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THE ATLANTIAN
D1L TH0S.P.H1NMAN, President PAUL McMICHAEL, Secretary CLAUDE R. BEACH AM, Manager
TAXICAB OPERATING CO.
MAIN OFFICE: 12 Luckie St. GARAGE: 112 Ellis St.
Bell Phone Main 990-901
Atlanta Phone 220
Atlanta, Ga.
SHOPPING! THEATRES!
GALLING! RECEPTIONS!
TAXICAB RATES
DISTANCE
Firat half mile or fraction - - - - 50c
Each quarter mile thereafter - - - 10c
WAITING
Each six minutes
- - 10c
HOURLY
$4,00 for first hour, and $3.00 for each
additional.
MILEAGE
'When a cab is ordered or dismissed at a
point 2 or more miles from the center of
the city a charge of twenty cents must be
rung up as extra on the meter. These
rates are for exclusive use of the TAXI
CAB. One, two, three or four passengers
for one charge. No, mure than four pas
sengers allowed. SAME RATES DAY
OR NIGHT.
TOURING CAR RATES
7 Passengers, $5 for 1st hour.
$4 for each additional hour.
5 Passengers, $4 for 1st hour.
$3 for each additional hour.
$3.00
Special flat rates and service involv
ing return trips or continued use of
Taxicabs to Theatres, Receptions,
Weddings, Balls, Parties, etc., may
be arranged at any time.
I N A H URRY?
CALL A TAXI! READY ON THE MOMENT!
NO DIVORCE FOR HER.
A large-sized negress came before, a
judge seeking redress for domestic
troubles.
“I’s a wronged woman,” she de
clared In a give-me-back-my-child-you-
villain tone, ‘‘an’ I wants redress fra’
dls yere co’t.”
“Tell me about your trouble,” said
the kind-hearted judge.
“It’s about mah ole man. He's done
been ca’yin’ on plumb scannalous wif
a lot of dese yer young niggah gals,
an’ it’s got so ba-ad dat I don’ see
him no moah’n once a week. Sompin’s
gottah be did!”
“H’m! I see,” said the judge. “You
are seeking a divorce—a legal sepa
ration—is that it?”
"Go ’long, man! Dlvo’ce nothin’!
Think I’s gwine t’ gib him what he
wants, and ’low dat man who, ’spite
all his cussedness, is de han’somest
niggah in Coon Tree Holler t’ go sky-
hootin’ ’roun’ ’mong dem little yaller
gals? N’, sah! I don’t want no
divo’ce, n’r dat legal septitutlon you-
all’s talkin’ about. N’, sah, Jedge;
what I wants is an injunction.”
A BOY’S OPINION.
In Sunday-school a teacher of
small boys told them that the earth
Is God’s foot-stool. A little doubting
fellow went home and asked him
mother if it were true. When his
mother replied, “Yes,” the little fel
low said, “My! but God must have
awful long legs.”
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Norfolk Virginia-Pilot says:
“A bill has been offered in the Geor
gia Legislature making it a crime in
the eyes of the law for any student
at any college or school, chartered by
or receiving financial aid from the
State, to engage in a game of baseball
or football. To render it criminal to
send to the legislature such a repre
sentative as the mover of this meas
ure no statute is necessary. It just
naturally is.”
The Dawson (Ga.) News says: “The
McLendon probers have learned that
there have been two vareties of free
rides enjoyed by members of the Rail
road Commission since that body is
sued its anti-pass order—one ‘author
ized, 1 ’ and one that was not. Com
missioner Hillyer, who made a trip
without paying fare and is also the
‘refawm’ member who says he doesn’t
know whether cotton is shipped by
the bale or carload, has been trying
to explain the difference to the Inves
tigating committee.”
The St. Paul Pioneer Press (Ind.)
says: “The (Senate tariff) bill is so
full of just such dishonesties, that it
Is doubtful if the President, industri
ous worker as he is, could detect them
all In a month, much less In the ten
days allowed him within which to
sign or veto a bill. As it is plain that
the ‘experts’ of the Conference Com
mittee will devote their ingenuity to
preserving, if possible, every feature
Intended to cheat the popular expec
tation, the Inevitableness of a veto
as the only recourse against their dis
honesty becomes more and more ap
parent.”
The Macon County (Ga.) Citizen
says: “Compulsory education, while
well glossed on the outer surface,
should be carefully examined on the
inside. We all want the children edu
cated. To the woods with anybody
who does not, but what is going to
happen when all the negligent parents
are prosecuted and perhaps heavily
punished? Will they get their deserts?
They will, but there will be more hell
raised than cotton in Georgia for a
while. The compulsory education bill,
before being enacted into law, should
be stripped of everything unreason
able, and be made so conservative that
it will be cheerfully obeyed and its
purposes honored.”
A CLEAR ROAD BETWEEN.
A well-known judge had quite a repu
tation for appearing stupid on the
bench, and seemed to take special
delight in exasperating young lawyers.
On one occasion a brilliant young law
yer was making an eloquent plea, but
it appeared to be lost on the judge,
for he interrupted the lawyer and
said:
“You are only wasting time, sir.
What you say goes in one ear and out
the other.”
“What’s to prevent, your Honor?”
quickly replied the lawyer.
PRAYER FOR LABOR BY
ACHBISHOP CANTLE-
BURY.
Anent the recent labor troubles In
England the Archbishop of Canterbury
published a special prayer pleading
for a speedy settlement and praying
for the increase of a brotherly spirit.
One can not but wonder why the Arch
bishop does not make his deeds more
nearly conform to his prayers. He is
a member of the British House of
Lords and has invariably voted with
the reactionaries (if the daily papers
are to be believed.) These reaction
aries have never yet shown any dis
position to relieve the burden of the
workers, who went on strike against
intolerable conditions. The demand
of these railroad workers was for an
all around increase of two shillings
(fifty cents) in their weekly pay, a
working week of fifty-four hours (six
days of nine hours each) and a mini
mum wage of twenty-two shillings
(five and one half dollars per week).
In view of these facts it would appear
to the lay mind that the Archbishop
would have been in better business
scufaing to get justice for these over
worked and underpaid people than
waiting for the inevitable explosion
and then formulating prayers. Let it
not be forgotten that he is one of the
lawmakers. We shall be judged for
the deeds done while In the flesh.—
The Churchman.
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