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Vol. 53. No. 4.
Some of Our Boys Among
Allied Forces There
Peace Conference Gets Down To Busi
ness. Commission To Meet Russian
Factional Leaders in Effort To De
termine Who are Representatives.
The news of the day from other
lands may be condensed as follows:
The fighting between the allied
forces, which includes some Ameri
can troops, in northern Russia, con
tinues, and although the dispatches
try to reassure us, there is consider
able uneasiness about the fate of our
boys shut up there by a vigorous win
ter, and surrounded by foes of the
character of the Bolsheviki.
A part of the 82nd division was in
the parade reviewed by President Wil
son on Christmas day, and they
marched past the president’s stand
to the tune of “Dixie.”
On good reports from England it
is said that President Wilson by his
visit there captured the masses of the
people, and that his visit will result
not only in support of his views at
the peace table, but will be the foun
dation of a better feeling between
the English speaking countries gen
erally.
The recent election in Germany
seems to have established the basis
of seven separate republics, which
will be confederated very much after
our own union of states. The elec
tion defeated the radical or Bolshe
viki forces generally, and since the
murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Leib
necht, it is thought the conservatives
will continue in control in that coun
try.
The various Russian factions have
been invited to meet a commission of
the allies, who will hear their claims
for consideration at the peace table.
The allies are disposed to let Russia
form her own government, and only
ask that fighting shall cease and order
prevail, for until there is a stable
and competent government there, Rus
sia will be a menace to the peace of
the rest of the world.
The peace conference is getting
down to work, and one of the first
questions taken up is fixing the re
sponsibility for the war, the question
not only of national, but personal re
sponsibility being considered. An
other early subject will be framing an
international policy of legislation in
-egard to the interests of labor.
I\SIRS. EDDIE NICHOLS
g DIES VERY SUDDENLY
gThe sudden death of Mrs. Eddie
Nichols on Wednesday has cast a
gfloom over the city. Her friendsi
h)ad always known that the end wouldi
¢ome very.suddenly, as Mrs. Nichols‘
thad always suffered with a serious
heart trouble. But her death was a
wreat shock as well as sorrow to them.
{’ A particularly sad feature was the
fast that Mr. Nichols had reached
home only a few hours before, having
just received his discharge from
Wright Field, Montgomery, Alabama,
where he had been for many months.
The sympathy of the community is
with the family in their bereavement.
As we go to press the funeral ar
rangements have not been completed.
The funeral will be held from the
Episcopal church at two o’clock on
Friday.
THE S. B. TELEPHONE GIRLS |
If there is any set of employees;
or any company in Marietta or else
where who deserve praise and encour
agement it is the telephone girls of
this exchange.
I do not think we realize what their
services mean to us. They are always
on the job, day and night, patient‘
and ready to answer calls promptly,
and often to take the grumbling of
an impatient subscriber, who has no
idea of the terrible nervous strain
1 have heard no complaint from the
girls, but just felt like writing this
little article.
Let us be as considerate of them
‘as possible, for what would we do
without the telephone girls.
Mrs. Eloise Easterlin. ‘
\
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
The best league game of the season,
except, of course, with Fualton, will
be played in Marietta Friday night
with Decatur. This DeKalb County
high school has always had a strong
team, and this year Kirkwood doesn’t
think we can beat them. Of course,
Kirkwood’s judgment is immature,
and we are expecting to win if the
town people show their interest by
coming out; but at least the game
promises to furnish a close score and
some excitement. Let’s have the side
lines crowded Friday night at 7:30.
We owe it to ouriteam as well as to
ourselves. If your heart’s in the right
place you'll find the 15c. Help the
M. H. S. win the pennant!
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
EARLY LEGISLATION
~ ON ROADS PROBABLE
| il Le i
State Highway Engineer Tells of
Plans Being Presented for the
| Building of Good Roads
By invitation, Mr. W. R. Neel, the
‘state highway engineer, appeared be
fore the meeting of the county com
missioners on Tuesday, and made a
‘statement as to the status of the ap
plication for government funds for
work on the western branch of the
Dixie Highway. .
He said that the project had been
approved and in his judgement the
funds would be available in -about
60 days from this time. The esti
mate for this work was about $35,500
and the government is to furnish
half the money. The county by doing
the work on the basis of a contract
or may reduce this percentage by the
profit allowed for the contractor in
the estimate.
- Mr. Neel, in response to questions,
‘advised the board to make application
'at once for funds for any further
projects, as some eight months would
be necessary to put it through, and
advised that they disregard any pos
sible new road legislation, as appli
cations put in before, would be given
precedence, even in event of change
of laws.
He told of recent conferences in
the state on road affairs, and read
an outline of proposed road legisla
tion submited by the State Automo
bile Association, which he said was
well in line with most of the other
plans being talked of.
~ This plan provides for an auto
‘mobile tax ranging from $l4 to $l6
‘which should be applied to a state
‘road fund. A bill now in Congress
‘will provide $4,500,000 of road
’money for Georgia this year, and
the state must put up a like amount
‘ It is proposed to build state highways
and keep them up with this fund, these
lhighways to connect every county
site in the state, and thus leave all
local funds for work on the cross
’roads in the counties.
Legislation will be necessary to do
\this, and even a change in the con
stitution of the state to enable the
state to build the roads.
Mr. Neel was optimistic as to the
outlook for early action in Georgia,
and said that in a recent trip through
the state he found the people were
being thoroughly aroused, and that
the press of the state was unanim
ously in favor of action now.
SCHOOL CHILDREN
HELP ARMENIANS
When we told the children of the
fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh grades
of the Waterman Street school the
story of the 400,000 starving orphans
of Armenia and asked them to help
in this cause, we knew they would do
their best. But they did better than
we dared hope for.
They went to work in earnest and
they worked with a will. They sold
bottles, they sold croker sacks, they
did without many of the things that
mean so much to children, they held
a rummage sale, and did numerous
other things, and the figures below
show the result up to last Monday:
oA @rade. o 0 e 8503
B @rade 000 AUEDO
8-B Grdde: .. . . ail B
Bl Grader oo U BRED
BiA Grßder o= o 0 o o A
LA @rade: o i 0108
Private cheele == = .2 - 5 12008
Wotal. - . 3160 BN
They are still at work, too. This
week the 7-B has the Dixie Theater
for Wednesday and the 7-A has the
Strand Theater for Friday.
Both Mr. Stringer and Mr. March
man have been most liberal in the
commissions allowed on the tickets
sold by the children.
Inda Harrison, Chm.
INTERESTING MEETING
o OF THE U. D. Cs.
Mrs. B. T. Frey entertained the
Kennesaw Chapter on Tuesday af
ternoon. There was a good attend
ance and a particularly interesting
meeting was held.
The Chapter voted to send $25.00
to Mayor Brumby as its contribution
to the Municipal Hospital which is
to be started here as a Memorial to
our soldiers and sailors. This is the
very first money actually given to
Mr. Brumby for this purpose, though
much has been promised, and the
Chapter is justly proud of the fact.
No band of ladies has done fuller
war work than the U. D. Cs, for
among no people does the pure flame
of patriotism burn brighter than in
the Daughters of the Confederacy.
MR. PETREE BUYS
THE DOBBINS PLACE
Mr. R. R. Petree, one of Cobb
county’s best farmers and business
men, has purchased the residence of
Mr. John S. Dobbing on Atlanta
street, and moved into it.
Mr. Petree has sold his farm which
was one of the best in the county,
and will retire from active farm life.
We welcome him and his family to
Marietta.
Marietta, Ga., Friday, January 26th, 1919.
The Employment of Another
Agent Authorized
Says One Citizen: “You Can Not Es
timate the Value of Education in
Terms of Dollars and Cents.Y Top
soil for City Streets.
Mayor Jim R. Brumby appeared
before the board and asked that in
accordance = with the reciprocity
agreement between the city and coun
ty, that the county furnish a crew
for about two weeks to topsoil parts
of Roswell, Powder Springs and
Church streets.
By resolution the road superinten
dent was directed to perform this
work as quickly as possible.
It was also decided to complete
with a rock bed that small portion
of Atlanta road between the end of
the paved street and beginning of
the new county work below, this work
to be done after the completion of
that below.
The board passed a resolution with
respect to a loan of $60,000 from the
Merchants and Farmers Bank, that
the money be placed to the credit
of the lender, and that county war
rants be cashed by the bank in the
same manner as a check and charged
against this fund.
Quite a number of citizens from
all parts of the county were present
to ask the board to reconsider the
action of abolishing the office of
County Agent.
As a representation of the Georgia
State College of Agriculture, in put
ting on county agents and supervis
ing their work in the seventh district,
Mr. Strahan made a statement, re
viewing the work of the last agent,
Dr. Sawyer, showing that the pig
club pigs raised in the county last
year cost about $2,000 while their
meat value was over $3,000, and their
breeding stock value, double that
sum. He further stated that these
pigs had brought some $1,200 into
the county in prizes from the fairs.
With regard to the work of Dr.
Sawyer as a veterinarian he said he
felt sure that he had done as much
as $2,000 worth of this work for the
people of the county, all this being
aside from any work as a farm dem
onstrator of crop growing. |
Mr. Strahan was followed by Prof.
Hunt of the District Agricultural
College, Messrs. M. M. Sessions, A.
N. Mayes, Kemp, and others, all ask-i
ing for the restoration of the office
of County Agent.
One speaker forcibly put the mat
ter thus: “You cannot estimate the
value of education in dollars and
cents.” |
After some consideration the boardl
voted to give the sum of $BOO for
the support of a county agent, and
as the board of Education gives $200!
and the government supplies $l,OOO,
this would make the sum of $2,000‘
available.
Mr. Strahan was advised to take
steps to secure a man as soon as pos
sible, and the continuation of Dr.
Sawyer in the office until February
was approved, after which time he
will be in the service of Fulton
County.
The action of the board will meet
the hearty approval of a large major
ity of our people, and we trust unite
our farmers for a prosperous and a
busy year.
MASTER DUPRE A
REGULAR NIMROD
Young William A. DuPre, Jr., holds
the Cobb County boys record for
game-shooting. If there’s any other
thirteen year old hereabouts who has
killed a wild turkey, “let him speak
now, or else forever after hold his
peace.”
For William, who has just return
ed from a grand hunting trip with
his father and Judge Morris in South
Georgia, not only killed any number
of birds and squirrels, but he also
shot a fine wild turkey, which is
scme feat for a youngster.
William had to come back to school
but Judge Morris and Mr. DuPre will
not return for a week or so yet.
MISS CLARKE MEETS
HER OLD FRIENDS
In an interesting letter to Miss
Eloise Barnes, Miss Josephine Clarke
tells of a pleasant meeting with some
Marietta people in Washington. After
the performance of the musical ex
travaganza, “Chew Ching Chow,” in
which Miss Clarke has a prominent
part, Misses Laura Margaret Hoppe
and Mildred Brown, and Lieutenant
and Mrs. R. H. Mclntosh came be
hind the scenes to greet her. They
had not even known of her going on
the stage, but had recognized her in
her part. Miss Clarke iz in an ex
ceptionally good company, and tho
roughly enjoys her work.
Marietta is keenly interested in
watching the career of this brilliant
young woman.
SEG'Y HOUSTON THINKS
Wheat Farmers Complain,
Yet South Suffers
General Wood Urges Continuation of
Preparedness By Our Country.
Many Georgia Soldiers Returning
From France this Week.
Boiled down domestic news may be
classified as follows:
The matter of regulating the meat
packing industry is occupying the cen
ter of attention in this country at
present. Secretary of Agriculture
Houston says of the matter:
“I've got beyond the point of ar
guing about regulation of stock
yards. We do not want the distri
bution of meat, from the time pro
duction is planned on the range until
the finished product is delivered to
the consumer, left in the hands of
a few men,” he said. ‘“The packers
tell us that they are more efficient
and can do this work better than any
one else, but that is what paternal
ists always have said. For my part,
I want less of paternalism and more
freedom.”
The western wheat farmers are
making complaint about the great loss
to them on account of the government
price fixing of wheat. This is rather
paradoxical in view of the losses of
the cotton farmers on account of the
government’s failure to fix cotton
prices, but the cotton farmer can not
forget that the break in the cotton
market was primarily caused by the
government threats of price fixing,
when the tendency of the market was
to rise.
The governor of Tennessee, in a}
special article, urges the gallows as a
‘means of stopping murder, and says
that at present he is only able to
advise, and not to assist the sheriffs
of his state to repel mob attacks.
General Leonard Wood urges con
tinued preparedness as the best poli
cy for our country, saying: ‘“To keep
the smallest number of men in uni
form as a standing army, but to have
the largest number thoroughly train
ed to be ready when the country calls,
is the plan. The prediction that there
will be no wars is as old as time,
‘but war is like a pestilence.
It comes unawares and the most dem
ocratic method for a nation like ours
is to be prepared. You can not mas
sage away by fine rhetoric the pas
sions of nations whose methods and
morals are entirely different from
our own.”
The great army, that went with
forty officers, one private, and six
newspaper reporters, to arrest the
murderous mountain moonshiners, has
gotten back safely without the men
it went after, but the reporters had
a good time, and filled several col
umns with mushy sentiment about
the hill country.
All over the country attacks are
being made on the legality of the new
phone rates named by the Postmaster
General, and it is set up that he has
not authority for this. In Indiana
an injunction has been granted, and
in Florida one has been asked to pre-l
vent the collection of the advanced
rates. The old rates were generally
congidered reasonable, and the man
agement and service by the phone
companies most efficient.
Many Georgia soldiers got back
from ' France this week, and many
others are scheduled to sail at once,
so that many homes are happy
throughout the state.
HENRY MORGENTHAU TELLS
OF THE TURKISH HORRORS
A cablegram was received by the
Hon. Henry Morgenthau, former U
nited States Ambassador to Turkey,
from relief workers in Armenia, tell
ing of conditions in that country that
are so horrible as to be unprintable.
“Thousands of children are starv
ing and dying for want of the bare
necessities of life each day, and 1
have seen mothers so crazed from
hunger that they would eat the flesh
from the bodies of their own children
who had died of starvation,” said Mr.
Morgenthau.
“Reports from every part of the
country where campaigns are being
conducted to raise money for relief
of these people indicate that sub
scriptions are generous,” said L. A.
Cooper, Southern Division Director
of the Armenian-Syrian Relief Com
mittee. Many counties and cities
have voluntarily raised their quotas.
“Because of the reappearance of
the Spanish Influenza and local con
ditions the drive has been postponed
in many counties, but we feel assur
ed that as soon as conditions will
permit the campaign to be put on, the
South, with a hundred per cent re
cord in all war charities, will not
fall down on this, one of humanity’s
most distressed calls for assistance.
I don’t think that American mothers
and fathers knowing that there are
thousands of children dying of star
vation, can look on their own little
ones and refuse to give to this wor
thy cause.”
INCOME TAX DRIVE
NOW UNDER WAY
Collector Blalock Says He Will Send
Men To Central Locations To |
Aid Taxpayers of State |
The big Income Tax drive of 1919
is now under way, and every prep
aration is being made to handle the
largest collection in the history of
Income Tax. “I am not waiting for
the final passage of the new Revenue
bill by congress,” said Collector Bla
lock recently, “nor for the new reg
ulations and blank forms to be issued.
To get this big tax in and get it
accurate and complete, I urge that
we all begin now.”
“The income tax obligations im
posed by the old laws, as well as the
measure now in congress, consist of
two distinct operations. One is, to
file return or statement of all items
of income and items of reductions
allowable by law, and to do this with
in the period named by law. The
other is, to pay the tax, if any is due.
“Neither of these obligations can
be met without a careful review of
income and expenditure for the tax
year. That is the big job right now,
and that is why I say the Income Tax
drive is already under way. Every
where the pencil is busy. The old
year is done; all its fruits are glean
ed; and everywhere persons who far
ed well, or earned a good competence,
must analyze his own case in cold fig
ures. _
“When the new bill is enacted into
law, I will have the proper return
forms distributed throughout the dis
trict, and everybody will be informed
of the date when the sworn return
must be filed. It is my plan to send
my men out to central locations, and
to have them travel through the dis
trict, aiding taxpayers in the prepa
ration of the returns and in deciding
doubtful points. We will go right to.
the people with the income tax, and
with the co-operation the public can
give the government men, the returns
will be filed by everybody who comesg
under the law’s provisions, the right
taxes will be paid, and the district
will have done its full patriotic duty
toward the government’s support.
“Meanwhile, let me again say, that
there is no need of delaying the
preparation of figures. Anything that
congress does now will not affect the
amount of a person’s earnings for
1918. Let us avoid the belated throw
ing together of figures that may hit
or miss. Guesses cannot be accepted
(Continued on page ten)
MORE COMMENT ON
SCHOOL QUESTION
Editor Marietta Journal:-
You are in error in supposing that
the card of the Board of Education
last week assumed that it had found
a loose cog in the editor’s cranium.
The Board understood that a great
many people had lost their pipes and
boilers, and the card asked the ques
tion whether the editor placed all
these good people, including himself,
along with the authorities of the
school system, in having loose cogs.
We did not think so, and the form
of our questions showed that we did
not believe this to be true, but that
the accidents resulted in spite of
‘reasonable precautions exercised by
careful people. "It seemed to us how-|
ever, that if we were to be brandedl
as running with loose cogs that you
would necessarily put these other peo
ple and yourself in the same class.
The fact is, we mentioned these things
as showing the unusual conditions in
our town and to give you an oppor
tunity to say that perhaps you had
spoken hastily and wfthout full
knowledge of the facts.
We hardly think it fair to hold
us up to the. Washington standard.
Washington’s appropriations for pub
lic buildings are not like Marietta’s.
If we had the whole country to draw
upon we would likely be able to make
a better showing.
The present board did not install
the heating plant or the toilet sys
tem at the Waterman St. School, and
consequently are not responsible for
their virtues or vices. Much can be
said in condemnation of the arrange
ment of the toilet system, but the
board has no money with which to
put in a new one. Like most other
things, we suppose there are those
who would advocate the location of
the toilets in the school building,
while there are those who think they
should be out of the building. As
showing the very careful attention
given to the school properties, it is|
stated that oil lamps were kept burn
ing in the toilet rooms at that school
throughout each of the cold nights.
Notwithstanding this precaution, they
froze up, causing inconvenience until
they were thawed out. There is no|
other way for the heating to prevent
the freezing. Ordinarily this is suc
cessful, but when the weather gets
down around zero it is inadequate.
Could we have obtained the ma
terial necessary to repair the boiler
at the Haynes Street school promptly,
the delay there would have been'
small, but it took a whole week tol
get the material. Consequently we
lost s week’s work at that school,’
but it is now moving along nicely :nd|
we hope to have no further inter
ruptions this term. D. W. BLAIR, |
For the School Board.
Established 1866
AMERICAN PRINCIPLES):
CLAIMS MRS. SHEPA
1
e e i
Polygamy is Still Taught and
Practiced By Them @
Have Financial Power and Dangerous
Political Hold Upon the Affairs of
the Nation Which Will Corrupt Our
Laws and Institutions. e
On Monday evening at the Bap
tist church Mrs. Lulu L. Shepard, of
Salt Lake City, addressed a fair sized
audience on the subject of the “Mor
mon Menace.” -
Mrs. Shepard is a fluent and easy
speaker, and thoroughly acquainted
and imbued with her subject. She.
is a Tennessee woman, her family
having gone west when she was a
young woman, and her long residence
in Salt Lake City giving her an accu
rate and intimate knowledge of the
Mormons.
She has devoted a number of years
to the cause of prohibition, having
delivered lectures in mnearly every
state on this subject, and for a num-~
ber of years the leader of the fight
in Utah, being president of the W.
C. T. U. there.
Mrs. Shepard cautioned her hear
ers against the insiduous work of
the Mormon agents throughout the
country. She said that no converts
to the Mormon church are ever made
among the Gentiles of Utah, where
the church is known in its true light,
but that the activities of its agents
are met with success in many parts
of the country, misapprehension of
the true character of the church and
its practices being the basis of this
success.
She stated that the accumulation
of wealth in the hands of the head
of the Mormon church, which has as
sumed enormous proportions, has be
come a source of danger to Ameri
can institutions; that the balance of
power in politics is in the hands of
the head of the Mormon church in
eleven of the western states and with
this leverage they expect soon to ob
tain control of the wheole country.
The Mormons have now oneé Con
gressman and two United State Sen
ators, Reed Smoot, one of their sen
ators being in direct line of promos
tion to become the head of the Mor
mon church.
Mrs. Shepard states that polygamy
is still the law of the Mormon church,
and that it has always been practiced,
secretly in some cases, openly in
others, notably in the case of the
late president of the churech, Joseph
Smith, who died some six weeks ago,
and who stated to a committee of
Congress that he would continue to
live with his five wives.
During Clevelands administration
the Mormon church succeeded in get~
ting Utah admitted as a state, by a
piece of duplicity. The head of the
church reported that he had received
a revelation from God that the church
was to abolish polygamy, and thus
secured the votes in Congress to en
ter the union. The polygamous laws
of the church are still in the book
of Mormon.
Mrs. Shepard states that Mormons
are about to make an effort to have
this country recognize polygamy as
a war measure, as a necessity to re
store the population of the sexes e
quitably, that Germany has recently
practiced it, and France is talking of
it at this time.
She warns America against this
great menace within our own coun
try, and pleads for help to sound the
alarm throughout the land.
Mrs. Shepard stated that she would
be glad to return to Marietta on
Thursday afternoon of this week, and
talk to the women only in one of the
churches, the Methodist church being
selected.
FUEL RESTRICTIONS
TO BE REMOVED
On February first all restrictions
of the fuel administration on the pur
chase of coal will be removed.
Mr. G. H. Keeler, the local ad
ministrator, advises that after that
date you may buy coal in any quan
tities and from whom you wish.
The price regulation will also be
removed on that date, so that no fixed
rate will apply, so far as the govern
ment is concerned.
MISS ROBESON CONTINUES
WORK FOR THE RED CROSS
At a recent meeting of the Red
Cross Board of Cobb County, res
olutions were passed expressing the
warm appreciation of the Board for
the excellent Civilian Relief Work -
done by Miss Harriet Robeson.
Miss Robeson has given the past
six months of her time, free of charge,
to this important work for the coun
ty, after taking a course at the In
stitute in Atlanta at her own ex
pense. AL
In the future, she will be given a
salary of $6O a month for the con
tinuation of this much needed weork,
which she does so well. i e