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The Golden Age
Published Every Thursday by The Golden Age
Publishing Company (Inc.)
OFFICES: AUSTELL BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA.
WILLIAMD. UPSHAW .... Editor
MRS. WILLIAMD. UPSHAW . Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY . . . Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON . , Pulpit Editor
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VINCENT ASTOR IS “21.”
It is a tremendous responsibility to be the
disburser of many times a million dollars' Vin-
The Eyes
of the
World Ar
Upon Him
young Mr. Astor lias thus far con
ducted himself in a modest and gentlemanly
manner, and the eyes of the world are looking
to him now to see how he will handle the
vast estates of the Astor fortunes.
It is great to have within the compass of
one’s grasp the possibilities of so much bless
ing to a needy world. It is awful to have the
responsibility of criminal misuse, neglect and
positive evil of so much wealth thrust upon
out. ( - 4
Let us hope that young Vincent Astor will
act well his part and be a blessing and a bene
diction to humanity.
4* + 4*
CALL TO LOYAL CITIZENS—BOTH RICH
AND POOR.
Dear Reader:
The Loyal Press Committee is an agency for
truth, self-support and Christian living.
First, its object is to encourage the right use
of the public press in enlisting and inspiring
others to live right and to vote right.
Second, to increase the circulation of rightly
edited publications, and extend the needed hand
of friendship, with good literature to the poor
and to every home.
Third, to teach independent voting and that
only loyal law-abiding citizens, both native and
foreign-born, should have the light of fran
chise. A law-breaker is a mutineer, an enemy,
a toe.
Fourth, to advocate a united action with
other like-minded ones, in holding good fellow
ship meetings and that the world may believe
in Christ as their Saviour and risen Lord. The
enlistment of a volunteer committee of citizens
of the highest type of Christianity, rich and
poor, the journalist, the professional or business
man, the wage earner, any and all may en
ter this service for Christ.
Believing that when a goodly number become
of one accord in this, then, with God’s help and
in His way, the victory will soon be complete
for pure homes and a saloonless nation.
Will you be one of the first seventy to enlist?
If so, address, with postage, yours truly,
THE ROYAL PRESS COMMITTEE,
Norwalk, Ohio.
cent Astor, the son and heir of
the late John Jacob Astor, is com
ing into his father’s great wealth
with his coming of age.
Unlike most sons of rich men,
The Golden Age, for November 21, 1012.
What on earth are we coming to when a
great metropolitan daily, so completely runs
What
A
Change—
And What
A
Shame!
tion and never carried a liquor or
a lager beer “ad,” until its brave, young foun
der, Fred L. Seeley, sold it into other hands.
In order to be perfectly fair to The Atlanta
Georgian, we give that strange, tragic edi
torial in full:
“It Is Not Drink That Causes the High
Cost of Living.”
Eugene Chafin, who was the earnest
and interesting presidential candidate of
the Prohibition party, made a remarkable
statement the other day.
He said: ‘ ‘ Liquor is the real cause of the
high cost of living.”
Liquor is nothing of the kind.
Nothing is more foolish than to say that
drunkenness is responsible for all the ills
of society.
The ills of society, on the contrary, are
largely responsible for drunkenness.
Men drink to excess when they are un
derpaid, underfed, worried and distressed.
Those that are foolish say that drink
causes poverty. It is poverty that causes
drink.
When a man lives in a state of anxiety
and whiskey holds out temporary relief,
the man is apt to take whiskey.
When the high cost of living drives men
to despair, and they find it difficult to
provide for their families, and when
whiskey holds out temporary happiness
and contentment —too many of them take
whiskey.
It is not drink that causes poverty so
much as poverty that causes drinking.
And the same is true of dirt, disease and
ignorance.
Ignorance causes drunkenness.
Dirt is caused by poverty, and dirt and
poverty combined cause drunkenness.
Take away the high cost of living, fight
ignorance with education, abolish pover
ty with opportunity, good Mr. Chafin,
and you will be surprised to find how
quickly you will diminish drunkenness,,
and how rapidly you will solve the prob
lem presented by “the demon rum.”
There it stands —bald and bare, blistering
and blighting. And to all of which we make an
swer—that the truths in the foregoing pro
nouncement are only half truths, and that the
falsity in it is wholly false!
There is no other name for it, Ladies and
Gentlemen —for a lie is the opposite of a truth
and the statement that “drink does not cause
poverty” is so palpably false that we can lose
no time trimming words for an answer.
Nobody denies, of course, that in many cases:
poverty, “hard luck” and sorrow drive many
foolish men and some foolish women to drink,,
and in a few cases—very few in comparison—
ignorance may cause drink ;but the horrible fact
remains that from our most cultured centers —
from the locker clubs of ‘swelldom” —from
the list of our university graduates—yea, God.
help us —from the crowding ranks of our col
lege students “fraternities,” and “upper-ten”
social functions, the most debauching types of
drunkenness come.
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THE GEORGIAN RUNS AMUCK-
DECLARES DRINK DOES NOT CA USE POVERTY
amuck, as to declare that “Drink
does not cause poverty?”
The tragedy seems all the great
er when we remember that
this foolish, fatal statement comes
from a paper that was “born so
ber,” and which stood for prohibi-
Ten thousand times ten thousand exam
ples—staggering, stinking, starving examples
of* brilliant, educated men carried to ruin and
poverty by drink, from Tom Marshall to Pren
tiss all the way, flash before the mind in an
swer to the charge that “ignorance causes
drink. ’ ’
But as for poverty, the crudest
Archbishop layman knows the folly of The
Ireland’s Georgians’ declaration. Calling
Crushing aloud from seven hundred thous-
Testimony and new-made graves every year
—graves made directly or indi
rectly by drink —and crying out from actual
millions of homes and fortunes wrecked by
drink, comes the sickening answer to The Geor
gians’ statement that “drink does not cause
poverty.”
Listen to the testimony of Archbishop Ire
land, who comes in contact with the upper and
nether millstones of society in which a wide de
gree. He is not editing a “wide-open” paper
—he is telling the awful facts as he sees them:
“The great cause of social crime is drink.
THE GREAT CAUSE OF POVERTY IS
DRINK.. When I hear of a family broken up,
I ask the cause —drink. If I go to the gallows,
and ask its victim the cause, the answer —
drink, why do not men put a stop to this thing?
“ARCHBISHOP IRELAND.”
But “ibis thing” can never be stopped as
long as the leading daily newspapers—
the molders of thought and action in our con
gested centers, go over, body and soul, either
to the liquor traffic direct, or else take their
places in “the seat of the scornful” who de
clare that the consistent, insistent, persistent
enemies of the liquor crime are “dreamers who
dream that they are dreaming.”
Mr. Chafin may not be wholly right in his
declaration that “Liquor is the real cause of
the high cost of living,” but The Georgian and
no other sane student of national economics will
deny that a gloriously wholesome and helpful
contribution would be made toward the solu
tion of the problem of happier and more pros
perous American homes if the more than Two
Billion Dollars which constitutes the annual
drink bill of America were turned into channels
of sober and w’ealth-producing citizenship.
Mr. Hearst ought to have the edi
tors of his various papers to read
up on these things. They ought to
know the monumental fact that the
bank deposits in Maine and Kansas,
They
Ought
To Know.
the two oldest prohibition states in America,
are by far the largest per capita of any states
in the Union. Despite the efforts of the liquor
ites and the “boozeocrats” to render the law
unavailing, the fact remains that drink is so
greatly reduced as to make a corresponding in
crease in savings—the kind of wealth, which,
according to The Georgian, puts “drink-pro
ducing poverty” to flight!
No question of economics—not even the tar
iff in all of its ramifications, touches the hem
of the garment of the liquor question when it
comes to putting the necessities and the simple
luxuries of home life beyond the reach of the
American workingman. The versatile and
renowmed Arthur Brisbane ought to dig up this
thing by the roots. John Temple Graves—he
of the golden heart and silver tongue, whose
pure speech and fearless periods used to flow
unhindered, through the columns of The Geor
gian, when that paper was the triumphant tri
bune of civic righteousness and social safety—
John Temple Graves, “my lords” ought to un
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