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The Columbia Sentinel
Official Organ Harlem, Ga.
and Columbia County.
Published Every Friday at
Harlem, Ga.
Entered in Post Office at Harlem,
Ga., as Second Glass Matter.
Price $2.00 Per Year in Advance,
E. H. MILLER, Editor and Publisher.
THOS. E. WATSON, Contributing Editor.
Harlem, Ga., February 7,1919.
Does the "Safe and Sane Plan"
for cotton mean: safe to plant, and
sane to hold the crop?
-o
Can you believe it? An officer of
the U. S. Marines says the Germans
are actually adopting a propaganda
of cSurtesy.
-o
An extra session of Congress is
now being planned. What a lot wo
have to pay for gas and hot-air in
this country.
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Good news for the dressmakers:
A moving picture lady star is said to
design her own dresses, and in a re¬
cent film she wears sixteen of them.
o
Over five thousand people met vio¬
lent deaths In New York City the
past year. Maybe it's headquarters
for the Suicide Club, unknown to
the police.
o
Next to the dinky little caps the
men have gotten used to wearing,
wonder centers on the query as to
whether the wrist-watch has come
to stay on the masculine arm.
o
Mr. Lansing has gotten so weary
at the talk-fest that we all thought
was to be a Peace Conference, it Is
reported he is sketching pictures on
anything available in order to keep
awake.
-o
There seems to be an epidemic of
husband-killing on in this coi ntry.
seven States the past week there
were cases of the wife killing the
husband, and jealousy seems to have
been the predominant motive.
-o
It may help you to stand the taxes
and things, to know that a news note
has leaked in from Great Britain, to
the effect that King George has hung
a war cross on the Gaekwar of Ba
roda.
o
New York City has gotten so
peeved at the possibility of the bars
being closed, Bhe is talking of se¬
ceding from the State. What a rush
there would be to enroll as a citizen
there, if the move was put over.
A scientific sharp has figured
the muscles of a bird’s wings are
times stronger than those in a
arm: and we have tried to eat some
chicken wings that proved the the
ory, taking the chicken as a bird.
«■
Mr. Hoover must realize that old
saw of "a prophet not without
honor”, etc. He is now being ac¬
cused of aiding the meat and other
food packers, to form the combine
which made for the monopoly we
have all suffered from.
•o
Cotton may be King, but between
the boll weevil, the cotton gambler,
and the determination of the present
Democratic Administration, said
king looks in about as forlorn a
state as the recent occupant of the
Hohenzollern throne.
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We hope it ts safe to say It—but
we’ll take a chance anyway: if Gen.
Crowder, who put over so much that
•was intolerant in the matter of the
many draft drives, is really about to
"become a member of the In Bad
Club, there are six or twelve of us
who positively refuse to weep when
the news is spread.
Now that we have been assured
that there is to be no ban placed on
tobacco, either ’’chaw” or smoke, it
may be that the lovers of that staple
will be able to solace themselves
for the loss of the beer and things
they used to wash away the taste of
the juice with.
-o
Uncle Sam is finding the road of
Universal Fixer a hard one; he is
now facing a tremendous deficit in
the wheat deal that has just been
made. Maybe, after a while, the old
gentleman will realize that the cot¬
ton planter and the wheat grower
only want to make a living. If he will
leave price fixing alone: also pro¬
hibiting gambling In either of these
two staples.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
The Macon Telegraph Voices Ilfs
Sentiments and Gets an An¬
swer from a Georgia Editor^
( A. L. L.)
In Macon, Ga., a morning paper is published that
used to rank very high with the people of Georgia,
as a representative Southern paper. For many
years the paper was owned and edited, either by
native Georgians, or by Southern men. Of late
years, the paper has changed hands, as well ns
policy—or rather the change in policy followed a
change of hands, and it so fell out that a foreign
born man, one Mr. George Long by name, began
to voice the sentiments of the Macon Telegraph.
Mr. Long must have belonged to that very large
body of men “too proud to fight”, and he never
changed his attitude; he left his own country (he
is a Canadian of English extraction) to get along
as best it could without his services, and it isn’t on
record that he got over his pride sufficiently to offer
those services to his.adopted country—the U. S. A.
But he has had a great deal of fervent patriot¬
ism ( ?) in his columns, and he has, for some un¬
known reason, taken violent dislike to some people
here in Georgia, the name of Tlios. E. Watson serv¬
ing always as a flood-gate for flows of language that
are almost shocking.
Being a stranger, Mr. Long didn’t know just how
many Millers there were in the State of Georgia,
conducting newspapers, and he got some of them
mixed.
Editor J. R. Miller, who owns and operates two
newspapers in the southern portion of the State,
got really peeved at the mistaken identity which
Mr. Long suffered from, and in the last issue of the
Statesboro Eagle (a paper rightly named), Mr.
Miller himself burst forth into something like ora¬
tory, for the benefit of Mr. Long. Like all good
things, this article is passed along for the enjoyment
of others:
THEY ARE WORRYING ABOUT TOM
WATSON AND “JIM” MILLER.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Macon
Telegraph is worrying because it believes
that:
"Tom Watson has made a deal with Jim
Miller’s papers at Statesboro and Harlem.”
This is the most refreshing bit of “inside”
oolitical dope we have been favored with
in some time.
“Jim” Miller has no paper at Harlem.
The Harlem paper is run by Mr. E. II.
Miller, to which Mr. Watson is a contribu¬
tor.
The Harlem Miller lias no connection
with the Statesboro citizen of the sums- *»
The Greatest Catholic Asset.
(Continued from Page 1)
Then the Jesuists rejoiced: they could easily fore¬
see their opportunities.
They especially hated France, because France had
repudiated the Napoleonic Concordat and had
ceased to pay the Pope the $10,000,000 annual
tribute.
More than that, France had broken up the mon¬
astic brothels, and had adopted a system of secular
education.
Consequently, Pope Benedict was heart and soul
with the Germans. He defended the Belgian atroci
ties: lie defended the horrors committed in Norther
France; lie even justified the sinking of the Lusi
tania.
He did all this in an interview with a Frenc 1
journalist, at the Vatican, and the interview was
widely published. that he had
When Benedict was made to realize
shocked the world, he claimed that the interviewer
had misunderstood him; hut the journalist asserted
most emphatically that he had read the interview
to the Pope, before leaving the Vatican, and that
Benedict had made some corrections in it before
authorizing its publication. Catholic
The Great War has been the greatest
asset.
Through their secret societies they have controlled
the camps, the hospitals, and the money given for
charities.
They have colored the news from Enrope for
their own purposes.
They allowed the Pope’s own palace to become the
shelter of spies from which went forth evil conspira-
An Advertisement in The Sentinel
brings good results to those who
patronize us. A trial will con
vince you.
name.
The correspondent of The Telegraph
continues:
“Watson is writing for Miller's papers
and they are being mailed to all of the for¬
mer subscribers of The Jeffersonian.”
It must be Miller’s paper at Harlem that
is making the ringsters sit up at nights.
All the connection that Mr. Watson has
with “Jim Miller’s papers” is he is a sub¬
scriber to our Statesboro paper.
The courtesy of the use of the columns
of both The Eagle and The Hawkeye have
been tendered to Mr. Watson.
But he has not availed himself of the
offer except in one or two instances.
This paper likes Tom Watson because the
dirty, thieving fear political ringsters in Geor¬
gia hate and him.
We sympathize with him because we
know they stole the office from him the
people elected him to fill.
We have got the same measure of confi¬
dence for the patriot who steals a ballot as
we have for the gentleman who steals a
mule.
Both are criminals in the sight of honest
men and abominable in the sight of God.
The same hell that singes one will blister
the other.
“They are afraid that Tom Watson will
make combinations with newspaper men.”
What they wanted to do, was to ravish
him and then gag him.
Hide into office on his efforts, and betray
his confidence, and then close his avenues
of protest.
Heaven is high and hell is low.
If there is not a burning hell to punish
men who betray their benefactors, there
ought to be. organize ; . ,
If they ever a tribe of “The
Descendants of Judas Iscariot and Bene¬
dict Arnold,” and require all the offspring
to take out membership cards, it will be
some immense family reunion.
That the people are deprived of the great
services of Mr. Watson in the settlement of
the momentous questions arising from the
war, after having elected him for this pur¬
pose. is a crime against the American
people.
In the seat to which Mr. Watson was
fairly and honestly elected sits a pigmy.
A man beneath the size of “destrict” bailiff
—a man who knows that he is holding a
place that he was not elected to fill.
In the face of all this, they are beginning
to sweat under the collar when “the
menace” of Tom Wat.son and his newspaper
friends begins to float before their troubled
visions.
“Somewhere, sometime, in the broadness
of the universe, there is honor for the
- -■champions of right.” ,. , . .
cies against Italy and France.
When the Englishman, Herbert Hoover, was
grasping at the enormous authority he has exerted
during the War, he went first to the Pope, for a
private conference.
When the false Frenchman, Caillaux, was con¬
spiring for Germany against his own country, his
first scene of activity was at Rome, and his accom¬
plices were priests who hate the Italian government
and wish to restore that of the Pope.
When the two Italian battleships were mysteri¬
ously destroyed, the crime darkened the portals of
the Pope’s residence, and the qliief criminal was
secretly spirited away.
When the President of our Republic went abroad,
he left Tumulty on deck at the White House; and
the Knights of Columbus selected the stewardess
for the Presidential ship; and the President himself
went to Rome for a private consultation with the
Pope.
The priests prevented Catholic Ireland and Cath¬
olic Canada from standing by the English and
the French in the War: thus England was so handi¬
capped that our aid became a military necessity.
But the 'Catholic Church is now supreme: she
rules Christendom: her priests boldly defy our laws,
and refuse to obey them.
Cardinal Gibbons takes that attitude; Bishop
Keily follows; Priest Belford follows; Cardinal
O’Connell is equally seditious; and opr
men are wondering when the inevitable conflict will
come, between America’s la wand Rome’s law.
They cannot he reconciled , and one must submit
to the other.
Verily the War has been the greatest Catholic
assett. T. E. W.
OUR OMNIBUS COLUMN
Everybody Rides in It and There’s Always Room for One More.
Those Who Come and Go. Short and Snappy Paragraphs
That Everybody Will Read With Interest. Society Doings.
Now and Then a Bit of Gossip.
Miss Irene Wood is visiting rela¬
tives in Atlanta.
• • • *
Joe Crawford, of Appling, was in
town Tuesday.
* * • •
E. C. Lanier spent last Friday in
Augusta.
• * • «
Mr. Louis Skinner is visiting rela¬
tives in Washington.
.;••••
Mrs. Marion Twiggs left Thursday
for Jacksonville, Fla.
* * ,* *
Miss Flossie Prather spent a day
last week shopping in Augusta.
* * * *
Mrs. W. C. Clary spent Friday in
the city.
• • • •
Mrs. J. P. McCord spent Thursday
of last week in Augusta.
Mre. Fred Bailey is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Fre Verdery.
Mrs. Vernon Hatcher spent Fri¬
day in Augusta.
Mrs. P. C. Willingham spent Sun¬
day and Monday in Augusta.
Miss Marguerite Hobby spent Sun¬
day in Augusta.
Mrs. Pierce Barrett has returned
from Alabama.
Mr. Brady E. Buzzard, of Bellair,
was in town Sunday.
* * * *
.
John Bannister spent a while in
town Sunday with his family.
* * * *
Bruce Ivey spent a short while
with friends in Harlem Sunday. ’
* * * •
Mr. Arthur Knox, of Appling, was
in Harlem one day last week.
* • * *
Miss Sue Branch spent the after¬
noon Saturday in Augusta
* • • *
Mr. and Mrs. Gent Grubbs, of Au¬
gusta, spent the week end here.
Miss Louise Chapman spent the
afternoon Wednesday in Grovetown.
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Stevens, of
Barnwell, are here on a visit to
friends.
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• • • •
Little Bernice Binion, of Augusta,
is spending a few days with friends
in Harlem.
We are glad to see Cleveland Har¬
rison on the streets again after a
recent illness.
Lawton Hatcher spent Thursday
of last week in Harlem with his
mother, Mrs. W. O. Hatcher.
Mr. E Fuller* sp*ent several days
last week in Augusta attending to
business affairs.
Mrs. G. P. King, Jr., and Miss
Martha McCord spent a while In Au¬
gusta Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Branley Calloway
spent Wednesday with Mrs. Brant
ley’s mother, Mrs. Eulie Lansdell. I
Mrs. Eulie Lansdell has returned
home after a short visit to her
daughter, Mrs. Brantley Calloway.
• * © •
Mr. Irwin Toole, of Montgomery,
Ala., is visiting friends and relatives
here.
Mrs. Earl Lazenby has left for
Camack to spend a while with rela¬
tives and friends.
Mr. S. N. Chapman and his charm¬
ing daughter, Louise, spent Friday
and Saturday in Atlanta.
• • . .
Mr. Willard Weeks is at home on
a short visit to his father, Dr. J. L.
Weeks.
John O’Brien, of Louisville, Ky.,
gave The Sentinel a very pleasant
call on Friday of last week.
• * • •
Mrs. William Groves, of Comer, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. P. H. Pas¬
chal.
Mr. Charlie Brake has returned
home after spending a short while
at the home of Mrs. Ida Willing¬
ham.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Knox and
children, and Misses Marie and Lou¬
ise Morris spent a few hours In town
Saturday.
....
Sheriff and Mrs. Horace Clary, of
Thomson, spent Sunday here with
Mr. Clary’s sister, Mrs. J. T. Brans
ley.
Mrs. Bertie Leitner returned to
her home in Atlanta Sunday, after
spending a while with friends in
Harlem.
Miss Rosa Atkinson and brother,
Earle, spent Sunday in Harlem, vis¬
iting Miss Flossie Prather and their
pent, Mrs. J. M. Atkinson.
Ads In The Sentinel pay best.
Try one.
• * • •
Miss Mack Stanford, one of the
charming teachers in the high school
here, spent-the week end in Bone
ville.
*
George T. Wilson has purchased
the interests of G. S. Larkin in the
Wilson-Larkin Co. The style of the
new firm will be George T. Wilson
* * * *
Mrs. J. W. Fulmer and Mrs.
G. B. Lampkin spent a short while
in Augusta last Wednesday doing
some shopping.
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Everyone is interested in the locaf
affairs of our little town. If you
know an item of interest convey the
information to The Sentinel re¬
porter.
* • • *
Information has leaked out that
A. Davisson will make the race for
the vacancy in the Legislature
caused by the death of Hon. I. V.
Ballard. Several candidates are al¬
ready in the field.
• • * .
E. H. Miller, fertilizer inspector,
began his duties on Saturday last.
Fertilizrse seem to be moving rather
slow in theis section. The tendency
seems to be to reduce the acreage.
* * * *
The Sentinel force has received
numerous compliments on last
week's issue of the paper. The
masses have long looked for a paper
that would be fair to their interests,
and The Sentinel seems to appeal to
the iargeer majority of our home
folks.
APPLING NEWS
Mr. Charlie Bohler, of Leah, en
route to Augusta, passed through
the village Tuesday.
Messrs. C. P. Knox, A. I. Knox
and little Edwin Knox motored to
Thompson Wednesday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Kelley, Mrs.
Maxie Connor and Miss Florrie Knox
spent Tuesday in Augusta.
Mrs. Lizzie Etheridge visited Mrs.
Pfi'HflprTagrweee;—$ —
Mr. J. O. Marshall, of the U. S.
Navy, is spending some time with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mar¬
shall.
Dr. J. L. Weeks, of Harlem, was
in Appling Wednesday.
Mr. Horace Connor, of the U. S.
Navy, has received his discharge and
is now at home with his parents.
We are all glad to see him back.
The many friends of Mr. Willard
Weeks are glad to know he has made
his trip safe to France, and is now
in Harlem at his home.
Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Knox and
children, and Misses Louise and
Morris motored to Leah Sunday, and
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
T. E. Blanchard,
Mr. Morgan Knox visited relatives
at Martinez Sunday.
Mr. W. B. DeLoach, en route to
Leah, passed through the village on
Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Knox and
children, Mr. Ollie Marshall, and
Misses Marie and I,oulse Morris
motored to Harlem Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Knox and lit¬
tle Tommie spent Sunday In Thom
son.
Messrs. Eubanks and Talmage
spent a short while with Mr. Pierce
Morris Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Knox, Mrs.
E. P. Morris and daughters. Misses
Louise and Marie, spent Saturday In
Augusta on business.
Messrs. Adrian Marshall and Allen
Dye, of Washington, spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mar¬
shall.
Messrs. W. C. Knox and Ollie Mar¬
shall, Misses Annie and Elizabeth
Marshall and Miss Lillian Johnston
motored to Augusta Saturday.
Miss Lillian Lampkin has re¬
turned to Augusta after spending a
few weeks In Appling.
The Misses Morris entertained a
number of their friends last Friday
night.
We are all glad to know Sheriff
Crawford is recovering from a spell
of sickness.
PHILLIPS SCHOOL NEWS
Mrs. Mary Smith and Mrs. Gibson
Adams, of near Dearing, spent a day
last week with Mrs. M. S. Sellars.
Mrs. S. W. Whitaker and children
visited Mrs. G. M. Bennett Thurs¬
day.
Mr. ,T. J. Washington and son,
Forest, made a business trip Satur¬
day to Blythe.
We hopd the "flu” will soon leave
and all get well once more.