The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-12-14
SOMETHING is WRONG?

Editor Marietta Journal
Today, Sunday, November 26, read in The Atlanta
journal Nations farmers in best condition in several
years. in large letters and black head lines This too
when wheat potatoes and cattle selling at such
low prices there is money in them. Thousands of
bushels of Irish potatoes state advertised
"a bushe, yet when the consumer buys them from his
local dealer ne must pay from 18c to 23c for lbs
If there any profit in farm products the middle man
gets it. We not obliged to rely printed statistics
for truth Look around in Cobb county 1t is worse
than some others throughout the state-Or Union FOR
that matter. How many farmers cannot pay out this
year? know from reliable there many that
will fall far short Those who own their own farms are
not able pay excessive tax levied on them The com
missonerS acquainted with the sad and depOrabe
ditons. thinking of charging them off instead of
issuing faS And this may be the best thing do but
good it leaves the burdens heavier to bear by
those who can struggle through and the extOronate
county tax SITS the hundred it is in my district.
Some only $190. Then if that is true, why is it
must pay SITS, as and others did?
We'll" said one of these farmers who was trying to
make both ends meet, and he certainly honest,
Woodworking man, Il once heard of man who put
in an iron by tyrant; and every day he found
the walls had closer together and closer him. At
last the walls close together that every day
they squeezed out part Of his life. And somehow
he said it seems to me we are Just like that man,
work and strive hard will and han, get no
where" Sickness haunts every waking moment. On
many faces expression of gloomy sadness and
dumb resignation Even the beast of the field happier
by far,
The war possibly made it's thousands of millionares
but it also made tens of thousands of paupers
cannot say how they were vctlmzed have seen and
talked with those who struggle from dawn to night for
bread and wretched lodging place. The windows of
hope seem closed for them-ths in a Christian land,
where good will votes cast for jauntng trips and
pleasure excursions perhaps aid foreign country
while their public permitted to- over here
trying To stir up enthusiasm for another war. Let
have sympathy, charity, peace and good will at home.
Never has the human heart yearned for true
manifestation of human brotherhood. Never has the
whole civilized world been profoundly moved by the
persistent dream Of the ages, the fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man.
The daily papers only tell of the prosperity Of the
rich, the growing number of mlionares the combines
OF capital TO control the various industries "copper" steel
glass, OF, paper coal, paint telegraph and other big
businesses, but little do the editors see feel think or
care about the many who that these combinations
are crowding them out, dispacing human brain and
muscle.
Is there no help for the poor? Insane asylums and
poor houses packed by people in this land
plenty Oh, that everybody would pull together for
everybody good Not for just a certain few, but for
al. While many of Gods children have paatial homes