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Christ-LifeNoiToo Highfor Human Attainment, Billy Says
FAILURE WITH OURSELVES
ITHITH O, O
tion. “What is there in your life
y-that hinders the blessing from
coming to you? And because it
doesn't come to you, it is kept
away from somebody else? You
can’t go through,the world an in
sulated and isolated being; you
will either damn it or you will
bless it, accordingly as you are a
reprobate or a Christian. A fel
low who wants to live to gratify
his desires Is a black-hearted
, adder; if he is living for his own
ambition, he is an adder. He
can't do that.
Is there some iniquity or acci
s dent or habit in your life, some
secret, some thought, some im
pure longings, some book? I will
not read a book that will sneer
~and mock at religion and God
Almighty. I won't have it on my
_shelves. And we ought to go
" through our homes and have a re
“ligious revival in literature,
L If some of you people would go
#» threugh your homes and yank
out the books on your library
shelves that have no business
¥ there, and burn them, like they
»did Ephesus in the days of Paul,
some of you would not have
enough paper left in your house
to bang your old halr or wad a
shotgun,
Something in yovr family life,
Isn't that it? Overlndulgence?
Oh, heed the appeal of the Gov
ernment to the people that ought
to stop gormandizing and stop
eating four pounds of beefsteak,
when 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
be surprised to know how much
we can get along without, how
much we have today that we don’t
* need. :
You go to bars and git there
‘ and fill your old hide up with
" booze and when you go home, veu
are soused and have got a load
on you that would sink a battle
+ ship.
What is the trouble? lls it
seifishmess, intemperance, fault
finding with the preacher because
_he skins you and tells you where
m'ré wrong? You admire the
: 1 of a physician that comes
lgd tells you what's the matter
with you, and no matter how bit
and pauseating his medicine
you will take it and it will
i like fee cream soda, if it
only help you, but when the
o er tells you you are wrong,
4 Why don't you thank God that he
- had the courage to do it?
‘ Something in your social life?
- Is that it? You can't make a
success by serving God and trip
ping around with the gang that
some of you go with,
Is it envy, evil speaking, ly
ing? Oh, it takes a big man or
woman to see other geoplo BUC
ceed 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 § cents,
__and if you can't afford a Pierce-
Arrow, get a “tin Lizzie”
Now, what is the trouble? If
» You don't like the smell of gaso
lipe, don't knock the fellow who
wwean afford it; take your trolley
_.ride for a nickel, don't growl,
“ don't grow!!
.. If some woman can afford to
wear silk and you can't, what is
the use of knocking her and say
ing, “She's no good?"
Poppyeock — such darn spirit
~¥ou have got around this coun
-mu'g--foollsh.
, . if you can't live on the avenue,
- be content where you can live, T
can't afford to live there, but I
am having a good time. lam not
sore at the fellow that's got money
enough to live there. The Lord
bless him.
... I'd rather hunt my own game
ywAhan bark with the devil's pack
~at the foot of the tree.
.. Envy, that’'s the trouble!
s-Search yourself by the lighted
# vandle of God's truth. Sin cher
ished, cancels the Bleulng. So,
make up your mind that if vou
_ keep sin, you can't have the bless
- Ing; you've got to give sin up.
Now make up vour mind which
you'll keep. That was true in Jere
miah's day and It's true today, s
" make up vour mind which you
you want. If you want God's
" favor, you've got to give \ég the
devil. 8o make your oice,
.whether you want to go te the
devil or to heaven. .
Iniquity persisted in making
the promises of non-effect, Don’t
_insist on living in sin and then
: wl at God because he doesn't
’ you, It's your faul. and
§ God's. So to Israel, 50 to us.
% Instead of the blessings they be
<came the curses to the Jew, be
~cause he llved contrary to what
wthe Lord told him to live. It may
“not be so much the doing of
_ what Ged tells you net to do as it
-18 the not doing of what God tells
- you to do. %
F Gt th. are twlo p‘i\llarshtha;: sup
_ por 2 gospel, the “thouh shalt
;M nots” and the “thou shalts.”
“ Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt
- mot commit acdultery. Thou shalt
m& Thou shalt not take the
" D of the Lord in vain.
__ Thou shalt love the Lord thy
“God with all thy heart, with all
- thy soul, and wits all thy
y,h th. Thou shalt love thy
~ meighbor as thyself.
B he trouble with a lot of people
. today g that it is not the things
' that tells them no. !lo do
” that they dr.:i buthit is the things
. that God tells them to do that
" they don't do, “Curse ye Meroz,
“ said the l.a‘tg t:t th!e)’kLord, curse
_¥e bitterly the inhabitants there
£ Of: ‘Because they came not to
e, %fln Lord, to the help
s:‘-* of ¢ ord against the mighty.”
gfik jod cursed them not for what
they did ‘fi&?‘t what they did
- mot do § told them to do.
_ They did not ”x up and help
‘bgcause i.‘awdo L
‘57 S gt S a;z L&?rv “té g 'on’
o SiEn TGI o & 'Om,
L SN My Fid. Gumpbell Mor
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
sald: “Dr. Morgan, can't you tell
me what's the trouble with me?”
He said: “No, ma'm, I am not a
physiclan.”
She said: “It is not a physical
disabpility 'with which I am afict-
G, it is a spiritual malady., Four
. Years ago I jost the Joy of salva
tion.”
He said: “Bless the Lord!”
In amazement shd said: “What?”
He sald: “You sald four years
ago. I said 51”3 the LB®rd! be
cange you speCify the time; if you
know when, you know why.”
Her eyes dropped to the floor
and she sald: “Yes, 1 do. Four
years ago I had a quarrel with my
best friend and we have not
spoken since.”
He sald: “If yott had died, you
would be in hell. For if ye for
give men their'trespasses, your
heavenly Father will also forgive
you"
He sald: “Where does your
friend live?” -
She said: “She lives 400 miles
away.”
“All right, write her a letter.,”
He left her. He went back 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, yoh have written
that letter that we talked about
a year ago.”
She nzfd: “Yed, doctor, T wrote
it that night” And she sald:
“When I did, the peace of God
flooded my soul!”
Poor c¢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
would you be ashamed to stand
up for your children? Are you
ashamed to stand up for your
country? Hvery man or woman
must be either 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 I 8 sin?
“Sin /is the transgression of
the law.” That is the common, or
dinary definition. . Ninety-nine
timeés out of a hundred people will
give, if“you ask them what is
sin, ‘the transgression of the
law.” Sin is doing what God tells
you not to do.
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Second, “Whatsoever is not of
faith is 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; }{efven for the repentent /
sinner; hell for the unrepentent
sinner; the Holy Ghost. “What
soever is not of faith is sin.”
See? : .
It doesn't make any difference
who preaches it or who practices
it, it is sin. It they stand. up
anda preach that Jesus Christ is
“not the Son of God, it is sin,
‘When they say, “saved by ohar
acter,” they lie, because you are
not. You are 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 is sin.”
What is sin? Oh, you just
thought it was doing ‘something
God told you not to do. It is
:lmt, but it is something else,
00. ¢
Here is another: “If vou 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 map
simply because he happens to be
successful and prosperous in the
world; it is a question of his at
titude tgwud Jesus Christ.
“The %hought 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 lng,:oll me! if
it is, keep your darffed mouths
shut, for I am preaching God's
truth. lam not standing up here,
airing my opinipns, and if you sit
cut there and listen to me and
don’t agree with me, that shows
you are a fool, for what 1 am
preaching is the Bible. You are
the ass, not me.
“A high look, a propd heart is
sin.”
“All unrighteousness is sin."
There are seven scriptural defi
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. '
Yon say, “I have been con
firmed.” All right, come on,
stand yp. 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 not stand
convicted before one of those sev
en definitions.
Here is the point of it: What
are we going to do? First, con
fess your sins. If we confess
our sins, he will forgive us our
gins. lay a hold of the thing
that the spirit reveals to you that
is. 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 thing
that the spirit reveals to you and
name that. Say, Lord, 1 have
been impare, Lord, I have been
untruthful, Lord, 1T have ' beén
worldly (I am assuming that
then) mlngr‘belt:: 'ml:ee of -om%-'
body), " ve n prou
" Lord, I have been nlturgly in
my Eift. Lord, I have got a hot
temper. Lord, roon'a read my
Bible. Lord, T don't pray. Lord,
I 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 thing is, con
fess your sins. Second, rénounce
£in, abandon it. “Whosoever is
convicted of his sin shall not
prosper, but who confesses and
forsakes his sin shall find mercy.”
Separate your life from that sin,
tear that sin out of yonur life,
get rid of it, get away from it.
““If thy right hand .offend thee,
cut it off.” 1f there i 8 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 yoéu
ag your right hand and arm and
that thing is keeping you away
from God, get Yid of it.
Confescion without renuncia
tion doesn’t amount to anything.
If a 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 confesges
and forsakes, the forsaking shows
fhs confession was genuine. So
it is 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
80 God will forgive it. That
doesn‘t mean that you have to
stand up and tell the people
what you have done. It is none
of their business.
I think you can go back too far
on the trail of anybody.} 1t is
none of your business. ‘‘What
soever ye would that men should
do to you do ye even 80 to them.”
If you know anything about
anybody keep your mouth shut,
You would be mighty. glad 1f
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 byginess? Wouldn't
the devil have a hard time? He'd
be in the hospital.
I'd make that definite, too. I'd
say, “Lord, I' will not read those
books that sneer at You, that
appeal to my baser nature. I
will not go with that crowd of
gin flzzlers‘and cocktall guzzlers. |
No, No! Lord, I won't be stingy.
Lord, I have been unclean today.
Lord, forgive me for the lie [
spoke. ILord, 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 pain, so 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 it 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 not to do
when God tells you not to steal
or lie or commit adultery, but
you must reselve that you will
do what God tells yon 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
ysay to this child, do it, and it
doesn’t, in its case 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 nim 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 a minute! I'd make that
&nnlte. I'd say, Lord, 1 wgl
ite that letter of apology. Lord,
I will pay my debts. Lord, 1
will read my Bible. Lord, I will
stop talking about my neighbors.
Lord, I will confess Jesus. IL.ord,
I 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 1 have never been there. 1
will! T will! 1 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
1 am.” That is rhe whole thing.
bring your sins and lay them at
the foot of the Cross, and say:
“Lor®, nothing in my hand I
bring, simply to Thy Cross 1
cling.” - 1
1 don't bring my culture, my
money; I don't bring anything
and plead .that 1 ought to have
salvation because of that. In my
hand no prize I bring, simply to
Thy Cross I cling. Just as I
am, without one plea, 1 come, I
s come, Just as [ 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 not“fo do, and
he will put in your life that which
will keep you from doing that
which he tells yvou not to do,
and will help you to do the
things he tells you to do.
Say, “lord, T want to re
nounce these things, but they
seem to cling to me. Lord, 1
don't want to lose my temper,
but spmetimes 1 do get under a,
fifty-pound pressure, when I have
a blow-out or my carburetor
stops working and I will just get
an awful fit” 3
Say, “Lord, T den'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
A -
Say, “l.ord, I don't want to
neglect my Bible, I take it and
read it quietly whare 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 it
the roots of sin have gone deep
er, -remember that the grace of
God will go down and uproot the
roots of sin. He said, “I will take
away all thy alloy.”
Remember that. Uncle Sam
puts one per cent cepper 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
) IF you want to know why there
! is no joy in your life—it's your
5 fault,
g BELIEVERS should desire with
5 the greatest yearning the
¢ fulfililment of the promises of God.
§ That is the way to get them.
¢l
L ia ls the Christian life as pictured
! in the Bible too high for hu
{ man attainment? Oh, no!
é lT takes a big man to see other
$ people succeed and not raise a
5 howt of envy about it.
$ IF you don’t like the smell of
? gasoline, don’t knock the fel-
S 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 bows, or the boys to meet Billy,
It was a sort of fifty-fifty proposition
all the way round, FKirst Billy passed
in review before the boys, he and Ma
Sunday and Mayor Candler and Col
onel Woodward. And them they re
treated to the reviewing stand while
the cadets, nearly 200 of them, had
their inning.
And Billy didn't come to bat again
until the students had gone through
a series of drills, and the flag had
been lowered, and ordefs given for
the boys to march to the chapel,
where Billy was scheduled to glve
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 boys had to stand around
th 2 edge of the room whi'e Rody sang,
and Bill Schley HOWfil‘d 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 that this country
has produced. And he said that an
ordinary clod-hopping 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 muke a few introductory
remarks.
Befora anybody started speaking,
however, 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 pulls 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’hnt’s what,” from o. h., of the
8. b ‘
Lord said, “I will take away all
thy ailoy.”
The Bank of England never re
ceives 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 Yyour 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. So they never accept gold
for its face value,
" Uncle Sam puts one per cent
copper in all the gold to give it
hardness. 1 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 allov,
that is dross. The Lord said,
“I,will take away all thty alloy.”
éll your dross. In other words,
od 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 fulMilled. Malachi was the
last of the Ol Testament 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 ye
all the tithes into the storehouse.”
“Bring ye all the tithes into the
storehouse, that there may be
meat in mine house, and prove
me nowJerewit‘g saith the Lord
of hostsf if I.will not open you
the windows of Heaven, and pour
you out a blessing, thats 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
knees 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 vou the privi
lege of witnessing things in the
United. States that have never
heen 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 deal with you in mass
and save you by anything, I'd
do it, but I can’t; you must come
as an individual. Say, “Jesus, we
want to thank you for yvour un
speakable gift and salvation, for
the Holy Spirit, for the rgvela
tion of Thyself, through Thy
‘D rather hunt my own ame
l myself than b-r‘ ith gho doy
il's pack at the foot :fth. tree.
HW flATB'OEVER is not of faith
18 sin"—and it doesn’t make
any difference who preaches it or
who practices it.
Il‘-' you know nnythinfi 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 thé o. h.
“That's what they all say.”
“What’s what they all say?” A
All to gether now-—" Billy Sunday.”
Billy appreciated the courtesy
shown him. He said so. And he said
a lot more, He said that he consia
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 worid who aren’t good
for anything except to give the cen
aus takeér 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.”
“Youre 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 trying to squeezs
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, either. You've got to climb
the stairs, and most of you will have
to climb them one at a time, jus:
like you climbed those steps to this
chapel. But if you'll just remember
that success waits at the top, you
wop't find it such a weary climb after
all,” !
Billy said there were four things he
wanted to impress upon thosé boys
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 into the game up
to your eyebrows.”
Rody played the sliphorn, and led
the audience in “Brighten the Cor
ner,” and George Brewster played the
chorus on the piano a_couple of times.
Colonel Woodward thanked Billy
and Ma for coming out, and said the
visit wouldstand out as one of the
bright spots in the lives of the bdys.
And in order 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 6; minds to un
derstand it.”
Wouldn'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 tnat 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
seasons that the Lord hath pl\t
in His Own Hand.
You have been Kkind 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 dav of reve
lation.
But the sin that is revealed to
us is this, that we are sinners,
and | that God Almighty tells
us: [“Him that cometh unto me
I shall no wise cast out.”” Oh,
Jesus, you told us all that, and
“Come unto me, all ye that labor
. ahd are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.” So our part is to
serve God and then go out and
become a blessing, 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
\ MACON, Nov. 27.—Judge W. H.
Felton, chairman of the No. 2 District
Exemption Board of South Georgia,
thinke that the military draft age
should he from 20 to 30 inclusive,
and has made this suggestion in an
swer to a questionnaire from the pro
vos. marshal general.
“I believe there afe 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 suprort
ingt"the family where truly depend
ent.
Fulton Ginning I
Under 1916 Figures
Government figures Tuesday ‘showed
that Fuiton County ginned 633 bales ot
the 1917 cotton crop prior to November
14. This compares with 917 bales gin
ned prior to tg: same date of last ygu'.
Former Sergeants and Corporals
of Recruiting Capture Higher
o_ .
Commissions at Oglethorpe.
' Six former sergeants and corporals
of recruiting—now commissioged of
ficers of the United States army—
called upon Major G. V. Heidt, army
recruiting officer, Tuesday.. to pay
their respects. They were formerly
stationed for duty in the Atlanta dis
trict. They are:
~ Captain Fred H. Hill, formerly ser
‘geant at Athens, now with the Thir
tieth Infantry at Camp Greene,
Charlotte, N. C.
Captain Robert S. Ennis, formerly
corporal at Macoq, Ga.
' First Lieutenant Clifford L. Salter,
former sergeant at Albany, Ga., now
stationed at Camp Gordon.
First Lieutenant Sam G. Garretfy
former sergeant at Rome.
First Lieutenant John Phillips,
formerly corporal at Waycross.
First Lieutenant John E. Kennedy,
formerly sergeant at Atlanta.
These men have just received their
commisisons at Fort Oglethorpe
training camp and are in Ciass. A.
Major Heidt heartily congratulated
them.
Recruiting for Army
~ Spurred on by the closeness of the
day when no more registered men
will be accepted for voluntary en
listment, recruiting throughout
Georgia and the South was brisk for
the twenty-four hours ending at noon
Tuesday.
The following men were accepted
at' the local recruiting station for the
army and sent to the places desig
nated for completion of enlistment:
Fort Oglethorpe—Fred L. Nabers,
Atlanta; Engel L. Jaillet, Atlanta;
Bellville . Mason, College Park;
John C. Shelton, Griffin; John C.
Fielder, Griffin; Henry W. Clark,
Copper Hill, Tenn.
Camp Wheeler—Harvin H. Cribb.
Nicholls;: Jack H. Ong, Macon.
Sent to Fort McPherson for en
gineers national army—Albert E.
Halman, Atlanta.
The following were accepted as
stevedores: Cornelius Piftkard, West
Point; Nick Wetherspool, Swainsg
boro; Homer McClain, Swainsboro;
Joe Wimberly, Macon; Charlie Boyd,
Atlanta: Jonah Morton, Trion; Oscar
Wood, Marletta; Arthur Jones, Ma
con; Henry Martin, Atlanta: Nemih
Rochelle, Atlanta; George Caoper,
Macon; Henry V. Harvey, Macon;
Rufus Goodwin, Wadley; Frank John
son, Lyerly; Samuel J. Little, Rock
mart; Lewis K. Bittings, Summer
ville; Raymond Larkins, Marietta,
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U.B.and Allies Made
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, Nov. 27.—Contracts for
millions of pounds of meat, represent
ing the December supply for the Al
lied Governments. the Red Cross, the
Belgian relief and the United States
army and navy, were awarded and al
lotted here today under direction of
Joseph P. Cotton, chief of the meat
division of the Federal Food Admin
tration.
This is the first allotment and
awarding of contracts for meat sup
ply under the recently promulgated
rules of the meat division and is said
to be the largest order ever given
for these products at one time. Offi
cials of the ¥ood Administration re
fused to make public the amounts. i
Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox
and all the other delightful critters of Joel
Chandler Harris® Uncle' Remus: storjes
come to your home every day in
The Georgian.
There’s an Uncle Remus
story every day in The
Atlanta Georgian
Read them to the kiddies—one op the
magazine page every day. '
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1917.
Bids for Twelfth
.
Dist. School Opened
A meeting of trustees of the
Twelfth District Agricultural and
Mechanieal School, an institution au
thorized at the last session of the
Legislature, was held Tuesday morn
ing in the cffice of Governor Dorsey.
Bils were submitted by Laurens,
Bleckley and Emanuel Cqunties, and
‘a fdurth bid was received from an in
dividual of Wheeler County. Bleckley
and Laurens were gzeported to have
submitted the strongest bids. ‘
Details of none of the bids were
given out, however, pending a further
investigation.
The second meeting of the board
will be held at Dublin, the date to be
fixed by the Governor. At this meet
ing a personal inspection of the
claims of Laurens County will bei
made. The proposed sit is situated
one and a half miles from Dublin.
The Bleckley County site is situatedi
near Cochran. |
In the meantime these two countiess
will be reguested to prepare supple
mentary reports,
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 béginning
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 McClellan is one of
the busiest places in the entire camp.
The divisional ordnance officer, Ma
jor 8. Jarman, assisted by Captain
Lane Schofield and Lieutenants Hap
per,: Alexander and Hagan, has or
ganized into an efficient working or
ganization the entire personnel of 105
mfg:\ of extra ability who handle the
affairs of the depot, o
S. Tarbox, the “top,” has had sév
enteen years of experience in the reg
ular army, and he :is especially quali
fled 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, anad
corporals, H. Harmon and John Rich
args.
f)rdnance Sergeant T. R. Ward has
Deen confined to the base hdspital for
the past few days with an attack of
*onsillitis, but is improving.
Among the noncommissioned offi
cers in this outfit there is a great
variety of mechanical ability, and
much talent is also ingluded in the
organization. Ordnancg Sergeant P.
Y, McCarthy is a member of Colum
bia Typographical Union, No. 101,
District of Columbia, and held a po
sition ds monotype machinist in the
Govérnment Printing Office in
Washington before entering the
service. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason and a member of Kallispolis
Grotto, Mystic Order of the Mystic
Veil. 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, accepting a dis
charge from the navy a month after
thet Mexican incident. He is a big,
husky fellow, and for two years-held
the middleweight championship of the
North Atlantic fleet. He is a black
smith by trade.
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First Maine Heavy Artillery and
Seventh U. S. Regiment
Elevens to Play.
* CHARLOTTE, N.. C., Nev. 27.—A
game of football, in which a dozen ow
more ex-players from _ Princeton,
Dartmouth, Andover and other leaq
ing colleges will take part, is sched
uled for Saturday, December 1, on
the gridiron 4€"'Wearn Field here when
the. eleven from the First Maine
Heavy Artillery at Camp Greene wil]
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
00 pieces picked from the dozen mij
tary 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 Eigskin taking part in
the game will Be Edgar Curtis, Dart
mouth halfback; Tudor Gardiner, of
Harvard; “Ginger” Frager, of Colby,
and others, on the First Maine team,
while the Seventh Regiment will have
a half dozen old veterans of the foot
ball game.
Ifavorable comments are beimg ute
tered on the health of the 20,000 men
now at Camp Greene, as compared
with health reports from many other
camps, While pneumonia has taken
heavy toll at several camps, Camp
Greene has had but four deaths since
September 1, and none within the
ast two weeks’ time. The camp_ stte
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 officers from each
of the two States, special tents have
been erected for the entertainment of
these troops, correspo?ding‘ to the Y.
M. C. A. huts-already in use at the
camp. The colored troops were given
a regimental reservation near the
center of Camp Greene, and are now
well established in their 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,
Following e¢lose on the heels of the
statement that Major General Dick
man had been ordered from Camp
Custer cantonment to take command
at Camp Greene is another rumor that
Major General French, now at Camp
Jackson, Columbia, 8. C., will_be or
dered here. The report as to General
Dickman was sent out from Battle
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 aays
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 under military regime in Oe
tober, has had not less than seven
changes in its commandin officers,
Major General Liggett hofding the
‘short record of less than twenty hours
as military head of the camp.
‘ . .
$20,000 in Diamonds
(By International News Ssrvice.) !
CLEVELAND, Nov. 27—A regis
tered mail package containing $20,000
worth of diamonds, the property of
the Yankhauser. Hewitt & Platt Jow~
elry Company, of New York, was sto
len from the lobby of trhe Hotel Stat
ler last Friday, it becarhe known this
affernoon. Police and detectives kept
the matter quiet.