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CLARKE COUNTY COURIER
0i. \ T V—NUMBER 20
ATHENS, GEORGIA, APRIL 28, 1009.
PRICE *1.00 A YEAR
MAYOR DORSEY GIVES A FEW
SOUD FACTS TO THE GRAND JURY
He Gives Some Reasons Why the
Officers of the Courts Should Be
Put on the Salary Basis.
When Mayor Dorsey is not found
looking after the interest of his town
you may know that there is some
thing seriously the matter. If he
is ever caught napping we rarely
ever hear of it.
He has been trying a good many
cases since he became mayor. He
tries almost anything that is done,
even to the direst of crimes, and the
other day he was called up before
the grand jury to give some reasons
why he does this, and they tell us
that he grew real eloquent when he
began to tell them his reasons, which
can be summed up as follows:
"The city of Athens has police
and firemen to pay as well as all the
city officers; it has the streets to
keep up and the water works to
maintain; she has the children to
educate and a hundred other legiti
mate and necessary expenses to
make us what we should be. A
crime is committed, the police are
called upon to arrest the offender,
which they do. They risk their
lives in the arrest, he is brought to
the calaboose and placed therein,
AU this has to be done by the city
and its authorities. If the county
had to do it there would have to be
warrants sworn out, and a hundred
murders would be committed before
an arrest could be made, doubtless.
After the city must do all the work,
I think the city should get some of
none:
other court officers, which will run
the cost up to nearly *75, which
must come out of the pockets of the
tax payers. The defendant is fined
seventy-five dollars, half of which
goeB into the pocket of the solicitor
and the balance into the pockets of
the court officers. So you see when
the case is tried in the mayor’s court
the people get all the benefit of the
fine or the benefit of the fine or the
work on the streets.”
Then.he was asked what in his
opinion was the best thing to do,
and he unhesitatingly remarked that
the thing to do in this state, if we
expect to get real justice, was to put
the court officers on salaries.
This is what we have contended
for all the time. Human nature
suggests that the only way to get the
right thing done is to pay a stated
salary for the work, and many more
people would be punished than are
now, as many must suffer who are
not able to pay, but the man who
has the money can pay out, and the
officers are glad because there is
more money in their pockets, when
if the rich and poor were put on the
same level under the law more jus
tice would be meted out than is.
We are glad the mayor told the
thing straight, and we*are glad that
the grand jury agreed with him and
intimated that he should go on with
the great and good work of equal
izing crime while the people get the
THE CHANCE OF A LIFE
TO SECURE PUBLIC'HOSPITAL
An Opportunity to Get a Splendidly
Equipped Hospital at a Greatly
Reduced Price.
Are we to have a hospital?
A city of nearly 20,000 people
and still growing without a public
hospital is something that you sel
dom hear of in this enlightened and
humane country.
Do we have and do we feel the
need of it? ABk the man whose
wife gets sick, and he must attend
to his business and cannot get
competent nurse. He will tell you
of its importance. Ask the person
who is run over by an automobile,
or falls off a house or in some way
injured, and he will tell you that
it would be a boon to suffering bn
manity, yet Athens hesitates, and
the people squeeze their dimes and
dollars and say let well enough
alone.
Other cities have humanitarians
and philanthropists who put up big
sums to Btart the movement; other
municipalities with an eye to re
ducing the sick pauper expenses and
givipg them the best attention, issue
bonds and help equip the hospital,
and Athens seems to think it is not
needed, and if there are any phil
anthropists here we must confess we
have not found out- their exaet loca
tion yet. But the time is ripe now,
and our people should get together
as a unit and do something in this
line. We understand that the mag-
nifioent sanitarium, which is new.
and the splendidt^uipioent recently
placed therein by Dr. Born will be
offered for sale by Mr. Joseph Hull,
the receiver, and us it is in an ideal
location, away from the noise and
dust, surrounded by a magnificent
grove and broad acres, and delight
ful fields, making it really an ideal
place for a hospital, that a company
composed of the people of Athens,
all of whom may need such a place
sooner or later, should look into the
matter of purchasing it, while it can
be gotten at a figure that it will
never reach again.
We nominate Dr. H. C. White,
whose ambition is to secure a good
hospital for Athens, as the man to
push it to completion, and we would
suggest that all otir people who want
a place like this where you can go
when you are sick and be cared for
by your own physician, to see Dr.
White and lend hitn a helping hand.
Let us do the work now. We ought
to purchase that hospital and have
it in running order in a month.
Don’t delay. The physicians of
Athens should oom$ in and help this
enterprise, as it is badly needed
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