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A THOUGHT
A false balance is abomination to'
the Lord: but a just weight is His
delight.—Prov. 11:1,
Honest minds are pleased with
honest things.—Beaumont and
Fletcher.
Give Baby a Chance
The older generation is a bit
bewildered as it watches some of
the new-fangled scientific ways
of rearing babies. We quote a
white-haired grandma.
“Land sakes! If these modern
baby doctors are right, it’s a
wonder to me that all the infants
didn’t die in the cradle back
yonder when I was young.
‘Everything has to be steriliz
ed—spoons, can openers, nipples
for nursing bottles, rattles, cook
ing utensils. We never thought
of boiling things baby used long
ago.
“My children drank water right
out of the spring. Now it has to
be boiled. Cow’s milk isn’t good
enough—has to be pasteurized.
“Baby is isolated. Room of
his own. No one allowed near
him except mother. We used to
cuddle them right into bed with
us. And everyone who came to the
house kissed and fondled them.”
The answer to this is that a
much higher percentage of ba
bies died in the old days than
now. You frequently read
about some scientist boasting
that the average duration of hu
man life is longer by years than
it used to be. This doesn’t
mean that fewer children die in
babyhood and early youth. This
brings the average up.
For this, thank science and
its “new-faangled ways” espe
cially sterilization.
Another thing: Babies have to
have greater care now" because
there are more things to be care
ful about than there used to be.
More reasons; that is, for being
careful. More germs—particu
larly common colds, so danger
ous tojnfants.
Our gneeration is living un
natural lives, compared with
grandma’s generation. Physical
ly we are weaker, and this
shows in the .inheritance. The
health environment into which a
modern baby is born is decided
ly inferioi- to that back yonder.
Water, food and even the air
are more polluted. Each year,
fewer mothers can nurse their
young. That’s a result of liv
ing unnatural lives.
Young mother, obey the doc
tor’s instructions unless you
want to endanger your child’s
life, von’t let the old-timers
stir you from your determination
to give baby the best protection
available by modern science.
The health of womanhood and
manhood is largely determined
in the cradle by you.
Grow or Decay
From childhood’s happy
hours to the present we’ve been
told that nothing really stands
still that we must progress or
we shall slip backward.
The trees, flowers and,weeds
grow to maturity, their fruit or
flowers burst forth—and then
decay sets in.
This same principle is seen in
human beings, with the excep
tion that while the. body may
reach its full physical power and
then begin the backward slide,
the mental and spiritual may go
forward, even to the grave.
This thought was aptly ex
pressed by Whitelaw Reid, when
he said:
It was merely of the physical,
not of the spiritual, or the in
tellectual man that the declara
tion was made, you cannot by tak
ing thought add one cubit to your
stature. When a tree ceases to
grow, your science teaches you
that it should be harvested.
When the sun ceases to rise its
rays fall mournfully eastward,
and the day is surely drawing to
its close. When you cease to
grow, you have already begun to
decay. Grow then while you
may. The land never needed
you as it does today; the time
will never come in which it will
not need you more and more.
There was never a more ap
propriate time for service. As
Mr. Reid says, ‘‘the land never
needed you as it does today.”
Your community needs you;
your fellow-man needs you.
Are you growing or has de
£et in?
Nine Presidential i
Candidates
Ask the average man the
names of those nominees run
ning for the Presidency of the
United States and he will name
three President Coolidge,
John Davis and Senator LaFol-.
lette.
Ask him who is running for
Vice-President and after a mo
ment’s thought you’ll be inform
ed that Dawes is running on the
G. O. P. Ticket, with Bryan as
Democracy's candidate. La-
Follette’s running mate he may
or may not be able to name.
That there are actually nine
candidates now in the field for
first honors few know and still
fewer could name them; how
ever, here's the list of presiden
tial candidates and the party
each represents—
Calvin Coolidge, Republican.
John W. Davis, Democratic.
Robert M. LaFollette, Progres
sive.
Robert R. Pointer, People’s
Progressive.
G. O. Nations, American.
Frank Johnson, Socialist-La
bor.
H'erman P. Faris, National Pro
hibition.
William J. Wallace, Common
wealth.
William Z. Foster, Workers’
Party of America.
One of these nine candidates
will occupy the executive chair
in the White House after March
3, 1925; provided, of course,
one of them receives a majority
of the 531 votes in the Electoral
College. If no one of these re
ceive 266 votes in the college
the election wiH be thrown into
the House of Representatives,
which will vote for one of the
three candidates receiving the
highest vote in the Electoral
College. ,
Os the nine, can you name him
who will be first and him who will
be last? If so, you are a wise
old bird.
Traveling Doctors and
Dentists
Young doctors, dentists and
lawyers used to hang out their
shingle and wait half-starved for
several years until business came
to them. It was a rare profes
sional man who could earn a
fairly good living within five
years after graduation.
This waiting problem is being
solved today in a unique way.
A young physician, for instance,
opens an offide in a city. Then
he hops a train, scouts around
and finds a couple of small
towns that have no doctor.
He arranges for an office in
these communities and posts an
nouncements that he will be on
the job a certain day every
week.
The usual procedure is to
practice medicine four days a
week in the city (with few pa
tients if any), and devote the
other two work-days to his small
town practice.
The solution of one problem
often is found in solving another
problem. The traveling doctor,
accordingly, solves his livelihood
problem by solving the problem
of the small community without
a medical practitioner.
There’s a shortage of coun
try doctors, for the very simple
reason that in many distrets
there’s only enough work to
keep a physician busy one day
a week.
The traveling doctor is on
hand for that day only.
Traveling dentists also are be
coming common. There’s even
an occasional traveling lawyer,
arriving in town for a day a
week to get some people out of
trouble and others into it.
It’s a bang-up good system,
for these traveling professional
men are usually young, fresh and
from university and right up to
the minute with the latest in
their line.
All of which demonstrates
that it isn’t necessary to wait for
opportunity to knock at the
door. You can go out and but
tonhole opportunity and escort
her to the door.
Opportunity is occasionally
found.
Tom Sims Says
Some women won’t be happy in
heaven unless they get new wings
every pay day.
Procrastination is one thief never
stopped.
There isn’t much about a loafer
to make fortune smile.
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Many men who pass for optimists
are just too lazy to kick.
, A dream is a nightmare when she
has her hair rolled up.
We have so much trouble because
we make it for everybody else.
Thinking twice before you speak
is better than speaking twice before
you think.
Rev. Walter P. Binns, Baptist Minister,
Text: “He That Doeth the Truth Comath to the Light”—John 3:21
Discusses Catholicism And K. K. K.
REV Walter P. Binns, pastor of the First Baptist church at
Moultrie, in a sermon Sunday night to h.s congregation
discussed both Roman Catholicism and the xu Klux Klan, m
an able and dispassionate discourse. Rev. Binns sermons in part,
as published in the Moultrie Observer, follows:
‘The most unfortunate alliance
that the churches of Jesus Christ
ever made was in the year 323
when they accepted the offer of
Emperor Constantine to make
Christianity the official religion
of the Roman Empire. It was
from this allience that the Ro
man Catholic hierarchy was
formed, a religion political organ
ization patterned after the old
Roman Empire. For twelve hun
dred years the hierarchy held al
most undisputed mastery of Eu
rope’s political as well as her re
ligious life.
In the sixteenth century came
the Protestant Reformation when
bold leaders Luther, Twingli,
Calvin and Knox led the people
in revolt against the hierarchy.
With the reformation began the
long struggle between Catholics
and Protestants which has
held such a prominent place in
life of Europ'e. In this strug
gle the persecution and crime
was not all on one side. Taking
England as a representative coun
try, we find that when a Catho
lic was on the throne he directed
most of his energy toward the
persecution of Protestants, and
when a Protestant ascended the
throne he immediately set co
work persecuting the Catholics.
From such a state of affairs the
Puritans fled to this country,
where they could worship God
according to the dictates of their
own consciences. After securing
this right for themselves they
next decreed that everybody else
within the bounds of their terri
tory must worship God according
to dictates of the Puritan con
science.
Not yet having learned the
meaning of true religious liberty,
they drove Roger Williams out of
the colony because he differed
with them in his religious belief.
It was Roger Williams who
founded at Rhode Island, the
first government on earth whose
constitution guaranteed absolute
religious liberty to everybody
within its bounds. This principle
of religious liberty was later
fought out in Virginia, and final
ly was written into the Constitu
tion of the United States. The
American Goverrfment thus be
come a world experiment in re
ligious liberty, and separation of
church and state. Instead of
having Catholics come into power
to persecute Protestants and
Protestants some into power to
persecute Catholics, the Ameri
can doctrine is that every man
shall be given perfect freedom
in the choice of his religion and
that his religion shall not pre
judice his standing in political
affairs. This ductrine which
sounded so new and strange at
the time when our government
was founded, is now coming to
be generally accepted by liberty
loving people throughout the
world who have thrown off the
yoke of political oppression dur
ing the recent war.
What shall we say of the
Roman Catholic church and its
position in America? There are
a great many honest and sincere
Americans who fear the Catholic
Church, because of its form of
government. In the Catholic
Church all authority is vested in
the hierarchy. The laymen have
nothing at all to do with the gov
ernment of the church. The
hierarchy is a body of officials
consisting of various orders, or
ranks, each order being subordi
nate to the order immediately
above it. At the bottom of the
hierarchy are the priests, above
these the bishops, above these
the archbishops, above these the
metropolitans, above these the
patriarchs, and at the top of the
system, crowning all, is the su
preme autocrat known as the
Pope. This hierarchy is a close
corporation; it perpetuates itself.
The laity cannot put anybody
into the hierarchy. The hierarchy
reaches down and’ chooses whom
it will. It is a military machine
in the sense that the supreme vir
tue of Roman Catholic officials
is obedience. The machine Is
tremendously efficient and it is
because of its efficiency that mil
lions of men are afraid of it. It
is a well-nigh perfect engine,
created for the exercise of con
quering power. Men are afraid
of it because they think it might
be manipulated for political ends.
The fear that the machine may
be maniulated for political ends
is deepened by the knowledge
that it has often been so mani
pulated in Europe. fn Europe
the Roman Catholic church has
been in politics for more than a
thousand years. Nobody who
knows history would dispute that.
The Roman Catholics and Bap
tists differ more widely than any
other group that wear the name
of Christians. As a Baptist I dif
fer with the Catholics upon many
vital points. The Catholics believe
that the church has authority to
forgive sins. I believe that
Christ alone can forgive sins. The
Catholics believe in sacrament:.!
salvation: I believe in spiritual
salvation. The Catholics believe
that one may atone for his sins
by performing acts of penance
prescribed by the church; I be
lieve that the atonement for hu
man sin was made once for all in
the death of Christ, and that
v THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER *
Christ forgives th e sinner freely
when he repents. The Catholics
believe that the earthly priest
hood ha: authority to mediate be
tween God and man and that th’
sinner must confess his sins to
the priest; I believe that Jesus
Christ is our mediator and high
priest and that we should make
our confession directly to Him.
The Catholics believe that when
the Pope speaks ex-Cathedra, his
word is infallible; I believe that
infallibility belongs only to God.
The Catholic believe that the
Virgin Mary is a mediator be
tween Christ and the sinner; I
believe that Mary was merely a
good woman saved by grace, and
that Christ i directly accessible
without the mediation of any
body. The Catholics believe in
union of church and state where
the Pope shall exercise authority
on civil rulers; I believe in sepa
ration of church and state, and
a refusal on the part of govern
ments to negotiate with the Pop:
as with a civil ruler. The Catho
lics believe that the public chool
system should be abolished; I be
lieve that it is the solemn and
inescapable duty of the state to
educate its children. By inheri
tance, early training, education
and firmly grounded connection;
I am forever opposed to the Ro
man Catholic system of religion.
But does the Ku Klux Klan of
fer an adequate solution to the
problem of Roman Catholicism
in this country? In order to an
swer that question we must ask
that further question: What is
the Ku Klux Klan?
Is the Klan an organization
formed for the purpose of taking
the law into its own hands and
punishing criminals? Is it organ
ized for th e purpose of sending
masked groups to the home of
wicked men to frighten them?
If so, then the Klan is a mob, and
all mobs are criminal. There is
no evading that issue. We are
living in a civilized country where
we have regularly constituted
counts and long established pro
cesses of law. Any group of
men who disregard the authority
of our courts and who undertake
to execute the laws for them
selves are guilty of anarchy. If
such conduct as that were follow
ed by other groups where would
it lead us? If we cannot keep
our courts pure when we have
authority to elect their officers
and prescribed their methods of
procedure, how in heaven’s name
can we expect to keep this organ
ization pure when its members
conceal their identity, when no
body knows who its officers are.
and when its acts are subject to
no constitutional or legal regu
lations*
Or is the Klan organized for
the purpose of opposing the
Jews? If so, then I lay at its door
the sin of fanning the flames of
racial prejudice and hatred. The
Klan loudly boasts that it is a
Christian organization. If I read
the message of Christ aright,
then I am ready to agree with
Paul that he came to break down
the middle wall of partition be
tween Jew and Gentile. How is
it that after these nineteen cen
turies an ‘organization rises up
in the name of Christ to rear
that wall again? The spirit of
Christ and of Christianity is for
ever opposed to the whole pro
gram of racial and religious
hatred.
Or is the Klan organized for
the purposes of frightening
negroes. It was for that purpose
that the original Ku Klux Klar
was organized immediately fol
lowing the war of the sixties. The
situation then was entirely dif
ferent from that which exists to
day. Our civil courts were
abolished and we were under the
power of martial law administer
ed by a hostile army. Our homes
were unprotected in the face of
a large population of ignorant
and newly-liberated slaves. The
Klan was a temporary expedient
adopted by men whose courts of
justice were abolished. No such
situation exists today. The hum
blest citizen in the land has re
course to our courts where his
case can be tried. With regard
the negro. I speak in all serious
to our general attitude toward
ness to the conscience of my
Southern brethren when I say
that we are under most solemn
obligations to be fair and Chris
tian in our treatment of this
weaker race of men who in the
providence of God have been
placed at our doors. The time
has come for the best citizens
among native-born southern white
men to demand that the negro
shall have fair treatment. We
ought to wipe from the fair name
of our state the stain which has
been placed there by our lynch
ing record. Lynch-law is a sign
of barbarism. It is a denial of
civilization. If it is the purpose
of the Klan to fan these flames
of anti-negro hatred and preju
dice in the south, then once more
I lay at its door the indictfnent
that it is a wicked and miseni
vious organization.
Or is the Klan a Protestant
combine, organized for the pur
pose of fighting Catholics in poli
tics? If so, then I call attention
once more to the fact that the
American government is an ex*
periment in religious liberty, and
the doctrine or separation ,of
church and state The charge
against the Catholics is that they
carry their religious prejudices
into politics and vote for the ad
vancement of Catholicism. I ask
you wherein does a Klansman
differ in spirit form a Catholic
if he carries the Protestent issue
into politics? If Protestants un
der the banner of the Klan unite
in politics against the Catholics,
wherein are they better than the
Catholics who have made religion
a test in politics?
It is a futile task to try to
fight the devil with fire. The
devil is a past-master in the use
of fire. Two wrongs do not make
a right. If you are ever to over
come evil, you must overcome it
with good. If you violate the
American principle of religious
liberty and separation of church
and state, you have no argument
against the Catholics when he is
guilty of a similar violation. If
we are to go back to the Old
World practice of fighting out
our religious prejudices and rival
ries in polities, then we must
make the sad confession that tiie
American experiment in govern
ment is a failure. lam not yet
ready to make such a confession.
But maybe the Klan will deny
that it exists for any of these
purposes. Maybe it will claim to
be merely a group of ordinary
peaceable citizens organized for
the purpose of preaching Ameri
canism. If that be your whole
purpose, then why is it necessary
to conceal your identity? Why
do you wear masks? Why ail
those mysterious “K. K. K.”
names and symbols that sound
like they came out of a “funny
paper”? Since 'when did it be
come necessary for a man to cov
er his face in order to preach
Americanism? Is Americanism
such a forbidden subject that a
man who dares discuss it must
conceal his identity? Theodore
Roosevelt preached American
ism, but I never heard of his
wearing a mask. Woodrow Wilson
preached Americanism, but I
never heard of his concealing his
identity. If you are merely ad
vocating the teachings t>f Christ,
then why all this mystery and
secrecy? I cannot imagine the
Apostle Paul dressed up in 3
sheet with a hood over his face
going forth to preach the Gospel
of Christ. No more can I imag
ine Peter or John Calvin or John
Wesley. These men, like their
Master, spoke boldly and openly.
I cannot imagine on e of these
men writing an anonymous letter
like the two I received last week
Whenever they wrote letters they
signed their names. In fact, I can
not imagine any really brave man
writing an anonymous letter.
If the Klan exists only for the
teaching of certain sound and
harmless principles, then why
does it adopt the name and re
galia of the ancient Ku Klux
Klan? That organization existed
for a very different purpose. It
came into existence for the pur
pose of actually executing the
law in a period when we had no
courts controlled by orderly legal
procedure. That Klan did take
the law in its own hands. Its
members did intimidate, they
did frighten, they did punish by
the use of physical force. Are
you members of the modern Klan
organized for that purpose? If
so, then be honest enough to ac
knowledge it so that we can re
cognize you as a common mob
and deal with you accordingly.
If not, then change your name;
change your regalia, take down
your signs!
But what is our purpose in
this whole discussion?
Our purpose is to speak to the
Christian conscience and the Bap
tist conscience of Georgia. The
eyes of the nation are upon Geor
gia. Georgia is overwhelming
ly I rotestant. There are more
Baptists in Georgia than all other
denominations combined, includ
ing Roman Catholics.
We Baptists have long proclaim
ed to the world that we believe
m religious liberty and separa
tion ot church and state, that we
believe in th e religious rights of
ie minority, that the religious
freedom and religious integrity
of the individual is just as sacred
as that of the group. For these
principles Baptists have lived For
these principles, they have on
many occasions shown themselves
wilhng to die. The question for
us to answer now is this: Do Bap
tists hole these principles just as
sacred here in C- ■ -gi a w here
Now v e J" ? e as
Nev York where they are out
nm .oered by the Jev/or in New
Oi mans where they are out num
bered by the Catholics? Does the
.Baptist pujicqdes of religious lib
erty function in a community
where th£ Baptists are on top?
Americus
Undertaking Co.
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MONDAY AFTERNOQNjuIy 21, io,J
Who do you see in the every day p’rade that leads to the old
barber chair? There’s mother and sister and grandmother staid
and sonny, quite often is there. ’ ' u 1 >
Mom goes for a cut that is stylish; her hair to fashion, it seem
is a slave. And then she will patiently sit in the chair while tl-,.!
hand her a permanent wave. y
The barber shouts ‘next” and then grandmother hops. She
dreams of her sweet-sixteen day. And, thus, you will find,' when
the barber man stops that her tresses are bobbed half way.
Comes sonny a running- his patience is weak for he is a play
seeking soul. There’s many a time from the barber’s he’ll sneak
Then Mom cuts his wool with a bowl.
When sister gets in she’s exact as can be o’er the way that
her head of hair hangs. She faces the mirror just so she can see
how the barber is cutting her bangs.
We almost forgot about baby and dad, but they ne’er to the
barber are hauled. Perhaps they have reason enough to be <dad
for Pop and the infant are bald..
(Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
Old Days In Americus
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. July
21, 1904.)
Dozens of farmers sold cotton in
Americus the past spring at the
very top prices, having had the fore
sight to hold on to it until values
went higher. And now Hon. Harvi e
Jordan, president of the cotton
growers association has written a
very strong letter to put cotton in
warehouses and to draw on it if
needed. He says that by this meas
ure the prices can be kept around
12 cents, while if there is no sys
tem tiie speculators aided by mill
men will keep the prices down
Os course it is easy for us to cry
out against intolerance when we
are being persecuted, but do we
practice tolerance and justice
and fair-play here in Georgia
where we constitute the most
numerous group. Is religious
liberty a matter of real principle
with us Baptists or is it merely
a matter of which foot the shoe’s
on? I repeat with all emphasis,
that the place where the Baptist
interpretation of Christianity is
really to be tested is here in Geor-
Gia.
Let us remember the words of
our text, “He that doeth the
truth cometh to the light.” W r e
are not children of the light. Are
you sincerely and honestly oppos
ed to the teachings of Roman
Catholicism? Then take off your
mask and come out into the light
and join us. We have always
openly and bravely opposed Catlin
licism. Do you believe in
Americanism? So do we, come
out into the light and join us.
Do you believe in separation of.
church and state? That is a
cardinal principle with us, come
out into the light and join us.
Do you intend to give yourself
to the task of stirring up racial
and religious hatred? Then we
have no part or lot with yon.
There can be no compx’omise on
that issue.
VALENTINO WILL
OPPOSE LEE MOORE
SAVANNAH, July 21.—John G
Valentino has announced as a can
didate for congress from the first
district. B. Lee Moore, the incum
bent is a candidate for reelection.
Mr. Valentino is a former legislator
from Chatham, has served as presi
dent of the Georgia Federation of
Labor and is now superintendent cf
water works of the city of Savannah
MRS. RILEY SUCCEEDS
M’CANTS AS COLLECTOR
BUTLER, July 21.—Mrs. A. R.
Riley has been appointed by Judge
A, H. Riley, her husband, as tax
collector to fill the unexpired term
caused by the death of J. J. Mc-
Cants, marking the first time in
the history of this community that
such a situation has prevailed.
The selection of Mrs. Riley is said
to have untangled a ‘knotty prob
lem.” which confronted Judge Riley
there being about twenty applicants
for the office.
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Mr. H. R. Johnson, of Americus,
with his wife, is spending some thn e
pt Tybee. Mr. Johnson owns morq
than 20,000 acres of farm land m
Georgia, and many of the best plant
ations in the state. He will make
a trip to South Carolina during his
stay here to look at an old fashion
Southern home which he may pur
chase.—Savannah News.
Misses Elizabeth Hollis and Kate
Felder, two of Americus’ pretties;
• young girls left yesterday for Grif
fin upon a visit to friends.
Mrs. A. C. Duncan and Miss Vie
Calllaway who have been visiting
the Misses Falligant in Savannah
recently, returned home yesterday.
On the/ Rylander farm near the
city, the goodly portion of a bale of
cotton could be picked today. That
first bale is near at "hand now.
Miss Mary Hawkes, the pretty
young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.
N. Hawkes entertained quite a num.
ber of young friends, last evening
at her hom c on Jackson street. Tin;
occasion was complimentary to her
cousin, Miss Annie Kate Hawkes of
Richland.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From Thu Times Recorder. July
21, 1894.)
A great deal of interest is being
manifested by the veterans through- |
out the state in the reunion whies .
will take place at Milledgeville, on j
the 25th instant. At that time thel
monument which has been erected
to General Doles will be unveiled
with appropriate ceremonies.
And now Dame Rumor has it that
a popular widower of this city is
about to surrender to the smiles of
a certain bewitching young widow
residing on Blank street. The
matrimonial fever seems to be
spreading.
A new Baptist church was con
stituted at Hays Crossing, ten miles
west of Americus on Thursday
jporning, Rev.'Morgan, A. C. Wei
16ns and W. L. Cutts officiating.
The new church will be known as
th e Sumter union.
The very heavy rains Thursday
did considerable damage in the
eastern portion of the county. The
dams are both the price and Hud
son mills on Mountain Creek were
washed away entailing considerable
loss to the owners. In some places
the cotton fields were badly wash
ed. Hk
A shifting engine was sent over
to the one mile siding on the S. A.
& M. yesterday to haul a number
of bad auto cars kept there, and as
it reached the top of the hill on this
side of the bridge, the rear car
broke loose and started down the
incline at a rapid rate, ho damage
was done and the track was quick
ly cleared.
Farmers in the city yesterday
reported the crop outlook very fine
pfter the rain. Both corn and cot
ton are growing vigorously.
, In an ad of Wheatley and Ansley
figured and dotted Swiss muslin ai >
offered at 4 and three fourths cents
per yard, with ginghams going at
6 and three fourths cents per yard.