The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, June 07, 1918, Image 2
The Henry County Weekly By J. A. FOUCHE. Entered at sh** po*toffice at McDon ough, Gn . a- 'econo "last mail matter. Advertising Rates ISc i>er inch, posi sition 5c additional—special contracts Official Organ of Henry County. McDonough, Ga., Jule 7, 1918. Clips and Comments -j* June. Long hot days. Buy War Savings Stamps Now. Mirth may prove a better di gestive than pills. Home without children is liken ed to a garden without flowers. i And upon tOD of it all, the meet ing of the Georgia Legislature draweth nigh. June 28 is War Savings Stamps Day. Pledge yourself to buy your quota now. Announcements of Georgia boys being killed in battle at the iront are beginning to come over. The world is in the most ap palling upheaval of its history. Yet few apparently realize it. About 70,000 church bells in Germany are reported to have been melted for munitions of war. The daughter who is the flower of the family is always the one who knows best how to u«e the flour of the family. Things are beginning to happen in this great war, and a wonder ful world-change is evidently near at hand. What will the end be? My son put your trust in the girl who can can all the vegeta bles in the garden as fast as they mature, and not only who can but does.—Ex. Boy scout organizations are ac tive in locating black walnut trees. Black walnut lumber is needed by the war department for use in making air plane propellers and gunstocks. The two picric acid plants to be built at Little Rock, Ark., and Brunswick, Ga., the contracts for which have been completed by the war department, will cost ap proximately $7,000,000. A great interdenominational prayer meeting was held «t Five Points in Atlanta last Thursday noon, in accordance with Presi dent Wilson’s proclamation for a day of fasting and prayer. Production of honey will be greatly increased during 1918 in many localities, according to the department of agriculture. The increase in Colorado, it is said, will probably be 100 per cent. The Spirit of a Mother. “Their Country is their Mother now.” That was the word of a mother who sent her sons to service at the first call. And that is the ideal of the boys who serve —who go to the battle fronts with home in their hearts, and the sweet memory of mothers —heroic, not only in giving all, but in the grief and tears they hide, and in the Light they bring to the shadows of lonely homes. For with the joy of giving all that can be given, there must be grief, and sudden rain of tears, even though the tears have light in them. It’s the sweet old human way of all the hearts and homes of this time-worn, war-racked worid. But the mothers —loved and honored of home and country, are not seeing the sacrifice side alone, but putting themselves in the sha dow of the Light of sacrifice — with a spirit of unwavering devo tion, that shrinks not from the sacrifice supreme. Such is the spirit of an Atlanta mother, who but lately lost a son in the aviation service in France, and who sent this brave letter to “the folks at home.” Our bov has answered the call to “Come up higher, my son.” We had a letter from the chaplain who buried what seemed to be our boy. It didn’t separate us, though, and it never can, as what we love about each each other is that which lives and moves, and has being in God, and cannot die —even as God can not die. No German bullet was the end of his mortal life; no Ger man prison was his fate —just a quick passing from a dream of mortal discord into the per fect day. Don’t bother to say any thing to me, dear children. I know we have your tenderest sympathy. Our boy’s own message would be: “Come up; the air is fine.” Loving ly, Mother. There spoke the spirit of a mother who gave all —alone with her grief, in that stillness which is the Peace of God, and lifted up in the spirit by the thought of what the spirit of her boy was, and the cheering message he would send to her now, could the Silence give utterance to it. The Georgia mother of a Geor gia boy, and a million mothers like her —mothers unnumbered, thru out this patriotic land. They put themselves in the background of the great war pic ture ; they would be the unknown —unmentioned forces in the fight for home, and for world-freedom ; but they come to the front for all that; they “stand in their own place but it is that place of hon or where the world-light loves to shine ; and the light of their love and devotion leads the world to them —to comfort, and be com forted. And the sons of these mothers, not vet on the scene of battle — are none the less heroes because they are not in the battle-lights;— they are serving for the greater service; and when, as in this in stance his mother writes, they die in service, they have done what they could.” That is the supreme test, and they will have met it with honor to themselves and to their coun try. We are going to win this war as much through the brave spirit of the women who are fighting the home-battles, as with the sacrific es of the men behind the guns.— Atlanta Constitution. Earnest Appeal. “For G. d’s sake men and wo men, mak this war a personal affair.” Suppose the German army was marching into Atlanta, and in our fright we appealed frantically to our president in Washington to send aid! Suppose we watched and wait ed—the enemy coming closer and closer to our Homes every day — and we repealed our appeals for help, help, help! Suppose it was six months before help arrived ? What would have become of us —you or your loved ones, me and mine? It’s all too horrible to think of, isn’t it? Sure ly our president would not keep us waiting six months. He would answer our call immediately! Do you know that the president called on us six months ago, for help —and we have not answered him yet. Do you know that Pres ident Wilson asked Georgia to purchase fifty-seven millions, five hundred thousand dollars worth / i of war savings stamps —and with nearly half a vear gone by, I’m ashamed to tell you the small amount we have nought! Yes, I know you subscribed to Liberty Bonds. I know you helped the Red Cross and every other cause, and God bless you for it — but, the W. S. S. campaign is just another method of securing mon ey, sorely needed, and just as im portant as Liberty Bonds. It’s not too late yet. Georgia will buy her full quota of W. S. S.! June 28 has been set aside as Na tional War Savings Day and the purpose of this letter is to tell you to start today with your own fam ily, your neignbors and you friends to help us put Georgia over the top! And because I know that you are American, from tip to toe — and a Georgian too," 1 know you will join with me in saying—We Cannnot Fad ! Very sincerely yours, Jack Carr, Director of Publicity, W. S. S. Dangers of Ccstiveness. “Auto - intoxication, headache, lassitude, irritability, “blues,” sal lowness, blotches, are among the results of constipation. If long neglected it may cause piles, ul ceration of bowels, appendicitis, nervous prostration, paralysis. Don’t delay treatment. Best rem edy is Foley Cathartic Tablets, as many thousands know from expe rience. They not only do their work surely, easily, gently, but without injury to stomach intes tinal lining. Contains no habit forming element. The McDon ough Drug Co. The old shot gun loaded with buckshot idea has besn employed in a new gun already in the hands of our soldiers in France, which will fire six shells, each contain ing nine buckshot, that, at 40 yards, will go through two inches of pine, and at 50 yards will thor oughly spray an area 9 feet wide and 2 feet high. This new gun might be called a harvester. It is nice to be handsome, but a good deal handsomer to be nice. STOCKBRfDGE PEOPLE SHOULD EAT PiE DAILY Pie is wholesome, combining both fruit and grain. Those who have trouble digesting; the should take ONE SPOONFUL simple buckthorn hark, glycerine, etc. as mixed in Adler-i-ka. This flushes the ENTIRE bowel tract, removes foul matter which poisoned your stomach for months and relieves ANY CASE soar stomach, gas or constipation and prevents appendi citis. Leaves stomach in condition to digest ANYTHING. C H. Pin sod. druggist at Stockbaidge. Sapolio doing its work. Securing for U.S.Harine Corps recruits. 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