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THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE, CLAYTON, GEORGIA.
TERS MUST
OBEY GAME LAW
RIGID ENFORCEMENT OF THE
STATE GAME LAWS BE
ING MADE.
MISAPPREHENSION AS TO LAW
Commitsion Reports Convictions in
Fuitor. and Other Counties of
the State.
—Atlanta.
Vigorous enforcement of the game
laws of the state Is being made by the
county game wardens, acting under
the Instructions of State Gamo Com
missioner Charles L. Davis. Three ne
groes, prosecuted by Game Warden
Will Zimmer, were found guilty In
the city criminal court and fined $10
each by Judge Andy Calhoun. The
costs in each case, which were taxed
against the defendants, brought the
total amounts paid to something over
thirty dollars.
At the same time Mr. Zimmer re
ported that he had two alleged viola
tors of the law bound over to the
superior court in DeKalb vounty. Mr.
Davis said that ho had just received
reports of four convictions in Dough
erty county; also the report of a con
viction from Crisp county.
Commissioner Davis declares that
lie still meets with considerable mis
apprehension among hunters as to the
terms of the law. Some have the idea
that if they are going to hunt in only
one county they can take out a license
In a county other than that of their
residence for $1. The $1 charge is for
bunting solely in the county of the
hunter’s residence. If he goes into a
county other than that in which he
lives, he must secure a state license
paying $3 therefor.
Another false idea which many ap
pear to have is that rabbits, not being
protected by the game law, may be
hunted without a license. The only in
stances in which a man can hunt with
out a license, when he is hunting on
his own land, or when he is hunting on
land in the militia district of his resi
dence with the written permission of
the owner.
Some also imagine that there is no
protection afforded 'possums by the
law, because they are not mentioned
in the game act of 1911. ’Possums
were provided protection by a law
passed many years before the last
game act. The open season for hunt
ing them is from October 1 to Marcli 1.
Commissioner Davis says that there
seems to be a general disposition on
the part of the people to observe the
Jaw when they understand it. The
county wardens have been Instructed
to keep constantly on the lookout for
law violations and to prosecute rigor
ously.
Inheritance Tax No Joke.
After sleeping over the fact for
more than four months, Georgia has
waked up at last to the fact that the
inheritance tax, passed by the last
legislature, is not a joke.
Ordinaries and executors, under the
pain of $1,000 fine, are now carefully
complying with the statute all over
the state, and tax collectors have been
luformed as to the duties which they
. have boen neglecting.
The inheritance tax law- has gone
• through au experience without paral
lel In the history of Georgia. For four
months it has been a law on the stat
ute books, yot there hasn’t been a
single compliance with it—-at least,
there hadn't been up to the first of
Hast week. Executors and ordinaries,
■each time they participated in a trans
fer of property to heirs, violated the
law and laid themselves open to a pos
sible one thousand dollar fine.
{ It appears that all were blissfully
iignorant of the way the law was sup
posed to operate, and that now that
full Information has been put in all
their hands, the inheritance tax will
begin to bring a steady stream of
gold into the state’s treasury.
Clubs Need Regulating.
The number of Christmas drunks
this year- has convinced the police
not only that the locker clubs need
Jietter regulating, but that the da-
ent has by no means succeeded
Don't Care for Music.
Atlanta Is the musical anomaly of
the world, the only American city that
has succeeded In bringing the Met
ropolitan Opera company out of New
York year after year, yet Atlanta now
stands convicted as a community that
does not care for music!
Atlanta has performed marvels In
getting Caruso the biggest audience
he ever sang to; In making grand
opera pay here when it actually didn’t
pay in New York; In persuading im
mense audiences to applaud Wagneri
an music to the echo; a thing new
in the South; and yet Atlanta’s popu
lation as a whole cares about as much
for the real music as the wild Indians
did when they used to roam these
hills.
It has taken some time to prove
this. Hundreds of dollars have been
lost In the last two or three years
on the false assumption that because
Atlanta performed a miracle with
grand opera, It was a music-loving
community; Impressarlos have cursed
Atlanta; prlma donnas have torn their
hair; one of the finest bands in the
world has played here to empty seats.
Gadski came and had to cancel her
engagement because it was impossi
ble to sell 200 tickets; Mary Garden
got the frost of her career; Tetra-
zinni’s manager, after he saw the
audience that greeted her, would have
got drunk if he hadn’t been a gen
tleman, and would have committed
suicide if he hadn’t been a good sport.
Time after time Atlantians have
been given the opportunity to hear
good music—the best music—hut with
out the splurge and glitter and spec
tacular, and they have taken about
as much interest in it as a mole
would.
This coming spring they will put
grand opera over again in a blaze of
glory. They will make it a three-
ringed circus and a championship ball
game combined. They will pile up
the gate receipts and shout themselves
hoarse over Wagner. But for music
as music they don’t give a tinker’s
dam.
In all Atlanta there are possibly
three hundred people of whom noth
ing of tlie above is true. It yet re
mains to he seen whether they will
be the little leaven that will lift the
lump.
Difficult to Deal With Thieves.
The difficulty the local police have
in dealing with auto thieves has been
complicated by the fact, proven re
cently, that when a thief gets out of
Atlanta and is arrested In some oth
er town, there Is no way to bring him
back unless the owner of the stolen
auto chooses to dig down into his
own pocket and pay the expenses of
sending an officer.
It isn’t tlie fault of the police. It
is the fault of the law. No funds are
provided to bring back a thief who
gets out of Atlanta, after committing
petty larceny. The case which brought
these facts to light was that of Jo
seph W. Hill, whoso car wan stolen
and taken to Valdosta. He had to
pay the expenses of sending a private
detective to get the tiller and nring
him back.
Evils of Modern Dances.
The evils of modern dances, sex
dramas and slit skirts are vigorously
treated in a leading editorial In the
current issue of Frost’s Magazine,
“The Call of the South.”
"We commend the action of the
churches and women’s clubs of Geor
gia.” the editor says, and goes on to
comment on the tendency which has
its outward manifestation in such
fancies.
“We must grapple with our Impuls
es and control these grotesque ten
dencies. It Is a kind of Hallowe’en
madness- from which we must awake
ourselves and get properly on our
feet amid the new forces we are un
der; we must regain our seriousness
and self-poise.”
"Should we fail to do tills Individ
ually and socially, we either shall bo
carried deeper and deeper into nerv
ous and erratic excesses, or heaven
will become hopeless, and the hand
of divine helpfulness will be with
drawn.”
The ^first nervous pension of mod
ern existence is held principally to
blame for the change in moral condi
tions.
Former Atlantan Honored.
William Hurd Hillyer and Alfred C.
Newell, who wore Atlanta’s represen
tatives at the dinner jjlven Hon. Rob
ert Adamson In New York, have re-
UTILE ITEMS OFJEORGIA CITIES
Perry.—B. C. Holtzclaw, Jr., son of
B. C. Holtzclaw, cashier of the Hous
ton Banking company, was awarded
the Rhodos scholarship at Athens.
Young Holtzclaw has been attending
Mercer- university for about two
years and Is quite popular.
Waycross.—In a fight at the Atlan
tic Coast Line depot at Millwood
early tonlghthd. ea eta eta et ataoth
Rowe Arnold, a well known farmer,
was stabbed in the abdomen and
probably fatally wounded by Roy
Higgs. The injured man was rushed
to a Waycross hospital, where an op
eration was performed in the hope of
saving his life.
Amerlcus.—Chief Johnson and a
squad of policemen made a successful
raid upon Charles Underwood's place
on Cotton avenue, securing a consid
erable quantity of liquor in barrels
and bottles, which was hauled to
headquarters. Underwood's place has
been raided on a number of occasions
in recent years, and generally with
rich results in tlio way of harvesting
whisky found there.
Douglas.—James Kirkland, middle-
aged man, was killed at night at 7
o’clock at his home in Coffee county,
near Kirkland station. Mr. Kirkland
was in the house .when his wife went
on the veranda for some water and
heard a strange noise. She returned
into the house and reported it to her
husband and when lie went out to
investigate he was shot.
Augusta.—Judge Henry C. Ham
mond this afternoon issued an order
overruling the motion of a new trial
in the case of Mrs. Edna Perkins-God-
bee, convicted in Jenkins county of
the murder of her former husband,
Walter S. Godbee. The defendant
was not tried at that time on the
charge based on tlie killing of Mrs.
Florence Bouyer Godbee, who was
shot to death in the Millen postoftice
at the same time.
Dublin.—Zenus Fordham celebrated
his ninety-fourth year a few days ago
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. T.
J. Perry, in this county, with a big
family reunion and old fashioned din
ner, at which about 150 people were
present, including 125 of his descend
ants. Mr. Fordham has been holding
a dinner and reunion of this kind for
the past several years, and they have
come to he reckoned among the an
nual events of this county. He lias
nine children, all of wliom are living.
Rome.—An expensive dinner was
enjoyed by a dog of questionable
pedigree that consumed a large pea
cock of rare plumage belonging to
O. L. Stamps, a Rome merchant. The
dog, on finishing this meal of fifteen
pounds or more started In to devour
a second peacock, which was on dis
play in a coop in front of Stamps’
place of business, but was prevented
from the consumption of this gastron
omic feat by the arrival of a police
man, who dorve the dog away.
West Point. — J. R, Robinson of
Washington, D. C., site inspector for
the government, spent the week here,
inspecting the several lots near the
Alabama line that have been selected
as suitable on which to put a fifty
thousand dollar building, to be used
as a postoffice, for which an appro
priation has already been made. The
citizens are anxious for the lot to he
purchased and to see the work on
the buliriing begin, as it has been un
der consideration so long.
Athens.—Judged by the number of
reservations being made in Athens
for accommodation of those who have
decided to attend the short course for
farmers at the State College of Agri
culture, there will be between 200 and
300 in attendance January 5-16. It is
stated that whether reservations are
made in advance or not that accomo
dations will be provided for all who
come, but it preferred that previous
notice be given.
Lyeriy.—As provided by law, the
county commissioners at their meet
ing, named the following gentlemen
as tax assessors: J. V. Wheeler, six
years; W. G. Watson, four years; C.
N. Pursley, two years. Their term of
office begins on January 1. The law
provides that _if_ any citizen is dis-
[•lion of the board
right to
{land arbitration,
t one arbitrator,
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False Teachers
and
Teaching
By REV. WILLIAM EVANS. D. D.
Moody Bthle Institute, Chicago
TEXT—1 John, Chapter 4.
According to the
Bible, the teach
ing of false doc
trine is to charac
terize the last
days. Jesus, Paul,
Peter and John
constantly teach
this truth. The
Importance of this
warning Is en
hanced when we
consider that the
issue at stake Is
the soul of man.
The church Is
under obligation
to test the teach
ings and doctrines offered to her, for
there always have been, and always
will be, men who are desirous to utter
any new fancy that seizes them, or to
dispute any accepted doctrine of faith
which they themselves are not willing
to accept. There Is need of caution,
therefore, against a too ready accept
ance of any prophet or teacher. Sin
cerity In a teacher is not sufficient;
earnestness and fervor are no guaran
tee of the truth of the message deliv
ered; perspiration is not inspiration,
and It is not a sufficient ground of ac
ceptance of a man to simply say, "He
believes what he preaches."
Fortunately, it Is possible for the
true Christian to make such discern
ment. Paul, in 1 Cor. 12, and John, in
his first epistle, second chapter, clear
ly Btate this fact. It may be true that
Rome Christians have the gift of the
discernment of spirits in a special
way; It is nevertheless true that all
Christians may be able to discern the
falsd from the true.
Not only is such a test possible, but
it is obligatory. A careful study of the
seven letters in the book of Revela
tion enforces this truth. In apostolic
days false teachers “went out” from
the church, but in these days they
"stay in” the church when ofttlmes
they should bo put out.
Iu the chapter we are considering,
the apostle tells us that the point to
be proven about teachers is, "Are they
of God?’ That means from whence is
their message derived, from God or
from the world. Satan is an imitator.
He has a church (Rev. 2:9); a minis
try (2 Cor. 11:1315); a membership
(1 John 3:10); and gives power to
work signs U Thess. 2:9).
The proof that a man’s teaching Is
divine in its origin is settled by his at
titude towards Jesus Christ (4:2,6). In
all things he must hold to the Head
(Col. 4:9). Names and sects and par
ties fall; Jesus Christ is all in all. All
professing Christian teaching must be
judged by its relation to Jesus Christ.
Belief in the Incarnation or Virgin
birth is a sign that a man’s teaching
is from God (4:2,3; 6:1). There must
be the belief that the historical Jesus
is the anointed Savior of the world;
this fact of history must be also a fact
of faith. There can be no dodging this
question: "Jesus is anathema” or else
"Jesus is Lord.” We may make all the
progress in the doctrines of Christ pos
sible, but we must be careful that our
progress is In the truth, and not away
from the truth. There is an advance,
even in the doctrine of Christ, which
is not progress but apostasy (2 John
9).
The next point to be settled with re
gard to Christ is the acceptance of
his Deity (2:18-28; 4:6, 16, 16; 6:6. 20).
True Christian doctrine acknowledges
Jesus Christ not merely as Divine, but
as Deity, and as such he la worshipped.
Preachers for Prisoners.
The day ought not to be long dis
tant when the churches of all denom
inations will regard the prisoners as a
mission field worthy their own atten
tion and support; when they will re
fuse longer to place the Btate in the
necessity of paying for the services of
chaplains for these institutions.—Bos
ton Transcript
"-ii
It Is a noble and great thing to cover
the blemishes and to excuse the fall
ings of a friend; to draw a curtain
before his stain*, and to display his
perfections; to bury his weaknesses
in silence, but to proclaim his virtues
upon the,housetop.—Robert South.
It Is worth remembering that mere
isolation is not independence. So far
from being so, it is really destructive
of true Independence.—Miss Phoebe
Sheavyn.
The Babe In Bethlehem’s manger was
God manifest In the flesh. In him dwelt
all the tallness of the Godhead. That
teaching is false which separates the
Christ from Jesus. "This is he that
came by water and by blood”—those
words deny that teaching which states
that some form of Deity came on
Christ at his baptism and left him at
the cross. Jesus Christ cannot bo di
vided; he is "the same, yesterday, to
day and forever."
It is vital that a teacher from Goo 1
be sound with regard to the nature of
the redemptive work of Christ. John
is emphatic about this (compare 2:1,2;.
3:6, 4:9,10,14; 6:6). Jesus Christ gave
his life as a ransom for our sins; we
are reconciled to God by the death of
his son; Jesus Christ is the propitia
tion for our sins; he is the Savior of
the world. All this means that Jesua
Christ took our place and our sins up
on himself, that his death was in our
stead. It Is not enough to say that
Christ’s death exerted a moral influ
ence upon mankind, or that it was an
example of self-sacrificing love, or
even that God needed, by such a
tragedy, to give the world an illustra
tion of his anger against sin. Of
course, Christ’s death is the supremo
manifestation of God’s love, and it does
show his anger towards sin, but it goes
further than that. It has a relation to
the sin of man. Christ in his death
paid the wages of sin; the atonement
settles the question of sin’s guilt and
redemption: "Who, his own self, bare
our sins In his own body on the- tree,
that we, being dead to sins, should
live unto righteousness; by whose
stripes ye are healed."
The rude and ignorant are more
powerfully Impressed by a mastetful
demeanor than by the most extraordi
nary merits—Henry Stace.
‘FOR THE FATHER IS WITH ME’
Probably Most Beautiful In Scripture
Is This Passage From the
— 139th Psalm.
O Lord, thou has searched me and
known me.
Thou lcnoweBt my down sitting and
mine up-rising; thou under-
staudest my thoughts afar off.
Thou compassest my path and my ly
ing .down, and art acquainted
with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue,
but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it
altogether.
Thou hast beset me behind and be
fore and laid thine hand upon
me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for
me; it. is high, I cannot attain
unto it.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit?
or whither shall I flee from thy
presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou are
there; if I make my bed in hell,
behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts
of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me.
and thy right hand shall hold’
me.
If X say, Surely the darkness shall
cover me; even the night shall
be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hldeth not from
thee; but the night shineth aa
the day; the darkness and the
light are both alike to thee.
For thou hast possessed my reins;
thou haBt covered me in my
mother’s womb.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made; marvel
ous aro thy works; and that my
soul knoweth right well.
My substance was not hid from thee,
when I was made In secret, and
curiously wrought in the lowest
parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did flee my substance, yet
being Imperfect; and In thy
book all my members were writ
ten, which In continuance were
fashioned, when as yet there
was none of them.
How precious, also, are thy thoughts
unto me. O God! how great la
the sum of them!
If 1 should count them, they are more
In number than the sand; when;
I awake, I am still with thee.
Manliness.
Manliness is a brave power of se
lection, the self-possessed ability to
distinguish between high and low alma
between the important and the un
important things of life, between what
endures and what fades.—Charles
St. John.
Human Experience.
Human experience, like the stem
lights of a ship at sea, illumes only
the path which we have passed over.
—Coleridge.
A modern wit has suggested that
the trouble with the people who sit
and wait and watch for their ships to
come in, is that they have never
launched any ship to begin with-
There is sound sense in that, as well
as wit. Wo must build and launch,
before sitting down to expect return
cargoes.
"Give me, O God,” she prayed,
“power to make of all my sorrow
music for the world.”—Elinor Mo-
Cartney Lane,