The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, January 10, 1919, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextThe Henry County Weekly By J. A. FOUCHE. Entered at the postoffice at McDon ough, Ga., as second class mail matter. Advertising Kates 15c per inch, posi sit.ion fic additional —special contracts. Official Ortran of Henry County. »■■■ '■» ■' ■ - ~~ ' ' ~" T McDonough, Ga., Jnn. 10, 1919. And now those who predicted a mild winter will doubtless readily take back at least a part of it. The farmer with a good wheat crop this fall is better able than ever to hold his cotton for a good price. Dawason has been selected for the next reunion of the Georgia veterans. Dawson is a dandy town, and those who go will be glad they went. Now, after all the season’s good wishes for prosperity and happi ness have been so generously dis tributed, let everybody buckle down to business and realize it. The Oplethorpe Echo aptly re marks that not even kings have been shown greater deference than accorded President Wilson during his visit to Europe. But then no king has ever been a man worthy of more deference, or has ever ruled a greater people. A Macon man went to New Or leans to see the town. He was met at the train by a doctor, es corted to a hospital, stayed there tw r o weeks, was carried again to a Pullman and started back home. He didn’t see as much as a pint of the town. Yet he says the time “jess flu.” —Savannah Press. Why not try a gas attack on the boll weevil. We notice that the government is going to dump into a river millions of dollars worth of the stuff it had manufactured to smother Germans, and it might be a good thing to try it on the pestiferous little cuss that men aces the world’s cotton supply. Maybe it has not discovered the advantages of gas masks.—Daw son News. Biff Murphy says that he never sits down and repines over the passing of the good old days, nor wastes any time wishing he could live his life over again, but at that j he'd mortgageliis future to feel! once more the thrill he felt when' he slipped the little blue-eyed girl j in the fifth grade across the aisle j from him a candy-kiss and she took it and blushed and kept it. — Exchange. Universal and genuine is the re gret of the Georgia press at the loss of Editor W. A. Shakelford, of the Oglethorpe Echo, from its ranks. “Shack” has long been one of the very best and most popular “boys” among the profes sion, and all good good wishes are with him wherever his lines may fall. A cordial welcome also greets his successor, Editor Mc- Dowell, a former able and well known editor of the Monroe Ad liser at Forsyth. Friendship Tie That Binds. “There in only one. tiling that holds nations together, if you ex clude force, and that is friendship and good will. Tne only thing that binds men together is friend ship, and by the same token the only thing that binds nations to gether is friendship. Therefore, our task at Paris is to organize the friendship of the world —to see to it that ail the moral forces that make for right and justice and liberty are united and are given a vital organization to which the peoples of the world will read ily and gladly respond. “In other words, our task is no less colossal than this: To se t t up a new international psychology; to have a new real atmosphere, I am happy to say that in my deal ings with the distinguished gen tlerpen who lead your nation ami those who lead France and Eng land, I feel that atmosphere gath ering, that desire to do justice, that desire to do friendliness, that desire to make peace rest upon right; and with this common pur pose no obstacles need be formid able. “The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an ob stacle does with brave men is not to frighten them but to challenge them. So that it ought to be our pride to overcome everything that stands in the way.”—Extract from President Wilson’s speech in Italy. Positions for Soldiers. The government and the public should spare no efforts to provide places for the returned soldiers. But the anxiety on this score is greater than the conditions war rant. The soldiers are not re turning as mollycoddles. Instead, they constitute an army of virile and self-reliant manhood. There will be a few who will return with no more inspiration than they had when they went. But they are the exceptions. These will need assistance and encouiagement to fall into sub stantial civilian efforts. But the fear of those who express anxiety is that there will be no place for the vast'majority of th£ men. The truth is most ot the soldiers will return to the avocations and em ployment which they quit to take up arms, it has been estimated that 90 per cent of the soldiers went from fixed positions, either their own business or avocation or from jobs which were filled on the merit of the- holders. These men will return to their old places. The farmer will go back to the farm. The mechanic will return to the forge or the lathe. The clerk will resume his place behind the counter or in the counting room. The business'man will take up the threads of his business where he laid them down. There will be a few months of military twilight in which the scenes of war will gradually shade into the duties of civilian life, and then the efforts of peace will resume their wanted place and men will swing into the old life much like pre-war times. A trip through Georgia next season will find men driving the plows and reapers who a year be fore were burnishing bayonets and cutting barbed wire entangle ments and charging the enemy with all the fervor of crusaders. They need no help to find their old places. The man who holds his position because there is no other to do so, who is incompetent, lacking in fidelity and energy and initiative will find himself out of a job, and a man hardened by training and ready to do a man’s work for a man's pay in his place.—Dawson News. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA Price ot Wheat Will Have to Drop. The United States has cornered the wheat market. Out of the country’s visible supply of 115,- 000,000 bushels the government has “salted away” a hoarding esti mated at 100,000,000 bushels. The wheat controlled by the govern ment was acquired as a war meas ure. Now all is changed. The war has ended. Production and trade are about to be resumed in hitherto war gripped countries. Operators predict tout Canada, Argentina and Australia soon will be selling wheat at less than $1.50 a bushel in Europe, while the American farmer must be paid $2.20 until June, 1920, indicating that the government’s adventure into the “pit” may prove a costly one. Speculation is rife in the grain market concerning the future, now that the war is ended and the 1918 crop report just issued shows an < xpected yield of 917,- OQO,OOO bushels in the United States. Operators unite in saying that the government will come to grief if it tries to controvert the ancient law of supply and demand. Grain operators.; point to the guarantee given by President Wil son to pay American farmers $2.20 a bushel for wheat. Now that the war has ended the supply of wheat on hand is sufficient to feed the world and there must be a drop in price. Grain operators state that the happiest solution now ap parent will be for the government to purchase the wheat at the guaranteed figure, sell it at mar ket value and charge the loss to the war. It is freely predicted in the Chicago wheat market that ROYSTER’S FERTILIZER \ / - TftAOE , MARK ) _ REGISTERED., THE GOODS FOR YOU BECAUSE IN 33 YEARS The quality has never failed: The ownership and manage ment have never changed: * The sales have grown from 250 tons to 400,000 tons; a proof of satisfaction* F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO. Norfolk, Va. Baltimore, Md. Toledo, O. Tarboro, N. C. Charlotte, N. C. Columbia, S. C. Spartanburg, S. C. Atlanta, Ga. Macon, Ga. Columbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. For Sale by Henry County Supply Co., McDonough, Georgia. the government stands to lose millions of dollars on its wheat holding. Worth $50.00 a Bottle ■ Wm. Barnes, San’Antonio, Tex., writes : “Foley’s Honey and Tar is the best ccugh remedy in the world. It has been worth $50.00 a bottle to me. I had ‘the flu’ fol lowed by pneumonia, which left me weak, with a persistent cough. I needed rest and sleep, which I was unable to get. Some one ad vised Foley’s Honey and Tar. I began taking it that very night. Before bed time I noticed relief, and that night had a sound sleep and a perfect night’s rest, the first since the beginning of the fiu. I have completely recovered, and do uot cough at all. It cost me only $1.20 to cure that obstinate cough with Foley’s Honey and Tar. Let all who read this letter try Foley’s.” The McDonough Drag Co. Land for Sale. 120 acres of land, with two good three and five room dwellings, two good barns. Located near Kelley & Crumbley’s store, Love’s district. One-third cash, balance two equal payments. See or write J. J. MILAM, Route G, McDonough, Ga. SOMETHING NEW The New Contract Complete Protection lssued By New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. THOS. N. McKIBBEN, District Mgr. BROWN & BROWN Attorneys at Law McDonough, Ga. 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