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A "BLUEPRINT” FOR 1925
Man persists in borrowing
trouble, even if he must to the
future go to find it.
Here, after Christmas has come
and gone, somebody has mention
ed New Year’s resolutions.
Perhaps, though, if one is to
face with any degree of honesty
the facts of life on New Year’s
day and' construct a blue-print for
the twelve months to come, with
a view actually of getting more
out of this earthly existence, it
would not be amiss to start now
to summarising, analyzing, esti
mating and resolving, if one is
to 4° with wisdom, moderation
and justice.
Few of us need any suggestion
as to what brand of resoluting
would do ourselves the most good.
The following code of advice,
however, which appeared in some
periodical a year or se ago and is
taken from a scrap book, should
be of aid to every man or woman
regardless of his or her success
already in making a life, says the
Macon Telegraph.
Yesterday is dead—forget it.
Tomorrow has not come—don’t
worry.
Today is here—use it.
* Keep your face always turned
toward the sunshine, and the
shadows will fall behind you.
They who are content to re
main in the Valley, will get no
news from the Mountains.
If you’d know the value of
money, go and borrow some.
Promises get friends, but non
performances will turn them into
enemies.
The man who doesn’t Igiow him
self is a poor judge of the other
fellow.
* Let a man contend to the utter
most for his life’s prize, be it
what it will.
Trifles make perfection, but per
fection is no trifle.
Every failure teaches a man
something, if he will only learn.
Today is the tomorrow you
worried about yesterday.
If yc« cannot win, make the one
ahead break the record.
Some people grow under respon
sibility; dthers merely swell.
Remember it is the busiest man
that always gets more business
A thing done right' today means
less trouble tomorrow.
Try each and every day to say
or do something at sometime to
make someone or somebody hap
pier today than they were yestei
day.
It isn’t necessarily the right
road because it is well beaten.
Life ien’t in holding a good
hand, but in playing a poor hand
well.
In this world a] ban must be
either an Anvil or a Hammer.
Taking things as they come
does not wear one out so fast as
dodging them.
Leaders are ordinary persons
with extraordinary determination.
Take care to be an economist
in prosperity; there is no fear of
|wur being one in adversity.
The man that everybody likes,
generally likes everybody.
To indulge in self-pity is self-
■
Hard luck is a polite name for
the Bleeping sickness.
An* optimist is one who makes
the best of it when he gets the
worst of it.
From the mistakes of others a
wise man corrects his own.
a He who only hopes is hopp
less. ,:
It’s the little things that sep
arate ua from success; not the
big ones.
The greatest satisfaction in life
is to do good work.
The whale gets into trouble on
ly when he starts to blow.
The rut is only a small-sized
grave.
This day I will live as becomes
a man or woman. I will be filled
with good cheer and courage.
f IE OE BEST m
DOUBTFUL
PROGRESS
We are constantly hearing that
“the world ia growing better."
It appears to be the custom to
sajr that though the wild beast
breaks out in man and casts him
back momentarily into barbarism
under the excitement of war and
crime, yet his normal life is high
er than the normal life of his
forefathers.
But to all such claims for the
existence of a progressive moral
evolution, there is the challeng
ing reply of George Bernard
Shaw: that a thousand years of
such evolution would have pro
duced enormous social
of which the historical evidence
would be overwhelming.
“Compare our conduct and our
codes with those mentioned con
temporarily in such ancient scrip
tures and classics as have come
down to us,” Shaw suggests, “and
you will find no jot of ground
for the belief that any moral
progress whatever has been made
in historic time, in spite of all the
romantic attempts of historians to
reconstruct the past on that as
sumption.
M Within that time it has hap
pened to nations as to private
families and individuals that they
have flourished and decayed, re
pented and hardened their hearts,
submitted and protested, acted and
Reacted, oscillated between natural
and artificial sanitation (the old
est house in the world, unearthed
in Crete, has quite modem sani
tation arrangements), and rung
a thousand changes on the differ
ent scales of income and pressure
of population, firmly believing all
the time that mankind was ad
vancing by leaps and bounds be
cause men were constantly busy.
And the mere character of ac
cidents has left a small accumu
lation of chance discoveries, such
as the wheel, the arch, the safe
ty-pin, gunpowder, the magnet,
and so forth; things which, un
like the gospels and philosophic
treatises of the sages, can be
usefully understood and applied
by common men; so that steam
locomotion is possible without a
nation of Stephensons, altho ug h
national Christianity is impossi
ble without a nation of Christs.
“But does any man seriously
believe that the chauffeur who
drives a motor car from Paris to
Berlin is a more highly evolved
man that the charioteer of Achil
les, or that a modern prime min
ister is a more enlightened ruler
than Caesar because he rides in
an airplane, writes his dispatches
by the electric light, and instructs
his stockbroker through the tele
phone ? II
So much fpr the Shavian view.
Somewhere Goethe observes:
"Progress has not followed n
straight ascending line, but a spir
it with rhythms of progress and
retrogression, of evolution and
dissolution.”
In Robert Browning’s Paracel
sus, last page, is this venture:
Progress is
The law of life, man is not
Man as yet.
The first feminine _ chess tour
nament was held in France.
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11. T
it World Is Recovering Sis From War
—and on Basis of Outlawing
Conflicts.”
"As I see it, the world, as it is
gradually recovering from the
war, is recovering along interna
tional lines on a league basis—
that is, on a basis of outlawing
war, settling all disputes peaceful
ly and whole-heartedco-operation
in the thousand and one matters
that bind modern nations togeth
er.” So declares Dr. Thorwald
Madsen, of Copenhagen, chairman
of the health committee of the
League of Nations. He is now in
the United States.
World Still Unsettled
“This business of recovery is
still young and struggling, The
world is still in a state of flux
and in any case efforts at recov
ery are bound for a long time to
be imperfect and tentative. They
can never be fully successful un
til all nations are in the league,
or at least working with it in the
same spirit of generous co-oper
ation. This great effort, of which
the League Health Organization
is but a small part, is onthing
less than the building of a new
and better civilization on the
ruins left by the war. Grandiose
to the point of foolhardiness as
this enterprise may seem, I for
ope, from what I have seen of it,
am convinced *that it will succeed.
“No branch of our work is of
more importance than the broad
development of a service of epi
demiological intelligence and pub
lic health statistics. It includes
the study of simple and reliable
methods for collecting informa
tion on the existence and progress
of infections, a study of the com
parability of vital statistics of
the various countries and of the
world distribution of certain dis
eases, a comparative study of the
character and significance of ob
served differences in the preval
ence of particular diseases in dif
ferent countries as exhibited in
their official statistics, the prepar
ation and distribution of special
and periodical bulletins, a survey
of the public health work of the
principal countries of the world
A lawyer was cross examining
an old German about the position
of the doors, windows, etc., in a
house in which a certain transac
tion occurred.
«» And now my good man,” said
the lawyer,” will you be good
enough to tell the court how the
stairs run in the house? ft
The German looked dazed and
unsettled for a moment. “How do
the stairs run?” he queried.
Yes, how do the stairs run? tt
«< Veil,” continued the witness,
after a moment’s thought, “ven I
am oopstairs dey run down, and
ven I am down stairs dey run
oop. M
A certain woman demands in
stant and unquestioning obedience
from her children. One afternoon
a storm came up and she sent
her little son, John, to close the
trap leading to the flat roof of the
.house.. — —————
But mother,” began John.
a John, I told you to shut the
trap!”
Yes, but mother——. *•
u John, shut the trap! "
44 All right, mother, if you say
so—but—”
“John!”
Whereupon John slowly climbed
the stairs and shut the trap. Two
hours later the family gathered
for dinner, but Aunt Mary, who
was staying with the mother, did
not appear. The mother did not
have to ask many qquestions. John
answered the first one.
“Mother, she is on the roof. »»
A young couple Who had just be
gun to keep house were not finan
cially able to buy a clock; they de
termined the hour for rising In win
ter by watching for a light in the
window of a neighboring farmhouse.
One night on waking and seeing
the light, they rose, did the morning
chores and ate their breakfast. Still
daylight held off, and so they sat
down to wait. To their astonish
ment. while they were looking out of
the window, they saw the light in
the helghhortug farmhouse go out.
Their neighbors were just going to
bed 1—Youth’s. Companion.
and the issuance of reports on
this subject, and the organization
of rapid interchange of informa
tion on epidemic diseases in cases
where prompt action may be ne
cessary. ft
WHO’S WHO
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TOM SCHALL
The career of Thomas D. Sehall,
senator-elect from Minnesota, vic
tor over Magnus Johnson, should
be an inspiration for all those who
face the battles for life against
great handicaps.
Until he was 10 years old, Tom
... .............. —— Sehall could
neither read nor
write. His father
was a German, a
veteran of the
civil war and one
t of those Teutons
who enlisted un
der Carl Schurz
to fight”" for the
pres ervation of
JSKWWOsraw-t: the union. The
mother of Tom died when he was
an infant and the father per
pited Tom to raise himself, sell
ing papers from St. Paul and Min
neapolis in Ortonville, a small
town in Minnesota.
was In* the 1884, republican when James candidate Gj Blaine for
president against Governor Grov
er Cleveland, Tom Sehall then a
grimy little shrill voiced “newsy,”
happened to attend a political
meeting addressed by him.
After the meeting Blaine shook
hands with the little chap. En
couraging words Blaine spoke to
him had tremendous influence on
Sehall.
Forged Ahead Rapidly.
He began to take an interest in
books. He studied hard. He ac
quired six years of grammar
schooling in two, entered high
school at 14, college at 17 and the
University of Minnesota %t 19.
He found time to play amateur
baseball in summer and batted
.526 in 18 games of college base
ball.
He defrayed his expenses in
many ways. He won a cow and
$25 in prize fights and other
money by wrestling, He entered
oratorical contests for the cash
prizes involved. He represented
the University of Minnesota in
three debates, winning third; sec
ond and first prizes.
After his graduation he mar
ried a school girl friend and open
ed law offices. Success was near
when he went into a drug store
one day to,purchase a cigar. He
attempted to light it with an elec
tric cigar lighter. The lighter
was defective. It exploded and
blinded both his eyes. All effects
to restore his sight failed, He
spent all his savings in vain.
Wife Spurs Him On.
He was ready to give up when
his wife announced that they
would continue his law practice
and that she would be his « eyes.
He owes his success mainly to her
cheerful help.
A few years ago he decided to
eater th« .....ragg^iox.,...congress. .He
.
was ruled out on a technicality.
In preference to waiting two
years to run on a party ticket he
ran as an independent progressive
and beat both old party candi
dates. He arrived in congress to
find himself holding the deciding
vote on the speakership, the re
publicans and democrats being
evenly divided in the house! Sehall
voted for the democrat, Champ
Clark, because he believed that
Wilson needed a democratic house,
as well as senate. Sehall was
given a place on the rules com
mittee as a reward and later made
chairman if the flood control com
mittee.
Last summer Senator Magnus
Johnson’s 'opponents looked long
for a man to oppose him. He had
the backing of the *farm labor or
ganization and the La Follette
forces. Sehall accepted what
seemed a forlorn chance to get i in
to the senate. He made a tour of
the state in a flivver driven by
his wife. He was elected by a
majority of 10,000 votes.
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Notes
By Rev. B. L. Betts
Of interest to a wide circle of
friends is the marriage of Miss
Myrtle Simonton to Mr. Howard
Connell, which occurred at the
parsonage on December 27.
The many friends of Mr. A. G.
Edwards will regret to learn of
his illness.
The Midway Epworth League
service was well attended on
last Sunday night. Many plans
are being made by the leaguers
for a happy and successful n w
year.
Desire for a new church build
ing among the Midway member
ship is increasing.
Mr. O. W. Futral, chairman of
the circuit board of stewards, was
with the pastor at Orchard Hill
Sunday. Preceding the preaching
service Mr. Futral, in a few well
chosen words, welcomed Orchard
HiM into the Griffin circuit.
The first quarterly conference
will be held at Williamson next
Friday.
Milner News
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rucker are
spending the Christmas holidays
in Atlanta with the latter’s sister,
Mrs. Albert White.
Miss Lois Kinard returned to
Clarkston, Ga., Thursday after
spending Christmas Day with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Kinard.
Bill Crawford and family, from
Zetella, spent Thursday with Mj.
and Mrs. Tom Irvin.
We are glad to hear that Mrs.
4
Opal Hudgins has improved suf
ficiently to leave the Griffin hos
pital. She is now at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Tom Irvin.
This community welcomes Hen
ry Williams and family, They
moved from New. Hope and will
occupy the house formerly occu
pied by W. H. Rucker.
Private Rhea Irvin, of Fort
Benning, is spending a few days
with his relatives here.
Miss Blanche Ethridge is visit
ing Miss Rosa Bell Beckham for
a few days.
Mrs. Gussie Kinard was called
to the bedside of her sister, Mrs.
Lum Goddard, Wednesday, She
has our wishes for an early recov
ery,
Miss Pearl Crawford, of Zetel
la, is spending a few days with
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Irvii^
Homer Brown and Owen Irvin
visited ve’atives at Blanton’s Mill
Saturday,
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Shirey, of
Monday, December 29, 1924.
_ O.Jtuvrenct 7^udJwr?pe^^)J} jams:
It matters not how many years W
Of life I chance to ,, ^ ii
see; it
It matters not what unknown fate r~
The future holds for me
lt matters not, if every day
I find some task to do
That sows the seeds of happiness J
Where pain or heartache grew. 7
We should not measure life alone
By checking off the miles, 7 “i
But while we live our little day yt
Let’s count the friendly smiles -
That mark our path, and let’s be so
Considerate and kind
That love will shed its radiance ^
On those we leave behind.
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Griffin, visited the latter’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Brown, re
cently.
Raymond Cook, of Anniston,
Ala., is spending the holidays
with his mother, Mrs. Frank
Cook.
Miss Myrtice Caldwell visited
her mother, Mrs. Rene Caldwell,
here during Christmas.
We wish everybody a prosper
our New Year.
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Barnesville News
Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Chaffin and
children, of Macon, are spending
theholidays with Mrs. G. E. Bur
nette and family.
Miss Flossie White, who teaches
in Columbus, spent the holidays
with her sister, Mrs. J. W. Carri
ker.
Jesse Burns, of Macon, spent
the holidays at home.
Miss Aurie E. Burnette spent
Friday in Griffin with Mrs. H. L.
Futral.
Mr. William Moore, of Macon,
spent Christmas day with his
father, W. H. Moore.
Miss ZUlah B. Hawkins ia visit
ing in Atlanta this week.
Mrs. Jas. Cason nad little Jim
mie Ca3on, of Atlanta, are visit
ing Mrs. Cason’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Evans.
Marcus Johnston, who has been
in San Francisco the past four
years, is at home for the holidays
with his mother, Mrs. M. M. John
ston, on Thomaston stret.
J. M. Middlebrooks, E. E. Mid
dlebrooks and Harvey Middle
brooks, of Hogansville, are at
home for the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Burnette,
of Macon, spent Christmas day
with Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Bur
nettei
Misses Jessie Collier and Myr
trade Henslee were- in- Griffin Fri-..............
day.
Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Lovern are
visiting relatives in Atlanta.
Mrs. C. T. Mote and Miss Pau
line Melton, of Griffin, are visiting
the family of Terrell Melton.
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Lifsey were
in Griffin Friday.
B. W. Middlebrooks and C. E.
Middlebrooks are in Columbus to
day. 1
Mise Mattie Gordy is spending
a few days with her parents in
Milner.
Billiard balls usually are man
ufactured from the best grade
ivory.
The Pilgrims sailed from South
ampton on the fifth of August,
1620.
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