The farmer and mechanic., 1915-05-04
WHY BARACA-PHILATHEA?
Continued from Page Tenl

with hundreds OF thousands Of young
men. Manufacturers wanted to name
thelr articles of mercha andise "Ea
raea, as. for instance. the Baraca
cigar, the Raraca hat the Baraca
ShTt the Baraca ties etc. and to
use the badge for advertising them
IL was determined that no such pros
utut1on OF the name should be per
ii!tleu' ana hence the patent was OBJ
tai1ed No copyright was obtained
Ii Is true that Mr.. Hudson thought the
erect of the patent on the pin was
equivalent II that, and because Of this
rnlsapprehension on his part made
references TO 1t which naturally caus-
ed II to be supposed that the name it
sell was copyrighted. But even if
TINS had been SO, ii would hardly seem
fair to criticise this while Bibles and
song books, and other religious pub
llCauons in all denominations are
copyrighted. One who would consider
abandoning Baraca because Of the
talk about an alleged copyright
would, If consistent, quit reading
copyrighted Bibles and singing out of
copyrighted song books, and using
| copyrighted books and publications of
| all religious publishing houses The
only Baraca publications. every copy
| rlghted were one little transient three
page folder written by Mr. Hudson
and Mr.. Hudson's two books He
personally copyrighted all three of
these, like the author of practically
| every book that is published. AS to all
the other publications about Baraca.
| have this statement from MI Hud-
son: We have never refused per
| mission to print any of our publica-
| tlOns and none of them are COPY
rlghted, and any one can usethem.'
One Publication Under Ban.
One publication out of the hundreds
sent out from Syracuse has suffered
criticism. That was not copyrighted
but If it had been it's critic would
hardly have infringed the copy
right by what he represented tc
be quoting from it-so garbled
was the so-called extract. Bu,
the same method of patching
clauses and pieces Of separate sent
ences together, and the omission OF
a whole page without even an aster-
isk to show for it, and publica
ton, the Bible itself, could be placed
in an awful light to those who read
without reference to the original. The
article criticised, when read as q
whole, may speak for itself. Both i,
and it's author are able to do that L
was written by one of the brighte
and best women in America O.
course she was not decrying denomi
national loyalty but rather the spiri
t of controversial denOn1inationalism
, The critic Of the article would hav,
it believed that it has been writer
) and circulated just at this time for tn
, | perfdiOuS purpose of widening tn
alleged threatening breach between
his denomination (Which is also mine
! and the Baracas. On the contrary
, my information is that the offending
, tract has been published and circu
. lated for two long years, and that it i
7 the substance Of a speech delivere,
by it's author at Charlotte, N c. tw
years ago, before the Baraca-Phila
, thea State Convention. It has there
! fore had every opportunity to hav
: I aienated the denOminatiOna1 loyalt
of the Baptist Baracas and Philathea
: of North Carolina, if it's reading Woul
= tend to have that effect. That it di
= | not do so is evidenced by the fac
that the North Carolina Baracas an
Philatheas first Of all the Souther
:, RaptiSts arrived at perfectly har
y monious plan Of cooperation with tn
! Baptist State Sunday School Secretar,
AS far as they understand them, the
= are. in perfect harmony with the re
quests made of them by the Baptis
! State Convention of North Carolin
= by the Sunday School Committee c
that convention, and by the Sunda
= School Secretary Of that convention
e and by the official publications thr
= | far sent out by the southern Baptl!
s Conventions Sunday School Boar
:. | They were not asked by those bodie
- to change their names. They we!
asked to register with the Bapti
State Sunday School Secretaries
seems strange and hard that now tn
two year old article, long antedatiT
r. the adjustment Of our misunderstant
- ing should be seized upon by a crit
- from without the State Of North Car.
le lima and our Baptist young peop
practically read out Of our denomin;
a ton by him as heretics if we refu:
Is to abandon the name Baraca. "
were not responsible for that articl
Suppose it was sent out by the 8
y called headquarters at Syracuse
.. That does not bind any Baraca to el
10 dorse its words. The so-called 'hea'
IA quarters at Syracuse and their pu
u | lications have no control or authori
oi over any member of any Baraca clas
Ht Neither the national organization, n