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THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
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MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 3rd, 1919
Partisan Politics and Envy
There seems to be no doubt that the Republicans, and
particularly some of their leaders, are furious with envy
over the reception Mr. Wilson is getting in Europe.
Ta Mr. Roosevelt, for instance, it is like dregs of a
very hitter cup to have to stay at home in private life
while a great war is fought, and to have that war suc
cessfully conducted by his political enemies.
It is probably the last great war; we certainly hope so
at any rate, and Mr. Roosevelt has always loved the
lime-light as much as any man in history, and to have
had the affairs of the nation in the hands of the Demo
crats at the beginning and ending of such a war, to have
had a Democrat as president, to have had him go to
Europe and receive such ovations, must be galling to our
strenuous ex-president.
We did not look with favor upon Mr. Wilson’s trip to
Europe at this time, but it may be for the best in the
end. If we are able to judge from this distance, he
went as early as he did in order to solidfy the democracy
of Europe in favor of a plan of peace, which will pre
clude the'further possibility of war, and thus force this
plan through at the coming peace conference.
We do not think Mr. Wilson is infallible—we know he
is not—he' has made mistakes, and no doubt will make
others, but we are willing to trust his honesty of pur
pose, and we believe he is about as apt to do the right
thing as any of his critics would be.
Still we do not deem every man dishonest who dis
agrees with Mr. Wilson, and has the courage to say so in
a decent way.
In some quarters there is a disposition to persecrate
every man who ventures to express an opinion of his
own, if it does not coincide with Mr. Wilson’s views.
We know of one instance of this whch is not honest
at all, but is being carried on for political effect.
To be entirely candid about it, we are thinking of the
propaganda which has been carried on in Georgia against
Hoke Smith.
He has been persistently placed in a false attitude,
and while he has been actively working in the interest
of the cotton farmers of the south and fighting the com
binations which for years have robbed the south, we have
here in Georgia, some people who would stab him in the
back in order to gain political advantage.
We hold no brief for him, and we feel that he will
be just as able to take care of his enemies as the presi
dent will be of his critics when the time comes.
* But it does disgust us to see good men, whether Re
publicans or Democrats, making fools of themselves in
the eyes of sensible folks, in order to try to take a parti
san political advantage of an honest public official.
Good Roads Again
Roads should be built on the ground and not on paper,
but mighty few roads are built without discussion.
We have been “cussing” and discussing roads about
long enough to begin to get down to the ground with
them in Georgia.
We know it takes money as well as a plan to build
roads, and in order to get money there must be a plan
and a law.
At present we seem to have neither in this state, and
we recently invoked the governor, through this column,
to call an extra session of the legislature to deal with
road laws, and to create a highway commission law which
the general government wouid recognize sufficiently to
pay over to it the large sum of money now tied up in
Washington.
The whole state is pretty nearly in the same boat so
far as roads are concerned, and the papers are doing a
lot of agitating with little effect.
Note the following from The Dalton Citizen:
Since the government is becoming so very active
in the matter of road construction there is little
doubt but what better progress will be made in the
future. One of the hindrances of building good roads
in Georgia is the lack of a functioning state highway
commission. The state of Georgia has built more
roads on paper than any other state in the union,
and has fewer real roads to show for her efforts. It
is well enough to talk and agitate a live question,
but when it comes to doing a thing it takes something
besides cards in newspapers and apologies from offi
cials to make a road that the people can get over.
Now we realize, of course, every county can have its
own separate road plan, and although a general system
of highways would be best, we are anxious to hear from
any of the citizens of Cobb County who may have a
definite plan of permanent road building to suggest to
‘our people.
The government has shown us what we can do in
raising large sums by selling us Liberty Bonds, and if
a road bond which makes transportation possible and
easy is not a Liberty Bond, then we do not know the
meaning of the words. l
Prevention is Better than Cure
Just now, at the real beginning of the real winter, we
are faced in this community, and throughout the whole
state we believe, with a most serious prevalence of the
Spanish influenza.
This disease seems to be yet uncontrolled in any sec
tion, and is probably today killing as many people as it
has at any time since it became epidemic.
We know that it is communicable, and that it is easily
transmitted from one to another, and quite a number of
localities have forbidden all gatherings in an effort to
control it.
Personally, we believe that any one may use preventa
tives and by due caution in association with others be
safe from its attack.
The doctors are having more than they can do at pres
ent,, and we are writing this to urge our readers to use
all possible care to avoid taking this malady, as preven
tion is both better, safer and cheaper, than cure.
presa AriiRRN TR ) i Livms phips 00l
No true maniis ever so humble or so afraid of him- -
self as when other 'men are praising him most loudly.
b e N TR , —Phillips Brooks. -
Edi(or Shope, of Dalton, although as often wrong as
right, edits one of the brightest papers in the state.—
Alpharetta Free Press.
Well, it’s a great thing to be able to travel the fifty
fifty gait. But getting right down to bedrock, who is
going to be the judge of what is right and what is wrong?
Does the esteemed- editor of the Free Press harbor the
opinion that he could hold down the job?—-Dalton Citizen.
We thought last week that Editor Rucker, of the Free
Press, was striking flint. :
The ex-kaiser is said to have a desire to preach.
Blasphemy used to be considered a crime.—Dalton Citi
zen,
Blasphemy, in our judgment, will be one of the least
crimes charged to the aforesaid ex-kaiser.
Americans in Paris who are worrying about dissension
at home in regard to the President’s labor in behalf of
peace may properly note the fact, so far as Henry Cabot
Lodge of Massachusetts is concerned, that his state in
November elected a Wilson Democrat to keep him com
pany in the United States Senate. Who, therefore,
speaks for the Old Bay State?—New York World.
And yet Mr. Lodge is a great and wise senator when
he lets partisan politics alone.
The ex-kaiser is going to write his own history—with
ink this time, but the history he has written in blood is
his true one, and the only one the world will read.
Spain wants the Rock of Gibraltar, but we were under
the impression that the Prudential Life Insurance Com
pany was using it for advertising purposes.
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Christmas bills, like chickens, will come home to roost,
about the first of January.
"Press dispatches say the seizure of the Hohenzollern
family property would préduce at once $225,000,000.
That being the case, why not produce?
If they should decide to sink the Hun warships it is
to be hoped that a select few of their former directors
will be placed aboard just before the finish, as a measure
of compensation for the material -loss.—Atlanta Con
stitution.
Why not “scrap” then and make farm tractors and
other useful things of the metal?
The bomb outrages recently perpetrated in Phila
dephia are charged to the I. W. W., and we have no
doubt that the charge is correct, for this dangerous order
is closely related to the Bolshiviki, who are making a
howling wilderness of Russia.
o The first real cold wave is here, and the weather r;lan
promises that it shall be one of sleet, snow and ice.
Henry Ford has made his son head of the motor works,
and raised the minimum wage of his employees to six
dollars per day, which is a very substantial patriotism.
A letter we have from France this week says “tell the
folks not to stop writing,”” and as it is probably that a
great many of the boys will be there for months yet,
the least we can do is to keep on writing them and
send them the local papers, too, for they will be read
to the last line and then passed around.
~ Austria’s first peace Christmas was far gloomier than
any during the four years of war, but that should not
be so hard when they remember that the Serbians, the
Belgians, the French, and other countries suffered the
gloom those other four Christmases.
Henry Ford is asking a re-count of the votes in Michi
gan, which surprises us, although we know Ford cars
sometimes had to have re-pairs.
Wilson standing firm for a league of nations, is the
news from over there, and we believe this means we
will get it.
Although we favor woman suffrage, if we are to be
lieve the dispatches, some of the self-styled women lead
ers in Washington continue to make fools of themselves
and do injury to the cause of suffrage.
It looks like Postmaster-General Burleson is going to
break into the class with Secretary of the Interior Ballen
ger, of Taft’s administration, at least he is being charged
with changing date lines on important papers.
And now' they discover that the Kaiser had some
mock trenches made away back of the lines, where he
could pose in them with the men for the movies to be
sent back to show the people at home in Germany. Truly,
he was a great showman. ‘
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An exchange says: “It was a very nice Christmas afteri
all,”” and then again, ‘lt was sure enough a bone dryj
Christmas in ———."" How could such things be? |
Now the “conscientious objectors” who refused to
wear the uniform or fight, and were given long terms in
prison stripes, are asking to be mustered out. So far
as we are concerned they are the last of the boys needed
‘back home.
The biggest piece of property in this country, or in thei
world for that matter, is the railroads of the United
States, and the biggest fight is going to happen over
the control and ownership of them. Perhaps Mr. McAdoo
is right, but nobody knows the answer.
‘“‘Half of my land, and a good road to town,” says a
prominent Cobb County farmer, ‘“would be worth more
to me than I have got.”
German submarines which have been surrendered are
being divided among the allies, according to The Mail.
The newspaper says that fifteen go to France, ten to
Italy, seven to Japan and four to the United States. The
U-boats turned over to the United States are said to be
now on their way across the Atlantic.
Mexico has repealed those foolish discriminatory oil
laws. Perhaps they have heard that quite a lot of our
boys are getting back from France.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
Where is the old-timé Southern
farmer who demanded -15-cent cdfl:onl
and never expected to see it? -
Why, he is the same fellow who sold
his cotton for so many years for
around five cents, and now wants fifty
cents to even things up.
OPPOSES AX-GRINDING
Every publisher who has been in
vited to “roast” somebody or some-!
thing through his columns will read
with pleasure the following from the
Sentinel of Friend, Neb.:
“A newspaper must not be expect
ed to fight personal battles for sub
scribers. Its influence must be used
for the people as a whole. Every week
some of cur good friends ask us to
‘make somebody do something.’ Of
course we feel complimented when
we hear that a subscriber feels that
the paper is an important factor in
the community. But as to making
anybody do thing you have got the
wrong idea, brother. If we were to
take every complaint that comes to
our notice the Sentinel would be too
warm a job for us. Here are some
of the late questions: ‘We wish you
would go after the stores because
they stay open so late Saturday
night.” ‘We wish you would go after
the city council because the streets
are not sprinkled more frequently.’
‘Why don’t you say something about
the people who run their cars in the
city with the cut-out open?’ ‘Why}
isn’t the speed ordinance enforced?’
‘Why don’t you expose poker games?’
‘Why do nearby towns pay more for
grain than Friend?” ‘Why don’t so
and-so go to war?” Why we could
go on until this column is full. All
these are mentioned kindly in an ef
fort to side-track some of them. Of
course we know that many of them
are asked in a joking manner, but
many people are in earnest and be
come angy when the paper appears
without a word said of their com
plaint. Every citizen is a part of the
city government. Every city is a part
of the national government, but he
must not expect a newspaper to flare
up and raise ‘Cain’ with another
citizen and at the same time protect
the complainer from publicity.”
—Publishers Auxiliary.
DEVELOPS NEW HYBRID
COWPEAS
In its plant-breeding work with
cow-peas, which involves several hun
dred hybrids and selections, the
United States Department of Agri
culture during the past year has de
veloped several new sorts which give
such promise that they are being
grown in quantity for distribution.
These varieties are Potomac, Arling
ton, Columbia, White Hybrid, and
Early Buff. Extensive field work is
being conducted by the department
with hybrids, especially in the wilt!
Would You Improve
9 S .
on Last Year’s Savings?
, TART the New Year right, by paying the right
prices for everything you buy.
®
It is easy for our customers to do this, because
they have been accustomed to getting a dollar’s
worth for every dollar they spend.
Our business last year was large, but we will be
glad to add to our list of patrons this year, so we
would especially invite you to come to see us,
and let us prove the saving of trading here.
We have right now some bargains, which you
might find immensely to your advantage, and it
is your duty to make every dollar go as far as
it will. -
If you bought thrift stamps, we can help you save
the money to pay for them, and it is always our
pleasure to show our goods—buy or not buy—
as you like.
The latch-string hangs out—make our store your
trading headquarters. You are welcome here.
Smith & Pott
Marietta , - Georgia
and nematode lands of the southern
States. Two hybrid selections, un
named as yet, have been found high
ly resistant to both nematodes and
wilt and are superior to other sorts
for the production of seeds and for
age. These two selctions are being
grown in quantity for more extensive
field tests next year.
ONE STEP MEET} TWO NEEDS.
Fields in Hamilton County, Ohio,
that were acid in soil and broken by
stone outcroppings have been made
more productive and easier to plow
by the one step of erushing the stone
and spreading it over the ground.
The stone is limestone with a high
percentage of calcium. This method
of solving the liming problem was
developed by the county agent.
Some men brought stone crushers
and entered the business of grind
ing limestone.
Of the 5,000 tons of lime applied
in Hamilton County on the County
Convenience in Banking
HEN 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, JAN. 31'\'!.
agent’s recommendation - 2,500 -
were ground-on the 50 farms w
the stone was found. Farmers use
crushers when not busy on road w
FARMERS AND FARM WO
A short course in agriculture
be held at the Georgia State Agric
tural College, Jan. 8-16, 1919.
Lectures and demorstrations wil
be given in the following subjects:
Grain, farm management, drainage,
feeds and feeding, breeds and breed
ing, dairying, veterinary work, do
mestic science, legumes, soil, ferti
lizers; cotton cultivation — grading
and insects, trucking, spraying and
pruning, poultry. :
- Arrange to go to Athens this year.
It will help you with your work an
other year. I will go to Athens Jan.
5 to attend the agents’ conference.
Before I go and while there I will be
glad to help you in any way I can.
D. E. SAWYER,
County Agent.
