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BIBLE THOUGHT
not overcome of evil, but overcome
with good.—Romans 12:21.
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is merely privative, not absolute; it is
Id which »• privative of heat.—Emerson.
fECTING
GUILTY.
young gangster (has been on trial for
jer in Kansas Gty recently.
was a perfect specimen of the gangster
1 one of the oily* well-dressed, sneering
who always make such a jaunty
in court. He had four lawyers,
I of them imported from Chicago for the
Union, and the newspaper accounts of his
il have been rather revealing.
lawyers fought well for him. The
Htgputor was hardly able to put two ques
witn without being interrupted by an
tJ" from one of them. When each
had told his story a mercili
•a examination was begun. He was asked
feriety of, things, bullied, coerced, sneered at,
tdted, in the free and easy way that law
rs have! nothing was left undone that
ght have confused the witness, or raised
ion thfttghAaP™* not testifying from
id motives.
he trial, moreover, was only the first act
na. Aa the defense lawyers’ objections
$ Over-ruled, exceptions were noted, so
the Basis for a lengthy, time killing series
could be laid. If this young man
• rejoices, by the way, in the name of
♦ * gets hanged it won't be
ver
cau$e his lawyers haven't done everything
their power to save him.
Now all of this isn't at all unusual. It
ppena every time any man is brought to
si. But it does suggest once more this
a
How much of the responsibility for the
intent defiance of law by the underworld
Mat be shouldered by the legal profession,
rhosc members are so fond of remarking
hat they are "officers of the court?”
The criminal trial in this country—pro
idled the defendant has the money—han
eased to be a process for learning a man's
nllt or innocence in the quickest way possi
!e, and has become an elaborate sort of
pne. No one knows this quite as well as
he gangster. Does the gunman, even when
$|en red-handed ip the most glaring crime,
ipr give up and prepare for a trip to prison?
le does not; instead he sends at once for his
iwyer, knowing that when society has cap
ped him it has only gone about one-third
>f the way toward putting him where he
Jeiongs.
.Lawyers often urge that the present state
»f affairs had best be left unchanged because
K does protect the rights of an innocent man;
|$d they ropeat the old saying, "it is better
k)T ten guilty men to escape than for one inno
sent man to suffer." Yat innocent men,
MM* and then, are convicted anyway; and
ft*is usually the biggest ctook who benefits
Dost by tha law’s protection,
i The Solution must come from members ot
he bar themselves. They have a rather
large reaponsibility in the matter. CXir crimi
$1 court procedure is fairly crying for reform,
is up to the lawyer to make a few eugges
In And Around Griffin
Those vyha have not yet enjoyed their
ication trip*, will be surprised when they get
it into God's open country and find out
the great improvements that have been
: recently in shaving cream, cigarets and
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HOW MUCH OF MINE IS MINE?
It used to be the custom, in North Georgia
and North Alabama ,for agents of Coal and
Iron companies to go through the country and
buy up mineral rights; that is to say, they
would pay a farmer 50 cents to a dollar an
acre for the right to all the coal, iron or other
mineral that might lie under his land. The
farmer retained the surface right. After a
while tha farmers got wise to his scheme and
demanded royalties on all minerals mined
from their land.
In Texas, and the other oil fields of the
southwest, the farmers are cereful to see that
what they own below the surface of the earth
remains their until somebody pays for it.
Now, the question arises: If l own a city
lot, or acreage in the country, do 1 own all
the way to the center of the earth? And if
1 do, does not my land—however much I own
—come to a point down there at the center?
This being true——ae it is—if the man, on land
bordering mine, bores for oil. unless the law
requires him to bore right towards the center
of the earth, mightn’t he strike my pocket
of oil a few thousand feet down? A crooked
man with a slanting drill could rob me—if 1
own all the way down.
Here in Middle Georgia we are not. just
yet, worried about the minerals and oils that
lie below the surface of our lands, but we
may well begin to inquire: "How far down
do 1 own? And does my acreage increase as
it assends? If all the land comes to a point at
the center of the earth, and if a point at the
cpnter of the eaf th becomes an acre by the
time it reaches the surface, may 1 not own
twenty acres of sky and a thousand acres of
heaven? I
Just now we are not disturbed because
we are wanting to build a structure a hun
dred stories high, and we are not worrying
because some hunter might shoot a quail in
the air. What we are thinking about U this:
In a little while there will be passenger and
freight traffic by air all over this country.
Then, how high up will I own? Will 1 have
the right to say, to the Central of Georgia
or the Southern, when they put on passenger
ships: "You must not fly so low, over my
land, as to disturb my afternoon nap; and
you must not let a trunk or a suit case get
loose and fall out on my "house? u
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But nothing could restore their
unmarred happiness. Red i had
failed her. He had proved that
first choice was strongest. His love
for her was dead. He never could
have endured her friendship with
Marco Palmer if there had been the
slightest bit of Jealousy of her in
his heart. She thought of the times
she had pictured Rod with Lila,
and relived the pain she had suffer
ed then. No, there was no use of
deceiving herself. Love was exclu
sive.
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She would see Rod and tell him
how mistaken he had been about
her and Marco. And she would
ask him about the Jewels Lila men
tioned. Then they would have a
decent parting and never see each
other again. It would be better not
to. Because since she had been
granted stolen glimpses of him, she
realised how impossible it would be
to stop loving him unless she could
put him out of her life altogether.
Her opinion of him might gov
ern her attitude toward him, but it
could not govern her heart. She
knew that. She loved him in spite
of everything. But they couldn’t
be happy, with Rod’s infatuation for
Lila between them. But why think
about it even? Probably Rod would
never want to see .her again either.
And not because he loved her too
much, as she did him.
Bertie Lou went home in a con
fused state of mind. But one thing
gradually became clear to her. She
wanted to help Rod. To, see him on
his feet again. She could do that
by giving him . the' house. Then
he could sell it or rent. She won-
dered if she could do it. She won
dered if she could do it without
his knowledge. She would find out.
And wouldn’t it be —well, say
nice, if they could part as friends?
Make a sort of event of it. Have
a little celebration, maybe, of some
kind. They might laugh about it
afterwards-iRod might, but she’d
like to remember it. She'd Uke to
see him become enthused, to help
him feel some of his old ambition,
and hear him say he would start
over again. Give up skulking.
The thought intrigued her. She
was very ;iou« Jp go right out
All right, friend, you may think I am talk
ing foolishly; but it will not be 25 years be
fore Griffin has a traffic cop for the air to
keep flyers at a certain height, to see that they
do not exceen the speed linryj, a n d to arrest
them and bring them down 'If their ships are
too, noisy. ,
Invest In And Around Griffin
A BOY’S IMAGINATION.
A Chesapeake Bay farmer sent his boy to
town with a basket of eggs the other day.
rhe lad did not return that night; next day
ha was found paddling about on a plank,
away down the bay.
"A tall, dark man," he said, had seized
him, robbed him of his eggs and put him
adrift on the plank. The neighborhood was
aroused. Police and deputy sheriffs got busy,
For a day or so there was hectic, if unsuc
cessful, manhunt.
Then someone thought to question the
boy further. And at last he admitted that he
himself had sold the eggs for a dollar, had
spent the money on movies and ice cream,
and then had fabricated the story about the
robbery to avoid a spanking.
We don't know just what the moral of this
little tale is, unless it is that a small boy with
a good imagination can make a lot of trouble.
■Invest In And Around Griffin
It cost dry enforcement officials $10,000
to close up a couple of New York's night clubs.
They must have bought sandwiches at both
places.
■Invest In And Around Griffin
Recent Parisian newspapers show women
bathers with some clothes on. Maybe they
actually are planning to go into the water.
A New York lady who punched her husband
in the eye probably was only exercising her
matrimonial rights.
■Invest In And Around Griffin
Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for
president, was asked if he thought he'd be
elected, and replied, "I may be a Socialist
but 1 am not a nut." Wherein he certainly dif
fers from the claimers for the Republicans and
Democrats.
—"Invest In And Around Griffin"——
The French Academy of Medicine an
nounces that it is the south winds that makes
babies cry. However, proud parents needn't
wait for the winds to lie down to give Junior
the bottle. '
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<* Say Dad, I wouudn’t pay that; come around to right field
and I’ll show you where we can sneak in. »>
me prepare a surprise for him.”
“I’d like to know who’s going to
help prepare a surprise for me,”
Bessie demurred. “Because some
one will -have the surprise of get
ting past'Baint Peter at, the gate.
I’lp as full of lies as a porcupine
is of quills.
"Just a few more little ones.”
Bertie Lou pleaded, “a good cause.”
“What cause?”
“Mine . . . and Mr. Brown’s.”
“H’m. Say, don’t you ever give
Mr. Palmer a chance to bat? That
guy could hit a home run with me
any day.”
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to Moonfieflfs and see Rod. but she
was held back by her wish for some
ceremony in connection with the oc
curence. If she went out to the
cottage with nothing to propose but
a talk, and then goodoy, Rod might
go without feeling the way she
she wanted him to.
• * *
She was sure he needed someone
to help him, to put him on the
right track. If he wouldn't let her
do it now he might go on for a
long time before he cast off Lila’s
evil spell.
Should she tell him that Lila had
jeered at him? She would if she
thought it would do him any good.
Very likely he wouldn't believe her.
She mustn't make the mistake of
underestimating Lila. Common
sense told her that Rod couldn't
have wanted to fail in love with
Lila again. She must have exerted
soine irresistible power over him.
"If I tell him anything like that
he might think I’m lying in order
to get him back again,” Bertie Lou
told herself. It angered her to
think that Lila still played such an
important part in her life.
“It's nothing to her but an affair
that didn’t come the way she want
ed it to!” Bertie Lou was moved
to declare aloud as she flung her
hat on the bed in her room after
slamming the door behind her.
“But her part in it is going to
spoil the last time I'll be with Rod.
I w on't d are say whaWI think!"
She was calmer when Bessie came
home though she had been too
much upset to think of going to
work. And she had a plan for her
meeting with Rod. She would make
it one that he could not forget un
less his heart held no room for any
memory of her whatsoever.
"Here's a letter from your care
taker,” Bessic told Bertie Lou
when the latter came into her
room. • It was downstairs. I guess
you’d better open it."
A moment later Bertie Lou an
nounced that Mr. Brown was quit
ting. > " Well. I ’".think it’s a' good
thing." Bessie declared openly.
"Yes, it is,” Bertic-fcou admitted.
"It makes it easier for me. I won't
have to tdll him to go.”
Bessie brightened, "So you were
getting on to yourself, were you?"
she said
Bertie Lou hsd no time to talk
been xidding myself. Bessie." she
answered ‘But before Mr Brown
leaves Moonfields you've got to help
Bertie Lou ha dno time to talk
about Marco. I want you to send
Mr. Brown a telegram,” she said
excitedly. "No, wait a minute, we
can telephone to one of the neigh
bors. Do you know the name of
the people next door?”
“Sure, it's Neighbor,” Bessie
grinned. “No fbolin’."
•Bertie Lou jumped up and hur
ried out of the room. “I’ll get the
telephony book,”-she called back,
"and well see if they haVe”a^tele
phone."
Soon she was back with the di
rectory and they looked for the
name Neighbor under the listings
for Moonfields. It was not there.
Then they went down to the tele
phone—it was in the lower hall—
and asked for the information op
erator. She gave them the number.
Bessie good-naturedly transmitted
Bertie Lou's message to Rod, though
she pretended to be distressed over
doing It.
"Never mind.” Bertie Lou con
soled her. "This will be the last
time, Bessie. And you’ve been a
darling. I wont forget it.”
“Not even when you're Mrs. Mar
co Palmer?” Bessie teased.
“You and Marco seem to have
that all steeled.” Bertie Lou smiled.
"Persistence wins, they tell us at
the store, Bessie retorted.
Bertie Lou looked at her like one
who has suddenly come face to face
with an undeniable fact of terrlfy
ing import, Would Marco finally
break down her resistance? She had
thought he never would bother with
her again after the sudden leave
she had taken of his party on Long
Island. But, though he complained
of It. It had made no difference in
his determination to marry her.
However, why worry about that
now. she asked herself. Befdre any
thing of the kind could happen she
would have her hour with Rod. She
wouldn’t think of anything else!
"You won't fall down on this?"
she asked Bessie doubtfully.
Bessie 'bridled. I’m a perfect
liar," she boasted.
"Yes. you've done beautifully
Bertie Lou assured her. “But you
aren't in sympathy with Mr. Brown.
You might make him suspicious if
you aren’t careful."
"Don't worry, I’ll tell him Just
what you said.”
And she did.
The next dajj Rod came, in an-
place with the lov*Iy flower beds;
I thought it was Bryer, or some
thing Uke thgt."
“He’s a busy person,’ Bessie
apologised, “and he’s awfully sorry
to inconvenience you. He left your
railroad - fare both ways."
Rod too* it. He couldn’t afford
to be called out on a wild goose
chase—not with Just a few dollars
left of the money he had borrowed
from Tom Fraser.
“And he’ll see you sure before
you leave,” she promised earnestly.
"But I’d like to go tomorrow,”
Rod replied, “I’ve found a position
that requites overtime so I can’t
stay with Mr. Baker. And of
swer to the telephone summons.
He understood that the owner of
the cottage had read his letter and
wanted to see him in regard to his
resignation from his job.
But the owner was away, and
though he looked searchingly at
Bessie as she told him this, he
found nothing ih her expression to
arouse his suspicions about the busi
ness.
“That’s odd,” he said, “I always
seem to just miss him. He’s kind
of an elusive bird, this Mr. Baker.”
Bertie Lou, too, had assumed a
name. For his benefit. She feared
he would hear her own from her
neighbors. She did not know them,
but she surmised that they would
Inquire about the owenship of her
cottage. Fortunately, the houses
next to hers had been started later.
She prevailed upon the development
company to keep her name a secret
and call her Mr. Baker. She took
a chance on Rod hearing it from
those who had learned it before she
had any’ reason for concealing it.
Another circumstance in her fa
vor was Rod's desire for solitude.
He did not care to mingle with the
fast growing population of Moon
fields, so he missed hearing people
say that, “it’s Baker who owns that
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course If I’m not there evenings
there’s no use my being there at
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“The ownsr 'will fix everything
up aU right,” Bessie proclaimed.
“Go ahead and make your plans.”
“But I don’t like to leave the
place unprotected, ” Rod insisted,
“Are you sure Hr. Baker under
stands that I want to leave im
mediately?
“Sure I’m sure. But we’d, like to
know that we can get in touch with
you tonight, You will go right
back to Moonfileds, won’t you?”
“Yes, I’ll be on the job until to
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