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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL
VOLUME XVI.
OF .THE SEASON
Comes on Saturday to
Auditorium With#
Oyapela
U. McUu'ty 01aj£
leasant Meeting
T E. L. Class
LAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIATTRIday, December «o, 1920.
There has been many excellent and
varied entertainments presented at the
auditorium recently# but what is pro
nounced by both press and public to be
:he best of them all# will be here Satur
day night, when the Civic Club will pre
sent the third unmber of their lyceum
series.
The attraction will be Oyapela, a full-
blooded Cherokee maiden, pretty as a pic
ture in form and bright as a star in in
tellect-
This charming maiden translates in
fascinating style, the mystic :-nd legends of
her people. Her interpretation of Hiwa-
:ha, with appropriate costume and beau
tiful music, is said to be worth more than
the price of admission, to say nothing* of
her other excellent offerings.
Oyapela is ably assisted by Miss Fan
nie Weinstock, an accomplished violinist,
with Miss Gene Burton at the piano.
Such attractions as this are rare in our
town, and our people should show their
appreciation of the Civic Club’s efforts
to give us clean and wholesome enter
tainments by giving a capacity house on
Saturday night-
The T. E. L class of the Baptist Sun
day School met at Mrs. II. C. Dorris’ on
Tuesday of last week. This class is
composed of t' ,e young matrons in the
Sunday School and the officers are: Mrs.
Jim Abercrombie, Pres.; Mrs. \V. A.
Abercrombie, ist V-Pres*; Mrs. Gordon
Banks, and V-Pres* r Mrs. Thad McKoy,
3rd V-Pre4-; Mrs, Justus Gower, Sec.;
Mrs. Johnnie Harding, Treas.; Mrs. H.
C. Dorris, Teacher. About 35 members
are enrolled. At this meeting they decided
to study the bible under the leadership
of Mrs. Dorris.
After the business session, a social
hour was enjoyed. Mrs. Dorritf, assisted
by Mrs- Civile Selman, served hot choco
late and cake.
ROYAL ARCH ISBNS -GET BOTH SIDES
ELECT OFFICERS OF CONTROVERSY
For Next Term and Between Teacher and
Enjoy Nice Oyster
Supper at Cafe
REAL TURK NOT MONEY MAD
Mrs. Selman
Entertains Club
Mrs. Glenn Selman very beautifully
entertained the Matrons Club Friday
afternon December the third. The house
was artistically decorated in ferns and
pot plants. Assisting in entertaining
were Mrs. Clyde Selman and Mrs. F. M-
Stewart.
After the usual business meeting Prog
ressive Kook was enjoyed, and Mints
were qnjoyed during the games after
which a delicous Salad Course and hot
Coffee with Whipped Cream was served.
The Club will meet next with Mrs.
O. T. Selman.
DOG RIVER
wife spent
and Mrs. J.
Mr. John Kimball and
Thursday night with Mr.
W. Hembree.
Miss Ruby Daniel), who is teaching at
Bill Arp, spent the week-end with home
folks.
Mr. Plumer Harden of Sand Hill, spent
Saturday night with his uncle, Mr. G.
V. Layton.
Misses Lillian and Alma Daniell were
the guests of Miss Lurlic Layton Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Duren, of Bill Arp,
spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs
Grady Hunter.
Rev- J. T. Layton spent Saturday night ]
with Mr. and Mrs. J- K. Daniel I
Miss Jewell Daniel
Recognizes There Are Higher Things
in Life Than Practicing Buying
and Selling.
The real Turk, unlike the so-culled
mongrel Turk, does not have to im
press ills sense of superiority on oth
ers. And, although the latter Is al
ways eager to do business with you,
according to Mr. Herbert Gibbons in
Asia, the real Turk is often quite in
different.
Some real Anatolian Turks are mer
chants and sit In the bazaars. But
they will not go out of their way to
make a sale, and they really do not
care whether you buy or not. Often
they Ignore strangers; sometimes they
rebuff them. When you meet with
this type In the bazaars where all the
Jews and Gentiles are hard after your
money, It is like n dash of cold wa
ter In your face.
Once In a little open shop I saw a
rug that attracted me. I started to
enter, but the crouched figure on the
mat put out a long-fingered left hand,
grasped firmly my ankle, and removed
my foot .outside the threshold. I
thought there must be some supersti
tion about which foot went first; so
I tried the other. The same left hand
proved again Its strength. All the
while the merchant did not speak or
look up. His right hand was string
ing beads, and he was smoking a nar
glle. •
He simply did not want to bother
with me, and my shoe told him that
I was a frangga (European). Later
I got to know that old bird, and we
laughed over stories together. But
he never asked me to buy anything,
and T did not want to risk his friend
ship by making a second try for the
rug. There are more Important things
In.life than buying and selling.
Douglasville Chapter No. 14, Royal
Arch Masons had a fine session Tuesday
night with a large attendance, about 50
being in attendance, which was fine, con
sidering the weather.
•. |After routine business, the annual
election of officers was
following results:
J. M. Harding, High Priest; J. C- Mor
ris. King; N« B. Duncan, Treasurer; J.
(’. McCarlcy, Secretary; J. P- Lawson,
Captain of Hosts; T. N. Mozlc.v. ttoyal
Arch Captain; \V. M. Hays, Pm; ,al
Sojourner; J- G. Harding, Master o1 311I
Vail; G. W. Smith, Ma
J. II Moody, Master o
Abercrombie, Sentinel.
An adjournment was
the entire bodv went t.
Pupil Before Giving
Your Opinion
We don’t want to discredit boys and
girls of Douglasville but we believe their
parents would do well to remember in
listening to their version of what happen
ed at school that there are two sides to
every question. Very often the tender
held with the : heart Is susceptible to jealousy and quite
iften, too, the youthful mind is not capa
ble of placing the proper construction up-
>n the statements of older people. The
cholar imagines the teacher is "making
rr of 2nd Va
rat Vail; L
IS supper,
delicacies
Ison’s Cafe,
;onsistirtg of
vere served.
“SQUEEZE” POPULAR IN CHINA
What the Western World Calls "Graft"
Is Practiced by All Classes in
That Country.
* One trnlf (Irmly Imbedded In the
Chinese chnrncler which Iho foreign
business man and Hie housewife both
have to contend with Is tbe weakness
for “squeeze.” It Is said by foreigners
Hint Hie Chinese merchant, coidle,
politician, fisherman,, chauffeur and
the guest of ))eB „ nr wonI( j rnl Hor nlnke $1 by
Miss Willie Mae Watkins Sunday. ] “squeeze” than SHI by the same
Mr. Milton Watkins spent Sunday with nmount of brain work or manual la-
WHAT IS
MENACE TO YOUR
COMMUNITY?
AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO
KELP?
The day of the tallow candle, the
brass kerosene lamp, the one-horse
shay, the double-team carriage and the
oneox plow have passed. Today we
have the electric current with a ni
trogen lamp, the electric coupe and
the gas driven limoslne, the flying ma
chine, the tractor in our fields plow
ing deep and making fertile the worn
out lands.
We have made wouderful pro*r?n,*
along all lines for the betterment of
mankind and the longevity of human
life. The once dreaded yello.w fever
has been conquered, the malarial poi
son has been discovered and bids fair
soon to be eradicated, the deadly ty
phoid f4ver germ has been isolated
and a vaccine prepared. Dipththeria
has been almost put out of business;
tuberculosis Is being fought success
fully; small pox has been given a
knockout blow, but there remain
three diseases which could be easily
controlled with a quickened public
opinion. These diseases are syphilis,
gonorrhea and chancroid. These dis
eases, usually referred to as venereal,
have been kept in the dark; have been
hidden from the public dntil they are
today perhaps more prevalent than
any other of the infectious and con
tagious group. One reason for their
pel’’ of an
. gnit'y the
disposition, lur 1
■fficult thing for the
f-niy, or fifty or eve
• > of them ;
'nine of them
Another Still
Captured
On last Friday Sheriff Baggett, with
Deputies Bartlett, Harding and Bomar,
located an 8o-gallon still with 400 gal
lons of beer on the Austell farm* No ar
rests were made, but the beer was poured
out and the booze-inaking outfit, said by
the sheriff to he the largest he has ever
olar, and is quick
/hen relating school -
his or her parents
lung about children
to find two of the
ir that reason it is
acher to please
■ even more when no
alike in temperament,
going to see things in
different light than the others, and
hose who have a tendency to become dis
eased when everthing does not go their
•ay are usually the ones who return home
dth a story that is apt to put the teacher
in the wrong light.
If you know how difficult it is to train
one child properly then you can get a
•'retty god idea of what the teacher has
on hand to train a flock of them. For
hat reason you will take any wild story
brought home from the schoolroom with a
^rain of salt. In other words, you will
either fail to give it serious consideration
ir, if you do consider it, you’ll be honest
enough to recall that there are always
»wo sides to. every story.
MORE CRAIN WILL BE
PLANTED NEXT YEAR
Is Opinion of Hobson
Writer==An Inter
esting Letter
Enjoyable
Entertainment
SMASHING A THEORY
For years there has been a popular
theory among cartoonists, joke writers,
funny men on the stage and others that
crooks and confidence workers find their
richest hauls in the rural districts. Pos
sibly there was a time when that was true,
but not now- And, frankly, we doubt if
the rural district citizen ever was
“easy” as some of the jokesters try
have us believe.
To the contrary, it is noticeable that
almost every instance now in which sor
one is roped in by confidence men a
bike promoters it is usually a resident of
a city- Possibly ninety per cent of the
fake stock now being floated is sold in
the larger cities and very little of it is
grabbed up by residents of rural dis
tricts or in town like Douglasville. The
reason is, largely, that we are not as quick
to gamble on an uncertainty as the city
man who sees much of it going on all
around him.
So far as gullibility is concerned hu
manity is much the same everywhere we
find it, and city folks are as easily
taken in” by get-rich-quick schemes, usu
ally more so, than those on the farms.
never hear of the gold-brick game
being worked any more, but you do find
thousands being taken in on fake stock,
the big city papers wouldn’t be carry
ing page after page of ads exploiting it.
We point to the Ponzi case in Boston, if
evidence is needed of the easy manner
which city residents may be buncoed. No,
the old theory that rural residents
“easy” won’t hold good any more. So the
joke writers and funny men are chang
ing their material accordingly.
stick
M
Mosie Daniell)
ith Mr. B. S- !
Lacy Smallwood.
Rev. Carnes and Mr
spent Saturday night v
Daniell.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Avers, Mr. I..
T. Ayers and family and Mr- and Mrs.
F. II. Daniell and Mr. V. B. Watkins
and family spent Sunday with Mr. B. S.
Daniell and daughter, Mrs. Elixa Fields.
Mrs. Harden, of Liberty is spending a
few days with relatives and friends at
Bill Arp.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Daniell spent
Sunday night with her sister, Mrs. Dun
can, of Hulett.
Miss Effie Eason, of Bill Arp, spent
Saturday night and Sunday with Misses
Ruby and Lois Daniell.
Mr- and Mrs. Grady Hembree visited
Mr. and Mrs. J. W- Hembree Sunday.
Mr. J. K. Daniell made a business
- trip to Douglasville Friday.
Messrs. Hershel, Eddie and Leonard
Young, of Wayside, spent last Friday
night with Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Daniell
Miss Ivy Ayers was the guest od Miss
Ada Fields Sunday night.
MISS DOLLIE PLUNKETT
The death of this most estimabl
maiden lady cocurred at her home near
Winston on Monday, after a brief ill
ness.
Miss Plunkett was in her seventy-
second year and is survived by three sis
ters and one brother, Mr. D- R. Plunkett.
The funeral occurred at Prays Chapel,
conducted by Rev. J. S. Edwards, fo
Buchanan.
bor.
Squeeze Is Chinese for graft. It Is
a word In that international Far East
ern tongue known as pklgin-English.
But squeeze Is something more Ilian
graft. Its political phase might he
termed graft, and that form of squeeze
Is what makes the military governors
of the provinces and the politicians of
Pelting and Canton so fat. Most. Chi
nese politicians would have been ac
ceptable in the eyes of Julius Caesar,
and squeeze Is the reason for some of
the corpulence In China.
Squeeze is the Chinese translation
of “as much as the traffic will hear.’’
It Is a factor in Chinese business, as
much ns supply and demand, or profit
and loss.
Quite a nice audience assmbled at the
auditorium Friday night where they were
pleasently entertained by Mrs Ruby James
Slaton, Pianist, anu Mrs Sudie Bowden
Johnson, dramatic sophrano. The ladies
were at their best and their several of-
were at their best and their several of
ferings exceeded all expectations of those
present, all of whom are loud in the!
praise. The receipts of the evening
amounted to $50.00, which goes into til-
treasury of the Civic Club, under whose
management the entertainment w.u given-
CHAPEL HILL
spent
prevalence Is the cloak that is thrown.I Sburjuitt.
Mr. and Mrs- Wesley Campbell
Sunday with home folks.
Miss Beatrice Johnson is spending
few days with her cousin, Miss Louise
around them. They must bo brought
into the open anti there fought to a
finish. They are most serious in
their consequences; the public are in
ignorance as to their farreachlng ef
fects on the population.
Two deaths out of every thirteen
are said to be indirectly due to syphil
is. A great many premature births
are due to this disease; a vast army
of crippled, deformed and feeble mind
ed children have inherited this awful,
insidious disease, while to gonorrhea
we charge a majority of the blindness,
sixty-five per cenC*of ail abdominal
operations on the female organs and
almost all childless marriages, as well
one-cliild marriages.
Misi
Ethel C
and Mr
•ith Mr.
pent Sunday night
Evans, of Beulah.
. Lee Connally spent Sun-
and Mrs. Emmett Scrog-
PESSIMISM IN PRINT
There is too much pessimism in our
Ethel Renfroe, of Powder Springs,
relatives and friends at this place
Mr. W. E. D. Shurbutt
daughte
newspapers and magazines of today, too
much of a tendency to magnify the con
dition of war-torn countries and the woes
of those in foreign lands who are p
sibly underfed. The aim of many writers
seem to he to fill columns with pretty
words about our duty to those abroad,
and to criticise the American people be
cause they are no doing more along the
line of relief.
Reading the daily papers reaching
Douglasville and believing everything
he reads, the average man would soon
reach the conclusion that we ore a selfish,
arrogant nation, and incapable of inter
preting the Golden Rule insofar as it may
be applied among nations. And this is
directly the opposite to our natures.
America is going to do all in her power
her sister nations, and she is
send food to the starving and
> the ,shivering just as
always done. But America is not going
to neglect her own poor In doing so, and
neither is she going to set about helping
somcqne else straighten up their house
when her own is in more or less disorder.
What we need more of now in our
daily papers is clean, helpful constructive
thought, the kind that will inspire us to
better work instead of chriticism anil
m pictures of suffering and rc-
And the sooner some writers
I learn this the better it will be for this
Atlanta, spent I country, as wc ^ a st,,ose who expect our
We think from all indications there
will he more small grain sown in thli
section than was put in the pas year.
This is as it should be. The farmers
should plant more grain and forage crops
and less cotton. We ought to make
enough food stuff here in Georgia to sup«
ply all demands of the state, and by alt
means let cotton be a surplus crop. I
also think it is a bad mistake for so many
farmers to sell or rent out their farms
and move to town or city. We should
: arms, improve and beautify
cm and have everything as convenient-
ar ranged as possible. We should al-
do all we could to build up the schools
the rural districts by building modern
bool houses and beautifying the grounds
id making everything as home like as
possible. By doing this our hoys and girls
II prefer staying on the farms and help
make country life what it ought to be.
Remember this Mr- Farmer, that you
ill help build up the rural dis*
trict by moving to town. I tell you that
the farm is tbe best place on earth to
raise boys and girls. Again I say, stick to
ur farm!
Some of tbe schools have started up in
this section. Mrs. Cleo Capps has the
school at Mt. Zion, and is teaching the
young idea how to shoot.
Mr- ,M. D. Capps has about completed
a nice bungalo on his farm. We also
notice some improvements being made on
the Watkins farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Morris were called
to the home of Mrs. Morris’ father, Mr.
Frank Holland, near Bremen, last Thurs*
day night, the 25th, on account of hit
death. He died suddenly after eating *
hearty supper. While Ihis death wm
not altogether unexpected, it was a shock
to his many relatives and friends. W«
have known Mr. Holland from his boy
hood up. He was indeed' a good man*
and had been a member of the Baptist
church a good many years. His funeral
was conducted by Rev. J. M. D. Stallings
and Rev. G. W. Jones, at Macedonia
church, in Carroll county, after which his
remains were interred in the cemetery
at that place. The family have our sym
pathy.
to help
going tc
clothes 1
Odd Fellows
Elect Officers
ODD FELLOWS ELECT OFFICERS
Atlanta
i'urner spent overdr:
Brock and morse.
Douglasville Lodge No. 162, I-. O. O. F»
held their regular meeting on Monday
night, when the following officers wers
I elected for the ensuing term:
J. II. Herrotl, N. G.; R. R. Spier, V.
CL; T. P. Hlickaby, Rec.-Sec.; E. L. Hop
kins, Fin.-Sec.; J. C. -McCarlcy, Treas.
The meeting was one of the iivest and
most enjoyable held by the members in
quite awhile. The officers elect are all
true blue and present indications are that
the coming year will he the brightest
and most prosperous in the history of
the lodge.
PEAR TREE ROAD
Mi
veek-end with home folks,
s. J. E. Foster was very
ill last:
The cost in dollars and cents to our j week,
alate in institutional care for blind-1
ness and insanity is over $300,000 per)
year.
We are, therefore, forced
Tapestry in History.
During the Italian Renaissance the
art developed In subtle treatment of
color and shading, and Flemish tap
estry reached Its height of artistic per
fection In the magnificent pieces from
cartoons by Raphael and other Ital
ian masters.
Royalty supported the Industry at
this period. Incidents of history were
woven Into design with threads of
gold and silver, and even Jewels. Oth
ers were mellowed by soft colorings of
wool, with their high lights supplied
by silken threads. The dyes, often as
costly as the gold and silver, have
held, their colors for centuries, and It
has been beyond the modem chemist
to solve their alchemy. No such col
ors can be produced today, nor none
that are so unfading. When tapestry
making waned In Brussels, France de-
veleped the art, and under Henry TV
and Louis XIV the Gobelins were
famed for their perfection of work
manship and color.
I A great responsibility rests upon
the -the parents of our country in the prop-
conclusion that it is time our people \ er rearing of their children. Under
should openly taco the facts, and that present conditions especially is this
Council After
Firecrackers
Bessie,
Mt. Cat
these diseases be brought from dark
ness to light, that they may be ©radi
cated. Every individual should put
ttsido false modesty, prudery and cour^
ageously do his individual duty as a
citizen and see that his owji children
are told the facts; that his community
Is made clean; that prostitution, the
source of most of the infection, is put
out of business and that good, whole
some recreation is provided for young
people. You, the reader of this, have
a responsibility and duty; face it and
help your state.
responsibility great so far us the girl
la concerned. The prevailing fashion
of dress, of dancing, of automobile
parties and other things of like char
acter have indeed a bad tendency.
Our mothers and fathers surely are
face to face with a responsibility nev
er before existing, partly due to the
results of war, but more especially to
our few years of affluence—money
to burn ‘and we fear souls to lose.
It seems to us that it is time our
ordinaries, ministers and others who j water for fi
have authority to perform the mar- j
riage ceremony should know more j ,/ LONGER SCHOOL YEAR
about the fitness of the contracting , Manv educators feel that the pi
City Council met in regular session
Monday night. Among the most import
ant business transacted was the town
marshals were instructed to rigidly en
force the ordinance against the shooting
of fireworks in the city limits, several
complaints having been made by citizens.
'Fhe water and light committee were
instructed to advertise for bids for *he
erection of a new dam and installation
of a larger water main at the water
works, the present one being inadequate,
owing to increased necessity for nure
purposes, etc-
HOW AN EDITOR COT RICH j parties for tile duties of nnurled life. j genera ,'| y . prcva j|j ng f or keeping the pub-
‘‘He started poor a
mouse 20 years ago.
with a comfortable fortune of $50,00.
“This money was acquired through in
dustry, economy, conscientious effort to
give full'value, indomitable perseverance
and the death of an uncle who left the
editor $49,99-50.—Empeco News.”
No one should be joined in wedlock
a proverbial chure/t | who has an infectious or contagious
He has now retired
C Walker an l little daug'jM'Jf,
sited Mr. \V. J. Walker near
el, Sunday.
We were sorry to learn that Mr. W.
C. Walker’s little girl, Agnes, got her
arm broke.
Mr. T. W. Hollis visited his mtoher
Sunday, and reports her very sick.
Mrs. H. M. Diggs is spending a few
days with Mrs. H. C. Walker.
Mrs. C. V. Hollis and children spent
Sunday at Mrs. H. C. Walker’s,
hauling ctoton two days last week.
Mr. Clinton Lee was in Paulding
Mr. Jesse Bond and wife were visiting
in our burg Sunday.
We are glad to say that Mr. I.onzO
Humprey is able to be out again.
Mr. and Mrs. W- J. Walker visited at
Mr. Hugh Meadow’s last Friday night.
disease; it Is not. fair to the other
party to the contract; it is not fair to
the coming general! m; every child
has the right to be born healthy. It
Is not right to the taxpayer, who has
to support the blind, the cripple, the
Insane and the law breakers who
crowd our prisons.
Let’s do something about it.
lie schools open but about 36 weeks
the year, is wasteful. The enormously
expensive plant of school houses is thus
kept idle fro 16 weeks each year. No
industtrial proposition could be successful
if it was idle so mush of the tinme. Also
they argue that it becomes necessary to
pay teachers more per week or month
because they are idle for a third of the
year.
IIONEA-ANGEL
On last Sunday, Esquire J. J. Kirby
performed the ceremony that united Mr-
Odie W. Honea and Miss Annie Angel
in the holy bonds of matrimony. Th<l
contracting parties were from Fulton
captured was confiscated.