Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-26
sv JAMES 3. NEvIN.

The Augusta Chronicle, newspa-
per given usually to a sober, conser-
vatiVe and fair view of things, has
evidently been much impressed by
the showing recently made in the Ma
tional Congress in behalf Of woman
suffrage, and its comments thereon
may be taken as approximating the
real status of that problem as 1t now
presents itself to the South.
Without entering so much into the
merits Of the points raised for and
against woman suffrage. az Georgia
and the South views the proposition,
The Chronicle points out some Of the
things that must be overcome and
adjusted before woman suffrage can
hope to become a winning issue In
Dixie.
In part The Chronicle says:
THE Senate Of the United
States as now eonstituted-and II
may be safely said. as 1t will be
constituted in the future--favors
woman suffrage. There is little
question that, If the negro prob
lem were not involved, two-thirds
of the Senate now favor votes for
women.
There Is no mistaking the fact
that before FIVE years have
elapsed the men of the United
States must finally pass upon wo-
man suffrage
But not through acceptance or
rejection of an amendment to the
Federal Constitution. Instead,
through the State Legislatures.
The States Of the South, con-
fronted by their negro population,
are not going to vote for an
amendment giving the franchise
10 negresses and probably dis
turblng the present status OF
votes for negro men. The West
ern States. with their Japanese
embarrassments. will join the
South In this.
States have their rights in this
y matter. The women must 90 to
the states. They will not be ef-
tective in working for national
legislation along the lines Of a
constitutional amendment
The point The Chronicle empha,
sizes is that woman suffrage NAV
doubtless will, indeed-become Z. pop-
ular issue In the South, in the event
1t is made an issue to be fought onl
strictly inside the State. and NOT
from the national viewpoint.
Undoubtedly the negro is the biz
stumbling block now in the way Of
woman suffrage in the Southland
he must remain so, IL the
national viewpoint of the question Is
to be insisted upon 'uncompromis-
ingly
Once make the question a State is
sue strictly, however--and Ii Is alto
gether likely that five years, or even
less, will see a fine and perhaps win
ming hight over the problem right
here in Georgia!
Already there are literally thou
sands OF Georgians who believe hear
tily and sincerely in the broad prin-
ciple involved.
The Cobb County Grand Jury re-.
Gently condemned In no uncertain
terms the Moss bill now pending II
the Legislature to abolish Cobb
County's present commissioner sys-
tenn Of public roads, and heartily in
dorsed the present system and its
work.
The macadamized pike road from
north of Acworth at the Barlow
County line, through the center Of
Cobb County to the Fulton County
line. was reported completed, ana ID
said to be one Of the finest roads III
the State
Senator William Stanley Vests
maiden speech in the United States
Senate consisted Of exactly Fl words.
From this. the provost contin-
gent In Georgia is arguing that the
new Senator Is to be "a good one
and worthy Of his salary and So
forth And there is this about that
too-the least said, the least to take
back, explain, or qualify back homel
In the meantime, not few Geor-
CLANS are beginning TO inquire rather
anxiously, What is West going to dol
Colonel ]. Lindsay johnson 81
Rome, who has transferred his dip.
lomatic ambitions and affections
from Shanghai to Uruguay, is in At
lanta.
Colonel Johnson says Rome and All
North Georgia is preparing to pull on
the biggest homecoming week
ever, when, with Mrs. Woodrow vii.
son as the supreme guest OF honor
and "home-c conner" that neighb0rl
hood in June will be "at home X
everybody in general and to former
residents in particular!
Mrs. Wilson was SCHOOLGIRL n
Rome, where for years her father, Or
|. S. X. Arson. was the beloved pas.
tor Of the First Presbyterian Church
A memorial tablet to his memoir,
adorns the church walls, where 1t has
been for twenty years or more.
Rome is expecting many thousand
visitors while this big home cominp
week" is in full blast
Judge l.. s. Roam, of the Court al
Appeals, is back from short trip 10
Florida, where he went to recuperate
from slight nervous breakdown sus-
tained a few months ago. He Is much
improved in health, and hopes to be-
able to continue his duties with the
court without interruption from this
time forward.
The Court OF Appeals Is hearing
arguments this week, and will be
ready with a new batch OF decisfsns
shortly-probably within the next day
Or so.
Blames Well Babies
For Spreading Germs