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Dear Children: This seems like
TOy week for “moralizing,” but 1 am
so interested in your future welfare
that sometimes I know I must get
“preachy.”
What I started to write about is
this—watch the squirrel he gathers
his store of food for “hard days” and
carefully puts it away. The rat is
so different, he destroys continually,
he is everlastingly scrambling for
< food.
You will probably say “but. Aunt
Julia, he gets enough to eat" —true
enough, but he has not. the pleasure
in his fare that the careful squirrel,
for he has no leisure days, no surety
of provender for the rainy day. I’d
like to think that this band of cou
sins belonged to the “Squirrels,” for
then I’d be sure that they would look
to their future welfare instead .of
squandering their time.
Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
Dear Aunt .Tulia: Here come two little
Beorgia Crackers to join your happy band of
' boys and girls. We live on a farm, and
Injoy farm life fine. We both go to school,
Ind must say we surely do love to go. We
believe everyone should get as much educa
tion as possible. I. Verdell, have written
before, hut didn't see >n.v letter in
J, Annie, have never written before.
to see this in print. What do you
an,l Aunt Julia do for pastime? As
us, we read, play the piano and Vic
help our mothers cook and go to
As most cf the cousins are describ
ing their ideal husband, we must describe
>urs. I. Verdell, would like him to have
black hair, black eyes and fair complexion.
He must be a Christian, have no bad habits,
Inch as drinkink, smoking or cursing: be
ibout 5 feet 8 inches tall and weigh about
1-10 pounds. I, Anuie, would like him to
be a blonde, not drink or course, be a Chris- '
tian: height 5 feet 6 inches tall, weigh
(bout J.'l.j pounds. I, Vcrdell, have dark
brown (bobbed) hair, blue eyes, fair com
plexion. I, Annie, have medium brown
(bobbed) hair, blue eyes and fair complex
ion. We are almost like twins. We will
Jo for tear we have broken Aunt Julia's
eiles. Every one of you write to us, and be
f|ure to send photo with your letter. We
ivill answer by return mail; By-by to all.
Please send mail separately.
I MISS i VERDELL PARKS.
(MISS) ANNIE MAY CASTER.
Dahlonega, Ga., Route 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Wil you nd
Bet two more South Carolina kids into your
tirele? Wo are not subscribers to The
Journal, but we road it every chance we
ret and especially the Letter Box. We
both go to school and like it fine and think
bverybody ought to try to get an education.
" OII T take a subject this time, but
will later probably if we are admitted this
time. J, Alma, am a brunette and I. Marie,
fin a “betwixt and between.” We are botli
between twelve and twenty. Will leave,
you to guess how much. Weil, girls, T want.
Dm (and I won’t slight you boys), all to
write me, as 1 enjoy getting letters and
inswenng them. So let them come in antli
photos, too, if you have any to spare. JLoy-
Ibgly, your nieces and cousins,
l MUSS) CLARA WHITINGTON,
(MISS) MARIE WHITTINGTON.
Mallory, £>. C.
My Dear Aunt JuTiT'a'nd Cousins: Al
though I am a new cousin, I believe. Aunt
Tulia will allow me to be with her jolly
land. We have been taking The Joiirna'l
Ibout six months and I like it fine. I am!
partial to Aunt Julia’s Council, the. Question
Box and Dorothy Dix’ talks. I am a farmer's
wife, with two sweet boys, one three years
•nd the other ten months. They are a lot
>r company to mo. Crops are fairly good
in this section, that is cotton is, it has.
seen almost too dry for hill corn. Cousins,
I want to ask a favor. I want nil of you.
who have wool quilt pieces to please send
he some. To tin- one sending the most 4-
Inch squares I'll send some extra good
tmpnch bean seed. Now I'll give a little
lelp. To keep bean seed free from wee
rils put them, after they are dry, in a snuff
bottle and put one teaspoonfu) of snuff in
.It and stop it up. Seed will keep for sev
■firal ycads this way. Your niece and cousin,
, MRCS. IRA CASTLE.
Kilmichael, Miss. Route 3.
Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will
fOU please admit another North Carolina
harried cousin in» > your happy band of boys
tnd girls? I have been s reader of tiiei
Letter Box for a long time, and I surelr do
tnjoy reading the Inters and Dorothy Dix’
laika, and the continued stories. Cousins,
■sn t it nnce of Aunt. Julia to gvie us •
lhance to get. acquainted with tach other
»y giving us space in the dear old Journal?
I wonder what you cousins are doing these
lays? I do most anything that comes to
land. I live on a farm and surely like
farm life fine. I live five and half miles
Troru our nearest town. I crochet, einbroid
sry and read. I’m very fond of reading.
Row many of you cousins go to Sunday
> rchool? I go almost every Sunday. Well,
i’ll not take a subject to write this time,
lilt if I should it would be on deceit fulness
Sow, cousins, just think amoment, how,
Much better this old world would be if
there wasn't so many peop’e full of deceit.
(Veil, I'll stop before I break some of
Vint Julia's rules. So cousins, the married
adiea especially, must write to me. 1 will,
(.sure you an answer as 1 do enjoy writing.
Vint Julia, please print this as I've never
tsked for snace before. A new cousin
(MRS.) VERDIR L. SAI'LTER.
Maysville, N. Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here
tomes this jolly school girl to join the vir
ile. First of all, I will tell you that lam
I lover of books, music and friendship; you
rill know that 1 have lots of pleasures. I
to to school and I am in the sixth grade.
I have brown hair and blue eyes and fair
lomplcxion and 1 am fourteen years of age.
rty birthday is January 15. Have 1 a
twin? If I hnvc write to me, I will answer
Hl letters received. I ant looking for lot-
all of von.
TO(MTSS) ITHELMAYH HEDRICK,
‘legion, N. Route 6, Box 142.
ello. Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will yon
llcasc lot me in out of the rain. 1 came
nice before but 1 didn't have the pleasure
»f seeing my letter in print. 1 am a conn
-4 ADTO LET ~
HOUSEWORK GO
jo 11l Husband had to do the Work.
Completely Restored to Health
by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg
etable Compound
South.Bend, Indiana.—“l was all
un-down, tired out, and had pains in
my back and bear
ing-down pains. I
was so sore I could
hardly drag my
self around and
was net able to
do a bit of .awe
work. My husband
worked all day in
the shop, and then
came nome and
helped me at
I night. The doc-
Lltors said I bad fe-
IBSI
’n
lale weakT*ess,and there was no help
ut to be operated upon, and of course
hat would-jost us a great deal. My
usband hoard about Lydia E. Pink*
j-turn’s Vegetable Compound at the
actory and one night he stopped at
he drug store and bought me a bottle
f it. I had be gun to think there was no
elp for me, but 1 took three bottles of
and nowl feel like myselfoncemore.
'he price for three bottles wasn’t so
luch as the doctor had charged. I
annot praise Lydia E. Pinkham’s
'egetabie Compound enough.”—Mrs.
Bora Osborne. 430 Sherman Ave.,
outh Bend, Indiana.
Women troubled with female weak
css should give Lydia E. Pinkham’s
’egetabie Compound a fair trial.
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Question Box, the. Atlanta Tri-
Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Folks:
I think that at this time of the
year we feel quite as much, if not
more, like “house cleaning” than in
the spring. We are facing a long
winter indoors, and all the cracks
and crannies of the house will be
on view. If you have curtains that
do not need starching, yet do need
a little body given them, use gum
arabic in the water, this gives just
the body that new material has and
really does keep the curtains look
ing fresh a much longer time.
If you have bare floors and rugs,
it will pay to use liquid wax on
your floors. Now I do not mean to
rub them until they are slippery,
for I think that is dangerous, but
the wax makes them so much easier
to keep clean, a dry mop over them
and they look bright and fresh.
If you will make a memorandum
of your summer things as you put
them away, when spring comes
again you will find it a great sav
ing of time not to have to open
each package, nor go into every
closet before finding a garment you
need.
Cordially yours,
AUNT JULIA.
Jenny Wren:
A very small girl like you should
be able to make a velvet dress with
long .sleeves from three yards of
velvet. You can get the Cheney
velvet for $6.50 per yard, and you
need no trimming, save probably
an ornament.
Mrs. Turner;
1 am sorry for the condition you
write about, but 1 do not feel that
I could help so far away. These
people must be associated with
some church, surely through some
church society they can receive
help. Have you a health commis
sion in your county, if so the nurse
would he glad to do what she could.
Mary L. D.i .
If you can only have “one nice
dress” don't have it too "fussy,” you
will soon tire of it if you do, so
will everybody else. I would sug
gest a lovely shade of blue crepe
fie chine, not too dark, not. light,
with a bit of Irish crochet in the
neck and sleeves. 1 am sending you
the leaflet you wrote for.
Battling John:
Dear boy, there may be some
school where prize fighting is
taught, but I certainly haven’t the
address
Mother:
Ihe silk and wool undergarments
are costly in the first buy, but
three sets for your little bov would
keep him fresh if you wash them
yourself. Send me a stamped ad
dressed envelope and the exact size
he wears and 1 will be glad to get
you prices.
fry cousin, have fair complexion, gray
eyes, dark hair (bobbed), age fourteen
years and my birthday is February 11. I
like to read good books and make tatting.
I have just finished reading “The Trail of
the Lonesome Pine.” It surely was inter
esting. Auntie, I surely would like to see
your picture, could you not print it at the,
head of the council once, at least? for I
know (he other cousins would enjoy seeing
it too. It is rather cool this morning, this
must be our September equinox, everything
looks like fall. Winter will soon be here
although I am always glad to see fall and
winter for then comes the time for school,
and I certainly do enjoy going to school and
I am sure every boy and girl should strive
for an education. I will not coine again
soon. I will go asking all cousins, both
young and old, to write, and to the first
one writing I wilt send a photo of myself.
1 will bid you all adieu. A new cousin,
(MISS) ANNIE LOIS BRUCE.
Martin, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will yon
please admit another South Carolina hoy
into your happy band of boys and girls? I.
like most of the Cousins, live on the farm,
and like farm life fine. How many of you
cousins like to go to school? I surely do.
I ant in the eighth grade and am fifteen
years old. I have medium brown hair,
brown eyes and fair complexion. My birth
day is March 20. Have I a twin? Most of
the cousins take subjects, but I will not
take one this time. It I were it would be
on •'Father.” As brevity is the rule, I
must go, hoping to hear from some of the
cousins. A new nephew and cousin,
(MR.) HERMAN PERRY.
Lancaster, S. C., Route 3.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit four Georgia kids into your
happy circle of boys and girls? We. like
most of the cousins, live cn a farm, and like
farm life fine. We are all new cousins.
Fannie Mae has black bait- (bobbed), fair
complexion, brown eyes and is fifteen years
old. I.aura has dark brown hair, blue eyes,
fair complexion nnd is fourteen years old.
Beecher has light brown hair, blue eyes, fair
complexion and is eighteen years old. Tal
madge Barden has brown hair, brown eves,
fair complexion nnd is nineteen years old.
Guess we had better be going. ' All you
cousins who want to write let your cards and
letters come to
(MISS) FANNIE MAE PAYNE.
(MISS) LAURA FORRESTER.
I MR.) BEECHER GRADY.
(MR.) TALMADGE BARDEN.
Clermont, Ga., Route J.
I’- S.—Send mail separately.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Wil you
please make room in your happy band" of
boys and girls, for another jolly South Car
olina farmer boy? I live in the country
and enjoy farm life fine. I see most of
the cousins take a subject. If I were to
take a subject it would be on "Home,” the
deaest place on earth. Cousins, come ahead
with your descriptions of your ideal hus
bands and vines. I think it quite amusing.
1 have blue eyes, light hair, fair complexion,
age twenty. Aunt Julia, here is a little
verse which always proves very helpful to
me. print it if you think it worthy of space,
please:
Two things observe with care:
Os whom you speak.
To whom you speak,
how. and when aud where.
I would be glad to have letters from all
the cousins who care to write, will answer
all 1 can. A new cousin.
(MR.) JOE MOTHERSHED, JR.
Lancaster, 9. C., Route 3.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here 1 come
ngain. knocking for admittance. Won’t you
let me in? I have written to the Letter Box
before, and Aunt Julia was kind enough to
print my letter. I certainly enjoy reading
the cousins' letters, especially where they
take a subject, if i should take a subject,
it would be "faithfulness." How beautiful
would life be if we would be faithful in nil
things, even the smallest, for it is the small
things that count, is it trot? Has not our
Lord said. "Ye who are faithful over a few
things, then I will make you ruler over
many things?” Among our friends we love
those who are faithful, the ones we can
trust. We know they will never fail us.
I won't try to discuss my ideal husband:
I'll leave that for another time. I have
dark brown (btotb(bed) hair, blue eyes, fair
complexion, medium tall and ant a teacher.
I finished high school at North Georgia Bap
tist institute, class of 1924; attended five
weeks' summer school this summer and will
begin teaching in October. 1 shall be glad
to hear from anv of the cousins who care to
write tp a north Georgia girl, and I will
answer, so let vottr letters come to
i MISS) ALMA WILSON.
Morganton, Ga.
PROBE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
OF ALL BAPTIST FACULTIES
IN GEORGIA, INDEX URGES
Baptist Periodical Publishes
Statement of Religious Be
liefs Made by Dr. Fox,
Former Mercer Professor
• ’
Radical variance in the religious
beliefs of Dr. Henry Fox, professor
of biologv at Mercer university, from
those held by Baptists, was respon
sible for bis resignation from <ne ;
faculty at the request off the board
of trustees and the administration
committee of the Georgia Baptist
convention, according to documents
published in this week’s issue of the
Christian Index ,the official organ
of Georgia Baptists. The fact that
Dr. Fox taught the theory of evolu
tion from a hypothetical view-point
did not influence the action of the
trustees or the administration com
mittee, it is indicated.
Dr. Fox has severad his connec
tion with Mercer as the result of the
situation, which was convdssed by
the convention administration com
mittee at a session in Atlanta a. few
days ago, at which Dr. Rufus W.
Weaver, president of Mercer, pre
sented a communication asking for
advice, and Dr. Fox presented a state
ment of his religious beliefs.
The conclusions of the committee,
together with Dr. Fox’s statement,
are published in the Christian In
dex, which comments editorially on
the situation, expressing the belief
that the Georgia Baptist convention
should, at its meeting this yall. name
a committee to investigate the sit
uation in all Baptist institutions in
Georgia as o the religious beliefs of
faculty members and officials.
Dr. Fox’s Beliefs Shown
Dr. Fox's religious beliefs were
outlined in response to a question
naire submitted to him by the Mer
* cer trustees, and according to the
text published by the Index, are as
follows:
“1. Do I believe in God? If a cate
gorical reply must be given, I would
have to answer yes and no. All de
pends upon the conceptions associat
ed with the term. Disregarding the
cruder conceptions, there appear to
, be in modern thought two concep
tions of the nature of God which, in
my opinion, are quite distinct and
which represent each the culmina
tion to an entirely different I'ne of
religious thought. One of these con
ceptions; which we may term the
spiritual conception, is expressed in
( the view which identifies God in the
' spirit of love. The other, which we
may speak of as the metaphysical or
, theological conception, is one which.
’ identifies God as the ultimate origi
t nating or regulative agency of the
universe—a metaphysical first cause
or a universal intelligence.
“Considering the first of these con
ceptions, if the term God is applic
, able to the spirit of love in the hu
man heart, it is clear that in so far
. as love in some form is experienced
to that extent is God experienced.
The spirit of love in the heart ex
presses itself in love and devotion to
noble ideals, to truth, justice,
righteousness and all those, finer
qualities of human nature which one
of the apostles characterizes as of
good report. If I am loyal to these
ideals, I, to that extent believe in and
am loyal to the God which is within
me. Jesus teaches that God is spir
it and also love, and in so far as
one’s life is a manifestation of an in
dwelling spirit of love and truth, to
that degree may he be said to believe
in the God who is revealed in the
life and teaching of the Master. ’
“To my mind the test of a man’s
belief in God is not in what he
claims to believe, but in the daily
conduct of his life. If it is found
that his life conforms to noble ideals
it is clear that he believes in God
even if he professes to be a. non
believer. Voltaire, Tom Paine and
' Huxley had, in my opinion, more
, real faith in God than did probably
the majority of their more pietistic
contemporaries.
Says No Guide Furnished
“When it comes to telling what I
know about God as thus conceived I
hesitate to take the step as the topic
is one on which, so far as I have
been able to ascertain, experience
furnishes us no adequate guide and
any conclusions to which we may
come will be in the very nature of
the case of a tentative and highly
speculative character. Experience
reveals to us that the spirit of love
and truth has an abiding place in
( human consciousness. That much at
least we are capable of knowing.
; What we may safely infer beyond
that point is to my thinking far
i from clear. Whether this same spir
it which manifests itself in human
i life is independent of experience,
whether it is a mysterious some
thing which has an existence apart
from the mind which feels it, is a
. question to which I fear I am in
■ no position to give a satisfactory an
i swer.
“The historic Christian church has
, for the most part maintained that
the spiritual God of Love and Truth
and the metaphysical God of om
' nipotence. omniscience and omni
presence are identical. I have never
been able to convince myself that
J this is the case except in the some-
■ what far-fetched sense that both
ideas are derivable from the primi
tive conception of a tribal god. It
seems to me that there is entirely
too much of suffering and misery in
the operations of nature and in the
records of human history to warrant
us in unequivocably recognizing in
them a clear manifestation of the
will of an entity which is supposed
to stand in relation to- living beings
in the position of a loving parent to
his offspring. This is a difficulty
which has made itself felt ever since
the dawn of the theological specula
tion and which has forced even
avowedly monotheistic religions to
postulate the existence of what is es
sentially a God of Evil.
“As regards the objective exist
ence of a God corresponding to the
god of metaphysical speculation, 1
find myself in close accord with the
view of Huxley as expressed on page
27 of his Controverted questions from
which I quote the following: ‘Look
• ing at the matter from the most
i rigidly scientific point of view, the
assumption that, amidst the myriads
j of worlds scattered through endless
■ space, there can be no intelligence
. as much greater than a man's as his
1 is greater than a beetle's; no being
■ endowed with powers of influencing
, i the course of nature as much greater
i- ; than his as his is greater than a
r snail’s, seems to me not merely base
! j less, but impertinent .. . But if
1 ; evidence that a thing may be were
I ' equivalent to proof that it is, an
> j alogy . . . might justify the peo
r I pling of Mars or of Jupiter with liv-
■ i ing forms to which terrestial biology
j ! offers no parallel. Until human life
i ! is longer . . . I do not think that
1 I wise men will occupy themselves
JI with Jovian or Martian natural his
tory; and they will probably agree
tn a verdict of 'not proven' in respect
to naturalistic theology, takinf
DR. HENRY FOX, removed
from the faculty of Mercer uni
versity after an official investi
gation of his religious views.
i J|£- I
W? A
m. /M??;
refuge in that agnostic confession,
which appears to me to be the only
position for people who object to
saying that they know what they
are quite aware they do not know.’
Divinity of Christ
“(2) Do I believe in the divinity
of Christ? Yes and no. If God is
Love and if in the person, and life
of Jesus we find the supreme mani
festation of the spirit of love, then
in tie sense we may acknowledge
that we have in him an incarnation
which we may justly characterize as
divine. Every man who has in him
some measure of the same spirit
which was manifested in the life of
Jesus is, in my opinion, to that ex
tent a ‘son of God,’ but in view of
the generally admitted fact that in
Jesus we find this spirit manifested
in an exceptional degree, we may
regard him as pre-eminently the son
of God.
“As for the historical identifica
tion of Jesus with God in a mysti
cal, or metaphysical sense, that is
a theory which involves a consid
eration of so much beyond the field
of normal human experience that I
have never been able to arrive at
any positive conviction in the mat
ter.
“(3) Do I believe in Jesus? Be
lieving in Jesus I do not understand
to consist in believing any specula
tive theological doctrines about him
—his incarnation, his deity, his
atonement, his relation to a trinity,
etc., but in believing in the ideals
which he taught and exemplified in
his life. .
“(4) What do I believe is involved
in Christian discipleship? I believe
it involves spiritual sympathy and
fellowship. To the extent that we
have in us the same spirit of love
and truth which found supreme ex
pression in the life and teaching of
Jesus to that extent are we, in my
opinion, his disciples. ’lhat
opinion has some basis in the teach
ing attributed to Jesus himself is
indicated in the parable of the last
judgment where Jesus pictures him
self as welcoming into the fellow
ship of his kingdom a host of people
who apparently had previously no
idea that they had been serving the
Master. May it not be possible,
therefore, to conceive of such per
sons as Buddha, Confucius or Hux
ley as so many unconscious dis
ciples?
“On the other hand, I do not un
derstand loyalty to Christ to com
mit us to any purely intellectual
views which we may have held. So
far as I am able to judge from the
available records Jesus was intellect
ually a child of his age. For exam
ple, he evidently shared the view
commonly entertained by his coun
trymen of the day that certain ail
ments or abnormal conditions of
mind are due to demon possession.
If he knew better it is inconceivable,
in view of his alleged omniscience,
that, he should have mad© no attempt
to correct this error when one bears
in mind the deplorable consequences
when, in supposed deference to his
authority, it became a dogma of
medieval Christianity. Because of
the lesson which history has taught
I do not feel myself bound in my
loyalty to Jesus Christ to adopt as
my own the theory of demoniac pos
session or any other view which he
may perchance have held as regards
matters of fact and interpretation.
These things I am convinced must
be deft for decision to scientific or
historical investigation.
“(5) Do I believe in the divine in
spiration of the Bible? Also yes and
no. Whatever was written in the
Bible under the influence of the spirit
of love was inspired by that spirit
and in that sense may truly be said
to be inspired of God. The Bible is
therefore a revelation of the work
ing of that spirit in the hearts of
the writers. The question of the
historical reliability and doctrinal
importance of the Bible is a problem
which belongs to the realm of his
torical and theological scholarship,
and in the sense used here is in no
way bound up with the question of
inspiration.
“(6) Do I believe in the Virgin
Birth? My answer to this question
may serve as a convenient example
of the kind of reply I would make
to any question respecting my atti
tude toward any doctrine or alleged
fact belief in which is based upon
traditional scriptural authority. I
am not convinced, as I intimated
above, that the Bible is a final au
thority in the realm of scientific or
historical investigation, and there
fore any argument based upon that
premise could have no weight with
me. If by Virgin Birth we mean to
imply an actual historical event, it
becomes purely a question of fact
and the only way I believe such a
matter could be solved, if at all,
would be through consideration of all
the evidence bearing upon it. If
this evidence is sufficiently abundant
and varied to put the matter beyond
dispute, we could justly accept the
virgin birth as an established his
torical fact. At the present time
there does not appear to be suffi
cient unanimity of opinion on this
matter among authoritative Biblical
scholars to warrant a layman hold
ing any decisive opinion on the ques
tion.”
Concessions Reached
At the joint meeting in Atlanta of
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME
Our Greatest Sin of Omission or
Commission Is in Writing or
Failing to Write Letters
IT IS funny, isn't it, that all of us
like to get letters, and most of
us would rather have a tooth
pulled than to write one?
Also it is passing strange that
both our greatest sin of omission
and commission, is
letter-writing.
Z
There is no ©th-F -
er step we listen \ >
for .so eagerly as ,*.4
the postman’s, and
we fall upon ourjg®
mail like a famish
cd tiger on its kill- pMfe.
but our idea of a
perfect correspond
ence i s one ,
which we are
ways receiving let- WF $
tors without hav-IB X
ing to send back"F
It warms the very cockles of our
own hearts to get letters from old
iriends who write occasionally from
lar off places, and who thus show
■ ••at tacy hold us in affectionate
memory, but we let those who we
; tiu.y love pass out of our lives be
, c.:i.se we are too selfish and lazv tu
, keep in touch with them through
; the mail. °
Nothing pleases a nd touches us
I more than the letters of condolence
jor of congratulation that we got
, when some sorrow befalls us or
some good luck comes our way, but
we do not. do as we would be done
by, and write the note of sympathy
that would soften another’s sorrow,
or the word of praise that would be
another leaf in his laurel crown.
We make the letters that we re
ceive—the little graceful note of ap
preciation, the prompt letter of
thanks for a gift, or some courtesy
—a test of breeding, but we fall un
der our .own condemnation by de
ferring the hated task of putting pen
to paper, or omitting to do it alto
gether.
The very hallmark of culture is
the abililty to write a charming let
ter, yet we let our children grow up
in absolute ignorance of how to
do it.
These sins are heavy on our heads,
but the greatest sin of omission at
all is committed by men, who have
grown so case-hardened in their self
indulgence in doing only the things
they enjoy doing, that they never
write back to their old parents at
all. It seems incredible, but there
are otherwise decent men who from
year's end to year's end never take
the trouble to write a real, warm,
loving, personal letter to the moth
er's who bore them.
Sometimes they do not write at
ah. Sometimes they occasionally
dictate a formal, cold, lifeless note,
through their secretaries. General
ly. they delegate the task to their
wives, as if any mother wanted to
hear from her own child through a
third party, and in a duty letter, to
| boot.
God only knows how any man jus
tifies his not writing to his parents
to his conscience. He knows that
old people have few interests of
their own; that they live only
the administration committee of the
Georgia Baptist convention and the
executive committee of the Christian
Index, to which Dr. Weaver had ap
pealed for advice on the Fox matter,
the following conclusions were reach
ed and transmitted to Dr. AVeaver:
“In compliance with your official
request we unanimously advise you
as follows l First, that Dr. Fox’s re.
' lig.ous beliefs as frankly stated by
i himself in writing, in our opinion,
J ar e so radically different and utterly
l opposed to those held by Baptists
j that it is impossible for him to con-
I tinue as a teacher in their universi
ty. We believe that if he should so
continue and our people became ac
quainted with the facts, his further
connection with the institution
would seriously cripple, if it did not
utterly wreck both your administra
tion and Mercer university.
“We grant to Dr. Fox, of course,
a perfect right to liberty of opinion
in the matter of his religious beliefs
but we do not think he has either
the legal or the moral right to hold
to he beliefs he claims and at the
same time teach in Mercer univer
sity.
“We therefore recommend to you:
“First, that Dr. Fox be requested
to resign his professorship in Mercer
university at once.
“Second, if he declines to so re
sign, we recommend that you de
clare his place vacant, and proceed
to fill it with some suitable person.
"Third, we believe that primarily
the responsibility for this trouble
lies with Dr. Fox. He knew when he
entered the university how utterly
his beliefs were at variance with
those of. the Georgia Baptists who
were employing him. If he had been
as frank in disclosing them then as
he is now the trouble would not have
arisen as he could not have been
elected to the position he now holds.
Nevertheless, we do not believe there
was the slightest intention on his
part to conceal anything or to be
unfair in any way to the university,
therefore we recommend that you be
as generous as possible with him in
whatever financial compensation you
make him for th© loss of his posi
tion.”
Commenting editorially upon the
Fox case, the Index in this issue
says, in part:
“Before passing from Mr. Fox, we
wish to speak of the evident honesty
of this gentleman in the statement
which he prepared of his religious
beliefs. No one can doubt this fact,
i And furthermore we wish to speak
; of the unanimous commendations of
< his personal life and conduct. His
I pastor. Rev. H. M. Fugate, declares
j that his church relations are beyond
. reproach. Strange as it seems, in
i the light of his belief, it appears
'tn be true. We can but feel that Mr.
! Fox might have been, and yet may
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through their children, and that the
smallest thing that he does is of
more importance to them than public
events that shake the world. He
knows that only in words of af
fection and appreciation and grati
tude can he repay his debt for all
the sacrifices they made for him. His j
imagination is d-ull, indeed, if he ;
docs not picture the old people j
watching for the letter that never I
comes. If he does not vision the ;
hope that springs into their breasts
as the postman pauses <it their gate,
the dull despair that settles down
on them as he passes by.
The man pleads that he is too
busy, too rushed with work to write
back home, but he isn’t too busy
to answer the letter that will bring
him more business, yet what busi
ness is so important as bringing a
little cheer into the drab lives of
j those who have little left to interest
and entertain them?
Be sure the time will come when
a man will look down on the dead
face of his old mother, and he will
be gladder to remember the loving
letters he wrote her than he would
be to have written a Six Best Seller
or a letter that brought him $50,000
worth of orders.
But if we sin in failing to write
those letters that we should have
written, we equally sin in writing
letters which we should not have
written. Chief among these is the
blue letter, and herein women are
the great offenders.
There are women whose letters
make the Lamentations of Jeremiah
read like a merry wheeze. And
when you get one of their epistles
you feel like taking a dose of rough
on rats, and getting out of a world
that has got nothing in it but afflic
tions. They literally qomb their
community for horrors, and there
isn’t a case of sickness or a broken
nose or a bankruptcy or a scandal
or anything unpleasant that they
do not retail for your benefit. And
they always wind up by telling you
that they don’t think they will live
long, and that they pine for your
society in their departing days.
Such letters take all of the heart
out of you. break down your
morale, and when they come to one
who is already staggering along un
der all the load that he or she can
bear, they are nothing less than a
crime. Somehow the written word
has far more weight than the spoken
word, and so no letter should ever
be sent that does not carry with it
a message of cheer and hope.
Os course, the most dangerous sin
of commission In letter writing is
the love letter, and to this weakness
women are likewise especially prone.
I For alas, only too many women go
on an ink jag and write things to
men which they are ashamed to re
member, and which they often have
to pay good money to get back.
The only way to write a safe love
letter is to keep it on the ice for
twenty-four hours after you have
written it. Then it never will be
sent.
The morale of all of which is that
we should write plenty of letters,
’ but we should write each letter as
if it were one day likely to be read
i aloud in court.
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; (Copyright, 71924)
be, won to an acceptance of New
Testament Christianity.
"We have no word of criticism of
the students who so spontaneously
passed resolutions of confidence in
| their esteemed professor. We can
easily understand their recatlon to
the suggestion that he retire from
the faculty. We are as fully con
vinced that they will agree with the
action of the trustees when they are
conversant with his written state
ment of his religious beliefs. We
also appreciate hte expression of
loyalty on the part of hte faculty.
We take this to be the mark of that
fine friendship which can come to
fruition among teachers as in almost
no other realm. We do not for a
moment believe that any member of
the faculty will insist that he re
main after knowing his views as set
forth in his statement. If they do,
then they must retire with him, if
they are frank enough to admit their
beliefs.
“Shall we suffer another incident
like this? We shall likely come upon
occasions when men shall be found
within the whirl of the constant dis
j tress of theological controversy. We
I beleive there are safeguards which
may be fairly thrown about the in
: stitution and no violence shall be
. done to any Christian teacher’s free
! dom. We hope a committee shall he
| appointed at the opening of the con
j vention at Columbus to confer with
I the trustees of all our institutions
I touching this matter of the religious
' beliefs of the officials and teachers
of these institutions supported and
controlled by the convention. This
protection should include not only
the educational institutions, but ev
ery agency of the convention.”
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Making a Balanced Ration for
Dairy Cows ,
J. S. A., Donalsonville, Ga., ;
writes: Can I make a balanced j
ration for my dairy cows out of j
the following feeds: Cottonseed
meal, corn and cob meal and
soaked velvet beans? I will
have a rye pasture for them to
graze, on as soon as I can grow
it. I swapped my cotton seed
for meal, pound for pound. Was
that a good trade? I want to
raise my own feed, but do not
know how to mix it for best
results.
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centrates you mention should enable
you to provide a very satisfactory
ration for your dairy cows. We j
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beans and the corn and cob meal I
together. Equal parts of these two |
mate rials might be used in the man- I
ner indicated. If you do not expect;
to shell the velvet beans, the mix- \
ture should be ground very fine. I
The hull of the velvet bean, as you \
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finely ground, it may even cause 1
some irritation of the digestive tract :
of ruminating animals. This, of
course, is not so likely to occur with
mature animals or with those of
the class mentioned as with animals
having stomachs of a smaller con-'
tent.
We would suggest that you mix
the cottonseed meal parts. This
should furnish a very good concen
trated ration, and it will be quite
well-balanced as well. You should
feed all of the grain ration needed
to supply the needs of your indi
vidual cows.
As the flow of milk will vary with
the age and size or the animals con
cerned, and in accordance with the
lactation period, we suggest that
you use a measure so that you can
accurately determine the amount of
feed given to any individual. About
one and one-half pounds of grain
would be the right amount to feed
per 100 pounds of live weight. If
you weigh the milk and the feed,
you can soon tell whether you are
using too much grain or not. 'When
the flow of milk fails to increase,
then the use of additional grain
would be a mistake. A rye pasture
would furnish very excellent grazing
during the fall and winter. You
can, of course, use any of the other
cereals if you wish.
A ton of cotton seed contains ap
proximately 12.5 pounds of digesti
ble proteins, 30 pounds of digestible
carbohydrates, and 73.3 pounds of
digestible fat. A ton of high-grade
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as much of this element in a ton
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