Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-10
WATER WAGONS
SHADOW IS CAST
0NLEGISLATURE
Fierce Fight Probable Over the
Proposed Law to Supplement
Webb Act.
BY JAMES 3. NEvIN.


baat the water wagon cohorts are
grding up their loins for the fray.
and that the forthcoming miNup is to
b. no place for mollycoddles.
4 bill similar in detail 10 the late
lamonted 90 Tippins bill viii be in
troduced. of course; and in addition
@ that comes the information that
oil designed 70 dovetau into the
new Federal Webb law" is being
fra'ned. and that it viii be east upon
The stormy legislative seas soon
alter the House has been organized.
Everybody knows what the Tip
pr S bill was. but just exactly what
che natur' of the other proposed new
bin is, nobody seems able To sag al
n's time
As a matter of fact, Georgia now
h;ts more ironclad prohibition law
than che comfortably can shake
lex at. and if It can not be made TO
dovetail with any Federal law mag
iraole, a lot Of folks incline TO think
Il must be because there is too much
OF IL. rather than too little
And, anyway, there is "a disposition
among numerous prohibitiouists of
standing TO say that prohibition agi-
fators perhaps will do thcir cause
more good right now by letting wei
enough alone, than otherwise.
However that may be. members
elect have been assured, through va
Tious pro- bition and temperance or
49, g.. A. A.. NaaaFsH
ing. and many Of them are prepar-
Ing themselves accordingly
= ANY way they look al 10, a prullbi
lion row Ga the General Assembly Is
= most disagreeablc thing. and most
legislators like TO avoid IL wherever
they may.
Congressman Charlie Edwards Of
Savannah, recently bought AN au-
toUobile at auction for $50. lie didn't
expect 10 get IL when h, bid $50 for
~ but as nobody raised the bid he
got the machine.
= He had an expert look IL over, To
see what 70 would cost TO put il In
aood order. and the expert figured
shat Ss4516 would about turn the
trick
!. Anybody who wants Edwards $40
automobile for Sass can get il!
. Declaring hat the records of the
higher courts show only four of the
eleven Judges who have presided In
the Cherokee Circuit since the cs-
Enlistment Of the supreme Court
had a smaller percentage Of cases
reversed then himself, Judg A. ".
Eite warmly defends his record in
the matter of reversal
The Judge states that recent news
apaper articles concerning his re-
incorrect quoting one paragraph In
particular from an editorial In The
Dalton Citizen for which the writer
be SAYS could be punished and the
company owning the paper held la-
bile for damages. The paragraph in
minated that so per cent of Judge
Fite's cases were reversed. lie states
that he has been reversed only IN ~
per cent
Rev T ID Ellis. one of the most
prominent ministers la Savannah,
viii vigorously protest agains the
adoption by the next Legislature Of
any legislation tending 10 confer the
fight of suffrage on women,
WOmau's suffrage, he declares rs
an institution tending 20 destroy the
home. the church and the state and
Woman would rob her of many ui utl
most attractive and commendable at
tributes.
Mr. Ellis takes. quite am interest in
things political. and keeps "a watchlul
eve on Che Georgia Legislature lie
believes "a minister may and should
mis- intenigenuy ia polite, both 10
his own and his charges benefit
Discussing the matter of woman's
suffrage the minister says:
THE supreme question is not what
viii woman gain nor what the world
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