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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1921.
The Dalton Citizen
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
T. S. SHOPE Editor
T S. McOAMY As8oci»to Editor
They See the Light.
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DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1921.
1 No, the state highway department has not yet
begun work on the road from Dalton to the Ca
toosa county line.
Dr. Copeland doesn’t seem to think very much
of tobacco. But this is not going to help him any
with Editor Rucker. The doc. will have to biff
the delicious and refreshing to please him.
Hamilton Memorial Hospital.
National Hospital day, May 12th, was marked in
Dalton by opening to the public the recently com
pleted Hamilton Memorial Hospital. Handsome
in every particular is the new structure, and fore
thought in planning has secured for Whitfield and
adjoining counties adequate hospital facilities for
years. The equipment to be installed will be of
types approved by highest medical authorities, and
much of it is to be given by clubs, lodges, reli
gious organizations and individuals who wish to
have a part in the great work of alleviating hu
manity’s suffering.
The hospital and grounds will be a beautiful, as
well as a beneficial, memorial to a Christ-like char
acter, Mr. George W. Hamilton, who while with
us took a whole-souled interest in humanity, espe
cially the youth. Though he has passed on, his
influence lingers, and nothing less helpful, less
beautiful, less needed than the splendid Hamilton
Hospital could be a fitting memorial to the man
whose name it bears.
“Of what is brass made?” asks Mr. Edison. We
are going to get this one before somebody beats us
to it. It is an alloy of the cheek and nerve of the
fellow who smokes all the time and begs his
matches.
Well, at any rate Governor Dorsey cannot justly
be accused of playing politics with reference to
the lawlessness in this state. This can hardly be
said of those most vehement in their denunciation
of him.
Miss Isma Dooley.
A life is appraised by the beauty of its character
and the work it accomplishes, and for this reason,
the life of Miss Isma Dooley, brought to a close last
week is immeasurable. She was a highly cul
tured woman with a charming personality, permit
ting her to fill acceptably the large' place she held
in woman’s affairs in her state, and made her
name as a writer known nationally.
On the staff of the Atlanta Constitution she
served the people of Georgia twenty-eight years,
conducting the Womans’ Department which has
become so closely inter-linked with the lives of
Georgia club women. The page of federated club
news is an outgrowth of her desire to correlate
the achievements of women in various parts of the
state, to the end that woman’s sphere should be
broadened and woman’s work be advanced.
Miss Dooley was state editor of the Georgia
Federation of Woman’s Clubs, and was beloved
and esteemed by the officers and members. Her
striking personal qualities and her ability com
bined to make her one of those rare persons whose
talents not only aided in executing the work others
planned but also created opportunities in which
she might be of service to her associates.
Illimitable is the reach of the work Miss Dooley
was such a vital part of, and her life is a striking
instance of what one person, imbued with the
spirit of service, can accomplish.
The man who lies, lies to himself; the man who
teals, steals from himself.—Emerson. Well, if
he man ever pays back what he steals he certainly
loes steal from himself, but if his guarantors have
o pay, then who is stolen from?
They Do Not Vote.
It is yet to be determined just what effect the
roman voter is going to have in this country. She
s not especially interested in voting it would
eem. That is it appears that the great majority
lo not care to exercise the right of suffrage which
las been granted them. This is especially true of
he southern woman.
In no election held in the south since being en-
ranchised has woman voted in large numbers,
’rue, there are always a few who go to the polls
nd vote, but it is only a few.
The Tifton Gazette is rather depressed at the
howing so far made by the woman voter. Under
tie heading, “Making a Poor Showing,” it says:
So far the woman voter is making a mighty
•poor showing. The latest instance is in Sa
vannah, where a proposed bond issue for a
city hospital was defeated because the vote
fell 351 short of the required number. The
total registration was 10,588, and the vote cast
for bonds was 4,942, with 537 votes against
the measure. Press accounts say that the par
ticipation of women in the election was an
interesting and striking feature. Wives voted
with their husbands and mothers.went to the .
polls with their babes in arms. Yet the issue
tailed because not enough women as well as
men turned out to vote. We confess we ex
pected better of the women. If they do not
bring a change for the better into our elec
tions, what is the use to come in at all? Up
to date, the showing they have made is not
promising. Wilson, by his influence, gave
woman the suffrage, yet at the first oppor
tunity they voted against his party and # prin
ciples. We counted on them on the side of
world peace and disarmament, yet they voted
against both. In Tennessee, where Governor
Roberts brought the pressure that ratified the
suffrage amendment and gave woman the bal
lot last year, they helped defeat RoBerts and
the statu went against his party for the first
time in fifty years. If this is the ’way the
wonjen are going to “improve Politics we are
sorry they got into the game.. It begins to look
as if our lamented friend, Jim Gallaway, was
right.
President Harding is fast finding out that this
country hasn’t the “splendid isolation” it had a
century and a half ago, when there were no means
of quick communication and fast travel. We can
not withdraw from the world and remain in it.
Business and economic relations with the people
over the seas are quite as important as they are
within the domain of our own country between
our own people. To argue otherwise is to advo
cate a narrow, as well as a dangerous, provincial
ism.
President Harding has ordered that this country
again take its rightful place in foreign affairs.
Secretaries Hughes and Hoover are doing the
heavy work, while the Lodges and the Johnsons
and the Borahs are squirming like angle worms in
hot ashes. Their littleness and hatred of Wood-
row Wilson have brought them to a very low es
tate, and in the days to come the irreconcilables,
with their little coterie of satellites, will occupy
about the same position in the minds of the Amer
ican people as do Benedict Arnold and Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll.
Mr. Harding is moving with tact and admirable
diplomacy toward the ratification of the peace
treaty. The failure to ratify has cost the people
of this country millions of dollars, the agricultural
interests being the heavy sufferers. Economists
have estimated that the southern farmer has lost
$100.00 a bale on his cotton, while a dollar a bushel
on wheat has been lost. Other agricultural pro
ducts have suffered the same ratio of loss. All of
which is directly chargeable to the work of a re
publican senate.
Under the circumstances is it any wonder that
the Knox peace resolution is resting in the house,
without urgings from the president that it be speed
ily passed? Nobody knows better than the presi
dent that it doesn’t mean anything. Hughes knows
it and Hoover knows it, and the two latter are
perfectly walling to admit it openly.
In a speech the other day to the United States
Chamber of Commerce, Hoover made so bold as
to state without reservation that the trouble with
the country today is directly due to the failure of
the senate to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. It
came like a bolt from a clear sky, and it also made
the little partizans scamper away to cover until
they could regain their composure. These little
folks, -wrapped up in their own egotism, felt that
the Knox resolution would satisfy the people, but
they are beginning t6 see that it will not work,—
however well camouflaged it may be.
Read this from the Springfield (Mass.) Republi
can, and then laugh or weep, as your predilection
inclines you:
Having retraced its steps thus far along the
Wilsonian trail, the government’s next move,
logically speaking, should not be in doubt.
The Knox peace resolution should be choked
to death in the house, if an issue is not to be
raised over the retention of the American sol
dier on the Rhine, and the treaty of Versailles
should be ratified, with the blessing of Henry
Cabot Lodge. Then our representation on the
great reparations commission could be made
. honestly official and the “unofficial observer”
stunt thrown into the scrap heap of wornout
theatrical properties where it already belongs.
Yet we are getting on.
Commenting on the above paragraph the Chatta
nooga News sapiently observes:
And it appears that the Knox peace resolu
tion has somehow become lodged—with apol
ogies to the Massachusetts senator—in the
house, sure enough. The Republican hits the,
nail when it insinuates the embarrassment
which would ensue with American soldiers
on the Rhine after an unconditional peace has
been declared with Germany. Action of the
president in renewing our relations as an ally
in practical effect commits him to the treaty.
The treaty creates this reparations commission
and we have no business with it, either offi
cial or unofficial, if we are not interested in
the treaty.
We repeat a previous observation that it
makes but little difference what the president
says obout “abstention from contentions pure
ly European,” so long as his acts are in the oth
er direction. A rose by some other name has
the same aroma. Mr. Harding has now gone
more than half way in the acceptance of the
Wilson program. He cannot very well stop
where he is. He will either have to go for
ward or retrace his steps. It is now very
difficult to guess which end of the dilemma
he will take.
Ratification of the treaty of Versailles is
likely soon to be determined upon. Senator
Lodge has asserted, in effect, that the treaty
and the league covenant cannot be separated.
He may soon be given another opportunity of
making the attempt, however. More likely,
there will develop less of desire to bring about
a separation. America’s return to the alli
ance is an absurd proceeding if she is to
stand out in antagonism to the league.
Johnny Spencer takes a Milwaukee man to task
for insisting that music would make flowers grow,
stating that he tried “The Love Nest,” and “Span
ish Cavalier” on his pet elephant’s ear, and. the
thing wouldn’t grow. Johnny was too hasty in
his condemnation. His “Love Nest” would be all
right for “sparrow grass,” while the “Spanish Cav
alier” should help “nut grass” along, but it’s
doubtful if an elephant’s ear ever heard either of
the two songs. If he really wants, his elephant’s
ear to get up and hump, he should sing “The ‘Cam
els’ Are Coming.”
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Maybe after awhile it will occur to Germany
that she lost the war.—Macon Telegraph.
And just about everything else including honor.
Jazz music, we read, has become popular in
China. Probably it listens like a chink laun
dry ticket looks.—Macon Telegraph.
If the Chinese empire, or republic, whichever it
is, becomes thoroughly jazzed, all we got to say
is that Japan had better watch out.
We are beginning to think right well of the
Harding administration. See where LaFollette has
attacked it. Now if Hearst will only assail it, we
will be obliged to conclude that it is both decent
.and respectable.
If Governor Dorsey is wrong in his attitude tow
ard peonage and other forms of lawlessness in this
state, those who are now doing so much to adver
tise it (and themselves) are equally as culpable.
The so-called holy defenders of the state (for po
litical reasons) and abusers of the chief executive,
give us a pain, and this causes us to grin, which of
course hurts our cracked lip.
The Cordele Dispatch, in that fearless way it has
of speaking out on public questions, says that
“Tom Hardwick raped the dignity of the office to
which' he has been chosen Saturday when he
jumped to the defense of the outlaw element. Sam
Olive did the same thing.” The Cordele editor is
referring to the Dorsey exposure of lawlessness
in this state. The Citizen does not agree with those
whg are seeking to make it appear that Dorsey
has slandered the state of Georgia. He is seeking
to expose lawlessness.
The Tax Dodger.
Last week The Citizen referred briefly to the
financial woes of Georgia, stating that they were
traceable to the doors of the tax dodgers.
The Cordele Dispatch, reproducing our state
ment, comments as follows:
Georgians who suffer tax burdens do so
largely because there is too large a tax dodging
element. It is their duty to see that taxable
property is reported at valuations which the
law says must be fixed. We cannot find relief
in any other course. Georgians will be re
lieved from tax burdens the day property—
all of it—is returned at a fair valuation and not
till then. We are not going to find the relief
till i we have the courage it takes to put all the
taxable property on the tax books at a fair val
uation.
Tax dodging has become a great evil in this
state and it is growing. We encourage it in
stead of cutting it down. Officials who stand
in their places and accept property returns
below fair valuation are as guilty as the per
son who hides real values under a perjured
oath. Honest men who love honor and hon
esty in the dealings of men with other men
ought to stand up and demand a fair deal in
taxing. Until that is done, we may hope for
no relief.
Multiplicity of laws will not get it—not as
long as the laws we now have are not respect
ed and obeyed. We ought to throw away all
the laws but the one law and obey that.
When Professor Einstein declared there
were no limitations to space he showed quite
conclusively that he has never tried to make
up a newspaper form when he had six columns
of set matter and only three columns in which
to put it.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Also and likewise, he has evidently never tried
lo ride in a street car with about 250 others.
Another man in South Georgia who kept his
money and valuables in his store has been
killed and robbed. Better put your money in
the bank.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
Keeping money out of Banks stored away in
trunks is a dangerous business. The money is
liable to be stolen any time,. and very often the
owner is murdered as was the case last week with
the South Georgia victim.
Prohibition has failed to prohibit, has filled
the jails with drunkards of a type worse than
were to be found in wet days, has inspired a
wholesale contempt for law and has increased
drug addicts 300 per cent.—The Rev. Elmer I.
Goshen, Salt Lake City celergyman.
The evils flowing from prohibition are many,
and may outweigh the good. Those who want
liquor get it at a high price. The quality is poor—
in fact it is too often nothing but concentrated
poison. The strong drink question is by no means
settled.
It is true, Tom Watson lynched Leo Frank
and secured for us a national reputation; he
advocated the dynamiting of dipping vats in
Georgia, prompted slackerism during the war,
collected $12,000 of money from slackers to
keep them out of the army and didn’t keep
out a single one; and the people of Georgia
patted him on the back, slapped on their stamp
of approval, believed him when he said he
would go to Washington and reform the world,
sent him up there' to represent us and he
hasn’t been heard from since except the other
day when he voted with the republicans for a
separate peace with. Germany and had to take
it back or suspend it because they were so
quickly shown to be fools by subsequent
events. The senator’s record and Grover Ed
mondson. the sweet-scented pole-cat many
times indicted, up there, to commune with the
world as the private secretary of United States
Senator Watson, make out a fine case against
Georgia’s character, representative as these
men are supposed to be.—Macon Telegraph.
Well, we reckon the esteemed Telegraph will
be willing to admit that outside of what it has
enumerated above, “Our Tom” is all right.
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♦ LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE ♦
Appeal for Help',
le Dalton Citizen:
An At
To the Editor of The
The more good that is done the less evil can be
done, so be not overcame of evil but overcome evil
with good. The overcomer has the promise, there
fore he an overcomer.
The people at the 1 ; little - Brown Mission have
been laboring against; odds in a dilapidated build
ing at a high rental &nd could not accommodate
the people for lack o£ seating room. These people
are an honest-hearted, intelligent people, strug
gling against poverty, ignorance and evil in all
its insidious forms. To wash from the fair face of
our beautiful city these evils, by holding up the
light of love in its purity, that the proud and
haughty may be hunlbled and the humble lifted
up. This people are greatly in need of, and de
serve a better house, more centrally located, one
that would be fit for the wealthy to enter and feel
at ease. We ask some person, one or more, of in
fluence to interest themselves and the public to
help to secure more favorable environments.
And we are authorized by divine counsel that
everyone helping in this worthy cause will hear
that acclamation, “come, ye blessed of my Father,
for I was a stranger and ye took me in.” We ap
peal to all the faithful for help.
I am your humble servant in the cause of the
needy for righteousness’ sake.
J. H. MALLETT.
The Sling Shot Evil.
To the Editor of Teh Dalton Citizen:
Just as this gracious spring of nineteen-twenty-
one is being ushered in with its flowers and sun
light and waving trees, so have the birds come
back to us from their far winter homes—have
come to make the world around us beautiful and
full of song, and to aid the farmer and the gar
dener in their work of production. But do you
realize, you people of Dalton, that these innocent,
happy creatures are being met with sling shots
and air-guns and “flips” in the hands of hundreds
of boys in this town? The birds have natural
enemies enough, as we all know, without your
sons rushing out in the joyous nesting season to
slay and wound. If the real good that these val
iant little helpers furnish was properly rewarded
we. would be guarding them with every means in
our power.
Dalton has a positive law against the use of
sling shots (it should have one against the dan
gerous air-gun), and yet, almost every other boy
you meet openly carries a sling shot. What is
the matter. It is not only the boys who come from
homes where cultured influence and training are
unknown who wage war against these valuable
workers in garden and farm, it is the boy who is
supposed to read and be read to, to be taught the
actual value of bird preservation as a knowledge
that is being widely disseminated today. It may
surprise you to learn that many of these boys are
living on Thornton avenue, and other prominent
residence streets of Dalton. - Your boy! Ask him
if he does not hunt for birds in his own and other
people’s gardens. See if he has not a sling shot!
Of course there are exceptions, just as some men
are noble and others ignoble.
If you ask one of them what he is doing with a
sling shot he will tell you that he is killing Eng
lish. sparrows. This is not true, as has been
proven; but even if it were, it is time this killing
of sparrows should stop, for the slayers know
nothing of the various kinds of sparrows and
cannot detect the difference without close study
and information. There are chipping sparrows,
fox sparrows, vesper sparrows, song sparrows,
white-thrbats, tree sparrows—all among the most
persistent insectivorous birds we have; they are
delightful in themselves and of great value to the
farmer. Boys cannot and do not discriminate
when they go out to kill English sparrows; when
kill these, too! And, moreover, we come back to
the law—they have no business with sling shots.
Mr. Hall, of Calhoun, noted as a lover of nature
and a protector of birds and animals, wrote in a
recent Atlanta Journal of the pleasing but unusual
fact of robins nesting around Dalton, for they
generally go farther north. And just the other
day a family of boys in East Dalton killed three
young robins and one of the parents with a flip.
The robin eats, more cut-worms in a season than
any other bird! Lately a young reprobate broke
the leg of a wood thrush—one of our sweetest
songsters—with a sling shot stone; this act was
committed in the flower garden of a person who
loves and protects birds. The thrush died. In
front of the jail, on Crawford street, this week,
a beautiful flicker bird, a bird that helps to rid our
trees of insects, was killed and its head savagely
torn from its body. This spring a blue bird—sym
bol of happiness—was killed on one of the prin
cipal streets by a boy with an air-gun. The blue
bird is growing rarer. We have both federal and
state laws to protect birds. Why is it not enforced
by someone in authority? ....
This matter of the destruction of bird life is not
a small one, it is now of national importance, and
is so regarded by the United States. Is Dalton
going to permit the willful slaughter of the birds
that seek sanctuary in our midst E. D. Thomp
son, of Memphis, Tenn., was charged with killing
one robin in 1919, violating the Federal Migratory-
Bird Treaty Act, a charge upheld by the judge of
the Eastern District of Arkansas.
We feel sure that when this matter is brought to
the notice of the proper authorities steps will- be
taken immediately to enforce present laws and to
frame others necessary .for the preservation and
protection of the brave, harmless, beautiful birds
that make our home places so attractive.
L. W. C.
The Old Idea of Heaven.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
Sensible people want to go to a sensible heaven;
but the orthodox heaven cannot be called sensible.
All its inhabitants are exactly alike; thinking ex
actly the same thoughts: speaking exactly the same
words, and doing exactly the same deeds, without
change or variation while eternity lasts. One
would think the eternal sameness would soon be
come unbearable, and convert heaven into a vast
madhouse. In this world, personality is a stu
pendous reality; but in the orthodox heaven per
sonality does not exist. Here is endless variety,
and it is this very unlikeness that makes the world
so beautiful and gives life its inexorable charm;
but there variety is unknown. Here no two peo
ple are alike; but there no two people are different.
Here everything worth having must be won, and
and the joy and glory of life is the winning; but
there nothing remains to be won, and what the
present is the future always will be. Here growth
is the law of life, and growth comes through hon
est effort, tireless struggle, everlasting aspiring
after better things; but on the threshold of the
orthodox heaven growth is arrested, the soul in
stantaneously becomes what it forevermore is to
be, and never again is it to know the pure joy of
conscious development. Here there are heights
above heights challenging our powers, but the
heaven we are urged to prepare for is a dead level.
It seems another and very descriptive name for
it would be stagnation.
To have goodness or greatness or perfection
thrust upon us, falls far belo'w growing into it;
or thus it seems to the thoughtful mind here. In
this world everything is a birth and a beginning.
It seems that a far more desirable heaven would
be a world where, in fuller light, the soul would
rise in unhindered development from perfection
unto perfection, from glory unto glory, from height
unto height.
What shadows the ignorance of little minds have
thrown upon the worlds to come and the ages of
ages! ‘ JESSIE BAXTER SMITH.
♦ EXCHANGE OPINION ♦
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Paved Highways as Permanent Investments.
The time has come when growing counties and
ambitious towns must promote the building of
paved highways as defensive operations in the
friendly trade war that gets keener between com
munities from year to year. The towns with the
best roads leading to them from their own county
lines will draw trade from surrounding counties,
and the towns whose counties are negligent in
these matters will lose trade, as surely as water
runs down hill.
Dougherty county has gone into the business of
building permanent highways—that is, permanent
in the sense that nominal repairs from year to
year will keep them in good condition after once
they are built. The first leg of an 18-foot paved
road that will extend entirely through the county
from north to south has already been built, and
after its completion attention will be turned to east
and west paving over a route yet to.be selected.
With the passing of the period of depression which
has caused so many plans to be held in abeyance,
more bond issues will be authorized by the fast
growing counties of this section, and the mileage
of paved highways will steadily increase.
It is pointed out by the Moultrie Observer that
Moultrie can become the best trading point in
South Georgia if paved roads are built into the
town from the county lines on all sides. And
Moultrie will become just that if Colquitt county
builds the paved roads and other counties in this
section do not. Of course some of the others will,
and the whole section will be enriched instead of
one or two counties.
There is a great deal of truth in what the Moul
trie paper says in the following:
“A good road will bring good business,” declares
The Thomasville Times-Enterprise. And it is a
great truth. The way for you to get a new custom
er for your place of business is to extend the road
from your location to where the customer live~
The Observer has bpen an advocate of good roads
fpr many years. When the discussion of city
building arises our first thoughts are of the roads.
We are sure we can make Moultrie the best trading
point in»all Georgia and the best market if we can
get the roads. There is a population of one hun
dred thousand in the territory about Moultrie, but
the roads have not been constructed with a view
to bringing that one hundred thousand population
here to trade. The merchants of Moultrie ought
to be more interested than anyone else or any
other class, in point of contact with the one hun
dred thousand population, but they’re not worry
ing. That is, The Observer has never had
a great deal of encouragement in the movements
it has tried to put on for systematic road con
struction with a view to trade building. Moultrie
pays nearly one-half of the taxes paid in Colquitt
county and should have first consideration in road
construction. There has been no effort to keep
Moultrie from getting what she wanted; the trou
ble being that Moultrie seems to want very little.
Even when we reach the various county lines that
touch our borders, there are roads that could be
gotten in condition to link up without organized
effort to open up the trade possibilities. It would
be a work for Moultrie merchants to interest them
selves in this year. We are trading with twenty-
five thousand people, and we can make it fifty
thousand, and there is the possibility of making
it one hundred thousand. It is a matter of reach
ing out. Our own efforts determine the length of
our reach. Trade is following good roads these
days—good highways. It will follow them right
into Moultrie provided we build the roads and
keep them up. We are interested in through traf
fic and through highways of course, but there is
more business and more community building in
county roads than there is in state roads. We
should have both.—Albany Herald.
Sound Doctrine.
One of the most powerful, most heartening, and
in many respects the most persuasive sermon of
the Baptist convention about to close its sessions
in this city, was delivered Sunday morning at the
First Baptist church, being the annual sermon to
the Women’s Missionary union, by the Rev. Dr.
M. E. Dodd, of Shreveport. La. Dr. Dodd is one of
the strong men of the church and he is strong
because he is sincere, thoughtful, courageous and
consecrated to the single purpose of spreading the
love of God in the human heart as the only means
of saving the race from its evil tendencies. Speak
ing of one of the most important, if not the most
important, questions now affecting the church and
CHEERY LAYS
for DREARY DAYS
BY JAMES WELLS
’ Writer of Newspaper Verse, Hymn-P^„,
and Popular Song Lyric* .
Say It with Flowers.
(The florists’ association suggests that who
have a message to convey, you should “say y ° u
flowers.”)
with
If a bachelor you’re knowing
Buttons on his shirt need sewing—
And your heart on him bestowin''
Love in showers; c
If you’d send to him a token
Which would touch his heart so oaton
Take the florists’ good advice:
“Say it with flowers”—
(Bachelor’s Button.)
If a slow, delinquent debtor
Owes you ten or maybe better,
And he promises by letter
He will see you certain hours-
If a document conveying
Hint that you would like his paying
Use the flower man’s suggestion: “
“Say it with flowers”—
(Forget-me-not.)
If a guy should wish to beat you,
Put some salt on you and eat you,
Do not let the man mistreat you,
(Hunt shady bowers);
Just stay hid and message send him
Which you think might help unbend him
Take the florists’ good advice: im ’
“Say it with flowers”—
(Touch-me-not.)
* * * * * *
Little Deeds.
Little deeds of kindness
Strewn along the way;
Little acts of mercy
Scattered every day,
Gladden hearts of angels
In God’s azure skies,
Give to earthly pathways
Glimpse of Paradise.
Little deeds of kindness,
Just a cheerful smile.
Help to cheer the weary
And the way beguile;
Mansions up in Glory
(This at least my creed).
Oft are won by mortals
With a little deed.
* * * * * *
Made to Love.
Like apples in a cider press,
Fair women, if you please,
Of golden hair or raven tress,
Are only made to squeeze.
“Profiteering.”
_ When a merchant
In order to “liquidate,”
Makes a sale
__ With no profit
Whatever,
And he sheds
A tear
O’er the transaction,
Is it
A profit-tear?
******
Truthful.
Old Johnson is a truthful guy,
Yes, truthful to the letter;
He never, never tells a lie—
If truth would suit him better.
The Spider.
A spider wished to spin his web
Where none disturbed, in safe retreat,
Where none should come to scare his prey
With sound of voice or tramp of feet
Long searched he through the busy mart
Ere place he found where all was still;
Where silence reigned and peaceful rest
And he could weave his web at will. *
At last he found the place he sought,
Where undisturbed are dust and flies;
He spins, his web now in a store
Whose owners do not advertise.
L’ENVOI.
All day he spins his silky web,
All day he catches little flies,
And none molest nor bid depart—
The people do not advertise.
******
Be Up and Doing.
If you’d win a prize in life,
Be up and doing.
In the storm and stress and strife,
Be up and doing.
Laggards never win a race,
You. must keep a steady pace,
If a failure you’d not face,
Be up and doing.
Dreaming does not bring success,
Be up and doing.
You can win with notfling less,
Be up and doing.
If you’d realize your dreams.
Find the land where fortune gleams,
If you’d find the golden streams,
Be up and doing.
Fortune waits on no one’s pace.
Be up and doing.
If you’d see her smiling face,
Be up and doing.
See! The race is to the strong.
Haste then, where the victors throng,
In their ranks do you belong?
Be up and doing.
its relationship to the manhood of the C0U J 1 V?'
Dr. Dodd made use of the following remarkac
and helpful declaration: , _,.i
The Book of Colossians stands out as an
warning against the enforcement of spiritual
by legislative process. Formerly the church cai
the state to its assistance for the enforcement
its will and the state used the military for the
complishmentf of its purpose. At the present
we resent this with all our hearts. But we
liable to just as deadly a danger in another m
tion. There is a mania for legislation. '' r r itua j
fail to accomplish by moral suasion ana spir
power, we rush off to state or national tcgisia 1 we
to acccmplish. I feel sometimes as thougn
would be better off if not a legislature or a
gress would assemble for a dozen years, "c -
so many laws and ordinances that we can n ‘ •
step from our front doors and walk up t“® ft
without unconsciously violating one or mo •
would be infinitely better for everybody 10
right thing because Christ in the heart pro'
the doing of it rather than to do it under com {
because a law on some statute book said i
be done- t..,* it
That is not only sound Baptist dw'tnne. n
is good American common sense. It is the a
this newspaper has been preaching na-
and it is the doctrine that is going to save ^
tion if the nation is to be saved. Any other - ^
is going to fail because no other method ca ^
the hearts and consciences of men. b \~ :j a for
made to enforce any creed, particular torn jj.
living not approved by the average °(T? U,) . - ta tin?
ment or to compel compliance .with ‘ p00 .
abridgements of personal liberty, destroys aC .
sibility and creates resentment toward t ,
countable for its enactment. The c °h ve P. nie n
doctrine enunciated by Dr. Dodd win cm ■ fl f
away from the church and will create a the
infidelity that cannot be any but hamum ^
spiritual qualities of the nation. W he \,,,ood. il
sets out to “make” men and women *YrnightT
usurps the powers and prerogatives of tne a ^
and will fail utterly. This sermon oi >_ • c j rc0 .
.ought to be printed in pamphlet form an ^ the
lated not only among the people but a j orl0 .
professional and high-salaried penpa tei ' ,; ve to
ers who are fast making the church on j
that large class of citizens most m nee ^
gentle and persuasive spirituality enm -
this sermon.—Chattanooga Times.