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'Established 1800. (Consolidated with Newnan News January, 1915. I
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1921
Vol. 56—No. 34
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SKI 7 S AN U AZr i o n n o ^ Yes> gir> thnt , s wliat n kilowatt is,
The lights were low. nnd John and Zoo,
In cold nnd'wintry weather,
Upon the sofa side by side
■Were sitting close together—
Llkethis.
’But father came upon the scene,
And, followed close by mother,
i3aw John at one end of the lounge,
While Zoe was at the other—
Like
This.
The man who served as oflicial hang
man when Mrs. Surratt and her fellow-
martyrs were executed in Washington
in 1865, charged with conspiracy to assns
siunte Abraham Lincoln, died tho other
day at Jackson, Mich. His name was
Christian Rath, and he was a. German,
of course. For this valiant service lie
was given the rank of lieutenant-colo i-1.
Whv he should have boon permitted to
live' so long is one of the strange mercies
of Providence that is hard to under
stand.
“Have you ever heard a political
demagogue advise people along safe and
sane lines?” asks the Commerce Ob
server, and answers its own question
thus: “Ho, and you never will. Their
advice is generally of tho kind that
prejudices one class of people against
another, makes the laborer believe he is
getting the worst of ' it, and stuffs the
farmer with the notion that alhough ho
feeds the world the politicians at Wash
ington and the Wall street money devils
have their heels on his lieek.”
‘The world never moved so fast as
now,” says the Southern Telephone
News. “We have ice on the Fourth o.f
July; spring vegetables on Christmas
Day; we'buy'.our straw hats in February,
and our:felt:hats in August; we get our
Sunday 'paper on Saturday night, and
our magazines a month ahead of time.
If we call a man in San Francisco from
New York he hears our voice about four
hours before we speak; and if someone
in Japan sends us~a cablegram tomorrow
wo get'it today;”
Upon the theory that misery loves
company, tlie Georgia farmer who is
mooning and.moaning ovor the low price
of cotton, the ravages of the boll weevil,
and other misfortunes, might find some
comfort in reviewing the series of dis
asters which befell this Kansas farmer-
“His liorse-went deackand his mule went
lame,
And he 'last-his cow in a poker gnme,
And a cyclone came on a winter duy
And blew thejliopse. where he Uved-'nway;
*** d>h,en.aiv : effrtliquak'S , ‘(mlnd when that "was
gone
And swallowed the ground that his house
stooi 1 on;
Then the tax collector, ho came nrouiid
And (charged him up with the hole in
the ground.”
Numerous absurdities were charged to
blundering officialdom at Washington
during the war period, one grotesque ex
ample described by a Boston paper
■‘taking the cake,”_as the saying goes.
■It seems that in 1917 Dr. Willard A.
Paul, a well-known physician and human
itarian of that city and member of the
Association to Abolish War, proposed
to have printed without note or comment
the Sermon on the Mount, and distribute
it widely throughout the country as a
protest against war. Before doing so
however, as a matter of caution he noti
fied the Department of Justice at Wash
ington 6f his' intention, and in due season
wr<s officially andl solemnly informed
that “such a procedure would be re
garded as pro-German, and could -not
have the sanction of the department,
etc. Gan you ‘beat,it?
if you know what 1 menu.” Needless
to say, his auditors felt relieved by this
Illuminating explanation, nnd, although
a bit dnzed, turned away apparently
satisfied.
Those who have tried it say that to
cat spaghetti gracefully is an rirt that
can be acquired only after much prac
tice. We feol sure this opinion will bo.
concurred in. by a Newnan man who hail
his first experience with this vermicular
form of diet while on a visit to New
Orleans a few weeks ago. Dropping in
at one 'of the numerous cafes one finds
at almost every turn in that quaint old
ei'y, and, seized with the notion that he
would like to frivol with some novelty
the eating line, ho ordered n helpin’
of spaghetti. When the waitress set the
dish before him ho began operations by
lifting several strands of the sinuous
morsel with a fork nnd transferring it to
his mouth. Then tho fun began. With
loose ends of tho spaghetti dangling
over his chin, and ■ long strands still an
chored in the quivering mass in the dish,
he blurted out to the waitress: “Here,
glub, glub—‘ ‘ how do you ’ ’—
glob, glob—“eat' this here stuff?”
Aw, you don’t eat it, ’ ’ was tho pert re
ply, “you ketch it by the tail, give it
a sling, and jes ’ wollop it down
‘Tho Sixty-seventh Congress is in ees-
th 11 ’ we s,ia11 now see the Hon.
, ° 8 - “• Watson will perform the mira
cles of which he preached throughout
Georgia last year,” observes Editor
,? T r ;r an ' °*. the Talbotton New Era.
if he doesn’t, thousands of Georgians
who have always stuck to him will be
greatly disappointed.” Editor “Pat’
“riffin, of the Bainbridge Post-Searcli-
l Bht, also evinces some curiosity upon
the sublet. “ Golly!” says editor
jriffin, who would have thought that
• tton would not be selling! at 40c. a
pound by now! Ain’t, Watson Senator?
id we not hear the old Pops say to the
voters last year, ‘You jhst wait till Tom
gets to Washington, and darned if he
non t show ’em how to run things’ ”
tl Talbot county is not more
an half as large as Coweta, and has a
u ' sljr limited income from
m S. r 80urc . e8 . she has adopted a plan
dealing with moonshiners, bootleggers
ljl_ , 1 2 u . < Jf. traffickers in general that is
bnr >K results. The County Com-
oners of that county have printed
l ° tlce U1 the Talbotton New Era of-
witli'® ?. rew ard of $50 fon^the arrest
nrnmfc , to convict of every person
inn i;^ CtU 7 lnc °. r selling liquor, or hav-
Possession; and in the
■onr « 8 .J ts captured and the parties
Bre arrc sted, the county will
'aiiil Sin / 0T tl |e arrest of the principal
at tj, Y?, r , eac l* additional party caught
Plan We commend this
Coweta ° t ier liquor-infested counties—
oweta among them.
‘ ‘ TnS, ln D ‘looht about anything ask
Franhi« „ , yant - (His right name is
“Tolw’i , arion * bu t everybody eallB him
wattV’ for 8hort -> “What is a kilo-
within 80 *J'eone asked the other day
responsive 1 ” 8 * 10 * ° f the a "‘* ever
watt’sn Mge - “Why—er a kiln
ed gravelv- 1 ° WBt T t ; yotI k “ow, ” he answer-
out like a has a habit of swelling
vessei. In' 1 /-,* t° f 't" 1 ' !e *” & P ' nt coo ' c ' n K
At a recent meeting of the Friday
Lunch Club the different speakers on
the program were warned by the chair
man not to mention “hard times;” that
one of the objects of these gatherings
was to get the business Tnen of the town
together and by jollying each other try
to shako off the ‘ ‘ blues. ’ ’ Tom Goodnun
opened the symposium with one of his
breezy, optimistic talks, concluding with
the heartening assurance that Newnan
had seen worse times than we are now
experiencing, and would pull through
all right, and so forth and so oil. He
was followed by Dr. Rembort G. Smith,
who in his sweet, gentle way reminded
his hearers that these adversities were
a part of life; that they came upon the
just as well as the unjust, and should be
borne with becoming fortitude; that wo
should have faith and patience, nnd in
the fullness of time tho temporary re
verses which now weighed upon our
spirits would be turned into blessings,
etc., etc. Mayor Kiimard diffused a few
rays of sunshine by saying that Newnan
as a municipality was in fine shape,
financially and otherwise; that the city
was blessed in many ways, had nothing
to fear from any cause, and, with earn
of his characteristic windmill gestures,
concluded with the fiery declaration that
Newnan was. the best town in Georgia,
find lie'didn ’t care who heard ’him say
Dan Boone omitted a few-(comfort
ing observations on the situation in gen
eral, saying that all wo need do was to
stand loyally together, aB Newnan had
always done, aiid the future would tako
care of itself,etc. When the speakers
appointed for tho evening had finished
the chairman caught Duke Colo’s eye
and askod if lie couldn’t say something
that would contribute to the salubrious-
ncssj>{' the occasion. Now, Duke''is the
happiest after-dinner sneaker that wo
know of, and no gathering of homo people
is complete without him. He is never
caught off his feet, and his ready flow
of wit has been a source of delight to
many a goodly company in times past.
Thus importuned, Duke rose slowly, and,
after surveying, the assembled guests
with a solemnity unusual with him,
said: “I have listened with interest
and some anxiety to the remarks of tho
gentlemen who preceded me, in the hope
that I might extract a modicum of com
fort from their praiseworthy efforts to
dispel the gloom which seems to have
settled upon the country—especially tho
business part of it—but-I am frank to
say that I have not been comforted ns
much as I could have wished. I am
directly interested in one enterprise of
more or less magnitude, indirectly in
some others^ and am constrained to say
that I feel somewhat like the man who,
■having committed a capital offense and
been duly sentenced for his crime, was
being carted off to the gallows by the
sheriff. As it* happened, the ( route to
the place of execution led past the little
cabin in which the man had lived before
he fell into the toils of the law. As the
grusome cortege was passing the
house his wifo ran out and called to her
husband; ‘ Bill, before you git off tell me
whar I shall plant them turnips—behind
the garden or down back of tho cow-
pen?’ Bill east a languid eye toward
his wife and replied dejectedly, ‘Now,
Mandy, you can plant ‘ em whar you
durn please; I’m feelin’ sorter down
hearted this mornin ’. ’ I am doing tho
best I can to keep my spirits up,” con
cluded the speaker, “but in spite of
everything must admit that I feel ‘sorter
downhearted
THE SOFT JOB.
Soft jobs make soft pcoplo.
Wo gain strength by overcoming
forces thnt resist us. Things that come
easy never add anything to our powers..
Men find, qs they look back, that it
was ib solving the hard problems that
they developed tho ability to handle the
big job that came their way later.
It’s tho principle of tho. carpenter s
sandpaper.
If soft things took tho roughnoss off
the board and transformed it into a
smooth, polished desk top, furniture
makers would use velvet instead, of sand
paper. .
If soft materials put a fine cutting
odgo on a dull knife, the grinder would
use rubber instead of an emery wheel. :
Things come easy to the jellyfish. All
ho has to do ib to Heat along in the cur
rent of the ocean tides nnd absorb the 1 ,
food around him. But ho never develops
a backbone. Beforo an enemy ho is help-
loss. ■
A rich man’s son may be given a job.
in his father’s establishment! but. unless
he really knuckles down to work he will
novor develop initiative, executive abUF
ty, power of decision. .
There have been thousands of English;
statesmen, blit none accomplished more
for the British Empire than Disraeli,
Queen Victoria’s prime minister. He,
was a Jew, nnd to attain that office Dis
raeli was obliged to combat distrust, rid
icule, envy and prejudice.
Overcoming these handicaps gave hiih'
strength. He was one of the outstand
ing characters in English history.
W. W. Maxwoll, ail associate of Thtja
Edison, ndvises all young men to start
their business career by house-to-house .
soliciting. ’ • • •• 1 -
Meeting rebuffs and sharpening his
wits against the arguments of hundreds
of persons will produce moral fibre that
will' stand him in good- Stead throughout
life, Mr. Maxwell says.
The point .is this:
The trying, disagreeable things that’
confront us every dny^nro the sandpaper,
dllfi emery wheels of life.
They tvegr the roughnoss off our in
experience, sharpen our mental powers,
fit us to cope! with harder problems, and’, j
enable us to handle bigger rosponsibil
ities.
To remember this will help us to see
our jobs in the right light.
Wo are all inclined to feol, at times,
that our job is the most exasperating in
the world. It has more difficult angles,
more unpleasant features than any we
know of. We sigii for a softer borth.
But if, instead of Booking to 'avoid
difficulties, we mot them boldly, wo
would soon find oursol.yos growing in n
way that would grently increase. .* OYT
earning power.-... '.
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FIVE HUNDRED NEGROES Wtl.L
SAIL FOR LIBERIA.
Baltimore, May 10.—About 500 Amer
ican negroes,* including many leaders of
•the race, • will- sail from this port for
Liberia on Dec. 3, according to plans
of tho Amoricnn African Tourist Com
pany, returning, after a 45-dny trip, on
Jan. 17 of next year.
The tour is being organized in co-oper
ation with the president of Liberia and
the National Baptist Convention (color
ed), the officers of the company (being
some. of the moHt responsible iiogro
loaders of the country. Tho trip is un
der tlie supervision of some white pooplo
of Baltimore who hove taken a sympa
thetic interest in negro problems.
The purpose of the tour is to got a
large number of American negro loaders
personally acquainted with Liberia, to
know tile country's civilization, resources
and possibilities; then to return to
America and toll the . American negroes
that Liberia is a country with American
standards of living and American oppor
tunities.
Besides the tourists | it is possible that
about 150 negro farmers will be takon
on the same boat to Liberia for settle
ment, carrying with them their farming
Implements. »
the - .”* * v -- "" j, cuuBiu u>
frequently 1°^’ an,i ’ like the latter,
® n the job, whether^you'a^^nKlinni^nr ° f fellowahi P a* 1 ' 1 treat him as you would
*1®^ a ^t “isThaU^tLg PWggr-. The preacher may save
safe thing for**' 0 tl0 - use * but is not a
an own cousin to
the baby to ploy with,
“Yes, sir,” said the village grocer,
“I take the big weeklies to keep track
of the world’s affairs, and the big city
dnilies to keep posted on what Is going
on in this country. ’ ’
“But, don’t you take your home pa
per?” asked the drummer.
“Nope.”
“But you certainly ought to feel in
terested in local affairs.”
“Oh, I know everything that goes on.
My wife belongs to the woman’s club
and three societies, one of my daughters
works in the millinery' shop, and the
other is In. the delivery window at the
postoffice, ”
Liquor causes more trouble in this coun
ty than all other agencies combined, and
the sooner every community realizes
ever that a good revenue officer is their best
friend, the "better it will be for the
county. The revenue officer helps to
clothe and feed the little children; he
saves the old father, mother and wife
much trouble; he makes any community
safer to five in. Give him the gjad hand
you from Tiell hereafter, bat the revenue
officer helps save you from helf here on
earth.—Banks Comity Journal.
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When you see a man talking into a
telephone transmitter with the silly grin
of an imbecile op. his face, and rolling
his eyes like n "calf with the colic, it’s
a safe bet that he’s talking to Mb lady
friend.—Conyers Times.
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