The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, November 19, 1920, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 19, 1920. THE MARIETTA JOURNAL PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY - The Marietta Publishing Company 1 ey Business Phone 18 | e m——————-—————-—— ' BERNARD AWTREY, Editor. ; e R R S R S O Subscriptions: $l.OO Per Year; 50c for Six Months B R b i o st st T T ~ Entered at the Postoffice at Marietta, Ga., as Second Class mail matter. MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1920 B bbb ist it Lawyer Adams of Hall j and Farmer Buffington- A lawyer by the name of Adams, of Gainsville,] has been trying to unravel the c¢ountry’s financial difficulties and has saddled a large part of it on tbel farmer. According to this erndite limb of the law' the trouble is that farmers spent too lavishly for automobiles and their wives wore too many silkl stockings during the recent years of prosperity andi plentiful money. Farmer Buffington, of Hall, takes| the attorney to task and shows him that farmers did | not spend more extravagantly than did other lines! of business, and that their wives are far more solf-i supporting and far less extravagant than are the| wives of some other men, ! Go to, now. Is not the farmer as much entitled’ to own an automobile as the lawyer? .\‘houldn'ti farmer Buffigton’s wife be allowed to wear silk| stockings, if farmer Buffington is as good a farmer; as lawyer Adams is a lawyer? Though a man be a farmer, A man’s a man, for a’ that.”” It's true! farmers have spent some money for automobiles;| but it is also true that lawyers, merchants, bla(-k-’, smiths and what-nots ride in antomobiles. Lawynr} Adams makes us tired. He rambles over ﬁvlds-f whose geography he knows nothing of, whose soil! is unknown to him, whose products he never pro-| duced and only uses at cheap prices. We think hv? might show off to better advantage in some remote | ecorner in a justice's office, where voluminous and; meaningless words sound well to him and impn:«i an unlettered audience. | Mushrooms and Woodcocks., Right down at the bottom of the column of trouble with the country is the credit system. We suppose there is no way to get rid of it; but there ought to be one. If every body paid cash for what he bought not one-half as mueh would be bought. High priced Juxuries would be a drug on the market. The mer chant would sell less and at cheaper prices: but he wouldn't be burdened with bad accounts, bill col lectors, stamp expenses and unpaid bills of his own. The old saying was: ‘‘Send Credit to town and he'll return with two mushrooms and a woodcoek.™’ It’s about as near the truth now as then. Poor Richard didn’t often miss it. If farmers hadn’t gone URGES DEMOCRATS TO o RENEWED COURAGE. Editor Constitution:—There are some of us still living who have seen the democratic party pass through darker days than now, rising again to new effort{4 and new triumphs. Young democrats and many voters who know nothing of the strange vic issitudes of party organizations, may be demoralized by defeat, but the old party veterans place themselves upon the party traditions, its splendid rec ord, and knowing no such word as yield. they seek to nerve the hearts of their comrades, and hanish dispair. To show how the American people are essentially democratic—how dem ocracy is imbedded in their hearts, and that the party wil] live contem poraneous with the republic—llet us refer to past defeats and triumphs. In 1840, a 2 political cyclone swept the democratic party out of power. Harrison received 234 ¢lectoral votes and Van Buren 60 votes. Then, as now, there were democrats ready to desert the party, but then, as now, the stalwart democrats lifted high the old banner and fcur years afterward Polk was elected president of the U nited States. Henry Clay as he went down with the colors exclaimed, “We'll pick our flints and try again” and in 1848 Zach Taylor the Whig eandidate floated into the White House on the popular wave which deluged the democratic party. Then, as now, there were demo crats ready to surrender, but the true men stood firm and. in 1852, Frank lin Pierce received 254 electoral votes while only 42 were cast for Winfield Scott. When the whig party, in its eager ness to secure power, sold out to the know-nothing party, it was swept out of existence. This will be the inev itable fate of the democratic party if it should commence the unfamiliar game of bartering and trading. The duty of the hour is optimism and courageous activity. The na tional democracy must stand by its traditions. It must not be seduced from its allegiance to principles by cheaply selling out to political gam bler. In 1872, for the first time in its history, the democratic party lower ed its banner. It abanoned its prin ciples, sacrificed its leaders and nom inated Horace Greeley, the founder of the republican party. Ignominious defeat was the result. It was thought that this blunder had forever consigned the democratic party to that tomb of obsolete ideas in which the old whig party was re posing. It is better to accept defeat on principles than rejoice in a victory obtained on error and double-dealing. Experinence—that severe teacher— has taugh democrats that it is only by fidelity to great principles that they can either win or deserve victory. It is only by this that the democratic party may avoid a record of “making some fool blunder at precisely the right moment for its opponent.” The grcatness, granduer and giory of the American union can be direct ly traced to democratic legislation. Florida, Louisiana. Teras and an area of territory reaching to the Pacific ocean, and vast enough to make an empire, were acquired by the demo cratic party. Let young democrats learn, and veterans democrats remember this, and further, that withont this terri tory the American union would be shorn of much of its greatness. Such o party cannot die and the republic live. It is the party of the people, of the constitution, of liberty and equa] rights to all—exclusive pri vileges to none, for it is not the party of the trusts. It still lives; its work is not done; its glory is not dimmed; its ranks will again carry the party banner over and beyond the battle ments of a routed and vanquished foe. —Atlanta Constitution. J. COLTON LYNES. Marietta, Ga., November 8, 1920. i CARD OF THANKS Mrs. B. A. Osborn and family wish to thank their friends for the many expressions of sympathy and kind ness shown during their great sor row. Also for the beautiful floral of ferings. Mrs. B. A. OSBURN. and family, The Marieta Journal and the Pro gressive Farmer Loth for $1.63. in debt last spring and summer they eould hold &eiﬂ cotton until there was a real demand for it. If mer chants and auto dealers hadn’t sold on ecredit the; wouldn’t be pushed to meet their obligations. The creditor is as much at fault as the debtor—he want ed to sell, induced people to buy, and often for this reason they did buy. This credit habit is a very bad habit we've gotten into. Panics would never ecom¢ but for it. Hard times would lose its frightfulness and its name would be forgotten. Getting rid oi credit would do as much for the country as diversi fication in farming, and possibly more. We’ve been sending Credit to town. He's come back with his mushrooms and woodeocks, and what are we going to do with them? Some folks hate President Wilson worse than George Rucker hates Coca Cola, and with far less reason. | The day for hunting quail is peeping over the‘ eastern hills, and Bob White would better look out. | Warren Gamaliel Harding is the name of our new president. Many ardent republicans will now be sitting at “the feet of Gamaliel,”’ for a season. It's just one week till Thanksgiving, and we have-; n’'t even heard a turkey gobble yet. But we don't think as much of his gobble as we do of his breast. Dayton, Ohio, is to spend a half-illion dollars in educating her people to trade at home, and not pat ronize other twons. Good business for the news papers there, no doubt, and also for the city. But | first they should see that Dayton merchants keep the goods people want and at prieces as reasonable as other-cities sell at. Bigger stocks to select from and a shade better prices induce people to go else where frequently. ‘‘Marietta dollars for Marietta” would be a good slogan for us to adopt ; and then we | should add: **We pay more for your country pro-l duce than our neighboring towns.”” Let’s make thei blade cut both ways. i Some of those Irish hunger-strikers held out 941 days and then gave in and decided they v.'auted‘ something to eat. And. by the way. the world knows they had been eating something all the while. Pcoplv‘ can’t live three months without food. I i a Why An Extra Session? ‘ ‘ | l It has been the habit of governors of late to calli extra sessions of the Georgia General Assembly. We 'don't like the habit. We hope Gov. Dorsey hus.l discretion enough to leave it off this time. There | seems little cause for an extra session and all mat ‘ters that are being put forth can easily wait till thv} regular session next June. Let the country have & little rest from all publie functions. It will do u‘.e'! ifgood to get out of any public excitement and think ‘soberly. Don’t call an extra session. | Production of Sound American Citizenship the First Aim, Says Dr. Farrand. On the badge of every member of the Junior Red Cross are the words “I Serve.” That tells the story of the scheol children's branch of the Ameri can Red Cross and its efforts to bring happiness to children throughout the world. Realizing that the time never was 80 propitious as right now for teach: ing the highest ideals of citizenship, the entire present program of the Jun lor Red Cross has been framed under the very inclusive phrase, “Training for Citizenship Through Service” for others. Since the Junior Red Cross is the agency through which the Ameri can Red Cross reaches the schoolboys and the schoolgirls, all its activities are designed to come within the regu lar schoo! program, and without creat- Ing new courses or increasing the num ber of studies to lend its aid in vitaliz ing the work of the schools. “The thing that s needed,” says Dr. Livingston Farrand, Chairman of the American Red Cross Central Commit tee, “is not a perpetuation of the Jun for Red Cross, but the training and breeding of sound American citizenship Inspired by the true, fundamental {deals of sound democracy. One of the great conceptions in making the Red Cross a coutributor to better citizen ship in our American democracy is the realization that after all the sole hope of any nation is with the children of the country.” | The plan of organization of the Jun for Red Cross makes the school—pub lic, parochial and private—the unit, not the individua! pupils. Mutual serv ice, heipful community work such as clean-up campaligns, care of the sick, promotion of health regulations, par ticipation in civic and patriotic move ments—all these creative agencies de sigoed to translate into life and acrion the reguiar school program are parts of the muchinery which the Junior Red‘ Cross places st the disposal of the school authorities. | Graded study courses giving prac tical meihods of civic training, supple mented by pamphlets and helpful suz-l gestions, are suppiled to the loecal schools by the Junior Xed Cross, An THE MARIETTA JOURNAL elaborate plan for promoting an inter change of correspondence between chil dren in different sections of the United States as well as with children in for . elgn lands is being devised and will take a prominent place In the estab lished classroom program. In promoting the general cause of child welfare, Red Cross courses In bome bygiene and care of the sick, first ald, and dieting may.-be estad lished l» all Junior Red Cross Aux {liaries, The ideais and the objective of the Junlor Red Cross are embodied in the pledge of service which the pupll takes when bedmmm-upnllnan pins on his coat the Junior's badge. The pledge which binds together serv ice and citizenship reads: “We will seek In all ways to live up to the ideals of the Junlor Red Cross and devote ourselves to its service, “We will strive never to bring dis credit to this, our country, by any un worthy act. | “We wiil revere and obey our eoun- | ' try's laws and do our best to inspire a! i like reverence and obedience in those : - about us. ] ~ “We will endeavor In all these ways, | s good citizens, to transmit Americs | greater, better and more beautiful thant she was transmitted to us.” | At the foundation of this school pro- | gram of the Junlor Red Cross is e great love for America's children, ‘ .'_'\ ! Remember that The Marietta Jour-g nal is only One Dollar per year, andg do not forget that we do all sorts cf? job printing neatly and promptly. | FARMS AND For Sale CITY PROPERTY ——WE OFFER BARGAINS — LARGE LIST TO SELECT FR?M HOLLAND REALTY CO. Reynolds Building Telephone 134 Marietta, Ga, [ No, 1,108 Cherokee St. No. 2, Butler Town Everything in the Meat Market line, High Grade Beef, Pork, Lamb and Veal. We receive daily, Norfolk Oys ters, and East Tennessee pure Pork Sausage. Bloodwurst, Liver Sausage, Tongue and Garlick Sau sage, New York Cream Cheese, and a full line of nice Fresh Vegetables, both domestic and Florida. Out of Town orders carefully packed and iced. Phone or drop us a card and you will get the best of quality. Remember PHONE 410 AR DON'T WAIT FOR = ./ R e THE FIREMAN /*a : * o before you think of insurance. /‘% P ' Then it is too late. You must \ | ‘ suffer the loss. Many people ‘s,: \ 1 7 ' have regretted their negligence -.‘-"(7; ?1& "5 p in taking out a .policy—don't‘ : hoße _4\._«: A you. Forewarned is forearmed. i : 2 Our rates are low—our respon . @ sibilities big—and you are the gainer. Crowe & Holland 7 OFFICE PHONE 204 —— DEALERS IN — Rough and dressed iumber, shingles, laths, lime, cement, plaster, brick and Pattons Sunproof Paint We carry the most complete and largest stock of building material in North Georgia. Your orders, large or small, appreciated. We can give you lowest prices and prompt deliveries. Mill and Office, Church St., in front of car barn.