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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1909)
STATE ASM REPOitI Investigating Committee Find No Fault With the Institution. RECOMMEND IMPROVEMENTS Favorable Companion* With Other Sanitarium* Are Made—Training School for Nurses. Atlanta, Ga. That the Georgia State Sanitarium at Milledgeville is as well conducted as any in the coun try, and at a lower per capita cost than any similar institution in the Ijnited States save two, is the sub stance of the report made to tne board of trustees by a committee of the board composed of Drs. T R Wright of Augusta, E. Bates Block of Atlanta, and T. M. Halil of Mil ledgeville. These physiclians were appointed a special committee of the board to in vestigate by personal visits and oth erwise into the organisation and methods employed in other similar Institutions throughout the country. In their report they make a detail ed statement comparing the organi zation and plan of operation of va rious other sanitariums in the Unit ed States and suggest certain im provements and innovations at Mil ledgeville. Among the changes desired are the establishment of a training school and library for nurses and a nurses' home, similar to those in practically every other large hospital of the country; an increase in the local med ical staff, a thorough system of ex aminations on patients entering the hospital and detailed records of the progress of patients. The treatment of tubercular pa tients comes in for attention, and the necessity for segregating persons so afflicted, and also for segregating the sane and insane epilectics, the fee ble-minded and the criminaly insane, is discussed at some length. BRANCH BANKS UNLAWFUL. Ruling by Attorney General Hart to That Effect. Atlanta, Ga. —Branch banks within the state of Georgia are in violation of the state banking law, declares At torney General Hart, in a written opinion. Judge Hart holds that one bank, no matter what the amount of paid-in capital stock may be, cannot organ ize a branch bank in the same city, or in any other city, although it may open a * branch office at which deposits may be received. The matter grew out of an applica tion from a Tennessee bank firm to establish- a branch bank in Georgia without being incorporated under tne laws of this state. The attorney gen eral holds that this connot be done. INVtSIIGATt HilOK WORM. Floyd Ccur.ty Medical Society to Con duct Research. Rome, Ga. —Steps are now being ta ken by the Fioyd County Medical So ciety whereby the hook worm evil is to be investigated in this county. What has made this important search possible is the offer of John H. Reyn olds, president of the First National Bank of Rome, who has proffered the financial aid necessary for the under taking. Dr. George B. Smith, who has in terested himself in the study of the hook worm and who represents the medical society in the coming inves tigations, will begin among the school children of Floyd county, in order to ascertain if there are any evidences of the hook worm’s presence,, and if eo, will take proper steps for its elim ination. new stau LUIIE. Legislative Committee Begins Work on Judge Hopkins Code. Atlanta, Ga— At a meeting of the legislative committee appointed at the last session of the general assembly to examine and report upon the new estate code, prepared by Judge John L. Hopkins of Atlanta and to be pur chased by the state for the sum of $6,500. Senator H. A. Matthews ot the twenty-third district, was elected chairman of the committee, and 1 was decided to begin the work of examination at once. „ The committee is composed of Se ators H. A. Mathews of the twenty third, W. H. Burwell of the twentieth, Representatives W. R- J° n ® s of / ‘ . wether, W. F. Brown of Carroll and A. A. Lawrence of Chatham. The new cede will include all laws of the state through 1899. SURVEYING FOR NEW RAILROAD. Northeast Georgia Citizens Enthusi astic Over Gainesville Midland. Cleveland, Ga.-It now seems evi dent that northeast Georgia will have a railroad in the near futuie. engineering corps, who are ma u survey under the direction o Gainesville Midland, are in ca p mile or more above C1 v f v .?J al L ‘ w m If this road should be built, it will open up a fine section of count y. The proposed route will bo run through some fine valleja of feral farming lands, also there j tracts of timber lands and und ed water power, besides pyrites and asbestos mining mtci est zens are very enthusiastic over t&e road. M’LENDON WINS FIRST DECISION. Deposed Railroad Commissioner Given Decision By Savannah Judge. Savannah, Ga. —Honorable S. G. McLendon, deposed railroad commis sioner of Georgia, won his quo war ranto proceedings against Joseph F. Gray. Judge Charlton handed down a de cision in favor of the deposed former chairman of the railroad commission. Tills means that the judge upholds McLenodn’s claim to the office. Iu deciding the case, Judge Charl ton said. “If an officer is proceeded against for cause, he is entitled to no tice and a hearing, and if he is not given notice and a hearing the action against him is as if it had never been, in this connection it is pertiue - '. to observe that so far from a discretion ary power of removal having been conferred upon hearer, he had no pow er to remove. lie suspended and it was the general assembly that re moved. The method employed was not that of impreachment and was therefore not that required by the laws of Georgia. “Under impeachment proceedings the senate could not have removed the relator without a two-thirds vote. The vote it actually gave was a ma jority of three and of the eighteen men who voted in the negative sev enteen put themselves on record as entertaining views on the unconsti tutionality of the act of 1879, which, if persisted in, would have made the impeachment impossible.” SESSION OF 1884 LEGISLATURE. Great Reunion of Georgia Lawmakers of That Year Planned. Atlanta, Ga. —An extraordinary ses sion of the state legisalture of 1884- 5 may be called at an early date by Governor Henry D. McDaniel. Such an occurrence will be most unusual, but it was discussed very seriously at a meeting held in the of fice of Judge Richard B. Russell of the court of appeals, attended by Judge John C. Hart, attorney general of Georgia; ex-Governor William J. Northen; John W. Lindsay, pension commissioner, and T. H. Niblack and Colonel B. F. Abbott of Atlanta. All the above were members of that leg islature. For the business in hand, these gen tlemen decided that Governor Brown, the present administration and the legislature of 1909-10 would have to be ignored. On the occasion of this extrarordinary legislative session, any man who was not a member of the notable body which met in Atlanta in November of 1884 wil be a rank outsider. The legislature which met! that probably contained as many men who have since risen in positions of greater prominence in tue state as any legislative body which ever met in the state. That was the legislature wisich Henry W. Grady adjourned “in the name of the American people” on the occasion of the first election of Gro ver Cleveland as president. Hon. W. A. Little of Muscogee, was speaker of the house. United States Senator A. S. Clay was a member, as were Congressmen William G. Brant ley, Charles F. Bartlett and former Congressman F. Carter Tate, Dr. W. H. Felton and Judge A. W. Fite rep resented Cobb county. Ex-Governor Joseph M. Terrell at that time represented Meriwether. Colonel Obe Stevens, now a member of the railroad commission, was the “gentleman from Terrell,” and Thom as Eason, formerly a member of the prison commission, was the “gentle man from Telfair.” FUND TO PROTECT COTTON. Farmers of Georgia Will Have $5,- 000,000 at Their Disposal. Macon, Ga.— Five million dollars will be at the disposal of the farm ers of Georgia to meet their outstand ing debts by the middle of November probably earlier. Of that amount $3,500,000 has already been secured and is deposited in about one hun dred banks in different localities of the state, subject to the call of the one hundred or more consolidated union warehouses. By this plan the farmer will be en abled to meet all his obligations with out the sacrifice of his cotton and through the plan Georgia farmers will be able to realize the value of his holdings. GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. “From all indications the price of cotton will reach 18 cents by spring,” was the statement made by Commis sioner of Agriculture Thomas G. Hud son “It may come by Christmas, maybe not before spring, but there a r G many reasons to predict the ad vance to this high figure,” continued Colonel Hudson. “The shortage of the crop and the general conditions will be responsible for the advance. I do not think that the Georgia crop will reach over 1,600,000 bales. It may be 1,700,000 bales, but the first figures appear to be correct. I do not think that the total crop will be over 10,000,000 bales, while the con servative estimate will be that Geor gia will produce one-sixth of the en tire output. There will be no second, crop this year and cotton is all about in.” \ rather peculiar instance of rapid transit for Uncle Sam’s postal ser vice was brought to light when Mrs. Sam Jones found in her postoffice box nr Carters ville a letter that had been mailed in Atlanta, October 15. 1906. lust a little more than three years from Atlanta to Cartersville, forty eieht miles. No one seems to be able to explain the delay of over three years in delivering the missive. THE LAW’S DELAY OR ylf WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH PRESENT-DAY FOOTBALL GAME? New Rules Needed to lessen Chances of Fatal Injuries—Death of Cadet Byrne Leads to Changes at Conference to Be Held—Up to Rules Committee to Save Game or Abolish It—Expressions From College Centres. DEATH LIST IN THREE GREAT SPORTS. The following tabic gives the comparative number of deatlis in baseball, football and automobil ing since 1905: Base- Foot- Year. ball. ball. Auto. Tot. 1905 11 21 32 1906 19 10 8 3K 1907 13 13 7 33 1908 12 21 8 71 1909 39 11 16 53 Totals... 115 82 34 227 New York City.—The unfortunate and untimely death of Cadet Byrne has focussed American attention on football as it is played to-day and given to it the worst black eye it has had in a year. For coupled with the West Point fatality is the case of Midshipman Earl Wilson, the Navy quarterback, who was probably mortally injured in a flying tackle in the Annapolis-Villanova game. The unfortunate accidents have ex cited interest all over the country, and the question that is being asked: “Are such accidents avoidable?” is being answered in the negative. As a result of the death of Cadet Byrne, of West Point, and the dan gerous injury to Midshipman Wilson, of Annapolis, in games of football, it is likely some action will be taken by the college football conference as sociation to eliminate certain rough features of the present game. Four years ago, after the death of Harold Moore, of Union College, who was injured in a game with New York University on Ohio Field, a con ference of universities and colleges was called by Chancellor MacCracken, of New York University, which prac tically revolutionized the game. Mass plays have given way for the greater part to more scientific methods and greater stress has been laid, experts say, on speed than on weight. It was thought the new rules of open play, the forward pass and the out side kick would minimize the danger of the sport. It has been said that the greatest of injuries come from the bruising mass plays, but it is pointed out in a very significant manner by those op posed to even the so-called new game, that Villanova has a lighter team than the Navy, and that the weight question, therefore, can hardly enter into the present discussion. The opinion was general among all the ex-college players seen that the trouble lies not in the differences of weight, not in the differences in meth ods of training—for it is pointed out that the best conditioned under-grad uate bodies in the world are the corps of cadets at West Point, and the brigade of midshipmen at Annapolis —not in inferior football knowledge, not in any of the usually accepted theories, but in the rules themselves. There never was a harder player, a more difficult man to stop, or one who knew more of the ins and outs of mass playing under the old rules than Robert P. Kernan, of Harvard. In discussing the new game, as op posed to the old, with particular re gard as to wffiether the rules had been really revised, he said: “They say they’ve opened the game. Maybe they think they have. But just look carefully at the penal ties that surround an incompleted forward pass. On the first and second downs an incompleted forward pass entails the loss of fifteen yards. Well, a team’s hardly going to take a chance on that play; then, when it has, it is Jiacked up somewhere near its own goal line or even in its own territory anywhere when it’s playing against an opponent of nearly equal strength. It would indeed be too haz ardous. “Again, on the third down, if a team tries to pull off the. forward pass and it falls to the ground, the Sparing the Rod. —Cartoon by G. Williams, in the Indianapolis News. ball goes to the opponents on the spot where the ball was put in play for that third down. Who’s going to try a forward pass under such condi tions? Naturally enough, since they are hampered by such a rule, a team in its own territory has simply got to stick to line bucking on the first two downs and punting on the third.” Asked how he would remedy this difficulty, Mr. Kernan said: “Easy and simple. Let them re move these penalties, or else modify them.”- No Remedy, Says Conch Warner. Carlisle, Pa. Glenn S. Warner, the Carlisle Indian football coach, said: “Of course football is a rough game and there is an element of danger in it, probably but little more so that in other branches of athletics. It is sim ply an unfortunate coincident that these accidents have happened. They are not due to any radical fault in the game, and I don’t see any way to rem edy the rules to make football less rough, although I think changes can be made in the rules to make it a bet ter game.” Principal Wants to Stop the Game. Brooklyn, N. Y. —Dr. William Fair ley, at Commercial High School, Brooklyn, said: “I thoroughly disapprove of foot ball, and I wish I could stop it imme diately. It is rough and brutal and should be abolished. lam writing to the parents of the football players in my school, hoping that enough will prohibit their sons from playing so that the team win break up. I am also demanding a signed statement from the family physicians declaring the candidates to be physically fit to play.” Fighting Safer Than Football. Pittsburg. Pa. —Because of the re cent football fatalities, Samuel An drews, superintendent of the public schools of Pittsburg, took a decided stand against the game, and it is probable that every influence will be brought to bear for the suppression of football here. “I think fighting is a better sport,” said Superintendent Andrews. “Too many young men are killed and seri ously injured in football, and the game should be done away with.” No Remedy, Says Referee Sharpe. Philadelphia.—Dr. A. L. C. Sharpe, the famous Yale player of the ’9o’s, now acting as athletic director at the William Penn Charter School in Phil adelphia, who served as referee of the Harvard-West Point game,stated that the fatality was due to an “unfortu nate accident as distressing as un avoidable.” “There was no fault of the coaches that contributed to Byrne’s death. I noted that he was in fine physical shape, in perfect health, I might say. I was behind the Harvard line at the time of the accident. Just as soon as the ball was snapped back Byrne dove in between left tackle and guard. The Harvard players moved right on and Byrne was stretched on the field. The whole thing occurred so quickly that no one will ever know just how it did actually occur. It was not due to the roughness of the game, for I have sel dom officiated in a football game which was so cleanly and fairly played. There was not the faintest indication of unnecessary violence, and no uncalled for piling upon the player after he had been thrown.” “Can you suggest any modification of the rules which might insure more safety to the players?” was asked. “No,” was Dr. Sharpe’s emphatic reply. “Most of the injuries in foot ball to-day resulted from tackles, and if you were to eliminate tackling you could not play football. Personally I think that all the criticism of football and present football rules is unde served. Football is too firmly estab lished as a sport of the colleges to be abolished because of fatal injuries in rare instances.” The Sunday = School INTER .NATIONAL LESSON COM MKXTS FOR NOVEMBER 14. Subject: Paul a Prisoner—ln Rome, Arts 2:5:11-81 Golden Text: Rom. I:l6—Commit Verses 80, 81—Commentary on the Lesson. TIME.—A. D. 61-63. PLACE.—Rome. EXPOSITION.—I. From Malta to Rome, 11-15. No man ever craved human fellowship, and sympathy more than Paul and no man appre ciated it more when he had it (v. 15; cf. Acts 17:15; 18:5; 2 Cor. 7:6; 1 Thess. 3:1, 2; 2 Tim. 4:211. Paul was an intensely human man. 11. Paul in Council With the Lead ing Jews in Rome, 16-22. Paul is at Rome at last, and is there to preach the Gospel as he had longed to do (Rom. 1:14-16). He loved his people no matter how bitterly they hated him. He got them together as soon as he could thathe might preach Jesus to them. He sought to conciliate them. He has no charge to bring against them. It is not pleasant to be bound with a chain, but it is a great privilege and honor to be bound with a chain in a good cause. It was through Jewish malice that Paul was now In chains, but strangely enough It was because of loyalty to the great hope of the Jewish nation that he had in curred Jewish enmity. "The hope of Israel” was two fold; the hope of a resurrection (Acts 23:6; 24:15; 26: 6-8) and the hope of a Messiah in whom they and ail the nations of the earth should be blessed (Acts 3:22- 24; Luke 1:69. 70, 72; Rom. 15:8; Gal. 3:14, 16-18). In Paul’s preach ing the two hopes were blended, be cause the Messiah he preached was a Messiah risen from the dead, the first fruits and guarantee of the resurrec tion (Acts 13:32, 33, 38). In Paul’s day Christianity was everywhere spo ken against, yet it was to conquer the world and save It from moral ruin. Man’s judgments are not God’s, and the sect that is “everywhere spoken against” may be the sect God has chosen (cf. Jno. 15:18-21, 2 4). 11. Paul Preaching the Jvingdom of God and Persuading Men Concern ing Jesus, 28-81. Howall the schemes of the enemies of Paul and Christ had turned out to the furtherance of the Gospel (cf. Phil. 1:12). They had brought Paul to Rome at the expense of the state, they had given Paul a great audience of leading Jews, but further than this they had given Paul an audience of Roman soldiers. These soldiers would never have come to a service conducted by a Jew, but as they had to guard Paul they had to hear what he had to say. Many were thus converted (Phil. 1:13, R. V.), and as the Roman soldier went every where they became most efficient mis sionaries in Gaul, Germany and Bri tain and elsewhere. Paul opened to the Jews the Old Testament scrip tures concerning the death and res urrection and reign of the Christ (comp. ch. 17:2,3; 26:22,23), show ing how all this was fulfilled in Jesus. He gave witness to the kingdom of God —that is, to the reign of God on earth in the coming Messianic king dom. All his exposition and testi mony centred in Jesus. It was no ab stract reign of God in an Improved state of society, but a definite reign in a definite person, Jesus. Paul proved his points "both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.” If Paul had been like so many modern so-called “Bible teachers” he would have spent the day discussing whether or no the law really was Mosaic, and whether the portions of Isaiah expounded were by Isaiah himself or the deutero- Isaiah or some other Isaiah. The method Paul employed, going through the Scripture and showing Jesus everywhere, the Master Himßelf followed (Luke 24:27). Even apos tolic preaching will not convert every body. But under true preaching ot the word of God in the power of the Holy Spirit “some” will believe. The preaching of the Gospel always causes division; those who are ordained to eternal life believe (comp. ch. 13: 48), and the rest reject (comp. ch. 13:48-50; 14:4; 17:4, 5; 18:6-8; ; 19:8). Those who believe are saved; those who believe not are lost (Mark 16:15, 16). But the unbelief of some does not make the faithfulness of God of non-effect (Rom. 3:3, R. V.) Paul was not at all shaken in his own faith, because so many, in cluding scholarly ones, had not be lieved. No, rather he was confirmed in his faith; for was not this a fulfill ment of prophecy? But note how plainly Paul spoke to those rejecters of the truth of God, and we ought to use equal plainness of speech. Paul told them that what lay at the root of their unbelief was: gross hearts, dull ears, closed eyes. Their eyes were closed because they themselves had closed them (comp. 2 Thess. 1:7, 9). Though they refused the salvation, it was none the less “of God.” It they would not have it, others would (v. 28). The rejection of the Gospel by the Jew meant salvation for us (Rom. 11:11). Paul had two years of uninterrupted service in Rome and here the story closes. The Old Theology. We have outgrown the old theol ogy. It is as obsolete as the outworn shell on the beach, on the great sea. —Rev. E. L. Powell. Immortality. No man can believe in the Father hood of God and doubt immortality. —Rev. Dr. Waters.
