The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, September 24, 1920, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MARIETTA JOURNAL . PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY : The Marietta Publishing Company Business Phone 18 . e e et B —————eeee e et BERNARD AWTREY, Editor. : BRI it ebLAo i e TR Subscriptions: $l.OO Per Year; 50c for Six Months —.——'——-———————_—_—* Entered at the Postoffice at Marietta, Ga., as Second Class mail matter. eRS e e MARIETTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 24, 1920, ~ The Journal and the Charter. The Journal has fought against the new charter honestly ; it has slung no mud but stated its position and gave its reasons for its position, quoting the proposed charter and putting what seemed to be the import of plain language of the instrument be fore the people. It believed the people had a right to know exactly what they were voting for before the day of election and attempted to inform them. It has had some accusations of partisanship, but has received many compliments for its fairness in stating each item just as it appeared in the charter itself, and for putting a fair interpretation of the contents of the matter in the propoesed primary law for the city. ‘ And The Journal will, in future, be found always ready and willing to give any party, or faction, a fair hearing and rcom for its contentions. In no other way can the truth prevail than by letting the people know dispassionately what the issues are and why we think one measure should prevail and another not. Our columns will always be open for such matter. But in no case will personalities be allowed to enter discussions in the eolumns of The Journal. Measures should be argued homnestly, but men should be left to fight their own battles. The Journal stands for better streets, better sewerage, better schools, and will earnestly advocate better roads, keeping always in mind the fact that cost and conditions should dictate the time for such work, the amount of it to be done and that cost will often determine the progress made. ‘ Ought to Have Frequent Elections. : R e Marietta has seen forensic powers developed in unéxpected Guarters and we snould have frequent elections to help the aspiring orators along with their Ciceronic efforts. We will have orators to spare for many public occasions, if we but keep up the interest and furnish something really worth while to speak about. To speak when there’s noth ing in the air to arouse interest, is an up-hill busi-‘ ness but to hold an audience spellbound when you have a real cause is not so hard. Then it gives an asiring young orator such confidence in himself to know that his audience is with him in all he says. Let’s pull off one or two real elections every year. Letis have a ‘town of orators. Whatever we may receive for the cotton erop this vear, it has cost the farmer not less than 40 cents to make it. He ought to have his money back and fair interest, at least. Judgv Dupont "Gerry, of Macon, who died last week, was one of the state’s brightest lawyers. He made a fine race for governor of the state som: years ago, but retired from polities after it apd de voted himself to law hntiru‘l_v.‘ FREE SPEECH. By George L. King in Maysville Enterprise. Our government believes in free speech and guarantees the right of free speech. We have heard much in ‘recent .weel's concerning the matter of free speech. Some politicians have play ed on that string in season and out of season, in stump speech, in news paper column, in anonymous cilcular and intoxicated. It runs true to ignorance and vpre judice to demand “free speech’ for me and my crowd and deny it to the other fellow. We throw our hats in the air and hurrah in general when our favorite oflfice-seeker comes out strong for the constituticnal right of free speech but we are ready to use physical vio lence on the man who dares say any thing against our pet candidate, pro vided, always, that there is only one of him and a crowd of us. That’s be lieving in freée speech with a ven geance. We chuckle with delight and vote with delirium when our hero calls all in office ‘grafters’ and ‘thieves’ and ‘ringsters,’ but when some mouthing moral dares make a suspicious remark ‘about our hero, we want to beat him up, provided always that there is one of him and a crowd of us. That's Jeffersonian Demo cracy with a vengeance. The matter of the individuals we select to represent us in any office is secondary. The thing of primary im portance is that we, as a people, vote with intelligence without bigotry, with pride without prejudice, with prayerfulness witheut hypocrisy. As individuals, we must see to it that our suffrage is kept froe ¢rom hatred and prejudice and the corruption of bribes, bullies, bossism and bolsheism. Above all and in all, there should be square dealing and fair playing. We need to keep ever clearly in mind that vie .are brethern—and sisters. The greatness and security and service of democracy are measured by the intelligence and moral ideals of the individual voters. On one side is the brute force of autocracy, on the other side is the brute force of the mob. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” from either one. j \ EARTHQUAKES IN ITALY DESTROYED 500 LIVES. . [ — Repeated earthquakes in Italy this month have brought death to hun dreds of people. The Epoca, a Ro man newspaper, estimates that 500 persons were killed in the first shocks, and 20,000 were made homeless. Nince then another violent quake has occurred near Emilia. This caus ed the loss of many lives, and much damage to buildings. The places that suffered most were Reggio, Ospeda letti, Bussani and Toano. The Emilla district lies between the Apenines and the River Po. Dis patches telling of the disaster con tain such famous names as Parma, Modena, Bologna, Ferrara and Rav enna. The earlier shocks shattered towns and villiages north of Florence. Between the principal quakes, fol lowing them, were a great number of lesser shocks and earth termors. At Carrara, where the quarries are from which comes finest Italian mar ble, great rocks were dislodged. They rolled down the steep hillsides, crush ing everything they struck. A church -No Joint Debates in Run-off. . - g : Candidate Hardwick has challenged ecandidate Walker for a series of joint debates on the issues between them in the run-off primary of October 6, ‘and candidate Walker has promptly declined to ac cept the challenge, stating, as his reasons, that the issues have already been discussed and that there is no good cause for stirring people up and raising further_ strife and excitement o¥er the race. He also'says that he thinks it is likely that such debates lead to matters that would not be very dignifying in candidates for the high office of governor of Georgia. The Journal is rather pleased with this eourse. We believe much good time wilkFbe saved to the peo ple, that few votes would be changed, and -thaﬂ people are already informed as to the differeénces’ between the candidates. Moreover, we must have one of the two for governor for the next two years and must honor and respect the one elected. It can do no good whatever to bring into disrepute the man whom we ought to .delight to honor, and the high office we must honor, and such would be one of the effects of asseries of joint debates.. Candidates will say in the passions aroused by a personal contact with each other things that would better never be uttered. Let people vote their convictions made up in the quiet of their own homes and the state will be better off for it. Mr. Cox Sticks to the West. The presidential nominee Cox is holding big meet ings in the far-away west. He.seems to have quite a bit of enthusiasm out there and we are hoping it will last till November and help us put one over on the republicans again. True, whatever party wins in this eléction has the biggest problems that ever came hefore,mar')kind to settle, but we are really willing for the democracy to undertake the job, be lieving that that party can do at least as well as the republicans can do, for it was under the demo cratic party that the biggest war ever waged was won quickly, so quickly, in faet, that we only got well on the firing line before the enemy turned tail and fled, admitting that they .couldn’t face Americans. : ‘“Senator Clay '’ will sound very natural to Geor-| gians, and to Cobb county people. It has long been a household phrase—Senator Clay of Cobb county. There is no doubt with anybody who knows Her bert Clay that he has the native ability to make good and people everywhere are hoping to see him rap idly advance to yet higher official position. Let every friend of Herbert and his illustrious father get behind his candidacy for president of the Geor gia Senate and let Cobb have the honor of having one of her native sons fill this place agian, ~ The Journal has not attempted to explain “how ;it all happened’ September 8, but the explanation is easy—Mr. Watson just ‘‘naterly’” outran the whole bunch and got more votes than they did. The Journal looks for some surprises in the run wer primary, for in some sections the Holder vote vill go to Walker and in others to Hardwick, as we ‘ead the signs of the times. The Journal is not disposed to sympathize very nuch with the Irish mayor who is voluntarily starv ng himself to death. There are too many people in he world who are starving INVOLUNTARILY to aste sympathy on one who does so of his own will. where mass was being celebrated was in the path of one of these rocks. The ceiling of the church fell, crush ing many of the congregation. One of the priests was killed: These violent disturbencgs of the earth’s crust have caused a greater loss of life than any that have occur red since the terrible earthquakes in the southern end of the peninsula, “the toe of the boot,” and in Sicily, some years ago. At that time more than 100,060 lives were lost. What Causes Earthquakes? As always after a disasterous earth auake, many questions are ashed as to the cause. Scientist are not whol ly agreed, but most ¢f them divide earthquakes into two classes. One kind is connected with volcanic ac tivity. The other appears to be merely a cracking or slipping of parts of the earth’s crust, caused by its own weight and the lack of sufficient gupport. Just why there is lack of support we can only guess. It may‘ be that water has washed away a part of the sands or gravels or rocksl on which the upper crust rested; or heat may have melted them andl caused them to flow away to empty spaces or caverns at lower levels. Sometimes it seems probable that the quake is caused by enormous pressure of steam far below the surface. Water from the sea may leak down into the heated interior, where it is converted into steam, and the pres sure accumulates until something has to yield. Scientific men admit that these theories, and others, are little better than guesses. Very little is really known about the conditions of the earth a mile or more below its surface.—Current Events. THE JOURNAL IS $l.OO A YEAR. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1920. IﬂAILS. COAST TO COAST, ' BY AEROPLANE ROUTE. The Post Office Department now has aregular mail sérvice by airplane, between Ney York and San Francis co. The time required is about 54 hours,but as yet the aviator flies only by daylight. The Postmaster-Gener al states that the airplane service gaves money for the government and‘ is “a commercia] success.” “Nowhere else in the world,” he says in a, re cent article, “has such a system of mail delivery been in uninterrupted succdss for so long a period.” Most people who have thought the service of small importance will be surprised to learn that U. S. airplane mails have already carried more than 25,000,000 letters between Chicago, Cleveland, New York and Washing ton, and at twice the speed of the Twentieth Century Limited. When‘ the .air pilots can fly at night also, which they expect to do soon, the time should be further reduced. The first airplane mail from New York has arrived safely at San Fran cisco. China has established an airplane mail between Tientsin and Pekin.— Current Events. CLOVERS GROW HERE. We have positive proof from every district in the cotton belt that crim son and bur clovers will grow suc cessfully on average soils. When we remember that an acre of good clover plowed under in the spring bas a fer tilizing value equal td more than 1,200 pourds of cottonseed meal or 400 pounds of nitrategof soda, to say nothing of the great quantity of hu mus-making material added to the soil, it is astonishing that these crops are not more widely grown.—The Progressive Farmer. FARMS AND For Sale CITY PROPERTY ——WE OFFER BARGAINS:: LARGE LIST TO SELECT FROM HOLLAND REALTY CO. Reynolds Building e Telephone 134 } | Marietta, Ga, ~ Why man— k “ . @ RSB ; , we made this ‘ Shn ; cigarette for you! S J 'L" ‘ ity : 2 ;‘. e ‘ ) : : E i . £ o 3 ¥ : i ' H : -‘“ -i: “ ; |~:4‘ : ( .“‘; T: i“. '.‘ ; ..""’. :\ ""I ~. eot _. ey :eV f DTR .(“1‘ L v )} E.‘S Be T ) LSR WALEIPs -1 RN e e s - ’ — T R ) Ut AT - ¥, YU S e AT . 3‘:@ AMELS fit your cigarette de- I a . L : : o &; Sires so completedy you’ll agree R e R . they were made to meet'your taste! 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" " FILLING THE SILO. ‘ s ® i : ’ The storing of green material in the silo is very good and profitable, as it is a very wholesome and nour ishing feed, which all animals will eat eagerly. The corn that is to be put into the silo should have the ears left on it. In filling the silo special care should be taken that the silage is evenly distributed and packed very ACWORTH FOUR-COUNTY POST COBB, BARTOW, CHEROKEE, PAULDING COUNTIES E. W. RAY, Ed-Prop. Everybo‘dy\Reads It Al : Heroic Fireman Saving Life P in a big fire deserve the com '_ﬁ’"’ mendation of everybody, just m = A"~ as the man does that has his g!' \ 1 198 ( home insured in time, and when ;\‘ i\ \ f N L ’.'!' it is destroyed by fire has the \ :“ti‘ 19 5' |& ) “long green” wherewith to \ y f‘\ \ ,', 7 ' build a new one. No one knows lk — N %’3{ ” how welcome a few thousand R\ \ A :///\' : ' dollars are when left homeless \% & | but the man who has “been XW) . .::\ J there.” Let us insure you and \{\ : Yl » 0 be ready for emergencies. Crowe & Holland 'FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1920 tightly with plenty of moisture. It will not spoil if this precaution is taken. One method used is to fill the silo half full and let stand for a few days, so that it will pack itself tight ly, after which the other half should be filled. The sto;ing of green mat erial in the silo makes it possible for one to have green feed all the year round for the livestock.—Hugo J. En gel, in The Progressive Farmer.