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Vol. 53. No. 34.
Great€st Aggregation of Youth and
Beauty Ever Assembled in =
. This Section
The Y. WrC. A. Pageant, for which
preparation had been made for sever
al weeks, was presented in Marietta
on Tuesday afternoone\bf this week.
So wenderful was the success of this
great spectacular outdoor play that
we feel our own inability to improve
upon the story as told by Ward
‘Greene in The Atlanta Journal, so we
reproduce that below.
Wilder’'s Meadow, an expanse of
green bottom land and sloping hill
side about a mile from Marietta on
the Kennesaw mountain road, was
‘the setting Tuesday afternoon for a
seene of real and rare beauty.
Here, where half a century ago the
grass was spotted with the blood of
north and south and from the woods
on either side spurted flame, yester
day children romped in a ring and
‘pretty girls, their hair fallen to their
waists and their bright costumes
weathered in garlands, marched and
sang in gay processional. Fhd
The battlefield of yesterday was
- the playground of today, and old
Kennesaw, whose wooded shoulders
-once shook to the thunder of the guns,
slept silent in the distance while the
sun, sinking behind him, sent long
shadows across the meadow, the girls
and children scattered there, and the
crowd watching on the slope.
Voices on the far side of the field
sang an old hymn, harp and violins
joined faintly, and it was good to be
“there with the smell of the earth so
close, the sky above so open and so
blue, and out in front the children
dancing and the pretty girls and the
costumes like a rich rainbo® against
the green.
The crowd must have thought so,
for it came by hundreds and by thou
sands and it stayed on into the twi
light, content all of them to sit on
the hillside, following the spectacle
that was so easy on the eyes, making
friends with out-of-doors.
Of course, it is necessary here to
drag out the program and tell you
that it was all about a pageant—
THE pageant, in fact, for which Ma-.
rietta and Cobb county have been
prevaring for weeks; that the pageant
was, given under the auspices of the
Young Women’s Christian Associa
tion; that it was the first of eleven
community pageants planned for the
whole United States; that this was
the only one the southeast will have;
and that it represented five states.
It is necessary, too, to state that
the pageant had a meaning, one of
those awesome allegorical meanings
which one must refer frequently to
the aforesaid program to decipher;
and that it was full of such charaec
ters as Progress and the Spirit of
the Ages and groups representing In
dustry and War and Peace and For
eign Children and so on; and that it
was perfectly done, so that the mean
ing must have been clear to all.
But somehow it seems a pity to
have to hang a meaning onto a rain
bow or to label a fairy with a name.
And surely it is no mean compliment
to tell the people of Cobb county and
the directors of their pageant that,
nameless or meaningless, it would
have been well worth walking all the
" way from Atlanta to see just because
it was so beautiful.
You, too, would have felt that way
had you been there, and perhaps you
were, for just about all Cobb county
came, with a goodly number from
Atlanta. In automobiles so many
that they were parked for a quarter
of a mile along the road, in buggies
with horses hitched to the fence-rail,
on foot they came, and there was
plenty of room for all.
Wilder's Meadow is a natural am
phitheater. On one hillside was the
crowd, extending down to the little
brook at the bottom. The meadow
proper was_on the other sid& of the
brook, sloping gradually upward to a
patch of woods cresting the far hill
top.
Before 5 o’clock, when the pageant
started, the participants were hidden
in the woods, a few of them camou
flaged by pine bushes that had been
uprooted and replanted again in con
venient little clumps through the mea
dow. The central clump was direct
ly opposite the crowd, and in the mid
dle of it, facing them, was a stage,
with a throne on it for the queen.
Wurm’s orchestra sat at the foot—
or should it be feet?—of the crowd,
sheltered by a group of trees. A
choir of some forty or fifty voices
was stationed behind the orchestra
and for twenty or thirty minutes be
fore the start there- was singing—
“My Old Kentucky Home,” “Suwa
nee Ribber,” “oOld Black Joe” and
other heart songs of the old south
that everybody knows and that every
body joined in, so that they éwelled
out across the meadow like a camp
meeting chorus. |
A blast of bugles heralded the open
ing, but first a purple-robedofigure—i
the Spirit of the Age she was—
stepped onto the open sward and
(Continued on page eight) J
THE M ARIETTA JOURNAL
Ford car owners, and other car
owners also, will be glad to read this
news item. So many cars are stolen
and the cars never recovered, much
less the robbers punished, that it is
with pleasure that we are able to re
cord this instance.
Over in Milton county, on Sunday
night last, a white man by the name
of Inman Streetman stole a Ford car
and drove it to Rome. |
On the alarm from Milton county
the police of Rome located the man
and the car on Monday, and both
were brought back to Alpharetta
where court was then in session.
Streetman was placed on trial on
Wednesday and being convicted of
the theft was sentenced by Judge
Morris to three years in the peniten
tiary, and he is already serving this
sentence.
More vigilance of officers and car
owners, and a few more such prompt
arrests and convictions, will have a
most wholesome effect upon minds
of gentry who think the world owes
them a living and are trying to col
lect it out of the property of careless
car owners.
$67 in Fines and Thirty Days Labor
Given the Offenders. Traffic
> Sign Returned
Not being satisfied with their con
tributions to the various War Works,
etc., some of the old offenders and a
few new ones came before Mayor
“Jim” for a raking over the coals and
a fine. :
The Monday night session of the
police court was very small, there
being only ten cases to dispose of.
But the amount of fines assessed was
a goodly sum to turn over to the city
treasurer. Sixty seven dollars in
money and 30 days labor on the
streets was the total receipts of the
matinee. ‘
L. D. Sargeant came to bat first
with a charge on his head of being
“over-loaded” for a dry town and
drew a stern reprimand and a fine of
$3.50 from the Mayor. “Jessie Crowe,
a young negro, was given thirty days
on the streets and without a fine for
being disorderly. Robert Towns was
fined $3.50 for being disorderly. Hen
ry Dyson was also charged with ex-.
cess baggage for a dry state and
given a fine of $5.00. Bud Duke was
fined $5.00 for being disorderly. Wal
ter Johnson was fined $7.50 on the
charge of exceeding the automobile
speed limif and was informed by the
Mayor that the next offense would
mean almost as much as the first cost
of a new car. Lou Gregory, a negro
woman, was charged with being dis
orderly and given a fine of $7.50.
Saldon Appleby was also given a like
fine for being disorderly.
The traffic cop that stood at the
intersection of Atlanta street and the
square and directed all autoists and
pedestrians to keep to the right dis
appeared one night last week and
furnished a baffling mystery to the
city police.
On Thursday Mr. Latimer went to
Atlanta and to the home of onq Beau
mont Davidson, Jr., the son of Beau
mont Davidson of the Davidson-Pax
on-Stokes Company. In the rear of
the Davidson home on the Fairview
road stood the missing traffic post.
Mr. Latimer at once notified the boys
parent what had happened and young
Davidson was forced to bring the
missing link to the city’s traffic de
partment back and place it in its pro
per place. He was then arrested on
a charge of being disorderly and re
leased on bond of $25.00. However,
he failed to appear at the Monday
night session of the police court and
t}(;e bond of $25.00 has been forfeit
ed.
J. GID MORRIS SELLS
- HIS BELMONT FARM
~ Belmont farm on the Atlanta ear
line this side of Smyrna, consisting
of I}2 acres, was sold this week by
the ‘owner_J. Gid Merris to Mr.
Leach of Lawrenceville, for $50,000.
The deal was made through J. C. and
Frank Read, real estate dealers.
Belmont Farm has long been con
sidered as one of the garden spots of
Cobb county. It has been the win
ner of many state fair premiums in
the last few years. It is reported that
Mr. Morris recently sold his old home
place farm in Gritter district for $25,-
000.
What is Uncle Gid going to do
now? He will be tike a fish out of
water without a good farm to be up
and doing on by four o’clock every
morning the year round possibly Sun
days excepted. |
Uncle Gid has attained all the hon
ors possible in Cobb county farming
and can afford to retire. |
Marietta, Georgia, Friday, August 22, 1919.
ONE OF STATE'S GREAT
WOMEN DIED SATURDAY
s e e \R.
Finest Corn L.and in the State Was
Made by Operation of
Drainage Canal .
Judge N. A. Morris sold his farm on
Allatoona creek about four " miles
southwest of Acworth, in Cobb coun
ty, Monday of this week to R. A.
Hill, of Marietta, for $37,200.00. The
sale was made by the Holland Realty
Company. This farm consists of 425
acres, nearly two hundred acres in
bottom land and is considered one of
the best farms in North Georgia. It
was recently drained by the Allatoo
na-Proctor Creek Drainage project.
Before it was drained it was prac
tically worthless, the bottom land was
an immense swamp contaminated
with mosquitoes, bull frogs, tarrepins
and snakes. ; |
It is now dry and in a fine state of
cultivation with 160 acres of fine
bottom land corn growing in ' one
body. If you are opposed to drain
age take a look at this corn and you
will not be opposed any longer.
Judge Morris had previously sold
75 acres off of this farm. It is un
derstood that Mr. Hill has already
been offered a handsome profit on
this deal.
& Even
Current Lvents
~ Real estate seems to be booming,
not only in this country, but in,&m'ope
for the latest report is that the ex
‘Kaiser has bought a home in Holland
near the place where he has been in’
terned, and where he expeets to settle
down to farm life. v |
It is estimated that the state of
Georgia will sell 23,000,000 pounds
of tobacco from this years crep, which
is twenty million pounds more than
ever before. Prices are said to have
been satisfactory, and tobacco is now
one of the money crops of a large
section of south Georgia. o
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} The two American aviators held fok,
‘a ransom in Mexico have been ‘“re
‘deemed” by paying one-half the gold
‘asked, and now American troops are
'in Mexico trying to docate the ban
difs. The rescued aviators are ac
companying the expedition.
Sugar, which seems to have been
one of the groceries most easily hand
led by the profiteers, has been fixed
at 12 cents per pound by the “fair
price” committee of Fulton county.
Now the only question is can any be!
found to supply the demand at that
price. ‘
The largest producers of electric
power are the southern state east of
th& Mississippi, where about 75 per-‘
cent of the power used is produced
by water. Measured by kilowatt
hours Georgia produces 37,264,000
produced by water and only 6,082,000
produced by fuel.
Atlanta is having considerable
trouble or at least delay in raising
the fund necessary to entertain the
veterans in September, but of course
the money will be given. Everlasting
disgrace would attend failure of pro
perly financing the reunion in that
city, more particularly as this will
probably be the last big reunion of
the old Confeds.
The L. & N. passenger train was
held up four miles out from Columbia
Tenn., on Thursday ‘morning about
2 o’clock. The mail car was robbed
but the express car was not entered.
The robbers are said to have escaped
in an automobile after cutting loose
the engine and sending it “wild” down
the track.
One of the laws pasesd by the last
session of the legislature provides that
where counties so consolidate local
schools as to create four-teacher
schools the state shall supply $5OO
a year, where high ascheol course is
added $1,500.
This provision should find many
takers among the country schools
as very many of them could be con
solidated to advantage and the high
school course also added.
Another law that should be men
tioned is that requiring counties to
erect sign boards at all public road
crossings, these sign boards to be six
feet high and six inches wide and
carry in black lettering on a white
background information concerning
the roads and nearby towns. Erec
tion of the markers must be done by
the counties out of the road fund.
The law also provides a fine of not
under $lOO and not over $5OO for
county officials who fail to comply
with its provision.
Mrs. Robert de Treville Lawrence
died at her home here on Saturday
afternoon, in her seventy-eighth year.
The death of this beloved woman
grieved her countless friends in Geor
gia and throughout the south, as well
as everyone in Marietta. |
Though Mrs. Lawrence had been
suffering with a serious heart affec
tion for some months, all hoped that
she would rally, and her sudden death
came as a great shock.
The funeral services were held at
St. James church at eleven o’clock,
Monday morning the Rev. R. R.
Claiborne officiating.
The Episcopal choir, with Mrs.
Lawrenee’s old and life-long friend,
Mrs. H. G. Cole, at the organ, sang
the beautiful hymns, “The Strife is
O’er, the Battle Won,” “There is a
Blessed Home” and “Blessings,
Thanks, and Praise.”
The pall-bearers were her sons, Mr.
Samuel Lawrence, Rev. James Law
rence and Mr. McDonald Lawrence,
and her nephews, Mr. David Irwin, of’
Buford, and Mr. A. A. Irwin, of Ma
rietta, and Mr. J. Wilder Glover. -
Mrs. Lawrence is survived by her
husband, four sons, A. A. Lawrence,
of Savannah, Samuel Lawrence, of
Raleigh, N. C., Rev. James Lawrence,
of Americus, and MeDonald Law
rence, of Atlanta, two sisters, Mrs.
Tom Irwin, of Marietta, and Mrs. G.
W. Blanton, of “Brunswick, four
brothers, Ju:ige Spencer Atkinson, of '
Atlanta, Judge Samuel C. Atkinson,
of the State Supreme Court, Dr. Bur
well Atkinson, of St. Marys, and Dr.
Dunwoody Atkinson, of Brunswick,
several grandchildren and a number
of devoted nieces and nephews and
other relatives.
Mrs. Lawrence was born at St.
Marys, in Camden county, in 1842,
her parents being Col:and Mrs. Alex
Atkingson. She came of a long line
of distinguished Georgians, among
them Governor McDonald, who was
her maternal grandfather.
She was married in 1867 to Mr.
Robert de Treville Lawrence.
Two years ago Mr. and Mrs. Law
rence celebrated their golden wed
ding and at this notable event hun
dreds of prominent Georgians and
"fiw jerners gathered to do honor to
this noble couple. Truly, everyone
who knew Mrs. Lawrence has lost a
friend, for she had the faculty of
being a friend to people in every
walk of life. She felt a sincere and
loving interest in all with whom she
came in contact. The kind words, the
friendly nod, the cheerful, eordial
smile, these were ever characteristics
of ‘“Miss Anne Eliza.”” Generous,
big-hearted, never wearied of well
doing!
Besides her own family of six chil
dren, Mrs. Lawrence gave a mother’s
care and love to several motherless
nieces and nephews, and they too,
like her children, “Rise up and call
her blessed.” For surely did she be
queath to her children the heritage
of a good name. |
“Mrs. Lawrence was an earnest
Christian and faithful church worker
all her life. She was especially de
voted to St. James Episcopal church,
of which she had been a consistent
member for half a century. She
was always a strong, dependable pil
lar of the church, and her religion
was one of aboslute faith in God’s
love. |
Scores of friends and relatives from
many parts of the south came to at
tend the last sad services on Monday
morning, and the grave was heaped
with fragrant flowers.
Among the many beautiful floral
offerings was one from the Soldiers
Home in Atlanta, of which Institu
tion Mr. Lawrence is president of the
board of trustees. Although she nev
er went out there, Mrs. Lawrence
took a warm interest always in our
old Confederate veterans and they
appreciated it.
“She was g 0 human! Whether strong
or weak,
Far from her kind she neither sank
or soared,
But sat an equal guest at every
board.
No beggar ever felt het condescend,
No prince presume, for still herself
she bare
At mankind’s simple level; and wher
e’er ‘
She met a stranger, there she left a
friend.”
PRESIDENT WILL NOT
DESERT OUR ALLIES
Prsident Wilson has declared flatly
’ that he will not have our allies the re
sponsibility of settling the world ques
‘tions involved, after we have fought
‘the war by their sides with our boys.
He declares that the moral obliga
‘tion rests upon us to abandon our
‘associates in the war in the settlement
‘of peace terms, and that America
made her decision in this matter in
Avril, 1917, when she entered the con
fi'ct. This still leaves Wilson and the
republican senators wide apart.
ESCAPED FROM GANG
T 0 SERVE IN. FRANCE
. The story below from the Atlanta
Journal of Thursday may be of in
terest in Cobb county. The local
jail records show the man’s name to
be Fonzo Capage sentenced to b years
in 1908 and escaping in 1909,
He will probably be brought back
to serve his sentence of no action
for clemency is taken.
“Bob Capage, thirty-six years old,
who, according to his confession to
the police, is an escaped convict from
both the Cobb county and King Fish
ers county, Okla., chaingangs is being
held at the police station awaiting
word from the Cobb county authori
ties.
“Capage claims that he was gen
tenced to five years for larceny early
in 1909, and that he served only a
few xponths of his sentence, escaping
and going to Cleveland, Tenn., where
he witnessed the killing of his own
brother, Lee Capage, then went to
Oklahoma and was sentenced there
to two years for larceny. After serv
ing a few months there, he claims,
he again escaped joining the army
and serving in France until about a
month ago.
“He states that after he escaped
from the Cobb county chaingang, he
found out that efforts were being
«nade to pardon him, and that his par
don was approved by the state prison
commission. As to whether he is now
wanted, he says he is in doubt, and
efforts are being made by the detec
tives to find out whether his pardon
was ever granted. |
“Capage was arested while stand
ing in front of the police station, and
according to the detectives, told them
all about himself ever since he was
first sentenced in 1909.” ‘
MISS CORA M. BROWN
Popular Marietta Girl om General
Van Zandt’s Staff For
the Reunion :
General K. M. Van Zandt, com
mander-in-chief of the United Con
federate Veterans of the South, an
nounced in a telegram Wednesday
‘the appointment of l(iugm
Brown, of Marietta, as o ‘the
maids of honor on his official staff for
the Confede‘ate reunion in October.
Miss Brown is the daughter of ex-
Gevernor Joseph M. Brown, and is
the granddaughter of Georgia’s war
governor, Joseph E. Brown.
Miss Brown is widely known and
popular, both in the social life of
Marietta and in Atlanta, where she
is a frequent visitor. Her appoint
ment completes General Van Zandt’s
official staff.
The other members of his staff,
whose names have been previously
announced, are: Mrs. Charles R.
Hyde, of Chattanooga, Tenn., ma
tron; Mrs. Adolphe Rocquet, New Or
leans, La., chaperon; Miss Eliza Ben
nett Young, Louisville, Ky., sponsor,
and Miss Anne Bryan, of Memphis,
and Miss Amanda Dye, of Searcy,
Ark., maids of honor.
The above news item is from the
Atlanta Constitution of Thursday and
with it was a picture purporting to
be Miss Cora McCord Brown. Miss
Brown’s friends and acquaintances
at once realized that a switching of
cuts had been made by the Constitu
tion, the picture appearing not being
that of Miss Brown at all.
A strange story is being told of a
negro whom an acid bath “turned
white.” Elijah Ellison of Oklahoma
City is the man, and he met with mis
fortune last January. He was work
ing over a vat in a local packing plant.
The vat contained a hot mixture of
carbolic acid, grease, etc. Elijah
missed his footing and fell in. He
was so badly burned that it was
thought for several days that he could
not live.
But Elijah is made of stern stuff,
and almost before his astonished phy
sician was aware of what was hap
pening—~he began to grow better, al
though the skin had been burned
away from the greater part of his
body.
As the burned places began to heal
attendants noticed that the new skin
was light in shade, but assumed that
the difference was due solely to the
newness of the skin. As time went
on, however, the new skin became
lighter instead of darker, and soon
became as light as the skin of many
white men.
The doctors say the case is not ex
ceptional, only the outer black skin
being burned away by the acid,
We would however caution our
colored friends against experimenting
with acids as there is much danger
and no practical advantage in such
a change. J‘
Established 1866
SEEKING SENSATIONAL
'S NEST
FINDS A HORNET’S NEST
Aot
Farmers Not so Black as They are
Painted by Cobb County Times in
Its Article on Taxes : »
AR i
A number of farmers have called
our attention to an article in the Cobby
County Times of last week which they
take as an attempt to reflect upon the
honesty of the farmers of the county
and asked us to make an explanation
of the matter to the people. :
The letter below, with clippings
‘and other matter, is self explanatory.
| “Marietta, Aug. 18, 1919.
“Editor Marietta Journal, |
“Marietta, Ga. ;
“Dear Sir: Although Ido not take
the Cobb County Times myself, w{?
attention has been called to what
amounts to a base slander against 1 the i
farmers of Cobb county in the last:
issue of that paper. It is a pity thaf
it has the circulation it ¢k .
other statements in it are as mislead=
ing as the one which insinuates
the farmers are swearing to lies
about the cotton they are supposed
to be holding. One so ignorant of
the laws of our state should not be
trusted with circulating a newspa
per.
“After his headlines about ‘Start
ling facts that taxpayers swear true’
he goes into spasms because he finds
' only $40.00 worth of cotton given in
‘upon the tax returns of the county.
While all farmers know it, some oth
’ers may not know that some years
ago there was a law, or possibly a
constitutional amendment, passed, ex
‘ empting farm products, including cot
ton, from taxation for the year fol-(
lowing that in which it was grown.
“Will you not look up this law
and print it, so that anyone who may
have read the slander may see that
lwe are not such a lot of perjurers as
'the Times seems to think us? e
“And finally, I would not care if
you would say to the people that the
fan(;xer’s dogs ‘o.fm Cobb county, Wfi
cording to the e tax digest, seem
to be worth $1,740 more than the
Times’ wonderful printing plant, for
while I find the dogs given at that
sum, I do not find this prlnflngm lant
given at all. lam not concerned with
the other statements in the article.
But for the fact that the Marietta
Journal is given at $5,000 on the tax
digest, I should say that the most ap
propriate headline would be ‘County’s
Dogs Exceed Value of Its News
papers.” " |
—“Cobd County Farmer.”™
The offending article appeared last
week in the Cobb County Times on
its front page under headlines as fol
lews: “County’s Dogs Exceed Value
of Its Cotton.” “Tax Digest for 1919
Brings to Light Startling Facts that
Taxpayers Swear True.” Then fol«
lows:
“It seems a little hard to believe,
doesn’t it, that the dogs of Cobb coun
ty are worth $1,740 and that all the
cotton in the county is worth only
$40?7 Another funny thing about that
cotton business is that it is all owned
by one man—a man living in Big
Shanty district.
“At the present price of cotton he
must have only about 100 or 150
pounds of the staple. ,
“If you don’t believe the above, all
you have to do is take down the 1919
tax digest for the county. There, in
the consoMdation of the property re
turns of the property holders of the
county you will find only one man in
the county has any cotton. All of
the rest of the taxpayers have mnot
returned any cotton and have signed
their names to a statement that they
have made returns of all of their
property. So there you are—only
$4O worth of cotton in Cobb county!
Looks like we will not have much to
hold over until the 1919 crop.”
The tax exemption our farmer
triend refers to is authorized by both
a constitutional amendment and a
special act of the legislature.
| We quote from Georgia laws of
1913, page 122, as follows: '
‘} “Taxation, certain Farm Produets
Exempt From. No. 241.
! “An act to put in force the Consti~
tutional amendment ratified at the
November election in 1912, in Article
7, Section 2, Paragraph two of the
Constitution of this State, authorizing
the General Assembly to exempt from
‘taxation, farm products, including
baled cotton grown in this State and
; remaininyg in the hands of the produe
er, but not longer than for one year
{next after their production, dnd for
other purposes.
| “Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State afi‘%
‘Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same, That mi
‘and after the passage of this Aet,
all farm products, including baled edt-‘i
ton, grown in this State and remain
ing in the hands of the producer bll,
not longer than the year next after
their production, shall be exempt from -
taxation. o
“Section 2. Be it further enacted, =
That all laws and parts of laws
conflict with this Act, be and the same 3
are, hereby repealed. e
“Approved, August 19, 1918-";; ‘
$122
A TEAR
