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PAGE SIX
Atlanta’s Ideal Methodist
Parsonage
(By Yolande Gwin, in Atlanta
Constitution)
When Mrs. Charles Howard Can
dler was a little girl named Flora
Glenn and lived in various Methodist
fir.i'.sonagas with her parents, Rev.
and Mrs. Wilbur Fisk Gtenn, she
built castles in the uir like a lot of
other little girls.
Her two brothers, Tom and Wil
liam, played too, and often the
three would build mud houses and
draw pictures of "castles we will
build some time.”
Because of the religious atmos
phere in which they lived, the broth
ers and their sister built chuches,
Sunday school buildings and parson
ages. "Sister Flora” played dolls in
her imaginary paisonage, 'but the
brothers built churches. All three,
however, buiit Sunday school houses
and homes for missionaries.
Sometimes castles built in the air
by youth become realities in ma
turity. It came true in the case
of the little Glenn children.
Several years ago the three polled
their childttood ideas and built a
handsome church at Emory Univer
sity and called it the Glenn Memor
ial church as a loving tribute to
their minister father and their
mother
But Flora Glenn Candler still had
tucked in the back of her mind that
dream she had to build a large white
brick house for a parsonage. She
wanted the home to be furnished in
the handsomest details and pieces
could find. She wanted it supplied
with all the necessary linens, china,
glassware. No convenience would
be overlooked. From roof to cellar
it would be complete.
When the Glenn Memorial church
was completed, the three children of
Rev. and Mrs. Glenn decided to
build a parsonage. Girls know more
about decorating and furnishing and
what a minister’s wife would want,
so Tom and Will Glenn let their
sister Flora do the actual planning,
although the three of them launch
ed their interests into the second
building in their memorial center.
(A Sunday school is now being built
to complete th* group of Glenn me
morial buildings.)
The parsonage is now completed
and living there now is Rev. Nat
Long, pastor of the Glenn Memorial
church, and his family, Mrs. Long
and the children, Olive, Nat and the
baby, James Theodore. It is at
1221 Clifton road, near the church.
A copy of one of the historic
homes in Williamsburg Va., the re
cently completed home is Georgian
Colonial. Its imposing and dignified
exterior is of white brick and is
furnished throughout with 18th cen
tury English pieces. Mrs. Candler :
is noted for, her taste in interior j
decoration and her choice of furn
ishings through a well known Atlan
ta firm stands as an artistic repre
sentation of her taste.
Mrs. Candler supervised the
furnishings of the ten-room house
and she did not overlook a single
*rt He which would add to the com
fort and pleasure of the pastor and
his family. Having lived in a Meth
odist parsonage all her life, Mrs.
Candler was well qualified to sense
the needs and the wants of the
family.
Handsome English china fills the
cabinets in the breakfast room,
Spode is stored away for dining
room, Spode is stored away forun
in use. Linen closets are filled with
■plain and fancy (piecea—napkins,
towels, cloths, sheets and other
items. Colored wash cloths even
hang on their proper racks in the
bathroom. Perfumed soap was an
other necessary detail which was in
cluded in the furnishings.
An atmosphere of quiet dignity
prevails throughout the lower floor
of the parsonage. Eighteenth century
charm and beauty is combined in
the furnishings in the dining room.
A colonial mantel outlines a large
fireplace and is offset by a beautiful
portrait of Jenny Lind. Flanking
either side of the portrait as a com
pliment to the colonial mantel are
two carved electric brackets, Heppel
■white style. Two handsome Shera
ton sofas offer inviting repose in
the room, while two chintz-covered
chairs balance either side of a small
Chippendale chest upon which
stands white porcelain lamps. At
the window in the living room a
drum /table gives accent, as does
the Chippendale writing table., Two
gold-leaf mirrors give an added ele
gance, as do the over-curtains of
gold silk damask.
English printed chintz curtains
hang in the windows of the dining
room. The table is a two-pedestal
Sheraton model and the Chippen
dale chairs and the gold-leaf mirror
form an effective combination.
Two shield-back Heppellwhite
chairs are placed on either side of
THINKING
Someone recently made the re
mark that it is amazing how few
people, even people who stand high
in their professions, really think.
If this is true—and few people will
doubt it—it explains, to a large ex
tent, why so many never make a
success in life.
There was a time when any per
son could make a decent living with
out thinking. All he needed to do
was to prepare himself to obey ord
ers. He didn’t have to think. The
other person did the thinking, and
the employee did what he was told
to do. That time seems to be for
ever gone, and the person who ex
pects to secure any kind of gainful
employment must be able to think
as well a work. Indeed, he must
do sonic thinking in order to secure
the most humble job. After he se
cures the job he must do some real
thinking in order to keep it.
In the animal kingdom there is a
law that states that "only the fittest
shall survive.” Animals of superior
physical strength push aside those
that are weak; hence the weak die.
Among men physical powers do not
count as much as mental powers.
Those who think will succeed; those
who fail to think will not be suc
cessful unless someone else does
their thinking for them. It is, there
fore, safer for every person to learn
to do his own thinking.
Thinking is the hardest of all
work. Perhaps this is why so many
people do not want to think. We
may not like to work, but most of
us must work to live. When we are
brought to the realization that we
must also think in order to succeed,
we shall do more thinking. Young
people are already beginning to see
the necessity of thinking. They
know that in order for them to se
cure good positions they must have
good personalities and be able to
solve problems that will arise.
After all, thinking is good for any
person. It won’t kill us.
Woman Congressman
Urges Powerful Arms
A soft-spoken Southern mother,
making her first speech in the na
tional House of Representatives, de
clared that the present was "no time
to gamble with our security.”
Speaking on the annual military
appropriations bill, Representative
Clara G. McMillan of South Caro
lina, said although there was need
to balance the budget she was
“strongly opposed to the retrench
ment alternative in national defense
directions.”
The mother of five sons and widow
of a former representative, Mrs. Mc-
Millan warned the house not “to put
off until too late those vital pre
parations which our military coun
sellors urge in view of present world
conditions.”
“Perhaps it is true,” she con
tinued, “that geographically we are
so situated that a serious invasion
by any one of the powers engaged in
present world conflicts is virtually
impossible.
"But conditions change rapidly.
We have much to lose which is not
situated within the borders of the
continental United States, but which,
taken by an enemy, would be as
dangerous to us in his hands, as it is
a protection in our own.”
UNEMPLOYED COMPENSATION
IN JACKSON COUNTY
Unemployed workers in Jackson
County were paid $419.30 in bene
fits by the Bureau of Unemployment
Compensation of the State Depart
ment of Labor during the week end
ing April 6, 1940, Commissioner of
Labor Ben T. Iluitt announced to
day. Number of payments was re
ported at 64.
Total payments to Georgia work
ers that week amounted to $71,-
589.56, represented by 11,503 checks
which went into 111 counties of the
state.
Six hundred thirty-nine payments
for $5,303.28 to workers in other
states who previously had establish
ed wage credits in Georgia, brought
the total to $76,892.84.
Number and amount of checks
paid by the Bureau ranged from
one check for $2.29 in Webster
County to 2,812 checks for $21,-
204.54 in the Atlanta area which
consists of Fulton and DeKalb coun
ties.
a handsome chest of the same make
in the hallway. A portrait of Major
Biddle of distinguished military
fame hangs over the chest, while a
Heppelwhite sofa completes the
furnishings.
Rev. Long’s study, also on the
lower floor, is a dignified and rest
ful room.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
Newly Discovered Drug
Attacks Diseases Like
A Machine Gun
Cincinnati, Ohio.—A new medici
nal chemical, sulfadiazine, which in
animal disease experiments attacks
like a machine gun, was announced
today by the American Chemical
Society.
Most medicinal chemicals arc like
rifle bullets in that they hit only
one class of disease germs. Sulfanil
amide, for example, although one of
the most sensational discoveries of
this century, attacks both strepto
cocci and another common cause of
human ills, the staphylococci, which
appear in pus-forming infections.
It also kills pneumonia germs.
Sulfadiazine was made by split
ting the molecule of vitamin B-l
and combining one of the halves
with sulfanilamide.
B-l is the nerve vitamin whose
molecular structure was discovered
only four years ago. This discovery
is a dramatic example of the high
speed at which magic bullets of
chemistery are now being found.
Only last week another sulfanila
mide compound, sulfathiazole, so
new it is not yet on the market for
physicians, was reported at the
American College of Physicians as
the most effective cure for pneu
monia yet found. That remedy was
made by using the other half of the
vitamin B-l molecule with sulfanila
mide.
The half which the chemists have
combined results in a drug which
they said is absorbed uniformly in
to the bodies of the animals, white
mice, and not excreted so rapidly.
This means the chemical should be
effective in smaller doses and be less
toxic to patients than other sulfa
nilamide remedies.
Food for Children
As long as children are growing,
they need more food in proportion to
their size than grown-ups need. Chil
dren need the most food for their
size when they are growing the fast
est and when they are most active;
that is, when they are babies and
again when they are in their teens.
Some of the foods that grown-ups
can eat are not suitable for chil
dren—highly seasoned foods and
tea, coffee, and other drinks that
contain caffein. Then, too, some of
the foods that are good for all ages
should be prepared differently for
children and grown-ups. For exam
ple, for young children potatoes
should be baked, boiled, or steamed,
rather than fried.
Nevada Millennium
The lion may never lie down with
the lamb, but near Boulder City,
Nev., according to the Country
Home magazine, a coyote and a
sheep live together as the best of
friends. Some time ago, rising
waters in Lake Mead, formed by
the Boulder dam, created a six
acre island on which the coyote and
the sheep, a Bighorn, were ma
rooned. Although wild-life authori
ties thought the coyote would make
short work of the Bighorn, thus far
the two have lived side by side in
perfect amity. The coyote subsists
on mice and other rodents while the
sheep nibbles desert plants.
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GPA QUESTION BOX
1. What is the oldest college in
the United States?
2. What American humorist has
attained the greatest international
fame?
3. W’hat language is used by the
largest number of people?
4. What little girl was nearly de
voured by a wolf which impersona
ted her grand mother?
5. From what is linen made?
6. What is Hummerfest?
7. Who founded the Mormon
Church and in what city is its head
quarters?
8. What name is given to an era
in Greek history famous for its
achievements in science and in arts?
9. What Stuart king of England
was beheaded?
10. What is a group of different
atoms called?
ANSWERS
1. Harvard College, founded in
1636.
2. Mark Twain, the pseudonym
of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(1835-1910.)
3. English.
4. Little Red Riding-Hood.
5. Flax.
6. A city in Norway famed as
the northernmost city in the world.
7. Joseph Smith (1805-1844.) Its
headquarters are in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
8. The Golden Age of Pericles
(fifth century B. C.)
9. Charles I (1600-1649.)
10. A molecule.
The Brazilian Venice
Pernambuco is called the Brazil
ian Venice because of its canals,
deepened to obtain filler for low
lands. The city is the easternmost
in South America, and the white
crested surf of the Atlantic never
ceases beating upon its shores. In
the old part of the city the streets
are narrow and the houses tall, the
idea being to obtain the maximum
of shade.
AProminenfManufacfurerWrjjes-
for\ts attitude and determination to put down 1/ ,
1 the lawlessness that exists at some of the beer , 1 1
places in our state.
I was very much impressed with what you did
. at Griffin, what you did at Augusta, and what - v
you have accomplished in Bibb County.
It is not now a question of whether we are
prohibitionists or anti-prohibitionists—beer
has been legalized. But the need for self
regulation is apparent, and your Committee
seems to have what it takes.
The people are approving the a Real Clean Up,” the Crisp Coun
movement to eliminate law-vio- ty News declares editorially .. .
lating retail beer outlets in Legitimate beer retailers approve
Georgia—the above letter is only —they are law-abiding, they re
one outstanding citizen’s expres- spect public sentiment. Their
sion.. .The press approves—“lt’s cooperation is highly valued.
Law-violating outlets know we mean business-eight licenses have been revoked by
the authorities, who welcome this new shoulder to the wheel. It IS "A Real Clean Up"
BEER DISTRIBUTORS
Ldmitik df'l/titi/iQ
JUDGE JOHN S. WOOD, State Director
529 Hurt Building • Atlanta, Georgia
THE TRAFFIC COP
Most of us have a feeling that a
traffic cop is a person to be dreaded
and even hated. We generally look
upon him as a tough guy whenever
he catches us speeding. The follow
ing clipping from a Jacksonville,
Fla., paper should make all of us
stop to consider his worth from
another angle than our own selfish
desires:
People who are nrrested by Offi
cer C. D. McKnight at a small town
up in Alabama for reckless driving
or speeding many times get a per
sonal card from him instead of a
ticket. On one side may be found
his name—on the other side is this:
“You think I’m a hard-boiled copper
Writing tickets at 43.
Well, perhaps I’m thinking of Jackie
And all that the lad meant to me.
“How’s that? Tell you about it?
Well, stranger, the boy was my son,
God, what I’d give to hear ‘Daddy’
Once more when the day’s w'ork is
done.
“The driver was just in a hurry,
He didn’t intend any harm.
But the sun and the stars quit shin
ing
When I picked up my boy’s lifeless
form.
“Well, mister, I’ll not give you a
ticket;
I don’t want to pinch any one.
But I’d ride this motorcycle through
hell
To protect another man’s son.
“So the next time you feel like
speeding,
Or passing a boulevard stop,
Just pause and remember my Jackie,
The son of a hard-boiled cop.”
WHY SUFFER FROM COLDS?
For quick relief from ge g*
cold symptoms take 666 O O D
Liquid - Tablets - Salve - Nose Drops
THURSDAY, APRIL 2S, 1940.
—improved
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for April 28
Council of Religious Education, used o
permission.
ISAIAII COMFORTS
AN AFFLICTED PEOPLE
FFSSON TEXT—lsaiah 40:1-1!
GOLDEN TEXT—God Is our refuge and
strength, a very present help In trouble.—
Psalm 4fl:l.
“Comfort ye, comfort ye my
people, saith the Lord," knowing aa
He alone can the great heart sob
of sorrow, pain, and disappointment
which arises to Him from His
people everywhere. No study of
God’s Word which omits His tender
word of comfort is in any sense com
plete. No teacher or preacher who
fails to bring that message to his
people is declaring the full counsel
of God. No more appropriate pas
sage could be chosen for presenting
that truth than Isaiah 40.
The prophet spoke to a people who
were experiencing the bitter treat
ment of their enemies. They were
facing the devastation of their coun
try and the deportation of its people
into captivity. In such a desperate
day ortfe might say that there could
be no true word of comfort, but
there was, and that word may well
encourage us to look up in this our
confusing day. The Comforter of
Israel is ready to be our comforter.
I. The Source of Comfort (vv. 1-5).
"God is our refuge and strength”
(Ps. 46:1). “Behold your God” (Isa.
40:9). “Comfort ye, saith your God”
(v. 1). He is “the God of all com
fort” (II Cor. 1:3). The astonishing
thing is that mankind is so prone
to seek comfort elsewhere, turning
to God only when everything else
fails rather than going to Him first
of all.
His comfort is abiding, for it rests
on a removal of the source of all
pain and sorrow, namely sin. The
day of Judah’s comfort is to come
when her “iniquity is pardoned”
(v. 2). That is also the first step
for us to take in seeking comfort,
to repent and forsake our sin, seek
ing pardon in Christ.
The one who brings us God’s com
fort is Jesus Christ. Verses 3 to 5
speak of His coming. John the Bap
tist was the voice and it was Jesus
for whom the way was to be pre
pared (see Luke 3:4-6). Jesus is
the Lord Jehovah, God Himself, the
Son of God, and the bringer of God's
comfort to men’s troubled hearts.
It is He who is revealed in this pas
sage in all of His glory and grace.
11. The Need of Comfort (w. 6-8).
Man thinks he is great, wise, pow
erful and able to take care of him
self. William Henley expressed it in
his “Invictus,”
"1 am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.”
But God says, “Man is as grass,”
and declares that when “the spirit
of the Lord bloweth” on him he
fades and withers. We know tha't
God’s witness is true. Boast as he
will in the hour of prosperity and
strength, man knows in his heart
that when he faces the real issues
of life he is utterly impotent, needy
and undone. Gerald Massey spoke
more truly than William Henley
when he said,
"Surrounded by unnumbered foes
Against my soul the battle goes!”
The man who has come to the end
of himself and who realizes that
there is neither in him nor in his
fellow mortals the strength to meet
life’s struggles is ready for the min
istry of God in Christ, forgiving,
cleansing, strengthening and com
forting. He has come to realize that
“the grass withereth, the flower fad
eth, but the word of our God shall
stand forever” (v. 8).
111. The Way of Comfort (vv. 9-11).
Good tidings were proclaimed
even in that dark hour of Judah’s
history. We have good tidings for
our day as well. Let us declare
them from the mountaintops. Lift
up your voice with strength and do
not be afraid! Here is something
to shout about, “Behold your God!”
The prophet’s holy enthusiasm had
two excellent grounds. First, he
tells us that God is strong. He “will
come wifi strong hand, and his arm
shall rule for him.” Here is com
fort with assurance because God is
strong. He is also loving and ten
der. His strong arm is used to gath
er the lambs to His bosom and to
tenderly lead His sheep. Gentleness
is the attribute not of weakness but
of strength. God’s strong men and
women are His gentlemen and gen
tlewomen. They, like their Lord, are
loving and kind, using their strength
not to destroy or to impress others,
but to help the weak, to bring com
fort in the name of Christ.
Mentions the Divining Rod
!Y 1S , book on m etals, “De Re
Me alhea” (1580), Georgius Agrico-
L- a the divinin 8 rod . say
■ * miner should be good and
f. °“L an< * hould not make use of
an enchanted twig, if he is pru .
then a a t nd f kll ! ed ’ he sh °uld follow
see and diV” OnS Which he can