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THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
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MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1919
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Some Atlanta Troubles
OU might read this news dispatch, which we do not
Yvouch for, and which is perhaps really propaganda
of some sort, good or bad, but shows the state of mind
in Atlanta:
Atlanta, Ga., May 29.—Does Atlanta need a new
city government? The answer is “Yes” if you know
the situation, and the situation is like this:
The city school teachers, threatening to strike for
better pay, are forming a union to affiliate with the
American Federation of Teachers, which in turn is {
affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
Atlanta’s city firemen have already been unionized ]
and affiliated with the Atlanta Federation of Trades,
~ and shortly following this organization it becomes
necessary for the chief of the fire department to call
on the board of firemasters to say specifically and
unequivocally whether he shall run the department
or whether it shall be run by the firemen’s union.
The board of park commissioners are planning a
suit in the courts against the city council to compel
that body to set aside a sinking fund with which to
erect a new building for the famous painting of the
Battle of Atlanta, known as the Cyclorama.
Automobile speed demons have got so wild and
ferocious on Atlanta streets that the mayor has to
beg the chief of police to make some effort to check
their violations of the traffic laws, and has to implore
the judge of the recorder’s courts to impose severe
sentences.
These appeals amounting to little or nothing, mem
bers of the board of police commissioners decide to
take the matter in their own hands and use their
~ own automobiles to ride the streets and arrest speed
demons, thereby giving the police authorities an
actual demonstration of the fact that apprehending
- speeders is not so difficult as they seem to think.
The head of the Georgia Railway & Power Com
pany is calling Mayor James L. Key, the head of
Atlanta’s city government, a liar in newspaper state
ments. Not calling him that in exactly that language,
but calling him that by plain, blunt inference.
These, in brief, are a few highlights on the state of
affairs in Atlanta’s city government. According to a
number of leading business men, who want a com
mission form of government, city manager, or what
not, except what they’ve got, the mayor, by his
alleged “Bolsheviki” tendencies, has just about lost
the support of the business men of the community
and they are going after his scalp. |
This dispatch at least proves that you can say what
you please about Atlanta and her officials, and where
there is so much talk there must be something rotten.
We really believe for the average large town or city
a commission government is best, and it looks like the
people of Atlanta so distrust the old plans and officials
that it will be necessary there.
We read with considerable interest the card of Doctor
Wikle in last Sunday’s Constitution, and as the doctor
has served on Atlanta’s board of aldermen, he is qualified
to speak of the system.
Rome, Georgia, has had a commission city government
for a year now, and we shall be pleased to hear how it
has worked there.
Can’t Make Him Drink
HERE is an old saying that ‘“you can lead a horse
Hto water, but you can’t make him drink,” and the
saying will truthfully apply to other animals than horses
—man—r{for instance.
We are forcibly reminded of this when we consider
the situation in regard to road building in Georgia. Al
though the government may offer us money and tools
free to work with, yet it can not make the counties take
and use these to build roads if they do not wish to do so,
any more than you can make a horse drink.
We quote from The Elberton Star on the subject:
The government has 207 automobile trucks for
distribution to those counties which accept govern
ment money for making good roads. These trucks
are given without money and without price. There
is more than one truck for every county. Elbert
can get some of these free trucks by accepting gov
ernment cash for road building. Nobody is going
to make us take the cash or the trucks, however.
Several months ago we called attention to the govern
ment trucks that were rusting and rotting in the weather
and suggested that they could serve a better purpose on
the roads of Georgia. Very shortly afterward we heard
that this was the plan of the government, and while we
think now that Georgia’s share should be five or ten times
as much, even that share will do us no good if we do
not use them.
The next move is up to us; we can drink or not, just
as we choose, but we will not be forced in the matter.
We have a complaint from the upper part ¢f our county
that the plan of road building does not satisfy them.
While we do not accept all of the view of the Acworth
Post, which we print elsewhere, we hope they will send
representatives to confer with the committee in charge,
and arrange as nearly an equitable plan as possible, so
that we can unitedly vote for a bond issue, get govern
ment money and government trucks to build Cobb county
roads.
We have not seen so much in the papers about that
Texas election since prohibition and woman suffrage were
both winners. Possibly some other states would vote for
woman suffrage, if the people were given the chance to
vote on it, but most of our southern statemen seem to
prefer that it be ‘“forced upon us” by the north and
west, and are content to assume that our people don’t
want it.
We want some of our good farmer friends to point out
to us just why they feed so many rats on the farm when
they can be so easily exterminated. One rat will destroy
) more high priced corn than it would take to feed a hen.
Upshaw in Congress
ONGRESSMAN WILL D. UPSHAW did not wait
C long to declare himself with regard to the case of
the meat packers. We know that he is sneered at by
some people, but these, as a rule, have been at heart
anti-prohibitionists and hold his prohibition record against
him. .
This is what he has to say of the packers and the meat
situation: i
For the government, as has been reported, to hold
a quarter-billion pounds of meat in order to protect
the packers, when the whole country is suffering from
sky-high prices, is simply unthinkable and the people
are not going to stand for it.
Every dollar of abnormal war profits in the pockets
of any'and all men ig stained with the blood of free
dom, and I stand squarely by the masses in de
manding that the government’s first duty is the pro
tection of the people and not the packers, who have
already made fabulous profits out of the war. It is
clearly a case of the packers or the people, and I
am for the people.
If Mr. Upshaw develops the practical ability to cope
with the powers that be in Washington, we trust he may
be able to realize some of his ideals for helping the people.
Still in Control '
HE manner in which the “old guard,” the “full-
Tdinner-pail stand-patters” of Mark Hanna’s day, has
again grabbed the lion’s share of the fat committee as
signments in congress over the vehement protest of the
so-called “progressive’”’ element of the republican party is
enough proof that the old G. O. P. organization, through
all of its vicissitudes of the last decade or more, is still
subservient to the same old masters.
The leopard has not changed its spots; at times the
hands may have looked and felt like Esau’s, but the voice,
when it speaks, is clearly that of Jacob; and the country
is not deceived.
Penrose, Warren, Smoot, Lodge, Knox, etc. — how
reminiscent of the “good old days” of republican author
ity! The same old coterie is still in control of things
within their party as of yore!
The “progressives” looked ahead; they could see what
the effect of the “old guard” on the chances of republi
can success at the polls in 1920 would be; they fought to
the limit of their strength to make the most of the repub
lican party’s opportunity.
But they were unable to stand against the “stand-pat”
steam roller; they failed; they went down to defeat, and
the “old guard” reigns for the day supreme in its ancient
glory!
Which, of course, is not at all saddening to the dem
ocrats.—Atlanta Constitution.
Mysterious murders in Pike and church burning in
Putnam do not contribute anything to the peace and
welfare of the races in Georgia, and no effort should be
spared to solve these crimes and punish the perpetrators.
It is said that in event the League of Nations is turned
down by the senate, Mr. Wilson will run for a third
term, so the republicans can know what to do if they
really want to have him on the ticket against them next
year. We believe they have sense enough to hope for
someone else.
A headline says the Russian Soviet government is
proud of its educational achievements, and we are will
ing to admit it has more room for learning than any
other government we ever heard of.
Pat Griffin thinks we are trying to put on too much
“dog” up here near Atlanta, for a south Georgia cracker,
but we will state for his benefit that the reason we are
up here is because we figured that if we remained in
south Georgia it would take us at least 150 years to get
a senatorship or be elected governor. Come on up, Pat.
The Alpharetta Free Press writes up a bunch of wed
dings ahead of time, and then just checks ’em off by
number to its readers as they occur. Good idea, so when
Ithe editor goes fishing, the printer can ‘tend to things
| easily.
As the Tybee and Thunderbolt season approaches,
Ernest Camp, like the wise guy that he is, begins to
write poems to Editor Sutlive, of Savannah. Wish we
‘knew him, too.
Milledgeville, Sandersville and a number of other good
towns are going to put up large potato storage plants,
land every plant will be worth its weight in potatoes sev
eral times over, to the farmers of the community.
If the Macon detective force had employed its time
and talent in the prevention of crime instead of in fram
ing up robberies in order to get credit for the arrest of
the robbers, the force would not all be in jail under the
charge of murder. Some officers seem afraid the pro
hibition laws will so reduce crime as to rob them of
their jobs.
_The Georgia Normal and Industrial School for Girls is
the school of the people, and we sincerely trust that the
politicians of the state will keep their hands off it, and
leave it to the continued excellent and successful man
agement of President M. M. Parks, who for fifteen years
ihas given his whole life to the upbuilding of it.
} Bryan anticipates the opening of Tybee by scheduling
'a couple of prohibition speeches for Savannah on June
} first.
' Fifty-one thousand Smiths fought in the war. Germany
should have looked up several prominent families in the
city directories before she took on Uncle Sam as one
of the nations to be ‘‘strafed.”
From various reports over the state, the boys are going
in force to Monroe in July, and Camp and Caldwell will
have an opportunity to show the state what the only
genuine “Monroe Doctrine’’ really is, and let the visiting
brothers, with dignity and honor, show Monroe what the
State Press Association means.
As we predicted, the progressive wing of the republican
party became sufficiently mollified, when meal time came,
to consent to the election of Penrose, Warren and others
of the old guard, to the controlling chairmanships in the
senate. How absolutely futile was all that publicity of
the Penrose record made by Gifford Pinchot!
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
COCA COLA COMPANY
1S DENIED PROTECTION
(Continued from page one)
tract,” next as “Coca Cola Syrup,”
and finally as “Coca Cola,” as a ‘“val
uable brain tonie,” an ‘“ideal nerve
tonic and stimulant,” as a cure of
“headache, neuralgia, hysteria, and
melancholy,” and “of nervous afflic
tions,”” under which representations
a tremendous consumption was built
up, and under which large numbers of
the appellee’s customers still consume
the mixture, although long prior to
the bringing of the present suit the
drug cocaine was practically elimin
ated from the drink, and the caffeine,
of which it has since been mainly
composed, still comes mainly, if not
entirely, from other sources than the
cola nut. We find such conduct on
‘the part of the appellee to be, in fact,
‘such deceptive, false, fraudulent, and
unconscionable conduct as precludes
a court of equity from affording it
any relief.
Accordingly, under the rule and the
decision of the Supreme Court, we
see no escape from the conclusion
that the judgment appealed from
must be reversed, and the €ause re
manded, with directions to the court
below to dismiss the bill, at the com
plainant’s cost. |
Accordingly, it is so ordered. |
PRACTICE OF THRIFT
STILL A WISE POLICY
With the close of the Victory Lib
erty Loan, the last of the great pop
ular subscription issues of Govern
ment securities, attention has been
directed by Secretary of the Treas
ury Carter Glass, in an interview
given at Washington, Wednesday to
the War Savings Stamp as an im
portant part of the scheme of Govern
ment finance. :
One billion dollars worth of these
stamps were absorbed last year by‘
the people, nowithstanding the enor
mous Liberty Bond .subscriptions,{
This shows its posibilities. |
Secretary Glass said:
“War Savings Stamps afford an ex
cellent vehicle for increasing capi
tal and earning power.
“Many persons have not taken
the War Savings Stamp seriously as
an investment, but the fact that they
may be bought in as large a quantity
as $l,OOO face value during 1919, at
such favorable interest return, makes
them most desirable for the average
man or family.
“Definite plans for the continu
ance of the issue, in coming years, of
small Government securities are
being worked out. |
“Although War Savings Stamp‘
; : This one of the styles that
, \ has done much to make Pumps
i k opular. ote the graceful toe
]"/ \\\ :n: :he fal:‘hitona:le gheel.
\. ' Fashion Says Pumps
NAH ' :
-t - It is very noticeable that Pumps will
B ™ W have greater popularity this summer
" . - than in previous years.
Perhaps it is because they are more fashionably made; or
because women have found them more of a support to the
foot—at any rate, every woman should include Pumps in
her summer outfit. :
| Shoes for Kiddies
You will note that our prices on childrens shoes are always
lower on the same shoe than city merchants sell. We do
“not mean the “same’’ shoe in quality, but more. It is the
same shoe in name that they sell much higher than we.
By the careful selection and fitting of children’s shoes it is
possible not only to save money, but to improve the health
of the child.
Smith & Pott
Marietta . , (Georgia
sales this year do not nearly approach
the high marks made under stimula
tion ef war needs last year, their
absorption by the public thus far has
been satisfactory under existing cir
cumstances. :
“It is customary for savings in all
channels to shrink during the early
months of the year, and it is expect
ed that War Savings Stamp sales,
along with Postal Savings and Sav
ings Bank deposits will grow steadily
throughout the year.
“Co-operation is sought earnestly,
especially from bankers and mer
chants, in the mater of keeping Thrift
and War Savings Stamps on sale, so
that on one so inclined may fail to
have opportunity to invest his money
wisely.”
R. O. SUDDETH
Graduated Licensed Veterinarian
PATRONAGE SOLICITED EXAMINATION FREE
Diseases of cattle and hogs; also digestive
diseases and lameless of horses and mules
. scientifically treated 3
Telephone Marietta, Ga.
MONEY TO LOAN—
We at all times have money on hand for Long Time loans
on Georgia Real Estate. _
MORTGAGES FOR SALE—
If you have money to invest you could not beat Georgia
first mortgages as to security and rate of income.
LIBERTY BONDS—
We are maintaining a department in our business for
the buying and selling of Liberty Bonds and will pay at
all times the highest market prices.
FIRE INSURANCE—
We are prepared to write any size risk anywhere in Cobb
County and represent several large American and English
Companies. GET OUR RATES ON AUTOMOBILE
INSURANCE.
Sessions Loan & Trust Company
Marietta, Georgia
FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1919
MRS. ARMSTRONG’S
«ROTHER DIES
The friends of Mrs. A. Armstrong
will regret to learn of the death of
her brother, Mr Lewis, who passed
away at his home in Toledo, Ohio,
last week.
Our line of Men’s ties is complete
35c to $1.50. Marietta Dry Goods
Company.
As we have understood that the
state has no funds to pay the freight
on the government trucks which she
is to get free, why not let us take
some of those already in the camp
near Atlanta so there will be no
freight to pay?
