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MARIETTA, GA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6th, 1918
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G Delay to Casualty Lists
/ We do not know what the normal capacity of the
Atlantic cables may be, but whatever the capacity, the
control of these cagles is now in the hands of the Gov
ernment, just as the control of the mail service and the
telegraph and telephone lines of this country.
It is therefore a fact that every possible mode of
communication and transportation is in the hands of the
Government, and even if the censorship has been remov
ed (we do not know if it has) the Government has as
sumed the duty of giving the people the news. ‘
The armistice, which stopped all fighting, was signed
nearly thirty days ago, and while we are told that our
total casualty list' exceeds 250,000 less than half that
number have been reported in America.
Day after day the section of the casualty list which
is released to the papers, is printed, and eagerly scanned
by the millions of our citizens who have sons, husbands
and brothers over there, from whom they have not heard
in months, perhaps.
It would seem to us that news of the very greatest
importance would be this casualty list in full, and while
we may be wrong, we can not help thinking that the
military authorities over there could have given it, by
mail if necessary, since the fighting ceased.
Now we do not wish to be understood as attaching
blame to any particular officer, either civil or military,
but we are unable to understand this delay.
All we have seen from General Pershing about the
matter was a dispatch of some d,ays ago as follows:
“All deaths are being reported by cable as fast
as the reports are received and the reporting of the
wounded in addition does mnot interfere with this.
Due to our troops being on the march, the diffiiculty
of checking the cAsualty reports is increasing, but
every effort is being made promptly to obtain com
plete reports of the dead and wounded.”
This is from the Official Bulletin of November 29,
but the date of the dispatch is not given.
Men ‘who were at the front on the last day of the
fighting have reached America, so there is certainly no
effort -on the part of the Government to conceal anything
from our people now. Still we are at a loss to account
for the long continued absence of the full casualty list.
We do not write this in any spirit of fault-finding,
but we know we voice the feeling of millions of Ameri
cans in urging a speedy publication of the casualty list.
Many officers have been able to cable home news of
their personal safety but few, if any, privates have been
thus able to relieve the fears of homefolks.
The people are not interested in how the Kaiser spends |
his time, of what he eats for dinner, or how many cigar- ‘
ettes the former Crown Prince smokes, but they do want
the news of the boys, they want to know who has been
killed, and who wounded.
Almost our whole interest in Europe, even after the
president gets there (and we say it with due respect to
Mr. Wilson) is in our boys over there.
Our Minister to Belgium
Those of our people who' followed the story of “Bel
gium,” by Brand Whitlock, will read with peculiar satis
faction the item below, appearing in the press dispatches
of last Saturday. ,
Washington, Nov. 30—Brand Whitlock, Ameri
can minister to Belgium, formally notified the state
department today of his reoccupation of the lega
tion at Brussels, relieving the Spanish minister, who
cared for American interests after this country en
tered the war. : i
Further happiness must have been felt at the addi
tional statement on the day following, that the last Ger
man soldier had been driven- acress the line and out of
Belgium. '
From the beginning of the war, in August 1914, up
to the tme of our entrance, in April, 1917, Brand Whitlock
and the Spanish Minister Villobat, were the only powers
for the good and humanity in all of Belgium, and they
were ceaseless in their labors.to .mitigate the sufferings
of the Belgian people, and in'ther efforts to stay the
cruelties of the Germans.
Night and day they worked, and while the ruthless
hand of Prussian autocracy bore heavily on the people
Whitlock and Villobar were always there demanding the
rigchts of the people, which were rarely respected, and
pleading in the name of humanity.
Finally when we entered the war, Whitlock had to go,
leaving only Villobar, the Spaniard, and now when Whit
lock goes back to take up his duties in the Belgian
capital once more, we venture the assertion that he will
share honors with King Albert himself in the hearts of
the Belgians.
To Brand Whitlock it must aimost seem like a home
coming for himself, and America is indeed fortunate to
have had such a man to represent us amid all the trying
times of the war.
There can be no doubt he has done much to gain
the love and respect of all these people for America, and
we rejoice with him that he is now able to return to
them, an honored people, free from the yoke of bondage
and the lash of the slave-driver forever.
Feeding Germany l
Since the signing of the armistice there has been a
great variety of opinions advanced as to the propriety of
feeding Germany.
Undoubtedly there is some suffering there but we
can not believe that it is anything like as severe as in
Poland last winter or in Belgium and much of the Ger
man held territory at that time.
When we remember that Germany has not been des
poiled by invading and destroying enemies, and that she
has robbed the occupied places of France and Belgium
and other countries of all the food they could find, and
when we consider the further fact that the harvest in
Germany has been fair this year and only very recently
gathered, we can not think there is so much actual suf
fering from hunger in that country.
It is possible that there will be some difficulties of
food distribution, but still none such as prevailed in the
lands she devastated. She took the engines, the cars, the
track itself, from them and what she could not take
she destroyed. She blew up the bridges, the highways,
and the homes, she cut down the fruit trees, and poisoned
the wells, in her retreat, until after the armistice was
signed.
Her submarines sent to the bottom of the ocean as
many tons of food as they were able, and continued it
long after her leaders must have seen the end.
It little becomes her people now to cry for bread in
the name of humanity, which they themselves never
exercised in the slightest degree.
We believe now that the frantic appeals her people
are making, are not from hunger, but to gain sympathy,
and if possible, ‘to lighten the penalty—or rather we
should say, lessen the restitution, which the coming con
ference will require Germany to make.
We do not believe any more in the word of the
German people. We do not believe they have changed at
all, and they ire now submitting to force of arms, the
only law that is binding with them.
Our first duty is to feed the little, suffering peoples
whom Germany has crushed, take care of our own and
our allies’ needs, and if there be any surplus see that it
is used for real charity.
A Monument for Our Boys
Perhaps it is too early to talk about it, but as soon
as the losses of our boys in France are knewn, we are
ready to do our part toward the erection of a monument
in Marietta to the memory of those Cobb County boys
who gave their lives for us.
Quite a number have fallen on the field of battle,
and others have died of wounds and disease, and it is
quite fitting that a shaft in our Park Square should
bear their names in granite.
Up to this writing comparatively few Cobb County
boys have been reported lost, but as so large a portion
of the casualty list is still unpublished, we fear that more
will be added to the list.
Things History Will Not Récord
That Serbia attacked Austria. :
That Belgium attacked Germany.
That England forced the war. }
That Germany fought in self-defense. |
That Germany was unprepared for war. |
That any other nation was prepared for war. |
That the Kaiser never made a mistake. |
That the Germans are super-men. |
That America would not fight. ;
That Britain is decadent. i
That the greatest leaders are Germans.
That the best soldiers are Germans.
Yet all these things were part of the German propa
ganda at the beginning of this war.
Since the War Industries Board his removed restric
tions, we trust that several of our overly-conscientious
exchanges who dropped s, will come back to us again.
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That trolley line president in Birmingham, wi'\'(yi‘ was
arrested for poor car service, should be sentenced to spend
a week riding on his overcrowded cars, and another week
waiting for a car of any kind.
Now here comes old Villa, with a date line in the pa
pers again, advertising his intention of attacking Jaurez
again soon, and it may be that we will have to clean up
Mexico of a few of its “yellow dogs” before we can quit
the war business.
Dip the tick, swat the fly and kill the rat, thereby you
will be doing your country great service.
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If Mr. Taft accepts that job as head of organized
baseball, he will at least catch some of the reflected
lime-light from Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Walter John
son.
Two men who must be raving mad to have a peace
conference pulled off without their aid, advice and con
sent—Teddy Roosevelt and the Kaiser.
' Five years late—the abdication of William Hohen
zollern.
News dispatches say the socialist leader slept a couple
of nights in the Kaiser’s bed in the palace at Berlin, but
we do not think that should be held against him, if he
did not get up with the fleas.
If a league of nations is formed, Germany should not
be a voting member, until such time as she may be able to
prove herself worthy of the confidence of the world—
say about four hundred and seventy-five or five hundred
years.
We note one of our exchanges has the local cotton
quotations in mourning which we think is entirely wrong,
for the price of cotton is going to be just what the farm
ers are willing to make it.
We did not do as well for the boys in the United
War Work drive as the boys did for us in the great drive‘
on the Germans in France, and we have no need to pat
ourselves on the back or boast. ‘
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We note that Cobb is in thirty-second place in the
purchase of War Savings Stamps, which is not exactly in
accord with our habit of leading in affairs of our state.
After all the growling none of those ‘“most leadingest”
Republicans had the nerve to tackle Wilson when he ad
dressed them on Monday. B
Some of the officials of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany appear not to have been sufficiently appreciative of
the high honors Mr. Burleson had in mind for them, when
he took them under his care and guidance, consequently
they are out of a job.
“German office~s in overalls,” says a dispatch from
Berlin, while we are sure many of them should be “in
stripes” if that is the convict garb of the country.
If farmers are willing to sell cotton at 20 cents or
15 cents per pourd, that is all they will get for it, so
it should be perfectiy plain that the price you get is up
tc you, Mr. Farmer.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
If Germany is really hungry she
must remember with remorse those
cargoes of pork and beans her sub
marines sent to the bottom last year.
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The Crown Prince now says he did
not want the war in the first place,
which sounds to us about as reason
able as the average alibi of the negro
crap shooter when he gets in the toils
of the law.
Now it looks to us like the Kaiser
should be charged with desertion by
the German army, and if the penalty
is death, that would relieve the allies
of a vexatious question.
Gaynelle says that she is of the
opinion that the war developed entire
ly too many Lieutenants.—Covington
News.
Don’t worry, they will all be pro
moted up to Majors and Colonels soon
after they get back home.
Senator Hoke Smith has been un
ceasing and tireless in his efforts for
the Southern farmer. Simple jus
tice demands that we give him much
credit for the Government’s decision
against the price-fixing of cotton. His
position from the begining, forcibly
and frequently expressed, has been
that the Government should leave the
fleecy staple alone.—Walton Tribune.
Tell it to the Macon Telegraph and
the Atlanta Constitution.—Covington
News.
No use mentioning it to either of
them for they are looking the other
way.
We used to get our New York news
papers the day after they were print
ed. Now, thanks to Burleson’s all
money and no service plan, we do well
to get them the third and fourth day
after they are printed.—Dalton Citi
zen.
And at that we know some places
where the department is still spending
money like pouring water into a rat
hole.
William Hohenzollern may still
consider himself ‘“a count” but the
rest of the civilized world will still
consider him ‘no account.”
We call your attention to our of
fer of this paper and the New York
Thrice-A-Week World, both papers
for two dollars for twelve months.
It was a long ery from the summer
of 1914 to the winter of 1918, from
the German’s hymn of hate to his wail
of woe, and every minute of the time
Germany spent in earning the hatred
of the civilized world.
We have heard little of our negro
soldiers who went to France, but we
‘are sure the Huns will remember for
a long time, any they met there.
Serviceable Presents
Are Most Acceptable
HRISTMAS Gifts should be useful, as well as
» . beautiful, to be fully appreciated.
Your wife would find more pleasure in some of
the nice things to wear, with which our store is
filled, than in any other present this year.
Beautiful clothing is the pride of every woman’s
heart, and this season the purchase of such sub
: stantial gifts is most sensible.
We have made it possible for ladies to dress in
the best style, and yet save money for Thrift
Stamps, or other Christmas gifts. |
Our stock is complete with many good things that
go to make a glad and comfortable Christmas.
Make our store your shopping headquarters and
you may be sure you are welcome.
It will be a pleasure to have you come, however
little you may buy. . :
Smith & Potts
Marietta 5 ; Georgia
Henry Ford is thinking about start
ing a newspaper, but' as he will not
be likely to give a Ford with each
subscription, you had better send us
your renewal right away and get
your money’s worth without a prem
ium.
To say that William Hohenzollern
“ran away like a schoolboy,” is cast
ing a serious reflection upon millions
of future men of America, to say the
least of it.
A TRIBUTE TO AMERICA
FROM LUIGI LUZZATTI
An opinion on the United States
has been given by Luigi Luzzatti, one
of the ablest economists of Italy, in
answer to a request made by a com
mittee of distinguished American wo
men. These women asked him to give
an idealistic interpretation of the
spirit which has animated the people
of the United States from the time
of their origin as European emi
grants fleeing from religious perse-
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bills by check, he gets a legal receipt for
each and every payment made, avoids the
worry and danger attending the carrying
of money in his pocket, or keeping it
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MARIETTA GEORGIA
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cution down to the present day. In
his answer Mr. Luzzatti refutes the
sinister insinuations - usually mada
against the United States by foreigy.
ers, which accuse them of being .
terested in business and gain aloy,
In his answer to the women of Ame,
ica he sees only the greatenss, the
Jove of liberty, which has been their
ideal ever. ' :
His vision of America is as £,
lows: .
“Born in a divine heart throb, they
grow greater now in'the throb of the
human heart. y
“Born to deliver themselves frqp,
the multifarious religious tyrannies
of Europe, to-day they rise to say,
Europe from military tyranny.
“At the dawn of. their marveloy,
life God’s liberty shone as a croyy
of sacrifice and redemption; at mi 4.
day they harvest as an immorta] re
ward the privilege of delivering op
pressed nations.”
