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4 The Golden Age *r«ry Thursday by The Gelde* Aye PcMlehiar Oempaay (Inc.) •FFICB: 11 MOOM BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA. WILLIAM D. UPSHAW Editor MRS. WM. D. UPSHAW . . . Associate Editor ■ RS. G. B. LINDSEY .... Managing Editor LEN G. BROUGHTON, London, Eng. . Pulpit Editor Price : sl.s® a Year. In eneee es Ferelyn Address, Fifty Cent* should be Added te Cover Additional Pestaye. fcdeeed in the Poeteffico In Atlanta, Ga., as second-class matter. Atlanta, sa.i 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. V 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.