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BAINBRIDGE, DECATUR COUNTY. GEORGIA. FRIDAY^ JUNE 1T>, \
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riZENS WRITE.
Search Light:
rticle in your last week’s
arresting the name of H.
for Mayor hit the spot
majority of the voters of
and caused a sensation.
, chief topic of the men
corners and in the stores
dices. They all seem to
that the nomination of
ra p e r would be the solu-
the mayor’s race at this
Died Sunday Evening.
Draper is a young man,
vigor and. ambition, is
dedged a fine business
i splendid financier who
s in progress on all lines,
ted he would be for every
nent in the way of im-
nents and would leave no
unturned that would be for
pbuilding and growth of
ridge
Draper would throw his
soul and vigorous young
ood in the working out the
problems that will confront
idge during the .next two
nbridge, situated like she
graphically speaking, ought
the size of Macon, and she
ever attain this height un-
! elects a man at the head
1 city government who has
mfidence of our entire peo-
s a fine business man, a
financier, a moral man,
i approached by the humb-
itizens to the wealthiest,
ink H. C. Draper over from
me he came among us until
;ood hour and see if he does
leasure up to the full statue
1 the above. We hear that
Draper has been approached
bout 75 voters since the arti-
ppeared. and urged to make
race. Mr. Draper very mod-
said that he was not seek-
the office, but we hope he
yet see that it is his duty to
his name to be used
ow as to Mr. Callahan, who
man of large means, and a
citizen. But unfortunately
Mr. Callahan, he has held
too long, and like a good
others who have had a
lease on office, has incurred
displeasure of a good many
le. It is not our purpose
to say whether he is to
le or not: the fact remains
ill be seen hy the vote for
mian last election, also that
County Commissioner,
rsunally as a citizen we re-
Mr. Callahan very highly,
right now is the -crisis with
bridge. She is just passing
ugh two years of strife and
itention municipally speaking,
it has done Bainbridge no
at all. We have heard a
xl many suggest that the best
ng Mr. Callahan could do for
best interest of Bainbridge
his time, would be to grace-
On last Sunday evening death
took away Claude, the eleven
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. R.
A. Reynolds of Reynoldsville,
Ga. He was the only son of
Mrs. Reynolds; Mr. Reynolds
having been married three times.
Claude was an energetic child,
and was always willing and
anxious to do his parent's and
teacher’s will, showing that he
had learned early in life the most
important lesson—obedience. It
seems hard to his little sisters to
do without him, but remember
that “that all things work to
gether for good to them that love
the Lord.”
Claude was always kind and
gentle to his little school mates
and teachers and was dearly lov
ed by them. A little chair is
vacant in the home that cannot
be filled, and there is a vacancy
in the school that makes us feel
sad. But to the bereaved ones I
would say: Look to Jesus for
comfort, for on one occasion he
was sorrowful almost unto death,
but he kept his eyes on God who
was able to deliver him from all
sorrow. My loss in this case is
Heaven’s gain, for I feel sure
that Claude is safe in Fathers
care.
Heaven is dearer to us since
we have so many loved ones gone
over there.
Life is made up of golden
chances—opportunities to do
good. One lost is lost forever.
If children miss doing a kindness
to a playmate, they can never do
that kindness again. If they
might speak a pleasant word and
they do not, they cannot have
just that word to speak again.
Every opportunity that passes
is just past forever and takes
with it something that cannot be
called back.
For this reason we should
watch for and carefully utilize
every opportunity to do good.
So let us all "press towards
the mark for the prize of the
high calling of God in Jesus
Christ,” and some sweet day we
will clasp hands with Claude
and engage with him in singing
the songs of the redeemed ones
at home.
Ida Mae Dabney,
Lynnville, Tenn
CAPT. R. L. HICKS REPLIES TO OPEN
LETTER OF MR. GEO. H. HARRISON.
My Dear Mr. Harrison: |an industrial depression, there
With one tongue and one voice' can never he hard times ;-
the workers are applauding your no hunger, no poverty, no lack
timely letter. This is a good!of education, no millionaires, no
coarse, purse-proud ignoramuses.
sign. It shows that the workers
are ripe for rebellion against
graft, hypocrisy, humbug and
harmony. It reminds the work
ers of a former harmony cam
paign achieved by the toss of a
dollar, which proved the prelude
to a carnival of waste. It shows
that the day for fooling the
workers is past. It shows that
the workers know the Occupa
tion Tax to be a device to make
the poor pay the taxes of the
rich. So with the street tax, the
poll tax, the road tax, the tariff
tax and all other per capita tax
es. All such laws will be abol
ished when the workers come
into political power, but not be
fore. For the rich have control
led all the offices and made all
the laws for four thousand years,
and have made them all in their
own interest. Not once during
all these centuries have these
rich law-makers made a law in
the interest of the poor except
when frightened into doing so
by the deep mutterings of the
working class. And then there
was always a Supreme Court or
some other handy device at hand
to nullify such laws as proved
inconvenient to the master
class.
But unjust taxes are merely
the last pickings after the capi
talists have reduced the workers
to a state of slavery through in
terest, rent and profit. The
Southern slave owners took all
their slaves produced except
food, clothes and cheap cabins.
But no slave owner forced his
negroes to forego a portion of
their necessary food and clothes
Card From Mr. Harrison
To the Patriotic Men of Bain
bridge:
Fellow Citizens:
Momentous events are await
ing your decision at the coming
election. No people have a yoke
W. C. T. U. NOTES
THE CHILDREN'S MAGAZIN
St. Nicholas, always a chil
dren’s favorite, is at the Library.
The May number has some un
necks are bent to receive the
Such, Mr. Harrison, is the 1 yoke.”
remedy we offer for the ills of j. If the history of the world
which you complain. It is Socia-1 proves anything it proves that
imposed upon them unless their i usually bright stories and arti-
lism full strength. We don’t
ask the workers to adopt it. We
ask them to study it. .Then they
will adopt it without being ask
ed. Our campaign is a cam
paign of education, and it never
stops. We strive every day in
the year to induce the workers
to subscribe for Socialist news
papers and to read Socialist
books. We waste no time on
the capitalasts. We don’t need
them. The workers have 85 per
cent of the votes, a majority of
nearly six to one. Hence, it is
only a question as to when the
Sleeping Lion will wake.
A word to the workers and I
am done. KEEP OUT OF THE
JUNE PRIMARY. Don’t walk
into that slave trap. Let the
capitalists put out any ticket they
please in June, and elect it in
January if they CAN! Any cap
italist Board will do its best for
the capitalists, and that spells
the worst for the workers. For
the interests of the capitalists
are diametrically opposed to the
interests of the workers at all
times and in all places, under all
circumstances and from all pos
sible viewpoints. Eugene V.
Debs expresses it in a nutshell.
“Every capitalist is your enemy
and every working man is your
friend.” Keep out of the June
Primary, register in November
and go to the polls on the first
Saturday in January free to vote
as you please. Then if you wish
you can vote for Socialism which
Liynnvilie, lenn.
Teacher of Revnoldsville School
Draper will Not Ron
The editor of the Search Light
took time this morning to make
investigations as best he could
with reference to Mr. H. C.
Draper’s candidacy for Mayor,
and he has it from good author
ity that Mr. Draper will not be
a candidate.
A very strong pressure has
been brought to bear upon Mr.
Draper to induce him to enter
the race, but during the whole
time he has respectfully but
firmly declined.
There is no doubt that Mr.
to pay their master’s taxes. I will gi ve to you-thefuJL value of
That crowning infamy is em-W toil with which-> can
bodied in per capita taxation. | Purcnase for your families the
But interest, rent and profit: 1 * 8 *houses, the best clothes,
are the three big robbers that the best furniture the be^food,
take untold billions from wage the best books, the best;
workers and small farmers with- t>on; and no man w.ll
out one penny of compensa
tion. J
It is the mission of the Socia
list party to abolish interest, rent
and profit, as well as unjust
taxes and graft.
Under Socialism the govern
ment wilj acquire as much land
as is needed, hence there will be
no rent to pay. The government
will furnish all the money need
ed, hence there will be no inter
est to pay. The government
will sell all goods at cost, hence
there will be no profit to pay.
The government will give em
ployment to all who want to
work, hence there will be no
army of unemployed. The gov
ernment will require all to work
duca-
your
boss. Or, if you pro^'^ou
can vote *br capitalian whiV."
will continue to rob jtti of four
fifths of your earningfrind make
it necessary for your iffi-dlies to
stint themselves in food?
ing, furniture, books and edu&P^
tion, to live in shabby rented
houses, while your boss may
discharge you without cause and
and without notice, and throw
you and your families into the
street to starve like friendless
dogs.
Our Socialist ticket is compos
ed of seven workingmen. This
gives to the workers of Bain
bridge their first opportunity to
vote for their own interest and
their own class. Our candidates
stand for the workers. They
are more'-Compctent to fill the
mankind are afflicted by mental
and spiritual, as well as physical
epidemics—contagious diseases
of the mind and spirit as well us
the body.
The Moral Uplifter, a spiritual
iceburg, is a product of this epi
demic. He believes that God is
just a little larger than himself
and has grahted to him a Cart-
blanche to reform humanity.
His mind is in a chronic state of
Fermentation, preparing Yokes-
human inventions and human
laws to control immortal spirits.
He is not a Teacher of men, but
a Driver, Overseer and Judge,
and those men who decline to ac
knowledge hi., supremacy, he at
tempts to control through brutal
laws adapted to the Goat and the
Mule, but never to the human
mind.
He believes in Physical Reme
dies to cure Spiritual Diseases,
in Human Power and Persecu
tion to Force Temperance Virtue
and Character into men.
Standing upon the foothills of
the 20th century, he is more
grossly ignorant of Spiritual
Truth than Nicodemus was in
the presence of the Master Spir
it of all worlds.
Bellowing louder than the Bulls
of Bashan for reform, he usually
votes the prohibition ticket and
drinks all the free liquor his
friends set up. He would place
in the seat of power men who
would plunder the poor, rob
every man of his natural bom
rights and Muzzle Everything In
The Town But the Dogs.
He wants to “clean up the
town,” the State and the Nation
and yet his private life, as a
rule, is as crooked as a Ram’s
Horn. Showing all the signs of
spiritual blindness, a thousand
years of spiritual evolution may
be required ere the Light that
shines from the Etern£l could pen-
trate the Material Crusts separ-
or starve, hence the working)
hours will be greatly reduced I capitalists in the
Under capitalism the w'TKer
works for a master who
riates four fifths of the ’
earnings, leaving the
r^iprop-
,»rker’s
-Z.O wioii ~
City. FoiAjhey have studied Soc
ialism man who lias a fair
, knowledge f Socialism, is'better
educated, a i letter qualified to
make and administer laws than
any capitalist i ,410 is ignorant of
| Socialism, it matters not how
cles:
"Young Crusoes of the Sky”
is a very interesting serial story
dealing withing the adventures
of some young balloonists:
“Team-Mates” is a combination
tennis-foot-ball tale; and "Doro
thy, the Motor Girl.” begun in
this number, promises to be quite
entertaining.
A series of articles on the
“Battle of Baseball” is timely
giving pointers as to how the
champions play the game, and
what is best worth while for the
amateur.
Reading privileges at the
Library are free to children
through vacation.
FOR THE FARMER’S WIFE
Mrs. VV. P. Jarrett of White
Plains, Ga., is making a name
and fame for herself as a far
mers wife.
Not long ago. the Atlanta Con
stitution had an article on the
progressive work she had accom-
nlished on her farm near White
plains. It proved so inspiring to
others that Mrs Jarrett has been
invited to address the Georgia
Federation of Women’s Clubs,
at their meeting in Bainbridge^
next November.
Mrs. Jarrett was a pupil of ex-
Governor Norihern, and after
seeing an account of her wonder
ful success at farming, he wrote
her an enthusiastic letter of
praise. Among other things, he
said, “I do not know a woman
more to be commended for wis
dom and skill of her business.
Your unusual worth is not by any
means confined to your immedi
ate family, nor your local com
munity you belong to the world
of women.”
When she addresses the con
vention here next fall, every far
mer and every fanner’s wife in
Decatur County should come out
to hear her.
W. ,C. T. U. INSTITUTE
Tiie State W. C. T. U. believes
that the most effective way by
which which to enforce our PRO
HIBITION LAW, or any other
law, is bv “writing it upon the
hearts of the people.” The
quickest and surest way to do
^ vay
atinghim from Spiritual Truth. this is by a SYSTEM OF EDU-
and Power. CATION, and the best system, of
Fellow Citizens, you need to! which we know, is that of “AGI-
quarantine and fumigate against ;TATION, EDUCATION AND
this self anointed saint, for his ORGANIZATION” as carried on
evil uinfluences upon husiness,
polit. k and True Religion is
worse'nan the hookworm. He
would m».J<e Bainbridge too lone
some to be buried in.
“My kingdom is not of this
world,” thundered the glorious
Nazarene uponr more than one oc
casion. Thank God, He neverap
pealed to Ceaser, Pilate or He
by the Womans Christian Tem
perance Union; and to this end
we arc arranging to hold W. C.
T. U. Institutes in each Congres-
sion District in the State. There
will have delegates from all
places having unions; but there
are many places in each district
unorganized, and we are making
an effort to get from each of
ing
return in a suitable notice.
6-16 t-f. H. F. Hamil.
The revival at the Methodist
church is growing in interest at
each service. Evangelist Bass
is expected to arrive tonight.
! It is hoped tiiat a great meeting
I will result
rod for help and does not appeal to [ these places one or two delegates,
the Uni ted States Government, to, Christian women of culture and
the Legislatures, City Councils j influence from the largest and
or Courts of any county and why?; most prominent churches of
Because His Kingdom is Spiritual different denominations to
and not Temporal. Glory be attend these Institutes,, with a
to God! He never went after! view to “getting a hold” to effect
a man with the Law, with a city! an organization. A live W. C
Marshal or a Policeman’s Club. :T. U. will help every branch of
but with the Truth only, spoken in Christian enterprise in any locali-
words and deeds that have long ty. Places that have such un-
si nee become immortal. No, no, ions testify to the fact that they
my poor fellov/mortals, the Migh-i give renewed impetus to Sunday
ty Spiritual Lighthouse that stood j schools, Home and Foreign Mis-
upon the shores of Galilee never sionary work, and stimulate all
called upon Detectives, Grand moral and religious reforms.
Juries, Court Houses. Chain-; The Institute of the second
gangs and Prisons to win His 1 congressional district meets in
mighty victories. Neither is the Bainbridge June 20th and 21st.
majesty, glory and final triumph It will be educational to those
will alwavs be exactlv equiva-1 ! 0 f His eternal kingdom depend- not in touch with the work and
lorn to the value of the goods in Ch(,ose you t . hls , day , whor . n ye ent upon Ballot Boxes and Church an inspiration to all who are in
lent to the value ot tne gooas in i win whether the class. Politician9i sympathy.
the government s hands, hence. which hag ro bbed you for forty Away with this fellow and the The public is cordially invited
there can never lie overproduc- i .., murje8 or your w j ve s. your! Stuff that he stands for, for he to attend the day sessions and
tion. there can never be under b ‘bj e s and yourselves. j is destroying the Church and the! the night, meetings. The pro-
there can never be Very truly yours, I Government. | gram and place of meeting will
R. L. IIicks. | Geo. H. Harrison. [ be announced later.
Ly retire from the race before 1 Draper highly appreciates the
s opposition in the primary, j strong support that has been of-
do this now without any j fered him unsolicited.
rrassment to himself and; *Di_
kl a hot and bitter fight that; NOllCC 10 latrOIlS. worker $1.75 a day; under Soria
ocialists will wage against! j will be in Atlanta for a month ; li«n the worker will work ,,or
marshalling all those who toM specia i cour6e in Den-; himself through his own gov'Fn-
ot Socialists, but who have j tjst nd immediately on finish-jment, and will keep all he er/‘ns, y universjties he may hold
for him, with a long fight L wjll announce date of my j $10.00 a-dny. *' - , v I
Jill next January. j
Kith Mr. Draper as a candi-;
| the Socialists would stay in,
Jfield, but they would not
a hard fight on Mr. Drap
es we heard some prominent
»g them say, had Mr. Drap-
Lme out first they did not
Lve the Socialists would have
fcut a candidate at all.
Citizens.
li.uua-ctny. J degrees from, or how many
Under Socialism the amohnt of, djrty dol|arg he may have ac .
money in the workers hands | eumulated b y robbing Labor.
consumption,
a panic, there
can never