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The Golden Age
Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden Age Publishing
Company (Inc.)
OFEIGES: AUSIELL BUILDING. ATLANTA, GA.
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW - - - - Editor
MRS. WILLIAM V. UPSHAW - Associate Editor
MRS G. V. LINDSEY - • Managing Editor
LEN G. 9ROUGHTON - - - Pulpit Editor
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The “Editor's Confession.
Personally appeared before the bar of my con
science, I, William David Upshaw, who, being, I
hope, of a true heart and of a
“She Did It sound and disposing mind, de-
With Her poseth thus: My wife did it ’‘with
Little Hatchet.” her little hatchet.” I can not
wear borrowed plumage nor yet go
down to my grave getting glory under false pre
tenses.
That brilliant story in the issue of Aug. 18, “The
Bravest of the Brave,” telling of Tom Lockhart, the
bedfast, ossified hero of Wellington, Mo., was not
■written by the editor, but by the Associate Editor. I
never saw it till the paper reached me out on the,
field, and then the honest modesty of my soul was
smitten when I thought how the unconscious public
would credit that superb story to me. Two weeks I
have been bending under the burden. And now I feel
better already, as a man always does when he makes
one of those honest confessions that are said to be
“good for the soul.”
The name of Margaret Beverly Upshaw ought to
have been appended to a story as rich and radiant as
that, and hereafter I suppose the “dear public” will
have to understand that whenever they find a pe
culiarly charming unsigned story or article in The
Golden Age Mrs. Editor should have the credit.
Fortunate that editor who marries him a young
wife who can beat him writing!
Now I feel still better!
The Editor.
K
Hon. W. S. Upshalv.
The recent sudden death of Hon. William S. Up
shaw, of Social Circle, Ga., county attorney of Wal
ton county, removes one of the most
Brilliant
Lawyer
Dies At
Social Circle.
pired. But he chose rathei’ to prac
tice his chosen profession quietly and without osten
tation, giving himself vigorously and conscientiously
to the duties of citizenship and the problems of good
government.
Years ago, when Walton county was suffering from
the curse of saloons, he threw himself into the thick
of the fight, stumping the county from the country
church and cross roads schoolhouse to the crowded
Temple of Justice, dedicating his stirring eloquence
to the success of the righteous cause. And more re
cently as an officer of the State he stood valiantly
for the majesty and enforcement of the law. He
was, too, the friend of education. Speaking one day of
the painful lack of knowledge that produces anti
missionism, he said with a smile: “But there is one
conquering enemy to such ignorance—it is the little
white schoolhouse over there on the hill.”
Col. Upshaw, an honored kinsman of the editor,
counted his friends by the hundred and his unexpect
ed death from heart failure put the beautiful little
town of Social Circle in tears.
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brilliant lawyers of the State. Had
political ambition been his guiding
star there was no position in Geor
gia to which he might not have as-
The Golden Age for September 1, 1910.
ATLANTA ’S NEW CONGRESSMAN
It is not the province of The Golden Age to talk
partisan politics, but we can talk about inspiring
types of manhood without being
William partisan. Atlanta’s new congress-
Schley man (the Fifth Georgia District is
Howard always called the Atlanta District)
A Napoleonic has proven himself one of the re-
Winner. markable young men of this genera-
tion. Hon. L. F. Livingston had been
in congress twenty years, and his splendid record
for “doing things” kept him there. All comers —
some of tnem very able men, had fallen before his
invincible shield. When William Schley Howard,
who, by brilliant pluck had made himself Solicitor
General of the Stone Mountain Circuit, announced
his candidacy for congress against the famous and
all-conquering Livingston the usual smile went round
and everybody—that is, most everybody said: “An
other victim for your Uncle Lon.”
But those who knew the magnetic young Howard
and remembered his Napoleonic race for Solicitor
and how well he had sustained himself in that re
sponsible position said with a significant nod of
the head: “Keep your eye on that young American..
He has a winsome personality; he binds his friends:
to him with hooks of steel. As a campaigner he is a
miracle and there will be something doing on elec
tion day.” An there was. Howard carried every
county in the district but two —he simply “took the
people’s breath!”
The fact that Carl Hutcherson, his masterful cam-
MADDOX MAKES CLARION CALL
More times than one it has been our pleasure to
call attention to the able, wholesome records which
has been made by Robert F. Maddox,
The Red the gallant young mayor of the
Flag of South’s most progressive city. This
Danger last expression, may it please the
Concerning court, is not the effervescence of
Civic “Atlanta brag,” but is borne out by
Responsibility, the growth in population, postal re
ceipts and building record —surpass-
ing even New Orleans and Louisville, the
great whiskeyized cities of the South. It is only
natural that the brilliant mayor of such a city should
be much in demand before the municipal connection
of America. And Mayor Maddox always “makes
good.” When a man honors Atlanta in a national
gathering he is sustaining a municipal reputation
that is more than nation-wide. But it was the vi
tality of Mayor Maddox’s theme and the vigor of
its presentation before the recent League of Ameri
can Municipalities in St. Paul that we wish now to
heartily commend. “Civic Responsibility” is just
about the most momentous subject before the'Ameri--
can people today. In this day of criminals and alarm
ing laxity concerning civic duty on the part of offL
cers and citizens it is refreshing to hear the clariom
voice of Mayor Maddox: He said in part:
“We have witnessed in the past few years ths?
growing tendency on the part of those in authority 7
to permit violations of the law. We have seen tire?
acts of congress, the laws of the states and municipal
ordinances ignored and openly violated, with the fuill
knowledge of those whose sworn duty it was to end
force them. Our short terms of office and popular 1
elections are probably responsible for this condition 1
of affairs. The officeholder no sooner takes his seat
than he feels the influence of the shadow cast by the
ballot overhanging his approaching election, and dis
cretion gets the best of his valor. The remedy may
be found in longer terms of office and when a faith
ful official may rely upon an appreciative public to
fight for him his campaign battles while he is per
mitted to remain at his post, fearlessly and impar
tially discharging his duty.
Our “land of liberty,” which stands for the equal
rights of all and which has been a beacon light to
countless thousands and an inspiration to every gen
eration since the Mayflower touched Plymouth Rock,
is in danger. We should take heed lest the proud
title of our republic be changed from the “land of
liberty” to the “land of license.” We all know that
unless civic pride and responsibility checks the mod-
paign manager, and Mark Bolding, his eloquent law
partner, were the writer’s college chums at Mercer,
and that Howard, Hutcherson and Bolding constitute
an inspiring trio of self-made men, naturally makes
their remarkable victory a congenial theme for a
paper that seeks to inspire youth with the possibili
ties of worthy effort
From selling newspapers on the streets of At
lanta up to the place of representative from Georgia s
most powerful congressional district —and winning,
let it be said, without the support of the very papers
he used to sell, William Schley Howard has climbed
with heroic stride, making a veritable playground of
the hearts of men and walking .“from easy effort to
success,” as Graves said of Grady, showering on ev
erybody his winning wealth of that very “indefinable
sometning” which made Henry Grady loved and
mourned in the palace of the rich and the cottage of
the poor.
We are glad to tell our readers in other states that
Atlanta’s new congressman is a staunch Prohibition-
Democrat, and side by side w'th Judge Anderson
Roddenberg, the new “cyclone” from South Georgia,
he will help to show to national lawmakers the pa
triotic travesty of allowing the national government
to nullify our state prohibition laws by deluging witn
liquor the territory that has been declared clean by
the votes and statutes of freemen.
Congressman Howard, Georgia is expecting great
things of you, and we are sure that such a golden
hearted winner as you have proven yourself to be
will redeem the faith of your legion of friends.
ern method of our enforcement of our laws the
change could well be made.
We all know that the password through the out
posts standing guard around the majesty of the law
is “influence.” Influence of dollars or political pull.
The license to violate the law granted the trust, the
millionaire manufacturer and the dive devil is writ
ten in the same words and only differs in the price.
In my opinion, civic responsibility can in no better
way show itself as moving upward and onward than
for our citizens generally, both in office and out of
office, to recognize this danger to our institutions
and to endeavor to check the dangerous tendency of
the times to disregard the law.
Our law makers in all bodies should also carefully
consider the justice of all proposed legislation with
out partisanship or prejudice before
Building placing it on the statute books. Without
Upon respect for law and order we are build-
The Sand, ing upon the sand and the storm signal
is now flying more than one section of
our country. Religious freedom, freedom of speech,
freedom of the press, the untrammeled right of the
individual to earn his living and support his family
by honest toil, to engage in private enterprises per
mitted by law, use his own property as he pleases
without infringement upon the law or rights of oth
ers —these are among the blessings of liberty for
which our fathers fought; but the option, privilege
or license to violate the laws of the land have never
been ino’uded in the definition of “liberty.”
In conclusion, I would invoke an earnest study of
our municipal problems, by all of the dwellers in the
■cities. I would especially invoke the cultivation of
public spirit and the taking part in the administra
tion of public affairs by men who have attained suc
cess in their own business. And I would finally in
voke a constant co-operation between all of the citi
zens and all of the public officials on the one hand
and between the citizens themselves on the other.
When the citizen shall have done these things he
is an ornament and a blessing to his community, he
has measured up to the full call of his civic respon
sibility, and our cities, states and nation will con
tinue to grow in influence and in power.”
Such a wholesome call to civic duty ought to be
read to every school boy in the land. And every
preacher in his pulpit, every editor in his paper and
every teacher, in the sacredness of his calling to his
pupils and his community, ought to teach by precept
and example that a man’s duty to his country is a
part of his duty to his God.
