Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-13
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. HI. FELTON,
Were Automobiles Invented by His
Satanic Majesty?


So declares DR.. Len G. Broughton,
LII. D., addressing missionary as
ISOLATION in Knoxville, Tenn. He also
told them the devil never made n
"shrewder invention" He says the
devil gets active service from them.
Says DR.. Broughton: "It has come
to such pass that one-third of u
city congregation will be. away from
Sunday services driving in the coun-
try or to some mountain or water
resort having a good time on Sun
day."
He is trying to fix up his church
fences, as will be apparent from this
reading One old lady can safely re-
ply that spirited and gospel-spread-
ing religion can induce even auto
mobilists to attend Sunday services.
Billy Sunday held forth in Atlanta
some months ago and the outside soil
was crammed with automobiles that
had been attracted thereby, packed
and damned.
L can also say that automobiles
are man killers and women and chill
dren killers. 1t is a common every
day story of these violent deaths
from Rabun Gap to Tybee Light in
Georgia. We have had in my imne-
date section some of such and most
awful slauShters of human life that
were ever known in our history.
Furthermore, little boys and small
girls are allowed to preside as auto
drivers in crowded streets to the
imminent danger Of all in the ma
chine and menace to all they meet
outside of it on public streets and
If there was not Providence
which watches over the lame and the
lazy everywhere we would be horrt-
lied every time these inexperienced
children are at the guiding wheel of
automobiles. 1t is so easy to run
into other machines and to strike
telephone poles, or to plunge over a
high place, Or for an engine to ego
dead" in dangerous places, or to
turn turtle" in even a shallow ditch
that l am always nervous to See
them going like mad with a speed
t1end" look showing out in their
very eyes. 1 think DIR. Broughtor
has some reason to call automobiles
the devils invention"
Women at Presidential Conventions
TO an old body like myself, one
who has been studying politics for
half a century, the printed descrip-
ton of women getting SO excited that
they were lifted to the shoulders OF
political shouters in California and
went along the aisles carrying ban
ners and shouting for candidates. was
a very astonishing feature of the
Frisco convention-to me.
hardly suppose we will ever see
nice southern ladies-fguring along
on similar lines-in Georgia poll
tics, and when the Georgia delegates
were voting vociferously for votes
for women in Frisco, it was also as
tonishing to remember that our
Georgia Legislators are obstinately
opposed to woman suffrage. Not a
single woman from Rabun Gap to
Tybee' light can vote for president
or governor or congressman, and it
was commentary on consistency
to elect a Savannah woman a ma
tional committeeman in Frisco, when
she couldn't vote for coroner-in the
town where she lives"-down here
When people go 1000 miles from
home to nominate a president they
show off-when they are fully aware
that their political adherents here at
home are opposing giving the ballot
privilege to their own wives and
mothers.
Some of the political ladies were
norated in the newspapers as having
clothes and jewels fit for crowned
heads in Europe. Again it strikes
an old body unpleasantly to, hear of
women in public affairs dressed. Cor
undressed) like they were going to
a ball or party or the front row at
opera
All such performances, such as rid
ing on mans shoulders in a bowling
mob of half-crazy politicians at a
presidential convention, will cast dis
credit on votes for women and dis
count all the valuable work that
earnest women in years gone by were
struggling to accomplish for the bet
terment of mankind, especially chill
dcen