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The Golden Age
Published Every Thursday by The Golden Age
Publishing Company (Inc.)
OFFICE: 13 MOORE BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA.
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW Editor
MRS. WM. D. UPSHAW . . . Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY .... Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON, London, Eng. . Pulpit Editor
H. P. FITCH Field Editor
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In cases of foreign address fifty cents should be
added to cover additional postage.
Entered in the Postoffice in Atlanta, Ga., as second-class
matter. Atlanta, ga.:
THE HEROES OF BLUE AMONG US.
The atmosphere in Atlanta this week is
stirring with patriotism and union and beau-
Thank God tiful national fellowship. On their
for Peace! wa y to Q ran j Army of the Re
public reunion in Chattanooga, many of the
grizzled veterans in Blue came around by At
lanta just for the sake of war-time memories.
The veterans and their families were given a
royal welcome by the great hearted Americans
in the city which they helped Sherman to
leave in ashes. Ah ’ but that was war—and
in the language of General Sherman himself—
'‘war is hell.”
But nobody reminded them as Henry Grady
said that “General Sherman was rather care
less about fire.”
Gone —the bitterness of those awful days!
Dimmed forever the blaze of musketry and
the glare of the cannon’s mouth. The veterans
of the Blue and Gray shake hands and their
forgiving and loving sons and daughters sing
together: “My Country, ’Tis of Thee!”
HE MAKES TWENTY-FIVE HOMES
HAPPY.
W. E. Floding, that big-hearted genius
down on Whitehall street, Atlanta, who
makes banners and badges, rosettes and re
galia and other pretty things, believes in
making people feel good as well as to look
pretty.
Listen to his letter:
“I enjoy The Golden Age so much and
believe so thoroughly in the great work you
are doing—publishing Dr. Broughton’s ser
mons, writing your fearless editorials and
furnishing such pure, fascinating and inspir
ing literature for building homes and citi
zenship that I have decided to send The
Golden Age to 25 homes among my friends
North and South. Find my check enclosed.
I wish you and your great paper increasing
success. Yours cordially,
“W. E. FLODING.”
Publisher’s Note: Remember that when
our friends want to do good by sending
The Golden Age to their friends we gladly
make a wholesale price. Write us and make
yourself and others glad as our generous
friend, Mr. Floding has done.
WE LIKE HIS KIND.
Dr. W. T. Lawrence, Paris, Tenn., sends a
check for $4.50 to send The Golden Age to
three friends, saying:
Please send to these names the best paper
for thh home published in the South. ’ ’
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF SEPT. 18
No wonder! The strange thing is that they
all don’t do that way. That is, it is a wonder
Ashamed
To Publish
His Name.
(Ocala being the capital and Dunnellton one
of the chief towns) the people who love homes
better than barrooms, are trying to drive the
barrooms out.
The prohibitionists recently reproduced m
an Ocala paper The Golden Age’s editorial of
Aug. 14th, entitled, “Atlanta’s Fine Prohibi
tion Record.” Whereupon a whiskey man from
Bainbridge, who is “powerful mad” because
that fair Georgia town went “dry,” and who
has been down at Ocala working for the whis
key, side, especially among the negroes, wrote
to an Atlanta official, whose name was not
given, endorsing The Golden Age editorial and
seeking, of course, its refutation.
The nameless official replied that “the fig
ures of The Golden Age were outrageous,”
that they did not represent the facts, and that
"prohibition in Atlanta is a farce,” etc.
At the conclusion of this unsigned letter,
appears this very significant and cowardly
statement:
“The above letter was written by an official
at the very head of the city government. It
is written on his official paper and bears his
signature and his name can be seen by calling
on Mr. Harrison.”
After reading this bushwhacking article in
The Ocala Evening Star, the editor of The
Golden Age sent the following reply :
Editor Ocala Evening Star:
Returning from a lecture trip I find on my
desk your issue of Sept. 6, with headlines on
front page as follows: “Golden Age Figures
Not Any Good.” This claim that my edi
torial of Aug. 14 on “Atlanta’s Fine Prohibi
tion Record” did not represent true conditions
in Atlanta under prohibition is supported by
an Atlanta official who is too great a coward
to allow his name to be used in print. This
stamps his letter as unreliable. No brave man
is afraid to back up his statements with his
real name. lam not afraid to come out in the
open and sign my name to the statement that
any man who says conditions are no better
than they were under the reign of legalized
whiskey shops in Atlanta is either criminally
ignorant or a deliberate falsifier.
My figures showing a yearly average of
about three thousand less arrests for drunk
enness since prohibition came were taken from
the official records. A man who disputes the
records of the police court shows he would
lather believe a lie than the truth.
I am sending herewith confirmation of my
statement by some of the best men in Atlanta,
who are not afraid to publish their names.
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW,
Editor The Golden Age.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 12, 1913.
Ministers Speak.
The figures on Atlanta’s prohibition record
as published in The Golden Age of August
14th are taken from the official record.
The conditions in Atlanta are not ideal, but
they are much better than they were before
A LIQUORITE’S COWARDICE
that any man who deliberately lines
up with the liquor crowd is willing
for his name to be seen in print.
Down in Marion county. Florida,
prohibition came.
W. P. LOVEJOY,
Presiding Elder, Atlanta District.
11. M. DUBOSE,
Pastor First Methodist Church.
A. R. HOLDERBY,
Pastor Moore Memorial Pre s byterian Church.
CHARLES W. DANIEL,
Pastor First Baptist Church.
Recorder Broyles Indorses.
Editor Golden Age:
I give unqualified indorsement to your edi
torial in your issue of Aug. 14th, entitled “At
lanta’s Fine Prohibition Record.” The figures
you used were taken from the official records
of my court. While there is still much drink
ing in beer saloons and locker clubs, there
is simply no comparison between conditions
now and during the awful barroom regime.
Before prohibition it was not an unusual thing
for me to try two hundred eases for drunk
and disorderly conduct on Monday morning,
but now the cases seldom go over half that
number.
God grant that Atlanta may never again
know the curse of legalized barrooms.
NASH R. BROYLES,
Judge Recorder’s Court, Atlanta, Ga.
And thus the testimony could be gloriously
multiplied. It is passing strange that men who
claim to love home and truth and righteous
ness will fight and vote on the side of men
who throw their arms around barrooms and
debauchery—men who support their cause
with booze and boodle, and who will em
ploy any sort of cowardly misrepresentation
to win their cause.
Step by step the motive and methods of
the liquor leaders will be found out and they
will be repudiated all over America.
A WOMAN CONVICTED.
It is encouraging news that comes from
Millen.
A divorced woman shot down in cold blood
her former husband and his new wife.
W hatever the misdeeds of her husband,,
tantalizing as they might have been,,
she had no right to kill him; but espee-
That
Brave
Jury at
Millen.
ially was this true concerning his wife.
It was murder—double murder, unmixed and
inexcusable.
As Solicitor Moore strikingly put it, “Gov
ernment exists to prevent such a deed as this, ’ r
and we are glad that maudlin sentiment did
not control the jury just because “she was
a woman.”
Crime is crime, regardless of sex, and delib
erate criminals must be punished in order to
protect society and insure the perpetuity of
government.
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