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VoL XU 1, DOVGLASVILLE, Dr 3 u 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 I Pay Your Subscription and Be| | Happy on the Way. | cbiiiiiiiiimuiiiMiiiiiituiiiiiiiiiiioiiiMniimES 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 * ;WT|p| 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