The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, July 20, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe. MarieHa Tonenal JOURNAL, ESTABLISHED 183 VOL. 53. Says Many Telegrams And Letters Have Reached Him About Bill. ince the inclusion of cotton in the Food Control Bill in the Senate, peing on the Committee on Agricul ture, my friends throughout the 7th Congressional Distri(;t have flooded me with telegrams and letters of pro test to this, to such an extent that I desire to answer them through the columns of your paper. ‘ I know how important the question as to the price of cotton will be to. the farmer this fall. I also realize that the people who raised cotton in the years of 1914 and 1915 were al most bankrupted' on account of the effect of the great war in Europe, which demoralized the prices to such an extent that cotton dropped from 12 and 13 cents to 6 cents a pound, with few buyers at that price. } In my judgment cotton is the cheapest commodity being sold, when we calculate the great expense the farmers have had to grow the pres-. ent crop, and it is absolutely impor tant to the South that they should receive at least a reasonable price for cotton. i When the Food Control Bill was reported by the Committee on Agri culture in the House, it contained not one word which could be con strued to include cotton. The con trol was limited to foods, feeds and fuel. An effort was made on the! floor of the House to include other things, but they were finally disposed of, either by vote or poihts of orderi were raised against them. We admitted that cotton seed would likely be included in feeds and fuels, but lint cotton had no place in the bill. Therefore, when the mat ter passed the House, cotton was not included in the bill. To make thei matter perfectly safe and beyond question, Representative Young, of‘ Texas made it impossible for the courts to so construe it, by an amend ment to the Bill which he offered. Cotton was inserted in the bill in the Senate. I am one of the three conferees in the House to meet with a like number of conferees in the Senate to settle the differences between the House and the Senate bill on the subject of food control. We have had several meetings, but no final results have been attained. I want to assure my Iriends throughout the Distriet that my efforts and influence on this Measure will be to restrict the bill, @ was formerly intended, to include only foods, feeds and fuels. Cotton will be eliminated from this bill if ;’l}' ‘»‘oze and influence can attain this esult, Yours truly, GORDON LEE. A WISHING BUG may sting you epeatedly, but unless you DO SOMETHING nothing but empty WISHES will ensue. You WI{SH you had an account in this Bank be cause it would benefit you. _All right. Now DO SOME TI'”f\IG—-—even if it is only a small amount to start with—come in and open an Account today. The First National Bank Irst INational ban MARIETTA, GEORGIA CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, - $180,000.00 IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE CIVIC LEAGUE A meeting of the Civic League is called for Tuesday afternoon, July 24th at five o’clock at the library. It will be remembered that there was $145.00 made at the first carnival. This money was and has been saved for the purpose of putting in some permanent improvements on the square or in the park. In view of the changes being made around town, it seemed to the Executive Board & wise time to invest this sum of money. It is especially desired that those who worked so hard to make the first carnival a success by serv ing on various committees, should be present at this meeting and give ex pression to their ideas of the way the money should be spent. The League has a list of these com mittees and they are going to be asked to phone those who served with them and try to get a large number to attend this meeting. FARMERS, STOCKMEN, MERCHANTS AND BANKERS! Read this and please attend meet ing of the Cobb County Food Safety Association, to be held in the court house at Marietta, Saturday after noon, July 21. We want to make arrangement for our club show and agricultural fair. 'and get ready for the Farmers In stitute August Bth, as well as several other things of importance. Be sure and come. JOHN P. CHENEY Pres., B. G. BRUMBY, Sect’y. D. E. SAWYER, County Ag’t. BAPTIST CHURCH NEWS, Dr. I. A. White exchanged pulpits with Dr. Joshua H. Foster, of For syth, last Sunday. Dr. Foster travels in the interest of Bessie Tift College during the summer months, and told gof the work of”the college in the Imorning service. ~ For the last fqur Sundays the Sun ‘day School has ifcreased in numbers. \ The group in charge of Mr. J. H. 'Hawkins led the B. Y. P. U. last Sun ‘day evening. ~ The report which the delegates ?'will take of the Noonday Association "will show that the church here raised, ‘including missions and local work, over six thousand dollars. - PRIZE WINNER IN CONTEST The prize of $2.50 in gold offered by the managers of the $l,OOO in gold | contest was won by Afnie Laurie‘ Benson for getting coupons armount- | ing to $4,655.45 during the month from the middle of June to thel ‘middle of July. Ten children in cluding Annie Laurie Benson, Lo rena Conyers, Marie Dobbs, Doug las Northcutt, Ruby Mayes, Lois Benson, Thelma Rollins, Thurston Worley and Polly Webb. After the prize had been awarded Mrs. J. M. Gann and Mrs. F. B. Wellons took all the children to the picture show and afterward to Hodges ice cream parlor for refreshments. AND COURIER MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1917. se S e s, . G O s o T S S S A | REPORT JULY 17, 1917, COBB COUNTY CHAPTER { AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS ! Town ' No. of Total Amount Earned by | or District : Members Pledged Paid Local Work { Marietta .. oo 0 0 kel - sl,olB* $1,025 $83.006 ACWorts .or oL 109 T 2 g SO 103* 53 7.35 Roswell .. oo oicie oo 000 244 244 38.00 Powder Spribhew ... ... o 8 v 6 6 ' Maclond ... ..... --------; 1 10 10 “*Paid to Atlanta previously $132. *Paid to Atlanta previously 42. €€ ON E ) ; , l By N. K. SMITH. Some where in the National Ceme tery, Marietta, Ga. Monday morning a funeral car came in from Atlanta;—silently a gray covered casket was carried to the waiting hearse by a detail of brown-clad soldiers, and headed by another detail proceeded to the National Cemetery. ; There beneath the drooping boughs of a tall pine was laid away ONE of the soldiers of the nation. : Sergeant Geo. W. Holcomb, of Co. G. sth Ga., Infantry, died in service ready to go to the front, ready to charge the enemy, ready to take to his breast the cold steel, or the death dealing lead. Ere he could cross the seas and take his place in the ranks of those who will defend the prinei ples for which this war is waged he has answered to a higher command, and gone. Is he not as much a hero as though he had been first in & charge on a bloody battle-field in France, and fallen with his body torn by enemy shot? This incident should bring closergj us all the stern fact that we are af war. Had Sergeant Holcomb’s. life been taken nearby from an enemy bayonet some would realize it, who now dream of a far distant war fought by strangers. And yet ONE has been laid to rest in our very midst. Two, three, perchance many more will quietly come to take their places beside him underneath the‘ sighing pines, without the glory of drum and fife or military pomp, but slowly and silently seek a last resting place in the nations tomb. | Oh ye who are dreaming away the hours, thinking only of all that is 'pleasant, and free from sadness, ‘'when ever ‘these funeral corteges come and wend their way over the hill to the sighing pines above an ‘open grave, cease your business and gather at the grave side, and even if it be a woman’s way, shed a tear for the life that was given so freely for| our flag and our country. For who | knows, this loving tribute for some mother’s son who cannot take her in his manly arms and hold her whiten ed head to his breast again, may sweeten the sorrow that may be ours some day. For we all have friends, loved ones, brothers and sons who, have taken up the cause, and stand now ready to face death from the ruthless foe, ready to be mangled by !t?e cruel shells, or torn by shrapnel. is not so far away from us now as it seemed a bit ago when every seat at the table was filled, when loved ones voice. The table seat is vacant, for came at the sound of another loved awhile, the footsteps cannot be heard —only the echo of a theusand feetl Fnarching forward, ever forward, to meet they know not what. And yet they have gone, ready, willing and trained to meet whatever comes. With a brave heart and steady eye they ever face the front, and go to glory. to death, or perchance in God’s mer cy to go through a living hell and come back home to loved ones. To him who joins the colors, wheth er he dies from fever on his native soil, or whether he dies holding the enemy back in a last charge in a for eign land, he is a hero, he is one of our boys, and no matter whose son he is or how he is reared, or from whence he came, he is a hero. The Captain gives the word, the detail fires the saiute, the bugler standing at the foot of the open grave sounds the last call, the sol dier lying beneath him, has heard from somewhere the sound—and is standing at attention before the Great Commander of us all, Lov ing, gentle hands spread over the grave a cover of flowers, Red, White, Blue, the glorious flag is folded, the PHYSICIANS BADLY NEEDED IN THE ARMY Atlanta, Ga., July 16.—That four hundred physicians of Georgia are ‘needed immediately 'to become com missioned officers in the medical re serve corps as volunteers to go with the troops now being called from this state, and that only 91 applications have been received to date, is the statement of Dr. L. Sage Hardin, chairman of the state committee, medical section, Council of National Defense, who urges it as the duty of every Georgia physician or surgeon who can do so, to offer his ser\ricesi immediately. o | “Physicians of Georgia have al ready been notified of this need,” states Dr. Hardin, “and it is my dutyl to bring the slight response we have received to the attention of the medi cal profession throughout the state. ““We have been advised by the Chief of the Council, that the troopsl Imust be supplied with the proper number of proficient physicians, as f’our soldiers must have THE BEST‘ OF MEDICAL ATTENTION, and ‘that unless the demand is met soon,l ‘the requisite number will be obtained by the GENERAL CONSCRIPTION to take place BETWEEN NOW AND AUGUST sth. Those, so taken, who can qualify, will be selected for The Medical Reserve Corps and those who cannot, will occupy the position of privates and be assigned to.the du ties of orderlies, etc. VOLUN TEERS to the Medical Reserve Corps will receive the first consideration as to resigning at the close of the war, while those CONSCRIPTED will be retained until the Department sees fit to relievel them. The Medical Reserve Corps Officer ranks as First Lieutenant with a salary of $166.66 per month. Orderlies, etcs., receive the rank of a private, with a salary of $3O per month. If sufficient num ber of Medical Men are not secured by this method, the conscription age will probably be increased for physi cians to 40 years—hence it behooves those over 31 to also make applica tion and be examined now, although they may not be needed. “At the present time, with authér ized Medical Examiners, it is not necessary for applicants to go to the Surgeon General’s Office at Wash ington before examinations are made. Proper blanks may be obtained from the State and County Committees and the regular Army Posts—Fort McPherson, Fort Oglethorpe, Fort Screven, and Fort Moultrie—where examinations will be made and the applications and examinations sent in at the same time. At present the State Committee has an Examiner canvassing the State of Georgia for MEDICAIL. MEN. : “The examination is not as rigid] as during “time of peace.” Special | stress is laid upon the heart, lungs and acute infec}ions diseases, with a fair knowledge 'of surgery. The ap plicant needs to be in generally ;:oodi health, as many defects that will be waived at the time of examination, may be overcome by the out of doors and systematized life he will lead. “It has been arranged by the State and County Committees, that as far as practicable, patients of absent physicians shall be taken care of ; that for services so rendered, a rec ord shall be kept and 507% of the in come delivered to the representative of the absent physician; and that up on his return, his practice shall be returned to him. The emergency is! acute—think cuickly and act prompt-i ly." | } flag he loved and honored, the, flag! he could no longer follow or protect, for he is laid beneath the soft sigh ing, southern pine, somewhere in the | National place of rest in Marietta, [ 'FARM DEMONSTRATOR iTELLS ABOUT ALFALFA ; SRR [ T want to-call your atiention to | this article about alfalfa. 1 think it ;ans“’ers a lot of questions that peo | ple are asking, Don't it hold me up éin the arguments that 1 have been | making when I have been trying to get you to sow an acre. This article is from the Southern Cultivator. 1 thank the editor, and correspondent, Respectfully, D. E. SAWYER, County Agent, Marietta, Ga. Under this head in your issue of May 15th, Mr. Marcus F. Carson, of Griffin, Ga., criticises those who ad vocate growing alfalfa in Georgia, and classifles those who attempt to advise others what to do with alfalfa as “hot-air artists.” I never did like to advise others what to do, but if Mr. Carson will run down to Barnesville some time I will show him about one acre of alfalfa something like eight years old. I have averaged from three to five tons of hay from this acre each vear, and in 1915 and 1916 1 prac }tically fed my mules on it, as a long Idrouth cut my grain crop to nothing. ‘The land on which I have this alfalfa ‘would not have produced one bale of cotton when I seeded the alfalfa, nor did I have 50 loads of manure to put on it. But I experimented with al fala for two years on a small spot till I knew what I was doing, then increased it to ope acre. My land is we!} drained, red stiff soil. I used not over one ton of lime, about five or six Joads of manure after turning un der heavy coat of peavines, and sow ed 30 pounds of seed. | I have top dressed patch once with a high-grade fertilizer, and have tried to broadcast four or five loads of cow manure each year, but I have not averaged doing this over once every other year. 1 have cut it as often as six times in ome year, and ‘have never cut less than three times. I have never owned a cow since I have been growing alfalfa, but I have well furnished from this patch enough roughness for three work mules forj‘ eight years. I am now feeding on last year’s crop and have enough to last for three months longer without drawing upon this year’s crop. I know of no crop which I could grow upon this acre that would give me anything like the returns I am re ceiving each year from alfalfa. In fact, I could not get along without this acre of alfalfa. It is easily grown, quickly gathered and cured and the finest and richest feed 1 know of. 0. A. MURPHEY, Barnesville, Ga. DEATH OF MR. BARMORE. A —— 9 Mr. Jim Barmore died at his home Sunday morning at three o’clock, end was buried in the city cemetery Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock, The funeral services were conducted from the Olinville Church by h'is pas tor, assisted by the Rev. Rembert Smith. Mr. Fred Scroggins, Miss Kate Scroggins, Miss Annie Scrog gins, Mr. Charlie Hames, Miss Nan Mcllntyre, and Mr. John Meclntyre sapg the beautiful and comforting songs, “Nearer My God to Thee”, “Asleep In Jesus” and “Rock of Ages”. He leaves a wife and five children, Mr. Gene Barmore, Mrs. Gertrude Lutch, Miss Wyler Bar more, Mr. Fred Barmore and Miss Myrtle Barmore. ATTENDING CONFERENCE. The Rev. Rembert Smith and Mr. Erwin, the Presiding Elder, left Wednesday for Blue Ridge to attend the District Conference. MONEY TO LOAN We have several thousand dollars on hand for good real estate loans. Can make good farm loans at 6% interest. No delay. See us if ‘vou want to borrow money. HOLLAND & McCLESKEY, ATTORNEYS REYNOLDS BUILDING, MARIETTA, GA. COURIER, ESTABLISHED 1901 0 SESSON Fo Judge Morris Tells Grand Jury to Enforce State Pure Food Laws. The regular July term of Cobb Superior Court began Monday morn ing. Judge Morris delivered a strong charge to the Grand Jury, stressing the prohibition law, gambling and other points which the law requires him to mention. He alse instrueted the jury to look into the matter of the leak found in the city water works system and to bring the par ties responsible for this matter to justice. He was particularly strong in regard to the pure food law and instructed the jury to indict Enyone who was selling unclean milk, ice cream, meat or foods of any kind that were not of good quality and healthful. Most of the week will be taken up in civil matters and next week criminal business will be taken up. \ HOME GUARD TO MEET ‘ AGAIN FRIDAY NIGHT l Pursuant to the ecall issued last ‘week, a mass meeting was held Mon dalr night at the Court House to dis cuss the advisability of organizing a “Home Guard” for Marietta. Af ter several good patriotic speeches, temporary organization was perfect ed, with Col J. Colton Lynes as Chairman and C. E. Daniell, Secre tary. J. C. Milam, Jr,, Campbell Wallace and W. T. Potts were ap . pointed as a committee to secure such information as would mere fully in form the men of the duties of the organization and report to the next meeting. Col. W. R. Power /was ap pointed chairman of a committee with authority to solicit members for the organization. All men not subject to the selec tive draft for war duty are requested to be present at the court house Fri day night, July 20th, to consider this important matter. ‘ WILL CLEAN OFF GRAVE YARD AT MOUNT BETHEL IN AUGUST All who are interested in the ceme tery at Mount Bethel are hereby no tified that there will be an all day working en the cemetery on Wednes day before the first Sunday in Au-: gust. Everybody is invited to come and show ,their respect for the dead. NEW MEMBERS FOR RED CROSS SOCIETY Acworth Mrs, H. W. Kitchen $l.OO Mrs. Julia McMillan 1.00 Mrs. H. B. Terry 1.00 Mrs. Dimon 1.00 Mr. Jack Carruth 1.00 Miss Clara Williams 1.00 Miss Annie Moore 1.00 Miss Julia Leake 1.00 Miss Lula Mitchell 1.00 Miss Elizabeth McElreath 1.00 Miss Lucile McLain 1.00 Migs Minnie McLain 1.00 Miss Dorothy Mitchell 1.00 Mrs. Charlie Gribble 1.00 Mrs. E. L. Collins 1.00 Marietta Mrs. A. C. Wylly 1.00 NO. 29.