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VOL 4.
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HOLOS MEETING HERE
Affairs And Problems Considered And An
Interesting Session Held
August 4-5.
The Bartow County Sunday School
Convention held at the First Methodist
church in Cartersville, Tuesday and
Wednesday, August 4t'n and sth, was
not as well attended as had been hop
ed for, but the reiports of tihe county
officers showed that good work had
been done since the last county con
tention. In this issue of the paper we
are printing the report of the county
president, Mr. W. T. Townsend.
The five division presidents have
held division conventions in different
parts of the county, and a large num
ber oif the Sunday schools have pledg
ed to put in new methods of work,
such as organizing adult bible classes,
home departments, teachers’ training
classes, etc. Two new Sunday schools
have been organized and several have
materially increased in membership.
There were some siplendid, pointed,
practical addresses delivered at the
convention. State secretary, Mr. D. W.
gims. and assistant Secretary, Miss
Flora Davis, of Atlanta, did some good
work. Mr. Sims’ address on “Building
up the Sunday School” was timely 'and
to the point. This address was divided
into two points; first, “Stop the
Leaks,’’ by (a) using the pupils, (b)
visiting absentees, (c) making the
school attractive, (and) good teaching.
Second, “New Scholars” by (a) get
ting the names of prospective schol
ars, (b) dividing these names among
the classes, (c) keeping after the pros
pects, (and) welcoming all new schol
ars when they come into the school.
Muss LiavXs made a sptenuid a actress
on "Auuit Bible Class Organization,”
giving at the essential officers of a
the tallowing: presiuent, vic.r
r.esiuent, secretary, treasurer, and al
so making the following committees:
Membership, social and devotional,
missionary. She gave the following
advantages of having the class organ
ised: l. It trains workers, because
eacli member in the class is put on
one of the committees and given
something to do. By practice each one
learns to do some special kind of
work. 2. It creates interest, because
all who are at work for the class is
interested in the progress the work
is making; 3. It increases the mem
bership, by putting the whole class to
work bringing in new members.
As to results of class organization
■Miss Davis told in an interesting way
bow a class with which she was once
connected was increased from a mem
bership of forty-five to 105, and how
every member of the class finally
joined the church. She told how the
class paid the way of two Korean
girls through a college in Korea.
Among other things she mentioned
the following things that were done
by organized classes: Conducted the
mid-week prayer meetings for the
church, held Sunday afternoon song
and prayer services at the county
Poor house, held song services in the
homes of old people and invalids who
°onld not got out to the church and
Sunday school services. One class
Paid for a sewing machine for a wid
ow who made her living by sewing.
The following figures were given
showing how (he membership of class
es had been increased by organiza
,;on: One class increaased from 22 to
•>O3 in six months; another class from
u to 74 in four months; another from
to HO in three months. Miss Davis
• tressed the point that results such as
taese could not be gained unless the
organization was worked.
!a a speech made by Mr. Sims on
Tie efficient Sunday school!” he
kade the following important points.
on time; 2. Have a definite,
different Program every Sunday; 3.
be Progressive.
,Davis gave a demonsi.ration
,A ing how a primary class should
[ taught, how the lesson story
d he told, and the kind of hand
. ork tha t should be used. She em
v asized the fact that this kind of
Sr 7 K Was Practicable for all Sunday
Is ’ ,ar Se or small, country or
f The following officers were elected
ensuing year:
' !| lent, Wlm. T. Towmsend; sec
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE
retary-treasurer, H. C. Nelson; divis
ion presidents, division No. 1, W. C.
Henson; division No. 2, L. L. Kown;
division No. 3, C. A. Dodd; division
No. 4, L. P. Gaines; division No. 5,
C. L. Anthony; elementary superin
tendent, Miss Lillian Greene.
To the Bartow County Sunday School
Association:
On the 26th day of January, 1914,
you honored me by electing me your
president. I accepted the honor thus
conferred upon me knowing that I was
incapacitated to do the work as it
ought to be done. 1 wish to assure you
that I highly appreciate the honor
thus conferred and the confidence
then reposed. While it has not been
possible for me to do a great deal of
work for you, yet I have tried not to
betray this trust and confidence. I
wish to thank each and ail of you
most heartily for all the assistance
you have so kindly given me in this
great work, Had it not been for your
assistance, your sympathy, your co
operation in the work, and your pray
ers it would not have been possible to
accomplish the small amount of work
that has been done. The work of all
great organizations is always done
by the individual members of the or
ganizations. The work of great armies
is done by the individual soldiers of
ithe organization. So it is with the
Georgia Sunday School Association.
The work is done by the superintend
ents, the teachers, and the individual
members of the various Sunday
schools of Georgia and of Bartow
county.
Thus it has been that we have been
able to hold, and have held, five di
vision conventions in Bartow county
this year—one division convention in
each division of the /county—and a
two-days county convention, bringing
Bartow county up to the “Banner
Standard,” as laid down by the Geor
gia Sunday School Association under
the auspices of which and by direc
tion of which we work and operate,
Which standard is as follows:
1. Holds a county convention every
year.
2. Holds a convention in each di
vision every year.
3. Makes a statistical report ev
ery year.
4. Makes a contribution to the state
work every year.
I was present at all of these conven
tions. At all of these conventions, ex
cept division No. 1, there was present
a large, enthusiastic, and appreciative
audience, as a rule, representing most
of the Sunday schools in the respec
tive divisions. In division No. 2 all of
the Sunday schools were represent
ed. which convention was held at Em
erson. I desire to give to Mr. W. C.
Henson and Judge J. M. Neel due
credit for their able and efficient as
sistance in holding these conventions.
Since my term of office began I
have visited five Sunday schools, trav
eled about 150 miles, made 10 speech
es, written 31 letters, and sent out
about 40 or 45 pieces of mail besides
the 31 letters written.
As might be naturally expected, the
schools of the county fall far short of
the “Banner School” standard, which
is as follows:
1. Evergreen.
2. Good records.
3. Graded.
4. Adults classes organized.
5. Workers’ (teachers’) meeting.
6. Systematic plan for Substitute
teachers.
7. A teachers’ training class.
8. A cradle roll.
9. A home department.
10. Co-operation with Division,
County and State Association.
There is a great lack in systematic
plans and definite purposes in the
schools. Superintendents fail to beg’u
on time and fail to end on time. Yet !
a great many pledges have been made
by the various Sunday school officers
which, if carried out, will greatly im
prove conditions by the time the con
ventions are held in the various di
visions again.
The suggestions offered by the Gcor
CARTERSVILLE, GA., AUGUST <5, 1914.
FI ASSOCIATION
DIRECTORS MEET
An Agricultural Building
Authorized And to Be
Built At Once.
The directors of the fair association
held a meeting Saturday and decided
to erect a,n agricultural building at
once. Plans for the building will he
secured and the necessary financial
arrangements made to erect the build
ing in accordance therewith.
One of the difficulties last year was
the fact that no really adaqua'te ag
ricultural building had been provided
and this largely accounts for the
meagerness of the agricultural display
last year. The directors have there
fore concluded to put up an agricul
tural building sufficient for our needs
and those who contemplate making
an exhibit can do so with assurance
that a building will be provided for
the reception and care of Buch exhib
its this year. A committee was ap
pointed to accept plans and give the
contract for the building consisting
of Messrs. W. A. Jackson, Joseph S.
Calhoun and A. T. Quinn. This com
mittee has already gone to work and
within a few days now work will be
gin on the building.
Provision having been made for a
building, interest centers in the prizes
that have been offered for agricultural
exhibits, and as the premium list has
been issued and is being rapidly mail
ed out, it will he found that some
large prizes and premiums have been
offered.
It will be interesting to know that
the best individual display will he
worth $175.50. In other words, it will
be worth, as an invetment, $175.50 to
the winner in the exhibit furnishing
the best display, to say nothing of the
indirect benefits that flow to the one
and to all who contribute to this de
partment.
The best single stolk of cotton will
be worth $40.00; the best twelve ears
of corn will be worth $32.00; the best
yield of corn per acre will win a prize
of $27.00; the best collection of bale and
hay will win $23.00; the best sample
of cotton, will win $17.00; the best
/bundle of wheat will earn $8.75; the
best bundle of oats will bring down
$6.00; the best peck of Irish potatoes
will win $6.00. Thus it will be seen
that the prizes themselves are well
worth striving for and every encour
agement has been offered by the fair
association this year to make the ag
ricultural exhibit second to none in
the south.
This is an agricultural fair designed
to encourage the agricultural interests
of thals county. It is an open contest
whereby landlord and tenant, corn
club boy and his daddy, can enter and
become contestants against each oth
er, and it will be the character of con
test where even the loser will be win
ner.
It seems an assured fact that with
the building provided for and the
prizes so liberal that the agricultural
exhibit at the coming fair will be the
foest ever displayed in Georgia.
gia Sunday School Association are
simple, plain, specific, definite. These
suggestions are alike adapted to ail
Sunday schools, without regard to
denomination. A'll Sunday schools will
profit by them when put into opera
tion. Each point suggested by the As
sociation is a unit within itself. All
the points suggested make a well
rounded whole. The Sunday school
failing to put into operation all the
points suggested will not be doing its
best work, but the Sunday school that
puts into operation all the points sug
gested by the Georgia Sunday School
Association, and carries them out in
a practical way, will be a well round
ed Sunday school and will be doing
good and efficient work.
Let us, therefore, put, and keep,
four good wheels on the state coach,
draw the same by four fat horses,
driven by an active, vigorous coach
man, and thereby safely carry the
passengers to the desired destina
tion.
WILLIAM T. TOWNSEND,
County President.
Read at the Bartow County Sunday
School Convention, Cartersville, Ga.,
August 4, 1914.
RURAL ROUTE CARRIERS
SALARY MISE DEEAVED
Order of Post Office De
partment Changes Basis
Of Compensation.
The present congress, intending to
grant an increase in, pay of SIOO per
year to each rural route carrie 1 ’
throughout the' country, irassed an
amendment introduced by Senator
Hoke Smith to this effect. The fact
was mlade public and all senators and
representatives Voted upon the meas
ure upon the idea that it did increase
each carrier’s compensation SIOO per
year.
This would have been so but for
the fact that on July Ist the post of
fice department arranged anew meth
od of fixing compensations which pre
vents all carriers from receiving this
increase.
Heretofore the compensations of
carriers has been fixed upon (the
length of routes over which mail is
carried. This Was the rule at the time
Senator Smith introduced the meas
ure increasing the compensation of
the carriers, and not only Mr. Smith
but -every other senator and repre
sentative in congress believed this
to be a fixed rule of compensation
and legislated upon this idea.
On July Ist, however, the Post
master General issued an order that
the compensation of carriers “shall
be based upon length of routes and
number of pieces and the weight of
mail carried as shown by the records”
of the department. It will thus be
seen that the elements of the “num
ber of pieces and weight of mail”
were added, aiid hence in Bartow and
many other Georgia counties,, being
well served with rural routes, the
number of pieces and weight of mat
ter did not come up to the standard
fixed by the department in this same
order, and thus only one carrier’s
compensation in Bartow county was
increased.
Political advantages was sought to
be taken in the matter and crit
icism urged against Senator Smith.
Feeling isure that Senator Smith had
just reason to believe that his amend
ment was uniform in his application,
The Tribune wired the senator today
as follows:
Cartersville, Ga., Aug. 6, 1914.
Senator Hoke Smith,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.
Please wire us facts about raise in
salary .of rural free delivery carriers
and your connection with? matter. The
facts are not fully understood.
BARTOW TRIBUNE.
In reply to the telegram The Trib
une received the fallowing answer:
3:32P.M.
August 6, 1914.
Washington, D. C. 6.
Bartow Tribune, ,
Cartersville, Ga.
Senate committee on my amend
ment increased ,maximum pay of car
riers* from eleven to twelve hundred
dollars. This was the way in which
all other increase/S had been made
and we expected the increase to ap
!*ly throughout the country on old
basis of division. Officials in Post Of
fice Department added element of
weight and number of parcels carried
in making new provision for distribu
tion of this increase. The result Was,
inciease did not amount to what we
had expected. Resolution has been in
troduced in house and subject is un
der investigation with a view to bring
ing about increase contemplated. 1 am
giving it my active support.
HOKE SMITH, U. S. Senator.
It will thus be seen that a resolu
tion has been introduced in the house,
which by law is the body in which
all matters of ‘appropriations and
revenues must originate to bring
about the increase originally eontam
plated by congress, and that Senator
Smith is giving this resolution his
active support. Inasmuch as it war
the original intention of the senators
and repTesentatives composing the
congress to give to each carrier an in
crease- of SIOO a year, it is believed
that the resolution, offered to meet
♦he new ruling of the post office de
partment, will be adopted and that all
carriers throughout the country will
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
Wife of the President
Dies This Afternoon
After An Illness Of Four Months
Yields to the Stiminons of Death
And a Nation Mourns.
SOUTHERN MERCHANTS HOLD
MEETING IN ATLANTA
Discuss Problems Relating To Trade And
Many Fine Addresses
Are Made.
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J. W. VAUGHAN
President of the Southern States Merchants Association which
met in Atlanta this week—Mr. Vaughan’s speech is said
to have made the hit of the occasion.
The most successful meeting of ths
Southern States Merchants’ Associa
tion in its history was held in Atlanta
this week.
Mr. J. W. Vaughan is the p real den*
of the association and presided over
its deliberations.
The delegates were welcomed by
Governor John M. Slaton and Mayor
James ,G. Woodward, whose speeches
were appreciated and timely and well
received. One of the interesting ell
dresses of the meeting was that de
livered by Mr. Harvey Jordan on the
subject, “Rural Credits.” Mr. Jordan
■had the benefit of observation of how
rural credits are conducted in Europe
through a recent visit he has made to
the old country.
Mr. Vaughan made the principal ad
receive the increase which it is de
sired to give them.
The order specifically states that
no route carriers compensation sha 1
be reduced from that he has bee'
heretofore getting but the carriers
di ’api>ointmenf arises out of a change
made by the department since con
gress, through Senator Smith’s amend
ment, granted the increase. No one
had any reason to believe that 'the
department contemplated any change
from its former mode of fixing com
pensation. In other 'words, Senator
Smith and al'l other senators and rep
resentatives acted upon the idea that
the department had definitely fixel
its mode of compensation.
dress of the occasion in which he
urged closer co-operation and a
.stronger organization. He admonished
ih,e merchants not to become ‘“war
soared” and reminded them that the
people have to eat and be clothed
and in order to do so they mus’t have
those things which merchants sell,
war or no war.
After this a buffet supper was serv
ed which v.as greatly enjoyed and
cabaret features were furnished by
an orchestra secured for the occasion.
Hundreds ctf merchants from all
sections of the so-uth were in Atlanta
Tuesday and Wednesday and the mer
chants of Artlanta afforded every
form of entertainment for the occas
ion.
W. C. T. U. INSTITUTE.
The Bartow County W. C. T. U. In
stitute will be held at the Bap
tist church, August 26. Mrs. T. E. Pat
terson, of Griffin, State President for
Georgia, will be present and will speak
morning and afternoon.
There are seven W. C. T. U.’s in
Bartow county and each of them are
urged to send a number of delegates
to this all day service.
The day’s program in full will be in
next week's copy of The Tribune.
Missis LaNefle Moon continues criti
cally ill at her home and there is lit
tle change in her condition.
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