The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-15

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We are afraid the Atlanta Constitution is taking Uncle
John Shannon too seriously about chicken being free
as air" up at Commerce. Of course there several
ways to get your chicken but doubt the free supply
that may be secured up there is nexhaustibe as the
air. And the Constitution printed it right next to Frank
L. Stanton's High Cost World" poem too!
The actors in New York are strike, the white
way is dark the jazz bands SILENT the beer and wine
has ceased to ow of the old settlers in
favor of trading the town back to the Indians.
Typhoid fever is more easily avoided than cured The
may be had for nothing and the doctors are not
busy as they will be if more of is not used.
The little tin box is not nearly safe place to put
your money bank, poor Atlanta family can
certify having saved two hundred dollars to have
it vanish from the old tin bank.
Some things that have happened recently incline to
suspect that Mr. Buresons hide is not half thick as
some people have supposed it We do not believe
man ever lived who absolutely Indifferent to public
opinion.
We are in favor of giving the system fair trial.
we are in favor of the and ttlepaying
their own way also in favor of the government
paying its way, and not begging space Of anyone
The brewers fthe country-or should we say ex-brew
ers-are going have big meeting in Atlantic City in
September to plan for campaign to repeal prohibition
laws If they get too dry they in the surf, outside
of that it will all be talk
1t is through the public schools of the state that
child born given chance to become great as any
other man who lived in the state More and better
schools increases this opportunity.
TO cton
teerng when of the profteers in stripes and
not much before that time.
Macon girl flew home from a visit by arplane, and
up to have not heard of anAtanta girl who was
SO anxious to get backto Atlanta The capital retention
committee had better attend to this.
By some slip of Mr.. BurIesons mails have missed
our Walton News since the press meeting, for we
can not think Brother Caldwell has cut off his visiting
list.
Chicago and Washington courts have fine chance to
show the south what they will do with rioters and mobs
who attack negro citizens within their Jurisdictions, but
we suspect there will be no Showing"
Literacy in Georgia took bound upward when the
legislature passed the local school tax act this week.
Money invested in education returns tenfod in the
perity of the state
We fear the American Legion which being organized
by of the last has political aspirations for
the future however loudly they protest political nten-
tons at this time.
There republican senator by the of Moses in
the United States Senate but it that he has not been
able to lead his party out of the wilderness.
We don't understand about these direct descendants
of George Washington that we have read about several
times lately Is it history something else that is
| crooked
Carrollton has been advised to multiply it's chicken
raising industry Ralph Meeks knows why
It's an enterprsing eweler who advertising to
promote weddings order to get the chance to sell the
ring, but Atlanta has firm that does just this And
when the high cost of living considered must accord
this firm the palm for its mistaken belief in the of
printers ink. May its confidence be not misplaced.
| "You need your money
| And | need mine,
If we both get
/ 1t would sure be fine.
| But if you get yours
| And hold mine too,
What in the world
/ Am l going to do?"
/ Poem from the back of a sales-ticket.
The boil weev have made their appearance in several
parts of the county and only remind our farmer
friends that activity and eternal vigilance the price of
| cotton
Carnegie for his epitaph these honest lines:
Here lies man who knew how enlist in his service
better than himself"