Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
BY JAMES B. NEVIE.

public seems to have been educated up,
in a way, to the fact that the game
laws are designed not only to protect
the game, but to protect the hunter and
the sports as well.
The game laws of Georgia" said MT.
Mercer, are working smoothly ana
most satisfactorily. l do not antlcl-
pate any widespread violations Of the
statutes, moreover, as the public seems
to realize that we have made up our
minds to enforce them rigidly, and
impartially, wherever a disposition to
violate or evade them is discovered.
Chairman Of the Interstate Com
merce Commission Judson ]. Clements,
who formerly represented the Seventh
Georgia district in the national con-
gress. said in a recent interview that
Increased speed is not the thing the
travelling public needs or desires so
much as it is comfort and sanitation
in travel.
The commissioner thinks that dirty,
dingy cars, stuffy, badly heated and
poorly ventilated, minus perfectly SAN
ltary arrangements for drinking and
toilet purposes-these, and poor depot
equipment and so forth, are much more
to be deplored than that it takes five
hours. rather than four and half, TO
go from somewhere to somewhere else.
So exacting are the duties Of the
commission in Washington that Mr.
Clements seldom gets to Georgia now
adays, but he came down to vote for
Wilson and Marshall on November 5,
all right!
nice. little gubernatorial boom for
"Rufe" Hutchens, of Rome, has been
inaugurated by some Of his admiring
friends.
Georgians generally will not object
to a Hutchens gubernatorial boom, Of
course-but with John NJ. Slaton's in
auguration still some six months off, 1t
does look as If the Hutchens boom has
been trotted out a little early in the
game!
The court Of appeals has cleared up
the atmosphere in two particulars, with
respect to the new game laws.
The court holds that 1t is unlawful to
hunt any sort of game at any time, pro-
tected or unprotected by the law. save
in ones own militia district, without a
state license to hunt; and that game,
protected and unprotected, can not be
hunted on land other than the hunters
own, without the owners permission.
The court also holds that a hunt with
hounds, legally started, may be carried
onto land where the hunter has not the
owners permission to hunt, but that a
new hunt may not be originated there,
without the owners permission.
The game laws are now very well de-
fined In Georgia, and the authorities are
of the opinion that those who violate
them must, in most instances. do so de-
liberately and knowingly-and they will
proceed accordingly. where necessary.
Despite the depressing predictions OF
a few who said the country would go
straight onto the rocks of hard times
right after the national election, The
Wlnder News sees rainsbow a-plenty
in the skies. and thinks things look all
right in Georgia.
Protesting vigorously against such
hard times" walls as it has heard, The
News advances these suggestions:
Yes, times are hard, If you listen
to the song of the money grabber
and the pessimlst. But is there a
real reason for hard times?
Cotton is selling today for a third
more than it did this date last year.
Ard it is debatable question as to
whether the crop is off more than
third, compared with the average
crop raised in this section.
When few Glooms and Grouches
begin to predict hard times, every
old Money bag and Skin flint starts
the bailiffs to hustling and a situa-
ton is created that is hurtful. Most
Of these men are like the Irishman
who heard the bank was going to
the wall-he wanted his money
right then. When told to draw his
check and it would be given him,
he said:
Faith. and If can git it, don't
want it."
II those who owe money will
honestly do what they can to meet
their obligations. and if creditors
will be as lenient as circumstances
will permit, times will soon loosen
up.
Reports from all over Georgia indi-
cate that times are all right
1t seems that politics does not neces-
sarily depress business in this state, for
Georgia has had lots of politics during
the past two years. and hand in hand
with II came abundant prosperity.
Representative Samuel J. Tribble,
who is just completing his first term
in congress, and will begin a new one
on March 4, passed through Atlanta to-
day, on his way to Washington.
He believes the Democratic congress
now in session will shape largely the
tariff program for the coming special
session of the new congress, and that
the extra session need not last more
than 60 days. He believes the tariff
will be revised sharply downward and
that right of the reel
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