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The Golden Age
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PcMlehiar Oempaay (Inc.)
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■ RS. G. B. LINDSEY .... Managing Editor
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PUBLISHERS' PRESS, PRINTERS
FREE SCHOOL BOOKS AND FREE
UNIFORMS.
Elsewhere in this issue we publish a letter
from Mr. J. Gordon Simpson, of Quitman, Ga.,
advocating free school books and
Unique free school uniforms furnished by
Position the state. The doctrine of free
Os Brooks school books is not new, but the
County proposition that the state should
Citizen furnish a public school uniform in
order to relieve embarrassment and
produce a feeling of brotherly love on the part
of all pupils is certainly unique.
Brooks county has the reputation of pro
ducing mighty fine corn and cotton, hogs and
cattle, and it is not surprising that that good
old progressive county should send forth uni
que and progressive ideas.
Mr. Simpson’s argument is not without co
gency and we commend its brave democracy
to our readers.
We also invite other correspondents to come
forward with their views on this question.
All worthy reforms begin with the birth and
discussion of ideas. Come along!
A PROPHECY OF PEACE.
“Put up thy sword again into its place;”
The true of Love floats o’er each frowning
height.
Red war no more shall scourge the human
race,
Nor the black vulture time his long, low
flight.
Then beat the sword into the pruning hook;
Let hues of peace rainbow the nation’s sky.
Better he who guides them with the shep
herd’s crook,
Than they who blend them with the bat
tle-erv.
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War kins shall fail as they have ever failed,
Their star, like his of Waterloo, pale into
gloom;
The row of guns, the thunders leaden-hailed,
Shall be forever silvered by the loom.
The Star of Peace climbs slowly to the crest,
The morn of madness wanes with passing
years;
The pipes of peace, aquiver in the west,
Shall calm at length the nation’s battle
fears.
—John Jordan Douglass.
Blenheim, S. C.
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF JAN. 29, 1914.
PERRY PROSPEROUS UNDER PROHIBITION
The foolish man who says that “saloons help
the business of a town,” is respectfully invited
Splendid turn h* s searchlight of investiga-
Flnrirla tion u P on the plucky, splendid town
Town of Perr y> Florida.
Happy Taylor county, of which Perry is
Without le ca P^ a l, had long been known
Bar Room as wh iskey stronghold, especially
in the rural districts. Three years
ago, during the campaign for statewide pro
hibition, the editor of The Golden Age spoke
there under the auspices of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union.
In company with some staunch prohibition
ists, he went to every saloon, shook hands with
the proprietors and bartenders and invited
them all to close at a certain hour and come
and hear a speech kindly but clearly intended
to “close them up and put them and their pat
rons in a better business.”
They came—and with desperate earnestness
the speaker tried to show them and all their
customers the folly of their course. Some of
them, we learned, announced their purpose
that night to stop selling the devilish stuff.
Next year that remarkable man, Rev. J. B.
Phillips (himself redeemed from drink and
ruin) conducted a wonderful revival meeting
in Perry. There were many notable conver
sions, and the country for miles around was
stirred with higher spiritual ideals and a vig
orous moral purpose. Religion and/' liquor
won’t mix. Bar rooms and regnant morality
cannot live in the same community. An elec
tion was called and Taylor county went “dry”
by over a hundred majority.
ROYAL DANIEL, A “COUNTRY EDITOR”
To be sure, the beautiful little city of Quit
man, Georgia, is not a country town. It has
paved streets and all the appoint-
Brilliant ments and appurtenances of city
Acquisition life “appertaining thereto,” but
To Quitman even the most sanguine Quitman
Free Press “booster” would not dispute the
proposition that in contra-distinc
tion to the metropolitan life of Georgia’s cap
ital, Quitman, well, Quitman is not quite as
large as Atlanta. And Quitman’s two weekly
papers, The Free Press, and The Advertiser,
with all their enterprise and community loy
alty, are yet consistent members of that royal
fraternity of citizen-builders known as “coun
try weeklies.” Imagine then the pardonable
pride with which many Quitmanites refer to
the fact that they have actually captured a
meropolitan editor to steer the destinies of
one of their papers. The Free Press, made
famous by the quaint, genmus of Judge A. P.
Perham, now of Way cross, and brilliantly edit
ed by Miss Edna Cain for several years, is
now fairly bedecking itself with editorial radi
ance with Royal Daniel as editor-in-chief. From
gifted reporter to city and managing editor of
JANUARY IS A HARD MONTH TO COLLECT.
Do you believe in the kind of work The Golden Age is doing? Then send us $1.50 for your
subscription for one year, and get that Morocco bound, gilt-edged Testament “extra.”
Since then Perry has been happy and pros
perous.
We recently spent two days in Perry and
found all the houses formerly used for saloons
now occupied by different kinds of clean bus
iness—and the goods the people buy don’t
make a man shoot down his best friend or go
home and beat his wife and children.
If another election were held today looking
to the return of saloons, the merchants and all
leading citizens, almost to a man, would rise
in their might and fight back the dirty things.
This, too, in face of the fact that Jacksonville
pours its liquor damnation into Perry and all
other prohibition towns. The people of Perry
have sense enough to know that it is far bet
ter to have liquor in Jacksonville than to have
it at their own doors. And they are longing
for the time when another state election will
give them an opportunity to smash every bar
rel and jug in Florida’s defiant metropolis.
A beautiful illustration of Perry’s attitude
toward the man who had helped drive out
barrooms came in the fact that Hon. Jacob
Oelsner, a big-hearted Hebrew merchant, of
his own motion, carried a petition that caused
all merchants to close doors at 7 o’clock to
encourage attendance on the lecture of the
Georgia man at the Court House.
Prof. Keen, a scholarly son of Emory Col
lege, is the enterprising head of the magnifi
cent Perry School; a large number of patrons
showed their loyal spirit by coming out to the
chapel address of the Georgia lecturer, and all
told, Perry gives striking evidence that she
is being ruled by generous, lofty ideals while
she prospers under the reign of prohibition.
The Atlanta Constitution and The Atlanta
Journal, Royal Daniel steadily climbed in met
ropolitan journalism until he fell one day un
der the nervous strain. The doctor sent him
to Europe, but he was nothing better. Then
he lifted his imperious finger and said: “Get
you away from the glare and grind of a big
city daily—go to a quieter town on a country
weekly where you can follow your editorial
bent and yet build yourself back to health and
strength.
And that is how Royal Daniel has become a
“country editor.” And you ought to see how
The Fiee Press shines under his brilliant touch.
Verily, the forces of law’-enforcement in
Brooks county will have a vigorous ally in the
acquisition of this superb newspaper man.
Royal Daniel is the son of Dr. F. M. Dan
iel, the great preacher who was the beloved
pastor of the parents of the writer during his
early boyhood, and it is natural that the edi
tor of The Golden Age should wish the new
editor of The Quitman Free Press “mighty
well” in his new and beautiful South Georgia
home.