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Vol. 53. No. 33.
He Says They “Delivered the Goods”
Eve‘ry Time They Were Given
Anything to Do
General Monash, commander in
.chief of the Australians, who fought
with Americans in France, gives our
boys more credit than some of the
British generals. Speaking of the
first thousand Americans who came
under his command he says:
“Those 1,000 Americans covered
themselves with glory, and I can pay
them no greater compliment than by
saying that from that day on our
Australian veterans took them to
their hearts as full blood brothers.”
General Monash declared that the
131st American regiment of the 33d
division, in company with the 13th
Australian brigade, ‘“fought a most
gallant and successful series of ac
tions which resulted in the capture
of Chipilly Spur” when ghe great
counter offensive was launched by
Australians and Canadians in the
Somme sector on August 8, 1918.
“This,” he said, “made secure my
left flank thereby enabling me to
get astride of the valley of the Somme
and hunt the enemy clean out of it
for 20 miles.”
General Monash had under his
command in the closing days of the
war the whole Second American army
corps, more than 60,000 men of the
27th and 30th American divisions.
This army, he said, overthrew the
Hindenburg defense system at its
“most strongly defended point.”
The share of the American divisions
in these dperations was character
ized by General Monash as ‘“proba
bly the greatest single American feat
of arms achieved in the whole war.”
The operations were completed on
October 5, he said, and it was on that
night that “the Germans threw up
the sponge and declared their willing
ness to make peate on our own
terms.”
“I have been asked over and over
again to express my opinion of the
American troops,” General Monash
continued. ‘I am not going to be so
foolish as to attempt to do so here
and now, I am only going to say in
your own expressive vernacular that
at all times and in every place where
I have used them the American troops
‘delivered the goods.’
“You may well believe that this
close association in war of such large
bodies of Australians and Americans
has erected a very real and lasting
friendship between our two democra
cies. The foundations of that friend
ship had already been laid many
years before by the visit of the Amer
ican battle fleet to Australia.
“I can assure you that Australia
attaches much importance to secur
ing and maintaining the friendship
of America. We look upon the Uni
ted States as our big brother in the
Pacific, and if any one of you has
reflected on the problems of the Pa
cific, which are going to arise in the
future, he will know what I mean
by that observation.”
PANHANDLING FOR UNCLE SAM
“Won’t you please insert the fol
lowing article” writes an army re
cruiting officer located in South Geor
gia. It is a pretty long story, and
seeks to induce young men to erlist.
This officer represents the great
United States government. He has
been assigned to a big task and has
been told ‘“don’t you spend a penny
for advertising.” His job depends on
success and success depends on pub
licity, and he is forced to panhandle
for it.
“Won’t you please” is all he has
to offer. His master has sent him
out to do business and has given him
no capital to operate on.
Such a humiliating shame for gov
ernment officials who have wasted
millions and billions on wildcat war
schemes and on the great army .of
profiteers to turn penurious at a spot
where a dollar will go further than
at any other one place, and force
army recruiting officers, civil service
examiners, federal tax collectors and
other representatives to knock at
newspaper offices every day with the
begging sign.
Putting the government on a plane
beneath box suppers and the church
festivals. Worse than the Castoria
manufacturers, who are willing to
pay twenty-five per cent of the usual
advertising rates.
If the Wilson administration has
any sense of pride it ought to stop
this disgusting panhandiing.—Moul
trie Observer.
FINE TOMATOES
In the window of the Sams Drug
Co. is displayed a cluster of three
very fine tomatoes on one stem,
weighing a fraction over three
pounds. They are smooth and well
formed and colored brightly. They
are from the garden of Mr. R. H.
Hutcheson.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
Current Events
In spite of the opposition to the
confirmation of A. Mitchell Palmer
as attorney general the subcommittee
of the senate judiciary committee
which has been holding hearings has
made a unanimous report in favor
of the confirmation. Palmer incurred
much ill will on the part of German
sympathizers when he was alien ene
my custodian, and they managed to
carry their fight on him to the senate
committee.
Among those charged with profi
teering are many landlords in the
cities where rents were raised from
20 to 100 per cent within a short
time. Atlanta is all stirred up over
the matter, and Rev. J. W. Ham is
active among those who are trying
to curb prices for rooms and homes
for the people. Numerous witnesses
appeared before the Atlanta Council
Committee to tell of unreasonable
advances made in rents. More houses
are needed before it can be hoped
to reduce rents.
The high cost of living and meas
ures to combat the soaring of prices
of foodstuffs are the main topics in
Geofgia’s capital city this week. The
city authorities have ordered $lOO,-
000 worth of United States army sup
plies and will distribute them through
local stores which will charge only
ten per cent for handling. At the
capital the measure creating the
State Council of Defense with broad
powers to regulate the sale and dis
tribution of food held the limelight
in the closing days of the memora
ble session.
The only scars left by the session
were the result of the bitter fight
which Macon waged for the removal
of the State capital and the equally
bitter manner in which Atlanta met
the attempt of her sister city to take
it from her. Some little rancor was
also brought about by the gratuitu
ous killing of the Susan B. Anthony
amendment to the constitution. Suf
frage leaders resented the action of
both houses, stating that it should
never have been passed to a vote.
The filibuster of ten days in the Sen
ate was the result of the friends of
the measure trying to avoid defeat
for it.
So far there have been no intima
tions from the office of District At
torney Hooper Alexander of --any
criminal prosecutions in Georgia for
profiteering, but L. J. Baley, head of
the secret service in the South, has
sent his men out looking for evi
dence: Under the direction of the
president, very little mercy will be
skown the merchant who has been
selling goods on which he was making
a profit greater than normal. It is
also intimated that severe sentences
will be given those convicted in the
courts.
The semi-annual debate on the
question of reading the Bible in the
schools of Atlanta has broken out
again. There is one faction who ad
vocates it persistently and at regular
intervals, while another set of city
builders oppose it just as regularly.
This time the board of education
wants it settled for all time and de
clare that they are tired of the agi
tation. Therefore, they have ordered
a public hearing for the near future
and propose to “Hire a Hall.”
Used Cars
One 1918 Maxwell S passenger
One 1917 Maxwell Roadster
One 1918 Studebaker 7 pass.
One Monroe Roadster
All of these cars are in good
mechanical condition, and are
bargains at the price.
W. G. CLEGG
Dealer '
112 Washington Ave. Marietta, Georgia
Marietta, Georgia, Friday, August 15, 1919.
Without it This Country is Handi
capped in Race For World
Trade and Commerce
The two stupidest nations!
No! Net Russia and Germany!
Nor even Nigeria and Timbuctoo!
But—Great Britain and the Uni
ted States!
Now, what do you think about
that? You don’t believe it? They
are the most enlightened nations?
They are and they are not!
In some things, yes! In one great
vital essential of these vital times,
no!
Fpr Great Britain and the United
Sta(zs are embarking upon the colos
sal world competition in all history
with the wrong kind of equipment!
They are tackling world trade with
the wrong tools!
Two hundred and twelve nations
and countries are doing business to
gether under the simple practical and
universally understood Metric system.
Two nations are attempting to do
business with the 212 under the old
fashioned, cumbersome, obsolete Ger
man system.
These two old-fashioned, behind
the-times, dozing nations are Great
Britain and the United States!
And the system they are using was
discarded as worthless by Germany
half a century ago!
The two greatest (?) nations in
the world are trying to do business
with Germany’s cast-offs!
This, no doubt, is precisely as Ger
many had planned. Having tied a
weight to the heels of her greatest
trade adversaries, this cleverly cun
ning country removes her own weights
and skims into world commerce on
the wings of a-system invented by an
Englishman—James Watt in 1783.
Think of the irony of it: An Eng
lishman gives the world the logical,
decimal system of measurement which |
Germany adopts to her tremendous
acceleration in commerce and power
and enrichment by billions of dollars.
In return Germany fastens upon the
land of the Englishman to whom she
owes soo much the cumbersome jumble
of quantity expression that is a ter
rible handicap to Great Britain in her
world enterprises.
But the real tragedy is this:
The United States slavishly follows
Britannia in her weights and meas
ures and retains them, while all the
rest of the world, ‘except these two,
adopt the decimal system which every
dey umyrstands.
It is under this tremendous handi
cap that the United States enters
world trade. In all her dealings with
the Orient, Oceania, Latin America
and the remainder of the world eut
side of British possessions this coun
try must do business with two sets
of measurements—the Metric, to sat
isfy her customers; the German, to
humor the obstinacy of her own man
ufacturers. But that obstinacy is cal
culated to cost those manufacturers
tens of millions of dollars annually
in lost time and lost orders.—San
Francisco Bulletin.
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BRINGING WEAETH FROM BOGS
Impressed by the fact that certain
North Georgia swamp lands, former
ly of no market value, are now worth
three hundred dollars an acre as a
result of reclamation which cost less
than one-twelfth that amount, the
Jackson Progress-Argus makes a co
gent appeal for improvements of this
kind throughout the Commonwealth.
“Drainage,” it says, ‘‘not only
means the reclaiming of waste lands,
making two blades grow where none
grew before, but it also means bet
ter health conditions. This within
itself is an important consideration.
Georgia will.be a richer and far bet
ter state when more of her lands
are drained and turned into highly
productive acres. A start has been
made. Much more will be done in
this direction within the next few
years. The Progress-Argus would
be glad to see a movement started to
drain the eight thousand one hundred
and sixty acres of swamp and low
lands in Butts county. It would
prove a profitable investment from
every standpoint.”
Our contemporary’s plea should be
pressed in all counties where swamp
or wet lands of any considerable area
are found. Under a law enacted
some years ago drainage districts can
be organized and empowered to is
sue bonds for reclamation projects.
The work thus can be done without
burdening property owners or the
public; and in the course of compara
tively few yedrs it will pay for itself
in the bountiful harvests which such
soils yield and in the high values
they attain. This is not a matter of
theory, but of actual demonstration
on upwards of five thousand acres
in Georgia, and hundreds of thou-
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sands throughout the South, which in
recent years have been converted
from malaria-breeding bogs to health
ful and richly produetive farms.
In the forty drainafe districts thus
far organized the feclamation of
some fourteen thousand acres has
been planned. This seems a small
beginning when we observe that in
the entire State there are nearly
eight million acres needing drainage.
But the little leaven will leaven the
lump. Every example of swamp bot
toms transformed to luxuriant fields,
producing more than a hundred bush
els of corn to the acre and other
crops in proportion, inspires emula
tion. And every word which public-
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Established 1866
spirited papers like the Progress-Ar
gus speak for this constructive cause
will contribute to its advancement.—
Atlanta Journal. i
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