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- Vol. 53. No. 3.
COTTON FOR YEAR 1919,
Let First Attention be Given|
to Food Stuffs ‘
Every Farmer to Use His Own Judge
ment As To How Much He Should
Cut Acreage, But Wise Ones will
Make Cotton His Surplus Crop.
Cotton growers were strongly urg
ed in resolutions adopted at the con
cluding session, January 14, of the
cotton states official advisory market
ing board to curtail the 1919 cotton
acreage to an extent which would
make possible the growing of suffici
ent food and foodstuffs to make the
south selfsustaining along those lines.
1t was explained in the resolution
that food crops should come first,
then products for animal consump
tion an lastly cotton. The percent-!
age of curtailment was left to the
discretion of the grower.
Another resolution urged contin
ued holding of cotton by growers un-i
til the embargo situation was cleared
up and ample steamship facilities
provided for exportation of the staple.
There will be ample demand for cot
ton ,it was asserted, provided it can
be gotten out of the country. |
The state warehouse plan, as in
operation in Texas and Arkansas, was
indorsed and legislation making the
gystem universal in the cotton belt
was urged.
The Gore bill asking for the speedy
return of soldiers now in Europe was
indorsed. According to the resolu
tion favoring the Gore bill there now
is urgent need of farm help and the
food supply next year will be great
ly increased by the early return of
men caled to the colors from agri
cultural pursuits.
The semi-annual meeting of the
board will be held here next July.
The board is composed of presi
dents of farmers’ unions, agricultur
al commissioners and marketing di
rectors fro mthe various cotton grow
ing states.
ALLOTMENT CHECKS
GREATLY IN ARREARS
Of two and a half million checks
for dependents’ allotments and allot
ments deducted from soldiers’ pay
for November and December, only
930,000 have been mailed. Secretary
Glass, reporting on January 13 on
the war risk insurance bureau’s work
in response to a senate resolution,
caid all October payments had been
made and checks for the last two
months would be out before the end
of January.
“In order to make up the exist
ing arrearage,” Mr. Glass said, ‘“‘the
bureau is now in a large number of
cases writing simultaneously checks
to cover payments for November and
December.”
ONE FARMER READY
TO GIVE IT UP
Editor Marietta Journal:
In view of the recent action of our
county commissioners in abolishing
the office of county demonstration
agent, I think the next thing they
should do would be to advertise for
the farmers of our county for the
following:
10,000 native long-horn cows, 75
%ulls of same breed, 5,000 razor-back
long nose pine rooters, 10,000 billie
and nannie goats, 400 yoke of oxen,
25,000 wooden foot plow stocks, 75,-
000 Scovil hoes, 15,000 grubbing
hoes, 40,000 reap hooks, 35,000 guano
horns, 1 car load tar buckets, and of
fer in exchange for the above arti
cles registered milk cows, beef cattle,
registered hogs, thoroughbred chick
ens, cultivators, disc plows, tractors,
corn and cotton planters, also includ
ing the pigs belonging to the boys
and girls.
A Friend to the Pig Club. ;
B |
RETURN OF RAILWAYS i
URGED BY LUMBERM'EN‘
Cincinnati, Jan. 15. —Resolutions]
urging the speedy return of railroads
to private ownership and restoration
of the old demurrage rules and ratesi
operative before government control,‘
were adopted by the Yellow Pine
Whelesalers association in convention!
here today. |
During an open discussion the opin-‘
jon was expressed that there would
he no drop in the present prices of
Jumber for several months, if at all.“
‘SOUTHERN EXPRESS CO. ,
IS SUING FOR TAXESi
The Southern Express company, on
3#.B4ry 13, brought suit in every
county in South Carolina to recover
more than $lO,OOO in taxes paid for
operation in the state during the last
twelve months. The suit is based on
the alleged impossibility of the com-‘
pany to comply with contractual obli-|
gations after the railroads were taken
over by the United States government
on December 28, 1917. Papers are‘
being filed with every county treas
urer in the state for the recovery of
taxes paid in that particular county.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
THE SCHOOL BOARD
ANSWERS CRITICISM
Editor Marietta Journal:-
We have read your editorial on the
“Loose Cog Somewhere.” Nothing
is easier, you know, than to find
fault. Anybody can do it. It does
not require wisdom or even a know
ledge of the facts involved. It is so
pleasing to some people to proclaim
from the housetops that ‘“something
is wrong and big wrong.” It is popu
lar and in the words of the old rag,
“Everybody’s doing it.” ‘
Yes, we had trouble with heating
the school buildings last week, but
how many homes in Marietta were
uncomfortable along about that time?
How many homes had broken pipes
or boilers? How many churches
were either out of business altogether
on the Sunday before or were uncom
fortable? How many school houses
in other places were either cold or
entirely out of business? Our under
standing is that two of the prominent
churches of this City were closed
on the Sunday before because of
pipe or boiler troubles? The writer
has a distinct recollection of seeing
three classes “hudddled’” together in
one Sunday school room on that Sun
day with wraps and overcoats all in
service. Was there a loose cog some
where about your cranium when the
canned fruit in your pantry froze,
or had you exercised all the reason
able and usual precautions supposed
to be necessary to protect it? Was
there ‘“something wrong and big
wrong” with the homes in Marietta
where pipes and boilers were bursted,
notwithstanding the owners may have
exercised the precaution of shutting
off their water and draining the
pipes? Or were these unfortunate
‘accidents that happened in spite of
‘the exercise of usual and ordinary
! precautions?
~ Now for the facts. The Waterman
lStreet School had a temporary trou
ble that delayed the heating of that
'building on Monday. The building
perhaps did not get entirely comfor
table through the school session.
The situation could be improved
'somewhat by turning the heat out of
'some rooms and consolidating it in
’to others. This was done. The
schools had been out for two weeks
and the building was more difficult
to heat than if it had been in con
stant use. It was regrettable, but
not a thing to get excited over.
This is the sixth year of the new
school building. It has been the in
variable custom on closing school for
the Christmas holidays for the jani
tors to drain the boilers for the vaca
tion period. On the closing of the
school before the recent holidays the
President of the Board gave instruct
ions that the boilers of both schools
be drained, and within a day or two
thereafter it was reported to him
that the boilers had been drained.
This was the only precaution that
'could be taken unless the janitors
'were kept on their jobs throughout
‘the holidays and the coal supply used
for the purpose of keeping the boilers
and heating systems heated. The
‘draining had always previously been
‘successful and the Board knew of no
fact to cause them to suspect that it
was not an entire protection against
damage. The Board employed a
competent architect to plan and su
pervise the erection of the school
building and the installation of its
heating plant, and had every reason
to believe that the draining of the
boiler would prevent any injury. As
a matter of fact, it has developed
that notwithstanding the boiler was
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ATHENS AND DUBLIN
OFFICES ARE CLOSED
The United States employment of
fices at Athens and Dublin were clos
ed on Wednesday, according to an
nouncement made by Hal M. Stanley
who is federal director for Georgia.
The branch offices were emergency
establishments and have been dis
pensed with as the need for them has
diminished.
The abolition of these bureaus
leaves the following, which probably
will be permanent: Atlanta, Augus
ta, Birmingham, Columbus, Macon,
Rome, Savannah and Wayecross.
SOUTHERN SWITCHMEN
STRIKE ON NEGROES
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 15.-—White
switchmen employed in the local yards
of the Southern railway late today
joined the striking switchmen of the
other roads, their demands, present
ed this afternoon, for the dismissal
of negro switchmen not having been
complied with. Meanwhile, federal
mediators tonight continued their con
ferences with representatives of the
men and with roalroad officials in an
effort to adjust the controversy. |
MAIL CARRIER FINED ‘
\
Macon, Ga., Jan. 15.—Basil Col
bert, a mail carrier, was fined $2OO
by Judge Beverly D. Evans in United
States district court here today, when{
he entered a plea of guilty to opening‘
a letter entrusted to him for delivery
to the postoffice. He was also indicted |
for stealing thirteen War Savingsl
Stamps and $2 in money, but those
charges were not pressed. |
Marietta, Ga., Friday, January 17th, 1919.
DEAL HANDED TO THEM
They Want News First Hand
From Peace Table
Object to George Creel or Other
Agencies Saying What They Shalll
Write Home. Number of Repre
sentatives for Each Country. l
The foreign news of the:iday boiled‘
down may be stated as follows:
Some hundred correspondents who‘
went to France to report the peace
conference for the American news
papers have been shut out of much
of the preliminary news which was}
printed by the French and British
papers. |
They say they have been pledged
to send back home only that news
officially released to them by the offi
cial bureau, and as George Creel, the
president’s official news distributor,
will be in charge, they feel worse
than useless over there. ‘
They have joined in a protest to
the president, calling attention to one
of his “fourteen peace points,” which!
calls for “open covenants of peace
openly arrived at.”
Protests are being made by Bel
gium and Serbia against the allow
ance of three peace delegates to
Brazil, while they are only allowed
two each. The representation at the
peace table follows:
It was decided that the United
States, the British empire, France,
Italy and Japan should be represented
by five delegates apiece. The British
dominions and India, besides, shall
be represented as follows: Two dele
gates, respectively, for Australia,
Canada, South Africa and India, in
cluding the native states, and one del
egate for New Zealand.
“Brazil will have three delegates.
Belgium, China, Greece, Poland, Por
tugal, the Czecho-Slovak republic, Ru
mania and Serbia will have two dele
gates apiece; Siam one delegate and
Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras,
Liberia, Nicaragua and Panama one
delegate apiece.
“Montenegro will have one dele
gate shall not be fixed until the mo
ment when the political situation in
this country shall have been cleared
up.
“The meeting adopted_ the follow
ing two general principles: One—
Each delegation being a unit, the
number of delegates forming it shall
have no influence upon its status at
the conference. Two—ln the selec
tion of its delegation each nation
may avail itself of the panel system.
This will enable each state at discre
tion to entrust its interests to such
persons as it may designate.
“The adoption of the panel system
will in particular enable the British
empire to admit among its fixed rep
resentatives of the dominions, includ
ing New Foundland, which has no
eparate representation, and of India.”
The reports of growing unrest and
disorder throughout Europe are of a
most disturbing character, but the
presence of the allied armies will
probably serve to prevent any large
operations of revolutionists in any
of the nearby countries.
MORGAN L. McNEEL, JR.,
COMES TO MARIETTA
Ensign Morgan L. McNeel, Jr., has
resigned from the navy and returned
to Marietta, to the delight of his
many friends among the young people
here.
He has associated himself with his
father, Mr. M. L. McNeel, in the
automobile, auto supply and garage
business, and will have his headquart
ers at the garage on Atlanta street.
We feel sure that his talent and
capacity will be an added factor to
the success of this business, and our
best wishes go for the prosperity of
the firm.
U. S. TROOPS IN GERMANY
TO BE PAID IN FRANCS
By a new order issued at general
headquarters the troops within the oc
cupied zone hereafter are to be paid
in Francs instead of marks. Under
the present arrangement money in
marks is brought to Coblenz from
Berlin by Germans and turned over
to the chief disbursing officer.
Money to the amount of 15,000,000
marks arrived in Coblenz Saturday
from Berlin, this amount completing
the January assessment against the
Germans. A total of 79,000,000
marks has been received from Ber
lin toward paying the expenses of the
occupying forces. The exchange rate
is now 149 marks for 100 francs.
WORLD’S LARGEST SUB
DELIVERED TO FRANCE
Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 15.—Ger
man submarine U-139 has arrived at
Brest a fortnight later than other Ü
boats turned over to France owing to
the damaged condition. She is the
world’s largest submarine, being 358
feet long and having a displacement
of 2,900 tons. She made only one
cruise before the armistice was sign- l
ed.
BY THIRTY-SIXTH STATE
In One Year America Will
Be Wholly Dry
Heney Charges Packers Have Packed
Food Administration Offices With
Their Paid Agents. lafluenza Rec
ords in State are Incomplete.
We present some of the domestic
news of the day boiled down as fol
lows:
Francis J. Heney, who was chief
counsel for the Federal Trade Com
mission in the investigation of the
meat packing trust, charges Mr
Hoover with interference with the in
vestigation. He says Mr. Hoover had
the food administration filled up with
“dollar a year men” who were still
in the pay of the packing trust.
Heney was a witness before the
senate committee and gave names of
some of the agents of the meat trust
involved.
The Attorney General of Louisiana
is attacking the new phone rates
named by the Postmaster General
In many instances they are said to
be decided increases over the old
rates.
The United States will be on the
water wagon before this is read, only
one state being needed on Thursday
morning to ‘“put her over,” and half
a dozen state legislatures are racing
for the honor of being the 36th state
to adopt the constitutional amend
ment against whiskey. The amend
ment becomes effective one year from
date of adoption by the 36th state.
Despite the best efforts of ship
builders holding navy contracts, none
was able to meet building speed esti
mdtes during the last year, Rear Ad
miral Taylor, chief of the bureau of
construction, told the senate naval
committee today at its investigation
of contracts for Eagle submarine
chasers.
The federal judge retirement bill
so much discussed a few years ago is
up again and has passed the house,
‘now going to the senate for action.
The total number of cases of Span
ish influenza reported to the state
‘board of health during 1918 was
i 30,768, according to a statement
‘made by Dr. T. F. Abercrombie, sec
irefiary of the board. The report that
ithere were 30,768 deaths from flu
‘in the state last year was vigorously
‘denied.
It is known positively, however,
that a great many cases of flu were
‘never reported at all, so that the ac
tual number will never be known.
‘OUR PART IN RIVER
| AND HARBOR BILL
The Georgia items in the bill are
$260,000 for continuing improve
ments and the maintenance of Sa
vannah harbor and river. This is
an increase of $150,000. over the
same item in the 1918 act.
The waterway between Beaufort,
N. C.,, and the St. Johns river, in
Florida, gets a total of $29,000, and
of this $5,000 is to be complete im
provements on Back river in Georgia
and $l,OOO for the completing of the
Generals cut, in Georgia.
The Altamaha, Oconee and Ocmul
gee rivers get a total of $35,000.
The largest Georgia item in the
bill is a total of $270,000 for the
harbor at Brunswick, $240,000 of
which is for improvements and $30,-
000 for maintenance.
CHURGH MONDAY P. M.
S ———— \
Talks on ‘““Mormon Menace.” -Having‘
Lived in Salt Lake City 25 Years,
Is Well Informed on Subject
Mrs. Lulu Lgveland Shepard, of
Salt Lake City, Utah, speaking under
the auspices of the National Reform
Association, of Pittsburgh, Pa., will
speak to a great patriotic community
mass meeting in the First Baptist
church of Marietta, Monday, January
20th, at 7:30 p. m., upon “The Mor
mon Menace.”
Mrs. Shepard is one of the very
great women of America as well as
one of America’s great platform
speakers. She will greatly instruct,
entertain and delight you. She is
known as the “silver-tongued orator
of the Rockies.” She has lived in
Salt Lake City for the past 25 years
and is thoroughly acquainted with
the Mormon Kingdom. She will star
tle you with the statements she will
make concerning this problem.
Mrs. Shepard has spoken in practi
cally every state in the union to large
and enthusiastic audiences. She has
been in practically every dry fight
of late years where the states have
gone for prohibition. She is a charm
ing personality. Hear her at the
Baptist church Monday night at 7:30
o’clock, January 20th.
No admission charge for this great
lecture, but an offering will be taken
at the close of the address for the
support of the campaign.
THE FIFTH LIBERTY
LOAN A NECESSITY
Atlanta, Jan. 16.—The necessity
for another Liberty Loan is being em
phasized by Mr. L. B Franklin, of
Washington, Director of War Loan
Organization, in conferences with
Liberty Loan officials in Federal Re
serve Districts throughout the coun
try. Mr. Franklin is now in the
South, having visited Atlanta and
New Orleans. He expects to hold
conferences in every district within
the next few days.
It is explained by Mr. Franklin
that the Government must meet the
enormous outstanding obligations for
war contracts. Production of ships,
munitions of war, and material of all
kinds fhad reached the disired stage
when the armistice was signed. The
expenses incurred must be met al
though fighting has ceased. Reve
nues from taxes and other sources
will not be sufficient to cover the in
debtedness, ther fore the Treasury
Department will ask for another loan,
said Mr. Franklin.
The banks of the country cannot
be expected to underwrite this bond
issue. With the restoration of peace
and return of normal trade con
ditions, banks will need all available
money from commercial purposes.
To burden them with the obligation
of absorbing an issue of several bil
lion dollars would stifle business and
interfere with trade. The fifth loan
must be floated out of the earnings
and savings of the people.
The amount of the issue and in
terest the bonds wil lbear will be de
termined by the Treasury Depart
ment early in the spring. The date
of the loan has not been decided
upon, but it is believed that the
Treasury Department will select some
date i nApril for the begining. In
the meantime, plans are being made
to float an issue as large as the Fourth
Liberty Loan,—Six Billion Dollars.
CONGRESS OBJECTS
TO SECRET SESSIONS
Washington, Jan. 16.—Liberals in
congress, the press and other por
tions of the public opposed to ‘“‘secret
diplomacy” were wrathy today over
the muffling of Paris Peace confer
ence news.
That the United States was a part
ner in the silence pact, after declar
ing for open peace covenants openly
made, caused a rumpus.
Many newspaper men here had
realized that there would be an effort
to “can” the peace news in a daily
communique which would shed very
little light. But, that the conferees
would vote for secrecy and bind all
to the pledge, making no excuses for
such a course, came as a shock.
One correspondent long in diplo
matic new sgathering remarked be
fore leaving here that there would
be a lid on the news, adding “It will
be a case of pursuing a lot of peo
ple who won’t talk or who ought
not to.”
Congress, it is expected, will voice
its opinion of the secret diplomacy
and censorship. It has long been
suspicious as to the latter and it will
probably now renew its attacks on
the committee on public information,
probably injecting also some attacks
on the president for permitting this
curtailment of news wherewith to
guide public opinion.
Those critical of the muffler plan
declared that this marks a return to
the systems of other days—systems
productive of intrigue and discord.
HUNDREDS ATTRACTED
BY AIRPLANE SUNDAY
| Lieutenant Barnes, from Americus,
“blew in” on Sunday about noon and
created considerable excitement. In
the afternoon most of Marietta gath
ered over on the golf grounds to
watch him do stunts in his beautiful
bi-plane. |
MISS DEAN, OF ROME, GA,,
JOINS THE RED TRIANGLE
Miss Marian Dean, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Linton A. Dean, of
Rome, Ga., has sailed for France to
serve as Y. M. C. A. secretary in the
Red Triangle huts. |
Miss Dean is a graduate of Shorter
College and has had some experience
as a teacher in the rural schools, man
aging a hotel and running a women’s
exchange. It was as a Sunday School
teacher however that she did her best
‘'work. She had a class in the moun
tains miles from her home and used
to ride to it on horseback every Sun
day. She has often taken orphans
into her own home when none of the
public institutions could find room for
them. She has also worked in the|
jails and among the down and out.’
She is of athletic build, a good swim
mer and skilled tennis player and
can drive and repair an automobile.
Ten of her cousins are serving under
the flag.
Miss Dean took a course of one
week at Barnard College in practical
canteen cookery and service, gymna
sium work, French language and his
tory and other subjects of value to
workers in the Red Triangle huts.
She also attended lectures by experi
enced Y. M. C. A. secretaries who
have worked in France and was given
an opportunity to try out “stunts”
she had learned for the amusement
of the boys overseas. s
Established 1866
BOND PROGEEDURE AND
|
ROADS ARE DISCUSSED
|
|BY MARTIN F. AMOROUS
{ Facts and Limitations About
Road Bond Issues
Trunk Routes Should Be Selected
Cost and Plans Outlined and Sub
mitted to the People for a Two-
Thirds Vote of Approval.
Editor Marietta Journal:
I am sure that all the people,
whether they walk or drive a mule
and wagon or horse and buggy or
an automobile, all want good roads—
permanent paved roads are the cheap
est and they cost the least in time.
To get the good roads we must
pay their cost. My suggestion is that
the county commissioners select cer
tain trunk roads, namely, roads with
the greatest amount of travel, those
that the majority of the people use
select the kind and class of material
and give an estimate of the cost per
mile—with the roads proposed and
the cost stated, then the ways and
means necessary to pay the cost can
be considered and when the facts
are published the people most direct
ly interested will devise or suggest
the ways and means if they want the
road.
There are several methods by
which money can be secured for the
purpose, lst from the general tax
Ifund, 2nd issue warrants for annual
payment, 3rd borrow money through
a bond issue. The state Constitution
permits counties to issue bonds under
certain fixed limits.
Ist. The total amount shall not
exceed 7% of the total taxable of
the county (Cobb county’s taxable
value being $10,000,000 her borrow
ing capacity is therefore $700,000.)
2nd If bonds are issued for 30
years a tax must be levied equal to
the annual interest on the bonds, and
also one thirtieth of the total bond
issue, this latter sum must be paid in
to the hands of a commissioner to be
held by them until the 30 years have
expired, at which time they will have
enough money to pay the entire issue
of bonds. They are known as sink
‘ing‘ fund commissioners.
l 3rd. A vote of two thirds of the
registered vote is required to auth
orize an issue of bonds.
It's not necessary to get a special
act of the Legislature to vote on the
bonds.
Another method would be to assess
some reasonable percentage against
the abbutting property, the county
paying the balance.
Still another method (if it is per
missible) some roads might be used
as “toll roads” until the cost is paid,
for instance the Atlanta road, if
paved permanently could charge each
vehicle passing over it a small fee
which in the aggregate would provide
a sum equal to sinking fund and in
terest cvharges and thus pay for it
self in a few years.
There is so much inter-state travel
over this road I feel sure all would
be glad to pay a small fee for the
privelege of riding over a concrete
road as against struggling through
the mud free.
There is also a probability that
National aid may be secured to a
limited extent. All these things
could be more definitely determined
if fixed plans and cost for each road
is published by the County Commis
sion.
If bonds are determined upon they
should be issued on the “serial” plan,
they are more popular with investors
and will cost the county less than a
straight 30 year bond. I was chair
man of the Finance Committee of the
City of Atlanta that issued the $3,-
000,000 in bonds several years ago,
they were issued as ‘“serial bonds”
payable one thirtieth each year, and
this method saves the city $1,700,-
000 in 30 years on that $3,000,000
issue.
Yours truly,
MARTIN F. AMOROUS
Atlanta Road, January 11, 1919.
MONEYS APPORTIONED TO
GEORGIA UNDER FEDERAL
| AID ROAD ACT FOR 4 YEARS
' Fliscal year. Amount.
1917 (available July 1,
1916) ___....-$ 134,329.48
1918 (available July 1,
1917) - _-....- 268,658.96
1919 (available July 1,
1918) . ... ..o 40390040
1920 (to be available
July 1, 1919)__ 538,417.90
Total. . ____.-.-$1,345,316.79
Georgia projects, statements of
which have already been approved,
total $802,387.04.
Georgia projects for which federal
aid funds have already been allotted,
$349,829.48.
Actually paid out to Georgia since
July 1, 1916, date of availability of
first apportionment, up to and includ~
ing January 13, 1919, $616,671.81. ,