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THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL.
Issued Ever} iday at Harlem, Ga.
Entered in Post Office at Harlem, Ga., as
Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR ; when sent in clubs
of five $7.50.
RATES TO NEWSDEALERS-Three cents each, cash to
accompany order.
Thomson address of The Columbia Sentinel
P. 0. Box 393.
THOS. E. WATSON, Editor.
ALICE LOUISE LY! :.E, Managing Editor.
Harlem, Georgia, Februrary 2, 1920.
Mr. Frank Munsey has bought another news¬
paper. Mr. Munsey is a Republican. Nough said,
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What’s become of Col. House? Is he to be
one of the dark horses?
Does Mr. Me At loo really regard himself as
he heir apparent?
' Great Britain puts the seal on the end of the
iYar: the German flag is to be saluted as formerly.
Well, anyway, the Socialists have certainly
boon “advertised by their loving friends.”
♦ + ♦
Mr. Berger seems determined to keep on
r inning until he is out of breath, anyway.
Why not engage Mr. Bryan to “God-bless
you" each boat-load of Reds, as we ship them from
our shore?
The woods seem full of candidates, and if the
crowding keeps on, the woods will have to be en¬
larged.
If they keep on bringing booze across the
ocean, first thing you know the Prohibitionists
will demand that the ocean go dry.
Very deep and serious editorial in a
is headed: “Time for Brains.” Yeh bo; in every
place but our Government, evidently.
If the news gets about enough, the travel to
Japan will be light this year: it is said to cost
three times as much to live there as in the little
old U. S. A.
Oh yes: item has been cabled in that there is
a shortage in Swiss Cheese, in Switzerland.
Who’ll start the. dm for the Relief of the Swiss
Cheese Sufferers.
Two ex-Snloon keepers in Brooklyn are do
manding that the prohibition people give them
jobs. Looks like another case of the hair of the
dog l>eing good for the bite.
Just when some of the highball chasers had
saved enough for a ticket to Cuba, with a little
on the side for a bottle or two, conies word that
influenza is epidemic there.
They do things differently in France: a busy
body caused a quarrel, in which a man shot his
own wife. 1 lie father of the dead wife sued the
busy body and got a fat mm of money.
There is a lovely fight on in Belfast, Ireland,
over the recent election. The yellow of the Oi
angeman, and the Rod of the Socialist, downed
the green of the honest-to-goodness Irishman.
Mr. Bryan seems willing to make use of Mr.
Wilson's “policies’ in the same manner Mr. Taft
made use of those of Mr. Roosevelt had used. But
it is hardly possible that history will repeat itself,
* * * *
Mr. Borah is enquiring of General Wood,
just where he (Rood) stand-, on the Peace Treaty,
And it s likclx that t ten. " ood wont answer until
he finds tho best plane to stand, while his hat is
full , .. of . ... like bees , buzzing. , •
noise
A thoroughly domesticated man is being sued
by his wife for divorce, because he used to like to
go into the kitchen ami make pancakes. Sonic
women are so fussy about their kitchens.
Die efforts of the ladies, bless ’em, to econo
mizo. are pitiful: they go on record in the Dress¬
makers Gomf-ntiou as living willing to adopt short¬
er skirts, lower bodices, and thinner stockings.
And if the poor dears must have a hundred dol¬
lars worth ot lui’s to cover up the defirirenies in
costume, who shall rail ?
Tf seems odd that an acting Admiral, such as
Admiral Sims, should not know better than ‘i
swivel-chair official, such as Secretary Daniels,
just what the real conditions of our new were.
One thing that has cost the country so much—and
will continue to cost the. fact that polities
rule every office, and when an honest official tries
to tell the truth, he i gagged and crucified. Of
fleers in the army could tell of as much lost motion
as Admiral Sims is trying to tell of the Navy.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
Managing Editor’s Column.
The M. E. Talks Again .
In every shop—or profession—where several
people are brought into close daily contact, a ver¬
nacular peculiar to that shop will develop. News¬
paper people are great at inventing expressions
which are more expressive than elegant—but they
save a world of time and explanation.
For instance: the most thankless task on a
newspaper, and at the same time one of the most
important—and usually the poorest paid—is that
which deals with “Society.” This word covers
as many things as the mantle of Charity was sup¬
posed to cover of sins, and in my twenty years of
newspaper work, I have y.et to find the man or
woman who didn’t loathe the daily chronicling of
the “tea-fights, gab-festa, vaudeville shows, and
gambling games,” which are respectively (in the
newspaper oil: s ): teas and receptions, churen
weddings and ladies card games.
If it hadn't been for the sense of humor that
j gome,of us possessed, we would at times have been
ready for sanitoriums, when it came to taking
down the detailed description some of the hostess¬
es insisted on giving of their respective entertain¬
in'. its. And the most amazing part would be the
splurge all of them wanted “in print,” of their
respective affairs. In one office I was connected
with, they never called “society” anything but
“Slush.”
The above of course applies only to daily
papers, and the local weekly papers. In our pa¬
per. we have no room for frivilous matter, but
we have our own vernacular—and that leads me
finally to what 1 wanted to say.
In opening the mail, I divide it into: sub¬
scriptions; book orders; letters—-just the friendly
kind that mean so much to us; then the changes
of address; and finally the “Kicks.”
“Uncle Charlie” gets the batches of the two
last named, and the poor chap is lining swamped
these days with “Kicks.” Some of them are nice
polite inquiries as to why the paper has not been
j received; others are as near “cusses'’ in ink, as
the Writers can make them; others are attempts
at sarcasm which make us all squirm—and we re-
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"lien we took over the Columbia Sentinel as
the vehicle for Mr. Watson to get his views before
the people, it was mailed from Harlem, which is
some thirty miles from Thomson. The wheels of
our august postal department move slowly, and it
will take some time for us to get permission to
mail the paper from the Thomson P. O., and untjl
this is done, there will he some delay, but there is
no reason why you should not receive your paper,
if your name is on our list, and you have received
one or more copies. As soon as your subscription
comes in, your name is listed and a copy of the
j current week is sent you: this is the acknowledge
I ment of your order, and from then on, if your pa
j per does not come, the trouble is not with us, but
:,t 01110 P oint between our office and your post
i office.
" e want you to let us know when you miss
a copy; we will send you another, but where your
copies are missing irregularly, the fault is with
the clerks who handle the paper; we use the best
of Kraft wrapper; the paste is the standard paste
used in newspaper offices, and there is no reason
why you should be deprived of your paper, nor
why our expenses should be added to unless you
intend to let Roman Catholicism so dominate this
country that postmasters, clerks, and heads of the
postal department shall come from that church
which puts its dogmas and rules above and be¬
yond those of the country you and I are living in.
And that is the only explanation lor thetrou
bio we have had and continue to have, in the mat
j ter of lost and destroyed papers.
The “raisins" for this week certainly look
i plentiful; here is the list since last week's paper
j came out: till of the following sent five each.
,■ Georgia; • G. /--re L. Summer; Goo. r 1. r , Bell; >> ,, ", ,, M.
Keith: J. S. Gofer: Will Jones; A. J. Dyer; ’ A.
I Whit:lke, ' : K F * Ii0C ’ (hc colehrated his 75( ‘i
birthday getting up tins dub); W. H. IT. Walton;
"• F- Turner; J. I*. Hannah; T. J. Scott; J. (’.
Ragan; J. \Y. Palmer; S. W. Thomas; X. ().
Brown; G. L. Summer: Geo. T. Bell; W. M.
Klieh; G. X. Scajs; W. II. Brooks.
Also from Georgia: S. D. Fleegian, 8; T. T.
Brooks. 11: M. L. Johnson, 6; J, M. Stribliinr,
IT: K. M. Willbanks, (i: 11. A. Weems, s; E. P.
Sanders, <S; J. G. Hardy. 11; T. C. Ilayes, 7; L.
\Y. Williamson, 9; J. II. Weems, 7; G. G. Brooks,
(!: P. G. Ilollbrook, 17; J. G. Hardy, 11; (}. G.
Haves, 7; S. J, Cowan, (I.
From Oklahoma: Jno. F. Faulk, 5; Jos. A.
Hearn, 5; A. A. King,6.
From Texas: AY. F. Trvlett, 5; Rhea McFar¬
land, 7; J. 1*. Xotley, <1.
From Alabama: J. P. Glenn, 5; Florida: A. .J.
fray lor, (>; Louisiana: W. E. Hammons, 5; South
Carolina: J. M. Pruitt, 6; Illinois: C. M. Sapp, 0.
A. L. L.
Republicans-Democrafs: The Wings
Are Flopping Together.
(Continued from Page One.)
system of the South, did such a godless and mon¬
strous Thing of Evil arise and make its own law,
at insolent variance with the Supreme Law of
this Republic, a monument to the blood-sacrifice of
our forefathers.
Under Feudalism, the Lord could command
little more than a month of military service from
his retainer; and another tribute paid in manual
labor: but the Lord always defended his serf, with
the Lords own sword; and the serf was always
assured of a living, for self and family: when
sick, the Lord’s own medical man prescribed for
him: when too young, or too old to work, the Lord
did not require it.
There was no child labor question under Feud
alism.
Nor .was any worn-out serf driven forth to
perish of hunger.
No, indeed, the Lord would not allow his yo¬
kels to perish: when his fodder was running low,
he would cover his body with steel plates, joints
and things; and he would call for his war-horse,
(similarly attired in steel plates, joints, and
things) and he would call for his steel hat, and
his steel shoes, and his steel sword, and his bril¬
liantly colored banner; and his old cow horn; and
of course he would call for his upper tenants, and
his middlemen, and then for the men in the sticks,
who were not boxed up in steel plates, joints and
things.
“Blow cow horn, blow!
Wave. Red Banner, wave!
Follow me. brave knights, yeomen, and bare¬
footed heroes from the sticks!
Tidings have reached me through ‘our secret
service variots, that Sir John Sinclair has left his
castle, and is gone, with a mighty train, to visit
David, King of Scotland; and I have decided to
rush Sir John’s barns in. his absence, and bring
hither, for your use, all such store of grain, mear,
salt, cured fish, whiskey, beer and light wines
that Sir John may have accumulated.”
This eloquent, and appropriate address receiv¬
ed a mighty shout of approval.
So, off’ they went; and, without any serious re¬
sistance, Sir John Sinclair's suVpltts was trans¬
ferred to the almost empty barns, and granaries
of this Lord, who "was a good provider.”
The Southern system was of this order, except
that when the “Southern Slavedriver's” fodder was
running low, he would sell a nigger, and feed the
proceeds of the sale to the other niggers.
There never existed such negroes as those
pseudo-white folks who attitudinize and orate in
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
I am inclined to agree with the Florida ne
gro w ho told Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe that she
didn't have sense enough to vote.
The hateful thing about Palmer's system of
SLAVERY is that it's Dollars enslaving Man, and
giving the cowardly SHIRK TO RESPONSIBILITY
FOR THE SLAVE AND HIS EAM1LY, when too young
to work, too sick to work, and too old to work.
11 umanity has no place in Palmer's system of
Slavery.
No pension for the derelict worker, enters
die plans of Palmer’s Profiteers.
“Give us every spark of your life, as long as
you can stand it—and go.”
“Go where, Mr. Palmer?”
“To the boneyard, so far as I care: I have no
further use for you.
My clients arc not running their mines for old
age pension: they are using me, and Federal
Judges, and State Cavalry, and U. S. troops to
make money. .
You are done; we paid you your wages: we
have nothing more to suv to you.
Got
That's the System of Modern Financial Sla¬
very: and it is upheld by the Palmer lawyers and
Judges, bv the Trust-owned magazines and papers.
Why don't the people cry out against it?
That's just what the Espionage law and the
Sedition law prevents you from doing.
To destroy your constitutional rights, while
loudly praising the Constitution, is one of the
main tricks in the game.
Placed in a bill, seemingly good, it is “the jo¬
ker” which, when Palmer calls the attention of
his Judge to it, will be smilingly recognized, and
construed just as the Constitution-killers meant
it to be construed.
The. conspirators who have been deliberately
and most wickedly been engaged in changing your
Government, are not. the 217 Reds that Palmer
seized and banished: the real conspirators st re :u
seized and banished, the real conspirators arc in
('ongress and in the White House.
Palmar and his satellites have obtained in¬
junctions against a whole community, commanding
it to stay at home, and not to «o out and hear
an invited speaker.
A chief of police, at Newark, New Jersey,
met Victor Berger at the dock, arrested him, took
him back to New York, saying to Mr. Berger
u You can't speak in. New Jersey.''
Who gave the Chief of Police the authority
to put an end to free speech and free assemblage?
An Adventist preacher meandered into New |
Jersey, and proposed, to preach to lost souls.
The Mayor said, “It won’t do: you
stir up strife: you must go away at once:
bless you.”
Every lawyer knows that the State laws, and
the Federal statutes deal with every phase of
Freason and Sedition, to the extent that the Con¬
stitution will let them go.
The U. S. Constitution states plainly the only
treason against the United States.
The only Treason against our Government, is
making war on it, or giving aid and comfort to
those who are in arms against it.
To convict an American of Treason, it is ne¬
cessary that the Government produce two witness¬
es who will swear, in open court, and to a jury of
twelve impartial men, that the accused has com¬
mitted two overt acts of treason against our Re¬
public.
“Overt acts” are not given their due weighs
by those, rampant young officers who are yelling
for 100 per cent Americanism.
(Who made them the judge of 100 per cent
Americanism?
Who gave them, the yard-stick with which to
measure our patriotism.)
“Constructive treason” has never existed la
America.
To that fact I call the attention of Mr. Mar¬
tin W. Littleton, who, unfortunately for himself,
maintains the right of the Republicans to expoll
Socialists elected legally to the New York Leg- ■’
islature. >
By the fearful, but obsolete law of Construo*
tive treason, many a bloodthirsty King threw the
mantle of a Draconic statute over as cold-blooded
a murder as any Italian brave ever committed,
last century. j
1
Mr Littleton is a Democrat: Col. RoosewB
i.- a Republican: but they come together in theuj
patriotic duty of raping the representative prineA.
pie, on the persons of the Five Socialists.
Mr. Littleton went into frenzied gesticulation^
when Mr. Morris Hilquit repeated what is
truism, to all who have read widely:
“.Mr. Hilquit said yesterday,” Tile
shouted, tossing hack his thick, gray hair
as lie raised his face and clenched fist sky¬
ward. “that what is known as treason to¬
day may be law tomorrow. I tell you
gentlemen of the committee that it will be
law tomorrow, if you let traitors make
that law.” )
William Lloyd Garrison was the first greaf
thinker ho who originated.the phrase—“Whai Gw
day is the creed of the reformer, and is dcridod
by those whose interests are threatened, will to*
morrow be gravely will debated in the Senate, and th<
day after, it be heralded as the accepted
faith of nations.”
(Those are not the exact words but they con*
vey the exact sense.)
The words, while not true in Garrison’s epi¬
grammatic form, are nevertheless true in sub¬
stance.
Consider this instance:
Algernon Sidney, an English gentleman, was
a progressive, when the Government was extremely;
personal and Tory.
His private papers were overhauled, and in
his desk was found some written pages, leaning to¬
ward popular self government, and expressing tint
thought that, Peoples were not cm tod for the
benefit of Kings, but that Kings should rule for;
the benefit of peoples.
These papers had never been published: tho
Government spies got them by art illegal search.
Accused of constructive treason, the noble pa¬
triot was condemned on his unpublished papers,
and his head chopped off on the block.
We are certainly going backwards at a head
swimming gait, when the Catholics of the New
York Assembly, subjects or the Italian Pops,
can purge the House of Socialists, and reserved
the doctrine of mental treason.
His Third Club Prom a “War-Mad” Community
Dear Sir: Thin is my third small club, but
to have gathered fifteen subs to the best paper pub¬
lished, as I see it. in a community that is still war
mad. and that always was, an is- and ever will bo
rotten with greed, dees fairly well for a worn and
wee i y oct oge 11 a rian.
I trust you will be spared to continue the
good work that now engages your time and talent.
The whole world needs your work. Wishing you
all success, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Miss. J. T. Lester.
This Friend of Ours Has Set a Record For
Himself.
My Dear Sir: T am doing everything I can
for your paper in thin part of Alabama. My aim
is 52 new subs for 1920. Our people are open for
instruction, and your paper is taking well.
Yours truly
IV. L. Scott.
The Sentinel will false single club
cards a! any time, when they are
bought In clubs of five or more at
$1.50 each.
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