Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-26
Rx JAMES 3. NENIN.

The Augusta Chronicle newspa
per given usually to a sober, conseT
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 Il now
presents itself to the South.
Without entering so much into tho
merits of the points raised for and
against woman suffrage as Georges
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 a 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 it win be
constituted In the future-fav0rs
woman suffrage. There is little
question that, IL the negro prob
lem were not involved, two-thirds
Of the Senate now favor votes for
women.
There is no installing the fact
that before five years have
elapsed the men of the United
States must finally pass upon swo-
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.
ape not going to vote for an
amendment giving the franchise
to negresses and probably dts
turbing the present status 81
votes for negro men. The West
ern States with their japanese
embarra ssments, will Join tho
South in this
States have their rights In this
matter The women must 60 to
the States. They Will not be en-
tectiye In working for national
legislation along the lines OF a
constitutional amendment.
The point The Chronicle empha4
sizes is that woman suffrage naay
doubtless Will, indeed become a pop~
ular issue in the South, in the event
II 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, IL the
national viewpoint of the question IS
to be insisted upon uneompromis
ingly
Once make the question a State Isl
sue strictly, however-and 1t is alto
gether likely that five years. or even
less, will see a fine and perhaps wine
ming fight over the problem right
here in Georgia.
Already there are literally th0uz
sands of Georgians who believe hear
tily and sincerely In the broad prin-
clple involved.
The Cobb County Grand Jury re-
Gently condemned in no uncertain
terms the Moss bill now pending "a
the Legislature to abolish Cobb
County's present commissioner sysA
tenn OF public roads, and heartily in
dorsed the present system and ils
work
The macadamized pike road from
north of Aeworth at the Barlow
County line, through the center 81
Cobb County to the Fulton County
line, was reported completed, and Isl
said 70 be one Of the finest roads a
the State.
Senator William Stanley West
maiden speech in the United States
Senate consisted OF exactly q words
From this, the pro- West contin~
gent in Georgia Is arguing that the
new Senator is to be "a good one
and worthy OF his salary. and So
forth. And there is this about that
too-the least said the least to take
back, explain, or qualify back hornet
In the meantime, not a few Geor
gians are beginning 10 inquire rather
anxiously, What is West going to do7
Colonel ]. Lindsay johnson Sc
Rome, who has transferred his dips
lomatie ambitions and affections
from Shanghai to Uruguay. is in ATT
lanta.
Colonel Johnson says Rome and All
North Georgia is preparing to pun Dir
the biggest home Coming w,.,,s ~
ever, when, with Mrs Woodrow vii
son as the supreme guest OF honor
and home conner, that neiehbor
hood IN June will be "at home All
everybody in general and to form
residents In particular!
Mrs. Wilson WIS a schoolgirl III
Rome, where for years her father. nf
l. 5. X. Arson, was the beloved paA
tor Of the First Presbyterian Church
A memorial tablet to his memors
adorns the church walls, where it haze
been for twenty years or more.
Rome is expecting many thousand
visitors while this big home -connlne
week Is In full blast.
Judge L. s. Roam, OF the Court 81
Appeals, is back from a short trip to-
Florida, where he went 10 reeuperafa
from slight nervous breakdown susA
tained a few months ago He Is much
improved In health, and hopes to be
able to continue his duties with fine
court without interruption from this
time forward.
The Court OF Appeals Is hearing
arguments this week, and will be
ready with a new batch OF decisions
shortly-probably within the next day
or so.
Blames Well Babies