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PROGRESSIVE GEORGIA CITY GIVES RECORD CROWD OF NEWSPAPER MEN “THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES”—HOME TOWN OF DR. L. G. HARD-
HE motto of the Georgia Editors is—“ The
Best Is Yet To Be,” then Eastman, which
won the next convention through the influ
ence of Hon. Claude Methvin and Carrollton,
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which has the inside track for 1916 through the gal
lant fight of Editor Ralph Meeks, of The Carroll Free
Press, will have the “get up and hump” themselves
in order to distance the royal town of Commerce.
Commerce proved that while she is progressive, she
is not “commercial,” for generosity streamed from
every branch and beamed in every face.
From the depot where they met us, from the bar
becue where they fed us, from Tom Hardman’s
beautiful home where showers drowned the moon
beams, and from the fairy land lawn of Dr. !L». G.
Hardman, from which the rain drove us to the
crowded opera house, on and on to where we skipped
away to Athens for a barbecue and an educational
inspiration, and then hied ourselves away to the
mountains, Commerce was “there with the goods”
all the time and everywhere.
Commerce and Her Celebrities.
To bask in the editorial baliwick of Veteran John
Shannon of The Commerce News and Cavalier Paul
Harber of The Commerce Tribune, was a social feast
and an intellectual tonic; and to walk the streets of
the town where Dr. L. G. Hardman has grown from
boyhood to his present position of Southwide promi
nence and usefulness) —and may be the Governor’s
chair —was both a personal and patriotic inspira
tion. Hardman’s pictures shine everywhere, and
his fellow townsmen who are proud of his able and
spotless record are fondly hoping that they will be
neighbor to the next Governor of Georgia.
It is not the province of The Golden Age with its
Southwide constituency to tell of the Press Conven
tion in detail. It is enough to say that President
P. F. McCutcheon (dear old ‘Pat’) was there with
his unfailing courtesy—that golden-hearted John
Holder, twice Speaker of the House, served as a
DUBOSE DIGS UP LIQOURIZED COWARDS
’ PASTOR OF FIRST METHODIST CHURCH, ATLANTA, FIRES A BOMB INTO THE CAMP IN HIS REPORT TO THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE.
)N’T stop before Dr. H. M. Dußose’s door
when you are looking for a timorous “ten
derfoot.”
As Chairman of the Headquarters Com-
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mittee of the Anti-Saloon League he has done such
vigorous work, getting after the beloved “locker
clubs” of some of his own members, that he has
been roundly criticized—by some folks!
In the following report to the State Anti-Saloon
League trustees in Atlanta, July 22nd, he goes into
the “Why” and "How” of his every step, and it
makes your blood leak faster to read it:
Report of Chairman of Headquaters Committee.
Io the Trustees of the Anti-Saloon League of
Georgia:
Gentlemen and Brethren:
As Chairman of the Headquarters Committee of
the League I beg leave to submit the following
report:
In addition to the financial report herewith cred
ited, I beg to submit the following narrative, or
statement of facts. And. first, permit me to say
that I accept my present relations to this League
by virtue of my continued appointment to a Trus
teeship thereof by the North Georgia Annual Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
during several years past, and specifically by vir
tue of a resolution adopted by the said Conference
at its session in Elberton, Ga., in November 1913.
This resolution reads as follows:
“Resolved that this Conference continue by
this action, as members of the Board of Trustees
o* the Georgia Anti-Saloon League, these minis
ters and laymen of our Church now serving in
that capacity. The names of these brethren are
as follows, to-wit: W. P. Lovejoy, J. H. Eakes,
S. R. Belk, H. M. Dußose, W. E. Hendrix, A. J.
Hughes, B. F. Frazer, C. W. Smith, J. N. Holder,
J. D. Walker.”
At the same time, the Conference passed these
COMMERCE DELIGHTS THE EDITORS
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF JULY 23, 1914
MAN A MODEL FOR THE STATE.
superb toastmaster on “Governor’s Night”—that Gov.
Slaton himself brought the message of a statesman
on “Tax Equalization,” and that all tne rest of “us
toasters” did the best we could.
A Striking Address.
It was not the pleasure of the Editor of The
Golden Age to hear the welcome addresses of
Mayor Anderson and C’ol. W. A. Stevenson, but Mr.
Stevenson’s speech as it appears in The Commerce
News contains some such striking and eloquent
utterances that we are reproducing a part of his
stirring address:
Editors Are Pathfinders.
“I speak today to the blazers of the trail, to the
pathfinders upon the highway of civilization and
progress. I speak to the moulder of thought in
Georgia. I speak to the makers of public opinion.
I speak to those without whose consent no statute
can be placed upon our statute books. I speak to
those who are indirectly the lawmakers of Geor
gia. I speak to the dispensers of place and posi
tion and power. I speak to those at the feet of
whom the mighty fawn, and beg and pray that they
nlay be permitted to hold the seats of power. I
speak to those by whom the mighty are deposed
when they have proven recreant to their trust. I
speak to the never-failing friends of the people.
In my admiration of the pulpit I yield to no man,
but next to the pulpit I place the press. In robe
immaculate stands the man of God. There by Geth
semane stands the cross of Christ. Back of this
cross stands the Book for which the martyrs died
and in which the glorious promises are written. Here
are found the texts for the man of God. But no
more are they subjects from which the preachers
preach than they are the subjects expounded week
by week by the members cf the weekly press. Yours
too are the voices raised for virtue’s sake. Yours
too are the voices lifted in defense of truth and
right. Yours too are the batteries that are trained
additional resolutions, to-wit: “That this Confer
ence is in profound and active sympathy with the
efforts being made in Atlanta, Augusta, Rome and
in other cities of this State, beyond the boundries
of the Conference, for the strict enforcement of
the laws against illicit whiskey selling ”
“That this Conference looks with absolute dis
favor, indeed with pronounced disapprobation, up
on our people holding membership in any club or
social organization which keeps and serves intox
icating liquors We earnestly exhort any of
our brethren who may find themselves in this re
lationship to withdraw from that which is so pal
pably evil and displeasing to God.”
I accepted reluctantly the post of Headquarters
Chairman, but did so with the distinct understand
ing that an effort was to be made to put the League
in the way of realizing these sentiments and also
of meeting its threefold motto: “Agitation, legis
lation and law enforcement.”
On October 7, 1913, the Headquarters Committee
unanimously resolved to ask the City Council to
withhold license from all locker clubs and saloons,
and especially from those charged with, or guilty
of, violating either the State or City laws. There
were present at this meeting: Drs. W. P. Lovejoy,
H. M. Dußose, A. R. Holderby, Hugh K. Walker,
E. C. Cartledge and G. W. Young, C. W. Smith,
Rev. J. H. Mather and J. B. Richards, Secretary.
A committee consisting of the Chairman of this
Committee, the Secretary the president of the
League, Dr. W. P. Lovejoy and a number of others,
was appointed to wait upon the City Council and
prefer this request. This was done, the above nam
ed officers of the League, with others, being pres
ent and taking part in the hearing before the
Council. No satisfactory results were obtained as
a return from this visit.
Failure Before City Council
Following the failure Os this appeal to the City
upon the ramparts of wrong. Shoulder to shoulder
with the church, the weekly press of Georgia is an
ally of the pulpit of Georgia, of which the pulpit
is proud, and from each other they cannot afford
to stand aloof. Hand in hand with a common pur
pose, they march to a common goal. Flying the
banners of each, the grand old ships of church and
■state glide down the time of time side by side, yet
separate.
Men and women of the Georgia Weekly Press,
you who are veterans in the fight and you who have
just donned the plume and epaulet, I salute you,
for the light is on the hills and the sunshine kisses
the velvet valleys. The hope star gleams from the
tranquil heaven. The bow of promises reaches to
the end of the world. The mists of superstition
have been dispelled. Ideas, customs, tradition, events,,
hoary with age, have given way to reason and on
their ruins have been builded the foundations of
justice and truth and right. We stand today on the
highest peak of our civilization, on the pinnacle of
our greatness. Georgia is greater today than she has
ever been; but Georgia is not what she should be
and Georgia is not what she will he. Yours is the
burden and you will measure up to your responsi
bility.
Pour into the heads and hearts of the yourg the
love of home. Teach them the glory and sanctity of
the family tie. Teach them obedience to law and
authority. Teach them to love the right to the ex
tent of dying for the right. Teach them that on
their shoulders the burdens cf their fathers and
mothers must fall and that they will write the his
tory of the coming years.
God’s “Golden Rule” Will Solve All Problems.
Teach them that old rules that had its conception
in the heart of God before the world was born and
the stars flashed out from His finger tips; the rule
that says do unto others as you would have others
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Council a proposition was made to call a mass
meeting of citizens of Atlanta so as to secure local
co-operation in an effort to enforce the law against
locker clubs and near beer saloons, which were al
leged on all hands to be violating the law. After
considerable discussion in Committee the meeting
was ordered to be called. The minutes of this
meeting as recorded by the Secretary, J. B. Rich
ards, is as follows: “Dr. Lovejoy moved to have
a mass meeting on Sunday, November 9, at three
p. m., with Dr. Daniel and Dr. Dußose for speak
ers, followed by Rev. Lincoln M’Connell for an
address and collection, with direction that the
meeting be well advertised. The Secretary and
Chairman were requested to look after the de
tails.” The meeting was called and held under the
direction of the officers of this Committee. It
resulted in the appointment of a law enforcement
committee which was to act jointly with the Head
quarters Committee. It is a fact however, that,
only two or three members of the law enforce
ment committee ever met regularly with the Head
quarters Committee, and so al Ithe work done may
fairly be considered the work of this Committee,
solely.
It may be of interest to note that the action of
this mass meeting was fully endorsed by the Atlanta
Methodist Preachers’ meeting on the following
Monday morning, November 10. The minutes of
that meeting, as kept by the Rev. C. V. Weathers,
contained the following entry, to-wit: ,“By request
Dr. Dußose gave an account of the mass meeting
held Sunday November 9th, in the Grand Opera
House, in the interest of prohibition. By resolu-
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tion of Rev. C. C. Carey the mass meeting and
plan for prohibition were unanimously adopted by
the body. “The resolution referred to said: “We
are in hearty accord with this movement to bring
about a rigid enforcement of the prohibition law.”