The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-12
By H. c. HAMILTON

Dy n. V. T7AmiL IL l oN
 ATLANTA, Dec. Il. . The tourist season in the far South, notably the rich resorts of Southern Florida, means something more than mere pre- parations of hotels, golf courses, etc., to entertain the visitors. It means in addition rousing of the states po- lice forces, sheriffs, constables, Fed eraI officials, and the like for the ranks of the tourists every year are swelled to some extent by confidence men.
 Confidence games played in the win ter playground run the entire gamut each winter and some new ones are thrown in for good measure. The lost pocketbook, the trick telegraph wire that is tapped for horse race results the oil stock gamble-they and all their brothers are brought from moth eaten records for working all over again, and, strangely enough, they prove every year that MT. Barnum knew what he was talking about.
 But the thing has gone too far much too far. Governor Cary A. liar dee thinks so, and is going to take steps to end the work of the slickers Instructions have gone out to every sheriff to take every precaution. nc matter what that means, to see that tourists are not molested by the para sites this winter. And he is going to watch for results very closely.
 The Governor recently wrote let. ter to the Daytona Daily News, one of the newspapers published in east coast cities that are meccas for thou sands of tourists, and expressed, thru his secretary, his feeling in the mat ter by saying:
 ''He sincerely believes that wire tappers cannot successfully operate in any county Of the state where the laws are vigorously enforced"
 Whenever elections are held in the South the trite expression Is heard :: Nomination on the Democratic tick ct is equivalent to election" It's true, but don't let it mean that there isn't something else to worry the good peo- pie of Dixie on election day.
 For instance:
 On November 2, last, Georgia got all excited over a proposal to rip chunks off several counties and create a new county to be known as Peach County. This by way of a sort of tribute to leading crop of the state. But the good voters of the state didn't care much about tributes and they proceeded to wreck the proposal, and this Is the reason:
 Ir Georgia when 8 man Is running for some state office he doesn't sit back and wait for the outlying dis tricts to send him in with majority that cannot be overcome by the coun- try precincts It works just the other way.
 In Georgia each county has its quota of unit votes-two for every represen- tative in the general assembly, And that gives Fulton County just six votes for the candidate who carries the city of Atlanta, and it gives two votes to the candidate who is lucky enough to carry the smallest county in the state. Which makes a mans vote in Atlanta worth just about one-sixth that of the man in the mountains.
 So the county voters considered it quite likely that if this business Of making new counties got running start on the state, as has appeared likely in recent years, there might come s time when the south sections of the state or the north sections would be running things in Atlanta and maybe erasihg Atlanta right off the map as the capital. So they turned their thumrs down on Peach County.
 Advartiaa vour Xuaa eooSS.