The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-02-18
CRITICS COMMENT.
A 6OSSIPY LOCAL WRITER RE.
GALES The JOURNAL READERS.

have been thinking Of calling for
space in the JOURNAL some time. and with
your permission, I'll dot lew thoughts.
You know I've been reader OF the JoUR>
NAL for number OF years, and consider
1t the best local paper in the State. It is
always welcome visitor to my house Nv
wife says she would do without sugar
and cream in her coffee before she would
do without the JOURNAL. Well, she is a
woman OF good taste, or the editor must
have complimented her some time or other
on her good looks. Anyway she is a good
wife and mother aud | am sure she de-
serves good paper to read, as well as all
the compliments she receives.
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80 We are to have free schools Well,
that strikes progressive cord that will
make sweet music, but let US not have too
many cornet play ers or bass drum heaters
in charge of the system, The board OF
education should be composed OF sensible,
practical business men, with no axes to
grind, having the good OF the town at heart
Such men as E. Faw, R. N. Holland, b.
R. Legg, W. K. Granting, ?. T. Handy,
DR.. B. r. Strong, A. S. Clay. DIR. H. V.
Reynolds, d. F. McClatchy A. Y Leake,
DIR. Cortelyou and others | might name
With such men as these to organize and
inaugurate the system, it would be free
from any II tickle you and you tickle me.
The free school is for the benefit of the
people and not for the purpose OF placing
pei sonal friends in good places or adding
to personal popularity. An eye single 10
the public good is what the tax payers in.
sist on.
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The longer live in Marietta the more
delighted and pleased / am. ] think we
have here the healthiest place, and the
most hospitable and courteous people that
can be found anywhere, and / have been
delightful setting to the jewel of local at
| Effectiveness.
| There is one cause of complaint have
to lodge against the citizens OF Marietta.
They should see to it that the Confederate
graves have head stones and avenues kept
in good condition. There is nothing that
reflects more on the town than the neglect
ed graves OF your dead, Suppose that our
city council use an animal appropriation
to beautify this sacred spot. II would
seem to be filling long felt want" as well
as show that res1ect due our dead.
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Have you ever noticed how personal
jealousies and spites enter into the make
up Of some citizens? How difficult to keep
our worst feelings in Subsection, and
the nobler, unsel6sh principles uppermost
in personal conversation and deed. AL
though the writer uses the non de plume
Critic, he does not do so to find.fauIt or
censure unkindly. A lady the other day
remarked Il do hate TO get in Mrs. So>
and'So's company She is so spiteta and
seems to dislike everybody so much as to
talk about them in the unkindest way
She seems TO be q good hater and never
gets over it. How unpleasant this kind
ofpersou is to Others. You have seen some
men who are guilty Of the same prac>
tees. They back bite and abuse
every person in town, and when you turn
away from them they treat you the same
way. If such men and women could See
| Themselves as Others see them they would
use more honey and less vitrol. q
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There will be lively times in politics
this year. The discomfort of the
farmers must shave vent and politics fur
nishes the escape valve for heap of preju-
dice, without any returns on the invest
ment. just watch the hungry crowd