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PROTRACTED MEETINGS
AT THE METHODIST CHURCH
Governor Inspects
State Troops At
St. Simons Island
Dr. Marvin Williams of
Grace Church, Atlanta,
Conducting Revival.
Two Services Daily;
11 A. M. and 8 P. M.
Song Service Begins Half
an Hour Before Each
Service.
REVIVAL DRAWS
1 LARGE CROWDS
g Large congregations attended the
opening services of the revival of the
Methodist Church Sunday, Dr. J. H.
Eakes, Presiding Elder of the South
Atlanta District was with the Church
for the day and preached at both serv
ices, bringing deep conviction upon
the people for purity of the home,
urging this as essential to salvation,
in that every boy or girl had the Di
vine Right to obey the will of God,
and that heredi'y and environment
could not rob them of this right, but a
Christ-like environment v could and
would contrain them to obey God’s
will.
The pastor of the church, Rev.
George P. Gary, preached at the morn-
nig hour Monday, and laid upon the
hearts of the congregation the great
need of a Spirit filled life. Dr. Marvin
Williams, began his work at the night
service and he had gripped the people
with his deep earnestness and direct
ness with which he brings his mes
sage to his congregation, and the fea-
t ires of his preaching to this hour
ave been to arouse his hearers to the
fact that they were not living as close
to their Lord as was their privilege,
but like Peter, were a far off, and in
some instances, like Terah, the father
of Abraham, having dealt along the
way, were dead in Haran.
The business houses are being clos
ed during this hour of the morning
service and the services are being
well attended.
I
METHODISTS
BEGIN FIGHT
ON DANCING
Organized Crusade Has
Been Launched Against
the Light Fantastic
Toe-Tips.
Two Great “Social Puri
ty Rallies” to Be Held
in September.
An organized crusade against danc
ing was launched Sunday in practical
ly every Methodist church in Atlanta.
* Pastors preached sermons, denounc
ing the dance and appealing to mem
bers of their flocks not to chaperon
dances or countenance them in any
way.
Resolutions, adopted recently by
the Methodist ministers of Atlanta,
were read.
They called on the board of educa
tion to prohibit dancing in the public
schools.
a They announced two great “social
' purity rallies’’ to be held soon on the
north and south sides of the city by
Methodist young people of Atlanta.
And they concluded with unquali
fied approval of the movement start
ed in several colleges to organize
“anti-dancing’’ societies.
Meeting again at the Wesley Memor
ial church, Atlanta Methodist minis
ters declared that the recent action
was but the first step in the crusade
and that, by pulpit propaganda, by
mass meetings and by rallies and in
every way possible, the full power of
the church in Atlanta will be brought
to bear to stop Methodists from danc
ing and to enlist the sympathy of
other churches.
The ministers, at their meeting
recently adopted resolutions which
were given out to the press only in
t^»rt, pending their reading in the
■churches, when many pastors made
them the basis of their sermons.
At the meeting recently it was voted
to make the full text of the resolutions
public.
The resolutions incorporate three
main divisions—one directed at Meth
odists themselves, one at the board
of education, the third in regard to
the anti-dancing rallies.
' -m The first part of the resolutions
declare that the fight of the minis
ters is almost hopelessly embarrassed
AIRSHIP
SUPREMACY
Both Army and Navy To
Have Lighter-Than-
Air Ships.
j
Military Airship To Have
Many New and Good
Features.
Regardless of the outcome of the
spirited controversy now raging over
the comparative advantages of air
craft and battleships as America’s first
line of defense, both the United States
army and navy are to have more
lighter-than-air ships—orders for three
large dirigibles and 38 observation bal
loons having just been placed with
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Com
pany.
Two patrol and scouting airships of
180,000 cubic feet gas capacity will
be built for the navy and will be com
pleted next spring. A dirigible of
similar size but of a special Good
year design will be completed, for
the army by November. All three will
be tested at the Goodyear-Akron air
station.
The military airship to be built for
the army will have many new features
of design that makes it the most up-
to-date craft in either arm of the serv
ice. It will be the first dirigible in
America to have its motors in the car
instead of in separate power units.
Two propellers will be driven by bevel
gears at a two to one ratio with
transmission placed on outriggers in
stead of the motors driving direct to
shafts. This will allow the engines
to run while the propellers are idle by
throwing out clutches, and will also
permit propellers to be reversed—a
new feature that will permit greater
facility in landing. Either motor dan
drive both propellers in the event that
one motor develops trouble. With
both motors inboard, they can be over
hauled in flight much easier than if
they were on outriggers, as in the
present types of aifship.
The army ship will be 170 feet long
and 45 feet in diameter. It will be
powered by two 125 horse-power Aero-
marine motors which will operate at
1600 revolutions per minute, but owing
to the reduction gear, the propellers
will make but 800 revolutions per
minute, giving greater efficiency at
higher s,tpeed. A speed of 60 miles
an hour is expected. The ship’s
“ceiling” is 10,000 feet.
The gas bags will be of pony blimp
shape—“fatter” than other types—
thus decreasing head resistance.
The car will be entirely enclosed
and will house a crew of six, although
three men can operate the dirigible
for peace-time purposes.
The army will use this airship prob
ably for border patrol, while the two
navy ships will be used for scouting
and observation.
PANTS FOR GIRLS
Now Appearing on Fifth
Avenue, New
York City.
/
Ever-Shortening Skirt Fi
nally Disappears Alto
gether in Fashions.
New York, July 19.—Pretty soon
when a young fellow goes calling on
the light of his life in the cool of
the evening, he’ll wonder if he
hasn’t made a mistake and sent up
his card to the young fellow next
door, because‘when she comes down
to listen to his line of persiflag
she’ll be dressed very much like a
college boy with her lily white hands
sunk deep in the pockets of her 1921
knickerbockers for street and evening
wear.
because some of the highest officials
in the Missionary societies have been
chaperoning, attending and holding
dances. The resolutions “cry out in
the name of the Lord” to these people
for their aid and support.
It was stated, by the ministers that
a delegation may attend the next
meeting of the board of education to
back up the resolutions protesting
dancing in the schools.
It .was further stated that, follow
ing the lead of a Baptist college stu
dent, "anti-dancing societies” may be
organized in other institutions.
Governor Hardwick, accompanied
by his private secretary, Col. D. B.
Blalock, and twelve members of his
Staff, visited the camp of the National
Guard at St. Simons Island, Sunday.
Another of the Governors secretaries,
Claude A. West preceeded him to
Brunswick on Friday. L. D. Wilkes
of Brunswick, joined the party there.
The members of the Governors Stoff
who made the trip were, Win. M.
Camp, Atlanta; E. A. Schiller, Atlanta;
Shelby Myrick, Savannah; W. .1.
Busk, Colquitt; John Hindon, La-
Grange; H. W. Van Tassel, Lindale;
R. Earl Camp, Dublin; B. B. Zellars,
Newnan; Herman De La Perriere,
Commerce; C. R. Fitzpatrick, Warren-
ton; Sandy Beaver, Gainesville.
The Governor and party after in
specting the camp returned to Atlanta
Monday morning delighted with the
trip.
TIME TO CONSIDER
FORD OFFER ASKED
Washington.—While approving his
“businesslike” tone, the American
farm bureau federation recently stated
it would study further the proposal
of Henry Ford to complete and oper
ate the fertilizer plant at. Muscle
Shoals, Ala. In addition, the bureau
will consider carefully any other offer
that may be made to the government
by other interests before committing
itself, J. W. Howard Coments, presi
dent of the bureau, said.
“Organized agriculture is interest
ed in any business-like arrangement
that will cause the dam to be com
pleted and secure a cheaper supply of
fertilizer,” said Mr. Coments. “Mr.
Ford’s offer is exceedingly interest
ing, particularly in view of the stip
ulation that the fertilizer plant will
be operated at maximum capacity and
on a basis of only 8 per cent return
to his company.
“The farmers are interested pri
marily in the Muscle Shoals project
as a source of. cheaper fertilizer, but
they do not overlook'its vast possi
bilities in the development of hydro
electric power.
“We hope congress will take a les
son from the war when we found
ourselves practically dependent on
Chile for nitrates.”
Mr. Coments pointed out the ad
vantage of Mr. Ford’s offer to keep
the plant in condition so that it may
be turned quickly to the manufacture
of explosives during war. Mr. Co
ments said that the bureau will/in
sist that the government has com
plete supervision over any private
interests that may take over the prop
osition.
Other offers from private con
cerns for acquiring the nitrate plant,
are expected by the government,
Secretary Hoover said recently.
Secretary Hoover indicated that
there had been some discussions with
the Du Pont interests but said there
had been no specific proposal sub
mitted as yet. A number of chemi
cal and power companies, he said,
are considering the proposition, but
nothing definite in the way of an
offer has been determined.
Mr. Hoover said that the offers,
in addition to Mr. Ford’s proposal,
might be made through him or direct
to Secretary Weeks, who, he added,
has the F6rd proposal under consid
eration.
Our Country
Publisher President
Warren G. Harding, country news
paper publisher, is in the White House
—President of the United States. May
he become the greatest of American
Presidents. Certainly this newspaper
pledges its earnest effort to help him
to that end. He faces perplexing prob
lems both lat home and abroad, but
none so bewildering that it cannot be
solved by the application of correct
reasoning and honesty of purpose. We
have an abiding j faith jn the sound
thought, of the American people, and
we rejoice because President Harding,
as a publisher, need not be taught the
value of wholesome contact with his
fellow men and women. If he take
counsel with the nation he is pledged
to serve the great voice will not lead
him astray. In the days to come
should we offer facts in criticism of
his policies it will come because we
fear our President may err as a re
sult of silence. Our wish is to be
helpful, to put at the disposal of the
President the best of our thought al
ways in the interest of the people to
whose service the life of this good
man is dedicated. The President of
the United States does not represent
the Republican party, the Democratic
party or any other party. He repre
sents America, and we stand for that
with face uplifted, with pen. in hand
and unafraid.
—THE AMERICAN PRESS.
Ruin Seen For
United States In
Sabbath-Breaking
PELLAGRA ON
INCREASE, SAYS
HEALTH OFFICE
— C
South Shows the Biggest
Spread of the
Disease.
FAYETTE COUNTY
SUNDAY SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION
New York.—The United States—all
48 of ’em—are going to be destroyed,
wiped out and devastated if they don’t
quit breaking the Sabbath. This start
ling prediction was made here recent
ly by Noah H. Cooper, Nashville’s Sun
day blue law champion, who came to
New York to observe conditions.
“I tell you that in 25 years we
will be destroyed,” he said.
“Every time I hear a train toot on
Sunday it sounds worse to me than a
German bomb exploding.”
Doctor Cooper said there should be
no Sunday newspapers.
“I don’t care,” he said, “if they
have to cut out five papers a week.”
Breaking the Sabbath laws was the
direct cause of the world war, too, he
asserted.
Indian Springs
Ready for Big
Camp Meeting
All is ready for the thirty-first an
nual Holiness meeting which will open
at Indian Springs on August 11, for
ten days, according to R. F. Burden of
Macon, chairman of the executive
committee. These meetings always
draw thousands. Several noted
evangelists will lead the services and
the music will be under the direc
tion of Hamp Sewell of Atlanta. The
Rev. C. M. Dunaway of Atlanta will be
one of the ministers in charge.
World’s Cotton Crop.
From the best information avail-
able ( by the Bureau of Markets and
Crop Estimates, United States ' De
partment of Agriculture, the world
production of cotton fori the year 1920-
21 is estimated as follows, in bales of
500 pounds gross weight (479 pounds
net); United States', 13,366,000; India,
2,976,000; Russia, 180,000; Brazil, 100,-
000; Mexico, 165,000; Peru, 157,000;
all others, 400,000; total world, 19 595*-
000.
Washington.—The United States is
menaced by pellagra, which is spread
ing at an alarming, rate, particularly
in the Southern States, according to
a statement by the Public Health Serv
ice.
“Peyagra is increasing with alarm
ing speed,” the Public Health Serv
ice statement declared. “Reports
reaching the United States Public
Health Service show that the num
ber of cases in this calendar year
probably will be double those for last
year pd in some parts of the South
more than double.
“One State, for which figures are
at hand, reports 1817 cases in May
of this year as against 677 cases in
May of last year.
"The Public Health Service, which
last fall issued a warning as to the
probable increase this year, is look
ing forward to next year i^-ith many
forebodings.”
Depression in the cotton growing
industry in the South has been part
ly responsible for the increase of the
disease, according to experts of the
health service.
Hundreds of farmers and farm la
borers have been forced to a lower
standard of living by the failure of
the cotton industry, it was said, and
the result has been that they have
been made easy victims for the rav
ages of the disease.
Tobacco Smoke
“Kills Germs’’
Paris—The Pasteur institute period
ical states that tobacco smoke is anti
septic and kills in a few minutes the
primary bacteria of cholera, diptheria
and cerebro-spinal meningitis.
To Hold Annual Conven
tion at -Sandy Creek,
4th of August.
All Denominations in the
County Invited to
Send Delegates.
The Fayette County Sunday School
Association will hold its annual con
vention at Sandy Creek Church on
Thursday, August 4, and the Sunday
Schools of all denominations in our
county are invited to send delegates.
A strong sermon dealing with all de
partments of modern Sunday School
work has been prepared. Miss Daisy
Magee, Superintendent of the Chil
dren’s Division of the Georgia Sunday
School Association, is expected to at
tend this convention. With Miss
Magee will be Prof, W. S. Nicholson,
Part-Time Field Worker of the Geor
gia Sunday School Association.
In order that no Sunday School
worker may be deprived of the privi
lege of attending this convention, no
limit will be set on the number of
delegates who may attend from any
Sunday School. AH will be welcome.
Information regarding the conven
tion may be secured from the County
President, Mr. Paul Ellington, Fayette
ville, or from the County Secretary.
Mrs. Ben Guice, Fayetteville; or from
the General Superintendent of the
Georgia Sunday School Association,
917 Hurt Building, Atlanta, Ga.
Have Valuable Bead Collections.
Probably the choicest and most val«
nable beads in the world are those
possessed by the natives of Borneo,
Iu many cases they are very old and
have been kept for centuries in one
family/ A rich chief may possess a
collection of old bbads worth many
thousands of dollars.
WE REDUCE PRICES
THIS is a store where you are sure of receiving the full
Troll’ll A-p VAmi av. I 1 _ -
value of your dollar on every purchase you make.
Just now we are making special prices on all summer
wear atid 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
SUN HATS, GLOVES
AND NOTIONS
CORSETS THAT
GIVE SOLID
COMFORT
DRESS PATTERNS
and OTHER FABRICS
UNDERCLOTHING
and LINGERIE
UMBRELLAS and
SUN SHADES.
AUTHORIZED AGENTS KELLY, SPRINGFIELD, FISK
TIRES
