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THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
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MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919
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Those Decaying Army Trucks
EVERAL weeks ago we called attention to the army
S trucks and automobiles, which are parked out in the
weather, rotting and rusting in the sun and rain, while
there is so much need of them by the poeple for road
building purposes.
At Fort McPherson, and we are told, at several other
places, are standing idle thousands of these cars, which
could and should be put to a better use. We said we
thought it a great economic waste to let the cars go to
ruin thus, and further stated that they might as well be
given away to farmers or others who could use them.
We hear, that in some quarters, we were criticised for
mentioning the matter, and that we are charged with try
ing to reflect upon the administration, which is not true.
We considered the maiter of enough economic importance
to bring to the notice of the people, and we shall continue
to speak freely of such matters.
However we are glad to see that this matter is now re
ceiving some consideration in Washington, and we trust
that we shall soon see some real service from all those
cars.
We are in receipt of the official Agricultural Bulletin
of April 28 in which we find the following:
An extra contribution of materials running into
the millions of dollars will be made by the Federal
Government to road building in the States through
the terms of a recent amendment to the Federal
aid road act empowering the Secretary of War in
his discretion to transfer military equipment not
needed by the Army to the Department of Agricul
ture for use in highway construction. The Judge
Advocate General's Office of the War Department
has decided that the material so transferred can not
be charged for. The War Department has informed
the Bureau of Public Roads that it has a large num
ber of surplus motor trucks available for this pur
pose, and state highway departments now are being
asked by the bureau what quantities they can put to
use. The Bureau of Public Roads officials believe
there will be sufficient to meet all demands from the
states. The trucks and other military equipment
transferred by the War Department must be used
only on Federal aid projects and can not be sold by
the state after they are donated from the Federal
Government.
By this program, if carried out, we earnestly hope our
district may yet get the use of some of those trucks.
And in conclusion, in reply to some of our critics, we
respectfully submit that our own congressman could be of
more service in the district, in organizing and arranging
for road building with these trucks, than he is in visiting
the battlefields of France, and the gilded cafes of Paris.
Is There No Way Out?
E HAVE recently written on this same subject,
U V but we feel that it is of sufficient importance to
speak of it again. It is not a pleasant subject—in fact,
it makes us shudder to even write about it. Our sub
ject is dust.
And we are not talking about the kind that is also
called “filthy lucre,” but another kind that is just as
filthy—the kind that is raised by every wind and wafted
into the faces and the homes of human beings.
Dust carries disease germs and filth of every sort and
when the dust comes into your home it brings these things
too. Dustiand ashes are synonyms of death, decay and
disintegratign. .
How somé diseases travel the doctors do not know, but
the dust might account for much if it could be told.
We were struck with the appearance of Church street
and Kennesaw avenue on Sunday afternoon, although
the ground is not very dry or the weather hot, the clouds
of dust were rolling into the houses along the streets in
a way to make anyone wish for paving.
Discussing the matter with one man whose home is on
Church strect, he said he felt that even though the city
-has not the money now for paving that street, he believed
the property owners were so anxious for paving that they
would be willing, not only to pay for their own fronts,
but would be willing to prorate the cost of paving the
crossings in order to get the work done. Is that possible?
Can such a plan be carried out? We do not know, but it
is certainly worth the consideration of those on that
street who so much desire the paving.
The few crossings on that street would certainly not
largely increase the cost to the individual property owner
if it was prorated. And when we think about that dust
again, it looks like the cost would be small to secure the
health and comfort of the people.
One good sized doctor's bill would go far toward pav
ing your front, and it must be done anyway, sooner or
later, so why not now?
Keeping the People in Condition
S the genile dew falls upon the earth, so the benefi-
A cient raise of rates of the government controlled
and operated public service corporations fall upon the peo
ple. We don't say it is wrong or make a word of complaint
about it, bul we have gotten to the point where we .ex
pect at any iime to hear that the rates of this or that
service is Lo be revised, and when we read the explanation
we find that it is wholly beneficient, and in fact when tak
en on an average, (s really to be a reduction rather than
raise of rates. They only difference is it will take a little
more moneay io pay the bills, so little you will never miss it.
Besides it don’'t all come at once, for instance, the
phone rates for long distance messages are revised at one
time, and then a couple of months afterward. the local
phone raies are revised, in both instances there being a
slight redu-tion upward, so to speak.
Thus the people have a chance to train for the next re
vision, and keep in fine condition, just as the Roman
should a bit every day, and keeping it up until the calf
became 2 full grown bull. That's fine, but the bull is
growing awful fast!
Flattery Often Fatal -
HE average public man, in all probability, is bene-
Tfited more by the brickbats than by the bouquets that
are thrown at him. Flattery is a more dangerous thing
than citicism. Often the best of officials, some of them
occupying positions of high honor and responsibility, are
rendered incapable of the best service by the servile flat
tery of sycophants who seek favors by fawning or kow
towing before the powers that be. It requires an extra
ordinarily strong character to maintain its poise under
such circumstances. Many men of ability and honor have
gone down before such bombardments, but never a one
has been felled by the brickbats of criticism..—Dawson
News. ‘ {
Can you get in your mind the picture of ‘that trial,—an
arraignment in an international court for the man who
made the World War such a curse to civilization? If
Holland releases him, that trial will be an actuality.
William stands indicted! Doesn’t that sound better than
an overrun Europe, the dream he had in his wicked and
warped soul?—Cordele Dispatch.
“William stands convicted and will be punished,” would
sound better to us, and we assume that both conviction
and punishment is on the way. In the eyes of civilization
he.has been indicted ever gince he began the war.
That meeting at the court house next Tuesday is going
to be one of import to the county, and if you are really
interested in the good:of the county, you will lay aside
other business for the day and be there.
The lowest down and most cowardly' piece of flesh that
assumes the human form, is the dynamiter, and compared
with him even the hyena becomes a higltborn christian
gentleman.
We are afraid some ex-soldiers, and some who have
never been soldiers, are making an improper use of Uncle
Sam’s uniform, and we would caution the public to keep
on the alert for impostors at this time.
The statute of Liberty in New York harbor never greet
ed so many joyous men as it has this year and the end is
not yet. The best part of it all is that the men belong
here, and are not the outcasts and scum of other lands.
If every knock was a boost, and every brickbat a bou
quet, Burleson ought to be sailing around the skies in an
airship of roses and violets, but he ain’t.
The lack of real patriotic enthusiasm about this Vie
tory Loan, has forced us to conclude that few of our peo
ple ever fully realized the danger in which their freedom
and wealth stood, during those days of the German high
tide last year.
Yes, or course, nearly everybody wants a league of na
tions, but when it comes to a question of details there
are about a million different ideas as to just what the lea
gue should stand for.——Dawson News.
Yes, even Reed and Borah would probably consent to
the formation of such a league if they were permitted to
‘write the constitution and otherwise dominate everything
lin sight.
! The politicians are gradually seeing the light on wo
man suffrage, and one after another they are begining
to get into line in order that they can hold the woman’s
vote when she gets it, but at that we think she will pos
sibly be able to discriminate a little when she comes to
the ballot box.
The breweries of the country are already changing
to manufacture various other things than beer, and no
matter what other business they go into it could not be
worse for the country than the business they have been in.
Hardwick thinks that it was because of his opposition
to foreign immigration that some one sent him that bomb,
and whether that was the cause or not, we are with him
on the immigration question.
The present Viectory Loan is necessary because our
government took the necessary steps to avoid digging a
half million more graves in France last winter. Think
about who might have filled those graves.
We started to write an editorial on Frank Simonds this
week, but changed our mind. We know a lot more about
him than we have seen in print in the south, but really
he is too small a subject for an editorial, so we pass him
up, and consider him both gone and forgotten.
The Agricultural Department claims that lightning rods
greatly reduce the fire losses on farms, and here we are
without a single lightning rod agent wanting to advertise
with us. Guess we will have to take it out on the fire
insurance advertisers.
A good many people treat their stock with more con
sideration in feeding, than they do their school children,
and at that their stock is not any too well cared for.
During the previous loan drives it was always being said
that some people feared Uncle Sam would lose the war,
and his bonds would be repudiated. Of course no Ameri
can believed it, and now no living human being doubts
that his bonds are the best security in the world.
American dances have taken Paris, and all things
American will be in favor there so long as they are porp
erly backed up by American dollars, in which the French
show that they are just as susceptible to the frailties of
human nature as we poor Americans are.
From the way the Atlanta Georgian set Brother Jim
Williams * right in his facts” the other day, you might
suppose that it was a stickler for facts in its own columns,
which of course, it is not.
We think we can clearly foresee the finish of Burleson
ism in official circles of this country, but we wish to
warn union labor that America will not stand for des
potism from any source whatever, and it would be well
for union men to keep a firm check upon their own lead
ers at all times.
Every day we are more inclined to admire the wisdom
of Mr. McAdoo in getting out of the railroad business as
early and as easily as he did.
. THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
A farmer brought four little fry
chickens to town one day this week
and sold them for one dollar, one
and a quarter cents each. How a
Methodist preacher who gets a salary
of five hundred dollars paid in the
fall of the year, is to pay that price
is a problem.—Commerce News.
Well, Brother Shannon, they don’t
pay it, and most of the preachers of
all denominations would have long
ago forgotten the taste of chicken if
they had not been fortunate enough
ito have been invited to some good
farmer’s home to dinner once in a
’while.
‘ A Banks county farmer in town
Iyesterday told how he cut the acre
age. He said he cut to ten acres
per mule, but bought several extra
mules. That’s whipping the devil
round the stump and may be taken
as a sample in cutting the acreage.—
Commerce News.
When a fellow starts to ‘“whipping
the devil around the stump” the devil
usually travels fast enough to over
take him. >
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Some folks call Bryan a states
man. And there were those who
called Benedict Arnold a patriot.—
Walton Tribune.
Bryan is not even our houn’ dawg,
but what’s the use kicking him
around?
The man who doubts the value of
of advertising is in the same class
with the fellow who said it would
never be possible for a man to make
a flying machine. — Commerce Ob
server.
He is just a natural born pessimist,
and whenever he happens to stumble
on success, much as a blind pig finds
an acorn, it must be a terrible shock
to him.
It is all right to raise hogs but be
sure you raise the right kind.—Elber
ton Star. |
Yes, you should avoid raising any
‘seat hogs,” an old and common breed,
also the “road hog” a later variety
so well known in every communityl
and on every public highway. !
Talk used to be cheap, but it isn’t}
now if you are using a telephone to
talk over.—Elberton Star.
Still there are occasions when even
to express your feelings over the tele
phone, is worth the money.
If we had John D. Rockefeller’s
money, Ex-President Taft’s capacity,l
Jess Williard’s constitution, Presi
dent Wilson’s popularity, Tom Wat—‘
son’s nerve and a Ford automombile,
Speaking of Underwear
It Should Be Munsingwear
% NYTHING that gets~ next to the skin is sometn-in'g
to be particular about. It calls for personal at
tention and should get it. Now, there is your
underwear, for instance.—its character and qual
ity is worth some of your time and consideration
because it gets next to your skin. |
We considered this when we arranged to supply
you Munsingwear for summer. It is cool and
comfortable and sanitary, and when you buy
Munsingwear you can dismiss from your mind
| all doubts about your underwear. We have it
for women and children and the prices are as
low as the quality permits.
We might easily write a chapter on this one sub
ject, but why multiply words when we are able
to condense our advice upon underwear to two
words—“BUY MUNSINGWEAR.”
Another health point: Be sure you have well
fitting, comfortable shoes. Nothing so quickly
affects the health as improperly-fitted shoes, for
when the feet give way the body will aso break
down. Our shoe stock is timely and complete.
Smith & Pott
Marietta . , (Georgia
:{we would quit the printing business
‘this very minute.—LaGrange Re
porter. -
From our own personal experience
and the testimony of others we some
time think it takes pretty nearly all
these things to stay in the printing
game these days.
England pow boasts of a negro
problem, there being some west Af
rican laborers imported during the
war who are not wanted now.—Gwin
nett Journal.
If she is doing any boasting it
must be after the same manner of a
boy with a sore toe, and such prob
lems are more likely to develop in to
cancer if not handled properly.
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“Senator Hoke Smith says Laurens
county is the greatest agricultural
county in Georgia,” the Dublin Tri
bune remarks. Evidently, the Sena
tor has forgotten his visit to Terrell
county.—Dawson News.
We don’t think it fair to thus try
to discredit a man for the little
speeches of common politeness that
any visitor to a town is supposed to
make. We know of our own personal
knowledge that both Terrell and Lau
rens are among the best, if not the
best, counties in the state, and we
are not reflecting on Cobb when we
say this either.
President Wilson's words spoken in
Boston still hold: “No man dare go
home from that conference and re
port anything less noble than was ex
pected of it.” And it is good to note
that from latest reports, no man may
have to.—Walcross Herald Journal.
And our prediction is that the Itali
ans will soon decide that they went
hame too soon. |
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Will we be able to proclaim with
a loud voice next week that Hall coun
ty and Gainesville took an advanced
step by voting for County and City
bonds, or will we bow our heads in
shame because we failed to do our
duty? Men, don’t fail your county
and city in a crisis!—Gainesville
News.
We certainly hope that Hall will
permit The News to tell it to the
world, in box-car letters, that she
is going to have good roads, and
keep in the line of progress with the
other leading counties of old Georgia.
Germany demands ‘“Justice,” but
invariably howls when Foch hands it
to her.—Atlanta Constitution.
If she was handed the real “pack
age” of justice she so richly deserves
she would not be able to howl.
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919
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WORK WANTED—I nurse the sick
or do cooking and house work. You
can find me at 300 Roswell street.
Miss Stansell. 18-1*
B et AN
WANTED—SmaII second-hand refrig
erator. Must be cheap and in good
condition. W. M: L., 502 Cherokee.
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LOST—A pair of tortoise shell rim
glasses. Finder please notify Char
les S. Gardner, phone 121.
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'FOR SALE—One Ford Touring car
" bed. Phone 269 C. M. Head. 18tf
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STOLEN—From back of my Over
land. Rim, Federal Casing and Tube
Friday night, April 25th. Can be
identified. $lO reward. If offered
for sale, hold and notify me. R. R.
Claiborne, Marietta. Phone 364. 1t
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'MONEY TO LOAN—I have som
' money to loan on good improvec
farm lands. G. B. Gann, Mariet
ta, Ga., 4t
WANTED— Men or women to take
orders among friends and neigh
bors for the genuine guaranteed hos
iery, full line for men, women and
children. Eliminates darning. We
pay 50c an hour spare time or $24
a week for full time. Experience un
necessary. Write, International
Stocking Mill, Norristown, Pa.
FOR SALE—Porto Rico potato plants
| ready now. 1000 to 5000 at $2.25
per 1000; 6000 to 10,000 at $2.00
per 1000. Wanted a dealer in every
Georgia town. Coleman Plant Co.,
Tifton, Ga. 15-18
!FOR SALE—Hasting's Improved Pro
- lific Seed Corn, 90 cents peck, or
'53.50 per bushel. Cotton Seed, $1.50
‘per bushel. J. R. Griggs, Phone
'132-R, Marietta, Ga. 14-tf
FOR SALE—Hastings Union Early
Big 801 l and Hastings Bank Ac
count Cotton seed, $2 per bushel.
Also Early Tomato and Cabbage
plants. Phone 269. C. M. Head. 16tf.
Bl 0 o i e b e
FOR SALE — Selected Improved
Cleveland Big 801 l cotton seed, $2
per bushel.—A. A. Irwin, Phone 2430.
FOR SALE—Porto Rica potato plants
$2.00 per 1000 Porto Rica, Nancy
Hall and Norton Yam rooted vines
$1.50 per 1000 F. O. B. Ashburn.
May deliveries. T. D. Abercrombie,
Ashburn, Ga. 17-19
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