The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-03-31
SANITY Y. FANATI-
C|SM AT ATLANTA

On the platform that Atlanta, $50
far as is concerned the subjects of
vice, morals and control of the liquor
traffic, is one of the best groverned
cities in the United States,' and to
combat propaganda which would leave
the contrary impression on people un-
informed of the true conditions, the
Citizens League of Atlanta has been
organized with headquarters on the
seventh floor of the Peters building,
and today proclaims itself.
BY this league the issue is joined
with the Men and Reform Forward
movement upon the bulletins which
the executive committee of that 9TH
Ell organization has been publishing
semi-weekly in the Atlanta newspap-
ers. 1t is because some of those bull
letins have been offensive in tone to a
number of Atlanta 8 business men
that the Citizens League has become
a fact. These leaders. in Atlanta g
business life maintain that the bulle-
tins have tended to libel Atlanta as a
city of sin and evil. They declare
they have felt, in their business re-
lations with outsiders, the depressing
effect of the bulletins undeserved at
tack upon the city's good name. The
Citizens League, therefore, will have
as its primary purpose the challeng-
NO of the sweeping assertions in those
bulletins and the combating of the
misrepresentation alleged against
IL NJ DoI.
mittee.
Fanaticism and Sanity.
That this means determined battle
in the community between V<Rt is
termed fanaticism on one sio and
sanity on the other, there can lit
tic doubt. Officers of the leagUe de-
clare its members are willing to fight
hard for Atlanta's reputation against
unwarranted assault on moral and
commercial conditions in the city,
ono matter who or what may become
involved as the fight goes along
The league is composed among the
strongest and most substantial leaders
of Atlanta. A glance at the list
of its officers and central COM
mittee reveals that fact In that list
are names high in Atlanta s profes-
sional and business life, and the fact
that men like them have associated
in this organization is indicative of it's
determined purpose and complete re-
source. The league is declared to be
direct outgrowth of the recent contro-
versy between Col. F. J. Paxon and
Forrest Adair on the one hand and the
executive committee of the Men and
Religion Movement on the other, with
reference to the tone and nature of
the latter's semi-weekly bulletins.
Politics It's Business.
The league has been organized COM
pactly without ostentation, and is
ready now for aggressive work. 1t
will take such part as t regards
necessary in local politics, following
the example set by the Men and Re-
ligion Movement; and will make po-
lities frankly a part of its business.
One of the most important details
in the announcement made today by
the league is that it will establish at
oil ce and maintain bureau of munich
pal resarch, for the purpose of inves-
tigating matters dealt with in the Men
and Religion bulletins. The belief of
those who compose the league is that
fanatical view has led many of those
bulletins into error on subjects of i'm
portance. The truth regarding At
lanta-nothing more nor less-will be
the object of the bureaus constant
work.
The membership of the league is
said already to have been recruited up
into the hundreds. Here is the or
ganizati0n statement:
"Atlanta was built by spirit
which was united progressive, just,
tolerant and entirely free from fanati
cism.
Recently elements have appeared
which, whether so intended or not,
serve only to disrupt and destroy the
city.
"The Citizens League of Atlanta
has been formed for the purpose of
uniting the sane, conservative eiti-
zens in common effort to correct the
existing situation and prevent further
injury. It's objects are the restora-
tion of sanity, conservatism, toler-
ance, and a just recognition of the
rights of all. 1t will keep pace with
civic affairs, both business and po-
litieal, and inaugurate and aid move
ments which sanely and temperately
seek to preserve and upbuild the city.
L. will very earnestly oppose all
movements representing constant agi-
tation, of absence parading of social
vice and irrational and irresponsible
sensationalism in all respects. 1t
stands for sanity and conservatism as
opposed to fanaticism and hysteria
"The matter is important. We in
vite an inspection of the personnel of
the officers and executive committee.
"We request you to become MEM
ber and give us your unfailing sup
port.-Atlanta Journal, Sunday, Mar.
lst.
8. SIARD WILL SHEAR