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VOL. 54. NO: 11.
. Car Employees Refuse Fifteen Per
Cent Raise Offered By
The Arbitrators
Several hundred Marietta people
were given a jar on Wednesday
morning, when they had obs or oth
er business in Atlanta, and no cars
-were running to get there on.
It was thougt the day before that
the threatening street car strike
clouds had been cleared away by the
agreement on an umpire to act with
the two arbitrators, but such seems
not to have been the case.
After a wage raise of only fifteen
per cent had been awarded by the
arbitrators, the unions held an all
night meeting and voted to go out,
"and on Wednesday morning not a
wheel was turning either in Atlanta
or on the suburban line to Marietta.
Hundreds of people were lined up
at the usual hour to “catch a car in,”
only to hear that there would be no
Ftear in.” School children were
among the number, and of course
-they missed school, while business
folks scrambled to catch a train or
‘get a seat in a jitney.
Up to Thursday afternoon no cars
at all had been run on the Marietta
line and probably none on any of
-the others, and those whose business
required the use of the electric line
were trying to adapt themselves to
the new condition by other modes of
transportation.
. The latest news on Thursday night
to reach us was that the higher body
of the Union had ordered the men
to return to work as per the agree
ment or arbitration, and the ‘local
union in Atlanta was in session with
reports going out that they still re
fuse to go back.
GEORGIAN WINS PRIZE
IN GEORGETOWN DEBATE
Washington, Match 6.—Although
his side lost the decision in a debate
at Georgetown university in Wash
ington between the senior debating
society and the under-class represen
tatives, Warren Paul Hunnicut, of
Atlanta, Ga., won the prize of $25
for the ablest presentation of the best
speech. The subject debated was,
““Resolved , That the Philippines be
Retained,” and the Georgian with his
colleague espoused the negative side.
The debate is one of a series of
four held during the college year and
and at commencement the prize
winners will debate another subject
when a grand prize will be awarded.
Mr. Hunnicutt is taking his first
vear of law at Georgetown and is
secretary to Congressman Charles H.
Brand, of the Eighth district. He
has been in Washington for several
yvears, excepting the time while in
the American Army in France, and
during a part of his capitol experi
ence was secretary to Senator Hoke
Smith. :
The young Georgian prize winner
is the son of Rev. and Mrs. W. T.
Hunnicutt, of Atlanta.
The above from the Atlanta Jour
nal will be of interest in Marietta
as Paul Hunnicutt lived here for a
time being employed by The Sessions
Loan & Trust Company as assistant
title officer, and he has many friends
here who will be pleased to hear of
his success.
ROBBERS BREAK INTO
THE MUSIC STORE
On Thursday morning when Mr.
Pybas, manager of The Music- Store,
opened -his front door he saw his
back door also open and investigation
proved that a rear window had been
forced open and robbers had gone
through the place. {
That they had the financial in-i
stinct is proven by the fact that they{
scooped up about six dollars in
change that had been left in the cash
drawer, but it must also be admitted
that they had an ear for music as
they carried away about fifty dol
lars worth of records.
The particular records selected
were of the numbers 2766-67-68 and
69 and we give this publicity to these,
as it may catch the eye of some one
who knows where a surplus of such
numbered records are to be found.
Such clues as were to be had have
been placed in the hands of the po
lice and we trust they may be suc
cessful in finding the guilty parties.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express to our friends
our heartfelt thanks for their kind
ness and sympathy in the loss of our
Husband and Father.
Sincerely,
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin D. Norton.
Mrs. Bertha Moore Norton.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our heart-felt
gratitude to all our friends for their
love and sympathy, expressed to us
during the illness and death of our
mother.
Mrs. J. E. Page.
Elmer Anderson
i _ - J. Dan Anderson.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
MRS. INNES WILL BE
FREE ON MARGH 23,
Her Husband Victor, Still Has Four
Years To Serve In Georgia
: Convict Camp
Mrs. Ida Mae Innes, wife of Victor
‘E. Innes and one of the principals
in the famous Nelms-Dennis case, in
ivoloving the mysterious disappear
ance of the two sisters, who lived in
‘,Smyrna, will be released from the
state prison farm at Milledgeville on
§March 23, having completed her sen
tence of three years. Mrs. Innes,
lwith her husband was convicted of
larceny after trust in the conversion
Yof certain proptry of Miss Beatrice
Nelms and Mrs. Lois Nelms Dennis.
~ Victor Ines himself was sentenced
to seven years’ imprisonment after
convietion on a similiar charge. He
ibegan his sentence March 24, 1917,
while Mrs. Innes entered the state
prison farm on August 23, 1917.
‘Good behavior has taken five months
from her full term. The officials of
the state prison commission state that
their records show Mrs. Innes to have
made an exemplary record ,as a pris
oner. \
It is understood that her son by a
former marriage will meet Mrs. Innes
at Milledgeville on March 23 and ac
company her back to her home in
Oregon. A few months ago, .mem
bers of the prison commission say,
she fell heir to about $35,000 be
queathed to her by a relative in the
west, so that she will be enabled to
live in comfort the balance of her
life. She is fifty-one years of age.
.~ The disappearance of the Nelms
sisters, Lois and Beatrice, from which
developed one of the most sensation
al cases on record in the south, oc
curred in 1914. It was charged that
the young women, members of a
prominent Georgia family, left their
home and were lured to the Innes
home in San Antonio, Tex., and there
done away with.
Investigation of the case was most
exhausitive and although it was
claimed that portions of the dismem
bered and charred bodies were found
near the Innes home, the evidence
was not céhsidered strong enough
to convict on the charge of murder.
Three years later, after a sensa
tional trial, Victor Innes and his wife
were convicted in the Fulton county
courts of larceny after trust, and re
ceived their sentences to the state
prison and state farm. Innes is now
an inmate of one of the Fulton coun
ty conviet farms. : |
~ After the conviction of Mrs. In
nes an appeal for her was made to
the public on the grounds that she
was in the last stages of consumption
and could not live out her term al
though nothing has been said recently
about this phase of the matter.
TESTING THE ROADS
FOR HEAVY TRAVEL
State highway departments are vi
tally interested in. the successful out
come of comprehensive experiments
and tests now being made by the Bu
reau of Public Roads of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
One State engineer recently declared
that millions of dollars in his State
are involved in the proper design of
road surfaces, which makes up one
of the problems being investigated
by the Federal engineers.
? The coming into general use of the
heavy motor truck has practically re
volutionized the science of road
building. Big new problems came
when loads weighing 10 to 15 tons
tcok the place of vehicles that placed
a weight one-fourth as much or less.
The roads built ten years ago were
constructed before this fact could be
realized—which is one of the rea
sons why many “permanent’ roads
have proven to be impermanent.
' One of the testing experiments be
ing made by the Federal bureau in
volves the use of a 49-section road
way in the Arlington farm, owned by
|the Department of Agriculture.
Each section was built from a dif
ferent type of material, or with a dif
ferent method of construction. The
same use is given to,each section, so
that eventually the type of construe
tion best suited to heavy traffic will
prove itself,
G. W. McLAIN SUCCEEDS
COMMISSIONER MORGAN
~ Mr. Charles F. Morgan, the coun
ty commissioner from the Acworth
district, has sold his place in Ken
nesaw and bought a place at Fair
Oaks on the Atlanta car line, and will
remove to it at once.
In view of the contemplated
change of his residence Mr. Morgan
handed his resignation to the Solici_
tor General and it was accepted by
the Grand Jury.
A petition from many citizens of
the Acworth district asked that Mr.
Geo. W. McLain, of Acworth, be ap
pointed to the vacancy and the Grand
Jury complied with this request.
Mr. McLain is a well known, pop
ular gentleman, in every way quali
fied for the office, and will ably re_
present his district and the interests
of the whole county on the beard.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1920.
A GOOD CLEAN TICKET FOR THE SHERIFF’'S OFFICE—In these
two men the voters of Cobb County will have an opportunity to secure
the services of two of the county’s best farmers and business men for
this impertant office.
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In response to the urge of his
friends and admirers that he actiVely
enter the race for the presidency Her
bert Hoover has written the follow
ing letter enumerating his reasons
for not doing so.
- “First, lam an independent Pro
gressive in the issues before us today.
I think that at this time the issues
before the country transcend parti
sanship. It is well known that I was
a progressive Republican before the
war and I think rightly a non-parti
san during my war service. The is
sures confrontng us are new and the
alignment upon them has not yet been
made by the great parties. I still
object as much to the reactionary
group in the Republican party as I
do to the radical group in the Demo
cratic party. '
Second, I am not seeking public
office and, consulting my own person
al inclinations, I do not want public
office. I cannot prevent any citizen
or group of citizens from agitating
that I should take public office, but
I cannot conscientiously participate
in_any organization to that end.
“I belong to a group which thinks
that the American people should se
lect their own officials at their own
initiative and violition and that re_
sent the manufacture of officials by
machine methods. I feel sure that if
I entered the race for nominaton to
the presidency and undertook to so
licit and spend the cost of propa
ganda and organization, this would
be in itself a negation of the right
American instinct because of the ob
ligations that it all implies. I thor
oughly believe that I, like any other
citizen should always be ready for
service when really called upon, but
to go out and try to persuade the
public to call me is opposed to my
every instinct.
~ “Third, I hope to have the affec
tion of my countrymen, but my am
bition is to remain a common citizen,
ready to engage in the play with any
organizaton and leadershp that has
for, its objective the consummation
and maintenance of great issues in
the forms that I believe thgt are to
the public interest and benefit. I,
of course, believe in party organza
tion, but it must be for the promotion
of issues, not of men. I am not a
straddler of any issue, I spent most
of my time agitating for issues that
I believe in. It is the privilege of
all of us to hold our own views and it
is our duty to express them when
called upon to do so. But no man
can be so arrogant to assume that he
can dictate the issues to the Ameri
ican people or to the great parties
they support.
“Fourth. You and your friends
have urged that I should undertake
to organize propaganda for myself
!as representing issues, by entering in
to competition for nomination by a
‘great party. Aside from the reasons
lmentioned above, this implies entry
upon a road of self-seeking, whereas
my view is that I should agitate for
the issues, not for myself. You right
ly say that joining sheer organiza_
tion without issues is simply office
lhunting without regard to public ser
vice.
“Finally, I am not so ignorant as
not to realize perfectly well that such
a course does not lead to nomination
to the presidency, but I would not
be myself if I started out on a path
of self-seeking to obtain any office.”
Judge Sibley in the U. S. District
Court this week gives notice that
second offenses by liquor law viola
tors will mean a jail sentence in his
court and cautioning that the law
must be upheld.
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SALVATION ARMY AIDS
At The Same Time Gives Work To
The Unemployed Who Are
Looking For It
Atlanta ,Ga., March 10th—To as
sist in relieving the acute shortage
lof news print paper which is seri
loulsy hampering the publication of
‘newspapers and maggazines through
’out the country the Salvation Army
lurges all firms and individuals to save
Itheir waste paper of whatever de
scription.
l The wagons of the Salvation Army
Ivisit every street in every city where!
a Salvation Army corps is located
'at least once every two weeks to gath
'er up this waste paper after which it|
fis baled and returned to the mills to
be worked over into news print paper
l About 50,000 tons of waste paper
has been turned back to the mills in
the last twelve months by the Sal
‘vation Army according to computa
liions made by the national head
'quarters in New York City.
| In five southern cities alone, ac
cording to Captain C. C. Lever, man
ager of the inductrial department in
'Atlanta, more than six million pounds
{were returned to the mills last year,
}and this does not include the thous
ands of pounds that were saved for
Ifurther use in the dozen cities and
smaller towns in the South where the
Salvation Army operates.
' ‘“Had the Salvationists not gather
ed up this enormous volume of waste
;rpaper—-a small mountain in size,”
says Captain Lever, “baled it and re
turned it to the mills to be remanu
factured, the paper would have been
lost to the publishing industry. And
at the same time the Salvation Army
was giving jobs as ‘wastepaper har
}vesters’ to hundreds of unemployed
men. . :
“Money raised with the sale of
baled waste paper maintains our
eighty-five industrial homes in va
rious parts of the country where men
not able to support themselves are
given such light work as they are able
to perform and those who can’t work
at all are maintained without charge.
“The Salvation Army practices
common sense salvage as well as sal
vation. It not ofily saved for pub
lishers of the United States more
than three-quarters of a million tons
of paper in the last ten years, but in
the process it put thousands of hu
man derelicts on their feet.”
FAIR PRICE COMMISSIONER
FIXES CLOTHING PRICE
John A. Manget Fair Price Com
missioner for Georgia, has announced
suits retailing for less than $4O, the
that he would issue an order imme
diately establishing a maximum pro
fit of 35 per cent on men’s suits sel
ling for $45 or less, and on women’s
price ruling to apply throughout the
state, and to become effective im
mediately after it is issued.
} After March 15 the accounts of
all postoffices in the state of Georgia
}will be handled in the Atlanta post
office and an increase in the force of
that office will be necessary. :
’ Woman suffrage has won in West
Virginia and as only two more states
gare needed to make the necessary
two-thirds, it is now certain that wo_
men will vote this year.
i George H. Long, editor of the Ma
con Telegraph died Wednesday. Mr.
Long was one of the forceful writers
of the Georgia press. Me was Cana
dian by birth coming to Macon some
ten years ago.
Mr. McAdoo and Champ Clark
have both asked that their names not
be voted in Georgia and are in favor
of an uninstructed delegation.
,Pronilolt Citizen Says Present Law
Works In Interest Of Note
{ Owning Class
| Moultrie M. Sessions, president of
the Sessions Loan & Trust Company,
in talking with a Journal man yester
day, said: “Much propoganda and ad
vertising has been put forth through
the public press about the Federal
Land Loan Bank law, but some things
about that law have been carefully
concealed and the public is entitled
to know them.”
As information on the subject, Mr.
Sessions submits the following:
The Federal Land Loan Bank law
is a national law. It affects every
American citizen and to point out its
defects is not an attack on any man’s
business, but a defense of our rights
as American citizens.
The American people have been so
intent during the past three years, on
trying to win the war and at the same
time make ends meet, that they have
not taken time to inquire into what
the Federal Land Loan Bank law has
done to them.
They have just got hold of the one
idea that the farmer is to get money
at five and one half per cent and be
lieving .that to be a good law, they
have not gone any further into the
matter.
) The fact of the matter is, congress
apparently, was so anxious to do
something that_ would mean votes
from the farmers and still hold the
‘influence of the rich that there was
‘written into that law a provision that
is beginning to work a vast and grave
injustice upon the taxpayers ‘of the
country, and it is this part of the
law that the people everywhere are
just beginning to understand.
That same law v-hich provides for
lending money to the farmer at five
and one half per cent also provides
that these notes shall not bear taxes
for any purpose whatever, The war
created in America over 20,000 new
millionaires in addition to those we
already had.
Their multiplied millions which
have come out of the war needs, and
the blood and sweat of the nation’s
best men and women are seeking in
vestment. The owners of these same
millions find in the Federal Farm
loan notes a rich and rare investment.
They can buy them by the hundreds
of millions and~are doing it and
when their millions are tucked away
in these farm notes, all of that money
passes for twenty years out of taxa
tion. No dity taxes. No county
taxes. No state taxes. No school
taxes. No federal taxes. No income
taxes. Free as the air. Just collect
the interest, spend it in luxurious
living, while the toiler and man of
moderate means, bend their backs un
der a yoke of $5,000,000 in taxes to
run the government. Taxation has
increased 500 per cent. It is true
our full proportion of this five fold
increase has not reached us yet, but
it is coming. As wealth hides itself
away in the Federal Farm loan notes
at four and one half and five per
cent, as it is doing in hundreds of
millions whic}\ are rapidly increasing,
the burden will become heavier and
heavier upon labor, production, busi
ness of all kinds and upon the con
sumer, until finally every man, wom
an and business in the nation will
find taxes increased all around to 500
per cent and over, for as wealthy men
escape taxation by buying these farm
notes, the proportion the rest of us
have to pay will grow bigger and
bigger. ’ |
Transportation, raw materials, the
finished product and all living sup
plies will have to bear the additional
burden. High cost of living will have
to go higher while we groan under
the loan, which is already almost in
tolerable.
When the farmer who now pays
$lOO.OO per year taxes gets to pay
ing $500.00 per year, which is sure
tc come under the present system, he
will think congress played a monu
mental and back-breaking joke upon
him and that is just exactly what
congress has done. The farmer will
find that five and one half per cent
on the face of his note does not mean
that at all, but means that through
this apparent benefaction, he has
been made one of the goats to bear
away the sins of the millionaire who
got his millions out of war’s needs
and distresses.
The thinking man will not wait un
til two or three billions of the na
tional wealth is hidden away from
taxation for twenty years, while the
rest of us pay taxes on our Liberty
Bonds and every other conceivable
possession under heaven, except our
wvives and children, but will get down
to the job right now to convince our
senators and representatives in con
gress that they’ve let congress put
one over on the American people.
This and other parts of the, law
are class legislation, pure and simple
and the class most benefited is not
the farmer, for only two percent of
the farmers avail themselves of its
provisions, but the benefited class is
the millionaire class who buys these
notes and thereby escapes their just
and proportionate part of taxes.
As the farmers themselves see their
ESTABLISHED 1866
IGOBB COUNTY MAN'S -
Highest Production of Butter Fat On
Official , Teast In The United
States *
That Georgia is rapidly forging to
the front as a live stock state iis in
dicated by the last:monthly report of
the American Jersey Cattle Club ap
pearing in the Jersey Bulletin, the
official breed publication. Each month
there appears a complete list of
all cows on official test throughout
the United States producing 50 Ibs.
or more of butterfat per month. The
Animal Husbandry Division of the
Georgia State College of Agriculture
supervses these official ‘tests in the
state of Georgia. . The accompanying
table shows the number of cows, the
number of breeders an_dthe average
production for all of the southern
states having cows qualifying for this
select list: S :
State Cows' 'Breeders Fat.
Georgia g T annlg 60.31
Texas 8 . " 57.42
Kentucky 2 X 52.23
Tennessee 2 - .2 v -SEIT
Virginia 2 ey 255 D 50.76
Louisiana 1 sl 53.23
Florida Ps R e e
Arkansas 1 b 51.29
In all of the southern states Geor
gia ranks first with nineé ¢ows in the
50 pound -list. * Texas, ‘her neraest
competitor, has eight. . :iThe three
next states had two cows: each quali
fying for the ljst, and the three re
maining states in the list only had
one cow each. It is also gratifying
to know that four dfferent breeders
in the state own cows that made
above 50 pounds of butter in the
month whereas, not more than two
breders from any other _state had
cows yielding such high production.
It is also worthy of note that the nine
high testing cows in Georgia averag
ed 60.31 pounds of butter fat per
of 70.95 pounds of butter fat per
cow in thirty days.
In this same list Mr. J. R. Hum_
phrey, of Acworth, Georgia, had the
distinction of owning the highest pro
ducing cow in the United States on
official test for the thirty day period
in the class of cows 3 1-2 to 4 years
of age. It is well to remember in
this connection that at the recent In
ternational live stock exhibits E. E.
Mack & Sons, of Thomasville, Ga.,
had the grand champion Hereford
bull and Peacock & Hodge, of Coch
ran, Georgia, had the grand cham
pion Duroc Jursey boar. These un
precedented triumphs of Georgia
stockmen indicate the possibilities
within the state.
With these marvelous accomplish
ments, it is not surprising that the
400 owners of registered Jersey cat
tle in Georgia have decided to hold
a meeting in Atlanta on March 22nd
for the purpose of organizing a state
Jersey’s Cattle Breeders’ Association.
Y. W. C. A. NOTES
The monthly meeting of the Board
of Dirtctors of the Y. W. C. A. was
held Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 in the
Y. W. C. A, rooms. During the ab
sence of Mrs. S. D. Rambo, president,
Mrs. A. S. J. Gardner predsided.
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Mr. George H. Sessions will meet
with the Business Women’s Club
Thursday night, March 11, when he
will give a talk on “What Business
Women Should Know About Bank
ing.”
The gymnasium class for girls
from ten to fifteen years, which is
being conducted by Mrs. S. R. He
witt, has organized a basket-ball
team. A game has been scheduled
with the sixth grade B team for
March 16th.
The ‘“Pep” club met at the ap
pointed time Monday, March Bth. A
business meeting was held after
which the girls made candy.
Plans are being made by the club
for a sewing class. Beginning March
15th, a series of sewing lessons will
be given when every member will
make some of their spring apparel.
COBE’S ORDINARY TO
MAKE FLORIDA TRIP
Judge and Mrs. J. M. Gann leave
for Florida on Friday for a trip of
recuperation, neither having been
well lately. Their friends sincerely
hope the trip will be beneficial to
them both. Mr. Joe Austin is in
chrage of the ordinary’s office during
'the absence of Judge Gann.
CARELESS DRIVER BREAKS
PLATE GLASS WINDOW
The Merchants and Farmers Bank
‘had one of its plate glass front win
dows smashed into a thousand pieces
on Wednesday morning when an
amateur drived attempted to turn
an auto in front of the bank. The
accident necessitated the boarding up
of that part of the front until another
glass can be secured.
taxes mount upward and find the five
and one half per cent note is not
benefiting them, they will demand
a change in the law, ©.« o
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