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Atlanta Georgian. PHWj- I ipi I.I»P»IH l|.l THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. w mm mr*m. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Rates: One Year........ $4.50 Six Months ....... 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Eveiy Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. tt 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga. <2> * ~jr Entered ns second-class matter April S. l*04.st the Po«tntrie» at Attaat*. Ga.. under act of eoncreaa of March X UTt. Unleu thou find occaalon, hold thy tongue; Thyself or others careleaa talk may wrong. —Sir John Denham. Mr Joseph M. Jones left on Sunday to attend the commencement exercises of Princeton University. Ills elder brother, Mr. Robert- H. JoneB, Jr., graduates at Princeton on the 11th lnatant with high nnd well-deserved bonora. Robert H. Jonea held the first place In the Boys’ High school at Atlanta, from which h« graduated a few y<ars ago. Ho has held many responsible positions In Princeton during his college course. The merit of his uchfcvement rest* In the fact that Robert H. Jones, Jr., has worked hla way through Princeton with money which | lie made through hla own Individual efforts In Atlanta \ after he left the high school. Few young men have borne themsclre* 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 parurlta and his friend* upon the brilliant promise which these high and honorable achievement* afford of a noble and useful career In the future. President Cassatt has returned honu that thero la something to pay, and the In time to find water Is hot. The Vast Question of Immigration. Immigration looms large now upon the horizon of the south’s future aa one of the great problems which we in ut-grapple and utilise to the develpoment and prosperity of this country. The Washington Post, always one of the ablest and most thoughtful of American newspapers, has mnnl- f-Mod a very largo and wholesome Interest and enthusiasm In this question, nnd has laid tho South under ob- 11 Rations for the special evidence of the Interest which it baa manifested In this section. There are some very aerious and Important problems Involved In thla question of Immigration. In the first place, the South la confronted with great and menacing acarclty of labor. In tho factories, In inc fields, on the fsnas and In domestic employment the cry goes up top moro and better labor than we have tndi- 3fe With"our population of negroes, which in every state is nearly equal to the white population, and which In many states is largely in excess of the white population, we yet have a scarcity of labor In all the details of our sectional industries, while thousands of negroes are Idle In the smaller towns, and more particularly In the larger cities. This phase of the problem la being touched Upon very gingerly In some secUons, very timidly In others, and very Ignorantly In yet other bands. The truth of the business Is that the scarcity of labor Is not alto- gciher due to the scarcity of laborers, but to the unwillingness of natural laborers to do the work which they have been accustomed to do. The factories hnve not stolen from the farms the cotton pickers who havo (tesertod those fields of the staple, because tn the majority of cases the factory workers belong to the wblto race. It Is perfectly certain that domestic life and the kitchens have not robbed the cotton fields of tbo no- groes who have been accustomed to labor there. In Whatever degree these considerations may have diminished tin- lubnr supply of the country, It Is nothing less than true and honest to say that the present lack ot labor la iluo In large part— • First, to the Idleness and profligacy of the negro laborer; second, to the schools and educational Institu tions supplied by Northeh philanthropy which are educating the negro out of the cotton fields Into either tdlo loafing, or more pretentious avenues of endeavor, and third, the theories of social equality primarily 'and In- Inreatly taught by Booker Washington, and promulgated widely In the prints and publications of tbo negro race, which are destroying more and more In the negro the willingness to do manual labor In the fields, In the furtnries 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 ot the country. Whatever the cause, the fact stands that the negro la becoming lest and leas a part ot the Industrial, life ut tho South, and every year less Indispensable to bur Industrial and agricultural development And this by hla own fault and the fault of the system that seeks to lift him above his status and above hla capacities. Now, to supply this noed of laboe caused by the defection and the demoralisation of the negro, the cry i* piling up from every section of the South for Immigration, and that Immigration Is being sought from the countries across the seas x Tills Js natural enough, and In time past the developments of Immigration have been productive end ben- ellclal to the country. The danger, however, in thla line He* In the fact that the changed quality and nature of iin- immigrants who have of late years been coming to the 8outh, entails upon our civilization danger! and iimu-ultlea which are really ot greater menace than the deficiency of labor which they are meant to aupply. Time was whan most of our Immigrants came to this country from England, Scotland and Ireland. From i-.'O to ISOS seven million, two hundred and eighty-six thousand came from these countries, and gave ui a • sa of Immigrants who were homogeneous, helpful and productive to our national life. The tlmo was when th- Irish race was almost being transplanted from Ireland to the United States. Four million ot Irish lmml- giants came to this country from 1820 to 1902, and wo have never had anything hut good results from the Irish i lire. From 1820 to 1905 Germany sent to our country five million, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand liiiiulgrants, and our German citizens are among the soundest and thriftiest of our population. Scpndlnavla, • -insisting of Denmark. Norway and 8weden, furnished one hundred thousand Immigrants to the United States in 1882, and the Northwest has been enriched and fructified by these thrifty and admirable foreigners. But iim.-s have changed, and the sources of our immigration have completely altered. The Immigration from Eng land. Scotland and Ireland has fallen off more than 40 per cent. The Influx from Ireland has decreased 50 per lent, the German Immigration has decreased 35 per contend Scandinavia lent ui only 19,000 Immigrants In 1902 n gainst 105,000 In 1882. Now the 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 statement from recent statistics which Is simply startling along this line. « in 1809 the Immigrants from Austria. Hungary, Italy, Poland and Russia were about one one-hundredth of tin- number from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany and Scandanavla; In 1880 they were about one- ti-nth; In 1894 they were nearly equal, and In 1901 the Ipimlgratlon from Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Russia was three tlmee a* great to the United States as from the other countries just named, and during the l.-n i year nearly three-fourtha ot the one million twenty-six thousand Immigrant! which came to the United States came from these countries of southern Europe and from Asia. Tho menace In this situation lies In the fact that tba claaa of foreigner! who come to our country from those stormy, revolutionary countries ot southern Europe are so full of the anarohy, riot and lawlessnesi of the countries from which they came, that their presence becomes a menace and entalla another mighty problem iii>nu the civilisation which must amalgamate and absorb Into citizenship these alien and almost unasslmlla- bit- i;i< i-s who have no conception of our government and no sympathy with our Institutions, and whoae creeda ami i- cords are reeking with the lawleatnese which baa made Chicago and Pittsburg and other cttlee centers t>( m volution and of annrehy. The amalgamation ot these foreigners wjio represent almost the scum ot southern Europe, Is one ot the trcmnndoni problems of our civilisation. Fortunately for us, few ot them have coma to the South. Ot the 1.026.000 Immigrants who came to our country ls»t year, the commissioner general of Immigration eayn that 3ir>.5l l went to New York; 210,708 went to Pennsylvania,72,160 went to Massachusetts, 72,770 went to Illinois, 67.- 2fs went to New Jersey, nnd 49,361 went to Ohio, from which It appears that 707,000 or 76 per cent of the en tire number went to six states, while the Rocky inountsln region nnd the West received 48,561, and tha state* south ot the Mason and Dixon line received only 46,000 or 4 1-2 per cent. Of this number Maryland, West Virginia and Florida received nearly 9,000, Louisiana 5,000,.Texas 4,000, Kentucky 618, Tennessee 782, North Carolina 183, 8outb Carolina 328 and Georgia 618. The avoidance of the 8outh by these Immigrants, even of the Interior caliber, plainly Indicates that the shadow of the negro keeps Immigration from our shores, and that the peoplo of foreign races do not Ilka to come where 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. Wo cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the influx each year of hundreds of thousands ot Immigrants, unriiiulllar with our language, Ignorant ot onr manners and cuatoma, and without any conception of our govern ment curates a -stupendous problem which not only concerns the amalgamation of these divers races Into broad citizenship, but aleo the economic question at to how they can be cared for and controlled. One thing, at least, la clear to the South In this matter, and that la that It Is better for ut to have no Immigrants at all tn Dixie than to bare this undesirable breed ot anarchists, assassins and vice-breeding races which by the record contribute 60 to’ 70 and sometimes 80 per cent of the crime and vice from the locality In which they live. It la also clear that because the South needs Immigration and needs It badly, that Southern business nu n should vigorously impress upon their representatives In congress the necessity of euch restriction of for- ■■ini. Immigration ns wilt exclude from our shores the scum of Europe and the undesirable and lawless repre sentatives of these southern countries, and by rigid Inspection shall permit the landing upon onr shores only ut than* reputable and desirable peoples who we can amalgamate Into our civilisation and adapt to the Indus trial iii-velopment and glory of onr country. It Is the poorest of statesmanship and tho weakest of economy to bring to this country thoee whom we can never make part of It, and It Is better for us to go baiting and slowly Into the development ot tha future than to a<1d to our population elements that multiply and double the tremendous racial problem which we already ha\- on hand. But there Is a middle ground, and we know that If Southern senators and congressmen will clamor for the rigid Inspection by our consuls and immigration'agents abroad of every immigrant who seeks passage to these ►tmrei. we ought to be able by care and diligence to bring to the South such a claaa of people aa will make ua independent in our labor .conditions and prosperous beyond Imagination. We need euch pebpin of the better clans. The negro- has already drifted almost out of our Industrial lire- M ivt supply hie place with that class of Immigrants who will he assimilable to ourselves—Germans, English- men. Irishmen, Danes. Norwegians. Swedes and Frenchmen. We need them In onr factories, we need them on our fields and farms, and we need them and will need th, more and more to take the place In onr homes of thooe shiftless nnd shifting servants who are making •i -ii, stlc life almost an Impossibility to the women ot the 8outh. White eervants tn the homes are becoming ’-■-noet as great a necessity as better labor tn the fields and factories. The subject le too large to be treated briefly, and wn 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 the mind d li e heart of the South. j The Beef Poisoners Worse Than Morales. Tho civilized world which throws up It# 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 thoee magnate# of the beef triiHt in America, who are willing; to scatter their dis eased and horrible food through the home* of their fel low countrymen. The death list of Manuel Morale# was comparatively small, and it had at Irnst the explanation of a fanatical creed, In which one thought that he was punishing the enemies of hi# faith and order. But there 1# no possible explanation or mitigation of the unspeakable crime of the great rich corporations, already grown bloated with fullness and prosperity, and in the mere Instinct of human greed and stinginess will ing to scatter through the nation the germ and microbe of putrid diseases and of death. There Is no crime In history which In Its compre hensive scope of malignity can compare with the crime of the beef packers In their reckless and horrible distri bution through the ranks of millions of innocent fellow citizens. The punishment meted to the bomb thrower nnd an archists should be doubled and quadrupled when applied to those who are responsible for this unparalleled out rage upon law nnd humanity. Tnfortunately the punishment, if punishment be meted at all, will scarcely touch the thick hides of the selfish scoundrels who have done this cruel and re morseless thing. But there certainly should be framed a statute, which So the future* will reach, not only the pockets, but, if necessary, the necks of the monsters who are willing to j>oison a nation in order to pufT their own dividends and to line' their own pockets with filthy and taluted coin. Public sentiment should whip to a fall and remorse less retribution the movement that is now pending in our public life to bring these unspeakable villains to a sterner Justice than that which our present law provides. all these measures, while the broad court construction appears not to have been touched. Perhaps the most notable change is the omission of the “Jin: Crow" car provision. The negiv. members of the Republican party went Into something like «- panic when they discovered that the section providing “equally good service and accommodations to all persons paying the same compensation," opened the. way for the estab lishment of separate 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 KtriCKen from the bill. The negroes have won their point, but not before discovering that at heart the Republicans are as much opposed to riding with the negroes as ore tho iteoplo from any other section of the country. It Is hoped that the two houses will lose no tlmo In adopting the bill as reported by the conferee'?. There i3 a great deal of legislation which Is badly needed. The beef scandal has come to the front in such shape that there should be no delay In providing for the most rigid inspection laws, and there sve still other measure* which should he placed on the statute books. THIS DATE IN’ HISTORY. JUNE 5. 1465—Henry IV, kins of Castile, de- posed. 1568—Count d’Egmont and Count Horn beheaded at Brussels. m ||95—Battle of Fontaine, France. i ohn Henry H °UtnKer died. 1/23—Dr. Adam Smith born. 1783—First balloon ns, cnslon marl. Franco'" 1 ""' a ' r Bt Ann *>nay! 1798—United Irishmen repulsed at New n ->— with (treat loss. h evacuated Zurich. lalmed hla brother f Holland. roclaSmed her lnde. John D. Rockefeller, having regained hla health, de clared the other day that he no w “feels like a rich man,” and Immediately comes the announcement from Sarah Bernhardt, after snooting the chutes at Coney, that It mnde her “feel like a young girl." The Ducktown Case, The announcement In yesterday's Georgian that the supreme court of tho United States had overruled 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 Is one of the ablest and most thoroughly equipped members ot tho bar of tbo state and he has taken an absorbing In terest In the pending litigation. Judge Hart Is to be congratulated not only on his own high ability, but upon the wisdom with which ho chooses his assistants. The Ducktown case Is one of the most Important that has come before the supreme court of the United States In a number of years. Tho position taken by Iho court thnt It has jurisdiction to entertain applications for Injunction In cases Involving disputes between two states will have a. lar-reacblng 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 Is certainly entitled to relief from the disastrous fumes which are destroying the vege tation In a number of the upper counties of the state, and It Is hoped that this relief will bo speedy and complete. The efforts of the Chicago papers to show that the report on packing house conditions would be “tame" are not altogether successful. It Isn't tame enough to cat out of the hand of the beef trust, at any rate. A young artisan out In SL Louis engraved the entire alphabet on the bead ot a pin. By engraving people's names on the pins perhaps so many of them would not be Io»t every year. The Conference Rate Bill. The conferees of the house and senate have lost no time In agreeing on aa amended rate bill, and It-may be expected that the measure, ns It now stands, will soon become the law of the land. That Is to say It will bo entered on the statute books, for one of the amendments agreed upon Is to tho effect that the measure when It passes both housos, shall not become effective until the lapse of sixty days after It! passage. It muit be conceded that the senate bill baa not been greatly changed by the conferees and that aucb changes aa are made are manifest Improvements. The prohibition of passes la made clear and unequivocal; railroads are distinctly prohibited from tarrying commodities In which they have a proprietary Interest, except auch goods aa are for their own use; the penal sections, repealed by the bill Introduced by dear old Steve Elkins to protect his friends, and restored by the senate, are retained by the conference committee; the Interstate commerce com mission I* Increased to seven members, wtlh terms of seven years each at ! salary ot $10,000. - There will be but little queitlon as to the wisdom of 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 ot 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 ot him, and furthermore that the old man him self was anxious to conceal bis Identity because nn In dictment for horse stealing had been hanging over him for a number of yenra. When Miss Ida Tarbell wrote her scathing sketch of Rockefeller last year she told a great many unpleasant things about the father of the oil king. She told how “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 n ancer doctor 1 ' with that of horse trading, A picture of the old man was published at the time, which citizens of Freeport Immediately fecognizei as that of’Dr.” William Livingston, who not only resembled tho picture, but had all tho characteristics of tho elder Rockefeller. He made long trips from home, after pur chasing quantities of herbs at the local drug store, aud would give no account of where he had been. A further fact which lent color to tho 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 ing atock In that exclusive corporation was an impressive tact, and was commented on at tho time. To cap the climax, John D. Rockefeller refuses to throw any light on the question. He will not say whether his father Is still living, or. If dead, when ho died, or where. He simply preserves a significant silence on tho subject. The public has become Inured to tho cold-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 sible. a degree further tn tho opinion of the world and once more Justify tho scorn in which ho and his methods aro held. England Is at last waking up to tho beauties of baseball, and there are predictions that the national pushpin match known as 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 tho following table of tho cofored troops now In the service may bo Interesting: Colored Troops. In U. S. Army—Twenty-fourth regiment Infantry,' Ninth regiment cavalry; Twenty-fifth regiment Infantry, Tenth regiment cavalry. In National Guard of State*—ToUl 27. Connecti cut. one company; District of Columbfa, one battalion (four companies); Illinois, one' regiment (Eighth) of twelve comiwnles; Maryland, ona company; Ohio, one regiment (Ninth), four companies and hand* Rhode Island, one company; Tennessee, ouo company: Texas one battalion of three companies. ' Colored Officers In United States Army. Each colored regiment has a colored chaplain- one colored captain In Ninth cavalry (graduate of West Point); one colored lieutenant In Tenth cavalry one colored lieutenant in Twenty-fifth Infantry. ' After aH that has- been said and boasted In recent yean of the negro* proficiency as a soldier, this table marking such a steady decrease, will be both Interesting and Instructive. " 1799—Frenc 1806—Napoleon pi Louis king 1811—Venezuela | pendence. 1813—Battle of Ktoney Creek. Canada. 1826—Carl MarleVon Weber died. 1829—Branch of United States mint e>. tabllshed at St. Louis. 1833—Black Hawk and companions re leased. 1855—American (Know Nothing) conn, cil met at Philadelphia. 1857—Mutiny at Gawnpore, India. 1862—United State* congress i. nized Independence of Halt! and Liberia. 1864— General John C. Fremont accept ed presidential nomination and resigned from tinny. 1865— Galveston taken by the Federal!, last port to surrender. 1870—Great tire of Constantinople. 1873—Rattazzn, Italian statesman, died 1886—Maxwell convicted ot tho murder of Preller at St. Louis. 1888—Great fire at Hull, Ontario; 2,000 rendered homeless. 1894—United States senate passed sug ar trust bill. 1899—Frank Thompson, president of Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died. Hs Likes The Georgian. To the Editor of Tho 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 commendu- tlon from one of the unnumbered host of your admiring friend* may not be amiss. I subscribed to your Journal six or eight weeks before It made Its appearance, and to sny now, after read ing It regularly from Its Initial copy, thnt I am delighted with. It expresses my Sentiment 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 to without a parallel In Southern Jour nalism. The publisher Is a man of high Ideal, of noble purpose, of sympathetic na ture. He gets close to the people. We think he is eminently fitted for the work In which he Is engaged. The 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 Its great storehouse of knowledge sup ply in generous measure .the need of the hungry mind,, and may Its.rays of snnshlne “clear th’e darkened windows’’ of many sad hearts and homes. Yours very truly, E. PERCIVAL CLARK. Bethesdo, via Savannah, Go.,- June 1. A Chance for a Pa’rk 8ite. To the Editor of The Georgian. Tho matter of providing at this time for public parke and breathing places In the center of the city before the land necessary for tho same roaches a pro hibitory figure, suggested by the card of Mr. Rossjnan 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 at a very reasonable figure and for location nnd "lay of th* land’’ would make an Ideal park with but a comparatively small expenditure. This tract to bounded by Piedmont avenue, East Pine, Bedford place nnd Currier street, being approximately 650 on the west side, 1,200 feet on the south elde, 580 on the east side and 1,200 feet on th* north side. 7tM ja an approach from Piedmont avenuo about 120 feet wide, a street running from Forrest avenue Into this tract, nnd also a street I - East Pill.- si reel. The I;--. on this’ tract would add to Instead ot detract from the value of the land for park purposes. The city now owns ths southwest corner of ibis property, 160 by 200 feet, on which to located the Calhoun street school. The east line of the Sixth and Fourth wards divides this property. Here to an op portunity to acquire a piece of park property close In and at a low figure that will not occur again soon, U ever. RESIDENT SINCE ’ll. A TAINTED UNIVERSE. (A UNITARIAN PROTEST.) To the Editor of The Georgian: Dr. R. A. Toney's sermon ot Thurs day, May 17, aa atenographlcally re. ported under the direction of George T. B. Davis, historian ot th* Torrey-Alex- ander meetings, contains these words: -“There I* no love In helL I believe that one of the darkest experiences of that outcast world will be the way In which people who loved one another on earth hate one another down there." It seems to me that Dr. Torrey should ■Ire ua some 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 tn them. Now, Incredt. hie as It may be to th* orthodox, we Unitarians are Irrational enough to think that that good should be "saved” and not “lost" even In a theological hell; and we are wicked enough to T. P. A. VOTES THANKS TO THE GEORGIAN To the Editor of The Georgian: I beg to notify you that at s meeting of the board of directors of the Georgia division. Travelers' Protective Association of America- on the evening of June 2, a rising vote of thanks was tendered you for the strong editorial In a recent Issue of your paper In behalf of the traveling cent# 0t °* 0r ? la ln th * lr eftoru to obl * ,n Interchangeable mileage st 2 This editorial to greatly appreciated by every traveling <- ml. end thla vote of the bo£dSm<£ the aenUme™offvera"J* m2? of thla Association, aa .well M other traveling men In Qeorata. ** em . Tours very truly, J - H - ANDREWS, Secretary Georgia Division. of a second. To Illustrate: You die at midnight. Even though you have rejected Chrlat and are “loat," still at W* That no smallest quantity of )p>od Mom midnightjreu ’loved anywhereln God’, universe is to God SdSStvSI^no^U XdTtodSS but your Immortal soul to only two aeeonds older than It was when It had a negligible quantity. We ask, therefore, who to responsible for th* destruction of that love and the creation of that hatred? “The sin ner, by hi* own Ilf* end the rejection of Christ end salvation." the orthodox might answer. But the very orthodox Dr. Torrey to our authority for the as. sertlon that the sinner, tn spite of rhto rejection of Christ end salvation," did possess some love, and therefor* some goodness. That love, that good- ness. Dr. Torrey tells us, to destroyed after the sinner’s death. when hla life— his perfbd of probation and free-wtlL has ended. Who destroys It. or what destroys tt? Does death destroy ItT' Not if the soul to ImmortaL For the death of the Ibody to a mere Incident In th* life ot the eouL end does not interrupt thatl that goodness in It—that love for anl other. Has tt lost that goodness? If It has—It within one second after leaving what theologians are fond of calling “the poor sinful body," a man’s aoul changes so rapidly for the won* that love becomes hatred, w* should revise our notion of the relation of the body to the soul, and give credit to our bodies fbr much of our virtue. Instead of blaming them for moat of our vices. But tha soul does not change for the wore*. It to th* body that Tot* and not the souL Can hell destroy that goodness? Hell to either a place or a condition. If hau ls a place, then the mere transfer of a soul from one region of God’s unt life for the most lnrtnltesiim.il part vers* to another region cannot destroy whatever goodness may be In that aoul Goodness la not dependent upon sid ereal latitude and longitude. When Sa- JE**L!*8*»!»* ° r wen referred to by WS?" ‘o »m In heave* avll was evil In heaven* and goodness U tf In the dee ** Bt ot hells. If hell Is not a place, but a condition, any goodness existing in the sinner must stlU be preserved, Sr th« gSSd- <* * constituent pert of hla rondl- aVtiL, u J* * ,,er hl * con dition, and, on the hypothesis that hell l***" “ 1 * *° *’" r If there were such a thing aa helL not Satan himself could alter Us con- atltutloo. Hto duty In the orthodox hell to that af a stoker. God has never abdicated from any part of Hto unU *n(! orer that part made the deni an absolute monarch. If there were «fh * thing as hell. It would he JuT jNt to God a justice and goodness and be controlled by them. If there were auch a thing aa hqll, a Just and good ®! belt, a , Odd Fellowship in Gsorgia. 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 sec tion of the state. A striking feature of the convention was the large num ber of young men present. Within the live years Just past Odd Fellowship has mnde great strides Id the state, and conditions have Improved in a marvelous manner. Five years ago there were 123 lodges, with a membership of 6.TSS. Finances were at a low ebb. Today there ars 228 lodges, with a membership of 25.- 000. The finances of the order are In healthy condition; no bills outstanding. There has been a net gain In the number of lodges of 216, In membership "4S; foregoing fact* vverO obtained of Dr. T. A. Cheatham, of Macon, grand treasurer. Dr. Cheatham is nn enthu siastic Odd Fellow, exemplifying the tenets ot the order by Ills dally life and walk. ' Odd Fellows constitute the largest fraternal order In the world, having s membership of over 1,600,000, and an nually disbursing for the relief of sics and distressed members 24,500,000. God could never command that event evil In It should have a “thirst for the infinite" of evil, while every germ <>r vestige of goodness there should be ruthlessly destroyed. A hell, either as place or condition, wherever It might eternally exist or in whomsoever It might eternally endure, would be an eternal filth and Infamy. A hell would pollute God’s universe throughout all the poisoned course « eternity, and the universe of an so” good and all-powerful God would b« forever a tainted universe. JAMB8 J. DOOLING- 18 West Georgia Avenue, Atlanta, O*. P. S—Matt. 10:28, “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather f«r Him which to able to destroy hots soul and body In belt" . . „ to there anybody so orthodox that n* Interprets those words so a* to read- F**r Him (God) w hich to able to cor rupt and make viler and viler hot! soul ami body tn hell?—J. J. D