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actually wai.
Such .a plan would have at least
the following outstanding advant
ages.
1. It would make a reversal of V>ral votes. How great these
the popular verdict less likely. Three tiv
times already
tremendous incentives to ft
premises of patronage, ana cxce
expenditure of money in the di
ful states with large blocks of ^
candidate has been t>n at least four occasions the chai
” of less than a thousand vote- j|
single state would have elected
different President.
6. It would remove the device of
personal electors, which is not on],
of poor government. j the last presidential election it would 1 useless but dangerous. If any 5,
always blackout before the j have required a change of only 417,- j the electors should for any
fail to carry out the very specif-
of the women. {vice to the people. It should give
We would not be so persistent in | that kind of service that will bring
the matter to try and designate just ab< ut prosperity .and happiness. It
which woman's club should be the j should develope within the people- a
to make the plans and carry out love of state and the persuit of
e uurk, but we would like to sug- happiness.
st it »o the Garden Club as an Georgia has shown ra progress
rly project that would do much as far as government is concerned in defeated for President who polled
write th»* name of thus club on «many years and until we develope more popular votes than his succcss-
r page; of history. some type of leadership that han ful opponent, simply because al' the
The city council might take the the courage and conviction to lead votes cast for him in states which he
lo those who formed that irreat band matter under advisement and name ( the way we will remain steeped in failed to cany were disregarded. In
«-f heroes who fought that a great a committee of women to work outjth-
principal might live. It is well that ; plan with a view of giving some (
v.*c pause each vi-ar to refresh our help to the movement with .the aid* ; nv.-n, is an old adage aid we hope'000 votes in certain close states, or
memories of the lives and examples of the women’s clubs. j that the dawn of a new day is near- one ninetieth of the total, to have
of these hero;- -, it is indeed fitting These par!; ways could bt ni :le|ing Georgia. Consolidation of State j elected Smith president, though
that we gather to pay homage to their ; most beautiful. Several years t.sz lepartment*-, consolidation and re-, Hoover would still have had a popu-
organizttion of the school system, I ior plurality of over five million. On
nnd revision of tne tax system are the other hand it would have required
sore needs. But as long as we place a change of only 202,000 votes to
at the helm selfish politicians, the have deprived Smith of all the elec-
change cannot be made.
lof ?•« a valuable military
with the departure of
L. Nash. He has proven
be a fine leader of young
an excellent teacher.
a number of the women on Jefferson
the day die would be a street began planting flowers in the
To lc —n our enthusiasm to parks, but when the paving came and
honor would be a calamity they wire changed, the work was
:td of the celebration passing halted. It is a good time now to change cannot be made. toral votes he did receive. A meth-
r calendar as the ranks of think about this idea and when j — od of election under which the dis-
thinner we should planting time comes again to take the ; TO ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL position of two per cent of the popu-
rededitatc ourselves to carry on and task over and fill these park.*- with j COLLEGE lar votes can make all the difference
make the day’s celebration even fl« wers of all kinds. • ; between no electoral votes at all and
more fitting and proper. Wc do n, t mak «; {ke suggestion: a measure before the present Con-|*lectio n is obviously
There is a tinge of sadness about in any sense 01 criticism but only j cress w j,j c j, y een ,,j ven far less' ld t0 tdect tke r *t?ht
this celebration. It is the occasion forward it as 1 constructive idea j attention than it deserves is the con-j 2. It would give every voter the
for many of us to especially call to thrt will add much to the beauty, I Ft ; tut j ona j amendment by Congress-' satisfaction of helping his favorite
mind some life that has been dear to charm and interest of our city. man Lea of California to abolish the 1 candidate for President whether he
u-. It i.-* a time to recall the deeds {electoral college and elect the Presi- voted with the majority in his state
of heroism of those who help build WILL GEORGIA FOLLOW j dent of the U pi ted States by popular’ 0 ? not. In the last presidential clec-
our great Southland of today. We , vote without disturbing the relative! tb n three quarters of a million Pe-
cannot do too much for these few tj 1c administrative reorganization voting power of the several states. publican votes in Massachusetts and
that are left and we certainly cannot of New York State, accomplished in j >f r . Lea does not make the usual' two m 'M' on Democratic votes in New
poy 1927 after fifteen years of agitation, proposal of a direct nation-wide Yo . rk . had no mor ® effect on the ***
duties now prescribed for them bj
the constitution, or should <
trary to their pledges, it might evil,
choice the nfcsult. The clen< -al
college system has actually been 1
sponsible for gravely seriou. C n
troversics on several occasion?.
185G the electors of Wisconsin
prevented from casting their rotes
on the prescribed day by
blizzard. In the famous Hayes-TiV
den dispute the personal eligibility
of one elector was -a deciding factor.
Surely in so important a matter i
is unwise to take tuch risks ui
necessarily.
celebration to
oso that are g
ion is icoming on
lose care the cele-
rial day has been f oc National M
n pass on and the
1 younger hands. It
CHANDLER’S VARIETY STORE
MOVES IN NEW DEPARTVEW
Section of Old Opera Home l
Occupied by Variety Store
Gubernatorial candidates arc al- full tribute
imu*t as plentiful as the counties in A new :
Georgia. There will be others no Soon those
doubt who aapire for the office and (.ration of memorial day has Been t hc National Municipal Review. j V otin B power under that arranpc
many of us will wait still longer be- entrusted wll soon pass on an e **On January 1, 1927, the state nient could not be expected to ratiiy
fore we licht on a candidate. duty will fall into younger hands. It (i.p., Km re d u ced to twenty;lit. He approximate* the .-amc result
the hope that t ese young peop e e j ect j vc officers were reduced I by leaving each state its present
( ol. Marion Allen made Baldwin "»H catch t e spirit an try to o f OUPi t j, c governor, the lieutenant ‘ allotment of electoral votes and
county an able and courageous repre- ju-tly by the solemn and sacred „ 0Vern „ r> thl> comp troller and atto.-- distributing these votes among the
aenUtive and he will bfe returned | trust that will be left to them. I ney general; nnd a restriction was candidates
without opposition as he richly de- - placed on the creation of anv new I popular v
senes. . PREPARE FOR BALLOT DUTY ‘
The commencement season is j
approaching. Milledgcville ii
of her two fine institutions
final weeks always creates
’* has already justified itself, accord- plurality vote, for the very good rea-1 8U,t lhan 50 much wast ® P a Pe r -
ing to Governor Franklin D. Roose- son that a suficient number of the! 3. It would thus stimulate voting
elt writing in the current issue of 1 smaller states which would lose in and contribute to the political educa
tion of the electorate. When no one
except u member of the locally domi
nant party can hope to accomplish
anything by voting, it is not sur
prising that only half of the quali
fied voters usually register theij-
votes and campaigning is largely con
fined to a few doubtful states.
writes. | >jow York, for example, in the' It would make the best quali-
epart- election of 1928, gave President fied candidates of all parties politi
co | Much efort i* being made to arouse ments other than tliose presided over Hoover, 2,193,344 popular votes out! cally available for nomination re-
? prou.' <*«t and steadier sense of bal- l.y the governor and the attorney 4 ,f a total of 4,405,626. Since this raid less of their places of ••esidcnce.
and the i t duty ameng the people of Georgia. 1 rcrernl which are not wholly under’ r - a , 22.403 forty-fifths of the votes Under the present tystem a tandi-
much The Georgia Education Association the control of appointees of the i n the state Mr. Lea’s plan would date who docs not live in one of the
interc-t. urges its membership to register now governor, but gent rally specking, a have given Mr. Hoover 22,408 elec-
for voting in thc state primary and responsible government under the .toral votes from New York, instead
Two of Baldwin’s neighboring to take advantage this right of citi- governor has been set up. ] of all 45. And since former Gover-
counties are furnishing candidates zonship. Only those who have quali- “When one considers the old gov- n ©r Smith pbded 21.346 forty-fifths,
for Governor. George Carswell of fieri l»y the eighth of next month will eminent structure of one hundred he would have received 21.346 of
Wilkin; or. • nd Gordnn Chapman of i e permitted to vote in the elections, ami twenty different bureaus, boards New York's electoral votes instead
Washington have both anriaunced Register now and pay your poll taxes, and departments and compares »t ,.f none at all. Similarly in the states
that they are In the race. This is an eventful year in Georgia with the modern, orderly arrange-1 w hich Smith carried Hoover would
r.oHtics. A Governor, senator, twelve roent of eighteen well organized de ; have received his due share of the
NATIONAL MUSIC WEEK . ..npressmen, stnV* house .officers 1 partments under ih. direction «.i the | electoral votes, and the electoral vote
d members of both bouses of the governor with two under . epar .ely the whole country would have
Long before the first week in May legislature aic to be chosen. Every elected officials, it seems hard to been much more nearly proportion-
b. Mill.:
•served thro gh-
National Mu ic
njoyed a special
season of music each spring. Thc
idea war. c.Ubiishcd and parpetuat-
t*d by Miss Alice Lenorc Tucker and
Lr. M. M. Turks.
Begun 00 ji small scale it has
our calendar
ach year.
ic week 1ms become I
-a' celebi.ition. Clnmhes,
schools and civic organiza- j N
•o all joined to make the j that
i*k an outstanding event,
ck thut is not designed
cial class of people but 1
ed In order that all of us
joy thc best there is in
art which above nil other
stirs within us n revolting
can sooth the troubled si ul and could piny in the
bring peace and content to those who [This is out of the que
find solace in nothing else. Music > Paved streets make it ii
charms, inspires, entrances and goes j .veil :i_. the great increas
even further in that it awakens in which make it a hazard,
us an appreciation of all that is pure ’ Play nnd wholesome e:
anil noble in life. ; essential to the child'
to himself and his realize that re
tn*o to lake an intelligent part in layed so long.
tho‘e elections. They should weigh practice, the *o
(!;;■ i, ;ies v eil, judge the can*!iilaie'i has been ampl;
fairly and go to the polls to choose “In the fall
the men who they believe will serve adopted nn exe
•Ur,
hard
;irgnnization was
An carried out
indness of the th«
■ demonstrated,
of 1927, the vo
•utive budget am
de- 1
the popular
than It
few lurge doubtful states is usually
not politically uvuilable because it
is the polling of most votes in those
states rather than ot most votes in
the whole country that decides the
election. In the last thirteen presi
dential election-, thc Republican and
Democratic parties have nominated
for president or vice president thi"ty-
one citizens of New York, Indiana,
and Ohio, and only twenty-one from
all the rest of the country together.
ould
A section of the Old Optra Uous
which has recently been renova*,
has been rented by Chandler's V:
riety Store and work was begun th
week installing equipment and stocl
in the new department.
Mr. C. N. Chandler, manager t
the store, stated that this new roo
which is a floor above the presei
store would be used for storage ei
tirelv to give more room on the mai
floors for displaying stock. A stai
way has been cut from the Cbst
ler store up to the old Opera lv
The Chandler Variety Store hu
been one of the fast growing
ne ses in the city.
W. C. T. U. TO MEET TUE5DA
AFTERNOON.
The W. C. T. U. will hold thi
regular meeting on Tuesday after
noon at thc Baptist church
Men's Bible Class room at
o’clock. All members are ur
be present. Child Health wil Ihe the.
subject for discussion and all p
pie interested are invited to be pr
the present ent.
301
ourngeously. Remember the first
lent.
Do it i
The first executive budget
prepared under my supervision
The third of the three main pr**-
als for governmelnt rcoruaniza-
1, the one which provided for a
, four-year term for the governor nnd
vie service could be rendered “ther elective officer.*, elections to
•uld bring .a- much happiness be held in the even-number years
it is a and satisfaction to the people of Mil- between presidential elctioiw has not
for a lodgcville as would the erection of a been udoptod. A substitute antend-
•stablish- ! city play ground. I n^nt proposed by the Republican
MUledgeville’s children are without legHath
plucc to play in safety. In days ytar ter
ne by before the automobile came same til
make it hazardous, the children
• leaders, setting up a foJi- ||
1 with elections held at the II
e as the presidential elec- H
s overwhelmingly defeated c
oppo.-i- M
the celebrn-
cts in safety, at thc polls two years .ui
uestion now. tion being led by Governor Smith,
impossible a- “Obviously the efficient function-
traffic ing of the state machinery with a
j two-year term for the governor and
xervise is as department heads is a long way off.
development, "All experts and students of this
. that there
Will you Sell your Children
Into Slavery?
Mail Order Houses, far off; Chain Stores, right here in town;
you are surrounded by a net that is closing into seize
>.ur independence. Will you let them steal
the future of Your Children?
as education or nny other develop- problem arc in agio.*:
.nent mentally or morally which we should be at least a f ur-year term
The program that spend great sums of money to make "or the gove nor and his cabinet, end
roughout thc week Ipos ible. The child that docs ot get that the state election houhl be kept
fine ns any the prope rnmount'of exercise, thnl separate from the national election
Two of the great • does not development physfclt'iy, on the one bard and from local city
g and many other warps its chances of mental irvnir , elections on thc other,
will contribute to and development. "Three year... of actual experi* nee
if entertainment. It would be well for the KiwanK with the reorganized government have
ation that we have Legion or any of the other organiza- amply demonstrated that the theory
with
itronuge of the tions to take this matter under
public. It is given absolutely free advisement. It might be even more
and the only hope thut those who are profitable for several of the clubs to
ms king it possible have, is that large combine so that the burden
8nd appreciative audience ore nnx- pewe would not be so great,
ku to hear them. It is a worthy undertaking
T is the hope of the promoters the leant and future generatlu
f . it will increase within us thc ii^ up to rail blessed those '
1 • . f finer music. It is their de- build and make possible n
sire that w« "ill cultiaate from ground.
the programs an appreciation of -
t . contributions of the great artists, THE JEFFERSON STREET PARKS stay.”
t r. we will know nnd love the music ■ ■ ■ The above report which came
of the immortals. ■ Taking a suggestion from Miss j from the pen of Governor Frankiin
Ihe week will do much to bring DiJdy The Union-Recorder would Roservelt, the head of the greatest
r* C ie of melody and harmony to Mil- like to comment further and to en- state government in the union,
| “So far us administrative consol:-
if c»- dation 13 concerned, it is safe to saj
j that there is no reasonable persor
o .- iv I in the stute today who would ;erious-
m will ly suggest going back to the old con
iio dil dition of numerous stuttered am
play irresponsible stute agencies. The
cabinet system with a limited nun;
her of departments has coine t*.
ledgcville’s life .and if it does we dors
will be a richer and happier city. j aro '
The Union-Recorder urges thc. asm.
people of this city to nttend the?* i Miss Diddy inys in substance that
programs, thereby joining these who . the Jefferson street parks should be
are making the program possible in planted in flowers and beautified. We
think this a wise suggestion. We do
not think that the responsibility lies
upon the hands of the people who
live on this street, but more upon
the whole city.
It would be well for the city to
take over this ta*k, but we believe
that this kind of work, should be
placed in more artistic hands, that
celebrating the week that has been
Bet aside to instill in us an apprecia
tion of the „Tc«test of all .arts.
THE THIN GRAY LINE
Each year the ranks of our Con
federate heroes grows thinner, time
takas its t«U and as we gather in the
I Trade with the men who have served
you all these years, whose homes are like
| your homes, whose children play with |
g yours. T mde with the men who have al- l
© ways been ready to co-operate whenever
1 you or our town needed help or encour-
1! agement. Trade with the men who give j
| you honest measure and honest value for
© your money....
indeed encouraging to those who
have good government as an inter
est which compeh their attention and
it is our hope that Georgin will soor
follow the example of the empire
state.
Laboring under thc present sys
tem. mismangament, waste, lack of
administrative force, and excessive)
taxation nrv its characteristics. Every t
phase of the government’s function
is backward and it is no wonder that
we become impatient and ill temper
ed when politics are mentioned.
Government ie organised as a ser-
f| And you will keep your independence ||
| and build your town
Independent Merchants Association, Inc