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Christ-LifeNoiToo High for Human Attainment, Billy Says
FAILURE WITH DURGELVES
HOTWTH B, O
| tion. “What is there in your life
ff"fhat hinders the blessing from
E]Naoming to you? And because it
| doesn’t come to you, it is kept
E«} away from somebody else? You
. ean't go through the world an in
#*Bulated and isolated being; you
. will either damn it or you will
. bless it, accordingly as you are a
¢ reprobate or a Christian. A fel-
E‘%l%' who wants to live to gratify
" his desires is a black-hearted
Efi-’lflder; if he is living for his own
i ambition, he is an adder. He
. can't do that.
E?.i* Is there some iniquity or acei
" dent or habit in your life, some
%@swret, some thought, some im
géy-pure longings, some book? 1 will
" not read a book that will sneer
. and mock at religion and God
:h“x\lmighty. I won't have it on my
Wishelves. And we ought to go
{aathrough our homes and have a re
ba»?oul revival in literature.
~_lf some of you pegple would go
¥ ‘#Hrough your homes and yank
srout the books on your library
v %flvu that have no business
" there, and burn them, like they
é‘ did Ephesus in the days of Paul,
““Bome of you would not have
fenough paper left in your hcuse
0 bang your old halr oy wad a
__ shotgun.
** Something in your family life,
#Yen't that it? Overinduleence?
gm“'Oh, heed the appeal of the Gov
" ernment to the people that ought
© #g stop gormandizing and stop
. eating four pounds of beefsteak,
Ffi“‘vhen you can get along with half
. a pound. Do something for other
. people! Let's begin to comply
~ with the requests. Oh, how we'd
.he surprised to knew how much
. we can get along without, how
%flmuch we have today that we don't
# Reed,
i " You go to bars and sit there
%:L’nd fill your old hide up with
& booze and when you go home, you
#igre soused and have got a load
ni you that would sink a battie
iship.
" "What is the trouble? lls it
kelfishness, intempérance, fault
g* finding with the preacher because
v he skins you and tells you where
~ youre wrong? You admire the
.. Bkill of a physician that comes
; And tells you what's the matter
i '33- h you, and no matter how bit
. ter and nauseating pis medicine
2 18, you will take it and it will
s taste like ice cream soda, if it
sl only help you, but when the
i qiweacher tells you you are wrong,
fsswhy don’t you thank God that he
the courage to do it?
10 lameu*ur in vour social life?
ils that i¥? You can’'t make a
. Buccess by serving God and trip
- ping around with the gang that
. _some of you go with,
. Is it envy, evil amakl;fi. y«
¢ ing? Oh, it takes a big nor
. woman to see other people suc
. eceed and not raise a howl about
. it. Envy is one of the greatest
_ robbers In the world. If you can't
. afford an automobile, you can
. ride on a jitney bus for 5 cents,
m you can't afford a Pierce-
F A . get a “tin Lizzie™ \
'. .« Now, what is the trouble? If
mdont Hke the smell of guso
- i don’t knock the fellow who
s can afford it; take your trolley
. ride for a nickel, don’t growl,
“iden't growl!
e &mo woman can afford to
& gilk and you can't, what is
e use of knock'?’g her and say
,"hgo;:he's no good?”
b veock — such darn spirit
“a¥ou have got around thls coun
.. try-—foolish.
" 'lf you can't live on the avenue,
e content where you can live, 1
esoan’'t afford to live there, but 1
.am having a good time. lam not
. soreat the fellow that's got money
. ¢nough to live there. The Lord
~ bless him.
~_T'd rather hunt my own game
. than bark with the devil's pack
- "at the foot of the tree,
= ""Envy, that's the trouble!
[ Bes yourself by the lizhted
¢ candle of God's truth, Sin cher
¥ dßhed, cancels the hlessing, So,
“‘'make up your mind that if you
" keep sin. you can’t have the bless
,,. vou've got to give sin up.
. Now make uiv your mind which
. yOu'll keep. That was true in Jere
. miah’s day and it's true today. sc
. make up your mind which you
fe¥ou want. If you want God's
. favor, you've got to give up the
- devil So make your -choice,
,mm ! you want to go to the
~ devil or to heaven.
- _lniguity persisted in making
. the promises of non-effect, Don't
. Insist oh living in sin and then
. grow! at God because he doesn't
i dless you. It's your fauß and
ot God's. Bo to Israel, so to us.
# dustead of the blessings they be
i edme the curses to the Jew, be
® % eause he lived contrary to what
. the Lord told him to live. It may
. Dot be so much the doing eof
" What God tells you not to do as it
~* I 8 the not deing of what God tells
. You to do.
. There are two pillars that sup
. port th: gospel, the “thouh shalt
. not nots” and the “thou shalts.”
iFhou shalt not steal. Thou shalt
Ldet commit aduitery. Thou shalt
jwniot kill. Thou shalt not take the
smame of the Lord in vain.
ysiiThou shalt love the Lord thy
. God with all thy heart, with all
thy soul, and with all thy
‘strength. Thou shalt love thy
~ meiglibor as thyself. -
. "The trouble with a lot of people
stoday is thnt it is not the things
sthat God dt;mg then:‘ not to do
. dhat they do. it is the things
Ot that % tells “l‘hem to do that
“onthey don't do. "Curse ye Meroz,
= smid the angel of the Lord, curse
'Oy bitterly the inhabitants there
~ of; because they came not to
: the Lord, to the help
osof th against the mighty.”
“64 God cursed them not for what
fighey 4id, but for what they did
‘"'net do afi’t God told them to do.
~_The; not eoz‘?te up and hels
- God. M "You are curs
.wflmagm* e
hat may be vobr trouble. You
jl»,{r%.e,& T= g m“
YHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
said: “Dr. Morgan, can't you tell
me what's the trouble with me?”
He said” “No, ma'm, I am not a
physician.”
She said: “It {s not a physical
disability with which I am afllict
ed, it is a spiritual malady. Four
years ago I iost the joy of salva
tion."”
He sald: “Bless the Lord!"”
In amazement she said: “What?"’
He said: “You sald four years
ago. I said Bless the Lord! be
cause you specify the time; if you
know when, you know why.”
Her eyes dropped to the floor
and she said: “Yes, 1 do, Four
yvears ago I had a quarrel with my
best friend and we have not .
spoken since.”
He said: “If you had died, you
would be in hell. For if ye for
give men their trespasses, your
heavenly Father will alsp forgive
you.”
He sald: “Whete does your
friend live?”
She said: “She lives 400 miles
away<"
“All right, write her a letter.,”
He left her. He went bac¢k to
that same town about a year
later, and the first woman he met
was this woman; her face was
lighted up like a halo of glory.
He took her by the hand, and
said: “Sister, you have written
that letter that we talked about
a year ago.”
She aafd: “Yes, doctor, 1 wrote
it that night”” And she said:
“When 1 did, the peace of God
flooded my soul!"
Poor chump! It would have
flooded her soul four years ago,
if she had written the letter then,
Maybe it is that.
Maybe you don’'t pay your
debts, Maybe you don't pray.
Maybe you are a coward about
witnessing for Jesus Christ and °
standing up for the Lord and for
His truth. Would you be ashamed
to stand up for your husband, or
wu*d you be ashamed to, stand
up Tor your children? Are you
ashamed to stand up for your
country? Every man or woman
must be elther a patriot of a
traitor in these days. Why
should you be ashamed to stand
up for Jesus Christ? =
Now here are seven scriptural
definitions of sin. There are lots
of descriptions of sin, but I mean
scriptural definitions of sin,
What is sin?
“Sin is the transgression of
the law.” That is the common, or
dinary definition. Ninety-nine
times out of a hundred people will
give, #f you ask them what is
sin, ‘the transgression of the
law.” Bin is doing what God tells
you not to do.
n-herstkuhek “fird hr hr hrd o
~ Second, “Whatsoever is not of
faith s sin” Anybody that
doesn’t believe in Jesus Christ as
the Son of God; in God as the
only God: the Bible as the Word
of God; Heaven for the repentent
sinner; hell for the unrepentent
sinner; the Holy Ghost. “What
soever is pot of faith is sin.”
See? ’
It doesn't make any difference
who preaches it or who practices
it, it is sin. If they stand up
and preach that Jesus Christ is
not the Son of God, it is sin.
When they say, “saved by char
acter,” they lie, because you are
not. You &re saved by faith in
Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Third, “To him that knoweth to
do good and doeth it not, to him
it 1s sin.”
What is sin? Oh, you just
thought it was doing somefhlns
God told you not to do. It i
that, but it Is something else,
too. 5 1
Here ls another: “If you have
respect of person, ye commit sin.”
God offers salvation to every
body. If the rich man doesn't
repent; he will go to hell. "If the
poor man doesn't repent, he will
&0 to hell, and if the banker
doesn’t repent, that won't save
him. God doesn't condemn a man
simply because he happens to fiu
successful and prosperous in the
world; it is a question of his at
titude toward Jesus Christ.
“The thought of foolishness is
sin.” God knows there is plenty
of that about religion and about
the divinity of Christ and the
doctrine of salvation and all that.
If what I preach is not taught in
the Bible, get up and tell me! if
it is, keep your darned mouths
shut, for 1 am preaching God's
truth. lam not standing up here,
airing my opinions, and if you sit
cut there and listen to me and
don’t agree with me, that shows
you are a fool, for what I am
preaching is the Bible. You are
the ass, not me, )
-i"A high look, a proud heart is
sin.”
“All unrighteousness is sin.”
There are seven scriptural defl
nitions of sin. All right! You
just please trot me out somebody
that does not stand convicted be
fore one of those seven counts,
You say, “I have been sanctified.”
All right, line up with the rest
of them.
You say, “I have been con
firmed.” All right, come on,
stand up. You say you know
there are thirty-nine articles of
confession. All right, come on,
Be in the mass, all right; get in
with the rest of them. Show me
somebody that does neot stand
convicted before one of those sev
en definitions. e
Here is the point of it: What
are we going to do? First, con
fese vour sins. If we confess
our sins, he will forgive us our
sins. Lay a hold of the thing
that the spirit reveals to you that
i{s wrong in your life. Never
mind me now!
The trouble is, you butt in with
other people. Tend to your own
affairs; lay a hold on the thlng
that the spirit reveals to you an
name that. Say, Lord, I have
been impure. lord, 1 have been
untruthful, Lord, I have been
worldly (I am assuming that
‘these may be the sins of some
hody), Lord, 1 have been proud,
Lord, I have been niggardly in
my gift. Lord, I have got a hot
temper. Lord, 1 don't read my
Bible. Lord, I don't pray. Lord,
1 don't pay my debts. Lord, I
talk about my neighbors. Lord,
I am a coward about witnessing
for Jesus Christ. Humiliating, I
will agree, but it will bring you
blessing.
I am assuming you want to be
blessed. 1 will tell you how to
get it. The first tking is, con
fess your sins. Second, renounce
sin, abandon it. ‘Whosoever is
convicted of his sin shall not
prosper, but who confesses and
forgakes his sin shall ind merey.”
Separate your life tro{m that sin,
tear that sin out of your life,
get rid of it, get away from it.
“If thy right hand offend thee,
cut it off.” If there is anything
in the world that is useful to you
and it is keeping you away from
God, God says get rid of it
(God doesn’'t mean to dig your eye
out, If there is anything in the
world that's as valuable to you
as your right hand and arm and
that thing is keeping you away
from God, get rid of it.
Confession without renuncia
tlon doesn’t amount to anything.
If 4 man confesses sin and keeps
on living in sin, he did not mean
anything by his confession. And
if a man stops living in sin
without confessing it, that does
n't mean anything, for that's the
reformation. But if he confesses
and forsakes, the forsaking shows
the confession was genuine. So
it 18 no good to confess it if you
don't forsake it, vice versa, be
cause the confessing shows that
you were sorry, that you did it
so God will forgive lit. That
doesn‘t mean that you have to
stand up and tell the peopls
what you have done. It is none
of their business.
I think you can go back too far
on the trail of anybody. It is
none of your business. “What
soever ye would that men should
‘do to you do ye even so to them.”
If you know anything about
anybody keep your mouth shut.
You would be mighty glad if
anybody had anything on you and
they'd keep their mouth shut.
Gosh, wouldn't this be a great
world if everybody would mind
thelr own husiness? Wouldn't
the devil have a hard time? He'd
be in the hospital. .
I'd make that definite, too. I'd
say, “Lord, T will not read those
books that sneer at You, that
appeal to my baser nature. I
will not go with that crowd of
gin fizzlers and cocktall guzzlers.
No, No! Lerd, 1 won't be stingy.
Lord, T have been unclean today.
Lord, forgive me for the lie I
spoke. Lerd, lead me safely past
my old haunts.”
Oh, the man who is in earnest
will put his fingers on the sore
just as we tell the doctor where
is the paln, sc he can intelligently
diagnose and prescribe for the
malady. Do the same thing with
the Lord. That is the second.
First thing, confess your sin.
Second, renounce, abandon it, get
away from itr and get it away
from you. Third, instant obedi
ence to God. You must not
only resolve that you will not do
what God tells you negt to do
when God tells you not to steal
or lie or commit adultery, but
you must resolve that you will
do what God tells you to do, and
there is no difference between
doing what you are told not to
do and what you are told to do.
If you say to that child, don't
do it, and it does it, and if you
say to this ch(l}d. do it, and it
doesn't, in its cdase it is disobe
dient, and so are you. You don’t
do what God tells you to do when
you are a sinner, so don't hold
your head so high. “To him that
knoweth to do good, and doeth
it not, to him it is sin.” “All
unrighteousness is sin.”
Instant obedience. When Jesus
confessed His glory at the King
dom of Galilee, his mother turn
ed around and said to the crowd:
“Whatsoever he saith unto ye, do
it in instant obedience.”
Wait & minute! I'd make that
definite. I'd say, Lord, 1 will
write that letter of apology. Lord,
1 will pay my debts. Lord, I
will rea¢d my Bible. Lord, I will
stop talking about my neighbors.
Lord, 1 will confess Jesus. Lord,
1 will pray in public. Lord, I
will ask for blessings. Lord, I
will go to prayer meeting and
give the preacher nervous pros
tration when he sees me come in,
for I have never been there. I
will! T will! I will!
Give yourself up to God, whol
ly, fully, unreservedly, irrevo
cably, give yourself. That is what
you promised to do when you
were married. You said, “Yes,"”
and that fellow said, “Yes.” All
right,—give yourself to the Lord.
Give yourself. Say, “Lord, here
I am.” That is the whole thing:
bring your sins and lay them at
the foot of the Cross, and say:
“Lorg®, nothing in my hand I
bring, simply to Thy Cross I
cling.”
I don’t bring my culture, my
money; I don't bring anything
and plead that F ought to have
salvation because of that. In my
hand no prize I bring, simply to
Thy Cross 1 cling. Just as I
am, without one plea, 1 come, I
come. Just as I am, without one
plea. And do you know what he
will do?
He will take out of your life
that which made you do the
things he told you got to do, and
he will put in your life that which
will keep you from doing that
which he tells you not to do,
and will help you to do the
things he tells you to do.
Say, 'lord, I want to re
nounce these things, but they
seem to ecling to me. Lord, 1
don't want to lose my temper,
but sometimes I do get under a
fifty-pound pressure, when I have
a blow-out or my carburetor
stops working and 1 will just get
an awful fit."
Say, “lLord, I don’t want to be
stingy, but I go to church with
out my purse filled with gold and
I hunt around and find a nickel
and then I sing ‘Jesus Paid it
AL o
Say, “Lord, I don't want to
neglect my Bible, 1 take it and
read it quietly where nobody
sees me.”
Tell God! And the grace of
God will go as deep as the roots
of sin, and if they have taken
hold upon you the grace of God
will take it out of you. So if
the roots of sin have gone deep
er, remember that the grace of
God will Jo down and uproot the
roots of sin. He said, “T will take
away all thy alloy.”
Remember that. Uncle Sam
puts one per cent eopper in all
gold .money, the copper is alloy.
Why? Gold is soft, and it must
be hardened with alloy. The
A Clean Newspaper for Southern Homes
HIGHLIGHTS IN
~ SERMON ON SIN
lF you want to know why there
is no joy in your life—it's your
fault,
BELIEVERS should desire with:
the greatest yearning the
fulfillment of the promises of God.
That is the way to get them.
ls the Christian life as pictured
in the Bible too high for hu
man attainment? Oh, no!
lT ttkn a big man to see other
péople succeed and not raise a
howl of envy about it.
IF you don’t like the smell of
gasoline, don't knock the fel
low who can afford it. Take your
nickel and go for a trolley ride—
and don’t growl.
G. M. A. Boys Enjoy Visit
From Billy, Ma and Party;
" Unique Yell for Sunday
By WINNIE FREEMAN.
It probably would have been a toss
up as to which was the most delight
ed Tuesday morning when Billy Sun-‘
day paid an official visit to the Geor
gia Military Academy—Billy to meet
the boys, or the boys to meet Billy.
It wae a sort of fifty-fifty proposition
all the way round. First Billy passed
in review before the boys, he and Ma
Sunday and Mayor Candler and Col
onel Woodward. And they they re
treated to ‘the reviewing stand while
the cadets, nearly 200 of them, had
their inning. 1
\ And Billy didn't com eto bat again
until the students had gone through
a series of drills, and the flag had
been lowered, and orders glven for
the boys to march to the chapel,
where Billy wak scheduled to give
them a short talk.
A number of Atlanta veople, who
had@ motored out for the exercises,
took up the entire front row of the
chapel, and a whole company ‘of the
academy hoys had .to stand around
tha edge of the room while Rody sang,
and Bill Schley Howard introduced
Billy and Billy talked. But they
didn’t mind, except maybe they were
a little embarrassed once when Rody
called on the “company of boys stand
ing in the rear to sing the last phrase
of the ‘Brighten the Corner’ chorus.”
Howard Introduces Billy,
Representative Howard Introduced
Billy as the brightest in the galaxy of
evangelistic stars thgt this country
has produced. And he said that an
ordinary ¢lod-hepping ongressman is
80 overshadnwed by the person sched
uled to speak to them and the com
pany to whizh he would speak that he
would only make a few introductory
remarks.
Before anybody started sspeaking,
Lowever, the b, 8 gave the custom
ary yells, They gave one for Mayor
Candler, and one for Billy Howard,
and a great long one for Billy Sun
day. It was put over something like
that “backward and forward” stunt
that Rody pu‘la with the “Brighten
the Corner” chorus, and it went some
thing like this:
“Say,” from one-half of the stu
dent body.
“Say what?” from the other half.
"g’hats' what,” from o. h. of the
8. b.
Lord said, “I will take away all
thy alloy.”
The Bank of England never re
celves gold for its face value.
The Bank of England always
weighs the gold; they have scales
80 delicate that your breath or a
hair from your head will turn
the scales, and if it is short, it
is tipped to one side, and if it
is not, it is tipped to the other
side. 8o they never accept gold
for its face value,
Uncle Sam puts one per cent
copper in all the-gold to give it
hardness. I went through the
United States mint in Denver
and they had some 40,000,000 in
gold bullion, 20,000,000 of copper
stacked up. Now, that is alloy,
that is dross. The Lord said,
“I will take away all thty alloy.”
All your dross. In other words,
God will take out of your heart
those things that make you dis
obey and he will put in the things
that will make you do it, then
you will remove the hindrance
and then the prophecy of Malachi
will be fulfilled. Malachi was the
last of the Ol Tes?&ment proph
ets, who came before John the
Baptist, and Malachi had a prom
ise through God that has not been
fulfilled yet.
Malachi said: “Bring ye all
the tithes into the storehouse.”
All right. If we'd do that, the
church membership of this city
would have passed this expense
fund in one collection. “Bring ve
all the tithes into the storehouse.”
“Bring ye all the tithes into the
sterehouse, that there may be
meat in mine house, and prove
me now herewits, saith the Lord
of hosts, if I will not open you
the windows of Heaven, and pour
you out a blessing, that there
shall not be room enough to re
ceive it.”
Well, God is pouring down a
blessing here that staggers me. I
have seen great evidences of
\God's, power, but I fall on my
knee? in humility, my friends,
and remove my hat, and it seems
to say, “This is holy ground
where you are treading.” God
Almighty is giving you the privi
lege of witnessing things in the
United States that have never
been witnessed since the Stars
and Stripes have waved over
America. .
And yet, that is only a part of
what God Almighty will do if
you will only fulfill his wishes.
If there is anything in your life
as an individual, get out of it.
We have got to come as individu
als. \
If I could @eal with you in mass
and save you by anything, I'd
do it, but T can’t; you must come
as an individual. Say, “Jesus, we
“want to thank you for your un
speakable gift and salvation, for
the Holy Spirit, for the.revela
tion of Thyself, through®' Thy
l'D rather hunt my own game by
myself than bark with the dev
il's pack at the foot of the tree.
“\X/ HATSOEVER is not of faith
is sin”—and it doesn’t make
any difference who preaches it or
who practices it.
IF you know anything bad about
anybody, keep your mouth
shut.
GOSH—wouldn't this be a great
old world if everybody would
mind his own business?
AND if we have done our best—
if we have done our part,
Lord, we will be forever with Thee.
‘“What’s what?” from the o. h,
“That's what they all say.”
“What's what they all say?”
All to gether now—" Billy Sunday.”
Billy appreciated the courtesy
shown him. He sald so. And he sald
a lot more., He said that he consla
ered it quite an honor to be allowed
to speak before such a body of men,
and that he was for military insti
tutions with both hands up in the
air. And he said that there are a lot
of people in the world who aren’t good
for anything except to give the cen
sus taker one additional name for his
population list, and that he knew
that there weren't going to be any
men like that among those G. M. A,
boys.
- “Big Job Seeks Big Man.”
“You're going to find, boys,” he
said, “that the big job is always look«
ing for the big man. And you must
not be a square peg thying to squeeze
into a round hole. You can’t keep
a good man down. But take it from
me, you needn’t wait for anything to
be turned up for you. The only thing
that's going to be turned up for you
is the dirt in the cemetery, and your
father will pay for that.
~ “And you can’t take an elevator to
‘success, elther. You've got to climb
the stairs, and most of you will have
to climb them one at a time, jus:
rl'lke you climbed those steps to this
chapek But if you'll juts remember
that success waits at the top, you
won’t find it such a weary climb after
all.”
Billy said there were four things he 1
wanted to impress upon those boys i
and he enumerated them: *“‘Be on the
square; don’t watch the clock; don’t
touch the job with the tip-end of your
fingers; and get itno the game Jp
to your eyebrows.”
Rody played the sliphorn, and led
the audience in “Brighten the Ceor
ner,” and George Brewster played the
chorus on the piano a couple of times.
Colonel Woodward thanked Qlly
and Ma for coming out, and said the
visit would stand out as one of the
bright_spots in the lives of the boys.
and Imorder that they all might have
a chance to shake hands with the dis
tinguished visitors, Billy and Ma
Sunday stood at the foot of the stairs
until every boy had passed down the
steps and was on his way to mess.
word, for giving us minds to un
derstand it.”
Woulan't a man be a wonder
fully honored man if the Spirit
were only willing to reveal all
the hidden things to him, but He
never will. There are some
things there that -are in the
Council of God, and the Lord re
serves them for Himself, not for
you to know, as Jesus said to
the disciples that times and the
geasons that the Lord hath put
in His Own Hand.
You have been kind enough,
Lord, but you have not told
the world when Jesus would re
turn to it, nobody knows, not
even .the Sun or the angels in
Heaven, but the Father. We don't
know when the history of this
world will wind up, and there
are some things that God has
never revealed to man and he
never will until the day of reve
lation.
But the sin that is revealed to
us is this, that we are sinners,
and that God Almighty telis
us: “Him that cometh unto me
1 shall no wise cast out.” Oh,
Jesus, you told us all that, and
“Come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.” So our part is to
serve God and then go out and
become a Dlessing, so we can
make the world better because
we have lived in it. And if we
have done our part, Lord, we will
be forever with Thee.
Too Many Exempted,
Says Draft Chairman
ays Dra.
MACON, Nov. 27—Judge W. H.
Felton, chairman of the No. 2 District
Exemption Board of South Georgia,
thinks that the military draft age
should be from 20 to 30 inclusive,
and has made this suggestion in an
swer to a questionnaire from the pro
vost marshal general.
“l believe there are entirely too
many exemptions,” Judge Felton said.
“Neither marriage nor children should
constitute a ground for discharge. All
males sound physically within the
draft age should be required to serve
with a proper provision for support
ing the family where truly depend
nt.”
Fulton Ginning I
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Under 1916 Figures
Government figures Tuesday showed
that Fulton County ginned 633 bales of
the 1917 cotton crop prior to November
14. This compares with 817 bales gin
ned prior to the same date of last year.
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First Maine Heavy Artillery and
Seventh U. S. Regiment
Elevens to Play.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 27—A
game of football, in which a dozen or
more ex-players from Princetan,
Dartmouth, Andover and other lead
ing colleges will take part, i{s sched
uled for Saturday, December 1, on
the gridiron at Wearn Field here,when
the eleven from the First Maine
Heavy Artillery @t Camp Greene will
fight for goals against the crack team
of the Seventh Regiment, U. S, A.
To make the occasion more inter
esting, there will be a select band of
200 pieces picked from the dozen mil
ftary bands at the camp, to render
martial music whenever a touchdown
is scored, while Brigadier General
Sweetzer, camp commander, will at
tend and review the troops, who will
be marched over to the field for .the
game.
The proceeds will be given to the
dependents’ fund of the American
Red Cross:
Among the veterans of former bat-‘
tles over the pigskin taking part in
the game will be Edgar Curtls, Dart
mouth halfback; Tudor Gardiner, of
Harvard; “Ginger” Frazer, of Colby,
and others, on the First Maine team,
while the Seventh Regiment will have
a half dozen old veterans of the foot
ball gamie.
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| Favorable comments are being ut
tered on the health of the 20,000 men
now at “Camp QGreene, as compared
Lwith health reports from_many other
camps. While pneumonia has taken
‘heavy tell at several camps, Camp
Greene has had but four deaths since
September 1, and none within the
‘ast two weeks’ time. The camp site
is regarded by military men and med
ical . corps officers as one of the most
sanitary in the South. @
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In order to meet the requirements
of the colored troops at Camp Greene,
who have just arrived from Vermont
and Massachusetts, a provisional bat
talion with colored vfficers from each
of the two States, Special tents have
been erected for the entertainment ot
these troops, corresponding to the Y,
M. C. A. huts already in use at the
eamp. The colored troops were given
a regimental reservation near the
center of Camp Greene, and are now
well established in thelr- new quar
ters. It is probable that several hun
dred other colored troops will be.add
ed to the population of the camp
during the early winter.
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Following close on the heels of the
statement that Major Gerneral Djck
man had been ordered from Camp
Custer cantonment to take command
at Camp Greene is another rumor that
Major General French, now at Camp
t Jackson, Columbia, S. C,, will be or
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—— The First Up—
—— Sunday Morning
Gets the Comic Section, and soon
afterwards is heard a chorus in more
than eighty thousand households:
| “I'm next for ' ~ - I
The Katzenja Kids”
¢ KNatzenjammer Kias
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Then FATHER takes the Farm and Financial ‘Section
» MOTHER takes the Society Section
SISTER takes the Dramatic S:ction
BROTHER takes the Sport Section
UNCLE JIM takes the City Life Section
And everybody waits his turn for the
great Magazine Szction of -
The Sunday Amer;
e dunday Ametrican
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1917.
~ Mayor Candler Tuesday granted per
mission to the Order of Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan to parade the streets of
Atlanta Thanksgiving Day, which is the
second annivérsary of the organization
of the Klan. Members of the Klan will
be attired in their white robes and will
be mounted.
(By Intarnational News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Twenty.
two militant suffragists serving terms
varying from fifteen to seven months
were released from the Distgct jail
this afternoon. ine militants still re
main in jail.
Among those released are: Miss
Alice Paul, cHairman of the Woman'’s
party; Miss Lucy Burns, her chief
lieutenant; Miss Rose Winslow, of
New York, and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis,
of Philadelphia. Those four leaders
and fifteen of the others relased to
day have been on a lengthy hunger
strike., Some have undergone forci
ble feeding.
No reason for the release was
glven.
At Cameron House, headquarters
of the militants, the release of the
pickets before the expiratjon of their
terms was hailed by Miss Doris Ste
vens, acting chairman of the party,
asg a “victory for the suffragists over
the Administration.”
dered here. The report as to General
Dickman was sent out from Rattle
Creek, Mich., and stated without res
ervation that General Dickman would
assume command at the local camp,
Brigadier General Sweetzer was
placed in command only five Jdays
ago, succeeding Colonel Frank Jones,
until that date ranking officer at the
camp with the United States regu
lars. Camp Greene, since it was
placed unier military regime in Oc
tober, has had_not less than seven
changes in its commanding officers,
Major. General Liggett holding the
short record of less than twenty hours
as military heac‘i os the camp. , - ,
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Charlotte is preparing to give the
boys at Camp Greene a royal time
Thanksgiving, and although TUncle
Sam has announced a liberal ration
of ‘turkey and other Thanksgiving
viands for that day for each soldier,
the men will not be compelled to be
at camp, and thousands will be
guests: in Charlotte homes. Besides
this social effort cn the part of the
city, many churches, women’s socie
ties and other orders will be hosts and
hostesses to hundreds of “the officers
and men, and Charlotte will have
more guests on this day than she has
ever entertained in her past history
{n the same manner. -
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Target Practice on Anniston Rifle
. . .
Range Begins—Striking Char
.
- acters in Camp,
ANNISTON, ALA., Nov. 27.--With
the inauguration of target practice on
the rifle range, and with the beginning
of instruction in the use of other small
arms, the division ordnance depot at
the foot of the hill near tne base hos
pital at Camp McClellany I 8 one of
the busiest places in the entire camp.
The divisional ordnance officer, Ma
jor S. Jarman, assisted by Captain
Lane Schofield and Lieutenants Hapa
per, Alexander and Hagan_.' has or
ganized into an efficient working or
ganization the entire personnel of 103
men of extra ability who handle the
affairs of the depot.
S. Tarbox, the “top,” has had sevs
enteen years of experience in the reg
ular army, and he is especially quali
fied for the important duties which
devolve upon the command of the
outfit.
The noncommissioned personnel of
the ordnance depot company is as
follows: Ordnance sergeants, T. R.
Ward, P. H. McCarthy, Claud Gor
don, Leslie R. Twist, James Gay, Jr.,
H. Smith, John J. Gregg, Jesse Ju.
liante, J. H. Houseman and James
K. Wilson; sergeants of ordnance, .J.
J. Donohue and Paul Gordon, and
‘ corporals, H. Harmon and John Richa
a’ ds. =
Ordnance Sergeant T. R. Ward has
een confined to the base hospital for
the past few days with an attack of
to’xsillitis, but is' improving.
Among the noncommissioned offi
[cers in this outfit there is a great
lvariety of mechanical - ability, and
much talent is also included in the
organization. Ordnance Sergeant P,
H. McCarthy is a member of Colum
bia - Typographical Umion, No. 101,
District of Columbia, and held a po
silion a 8 monotype machinist in the
Government Printing Office in
Washington before entering the
service. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason and a membar of Kallispolis
Grotto, Mystic Order of the Mystic
Vell. Another fighter in the ranks of
the depot ordnance company is Ser
geant J. J. Donohue, who has a long
record of military service to his cred
it. Sergeant Donohue was “a soldier
of the sea,” and was “in” on the tak
ing of Vera Cruz, ac¢cepting a dis
charge from the navy a month after
the Mexican incident. He is a big,
husky fellow, and for two years held
the middleweight championship of tha
North Atlantic fleet. He is a black
smith by trade. e
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