Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-23
The Dust of Oq1ethorbe


are, when war of words runs high,
to see with our old and cheerfully tolerant
friend, Sir Roger de Coverley, that there is
much to be said on both sides. The good
ship that bore the Reverend Doctor Thorn
well Jacobs, president of Oglethorpe Uni
versity, upon his romantic mission to Eng
land, was followed, inevitably, by gales Of
controversy. For years a hundred and
thirty-eight the mortal Yesture Of that heroic
spirit whom Georgia reveres as the father OF
her history, had been folded away in the lit
deed it is true, were nightly astir in the
world; from his sowing had sprung harvests
touched with life eternal; and from to
mountain rose his monument-a goodly COM
monwealth. But the tomb Of General Ogle-
thorpe, so went the word, lay unvisited, for
gotten. Then came to the president of the
a shrine lit by Georgia suns, all garlanded
with Georgia roses, and Vigiled by Georgia
hearts, wherein her founders dust might be
entreasured.
But in this ever uncertain world there is
no more frequent disappointment than that
confessed by Tombstone when he exclaimed
asleep or else flirt away when he would be-
gin recital of his verses to her, "Truly, l
would the gods had made thee poeticaI!"
One mans poetry may prove anothers de-
spair, and meat for become his brothers
offense. Wherefore DR.. Jacobs, apt in the
Pauline precept, lays by his fork and gra-
ciously declares, II will eat no flesh whilst
the world standeth." Thus Grammar keeps
it's relic. Thus Albion is placated, and Sa-
vannah soothed. The bone of contention
rests.
Should casuistic minds now prolong the
discussion it will be in no controversial spirit
but in one of serene philosophy. When OPP
ponents Of the Removalist school cite the
Shakespearean epitaph,
Good friend, for Jesus sake forebeare
To digge the dust enclosed heare;
Blest be the man that spares these
stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones,
then disciples of the Removalist school may
counter with Scripture from the book of
Joshua: "And the bones of Joseph when
the children Of Israel brought up out of
Egypt. buried they in Shechem, in a parcel
IF XUbi JAGOp Of +bo
of Hamor, the father of. Shechem, for an
hundred pieces of silver; and it became the
inheritance of the children Of Joseph" Not
to be outdone on Mosaic ground, the anti
Removalists may rejoin out Of Deuter-
onomy: and the Levites shall speak, and
say unto all the men Of Israel with a loud
voice, Cursed be he that removeth his
neighbours landmark and all the people
shall say, Amen" Thereupon the defense
may recall Rupert Brooke's 1.-THE Soldier"
If I should die, think only this of me
That there's some corner of a foreign
field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth richer dust con-
cealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped,
made aware,
Gave once her flowers to love, her
ways to roam,
A body of Englands, breathing English
air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns
of home.
And think this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by
England given;
Her sights and sounds, dreams happy
And laughter learnt Of friends, and gen
teness,
In hearts at peace, under an English
heaven.
In England will remain the dust Of the
great, good soldier from whose Christian
heartedness Georgia sprang-his body there,
his spirit everywhere that humanitarian
deeds are done. Not in vain will have been
the emprise Of Oglethorpe university's presi-
dent, if it may serve, as we believe it will
to quicken the worlds imagination to the
nobility of Georgias founder and to re-dedi-
cate her own citizenry to the ideal that he
emblazoned on her virgin shield, mon sibi
sed aliis," Mot for self, but for Others"
Things Free
IF A NYTHING free is not worth hay
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