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s«¥The Marietta Courler.
& CONSOLIDATED SEPT 3 190%®
JOSIAH CARTER, Editor and Manager,
MRS. ANNIE L. CARTER. Associsie Editor
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MARIETTA
Official Organ of Cobb County.
Marietta Ga. Jan. 2 1914
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
«LCongress will reconvene on the
12th and take up a heavy load of
work that has been mapped out for
th_e regular session. Very little of it,
however, will possess any general in
terest, :
The tariff and currency bills hav
ing been disposed of the other meas
ures take on a hum-drum air and the
public will almost forget that any
thing is going on in Washington,
except the preparation for putting
the - new currency system into oper
ation. Interest will attach to the
appointment of the Federal Reserve
Board and the designation of tho
Regional Bank cities. It is expected
that Atlanta will be given one of the
banks.
It is possible that President Wii.
son will urge the passage of some
amendments to the Sherman anti
trust law, but there is a strong sen
timent over the country that this
should be delayed until business has
adjusted itself to the tariff and cur
rency laws. Vice President Marshall
has expressed the opinion that Con
gress should pass the necessary ap
propriation bills, adjourn and give
the country a rest. It would be a
wise thing to do and it may meet
the approval of the President.
All the Congressmen will have to
run for office in 1914 and they will
naturally be anxious to hurry home.
There will be several hot cam
paigns in South Georgia. The death
of Congressman Roddenbery brought
about a short, sharp fight, which re
sulted in the election of Judge Park
in the Second district. The cam
paign cost him over $4,000. The new
Congressman will he in the midst
of a fight again within a few
months., Congressman Walker will
have a fight in the Eleventh, and
there is trouble brewing for others
of the South Georgia delegation.
It is not yet known whether Hon.
Tom Hardwick will run in the
Tenth. He has felt inclined to re
tire from Comgress and it is known
that he could make twice as much
in the practice of law as his place
in Washington pays him. If Judge
Emory Speer is impeached or retires
there is a very strong probability
that Mr. Hardwick will be appointed
to succeed him.
Congressman Bartlett, of Macou,
is in rather bad health and is now
on his way home from a stay at
Carlsbad. It is not known whether
he will engage in another cam
paign. In 1912 Hon. J. W. Wise
ran him a very close race and he is
& candidate again for 1914,
Hon. Gordon Lee has his usual
cinch. There will be nothing doing
in the Seventh.
It is not supposed that Judge
Adamson will have any opposition
in’ the Fourth. The Judge is one
of the best Congressmen in Wash
ington. His judgment on public
matters is almost infallible and
there are not many men who wield
as much influence. The South has
a -great opportunity now and should
keep strong men in Congress,
e 14\ * * *
I “Senator Bacon is in good health
and has settled down to his new
term, five years of which remain t>
be served. He is now in his sev
enty-fifth year and by the end of
his term will be in his eightieth
yéar. It is wonderful how young
Né“appears and how strong and
‘Clear he is in debate. But he takes
‘admirable care of himself. There
are younger men in the Senate who
are not his equal in phyiscal con
dition.
Senator Perkins, of California, is
the same age as Sepnator Bacon, yet
he trembles with palsy and rises
with great difficulty, clinging to his
desk while he utters a few faltering
words occasionally. Tillman, who
is 66, and was recently re-elected
that he might ‘‘die in harness,” is
80 feeble that he is in his seat very
little of the time.
One night two weeks ago, while
the currency bill was under consid
eration, Senator Sutherland, of
mh, who is 51, was kicking about
the night sessions and said he, for
one, was going to have his rcct and
sleep and would not attend. Sena
tor Bacon, who was there every
night, said he thought the kick
would come with better grace from
an older man.
It is only by taking good care of
himself, however, that an old Sena
tor can avoid the dangers of the
Washington climate. The summers
are very hot and depressing and the
winters are cold and treacherous. A
cold easily becomes a case of pneu
monia and that man is wise who
takes no chances with the weather.
* * *
In view of the long extra session
and the fact that the two big bills
have been passed there is a strong
probability that the Senators and
Congressmen will try to hurry
through and get away by some timo
in June. That will give the Con
gressmen about three months at
home for the campaigns.
JOSIAH CARTER.
CRUELTY TO LANGUAGE.
Joseph Jastrow, of the University
of Wisconsin, would found a society
for the prevention of cruelty to the
English language. Recently, he told
delegates to the National Council of
Teachers of English, at Chicago, thar
some such organization was fast be
coming necessary. Of what avail, he
urged, to drill grammar and rhetoric
into the brains of children when on
the outside powerful forces for dis
integrating, represented in slang
and loose idioms, nullified such
teaching?
The English language is a pretty
tough structure and it has survived
many batterings and rumors of war,
intact if not unscathed. By and
large, the purity of English as spoken
by the masses in this country has
reached and still is reaching a high
er level.
- The trouble with most of our
censors is that they want to reduce
language to a chill and mathematical
formula. They balk at making al
lowance for flexibility and change in
conditions. Take slang, for nistance.
Once people viewed it as an abomina
tion without virtue, to be taboo~d
and sat down upon each time it
showed a head. But now ‘“every
body's doing it.” Why? For the
simple reason that slang enriches
and implifies the powers for expres
sion. And if language isn't made as
a vehicle for expression, we are un
able to find any other function for
it.
It is, indeed, probable that the
lordly disregard for the super
niceties of grammar, often observed
in this country, has done more for
the language than any other one in
fluence. Certainly, it has given to
the English tongue a breeziness, a
vividness and a sledge-hammer
force it never possessed before it
crosed the water. Nor are tshe pro
fessional grammarians always the
court of last resort. The people real
ly possess that dignity. 1f they,
over a stretch of years,.give to a
phrase or a formula a setting which
the sticklers denounce, eventuallv
the sticklers give in and the phrase,
the formula or the word goes into
the dictionary and into our every
day equipment.—Atlanta Consti*in
tion.
SUPERVISION.
Some of the rubber companies are
getting rich selling ordinary, ev
ery-day rubber erasers. These erasers
are all used for correcting people's
small mistakes. Some of them get
mighty hard use. If you don't think
you make mistakes, take a look at
the eraser on your desk or on the
pencil in your own pocket.
So why should any of us balk at
supervision, which is simply a safe
guard to prevent mistakes going
through. In a well organized busi
ness every one has his work super
vised. The president is under the
supervision of the board of directors.
And the directors are under the
supervision of the stockholders. We
all need supervision, and most of
us get it whether we want it or not.
At the same time the less super
vision we require the more we are
worth to ourselves and to the con
cern that employs us. The only rea
son we need supervision is to rectify
our mistakes and to make doubly
sure that we do not make the same
mistake twice. And as we all make
mistakes, we must all have somebody
to watch us.
If you ever think you don't need
supervision because you don’'t make
mistakes, take ‘another look at your
eraser.
Mr. C. M. Head's fine lettuce is
fresh every day at E. L. Faw's and
L. W. Rogers’ stores.
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THE MARIETTA JOURNAL AND COURIER
Great Things Expected of New Bureau
in the Natior&al Department
of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. ——
The division of markets in the de
partment of agriculture is getting un
der headway with good prospects that
it will attain the degree of usefulness
hoped for by the men at whose sug
gestion it was established. There are
already twenty-four persons at work,
with Charles J. Brand at the head of
the division. It is doubtful if any
movement of similar importance in
the interest of agriculture was ever
put into operation in so short a time
after it was planned. It has been
only about a year and a half since the
officers of the Farmers’ Union first
conferred with Senator Hoke Smith
and Congressmen Callaway of Texas
and Webb "of North Carolina, and yet
the division, backed by a fifty thou
sand dollar appropriation, has been
organized for months,
The First Suggestion.
In the meetings of the Farmers’' Un
ion the members, in their discussions,
were brought face to face with the
fact that all over the country food
was rotting in the fields and orchards
because it could not be gotten to
market. Potatoes were twenty-five
cents a bushel in one state and a dol
lar and a quarter a bushel in another,
and so with other products.
It was found that while the con
suming public was paying the highest
possible prices the farmers were not
getting over, say, forty per cent., of
what the consumer paid. It occurred
to the delegates at these national
gatherings that if the government was
to spend millions in teaching scientific
production it might spend something
on sclentific marketing, and this was
the germ of the division of markets.
One day in the early spring of last
year five men called at the office of
Senator Hoke Smith. They were
Charles Barrett, president of the
Farmers’ Union; R. F. Duckworth, a
member of the legislative committee;
J. H. Patten, attorney for the organ
ization; T. J. Brooks and A. C. Da
vis, prominently identified with the
Union. They laid the proposition be
fore the senator. President Barrett
said:
“The best thing you could do for
the farmers of this country would be
to pass a bill establishing a division
of markets in the department of agri
culture, which would help the farmers
to market their crops. To make a
crop is one thing, but to market farm
products at a profit is really more im
portant than increasing the yield.”
Senator Smith entered at once into
the plans and it was decided to enlist
the interest of Congressmen Callaway
and Webb to press the bill in the
house.
The Fight Is Quickly Won
The bill was introduced in the sen
ate by Senator Smith and was passed
without much delay, but it met op
position in the house, where it did
not get out of the committee, although
Senator Smith did succeed in getting
through an appropriation for a pre
liminary investigation. At the next
gession a report covering five hundred
pages was made by the department
of agriculture endorsing the plans of
the bill. FKFor a second time Senator
Smith put the measure through the
senate as a rider on the agricultural
department appropriation bill. The
house conference committee still
fought it, but Senator Smith forced
a compromise by which $50,000 was
included in the appropriation bill for
the preliminary work of starting the
division, so that in about a year af
ter the first meeting was held at
which the officers of the Farmers’
Union suggested the bill the depart
ment was in operation.
le a G-eat Undertaking.
The task of establishing and work
ing out the division of markets is far
more difficult than would be suppos
ed. At first glance it seems easy—
merely keeping the farmers advised
as to prices and supply conditions at
various points.
That is not the problem at all. It
will take several years to bring the
division to the state of usefulness con
templated and in time it may almost
rival the department of agriculture
itself in importance. When it is re
membered that the agricultural prod
ucts of the country run into the bil
lions and that we have foreign as
well - a 8 domegtic markets and that
the division will concern itself with
everything from the marketing of but
ter and eggs to the marketing of cot
ton, the great crops of wheat and corn,
fts field of usefulness is almeost with
out limit. It means such organiza
tion and co-operation among the farm
ers that the man who produces will
be afforded shipping facilities with
such reduction of expense between
producer and consumer that both will
be benefited.
A Big C-untry and a Big World.
The country is so large and the
population so scattered as compared
with parts of Europe that the prob
lem {s much more difficult than would
be the case over there. Germany is
only about two and a half times larg
er than Kansas. Our country is three
thousand miles across and twelve hun
dred miles from north to south. Pro
ducer and consumer are further apart.
Expense of transportation is greater.
Yet we see some strange sights. The
division of markets wishes to know
just now, for instance, why Chicago is
eating caulifiower from Long {sland
and California while the wesetable
should be produced in the immediate
vicinity of the Windy City.
Denmark is the most highly organ
ized agricultural country in the world.
It is about the size of four or five
ordinary counties. It produces but
ter, eggs, milk and bacon for the
London and Liverpol markets. Being
so small and devoting itself to these
few things it, of course, has a stand
ard product of known guantity and
all arrangements for shipping and mar
keting can be definitely planned. Con
trast such conditions with those that
surround a Georgia farmer who only
occasionally has a few eggs or a little
butter to sell, with no definite or or
ganized system for getting them to the
market. A source of supply is almost
as important as a market, for in no
other way can transportation arrange
ments be made on good terms. The
parcels post is destined to greatly fa
cilitate these short hauls and small
transactions, but the big business of
farming has got to look to more ex
tensive co-operation among the farm
ers. In that way they will provide a
definite source of supply in such quan
tity and so standardized as to make
marketing easier.
Investigating Cotton.
There are men in Georgia from the
markets divisions at this time making
an investigation to see if the farmer
who produces a high grade of cotton,
or who handles his cotton with care
receives the actual increased value,
or it his cotton is paid for on practi
cally the same basis as inferior
grades. Samplers are taking samples
of individual bales, and they will be
followed through to the mills that will
use the cotton.
Information will be gathered as to
what kinds of cotton can be best
produced in a given section and the
farmers will be advised so they can
produce the kind best suited to that
section and thus help to standardize
the product of that locality.
Along with that will be furnished in
formation as to the kinds of cotton
the various manufacturing points de
sire. Augusta, for instance, has a rep
utation for desiring a high grade of
cotton. The division of markets is in
vestigating to see if Augusta really
pays the higher price for the fine
grades shipped there. Atlanta takes
a different grade, and so on. This sort
of information will put the farmers
wise to marketing conditions.
Community Marketing.
Marketing in community units will
be kept in mind. The consumption end
of the problem will be carefully looked
into. The whole idea is to bring
the producer and consumer together
with the least possible amount of
waste.
Just now, to illustrate, the division
wants to know why the cotton oil
mill men of South Carolina are over
in Georgia buying seed, while the Geor
gia cotton oil mill men are over in
South Carolina doing the same thing.
But is that any more remarkable
than that the farmers in Denmark
who are shipping butter and eggs
to England are buying canned corn
from America at forty cents a can
that is selling in this country at 12
cents? It is said that the farmers
in Denmark are raising so few vege
tables that as a people they are suf
fering in health on that account.
City Marketing.
The division of markets is also in
vestigating the matter of city market
ing, which includes wholesaling, re
tailing, auction sales, the utilizing of
trolley car service, etc.
Mr. Brand mentions as an illustra
tion of what preparation will do the
method of the Long Island railroad,
which has a big vegetable farm on
Long Island. It has what it calls the
hamper system. A hamper is made
to hold, say, six smaller boxes. A
man in New York gives an order for a
hamper with directions as to what it
shall contain, say, a box of beans, one
of peas, one of turnips and so on,
or he may leave it all to the garden
er and his hamper is sent to him
every two or three days, going di
rectly from the garden to his home.
This idea in the course of time will
be utilized to great advantage through
the parcels post.
Senator Smith regards the division
of markets as of very great import
ance. He expects it to grow into im
mense usefulness. The bill which he
introduced at the suggestion of the
officers of the Farmers’ Union has
been one of his pet measures, rank
ing with his bill for agricultural col
lege extension work, and the part
he has taken in establishing the par
cels post. The senator has spoken
in favor of governmental aid to road
building and believes it is coming in
the near future. With good roads, the
development of the parcels post, with
a farm demonstrator in every county
and the market division helping the
farmers to protect their crops, he
thinks important steps will have been
taken to put agriculture on a busi
ness basis and the American farmer
will grow more and more independ
ent.
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the timid man in a drug store. “Can
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Happy New Year
We take this occasion to thank
our customers for the liberal pat
ronage of the past year, and to so
licit the continuance for the same.
During the coming year it shall
be our policy, as in the past, to
serve you with the best the mar
ket affords at the closest possible
prices.
Again wishing each and every
one a happy and prosperous New
Year we await your orders.
E. L. FAW,
The Fancy Grocer
Phone 20. Marietta, Ga.
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Ultimatety Spiritual,
It 18 a great step m the interpreta.
don of life when we have discovered
‘hat all events are ultimately spirit
-lal.—Brierly.