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The fdavietta Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
THE MARIETTA PUBLISHING COMPANY
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WM. L. HARRIS - - . - - EDITOR
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Subscriptions within Cobb County $l.OO per Year—Out
side of Cobb County, $1.50 per year.
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Entered at the Postoffice at Marietta, Georgia, as Second
Class Mail Matter.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 21, 1924
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Paulding county must have a lot of money in the
treasury. Only twelve candidates have announced
for the responsible office in the Dallas New Era.
A citizen living near Marietta wrote a letter of
thanks to the city administration for improving
Powder Springs street recently. While this was the
duty of the city officials, a little expression of ap
preciation is mighty fine tonic for more improve
ment in most cases.
The citizens of Marietta need not fear that a
paved road from Kennesaw mountain to the city
limits will encourage speeding. If the Kennesaw
avenue crossing doesn’t slow ’'em down the trains
will.
No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, 1s con
fined to the present moment. A man is the happier
for life from having made once an agreeable tour,
or lived for any length of time with pleasant people,
or enjoyed any interval of innocent pleasure.
LEN BALDWIN SAYS—
He will make the park in Marietta blossom like
a rose by July Fourth. If he does it, we move that
the monument to be erected in the park bear his
image.
THEY CALL IT “SWEETUM' NOW
A tea hound walked up and with his fingers and
thumb,
Rapped on the fountain a teedle-um-tum
And said gimme a glass of orange an’ ‘‘sweetum.”’
The jerker was wise and on to the joke;
He looked up and smiled and not a word spoke—
But handed the tea hound an orange and ‘‘dope.”” |
GENTLEMEN, THE SKY LOOKS CLEAR
To the commendation of the gvntléifi?n who have
offered themselves as officers of the county for the
next four years there seems to be very little mud
slinging or underhanded methods being used. It
still looks like a clean race on merit in old Cobb.
If some one or other politician discovers in his
own brain that one of the candidates acted ugly in
1848 and roars forth the distress signal about an
hour before the polls open when it is too late to get
facts and records, we hope the good people of this
county will snow him under so deep that he will not
get out until just in time to spread the alarm by the
next election four years off,
The will of a majority of the people is pretty cer
tain to be right and if left to their own way of
thinking and reasoning will come nearer to seleet
ing good men for officials.
WHERE OUR MONEY COMES FROM
With the purpose of determining the total value
of wealth produced in the United States and of an
swering the very interesting question, ‘““Who gets
it?"’ & veluntary organization of economists, busi
nessmeun, newspaper publishers, labor leaders andl
bankers hflye put under way a searching investiga-
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Thus {ar ghey have progressed to a completion of
A study of the national income, one phase of the
work before them, and have presented some very
Interesting statistics.
Various eetivities and occupations were found to
have coatributed to the national income in about
Ehe percentages given below, the figures being an
pverage of the ten years, 1908-18;
Agrisulture, 17.43 per cent.; mineral production,
8.24 per cent.; manufacturing, including hand trades
29.27 per cent. ; transportation, 9.28 per cent.; bank
ing, 1.45 per cent.; government, 5.61 per cent.; un
classified industries and miscellaneous income, 33.0 R
g '¢l cent.—Moultrie Observer, |
~ MORE DOPE ABOUT INCOME TAX = 1
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Changes wrought by births, deaths and marriages
during the last year affect materially income tax
returns for the year 1923. Millions of babies were
added to family circles. For each, the parents, in
addition to the personal exemptions allowed mar
ried couples, are entitled to a $4OO credit for a de
pendent.
Boys and girls who became self supporting, and
whose parents allow them the use of their earnings
without restriction, form a new class of taxpayers.
Each must file an income tax return and pay a tax
on his or her net income, if such income was in ex
cess of $l,OOO. The earnings of dependent minor
children who have not been ‘‘emancipated’’—al
lowed the use of their earnings by their parents—
must he included in the parents’ return of income.
Widows and widowers who lost their spouses dur
ing the year 1923 are especially affected. Unless
remarried on or before December 31, 1923, or the
head of a family, they are allowed only the $l,OOO
exemption granted a single person.
Widows and widowers are not required to show
on their individual returns the income of husband
or wife up to the time of death. The income of a
decedent is considered separately, and a return must
be filed by the executor or administrator of the es
state. The executor or administrator who makes a
return for a decedent is entitled to claim for him
his full personal exemption, according to his status
as a single or married person at the time of death.
In an individual return the taxpayer’s status as
of December 31, 1923, determines the amount of his
exemptions and credits. If on that day the tax
payer was married and living with wife or husband,
the exemption is $2,500 if the couple’s net income
for 1923 was $5,000 or less and $2OOO if the net in
come exceeded $5OOO. If single, the exemption is
$lOOO.
If, on December 31, 1923, a single person, because
of some moral or legal obligation, was supporting
in his home one or more relatives over whom he ex
ercised family control, he was the head of a family
and is entitled to the same exemptions granted a
}man-iml person. If his support of such relatives
Lcoasml during the year, he is entitled only to the
$l,OOO exemption. If a dependent dies during the
year, the £4OO credit for such a person is not allowed.
Taxpayers are reminded that the period for filing
returns ends at midnight of Mareh 15. Failure to
file within the time prescribed renders the delin
(quent liable to heavy penalties.
IT'S GREAT TO THINK ABOUT
A combined effort of Cobb county and Bartow
county is being made to get the road from Carters
ville to Marietta paved. If the plans go through
it will be one of the biggest things either county has
done in ten years.
This would give the people a paved highway from
Cartersville to Atlanta and both Cobb and Bartow
counties great advantages in transportation.
It has been suggested that the renaming of Ar
mistice Day as Wilson Day would be a fitting me
morial to this soldier of humanity.—Savannah
Press.
The fellow who is all the time arguing over re
ligion is usually the same man who hasn’t any to
hurt.—Greenshoro Herald-Journal.
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Miss Woodward, editor of the Vienna News, has
scratched down into history and found that Napo
leon had the iteh.—Bill Biffem, in Savannah Press.
When March comes in and hears about his broth
er, February, he won’t have anything to blow
about.-——Atlanta Constitution.
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(iambling is but one remove from theft, and both
are the spring of covetousness,
~ An oath is not needed by a good man, nor will it
prevent the bad man from perjuring himself,
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For what thou canst do thyself rely not on an
other,
He who is scared by words has no heart for deeds.
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The fittest place where man can die is where he
dies for man,
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
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The Question of Grocery
Service is Settled for Good
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Many housewives of Marietta spend unnecessary
time planning to run up town and buy a small order of
groceries that could be given over the phone and prompt
delivery made without a cent cost to them.
We are prepared to care for your grocery needs in
a most satisfactory way and always keep our service up
to the highest standard. =
Form a grocery connection with a firm that delivers
the goods. .
Remember we are exclusive agents for Bonnie Princess
Flour. If you are not using this famous flour give
us an order. Its guaranteed to you
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Are you planning your farm work for 1924? Are
you preparing NOW to cash in during 1924 on the
experience last year?
Suceess begins with a fellow’s will. Have you de-
MEMBER termined that you WILL use the experience of past
FEDERAL for stepping stones to greater success in the future?
RESERVE \ We are willing to help the fellow who has an aim
SYSTEM backed by determination which always wins. Our
money is safe when loaned to people who believe in
themselves—believe in their neighbors—believe in
their county and in their great commonwealth and
its sure promise of success to those who faithfully
toil.
The soil’ calls for you to give it the opportunity to
prove its full ability. We have not yet sounded
the depths of its possibilities.
Greater efforts will bring success.
We urge farmers to attend County Agricultural Pro
gram meeting February 21 and 22 at Court House.
! irst Nati
ank
he First National Ban
A MILLION DOLLAR BANK
Marietta Georgia
OFFICERS: DIRECTORS:
J. E. MASSEY, President JOS. M. BROWN JOHN W. HANCOCK
JOS. M. BROWN, Vice-Pres. A. V. CORTELYOU LITTLE
D. R. LITTLE, Cashier il
A. D, LITTLE, Asst. Cashier. E. P. DOBBS J. E. MASSEY
EDW. W. GROVES, Aset. Cashier T. C. ERWIN G. P. REYNOLDS
Thursday, February 21, 1924
