Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-07-15
A NEW YEAR MESSAGE.


..r uf the Hanwater Bank al
ra.oa, Ark.
..--e wen, dead and Dis mule went
lame,
fr5 he lost bis COW ia poker game.
hi a cyclone came on q winter day
md blew his house where he lived. away
,s, an earthquake came and wheu that
was done,
swallowed the ground that his house
stood on.
Then the tax collector, he came around
And charged him up with the hole in the
ground.
If you've had harder LUX than
his friend of mine, we will present
you with a II months ready made
living.
We have searched the papers to
| find out who stopped this war, or
started our cotton down hill. We
| like the dream days of 1919 The
Arkansas Methodist writer says
our trouble, "We forgot God, and
besides tried to skin Him out of His
share of our prosperity"
Another author says-"What you
SOW you reap" "The way Of the
ransgressor is hard" But think
| how blessed we are.
We live in a free country where a
Fellow can do as he pleases, so you
don't break the law Tor get caught
Persimmons, pecans, hickory nuts
| and acorns grow wild for winter
food. If these are troublesome to
| Find anybody will give you a beef
cow for a load Of wood or one-half
| days work.
Dewberries and polk salad grow
early in spring, blackberries in sum
mar. Besides everybody has kinfolks
n Oklahoma and Texas. Go visit
them between seasons.
Fellow says what's become of the
money?
There is more money and credits
han the world has ever known be-
fore. Last year there was S54 cash
for every man, woman and child in
| the United States This year there
$50. Every day in Morrilton farm
9rs sell about $4,000 worth Of
cotton They deposit a little in bank
| pay some on debts, trade little
and take half Of it back home-to
spend later, guess.
Most Of our customers have plenty
Of corn and meat. Besides, the eight
hours you sleep, you are as well off
as Rockfeller-the eight hours you
work you are as happy as pier-
| point Morgan. The eight hours you
loaf, eat and pray are as happy as
Woodrow Wilson. Besides, money
won't buy red whiskey and most Of
us don't care for clothes, and we
wouldn't swap one ear or one eye for
wagon load of dollars. So money
| is a very poor thing to base all our
happiness on. Hard times make
better citizens of us.
As long as a fellow has health, if
he lo3es money some years that's
| not bad. If a man never had loss
| it wouldn't be any pleasure to win.
If you knew the day you were going
| to die you wouldn't have any fun liv-
| ing.
Every fellow thinks he has the
hardest time. We have food, cloth
| ing and can worship our Creator if
we wish. There is one guaranteed
| rule for happiness, peace and plenty.
The Bible tells you how you can get
| it. If you are not interested, that's
your trouble. What a man sows he
reaps,
Be man enough to take your medi-
cine without kicking. There is plenty
of good years to come. II waiting
| for them is horrible dread, a
nickel's worth of Paris green will
take you to a country where it don't
snow nor have any cotton market,
Come on, buck up and be man. Go
after what you mostly lesire-wealth
pleasure or happiness. They say
there is a Creator who will assist
you. You might try Him and see
| if it's so.
What do | think of cotton? If we
reduce next years acreage one-half
or more-raise a good living at
home-keep out of debt and keep
this years crop till we get a decent
price. | think we are very sensible
and all right.
The government of the United
States gays it's time to work for a
living instead of borrowing it,
believe in the government.
Missouri farmers raise and sell
more chickens and eggs than all the
products of Arkansas farms. We
better buy "a few of those educated
hens.
I've given advice (fine advice
think for 10 years and made one
ccnvert-that's encouraging.
All Of US have more property thar
we had in 1914 or we had more fur
or owned . Ford. SO If we die early
we had a good time for one year
anyway SO what's the diffsreace.
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One Of the queer features and
breaks Of the times has been the at
tempt at organization OF Ku Klux
Khan in some potions Of the South
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