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PROF. ROBERTS SPEAKS
TO COLORED FARMERS
In ft deupcrAte effort to adapt him
*plf to thp situation, Prof. L. K. !{<>)
PPt* had the following to nay:
Fellowcitieens of the Colored Race:
Although aware of the heterojfenuity
of the people who ahide their fonafids
doeeile in thin fair southland. I hear
no nnimonoflity, aspersion or animad
version towand you, my countrymen,
who have honored me in asking me to
discharge my Admonitions before you
on thin auspicious occasion. Hut had
I the vocabulary of Hhakeapere, the
spirit of Lincoln, the voice of Demos
thenseN and the energy of Napoleon my
words would fall short of expressing
my true feelings. As far short in fact
ns the murmuring of a summer’s brook
is to the fierce roar of the angry surge
on a roeky Atlantic shore.
Rut let that bp expressed in a nut
shell, or a couple of nut shells. So to
speak, therewith, these preliminary re
marks which preceed the gist of my
discourse, I open up the premises with
my speech and reiterate the beginning
of your liberty by recalling to your
minds that it was on a glorious Fourth
of July morn when Lincoln waked up
early and said to his wife, “1 am go
ing to emanicipate every citizen of
this country.*' His wife said: “My
Abe, what are you talking about?”
He said, “My subjects.” Then some
of those yankee folks got mad and
pitched his tea into the ocean. Then
Lincoln lie got mad and said, “You
can't feed my tea to the fishes.*' But
this is history, past history, too fa
miliar to discuss before this intelli
fent audiene. You know the results.
You say you is mancipated. You
are wrong. Show me your emanci
pation. You have waited for the white
folks to do all the emancipating, and
we have done much. Rut the time has
come when you must do your part.
In these times of depression, spec
uation and retrogression when figura
tively speaking folks are facing a
dilemma and looking at each other
asking, as it were, “which horn of
the dilemma are you going to follow?”
I tell you you must make up your
minds not to follow either horn of
that dillemma. But you must grab
hold of both lioms and throw that
dilemma straight to the ground, (np- ,
plause) And that same spirit of de
termination which enabled you to con
quer the hungry wolf which snoops by
your door. If you would be a freo
people you must win economic freedom
by working thoughtfuly and carefully.
Then you should get a great lesson
from the story in the Good Book of
the prodigal son who said to his papa,
“Give me my substance and let me
go my own way.” And just parrot
plirazing the story briefly, he went
his own way and times got hard and
he took off his overcoaot and sold it.
Times got hard again and lie took his
coat and sold it. Then he took off his
jacket and his shirt and sold them.
H e was still hard up for lie was in
righteous living, and he came to liis
undershirt. And lie took off: He
took off: He took er-ah-he came to
himself and he said I will go back to
my papa and have poke chops and po
tatoes. So applying the great lesson
of the prodical son, should not be
moving off to town merely to indulge
in righteous living, but you should
stay on the farm with the white folks
who are good to you, where you can
grow your own poke chops.
But Santa clause don’t come to see
children unless the grown folks work.
When you plow your land you must
protrude the terminus of your imple
ment deep into the substrata so that
you will stir and pulverize the sili
■ronaceous mantle to enable the frou
ble tilth to absorb the post equinactual
precipitations and allow the subter
rian affendages of your crops to delve
deep and ibsorb bountiful netrients
from the dissolved ingerdients libera
ted by the action of microganisms on
the hygroscopric particles of the aire
ated mass.
Last, but not least, you must raise
your children to work. I am going to
teach my boy to work. And how.
He is red headed, so I may not be
able to tell him. But I will show him.
I will say “Son, bring that hoe and
frdlow your pnpn,” and the exnmpel
and tlie son will grow up in his fathers
footsteps. Like father, like son is my
motto.
And in concluding this arduous task
of bringing you these adoinonitions I
desire to apologize for the use of so
many simple wrds, but I have tried to
speak so that even your children could
understand. If you will invite mo to
speak again sometime when the more
learned members of the group are pres
ent I promise to use words with real
meaning and in a tone of voice that
will give dignity to the occasion.
REDUCED TO A FORMULA
A chemist (a man) lias at last been
able to analyze women, and here it is:
Symbol, WO, a member of the human
family. Occurrence - can be found
wherever man exists. Physical prop
erties—all colors and sizes. Always
appears in disguised conditions sur
face of face seldom unprotected by
coating of paint, or film of powder.
Boils at. nothing amid may freeze at
any moment. Melts when properly
treated. Very bitter if not used correct
ly J, Chemical propertied extremely
active. Possesses great affinity for
gold, silver, platinum, and precious
stones of all kinds. Violent reaction
when left alone by man. Ability to
absorb all sorts of expensive foods.
Turns green when placed next to a
bet ter appea ring sample. Ages very
rapidly. Fresh variety has great mag
netic. attraction. Highly explosive
and likely to be dangerous in inex
perienced hands.
And R. J. Brown has a nick-name
around his home which ■■'Cins to please
him very much. If } i wish to get
in his good graces just call him
“Daddy Bob.”
Mr. Tngram says that it. is a com
pliment that Mr. Strozier’s were the
only ones that were taken by the
thief in Washington. Strozicr wishes
that the thief would return the com
pliment.
Then “Shorty” McGee (Margaret to
you) and Annette Little let the air
out of all but one of Andy Robinson's
automobile tires one Sunday night. (By
the way, Annette, aren’t you the one
who made 2 on biology test?)
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BRAVES SPLIT MATCH
WITH ATLANTA "Y”
The West Georgia Wrestling team
muits best showing of the season
against the Atlantn V. M. C. A. in the
local gymnasium on Feb. 22. The
team score was 10-10 which is a much
better score than West Georgia had
made in any previous match. Leroy
Hogue and Roland Harris won their
matches but Render Roe and Billy
Thomas wvre pinned by their op
ponents. Render Roe’s defeat was
due to inexperience. This was his
first bout and he had only been coming
out for the wrestling team a few days.
He was in better condition and he
had superior strength but lie just
didn’t know the holds necessary to
put his opponent’s shoulders to the
mat Thomas was pinned only after
lie lmd completely given out, due to
lack of training. He was giving his
man a good fight but the fast pace
Was too much for him and then Ward
was able to get the fall. Harris won
his match from Liclieyu by simply
knowing more about scientific wrestl
ing. This bout was the third succes
sive victory for Harris. All of his
victories have been on falls and only
one of the three victories took him
more than five minutes. Hogue al
though outweighed seven pounds
quickly put his man’s shoulders to the
floor in a fast, match.
Before the main bouts there were
two exhibitions of amateur wrestling
by some of the members of the West
Georgia’*! team. Ingram ' Westled
Lasister and Brown wrestled Merritt
in these two interesting matches. As
the last event of the evening two
members of the Alanta team put on a
pofessional wrestling exhibition. This
match was the most exciting du e to
the fact that anything goes in pro
fessional wrestling.
Summaries:
Hogue, W. G. C. 135 pounds defeat
ed Bryant, Atlanta, 142 lbs.
Ward, Atlanta, 150 lbs. defeated
Thomas, W. G. C., 156 lbs.
Decicon, Atlanta, 141 lgs. defeated
Roe, W. G. C. 144 lbs.
Harris, W. G. C. 155 lbs. defeated
Licbeyer, Atlanta 152 lbs.
Mr. Hart —The progeny of a single
fly may number many millions.
Neely —Lordy! What do you reckon
the progeny of .a married fly is?
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