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The Golden Age
(SUCCESSOR TO RELIGIOUS JORUM)
Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden fZge Publishing
Company (Inc.)
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WILLIAM D. UPSHSiW, - Editor
A. E. RAMSAUR, . . . Managing Editor
LEH G. EROUGHTON - - - Pulpit Editor
Entered al the Post Office tn Atlanta, Ga.,
as second-class matter.
The Honorable Champ Clark, of Missouri, says
that “all the one gall us men are for Roosevelt and
Bryan.” This is nothing more nor less than an
attempt to stir up the better class of our people
against the millionaires. It certainly is getting to
be hard lines to be rich in this country.
The Board of Education of Savannah, Georgia,
has voted to reintroduce corporal punishment into
the pub.'ic schools of that city, from which it has
been excluded for twenty-two years. We are grad
ually coming to respect the opinions of the old
writers on this, as well as other subjects. It was
a wise writer who spoke of the bad results of
sparing the rod.
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The Grolvth of Prohibition.
It has quite a while ago come to be recognized
that the movement in favor of prohibition in the
United States is not a “wave of prohibition sen
timent.” It is a matter of steadv, persistent and
sensible advance along wise and carefully planned
lines. There was a time when prohibition workers
were considered cranks and fanatics, and when
their efforts in behalf of temperance were regarded
with rather amused tolerance by those holding op
posite beliefs. Now no better indication can be
found of the way the liquor interests of the ’country
regard the present situation, and of what thmr ex
pectations for the future are. than the report of
the executive committee of the New York Wholesale
Liquor Dealers’ Association, recently printed in
Bonfort’s Wine end Spirit Circular. This lan
guage is used in the repent:
“Prohibition is the most serious question which
confronts you today. Pure food quections. internal
revenue questions, all deal with the manner in
which vonr merchandise should be sold The crit
ical and impending question, however, which con
fronts vnn is not how yen shall sell or brand vonr
product, but whether von are to he allowed to
sell it at all: not whether there shall he ceriain
legislation regulating vonr business, hut whether
yon are to be legislated out of business.”
This is a srnisihl* awakening to the real facts of
the present-dav situation hv the men who are most
concerned, and who have been slow to acknowledge
the condition*! which confront them. What a change
of front is this! ..Just a few vears ago the liauor
interests resented most indignantlv anv kind of
legislation affecting their business. Now thev mme
forward with resolutions looking to (he conduct
of linunr selling in a better way, as follows:
{, Wp believe that our business should he. so regu
lated hv legislation that those few dealers who. by
a persistent violation of the law. contrive to bring
upon our business odium and criticism, may be de
nied the privilege of further continuing in the
business.
“We believe that the dealer who violates the law
is the greatest menace to the welfare of our busi
ness, and the most serious obstacle to its establish
ment on a plane merited by the general character
of the great majority of those engaged therein.
“We believe that the burden is upon those en
gaged in the industrv so to purge it of its attend
ant evils that it will no longer be subject to the
The Golden Age for November 14, 1907.
attacks and criticism of those who are seeking to
uplift its moral tone.”
But the Circular knows that the old scheme of
purifying the saloon and conducting the liquor sell
ing business in a different manner will not be ac
cepted by the people as a settlement of the question.
In its “Investor’s Department,” it repeats its as
sertion frequently made heretofore, that “the great
conservative element in society has placed the sa
loon, as it has generally been conducted, under
condemnation.” And it places the saloon, how
ever it may be conducted, under condemnation. It
states that all wholesalers and manufacturers have
not done what they could to rehabilitate the liquor
trade, and says:
“This :s all wrong, and it must not be in the fu
ture, or we are destined to the condition of out
laws, with all property confiscated in not only the
South, but the West, and perchance in every State
in the Union. To win in this fight, which has waxed
so fierce and which grows more determined each
dav, we must bring every distiller, brewer, wine
maker, wholesaler, importer, barrel maker, maltster,
bottle manufacturer, and all of the retailers who
favor reform into one compact organization, and
we must use this organization as a factor in so
ciety to urge and, if possible, to compel such a re
form as is demanded, and properly, in the saloon
business, by the great conservative element of the
country.”
But the whole truth is that nothing short of the
extermination of the salt on will satisfy the mrve
ment against liquor and all its evils. The prohibi
tion movement will not be entirely successful every
where immediately, any more than the effort bo
bring the world to Christ will succeed entirely in a
year, or two years; but the signs of the times ppi n’t
to its ultimate triumph before it has cursed this
country very much longer.
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John Temple Grabes, Good-Hye I
Written by Will D. Upshaw, on train en route
to Texas and sent back to be read at the Birthday
Farewell Banquet tendered John Temple Graves by
Fred L. Seely, owner of The Atlanta on
the occasion of Mr. Graves’ going to New York
to become Editor of William R. Hearst’s great
daily, The New York American.
We Sorrow 1
Our brother-friend now goes afar
From hearts that shrine him dear,
But, like the gleam of distant star,
His light will stream thro’ “gate ajar”
To bless each crystal tear!
We Rejoice!
Because he lives and, living, reigns
Where’er his name is known—
A pen that stirs, but never stains—
A golden tongue for Truth that flames
For God and Man and Home!
We Thrill!
As on this fair and festal night
When Sorrow’s Lodge we hold.
We catch a vision clear and bright
Os Graves upon a Mountain Height,
With throne of power untold!
We Know—
That while “The Georgian’s” thousands thirst
And “American” millions gain.
Our friend will please the princely Hearst
When he shall love our Southland first
And guard her sacred name!
Then Go!
We echo Seely’s tender tone—
With “a thousand hopes” to sing!
Our souls are speaking “Mizpah’s” own,
And tho’ a million miles you roam
Our hearts will round you cling!
But Stay-
Till you hear again this hour
This tribute of our love:
We crown your birthday—Heaven’s dower —
Wish fifty more of growing power
Until, Dear Heart, we meet Above!
Cooks bs. Stenographers.
An examination of the want columns of the daily
papers of the country will reveal the fact that
there are many more cooks wanted than stenograph
ers. Some have estimated that there are twenty
demands for cooks to one for stenographers. This
may be an extreme estimate, but it can not be
denied that the demand for cooks far exceeds the
demand for stenographers.
To our mind this situation raises an interesting
topic, and is one toward which the public mind
will eventually turn —not to the question of cooks
vs. stenographers in particular, but to the question
of an industrial situation which demands female
help at all. We have in mind the tendency and dis
position of both mothers and daughters who would
prefer stenographic and other commercial positions
to that of cooking—just plain, every-day cooking.
There are mothers who would prefer that their
daughters should hold almost any kind of .a position
to that of cooking. We find such mothers care
lessly neglecting to give their daughters any sort
of domestic training, and diligently assisting them
to positions in the commercial world. As the re
sult of this training—or, rather, lack of training—
these daughters look with derision upon the kitchen,
and with pride upon the business office with a type
writer, stenographic book, and a half dozen men in
negligee working costume. This would not be so
bad in its final results if these same girls were
never to marry, but marry they do, and will. With
each recurring marriage there is a new demand for
a cook, and this demand has been going on until the
demand for competent cooks has exhausted the sup
ply, whereas, the supply of stenographers far ex
ceeds the demand.
We may be mistaken, but we think that men
want wives, not stenographers. Wives who know
from practical, first-hand experience, how to cook,
and how to properly manage a home. Os course, it
is possible for one who is a stenographer to know
how to do these things. It is well if she does. It
will save both her and her husband many attacks
of indigestion, and herself many bitter tears and
heartaches consequent upon ignorance of such es
sential, necessary knowledge. It is folly to rear
girls without giving them a training of this kind,
and many cases of domestic unhappiness arise where
this kind of training has been neglected. This lack
of training results in a disordered home, illy-pre
pared food, and extravagant expenditures, which
no kind of commercial position for a time can com
pensate for. It would be better to neglect the com
mercial position and prepare oneself for the larger,
more natural, and (with most women), congenial
sphere of home—including the kitchen.
. Cooking is a fine art—if is the finest of arts, for
life depends upon cooking. Not only life, but
health depends upon corking. And yet. notwith
standing conking is amon ? sh e fi np ar f s __fhe finest
of arts—it is an accomplishment which our mothers
of the South, in manv, many instances, have failed
to give to their daughters. This false attitude to
ward the kitchen is the result nf a slavery regime,
but that day is long past and the time is at hand’
for a more sensible course. It is time that we wer3
turning our attention to the kitchen, taking our
daughters with us and training them in that art
without which no education is complete, nor hap
piness in the home secure. This is the most prac
tical way to meet the increasing demand for cooks,
and it appeals to ns as being both natural and sen
sible. It is certainlv worth testing
* M
In the result of the recent elections in the vari
ous States, there is an element of great encourage
ment Many a party line has been ignored in this
election in order to vote for men who can be trusted
to execute the laws. Democratic majorities in Re
publican strongholds and Republican majorities in
localities renowned as Democratic strongholds show
that the people are concerned to secure upright men
as rulers. This is a good portent for days to come
Southern Presbyterian.
We can’t help agreeeing that it augurs well for
the honest, voter to choose men rather than meas
ures; but is this “good portent for days to come”
very consoling to the Democrats where the elec
tion “went wrong!”
