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The Henry
County Weekly
Official Organ of Henry County.
B. S. ELLIOTT, Editor.
Entered at the postoffice at McDonough,
Ga., as second-class mail matter.
Advertising Rates 25c per inch, position
5c additional —special contracts.
Foreign Advertising Representative
THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
McDonough, Ga. July 22, 1921
All lies are white to the people
who tell them.
Never scorn a woman, fellows.
Their claws are sharper than
yours.
A few people live for self alone,
and the public is quite willing to
let it go at that.
The pen is mightier than the
sword, but most of us use a pen
cil or typewriter.
There is a world of joy in the
straight and narrow path, but |
who wants the whole earth?
No one hat is ever big enough
to cover the brains of an entire
community—your own excepted.
People are so near sighted these
days that beauty of the soul sel
dom appeals to the modern eye.
No man is ever quite as foolish
as he appears to others. He pos
sesses wisdom of which they know
not.
Whv are men taught to step off
with the left foot first? We in
variably kick the cat with the right
one.
Some people are content to
drift through life at the pace at
which other people push them
along.
It may be true that all men are
born equal, but not all are rocked
in the cradle of opportunity from
birth. __
A congressman, says our office
devil, is a fellow who pulls down
a good salary whether he earns it
or not.
It is often the case that the
smaller the man the bigger the
tombstone that is erected to his
memory.
In fashionable society it is con
sidered immodest for a ladv to ex
pose her ears. Further, ye ed say
eth not.
When a fellow buys his first
car he promptly repudiates all of
the harsh things he has said about
motorists.
People who tell jokes should
refrain from laughing at them. It
is rather embarrassing to be the
only one to let out a squawk.
Stand two beautiful women up
together and their respective hus
bands will invariably notice the
charms of the other fellow's wife
first.
Somewhere in every person’s
heart a spirit of fairness is tucked
away. The trouble is that too
many people have forgotten how
to untuck it.
Every free born citizen of the
United States may aspire to the
presidency, but to most of us the
job is not worth the trouble of
going after it.
Congress huge
sums of monefnor this, that and
the other, but as our disabled over
sea veterans do not come under
either classifiation they are finding
ii increasingly difficult to come at
all.
A Real Vacation.
It is a pity that so few people
realize the value they can receive
from a real vacation. It is a pity
that we all take such infinite care
to keep automobiles, our farm
tractors, our presses, our tools, in
the best condition and let our bod
ies get along as best as they can.
We tear about like mad, breaking
down the tissues and never give a
thought to how they are going to
be built up. We let our minds get
full of the sordid thoughts that
come naturally from living to close
to material things and we never
get away where any kind of a
spiritual uplift has any chance
with us.
Right thinking is the secret of
all happiness, for if you think
rightly you are bound to live
rightly, and right thoughts are al
ways manifested in a strong body
full of vitality, and in a happy
frame of mind.
By wrong thinking, we do not
necessarily mean wicked thinking.
But often we allow our minds to
travel in the wrong direction in
stead of holding them always in
the path where God directed they
should go. We get habits of
thought regarding the number of
clothes we must have, the kind of
an automobile we must have to
keep up with our friends, the num
ber of parties we must give until
it is one mad rush to keep up and
to make both ends meet. Because
we allow these habits of thought
to grow on us, we begin to regard
these things as the most important
things in the world, and we do
not allow the really big things to
reach us. The worth while things
of tnis world cannot reach us
when we keep ourselves constant
ly surrounded by so much that it
is trival and it is only by getting
out where God is manifest than
man that we can hope to get a
true insight on His plan and to get
a real “look-in” on reality. It is
only on a regular, old fashioned
vacation that we get acquainted
again with our ideals and ideals
are the real stuff of life.
The Man Behind the Wheel
We believe more opportunities
come to the man behind the wheel
of an automobile to be truly cour
teous in small things than to one
in any other position. Discourtesy
in an automobile driver is merely
a sign of poor breeding and a low
nature in the man.
Enough has been said about the
road-hog. Those who still continue
to indulge in this particular form
of selfishness are not to be cured
by any admonitions we might of
fer, and it is a matter which is a
trifle difficult for the law to reach.
However, in the matter of glar
ing lights used at night some
measures should be taken for
these are a menace to safety and
there is no excuse for them what
eyer. While proper lenses to
avoid the glare should be used,
the ordinary plain lense may be
made safe by the use of a sheet
of waxed paper inside of the glass,
until other precautionary meas
ures can be adopted.
This is a matter which the peo
ple of this community should seri
ously consider. It is an offense
which should be made punishable
by arrest and heavy fine. Of
course, it is not always easv to
know just who the offenders are.
Tourists might be difficult to catch,
but discourtesy is rarely found in
this class of automobile drivers,
for they appreciate courtesy so
when they find it themselves they
are eager to be courteous to others.
But in a community there are al
ways certain parties who habitual
ly flash their glaring lights in the
eyes of other drivers. Everyone
knows them, and if a few of these
were apprehended and punished,
it woulu put a stop to the danger
ous business.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH GEORGIA.
Wynn’s Mill.
A little negro girl was hurried
near by yesterday who was killed
by lightning.
Some of the farmers are using
boll weevil catchers, an invention
of Mr. W. G. Cowans.
Miss Della Childs is over-seeing
the job of having the Childs fami
ly burrial ground cleaned off to
day.
He has several hands at wook
and with Miss Della as overseer
the job will be well done, for she
never does things by halves.
Mrs. G. B. Childs visited Iron
Springs last week. Two little
Misses Smith who mere visiting
in the home of Mr. G. B. Childs
returned to their home at Iron
Sprins last week-end.
Mr. Tom Cook, of Rocky Plains,
Newton Co., brought grain here
some days ago.
Uncle Billy Starghill, of Worth
yille, came to mill one day recently
for the first time in forty-seven
years; when here last ate dinner
with Dr. J. A. C. Wynn, deceased.
Rev. D. P. Johnst: n, P. C. of
Locust Grove work, returned
from Wesley Memorial yesterday.
Protracted meeting begins at
New Hope next Sunday. Rev,
Mr. Smith, of Griffin will do the
preaching through this meeting
while Brother Johnston is conva
lescing.
A. A. LeGuin, of Bradley, ship
ped to relatives here several
bushels of lucious peaches last
week.
Miss Lee Bell Barker, who was
principal of New Hope school
last term, is now taking a teach
ers training course in Milledge
ville.
A reunion of relatives met at
Uncle Sam Tolleson’s recently.
Quite a crowd assembled bringing
well filled baskets.
Mrs. Lon Tolleson has a sister
from Alabama visiting her this
week.
New Hope has new song books,
and Mr. P. C. Shaw, chorister,
sir.gs and instructs those who are
most interested one night this
week and also after Sunday school
on Sunday afternoons. With a
clipping from our scrap book we
close.
Clouds.
If every day was sunny,
With ne’er a cloud in view,
We’d soon be spending money
To buy a cloud or two.
It always makes me weary
When people say: “Old pal.
May all your days be cheery
And bright and full of joy.”
If all my days were sunny,
Existence would seem flat.
If I were fed on honey
I’d soon get sick on that.
I like a slice of sorrow
To hold me down today,
For that will make tomorrow
Seem fifty times as gay.
A little dose of sickness
Won’t make me whine or yell,
I will emphasize the slickness
Of life when I am well.
A little siege of trouble
Won’t put my hopes in pawn.
For I’ll be trotting double
With joy when it is done.
Down there is tropic regions.
Where sunshine gleams all day,
The fat and lazy legions
Just sleep their lives away.
There every idle bumpkin
Who in the sunshine lies,
Lives like a yellow pumpkin
And like a squash he dies.
1 want my share of changes,
My share of ups and downs,
I want a life that ranges
From crosses up to crowns.
ANONYMOUS.
THE OLD RELIABLE
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For First-Class Shoeing
$ J .00
COTTON ASSOCIATION IS
LAUNCHING BIG CAMPAIGN
Atlanta, July —“More Money for!
Cotton’’ will be the cry of Georgia
Farmers from one end of the State
to the other before the middle of Au
gust, according to the plans of the
Georgia Cotton Growers’ Co-operative
Association, which is organizing Geor
gia cotton farmers to market their
cotton co-operatively on the California
plan.
“More Money for Cotton” is the cry
of Georgia cotton farmers today, but
before ‘lay-by’ time is over they will be
saying it with a different meaning, it
is announced. “More Money for Cot
ton,’’ says A. A. Elmore, Director of
Organization for the new co-operative
marketing association, “is what the
farmer says to-day when he is talking
about something that he badly wants
and hasn’t the slightest hope of get
ting. By the middle of August we be
lieve w r e will have him saying it be
cause ‘More Money for Cotton’ will
be something he has at last learned
how to get and is going after it; and
repeating it because it is the campaign j
slogan of the Georgia Cotton Growers’
Co-operative Association.”
The Organization Committee is
going to stage a great drive, beginning
on the 27th of July and extending to
the middle of August. On the former
date, a campaign force of twenty
prominent speakers, headed by Hon.
Charles S. Barrett, Chairman of the
Organization Committee, will tour the
State in pairs addressing ten great
rallies a day, for twenty days, on be
helf of the cotton association.
The drive will cover practically
eevry cotton county in Georgia, and
is being elaborately prepared for.
Arrangements in the thirty counties in
which the Association has already
built up local campaign committees
will be left largely in the hands of
these committees. At the same time a
force of field men Is now being sent
out over the State by headquarters
for the purpose of bringing the num
ber of these local county committees
up to a hundred or more by the time
th drive is well under way.
These men will remain in the field
during and after the speaking cam
paign to assist local committees in a
great contract sign-up drive to be in
i stituted at once, by which the asso
ciation hopes to sign up its minimum
of 300,000 bales by the first of Septem
ber.
Under the terms of the Association’s
Ve year marketing agreement, the
t cotton which its members are
AMUsy
I* LEIX’S GO U
Friday:
MARGUERITE CLARK
IN
- “Come' Out of the Kitchen”
A Comedy Drama every housewife should see.
It’s a roar of laughter.
Saturday:
WALLACE REID
IN
“The Man From Funeral Range”
Also the only authentic picture of
JACK DEMPSEY
Don’t miss these two pictures.
bound to deliver to the Association for
handling is the crop of 1922. In tUe
event that the Organization Commit
tee had signed the minimum of 300,008
bales on or before July 15, the con
tract would have applied to the crop
of 1921. However, the organization
committee has only received within
the last few days the resources nec
essary to the proper development of a
statewide educational campaign, much
less an actual sign-up drive, and the
fact that it has already signed over
a thousand farmers and upwards of
20,000 bales of cotton to its contract
is regarding by leaders of the move
ment as very remarkable progress un
der the circumstances.
“The committee,” said Mr. Elmore,
“has now until January 1, 1922, to
sign up the required minimum before
t£e Association goes into business
But our member growers are urging
us to complete the minimum sign-up
at the earliest possible date for sev
eral very important reasons.
“The first is, that while the 1922
crop is the first bound under our con
tract now, that does not mean that
the Association cannot handle 1921
cotton for its members if they so
desire, as soon as it is a going con
cern. A clause in our contract permits
the Association to handle cotton of
‘previous crops’ at the joint option of
the Association and the grower. If
our board of directors is elected and
on the job by, say, October Ist, the
service which the Association could
render its members in disposing of or
carrying the 1921 crop under special
agreements would likely be in
estimable. This is especially true in
the matter of cotton for export in
view of the favorable attifude of the
War Finance Corporation toward asso
ciations of this particular type demon
strated in its recently announced loan
of $5,000,000 to the new Mississippi
Staple Cotton Co-operative Association
which is organized strictly upon our
own plan.
“The farmers understond these
things, and wherever we have been in
touch with them are clamoring for us
to go forward with every ounce of
speed and effort, and we are going to
do it. I have had no opportunity till
now to build up a proper organizing
force, but I have had plenty of oppor
tunity to test out the sentiment of
the State, and there is no longer the
slightest doubt in my mind that cor
rect co-operative marketing for cotton
is going over in the Stite and going
over with a bang/'
