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The Henry
County Weekly
By J. A. FOUCHE.
-Entered at the postoffice at McDon
ough, Ga., as second-class mail matter.
Advertising Hates 15c per inch, posi
sition 6c additional—special contracts.
Official Organ of Henry County.
McDonough, Ga., Dec. 20, 1918.
Henry Watterson on
Peace of the World.
Hon Henry Watterson was ask
ed to make an address at a “Vic
tory Day” celebration at Louis
ville. The condition of his health
not permitting, he wrote the fol
lowing letter:
If I may not contribute my per
son to your festival, let my pen
set down briefly in black and
white what my heart feels and my
tongue would utter.
We must do nothing in passion,
or haste. We owe no relenting
to Germany, or the Germans. But
fb our own honor, behind us two
centuries of Christian history, be
fore us the gulf of eternity and
the grace of God, we owe the
homage of a sublime duty, sancti
fied by heaven and irradiated by
the precepts of Him of Galilee
who died upon the cross that we
might live, leaving us the blessed
heritage of a religious system,
which, except in theory, we have
nowhere, nowise observed.
( This is a time to take account of
purselves, mindful that brave men
pever gloat over a fallen foe. Do
pot misunderstand me in employ
ing that word, I refer not to the
Hohenzollern, or the Hapsburg.
Xhey have already arrived. They
have at last received what was
Coming to them. When I speak
of mercy, 1 refer to the myraids
they have bamboozled with the
holy name of fatherland and driv
en to slaughter like sheep to the
shambles.
C The Teuton masses knew as lit
tje what they were doing as that
pob in Jerusalem. Beyond the
payment of the indemnity they
owe to France, Poland, Belgium
And Serbia, 1 would not augment
their agony or prolong their hu
miliation. Their masters have lost
fibeir all. The most of them are
either in jail or in flight. Before
feme of them the halter dangles.
When their victims have discharg
ed the debt they are left to pay,
#hey will have had enough of sac-
Sifice and sorrow. In the mean
ime, where need is we must feed
hem and clothe them.
I have at no time doubted the
result of the war. My prayer to
£od has been and is that it will
make the world of action and
thought'a better world —of men
and woitien, nobler, truer, tender
er men and women. We are to
rejoice that the war is ended, that
is dead forever, and
*Uiat peace stands smiling at the
floor. |
- “Peace tp the quiet dales
rankly fertile by the blood of men,
Peace in_the woodland and that lonely
V* glen.~“
Peace peopled vales!
• 1 the crowded town,
mtace in a thousand fields of waving grain,
Jieace in th? highways and flowery lane,
™Peace o*tt the wind swept dawn !
on the whirring marts,
Me ace where the scholar thinks, the hunt
” er roams,
Goo/bf peace, peace, peace, in all
_ our homes,
WAnd peace in all oar hearts!”
• Sincerely,
1# Henry Watterson.
* ff W rp i et F a!
A. T. Hert, Esq.
A Heart of Gold.
Here’s a letter that I am going
to keep a copy of —and whenever
I get discouraged about the world
and the people in it I’m going to
take that letter out and read it
over and teel as if I had just had
a long drink of cold, sparkling
water after a dusty walk on a hot
day as if I had lain on a sick bed
in a fetid room and someone had
opened the window and had let in
a breeze of clean sea air—come
from miles and miles of clean,
blue, rolling water:
“Dear Winifred Black—l read
about the alley baby you wrote
about. We want to adopt a child
so bad, but don’t know where to
go. We have three boys, one 16,
one 13 and the baby 5. What we
wanted was a little girl of 8 or 9
to fit in between our two boys,
and we would just love to get a
girl. We can give her a good
home and would educate her and
bring her up as our own.
“My husband owns and operates
a dray line in this town, near
where we have lived for 20 years.
We own our own home, have six
acres of land and a nice place,
have two teams, one Jersey cow
and calf, two pigs, 70 chickens
and 50 chicks, and five Shetland
ponies.
“The boys often wish we had a
girl and tell me to write some
where and find out. So now I
will ask you to help put me in
touch with a home where they
have children for adoption.
“My husband is so glad I am
writing for a girl. Please help us
make this home and a little orphan
girl happy, you that know.
“My husband is 50 and I am 47,
but in good health. We don’t ask
for anything unusual, just a com
mon, bright, well girl of that age.
Won’t you please answer as soon
as possible. I will be looking for
an answer every day.
Lovingly,
*. "Mrs. H. H.
Not AH in Fiction.
There, now! Aren’t you glad
you read it ?
They aren’t all in the books or
in the plays —women like this and
homes like this and healthy, happy
children and good and generous
men like the one the writer of this
letter speaks of as simply and nat
urally as if they were quite com
mon and to be expected as a mat
ter of course any hour in the day
—anywhere.
Don’t you love to think about it
—the day the little orphan girl
comes out of the asylum and opens
the gate and walks through the
sunshine —into—home—home at
last ?
Real home, with comfort and
love and simple, kindly under
standing—home where there is no
treachery and no cruelty and no
careless iorgetting of the sorrows
of others.
Whoever you are, little orphan
girl, 1 congratulate you. You may
not have started out with much
good fortune, but there’s a lucky
line in the palm of your hand
somewhere and you’ve found it —
today.
What are you going to call the
new cat ? Have vou thought of a
name for each of the two pigs?
And, oh those Shetland ponies!
Why, it has been worth all the
years of loneliness and vague sor
row that have been yours to come
to such a haven at last.
A “Right Ending”
Be good, little orphan girl, be
very, very good, for you have
found loving hearts that will ap
preciate everything you do and
make the best of it, and help you
and show you, and be pround of
you, and you will never be alone
and never friendless and never an
orphan again as long as you live.
Sometimes the stories do have
the right ending, don’t they?
I’d rather be a woman like the
one who has written me this let
ter than be a queen in any palace
that was ever built by human
hands, for she is made of the salt
of the earth, and honor be to her
and to hers forever—Winifred
Black.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA
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Abundance of
POTASH
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For the 1919 crop
We are prepared to supply users of
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With any grade of Potash goods desired
Prof. B. W. KILGORE, director N. C. Agricultural Experiment Station Says:-
“The lack of Potash with us has been shozvn espeially in cotton, tobacco and potatoes in
coastal plain sections. This has been especially true of cotton and potatoes, more potash having
been used on tobacco, relatively, than on these two crops.”
Dr. H. W. BARRE, director of S. C. Agricultural Experimet Station Says:-
“I zvill say that a survey recently made of cotton situation in South Carolina leads us to
beleve that at least 25 per cent reduction in the cotton crop has resulted this year from lack of
potash. In some cases not more than half a crop has been produced on light land that is very de
ficient in potash. The appearance of the plants indicates that what is known as potash hunger is
responsible for the decreased yield. We are, thereforee, recommending that liberal amounts of
potash be used in fertilizers for cotton next year. At the usual rates of application 1 feel that it
zvill pay to use as much as 3 per cent of potash at the present prices. "
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