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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XLVII,
More Little Tots Need Ex
pressions of Love —Those
More Fortunate Will Not
Forget Them.
It is not nil pleasant to be called
poverty-stricken. We are not pau
pers. Recently mission board of
one of the leading denominations
of Southern Protestantism sent a
bulletin to all quarters in which
its church had places of worship
informing its represenatives of
conditions in the Far East. Among
other thingsmentioned as evidence
of the disastrous plight in which
the “orentals” were trying to ex
ist—not live —were the statements
that the leaves of the trees had
been used as food; the bark after
wards had been eaten; the thatch
ing from the roofs of shanties had
also gone as food, and even dogs
were being served ns a portion of
the meagre diet for the unfortun
ates in question.
It being contrary to the religion
of certain people to kill a dog, the
natives allowed their beasts to die
and fall in the street whereupon
the first human being to reach the
fatal spot might claim the dog as
his meat. Provided there might be
two person arriving on the scene
simultaneously the only way to
decide the ownership of the dog’s
carrass was to fight it out man-to
man, the winner of the combat to
enjoy his weil earned meal. It is
to be hoped that these conditions
have improved considerably ere
this.
However, brings again the state
ment that we are not paupers in
this g- eat land of ours.
As fi P happy Yuletirie roach-
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County.
A Worthy Christmas Appeal
“SHE HAD WEPT HERSELF INTO SLUMBERLAND”
McDonough, georcha, Friday, December 23, 1921.
es—just a few days off, in fact —
many there be who are trying to
solve the mathematical problems
by which a way may be ascertained
so that what used to pay for a re
memberance for dear old dad will
this time settle the gift question
for the entire family.
Mothers and sisters sit by the
fireside these cool evenings and
they together check over the list
/of names and set down a possible
gift for each one included. Dad
is to receive a pair of hand-made
bedroom slippers thus destroying
his old plea that there is danger
of catching pneumonia by running
about the house making early
morning fires for the rest
of the family, including the
lazy big boy who has it made easy
for him by an indulgent mother
on the gronnd that “Son must be
allowed to grow and nothing like
sleep in the early hours of morn
ing—especially winter morning—
is so sure to produce these desir
ed results.” Mother must have a
dressing gown of some soft fluffy
stuff, clothed in which she mav
witness the aforesaid dad knock
the bark of his big toe hunting the
bedroom slippers which she “put
away” the day before—so she
says. The lazy big brother gets
a fine home-knitted sweater —By
far more approDriate to have
made it an alarm clock, as a boy
has to get up before he can don
the sweater and take to the woods
for a rabbit hunt —so dad says.
He’s always bringing up the min
ority report in his own home con
ference. The rest of the family
report “non c incurrence” in all
his recoin-, i ddions as to the prop
er sort of home government.
Sister rosily do •--n’t need . any-
thing inasmuch as she has had
everyihing that could be pissed
out during the year since last
Christmas, but she is a ringer iti
the receiving line, “Her name is
Jimmie, tak ■ ail you gimmie.” It
is indeed a difficult matter t.> de
cied what sue is to receive as
rouge, lipsticks, and such like—
home-mad' , are consim red as
great a failure as home brew, and
not near so acceptable as a sub
stitute for Y: old <i iginal, so dear
mother ju"is n a* tb .! Me 1)8
given a b ml< check hearing dad’s
signature and turned loose on De
partmentStoiv Row — The sug
gestion meets with the unanimous
in the affirm dive, th it from ail
who are allowed to vote. Dad
puts it down as another item for
the minority report entertaining
the fond hope that some lie may
be able to gain the fioor and make
his statement if he be ex°cuted
an instant later. He’ll go to the
Happy Hunting Ground yelling
“scissors” anyway.
This is the way the average
family plans it in the midst of
so-called hard times; tax paying
on war indebtedness; the era of
readjustment; lot i, d -trust! m as
the result of b )i! weevii raids; and
what not? And tak -s plaet- in the
home where there i as a matter
of fact a dad. a mother, a sister, a
big brother,et al. Be what ibout
the plans for the horn - whe re there
is really no home? Dad iong
since has passed in; moth »r gone
—the orphan’s lot. Unpleasant
to be e d poverty soicken, yet
how often there is consid rble
foundation for the charge!
In thinking of the re d spirit of
the happy Christmas season.it is
not very d.fhcuit t. stray a way
from what the day was intended
to tMeii as a true lesson of hu
manity. Much concentration is
essenti il lest we forget the One
for whom the day is a birthday
anniversary.
He became poor that we, thru’
his poverty, be , made rich. He
came not to he ministered unto,
to minister and to give His ki'e a
ransom for many. He counted it
not too great a price to pay for
the happiness of the folKs on earth;
to set up a real kingdom the very
foundation of which was to be ser
vice in making others happy.
One of His last commands was
“Feed my lambs.” He was al
ways the champion of the child.
When others objected to the pres
ence in their midst of “One of
these little ones,” an immediate
rebuke was always forthcoming
coupled with the invitation so
characteristic of the love of the
Giver of Christmas “Suffer the
little children to come unto me
and forbid them not.” Sloney
indeed is that heart which can not
be touched—and touched deeply
—by the apparent need of the lit
tle ones. Their 'ove rings true.
No duplicity has befouled the well
spring of their unpretentious af
fection. They, in their response
to the love of their seniors, are
just abot as near 1 like Him who
was the same yesterday, today
and forever, as ever human' has
become.
On the return of til's pastor to
hi* former charge, by appoint
ment of his conference his heart
v/as mide glad by the wo. is of
appreciation, doubtless ill-de- rv
ed. from his membership. B it,
after all is said and facts weigh t,
(Continued on luHfc j>asre.)
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