Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, June 26, 1917, Page 5, Image 5
Aunt JuLia's Letter Box Dear Children: Your letters in the contest have been fine. 1 only wish t could have printed them all. The judj es had to weed them out to thirty and found some too long, some not legible and some were written on both sides of the paper. Dorris Pullen own because of the all-round goodness of her letter, 1 feel sure you children will agree. I hope the book will be acceptable and that a number of you will have the pleasure of reading it. North Carolina comes next in the Letter Contest. The same Titles applv as In the Georgia Contest. Letters must be received between .July 4 and July 8. Winner's name will be announced Tuesday. July 24. Now, North Carolina, get busy. Boys. I want to start an “Aunt Julia Bird club.” Will you help me. How do you like the Idea? Let mte know. I'm sure if you ask the girls they will say “yea.” We will have another “Book Shelf” soon. Lovingly, AUNT JULIA. P s. The books on the “Book Shelf” can be bought through any book store. FIRST PBXXE. Dear Aunt Julia: Here la a girl from north Georgia. I live In Floyd county near Rome, the county site. The place where the city of Rome now jg once an Indian village called “ChMha.” It is situated amid hills and Is at the junction of the Oostanaula and Etawah rivers, which form the Coosa river. The Spanish explorer. De Soto, and his men stayed here a month while on their trip to the great Mississippi. President Wilsons first wife was a Rome girl and she sleeps in the beau tiful cemetery overlooking the city. Sequoia, the Indian boy who first made an alphabet for his language, wes once a resident of Rome. The rivers still bear Indian names The first monument ever erected to the women of the Confederacy is here. There is also a monument to General Forrest, who saved the city from fed eral invasion during the Civil war. There are other beautiful towns. Cax e Springs is the home of the school for the deaf Perhaps our city will not j hold the same place tn histoty that the ancient “city of seven hills _did but we have many interesting things to mark it. *“-‘ or > DOßßlss prLLES . Cedartown. Ga., R- P- ®* rw.r Aunt Julia: I bare written to tbe com * “t tomatoes are rotting, but atoee ; The rfln they xrou’t rot w bad - 1 etev« yo.ro cld .nd am • twin gtri. Goqd by | to .11 the rou.iM- AGNES BRIGGS. Barney. Ga. ™ !&.w-.* "v ctoled rowl I trill be In the fifth grade «Te‘ have *>me flow- er. .o^M?e‘be trre. wbitewnHed. Scb«4 the fourth of May. and we had -om* plays. Tbe name of tbe play I was in «« -The Tom Thumb Wedding.’ I would like eery -oeb to bear from reme Cuthbert. Ga.. Route 4. Pear Aunt Julia and Cousin.: I have just fir.tob*! reeling the courin* **"*£’ en toyed very much. We take the Semi-Weekiy Journal, .nd I think It tbe beat newiqixper p„K listed. Tbe letter box and Mutt and Jeff are “'w.'S?u. have a ‘T'-Fiool at Pleasant Hill tartrtThW- I like to go u> school very mueb. I was pro moted to the sixth grade. I like story books and music and I am ’.earning to ptay this I am eleven year, oil I ers and I am planning to plant a ftower R <£> next spring For pastime I tat and eto with good wish*, to Aunt Julia and tbe winner of tbe couteri. I am. Your loving cousin, IDA BOROUGHS. Sycamore. Os., R F. D. No. 1. near Aunt Julia: This to sorb a beautiful dav I thought I would wrte you. I was X.H to see year yleture at the head of the letter box Yes, cousins. I think It would be nice to give Aunt Julia a oirthday gift: it was so kind of her to give us a Ittter box. Aunt Julia. I eery glad to we a letter eonte«t men tioned In tour letter, and will do my best on it. Mr little garden is doing fine for the sea «nn Ms nears ar* ready to stick, and I bar some small tomatoes on my vines We have a very good .top this season, and are through -hopptna -otton. My letter is gettnr so I will elose. With much love to Aunt “Ai MAKi IM. Haralson. Ga.. Route 1. Pear Aunt Julia and cousins: Here 1 come again to chat awhile. Cousins, don’t you think It grand «f Annt Julia and the editor to let us have a contest ’ And I think It a splendid Idea to pass the priar- around. 1 know ttile one that wins the prize will not be relfi-li enougs. to want to keen his good luck nil to himself.! T wIR describe mv home ft he best place on earth I. We live in a large white bouse about twenty five feet from the read. I have it “The •frergreens.’’ I?»ere afe large ever greens growing all around the house and three beautfn! nleavry trees in tbe back yard, with neks In the front. Tn tbe east yard there are two large walnct trees. At the end of the north poreh I- a scaffold covered with Trav eler’s Delig.it vine. 1 have a seat under it. I call it Shady N«ok. for tiie sun never shines under it. '»>ir oschard l« «n the west side of tbe bouse. I think it a beautiful place. Just as tbe sun* p*ps over El'sberry mountain a purple base - over everything and the sunlight turns it to a beautiful -olden color. The birds stng here al! tbe time «n anting and «Wmmer J tell mamma it Is the land of mocking-birds The "wash bole." as tbe boya call It. to a half mile from home. T take a plnnge every chance I nave. I have a very pretty yard with beans peas, tomatoes, okra. etc. I will e|ove. wishing good lock tr the winner and all tbe rest. I remain. Your loving cno*ln. IDA ANDERSON. Dallas. Ge.. Route 3. Dear Aunt Ju’is and Cousins: Wonder If yon would let such a boy as I in your happy band. 1 saw yon letters in voor corner and I wanted to ere if I could get In. too. I am 13 years oM and not very stout. I live In the country. «!v mi’es from town. I go to school there, am In the seventh grade. I have a little red nig and a little Jersey cow. My bog Is very tarn", and I also have a bull dog named Jack. Wei'.. I must go and feed my docks. Your eousln. LAUREL SHIVER. Quitman. Ga.. Box <t. R. P. D. No. 1. Dear Annt Jnßa: I think It to oo nice to have your picture where all of the boys and girls can roe it. I erjoy seeing your pic ture as much as I do reading tbe cousins’ let ters I have just been reading Aunt Julia's letter about the bonk which to to be given away. I think It to so nice of her to try to make our corner so interesting. I have writ ten to Annt Julia’s leter box before, but did not see mv letter in print. I hope the one that received the book will be very prowl of It. I know I would. Well. Aunt Julia told m not to write a long letter, so I am going to obey her With best wishes to Annt Julia 1 am. MARY JIM COOK. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here I rome to Mn your happy band. I have just been reading the letter box, and It was grand. Aunt Julia. I think that you were so kind to etart th- letter i">x: it is so much pleasure tn aa kids. We enjoy It SO much. I am in th tomato club this year, and like it fine. Mamma has a nice garden; she has beans, cabbage, tnitt-r been*, collards, beets, onions, pepper, tomatoes and lettuce. She has also some pretty sag,-. My iOoI was on’ May 23. and 1 sure wa« sorry, .or I like school work very much: was promote! to the seventh grade: I will be fourteen years old August 21. Who has mv birthday ’ Isn’t this war dreadful? I have an un-le wha has joined the national guard. Surely wish that I conn see him. I live near the little town of Reytnlds, Ga. EDNA PEA RI, HI RST. Reynolds. Ga.. June 13, 1917. Route No. 3. Itoar Aunt Julia Here comes a little w»y tn join your tappy band. I will be five yea--* old the thirt-enth of July. 1 go to Sunda school most ••very Sunday. I have two broth ers and two risters. I have a little dog for a pet. His name Is Rover. Your nephew. GEEEN CARMICHAEL, ' Temple. Ga. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins; Here comes twv Georgia girla to Joie your happy circle. We live in the country, anu like country hie fine. We uelong to the pig club, and like it very much. Uur school aiil opeu in Jul}'. We will b« glad you know. Uur ages are lourteen years. We <an crochet wd eiuoroider, and ire rood of both. Uow many ol you coueuia like to go fishing? We do, and enjoy it fine. As this Is our first attempt, we will close, .asking a riddle: Goes all around the house, aud peeps in at every hole: Would liko .to corre spond with some of the girls aud boys near our age. Wiautng you all happiness. Your new cousin, BERTHA HSYNOLDS aud EVA M'WILLIAMS. Ben Hill. Ga., Route 1. Cousins: 1 want to talk awhile with you all while I rest. 1 am feeling flue this morning, thank you; hope you all are well and happy. We have fiad a fine rain; bow pure and sweet the air is and bow the birds an- singing. This . world is indeed a happy place for us, if ve make It m. Wonder if you cousins enjoy reading nousebold and Mrs. Felton's articles and “One Woman's Story ” Several others 1 will not laenti >n, as well r.s I do. How many of you when you see a good letter, poetry or 1 any good artici..-; you like, cut it out and put it away Jor safekeeping? I do. Say, do you all like flowers? I certainly do. I wish yea , all could uave seen my roses. They were love ; ly crimson .rod baby ramblers, and other ever- I blooming kind, gladioli and sweet williams are in bloom now. For pot flowers 1 have a lovely fern, godfrey '.alia, tuberoses, galleroi geranium. 1 naven’t xiany. My asparagus sprengeri died In tbe winter. 1 have a beautiful farfugiuu. Have any of ever planted the seeds of tbe sprengeri and had them to come up? I would 'ike to exchange flowers with you cousins. <i want a sprengeri. Will give a tuberose for „ne. If any of you cousins have one to give, please tell it in your next letter to tbe Letter Box. I will tell you cousins where I live. I Ur-.» on Broad ;tver in Franklin county, near the I county line, between Franklin and Stepbe is county. I ’ire near a church and schoolhouse. We have fine roads here, and the cars make ; g'ssi use of them. too. What did you all do , Itecoration .ay? 1 went visiting In the after noon. With warm regards and best wishes to Aunt Julia and all the cousins. 1 remain, as ever. BERNICE BEATY. Eastanollee, Ga. x Dear Aunt Julia and friends: 1 am entering th- letter contest that the girls and boys are going to have. I am a little girl from the “Red Old Hills of Georgia.” I live in the beautiful country and go to a country school. Our school entered tbe county contest, of which quite a number of prizes were given, and took a lot of them Contests are very helpful, don't you think? I am in a contest now. and hope to win a victrria. If I do I will tell you about it. I have just finished reading an interesting book, entitled ‘Risen From tbe Ranks.’’ I am only twelve years old end was promoted to the eighth grade. Wishing you all a success in tbe contest. Would like to correspond with any of the cousins. Your little friend. LOCIBE SVTTON. Forsyth. Ga., R. F. D. No. 1. Dear Aunt Julia: Will you please open the door for a little black-eyed Georgia lx>y nine years old? I have one brother ten. a sister seven and a sweet little baby sister sixteen months old. Our school was out about a month ago. We bad a picnic when it closed, I was promoted to the fourth grade. I have for my pets a little puppy v the hoe and pick-sock. Row do you boys like such pets? I am going to have a little potato patch. I also have a little flower garden and an artichoke patch. I will try to answer some of the riddles in last week’s letter bax. The answer to Ethel Hick’s is a blackberry: to Hollis Rodger's, a bed; to Sarah Morton's a candle, and to Gladys Weaver's, air. Am I right? I wkili close for this time. GEORGE BOWDOJN. Forsyth. Ga . R. F. D. No. 1. iv-ar Aunt Julia and Cousins: After some hesitation I have decided to write, to the letter box. I like to read tbe letters very much, as they are all very interesting to me, now many of you -ouslns are members of clubs? I am a j member of the Pig club. My hog has several : f*t plg«. I have two pretty calves which I iam raising. Like most of the girls. 1 do a ! great deal of fancy work. I have just finished a tatted yoke, of which 1 am very proud. I . have lots of pets. Including my calves, pigs and i cats. Mamma says I am sure to be an old maid, as I have two solid black cats. Am fifteen years of age. Rest wishes to vou all. Chamblee. Ga. RTTH PHILLIPS. My dear Aunt Julto and Cousins; I am go ing to Introduce myself as a now cousin from dear old Georgia. I live in the country, just four miles from the thriving little town of Daftoboro. and two miles from Riddleville. I live between the two villages. Papa takes The Atlanta Journal. I enjoy reading it. espe cially the cansfns’ corner. Cousins, I think we shogM all alm high tn life. One’s life, to a great extent. Is the realization of their own ideals. We can not estimate the influence that mir ideals have in shaping onr livre. We should implant within ns -the seed of higher ideals. I am a yonng country girl. My life is very Dill of pleasure and I will toll of some tilings that. In a measure, make my happinres. With health, education, love, and som- work, life to sweet. Vet material things do add to one’s contentment. Onr home is roomy and eom forfablo. heantlfnl with trees and flowers. Then there are the ehiekens. horses, eattle, orehards and gardens to enjoy. In the home there is a great deal of literature. Reading aloud to a favorite method of entertainment in onr home. j discuss the educated, the nnedneated . girl: the girl who has pleasures and friends. . and the girl who. has none, but wo have failed tn mention the mode] girl—by this I m-an the girl who. tn spite of difficulties and dis appointments. never finds her burdens too hard to boar, but takes up her cross and natiently > wends her way over the thorny and rugged ■ paths. Oceans of love to all. LAREE THTGrEN. i Davisboro. Ga. i — — > Dear Annt Julia: I want to Join yonr hanny . band Wo fake The Journal and I sure entoy reading the cousins’ letters—they are nl<to ; letters. What do you cousins do for pastime? ■ I can crochet and make tatting. Who has my birthday? May 10th I was ten years of age. I hoe In the field now and have me a nice vegetable garden. I have Romo corn, peas, beans, popcorn, muskmelons. cotton. syrup > eane and watermelons. I also have a flower I garden. I have some flowers called hydran . gers. I bad some white ones and pink ones. . I nut Mneing under them and on the roots i ' and now the flowers are blue. P?>r pets I i have six kltters and a bird dog—he is a friend- > ly <!«g—and some yellow chicks. I go to school as Weslev Chapel. School is out now. I What do yon cousins think of this war? I • have a brother in the marines. I sure do hope peace will be declared before long. I ■ would be glad If some of yo«i cousins would r write to me. I will close by asking a riddle; ! No legs, no feet, no arms, no head, no eyes, no mouth, no nose, but still it goes. I will | answer Eettle Owen’s riddle. It 1s a candle- • stick when It to lit. Well, bye-bye. i . ANNIE MOORE MABRY. Rrewelf. Ga.. R. F. D. 23. i Dear Aunt fu’ia and C-nsins: Won’t yon let • a little girl from the Empire Sta’e of the i S nith loin your happy Kind of cousins? I Ilw> , on a farm of 100 acres n«-ar Buckhead. Ga., and i like farm life fine. I <»n fruit and veg- ■ : and r» rk In *he garden during rhe • > summer. I x-a> crochet, tat and play the niano. I nav» -woof *h<- •ntest little kltt-ns I for pets. Aunt Julia. I have your name. Who i 'las my birth-toy. e February 2Sth? All of you cousins r-ome to see' me and we will go camping > this summer. I am eleven years <dd and am i in the sixth grade at school. Good by to all > the cousins and Annt Julia. JI’IJA TEAGLE. Burkhead. Ga.. R. F. D. No. 2. My Dear Aunt Julia: I know yon are the r best "auntie” in the world. For yon know • exact'.* how to please children. It is said “Children shot-id ?»*■ seen and not heard.” but mamma says If we arc real nice and polite It • to not bad for children to be beard as well as seen. Annt Julia, i^/ mnst have been at your snggestlon that we have the opportunity of contesting for the nice book. I think It such* a fine thing, and if I thou Id be ao fortunate as to win it, 1 shall be indeed glad to pass it along to the cousins. For that 1s the way to make the world better amt happier. Christ taught us thia beautiful lesson of love and un selfishness. We have been studying It in Sunday school. 1 am very fond of books, paint looks, story books auu school books. Robert l»uto Stephenson and Eugene Field are two of my favorite authors. I have a small bank ac count which one of my big uncles started when I was a tiny baby. Baddy says 1 must keep adding to it, ami when 1 am old enough to go to college I can pay my uan expenses; but I believe I want to buy a nice library ami let -la-idy educate me. Onr preacher delivered a sermon Sum.ay night on Christianity and the war. it sure was fine. I was tx»o sleepy to Rear It all, but I beard him say a lot about the German nation. 1 think the war is terri ble. Tlu little German children have as their toys little tin soldiers, bayonets, drums and guns. The dolls winch arc made in Germany are •eut over here to we American children. 1 sure do feel sorry for the little Belgian children. We American children should be very happy aud good, for we have such a grand country and proud president. And last, but by no means least, » dear Aunt Julia, who really, does love i s aud feels an interest In our Improvuieent. ith love io the cousins and Aunt Julia, your little friend and niece, VIRGINIA WICKS. “Oak Grove Farm, ’ Carrollton, Ga., R. F. D. 2. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I think it’s kind of our dear editor to be so thoughtful of, i:s children and give ua a chance to express auc thoughts. As 1 live on the farm, my thoughts are of the beauty of it. 1 enjoy going with, father and brother to work. Sometimes 1 ride horseback. Aa Igo along I see daisies bowing to me, while along the path are Sweet Williams. As 1 cross the brook I see the clear water, so pure and fresh. There are to bo. seen the beautiful ferns bending over tbe crystal, stream. The birds seem to say. "Cheer-up. Over there Is a field of green corn waving its long green blades In the fresh air. All o$ which is inspiring to look upon. I am eleven years old. LIZZIE SPRUILL. Dunwoody. Ga. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I am a llttlq girl, ten yeart old, and live on a farm iq Wilkes county, Georgia. Wilkes county to the last of the original eight counties of Georgia. It was laid out In 1777, and named for Johnl Wilkes Washington is the county seat. Among, the famous men of Wilkes were General Elijah, Clark, George Walton (one of the signers ot, the declaration of Independence), Stephen Heard. Matthew Talbot, George R. <*«*«»« (twice governor of Georgia* and James Osgood Andrew, the first Methodist bishop from Geor gia. His mother was one of the first converts in the Methodist church in Georgia. Robert. Toombs was another. It is said that a cotton, gin was used in Wilkes before Whitney in vented his. Washington, Ga.. was named for. Geoige Washington. Mercer university once at Washington. The last cabinet of thq Confederacy was held In Washington. T“ e farms of Wilkes are very fertile. Corn, cotton, wheat, oats, peas, velvet beans, soy bea ’'"’ p . e^ a nuts and sweet potatoes and fruit are th« staph* crops. Moat domestic animals are raisei such as horses, cows, sheep, hogs, goats and Poultry. I belong to the Fence Corner club anil have a fine garden. 1 tend to the turkeys and chickens. Love to Aunt Julia and cousins, ana enicae £ u>Wßl) SHANK. Aonia, Ga. Dear Aunt Julia: I am a boy e “' a old. I was promoted from tbe fifth to t sixth grade at the end of school. I am glad school is tut so 1 can fish and go in swim ming There is a creek a little way from home We go blackberry picking and mamma makes pics, jam and Jelly out of our berr **’ s - For mv -tight work I drive home the cows from the pasture, help to milk and bring in th. stovewood. I hope my letter will not find Its wav to the wastebasket. , Yours very truly, J. R. DEJOURNETT. Greenville. Ga., ‘June 19. M>M. Dear Aunt Julia: Here comes another Geor Kia girl to join your happy band. I have Deen a silent member of your department for quite a while. Snrely think you did us a great fa vor to get the editor to let us have a letter box In The Journal, and I think best of ail Is our letter contest. Os course we were proud of It, but won’t wc be proud when we {earn who has won the prize, for every one will.be thinking their letter was just a little bit bet ter than xome ope else’s, but yet don t get disheartened if we don’t get the prize tb’s time, and quit writing, for It will be old Geor gia’s time again some time, so you see there will be a chance for all. How many of you cousins bare a garden? I have but It is so dry It does not grow much. Come again, Ib'becca Whitfield; your letter was much appreciated in our box last week. Certainly un sorry for you and your mother. Am going to write to you some time soon. Will close by wishing Aunt Julia much suc cess with the ‘letter box. If any of you girls and bora want to correspond with me tot yonr letters fly to AUDREY SCOTT. Baconton. •»«., Route 1. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you please admit another little blue-eved country girl into your happy circle from southeast Georgia? 1 am a little girl nine years old, although I’ve never had but two birthdays. I live on the farm and chop cotton, work in the garden, wash dishes, took and help mamma do lots of things when not in school. We don’t have but four no.irhs In Appling county. I expect to enter the firth grade when ouf school opens next November. I have one sister and one brother younger than myself. My little sister goes to school with me. How many of you cousins like to sing? I am very fond of singing nnd reading. Well, Aunt Julia, for fear I will make my letter too long and not win that lovely little book 1-. the totter contest. With best regards to Aunt Julia and cousins. MAYSIE WHITE. Route 2, Baxley, Ga. Dear Aunt Julia: Here I am again, like tbe old proverb “If first you don’t succeed try again.” I im a young farm girl and proud to lie. as I think farm life la very sweet. I im an orphan, ind certainly svmpathlzv with all orphans. I have never been to school, but 1 learned at lewne. I study all I can, for I In tend to ednca.e myself. Some time I will tell you my ambition. How many of you cousins like to write poetry and essays? I do; also like to paint and draw. I have been in ill health for several years, end get very lonesome and wish you cousins would write me, as I love to write ind receive letters and cards. 1 will answer all I can. Will be especially glad to hear from ci-pbans. Hope this letter will be printed. «Vill come again some time. Best wishes to Aunt Julia and all the cousins. (MISS) MONA EATON. Smyrna, la.. Route 2, Box 11. P. 8. —Glad to see you are going to have a letter conjest. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you tot another Georgia girl join the letter contest? I live in the country nnd like country life fine, for I have never lived In the city. I have a real nice garden; have beans. English peas, tomatoes, peanuts and sweet pepper. I go to school at Wlieelon. I study the fourth and fifth grade. My favorite study is geogrpahy. We have a nice library. I have read several gooa books. Have any of the cousins ever read “Strive and Succeed?” I think it is the best book ever read. We had a school fair at the school house last year. I got first prize on drawing .ag doll, dried apples, gourds and apple pie. >id any of the cousins ever play basketball? We have a basketball game at the school house. I have two nice little pets, a cat and calf. My cat’s name is Carranza and calf's name is Wilson. I agree with the cous ins about giving Aunt Julia birthday presents. Who has ;ny birthday? I was ten years old January 20. I would like to correspond with any of the cousins. Will answer all I receive. Well, my totter is getting long. I am gone. Love to all. THELMA WIGLEY. Dallas, Ga., Route 1. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you ad mit another Georgia boy into your happy band of cousins? I am a farmer boy. I cultivate twenty acres of corn, twenty acres of peanuts I have one -ow. one sow, one ben. fifteen bid dies. garden and potato patch. For pastime I go in swtmning. hunting and fishing. I would like to correspond with all of the cousins. I rrill close by asking a riddle: What to it that has four togs, two sides, one head, one foot and can not walk nor talk ? I am yours lovinglv, ALEX TUCKER. Cedar Springs. Ga. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I have been in my sixteenth year since April 21th. I have recently returned from south Florida and am now in the old red hills of north Georgia, my natife state. Cousins. I suggest that we <!is cesa Interesting and uplifting subjects and make this corner the best of all letter box papers. I enjoy reading good literature. I dearly love my text-books. Ijitin. English, algebra and physiology are my favorite studies. I greatly desire tn he a Latin and English teacher in college, but unless the Ixird provides away for which I now see no opening, I will never attain the position I would eagerly grasp. I enjoy work anywhere from the washtub to the glorious old fields whicV Gel has provided to make our brood, the “•faff of life." I do various kinds of fancy work. I may in my next totter give a description of the beautiful town where I,lived and some hints of the high school I attended in Florida. Cousins, please tot's remember Miss Rebecca Whitfield. My sym pathy goes out to her because I know a great deal of sickness and affliction in mv own family. Lovingly, LILLIAN BOLDING. White. Ga. Hello, Annt Jnlto and Cousins! How are you all this bright beautiful morning? All enjoying life fine, I hope. Well. Aunt Julia, you just keep up some good plan to make all us cousins love you. Better every time the paper Comes. I think you are so kind to offer us a book for so little effort. I am small and can’t write much of a letter, but I will try the best I can. for I would be more than pleased to get a book ‘from Aunt Julia if I should be the lucky one. Say, cousins, you all come on and let's have our Dm, aa dear Annt Julia has given u» tbe flrat contest. She to such a kind aunt to ua all. Well coualna, 1 think American People Stand More in Need of Religion Than Rutabagas BY BISHOP W. A. CANBLEB. We hear much of “preparedness’* for war just now, ‘and what we hear is of importance. But there Is a moral preparedness for war, as well as a military preparedness, and it must not be overlooked. It is to be feared that in this matter of moral paredness” the American people are more deficient at this time than in trie matter of rallltary “preparedness.” It has been proclaimed by the high est authorities of the nation that the war into which our country has entered is a war waged for the sake of freedom, and the bonds which have been floated to maintain the war have been called "Liberty bonds.” This view of the war is doubtless Just; but freedom may be destroyed by the moral deteriora tion of the nation as well as by the assaults of foreign foes. The wisest philosophers and statesmen have taught us with absolute unanimity that free institutions cannot survive the perish ing of religious faith among a peo ple. Prof. Goldwln Smith, who was very far removed from anything akin to fanaticism, said, "Without religious sanctions men never have been able to live under a government or law.” Political institutions which do not rest upon moral foundations must, by the very nature of things, speedily fall Into ruin, and morality without re ligion is impossible. If these things be true with refer ence to nations during the peaceful periods of their history, how much more are they true in a time of stress and strain? The American people can not afford to go into war without at the same time turning anew to God. There has been a revival of faith in France, and in England It is said the people are becoming more religious than they have been for years. The people of the United States will do well to return from their backsliding and folly, to their places of wor ship, and seek again the God of their fathers. Without such a revival of re ligion the nation will lack the moral life required for the sacrifices and ser vices which the war will demand. But there can be no revival of re ligion among us if we countenance longer encroachments upon the Sab bath. The Christian religion can not flourish l\i default of Sabbath observ ance. Even Voltaire, the French infi del, perceived this, and said, “There is no hope of destroying the Christian re ligion so long as the Christian Sabbath is acknowledged and kept by men as a sacred day.” The reverse of Voltaire’s statement is also true, namely, that there is no hope of preserving Christian ity if ti.e Sabbath is overthrown. Years ago Justice McClean, of the Supreme Court of the United States, declared, “Where there is no Christian Sabbath there is no Christian morality; and without this free institutions cannot long be sustained.” To the same effect spoke that brilliant Virginian. Judge Randolph Tucker, who said, “Ah! my friends, break down the fence of Christianity and liberty, law. and civilization will perish with It. I wish to testify my belief that the insti tutional custom of our fathers in re membering the Sabbath day to keep it holy as the conservator of their Chris tian religion, is the foundation of our political system and the only hope of American freedom, progress and glory.” Our people cannot preserve so much as clear perceptions of right unless they observe the Sabbath day and main tain the reverent habits of worshipers. A gentleman walking near a Pennsylva nia coal mine saw a field full of mules. In response to his inquiry about the mules, the boy who was with them said, “These are the mules that work all the week down in the mine, but Sunday they have to come up Jnto the light, or else in a little while they go blind.” Wherever the people of any community do riot climb out of their pleasures and toils once a week itno the quiet and clarifying atmosphere of the Sabbath, they become too blind to see clearly the things which <ial<e for their highest welfare and prosperity. Edmund Burke said most truly, that “They who always labor can have no true judgment.” It is equally true that they who do not labor, but pursue pleasure from week to week and never observe the Sabbath or 'attend religious services, lose their capacity for sound judgment concern ing any matters of gmportane. All these things being true it is re grettable to the last degree that some are proposing various concessions dur ing the war to those who would en croach upon the sancity of the Sab bath day. A so-called preacher in Bal timore went through the profane per formance of dismissing his congrega tion that they might work their gardens on the Sabbath. Such cheap clerical demagogy “wearies indignation and fa tigues disgust.” The American people are not so short of potatoes and «o long on piety that gardening may for a time supercede godliness. They may need corn, but they need far more sorely consecration. They need rutabagas far less than they need religion. Our country was never more rich in material things than it is now and it is the most prof/ane folly and foolish profanity to suggest that there is any slightest necessity for any among us to he working in gardens or fields on the Sabbath day in order to save us from hunger. Such proposals are the merest pretexts for destroying the Sabbath un-j der pretense of meeting the exigent needs of this critical period in our na-1 tional history. Akin to the proposals of this kind we may expect to see all sorts of exhibitions offered professedly in the interest of one good cause or another. Ball games and "movies.” will be advertised as giv ing their gate receipts to relieve the blind in France or the starving in Bel-1 gium. Let not the people be deceived by any of these things. Those who propose such things are not the leaders of humane efforts; they are simply tak ing occassion from a time of war to break down the Sabbath day as far as they may be able. They do not care so, much for the needy as they are con cerned to overthrow the sacred institu tion which interferes with their plarts, and pleasures. The American people can not excuse the profanation of the Sabbath with a plea of necessity. We have not so much as the want of ordinary comforts, to say nothing of real necessaries, to tempt us to commit this sin. or to extenuate the wrong ff we commit it. we all ought to drop a f»w lines to Miss Re becca Whitfield and try to make hot feel wel come In our corner. I have been hoeing cotton this morning nnd am tired, so you all come on with your letters and let's hear from all. Cousins. I would be glad to have some of you com<- and visit me this summer. I live right on the Dixie Highway that runs from Tampa, Fla., to Nashville. Tenn. Ro yon see. I see all kinds of travelers which I enjoy. I visited cne at my aunt's recently that live* near the old Indian chief’s house and the old moun tains that Beulah Thornton told you about. Hoping to see this in the contest, I am your same little coustns, as ever. MATfIE SUE SITTON. Calhoun, Ga., R. R. 1. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you have a little girl eight years old in your happy band? I hope to see this letter In print. For pets. I have a little brother: he is one year old, and a black bantam wltK eleven* little chickens. I have three sisters and four brothers. I have black hair and gray eyes and fair skin. I live on grandpa’s farm. Our school is out. I am In the first reader. I just started this year. My papa takes The Semi-Weekly Jour nal. I moat close. AGNES BURTON. Lavonia, Ga. The Thaws, Langley And Aviation Linked First William Thaw Backed Professor Langley, Second William Thaw Wins Fame in the Air BY VINCENT DBAYNE. Everyone knows of the wonderful ex ploits of Lieutenant William Thaw, young Pittsburg aviator, In the French forces. A noted man is he and a noted man was his grandfather, the original Wiliam Thaw, than wnom Pittsburg has brought forth no more sturdy business man, no more broad-minded citizen, no more open handed philanthropist. These two William Thaws would seem to be opposite extremes—the one a builder and the other an adventurer, though he be one of the glorious adventurers. But they are destined to go down in history, inseparably linked together as men who have contributed to the advance of the science of aviation In such measure anu in such manner that they could have had no substitutes. one m.ght count on one’s fingers the men who know, or even suspect, that William Thaw the elder had anything to do with aviation. .Yet, if Professor Sam uel Pierpont Langley be called the "father of aviation’—as the whole world now calls him—William Thaw must some day come to be acclaimed as the godfather of aviation. And he proved a much more attentive and helpful god father than that quiescent creature with most children are endowed. Coincidence, that much-abused word, must be applied to the course of events which have brought both William Thaws so prominently into the history of heav ier-than-air flying. For it was not a de sire to emulate his grandsire in a con tributing Interest in the science which is pre-eminently the gift of the last decade to human progress that impelled young “Bill” Thaw to become an aviator. “Bill ’ Thaw probably knows as little of that part of the glorious history of his grandfather as the ordinary man on the street. His father, Benjamin Thaw, knows something more of It; he is one of the few who have a place on the afore mentioned fingers. None knows the story better than Charles W. Scovel, one of the leading insurance men of this day, who was so fortunate as to have been thrown into close contact with Prof. Langley at the period when the latter was making experiments that made Pittsburg the birthplace of the aeroplane, and who knew, too, of the progressing interest of Mr. Thaw in Langley and his work. And of ft Mr. Scovel says: “No William Thaw, no Langley; no Langley, no aviation.” Mr. Scovel Is a son of Dr. Sylvester F. Scovel, at that time one of Pitts burg’s leading clergymen, later presi dent of Wooster college, and a fellow trustee with Mr. Thaw on the board of the Western University of Pennsyl vania, now the University of Pittsburg. Through his father’s friendship with Mr. Thaw and Prof. Langley, Mr. Sco vel had a part in the lives of these two men during the time the mo mentous experiments were being made. "Mr. Thaw became a trustee of the university in 1861,” said Mr. Scovel yesterday. “He was at all times, until his death in August, 1889, Its heartiest friend, and most generous donor. Mr. Thaw was, I believe, the greatest phil anthropist at that early day when .phil anthropy had not become fashionable and was not a means to fame or notor iety. He was one of the greatest then, too, of that age, a man of so great a mind that his money, vast as It was, was the least part of him. He was ever eager to aid the growth of the university. < “When Pfof. Langley came to the university in 1866 as professor of as tronomy and director of the observa tory, he found a kindred being in Mr. Thaw. They became associates and through Ixangley, Mr. Thaw developed an interest in astronomy and solar physics (Mr. Langley’s specialty) that made them two men of one interest. “Langley was then Interested most in his studies of the sun. These studies obliged him to enter upon an Investi gation of the atmosphere, for we see the sun only through the air and it effects the earth only through the air. Therefore it became vital, in the study of solar physics, of which he was one of the founders, that he know all about the air, its resistance at various heights and its variations. "That is how aviation was born. “For. as his studies progressed it be came necessary for him to sand up in numerable balloons and kites. I remem ber he used to lie on his back, on Ob servatory Hill, and watch the bird fly ing, or the clouds drifting. Before he knew it, he had entered upon the whois problem of flying. He had no desire to be the fatfier of aviation —had no thought of It, but was interested in the matter solely as a scientific problem which was absolutely necessary to the continuance of the study in mat field to which he had dediacted his life. “Then more and more extensive be came his experiments with kites and other devices and his watching of the birds, until there came to him the first faint conceptions of the principles on which flight depended. Then he began as a true scientist must to develop ex perimental data from which to reduce these principles to exact formulae. “He built the old evolving table, steam-driven which could be rotated at a terriffic rate, on the upright of which was an arm that was whirled about. On this arm were fixed blades with which he could determine the speed at which it was being whirled and the angle at which it was breasting the air. It was all equipped with a minute recording device which showed just how much lift could be obtained at a specified angle LEMONS BRING OUT THE HIDDEN BEAUTY Malte this lotion for very Mttle cost and Just see for yourself. What girl or woman hasn’t heard of lemon juice to remove complexion blem ishes; to bleach the skin and to bring out the roses, the freshness and the hidden beauty? But legion juice alone is acid, therefore irritating, and should be mixed with orchard white this way: Strain through a fine cloth the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle con taining about three ounces of orchard white, then shake well and you have a whole quarter pint of skin and com plexion lotion at about the cost one usually pays for a small jar of ordi nary cold cream. Be sure to strain the lemon Juice so no pulp gets into the bottle, then this lotion will re main pure and fresK.for months. When applied daily to the face, neck, arms and hands it should help to bleach, clear, smoothen and beautify the skin. Any druggist will supply three ounces of orchard white at very little cost and the grocer has the lemons. (Advt.) iSfi HOME fcye concutfed by )(«tCon. WHAT INFLUENCED CHINA TO BE COME A REPUBLIC. There can be no doubt as to the in fluence of western civilization on public opinion in China, also in Japan. The principal question Is however, “To what extent is the Chinese affair traceable to western missionaries?” From the earliest missionary movement down to the year 1917 China has been a central figure in missionary interest. The Christian chjirches have for years been pouring missionaries into the ce lestial kingdom. The great paopaganda of faith in Catholic church was equally prominent. Protestant socie ties, without exception, have kept mis sionaries in China and are still send ing thousands of dollars annually to convert the yellow skinned Mongo lians. The United States have been furnishing medical societies over there, more than fifty years ago, Germany, Great Britain and Canada have been equally diligent on this line of work. The influence of a good doctor heue at home is almost incalculable as a preacher. We can have some idea there fore a& to the effect of their helpfu’. ministrations in China to the ignorant auid poverty-stricken natives. The money that goes into China from Christian nations amounts to millions every year. One denomination, the Methodist, North and South, have tabu lated fifty millions ' sent to China since the missionary movement began here in the United Slates. The Congregation allsts report one hundred and fifty thou sand annually through regular boards with another hundred thousand in spe cial gifts. The Baptists of our coun try send as much as the Methodists. All this money represents Protestant ef fort. Catholic contributions have been very large but the amount is not generally known. . THE SBX PROBLEM AJTD YOUTH. There is a difficult problem that faces every parent as to what shall be told to young people on the origin of life —and when It shall .be discussed. In the olden time, a plan was pursued to keep young people, girls especially In ai solute ignorance of this mooted subject. If any subject connected with the sex problem was mentioned in the family circle, the word went round — “send those youngsters out —they must not listen.” This policy turned over to the color ed nurses—the curiosity of the young ones—and they received just such in formation as ignorance and superstition afforded. When the children on the ad vent of a new baby in the household, asked the question. “Where do babies come from?” The general answer was “God made it,” or the doctor brought it,” in his saddlebags, or the granny found it in a hollow stump—or some strange messenger had slipped it In the cradle after dark when all good chil dren were abed and asleep. As a rule, it was the refusal of par ents to satisfy the child’s curiosity— which made them more curious than they would otherwise have been and more susceptible to the vulgar stories and material out of which they formally gained satisfactory information. I have thought of this matter many times and have no solution to offer that satisfies my judgment. Perhaps there should be some printed text —written with care and truthfulness, which the anxious parent can give to a girl or boy, when they arrive at the age, say of fourteen —and where they will under stand, that the origin of human life Is one of a few things too sacred to be gossiped about—among their various companions. Surely there must be some sensible method. FROM A PAITHTUL OLD SOLDLE3. Dickey, Calhoun County, Georgia, June 18.—Mrs. W. H. Felton, Cartersville. Ga. —Dear Mrs. Felton: I have been taking The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal a long time and never miss reading your writ ings, which always interest me. In your last you spoke of the cool weather; it is just the same way down here. The thermometer was down to 56 this morn ing and fire felt good. It Is very dry, as we have not had a good rain since April 5. The crop is Indeed dis couraging. particularly cotton, and the boll weavil has already made his appear ance. I wish I could have seen you in Wash- and speed. That was the basis of the whole problem. ’’With the table Langley made tens of thousands of experiments until he had the formula he wished. All this was done in Pittsburg, with the exception of the formal publication of the data. Aft er the professor went to the Smithsonian Institute he completed the formulation of all this and then began the purely mechanical task of building the ma chine that would fly. “By 1896 he had constructed the first successful heavier-than-air flyer. It tiew a couple of miles, or as long as its fuel lasted. Then he set himself to the task of evolving the structure and ma chine for the aeroplane that was to cer ry a man. These problems he worked out in building the machine he con structed in 1903. This had two disas trous attempts, at flight, both of which were failures through the fault of the launching machine, which sent it into the water instead of the air. That was the same machine that Glenn Curtis flew in a short time ago. “The reason Prof. Langley did not go on with his experiments was that such public ridicule had been raised by the failures of these two attempts that the appropriation for his work was laughed out of congress—when the man had achieved the goal of human endeavor for generations. Men came to him with commercial plans for the develop ment of his inventions, but he refused them. "For the 21 years, from 1866 until 1887, that Langley spent here. Mr. Thaw supplied the money for all apparatus and supplies with which Langley carried on studies of solar physics and hte study of the atmosphere reliminary to the dis covery of aviation. Langley’s belometer, which is now in use the world over by scientists in a service which nothing else has ever been found to do, his con tributions to solar physics, his develop ment and Improvement of the spectro scope—all these were backed by Mr. Thaw with all the money required. •'But just as Indispensable as his money, was Thaw’s other contribution to Langley’s work—a warm, sympathet ic, intelligent friendship, which display ed the friendliest interest in Mr. Lang ley’s ambtlons and dreams and which made Mr. Thaw a junior partner in the work—a sort of humble contributor who was giving to another man the means to pursue the work which he might nev er hope to do. Had Prof. Langley been given money for his work in a conde scending. patronizing way it would have choked hiny off at once. "And to think that the grandson of this man is leading the van of those making the aeroplane, in Its first really great triumph, aid so materially in this fight for democracy, which was so pre cious to the William Thaw of another generation!" ington. I barely got a glimpse of the president. I could not get Into ttie ar cade as It was so crowded, * and being like Zacheus I climbed a sycamore tree and barely saw him as he passed. I saw many interesting sights. Among them was Lee’s home, and as I stood in front of that home I could not suppress tfce tears that wehea up as I thought of what that pi eat and good man sacri ficed for what he considered his duty. I also went to the Blair battlefield within four miles of the city, where we had a skirmish with the en’emy July 24, 1864. General Lee sent Early’s di x islori there at that time to draw some of the enemy's forces from Richmond. It had the intended effect. Francis P. Blair’s house (postmaster general of the United States) was burned, and I count ed forty graves of the enemy that were kiAed in that skirmish. Senator HOce Smith was very pleasant and kind m shoeing us the many wonderful sights in the capitol. In October, 1862, I joined the Cal houn Rifles, Company D, Twelfth Geor gia regiment, Doles Cook brigade, just after the battle of Sharpsburg, and was there until the close. I have the larole I got at the surrender. Colonel Ed Willis commanded the Twelfth Georgia regiment and a braver officer never drew a sword. He was killed near Richmond while temporally com manding Pegram’s brigade. I carried his remains to his father’s home in Savannah. Dr. Francis T. Willis, foun der of the “Mary Willis library” in Washington, Ga. I know of only four of the old original company still living.* one of tijem, J. J. Carson, of Bluffton, S. C., drove General Stonewall Jackson off the battlefield the nigtot he was wounded. Up to now I have been a regular field hand on a small farm, ever since 1870, have raised six boys and three girls and none of the boys have given me a particle of trouble and are all consistent members and of ficers In the church. All of them are too old to register, the girls are too, but I’d rather raise boys than girls these days. The good wife and mother left us in 1902 and I never married any more as I knew I could not dupli cate her. I will be 73 in October. Don’t get a pension and never applied for one. The good Lord has been good to both of us and even though you are so old I hope you may yet be spared a long time to write useful pieces for the Journal Ever your friend and ad mirer, THOMAS E. PLOWDEN. Dickey, Ga. USES BUGGY TEN YEARS Alabama Man Says His Ve hicle was in Constant Use —Wants Another r—r . - / Talladega . Ala- W. J. Carpenter, writes: “I bough# • buggy from you about ten years ago. It hat been in constant use ever since. 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