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DOVGLASVILLE,
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H W ZrY, GA.. January 18, 191S
No. 41
Democracy's Training
Camp
The United "States government
is rr>unin<r at its various canton
ments the pick of American
manhood to go over to Germany,
catch the Kaiser, initiate him
into the mysteries of democracy
and set the Germans free for all
time to come: A feat commen
surate to the chrractea and in
domitable spirit of the American
soldier-
The character our soldiers
carry with them to the battle
fields of Europe is characteristic
of democratic ideals taught in
our training camps and exempli
fied through their consecratioh
to human liberty and the rights
of mankind to enjoy the full
measure of God’s blessings.
Uncle Sam is not only training
the boys to defend democracy
abroad, but as the future citizens.
of this rep blic, to defend it at ^ould be zealously guarded by
the hand of every true Protes
tant and follower of the Lord
ister of the gospel.
The Catholic church hates Free
Masonry and will not tolerate it
wherever she can prohibit it.
They despise ‘ our common
schools and will not patronize
them whenever they can send
their cnildren to one of their
own. They are endeavoring to
supply our common schools with
Catholic teachers. Why ? To
-ui ther the Pope's aims to make
America Catholic.
The sooner the states of this
republic takes steps to curb the
affrontery and avowed disregard
for state and national laws by
the Catholic church the easier
it will be for us to hand down to
hand down to posterity the blood
bought liberties of our fore
fathers untrammeled by the
spiritual monarch at Rome. ufti*.
The common schools are the
bulwark of democracy—the train
in? camps of the republic—and
home. Autocracy and democracy
are in death’s grip on the battle-,
fields of Europe, grap iling for
worldpower.
The conflict is not yet decided.
The final battle has not yet been
fought. The cry of victory has
riot gone up from either side,
and probably will not until mill
ions of piecious lives are snuffed
out. The die is cast, the final
battle will be fought and the
issue will be decided—I hope for
democracy.
Shouid democracy win in this
great war and beat dawn- the
Teutonic ailies and put Germafi
" militarism under foot- jt' wpil have
only crippled, to some extent,
oiie of the most formidable ad
versaries of free government
on the face of the earth, and that
enemy is the spiritual mona ch,
autocrat and so-called God of the
Roman Cathofih church, whose
tenacles reaches to the head of
every government in the world,
The Roman hierarchy is build-
ing in this country a system of
schools and churches whose tea
chings are adverse to the prin
ciples of our free government.
Bishop Keiley in his message
to the Pope, said: “We are
American citizens; but above all
Catholics!’ ’ He did not lie about
it. he told the truth.
They do not recognize our
Protestant chnrcches as Chris
tian or othodox. They do not,
mix and mingle in Protestant
worship further than Protestant
money goes. Every dollar they
can wring from the government
or Protestant peopie is used in
furthering the Pope’s aim to
make America Catholic. All
religion outside the Catholic
church is classed by the Pope as
heretical. The divine right to
worship according to the dic
tates of your own conscience is
denied by the Roman Catholic
church and for. the exercise of
this right the' Roman church
butchered and burned thousands
and thousands of Protestant
Christians' at the stake in the
years gone by and would do it
again, if she had the power, for
she boasts that Rome never Chan
ges, A repetition of St. Bar
tholomew’s day may come to
America yet
Our civil marriages are classed
by Catholics as concubinage and
no marriage at all. Some priests
go so far as to advise Catholic
girls to live in adultery rather
Jesus Christ.
Any church or .institution that
inculcates into the mind of the
child the worship of images of
persons or the relics of saints or
the touching of the bones of St.
Annie for the healing of human
ills or wearing in the crown of
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Mr. J. Groodzinsky is one of
our valued subscribers who re
newed since last issue.
Col. Astor Meritt. had his name
added to the list of Setinel read
ers this week.
Mayor V. R. Smith has the
pass-word, sign ar.d grip of the
Sentinel office another year.
Mr. Noah VanBant of Rt 2_
good citizen and confederate
veteran, called this week and ad-
vanced.his subscription a year.
Mr. R. M. Smith, of McWhor
ter, had his subscription set up a
couple of notches while here at
the Odd Fellows Convention
Monday,
Mr. H. T, Wright, who has
been at Hanceville, Ala., for
several years, has returned to
Douglas county and located on
route 2. He is a new reader of
the Sentinel.
We acknowledge receipt of
money order from Mr. S. H. Mc-
Gouirk of Midlothian, Texas for
the bat a few feathers pluckrd his 1918 subscription. Mr. Me.
from the tail of Balaam’s ass to
increase your oratorical powers
is Fag m and a deadly menace to'
our ilVilization and should not be
tolerated in a civilized country.
The State of Georgia could do
Jio wiser thing than to pass a
law closing the doors of. all pri-
vate-and public anctarien schools
to,cnildren ifnder sixteen years
of age or until they have com
pleted the eighth grade in the
common schools.
All convents, synagogues, par
sonages or other institution con
nected with places of worship
and used >>. au abode should be
taxed by the state and county
just the same as the poor man’s
novel
Gouirk is a former citizen of this
county and a faithful readei of
the Sentinel.
Mr S. P. McCard of Rt 3,
called Saturday and had his Sen
tinel stock set forward. Mr
McCard, with his excellent fami
ly lefttfiis weekrSr Ashburn td
make their home. Sorr to give
them up.
Mrs. Floyd Watson
It is with extreme sadness that
we report the untimely death of
Mrs. Floyd Watson of Cochran,
wneutms great world war in' (j a-i which occurred at an Atlan-
over uic weauny ol tnio couuwy. ta Sanitarium Saturday.
Dog River
As I haven’t seen anything
from here in some time will give
a few dots.
A right smart of sickness and
measles.
Mrs. Whitehead is very sick.
Monroe White was at home
from Camp Wheeler Sunday.
I. Bearden returned Saturday
from a two month’s stay at
Brunswick and says that is a fim
country.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Green
made a trip to Douglasville Sat
urday afternoon.
Collie Hamby has moved back
on Dog river. A man who once
lived on Dog rivet is more than
apt to come back. It iB a fine
old place.
With these few remarks I will
close and let some one else write.
Would like to hear ftom all the
correspondents,
Votes for Soldiers
A bill authorizing Georgia citi
zens now in the service of the
Army or Navy to cast their bal
lots in the general elections to be
held this year is now being pre
pared by Clifford Walker, At
torney General of Georgia, and
will be introduced in the House
and Senate at the 1918 session of
the General Assembly. Mr,
Wa'keris preparing the bill in
response to many requests from
over the state, and it is gener
ally expected that the Legisla
ture will pass it without oppo
sition,
“From lime to time since the
declaration of war.” Mates’Mr.
Walker, “I have received in
quiries as to the rights of citizens
of Georgia now engaged in war
service to vote. As the minds of
the people are turned more and
more to this general election
year, these inquiries have in
creased, many of them coming
Rev, J. B. Phillips Gets'
Salary Raise
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Friends here of Rev. J. B.
Phillips will be interested in
kyowing something-of the work,
being done at his church in
Chattanooga.
At a deacon'i meeting he'd on
the last Sail rdiy in December,
Pastor J. B. Phillips, of ti e Bap
tist Tabernacle,. Chattanooga,
Tenn., was granted a raise in >
salary of $50.00 per month, be
ginning January 1. This was
just half the amount of raise the
church votei the pastor last
August. He decided not to
accept any raise until the firet of
the year, ami urged his Church
to call a pastor in China and do
some special work for the sol
diers at Fort Oglethorpe. The
Tabernacle now has four paid
wjrkers: Pastor, Assistant Pas
tor and Two City Missionaries.
They also have their pastor in
the foreignl field. The deacons
voted to engage Rev. Clauie
Sprague for the months of Feb
ruary, March and April to do
special workfwith Sunday-school
following the Institute held by
Mr. Hudgins and his workers
January 13th through the 20th.
Pastor Phillips is now holding a.
meeting with Rev. T. W. Callo
way at the First Baptist Church
of Dublin, Ga.
than conform to our civil laws or-
be married by a Protestant min-
wm ue calling lor cheap lauoi,
gau me Uuiteu aiaies will offer
au asyium xor me war beaten,
crtppieu, ound, poverty uuuen
Cauiollc scum ol Europe to come
over uuU till our worksnops and
impoverish tne children of the
American laboring man.
1 uo not intend to vote for any
man for Congress, United States
Senator or President whose ideal
is not clearly in favor of restric
ting immigration to ’a limited
number of desirable people who
are in symparhy with our form
oi government and our Protes
tant institutions.
The secret word with the
natholcs is MUM in politics.
Watch out, Mr. Voter, that you
do not fill your public offices with
Catholics and Catholic hench
men.
After the European war is
over (which will not be long as
the rich have enough bondB to
last them a hundred years yet)
there will be established in this
country a Liberty Bond oli
garchy who wifi own the greater
part of the government and con
trol politics.
The poor people who bought
Liberty Bonds will have to part
with them sooner or later, and
they will concentrate into the
hands of the few who will legis
late the burdens of this war on
to the shoulders of the common
people.
Mr. Voter, before you vote for
a man for congress or any other
high office, ask him how many
Jjiberty Bonds he owns.
Liberty Bonds represent so
much wealth and should be taxed
just the same as the. milch cow
of the poor widow.
Wm; Irwin D.
She was in the prime of young
womanhood—only about21 years
old—but had been seriously ill
for several weeks, though her
condition had recently been re
ported much improved.
The husband, a prosperous
young business man and son of
our townsman, Mr. M. B. Wat
son, has many friends here who
join the Sentinel in sympathy for
his berevement
Don’t Be a Sunday School
Wrecker
“I call them Sunday-school
wreckers,” said an earnest Sun
day-school worker. “What do
you mean?” said his surprised
listeser. “I mean teachers who
come irregularly to Sunday-
school;they wreck their classes,”
was the answer It .vas a strong
way of putting it, but is it not
true? Scholars are discouraged
by frequent absence of their tea
cher; they do not like substitutes,
but they are quick to copy the
bad example set by their tea
cher, they soon begin to come
irregularly themselves and, after
a time, are lost to the school.
The class is wrecked. Now, one
may not be a very capable tea
cher, but regular attendance is
possible. Certainly exery teacher
can do that much. Whatever
you are, don’t be a Sunday-school
Wrecker,—From Push.
Notice to Doctors„
Atlanta, January 10,1918.
Dr. J. L. Selmar,
Douglasville, Ga.
My Dear Doctor:
I am writing you as chairman
of the Auxiliary Council of
National Defense oi Douglas
county to please notify all doc
tors in yourcounty that on Tues
day, January 22, Major Henry
D. Jump, M. Ci-R. C.. lias been
1 detailed by the Surgeon-General
from parents of the soldiers aS'»^address the doctors of this
well as from the soldiers them- '
selves. Of course I have been
compelled to advise that under
our present laws-a voter can cast
his ballot only in person at his
home precinct on election day.
It is certainly proper that the
status of these citizen soldierB
as to the franchise should be
fixed for the term of the war,
and in view of the fact that the
activities of both the executive
and legislative branches of, the
state government will be en
gaged largely in consideration of
matters touching the war, I
feel sure that there will be no
material opposition to the move
ment to preserve the right of
Georgians called from their
homes in the service of the
country to register their own
views as to the state’s % attitude
in the condu t of the war as well
as their views concerning the
civil matters of the state.”
Mr. W-.lker is making a
thorough studv of the law? of
other states authorizing their
citizen soldiers to vote in state
elections, and the principal ques
tion to be solved is the safeguard
ing of the ballot.
Ginner’s Report
(By W. J. Camp.)
There were 6247 bales of cot
ton, counting round as half bales,
ginned in Douglas county from
the crop of 1917 prior.to January,
1, 1918, as compared with 6613
bales ginned to January 1, 1917, - their home.
district in this district in Atlan
ta. We also intend to have sev
eral other {[interesting addresses
and a moving picture exhibit and
we would be glad to have • 1
doctors of your county at this
meeting.
Kindly notify them at the.
earliest possible moment of this.
meeting, which will be held in-
Wesley Memorial Church Janu
ary 22, at 8 p. m. Doctors wives
are also invited to be present.
Very truly jours.
E. BATES BLACK,
Chairman Auxiliary Council of
National Defense.
Dake-Amold.
Very-much to the surprise of
parents and friends, Mr. Julian
Arnold, of Fayetteville, and Miss
Lillian Dake were united m
marriage Wednesday in the Cen
tral Presbyterian Church in
Atlanta, the ceremony being
performed by Rev. Dunbar
Ogden.
The groom is a young man of
sterling character who holds a
responsible position with the;
American Telephone Company ha
Atlanta, while the bride is. the
second daughter of Mr, and Mrs.
Z. T. Dake.
They came to Douglasville
Wednesday evening returning
to Atlanta the same night, where
they will for the, present make