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The Maricta Tonenal
' JOURNAL, ESTABLISHED 1866
Official Organ of Cobb County Georgia
VOL. 52
The Bandages You Make
May Be Used On
Your Boy
The Prayer of the Bell.
Did you know that you are expect
ed to offer a prayer every day when
the city clock strikes twelve, for the
victory of our armies and for a per
manent peace?
Stop whatever you are doing at
that time, uncover your head, and
offer the simple prayer, “God bless
our President, our soldiers, our na
tion, and guide them to victory.”
Drive for Membership.
The drive for new and renewal of
membership in the Red Cross is being
conducted all over the county this
week. If you have not joined the
Red Cross, do it now. If you are a
member, renew your membership at
this time. It does not matter very
much with the individual if the dol
lar is not exactly due, but it will
help the Chapter Treasurer with the
books, so when the collectors come to
you, just help out by renewing now.
New Junior Auxiliary
A very interesting organization of
juniors was perfected on Saturday
afternoon at the home of Mary Louise
Brumby in Marietta.
This group of young girls has se
lected their members and requested
to be formally organized. .
Mrs. Graham met with the group
and the young people elected their
own officers. They selected Mrs.
Otis Brumby as the Chairman of their
Auxiliary ; Mary Louise Brumby, Vice
Chairman; Harriette Leake, Secre
tary; Frances Smith, Treasurer; and
Dorothy Milam, Librarian.
The members present at the meet
ing were Mary Louise Brumby, Nan
cy Morris, Grace Duncan, Nancy Bos
ton, Idabel Hunt, Frances Smith, Har
riette Leake, and Dorothy Milam. |
This auxiliary will put its first ef
forts into garments for Belgian ba
bies. They are very enthusiastic over
the prospeet of active work, and have
organized an egg committee to raise
funds for their work. |
Five Girls Gave a Play.
Grace Duncan, Jennie May and
Virgilee Conroy, Louise Land, Louise
Watson, and Minnie Lou Duncan
raised $3, by giving a play, which
they have turned over to the new
auxiliary.
: Honor Roll |
Mrs. L. B. Robeson has sold $1.75
worth of English peas for the wool
fund. If you need peas, beets, cab
bages, or onions, telephone Mrs. L.
B. Robeson at number 12, and help
the wool fund by buying fresh, home
grown vegetables. |
Accidental omission was made last
week in the list of surgical supplies
made by the Young Ladies Auxiliary;
Miss Irene Malone made 8 pads, and
Miss Lucy Cole made 26 pads.
Attention Workers!
Headquarters will make an allott
ment for the county in hospital sup
plies, and as soon as this allottment is
received, the Director of Woman’s
Work will communicate with the
Chairmen of each branch and auxili
ary.
Wool for Socks.
Wool for socks, and instructions
for knitting are expected next week.
Each branch desiring to knit socks,
is requested to notify Mrs. M. R. Ly
on, County Chairman of the Sock
Committee, as soon as possible, giv
inr a list of the sock knitters, so that
a copy of the instructions may be
furnished for each knitter.
All socks must be washed before
they are sent to headquarters, and
each sock must have a moth ball put
In the toe.
New Appointments.
Miss Harriet Robeson has been ap-
Pointed head of the Civilian Relief
Work in the county. Miss Robeson
will take the course of instruction
necessary to fit her for this responsi
ble office.
}fiss Mary Robeson has been ap
pointed Chairman of Belgian Relief.
If you have any material or clothing
which will be useful to this commit
tee, send to, or communicate with the
ckairman. This committee will make
clothing for the Belgian children.
THE WAR, THE FARM,
AND THE FARMER.
The farmer everywhere loves
peace. The American farmer espec
ially loves peace. Since the dawn of
history, the farmer has been the man
who suffered most from war. All he
possesses lies out of doors in plain
sight,, and is spoil of war—his house,
his grain, his live stock. He knows
that he pays the price of war ‘“in
steer and gear and stack,” and that
the flames that light the skies in the
rear of every invading army are con
suming the things that yesterday rep
resented his life work, and the life
labors of past generations of farmers
—the little coral islands of comfort
and wealth that decades of toil on the
farm builds up.
But the farmer everywhere is a
warrior when war is the only thing
which will make and keep him free—
a warrior or a serf. He can not ral
ly to the colors as quickly as can the
dwellers of the cities, because it takes
longer to send to the farms than to
the cities the fiery cross of the call
to arms. It takes longer to call the
farmers from the fields than the city
dwellers from the shops; for many
do not hear the first blast of the
trumpet, and others do not at first
understand it’s meaning because they
have not had the time. * * *
The work of the fields, the care of
the livestock, and the mud and sfush
of the long road to town are all ob
stacles to that sudden rush of news
which sometimes carries the cities
away in mad outbursts of excitement.
It is impossible to set the farmers
of the United States on fire bymeans
of any sudden spark of rumor. * * *
But when the farmers do ignite
they burn with a slow hot fire which
nothing can put out. They are some
times the last to heat up, but they
stay hot, and in a long fight they are
always found sturdily carrying the
battle across No Man’s Land to the
foe in the last grim struggle.
They fight a slow rear-guard ac
tion that covers retreat in disaster,
and their stubborn valor always helps
to turn the tide toward victory in the
final triumph.
The American farmer will give all
that he has, and all that he is, to win
this great war against war, this enor
mous struggle to win again the vieto
ry which we fondly believed we had
twice won in the past.
This war was first hard to under
stand. No armed foe invaded the
United States. The night fires were
not reddened by the burning byres
and farmsteads of America. No raid
ing parties harried us of our cattle
or horses. No saber rattlers insulted
our women. It seemed to many of
us that we were not at war. The
thing was so far off, and it came to
us in so unfamiliar a guise. We did
not then realize what a giant war has
become.
We did not then know that a mon
ster has arisen with a thousand arms
who could reach across the seas and
take from us three-fourth of every
thing we grew without our being a
ware of it, and could follow up his
robbery with ,invasion, subjugation
and national death. We did not at
first realize this, but finally we saw
that it was so.
If the Imperial German govern
ment had made and enforced an order
that no American farmer should
leave his own land, that he conld not
haul a load of grain, or drive a head
of stock to town—if in fact the Kaiser
had laid an interdict on all intercourse
between farm and farm, and between
farm and town, he would have done
only a little more than he accomplish
ed by his interdict against American
farmers’ use of the sea. What was
the order against which we rebelled
when we went into this war? Look
at the condition of the American far
mer in the latter part of 1914 and
the first half of 1915 and see.
When the war broke out, through
terror and surprise and panic ,we
gave up for a while, the use of the
sea as a highway. '
To a great extent we gave it up.
And so long as we gave it up, we ,
the farmers of America were ruined.
I know an lowa farmer who sold
his 1914 crop of 25,000 bushels of
‘wheat for 70 cents a bushel. Far
‘mers in the south sold their cotton for
half the cost of producing it. All this
time those portions of the world
whose ports were open were ready to
pay almost any price for our prod
ucts; and when we finally rallied and
set once more the ships of the world
prosperity returned to the farms of
America. But prosperity has never
returned to those nations which re-
Continued on page six. :
AND COURIER
MARIETTA, GA. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1918.
Marchman Sells Out But He
Will Manage New
Company
The Marietta Amusement Company
which was recently chartered, has
bought out the Strand and the Liber
ty Theatres in Marietta.
The company completed its organ
ization on Saturday evening, electing
officers and directors, and assumed
charge of the above named theatres.
The officers elected are as follows:
F. G. Marchman, President and Trea
surer; Bolan G. Brumby, Vice Presi
dent; Ralph W. Northcutt, Secretary.
The following Directors were elect
ed at the stockholders meeting: B. G.
‘Brumby, W. A. DuPre, D. P. Butler,
;R. W. Northcutt, F. G. Marchman,
A. H. Gilbert, H. N. DuPre, and J. M.
Austin.
' The capital stock is $25,000, with
power to increase to $50,000.
It is announced that the Liberty
Theatre will remain closed for the
present, until conditions justify re
opening it.
Two more large exhaust fans have
been put in the Strand Theatre, which
will insure a perfect ventilation. The
fans in operation now will change the
air completely in the whole building
every minute, thus providing a boun
tiful supply of fresh air all the time.
The Strand has always been one
of the best movies in the country,
showing the very highest class of pic
tures made, and showing them far
ahead of any other theatres, except
in the largest cities.
Under the management still of
Mr. Marchman, the names of the gen-!
‘tlemen now associated with him, fur
ther guarantee the continued success
and popularity of the Strand. It is‘
their purpose to make and to keep
the quality and service in the Strand
unsurpassed.
Among the stockholders in the Ma
rietta Amusement Company are the
following well known Marietta gen
tlemen: B. G. Brumby, W. A. DuPre,
R. W. Northcutt, A. H. Gilbert, W. A.
Sams, H. N. DuPre, E. G. Gilbert,
J. M. Austin, G. B. Gann, George H.
Sessions, M. M. Sessions, T. L. Wal
lace, J. E. Mozley, D. P. Butler, E. C.
Gurley, A. V. Cortelyou, H. E. Moz
ley, J. D. Malone, H. G. Smith, J. J.
Black, G. A. Griffin, W. H. Treze
vant, S. D. Rambo, J. R. Brumby, Jr.,
T. J. Connor and others.
SOUTH GEORGIA CROPS
BOTH GOOD AND BAD
Atlanta, Ga., June 20th—“ The boll
weevil is playing havoc in the cotton
fields of South Georgia,” said Com
missioner of Agriculture, J. J. Brown,
who is just back from a several days’
trip through several of the leading
agricultural counties of that section.
“] saw several fields of cotton that
looked fine at first glance,” Commis
sioner Brown continued, “but on ex
amination it was seen the ground was
covered with fallen squares; and in
many places the farmers are plowiny
up their cotton in order to get their
land in time to make some other kind
of crop between now and frost.
“Any reports given out now about
the South’s cotton crop, will be in
excess of the real acreage, for the
simple reason that many thousands of
acres are being destroved by the boll
weevil, while thousands of others are
lying idle for lack of labor to culti
vate them.
“The bear speculator who bases his
hopes of getting cotton on a bumper
crop, will be sadly disappointed; for
the South cannot and will not, under
present conditions, produce even a
normal crop of cotton.”
Commissioner Brown found the
food crop situation most encourag
ing. Everywhere there were indica
tions of a slightly increased acreage
over last year. Corn, peas, velvet
beans and similar crops, he said, were
all looking fine.
~ “There has been an unusual a
‘mount of wheat matured in the coast
‘al plams section of Georgia,” Com
‘missioner Brown said. “In fact, that
'section of the state has more wheat
Lthan ever before, and the state gen
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l
UNCLE SAM WOULD
Get Your Baby On The List
And He Will Find A
Way To Help '
The time has passed when our A
merican women need be reminded of
their duty. They are standing at at
tention, ready for any call. And
there have been hundreds of calls on
women, and urgent need of her ser
vices in helping to win the war.
.But there are many of us who have
been unable to do any of this won
derful work outside. Many servant
less house-keepers, and nurseless
mothers, in these wheatless, eatless,
but never workless, days, who have
found it impossible to take an active
part in any of the drives, or on any
of the committees, or in the Surgical
Dressings Classes. But there is some
thing very vital and definite that ev
ery American woman can do, what
ever her station in life, or whatever
her home duties and cares. |
Everyone everywhere can join the
nationwide campaign that has been
launched in the interest of saving at
least 100,000 of th 500,000 children
under five years of age who die
every year in America of prevent
able causes. There are unnumber
ed thousands who grow to manhood
and womanhood handicapped by de
fects and illhealth which could have
been prevented .if they had been dis
covered and properly cared for in
‘early childhood.
~ America did not wake up to the
full significance of all this until the
figst drafted men for the army were
examined. But Uncle Sam is fully
asoused now, and the babies of the
’future will have better care than
‘those of the past. The weighing and
Emeasuring tests that are being held
'in thousands of communities all over
the U. S. are just the first steps in
this great baby saving campaign..
LFulton county has just finislhed her
first week in this work, and Cobb
county will become active next week.
Some counties seem ashamed of their
little children, for they have not com
plied with the request of the U. S.
Government, but we know that Cobb
county is proud of hers and that we
will go ““over the top” in this as in
all of our other drives and efforts.
Saturday, June 22nd, will be “Mo
ther’s Day,” when all the mothers in
the county are invited to come to the
Soldiers Club in Marietta to hear the
fine lecture on Child Welfare, and to
learn all about the registration of the
babies, which will take place next
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
The lecture will be at 3 o’clock, but
the mothers can come to the Club any
time after 9 o’clock on Saturday
morning for information from the
Committee. When the mothers get
full particulars about the registra
tion, they will not only be willing but
glad and anxious to have their little
ones weighed, measured and regis
tered. Registration days for Cobb
county will be Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday, June 25th, 26th, and
27th, and the work will be done at
the Soldiers Club in Marietta.
. The Committee in attendance will
include a trained nurse, and every
physician in town has proffered his
services. This weighing and measur
ing test is in no sense a “Baby Show.”
It is a business-like, much-needed re
cording of age, weight, and health
conditions of all children in the coun
ty under five years old, and is in
accord with the direct request of the
United States Government.
It is asked, “Who is running this
baby saving campaign?” Every wo
man who has a heart, and who knows
about it. It is one of the most im
portant war defense movements being
carried on by the Council of Nation
al Defense, and at the same time, it
is the pleasantest, most congenial,
work women have been called to do.
Mrs. S. R. Hewitt is Chairman for
Cobb county, and on her Committee
are Mrs. Jim Biumby, Jr., Mrs. G. ¥
Reynolds, Mrs. Pierre Camblos, Mrs.
E. L. Faw, Mrs. A. S. Cohen, Mrs.
D. R. Little, Mrs. Hough, Mrs. T. L.
Wallace, Mrs. W. E. Roberts, Mrs.
Ralph Northcutt, Mrs. J. H. Patton,
Mrs. Rembert ‘Smith, Mrs. R. R. Clai
borne, Mrs. I. A. White, Mrs. C. T.
Nolan, Mrs. W. H. Perkinson, Mrs.
EHEROIC BOY LOSES LIFE IN
TRYING TO SAVE BROTHER.
’ One of the saddest deaths that has
ever occurred at Austell, was that of
,lime Carl Leffel Jr., the son of Mrs.
C. L. Couch, on last Thursday after
lnoon. ;
Leffel lost his life trying to save his
little brother of eight years old from
drowning in Sweetwater Creek, near
Ben Scot Springs.
This accident was almost the occa
sion of three deaths. The mother
and grandmother of the boys, with
two girls, Misses Ollie and Inez Miller
‘had gone to pick berries. The young
folks stopped on the creek to watch
| Ollie, who was swimming. She came
out and went to dress and they de
cided to get mud to make models.
In some way Gussie slipped and fell
in and Leffel ran to his assistance,
but it was too much for him. Seeing
the danger they were in Inez called
for help and Ollie, who was half
dressed, ran to them, leaped in and
succeeded in reaching the little one
in time, he clasping her around the
‘neck as she swan out with him. her
sister helping her,but before she could
return to Leffel again he had sunk
the last time.
Ollie herself was so exhansted, she
had to be assisted and came near los
ing her life, being hampered by her
wet clothing. |
The funeral of Leffel was from the
'Baptist Church on Thursday after
‘noon, the service being conducted by
Rev. Burrell of Powder Springs, as
sisted by Rev. J. E. Russell, of the
Methodist Church.
The little body was laid to rest in
Rose Hill Cemetery, by the side of
his father, who met his death about
elght years ago, while in the employ
of the Southern Bell Company. -
Besides his mother, this little one
leaves five brothers, and anumber of
relatives, and many friends who will
miss him. Four of his little friends
Hugh Wade, Jamie Deil, John Cloud
and B. F Fleishman acted as the
pall bearers.
‘ Save, and save more! Buy War
Savings Stamps! Push the war work
and save the lives of our boys! l
TOO MUCH LIQUOR
FOR A DRY STATE
On Monday Deputies George Hicks
and Dave Latimer had a grapevine
message that one Horace Rutherford,
a young white farmer of the Post
Oak District above Sandy Plains, was
doing a blockade liquor business in
the retail way. }
They went up to investigate and,
being unfamiliar with the locality,
were late arriving at the place. Mr.
Rutherford was “not at home,” but
the officers found some 15 or 20
quarts of poor grade ‘“‘stump licker”
in his smokehouse and took this in
charge of the law.
Word was left for Rutherford to
report to the authorities in Marietta,
and in event he fails to show up,
officers will probably go back after
him.
As the place is near the Cherokee
line, we presume he got the goods
over there, for of course none is be
ing made in Cobb county.
The sentences that Judge Morris
has been dealing out to liquor vio
laters are calculated, however, to re
duce this business to a minimum.
This is no penny war, but every
penny counts! Work and Save!
Lo e
S. H. Hall, Mrs. Glenn Giles, Misses
Allene Fields, Eva Campbell, and
others whose names have not yet been
turned in.
The formation of the colored com
mittee has not been completed but
will be announced later.
Come mothers of Cobb county, let
us join this great army of women who
are fast organizing all over the Uni
ted States, not only to do their bit,
but to do their best to help win the
war. Surely not one of us would
deny our children this opportunity
that Uncle Sam is freely offering
tkem, the opportunity for the advice
of the most skilled experts on child
health and life. Remember, weight
and heighth and a rough index of the
health of the growing child, and we
will show individual parents and com
munities how each child compares
with the average. If ours are below
the average, we want to know the
reason why; if they are above the
average, we want everybody else to
know it.
& MRS. D. C. COLE,
| Publicity Chairman.
COURIER, ESTABLISHED 1901
Official Organ of the City of Marietta
Show How Much You Hate
The Hun By The War
Stamps You Buy
By R. R. Claiborne
In every small division of this coun
ty there is a stir and a movement and
an awakening of patriotic zeal. An
army is being prepared and trained;
each division has its commander, and
each company its captain, and each
captain his lieutenants. Under the
power of the will-to-win, and under
the inspiration of a God-approved
cause, this army is pressing forward
against the enemy of God and man
kind. The colors they bear are the
star spangled red, white and blue.
Let every citizen-soldier do his duty,
and may there be not one yellow
tainted. :
The Assistant County Chairman,
as everyone knows, is Mrs. George
Montgomery ; and there are five Vice
chairmen, being, Mrs. T. M. Brumby,
Jr., for the Marietta District; Mr.
G. C. Green of Smyrna having charge
of Smyrna, Vinings, Cox’s Howells’
and Lemon’s Districts; Mr. E. C.
‘Wolf of Powder Springs being' in
charge of that District and Austell,
Lost Mountdin, and Macland District;
Mr. Joe Abbott of Marietta is look
ing out for Acworth, Big Shanty, Red
Rock, and Orange Districts; Mrs. Au
brey Motz of Roswell is watching
over that District and Post Oak, Ful
lers, Gritters, and Merritts Districts.
Would you like the job?
And these people are working, they
are not put down for honorable men
tion. And not one of them ever said
how he loved his country, and how he
‘would die for it. But when our
Commander-in-Chief said, “Here is a
task that 1 want you to do,” they
got up and did it. The other stuff
is pretty good for “canning” but
since the world began, love, faith,
and patriotism must show fruit to
prove its existence.
And right here in a paragraph to
itself, let it be written: the District
Chairman for War Savings, Mr. Mor
gan McNeel, has sacraficed business
and comfort and convenience in this
cause. He and his car have always
been ready to answer any call. And
this campaign has been running six
months already.
People of Cobb county, the gov
ernment has set a time fuse. Great
things must be done on June 28th.
We must all lift together; we must
exert our strength; we must place our
country in a position of honor; we
must destroy this burden of an un
paid quota! It can be done if all will
work together. Every town, militia,
and school district has its share.
Every citizen is obliged to inquire
into this and to do his share. You
have no right to stand back and say,
“That is someone else’s business, I
will take $2O worth.” Even if you
have not borne the burden and the
heat of the day of preparation, for
humanity’s sake, take a hand now,
and do your best, and urge every
other man to do the same.
The cohorts of the Devil have ar
rived at our shores; they are destroy
ing precious food and precious lives;
they are knocking at your door; and
you must not let your brother take
your share in protecting your home.
No! Else you would not be worth
protecting. Demand the right to do
your share, and do it now! If you
are rich, your income is growing on
account of the war, be you farmer
or business man, you know it, and
God knows it. Let your dollars strike
one mighty blow for freedom; and
the echo will come back to you in
the form of government guaranteed
interest.
SAVING THE BABIES
We heartily endorse the work of
the Child’s Welfare Committee, and
will be present at the weighing and
measuring tests to be held in Mari
etta at the Soldiers Club, on the 25th,
26th, and 27th of June, to aid the
Cobb county babies in “going over
the top” as perfect physical speci
mens. Come and bring your babies.
Drs. J. D. Malone, C. T. Nolan, C.
D. Elder, E. L. Harris, W H. Perkin
son and G. F. Hagood.
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