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The Golden Age
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Atlanta Fighting Near 'Beer.
The City Council room was crowded last Friday
afternoon with good citizens, white and black, who
had come to protest against licensing “near-beer"
saloons.
After the meeting a committee called on Hon.
Clark Howell, editor of The Constitution, and pre
sented the following statement:
Editor Constitution:
As citizens of Georgia, who love both the good and
the good name of our city and State, we wish to
thank you most heartily tor your brave and timely
editorial of the 17th inst., entitled “Regulating the
Near-Beer Saloons.”
We especially commend the following sentences:
“THE PEOPLE OF ATLANTA WILL NOT TOLER
ATE A SITUATION THAT INVITES CRIME AND
DISORDER.
“IF NEAR-BEER SALOONS, IN ANY PART OF
THE CITY, ARE INCUBATING CRIMINALS, AS
DIVES PREVIOUS TO PROHIBITION WERE
PROVED TO HAVE DONE, THEN THESE SA
LOONS MUST GO, AND GO AT ONCE.”
These words ring with the crusade spirit winch
is tremendously needed in this hour of Atlanta’s civic
and moral crisis.
As citizens who believe in the enthronement of
law and order, we declare this a crisis, from the fol
lowing indisputable facts:
During the first three months of 1908, without a
single liquor establishment, brewery, beer saloon or
otherwise, the police records of Atlanta showed only
328 arrests for drunkenness, as compared with 1,408
for the same period in 1907 under the old system, and
947 in 1909 under the near-beer system, and sinrlar
figures for 1-910. During the “dry” regime of .1908, at
one time the police station was without a prisoner.
It was never so before, and has not been since. It is
plain that this state of affairs can not continue longer
without unspeakable detriment not only to the pres
ent peace and order of the community, but even to
that reverence for law which safeguards our most
sacred institutions.
We contend that the City Council should refuse all
licenses to near-beer saloons for the following
reasons :
Firsts Because it is the unchallenged statement
before the Police Committee that they are selling
real beer, containing over four per cent, of alcohol,
which is an intoxicating drink, and, therefore, they
are in open violation of the State prohibition law.
Second Because these saloons produce drunken
ness and crime and are therefore a nuisance and
menace in themselves which the City Council has
no right, in prudence or justice, to allow to exist.
Third—Because the presence of these saloons
affords a cloak for blind tigers and an encourage
ment to the defiance of law among our citizens.
Fourth —Because the example of Atlanta, in
licensing these proven breeders of debauchery and
crime, is hindering the enforcement of law in the
smaller cities and towns of the State; is bringing
reproach upon Atlanta far beyond the borders of
Georgia, and is discouraging civic reform wherever
earnest men are fighting the iniquities of the saloon.
The Golden Age for June 23, 1910.
VICTORY! VICTORY!! VICTORY!!!
Hurrah and the Doxology! The great battle
waged for the last three weeks in behalf of Dr. L.
G. Broughton’s Tabernacle enterprises by
that kingly spirit, Fred L. Seely, and his
great, paper, The Atlanta Georgian,
closed last Sunday in Atlanta —closed
with that sweep of victory and the
shout of triumph.
Mr. Seely, being a devout Christian
man, became convinced that the voice
of God had called to him, through the
Broughton
and
Seely
Win the
Great
Tabernacle
Fight.
prayer of an earnest Christian woman, and agreed
to throw The Georgian into the campaign for raising
the necessary $75,000 the moment Dr. Broughton
would announce his decision to decline the London
call and stay in Atlanta.
And when Broughton’s decision was announced,
“there was hurrying to and fro.” Such organization I
such get-up-and-get! such everlasting enterprise!
Headquarters were opened in the Empire-Life
Building, in charge of that dynamo of tact and en
ergy, J. W. Ham, the assistant pastor of The Taber
nacle. Ami, with The Georgian at one end of the
line, Ham at the other and Broughton and his
deacons and women-workers in the middle and on
both sides, there was “something doing” every min
ute of every hour of every day, and far into the
night.
It seemed that the workers “neither slumbered nor
slept.” Contributions, large and small, poured in by
letter and telegram from all over Georgia and the
“regions beyond.”
MOTHER or TWO GREAT MEN
What, must have been the feeling of grateful pride
in her true mother-heart to look on two such sons
as President Win. L. Poteat, ot
Her Son Con- Wake Forest College, and Presi
ducts His Mother’s dent Edwin M. Poteat, of Fur-
Funeral. man University! To comment
on their distinguishing elements
of intellectual and spiritual greatness would be like
wreathing adjectives about such names as Carey and
Judson, Wesley and Whitfield, Spurgeon and Broa
dus.
Mention “the two Poteats” and instantly giant
forms of grace and grandeur rise before the vision
in the realm of Christian education and pulpit power.
And now that the grand old mother who gave such
sons to the world has been called to Heaven, the
thousands who love and trust her honored sons find
themselves drinking anew the meaning of Christian
motherhood.
In her home in Raleigh she heard the summons,
while her gifted and devoted daughter who fills the
chair of Art at Meredith Callege, gave the benedic
tion of the last touch of a daughter’s love and her
stalwart sons smiled in triumphant faith through
unbidden tears.
Those who attended the funeral which was con
ducted in wonderful beauty and tenderness by her
own son, Dr. Ed. Poteat, declare it was like a “high
day” indeeu in the courts of Cod. ,
That, indeed, is the triumph of our conquering
Christianity.
A writer in The Biblical Recorder describes the
Poteat home and home life as follows:
“She was the queen of “Forest Home” in the old
days of large and handsome country-seats, many
of those being located in Caswell county. The resi
dence was beautifully situated in a magnificent
grove of oak and hickory, the lawn of several acres
sloping gently to the highway. It was the center of
extensive activities. To till the fields of the Poteat
plantation in those days required a force of eighty
men. There were twenty-five horses in the home
stables, besides others required and kept elsewhere
on the place. As many as one hundred and fifty
porkers were killed at one time. There was every
equipment for independent living—saw and grist
mills, blacksmith shop, weaving looms, and all the
necessities of a great country establishment in the
And when the “home stretch” was reached, a great
round-up mass meeting at The Grand Opera 1 louse
was announced for Sunday, with former Governors
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and Joseph W. Folk, the
great reformer, of Missouri, as the speakers, 'rhe
Grand was packed with a crowd that reached the
“Peanut Gallery.” Dr. Broughton presided as only
Broughton can.
Governor Smith told briefly, but powerfully, the
story of The Tabernacle’s great work from its found
ing up to its present wonderful achievements and
consequent necessities. After being introduced in
a gem of a speech by Mr. F. L. Seely, Governor Folk
spoke on that phase of civic righteousness, for which
The Tabernacle and its fearless pastor have so
gloriously stood from the first.
The speech was a revelation even to Governor
Folk’s enthusiastic admirers. It is a compliment to
Governor Folk to say that it. sounded much like one
of Dr. Broughton’s famous Sunday night preludes on
“cleaning up the town.” It was a trumpet call to
“fight for the right”—it was a graphic portrayal of
citizenship on fire.
And then came Broughton and the collection —it
can not be described —just imagine the waking,
shaking local gifts interspersed by an occasional
telegram, until the sum of over SIB,OOO was an
nounced for the meeting, making about $82,000 “of
the $75,000 needed,” and the new Tabernacle, seating
5,000, will be completed at once.
The crowd stood up and sang “Coronation” and
went away to celebrate the jubilee and thanksgiving
that night at The Tabernacle.
ante-bellum days. Good business capacity, real gen
eralship, an immense fund of practical common
sense, was required in wife as well as in husband
in the management and maintenance of such a plant.
After they were married, her husband joined the
Baptist church at Yanceyville and became clerk and
deacon in his church, moderator of the Beulah Asso
ciation when it was a leading Association in the
State, a regular and honored attendant at the Bap
tist Convention and of the Southern Baptist Con
vention, and a member of the Board of Trustees of
Wake Forest College. Though he had few school
advantages he was progressive, public-spirited, and
kept abreast of his time; he never entered politics,
but was an intimate friend of such men as Calvin
Graves (a cousin of Mrs. Poteat), and he knew how
every man in his section would vote. He was active
in church work, building unaided a chapel for the
colored people in the vicinity and himself conducting
a Sunday School for the white children of the neigh
borhood.
The doors of “Forest Home” were wide open to
a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. There
was a hearty welcome for the many guests who
came, young and old, rich and poor. In particular,
it was the home of preachers and denominational
workers. Here a gracious and elegant hospitality
was enjoyed by Elias Dodson, F. M. Jordan, Daniel
Witt, J. B. Jeter, J. D. Hufham, Samuel Wait, J. J.
James, W. M. Wingate, C. E. Taylor, C. T. Bailey,
W. T. Walters, R. A. Moore, and many others of the
elect, living and dead. Beyond computation was the
influence of such guests upon the children. Add
to it a few good books like the Bible and Pilgrim’s
Progress and a few good papers like the Biblical Re
corder, and crown the whole with godly parental ex
ample, family prayer and training, and you have the
secret of rearing a family whose virtues and influ
ence shine and penetrate far beyond the home acres
of childhood.”
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