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PAGE SIX Jeffers omatt ; Issued Every Thursday. / . #/ < m<® of Publication: THOMSON, GA. W ■ ..'•-■■■ ’ as second-class matter, Dec. 8, 1910, ./ at the post office at Thomson, Georgia, S under the Act of March 3, 1879. : \ jbscription Price SI.OO Per Year. ../..fat ’■ ‘ ■ * ■ __ Advertising Rates Furnished on Application. ‘i _______________________ ra If the above date appears on ' w ® t,ie label on your paper it “ means that your subscrip ts ’res this month. Subscriptions are dis pel promptly on date of expiration. »V NOW. HOMSON, GA., AUGUST 30, 1917. . e World fttas! Be Made Safe for Democracy 9 ’ THE following items clipped from last 1 week’s daily War-Whoops, will explain how we are doing it: Miss Maud Jamison of Roanoke, aV., after being dragged through the muddy streets, ob tained from a hardware store an automatic re volver and fifty rounds of ammunition. She ex plained that the headquarters was her home, and if any assailant sought to intrude upon her there shtti would shoot him without compunction. Tor the first time a man attempted to inter fei e on behalf of the Suffs. He was William Bayard Hale, one of the special envoys sent by Pr|esident Wilson to Mexico. He was on the street when one of the banners wos torn from a Suff. He upbraided the crowd, called the men cowards and said they should be ashamed of themselves. Writer Hale Assailed. “He’s a German! String him up!” shouted the Crowd, and several of the boldest moved to ward Mr. Hale. They pelted him with spit balls and old newspapers and warned him to move on or a worse fate might be his. Mr. Hale moved on. Most of the disturbances took place in front of the Executive Mansion. • . That’s the way American ladies are treated in Washington City—not in Berlin. PRIESTS TO CENSOR PRESS AND THEATRE IN ST. LOUIS. Archbishop Names Morals Committee—Ban Put V on Certain Kinds of Magazines. (Special to The World.) r , St. Louis, Aug. 15.—Archbishop Glennon has . ’ nhmed three priests to act as Morals Cpmmittee the St. Louis Archbiocese, it was learned to day. The members are the Rev. C. E. Byrne, the Rev. M. J. O’Connor and the Rev. F. G. Holweck. The priests were named to co-operate', with the Morals Committee of the Federation of Catholic Societies, in the censorship in St. Louis of theatri < cal performances, motion pictures, newspapers and magazines. ’ The censors will meet monthly, and report on complaints made by the laity against immoral influences in theatre or press. Magazines that print questionable stories, or contain elaborate so-called art illustrations, are under the ban of 1 the committee. This papal censorship of the press is in America, not in Germany. i “There are men walking the streets of this city tonight who ought to be taken out at sun rise and shot,’’ Elihu Root said at the reception • uven for the American Mission to Russia by the T nion League Club last evening. ‘‘They are doing ,- k for Germany under false pretenses and are .g about it. If we are competent for our »rty we will find ’them out and get them. ry one of us can help by telling to the au ties all we know and hear. t is only a matter of time when we will get j spies and traitors. We can’t be fooled or ?d with too long. There are some newspapers cd in this city the editors of which deserve etion and execution for treason. Sooner or hey may get it,**. Lw**** ’ K * .j man who littered the above autocratic THEJEFFERSONIAN sentiments—ignoring trial by jury—is Elihu Root, who had a fine chance to fight for his country during the Civil War, and did not. He fights for the. Big Rich • . . /-•- ■ ~u...,v. HOW TO INSPIRE PATRIOTISM. i f To the Editor of The American: Sir—l was formerly employed in the office of a firm of manufacturers of chemicals, a firm which made a fortune within a year’s time, due to the present great war. A couple of weeks ago its employes were asked to contribute a day’s pay to the Red Cross. 1 did not do so. The other day I received a letter signed by the president of said firm, asking if there was any special reason why I did not do so, to which I replied that the one and only reason was that I could not afford to and that I had all i could do to make both ends meet. A conference was then held between the president, his private secretary and the attorney of the concern ana although the attorney and secretary thought it wrong to let me go, the president stated that unless I contributed my services would be no longer desired. Since I was to go on my vacation Saturday, I finally decided that I would do so, and told my employer that I would contribute, but would be unable to do so before about Octo ber. He refused to wait, and I was told yester day to look for a new position. I was given until August 11 to do so. Although I was employed monthly, I was only paid up to and including Monday, August 6. Not only was I discharged without receiving my full month’s pay, which 1 understand I am legally entitled to, but I was forced to break all arrangements al ready made by me for my vacation which I in tended to take Saturday. Very truly yours, ANNA N. RIVLIN. In the same manner Liberty Bonds were forced upon stenographers, typists, railroad men, and thousands of others employed by ■ the Big Rich. In the matter of Red Cross hold-ups, -children were refused admittance to the pub lic schools, until they produced their papr'h little tributes; and President Wilson's -ex* trcmely popular son-in-law, McAdoo, sent out a circular letter to all the employees of the United States Treasury service, assessing, them according to the amount of their respect tive salaries. ■ 1 After assessing a victim, say SSO, McAdo6 was careful to add, “You needn’t pay it unless you want to.” That’s what the railroad boss said to the engineer and conductor. That’s also what the eagle said to the lamb., after he had put the hooks into it— “ You needn’t come along with me to my mountain home where my dear little children are hungrily waiting to eat you, unless you want to.” Wilson’s son-in-law, and McAdoo’s father in-law make a great team for the world up-* lift of democracy. “THE NEW FREEDOM.” < r A Suffragist Suggests Why It Is Unpopular With Its Author. To the Editor of The Suri-!—Sir: We notice that in a recent editorial article you call attention to the omission from the biography of President Wilson in the Congressional Directory of “The New Freedom” in his list of books. You seem to think that he would not care at this moment to have the members of Congress read his asser tion: “I don’t want a smug lot of experts to sit down behind closed doors in Washington and play Providence to me”; or to read: “I am one of those who absolutely reject the trustee theory of government,” &c. May we suggest that the President has not., seemed to take so much pride in “The New Freedom” since it has proved to be the most powerful weapon against himself in the hands of the suffragists? The most picturesque language which the pickets of the White House have used on their banners has been the quotations from that book, so perhaps Mr. Wilson has retired it from public? notice until the war is over and the women have won the suffrage. LDA HUSTED HARPER, Editorial Chairman Leslie Suffrage Bureau. New York, August 16. Managing Editor’s ’ Column I v -’ J 'THE JEFFERSONIAN decision is like 1 Mahomet’s coffin, suspended. We don’t know at this writing what has delayed an expression of opinion from the august judge before whom the case was to be brought for final decision, last‘Saturday. In the meanwhile, it is discouraging work to try and get The Jeffersonian to those who have paid for their subscriptions; we have spent more money in getting the papers out, in one week, under the present conditions, than we have had to spend for the full month, under normal conditions. The subscriptions have dropped to less than fifty a day; most of these are at the club rate, and the end of the business is in sight if Mr. Watson cannot get more support from the people at large. The plant represents an outlay of fifty thousand dollars; it gives employment to some splendid people, widows and young la dies as well as men with, families. We are located in the suburbs of a small town, and • there are no other openings for these people who will be thrown out of employment, if the American people will calmly watch a ’business suppressed, and the investment a dead loss, synply because the man at the head of it has been honest and fearless. It isn’t always well to give one’s woes to the public; the public has away of rather en joying what, mean's discomfort, in a- large Tie* gred. Brit the'matter of closing The Jeffer sonian will affect, in many ways, a very large $ number of people., f You will recall what we have said frequent ly, when the efforts were being made to silence Mr. Watson in his warning of the Roman Church to “make America Catholic.” Many of you doubtless thought the alarm a false one—but if you read the daily papers; if you note the prominence given the Pope’s “peace plans”; if you recall that there has been more shifting of officers in the Army and Navy, and every shift has left a Roman Cath olic officer in higher command than he was before the shift; if you note that the Masons have been refused the privilege of erecting houses for Masons in the Army, on any of the camp sites or reservations—but the Knights of Columbus have been given the permission; if you noted that the Red Cross association is row entirely ruled by Roman Catholics, with nuns as nurses—then you must realize that the effort to silence Mr. Watson, and put The Jeffersonian out of business, is the beginning of another move to “make America Cath olic,” and keep from the people the facts that only Mr. Watson will give, and the daily pa pers will not. What are you going to do about its Let the Catholics ruin Mr. Watson; let them shut down a plant that gives honest work, at living wages, to people who will be put out of a job, for no one knows hoW long ? Or will you find away to help the plant,' keep the business going, in spite of the threats rud;.against it? . . A. L. L; : Bethany, by Thos. E. Watson. A Romance of the Civil War, with vivid pen pictures of plantation life, before the war. Bound in cloth. Price. SI.OO, postpaid. The Jefferso nian Publishing Company. Thomson, Ga. , —o The Handbook of Politics, by Thos. E. Watson; is a book every American citizen should read. Contains every party platform; new edition. SI.OO postpaid.’ The Jeffersonian Publishing Company, Thomson, Ga. Thursday, August 30,1917.