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The Newnan
herald i Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September, 1886. I
^Established 1866. f Consolidated with Newnan News January, 1816. I
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1921
Vol. 56—No. 38
the old home waits.
■with something like ‘a stUl, deep joy
the old home waits;
No other signs of welcome—no garlands
’round the gates;
But in shadow-time and sunshine a
watching One you see,
And hear a whisper, m your dream:
a He’s coming home to me I
“The waiting time is past
for Love to hold him fast;
The heart knows the home-way—
Home—home at lastl ”
That is her dream—the watcher at tho
windows of the Night;
The comforter in darkness—tho Spirit
of the Light I
“And know-ye not, dark oceans world-
barriers there be 1”
But home-faith is Love’s faith: “He’s
coming home to me!
•“The waiting time'is past;
Stars through the stormy blast!
The heart knows tho home-way—
Home—home at lastl”
The home-lights to lead him where the
feet of millions roam,
To the watcher at the window where the
heart is calling ‘ ‘ Home I ’ ’
And the home-ways are Love’s ways;
the home-stars singing seem,
With memories of Morning!—and that
whisper in a dream:
“The waiting time is past
For Love to hold him fast;
The heart knows the homo-way—
Home—home at last.
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offered willingly, given as a free pre
mium -on an investment that will return
you Bure results.
f[ The newspaper is a civio asset as
well as a civic responsibility. The bur
den of responsibility should bo equally
borne by tho business mon of tho town,
ns they are the ones most benefited.”
THE
A CIVIC
NEWSPAPER AS
ASSET.
The following address was made be
fore a meeting of the chamber of com
merce of Binghamton, N. Y., by a noted
■student of psychology—
“A country weekly newspaper doing
a business of $5,000 a year is worth
$50,000 to the business and professional
men of the community, and can be made
worth $100,000 a year. If you don’t
believe that statement, try to get along
without a newspaper. To talk about
"supporting’ your newspaper is about
as damphoolish as to talk about sup
porting a store, a bank, or a manufac
turing enterprise. You wouldn’t be
much in the world if you didn’t trade
in a store, have a bank account, and
have some outlet for the energy of
your citizens. Too many busineBB men
look upon the local newspaper as an
incubus—a Bort of calamity. Yet the
local newspaper is' as much a public in
stitution as the public library, or the
-commercial club—with the difference
that it gives more direct.return^ in. dol
lars .and cents, to the individual and.tp,
the community at , large.
“When a progressive man advertises
in his local newspaper it is with the
avowed intention of building up his bus
iness; but, he really also hopes to build
up tho town more than it does him.
The man who does not pay for his share
of the town’s publicity is a parasite,
taking advantage of the liberality of his
more progressive fellowmen.
‘ ‘ Can’t you tell what sort of a town a
place is from the looks of its paper? If
the paper iB of a boosting sort, and is
backed by the business and professional
men, doesn’t the town get a reputation
for being progressive?
“The newspaper’s stock in trade is
publicity. You would not go into a
store and ask the proprietor to give you
a pair of shoes, for instance; yet too
often the publisher is asked to give
away his stock in trade—free adverti
sing for the individual or the city—or
sell it for less than cost. If you could
keep count of the demands of this sort
made on your publisher every week, you
would laugh.
“In proportion to the benefits de
rived, individual and general, adverti
sing is one of the cheapest things in
tho world. There are men who will tell
you that they don’t believe in advertising.
Do you know why? They are content to
gather up the crumbs that fall from
the table of the progressive merchant
who advertises his business and his town.
Every time one of your stores advertises
a sale it brings people into the town;
their buying instinct is aroused, and
they visit other stores. The advertiser
gets direct returns, but, the others take
advantage of his expenditure without a
cent of cost.
‘‘You expect your publisher to boost
your town as one of the best on God’s
green earth. He is asked to do things
for which nobody will assume the re
sponsibility. Every time , there is a
movement put on foot you call on him
to help. But you know the functions and
value of your newspaper as well as I
■do; so why elaborate?
‘‘Let me tell you positively that even
a mediocre newspaper is a great factor
m the growth and advancement of a
community. There is never a time when
advertising will not pay. If you do not
owe a debt of obligation to your news
paper,, you owe it to your community.
The community has a right to expect
your co-operation in making the news
paper representative of your communi
ty. Every time your name is published
m a list of contributions to Borne char-
rty, that is advertising—free adverti
sing that the publisher gives cheerfully,
because it boosts the town.
‘‘Every bit of publicity produces di
rect results for the man who pays for it;
moreover it produifts results for every
other business and professional man of
the town. Whether he evades Ids re
sponsibility or not, it produces results
or eve o' man, -woman and child of the
community.
, country editor is not a pig
headed idealist. Ho is out for the same
lung you are—to make some money, anil
is best interests are the best interests
of his town.
. *P° You think it fair that he should
houlder the greatest part of the bur-
en? that he should give his time,
Kwj y . an< * very often his very heart’s
fn°°iL . 8e . r ”f ce °f the community
r barely a living wage, and sometimes
even that? Yet these services are
NEGRO APPLIES TO SHERIFF FOR
STILL.
Monroe Advertiser.
Many incidents, oithor pathetic or hu
morous, have been connected with such
phases of “moonshlning” ns the man
ufacture, sale and capture of the liquid,
together with the implements employed
in its manufacture. An incident of the
humorous variety was recently reported
by Sheriff Holland.
Sovornl days ago a negro came to tho
sheriff and wanted to buy one of tho
distilling outfits which had been cap
tured. His desire for ownership was so
great that ho offered to pay $25 for
one of the outfits in the sheriff’s colloc-
lection.
The strange request of the negro
aroused the curiosity of the sheriff and
he sought information from the negro
ns to why he was so anxious to buy the
still. The negro’s reply was as follows:
Boss, hits dis erway. De time has
come a nigger ain’t got no ’spectable
standiu’ in his community leBs’n ho got
still ob his own. A nigger widout a
still ain’t got no inflooence. No, sah;
dat he ain’t. Jes’ do odder day me an’
anodder deacon was on do way to church,
when ’long come de parson ijisself.
Deacons,’ says he, ‘ain’t you got noth-
wid you dis mornin’?’ Deacon Sims,
who was along wid me, he retch back in
de buggy and fotch out a quart. De
parson he lie’p hisself quite lib’ral, and
bimeby he say: ‘Deacon, lemme seo dat
article agin’, and den wo went on 1 to
church; and, boss, he preach de mos ’
pow’ful sarmint I ever heerd in all my
born, days—yassir. Now, boss, you Bee
how ’tis. Can’t you make mo some Ag
gers on one ob dem stills? I jes’ natch-
ally ’bleeged to have one—yassir.”
BIBLICAL TRUTHS.
Work by archaeologists has thrown a
groat flood of light and rich understand
ing on the bible.
This point was emphasized by Joseph
Penniman, acting provost of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, in a recent address
on the literary background of the bible.
“These discoveries of records do not
confirm'"the' bible,” he said,. “for it
needs no confirming, but they give us a
clearer understanding of the bible.”
The story of the Prodigal Son was
cited by Dr. Penniman as one example.
When it, is. known that the laws at that
time, made it. possible for a young man
to asV for and receive his inheritance,
and to go “into a far country,” the
story is mOre clearly understood.
Records have been unearthed which
show that the selling of Joseph to the
caravan of merchants bound for Egypt
was one of maqy similar transactions
that- happened along this road.
Tho greatest literary background of
the New Testament iB the Old Testament,
said the speaker, but there are a number
of books, among them the “Wisdom of
Solomon” and the “Last Days of Da
vid,” which throw a profound light on
the parables and incidents recorded in
tho New Testament.
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Non-Sensational.
One secret that Is not common go»-
tp Is the secret of success.
THE QUALITY OF “MOONSHINE.”
Commenting on a paragraph from the
Tlfton (Ga.) Gazette-concerning the re
port that a Orlsp county farmer traded
ids peanuts for “moonshino” whiskey,
which ho could not sell, tho Oordele Dis
patch snys:
“We cannot testify as to the quality,
but wo will go one strong bet that it con
tained enough poison to make it taste
like soap on anybody’s lips. And we do
not know what wont with it. A man who
will put a drink of ‘moonshine’ liquor’
under his shirt whose making lie did no'
superintend himself cares little about hii
torm of years on this planet. Those ure
our convictions. The writer of these
lines in the good old year of 1920 lookod
into the dead faces of three men—evory
one of them heads of families, and over
40 years old—who gave their lives to
wildcat liquor in Crisp county.
“Those three dead men, their funerals
and flowers, their widows and orphans,
their clay mounds, the tears, of Borrow
that followed them, and tho mothers and
little ones they loft to struggle on in this
world—all these frightful things are
preaching more powerful sermons than
any eloquence of prohibition lecturers
we have known. This is one of the rea
sons why the man with the peanuts
might have had a hard time selling the
stuff—at least in this county.
“We cannot testify as to the quality
of this special brew, but we can as to
tho whole commodity in general—if it
may be called a commodity. Terror aw
companies the refrain—
‘ ‘ Three dead men and a jug of rum. ’
PUBLIC WEARY OF DRIVES.
Ttpnnasville Times-Enterprlse.
During the war there were a large
number of drives for various worthy
purposes, and they wore successful.
They were based on the ability of peo
ple to pay,, and of the justice of an as
sessment against any and all communi
ties. The war drives are all ovor, bpt
since that time there have boon hundreds
of drives put across in all sections of
the country, for such purposes ub seemed
worthy and commendable. Yet not one
of the post-war drives has been as suc
cessful as those during tho conduct of
the war.
There will, be hundreds who will want
to give to some worthy cause, and hum
dreds who do not. If the quota is raised
the proportion from those who do give
must be larger in order to attain tho
goal. This is one of the reasons they
have failed. They will continue to fail,
because there are not enough people of
one mind when it comes to giving money
repeatedly .and continually and monot
onously to even every good thing that
comes along and wants money.
We are not disparaging any cause or
discouraging any giving. We mere'
hope that the time will cqme when othem
than the direct method of drives for
giving will be adopted for many of the
causes that are now claiming public at
tention and interest,.
Mrs. Be8tor Brown rolates that one
time Henry Grady enmo into his office
a little late, and the paper had beon
run off during hiB absence. Upon look
ing, ovor tho paper ho found an article
( t ho thought would bo rather unkind
!, a certain person in Romo. Ho said
paper could not go out with that
ole in it. Tho foreman nskod what
bettor bo done. Mr. Grady replied,
uy scissoro and cut it out. ’ ’ So
SBors by tho dozen woro bought ami
Ojentire force went to cutting, and tho
o Commercial was delivered that
with a hole in it. Mr. Grady said,
otter a hole in the paper than a
bund in the heart of a man.”—Romo
rilnme-Horald.
‘Brownie,” nil Irish terrier in At-
ntic City, N. J., probubly has tho
bvel distinction of being tho first dog
Have you
tried the
new 10c
package?
Dealers now
carry both;
10 for 10c,
20 for 20c.
It’s toasted.
to successfully got about with a wooden
leg. “Brownie,” after an nutpmoblle
accident, hud to linvo one of his hind
logs amputated. A local veterinarian,
called in to treat the pet, fashioned a
wooden lqg to replace the missing one.
A NEW POLICY
Beginning July 1 a new policy in our business
will be in effect.
On June 30 our books will be closed forever,
and from that date our business will be absolutely
cash—to one and all alike.
We will make no memoranda, no approval
tickets of any kind, and all goods will be paid for
on delivery.
There is no half-way ground. We must either
have a complete set of books, or no channel at all
for debits and credits.
We have refrained from adopting this policy
for a long time because we did not want to ask our
friends and patrons to inconvenience themselves to
pay cash in all transactions.
Conditions make new policies in order, and we
feel sure of the co-operation of our friends and pat
rons, and of their approval of the change.
We thank you much for the many favors of the
past, and assure you of our appreciation of them,
and ask for a continuance of our pleasant business
relations.
The Shoe Shop
“ON THE SQUARE—NORTH SIDE.”
W. M. Askew. ’Phone 326.
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AND
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5.00 and 6.50
Over Blouses
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For. sport skirts, etc.
Blouses
1.95 to 7.50
Voiles, Pongees.
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Petticoats
1.45 to 7.00
White, colors,
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Dresses
5.00 to 29.00
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Organdies
Silks, etc.
Corsets
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GOLF HATS
75c
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During July and August the store
will close Thursdays at 1 o’clock
HAIRNETS
10c
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