Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14
By JAMES 3. NEV.N,

AuulDeT OF southern railroads, WIFI
headquarters in Washington, is in At
lanta for a few days He called upon
Governor Slaton to-day in the execu-
tive offices of the Capitol.
1t generally is agreed, not only In
Georgia but throughout the nation,
that the national House Of Represen-
tatives lost a real statesman when
Mr.. Brantley retired. On both sides
of the House, Republican and Demo-
cratic alike, Mr., Brantley was most
highly respected and genuinely es-
teemed. He was rated as, perhaps,
the very best lawyer on the Demo-
cratic side, particularly on constitu-
tional points. When he first an
nounced his intention to retire from
Congress, his immediate colleagues
from Georgia united in a protest and
petition that he reconsider, and in
this they were Joined by very lage
majority of the entire Congressional
membership. Mr.. Brantley had then
served in Congress for many years
at tremendous financial sacrifice,
however, and he did not feel that he
could continue to do that, in Justice
to himself and those dependent upon
him.
Mr.. Brantley states that he has re-
tired definitely and finally from the
field of politics. His name has been
suggested, time and again, for the
United States Senate, but he says he
has no ambition in that direction, and
never expects to ask for that or any
other office. He speaks with great
affection of the people of the district
he formerly represented in Congress,
and, while necessarily absent from
the State the greater portion of his
time, he still retains his citizenship
here and remains Georgia's loyal son.
The Triton Gazette, dismissing pol
itics for the moment, makes edito-
rally the following terse and signifi-
can't statement with regard to the
financial status of the farmers in its
immediate vicinity:
Despite all the hysteria in some
of the State papers about the
amount of money in the farmers
hands, there are few if any farm
ers or business men in this sec
ton who have any more money
now than they had one year ago.
Last fall was a very favorable
one, but 1t was a great debt pay
ing fall. The people haven't any
more money than they had year
ago, but they owe a great deal
Nless-therefore, the country is
better off.
The report of the State Treasurer,
recently made public, shows that
savings banks deposits have very
substantially increased within the
past few months, and it certainly
| seems probable that an appreciate
proportion of the same must have
come from the farmers-and the in
ference in the mind of the State
| Treasurer is that the farmers actually
| have more ready cash in hand now
than they had this time last year.
| But even if they have no more cash
now than they had then, and still are
| much further out of debt, they are
well ahead of the game.
| The continued serious illness of
Colonel Charles r. Pendleton, editor
of The Macon Telegraph. has greatly
| distressed and saddened the news
| paper world in Georgia. Almost with
| out exception, the weeklies carry in
their current issues editorial notes of
| most respectful sympathy and per-
sonal and professional appreciation.
The editor of The Telegraph is very
sincerely loved by his fellow crafts
men in Georgia, and it is doubtful
whether the words of any one editor
| in the State carry SO much weight
and influence as his.
That he may recover completely
and return soon to the work he loves
so we'll and performs with such sig
| nal ability and intelligence certainly
is the wish and hope Of the press of
| Georgia.
| It will be rather risky business to
| h. ell of oaY "
parcel post in Georgia hereafter, as
| State Game Warden Davis has just
returned from Washington, where he
secured a Postoffice Department order
| forbidding it.
Warden Davis is making every in
| telligent effort to enforce the game
, law in Georgia, and it is specifically
against the letter of that law to ship
game from one county to another, or
out of the State into another State.
| This law was being violated constant
| ly, however, by postoffice shipments;
and after the package containing the
game had been given over to Uncle
| Sam, the State seemingly had no
way to help itself Warden Davis
has found a way by going to Wash
| ington and having it out with the
! Postmaster General.
| Judge Moses Wright has declined
| to sentence prisoners to the present
| Floyd County jail until it is put in
sanitary condition. The judge says
the Jail as it now stands is "a posi-
! tive disgrace to the county," and that
he actually feels he is endangerlng
both the health and life of prisoners
by permitting them to be incarcer-
ated therein.
1t seems that Floyd County long
ago outgrew its present Jail. which
was built something like 80 years
ago, and, although its remodeling has
| been recommended time and again by
various Grand Juries, nothing has
| been done. Finally Judge Wrights
patience gave out entirely, and he has
| -footedly refused to send any more
| prisoners there!
1t is thought likely in Floyd that
the judges firm stand in this matter
| will secure at least a halfway de-
cent Jail for the county. and maybe
i. will secure one altogether decent.
| Governor Slaton's recent address
before the State College of Agricul-
| ture in Athens is most highly praised
in The Athens Banner. That news
paper characterizes it as thoughtful
highly intelligent, and bristling with
! constructive craftsmanship.
! The Governor is an honor graduate