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MURDER INDICTMENLSAS
ORY LAW FAILIN.
FEN JURORS -9
TRBEES. ATHENS
MINSTER JSSERTS
Breakdown of the Pro
op agn 7 . st
hfbithu._Law, its “oper
violation” even to the ex:
tent of whiskéy bein;
seld to “boys of High
School Age,” was announ.
ced last night by Dr. T
W. Tlpgett, in the thirc
of a series of sermons de:
livered to members of the
Prince. Avenue Baptist
church.
Public sentiment is opposed to
the Prohibit'on Law, Dr. Tippett
said he has been told amnd its vio
lators inclpded “church officials
and leaders” in the city, mem
bers of both “Grand and Traverse
Jjurors’.
The best remedy for the aboli
t'on of whisky is a ‘revival of
gpiritual religion”, and the awak
ening of the “sleeping conscience”,
he asserted.
A complete résume of Dr. Tip
pett's sermon, whiech he prepared
fer The DBanner-Herald Monday,
fdflows:
For What Does the Church Stand?
¢For What Does the Church
Stand?’ This is the quest'on we
are considering and will be consid
erine at our evening services for
the next several Sunday nights.
"‘Wa"mlieve thefilme has come
yhen. . we. . nged 48 _think our re.
f?fign: to ,rediscoiy@r&fié%“lfce égr?j
position of the Christian church in
its relat'on (o the society of man
and to the world in which we
live.
fLasq{ Sunday night fwe pre
sented two things for which the
church @‘ands: and in which it
believes: Firsi, we believe in a
Divinely called Ministry whose
allegiance is to God and not to
man. The Ministry is under Di
vne Authority. We found in
Acts 5:29, that the position of the
Disciples of Jesus was that they
must obey God rather than men,
Second, we helieve that the church
is the agency of the Kingdom ol
God for the promotion and exten
sion of the Kingdom throughout
the world. Jesus taught us to
pray “Thy Kingdom come, Thy
will be done on earth as it is in
Heaven.” The church must preach
and teach the principles of the
Kingdom until.they become opera
tive in ihe whole of human soo
-
“We come tonight to present a
third principle, namely: we be
l'eve that the principles of the
Kingdom of God are practical and
offective for the transforming and
sbverning the life of the individual,
;Ee nation, and the world. We
Lelieve ‘n a practical reiigion that
meets the needs of a practical
world. r
“Whereunto shall 1 listen the
Kingdem of God? 1t is like leaven,
which a woman took and hid in
three measures of meal, till the
whole was leavened.” Luke 20:13.
Jesus said, “Ye are the salt of
the earth. The kingdom of God
is set for the leaving and saving
of the whole world. It is there
fore the mission of the church,
as. the dgemey of the Kingdom
to bring all things under the in
" -ace and transforming power
of the teach'ngs of Jesus and the
principles of the Kingdom of God.
Jesus Clvist must be made the
Jtaster -of men and Kingdoms.
v Need Character
~owe believe the church ought
4o produce ‘character that makes
*gen homest in business, clean. in
Lersonal’ life, just and honorab’e
#1 soc‘al relations, and if o, ovght
t the church to influence condi
tfons that will make it possible for
shen to be honést, clean and hon
srable? .To do this the c¢hurch
must seek to produce a sociely
and a civil'zation in which right
tousness prevails and in which
there is the fear and love of God.
“If Wi geant this ‘nterpreta
tion of the Kingdom what is our
duty to the world in which we
live? ©Ought we not to he the
thampions and defenders of moral
wrincinles whether in religion, or
Lbusiness, or society, or govern
ment. sitice all of these affect the
happiness, the character and dec
t'nv 6t"men? Ought we not to
seek the redemption of society,
making it clean, pure and holy,
free from all forms of vice and
jmmorality? :
. “What s the vosition and at
p+-da of this church-towards the
moral conditions of . this dity?
What is our duty to A,%:ns? We
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Associated Press Service, United Press Dispatches.
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Religious Welfare = Conference Ir
7 University, Opposes 18th Amendu;
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Secrctary of War in Woodrow
Wilon’s Cabinet and one of the
greatest men of America.
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- Tippett Points
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By Dan Magill
No more terrific indictment of
the failure of :prohibitory legis
lation can be found anywhere
than. the two statements .in The
Banner-Herald today — one by
Newton IV, Baker, one of Ameri
cea's greatest lawyers, and the
other by . T. W. Tippett, pas
tor of th: Prince Avenue Baptist
church of Athens.
What Mr. Baker contends in
abstract language, Dr. Tippett
supports by specific instances,
namely:—
That “the habit of temper
ance, which was growing among
us in response to our increased
intellectuat and moral erowth.”
has been “cast to the winds in an
attempt to secure by arbitrary
prohibition what at best is re
luctant and resentful obedience
to. law.”
Both men, one a distinguished
political philosopher, the other a
Minister of the Gospel who has,
and still does cling to the 18th
Amendment, point out, in tha
words of Mr. Baker:
“The present tragic conditicn
in which the most self-respecting,
educated and cultured part of
our community is in open r:bel
lion against a law of the United
States.”
Mr. Baker believes that the
“major ethical gains of life
are from self-discipline,” and
Dr. Tippett expresses the
same belief when he declares
(Turn to page six.)
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ACCEPTED MONDAY
l Forty-two gchoeol superintend.
ents, county home demonstration
and farm agents from nearly &
score of counties in the Athens
territory this morning had accept.-
ed invitations to be guests of the
| Clarke County Agricultural and In.
dustrial Fair at a banguet given
by the management at the Geor
gia hotel tonight at 8 o’clock.
v Invitations were sent to the
‘ county school superintendents,
home ecopomics and farm agentk
last week. Other acceptances were
expected by the Fair Management
by noon today.
At the meeting tonight the final
plans for the Fair, which is arous.
ing interest throughout this sec
tion, *will Me discussed by the
school and farm representatives
in this section,
Grounds for the Fair on the
Shackelford property, Mitche!l's
Bridge road, are be‘ng prepared.
Work will begin next week on the
construction of exhibit booths,
In addition to the many free
attractions. ‘which the Fair Man.
agement will provide for visi
| tors, the Sheesley Shows will be
here for. the- Fair, = This, Show
48 cregited with being one of- the
best falr amusement attraetions
o theé toad today. kb
THE BANNER
Wilson’s War Seecre
and League of Nai,
Defender, Criti
“Arbitrary Prohibit
in Letter to Ministe
1 Newton D. Baker, Wor
| Wilson’s Secretary of War, a
day the foremost suporter o
League of Nations, as well
of the greatest men "of thi|
tion, in a letter to a Mir
I published by The New
)\'m‘l(l, dec‘lares that he has
‘ {lvepl_\' grieved to see the L
{ of temperance, which was grow’
famong us in response to our
i creased intellectual and moy
growth, cast to the winds in .
i attempt to secure by arbiirary pr?
{ hibition -what at best is relucta
I and resentful obedience to a lav
i Mr. Baker's letter, which <.
dorses Governor Alfred 1. Smit
as one who “would make a ore:
( President”.
i M_r. Baker spoke here when Me
{ morial Hall at the University w 3
{(lvdi('szted, at the time the f'rsi
. Iweligious Welfare Conference wus
. held, and thriiled 21 tremendous
| ecrowd by his eioguance. Jfis let
i tar follows:
5 My dear—:
{ I have received your letter of
: Oct. b,
| I am not and have never been
; a prohibition’st. 1 thought the
Eighteenth Amendment wrong at
! the time it was passed, and still
; think it wrong. My reasons for
| this are two. In the first place,
{ do not bel‘eve the Constitution o
' the United States is the plac
| to legrislate. That document ou
i to declare great principals a
donate power to Congress as tb
legislative branch, leaving tk
power flexible so that legis'atic
_under ‘t could be progressively re
sponsive to an enlighten'ng pub:
. opinion. !
In the second place, the
studies of a lifetime have con
vinced me that while there.
| may be some ethical gains
! from legislation the major
| ethical gains of life are froy
| self-discipiine, and I, there
“ fore, have heen deeply grieve:
| to see the hab‘t of temperance
{ which was growing among 1
| in response to our increas
~ intellectpal and moral grow:
{ cast to the winds in an
l tempt to secure by arbita
prohibition what at best
{ reluctant and resentful
{ dience to a law,
I Smith’'s Position
| Gov. Smith's position,
| stated it w'th candor, is }
| does not believe that th
" eenth .Amendment and
s stead act, as they now
| be enforced. Many very
and temperate people
agree with this but grii
consequences of presen
ment efforts, Should C
be elected President ay®@
| candid re-examinatfén
present liquor situgdon my
is that a more rafonal approd®
eo this great prgblem can be de
*\isml. \\'hmhprrm' not it would |
|4~ the exageff form which Gov. ’
| Smith professes as his judgment |
about it I do not know, but cer- |
| tain’y something must be done fr»i
{ releve us off the present trag'c |
| condition in which the most self
| respecting, educated and cultured .
| part of our community is in open ‘
len-llhm aghinst a law of the
{ United States and is lending its
| countenance by trafficking with |
hootleggers to the building up of a
new class of criminals and to a
| growing anarchy of disregard of '
| ol wsrespect for all law.
] In the mean time dJt is to be
[ observed that Gov. Smith has said
| quite frankly that sbould he be
elected President of the United
States he world do his best to |
enforee both the Eighteenth
aymendment and the Volstead act
s 0 long as they remain a part of
ihe law of the ccuntry. Nobody
who knows Gov. Smith can doubt
tha: he means thiz and that ne
will «da # '
1 note vour cotecivation about
f GGov. Smith's being supported I».\-'
Tammany. Frankly, 1 am wholly
eninyre gsed by that (frgument.
Mr, Hoover's nomination was
brought about by Mr. Vare of
ll'll"'uhl]!'z‘!:! M 4, Vare Yis the
head of the most successfully cor.
rupt political machine in America,
built up by a succession of bhosses
beginning with Simon Cameron
and running in succession through
Don Cameron, Matthew Quay,
Boles Penvose and f'nally Vare,
who together have hela the State §
of Pennsylvania through notori
cus. shameless freuds n wvlitu-;.l‘
b mdage since 1 70, Mr Hoover's
nomination was furthe coniribyt
ed i by the so.c ed eolored del- l
‘ l ffom '3 south and by
tho political mazuines: ol ludiana l
and Illinois, in th former ol
which States a Republican (:nv«l
Svhor has recently reiurhed from
(FPurn 4o page six).
ATHENS, GA.,
” WP
CENW._W--
Governor Alf E. Smith takes
his brown derby from the Ras
kob estate hatrack Monday and
sets out to mend whatever politi
cal fences his opponents may have|
broken down in Maryvland. |
The democratic presidential!
nomine?, with a speech under his|
arm, motored to his special train.
He planned to meet it at Clay-|
mont, Delavare, arriving at Bai
timore at 3:60 p. m., for what
his advance agents say will be
another boist:rous reception.
Smith declined to amplify his|
statement that the trend of poli
ical affairs had brousht him ]
more confidence for the last ven
ture of his presidéntial cam-“
paign.
With enly a week and a day !J' |
o before the election, whatever|
he has to say will be said then,
he told his friends. °
John J. Raskob assured thei ¢
rovernor that he might expect to
arry Pennsylvania and that if he
fid his election was certain, The
lemocratie national chairman was
n exc:llent spirits Sunday
light and said that the Philadel
yhia reception for Governor |
Smith means ‘‘nothing but vic-’n
ory.” |
Smith planned the Maryland
our because of reports and pri-| 4
ate polls indicating that this
ormally democratic and wet g
tate could mot be considered;
ure this year because of the un-| P
xnected trends indicated in the g
olls conducted by the Literary .
Jigest and the Hearst newspa-| }
ers, These polls have indicated g
smith a- loser here by a narrow ci
najority . Ve 0
Raskob told ' the governor he
oukl dispel whatever doubt ex-
Bstablished 1881
MONDAY, OCTOBERSS
isted by? his nersenal appearvan:c.
Maryland: has eight etectoral
votes. It went to President Cool
idge in 1924 but was carried by
the democrats in 1920 and is
considered a democratic state.
The democratic nominee was to
be met at Baltimore By the demc
cratic governor, Albert C. Ritchie.
and Senator A William C. Bruce,
democrat. They were to accom-!
pany him on his parade route,
which will extend nearly twenty
miles. After the parade h: will
go to ‘his hotel for a rest and
Monday night will deliver his
Baltimore speech, returning (o
New York after the speech. l
e st 1
. . .
Dissipation Of Assets
.
Charged To Receivers
.
Of Clinton S. Carnes
“Liberal Leans” Listed
That Include Pastors,
Kinsmen, Judges, Busi
ness Men. :
ATLANTA, GA.—Charging that
regeivers for Clinton 8. Carnes, al.
leged abscond'ng treasurer of the |
Georgia Bap ist mission board, arve |
lisgipating the assets instead m'i
conherving them, William Schley |
Howard, attorney for Carnes, de. |
clares that assets should realh |
about 400,000 instead of $235678.
16 listed in the formal report of the !
‘eceivers, The report was flled ear- !
ler Saturday with Judge John B.
{utcheson, of the Stone Mountain |
ircuit, and cut the estimated $958,- |
00 shortage to $717,321.65,
“An.eéxample of the way the re--I
(Turn to page six.)
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o bt
TLANTA.~{#)—Headquarters
of the anti*Smith democratic party
£ :
of Georgia Monday made public
an open letter from State Senator
elect Seaborn Wright of Rome, ad.
dressed to “our senators and con
gressmen”, declaring that “you
| cannot afford to deceive yourselves
or the people of Georgia longer”
with reference to Governor Smith’s
{ position oa prohibition.
‘ “Hach one of you has justified
! your support of Governor Smith
upon a sinle proposition—that as
Presdient, regardless of his per
sonal views upbn the eighteenth
amendment of the Volstead Act,
he could not repeal or modify,”
sa‘d Mr. Wright, who was the au
thor of Georgia's “bone dry” law.
' “For months past in a thousand
i speeches, vou have told the people
that you bhitterly opposed the views
of Governor Smith and ah senators
and congressmen youn would oppose
any effort of his to modify or re.
peal our prohibition laws"”
| “Gentlemen, you cannot afford
to deceive yourselves or the people
of Georg'a longer. Your Tammany
candidate for President, in his
speech at Philadelphia to 10,000
wet republicans, declared that if
Congress failed to follow him in
| his modification of the Volstead
Act and the amendment of the
| eichteenth amendment, he would
go over their heads straieht to the
people and elect a congress that
would repeal them”,
eI e e
| .
R L i
ag Trip
esume Lcng
it |
ATLANTIC CITY, N, J.—~(P)—
The seaplane Flying IMish, forced
down on an attempr rouwd trip to
Bermuda, was ready here Monday |
to resume the i .ht which molor
trouble interruples, . ... 0.. A
VPN
'l \«)'\';l Seo
| swing' ou
on the g
) l'\)rl“ ——
course w
as the 3
North Aj
I Europe.
Looming
the big air
’ York, barely
,' the higher de
} She swung oV
i then headed 4
f parting salute
| had greeted fro
| long Dhattle
: which tore her
| her back for ms
: westward erossin
! Thousands of
| out of their sleej
f.irurw of the Ze
! peered into the s
| lon rray shape
i a she passed oV
( her way to the
of the Atlantic, '
ouUT TO
NANTUCKET ISL/
— (). —The Graf 72
areatest skip which e
a‘r, bade farewell to
States, which, for sou
has been its host and
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TWELVE STUD
HURT IN W
ALL GIRLS,
NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—
Twelve girls, students o
Maryland College for Women,
injured here Monday when
bus ‘n which they were riding
lided witha trollev car, They
rushed to the hospita! but neit
the'r names nor the extent of th
ininries were immediately ava
able.
Eye.witnesses expressed t
opinion that some of them w
seriouslv hurt.
The bus, in which 24 girls
started for a sight.seeing trip
struck broadside by the tri
overturned 'and dragged a
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