Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-26
SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
BY JAMES B. NEvIN.

Mr.. Beck, OF Brooks who is a candi-
date for state school superintendent, is
old in educational work and probably has
a wider acquaintance with men in va
rious walks OF life in Georgia today than
any man in the house OF representatives
Mr. Beck was for number of years
a teacher in the North Georgia Agricul-
tural college at Dahltnega. and as such
instructed boys who nowadays are bank
ers, doctors. merchants lawyers, and
some few politicians. scattered not only
all over Georgia but all over the United
States AT one time the North Georgia
Agricultural college was easily one OF the
most popular and numerously attended
institutions of learning in this section, and
there were few Georgia towns that did
students there.
Mr. Beck talks interestingly of his
boys" OF those old days. and estimates
that there are living throughout the
South largely in Georgia, more than
eight thousand of his former pupils.
The Honorable Joe Hin Hall few
the Atlanta coop the very day the
Macon boosters came to town Does
the gentleman know when he has had
enough Of chasing a forlorn hope?
Representative Hollis, Of Taylor al
ways gets the particularly glad hand of
applause when he arises to speak on the
floor of the house
Mr. Hollis is very engaging speaker,
partly because Of what he does say and
partly because OF what he doesn't.
The gentleman is very earnest. but not
Of fluent speech. He manages most ex-
Fq a fs1 rflx
cart before the horse in speaking, and to
forget where he started before he gets
where he is going
He is invariably good natured about It.
and laughs at himself when he finds him.
self lost in a wilderness of words from
which he sees no escape
Mr.. Speaker" he said a day or so ago.
Il wish to state as one Of the great rea-
sons why | oppose this bin is that, Mr.
Speaker, vote aye"
Then Mr.. Hollis sa down in great CON
fusion-as he always does-but happy
and the house laughed as it always does,
and secretly voted Mr.. Hollis a pretty
good sort, anyway, IL he does get the
kings English twisted seventeen ways for
Sunday, every time he undertakes to
crate.
lot OF eloquence has been wasted
this year on bills that didn't pass,
observes Georgia contemporary
Wasted?
This, said member Of the house
yesterday lis a house that favors cut
ting off revenue and piiing up expense
Look at the bills that have passed. or
win pass. that will chop off revenue that
nobody seems worried about replacing
The Tippins bill cuts OFF lots of reve-
nue.. the farmers free list so called,
cuts Off revenue. the proposed repeal OF
the dog tax cuts Off revenue
Regardless OF the merits of these bills,
and other bills. where is the state going
to get the money with which to pay the
appropriations?
THE house killed proposed constitu-
tional amendment to raise temporarily
the tax limit from to mills | think
the house did well to do that. The inno-
walton was dangerous. No telling where
the legislature would stop, once II en-
banked on such course as that
'sStill, where is the money coming
from, when 1t comes time to pay the
states bills? I'm hanged If know It's
all very we'll. perhaps to chop of tainted
money or whatever you call 1t, right and
left. But with always cutting off and
never adding on, why-er--whither are
we drifting, anyway" concluded this
member.
Speaker John n Holder delivered an
address in the interest % his candidacy