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‘THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
; PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
The Marietta Publishing Company
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Dawid Comfort .. .crcoccnmmceccmmsomeasma== Editor
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3 mail matter.
Official Oxgan of Marietta and Cobb County, Georgia
MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20th, 1918.
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Officers Who Obey the Law
Whiskey not only gets the usual violators of the law
in trouble but often it proves too great a temptation for
the weak human nature of the officer of the law.
We have just read where one of Atlanta’s officers was
stripped of his badge and suspended for retaining three
suit cases of seized goods, and making no report of
same. :
No doubt in time gone by many have been guilty of
this offense, but to the credit of Atlanta, or the powers of
the courts, a man like Chief Beavers is at head of its
police department, and his presence there has had a most
salutory effect on the conduct of officers, as well as sup
pression of law violators.
We often hear it sta!ed that the prohibition laws are
no good because they are violated, and in some localities
totally ignored.
In all such places you have not to look far for the
cause—rotten officials who fail to administer the law,
and in nine out of ten such cases, the officials are them
selves violators.
This Christmas season, with boys returning from the
camps, the strict enforcement of the law is more than
ever necessary, and if officials are negligent now, doubly
great is their own crime.
We have not in mind our own local officials, or any
particular others, but we speak generally from our past
obseivation of this matter in a number of localities.
Let us this year have a safe, sane and sober Christ
mas in our country.
King Alcohol has been dethroned during this war,
along with a lot of other kings and emperors, and none
of the others ever exacted so great a toll of human life
and happiness as he.
Therefore let us celebrate fittingly as a Christian
nation, the downfall of this great prince of murderers,
and let us so safeguard our future that he may never
again get a stronghold within our dominions.
Vigilance—eternal vigilance—is the price of safety,
so let us all be constant in the discharge of our private
duty and assist officers in the discharge of public duty.
. A Clean Slate
We think the recent action of Judge N. A. Morris,
of the Blue Ridge Circuit, in directing that all indict
ments for misdemeanors held against young men who
have been in the serivce, be quashed, is most commend
able. ) :
In the circuit quite a number of these cases were
pending and it will certainly be a source of satisfaction
for these young men to know that after discharge from
the service they can come home and find a ‘“clean slate,”
instead of an indictment to face.
While we have net noticed reports of like action by
any other courts in this state we feel sure that such
action would meet universal approval of the people at
home as well as these boys and their comrades at the
front.
We note the usual use of the pardoning power by
executives over the country in connection with the Christ
mas season, some 200 boys in one navy prison being
released and many paroled or pardoned from various
prisons, and this is well, but we think the action of Judge
Morris fully as much warranted, perhaps more, for it is
better to keep a boy out of prison, than to convict and
then release him.
We firmly believe in the justice of a ‘‘clean slate”
back home for the boys, and we believe that the vast
majority of them will appreciate this action by hence
forth keeping the slate clean.
Hon. M. M. Sessions for State Senate
We carry in this issue the announcement of Hon.
Moultrie M. Sessions for senator from the newly organized
thirty-ninth senatorial district. ,
This district is composed of the counties of Cobb,
Cherokee and Douglas and under the rotation system
Cobb claims the right to nominate the senator this time.
1t is not often that a man so well fitted for the duties
of the office as Mr. Sessions offers for public office, and
it gives us genuine pleasure to give his candidacy unquali
fied endorsement.
That it will meet with the approval of Cobb, where
he lives and is well known, goes.without saying, and we
are sure his high character and reputation as a public
spirited citizen, an able lawyer, and a successful business
man, will meet the approval of the people of the other
counties of the district.
Have you done what you could to help in the Red
Cross drive?
The food administration in America will practically
go out of business on January lst as there will be no
funds to pay workers after that date. |
Reports show that America has responded nobly to the
calls of Belgium for clothing, both old and new.
The death of Judge Emory Speer, of the United
States District Court for Southern Georgia, removes one
of the characters around whom were laid many of the
stirring events in Georgia politics just after the Civil
War.
Reports say Mr. Wilson favors sinking thé captured
German warships but we are in favor of making canal
dredges or something else us,eful of them.
If Georgia wants to keep her own boys, and get
others ‘who return from t_he army, she must provide em
ployment for them, or some other state will do so, to the
shame and. loss of our state.
Pullman car service is to be restored in the south,
bu.t the day coach rates are still high enough to make
this of little interest to us.
Another boy killed in Atlanta by a speeding car, has
caused the tightening of the speed law, but it will only
be temporary of course, for the streets of all our big cities
will remain a sort of no man’s land.
Edith Cavell, the English nurse, murdered by the
Germans in Belgium, was commemorated by the Red Cross
work on Thursday of this week.
Frank H. Symonds, the great war analyst, has gone
to France, and since the war is over, he can figure it out
for us just what happened, and how it happened, his
guesses last summer as to what was going to happen,
having been bum ones.
The Jews, as a race, are going to ask for more recog
nition at the great pedce conference, and we have noticed
they generally get what they go after.
Field Marshal Haig warns the victors in this war
against getting the “swelled head,” which has formerly
been one of the big troubles of the Germans.
How would you like to receive the gift you are giv
ing the other fellow?
The air mail service between New York and Chicago
has been started by the Post Office Department, but
they seem to be using something slower than a freight
train in this part of the country.
From reports on one hand Berlin still seems gay and
carefree, while on the other the poor people are starving,
and we suspect both reports are true.
Nearly every day we see news stories headed ‘“‘court
knocks hole in bone-dry law,” but we also observe that
the country is “getting dryer all the time, so we need
not worry about the knockers.
Roads, Commerce, Corn, Cotton and Hogs, should
now occupy the atention of our people for a time.
The investigation of the German propaganda in this
country, has ruined a number of otherwise perfectly good
reputations, among them that of William Bayard Hale.
An exchange wants to know if tea-drinking will have
effect on the virility of the race, to which we reply by
pointing to the staying qualities of the British in this
war.
What a pity we can not feed the Germans on the
freight bills of the cargoes of food their noble submarines
sent to the bottom of the Atlantic.
There is a remarkable difference between the weather
so far this winter and the last one, when we had so many
soldiers in southern camps, who came from the north
and were disappointed in our southern climate.
Thomas A. Edison says clock-watching has kept many
a good clerk from becoming a good business man.
Some one has truthfully said that there is nothing on
earth worth while, unti} it is shared with someone else.
The furor which Europe is making over the president
is largely a desire of everyone to get on the popular side,
and reminds us of the remark of Mr. Dooly when he said:
“I don’t know whether the constitution follows the flag
or not, but I have noticed that the Supreme Court deci
sions follow the election returns.”
If there is no law to reach the Kaiser and other
renegade Prussians who were responsible for the war,
there certainly is no law against reaching them, and the
arm of the allies is long and strong.
The struggle between the man who raised the cotton
and the men who would take it from him is going on
every day now, and we are praying for backbone for
the man who raised it.
Five barrels of denatured alcohol has been stolen
from the railroads in Atlanta, and when the bootleg
gers get through with it they will have denatured the
health of a considerable number of their customers.
The anti-jitney ordinance was repealed by the At
lanta Council on Monday, and a man will not have to buy
a car any more in order to take a short ride in one.
Young folks ,take our advice, plant a pig and some
thing to feed him on.
A headline says the state press is thanked for aid
in rat drive, but we want to confess the suspicion that
if there was any ‘“rat drive” in this section, the rat
was not in the lead.
The newspapers seem to be about the conly trades
people in this country who know the war is over, if we
may judge by prices.
Nearly 5,000 persons are in Paris for the purpose of
having something to do with the coming peace negotia
tions, but less than a dozen will really have anything
to do with it.
The Southern Telephone News is a corporation maga
zine of much more than local and technical interest, and
we welcome its monthly visits to this office.
“Sit tight and freeze on to your cotton” is the way
one farmer expresses his advice to others.
| More ythan half the counties in the state are now
i“tick free,” and the way is open to more and better
stock, which will finally make this state one of the
richest and most prosperous in the union.
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“A prophet is not without honor save in his own
country,” and yet Mr. Wilson is very well thought of at
home by a considerable number of people.
Paris is now the last place on earth where any of the
Hohenzollerns of Ludendorfs or Hindenburgs want to
eat a Christmas dinner.
The Crown Prince is not suited with his Dutch cook,
but it goes without saying he is not looking for a French
one.
It has been suggested that trees be planted in our
parks and christened for our heroes who were lost in the
war, which is a beautiful and practical sentiment.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
Time has long since passed when
any class of people fight roads, and
no one now hears complaints against
paying taxes to build and maintain
them. The war is over and the time
is now ripe for working out road
plans and improvements that will sat
isfy the people, and that will make
easy of acess churches, schools and
markets.—Dalton Citizen.
This is every word true, and we
wonder sometimes why the people are
so indifferent about the most impor
tant matter affecting rural life and
happiness.
As I scribble this drove of para
graphs, I am making mental plans
for a trip shortly to Mayo Brothers,
Rochester, Minn., and maybe by the
time this comes into print the writer
will have quetly snoozed 'meath the
ether cone while Dr. Will whittles
awhile on the inside of my anatomy.
Gee! how cheerful I feel.—Chas. Roy
Vance, in Dalton Citizen.
Although we have never met this
writer, we feel that we know him
through his splendid paragraphs, and
our heart goes out to him in this sea
son, with the wish for his ‘early re
turn to perfect health.
We are a little late, perhaps, but
among other blessings we are thank
ful for the early. dissolution of the
War Industries Board.—Covington
News.
In which we join and add that
for the sake of economy we might
well do without several of our so-call
ed war economy boards. :
oOld Santa Claus will find our socks
at the same place this Christmas—
Covington News.
Although well-night sockless, we
will keep ours where they can be
found also, if the old gentleman real
ly wants to come our way.
The War Department has decided
that all discharged soldiers may per
manently retain the uniforms and
overcoats they wear when mustered
Now comes along a low, insinuat
ing hound in the Detroit Free Press
and wonders why it was that when
Mr. Wilson set out on his mission of
peace he took along his mother-in
law.—Macon Telegraph.
Maybe he intends to convince her
that there is such a thing as univer
sal peace, andyou know example is
often more convincing than precept.
—Dalton Citizen.
Or possibly he considers her a
most convincing persuader, and anti
cipates meeting some ‘obstreperous
cuss over there around the peace
table, in which event we will stake
our reputation as a prophet upon her
success. |
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To Sell Your Cotton
O NOT SELL more than is absolutely necessary
to meet your present actual needs.
We are in position to materially assist you, if your
purse is small this year, by supplying your needs
at the lowest prices.
| The war is over, and we are not putting inflated
prices on our goods, although there is likely to be
a scarcity of certain classes of goods before the
season is over.
It would therefore seem prudent to make early
purchases on such goods as you are certain to
have to buy this winter. '
Our stock is general, for women and children,
and we specially invite ladies to visit us during
Christmas week,
We have many beautiful and serviceable things
suitable for Christmas gifts. , :
Smith & Pott
Marietta ’ ’ (seorgia
out. That was good policy in 1865
and it is a good policy now. There
will be occasions when the public
will want to see these uniforms again
and the men who wore them in their
country’s defense may be counted on
to hold them precious.—New York
World. |
$25,000 ASKED OF CHEROKEE CO.
RESULT OF BRIDGE ACCIDENT
Corporal George W. Schmidt, who
'was formerly a member of truck com
pany No. 340, of the motor transport
corps at Camp Gordon, Tuesday, filed
suit in the federal court against Cher
okee county to recover $25,000 as
damages for the injuries which he
received last June 16, when an army
truck he was driving fell through a
bridge over the Etowah river, causing
the death of several soldiers, while
many of the occupants were seriously
injured. |
Corporal Schmidt alleged that his
Convenience in Banking
WHEN the farmer sells his grain, his
stock or other products, places his
. money in a good Bank and pays all
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
around his home, and he has a complete
record of his business affairs without the
trouble and labor of keeping a set of com
plicated books.
The facilities of this bank are at the
disposal of our customers. ,
Your account will be appreciated.
@
Marietta Trust and
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Banking Co.
MARIETTA GEORGIA
Capital and Surplus over $110,000.00
FRIDAY, DEC. 20t
skull was fractured from his left eve
to his left ear, his left eye knockeg
out of place and his right leg badly
crushed and fractured, and he was
only kept alive when the rescuers
held his head above the surface of
the water about 15 minutes, While hig
body was being removed frop, un
derneath the overturned truck,
The accident happened early i,
the afternoon, when the timbers of
Steel’s bridge over the Etowah ri, er
gave way, causing the truck t, fall
about 40 feet into the river below,
The truck was carrying supplies f,,
a military expedition, which haq gone
into Cherokee county for the purpose
of rounding up slackers and degq,.
ters from the army.
It is charged that the timbers wey.
spliced, and had “dry rotted,” and
had not been inspected for a num
ber of years, and was the direct
cause of the injuries of Schmidt, who
is a native of Lake Charles, I
