Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-13
THE COUNTRY HOME
Some Things to be Remembered
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

Some Things to be Remembered
The legislature which will meet in
late June has been elected to elm
mate the present decentralization
law. Any side-stepping on this line
will be fatal to the politicians who
attempt to side-step. Twice it has
been condemned by the great maJorl-
ty of tax payers of Georgia, in 1920,
and in 1922. The verdict has been
rendered.
A hint to the wise should be suf-
ficient
Next: People of the state are not
ready to move the capital of Geor-
gia anywhere. The time and money
spent on this topic, if saved to the
state, would be appreciated. If the
time and money are again wasted,
then there will be, and should be,
something doing.
Third: The state OF Georgia has
overweighted itself with making new
counties. There may be local rea-
sons for divided interests. but when
we recollect that Alabama gets along
with so counties, and Georgia has
over 60 counties up to date. the argu-
ment has been stated and the YER
dict rendered.
Fourth: The state of Georgia
owes a debt of gratitude to the real
veterans of the Civil war-who need
money relief to live in comfort. They
are going to have it as long as they
live, but the tax payers cannot pay
pensions to men who have never
needed it, or to rich widows, who
should not be given it, and the time
has come to speak out and demand
a placing to the pension list, of those
who do need it, and never got it. Any
administration which will demand
four millions and five hundred thou
sand dollars annually to pay pen
siOns to those who do not need 1t,
and never have needed it, will be
condemned at the polls, to certain
ty.
Northern People Going to Florida
When I was in St. Petersburg, five
wears ago, for q brief visit, [ was
told that the average summer pOpu-
lation was around twelve thousand,
but the winter colony was over thir-
ty thousand. Judging from what L
see and hear in this winter season
49,
population at least three times over
the number of it's summer citizens
and tax payers.
The Dixie highway passes through
Gainesville and the road has a con-
slant procession of automobiles 60
ing southwark from October to
February. We can see all sorts OF
structures on top of the auto trucks,
that was doubtless prepared for a
lodging, a home, so to speak, after
the people in it reach the Land of
Flowers. :" The affair seemed to be
rooted over with some sort of rub
Der covering that turned the rain
all right. With the very high prices
of coal, it means a great deal to
tourists who can get along in Flor
ida with a little smudge of fire in
the night and early morning, and
fish are abundant and possibly
cheap.
[ have turned these matters over
in my mind q good many times
when the cold weather makes me a
virtual prisoner in my house, espe-
cially with some rheumatism to re-
mind me of the general inf1rmities
of age.
But I have concluded that I could
not live in an automobile for any
considerable spell, no matter how
warm the climate. Suppose you
should get sick and had to be treat
ed by doctors and nurses? l have
lived a long time, and understand
that young people of robust health
can make themselves reasonably
comfortable in camping places, but
old folks feel better under a roof.
and with walls to keep out the rain
when rainy season, comes along,
as it always does.
So, would advise Florida tourists
above middle age to find good roof