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President A. C. Newell
It will be of interest to his many friends in Mill-
cdgeville to learn that Mr. Alfred C. Newell has been
elected president of the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce, an organization that has done much for the
upbuiding not only of the city of Atlanta but the cn-
lire state of Georgia, and the South.
Mr. Newell is a native of Milledgcville and it
was in this city he resided with his parents until he
reached manhood. Starting out on his own man as
a youth Mr. Newell commenced to climb in the busi
ness world and he has kept a pace that has resulted
in his receiving notable recognition from some of the
foremost business men in the country as a man well
qualified to do big and worthwhile things.
The following from the editorial'columns of tpe
Atlanta Constitution relative to Mr. Newell's election
lo the presidency of the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce is a compliment to one of Milledgevilie's native
sons that should be highly appreciated by the. citizens
of this city as a whole:
T he election of Alfred C. Newell to the presi
dency of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Wed
nesday is a deserved tribute to one of the most
active and useful citizens of this city.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce A the
premier business organization of Georgia, a leader
in all forward movements not only for Atlanta,
hut for the state, and the southeast. To be
chosen as its executive head is an honor of great
distinction.
Alfred Newell, shortly after graduating from
the University, began his activities in Atlanta in
189) as a member of the news staff of The Atlan
ta Constitution, lie later drifted into the in
surance field and is now at the head of the state
agency of a company of nation-wide prominence.
'As a public-spirited citizen, active in civic
matters, he has been conspicuous, not from anv
desire for personal glorv, hut for the greater and
more worthy purpose of serving and being of ser
vice to the community.
Nor has his public spirit and enterprise and
usefulness as a citizen been confined to Atlanta.
As a trustee of the slate sanitarium, and in other
positions of honor and trust, he has reflected
credit upon himself and his state.
Mr. Newell succeeds W . Or-1 note, whose ad
ministration of the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce, lias been particularly successful.
The ^cognition given to Mr. Newell hv the busi
ness men of Atlanta is indeed a broad one. It might
well be expected that in a city the size and importance
of Atlanta are many able business men affiliated
with its chief commercial organization and so natural
ly it might be expected that one of the most able
members of such a body would-be chosen as the head
to guide in the important work to be carried on from
time to time.
That men elsewhere are big and broad enough
to give recognition to one of Milledgevilie's sons for
his ability and natural desire to render a public ser
vice should by all means be appreciated by the people
of this city. It is not always the case that men are
unselfish to the extent of expressing willingness to
give recognition to the merits of others, though it
might be said that a community dominated by such
a spirit stands but little chance lo develop and accom
plish worthwhile things.
ould like lo direct attention to an editorial in the
londay issue oi the Atlanta Constitution, reproduced
on this page yesteruay, in which the Constitution, after
compaiing the homicide records of the United States
and England, said:
# je reason why the people of England are
h better protected against the pistol menace
than we are is not because they have better laws
against the carrying of deadly weapons than we
have, but because their laws are enforced while
ours are not!
We have law—plenty of it—against the evil
of "pistol toting." but it is noi enforced.
It is virtually a dead letter, in Georgia, at
least.
I he result is that every highwayman, every
burglar, every whisky runner, every automobile
thief and every other criminal, regardless of the
type of crime in which he is engaged, carries a
pistol in his pocket: and ordinarily he will com
mit murder if he thinks that by so doing be can
escape arrest.
The fault lies, not with the law, hut with the
law-enforcement authorities who wait until a
potential criminal commits a crime before ascer
taining whether or not he carries a deadly weapon
in violation of the law.
A law that is not enforced is little better than
no law at all.
In fact, the non-enforcement of a given law
inevitably encourage disrespect for all law.
We might learn a valurjble lesson from the
system in England—a lesson in how to control
our crime situation, and, consequently, in how to
reduce the human life hazard on our streets and
highways.
Several months a i o, Judge Moses Wright, of Rome, j
n chargeing the Floyd county grand jury, took occ
■on to recommend that the legislature of the state j
c petitioned to enact legislation making unlawful the
nnnufacture and sale of pistols in Georgia. So far as
ve know, this was the last ever heard of it.
Until the sale of deadly weapons is encompassed |
vith such safeguards that they will not be made easily
available to the criminally inclined and the irrespon-
ihle, homicides in Georgia, and the rest of the nation,
will continue.
To those of a statistical mind, it might be in
teresting to learn that of the twenty-eight cities includ
ed in The Spectator’s statistics, for 1921, Memfihis led
in homicides with a rate of 5l>.8 per 100,000 inhabi
tants, with Nashville, New Orleans, St. Louis, I ouis-
ville, I.os Angeles, Indianapolis and Washington fol
lowing in the order given. The lowest murder record
was that of I Iartford, Conn., with 1.4 per 100,000 with
Milwaukee, Boston and Rochester next in order.
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Every citizen in Baldwin county should bvproud
of our schools. They are the best in the state and we
are now making more progress than any county in
Georgia.
The Increase in Homicides
(From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun)
Declaring that the -homicide-record-lor 1922—4s
the most appalling in the history of the twenty'-eight
American cities for which the date at the present time
is available.”*The Spectator, in its December issue,
prevents figures show ing that in the cities in question,
there were 1910 cases of murder, a rate of 9. J per
100,000 of population. In 1920 the rate for the same
cities stood at 9.5 which was the average rate for the
five-year period preceding.
Commenting on this. The Spectator save that the
record makes a glaring contrast to the assurance of
thosirwlio, in pre-prohibition times assured the coun
try of the salutary effects ot the supression of the
liquor traffic upon the rate ot homicidal frequency^
and makes the further comment that "the infliction
of the death penalty seems at best to have but a slight
effect .is .i deterrent to the homicide mania, which re
mains as the greatest blot upon the civilization of the
l nited States”
Practically even homicide (and the qualifica
tion is hardlv necessary) results from the juissession.
f y ,h< ' sa >’ er 1,1 a deadly weapon. Before this, we
, , had occasion to make mention of the laxity in
enticement of the laws agunwt "pistol toting. ’ We
Clubs Are Trumps
According to an editorial in the Savannah News
the club boys of Georgia have done a great work. The
Neves says:
Clubs are trumps in Georgia, speaking agricultur
ally. The boys’ clubs have this year taken the money.
More than six thousand boys enrolled in the state in
the corn and hog clubs and the various other modifi
cations of the junior-farmer idea have done wonderful
things in the way of actual money-making on the
farms this year. An official story from the headquar
ters of these boys’ organizations which are directed hv
the federal government through the State College of
Agriculture makes a revelation:
Georgia hoys, members of clubs fostered by
the State College of Agriculture, added a half
million dollars to the state’s income last year,
according to announcement Wednesday by J.
Phil Campbell, director of extension yvork.
In addition to raising $500,000 worth of corn,
cotton, wheat, oats, potatoes, peanuts, pigs, calves,
and sheep the club members won S 10,000 in prizes
given at county, district, state and sectional fairs.
These figures shove not only the material side
of this piece of educational work, but also the
attention it commands from the people of the
state yvho are willing to give a large sum to en
courage this type of practical education, states,
Dr. Campbell.
Last year. 6,358 boys were enrolled in club
work in Georgia.
But those figures, indicative of a sum consider
ably more than half a million dollars made, created,
earned from the earth in neyv wealth by these boys in
one year, doesn’t begin to tell the aggregate story of
what the year’s work in the boys’ clubs has been really
worth.
The exemplary results have been immense, if
not accurately calculable. The boys’ corn clubs were
immediately the stimulus of effort among' adult
farmers who saw what boys could do and reasoned
that grown-ups could match—and the yield per acre
of corn in Georgia in the five years folloyving the first
organization of the boys jumped twenty-five per cent.
In every other line the effect of the demonstration by
the boys that scientific farming would bring more
money-results increased the efficiency' of their fathers
and big brothers and neighbors. And to the half
million this vear tjie boys themselves have made
should by fairness be added the big increase in agri
cultural production in the state that has come because
of yvhat.yvas seen in the results of the intelligent yvork
of the boys. Nor is this all. A deal in futures is
legitimate. These boys yvhen they own farms of ^heir
own and become mature agricultural planners as yvell
as planters will double the*production they would
have realized without the training in the boys’ clubs,
and Georgia in the years to come will he several mil
lions better off in annual actually "made" wealth by
reason of the naore efficient farming done in the state
by boy’s now being trained to get the best results from
soil and effort and climate.
Georgia has dropped to fifth place in the produc
tion ol cotton, due to the visits of the unconquerable
boll yveevil. l or many years it stood next to Texas,
hut now Alabama. Arkansas ami .Mississippi are in
the lead.
And now. il you have borrowed this paper in
order to read this column, return it with thanks and
send in a subscription of your own. It will add to
the enjoyment of your New Year'.s dinner.
Baldwin county has an excellent system of roads
and bridges- something to he proud of. It is a true
sign ol educational economic, political and moral
development. You can fudge a county hv its roads,
schools and churches.
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A New
Year’s Song
O N NEW YEAR'S EVE in England,
All in the olden day.
The children, went a-caroling, i
All in the olden way;
And ever as they journey’d on,
This chorus would you hear:
"God send you happy, God send you
happy,
Pray God send you a happy New Year!"
Across the fields and meadows
And through the frosty light,
While starry eyes and starry skies
Illumed the wintry nikht,
The children caroled blithely on,
In chorus sweet and clear:
"God send you happy, God send you
happy,
Pray God send you a happy New Year!"
Our days are sadly modern.
Our ways are modern, too;
But hearts still beat as high with love
As once they used to do—
So take the old-time message,
Good friends, both far and near;
"God send you happy, God send you
happy,
Pray God send you a happy New Year!"
—Nora Archibald Smith.
T HOUGH every day Is a new be
ginning, and so far as our person
al experienre Is concerned a
"new year” may start any time, there Is
something about the ending of Decem
ber and the first week or so of Janu
ary that makes even the careless
thoughtful. • The passing year has
brought botli Joy and sorrow—what
may not the next have In store*/
Where shall we be when the New Year
bells fall on our ears again? Who will
be with us? Shall we he 111 or well?
Disquieting questions that disturb our
ease and make us Inclined to fear.
We huve blundered sorely, It may be.
In the old year; some of its pages are
blurred with regret, or the sombre
stalna of remorse. And no matter
what happiness' may have been ours,
there is always something we did or
left undone which saddens us as we
remember. Shall we make the same
mistakes once more, leave the same
blotted record? Our hearts grow chill,
and we turn away, disheartened on the
New Year’s threshold.
Thll is quite the wrong spirit In
which to face the battle that lies be
fore us. It Is right that we should
look back to see where we failed, and
how. Kilt this once recognized, with
our plea for forgiveness—a plen that
will never he refused If we are truly
sorry—we must lift up our hearts
Hgntu and set out to sluy our enemies.
They are within us, not without. In
side our citadel dwells that evil tem
per, that pride, that indolence, that
greed or envy which tempts us to de
sert our colors—to think that the fight
Is hopeless. Each of us has his own
special temptation, and, once we real
ize the form ours takes, the way lies
straight before us.
It’s the fashion to smile at New
Year resolutions, so often made only
to be broken : hut they are a definite
help if we make them firmly Intending
to keep them ! They will only weaken
us If we throw them to a troublesome
conscience merely as a sop—something
to keep it quiet foi* tin* time, until it
| goes to sleep again. Providing that
j they he siitllclently elastic to change
their form when there is reasonable
I cause, rules fence In duties that might
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he neglected and keep’ them in the
forefront of our minds. Hut to multi
ply rules is it big mistake, for there
is one which, faithfully kept, will
make us both blessing and blessed.
The Utile of Love. Just loving our
neighbor os we love ourselves; serving
him, trusting him, hoping for hint.
Refraining evgn under grave provoca
tion from saying what would sling if
be said it to us; forgiving him as we
would be forgiven; considering him sis
we would lie considered 5helping him
when he needs If with the thoughtful
delicacy which makes help acceptable
instead of humbling; respecting his
weakness, his prejudice, his infirmity;
laughing with him instead of at him; I
and, should there come a lime wlien
sincerity demands, we should say what
we know will not please him, taking
care to blend truth with charity.
All the “little" rules we make for
ourselves come into lino with this one.
'Die Rule of Order—oh, how litany
New Years have we not begun with
the resolution that we would not leave
our things about, nor lose them, nor
hide them away! For we cannot he
untidy all to ourselves any more than
we can be ill tempered and not spoil
someone else’s pleasure; and nothing
is more upsetting to already wearied
brains than the fuss and worry of
hunting for things which should he
ready to hand. The Rule of Punctil
iousness in little things, that famous
“oiler of the wheels of life,’ will make
us both polite and punctual, as we
must In- if we would he pleasant to
work with (judging other people’s
preferences by our own!) The Rule
of Getttng-Up-In-Tlme (this almost
deserves all capitals!) means, if kept,
a great deal more than otir own con
veniences. since everything we do or
leave undone is bound to react on our
neighbors.
And even, if we often fail to keep,
even fitfully, the golden rule which
enjoins us to love them as ourselves,
every effort, we make in ihls direction
brings Its own reward, here and now.
As we grow into the habit of thinking
of people kindly we cease to be an
noyed at their peculiarities, and create
an atmosphere of good feeling in
which they cease to he nnno.ved at
ours. We must always remember that
the bearing and forbearing is not
needed on our side alone—as Thomas
a Kent pis said long ago, when we find
our neighbor difficult to put up with,
we may he sure that lie finds If equally
difficult to put up with us. There will
always be need for self-control and
patience; but when we reckon up gain
and loss on the eve of 11123, in the
measure we have kept the Rule of
Love, so one will outweigh the -other.
"We turn and look upon the valley
of I he phst year," says Mtopford
Brooke. "There below are the spots
atalned h.v our evil and our fear. Rut
as we look a glow of sunlight break*
upon (lie pHst. and in the sunshine Is
a soft rain falling from heaven. It
washes away the stain, and from tlie
purity of flie upper sky a voice seems
to descend ami enter our sobered
hearts. ‘M.v child, go forward, abiding
In faith, hope, and love, for lo, I am
with you alway* . .
May the,New Year bring us all near
each other as children * the same
dear Father. -Exchange.
NEW YEAR DEMANDS OUR BEST.
When people calmly talk over their
troubles there are few of them that
cannot be adjusted satisfactorily. It's
tills suspicion aid hate that block
progress. Let tuen learn the real na
ture of*their fellows und then* will
he a change in their attitude toward
' them. There's enough good in every
I man to change the nature of the world,
j Bel’s get busy and dig up the noble
j sentiments and hopes that are hurled
; beneath .veins of unfair thinking and
cheap theories of living. The \,0.
j Year demands the best \\ e cun pro-
\ duee.—Grit.
New York.—The average American
looks upon tlie Indian us n lc-mmi, u
picturesque myth, und forgets that in
is a human being with tne same long
ings, disappointments atul heartbreaks
as tlie white man. The intrusion of
the early American settlers seems so
much a thing of tile past that we can
not comprehend the Indians still ibs
ter a bitterness for the loss of their
campfires, their domestic hearths,
their valleys, mountains amt streams,
occasionally tt.ere arises among us
some one who wins the confidence u!
these tribal people.
Such a mail Is Eugene L. Graves, a
lawyer and the largest Individual oil
and gas royally owner in Oklahoma.
For 18 years he has given his time and
energies to lighting the battles of the
Cherokee Indians, once a strong nn
tion covering tlie rich plains of the
South and Middle .West. Now they
have been reduced to one small hand,
living in an area less than two-thirds
Unit of Rhode Island.
Acts as Their Advicer.
Mr. Graves is tlie authorized dele
gate and representative of tlie Night
hawk Keetoowah in all its dealings
with the United States government
and outside private interests. He also
acts in the paternal capacity of ad
viser and as a sort of court of last
appeal in personal affairs.
Tlie Nighthawk Keetoowah society
is tlie fraternal, political, industrial,
agricultural and financial nucleus ot
tlie 3,700 full-blooded Indians of the
Cherokee tribe, which 1ms 40.000
members in all. Tim others have In
termarried and adopted the ways of
the white myn.
“It must be understood,” saitl Mr.
Graves, “that the Cherokeos arc not
the ‘blanket’ type of lndityi, hut a
highly gifted and extraordinarily civil
ized people, with intellectual, literary
and artistic attainments. It is be
lieved that they have descended from
tlie Incas, and there is a legend that
they represent fi“e of tlie ten last
tribes of Israel. The Cherokee is nnr
finest specimen of humanity. During
my IS years among them I have yet
to discover that one or them Inis >t
vicious habit. They arc healthy
bodied nnd healthy minded-—as trust
ing as children. They do not know
wliat it is to break their word.
“In LSN!) the United Stales created
tlie Cherokee commission for the pur
pose of abolishing the tribal govern
ments and opening the territories lo
white settlement. After 15 years of
pleadings against this plan an agree-
men^was made by which tlie govern
ment of the Cherokee nation came to
u final end on March 3, 1SMK5.
"In 1!X)8 tliet United States gov
ernment decided to divide tlie land
upon which tlie Cherokeos were living
and allot to each Indian Ills share.
Many of the Cliorokees, unfamiliar
with the white man's way of doing
business, forfeited their holding* h.v
one technical mistake or another.
They could not understand rhe system
of taxation, and many farms were
confiscated. Some of tlie Indians, in
fluenced by unscrupulous white set
tlers, sold their farms for a few sil
ver dollars.”
Impraasad by Brava Fight.
At tliut point Mr. Graves stepped In.
"How did I become Interested in
the Cherokees?" he replied in ankwer
to a question. “About eighteen years
ugo I went down to Oklahoma to i***'b
after som* of my holdings, and met
the famous full-blooded Cherokee,
Redblrd Sndtli, and was Impressed hj
the bmve tight he was making against
tlie government, Just prior to the final
agreement of 100(1. He tried to pre
vent the dissolution of ttie Cherokee
nation. He was a philosopher, prcacli-
Ing to his own kind the time-old slo
gan. ‘In union there is strength.
When the government was assigning
the grants of land Redblrd refused,
to lake Ids allotment and whs pul ln |
Jail.. He finally agreed to a piis*i'*j
non-resistance und was released.
"Tilings were in a pretty bad shape
with tlie Cherokees when 1 suggested
j an Idea to them. Why not pool iheir
l Interests—their lands and possession*
! and develop them as one huge Imld-
j ing? Immediately tlie 3,Tim members
I of tlie Keetoowah saw the point. 1 he
] Keetoowah, in addition to Its fruter-
■ qal function, was organized upon *
I mutual business aud financial basis,
i in which the members were to share
equally in tin* losses und gains arising
from the development of iheir tigrh'Ul-
i turul, industrial anti mineral
j sources.”
The member> practically put s* 1 ”" 1 '
selves under tin* guardianship of ‘“ r
Graves, and lie lias rep osented them
I In all matters concert their "* j
j fare. VI he Cherokees .* prosper” 4
1 and been happy.