The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1909-09-03
DR.. HOLDERBY WRITES OF BEAU.
TIFUL MARIETTA.
From the Atlantis Journal.l

EDITOR JOURNAL Permit me to make
. few feeble remarks through your coll
umns in behalf OF this beautiful town
OF Marietta. Now, Marietta may not
need my voice or pen to speak its
praises, but feel somehow under obli-
cations to rise up in the meeting and
say something nice.
l have been soiourner here during
the present summer, camping out"
with my family, with horse and dog
thrown in. Having visited many of the
summer resorts around about Atlanta
for the past twenty years, am in po-
sition to express my opinion and to pass
judgment.
or all the places I know for rest and
real comfort. Marietta excels them all.
You get here all the conditions neces-
sary for sweet. quiet, restful sunmer
outing, and at the same time be in
touch with the big city only twenty
miles away.
Marietta ia an ideal town from every
point of view. Being hundred feet or
more higher than Atlanta, and nestled
at the foot of the mountains and famed
by day and by night by the mountain
breezes, it is free from malaria. HUI.
Nudity at this point is less intense than
in lower attitudes, and the temperature
by day is moderated by the constant
breezes, and the nights are cool and
pleasant Under these physical condi-
lions, we may naturally expect to find
good class of people. Bad folks can't
live in this kind of atmosphere.
After sojourn here of two months
and going around through the alleys
and lanes and streets, I hsve yet to
meet the first drunken man.
AS matter of fact, have not been
able to get hold of bottle of "nigh-
beer" or any other kind of beer, and az
to whisky. that is clean out of sight
Ii there is any drinking up here, it
must be done ION the sly"
The people of Marietta are not only
sober folks, but they are law-loving
and alaw-abiding people.
They attend strictly to their own BUSH
ness and let other peoples alone.
The truth of the business is that the
people here are so good, I am going
home to Atlanta soon, where think
am more needed. lam just one preacher
here too many, and il the people here
remain as good as they are now, do
not see why the other preachers should
stay. am afraid that DR.. Patton, DIR.
Bryan, DR.. Bond, and the Episcopal
and ICatholic preachers will all have
to leave and go down to Atlanta where
they are needed. But I am inclined to
think that it would be we'll to run all OF
the preachers out of Atlanta, unless
they can have more influence over the
liquor forces than they have had in the
past. The preachers do not seem to
count for much when it comes to the
matter of putting "near-beer" out.
What has become of the influence of
the three hundred preachers in Atlanta.
and Of hundred and forty churches
with membership of forty thousand
people.
1t seems that the liquor gang, with
their money, had more influence over
the legislature than all of the preachers
and churches combined.
The Hooper Alexander bill was de-
feated because the preachers and
churches laid down and did nothing.
Bot the liquor crowd and the next legis-
lature need not think that the preach.
ers and churches are dead. They are
only taking nap. They will wake up
soon and see to it that the liquor men
who have been coming up to Atlanta to
debauch our State, will be elected to
stay at home,
Now, Mr.. Editor, il you want to have
nice, quiet rest from your arduoLs
newspaper labors, just coms up to Ma
rietta, You can come in good style on
the splendid trolley line if you will pay
the conductor 35 cents, unless you have
free pass.
note. with regret, that they do not
let preachers ride free. Hope they are
more charitable to newspaper men. But
the newspaper men do not need free
passes as much as the preachers do.
Now, Mr.. Editor, If any of you news.
paper brethren are looking for near.
beer" don't come up to Marietta. We
don't keep the stuff up here, and we
won't keep it much longer in Atlanta.
1t will have to go. A. r. HoLDERBY,
Marietta Ga.