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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XLVII.
SIXTH DISTRICT MASONIC
CONVENTION AT GRIFFIN
Eloquent Addresses by Several
Noted Speakers Were Enjoy
ed—Barbecue at Fair Ground.
Officers Elected —To Meet
Here Next.
t
A great crowd was in attend
ance at the sixteenth annual com
munication of the Sixth District
Masonic convention which met in
Griffin as the guest of Meridian
Sun lodge on Tuesday, the 26th
day of July.
The morning session was called
to order by J. T. Waldrop, W. M.,
at 10 o’clock, in the auditorium of
the First Methodist church and the
following program was the order
of the session:
10 a. m. —Opening Meeting at
First Methodist Church.
1. America —Convention.
2. Invocation —Rev. H.A.Willey.
3. Solo —Miss Mary Leila Pat
terson.
4. Address of Welcome —S. B.
Fry, Chairman City Commissioners.
5. History of Masonry —J. T.
Waldrop.
6. Solo—Mr. A. B. Combs.
7. Address of Welcome—P. Y.
Luther.
8. Response for Convention —
Prof. E. T. Holmes.
9. Solo —Mr. Chas. Hammond.
10. Reading, “The Lodge Goat”
—Mrs. M. S. Lanier.
11. Short Talk —Rev. Chas. L.
Bass, Grand Master.
Organist—Mrs. Frank S. Pitt
man.
12:30 p. m. —Barbecue at Fair
Grounds. All Masons and their
families invited.
2:30 p. m. —Annual Meeting in
Meridian Sun Lodge transact 41
business and elect officers.
7:00 p. m. —Special Meeting of
Meridian Sun Lodge in their lodge
room in Masonic Temple. Mas
ter’s degree to be conferred in
full dramatic form in costume by
Fulton lodge degree team of At
lanta.
While the entertaiment was fine
and much enjoyed the audience
seemed especially pleased by the
solo by Prof. A. B. Combs and at
its conclusion insisted on an en
core. The address of P. Y. Luth
er, although his maiden public
speech was fine, and the response
by Prof. E. T. Holmes, of Gordon
Institute, sparkled with humor
and was filled with instruction.
Mrs. M. S. Lanier with “Peck’s
Bad Boy Iniating the Old Man”
made the building shake with
merriment, and gave as an encore
“The Burglar Boy.” The crowd
went wild and called in vain for
another.
The short talk of Grand Master
Bass was as usual able and elo
quent and full of practical sugges
tions.
The meeting adjourned and the
crowd of visitors repaired to the
fair grounds for a splendid barbe
cue, after which the delegates as
sembled at the lodge room of Me
ridian Sun lodge at 2:30 o’clock
for the business session. The fol
lowing officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
Asa A Lemon, W. M.
J. D. Owens, Dep’ty. W. M.
W. D. Williams, S. W.
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County.
04 OBSERVER ot
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We are requested to say that
next Tuesday is the day appointed
to work on the cemetery at Phila
delphia church.
We regret to note the death of
the little six months old child of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wynn, which
occured last Wednesday morning
after a short illness. We join
their many friends in extending
to the bereaved parents our sym
pathies in this sad hour. Its re
mains were laid to rest at Mount
Bethel church Thursday morning
after an appropriate funeral serv
ice conducted by Rev. J. A. Par
tridge, of McDonough.
We regret to note the sad death
of the eleven year old son of Mr.
Deck Crumbley, of Love’s district,
which occured last Tuesday after
noon. His father and a party of
friends were fishing at Bonner’s
bridge and his son and several
others were following after the
crowd that was seining, when sud
denly the boys stepped off into
deep water and the son of Mr.
Crumbley was drowned before he
could be rescued. In trying to
rescue him, one of those present
came very near losing his life also.
We extend to the grief stricken
family our deepest symoathy in
this sad hour. His remains were
laid to rest Wednesday afternoon.
It is with keen regret that we
chronicle the death of Mr. W. G.
Ingram which occured at his home
in McDonough last Wednesday
night after a severe illness with
typhoid fever. His death is indeed
a sad one as he was just entering
into the full bloom of manhood
with a bright future before him.
He was postmaster at McDonough,
an Odd fellow, and was a member
of Fraternal Lodge, No., 37, F. &
A. M., being secretary of the lodge
at the time of his death. He was
a member of the McDonough Bap
tist church, and was one of Mc-
Donough’s best citizens. Grady,
as he was familiarly known, will
be sadly missed by his many
friends. He is survived by his
wife and three children, one an
infant of only two weeks, and by
a large circle of friends and rela
tives. The funeral services were
held at the residence yesterday
morning at 10 o’clock, and his re
mains were laid to rest in the
cemetery at McDonough.
T. J. Brown, Sec. & Treas.
R. S. Talmadge, J. W.
M. S. Turner, S. D.
W. E. Adams, J. D.
C. J. Dickson, J. S.
During the afternoon session
speeches were made by Frank
Baker, grand secretary; Guy Thur
man, grand lecturer, Grand Master
Bass, P. B. Harkins, master Lake
wood lodge, and last and most im
portant by Past Grand Master
Travis who made the greatest
speech on Masonry ever listened
to by the delegates present.
An invitation was extended by
Fraternal Lodge No. 37 for the
convention to meet with them
next year. The invitation was ac
cepted and will meet here (in Mc-
Donough) next year.
The third decree was exempli
fied at the evening session by the
working team of Fulton lodge.
McDonough, georqia, Friday, july 29, 1921.
GIGANTIC STRUGGLE
TO SAVE HUMANITY
You Stay at Home (Patriotic)
Tax Dodger, Profiteer,Graft
er, You Who Wanted War
to Continue to Make Money.
I noticed an editorial in The
Weekly about the appropriations
of Congress for this and that, but
none for the overseas veteran. 1
wonder how many people have
really given that a thought?
Congress has put the Soldier
Bonus bill or. the shelf to stay un
til the majority of veterans passes
away, and those are the ones that
really need the help now, but the
very ones who voted to send us
off to war are the ones who are
opposed to a cash bonus. Now,
does the ex-soldier deserve any
thing in the wav of a compensa
tion ? Give it a thought. Was
not the boy forced away from
home, his rights taken away? You
remember the letters that were
always censored by his company
commander could not tell his own
mother, wife or sweetheart what
he wanted to, It was always
“Somewhere in France” and that
was about all there was to it.
About all the excuse now is that
it would tax the people to death.
Is it not a fact that the ex-soldier
pays a tax? Is he not a consumer
of goods already taxed? How can
he pay the price now? The ex
cuse is it would deflate the value
of the liberty bond, as it is below
par value now. I believe about
eighty-five cents in the dollar is all
they demand at present.
In all fairness, was not the bond
issued and sold to feed and clothe
the soldier who was to win this
gigantic struggle to save humani
ty? Did he not win it? And at
what cost to him and his? Did he
have a soul the same as yours?
Was it not just as dear to him and
his as yours was to you? Answer
that from the heart, please.
He saved you and yours, your
money, property and bond. And
while he was fighting and braving
dangers of exposure in a blood
soaked foreign country you had
the opportunity of getting rich —
from three to ten dollars a dav for
common labor and everything you
could raise or had for sale de
manded* unheard of prices; and
listen, he was getting $33 a month
and the money not buy anything
because the rate of exchange beat
him to start with and things were
much higher here. And the sol
dier, as far as he was able, bought
bond and paid for it out of his $33
per month wages.
Can he afford to lose his fifteen
cents on the dollar in his bond?
What would it have been worth if
the war had continued until now ?
Oh! you stay at home (patriotic)
tax dodger, you profiteer, you
grafter, you who wanted the war
to continue so you could make
money. The riches you made and
don’t want taxed so as to give the
poor soldier a small bonus. Re
member this: It was made off the
blood of the soldier who fell on
Flanders field and those who died
in the seryice of his and your
country. You were the ones who
said go, we will back you up, we
would if we didn’t have dhpend
ents or some kind of family ties to
hold us here.
Show me the bond holder who
Resolutions.
Whereas, It has pleased the
Great Creator of the universe to
call Brother Walter Gilmore from
labor on earth to rest and immor
tality in the Grand Lodge above,
where the Supreme Grand Master
himself presides; therefore, be it
Resolved, That we acknowledge
the wisdom and goodness of our
Supreme Grand Master, and bow
in humble submission to the inev
itable edict from the Supreme
Grand East; yet we mourn the
death of our brother as of one
whom we shall never more meet
at the altar of Masonry until we
gain admission into the Celestial
Lodge on high, where he has pre
ceded us; and we deplore his loss
to the fraternity, to his family and
friends, and to the community in
which he lived. He was a just
and upright Mason, a kind hus
band and father, an honorable and
useful citizen, a sincere friend, a
courteous and obliging neighbor,
a man who endeavored always to
perform every duty —to his God,
his country, his family, his lodge,
his neighbor and himself—honest
ly, faithfull and well.
Resolved, That in token of our
sincere friendship and sympathy
in the dark hour of this great af
fliction, and as a pledge of our fi
delity to the memory of our de
ceased brother, we extend to the
bereaved widow and orphans, and
to his surviving father and sister,
the fraternal right hand of Free
and Accepted Masonry; and with
it the assurance that thd Great
Light, given of God to man, will
guide them and us safely to that
spiritual building, eternal in the
heavens, where their loved ones
now dwell, where the broken cir
cle shall be reunited never again
to be parted, and where they shall
dwell together in peaceful happi
ness forever and ever.
Ola Lodge NO. 650.
is opposed to a soldier compensa
tion and I will show you a traitor
to his country.
One of our leading newspapers
said it was the patriotic duty of
every citizen to fight for his coun
try. I will admit that, but the
same patriotic spirit should prompt
the judge, the congressman and
senator to serve for the same sal
ary the soldier received. Isn't
that so? But how many of them
did it? How many congressmen
would be willing today to chip in
and help the dependents of the
soldier who died in service ? No,
the very ones that caused us to go
to war are the ones that have
stabbed us in the back.
Some say, “How would you get
up the money for the four and a
half million soldiers and sailors
who saw service?” I would say,
draft the rich man’s money the
same as you did the poor man’s
son. The same government that
drafted us and forced us to do as
we did do can do that. The bonds
were sold to win the war and the
money squandered right and left.
Why not sell some more?
Put some of those patriotic
preachers who preached us some
of those requested sermons and
who received the price of a sol
dier’s monthly wage per sermon
to taking contributions. They
make money drives pretty often
for foreign missions and are pretty
successful. They preach charity.
Let it begin at home.
McDonald T. Ricks,
Ex-Soldier.
$2.00 A YEAR
BUYER OF LIQUOR
GUILTY AS SELLER
Synopsis of Sweeping Decis
ion in Liquor Case by Fed
eral Judge Westenhaver of
Cleveland.
No more sweeping opinion con
nection with the enforcement of
Prohibition has been handed down
by the courts than that of Feder
al Judge Westenhaver, of Cleve
land, in the conspiracy case in
which Ben’ Rudner, of Canton,
and others were defendants. The
case was bitterly contested by
well known politicians like Ed
Moore, of Youngstown, and
George Clark, of Canton, appear
ing for the rum runners. The
trial ended by Rudner and others
being sent to the Federal Prison
at Atlanta and assessed heavy
fines.
The famous decision was handed
down in connection with a motion
to quash the indictment on the
ground that the government had
not made a case. Judge Westen
haver overruled the motion and in
doing so held that anyone who
knowingly purchases liquor from
an illegal seller is guilty pf the
crime of conspiring to violate the
National Prohibition law, — THAT
THE PATRON OF THE BOOTLEGGER
OR SPEAKEASY KEEPER IS A CON
SPIRATOR AGAINST THE GOVERN
MENT, THE SAME AS THE SELLER.
This view was also held by
Federal Judge Killits, of Toledo.
In his decision, which is of un
usual interest to laymen as well as
attorneys, Judge Westenhaver
said:
“In brief, the indictment charges
a number of persons, including
the eight now on trial, with a con
tinuous conspiracy from the 16th
day of January, 1920, to the first
day of April, 1921. The object of
the conspiracy was to violate the
national Prohibition enforcement
act passed the 28th of October,
1919, and becoming effective Jan
uary 16, 1920. It is alleged that
the conspiracy contemplated the
violation of that city by selling,
bartering, transporting, delivering,
furnishing distilled spirits and in
toxicating liquor, otherwise than
as authorized by law.
“A sale is a violation; and that
was one of the objects of the
conspiracy. A transportation of
liquor is a violation of the law;
and is alleged to have been a part
of the conspiracy. Giving or de
livering it is a violation of the law
and is one of the objects of the
conspiracy. Having in possession
intoxicating liquor is a violation
of the law, and was one of the
objects of the conspiracy. So that
you will see that the charge is the
conspiracy was a continuous con
spiracy, and it contemplated prac
tically all of the numerous viola
tions of that act. As I say, a sale,
except under limited circumstances
which are not material for this
purpose, would be a violation and
was one of the objects; a trans
porting, having it in possession
after being unlawfully acquired
would be a violation. Now, such,
in brief is the object of the con
spiracy.
Indictment Sustained.
“Under the statute, to state a
conspiracy, in its simplest form, to
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