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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL.
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U When you get your debts paid and when your neigh
bor gets his debts paid, and when the people they have
paid get their debts evened up-not until then will good
times come to us and our business section again. We
paid debts last year and have paid great volumes of
them this year. Between now and the end of this year
many more debts will be paid and a large army of
folks will again have thgir freedom—freedom to
spend a little for themselves and their dependents.
And the next year will be a diferent year so far as
business is concerned.
If This is a prediction, but it is based upon well estab
lished business principles. Good times are largely
founded on liquidations of debts and the larger the
debts and the harder the debt-paying period, the bet
ter business will be which follows. What you ought
to understand and keep impressed on your mind is this
fact:
fl The only safe and effective way to put life in bus
iness today and keep it there is to pay your debts. If
you owe an account that has been hanging over for
some time, pay it now if there is a dollar that can be
devoted to it. If you cannot pay all, pay what you can.
Money thus put to moving gets into the channels of
business and soon the whole community feels it. Hard
times will end the day your debts are paid—or such a
portion of them as to make it impossible for those un
paid to hamper any business concern or enterprise.
If Credit is necessary in all business avenues. , It will
exist as long as there is trade among men. It has al
ways existed. But it is as true now that a community
is prosperous or dragging in its business accordingly as
people regard credit, as it was the first day it was in-
veted. No matter what prosperity comes to other sec
tions of the country, it is not coming here until you pay
up, and until the debts which were made by all of us
during the past prosperous season are settled. They
may not be paid at all, and business concerns which
have extended credit widely and liberally may fail be
cause they are not paid, but until there is a liquidation
good times are not coming. You must pay up or the
creditors who sold you on open account must fail. One
or the other turn must be taken before there is a mark
ed change in business conditions. As long as a large
volume of business is banked up behind old accounts
and expensive efforts to collect, just so long will bus
iness in your community refuse to quicken its pace. Are
you standing in the way of advancement in trade and
prosperous times? If you owe a due and unpaid ac
count yob are truly in the way.
11 Unpaid accounts of long standing are the only drag
in this community. We know what we are talking a-
bout. If you pay up, and all of us pay up, it will be
like lifting a cancerous sore out by the roots at one
operation. We can feel it when one man pays up. You
and all the community can feel it when we have all
met our obligations. And that is what brings all of
us to where there is a demand for what we have to
offer in trade and the regular channels of business.
U This is the day and the hour to put your accounts
down in your firm resolutions to pay. You have no
money that is yours until they are paid. That is the
attitude you and all of us should hold about paying ac
counts. We appeal to you to put your business com
munity foremost by settling your accounts now. Hard
times will end when we have finished paying up old ac
counts. Let’s go after them and finish the job. It is
everybody’s move.
The N. B- & J. T. Duncan Co.
Selman Brothers
Harding Supply Company
Douglasville Banking Company
Farmers & Merchants Bank
A Christmas letter to the chil
dren of this country urging them
to assist the postal authorities in
handling the heavy holiday mail
been seent by Will H. Hays, post
master general. His particular plea
is for the children to co-operate in
seeing that Christmas packages
and letters are mailed earlv.
THE WOODS
The postmaster calls attention to
the fact that 40,000,000 letters and j
8,000,000 packages are mailed ev- j
ery day and that these numbers
are multiplied many times in the
holiday season. Careful attention
to the address and proper prepar
ation of the packages would great
ly assist the post office, it was
said.
“The parcels must be well wrap
ped and tied and addressed plain
ly in order that they may arrive
in good condition with the Christ
massy appearance unspoiled,” lie
said.
“Put the proper amount of post
age on your letters ann wrap the
parcels carefully. Avoid fancy
writing, which causes post office
clerks and letter carriers to stop
and stuny, and thus lose time.
Make the address plain and easily
read, always use pen and ink or
typewriter and light-colored en
velopes, so as to save the eyes of
the post office clerks. Do not use
envelopes of unusual size. The
little ones that are so frequently
used for cards and notes at Xmas
and other holiday times cause an
untold amount of trouble and la
bor, as they will not fit our can-
ceiling machines and must, there
fore; he canceled by hand.”
By DpUGLAS MALLOCH
THE PATH.
• T WINDS its way along the shaded hill.
Disdaining distance, seeking only
Or breathe the perfume of a Sunn
breeze.
Here time is nothing, haste a thing
known—
The hot. straight highway fcr the cr
of speed;
The pnth is made for them who w
alone.
Whose God is Nature, and the wo
their creed,
To follow blindly where the path i.
lead.
No stern surveyor made it thus e
Nor north nor south nor east nor «*.
it tends.
It dips to Kiss the r"'d when- h’h% gr
It rises joyously where ivy !•• • h
And meets
friends.
Through brooding hranc
ered leaves
The sunshine filters in
Transforms the tufted
sheaves,
The tangled grass to
grain.
The marshy muskeg to
fond embra
from the 1< ■
This is a path of vel
Of droning Summer. Never human
hand
Wove such a pattern, bright with rose-
abloom
Along its border. Never artist planner
This brilliant carpet flung across the
land.
Now princes leave their castles, kings
their thrones.
And unattended walk those sylvan
aisles.
They pause to muse beside this heap of
stones
More beautiful than all the granite piles
Reared with slow labor on their ample
miles.
Sweet, solemn splendor of the silent wood,
More dear you are than all the haunts
of men;
For never mortal in your presence stood
And listened to the whisper of the glen
But songs forgotten sang to him again.
Perhaps it is his mother's voice he hears.
The faint re-echo of her cradle croon
That sends him groping down the ended
Then, by' the magic of the shade and sun,
Of tree and rose and brook and verdant
sod,
Tills world shall seem to be that other
Where feet walk never, yet where souls
have trod—
And lie shall hold communion with his
God.
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Dog Gave Up Life to
Save Baby From Harm
The four-year-old son of Clyde
Scott of Shady, W. Va., is hover
ing between life and death ns a
result of being attacked by an
infuriated brood sow. The ani
mal broke out of her pen in
search of a baby pig which had
escaped, and seeing the boy near
by, attacked him, tearing his
legs and body in several places
with her teeth.
A pet collie dog, hearing the
child’s screams, ran to the res
cue, attacking the pig and hold
ing on until the hoy’s mother
rushed into the field and carried
him out of danger. The collie,
unwilling to give up the fight,
and the sow wild with rage,
fought on until the dog was
killed. Tlie sow was badly
mangled.
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