The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1918-12-27

The usual automobile fatalities occurred in Atlanta,
and at least of them caused by booze.
The New York World asks "Who can speak for Amer
lea at the peace conference in Europe, if President
Wilson can not do it," We have
multitude of republics in Europe will claim
Wilson as an "Unce" if not father
The Austrians claim to be just as hungry when
they asked for peace but they have advantage in
having fight while they look for something to eat
now
Atlanta officers seized so pints of booze from the
locker of the diner of the souhbound Dixie Flyer Monday
night fifteen hundred gallons of beer destroyed In
Greene county raid and voaors held in these and
other raids recently should convince the most skeptca
that the stuff is contraband in Georgia.
Christmas extravaganza of the day brings back
to mind the times when boy had to work week
for dime, with which to get package of the
small recrackers hey don't make such small ones any
more) which the extent of his Christmas extrava
gance, and further reminded that the war has
taught little in the matter of thrift and economy
If eggnog not illegal and otherwise impossible,
the price of eggs would make it some luxury this year
Candy is said to contain value food than
pocketbook lot of folks going continue to take
chance with it.
An officers wife lost thousand dollar brooch in At
anta last week, which at least good to let the
public know you owned such gen.
The Kaiser delivered sermon Christmas day, but
will bet his congregation smaller this year than
before
The mysteries of the North Pole soon to be
revealed by the of aeroplanes but suspect moth
ing more than an expanse of ice and will be found
there.
Nebraska now claims automobiles than any
other state and they have helped to make that great
farming state richer and greater state.
Religious reform is promised in Mexico, states head
line which first that they had any such thing
there.
1t seems the censorship is still strong in Paris,
whole front page Paris paper having been deeted
on Monday of this week.
If you have not done all you could the Red Cross,
we suggest that the contribution box is still OPEN
The war has coined lot of officers who will have
handle to their cognomen when they get back into civilian
garb 1t will be Captain instead of just plain Mistah"
Greensboro Herald.
Yes and most of the future political contests will be
between Major Richard Roe and Colonel John Doe, with
an occasional Buck Private John Allen in which we
will put our money on Buck Private Allen every time
When the police raided the Office of Colonel Henry S.
Jackson the republican leader of Georgia, they found
an opium pipe several quarts of whskey and other similar
paraphenala. He was evidently celebrating the recent
G. o. P. victory.-Greensboro Herald
Well, what did they expect to ind? Sunday School
library? Or W. c. T. u headquarters?
Count Won Bernstorf is very the Kaiser not
responsible for the war; which opinion of the former
German Ambassador is of consequence to US at all
Editor Shope of Dalton although often wrong as
right edits of the brightest papers in the sateAl
pharetta Free Press.
We consider Slopes papers not only bright but as
often right any other paper the state and candidy
we are at understand the dubious compliment of
Editor Rucker.
Christmas week has been fair and beautiful the war
over cotton shows tendency to rise to reasonable
level the outlook for good crop and business year
ahead most promising, optimism should prevail
throughout the land.
Gradually war restrictions in manufacture being
own business again.
The Marietta city clock has become very unreliable
it's face showing about the hour while strikes
anything else than that.
Our people are not nearly so eager to do work
they were while the fighting lasted but long we