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The Golden Age
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OFFICES: AUSTELL BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA.
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW .... Editor
MRS. WILLIAMD. UPSHAW Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY . . . Managing Editor
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BISHOP HAYGOOD HALL.
All men who believe in crowning the worthy
workers in the world’s upbuilding will be glad
to learn that the trustees of Emory
Fitting College have determined to name a
Tribute new dormitory in honor of Bishop
To A Atticus G. Haygood.
Great As one of the notable builders of
Leader Emory, and as a powerful exponent,
not only of progressive Methodism
in America but the Christian friend of all man
kind, Bishop Haygood won and held to the end
the love of all who had seen his great heart in
all of his masterful building. His “Brother in
Black” though criticized by many at the time,
Was a trumpet call to our Christian duty to
the negfco and did a wonderful amount of prac
tical good. But the best thing about Atticus
G. Haygood was the fact that with all his pow
erful qualities of leadership he bowed at the
foot of the Cross with the faith of a little
child.
The mention of his name always spreads
afresh the aroma of all that is strong and beau
tiful in Christian manhood and ail that is com
manding and inspiring in brilliant, unselfish
leadership.
The Golden Age rejoices in the contempla
tion of “Atticus G. Haygood Hall!”
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THE HOUSE KNOCKS OUT BEER SALOONS
It will be general good news to the friends
of temperance and sobriety everywhere that
the Georgia House of Representa-
Old tives last week passed the Tippins
Georgia Anti “Near Beer” Bill by an over-
Is whelming majority. While it is
Cleaning conceded that the bill will have a
Up. clear majority in the Senate it is
not yet absolutely sure that the ma
jority will be large enough to override the Gov
ernor’s veto —if there be a veto. While many
supporters of the bill the amendment
that .proposed to refer it to the people, it was
both amusing and gratifying, when that amend
ment was lost, to see how they rushed to de
clare themselves when they faced the main
question. In other words they voted like their
constituents wanted them to —for the rank and
file of the people want sure enough prohibi
tion.
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Golden Age?
The Golden Age for July 18, 1912.
FRANK WIDEMAN WINS NA TIONAL HONOR
The Peninsular State is standing just a little
taller in its boot. Floridians have had their
eyes on Atlantic City and their ears to the
clicking keys at the telegraph stations for days.
Frank Wideman, the young athlete-orator—
student at Stetson University—has been up in
Jersey “a-medalin.” Wideman, two
Florida years ago, represented his Alma
Young Mater in the Florida oratorical con-
Student- test. Added to his own magnificent
Orator stature, measuring six feet four,
Walks was a strinkingly forceful, earn-
Off With est, spontaneous delivery. Mr.
Medal in Wideman impresses his audience,
Nation- not as a college boy saying a
Wide speech, but as a statesman delivering
Contest. a soul-burning message. Last year
he was chosen to represent his na
tive State in the Eastern Oratorical Contest,
held, at Bristol, Va.-Tenn. He chose for his
subject a stirring prohibition enunciation, en
titled The Question of the Century.
His friends realized that he would have to go
into the forum and contest for the prize against
medal-winners from eight other States. They
trembled, and hoped, and waited. At dawn of
the day following the eventful “night before,”
a message came flashing over the wires an
nouncing the joyous news that “Wideman
Won.”
Enthusiasm and praise have enveloped the
Till we all attain unto the measure of
the stature of the fullness of Christ. Ephe
sians 4:13.
Let Thy Dove
Shadow me o’er, and my sins
Be unremembered, and Thy love
Enlighten me.
—ALFRED TENNYSON.
Religion is everything. It is God’s di
vinest gift to man. We often fall below
our possibilities as sons and daughters of
UPSHAW ON “NEAR BEER” VICTORY
(From Atlanta Constitution.)
“The Georgia colony at Mineral Park, Chau
tauqua, near Chattanooga, where I have been
speaking this week were tremendously inter
ested in the Tippins Bill fight, and I know
they will rejoice to learn of its overwhelming
victory in the Hou'je,” said William D. Up
shaw, editor of The Golden Age, who returned
to the city Wednesday morning.
“While every man in Georgia who believes
in sobriety and clean politics must rejoice in
the prospect of a better cleaning up of the
state, the rejoicing is put into italics in the
case of any loyal Georgian who travels widely
beyond the borders of the state as I do.”
“Numberless times I have had the liquorized
laxity of Georgia, thrown up to me, especially
since Georgia was the pioneer prohibition state
in the South. When liquor speakers in pro
hibition campaigns have shouted at me “Physi
cian heal thyself.” I have always answered
that Georgia would soon correct the mistake
that allowed “near beer” saloons to come in.”
“I see no reason why Governor Brown
should veto this bill. The Tippins Bill does
not in any sense interfere with the spirit of
our present anti-liquor law. It is only a cor
rective interpretation of that law. And any
man who is opposed to the liquor business at
heart must rejoice in co-operating with the
GOD’S DIVINEST GIFT
boy-hero in a semi-halo since that eventful day,
but he has quietly pursued his way, unspoiled
and unsatisfied* with the honors already achiev
ed. Just ahead of him lay the Rubicon. The
great National Meet, in which only the six pick
ed men who had won in their respective divi
sion, were to compete. Merit, and merit only
was the standard of excellence. The young
representative from the land of De Leon coach
ed, and practiced, dreamed and wrought
“The Question of the Century” became an all
absorbing passion in his waking hours, and an
enveloping problem in the vale of dreams.
The National Prohibition Oratorical Contest
was held in Atlantic City during the great Na
tional Prohibition Convention. It was a hap
py selection as to time, and an inspiring audi
ence for the Floridian. And he walked away
with the hearts of his hearers, the plaudits of
the Congress, the favor of the Judges, the
Medal of the National Oratorical Association,
and an honest sense of duty well performed on
the part of his father’s son.
The Editor of The Golden Age has long been
a warm friend of the Wideman household, and
wishes to extend to them, as well as the “Medal
some young man from DeLand” an earnest,
enthusiastic Bravo! We are proud to have a
son of our sister State stand so high in achieve
ment, and, call us partisan if you will, —the
rebel spirit will out—for Dixie is still ahead!
the Almighty. We should be like God.
We ought to pray often to be filled with
all the fullness of God. We have the glo
rious promise that if we love Christ, we
shall some day be like Him, for we shall
see Him as He is. We are here and now
sons and daughters of God; we are here
and now partakers of the divine nature.
But it doth not appear what we shall be,
for we shall be filled with all the fullness
of God.
ROBERT STUART MacARTHUR.
good people of our state in closing up these
dens of drink arid breeders of crime. The al
lied distillery and brewery interests of Amer
ica would debauch this state with actual mil
lions of “booze and boodle” in order to pluck
to themselves the first state in the South to
throw off whiskey domination. They would
regard a victory at the polls against the Tip
pins Bill as the forerunner of complete whis
key control of Georgia politics, and they would
overturn heaven and earth if possible, to
defeat the referendum. They couldn’t do it,
but we don’t want the debauchery it would
bring. As the guardian of the welfare of our
citizenship what is our legislature so
is our governor for if not to save our people
from the shame and debauchery of such a cam
paign. I believe Governor Brown is a patriot
at heart and that he must see the moral oppor
tunity of the hour. Here’s to the senate, the
Governor, and a square deal for the prohibi
tion law of Georgia.”
“It is painfully disappointing, and likewise
illustrative of the fact that good men often
make mistakes, to see the announcement that
prominent business men of Atlanta, headed by
former Mayor Maddox, who has been so gen
uinely loved and honored by the law-abiding
element of Atlanta, will make a fight on the
passage of the Tippins bill. Their argument
about revenue and our inability to enforce the