If it were not for the good women of our town, it is hard to say what might happen. One man remarked it would dry up and blow away. It seems as if the most of our men have their mind too close to the dollar to even realize that there is such a thing as sentiment. When civic affairs need a little touching up, and some of them are approached on the subject, you are spoken to as if begging for your own personal needs. Take the same matter up with the ladies of the town and they are at once with you. They worship a different God.
Take it in the matter of the Lawson and Baptist cemeteries, which had been neglected. A few men set out to improve them and soon laid down on the job. The good women of the Methodist Church took the matter in hand and now the Lawson Cemetery is for the first time in years a fit place to bury our dead. Baptist women did the same thing for the Baptist Cemetery. And now the Presbyterians have taken the matter in hand.
Dollar chasing is a cold-blooded business that often blinds us to the nobler and better things in life.
From the front page of the Tri-City Daily Gazette, Leaksville, N.C., June 9, 1923
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