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THE ATL ANTI AN 19 A Strong Directorate T HE protection afforded by any bank to its depositors is its capital, surplus and undivided profits and the manner in which the affairs of the institution are conducted and supervised, and the funds in vested. The American National Bank Of Atlanta lias capital, surplus and undivided profits of more than $1,000,000, it is under rigid government supervision, and its directorate consists of men of ripe experience, sound judgment and undoubted integrity, represent ing the foremost business interests of Atlanta and making a board of un usual strength. Following are the names of these directors and their several busi ness connections: LEWIS H. BECK President Beck & Gregg Hardware Co. BARTOW M. BLOUNT President White Hickory Wagon Man ufacturing Co. I)R. WM. S. ELKIN Elkin-Goldsmith Sanatorium JOS. T. HOLLEMAN President Union Savings Bank WILLIAM H. KISER Treasurer M. C Kiser Co. ROBERT F. MADDOX..... Vice-President GEORGE A. NICOLSON President Maddox-Rucker Co. WILLTAM L. PEEL President THOMAS J. PEEPLES Cashier, Treasurer City of Atlanta BENJ. L. WILLINGHAM Pres. Piedmont Cotton Mills CURRENT COMMENT. The Birmingham News (Dem.) says. "The bill to reduce Southern representation in Congress need not be considered seriously. No doubt the member from New York has some ob ject on the side, but there is no pro bability of the bill becoming a law. Crumpackism and Keiferism have about run their course. They are grandstand plays, and the South is not at all worried about them.” The Columbia (S. C.) Record says: "We knew it was coming, and it has come. A dispatch from Pittsburg states that the woman implicated in the Whitla kidnapping says she is not the daughter of the Chicago fireman, but that she is from Atlanta, Ga. Of course. Every intelligent person knew there was bound to be an Atlanta end to the story. There has been an At lanta end to every story ever since Adam and Eve emigrated from South Carolina to Georgia.” The Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.) says: "It was a long while before congress men dared to vote to raise their own salaries. It will be longer still before they vote to cut the salaries down. A good representative is not overpaid at $7,500 a year. A poor representative is overpaid at any price. But Con gress makes no distinction in values among its membership, and it is the only arbiter when the question of re muneration is concerned. Salary laws are seldom revised downward when those charged with the enactment and alteration of them are unfavorably af fected by revision. That is not more characteristic of Congress here than it is of human nature the world over.” The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says: "The casual mention of the fact that 80 per cent of the hosiery made in this country is sold through a single selling agency sheds a good deal of light on the mystery of the in creased duties on stockings. If there be one thing more than another to which Republican congressmen are subservient it is a trust. If four-fifths of all the hosiery is sold through a common agency there is practically a stocking trust; and wherever there is a combination in restraint of trade there will the Republican congress- ment be gathered together to receive their orders—and also other things, perhaps; not, of course, in a personal, but in a party way; for the congress men are all honorable men.” A TYPE WE NEED NOW. Where are the strong men of the best generation who took the lead in the community life of the South; who were wise in counsel, prompt in de cision and courageous in action; whose voices were not silenced by timidity, policy or expediency in those constantly recurring issues between right and wrong in every city, town, village and rural neighborhood? They were positive men, of force and de cision of character. They were deep ly grounded in the religion of the Ten Commandments. They believed in strong, effective government in the family, the community and the State. They believed in the enforcement of law. There was iron in their blood, and they insisted on penalties for wrongdoing and in prompt obedience to the voice of just authority. Such men made that priceless force, now so lamentably scarce—public sen timent, brave, clean, righteous public sentiment that was the very moral lifeblood of the community—for un der the infection of their high exam ples other men, lacking the qualities of leadership, were not afraid to speak out when speech was needed in de nunciation of evil and evil-doers, and thus public sentiment was crystallized and made a mighty force for good. Such men were positive, frank and fearless, stern apostles of law and or der and morality, who would make no compromise with vice or crime, hut were always tolerant of the rights of others and held to no iron code or creed to restrict freedom of opinion and its decent expression. One such man in a town was a steady tonic, a source of moral health and strength and courage to all the rest, and around him iii every public emergency, large or small, the better elements rallied, sure that he would take the right side and confident of his leadership. But where is that type of the Old South now? Has it disappeared in the timidity and greed of commercial ism? Has it flowered and gone to seed? Never did we need such men more, and if we have ceased to pro duce them there must be something fatally defective in a system that fails at so vital a point. Here is a para graph on this line taken from a late exchange: “No community can flourish unless it has its proper quota of positive men, who are wisely affirmative and who cheer and energize by their speech and action. They are a brac ing tonic to the business and social atmosphere. The negative man, on the contrary, depresses, and so far as his influence goes he serves to check the spirit of enterprise, and thereby works against the progress of the place in which he dwells.”—Suwanee Democrat. ART IN SELLING HATS. “It makes you look small,” says the saleslady to the big woman who is try ing on the hat, according to Judge Sold. “It makes you look plump,” says to the slender woman. Sold. "It makes you look young,” she says to the obviously middle-aged woman. Sold. “It makes you look tall,” she says to the short woman. Sold. “It makes you look plump,” she says to the slender woman. Sold. "It brightens your face,” she says to the dark woman. Sold. “It brings out your color,” she says to the pale woman: Sold. And all the hats were alike. A SHORT CUT ACROSS FLORIDA. Hon. Henry Watterson, the veteran and highly esteemed editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, spent a part of the winter on the west coast of Florida, and returned to his edito rial sanctum with his imagination all aglow with the future greatness of that part of that State. When the Panama Canal is finished, and a canal is cut across the State, the Gulf coast is going to be the site of teeming cit ies, but Gulf is to be the Mediter ranean of the New World, and the scepter of commercial greatness is to be transferred from the mighty and wealthy cities of the East to the shores of the State of Flowers and perpetual summer. Where now the gopher hunts his hole in the sand hills and the scrub pine shelters the rabbit and the partridge there will be teem ing villages and great cities whose commerce will reach the furthermost confines of the earth. And the section of which he draws such a glowing picture isn’t so far away from the great East and the teeming West, as he sees it from his editorial window in Louisville. This is what he says: "It is just outside the door of our back yard. Presently the Gulf of Mexico, made a world’s thoroughfare by the completion of jthe Panama Ca nal, will be the Mediterranean Sea of the Western Hemisphere. Then the back yard will become the front yard, changing the whole marine ge ography of the continent, transfer ring the scepter of commercial power from the North to the South, and mak ing a shipping highway and vestibule of continental enterprises of what has hitherto been but a tropic waste. The poor do not know how rich they are until they go down into their socks.” And the picture may not be so greatly overdrawn. It wouldn’t cost such a vast amount of money to con struct a canal across the State. The distance is less than a hundred miles, and on the line of it are the Caloosa- hatchie river and Lake Okeechobee, both of which could easily be made navigable for large vessels. The cost of cutting a canal, therefore, wouldn’t be as great as to put it in the class of dreams of impractical dreamers. The saving of distance between New Orleans and other Gulf cities to East ern cities would be almost a thousand miles. It is certainly worth thinking about, and Editor Watterson has been thinking about it and other great things for Florida. It is such winter visitors as he is who are of real value to a State or a city or a section they honor with their presence. It is very probable that when the Waterways Commission begins its work it will take into account the picture of the West Coast section of Florida and the canal which Mr. Watterson has pre sented so vividly.