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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.