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Christ-Life NoiToo Highfor Human Attainment, Billy Says
FAILURE WITH DURGELVES
NOTWITH 600, HE SAYS
. - R T T,
1 ,tMn. “What is there in yoyr life
% niheg hinders the m-s:ing/ufmm
¥ .goming to you? And because it
f ‘d'ogsn’t come to you, it is kept
} Sivay from somebody else? You
L can't g 0 through the world an in
. Bmlated and isolated being; you
“Mill either damn it ar you will
bless it, accordingly as you are a
s.paprobate or a Christian. A fel
swelow who wants to live to gratify
»' e desires is a black-hearted
+ aglder; if he is living for his own
"_‘ gmbition, he is an adder. He
& fean't do that.
247 Is there some iniquity or acci
grodent or habit in your life, some
«e SeCret, gome thought, some im-
Pure longings, some book? I will
not rcad a book that will sneer
«and mock at religion and God
:,‘-Almiuht,\'. I won't have it on my
§ shelves. And we ought to go
"’th‘mn:h our homes and have a re
=+ifgious revival in literature.
.4+ 1f some of you people would go
s,through your homes and yank
Qut the books on your library
#¥ cMelves that have no business
there, and burn them, like they
#.#Bjd, Ephesus in the days of Paul,
’J‘q‘.mfi of you would novt have
’,‘bmm:h paper left in your house
F4%0 bang your old halr or wad a
£ shotgun.
2+ Something in your family life,
~ dsflt that 1t? Overindulgence?
Oh, heed the appeal of the Gov
ernment to the people that ought
1o stop gormandizing and stop
~,eating four pounds of beefsteak,
when you can get along with haif
a pound. Do something for other
5 Dbeople! Let's begin to comply
; with the requests. Oh, how we'd
“spe surpriscd to know how much
# we can get along without, how
much we have today that we don't
ws need.,
® You go to bars and git there
<, and fill your old hide up with
-.,bun‘z(- and when you go home, you
= gre soused and have got a load
s bn. you that would sink a battle
=eßhip.
e \g'hat is the trouble? lls It
sclfishness, Intemperance, fault
finding with the preacher hacause
he skins you and tells you where
you're wrong? You admire the
Biakil of a physician that comes
Serand tells you what's the matter
Bswith you, and no matter how bit
#4ter and nauscatimg his medicine
#4tw,you will take it and it will
Plitaste like ica cream soda, if it
“will only help yvou, but when the
Fregmencher tells you you are wrong,
#'sny don't you thank God that he
“Aad the courage to do it?
‘oSomething in vour soclal life?
"‘:a *that it? You can't make a
Skaticcess by serving God and trip
ping around with the gang that
~Bome of you go with,
. A 5 it _epvy, cvil speaking, ly
-3 ing? Oh, it takes a big man or
woman to see other people sue
- § ceed and not raise a howl about
¢ it. Tnvy is one sf the greatest
' robbers in the world, If you can't
'§ &fford an automobile, you can
: ride on a jitney bus for § cente,
Sand if you can't afford a Pierce
1, rrow, get a “tin Lizzie,”
~ *BYNow, what ig the trouble? It
you don't like the smell of gaso.
line, don't knock the fellow who
Boglin afford it; take your trolley
i ‘tm ?rrow‘l‘ nickel, don't growl,
- 43¢ some woman can afford to
fleg{; silk and you can't, what is
. #"use of knocking her and say
: ing. “She’'s no good?”
~ Poppycock — guch darn spirit
6@ have got around this coun
-5 !' foolish.
3 ~ You can't live on the avenue,
: content Where you can live, I
- MRaf'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
- bkess him.
T T'd rather hunt my own game
e bark .with the devil's pack
£ &ne foot of the tree,
L& Envy, that's the trouble!
- e oh vourself by the lighted
g.tandle of God's truth. Sin oher
s Bhed, cancels the blessing. 80,
- make up your mind that if you
~ Xkeep sin, you can't have the bless
- ing: you've got to give sin up.
- "’%’33 make up your mind which
L 1 keep., That was true in Jere
- miah's day and it's true today, 8¢
= make up your mind whioch you
Eyeu- want. If you want God's
. favor, you've got to give up the
. “devil. So make your choice,
. whether you want to go to the
~ devil or to heaven.
o Iniquity persisted in making
-the promises of non-effect. Don't
~ insist on living in sin and then
- .growl at God because he doesn't
' bless you. It's your fault and
- Mot God's. So to Israel, so to us.
o of the blessings they be
. the curses to the Jew, be
. %oa he lived contrary to what
. the Lord told him to live. It may
.~ ~ not be so much the doing of
:w:t God tells you not to do as it
- is‘the not doing of what God tells
© ¥du td do.
. There are two pillars that sup
. port th: gospel, the “thouh shalt
- not nots” and the “thou shalts.”
“%Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt
@ mat commit adultery. Thou shalt
9 kill. Thou shalt not take the
. of the Lord in vain.
- #_“Thou shalt love the Lord thy
~"God with all thy heart, with all
| ahys; soul, and with all thy
- Est h. Thou shalt love thy
. =meighbor as thyseif.
B The trouble with a lot of people
setpd is that it is not the things
. #3hat God iells them not to do
- LD they do, but it ig the things
. ®thatr God tells them to do that
g‘ don’t do. *“Curse ye Meroz,
~ ¥said; the aneel of the Lord, curse
' pitterly the inhabitants there
;d: because they came not to
, - f'helfioor the Lord. to the help
- #*of the Lord against the mighty.”
éflod cursed them not for what
i ¥ did, hut for what they daid
? «o that God told them to do.
% hey did not come up and help
. God. God says, “You are cursed
. Jecause you did not Go ft."
- {£/That may be your trouble. You
@ Tefusing to apologize to some
.~ @ody. My friend Campbell Mor
. Mmn° was preaching in England,
L {Pfid a lady came up to him and
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
physician.”
She said: “It is not a physical
disability with which i am afllict
eq, it is a spiritual malady. Four
years ago 1 iost the joy or salva
tion,”
He said: "Bless the Lord!”
In amazement she gaid: “What?'
Ha said: “You said four years
ago. 1 sald Bless the Lord! be
cause you specify the time; if you
know when, you know why." "
Her eyeß dropped to the floor
and she said: “Yes, 1 do. lour
years ago I had a quarrel with my
bast 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
avenly Father will also forgive
you."”
ie said: “"Where docs your
frignd live?”
Shke 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 facte was
lighted up like & halo of glory,
He took her by the hand, and
pald: “BSister, you have writtén
that letter that we talked about
a year ago.”
She !:fd: “Yes, doctor, I wrote
it that nliAfl." 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
witnesging for Jesus Christ and
standing up for the Lord and for
Hig 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? Ivery man or woman
must be either & patriot of a
traltor in these days. Why
should you be ashamed to stand
up for Jesus Christ?
Now here are seven seriptural
definitions of sin. There are lots
of descriptions of gin, but I mean
#criptural definitions of sin,
‘What is sin? ;
“Bin {8 the transgression of
the law.” That is the common, or
dinary definltion. Ninety-nine
times out of a hundred peonple will
give, It you ask them what is
Bin, ‘the transgression of the
law.” BBln {8 doing what God tells
you not to do,
n-herst.ku“he’ hrd hr hr hrd o
Second, “Whatsoever is not of
faith s sin.” Anybody that
doesn’t helicve in Jesus Christ as
‘the .Son of God: in God as the
only (od; the Bible as the Word
of God; Heaven for the repentent
sinner; hell for the unrepentent
sinner; the Moly Ghost. “What
soever I 8 not of falth is sin.”
See?
It doesn't make any difference
who preaches it oy who practices
it, it is sin. If they ‘stand up
and preach that Jesus Christ is
not the Son of God, it ig sin,
‘When they m‘y. “saved by char
acter,” they lle, 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
that, but ft Is§ysomething else,
too.
Here is anothef: “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 be
successful and prosperous in the
world: it is a question of his at
tituae toward Jesus Christ.
“The thought of foolishness is
sin.” God knows there ix plenty
of that about religion and about
the divinity of Christ and the
docetrine of salvation and all that.
If what I preach is not taught in
the Bible, get up and tell me! if
it is, keop your darned mouths
shut, for I 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. s
“A high look, a proud 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,
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, a'l 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 golng to do? First, con
fess vyour sins. If we conféss
our sins, he will forgive us our
sins. Lay a hold of the thing
that the spirit reveals to you that
ils wrong in your life. Never
mind me now!
The trouble is, you hutt 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, : have
been- impure, Lord, I have been
untruthful, Lord, I have bheen
worldly (I am assuming that
these may be the sing of some
body), Lord, I have been proud,
Lord, I Rave been niggardly in
my gift. Lord, I have got a hot
temper. Lord, I don't read my
Bible, Lord, I don't pray. Lord,
I don't pay my debts. Lord, 1
talk about my neighbors. Lord,
I am a coward about witnessing
for Jesus Christ. Humiliating, I
will agree, but it will bring you
bles<ing,
I am assuming yvou wans to be
blesged. 1 will tell you how to
get it, The first tking 18, con
fess your sins. Second, renounce
sin, abandon it. " “Whosoever is
convicted of his sin shall not
prosper, but who confesses and
forsakes his sin shall ind mercy.”
Separate your life from 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 |§t.
Giod doesn't mean to dig your eye
out. If there is anything in the
world that's as valuable to you
a 8 vour right hand and arm and
that thing is keeplhg you away
from God, get rid of it.
Confession 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. Ana
if & man stops Uving ~ln sin
without confessing it, that does
n't meéan anything, for that's the
reformation. But if he confesses
and forsakes, the forpaking shows
the confesslon was genuine. So
it is no good to confess it if you
don’t forsake it, vice versa, be
cause ihe confessing shows that
you were sorry, that you did it
s 0 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. It is
non® of your business. “What
socver ye would that men should
do to you do ye even so to them.”
If you know anything about
anybody keep your mou%h shut.
You would be mighty glad if
anybody had anything on you and
they'd keep their mouth ghut.
Giosh, wouldn't this be a great
world if everybody would mind
their osvn business? Wouldn’t
the devil have a hard time? He'd
be in the hosplital.
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 cocktail guzzlers.
No, No! Lord, I won't be stingy.
Lord, 1 have been unclean today.
Lord, forgive me for the lie I
spoke. Lerd, lend 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
ig the pain, 8o he can intelligently
dingnose and prescribe for the
malady. Do the same thing with
the Lord. That is the second.
Firat thing, confess your sin.
Second, renounee, 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 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 tc¢ this child, do it, and it
doesr’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
vour 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 dalilee, 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
definite. I'd say, Lord, I will
write that letter of apology, Lord,
I will pay my debts. Lord, I
will read my Bible. Lord, I will
#top talking about my neighbors.
Lord, I will confess Jesus. Lord,
1 will pray in publie. 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!l T will! I will!
Give yourself up to God, whol
ly, fully, unreservedly, irrevos
cably, give yourself., That is what
you promised to do when you
were married. You sald, *Yes'
and that fellow said, "“Yes.” All
right,—give yourself to the Lord.
Give yourself. Say, “Lord, here
1 am.” That is the whole thing:
bring your sins and lay them at
the foot of the Cross, and say:
“Lord, nothing in my hand 1
bring, =imply to Thy Cross I
cling.”
1 don't brlnF my culture, my
money: 1 don't bring anything
and plead that I ought to have
salvation theause of that. In my
hand no prize 1 bring, simply to
Thy Cross 1 cling. Just as I
am, without one plea, I 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 n?t to do, and
he will put in your life that which
will keep you from doing that
which he teils 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 cling to me. Lord, I
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, “Lord, I don't want to be
stingy, but I go to church with
out my puree filled with gold and
I hunt around and find a nickel
mlid ’th(‘n I sing 'Jesus Paid it
AlLl"
Say, “Lord, I don't want to
neglect my Bible, 1 take it and
read "it quietly syhere nobody
sees’ me."
Tell Goad! 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. Se it
the roots of sin have gone deep
er, remember shat the grace of
God will zm down and uproot the
roots of sin. He said, “I will take
away all thy allow"
Remember that. Uncle Sam
puts one per cent copper 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 Yyou want to know why thera
g - ';c no joy in your life—it's your
5 fault.
! i
$ BELIEVERS should desire with
the greatest yearning the
fulfillment of the promises of God.
That is the way to get them.
! oo gt
é lS the Christian life as pictured
{ in the Bible too high for hu
{ man attaifment? Oh, no!
§ Sk
§ lT takes a big man to see other
§ people succeed and not raise a
$ howl of envy about it.
¢ lF you don't like the smell of
; gasoline, don’t knock the fel
-5 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 bheen a tosgs
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 hoys to meet Billy,
It was a sort of fifty-iifty proposition
all the way round. First Billy passel
in review before the hoys, he and Ma
Sunday and Mdyor Candler and Col
onel Woodward. And then 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 drilis, and the flag had
been lowered, and orders given for
the boys to march (o the chapel
where Billy was 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 boys had to staond around
tha edge of the room whi’e Rody enanz,
and Bill Schlkey Howard introduced
Billy and Billy talked. But they
didn’t mind, except mayvbe they were
a little embarrassed once when Ropdy
called on the “company of bovs stand
ing in the rear to sinz the last phrase
of the '‘Brighten the Corner’ chorus.”
Howard Introduces Billy.
Representative Howaryd introduced
Billy as the brightest it the galaxy of
evangelistic stars that this country
has produced. And he said that an
ordinary clod-hopping ongressman is
s 0 overghadnwed by the person sched
uled to speak to them and the com
pany to whizh he would speik that he
would only make a few introductory
remarks,
Before anybody siavted speaking,
kawevir, the b, s gave the custom
ary yells, They gave one for Mayor
Candler, and one for Biily Howard
and a great long one for Billy Sun
day: It was put over gomething like
that “backward and forward” stunt
that Rody pulls with the “Drighten
the Corner” chorug, 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
¥ B
Lord said, “I will take away all
thy alloy.”
The Bank of England never ro
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 s((alos, and if it is short, it
is tipped to one side, and it it
is not, it is tipped to the other
slde. So they never acce pt gold
for its face value.
Uncle Bam 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 alloy,
that is dross. The Lord said,
“1 will take away all thty allov.”
All your dross. In other words,
God will take out of your heart
those things that make vou dis
obey and he will put in the tiings
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 Testament proph
ets, who came before Johin the
Baptist, and Malachi had a prom
ise through God that has not been
fulfilled yét.
Malachi said: “Bring ve all
the tithes into the storehouse.’
All right. If we'd do that, the
church membership of thig city
would have passed this expense
fund in one collection. “Pring ve
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 now herewitiy saith the Lord
of hosts, if 1 will noi 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 stageers me. 1
have seen great evidences of
God's power; but I fall on my
knees in humility, my friends,
and remove my hat, and it scems
to say, “This is hcly sground
wheére 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 Almichty will do if
you will only fulfill his wishes,
if there is anvthing in your life
ak an individual, get® out of it
We have got to come as individu
als.
If T could deal with vou in mass
and save you by anvthing I'q
do it, but I can't; you must come
as an individual. Sayv, “Jesus, we
want to thank you for vour un
speakable gift and =alvation, for
the Holy BBbpirit, for the revela
tion of Thyself, through Thy
I'D rather hunt my own game by
myself than bur{ with the dev
il's pack at the foot of the tree. ;
HW HATSOEVER is not of faith §
is Bin"—and it doesn’t make |
any difference who preaches it or
who practices it. §
{
lF you know anything bad about g
anybody, keep your mouth
shut, g
GOSH—wouldn’t this be a great
old werld if everybody would
mihd his own business? . g
,AND if we have done our best—
-3 if we have done our part, é
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 said so. And he said
a lot more. He said that he ¢éonsia
ered it quite an honor to be allowed
to speak before such a body of ten,
and that he was for military insti
tutions with both hands up in the
air. And he said that there are a sot
of peoyle in the world who aren’t good
for anything except to give the ¢en
2us taker one additional name for his
population list, and that he knew
that there weren't going to be any
men like that among thoge G. M. A.
boys. i
“Big Job Beeks Big Man.”
“You're going to find, bqys,” he
sagd, “that the big job is mw& look
ing for the big gnman. And you must
rot be a square peg trying to squeeze
into a round hole. ” You can’'t keep
a good man down. But take it {rom
me, youn needn’t wait for anything to
be turned up for you. The only thing
that's going to be turned up for yeu
is the dirt in the cemetery, and your
father will pay for that.
“And vou 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, jusi
like you climbed those steps to this
chapel. But if youll just remémber
that success waits at the top, you
won't find it such a weary climb after
ali,”
Billy said there were four things he
wanted to impress upon those boys
and heenumerated them: “Be on the
gsquare; don’'t watch the clock; don't
touch the job with the tig-end of your
fingers; and get into the game up
to yvour 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
(‘olonel Woodward thanked Billy
and Ma for coming out, and said the
visgit would stand out as one of the
bright spots in the lives of the boys.
And in order that they all might have
a chance to shake hands with the dis
tinguished visitors, Bllly ahd Ma
Sunday stood at the foot of the stairs
until every boy had passed down the
steps and was on hig way to mess.
word, for giving us 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 that are in the
C‘ouncil of God, and the Lord re
serves them for Himself, not for
vou to know, as Jesus said to
the disciples that times and the
seasons that the Lord hath put
in His Own Hand.
You have been Kkind enough,
Lord, but you have not told
the world when Jésus 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 sgin that is revealed to
us is this, that we are sinners,
and that God Almighty tells
us: “Him that cometh unto me
1 shall ho wise cast out”” Oh,
Jesus, yvou told us all that, and
“Come unto me, all ye that labor
eand 4Are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.,” So our part is to
sorve (God and then go out and
become a Dblessing, so wé can
make the world better because
we have lived in it. Ahd If we
have done our part, Lord, we will
he forever with Thee.
A e
Too Many Exempted,
Says Draft Chairman
y :
MACON, Nov. 27—Judgs 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
vosgt marshal genetal.
“I belleve there are entirely too
many exemptions,” Judge Felton said.
“Neither marriage nor children should
constitute a ground for digcharge. All
m«xlf‘s sound physically within the
draft age should be required to serve
with a proper provision for siipport
ing the family where truly depend
ent.”
Fulton Ginning I
Under 191 3
nder 1916 Figures
Government figures Tuesday showed
that Fulton County ginned 633 bales ‘ot
the 1817 cotton crop prior to November
14. This romgar@s with 917 bales gin
ned prior to the same date of last year.
Former Sergeants and Corporals
of Recruiting Capture Higher
. .
Commissions at Oglethorpe.
| Six former sergeants and corporals
of recruiting—now commissioned of
flcers of the United States army—
called upon Major . V. Keidt, 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 Cambp Greene,
Charlotte, N. C.
Captain Robert S. Ennis, formerly
corporal at Macon, Ga.
First Lieutenant Clifford L. Salter,
former sergeant at Albany, Ga., now
statloned at Camp Gordon.
First Lieutenant Sam G. Garrett,
former sergeant at Rome,
First Lieutenant John Phillips,
formerly corporal at Waycross.
Firet Lieutenant John B. Kennedy,
formerly sergeant at Atlanta,
These men have just received their
commisisons at Fort Oglethorpe
training camp and are in Class 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 afd the South was brigk for
the twenty-four hours ending at noou
Tuesday.
The following men were accepted
at the local recruiting station for the
army and sent to the ninces desig
nated for completion of enlistment:
. Fort Oglethorpe—Fred L. Nabers,
Atlanta; Engel L. Jaillet, Atlanta:
Bellville F. Mason, College Park:
John €. Bhelton, Griffin; John C.
Fielaer, GrifMn; 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. o
The following were accepted as
stevedores: Cornelius Pinkard, West
Point; Nick Wetherspool, Swains
boro; Homer McClain, Swalns?}nrn:
Joe Wimbefly, Macon; Charlie Boyd,
Atlanta; Jonah Morton, Trion; Osecar
Wood, Marietta; Arthur Jones, Ma
con; Henry Martin, Atlanta: Nemih
Rochelle, Atianta; George Cooper,
Macon; Henry V. Harvey, Macon;,
Rufus Goodwin, Wadley; Frank John«
«son, Lverly; Samuel J. Little, Rock
mart; Lewis K. Bittings, Summer
ville; Raymond Larkins, Marietta.
Meat Contracts for
8. and Alli
U.B.and Allies Made
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, Nov. 27 —Contracts for
milliong 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.
Thig ~is the first allotment and
awarding of contracts for meat sin
ply under the recently promu'gated
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 Food Administration re
|fua(-d to make public the amounts.
Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox
and all the other delightful critters of Joel
Chandler Harris" Uncle Remus stories
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 on the
magazine page every day.
TUBSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1917.
Bills for Twelfth
' d
Dist, School Opene
o
A meeting of trusteed™ of the
Twelfth District Agricultural and
Mechanical 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 Emanue] Counties, ard
a fourth bid whs received from an in
dividual of Wheeler County. Bleckley
and Laurens were teported to have
submitted the strongest bids.
Details of none of the bids were
given out, however, perding a further
investigation.
The second meeting of the hoard |
will be feld at Dublin, the date to be ]
fixed by the Governor. At this meet
ing a personal .inspection of the
claims of Laurers County will be
made. The proposed sit is situated
one and a half miles from Dublin.
The Bleckley County site is situated
near Cochran.
In the meantime these two counties
will be rejuested to prepare “supple
mentary reports.
Target Practice on Anniston Rifle
' 0o
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 ortinance depot at
the foot of the hill near tue bagse 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
gamized Into an efficient working or
ganization thc entire personnel of 105
men of extra ability who handle thel
affairs of the depot. ; 1
S. Tarbox, the *“top,” has had sev
énteen years of éxperience in the reg- |
ular army, and he is especially quali
fied for th® important duties which
devolve upon the command of the
outfit.
The nontommisgicned 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. Gtegg, Jesse .lu-‘
liante, J. H. Housemfan ard James
K. Wilson; sergeants of ordnance, J.
J. Donohue and Paul Gordon, and
corporals, H. Harmon and John Rich
a‘ds.
Ordnance Sergeant T. R. Ward has
Jeen confined to the base hospital for
the past few days with an attack of
tonsillitis, but is improving. '
Among the noncommissioned nffi-‘
cers in this outfit there is a great
variety of mechanical ability, and
much talent is also included in the
organization. Ordnance Sergeant P.
H. McCarthy is a member of Colum
bia Typographical Union, No. 101,
District of Columbia, and held a po
sition as monotype machinist in the
Government Printing Office in
Washingtoh before entering the
service, He is a_thirty-second degrec |
JAason and a member of ]\’ullis;mlis‘
Grotto, Mystic Ofder 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 dls
charge from the navy a month after
the Mexican incident. He is a l)i::.‘
husky fellow, and for two wears held |
the middleweight championship of the
Notrth Atlantic fleet. He is a black
smith by trade.
First Maine Heavy Artillery an(
' .
Seventh U, S. Regiment
Elevens to Play.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 27.—4
game of football, in which a dozen oy
more ex-players from Princetan,
Dartmouth, Andoyer and other lead-«
ing colleges will take part, is scheds
uled for Saturday, <Deceéember 1, on
the gridiron at Wearn Field here,when
the eleven from the First Maine
Heavy Artillery at Camp Gréene wil}
fight for goals against the crack team
of the Seventh Regiment, U. S. A,
To make the occasion more inters
esting, there will be a select band o.
200 pieces picked from the dozen mil
itary 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. 5
Thez proceeds will be given to the
dependents’ fund of the American
Red €ross.
} Among the veterans of former bat«
tles over the pigskin taking part in
the game will be Edgar Curtis, Dart
mouth halfback; Tudor Gardiner, of
Harvard; “Ginger” Frazer, of Colby,
and others, on the First Maine team,
while the Sevenih Regiment will Have
a half dozen old vterans of the foot
ball game. .
Favorable comments are being ut<
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
Septeinber 1, and none within the
istgtwo weeks’ time. The camp sita
is regarded by military men and med
ical corps officers as one of the most
sanitary in the South.
* * *
In order to meet the requirfements
of the colored t]‘mks at Camp Greene,
who have just arfived from Vermont
and Massachusetts, a provisional bat
talion with colored ufficers from each
of the two States, special tents have
been erected for the entertainment of
these troops, corresponding to the Y,
M. C. A, huts already in use at the
camp. The colored troops were given
a regimental reservation near tha
center of Camp Greene, and are now
well established in their new quars
ters. It is probable that several hun
dred other colored troops will be add
eéd to the population of the camp
during the early winger. '
Following close on/the heels of thae
statement that Major General Dick«
man had been ordered from Camp
Custer eantonment 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 frem Rattle
Creek, Mich., and stated without ress
ervation that General Dickman woutd
assume command at the local camp.
Brigadier ‘General Sweetzer wnsg
placed .in ‘command enly five days
ago, succeeding Cofonel Frank Jones,
until that date ranking officer at tha
camp with the United States ragu+
lars. Camp Greene, since it was
placed unier military regim® in Oc
tober, has had not less than seven
changes in its commanding officers,
Major Ggneral Liggett holding the
short record of less than twenty hours
as military head of the camp.
. .
|
$20.000 in Diamonds
Stolen From Hotel
(By International News Service.)
CLEVELAND, Nov. 27—A regis
tered mail package containing $20,000
worth of diamonds, the property of
the Yankhauser. Hewitt & Platt Jew
elry Company, of New York, was sto
len from the lobby of the Hotel Stat
ler last Friday, it became known this
afternoon. Police and detectives kept
the matter quiet.