Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-16

course, not count
ing Clerk John
Boifeuillet, who
always is the best
dressed man any
where.
Representative
Bob" Hardeman's
friends dispute
that Macarthur has
anything whatev- sss
Yer on Hardeman Oh ~ = "A
in the matter of ~
sartorial philoso ,T y kAF
ply and the prac-
teal application thereof, and that if he
wrests from Bob" the proud appella-
ton of Georgia legislative Beau Brum-
mell,' he will be a wonder, indeed!
Representative Claude Payton was,
perhaps, the very handsomest man in
the last house, and knows a thing or two
about wearing his clothes, moreover;
but Payton Is not coming back-and
neither Is that other swell, elegant
dresser, Byron Bower-and so the con-
test narrows down to Hardeman and
Macarthur unless there be some dark
horses yet to be brought forth as con-
testants in this matter.
Converse, of Lowndes, who has been
promoted to the senate is something of
an authority on clothes, and. without
Bill Norris to compete with him,
ought to get away with the pennant in
the senate
New county projects continue to bob
up all over Georgia-indeed, If the next
legislature creates all the new counties
it is asked to the map of Georgia will
be very greatly changed a year or two
from now.
proposition to ask for the creation
of new county. with Bowdon as the
county seat, is being considered by the
people of the western section of Car
roll The usual reasons prevail, and
there is said to be much local enthusi-
asm over the project.
There is this about 1t, however: II
Georgia is to have a batch of new coun-
ties, north Georgia will do well to get In
the game, or the counties Of south Geor-
L.
Commenting briefly but pointedly
upon Johnnie Reeses election to carry
the electoral vote to Washington, The
Rome Tribune Herald says:
Little Johnnie Reese will carry
the electoral vote of Georgia to
Washington. Johnnie is small in
stature, but can carry a great big
| load.
On the eve of his triumphal progress
to the national capital, Johnnie may
incline to pause while and ask him
self what The Tribune Herald meant.
really, when 1t handed him that one!
Cleveland Bryant, formerly of Ma
con. but more recently a clerk in the
Kimball house, has accumulated an
overwhelming collection of chicken no.
tions, and win leave Atlanta shortly
for New Jersey, where he will operate
an extensive chicken farm.
Bryant is we'll known to a great
many Georgia politicians, and those
with whom he has come in contact of
late will now understand why he has
turned the conversation so persistently
to fowls, of one sort and another, and
their various ways and habits
Most Georgia legislators are farm
ers. and Bryant thinks what they don't
know about chicken farming has been
torn out OF the book-and Bryant be-
lieves he is some chicken farmer him
self!
The Athens Banner does not take
overkindly to the suggested abolition of
the so-called Seniority rule" in the
United States senate, and cites a Geor-
gia senator's case as one reason why
it is opposed to the proposed new or
der of things
Says The Banner:
The state of Georgia has a SEN
ator who, by reason of his long
service covering period of more
than twenty years, is in position to
render the nation, as well as his
state. the most efficient service.
Senator Bacon, under the seniority
rule, goes to the head of the most
important committees and has a
high ranking on number of COM
mittees where he is not chairman
In these positions he can be of the
greatest service to the nation, and
to the state he serves. To abolish
the seniority rule and make it pos
sible to place men of smaller cali
Der and Of much less experience in
the places he would hold under the
rule would be for the senate to
take step backward. What APP
plies in the case OF Senator Bacon
applies in other cases where SEN
ators have seen long and efficient
service.
Senator Bacon's high status in the
United States senate is fully recognized
throughout the nation and in the SEN
ate 1t Is doubtful whether, even I'M
der the operation of suspended or
abolished seniority rule, his committee
assignments would be disturbed. He
would be- unquestionably subject toI