Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-13
Chief Beavers Quiet
Christmas and the
Prohibition Lid

What then? Regulate the evil
restrain that which iniures-
control that which LAYS tn.
blighting hand to curse and r.
destroy.
Any application Of the kn,,a
VIII cancerize the evil, and scat
ter the eating virus into the IN
affected parts Of our civic life
is 1t the part Of wisdom TO at
tempt that which the experenc.
OF all men, in all lands, through
out the history of the world
teaches can not be done.
Locker Clubs Closed.
Atlanta has just experience,
the most orderly Christmas 60
far as the criminal record is CON.
cerned, she has ever known. Gov
ernor slaton said 30. Mayor
woodward said so. Chief Besu-
ers expressed qualification that
this was the fact, and attr,hu+.d
1t all to the closing of most ~
the locker clubs.
Why did these clubs c,oss-
There was no official proclams.
ton commanding them to CLOSE
The Mayor Of Atlanta merely rs-
quested that they close in order
that quiet Christmas might bs
had, 80 far as this act could
guarantee the same.
They responded--these club.
under the unfair, partial and pre-.
JUDGED indictment of the detec-
tive department Of Atlanta
closed on Christmas Day. Why,
Because they wanted to make
terms with that oligarchical sys-
tenn which indicts one and allows
the other to escape? 1t is a rea-
sonable assumption that they had
too much sense to expect favor
at the hands Of the power that
has shown 80 little regard for
human fairness, and exhibited
such small respect for legal JUS
tice.
They closed probably for the
reason they respected the wise
counsel Of the Mayor, whom they
had placed in control-and, as
patriotic citizens, their manag-
ing boards wanted 1t known of all
men they spoke for memberships
that had the welfare of their city
as much at heart as the seven
clubs which the detective depart
ment seemed to think too high
up, and too closely connected
with administered law, to offend
with a notice to appear"
Five Remained Open.
There were I'VE clubs that did
not close---did not respect the
Mayors request. What DID the
detective department do about
that? What WILL the detective
department do about It?
But Chief Beavers says that
the day was more quiet than II
ever was in the years Of open
sale. Remember the law closed
all sales places in those days.
This speech Of the chief ap-
piled to the white people.
There were three murders
committeeman a dozen or more
stabbing and pistol cases made
on Christmas Day-AMONGST
THE NEGRO POPULATION
ALL DRUNK.
What does this show7 Ne
groes are not permitted to have
locker clubs. How then could
they have procured the whisky
that crazed them, and led to such
THEY GOT IT FROM THE
BLIND TIGERS. THESE NEW
Err CLosE-THESE CAN NEv-
Err BE CLOSED.
Does the thought of Atlanta
want to substitute white blind
tigers, that respect no sugges-
ton looking to good order. re-
gard TO law seeking protective
control, for the orderly system
which now obtains, where all
clubs are managed by RESPONSE
BILE, home-loving boards, and all
beer saloons are operated BY
men whose correct department Ia
passed upon by the Mayor and
General Council?
Do the good people Of Atlanta
want to surrender this substance
Of control which they can see to
the fiimsy and hypocritical pre-
tense Of destruction, which is bus
a hideous shadow that screens
socisty's worst enemy-the blind
tiger?
Blind Tigers.
Blind tigers in Atlanta to-day
are confined almost entirely TO
the negro population, for the rea-
son there 10 no demand for them