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Official Organ of Marictta and Cobb County, Georgia
MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15th, 1918
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. Peace for All Time
The end of the greatest war of all history is 2 subject
so vast as to be beyond the grasp of any mind.
To write an editorial on the subject would be like
throwing pebbles into the ocean.
The broadest vision can only reach some little hair
line here or there.
To humanity can only come a sense of rest, of relief
from a great strain, and a thankfuluess to the Creator
and Ruler of all existence, i
With the joy and gladness for our boys who shall
return, must be mixed our tears for those who gave their
lives for us, and will not come back with the victorious
band who shall receive the honers and laurels of a
grateful country. ,
God alone can comfort the sorrowing, and make His
will our own. ,He only can heal the wounds and bind
up the broken hearts, but in the celebration of our tri
umph, our dead heroes shotild hold the highest place.
But of sorrow and suffering the world has its share,
so put on a smiling face and help to save and to rebuild
what the war has torn down. ;
Thanks to our noble Christian war workers, our armies
have been of the most moral and God fearing men who
ever went to war. |
Their cause was a righteous one, and it has p]eased}
God to deliver their enemies into their hands. |
The terms of peace we can well leave in the hands of
our leaders, resting assured that the final disposition of
all war material will be made which shall forever pre
clude the possibility of another world war. ‘
Welcome victory and welcome peace, yes, peace for
all time!
Publishers’ Announcement
During the past year The Journal has been issued
with a severe mechanical handicap. ‘
Printers and linotype men must have experience and
considerable technical knowledge in order to get out a
first-class newspaper.
The Journal has lost four men, in the past year, who
left us to enter the service: James McKinney to the Navy,
Judson Stanley to the Marines, David Comfort, Jr., to
a student army training camp, and Harvey Kincaid to an
Officers’ Training Camp.
Yet we have managed to issue a good newspaper, and
we are now able to promise our readers a much better
one.
We have just secured some new equipment, that will
be of great help to us, and more important yet, we have
been able to associate Mr. E. B. Gary and Mr. ¥ H.
Thompson with the company. They have become stock
holders in the company, their names have been added to
the board of directors, and they will devote their whole
time and personal attention to the publication of this
paper.
Being masters of the profession this insures our read
ers a much better paper than we have recently been able
to get out.
We are also now in position to do job work of the
highest class, and we ask our friends to give us an oppor
tunity Lo name prices on any printing, of whatever char
acter, they may need.
The editorial management of the paper will remain
the same, the price will be $2.00 per year, and it will
be worth it.
We are complying with the order of the Government
in saying all the paper we can, and every person who
gets The Journal is paid in advance.
Advertisers will find that our columns reach the best
class of citizens in Marietta and throughout the county.
We thank you for past indulgences, and ask for a
continuation of your patronage which we shall strive to
~merit.
Alien War Plants in America
Many of the larger industries of this country and more
particularly steel plants and others making war supplies,
were the property of Germans not even residing in this
country, and it was clearly the plan of the German gov
ernment that in time of war they should be used for the
ends of the German government.
They were taken over by our government under the
care of Alien Enemy Custodian A. Mitchell Palmer, who
says of them:
I would diverce utterly and forever all German
eapital from American industry. I have watched
these great enemy corporations under my manage
ment earn enormous profits growing out of the very
war conditions for which their owners and their
owners’ friends in Germany are directly responsible,
and I face the possibility of piling up these inordin
ate mofits for distribution after the war to the very
persons te whom under the circumstances it would
be unmoral and unconscionable for them to go.’
The Government finds itself with a large organi
zation at its own expense preserving property which
was placed ‘heére originally as a hostile act looking
to the conquest of America.
Mr. Palmer further advises the holding of these plants
as Amerwcan preperty, and we heartily agree with him.
They should by reason of their nature and the purpose of
their camving here, be confiscated by the United States.
The Cotton Growers’ Case
We think the case of the cotton growers is very clear
ly and comcisely worded in the following statement by
Senator Hake Smith:
First, it is essential that the War Industries
Board let cotton alone and cease talking about sta
blizing or fixing prices as they have no authority to
do either. Also their purchasing board should be
stopped from acting ia anyway for foreign manu-
facturers, leaving consumers of cotton to buy in the
open market the world over. 5
Second, the growers and owners of cotton should
exercise a voice in fixing the price of cotton and
should sell only at prices satisfactory to them.
Third, the case of the Southern cotton grower
should be given the fullest publicity throughout the-
United States in order that all parties concerned may
be truly informed as to cotton growing and mar
keting conditions.
' When this is done the cotton growers will be able
to take care of themselves, and they will have no kick
about prices. .
They ask no help or favor of the Government now,
’r;nd the only time they ever did—in 1914—it was denied
them. :
The great bear attacks upon the cotton futures market
in New York on Wednesday and Thursday, which forced
prices down some three cents, can mean nothing to the
holders of spot cotton if they wiil hold their cotton for
‘adequate prices.
There positively can be no doubt about it the world
needs every pound of cotton in,existence, and it needs
it at more than thirty cents per pound.
The supplies of most of the world have been utter
ly exhausted and wool is not to be had, so we sincerely
urge our growers who are able to hold their cotton and
assist others to do the same.
The growers should not let the scheming cotton gamb
lers rob them at this time. i
They have only to stand together for their rights,
and it will all come out right in the end.
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- Responsibility of Citizenship
We have heard the stztement made that the German
people are not to blame for the actions of their rulers—
that they should not be held accountable for the war and
its long train of miseries—that the ruling class forced
the masses into it all.
Our answer to this is that the German people were
as well educated as any other people on earth—they
claimed superior education—and they alone were res
ponsible for the kind of rulers they had. 5
So far as we are able to judge the people of Germany
were st first more closely united than the people of any
other land—both permitting and assisting their rulers in
all the most revolting crimes against civilization and
humanity, and we take no stock in the theory that they
are better than the Kaiser and his assistant butchers;
but even if they were forced to obey their masters, they
certainly chose their masters, and made no protest—
failed in the quality of their citizenship when they let
the Kaiser lead them into war. -
We have often heard good business men refer with
contempt to other men who devote some of their time and
talents to the proper selection of officers and the enact
ment of proper laws.
Many good business men never take the time to
vote, and apparently they care nothing for the qualifi
cations of mien who run for the office, from the highest
tc the lowest.
They have a superior manner of referring to the men
who offer for election as “office seekers” or “politicians,”
and they include in their condemnation all those citizens
who take an interest in politics and candidates.
As to their own duty toward the state and as citizens
of the state, they just say that they are too busy for
such things.
i It is just this lack of interest—this failure of so
many to assume their full duty as citizens, that enables
bad men to take charge of politics to corrupt it and use
it for their own personal benefit.
In a small way we have seen it in our own country,
evidence of this civic negligence is apparent in the official
roster of almost any county in Georgia.
And it will continue so as long as a large number of
citizens assume that “what is qvel'ybody’s business is
robody’s business”’—don’t care whether they vote or
not and don’t care who they vote for.
The Germans viere certainly well informed about
everything else, but if there were ever any rightminded
ones, they slept over théir rights when they let the Kaiser
fasten his military machine upon the nation.
It may have been started away back yonder, but
“‘the Lord visits the sins of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation.” :
Why We Fought
Clarence Poe in the Progressive Farmer very clearly
sets forth the fundamental principles for which we
fought. He enumerates them in this order:
(1) The Sacredness of Promises; the duty of men
and nations to keep their word, no matter whether it
helps or hurts.
(2) For Right and Mercy above Might and Bru
tality; the duty of men to fight fairly and bravely, to
show regard for childhood, womanhood and old age, and
to take no mean advantage of the weak.
(3) The Safety of Democracies or People-ruled
Countries; so that they may not be endangered by am
bitious and war-mad king-ruled countries.
These three gains for civilization had already been
won by mankind and we fought merely to hold and keep
them. The other gain, not yet wholly won, but which
Allied victery will make possible and German victory
would have made impossible, is:—
(4) A League of Nations to Enforce Peace, provid
ing at last the same honorable and peaceful way for de
ciding quarrtls between nations which our courts have
long provided for deciding quarrels between individuals.
The Covington News arrived ahead of time this week,
minus its most vauled editorial page so we can not help
wondering if friend Patterson had to leave home to pro
perly celebrate our victorious peace. ,
All the current newspaper cuts and ads were gotten
up under the impression that the war would still be going
on, and now they seem out of place. In time of war pre
pare for peace.
Since the war is over the gathering of peach stones
for gas masks is no longer desired. The power which
invented gas warfare is now extinct. -
Disappointment is the lot of many an ambitious
vouth, who expected to become famous on the field of
battle, but joy reigns in the hearts of as many mothers
in our land today.
Under the ruling requiring the address card from sol
diers in order to return them Christmas presents, many
soldiers will get no present, having failed to send home
the card in time.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
News reports say the Kaiser is going to assume the
title of Count William Hohenzollern in Holland, but to
the world he will ever be'known as the, “Beast of Berlin.”
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’ The boys we sent to France have “delivered the.
goods” and it is now up to you to see that the war work
funds for their benefit are ample.
‘ Baseball will be the international sport after this,
it being one of the things the soldiers of all other coun
tries learned from our boys. "
The ban has been lifted on the production of passen
ger automobiles to the extent of 75 per cent of ghe
former normal outpuf, and you can scon “blow your
self” to a new “flivver.”
The King business is one of the most unpopular and
discreditable professions in Mittel-Europa these days
as 0. Henry would say, “It ain’t all jam, béing a King.”
The Krupps, makers of the big guns of Germany, are
in prison, and when they settle with the Socialists who
will be in charge of the new German Republic, they will
do well to escape with their lives. ~
When we see the rejoicing of the people over here,
we can not measure how great must be the joy in France
and Belgium and England and Italy, those lands whose
women and children have been murdered.by the barbarous
Hun. -
America’s importance at the peace table will afford
a wonderful opportunity to display her unselfishness, and
to secure more firmly than ever before, the confidence and
respect of all the peoples of the earth.
One of the fortunes of war for America is to place
her first in the air and upon the sea, with facilities for
retaining this supremacy. May she never relinquish it.
e s ngar S i
The farmers of the state could do no better thing for
themselves and the south, than to restrict greatly the
cotton acreage next spring, and increase correspondingly
the ‘crop of corn, peas, potatoes and food crops, and
make a market for a large part of this through hogs and
cattle.
Let every patch on your clothes this winter repre
sent a War Savings Stamp in your little book.
By using the islands as night stopovers, small fast
aeroplanes will soon probably make trans-oceanic trips.
Georgia Products Day this year will be Nov. 21st,
and you are supposed to cbserve it by feasting on Geor
gia raised good things.
The Farmers’ National Congress meets in Jacksonville
Dec: 3-6, and it will be one of the greatest ever held in
the south.
In the hour of rejoicing over 'a victorious peace, let
us not forget to “render unto Caesar the things that are
Caesar’s, and to God the things that ae God’s.”
The World 1s Saved!
—Democracy Wins!
UR BOYS have secured a victorious peace. The
Huns have surrendered, and the message of
peace has gone out to the uttermost ends of the
earth.
But the world must be fed, and the world must be
clothed, and fortunate indeed is the family which
has provided for the winter’s chilling blasts.
It is our good fortune to have secured some time
; _ ago, avery fine assortment of knit goods, and our
stock of winter necessities is good and complete.
Any later change in prices will be upward and it
. is certain that present stocks will not supply the
demands throughout the world.
We can save you money, and you risk much if you
fail to secure these things now. :
Smith & Pott
Marietta ;o - (Georgia
so far as you may be able to do so.
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The collapse of Germany has not released us from oy
responsibilities to humanity, and of course to do our be~:
to alleviate the want and suffering in Austria ang (;a:“
many is still our duty. =
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The war has revived the American Merchant Marine
and the Stars and Stripes will no longer be an unfamil{ :
sight in the ports of the world. -
It is yet too soon to begin to figure the cost of the wap
but better ten times whit it will be than endure {;lé
slavery which Germany had prepared for the whole “'Ol'id
including ourselves. ?
" The last shots weré fired on the eleventh day of the
eleventh month at the eleventh hour, so eleven is surely
our lueky number. : :
Two years ago we sent five million tons of fooq ¢,
Europe, last year we sent ten million tons, and this year
we must send nearly twenty million tons, to prevent ac
tual suffering.
The large white California cow péa, grown in Cohh
County, makes one of the most palatable as wel] g 5 nu
tritious foods for man and beast during the winter
months. }
The Cobb County farmer is a prince in a palace con.
pared to the poverty-stricken paupers who have been try
ing to make a living farming in almost any other count;w,
ch earth. .
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The ‘“contemptible little American army” that the
Kaiser despised, will have a man at the head of the peace
tuble that disposes of the Kaiser and his friends.
When the Kaiser packed his grip to take a trip, he
found himself in the same fix as the young man who was
“all dressed up and nowhere to go.”
When the censorship is lifted won’t the boys have a
tale to tell? But we’ll bet the fellows who did the most
will have the least to say.
Just keep on writing your soldier boy, he is not com
ing home by the first boat.
We w_'onder what sort of a river the Rhine is for swim
ming, for if they have to break the the ice, we know our
boys are going to play in it.
The vines of France and castles on the Rhine will
furnish the basis of many a wonderful fairy story when
“Johnnie comes marching home.”
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Teddy Roosevelt has the lumbago—we knew it would
give him something of the sort to have Wilson wind up
the war without his aid and advice.
After the war, what? It is right up to you now and
the folks who take the lead in the resumption of business
age likely to keep the lead.
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