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j& the atlantian CENTRAL BANK AND TRUST CORPORATION Candler Building Capital, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars Deposits, Three Million and Five Hundred Thousand Dollars A STRONG, WELL EQUIPPED, CON SERVATIVELY MANAGED BANK \% on Savings Deposits .Your Account is Invited.. 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 (Continued on Page 10.)