Newspaper Page Text
The Newnan Herald
NEWNAN HERALD i Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September, 1886. I
" Established 1866. ( Consolidated with Newnan News January. 1615. I
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1921.
Vol. 56—No. 22
advertise and keep alive.
Do you load at the muzzle
When vou want a shot or two?
Do vou wind it with a watch-key
Like your father nsed to do?
Hod 1 d you like to hop a horse car
Like you did long years ago.’ «
Don’t a!i auto beat an ox cart?
Well, I rather reckon so.
Do you argue that an hour-glass
Beats a Waltham all to smash?
Do you use the same old system
Keopin’ books and countin’ cash?
Do you trim a.goose qiilll neatly
\\ hen you want the ink to llow?
Don’t you think there’s been improve
ment
In the last decade or so?
Toll us, are you advertising
In the same old-fashioned way
That your grandad did before you
And* persist, “It doesn’t pay?”
Think the whole world knows your ad
dress?
“ ’Cause it hasn’t changed in years?”
Wouldn’t the pathos of such logic
Drive a billy goat to tears?
.Just a card is all you care for?
Hidden, lonesome and unread.
Like the sign upon the tombstone
Telling folks that you are dead?
Wake up, and take a tonic,
Bunch your hits and make a drive!
Bun a page and change your copy—
Advertise and keep alive.
THE RURAL SCHOOL TEACHER.
Home News.
Assembling each day this week in the
Superior Court room is a body of men
and women upon whom in a largo meas
ure rests the responsibility for the pros
perity and the welfare of Floyd county.
It is composed of the teachers of the
rural schools, the men and women who
are entrusted with the training of the
minds of the children from whom it is
likely that most of the leaders of the
next generation will spring, it having
been the rule in America since the foun
dation of the republic that the great
men and women came from the rural
homos and acquired their first, knowledge
iin rural schools.
If the standard of our rural schools
is not 'kept upon a basis as high as that
of our town and city schools, the rural
boy and girl of the future will have no
chance in the ruco of life. In years gone
by rural schools, were about as good us
"town and city schodls, in this State, be
cause the educational system was not
-what it should have been anywhere.
This gave the rui;nl boy and girl an ad
vantage, because life on the farm was
more conducive to Btroiigth of mind and
body than was common in urban cen
ters. But in,recent years the town, and
•city. r 8shfflttte. havq .advanced, so. ftw ahead
■of the rural schools in equipment and
facilities that they have been giving
the children who attend them far greater
advantages in mental and bodily devel
opment, witli the result that, save in a
few cases of exceptional native ability,
the rural child has not the chance today
to become a leader as did those of past
generations.
Rural school teachers, then, have upon
their shoulders the responsibility of de
veloping the rural school system to the
point where it is equal to ami a compet
itor in achievement with the city school,
so that the children of the country may
again claim the place in affairs that so
' many of our greatest citizens who came
from the country attained. The teach
ens cannot do this alone, however. They
must lie given the equipment and they
must :be given the compensation that
will sustain them in this effort. With
out modern buildings and modern equip
ment the rural schools cannot compete
witli the city schools. Without compen
sation the more efficient teachers cannot
long be obtained in the rural schools.
They will either accept calls to town
and city schools or go into other avoca
tions.
Recent legislation has made it possible
for all counties to provide for their rural
schools as well as the town and city
schools are provided for—better in some
instances. Ratification of the Constitu
tional amendment making it mandatory
that every county levy a school tax of
from 1 to 5 mills for the benefit of the
rural schools was the most heartening
thing that lias occurred in Georgia in
many a year. The extent '.to which the
counties avail themselves of this new
source of school revenue and the manner
m ; which the increased income is appro
priated will determine the advance that
is to be made by the people in each
county. t The county that does the most
tor its rural schools is the one that is
going to make the greatest strides to
ward more prosperity and higher citi
zenship. Intelligence will win always;
but the requisite ofintelligence generally
is education.
JUST A LITTLE TRUTH.
Carrollton Free Press.
America is suffering from what might
be termed our national ailment—an al
most universal desire tp obtain something
for ns near nothing as possible.
The manufacturer is not content with
a moderate profit. Ho hungers for a con
tinuance of the rich dividends that ac
crued during the war.
Railroad and corporation officials would
no doubt feel tremendously peeved if one
wore to suggest that they accept a reduc
tion in their own salaries, although they
are keen on cutting down the wages of
their own employees.
The employees themselves aspire to the
maximum wage, but are seldom averse
to reducing the amount of work per
formed. , ,.ii--
It's the sumo in every line if-business,
in every walk of life.
Throw a scrap of meat into the lien-
yard and the spryest chicken among
them will grub it and duck for safety.
It wants to hog the whole tiling.
Humnu beings are much the same ns
chickens.
Each one wants to grab as much ns
possible of everything in sight, and lot
the other fellow be content with whqt
is left.
We arc eternally emitting roars of pro
test over high prices. But wo are like
nations that advoeato disarmament—wo
wait for the other follow to do it first.
Everybody admits something must be
done, but nobody feels that he is the
one to do it.
We are inconsistent and illogical, but
no worse than the rest of the world.
As an illustration of the truth of this
statement, how many of you are willing
to admit that ohr remarks are true in
sofar ns other people are concerned, but
that you cannot see where they apply to
you?
But cheer . up—let your virtuous .In
dignation cool off. Perhaps the editor
is as deep in the mud as you are in the
mire, tor we frankly own to a hanker
ing for more than we get.
This ailment is not confined to Ameri
cans alone. The whole human race is
afflicted with it. It began when Ailnm
plucked the forbidden fruit, mid has been
growing upon us ever since. It will
end oiily when human life censeB to ex
ist.
Everybody knows it, and many ad
mit it.
Truth is stronger than fiction, some
times, and life is the grentest story of
all.
That’s what ails us.
A child is born in the neighborhood,
says the Gibsonburg Derrick; the editor
gives the loud-lunged youngster and hap
P.v parents a send-off and gets $0.00. It is
christened and'the minister gets $5 and
me editor gets $0.00. The editor blushes
and tells a dozen lies about the bcauti
ful and * ‘ accomplishd ’ ’ bride. The min
ister gets $10 and a piece of cake and the
editor gets $0.00. In the course of time
she dies; the doctor gets from $15 to
■100, the minister gets perhaps another
t,le undertaker gets from $75 to
'-00, the editor prints an obituary two
columns long and a card of thanks and
gets $0.00. No wonder so inanv country
editors get rich,
other Itching skin dlsrcM*.
( »ceot bos-at our (ilk 4 _ mm
COWETA DRUG A BOOK COMPANY
LEE-KING DRUG COMPANY
A PRAYER.
Walter Buusehenbusch in Christinn Index.
O God, we pray the for those who
eonie after us, for our children, and the
children of our friends, and for all the
young lives that are marching up from
the gates of birth, pure and eager, with
,tjig .morning sunshine.oil ..their .fuses.... AVe- w
imeiiiber with a shudder that these will
live in'the world wo nre making for them.
We nre wasting the resources of tile
earth in our headlong greed, anil they
may suffer want. We are building .sun
less houses and joyless cities 'for our
profit, and they must dwell therein. We
are making the burden heavy and the
puce of work pitiless, and they will fall
wail and sobbing by the wayside. We
are poisoning the air of our land by
our lies and our micleanliucss, mid they
mast breathe it.
O God, Thou knowest iiow wo have
cried out in agony when the sins of our
fathers have been visited upon us, mid
how we have struggled vainly against
the inexorable fate that eoursed in our
blood or bound us in a prison-house of
pain. Save us from maiming the inno
cent ones who come after us by the add
ed cruelty of our sins. Help us to break
the ancient force of evil by a holy and
steadfast will and to endow our chil
dren witli purer blood and nobler thought.
Grant us grace to .leave the earth fairer
than we found it; to build upon it cities
of God in which the cry of needless pain
shall cease; and to put the yoke of
Christ upon our business life that it
may serve and not destroy. Lift the
veil of the future-and siiow us the gene
ration to come as it will be if blighted
b.v our guilt, that our lust inuy be cool
ed and we may walk in the fear of the
eternal. Grant us a vision of the far-
off years as they may be if redeemed
by the sons of God, that we may take
heart and do battle for Thee.
Took a Relative's Advice
Sykesvllle, Md.—"I
healih for about ten
was in bad
months—Buf
fered every
day with my
left side. I
then began
taking Dr.
Pierce’s Fa
vorite Pre
scription and
also the Gold-
—y . KJJiV en Medical
/ / P* Discovery
®nd was greatly benefited. After
.taking six bottles I was well.
“I took Dr. Pierce’s medicines at
the advice of a relative who uses the
•Prescription’ for herBelf and gives It
to her daughter. I think this med
icine is good for all women In a run
down state.”—MRS. W. BLIZZARD.
Have been sold hy druggists for
the past fifty years.
R at-snap
KILLS RATS
Also mice. Absolutely prevents odors
from carcasH. One package provea this.
RAT-SNAP comes In cakes—no mixing
with other food. Guaranteed.
Kir. size (t rater) enough for Pantry,
Kitchen.-, or Cellar.
BBc. size <2 cakes) for Chicken House,
coops, or small buildings.
$1.25 size <5 cakes) enough for all
farm add out-bulldings. storage build
ings, or factory buildings.
Sold and Guaranteed by
LEE-KING DRUG COMPANY.
COWETA DRCG * BOOK COMPANY.
KERSEY & PRATHER
New Springtime Apparel!
Fashion’s Favorite Modes Attractively Priced!
The result of a special effort on our part to provide
apparel of thie better sort at a reasonable price.
In varying types of fashionable garments that will appeal
to the conservative as well as to the more elaborate idea of
dress. Come see them—come often.
Coats
Skirts
29.001° 69.00
Twill Cord, Tricotine and
Serge—navy, sand tan,
gray and blac^
Variety of distinctive ideas.
14.75 t0 69.00
Straight-line, wraps and
cape effects.
jit. 1 * • ■»
Variety of, novelties.
7.50 25.00
, Most beautiful assortment
we’ve shown.
2.95 t0 10.00
, i
Pongees, Crepes de Chine,
Georgettes, hand-made ,
, . Voiles, etc.-^-New
novelty colors.
2.75 t0 9.75
Satins, Taffetas, Jerseys.
A new “Kayser’s”
at $7.50.
Dresses
17.50 t0 65.00
Taffetas, Canton Crepes,
Crepes de Chine, etc.
' t
Pretty styles.
One Hundred Beautiful Bags
SPECIALS
50 Striped Crepe de Chine Blouses
2
.95
'N
5
.75
New styles—every one pretty—Silks,
leathers, etc.
Anniversary Specials—2.95.
Beautiful styles, high-low collar and
well-made. Heavy, all-silk Satin
striped Crepe de Chine—5.75.
Same quality sold one year ago—12.50.
New Things Daily—Our Great Desire |s to Have You See Them
Fashionetfe Hair Nets
10 Cents
All Styles
Kersey & Prather
PHOENIX HOSIERY
New Prices
1.40 1.95 2.35