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MARETTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1920.
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What Happens In The Dark
_FROM THE OFFICIAL agricultural bulletin of the
current week we clip the following paragraph with
reference to wool prices in this country. |
“Since November, 1918, the prices of wool have de
clined in comparison with the same month of the preced-§
ing year. The highest price was 60 cents per pound in
March and April, 1918, since which time the prices fell
to as low a figure as 47.9 in April, 1919”
Now we are not entirely familiar with that pride of
the Republican party, better known as “Schedule K” the
section of our tariff dealing with wool, but we are not
of the opinion that it could possibly be responsible for
even half the difference between the price of raw wool
and the current prices of woolen clothing, even after
making allowance for good profits for the manufactur
ers and dealers.
We recently saw a cartoon that we think perhaps is
illustrative of the trouble. It was a series of three
pictures, in the first a farmer is selling a measure of
potatoes for a dollar, the second picture is of solid black
"as of midnight, while in the third the farmer’s same
measure of potatoes is being purchased by the poor con
samer for three dollars. The title of the cartoon was
“What lappens in the dark.”
Somehow we can not help wishing that there were net
80 many dark places between the sheep’s back and that of
the poor man,
w “Georgia Made”
AN ADVERTSING slogan used by the Germans be
fore the war, and that with great effeet, was em
bodied in the words “Made in Germany,” which appeared.
on every article of commerce exported from that country.
Behind this slogan was a well organized and united gov
ernment spending milliens in a propaganda to make the
world belive that this mark was net oenly a guarantee of
the best goods, but that no other country coujd possibly
produce such goods.
We all knew how well this was suceeeding at the time
the war began. It had been so successful that it not only
deceived the rest of the world, but fooled the Germans
also, into the belief that they were “super-men.” It is
further a fact that this belief on their part had much te
do with bringing on the war.
o, Still, up te the peint .of starting the war, this pro
paganda and its united and organized support, was a per
fectly legitimate business policy—we might say meore,
that it was a mest commendable policy. We think se well
of it that we weuld heartily commend it to the manufac
turers of Geergia. There can be ne danger of its ever
leading us te seek weorld power, the rock upon which the
Germans stumbled. It should be an incentive to us to
make things better in Georgia than elsewhere can be
made.
There is absolutely mo telling how far this sort of
spirit will carry business. One of tiie best manufacturing
towns today has been built on just such foundation.
Waterbury, Connecticutt, has for years maintained an ad
vertising bureau and it has had the active co-opeartion
-of all its manufacturers.
The slogan used was perhaps not literally true at
first, but it is today: “Waterbury has something on every
body.” Few men, women or children but have a butten,
or buckle, er shee-eyelet, or shoe-lace tip, or some other
small metal article which was made in Waterbury. As
you approach the city you read from the train huge signs
bearing the slogan “Waterbury has something on Every
body."”
° Is thewe any reasom why the slogan “Georgia Made”
should not beceme a sign denoting the highest quality?
Is there'any reason why such a sign should not become
so familiar in this country as to carry with it instant re
cognitien of meritorious goods? It should be so, and it
can be so if there be united effort by the manufacturers
of the state, and such effort would be rewarded and that
very quickly.
- The Why of The “Bonus” Idea
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AST YEAR wheén we called attention to the $240
Lbonus awarded by congress to the civil employees
in Washingten we had ne idea where the “bonus” idea
would end, ner do we know yet, but the idea once started
“keeps on keeping on.”
From the Gastonia Gazette we clip the following
which shows the progress which the bonus idea is making.
As we stated at the time we had no objection to the bonus
idea if there could be cnough bonuses to go all around
but the fact remained that a bonus all around “would be
. just the same as a bonus for none-—it would leave every
wone right where they started.
We wish however, to remind the country that it was
‘congress and not the administration that “pulled this
bone”—just Congressmen, who took this niethod of re
warding their own clerks and civil appointees at the
Government expense.
“To grant, or not to grant a bonus to soldiers—that is
the question that is giving our Congressmen trouble at
present. But they, and they alone, are responsible for
the predicament into which they have precipitated them
selves. The soldiers did not go to war expecting a bonus
on their discharge. Such an idea was unheard of in their
minds when they forsook their civilian life and donned
the khaki to do battle against the Hun. The one thought
uppermost was to get the job done and over with as quick
ly as possible and get back to work .
“But another monumental bone was pulled—a habit
which this Washington government has acquired here of
late. Said bone consisted in the granting of a $240
bonus to civilian war workers in Washington. Swivel
chair occupants working in steam heated buildings in
winter and under electric fans in summer were, upon
their discharge handed a tidy sum of $240 with which to
start life anew. And the soldier was given one-fourth of
~ this amount, $6O. No, the soldiers did not ask for, ror did
they expect any bonus. First they heard of it was in
_ France lying around in dreary, muddy, desolate embarka
jon centers waiting to come home last winter. And it
d not arouse much enthusiasm at that. They knew from
‘home newspapers and letter that $6O would not do.much
for them. .
“But what riled them was the fact that a ‘“great and
generous government” should make such a discrimination
in favor of the civilian employe whose service to the gov
ernment during the days of the war can not be compared
with that rendered by the soldier—not to mention the
vast difference in compensation offered each while in that
service.
“They got themselves into this hole. Let them, in the
face of 4,000,000 soldier voters, solve their own problem.
“The ex-soldier looks on in calm and amused silence.
He, however, opines that if this affair is degenerating into
a gigantic grab game, then he is at least entitled to his
share from the pork-barrel in the promiscuous distribu
tion of the swag.”
Time to Stop This
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| HE power of the dollar to cover up crime—more
Tparticular]y the violations of the prohibition laws—
has, worked much evil in Georgia, perhaps in every ju
dicial circuit, certainly in our own.
Certain men with money have found it comparatively
easy to get lawyers and witnesses whenever they are
needed to escape punishment when caught with the goods,
and the courts, both state and federal, have been unable
to reach them. !
The profits in the whiskey traffic have been so large
that they could afford to pay the biggest sort of fines
and lawyers fees and maintain an army of professional
“witnesses,” ready to swear anything and everything they
are asked to swear. ,
A striking example of this class is the notorious John
Henry Harden, of Cherokee, whose last offense was a pro
posal to bribe the revenue officers to protect his nefarious
business, actually paying five hundred dollars for the
month’s fee. :
Certainly it behooves us to see that our officers are
of a caliber arid character to reject every overture to pro
tect crime and it is the duty of every citizen to actively
assist in every possible way to stop the traffic of whiskey
which goes on through our county.
The success of one man of Harden’s class is enough
encouragement for a hundred smaller violators to despise
and break the law. It is time that this condition should
cease,
“Peas, Potatoes, Peanuts, Pigs and Plenty” would
make a fairly good slogan for a live progressive farmer.
The Georgia boy who won first pig club prize at the
Southeastern Fair has made a profit of nearly one thous
and dollars onm this one pig. How about more pig club
beys in Cobb county?
We congratulate Decatur, which is always a progres
sive county, upon the establishment of the Ellis Health
Law for her citizens. This is one of the biggest steps in
the right direetien any county ever took.
One of the things to be learned by farmers whe raise
food creps is the proper way to prepare for market in
order te get the best prices. Co-operation with the Farm
Bureau and the eounty agent will help a lot te solve pro
perly any new preblems of this sort.
Last year Georgia produced more than tem millipn
pounds of cured tobacco which sold for a price bétween
17 and 18 cents, and when we consider that this is a new
crop in this state, we see no reason for those who are
preparing to plant more of it being at all down hearted.
Georgia farmers are learning the right way to fight
the boll weevil, and it is not all poison, but plenty of
corn, and peas and peanuts, and pigs, and wheat, and po
tatoes, and every other good thing to eat for both man
and beast, but of ne use at all to a healthy and hungry
bell weevil. : :
One of the best things any farmer can do fer his
country and his children is to make his home and the
farm work so attraetive that his children will be satis
fied to stay at home, but in order te do this they must be
shown that there is ahead a chance of still further im
proving farm life.
The women of the United States are going te vete in‘
the presidential elections this fall beyond a doubt, and
we would earnsetly call the attention of party leaders to
this important faet when thy go to make their pLatforms.}
If the women were so narrow as to charge up to the D@~‘
mocratic party the insults offered them by the last G@m’-‘
gia legislature, they would cast few votes fer that party.
Secretary of State McLendon has issued a statement
to the publie of the colleetion of automobile fees, which
up to the first of March had passed a million dollars., Mr.
McLendon is making his effice a model of what every state
office should be in the transaction of the business of the'
people, and the people ma thank themselves for making a
wise seleetion when they put him in office.
“Money grows on trees in South Georgia” says an ex
change, which of course is true, but it is only a small part
of the story. All ever Georgia meney grows on trees and
on bushes and plants of every description and every plant
on which meney will net grew sheuld be rooted out and a
money-grwing plant put in its place. .
If we are to believe even a little of the reports about
the occupation of the German ex-Kaiser, we must con
clude that he has become a perfect “devil of a woodsaw
ver.” However, we take these reports with more than a
“grain of sand,” and think he spends more time scheming
how to help the United States Senate in nullifying the
victory of the allies.
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Admiral Sims says that “God and good luck averted
disaster to the American Navy.” We are truly thankful
that we had a secretary of the Navy with enough faith and
common sense to place some reliance in both, otherwise
our navy instead of having accomplished wonders in the
war, according to the testimony of this same admiral
Sims, would havedone nothing at all, as he has sworn that
our navy was totally unprepared for war.
If we thought that a couple of Atlanta newspapers
had as much influence as they think they have, there
could be no doubt in our mind that The Constitution
had already made Herbert Hoover the nominee of the
Republicans and The Journal had made him the nominee
of the Democrats, so his election would be already as
sured. However, if Hoover should be the nominee of
'either party it will be the work of the voters, without
a great deal of thought of what either of these papers
Ihave said, and without any campaign on Hoover's own
part 3
THE MARIETTA J OURNAL
BARNUM KNEW
Many of us will continue to be
lieve in Snider and in the ground
hog. We just like to believe in them
i,and to speak of them in connection
iwith the weather. For generations
men and women have been looking
to the ground hog for weather tips
in early spring, and they have been
deceived each year; nevertheless they
continue to persevere and try to find
a time when the ground hog’s shadow
proves what it purports to prove. We
will continue to watch the ground
hog for signs of the times and we
see no reason why we should not have
as much faith in Snider.—Moultrie
Observer. ;
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