The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-06-10
PAGE FIVE


"Do you drinb?''
"Yasser, some times
"Arent you ashamed of yoursef?" asked the
doctor. "a Baptist preac-er going into a saloon
to take drink"
The old negro, as if Mortified at the sugges-
tion Strengthened himself up and said, 'Ycu
don't reckon, ooss, dat I'd go in q saloon to get
drink"
Glow do you get your whiskey, them"
81 gifts coed member to buy it for me. You
don't reckin, boss, I'd kill my 'fuence 'mong my
foxes by drinking in q bar room. No, sab, Ise
got to be keerful.'
what about your standing with God?"
Boss, cant splainify nuttin' like dat to
hard-headed Niger, but | kin make it straight
wild de Lawd In fifteen minutes
The report Of the committee -dopted.
[ have perused this story from top to bot
tom, from bottom to top, from right to left,
and from left to right, IN the effort to find
''the debt owe the negro but, while [
see the liquor, plain enough, [ don't see where
the debt comes IN.
If we owe debts to iliterate preachers why
omit the white ones?
Then comes this witty definition in the
midst Of jaw-b breaking verbosity:
Henning Defines An Optnlist. B. c. Henning
Of North Carolina, said there was danger in this
movement, but he optimistic the situa-
ton Not long ago he heard IN optimgt defined
as a man who was cross-eyed, and who
thankful that he was not boW-legged. He
persuaded that the Syracuse Baraca-Philathea
effort, not the local classes, and I'll interdenoni-
national State Sunday School Conventions
perilous, because they had a tendency to side
track UNCONVENTIONAL efficiency. He thought
should, in every possible way, pre@orve the purity
Of UNCONVENTIONAL work
In opposing the Brownlow resolution
whose author is a successful business man
Brother T. ". Barnett spoke of himself as
folows
Barnett Speaks for the IrresponsibIes. F. w.
Barnett, of Alabama, caught the Convention with
a very bright speech, the first he had made
before the body. He spoke for the arLly Of ire
sponsibles. He had helped to hang some Of the
greatest criminals in Alabama by defending them
when he was lawyer. He had been cashier Of
a bank with a capital stock Of $4,000, and it
failed. He elected manager Of great in
dustrial concern, and it went to the wall. He
now editing the Alabama Baptist, and everybody
said it was no good. The problem of all problems
was to separate the irresponsible Baptist from
his money to support our mission enterprises.
Brother Barnett. somewhat b0astfully, de-
clared that he had been a failure as a law
yer, and had generously contributed numbers
of his clients to the galloWs; that he had been
a failure as a banker, and had busted the
bank; that he had been failure as a business
manager and had shattered great industrial
concern; that he was no account as an editor;
and, therefore, he was competent to combat
the resolution Of Brownlow, who had not a
single failure to his credit
Alex Bealer says that Barnett made a very
bright speech.
He did.
Dr. ~ i z e4y bright man: but he would
have added radiance to his bright speech, if
he had told us what he IS good at besides
hanging his clients, busting his bank, driving
that great industrial concern to the wall, and
editing paper that is "no good"