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LETTERS FROM THE
PEOPLE
The VoHtead Law
Editor Progress-Argus: My recent
announcement as a candidate to the
beer and wine convention, in case
there would be one in Georgia,
brought me some unsigned commu
nications, in the shape of Sunday
School prohibition lectures. These
lectures were torn from the book. I
was very much amused with what
my old friend King Solomon had to
say about the fellow who drinks too
heavily. I will take his case up later
on in this article, and his manifesta
tions.
Well there will be no convention.
The Georgia legislature failed to or
der one, and that settles that issue
for the time being. I will f*tate for
the information of all my critics 1
will will say, that I do not drink
beer or whiskies of any per cent.
Well neither do I drink any kind of
soda pops, frizzes or creams.
But if I had to pick a choice, I
would prefer the beer and wine. Now
that involves a fellow’s taste, not a
fellow’s morals. If any fair minded
person will just take the prohibition
Taw, and examine it, look at it, like
looking at a hat, a piece of fresh
meat, they will find the thing in
meaning and principle, contrary to
all human sense of justice, when ap
plied to a civilized race of people.
Its the very guess of scholastic
energy, if it should be made a suc
cess, of cosmic reality, the law cre
ates, and promotes stupid and non
sense methods, and misleading and
confusing avenues, to lead common
folks to the foolish attempts to seize
the controls of God’s divine business.
The very law itself invites human
pretentions to practice religious me
chanism under legal attainments.
The law just takes the turmoil and
adversity out of Christianity. Such
laws are very misleading, because
the promise so much good. The law
creates in a sense a factory system,
of legal advantages, to protect folks
perfectly, at the one and same time
repealing all individuality of re
sponsibility of spiritual domain,
with the law controlling a process of
equitable divine principles of good.
The law attempts to exploit with
super expression of right and wrong
by aesthetic road and active obliga
tion to the ends of a ultimate hea
ven. The law when compared to the
human revealed laws we call statute
laws, stands out as the heights of
ugliness, harshness, brutal, and pre
judiced, with puritanical provlivities
pregnated writh promulgated selfish
motives.
I can’t see through other folks
eye-glasses, when viewing such mon
ster objects as the Volstead act, as
applied to this modern age of ad
vanced Christianity.
The Volstead act, known as the
prohibition law, acts as a divine pal
ladium, a tyranny, a side-door side
show, a vanishing doll, narrow and
bigoted from every view point of
clean logic.
Now I will say a few things about
my old friend King Solomon and his
prohibition views, presented in the
Sunday School lesson sent me. 1
must say, that I hold for him very
liberal feelings, but I must say that
he lived in that nevertheless, not
withstanding age, when one man did
all the pathfinding. He would not
be a very good modern rule to live
by nineteen hundred and thirty
three, just because, he would try to
swing us all back to that episodical
dramatic biographical grosque ele
mental concepts. When 1 have more
time, will cover his thirty' six basic
emotions.
Let us get this one thing out of
our modern minds. The changing of
laws do not bring magic reforms, but
our past experiences teaches us, that
they do bring generally what >s
known as disappointment's. The best,
ar.d only safe rule is the Golden
Rule, of justice and fairness.
The Volstead law is the limit of
illiberality, its the Vvind and force,
wrath, and narrowness, its base and
selfish in scope, reverses democracy
and insults true clean Christianity,
it presumes class sweeping guilt to
all. It declares that if one rat is
yellow, all rats are yellow, the rule
of hypocrites perjuring all as super
pretenders.
The law removes all Christian re
wards, with reluctance. Its demands
bows down every knee with physical
and mental infirmities, wipes out
merit, with rule and ryle, stupid and
unjust.
Man by nature composes three
basic elements, the natural man, the
spiritual man, and the everlasting
man. Many of us delight in looking
back at the old generation as the
drunkn sot race, we refer to them
as drunken demons. With all that we
ore compelled to confess, whatever
their faults were, they were not
without virtue of true greatness. I
am almost persuaded to say, that
once glory of Georgia they produced
and treasured has by chance slipped
into their smouldering and silent
tombs.
They had no legal creeds, no
moulded mental spirits, no moral
laws of ascetics, but they had that
true charm of individuality that
brings respect and honor. They had
no laws to bury man in satisfied
comforts and divine' pleasuers of
scruples, they had no cramped liber
ties, no legal violence, and fanatical
censorous bigots to lax them with
super culture.
The Volstead law is the fulness of
human xyelographic adventure, and
excesses contemplating selfish con
cerns, smacking here and snooping
there with virtuous cements to weld
its throne with cruelties, monster
deeds in the name of God, and
Christianity.
Its the law to escape from human
duty, to desire. It turns the loan
loose, to devastate, and visualizes
human implications, creates victims
with degrees, and demands conquest
of virtue, it lives on gossips and
rules with despotic misrepresenta
tions and misrepaprehensions of hu
man liberty.
With that law, there is no hunting
season, one private home and its
sacredness, is never secure from its
invasions, it needs no accusers, no
clue, no satisfaction is required for
its plunder, and reaction.
Its demands resolves the elements
of individual liberty into disorder,
destroying the sanctity of the home.
It digresses and ignores with impulse
human prudence, violate all virtue
and civilized circumstance, it howls
with the whine of • baseness, and
yields to clamor, violence and de
sires.
Too Big for Her? —Who Said So?
Its impositions knows no equal or
superiors, it sinks its divine fangs
into the tomb, ashes and dust of
honor, and rakes up the venerated
tears of deeds and sacred sacrifices
and transplants them in hills of sor
rows, oligarchy and tyrannical dem
agoguey.
The nobleness of the old sot, and
demon, we now look upon with dis
gust, is now bleedingg on the fields
of misguided wickedness, darkness
now hovers over that charming chiv
ary, betw r een two extremes. Who
will go out and bind up that lost
glory?
Somber death, hovers on tne wings
of magic laws, murder sweeps by
on wings of destruction, our homes
are lost in social pleasures, our
spirits are broken on the wheel of
force, our prides are weeping in the
valleys of propensities, indulgences
plunders and transfers individuali
ties to legal Gods.
Ruin and excess, stalks us with
mockeries, the scars of force wanes
our qualities and pursues our liber
ties with relentless violence.
Oligarchy reigns supreme, with no
respects for justice, its delights are
force, tyranny, and violence its de
cisions, its law is divine, cannot be
reviewed, its creeds of justice arc
cramped, its god frozen, vicious and
supreme, cruel and must be respect
ed.
J. DARDEN WATKINS.
THIS DOG PROVED REAL
“QUICK CHANGE” ARTIST
One of the readers of this column
told us a story the other day which
seemed a little far-fetched. However,
we will print it here and let you
draw your own conclusions. This
gentleman had, and still has, a dog
which, ilke a good many other dogs,
gets a lot of pleasure chewing up any
scrap of paper that comes his way,
regardless of its value. It seems the
owner of the dog accidentally drop
ped a dollar bill on the floor and
before he could prevent it, said dog
had chewed and swallowed the bill.
Very much enraged he secured a
stick and proceeded to beat the dog
which commenced coughing and,
among other things, coughed up a
five dollar Federal Reserve note.
Surprised and delighted, and think
ing he had found a way to beat the
depression, the ciog’s owner imme
diately fed him another dollar bill
and commenced to beat the dog as
before. Nothing happened. He rolled
up his sleeves and beat harder. Still
nothing happened. Finally, losing
his temper, he kicked the animal,
whereupon it looked at him sorrow
fully, gave a deep sigh, and then
coughed up three quarters, two
dimes and a five cent piece.—Ful-
ton County Review.
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1933
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MEN’S BIBLE CLASS WILL
APPEAR AT BARNESVILLE
The Men’s Bible class of Barnes-**
ville has invited the Men’s Bible
class of the Jackson Methodist church
to take charge of the class at
Barnesville next Sunday. Col. C. L.fc
Redman will teach the lesson and
make a talk and the class here will
have charge of the singing. The class
will leave the Methodist church at
8:30 a. m. It is requested that all
meet promptly as there will be suf
ficient automobiles to carry every
one.
Will exchange Seed of
desirable quality and varie
ty, and sell Potato Slips.
R. N. Etheriage Seed Cos.
By Albert T. Reid