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The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
COTTON AT FORTY AND
SEED AT ONE HUNDRED
That is The Mark Set BY Alabama
Commissioner After His Visit
To New Orleans

Alabama's Commissioner of Agri.
culture evidently believes in higher
prices for cotton. Follwing the
| World Cotton Conference at New
Orleans he sends us the following
which we believe to be an entirely
reasonable view.
English spinners will make ar
engagements to buy three million bales
of American cotton. Indications now
are less than a ten million bale crop
English and American spinners have
very little cotton on hand. They are
making immense fortunes on account
of high prices received for. their
goods. They could now pay the farm
ers sixty cents for cotton based on
selling prices of cloth. Spinners are
excited over the shortage of our pro-
duction. They have millions tied up
in equipment and hundreds of thous-
ands of laborers dependant on them
for work and must have cotton.
The American farmers have a
limited supply of cotton and can and
will get forty cents by holding same,
1t takes twelve months to grow cot
ton. 1t should be marketed through
period of twelve months and not
forced on the market in three months
This years crop was produced on
war time price basis, and with four
successive short crops the world will
face cotton famine next June.
Thousands of tons of cotton seed
in Texas on account of incessant
rains have sprouted and ruined in
the fields. In previous years cotton
seed oils mills crushed thousands of
tons of peanuts. To-day peanuts are
selling for $4,000 per ton for she'll
ing purposes and mills cannot buy
them for crushing. Therefore cotton
seen oil will have no competition with
peanut oil. Heretofore thousands of
heads of hogs have been fattened on
cheap peanuts.
Peanuts will all be harvested and
thus the supply of fats from this
source will be curtailed. And cot
ton seed oil will certainly be in great
demand. There will be practically
no peanut meal produced and thus
cotton seed meal will have little COM
petition as stock feed. 1t is one of
the best protein feeds on the market
and will sell for much higher prices
Therefore, based on these facts,
beg farmers to tenaciously hold on to
their cotton and seed until the above
prices are obtained.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
CLARKE LIBRARY NEEDS
MORE PAYING MEMBERS
The Rate L. Only $500 Per Year
And 800 More Members
Are Desired

At the October meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Clarke Lii
brary it was decided that the Library
should be opened every afternoon
in order that the members may have
more convenient hours for access to
the Library, and that the High School
pupils and teachers can have the use
of the magazines and reference books.
All High Schools should have access
to well equipped library where
good reference books may be consult
ed, and where the best of the cur
rent magazines are on file.
Our Library should function along
those lines and render valuable as
sistance to our boys and girls. There
are already some reference books on
the shelves, and it is the plan of the
board to add to this collection any
books that would be especially help
full to the High School pupils. Pro
fessor Dumas has asked the teachers
to make out lists of books which they
consider desirable. Fielding Lewis
Chapter has pledged $500 as gift
to the Library and it will be used to
purchase some books of this class.
In order to make the Library really
fficient the membership must be much
larger. There are now fifty mem
bers, the Civic Leagle Library Com
mittee having secured twenty new
members during September. The
BoardsOf Directors have set the mem
bership at three hundred and will
campaign for this number. The fee
is only two dollars year and there
are surely that number of public
spirited citizens who will rally to the
support of the Library and help make
it a worth while town institution.
Recent gifts to the Library are a
beautiful set of the popular Five
Little Pepper" books from Miss Julia
Anderson, and a set Of the much low
ed "Elsie" books from Mrs. j. T..
Anderson. These are most welcome
additions to the juvenile section. Miss
Bracket, of Brooklyn, N. Y. has sent
copy of the famous -Four Horse
men of The Apocalypse" which every
one is anxious to read, if they have
not already had that wonderful ex-
|perience.
Beginning Monday November 3rd,
the Library will be open every after
noon from two to four o'clock. Every
Ione has the privilege of using it as a
reading room, the membership fee Of
two dollars entities you to take a
book and magazine home.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
WILL ASK PROHIBITIVE
TAX ON LIQUOR SALES

Columbus, Ohio, October 29.-lm-
mediate introduction of legislation
providing for a prohibitive tax run
ming perhaps as high as 100000 to
prevent the sale of intoxicants be-
tween the date Capitalization Of the
peace treaty and January 16, 1920,
when constitutional prohibition goes
into effect, will be asked of congress
by the Anti-Saloon League, according
to E. H. Cherrington, secretary OF the
leagues executive committee, in an
announcement tonight. He declared
that there was little doubt that such
measure, if introduced WOULD pass:
Existing and impending labor
troubles would aid the passage of
such a measure, he asserted. The
amount of liquor in the United
States, he estimated at 65,000,OO0
gallons.
He stated that in it's proposal to
dry leaders in congress the league
would set 100000 as the minimum
figure for the prohibitive. tax.
A conference of dry leaders will
be held in Washington at once, Mr..
Cherrington concluded.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
COMPULSORY IN 1920
Children From Eight to Fourteen
Years of Age Required to At
tend Six Months in Each Year

Georgia's last General Assembly
passed a compulsory school attend
ance bill which is to become effec-
tive on the first day of January, 1920,
but we have heard very little about it
and as the time is near when it will
become operative, we think it worth
while to print the law in full for the
information of the people.
1t might be worth while to cut this
out and save it for future reference.
Compulsory School Attendance.
Duty of parent and Guardian.
Enrolment and attendance of
child.
Excuse of Absence.
Sec. III Georgia School Code).
Every parent, guardian or other per-
son having charge and control of a
held between the ages of eight and
fourteen years, who is not exempted
or excused as hereinafter provided,
shall cause said child to be enrolled in
and to attend continuously for six
months of each year public school
of the district or city or town in
which the child resides; which period
of attendance shall commence at the
beginning of the first term Of said
school in the year. Such attendance
at public school shall not be re-
quired where the child attends for the
same period some other school giving
instruction in the ordinary branches
of English education, or has complet-
ed the seventh grade of school work
as prescribed by the State Board of
Education, or where, for good rea-
sons, the sufficiency of which shall be
determined by the board of education
of the county or the city or town in
which the child resides, the said board
excuses temporarily the child from
such attendance, such boards author
lied to take into consideration the
seasons for agricultural labor and the
need for such labor, in exercising
their discretion as to the time for
whic hchildren in farming districts
shall be excused. Provided, that no
guardian shall be compelled to send
such child or children to school out Of
any other than the POUNDS belonging
to the ward or wards. Temporary alb
sence of any child enrolled as pu-
pill may be excused by the principal
or teacher in charge of the school, be-
cause of bad weather, sickness, death
in the child's family, or other reason
able cause.
Penalty for Noncompliance. Suspen-
sion of Punishment. Notice Board
Sec. 172 Amy parent, guardian or
other person VINO has charge and con-
troll of a child between the ages
aforesaid, and who wilfully fails to
comply with the foregoing require-
Continued on Page Eight
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
JUDGE MORRIS TO ADDRESS
DRAINAGE CONGRESS SOON

Judge N. A. Morris has received
and accepted an invitation to make
an address at the meeting of the Ma
tional Drainage Congress at st. Louis
next month.
This will convene on November ] /
and continue for three days, and
many men of national reputation will
be I'M attendance of the sessions.
Interest in drainage has multiplied
during the last few years and this
congress promises to be the largest
and most important ever held in this
country.
The experience Of Judge Morris
both as a land owner in a drainage
district, and as a drainage contractor
qualities him 20 speak authorieatiye.y
on the subject.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
CITY SUED TWICE IN
UNITED STATES COURT
The National Park Bank And Dead
Soldiers Mother Have
Filed Suits

1t is not the purpose of this paper
to Withhold from the people any news,
either good or bad, which may come
to our knowledge. We believe that
a1y matters connected with the bust
ness affairs of the city rightfu.ly be-
long to the people, whether it is gain
or a loss. We therefore feel it a
rather unpleasant duty to chronicle
the fact that the City of Marietta is
now defending two suits in the United
States Court aggregating $4,000,
not including some interest
The first of these was brought by
Mrs. Carrie Lehn Kraager, of Penn
sylvania, mother of the dead soldier
who was killed by an electric wire
ON the street near the Baptist church
early last year. This suit is for $780,
900 and was filed on Oct. ri, 1913,
and has been pending since that time.
1t will likely come up for trial at
the November term of U. S. Court
in Atlanta. Our information is that
the plaintiff in this case has small
hope of winning it, but of course that
is for the jury to determine. Col. J.
H. Foster represents the city while
Anderson & Slate, of Atlanta, repres-
ent the plaintiff.
The other suit is on the Scarboro
notes, which aggregate $48,000 prin-
,cipal and some interest. 1t was filed
by the National Park Bank, of New
York which institution purchased the
city's notes of Scarboro. This suit
was filed on Sept, ~, 1919, and from
our information is not likely to be
brought to trial before the spring
term of court. AS to the outcome of
this suit we have not the least idea,
we only know that the suit is based
upon notes which the city has repudi-
ated.
In this suit the city is represented
by Col. Foster while Mcdaniel &
Black, of Atlanta, represent the Mas
tional Park Bank.
In the publication of this matter
we are not attempting to attach the
blame to the mayor or the present
administration for the existence Of
either of these suits, but we are mere
lily publishing the facts as they are,
which have just come into our pos
session, and which belong to the peo-'
pie of Marietta.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
CITY SUNDAY SCHOOLS
FAVOR EARLY CLOSING
Ask For Early Trading On Saturdays
To Enable Stores To Close
By Nine O'clock

The various Sunday Schools of
the city on last Sunday had presented
resolution which was adopted by
the schools named below, asking for
an early closing of business places on
Saturday nights. We give the resolu-
ton below.
Whereas, the custom of observing
late business hours in the retail
stores, barber shops, etc. on Saturday
nights is hard on the merchants and
their clerks physically and interferes
also with their proper enjoyment OF
religious services on Sunday, and
whereas, all customers can be served
just as well and the stores close at
an earlier hour.
1T is HEREBY RESOLVED that
the following results be made, VIZ
1st. That all merchants IF Mari
eta be requested to have their stores
closed and all employees gone from
the store not later than nine o'clock
every Saturday night.
End. That the two excellent news
papers of Marietta be requested to
champion the cause of the faithful,
weary salespeople and explain to the
public the good grounds for the stores
at the above mentioned reasonable
hour.
Bird. That all the ministers of our
churches be requested to urge house
keepers in their congregations to
place their orders early Saturday and
as far as possible to buy staple goods
before Saturdays, so as to make 1t
easy for the merchants to finish all
deliveries and close early.
Adopter by unanimous vote Oct
26th, 1919.
(Signed)
Dempsey B. Medford, Pres.
G. C. Hairston, Sec'ty.
For Methodist Sunday School.
j. z. Foster, Teacher.
For Baptist Sunday School.
D. M. Caldwell, Chairman
E. E .Mayes, Sec'ty.
For Presbyterian Mems Bible Class
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
NEW INVENTION STOPS
AIRPLANE WITHIN so FEET

Dayton, Ohio, October 29.-An-
nouncement from McCook aviation
field today that successful tests have
been made with a reversible airplane
propeller, means, according to Off
Gals, that the day of the "back yard"
airplane is here.
With the new propeller, airplanes
can land and be brought to stop
within fifty feet by actual test, of
feials said.
The new device will also increase
the climbing speed of an airplane for
ty per cent and permit of higher al
titude flying, $4,000 feet being a pos
sible limit Seth Hart, of Los An
geles, Cal, is the inventor of the pro-
peller.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
BARNES LAW is DEAD
IN THIS TERRITORY.
The Confusion OF Time Is Ended
BY The Adoption OF The Time
Used BY Railroads

AS far as the city of Atlanta is
concerned the Barnes time law might
just as well be off the statute books,
for it's provisions have been disregard
ed and the city is using railroad time,
which is an hour slower, since Sunday
October Goth; than the daylight saw
ing time which the Barnes law seeks
to make the uniform time of the state
of Georgia. At a public conference
held at the call of Mayor James L.
Key, it was decided to adopt the rail-
roa dime, and ignore the Barnes
law. The railroads, of course, being
under federal control, operate accord
ing to federal laws, and the daylight
saving having become imperative, all
railroad watches and clocks went
back one hour at 2 o'clock, Sunday
morning.
Marietta also settled the matter by
a council meeting on the day before
Atlanta acted, and Rome, Cedartown,
and other towns in this section also
adopted raj Observation-Disclosures
adopted railroad time as official, and
all clocks were turned back one hour
on Saturday night.
Thus does the fame of Mr.. Barnes
fade, and thus again does the coun-
try really settle back into the old CEN
trail time used before the government
and the legislature took hand at
regulating it.
The sun still rises and sets as usual
just as it did before, during, and
since the war.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
'DRYS' OF STATE ARE
OPPOSING VANDIvER

Washington, Oct. 20. - Reports
printed in Georgia newspapers that
John NJ. Vandiver of Rome has been
selected as law enforcement officer
for Georgia under the new federal
prohibition law are erroneous.
Vandiver has been recommended
for appointment to the position by
Senator Harris. Senator Hoke Smith
has not made any recommendation
yet. 1t became known that there will
be considerable opposition to Van
diver from Georgia prohibition ele-
ments and church people on The
ground that Vandiver was once in
the liquor business, and the pro-
hibtionists object to having an APP
ponitment of that kind made.
One Georgia congressman who had
endorsed Vandiver for the place,
when he learned of Vandiver's form
er bushes withdrew his endorsement
and it is said others who endorsed
the Rome man are preparing to do
likewise.
The appointment probably will be
made in week or ten days as the
commissioner of internal revenue is
now drawing up the regulations un-
der which the new prohibition law
will be enforced. Besides a chief law
enforcement officer there will be
several "zones" in Georgia, each in
charge Of deputy who will be re-
sponsible in his territory for keep
ing his part of the State dry.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
WHAT is COOPERATION?

Cooperation is the foundation
stone and life of the Agricultural
Extension Service. It is a term
that has been widely used lately
in many fields of work. Some
times it is hard to define. Here
is definition, sponsored Ey the
College of Agriculture of Ohio
State University, that has made a
hit with the agricultural club
workers:
COOPERATION MEANS so
TO CONDUCT YOURSELF THAT
OTHERS CAN WORK WITH
YOU.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
FOOTBALL FRIDAY EVENING
WITH THE CEDARTOWN HI

Marietta and Cedartown high
school teams are billed for a game OF
football at 3:15 Friday afternoon on
the grounds at Fair Oaks.
The local boys are somewhat en-
couraged since beating Rome Hi last
Friday to the score Of y to 6, and a
good game is promised this week.
A small fee be charged for
admission and everyone who can
should go out to encourage and sup
port the team.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
GET IN THE CLUB

Get in the club for The Progressive
Farmer and The Marietta Journal
both one year for Sl.65 if you send
at once. Subscriptions taken here.
No better farm paper exists than
The Progressive Farmer and you
know The Marietta Journal.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
DOCTORS TO MEET

The Annual meeting of the Seventh
District Medical Society, of Georgia,
Will be held at Gainesville on Wed
nesday, November 10th at 10 O'Clock.
We are in receipt of an invitation
and a program which will be quite
interesting to members of the pro-
fession. The convention will be the
guest Of the Barlow county Medical
Society
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
BAPTIST ORGAN FUND BENEFIT

Elsewhere in our columns we print
as a social item the plans for the
Mother-Goose wedding TO be present.
ed on Friday evening, November 9TH,
at 8 O'Clock, in the Sunday School
room of the First Baptist church.
This entertainment is to be given
under the direction Of the Ladies Aid
Society and the proceeds will 90 to-
wards the organ fund Tiekets viii
be 25c each, and viii be OF sale BY
the children of the east.
Mrs. Ed G Gilbert IS IN eherre ef
ali rehearah AID the psseaga1sa.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
COTTON MARKET

Cotton sold at 80 cents in Mari
eta on Thursda, and at that no
large Offering ere made There
seems to be "a disposition on the
part of farmers to hold regardless
Of prices offered q this time, The
appearance Of toe boil weeyil has
pIoq s.IamIgJ 9q@ poueJg@s
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31

'If Paris styles are immoral, blame
the Americans" said Nine. Paquin,
the Rue de lax Paix dressmaker,
when shown New York editorials con-
demning the newest French fashion,
American buyers are demanding ex-
IRENE decolette," she said, "and we
are forced to provide it.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31

Election of Grand Lodge officers
was the first business taken up We'd
nesday at the opening of the Georgia
Masonic Grand Lodge. Charles L.
Bass, of Atlanta, welfare agent for
the Southern Railroad, was elected
grand master. He succeeds Robert j.
Travis of Savannah.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31

American nurses to the number of
247, of whom 169 recently have been
released from military service, have
been granted post graduate scholar
ships by the American Red Cross to
enable them to train in public health
nursing. it was announced at national
headquarters.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31
CurrentEUents

OuTTGuLEUCU
eff Paris styles are immoral, blame
the Americans" said Nine. Paquin,
the Rue de lax Paix dressmaker,
when shown New York editorials con-
demning the newest French fashion.
American buyers are demanding ex-
IRENE decolette," she said, "and we
are forced to provide it.
Election of Grand Lodge officers
was the first business taken up We'd
nesday at the opening of the Georgia
Masonic Grand Lodge. Charles L..
Bass, of Atlanta, welfare agent for
the Southern Railroad, was elected
grand master. He succeeds Robert j.
Travis of Savannah.
Abnormal conditions in world fl
nance and trade probably will make
it necessary for the Republican party
to modify in a measure for the pres
ent, its high protective policy, Sena-
tor Penrose, Republican, of Pennsyl-
vania, declared. He is chairman of
the Senate Finance Committee, which
passes on tariff legislation.
Casualties reported by all rail
roads in the southern region for the
first ten days of the national railroad
accident prevention drive numbers
10 as compared to 468 for the same
period last year, decrease of about
II per cent. Monday only two cas-
ualties were reported and Tuesday no
injuries occurred, with all railroads
but one having reported up to late
hour Wednesday. The southern re-
gion still leads all regions of the
United States in the drive.
Sugar consumption in the United
States has increased 100000 tons a
year as a result of the country's GO
ing dry, asserted Herbert Hoover,
former food administrator, testifying
before the House Committee Investi-
eating War Department Expenditures
in Foreign Countries.
Atlanta is the first city in which
Sergt. Alvin C.. York, captor of 1872
Germans, has consented to speak on
any subject other than the educa-
ton of Tennessee mountain boys, his
life work. He will speak for the pro
posed Roosevelt Memorial Institute,
to be located at Roswell, at the Au-
ditorium next Saturday night, and is
making this exception only because
the aims of the two movements are
identical.
Werner Horn was found guilty to-
day on the charge that he dynamited
the Canadian end of the International
bridge at St. Croix, N. B., February
2, 1915. The jury was out only IL
minutes. Horn, who conducted his
own defense, said he was German
officer and was acting under orders OF
the German government in war time.
The Belgian ministry has given ap-
prevail to list of 1,175 Germans, SOL
diers and civilians, who will be prose-
cuted on charges arising from viola
ton of laws of war at the time of
the invasion of Belgium or during
the occupation of this country by
German troops, according to The In
Beige. The list will be
sent to the peace conference in Paris.
American nurses to the number of
247, of whom 169 recently have been
released from military service, have
been granted post graduate scholar
ships by the American Red Cross to
enable them to train in public health
nursing. it was announced at national
headquarters.
JUDGE MORRIS TO ADDRESS
CONGRESS SOON
Judge N. A. Morris has received
and accepted an invitation to make
an address at the meeting of the Ma
+;onoI npafpaua Copnraee of Ct | ol4Ig
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31

Abnormal conditions in world fl
nance and trade probably will make
it necessary for the Republican party
to modify in a measure for the pres
ent, it's high protective policy, Sena-
tor Penrose, Republican, of Pennsyl-
vania, declared. He is chairman of
the Senate Finance Committee, which
passes on tariff legislation.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31

The Belgian ministry has given ap-
prevail to list of 1 ITS Germans, sol.
diers and civilians, who will be prose
cuted on charges arising from viola.
ton of laws of war at the time OF
the invasion of Belgium or during
the occupation of this country by
German troops, according to The In
dependence Beige. The list will be
sent to the peace conference in Paris
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31

Werner Horn was found guilty to-
day on the charge that he dynamited
the Canadian end of the International
bridge at St. Croix, N. B., February
2, 1915. The jury was out only IL
minutes. Horn, who conducted his
own defense, said he was German
officer and was acting under orders of
the German government in war time.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-31

Sugar consumption in the United
States has increased 100000 tons a
year as result of the country's GO
ing dry, asserted Herbert Hoover,
former food administrator, testifying
before the House Committee Investi-
eating War Department Expenditures
in Foreign Countries.