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MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1920.
- Warm Language in Congress
OTH ends of congress has been forced to listen to
B some strong language this week, and no matter
hew strident or unpleasant to the ears of members we
think we see the truth sticking out of a lot of the talk.
Representative Gallivan, of Massachusetts, in speaking
of the distribution of war medals said: |
“It is common talk in the army that our present chief
of staff and one of his assistants, a colonel, whose duty it
was to escort and dine foreign missions here in Washing
ton, have no space left between their belts and their col
lars to display the medals that have been given them as a
result of this service.”
And upon the floor of what was once referred to as
the sedate senate, John Sharp Williams had this to say,
when the senate was adjourning without consideration of
important business, the water power bill being the item:
“The people of the country are gradually rising to
the point where they demand abolition of the senate for
failing to function. Here is a great bill before it and
no attention paid to it, and I am inclined to agree with
Benjamin Franklin, who declared the senate of the United
States was like the fifth wheel of a wogan.”
But the record shows that they got into their over
coats and went out smiling with all the complacency of
baving performed every duty to man and God.
Is it any wonder that the senate is now looked upon
as the greatest deliberative, and the most deliberate, body
on the face of the earth?
Why Not Diversify?
T is quite interesting to note that the average value
I of the cotton crop per acre in Georgia in 1919 was
only $54.42, to which the value of the seed added $10.97,
while the value of the corn crop was $23.20.
The value of sweet potatoes ran $101.20 per acre,
while Irish potatoes brought $151.90, the tobacco crop
was worth $114.39 per acre, and peanuts $61.50. Cane
syrup brought $197.22 per acre and sorghum syrup was
worth $93.81, oats sold for $23.00, and wheat $27.62.
When we consider that corn, oats, wheat, and some
other crops require so much less labor to make and to
market than the cotton crop, it would appear that there
must be some good money in other crops than cotton.
- Irish potatoes, and even the lowly sweet potatoes,
seem to have brought home the coin, and so Jong as Cobb
county is at the door of a large and healthy city like
Atlanta, filled with people who have vigorous appetites,
and who are in the habit of pampering the same, ever.\'-\
thing that is good to eat is going to command a fair price
in this moral vineyard.
The Monument Question
T least one of the Confederate veterans keeps up
A the hope that Cobb county boys of the world's war
may yet have a monument erected to their memory.
Probably others of the old confeds are interested also,
as the local camp has endorsed the movement, but Uncle
J. Gid Morris is keeping right behind it in his usual ten
acious way, and we hope he wins out. |
So far as this paper is concerned, we heartily favor
the monument plan. Our county and our town are very
largely interested in the monument business and hundreds
of thousands of dollars come to Cobb county annually for
monuments of various styles and sizes and it would seem
that we might recognize so important a local industry in
honoring our boys with a marble shaft.
In this day and time we admit that schools and hospit
als, and various other benevolences, are acceptable monu
ments, but from time immemorial a marble slab or shaft,
with an inscription setting forth its significance, has been
the way of civilized man to mark and honor departed
heroes.
Cobb county lost a number of her sons in the war in
Europe, and we feel that with the present prosperity she
is forgetting to give these boys the mark of respect which
they had a right to believe was their due.
When the darkest days of France filled our homes and
churches with gloom, who among us would ever suppose
that Cobb county with all its wealth and resources would
let her sons who died for their country go unhonored so
leng? Is there a man today in the county who can give
the names of our boys who died or were killed in battle?
We do not believe there is.
Until Cobb county shall have properly recognized
these boys in some permanent way we shall not consider
that she has done her duty by them. And no matter how
many “drives” you may have contributed to the little
money you might give to this cause can in no way be
compared to the great sacrifice which these boys have
made.
Will not their comrades—their buddies, as they more
recently express it—join in the movement of the old Con
federates to erect a monument to them in this country?
' How to Get There
There was an old geazer and he had a lot of sense:
He started up in business on a dollar-eighty cents.
The dollar for stock and eighty for an ad
Brought him three lovely dollars in a day, by dad.
Well, he bought more goods and a little more space,
And he played that system with a smile on his face.
The customers flocked to his two-by-four
And soon he had to hustle for a regular store.
Up on the square, where the people pass
He gobbled up a corner that was all plate glass.
He fixed up the windows with the best that he had,
And he told them all about it in a half-page ad.
He soon had ’em coming and he never quit,
And he wouldn’t cut down on his ads one bit,
Well, he’s kept things humping in the town ever since,
And everybody calls him the Merchant Prince.
—Ford Sales Bulletin.
And no matter what you think of our judgment, take
Henry Ford’s word for it, that is the right way to build
wp a big and legitimate business.
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~ Putting In a Bill
NE of the congressional pastimes is “putting in a
O bill” for some local appropriation, usually for a
public building, or a pension or relief bill or some such
business of wholly local import.
~ It is a matter of only a few minutes’ time of the
expert stenographers they use in Washington, to draw up
a bill for a post office building at County Line, Cross
Roads or Mill Creek Corners, and it is absolutely no
trouble whatever for a hard-working senator or con
gressman to stick it in his pocket and drop it in the hop
per next day when congress convenes. t
After that it is given a number—say H. R. 872,432,
and is entered on the calender or docket as being referred
to some committee and that is the end of it so far as
congress is concerned.
But not so with our wideawake senator or congress
man. He looks up the Washington reporter for the daily
papers back home and gets the story on the wire with
an explanation of how great the need is for that particu
lar post office, or whatever it may be, and of how he is
pushing the matter.
That makes good reading back home for the wool-hat
boys or the fellows who live in the town which is going
tc be honored by the magnificent building, and the Wash
ington reporter did not have anything else to send his pa
per that day anyway, and it does not hurt anyone.
7 After a few months another good story is due about
how the wicked democrats or republicans, as the casel
may be, are holding up this great bill, and how senator
this, or congressman that, is fighting hard for the bill.
Having put in enough of these bills during a session—
his share of the 872,432—0ur great statesman comes
home to his people and explains to those in each locality
just what an outrageous and sinful combination was used
by the enemy to defeat the bill, and pledging himself to
work until he is as gray as a rat, or as old as Methuselah,
in the interest of the dear people if they will just stand
by him and send him back again.
O, it’s a great game if you don’t weaken, and once
in it they never want to give it up, but the boys back
home are getting so they can see through it without a
microscope. We have not noticed any report of it, but
we should not be surprised if a number of bills intro
duced into congress do not declare the boll weevil to be
illegal. Certainly such a bill would be as reasonable and
about as apt to pass and become operative, as some of
those introduced into congress.
We have been receiving gratis for several weeks a
sheet calling itself the “Tennessee Qil Gusher,” and since
its purport seems to be to work up some enthusiastic
suckers for oil stock salesmen to prey upon, we must say
they are throwing away the sheet coming in our mail. By
what right is has admission to the mails, is beyond our
comprehension, but there are smarter men in Washington
than we ever hope to be.
Jack Patterson’s editorial page was unusuaily good
last week, but from typographical errors therein, we
imagine he had a raw hand on the lino or had to set the
stuff himself, and in either case he has our profoundest
sympathy.
We heartily favor a limited amount of military train
ing for all boys, for the physical good it does the boys, to
say nothing of the discipline it teaches them. g
That fellow Manget, in Atlanta, seems to be a thorn
in the side of the profiteers in the drug business if no
other, and we believe there is room for widening the
scope of his influence and operations.
We ‘don’t héar so much about Reno these days as
we did a few years ago. Is it because the divorce court
mills of the eastern states are turning ’em out faster?
Atlanta school teachers have “j’ined the union” and
are asking for more pay. If there is anybody on earth
who is justified in such a demand, certainly the school
teacher is one of them.
We keep getting notices and invitations to that Elev
enth District press meeting at Quitman next week, and
knowing so well what a welcome the boys will get down
there we can with great difficulty restrain ourselves, but
we will just have to hold in until the Carrollton meeting
next summer,
If we may make the prediction a day or so in advance,
we name Oscar Underwood as the leader of the democrats
in the senate, and from this distance they appear to need
either leading or driving.
Our last news on the weather is that that Snider fel
low has missed it again by eight city blocks. Let Jack
Patterson give us his alibi.
The dry side is up and they are entitled to their inning,
and since the wets have had the inside for several thou
sand years they ought to be willing to let the other fel
low bat a few centuries at any rate.
If Pat Griflin has agreed to help stop the making and
sale of whiskey in Georgia Jesse Mercer has got a mighty
able assistant.
: SRR
And now they claim that Hoover is a republican, but
why should we care, for if they are going to elect the next
president as they claim, we want them to have some good
and able material to choose from.
Died at midnight, January 16, 1920, John Barleycorn,
an old if not respected resident, who had done more harm
each year of his life than all other agencies of evil com
bined, yet he had many loving friends to mourn his de
parture. We trust the report of his death has not been
exaggerated, and that he may be as long dead as he lived.
The girls in some Georgia cities are making social
calls by airplane and now here comes Johnny Rudasill
a-makin’ air flights the same way.
The democrats are going to California to hold their
convention this year but it does not mean that they will
pick a western man—even as far west as Lincoln, Ne
braska, where the “peerless one” keeps his citizenship.
From the reports that continue to come from Mexico
of the murder and outrage of Americans we assume that
the republicans will make this one of the main issues of
the coming campaign, and from the wide publicity given
tv minute and horrible details, we should say they are
building a very strong plank for their platform—at least
it will be a popular one in some sections of the country.
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