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tOL. H ■niisci iption $1.50 ■ir Colored Minister, Bjorn Kennedy, Speaks V |i|.,> to do oil the Sabbath (lay, (ll in iuni criticise most every! hint? H., |, v < r\ body else does on the Kab ■ ,1,, wo are endeavoring to de ■uiiiio just what is Sabbath day ob- Hviin.o la one section of our conn H|| is one thing and'in another sec |{l it is interpreted another way, and H,.wisc iii different communities and different people in communities. I liliody seems to lie certain of but ■, t |,ing, and that is, it’s the other Blow and not them. We have an I Lion from our local colored Pres- I lerian minister, Rev. Tom Kennedy, Ij s week and his interpretation I likes ns as being impartial to say I if least of it. Hhe writes as follows: 1 ■•What is the Sabbath? There was I r sahhatli of creation, the Sabbath I 1 Sinai and the Christian Sahhatli— I l 0 Lord's day. It is with the latter I at we are chiefly concerned. The ■riiif'e from the last to the first day B the week does not annul the Sab- Ittiili. The r.ord’s Day is the capstone |(* the law in the redemptive grace of ■liiist. It commemorates the greatest Bent of time and history —the resur- Kvtioii of Jesus Christ. Had that Brat event never taken place, Cluis- Bianity would long ago have been Rti-i in the dust of the years. The Die |tj of Christ is staked upon this one ■vent. Destroy the Lord’s Sabbath and ■mi weaken the belief in the risen ■onl. “The Sabbath is the basis of our elijrious work. It is a sacred day, set part for meditation and worship. The ay should be safeguarded for its in ended purpose and rightly used for lie bem fit of the individual oommun ty and the nation. What is Sunday. It s the first day of the week and ac oriling to the Constitution of the Jnited States, Article 1, Section 7, t is the weekly rest day in the Unit id States. In the face of this fact, we see so many places oxydized with vorldliness and indifference to its anetity. The failure of members of [■lunches to observe the day and at tend appointments of Divine worship is a plain fact in the ease with which io many leave home for pleasure or tusiness trips, giving little or no at tention to their obligations to the day s most discouraging. The Lord’s Sabbath is a hallowed day and should be spent for rest and worship and not for pleasure and rec reation. To violate the Sabbath by taking joy rides up and down the highways is just as bad as participat ing in games and amusements on Hie Dual's Day. We would lie struck w ith horror to pass a farmer plowing and hoeing his crops on Sunday, but the horror is in no wise lessened in see ing roads full of automobiles filled with Christian men and women liter ally flying along the public roads or to see men and boys spend the day on the ball field and golf links. The one is as offensive to the Lord as the other. "Some thirty years ago Isaw T a case hied in a North Georgia county court against a Seventh Day Adventist, who was accused of working in his field on Sunday. The state’s evidence was furnished by two witnesses. The de fansi counsel drew from one of the witnesses the fact that lie had passed *'}’ the defendant’s farm on that Sun day hunting hands to work on his own farm on Monday. The other was car- Ding a harvester machine home that iu‘ borrowed during the past week. All three were violators of the Sabbath day. hut the jury found the defendant guilty and the court gave him six months on the gang. I mention tills ease to show that because a number of People are doing wrong, it does not justify me nor you to do likewise.” REV. T. L. KENNEDY. Miss Virginia Pounds, left this week *" s l )e nd tier vacation from the South ern Business College, with her moth- P| > Mrs. L. J. Pounds, at Tallapoosa. ~a - Miss Pounds is one of our beauti ful and popular young ladies whom Urn social set refer to as Miss “Va, Us. Poosa, Ga”. Miss Clemmie Newton Willingham, eacher in the Leesburg schools, re hirned home over the week-end, where f- will visit her parents, Mr. and ‘i ,s - R. n. Willingham for several dais before attending summer school at Asheville, N. C. 3l)e Uochiak tUcorft Conyers Represented at the Golden Gate Mr. Eugene A. Summers, son of Mrs. M. C. Summers, and native Rockdale county hoy, has become enthused about the old home town after reading the Rockdale Record for these several months in fa at, he is under the im pression that Conyers must lie almost as large as Atlanta from the glowing reports broadcasted weekly by the Record. Mr. Summers is planning i mnke a trip hack home in early fall before our rapid growth and progres sive extensions shall have covered up every semblance of the old town. Well, Gene, old hoy, on your tour of the old town, we would suggest that you lake off from the court house and endeav or to find your way even to our Grand Central Railway station without Chief Nix as an escort. We present the fol lowing clipping taken from the Los Angeles Evening Herald of May 23rd: “Formal opening Monday of the new building in which more than 15,000 square feet will be devoted to show rooms and general offices of the Stew aijLWarnes Salijs Cos., and Alem'te products, marked another significant step in the progressive business ca reers of three of Los Angeles’ promi nent merchants. Located at 1101-1107 South Hope street, the spacious dis play quarters are arranged to give ef ficient service under most inviting conditions. The officers are C. A. Roeseli, president; J. W. Garner, vice president and general manager and E. A. Summers, vice president and sales manager, who for the past ten years have built the organization from a group of four employes to a payroll of more than ( seventy-five people, with twenty-five salesmen serving their four thousand outlets in Southern California, with bra’neh offices in San Francisco and Phoenix. Many friends were present to con gratulate the officers and employes of the company and the showrooms were banked high with floral gifts.” This sounds good over here Gene and comes in free of static, too. We have other boys and girls over on (he west coast, like Joe Paul Sims down at Long Beach, Mrs. T. W. Pyle, over at Berkeley, Mrs. C. L. McDaniel, up at Frisco, Idus Langley up at Phoenix and Mrs. Hattie Wallace Vernon at San Antonio, all of whom are doing well and readers of the Rockdale Rec ord. Congratulations to you kids out there. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald Move Back to Conyers Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Fitzgerald have moved back to Conyers after several months’ absence, during which time Mr. Fitzgerald traveled out of Hawk insville, covering the entire state. Mr. Fitzgerald will he glad to have his old friends and patrons call on him at Gailey’s, where he will he in po sition to serve them in their every dry goods need. Conyers is more than delighted to have Mr. and Mrs. Fitz gerald and son, Howell, hack and trust they will find it both profitable and pleasant in our midst. Honey Creek News Mr. and Mrs. Jim Watson motored to Stonewall, Ga., Wednesday. Mrs. Nell Loyd and two children are spending several days this week with Mrs. Bud Wheeler. Miss Mary Lou Johnson, of Atlan ta, sjient Sunday with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Watson visited relatives in Covington Saturday after noon. Mrs. Essie Treadwell spent Tuesday with Mrs. I>. L. Garner. Airs. Bud Wheeler visited Mrs. Jack Harwell Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thomas, of Oak Hill, called on Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas Saturday night. Mr. H. G. Moss and Mr. Edward Lackey spent Sunday with Mr. Willie Johnson. Miss Jeanette Watson spent Satur day night with Miss Ruby Watson. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Kirkpatrick visit ed Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kirkpatrick Sunday. Mr. Jim Watson and sister, Ruby, called on Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Reagan Saturday afternoon. JUNE Mr and Mrs. I. H. Rainwater and son Billy, of Madison, spent Tuesday in Conyers, visiting with Mr. and Mrs. L . v. Holman and Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Hicks. CONYERS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY. JUNES, 1929 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY m : ; ' L ’ pcl&f !■&£ 2P r k ■ Bd 1 1 La f| Hv Sms £yj| 1H . n . - j Gibson Hull and Joseph Towns, junior champions on Riverside Links. “Dan” Blankenship, club house manager and caddy master, is a great booster of these young men and is thoroughly convinced that these boys can lieut any com bination of seniors around these diggins. Charles A. Lindbergh Aggrevating to Us Some of these days Lindy is going to get lost and wont know it. We got something else to do beside hunt him all over American and we move that one of his wings he clipped so as to keep him in. We knew all along that lie and Aline would lie found in Mexico hut that’s not the idea. We got a let ter this week from his Mr. Guggen heim that reads like this. Editor Rockdale Record, Acting upon the rec ommendations of Charles A Lind bergh, the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics be gan a campaign last fall for the iden tification of towns and cities in the United State by roof markings as an aid to aerial commerce. To date, of the 7,500 towns recommended, only 5,- 500 have completed the identification and Conyers is one of the 2,000 that, has failed to comply by marking its name on too of the Georgia Railroad depot. The work and cost involved in roof marking are not large and in rec ognition of its value, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh has agreed to send a certificate of appreciation to the party or organization placing the roof mark er. We do not believe that Conyers is unwilling to make this contribution to aviation, but feel that its impor tance lias not been adequately present ed to your community and for this reason, we are asking for your cooper ation and assure you that it will be highly appreciated. Signed, Harry F. Guggenheim, Pres ident. Well, Lindy, old boy, since you have went and got married, you will not fly so high as that you cannot tell where you are and what you are there for hereafter. Imports and Exports of Boys and Girls Conyers -exports three times as many boys and girls as she imports. About the only imports are scattering school teachers and wives. When we quit importing teachers, our hoys will quit importing wives and marry their neighboring playmates. Among those exported who are returning this week for another trial, are Misses Mildred McElvany, Athens; Mary Granade, Mansfield: Maggie Mae Hudson and Hughie Hull, Winston Salem; Mary Frances Cowan, Elizabeth Guinn and Emily Hanna, Mißedgerille; Louise Tucker. Chamblee; Clide Mann, Deca tur; Elizabeth Almand, Camilla; Mary Maddox, Athens; Myrle Walker, Eat onton; Lucile Crumbley, Keanons ville; and Messrs. Quigg Tur-ker, Rome; Weyman Tucker, Columbia, Tenn.; Walker Potts, Athens; G. W. Hollingsworth, Atlanta; Bernard Maddox, Americus; Dowman Wilson and Marion Pharr. Waleska; and Dan Leftwicli, of Davidson. Mrs. Carl Walker and daughter, Dolly, returned over the week-end from Atlanta, where they spent sev eral days visiting at the home of her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Paul O’Kelly. Five Hundred Acre Horseless Farm Messrs. W. E. Hardeman, (J. S. Potts, Otis Hardeman, W. H. Gran ade and J. W. Cowan are in Macon today, along with hundreds of other men from over the state and a great host of harvester and cultivator rep resentatives, to take stock of the great five hundred acre Whittle farm that hasn’t a horse or mule on it. We can not imagine a farm in Georgia de pending entirely upon mechanical power. They will witness a Case and Holt Combine harvesting wheat, equip ped with a side rake and pick up at tachment that make a clean sweep of the harvest. Yancy Brothers will also demonstrate with a Towers and Sulli van heavy duty harrow and Faulkner Jr., 45 cultivator that cultivates seven rows at a time. John Deere Plow Cos. will demonstrate the effectiveness of several plows behind a tractor. The State College of Agriculture will dem onstrate with a “Pulverator,” a com bination plow made by the General Implement Cos., at Racine, Wis. Manager Garrison of the Whittle farm seems to get by beautifully with only two combination machines on his five hundred acre farm, cultivating seven rows at a time at a rate of about fifteen miles per hour. Well, our comment is, that since we have artificial iee, breezs, light, re frigeration and horses, we can under stand why a man an dwife appear so impersonal in their home life and con duct —they are becoming artificial, too. If Mr. Hardeman should see any thing down there today that lie under stands, lie agrees to tell ns about it. Rev. J. R. Webb and Family Visit Conyers Rev. and Mrs. J. It. Webb and lit tle daughter, of Wayoross, spent the week-end In Conyers, guests of her parents, Mr. and Airs. Tom Hicks, and other relatives. Air. Webb is presiding elder of the Waycross district in the South Georgia conference and one of the outstanding young ministers of his denomination. He strikes us as being a man of great power and ability. His approach and personality is pleasing and reassuring, which may account for IdS elevation so early in life to the position of presiding elder and in the leading district of all Georgia. They visited at the Baptist church Sunday evening with Air. and Mrs. L. V. Hol man. Anther Conyers Boy of Whom We Are Proud Mr. Charles Cannon, youngest son of the late Air. and Airs. R. H. Can non, who graduated three years ago at Georgia, received his Master's de gree at Columbia University, New Y'ork, this week, following a year’s travel in Europe and a two year post graduate course at the university. We understand Mr. Cannon is booked for an executive post with Birmingham College this fall. Southern Goodyear Day Planned for Conyers When the wheels of the new Good year factory at Gadsden, Ala., the first major tire manufacturing plant in the South, start turning, the name of Conyers might well he imprinted on them —to mark the expansion of a great major industry in the South. For Langford Motor Cos., local Good year dealers, are among the foremost in insuring the success of tlie big plant. This firm is joining with other dealers in (lie Atlanta territory to celebrate this new unit in Southern industrial progress by selling, in ad vance, an entire day’s output for th> If you slop at the Langford Motor Co.’s place of business, you will see it bedecked for the occasion. If you talk with any member of the organi zation, you will lie infected by the enthusiasm that the Gadsden plant has inspired. The Lagford Motor Cos. are all sol to go —on a one-day drive that will smash all tire sales records for a terri tory of this size. “We are going to make ‘Southern made tires for Southern-owned cars’ a slogan with a BUNCH,” says Air. J. F. DnVis. Tlio Gadsden plant is the fourth big manufacturing unit that The Good year Tire & Rubber Company lias pro jected in the South. A big textile mill 50,000 spindle capacity, has boon in operation for five years at Cedartown, Ga., and a so •ond 50,000 spindle plant at Roekmart, Ga., is nearing comple tion, and a third 50,000 spindle unit in the tire textile chain was recenliy purchased from the American Textile Mills at Ateo, Ga. Rev. Harry Holland Presbyterian Pastor Rev. Harry Holland, llie new Uros byterian pastor, a recent graduate of Columbia seminary at Decatur, lias ar rived and effective (Ids week, begins a joint pastorate of the Conyers and Smyrna churches. He will fill I lie pul pit at Smyrna each first and third Sunday and the Conyers church each second and fourth Sunday. Mr. Hol land is quite a young man and this is will hoard some where wijliin Jiis charge. Our young people seem to he some what excited over the fact that lie is a single man, but then we have had other ministers who were not mar ried and found that the excitement soon dwindles down to a very low ebb and everybody begins to like them. We have not met this pastor yet, imt re ports coining to our desk indicate that he is a most capable and likeable young man and Conyers is glad to have him and very proud of him. We wish him every success and a happy life in our midst. session of liis plans, l>ut presume he his first charge. We are not in pos- Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Tucker spent last week-end at Hapeville. guests of Iheir daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Brown Tyler. Popular at Home and Abroad Judge E. 1). Thomas, of Atlanta, Gives Banquet Judge E. D. Thomas, of the Fulton Superior court, who is also the most excellent Worshipful Master of the Masonic fraternity for the entire fifth congressional district and active civic leader tlironghoul the state, was ac companied to Conyers lasi Friday evening by his secretary, tin* lion. C. Percy Taylor, who is also Grand Scribe of the Grand Chapter of Cod eia, and Mr. W. B. Bishop, who is chairman of (lie finance committee of the grand lodge of Georgia, where a most excellent spread had been ar ranged for In advance by Judge Thom as complimentary to the Masters. War dens, Secretaries and Past Masters of Rockdale county. The banquet was prepared and serv ed by the ladies of the Presbyterian auxiliary, consisting of Besdamos J. W. Hollingsworth. 1- C. Downs, W. 11. Tucker. Q. W. White, J. E. McClel land. Harry 1,. While. It. 11. King, A. B. Wilkerson and Miss Jennie Joe Mc- Collum. in tlio banquet hull adjoining the American ’Theatre. Those present to enjoy the hospitali ty of Judgo Thomas, along with his two distinguished friends and support ers from Atlanta, were Judge J. H. Ir win, Col. C. R. Vaughn, Dr. F. C. Me daniel. W. B. Parker, J. M. Towns, J. W. Carter, Lonnie W. Walters, Dan Todd, Hurry L. White, Homer W. Ir win. Joseph Corley, Clius. K. Gailey, Jack Loyd. Edd L. Cowan, Dan 11. Patrick, Gist. A. Owens. Immediately after the banquet the body adjourned and gathered in Pliil ologia Lodge to hear Judge ’Thomas in his explanation of tin* objects of the proposed Rockdale county Masters, Wardens, Secretaries and Past Mas ters Association. The following officers were elected : President, J. M. Towns; vice presi dents, L. W. Watters and Joe Corley; secretary-treasurer. Geo. A. Owens. ’The by-laws adopted provide for four meetings annually. The object of the organization is cooperation in an ef fort to unify practices and public opin ion. There are three lodges in Rock dale county that go to make up the organization and are ns follows: Conyers: J. R. Irwin. W. B. Park er, J. IV. Carter, C. K. Gailey, M. 11. Plunkett, H. G. McElvany, H. L. White, F. C. McDaniel, C. It. Vaughn, H. W. Irwin. J. M. Towns, I>. 11. Pat rick, Edd L. Cowan, G. A. Owens. Mllstead Lodge: S. S. Whatley, A. A. Stewart. J. B. Stewart, J. W. Davis, D. E. McCluskey, L. W. Watters, R. D. Todd, S. L. Black. Zingara Lodge: Rev. J. J. Stephen son, ’l'. J. Loyd, ,T. F. Peek, J. L. Is lington, S. P. Piper, J. C. Corley and O. V. Piper. Preaching and Playing Golf Pastor Wagner, of the Congregation al church at Minden, lowa, says that the preacher who complains that golf is luring his members away from church, on Sunday is limiting excuses for his failure as pastor. Pastor Wag ner has his church full of golf de votees every Sunday morning. He plays golf with them in the afternoon and they in turn meet him at. church Sunday night in the evening worship, lie has a membership of l“. r > in a town of 100 people. Mis greatest, sermons are played. We know preachers whose greatest play is their sermon. He came to Minden four years ago, a big, strapping giant of a man, football player and skillful golfer and has taught his great congregation (hi 1 art. of playing golf and attending worship. His day’s work begins with a round of golf and then in pnstorial work, visiting (lie siek, meeting with the various auxiliaries and taking care of church affairs in general. It all began when he first observed liis men working hard every day in the week, then plan their Sundays so they could skip out of town for a visit iri the bigger towns nearby and other places that carried them entirely away and out of the life of loeal com munity interests. Pastor Wagner is earnest and sincere in ids preaching on Sabbath day observance and his wonderful congregation work, play and pray in unison. Mrs. W. A. Roberta entertained over the week-end Mr. and Mrs. Alberta King, of Avondale, Miss Lois Brock, of Atlanta, and Miss Foy Wilson, of Gainesville. NUMBER 20