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PAGE TWO
A HALF CENTURY’S
EXPERIENCES
W. H. Faust, D. D.
When a fellow rambles around
over this mundane sphere for twice
a quarter of a century he sees a
great many things, provided he is
really alive and keeps his peepers
ajar. And most lively, red-blooded
men are continually on the qui vive.
They have an opportunity of an un
parallelled nature to view scenes,
both good and bad. And it would
be worse than useless for one to say
that life is all goodness, and sun
shine and roses; for often times its
murky, and rainy, and wintry blasts
swirl the dead leaves in every direc
tion.
Yes, there is a whole lot of viri
ousness, violence and vulgarity a
broad in the land. The fellow who
associates with animals will find
much in humans that are general, as
well as gentle reminders. Surely,
though, along with the hopelessness
of every day despair there comes
verdant and spring-like hopes that
are stimulating and cheering, as well
as profoundly heartening.
The good usually outweighs the
bad. The sun shines more often
than it rains. And even in sordid
atmosphere, where one looks not for
scenes of beauty, there are little
oases that aro filled with love’s fra
grant and eternally resplendent
flowers.
Mildred Seydel, that charming and
versatile writer for the Georgian,
told in a recent column of an old
colored man with the snows of many
winters whitening his hair, and the
poverty of the years weighing heav
ily down upon his spirit, who ap
peared asking a white man for work,
and as he toiled away with his bent
form and patient and plodding per
severance, and senility weakened
frame, he suddenly showed a tiny
Confederate Cross hanging by a
piece of ribbon from his ragged en
semble. He was asked how he came
by this memento, and replied that
he was with his young master during
the war, and when he died the Cross
of Honor was given to him, and that
he would wear it he supposed until
he also died. That little human in
terest story thrilled the readers as
only Mildred Seydel’s stories can
stir human hearts. And all around
us in this old humdrum world today
there are in this period of depression
thousands of such stories that grip
our hearts and cause us to feel that
chivalry is not altogether fled from
the earth in toto.
It was a cold, blustery, breezy day
in Atlanta. Thousands were jostling
each other on the crowded streets,
and the whistles of policemen were
screeching, and breaks were grind
ing as red lights flashed. An old
woman, bent with the weight of
many years, was trying to cross a
street. Just as she was about start
ing, the light changed, the whistles
blew, and the grind of truffle started
afresh. The dear old lady who had
started, and then hesitated in her
helplessness, seemed in utter despair
when a fine Boy Scout darted out,
and touching his hat, assisted her a
cross, as a sympathetic public slow
ed down cars to give them the right
of way. The look in her old eyes
was wonderful. Thanks oozed from
her gaze. Many an eye filled up at
the gracious act, and the world was
better for the numbers who saw the
splendid act.
And it matters not where you live,
and how sordid may be your sur
roundings, your eyes will take in de
lightful things, as well as others, as
you pass this way through life. In
fact—
“There is so much bad in the best of
us,
And so much good in the worst of us,
That it ill becomes any of us
To criticise the rest of us.’’
This triad and happy season, when
the whole earth is thinking about
the Christ Child and His spirit, one
sees lots of things amidst the sordid
that lifts earth's sons and daughters
above the miasma of time into the
spotlight of glory. And about us
are ever scenes that cheer and heart
en if we would only lift our eyes
upward towards God and see His
image reflected in those who are
held down by earth ties.
Men see usually what they look
for—
■“ Two men looked out thru prison
bars,
The one saw mud, the other stars.’’
So as a general rule, we see what
we look foT. Look for the best, and
It will peep out from around the
corner to cheer and hearten us all
on our respective ways through this
%nd all th casing years.
WHY JOIN THE CHURCH
J. Jeaus Christ founded it and it
is the one institution against which
the gates of hell shall not prevail.
Mat. 1G: 18: “This is my church and
the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it.’’
2. In it and its fellowship are
promised spiritual blessings of in
comparable value. I Cor. 1:1-4:
“Unto the church of God which is at
Corinth, grace be to you and peace
from God our Father and from the
Lord Jesus Christ. Who comforteth
us in all our tribulation, that we may
be able to comfort them which are
in any trouble by the comfort where
with we ourselves are comforted of
God.
3. The grace of God is bestowed
upon the churches# We need his
grace, therefore we should empha
size the churches in our civilization.
II Cor. 8:1: “The grace of God be
stowed .on the churches of Mace
donia.’’
4. The mission of the churches
demand obedience to Christ and thus
the world is blessed through the
work of the members of the body
of Christ. Mat. 28:18-20: “Go ye,
teach all nations, to observe all
things which I have commanded and
I am with you.”
5. The service of the members of
the churches is pleading to God and
helpful to humanity. I Thes. 1:1-3:
“Unto the church of the Thessalon
ians which is in God the Father, re
membering your work of faith and
labor of love and patience of hope
in our Lord Jesus Christ."
6. Enables its membership to en
dure tribulations and triumph. II
Thes. 1:1-5.
7. Absolute rulership of Christ as
evidenced in Rev. 1:4: “John to the
seven churches, and from Jesus
Christ who is the prince of the kings
of the earth.”
8. Christ joins his mission with
ours, and as head of the church he
couples church members up with
himself. John 20:21: “As the Fath
er hath sent me even so I send you.”
9. One of the primal and most
significant reasons is found in Acts
2:47: “And the Lord added to the
church daily such as were being sav
ed.”
10. The church is the final auth
ority, beyond it only remains its
head, Christ. Mat. 18:17: “Tell it
to the church, but if he neglect to
hear the church let him be unto
thee as an heathen man and a publi
can.”
11. The last invitation in the New
Testament stresses it. Rev. 22:17:
“The Spirrit and the Bride (the
church) says Come. Let him that
heareth say Come, and whosoever
will let him take the water of life
freely.”
12. Important for men to hear
what God hath to say to and about
the churches. Rev. 2 and 3 chap
ters. The seven-type churches are
to hear what God says and in his
teachings to overcome. These two
chapters.
—Exchange.
USE ITI
Time marches onl
“Make use of time, if thou valuest
eternity. Yesterday cannot be re
called; tomorrow cannot be assur
ed; today only is thine, which, if
thou procrastinatest, thou loseth;
which loss is lost forever.”
“No man has learned anything
rightly until he knows that every
day is doomsday.”
A true realization of the signifi
cance of these words of wisdom from
Taylor and Emerson, every hour of
the day every day in the year, wmuld
insure the success of any man.
Doubtless every intelligent person
appreciates the value of time dur
ing brief moments of study on the
subject but, unfortunately, when
daily pursuits are resumed we fall
into the routine of every day life
and again lapse into a condition of
average lethargy.
Timidity, strange as it may seem,
contributes much to our failure to
utilize time. Many people lie awake
ut night, when the mind is free from
distraction and conflicting influen
ces, and resolve to assert themsel
ves, to lead rather than be led, but
with the beginning of a new' day
they again slink into submission and
the rut of yesterday and the world
goes on crying for capable leader
ship.
If you possess a desire to “ hitch
your wagon to a star," to be con
stantly reminded of the true value
of time, memorize Bryant’s “Thano
topsis”; study it, learn to under
stand it and repeat it every morn
ing. There is no finer philosophy
of life.
—HOD.
THE JACKSON HERALD. JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
JOE LAY, COLORED, 110 YEARS
OF AGE
(From Athens Banner-Herald)
The allotted span of life—three
score and ten —yet there is one man
in Athens who has lengthened the
limit in his case by forty years.
Joe Lay, who lives with his 70
year old son, Henry Lay, 125 Indale
street, just off Billups street, is at
least 110 years old, and may be 112.
Despite his hundred-odd years,
Old Joe is able to get around fairly
well and his faculties,are all in or
der, though time is taking its toll
and feebleness is beginning to ap
pear.
Old Joe can’t add up very well
but he clearly remembers when the
Civil war ended and freedom came
for him, his “old marster” told him
he was 42 years old. Figure it up
for yourself.
In tracing the story of Old Joe, a
Banner-Herald reporter was aided
by J. W. Arnold, who says that Joe’s
mother belonged to his great grand
father, Stephen Arnold, who lived
near Old Lebanrion church, a great
camp meeting ground in the old
days. The old building remains there
and near it is the old Oak Grove
schoolhouse.
Mr. Arnold says Stephen Arnold
gave Joe’s mother to his daughter,
Miss Willie, when she married Nolan
Lay, and Old Joe then took the name
of Lay.
Children were fond of Old Joe
and he regaled them with stories of
Bre’er Rabbit and the Tar Babby
and similar stories to be later im
mortalized in Uncle Remus. He was
a favorite likewise with the neigh
bors because he was so faithful and
obliging.
Mr. Arnold recalls that some years
before the death of his father, the
latter figured out Old Joe’s age, by
comparison with some of the older
members of the family at between
110 and 112 years.
Old Joe will tell you how he was
sold shortly before the war at public
sale before the courthouse door in
Jefferson, bringing $l,lOO. Mr.
Arnold says this is family history
and that John Rich Lay, son of Mr.
Arnold’s aunt Winnie, bought the
slave. John Rich Lay was killed
during the war.
Among the things that stand out
prominently in the old Negro’s me
mory is the day a prominent Jack
son county man was slain shortly af
ter the war.
A large group of men trapped
this citizen in one of his fields and
shot him down, the killer claiming
self-defense. Old Joe says he heard
the fatal shots and “tuk to the
woods.” The slain man’s home and
store were also burned by the men
who styled themselves Ku Kluxers
and charged the victim with pro-
Yankee leanings.
Old Joe is a free talker and likes
to go back to the days of long ago.
Think of it, this humble old Ne
gro was born in 1822, when James
Monroe was President of the Unit
ed States. He has lived through the
terms of 26 Presidents and is now
living in the terms of the 27th chief
executive.
He has seen the stage coach re
placed by the railroad and the latter
almost replaced by the bus; the ox
cart and the fashionable sulky supex - -
seded by the auto and the latter be
ginning to give way to the airplane;
he has seen prncipalities and king
doms crumble and fade from the
earth and time and distance anni
hilated by the telegraph, telephone,
wireless, radio and airplane.
TWO MILES A DAY
Here is a beauty hint from no less
an authority than the American
Medical Association: “To get just
the right tint on the cheeks, buy
only the best rouge, hide it in a
safe place about two miles from
home, and walk out and back once a
day to see if it is there.”
That advice to the ladies must
stand or fall by its own merits, since
it deals with a matter that is no
concern of ours. But we unreserv
edly commend two miles a day—
better still, four or eight—as a de
fense against the megrims, sniffles
and melancholies that so easily beset
us when winter bangs the door, pulls
dowm the window' and raises the in
terior temperature to eighty degrees
and upward. There are gymnastics,
of course, for those who can and
will take them, and all manner of
exercises to make Samsons of Zac
cheus’s. But for those who, either
from lack of purpose or from a sense
of the ludicrous, will have naught to
do with physical culture, a walk on
a crisp morning or under the frosty
stars is a pleasant way to winter
i fitness.—Atlanta Journal.
First of a senes of advertisements explaining the benefits of the new
electric rates to various classes of customers.
i
Qets a Welcome from Mrs . Smith
Mrs. Smith is a customer who has been using very little electricity
in her home. In fact, she rarely has paid more than the $1 -a-month
minimum charge. Let’s listen in on her conversation with a rep
resentative of the power company and see just exactly what the
new rates will do for her.
■ MRS. SMITH—“I’m not much inter
ested in electric rates. We use so little
electricity in our home, just a few lights.
So our bill seldom runs over the dollar
minimum.”
■ REPRESENTATIVE—“WouIdn’t you
be interested to know that the new rates
give you THREE TIMES as much elec
tricity for your dollar as you’ve been
getting? From now on, you get fifteen
kilowatt hours, instead of five, for your
dollar a month. That’s ten more kilowatt •
hours every month absolutely FREE!”
■ MRS. SMITH—“I’m glad to hear that.
Now, tell me what I can do with ten
kilowatt hours.”
■ REPRESENTATIVE —“For one
thing, you could add quite a lot of light
ing. You can have three times as much
light without increasing your bill.”
■ MRS. SMITH—“Mr. Smith would like
that. But could I use an electric iron?”
■ REPRESENTATIVE—“Yes. Your ten
free kilowatt hours will operate an elec
tric iron for 18 hours, or a waffle iron
for 16 hours, or a vacuum cleaner for
43 hours.”
For further information, call at
our nearest store—or ’phone, and
a representative will call at your
home. Or, if you prefer, mail the
coupon at the right.
Next week, in this paper, Ad
vertisement No. 2 will show how
the new rytes benefit a customer
whose monthly bill is usually in
the neighborhood of $2.50.
WATCH FOR IT.
Georgia Power Company
Ranking close behind California,
Georgia placed 11 counties among
the 50 leading peach producing
counties of the country in a crop re
port released by the federal depai't
ment of commerce. California had
14 counties among the 50. The
ranking was on the basis of trees
of bearing age in 1930 for which
year the peach census has just been
completed. The three leading coun
ties were in California—Sutter,
Fresno and Stanislaus—followed by
Barrien, Mich., and then Upson, Ga.
BILIOUSNESS
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Remember, too, that whenever Mrs. Smith gets ready to
add an electric range or refrigerator, she can buy the extra
electricity to operate it at REAL BARGAIN PRICES.
MAIL TODAY!
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
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GEORGIA POWER COMPANY: '
Please send me “More Light, More Leisure, for 1
I Georgia Homes," your booklet about the new I
I electric rates.
Name 1
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to Our 1
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Office
J. FOSTER ECKLES
AGENT ,
FIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE
JEFFERSON, GEORGIA.
Bargains In Mules
If you want’some good, honest-to
goodness Bargains in MULES, come
to our barn. Sell or swap.
TALMO MULE COMPANY
King and Jack Murphy in Charge, Talmo, Ga.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 4 ,
■ MRS. SMITH—“CouId I do all of that
with my free electricity, without in
creasing my bill?”
■ REPRESENTATIVE —“l’m sorry,
Mrs. Smith, if I didn’t make myself clear
on that point. Ten kilowatt hours would
not do ALL of those things. It would do
any ONE of them. Of course you prob
ably wouldn’t want to use your waffle
iron 16 hours a month, so you can di
vide up your free electricity among dif
ferent appliances. I would like to make
it clear also that these figures as to the
number of hours each appliance can be
operated ai*e the AVERAGE figures.
They might vary somewhat, up or down,
but I believe you will find them approxi
mately correct.”
■ MRS. SMITH—“I understand it now.
You mean that I can now go right ahead
and use three times as much electricity
as I have been using without increasing
my bill above my dollar a month pay
ment.”
■ REPRESENTATIVE — “Yes, Mrs.
Smith, that’s exactly it you can begin
today.”