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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-30
THE SOUTH STANDS CONVICTED.

Dear Sir: I see in a late issue of
the Jeffersonian an extract from the
Chicago Tribune where it said that
the South is backward and is not
half educated. / stand convicted of
the charge, for We have no women
so low as to marry a negro like Jack
Johnson, and our men would never
be so low as to hang a decent woman
like the northern people did Madam
Surratt Yes, even without Judge
and jury which you know Leo Frank
had.
He was convicted three times, and
had ample time to repent. No time
was given to Madam Surratt. j
never heard that they could trump up
any offense but that Booth boarded
at her house.
She certainly did not shoot Lin
coin. Search all of their histories
and you will never find any allusion
to that little incident. No, no, they
are ashamed of it. Yet in the minds
of the old it still burns.
/ was twenty-siX years old when
the War Between the States began,
and then | had never heard a slang
word, but the Yankee army sowed
slang right and left. l am ashamed
to tell it, the South took it up, and
now an old time Southerner can
scarcely understand the new genera
ton. Oh, but we are but half edu-
cated!!
What of the John Brown raid!
Was that part of our education?
I hope you win remind the public.
of Madam Surratt's fate and of John
Browns raid. The hope that you
will live long and defend the South
ern women is the prayer of,
AN OLD SOUTHERN LADY.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-30

mighty dSGHCy LOT the prOnOClOu Oh
the faith once for all delivered to
the saints"
Since we are living under very Pc
culiar methods of procedure along
certain lines, we should be immedi-
ately concerned as to what consti-
tutes the faith referred to by the IN
dex
Unless we are willing to do VIC
lence to the Word of God, we must
seek deeper Scriptural meaning
than merely trying to convert the
nations over the sea to our way of
living, which seems to be the hobby
of the Index. The New Testament
unquestionably includes missions as
one of the vital doctrines of the
Kingdom of God, but was never in
tended that anyone should take lib
critics with the important work of
evangelizing the world, unsupported
by Scripture.
To saddle a perpetual obligation
than preach the gospel to other ma
tions is unjust, and foreign to the
thoughts of God. To solicit money
under the preteXt Of preaching the
Gospel and then apply it to other
enterprises is pernicious practice,
and cannot be honestly classed as
contending for this faith referred to.
If the New Testament is not suf-
ffcient guidt for the conduct of mis-
sions today, it is not safe to trust
any of its doctrines.
The lame excuse that conditions
have changed" and to say that Paul's
methods will not meet the needs on
the foreign field now, is dishonoring
to the sovereign wisdom of God. Ans
thing that ISLANDERS God deserves to
be punctured beyond repair.
The deep Scriptural meaning of
this faith is that we should earnest
ly contend for the truth that Gods
power alone is sufficient to save and
ASSp every OIIS WIZ W III UGnSN0 TIC
Gospel. The primary purpose of the
faith is to get people Christianized,
not merely civilized. ''lt is never
true that Christianity civilizes"
A paper to properly propagate this
faith must have an editor with de-
cided convictions when it comes to
settling vital questions. 1t should be
independent of any Board, further
more, it's editorial staff should have
grace arc wisdom enough to know
whether or not it is right for the
Board to take money donated di-
rectly to mission purposes and build
a college,"
A. Baptist paper that would sue.
c"ssfully contend for the true faith
must be willing to concede to every
man the right to all the exercise Of
good citizenship without first having
to consult with Board. 1t should
denouhce everything that is contrary
to sound doctrine and oppose Satan,
even if he should come as an angel
Of light as represented by the Cath
Ollie priest, for instance.
In order that the readers of your
DaDer NAV be more f11l1v convinced
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-30

So would Miss Willie, but I'd
much rather see the dancing girl
dance.
Miss Willie says that Mr.. Royal
should be more explicit.
Now, Brother Royal, please be
more explicit
Miss Kelley says that Miss Chung
is paid with Chinese money"
Then what does the missionary do,
to earn his, or her $500?
Miss Kelley please be more ex-
plicit.
T. E. w.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-30
PAGE TWELVE
They are Waking Up
on Foreign Missions.

1EAR SIR: In The Weekly
1 Jeffersonian of July 20, you
/ quote a paragraph from the
, Christian Index which states
THE Baptist paper is a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29
Evening Chat
The Rebound.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

A friend of mine has a son who is
so emphatically a freethinker in mat
tiers of religion as to approach the
observation-disclosures which is intolerant
and narrow in it's resentment of any,
one who is less tolerant.
The woman herself is a strict mem
Der of strict set. She believes whole
heartedly in the creed of that particu-
lar sect and she thinks all the rest of
the world who do not believe the same
as she and her co-religionists are
hopelessly mistaken. You can imagine
with what horror she regards her
sons attitude. "It does seem so
strange" she says, that 1 should
have a son like that"
The Il" is italicized because she
says it in tone which means II, of
all people, I, who am such a strict
believer in the one true religion"
AS a matter of fact it seems to me
that she, of all people, is peculiarly
predestined to have a son like that.
I don't doubt that her sons agrees
sive observation-disclosures is nothing but
a rebound from her aggressive mar
row mindedness.
Few people, I think, realize how
strong the rebound tendency acts, es-
pecially in young people.
1t is of course the natural thing to
oppose with all your heart any fault
or vice which you have learned to
l.
you have a child whom you want
to guide away from that fault or
vice / doubt if it is the wiSeSt thing
to be too violent in your opposition
Youth instinctively hates prejudice
and it is apt to view as prejudice any
opposition which declaims against its
object in season and out of season
have known young people,-pretty
good young people too,7who seemed
to snatch a certain rare Zest from the
fact that their fathers or mothers
would be Mortified if they could see
them.
And once knew a fine young man
who had gotten into the habit OF
drinking partly because he resented
his fathers almost rabid hate of that
vice.
The father had good reason to hate
the vice but he would have done bet
ter not to be so violent against it.
He spoke so wildly and took such an
into1erant view of anyone who sue
cumbed to the weakness that his son,
who was not old enough and wise
enough to winnow the wisdom FROM
the intolerance, resented his fathers
attitude as a prejudice and reacted
against it.
Of course, you fathers and mothers,
you are burning with the desire to
give the young people the benefit of
your knowledge of life, but remember,
that is one of the most difficult tasks
in the world. The TRANSMISSION of
blood from one body to another is
the TRANSMISSION from one mind to an
other.
If you want to succeed you must go
about your task not with the intol-
Grant fervor of a zealot, but with
the tact and restraint of diplomat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29

out being called fortune hunter?'' he
suddenly asked.
mol" exploded Aunt Anna indig-
nantIy.
Its hard on all the girls who have
any money" retorted Lester.
Riches bring cares and sacrifices -
said Aunt Anna, virtuously. "And
now, Mr.--er-Lester, eh?'' glancing
those accounts before my niece re-
turns"
First, I would like to ask you a
question-does your niece share your
yiews.that every man-no! I won't
doubt her for an instant!' He turned
toward the desk
The door flew open and in came a
radiant Carlotta, her blue eyes
agleam with the glad light of sur
prise and her cheeks agIow.
Anthony. Anthony! YOU dear.'
she cried, and she went straight into
the arms of the Secretary Young
man." who held her closely.
Aunt Anna shut her eyes upon this
horrifying sight
"And there is the moor secretary
waiting In the hail." cried CarIotta
releasing herself from Testers arms
The secretary. Carlotta Drew, who
IS TINS young MANI" demanded Mrs.
Marsh in tragic tone
why it's Anthony Lester the man
almost told you about-it's a secret
that we love each other, and 1 sup
pose now our engagement must be
announced. Who did you think he
was aunt1e? she asked curiously.
Lester CALAMITY came to the rescue
and Aunt Anna never forgot it, She
took him to her heart even before she
discovered that he was considerably
richer than Carlotta.
why, who did you think he was p,
repeated the girl curiously.
Mrs. Marsh asked me to help
straighten out your accounts" he in
terposed tactfully. "J've brought
order out of chaos, but there's still
one more thing to settIe.''
A small, dapper-looking youth. with
owlish specialized eyes, entered the
room meekly.
This is Mr.. Nook, the secretary.
Aunt anna SAID Carlotta.-(Copy-
IisHl' IS1o, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29
AT FORTY.

One has reached a time of life when
it is hardly one thing or the other,
writes Robert L. Raymond in the June
Atlantic, and he goes on: The past
years have not been so many as to
permit one to lay down his arms and
retreat in quiet to the shade. 1t is
still not too late to strive and per-
haps to achieve. On the other hand
SO much dusty road has been travelled
that if one finds it has not led him far
on the way he meant to go. he can
hardly delude himself with the fancy
that he may yet go back and begin
the journey anew. The pleasant sense
of superfluous time is gone; one must
hurry; and perhaps it is too late!
Then comes the grief of perceiving the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCKISON GLOBE.

Making a night of it is apt to spoil
the next day.
Some married men talk too blamed
much about personal liberty.
There are also occasions where en-
durance is mistaken for hospitality.
No woman should expect her favor
lite perfume to take the place of a
bath.
A good loser should remember there
is no sense in making that line his life
work.
A town is too quiet when seeing the
train go through is the principal
amusement.
However, don't organize merely for
the purpose of providing the organ
izer an easy living.
While the auctioneer has a Voice,
no doubt he doesn't go in strong for
artistic temperament.
Conceit may help in running a bluff,
but both amount to about the same
thing when called.
Tradition, however, is no older than
some of the other fool stories one
hears from time to time.
1t is the private opinion of a pes
simistic crusader that there isn't much
chance of discriminating whiskerS and
dandelions.
The aSylumS are crowded, and oc-
casionally one hears a curbstone ora
tor who compelS the conclusion that
they should be enlarged.
Speaking of remarkable memories
Alb Adkins says he recalls the first
nickel he ever earned. The fact that
he didn't get it may have made the
incident more impressive.
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1Ded 81 Z! q65


The way to F'risky CottontaiFs new
home in the city seemed very long to
Lite Reddy Squirrel. He was used to
going long journeys. but not to taking
journeys of just that kind. Usually he
travelled in the woods where the
ground was soft and leafy under foot
and where he could stop and rest and
nibb1e some tender roots any time he
wished. But Billy Robin went fast
that Reddy didn't dare risk stopping a
minute-he had to watch closely and
keep steadily at his running lest he
lose his guide.
So when he finally reached the gar
den where Frisky lived he was quite
out of breath. Fortunately Billy Robin
didn't expect any Thank you; he
saw how breathlesS Reddy was, so he
said, ''Yonder in that golden glow bed
is Friskys home. But you had better
stay in the hedge there and rest be-
fore you talk to him. Have no fear
about going back to your home I will
come before night and escort you back.
Goodbye for now!" And away he
kindest bird?
Left alone in the Usage orange
hedge, Reddy got his breath and be-
gan to look around.
But before he had had time to more
than glance about. soft stir on the
side of the thicket made him crouch
back into the leaves for shelter. Some
body was coming!
Not a move did Reddy make except
with his beady black eyes-they looked
right and left in search of danger.
Closer came the soft sound and Reddy
was just beginning to wish he had
never left the woods where he knew
what sounds to be afraid of, when
who should slip into the heart of the
thicket but-Frisky Colonial him
self
"Was that you making that noise?"
asked Reddy breathlessly (there
would be time for real greeting when
he knew he was safe.)
Freddy Squirrel!'' exclaimed Frisky
in delighted tones. was it you I heard
in the hedge just now?"
81 guess maybe it was laughed
Reddy in relief, I'm not used to these
city hedges and 1 was AFRAID an enemy
was coming. May you have safe
home all your life!'
"And may you never know danger"
responded Frisky cordially, but how
do you happen to be here? 1 never
thought to see you in the city,
Reddy told him all about how he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29
A MESSAGE TO THE POETS.


Ho! Bards of the passing ages,
And sing while the world stands waiting
Mid the glory of morning beams.
Mankind was astir at cock-crow,
Inc lines are already formed,
The foes is behind the bastions
That are waiting to be stormed.
Say not that our words are playthings
And the poet must play with words:
Ihey throb with sub1iner meanings
Than the twitter of morning birds
And with your puny pipers
O1 the d11elante breedl
Inc world is in search of leaders
win the courage and strength to lead.
Have done with the lutes that murmur
In the chantress- halls of night,
And wage the great harps and trumpets
FOR loftter, grander flight.
Let the notes of your living epics,
Ring clear, to the brave and strong
And thunder the masters message
70 the ranks of unconquered wrong.
And the musket's roar and din,
With the shrieks of the MANNED and dying
From the bloody fields roll in.
Let your voice, like the winds and waters
And the thunder of Apenines
Ring down from the heights, storm
threated.
Along the embattled lines.
Strike up your immortal measures;
To marshal the world, firm footed,
To the heights of unending peace.
Topeka, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. ]

From the Chicago News.
A violinist draws a salary, the fid-
dler plays for love.
The funniest thing about a stage
comedian is his face.
There's nothing like 1eather-not
even the numerous limitations.
1t takes a noisy preacher to keep
some men awake in church.
1t matters not that the world is
round If you are on the square.
Abuse the average man if you like;
nobody considers it personal affront.
Some men are born lucky and some
are lucky to have been born at all.
When a young man proposes it is up
to the girl to lose her self-possession.
A girl with a new engagement ring
always extends the glad hand when
she meets any of her friends
1t is harder for some men to slip
upstairs at a. m. than it is for them
to slip down after they get halfway
up
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waste, the loss, the utter futility of
postponements. The world is fuIl OF
good and wonderful things. What a
wealth of potential experience and
emotions; and time and opportunity
for so little! And yet year after year
one goes on blindly and blandly put
ting off to some more convenient or
appropriate time, to that impossible
period when all will be exactly right,
things he wants to do and can do
a kind action, making a new friend,
or altering a whole career! Once ac-
quired, the habit of postponing per-
sists. Hope springs eternal; and a
man of forty finds himself counting
complacently on some day taking Up
hunting, or entering politics or cir
cling the globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29
QUAKER fluctuations.

| lFrom the Philadelphia Record
Some people deal in cold facts even
in hot weather.
1t takes an invalid with a sense of
humor to smoker when his doctor gets
sick.
When woman can't break a mans
heart she can at least burst into tea rs
Rather than be cast in the shade
many a man runs the risk of a mental
sunstroke.
There seems to be a difference be-
tween rising to the top and being a
lightweight.
In spite of the fact that love is
blind, it isn't SO blind that it can't see
a dollar mark
Some people talk about putting up
at hotel without mentioning that
they have to put up in advance
It's all right to love your enemies,
but that doesn't excuse you for being
disagreeable to your friends.
Nell-"Maude bears her sorrow
with admirable fortitude' Belle
yes, crying always gives her such a
red nose.''
ut takes two to make a quarrel
quoted the Wise Guy. Yes, in spite
of the fact that we always feel the
other fellow made it, added the Sim
pie Mug.
Long hair isn't always a sign of
genius remarked the Philosophical
Barber. No, it's the bald headed
man who is coming out on top"
snlckered the victim in the chair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29
OUR NAVAL NEEDS.

There seems to be a pretty general
agreement that the chief need OF the
United States to maintain its place OF
prominence in the worlds arena, and
to provide for it's proper defense, is
an adequate navy and efficient coast
defenses. Colonel Goethals says that,
generally speaking, we already have
the latter. But an adequate navy
doesn't necessarily mean a navy of
tremendous size and mammoth units
that cost all the way from s1o,O00.o00
to s2o,0OO,00O each. One of the con-
vincing lessons of the European war
is that such a navy isn't worth the
price England has one. AS to nu-
merical and paper fighting strength, it
is greater than the combined naval
force of any other two nations. Huge
as it is, though. enormous as is its
latent power, it appears to be little
better than totally impotent. About
all it has accomplished SO far has been
to clean the seas of the few German
cruisers, many of them auXiliaries,
that were scattered here and there
when the war began. Possibly, it
could annihilate the German navy if
it could meet it in a pitched battle.
But the German navy hugs its base,
which it protects with mines and
coast defenses in such a preponderant
way that the British navy hasn't at
tempted to dig it out. The British
navy hasn't even been able to pro-
tect completely it's home coasts from
German naval raids, and it certainly
seems helpless to cope with the sub
marine activities of it's arch enemy.
Its campaign in the DardanelleS has
also been costly without getting any
where in particular after weeks of
fighting. So it would seem conclusive
that a merely big navy of massive
units is by no means the best navy.
And when the time comes, as it will
at the next session of congress, for the
formulation of plans to develop our
navy to proportions commensurate
with the tasks it may have to per-
form, too much attention must not be
given to the suggestions of the enthu-
slaSts who seem to labor under the de-
fusion that big navy of large units
is the only kind of navy worth
while,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29
Jayhawker lots

AS the Hutchinson Wholesaler has
noticed, some family trees should be
pruned.
The Florence Bulletin holds to the
belief that no girl should acquire q
husband until she is able to convert
a round steak into a square meal.
According to the Wellsville Globe,
when a woman chooses her shoes for
comfort and not for style, you may
be sure she has passed mlddle age
and doesn't care who knows IT,
You can rail and swear at the Eng
lish sparrow, says the Beanville cor
respondent of the Troy Chief, but II
you had half as much pluck and GIN
ger as the English sparrow, you
would be better off.
Jim Marney of Rossville, has an
incubator Matched chicken that is
equipped with four legs. And the
Rossville Reporter says that it is APP
parently as healthy and able TO get
about as well as the chicks with only
two legs. 1t might strike some folk
that it ought to be able to get around
twice as well.
In swapping ships for forts at the
Dardenelles, the Allies have the ad-
vantage, points out the Leavenworth
Labor Chronicle. They have more
ships than the Turks have forts.
Yes Clementine, answers the LeaV-
enworth Labor Chronicle, a dairy ex-
pert may properly be referred to as
butter nut.
In one respect, dandelions should
be dealt with the same as chickens,
suggests the Mayetta Herald Ihe
owners should be made to keep them
up" 1t is poor announcement to the
fellow who digs and sweats incessant-
w to rid his lawn of the pest-root
and branch-when his neighbor al
lows his to grow up unmolested and
yield a bumper crop of seed to blow
all over creation.
Some one, writes A Story, the Route
correspondent for the Lyons Repub-
lican, who didn't have anything else
to do has figured out that the letter
''e'' is the most unfortunate character
in the English alphabet, because 1T is
always out of cash, forever in debt,
never out of danger and in hell all of
the time. For some reason he over
looked the fortunes of the letter, so
we call his attention to the fact that
the letter "e'' is never in war and al
ways in peace; it is the beginning of
existence and the end of trouble.
Without it there would be no meat,
no life, no heaven. 1t is the center
of honesty and makes love perfect.
Without it there would be no editors,
devils nor newspapers.
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Journal Entries

A trouble-hunter is also usually a
trouble-maker.
+
The man who is content is about as
deeply in a rut as he can get.
+ r
Too many folk are Safety First
enthusiasts only in respect to them-
selves.
ANY number of men put in lot OF
hours on their jobs without doing
much work.
Maybe some folk consider betting
clincher for an argument because
money talks so forcefully.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29

are now recognized as likely to result
in cancer is to be found the only avail
able means of actually preventing this
disease. On the other hand, even when
the development of cancer itself is
not prevented, it is capable of COM
plete removal from the body resulting
in a cure of the patient in a far larger
number of cases than at present. To
bring this about and to reduce the
death rate from malignant diseases is
the object of the present widespread
campaign of education in regard to
early symptoms and the need of
prompt recognition and surgical treat
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29

They had gone but few steps when
they stopped short in dismay Right
there IN front of them dainty little
shell and it was movingi Yes. they
were sure it moved
Reddy rubbed his eyes and looked
again and Frisky stared his hardest
but there wasn't a move. That's
funny" said Reddy snamefacedIy. IT
was sure that shell moved-but of
course it didn't"
Just then Mr.. Garden Toad hopped
by.
'fOh. Mr.. Garden Toad" called
F'rfsky, this is my friend Reddy
Squirrel, and we both think we saw
that shell move. Did it? Shells don't
usually move, you know"
"Oh, yes, they do-sometimes. re-
piled Mr.. Garden Toad, nodding no.
litely to Reddy. you have learned
something. you see. That is my friend
Mr. Snail and he carries his house ON
his -tCopyright-Clara In
gram JudSon.)
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1t would be interesting to know
how the Italian soldiers handle their
favorite macaroni and spaghetti while
in the field. Imagine, if you please,
the difficulties that a man would ex-
perience in loading up with a satisfy
ing quantity of this stringy, wiggling
stuff and only bayonet to work
with; and the war romancerS, at
least, insist that the bayonet is the
only utensil available for a soldier in
active service to use in conveying his
food to his mouth.