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THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS
■olunie XXXII.
If'S MISSIONARY
SOCIETYMEEHNC
1 >iis,ion Workers For
i e Middle Cherokee.
1 an nual meeting of the Wo,
Union of the Mid
Ml eroßee Association of che Bap*
Kurh "ill he held with the Sa~
l hurcll in Gordon county on
Kaber Oth and 10th. Quite a
■erof ladies representing the lo-
■ d county Baptist churches wU
■attendance.
■ following program will be car-
But:
■ H rBSI)AY SEPTEMBER 9TH.
Wp e ning Session 10;30 a. m.
I
Botiona! Exercises conducted by
Barnes H. Gilreath.
:: *B Theme—'Consecration.
Bress (if Welcome —Miss Jessie
~jHk.
Mponse- Miss Mary Connor.
Btch word for 1915-16. “Have
fl In hod.
Borganization of Associational
■ Appointment of Committees,
Bfessage of the Superintendent
Mir opportunity and Responsi
min Obeying Acts 1: 8; Malt. 28:
Blrs. Joel G. Greene.
■“A Message Prom The River’s
Ik • Miss Hicks’ Message,’’-Mrs,
njßer B. Hawkins.
'Report of Chairman of Publicity
Muiittee, Claim of Messenger pre
'Ad.
>I Report of District Secretaries.
lj |ayer.
I Lunch.
I afternoon session.
Bvotional—Mrs. V. B. Jones.
Bport of Enrollment Committee
'■Open Conference of W. M. U
flk.'
Be (traded Missionary Union in
By Church.
■emotion Day.
|B)efiuite Policy of W. M. S.
B Extension—Winning the othe
'Han.
B Survey—Slogan., “Every Wo-
Bin the Church an active contri-
Hng member of W. M. S.”
B'- Circle Plan.
81. Membership committee, per-
B> contact.
B. The Home Department.
If. Personal Service.—Mrs, A. B
■s.
■ Temperance Talk and Song by
I A. B .jCuuyus.
■ Personal Service —Miss Odessa
. Education or Information.
a. 1 ible Stuly. The Spiritual
ikground.
b. Monthly Missionary Program,
c Libraries, Study Classes and
siding Circles—Mrs. J. M, Smith,
s. Will Kennedy and Mrs. N. C.
derson.
Prayer.
a. Place of Prayer In Missions,
uke 10: 12.
b. Praver a Vital Force in Ind
aal Life.
c. Prayer A Vital Force In Life
Society.
and. The Prayer Calendar, “The
That Binds,” —Mrs. W. A. Dodd,
s Ida Hudson, and Mrs. J. A.
re.
Gifts.
a, Bible Plan of Giving.
b. The Annual Apportionment.
| e - Especial Seasons of Prayer,
|fii Why? How? MDs Mary Fite,
V Mrs. Walter Kennedy.
■d. Systematic Giving—Mrs. J. D.
■tard.
1 Service.
la. Christ Our Example,
o. Ultimate Aim of Persona
frviee.
F- lancie Lay and Mrs, W. C.
Griffin.
Ifaudard of Excellence Attained
F rs W. J. Keel,
l' l,, 'tions And Answers.
|'°-iug Prayer.
I THURSDAY EVENING.
I l i••ri •• a i
■nirig, of Dalton.
I f HIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH.
■ ev otional—Mrs. A. J. Maxwell
A leal Associational Union.
B Ihe Organieation Of The Un-
I 1 he Superintendent. Her
■ district Secretary. Her Dut
■ ' Publication committee. Its
■ and work.
i' xe °utive Committee, the Spi -
S Dynamo—Mrs. W. J. Neel.
i The Aim Of The Nation--A
J 1 and Missionary Union In Every
l rch - How Attained?
W- Distrie. Rallies.
I b"Rom last column, this page.]
* CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1915.
OUR ROADS-THE DIXIE HIGHWAY
When we speak of the Dixie Highway we think of it as something as
yet unassembled, but of many parts that will ultimately form one great
whole with branches to the right and to the left—in fact a gigantic system
of roads with far-reaching benefits to the communities touched, owing to
the fact that there is so much interest and rivalry and the real proposed
highway has portions of its course as yet undecided upon.
There is organization behind the movement that is sure of fruits.
There is a home office at Chattanooga of the Dixie Highway Associ
ation and local councils along from the Mason and Dixon line to the Flor
ida coast, and all the time while there is talk there is work being done and
many communities have taken up a rivalry in pushing things, each striving
to be sure of being made a part of the great route.
This is all to the good for the roads, as, whether a community striving
for such gets on the route or not, they will be sure of good roads and will
invite travel and will get more or less of it.
When a municipal board once was considering the matter of a wooden
pavement a noted wit said, “When they get their heads together they will
have it.” We do not use this piece of wit to discredit those who are giv
ing their attention to this highway; for they are men of intelligence, pub
lic spirit and earnestness and they are putting things on the highway of
success.
Bartow county is to he roundly congratulated that she is so logically
situated that she is sure of a section of the highway running through the
county.
Our commissioners have been making good headway on making the
roads what they should be. A wonderful amount of grading work has
been done by the present board and by former boards of commissioners
and there are few roads that are not ready for surfacing, in which case roads
so treated will be “all the year” roads.
Bids were invited for the meeting of the commissioners yesterday for
the surfacing of the new Allatoona section of road.
Other such work will follow as circumstances shall warrant.
There has been a wonderful revolotion in road building the country
over in the last few years. ;
The automobile, which has come to 'stay, is, in a large measure, f the
cause of this. The speedy travel possiblejby thesefmachines admits ofjno
delays by ruts and bumps and mire of the days agone, and every
community been coming up on the question of good roads and every
man is a road enthusiast and informed.
Vs better roads has been the demand, so has newer kinds, adapted to
the m travel. The old macadam, so long in favor, the suction from auto
tires pulling the boulders loose, has caused this class of roads to be less in
favor, and various kinds of material for road bed and surfacing are begin
with success.
Since, in Georgia, the convicts are being used on the roads in all sec
tions of the state, good roads are the cry, high named highways or notr
Thank goodness, Bartow is not asleep and on roads will speak for
hemselves and for our thrift and progressiveness.
Chairman Burton, of the Bartow county Board of Commissioners
calls the Allatoona section of road “the gateway to the south,” and such it
would seem, as neither to the right or to the left is there much ceance to
get through the hills.
Number 41
JUDGE IITE ON EH
CASE AND BEAVERS
Law Enforcement Is Needed
To Stop the Mobs.
Judge A. W. Fite iu his charge to
the grand jury at the opening of
Gordon Superior Court at Calhoun
last week took occasion to refer to
the lynching of Frank and Chief of
Police Beavers being discharged off
the Atlanta police force in Atlanta.
The Calhoun Times of last week
says:
“Judge Fite's charge to the graud
jury was, in the main, along the us
ual lines, calling the attention of
the jury as to their duty in both ci*
yil and criminal matters, stressing
the importance of good public roads
and sehools and to the importance of
frnooing the criminal laws of the
state; and in this connection he said:
“Two lyncliings have recently oc
curred in Georgia which were shock
ing and deplorable--one the official
lynching of chief of police Beavers,
and the other was the physical
lynching of Frank. There was no
excuse for the former, and no justi
fication for the latter. Beavers was
lynched for enforcing the law, and
Frank was lynched for violating the
law. The men who lynched Frank
were as law-abidin g citizens and act
ed from purer motives than the
who lynched Beavers. The mtn
most responsible for the lynching of
Frank were the Superior Oourt
Judges who tried him and passed on
his motions for anew trial, and the
Goyeruor who commuted his sen
tence to life imprisonment. The
Judges didn’t have the courage of
heir expressed convictions, and the
Goyeruor 3hould not have passed on
the application for commutation, on
account ot his relationship to the
case through his law partners. It is
true that Tom Watson used his gat-
ling gun with telling effect, but the
Governor furnished the ammunition,
though I believe he acted conscien
tiously.
“If Prank had been granted anew
trial (and he was much more entit
led to one than was the negro would
be rapist from Gordon County, who
is now in the penitentiary in spito of
the Judges who granted him anew
trial] he could and would have beeu
again tried and convicted, and pro
bably hanged loner ago, aud we
would have beeu saved the horror of
r lynching at the hands of an en
raged people.
The way to prevent lynching is to
enforce the law—eyery law. vigor
ously, courageously, fairly and im
partially, and without fear, favor or
affection, reward, or the hope there
of, except that reward which comes
from a conscientious discharge of
duty. But this is not being done in
the City of Atlanta, Savannah aud
other large cities of the state. The
law, especially out prohibition law,
is being openly notoriously and sha
mefully violated every day, all of
which creates disrespect for the law
and for the courts and leads to
lynching and all sorts of lawlessness.
There may be worse and more dan
gerous things than mobs. There
may be circumstances resulting from
failure to enforce the law. in which
mob violence may be the highest ev
idence of respect for and obedience
to law. aud I fear that we will have
more mob violence in Georgia if we
do not enforce the law. If the courts
don't enforce the laws, the law-abid
ing people will, even if they have to
violate the law in doing so,
There never was a time in the his
tory of Georgia when the ptople had
less respect for our laws and courts
than now and it is main!}' the re
sult of a failure on the part of
officials to do their duty. I sincerely
hope that the good people of Geor
gia will get together and stand by
our laws and help the courts to en
force them every one of them.
This is the way and the only way to
prevent crime and avoid lynching,
b. Enlisting the Un-enlisted
Churches,
c Training Local Leaders,
3, The Orphans Home—Mrs. Ro
sa Robertson and Mrs. Levi Shaw.
4. The Mary P. Willingham School
-"Miss Lillian Greene.
5. The Emma L. Amos Memorial
Fund--Mrß. J. H. Gilreath.
6. The Traiuing School Enlarge
ment-Miss Odessa Law.
Prayer.
Lunch
Afternoon Session.
PeyotionaN-Mrs. John Foster.
Young People’s Program In Charge
of Mrs, O. D. Fleming.
Questions And Exchange Of Plans.
Above the Machinery, the Vision.
Report of Committees.
Closing Song and Prayer.