The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, September 17, 1915, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPage Six Che Marietta Imurnal The Murl::tl’a Couriler. iy THE MAIETA PUBSHIG COMPANY JOSIAH CARTER, Jr., Business Manager. MRS. ANNIE L. CARTER, Associate Editor. @UBSCRIPTION $l.OO PER YEAR. Entered ar th—e—l:;;tomce at Marietta, Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter, Official Organ of Cobb County. Marietta, Ga., Sept. 17th, 1915, m WASHINGTON LETTER. ;% ( Washington City, September, 13th, 1915, If perchance you should be in Washington and have the time to -spare let me advise you to take a Cabin John car go out to Cabin John Bridge for it will be highly worth while to you. Cabin John Bridge is a historic spot, and has a bit of inter esting history. This Aqueduct or water-conduit was begun in 1853 ‘during the administration of Frank lin Pierce, Jefferson Davis was Sec retary of War. It was completed in 1861 during Abraham Lincoln’s Ad ministration. Simon Cameron was ‘Secretary of War. These are the on ly names that appear on the bridge. During the Civil War the name of Hon. Jefferson Davis was erased and remained off of this historic struec ture until the Administration of The odore Roosevelt. The erudite bril diant writer and orator Hon. Benja min Blackburn of Atlanta wrote President Rocsevelt a letter in which he urbanely called attention to the fact that the passions of War had blown over, forgiveness had been ex tended to both sections, the wounds ‘of War were healed, that the bonds of union were as strong as formerly and asked that the name of the illus trious Davis be restored, and Mr. Roosevelt in the spirit of superb A merican magnanimity complied with Mr. Blackburn’s commendable re quest Col. Roosevelt has an erratic nature, is fond of excitement, and is always promptly in the midst of whatever ‘is doing’ but he is as free from National prejudice as any living man. The arch in this bridge or aque «duct, for it is practically a combina tion of both iz said to be the most magnificent in the world. The nat ural scenery around it is perfectly sublime. It is about one hundred feet above the little creek that passes under it . I confess that the main thing that carried me out there was to see the name of Jeff Davis on the bridge. A remarkable incident I will me tion as I go along is the fact that Lin «oln and Davis were born in the same County, both names appear on this bridge, and they both were President of their respective sections of the country at the samc time. Hundreds ©f people pass over this bridge daily, ‘and thousands of gallons of water ‘pass through it. Washington gets her water from Great Falls on the Potomac about twelve miles above the city. A sluice of water eight feet iin diameter passes through this aqueduct amply gratifying Washing “ton’s demand for water. It is'an ab sorbing pleasure to me to stand on “the banks of Cabin John Creek and “survey this egregeous piece of mason iry, and what I delight in looking at ‘most is the name of the President of ‘“the Southern Confederacy. I am not /regretting that the Confederacy was -@ failure. I am just taking the op portunity and the pleasure of expres “Bing my admiration for Jefferson Da wvis, the Statesman, patriot, scholar -and orator. When the prejudices ‘engendered by that lamentable con flict—the last vistage gone—Jeffer som will be considered in the reful gent light of what he really was. The people of the South are due -Mr. Blackburn and Col. Roosevelt ‘slacere hearty thanks in restoring the mname of this great man to its ‘rightful place upon this great insti “gution. I hope Southern people at -deast when in Washington will take ‘madvantage of every opportunity to {BO out and see “Cabin John Bridge.” * * * * THon. W. H. Burwell speaker of the f*Georgia legislature stopped over in “"Washington this week on his return from New York City. The ‘‘States man from Hancock’ is in hearty ac <cord with Senator Smith's efforts in ‘behalf of the South’'s staple crop. When asked how times were down in Georgia, Mr. Burwell replied ““They are pretty tempestuous just @ow, I hope however things will be aormal soon.” -I asked the gentleman from Han cock if he thought the Governor' would incorporate prohibition in his call for an extra session of the legis lature, he added ‘““he hoped not, that if he did it would precipitate a warm fight’” hesitating a moment he con tinued, ““and perhaps. if he does Lot | we will still have a breezy time.” From what I can gather, if the Gov ernor does not include prouibition in the call he will make a grave mis take. As it stands tgday the whis key question in Georgia is one of, if not the leading questions. I hope the great majority of the people of Georgia will not be dominated and bambcozled by this whiskey element. * * * * Sometime ago I suggested that dip lomatic relations between this coun try and Germany would not be sev ered, and is seems that my predic tion is about to be verified. My forecast was predicted upon inter views had here with parties high up in authority who knew what they were talking about. The German Government all along at heart has wanted to show this Gevernment proper respect, and in the great flurries consequent to war it has been forced to do some very rash and nefarious things believed by those in position to know to be most certain ly unintentional. Be that as it may, it seems that the imperial govern ment has decided not only to recog nize but to accept the doctrines set fourth by the United States, govern ing oceanic transportation. %o * * I have it from reliable sources that but for the embargo on cotton that the German government would pur chase the entire surplus cotton on hand now if shipping could be guar anteed. lln fact 1t is intimated that the German Government is very like ly to purchase several million bales ‘and warehouse it in this country. I po not believe that the placing of tottcn on the contraband list will cause the price to depreciate percept ibly, if any. This is one time when the cotton producer wants to get and stay in touch with his commonsense. There is an imperative need for all of the south’s cotton crop in conduct ing the worlds commerce. England realizes the fact that her arrogant control of the seas is based upon might instead of right, and that too great an interference with the worlds commerce, now being carried on prin cipally by the neutral nations, may create so great a moral opposition that she may not be able to over ride it. Now is Americas golden op portunity to practice preach and [)I:(’,SS compatible neutrality doc trines. Scon the people will see why Senator Smith, of Georgia, has been so aggressive in pressing the claims of the American producer. * * & ¥ I am in receipt of a letter from an ex-State Senator, of Georgia, in which he says that so far he has been able to ascertain the farmers in his section wouldn't care how low the price of cotton went, if only the Al lies could whip Germany. This in deed seems remarkably strange, ana can only be accounted for when rea son is absolutely lost in prejudice. The idea seems to prevail among them that if Germany whips the Al lies, it wil' not be long before they try us. There is not a bit more dan ger of European militaryism in this country if Germany should whip, than there is of navalism in the e vent the Allies would whip. It doesn’'t make one iota's difference whi€h wins, they will let this coun try severely alone. 1 want to make one observation not to evoke a dis cussion, but just a suggestion for thought—would the commerce of the world be enhanced by the triple Al liance of Great Britain, Russia and Japan. * * * * Hon. H. R. Harris, Jr., of Chicago, 111., is a Georgian born in Merriweth er county. He went west thirty years ago, swung his shingle to the breezes in the “windy city” and has made good brilliantly. He is now assistant 1. S. Attorney in the Fede ral District Court presided over by that noted jurist Judge Kennesaw’ Landis. Mr. Harris secured his ap pointment through Senator James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, who was reared and schooled in Georgia. Col. Harris was in Washington the past week, spoke exultingly of his native state and made inquiries about many prominent Georgians. He says that Mr. Wilson will be re-elected President overwhelmingly indepen dent of whoever the Repubilcans may trot out. He says the people out in the west are unalterably op posed to war. It is but fitting to remark that Georgia can well afford to be proud of having furnished Illi nois with such an eloquent and ex emplary citizen. W. M. H. NO FAITH IN THE COURTS. A Minnesota judge has just ruled that a horse is not a mule. No won der some folks haven't any patience with the courts.—Anderson Intelli gencer, THE MARIEITA JOURNAL AND COURIER Our Washington Correspondeat Finds Out What We Already Knew About Qur Seventh District Congressman 1 used to parse in Smith’s old Eng lish grammar the well-known sen tence ““deep rivers move with silent majesty, while small brooks are noisy.” My experience and observation has taught me that this is comparitive ly true of man. There are a few gmall silent streams, there are lots of men of small mental calibers who remarkably fortunate, indeed, are conscious of their intellectial infe riority. We see evidence of this per haps almost daily. The requisite qualifications of a Legislator does not consist alone in intellectual grandeur, this however, is the lead ing and greatest requisite. A chosen representative should always be a vindication of the intelligence of the electorate. There is in all probabili ty rare exceptions to this apothegm. It is highly probable that if we all limited the noise we make to the ex tent of our general information we could not justly be charged with at least being disturbers of the public peace. The second essential qualification is discreetness, and the third is the ability to discuss all questions upon the hustings or in legiclative bodies dispassionately. In all my eursory and nomadic ex perience the best place to study men is in Washington when Congress is in session, it is graphically and in tensely exhilerating. to watch them from the gallery. A Congressman is considered here in Washington by the casual observer as a fair index to the general intelligence of the Dis trict he represents. Many are the warm compliments I have heard passed from the gallery of members on the floor during sessions as to their charming manner and intelli gent demeanor. Sometimes I have seen their deportment so strikingly impressive that observers in the gal lery would with electrical interest ask “who is that, what is that mem bers name and what state is he from.”” On one occasion I was ob serving a session of Congress and I was very much impressed with the admirable silence and intense inter est with which a member of Congress was listening, then 1 asked a gent leman sitting next to me pointing out the member his name, and he re plied; “that is Congressman Gordon Lee, of Georgia’”’ the gentleman re marking as he announced his name, “l am a resident of Washington and a frequent onlooker during sessions of Congress, and Mr. Lee's conserva tive quietude ahd seemingly rapt at tention as well as conservative dig nity when he has anything to say, sc impressed me that I asked some one the same question that you have asked me, this is how I came to know who he is, I have never met him.” A member of Congress or the Senate is not here long before Washingtonians know him from sight, that is, if he possesses an individuality or person ality beyond the ordinary, and es pecially the extraordinary. As a Georgian I am proud to claim Congressman Gordon Lee as hailing from Georgia, and if I was a citi zen of the doughty old seventh 1 POINTS OF VIEW. If you saw that ‘‘Social Lion’ not long ago at the Gem you must have been highly amused; but if you have been reading the best short stories in the Smart Set long enough to have met Mr. Daniel Pinney as the hero in “The Transmogrification of Dan” you surely resented the travesty of that fine tale. This young man’s transformation amounted to so little and fell so en tirely short of a worthy develop ment. The exhibition of the twins ended the story in the moving pie tures but when poor outraged Dan beheld his own dark eyes in the face of the infant, whose mother was a perfect blonde, his heart began to beat and life became again worth living. If you have not read it ask some one to tell you the story. It is well worth while. Fatherhood made a hero of Dan. * * *® * “The next time worry claims you, Straighten up and take a walk; It’s useless to keep brooding, And above all-—do not talk.” That is not always possible and be sides it is not good advice. Ta'king about something else beside what is troubling you is a good remedy for blues. Instead of a walk take a ride even if you have to go on a trolley car. Of course an auto is never to be despised, but the nicest ride of all is in a buggy built for two with a gentle horse that strolls along on shady lanes. You see Mrs. Warren driving Flora leisurely about town every day and often with a veri would still be prouder of him. He enjoys the respect, confidence and ad miration of his colleagues. In mak ing inquiries about ‘the standing of representatives in Congress here in Washington and especially our Geor gia delegation, I have had the grat ifying pleasure of hearing a number of warm compliments paid to Con gressman Lee. '~ Mr. Lee makes no pretentions to oratory, but he is an ardent listener and industrious worker, always answering the roil call and at his post of duty ‘“when taking out time comes’”’. There are two important functions in the curriculum of Con gress, one is the proposing or intro-‘ duction of important legislation and the other,'is helping to materialize good legislation by voting for it. ‘ There are but few constructive ’statesmen, therefore good men not possessing constructive ability are eminently indespensable in advanc ing to maturity constructive legis lation. I have never been an adhe rent to the doctrine of “letting well enough alone” this within itselr should not make one holding office immune to opposition, but it does be \hoove the voter ‘‘to be shown’’ be fore he votes to succeed what has ’been unanimously considered well enough by taking chances with an amateur. However, whenever well enough can be improved upen it is obligatory for the voter to do so. I am differentiating because I do not wish to be understocd as espe cially championing Mr. Lee’s inter est. I have always voted for Con gressmen in my District influenced with the idea that I was voting for ‘the best material offering for the re sponsible trust, and I have always de sired to see the Georgia delegation selected from the best Congressional timber. Congressman Lee is a man of agreeability, is very cosmopolitan and communicative, easily met, and by his commonsense manners readi ly commends himself. His ripe ex perience emminently fits him for bet ter service than ever. In these stormy and protentous times men of broad comprehension, matured ex perience and cool-headedness should al Congress. It is no time for round compose both branches of our nation about phrases and ambiguous proce dure. We want candor and straight forwardness, the day of dilly dally ing has passed. Give us men of lamenity and receptibility, that the people can approach without embar rassment and with confidence. Rep resentatives solicitious for their in terest with readiness to protect it. While the qualification for legisla tors is great, that of the voter is also important, he should be absolutely manumitted from prejudice and free from personal admiration, casting his ‘vote with proper regard for the in | trinsic worth of the candidate seek ing his suffrage. Guided by this course we are less liable to commit regretful mistakes, and the common wealth will be less liable to deleter ious influences so consequent to bias judgement in the casting of our bal lots, which is the gravest responsi hility of citizenship. ' W. M. H. table bouquet of her sister’s blonde babies smiling around her. Al ways she has some one sharing her drive and one of the most compen sating routes she takes is along Page street with its big primeval oaks and tiny cottages embowered in vines, Then out to the cemetery where so many loved ones have entered into rest and roses are blooming sweet ly above them. * * * * If you are very tired and blue and have no time to take a drive or go to the movies just phone to one of the drugstores for some ice-cream soda or cones and that will refresh and rest you and restore your equan imity. Aokl O “FAIR ENOUGH.” ‘““Some of Senator Hoke Smith’s political enemies are charging that his protest against the wunlawful blockade of American cotton from neutral ports was made as a German hireling, which every man of ordin ary intelligence knows to be a lie out of the whole cloth. His position on that question ought to be that of every true American. Factional bitterness ought to subside when the interests of a whole people are at stake. We are not, nor never have been, one of his satellites, nor expect to be, but we are honest and nervy enough to endorse him when he is right, as we stand for that rather than for men.”’—Lawrenceville News Good shoes for all the family, un derpriced. Henry A. Ward. THE SILENT TREATMENT RIGHT. ““We are still receiving copies of Northern papers reviling Georgia sn account of the Frank case and they are promptly consigned to the wasta basket. We have done with the Frank case. There are here in Geor gia some political demagogues who are evidently laying their plans to ride into office next year by appeal ing to the baser prejudices of the pecple with reference to this cele brated case, and there are newspa pers and politicians at the North who are making use of the same case to fan the flames of sectionalism for their own selfish purposes. But they can’t use The Herald by even pro voking us to rail at them in resent ment of their slanders. The case is one which now seems to call for the silent treatment at the hands of the Georgia Press.”’—Albany Herald. AMEN! A HUMAN INTEREST STORY. (By N. K. Smith.) A true story this is, of a recent happening in a Georgia town. James H. Clark, of Salem, Ga., was a mers chant and a farmer. One bright merning in May he was standing in front if his store talking to some of his friends and one of them suggest ed they take a ride out to his farm two miles in the country to the farm of Mr. Clark, in looking over the crops and conditions Mr. Clark stated to his friends that he owned three hundred acres in the tract on which he owed $2000.00, which he hoped to be able to pay off in two or three years if he lived and had good health. They returned to town and Mr. Clark went home to dinner . His wife a splendid housekeeper had a splendid dinner on the table, when the dinner bell rang the family came in to dinner consisting of his wife, three sons, Charlie, William and George, and two girls, Mary and An nie, the youngest five years old and the oldest sixteen, a most interesting family. After eating dinner Mr. Clark went back to the store and in looking over his books he found that his indebtedness for merchandise was over $2000.00 and he had cash on hand about $300.00. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon he began to feel a headache and when he went home to supper his face was flushed and he was in much pain, he ate lit tle and retired, in the night he ask ed his wife to send for the doctor, the doctor came and took his tem perature and found he had high fev er. During the next several days typhoid developed very rapidly and within ten days James Clark was hovering on the border land where the lights and shadows come and go and where the anxious faces of loved ones tcll of the struggle that was going on. This is the tale that James Clark told me after he had won the battle. He said, ‘“After days that seemed like years I was unconcious of the sur roundings in the world and had gone down in a deep valley. In my deli rium I could see all around me men, struggling to climb out of the val 'ley, some would get nearly to the top and then fall back on the rocks below and cease to move, these I knew were dead, many more climb ed and fell and I knew that soon I must climb. At times I was rational in thought but, unable to speak or move, I thought of my wife and chil dren, I thought of my farm, my store and mercantile buinsess,l thought of my debt on my farm, I thought of the debts on my store and I wonder ed what my wife would do with five children on her hands and how she would pay this debt, I knew she could not, and would Burely lose the farm or the storé; Thesé thoughts flitted through my mind like phan toms of despair, and then another thought which gave me strength ang hope, I thought of the paper that lay in my safe, it was the $5000.00 pol icy on my life in the Equitbale., I knew then that they were my trus tees and that this was safe and sure —other climbers up the rocky side of the valley had fallen and it was my time to climb—l started up the steep side of the valley and felt that in my hand was a staff and I leanedi onit 0 clixnbed higher and higher, my foot slipped,l caught and I elimb ed again and at last out of this dark and loathsome valley I went. I open ed my eyes and looked at my wife‘ and children, that were gathered around my bed, and into the face of the doctor, the doctor said ‘James you have been in the dreamland for three weeks and we thought that you would not come back, but you have won the fight.' 1 took my wife’s hand and in a weak voice told her of my journey and ¢f my policy in the Equitable that would have saved her from want if I had failed to return." LOST—Pocketbook with nine dollars and thirty five cents and one in surance receipt. Finder will be re warded by returning same to Kir by's store. J. F. Brown. 18 Friday, September 17, 1915 PROFESSIONALCARDS D. W. BLAIR. LAWYER, Norta Side Public Squars MARIETTA, GA. -‘—‘_\‘ HOLLAND & McCI.ESKEY, Attorneys At Law. CFFICE IN REYNOLDS BUILDING MARIETTA, GEORGIA. ——*—'-———“—-“ DR. C. L. McCLESKEY, —DENTIST— Office in Anderson Building, MARIETTA, - - GEORGIA, —-'——-——-———-_—‘——“- GORDON B. 7iANN, Attorney at Law and Rea! Estate Agent. Marietta, $ 2 s Georga Office up stars over Sams Drug Stors —_-——-——-—-—-_.-___’.. FRED MORRIS. LAWYER Office in Manning’s New Building, —“——h J. GLENN GILES ATTORNEY AT LAW MARIETTA, . 3 CEOKGI Office over Marietta Restanraut in building next to Court House. Dr. J. D. VMaione Office over Fowler Brothers’ Store Office Hours J 0 to 12 a. m. and 3 te 5 p. m. Office Phone 93. Residence Phone 73 North Sde Public Square, i i U W. H. Perkinson L. L. Blair. Res. Phore 191 Res. Phone 159 J DRS. PERKINSON & BLAIR PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Office Cver Book Store. Office Telephone 23. '—'——_—-————d—.—___— DR. W. M. KEMP, GENERAL PRACTITIONER MARIETTA. GA, Office, in Gober hat's g over Ward Bios. store. Rezidence allen Win: place, Lawrence strset. Residence phone 78. Office phone §. JOHN H. BOSTON, JR. ATTCHNEY AT LAW. Real Estate Loans, and Title Work Handled Especially. Gffice with D. W. Blair. LINDLEY W. CAMP, LAWYER. Office in Manning’s new Building. MARIETTA, - GEORGIA. S ee B e JNO T. DORSEY ATTORNEY AT LAW Marietta, - - - Georgla. Office in Ordinary’s Office. e A ——— ettt B. T. FREY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. MARIETTA, GA. Office over H. A. Ward’s store, Pnblic Square. Col. ections aspecialty. Money loaned. FOR SALE SIX ROOM HOUSE AND TWO LOTS ON IRELAN AVENUE. B. F. REED & CO. Phone No. 61. Smyrna, Gsa. T. J. RUTLEDGE Saleswan. DIAMOND AND CRESCENT PRESSING CLUB LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING. Ladies’ Work a Specialty. Membership $l.OO Per Month for 8 suits. AGENTS ATLANTA HAND LAUNDRY Phone 136. WE WANT AT ONCE, LOAN APPLICATION# FOR $5OO TO $2500 ON EITHER CITY OR FARM REAL ESTATX SECURITY. WE HAVE FINE LISTS OF REAL ESTATE FOE SALE. .CALL BY AND SEE US. WILLIAM TATE HOLLAND, SUCCESSOR TO R. N. HOLLAND AND 30N, No. 1 REYNOLDS BUILDING, MARI¥FITA, GA.