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The MarictHa Tonenal
' JOURNAL, ESTABLISHED 1856
Official Organ of Cobb County Georgia
VOL. 52
"N NET OF MERCY”
THE RED CROSS
Original Red Cross Work
And The Motives In The
Present Day Work |
The Symbol of Service to Mankind
Under this title Stockton Axson in
the Geographic : Magazine for April
gives the origin of the Red Cross and
a most interesting article in regard to
the work of the Red Cross. He says:
«The Red Cross is perhaps the great
est humanitarian movement of mod
ern times, which is of course equiva
lent to saying of all times, for human
itarianism is a throughly modern
thing; but this particular manifesta
tion of humanitarianism did not ori
cinate in theoretical notions of hu
maneness.
It began in a hospital and on a bat
tle field, with Florence Nightengale
at Scutari, and Henri Durant at Sol
ferino, in actual nursing of sick and
wounded soldiers in a base hospital,
in actual salvage of wounded soldiers
on a great and bloody battlefield.
There was nothing vague and the
oretical in the motive of Miss Night
engaie or M. Durant; it was as prac
tical as rescueing a drowning man or
twisting a tourniquet.”
“But the far reachng consequence
of what these two did is being written
daily in the Red Cross activities of the
present. Every RED CROSS nurse,
and ambulance driver, and canteen
server, and surgical dressings maker,
and knitter of soldiers comforts, is
carrying on the work begun by these
two in the 1850‘.”
“In doing this it works under two
main conceptions: to relieve (and as
far as possible to prevent) themisery
incident to war and to assist in main
taining the morale of the fighting
forces.” To lessen the fighting man‘s
misery and keep him fighting.”
These seem, superficially, contra
diictory motives; but all who believe
in that just peace know that it is sup
crlatively important to keep our own
soldiers and our allies on fighting
edge until the German beast is beaten
The world will never be habitable un
til that is accomplished.”
“While the Red Cross does all it
can to comfort the wounded soldier,
it adopts every device it can conceive
to make the well soldier a better fight
ing man.”
Hence it‘'s canteens and rest sta
tions and all it's co-operation with the
government, with the Y.M.C.A., and
all other war agencies, to render the
soldier life as tolerable, as comforting
and as heartening as possible.”
“But it goes back of the soldier to
the soldier's family. If there is any
outstanding lesson which the Red
Cossr has derived from it‘s experi
ence in this war as overtopping all
other lessons which it has learned, it
is this; that the morale of the soidier
depends almost as much on his hav
ing his family cared for, as having
himself cared for.” |
In a letter from Tom C. Harrison
to his aunt, Miss Inda Harrison, is the
following paragraph. “Your Red
Cross work and your other war work,
is fine. You good folks at home are
doing just as much to win the war as
we boys over here. And will we win?
Well T guess YES!
ROLL OF HONOR.
From Mrs. Hattie Nash, 7 yards of
lorgeloth for handkerchiefs to the
Friendship Circle.
From Mr. Betty, two subscriptions
to the Red Cross Magazine, for the
colored circles at Powder Springs,
one to the Rev Penn and one to the
Chairman of the Circle.
From Mr B. G. Brumby, Red Cross
Magazine for James Sheppard, the
Chairman of the Friendship Circle.
From the 7th Grade of the Water
man School, Miss Inda Harrison,
Teacher, the war savings stamp won
by the grade as aprize offered by Mr
Morgan McNeel to the class selling
the largest number of Thrift Stamps.
Contributed to the wool fund by
the class. The Class bought and sold
$1240.29 worth of stamps.
From Miss McMichels class of the
Waterman School, the book of Thrift
Stamps won as second prize, and con
tricuted by the tiny tots to the Surg
ical Dressings Commiittee.
+ The Young Ladies Auxiliary No.ll
A splendid showing was made by
MRS, TATE
Buys Entire Furnishings Of
Officers’ Club Rooms
For The Institute
When the officers of the 320th F.
A. Regiment were preparing to leave
Camp Gordon, they wished to sell
the furnishings of their Club House.
These included dining room and Kkit
chen furuiture, china, silver and glass
library table, sofa curtains, and many
other things.
Hearing of these and knowing that
Nacoochee Institute was badly in
need of all such things, Mrs. William
B. Tate bought the entire outfit from
the officers and presented it to the
school.
This most generous and timely gift
was highly appreciated by Nacoochee,
which is the Presbyterian Institute
for mountain boys and girls in San
tee, Georgia.
THE BELL BUZZARD
A belled buzzard was found dead
on the farm of Judge Morris near
Acworth several weeks ago. The bell
was about the size of a small tea bell
and was once nickel or silver plated.
It was tied on with a copper wire and
both wire and bell showed the corrod
ing effects of years of wear The
bones, together with the bell, will be
donated to the state museum in At
lanta.
At various times, in various sec
tions of Georgia, Alabama, and Tenn
essee, reports have been current of a
misterious belled buzzard and no
doubt this is at least one of the buz
zards causing these reports
Irvin Cobb wrote a thrilling short
story on the subject, which was pub
lished in The Saturday Evening Post
a few years ago, and which was voted
the prize story of its class.
Possibly this is the original buzzard
of Cobb’s story, although we believe
he placed the scene in Mississippi.
And though his story was classed
as fiction, it was founded on fact,
and might have been true to the last
line of the details.
GOLF TOURNAMENT
The Marietta Golf Club will have
a flag tournament on Friday,, June
14th. An entrance fee of fifty cents
will be charged and all funds will go
to the Marietta Surgical Dressings
Class.
Every member is urged to take
part regardless of how good or how
poor they play.
Everyone will be given handicaps
and therefore have an equal chance
to win. Everyone must qualify by
playing 18 holes on the following
dates: Tuesday, June 11th; Wednes
day, June 12th; and Thursday, June
13th.
One of the quickest things we have
noticed around Marietta these warm
days, is Charlie Head‘s “buzz wagon”
with a load of truck or stove wood.
e
lie young ladies for the month of May
and the following new members were
reported: Misses Lillian Dobbs,Eliz
abeth Anderson, Lucile Morrisz Mary
Frances Gilbert , Hattie Black and
Frances Dobbs.
~ Post QOak Branch.
} Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Daniell, Mrs M.
R. Lyon, Miss Inda Harrison and Mr.
ißetty, organized 2 branch at Post
oak on Sunday with 15 members.
i Any community desiring to organ
ize will please advise Mr. B. G. Brum
by or Mrs. Graham at Marietta.
l It is our ambition to have a branch
in every district in Cobb county by
}the fourth of July.
i « A great net of mercy drawn
sthrougzh an ocean of unspeakable
pain.”
' New Members of Marietta Color
ed Circle.
Lizzie Hopgood, Ponola Thompson,
Lula Hill, Loula Wilson, Willie Jack
'son, Georgia Strickland, Amanda Les
lter, Sallie Johnson, George Brooks,
Katie Hill, Theo. Johnson, Jim Wilson
Della Ware, May Berry, Maggie Cot
to, Essie Clarke, T. Taylor, Eddie
Hou&worth, Buck Williams and
AN COURIER
MARIETTA, GA. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1918.
Who Says There Has To Be
Women To Take Part
In Everything?
The Auditorium rocked with laugh
ter Monday evening! Judging by the
“sounds of revelry by night,”’ that
“Womanless Wedding” was surely a
howling success! From the time Mr.
E. L. Robertson, as the butler getting
the parlors ready, to the leaving of
the last guest, the audience laughed,
and laughed,—and then laughed!
We would like to be able to enumer
ate each actor, and to describe each
costume, but lack of space forbids.
The remarkable collection of wed
ding guests will have to be classed as
a whole, though each one deserves
special mention. We must state em
phatically, however, that each man
on the stage was a perfect lady! But
that bridal party will just have to be
taken piece by piece. Joe Marchman
and George Anderson, Jr., made pret
ty girls at the punch bowl. The en
trancing flower girls, with rosy cheek
and flowing curls, in dainty decollete
frocks, just reaching their dimpled
knees, were Messrs J. W. L. Stovall,
Rosser Little, Dewey Gable, and Gus
Benson. The stately maid of honor
in a trailing gown of pink satin, was
our sweetly smiling man of affairs,
Mr. B. G. Brumby. The mother of
the bride, Judge Stone, was ore of
the very best ever seen. But when
dainty little ring bearer, Dotty Dim
ple, who came skipping up the aisie
in a lacy, very abbreviated lingerie
frock, turned out to be our dignified
Mr. E. L. Stringer, it brought down
the house. The trembling, frighten
ed bride-groom, Mr. C. E. Powers,
came in with his best man, Mr. Geor
ge Griffin. The beautiful, blushing
bride, in robes of white, with long
veil and orange blossoms, was Mr.
Frank Hardeman, who came in on
the arm of the reluctant father, Jud
ge B. V. Greer. The ceremony was
impressively performed by Col. J. Z.
Foster, who kissed the bride, as usual.
The guests were entertained by vo
cal selections by those lovely young
Jadies, Eugene White, in sky blue
satin, and Mr. Johnnie Christian, in
a becoming gown of pink.
The wonderful interpretive danc
ing of that graceful beauty, Mr. Geor
ge H. Sessions, created wild enthusi
asm.
Preceding the wedding were some
“real things,” a lovely song by Miss
Sara Patton, a pretty violin solo by
Miss Constance Cole, and a charac
teristic reading by Mrs. John Boston.
The affair netted about $l3O, of
which $55 was cleared by the Ladies
Aid Society of the Baptist Church,
who sponsored it. Mrs. J. M. Gann,
as President of that society, wishes
to extend sincere thanks to each and
every one who contributed to the suc
cess of the entertainment.
FINGER PRINTS TAKEN IN
REGISTRATION OF ALIENS
The registration of German alien
females, to begin Monday, June 17th
and end Wednesday, June 26th, will
be conducted in cities or municipal
ities having 5,000 population or over
by the police officials. In communi
ties having a population of less than
5,000 the registration will be handled
by postmasters.
In general the plan of registration
is the same as that followed in the
registration in February of German
alien males. Each person who must
register will, be required to register
her finger prints. This method of
identification is also used in the mil
itary and naval servces of the United
States.
RED CROSS HEROINE
WAS FROM MARIETTA
Atlar#a, Ga., June Ist. Miss Ma
ry McCandlish, one of the American
nurses under fire in a German air
raid Wednesday nlght, was born at
Marietta Georgia.
She is a daughter of Mrs. Charles
MecCandlish, of Smith College, North
‘hampton, Mass,, and has a sister also
a trained nurse at Detroit; Mich..
Mise McCandlish, was well known
as a settlement worker at the Henry
Street Mission in New York.
Very Bad Showing For The
Negroes As Only 24
Were Registered
In the registration of the young
men who have reached 21 since last
June sth, the estimate of the local
board was fulfilled almost to the
man, so far as the white men were
concerned, but the board is unable
to account for the falling off in the
colored registration.
Last June the registration showed
26 per centof colored men, while only
14 per cent of those who registered
on Wednesday were colored.
The board will at once take active
measures to ascertain the cause of
this unusual falling off. It is barely
possible that ignorance of the place
or date may have been the cause of
it, but ignorance of the law is not a
valid excuse.
We would like to suggest to the
leading colored men of the county,
that they themselves make an imme
diate inquiry into this matter. Ifit is
on account of lack of knowing, and
not an attempt to evade the draft,
reporting to the board at once with
such a statemient will lessen the of
fense, although no such promise is
made by the board, we know that the
penalty in such cases will be lighter.
The number to register on Wed
nesday totaled 171 in Cobb cdunty.
and of these 147 were white men.
The local board has a call for en
listment of men who are qualified for
#pecial or limited service to report to
Vancouver Barracks, Washington, D.
C., where they are manufacturing
parts of planes. Mr. Jones Maddox
has enlisted under this call and will
soon leave for the West.
Under a call for specially qualified
ren to take a special army course at
Tech this week, the board has enlisted
the following men: C. C. Stainhaur,
J W. Mozley and Earl W. Westmore
land, who will report on the 15th of
June. One or two more men may be
taken for this call.
MEN WHO LEAVE COUNTRY
WILL BE WATCHED CLOSELY
Men of selective service age who
leave the United States to evade mil
itary duty will have to stand trial on
charges of violation of the selective
service act when they return to the
country, according to the Department
of Justice, even though they do not
return until after the war.
The department has at hand infor
mation from which complete lists may
be prepared of all men who have left
the country to avoid service, says a
recent statement authorized by the
Attorney General. :
THE COUNTY BOARD
MEETING ON TUESDAY
No business of special and general
interest was transacted at the regular
raonthly meeting of the County Com
misioners on Tuesday.
The most of the day was taken up
with a delegation from Howell Dis
trict, who were present with a peti
tion for moving the road camp from
Mableton, and starting immediate
work on the roads in the Howell Dis
trict, which were represented as being
very bad, and another delegation
from the Hiram District of Paulding
County, wanting the authorities of
Cobb to connect the main road of
Polk, Paulding, and Cobb counties,
with the Hiram road, rather than the
Dallas road, which had been selected
by the authorities of both counties
some time ago.
The monthly supply contract was
siven to Andersen Brothers and the
Hardware contract to Schilling.
NOTICE
T 0 THE DEMOCRATIC EXECU
TIVE COMMITTEE COBB COUNTY
You are hereby called to meet at
the Court House in Marietta at 10 o’-
clock Saturday, June 29, 1918. For
the purpose of organizing and arrang
ing for the State Primary of Septem
ber 11, 1918, and any other business
!that may come before you.
| COMER C. BAKER, Chairman,
| Cobb County Dem-Exe-Com.
Cobb County Is Organized
To Sell Thrift Stamps
On That Date
If you are not doing so, you cer
tainly should be saving up every
possible penny to invest in Thrift
Stamps on June 28th.
Preparations are being made to
get our people to do our part in the
purchase of thrift stamps on that
day, and you should be ready to go
“the limit” in buying, and that with
out being solicited.
This is one important branch of
our government‘s financial scheme
that we have too long neglected and
we should now redeem ourselves.
Let us have more saving and invest
more meney, and do less talking.
‘The President has called for action
in this matter in a Proclamation, so
let us each do our part.
“This war is one of nations—not of
armies,” said the President, “and all
of our one hundred million people
must be economically and industri
ally adjusted to war conditions if this
nation is to play its full part in the
conflict. The problem before us is
not primarily a financial problem, but
rather a problem of increased pro
duction of war essentials and the sav
ing of the materials and labor nec
essary for the support and equipp
ment of our army and navy. Thou
ghtless expenditure of money for non
essentials uses up the labor of men,
the products of the farm, mines and
factories and over-burdens transpor
tation, all of which must be used to
the utmost and at their best for war
purposes.
v National Movement Urged
“The great results which we seek
can be obtained only by the participa
tion of every member of the nation,
young and old, in a national concert
ed thrift movement. 1 therefore urge
that our people everywhere pledge
themselves, as suggested by the sec
retary of the treasury, to the practice
of thrift; to serve the government to
their utmost in increasing production
in all fields necessary to the winning
of the war; to conserve food and, fuel
and useful materials of every kind;
to devote their labor only to the most
necessary tasks, and to buy only those
things which are essential to individ
ual health and efficiency, andthat the
people, as evidence of their loyalty,
invest all they can save in Liberty
Bonds and war saving stamps.
“The securities issued by the trea
sury department are so many of them
within the reach of everyone that the
door of opportunity in this matter is
wide open to all of us. To practice
thrift in peace times is a virtue and
great benefit to the individual at all
times; with the desperate need of the
civilized world to-day for materials
and labor with which to end the war,
the practice of individual thrift is a
patriotic duty and a necessity.
Economy and Thrift
“I appeal to all who now own eith
er Liberty Bonds or war saving stamp
to continue to practice economy and
thrift and to appeal to all who do not
own government securities to do like
wise and purchase them to the extent
of their nfeans. The man who buys
government securities transfers the
purchasing power of his money to the
United States government until after
this war and to that same degree does
not buy in competition with the gov
ernment.
“] earnestly appeal to every man,
woman and child to pledge themsel
ves on or before the 28th of June to
cave constantly and to buy as regular
ly as possible the securities of the
covernment, and to do this as far
as possible through membership war
saving societies. The 28th of June
ends this special period of enlistment
in the great volunteer army of pro
duction and saving here at home.
May there be none urenlisted on that
day."
Young men between the ages of
18 and 21 years with some mechani
cal training are wanted for the tech
niecal schools of the U. S. Army.
They will be made instructors after
completing their training. There will
be a limited number so do net apply
later than June 9ih, 1918.
COURIER, ESTABLISHED 1901
Official Organ of the City of Marietta
Hold Another Parade And A
Good Collection Taken
For Red Cross
The interest in the war work that
is being displayed by the colored peo
ple of Cobb county is indeed com
mendable, but it is but natural when
we consider that a large number of
the race are in the service in France
or on their way there.
The colored people have been act
ive recently in organizing auxiliaries
for the Red Cross and other work.
On last Friday night they had a
Red Cross parade in Marietta, which,
although not so largely attended as
the War Stamp meeting recently, was
very good, and was followed by a
rally in the Park Square which netted
$lO4 for the Red Cross fund.
The master of ceremonies was Rev.
L. J. Wilder of the Cole Street col
ored Baptist Church. The meeting
was addressed by Rev. Carter and
Puget of Atlannta, and the local col
ored pastors, Williams, Pickens, and
James, also took part.
We understand that much credit
for the rally is due the colored Red
Cross County Chairman Mamie Paris.
We are asked by the management
of the meeting to thank Mayor Jim
Brumby and County Chairman, B. G.
Brumby, each for a $25 contribution
to the Red Cross fund.
FROM FOCD DEPARTMENT
All parties who use sugar for foun
tains and other purpeses for public
patronage are required to make re
ports of the amounts on hand (blanks
furnished from this office on appli
cation) on or before June 10th, un
less they have reported. Otherwise
such dealers will be deprived of the
privilege of buying sugar in the mar
kets.
I have received the following let
ter which dealers in meal should read.
Mr. Bernard Awtrey,
Food Adm. Cobb county.
Dear Sir:—
Replying to yours of the 30th, rel
ative to the enclosed letter to Shaw &
McClesky, would advise that the rules
of the Food Administration require
that, effective April Ist, corn meal,
corn grits or hominy must not be
sold for domestic use in the United
States except in packages containing
1%, 3,5, 10, 25, or 100 pounds, net
weight.
We regret that we cannot make
any exceptions to this rule.
Yours very truly,
Federal Food Adm. for Georgia,
By Edw. H. Alsop,
Asst. Ex. Secretary.
Several merchants are not making
their weekly flour reports to me reg
ularly. 1 shall not call at the places
of business for them and shall not
refer to this matter again through
public print. The law requires re
ports weekly of all flour sales, don’t
expect me to send you blanks, but
send me the accounts of all sales, as
required by law.
Yours very truly,
Bernard Awtrey,
Federal Food Adm., Cobb county.
ANOTHER NEWSPAPER MAN
LEAVES FOR THE WAR.
Mr. Frank C. Bunting left on Mon
day for Charleston, S. C., where he .
enters the Naval Training School.
Mr. Bunting has made numbers of
warm friends here since he came two
years ago from Delaware to take the
News Editorship of the Cobb County
Times. He emphatically made good
on that paper, and the town hates to
Ise him. Here’s to his success in his
work for Uncle Sam, and to his re
turn to Marietta “when it’s over over
there.”
A 100 POUND PUMPKIN
How big will a pumpkin grow in
Cobb county? We believe they will
grow just as big here as anywhere,
and Col. Gid Morris is offering to pay
a reward of $5 for a hundred pound
pumpkin grown in Cobb county.
Just what he will do with a hun
dred pound pumpkin we do not know,
but we believe he will be game and *
for them all. Try him boys,
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