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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1915)
TH£ fcn r y County Weekly fUtWK HKXGAN. Kflitur. gnhcrrtd fit r h*'onu'-.i'TW'Ht M’-T*nnn>ia if i Q» . ft sl mail matter Adverttsins Rat*-s furnished on satlon. Official Organ of Honry County. M'Donough, Ga., Feb. 26, 1915 Pit 0% uiianyci Change is the common daily lot of mortals. Even ourselves are undergoing a constant change. But when we look upon the war-swept and devastated fields of Europe to-day, either with our own eyes or through these of the writer of the news dispatches, what a fearful sight do we behold: What were once fair and flower ing fields, wearing their verdure and their smooth rolling surfaces as a goodly garment, have now thrown off this, vesture and stand bare and starving as giants whose bones stare through their shining flesh less covering. And the hand of man, with in trenching irons and monster ex plosives, has wrought all this change. And over what seems an illimi table area are heaped up in mounds masses of mangled men, which their fellows surviving are too busy to burn or to bury; and in and out among these mounds of the dead masses are massed the living lines, for miles and miles here, there, and everywhere. All life seems mobilized for the sole purpose of making more corpses of men. And we Know that there is no name which better fits this prac tice than national and internation al suicide. Now Germany, who has made fair Poland and Belgium to appear as the fleshless skeleton of a starving giant, at last begins to know hunger and see the impend ing horror of the fate she has meted out to others. England also knows that only the sea can bring her such succor as will save her from similar star vation. So both these great countries look to those “flying islands of the night/' with their crops ol grain and foodstuffs, coming from the great land of the west, and America, who has launched these fertile islands from her friendly shores, says to the world: “will you in vour envy and your greed destroy and sink in the sea this my offering for your sustenance, rather than risk your neighbor’s securing it to appease his hunger?” None can behold al' this desola tion without contrasting it with all the glory that was before this great war began, and a sense of the vast change seizes the behold er. Then he looks upon the other nations of the world who are not at war and sees how they have felt its shock and still shake be neath the tremor. Like one vast network of wires of communict tian connecting all nations into one and stretching over our heads along the way, the winds in the wires wail so woefully that one nation must hear the great com motion stirring any other nation in the worid. r*nd the listener of the wordless wn .s contrasts this with the mel oJv formerly heard there, when the sweetest songsters of the air percned upon the same wires and •carolled of peace. And the heart sighs at the change. But the business man may not note or care when the ache ve il,eats of ages of art are destroy ed i.i a single stroKe, or when men are murdered by the tens of •housands, or if other tens of thousands go by the slower way (ft starvation and privation; so lohg as his business structure stands stable and secure. And, in his arrogance, .he has thought all wisdom Itis and that this structure could n ,! be shaken, much less razed to the ground. Now tie asks, where is lus busi ness. Has anything ever erected so thoroughly topuled as our once vaunted business system! And the business man marvels and is dazed at such change. Then the inner circle of busi ness which makes and unmakes values in a moment is accustomed to even momentary changes. So much has his dealings been in changes that he has named lus place of conducting suer, business the 'change. But even this class is now “run ning to fro,” consulting the pow ers that be, and back again to 'change to behold such a state of things as never was before, until he is ahnost ready to pull down the structure upon himself; but at last Me flees the place, runs into the street and would forget the vast change. And evervwhere, in our busi ness, in our fortunes, in our live-, we see change. CHANGE! CHANGE! CHANGE! So it seems that we can find nothing that is stable and that “Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see.” And tens of thousands who had heretofore been so engrossed vith the fading facts of earth that they forgot the one and only eternal Fact, now brought to their knees, cry out from the depths of a con victed soul: “O Thou who changest not, Help of the helpless, Abide with me” t Growing Children frequently need a food tonic and tissue builder for their good health. Olive Oil JV£*£!sZ Emulsion containing Uypophotphitca is the prescription for this. The McDonough Drug Co. Miss Blake Bu m i visiting in Atlanta. Use the Newspaper. If a member ofyour family died, would you print the obituary on a billboard? If your wife entertain ed, wouid you send an account of it to the theater program man? If you were to enlarge your busi ness, wouid you advertise in a hotel register? If you were going to have a wedding in your family, would you get out a handlii ? You would send such items to a newspaper, wouldn’t you? Ttun why don’t you put your advertise ment in a newspaper? Every man who uses a biliooard is adding to nature faking, i'ne newspapeis build your town. A minister in a small town, who probably had tile usual difficulty in getting lus salary alter he had worked hard to earn it, just be fore Held auuiesseu his congregation as follows: “D. i o lends, yuu uOn’l love ... o' ills, you don’t pay my s o >. .)i don’t love one a..uu.. j. caus acre are no euiliiv >, id uod iii’t want OU uec s obody eS. No. , . rein . appoint' d cnapiai lenliary in ms si.i. . .s wine my iast Sunua u i . i-i. i .via preach from tin . o o prepare a placet* yo ~ r which the chotr win ‘M et Ale there.’ ” NEW SPRING GOODS 1 • i We have now ready for your inspection full - id*. ■ 1 i lines of ginghams, percals, madras, chambricr, chev iots, suitings, linens, Ripplettes, colored and broven linens, Galateas, voils, crepes, silks, messelines, Fon gees, etc. We also have complete stock of childrens and Misses dresses at 25c to SI.OO. Our new spring slippers are in and are ready for your inspection. ALL THREE OF OUR MILLINERY LADIES ARE IN ATLANTA TAKING IN THE MILLINERY OPENINGS. They will also go through the millinery lines of the most noted millinery houses of New York, Baltimore, St. Louis, and Chicago. We contemplate showing the most complete stock of spring millinery ever shown here and at prices that will be very pleasing to our customers. T. A. SLOAN & CO. • •i' ; ‘ , McDonough, = Georgia. The Price The Builders Pay. The man or woman who devotes his or her life to the elevation of their fellows; to making the paths of their people easier, their lot more endurable; to surround them with those things that ele vate and refine, must expect op position. They must endure mis representation, because they will be misunderstood: ignorance can not understand wisdom nor un coulhness understand culture. Perhaps they who work for their fellows’ weal may even be perse cuted. But because of this must they falter and lose heart? Nay: did He who set the example for ail who loved Him to follow hesitate, evtn when the greatest tri d of all confronted Him. The history of civilization is written in the blood of sacrifice. None can build except th y bring bricks and straw; for bi id s, the inflexible will be accomplish; and straw the devotion of unselfish ness to duty. ! There is no higher khal than the elevation of our fellow crea tures; to make them happier by making them better; to teach them content by showing them the high things of life, that de pend not on wealth nor environ ment. It is one of the noblest works of life to teach children to love the things that make them noble of mind, pure of heatt and unselfish i t principle; that point out to 1 them the things that are nearest to nature and therefore nearest t Gu This is building cturactei; it is building men and women who are the highest typ l of Amer ican citizens beeauv tney are God fearing and ■ in*‘'-living; teat are refined bee their hearts, the well spr .. <• . ira nter, are pure. In euild charaete tne of the most oiscour.. :i. gs is the opposition or . om parents. It is hard .«, ■ • re member that had tn :• had the advantages we s . ,;ive the child, present effor , not be necessary. The opposition comes from net understanding, and failure to understand is be cause the work being done now was not done earlier —because they cannot understand. To be misunderstood and misrepresent ed is only a small price to pay for the glorious privilege of character building ana citizen-making. For the right to leave on the higher civilizati n of a future day the im press of ycur work hi re and no v; a work in which you build the' future by training the child. And generations to come will look back on your work and call it good. Men and women of to morrow who are the children of today will treasure your name and call it blessed. And in the radiance of the stars of the crown of reward you will forget that sometimes the way was hard and the spirit vexed. For, verily; the reward is many times worth the price that the builders must pay. —Tifton Gaz ette. Many People In This Town never really enjoyed a meal until we advised them to take a Dyspepsia JVgSSsS Tablet before and after each meal. Sold only by us —25c a box. V The McDonough Drug Co. Round About News. Mr. J. W. Thurman attended quarterly meeting at Stockbrdge Saturday. Misses Ola and Fairy Cool; spent Monday nig and Tuesday with Mr and Mrs hu >n Clark. Mrs B. Y. V and two daughters spent v with her parents, Mr. an : W. Wal den. Mr. and Mr rson are entertaining a it their home. Mrs. Walt 1 .sister, Miss Algeiie i through tins section S Mr. Tom He * >f Atlanta, dined with Mi. irrett one l * day iast week. Mrs. B. W Walden visited rela tives in McDonough several days last week. Messrs. William Crurnbley and J 'hn Moss vere in our communi • ty Saturday night. Mi ;s May Jarrett visited her cousin, Miss Clyde Jarrett, Satur day’. Master Claude Walden visited his sister, Mrs B. Y. White, Satur day. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mays visited relatives near Flakf’s mill Satur day night and Sunday. t Mr. B. W. Walden spent Satur day and Thursiay in McDonough. Little Marguerite Barr has been sick for the last few days, but we hope for her a speedy recovery. Mr. Otto White visited Mr. George Walden Saturday night.* Wonder what young man is go ing to get a new “one hundred dollar buggy whip,” Mr. Ben has returned from a visit to his sister in Murry Cross, Ala, “Fairy Fay.” MAKE YOUR OWN f Spain r! 101' will SAVE 56 CIS. PER CAL THIS fS HOW rals. L.OLM. Semi id Real Paint sg.4g Is. Linseed Oil x with it at ated cost of 2.^0 jals. Paint for SIO.BO j $ 1.54 per gal. _ The L & M. SKMI-V?IWn REAL PAINT IS P!I*K Riutc .Yin fINC «RUKSrn*oa thehist known paiut materials lor years. Use a gallon out of any you buy and if not the best paint made, then return the paint and get all your ment"" buck. Copeland Turn* r Merc. <V>. McDonough, - tjporcria Mr. Tom Wall went to Atlanta Mondav. Mrs. T. A. Sloan spent Tuesday in Atla ita.
