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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
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The Sourdough Hotel
tF YOU’VE ever been to Alaska
I you probably thought friends it to was write a
pood joke on your of
letter to them on the stationery
a Sourdough hotel.
the Sourdough hotel is located at
The and among the
louse Tricle avenue
rules are these: towels
changed weekly; spiked shoes must
be removed at night; anyone trou¬
bled with nightmare will find a hal¬
ter on the bedpost; don’t worry
about paying your bill—the house is
supported by its foundation.
This hotel was the creation of a
young newspaper man named E. J.
White who went to Alaska during
the gold rush of 1898. The primitive
living conditions in the boom camp
of Dawson appealed to his sense of
humor so he had printed several
hundred sheets of stationery for his
Sourdough hotel.
The gold seekers, seeing _ in this a
chance to play a joke on the folks
back home, eagerly bought his sta¬
tionery at $2 a dozen sheets. White s
clever foolery landed him a job on
the Klondike Nugget and started
him on the career which has made
the name of “Stroller” White fa¬
mous. He’s still a newspaper man,
publisher of the Juneau Strollers
Weekly, and tourists in Alaska are
still writing letters back home on
the stationery of the Sourdough
hoteh . , *
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“Enigmatical Prophesies”
TIT'HEN purchasers of “Poor
W Richard’s Almanac” for the
year 1736 opened their copies of
that household necessity, some of
them, no doubt, were considerably
alarmed when they read in it cer¬
tain “enigmatical prophecies.” For
“Poor Richard” (otherwise known
as Benjamin Franklin) solemnly
predicted that during the coming
year many of America’s greatest
cities would soon be under water,
that a certain power with which
the country was not at war would
take great numbers of vessels fully
laden out of the seaports of the
country, and that an army of mus¬
keteers would land in this country
to annoy the inhabitants. Further¬
more he promised to reveal in the
next issue of his “almanack” the
proof of these statements if his
readers were not aware of these
events when they happened.
So they had to wait patiently for
a whole year to learn the answers
to these enigmas. But, true to
“Poor Richard’s” promise, the 1737
issue of the almanac did contain the
answers.
The water which had covered the
great cities was that of the sea and
the rivers, raised by the sun in the
form of vapor, then descending upon
the cities as rain. The power with
which the country was not at war
was the wind which did indeed
“take great numbers of vessels fully
laden out of the seaports of the
country.”
As for the army of musketeers
which would land to annoy this
country’s inhabitants, they were
mosquitoes. For “everyone knows
they are fish before they fly, being
bred in the water; and therefore
fore may properly be said to land be¬
they become generally trouble¬
some.”
• • •
“Exaltation,” nee “Yes,
We Have No Bananas”
WHEN Mrs. Sarah Smith exhib-
ited one of her paintings at
Claremont, Calif., and the art crit¬
ics dismissed it from consideration
as being “distinctly of the old
school,” her husband, Paul Jordan
omith, an author and minister who
considered his wife an accomplished
painter, resolved to get back at
those supercilious “experts.”
Several months later an art ex¬
hibit in Boston included four paint¬
ings by “Paval Jerdanovitch,” who
was called the “supreme master of
tiie uisumbrationist school of paint¬
ing. They were named “Aspira-
tlon - “Adoration,” “Exaltation”
and “Illumination.” In the cata¬
logue was this statement by their
painter, “To those that realize that
leal art depicts not what we see,
ut what we feel, hear and smell,
r,ese soul-revealing creations will
,
e s °urces of ecstatic, moronic rap¬
, ture.”
i bis e ultra-modernist critics looked
paintings, nodded sagely and
•.ered many laudatory comments
Cn “the rise of a new star in the
rt firmament.” Critics in New
y or * and Chicago, where the paint-
mgs were later exhibited, agreed
Wl «i them, until
...
Pavel Jerdanovitch” was re-
v e aled as Paul Jordan Smith of Cal-
r*°rnia f who said
that he had bor-
r ° 6 1 ? some °* his wife’s canvases
and j , “just slopped f
on a i 0 t 0 p a j n t.”
t or instance, “Exaltation,” the
mast tamous of the four, had been
and Cd ‘| e had 4 "Yes, been We used Have No fire Bananas,”
hls as a screen
; n home. Smith had produced
“ e lcSe ultra-impressionistic pictures,
:; said, “without the slightest
'nowledge of painting, just to prove
•at most art critics don’t know
what they’re talking about.” Ap¬
parently ionic”* 16 some of °f them the also word didn’t “mo-
mean * n 8
The Muscogee County Commission
has approved a $2,000 home exemp¬
tion as provided by constitutional
amendment.
Approximately 50 pecan growers
from Georgia, Alabama and Florida
met at Albany recently for a pecan
field day program.
Civilian Conservation Corps en-
rollees, 1,427 in number, were en¬
listed in Georgia during the first
nine days of this month, it has been
announced.
Peas and pimiento peppers as
money crops are seen for another
year in Wilkes County, as farmers
make informal commitments for
certain acreage.
A group of east Georgia farmers
at Greensboro recently proposed the
withdrawal of 8,000,000 bales of 1937
cotton from the market to boost
sagging prices.
Special instruction in Georgia’s
public health problems will be given
school children of the State under
a new plan worked out by the De¬
partments of Health and Education.
Clyde C. Morris and Boyd Ellison
are the new owners of the Dooly
County Citizen. They bought it
from John M. Gilbert, who had
owned and managed it since last
March.
J. E. Brim, prominent Terrell
County farmer and business man,
and vice president of the Dawson
Cotton Oil Company, will head the
Dawson Kiwanis Club for the en¬
suing year.
A decrease of 1,000 persons on
work relief rolls at Augusta is re¬
ported by M. S. Harrington, resident
WPA engineer. There are at pres¬
ent 1,739 on work relief rolls of
Richmond County.
The State Highway Department
will use cotton fabric in the con¬
struction of twelve miles of high¬
way soon, as part of a national cam¬
paign for such construction, Gover¬
nor Rivers has announced.
The Arlington Lions Club will
sponsor a four-day Calhoun County
Fair in Arlington, beginning Wed¬
nesday, October 20, and ending on
Saturday. This will be the first fair
in Calhoun in many years.
Dr. Charles A. Hodges, commander
of the J^aurens County post of the
American Legion, announces that the
premium list has been completed for
the county fair, sponsored by the
Legion, which opens November 1 in
Dublin.
Richmond County dairymen have
voted to join the state milk control
organization by almost a 16-to-l ma¬
jority. It was the second vote on
the question there, the first having
resulted in defeat for those sponsor¬
ing the plan.
The Georgia executive committee
of the Georgia Federation of Post
Office Clerks held two business ses¬
sions at Macon recently, during
which a two-year membership drive
was mapped. Hower W. Smith, of
Atlanta, presided.
Mrs. Charles Crisp has been elect¬
ed chairman of the reorganized
Sumter County chapter of the Amer¬
ican Red Cross. The annual roll
call will be held October 25 and 26.
Mrs. R. C. Jones is vice chairman
and the Rev. Joseph S. Cook is sec¬
retary of the organization.
Tom Arnold, editor of the Canton
Tribune, recently carried a splendid
editorial in his paper thanking the
citizens of Cherokee County for their
wholehearted support of the Amer¬
ican Legion’s carnival held in Can¬
ton by Post No. 45 to raise funds to
buy flags fcr the schools of the
county.
Saturday, October 9, was one of the
biggest days of the Southeastern
Fair, held in Atlanta October 9-16.
This was editors’ day, and on which
occasion the editors of the State,
including their families, were enter¬
tained with the various attractions
of the fair, including the Atlanta
Centennial, which was displayed
from the time of the birth of Atlanta
up to the present. Mike Benton,
president of the fair association, left
nothing undone to make this the
most attractive of all events, and
which will continue nightly through¬
out the fair.
In the election held recently in
Newton County to determine the
fate of the proposed new upper
Ocmulgee River soil conservation
district the project carried by a vote
of 113 to 95, it is learned through
unofficial sources. A surprisingly
Email vote was cast in Newton in
view of the importance of the project.
Settlers of the Pine Mountain
alley rural rehabilitation project
have expressed the hope that Presi¬
dent Roosevelt would visit them
again on his Thanksgiving trip to
Warm Springs, to see the products
of their toil.
Cumming Harris, assistant post¬
master of the August postoffice for
the last 24 years, died at his home
there last week after an illness of
seven months. His death follows
only a few weeks after the demise
of Thomas J. Hamilton, postmaster
at Augusta, who for many years was
editor of the Augusta Chronicle.
DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1937
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
ruNDAy Ochool | Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for October 17
CHRISTIAN SPEECH AND
CONDUCT
LESSON TEXT—James, Chapter 3.
GOLDEN TEXT—Let no corrupt com¬
munication proceed out of your mouth.—
Ephesians 4:29.
PRIMARY TOPIC—The Words I Say.
JUNIOR TOPIC—A Bridle on the Tongue.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Christian Speech.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Christian Words and Works.
Christian speech and conduct may
well be studied in the book of
James, for he stresses the impor¬
tance of works as demonstrating
faith. There are two common er¬
rors—one is to attempt to be justi¬
fied by good works apart from faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ—the other
is to talk about believing in him
and then fail to live in accordance
with one’s profession. Some have
assumed that James fell into the
former error, urging works as a
substitute for faith, but an intelli¬
gent reading of his epistle clearly
indicates that he is in no sense con¬
tradicting the Scripture doctrine of
justification by faith, but is show¬
ing that professed faith which does
not result in Christian living is in
reality a dead and useless thing.
I. Christian Talk (vv. 1-12).
As he enters upon his searching
and convicting discussion of the
tongue and its misuse the writer dis¬
tinguishes between
1. Two kinds of talkers (vv. 1, 2).
a. “Teachers” (v 1.) who have a
peculiar responsibility because they
stand as the representatives of God
at the sacred desk. It is not a
place to be sought after, and the
man who fills it at God’s call needs
divine grace and direction that he
may speak the truth.
b. “We all” (v. 2). The speech
of every one of us counts either for
or against God, even though we
may not fill the teacher’s chair or
stand in the pulpit.
2. A single danger (w. 3-12). All
of us have the one danger—lack of
“tongue-control.” Developing that
thought the text first points out that
a. Powerful things need control
(w. 3-5). The horse is a wild and
useless animal without the directing
and restraining bit. A ship without
a rudder will be lost. A tongue
needs direction and control, for
while a little thing, it is tremen¬
dously powerful.
b. An uncontrolled tongue is dan¬
gerous (vv. 6-8). How vivid is the
imagery of the words before us. A
fire spreading and destroying, an
untamed animal running wild in all
its fury, a deadly poison eating
away the life—such is the uncon¬
trolled tongue.
We recognize the truth of these
things. We see how vile and care¬
less speech debases man, how words
chosen for their power to destroy
pour forth from the press, over the
footlights, from man to man and lit¬
erally “set on fire the course of
nature” (v. 6).
c. An uncontrolled tongue is in¬
consistent (vv. 9-12). Again the fig¬
ure is striking. The fountain which
pours forth fresh pure water to sus¬
tain life does not at the same time
bring forth the bitter brackish wa¬
ter. Fig trees do not bear olives,
vines do not bear figs. Nature is
consistent and dependable.
But the tongue—ah, that is an¬
other matter! How sadly do we
confess our failure, for here do we
“offend all” (v. 2). We bless God,
and defile and destroy man, with
the same lips. “These things ought
not so to be” (v. 10).
II. Christian Walk (w. 13-18).
The word “conversation” in v. 13
is an English word which now
means “talk” but which formerly
meant “manner of living.”
1. Words and works must agree
(w. 13,14). It is only right that
those who speak of following Christ
should prove it in their manner of
living. Talk may be smooth and
broad in its claims, but the demon¬
stration of its reality and honesty is
in the daily walk. This calls for
wisdom which is divine—earthly wis¬
dom will not suffice.
2. Earthly wisdom is false (w.
15,16). There is a wisdom apart
from God. Men of the world are
brilliant and able, but scrutinize
their wisdom and you will find that
it is “sensual”—that is, of the
senses—or natural as distinguished
from spiritual. All too often it is
downright “devilish” (v. 16).
3. True wisdom is from above (w.
17,18). Undefiled, unselfish, uncom¬
promising, but not quarrelsome or
stubborn, impartial and sincere—
end “full of mercy and good fruits”
—such is God’s wisdom for the
Christian’s life.
Strength Unto Strength
The strength of a man consists in
finding out the way in which God
is going, and going in that way too
—Henry Ward Beecher.
Physical and Spiritual Growth
We develop physically by acquir
ing for ourselves; but spiritually wc
develop 'ey giving to others.—Rut
ledge.
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A wise man will make more op
portunities than he finds.—Bacon.
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