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FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1919
THE DOG’S TALE
By Snookums
I’'m just a dog, but I'm of good
breed and I know it, and moreover,
all the common curs about this town
know it. I have been at pains to
teach it to all those who doubted it.
Of course there are a few of the
battleship type of “Bulls” with whom
I avoid all association, and on occas
ions when I am thrown in their socie
ty I decline any recognition what
ever.
I'm just as proud of my Scotch
blood as any two legged Scot ,and
that is saying a great deal.
I’m what you might call a shop dog,
without any real ““honest to goodness”
family connection, although I have
adopted one of the boys to be my
particular guardian and companion
in time of need, particularly in those
times “when a feller needs a friend.”
For there are times, even in a dogs
life, when a warm bed or a square
meal are greatly to be desired, and‘
very hard to get. And on these oc
casions I am just the best little dog{
Jim ever owned.
Of course the other fellows are
nice to me, too—Hoggie, and Tommy,
and Penrod, and all the rest. I never
disown any of them, but Jim’s my
regular meal ticket, and there never
was a time when I could not persuade
him to come across when I sent out
my. 8. 0.8,
And you know this last summer,
+ I had a great dread that I was going
to lose him. This war business seem
ed to have him all up in the air, and
a lot of the other fellows were going,
and so far as I could learn there was
no recruiting station for dogs.
Hoggie had got the war fever, too,
and he just kept on until he got book
ed up for an officers’ training camp
away out west somewhere, and all the
time Jim’s fever kept getting higher
—and what was I to do?
But about that time along came
November 11th, which was a bad day
alike for the kaiser and the cooties.
To tell the truth I did not enjoy the
day myself, for I thought the war
had come to my town,
A few days later, however, I be
gun to understand it. Hoggie got his
congditional release, a sort of rain
check as it were, instead of a ticket
to the training camp, and Jim’s fever
subsided, for who wants to fight a
war when there ain’t nobody to fight?
And I was happy again. And a lot
of other fellows who started to France]
only got rain checks.
Things are getting back to normal
again, and I chase every boy on a
wheel in Marietta, and I make it hot
for all the wooly dogs I meet.
To me it has always been and un
answered question—why is a wooly
dog? I'm what you might term “a
wise dog,” but I don’t know the an
swer to this.
But I know a lot of other things
about town, which if I could speak,
would surprise you, in fact, some of
it would be such an interesting story
that perhaps it is better I can not
speak.
And I know as much about the
weather, too, as Grier’s almanac or
Prof. Snyder, either, for when it
turns cold, I know it’s cold, although
1 haven’t got the gall to go around
saying “I told you so.”
I'm just the office dog; there ain’t
any office cat, but I've got an eye
on some things which I may have to
write you about later. In the mean
time I am sleeping with one eye open.
Moral—Leave it to the dog.
—SNOOKUMS.
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“UNCLE SAM™ AND
Well Known Civic Leader Shows How
a Vegetable Garden Will Cut The
Family Store Bill In Half
Atlanta, Ga.—(Special.)—"“Few peo
ple realize the actual money-saving
power of the home vegetable garden
and what it can be made to contrib
ute in the way of food for the fam
ily table,” says President H. G. Has
tings, of the Georgia State Chamber
of Commerce, and the Southeastern
Fair, in discussing the matter of food
supply for the South in 1919.
“Uncle Sam, through the United
States Department of Agriculture,”
said Mr. Hastings, “estimated the
value of the vegetables produced last
vear in home gardens of the United
States at three hundred and fifty mil
lion of dollars. This means that much
actually saved by the garden makers
from their store bills.
“Whenever there is lack of food or
money to buy food, no matter wheth
er it be due to world-wide food scarc
ity, boll weevil damage or other cause,
the first word ‘Uncle Sam’ passes out
to the sufferer is to make a good big
home garden. Why? Because the
right kind of a home garden is the
quickest, cheapest and best source of
food supply there is.
“The great trouble here in the South
is that our people don’t take the home
garden seriously enough, or give it
the attention that its importance as a
food producer and money-saver justi
fies. It is mostly made with a ‘lick
and a promise’ and the cultivation and
replanting it gets during the growing
season is mostly of the unfulfilled
promise kind.
“With the present and certain-to-be
continued high food prices on the one
hand, and the very great uncertainty
as to the price that cotton or other
cash crops will sell for next fall, it is
a time above all others to play safe.
“This is no time to gamble on cot
ton. None of us can tell within 15
cents a pound what it will sell for
next fall. The farmer who makes few
or no store debts for food, producing
his own and family needs on home
aares, is safe regardless of cotton
prices, and he is the only one who
is safe.
“The right kind of a home garden
‘maintained all through the season and
given a square deal in the way of cul
tivation, is the greatest store-bill-cut
ter on record. A quarter to half an
acre garden for the average family
will cut the store bill in half.”
MOULTRIE M. SESSION QUES
TIONS LEGALITY OF SENATE
(Continued from page one)
stitution was ratified which are num
bered from 45 to 51 inclusive—no
new numbers were created, but new
districts.
Suppose, for the sake of argu
ment, that no changes had been made
in the arrangement of the several
counties composing the 44 senatorial
districts of Georgia, but that an
amendment to the constitution had
been ratified at the last election re
numbering them from 100 to 144, or
naming them “Kennesaw Mountain
District,” “Capital City District,”
“Blue Ridge District,” Macon Dis
trict,” and so on, does any one im
agine that new districts would have
been created and that the governor
would have been compelled to call
elections in each district to elect sen
ators therefor? The idea is absurd!
Mr. Holloman uses this language
in his article:
“An old district, revised by re
districting, is not a new district.”
I cannot accept this statement as
correct when viewed in the light of
the Act amending the constitution
whereby an old district was abolished
and a new district established in lieu
‘thereof, as I have already shown, still,
if it were true, then Mr. Holloman’s
argument falls by its own weight, be
cause the senatorial district now com
posed of the counties of Gwinnett,
Milton and Forsyth, which is called
the “51st,” is nothing but a re-dis
tricting of the old 39th as it existed
vefore the constitution was amended;
it is composed of two of the same
counties (Milton and Forsyth) that
composed it before and has only one
new county, and yet an election has
been called therein for the 7th of
January, 1919, to elect a senator
therefor—is it just because it was
a “new’” number? And yet the 39th
district as it exists. now of Cobb,
Cherokee and Douglas, containing no
two counties ever together before in
a senatorial district, is designated
by Mr. Holloman as an “old” district,
and one in which he says “the law
forbids the election of a senator”—
is it because it has an old number? I
know of no way in which it could be
satisfactorily established which is the
oldest number, 39 or 51, but both
have been in current use at least since
the years of Methuselah, so neither
is “new” so far as senatorial districts
in Georgia is concerned.
If I am correct in my proposition
that when sub-section (a) of Section
3 of the Act to amend the constitu
’tion was ratified, it abolished the old
'lsth, 27th, 30th, 34th, 35th and 39th
‘districts, and when sub-section (b) of
the same section was ratified it cre
ated six new districts designated by
the same numbers, who is going to
represent these six new districts in‘
the next general assembly? Certain
ly, from a legal standpoint, not the
excellent gentlemen who were elect
ed to represent the old districts bear
ing these numbers, because each of
the old districts was abolished; and,
when the district was abolished, the
office of senator of that district died
not a natural, but a legal, death.
Suppose at the last general elec
tion there had been an Act submitted
to the people providing for an amend
ment to the constitution which, if
ratified, would abolish the Supreme
Court of our state. And suppose
that the six distinguished judges who
now serve on that court were all
running for re-election at the same
time; suppose that the amendment
was ratified and the court abolished
and at the same time the same six
judges were re-elected, does any one
suppose that these judges would still
sit as a court, draw their salaries, and
pass upon the writs of error brought
before them? No; they would grace
fully step down and out; the court
having been abolished, they would
have no positions to fill.
Now, that is just what happened
at the last election; the six sena
torial districts already enumerated
were abolished, and at the same elec
tion the six gentlemen who had been
nominated for senators from those
districts were elected, but with the
districts abolished there is left no
position for them as senators, and le
gally they are “statesmen without
jobs.” I intend no discourtesy to
these excellent gentlemen in my
statements, but this is the legal effect
of their districts being abolished, and
“law is law,” as Mr. Holloman so
aptly says.
I even go further than this; it is
my opinion that if the act in ques
tion had provided that the 35th dis-i
trict, composed of Fulton, Cobb and
Clayton, had been abandoned by the
ratification of an amendment to the
constitution so providing, and at the
same time by the ratification of an
other amendment another district
called the 35th, compased of the
same counties, had been created, the
senator who had been elected from
the old 35th could not legally repre
sent the new 35th. Take a corpora
tion; suppose that it liquidates and
relinquishes and delivers up its char
ter, and then suppose that the sam
men who compose the old corporation
petition for another charter with the
same name and the same capital
stock, and it is organized under the
terms of the law, would it be consider
ed that the same man who happened
to be president of the old corporation
would be president of the new by vir
tue of such fact? No; he could never
act as president of the new corpora
tion until he was legally elected as
provided by the by-laws and charter
thereof.
Then, if I am correct in my prem
ises, who is going to represent the
new 39th district in the next general
assembly? Who will be the senator
to represent Cobb county?
Mr. Holloman says in his article
as follows:
“Cobb county will be represented
by Senator Allen. The electors of
Cobb county voted for him as their
senator.” |
1 want it distinetly understood that
I have no fight to make upon Mr.
Allen; he is well qualified for a sen
ator and an estimable gentleman, but
I am at a loss to understand how he
can legally represent Cobb county in‘
the senate; if Mr. Allen is the legal
representative from any district, it is
the 35th; and Cobb county is in thel
39th senatorial district. If he should
resign and an election should be call
ed to elect his successor, what coun
ties would vote at such an election?
Of course, everybody will agree that
it would be Fulton, Clayton and
Henry; Cobb would have no more
voice in the contest for his successor
than some resident of the Sandwich
Islands. Mr. Allen does not reside in
Cobb county, neither does he reside
in the 39th district in which Cobb
is located; then, how could he repre
sent this county?
Section No. 6422 of the Code of
Georgia is as follows:
“The sendtors shall be citizens of
the United States, who have attained
the age of twenty-five years, and
who have been citizens of this state
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for four years, and for one year resi
d:r}}s of the district from which elect
ed.
Mr. Allen has all the qualifications
and many others, save one—he has
not resided in the 39th district for
one year.
In the next paragraph of his article
from that quoted above, Mr. Hollo
man says:
“Wilcox county was originally in
the 14th district. It has now been
transferred to the 48th district. Hon.
J. D. Maynard was elected as sena
tor from the county of Wilcox in the
old (note the use of ‘““old”) 14th dis
trict. This leaves the 14th district
without a senator, should a strict
construction be put upon the law.”
Now, I ask why should not J. D.
Maynard represent Wilcox county in
the senate for the same reason that
Mr. Holloman says that Mr. Allen
will represent Cobb county? The
electors of Wilcox county voted for
Maynard just the same as the electors
of Cobb voted for Allen—why won’t
the rule work both ways?
According to my opinion the reason
that Mr. Allen can not represent any
county in the senate is because the
district for which he was elected has
been abolished; if he wants to be a
member of the senate, let him per
suade the governor to call a special
election for the new 35th, let him
run for the office and be legally elect
ed; I will be delighted to see this
done, for he would make the district
an admirable senator.
Suppose, when the senate meets to
organize at its next session and the
roll is called, what district will Mr.
Allen answer for? The 35th, and not
for the 39th; then, if he represents
the 35th, he cannot represent Cobb
county, which is in the 39th.
Section No. 6411 of the Code is as
follows:
“Each district shall have one sen
ator.”
Now this is the wording of the con
stitution of our State; is it to be en
forced? Mr. Holloman says that Wil
cox conuty will have no representa
tive should a strict construction be
put upon the law; I ask “Why should
not a strict construction be put upon
the law?” « If “law is law,” why not
follow it? Take the 51st district for
an example: it is composed of the
counties of Gwinnett, Milton and For
syth. Hon. O. A. Nix was elected as
senator from the county of Gwinnett,
then in the old 34th; Hon. C. J. Har
bin was elected from the county of
Forsyth, then in the old 39th—here
we have two men, who, according to
Mr. Holloman, should represent the
counties of Gwinnett and Forsyth,
because the electors of said two coun
ties voted for these gentlemen, and
then along comes the governor and
calls for a special election to select
another senator for the same two
counties, together with Milton county;
4% some man other than -these two
gentlemen names are elected at the
special election, then the 51st district
will have three senators, according to
‘Mr. Holloman’s idea, which is directly
in the teeth of the constitution of
the state.
I see but one legal solution to the
situation, and it seems to me there
is but one thing to be done to make
it as clear as the noon-day sun; that
is for the governor, in addition to
calling a special election in the seven
additional and new district, to also
call special elections in the six new
districts created after the six old dis
tricts were abolished, to-wit: the 15th,
27th, 30th, 34th, 35th, and 39th. And
also to call special elections in all
districts, if there be any, where by
the change in the arrangement of the
new districts it is left without a rep
resentative. If this were done, the
men who would be elected at these
elections would represent the several
districts from which they were chosen
without question. T think this is the
only thing that can be done to make
the next senate a legally constituted‘
body and to render its acts and doings
constitutional, and entitled to full
faith and credit. |
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standpoint to let the matter “slosh”
along just as it is; but the people
have some rights that ought to be
safeguarded; laws will probably be
passed at the next session of the sen
‘ate which will affect many and varied
interests in our state, and such laws
should be passed by a body entitled
to make laws. I believe the courts
should grant a mandamus absolute,
upon proper petition, requiring the
governor to call a special election in
and for the districts I have herein
referred to so that senators could
be elected therefrom whose right to
hold office would not be questioned.
I will say in this connection, how
ever, should this be done that I shall
not be a candidate for senator from
the 39th, since the matter under con
sideration has been agitated, I have
learned that my friend, Hon. J. T.
Duncan, had been elected as senator
from Douglas county, which is now
in the 39th district along with Cobb
and Cerokee counties, and since both
Cobb and Cherokee have had sena
tors since Douglas, I think it nothing
but right that Mr. Duncan should be
elected as the first representative of
the new 39th district, and I should
heartily support him, if the governor
will call an election for such pur
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Let’s all of us, from governors and
legislators, down to private citizens,
obey our old patched-up constitution
until we can get a better one.
MOULTRIE M. SESSIONS.
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