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The Golden Age
Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden Age Publishing
Company (Inc.)
OTIICES: LOWNDES 'BUILDING. ATLANTA. GA.
WILLI AND. UPSHAW - Editor
NRS G. R. LINDSEY - - Nanaging Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON - * - Pulpit Editor
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A 'Railroad's Righteous Deed.
When a corporation does a righteous deed, pat it
on the back —and if it be a railroad, why, then,
we suppose, you should pat it
L. &N. Changes on the track. Just read this
Schedule To press dispatch:
Stop Men “Madisonville, Ky., Feb. 9.
From Buying (Special).—The officials of the
“Booze.” Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Company have notified the trav
eling public that the Dixie Flyer will not stop at
Mannington hereafter either on its morning or even
ing trip. Mannington is ten miles south of this city,
and is the only place in the county where liquor is
sold legally. This action is taken by the railroad
company because of men going to Mannington from
this city on No. 51 in the afternoon for the purpose of
buying whiskey and then returning on the Dixie
Flyer. This move of the railroad prevents them from
going to Mannington and getting drunk unless they
walk, and this will hardly be the case for several
reasons known to the drinking element. The citizens
of this city congratulate the railroad officials on this
one act, as the drunken men were a menace to the
traveling public on these trains.”
Certainly. We doff our hat to the Louisville &
Nashville railroad.
If we remember rightly, this road was the first in
the South to decree that no man known to drink
would be employed on track or traih.
Now that rule is obtaining more and more on rail
roads everywhere. What a stroke for sobriety—
what a prohibition tonic to the nation!
The L. & N. road, of course, was protecting itself
and its passengers, as well as the community through
which it passes. Good! Very good! But the thought
naturally arises: If the L. & N. road and many other
roads would change a train’s schedule, or cause it to
quit stopping at a town altogether, to keep people
from drinking “booze,” then why doesn’t this same
road, and all other roads, stop hauling the devilish
stuff altogether to keep people from drinking it? p
Our marveling is sane, and our question demands
an answer. We submit the question to the “head
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mastery” Os the L. & N. railroad.
“But we can’t stop the express companies from
hauling it.”
You owned the right-of-way and track before you
contracted with the express companies. Let every
railroad company move to put in the prohibition
clause. YOU CAN STOP IT IF YOU WILL!
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Hurt on A. Hall Abroad.
Evangelist Burton A. Hall, who has been conduct
ing some wonderful meetings in Texas and else
where, has gone on a well-earned vacation to the
Holy Land. It will doubtless prove a great source of
information, inspiration and blessing in his evangel
istic work. Mr. Hall writes The Golden Age that he
expects to return to America April 19th, when he
will be ready for evangelistic meetings again. Any
pastor or community wishing co-operative or union
meetings can write to Mrs. Burton A. Hall, West
minster, Texas, who will be glad to make dates for
her evangelist-husband. Burton A. Hall is one of
the most successful among the young evangelists of
the country. He is orthodox to the core.
The Golden Age for February 24, 1910.
A LESSON IN ENTHUSIASM
The mightiest forward leap which Atlanta has ever
made in a day—or even a decade, was the vote on
Feb. 15th for $3,000,000 in
Atlanta’s Jubilee bonds for civic betterment.
Triumph—s3,ooo,ooo In Drainage, new school build-
Bonds—A Greater and ings, and countless other
Better City. improvements will be made
for the city’s physical, mor
al and intellectual upbuilding. But these considera
tions, after all, were not the most notable features
of the remarkable campaign.
The fellowship of a great common purpose united
the people as they have never beeu united before in
all the history of this great Southern metropolis. It
was glorious to see all three of Atlanta’s great daily
papers, The Constitution, The Journal and The Geor
gian, solidly together in the fight, each trying to
outstrip the others, from double-header editorials to
front page cartoons and full page arguments and
illustrations showing the blessings that the bonds
would bring.
In the forefront of the campaign were Atlanta’s
knightly mayor, Hon. Robert F. Maddox, and Fulton
county’s brilliant representative in the Georgia Leg
islature, Hon. Walter McElreath, who was manager
of the campaign. It was an inspiring lesson in the
fellowship of our civic progress to see Maddox, the
CHAS. W. HUGHES of NE W YORK
Some of our readers may have knit their brows
into an interrogation point when we referred recent
ly to Charles E. Hughes as the
Greater greatest Governor that the
Than Governor — greatest State in the nation has
Greater Than ever had.
President. Not that they questioned the
greatness of Hughes, but be
cause the superlative comparison, perhaps, was
counted rather sweeping. But we measure our words
when we repeat our conviction that from Van Buren
to Grover Cleveland and from Cleveland to Hughes
there has never been quite the equal of New York’s
present Governor in the blended virtues of construc
tive statesmanship and moral greatness.
The whole course of Charles E. Hughes since he
came first to the executive chair of New York has
proven that he would rather be right than to be
Governor— or President. His fearless, heroic fight
against gambling in particular and licentious “liber
alism” in general has called forth the admiration
of the good and caused the consternation of the bad
all over America.
He has quickened the conscience and stiffened the
backbone of officers and individual citizens all over
the land.
His latest expression of moral mastery where
manhood and principle tower above party expediency
“like the maple above the mire” is found in his
OUR FOURTH BIRTHDAY
With this issue The Golden Age completes its
fourth year and enters its fifth vol-
Birth! Battle! ume. When we remember that the
More Battle pathway of kindred efforts in jour
and —Victory! nalism in this section of the South
is literally strewn with wreckage,
and that it was freely, though not unkindly, predict
ed when The Golden Age was launched that it would
“live about six months,” we naturally feel that we
have cause to “sing the doxology,” although we are
not ready to “be dismissed.”
The enthusiastic letters that come to us and the
general comment of people who THINK and FEEL
cause us to rejoice in the assurance that The Gol
den Age has made a place for itself that is peculiarly
its own—that it is filling a field as a paper for the
home which no other paper in the South is attempt
ing to fill.
sensible son of wealth, who has kept his head and
his heart in the right place, and McElreath, the far
mer’s son of the soil and toil, who is marching the
Appian Way from America’s historic “Log Cabin”
to State and national honors —both working like
brothers, side by side, for the “forward march” free
dom of the Magic City of the South.
And what a scene on election day! Ben Lee
Crew r s, representing the best type of Atlanta’s young
business men, had every automobile he could get,
every carriage that he needed and every telephone
that could talk —speeding over the town—ringing up
the tardy—calling, calling the Atlanta of today to be
true to the Atlanta of tomorrow —and tomorrow’s
tomorrow. And the night before the election Hon. J.
R. Smith, another commercial and political leader,
piled hundreds of barrels, oiled and “ready for busi
ness,” into a pyramid of latent splendor, Mayor Mad
dox applied the match, and soon excited thousands
were cheering the momentary monument of lurid
flame, typifying the light of larger blessing which
the bonds of the morrow would bring.
The famous “Atlanta Spirit,” won! And the les
son in splendid enthusiasm shows what any com
munity, large or small, can accomplish when all
classes unite in a great movement for the common
good.
utterance on the disclosures of. graft among Republi
can leaders in New York. Read that utterance and
thank God that Christian statesmanship is a regnant
reality in the Governor’s-chair in the Empire State
of the Union. Here are his ringing words: “This is
not a time to retire in dismay from any disclosures.
The party can stand anything except being untrue to
itself and allying itself with the evil that may be in
it. It needs to purge itself of evil. It needs to get
rid of that which can be justly condemned.”
And remember, fellow-Americans, that Charles E.
Hughes backs these stalwart words with his spotless
life.
The Editor of this paper counts it one of the
greatest privileges of a life-tims ';o have been at one
time a member of the Young Men’s Bible Class in
New York which was taught by Charles E. Hughes
for years before John D. Rockefeller, Jr., became its
teacher. The grip which that great Christian lawyer
had on the hearts and consciences of those young
men who thronged t£at class room from all parts of
the city and country is yet a fragrant and inspiring
memory. They loved him because of the dynamics
of loyal, royal Christian manhood which charged his
powerful personality —flashing in his eye, ringing in
his voice, springing in his step —glorifying the full
ness of his stature made luminous by the reigning
statutes of the skies.
To be such a man is to be greater than Governor
of New York or President of the Nation.
We are glad to tell our friends who have stood by
us so loyally from the first —yes, and the new friends
who are entering so heartily into our purpose and
plans, that last year was the best that we have
known. We covet your active friendship in making'
our fifth year better than the best. Born on Wash
ington’s Birthday “on purpose” our patriotic impulse
has lived through this stirring quartette of years,
and more than ever we believe that The Golden Age
has a vital mission to perform in. the world in in
spiring youth and building Christian citizenship.
Tell every teacher who teaches, every preacher
who preaches and every parent who loves the young
life of his home that we ask for the privilege of
helping to put ideals in the sky of youth—ideals that
shall lead during 1910 and all the years to — Piety
in the Home —Power in the Life and Purity in the
State.
