Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-10
NOTHING 50 CHEAP AS A WOMAN's LIFE

| NOTHING so CHEAP AS A WOMAN'S LIFE
VIZ HEN Barlow county superior court
w adjourned nearly a week ago, four
murder trials had been passed upon.
[ wrote you at the time, of the killing of a
w0man-the mother of two children-one a
nursing baby ten months old, by an enraged
husband-and the verdict was life impris
onment
There another woman suddenly killed
by a truck not very far from where l live
She was elderly woman, inoffensive,
harmless and killed dead in the public street
[ did not hear the evidence, but l going
| to tell you what an excited and indignant
| citizen said to me concerning it.
Eyes ma'am. the cheapest thing is human
| life, and the very cheapest of the cheap is a
woman's life. This old lady going along
the street when big truck driven by a
| g1rl-the regular driver sitting beside her
| came along behind her. The regular driver
| discovered the truck was about to run down
| the woman, when he clutched the wheel and
| gave the truck a whirl to turn it about. The
| victim did not see what going on, but
| the truck it was whired nearly blocked
! the entire street and the tail end of the
| truck struck the poor woman in the small
| of her back, broke her spine in two and
| laid her out, dead!
And the jury divided-three for turning
| the careless driver free and the rest for
| putting fine on him. They haggled over
! it, and finally put a fifty dollar fine-when
| the Indictment for manslaughter. OH
| yes, Mrs. FELTON,, a woman's life is the
cheapest thing in this country" I examined
| the county papers report of these jury
| findings, and the newspaper said $75-fine
and if the crime was manslau ghter it
| was very little fine. The jury made the
| verdict. The Judge had no opportunity to
| change the verdict, according to the law
am hoping that the dear old lady's suffer-
| ing was Short but | free to say that
the whole thing seems to be mysterious and
| it is manifest that this helpless victim of
| needless drving-had very poor protection
to her honest old life-in the streets of Car
| tersville.
This needless driving is more than a
| menace. It is outrageous Not day passes
that these needless drivers in various places
| do not run down somebody, according to the
| newspapers.
Ali Indeed, human life is worse than
cheap-it is in a manner defenseless on
the public ways I can understand how, a
] small car, might have been turned success
! fully, when the, regular driver gave the
| Whlrlng wheel chance to turn aside, but
| the long heavy truck must have blocked
the street, and given the aged woman a
! death stroke unavoidably-and there should
| be provided some alley or by-path where
feeble women on foot little children can
escape these immense trucks and thus save
| their lives. Something Is wrong.
Something should be done to stop these
| killings.
Also the Philippine business is coming up
for final settlement. This government paid
! 100000 to Spain for a warranty title to
| that property. You can multiply that twenty
millions by another twenty millions and you
will not reach the cost of those islands to
the United States. They have been a sink
! hole for our tax money from beginning to
| end
! In the event of war with Japan backed by
Great Britain, we will find what they can do,
! by embarrassment and untold war expense.
| They are nest full of rotten eggs, and no.
! body knows how many bad eggs there are in
| the Philippine nest at this time.