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Volume XXXII.
great temperance
ADDRESS SUNDAY
Gov Glenn Tells A Large Audience of the Fruits of An
Intemperate Life and Need of Temperance Work.
Th ere was a splendid audience to
hear Ex Governor Glenn, of North
Carolina, when he spoke at the First
baptist church Sunday afternoon.
The services were opened by I rof.
Milam leading the congregation in
singing “Help Some Soul Today,”
and after the prayer Mrs. Cuuyus
sane with great power and sweetness
• A Saloonless Nation In 1920.” Then
Dr. Elchelbuiger, president of the
Anti-Saloon League, of Georgia, in
troduced the speaker for the hour.
Gov. Glenn began by saying: “I
nm very glad to come to Cartersyilie
[or three reasons.
lgt it was the home of the man
who I believe did more for fallen
iui unity than any o‘her man our
iountry has produced.
2nd. H 'cause it is the home of the
,rave judge who dares to stand by
,j 8 convictions and tries to the best
if his ability to enforce the prohibi
joci laws of Georgia.
3rd. You area people who are not,
lirsed with the near beer saloons
mi locker clubs so prevalent in
our state.
His address is given below in full:
1 aui sorry to tell you that Georgia
ands today disgraced in the eyes of
I** world as a state who defies and
[fuses to euforce her prohibition
ws which are the most inefficient
fall the prohibition states who
ave passed the prohibition laws as
[state.
For a state the third in number to
Ike the stand for prohibition, she
Lads steeped in ignominy and with
I whiskey legislature in possession
I Atlanta.
Bhe stands today the most law
leaking state in the Union, and I
pie to you with the most important
[estion before the American people
Iiy —I come with enmity to no
!, with only the desire to do good
11.
some to you fighting strong drink,
curse of mankind, the greatest
aiy to man. I come with the de
to do you good end only good,
some to you to ask you if strong
ik has eyer blessed any man?
s it mane better citizens, stronger
i, happier homes, more loving
irs, more helpful brothers? If so,
y let’s encourage the repeal law
Georgia. Let’s make it possible
only to sell strong drink to men
to hoys Let’s remcve all restrie
tV and let all who will have all
want.
■ it it i3 good for one it is good for
If it is a good thing let’s sell it
where everywhere, early and
, to rich and poor alike,
ut oh, my countrymen; if it is aot
>oi thing— what then? We know,
ry intelligent man and woman
ws. that it is filling our jails, our
vict camps, our poor houses, our
luuis. We know it is digging the
Ve early in life for many of our
'dry's fairest citizens. It is dis
ting homes, dissipating fortunes,
‘ing lives, breaking mother’s
rts. and my appeal to the citizens
reorgia is to never let up until we
hie Mate of i’s blighting Ci.rse.
it a good thing?
lave seen the strongest laid low.
’ well I remember seven of my
‘fte mates, bright, brilliant, cap
young men, standing on the
s hol(i of splendid mannood.
re are they today? Through the
powering appetite for drink,
p °f them fill drunkard's graves,
ura in the insane asylum and
e ire a disgrace to their state
< t! e crime of stroug drink
only ruins the life of the poor
1 fellow who cannot resist it.
ink of f| le |jf e 0 f w ife, who
not know whether he will come
I 'irutik or sober.
' D k of the dear old mother us
lts in her grief singing, “Where
f Wandering Bov Tonight?"
'the boy is down in the iicens* and
II linking up the money that
8 h <e s and clothing mi soine
f° eat—foo l from his children’.-
Perhaps her hoy is in the
Penitentiary, serving a term
f-titue committed while undei
'fluenc a of -trong I rink. IVr
*r boy is in the ins no as\ luui,
R ° ne > health goue cha> actei
u 1 Per cent, of the insanity oi
"■orv j H caused hy whiskey.
" i er cent, of the idio s ur-
j 4 ' - to 70 per cent, of the
0 cruelty to family is caused
I* e -- to SO per cent, of
; s Ciiu- ’ed by whiskey 73 to 80
THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS
per cent, of poverty is caused by
whiskey. 90 to 96 per cent, of hobos
are made so through whiskey.
There is only one mill which grinds
out lower material than goes in as
raw material, and that is the crime
mill caused by strong drink.
The tree stock goes into the lum
ber mill and beautiful fusniture is
the product.
The filthy, dirty rags in your street
go into the paper mill and beautiful
linen paper is the finished product.
The grain goes into the Hour mill
and beautiful bread Is the finished
product.
But oh, my countrymen; your
manly boy\ my splendid boy, goes in
the mill of crime, caused by whiskey*
and comes out steeped with yice'
body, soul and mind.
This mill feeds on our fairest, and
runs on full time. It feeds on your
neighbor’s boy, on yoor boy, on your
neighbor’s girl, on your giri. It
takes the crown of your home, the
pride and joy of your life, and feeds
on them.
Think of our boys in this mill.
Once they were pure and clean, but
now we geo the giving away of the
physical, mental and moral. VVe see
truth, honesty, virtue ground out.
We see bodv, soul arm mind of our
dear ones crushed nut, in this mill,
where raw material is our pure boys
and girls, and the finished product is
a mass of human wretchedness.
Oh fathers and mothers, think—CO
per cent, of the lost women are lost
through stong drink.
80 percent>of our disgraced, ruined
boys are disgraced through strong
drink.
How much longer will we let this
mill of death and destruction ru: ?
There must be a reason w ; hy we
endure this awful curse. We hud
there are two and only these two
reasons, First, averice; second, ap
petite. Think of the men who are
willing to endure its curse for the
dollar. But God pity the man who
endures it through appetite.
Oh, my r countrymen. 1 plead with
you, rise above appetite, rise above
avarice and free America from (his
blighting curse. There art tboe
who say, “If we take it out of our
country there will be poverty instead
of thrift; grass wiil grow on the
streets.” Where is the man who can
say that whiskey reallv helps busi
ness?
It it does, why don’t tlie railroads
employ the dram drinkers? Why
don't the banks advertise for the
the whiskey drinker? Why don’t
the farmers turn off the sober hands
and employ others.
Every intelligent man knows that
no train is safe in the hands of a
drunkeu crew, A banker knows that
his money is in danger turned over
to a drunken clerk. The farmer
knows no drunken man can till the
soil.
When a man drinks up SI.OO there
goes a hat. When he drinks $1.50
there goes a shirt and hat, $2.50
there goes a pair of shoes. $8.50
there goes a coat. $4 00 there goes a
pair of pants, and I will have to stop
there.
Georgia has placed herself on rec-
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Scene on the stage of the New York Hippodrome iu the gigectie spec
tacle. “America,” at the Dixie Mouday, May 3.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1915.
OVERLOOK HAIRY
Double Daily Delivery
Clean, Rich, Ice Gold
N. N. GRANGER
Telephone 286
ord in her legislative halls as against
the whiskey traffic.
Does she enforce her prohibition
laws? What is the difference between
a state that does enforce her prohK
bition laws and one that does not?
What is the difference between Geor
gia and Kansas?
In conversation with Gov. Scruggs
I said to him. “Governor, I’ve heard
of the wonderful results of prohibi
tisu in your state, and I want you to
tell me if these figures are true:
“There are 105 counties in Kansu*.
57 of them have no poor houses, 5iS
no one in jail, one county not a con
vict, one county not a criminal in
dicted in two years, 63 have no con
victs, 62 uo boys in the state reform
atory', 87 no one in the asylum, 90
has.i’t an inebriate, Kansas has
$200,000,000.00 in bank deposits, three*
hundred and eighty*.five thousand
SUMMER PRICES
Take Effect Evening Delivery
Saturday, May 1 st, 1915
Sweet Milk, quart . . 10c
Sweet Milk, pint ... 6c
Cream, pint .... 25c
Cream, half pint . . . 15c
of her citizens never saw a saloon
nor a near l eer saloon.
“There is less crime in the state
than any state in the union except
North Carolina. The death rate is
lower than in any state in the union
and this fall when the c 11 was made
to contribute to the starving Bel
gias Kansas bent a barrel of flour
for eyer* man. woman, boy, girl and
baby in her state and had more than
enough left for her own use.”
Gov Scruggs said when I finished:
“All that, is true and more.” The
average whiskey drank per capita in
the wet states is 24 gallons against 1
gallou in Kansas. Kansas drill s
twenty-four times less t.haif wet
states. Beats Billie Bryan 16 to 1
doesn’t it. Think of It, one hundred
and seventy-nine million gallons of
strong drink for the United States in
one year.
Heorgia is a prohibition farce.
She will never be a real prohibition
state ns long as H he licenses near
beer to be sold, tor near beer is the
Siamese triplet to real beer and real
whiskev. They can hardly lie sepa
rated.
When will you citizens rise up in
Vour manhood and say it must get
t m
Scene from “Marta ot the Loivlm ds,’ ; at the Dixie, Wednesday, May 15
ou ? How can we, a Christian nation,
leave the curse here when heathen na
tions are driving it out
’’hink of the money spent to
strong drink last year, without count
ing the cost of lives wrecked and
ruined
In our Horue Mission work, both
catholic and prosesteu, we can only
raise $350,000,000 ip one year to spend
on the home land for its redemption
The money that goes for strong
drink is $2,000,000,000, with $2,000,-
000,000 added for the awful cost of
the crime whiskey carries with it.
" Now as never before we need men
who will stand firm and fight this
fearful foe eyen to its death.
God give us men.
Men who are honest, men who are
true.
Strong, noble, courageous, who—
Have the courage to dare and to do.
T.liis is the need of the hour,
God give us men.
Men who position nor money can
bn y,
Men who have honor, men who have
power.
Men who have fa'ith and are will
ing to try.
This is the man of the hour.
Number 23
WIT CW9RE
si opium
Monster Meeting to Further
Industry and Education.
The Washington Post, the leading
newspaper at the national capital, in
its issue of Sunday, Apri 25th, ad
mirably sums upthe aims and work of
the Southern Conference for educa
tion and industry, which meets in
Chattanooga, April 27th to 30th. In
expressing its approval aid admira
tion for this remarkably cooperative
movement for southern development
the Post says:
THK GREAT CONFERENCE AT CHAT
TANOOGA.
“The eager and progressive spirit
of the south is to be expressed iu
impressive form by its leading'men
and women during the forthcoming
week at Chattanooga, where the
annual session of the Southern Con
fer nee for education and industry
will he held. Through the efforts of
a few representative men this organ
ization has been developed until it
includes the best that, the south
produces in educators, business men,
railroad men, farmers, churchmen,
bankers and public men. Together
they form a force that is vitalizing
and uniting the south an i hasteuiug
its mo-al and material development.
“The business men of the south
will meet to discuss and agree upon
•olicies that will help them all in
meeting the situation created by the
war iu Europe. There is a revival of
business; more is in sight; and the
question of securing trained workers,
better transportation facilities,closer
cooperation with producers, the ex
tension of foreign markets, etc.,
must come up for settlement.
“Closely allied with the business
situation is the condition of the far
me.r, Rural credits are to be dis
cussed, both from the state and the
national standpoint, and an effort
will be made to obtain a consensus
of opinion as to the test legislitive
methods to bend .pvd. Banker*,
farmers and business men will con
fer freely on this question. Educa
tion in rural school-, agricultural
schools, and m co’leges and uuivei
sities will b* taken up.
‘There will be special conferences
attended by persons interested speci*
tic branches of southern educatior,
industry and commerce. There wi 1
be conference of grain growers, fruit
growers, bee keepers, live s'oek
miners, teachers of agriuuh ire,
church workers, vocation**! teu< *rs,
agricultural expert aud m iny ot .i *rs.
“The effec iven -s ot th * ou't** v*
lovpiueni fur a *L >*r and r
south, cannot be qu-ntion-d tis
worthy of hearty praise and cc dial
support. The Washington Host,
which rejoices in the ever inereisiug
growth and wealth of the south, ex
tends its congratulations to the pub
lic spirited men and women who are
gathering at Chattanooga and wishes
them every success In enlisting the
interest and coorporation of all the
southern people.”
BURGLARS GO FOR
VALUABLE JEWELRY
Big Plate Glass Window Is
Smashed in the Scheme.
One of the most sensational bur
glaries that Cartersville has known
in many years was committed ou
Bank block last night and the burs
glar must, from all signs, have been
an expert.
The Baker j-welry T store has had a
show case just inside the plate glass
window tilled with costly goo Is for
display preceaing the coming school
commence meet.
Some person took a good sized
rock, w rapped it first in a copy of
the Atlanta Constitution and then
in a towel that was pinned together
with a safely pin aud with this mis
sile smashed a hole over a foot
square in the nig plate glass window,
the same missile going through the
snow case glass. Thus a hand could
be thrust into the -how case and
articles takeu out. Numerous things
were left, but tiles seemingly most
costly were takeu out. these con
sisting of flue watches, lavaliers, dia
mond -tick pins and other things.
The value of the articles taken has
been placed at from S4OO to S6OO.
The lock with its paper and towel
wrapping wos found in the show
case.
Mr. Byfom, the uight manat the
depot, says he herd the crash in of
i lie window at about 1 o’clock but
supposed if was the Greek Restau
rant closing up for the night,