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VOLUMN No. XVIII. DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL FRIDAY, APRIL 28 1922. NUMBER 3 Thousands Are Homeless—Refugees Clutter Trs and Housetops as Planes Seek Victims Fort Worth, Texas, April 25.—(By the Associated Press.)—.John J.Mc Cain, chairman of the levee board of Fort Y£orth, issued a statement to night in which he declared that the levees around the rivers, which broke here early today, and flooded lowlands of this city, were “dynamited by un known parties/’ and that an investi gation by a grand jury would be de manded immediately. Night found the stricken flood area of north Texas with hundreds of refu gees cluttering trees and housetops and the swollen Trinity river threat ening to break the dam at Lake Worth and turn this city into a sea of floating humanity. Although several areoplane fle&ta are scouring the flooded district for victims and radio is being used in an effort to re-establish communication with smaller towns—from which noth ing has been heard since the record cloudburst—small headway had been made at 10 p. m- Tuesday by relief workers. Estimates of the dead ranged from 26 to 50, wPh DJ known to have per ished. Damage in Millions It is impossible to figure the dam age as yet, but already it has gone far into the millions. The American Legion has taken charge of Fort Worth, and armed guards are ever where in the water- soaked city. Rescue workers Tuesday night were making a mad race against a new flood—expected early Wednesday ar. a result of another servere rainstorm at Bridgeport and other nearby towns on the Trinity river. Search for bod e s is progressing with exasperat ing slowness because of the insur mountable handicap provided by .high water on every hand. Anything that would float wa3 seized upon by refugees. Thousands are homeless in Fort Worth. Count less hundreds are homeless or maroon ed elsewhere. Levees Break A s levee after levee broke duting the day and night, oldtime residents refused to 1ieed warnings and were caught in water traps. One veteran homesteader decluied that he had lr. ed m hi s house for .'H*"years ard refused to * 1 * * ifdge when a modern Paul Revere dashed past with me warning to flee .the oncoming water, v Thirty minutes later, panic-stricken, the aged man and wif ebegged relief workers and policemen to “save our piano.” Ex-service men. under command of Major White, took charge of Fort Worth at dark. Corps of nurses and doctors were assembled at the city hall to carry on the relief work. Food was dispatched to those in known marooned sections. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WEEK BY STATE S. S. ASSOCIATION “Mother and Daughter week”, joint ly promoted by the International Sunday School Association and the National Board of the Young Women’s Christian Association, throughout all America, will bo observed this year May 1-f to 2U A most attractive program out- ! lined in every detail, has been pre- ! pared for this week, and is being! issued i Georgia through the state and | County Sunday School /Association j young people’s workers. The program ! a, s outlined, may be carried out in part | or in full, by both city and rural dis-1 tricts- Beginning with Sunday May 14. 1 which is recognized as “Mothers’ d§y”, three services have been arranged, one for the Sunday School hour, one for the morning service and sermon, and the evening service and sermon, which is desinated as old folk's night Monday is community day; Tues- da'y, home night; Wednesday, mid week prayer meeting; Thursday, vis itor or chum night; Friday, mother.| and daughter banquet; Saturday, rec- 1 relation day; and Sunday, May 21st, | Girls’ or Daughters Day. The pro- j •gram for this Sunday includes a ! special worship service in the Sunday School, morning worship service and sermon centered about the daughter, ! and a special girls’ evening service at j regular church hour. The program for the week may be j secured from the State Young People's : Division Superentendent, at 917 Hurt j Building, Atlanta, or from the County > Young Peoples’ Division Superenten dent, Mrs. W. (’». Dorris, of Douglas- ville- Any Sunday School desiring a program for Mothers day may secure same by writing to the state office for same, if the whole week’s pro gram is not carried out. Work of tiie Parent Teachers Association , A Relic Of Slavery MRS. BAGGETT ENTERTAINS The Matron Club was entertameu in a most delightful way last Friday afternoon by Mrs. A. S. Baggett. The house was profusley decorated with beautiful spring flowers- A large num ber of the member* were present also seycral guests were envited. Progressive rook was the feature of the afternoon, after which a delicious *alad coruse was served. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. W. A. Abercrombie. A man with a telescope on the roof of a Fort Worth skyscraper notified authorities late Tuesday afternoon that he saw a. man floating down river on a housetop Rescuers rush ed to the spot, but the housetop had disappeared. One man held a solitary vigi! on his housetop with a shotgun. lie defied rescuerB and cried out- “I'll shoot the first man who tries to take me. My wife is drowned and I want to drown with her.” With the-menacign shotgun con fronting them, the relief squad were reluctantly compelled to let the man ride on—apparently to his doom. *1 SCHOOL DAI]S 1* A young mother' and her two little children were out at the fringe of the town, picking black berries. Hidden and almost over grown with briars was an old well, and the trio, working together, felt the ground giving away be neath their feet. The children clung to their mother, while she frantically held with bleeding hands to a bunch of briars. Their screams attracted the attention of some passersby and soon the news of their predicament spread like wild fire over the town. The whole town came out. the editor the preacher, the merchants, the lawyer, the doctor, the. women and children and the loafers, all came out and stood around and peered at the little unhappy ftunily writh ing in agony over the edge of that well. After a. long delay, a com mute of thirteen decided to cut the briars which held them up. This was done and they fell. Whether they died down there or were rescued, or what became of them I do not know. When they were cut down, that seemed to appease the curiosity of the crowd. Sounds Turkish, hut this hap- bened right here in Christian America. It happened in your state and county. It happened with the knowledge and consent of your governor, your senator, legislator, your sheriff, your con stable, aud all your other officials. It happened with your own know ledge and consent. It is going tr, happen again with your know ledge. Will it be with your con sent! Not youl Let me remind you. The husband and father of that woman and those children worked to support them. His wages were practically ail the support they had. He committed a crime, was arrested and after a long delay was tried by thirteen—a judge and jury—was convicted and sent to prison. He was guilty and was deserved to be punished, hut his wife and children were innocent. What right had the state to take his labor without paying them for it. What right has the state to cut all the support they had and let them fall? Soldiers will tell you that any man—Regardless of how honest he is—will sftal if he is hungry enough. When the state demands the labor of convicts without pay ing their dependents for it, the state is guilty of operating a whole sale crime incubator. If it is wrong for an individual to own slaves, how can it be right for a collect ion of individuals, a state, to take the labor of convicts without pay ing their dependent ones for it? We are citizen and stockholders of and in our respective states and as such, we are parties to transaction that to say it mildly, do not square with justice or with common sense. We believe in good roads, but do ,ve believe in them to the extent of building them with free labor , with blood money! In the long run that is the highest priced labor in the world. There is no way to figure this side of Heaven o.r Hell how much it costs. When I think of life aud its unavenged wrongs; of how Truth has so often been persecuted at the hands of Error; of how Right has so often been on the scaffold and wrong on the throne; of how Greed grinds the faces of the poor; One of tiie greatest things ever put on in Douglas County, was the School Clinic last Saturday when the State Board of Health Division of Child Hygiene in con nection with the local Parents- Teuchers Association. . A modern hospital was brought to our door at an extermely low cost. Fourteen children were success- removal many others. The success of this Clinic calls for another one soon which the State Board has promised. MRS. W. W. HAYS, Pres' P. T, A. Mrs. Burton when I think of all this, I know that there must be a future life in which all wrongs will be rectified, j fully operated upon for If I did not beleive that I would j of Tonsfls and Adenoids, have to believe that life is a hid-j Dr. A. E. Fort of Atlanta was eous conglomeration of mistakes, j the operating specialist with train and there is no just God. Civilization is advancing.. The Christian spirit is coming to dwell more arid more in human hearts. In my humble opinion the greatest, most momentous advancement that lias been made within the past hundred years was giving our wives, mothers and sisters the right to vote. Most of them do not yet realize what they hold in their hands- The ballot to them is strange, like the lamp which Aladdin held, but just wait, they are going to correct a whole lot of injustices, and when they do, crime will diminish, materially Friend, if you believe it is wrong to take the labor of human beings without paying their innocent de pendents for it; if you no longer want to be a party to transactions of this kind, please mail this mark ed paper to your legislator. Let me say this to him: If you will i ntroduce a bill and get it passed abolishing this relic of slavery, you will be instrumental in wiping a. way many tears, and from manv humdle homes and hearts there will go up prayers asking God to bless you. May you be given the power from on high to hit that law a heavy blow withau axe. Bell ville Our School at Bellville closed Aprl 7th with an egg hunt and dinner. The patrons met at 11:30 A. M. bringing eggs and cake. The eggs were hid by the patrons and thdn the children were directed to the woods and soon found the eggs Tom Edwards finding the largest number-16 eggs. This event closed a very success ful year of our school, very effici ently taught by Prof. W. R. Tho mas, assisted by Roy Davison These teachers put their very best effort in their work and much good was done, ‘ Mr Mayfield of Atlanta spent the week-end with Mr. J. A. Suddith, L. 8, Lftmbert and family spent the week-end with relatives at Winston, Carl Hunter spent Sunday night with Clifford Suddith Last week was one of hustling amoung farmers of this burg. Some Flu in our midst last week those who were attacked were Mrs. Robert Fernanders, Messers Wesley Dayison, Grady aud Frank Hunter, Robert and Albert Fer ander; all are about well by this time. Mrs. Janie Lambert and daugh ters, Octavia and Audrey, of Dog River, and Mrs. R. A. Lambert of Paulding, spent the week-end with relatives. Holme Coming Service Dear Mr. Editor; Pleaso announce in this week’s paper that there will be Home Coming services at Mt Zion church the first Sabbath in May. Every body invited to come. C. A. Barfield will conduct the music. All who are interested in the cemetery please come on Thurs day before to help clean up. J. N. Morris. Wednesday was doubtless a Red Letter for the few remaining vet erans of this section because of the royal entertainment given them by the local chapter of U- D. C’s. A delightful program was, ren dered at the school auditorium. Appropiate exercises were ren dered by the school, short talks by veterans and others and the spe nd address by Judge J. H, McLar- ty were enjoyed. ed assistants. One feature of particular inter- Two doctors and two nurses of j est was the reading of a poem by Atlanta besides help of ourdoctors <J apt. Joyner which we reproduce whose assistance was very much appreciated. Also the help of Entertains below: THE VETERANS PARADE Git my old knapsack, Mary, git mv uniform of gray, Git iny battered helmet, Mary, for 1,11 need ’em all to-day. Git my canteen an’ my leggin’s hand me down that empty gun, For I’m goju’ out paradin’ with the boys of Sixty-One. Nevermind the blood stains, Mary never mind that ragged hole, They were made there bv a bulled that was sarching lbr my soul; Jest brush off them cobwebs, Ma ry, git my bonny flag of blue, For I’m gnin’ out paradin with t|ie boys of Sixty-Two. Tlie D. D. Club met Wednesday P. M. with Mrs. R. C. Burton. Progressive Rook was the feature of the afternoon, after which deli cious sandwiches and tea were served. The next meeting will be held This uniform don’t fit me with Mrs. Fred Duucau. as it did when 1 was young; ; Don’t you recollect how how neat 4 ■ MRS. ENTERKIN ENTERTAINS. ! r ly to m / manl .V form it clung? clever mind that sleeve that’s emp* Mrs. Rov Enterkin entertained her ! ty ' let dangle loose and free, Sunday School Clas a in a most char- hor I m gOHl out Paradin’ with ming way Thursday night. Each j the Boys Sixty-Three, member invited a guest and a large number of young people enjoyed the evening. At the close of which de licious sandwiches and tea were served NEWS ITEM FROM GEORGIA GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION A tidal wave of enthusiasm in favor of the proposed $75,000,000 road bond issue seems to be sweeping over the state, according to reports coming into the headquarters of the Georgia Good Roadg Association. _ Last week the Carrollton Civic Club enrolled one hundred per cent in favor of the bond issue, and declared itself ready to get into the fight for good roads and stay in until _ Georgia is "Pulled out of the Mud.” The Dublin Chamber of Commerce also adopted resolutions unanimou- -anssi puoq puor aqt 3uisaopua X|s Augusta Chambor of Commerce fell in line and voted to support the bond issue, declaring that they regarded it as the safest and sanest investment ever proposed far the state. With only one dissenting vote, the Stewart County grand jury voted en dorsement c the proposal to complete ihe state highway [.’stem by means of the road bond, This action or. ‘.he part of the Steuail County grand jury simply registers the sentiment of that county which is overwhelmisgly for the bond issue. From Town* County come reports of enthusiastic approval of the bond issue. Towns is one of the mountain counties, lying next to the border of North Carolina, which state last year voted a bond issue of $50,000,000 to complete her highway system, and as a consequence has feltthe recent de pression kess, possibly, then has any of the Southern state. Towns citizens have seen the effects of road bonds in North Carolina, and they believe Geor gia should pass the bond issue and keep pace with other Southern states in the progress that naturliy comes a commonwealth that has good roads. The representative from Town County, Hon. Gus W. Franks, of Hiawassee, has registered his appro val of the bond issue and declared, himself ready to support it both in his County and in the state Iegisla ture. Polk County has notified the Geor gia Good Roads Association that it is ready to aid in any other section of completely s ald on the bond issue, and the state where the issue may he doubtful. Hon. William W. Mundy, of Cedartown, representative in the legislature from Polk County, Is a- mong the strongest advocates of the bond issue in that County. Draw my sword-belt tighter, Mary put the strap beneath my chin. I’m growing old and threadbers like my Uniform and thin. But I reckon I’ll pass muster as I did in days of yorus; For I’m goin out paradin’ with the Boys of Sixty-Four. Now I’m ready; kiss me, Mary, kiss your old sweetheart good-by Bresh away them teardrops, Mary; Lord I diden’t think you’d cry; I ain’t going’ out to battle, cheer up, Mary, sakes alive; I m goin’ out paradin’ with the boys of Sixty-Fi'e. After the exenises the daughters ailidv eterns proceeded to the ceme tery to decorate the graves of their deceased comrads. At 12:30 the veteran and a few of their friends were served a most excellent dinner by the daughters. It was indeed a sum- ptourous repast such as you will always find when the Douglas- ville ladies prepare and serve them, The execises were concluded ait the Court House in the afternoon. The U. D. C. S. are to be con gratulated for entertaining the ' vetrans so royally and the veterans were profuse in their expressions of appreation. FOURTEEN CHILDREN AT SATURDAY'S CLINIC Aa it is so well expressed in an article by Mrs. W. M. Hayes, Pres ident of the Parent Teachers Assoc iation, ‘‘A modem hospital was moved o Douglasville” last Saturday. The State Board of Health, co-oper ating with the Parent Teachers Asso ciation conducted a clinic at the School house Saturday at which fourteen children were operated, on by special ists at greatly reduced prices. They were as follows: Mary Owen McLarty, Ossie Wilson McLarty, Mozelle Herrod, Elizabeth Baggett, Dorthy ^Juncan, Francis Selmna, Louise Watkins, Jennie Lynn» Strickland, ISamuel Mozley, Clauds King James Dorris, James Clouts^ Paul Gable, Malcom Watkins.