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

restrain that which iniuras
control that which laws the
blighting hand to curse and -
destroy.
Any application of the knifs
will cancerize the evil, and scat.
ter the eating virus into the m.
affected parts of our civic life
Is it the part Of wisdom to an
tempt that which the experience.
of all men, in all lands, through
out the history of the work.
teaches can not be done?
Locker Clubs Closed.
= Atlanta has just experiences
the most orderly Christmas so
far as the criminal record is cnn-
cerned, she has ever known. Gov
ernor Slaton said so. Mavor
Woodward said so. Chief Bsav-
ers expressed qualification that
this was the fact, and attributed
1t all to the closing of most Of
the locker clubs.
Why did these clubs c(osA,
There was ne official proclama-
ton commanding them to close
The Mayor of Atlanta merely re-
qnested that they close in order
that a quiet Christmas might be
had, so far as this act could
guarantee the same.
They Responsibilities clubs
under the unfair, partial and pre-
JUDGED indictment Of the detec-
tive department of Atlanta.
closed on Christmas Day. why7
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 so 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 eontrel--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 "netiee to appear
Five Remained Open.
There were Ave clubs that did
net efese-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 IL
ever was in the years of open
sale. Remember the law closed
all sales places in those days.
This speech of the chief APP
piled to the white people.
There were three murders
committed-and a dozen or more
stabbing and pistol cases made
on Christmas Day-AMONGST
THE NEGRO POPULATION
ALL DRUNK.
What does this show Ne
groes are not permitted to have
locker clubs. How then could
they have procured the whisky
that crazed them, and led to such
awful crime in one day?
THEY GOT IT FROM THE
BLIND TIGERS. THESE NEW
ER CLOSE-THESE CAN NEW
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 no law seeking protective
control. for the orderly system
which now obtains, where all
clubs are managed by responsi-
BILE, home loving boards, and all
beer saloons are operated py
men whose correct department is
passed upon by the Mayor ano
General Council?
Do the good people of Atlanta
want to surrender this substance
of control which they can see 10
the fiimsy and hypocrttical pre-
tense of destruction, which is oul
a hideous shadow that screens
society's worst enemy-the bllhd
tiger?
Blind Tigers.
Blind tigers in Atlanta to-day
are confined almost entirely 20
the negro population, for the re"-
son there is no demand for them
amongst the whites, These nave
locker clubs, representing COZ"
venient castles of society-and il.
herent self-respect leads them u