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The Golden Age
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OFFICE: 13 MOORE BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA.
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RODDENBERRY MEMORIALS.
Last week in Cairo, Ga.. the boyhood home
of the great prohibition leader, Congressman
Tribute of
Love to Great
Prohibition Leader
the spot where he made his
first prohibition speech when a boy of eigh
teen, and last Sunday in the First Baptist
church in Thomasville, of which Judge Rod
denberry was a beloved member, a beautiful
memorial service was held. With scripture
reading by Dr. McCarty, the Presbyterian pas
tor, and “the Christian’s Goodnight” sweetly
sung by Mr. Watts, a close friend of the. fam
ily, addresses were made by Hon. Roscoe Luke,
mayor of Thomasville, and William D. Up
shaw, editor of The Golden Age.
Mayor Luke’s address was a beautiful trib
ute to the man who was his teacher in school,
his preceptor in law and his life-long benefac
tor.
Dr. J. B. Johnstone, pastor of the Methodist
church, being unavoidably prevented from
making the address which had been announced
sent the following splendid letter which was
read by Mayor Luke :
Dr. W. M. Harris, presiding at Roddenberry
Memorial Service: Dear Bro. Harris: I re
gret very much my inability to be present this
afternoon and join with you all in paying trib
ute to the memory of cur distinguished fellow
citizen, Judge Roddenberry.
READER, LISTEN!! WE NEED YOUR CO-OPERATION.
“ A sentence hath formed a character, and a character hath subdued a kingdom.”
il '1 ' n a y when your eyes are fairly blinded —when you are almost stifled by the poisoned atmosphere you breathe as the re
ll \\ I 11 °f daily and weekly “literature” that is devilish and deadly, why not determine to do your part to put pure literature in your
II II home and the homes of others?
11 The unvar y in g comment of our thoughtful readers is this—“THE GOLDEN AGE brings to the head, the heart and the home a
11 Zs type of mental food which is wholly unique and always inspiring.” They say: “NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT!”
‘1 Dr " L ’ G ‘ Eroughto "’ s sermons will be renewed when he returns to England in October —and the fact that THE GOLDEN AGE
IM’/" ft * 3 on, y P a P er in America publishing his sermons every week w’ll be worth many times the price of the paper. Many other unique
111 features full of radiant sunshine, fire and vim, and GET-UP AND GET —everything that means the fearless fighting of evil and the
1© building of homes and CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP, will be found in THE GOLDEN AGE every week.
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THE GOLDEN AGE, Apartment 13, Moore Building, Atlanta, Ga.
S. A. Roddenberry, the local
W. C. T. U. started a move
ment to build a monument
to the “Little Giant” near
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF OCT. 9
Clean Government Wins in Atlanta. ;
With all eyes on Atlanta and the enduring
qualities of her vice crusade, it will stiffen the
Triumph in Election
Law Enforcement
Chief Beavers and
Friends of
gia’s capital city.
In the election for aiderman which occurred
last week Mayor Woodward, who is an avowed
advocate of a ‘‘wide open town” and therefore
the inevitable opponent of Chief Beavers and
his valiant vice crusade, came out squarely and
threw his influence back of certain candidates
who favored his policies. The fact that he only
got one of his men out of the whole “bunch”
shows the temper of Atlanta’s citizenship on
law enforcement. The editor of The Golden
Age was filling an engagement in the beautiful
school town of A orman Park, Ga., on election
day and being tremendously interested in the
result, he wired Hon. John S. Owens, one of
the candidates, to wire the news. And there
were several acres of imported sunshine to
scatter around that radiant little “Athens of
the Wiregrass” when the following telegram
came:
That death loves a shining mark has receiv
ed a fresh verification in his early demise. He
was a man born with the instincts and intui
tions of a gentleman. He possesed an ardent
temperament, had quick and tender sensibili
ties and was an earnest patriot. Truth and
honor were dear to him; he abhored all that
was little, despicable and mean, and as a friend
was tender and affectionate.
God incarnates his greatest truths and prin
ciples. When he purposes to project a great
doctrine upon society as a regenerating power;
he incarnates it in a great soul that touches
society at every point. Judge Roddenberry
was the incarnation of the prohibition cause.
God gave voice and eyes and lungs and hearts
to prohibition in a living personality when he
backbone of many brave
l city officials over the land
to know that the friends
of clean government have
triumphed again in Geor-
Atlanta, Ga.. 10, 1, 1913.
Wm. D. Upshaw, /
Norman Park, Ga.: 9
Nearly entire ticket opposed by Mayor >
Woodward elected, including myself. Thanks if
to you and other friends of good government. >
JOHN S. OWENS.
All of which simply means that all the exag
gerated spasms about “recalling Chief Beav
ers” and “rebuking Atlanta’s blue laws” has
come to naught. And it will “stay put.” At
lanta has no “blue laws.’ She just means
to be decent —she means to frown on legalized
and commercialized vice—she means that the
good name she has won all over America
through the success of her vice crusade shall
not be dimmed and that the far-reaching in
spiration which this imperial city has given
to other municipalites which are battling to
be clean, shall continue to inspire!
John S. Owens, one of Atlantas leading finan
ciers, is a new figure in the city’s political
life, and it is a great good thing for any com
munity when such leaders are found on the
right side of all moral questions.
Here’s to Atlanta’s new “fathers” who be
lieve in keeping the city clean I May their
tribe increase!
gave us this man. In him we had the great
cause in voice—intonations, eye-flashes, and
heart-beats. God whispers in the breeze and
thunders in the storm, but acts in good men —
a sublimer expression of God’s power. He was
a gigantic force in the prohibition cause, a
tremendous personality, a solid, persistent and
unwasting individuality. We talk of him in
the past tense, but he was never more alive
than now. He cannot die. History is but the
biography of a few sturdy souls, and institu
tions are “the lengthened shadows of single
lives.”
May the Lord be with you all as you study
Judge Roddenberry’s character this afternoon.
Yours sincerely.
J. B. JOHNSTONE.