The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-08
THE BORED" AIR OF
LEGISLATORS is FAXED
GEORGIA SOLONS TRY TO
MAKE YOU THINK THEY'RE
NOT EVEN INTERESTED.

Out of the bewilderment and near
CONSERVATION that confounds the I'M
initiated during morning session of
the Georgia legislature comes, at last,
one enheartening conclusion to re-
store composure-they're only pre-
tending that they can't hear the strid-
ent voice of the speaker, and that
they wouldn't pay any attention to it
if they could, says the Atlanta Geor-
gian.
AS a matter of fact, they actually
know what is going on, but they don't
want anyone to suspect that. And a
visitor new to the remarkable pro-
cedure doesn't suspect. 1t comes rath-
er as shock to him when the hands
of the most inattentive suddenly fly
up as if by accident when that all per-
vading voice has called for a vote.
The visitor hadn't quite made out
what the voice was saying, and was
quite sure that no one else knew it
was speaking.
Self-Controlled.
Not that anyone ever looks up to
vote. 1t doesn't seem necessary to
stop reading or pause in conversation.
Hands seem TO charge themselves with
ears of their own and respond auto
matically to the call for expression.
These representatives have master
ed the casual manner so we'll that
they appear almost to deceive them
selves. One can imagine the impulse
of that portly gentleman in the very
4, ,nrl,
over a great document throughout the
reading of bill
did l hear something about call
for hands? Perhaps | did Oh, very
we'll, then, here's mine. | might as
WE'LL though it's certainly very tedious
of them"
Now that isn't at all what the I'M
approachable old gentleman has been
thinking. No doubt it was his own
bill. He knew all the time what that
very loud and rapid voice was saying
and was quite determined to vote for
the measure, even knew what others
were going to stand with him. But he
must pretend not even to hear, much
less to care. It's the way they do it.
A disconcerting manner to the earn
est citizen who hadn't suspected the
talents of these men for innocent dis
sembling.
Enter NELL.
Then suddenly, while most of the
members are wandering about and
fully one-half of them are talking
among themselves, and surely, this
time, only the young representative
with the intensely blue eyes knows
that Speaker Neil is in the hall, a
sleepy man in the back of the hall
suddenly starts forward and there is
a great verbal war over the most in
nocent-s sounding little resolution. The
sleepy man makes an inspired speech
and hasn't time to sit down before
another man, this time fat and good
natured one, interrupts the story he
has been telling and launches into
truly eloquent TRADE against the res
o1ution though one would have sworn
he didn't know there was one.
So far as mere human observation
knows, no one pays the slightest at
tention to him except pale-tacted
newspaper man who can't quite make
out what it's all about. All about him
are vivacious conversations. Several
members are strolling toward the
door. AS the good-natured man pauses
to regain breath one OF the strollers
takes up his attack where he left. it
and the fight goes on. In few min
utes the resolution has been voted
down. a large number of hands rising
as if by chance just as the speaker
calls for vote. No one but the v1si-
tor ignorant of the art Of legislation,
looks surprised.