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FIGHTING LIQOUR IN BALTIMORE
HOW THE LIQUOR RING MAJORITY IN THE BALTIMORE BOARD ROBBED 30,000 SCHOOL CHILDREN OF THE CHANCE TO
WIN 400 ESSAY PRIZES AGGREGATING ABOUT $2,000, AFTER MOST OF THEM HAD DONE ALL OR PART OF WORK.
J
UST to let you see how Win. IL Ander
son, Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League, is leading the fight in the
booze drenched city of Baltimore, we
give the following:
The Baltimore Board of School Commission
ers by a vote of 5 to 4 has withdrawn its ac
ceptance of 400 prizes, aggregating about $2-
000, for the best essays upon ‘‘The Effect of
Alcoholic Drinks Upon the Human Mind and
Body." because some of the members were
angry at the Anti-Saloon League.
They were angry because the League, after
the board refused to do so, supplied the chil
dren who asked for it with a scientific pam
phlet to enable them to write intelligently, and
then in fair dealing tried to let all the other
children know that they could get this pam
phlet free.
The. action of the board constitutes a breach
of faith with the children. It does not hurt the
league, for the pamphlets were nearly all out
and read. But it robs some 30,000 pupils of a
chance at the prizes. In short, these members
of the board sacrificed the feelings and rights of
“SAVED FROM AN EASY ARM CHAIR,’’
Gypsy Smith, the famous English evange
list is refreshingly prolific when it comes to
Bautiful
Story by
Gypsy Smith
mg m Cartersville.
“In a testimony meeting in England Chris
tians of varying life-histories were rising and
thanking God for saving them from different
types of sinful lives —some from being gam
blers. some drunkards, some this and some that
—when suddenly a cultured, blue-blooded girl
of a prominent English family arose and said
with tearful eyes and radiant face: ‘1 thank
God for saving me from an easy arm chair.’
Os course the effect was electrical. Nobody
had quite thought of it in that way before.
Saved from the gutter; saved from thieving;
saved from a gambling hell —these are old stor
ies, the beauty of whose wondrous miracles
never grow old; but to be “saved from an easy
arm chair” is another matter; and yet a sin
widely prevalent and almost as blighting to
character and fundamentals and general use
fulness in life as any of the flagrant sins.
Too many thousands are making Richard
Henry Wilder’s “Ode to Ease” a creed of life
instead of regarding it simply a literary gem.
Rather let every young life lay next to the
heart that inspiring couplet of Charles W.
Hubner:
“They lose life’s sweetest zest
Who long for stagnant rest.”
When the Christ of Calvary—the Christ who
“went about doing good,” sets up his throne
on the glorious ruins of an “easy arm chair”
it is like dropping a dynamo from the skies at
work in that hitherto selfish human heart and
then behold this beautiful creed in daliy prac
tice :
There is life alone in duty done,
And rest alone in striving.
telling beautiful, striking stories.
Here is one he recently told at
the Sam Jones Tabernacle meet-
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF AUG. 28
the children, many of whom had already writ
ten their essays, to show their spite at the
Anti-Saloon League.
Those commissioners who voted in favor of
the children and against having the prize of
fer withdrawn after the children had done all
or part of the work were Cominisioners Dele
vett, Chambers, Biggs and Bibbins. Those
who voted to take this money a wav from the
V «-
children after it had been wholly or partially
earned were President MeCosker and Messrs.
Fankhanel, Thanhouser, Joesting and Deems.
It is claimed as an excuse for this action
that the league was interfering with the
schools. But the truth is that the league had
agreed that the school authorities should have
absolute, control of the contest, leaving it noth
ing to do but write the checks for the prizes.
Knowing that material would be needed by
the pupils, it offered to print pamphlets with
out any mention of its own name even as of
fering the prizes, and deliver them free of cost
to the board, leaving the league nothing to do
but to pay the printer. In short, it offered X>
let the board say what should be in the pam
phlet and how it should be distributed, but
TO MY GRANDCHILDREN.
Charles W. Hubner.
A winsome sight it is to see,
These of our buds on our family tree;
Each one of them shows something rare,
And when in group how passing fair!
Growing in love’s air sweet and bland,
Swiftly these tender buds expand,
And soon will they begin to show,
What fruit lies hid the leaves below.
0 little hearts! May this fruit be
As sweet as love, from all taint free,
And thereby prove their native worth,
Such as good trees alone bring forth.
0 little souls! When falls death’s doom
On all earth’s beauty, bud and bloom,
Out of your graves may you arise,
To be crowned angels in the skies.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 15, 1913.
808 JONES COMPLIMENTED.
That was a funny slip of the editor’s pen
cil or the “printer’s devil” the other day
which said: “Bob Jones has
And John
Callahan
Honored.
Callahan, the beloved Superintendent of the
Hadley Rescue Mission on The Bowery, and
how the name of Bob Jones, the famous Ala
bama evangelist, ever got in there “deponent
sayeth not.” But anyway, it would be a high
compliment to Bob Jones to be superintendent
of the Hadley Mission, lifting the fallen out
of the ditch, up to God; and it would like
wise be an unmixed compliment to John Cal
lahan to be doing such nation-wide evangel
ism as Bob Jones is doing. So we hope both
of our heroic friends and their friends are
satisfied.
Here’s to Bob Jones, the flaming evangel of
Montgomery, and John Callahan, the light
house keeper on The Bowery!
promised to keep the readers of
The Golden Age posted about his
great work on ‘The Bowery.’”
We were talking about John
this offer was refused, evidently in order to
make the contest worth as little as possible.
The date for handing in the essays was fixed
before the house to house distribution could
be made. The pupils overwhelmed the league
with requests for the literature, and because
of the action of the board it had only the gen
eral edition to give out.
This action shows: 1. That the liquor traf*
tic has been able to reach its hand into the
schools to choke off the most effective dissemi
nation of the truth about the effect of alcohol
2. That the liquor political ring of Baltimore,
not content with defeating the local option
bill, demanded that the children shall not have
the chance to learn anything at school which
may seriously hurt the business of the liquor
interests, which finance the ring campaign.
What will you do about it?
ANTI-SALOOON LEAGUE OF MARYLAND,
William 11. Anderson, Superintendent.
MOTHER AND SON. < <
Always I was conscious that I must keep
my boys close to me. 1 knew the time would
come when my authority could not be enforced.
Then only love could bend them to my wishes
and judgment. So I sought for nearness and
mutual understanding. From the first, they
knew T would tell them the truth and never
refuse to answer a direct inquiry. When they
brought me the physiological questions which
are bound to enter the life of the growing
child, I answered them simply and clearly.
I made nothing common or unclean. Life was
pure and socred; and if there was anything
they did not comprehend, they turned to me
for the clear truth, secure that they would
get it.
It was not only seriousness we shared. Fun
of all sorts, outings, jollifications for birthdays
and holidays, vacations in the open, all these
we had together, and I learned much of games
and sports which had been a sealed book to
me even in my youth. But a familiar story it
had become to me if my boys and I were to
be truly “intimate friends.” —Jane Calhoun,
JUDGE HELMS SAYS IT HELPS.
Editor Golden Age:
Inclosed please find check for $3.00 to renew
my subscription to The Golden Age for one
year and send the other subscription to Miss
Mattie J. O’Neill, Collinsville, Tenn. We just
cannot do without The Golden Age in our fam
ily, and we cannot see how any one can who
has ever read your great paper. We enjoy it
so much and get so much good out of it. I
think it the best religious paper I ever read.
I love this paper because it don’t fight other
denominations who do not believe as we, do.
Wishing you much success, I am
Your friend,
J. H. NELMS.
Memphis, Tenn.
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