The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-02-21
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS ARE
TREATED BRIEFLY AND
SPICED TO The TASTE.
The People are Demanding
Action on Roads
Atlanta Furnishes Her Usual Quota
of Sensations. News of Congress
and Strike Situations. Notes and
Not Bonds for Next Loan.


Not Bonds for Next Loan.
| A dash of pulverized red pepper
thrown souarely in his face, so en-
gagged the attention of visitor from
Hiram, Georgia, or Chicago, Illinois,
or some other "yappy village" as
he walked the crowded streets OF At
lanta one day this week, that consid-
crate persons, who were entire strang-
ers to said visitor, removed his purse
containing 1920 before he fully ap-
preciated the nature of the action.
The "speed demon" and the death
car" got in their work in Atlanta one
dav this week, when taxi ran down
and instantly killed street car con-
ductor. The driver of the taxi, in
stead of stopping to assist the victim,
put on all speed and made desperate
effort to escape, only being caught
after a two-mile chase by witnesses
of the accident who comn1andeered
a high-powered car near the scene
and ran the taxi down. Even then
the driver showed fight, but was over
powered. He should serve sentence
for cowardice if no greater crime Is
proven.
In the courts, the trial of husband
killer is going on in Atlanta, and
MANY a juicy morsel of Islander or
sensation will the sob sister" tribe
get out Of it to roll under their
| tongues. But in every great city
there is always enough Of this yellow
journal stuff to satisfy the appetite
of scandal lovers.
I The awakening of the people OF
the state on the road question has
been so general and complete, that
| Governor Dorsey will display more
nerve and indifference than we think
he possesses if he should fail to re-
spond to the appeal for an extra
session which will be presented to HIM
on next Tuesday, the 25th.
"From Raburn Gap to Tybee Light"
as the politicians are wont to express
the limits of the state, or "from Dan
to Beersheba," as others would ex-
press it, the people are rising up and
demanding action. But let not the
people be satisfied with the call for
the extra session, let them see to it
that their legislators are properly inn
pressed with the necessity and I'M
portance of prompt action in the mat
ter.
Georgia has not upheld her place as
the Empire State of the South in the
matter of buying War Stamps. No
doubt she has learned a bit of the
lesson of thrift, but at that her pur-
chases of Thrift Stamps only amount
| ed to $4.78 per capita, or thirteen
million dollars in all, and she stands
away down in the honor roll of states
so far as thrift stamp purchases are
concerned.
Congressman say that the embargo
| on cotton is proving serious to the
South, and about that there can be
no doubt in the minds of any one
down here, but we see no hope OF
having this embargo removed until
peace terms shall have been decided,
| if not actually signed. In the mean
time not only local manufacturers,
but England and France get their
cotton at low prices at the expense
of the South. Prayer for an early
solution of war problems, and an
| omen market seems the only thing
now. You can hold and restrict
acreage to improve future conditions.
The latest army plans seem to nix
our standing army at 10000 men
that is. so far as Congress is con-
cerned-but it will be a long time
before we can reduce our army to
that figure, if ever it is possible. I'M
der present conditions throughout the
world it would seem foolish for us to
keep an army of less than half
million men and also to increase our
navy.
The treasury department has reach
ed the conclusion that instead of
bonds it will be better to issue short
time notes. This was scheduled for
April and no doubt the decision is
wise one, as the people do not now
feel the interest in the matter mani
tested during the war, and it is pro-
bable that the loan will be taken
mostly by the big men in the hnanclai
affairs of the country.
While Wilson is on the sea, enroute
from France, the Senate continues to
hear fierce and repeated attacks on
all his plans, including the League o
Nations schedule. That the president
will himself take hand in the fight
as soon as he gets home is the belief
of his friends and no one doubts his
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