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NUMBER 50.
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FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, JUL
METHODISTS
ATTACK THE
DANCE HALLS
“Recruiting Place” . for
Immoral Living, Assert
Resolutions, So War on
Them Is Declared.
South Atlanta District
Conference, Represent
ing 16,000 Churchmen,
‘Takes Action.
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The modern dance and dance halls,
as patronized by young people, were
severely' criticized and condemned in
strong resolutions -adopted by the>
South Atlanta District Conference of
the Methodist Church, in session at
East Point, recently. The conference
represents a membership of 16,000
Methodists.
Dtiscribing the dance hall as a “re
cruiting station for immoral living,”
and a place where “low ideals are
engendered by the close contact of
the sexes (and consequently loose liv
ing is encouraged,” the members of
the conference pledged themselves in
the resolutions to fight against this
“growing evil” and endeavor to erad
icate it.
The resolutions follow:
“As guardians of religion in the
churches and advocates of high ideals
in morals among people, we look with
real anxiety and" some trepidation upon
the encroachments made by the devo
tees of the modern dance upon the
purity of the young people of our day ,
both male and female.
“Modern ballrooms (are but places
where; low ideals of morality are en
gendered by the close contact of the
sexes and consequently loose living is
encouraged. With regret we assert
that they are being lowered to the
ignoble positions of being considered
as recruiting stations for immoral liv
ing and hence are the enemy of pure
•■religion, the arch enemy of the Chris
tian home, the enemy of the church
and the most threatening peril in our
midst to pure womanhood and stal
wart moral .manhood., ■
“When the devotees of these pre
cincts ask of a woman (even a tender
schoolgirl) that she remove her cor
set and be attired in diaphanous dress
in order to apepar acceptably upon the
ballroom floor, it is time for the par
ents who care for the purity and vir
tue of their daughters and sons to
make a heroic protest against such
demands and practices. It is time for
the church of God to make strong dis
approval, time for the ministry to cry
aloud against it, and the religious and
secular press to qppose the deadly
dance. Therefore, be it
“Resolved, first, That the South At
lanta District Conference in conven
tion assembled at East Point, repre
senting 16,000 professed Christians, do
*.thereby enter our earnest protest as
members, clerical and lay, as educa
tors in our schools, as fathers and
mothers, against these evils that lower
> tjib ideals and encourage the practices
. of immorality throughout the land.
* " “Resolved, second, That we call upon
the membership of the church in this
^district to put the ban of unmistakable
disapproval upon the modern dance
and the ungodly dance halls.
'-' I “Resolved, third, That we pledge
, ourselves to constant and sincere op
position to these growing evils, and will
urge our young people to shun these
■ breeding places of sin.”
OUR NEW GOVERNOR TAKES OFFICE
Strictest of Economy Is Policy of Hardwick.
World League Scored. *•
‘Indictment of State Not Based Upon Truth,” Says
New Executive.
FEATURE POINTS IN HARDWICK’S
ADDRESS.
Woman Is Chosen
Head of Baptists
For First Time
DesMoines, Iowa.—A precedent was
established by the North Baptist con
vention recently when Mrs. Helen Bar
rett Montgomery of Rochester, N. Y.,
. ‘ was elected president. She retired
939 of the 1,140 votes cast.
Coincidently with Mrs. Montgomery’s
.. election, the convention was presided
over by Mrs. B. Grant Edmands of
rjpaaadena, Calif., a vice president, af-
* Ter E. L. Tustin, of Philadelphia, er-
tiring president, had been stricken
’ with a severe illness.
Other officers elected included re
cording secretary, Rev. M. A. Levy,
* Pittsfield, Mass.; statistical secretary,
/Rev. C. A. Walker, West Chester, Pa.,
and treasurer, Frank L. Miner, Des
Moines.
Seattle, Wash., was selected for the
1922 meeting.
Presidents of Baptist Church organ
isations were elected as follows:
‘ Foreign mission society, Rev. A. B.
&’ Abernathy, Washington, D. C.; home
, jj|i$aibn society, Charles R. Brock,
Bijwer;- woman’s foreign mission so
li. $. Chapman, New Yorkk;
l's Baptist missionary society,
/W. Coleman, Boston.
$ by Baptist delegates to the
icll of churches of Christ
bed co-operative meth-
In assuming the office I have just assumed, there is but a
single purpose in my mind and but a single desire in my heart;
a purpose to serve the state of Georgia, a desire to promote
the interests, happiness and well-being of its people. To that
service I pledge the best that is in my heart and head, and
in its I am entitled to the support of all the people of Georgia
without regard to political views and factional differences.
In our state convention at Macon the Democratic party of
Georgia declared against the league of nations and for the old-
fashioned Americanism of our fathers, and in so doing we
merely forecast and presaged the overwhelming sentiment of a
vast majority of the people of the United States. The last
national election, I hope and believe, settled for all time the for
eign policy of this country.
In times like these it is not only highly desirable, but abso
lutely necessary that the fiscal affairs of the state shall be admin
istered along strictly business lines. Income and outgo must
be carefully and accurately balanced against each others; rigid
and real economy must not only be preached, but practiced.
However worthy the appropriation, it cannot and must not be
made unless we have the money to spend.
“Pay as we go” must be our motto, and we must live up
to it.
Let us abolish every useless office, every ornamental board,
every sinecure. The fiscal affairs of the state are such as to
demand a new clean broom; the people of the state have com
missioned both the members of the general assembly and the
governor to use that room, and it is my purpose to help the general
assembly do so.
Without the farmer we cannot feed the state; without him
we cannot clothe it; upon him in both war and peace depend
both the prosperity and well-being of the state. If I might say
just a word to him today I would say: "Feed yourself first
before you undertake to clothe the world.”
Nature has given the Southern states a great monopoly on
the production of cotton. But the financial reward that should
follow such a situation can never be fully realized until the
Southern cotton farmer makes his cotton a surplus crop. When
lie does that he will be the financial (ring of the world: until
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he does it, he is its'slave.
Georgia has recently been indicted, more unfortunately and
I think unjustly, in the forum of public opinion for mistreat
ing the negro, for peonage and for other kindred crimes. It is
a source of deep and real regret to me that this indictment
comes from quarters that are both responsible and respectable,
and it is for that reason alone that I feel impelled to say a few
words in regard to it.
The charge against the farmer that he is holding the negro
in peonage is almost more than he can bear. Such a burden
at this particular time, above all others, should not have been
imposed upon him; it is an outrageous, unjustified and unjusit-
fiable proceeding. There is no real basis in truth and in fact
upon which the accusation can rest.
During my service as governor, I solemnly promise to en
force and uphold the laws of the state, protect all law-abiding
citizens, white and black alike; to vindicate the majesty and
impartiality of the law and not to write any pamphlets.
TO THE MAN WHO NEVER HEARD OF
YOU, YOU DO NOT EXIST
Right*"now, as you read this, you may be sitting within a few feet of
other men. If these men don’t know who you are, you mean no more to them
than a shadow. They might recognize the newspaper you hold in your hand,
but you are merely something not to be stepped on. You have no part in
their world.
The world is too big a place for most of us really to live in. So each
person lives in a little world of his own—a world people with his family and
friends and supplied with such devices as he has seen and heard of and may
some day use.
Our friends are simply those whose markings we recognize, and whose
characteristics we know. This rule of acquaintance applies to goods as
well as to people. We buy the article or the package or the brand that we
are familiar with because we know it—just as we nod and smile to the men
and women we know, and ignore the strangers.
The strangers may have better qualities than those we know, but that
makes no difference.
Same way with merchandise.
It has become the habit, of American people' to consider advertising the
proper and natural way for the maker of an article to introduce it to their
acquaintance and keep it there.
Advertising is not merely a question of selling goods or not; it is a
question of how many human beings know that the thing you make exists,
and how they may some time be able to use it.
An advertisement is primarily an introduction and secondarily a sales
man. It makes new friends and it holds old ones. It makes the public know
your goods and regard them as a friend.
To stop advertising is to stop greeting old friends and to stop making new
ones.
ods in many phases of church -work
and prevention of duplication of serv
ice. It was voted to allot thirty-five
thousand dollars as the Baptist share
of the expenses of the council.
Mrs. Montgomery has been active in
church work for many years. In 1892
she was licensed as a minister in
Rochester. In 1913 she was elected
president of the woman’s Baptist for
eign mission society, which she held
until her election as president of the
North Baptist convention. In 1917 she
was made president of the National
Federation of Woman’s Board of For
eign Mission, serving one term. She
is the author of several books.
Mrs. Montgomery was born at Kings
ville. Ohio, and is a graduate of Wel
lesley college.
AUTOMOBILE
OWNERS TO BE
PROTECTED
New Bill to Stop Auto
mobile Stealing Be
fore Legislature. .
Atlanta. (ia.— Every Georgia man
who owns »n automobile or iwlio ex-
••'Y
pects to'own one should be interested
in the passage of a bill, to be pre
sented at the approaching session of
the legislature, which is designed to
stop the stealing of automobiles by
making it practically impossible to
sell a stolen car. It is being backed
by prominent members of both houses
and is endorsed by all the organiza
tions interested in the automobile' in
dustry. A similar bill, passed the sen
ate last summer, but never came up
for a vote in the house, owing to the
congestion of the last few days.
The bill will follow the lines of
the law in successful operation in
Michiganrand several other states. It
provides, in brief, that whenever a car
iss old the seler must fill out a bill
of sale giving the engine number and
other identifying marks. One copy
of this is to be sent the secretary of
state and one retained by the buyer
of the car. The buyer shall report to
the sheriff of his county within ten
days and the sheriff will inspect the
car and see that it “checks” with that
described in the bills of sale. There is
very little “red tape” required. Penal
ties are provided for altering serial
numbers of automobiles and for forg
ery or alteration of bills of sale.
The bill will protect not only the
present owners of cars, but hundreds
of innocfcnt' purchasers of used auto
mobiles. While most of the thefts oc
cur in|he larger cities, the small town
and cfuntry residents are frequently
“stungj? by buying a car from a stran
ger wfo gives no proof of legal pos
session'. The car is afterwards traced
and recovered and the purchaser loses
his ma*iey and has no redress. Hun
dreds of such cases were reported in
Georgia this year.
FOURTH OF JULY
ATTRACTIONS
UNION CITY
WATSON and HARDWICK
BARBECUE DINNER
SPEECHES and FIREWORKS
FUN and FROLIC
LAKEWOOD
AUTOMOBILE
MOTORCYCLE
and HORSE RACES
LAKEWOOD PARK
WE REDUCE PRICES
THIS is a store where you are sure of receiving the full
value of your dollar on every purchase you make.
Just now we are making special prices on all summer
wear and supplies for women, young women and children.
It is an opportunity to outfit yourself for the summer at
reduced cost.
WE HAVE SOME VERY
LOW PRICES
ON
HIGH GRADE FURNITURE
WOMEN’S SUMMER
READY-TO-WEAR
DRESS PATTERNS
and OTHER FABRICS
UNDERCLOTHING
and LINGERIE
SUN HATS, GLOVES
AND NOTIONS
CORSETS THAT
GIVE SOLID
COMFORT
UMBRELLAS and
SUN SHADES.
AUTHORIZED AGENTS KELLY, SPRINGFIELD, FISK
TIRES
Blalock Trading Co.
