Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-10-08

II YOU have the time. get Miss Lizzie
Thomas article on the woman question
OF last week and read il over again
Always sane and sensible. my dear CO
worker on The Semi-Weekly Journal
wrote a particularly sensible letter as
% a woman's right to be her. inulviouai
self and to think for herself on all pub
= viii not COPY what she said or COM
ment further on her article. because IL
cannot be improved upon
honestly believe that much or our
nad legislation has come along because
mothers have been kept in ignorance OF
public matters. They could not train
their young boys.
The wise man said. Give me the first
seven years, and you can take the
child. because shall have him, no
matter what YOU do or say 10 him In
later life"
win some possible exceptions, the
child gets its finest moral training at
the mothers knee. and IL is because our
mothers have not been sufficiently IN
formed that we are inflicted with bad
men and bad methods in state ana na-.
tional politics
To saloon question got unbearaole
untn the mothers OF this country began
20 make public protest
NE business u AAAE NAsNA~
lame and lop-sided il il were not Tor
voman's present activity in church
The Bsptist church every woman
r,~nnber votes on all questions that
rarne before the church conference
arr delighted to see these faithful ana
Intelligent women given liberty 10 eN-
press their wishes in tangible ana
rIghtful way.
TO train up boys TO think themselves
superior in all things TO their mothers
and their wives is unhealthy ualhlls
for the boy and rank injustice 10 the
mother who bore him. He cannot be
SUPERIOR 10 his mother. because she gave
him all that she had. and he could get
nothing superior anywhere or elsewhere
except from his mother
believe women have natural right
10 ANYTHING that belongs 10 mankind 1
an not one 10 advocate throwing away
MA, rfehtfully belongs to me 1 stand
for equal justice. equal pay and equailty
before the law in all things
rrouoR TRAFFIC II GEORGIA.
or FRIDAY, sept -. there was pub
rYahed in the leading south Georgia pa
mars. a fearful arraignment OF the city
~ Albany. III regard TO the sale OF
lfrrIor IN Dougherty c0unty-there was
a public meeting held some weeks ago
In fndiEnation meeting, because the
names Of promfnent citizens were lert
ont OF the Jury box. and a protest was
made in the shape Of mandamus peu-
ti6n before a superior court judge, who
went with the people who resisted the
rnaudamus defeating these persons
who attempted reform
We are gravely told there are TWEEN
tv-ssven licensed saloons in Albany
Incorporated limits. and untold num-
hers Of blind tigers There are from
100 20 $50 houses OF i'll fame protected
bv the police authorities not counting
forty or fifty scattered houses OF the
same character. The police shelter
the gamblers and when the sheriff ar
rests criminals the police combine for
their release. The indignant citizens
Of Dougherty county attempted TO
overturn such conditions and have
been defeated
/ only desire to comment on the
twenty-seven licensed saloons Is
georgia any more a prohibition slater
How can any court or jury protect IL
censed saloons in the city OF Alba
M Have TIE south Georgia judges
gone over to the enemy and nullifed
ne statute law OF this state?r
- seems 10 be a terrible backward
sep and a dreadful black eve for those
who have given the best years OF their
manhood and womanhood TO driving
ont the accursed liquor traffic. The
Statute law provides for the protection
90 the home and OF society. by forbid