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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. 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