The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-13
PREPARING FOR
The LEGISLATURE
MANY INTERESTS WILL BE
vi -.
HEARD DURING THE COMING
SUMMER SESSION.
KIMBALL LOBBY BEGINS TOHUN

:. Another Prohibition Fight VIII lie
Staged, and Divorce Law Given
Attention. Labor Wants Legisla'
ton, and ThereIl Be the Usual
New County Fights.
ATLANTA The fact that it is
comparatively easy matter in Geor-
gia to secure divorces will come in
for some attention during the coming
legislative session.
At present the divorce laws in
Georgia, while not as lax as those OF
Nevada, make it so easy to secure a
divorce in this state that Atlanta Is
gaining the reputation of a South
ern Reno" 1t is beginning to be the
custom in the Fulton county superior
court to set all undefended divorce
cases together, and in the past sew
eral years this list has grown amaz-
ingly.
Judge w. d. Ellis of the Fulton
county superior court declared last
week, following the disposal of go
divorce cases in three days, that it is
his intention to bring this before the
Part of the blame is laid on the lax
laws governing the issuance of mar
riage certificates of the state,
IF a man goes to the bank to put
through a $40 transaction, declar-
ed Judge Ellis, he is carefully inVes-
tigated before he can get a cent On
the other hand, he may go to the or
dinarys office to arrange for his mar
riage without any investigation and,
as has been the case, he may secure
the official sanction of the state to
marriage with a 13-year-Old child,
which state of affairs does not do any
good toward the maintenance of the
integrity of the modern home, which
is the foundation of the government. t.
Headquarters.
With the advent Of spring the VIC
lets have come out and the daffodils
are said to be exercising their pre-
rogative of blooming tra-la-la. and by
the same token the Kimball House
lobby is beginning to hum once more
with the voices Of politicians and pO-
litical camp followers.
At least three campaign headquar-
terS have been secured already in the
Kimball House, and although it is
predicted that this year is to be
rather quiet one a number Of meas
ures are already launched and are
being advocated.
Mr.. Robert Fechner of Savannah,
secretary of the Georgia Federation
of Labor, has been at work for some
time on certain labor reform bills,
which he expects to receive favorable
consideration, the automobile tax law
will be the center of fight, the W..
& A, we have with us always, some
change in the law enforcing the col
lection of taxes through the county
tax collectors will probably be made,
woman's suffrage will come in for
no little attention and some political
wiseacres have predicted at least a
partial victory for wOman's suffrage
in the state.
In addition to this there are ru-
mors too strong to be ignored of a
prohibition fight which will be wag-
ed. An attempt will be made to pass
a eugenics marriage law. DR.. B. F.
Emory of Villa Rica, who is interest
ed in the bill has declared that it
will not be a radical measure, but one
which shall be conservative enough
to gain favor with the old school
and at the same time which will af-
ford some protection to the state
against unsuitable marriages.
New Counties.
Despite the chilly intimation Of the