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Address delivered on July 4th at Grant’s
Park by young university student, memorializ
ing the women of the South and their work in
the W. C. T. U.
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ers have experienced in seeing their little ones
mangled l , and bleeding have opened our eyes
at last, and you women were the first to cru
sade against the needless senseless* custom.
Time and words would be inadequate for me
to fully describe the great good you have done
the State in the efforts that you have put forth
in the final abolishment of the convict lease
system. Nor can I measure the benefit you have
done the coming generation in your fight on
the Child Labor question. The people of Geor
gia, and more especially the younger element
of which I know more, realize the importance
of having your support in the great fights that
are ever being waged in the causes of right and
justice.
Without the good women to assist in modern
day advancement and in the modern day reform
movements we students would be utterly hope
less. I am in sympathy with all of woman’s
work —I admire her courage and tenacity in
holding on and fighting until she has accom
plished the results for which she aims. I know
I am safe in saying that the women of Georgia
have done more for education of Georgia’s
youth and the uplift and advancement of her
citizens than all the other forces combined;
Georgia has always been proud of her daugh
ters. Their ability has always been recognized.
I stood one day last summer in the main thor
oughfare of the busy, bustling, hospitable little
city of Rome; the Hill City that nestles in tran
quility among the foothills of the beautiful Blue
Ridge Mountains, and as I stood there I gazed
upon a stately shaft erected to those angelic
creatures —the women of the South —to one
who had reveled in the history of the south
land, and listened with eager ears to catch every
word of the war time stories, it was beautiful to
think that we of this generation were able to
lay such a tribute at the feet of the women
of the South.
I have thought for a long time that most
people look at the temperance question from an
DEATH TO MR. BEETLE.
Spartanburg, S. C., July 19.—T0 fight the
threatened outbreak of the Southern Pine
Beetle, a bark boring insect Which caused en
ormous damage to healthy living timber in the
Virginias in the early 90’s, and which has re
cently been reported in different sections of the
South, a Forest Insect Field Station has been
established here by the Bureau of Entomology
of the United States Department of Agricul
ture.
It is feared that unless measures are taken
for the control of this insect it will cause the
loss of millions of dollars worth of nine and the
station has been established here for the pur
pose of securing first-hand information and for
giving direct free instruction to timber owners
on the most economical and effectual methods of
controling the beetle. The bureau’s experts have
discovered methods by which the beetle can be
controlled in some eases by the profitable utili
zation of the infected timber and in all cases at
a. moderate direct expense. Timber owners
<sibnii]3 communicate either with the station
here or the Bureau at Washington.
Recognizing the importance of concerted ac-
AM glad that the women of Georgia
are taking an active interest in the
movement to see that the Fourth
of July is observed in a safe, sane
and sensible manner. The casual
ties arising from former celebra
tions on this day, the suffering that
has come to the children, the an
guish and the sorrow that the moth-
WOMAN: By JOS. L. DEADWYLER
The Golden Age for July 27,1911.
objective point of view—they see the money
that is being spent, the homes that are being
wrecked, the lives that are being ruined —and
heaven knows that is sufficient cause to make
them fight the nefarious liquor traffic. But
over and above all these objective things, there
rests a fundamental principal, upon which the
integrity of the Nation is founded. That is the
effect that the liquor traffic has upon Christian
citizenship. There is not one in this audience
that does not know that if all the so-called
Christians in the State of Georgia would stand
up for what they know to be right the enormous
consumption of liquor that is going on in this
State today would be largely decreased if not
entirely stopped within an incredibly short
time. Always you hear the cry that prohibi
tion does not prohibit. How can it prohibit
when our Christian citizenship is so nerveless
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that it will even patronize or openly wink at
the illicit sale of whiskey?
We cannot get at the root of the question so
long as we legislate against it and do nothing
more. I do not mean to say that our prohibi
tion laws, even if they do nothing more than
make liquor hard to get, are not eminently de
sirable. That for which I contend is that in
the campaign for temperance the home and the
school have got to be reached. The brutalizing
effects of intoxicants must become a part of the
tion and that the danger is common to the
whole South, the Southern Railway is endeav
oring to call the attention of timber owners
throughout the South to the activity of the
Bureau in this matter, in the belief that its in
terest is identical with theirs.
EPIGRAMS.
By Elam Franklin Dempsey, B. D.
He that never knows himself a sinner, will
never know his Savior.
The preacher’s crucifixion of self often oc
curs when he accepts the Spirit’s choice of a
subject instead of his own.
Tn a true Christian system, all teaching ir
radiates from the cross and converges upon the
cross.
What each Christian needs is not self control,
hut God control.
The Christian should be led by God’s Spirit
rather than by his own animus.
child’s education. In no other way can the les
son of temperance be so well taught.
It is but natural that the women of our coun
try are the ones to take the lead in the fight.
They are now, as they have ever been, the con
servators of all that is good in civilization. Go
to the botton of this wonderful prohibition
movement that has swept like a tidal wave from
Maine to California, from the Great Lakes to
the Gulf of Mexico, and you find that the mo
tive power has been everywhere and all the
time —woman.
I do not question in the least that the evils
that she sees about her and that she knows full
well she could eradicate is the primal motive in
her demanding the rights of her citizenship—
the ballot. And I do not hesitate to say still
further that if the men of this country do not
recognize the moral obligations that rest upon
them that she must and will eventually have
the ballot in this and every other State in this
union.
It is too late to attempt to educate a man
after he is a confirmed user of intoxicants.
The coming generations should be taught
temperance in all things, in speech, in diet, in
pleasures, in order that a sane and conservative
Christian citizenship may be reared up to face
the gigantic problems that are ever pressing
upon us.
The time that this should be done is now. The
changes that are taking place in this Southland
of ours indicate in no uncertain manner that
the South is to be the future El Dorado of this
country. This means more inhabitants, larger
cities, more complexity of life, and it means,
further, that the boy or girl who is not reared
in a sane, broad way must go down in the eter
nal struggle for existence. "Whether you be
lieve it or not —the fittest shall surely survive.
It is from this point of view, therefore, that I
argue that we must not only try to obliterate
the liquor by law, but our schools and churches
and above all our homes, must take an active
interest —must begin an active campaign in the
cause of temperance.
It is a tedious battle and a grim victory, but
I would urge you, women of Georgia, to bor
row courage from the triumphant trumpet note
of the poet when he caught the vision:
“Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne,
Yet the scaffold sways the future,
And beyond the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow
Keeping watch above His own.”
NEWS NOTES.
At a recent “Rally Service” of the Deader
ick Avenue Baptist Church, Knoxville, Tenn.,
Deacon John P. Matlock reported 421 additions
and more than 500 conversions during Rev.
Calvin B. Walker’s two years’ pastorate, tho
13 months of this time was spent worshiping in
the City Hall, following the destruction of their
house of worship by fire Nov. 1909. SIB,OOO
was raised last year for all purposes; the
Church is supporting a missionary and two na
tive helpers on the foreign field this year.
The Deaderick Avenue Church is planned
along “Institutional” lines and is erecting one
of the largest buildings in the South planned
for this kind of work.
Rev. Calvin B. Walker, Pastor of Deaderick
Avenue Church, Knoxville, Tenn., is to supply
two Sundays for Rev. G. W. Swope, Central
Church, Norfolk, Va., in August; also one Sun
day for the Central Church, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Fifty-two copies of The Golden Age and six
beautiful pictures for only $1.55. Can you beat
that trade?
