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The Golden Age
Published Every Thursday by The Golden Age
Publishing Company (Inc.)
OFFICES: AUSTELL BUILDING. ATLANTA, GA.
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW .... Editor
MRS. WILLIAM D. UPSHA W . Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY . . . Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON . , Pulpit Editor
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Entered in the Postoffice in Atlanta, Ga., as second class matter
SOME EVERYDAY “COMMON-SENSE.”
They are all worth reading as far as that.
But some are more signally worth it than others.
The truth is, these wholesome Bris-
A Brisbane bane editorials do much toward
Editorial atoning for some of the objection-
Worth able amber metropolitanism that
Reading. has begun to characterize the At
lanta Georgian since its change of
ownership. In his crowning the “Common
place,” Walter Brisbane is as original and re
freshing every day on his nation-wide throne of
the Hearst papers, as Aldine Pound is ornate
and eloquent with tongue and pen.
One of Brisbane’s latest and most wholesome
is entitled “Two Enemies of Us All —Vice and
Procrastination. ’ ’ Declaring that all forms of
selfish indulgence and display are vicious and
that procrastination—another name for down
right laziness —is at once the food on which the
vices feed and the soil in which they grow, the
editorial philosopher concludes as follows:
What you need in any kind of a fight? YOU
NEED A GOOD WEAPON.
In a fight against yourself you need the one
great weapon, which is WILL POWER.
The drunkard in the gutter can rise. to the
highest place, IF HE WILL TRY HARD
ENOUGH.
The Avay to bring about the change is through
STEADY, DAILY, CEASELESS EFFORT.
There is no use in making a violent effort, last
ing a few seconds and leaving you weaker in
strength than you were before.
The way to get up early in the morning, for
instance, IS TO GO TO BED EARLY THE
NIGHT BEFORE.
As long as you go to bed too late, YOU WILL
GET UP TO(S LATE —or if you do get up early
you will be tired and your work will be of no
use. !
Reform must begin at the RIGHT end.
If you want to get out of some vicious habit,
remember that you can only do it BY ADDING
TO YOUR STRENGTH.
Good sleep, wise eating, A WELL-NOUR
ISHED BODY, will do a great deal to overcome
a desire for drink.
If your mind is given to foolish amusements,
dissipation, gambling, remember that before
you can take away that interest, YOU MUST
REPLACE IT WITH SOME OTHER.
Get a real interest in your WORK', begin sav-
FREE TO YOU.
Provided You Come Quick.
We had the opportunity last week of secur
ing a limited amount of splendid 10x12
lithographs of Dr. Len G. Broughton,
and we took them just for you. We just knew
every reader who enjoyed Dr. Broughton’s
sermons would like to have one of these splen
did portraits looking down on them in their
home. So, whether you are paid up or not,
if you want one of these, send us within the
next fifteen days just SI.OO for eight months,
renewal or new subscription, to The Golden
Age, and it will come by next mail.
The Golden Age for June 27, 1912.
All America has been intensely interested
in the government (?) proceedings against
Thos. E. Watson, Editor of The
Tom Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine, for
Arrest an “sending obscene matter
Outrage through the mails.”
On Freedom! The crime (?) which brought
on his arrest is simply this: He
published in the May number of his magazine
a quotation in Latin from a Roman Catholic
publication —a publication which has been
sent in book form through the mails, broadcast
over the country for many years.
When Watson was arraigned before the Fed
eral Court in Augusta, he defended himself,
and in the course of his speech asked in thun
der tones: “If this Latin quotation which I
took from a Roman Catholic book on the con
fessional is too obsaene to pass through the
United States mail, how then is it fit for a
priest to ask of a virtuous young woman?”
And the crowded court room broke into ap
plause.
The preliminary hearing resulted in Wat
son’s being bound over on a SSOO bond for reg
ular trial. The size of the bond shows the
weakness of the case.
And now news comes from Washington that
District Attorney Akerman has been advised
by the powers “higher up” not to push the
ease against the Georgia editor.
“Not on your life,” Mr. Government!
If there was enough in the charges to cause
arrest and commitment, the United States au
thorities have no right to “quash” proceedings
—just because, forsooth, a political campaign
is on —or may be,, to prevent “too great pub
licity” of the debauching doctrines of a for
eign Pope.
Let us see them fight it out for the enlight
enment of the American people. Mr. Watson
is not afraid of this light—neither are the
friends of decency, purity and freedom.
In Heaven’s name, and by all the sanctity
of our homes and our womanhood, we repeat
Watson’s withering question at Augusta.
Why should anything be published, sold or
read on American soil or the soil of this earth,
that is not fit to be printed in any newspaper
ing your money, REALIZING THAT CAPI
TAL MEANS INDEPENDENCE. Make plans
carry them out, TRY TO BE AS MUCH INTER
ESTED IN YOUR OWN POWERS OF SELF
CONTROL AS IN THE FOOLISH RUNNING
OF SOME HORSE OR THE TURNING UP OF
SOME CARD.
For young men unmarried MARRIAGE IS
PROBABLY THE BEST POSSIBLE THING.
It forces serious thought, it brings
A Friendly a ‘’rear interest with the children
Tip to and a steadying sense of responsi-
Bachelors. bility.
In proportion to their numbers,
UNMARRIED YOUNG MEN COMMIT TEN
TIMES AS MUCH FOOLISHNESS AS THE
MARRIED MEN.”
# * #
All of which is respectfully submitted —the
latter clause, especially, to weary, wavering,
wanton bachelors.
The Editor of The Golden Age, but recently
escaped from bachelordom himself, looks down
from his Alpine heights of matrimonial bliss
with unmixed pity on every lonely, cowardly
bachelor on earth.
Ye poor, paltry wretches, you—unloved and
unknowing “cumberers of the ground”—little
LET THE FIGHT COME ON!
or sent through our mails everywhere?
To ask the question is to answer it. The
thing falls from its own weight—and brave
men and pure, whatever their former deeds
and creeds, must see the fairness —the crushing
TRUTH of the proposition!
Mr. Watson strikingly says:
“I do not believe that the Catholic laymen
of America know how vilely their wives and
sisters and daughters are treated by the priests
in the Confessional.
“In order that they, and others might have
this information, I cut those leaves out of my
copy of Chiniquy’s book, and had them copied
into our May magazine.
“Now listen:
“After I had been ‘bound over’ by Com
missioner Godwin, of the United States Fed
eral Court, I ordered another copy of Chini
quy’s book.
“It has arrived.
“It came through the mails.
“It, of course, contains the ‘obscene’ matter
for the copying of which I was arrested.
“In other words, the publishers and the job
bers are not prosecuted for mailing the whole
of Chiniquy’s book.
“I was prosecuted for mailing A SMALL
PART OF IT.
“Queer, isn’t it?”
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No, not so very queer. A book lying quiet
ly on a library shelf does not attract so much
attention as a flaming weekly or monthly pub
lication with a fiery, fearless, non-compressible
editor.
And as the liquor problem is the greatest eco
nomic and civic question before the American
people today, even so the threat
Rum of Romish control of our institu-
And tions and our government is the
Romanism, greatest menace to social purity
and individual and national liber
ty. And the fact that Tom Watson has done
lots of things that he “hadn’t oughter done”
along other lines, should not keep us from
dealing him justice and wafting him
“bravos” in his patriotic fight against an in
sidious and dangerous foreign foe.
worth to the problems of this life, and doomed
to be after this, “unwept, unhonored and un
sung”—we waft you wisdom in the words of
Mr. Edwin Hale: “Boys, get you one! Get you
one!! GET YOU ONE!”
For married life, (when hearts are wed in
deed) is like the old man’s almonds—“the
more you chaw ’em the gooder they git.”
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RODDENBERRY FIGHTS PRIZE FIGHTS.
Certainly. The man who thinks a congress
man with prohibition fundamentals don’t know
how to play on any other
“Booze string is simply “off his ca-
Fighting” zip”—whatever that means.
Congressman Judge S. A. Roddenberrv, of
Also Goes After the Second District of Geor-
Other Barbarism gia, who was responsible for
more “dry counties than any
other man in Georgia before the passage of the
State prohibition law, introduced a bill in
Congress to prevent the importation into this
country, or the transmission to any state, any
films or paraphernalia exhibiting prize fights
of any kind.
Bar-rooms and prize fights go hand in hand
—both of them are evidences of barbarism.
Bravo, Mr. Roddenberry!