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MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1919
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That $240 Bonus 4
OME months ago we called attention to the bonus of
S $240 which congress gave to all the civilian workers
of Washington City. We criticized the action rather se
verely, and we, have since opposed the paying of a six
months additional pay to discharged soldiers and sailors
feeling that it was simply a political move on the part of
some papers and politicians to get the votes of said sol
diers and sailors.
But if the bonus is fair in one place it is fair in all
cases. We just never know when we start this sort of
thing where it will end. It begins to look like it is going
to be harder for us to get out of the war and to peace con
ditions than it was to get into the war and win it.
From Wednesday’s Washington dispatches we clip the
following bearing on this subject: |
“Declaring the $6O bonus paid to discharged soldiers
and sailors was “paltry,” as compared with $240 paid
war workers, Representative Pou, democrat, North Caro
lina, in the house today asked for non-partisan considera- |
tion of republicans and democrats in dealing with addi
tional bonuses. ‘
“When we deal with the soldiers,” he said, “I hope there
will be no sparring for political advantages. The addi
tional bonus should be large enough to give all discharged
soldiers and sailors a good start as civilians.”
“The watch dogs” of the treasury, Mr. Pou stated,
would be “horror-stricken at the amount of the appropria
tions.” Justice should be done these men at any cost, he
said.”
' Now what do you think of that? Where is the soldier
or the sailor who is not in favor ofpaying themselves that
extra $240, particularly after they become aware that
civilians have already been so favored? >
Congress should have started long ago on the task of
reducing the high cost of living, instead of piling on more
and more until they reach the point where they cannot
stop. Still, as we have said, what is fair for one is fair
for the other.
The Mobbing of the Senate
OR the first time in the history of the country the
F United States Senate has been practically mobbed.
For quite a while on Tuesday the presiding officer was
unable to have order restored or the rules enforced in the
galleries. .
The presiding officer of the senate is a democrat. The
sergeant at arms and doorkeepers who are charged with
preserving order are republicans. The occasion was the
deliverance of an attack upon the league of nations, and
incidentally upon the president, by Senator Lodge of Mas
sachusetts, who is a republican. The president is a dem
ocrat. The mobbing was done by friends of Senator
Lodge, who packed the galleries on this special occasion
for the purpose and were partisan republicans. By that
we mean that they are repulicans first, and Americans
afterwards, if party expediency permits.
In our candid opinion this is the most happy news that
has reached the German Kaiser, now hiding in his Dutch
rat hole, since the sinking of the Lusitania or the murder
of Edith Cavell. L
Bolshevism in Russia, and elsewhere, must also take
heart, for is this not evidence that the republican party
still lives and is working under the policy of rule or ruin?
| Important if True 1
GREAT many things that get into print would be
A given much more attention if the people thought
they were true. But as a rule the average reader has no
way to verify such statements, without some trouble and
expense, so he does the easiest thing—he takes it ‘“with a
grain of salt” and then he forgets it.
This is probably what the Georgia Legislature did when
it adopted Senator Barrett’s resolution concerning the
stopping of cotton messages to Europe.
s It is probable that not a member of the body passing
this resolution had any means of verifying the charges
made in it, beyond the statement of the author, but if
kug, something ought to be done, and done at once about
it, hence the unanimous passage of the resolution.
~ We do not know how much evidence Senator Bdrrett
hd to sustain his charges, or whether he had taken the
matter up with the state department of our government,
j}nt we do know it is a matter of which the state depart
ment should take cognizance, and if found to be as stated,
jfiould take steps at once to correct.
- A prompt investigation of the matter , at least should
be made, and it looks to us like an opening for the talents
»f Senator Smith, or Senator Harris, or both of them.
. Somehow we are afraid that the most the people get of
at cheap government food will be to read about it in
; e newspapers. If all the government could spare was
f?n_itably distributed among the people we fear it would
tot furnish one week’s rations.
Tfi - e e e i e
. ‘One of the compensations we believe the Lord gave us
he made us poor, was the ability to see the littleness
if some of the men whom he has permitted to acquire
geaith in this moral vinyard.
Z;;»t'.‘.cmservation of gas and oil are most necessary if the
% truck has to pick up the burden of the railroads of
?country for any length of time. A reasonable supply
£ these should always be carried by those who can do so.
‘Georgla papers this year show very few sales of proper
-7 advertised by sheriffs in this state, and the pickings
som this source have been anything but fat. With empty
yils and no legal sales most of our sheriffs have become
retty good farmers.
' :H the legislature had a hundred- instead of a fifty-day
ion, there is no telling how many new counties they
create every year in Georgia; and still they would
to set the clock back on finishing day in order to pus‘
bills.
' The Cuthbert Leader is having an attack of “basebal
| litis,” but the disease is never dangerous. Maybe Howell
could bring a team up that would tackle Johnny Ruda
sill’'s “Bear Cats?”
Dud Glass, of the Georgian, spent a day last week in
Marietta, and did not show up at this office, but as leng
as he stuck to Jim Brumby and Lawson Fields he was in
good company.
For eleven out of twelve years Tyrus Raymond Cobb, of
Georgia, has been the leading batter in baseball. Wheth
er you like the game or not that is an enviable record.
" And at the same time he has been an all around leader in
the game. -
We are afraid the Atlanta Constitution is taking Uncle
John Shannon too seriously about chicken being as “free
as air” up at Commerce. Of course there are several
ways to get your chicken, but we doubt if the free supply
that may be secured up there is as inexhaustible-asithe
air. And the Constitution printed it right next to Frank
L. Stanton’s “High Cost World” poem too! |
The actors in New York are out on a strike, the white !
way is dark, the jazz bands are silent, the beer and wine
has ceased to flow, and some of the old settlers are in
favor of trading the town back to the Indians.
Typhoid fever is more easily avoided than cured. The
serum may be had for nothing and the doctors are not as
busy as they will be if more of it is not used. - -
The little tin box is not nearly so safe a place to put
your money as a bank, as one poor Atlanta family can
certify after having saved up two hundred dollars to have
it vanish from the old tin bank.
Some things that have happened recently incline us to
suspect that Mr. Burleson’s hide is not half as thick as
some people have supposed it was. We do not believe a
man ever lived who was absolutely indifferent to public
cpinion.
We are in favor of giving the zone system a fair trial;
we #re in favor of the newspapers—big and little—paying
their own way, but we are also in favor of the government
paying its own way, and not begging space of anyone.
The brewers o fthe country—or should we say ex-brew
ers—are going to have a big meeting in Atlantic City in
September, to plan for a campaign to repeal prohibition
laws. If they get too dry they can go in the surf, outside
of that it will all be talk.
It is through the public schools of the state that every
child born is given a chance to become as great as any
other man who ever lived in the state. More and better
schools increases this opportunity.
We believe that the government is going to stop profi
teering when we see some of the profiteers in stripes, and
not much before that time.
A Macon girl flew home from a visit by airplane, and
up to date we have not heard of anAtlanta girl who was
so anxious to get backto Atlanta. The capital retention
committee had better attend to this.
By some slip of Mr. Burleson’s mails we have missed
our Walton News ever since the press meeting, for we
can not think Brother Caldwell has cut us off his visiting
list.
Chicago and Washington courts have a fine chance to
show the south what they will do with rioters and mobs
who attack negro citizens within their jurisdictions, but
we suspect there will be no ‘“‘showing.”
Literacy in Georgia took a bound upward when the
legislature passed the local school tax act this week.
Money invested in education returns ten-fold in the pros
perity of the state.
We fear the American Legion which is being organized
by veterans of the last war has political aspirations for
the future, however loudly they protest political inten
tions at this time.
There is a republican senator by the name of Moses in
the United States Senate, but it seems that he has not been
able to lead his party out of the wilderness.
We don’t understand about these ‘“direct descendants”
of George Washington that we have read about several
times lately. Is it our history or something else that is
crooked.
Carrollton has been advised to multiply its chicken
raising industry. Ralph Meeks knows why.
It’s an enterprising jeweler who uses advertising to
promote weddings in order to get the chance to sell the
ring, but Atlanta has one firm that does just this. And
when the high cost of living is considered, we must accord
this firm the palm for its unshaken belief in the power of
printers ink. May its confidence be not misplaced.
“You need your money
And I need mine,
If we both get ours
It would sure be fine.
But if you get yours
And hold mine too,
What in the world
Am I going to do?”
—Poem from the back of a sales-ticket.
The boll weevils have made their appearance in several
parts of the county and we can only remind our farmer
friends that activity and eternal vigilance is the price of
cotton now.
Carnegie wrote for his own epitaph these honest lines:
“Here lies a man who knew how to enlist in his service
better men than himself.”
In spite of the splendid and heroic work of the National
Guardsmen in France, in army circles yet there seems to
be a disposition to make the National Guard the “goat”
whenever a chance arises. The latest slander is that the
National Guard cannot be trusted with anything but field
shoes to wear. The army must have some big leaks to
account for. The people, however, are never going to let
the quartermaster’s department charge supply shortages
to the boys of the National Guard. |
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
The short ballot is a movement to
simplify politics. With the continual
multiplying of offices somehow we
must get back to voting directly for
fewer men who shall appoint the
others and be responsible to the peo
ple for the whole. This does not
sound democratic, but it’s business.
Did you ever stop to think how
many things you can raise on a farm
' that will bring good money and that
‘}a boll weevil will not eat? If you
' have not we advise you to take a
‘trip through South Georgia.
The great increase of tax returns
all over the state would indicate that
there had been progress and pros
perity in spite of war taxes and phi
lanthropic expenditures in connection
with the war. Honest tax returns
would solve the state’s lack of funds
to pay all its obligations promptly.
WE DON’T KNOW
It is alleged in behalf of the con
tinued propensity for high prices that
the condition is founded upon the in
satiable demand of foreign countries,
of continental Europe. How can the
impoverished people_of those strick
en countries pay a price that all but
staggers the American consumer, and
in addition the freight of a long haul?
—Dawson News.
Take The Marietta Journal and get
all the news of the county.
Roberts-Blair Realty Co.
W. E. ROBERTS Real ES ta te _L. M. BLAIR
Office North Side Square = MARIETTA, GA.
Farm Loans Fire Insurance
As Summer Wanes—
—We would remind our pat- S,
rons that we still have some of &i!
the light goods—enough for the A
short season demand—which e
may be had at attractive prices. [?' :
—Much hot weather yet lies be- 1{ . @’\
tween us and the coming of Jack % |
Frost, and if you need a few E\ }l‘*
more summer clothes, for the ir- ?;1 \ ‘33‘?
regular and changing weather, ; ' \J’
we have the goods in sufficient iR & . &
variety to supply you. T g e s eSS,
—We are now getting our fall stock open, and by ex
press we are receiving the very latest in between-season
88, fabrics—goods that will please and
*:‘F{J delight the most discriminating buy-
M ? ers. There are a great many new
e [ ideasin the fall and winter garb of a
,’\ } woman, made possible by the won
=7 A f’/ MR derful progress of fabric manufac:
o T {/‘4 ) turers. We also have the fashion
; ( / B magazines and best patterns. Wein-
A /:i Q vite early and frequent visit_s to our
fl store—take us at our word—make
{ 3 this store your own home store.
Marietta, Georgid
A PUBLIC NU.ISANCE |
The Cuban martins that make a
roosting place of our park square,
have more than worn out their wel-
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Black Undertaking Co.
Mo LOR FAHEETS SRI
Funeral Directors and
Embalmers
CALLS ANSWERED Established 1875 and doing
DAY OR NIGHT business in same place since
DAY PHONE 400 NIGHT PHONE 246
Plenty of six per cent money for five year loans on
high class improved farms in Cobb and adjoining coun
ties. Prompt attention given all applications, and quick
results obtained. Call or write me.
J. D. MALONE, Marietta, Ga.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1919
come in this town. In fact they are
a public nuisance, and if it is possi
ble to do so, they should be driven
away. The park is no park when
they are in town.
