The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-03-29

triotism. 1t is an old thing with US,
not brought about by the high cost
of living which makes us whine a
bout the other fellow being short on
patriotism.
AS explained / care nothing per-
sonally about what any one thinks
and am content to let my own con-
science be my guide and my accusers
if am lacking of patriotism, but the
farmers as a whole are getting
mighty tired of being advised day
after day and then abused for his
shortcomings by those whom he must
help to support.
That such condition does not ex-
ist cannot be successfully .dispated.
They are denounced for being un-
patriotic and abused for their ignor-
ance in not being able to see the
town mans side of the case.
Of course, the country people are
ignorant so far as this gigantic war
is concerned and believe that nine
ty nine per cent of the people OF
Cobb County including myself and
every man in Marietta whom | have
heard discuss this war for the past
three years are too utterly ignorant
to have even a faint conception of
what should be done in such crisis.
and would be better off to attend to
their own business and examine their
own measure of patriotism leaving
other people to do the same.
| noticed in last weeks issue of
The Journal notices of eight differ
ent social events dinner etc. which
we call "blowouts" This does not
include those for patriotic purposes.
| think l am safe in saying that this
is about on a par with most other
issues. In other words these people
are living up to their standards Ia
standard set by people higher up in
social life. i do not object to this.
The country people generally do not
object to it, but they do object to
these people telling them how to live
economically and denouncing them
as unpatriOtic because they do not
add two more corn bread meals a
week to their menu which already
Mnfh chn
of this with an outward patriotic fe-
yer of a hundred and ten, mostly of
the street corner variety would salts
fly some people.
One prominent patriot of Marietta,
VINO draws probably $4,000 per
month, told me he could not live on
his salary. If he and others of the
same kind are really patriotic and
will live as we do / will agree to fur
nish him living, including good
healthy grub for half the amount.
Likely he would explain that his
station in life and mine are entirely
ulIICLSHb W WHICH agree, UuC
just want to say that the matter of
ones standing in life always disap-
pears in the face of real patriotism.
| notice many of the men in Mari
eta who are so patriotic are of the
8 A. NJ. variety. They seldom get
up until late in the morning and get
to work, if indeed they call it work,
about a. m.
These are the men who are so
grieved because we farmers are not
more patriotic. They want US to buy
Red Cross stamps, etc, etc, from
everybody that approaches US when
we go to town and raise more corn
for ourselves and more wheat for
them when we are at home. At
least this is the impression they leave
with me. If am wrong, / am sor-
ry.
| get out about three-thirty in the
morning. If these men are really
patriotic, and want to do something
for our country more substantial
than blow, will furnish enough
land, seed, stock, and tools, to employ
one of them during the early morn
ing hours which he now uses in Sleep
ing and the later ones he uses in
finding fault with his country neigh
bors and we will donate the proceeds
to the Red Cross.
None need apply except those who
have autos to go back and forth and
who are not satisfied with the far
mer's mode of farming or his pa
triotism.
q w EONEI I'D