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Vol. 53. No. 6.
THE OTHER SIDE ABOUT
Bolsheviki Are Defeated Ir
Northern Russia
Doctors Locate the Flu Germs. City
of Bremen is Shelled to Drive Ou
the Reds. Small Nations are Ask
ing for Larger Power.
Around the peace table in Europe
some of the representatives of the
smaller nations are acting like they
thought it was a railroad restaurant
instead of a dignified, deliberative
dinner table, from which all nations
are to be equitably cared for. These
representatives are asking for full
equality with the big nations and
want to be conferred with the highest
powers. The big fellows will have to
give them a stick of candy and tell
them to run out and play awhile
Some means of pacification will no
doubt be found to smooth out the
matter.
The latest news from the Archan
gel regions is more encouraging than
it has been for weeks at least the
Americans and Allied forces there
have checked the Bolshevik forces in
a battle in which the Americans lost
five killed and 4 few wounded while
the Bolsheviki were routed in great
disorder. It remains to be seen,
however, whether they can and will
come back. No doubt they can mus
ter overwhelming numbers, but
whether they can throw them in suf
ficient force against the well equipped
and desperate Allies is doubtful. It is
to be hoped that the fighting in that
sector is over and that the Allies may
soon be reinforced or withdrawn as
the peace conference may decide.
London doctors claim to have iden
tified and isolated the germs of in
fluenza, which if true, means of pre
venting it and checking it in its course
will at once be found. The indenti
fication and isolation of disease germs
has always been the first and hard
est task of the doctors in the fight
against the ills of mankind. The flu
has been an international plague
and has caused the death of so many
that it is idle to speculate upon the
number.
In Germany the government ap
pears to have became more stable.
The “Reds” or Spartacan forces, who
have held the port of Bremen, have
been driven out by German regulars,
but not until the town had been
subjected to an artillery fire which
not only killed many citizens, but
destroyed many of the valuable pub
lic buildings.
The German National Assembly
meets this week, not in Berlin, but
in Weimar, where the seat of govern
ment has been transferred, at least
temporarily—Chancellor Ebert seems
to be in undisputed controll, but
with the gathering of the assembly
the powers of the present adminis
tration will expire, and a new organ
ization will be named by the assem
bly.
The strike situation in Britain re
mains the same as it was last week,
some British soldiers are said to have
joined the strikers, but the outcome
is dark and unsettled.
Mobs of Austrians are raiding the
food shops of some of the larger
cities there, and at last account they
had not been suppressed, and much
disorder prevailed.
On last Saturday Sheriff Swansor
and Deputy Dave Latimer made a raid
on a still within two hundred yards of
the Dixie Highway, about half way
between Kennesaw and Acworth.
They arrested Perry Strickland,
who owns his own place, in whose
possession they found a quantity of
mash in process of fermentation, and
a ten gallon copper still.
The still was a much patched up af
fair, evidently having been chopped
to pieces in some former raid by re
venue officers, but it had been repair
ed sufficiently to make it of use for
changing corn in the grain to corn in
the liquid, against the advice and
consent of both the state and nation.
Perry was brought to Marietta
where he was released under a five
hundred dollar bond for appearance
in court.
THE “KAISER” PEA IS
T NOW THE “McADOO”
Farmers who want to buy quanti
ties of the variety of field pea intro
duced several years ago by the United
States Department of Agriculture
from Germany, and then known as
the “Kaiser’’ pea, will save trouble
by not using that name any more.
These peas are now known as “Mc-
Adoos,” and they are as widely dis
tributed through the Northwest as
Liberty Bonds, which caused the sub
stitution in nomenclature.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
Does Marietta
Need a Chamber
of Commerce?
Last week a call was issued by Mr
J. W. Hancock, who has been acting
for some time as both President and
Secretary of the Marietta Chamber
of Commerce, asking for a meeting
of those citizens interested in the
future progress and prosperity of
Marietta.
He named the City Council Cham
ber as the place for meeting at 8
¢’clock Tuesday evening, and the mat
ter was brought to the attention o
the people through these column
and also by posters in the window
about town.
The hour of the meeting cam
on a rather inclement evening, bu
scores of our citizens were out a
the movies or on other business o
pleasure, but the attendance at the
meeting was so small as to be very
discouraging to the few faithful
spirits who have labored for the pub
lic good along these lines which
should be fully covered by a rea
live and active Chamber of Com
merce.
The general subject of an active
organization was discussed by those
present, but the attendance was so
small that it was thought best to de
fer the whole matter until such time
as the interest in the subject shall
become apparent.
Marietta does need an organization
of some sort to handle many matters
of public welfare, which can not well
be done by public officials of town
or county or by private individuals.
We would commend this to the at
tention of our public, and we trust
that enough interest may be aroused
to get united action of all the busi
ness men of the town.
CHARLES S. BARRETT
GOES TO FRANGCE
Washington, Feb. 4—The state de
partment today issued passports to
France for Charles S. Barrett, of
Union City, Ga., president of the Na
tional Farmers union, and within the
week Mr. Barrett will leave for Paris
to appear before the peace conference
as the only appointed representative
of the national board of farm organ
izations of America. The passports
were forwarded to Mr. Barrett to
night by Judge W. U. Larsen.
Mr. Barrett not only goes to Eu
rope to appear before the peace con
ference, but goes also as a represen
tative of the farming interests of the
United States before the agricultural
societies of Europe. In addition to
this, he holds a commission from the
League to Enforce Peace, signed by
ex-President Taft.
The National Board of Farm Or
ganizations at its recent meeting in
Topeka not only commissioned the
Georgian as their peace conference
epresentative, but indorsed the league
of nations plans as outlined by Pres
ident Wilson.
TO PAY FOR COTTON
TAKEN BY SHERMAN
Savannah, Feb. s—United States
court of claims has handed down a
judgment ‘awarding $176,666.79 to
stockholders of the Olld Importing
and Exporting company of the state
of Georgia, for cotton seized by Sher
man in his memorable march to the
sea in 1865. The litigation was in
stituted shortly after the Civil war.
When Sherman’s army entered Sa
vannah the company had great quan
tities of cotton in warehouses. Gen
eral Sherman ordered it confiscated
Some of it was used by the army, but
the greater portion was shipped to
Boston and sold there. The proceeds
from the sale were deposited in the
United States treasury and the money
has been kept intact. The supreme
court in the early days after the war
held that the money belonged to the
claimants. The loyalty test statute
barred practically every southern man
interested. The loyalty test was re
moved by congress in 1905.
E. H. Abrahams, attorney for the
claimants, announced the decision of
the court of claims today.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12
WILL BE “GEORGIA DAY’
Next Wednesday will be “Georgia
Day” and as such we trust it will be
the minds of Georgians.
We have a note from Mrs. Welborn
Reynolds, corresponding secretary of
the Fielding Lewis Chapter D. A. R,,
asking that we bring it to the atten
tion of the publis, and urging that the
day be fittingly observed.
It has been the custom of members
of the D. A. R. to visit the schools
on this date, and some appropriate
exercises are arranged for the chil
dren to celebrate the day.
It has also been the custom of the
D. A. R. chapter to offer some prizes
to the children for proficiency in
Georgia history, and we presume the
custom will be kept up this year.
Marietta, Ga., Friday, February 7th, 1919.
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS AS REPORTED BRIEFLY
OF LOCAL AGTIVITIES AND CONDITIONS
Fight on President Kept Up
in the Senate :
The British Embargo is Attacked
League of Nations Still Opposed
Serious Charge Against 1. W. W
Textile Mills are Closed.
Congress is in a turmoil, between
the wild talk of dissatisfied Demo
crats and the party logrolling of the
Republicans, it is defficult to tell just
what they are doing, or what they are
going to do, except that it may be
assumed, with safety, that they will
keep on talking. Whether any real
business is transacted in the interest
of the people, concerns them not, if
they can just air their own personal
views, and gain any personal or poli
tical advantage otherwise. Charges
and recriminations are being freely
made on all sides, and the real busi
ness is almost lost in the shuffle.
The British embargo is getting a
lot of attention in the senate at this
time, and not only the usual objectors
are pawing up the air, but such re
gulars as Jim Ham Lewis, and Ash
hurst of Arizona, are warning Bri
tain that it is not a good policy to
stir up again the spirit of 1812.
The fight against the League of
Nations plan continues bitterly.
“Today at Paris,” Senator Reed de
clared, “we are dreaming the old
dream of a supernation, a brother
hood of man, a common control of
all the races of the world.”
Senator Frelinghusen, of New Jer
sey, whose name sounds rather Ger
man to us, has this nice bouquet to
throw at President Wilson:
“It is all very well for the president
to break the precedents of a century
that he may head triumphal proces
sions in foreign capitals, sleep in the
chamber of royalty, dine off of gold
plates in the palaces of the modern
Caesars and have his photographs
taken geoni with kings and
queens and princesses. But what of
the American private who returns to
his native shores A dis
missed without a dollar in his pocket.”
Senator Kirby, of Arkansas, demo
crat, replied briefly to Senator Fre
linghuysen. He charged that inci
dents had been unduly enlarged upon
and said criticisms had been made for
partisan purposes and with little and
often no foundation in fact. The
ratio of complaints to the number of
men involved has been exceedingly
small, Senator Kirby said. \
Also opposition to a three or five
year program of holding the railroads
to try out certain theories was se
verely criticized as “experimenting”’
with the railroads. This matter, as
many others, remains up in the air
and settlement far away.
The textile mills in the Lawrence,
Mass., section have been closed by
strikers, and Passaic, New Jersey,
mills are also shut down. In Georgia,
the Columbus mills are all closed, ex
cept two of the smaller ones. The |
feeling manifested by some of the
leaders is very bitter and opposed to:
any arbitration, even if the mill own-|
ers should agree to it, so this re
mains one of the little or big problems
which the country must solve.
In the Senate this week Senatorl’
Thomas, of Colorado, who, by the]
way, was born in Americus, Ga., made |
the open charge that the 1. W.W. and |
associated Bolsheviki interests, were
secretly at work in this country for
the overthrow of our government, |
and further charged that a certain |
member of congress was in attend-l
ance, in sympathy with a public meet—‘
ing of this character, in which it was
openly urged that a “Red” Americai
should supersede our present govern-|
ment. “Red” is the short and Eng-|
lish name for Bolsheviki, and has|
stood for Anarchy in this country. i
Congressmen Mason, of Illinois, |
and Difl}on, of South Dakota, were|
both said to have attended the meet-|
ing, although their names were not |
called in Senator Thomas’ charge. |
The Senate authorized an investi-!
gation into lawless propaganda be- |
ing circulated in this country. i
On the floor of the House on the
following day, Mr. Dillon, amid ap-!
plause, said he did not attend the#
meeting, was not invited and knew|
nothing about it. !
Mr. Mason vigorously denied that|
a “red American” was urged at the
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DEATHS AND CASUALS i
R IR |
Several deaths and casualties of
Cobb County boys are reported from
France this week and we give them
below. |
Paul M. Neese, Died of disease. |
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Neese o |
Lawrence Street, Marietta. |
James M. Purcell, wounded. Sor |
of Mr. Thomas P. Purcell, Rt. 1 Aus-|
tell. [
Millard R. Lemon, Died of disease.
Son of Mr. J. L. Lemon, Acworth. }
The death of Millard Lemon only
occured this week and was cabled]
from France by other Cobb County‘
boys who were with hirs.
PROHIS SAY NO WAR
ON TOBAGCO TRAFFIC
Washington, Feb. 3—Dr. Clarence
True Wilson, general secretary of the
board of temperance, prohibition and
public morals of the Methodist church
issued a statement today saying that
“the desperate effort of the outlawed
liquor traffic to make credulous peo
ple believe that victorious prohibi
tionists will now demand a constitu
tional amendment against tobacco,
not to mention dancing and failure
to attend Wednesday evening prayer
meeting, is the limit of hypocrisy.
“There is not now, and will never
be,” said the statement, ““a movement
to secure the prohibition of tobacco,
except, perhaps, its sale to minors, a
proposal to which most smokers would
readily agree. However, the tobacco
men should take warning that many
millions of people have warmly re
sented the forcing of cigarettes to
those of our soldiers who were not
previously accustomed to them, and
that they have resented with indig
nation the placarding of the country
with giant signs saying that ‘cigar
ettes won the war,” and similar ad
vertising methods.”
MR. ROGER DEWAR IS
HOME FROM FRANCE
Roger Dewar, who went over to
France on the first of October return
ed home about the first of February.
He was a First Lieutenant with the
Red Cross, in the 88th or “Clover
Leaf” Divisoin, and was sent over as
a casualty searcher.
In France Mr. Dewar was made
Assistant Field Director, and given
charge of Home Cemmunication (for
his division) which is just the other
end of our Home Service, or Civilian
Relief work over here.
Mr. Dewar talks most interesting
ly of the life of the American Soldier
“gver there;” of the desolate regions
he has been in; and of the havoc
wrought by the Huns on wonderful old
_edifices, cathedrals, etc. And he says
he has heard tales about hundreds
of our soldiers wanting to stay over
seas and settle down for life, but
he never saw one man white or
black, who did not want to come
back home, and come quick! They
feel that their work is done, and they
are homesick for America.
Mr. Dewar brought back numbers
of fascinating souvenirs; relics of
Dead Man’s Hill, a German machine
gun, French and German gas-masks,
a vicious looking cartridge from an
anti-tank gun, a German three-inch
shell, ete, ete.
ACTION MAY EMBARASS
THE TELEPHONE OFFICIALS
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 6—lf the rail
road commission of Georgia issues an
order requiring the Southern Bell
Telephone Company to restore the
long distance rates it was charging
before the postmaster-general’s new
schedule of long distance rates went
into effect on January 21, the man
agers of the company will be placed
in a very interesting, not to say em
barassing, situation.
If they disregard the order of the
railroad commission and continue to
charge the rates prescribed by the
postmaster-general, they will be pros
ecuted under the penalty clauses of
the act creating the commission, while
if they disregard the postmaster-gen
eral’s order and restore the rates ord
ered by the railroad commission they
will incur the displeasure of the fed
eral government.
Under the opinion furnished the
railroad commission by their legal ad
viser, Judge James K. Hines, the post
master-general had no authority to
change the long distance rates inside
the boundaries of Georgia, and the
commission has ordered the Southern
Bell to show cause on February 12
vihy the previous rates should not be
restored.
SINGER COMPANY HAS |
NEW SALES MANAGER
Mr. Kirk Wilson of Atlanta, has|
moved to Marietta, and has been
made Sales Manager for the Singer
Sewing Machine Co. |
He will have a sales force working
under him, and will have charge ofi
Cobb, Cherokee, Milton, Pickens and |
Paulding counties. |
He reports business good in his
line and the outlook most favorable.;
COTTON FIGURES |
el i |
The ginning figures for Cobb coun—f
ty up to January 16th were 17,847
bales, as against 13,083 to the same |
date last year. ’
It looks like Cobb was due for a
20,000 crop, but we hope our farm-i
ers of their “own free will and ac
cord,” or even “with malice and
aforethought,” make it only 10,000
bales ‘next year.
New Counfy Agent
E.O. McMahan Has
Taken Over Work
At a meeting of the board of county
commissioners on Tuesday, a con
tract was signed with a county dem
onstration agent for Cobb county in
the person of Mr. £. O. McMahan.
Mr. McMahan is from South Caro
lina, a graduate of Clemson College,
and is well equipped in every way
for the work in this county. He
has just been mustered out of the
army, where he served as a lieuten
ant and came Thursday to take
charge of the work.
He and his wife are located for
the present at Mr. Hugh Hills’ on
Cherokee street, and we voice the sen
timent of our people in extending to
them a hearty welcome to Marietta
and Cobb county.
We know that our pig and corn
club boys and girls were much at
tached to Dr. Sawyer and his good
wife, but we are just as sure they
will at once find a warm friend and
adviser in Mr. McMahan, and that
they will give him a warm greeting
in the homes throughout the county.
We would remind our people that
in order to receive the full benefit
of a county agents’ services, it is
first their duty to make themselves
and their problems known to the
agent.
On February Ist, Dr. Sawyer went
into the service of Fulton county, and
our people are to be congratulated
upon getting Mr. McMahan to fill the
office vacated.
CAPT. GUY ROBERTS
Last week we stated that Captain
Guy Roberts had arrived in New
York, but our information, which we
thought accurate at the time, was
based on the false report of the ar
rival of the 328th Infantry in New
York. |
From a letter of Secretary Bakeri
to the Mayor of Atlanta, we infer
that the infantry regiments of the‘
82nd division are booked for an early
return, however.
We publish below a letter from
Captain Roberts to Judge Morris,
written just before Christmas, which
will be of interest to his many friends
here.
Argillieres, France, Dec. 18, 'lB
Dear Judge :—II have intended writ
ing you ever since coming out of the
lines about a week before the armis
tice was signed, but various things
have intervened.
It would be impossible in any rea
sonable length letter to try to relate
even the most interesting experiences
we had on the front, so I shall not
even try, but when I get home will
take time off and tell some of them.
It is sufficient to say that, though in
the midst of some of the worst of the‘
Argonne for twenty-six days, in some
unexplainable way I came out without!
a scratch. We were, of course, in|
a horrible condition from loss of
sleep, lack of warm food, exposure,
ete., but those things now seem al
most like a dream. |
Shortly after coming out of the
line I was promoted. I doubly appre—]
ciated a promotion at that stage, as
it indicated that my work had heen‘
sufficiently satisfactory in the realll
test to justify it.
Almost immediately after the sign—’
ing of the armistice 1 was given a!
leave of seventeen days, exclusive of |
travel. Went to Nice, on the Mcdit-'
terranean, by way of Paris. Was in|
Paris on the Sunday of the celebra-l
tion of the return of Alsace—Loraine.i
This was a wonderful sight. Went |
from there via Lyons and Marseilles!
to Nice. This is undoubtedly the
most beautiful place I have ever seen.|
Spent one day at Monte Carlo going |
over to the Italian border. The resti
of the trip was principally spent in
resting, eating and sleeping. Think |
of the contrast between a luxurious
room in a hotel and a half water-|
filled shell hole and the two experi-|
ences within a period of two weeks,
and you can partially imagine the|
pleasure we derived on the leave. i
By looking at a map you can see
that we have seen quite a bit of both
England and France. As you will
probably recall, I came over as a
member of the advance party for our
division. I landed at Liverpool, Eng.,
on May Ist. Went to Dover, passed
through the edge of London, for a 36-
hour stay. Crossed the channel to
Calias, France, remaining there five
days, during which time I had a real
pleasant time. I then went in the
vicinity of St. Vallery and Abbeville,
where we trained with the British
for a little more than a month. We
then went south into the Toul sector,
later to Pount-a-Mousson, in the vi
cinity of Nancy, then to Verdun sec
tor, into the Argonne and after com
ing out of the line I made the trip
above mentioned. Coming out from
the front areas we passed through the
town of Doremy, the birthplace of
Joan &’ Arec. We were billeted near
and spent a very pleasant two hours
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Established 1866
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL FIVE
TO PLAY FULTON FRIDAY
Local Team in Condition for
Test of Season
Game Friday at 3:30 P. M. Expected
that Winner of This Game Will
Win Championship of Girls’ Pre
paratory Basketball League.
When the girls of the Marietta High
School basketball team clash with the
champions of last year, the Fulton
High girls, of Atlanta, there will be
a lot of excitement on the local floor.
Marietta played this same team for
the championship of the league last
winter and lost by a score of 2 to 1.
So far this season neither of these
teams have lost a game. The stand
ing of the teams to date is:
Won. Lost. Pet.
Marietta High__._. 4 0 1000
Fulton High. .... 4 0 1000
College Park ... 2 2 500
Decatur High.... 2 2 500
Washington Sem.. 0 4 000
Kirkwood High___ 0 4 000
The dope comes from Atlanta sport
writers that Fulton has a small edge
on Marietta. These wiseacres say
that Fulton has piled up 124 points to
their opponents’ 5, while the Marietta
team has chalked up 83 to their op
ponents’ 12. This shows, they claim,
that Fulton has the best team, but
as this game is on Marietta’s court,
they concede that the contest should
favor Marietta’s chances enough to
make the game even.
The coming contest is of the most
interest to all prep teams, because it
almost cinches the glad rag for the
winner.
But, dope doesn’t always run true
to form, and we are confidently look
ing for a large dope-spilling at the
game this afternoon.
Because Fulton defeated Washing
ton seminary by a score of 16 to 4,
and Marietta defeats the same team
by a score of 13 to 1, it does not
mean that Fulton has the best team.
Because Fulton won over Kirkwood
by a score of 64 to 1, and Marietta
defeats the same team 39 to 2, does
it mean that Fulton could score 23
points on Marietta?
Not much. It simply means that
Fulton and Marietta have both won
against their opponents by good safe
scores, and that there will be no run
away one way or the other when the
meet. ‘
Anyhow we hope the dope turned
out by the Atlanta papers doesn’t so
affect the Fulton team that they will
come over looking for something easy.
The news comes from Atlanta that
a special car has been chartered to
convey the Fulton High patriots to
Marietta to witness the game. The
car will carry a trailer, and will leave
Atlanta at 2:00 o’clock Friday.
The locals continued on their cru
sade for the pennant on last Friday
when they put it over the College
Park High aggregation in College
Park by a score of 19 to 2. Rebecca
Cole featured at shooting field goals,
while Captain Katherine Galley fea
tured at guarding.
WM. M. CALDWELL
Champlitte, France,
January 10, 1919
Editor Marietta Journal,
Marietta, Ga.
Dear Sir—After participating in
one of the hardest battles that was
ever fought during the war, I am
glad to say that I am one of the fel
lows that survives the great struggle
we had in the Argonne Forest.
It is useless for me to express my
opinion about the boys in the 82nd
Division, as the people no doubt have
read about the great work they did
towards driving the Boche out of this
large forest, which they had occu
pied for more than four years.
It was on the 26th day of Septem
ber when my division was ordered to
take part in this drive, just after
doing our good work on the St. Mihiel
front.
We spent two or three days getting
prepared to go into this struggle and
on October Ist we were ordered up
in support of the 35th division, but
only remained for one day and night,
when the orders were changed and
we were sent in support of the 23%th
division. On the morning of October
7th we were ordered to go over the
top, so here is where I took part in
the fighting.
After going through the thickest
of fighting for four days, I was finally
wounded on the morning of October
11th near a little village called Som
merance.
I succeeded in crawling back to
this town, but I was being constantly
shot at by snipers and machine gun
ners. I had to take my chances dedg
ing from shell hole to shell hole.
1 was immediately given first aid
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