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DOWN WITH THE PESSIMIST; UP WITH
THE OPTOMIST—ANERICA’S WONDER
FUL BUSINESS POTENTIALITIES
Asa nation thinketh in its
heart, so is it.
If America thinks pessimis
tically, pessimism will rule in
its business interests.
If America thinks optimisti
cally as to the conditions of
present and future business, it
will optimistically develop pros
perity.
We can as a nation think our
selves into pessimism or opti
mism at tlk* present time, for
the whole country has been un
der such a nervous strain that
the thought of the individual
and the thought of tin* people
as a whole will largely shape
our affairs for tin* next few
years.
The Manufacturers Record
believes that today there is am
ple foundation for optimism.
It believes t hat this is a t ime for
singing a song of optimism,
and we are glad to publish in
this issue letters from a large
number of leading busines con
cerns who are singing a song of
optimism, and who are singing
it with the assurance that it is
founded on everlasting truth.
We face a wonderful situa
tion. We have come out of a
world war which endangered all
civilization, which tested the?
utmost strength of every great
nation except America, and
when we came into the contest
it promised to test to the utmost
our strength and power and en
durance.
4T For four years tin* world lived
under the pall of overwhelming
woe, not knowing from day to
day what might be the future
of the individual man or wom
an and of all the broad civiliza
tion developed through the long
centuries in which man has
been struggling upward. The
mightiest power for evil which
the world has ever known was
wreaking its fearful crimes
upon humanity. For lour year,!
it looked to many ns though the
forces of Hell let loose through
Germany might crush the pow
er of Heaven represented by the
Allies in their great struggle,
and later on by America with
tin “lu.
It took faith in the power of
right, faith in the power of Al
mighty God, faith in America
and in England and France, to
he optimistic through those
dark days, but now civilization
has conquered barbarism and
the world once more is bathed
in the sunshine of life and hope
and certainty.
Under such conditions there
is no room for the pessimist.
Broad enthusiasm, untiring op
timism, the optimism which
looks beyond any temporary
cloud and sees what can bo
worked out ,is the spirit which
should rule in the heart of ev
ery man and woman in Ameri
ca. And this is the spirit large
ly shown in the interesting let
ters which are the special feat
ure of this week's issue. We
commend them to our readers.
Asa nation we should in this
connection remember that the
problems which face us are trif
lingly small as compared with
the problems which we have
conquered.
Asa nation our situation to
day is as the midday sunlight
compared with the dark clouds
of night when we contrast our
present position with that of
of twelve months ago. We were
then under tin* feverish activity
of developing a mighty war ma
chine. Now there has been com
mitted to us the opportunity of
creating a mighty peace* ma
chine. Now there has been
committed to us tin* opportun
ity of creating a mighty peace
machine for the upbuilding of
the material and moral forces
of all the* world.
This country has been blessed
with material resources which,
compared with all that is
known elsewhere in the world,
makes one marvel at the bless
ings with which America has
been endowed. We have been
given thes resources for the ere
ation of a vast matrial wealth,
that this wealth may be conse
crated to the uplifting of hu
manity, that we may plant our
footsteps on firm and solid
ground and help to lift the
world out of the mire and on to
a higher plane than mankind
has ever reached.
Instead of seeking to pul 1
down the conveniences and corn
foils and blessings enjoyed
through tin- high wages paid to
the American workmen to the
level of the low standard of
wages paid elsewhere, our ef
fort must be to lift up the
wages of other countries and to
bring them to tin* American
j standard, ami in doing so to
give to iill civilization a loftier
position than it lias ever held,
for out of higher wages will
come better conditions of liv
ing, better homes, better educa
tion, more of the comforts of
life and more of everything
which makes life worth living
and which advances civiliza
tion's forces.
America’s responsibility is as
great as its opportunity, and
apparently its opportunity b; as
great as Heaven itself could
ever have provided.
Therefore, let us sing a song
of optimism.
Let us go forward determined
to utilize our natural resou ces
to the utmost limit and to devel
op to the utmost extent our ag
riculural and industrial poten
tialities, and in doing this
there will be created wealth
great enough for every class of
people in America to share in
the benefits.
Away w ith the pessimist! Up
with the optiimist.—Manufac
turers Record.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
(5 E<MU 11A —Barrow ('ounty:
By virtue of on order of tin*
Court of Ordinary of said
County, granted at the .Janu
ary Term, 1!) 11>, will be sold on
the premises of the Summerlin
Buggy Cos., at the corner of
Candler and Jackson Streets,
in the City of Winder, Ga., on
the 3d Day of February, 1919,
within the legal hours of sale,
the following property of the
estate of VV. L. Diver, deceased,
to-wit:
One horse, one touring car
automobile, one stock of mer
chandise consisting of harness,
sewing machines, leather, har
ness hardware, tools and ma
chinery, one lot of blacksmith
tools and stock. Terms cash.
This 4th day of January, 1919.
LEE J. OLIVER,
As Administrator of the Estate
of W. L. Oliver, deceased.
CmpnMtion.
Prorldenc* ha* glM*n u hope and
sleon a* a compensation for the many
eft res of life. —Voltaire.
'J JUJchr by
*WE LABOR ALL THE
1
trying to supply the people
of this town with FIRST
CLASS MEAT at moderate
prices, and the growth of our
business is proof that we have
not labored in vain. If you are
not buying your meat here, you
should be.
CARRINGTON BROTHERS
Phone 30.
DANGEROUS AND DEAD
LY GERMAN PROPAGAN
DA UNDER WAY.
As day by day the Congres
sional investigation opens up
the extent of Germany’s propa
ganda in this country, those
who long believed that the Man
ufacturers Record was unduly
alarmed can now see that we
never told half of the real facts.
We have known from the liegin
ning of the war more than could
be published, because some of
the things we knew could not be
fully proven, although known
to l*e true, and some of the
things it was deemed by the
Government wise to withhold
from publication, just as at
present the Wercret. Service De
partment is withholding from
the public some of the informa
tion which it has in regard to
the activity of tlie'present Ger
man government in its cam
paign throughout this country.
Even today tin 1 present Ger
man government is working
through its agents and spies
ill I over America in trying to
bring on strikes and in develop
oping a Bolshevistic spirit
among those who can be reach
ed, and there are millions of
foreigners in t*liis country who
who can be thus influenced, but
the government, feels that Ibis
information should not at pres
ent be given in detail. As we re
cently stated, however, wireless
messages to the German agents
scattered all over the United
States are being constantly
caught and decoded by the Se
cret Service* Department.
The revelations which are
now being made in Washington
gives to our people a clearer
idea than they have ever had at
to the widespread machiniation
and the devilish activities of the
German propaganda. There has
been nothing too vile for Ger
many to undertake to do. No
crime was too great, no system
of lying and deceit, and no cam
paign of murdering people by
the destruction of munition
plants was too shocking i'l ij*he
German mind. And as shown
by these revelations, there have
been several hundred thousand
(lorinan-Amoricaiis, so-called,
actively at work during the last
four years in the German prop
aganda.
This work began long before
the beginning of the war in
191 4. The most expert propa
gandists which Germany had
been able to develop at home,
trained for this purpose, were
sent to America and other eoun
tries a month or more before the
Hindering campaign upon which
Germany entered when it in
vaded Belgium.
Germany’s campaign is still
in existence, it is still vicious
and vigorous. It is today more
dangerous than it ever was in
tin* past, for so long as we were
at war our people were on
guard and watching for Ger
man activities, but now that the
fighting on the battlefield has
ceased we are dropping back in
to our easy ways and saying
that the war is over. In this
we are failing to realize the sig
nificance of the propaganda
now under way to create dis
trust and unrest an dto use ev
ery influence among laboring
people, and especially among
those who can be reached by the
foreign element, to foment
strikes and labor agitation.
Germany is definitely commit
ted to a campaign of Bolshev
ism in America for the purpose
of bringing about in this coun
try tin* chaos which exists in
Russia as a result of Germany's
work.
We need to guard tin* nation
against this situation more
closely than ever before. It is
more dangerous and deadly in
its work than was the German
propaganda while the lighting
was on. Manufaeturers Rec
ord.
PIANOS.
If you need a Piano see me.
I have some mighty fine bar
gains to offer. Prices cut half
into.
J. L. MOORE.
Bethlehem, Ga.
PETITION FOR DIVORCE
In Harrow Superior Court —
March Term, Isl 9.
Mrs. Elmo Baxter Bray vs.
Thomas Bray.
To the defendant, Thomas
Bray:
The paintiff, Elmo Baxter
Bray, having filed her petition
for divorce against Thomas
Bray in this Court, returnable
to this term of the Court, and
it being made to appear that
Thomas Bray is not a resident
of said county and also that he
does not reside within the
State, and an order having been
made for service on him Thoms
Bray, by publication, this,
therefore, is to notify you
Thomas Bray, to be and appear
id the next term of the Barrow
Superor Court to be held on the
PUBLIC SALE
At Statham, Ga., 10 o’Clock
Eastern Time
FEB. 8, 1919
One set Blacksmith Tools, one
large Anvil and Blower, one
Tire Shrinker, one Steel Drill,
one Iron Vise, one Tire Bender,
one Bolt Machine and Thread
Dies, supply of Wood working
Tools. Come and get your Shop
Tools.
i
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FEB. 8, 1919
J. C. MCGEE
Statham, Ga.
Flanigan & Flanigan
GARAGE
Winder, Georgia
is now prepared to do your REPAIR WORK
PROMPTLY.
We carry a complete stock of FORD PARTS,
ACCESSORIES, ETC.
We have a competent force of men in our Ga
rage, which insures PROMPT AND SATIS
FACTORY SERVICE.
These men are: Albert Williams, Grover Fea
gin, Ed Bedingfield, and A. M. Church.
All of these men are recognized as superior ma
chinists and up-to-date in their line.
A few used tires on hand at a bargain.
COME TO OUR GARAGE.
m
Flanigan & Flanigan
Fourth Monday in March, 1919,
then and there to answer said
complaint.
Witness the Honorable An
drew’ J. Cobb, Judge* of the Su
perior Court, this January
10th, 1919.
GEO. N. BAGWELL,
Clerk Superior Court, Barrow
County.
RICHARD B. RUSSELL,
Petitiioner’s Attorney.
NEW YORK LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
’Tis an adage old
That will bear repeating:
“The proof of the pudding
Is in the eating.”
HERE’S THE PROOF:
The New York Life Insurance Company has
Paid over one-eighth of all death losses,
More than one-sixth of the total assets,
About one-seventh of the total liabilities,
More than one-fourth of the total surplus,
More than one-tenth of the total insurance
in force,
Paid over one-sixth of all dividends, and
At on ONE-FOURTEENTH of all the total
expense.
This is why people prefer to carry their in
surance in the New York Life, and why, al
ter gettting the first policy, they apply again
and again for further insurance for the pro
tection of “Mary and the babies," their bus
iness interests, or their own old age.
Our policies carry disability benefits from dis
ease or accidents as well as double indemnity
benefits.
JOHN THOMAS
LOCAL AGT. WINDER, GA.
NAZARETH CHURCH.
Preaching every fourth Sunday
at 11 o’clock and the Saturday
before.
HARMONY GROVE CHURCH.
Preaching every first Sunday at
'll o'clock and the Saturday be
fore. Everybody welcome.
T. M. LEE. Pastor.