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THE IDEAL TENATN AND THE
IDEAL LANDLORD.
An Address Delivered at the An
naul Picnic on the Stephenson
Plantation.
In Progressive Farmer.
The ideal tenant wants to have
something. A living thing without
spirit does not amount to much to
itself or anybody else. The horse
that goes round with its ears flap
ped and head hanging down is a
plug and nobody wants it. It is
equally true of a human being
that the one witliout ambition and
aspiration does not amount to
much for himself or anybody else.
And the tenant who is satisfied
with a few rags ox clothes on his
back and three meals a day. whi
is willing to go on year after year
being a tenant and nothing more,
is not much account to liirnsolt or
tn his landlord.
2.—The ideal tenant is willing
to work in order to have some
thing.—
The trouble with so many peo
ple in the wt hi is that t! ey want
tu lmvc something all right, but
they jut not willing to work for
it, and think that there is some
easier way than by work to get it.
But when (iod said that man shall
live hv the sweat of ids brow, he
was stating a fact: rather than pro
nouncing a curse upon man; and
it lias been true through all his
tory that nothing worth while
comes without labor. Did you
know that the average inherited
property is lost within seven
years? And you well know that
gamblers almost never take care
of the money they win. On the
other hand, you know that the
man who makes his money by his
own hard lieks does take care of
it, and if you knew the history of
Ihe men who have amounted to
something in the world you would
know that they rose to promin
ence by hard work.
3. —The ideal tenant takes
pride in his work.—The man who
isn't in love with his work ought
to change his job. I know that
there are men who are never sat
isfied with what they are doing,
who think that the other fellow's
job is the easiest, who always w ish
they were in somebody else’s
place. But such a man amounts to
anything and is hardly worth
counting. The real man loves his
work and takes pride in what he
is doing. The ideal tenant takes
pride in his team and wants to
have the best kept team on the
plantation. He takes pride in his
crop and wants to have the best
worked and best arranged crop
on the place. He takes pride in
his home and wants to have the
best kept house and the best kept
out buildings on the place. He
wants everything that he touches
and has anything to do with to he
creditable to him.
4. —The ideal tenant practices
the spuare deal.—Some people
think that the successful man has
achieved his sueees by shrewdness
and sharp tricks. That is not true.
Oneee in a while a shrewd and
tricky man does accumulate a big
estate or. at least, makes a big
show. But, like the gambler’s
money, his estate soon vanishes.
The really successful man is the
one who practices the Holden
Rule in his everyday llife, who
gives his fellow man a square deal
and the ndemamls of his fellow
man that lie get a square deal in
return. The ideal tenant gives his
landlord a square deal: he consid
ers the interest of his landlord as
well as of himself;; he does not
resort to sharp thricks or shrewd
practices, hut does as he would
be done by.
The Ideal Landlord
The ideal landlord wants his ten
ant to have something.—lsn’t
the landlord who encourages his
tenant to accumulate rather short
sighted Isn't he simply fixing to
lose Ins tenantV Won't his tenant
soon have a farm of his own and
move out" Yes. that in all true,
but is it not a shortsighted policy.
The tenant who is working in or
der to have something for himself
is also making something for his
landlord, and an ambitious, aspir
ing tenant will make more for his
landlord in five years than an un
ambitious, unaspiring one will
make in a lifetime. Besides, one of
the keenest satisfactions in life is
the consciousness of having help-
ed someone and the ideal land
lord would by far rather he able
to say of a man, “I gave that fel
low his start; he w r orked for me
five years,” than to say of some
ragged, dirty, slothful old man,
“That fellow has been working
for me all of Ins life.” Among
the sweetest words in our langu
age are, “I gave him a start.”
2.—The ideal landlord gives his
tenant his very best advice, con
sidering - the interest of the tenant
quite as much as the interest of
himself.—l consider that the land
lord owes as high duty as to ad
vice to his tenant as a lawyer does
to his client and a doctor tQ his
patient. One man is landlord and
another a tenant because the for
mer is capable of advising the lat
ter. And the landlord who consid
ers only his own selfish interest
in advising his tenant is on a par
with the lawyer who advises a
lawsuit or the physician who ad
vises an operation in order to get
the fee.
3. —The ideal landlord takes a
pride in his tenants.— It is a fact
that you can .judge a landlord by
his tenants. "Wherever you find
that the tenants on a plantation
arc. as a rule, lazy and dirty and
dishonest and good-for-nothing,
you can mark it down that the
landlord himself is not what he
ought to he and that he is working
his tenants for whal he can get.
out of them without any regard
to what he can put into them. And
the ideal landlord considers the
moral and spirit mil welfare of his
tenants the same as their material
welfare, lie will not tolerate im
moral practices among his tenants
He will encourage them in every
noble aspiration, lie will take
pride in every worthy thing they
do.
4. —The ideal landlord also pra
ctices the square deal.—He consid
ers the welfare of the tenants the
same as his own; he does not take
advantage of the ignorance of his
tenants; he does not indulge in
sharp practices and do things that
he would he afraid to. do if he
were dealing with a man of equal
intelligence. Instead of that, lie
makes allowance for the ignorance
of his tenants and sets an example
of straight dealing.
The ideal landlord, then, wants
the tenant to have something,
does all in his power to enable the
tenant to accumulate something,
takes pride in the progress that
liis tenant is making, and sets him
an example of square dealing as
hot wen man and man.
Relations Between the Ideal
Landlord and The Ideal Tenant.—
It follows naturally that the rela
tions between thei deal landlord
and the ideal tenant are happy.
Hat h has a respect for the other.
Mach sympathizes with the other.
Then tenant rejoices in the pro
gress of the landlord and the land
lord rejoices in the progress of his
tenant. When things go wrong
with the landlord the tenant
stands by him and helps him pull
out of the shodow. And when
things go wrong with the tenant
the landlord stands by him and
helps him pull out of the shadow.
As man and man, each dependent
upon the other, the landlord and
tenant stand by each other
through thick and thin. When you
have such a landlord and such te
nants as this, you do not have la
bor troubles, but, instead, you
have the elements of an ideal com
munity.
Wealth and Poverty.
Wealth ns well ns poverty has Its
hardships—n species of Isolation which
limits ehobe comradeships and In some
circumstances is very depressing; a
suspicion ns to the motives of courte*
sies extend' I the sincerity of praise
given, and the penuiuouess of friend
ship.—Exchange.
THE BARROW TIMES, WINDER, GEORGIA.
Mill Girls Win Honors
Forming Thrift Clubs
Upper group, back row, left to right—C. E. Bagwell, D. 0. Bryant, E.
M. Pressley, J. L. Copeland, T. 8, Poteat.
Front row—Mrs. Bessie Tice, Misses Ora Foster, Minnie Thompson,
Estelle Davis, Minnie Davis and Bessie Hughes.
Lower group, left to right—Miss Lena Maddox, Miss Ollie Fallas, T.
E. Lents, Miss Lillie Bennett and Miss Maggie Simpkins.
When they start passing out deco
rations and citations for distinguished
service in peace, watch for some of
the honors being bestowed upon these
two detachments of Uncle Sam’s Thrift
army. They're the champion Thrift
Club organizers of the Southeastern
cotton mills.
While the war was on they learned
to save and put their money in Thrift
and Savings Stamps. Afterwards
they found out that thrift was a p etty
good thing to help beat the high cost
of living and make it possible to save
for the 'hings they just couldn’t buy
if they had to pay all at once out of
a week’s wages. And, they couldn’t
BETHLEHEM.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Aleßrey
er, of Chester, F. C., spent Sunday
with Min. (\ T. Mathews. Mrs.
MeHreyer and little daughter, re
mained for a week’s visit.
Mr. Ik'S. Harris and Dr. R. T*.
Adams represented Carter Hill
Masonic Lodge at, the grand lodge
convention which met in Macon
this week. *
Mr. J. L. Moore was called home
from Piedmont, S. 1 last Friday
to attend the funeral of his sister,
Miss Sarah Moore, whose death
occurred Thursday night. This is
the second death in this family
within a few months and we ex
tend sympathy to the remaining
loved ones.
Mr. E. V. Harris, of Whights
ville, is on a visit to his mother.
Mr. E. L. Y earwood of Madison,
spent Sunday here with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. John Williams,
Misses Johnie Lou Smith and Mil
dred Thrasher, of Winder, were
the four minute speakers here
Sunday for the 75 Million Cam
paign.
Mr and Mrs. Will Ridgeway
announce the birth of a son last
Wednesday.
We regret to note the serious
11 ness of Mr. Hardy Hosch.
Mr. Boyd Baggett, a student at
N. G. A. (Dahlonega, spent last
week end with his parents near
here.
Air. Rob Moore, of Atlanta, at
tended the funeral of his aunt
last Friday.
Air. Paul Griffeth, of Bogart,
grandson of Mrs. C. T. Mathews,
is in an Atlanta Hospital, where
he has undergone an operation.
His friends here wish for him a
speedy recovery.
Mrs. J. T Harrison was among
our shoppers in Winder Friday.
Air. and Mrs. Ed Sheppard, of
Mountain District, spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. \V P. Collins.
Aliss Susie Aiae Collins returned
home with them to spend this
week.
Miss Joe Kimball and some of
her friends from Good Hope,
spent Sunday here.
The Domestic Science Class will
give a Halloween Party Friday
evening at the School building.
All the spooks and witches, and
any seking a good time are in
vited.
In Everyday Life.
It Is well *o remember that excek
i>t tb nj; s are rare.
see any reason why others shouldn’t
save, too.
The girle are operatives in the big
Hillside cotton mill at LaGrange, Ga.
The men re overseers and second
hands in the same mill. So, to get
everybody in the mill in the habit of
saving, they formed two teams of girls,
with the men as leaders. Then the
fun started. Rivalry in getting mem
bers in the Thrift Clubs was keen.
In three weeks they had every em
ploye in the mill, —600 of 'em —enroll-
ed and buying Thrift and Savings
Stamps regularly. The weekly sales
of stamps in the mill is more than
SI,OOO and growing every pay-day.
Packing the Soil.
It has been estimated by authorities
that a man weighing 170 pounds, wear
ing No. 8 shoes, creates a pressure of
14 pounds to the square incli of surface
where he steps. A horse weighing 1,-
400 pounds creates a pressure of ap
proximately 18 to 33 pounds per
square inch under his hoofs while pull
ing an average load. A tractor weigh
ing in the neighborhood of 1.800 pounds
exerts a pressure only about ten
pounds to the square inch.
Fall and Winter
Goods Now On Sale
We have on hand superior line of fall and
winter merchandise. Underwear, knit caps,
gloves, sweaters, coats, serge and poplin dresses,
millinery, in fact, everything that you will need
for the cold weather.
We have already sold more coats and sweaters
than in any previous season; still we are constan
tly replenishing our stock and we intend to keep
the line up to date.
You will always find us prepared to serve you
with first quality goods at prices as reasonable as
we can make them. We strive to please you in
every particular.
Winder 5 & 10c Store
S. M. ST. JOHN, Prop.
COURT HOUSE BUILDING.
BIG SHOW COMING.
John Robinson's Circus Date
Pleases Both Old and Young.
Announcement was made today
that John Robinson’s Circus will
give two exhibitions at Monroe
on Saturday, November Bth.
One of the advance notices stat
es that everything about John
Robinson’s circus bears the stamp
of super-excellence. The three spe
cial trains owned by this show are
the finest ever built for the pur
pose. That you will see them un
load the handsomest lot of horses
that ever delighted the eye of
horsemen. That the wagons, cha
riots, etc., arc beautiful specimens
of handiwork from the world’s
best builders. That the harness,
trappings and paraphernalia, the
costumes, decorations and acces
sories in every detail betray artis
tic excellence, and lavish disi-e
--gard of cost in order that patrons
may have the very best. That the
people are all well-dressed ladies
and gentlemen, clean, courteous
and distinguished in appearance,
as benefits the character of the ex
hibition to which they belong. All
these things mean something, and
those who patronize these shows
will observe that this quality per
vades the entire institution, down
to the smallest detail. That it is
upon this principle that has been
built up the reputation of John
Robinson’s circus. Performances
will be given at two and eight
o’clock and Ibe doors will he
opened an hour earlier for mena
gerie inspection. The big mile
long free street parade will leave
the grounds circus morning at
ten thirty o’clock.
————i - * '
No Detriment.
Yeast —I see that bland typewriter
of yours chews gum.
Crimsonbeak— Yes, I’ve noticed
that.
“And don't you think it interferes
with her work?”
“By no means. I had one before her
who didn’t chew gum, and liar spelling
was quite as bad.”
THURSDAY, OCTOBER M
Life
Was a
Misery
Mrs. F. M. Jones, o!
Palmer, Okla., writes:
“From the time I en
tered into womanhood
... 1 looked with dread
from one month to the
next. 1 suffered with my
back and bearing-down
pain, until life to me was
a misery. 1 would think
1 could not endure the
pain any longer, and I
gradually got worse. . .
Nothing seemed to help
me until, one day, . & •
I decided to
TAKE
The Woman’s Tonic
“I took four bottles,”
Mrs. Jones goes on to
say, “and was not only
greatly relieved, but can
truthfully say that 1 have
not a pain. . .
“ It has now been two
years since 1 tookCardui,
and 1 am still in good
health. . . 1 would ad
vise any woman or girl
to use Cardui who is a
sufferer from any female
trouble.”
If you suffer pain caused
from womanly trouble, or
if you feel the need of a
good strengthening tonic
to build up yourrun-down
system, take the advice
of Mrs. Jones. Try Car
dui. It helped her. We
believe it will help you.
Ail Druggists
j.es