The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-03-05
Personal Reflections

IA ! something
Wv will cast serious reflections else, but
as Bill Arp used to say just Illuminating" on
matters of import to and had not better title put
above nominations"
Writing the editorial page of weekly paper is
"not all pie of the things fellow dskes most
of all is to write good article subject and for
have to "kill" it.
There several reasons why editorials sometimes
have to be ked" and far be it from say that
of them ought not to be killed. but right our par
ticular grievance account of having written what
we considered very good and then to pick up a
daily paper and find almost exactly the same thing in
words that could not what we had
written
And the worst part about it in this instance is that
what found not even in the other fellows edi-
torial page but in his advertising columns.
But let us be specific On last Saturday we
wrote editorial designed to show mans dependence
man, and to show how helpless he in his original bar
barrie state To illustrate point started out with
this paragraph:
"a might spend every day if long life in max
ing assault with his bare hands upon an iron door and
never make the slightest impression upon it, but the same
man armed with tools of the right sort would through
the door within five minutes"
Then came Sundays Constitution with full page
ad by some seventy of Atlanta business houses under
the title of "The Cave Man., practically the same thing
we had written with the same moral or perhaps lust
"leetle mite" better.
We don't see any way to get even on this thing with
out being accused of using the other fellows stuff so we
hereby credit this to the above source and reproduce The
Cave Man.
He was Commercially and Economically Independent
Would you like to live as he lived?
The cave man was sufficient unto himself He killed
ms own food made or found his shelter; provided
MS own amusement; filled his time as he pleased He was
supremacy alone, neither knowing nor asking the assist
ance or labor of other for any purpose
But he has gone Civilization has changed the world
aho IN giving us new knowledge needs and desires
has made us inter-dependent with our fellowmen.
Inc mouse you live in the bed in which you Sleep the
taOle which holds your breakfast the food YOU eat the
pipe you smoke the in which you ride the plant shon
OF once which you work. the very money which is paid
you Ior the Things you sell whether labor or commodi
uesl are all products of the labor of your felowman
civilization means simply human cooperation r.
has brought commerce. Commerce is the EXCHANGE If
ohouiCes Tor commodities and services for services
money Is merely measure. Whether Won are bu+char
or candestlck maker DOCTOR lawyer or manufac
ter you 1--we by selling your wares or services to
.eioWman and with proceeds buying YOU own needs
from other feowmen.
Buying and selling are action and reaction irsenor
ably bound up with each other You can't Sci Il
SELLS Unless someone
mere are glorious opportunities ahead For all the
ss: u 'ne war we have neglected producing those
thhgs winch could not be classed as ''war material r.
day there empty shelves everywhere and . I1 -
demand. The more rapidly we can increase nrodno+i
anu s'uiate consumption-the quicker we can speed nm
'ne process of exchange-the sooner shall we see +h
sminng face of Prosperity waiting just around the cor
ner-Prosperty for Capital and Labor co-nartners y;
the basis of civilization" 40
Ohiy one comment of our own we wish to odd - +L;
NUMBER OF politicians have been prating about tho min
cpes OF our forefathers pretending that thew would lilo
70 return to the conditions under which our fathers d
pohtcay and otherwise but we have got them all down
~ our little book as being either fools or liars
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