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6 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, T 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- JO 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 (Continued on page 16.) 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- 4 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.”