Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-14
Keeping Clean the Streets of Wash
inStOn City


mgtOn City
In connection with the snoW-cov-
cred streets of Washington City and
the avalanche of snow which wreck
ed the KnickerbOcker movie theater,
it was developed in congress that
the government of the capital city
failed to get the necessary labor to
shovel or remove the snow from the
sidewalks, although there were near
ly $20O,0 900 in waiting to pay for such
labor. Plenty of officials, but no
laborers. The appropriation to keep
the streets and sidewalks clean is
$3.50 ,0G0-devoted to dust proven
ton, cleaning and snow removal. -"
Up to January %, 1922, there had
been expended less than half the
amount, but the necessary labor to
raove the blizzard snow avalanche
could not be secured, with the pay
envelope ready to be handed out
promptly.
1t is we'll to acquaint the plain
Georgia folks who peruse the coun-
try home column of the Tri-Weekiy
with what transpires in this city of
high life and enormous salaries. 1t
requires nearly $4,000 to pay the
salary of one superintendent, his as
sistant and the chief clerk, a stenog-
rapher or two, seven inspectors and
fourteen foremen, to overlook the
street cleaning business.
Not one was ever expected to WELD
q pick or snow shovel, and a Ken
| lucky congressman thus discoursed
There is no department in the city
Of Washington that is not top-heaVy,
| Take the schools for instance: EV'
cry school teacher will tell you if
! she will not be told on, that the
schools are top-heavy in the way OF
principals. Every other branch is
| top-heavy, and they have plenty OF
money. have seen men going along
the streets hunting for goose nests,
These are little round holes made
| ir the pavement by automobiles. 1t
always takes two men to draw q
chalk line around these little goose
nests to show the repairers where
to go to work, generally three inspec.
tors. One man will take a piece OF
chalk and draw a white line about
one-third around the goose nest.
| The next man will draw another
third and the last OF the three fin
! ishes the entire circle. Just an or
binary man, with piece of chalk
could draw the same circle in a
moment" And it requires a million
and a half dollars to repair and keep
in order the streets of the city of
Washington, per annum. With all
this available money, the Kentucky
congressman declared that there
were not people enough to do the
necessary labor. 1t was spent on
non-workers. Is it not enough to
| 10 oh flo0
idleness and the waste of tax money
in salaries?
When this matter was so freely
discussed on last Friday, the con-
gressmen were congratulating the
city proper who own the property
| real estate) that the sunshine was
melting down the snowbanks and
| the giant sewers were carrying off
/ the melted snow Water-out to the
great, salty ocean.
And we hear rumors that smaller
| towns like Atlanta, are infested IN
a smaller Way-by too many officials
! and too few real workers.
And can go down the streets OF
Gainesville any day and hear il
said that the city government is top
heavy and plunging along, trying tc
! do like Atlanta, and up and on tt
the city of Washington! Too many
| overseers, and few workers.
| And this is a free government
where there are so many principals
in office, drawing the big salaries
that there is but low wages and hare
toll for those who WELD the pick
and shovel! Just imagine three mer
with bit of chalk each, drawing Z
line about little holes in the street
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snow, waist high, on the sidewalks
hunting goose nests"
They should go by the name oil
ganders
Specializing With Other People;
Money
There are dismal disclosures goins
on and showing up in good old Geor
gia, as the newspapers record the
news of the day. / heard Well-in
formed public official remark a few
days ago: "It looks like our PEG
pie are going mad with specula
ton and with too much dishonesty
with other peoples money. Die
you ever see the beat of it?' re
piled, "I never did"
A banks character, like a WON
ans reputation, is easily smirchec
! Dy what pSOplS say ctIlSl WIlSh DdIlr
officials can use stockholders anC
depositors' money to speculate with
and the directors are so full Of con
f1dence that they don't examine into
the banks business as the law re
quires, both classes should pay the
penalty of wrong doing, and neg
lect of duty.
A directors place in a bank is
one of serious responsibility. Ad
hitting there are two classes of di
rectors in the same bank as a gen
eral rule, there are the tigureheads
who are complimented with a di
rectors position, and are only ex
pected to sign a name at intervals
on a dotted line. There are found tc
be directors also who are in fol
what the opportunity offers them
by handling other peoples money
We need in this crisis directors
who are not afraid to ask questions
and if the ruling authority in G
| bank declines to give proper an
sWers, either demand a thorough ex
position of the banks proceedings
or get out, for your own credit
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