Newspaper Page Text
PAGE TWO
"THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
E PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
" The Marietta Publishing Company
; Business Phone 18
~ David Dl . i leincnnimmm en ey ————— Editor
viei $l9O Por Year; T 8 for Six Mouths
Entered at the Postoffice at Marietta, Ga., as Second Class
mail matter.
Official Organ of Marietta and Cobb County, Georgia
MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27th, 1918.
i Nobody’s Business
: & :
Is there not a man in Georgia big enough to be
able to awaken the people to action in the interest of
good roads? :
Is there not any man with the official power to take
the initiative in the matter?
We believe that anything would be justifiable, if it
would only rouse our people to action. Legislatures cost
the state a lot of money, but we believe an extra session
would be the best way to get necessary road legislation,
and save for the state thousands of dollars road funds.
“Everybody’s business is nobody’s basiness” is an old
saying, and a true one, S 0 far as roads in Georgia is
concerned.
If the officials and the people were thoroughly alive
to the importance of roads, we might have some legisla
tion which would enable us to give a great many re
turning soldiers work which would be agreeable and pro
fitable to them.
We are thinking now of permanent roads, for all
money put into any other sort of road is at least partly
lost.
The sums of money raised among the people of this
‘and other counties to lend the government for war, were
greater than we ever dreamed of five years ago.
Why not go into the road business like we went into
the war business?
Why let the road business continue to be nobody’s
business in Geogria?
Back Up Our Peace Leaders
Into the melting pot on the peace table in Europe,
will be poured all sorts of ideas, hopes and plans, of all
the peoples of the earth, and out of it the master refiners
are expected to bring forth a perfect peace agreement
for the future government of all nations.
No nation, however, small, no race or creed, but will
have representatives to try to influence or shape a future
policy in their own interest.
When we consider this, we can well see how difficult
will be the task of the three men upon whom most of
the responsibility for the result rests. *
Those men are Wilson, Clemenceau and Loyd George,
and in this greatest crisis of the world’s history, they
need the full support of the whole people of the great
nations they represent, to reach wise and just conslusions,
and to bind the nations to their final joint action.
We have the greatest confidence in the individual
ahility and honesty of these three great leaders, and
while some in our own country may not agree about
details of the peace conference, we feel that in this we
should be willing to submerge our own opinions and
plans, for the sake of world unity.
We know that it is impossible’ that these leaders
can have a first-hand knowledge, even in the faintest de
gree, of all the people whose future destiny is in their
hands, and that they must rely upon others for informa
tion, but we should remember they are in better position
to get accurate information of every character than any
one else.
Therefore we must trust them, and we are heartily in
favor of giving them unqualified backing right now.
We honestly believe that most of the differences
arising in this country, are over the spoils of office, and
we have been unable to note that one party has been
much better than another in this respect.
We do hope that partisan politics will not make the
people of Europe think that the people of this country are
not in hearty accord with the president.
It is a safe proposition to state that no man in this
country within recent years, has ever had the confidence
and esteem of the people of America, as Mr. Wilson
has it today.
. Cotton Crop in Cobb
The ginning report up to December Ist showed 14,314
bales of cotton ginned in Cobb County, and up to the
same date last year only 10,112 bales had been ginned.
This puts the county so far more than 4,000 bales a
head of last year, while the whole state is only about 120,
000 bales ahead of last year.
We therefore presume that Cobb has a much better
than an average crop and if the farmers get above thirty
cents for it, it will leave them in good condition.
Twenty thousand bales of cotton at thirty cents per
pound amounts to three million dollars without the seed,
which are worth nearly a million more.
When we add to this the corn, and produce, and hogs,
raised on the farms of Cobb, we may easily see that the
business of Cobb County farmers is well worth advertis
ing for.
Cobb County won nearly all the pig prizes at both At
janta and Macon fairs. 5
The price of cotton in Marietta on the day this is writ
ten is above thirty cents, and we shall not be surprised to
see the holders get 35 or 40 cents for this crop of cotton.
Nearly all Cobb County farmers have held their cot
ton and have done little trading this fall.
We had hoped that every casualty in France would
have been reported before Christmas, but still many are
unreported, and thousands of families are without news
of loved ones there since long before the close of hos
tilities.
We wonder why it is the papers in Georgia are saying
so much, and the people doing so little, about good roads?
Don’t expect one man to do it all, and lead i all
the good work of your town, in other words, don’t ride
a free horse to death.
: If ybu are not able to buy everything you want—
if you can not keep up with the leaders—give your at
tention to helping those even less fortunate than yourself.
If the people of a community “pull together” in every
thing, and avoid petty jealousy, it will not take that com
munity long to forge to the front and attract the atten
tion of the world. ¢
If you are in favor of having some real roads, let
your governor, your legislator, your commissioners, your
| neighbors and everybody know it.
If your time and your team is worth anything to
you, get behind the permanent road movement, and keep
yofir shoulder to the wheel until you get some roads.
We remember an old fellow who used to say: “Fish
ing, when well looked after, is mighty poor business,” and
we will bet that if you substitute the word “fighting”
for “fishing” the Kaiser will agree with you.
We note the gift to the Belgians of several civil war
uniforms, by a New York dealer, said to have been kept
in good condition all these years. This is what we call
sure enough ‘“‘old clothes.”
The usual automobile fatalities occured in Atlanta,
and at least one of them was caused by booze.
The New York World asks “Who can speak for Amer
ica at the peace conference in Europe, if President
Wilson can not do it?” We have no answer.
A multitude of new republics in Europe will claim
Wilson as an “Uncle” if not a father.
| The Austrians claim to be just as hungry as when
‘they asked for peace, but they haveé _one advantage in
not having to fight while they look for something to eat
now.
Atlanta officers seized 150 pints of booze from the
locker of the diner of the southbound Dixie Flyer Monday
night; fifteen hundred gallons of beer was destroyed ‘in
a Greene county raid, and violators held in these and many
other raids recently should convince the most skeptical
that the stuff is contraband in Georgia.
Christmas extravagance of the present day brings back
to our mind the times when a %oy had to work a week
or more for a dime, with which to get a package of the
small fire-crackers (they don’t make such small ones any
more) which was the extent of his Christmas extrava
gance, and we are further reminded that the war has
taught us little in the matter of thrift and economy.
If egg-nog was not illegal and otherwise impossible,
the price of eggs would make it “some luxury” this year.
Candy is said to contain more value as a food than
is generally supposed, and while it is injurious to the
pocket-book, a lot of folks are going to continue to take a
chance with it.
An officer’s wife lost a thousand dollar brooch in At
lanta last week, which at least is a good way to let the
public know you owned such a gem.
The Kaiser delivered a sermon Christmas day, but we
will bet his congregation was smaller this year than ever
before.
The mysteries of the North Pole are soon to be
revealed by the use of aeroplanes, but we suspect noth
ing more than an expanse of ice and snow will be found
there.
Nebraska now claims more automobiles than any
other state, and they have helped to make that great
farming state a richer and a greater state.
Religious reform is promised in Mexico, states a head
line, which is our first news that they had any such thing
there.
It seems the censorship is still on strong in Paris,
one whole front page of a Paris paper having been deleted
on Monday of this week.
If yofi have not done all you could for the Red Cross,
we suggest that the contribution box is still open.
e e 3
The war has coined a lot of officers who will have a
handle to their cognomen when they get back into civilian
garb. It will be “Captain” instead of just plain “Mistah!”
—Greensboro Herald.
Yes, and most of the future political contests will be
between Major Richard Roe and Colonel John Doe, with
an occasional Buck Private John Aller}, in which case we
will put our money on Buck Private Allen every time.
When the police raided the office of Colonel Henry S.
Jackson, the republican leader of Georgia, they found
an opium pipe, several quarts of whiskey and other similar
paraphenalia. He was evidently celebrating the recent
G. O. P. victory.—Greensboro Heraid.
Well, what did they expect to ind? A Sunday School
library? Or aW. C. T. U. headquarters?
Count von Bernstorff is very sure the Kaiser was not
responsible for the war, which opinion of the former
German Ambassador is of no consequence to us at all.
Editor Shope, of Dalton, although as often wrong as
right, edits one of the brightest papers in the state.—Al
pharetta Free Press.
We consider Shope's papers not only bright, but as
often right, as any other paper in the state, and candidly,
we are at a loss to understand the dubious compliment of
Editor Rucker. .
Christmas week has been fair and beautiful, the war
is over, cotton shows a tendency to rise to a reasonable
level, and the outlook for a good crop and business year
ahead is most promising, so optimism should prevail
throughout the land.
Gradually war restrictions in manufacture are being
removed, and preity soon we hope every man can run his
own business again.
The Marietta city clock has become very unreliable—
it’s face showing about the correct hour, while it strikes
anything else than that.
Our people are not nearly so eager to do war work
as they were while the fighting lasted, but as long as we
have an army abroad there will still be much that some
‘body mustj do. s
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
5 * * *
American critics of President Wil
son will find it hard to understand
the ovation he is getting in Paris.—
Atlanta Journal.
Not at all, it was just what the most
of the Republicans feared.
* * * 5%
We shall be glad to get back our
two-cent postage rate next July. But
it would be mistaken economy to hold
back our Christmas cards so as to
take advantage of it.—Carroll Free
Press.
Yes, for under present conditions,
it may be July before the cards are
delivered anyway.
% ¥ & &
We shall be surprised if your con
science lets you buy that new car
until Europe is fed and clothed again.
—Carroll Free Press. .
And we shall be surprised if we
are able to keep the old car when
taxes, insurance and other such things
have been paid.
£ kS # &
In England it takes two weeks to
count the elction votes, which must
create suspense not only for the can
didates but for those also who have
money on the result.—Atlanta Jour
nal.
When it takes two weeks to count
the votes in this country, it creates
more than suspense, it creates sus
picion of the rankest sort, and that
generally leads to trouble for some
body.
* * * *
The price of moonshine liquor con
tinues to soar. And as long as there
is plenty of it coffins will not be a
drag on the market.—Dalton Citizen.
Gaynelle says that she is ready
for Christmas and whatever it may
hold in store for her.—Covington
News.
And after all it is the one who
does the most for some one else, who
enjoys Christmas most, and who real
ly gets the most out of it.
# * * #*
We don’t mind admitting that Sen
ator Mann, of Illinois, has more sense
than the average Republican.—Cov
ington News.
Mann is not a senator, but he has
more ‘“hoss sense’” than the everage
seantor at that, and the chances are
he will be the next Speaker of the
House, succeeding Champ Clark.
* * * * ‘
We are of the opinion that the
hotels and restaurants should be noti-‘
fied that many of the Hoover regula
tions have been suspended.—Coving
ton News.
And while you are about it you
might suggest to them that the war
prices begin to come down a little.l
Let’s Welcome the New
E! NOTHER year has passed, and although it has
~ been one of the most serious in history, our coun
try has prospered.
In spite of the great war, and all its drain upon
our resources of money, and food, and men, we
can now look forward to a year of peace and hap
- piness throughout the whole world.
We wish to thank our friends in Cobb County for
the patronage which made the year prosperous
for us, and to ask them for a continuance thereof
for the coming year.
We feel at the same time that we have been in
strumental also, in helping them to prosperity,
and we promise to do our best for them during
1919.
Honest goods at most reasonable prices shall still
be our motto.
Smith & P
Mfll‘lfitta - ’ Georgia
Whiskey has always been one of
the most successful agencies for fill
ing coffins, some for the millionaires
lot, but more for the paupers field.‘
*** * 1
Now that successful war has been‘:
waged against the Hun, it would seem
that the allied armies ought to be
able to put the middlers and gossip
ers out of business.—Dalton Citizen.‘
Yes, and there are some little fel-‘
lows in this country who have wrap
ped themselves in the American flag,l
and under the cover of ‘“patriotism”
have ben hiding some mighty crook
ed deals, and the time is coming to
uncover some of their grafting
schemes.
* * * %
It begins to look as if the war
was over forever when you read
again about the baseball magnates
meeting and fixing the salary limits.
—Atlanta Journal.
Wonder if limiting salaries is why
Ty Cobb has spurned baseball? Or
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
&
Banking Co.
MARIETTA GEORGIA
Capital and Surplus over $110,000.00
FRIDAY, DEC. 27th
has Ty thk sixth sense of knowing
how to quit while his reputation’s
unharmed?—Dalton Citizen.
Yet it was Ty Cobb and a fey
more like him, who made it possible
for the aforesaid baseball magnates
to draw their own fat salaries regu
larly.
Senator Hoke Smith has cayse to
feel proud of the part he took in re
moving all restrictions from the cot.
ton market. The Free Press believes
the fleecy staple will soon be 3 fine
price.—Alpharetta Free Press,
We think this compliment is e
merited, for we know of oyy own
knowledge, that for the past £y,
years Senator Smith has workeq
wholeheartedly for the interest of tp,
cotton farmers of Georgia, and ngt.
withstanding attempts in certajy,
quarters to belittle his work, he hy,
been able to do much for cotton.
Eunrico Caruso in “My Cousin,” 4t
The Strand, Wednesday, Jan. Itg
