The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-01-24
Why Not At Home?

Why Not At Home?
If America can build roads and bridges France under
the fire of big guns she build them in this country
under peace conditions.
If America can raise billions of dollars for war funds
and feed bills for all of her allies, she raise all the
money needed to finance good roads at home
If Cobb County do her part in all the lighting and
financing abroad why can she do the great work OF
such Importance at BODYBUILDING roads?
If our lawmakers make plans and laws necessary
to do all the great work we have done abroad certainly
they do the equally great but less expensive work OF
planning and building roads at home.
Let us adopt one great plan and work it, just as we
fought the war; and will get the roads, and at the same
time provide abundant work for homecoming boys
prosecution sometimes falls down of its own weight
and then again is the defense that falls down that way
When we consider the excellent service and low rates
the Southern Bell Telephone Company giving can
see why the Postmaster General wanted to take over
The army of the "milk white flag has returned and
the reporters write of Sunrise in the hills, while all the
time we thought it the "moonshine" that was the
chief of the trouble.
Congress is scoring Wilson and Hoover but the
Government holds the wires very little of the stuff will
reach them there.
Baron Munchausen had nothing the imagination of
some of those young Atlanta newspaper reporters.
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Is it not about time for old Villa to bob up again in
Mexico?
We cannot help wondering what the Sim Feiners ex-
pect to do with Irish republic if they get it, They
would fight bitterly among themselves the moment they
left to themselves is not what they want
By order of the Postmaster General the average tee
phone rate has been reduced upward which of course
the country can stand if the service is not improved
downward at the time, some of Mr. Burleson's
friends predict.
We have at heart the interest of the purchaser
than the government when say to again and again.
"Buy War Savings Stamps"
From some of the remarks made Congress last week,
being soldiers wife and waiting for your allotment amt
all pie.
If we may judge by the criticisms of the Postmaster
General in the Georgia press at this time he will be for
tunate in not having to rely endorsement OF Georgia
editors when he wants another job.
Article one of the Irish Constitution will probably be-
"When you see head, crack it." What delightful time
that bunch would have if they in Russia
The New York Worlds Photographer is greatly peeved
by the thought of the prohibition lid which is to be clamp
ed down one year hence
We afraid the Irish parliament which has returned
to the pure Irish language will lose the support of the
Irish in this country, who only speak the good old
United States language.
Quite number of contemporaries intimate that
they "a fed up" doing free government adver-
Using
Russia the first and only entente country to make
peace with Germany, is the only that still war
The real reason some folks parade their virtues
is that it takes than to make "a parade.
We note that the packers have out some advertising
telling why the price of meat is high but kept
so busy earning enough to buy meat that we have no
time to read the advertisements.
If Georgia wants any better highways she had better
proceed TO build them before all the rich folks get
aeroplanes and lose all interest in ground trails
If it for the fact that the fur dealers quote
large skunk skins from five fifty seven dollars each
should consider people absolutely worthless
this earth.
The government sent long notice about the auc-