Felton v. Bankers

Mrs. William H. Felton of Cartersville, Ga., is the type of woman to whom people are always giving laudatory titles--"the outstanding woman of the South," "Georgia's Grand Old Lady," "Good Mother Felton," "Georgia's Oldtime Peach." And who can say that Mrs. Felton does not deserve them? It is true that sh? sat in the U. S. Senate for only two days in 1922, but no other woman has ever sat there as a member. It is true that other women have reached the age of 91, but how many of them rise at 6 a. m., manage a 600-acre plantation and write letters to newspapers flaying politicians, bankers? Last week in the Atlanta Constitution, alert Georgians noticed a letter from Mrs. Felton. Said she: "As an old widow, lacking only a little more than eight years of the century mark, I thank you for the editorial. . . . "

In the year 1911 I was badly hurt in a railroad collision--near Armour's Station on the Southern railroad. The company promptly paid me $2,000--to get my old self doctored--and it was this money that I invested with the Bank of Donaldsonville. being promised a 10% dividend by Hon. J. S. Shingler, multi-millionaire of Ashburn, Ga., and its president." Mrs. Felton then told how --she had not received one cent of dividends and how she had appealed to the State banking commission, to the State Supreme Court, to the Governor. They did nothing to help her. "I feel that I have been gagged, hogtied and delivered," said Mrs. Felton. "May God strengthen your ("newspaper! arm in your fight for a law that will give women and children and all depositors better protection than they now have for funds they put in Georgia banks."

Always a crusader, Mrs. Felton has taken the stump for Prohibition, woman suffrage, maternity laws. She has made many a famed utterance, some of which are: "Our government permits children to many who know no more about raising a family than the loose straws in a last year's bird's nest." "

Senators are big bugs."

"I want to wear out, not rust out."