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Vol. 53. No. 21.
Would Return Wire Lines
and Railroads
Urges Co-operation of Capital and
Labor and Asks for the Legalizing
of Manufacture of Beer and Light
Wines by Congress.
President Wilson cabled his mes
sage to Congress upon its opening
this week, and while it is not very
long it has some surprises. He ashs
for the passage of the regular appro
priation bills which the last congress
left unfinished.
He avoids explicit recommenda
tions about domestic matters gener
ally, but asks that congress authorize
the continuance of the legal making
of light wines and beers after July
Ist, when the dry law becomes ef
fective. ~
Je states that the wire lines and
railroads will soon be returned to
their owners, and emphasizes the im
portance of co-operation between
capital and labor and recommends
liberal treatment of the returning sol
diers. T
He suggests protection of some of
our industries, but does not think a
new tariff bill hecessary. He leaves
much to the wisdom of the congress
on matters of importance and as one
member of congress expressed it, “he
passed the buck to the Republicans.”
The message is not long and is well
worth reading.
The president’s message in full
follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress: I
deeply regret my inability to be pres
ent at the opening of the extraordin
ary session of the congress. It still
seems to be my duty to take part in
the counsels of the peace conference
and contribute what I can to the so
lution of the innumerable questions
to whose settlement it has had to ad
dress itself: For they are questions
which affect the peace of the whole
world, and from the, therefore, the
United States cannot stand apart. 1
deemed it my duty to call the congress
together at this time because it was
not wise to postpone longer the pro
visions which must be made for the
support of the government. Many of
the appropriations which are absolu
tely necessary for the maintenance
of the government and the fulfillment
of its varied obligations for the fiscal
year 1919-20 have not yet been made;
the end of the present fiscal year it
at hand; and action on these appro
priations can no longer be prudently
delayed. It is necessary, therefore,
that I should call your attention to
this critical need. It is hardly nec
cessary for me to urge that it may
receive your prompt attention.
1 shall take the liberty of address
ing you, on my return, on the sub
jects which have most engrossed our
attention and the attention of the
world during these last anxious mon
ths, since the armisitice of last Nov
ember was signed, the international
settlements, which must form the sub
ject matter of the present treaties of
peace .and of our national action in
the immediate future. It would be
premature to discuss them or to ex
press a judgement about them before
they are brought to their complete
formulation by the agreements which
are now being sought at the table of
the conference. I shall hope to lay
them before you in their many-as
pects so soon as arrangements have
been reached.
Conscious Need of Advice.
I hesitate to venture any opinion
or press my recommendation with re
gard to domestic legislation while ab
sent from the United States and out
of daily touch with intimate sources
of information and counsel. I am
conscious that I need, after so long
an absence from Washington, to seek
the advice of those who have remain
ed in constant contact with domestic
problems, and who have known them
close at hand from day to day; and
I trust that it will very soon be pos-]
sible for me to do so. But there are(
several questions pressing for consi
deration to which I feel that I may,
and indeed must, even now direct
you attention, if only in general terms
In speaking of them I shall, I dare
say, be doing little more than speak
your own thoughts. I hope that I
all speak you own judgement, also.
;The question which stands at the
Tont of all others in every country
amidst the present great awakening
is the question of labor; and perhaps
I can speak of it with as great ad
vantage while engrossed in the consi-'
deration of interests which affect all
countries alike, as I could at home‘
and amidst the interests which natu-‘
rally most affect my thought, because |
they are the interest of our own peo- |
ple.
By the question of labor I do nott
mean the question of efficient indus
trial production, the question of how
labor is to be obtained and made ef
fective in the great process of sus-
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
MARIETTA MEN COMING |
The 82nd Division is now arriving
in installments at Camp Gordon and
numbers of men from Marietta and
Cobb county will soon be at home
again,
It is announced that the men will
be released as fast as possible, and
but a few days at Camp Gordon will
have to be spent by most of the boys.
Reports say that they are all eager to
i’be out and at home.
\
A period of seven days of grace
has been extended to Germany by the
representatiaas of the allied and asso
ciated governments in which the Ger
man peace plenipotentiaries may con
clude their study of the peace treaty
and formulate such replies to the va
rious clauses as they desire.
~ The extension of time which origi
nally was to have expired at noon
Thursday, was set forward to Thurs
day, May 29, at the request of the
Germans who advanced the plea that
more time was required in order that
they might formulate arguments of
much importance.
Almost simultaneously with the re
quest by the peace plenipotentiaries
for more time comes from Berlin a
statement of the German cabinet that
Germany is unwilling to sign the
peace treaty. The document is a re
‘iteration, although in stronger words
‘of the views of the foremost states
men in Germany that the sealing of
‘the compact would spell the ruin of
ithe former empire.
’t'aining populations and winning suc
cess amidst commercial and indus
‘trial rivalries. I mean that much
greater and more vital question, how
are the men and women who do the
daily labor of the world to obtain
progressive improvement in the con
ditions of their labor, to be made
happier, and to be served better by
the communities and the industries
which their labor sustains and ad
vances? How are they t obe given
their right advantage as citizens and
human beings?
Capital and Labor Must Co-Operate
We cgnot go further in our pres
ent direction. We have already gone
too far. We cannot live our right
life as a nation, or achieve our pro
per success as an industrial communi
ty if capital and labor are to continue
to be antagonistic, instead of being
partners. If they are to continue to
distrust one another and contrive how
they can get the better of one anoth
er. Or, what, perhaps, amounts to the
same thing, calculate by what form
and degree of coercion they can
manage to extort on the one hand
work enought to make enterprise pro
fitable; on the other, justice and fair
treatment enough to make life tole
rable. That bad road has turned out
a blind alley. It is no throughfare
to real prosperity. We must find an-i
‘other, leading in another direction
and to a very different destination.
It must lead not merely to accommo-‘
‘dation, but also to a genuine co-ope-‘
‘ration and partnership, based upon a
;real community of interest and parti
cipation in gontrol.
| There is now, in fact, a real com
‘munity of interest between capital
‘and labor, but it has never been made
evident in action. It can be made
operative and manifest only in a new
organization of industry. The genius
of our business men and the sound
practical sense of our workers can
certainly work such a partnership out
when once they realize exactly what
it is that they seek, and sincerely
adopt a common purpose with regard
to it.
Labor legislation lies, of course,
chiefly with the state; but the new
spirit and method of organization
whigh must be effected are not to be
brought about by legislation so much
as by common counsel and voluntary
co-operation of capitalist, manager
and workman. Legislation can go on
ly a very little way in commanding
what shall be done. The organization
of industry is a matter of corporate
and individual initiative and of prac
tical business arrangement. Those
who really desire a new relationship
between capital and labor can readily
find a way to bring it about; and per
haps federat legislation can help more
than state legislation could.
To Democratize Industry.
The object of all reform in this
essential matter must be the general
democratization,K of industry, based
upon a full recognition of those who
work, in whatever rank, to participate
in some organic way in every decis
ion which directly affects their wel
fare or the part they are to play in
industry. Some positive legislation
is practicable. The congress has al
ready shown the way to one reform
which should be world-wide by estab
lihsnig the eight hour day as the stan
dard day in every field of labor over
which it can exercise control. It has
sought to find the way to prevent
child labor, and will, I hope and be
lieve, presently find it. It has served
the whole country by leading the way
(Continued on page four)
Marietta, Georgia, Friday, May 23, 1919
,Wcathcr Interferes, but It Seems
Certain that the Feat Will
Be Accomplished
Weather interfered with the over
seas flight of the airplanes this week,
and as we go to press no one is re
ported across, although it is practi
cally certain that the NC-4 will get
away, and probably be in Portugal
before this is read. The plane of
Commander Towers was practically
wrecked by the weather and he can
go no further than the Azdres, at
which place the midocean landings
were made.
There has been no loss of life up
to this time of the American flyers,
but it seems certain that the Austral
ian, Hawker, who made a leap into
the dark with a small plane, has been
lost at sea.
His flight was not scheduled, but
was an independent attempt to win
fame and fortune by a risky gamble
with death.
Georgians will regret that Com
mander Towers was deprived of the
honor of being the first to fly over,
but if the honor comes to the Amer
ican navy, we can rejoice in the suc
cess of Commander Read of the NC-4.
~ NATIONAL DECORATION DAY
May 30, which is National Decora
tion Day, will be observed as usual
‘at the National Cemetery, and we are
‘in receipt of the program for the day
from Camp Mitchell Post of the G.
A. R. in Atlanta, but it came too late
to get a place in this week’s issue.
~ The program will appear in our
1 next issue, which will be on the morn
‘ing of the day. From Camp Mitchell
! comes an urgent invitation to citizens
‘and civic bodies to join in the exer
)cises. ‘
Washington, May 22 — Sufiragists'
today moved their eamp to the senate |
whence they hope to obtain, within a
few weeks, the favorable vote which
will submit the national suffrage
amendment to the states for ratifi
cation.
Following their 304 to 89 victory
in the house yesterday, suffrage lead
ers predicted the senate, on its third
opportunity in two sessions, will
finally approve the resolution.
Senator Hiram Johnson, scheduled
to be chairman of the suffrage com
mittee, announced that if he is given
that place, he will lose no time.
“T will get the committee together
as soon as possible,” he said. ‘“lm
mediate committee action will bringl
the question before the senate before |
the League of Nations and peace!
treaty or other great problems en-!
gross it.”’ l
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' MERCHANTS WILL CLOSE .
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
’ We the undersigned merchants of
iMariet;ta agree to close our places of
business on Wednesdays at 12 o’clock
for the remainder of the day, during
‘the months of June, July and August,
‘in order that our employees may have
‘holidays during the summer months.
~ W. A._Florence Dry Goods Co.
.~ T. W. Read, Clothier.
~ E. G. Gilbert & Co.
Marietta Dry Goods Company.
Smith & Potts. ‘
McClure Ten-Cent Co. |
- The Fair. |
- Standard Mercantile Co. |
Deraney Bros.
Deraney Mausour.
S. Jabaley.
W. S. Kelly. \ .
Bloom & Kaplan.
A TRICK TIGER CAN
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Sheriff Swanson has in his posses- |
sion one of the new swindling blind |
tiger whiskey cans. I
It was discovered in the woods out
beyond Cole’s pasture last week andi
reported to the sheriff who brought it |
in.
Investigation proved that it con-|
tained one-half pint of whiskey in at
piece of pipe which was fixed inside
the neck of the can, which, like an(
small island, was surrounded by wa
ter in the body of the can.
TWO FIRST GRADES
. ENJOY PICNIC FRIDAY |
Misses Blanche and Irene Bames,!
teachers of the two first grades of
the Public Schools, took all the 75
small tots on a pienic in Glover’s
Grove on Friday afternoon. A very
happy time was spent by the chil-l
dren and their devoted teachers.
MARIETTA COTTON MARKET l
Marietta, Thursday, May 22—Good :
midling cotton, 31% cents. Receipts
for the day very light. ' f
TRUCKS MADE FINE RECORDS
The speed-cost-ton” record of the
trucks in the Atlanta-Rome run is
rather a complex affair to figure out
relative merits, but we can easily see
that the Reo, the Oldsmobile, and
the Maxwell, all of which are repre
sented here, made creditable records.
The Atlanta Journal of Thursday
gives the detailed record which is
even better than our estimate in an
other article in this issue.
~ Capt. H. W. Hays, with six regular
iarmy men, have established a recruit
'ing station in army tents in the park
and will be here for about a week,
‘looking for men who will enlist for
terms of one and three years.
~ Men who have been in the service
can re-enlist for one year only, if
they wish, others are only accepted
for three year terms. The pay of a
‘private is $30.00 per month, food,
clothing, medical service and other
things free.
Captain Hays states that those who
wish it may be sent overseas, to re
lieve men who want to come home,
and will thus afford active foreign
service and travel.
Any branch of the army service as
‘may be chosen by the applicant will
be the assignment of men enlisting.
Captain Hays and his men are anxious
to talk to anyone interested.
SMALL BLAZE WEDNESDAY
The fire alarm Wednesday morn
ing was occasioned by a blaze on the
roof of the residence of Mr. J. J.
‘Black on Atlanta street.
| It was quickly extinguished without
‘serious loss, the water causing the
}gr&nter damage.
i COMMISSIONERS MEET
~ No business of particular interest
‘was transacted at the meeting of the
board of commissioners on Tuesday.
. It was decided to accept the invi
tation to attend the meeting of the
state association of commissioners in
‘Atlanta on May 29-30. An interest
ing and instructive program for this
meeting is promised.
TAX EQUALIZERS WORKING
The Tax Equalization Board has
been in session for a number of days
at the court house.
The board as organized, consists of
Messrs. Joe Austin, of Marietta; W.
M. Webb, of Acworth, and T. N.
Camp, of Powder Springs, with Mr.
H. Reed, of Roswell, as clerk.
NEW TIME RECORD
AIR FLIGHT IS MADE
Washington, May 22.—A new time
record for airplane flights was an
nounced today by the war department
upon receipt of an official report that
Major Adlai Gilkeson, of the army
air service, had flown from New York
City to Portland, Me., yesterday, a
distance of 500 miles in 250 minutes.
| TEN MOBILE BUSINESS
BLOCKS ARE BURNED
Mobile, Ala., May 21 — Property
damage of $750,000, destruction of
nine and a half city blocks of stores
land residences and rendering of ap
proximately 1,500 people homeless,
was the result of a disastrous fire
which swept the old residential sec
tion of Mobile this afternoon.
One man was injured, but no one
has been able to identify the uncon
'scious person. The fire burned for
Ifour hours, when wind and other
inatural conditions came to the relief
’of the fire fighters.
'FULTON COUNTY WILL
BUILD BIG MEMORIAL
- The Fulton County Memorial com
mittee, of which W. R. C. Smith 'is
chairman, at a meeting at the Pied
mont hotel on Wednesday afternoon,
decided upon motion of Clark Howell,
to raise $250,000 for a memorial to
the Fulton county boys who made the
supreme sacrifice during the late war.
Recommendations as to the form
the memorial shall take and also plans
for raising the fund of $250,000 will
come from a committee of thirty ap
pointed from the general committee
of 250 nfembers. |
WANT UNITED STATES AS |
MANDATORY FOR TURKEY
The United States is being lookedi
to by the other powers as the only
nation which can become the man
datory for Constantinorle without
the danger of precipitating another;
European war, but the American del
egates to the peace conference ex
press doubt of the willingness of the
United States to accept the man
date, especially under the conditions
which the powers have outlined. It
would require 100,000 American
troops to police the country and pro
tect Armenians. ‘
TWENTY MOTOR TRUCKS
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Truck Service is Practical
| and Profitable
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'All Sorts of Freight is Carried by the
~ Trucks on Test Run to Fully Dem
onstrate the Advantage of a Regu.-
lar Truck Service. |
About ten-thirty Tuesday morning
a number of cars came into Marietta
bringing a party of newspaper men
and truck representatives, )vho were
acting as observers for the Atlanta-
Rome truck run. A few minutes
later some twenty trucks of various
makes hove in sight, each loaded with
freight from Atlanta for Rome.
This was the truck run arranged
for by the Atlanta Journal and the
Rome Tribupe-Herald and among the
scouts along was our old friend Capt.
Ralph Smith, ready to figure out the
answer at the earliest possible mo
meit.
The whole party was entertained
for dinner at Cartersville and reach
ed Rome about 4:00 p. m. having left
Atlanta at 9:00 a. m., an hour’s stop
being made at Cartersville.
One of the trucks in the train bore
a shipment for John S. Dobbins, of
Marietta, consisting of metal bed
steads.
On Wednesday, about one o’clock,
the trucks passed through on the re
turn trip, each bearing a load of
freight to the capacity of the truck.
While the cargoes on the north
bound trip were varied, the south
bound loads were nearly all of stoves,
one of Rome’s famous manufactured
products.
The run each way was made at an
average speed of about twelve miles
per hour—the seventy-two miles in
six hours. Some trucks made a little
better than this.
The cost of fuel, oil and driver hire
is said to figure much lower per ton
mile than the freight rates and as the
trucks encountered no serious trouble
anywhere, it will not be surprising to
see this service established regularly
by some line, or at least to see a great
increase of traffic by truck in this
section,
The Atlanta Journal and Rome
Tribune-Herald are to be commeg:i
ed for their enterprise in bringing
about this demonstration.
It was a jolly party of boosters
who accompanied the run, and they
were all talking for good roads, good
cars and good business.
THREE OF OUR BOYS
IN FAMED EVENT
Of course we fee] that Commander
John Towers partly belongs to Ma
rietta, because, though a native of
Rome, he is a nephew of Misses Tal
ilullah and Mary Towers and has
often visited them. ‘
But there are two other partici
pants of that world-famed trans-At
lanta flight who are really Marietta
boys. These are Commander King
Awtrey, who is in command of the
Destroyer Gamble, and Lieutenanti
Robt. Adair Awtrey of the U. S. S.
Cassin, o
MARIETTA IS WINNER
IN GOLF TOURNAMENT
The Golf Tournament between
players of Rome, Newnan and Mari
etta on the course here on Wednes
day and Thursday was won by the
Marietta team in the final Thursday.
Marietta won over Newnan on
Wednesday and defeated Rome on
Thursday, retaining the cup in this
city. '
Details and scores will be publish
ed next week, as we were unable to
secure them in time for this issue.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights
of Pythias met in Atlanta on Wednes
day and the session continued through
two days.
Several hundred representatives
were in attendance from all parts of
the state, also a number of officials
of other state jurisdictions and of the
Supreme Lodge.
Marietta Lodge No. 143 was repre
sented by Past Chancellor W. T.
Potts, of Marietta.
WALLACE—CAMPBELL
Married by Dr. I. A." White at his
home on Monday evening, Miss Ruth
Wallace to Mr. William Campbell.
Miss Wallace is a Marietta girl,
~vhile Mr. Campbell is from New York,
having been at Black Jack range last
spring and only last week mustered
out of the service of Uncle Sam.
O-r best wishes go with the young
couple.
Established 1866
Current Events
Tift county was added to the list
of good roads counties on Wednes
day, when it voted $300,000 bonds
for roads with 1300 votes for and
only 55 against the issue. As rapidly
as they can get to it the people are
;voting road bonds.
The republicans have announced -
that they will not accept campaign
contributions in sums larger than one
thousand dollars, but it is ver;( prob
able that a way will be found to split
up and absorb any larger sums which
may become available for campaign
purposes.
President Wilson, in his reply to
the Irish-American envoys who sought
his assistance in getting the Irish
question before the peace gonference,
refuses to involve the United States
government, it was reported. His
reply is understood to rebuke the
Americans for their action in visit
ing Ireland.
When Congress met on Monday,
Victor Berger, the Socialist, who was
convicted under the espionage law,
was not sworn in as a member. Berg
er is out, under an appeal for a new
trial, and his status was referred to
a committee to determine. He was
once before a member of the House
and was well received, but his dis
loyal utterances during the war es
tranged many of his former friends.
America’s actual war expenditures
totalled twenty-three billion three
hundred sixty-three million dollars.
Two billions of this amount represent
ed normal expenditures of the gov
ernment. The balance was extra
war cost. A small part of this will
come back to us in various ways,
but it can be taken as being as nearly
Ithe accurate cost to us as it is pos
isible to calculate.
} A peculiar story comes from the
‘mountains of Alabama this week. One
neighbor reported another for run
ning an illicit still. The owner hear
ing a rumor of a raid offer his still
for sale at a very low price. The
neighbor who had reported it, bought
’ it and when the raiding party arrived
tvas operating it in his own home.
America’s feat in sending the A.
E. F. overseas is unprecedented. This
was very difficult, even though the
Americans were landed on friendly
soil. So it is impossible for such an
army to land successfully on enemy
shores.
However, the future of aviation
may so change conditions of travel
—even for cross-ocrean flghts —so
that means of defense may still be
necessary,
The next General Assembly of the
Presbyterian church will meet in
Charlotte, N. C., which city is one of
the strongholds of Presbyterianism in
America. Mecklenberg county alone
has sixty Presbyterian churches, some
with more than a thousand members.
' The federal government has just
‘paid a claim of $176,000 arising from
‘the seizure of cotton during the civil
war. This is the claim of one cor
yoration whose stockholders have kept
their records and kept up the fight
during all these years. Millions of
dollars was lost in cotton by people
of the south where the records were
also destroyed and no claim could be
established. N
The Emory class in journalism had
charge of the city news gathering for
the Atlanta Constitution on Tuesday,
and they did their work well. This
little practical experience is worth
much to the students, and who shall
say that even the oldest reporter does
ot himself sometimes profit by watch
ing the work of recruits.
' In event the Germans shall refuse
to sign the peace terms of the con
ference, Marshall Foch is preparing to
move on into Germany and take pos
session of such cities as he deems nes
essary while the movies of the allies
will put on an airtight blockade &f
Germany. Foch has already laid his
plans before the conference and will
be ready to move his forces at once.
When Congress convened on Mon
day, it was organized with Gillett, of
Massachusetts, as speaker of the
house, and Cummins, of lowa, as
president protempore of the senate.
Champ Clarke is floor leader of the
house democrats and Martin, of Vir
ginia, is democratic leader in the
senate. More than 1200 bills were in
troduced the first day, almost all by
republicans, not one being from a
Georgia member.
Three boys in Atlanta stole the car
of a county policeman on the streets
of the city, were captured and locked
up in the detention home, only to
make a complete escape therefrom by
making a rope of the bed clothes and
going out the window. Atlanta pub
lic scheols may be bad, but it seems
that some of its young people have
graduated in crimnology. 2
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