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The Hartwell Sun
—Established 1876 —
LEON MORRIS & LOUIE L. MORRIS
Editors Publishers Proprietors
Entered in the Post Office at Hartwell,
Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter.
Member
Georgia Press Association
Eighth District Press Association
National Editorial Association
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FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1925
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3,1. BIBLE THOUGHT |
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H Bible Tbqpgfata memorized, will prove a' 1
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BE KINDLY AFFECTIONED one
to another with brotherly love; in
honour preferring one another; re
compense to no man evil for evil.
Provide things honest in the sight of
all men. Be not overcome of evil,
but overcome evil with good.—
Romans 12:10, 17, 21.
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Pedestrians may have the law on
their side, but they generally get hit
from behind.
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When everybody begins living
their religion, then there will be no
need to preach it any more.
When Mrs. Mary Harris Armor
spoke here the other night she didn’t
say one word against a fellow im
bibing too freely of the grand and
glorious old buttermilk.
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The bankers of this section will
meet in Elberton next Monday. This
country would be in a bad way with
out our banks. We owe them a lots,
-—and that’s no joke.
Our readers will confer a favor
upon us by reporting anything out
of the ordinary that they may learn.
There are any number of interest
ing local happenings that die each
week because nobody tells them.
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A Chinese truckman in San
Francisco sent the following bill to
a hardware dealer for delivering
orders:
10 Goes.
10 Comes.
• At 50c a Went.
Total $5.
Springtime
Last Sunday afternoon, in a pass
ing Ford, the young man had both
hands on the steering wheel while
the young lady at his side had both
arms around the young man’s neck.
The sun is shining, the flowers bloom
ing, the birds singing, the doves
cooing and business is beginning to
pick up.—Commerce News.
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Wonders Will Never Cease
It may sound like a miracle, but
the fact is, there is one commodity
used by farmers that has been re
duced in price and that is calcium
arsenate, which the State Board of
Entomology now offers to farmers
at 8c per pound which is practically
a reduction of 100 per cent. Publish
it in Gath.—Commerce News.
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Here is the view, in a few w r ords,
of the Dothan (Ala.) Eagle on the
question of highway construction:
Centuries ago the Romans had
sense enough to build permanent
roads, which is more than some of us
seem to have today. Dirt roads are
the most expensive we can build,
for taxes must keep them up. When
some one says “taxes,” we shriek
Jong, loud and profanely; but we pre
fer to spend our money on continuous
upkeep of roads, rather than parting
with one large sum for concrete
roads. We deserve to be taxed to
death until we wake up.
It is a short-sighted policy for us
to build a road today that a heavy
rain may destroy tonight, when, by
adding something to the cost, w'e
could build one that would last for
years. —Madisonian.
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State of Mind
_ If a man thinks everyone is against
him, he will soon begin to treat them
so they will be. If he thinks everv
one is his friend, he will treat them
right unconsciously, and they will
soon be his friends. The man who
lives his daily life according to this
formula has in his make-up a spark
of sound and true philosophy that will
make his life brighter. If we put
into all the relations with our fel
lows a full measure of friendliness
and good will, we are pretty sure to
ret it back, full and overflowing. On
the other hand, if a man is suspicious
of everybody, everyone will be sus
picious of him. The man who goes
out looking for a fight is sure to
pet licked some day, good and plenty.
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OLD JOE JONES
SAYS—
“Home is the place kytCyl
where you are treated y
the best and grumble I
■■fee most.”
COMMENTS ON THE SUN’S
NATIONAL PUBLICITY ISSUE
Cape Girardeau, Mo., March 3, 1925
The Hartwell Sun,
Hartwell, Ga.
Dear Louie and Leon.
Just want to congratulate you
fellows, that special is the greatest
I have ever seen for a weekly news
paper. Just like getting a dozen
letters from home.
Wishing you continued success and
with best personal regards, I am
Your friend,
GEO. H. PAGE.
Atlanta, Ga., March 10, 1925.
Hartwell Sun,
Hartwell, Ga.
Gentlemen: —I am writing to con
gratulate you upon your magnificent
I issue of sixty-four pages which I
j have had the pleasure of looking
over.
With my best wishes personally
and assuring you of my desire to co
operate with you always,
Sincerely, your friend,
CLIFFORD WALKER,
Governor.
In sixty-four pages, six sections,
' The Hartwell Sun, under the editorial
I and business management of Leon
I and Louie L. Morris, the people of
Hart county and sections contiguous
thereto, were furnished with enough
reading matter of genuine, instruc
tive helpfulness and enough bright,
inducive business announcements to
do them for some time, if people
could take it all in one dose. The
kind of “depe” these boys give out, is
the better and more effective the
oftener their appreciative patrons re
ceive it. We sincerely congratulate
them upon their most extraordinary
achievement.—Walton News, Monroe,
Ga.
Atlanta, Ga., March 12, 1925.
Dear Mr. Morris:—Please accept
my belated congratulations on your
National Publicity Edition. A copy
came to my office the day before I
left for a 10 day trip in the East but
I took the time to look over your
paper and I think the whole thing
was splendid. It reflects a great deal
of credit to the town and should bring
considerable publicity to Hartwell
and to Georgia.
With best wishes and kind personal
regards, I am
Sincerely,
CHAS. A. COLLIER,
General Sales Manager
Georgia Railway & Power Co.
Athens, Ga., March 12, 1925.
Dear Editors:—l wish to extend
my congratulations and appreciation
of your publicity edition of The Sun.
You may know just how much it
was appreciated when I tell you that
it came just at the time I had been
asked to make a county report in
one of my studies. It was unneces
sary to search for other material as
this copy of The Sun had just what
1 wanted. I am always glad to see
The Sun, but I can say that I was
especially glad to see this one.
Respectfully,
FAY OGLESBY,
State Normal.
The latest issue of The Hartwell
Sun is a Publicity Edition. It con
tains 64 pages and is composed of
six sections. It is a notable number.
We congratulate the editors, Leon
Morris and Louie L. Morris.—Wes
leyan Christian Advocate.
Waycross, Ga., March 12, 1925.
My Dear Sirs:—Through the kind
ness of one of your city’s best men
and citizens, Mr. D. C. Alford, I
have had the pleasure of reading the
wonderful and remarkable edition of
The Hartwell Sun. Though a stranger
to you, I want to tell you that you
have done a masterful piece of work.
You have put Hartwell and Hart 1
county before the people in a superb
way. The work shows that you are
great newspaper men and most pro
gressive and worthy citizens.
1 served the First Baptist church
of Elberton for ten years, and the
scenes and faces in your paper are
familiar to me, for I preached in
many sections of your county.
I congratulate you and I congra
ulate the people who have you as
citizens and editors. The pulpit, the
press and the teacher’s platform are
the great builders of men and insti
tutions—Press on! There is much to
do.
Your sincerely,
W. H. RICH,
Pastor First Baptist Church.
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The "National Publicity” edition
of The Hartwell Sun, Hartwell, Ga.,
come to our desk last week contain
ing 64 pages. This was such a
tremendous undertaking for a news
paper in a town the population of
Hartwell. But it effectively and con
vincingly proves the interest the
business and professional men have
in such virile, progressive and very
valuable men as Leon and Louie
Morris, publishers of The Sun, to
Hartwell and Hart county.
The people outside of Hart county
will readily see the splendid co-opera
tive spirit that is so closely inter
’ woven into her citizenry when they
scan the pages of this special edition
of The Sun. It is a credit to Hart
well and Hart county, and certainly
those people are equally worthy of
such an edition.—Cleveland Courier.
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It is not surprising that the city
of Hartwell progresses when other
Georgia cities stand still, for the
merchants are ever ready to co
| operate with the publishers of The
Hartwell Sun in an advertising cam
paign. Recently the Morris Brothers,
who publish The Sun, announced
that they would publish a 50-page
National Publicity edition of The
1 Sun. The result was that the ad
• vertising came in such volume that
i it was necessary to print 64 pages.—
Publishers’ Auxiliary.
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Oak tree are more attractive of
lightning than other kinds.
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A Frenchman is privileged to have
, two wedding days, the civil and legal
marriage preceding the church wed
ding by twenty-four hours.
THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., MARCH 20, 1925
“FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH”
By E.8.8.Jr.
Back in Oklahoma again, back
again in that state of the Southwest
where fortunes have been made and
lost again in the twinkling of an eye,
I have lingered leisurely in Norman.
Here is the University City of
Oklahoma. Here in this little city of
ten thousand souls, Oklahoma’s great
state university was founded, which
. after many years of humble pioneer
ing has developed into one of the
greatest colleges of the West. On
my many visits to Norman, I have
watched the university grow and I
have watched, too, with interest, the
proportionate rapid strides of the
city, itself. Along with the magnifi
cent buildings housing the various
departments of the college on the
campus, there has been built beauti
ful fraternity homes and private
homes. The city streets are all
paved now. A bus line, with a fleet
of commodious busses, traverse all
the streets at regular intervals. In
the downtown section new bank
buildings have been erected and along
both sides of the street in the busi
ness section are newly built stores
and shops.
If this were all, Norman would still
be lacking in true progress, but it
is not all. Indeed, it is only the be
ginning. For as the years have pass
ed, with all this outward change in
appearance, something more lasting
has been developed—, atmosphere.
That intangible thing we call culture
and that environment of refinement
which has resulted is very evident in
this little city now. Starting with
a crude beginning, with no “gack
ground” at all, it has become a tpli
cal college community. And by that,
I mean that many of the best families
of the state have moved in, to make
Norman their home and by reason
of the fine educational plant here,
like a moth is drawn to a flame, so
| has the cream of Oklahoma’s better
j class been attracted, never to leave.
lOf all the . little cities scattered
j throughout America, there little
college towns dotted here and there
in every state seem to me to embody
everything that a man could want.
They promise advantages that other
towns are lacking in. They furnish
a “back-ground” of the finest citi
zenry in each state. Athens, Ga., —,
for instance.
Along with those modern down
town section of Norman, like most
other college towns of my observa
tion, there is still another just dis
tinctive part of town. It is the col
lege section. Here around the col
lege campus, extending for several
blocks either way, or the little stores
and shops that are a lure to the
college boy and girl. Bookstores,
the “Co-op,” hamburger stands,
bowling alleys, a picture show per
haps, shoe shine stands, candy stores,
places of soft drinks. Then, stand
ing a little mightier in their appeal
are numerous tea rooms and “college
shops” where the college society par
ade in, and out, all day long. In these
places our best college “Jellies” do
their stuff and “dates” come in to
show the rest of the world that they
are still in college and popular
’n’ everything. As a matter of fact,
any youth who “dated” a fair co-ed
and then failed to parade her into
one of these popular places for a
bite of eat or a drink, would gain her
everlasting scorn and -bring down
righteous wrath upon his head. Up
on this psychology, the success of
these glittering places are assured.
They are always crowded with a
brilliant crowd. The elite of college.
Norman and the college community
specifically, has its full quota of these
i “college shops.” There is the “Var
sity,” “The College Shop,” “The
Teepee,” “The Blue-Bird,” “The
Kopper Kettle” and numbers of
others. All are beautiful places,
fitted up elaborately with vivid color
schemes and attractive decorations.
All get an immense crowd and day
by day reap a harvest frSm the
college crowd, and at Norman, be
cause of the greater wealth of the
average college boy and girl, these
places are by far the most elaborate
to be found. The latest of the new
places at Norman, is "The Kopper
Kettle,” sitting, almost hidden away
from the main street, it appears from
the outside just an ordinary building,
the exact counterpart of many other
shops of its kind. Then we enter.
We find a large hall like room with
a high ceiling, the rafters plaining
showing. There is a huge open fire
place in front. Big “comfy” chairs
are lounged around it. Then, as far
as the eye reaches, booths extend on
both sides of the room, with open
tables in the middle to cover that
space, and these booths are not tiny
affairs but rather with the dividing
walls so high, that the couples or
parties at the various tables in each
section are completely lost to view
from the rest of the room. The
tables themselves are unique. They
are massive oaken slabs which are re
: movable at any time. Upon their
i surface the names of all college cele
: brities, fraternities, dates, etc., have
been whittled by means of a jack
knife. It is the custom. Anyone is
at liberty to carve his name on a
table. It is the pastime. Boys and
girls laboriously spend hours cutting
their names and intertwining their
initials upon these tablets. As soon
as a table is full of names, a new top
is substituted and the process starts
all over, the old tops being swung
as ornaments upon the walls. Trophies
of war. so to speak. In “The Kopper
Kettle” one might shut the eyes and
dream of an old mediaeval hunting
hall, perfectly content to while the
hours away in congenial company.
A tribute to Oklahoma girls, in the
passing. The finest of them all! In
all my travels, seeing and meeting
intimately thousands of college peo-
I pie, all types and varieties, my ad
j miration all goes back to Oklahoma
; girls. Beautiful, exquisitely gowned,
(who wouldn’t be, with an oil well in
the back yard!) -whole-souled, sym
pathetic, charming and—, clean. May
I say it frankly, the purest and the
most gentle, the cleanest morally as
a whole, are the Oklahoma co-eds.
It is not a very safe place to make
too many rosy dreams, nor to “air
castle” too many vivid ideas, nor to
talk too big. It is not safe to do this,
at any rate, without making reser
vations and preparing for casualties.
For many a man lives, to later on, be
forced to eat his words. That, to
me, is the most humiliating of all
life’s little tragedies. So, with this
preface all in hand, I can now give
without any embarrassment, my plans
for next year, which are to settle in
Atlanta permanently. There, begin
ning in September, I shall “venture
i forth” with a branch office for the
L. G. Balfour Co., (my present com
pany) with Southern territory. A
few trips out of Atlanta now and
then, and then eventually to be in
Atlanta constantly. I shan’t “eat my
words!” It is a “venture.” My am
bition is make the Atlanta office a
glowing success and if hard work will
do it, it will be a success. If I fail,
I can always come back West and
break into the traveling game, again.
Am I clear? No big talk, just facts.
Associated with me, will be Freddy
Paige, a native Coloradan whom years
ago I met in Boulder. I got Freddy
his present position with Balfour a
few years ago, and he made good
with a rush. Now, beginning in fall,
we shall be together. We ghall have
ten or twelve men under our super
vision, out of Atlanta. It looks like
a great opportunity.
And yet with it all, now and then
there come pangs of regret in leav
ing the West. I shall leave hundreds
of friends behind, perhaps never to
see again. Hundreds of loyal young
people who have believed in me and
who have come to have a warm place
in my heart. Hundreds of clean-cut
young fellows and charming, warm
hearted girls who know me as,
“Enoch.” It will be lonely leaving
them behind. But I shall always re
member. On and on—, always. If
I succeed, it will be with their con
fidence and loyalty to spur me on
ward. If I fail, if circumstances over
which I have no control prevent suc
cess in Atlanta, then I shall go back
to them—, the West, —that made me.
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Hear And Their
By DANA
ONCE UPON a time.
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THERE WERE two companies.
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TWO BUSINESSES, to be plain.
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AND BOTH were competitors.
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AND ONE was old and established.
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WHILE THE other one.
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WAS JUST new and untried.
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AND AT the head of the old one.
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WAS A young fellow.
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WITH FALSE ideals and standards.
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OF PETTY hatred.
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WHILE AT the helm of.
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THE NEW company.
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WAS A courageous man.
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WITH A brave heart.
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FIGHTING ON, day by day.
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AGAINST THE slurs of his rival.
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CALMLY BIDING his time.
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AND ONE day a crisis came.
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AND THIS old company’s “pilot.”
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MADE THE following “crack.”
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“THAT IN a year’s time.
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ONE OF the two of them.
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WOULD BE selling shoe-strings.”
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AND THE year passed.
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(AS THEY will do.)
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AND IT did happen.
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ONLY IT was the old company.
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THAT BUSTED.
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AND NOW that “cocky” guy.
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HE’S THE real one.
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“SELLING SHOE strings.”
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WHICH ALL proves two things:
THAT HONOR in business pays.
AND THAT cheap talk doesn’t.
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FOR “EATING” one’s words.
ISN’T ANY too nice.
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AND I’M glad that Balfour.
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LET THE other fellow talk.
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AREN’T YOU?
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I THANK YOU.
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QI'FSTIONS I
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If Parents will encourage children to look op ■ 5
•' and memorize the Bibie Arwwers. it wth prove J ;
3 a pneweaa heritage them m after years
After Jesus the Christ appeared tc
his disciples, what command did he
give them? See Matt. 28:19, 20.
GEORGIA NEWSPAPER FOLK WILL
TAKE OCEAN TRIP TO NEW YORK
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“CITY OF CHATTANOOGA”
The Ocean Steamship Co’s liner which sails from Savannah on April 25th
carrying 200 Georgia newspaper people to New York City for a visit.
The Georgia Press Association will
make a voyage from Savannah to
New York and return following the
mid-year session in Savannah, April
25th on board the new steamship
“City of Chattanooga” of the Ocean
Steamship Company. The “City of
Chattanooga,” the finest ship in
coast-wide service, has accommoda
tions for 204 passengers and it is
expected that every place will be
taken by association members and
their families. The ship has just
recently been built for the Ocean
Steamship Company and embodies
every luxury and convenience of
modern travel. It has a large music
room, restful lounge rooms, spacious
dining room and large staterooms,
its facilities being as good as those of
the large ocean liners.
The ship will sail from Savannah,
Saturday, April 25th, at 3 P. M. and
arrive New York Tuesday, April 28th
at 6A. M. After two and a half days
in the city the return voyage will be
What We Sell.
The grocer has groceries to sell,
the merchant sells clothing, etc., tfae
service station has gasoline, oils, etc.,
and the newspaper has space in its
columns. From this alone the paper
must survive. Some people and some
organizations want all the space they
can use for various purposes, and
when they get it, fail to express their
appreciation by word or deed. Our
space is what we deal in. We don’t
think anyone can have occasion to
say that we haven’t been generous
with our goods.
The above dissertation is from The
Hartwell Sun—one of Georgia’s best
papers. What Editor Morris says is
true—and we feel the same way
about it.
A newspaper publishes an account
of the death of a good citizen, and
should do so. Then later, some
friend, or member of the family
writes an obituary, and, sometimes
they can’t understand why a charge
must be made for printing the obi
tuary.
If our friends will keep in mind the
fact that selling space is the paper’s
main source of income, they can un
derstand why a charge must be made
for publishing obituaries.—Carters
ville Tribune—News.
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■ OFFICERS:
■ D. C. ALFORD, President - R. C. THORNTON, V.-President ■
M. M. NORMAN, V.-President - FRED S. WHITE, Cashier 1
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1 D. C. ALFORD - S. W. THORNTON - R. E. MATHESON I
I. J. PHILLIPS - M. M. NORMAN - DR. W. I. HAILEY "
# L. L. McMULLAN ”
started at 3 P. M. April 30th, ar
riving Savannah 6 A. M. Sunday,
May 3rd. Sessions of the conven
tion, social affairs and deck sports
will be held on board ship and will
make the voyage interesting and de
lightful. A wonderful program of
entertainment has been mapped out
for New York, including a recep
tion to* the party by Mayor Hylan,
a trip around New York harbor, a
breakfast on board the world’s larg
est steamship, the Leviathan, a visit
to Oyster Bay, a dinner and theater
party tendered by the American
Press Association and other luncheons
and dinners to keep the party busy
and happy. New York headquarters
will be at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
President Rountree and Secretary -•
Stanley report a large advance list
of reservations and this mid-year con
vention and outing promises to be
one of the best attended in many
years.
How few people take the time or
trouble to find out anything about
the working of their city or county
government. Most every one knows
in a general way, but ask for specific
information about any law or the
duties of any officer and those who
know that they know will be few.
Yet we expect things to be carried
on as they should be done. It is every
man’s duty to inform himself relative
to the processes of self-government,
and the administration of that gov
ernment to the greatest good to all.
Christian citizenship means nothing
if not used for civic righteousness.—
LaGrange Graphic.
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Progress
No business stands still. Every
business that grows is in a constant
state of change and flux. New models,
new ideas, and improvements must
constantly be incorporated into any
business that is to grow. If your
business is standing still—if you are
not making improvements, changes,
or additions, the handwriting is on
the wall for you, and unless it is
heeded your business is liable to go
the way of the high-wheeled bicycle,
the bustle, petticoat, or one-horse
shay.