Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-01-22

''This club, together with all the others had
full and ample opportunity to appear before
the city council committee and oppose the
passage Of the antilockcr club ordinance, and
did not do so.
'Public sentiment demanded the passage OF
the anti locker ordinance at the time it was
passed. and now the Elks put themselves in
the position of fighting the unanimous sentl-
ment Of the city, to which sentiment they con-
tributed by their silence at the time the matter
was up for discussion, and discussion was in
vited"
THE members Of the organization who have
decided to contest the city police regulation
in regard to locker clubs are doing the Benevo
lent Protective Order of EllIs an injustice.
They have almost declared that this order
cannot exist without a barroom attachment,
and that it's membership thinks more of gurg
ling liquor in defiance of a state law and a
city regulation than in the grand principles
on which the order is founded, and so nobly
illustrates an occasions. >
1.-THE News knows that this SPLENDID order
stands for great deal more than providing
tipping place for bibulous members and objects
seriously to the standard of citizenship that
has been placed on it by the decision ofIFriday
night to oppose public sentiment in Macon and
thwart state law by technical means if posi-
ble"
E'The Cherokee Club, The Progress, and the
Log Cabin Club, all of which were organized
and maintained merely for social intercourse,
have bowed to the law and announced the
dropping of their buffet features, while great
fraternal organization, with a bar merely as an
incidental side issue, has to go on record as
the only organization in the city which will
not accept the law as it has been written by
the chosen representatives, and sealed by the
unanimous good opinion of the people,"
'EThe News thinks the EIks have made a
mistake and that they should reconsider"
sEThe 3. P. 0. e. is whole lot better than
an outlawed barroom."
''Think it over, gentlemenW
Full for Fitzgerald
Congressman Edwards of the first GeOrgi
district suddenly stepped into the lime light at tn
National Capital by the introduction of the fol
owing resolutions.
"Jan. 49, 19OS.-Referred to the Committee
on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr..
Edwards of Georgia submitted the following
RESOLUTION:
''Whereas there are many important mat
tiers that this Congress at this session should
consider; particularly should this Congress,
as early in the present session as possible,
take some action to relieve the stringent mo-
ney situation and to restore confidence thrO-
out the whole country. People and business
institutions of all kinds are suffering from the
panic that is upon u.s. and the whole country
is demanding that something be done for re-
lief: and
''Whereas the House Of Representatives
has been in session now for over thirty Idays
and has accomplished absolutely nothing
along these lines but instead is killing time
upon matters that are not nearly so VITAL
Therefore be it
''Resolved. That O'Clock in the morning
be fixed as the hour for converting instead of
II O'Clock noon; and that one hour, from / to
2, be allowed for lunch; and that the House
remain in session until O'Clock in the after
noon, or later if necessary, in order that we
may get down to work, do something for the
country, and adjourn before the hot weather
comes on.
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