The Atlanta Journal,
Sunday, 16th November 1913,
PAGE 2, COLUMN 5.
Shows How Real Brotherly
Love Lasts Through Both
Prosperity and Adversity
Editor Firing Line: I never let go far
away but what I think of home and friends. Home influences are the best. But
what are friends? Tom Moore said: There was nothing true but heaven.
I would love to furnish a story for your
partner, a true Atlanta story of how a young man struggling for life gained a
home and family, Christian friends who were all pie. A little later when
misfortune came, those same Christian friends went. And how he struggled
against adversity without the smile and bows and nods so accustomed to from
those who had always pretended to be his friends, who had always extended the
welcome hand. And when amid the ruins, success began to return success without
their help, success without the old-time friendship, they began once more to
look upon him. He had done nothing to merit such treatment, was not under the
eyes of suspicion, had committed no crime, no wrong, was at fault nowhere more
than he could not make money as fast as some others in his set. He said to me,
The Gentiles are not like the Jews. The Jews are a better people. They stick
to their race when trouble comes. They went with Leo M. Frank through all the
stormy period of his trouble, and they are with him still. Their friendship
hangs on, clings like the vine through winter and summer, always remaining the
same.
Not so with my race of people, he
said. They are your friends as long as you are successful. When you fail,
their friendship fails. You need not be placed in the attitude of defending
yourself, for some alleged crime. Simply show a losing side. Where does
Christianity come in? What was the teaching of Christ? Who is your friend?
Now that the old-time friends of my
friend can see that death and destruction is not his, that he can live without
them, they begin once more to show him some of their little precious
courtesies, perhaps I should have said treacherous courtesies. What was the
world made for? What are we here for? Is
it to persecute mankind or to lift him up and help him on the way to a better
life? We all know how the Hon. James G. Woodward was treated at one time. I can
not, for my part, believe there is much sincerity in the loud-mouthed Puritans
of the day wanting to clean out everything and make people good. They should
first be cleaned out themselves and taught self-examination. Let us have peace,
good will, love and friendship for all human kind, rich or poor, great or
small. Whether you are willing to believe God will bless it or not, you will
get lots of satisfaction out of it in this life. Do you ought to do and whether
there is another life or not you will get contentment and happiness in this.
Yours truly,
W. W. JENKINS.
Press
Chairman Ga. T. P. A.
November
4, 1913.
PAGE 8, COLUMN 4
SMUTTIEST
CASE EVER,
SAYS JUDGE
PENDLETON
Reaches
Limit in Divorce
Cases When Hearing Plea
of Earl Denham
Judge John T. Pendleton, of the
superior court, reached the limit in divorce cases Saturday.
When he had completed the hearing of
the petition of Mrs. Beulah Denham for alimony from Earl Denham, reputed to be
a wealthy Morgan county farmer, he said:
This is positively the smuttiest
case I ever listened to. If one-third of what is alleged on both sides is true,
then you two people are not fit to live in a civilized community.
Judge Pendleton then refused the wifes
plea for alimony.
Mrs. Beulah Denham charged that her
husband, together with his housekeeper, a Mrs. Daisy Thaxton, practically drove
her from the home in 1908. She charged that the housekeeper took charge of the
establishment, and ordered her, the wife, around as if she was a servant. Her
husband insisted on keeping the housekeeper despite her pleas, she alleged.
Denham, answering, declared that his wife would not be content in the country
and that she, during the period of their married life, often deserted him for
months at a time.
He alleges that his wife was so
insanely jealous that she coupled his name with that of practically every woman
in the community in which they lived. He denies very vigorously all of her
charges relative to Mrs. Thaxton.
Much of the evidence was submitted in
the form of affidavits and many and many varied charges and counter charges
were made. It developed that Mrs. Denham, after she left her home in 1908,
wrote certain letters to Mrs. Thaxton, which were couched in endearing terms,
it is said.
Judge Pendleton declared in passing on
the case that he would have awarded the wife alimony had it not been for the
letters to Mrs. Thaxton. He couldnt reconcile these letters, he said, with
Mrs. Denhams charge against her and her statement that the housekeeper and her
husband drove her from home.
Both sides were represented by
attorneys, who came here from Morgan County for the hearing.
PAGE 63, COLUMN 6
SUPREME COURT OF GA.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 15, 1913.
JUDGEMENTS AFFIRMED.
Southern Railway Company vs. Black et
al.: from Whitfield superior courtJudge Fite. Maddox, McCamy & Shumate,
George G. Glenn, for plaintiff in error. C. D. & F. K. McCutchen, W. E.
Mann, R. R. Arnold, contra.
Georgia Cane Products Company vs. Corn
Products Refining Company; from Muscogee-Judge Gilbert. Slade & Swift, for
plaintiff in error. James W. Austin, Love & Fort, contra.
Holmes vs. Schwab & Sons; from
CripsJudge George. W. F. Hall, E. F. Strozier, for plaintiff in error. Whipple
& McKenzie, contra.
Southern Coal and Coke Company vs.
Randall; from FultonJudge Pendleton. Horton Brothers & Burress, for
plaintiff in error. Edgar A. Neely, contra.
Chancey vs. State; from Jeff
DavisJudge Conyers. J. C. Bennett, W. W. Bennett, for plaintiff in error.
Thomas S. Felder, attorney general, J. H. Thomas, solicitor general, contra.
Webb et al., trustees, vs. Jackson et
al.; from HeardJudge R. W. Freeman. Hall & Jones, for plaintiffs in error.
O. A. Moore, contra.
Millsaps vs. Georgia Pine Company; from
Turner (certified by the court of appeals). Statute held constitutional. A. S.
Bussey, for plaintiff in error. Hardeman, Jones, Park & Johnston, contra.
JUDGEMENTS REVERSED.
McConnell vs. Gregory: from BerrienJudge
Thomas. Hendricks & Christian, for plaintiff in error. Alexander &
Gary, contra.
Central of Georgia Railway Company vs.
Wallace; from HoustonJudge Matthews. Ellis & Jordan, for plaintiff in
error. Guerry, Hall & Roberts, Nottingham & Nottingham, contra.
Shaw vs. Henderson Lumber Company from
BerrienJudge Thomas. Hendricks & Christian, Knight. Christian &
Gaskins, J. J. Murray, for plaintiff in error. H. J. Quincey, J. D. Lovett,
contra.
DISMISSED.
Bozeman vs. Ward-Trutt Company; from WorthJudge Frank Park.
Perry, Foy & Minx, for plaintiff in error. L. D. Passmore, C. E. Hay,
contra. (Leave granted to enter exceptions pendente lite.)