Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-27


County are the best in the state, bar
none" said Chairman Dawson, Of the
| State Prison Board, to-day.
There are other good camps In
! Georgia--camps that are conscien-
| tiously managed, and with fine re
| suts-but fairness and justice de
mand that the palm for supreme eN-
cellenoy in the State Of Georgia shall
| go to Chatham!
THE convict in the Chatham camps
seems TO be considered first as q hu-
man being and aftcTward a sort OF
asset to the State, as "A money pro-
Queer. The care of the prisoner s
| body and n reasonable amount OF
comfort to him are the first consider
atoms of the Chatham people. Every
camp is sanitary to an unusual de
| gree there is not a convict i'm tnat-
| ham who is not regularly and care
| fully screened against mosquitoes, for
! instance, and they all sleep at night
amid the best SURROUNDINGS possible
! In the circumstances of their being
| Disease Is guarded against rigidly-
| and this Is, of course, an economical
measure, for, after all, convict SICK
Is a convict carried at dead loss to
| the State.
81 will say that the convict camps
I Of Georgia are, as rule, humanely
and wisely managed-here and there
| there are things that are not quite
what | would like to see. As we get
| to those things that are wrong, but
can he remedied, we try our best 10
| straighten them out. Despite our best
| endeavors, however, things are not al
ways in apple pie order IN all the
Fl 4 l. ha IN
tinued condition of things more nearly
approximates the apple pie order than
anywhere else, nevertheless.
Managing conviCts is not an easy
matter-taking care OF them is Sc
rious business. They can not be quar-
tered in Georgian Terraces, to he sure
as some few people seem to think
they NAV be-hut they can be hu-
namely and decently treated. And
they are-in Chatham, anyway.
chatham has the best roads In
the State, made so by convict labor
largely-and the fine work done is
due in large measure, l feel sure, to
the excellent physical condition IN
which the convicts there are Kept
1t is reported from Bibb County
that Joe Hill Hall late candidate for
| OF the leading members of the Gen
eral Assembly, will be a candidate
for the House of Representatives
again next year
For a long time Uncle joe was
familiar sight about the Capitol
| during the sessions Of the House,
| Indeed, when he announced at the
/ conclusion of the session of l9ll-l2
| that he would not be a candidate to
succeed himself, there was lot Of
genuine regret and sorrow expressed
all around md about He had try
| for the G, &rnoship that year. and
| got a lot Of votes, too, but not near
| ly so many as John M. Slaton-and
| since then he has been practicing law
and letting politics rather severely
alone.
His determination to run again
will interest many hundreds OF
| statesmen, real and near, throughout
| Georgia
SAYS The Rome Tribune Herald:
| IF Atlanta keeps on growing she
won't have room for the Capitol, and
may be willing for Macon to have
| It."
Maybe Atlanta will grow all the
| way to Macon pretty soon, and then
annex the Central City Instead Of
moving the Capitol to Macon, there
| fore, it may be that Atlanta simply
will move Macon to the Capitol
Leonard Todd, one of the best
known young men in Floyd County,
has announced himself a candidate
for Tax Collector of that county