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The Golden Age
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Company (Inc.)
OTTICES: AUSTELL BUILDING, ATLANTA. GA.
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW .... Editor
MPS. WILLIAM D. UPSHAW - Associate Editor
MPS G. V. LI ND SET - Managing Editor
LEN G. 9POUGHTON - • - Pulpit Editor
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Epigrams.
By Elam Franklin Dempsey, B. D.
Decision is the pivotal point of destiny.
New character creates new environment.
Weariness should pray not for relief but for
revival.
The life more abundant can not be stingy
in its gifts.
Prayerful thought and thoughtful prayer
promote Christian perfection.
A Triend Trom Alabama.
Will you please allow me a few lines in The
Golden Age?
I wish to say that I was perfectly delighted
when I saw in your paper the picture of Judge
A. W. Fite. And to read his speech on “Our
Laws Better Than Our Officers” makes one
feel like shouting “Amen!”
On my way to Gordon county two years
ago to assist Pastor Woody in a series of meet
ings at Hopewell, I had the pleasure of meet
ing this great man in Cartersville.
When he found that I wanted to see Sam
Jones’ old home he volunteered to go with me.
While on the way he told me of the great good
that this Man of God had done for the city of
Cartersville. I said in my heart: “Here is a
man that fears and loves God.” I had never
seen him before. I have never seen him since.
But after reading his noble and fearless speech
I know him better and love him more. From
his speech he seems to feel and know the need
of the hour. I quote his words: “What we
need most is an honest, faithful and vigorous
enforcement of the laws which we now have.”
Give us officers that will enforce our prohi
bition laws, backed up by a true citizenship
and our power for good would be felt and
feared by the law-breaking men who do not
fear God nor regard man. And we would have
a different state of affairs in both Alabama
and Georgia. ALFRED H. HOLCOMB.
Birmingham, Ala., R. F. D. No. 7, Box 190.
A Postal Card Worth While
Here is a postal card that we like. It just
suits us. Maybe it is put into italics by the
fact that it comes from a man who is a charter
subscriber and who, when The Golden Age
was launched, wrote the editor as follows:
“Congratulations on the good work you have
done for Georgia girls and boys, and also on
the great paper you are going to start. But
this don’t pay the printer’s bill. Here is a
check for $2. “A. W. BRAMLET 1.”
Now the Postal:
Forsyth, Ga., March 27, 1911.
Dear Bro. Upshaw: I write to congratulate
you on the good work you are doing through
The Golden Age. Your last issue about “Fite’s
Fearless Fight” against liquor and blind-tigers
was “hot from the bat.” Keep up the good
work and after awhile you will rejoice in the
sure reward. Good luck to The Golden Age
and its plucky editor.
A. W. BRAMLETT.
The Golden Age for April 6, 1911.
The liquor advocates have scant room for
comfort in the final result in Alabama. The
flannel-mouthed leaders in
Prohibition the state are ashamed to
Wins More sound a trumpet concerning
Than It Loses. their victory, although out
side of the state they are
making “much ado.” In Alabma the liquor
leaders know that they lied—pure and simple,
if a lie was ever such—in order to win what
they call a victory.. They met in convention
in Montgomery and published this declara
tion : “It is no part of our purpose to bring
saloons back to the State.” On this declara
tion repeated by their orators from every
stump many honest prohibitionists voted with
them because of certain features of the amend
ment which they did not like and also be
cause of the unwarranted intrusion of certain
partisan personalities. With advantage thus
dishonestly won these same liquor leaders
proceeded at once to do the very thing which
they had sacredly promised not to do— they
brought liquor back as far as they could; but
they dared not “rub in” their shameful victory
too deep.
A friend sends us a clipping from a paper
whose name we do not know, telling well how
meager their devilish victory was. Here it is:
Prohibitionists didn’t lose all in Alabama.
Some might get an impression that the reaction
in the neighboring state had left the opponents
of the whiskey traffic in worse condition than
they were before the state was voted dry in the
legislature. Such is not the case. The pendulum
failed to swing it back where it once was. The
A GREAT EDUCATIONAL RALLY
Many people in the South, even among the
best and most thoughtful, have never really
contemplated the full
Robert C. Ogden’s meaning of Robert C.
Great-Hearted Ogden’s far-reaching
Movement. movement, as expressed
in “The Conference for
Education in the South.”
Dispassionately weighing the motive and
the mission, and knowing as we do the great
golden-hearted founder, of the movement, we
unhesitatingly declare our conviction that our
national life has never known a wiser or a more
beautiful and practical philanthropy.
Not assuming that they know our needs bet
ter than we of the South know them, nor yet
that we are incapable of handling our own edu
cational problems, these northern philanthro
pists simply recognize the acknowledged fact
that in our complex heritage from the civil
war we have burdens and problems unlike
those of any other section and in the spirit of
great-hearted comradeship they want to help
us bear them and solve them. It is great to
see men of millions master their money instead
of being mastered by it, and lay it on the altar
of humanity. Prof. P. P. Claxton, of the Uni
versity of Tennessee, who is the Executive
Secretary of the Conference, makes the follow
ing announcement to the editors of the South:
Dear Sir:
The fourteenth Conference for Education in
the South will be held at Jacksonville, Fla.,
April 19, 20, 21. The theme of the Conference
is the better adaptation of education to life,
and especially to rural life in the Southern
States.
Under this general topic will be discussed a
large number of problems pertaining to the
general uplift of this section and the means
thereto. The program will include public and
private sanitation, the country church and its
relation to rural life, the re-direction of the
public school, co-operation among farmers,
and many other topics.
One of the most important subjects to be
A NET GAIN IN ALABAMA
whiskey advocates are to be congratulated on
their show of wisdom and discretion. They will
have saloons in Alabama, in such communities
as elect to have them, but they will be few and
far between. In Birmingham they are to have
only one saloon to each three thousand people
and the license will be three thousand dollars
with strict regulation. In Montgomery and Mo
bile the license will be fifteen hundred dollars.
Montgomery is allowed one saloon for each one
thousand people and Mobile will be allowed a
■saloon for every seven hundred and fifty of her
population.
The agitation of the prohibitionists and the
temporary victory that they won for a totally
dry state has impressed itself on Alabama in
such away that it will never be forgotten. The
whiskey interests have realized that if the sa
loon is to be tolerated at all it must be regulated.
The dives will be cut out entirely.
This is a net gain for tne friends of reform
and temperance. It is a permanent gain. It is.
far reaching for it sets an example to saloon
ists and law-makers in other wet states. The
whiskey men and the whiskey interests will vie
with the prohibitionists in rendering the saloon
harmless.
Alabama has been made permanently better
and to the prohibition fanatics and cranks must
be given the credit. This reform movement
would not have worked itself out among the
whiskey men in fourteen generations. It is the
fruit of agitation and education.
Verily, as President Lincoln Hulley said
about the Florida situation, “it was only one
battle in a great war.” An occasional reverse
teaches wisdom for the general campaign.
The war goes on and ultimate victory is
sure!
discussed under this general head will be the
problem of how the press may better co-oper
ate in the movement for better education and
rural life. There will be one or more general
addresses on this subject, and a round table
conference.
I am writing to invite and to urge you, if
possible, to attend this Conference and take
part in its proceedings and especially in this
round table conference.
Every editor and teacher in the South who
can possibly break away from “easy (?) chair”
and school room ought to attend this notable
gathering. It will be pulsing with patriotism,
rich in suggestion, royal in fellowship and ra
diant with philanthropy.
Go to Jacksonville!
Homer, La., March 28, 1911.
Dear Golden Age:
Mrs. Palmer and I have just closed a very
successful meeting at Dayton, Ohio, with the
Memorial Baptist Church, Rev. C. F. J. Tate,
D. D., pastor. The Church was greatly bless
ed and strengthened. A goodly number of the
converts united with Memorial Church. Many
went to other churches. It was a real pleasure
to labor with my dear friend, Dr. Tate. He
has accomplished a splendid work in Dayton.
It is not too much to say that this Church has
grown more rapidly under his ministry than
ever before. Mrs. Tate is a true and noble
helpmeet; she has just been called to the bed
side of her father, Col. Monroe, who is criti
cally ill at his home at Roanoke, Ark. We are
now in union meetings in Homer, La. The
prospect for great meetings is most encour
aging. The Church is crowded at day and
evening service. Many are enquiring the way
of life.
RAY PALMER.
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