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About Wilkinson County news. (Irwinton, Ga.) 1922-2008 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1925)
The Wilkinson County News SWINTON. GEORGIA. xSditor ami Publisher u. mUBBARD Found > and < Editor. —-«i Orgar, Wilkimon entered at the Post Office at Irwinton, , —x' the Act of Congress of March 3rd.. 1879. as second class mail nv- «er. Subscription: One Do lar per Year Payable in Advance CRIMES PER SE AND CRIMES PWHIBTUM (By Eli B. Hubbard.) There are only two kinds of crimes known to the law. They are crimes per se and crimes prohib tum. To illustrate: Crimes ner se consist of such c . i. - .t . ' arson, stealing, rape etc. etc. Acts which are within themselves evil. Crimes pro hibtum consists of such as killing a bird out of sea son, fishing out of season, drinking wkiskey, mak ing it and having it in your possession etc. etc. Conditions and circumstances influenance the law making bodies of this nation to make certain acts criminal. Crimes per se have been caimes since the time of Moses, but crimes prohibitum have receiv ed their growth and have became very popular with the American people only in recent years. Especi ally xS this true concerning the making, drinking and having and possessing whiskev. The making of whiskey is not conduct within its self that is evil. It is no more evil to make whiskey than it is to make turpentine, syrup, preserves, vinegar or any other distilling op canning or cooking process. But the public say that the evil results that flow from the use of it after it has been made, reverts back to the act of making it and it becomes evil abnitio. We have never been able to fully make up our mind on this question, and the longer we live, and the greater our experience and observatirn so the dis crimination, the injustice, andthe abuse of this law by those in authority, the enormous expence that the State, the nations and the several countries in cur in its unjust enforcement, the lives that are lost, the little children that are made orphans and the wives that are made heartbroken by its enforce ment we get further and further from making up our minds. There is one thing however that our mind is absolutely made up on, and that is this: That the legislature that made conduct of this kind a felony and thereby placed a man in the Pennen tentary for four years for the same offence that W. M. U. Holds Meet The regular Monday meeting of the W. M. U. of the Gordon Baptist church, which is “Social meeting, ’ ’ was held at th church Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock. A delightful was renderd by Mesdames Ward and Helton. Music was rendered by Mrs. W C. Gibson. The program was as follows: The topic for the afternoon be ing “Thanksgiving “ Hymn, Revive us again. Prayer oy Mrs. West Brooks. Devotional by Mrs. Brooks and Miss Eubanks. Reading of the Devotional by Mrs. Will Brooks. Hymn No. 48 Reading, What makes Thanks giving, by James Helton. Duet, by Mesdames Helton and Ward. Reading, Thanking God for our Missionaries, by Cathryn Settles. Prayer, That we may have Thankful heartsjto our Heavenly Father, by Mrs. Beck. Poem, by G. A. girl, Mabelle vMxi 1.. -1 - ' x .-axing Vruu iui xlxo U.iiamilg goodness to US. Hymn 55 Benediction by Mrs. White. During the afternoon Thanks giving offering were placed in a beautifully decorated basket for an orphan. The offering for the afternoon amounted to $20.06 After the program the ladies were ushered into the B. Y. P. U room where they were served de licious refreshments by Miss Cathryn Settles, Mabel Gladdin and Grace Shepherd and Master James Helton. We were glad to have had with us for the occasion Miss Eubanks one of the State Sunday School workers.' some of the members thereof were perhaps gvilty of aiding and abetting is wrong in its entirety, and it should be repealed. This statement may not be pupular with some. The truth is never popular! THE PUNISHMENT OF CONvICTS The investigation recently made by the legis lative committee of Georgia reveals the fact that we have a system in some of the counties of the State in punishing prisoners that is far more inhu mane than the lash. We saw the picture of a stock used by some of the chain-gangs in the State in which the prison ers were punished, and as we looked at this brutal method of punishment we asked ourself is Georgia a civilized state, to permit such barbarous methods of punishment? It has been published that some of the counties permit their wardens to smear molasses on the sac es of the unfortunate prisoner who is thus punish ed and while in this helpless condition the flies are attracted to the molasses and the prisoner being helpless is forced to sit in this position while hun dres of flies gather on his face. My God, are the people of this degrading into savages! We believe that some form of punishment should be me ted out to those who have violated the laws of the State and have been convicted and be come ungovei nable and refuse to work out their sentences, but such barbarous methods should not be tolerated by an enlightened people. We are reasonable enough and try to be broad enough to see both sides of all public questions, We know that there are certain criminals confined in the penitentiary who become unruly and ungov ernable by those in authority and that some meth od of punishment is essential to subdue those'hard ed criminals and compel them to obey the rules of the prison, but such barbarous methods as those re ferred to above there is certainly no justification We believe that the moderate use of the lash is the most humane method of punishment that could be ! used by the prison department. No man would 1 want to be lashed, and when the prisoners knew that the lash would be used for gross infraction of tae rules we beneve that there would be less in fractions and certainly better labor performed by the prisoners. It is a most unfortunate position to be placed in life for a man to be tried and convicted for a crime, and be sentenced to the chain-gang, and there be forced to labor for a fixed period of time, and while in this unfortunate position he is entitled to at least civilized protection by those in whose power he is placed. Measurement of the force ex erted by waves upon the sea shore show that during a gaie the waves sometimes strike a blow of 6,000 pounds to the square foot. This makes it easy to see why the sea is continuously encroaching up on the land and why each year the waves eat the way a little further into the shore line. THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH Will the South join in financing its own railroad needs? Southern capital is being invested in many new enterprises along the lines of the Southern Railway System. An even greater gain in production and prosperity in the South in the next ten years than was witnessed in the last ten seems inevitable. But industry can expand no faster than the railroads that bring fuel and raw materials, and carry the finished prod ucts to the markets of the country. Money must be invested in railroads as well as factories, if industry is to be efficiently served. • That much of this new railroad capital should come from the South itself seems a natural result of the growing invest ment wealth of the South. I SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM Get your Fruit Cake ingredients at Smith Mercantile Co., Gordon Ga., Telephone No., 20, for Delivery Ser vice. If you once eat our home-made Pork Sausage, you will always eat it. Made fresh daily. Phone us for an or der. Smith Mercantile Company. Professional Cards I F. S. English Fire and Life Insurance Insure Your Property with me. Gordon, Ga. Jno. T. Stokes Great American Hartford, Prudential X FIRE INSURANCE Gordon, Ga. Eli B. Hubbard Atoorney at Law Practice in all State CotaK IRWINTON, GA. Jos. A. Moore Funeral Director and Scientific Embalmer. Milledgeville, Ga. 121 W. Hancock Street Dr. E. D. Gleason 464 Plum Street Licensed Veterinary Surgeon. Treats all Sick and Crippeld Domestic Ani mals. Disease* of Dogs a Specialty Macon, Georgia Dr. J. T. Mills Physician and Surgeon Office Upstair* Post Office Building Toomsboro, Ga. Winfred A. Ryle Attorney at Law 513-14 Bibb Building MACON, GEORGIA. Dr. A. Durward Ware Physician and Surgeon. Office in Drag ore. Toomsboro, Ga. DR. J. B. HELTON Dentist Office at Residence Gordon — —- — Georgia Evans & Brookins Physicians—Surgeons Masonic Building Gordon, Ga. DR. J. H. DUGGAN Physician and Surgeon. Dr. Parker’s old Office. IE Win TON, LA. 666 is a perscription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengve Bilious, Fever and Malaria. It kills the germs. LIVE OAK CAMP No. 279 GORDON, GA. Meeting nights every two weeks A. H. Massengale, C. C. J. E. Hog x dark Full line Freeh meats, Pork Sau sage, Brookfield Eggs and Butter, Cured ham. Boiled Ham, Vegetables and Fruita. Our Prices are right and satisfaction is guaranteed. Smith Mercantile Co. Gordon, GGa. Try a pound of our Home-made Pork Sausage and become one of our regular customers. Smith Mercantile Co., Gordon, Ga., Phone, 20. Peaches are pitted by a patented machine seven times faster than by* old methods. ■ LEADING VARIETIES. BEST QUALITY. LOW PRICES Free Booklet on "Pecan Trees and Their Culture” Among Oldest and Largest Growers. Milledgeville Nursery Company Box 2AB-Z Milledgeville, Ga. Extra Specials In Dress Goods At Cash Dry Goods Co.’s Store Silk Crepes in all the New Coprs $1.50 Regular Values QQ« to goat vOC $1.75 Regular Values * OQ to go at ■ * edMa/ Suitings in a^l the Newest Patterns 75 Values JQ Special. > 50c Values Special O C Satins Colors, Heuna, Purple, Burnt Orange, Navy A < A Q and Black’s2.so Values at„„ <P 1 .a/O Complete Stock of Ginghams very Suitable for Children’s school Dresses. Priced from 10c to 30c Millinery We keep our Stock Fresh. New Hats arriving every week We extend to you a cordial invitation to visit our store and get our prices. Cash Dry Goods Company Gordon, Ga. GEORGlA—Wilkinson County: To whom it may concern: O. M. Hall a resident of thia State, having in due form applied to the undersigned for the guardianship of the property of Wallace L. Smith, Welton Smith and Louise Smith, minor children of Wallace Smith late of said county, deceased, notice is YOU WILL always find the Freshest and Sweetest Candies the best ToMtt A Heles, a large assortment of Fountain Pens and a full and complete line Drugs at our Store. Visit our Ice Cream and cold drink parlor where you will be given the best. Prescrip tions filled by epert Druggist day or night. Only the purest drugs. GORDON DRUG C OMPANY City Shoe Shop and Pressing Club I Suits Cleaned and Pressed. All work Neatly amd Sati. tactorily Done. Shoes Repaired at Reasonable Prices. Phone me your order and I will send for and D'Oliver Promptly. T. J. MONROE, Propriety hereby given that his application will beheard at the next Court of Ordina ry for said county, on the first Mon day in December 1925. Witness my hand and seal, this the 2nd, day of November, 1925. J. E. Butler, Ordinary, Wilkinson County Georgia.
