The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-25
Brief Current Events of
the State and the Nation

On Wednesday at the polls in At
lanta the people defeated an increas-
ed tax rate, also a bond issue for
putting in an electric plant at the
crematory. A fight has been on
through the columns of the papers,
between certain of the city officials
and the Georgia Railway & Power
Company, and at this distance we
have not undertaken to try to under
stand the merits of the case at all,
but we did rather doubt the wisdom,
judgement and good intentions of
Some of the city officials.
Bodies of Americans killed in
France are being collected and buried
in American cemeteries over there,
Care is being taken to identify the
graves and to keep them in good con-
dition and to preserve them from de-
secration. The government will later
determine what its policy shall be
With regards to bringing the bodies
to America, but as many parents
have followed the course of Mr..
Roosevelt with regard to the body of
his own son and asked that it remain
in France, it is possible that this will
be the policy.
The former Alien Property Custo-
dian, A. Mitchell Palmer, has already
collected of German property in this
country, a sum exceeding the whole
amount of the claims Of the United
tates citizens against Germany. These
claims are for loss of lives on the
Lusitiana and similar cases and for
loss of property. 1t is said that it
will be about 50,0O0,000 while Mr..
Palmer has collected about $800,000,-
900.
Bishop Embree Hoss, of the M. E.
Church died at his home in Oklahoma,
on Wednesday. He was writer and
a churchman of great prominence,
and had occupied many very impor-
tant places in the educational work
of the church. He had been confirm
ed as a bishop for more than fifteen
years.
The shipping board in Washington
is hearing the claims of the south At
lantic ports for bigger share ofthe
shipping to be assigned by the board.
1t has been claimed and we think
proven, that the southern ports have
been Disseminated against in the past
assignments.
The price of hogs in the Chicago
market this week reached the high
est point ever before Spills per
hundred Corn has also advanced, and
we would again remind Cobb county
farmers that even if there should be
no market at all for pork and corn
they make fine table dressing.
Tampa, Florida, has closed its city
stockade, the number of prisoners
being too few to warrant its upkeep.
Since prohibition became effective the
police barracks have been large
enough to amply provide room for all
the prisoners. One by one the cities
learn the wholesale effect of prohi-
bition.
The mayor of New Orleans de-
clines to issue permits after this week
for any more "tag days." declaring
that the people are entitled to a rest
every Saturday for the past six
months having been "tag day" for
something or other. That mayor
must be going to run for Office again.
One of the Victory Loan tanks
turned turtle" while doing a demon
stration at Calhoun one day this week.
No one was hurt and it was quickly
righted again by the large crowd of
| spectators who were gathered to see
it climb banks and mash down trees
in it's way.
Although the supreme court de-
clared the federal child labor uncon-
has been found by the government
by the application of the 10 per cent
tax on profits of mills employing
children under Is years of age. The
internal revenue bureau will have
charge of the collection of this tax,
and it will become effective on April
18th.
Georgia Tech has broken all re-
cords this spring for enrolment, and
the register now announces total
of BOLT names. Nearly half of these
students are listed for the collegiate
course, 1854 are government voca-
tional students and nearly 500 in the
night school. Tech has done great
work for Georgia and the south but
it's real day of service has just begun.
A Lieutenant who decamped from
service at Camp Gordon last Febru-
airy with about four thousand of
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