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"Social Heredity.”
" Rev. O. L. Kelley, Pastor,
j Butler Methodist Church. *
Text: Mat. 18:6. “But whoso shall
. offend one of these little ones
which believe in me, it were bet
ter for him that a millstone were
hanged about his neck and that he
were drowned in the depth of
the sea.”
In recent years, no subject has
had ihore consideration than the
study of child life. Hundreds, yea
even thousands of our most capable
men and women are following chil
dren about, to study the beginning
of their lives; what they meet, arid
what they do with it. The term “so
cial heredity” used at the heading of
this discourse is one of rather recent
origin, arid one that brings us to re
view the age long question of here-
ditv. Heredity represents those forc
es which come rinto our lives before
the beginning of our personal re
sponsibilities, and which frequently
determine the outcome of the life.
Under the former conception of her-
editv we included the powers and*
tendencies which became a part of
us before birth. By social heredity
we mean to include those formative
principles which we get from our
environments between the time of
birth and the time when we are able
to intelligently make choice for our
selves. In either case the present
generation becomes largely respons
ible for the coming generation. Now,
those Who put their dependence m
the old idea of heredity, have spon
sored the scientific theory of EU
GENICS which means to be well
born. This theory means to under
take the controll of the coming gen
erations by intelligent mating of
people so as to bring together the
strongest types of physical, mental,
and social manhood and womanhood
to become parents of a better type
of men and women for the next gen
eration, thus trying to make opera
tive in human affairs the laws of
animal and plant breeding. Eugenics
as far as the breeding up to higher
types of dumb brute and plant is
concerned has proven a great suc
cess and will continue to do so; but
as related to theli uman race it is
only a theory and a dream and will
ever remain so. The difficulties in
the way of its success are insupera
ble. No power in existence will ever
be able to mate men and women by
arithmetic as they can brutes and
plants. Men and women will mate
themselves, and the secret of then-
mating will never be scientific con
siderations, but that indefinable so
cial instinct which begets love, that
no one can explain for us, and we
ourselves do not understand. Then
next the instincts, as the inherited
tendencies are called, are much
stronger in the animal than in the
child. The fish swims, the calf
walks, the chick scratches according
to the instincts, but the child's in
stincts are so weak that he has to
be taught every thing. Then in the
third place the human generations
pass so slowly, that if humon breed
ing were successful it would take a
thousand years to make an impres
sion. So we pass from prenatal her
edity as a failure in the uplift and
rebuilding of humanity and turn to
“social heredity” as the only hope.
Social heredity is what', exists
about us, and our capacity to
breathe it in and make it a part of
ourselves, and in this particular, we
find the human child wonderfully
capacitated. His instincts are so
weak that perhaps he does nothing
naturally but utter the sign of dis
tress and pain. What parent does
not remember- giving the very first
lesson in life to his offspring in
training it even to the mother’s
breast from which he gets his first
food. The child learns to smile only
as he borrows, the smile from the
mother’s face and eyes; he learns to
coo from the voice of the nurse; he
learns to talk as he catches it from
the lips of another; he learns to
walk by seeing others walk.No child
naturally speaks the English lan
guage or any other language. He
speaks whatever is spoken to him- A
child does not smile naturally; he
must catch his smile from others;
he catches his frown from others;
and often in early childhood we be
gin to notice the scowl or the smile
growing into the child’s face; it is
not natural, it is only the picture of
the face he has been most accus
tomed to look into. The child gets
his sincerity from others; he gets
his deception also from others. The
child inherits ten times more from
his parents in the first five years of
living in the home with them, than
he did before his birth; and yet we
would not deny the fact of natural
heredity, or underestimate its impor
tance. But natural heredity has re
lation to the measure of c apacity,
and not to the direction a life may
^take. There were two grandsons of
'the great preacher Jonathan Eld-
wards who had inherited much of
the talent of the grand-father, but
their surroundings in early life were
quite different, and the courses of
their lives were different. Timothy
Dwight and Aaron Burr are the two
men referred to. They were both
men of great talent and capacity.
Timothy Dwight 'developed his tal
ent as a great preacher and educator
while Aaron Burr developed his tal
ent as a great politician and finally
as a murderer and guilty of treason
to the country over which he had
been Vice-President.
God has put here under our care
this great company of little ones as
pure, and undefiled, members of the
kingdom of heaven; “For of such is
the kingdom of heaven,” to be kept
for his kingdom, and trained for the
service and uplift of humanity. Now
the Master says it is a capital of
fence to lead even one of these lit
tle ones astray.
These little one are sent first into
somebody’s home. Whatever exists
in that home the child will contract
If there are measles, he he will
catch them; if there is grouch thhen
he will catch that; if irreverence,
profanity, deception, falsehood, and
selfishness are there, he is certain to
inherit them. If the air they breathe
and the water they drink are filled
with miasma and impurity, the
health must suffer. If the social sur
roundings are impure and sinful,
the moral health must suffer. And
thus the moral depravity which we
have been charging to Adam and
Eve, and tracing through a thou
sand generations, is originating
right in the sacred precincts of the
home, and are to be charged to the
mother and father of the child; not
for something they did in their
youth and before thee hild was bom
but for the things going on in the
home under the eyes and in ear
shot of the child from day to day
and from hour to hour. These same
parents have the opportunity of
making their home a virtable para
dise where the child may grow up
in the atmosphere of purity and
wholesome living, where he may bud
ond blossom even as the lilies of the
valley. Then after the home comes
the school and the play and enter
tainments of life which continue to
be the inheritance of every child. As
members of a community it is our
business to see that impurity and
suggestions of evil are taken from
the entertainment which is put be-
for our children. These things make
the very atmosnhere which the child
breathes and determine the issues of
his life. Those who lead these little
one astray and cause them to of
fend are those parents who tolerate
in their homes, irreverance to God,
back-bitings of their neighbors,
bickerings between themselves and
the neglect of religion. The corrup-
tors are those who put the impure
on the screen for the entertainment
of their own diseased tastes or for
money. They are those who practice
the unfair,' the impure, the selfish
and debasing things in social and
business life while the youth are
taught to look on them as the lead
ing people. It were better for these
and their kind that a millstone were
hanged about their necks and that
hey were drowned in the depths of
the sea.
P. T. A. COURSE
MRS. GUY WEILLS, Instructor.
June 23rd. 1. Activities of Geor
gia Branch of the N. C. M. & P. T.
A. (a) Work being done in the dif
ferent departments, (b) How local
associations may cooperate.
June 24th. 2. What the State is
d'ing for Child Welfare, (a) Review
of State and National Laws regard
ing child welfare, (b) Program of
the State Department of Education.
June 25th. 3. Pre School Circles.
(a) Aims and purposes, (b) What
they are actually accomplishing.
June 26th. 4. Specific IVTethods by
which local organizations may reach
the masses, (a) Building interest.
(b) ' Securing attendance, (c) In
creasing membership, (d) Programs
June 27th. 5. .Recreation and va
cation Problems with Solutions, (a)
Constructive projects, .(b) Social ac
tivities.
MRS. GUY WELLS, Eastman, Ga.
State P. T. A. Chairman of Rec
reation and Social Standards.
Instructor P. T. A. course Mercer
University Institute 1923.
She has had two years college
training State Normal, Athens. Ga.
One summer George Peabody
School for Teachers.
Two summers in special work in
P. T. A. work and Social.
Science at Columbia University.
ST. SIMON PAGEANT IS
PLANNED IN BRUNSWICK
Brunswick, Ga., April 13.—In con
nection with the opening of the
Brunswick-St. Simon Highway in
June, the Woman’s Club of Bruns
wick is making preparations to put
on a historic pageant which will ex
cel anything of the kind ever at
tempted in Geoigia. The ladies, tho
they have just started the move
ment, are receiving the co-operation
of practically every ' organization in
the city.
They plan to hold the pageant
late in the afternoon on the opening
date at a point where the new high
way reaches St. Simons Island and
under the beautiful mystic oaks for
which this well known resort is
famous. Several hundred people will
probably take part in it and it will
be made one of the features of the
opening exercises.
Other plans for the bridge open
ing are now under way and a gen
eral meeting of all committees will
be held on Tuesday night, when a
general chairman will be selected
and a dozen si b-committees named.
It is hoped that the definite, date for
the bridge opening can be announced
shortly.
CENTRAL MAKES
ANNUAL REPORT
Savannah, Ga., April 13—That the
Central of Georgia Railroad had a
prosperous year in 1923 and that it
now has more employes in its pay
rolls than ever in its history, are
outstanding facts in the 29th annual
report which is being now completed
and prepared f r distribution to the
stockholders. Improved business con
ditions are cited and the gross re
ceipts of the road were the highest
ever in any year, amounting to $26,-
198,848, which was over 12%% above
the preceding year, or $2,912,li6 in
crease over 1922. The net railway
operating income of the road was,
however, $3,944,872, a decrease of
over $447,000 from the previous
vear. The decrease of earnings was
due it, was shown, almost entirely
to the nicreased cost of maintenance
Improvements of the service took up
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prove that nearly everythinc can in .
some manner be improved. How
ever, tireless effort is necessary in
almost every case if real results are
to be accomplished.
Recent experiments and subse
quent discoveries made in our labor
atory enable us to guarantee greatly
increased results in combatting Ma
laria, Chilis and Fever, Colds and
La Grippe.
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NEW SOUTHERN TRACKS
TO EXPEDITE TRAFFIC
Washington, D. C., April.—An ex
tensive program of new track _ con
struction to expedite the movement
of traffic will he carried out by the
Southern Railway System during the
next few months, Vice Presilent H.
W. Miller, in charge of .operatio n
announced today.
Included in the porgram are eigh
ty-five separate projects at as
many different points on sixteen
divisions. About thirty miles of new
track will be laid, involving an ex
penditure of approximately $650,000
Ten new passing '.tracks, each
more than half a mile long, will be
constructed and forty-four existing
passing tracks will be extended.
Short double track connectonis will
be made at Harriman, Tenn., and
Loyall, Ala., new yard tracks will be
put in at Charlotte, N. C-, and
Princeton, Ind., and house, team and
storage tracks will be added and ex
tended and new wyes and crossovers
put in at a number of points.
The new and extended passing
tracks will make room for the long
trains now being operated and will
also help freight trains to get over
the road without delaying other
trains. Each of the other projects
will contribute in some way to the
facility of train movement or the
efficiency of station operation.
Dainty Chinese Dishes.
Among tlr “dainty d'"hes” of the
Chinese are dog’s flesh, duck's giz
zards, canned earthworms, marmalade
made from roses, birds’ nests, dried
and preserved oysters, and eggs that
have been kept for years.
Making an Appeal.
Mother—“What a naughty little
girl yon are, telling fibs like that.
Ton can just go to bed without any
supper.” Offender—“No, I can’t, mom.
What about that medicine I’ve got to
take after meals?”—New York Sun
and Globe.
much necessary investment of earn
ings. The operating expenses were
over $21,000,000, an increase of over
$3,000,000. . ,
PREFERABLY
THE LATTER
Better not ask
papa yet, dear.
He has the gout
in one foot.
All right. I’ll
wait till he gets
well or gets the
gout In both
feet.
ON THE FROSTED CAKE
Prof. Fly—My this glacier or what
ever it Is, has a sweet taste. -
SOME
REFORM
My boy, you
•Mould not hate
school. If you
study 3. hard,
someday you
may bo presi
dent. "r'T
- If I am, HI
close all^the
schools.
LOTTERIES
He: Marriage
Is a lottery.
She: Not ex
actly; when you
lose in a lottery
it’s an easy mat
ter to tear up
the ticket and
forget it.
BETTER.
I trimmed this
hat all alone.
That's much
better than trim- l
mins me for one.
COMMENT
I see Brown
has a new suit.
Yes. I won-
der what his
wife is doing
without to let
him get it.
A NEW MOUTH
DISEASE.
He's got the
foot and mouth
disease.
Never heard of
it; what’s it like?
Whenever h e
opens his mouth,
he puts his foot
in it.
COMPETITION.
When I grow
up I’m gonna be
a barber.
Baw-w-w! Gee!
That’s what
wanted tp be.
JUST SO.
Y’ know, a
man's crazy to get
married?
Yes—and then
most of ’em are
crazy to get single '
again.
The blacksmith
begins at the foot
and gets many a
kick. *
WRIGlfYS
Jlfter every meal^
A pleasant
and agreeable
sweet and a
i-a-s-t-I-n-g
benefit as
well.
Good for
teetb. breath
and digestion.
Makes tbe
next cigar
taste better.
Planters >
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Call and we will explain how you
may secure one of the following de
sirable prizee:
1st 2-horse Weber Wagon
2nd. No. 63 2-horse Chattanooga
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3rd. No. 61 1-horse Chattanooga
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_ Reynolds, Georgia
When In Macon
STOP AT THE ,
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Conveniently Located!
Rate $1.50 a Day and Up.
T. W, HOOKS, Proprietor -
EMBALMER
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Personal Service Rendered
THE BEST OF EQUIPMENT
AND MOTOR VEHICLES
Galls answered Day or Night.
Prices Reasonable
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REYNOLDS, GA.
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