Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
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~ JANIS B. NEVIN 49,
" JANIS B. NEVIN

Seaborn Wright. Of Floyd County
the father OF prohibition in Geor-
gia," and go forth and so on. Is to
beard the lion in his den tonight, or
the Demon Rum in his favorite lair
or whatever it is-anyway he is
| scheduled for a trash moving" over
! flow Of oratory in Savannah this ev-
ening. and The ultimate object OF his
visit to that burg is the closing Of
| all the booze" shops!
| II was rumored rather Industrious
/ ~ at one time that Mr. Wright was
/ to be one Of the prime factors I'm
/ launching the movement to put the
esteemed lid" on tight in Atlanta,
but for some reason or other he didn't
lend his presence to the recent open
| ing gun meeting in the Gate City.
Whether the noted Rome orator
was not willing then to let go any
OF his surplus energy on Atlanta, or
anywhere else, with a Savannah en-
gagement ahead. is not known-all
that is known. or stated. at least. is
| that he was Al first booked to open
up on Atlanta. and that he didn't!
Mr. Wright started his tour OF
| shutting EN- up IN Rome-which, Of
course, was proceeding Immediately
along the line of least resistance-but
! few people had any idea he would
| reach for Savannah until the very
| last!
The question now agitating the
minds OF many of the Romans adj
mirers is whether it is his purpose
to work from the top down, or from
the bottom up.
Incidentally, he dropped in on Ma
con one day not long ago and shut
up that metropolis-w which was
rather in the nature Of making sure
of DE halfway station, as II were.
n goes without saying that the eyes
OF an interested Commonwealth VIII
be glued upon Savannah for a week
or so following Mr. Wrghts visi;
there. If he shuts up Savannah. a
! lot Of harps thereafter likely Will
decorate the weeping willow tree!
Savannah is. perhaps, AT once both
the most engaging and the most
doubtful proposition Mr.. Wright yet
has tackled! VIII he get away with
1t? Time alone will tell.
In the list of those mot voting"
as disclosed by the yea-end-nay roll
calls In that delightful, venerable and
venerated publication. The Congress
slona Record, appears from day to
day about the entire Georgia delega-
ton. Indeed, were It not for the fact
that Uncle Jim" Mann. OF Illinois
insists upon an yea -and-nay call Of
some sort every day, thus getting
certain pestiferous things In The
Record, one would not be able to tell
even through a sort of negative pro-
cess OF reasoning, whether the Geor-
gia Congressional delegation is on its
| job in Washington nowadays
However, there Is nothing much to
do in the House nowadays-and the
Georgia delegation Is doing that very
we'll Most OF the members are at
| home mixing with the folks.
The good women OF Quitman, de-
spairing of relief upon original mo-
| ton OF the men of the town, have
grimly determined to get the gay and
| festive cows off the streets of that
Brooks County metropolis or know
| the reason why!
Getting the cows off the streets of
| Quitman is by no means as simple n
matter as some people may imagine
| however. Since few can remember
when the cows have roamed the
streets OF Quitman ad lib-they have
acquired a sort of title by prescrip-
! ton, as II were, TO many cuts across
lots, and so forth, around and about