The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-07-23
Marietta, Ga, July %, 1915.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington City,
July 18th, 1915.

III COulp duy Win MT. ana Mrs. w.
d. Cox, of Atlanta, Mrs Hairston and
visited Mt. Vernon. Mr.. Cox is
the general manager of the Grand
Fraternity for the state of Georgia,
and is an up-to-date business man
and progressive citizen. He and
Mrs. Cox were on their annual vaca-
ton and decided that they would
combine pleasure with travel and
make their vacation an educational
one. While sightseeing around
Washington they gave us an invi-
tation to join them on their visit to
the historic home of Washington. A
trip down the Potomac is always de-
lightfuI.
All was quiet along the Potomac"
that evening, the ultramine sky, the
gentle breezes with lazy Lawrence
dancing in the amorous kisses of the
sun, all combined to make the trip in
tensely interesting and exhilerating.
On this occasion more than a hundred
visited Mt. Veron. Every day citi-
gems from some portion of the Repub-
lie pay homage to the first President
OF the nation at his tomb If there
was nothing else to establish beyond
per-adventure the wisdom of George
Washin gton: his practical keen fore
sight and business acumen, the loca-
ton of MT. Vernon clearly and ad-
mirably does that 1t is a magnifi-
cent eminence overlooking the Poto-
mac. From the front veranda of
the historic home you get a grand
panorama of the country 1t is while
standing on this broad piazza that
you profoundly wish for the topo-
graphical power of Washington Irv-
inc, your feelings are simply sub
lime, and you are lost for the want
of words fit to convey them. Per-
haps in the great expanse of the flu
ture there will be very few days, if
any, but what some citizen of the
country will wind his way to i'm
mortal Mt. Vernon, and thus it will
keep fresh our Impressions of the in
fluence and deeds left by Washington
as a perpetual legacy of glory to his
country. Only one thing did we OBJ
serve about the home that married
our pleasure Mr. Cox is a northern
man, but is making his home in the
South and expects to die a citizen of
her Empire state. Using his own
language he was shockingIy sur
prised to find black negro guide at
the vault which contains the bodies
of Mr.. and Mrs. Washington togeth-
er with thirty two members of the
family explaining it's history. Col
olel Cox thinks that a Confederate
or Union veteran should be in charge
of the dust of these great patriotic
people. | agree with Mr.. Cox that
the tomb OF Washington and his wife
should be in the custody of Anglo
Saxon vigiiancy. The story of Mt.
Vernon will never grow old, it will
be rewritten and re-told with inces-
sent and increscent viger. The
name of Washington will always be
an incentive to higher and nobler en-
c6eavor. "A visit to Mt Vernon every
now and then serves as a patriotic
tonic, and we should never let such
an opportunity pass.
Senator Hoke Saith has returned
Srom Atlantic City where ne has been
for two weeks with Mrs. Smith for
her health which is considerably Inn
proved. The Senator, in the langu-
age of the highways, is sporting a
pair of shoes made of Georgia cotton
by the ]. X. Orr shoe company of
of clothes made at Winder, Ca, from
cotton grown in Barrow county. The
sterling elements of this staple crop
viii keep it in the forefront, science
has discovered many uses for cotton,
they may strike at it with low
prices, but you always find king
Cotton" in the ring with his head
up. Last year the South Carolina
State Fair exhibited dough-nuts bak-
ed out of cottonseed meal and they
were said to be delicious.
Mr.. Orr is now making shoe for
farmers out of cotton that is said to
be a great success because of it's com
1orting qualities, which he will be