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CHANGE OF BILL AT THE
POPULAR BONITA
THEATER TOMORROW.
Tomorrow blings a • omplete ehang’ '
of the bill at The Bonita, 32 Peachtree !
street.
"Mamma's Boy." a high-c'ass must- ,
cal coined) will be anbsi ituted for
“Fritz and Snitz," which is th, attrac
tion today. Roth tlios- plays an ex
ceptionally good, and cm ry loser of
high-class musical eom« dy should re<
them. Fine motion pictures will be
shown in addition. (Advt )
ARE ACTORS KILLED
IN PRODUCTION OF
MOVING PICTURES?
Tn “The Great Steeplechase." tin
two-part Pathe picture at th, Mont
gomery theatci Thursdax -exera
eys ar> a) par. nth crushed undei then
mounts when they fail to dear the ob
struction. In the finish one of th, I
horses strikes the obstruction and turn
a complete somersault, failing squarely
upon the riderand apparent)) crushing
out his life The pietur. is rilled with
climaxes that are thrilling and hair
raising. at tlie sami time a touch of
pathos and lore is given (Advt.i
DON'T SCRATCH
If you only knew L quickly and eas
ily Tetterim cure- <czenia. «ven where!
everything else fails, you wouldn’t suffer
and scratch
Tetterine Cures Eczema
Read xx hat Mrs. Thomas Thompson.
Clarksville, (la. -a.'s
I suffered fifteen years with tor
menting eczema. Had the best doc
tors, but nothing did me any good
until I got Tetterine. It cured me. I
am so thankful.
Ringworm, ground itch. Itching idles
grid other skin troubles yield as readily
Ret it today Tetterine
50c at druggists or by mall.
SHUPTRINE CO., SAVANNAH. GA.
(Advt.)
BREAKING OUT
ITCHED Wffl BURNED
On Wrists and Hands. Ears Red
and Swollen. Terrible Itching. '
Heel Would Crack. Could Not
Sleep. Cuticura Soap and Oint
ment Cured all Troubles.
Bellton. Ga.—" Some time ago my feet '
and ears were frost bitten, which troubled
m« very much every winter My ears
would turn red and swell, with terrible
Itching and my heel would crack. I had
a severe scalp trouble and also a breaking
out on my wrists and hands which would
itch and burn until 1 could not. sleep of
nights. There was an eruption on my scalp
with dandruff. I had to keep my hair
clipped close to keep down the irritation
and itching. I tried several remedies and
cream and two treatment* of remedies
which did me no good. Then I <tse,i t'utl
rura Soap and Ointment and I am now cured
of all niy troubles. ’ (Signed) J. S. Kchols,
Mar. 12. 1912.
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BABY CURED OE SKIN TROUBLE
Decaturville, Tenn “My baby's head I
broke out in little blisters when he was .
about two weeks old They burst and then
Just scabbed over with a soft spongy crust
and raw under ft. He cried and could not
sleep. There didn't anything do him any
good until I got t*ie Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. In about three w<w>ks after I
lx gan using Cuticura Boap and Ointment
they cured him " (Signed) Mrs. Anna
Goodman, Jan 31. 1912
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment are
sold throughout the world. Liberal sample of
each mailed free with 32-p Skin Hook Ad
dress post-card "Cuticura, Dept T, Boston.'*
WTeuder-faced men should use Cuticura
Soap Shaxing Slick. 25c. Sample free.
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Condensed Report of the Condition of
The Third National Bank
OF ATLANTA, GA.
At the C lose of Business November 26th, 1912, as
Called for by the Comptroller of the Currency
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts $4,961,362.94
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 1,251.48
United States bonds at par 305.0C0.00
Stocks and bonds 282,180.83
Banking house, vaults and fixtures . 331,644.17
Redemption funds . 15,000.00
Cash on hand and in banks 1,121,386.91
$7,017,826.33
LIABILITIES
Capital $1,000,000.00
Surplus 700.000.00
Net profits 112,465.69
Circulation 300,000.00
Dividends unpaid 129.00
Bills payable 445,000.00
Deposits 4,460,231.64
$7,017,826.33
Chamberlin Johnson=Dußose Company
ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS*
I
That The Woman Who Needs
A Raincoat
May Know What Good Fortune
Awaits Her Here
The good fortune conies in the form of two hundred
lately arrived raincoats.
Surely a woman will find one to her liking here, lor they
are likely looking coats and their prices area good bit smaller
than their actual worth.
Among the two hundred are:
Doubled faced rubberized cloths.
Rubberized mannish homespuns.
Cravenetted London tweeds.
Cravenetted serges in navy, gray, tan and black.
Styles are as various as you would have them.
-And at these prices for these qualities, we believe
the whole two hundred will go before the next rain falls!
They are:
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$5.00, $7.50, SIO.OO, $15.00 and $20.00.
Chamber!in=Johnson=Dußose Company
d&cmtl <sd&
jond yfou'tt K<s<b/p
If business is not brisk, find something to keep you busy and pay a profit
at the same time.
Please learn how easy it is to do this bv reading Georgian Want Ads.
Il you wish to secure additional capital to increase your business
READ GEORGIAN WANT ADS.
Many men art* willing to help you. You can find a partner, secure husi
u(>tting agents, find customers for your goods, rent a part of your store
through Georgian W ant Ads.
READ THEM NOW.
You will learn manv things it pars to know.
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xNTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TIICRSDA Y. DECEMBER 5. 1912.
Faith, Hope, Charity, Should
Lovingly Abide In Our Midst
To the Editor of The Georgian:
It was the dramatic and impressive Saul of Tarsus who said: “And now abideth faith,
hope, charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.’’
Applied to religion, faith means a child-like acceptance of the Word as it is written;
hope means the ever-flowing spring in the heart of man, that feeds the desire for eternal life;
charity means that divine attribute which gives alms, yet is nobler than the alms-giver, in
that it feels another’s woe, hides another’s fault, concedes another’s right of view, and beck
on onward in its march to the mercy seat the soul that is weary and heavy-laden.
The Pharisee can not exercise charity, for he thanks God “that he is not as other men
are. ’ ’
Applied to every-day thought, in civic upbuilding, that faith should be invoked which
takes hold on existent life, and strives to use it for the betterment of the race of men, in a
way that appeals to the normal view of looking at and dealing with things materialthat
hope should be encouraged which leads the citizen to believe in the community which bestows
upon him the pleasures and the comforts of life, and to talk and write in such away as tc
attract desirable home-seekers and investors to the land that gives him these protective bene
fits ; that charity should be cultivated which would build up civic co-operation so justly emi
nent, so truly patriotic, and so strongly encompassing as to cause commercial and industrial
competitors to applaud the wonderful economic results accomplished.
Menacing mountains that muttered their supposedly impregnable strength ’gainst the
prowess of progress have been leveled by this co-operative display, and the dirt and rock so
acquired has been used to set wheels of industry in motion over the cosmos waste of yawn
ing chasms.
It is well. If there had been no engulfing chasms to defy, and no obstructing mountains to
challenge the energies of activity, engineering would today be an unexplored science, and
man would not now know how to climb and to conquer; motion would nap listlessly in the
lap of indolence, and achievement would stand still, as the inexorable census-taker looked
upon a Sahara of pillared inertia.
The Bible is the book of wonder, and Paul gave to evolving thought an immortal sug
gestion in the presented quotation from his letter to the people of Corinth. ’Tis true Solomon
spake it more succinctly when he said, “How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity’’—but then Solomon was given to nigh cuts in wise sayings. How
ever, both are from the Bible, and whether applied to spiritual or worldly existence, we
know that when the precept is woven into example, souls are saved and cities are built.
This spirit has done so much for Atlanta that it would seem treason to interrupt its abid
ing presence. In applying Bible texts, therefore, to Atlanta’s moral needs,-as these appear
to highly wrought minds, good men should consider, lest they unwittingly misquote the Book,
for purposes of convenient application. This would be unconscious blasnhemy.
Without desire to place a single obstacle in the way of righteous charity; with a heart
full of applause for every unselfish contribution to all the organized charities of Atlanta,
as well as those in contemplation, I desire to offer earnest protest against the comparative
use of the name of the good woman of whom Christ said, “She hath done what she could,’’
with that of a scarlet woman in Atlanta, who has proffered a donation toward establishing a
home for fallen women, of which it is proposed to make her the administrative head.
The case that had to do with the woman of the Bible, was the occasion of the feast of the
passover, when the chief priests and scribes were conspiring to put Christ to death. They
were restrained from carrying out their purpose on the day of the feast, through fear that the
people would riot. So. when Christ was in Bethany, “in the house of Simon the leper, as
he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very
precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
“And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this
waste of the ointment made?
“For it might have been sold for three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor.
And they murmured against her.
“And Jesus said, let her alone; why trouble ye her? She hath wrought a good work
on me.
“For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good;
but me ye have not always.
“SHE HATH DONE WHAT SHE COULD: SHE IS COME AFOREHAND TO AN
NOINT MY BODY TO THE BURYING. ’
Then Christ commanded that wherever the gospel should be preached, the beautiful and
thoughtful love displayed by the woman of Bethany should be “spoken of for a memorial
of her.’’
Thus it will be seen there is not the remotest analogy between the act of worshipful
thoughtfulness at Bethany, on the part of a devoted follower of Jesus, and the act of
atonement, in the headquarters of the “Men and Religion Movement’’ in Atlanta, on the
part of a scarlet woman, whose life had been spent in an atmosphere of evil.
Let it be understood, I have not one word to say in harshness about the Atlanta example.
Ido not believe that any man should publish harsh estimate ’gainst any woman, however
fallen. Neither have Ito say aught in criticism of her proffered contribution.
I defend a good woman, who annointed Christ for the burial, against comparison that
injures her grace, her purity, her devotion.
In the matter of more extended facilities for caring- for charity subjects, I ouine all our
people are of one accord, insofar as the main object is concerned. The most serious question
involved is to determine upon the best means to be adopted for reaping the desired results.
This is a practical question, which might be well trusted to the judgment of those now in
active control of the organized charities of the city. There are now two homes for fallen
women and girls: the Florence Crittenton and Harriet Hawkes. If these need tc be extended,
would it not be more in keeping with practical promotion to give $7,500 toward making these
homes stronger, than to adopt the doubtful policy of organizing a new home as a monument to
a new convert?
Administrative ability, training and temperament are necessary to successful manage
ment, and the one in charge should be able to command the respect and confidence of all who
may co-operate with her in the work, lest a good movement be lost in the quicksands of im
practical path finding.
All work of reclamation should be carried on within an atmosphere of delicacyin speech
and conduct.
In this connection I would congratulate those in charge of the bulletin work for the
“Men and Religion Movement’’ for having so modified their English as to permit of the read
ing of their moral homilies in comparative fireside safety. However, this thought: Why were
they so quick to administer to a fallen woman, and yet in a political campaign, so eager to
seize upon the mistakes of a prominent Atlantan, and to publish these mistakes to the hurt
of Atlanta.
The impractical methods adopted by this movement to attain certain corrective results,
will in time bring about their own correction. Meanwhile, we must trust to the Divine plan
ning of things, and deal with them as conditions —not as theories.
If there were no vice and crime in the world, court houses would represent wasteful
structures of mud and stone; judges and lawyers would be as so many meaningless atoms in
the vast realm of thought; organized society would be a senseless incubus on human relations;
the science of government would take its place in the undisturbed archives of forgotten ages.
If there were no sin, the metalic call of the church bell would not be needed to ring chil
dren to Christ; symbolic spires would no longer be a part of the general plan to point the hu
man soul heavenward.
If there were no faith, hope, charity, the world would be a despairing waste of hopelessness; the voice
of Divinity would be answered by the mocking echo of vacuity; Mercy would shriek farewell!
Good and Evil are tw,n agencies in the plan of salvation: they ar e co-partners in the great work
shop of Divinity, where Good stands before the loom of Faith, weaving joy and happiness into the choic
est fabrics; where Evil is struggling with the engine ?f Sin, to hold the mysterious machinery of deeds
in motion, for the fitting investment of Charity.
That sin is to be with us until Time shall be no more, and that G<M has planned it thus it would
seem the part of wisdom to deal with it as a physician would treat disease: cure the curable' non-con
tagious, and segregate the incurable contagious.
Our health department is busy with the work of preventing germ dissemination, in order to better
safeguard the health of all the people, and it is commendably receiving the positive co• operation of the
press of Atlanta, “
Our social department has no official head in the city government, and though organized fanaticism is
at work on a misguided policy of correction that has scattered disease germs through th- social districts
of our city, the press of Atlanta remains editorially silent, as the pulpit and the puritan unconsciously
place apples of decay in the healthy barrels of morality.
It does seem that the ministry, through whose co-operation and suggestion certain houses were moved
from Collins street into some less observed section, should speak out against an evil that unwise agita
tion has scattered, according to confidential statement to me by one of the most reputable physicians of the
city, into some of the most respectable districts of Atlanta.
This whole movement is but the spawning from the congested pool o f commercialized reform, organ
ized mto a crusaoe by paid propagandists, who visited Atlanta and applied their thought-out formula with
out knowledge of local needs. .hey caught the impressionable with their fad, and a campaign of inde
cency resulted, corrupting our home life, and degrading our social standards
def ® nd '"9 girls that work in our stores and factories. whose nobility is stronger and more en
during than the combined wealth of the Men and Religion Movement, 'gainst the imputation that the jewel
of womanhood was threatened by the sordidness of our merchants and manufacturers; for planting the
danger signal at the moral wash-out, in order to save the engine of society from wreckage at the hands of
the untrained. I have been made the victim of vulgar attack by a ministerial ignoramus, and of anonymous
abuse by cowardly slanderers. z
••Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung." I acknowledge, with comforting pride, the re
ceipt of hundreds of letters of endorsement, from Atlanta and distant points, offering to pav for the contin
ued publication of these letters It has been impossible for me to make personal answer to these numer
ous '****’’?• and J mention the fact in order that each writer may knowVhat his endorsement is appreciated
While It is a rule for lawyers, newspaper men and doctors to charge for everything that bears the
imprint of their skill and name, all of which is legitimate, it so happens that what I write here is done
as an unselfish contribution to general welfare, as I see it, and whatever the criticism I will still stand,
m courage, by Atlanta.
Meanwhile the pen of faith, hope, charity rests for another thought.
BENJAMIN M. BLACKBURN.