Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-18
ARE WE RETRoGRADING AS RACE?

ARE Nh hGIhOORADING AS a RACE!
A CCORDING to United States Senator
~ Copeland, from New York state, who
l. was invited to the legislature to ad-
dress the general assembly of Georgia late
in July, are doing that particular thing.
He was for many years health officer in New
York state. He formed his opinion from
his own experience and observation. He
says immortality, social diseases moral
degeneracy and narcotic habits are threaten
ing our civilization. We are a lost nation,
unless these conditions can be corrected to a
considerable degree"
This quotation is sufficient for this writ
ing. Senator Copeland knows what he is
talking about, he is unfit to hold his
high Offices A thoughtful man said to nc
few days ago, Things have turned around
1t used to/be the lustful seducer who was
chasing down the innocent and guileless of
the other sex Nowadays it seems to be the
eagerness of the half-clothed vanp woman,
which entangles the unsuspecting boys of
this age-into immortality and the diseases
which follow moral degeneracy." Said he. st
blame the parents of such girls, who allow
them to take night rides with the other sex,
in automobiles, far into the night"
visitor from another state told of a
half dozen tony young women who went
to very noted hotel and spent the week
end with another half dozen young men, and
these young women had combined to deceive
their mothers, each saying they would be
at such and such friends home in the
city, if anything happened Something did
happen, and the parents wanted their daugh-
ter. AID did not find her until the whole al
fair was uncovered and exposed. Then it
came out that the dozen of them were in the
hotel, as the story got abroad as here told.
had but one little girl She was darling,
and went home to heaven over sixty years
ago as a baby. These things are enough
to make mourning parents reconciled to
bereavement of their children.
SOME LEGISLATIVE DOTS
I was privileged to sit for few minutes
in committee room of the senate last week
where I listened to Mr. Perrymans speech
ION the necessity for getting down to business
in regard to the management of the state
penitentiary at Milledgeyille. 1t was a most
convincing address,
AS explained on that occasion by a mem
Der of the prison commission, the county au-
thorities are expected TO manage and look
after all the local county convict gangs If
heard correctly there are lao counties en-
ploying convicts, and that leaves only TWEEN
ty counties for the state to supervise the
management and maintenance of convicts.
Thus it seems that the prison commission
has confined itself mainly to the penitenti~
airy, the Milledgeville plant, and the care of
the convlcts nearby. When it is recolected
that all three prison commissioners were
in Milledgeville on the fateful night when
Leo frank was aOStracted from the prison
and carried to Cobb county by lynchers.
right under their noses, it would appear that
we need some other agency to manage and
control the veterans in crime, who should
live under lock and key and are despefadoes
and who are TOO vicious to be at large
1t will not be forgotten than a bunco
steerer was convicted in Fulton county some
months ago-a caught with plenty of
other peoples money-and as soon as he
arrived at the .Milledgeville prison he was
made trusty and had no difficulty in MAX