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How Blessing* Brighten As
They Take Their Flight
The party who made the speech
printed below waa an uncle by mar
riat* of Mr*. C. B. Lord.
The accompanying letter to Dr.
C. B. Lord concern in* Mr. Rice ia a
vary Interesting *tory. Both the
letter and speech referred to in the
letter are published a* interesting
reading:
The enclosed speech was given at
the close of school at Martin Insti
tute (date not known) by John
Harvey Rice. When carried by his
father*to school in an ox wagon he
was ridiculed by some of the
i uJent., bwv won first honor. He
was born in 1860, and was married
at the age of twenty-seven years,
but I do not know the date this
paper was written or what date he
•ntered Martin Institute, but hope
you may be able to find out.
His life was governed by just such
principles as outlined in his speech.
Lois Rice.
How Blessings Brighten As They
Take Their Flight
It ia a characteristic of the human
mind to be unwilling to wait for the
decision of any subject that may be
presented for its consideration. We
naturally press forward through life
as rapidly as the wheels of time can
"TiOrry us on, regardless of the many
blessings that spring up along our
pathway. When any new subject is
brought before our minds we grasp
eagerly at the little information
within our immediate reach and pass
on through the busy scenes of life
without ever stopping to think, with
out ever making an effort to search
out the hidden pleasures it may con
tain. We do not appreciate any
thing that we have as highly as we
ought until it is beyond our reach.
When we have all the means of en
joyment in our possession, when we
have the power of becoming great
and good and of expanding our
minds and looking out into the world
of science and enjoying the pleas
ures there spread out before us we
do not appreciate them. When we
look back on our past lives and see
the many privileges we have suffer
ed to pass by unimproved how they
appear to brighten ns they recede
from us, and we wish we could call
back a fe\* hours thift we might en
joy them. Take for instance the
advice of a pious father and mother
who have cared for us and watched
over us from infancy to manhood,
who have prayed for us and led us
in the paths of rectitude, who have
advised us of the many storms we
would have to encounter upon the
sea of life, who have spent many
sleepless nights and days of toil in
devising means of securing for us
the advantages of an education and
positions of honor arid usefulness.
Do we appreciate all these privi
leges? Do we take home to our
hearts this good advice? Do we
realize the pleasures of these pre
cious moments? Alas, we do not
until they are beyond our reach, and
then we remember them, but to la
ment our folly in allowing them to
pass from our grasp without im
provement. We read in history of
the down fall of many a nation
which was rich in all the blessings
that could be derived from good
governments which could have
grown to an exalted position among
the nations of the earth by the con
tinued exercise of wisdom which en
abled every man in whatever posi
tion of life to acquire alike the fair
fruits of honesty and of industry.
How could a nation fall blessed
with all these privileges? Take for
instance the government of the
United States, under which we were
a happy, free, united and prosper
ous people. But where are we to
day? Corruption has crept into
high places, privileges have been
neglected; we have fallen from our
proud elevation and are compelled
to drink the very dregs of the bitter
cup of degradation and sorrow.
Why is it that we have sunk so low?
Because we did not appreciate the
privileges we enjoyed. It is not un
til they are removed from us that
we can ascertain their real value
and appreciate their magnificence.
We now feel the effects of negli
gence with regard to our privileges.
It has brought us to a position of
degradation that will be found re
corded on the darkest pages of the
world’s history. My friends and
countrymen, let us realize our true
condition, and let us go to work
while we have the opportunity with
the earnest endeavor to elevate our ]
country to that high position from
which she has descended. It may be
that this blessing has not taken a
final flight, and that we may call it
back. Let us then raise no one to
traces of honor or trust who is not
Motown to be a man of integrity and
No Wife, No Furniture,
No Nothing
(By E meat Hicks, in Atlanta
Georgian)
Lavonia, Ga.—Seventy-one-year
old John Scott, grixzled and tooth
less farmer of Shoal Creek district,
near here, looked back today over
10 years that have passed since he
started living in his unfurnirhed
four-roomed house. His sole com
panions during that time have all
been mules; his present mule lives in
one of the four rooms, and uses the
only unbarred door for entrance,
while Scott use* a window.
In 1889, when he was 21, Scott,
tired of the "new-fangled" methods
of living and “.hort beds" acquired
his present home, and a few acres
of land, m> that he could live, eat,
and sleep as he wanted.
A hat and a frying pan are me
mentoes of that day when he started
living alone. The hat is constantly
worn, and the frying pan is used in
all of his cooking.
He doesn’t buy false teeth, be
cause he doesn’t believe in dentists,
and he keeps his money himself be
cause he doesn’t trust banks, people,
or the government. His bank is his
sewed-up overalls pocket, where he
keeps his money well-wrupped in 18
sacks of all descriptions.
His bed is the bare corner of one
of the rooms where he can "sleep
and stretch out.” His cooking is all
don® over an open fire-place, "like
they cooked when I was a boy.”
He has bread and meat, cooked
by himself, for breakfast, dinner
and supper. At dinner, he has
some vegetable with his meat, and
at supper he has milk. A circular
green patch near his house is expects
ed to bring in some good vegetables
soon.
His hair is usually cut by some
good-hearted neighbor with mule
shears, and baths are few and far
between.
During his 50 years alone, Scott
has adopted the habit of going to
bed at dark and arising at 4:30 in
the morning.
Scott denies that he is trying to
get away from people in general,
but says that he wants to live as he
wants to.
His house is .kept barred all the
time, because Scott is afraid of the
westerly wind. By night, it is im
possible to see inside the house, be
cause of the lack of lamps, and he
is always in bed when night comes.
He declares that he is happy al
ways, and never expects to get out
and do crazy things which people do
nowadays.
BENTON HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATES TWENTY-TWO
IN SEVENTH GRADE
Nicholson. —Friday, May 19th,
twenty-two students received eerti
cates promoting them to high school.
The seventh grade graduates this
year follow: Durell Adams, Wynel'.e
Adams, Frances Anglin, Jeanette
Barrett, 1,. G. Fields, Jr., Mary Eli
nor Howington, Walter Howington,
Joseph Johnson, Sara Frances Kes
ler, Estelle Loggins, Geraldine Os
borne, Hilder Palmer, Charles Redd,
Jr., Dies Sorrow, Miriam Vincent,
Thelma Williamson, Floy Wilson,
Floyce Drake, Eunie Mae Pepe,
Flense Standridge, Rogers Palmer,
Benjman Sailors, Jr.
worth. Let it be our individual am
bition to enroll our names high in
the list of fame with those over
whose history our hearts swell with
admiration; and may we be handed
down to posterity as the saviors of
our country. God has blessed us
with intellect and time to improve
it. We often forget that our time
is limited on earth, and that we are
accountable for the manner in
which we spend it Let us grasp
each moment as it flies. Let us not
delay till tomorrow the works of to
day, for each day is laid out for
useful purposes. These blessings
are all taking their flight, and soon
the bright beams of hope will flash
on their wings for the last time as
they pass from our sight forever.
Let us shun every vice which tends
to lower us in the scale of being,
and cultivate those virtues which
will render us truly great and trans
mit our names to all succeeding
ages. Let us burn the midnight oil,
and thus if it need be in our ardent
thirst for knowledge change night
into day. Let us turn from the
blight and ruin of this day and be
found rejoicing in anticipation of a
happier period when our prostrate
land shall stand erect among the
nations fearless and unfettered, her
brow blooming with the wreath of
science, her path strewn with the
offerings of art, and her fields wav
ing with the fruits of agriculture.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Ten Business Command
ments
No matter what business you are
engaged in, you will be interested in
this list of ten business command
me its by. George Churchill:
1. Don’t wait for the other fellow
to come to you—go to him.
2. In competition with others, al
ways give them credit for being a
little smarter than you are .. .
then work like the duce to prove
they aren’t.
3. If you have no money and
very little credit, capitalize your
personality. Sometimes it pays to
have a little "nerve”.
4. Never admit to anybody . . .
least of all, yourself , . . that you
are licked.
5. Keep your business troubles to
yourself. Nobody likes a calamity
howler, besides, he finds scant favor
with the bankers.
6. Don’t be afraid of dreaming
too big dreams. It won’t hurt you
to figure you own a railroad or a
bank. Nothing truly great was ever
achieved without vision, aim and
ambition.
T.i Make but remembbr
the best of friends will wear out
when you use them too frequently.
8. Be square, even to the point
of finickiness, and you will have
mightly little cause to complain of
a crooked world.
9. Take advice, but do your own
deciding.
10. Don’t delay. The world re
spects the man who stands up on his
legs and looks it in the eye.
THE HARVESTING OF CRIMSON
CLOVER SEED
The amount of crimson clover
seed harvested within the next few
weeks will largely determine the
acreage of this valuable winter le
gume which farmers of this section
will plant next fall, according to P.
A. Steiner, project conservationist of
the Soil Conservation Service.
One of the principal reasons for
the failure of farmers to plant more
legumes as cover crops in the past
has been the cost of seed. To en
courage development of a complete
vegetative program, service techni
cians have sought to establish seed
patches on every co-operating farm
which would enable farmers to ex
pand their acreage of various cover
crops with a minimum outlay of
cash.
With crimson clover seed patches
now established on nearly every
farm, several methods may be used
for harvesting the seed. One of
the most effective methods is to mow
the clover with an ordinary mower
and later throw the cured clover on
a poultry wire screen stretched over
a wagon bed and beat out the seed
with a pitchfork.
Crimson clover seed are ripe
enough to mow, Mr. Steiner explain
ed, when two-thirds to three-fourths
of the seed heads will slip, that is,
when the seed can bo pulled easily
from the seed stems. Fully ripe
seed shatter easily when dry. Clover
with seed inclined to shatter should
be handled only in the late after
noon or early morning when the
clover is damp with dew.
Your county agent or the soil
conservation service workers will be
glad to explain other methods of
harvesting crimson clover seed. Re
gardless of method used, it is im
portant. at this season to harvest all
available crimson clover seed in
order to have a supply on hand for
fall planting, Mr. Steiner said.
WAR IS WAR
One of the things we ought to
got out of our heads right away is
this: that there is any difference be
tween the way in which any two
countries would wage war.
We are shocked at the bombing of
helpless woman and children, but
we would do it ourselves if we had
to. We are horrified at plans to
starve whole populations or burn
them, but any country at war and
in a desperate position, would do it.
Thus there is no reason to be
especially surprised that the Japan
ese are now denying Red Cross food
and medical supplies to Chinese re
fugees in cities under attack. It
seems cruel, and inhumane, and
brutish.
And so it is. But war is war.
As the desperation of countries at
war increases, scruples fall away,
and whatever of humanitarianism
had been retained is gradually lost.
Thus the new Japanese move is an
index to hope long deferred in the
conquest of China, and can only be
read as an evidence of pressure
bordering on desperation from a
strain that is becoming intolerable
to the Japanese as well as to the
Chinese.
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VACATION TIME
The season of vacationing is up
on us, and the problem of where to
go and what to do weighs heavily
upon the person who contemplates
getting out of business routine for
a while and seek relaxation.
Vacation, according to the diction
ary, means intermission, a letting
up, so to speak, of certain activities,
and a relaxing of both mental and
physical strength, but unfortunately,
a good many people on vacation seek
so arduously to have a so-called
good time that their physical
strength is exhausted, and they re
turn to their work in a let-down
condition.
The ideal vacation is that which
gives real relaxation. To sit quiet
ly within the smell of salt air, or to
drift idly on a fishing boat, or in
contrast, to feel the exhilarating ef
fect of mountain air and to “sleep
under cover” on a summer night
have common appeals, and it is such
an outing as either of these which
offers peace of mind and content
ment of body.
Most of us get tired of the every
day drama we enact, we long to be
ourselves, and it is this longing
which a vacation suited to one’s
particular fancy satisfies.
• Just get away from work means
little, but to pursue a quiet, content
ed way for a few days without giv
ing thought to workaday problems
gives what most of us need, and
offers the ideal vacation.—Dawson
News.
GEMS OF THOUGHT
Bad men excuse their faults; good
men will leave them.—Ben Jonson.
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The best reformers the world has
ever seen are those who have com
menced on themselves. —H. W.
Shaw.
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Sorrow for wrong-doing is but
one step towards reform, and the
very easiest step. The next and
great step required by wisdom is the
test of our sincerity—namely, re
formation.—Mary Baker Eddy,
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Each year one vicious habit root
ed out, in time might make the
worst man good.—Franklin.
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Whatever you dislike in another
person, take care to correct in your
self. —Sprat,
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ATHENS, TO
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Portsmouth 7.90
Baltimore 9.65
Raleigh 5.25
Richmond 7.25
Washington 8.70
Birmingham , 3.65
Memphis 7.50
Similar fare to all points.
GO MODERN! GO SEABOARD!
J. FOSTER ECKLES
INSURANCE AGENT
JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
TRUSTEES ELECTION
An election for trustees for the sub-districts is order
ed to be held on Saturday, May 27, 1939, at the School
Building, in each School District in the county. The
hours for the election have been set at 1 o’clock to 2
o’clock, Eastern Standard Time. Let every School Dis
trict where a vacancy on the Board of Trustees exists,
hold the election on this day.
By order of the Board of Education.
T. T. BENTON, C. S. S.
THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1939.
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Sleep restfully. Spacious, softlv.
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Athem, Ga.