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Vol. 53. No. 5.
Crop Must Be Reduced To
Maintain Prices
A Rise May Come At Planting Time,
But A Fall is Certain If Acreage isi
Not Creatly Reduced for the Com
ing Crop. ‘
Mr. Farmer, it is now up to you to
say whether cotton shall be thirty
cents next fall, or whether it shall
again sink to its pre-war levels of
twelve and ten cents or even less.
The size of the crop planted this
spring is going to determine this ques
tion. You need not think you can‘
put in a large acreage, and all thei
other farmers plant a small crop, and
get away with it.
It is so much better to be safe
than sorry, and the man who fails to
reduce his cotton acreage and make!
cotton strictly his surplus crop, is|
going to be sorry next fall. f
1t is a free country and you can do|
as you please, but every cotton farm-l
er who fails to cut down his acreagei
this year should be considered an
enemy of his country, for he will justl
be trying to sneak by with something,
and he would only be getting his just
deserts if every other farmer did thel
same thing and all went to pot to
gether. '
Now, it is an established fact that
corn and potatoes and peanuts and
hogs and a lot of other things pay,
and pay well, on Georgia farms. No
farmer is obliged to plant even half
the cotton he raised this year, so
many other farm products are good
for money.
We believe public opinion is good
for something yet in this country,
even among farmers who have been
charged with not sticking together.
Cut down your own cotton crop now,
and make the man who refuses to do
likewise know that you feel that he
is not the friend of the farmer.
It is probable that cotton will rise
about planting time to thirty cents
or more, but don’t get foolish and
plant too much. Only a certain re
duction in acreage will cause it to
rise that much and it can fall as
quickly as it rises.
Plan to make your money on some
thing else thanm cotton this year, and
no matter what the market does about
planting time, do not change your
plans.
COTTON GINNING '
Up to January Ist 1919 Cobb
County had ginned 16,927 bales of
cotton against 12,849 to same date
last year.
These figures would indicate that
the total for the current fiscal year
will very nearly reach 20,000 bales.
Of this from figures estimated by
several gentlemen supposed to be
familiar with the county, we should
say 40% or more is still in the hands
of the farmer.
Quite a bit is being stored and held
by merchants in warehouses, and it is
our sincere hope that none of it
moves to the mills until the price
shall have gone up to at least 30
cents.
It is better to hold what you have
and plant foodstuffs only for another
year than to give away this crop and
prepare another crop at an even low-i
er price. |
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THREE OF OUR BOYS ARE |
BACK FROM OVERSEAS
Many Marietta hearts were glad
dened on Sunday by the news that
three of our popular young men—
Lieutenants Tom Patton and Guy
Roberts, and Corporal Jesse North
cutt, had landed in New York. It is
hoped that the trio will soon be at
home.
INJUNCTION REFUSED
AGAINST BURLESON
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 29—Hold
ing that the United States district
court had no jurisdiction in the ap
plication of the Indiana public service
commission for a permanent injunc
tion to prevent collection by the
telephone companies of new toll rates
recently ordered into effect by Post
master General Burleson, Judge A.
B. Anderson today disolved the tem
porary restraining order granted
several days ago. The rates became
effective in Indiana ([immediately
upon the court’s ruling.
COTTON SEED PRICE
REMAINS $7l A TON
=, Washington, Jan. 29.—Cotton seed
interests have been notified by the
food administration the price-stabili
zation plan for cotton seed and its
products put into effect in September
will continue through the present sea
son, if all elements of the industry
continue to co-operate. The admin
istration’s statement says that the in
dustry is following normal lines. Un
der the stabilization plan a base price
of $7l a ton is maintained.
THE M ARIETTA JOURNAL
| During the eleven months period of
‘the operation of its plant at Tifton,
from February 4, 1918, to December
31, 1918, the Tifton Packing Com
pany paid out to the farmers about
$1,500,000 for hogs. The number of
hogs purchased was 60,232, the live
weight being 8,420,443 pounds.
The plant bought during the same
eleven months 3,053 head of cattle
live weight 1,515,788 pounds.
Through the plant in this time was
handled six million pounds of meat.
Two hundred and forty-seven refrig
erator car loads, of approximately
30,000 pounds each, of meat and meat
products have been shipped to points
outside the state of Georgia, including
the states of Alabama, Illinois, Ohio,
Maryland, Louisiana, Pennsylvania,
New York, Virginia, South Carolina,‘
Florida, lowa and New Jersey. About
150 car loads were shipped to Georgia
points.
The Tifton Packing Company was
organized for the purpose of supply
ing a local cash market for hogs to
take the place of cotton. The above
figures show how completely this pur
pose has been accomplished.
THE FUNERAL OF ’
:
MRS, JULIA NIGHOLS
e |
On the afternoon of January 24th
1919 in the beautiful church of St
James in Marietta, Georgia, were
gathered the sorrowing friends of
Julia De Lacy Nichols, wife of Edgar
Alston Nichols.
Her sudden death from heart fail-‘
ure occurred January 22. She was
born in the beautiful city of Jack
sonville, Fla. ‘
Only a few weeks before Mrs.
Nichols has assisted with the lovely
Christmas decorations, which were
left in the church just as her ,awn
hands had helped to place them;
Those who were present will hever
forget the effect of the soft sunlight
as it fell through the windows back
of the chancel upon a large wreath
composed of calla lilies, carnations,
pink crysanthemums, hyacinths and
pink roses, a magnificent tribute from
the 883rd Squadron, U. S. A. to
which Mr. Nichols belonged. Her
friends showered flowers upon her,
and all of these were most beautiful.
One of the loveliest offerings was
from our Marietta telephone girls
and another was a cross of carnations
and narcissus sent from the Constan
tine Commandery.
The hymns, “Nearer My God To
Thee,” and “Asleep in Jesus” were
beautifully sung, and Mrs. Wyatt and
Mrs. E. P. Dobbs sang that song of
marvelous sweetness, ‘“He will take
care of you.”
Mrs. Nichols loved her home, and
was never so happy as when she had
her friends around her. She was mar
ried just six years ago.-
She was a devoted wife, daughter,
sister and friend, and she loved her
church with an intensity seldom equal
ed. She had a passion for flowers
and poetry. On one occasion when
she was much troubled she called on
the writer and during her visit re
‘peated so feelingly these lines:
“He who cares for the lily
And heeds the sparrow’s fall,
Shall tenderly lead His loving child
For He made and loveth all.
And so when wearied and baffled
And I know not which way to go,
I know that He can guide me
And ’tis all that I need to know!”
And she sent her prayers to heaven.
“Like winged ships they hie, Laden
with faith and hope away, and on to
the distant sky.”
And to those who loved her, may—
“ Each tear we shed be the seed of
a smile,
Our griefs may rejoicings be after
awhile,
The doubts turned to sureties, the
discords to tune
And the cold dawn called Life, in to
heavenly noon.
The rainbow is cradled in storm, and
the snows
Are the sheltering place of the fair
sleeping rose,
And content with the will of the
Lord, soon or late
We shall read the the glad word
o’er The Beautiful Gate.”
January 27th, 1919. J.W.J.
SERGEANT NEESE WOUNDED
IN THE ST. MIHIEL DRIVE
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Neese have just
received cheering news from their
son, Paul. Sergeant Neese was sever
ly wounded on November 5, just after
the St. Mihiel drive, which he was in.
He has been in a Base Hospital in
France ever since but lately has been
on crutches; and now is able to get
about with a cane.
His parents have been painfully
anxious about him, and are thankful
for his recovery. They expect him
‘home as soon as he is able to make
‘the voyage home.
Tifton Packing
House Paid for
60,232 Porkers
Marietta, Ga., Friday, January 31st, 1919.
AFFAIRS OF THE \\?EEK
Opposition To New Phone
Rates is Likely ‘
The Wets Still Fight. Ocean Rates
On Cotton Lower. Wheat Price
Fixing Making Trouble. Railroad
Men Organize Secretly.
It now seems probable that the
Georgia State Railroad Commission
will make a fight of some sort against
the phone rate increases ordered by
Postmaster General Burleson on the
20th of January. Judge Hines, at
torney for the commission, has ren
dered an opinion that the postmaster
general was without any authority in
the matter, and it is likely that Geor
gia will join the other states which
have asked injuctions restraining the
collection of the new rates.
January 16th, 1920, is the date
when the United States will become
bone dry. The formal proclamation
of the ratification has been issued,
and while the liquor forces have
made up a big final “pot” to fight it
through the courts, claiming uncon
stitutionality and making use of any
technical error of commission or
omission which they can uncover,
there is very little doubt that it will
be very dry in this country after the
date named.
The action of the government in
fixing the price of wheat at $2.26 for
this year is causing much debate in
congress, as to how the guaranteed
price shall be paid. Not a little op
position has shown itself to making
the appropriation which it is esti
mated will be necessary as a bonus
to sustain the price. The food ad
ministration states that it will not be
concerned in any way in the matter
of sustaining the price, and by its at
torney, it declares that the food ad
ministration is now in the course of
dissolution as fast as ‘‘its duties to the
public service will permit.” It will
be seen that it is one thing to name
an arbitrary price of a product, and
quite another to sustain that price.
The senate committee on elections
has voted to make an investigation
of the Michigan election for United
States Senator, which Henry Ferd
claims counted him out by fraud.
Judge W. T. Newman has written
a letter to Senator Hoke Smith en
dorsing the federal judge retirment
bill advocated by Senator Smith. This
will prove a blow to the enemies of
Smith, who have been saying that
Judge Newman opposed the bill, and
that it was only a partisan measure
aimed at Judge Newman.
Atlanta has its usual share of noto
riety in criminal circles this week,
which the papers play up with the
inevitable ‘“beautiful women” and
“eternal triangles” and “soulmates’
and pistols and funerals. The rail
roads may yet have a week without
an accident, but Atlanta never a week
without a scandal.
The ocean freight rate on cotton
was cut this week from $22.50 per
bale to $6.50, which amounts to
nearly three cents per pound. This
had a temporary effect on both spot
prices and futures, but futures again
went off to the former level.
Reports from Washington say that
half a million railroad men have ef
fected a secret organization recently,
and while no demands are being made
at this time, it is thought that the
power of this organization will make
itself felt at an early date.
MRS. HAROLD BESHERS
DIED LAST SATURDAY
Mrs. Harold Beshers, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Smithwick, 22
years old, died at her residence, 113
Sessions St. on the 25th, of January,
1919, after a short illness of influen
za followed by pneumonia. She is
survived by her husband, and a four
year old son, Thomas Harold, also
father and mother, five sisters and
two brothers, as follows: Mrs. R. B.
Loggins, Acworth, Mrs. J. T. Bell,
Smyrna, Mrs. H. G. Hicks, Marietta,
and Misses Ophelia and Maggie
Smithwick. Funeral services at the
Methodist church, Sunday the 26th, at
3 o’clock, Drs. Patton and Hamby offi
ciating. Pall bearers, M. S. Welsh,
M. D. Norton, M. A. Moore, D. B.
Medford, L. W. Hibble, and M. R.
Lyons, Jr. The interment was held
in the city cemetery.
Mrs. Beshers joined the Methodist
church at twelve years of age and
was a devoted christian.
$65,000,000 FOR THE
AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS
Melborue, Australia, Jan. 29.—A
sum totaling $65,000,000 will be set
aside by Australia for the benefit of
soldiers discharged from the army
according to G. F. Pearce, minister
of defense. This sum will, according
to a statement made by W. A. Watt,
acting premier, be used to assist the
states of the commonwealth to secure
settlers from the men now in the
ranks.
,GUUNTY TUESDAY 8 P.M.
A Real Business Organiza
tion Much Needed
Knockers Are Not Wanted, but Now
is the Time for Organized Effort
if Our City and County Keep
Abreast With Other Sections. i
We are in receipt of the following
call from Mr. Hancock, who has been
acting for the Chamber of Commerce
in the absence of a regular organiza
tion, It speaks for itself and we
trust it will meet with a hearty re-
Sponse from our people. |
To Business and Professional Men
and Farmers of Marietta and Cobb
County, |
Do you want to maintain a com-“
mercial organization for Marietta and
Cobb County? Are you content to let
things drag along and allow other
progressive Georgia cities to seize all
the splendid opportunities to secure
manufacturing enterprises and capi-‘
tal now seeking investment in thel
south? There has never been a time
in the history of the country when
greater opportunities presented them
selves for the development of our
southern cities and counties, but if
these opportunities are not taken ad
vantage of quickly, it will be too late.
It’s the early bird that gets the worm.
Marietta and Cobb county offer
greater inducement for men to invest
their money, both in manufacturing
enterprises, farming and stock rais
ing, than in any other section of the
state, but these advantages must be
shown the investor or he will look
elsewhere,
If we want to grow and develop our
resources, it is absolutely necessary
to maintain a live and active commer
cial organization. We can’t get some
thing for nothing, neither will a one
man Chamber of Commerce accom
glish anything. As everybody knows,
or the past two years I have been
dbout the only man who has given
any attention to the affairs of the
Chamber of Commerce, but one man
cannot accomplish much.
I am taking the liberty to call a
meeting of all the business and pro
fessional and farming men of Mari
etta and Cobb county to meet to
gether in the council champer in the
courhouse next Tuesday night at 8:00
o’clock, February 4. If you are in
terested in the upbuilding of your
town and county, come out to this
meeting and let’s see what we are
going to do about it. Don’t come to
kick and knock. If you can’t get in
the harness and pull, it will be best
to stay away, so we will know who
the kickers and knockers are. Live
wires and co-operation for a greater
town and county is what we need
now. Show your interest and will
ingness to do your part by coming
to this meeting. |
Respectfully, |
J. W. HANCOCK, ;
Acting President Chamber of Com.
WAR BREAD PRICES TO
CONTINUE 18 MONTHS
BIG MILLERS DECLARE
War time bread prices will pre
vail throughout the world for another
eighteen months, leading Minneapolis
flour millers predicted today when in
formed of the statement made yester
day in New York by Julium Barnes,l
president of the United States Grain
corporation, regarding the American|
guaranteed price of wheat in relation
to the world price of the commodity.[
The milling industry of this has beenl
practicaly at a ,standstill since ‘the
government agency ceased buying
fiour six weeks ago and was await
ing just such an announcement as
was made by Barnes, H. P. Ganaher,]
vice-president of the Northwestern
Consolidated Milling Company, de-’
clared.
Immediate resumption of flour mill
activities throughout the country will
follow it was said, and the pessibility
of a flour famine as predicted last
week is out of the question.
Fluctuations in the price of flour
during the ensuing eighteen months
will be slight, millers decalred. |
|
WEAR ALL OF UNIFORM ;
OR NONE OF IT AT ALL}
Necessity for discharged navy men!
wearing the full navy uniform, or no
part of it, was stressed by Lieutenant‘
Commander J. H. Atkinson, in charge
of the navy recruiting station of this
division. ‘
“It has come to my attention” the’
lieutenant commander said, “that{
some men, who have either been dis
charged or put on inactive duty, arei
combining the naval uniform withi
their ecitizen’s, clothes. This is pro
hibited by the war department and l‘
want to insist that those in pouession“
of the uniform of the navy wear all‘
of it or none at all.” |
Messrs. Kile and
Shackleford Buy
Griffih Drug Co.
~ Announcement is made of a new
‘drug firm in Marietta this week. The
Griffith’s Pharmacy, which has been
in charge of Dr. Poole for the last
ten months, has been purchased by
Messrs. N. J. Kile and George W.
Shackleford, and they assume charge
at once, and will do business under
the name of Kile & Shackleford.
Both these gentlemen are well
known in Marietta, Mr. Shackleford
being recently prescriptionist for the
Hodges Drug Company, and for six
years in the business in the city, be
ing considered one of the foremost
of the profession in Marietta, while
Mr. Kile, who is more popularly
known as Uncle Jasper, had been asso
ciated with the Griffiths Pharmacy for
five years prior to Dr. Poole's taking
charge of it.
They will make improvements and
take steps to restore the place to its
former popularity with the people of
the town and county.
The many friends of these gentle
men join in wishing them every suc-i
cess in the business, which we are
sure their qualifications richly merit.
They have a card elsewhere in this
issue and ask a share of your trade.
CHARLES H. FREYER
Charles H. Freyer, 58 years old,
died at a private sanatorium on Sat
urday, January 25. The funeral
services were held from St. James
Episcopal church at 10:30 on Monday
morning, the Reverend R. R. Clai
borne, officiating. The regular choir
sand ‘“Lead Kindly Light,” and ‘“Rock
of Ages.” The interment was in the
Episcopal cemetery, the ball-bearers
being J. W. Glover, Howard Coryell,
John H. Boston, Andrew Hansell, of
Atlanta, George H. Sessions, and L.
N. Trammell.
Mr. Freyer’'s death was a blessed
release from a long and painful ill
ness that was ever patiently and
cheerfully borne.
All that love and skill could do
failed to relieve his sufferings, and
his friends can but feel that the end
brought peace to a weary spirit.
“After life’s fitful fever
He sleeps well.”
. Charles H. Freyer, the oldest son
of Francis L. Freyer and of his first
wife, Sarah E. Freyer, was borne at
Orange Spring, Florida, July 14, 1861.
He lived in Florida during his early
days and came to Marietta with his
father shortly after the end of the
civil war, and later went to school
‘at Roswell, Ga., where he lived with
the family of Captain Hansell and
formed his life-long friendship with
‘Mr. Andrew J. Hansell, now of At
lanta.
Thence he attended school at Wor
cester, Mass., but professing more in
terest in things mechanical than in
the gleaning of knowledge from books
he served an apprenticeship in the
firm of Kranich & Bach at New York,
well-known piano manufacturers.
Having learned there all the tricks
of the trade, he became associated
with his father in business in Atlanta,
until the retirgment of his .father,
when after a sojourn of five months
in England and Europe, he set up
and managed his own office in Macon
and South Georgia.
Finding climatic conditions there
unfavorable, he established himself
at Marietta, but with continued fail
ure of health, gave up his business
and devoted himself to the pursuit
of panacea for his failing health.
“Charlie” was an enthusiastic fish
erman and his greatest joy, besides|
bringing pleasure into the lives of
others (and perhaps in telling them
of the fish he had caught) was in
fishing and hunting in Florida, Texas
or Cuba. His genial soul and gener
ous spirit combined with his keen
sense of humor, which never left
him even to the end, made him a
host of friends wherever he went and
of enduring popularity to his many
friends in Marietta.
His nearest surviving relatives are!
his sister, Mrs. M. L. McNeel, and
his brother, Commander Frank B.
Freyer, U. S. Navy.
Mr. W. G. Owenby and family ex
pect to move from their church street’
residence to their home at Oakhurst|
at an early date.
AN APPRECIATION
Dear lovable Charlie Freyer has
passed to his reward, and forever
blessed may it be!
No truer soul, nobler spirit, kinder
or more genial comrade, stancher or
more unselfish friend no one ever
had.
He will be deeply and truly mourn
ed and greatly missed by all who
knew him—most by those who knew
him best.
“Green be the truf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
None knew thee but to love thee
None named thee but to praise.’
—An old Comrade. |
Established 1866
CONDENSED NEWS FROM
THE OTHER SIDE ABOUT
WAR AND PEAGE AGTORS
President Wilson Has Won
Another Point
International Rule for the German
Colonies. The Kaiser Plotting To
Come Back To Power. American
Troops in Grave Danger.
Latest dispatches say President
Wilson has won out in his fight to
put all the German colonies under the
rule of on international protectorate.
The details of this will have to be
worked out in the conference later.
There was considerable opposition to
this plan by some of the British col
onies expecting to annex and hold the
German colonies. This was one of
the great questions about which Ger
many hoped to create dissention in
the ranks of the allies, and if it is
firmly settled, much progress has been
made.
A great deal of plotting is going
on in Holland and Germany concern
ing the former Kaiser, one report
saying that many of the nobility are
scheming to bring him back to Ger
many and reinstate him as the Kaiser
again. Evidently the delay on the
part of the allies in taking steps
to arrest and try the Kaiser, has cre
ated hope in his mind that he may
yet return as ruler of Germany. It
is said that he has been sawing wood
for recreation, and no doubt he is
also “sawing wood” politically. It
is to be hoped that when the peace
conference has reached his case and
has dealt with him, there will be no
“come back.” Certainly the allies
can not permit him to return to
authority in Germany or elsewhere,
as he represents everything against
which the war was waged, and we
believe the German people of all ranks
would be only too willing to accept
him and what he represents again.
We want no more super-men.
Great Britain has put up the bars
against a long list of imports during
the reconstruction period in an effort
to give her factories a chance to re
cuperate and return to normal con
ditions. The bar is not absolute, but
a special license is required for each
shipment and it is proposed to make
this act as a practical embargo on
the imports listed.
Britain will hold an army of 900,-
000 men during the reconstruction
period, and of course the navy will
not be reduced during that period, if
at all, as it is Britain’s arm of de
fense, and all that saved her from
complete disaster before our entrance
into the war.
’ American troops in the Archangel
‘region are being driven back, and are
in grave danger of extermination by
the forces of the Bolsheviki. The
inhabitants of the district are fleeing
through the American lines in the
direction of Archangel, and tell many
stories of massacres by the Bolsheviki.
As the situation appears to us we
shall be fortunate if we can extricate
our army there without serious loss,
and success of the Bolsheviki might
mean the total extermination of our
soldiers, as well as those of the other
allies in that section. We presume
the winter closing of the port pre
vents the sending of assistance by
sea at this time, but if relief is pos
sible by any means, it should be sup
plied at once.
Strikers throughout England and
Ireland, said to be led and financed
by the Bolsheviki, are demanding a
forty-hour week, and are doing much
to unsettle conditions. They are
said to be acting independently of
their regular organization leaders,
and a great many industries are now
shut down.
MRS. YOUNG OF JACKSON
VILLE, BURIED HERE
Mrs. Sarah Alexander Young, 28
years old of Jacksonville, died at a
sanitarium in Atlanta on Tuesday,
The remains were brought to her old
home in Marietta on Wednesday; and
the funeral services and interment
were held in the city cemetery. The
services were conducted by a Pres
byterian pastor from Atlanta. The
pall bearers were cousins of the de
ceased, Messrs Searle, Frank, and
Robert Sanges, of Marietta, and Clar
ence and Jim Dwyer, and Nathan Wil
liams, of Atlanta. Mrs. Young is
survived by a little son; her father,
Mr. Nathan Alexander; a sister, Mrs.
Lou Williams, of Atlanta; an aunt,
Mrs. Kate Manning, and three uncles,
Messrs Frank, Bob and Will Sanges,
of Marietta.
NEWT. BOWMAN BURIED HERE
Mr. Newt. A. Bowman died in Mi
ami, Fla., on January 18th of heart
failure, and was brought to Marietta
for burial on January 23. Mr. Bow
man was formerly a member of the
First Baptist church here, but had
transferred his membership to the
First Baptist church of Miami some
time ago. He is survived by his pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Bowman,
five brothers and two sisters. '