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(Eottummtpralll? J.o. Gillespie I he J. L. Gillespie GILLESPIE & SON, EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS. Subscription Si-SO per Year im Advance Long Distance Comb. Phone No. 33. Official Paper of Leflore County and of the City of Greenwood. Obituaries, Tributes of Respect and Cards of Thanks in this paper will be enarged for at the rate of 5 cents a line. Subscribers not receiving their paper promptly will please notify the office. Changes in address should be reported promptly. Greenwood, Miss., Friday, Dec. 17, 1909 Well, its out. Our systems are greatly relieved. Pretty big job for four kids. We are live ones, though. Greenwood is proud of the many additions our capitalists have given us. There are always plenty of 'taters' in Greenwood. The vine never goes dead here. The Southern Railway Depot Greenwood is the definition of an eyesore to a city. in The growth of North Greenwood has been phenomenal, the proud possessor of many of the handsomest residences in our city. It is now Get in your car, or the other fel low's, and have your chauffeur drive around the town. Prosperity is evi dent on every corner, great city. Ours is a The medical proffession in this city is a most honorable one, for among our physicians and sur the most efficient. We • proud of every one of them. goons are art Greenwood is proud of her \va To this is attrib uted our good health. There is It is not only ap* ter resources. none purer, predated the morning after, but hurts good every time a beeker is raised to the lips. Greenwood is known throughout the state as the auto city, are now about one hundred and wenty five cars gliding over our streets. Three commodius garages are numbered among our business houses. There Greenwood is proud of the many manufactories spotted in and around our city. They are invaluable to its continued growth. They are accord ed hearty patronage by Greenwood, and are proud of the city that owns them. Greenwood either leads or retires from the limelight, business she shows superiority in prices and marketing facilities over every city in the state. Last season she toed the 125,000 mark in re ceipts. She craves the fleecy staple. In the cotton Yes, we are proud of our City Hall and the officials that are gracing same during the present administration. Mayor, Marshal, Board of Alder men, and entire board of officials should walk up to the medal counter and take their pick. Our excellent The bar of Greenwood is prom inently known throughout our state. have held some of the highest of fices within the gift of our peo pie. Among them are found the pride of our people, critics of legal proceedure, authorities on legal questions, and the liower of eloquence. Some of its members This is the day of the paragraph. History is turned out in tabloid form for popular assimilation. Sense and nonsense are most enjoyed in paragraphs, and the people crave speeches built on meaty paragraphs. Public speakers try to make a hit within the ten-minute limit, and even the heroes in plays make love eppigrammatically. What has become of that Gqv ernment building and postofflce*? The matter seems to have reach ed a point of stagnation. Why such inaction? Someone should awaken the authorities to the fact that other cities who had ap propriation for similar buildings have had them almost complet ed. TIK CtNTUtV WTMN WMCH WE LIVE. A man fifty years of age hardly I realizes what a wonderful century he has lived in. It is only by turn ing back the hand of time and re calling conditions as they existed long ago can he appreciate the mar vels that have been revealed since his birth. It was only in the eighteenth cen tury that g?s light was a curiosity, and the first gas company only be gan operation in the nineteenth. In war times, cities celebrated events, the tallow candle was the most prevalent form of illumination. The past half-century began by candle light, later used kerosene and now relies very largely upon elec tricity. In 1859 such a thing as an electric light was undreamed of. In the same year, nothing but clothes were made from cotton. From the fleecy staple we now derive an ex cellent oil which furnishes us lard, fertilizer and high-grade feedstuffs. Now the probability is that even the stalks may be utilized for paper or bagging, and indeed every part of the plant may in time serve some useful purpose. The age of steel, marking the highest point in industrial development, began during the last half-cen tury. Oil and natural gas have been seduced from the bosom of the earth. The old castle must have been a cold and dreary plaee in the winter; but we have now perfected heating to such a degree that a home can be made comfortable throughout, householder can turn on a reg ister and heat his room to any temperature; one press of a but ton illuminates his room, Fifty years ago the telegraph had been onlv developed imper fectly. Now a message is flash sd beneath the seas to the most distant lands; the assassination of a king is known just about as .soon in Greenwood as it is made public in that kingdom. If some one in this State had advanced the theory that a person could communicate by wire with an other in New York fifty years ago. his friends would have look ed apon him as a visionary that was h aded for a mad house. The stage coach was still pop ular fifty years ago. When a railroad reached a mountain it The a is Now, it either climbs stopped, the hill or eoes directly through them. Then our city people had nothing more rapid than the mule car or the carriage. The electric car was at first regarded as a dangerous experiment. Now it is in universal use, and one rides all over the city in a blaze of lightning and never dreams of danger. The preservation of a conversation or a song or a piece of music on a disc was looked its upon even twenty-five years ago as an impossibility, yet today one can sit in his own appartments and hesr the greatest singers and musicians in the world. The operas of all the composers yield their choicest selections to him, and the performances of the celebrated orchestras can be had at his will. Sailing vessels that plowed the seas have given away to onr modern steamer that races through the waves like a greyhound. It is like a minia ture city breasting the sea. The bicycle and the automobile are now giving the weary horse a de served rest. The typewriter has been invented and now the correspondence of the world is transacted by machine. It was not a difficult matter to prove thirty years ago that a typesetting machine was an im possibility. The linotype has met all seeming objections and today type can be set as rapidly as a typewriter can be manipu lated. Pictures can be telegraph ed, and no doubt in time this branch of electrical development will be thoroughly realized. The perfecting of instruments of de struction has kept up with the general development. We have Gatling guns, tremendous shells that can be fired for miles, sub marine torpedoes, and rapid fire guns. We have seen the erection of elevated and underground rail roads. built under rivers, span ning mighty streams; the won derful monorail and the sus pended railroad; lofty skyscrap ers in our cities; streets payed with asphalt, taken from the asshalfc lakes of Venezuela and Trinidad; elevators carrying peo ple from terra firma far up into the sky. Men have even solved the problem of aerial navigation. Whether (his will he cornmer in re of of on of in hit is cially available or not, we do not yet know, Sût man bas learned to fly. The profound interest manifested in aerial contests proves tbat aviation will not be the whim of the moment. Crude machines will be perfected, and some use will be found for the airship. It will be made safe and become common. We can only guess at the changed con ditions; but the fact that all the civilized nations are encouraging the aerial tests leads many of us to believe that something worth while will result from this dar ing experimentation. As a climax to the wonderful achievements of this wonderful half century, comes the discov ery of the North Pole. The fact that there may be small prac tical value in the discovery of this pole has not marred the en thusiasm of the world over the achievement of our daring ex plorer. His exploit cannot be defined in dollars and cents. The world will look upon it purely in the light of a great adventure, accomplished through individual pluck and daring. We do not know what to an ticipate next. We only shudder and quietly dream of ""hat mar velous revelations will be made to us before we answer our final summons. It acts as an incen tive however, to impress upon us that important fact, that we are only one of a great society and that we are pittied against our fellow men in the mighty struggle, and ttat the fit will survive. Look around and stu ly your environment. Myriads of chances are cast all around you. The dreamer is constantly wean ing probable theories from his system. Learn to be the man that can perfect this theory. Ac quire as much as is possible of that world-embracing knowledge and accomplish something in this world. a OUR STATE UNIVERSITY. It is with a great deal of genuine pleasure and pride that we note the continued progress of the Greater University of Mississippi, our alma mater. We are glad to see politics and factions eliminated from the best institution of the State. The University, everywhere, and for centuries has been the center at which are gathered the great in tellectual and moral forces of their period and from which radiates those influences that strengthen while they adorn the nation spread ing, always, a consistent illumina tion for the social and civic up building, and the university man, wherever he goes, carries a mes sage, however great or small, in spiring to a broader outlook on and conception of life and encouraging to the striving after the higher ideals of living, thns promoting the advancement of the race in what are the essentials of its growth and development. It is the strength of every people coming under its in fluence, the safeguard of the State and the ultimate reliance of all mor als and religion. It takes cogni zance of the arts as well as the sciences that nourish the intellec tual growth, but its best service is its influence upon the civil and moral life of the State, pointing the way to the development of the men and women who make it. Viewed from this standpoint, the University of Mississippi has ac complished a very great work, as the long list of honored names that her alumni yields in the annals of the State, in every domain of public service abundantly testify. They are written in State service and, conspicuously, in the service of the nation, everywhere justifying and honoring their alma mater. And it is pleasant to know that never was this great school so efficient in the performance of its function than it is today under the able direction of Chancellor Andrew Armstrong Kin cannon, who realizes its mission, who lives and breathes its purpose anil is animated by an inspiration for its performance, because he is so constituted that all his nature re sponds to the University demand. He is ambitious to realize a Greater University of Mississippi, whose influence shall be an endur ing benefit to the State that he loves and in whose service he has a a a been engaged, step by step from one promotion to another, nntil at middle life, he is at the' apex of his profession and has won national reputation as a great educator. Dr. .. ... . kincannon combines, with a strong intellectual bent, and equipment, a wonderful administrative .and ex ecutive faculty, that has made this institution a more potent influence, still, in the life of the State by ex panding its capabilities and bring ing to its walls a large number of students than were ever before counted within them. The Un iversity has become popularized and has won recognition where it was' unknown before. The enthusiastic support of the alumni has been marshalled to the support of the in stitution and has placed it in an at titude to command the attention apd appreciation of the people whom it is designed to serve. The University of Mississippi's future is still greater. The time is very near when it will rank as the foremost educational institution of the South, and Chancellor Kincan non will have had an effective re alization of his lone purpose and wish. May they both ever prosper. of of he is a TWO CONTENDING FORCES. In the great battle of life there are two contending forces ever striving for mastery, the individ. ual and society. Society, says an esteemed contemporary, is a collec tion of hkemlnded individuals unit, ed for the common interest, which, having in view, theoretically at least, the greatest good to the great est number. Who says society, therefore, says civilization—that is, the reign of law and moral order. Under its protecting wings all the virtues are found, including prin cipally the virtue of altruism—a virtue that many of its members practice in every relation of life— in the privacy of the home as well as in the market place. If follows that the betterment of society pred icates the doing of our duty to our selves and our families, and our country. A state will never march along the highway of progiess unlese the peo ple as a majority possess these qualifications. That they are, on a whole, the most priceless gems in the crown of Mièsissippi is our hon» est and firm conviction; for in spite of our temptation at times to forget them amidst our undoubted oppor tunities to plunder our weaker brothers, as is done in states less rich in material resources, we have chosen to place the common wel fare above individual benefits and, with altruism as our guiding star, might well boast that there is not within our borders today "a single millionaire or pauper." Opposed to this virtue is egotism —a vice not uncommon in Amer ican public and private life. The egotist believes in self aggrandise ment regardless of the harm he may do the State. In his blind selfish ness he becomes a destructive force in every church, in every army,' and in every State. In order to pre serve the integrity of society it must, through all the better and nobler elements, wage a relentless war against the egotist. Whence comes that feeling where by one man thinks himself better than another—that feeling called vanity. It originates in that "pride through which the angels feil." It reveals itself also in perhaps its most destructive form in those minds who strive to push them selves on the tog in political life at the expense of their worthier fellows. Such sinister and vain-glorious politicians are universally dem agogues. They have po interest in principles. With speedy appetites they feed at the public cribs, real parasites, and pander to the pas sions and prejudices of the unthink ing part of the electorate, holding the opinion that their noble ends sufficiently justify the illicit means they employ. They at heart ever despise the common people whom they too frequently succeed in de ceiving. They also flaunt in the faces of the humblest citizens "the insolence of office." Let us practice the virtue of al truism and shun the vice of ego tism. Let us be upbuilders and not wreckers. Then we will lead the way to a higher and nobler destiny. a Our city can boast of one of the best, uptodate and most thorough school systems in the state, time is drawing near when the au thorities will have to erect another school building. Their past history has been one that reflects glory and credit upon our life. May they ever prosper. The As evidence of Greenwood's pros perity there are now under way of construction fitteen business houses and forty residences. And this is nota boom This is the Average The jntereslin2 ^ o( B jt is that our zenith is too far too be conjectured. - \ ■ MW UWS NOT NEEDED. i Our State needs very little in the way of new legislation, and many of the subjects now being so ear nestly urged for consideration can liejcarried over a few years and some postponed indefinitely. In Gov. Noel's decision not to throw down the bars and allow the leg islature to consider a wide variety of topics at the approaching session, he is eminently correct and gives further prodf of his 'broadminded ness and ability as a legislator. He is going to wisely sidestep many of ihe restrictive statutes that are be ing suggested for his consideration. The people of our State do not crave their lawmakers joining in the mania that has been recently man ifested by some legislative bodies in the South, and elsewhere in the country, to legislate morals into the body politic. The solons will oblige their constituency in not attempt ing to do for the people at large what they ought to do for them selves. Morals cannot be legislated into a community as easy as morals can be shot into humanity with a mausea. Still, in many sections of the country, lawmakers have been afflicted with the idea that they are diviuely-appointed guardians of the general public. Such examples of legislation has experienced the in evitable result of the repudiation by the people of the absurdities placed on the statute books, the rejection of the laws on which the ink was scarcely dry, and which are worse than no laws at all. The legislator who is laboring under the delusion that he has sent by his electorate for the purpose of injecting good ness into the people is inflicted with a misconception of the duties of his office, and he often is a public nui sance instead of a chosen represen tative of the people. Our people, as a whole, are ably qualified to look out for themselves to a certain degree. That noted statesman's thought is applicable: "The land is best governed which is least governed." It seems dif ficult to convince some zealous leg islator of tho gospel truth of this aphorism. They cannot sever con nection themselves with the erron l I Z Z < ' a it It at in , eous idea that the more laws they make, the better citizenship we will have. Ifi a multiplicity of laws there are bound to be bad meas ures, many others which cannot be forced because of tneir drastic character, and still many others that should not be forced because they excite only contempt and utter disregard among right thinking people. Drastic legislation will not make good men and good women. You might as well attempt to gath er up the wind with your fists or dii> up the ocean with a sieve, tion, precept and example can only inspire respect for written statutes, and when a body of lawmakers at tempt to make ail the people good by repression, oppression or intol erance, it fails its true object, and the statutes it enacts excite only de rision and disregard, sense must be behind every law, and it must meet public approval, need no new laws to stop the people from doing something they have al ways' been accustomed to doing. We have already infringements on our liberties, and will not tolerate any others unless they are backed by sound j udgment and common sense. Governor Noel, being the legis lator and statesman that he is, we feel sure, is going to spare us from Educa Common We a law-making craze, a statute-fram This will be another ing mania, way that he will win golden opinion from his constituents and place him in history as one of the safest and most consistent governors who has graced our gubernatorial chair. No county in the state can boast of a more beautiful court house than Nor can they have a more ef ours. ficient set of officials than those that are guiding its present administra tion. In every department of our court house are found courteous of ficials and deputies who know their business and exert every effort to serve the best interests of their con There is not a one of 8tituency. them that is not worthy of reelec tion. 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