Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-04-21

the two college boys We're careful to
notice the condition of the farms and
of the bridges and roads over which
Sherman passed in march to the sea.
Whereas Mr.. Graham had said in his
| articles in Harper's that it was the
psychology of the people to leave I'M
repaired what had been DESTROYED. .
the boys found that the bridges were
IN excellent condition, and in many
cases had been constructed of con-
crete. All along the way the farmers
reported that the tracts of agricul-
tural land yielded as reasonable re-
turns as could be expected.
Spending only a short time in Con-
yers they left for Lithonia, which thew
passed before dark, and when they
were short distance from Stone
mountain, warm hearted tourist
picked them up and carried them into
Atlanta, where they reached Emory
University late that night, after COW
erIng distance of more than hun
dred since the first of the week.
Quite a while was devoted after
their arrival at Emory to preparino
their notes for an article which thew
expect to write for one of the leading
magazines IN answer to Mr.. Graham's
unfair statements concerning the
south and the part Georgia played in
the War between the States.
Mr.. Graham made the trip over the
nam line of Sherman's march in the
early part of 1920, and afte1, spending.
a few days in Atlanta. where he nsed
ms time mainly in noting the progress
of the colored population, he proceeded
out of the city by way of Decatur
Street. Observations on the road
seemed to convince Mr.. Graham, as he
SAID, that the country was not nearly
as rich as 1t was when the Federal
troops swept through. A glance over
the reports on the agricultural re-
sources of the state for the year would
have convinced him that these state
ments were not true
Stubs and Smotherman reported
that they found plenty of food on the
way, and that the condition of the peo-
pie was far from state of poverty.
1ney found, from talking to the old
est inhabitants of the different local.
ties through which they passed. that
there was no case of cordial recep-
ton having been given in Sherman's
men as they passed through, as re-
corded IN the pages of Mr.. Grahan1's
articles. Far from being down-trod-
den, as Mr.. Graham represents the
colored people to be, the two students
found that there was no small degree
OF education among the negroes. and
that besides, many of them owned
their homes and farms.
Mr.. Graham described the fragile
condition of the bridges along this
way, which seemed to him, never to
have been repaired since the Civil war.
but Stubs and Smotherman noted
that, far from being fragile, not a
few of them were constructed of re-
concrete, and that, almost
without exception, they were in a good +
state of repair. In reviewing their /
course of travel over the stretch living
between Milledgeville and Atlanta. the /
two young men arrived at the conclu- /
sion that, from their observation of
the conditionss of the people, the de- |
vastated part of the state, had COM !
pletely recovered from the effects of
the disastrous march to the sea.
+. As citizen of Savannah, Stubs 1
for the fact that the same
condition of the people, farms and
state roadways holds good from Mil I
ledgeville to the coast, and that there. I
as well, the former state of prosperity