The Monroe journal., 1922-02-10
SHOULD NOT HIDE
MONEY AT HOME
This is a Very Dangerous Prac-
tice That Endangers Prop
erty and Often Life
KEEP MONEY IN THE BANKS
Talks on Old Time Sunday Schools
Brings Out Some Samples Of
the Ancient Literature
By L. E. Huggins

BY l.. Z. Huggins
Mr.. Belk's article in regard to the
Sunday school of long ago has set
the older minds to rejecting upon
their childhood days and quite a bit
of interest has been aroused among
the good old bretheren who attended
Sunday school in the nineteenth cent
ury. Mr.. ]. A. Winchester furnishes
an interesting book Of Sunday school
leaflets that were used in 1886 for
the little folks and which have been
bound and preserved to be handed
down to future generations. The lit
erature was published weekly by the
Southern Methodist Publishing House,
Nashville, Tenn, and contained four
pages about five by seven inches in
size. The contents of the literature
is very similar to that in use in the
Sunday schools of today. The front
page of each leaflet is illustrated
with an interesting picture. On one
of these appears small boy and girl
| in rags and under the picture are
these words:
"Are you not sorry for these poor
little children? See their ragged
clothes and their bare feet. The lit
tie girl has no bonnet. They have
come to the mill to see if the kind
miller will let them have some meal.
There are many poor children who
will suffer this winter if we do not
help them. The Bible says that who
soever stoppeth his ears at the cry of
the poor, he also shall cry himself,
but shall not be heard"
That paragraph is mighty strong
argument for Union county folks to
support literally the ChAdren's Home
in Monroe.
There are also in these leaflets some
funny paragraphs intended to amuse
the children. We quote two Of them
to show that human nature was the
same then as now:
"A little girl was once punished for
doing wrong, when she said: oh,
those Commandments do break so
easily"
oh dearv exclaimed Edith to her
doll. Il do wish you would sit still; |
never saw such an uneasy thing. Why
don't you act like grown people, and
be still and stupid for awhile"
Shouldn't Hide None" Out
Perhaps there has never been a
time when the newspapers were so
filled with accounts of robberies, thefts
and hold-ups as at present. 1t is dan
gerous to keep money at home or car
ry it on ones person any time, but
when times are little "tight" there
is all the more danger. The business
world long ago learned the value of
keeping their money in strong bank
ing institutions and practically every
class of people now recognize both
the convenience and safety in il How
ever, there are few people who pre-
fer to risk both their lives and their
money by hiding it away in some in
secure but what they believe to be a
secret place or carry it in their
pockets rather than deposit it
in bank that has burglar proof
safe and that also carries burglar in
surance. Under the present banking
laws and the system of state inspec-
| tion it is almost absolutely imposs BILE
for banking institutions to go broke
to the extent that depositors lose
their money. Henry Ford and all 9TH
er successful business men use the
banks of the country because they
have confidence in them-because the
bank is the safest place in which mon
ey can be kept. Union county has
seven or eight banks, all of which are
operated upon sound business princi-
Piles under the direction of some of
the couhty's most honest and trust
worthy citizens, and the writer would
be very-much grieved to learn of a
citizen Of this county being robbed
OF murdered because he had failed
to avail himself of the opportunity
of placing his hard-earned cash where
thieves do not break through and steal
The Importance of Maintenance
There is quite bit of dissatisfac-
ton in the county over the expend-
iture of money in road-building. The
best and only way the road commits
sioners can keep down opposition to
the expenditure of more money is by
putting on system of maintenance
that will preserve the roads that have
been built and also the ones that are
to be constructed. A surface road
will not last many years if left alone,
no matter how vell it may have been
located and built, and the people of the
county will not see their money wash
ed away and worn out without strong
protest. The highway between the
Anson line and Monroe is maintained
by the state and it is a good example
Of what maintenance means to roads,
while some Of the other roads of the
county that were just as good when
completed about twelve months ago
are getting in bad condition because
they have had no attention since the
work of constructing them was COM
pleted.
Talking Of Hotel in Marshvillc
The Marshville hotel has been
abandoned and the room viii be used
b. the Marshville Furniture Company
as a storage room. Progressive citi-
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