The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
IESS REGULATION
OF BUSINESS NOW
oU EROM AGITATION BEING
ocrD THE INDUSTRIAL
INTERESTS OF THE STATE.
LEGISLATURE TO MEET IN JUNE
oo,,,,try Is Just Recovering From
Denression and Can't Stand New
Reoulations of Capital. Fewer and
Retter Laws What Is Wanted.


ATLANTA.-The 1915 session of
the Georgia legislature will convene
- +be state capitol on June 30 next.
II +be records of recent previous ses-
sions are to be taken as criterions for
nronosed action many measures will
he introduced in the form of so-called
remedial legislation.
Business interests generally are ex-
pressing the hope, however, that the
LEGISLATURE will be imbued with the
necessity for an absolute rest from
legislative agitation-regulatory OF
wasted capital, and that they will rec
nize how important it is, in the light
If nresent conditions, that no action
of drastic nature be taken which
would further aggrayate already I'M
favorable conditions.
Merit Only.
Many measures which in ordinary
times would appear to possess the
ouaIity of merit, it is believed, would
he hurtful just now, as the state and
country at large are emerging from
a great industrial depression. 1t is
for this reason that policy of ex-
IRENE conservatism is hoped for by
the business men of the state.
II is generally conceded among the
more conservative that in recent
wears there have been too many laws
passed and too. many subjects con-
sidered, and that the tendency of leg
islative bodies toward ENGRAVING in
dustrial legislation upon the statute
books has become a recognized and
growing evil. So pronounced has
this feeling become that it has taken
form in state organization among
the manufacturing interests, number
ing in its membership many of the
largest and most important industries
of the state.
While primarily organized for pur-
poses of mutual advantage in the in
terchange of ideas and for concurrent
action upon matters which might af-
feet the whole industrial fabric of the
state, and for the further purpose of
encouraging new enterprises in the
state, it considers nevertheless the
economic Importance of careful dellb-
GRAFTON when it comes to changing
organic laws or suggesting new ones
in the interest of the states vested
capital.
Fewer Laws.
Fewer and better laws" sums up
the position on this subject taken by
the Georgia Manufacturers Assocla-
ton, and it is the watchwOrd of pru-
dence among all manufacturers, and
it is contended that further control
and regulation would make demands
upon time and capital that many OF
the industries of the state could not
at this period endure. With further
burdens and with no greater relief
than has been given from recent
business depression, operation and
maintenance of plants could be easily
made prohibitive.
From the various suggestions that
nave come through business sources
1t is the industrial statesman rather
than the political organizer from
whom relief will come. The business
men are hoping that the legislator
Will approach his task of law making
with a thorough knowledge of the
economic conditions and necessities
OF his state, and with practical bust
ness knowledge, recognizing that
business as represented by the manu-
lecturers is the activity not of few
men whose names appear over the
uoors OF the factories, but OF the
greater number of comparatively 81
lent people who as investors enable
tnese business men to develop large
Industries.
1t is pointed out that business sue
cess in any line is dependent more
largely upon the conditions created
N the state and locality maintaining
It, and of course on natural resources,
ana business generally in Georgia is
appealing to the incoming legislature
Iot to upset the conditions at this
olltlcal time under which they are
dOIe to ODpratn