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I'HE MARIETTA JOURNAL
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MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1920.
R o .ee e e e .e B S e 00t A o A A B T TSR TS
The Meanest Man.
E DO NOT believe it ever will be settled definitely
V V just who is the meanest living man on the face of
the earth, but we have got a strong contender for the
title.
Brann, the writer of Iconoclast fame thought he had
spotted the creature in the shape of a Massachusetts
parson who refused to contribute a dollar toward the
erection of a monument to old Stephen Girard, upon
whose bounty he had been educated, because he did not
approve of the religious views of Girard.
Brann made out a very fair case for the title in the
parson’s favor, winding up his claim with the statement,
“We have one tree in Texas on which we have hanged
sixteen better men, and they are all in hell.”
Still, as we said before, we have a contender for the
title right here in Georgia,who in his modest way has put
forward his claim in a manner which can not be denied.
We cannot give his name, because we have it not,
but the editor of the Soperton News has the distinction
of having discovered the creature, whom he ironically
terms a “gentleman,” and he can supply the name.
On Saturday, February 28th, the office of the Soper
ton News was destroyed by fire, and in this week’s paper
gotten out under great difficulties and with the aid of a
brother editor, we find the following paragraph:
““The gentleman who stepped into our office and paid
his subscription just before the fire started Saturday and
rushed to the bank during the fire and ordered payment
of check stopped, can get said check by applying to the
editor in person.”
We submit this as our entire and complete evidence
in the case, and we leave it up to a disinterested public
if we have not located the ‘“meanest living man.”
Educational Interest in Railroads
HE COLLEGES of this country have an average of
I nearly one-third of their endowment funds invested
in railroad securtities.
We note that Vassar has 79.5 per cent, Pennslyvania
77.2 per cent, Princeton 63.6 per cent and so on down the
line, and therefore derive that proportion of their income
from the operation of the railroads.
In all more than sixty-five million dollars of college
funds are so invested, and very naturally the colleges
are dependent on the future prospirty of the railroads as
well as the prosperity of the country as a whole for their
support.
This, of course, represents only the actual financial
irterest of these colleges in the roads, but aside from this
the successful operation of the railroads is as intimately
associated with the prosperity of the colleges and the
advancement of education, as it is with the commercial
and trade interests of the country, which are beyond
question,
: . Both Business and Charity
HE SALVATION ARMY has a very practical way of
I dispensing charity and at the same time combining it
with business and the practice of economy. Their leaders
are constantly on the watch for opportunities, where by
one good act it can do two good turns.
This trait is very well illustrated in the part that the
Salvation Army is now taking to help conserve the paper
supply of the country. In gathering up all the waste
paper in the cities they have employment for many of
the unfortunates for whom they have assumed the care
and keeping ,they sell this waste for something to be ap
plied to their charity and working fund, and they in a
practical way save a lot of paper stock for the mills to
make again into paper.
While the Salvation Army is supported by contribu
tions from the public its officers have always managed
to provide work for themselves and all associated with
them in a way to help keep down their expenses and to
hold the respect and confidence of the public.
We utterly fail to grasp the reasoning of an advertis
ing agency that assumes the right to deduct a cash dis
count when they date a check on February 28, mail it
out on March 6, for advertising which ran in December of
last year. The matter is so small that we do not take
time to protest the action, but we sincerely hope said
agency will apply the little sums so acquired in adding
sufficient to help to their force to get nearer a real cash
basis.
Some of the publicity stories sent out by the savings
‘division of the Sixth Federal Reserve District are very
good in a way, but as a rule we find them to be wholly un
fit to teach thrift to the average reader of this paper. We
don’t believe the writers of most of these stories know
anything about the actual practice of thrift as it touches
the lives of ordinary men and women of the country.
We had a near fire in our block this week—stove
pipe in building next to us fell down and smoked up quite
a bit before it could be muzzled.
With all of Georgia’s wonderful natural resources we
should be only too glad to list oil ,but so many have
chased this will-o-the-wisp to financial ruin that we re
fuse to encourage the belief that this too shall soon be a
fact in the state, although work is now in progress at San
dersville drilling for oil.
We don’t know much about the real differences which
have been brewing between the street car workers and
the Ga. Ry. and Power Company, but we suspect that
there is something other than the wage question behind it
all. It inconveniences the public quite a bit, and adds
considerable to the cost of living, but after all, from
comment current for the past few months, we believe the
boys had the strike in their systems and it may be better
all round for them to get it out. In going out as they
did, after agreeing to arbitration, they lost the first point
in the struggle, and created a doubt in the public mind
whether they would live up to any future agreement they
‘might make. '
Not a “jim flynt” Democrat
HETHER MR. HOOVER shall finally be found
VV in the ranks of the Democratic or the Republican
party will depend very largely upon the character of
the men who shall control the policies of these praties
in the preliminary stages of the coming campaign.
We do not believe that we have mistaken the pres
ent temper of the American people when we say that
perhaps twenty-five percent of the voters are standing
today in exactly the same attitude toward the great par
ties that Mr. Hoover does—wearing no bosses collar and
not proposing to wear one at any time hereafter.
It is the votes of these men and women that will be
the deciding factor in the next election, no matter who
is nominated by either party. If any of the would-be
bosses doubt this we would remind them of the big vote
polied on an independent ticket for Roosevelt only eight
years ago, and to remind them that the spirit of inde
pendence in politics has been growing ever since. The
woman’s vote has been multiplied also, and it may be
that in event of the failure of the two great parties giv
ing heed to this, that an independent ticket this fall may
cast more votes than both the old parties
The party that wins in the next election will not be
a hide-bound or narrow one, its policies will not be based
upon the personal selfishness of its leaders, and it is
even more than probable that Herbert Hoover will be
a member of that party, whether as a leader or a private,
and he will not have chénz_ed his politics one iota in order
to become a member.
Mr. Hoover’s gospel of service, unselfishness and
patriotism is going to be the foundation “stone under
the platform of the winning party, without which it can
not gain or hold the confidence of the, majority of the
voters of America in this day, the only question right
now is whether the men who have in their hands the
future of the big parties will be wise enough to recog
nize this and act on it.
So far as Mr. Hoover personally is concerned we
do not care particularly whether he becomes the next
president or not, but some man of his standards of civic
honesty and citizenship must lead the Democrats if a
victory is won this fall, and we will say the same thing
to the Republicans. With the people the word “Dem
ocrat” or “Republican” does not mean any very fixed
‘principle any more, for the parties have changed their
character with nearly every platform, and the people
are going to rely more and more upon their conception
of the honesty and ability of the men who are leading.
| It has already become plainly evident that the pres_
ent bosses of neither party want a man like Hoover, so in
just the proportion that the people mistrust the bosses,
they trust Hoover, hence his present popularity.
The people are looking for a man to relieve them of
boss rule, and a good many of them seem to have spotted
Hoover as the man, and probably they are right about
this also, for Hoover has recently said that he is not a
Penrose kind of Republican, and that he is not a Hearst
kind of an independent, and we suspect that if he knew
about affairs in Georgia he would say that he is not a
“Jim flynt” kind of a Democrat.
| With only three more states needed to ratify the
suffrage amendment it would seem more than probable
that your wife will be able to double your vote this fall,
}and by the same rule she can kill it if she sees fit. ‘
| The Dawson News thinks that the water wagon will.‘
eventually run over that fellow Edwards of New Jersey,
but in the mean time he is getting publicity on which all
his class of politicians thrive and fatten.
We are doing all we can to conserve print paper, yet
our rapidly growing circulation is proving a severe tax
upon our limited supplies. ‘
| News keeps coming from Washington that the Dem
ocrats are preparing to put a whiskey plank in their
platform, counting on the solid south and a few bigger
eastern states to win. It is a good time to go slow on
this thing or they may neot find the south as solid as is
it supposed to be.
Hoke Smith says that he has no fixed epinion as to
who should be the nominee of the Demoerats of the
state, but he takes time to write a card on the subject,
attacking Palmer, going out of his way to throw a rock
at the president, being extremely careful not to endorse
Hoover, or any of the other candidates, so' we must
conclude that his candidate is named Hoke Smith.
We would not blame Jim Flynt and Hiram Gardner
if they were to wash their hands of the whole responsi
bility and let the “fool Democrats” vote for just any
body they please.
A Claxton barber was carried home under the in
fluence of ‘“tiger liquor” and died soon afterward, still
there are some people who are willing to wviolate the
law, spend good money and lots of time in order to find
this means of “taking a chance with death.”™
Senator Reed may find it much cooler than he sup-‘
posed and go away with an entirely erroneeus impres
sion of our Georgia climate, and on the other hand he
may find at a few points in the state enough people who
are dissatisfied with everything that is now ,or that will
be in the future, to very greatly inflame his already
swolen self-conceit.
It's a long, long way from the Canadian forests to
the country Georgia print shop, and at every jump of the
road the price keeps piling up on the newsprint in a way
tc test the grit and nerve of the country editor.
The Moultrie Observer has started out to perfect
the “Peanut Ham” and although we have been fully
satisfied with the hams that Georgia is already producing
we are willing to be the judge as to whether it can be
in any way improved upon, feeling sure that if there
can be any better ham Georgia is the state to produce
it, and Moultrie deserves the honor of being the home
of the first perfect one.
The Little Rock in Arkansas is not in it with the Stone
Mountain in Georgia. The Rock of Gibraltar is also a
small affair compared to the Georgia wonder of stone.
The Carroll Free Press remarks upon the scarcity of
country doctors and the division of the work into sections
by those still in the county. The reason why there are so
few now is to be found in the telephone and automobile.
A doctor may reach the scene of an accident ten miles
in the country within half hour or less of its occurence
while formerly it required at least half a day.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
THEY LOSE, AS USUAL
While the bill to create a State
Commissioner of Printing was before
the General Assembly last year, the
country papers over the state were
urged to support. the measure. It
was represented to them that at pres
ent the smaller offices got no chance
at the State’s printing, but that it
was given out to the larger offices in
Atlanta. Proprietors of newspapers
with job printing offices in connec
tion were assured that if the bill be
came a law they would all have a
chance to bid on the State’s printing.
This paper took no stock in the
suggestion, well knowingl that the
smaller offices were little prepared
to handle the State’s work, and had
less chance to secure it if they were,
Loans On Real Estate
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but the argument no doubt had its
weight. At any rate, the bill was
passed.
Now that the law is in operation,
it is plain where the country print
ers not only won’t have a look in,
for new business, but will probably
lose some of the State printing they
already had. Under the decision of
the Attorney-General, all printing for
all institutions supported by the
State must go through the hands of
the State Commissioner of Printing.
This probably applies to the District
Agricultural Schools, the smalier in
stitutions of learning and all other
institutions scattered about over the
state and supported by State funds.
Printing offices in towns located
near these institutions have been do
ing at least a portion of their print-
modern low-grade fuel engine, which
burns the lowest grade of gasoline
without lessened performance.
That’s not all; its %'reat reserve pow
er makes the Stephens a Salient all
round road performer.
It delivers speed, endurance, flexibil
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Altogether, a Value—Salient Ser
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car satisfaction.
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phens Salient Six.
FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1920.
ing, but now it is very probable that
all of this must go into the big hop
per of the new institution the State
has established in Atlanta.
Here is another case of all not be
ing gold that glitters, and another in
stance where the country newspapers
have pulled a ripe chestnut out of
the fire for some one who will doubt
less enjoy it.—Tifton Gazette.
~IT GOES AGAINST THE GRAIN
"~ When you go out to frolic,
Be it understood,
If you make it alcoholic
Better knock on wood.
—Cartoons Magazine.
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