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THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL
Official Organ Harlem. Ga.,
and Columbia County.
Published Every Friday at Har¬
lem, Ga.
Eniered in Post Office at Har¬
lem, Ga., as Second Glass Matter
Price $2.00 Per Year in Advance.
E, H. MILLER, Editor and Publisher
THOS. E. WATSON, i Contributing
Editor.
Harlem, Ga., January 10, 1918
Keeping the home fires burn¬
ing is some job, with coal where
It is.
Too bad those Sin Feiners
couldn’t have been drafted, and
blown off their fighting energy,
against the Huns.
Hog Island seems to be well
named, after all, didn’t it? It
certainly hogged a lot of Uncle
Sam's funds.
Even with the war over, a
Bigger Navy, a Bigger Army,
and a Bigger Fund for the War
Chanties, seems still to be the
cry.
New York seems to be rath* r
glad the War is over, and is tak¬
ing up all her old political
wrangles, just where they were
laid down.
Now if Wilson will just
come oq back home, and act like
lie’s been talking, the expenses
of this trip to the American peo¬
ple, will ba forgiven.
Must be the officers on that
r* turning transport had begun
to celebrate before the ship dock¬
ed, an<j it’s dollars to ducks thqt
a Board of Inquiry will soon be
on the job.
Another one of the horrors of
war is past: we wont have to
listen to any more of those home
and-mother ditties, that have
been sung (?) in all the amuse¬
ment places.
There is a nice articled “How
to Distribute Accumulated
Moneys,” going the rounds of
thepress. The best little, old
way is : give some woraenyho ad
sheets of the big Northern
dailies, give them said Accu¬
mulated Moneys, and leave it to
them.
An old adage to the effect “if
the horse knew his own power,
no hand could tamo him” seems
to have been adopted by the
Amalgamated; Order of Fund
Raisers, with this difference:
they know their power for graft,
and it’s becoming a hard matter
to tame them.
It is significant fact, and one
want to keep under your hat for
tli? next few months: the Roman
Catholic papers andjmagazines—
and principally among the latter
remember the Literary Digest—,
are putting items of news to the
fr mi to make it appear that a
* ‘rift” is imminent between Great
Biitian and the United States,
in the /natter of peace negotia¬
tions Base this assumption on
the fact that Great Biitian ie
fuses to recognize the pope ns a
temporal power, and yen have
the reason for the attitude of the
Roman Catholic press. Mr.
Wilson s trip abroad was large¬
ly a matter of making the f ope’s
voice heard, in the peace negoti¬
ations.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GEORGIA.
[( CONTINUED FROM PAGE TWO)
hurting that we will maintain Europe, for at
least two years, a vaster army than Xerxes led
from teeming Asia when he set out to conquer
Greece.
That Asiatic, meddling with European Greece led
directly to Alexander's tit-for-tat invasion of Asia!
The rankling wounds of Greece had never heal
ed ; and it was the Greek army of Alexander the
Great which destroyed the Asiatic power.
Why is our army invading Russia, and killing
Russians ? •
Did WE DECLARE iVAR ON RUSSIA ?
Why are we stationing a million troops on the
German side of the Rhine; and severely regulat¬
ing the daily conduct of ihe Germans ?
Pardon if I smell “camouflage. ”
me
My name is Thomas, and it is my privilege to
doubt.
If I don't believe every word that comes from
Wilson’s hired writers and publishers, you mustn’t
fall out with me about it.
The fact is, I don’t believe a blamed thing they
say : they have told so many different tales dur¬
ing the last few years that no sane, independent
person can pin faith to Wilsonian verbiage.
“Camouflage” is the order of the day, and if
you are not overfed on it, your appetite must be
ravenous and your abdomen capacious.
Do you suppese that Woodrow Wilson thinks
ho can “organize the moral forces of the world,”
and rule mankind by appeals to “conscience ?”
When he pompously betakes himself and his
host of hireling writers across the ocefln, for the
purpose of school-teaching the leaders of European
policies, do you imagine that they like it !
Doesn’t you knowledge of human nature tell
you that they resent it ?
Of course, these European leaders cannot ex¬
press themselves, nor do anything except drum
up ovations for the intrusive, impertinent, tact¬
less American school teacher.
In other words the European statesmen and
diplomats have been using “camouflage.”
If Wilson does not suspect this, he is deceived
by his own camouflage and his own stupendous
conceit.
Going to Europe to “organize the moral forces”
of the tiunui» race, and to convert everybody into
doing “right!”
Why didn’t he try his hand at that, in this
country ?
When John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil gun¬
ners were shooting and burning the laboring
men, and their wives, and their children, in
Colorado, then was a good time to have appealed
to the Rockefeller “conscience,” and to have or¬
ganized moral forces to suppress Rockefeller
crimes.
Did President Wilson try moral suasion on the
Hog Island thieves, the Aircraft thieves, the
Powder Trust and the Munition makers ?
How much “conscience” has the Packing Trust
got?
Who can filly describe the infamies of the Steel
Trust, the Stockyards, the Sweatshops, the mines
and the mills ?
Beware of tlm paid-for “camouflage” of the daily
paper, tlie “patent-outside weekly, and the drib¬
ble of the orators hired by Big Business.
They are not telling you the truth.
The European “Reds" whom your daily papers
denounce nnd lie oil, a>e the working claescs. The
European Bolslieviki are the toiling millions who
are striving desperately, perhaps madly, to break
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the crate, chaing^of aristocrats, tire ftionopolistic and land-lor^s, moii§y-|
autocrats.
Mwstwe phooi dotm the democrats, qgd uphold the
autoei ats $' f
Must we repeat what has so dftcn beeu done io
Europe, When {{tins were used to keep the wealthy
and the priviledged oil top of the poor and the
unprivileged ? -
Oar Revolutionary ancestorswere Bohhcviki to the
Tories of England, at the time when TEN “NOBLES”
OWNED ALL THE LAND OF SCOTLAND, one hundred
end fifty “ nobles ” owned the soil of England, and less
than one hundred “nobles” held title-deeds to
Ireland.
The present French Republic was established by
“Reds,” and they made it stand, after the Pope and
the Kings had made war upon the two Republics
which preceded this oue.
Thomas Jefferson Was very much of a Bolshe¬
vik, and Lafayette much of a Red.
Think of that.-*.
Every child boro into the world comes with
agony to the mother, not to mention other things
not nice to print.
It is so with nations : when an Old Order has
outlived the patience and endurance of the op
pressed, , the , victims fly „ out mtq . revolt , and revo
lution ; and the violence of the revolt measures the
harshness of the provocation.
Our forefathers did not hesitate to commit
piracy, robbery, arson, and murder, when bat
tling against Tories at home and in England.
The founders of the French Republic com
mitted all sprts^jfexcesses and crimes.
Is it any ranrvelN'hat the Russian peasantry
should now take revenge upon their cruel oj
pressors? 5
It is human nature; and we should let thk pot
BOIL. AND THROW OFF ITS OWN SCUM. ’
All social-political upheavals bring bad men to
the top, but these bad men never stay on top.
Crimes and violence subside into law and order;
and the sending of our troops to Russia or Poland
is not more justifiable than it would have been
for an American President, in 1830, to have sent
an army to crush the Reform movement in Eng
land. ■"
It is none of our business !
Away with camouflage!
If our vast army is kept in Europe, the real
purpose will be, tarnish democracy, and enthrone
LANDED AND MONEYED ARISTOCRACY.
Great God ! Did your wife bear children for
that ?
Did your Revolutionary forefathers shed their
blood for that ?
Did you buy “Liberty bonds” for that ?
President Wilson ought to come home.
The American army should be brought home.
We have got to have some common sense and
fearless truth-telling in this country, else our
liberties are doomed.
Not all of us are fools, nor can Wilson and his
apes fool all the people forever.
Didn’t we disarm Germany ? Didn’t we take
her ships, her guns, her railway ears, her fort¬
resses, her cannon, iier machine-guns, her air¬
craft, her rifles ?
With “the Hun” disarmed and driven buck to his
own internal troubles, what are we afraid of ?
Armed Italy, France, and England —flushed with
victory —can surely take care of the unarmed,
demoralized, faction—torn, and fleetless, “Hun.”
Then why, in the name of God ! are we to
maintain in'EiwSpe an army of l,2ot),O0O men ?,
Thus. E. Watson,
Cattle and Sheep Like Tree.
In Australia cattle and sheep are
fond of grazing on the foliage of the
weeping she-onk or beef-wood, Casnu
rlnn quadrlvnvls, nnd some fnrmers
grow it for that purpose. It thrives in
California on poor, sandy soil and Is
• a decidedly ornamental tree.
\ The Cat.
A Japanese schoolboy was told to
write a short composition on the cat.
After deep thought he handed this
in: “The cat is little cattle. When
first she sees a rat she illuminate her
eye.”
'•HrJp
The Cynical Bachelor.
“You hove had insane impulses?”
“Of course," snld the cynical bachelor.
“Do you recall one?” "Several. But
each time, just as I was about to eay,
‘Will you marry me?’ my sanity re¬
turned.”—Birmingham Age-Herald.
And Probably Spoke Truth'.’
Mlily—“Men nre more conceited
than women.” Billy—"Nonsense! Ev¬
ery mnn at some time In his life has
’told some woman he wasn’t/worthy of
.’aer,’’—Judge, •• •
V < STATEMENT OK THE CONDITION OP
V, *| The McDuffie Bank
Located at Thomson, Ga., at the-close of business Dec. 20, 1918.
RESOURCES.
-j-lrne Loans... $ 88,811.32
Overdrafts, tmsecured—. 012.56
Bonds and Stocks owned
300.00
753.49
Otlier Real Estate., .a.. 2,513.34
!><ie fr on» Banks and Bank
era in this State 13,673.36
Due from Banks and Bank¬
ers in other States._____ 9,616.62
Currency. 17,222.00
Gold——.
• ,
CaslTltems* , *’ eU ,,l>8 08
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368.95 8,529.03
Profit and Loss ...... 92.30
Collections..... ...... 600.75
Total $124,902.86
State of Georgia, McDuffie County. 1 l
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Before me came E. M. Miles, Cashier, of The McDuffie Bank
who being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing stated anil
h leKt Is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of file in
bank.
" . E. M. MILES.l
Sworn to and subscribed before nie, this 28th day of December 1918J
, LURA SCOTT, McDuffie Notary County, Public] IJ
Thos. E. Watson, President,
Dk . sterling Gibson, Vice President,
B. J. Stevens, Attorney.
NOTE:
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LIABILITIES
Capital Stock paid in...,.___ $26,000.00
Undivided Profits, less Cur¬
rent Expenses, Interest
and Taxes Paid.......... 21,913.63
Due to Banks and Bankers
in this State...... ........ 565.52
Due Unpaid Dividends..... 10.00
Individual Deposits Sub¬
ject to Check....,....... 63,982.49
Time Certificates ......... 13.024.74
Cashier's Checks.......... 406.38
Total i. $124,902.1
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