Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-11
WATER WAGONS
SHADOW IS CAST
ONLEGISLATURE
Fierce Fight Probable Over the
] Proposed Law to Supplement
Webb Act.
BY JAMES g. NEVIN.

> .ssacmbles in June.
sa@- Already there are signs a-plenty
that the water wagon cohorts are
girding up their loins for the fray.
and that the forthcoming mixup is to
be no place for mollycoddles.
A bin similar iu detail 10 the late
lamrnted 90 Tippins bill viii be in
PRODUCED, Of COURSE. and In addition
TO that comes the information that
bin designed 10 dovetai into the
new Federal Webb law is being
framed, and that it viii bc cast upon
the stormy legislative seas soon
after the House has been organized.
Everybody knows what the Tip
pms bill was, but just exactly what
The natur' Of the other proposed new
bill is. nobody seems able TO say at
h IS time
= AS "A matter of fact Georgia now
has more irunclad prohibition law
Than enc comfortably can shake
: ssick at, and if it can not be made to
- dovetail with any Federal law imag-
Enable, a lot of folks incline to think
.s@of a. rather than too little.
And, anyway. there is a disposition
among numerous prohibitionists Of
standing to say that prohibition agi-
tators perhaps will do their cause
more good right now by letting well
enough alone than otherwise.
However that may be. members
elect have been assured through va
rious prohibition and temperance or
ganlEatiOEs, that "a big fight is com
ing and many of them are prepar-
ing themselves accordingly
ANY way they look at h. a prohibl-
ton row ia the General Assembly is
a most disagrccable thing, and most
legislators like To avoid IL wherever
they may
Congressman Charlie Edwards. of
Savannah. recently bought an au-
tomobile at auction for $50. lie didn't
expect 90 get IL when he bid $50 for
it, but as nobody raised the bid he
got the machine.
lie had an expert look IL over TO
see what 10 would cost 60 put 10 in
good order, and the expert figured
that S945l6 would about turn the
trick
anybody who wants Edwards 500
automobile FOR S19gs can get it.
Declaring shat the records Of the
higher courts show only four Of the
eleven Judges who have presided in
the Cherokee Circuit since the es-
adjustment of the supreme Court
had smaller percentage Of cases
reversed then himself Judg, A, w
Fite warmly defends his record i'm
the matter of reversal.
The Judge states that recent news
paper articles concerning his re-
VersaIs In the Supreme Court were
incorrect. quoting one paragraph In
particular from an editorial I'm The
Dalton citizen for which the writer
be says. could bee punished and the
company owning the paper held liza
bile for damages. The paragraph in
timated that SO per cent of Judge
tite's cases We're reversed. lie states
that he has been reversed only I'm As
per cent
Rev T - Ellis. one Of the most
prominent ministers Iu Savannah.
will vigorously protest against the
adoption boy the next Legislature OF
any legislation tending 60 confer the
right of suffrage on women.
Womaus suffrage he declares, is
an institution tending TO destroy the
home the church and the state. and
woman would rob her of many 81 her
most attractive and commendable at
tributes
Mr. Ellis takes quite an interest In
things political and keeps watChful
eve on the Georgia Legislature. lie
believes a minister may and should
mix inteuigeuuy iu politiCG, both TO
his own and his charges benefit.
Discussing the matter of woman's
suffrage the minister says.
The supreme question Is not what
will woman gain nor what the world