The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-11
POT SHOTS AT CURRENT
NEWS OF STATE, NATION
AND ACROSS THE WATER
Wilson Orders His Ship To
French Port
Fate of Cotton in the Balance. Wood
Alcohol Sold AS Whiskey. The
Whole West Sown in Wheat. Mich
igan Votes Highway Bonds.

reports this week from the peace
table in France. President Wilson
has been sick from a cold and not able
to attend meetings and has ordered
the return of the ship George Wash
ington, on which he has made his
voyages, to the port of Brest. Some
have construed this as indicating that
he was about to return to America,
and the further rumor gained circu-
lation that he was about to break with
other representatives of the allies at
the conference. Other reports deny
this, and since the president has been
able to go out again a better under?
standing is hoped for.
According to late dispatches, Ger
many will be asked to pay at once
five billion dollars damages, and the
rest of the bill will be apportioned
in annual payments to extend over
thirty years. What action will be
taken with regard to the former kaiser
is yet in doubt, but it is assumed
that the allies will insist upon his
living at some place within their do
minion, so that he can not conspire
again against the peace of the world.
The time has now come which will
determine what the fate of cotton is
to be next fall If the farmers abide
their pledges, they may expect fair
price, but if they do what most peo-
pie seem to expect them to do-over-
plant-they can expect only the old
"hard- times" prices again. 1t is
matter which only the farmers them
selves can control, and what they are
going to do about it will be watched
with interest by the whole nation.
The type of patriots" in the class
of Allen, of Kansas, hope of an cover
crop" and ruin for the south, and
this perhaps is also the hope Of for
eign spinners, but the south has hopes
of reduced acreage and fair prices
with good food crop on the side for
safety.
AS the days of prohibition approach
all sorts of stuff is being sold as
whiskey by dealers wherever the bust
ness is still licensed. In New York
reports show many deaths Of men
from drinking these "near whiskey"
connections, which often have wood
alcohol as a base. The board of
health here is trying to suppress this
traffic, but it has so far been power
less. The only safe rule is to let
whiskey of every sort absolutely
alone. Whiskey dealers, as rule, do
not bear very high regulations as to
honesty of what they sell, and now,
in the last days of the trade, they
certainly do not care what they sell.
Out west the whole world is being
put in wheat this spring. The guar
antee of 1920 per bushel has caused
every foot of available land to be put
in wheat A representative of this
paper recently made trip to Mis-
souri, and reports that even farm
yards, barn-yards, and gardens are
being sown in wheat. The govern
ment will have to pay out far over
a billion of dollars to pay the bonus
on all this wheat, while the south, as
usual, plants a big cotton crop and
sells it at hard-times prices to get the
money to pay its part of the tax for
wheat bonus.
Michigan has just voted overwhelm-
ingly against wet amendment to the
constitution of that state. The dry
amendment was passed in 1916, and
has proved highly satisfactory. An
other interesting feature of the Mich
igan election, is the almost Unani-
nous vote of approval of fifty million
dollars of bonds for highway con-
struction in that state. Poor old
Georgia is about the only state not
doing something in the line of build
ing permanent roads.
Frank w. Woolworth, who built
the tallest building in the world in
New York city a few years ago, died
Tuesday at his home on Long Island.
He was the owner of the chain of
and 10 cent stores that operate IN
so many cities, and became million
aire long before his death. He was
self-rnade man, starting in a small
way, and sticking to one line of bust
ness, which became the biggest of its
sort in the world.
The reports show that about 1000
men will come home from Europe
minus leg or an arm, while l25
will be sightless. When we consider
he large number of men engaged
shese figures seem trivial, but to the
Individual soldier, who is MANNED or
'lind, it is indeed serious matter.
Artificial limbs will be supplied. and
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