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

The Augusta Chronicle. a newspa-
per given usually to 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 It now
presents itself to the South,
Without entering so much into the
merits OF The points raised for and
against woman suffrage, as 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 winning issue in
! Dixie.
In part, The Chronicle says
THE Senate Of the United
States as now constituted--and, II
may be safely said, as II will be
constituted in the future-favors
woman suffrage. There is little
question that, IL the negro prob
lem were not involved, two-thirds
of the Senate now favcr votes for
( women.
There is no mistalxing the fact
that before Ave 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
to negresses and probably dis
turbing the present status Of
votes for negro men The West
ern States with their japanese
ADVERTISEMENTS will join the
South in this
Estates have their rights in this
| matter The women must go to
the States. They viii not be eff
fective in working for national
/ legislation along the lines of
constitutional amendment"
/ The point The Chronicle empha-
| sizes Is that woman suffrage may
doubtless will, indeed-become a pop
ular issue in the South. in the event
| it is made an issue to be fought out
strictly inside the State. and NOT
| from the national viewpoint
/ Undoubtedly the negro is the big
stumbling block now in the way OF
woman suffrage in the Southland
| inevitably he must remain so, II the
national viewpoint of the question is
to be insisted upon uncompromis-
| ingly.
Once make the question a State is
sue strictly, however-and 1t Is alto
gether likely that five years. or even
less, will see fine and perhaps win
| ming fight 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 IN
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 Bartow
County line. through the center o.
Cobb County to the Fulton County
line, was reported completed and !,
said to be one of the finest roads ir
the State.
Senator William Stanley Vests
maiden speech in the United States
Senate consisted Of exactly q words
From this. the provost contin-
gent in Georgia Is arguing that thu
new Senator Is to be "a good one
and worthy of his salary. and 81
forth. And there is this about that