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The Golden Age
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A. E. RAMS A UR, - - - Managing Editor
LEM. G. STOUGHTON - - - Pulpit Editor
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It is being made entirely clear to us that British
physicians don’t know much; or else they are reck
less about what they say; or perhaps they do not
understand conditions in this home of the trust and
land, of the slave. Not long ago it was freely stated
in this country that certain British physicians had
recommended alcoholic beverages as containing val
uable food properties. This caused a number of
estimable American citizens to immediately dismiss
their old family doctors and cable at once to Lon
don to employ a medical adviser, asking for a pre
scription by return cable. But investigation showed
that the report as to alcoholic nourishment was
untrue. We have just been seeing a statement cred
ited to a prominent British physician in which he
tells us to eat all we want. He surely doesn’t under
stand conditions in this country. There are orly
two classes of people here. One is the crowd who
live in boarding houses and the other is the class
who own their homes and keep (intermittently) a
cook. The first can’t get all they want to eat, the
second have indigestion and can’t eat. So there it
is. What are we to do? The advice we want to
follow we find has never been given us; the advice
that really has been given cannot be carried out,
owing to the conditions at present existing. We
want the Millennium to hurry up.
Bishop Ward to Help.
The coming of Bishop Seth Ward to help the
Wesley Memorial enterprises in Atlanta will hold
interest, not only to Southern Methodi°m. but to all
who believe in the aggressive work of practical
Christianity.
This movement in Atlanta represents the largest
institutional work under the auspices of the M. E.
Church. South, and is alreadv under splendid head
way, its preaching place standing for “old-time re
ligion.” under the vigorous and successful ministry
of Rev. J. T. Eakes. and its hospital, recently en
larged and still overflowing with patients, w'hn re
ceive not only healing for the body, but babn for
the soul.
It is announced that Bishop Ward will make a
campaign outside vs Atlanta, not onlv securing sub
scriptions to complete the buildings, but thus linking
the people in their thought, gifts and abiding inter
est to this great work for God and humanity.
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The Birth of a Mighty State.
In the recent birth nf Oklahoma, and the adoption
of her first constitution, a mighty state has been
born unto the American Union. Every loval citi
zen of every other State might say the same con
cerning his own, but there is a glorious and vital
difference between Oklahoma at her birihtime and
all other States at their birth —Oklahoma, by a di
rect vote of the perple, has just adopted a consti
tution which forever shuts out the liquor traffic from
the borders of that mighty new-born State.
In that part of Oklahoma which was the Indian
Territory, the United States government had al
lowed no liquor sold for more than twenty years, on
the ground that “fire wafer,” as the Indians called
it, inflamed the redskin and made him a demon.
And those living in the other part of the Territory,
The Golden Age for October 17, 1907
knowing that liquor did the white man and the black
man the same way, the awakening intelligence of
all this great new State decided that what was good
for the red man would be good for both his pale
faced and his black faced neighbor, and in the
power of a regnant conscience and a sovereign bal
lot they removed the blot and blight of this legal
ized temptation from themselves, their children and
their children’s children forevermore!
Glorious Oklahoma! Her like was never seen
before. What may we expect in progress and civic
virtue from a rich and powerful State whose heroic
people begin the organic life of their commonwealth
with such loyalty to right!
When William J. Bryan, the Gladstone of America,
paid a fervent tribute to the truths of the Bible as.
the basis of all that is best in society and govern
ment, his Oklahoma audience broke into cheers—
cheers that spoke a reverence as deep as their en
thusiasm was strong!
Fair Oklahoma —imperial empire of moral and ma
terial wealth —God keep your ideals always as high
as now, and your sister States will follow the white
star of your natal mom into a purer and grander
national life!
And Woto Montgomery.
Montgomery has waked up. The historic first
capital of “The Confederacy,” noted for its “'con
servatism,” is going to yield to the rising tide of
conscience and judgment and have a prohibition
election. The plucky Montgomery Journal comes out
squarely against saloons, while the genial and vener
able Advertiser writes a platitude in favor of tem
perance, and then takes rhe position That prohibition
is not the best way to reduce the evil of intemper
ance. In other words The Journal stands for the
annihilation of saloons, and the dear old Advertiser
makes the mistake of its life and lines up with —
we blush to say--with saloons —with saloons—their
continuation and all the sorrow and horror that they
bring. We are frank to say that we expected better
things of the Montgomery Advertiser. Perhaps it
will yet see the error of its way, and repent “before
it is everlastingly too late.”
G. G. Miles, at the head of the Hartford Life
Insurance Company for Alabama, is chairman of the
Prohibition Campaign Committee, and one of the
chief supporters of the movement is Chief Justice
John R. Tyson, of the Supreme Court of Alabama.
Hurry up, Birmingham, or Montgomery will beat
vou!
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A Century of Navigation.
The new British steamship, Lusitania, has broken
the record for the quickest passage across the At
lantic Ocean, having made the voyage from Daunt’s
Rock, off Queenstown, to Sandy Hook, in four days,
nineteen hours and fifty-two minutes The average
speed per hour during the voyage was 23.99 nautical
miles, as opposed to the speed of the German liner
Deutschland, which some months ago won the
world’s record on the run from Cherbourg, her aver
age speed during the voyage being 23.15 nautical
miles per hour. This event is of moment in that by
this achievement the British have wrested the su
premacy of the sea in the matter of speed from the
Germans, who have heretofore for a long time held
the record with the liners of the North German
Lloyd Company. No occasion of late years has ex
cited so much interest in the peoples of all the con
tinents touching upon the Atlantic. Another val
uable result claimed to have been attained by the
Lusitania’s performance is that of proving the tur
bine type of engine superior to the reciprocating
type, which has heretofore been used for the propel
ling power of ocean vessels. This is another lesson
for which the world is indebted to the British. It
is not probable that the record just made by the
Lusitania will soon be broken except by herself.
When her machinery has settled properly and the
ship has “found herself,” given a westward pas
sage with conditions of wind and sea favorable;
her coal of the best quality, and her crew of stokers
doing their duty well, she may be expected to lower
her time record, experts say.
Viewed from one standpoint, it is not a matter
of world-wide moment that a vessel should cross the
ocean in a few hours less time than that usually conr
sumed by vessels for the passage, but in another it
marks a victory for man in the endless struggle be
tween himself and the limitations of time and dis
tance. The vessel that cuts off aft w hours from
the time dividing two continents and two peoples
stands as a material testimony to man’s achievemens.
Just one hundred years ago a notable event trans
pired upon the Hudson. Robert Fulton’s Clermont
demonstrated that navigation by vessels propelled by
steam was possible. Even with a full century of
time for growth, the Lusitania is a remarkable de
velopment from the Clermont. It is hardly conceiv
able that there is much more possibility for im
provement, but even the next decade or two may
bring improvements into use in the means of pro
pulsion that wiU far outclass the performance of
the Lusitania.
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Hereditary Tendency to Consumption.
At this time it is probable that more attention is
being given by the medical profession to the treat
ment and prevention of cunsumption, “the great
white plague,” than any other disease. It is to be
regretted that our State has not kept pace with
others, notably those of the North, in the systematic
and scientific study and struggle for the suppres
sion of tuberculosis and its allied diseases. A spe
cial study is now being made by the Associated
Tuberculosis Dispensaries of New York of the de
velopment of consumption in the families of con
sumptives. The following editorial from Coßier’s
Weekly gives a brief account, of some of the meth
ods emploved in the care c.f children who are found
to be infected. It should be of interest to all: and
should convey to all parents who have any “lung
affection.” however slight, a warning as to their
duty toward their children of safeguarding them
before it is too late The editorial, under the sub
ject “How Consumption is 1 Inherited,’ ” is as fol
lows:
An interesting feature of the admirable work of
the Associated Tuberculosis Dispensaries in New
York is the study that they are making of the fami
lies of consumptives. We have heard much about
the inheritance of tuberculosis, often in the form
of jeremiads about the sins of the fathers being vis
ited upon the children. But this organization has
addressed itself to the problem of just how’ this
“visiting” is done, and of putting a stop to it.
When the patient presents himself at the dispensary,
he is first thoroughlv examined medicallv, and his
exact condition and probable prospects for cure de
termined. Then a speciallv trained worker investi
gates his social and financial condition to see
whether he can spare the time to be sent to one of
the allied open-air camps, or santoria. If he be the
only wage-earner and means can not be secured from
some of the charitable organizations to sunnort his
familv during his absence, ho is visited in his home,
practical demonstrations are given him of just how
to ventilate to the b»st possible advantage his room
or rooms, regular rations of milk and eggs are sup
plied, and then the visiting nurse turns her atfan
ition to the condition of the family. If anv of the
children appear to be out rs health, thev are prompt- '
Iv brought up for inspection. A consumptive mother
will ho brought into the and when her
little flock of five or seven children is rounded
un for examination, nne, three, or even as high as
four of them will be found to he suffering from an
early stage of some form of tuberculosis infaction.
Thev are nromptlv scattered as far as the inade
ouate facilities will alh w. in the different children’s
homes and open-air hospitals, and ♦hose whn can
not be sent out of the citv are put under treatment
at home. Usnnllv at this ago and this sta«m nf the
disease the pmsnects for a cure are excellent. The in
faction, of course, has been direct from the sputum
of the mother nr father in the crowded. ill-ventilated
quarters! in which th«v are compelled tn live. Not
onlv will hundreds of lives be saved bv this method,
but also a great number of cripplings and deformi
ties prevenfad. Tuberculosis attacks nnt merelv the
lung in children, but also the spine, the hip-ioint.
the ankle, the intestines, the brain. Tn fact, merelv
to say “spinal disease” or “hip-ioint disease.”
without further Qualification, means tuberculosis of
these regions; and fullv half the deaths from con
vulsions, from chmnic bowel trouble, and from
“marasmus,” in children between one and seven
years of age, are due to the same fecund cause.