Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
By JAMES 3. NEtlN.

showing a disposition nowadays 20
discuss public matters more frankly
and more freely than usual and some
laws heretofore regarded as some
what sacred from criticism have been
dissected with candid purpose here
and there.
For instance. there appeared re-
Gently in a South Georgia contem-
porary the following editorial com
ment.
Legislators have Tarious
obligation resting upon them in
the enactment of laws. The pro-
visions should not be SO drastic
as not to meet the approval Of
the people in general, for. un-
questionably. public opinion has
much to do with the enforcement
of law. and if public opinion re-
CARDS a law as too drastic it is
very difficult to secure conVic-
tons.
OF course it is not the province
of jurors to sit in judgment upon
the law; it is only their duty to
determine whether under it the
prisoner at the bar is guilty; but
men are human beings, and fire.
quently they find it difficult to
overlook the effects of what 4
verdict of guilty will be upon one
of their friends and neighbors.
OF course, the gentle reader has al
ready made up his mind as to the
exact law the South Georgia pa per
was discussing-u it was
the Sta te-w wide prohibition statute?
Surely it concerned itself with
iniquituous locker clubs and indi-
vidual - even neighhorly - member
ship therein?
Well, as matter OF fact, it was
nothing of the kind the said paper
had in mind when the foregoing quo
tation was promulgated,
1t was the law against carrying
concealed pons-just that, and
nothing less!
The Rome Tribune Herald has evil
IDENTIFY been keeping tab on things Of
one sort and another, but whether It
speaks of experience, close knowledge
of what-well, it would be interesting
TO know.
Recently the Rome paper said:
The Georgia Legislature will
meet again next June and pass
whole lot of laws that nobody
wants and can not be enforced
Then they will fill up on beer,
draw their salaries and go home.
Rather a strenuous program The
Tribune Herald has outlined for the
Legislature, to be sure,
Judge Henry Revill, of the City
Court of Greenviiie, is being urged
by many of his friends to become a
candidate for the Court of Appeals,
for Judge Ben Hills unexpired term;
and the Meriwether man is giving the
matter serious and earnest consld-
Grafton, moreover.
Judge Reville is one of the best
judges in the State, and is very pop
ular. If he runs. he will have a large
and aggressive following there is
little If any doubt about that.
Whether he will run, however, re-
mains to be seen. He has not indi-
Gated as yet what his final decision
likely will be.
Assistant Commissioner of Agri-
culture Dan Hughes was one of
the unregenerate sons of the desert
escorted across the hot sands to the
City of MeMca by the Atlanta Shrin
ers wednesday night
Commissioner Price already was a
member Of the Shrine and he played
a star part in getting his chief lieu
tenant across the burning sands and
in assisting him to enjoy the more
delightful GASES along the way.
Representative Dewitt Pickett, Of
Terrell County, was elected Senator
in a preferential primary held in his
home county Tuesday, and undoubt
eddy will be duly named Senator in
the regular primary to be held later.
Mr.. Pickett defeated his opponent
r. r. Marlin, who is a popular and
able man himself-by vote of SIG
to 400
Representative Pickett is one of the
really influential men of the present
House, and as Senator from the
Eleventh is sure to take high stand in
the upper chamber of the General AS
sembly. He is looked upon generally
as a safe and sensible legislator, who
always carries level head.
Cordele citizens generally have eX-
pressed their intention of co-operal-
ing with Judge Frank Park, Repre-
sentative from the Second District.
in securing the passage of his bill
recently introduced in Congress, pro-
viding for an appropriation for the
survey of Flint River between Albany
and Montezuma, the object of which
is the extension of the steamboat line
now running from Alphabetical to
Albany.
Members OF the Cordele Chamber
of Commerce and others are OF the
opinion that the establishment OF
such a steamboat line would prove OF
great advantage to Cordele, as well
as other points along the river, in
rheapening freight rates on merchan-
disc. grain, fertilizers and other SUP
plies to this section, ana that it would
offer a splendid reduction in the cost
of transportation of cotton and other
products from these points to the
gulf, going to all ports of the world,
Especially is such project thought
in view OF the canal