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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1915)
thi-: Herry County Weekly 'FRANK ItKACiAN, JKJnti rt'ilat Jib** powtol. •at Mf’ : 1 W G • w si’o*»nrt-< ~ish jnaii mat «r. A 1 vt*rt(Hinsr Hates lurnished <>n Appli fctton. Official Organ of Henry Countv. McDonough, Ga., April 30, 1015 Ours. The changing and broadening or narrowing of the expressions idieating possession is an inter esting study. History tells us much. Science tdls us more, whether it is true or r ot. But we are inclined to be i eve in some measure the story ot ;t prehistoric era when men and women were mere individuals and each person a distinct entity, neither regarding himself or re garded by his fellows as a part of she rest of the human life about T.im. This was a period when the man looked up things as “mine.” Even the wife, or mate, and chi! dren were looked upon as mere chattels belonging to the man. It is not our purpose here to trace the progress of that refine ment of feeling in the man by which he came to regard his mate and offspring as something more than mere beasts whom he must feed in order to receive their la bor, and at last looked upon them as human beings. We spoke of this because it was in the family, in the home which soon came with the family, where possession changed and broaden ed from “mine” to “ours.” Even with this change there was yet a far greater advance to be made by humanity. The family feeling must broaden to become the community feeling or neigh borhood, and the community spir it must enlarge into the national spirit and government, and then tiie national spirit must widen into the international, the world feel ing. All of these but the last have come to the heart of humanity and we believe we can see the coming of that. But we would here enforce the truth that man has grown and broadened in spirit and in sympa thy only as he has shown his atti tude of ownership and proprietor ship over things, only as he ceased to speak of them as “mine” and came to speak of them as “ours.” As long as man sought to ac quire for his own exclusive grati fication, there could arise no great poets or painters, for poets and painters belong to all human kind and all ages and the spirit of a de sire to share their glorious concep tions with their fellows formed a large part of the inspiration which brought forth such inspiration. To-day men are born into the age of the “ours” spirit and he whose career is that of self-seek ing, a faring apart from his fel low humans, truly retrogrades to the type of an earlier age instead of advancing from his infancy. Do you think of the great men of history? They all shared their true wealth, the wealth of their with the world ’ and freely gave. The early disciples of our Savior held all things in common. And fie, the King all glorious, com manding all wealth, claimed for himself but a stone for a pillow. And the spirit of world brother hood will come to men only when His saving blood becumes the pu rifying fount to which all the world’s weary wanderers shall turn their footsteps and seek cleansing for their souls, stared by the suns and soiled by the dust a' >ng tiie highways of sin, in whit li ‘hey had so long walked. Then shill come the time when all things shall be ours because w r e belong to all and shaie our selves unu our goods with our brother to the farthest end of tiie world. Who Runs the Paper? In a neighboring county a cler gyman took the editor of the local paper to task because the editor a cept-d a certain advertising con tract. Tli ■ good man forgot that for years that the editor had given freely of his space to help tiie church; had printed columns of his notices of services, meetings, suppers, entertainments and iec tur *s, all free. In donating this space tiie editor had given more than the equivalent of cash. He h id given publicity, and thus had done more to support the church a»d pay the minister’s salary than any three members of the church had done. An editor has but two sources of income, his subscription list and his space. Yet, in this case, when he sold his space he lost a subscri ber. Of course, no one need sub scribe to a paper unless lie wishes t > do so, but no subscriber should want to dictate to the editor as to what he should publish. Many editors will not accept certain lines of advertising. Other editors can not afford, perhaps, to be so inde pendent. Business conditions of ten govern tiiese matters. A rich and prosperous Philadel phia weekly of national circulation for years declined the advertise ments of cigarette manufacturers. Business has fallen off lately tor many of the big magazines. Now tnat paper is accepting cigarette advertising. Perln.ps the editor needs tin money, and who shall blame him it he sells his space .to the American Tobacco Company ? Collier’s luo, we hear, is Jetting down ihe bars, just a little. That’s all right. Let tiiem down a little runner, as long as fakirs, a d gratters and swindlers are kept out. No one can run a paper to please every one, be that big or little. It is the editor’s paper and il is his living. He is the one who should judge what should and should not be published in its col umns. —Dallas New Era. Inspect the Battle Fields. Not by going to them, but by bringing them to you. We have secured a limited num ber of copies of a 32 page War Atlas of Europe, with detail maps m colors of each country. While our supply lasts, we make you the following offers: 1. We will sell you the Atlas for 25 cents. Postpaid for 27 cents. Stamps will be accepted. 2. To all who, by the payment of not less tnan one dollar, pay up their subscription to a date not prior to January 1, 1916, we shall give the Atlas tree. If you w-ish it mailed, add 2 cents in money or stamps for postage. 3. To all others, who make pay ments on subscription in any amount. wrn shall give the Atlas for the additional sum of fifteen cents. If to be mailed send 17 cents additional. Be on time and secure this in teresting and valuable w r ork of information. Offer no. 2 is good only to those who send or bring the pay ment to us and does not apply to those to whom a collector has to be sent. Mrs. Willie Ham was the guest of Mrs Annie Nolan Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Brown vir ited Atlanta Friday. 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Misses Anne and Rosa Jarrett, Man da and Kate Walden visited Mr. and Mrs. Greene Jones Wed nesday. Mr. W. L. Pattillo spent Thurs day with his sister, M s. John Phillips. Carolyn and Willie May Walden spent Thursday with Mrs. B. Y. White. Mr. J. J. Askew and Mr. Greene Jones spent Wednesday in Mc- Donough. Mr. J. R. Walden, of Atlanta, spent the week-end with relatives near here. Mr. T. J. Flake and Mr. Tom McKee spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Henry. Mr. John Jones has returned rrom a visit to her son. Mr. Dave Miller, of near White House. Misses Rosa Jarrett and Kate Walden attended Sunday School at Flat Rock Sunday. Mrs. B. W. Walden visited Mrs J. T. Mays Thursday. PORTER FERTILIZER COMPANY’S Great Crop Producing FERTILIZERS FOR SALE BY Henry County Supply Co., McDonough. Georgia. Mr. Greene Jones, Jr , is in At lanta for an operation. His many friends hope he will soon return improved. Mr. Roy Crumbley and Mr. Ike Selfridge were in our community Friday evening. Fairy Fay. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Turner spent Friday in Atlanta. Miss Ruby Langston, of Atlanta, was the attractive guest of Misses Funice and Ida Lou Tarpley for the week end and Memorial Da*-.,
