mails commenced bringing letters with checks for shares. President Sammy became Zz popular in the of- Z fice, r A survey of the trough population was made and ap- peals were made in the big papers. The uptown mer- chants sent dona- tions of candy and nuts. Great quan- tities of toys were sent by charitable people and mer- chants, With the cash contributed the mission work- er bought shoes and warm stock- ings, suits for = S boys, dresses for ES girls, and there was food, also orders for coal for the sick and the widows who lived there with families, A tree was put up in a great vacant room and everybody in the trough turned out. The place had never seen such a Christmas before, There was candy and toys, besides clothing, for all the children. Nobody was forgot ten. The old people were made hap- py. Little gifts were sent to the homes of those who were sick and not able to be present, President Sammy was the happiest of them all. His mother was there in a new wheel chair, his little sisters received new dresses, toys and dolls. a warm overcoat on the tree for the president of the Sammy Christmas corporation. Addressed to Sammy was a card from his employer wish ing him a Merry Christmas and say- ing that his salary had been raised $5 per week, (©, 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) oon) Es PHovA Fesim A PR Jennett | twenty-five shares in the corporation, | Somebody put a suit of clothes and | % Firemen Rescue Man Twice as Home Burns Boston.—Firemen did more than their share of rescue work in an East Boston apartment house fire, First, they carried the pajama-clad Francis Bell down an extension ladder from the third floor. Next came Bell's St. Bernard dog and his two cats. Then the chill air pene- trated Bell's pajamas. He re- turned to his apartment for more clothing and fire men res- cued him again. | SHEEP DOG SAVES FLOCK IN BLAZE Is Hero of Forest Fire in Washington. Stevenson, Wash.—This is the story of Laddie, a nervous little shepherd dog. During the recent forest fire which destroyed the town of Greenleaf, Wash. located 15 miles west of here on the Columbia river, and which threatened destruction to Stevenson, Laddie became the hero of the day. Fires were raging along the slopes of Hamilton mountain and along Woodward creek, Between the two walls of flames a flock of sheep was grazing peacefully, C. H. Craig, Harry Patrick and Mrs. Craig were tending the flock with their two dogs, Laddie and Cap. The sheep became panic stricken as the flames raced on toward them. Efforts to get them out of the place were made by the herders. After hours of tireless efforts in which a bell goat, Billie, was drafted in an at- | tempt to lead the flock away, the herd- ers gave up the task and left the sheep to the fate of the demon. But Laddie stood by. Attempts were made by the herders | to reach their sheep and Laddie again, but the flames had jumped the road, cutting them off. The next day the fire had subsided temporarily and passage to the graz- ing ground was made. Upon their ar- rival they found no sheep, not even a piece of fleece. They searched the adjacent vicinity and soon the tinkling of a bell—the | one worn by the goat—was heard. Then the flock came into view. And there was Laddie, a nervous wreck, racing round and round the | flock, keeping them together. Not a sheep was missing nor was a fleece scorched. All were brought to safety through the dog’s efforts. Maid Who Cut Baby's Throat Sent to Prison New York.—Pauline Hutchins, a nineteen-year-old egress, was sen- | tenced to serve from four to eight | years in Auburn prison for slashing the throat of three-year-old Florence | Dorfman, | The Hutchins girl was hired last spring by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorf- | man to look after their daughter. On | the night of April 25 | went out, leaving the child in Pauline’s care. When Mrs. Dorfman telephoned | the house later in the evening the maid told her that the child was ill | | | Hurrying home, Mrs. Dorfman found | the baby bleeding from a wound in | the throat. Pauline was arrested and admitted that she had cut the child's throat with a hunting knife, but ad- vanced no reason for her act. She had been at one time in an institute for the feeble-minded. In sentencing the girl Judge Stock- ell warned parents not to hire irre- sponsible girls to care for children. “If parents showed the same care for their children that they do for their Jewelry there would be so such crimes as this,” he said. Man Carrying Dynamite Hit; Fails to Go Boom Cumberland, Md.—Glenn Sponaugle thirty-nine, the first accident victim to be treated at the new Memorial hos pital, was carrying 18 sticks of dyn amite and a box of caps when struck late one afternoon by an automobile driven by Rev. J. B. Umberger, of Huntington, Pa. Sponaugle sustained a fractured right shoulder and possible fracture of the skull. He was employed by the Cumberland Contracting company on national highway work near Flint Stone. He was knocked down, but the explosives remained intact. The cler- gyman driver was held blameless as [ he was traveling at moderate speed and Sponaugle stepped in front of the machine, witnesses sald. Girl Turns Heroine Briggsdale, Colo.—Grace Kirkpat- rick, ranch girl, is the heroine of the range today because of her bravery in attacking and killing 75 rattlesnakes which had surrounded her horse as she was riding on her ranch near here. Claims Oldest Boots Pleasant Hill, Mo.—Jacob Miller, who bought a pair of boots seventy- one years ago when he was twenty- two years old, and still wears them, claims they are the oldest pair of boots in existence. Finds Ring in Fish Winsted, Conn.—After fishing in the same stream for several days Wesley Cowles landed the fish which had swallowed a ring he had lost | of this situation is eontrolling in importance. It is a direct and positive the parents | LAWS AND PUBLIC UTILITIES By JOSEPH W. JAMISON, American Bar Association. T PUBLIC utilities of America, with combined investments totaling $5,000,000,000 and a daily need for $7,000,000 new capital, continue to function, neither congress nor any state legislature can dictate to them what their percentage of profits shall be. The economic aspect limitation upon the powers of congress or the states to fix the return which shall be earned by public utilities. The limitations upon the power of regulatory bodies fo fix this rate remonstrates the wisdom of the policy of the states in’ the enactment of their commission laws. But it is both possible and practicable to fix and approve the rates which will do justice to both the investor and the consumer. No congress, of course, could tell the utilities exactly what percentage they could earn cn a given investment, as they could, of course, refuse to put their money into it. The only reasonable and just control that possibly could be exer- cised is that of fixing the rates themselves. It does not’ require any elaborate procedure to enable the manage- ment of a public utility to determine whether a rate adjustment should be made or not. If, in the administration of the law, carriers are afforded a return which will place them on a parity with other comparative invest- ments, then there will be no interference with the operation of the eco- | nomic law which has been under discussion. On the other hand, if the operation of this law is so administered as to deny this parity to the investors in railroad or other securities, they will withdraw their invest- ments and this will eventually compel the recognition of the economic law. The alternative would be restriction and deterioration in the rail- road service entailing a loss to which the public would not submit. RURAL SCHOOL PROBLEMS By MISS HELEN HEFFERNAN, California Department of Education. Gone forever are the dunee cap, the roller towel, the birch rod, the | | recitation bench, the tin dipper, and the common water bucket that once | were indispensable adjuncts of the old-time little red schoolhouse. Today the little red schoolhouse itself is fast following them into oblivion. The magnitude of the rural school problem at the present time is not gen- erally appreciated. When we speak of the country school, we mean 5% per cent of America’s elementary school enrollment. When we speak of the country school teacher, we mean 64 per cent of the elementary teach- ers of the nation. And when we épeak of the country school, we mean | 91 per cent of the elementary schools. In my state we are developing state rural demonstration schools to serve as standards for a better type of rural school. We are training teachers to take the general materials of education and shape them to the condition of the rural school. The greatest function of the new teacher is to develop an environ- ment—simple, natural and beautiful, in which there is an informal atmosphere of happy living. The new school is child-centered rather than teacher-centered. In the old school it was the teacher who was active, planning, inventing, organizing, talking. The reorientation of the school | around the child naturally leads to the acceptance of the necessity for child interest and aectis Fy. > 3 X UNIVERSITIES FACE PROBLEM MAYNARD HUTCHINS, President Chicago University. By ROBER More money for faculty members to make education respectable and | to enable universif minds is the greatest need of American higher education. The money is needed to strengthen three key point universities, to be pacemakers for | all the others. In the last twenty-five years the best minds of America have been drawn to business, hence American education faces a mew problem in competition—competition with big business for the best men. If you spread $100,000,000 over all the worthy colleges in the land ies to compete with business for the nation’s best | - you might increase cach professor’s salary as much as $1.34. You micht as well throw the money in the lake. But spend it on the key institutions and you will develop pacemakers that will revitalize American education. I would have the three key universities located one in the East, one in the Central West and one on the Pacific coast. 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It will be conducted along the nes of that in Munich, Germany, where, attached to each body is a cord con- nected with a system of bells, which “‘Popular!” snarled Brownlow. ‘Look | ring at the slightest movement of the at my coat and vest. Why, ‘they body. Attendants are on duty day and night, and if a bell rings, they dash for a doctor. The new society has 11 tests of death. They seemed more inclined to ten eggs.’ “Yes, but’ said the manager, ‘don’t you remember, Brownlow, how it used to be bricks?” Uncle Eben “Every time I sees an airplane,” said Uncle Eben, “I's willin’ to git back to de old days right here on earth, wif a couple o’ mules an’ a canal boat,"— | Washington Star. Perfect Hate “He must hate jazz!” “Why do you think so?” “He always tunes out when that’s all he's getting and declares he'd rath er listen to his wife than it.” Effective Remedy Colly—Can you suggest something So much new slang appears that | that will remove superfluous hair? { it is no wonder that slang has to Drggist—Yes; try matrimony. shockingly disproportionate. In the last ten years the University of Chi- | cago has received $53,000,000 and only $7,000,000 went to a faculty com posed of 772 men and women. MARKED SPREAD OF ATHEISM By REV, WILLIAM M. WOODFIN, Pittsburgh. Eighty-five per cent of the resident students at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Institute of Technology either do not attend church or attend only occasionally, because of insufficient home training, | “heavy dates” on Saturday nights or the failure of ministers to reconcile religion with the science the students are taught. College men and women throughout the country are abandoning religion. | Why. not let us say right out from the pulpit that the truth of reli-'| gion can never conflict with the truth of science? If we pastors had the | courage to run the risk of being called modernists by people whose think- | ing is in terms of medievalism, we might save many of our young people | from mental torture, loss of faith and ultimate atheism. EXPANSION NOT PROGRESS | By REV. CEORGE A. BUTTRICK, New York (Presbyterian), [ The go-getter spirit of the modern American city and village mis- takes industrial expansion for progress. I have particularly in mind | those cities seeking populations of millions as their only goal and villages | willing to see their landscapes disfigured by factory smoke stacks. After the present fever of expansion has abated, the realization will | come that this civilization is no more enduring than any other. 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