Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-05
THE COUNTRY HOME

gerous. No such thing as beating
or marring or numbering a detained
convict should be allowed to private
cupidity or greed.
In conclusion the state Of Geor
safety of it's citizenship to put an
end to peonage.
ooh! wad some power the giftie
give us,
To see ourselves as others see US"
The high cost of the sessions of
the legislature should by all means
induce any right-ninded member of
| that body to curtail the fiorid oratory
Of those who do the useless speak
ing, and especially of those who con-
sumo time with fillibustering.
The legislature of 1922 has con-
sumed nearly three-fourths Of it's al
lotted time, and yet this oratory con-
tinues and the fillibusters are ram
paging up and down the halls of
legislation. 1t is so pitiful to look at,
when the poor old state Of Georgia is
sunk to the chin in debt, and would
be almost forC-i to go into bank
ruptcy if these orators and f1llibus-
terers were not spending the state
tax money on their precious selves,
which money should go to the sup
port of the civil appropriations and
to keep up the necessary institutions
Of the state. 1t "fatigues the indig.
nation" We are gravely told that
it will require four and a half mil
lions of dollars to meet the pension
claims in January, 1924. One way
| to help in this dilemma would be to
stop the talking and save that money
| to be added to the pension fund.
read an amusing article, darby
story, yesterday that I think is ap-
propriate at this writing.
Good old Ferdy and his good old
wife Eliza named their darby child
Fertilizer" 1t was such a new name
to be given to anybody's child that
| the colored woman was asked to eX-
plain. With a shining countenance,
she answered: "Why, my old mans
named Ferdinand and we calls him
Ferdy for short, and my name is
Lizer, so we named our child "F'erdy-
| lizer.'
This legislature will go down in
history as the Fillibuster.
The "filly" part should be named
after their nimble capering and
snorting in public company, and the
buster" part will be put on by the
people who unfortunately elected
them to the legislature.
Added on to the boil weevi1 this
do-nothing legislature is certainly
| the limit for disheartenment.
When I read over the names and
| the salaries of the people who are
running the agricultural business
of the state government, and see
where enormous floods of tax mon.
ey have been literally soaked UP
in such manner, my old heart Is
sickened to really know how abso
lutely useless they are to the over
worked and disheartened majority
of farmers with whom I am ac'
quainted. When / understand how
poorly the insane asylum cares for
it's thousands of inmates and what
a hell on earth is made by the
prison conditions as existing, and
how much is needed for the care
and comfort of the crazy people and
the convicts; and how oblivious
| these filibusters are of the precious
time and money that is being thrown
away in gas and gabble," won
der how long the people of Geor
gia can bear it.
The taxpayers are simply rob
bed by such unnecessary waste OF
the tax money by the people who
are sent to Atlanta to sweep these
blood-suckers out of their positions
and secure decent attention to the
care of our public institutions.
The dirty politics in this filibuster
ing is smelly" Every mothers son
is after something better, who sim
ply talks to kill time and to get
his name before the limelight ap
paratus, for advertising himself.
If there was ever a time to con
serve the time of the legislature
it is right now, and if there was
ever a time to save the state OF
Georgia from bad laws and loud
mouthed demagogues, that time is
right now.
| YOlIte11'erni