The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-02
JOURNAL BEGINS ITS
FORTY EIGHTH YEAR

The Marietta Journal starts out
this week on its forty-eighth year.
The paper was established in 1866
and in two years more will have
been published successfully for half
century. Fifty years is quite a
spell and not many newspapers have
gone along smoothly and evenly for
so long a period.
The Journal has been successful
far beyond the average of county
weeklies. 1t has always enjoyed a
good advertising patronage and has
had fine list of paying subscribers.
Its circulation at this time is twenty
five hundred copies weekly, which
has been the average for the last
four years. The consolidation with
the Courier brought a permanent
increase of about $50 after the elm
ination of duplicates and the circu-
lation never falls below $500. This
takes the paper into practically
every home in the county. We try
to make it a welcome visitor where
ever it goes, and we are very CRATE
full that it. is so regarded by those
who receive it. While the Journal
is a business enterprise of substan-
tial proportions we seek to make it
more than that.
1t endeavors to be a public institu-
ton, cooperating with all good citi-
zens for the upbuilding of the city
and county and working for the
general welfare. Cobb county is
entitled to a first-class, clean, re-
liable county paper and to the ex-
tent of our ability we try to make
the Journal that sort of paper. 1t
is the kind of paper Mr.. Neal and
Mr.. Massey published and it is a
pleasure to follow in their footsteps.
In these modern times newspapers.
even in towns, must be progressive
and meet ever growing demands.
With that view we have at different
times added to the mechanical equip
ment of the Journal until it has "a
splendid plant with which to carry
on business. One of the first addi-
tons was a folding machine which
greatly facilitates the mailing of the
paper, as it would be an all day iop
to fold our large circulation by hand.
But our most important addition IS
our typesetting machine. 1t is truly
one OF the most wonderful and in
teresting inventions in the world. 1t
weighs more than a ton-more than
four bales of cotton, and cost about
the price of forty bales. 1t is run
by an electric motor and has large
keyboard like a typewriter, which
the operator uses in setting type.
Its principal value to us is the rapid
ty with which we can set news and
advertisements. A good printer
can set by hand one line in one
minute. Our machine can set ten
lines to the minute. In every news
paper office there is difficulty in
handling late news and late adver-
tisements. With our machine we
find it possible to meet any emer-
gency and if it were necessary we
could set the paper entire and print
it in two days. We have had this
machine year and are much graft
fled with the results obtained. AS
the paper grows we shall add what
ever it may need in the way of
equipment
We desire to express our appre-
citation of the kind treatment the
Journal has received and we wish
for our readers a happy and pros
porous New Year. Prosperity is gem
eral in Georgia now but we think
that no county is on more sub
stantial basis than Cobb. The farm
ers have made a good cotton crop
and sold it at fair price. When
they prosper we all prosper and
they seem to be in a very satisfac-
tory frame of mind just now.
So, here's happy greeting, with
good wishes for all our readers for
1914.