The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-03
BiH Sikes Finds Much
 OF Interest in Macon

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 Macon, Ga. October 2.--( (Special.)- I have found newspaper about as old as Grandma" and just as in- dependent. It is the Macon Tele- graph, and as you enter the door you see the sign, "Esta blished 1926" and you know that the paper has run for 95 years. We are arranging over home to celebrate the mi-centen
 nial, and Ned Brace was very chesty because Stanley and some of the boys had been with The Age Herald for 20 years, but over here they stick with the paper until the Grim Reaper calls them to their heavenly home, and all attaches of the Telegraph will reach that point because of the high ideals the paper has and stands for 1t has a slogan, Brief but thorough and 1t might also have said, Absolutely honest" but that would have been blowing their own
 horn little and the paper feels that is not essential. Think of it. this paper was giving the people the news when steamboats ran on the Ocmulgee from Darien to Macon and that town was to Georgia what Sa- vannah is now.
 And the editorials they give their readers. over home we are too in formally busy trying to amass a for tune to appreciate what the Tele- graph offers it's readers and Stanley or Garrard Harris would not offer their readers such fine things be-
 cause some one would meet thcHn or the street and guy them about deep .,s, s4f E,t e1 ta o a content to earn d little, spend a lit tie less and cherish all those fine things that your true Georgian loves. I ran across an editorial today en- titled "The Lost Key" that is a gem. Even Will Sheehan would be put to it to surpass that one. Listen at this:
 Enthusiasm is fine and beauti- full thing. By it we live, and with out it we finally die. If has it's great heights-experience when a busi- ness venture reaches the top of the ladder of success when victorious troops come home to Rome; when the love ofayouth is in it's climax; when fish are biting steadily on cool, cloudless day and when child is born into the household"
 "Especially with the coming of new born child is sense of things created. First, there are the terri ble hours on the battlefield, with the nurses in white going to and fro in grim and frightful silence. The whole company-that is all con cerned-seem to pass throuh the val ley and the shadow. One can almost hear the chariot wheels of Destiny as she speeds in from the unknown and speeds out again. Life and death , face each other with drawn swords under a darkened sky. And then suddenly the sun breaks through and
 the battle is over and the thunder that was felt but not heard dies out of the heart. Then & follows en- thusiasm, which craddles the whole world"
 hope Stanley will run through his files and reproduce the entire editorial, for 1t deals with the ques- tion of disarmament and the lack of enthusiasm that is now prevalent Some of our folks might stop their dollar chasing long enough to, see the fine things the editor brings out But the Telegraph has to import their reporters - they have two young chaps here from Meridian, Miss. One of them is college bred, the other grew up in newspaper work with high school educational advantages. It is a toss-up as to whether Johnston or Ethridge is the best man. Both of them saw service in the war and to the great credit of the Telegraph be it said that both of them got their places back on their return, and are fixtures on the staff Man, 1t would do you good to breathe a bit of the good old Georgia spirit that permeates the Telegraph. The Telegraph is free and untrammeled and breaks a lance with whomsoever crosses their path-think of it-a newspaper 9o years old and holding to those high traditions of an earlier age-a paper that had rather be right than rich.
 Everybo knows Bud Peaelers | barbecue lunch-Bud could learn | something from Mir, Spiller, a. Cau- casian of Caucasians, who runs Spiller's barbecue lunch Here you get roast pork sandwich for 10 | cents that is fulL of meat. They actually cut it with butcher knife | instead of safety razor, and two sandwiches just about fill you up. Then, too. in this old city they allow | the sale of Bevo, and a glass of Bevo goes mighty fine with Spillers sand | wiches. Now, my prohibition friends | may turn me out for this statement.
 but l have found in knocking around over the country that these cereal beverages appear healthful and tend to reduce the Consumption of moon- shine. Here everything is orderly, the beverage is served you with your meals just like coffee, there is
 none of the rowdiness of the old
 time saloon, and it does seem to me
 that we might allow the sale of | cereal beverages in Alabama without
 detriment to the cause of keeping
 our people sober. Now they may | turn me out of the Southside Bap- I list sunday school when l get back /, home for this statement. but'it rep resents my honest convictions.
 l There is such thing as running hog wild on thing, and our prohibit l tion laws are just wee bit wild
 when we declare that we will not | permit the sale of anything that
 looks like beer. If the alcohol is out
 whats wrong with having Brother | kilby lead the famished into the
 oasis? Would not the manufacturers of these cereal beverages see that it i would be suicidal to try to make
 them intoxicated? Would they not
 strive to surround the sale with all
 the cleanliness that I see here? | But l am getting away from my
 subject. Spiller has another thing on the bill of fare that makes your
 mouth water, and 1T you wer,
 brought up in the south and around 50, will make you call for more. II
 is the plain old-fashioned fried ap- ! pie pie. Now here is where shine. but nothing like the good olf 1, lady that makes these pies. She had no means of income. but knew how
 to cook. She sent few of her pies
 to Spiller, and like the noble fel- low that he is. he contracted for a i few to help the good old soui along They made hit right from the start