The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-13
The Week
/. Anti-Saloon Fete.
2. A Georgia Hero.
3. Prayer Book.
4. Flag of the confederacy.
ROSCOE SIMMONS .

- rag OF tne Sonfederacy.
- ROSCOE SIMMONS --
I. The Anti-Saloon League, chosen
agent of the Lord, announces cele-
bration for Monday, January 16. 1t
will be the 8th anniversary of the
Volstead Act, that nice piece of leg
islation that\started our white people
out in crime. Also, took the saloon
from the corner and put it into your
dining room.
The Volstead, Act is called "new
Declaration of, Independence" Look
ing down from heaven, where he sits
around with Paul, another famous
writer, Thomas jefferson doesn't
feel complimented to hear that his
greatest composition is saddled with
theological creed that had to be rat
flied by your national legislature.
After the jefferson Declaration
and the evolution, the cry was heard,
"Give us more schools" After the
Volstead Act Uncle Sam himself ut
tered the cry, "Give me more jails."
According to the Anti-Saloon
League, $4,000 churches will take
part in celebrating the beginning of
the Age of Crime. Sunday, January
Is preachers are asked to prepare
sermons urging observance of the
prohibition laws.
Elder, you are Lot supposed to
preach from laws gotten up by man
who is still experimenting on HIM
self. If you are -"called" and not
"p'inted' by your own authority, you
will stay on the main line and preach
only "Jesus and Him crucified."
Brothers and sisters, if your
preacher takes the pulpit and starts
out on human legislation, get your
hat. Further along when you shall
have found yourselves, and know that
YOU are chosen brethren of Jesus.
He will have show in this world.
Strike up conversation with our
white people about the Volstead Act
and then ask if they ever heard of
the amendments dealing with the
RIGHTS Of men. Tell them that
God made MAN; that Jesus dealt
only in MEN,, not in meat and drink,
End said so. i.
A good way to stop your preachers
from me-tooing white "divines" is to
let the collection plate pass by and
stay away from the table" when
the choir starts working. More ways
than one to kill a chicken.
A GEORGIA HERO
2. This humble writer stood talk
ing with Walter s. Dickey, the Kan
sas City millionaire and publisher of
the Kansas City Post and Kansas
City Journal, on Pennsylvania ave-
nue., Washington, when band, play
ing for dear life, swung into the ave-
nue. from the Treasury Building.
Conversation gave way to that mar
tial strain. There followed a great
parade of young white men and griz-
zled old white men dressed in uni
forms now out of date.
1t was Georgia, represented by the
young and old, ladies of another gen.
Grafton and bellies of this age, on its
way to the Capitol to dedicate a mon
ument 10 Alexander H. Stephens as
one of its two heroes given place
under the dome.
Get down your histories and read
up on Stephens and Georgia. Take
time to look up the proceedings of
the Darien convention. Turn the
pages until you reach Robert Toombs,
one of the great intellects of his
time.
Stephens, vice president of the
Confederacy, didn't have much use
for jefferson Davis. After the re-
bellion he returned to Congress at
Washington.
. So Georgia, unable to march down
Pennsylvania avenue behind Stephens
in the flesh, marched down the Way
of Liberty behind his memory. Are
not Southern Americans determined?
Learn from them endurance, pur-
pose, patience. u.
One of the great stories of the Civ
II War is Stephens War Between the
States. You will hardly find it in an
ordinary book store, but some one
of your educated friends might have
read it. Ask them to touch it up for
you.
February IL, 1878 Carpenters
famous picture of Lincoln signing
the Emancipation Proclamation was
unveiled in the Capitol. Mr.. Steph-
ems, then a member of congress, was
asked to make an address.
Here is a sentence from that
speech:
X their ancestors (colored Ameri-
cans) were permitted to be
4 broGaht over here il is not for
us to say, but they have ioca-
tion and ,habitation here, esPe-
eially in the South; and since the
eedeondition of their status,
though il was the leading cause
Of the late terrible conflict OF
arms between the States, yet |
think may venture 10 affirm
there is not one within the circle
Of my acquaintance, or in the
whole Southern country, who
would wish to see the old reia-
tion restored.
When he died in 1883 Mr.. Stepn-
ems was governor Of Georgia. First,
YOU have Confederate flags returned
Sk... ,,o,,, uao Aha vira nrasident OF the