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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1913.
MR. CARNEGIE AND
(BY BISHOP
THE CHURCHES
W. A. CANDLER
M R. ANDREW CARNEGIE in his
recent communincation to the
Chancellor of Vanderbilt Uni
versity stated most unequivo
cally his opposition to the ownership
and control of colleges and universities
by any church whatsoever, “whether
the organization be a Methodist Con
ference, or a Presbyterian assembly, or
a Catholic order". This is nothing new.
For years Mr. Carnegie has held and
published this view, and he establish
ed the Carnegie Pension Fund on the
basr* of this idea. Whatever may be
said of him concerning this matter, he
can not -be charged with any want of
candor. He knows what he wants and
tells plainly what he wants. He wants
no church schools in the United
States.
He does not seem to be over-well
informed about the history of educa-
• tion: for he seems to ignore or con
demn the vast work of the churches in
the field of education for a thousand
•years. It is quite possible that Mr.
Carnegie knows more about making
millions of money out of steel combi
nations than he knows aoout education,
and that his financial accumulations
have ministered to a certain conceit of
universal knowledge upon his part. It
not infrequently occurs that a man who
has made much money indulges the de
lusion that his information is as ex
tensive as his fortune and his intellec
tual ability as great as is his monetary
success. Mr. Carnegie assumes to in
termeddle with all knowledge, and
often shows himself more confident than
wise.
But let all this be as it may, Mr.
Carnegie knows what he wants and
gives millions to get it. On the other
nand, the churches also know what they
want, and they are beginning to see
that they must make a square issue
with Mr. Carnegie and his followers.
The issue is already joined, and it will
be drawn more sharply from now on.
For example, early in the month of
July the Educational Association of the
Roman Catholic Church in the United
States met in the city of New Orleans.
\mong other resolutions passed by the
oody are the following, which mani
festly are aimed at Mr. Carnegie and
his methods.
"Whereas, liberty of education has
always been recognized in our coun
try as a basic principle, and
“Whereas, the right of the par
ents to educate is one of those fun
damental rights which cannot with
out injustice be interfered with;
and
“Whereas, the continued recogni
tion of this right is essential to the
preservation of a most cherished
prerogative of American citizenship;
be it
“Resolved, That the Catholic Edu
cational Association views with
alarm the activities of certain indi
viduals and corporations whose ut
terances and efforts threaten to in
terfere with the just liberties of
private educational institutions.
“Whereas, the Council of Educa
tion of the American Medical Asso
ciation has elicited the aid of the
Carnegie foundation in the examina
tion and classification of hospitals;
and
“Whereas, said Carnegie founda
tion has shown a spirit antagonistic
to institutions under religious con
trol; and
“Whereas, there are more than
500 hospitals in the United States
under the direction and control of
Catholics; be it
“Resolved, That we hereby pro
test to the American Medical Asso
ciation against the action of the
medical council; and be it
“Resolved, That we request the
American Medical Association to
intruct its Medical Council to dis
continue the services of the Carne-
dation.
The association all but denounced Mr.
Carnegie’s educational schemes as an
attempt to form an educational “trust,”
as will appear from the careful reading
of the following:
“We hold that the life and well
being of our republic depends on re
sisting the influence of centralizing
and devitalizing methods that have
throttled enterprise In industry and
has created our trusts, and that in
the name of efficiency are now ap
plied to education and are in dan
ger of stifling initiative and private
endeavor.”
This action of the association is not
without justification. A few years ago
it was announced that the Rockefeller
Board and the Carnegie Board would co
operate very “sympathetically.” Sev
eral persons dre members of both
Boards. Mr. Carnegie himself Is a
member of the Rockefeller Board; and
when he accepted membership on that*
Board Mr. Rockefeller expressed his
gratification at the fact in these words:*
“If a combination to do business
is effective in saving waste and in
getting better results, why is not
combination far more important in
philanthropic work? The J general
Idea of co-operation in giving for
education. I have felt, scored a real
step in advance when Mr. Andrew
Carnegie consented to become a
member of the General Education
oBard.’ ”
The country knows perfectly well what
Mr. Rockefeller means by “a combina
tion to do business". In the dialect of
the Standard Oil Company and the Steel
Trust that phrase has meant to destroy
all competitors in the oil and steel
market, and then do as you like with
the market. Shall we have that sort of
thing in the educational world? The
Federal Government has been prosecut
ing 1 “trusts” and trust-makers; but here
Is forming before our eyes the most
dangerous of all trusts. Already the
Carnegie Foundation is undertaking to
dictate educational standards and
methods to the whol6 continent, and to
“black-list” schools which do not bow
to its demands. We hear much of
“Carnegie units” and the like.
The purpose to dominate education in
the United States has been distinctly
and unequivocally announced. for the
Rockefeller Board, of which Mr. Car
negie is a member, and whicl> is In
close alliance with the Carnegie Board.
At the time of the organization of that
Board it was announced in statements
of identical fcfrm in the New York
papers what was intended. In view of
the fact that the same notice appeared
in several papers it is fair to assume
Jt issued through all the papers front a
common and authoritative source. In
it appeared these words:
“While certain colleges will be
selected for donations or endow
ments, forming a chain across the
continent, others not so favored will
be left to their fate, as it were,
and many of them will be. it is,
expected, forced to close their doors
In the face of such strong support
of their fortunate rivals.”
About the same time the OUTLOOK.
Dr. Lyman Abbott’s periodical, spoke as
follows editorially:
With this financial power in its
control, the general board is in posi
tion 'to do what no body in this
country can at present, even at
tempt. It can determine largely
uyriyht !!>)::
When it became known that Electa
Smith was going to marry Louis Mar
tin there was instant protest. Every
body in Westmore knew ISteeta Smith
and she had a good many friends. She
had been for eleven years saleswoman
at -Stapleton’s and a position of that
kind is pretty apt to give one either a
good or a bad name with the public.
Louis M? **tin was ‘ a big fellow, who
LISKOF W. A. CANDLES,
what institutions shall grow, and in
some measure what shall stand still
or decay. It can look over the terri
tory of the nation, note the places
where there is a famine of learning,
and start new educational plants of
any species it chooses, or revive
old ones. It can do ih many ways
ivhat the government does for edu
cation in France and Germany. Its
power will he enormous; it seems
as if it might be able to determine
the character of American educa
tion. The funds it hoMs represent
only a fraction of che amounts
whioh it will contrc*; by giving a
sum to an institution on condition
that the institutirn raise an equal
or greater amount, it will be able
to direct much larger amounts than
it possesses.”
There is disclosed the scheme to domi
nate American education and it is open
and fully exposed to view. That such
a scheme is good for the counttry can
not be believed. Let the motives of the
men who are prosecuting this purpose
to control the higher education of the
United States be what they may, no
such power is safe in their hands or the
hands of any body. That very able
paper the NEW YORK JORUNAL OF
COMMERCE states the case suggestive
ly in an editorial from which this ex
tract is taken:
“A system of giving which has its
own rules and' customs, which is
governed by principles of selection *
laid down in the beginning, which
ramifies throughout the country and
embraces especially those smaller
institutions that are hampered by
narrow means, is an infinitely more
powerful force in the shaping of
opinion than any single capitalist
who makes separate and often un
conditional gifts to be controlled and
invested by the institutions them- '
selves could ever be. As a mechan
ism for controlling academic epinion
there has, perhaps, never been any
thing in the history of education
that would compare with the Board
.system of subsidizing laming.”
“Gifts to education are like cam
paign contributions in that they are
best made in relatively small
amounts and from many sources.
Under such circumstances they are
likely to leave the recipients in posi
tion to choose their own course in
matters of opinion and teaching. If
they must be large, it requires
greater force of character to main
tain independence of thought and
action. Such freedom has been lack
ing in too many quarters. The spec
tacle of a university president
preaching the maintenance of some
of the worst abuses of capitalism
and another meekly bowing the
knee to receive the money offered
by those for whose acts he had but
lately suggested social ostracism as
a penalty is not edifying. In
stances can be given in abundance
where the mere prospect of an im
mediate gift has changed the whole
current of a college administrator’s
thought and made him trim his
sails on an entirely new track to
catch the favoring breezes of pros
perity. The craze and competition
for large numbers of students has
greatly crippled those who would
uphold the older traditions of inde
pendent economic thinking. In
creasing numbers mean increasing
expense in college administration
and lead to growing dependence on
wealth of doubtful origin. This,
‘among other reasons, is ground for
thinking the enormous benefactions
of the past few years, whether as
pensions, endowments or annual
gifts to colleges, may put our aca
demic thinkers into a moral strait-
jacket at the same time that they
are freed from the cramping in
fluences of limited means.”
In the last national campaign Presi
dent Wilson and his friends avoided
large contributions from individuals and,
corporations. Dominating donations to
colleges and universities are likewise not
the most desirable; and when they come
from huge boards, chartered to live
through generations with cumulative
power, they are positively dangerous.
Herein is the value of having colleges
like those of the churches,—institutions
which owe their life life and support
to a large number of pious people who
by their gifts aim at nothing but the
intellectual culture and moral welfare
of the country. Such institutions stand
in the way of institutions dominated by
boards established and controlled by a
few rich men.
They are stumbling blocks in the way
of the avowed purposes of Mr. Carnegie.
Can he put them out of the way? Har<l-
iy.
The churches are not going to die;
they are going to live. They are not
going out of the work of education; they
are going to do more work in that field.
Mr. Carnegie does not understanl
churches as well as he knows politics
and steel-making. He will find that he
j can not overcome the churches. They
can not be bought, and they can not be
over-awed. They are not going to allow
Mr. Carnegie nor anybody else to modify
their educational policies, or pull down
their institutions of learning. Nor will
they permit their colleges and universi
ties to be denatured by Mr. Carnegie
and his board. When they are fully
awakened to what is going on, their
answer to all these schemes will be
cogent and conclusive. They will answer
with both words and works. The gifts
of thousands and tens of thou -a”us
devout people can not be despised.
That the churches are awakening to
the menace of Mr. Carnegie's methods is
evident from the resolutions of the Edu
cational Association of the Catholics at
New Orleans. The members of that as
sociation have sounded a true note. It
is but the beginning of what will speedi
ly follow. Mr. Carnegie and his board
have under-rated the power and pur
poses of the Christian churches.
When He Came Wooing 1 She Favored
Him.
would have been bigger still if he had
not hunched his shoulders and sloughed
in his gait. He was careless about his
personal appearance and sometimes
careless about the company he kept.
He had light gray eyes that could nar
row wickedly, a jaw as hard and steep
as a cliff, and 'a voice that resembled
the growl of an angry bear. He had.
it is true, his friends and followers,
but most men let him alone. He had
money enough to make him .a certain
power in the community, and his house
had all the angles and cupolas and plate
glass windows necessary to make it
conspicuous and unsightly.
Louis had built that house just to suit
himself, but his wife had lived in it
until she died. She had been a Ter-
williger and the Terwilli^ers were
people of importance socially. They
were, however, poor, and that was sup
posed to be the reason why May Ter-
williger had married Louis. She was
a big, handsome woman, full chested,
rosy, proud—a very queen when she had
on her good clothes. But Louis had
actually worried the life out of her.
abused her by word and act.
For ten years Louis had been a wid
ower, but from no fault of his. He
hacl besieged the heart of every mar
riageable woman in the town. But the
women knew too much about him and
they were wary. They walked by him
and his big house with their noses up,
even the poorest of them.
Then one day Louis went into Sta
pleton’s for something and saw Electa
Smith. He had never noticed her be
fore. From that day he noticed nobody
else.
Electa was plain. She was a tiny
thing, thin, dark and sallow. She was
very quiet, almost shy and timid in
manner. But she had a swset way
with her eyes and a singularly winning
smile when she smiled at all. She "vas,
indeed, grave almost to sadness. fe>e
worked so long at Stapleton’s that she
seemed to have become a kind of ma
chine that knew little besides handing
down bolts of goods and measuring
them off. She had never had a lover.
Life had been a mere mattter of work
for her ever since she was left to face
the world alone. It is no wonder that,
though she had known the worst of
Louis Martin all her life, when he came
wooing she favored him. He gave her
a solitaire, which had not been his
; first wife’s, and she wore it proudly.
| But she kept on at work and would un-
; til her wedding day.
I As soon as she heard of what had
I happened Mrs. Jim Daly went to see
i Electa. Mrs. Jim Daly came as near
; loving Electa as any one ever had. She
| always bought her dress goods at Sta-
! pleton’s because Electa could measure
j them off for her. And every Sunday
she made it a practice to have Electa
up to her house to dinner. Mrs. »Jim
was big and sweet hearted and emo
tional, for she had a strain of Irish
blood in her veins.
“Electa, darlin’,” she said. “I hear
you’re going to marry Louis Martin. I
i wish you’d told me yourself, instead of
| waiting for somebody else to do it.
i iatill, that’s neither here nor there. I’ve
come, darlin*, to talk things over with
you and ask you if you know what
you’re doing.”
Electa sighed. "I don’t know. I’ve
got to find out.”
“May Terwilliger found out and she
died. She would make a dozen of you,
darlin’, in body and soul and courage.
Yet she was no match for that man.
What do you expect?”
I don’t expect. I’m hoping,” Electa
sighed.
‘Darlin’,’ pleaded Mrs. Jim, fervent
ly and tearfully, “the first time he blats
out at you you’ll fall right down .dead,
you’re that gentle and timid. I’d
rather see my white kitten mated to a
young tiger cub than you mated to
Louis Martin.”
Electa took a deep breath and an
swered nothing.
“What are you doing it for anyway?”
demanded Mrs. Jim.
"I’ll tell you all my reasons,” Electa
answered slowly. “I’m so tired of the
store. I want—I’ve always wanted—a
place to live in other than a boarding
house bedroom, with the use of the par
lor when company comes. I want a
home. Louis has got one to give. And
then I want Louis. I love him.”
“You—love—him!” cried Mrs. Jim,
and nearly fainted from astonishment.
Electa smiled faintly. She nod/ded.
But she would say no more. Indeed,
after that there was no more to be
said.
Mrs. Jim rallied herself nobly and
helped Electa with her wedding clothes.
She wept over them as though she
were preparing vesture for a human sac
rifice. She wanted Electa to be married at
her home hut Electa said no; they would
go quietly to the parsonage. Mrs. Jim
replied that in that case she would ac
company Electa.
So on a Wednesday evening Electa
put on her new gray suit, her new vio
let toque and her white gloves, got into
the cab with Louis and drove to the
parsonage, where a small company of
her friends and Louis’ waited to wit
ness the ceremony. And there she
plighted her faith forever to West-
more’s ogre. As Mrs. Jim said after
ward, it was a good deal like seeing a
mouse caught under the paw of a cat.
“But she won’t squeak even when she’s
scared enough to die.”
They went away for a few days, then
came back to the house of the cupolas
ana corners, which Louis had made no
attempt to fix up for his bride. In
ten years of emptiness it had grown
rather shabby.
Housekeeping was new to Electa, but
she attacked it bravely. And for a
I whiie Louis found no fault with her. Then
j trouble began. Mrs. Jim Daly went
in unexpectedly one morning and found
Electa crying her eyes out.
“Oh. darlin’,” she moaned, “I know
what this means.”
“No. you don’t,” pobbed Electa. -t
wa~ the buckwheat. cakes. They were
sour. And—and—oh, I wish I didn’t
j love him so much, Mrs. Jim.”
"You won’t long,” prophesied Mrs.
I uim. “He’ll kill your love for him, poor
. darlin’.”
j So the story got about that Electa
, was having a w’orse time even than,
j poor May had had.
j “She’ll leave him,” said Mrs. Jim
“She can’t live with him.”
“She’ll stay on until he pesters her
into the gi‘ave the way he did poor
May," snarled Miss Tousely.
So it went on for six months or so.
Then something happened—so quietly
and. secretly that nobody in all West-
more save, indeed, Electa herself knew
anything about it, Louis Martin re
formed.
One day it was ticed that he was
wearing a clean collar. This was suf
ficient surprise in itself. But greater
surprise was still to be: One Sunday
morning he walked to church with his
wife and sat decently beside her until
service was over. It was the first time
Louis Martin* had ever been seen inside
a Westmore church. Electa gave a tea
party for all her acquaintances, and
Louis, in a really mannerly way, helped
her to make things pleasant for them.
He went to church that Sunday also,
and the day following a corps of paint
ers and paperhangers began work on
his house. It was further noticed that
Electa was acquiring a sufficient ex
pression quite different from that she
had worn since her marriage.
So it went on from better to best.
Electa gave frequent invitations, and
when she was invited in return took
,: er husband out into company with her.
He was toning down wonderfully. The
cliff-like jaw seemed to be losing some
of its flintiness. When one lovely Sab
bath mornirtg he actually joined the
church Westmore went wild with curi
osity. Mrs. Jim Daly sought the con
fidence of happy Electa.
“What have you done How did you
do it?” she gasped.
Electa laughed. “That’s my secret,
Mrs. Jim, dear. I shall keep it as long
as I live. By and by when I’m dead
and gone I’ll have it written out for
you. That’s time enough for you to
know.”
Many were the conjectures of how
Electa had got the mastery of Louis.
Did she hold some knowledge over him?
Ah, that must be It! It was Mrs. Jim
Daly, however, who found out the only
satisfactory explanation, and that by
merest chance. Her white kitten, now
a grown cat, cornered a mouse one day
before her very eyes. The mouse at
bay turned on the cat with such a
show of fight in its desperate little
visage that the startled, bewildered cat
let it go scurrying away to safety.
“There!” cried Mrs. Jim. “That’s the
secret. I’ve discovered it. The mouse
turned!”
And she told Electa. But Electa only
laughed, without admitting anything.
USE MISS BERRY’S SCHOOL
AS MODEL IN CAROLINA
JOURNAL PATTERNS
9647.
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the side. A round revers collar, outlines
the chemisette in front. The sleeves may
be finished in wri'st or shorter length. The
pattern is suitable for a gingham, silk,
crepe, chambray, lawn, linene or linen. It
is cut in six sizes: 32 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42
inches bust measure. It requires 6% yards
of 44-inch material for a 36-inch size.
A pattern of this illustration mailed to
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9654.
9654—A practical popuar mode.. Boys’
Russian suit with knickercker, Ging
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bray, linen or Uuene are suitable for this
model | For warm days the collarless neck
will be much appreciated, while if more
elaborate finish is desired, the bailor col
lar may be added, and the blouse worn
with or without detachable shield. The pat
tern is cut in four sizes: 3, 4, 5 and 6
years. It requires Sy 2 yards of 44-inch
material for a four-year size. A pattern,
of this illustration mailed to any address
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9675.
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This practical model is suitable for lawn,
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may be arranged under the waist when
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is>int. The pattern is cut in six sizes: 32,
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It requires three yards of 44-inch material
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9676.
9676—A comfortable up-to-date dress for
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This attractive model was developed In
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sizes: 8, IP, 12 and 14 years. It requires
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OUNTRY
TIMEVt
OME topics
CWDOCTED BY \I. H-JLLTCVt -
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
ROME, Ga., July 19.—A school to be
established in South Carolina by t/he
Daughters of the American Revolution
of that state will be modeed after the
Berry schol of Rome. rMs. F. H. Jack-
son, of Clemson College, S. C.. who is
chairman of the patriotic education com
mittee of the South Carolina Daughters
of the American Revolution, recently
spent a few days here to study the plan
of the Berry school with a view to
adapting it to the work of the new
school.
TRACING GENE ©LOGIES—A FASCIN
ATING STUDY.
After I made a trip to Annapolis,
Md., and begun a search for my for
bears in the Maryland land office, a dis
tant cousin whose husband is assistant
pay director of the United States navy,
kindly furnished the direct line to me
from two branches of the family and I
have it straight from Bible records and
Charles county, Maryland, records.
We run directly to Captain Randolph
Brandt, who moved to Maryland in 1674
with his wife and children and settled
at Penguiah Manor, Charles county. He
was born in the Barbadoes and his
father died on the island, 1671. His
father’s will is entered on the records of
Barbadoes, April 19, 1672. The son, Ru
dolph, was captain of Maryland militia,
1678, of Charles county. He was mem
ber of Maryland assembly, 1682. He
was also commission of Indian af
fairs in colonial times. He was a Cath
olic, as nearly all the dignitaries of co
lonial history were in Maryland at that
early period. He died in 1698. His will
is recorded both in Charles county and
Annapolis, Md. His daughter was my
ancestress.
His daughter, Mary Brandt, was the
first wife of my great-great-grandfather,
James Latimer, who died in 1718 in
Charles county, Maryland. His estate
was settled by his widow, Mary, and is
recorded at Annapolis, Md. He left two
sons, James and Jacob. James died at
“May Cocks’ Rest” in 1774. Jacob, my
ancestor, died in 1784. Jacob also mar
ried his own cousin, Miss Brandt, first
wife, and Judith Swann, second wife.
This Miss Brandt left three sons, my
grandfather was one of them, and he
married Rebecca Marshall, of “Marshall
Hall,” and I am named for this Mary
land grandmother. This established
record shows they removed to Georgia.
My great-grandmother’s will, naming
my grandfather, was recorded, and pro
bated in 1811, in Annapolis, Md.
William and Rebecca Marshall Lat
imer sold “Marshall Hall” to Thomas
Marshall, her brother, in 1803. Lib. C..
No. 2, page 147. Land office, Annapo
lis, Md.
My ancestors, the Brandts, were first
represented in America by Captain Ru
dolph Brandt, of distinguished service.
My great-uncles, Marcus and Samuel
Latimer, took the oath of allegiance in
1775 and 1778. Recorded at Annapolis,
Maryland.
I have had so many letters of inquiry
as to how to proceed in perfecting a
genealogical line that I have written
this down for information.
The Marshall line I wrote about some
weeks ago, but I have not perfected the
complete record, except to show that
my grandmother’s uncles took the oath
of allegiance in 1776-1778, which is a
record of highest import in all colonial
and revolutionary records.
Her people came from Scotland, and
the three brothers named their planta
tion Three Brothers. For a hundred
years the lands records show the sales
and subdivisions of “Three Brothers.”
Nine of the Marshall family took the
oath of allegiance in 1776-1778, as shown
on the record list of those brave
signers, from which I copied their
names. It is a somewhat perplexing
but interesting study, and those Mary
land records are the most wonderful
and complete in American history.
ONE OF THE FKA8E8 OF TARIFF
AGITATION
The removal of the great mohair man
ufactory, now located at Greystone, R.
I., to England and Governor Foss’ open
declaration that his large Massachu
setts company is preparing to locate
over in Canada, would indicate the ne
cessity of going slow in tariff declara
tions, until the public mind is relieved
of its unrest and^ indecision.
The struggle against free sugar in
Louisiana is another pointer. It has
been published and I have not seen it
denied, that the committee on sugar
tariffs made a most astonishing report,
and also said that Louisiana sugar mak
ers might go at some other business if
they could not make a profit on sugar
just quit and be done with it. It will
be remembered that sugar mills and
sugar refining plants are very expen
sive things. Millions have been invest
ed in, Louisiana and to abandon sugar
culture would mean untold loss and
enormous sacrifice in many ways. Let
us take a glimpse at sugar making.
First comes the land. Then the ex
pense of planting and getting to these
mills the sugar cane or sugar beets.
Then the expensive refining process.
Then the risk in crops, such as drouth,
floods, or other disasters, etc.
When a pound of clean, good, gran
ulated sugar can be placed on your table
for less than 5 cents a pound, where
is the common sense of striking off a
half or quarter cent of profit?
If this invaluable and absolute neces
sity in food products can be served to
the consumer at that low figure, does
it not stand to reason that this sugar
making business should not be destroyed
utterly—throwing us upon a Cuban or
Hawaiian market?
Are you not willing to give the pro
ducer enough to make a decent living?
With that threat, to find some other
business, sugar is doomed, it will make
a, whole lot of people stand up ana
take notice. It is poor politics likewise
to threaten any, industry with the sher
iff’s hammer.
TRIBUTE TO AN HUMBLE LITTLE
FRIEND.
Several years ago, a generous gentle
man, who lives in the eastern part of
the state, gave me a beautiful small
dog. sending him across in fine style
by express and from that day to this
this faithful friend has never known a
single hour of want or neglect, and
never failed to receive warm affection
from the younger members of our fam
ily. In all my life I have never seen
more beautiful loyalty on both sides,
because Ridley lavished most extraord
inary devotion on his young friends,
and they in turn were never too sleepy
or tried to give him all he needed or
asked for at their hands.
He was as nice and neat in his habits
as if he understood the ways of a gen
tleman. He allowed no noisy dogs or ill-
mannered ones among his acquaintances,
and he learned to ask for water or food
in most respectful ways..
The grandchildren were never cross
to him, and he adored them, and this
friendship and affection never waned un
til he died a few days ago.
It was sad to witness thejr grief
over the beautiful pet as he was laid
out in a regular small coffin and carried
out to the farm for burial in the choic
est spot they could agree upon, for
Ridley’s last resting place in a green
meadow under the shade of a tree.
They have a score of Ridley’s photos
and he will not be forgotten.
I have often thought that the little
dog evinced the happy faculty of win
ning affection beyond all of his kind
and quite equal to humans,
He was nothing but a pet, but he nev
er forgot to be everything that was
clean, genteel and proper, and his man
ners for a dog were quite Chesterfieldian.
He filled his little mission with per
fect grace and the like of him I never
expect to see again.
Minister Would
Convert Thief Who
Entered His House
Returning to Atlanta after an aU-
sence of ten days, Rev. Dr. Caleb A. Rid
ley and his family found that their
house had been burglarized Just an hour
before they re-entered it.'
Dr. Ridley Is pastor of the Central
Baptist! church. His home Is at 314
South Proyor street. For the past ten
days he and his family have been In
Montlcello, Ga. They came back to At
lanta Saturday and Dr. Ridley unlocked
the front door of his home shortly after
2 o’clock.
A few minutes later he noticed that
one of the Interior doors of the house,
communicating with stairs into ths base
ment, was open. The lock had been
smashed. An axe was found nearby. It
should have been In the back yard. That
led to further Investigation, and Dr. Rid
ley discovered that about $60 worth of
jewelry, a watch chain and charm, a
razor, some clothes, and a few other
things were missing. The family began
a general inventory to determine what
else the Intruder had taken.
"We thought you got home about an
hour ago,” said neighbors, greeting the
family. We heard somebody moving
around over here, and called, but didn’t
get an answer.”
"That was the burglar!” exclaimed Dr.
Ridley. "If he had delayed Just a little
longer I’d have caught him and convert
ed him.”