Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-27


| Commerce to-day.
| The Governor makes it APPOINT Il
attend every county fair he finds 1t
| possible to get to, without neglecting
the public business; and while there
| he generally sounds the people as 10
the new tax equalization law.
| The Governor does not turn his
county fair visits into political trips,
but he is more interested in the sue
cess of the new tax equalization law
| than in any legislation effected by the
! Legislature at its summer session
and he rarely neglects an opportu-
nifty to inquire as to the attitude of
the people of various sections toward
| the same
Everywhere he has been so far he
| finds the people either very much in
! favor of the new law. or most willing
to see it tried out intelligently for
results. He finds. moreover that
such apprehension a S exists to-
ward the law generally is easily re
moved when its workings are ex-
planned
1t is a noteworthy fact that the
new spap ers of the State are almost
solidly backing the new law, and in
that connection it is interesting to
observe how many of them are bring
ing the question right home to their
immediate constituents.
For instance. The LawrenceYille
News Herald in a recent issue said:
Right here" in Gwinnett County
there are 90 900 acres that are not
accounted for on the tax digest
which are worth over 100000.
IS>it right for the other tax
payers to carry all the burden of
taxation for these delinquents?
No man who understands the
aims and purposes of this new
law and what it will accomplish
If properly enforced has any
ground for dissatisfaction, unless
he be an outra eeous 'dodger" and
wishes his neighbor to pay his
just taxes for him
Many other newspapers IN Geor-
gia are bringing this matter right
home to their readers, and the result
is being seen plainly enough in bet
ter understanding of the new law. its
justice and necessity.
Judge Ed Hines. of Milledgeville,
is an Atlanta visitor
Judge Hines generally is looked
upon in his section of the State as
likely Supreme or Appeals Court
material and it will not be tremen-
dously surprising eventually to see
him named to one bench or the other
either by the votes of the people or by
Executive appointment.
He is one of the leading members
of the Middle Georgia bar, and is in
every way fully equipped for place
on either State court of review.
Representative Sam Olive, of Rich
mond, whose principal job in the
General Assembly is looking like Will
liam Jennings Bryan, is in Atlanta
attending the Supreme Court.
Mr. Olive, besides looking amaz-
ingly like the Nebraskan, is like him
oratorically also. being far and away
the most eloquent member of the
present House. There is no man in
the House who disputes Olives right
and title to the oratorical champion
ship.
Mr.. Olive has just returned from
New York, where he says the Mayors
race now on is mo Child's game" He
was interested in that race while
there, particularly because of the fact
that. one C eorgian-"Bob" Adamson-
is managing the Mitchell end OF it,
and another Georgian-"Joe" John
son--is managing the Mccall end of
it.
Olive thinks that Mitchell will win
OUTPUT he is no betting man. re-
member!
A vigorous fight against Romes
new anti-"booZe" ordinance is to be
made by express companies and the
railroads, a temporary injunction re-
straining its Enforcement already
having been granted by Judge Moses
Wright
In Rome they call the new ordi-
nance the "Tell-it-to- Charlie" law