Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-30

citizens, did we not call attention t.
1.-The event this manner in advance
There are actors and actors; there
are plays and plays. Jane Cowl Il
not well known in the South, but hen
name stands alongside the very best
and those play lovers who fail to take
advantage of her appearance here vii
be missing probably the best the sea
son will have to offer. We gladly
recommend all who can do so to see
delightful and beautiful Jane Cowl
WOMEN VOTERS IN GEORGIA.
THERE are those who have derlded
= or shamedly regretted the coming
of women into politics in Georgia
through their national enfranchlse-
ment The Times Recorder has been
one of those newspapers, however,
| which has long championed the cause
of woman suffrage, not only because
it was right, but because of the fact
that elsewhere wherever it has been
tried it has resulted in the Women's
influence and power being thrown on
the side of better government in ev-
cry issue in which public morals or
public welfare was raised
And the su1ndness of his positio !
has been proved in Georgia at our
doors. Last Saturday we saw the
women of Columbus elect a clean,
straightforward ticket for city COM
missioners over politicians opposi-
ton ticket. On Monday we saw them
elect so-caled reform ticket in AL
bany. And in both instances the fact
that the women held and used the
balance of power, and swung it in
the direction of what appeared to
be public interest is admitted in those
two cities.
In the case of Columbus, the En-
quirer-Sun points out that of 681
wcmen voting SCI cast straight bal
lot for the commission government
| ticket, which, if substracted from the
votes actually received by the vari-
Gus candidates, would have seen the
election of four of the five candidates
running as opponents of the commits
/ sion plan. In Albany the election was
Sc close, the mayor winning by only
l7G votes, that q small number of
women could have changed the re-
suit even by failing to vote The
Albany Herald gives dignified praise
to the women of Albany and THEN
part in the election in this manner
"The women Of Albany have had d
large part III this election. A majority
of those eligible as electors under the
| universal Acknowledgement amend
ment to the Constitution of the Unit
ed States have registered and active
| ly participated as electors in this pri-
mary, and it is only fair and just tc
say that as whole they have given d
good account of themselves. From
the first they showed a disposition tc
take their politics seriously, and can
didates who wanted their votes found
that they could not cajole, but rather
had to reason with them and appea
to the things that make for clean and
] straightforward government, without
hypocrisy or camouflage.
THE women of Albany have con
Quoted themselves in their first pc
litical campaign with credit to them
selves and without doing anything tt
lower themselves in that high respect
accorded to their sex by all honorabl,
land chivalrous men. Those who have
protested against universal suffrage
and have predicted all manner of un
seenly and deplorable scenes anC
spectasles that would result from the
gathering of women at the voting
precincts on election day have beer
disappointed and completely silencet
| by the women of Albany in the frs
election in which thew have partici
pated as voter. Women of Albany
our hat is off to your
| And this from the Columbus En-
iquirer-Sun:
mot only has Columbus bazed
new trail for herself, and for tn
State of Georgia, in scrapping he
| old, obsolete system of municipa
government, and substituting there
for the more modern and efficien
commission form of city management
but she has offered a striking OBJ
| ject lesson, as well-in the influenc,
| of women in politics.
Twice, within the past twt
months, we have seen, for the frs
time, this influence of the woman
voter brought to bear in local poll
tics-and, both times, we have see
/ NT(0NIE