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The Mariclta Tonrfnal
JOURNAL, ESTABLISHED 1858
Official Organ of Cobb County Georgia
VOL. 52
Cobb County Farmers Hold
Booster Meeting on Cotton
At Court House Saturday
Draft Resolutions' to~ Keep
The Price of Cotton at
Cost of Production
RESOLUTIONS SENT TO
WASHINGTON AT ONCE
Recommend That Farmers Sell Cot
ton . Slowly, and to Get Good
Price Before Selling at All
The continued decline in price of
cotton hass caused alarm in farming
circles, and a hastily called meeting
was held on Saturday at the Court
house to take some action in the mat
ter of holding cotton, also to name
delegates to the cotton convention
called to meet in Atlanta at an early
date.
There was only a few hours notice
and yet the Courthouse was filled to
overflowing and there is no doubt
that the farmers are in earnest about
some action to protect themselves,
and after a discussion of the subject
she followsing resolution was offered
by Judge N. A. Morris:
Be It Resolved by the one thou
sand cotten growers of Cobb coun
ty, this day assembled in mass meet
ing at the Courthouse at Marietta,
Georgia, as follows:
WHEREAS, the insiduous work of
the cotton fixing propagandists has
had the effect of driving the price of
cotton down from about 38 cents per
pound to about 28 cents per pound
and they are endeavoring to drive it
still lower; and
WHF‘REAS, the present price of
cotton on account of the shortage
of crops, increase price of labor, fer
tilizer, machinery, farming imple
ments, stock, etc., is ‘now selling be
low its actual cost of production;
and
WHEREAS, a large number of
the farmers in the cotton belt are
marketing their cotton at a price be
low its production in order to meet
their obligations incured therefor and
in order to meet their obligations in
the purchase of Liberty Bonds and
War Savings Stamps; and
WHEREAS, every state in _the
cotton belt and practically every
county in the states have gone “Over
the top” in every call that has been
made by the Commander in Chief
of our Army and Navy for soldiers,
for the purchase of Thrift Stamps,
War Savings Stamps and Liberty
Bonds and they have given freely
and Wberally to the Red Cross and
will go “Over the top” in the First
(Continued on Page Six)
FOOD REGULATIONS
ISSUED BY AWTREY
Now Allowed Three Pounds of Sugar;
Four Pounds of Flour to One
Pound of Substitutes
Three pounds of sugar per head
rer month may be sold to any one.
This may be in one sale, or in divided
lots. All sugar certificates should be
mailed to me weekly. .
~ All flour sales must be accempan
led by one pound of flour substitute
f':':' each four pounds of flour, except
' the case where 20 per cent of sub
stitute is mixed with the flour, which
must be plainly printed on contain
ers.
Frish and sweet potatoes should be
cold by weight, not by the peck or
bushel. The present regulations re-
Guire this,
No more sugar should be sold for
canning,
BERNARD AWTREY,
Federal Food Administrater of Cobb
County. \
LORD’S DAY LEAGUE
Hear this, O ye that swallow up
the needy, evem to make the poor ef
the land to fall. :
Saying, when will the new moon be
“one that we may sell n? And
the Sabbath that we ma?f;:et forth
“heat, making the ephah smaii, and
the shekel great, and falsifying the
baleaces by W~Amos. 8:4-5.
WOMEN ORGANIZED
FOR THEIR UNITED
WAR WORK DRIVE
Ward Chairmen For City Named By
Mrs. Gardner; Thursday, Nov.
14th Is Set for Drive
The women will ‘conduct the War
War campaign in the county on Nov.
14th, the same date as that fixed by
the men.
Mrs. A. S. J. Gardner, chairman
for the county, has named the follow
’ifi'g ward chairmen for the city:
' First Ward: Miss Alleen Fields.
Seeond Ward: Mrs. Wilder Glover.
Third Ward: Mrs. Geo. H. Keeler.
Fourth Ward: Mrs. R. M. Wade.
Fifth Ward: Mrs Howard Perkin
son.
Sixth Ward: Miss Louise Sehilking.
Also the following speakers for the
campaign among the women are an
nounced: Mrs. John Graham, Mrs.
‘William Shippen, Miss Mabel Cortel
you, Mrs. J. M. Legg, and Mrs. D. C.
Cole. *
The city chairmen, also the chair
men from Roswell, Powder Springs,
Austell, Acworth and some others
were present at the meeting address
ed by Dr. Vaughn on Tuesday, and
after the meeting Miss Mabel Cor
telyou gave them a talk on the work
of the American Library Association,
one of the causes represented in the
drive.
Mrs. Gardner urges upon every
one the importance of a thorough
canvas of the districts assigned and
prompt reports of all work. |
DEMOCRATS MAKE EFFORT
TO RETAIN #U. S. SENATE
In the general elections on Tues
day the Democrats seem to have lost
the House and it is yet in doubt if
they will retain the Senate.
The Republicans tried to get
back into power in order to be able
to direct the reconstruction period,
which must come about in the indus
trial affairs of this country, as soon
as the affairs of Europe are settled.
Ohio and Florida voted for prohi
bition by good majorities, although
California remains wet.
A Democratic governor is prob
ably elected in New York.
All the 15 amendments to #e
Constitution offered in Georgia pass
ed by a good vete.
May-be you can’t fight; but you
can give to the UNITED WAR
WORK CAMPAIGN.
VAUGHN MAKES GOOD
SPEECH ON TUESDAY
Small Audience Greets Dr. Vaughn
In His Address on United War
Work Campzign at Courthouse
We hope that it was not a feeling
of any disapproval that caused many
people to miss a great treat at the
Courthouse meeting Tuesday.
Considering the caliber of the
speaker, and the greatess of the
cause, a very small audience heard
Dr. A. B. Vaughn speak at the court
house on Tuesday afternoon, on the
United War Work.
It was our pleasure to hear this ad
dress as well as the intwoduciory re
marks of Dr. I. A. White, and we can
say personally that they were most
earnest, logical and stirring appeals
to_ our people to acquit themselves
as men, and as good citizens . and
Christians, n this coming drive to
raise funds for the benefit of our
boys in the camps, both in America
and abroad.
Certainly every hearer left the
room with a stronger resolution to
put every energy into the work, and
and to make any necessary sacrifices
to raise the funds needed.
We sincerely regret that every
man and woman in Cobb County
could not have been there.
Your contribution to the UNITED
WAR WORK CAMPAIGN is the
mite that maintains the morale of
the American soldiers and sailers.
AND COURIER
MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY MO
OFFIGIAL NOTES COBB
GOUNTY R. G, SOCIETY
The office of the Home Service
Section of the Cobb County Chapter
has been moved to the Gilbert build
ing on Washington Avenue. :
The Secretary, Miss Harriet Robe
son, would be grateful to the
Branches in all parts of the County
if notices of this change of office are
Lpost.ed where families of soldiers can
be informed of the new address. .
Mourning Brassards . |
The Mourning Brassards which
are furnished by the Red Cross can
be secured by application to Miss
Harriet Robeson at the Home Ser-i
vice Office. : 4
These arm bands are beautiful in
quality and the effort being made
to have the near relatives of the sol-.
dier, who has given his life for his
country, identified by the use of the
black band with the gold star is meet
ing with general favor. l
November 16th, Special Nut Collect
ion Day Everywhere. Send All you
- Have to Fowler’s Warehouse, '
Marietta.
Mrs. S. D. Rambo, the' County.
Chairman of the Conservation Com
mittee, requests that everybody in
the County who has collected the
fruit pits and the nuts and nut shells
will bring or send them to the ware
house of Fowler Bros. on or before
the 16th of this month. ;
The need for the charcoal madfii‘i
from the fruit pits and nut shells is.’
so great that the Government has
made another appeal in which it de
clars; “Because of a lack of sufficient
material, wood charcoal is now being
mixed with the shell charcoal f
masks. The wood charcoal is not!
hard and will settle, making it dif-l
ficult for the wearer of a mask con-|
taining it to breathe: furthermore, |
it lacks the absorptive qualities ofl
the shell product.”
It would seem that the gatheringl
of the fruit pits, while it involves|
(Continued on Page Six) |
SELECTMEN LEAVE FOR
FT. SCREVEN MONDAY
Forty Men Sent From Cobb County
Local Board; Sixty-Six More to
Leave for Wheeler Soon
On last Monday, Nov. 4th, the fol-
Jowing mem entrained here for Fort
Sereven (near Savannah) and are
now in the uniform of Uncle Sam.
V. B. Waddell, Arthur F. Long,
Roy L. Osb6rr}e, Alfred Gunter, Loyd
F Post, Thos.. Monroe Kalb, Thos.
Rogens Austin, Josephus Hicks, Ralph
Kemp Greer, Emory Wm. Chastain,
Carter Wigington, Walter A. Owens,
Jno. Wm. Martin, Roy Talbert Me-
Cutcheon, Fred Pylant, Marion Har
vey Fleming, Howard Johnson, Man
ning Brown, Henry Clay Wigley, Rob
ert Dobbs, Marion E. Turner, Wm.
Troup Hardy, A. Franklin Sanders,
Charlie Evangs, Starling Wehunt, El
mer Reese Moore, T. D. Abercrom
bie, Leßoy Morris, Wm. LaFayette
Leavell, Bryan Taylor, Roy C. Man
er, T. P. Holleman, Floyd M. Clay
ton, Allan Greer Edwards, Frank L.
Sanges, Reland Dover, Thos. Paul
Garrison, Henry Summerhill, W. H.
McCleskey, Chas. Luther Gann.
Most of the boys seemed afraid
the fighting would be over in France
before they would reach the scene,
and they all seemed anxious to get
there.
At the station, however, one meth
er who had a boy in the ranks creat
ed some excitement by becoming hys
terical, and had to be taken away by
friends.
From the news in France it may
seem unnecessary to continue enlist
ing men but it is the fact that we
are doing so that has discouraged
the enemy and broken them down.
For a time at least it must go on.
The_board has a call for the en
training of 66 more white men for
Camp Wheeler, between the 11th and
16th ef November, and for six color
ed men between the 19th and 21st;
names not yet{ known.
Dr. W. H. Perkinson, the Local
Board physician, is examining from
25 to 30 each day, and affairs at the
board office are moving swiftly every
day now. Tri L s
G, NOVEMBER BTH, 1918.
Efl["flm]llffls DEC. 1
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LAll Are Requested to Get
. Cards at Once and Study
The Different Points
WE MUST FEED EUROPE
MANY YEARS TO COME
We Must Use Substitutes to Some
Extent In Future to Furnish
Europe With Necessities
(By Federal Food Administration)
3 After the war—what?
. There is much for the people of
the United States to lend themselves
to in that necessary readjustment
period for the final accomplishment
of the full and complete victory
which this country made possible.
Hostilities have not ended. On
thousands of miles of battlefront the
fighting is as persistent and intense
as it was the day the first Ameriean
shot was fired to free the whole world
from autecracy’s yoke. That fierce
fighting may go on for months in
much of the contested territory, des
pite the gloriously hopeful aspect of
the moment. Most certain is it that
# will go on until the last shred of
the autocracy which made the world
war has crumbled, fallen and finally
’szz a thing of the past.
To that end America has lent her
‘men, her millions and her pledge of
Z;fionor. -
% The greater part of the past four
years the most important of all war
burdens has rested upon the people
of the United States; a burden which
eventually reached to every hearth
stene of our country—the burden of
sustaining the armies of Right and
keeping alive the nations oppressed.
To accomplish America’s purpose
in the war—the freedom of people
from scrvility to the whims of auto
cratic “royalty’”’—our own patriotism
and love of liberty has yielded to
“regulation.” That has made of
Americans a more economical, a more
efficient and a less luxury-leving na
tion. It has educated up to amd in
spired a volunteer spirit of give and
{ive comparable today by that of no
other nation on earth.
L This nation, therefore, has won
for itself and within itself one of this
age’s greatest victories, and yet,
there confronts us a remaining and
sorely trying period in which the
measure of good from that vietory
must be taken.
It is that which answers the ques
tion: “After the war—what?”
When the last hostile shot shall
have been fired, whether that be next
month or next year, the armies of
Kurope and France; the people of
Europe and France; turn back from
war to.the routine of life, looking on
a thing of desolation and destructien,
Untold miles of territory which mem
ory pictured as a modern Eden is no
less now than the bared and black
ened crust of war’s carnage in jts
most unthinkable state of debris.
There lie no longer the green fields
or stand the peaceful homes of thrif
ty peopla Their men long since
went to the field of battle, where hun
dreds of thousands of them are to re
main forever. Hunger and direst
privation and suffering succeeded the
peace, prosperity aund thrift and, that
became America’s meoral obilgation to
care for.
| We have to feed the world.
| The creation of the United States
' Fecod Administration was designed as
' the war and na¥y department of the
|allies in which food was to be the
iammunition. Its duties become man
lifold and its reeruited home-army
'millions. Its battles all have thus
| far been attended by viectory whole
|somely cemplete in sustaining life in
|stead of expending it. It has been
|the reserve of every allied fighting
larmy on the firing line.
. Its battle must go on when the
other battle stops.
| After the war nations are to de
' mobilize millions of men and recon
§vert vast human machings into mere
| individuals. Cities, towns, homes and
|farms are to be rehabitated. Chaos
'and destruction must be brought back
\to_order and reconstruction. Waste
W. C. McGuire Writes Letier on In
dustry That Is Becoming Daily
More Important in South
“The South can produce feeder
pigs up to 125 pounds for much less
money than the corn belt e¢an, and
‘the custom of marketing our corn
through livestock is growing in the
corn belt and will continue to grow.
The fact that Europe will need meat
for years to come is likely to make it
a profitable business for a long time,
and in this operation, the producer
of the feeder hog gets the long end
of the money, as we in the corn belt
have $3OO land, high priced labor and
also feed the weafher to some ex
tent.
“Another point which, if I lived in
the South, would be occupying my
attention right now, is the demand
which will undoubtedly exist for
brood sows in Europe at the close of
the war for from no other animal
can they get eatable meat and fat in
eight months. I see no reason why
the people of Georgia should not
make the corn belt feel competition
all the way from the farrowing pen
to the block. So far as I can learn,
your cost of production all the way
through is much less than ours.”
Yours very truly,
W. C. McGUIRE,
Agent in Feeder Hog Distribution.
The man who wrote the above to
the State Pig Club Agent is employ
ed by the government to get the pigs
and hogs out of erop-failure sections
and wnto parts of the country where
feed is plentiful. In other words, his
job is to get seller and buyer toge
ther so underweight and underfed
hogs will not glut the market. He
travels all over the country. He has
raised and fed hogs himself and
knows the game. He has orders for
200,000 head he cannot fill, and he
and ten of his friends would like to
get hold of a thousand each one hun
dred pound pigs. So, what this man
has-to say should be taken seriously
as ‘he is in a position to know what
he is talking about. He says we ean
beat the Middlewest raising hogs
from the farrqwing pen to the butch
er’s block, or from start to finish.
The new point he brought eut was
the demand there will be for brood
sows after the war. But the war is
not over, and that is what we should
think most of right now. Mr. Hoov
er has promised Europe that this
country will supply fifteen miMion
tons of cured hog meat next year in
addition to filling our own needs.
Last year, Georgia was asked to in
crease her supply of hogs*five per
cent. This next year, the state will
be called on for an increase of ten
per cent. If you raised one hundred
hogs last year, you wiu be asked to
raise to maturity one hundred and
ten head next year.
HOW TO SEND XMAS
PACKS TO SOLIDERS
Label Must Be Sent From Soldier
To Whom Package Is Sent;
Inspected by Red Cross
First, you must receive from the
boy a special Christmas Package La
bel, which will be given him by his
commanding officer., Take this to the
nearest Red Cross inspector, named
below, who will furnish a container,
and who will pack, seal and deliver
the. package to the post office for
you. No package will be received
that has not the special Label, and it
must be sealed by a Red Crosg inspec
tor. Packages must be mailed by
Nov. 20th. |
For the ronvenience of the rela
tives of Cobb County boys, the fol
lowing have been named inspectors,
and will furnish containers. |
Agworth: Mrs, W. N. Davenport.%
Kennesaw: Mrs. Ninnie McDer
mont,
Austell: Miss Minnie Harrington.
Smyrna: Mrs. H. C. Hudgins.
Roswell: Mrs. Robert Power.
Powder Springs: Mrs. E. B. Lind
ley.
Marietta: Mr. E. G. Gilbert.
The special ruling only applies to
boys “overseas.” The ones still in
camp in this country can get their
packages in the usual way.
* B. G. BRUMBY, Chairman,
Cobb County Chapter, American Red
COURIER, ESTABLISEED 1501
Official Organ of the City of Manett&
Marietta’s Big Drive Will
Come Off Gloriously,
So Say the Officials
'BE AT HOME THURSDAY
OR SEND SUBSCRIPTION
Big Speaking at 7 p. m.,, When An
nouncement Will Be Made As
to Success of Day in Marietta
The Executive Committee of the
United War Work Campaign for the
Marietta District have decided to
make a one day drive in Marietta to
raise its quota of $7,400.
A committee will call on you for
your subscription on tkis day and
the Executive Committee earnestly
requests everybody to have a liberal
subscription ready. These are busy
men and ladies who are giving their
time to this patriotic work, and if
everybody wiil be ready with their
subscription it will save these com
mittees a great deal of time. {
A request has been made by Presi
dent Wilson that you give as much of
your subscription in cash as. possible,
as some of these organizations are
having to borrow funds with which to
carry on their work.
Should it not be conwenient for
you to be at home on Thursday to
meet the Committee when they ecall
it is requested that you arrange to
send your subséription to the Men's
Patriotic League office before Thurs
day, so it cem be counted on that day.
A meeting has been arranged for
seven p. m., on this day at which an
atddreas will be delivered by Judge R.
D. Coffman and the result of the
day’s drive will be announced.
} The committee has announced the
following speaking dates for the
United Waar Work Campaign through
out the county.
Sunday, Noy. 10th: County Line in
Red Rock District, speaking at 2:30
p. m., by George F. Montgomery;
Roswell, speaking at 3 p. m., by Judge -
R. D. Coffman; Benson Schoolhouse,
speaking at 16:30 a. m., by Judge R.
D. Coffman; Sardis Church, Fuller's
District, speaking at. 10:30 a. m., by
Col. J. Z. Foster. ' _
Tuesday, Nov. 12th: ‘' Smyrna,
speaking at 7:30 p. m. by Judge R.
D. Coffmam. : 5
" Wednesday, Nov. 18th: Powder
Springs, speaking at 7:30 p. m., by
Judge R. D. Coffman and Dr. A. B.
Vaughn. :
Thursday, Nov. 14th: Marietta,
speaKing at 7 p. m., by Judge R. D.
Goffman.
LT. BONALD HOLDEN
IS KILLED IN FRANCE
Former Marietta Boy Is Killed In
Action on Octocber Ist; No De
‘ tails Have Been Received
~ Mr. T. L. Wallace has just receiv
ed a paper from Albany, Mo., giving
an account of the death of Lieut.
Donald Holden, who was killed in ac
tion in France.
The telegram to Mrs. Holden gave
no details except that he was killed
on Oct. Ist. It did not give the bat
tle in which he was killed but it is
believed by his mother that it was
during the battle of Argonne Forest.
Although a native of Misseuri,
Lieut. Holden spent about a year in
Marietta, coming here with Mr. R. H.
Gregg, from Colorado Springs. While
here _he was connected with Mr. Wal
lace in the retail business and made
many friends, who will regret to hear
of his death. :
Lieut. Holden was commiseioned as
a second lieutenant from the First
Officers’ Training Camp at Fort
Riley, Kansas, and for faithful ser
vice he was promoted fo first lieu
tenant in July of this vear. He was
attached to the 35th division and
landed in France during May of this
year. Ty o)
Keep their heartz strong, their
spirits bright and their cowrage high
for the gruelling fask -over the el
Give liberally te the UNITED WA R
AMIGEE - o
WORp CMMEAEE -
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