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Deposits, Three Million and Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars
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BRANCH, CORNER MITCHELL AND FORSYTH STREETS
Asa G. Candler, President
“GOVERNMENT THAT
GOVERNS.”
A “ministerial declaration” has just
'been read in the French Senate and
Chamber of Deputies.
This document corresponds to an
English “address from the throne” or
to the message of an American Presi
dent. It is a general declaration of
administration policy. In it the Poin
care Ministry declared that “to bo
strong and respected France must have
a government that really governs.”
This is the age-long fallacy of French
politics, and of some political thinking
nearer home. The secret of every
chronic weakness and temporary paraly
sis of the government at Paris since
St. Louis reigned in the Thirteenth
Century has been that France essayed
to govern too much. She has yet to
learn that tho strongest government
must first look to it to insure the de
velopment of the strongest individuals;
that there is no way by which human
beings, individually weak through gov
ernmental repression and interference,
may become collectively strong.
France goes in for “liberty, equality,
fraternity,” but she passes hastily over
the first to get to the second. She has
been too deeply concerned to keep men
equal to waste much emotion on the
question of how far they were free. Hers
is a government of espionage, central
ised, bureaucratic. It has always been
a tyranny. In the sunset of the Eight
eenth Century is exchanged the tyranny
of monarchy for that of bureaucracy;
it did not achieve freedom.
Mere popular rule does not achieve
democracy. Democracy is moro than
that. Democracy means the freeing of
the individual. It demands not simply
that the people rule, but that they rule
mildly and justly.
Thus, and thus only, may those
rugged qualities inf.use themselves into
life that gives fiber to nations. France
must get rid of much redundant ma
chinery and forsake the habit of over
supervision in order to obtain “a strong
government that really governs.”
GOLF AND KISSES.
“Soashore golf seldom amounts to
much,” said H. Chandler Egan, the golf
champion, on the Wheaton links. “Sea
shore golf always suggests to me the
dialogue between Jack and Jill.
“ ‘Oh, Jack, dear, don’t!’ whispered
Jill. ‘The caddie will see us.’
“ ‘No, he won’t,’ said Jack. ‘He’s
too busy looking for the ball, and it’s
in my pocket.’ ”
A NEW DEFINITION.
Robert W. Chambers, the least Bo
hemian of great novelists, has a horror
of all those faults that are cloaked and
condoned with the phrase, “The artistic
temperament. ’ ’
“The artistic temperament,” said
Mr. Chambers at a dinner at the Cen
tury Club in New York, “may be best
defined as the habit of borrowing and
forgetting to pay.”
ALL IN THE NAME.
“How did you persuade your daughter
to learn kitchen workt”
“By calling it Domestic Science.”—
St. Louis Democrat.
S. B. TURMAN
Tells The “ATLANTIAN” of Some Interesting Work
Done by the County Board.
He Has Been a Faithful Servant and Deserves Re-Elec
tion Without Opposition.
1st For the last three years, the
board thinks that considerable progress
has been made not only in actual bulk of
work, but in the improvement along
modern lines and of efficiency. Among
some of the new methods introduced, the
following may be mentioned: Follow
ing a resolution introduced by Commis
sioner Turman, in 1909 the department
of highway engineer has been estab
lished. For the last three years, an en
gineer has been making the reports as
to the amount of grading and the char
acter of paving, showing the number of
miles graded or paved, or both, in the
county and city during each year, the
above Buckhead. In addition to the
two buildings, we have one building for
women convicts on the same tract, to
gether with a building for the machin
ery used in pumping water and furnish
ing electricity, total cost approximately
$80,000, which money was derived from
the sale of the old almshouse property
near Buckhead, so that it was not neces
sary to levy any tax for same.
4th. After considerable effort a bill
was gotten through the Georgia Legis
lature establishing the county police de
partment, so that it is now on a perma
nent basis, a regular organization, like
that of the city. Heretofore it was
S. B. TURMAN.
character of pavement and square
yards of same, and the cubic yards of
dirt moved.
2nd. An outfit of modern hauling ma
chinery has been purchased, including a
traction engine and eight steel reversible
self-dumping cars. For long hauling of
crushed stone, this is a great time saver.
3rd. The new almshouse, consisting
of two buildings, one for white and one
for colored, for the paupers of both Ful
ton County and the City of Atlanta, has
been erected on the Powers Ferry road
worked by a subterfuge. The men hav
ing been called inspectors of roads and
bridges, and paid by the county as such,
and getting their authority to make ar
rests by reason of the fact that they
were sworn in by the sheriff as deputies.
5th. A new $800,000 court house is
being built and again the taxes are not
being raised. The commissioners are
trying to build the same out of the pres
ent increase in volumn of the tax digest;
collecting $100,000 per year to pay for
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