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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 ■■ 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.