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The Athens Republique
Published every Saturday at
143 Hui) Street TELEPHONE 9199
Athens, Georgia
nterad at second-class matter, November 29,
1919, at the post-office at Athens, Georgia, under
set of March 3. 1879.
Editorial Staff
Julian 1,. Brownl Editor and Manager
Thomas N. Jackson, JrAssociate Editor
Miss Mollie Cole Society Editor
A. B. Capers... Reporter for B. Y. P. U. Activities
Miss Marion ClemmonsNorth-side Editor
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Miss Mattie Jackson, of 140 Cohen
street, was hostess to the “Social Lovers’
Club” on Thanksgiving Day. “Twas
a pleasant evening and as the light ©f
the beautiful autumn sun “trickled
down” the following youngsters could
be seen coming from the four corners of
the globe: Misses Marguerite and Mamie
Ray, Huntley Hampton, Irene Barnett,
Nellie Mae and Christine Billups, Julia
Mae Johnson, Eliza Noland, Mattie Sue
and Sylvia Jackson, Laura Gunter.
Messieurs Ed Harris, Crawford Cobb
and brother, Roy Thornton Jr., Richard
Jefferson, Marion Cherry, John Scott,
Oscar Hill Jr., Thomas Willoughby,
Frank and Harold Ray.
Peanut butter sandwiches, hot choco
late, cakes and fruit were served.
Mrs. Mattie C. Jackson, of Settlement
Ga., is nursing her sister-in-law, -Mrs.
Mary C. Jackson, of i4O Cohen street,
who is suffering with influenza this
week.
Miss Irene Tate, of 872 W. Broadst ~
who made a flying trip to Raleigh,
N. C.. recently reports a very pleasant
•ojourn at the Carolina capital.
THE ATHENS REPUBLIQUE
Negro Year Book Honors Athens With "Name"
We note from the Negro Year Book that Athens has the honor
of operating a branch of the Negro Business League. We appre
ciate this honor coming the most celebrated colored statistician on
earth. But unfortunately, like an “invisible empire’" this organi
zation merely exists in the minds of a great many of us. It should
exist; it can exist; it must exist. If Waycross has it and is realiy
doing business under that title, what about the great “Classic
City” that boasts of its culture and refinement ? If the colored
people of Americus, a city just half the size of Athens, can operate
a bank, a creditable newspaper, and other mercantile organizations
commensurate with these, are we here in this historic common
wealth, willing to accept a place with reference to the other cities
of our state that does not even merit honorable mention to say
nothing about occupying: even the last place on the honor roll ?
The law of life is growth. The Christian religion is the most
ideal form of life. It is shown largely by our conduct on the Sab
bath but co-adjunatively by our deportment in every arm of life.
The idea that religion is only “love” is limited, yet limitless. The
stolid Esquimaux or Siberian peasant whose desire ends with a
mess of pottage and a bear skin vestment may be void of anv malice
toward his fellow man. But w T hat service is he as a Christian ? In
his aimlessness he is blind and cannot see afar off. But the broad
hearted Christian who desires to be a burning and a sh'ning light
sees “the Love of God Shed Abroad in His Heart” as involving the
greatest responsibility on earth. He sees in it the insearchable
and unfathomable riches of truth and life, feels that God has or
dained him an ambassador of that light and life. Religion, then,
in the final analysis, is growth and expansion.
Dr. R. R. Noton, of Tuskegee Inst., and the most distinguished
Negro in America, spoke to us a few days ago on nothing more
than “practical Christianity—growth in Good-will” toward all
men, growth in brotherhood, growth on confidence and respect for
one another of whatever race, color orcreed, growth in education
and industry.
Inasmuch as we claim great fortitude and fame as a Christian
people would it not be a splendid thing for us to supplement our reli
gion by ventures in the other departments of life that make for
our weal? Let us organize or bring from the “invisible” to the
“visible’ in Athens the Negro Business League, and thus accept
the honor that Mr. M. N. Work, in his “Year Book” has given us.
Then will we come to understand one another better, and Athens
will finally get on the colored commercial map.
Miss S. Grace Bradley, who received
her “A. B. ” degree at Morris Brown
University in May, left the city Novem
ber 4, 1922. to join the faculty, number
ing twenty eight, in the Normal Insti
tute, Alabama. Miss Bradley was a
student, teacher and also secretary to
the President while attending College,
in Atlanta. This, of course, is experi
ence for her. She was elected head
of the English department at the Nor
mal Institute. Success is our wish for
her.
Mrs. W. A. Mapp, has return e*i to the
city after having attended the funeral
of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Julia Mcßee»
of Atlanta, Ga. *
Mr. Ernest Long, of Atlanta, spent
Thanksgiving Day in the city, being the
guest of Miss G. H Campbell, of 170 N.
Paris street.
Miss Nona M. Young, of the Athens
Republique, spent Thanksgiving Day
with her cousin, Mrs. Zeph Phillips,
on Route 3.
December 9, 1922