Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14
BY JAMES 3. NE\rN.

BY JAMES q. NEN,N.
Former Congressman William G.
Brantley, now general counsel for a
number of Southern railroads, with
headquarters in Washington, is in At
lanta for 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-
tatlyes 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 a very lage
majority of the entire Congressional
membership. Mr.. Brantley had then
served in Congress for many years
at a 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
1tics for the moment, makes edito.
rally the following terse and sign1fi-
cant 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.
L!uSt ldIi was d very ldNOTdule
one, but it 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
less-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 1t certainly
seems probable that an appreciable
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 IL 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 weekles 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
L. i IL.
is the wish and hope of the press of
Georgia.
It will be rather risky business to
undertake the shipment of game by
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 a
sanitary condition. The Judge says
the Jail as 1t now stands is "a posi-
tive disgrace to the county," and that
he actually feels he is endsngering
both the health and life Of prisoners
by permitting them to be incarcer-
ated therein.
1t seems that Floyd County long
ago outgrew it's present Jail, which
was built something like so years
ago, and, although its remodeling has
been recommended time and again by
various Grand Juries, nothing has
been done. Finally Judge Wright's
patience gave out entirely, and he has
f1atfootedly 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
1t Will secure one altogether decent.
Governor Slaton's recent address
before the State College of Agricul-
ture in Athens is most highly praised