They had moral messages among the news items in the local newspaper back then.
A small article in the pages of the Nov. 12, 1907 edition of The Delta Times, right above Municipal Matters briefs and next local advertisements, was just one of many items common in the publication in those days, conveying a message to live by to be a good person as well as good citizen.
It read that the man who makes money in the community has a duty to perform in that community.
“It may be that he has made his money by his superior business ability, and he would have done as well anywhere. That does not alter the case. If his gifts are great his responsibility is equally as great. No man was placed on earth for the sole purpose of making money, and the man who has this as his ideal had better never have been born. It is not an act of charity, but the performance of a simple duty for the man who has made money to pass a little of it on for the benefit of the community, even though he never expects to see a dollar contribution back.”
A separate editorial brief right below that piece of wisdom also had a message, noting how people ready to fly at each other’s throats on account of rivalry and jealously can never hope to succeed.
