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mmm THE A oeorgianT mmmmmmmmrnm Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga. One Year........ $4.50 Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Cirtier, per ueeV . IOc renad rises matter April 3, Ijna. at the Postofle. at Oa„ under act of congress of Uarrh X. t*7». Unless thou find oeeaalon, hold thy tongue; Thyself ob others careless talk may wrong. —Sir John Denham. Mr. Joseph M. Jones left on Sunday to attend the commencement exorcises of Princeton t’nlveralty. Ilia elder brother, Mr. Robert If. Jones. Jr., graduates at Princeton on the llth Instant with high and wall-deserved honors. Robert H. Jones held the first place In the Roys' High school at Atlanta, from which he graduated a few years ago. He baa held many responsible positions In Prtncelon during bis college course. The merit of his achlerement rests In the fact that Robert H. Jones, Jr . baa worked bis way through Princeton with money which he made through bis own Individual efforts In Atlanta after he left the high school. Few young men have borne themselves more highly and creditably both In the matter of application and character at home, and of attainment at Princeton, than this young graduate of the Atlanta high school, and we congratulate his parents and bis friends upon the brilliant promise which these high and honorable achievements afford of a noble and useful career In the future. President Cassatt ba* returned home In time to find that there Is something to pay, nnd the water la hot. The Vast Question of Immigration. Immigration looms Urge now upon the borixon of the south’s future as one of tho grest problems which we must grapple end utilise to the develpotnent end prosperity of this country. The Washington Post, always one of the ablest and most thoughtful of American newspapers, has mani fested a very large and wholesome Interest and enthusiasm In thla question, nnd has laid the South under ob ligations for the special evidence of tie Interest which It has msnlfeated In this section. There are tome very aerloua and Important problemi Involved In thla question of Immigration. In the first place, the South Is confronted with treat and menacing scarcity of labor. In the factories. In the holds, on the farms and In domeatlc employment the cry goes up for more and better labor than wo havo k today. With our population of negroes, which In every state la nearly equal to tho white populntlon. nnd which In^mny states Is largely In excess of tho white population, we yet hatfe a scarcity of labor In all tho details or our secUonal Industries, while thousands of negroes are Idle In the smeller towns, and more particularly lu the larger cities. This phase of the problem Is being touched upon very gingerly In some eectlons, very timidly In others, and very Ignorantly In yet other hands. The truth of the business Is that the scarcity of labor Is/ not alto gether due to the scarcity of laborers, but to the unwillingness of natural laborer! to do the work which they have been accustomed to do. The factories have not stolen from the farms the cotton pickers who have deserted thosa fields of the staple, because In the majority of cases the factory worker* belong to the white race. It I* perfectly certain that domestic life and the kitchens have not robbed the cotton fields of the ne groes who have been accustomed to labor there. In whatever degree these considerations may havo diminished the labor supply of the country. It Is nothing less than true and honeit to say that the present lack of labor la duo In large part— 1 First, to the Idleness and profligacy of the negro laborer; second, to the schools and educational Institu tions supplied by Nortben philanthropy which are educating tha negro out of the cotton fields Into either Idle Inn ling, or more pretentious avenues of endeavor, and third, the theories of social equality primarily and In herently taught by Rooker Washington, and promulgated widely In the'prints and publications of the negro race, which are destroying more and more In the negro the willingness to do manual labor In the fields. In the factories and In the kitchens, and are carrying him more and more either toward more pretentious lines of work, or toward Idleness and loafing In the towns and cities of the country. Whatever the cause, the fact stands that the negro la becoming lea* and I esc a part of the Industrial life of tire South, and every year leas indispensable to our Industrial and agricultural development And thla by hla own fault and the fault of the system that seeks to lift him above his status and above his capacities. Now, to supply this need of labor caused by the defection and the demoralisation of the negro, the cry Is going up from every section ot the South for Immigration, and that Immigration la being sought from the countries across the seas. This Is natural enough, and In Ante past the developments of immigration have been productive and ben eficial to tho country. The danger, however. In this lino He* In the fact that the changed quality and nature ot tire immigrants who have of late years been coming to the South, entails niton our civilisation dangers and difficulties which are realjy ot greater menace than the deficiency ot labor which they are meant to supply. Time was when most of our Immigrants came to this country from England, Scotland and Ireland. From 1S20 to 1905 seven million, two hundred and eighty-*)* thpusniid came from these' countries, and gave ui a ■ i.i-x of Immigrants who were homogeneous, helpful and productive to our national life. Ths time was when tin- Irish race was almost being transplanted from Ireland to the United States. Four million of Irish Imml- grants rnnto to this country from 1820 to 1902, and wo have never had anything but good results from the Irish i.kc From 1820 to 1905 Germany sent to our, couotry five million, one-hundred and elghty-aeven thousand Immigrants, and our German cltlsena are among the soundest and thriftiest of our population. Scandinavia, cihi kIhting of Denmark, Norway and Bweden. furnished one hundred thousand Immigrant! to the United States in 1SS2, and the Northwest has been enriched and fructified by these thrifty and admirable foreigners. But iliin-s have changed, and the sources of our Immigration have completely altered. The Immigration from Eng land, Scotland and Iraland hat fallen off more than 40 per cent. The Influx from Ireland has decreased 60 per cent, t ho Got mao Imiuigi.Uon has decreased 36 tier cent and Scandinavia sent ua only 19,000 Immlgranta In 1902 against 106,000 In 1882. \ Now tho sorrow of the situation la that while the influx from these wholesome, helpful and ^homogeneous countries Is falling off It Is leaping marvelously forward from the undesirable countries of Europe. Here Is a inurement from recent statistics which is simply startling along this line. in 1869 the Immigrants from Austria. Hungary, Italy, Poland and Rusala were about one one-hundredth of the number from England, Scotland, Ireland, Franco. Germany and Scandanavla;* In 1880 they were about one- tenth. In 1894 they were nearly equal, and In 1901 the Immigration from Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Russia was throe times ae great to the United States as from the other countries Just named, and during the Inst rear nearly three-fourths of the one million twenty-six thousand Immigrants which came to the United Stales came from these countries ot southern Europe and from Asia. The menace In this situation Uei In the fact that the dais of foreigners who come to our country from these stormy, revolutionary countries of southern Europe are so full of the anarchy, riot and lawlessness of the i-mintrlcs from which they came, that their pretence becomes a menace and entail* another mighty problem uimn tho clvfUsallon which must amalgamate and absorb Into cltlsenahtp these alien and almost unaaalmlla- hie raxes who have no conception of our government and no aympathy with our Institutions, and whose creeds and records are reeking with the lawlessneas which has made. Chicago and Pittsburg and other etttes centers of revolution and ot anarchy.. The anfalgamatlon ot these foreigners who represent almost the scum ot southern Europe, Is one of the tremendous problems of our civilisation. Fortunately for us, tew of them have come to the South. Of tho 1,026,000 Immigrants who came to our country last year, the commissioner general of Immigration says that 815.5U went to New York; 210,708 went to Pennaylvanta.71,150 went to Massachusetts, 72,770 went to Illinois, 67,- 268 went to New Jersey, and 49,361 went to Ohio, from which It appear* that' 707,000 or*76 per cent of the en tire number went to six states, while the Rocky mountain region and the Weet received 48,661. and the states south of the Maaou and Dixon line received only 46,000 or 4 1-8 per cent. Ot thlx number Maryland, West Virginia and Florida received nearly 9,000, Louisiana 6,000, Texas 4,000, Kentucky 618, Tennessee 782, North Carolina 182, South Carolina 128 and Qeorgta 618. The avoidance ot the Bouth by these Immlgranta, even ot the Inferior caliber, plainly Indicates that the shadow of th* negro keeps Immigration from our shores, and that tha people ot foreign races do not tike to come when- the negro Is the standard of labor and makes from the beginning an equality with themselves, which even the most remote ot foreign races reject and repel. We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that th* Influx each year ot hundreds of thousands of Immigrants, unfamiliar with our language, Ignorant ot our manners and customs, and without any conception of our govern ment ?reales a stupendous problem which jot only concerns the amalgamation ot thcae divers race* Into broad cltlxenahlp, but also the economic question as to how they can be cared for and controllad. One thing, at least, (a clear to the South In thla matter, and that Is that It la better for ua to have no immigrants at all In Dixie than to have this undesirable breed of anarchists, aaaaaslns and vice-breeding races which by the record contribute 60 to 70 and aometlmea 80 per cent of the crime and vice from th* locality In which they live. . < It Is also clear that because the South need* Immigration and need* It badly, that Southern business nidi Htould vigorously Imprest upon their representatives In congress the necessity of such restriction of for- olgu Immigration as will exclude from our shores th* scum of Europe and the undesirable and lawless repre sentative* of these southern countries, and by rigid inspection shall permit the landing upon our shores only of ilx-ie reputable and desirable peoples who we can amalgamate Into our civilisation and adapt to the indus trial development and'glory of our country. v It 1* the poorest of statesmanship and ths weukeet of economy to bring to thla country those whom we cxn I • rer nuke part of It. and it Is better for us to go halting and slowly Into the development of the future than to u I<1 to our population elements that multiply and double the tremendou* racial problem which we already r i on hand. But there la a middle ground, and we know that It Southern senator* and congressmen will clamor for the Tigm Inflection by our consuls and Immigration agent* abroad of every Immigrant who seeks r»fr»gr to these th we ought to be able by care and diligence to bring to the South aueh a class of people as will make ua Independent In our labor conditions and prosperous beyond Imagination. Wa need such people of the tetter class. The negro has already drifted almost out ot our Industrial life. " e must supply his place with that class ot immlgranta who wiU be assimilable to ourselves—Germans, English men., Irishmen, Danes, Norwegians, Swede* and Frenchmen. We need them In our factories, we need them on our field* and farms, and we need them and will need ti <-m more and more to take the place In our home* of those shiftless end shifting servants who are making domestic life almost an Impossibility to the women of the South. Whit* servants In th* hornet are becoming b i most a* great a necessity a* batter labor In the field* and factories. The subject Is too large to be treated briefly, and w* can only recur to It from time to time. In order to Impress both the necessities and the dangers which are Involved In this great question now‘stirring th* mind and th* heart of th* Bouth. The Beef Poisoners Worse Than Morales The civilized world which throws up Its hand* In horror over the fiendish crime of Manuel Morales, the bomb thrower of Spain, may well turn with a greater loathing and aversion toward those magnates of the beef trust In America, who are willing to scatter their dla eaned and horrible food through the homes of tbelr fel low' countrymen. The death list of Manuel Morales was comparative! small, and It had at least the explanation of a fanatical creed, In which one thought that be was punching tho enemloH of hla faith and order. But there ]h no ijobhIMp explanation or mitigation of tlie unapeakahle crime of the great rich corporation* already grown bloated with fullnea* and prosperity, and In the mere Instinct of human greed and atlmrlneaH Ing to scatter through the nation the genn and microbe of putrid dlncaKen and of death. There Jh no crime in hlatdry which In ltn compre Hive Hfope of malignity can compare wit:i the crime of the beef packers In their recklera and horrible dlatrl button through the rtuika of millions of Innocent fellow citizens. The punishment meted to the bomb thrower and an arrhiata should be doubled and quadrupled when applied to thoao who are rea|>oTi8ible for this unparalleled out rage upon law aud humanity. Unfortunately the punishment, if punishment be meted at all, will scarcely touch the thick hideB of the selfish scoundrels who have done this cruel and re moreeleBB thing. But there certainly should be framed a statute, which In the future, will reach, not only the pockets, but. if necessary, the necks of the monsters who are willing to poison a nation In order to puff their own dividends and to line their own pockets with filthy and tainted coin. ' „ Public sentiment should whip'to a full and remorso* less retribution the movement that is now pending in our public life to bring th^se unspeakable villains to a sterner Justice than that which our present law provides. John D. Rockefeller, having regained his health, de clared the other day that he now "feels like a rich man.’* and immediately comes the announcement from Sarah Bernhardt, after shooting the chutes at Coney, that it made her "feel like a young girl." The, Ducktown Case. The announcement In yesterday’s Georgian that the supreme court of'the United State* had overrated the demurrer of tho Tennessee Copper and Iron Company, should have contained the statement that associated with Attorney General Hart In the conduct of this Important case Is Special Counsel. Llgon Johnson, who has been In immediate charge ot the matter. Mr. Johnson in ono of the ablest and most thoroughly equlppoil members of the bar of the state and he has taken an absorbing In terest in the pending litigation. Judge Hart Is to be congratulated not only on bis own high ability, but upon the wisdom with which he chooses his assistants. The Ducktown case Is one ot the most Important that has come before the supreme court of tho United States In a number ot years. The position taken by the court that It has Jurisdiction to entertain, applications for Injunction In cnscs Involving disputes between two states will have a far-reaching effect, and already Special Counsel Johnson has received a number of letters from New York and elsewhere requesting his brief In the present case. The state of Georgia.la certainly entitled to relief from the disastrous fumes which are destroying the vege tation In n number of the upper counties of the state, and It Is hoped that this relief will bo speedy and complete. A youpg artisan out In St. Louis engraved the entire alphabet on tho head of n pin. By engraving people's names on the pins perhaps so many of them would not be lost every year. The Conference Rate Bill. The conferees of the house and senate have lost no time jn agreeing on an amended rate bill, and It may be expected thkt the measure, as It now stands, will soon become the law of the lead. That Is to say It will be entered on the statute bogks, for one of the amendments agreed upon Is to the effect that the measure when It passes both houses, shall not become effective until the lapse of sixty days after Its passage. It must be conceded that the senate bill has not been greatly changed by the confcoes and that such changes as are made are manifest Improvements. The prohibition of passes Is made clear and unequivocal; railroads are distinctly prohibited from carrying commodities In which they have a proprietary Interest, except such good* as are for their own use; the penal xectloni, repealed by the bill Introduced-by dear old Steve Elklnx to protect bis friends, and restored by tho senate, ore retained by the conference committee; the Interstate commerce com mission la Increased to seven members, wtlh terms of seven years each at a salary of 610,000. There will be but little question as to the wisdom of til these measures, while the broad court construction apiieara not to have been touched. Perhaps the mrmt notable change la the omission of the "Jin: Crow" car provision. The negro members of the Republican party went Into something like L panic when they dlacovered that the section providing "equally good service and accommodations to sK persons paying the same compensation,” opened the way for the estab lishment of aejuiratp accommodations, and In effect rec ognized the principle of the “Jim Crow" car. A delega tion called on the senators, and now we find that the conferees have yielded to the representations of the dele gation, and the objectionable paragraph has been stricken from the bill. The negroes have won their point, but not before discovering that ot heart the Republicans are as much opposed to riding with tile negroes as ore the people from any other section of the country. It la hoped that the two houses will lose no time In adopting the bill aa reported by the conferee:. There la a great deal of legislation which la badly needed. The 1 aeandal haa come to the front In such shape that there should be no delay In providing for the moat rigid Inspection laws, and there *v* still other measures which should be placed on tho statute books. THIS DATE IX HISTORY 3 1465—He JUNE 5. IV, king o 'HI*, de. 15 ^h^ded E irBroxx n eta CO “ , » or “ 1o95—Battle Fontaine, Franc*. Henry Hettinger died. 1723— Dr. Adam Smith born. 1783—First balloon ascension made Fiance heate ' ”' r at AW»m»y* 1798— t'nit«-.l 11 i-I,i-i..n Ross, with great loss. 1799— French evacuated Zurich, jctnlmed hie brother 1806—.Vapi I.Otll 1811— Venezuelt pendence. king of Holland. proclaimed her Ind*. The efforts of the Chicago papers to show that the report on packing house conditions would bo "lame" are not altogether successful. It isn’t tame cnottgh to cat opt of the hand of tho beef trust, at any rate. A Rockefeller Mystery. Announcement Is made that a man who recently died In Freeport. 111., was the father of John D. Rockefeller, and had been living for a number of years past under an assumed name. Some of the papers which have been discussing the matter make the definite charge that the aged man had been kept In obscurity by his son, because he was ashamed of him, and furthermore that tho old man him self was anxious to conceal his Identity because an In dictment for horse stealing had been hanging over him for a number of years. When Miss Ida Tarbell wrote her scathing sketch of Rockefeller last year she told a great mnny unpleasant things about the father or the oil king. She, told {tow 'Dr.” William A. Rockefeller had been shrewd beyond the bounds of honesty, how he had been a wild and reckless fellow all his life and combined the occupation of a ’cancer doctor” with that of horse trading. A picture of the old man was published at the time, which citizens of Freeport Immediately recognize! as that of ’’Dr.” William Livingston, who not only resembled the picture, but had all the characteristics of the elder Rockefeller. He made long trip* from home, after pur chasing quantities of herbs at the' local drug atora, aud would give do account of where he had been. A further fact which lent color to the theory that he was the elder Rockefeller was that ho cashed checks for what he said -were dividends from Standard Oil stock which he owned. The Improbability of such a man own- r g stock In that exclusive corporation was an impressive fuel, and was commented on at tho time. To cap the climax. John D. Rockefeller refuses to throw nny light on tho question. He will not say whether Ills father is still living, or, If dead, when he died, or where. He simply preserves a significant silence on tho subject. Tho public has become Inured to the pold-blooded- ness of Mr. Rockefeller, but If ho has Indeed kept his father In an Ignominious obscurity and left him under a cloud of suspicion during nil theso years, violating the primary laws of natural affection, he will descend. If pos- slblc, a degree further In the opinion of the world and onco more Justify the scorn In which he aud hla methods are held. England is at last waking up to the beauties of baseball, and there are prediction* that the national pushpin match known at cricket will soon be on the wane. The Negro in the Army. In tho matter of tho negro’s wearing qualities In the United States army the following table of the colored troops now In the service may be Interesting: Colored Troops. In U. 8. Army—Twenty-fourth regiment Infantry, Ninth regiment cavalry; Twenty-fifth regiment Infantry.’ Tenth regiment cavalry. In National Guard of State*—Total 27. Connecti cut, one company; District of Columbia, one battalion (four companies); Illinois, one regiment (Eighth) of twelve companies; Maryland, one company; Ohio one regiment* (Ninth), four companies nnd band; Rhode Island, one company; Tennessee, one company; Texas one battalion ot threo companies. Colored Officers In United Statei Army. Each colored regiment has n colored chaplain: one colored captain In Ninth cavalry (graduate of West Point); one colored lieutenant In Tenth cavalry- one colored lloutenant In Twenty-fifth Infantry. After all that has been said and boasted In recent year* of the negro’s proficiency as a soldier, this table an*d r torirocHve* decrca60 ’ wU1 be both interesting A TAINTED UNIVERSE. (A UNITARIAN PROTEST.) To the Editor of The Georgian: Dr. R. A. Torrey’s tqrmon of Thurs day, May 17, as atenogmphlcally re ported under the direction of George T. B. Davis, historian of the Torrey-Alex- ander meetings, contains these words: "There Is no lov* In hell. I believe that one ot the darkest’experiences ot thst outcast world will be the way in which people who loved one another on earth hate one another down there. - It eeeme to me thst Dr. Torrey should give u* mom# explanation of the trans formation of that love Into hatred. The damned, according to him. In certain cases at least, "loved one another on earth." Though -lost, - they diet then, with some good In them. Now, Incredi ble as It may be to tho orthodox, wo Unitarians are Irrational enouxh to think that that good should be "raved" and not “lost" even. In a theological hell; and we are wicked enough to argue that no smallest quantity of good anywhere In God's unlv * a negligible quantity. We ask. therefore, who is responsible for th* destruction of that lov* and the creation of that hatred? “The sin ner. by bis own life and the rejection of Christ and salvation. - the orthodox might answer. Hut the very orthodox Dr. Torrey Is our authority tor th* as sertion that the sinner. In spite of “his rejection ot Christ and salvatlon. - dld peases* some lore, and therefore some goodness. That love, that good- nea*. Dr. Torrey tells us. Is destroyed after the sinner’s death, when hts lire— hla period of probation and free-will, has ended. Who destroys It, or what destroys It? Does death destroy It? Not It the soul Is Immortal. For th* death of the body Is a mere Incident In th* life of the soul end does not Interrupt that T. P. A. VOTES THANKS TO THE GEORGIAN To (be Editor of Th* Georgian: 1 beg to notify you that at a meeting of the board of directors of the Georgia division. Travelers’ Protective Association of America, on the evening of June 2, a rising vote or thanks was tendered you for the strong editorial In-a recent Issue of your paper In behalf of the traveling men of Georgia In their effort* to obtain Interchangeable mileage CfttltB. at 2 This editorial Is greatly appreciated by every traveling man In the state, and tWa vote St the board voices th* sentiment of every member of this association, a* well ua other traveling men lp Georgia. Tours very truly, L U. ANDREWS, Secretary Georgia Division. To Illustrate: You die at midnight. Even though’you have rejected Christ and are "lost," still at „ on* second before ml,I night you "loved is to*Ood another on earth. - At one second past to uou m idnlgfct your mortal body is desd, but you* Immortal soul Is only two seconds older than It waa when tt had that goodnesa In it—that lore for an other. Has It loet that goodness? If It haa—If, within one second after leaving what theologtana are fond ot calling “the poor sinful body, - a man's soul changes so rapidly for the worse that love becomes hatred, we should revise our notion of the relation of the body to the soul, and give credit to our bodies for much of our virtue. Instead of blaming them for most of our rices. But the soul does not change for the worse. It Is tha body that rots and not the soul Can hall destroy that goodness? Hell ts either a place or a condition. If hell Is a place, then th* mere transfer of , . . a soul from one region of God’s uni- life for the moat Infinltestlmal part vers* to another region cannot destroy goodness may be to that soul. Goodness u not ilppendtnt ui>on aid. ereal latitude and lotSritSd" \Vh?n s2l tan, pure nnd untempted, In some wav » n h-. Ve rt5S5 Ulne<1 or ev#n *•&**•& to by ‘o *‘n In heaven, evil was evil In heaven, and goodness la goodness In the deepest ot hells. If *** 11 i* • tOare. but a condition, any goodness existing In the sinner mutt still be preserved, for that good- constituent part of hts condi tion. To destroy It Is to alter hla con dition. and. on the hypothesis that hell ra“r. n u d ri , M d "' r0r “ * alt " If there were such a thing as helL not Satan himself could site? Its cont atltutlon. Hts duty lu th* orthodox-bell Is that of a stoker. God haa never abdicated from any part of Hts uni verse and over that part made th* devil an abeolute monarch. If there were such a thing as hell. It would be sub ject to God « Justice and goodness and be controlled by them. If there were such a thing aa hell, a Just and good 1813—Rattle of Stoney Creek, Canada 1826—''ail MarleVi.n W'.-h.-i ,ii, ; 1829—Hram h .,f Full' .] Star. - tabllshcd at St. Louts. 1833—Rlaclt Hawk and companions re- 1855—American (Know Nothing) coun. ell met at Philadelphia. 1857—Mutiny at Gawnporp, India. 1862—United States congress recog nized Independence of Haiti and Liberia. 1864— General John C. Fremont accept ed presidential nomination and resigned from army. 1865— Galveston taken by the Federate last port to surrender. 1870—Great fire of Constantinople. 1873—Rattazzo, Italian statesman died 1886—.Maxwell convicted of the murder of Preller at St. Louis. 1868—Great fire at Hull, Ontario; 2,060 rendered homeless. 1894—United States senate passed sug ar trust bill. 1899—Frank Thompson, president of Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died. He Likea The Georgian. To the Editor of The Georgian. Although congratulations have al ready fallen In copious showers upon the heads of those In control of every department of your most excellent pa per. yet a word more of commenda tion from one of tho unnumbered host of your admiring friends may not be amlsa. 1 subscribed to your Journal six or eight weeks before It made Ita appearance, and to eay now. after read ing It.regularly from Its Initial copy, that I am delighted with It expresses my aentlment but mildly. It's a paper of the highest order, second to none In the entire South. The wide circula tion so quickly gained attests Its popu larity. The success of your enterprise la without a parallel in Southern Jour nalism. The publisher Ie a man of high ideal, of noble purpose, of sympathetic na ture. He gets closo to the people. We think he U eminently fitted for the work In which he Is engaged. Tho brilliant editor Is without a su perior. The Influence of his gifted pen, which Is never blunt, Is felt far and near. And now, with best wishes, let me say, long live The Georgian, and may it" great .-<l"i"h"0“i ,.f kni'Wb og. ply tn 'geseroqs me*sure the need of the hungry mind, and may Its raya o' sunshine "clear the darkened windows’ of many sad hearts and homes. ■■'{Yours very truly, E. PERCIVAL CLARK. Bethesdo, via Savannah, Go., June 1. A Chance for a Park 8ite. To the Editor of The Georgian. The matter of providing at this time for public parks and breathing placra In the center of the city before the land necessary for the same reaches a pro hibitory figure, suggested by the card of Mr. Rossman and your editorial of the 2d Inst., should not be allowed to drop, and In this connection I wish to call your attention to a tract of land In the thickly populated part of the city, which, I am Informed, can be pur chased now nt a very reasonable figure nnd for location and "lay of tho land” would make an Ideal park with but a comparatively small expenditure. This tract ts bounded by Piedmont avenue, East Pine, Bedford place nnd Currier street, being approximately 650 on the weet side, 1,200 fret on the south sld% 6(0 on the cast side und 1,200 feet ol the north side. Thera Is an approach from Piedmont avenue about 120 feet wide, a street running from Forrest avenue into this tract, and also s street from East Pino street. The targe hill on this tract would add to Instead ot detract from the value of the land for park purposes. The city now own* the southwest corner of this property, 160 by 200 feet, on which 1* located the Calhoun street school. The esst line of the Sixth and Fourth wards divides this property. Here ts *n op portunity to acquire a piece of park property close In and at a low figure that will not occur again soon. If aver. RESIDENT SINCE ’41. Odd Fellowthlp In Gtorgla, To the Editor of The Georgian: The recent convention of the Odd Fellows of Georgia at Augusta was no table In many respects. It was an emi nently successful convention, attended by representative men from every lec tion of the state. A striking feature of the convention was the large num ber of young men present. Within the five years Just past Odd Fellowship has made great strides In the state, and conditions have Improved In s marvelous manner. Five years ago there were 122 lodges, with a membership of 6,783. Finances were at a low ebb. Today there are 3.15 lodges, with n membership of 36,- 000. The finances of the order are In healthy condition; no bills outstanding. Tilio •• lias I" i n a net gain : number ot lodges of 215, In membership 11,217. _ The foregoing facts were obtained of Dr. T. A. Cheatham, of Macon, grand treasurer. > Dr. Cheatham Is an enthu siastic Odd Fellow, exemplifying the tenets of the order by his dally life and walk. Odd Fellow* constitute the largest fraternal order In the world, having a membership of over 1.500,000, and an nually disbursing for the relief of sic* and distressed members 94,600,1)00. God could never command thst svery evil In It should have a "thirst tor th# Infinite” of evtL while every germ or vestige of goodness there should b* ruthlessly destroyed. A heiL either as place or conditio". wherever it might eternally exist or I" whomsoever It might eternally etwure. would be an eternal filth and Infamy. A hell would pollute God's unlverie throughout all the poisoned course or eternity, and the universe of an all good and all-powerful God would OS forever a tainted universe. JAMES J. DOOLING 16 West Georgia Avenue, Atlanta, G*- P. S.—Matt. 10:28. "And fcar o’; them which kill the body, but ***"■’! able to kill the soul, but rather fear Him which Is able to destroy bot» soul and body In hell.” I- there jtnvb'elv ..rth.xl \ ‘ Interprets those words *o as to re*“ : Fear Him (God) which I- able tocef’ rupt and make viler and viler Wt* ' ind bod;, in hell?—J. J. D.