The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-03-21
POT SHOTS AT CURRENT
NEWS OF STATE, NATION
AND ACROSS THE WATER
Thief Steals Bibles From An
Atlanta Hotel

Champ Clark to Have Opposition.
Watson Must Pay Sons AIimony.
Missouians Ask Reed to Quit.
A very peculiar theft was that of
$50 Bibles, property of The Gideons,
from the Cecil Hotel in Atlanta last
week. They were in boxes and had
never been unpacked and it is hardly
thought the thief could have suspect
ed the contents of the boxes when
they were taken from the hotel, and
it is more than propable that the
property will be abandoned as soon
as it's character is ascertained.
John NJ. Barnes, ex-United States
Marshall, who killed his brother-in-
law, J. o. J. Lewis, and was convict
ed and sentenced to 10 years in the
penitentiary, made an appeal and
pending same asked for bail. This
was denied by Judge Hammond, who
stated that Barnes return to Thomp-
son would be dangerous to the peace
and dignity of the community, and
stated that the matter of bail was
solely within the discretion of the
court. This decision has met with
general approval.
The eastern Republicans beat Jim
Mann out of the speakership, but it
seems that Mann and his standpatter
friends won the real victory after all
by retaining control of all important
committees. AS we remarked once
before, they will have to get up very
early to beat Mann to anything worth
while in the game of politics.
It seems that Champ Clark is to
have opposition for the leadership
of the Democrats in the next house.
There is a well-supported revolt
against Clark and it is not keeping
quiet about it, either. Congressman
Lever, of South Carolina, says:
II will support no man who will say
that a conscript is synonymous with
convict"
When the draft law was up for
passage last year, Champ Clark OPP
posed it with the above, or like state
ment, and it is now rising up to dog
his footsteps.
Senator Calder, of New York,
whose name otherwise might not get
into the papers, is clamoring for the
senate to convene in Washington in
session without any call from the
president. 1t is hardly probable, how
ever, that the president will even
hear of this, and nothing could be
more improbable than such action on
the part of the senate, so why worry?
The court has decided that the
widow of Thomas E. Watson's son
may still collect $25 per month out of
Mr.. Watson, because he was party
to an alimony agreement to pay her
this sum during her life, this, notwlth-
standing the fact that her husband,
J. Durham Watson, is now dead.
r Fifty of the sixty-seven Democratic
members of the Missouri legislature
Joined in resolution asking Senator
Reed to resign on account of his stand
on the league of nations plan. This
reminds us of Clifford Pinchot calling
upon Senator Penrose to get down
and out and is just as likely to pro-
duce the desired result. Neither one
will lever turn loose any political pie
until the voters knock them loose.
The latest reports from Germany
show shortage there of four and
half million bales of cotton. 1t is
said that substitutes so much herald
ed during the war have proven fail
ures. This should cause some ad-
vance in prices whether embargoes
are removed at once or not, but IL
should never, NEVER cause one
farmer to plant one stalk more than
three fourths of former acreage.
Wild reports and rumors may be ex-
pected to influence a larger planting,
but these should be totally ignored
even when well founded.
AS we go to press the striking
freight clerks on the N, c. & st. L.
having returned to their work were
still there, although rumors OF an
other and even greater walk out,
are current. A conference between
strike leaders and the railroad author
tiles was in progress in Washington
on Thursday.
Deputy Sheriff ]. w. Webb, OF De-
Kalb county was instantly killed when
shot by a man whose car he and
fellow officer found in the woods
.Oor Decatur ut midnight on Sunday.