Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-07-04
~STAND STEADY ON OUR POLICIES" SAYS HOKE SMITH
Stop Lobbying, Pay Teachers,
Extend w. & A. to Sea,
Great Labor Bureau, I'M
prove Farming

pose. Now the convicts are busy upon
the public roads of Georgia and will be
busy for several years to come.
A RELEASE OF THE PROPERTY is
NECESSARY.
Corporations leasing so large a prop
erty must make their plans much in adj
vance Of the lease to properly handle
the property. I regard 1t as essential that
new lease should be made of this prop
erty and believe the wise course is to
make the lease for quite long term of
years. The rental might increase at fixed
periods.
1 suggest that representatives OF the
house and the senate be appointed to
take this subject under consideration, to
negotiate with reference to a lease and
report at the next session of the legisla-
ture.
In making a lease I wish also to sug-
gest that the state should reserve it's
valuable frontage on Lloyd, Pryor, White
hall and Broad streets. Either under
the new lease the road should stop at
Forsyth street, or else II should pass un-
der improvements made above 1t and the
property on these streets ought to be
held and used independent of the lease.
In the city of Chattanooga there is val
liable property belonging to the state not
essential for railroad purposes If, UNI
der a proper arrangement, Market street
could be extended, the property on the
right OF this street as you enter Chat
tanooga has at the present time a rental
value of approximately 100000 a year.
In considering the question of a new
| lease it is most important to lease this
valuable property separate from the rail-
! road
We should unalterably oppose the sale
| by the state of the Western and Atlantic
railroad or of any of the property con-
nected with it. 1t will pay today the
interest on that for which 1t would sell
and the increase of value which time will
give is a profit to which our descendants
are entitled.
suggest also that the commission
charged with investigating the question
of the lease of the present property, car
ry their investigation further to deter
mine whether an extension of the road
to deep water could be leased, and in
clude such q. plan within their work. il
feasible.
LABOR BUREAU.
wish to give my cordial Endorsement
to the creation of labor bureau. will
not discuss in detail the character of the
measure which I think should be adopted
l feel sure that a well prepared bill will
be presented at this session and it's value
will be apparent.
III coLnecllotl with this SUBJECT let me
urge that our laws fully protect children
from confinement in factory walls, both
by age limits and investigations to see
that the laws are enforced.
Complaint Is frequently made Of the
laws delay. of the granting Of new trials
and of the crowded condition of our ap-
pellate courts.
4 A wish to recommend one simple change
In our mode of practice which will tend
greatly to relieve the conditions which
produce these complaints. The remedy
l propose is not original. 1t is the prac-
tice in the federal courts, In the courts
of the states adjoining Georgia and in
the courts of all the states with which
/ am familiar.
Under our present practice a case is
tried and the losing party takes-the rec
ord and hunts through it for errors made
by the judge. Any small mistake, even
a mistake of inadvertence, which the
trial judge has made, can be the basis OF
carrying the case to the appellate court
and frequently obtaining a reversal
when, If counsel had called this error to
the attention OF the court during the
trial, the error would have been correct
| ed.
The general practice outside. of Geor-
gia is to require counsel in the trial
court to except then and there to errors
and give the trial judge an opportunity
to correct them. strongly recommend
the adoption of a similar practice in
Georgia. Once adopted and put in force
1t will be found that the trial Judge will
correct most of his own errors before the
Jury .retires to consider the case. The
laws delays will be greatly lessened and