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r ■ 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. o 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. o 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. HOT WEATHER AND When money talks we never stop to criticise its grammar. ECZEMA! Money back Without queation if HUNT'S GUARANTEED SKIN DISEASE REMEDIES (Hunt’s Salve and Soap),fail In the treatment ofltch, Eosema, Rinffworm,Tetterorother!tch> In* skin diseases. Try thie treatment at our risk. For Sale by John R. Cates Drug Co. Here’s the Flashlight Y ou Need Every Day French Ray-O-Lite Flashers poii your way through the darkness. You need one everywhere. See the many at tractive styles and sizes. All give bril liant, searching light. Strongly made, last long. Make your selection today. Lee-King Drug Co. The Practicable Yet Fashionable Things Wanted for Home or Vacation Wear Skirts 7.5011.95 15.00 Novelty flannels and silks. Finest Gabardines 5.00 and 6.50 Over Blouses 5.75 Bright colors. For. sport skirts, etc. Blouses 1.95 to 7.50 Voiles, Pongees. In cotton and silk. Petticoats 1.45 to 7.00 White, colors, Silks and Crepes. Dresses 5.00 to 29.00 Ginghams Organdies Silks, etc. Corsets 1.50 to 4.50 Featuring the famous “Trev.” Athletic styles. [Ibathing Suits for all Hosiery Gloves Parasols Hand Bags Handkerchiefs Neckwear Suit Cases Wardrobe Trunks Free Delivery Phone Us Your Wants Send Us Your Prescriptions LEE-KING DRUG CO. ‘’A Good Drug Store”—2 Phones—66 High quality merchandise moderately priced GOLF HATS 75c (Gicen Brim) During July and August the store will close Thursdays at 1 o’clock HAIRNETS 10c (Fashionettes) I Prather Women’s Apparel Men’s Furnishings * - ; ,, :'uM