The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-05-09
"a Slap in the Face

SLAP IN THE FACE"
We will not reproduce the editorial in FULL but quote
from it follows:
Marietta school children went to their classes with
tears in their eyes last Friday morning"
Things have to a pretty pass when the School
Board of Marietta Georgia, refuses to allow the
school children of the city to have part in the
a annual exercises, etc"
Glow shallow any boast of pride in things Southern
and the traditions of Dixie which may come from
men who commit themselves to such position"
with certain persons all things are business and
sentiment has little place"
"The School Board or the members responsible for
its late action an apology for the slap-n-the-
face to the Confederate veterans, to the United
Daughters of the Confederacy to the school children
and all of the millions of Southerners who hold dear
the memory of those who died SO gloriousy for the
things which would have fought and died for
ourselves fifty years ago."
Here are the facts: The public schools had to close
about ten days during the winter on account OF the
influenza later of the schools had to close for several
days of accident to the heating apparatus
At meeting of the Board of Education held about the
first of April resolution was adopted for the schools to
participate in the memorial exercises later when the
Victory Bond drive the board was mporuned to
give school holiday to assist in that drive; they felt
that they could deny the request but at the same
time they felt that they should not give two holidays in
one week. especially in view of the time previously lost
during the term and they rescnded their former action
giving holiday Friday, April 25th, which was not
Memorial Day-Saturday, the 26th, being the day set
apart and designated all the South Memorial Day.
The President of the Board of Education wrote the
President of the Memorial Association that if the Asso-
citation would have its exercises Memorial Day. which
was Saturday, April 26th the Board would do its best
towards having the school participate in these exercises
1t is supposed that the arrangements had already been
made Friday the 25th and it may not have been posi-
BILE at that time change Saturday the Goth In this
he have
work. and then pupils could have participated in the
exercises Saturday, the real Memorial Day.
In taking this action, evidently offense
intended to the Memorial Association the old veterans
of the COS, any else Certainly, would
consider if he would stop for moment and study the
personnel of the Board which composed of the follow
ing citizens who are known in almost every household
in Marietta and Cobb County, D. W. Blair j. D. Malone,
John H. Boston, M. L. McNeel ]. T. Anderson and T. j.
Galley.
All of these gentlemen, with possibly one exception
were and reared in the hotbed of the Confederacy
and most of them the line of Sherman march to the
their ancestors all native Southerners who fol-
lowed Lee and Jackson Longsreet and Johnson Gordon
and Wheeler many of them fought and died for the Con-
federacy A close relative of Mr.. Boston the
secession-war of Georgia. Most of the Board
have spent their entire lives in Cobb County, they
large taxpayers they have stood and now stand for
the best church. city, county, state and national affairs
Mr. Blair, who is the president of the Board had four
United States entered the present of them on
German soil at this time and another spent many months
at the front. Neither Mr. Blair his used any
political pull or influence threatened anybody political
y if they did not get easy position where they would
not smell powder or hear the hiss of the schrapnel
Another member of the Board, Mr.. Mcneil had three
sons who volunteered service of whom went
in the Tank service and another entered the
navy neither these boys their father threatened
anybody politically used any pull influence to get
Lo1 - a 1iroI Xl1aCnt Tho hIC
shells fell
Another member of the Board DR.. Malone, had only
one son. and he volunteered into the servceneher did
he use any political pull from Georgia to the uttermost
corners of Louisiana get him place free from danger
Mr. Boston another member of the Board volunteered
and went into and spent several
years in the Philippines and then received an honorable
discharge When the present declared, although
he was above the made every effort to get
into the service the firing line; if the had not
terminated just when did, he would have succeeded;
his only efforts along political lines get the
firing lines and not to find easy place. Mr. Boston
has
The other two members of the Board Mr. Anderson and
Mr. Galley, are both loyal and patriotic men; Mr.
Anderson has son of draft age and Mr. Galley has
no son of any age.
Now this class of citizens of Marietta that the
Times has repeatedly assaed in the last few months in
regard to the Public Schools
The Times announced two three weeks ago
that Mr. F. c. Bunting would the editorship of
the paper if he responsible for the editorial in ques
ton our readers will not be surprised when call aen
ton the that he recently hailed from that rock
ribbed Yankee of Delaware, where
most of its citizens complain because of the South do
not declare holiday the 30th of May.