The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-05-09
Current Events

Lack of public accountants is said
to have induced the government to
extend the time for making corpora
ton income tax returns to June first,
Georgia examinations for certified
public accountants will be held in At
lanta on May 21-22 and number are
expected to take it. The pay is good
and the work attractive so we can not
understand why more of our young
men do not qualify.
They say the White House has been
painted, cleaned up, and thoroughly
renovated, while the president is
away, and at that they did not get at
the job any too soon from what we
have heard of the old building, al
though it's been a good while since
we had a president who would let
the boys paint it "red" overnight.
Triton has been awarded the new
Coastal Experiment Station. She do
mated 2O4 acres of land, adjoining
the lands of the District Agricultural
College, just outside the town, and
$4,000 in cash, and winning over
Chatham, Ware, Worth and several
other good counties.
The cultivation of tobacco is being
taken up in earnest in South Georgia.
Tiff county has larger acreage and
Dooly reports more being planted,
and a number of other counties also
have found it to be exceedingly pro-
fitable. Numbers of storage and cur
ing house are being erected in that
section.
A citizen of Sandusky, Ohio, has
the following advertisement in local
paper:
'I've been trying to quit drinking,
but my friends won't let me. l am
going to run this ad and then if a
saloonkeeper gives me drink I'll
have him arrested"
If he will move to Marietta no one
will run him down to give him drink.
Fred Toney, member of the New
York Giants, and really one Of the
greatest pitchers in baseball, has just
been released, after taking four
months cure in Tennessee Jail, for
violation of the Mann white slave law.
He was also chraged with violation of
the draft law, but was acquitted of
that. Toney was born in Georgia, but
him name sounds rather Italian to US.
One soft drink manufacturer in
Georgia is advertising his beverage in
the papers in French, taking care to
use only such French words as the
boys who have been over there can
understand. The idea as applied to
advertising is good, as it carries with
it enough English to let anyone know
what the drink is being advertised,
and the French words excite curiosity.
From all accounts in the Atlanta
papers recently, Atlanta is not de-
pending upon the product of the |
mountain counties for its supply of
mountain dew" but home product
is being turned out right in the city
in substantial quantities. The Off
GERS captured still in a house on
Whitehall street last week that was
a whopper, and there are rumors of
others busily at work right in town.
Then one of the preachers of the city |
just taking little walk out of town
Saturday ran up on still in opera
ton which he reported to the officers.
Judge HUMPHREYS of the Criminal
Court in Atlanta this week, in charg-
ing the grand jury, said that indict-
ments charging pistol-toting be made
in all cases where the persons are
indicted for murder, declaring that
much crime results from the prac- |
tice of carrying firearms and that
in most cases murder would not be
committed if the person did not car
nv a pistol. In several instances
where persons were found not guilty |
of a charge Of murder, he said, they |
were guilty of pistol-toting and
should be punished for the offense.