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STONE MpUNTAIN MEMORIAL.
“In Our Veins The Wood Of Heroes'.”
The Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial will be the world’s shrine
of heroism, the most wonderful memorial in the history of any people.
1 will perpetuate until the end of time the heroic story of the South.
If every Daughter of the Confederacy could go to Atlanta to see the
picture of the carving on the mountain at night a new thrill would sdr
lach heart, for the picture, as projected upon the sheer cliff by the mar
velous lantern perfected by Gutzon Horglum, gives the impression that
the grey hosts of The Confederacy are gathered once more upon Stone
Mountain.
Like some grand, dark altar, the mighty mass of granite looms against
the night, so high that the stars seem to rest upon its summit, eternal
candles lit in memory of the illustrous dead. Beneath life-like and
noble, appear the figures of Lee, Jackson, Jefferson, Davis and others whose
names will be forever glorious.
It stirs vou in a way you cannot imagine. Those men—those heroes
they are OURS. For an unsullied cause they fought and died and in s 0
doing gave us the most priceless heritage that the world has ever known.
Most of them are left, and they are making ready for the Last Bivouac
n the fields of death.
But we remain—in our veins the blood of heroes —charged with the
duty and the privileges of perpetuating in deathless granite the glories
of their cause.
Nothing is too great, too majestic ,too beautiful, to commemorate
the courage and sacrifice of the South. The undying glory of our South
tin heritage deserves the best that money, art and love can give to make
of our Confederate memories a perpetuity in stone that will stand when the
text books of history are veiled in dust; when lesser monuments have
crumbled and perished; and when, but for the mighty panorama on the
mountain’s face, remote generations might have forgotten the glory that j
is theirs. (
The Children of the South ought to have a part in the creation of
this great memorial. Through the Book of Memory of the Children’s
Founders Roll they have been given a place in this shrine of heroism.
Throughout the ages the Book of Memory will show to succeeding gen
erations that the children of the South know their history, glory in their
heritage and remember always with love and devotion the heroes of the
sixties.
Every child’s name should be enrolled and not a Confederate soldier
should be forgotten.
A THEME FOR PIGNORATION.
There comes times doubtless in every one’s life when the heart is hurt
by seeming heartlessness on the part of some one, and in a fit of pessimism
some such reasoning as this occurs: ‘‘l ant not loved for myself but for
what I have, and for what 1 give. I have friends, but they are triends for
what they get out of me. I have some relatives, but even they seem to
love in proportion as 1 minister to their needs and pleasures, and 1 notice
that when the source of supplies is reduced by either necessity or purpose,
friendship wanes and love cools off.
Now this is true to some extent even in its gloomy coloring. There
are fair-weather friends—friends who are friends when you don’t need them,
and who cease to be friends when a friend could help you very much. All
have stood by the ashes where the fires of love have gone out and shivered
with the numbing cold of such an experience. And there are moments
sadden even than this, when those related to us have drawn away because
we were no longer able to lavish on them the things love had been glad to
bts'.ow in more prosperous years.
. But this view of life is overdrawn; it is not the rule, but thy exception.
There are friends in need who are friends indeed. Every man worth a
friend can cheer his heart, even his darkest hours, with the remembrance
of these sterling characters. It is true too that the defection of relatives
is rare and often only temporary. We take liberties with our loved ones,
because Ve feel that these are bound to us, and we to them by ties that
cannot be broken.
But it is true in a very real sense that we are loved and endured, ap
pietiaUd and rewarded, for what we give and ought to give, rod for what
we ere able to do. And this is as it should be. The world has the right
to expect something from everyone in it—and it doe.-.. Some people insist
that the world owes them a living, but that remains to be seen. Some of
us thirk that the world owes us a loving, but that too must be proven.
Barring the parent’s love, which seems to be g'*en to the lovely and un
lovely alike, as God sends His rain on the just and the unjust alike, the
world is inclined to give its friendship and admiration to those who can give
something in return.
i ‘> ■ ht to be taken well to heart by young men and women who
are tmbarking on the sea of life looking for buried treasure. Hidden
treasure may be found, hut it will hide again unless one knows how to have
: dtoh 1 1 7 lit* -nips that s-’il the main must do commerce, must yield ser
vice for service, must trade and baiter, or go enipty, tnd come at last
without, a cargo into port. There are pirates of love and friendship; they
must Vie traded for. worked for, prayed for. There is no such thing in the
world benea h or ;he heavens above as something for nothing.
The world is p.nionh kindly disposed: it gives youth its season; gives
it time for education; it does not expect much from the boy or girl at first,
■ —let them grow; let the reach down and up, and get wisdom from father
and mother, and friends and God, but when plenty of time has been given
and there is no fruit, the world says, “Dig it up”! We’ve got no place
for it—why cumbereth it the ground?
The world hasn’t room in i. for dead-heads and dead-beats. It says
ft the man who is trying to ride without paying, "If you are going to be'
a dead-boat, then die.” When people see that a man is not going to con-,
tribute anything to them they dig them up out of their lives and thought,
and put them away, and unless some good people continue to pray for them
they have no part or lot in the world’s plans or pleasures.
Such folks then get to thinking that they are neglected, not appreciat
ed, and they get a grouch on them and begin, to curse the world. It’s no- 1
body’s fault but their own; hey’re getting just w’hat they give.
If you sit at the world's table, you have got to* pay board—that’s all..
And this is for the safety of he world; the wrtfld must get rid of its
or the parasites will do for the world what thev do for a tree—
kill it.
Take the man in a community that is best loved: he is the one that is!
doing Jho most for the community cither in point of money, influence, cheer!
or good cha-a.ter.
Seme people just look pretty. Well, that is something. The world
v.ants beauty, and is willing to give the woman who will just look pretty
COFFEE CO. PROGRESS
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
FRED RICKETSON, Editor
entered at the Fost Office at Douglas,
Georgia as Second Class Mail Matter
Under the Act of Congress March 3rd.
1879.
OFFICIAL ORGAN
County of Coffee, City of Douglas and
City of Nicholls.
Thursday, October 23, 1924.
admiration and love. Some people talk pretty; and that is something.
The world is always ready to pay for that. Some people just smile and
look happy; and the world is willing to pay a good price for other folks,
to be happy, because we get most of our happiness from other folk's
happiness.
Then there is kindness, helpfulness, goodness, courage, saintliness.
These are all commodities that you can trade with for the world’s good
opinion and love.
How is your stock of these things? If you have got a plentiful
supply of these fancy notions, you will never want for the world’s love
and esteem.
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GREATNESS.
Geologists tell us that in the long procession of the ages mountains
have been raised and leveled, continents formed and washed away. As
tronomers tell us that in space are countless worlds, many of them doubt
less inhabited-perhaps by creatures of a lower type than we, perhaps by
creatures of a higher. The magnitude of these changes and of these worlds
makes the imagination reel. But on one thing we can rely—the greatness
of the human soul. On one thing; we a|an confidently build-the man
whose spirit is softy, divine.
Tennyson has said:
“For tho’ the Giant Ages heave the hill.
A’nd break the shore, and evermore <
Make and break, and work their will;
Tho’ world on world in myraid myriads roll
Round us, each with different powers,
And other forms of life than ours,
What know we greater than the soul?
On God and Godlike men we build our trust.”
The for-bearing use of power is a sure attribute of true greatness.
“You are a plebian” said a patrician to Cicero. “I am a plebian,” said the
eloquent Roman; “the nobility of my family begins with me; that of yours
will end with you. I hold that no man deserves to be crowned with honor
v’hose life is a failure; and he wm> lives ord.- to eat and drink and accumu
late money, is a failure. The world is no better for his living in it. He
never wiped a tear from a sad face-never kindled a fire upon a frozen
hearth. 1 repeat with emphasis, he is a failure. There is no flesh in his
heart; he worships no God but gold.” These were the words of a heathen.
Man is to be rated, not by his hoards of gold, not by the simple or
temporary influence he may for a time exart; but by his unexceptionable
principles relative both to character and religeon. Strike out these, and
what is he? Take them away and his manship is gone; he no longer lives
in the image of his maker! A cloud of sin hangs darkly on his brow;
there is ever a tempest on his countenance, the lightning in his glance,
the thunder in words, and the rain and whirlwind in the breathing of his
angry soul.
That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from low
order of man—that which constitutes human goodness, human greatness,
human nobleness—is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which
men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self
sacrifice; it is disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, person
af advantage, remote or present, because of some other line of conduct is
more right. ,
The truest greatness is that w r hicn is unseen, unknown. Public
martyrdom of every shade has ac ertain popularity connected with it that
will often bear men up to endure with courage its trials; but those who
ruffe? - without sympathy, for truth or principle, those who unnoticed
by men, maintain their post, and in obscurity, and amid discouragement,
patiently fulfill their trust, these are the real heroes of the age, and the
suffering they bear is true greatness.
Let man go abroad with just principles, and what is he? An exhaust
less fountain in a vast desert; a glorious sbn shining eve# - , dispelling every
vestige of darkness. There is love animating his heart, sympathy breath
ing in every tone. Tears of pity—dewdrops of the soul-gather in his eyes
and gush impetuously down his cheek. A good man is abroad and the
world knows and feels it. Beneath his smiles lurks no degrading passions.
With his heart there slumbers no guile. HE is not exalted in moral pride,
not elevated in his own views; but honest, moral and virtuous before the
world. He stands enthroned on truth; his fortress is wisdom and his dominion
is the vast and limitless world. Always upright, kind and sympathizing
always attached to just principles and actuated by the \me, governed by
the highest motives in doing good.
COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS
JARDINE
AUTO
COMPANY
Sell Good Used
CARS
213 Peterson
Avenue
PHONE 110.
The O. L. Luke
POND
Will Be
FISHED
October 30-31
This pond is better known as the Henry
Harper old pond, about 2 miles north
of Lax on Coffee road between Lax and
Ambrose.
This pond covers about 100 acres of
land and has not been fished in 5 years.
PLENTY OF FISH
Admission $1.50
O. L. LUKE
NOTICE
We are headquarters for
BALLARDS
famous Flours and Purina
Feeds for stocks and poultry
Texas Red Rust Proof Oats
We Also Carry
Cotton seed meal and hulls
and hay. Salt, Sugar, Rice,
Coffee, Tea, Meat, Lard and
case goods.
Make our store your headquarters
while in town.
1. W. McKinnon
& Company
Phone 118 :-; Peterson Ave.
TRY IT ONCE
Our little store at 323 South Peterson Ave.,
maj not look so big, but it is doing some awful
big things, if you are not wise to the great
saving in prices it is time for you to get wise
Ask your neighbors they can tee! you.
Thompson Furniture
Company.
Thursday, October 23, 1924.
NOW HERE’S A TIRE
we can safely recommend to you,
You will get 100 per cent serivee
out of this Tire. It is honestly
made throughout, in both smooth
and non-shid treads. I want you
to try this tire on my say-so.
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Fire Stone and Seilerling Tires.
THOMPSON TIRE CO.
Douglas, Ga.