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Ryall Springs, Ga., was ripe for salvation. Nothing had happened there for a long time; even the wicked women-chasers, cardplayers, boozers were bored, welcomed the prospect of a camp meeting. Everything went even better than Brother Lowe's cagey schedule had planned. People swarmed in from miles around, sat themselves in rows on square-hewed logs, shivered expectantly as they waited to get the jerks, the barks, the hysterical whoops-&-jingles. Brother Semple preached the opening sermon at nightfall, on The Death of a Sinner. He panicked the crowd, laid them in holy rolling rows. Aristocrat Lou Crawford...
Author John Porter Fort has been in the U. S. most of his life (he was born in Mt. Airy, Ga., educated at the University of Georgia, Harvard Law School and the Sorbonne, lives in Chattanooga, Tenn.) but does not write the language very well. He makes short work of articles (a, an, the), turns many an otherwise inoffensive sentence into pidgin English, e. g.: ". . . her eyes made quick look up. . . ." "Here, being with people was great event." ". . . It was preposterous thing. . . ." But he writes with serious conviction, does not exaggerate nor satirize. John Fort's great-grandfather, unmoved...
...Atlanta, Ga...
...President elected last week, according to the Association's custom of alternating male & female, was a woman: Florence M. Hale, director of rural education in Maine, who succeeded President Willis Anderson Sutton, superintendent of schools in Atlanta, Ga. One of N. E. A.'s vice presidents, she was elected without opposition, prompting Will Rogers to say: "America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it. ... There was elected to a very high office . . . just a plain, pleasant-looking, fat (and enjoying it), commonsense woman. ... I guess from her name, 'Miss,' that she is an old maid...
...Cartersville, Ga. a two-year-old boy fell into a well. His mother, Mrs. Wesley Scott, 18, hastily knotted together a number of ropes, started to descend by the improvised life line. The rope broke and she fell into the water, seizing the baby as she struck the surface. For three hours she cried for help, until passersby heard, rescued mother and child...