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The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-04
BLACKWELL
from Fair {

DR.. and Mrs. W. P. White, OF
Atlanta, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Jennie White here. =
Mr.. Dave Haynes children, OF
Woodstock, visited their grandpar-
ents here last week, Mr.. and Mrs
Lee McCleskey.
Sunday school was well attended
Sunday and much interest seemed TO
manifest.
Mrs. Clarence White is confined to
her he'd this week. Her many friends
home she will soon be out again.
Mrs. Dave McCleskey spent sun
dav with her niece, Mrs. Parish IN
Marietta. ava
Mr.. and Mrs. Harve Chance are
honnv over the arrival of fine baby
Girl at their home.
Iucv, the baby daughter OF MI
and Mrs. Dave McCleskey, has been
sick for several days.
Mrs, Wilkie visited her daughters
There will be all-day services at
here last week.
Ehenezer church the third sunday III
+his month. This service will be
memorial in honor of Mr.. Albert
Beavers. who gave his life as sacrl-
fice in France on November IL. The
GOLD star in the service flag, On, DO
YOU see it there, hSining up there SO
nroudlv? 1t stands for patriot talr;
+ stands for boy that was brave and
true. For mothers breaking heart
# tells the tale that for red, white
ond blue. Those two have done their
part" 49,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Goss were the
quests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Nlchol-
son Sunday.
Dr. and Mrs. Cliff Banister are
smiling over the arrival of dainty
little Miss at their home.
Mrs. Octave Shaw spent last week
with relatives in Marietta.
Miss lola Cloer and brother spent
Tuesday with Mrs. j. c. Nicholson.
Mr., and Mrs. Will Dobbs visited
Mr.. Dobbs' father Tuesday, who IS
very sick.
Guy Dobbs and Pink McCleskey
write home folks that they are well
and happy in France, but long to
return home. -,
Mr.. and Mrs. OIL Russell and chill
Iyen spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Clyde Rogers. jolly JacN'
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-04
KENNE SAW

Mr.. Harvey McCleskey, of Etowah'
Tenn, was visiting friends here last
week. We are always glad to have
Harvey make a visit to his home
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lamar Lewis spent
Tuesday in Atlanta.
Miss ALA Frazier, of New Salem, IS
visiting Mrs. Henry Frazier.
Miss Pickens, of Lost Mountain,
is visiting Mrs. W. P. Giles.
The second quarterly conference
of the Acworth church will be held
at Shilo next Sunday.
Mrs. S. J. Pyron has returned home
after a visit to Atlanta.
Mr.. Eugene McCollum has returned
from overseas and is now in New
York.
Mr.. J. P. Kemp, Of Camp Jesup,
was with home folks Sunday.
Mr.. Doc Williams, former Ken
nesaw boy, is visiting his sister, Mrs.
E. G. Carrie.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-04
THE CALL OF THE CRIMINAL

The hardening influence of prison
life is one of the most marked and
lamentable things in connection with
the treatment of the criminal class.
But why is this?
Partly, of course, because of the
criminals character; partly because
of his association with other criminals;
partly because he is under the ban of
society; but also, and especially, we
surmise, because he is isolated from
good influences.
To this we call special attention.
There is not doubt that the attitude
of most good people toward the Grim
inal class is not what it should be.
We do not say that our sense Of
justice should be blurred or that any
one should coddle the criminal and
encourage him in his crime by be-
lifting it or condoning it. But what
we do mean is that men and women
in the spirit of Christ should pay
more attention to the men and Wom-
en- who are behind the bars of our
prisons. We send the gospels across
the seas; why not take it to the jail
cells nearer home? We preach to
the poor and neglect the captives.
We even give the gospel to the insane
but often overlook the imprisoned
We remember the fatherless and dis
regard the very class responsible for
so much orphanhood.
1t is we'll, then, to do religious
work among the inmates of our guard
houses, jails and penitentiaries. Send
them good literature which will lead
their minds to holy things. Visit
them in their cells, and plead with
them that their souls may be freed
from the prison of sin. Hold out
to them the word of life, not only the
life to come but also the better life
here. And, if possible, see that when
they emerge from prison they may
enter upon a worthy career and new
er again by crime disgrace themselves
or harm society.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-04
news FROM OUR
CORRESPONDENTS
MOUNT ZION

Mr.. and Mrs. G. C. Brooks spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff
Brooks, of Powder Springs.
Mrs. J. C. Maddox and children
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. ALI
good, of Macland.
Mr.. D. B. Braselton attended the
birthday dinner given by Miss Lou
Ella Grogan Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayman Rakestraw
and daughter, Ilene, spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. John Petree.
Messrs. Louis Brantley and Dock
Green, of Marietta, spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Brantley.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Benson and
family had as their guest Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Moore and daugh-
ter, Pauline, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Moore and Mr.. Hallott Petree.
Miss Carrie Hardage spent Wednes-
day night and Thursday with her SIS
ter, Mrs. Guy Brooks.
Mr.. Gober Dyson has returned
home from the army. We are glad to
have him with us again.
Several from here attended the
singing at Orange Hill Sunday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Brooks had as
their guest Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs
Glenn Brooks and children and Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Brooks, of owe
Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs Guy Brooks spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Hard
age.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pat Edwards and
daughter, Evelyn, of Smyrna spent
Wednesday night with Mr.. and Mrs
C. E. Edwards.
Mrs. T. Dyson and Mrs. Greer
spent Sunday with MIR. and Mrs.
Hayme, of near Mountain View. j..
Mrs. Lindley and son, Harry OF
Macland, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Grogan.
The singing given by Mr.. and MRS,
D. P. Kirk Sunday night was enjoyed
by all present.
Miss Eva Benson spent Wednesday
NIGHT with Mr. and Mrs. Wayman
Rakestraw.
Miss Bell Dyson has returned home
from Fair Oaks. -DewdroPS'
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-04
CHURCHES TO AID
VICTORY LOAN BY
SERMONS ON MAY 4
1t viii Be Thanksgiving Loan" In
Recognition OF This Country's
Happiness And The Re-
turn Of Peace

Sunday, May 4, has been designated
all over the United States as Victory
Loan Sunday, when every pastor of
Eevery denomination is asked to dis
cuss from the pulpit the Victory Loan
campaign and urge upon their hearers
jsuch investments in the Victory Loan
Jas they can undertake
1t has been the observation of those
prominent in former Liberty Loan
campaigns that the churches have had
enormous influence in furthering sub
scriptions. And there is every reason
why this should be so. Lending to
ones country is something more than
a business investment 1t is a patri-
Otto obligation and surely patriotism
a deep regard for ones homeland-is
"a form of religion.
| The Victory Loan is also being call
ed the Thanksgiving Loan" and sure
ly it is fitting designation. Think
of the boys who have come back home,
alive and well, with the enemy van
tquished, the battles over! Think of
peaceful America, its people prosper
Gus, its children happy and well nour-
ished, its lands safe from the inva-
sion of foe; and compare our situa-
ltion with that Of starving Russia and
Poland, with Germany torn. by Red
revolution; with victorious France still
bleeding from the scars of horrible
war. Think of the heavy taxation
which must for years burden the peO-
pie of Europe, victors and vanQuished
alike. And then compare our situation
herewith our government asking
only that we lend what we can spare,
with gilt-edged security and liberal in
terest. Certainly, we can afford to
call this a thanksgiving Loan, and
prove our thankfulness by liberal in
vestments. There is not father who
has seen his boy come home, or who
has learned that he is safe overseas,
who can afford to cheat himself of his
share in this-the last of the govern
ment loans-which will pay the war
bill and finish the job
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-04
SALVATION ARMY
HAS CLEAN RECORD

"The average American doughboy,
his mother, father, brother, sister,
wife or sweetheart, will always love
the Salvation Army for they owe that
wonderful organization debt of graf
itude, Americans will and must re-
spect the principles and ideals of the
organization that has stood the acid
test without murmur or complaint
from creed or color. The Salvation
Army has implanted such an infu-
ence in the hearts of the world
through her fighting men-that the
seeds it has sown in No Mans Land
and at the training camps, will spring
up and bear fruits that will give the
world the first real taste of a true
democracy"
In the above few words, Private
Frank Ivy Goldsboro, of North Car
DINA, sums up what he has seen OF
the work of the Salvation Army
abroad. Goldsboro, who was mem
Der of Company X, 18TH Infantry,
was severely wounded in the early
DdUUleS Oh OOlSSOIlS. w Al1C llS ioy VA
his cot at Fort MCPHERSON Hospital
waiting time to heal the wounds in
flicted by the Huns, he is at his hap
piest period when he discusses the
work of the Salvation Army both
here and abroad.
When he learned of the coming
drive in May for additional funds for
this great cause, the wounded hero
said, 81 hope l am out by that time,
and if | am not, there are thousands
who would go far and wide to tell
the people of this country just what
the S. A. stands for; what it did for
its boys under she'll fire; in the hos
pitfalls and in fact everywhere we went,
the Salvation Army worker was
bound to be there. This is no adver-
Using campaign for all the boys will
have to do is tell the truth of this
great work and the great American
public will do the rest.
America as nation will go to the
front for this great cause during the
week of May 10 to 26. Now that
the work of the Salvation Army
abroad is decreasing, local and ma
tional responsibilities multiply with
time. To cope with the demand and
to continue the great work, addition
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-04
"FAIR AND SQUARE,"

The individual quota system, recog-
nized everywhere as the Fair and
Square" plan, is to be used in large
proportion of the Sixth Federal Re
serve district in the approaching Vic
tory Loan campaign.
Under this plan, a definite quota
based on property and income is as
signed every resident of the county,
and he is asked to invest that sum
in the Victory Loan. It is intended in
this way to see that every man bears
his share of the load and knows his
neishbor down the road also is carry
ing his share, instead Of penalizing the
more patriotic who are willing to take
on an extra load to put their counties
over the top.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-04
Lend AT INTEREST
OR PAY MORE TAXES
We MUST CHOOSE
We Cheered For Peace And Now We
Must Pay For 1t, In One Way
Or The Other

The Victory Loan campaign is
close at hand.
It is only a short time before we
who threw our hats into the air and
cheered on that November day when
the armistice was signed will be call
ed upon to prove that we are as ready
to lend as to cheer.
A soldier returning from France to
his home city, remarked to citizen
who met him with hand-shake:
'This welcome and flowers are all
very nice. But how about job?"
Uncle Sam can well say to his peo-
pie:
THAT cheering for peace was fine.
But how about paying the bills for
bringing it about?"
The war bills must be paid. Any
body can see that. There are two
ways to pay them.
One is to borrow the money from the
people. The other is to tax it out Of
the people.
Our war taxes-most of them on
luxuries-are heavy enough now. But
unless the Victory Loan is literally
subscribed they will seem small be-
sides the taxes to come.
Uncle sam had rather sell securities
than put on new taxes.
He must do one or the other.
It's up to the public. a..
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-04

Miss Georgia Burt and Mrs. V. G.
Gray entertained Friday might in
honor of Mr.. James Gray, of Camp
Wheeler. Those present were Misses
Pearl Lyons, Lois Hilderbrand, Gladys
Lindley, Lizzie Mcclure, Nettie Kemp,
Miss Wilkie, Georgia Burt and Messrs.
Grady Wilkie, Frank Chance, James
Gray, Harry Bozeman and Howard
Lester
Misses Lucy and Ruby Powers, of
Shilo, spent the first of the week with
Mrs. Carl VIM.
Owing to the clock being set up
an hour Sunday, we pulled Old Beck
in at Pine Mountain at dinner time
at the big singing at Polk school
house Sunday. The men folks had
made table about 40 feet long and
the women folks had prepared bas-
kets, boxes and trunks full of eat
ables. There was probably thou
sand people there and the singing
was fine. The house has only been
erected couple of years and is within
about half mile of where Colonel
Leander Polk was killed during the
Civil War.
Recently myself or the typesetter
made it appear that Amor wanted the
correspondents pictures. This was an
error. We want a Journal picnic,
with a great big dinner and plenty
of speakers and we will put Editor
Comfort on notice, we want a talk
from him. There are plenty of re-
turned soldiers and candidates to
make the day interesting.
Gypsy.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-04

The above clipping from "Kind
Words" the Baptist Sunday School
paper, which was sent US by Mrs.
Eloise Easterlin, who asks if Marietta
ministers ever visit Jail inmates here.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-04

The campaign will be designated
Home Service Fund.
The sun., 1919-06-08
BROOKLYN VARIETY.

NEW BRIGHTON-As this
is comedy week here, it was in
evitable that Marie Dressler
should head the bill. with bits of
comedy that she tried out on the
soldiers and consequently knows
are good enough to 60 anywhere.
"Sweeties," a comedy of the love-
lorn, by William B. Friedlander
and Will M. Hough, has been
put on for the benefit of those
who 60 down to do their hand
holding and chest heaving by the
wild waves. Edward Gallagher
and Joe Rolley appear in the
military burlesque, The Battle
of Whatstheuse," which lays
siege to laughs. Bob Hall will
extemporize lyrics to any melody
on inspiration furnished by the
audience, being even able, it is
said, to extemporize a good
voice.
ORPHEUM Irene Bordoni
and Lieut.. Gitz-Rice will bring
the essence of France and of
Canada to Brooklyn, thus reliev-
ing the tension in the air there.
Maryon Vadie, dancer. and Ota
Gygi, violinist, will present
classical masterpieces that can be
borne easily even during a
sultry spell. Felix Adler, upheld
by Frances A. Ross, will try to
convince the public with What
Fools We Mortals Be-" and
Sailor" Reilly expects his voice
to be heard above his own piano
playing.
The sun., 1919-06-08
LEW FIELDS ono FRANCES CAMERON ~
"a LONELY ROMEOe

IRON his sophomore year in
r. high school A. Douglas Leav-
l. lit, now the comedian In Take
1t From Me-" decided that his future
lay on the stage. Therefore in every
play given by the dramatic or English
or other high school societies he was
In the cast. And in the class play he
starred as leading man. To be sure
his audience was not composed Of by
percritical first nighters and Douglas
took the applause with a great deal of
satisfaction. Yes. he surely would be
an actor.
After leaving school he didn't stay
long at the job his father found for
him. 1t was during this enforced idle
ness that his great chance came. A
want lad" caught his eye. 1t read:
"Wanted-1o0 supernumeraries for
a great war play-Apply stage
door"
Standing with some 20 other would
Douglas found solace in the fact that
he could look upon the stage from
where he stood. But when he found
himself one of the fifty who were
passed inside and given muskets his
delight knew no bounds.
This is the second act" yelled a
voice. You supes mass back Of the
wings there and when I give the worn
march down stage on the double
quick"
On and off they marched until Doug
lass muscles ached. A solid hour of
II. in fact. Finally they were allowed
10 rest, and a. Douglas Leavitt, lean
ing on his musket, firmly resolved that
the next part he played would not be
that of a soldier.
You over there!" This time the
The sun., 1919-06-08
NEWS AND GOSSIP: OF THEATRES

farce comedy II Love You" at the
Forty-eighth Street Theatre, wants a
play. and a play about a young actress.
Miss O'Brien believes that a comedy
written about a girl placed in the
little known theatrical life that is
lived on the road would have an i'm
mediate appeal Says she:
I'VE have had any number OF plays
and novels about the life of Broad
way and the Broadway actress and
star. In fact, we have had so many
that there Is a sameness about all of
them which has made the theme COM
monplace; but no one seems to know
Of the trials and temptations of some
Of the altogether charming person
alities from whom the Broadway
types are recruited.
Look at the stars Of to-day who
came from that mysterious realm
known as the road. Laurette Tay-
lor, Fay Banter, Elsie Ferguson, and
oh, so many others who have 'trouped'
and had the most fascinating and won
| derful experiences in their early strug-
giles for fame. Wouldn't play about
| Miss Taylor, say in her first season on
| tour, be delightful experience?
Il don't know why it is that play
wrights and novelists neglect this
field. Beginnings are always interest
Ing, and the road is the beginning of
our native drama and all that 1t pro-
duces.
I'm England Leonard Merrick, a
novelist who Is Just beginning to be
read in this country. has written his
best stories from incidents suggested
by the experiences Of provincial actors
and actresses. Books like The Position
and Peggy Harper and The Actor
Manager They are wonderful stories
and very true pictures Of the life they
discuss. They would make great
plays. Who will do something like
this for the stage of our country ?
We may have no Provinces but we
have the biggest States and the
longest distances and theatrical tours
In the world. It is a field untouched,
though worthy Of the most brilliant
cultivation.
Who will write a play on this sub
ject?"
The sun., 1919-06-08
Hammerstein.s latest musical comedy,


Tumble In at the Selwyn Theatre.
''Of course by all moral precepts
woman under the influence Of liquor
is anything but funny, but defy the
most rabid prohibitionist-old man
Anderson himself, IL need be-to gaze
on Peggy and fail to laugh.
81 feel that 1 have almost a maternal
interest in a cocktail for it was a
cocktail that brought me to Broadway
At least 1t was a cocktail that made
managers give me some attention, and
quite naturally prohibition provokes
me.
You know I succeeded Madge Ken
nedy in Fair and Warmer and that
farce, as you will remember, would
have been-well, it was the kick in
cocktail that put the kick in the play.
In Tumble In Peggy at least has the
satisfaction Of knowing that the stage
drink is nothing but toast water, but
was never able to determine how our
property man fixed UP that famous
green elevator cocktail in Fair and
Warmer He had drinks Of all colors
and all substitutes for the real thing.
mixed them up and drank that con-
coction eight times a week for two
years. 1t must have been harmless,
otherwise l would not be here.
This prohibition thing is going to
be hard on playwrights, and the the
atregoing public is going to suffer
too. There's more laughs in a little
cocktail than in a freezer full OF ice
cream"
The sun., 1919-06-08

brace for a time the somewhat less
interesting occupation of canning fish.
Mr.. Manatt first bought grease paint
in Kansas City, where he started with
stock company. Between that en-
gagement and his present appearance
in a good part in a Broadway success
many things happened, including a
limited engagement as handy man in
the aforementioned fish cannery.
Upon the close of the Kansas City
stock company Mr.. Manatt sought
new worlds to conquer, but the con-
quering was not particularly good that
season and he became a member of
the Frank Dudley repertory company.
With that organization his duties were
many and varied. He was the electri-
clan and assistant property man, leap
ing lightly from these duties TO those
Of juvenile man. In Paducah, Ky, Mr..
The sun., 1919-06-08

dreams are Of the stage. Strange to
relate, she has never yet had a pleas
ant dream about her theatrical expe-
riences. If the dream takes place be-
before a premiere her sleep thoughts
Invariably picture dismal. heart
rending failure. II she is on tour
she dreams that the train is wrecked
or the scenery fails TO arrive or the
wardrobe trunks are lost in transit.
During the run Of a play like "39
East" II she does dream about the
stage II Is only to live through
series of nerve wrecking episodes.
such as wearing the wrong gown in
the wrong act. missing cues or omit
ting some necessary business"
But that is not all. Miss Skipworth
claims that her dream experiences
are not in the least unusual, but on
the other hand are a constant source
of torment to practically every fol-
lower of the stage. To prove her con-
tention Miss Skipworth has spoken
to scores of her friends covering A
period of over ten years, and In each
instance has found that the expert
ences OF others in that respect are
Identical with hers. The only proba-
BILE explanation OF this mental phe-
| nomena is the fact that a player lives
| under a constant nerve tension. Be
| fore the play opens this tension is
at the apex, but never for a moment
during the entire length Of the run is
the strain ever relieved. During the
course Of a performance an entire
act is in danger OF being spoiled
| through the slightest error on the
part of one of the players. mis-
| judged cue, a defective stage light or
the absence OF an important prop
that should have been planted" is
sometimes sufficient to throw a per-
Torrance out of gear. So 1t is Miss
skipworth accounts for the frequency
Of her dreams.
Gypsy o'Brien. who plays Ruth, the
young heroine. in William lie Baron's
The sun., 1919-06-08
Vaudeville and Burlesque.

PALACE-The bill here is
promised to be as stimulating and
soothing as a good soft drink,
with such summer trimmings as
the United States Jazz Band,
composed of former bluejackets
who have mastered the technic of
jazz which is pyrotechnic;
Stella Mayhem, presenting lump
sum of song and patter under the
title II Amt Gonna Bother With
At" which the audience isn't
asked to apply to their attitude
toward her; the Avon Comedy
Four, as refreshing as a summer
rainstorm down your collar;
Wellington Cross, who has struck
the shackles of musical comedy
from him; For PHYS Sake"
with Thomas Duray in his anus
ing travesty of the great mort
gage thriller. and, as an extra
added attraction, the regular
summer stock of lemonade, vint-
age of 'Io.
RIVERSIDE-Bessie Clayton
will hold her head above the sur
face here, while Elisa and
Eduardo Cansino set the breezes
in motion by their dancing, and
James Clemens, Frank Hurst
and Wilbert Dunn also show
signs of life. Henry (Squid-
gulum) Lewis with THE Laugh
Shop" will galvanize even the or
chestra leader into laughter.
Lady Tsen Mel, 'the Chinese
nightingale" will give a Chinese
girls conception of the versatile
American ways of being cute in
vaudeville.
AMERICAN - The Bison
City -Four, having at last con-
scented to exploit themselves at
popular prices. will have a pagan
revel with comedy and songs; La
Toilette and company will pile
dance upon dance; "Just for In
stance" will be different because
Charles Smith and Ben Barnett
wrote il, and the feature pictures
will turn the defeat of care into
rout.
COLUMBIA - "Peek-a- Boo"
continues TO thaw out the au-
dienees here.