Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-06
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"GooD-BY."
The following lines are said to have
been written by All Foo Lin, Chinese
student. in n friends album.
There is a word, of grief the sounding
token.
There is a word bejeweled with bright
tears,
The saddest word fond lips have ever
spoken,
A little word that breaks the chain
of years;
| Its utterance must ever bring emotion,
The memories 1t crystals cannot die,
| IT'S known In every land, on every
| ocean
IT'S called "Good-by"
THE RESULTS OF THE PRESIDEN-
TIAL CAMPAIGN.
Within less than six weeks, on Novem-
Der s, the result of the national cam
paign for president will be announced.
When this article is printed in The Semi
| Weekly Journal there will be only five
weeks of intervening suspense left To
US. There are already in the field four
prominent candidates asking the votes
| Of the people of the United States: Dem
ocrat, Republican, Prohibition and So
cialist. Each has a tisket with electors,
and there is still another in a state NJ
organization. That is partly Masonic
and partly anti-CAtholic The head of
the ticket has not been announced.
The convention for this latest ticket
was hold in Cleveland. o., on September
| 20, and 1900 delegates were expected
| to be present. These politicians claim
| they have a well organized party that
can deliver 100000 votes, and still
growing. This may be only a scarehead.
but il may have good deal to it in the
windup
1t had a great deal to do with candi-
dates in Florida this summer, and the
vote which will decide the final nomi-
nation for governor is still unannounc-
ed, and the November election will set
| tie it a few weeks hence.
There is something to this sensation,
| even in Georgia, and II may have a good
| deal to IL everywhere before 1t is ended
The Prohibitionists run every four
years with varying results, but the tick
ct I'm 1916 is admitted to be exception
ally good. There is great unrest among
the anti-saloon people because the late
congress refused to pass the nation
wide prohibition amendment They
blame the administration and Republi-
cans for failing to do so. A pronounced
majority in both the houses, and also
the executive, failed to pass it. Six
weeks are not a great number, but there
can be whole lot done in six weeks ito
make or mar a presidential campaign.
DEADLY DRUGS AND BEVERAGES.
According to reliable statistics, per-
haps gathered by census of 1910, there
were in the United States not less than
one million habitual users of drugs and
some writers urged there were net less
than four millions of these unfor-
Inmates.
Doubtless there are 100 sanitariums of
large extent whose advertisements APP
pear in magazines and daily papers
thousands are treated by physicians in
private practice and how many (mail
order) stores drive a thriving trade for
drug addicts nobody can tell. This use
Of drugs means a loss of incalculable
money every year. and thousands, yes
tens of thousands, Of ruined homes and
premature graves.
We have at this time a strict law
In Georgia. regarding the sale of dope
drugs but everybody knows it is ex-
actly like our strict prohibition Law
very good on the statute books, but
diabolic in its enforcement AS long as
the victim will sacrifice all he or she
has for the drugs. so long will the
vendors of dope drugs exchange them
for the victims money.
Children are doped with soothing
syrups in their cradles, and these sooth-
ing syrups are made up of portions of
opium, morphine, benzoin, iodine, chic
reform and choral hydrate and often
times the ignorant and careless nurse.
in the absence of the mothers, keep
their little charges sound asleep for
selfish purposes
And mothers will give their little
ones cents to buy soft drink" when
they know nothing Of what this drink
habit will end in.
Many OF the adult habitues. made so
by the use Of dope, try to reform. They
are aware that they are plunging head
long downward. but there will be con-
slant temptation to secure the done
and poor human nature is so weak that
IL generally dehes both grace and gospel
SITTING HIS MOTHER.
A negro boy, thirteen years old, mis-
behaved and disobeyed his mother and
she whipped him. 1t enraged him so
much that he poured gasoline over him
self and struck a match to his clothes
The end was death, horrible beyond
words to describe. When 1 read the
story as related in yesterdays paper IL
thought of a woman who was raised
carefully and tenderly in girlhood, and
who became angry with her mother,
who cautioned her concerning a man
who was paying attentions to her, and
to spite her mother she married the
man and brought down on herself the
fatal consequences of an unhappy life
and some miserable reminders of the
man in her own children. She has had
to leave the man time and again and
go back to the mother who had given
her the well-meant advice and so long
as that woman lives she has the results
Of her spite action present before her
eyes. She ruined her own happiness
and has nobody to blame but herself.
l know a young man who jeered his
mothers temperance notions and who
began with beer and finally died in al
drunken spree owing to miserable block
ade whisky. He told his mother he was
hisl own man, and he could take beer
when he wanted it and she was a fool in
trying to regulate other people So he
regulated himself to his own notion,
and his mother had to buy his coffin and
put him in his grave because he did not
leave money enough to do 1t for him self
Splitting his mother! The negro boy went
early, but the other two of which II
write prolonged their own punishment!l
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