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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1920)
2 THE COLUMBIA Issued Every Monday 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. YVATSON, Editor. ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Managing Editor. Harlem, Georgia, March 8, 1920. When isn’t “Presidential inability”? And where does Mr. Marshall come in i • * * * Congress is beginning to act like a body with brains—and the desire to use them. The whole Asquith family seemed to have landed right side up, in British polities. Wonder if Mr. Bryan gets a rake off for his name and face, as news fillers and cartoon ma¬ terial ! Mr. Hoover says we should be thankful: w>* are, that Mr. Hoover is no longer Commander of the Eats.. Well—hadn't seme one better declare a holi¬ day. to celebrate the fact, that the Monroe Doctrine is again safe? They always do things better in France: to raise some badly needed money, taxes are to be levied on servants and electric lights. France has adopted—under protest from many —a piano tax. Good idea; we know of one or two pianos that should be taxed out of existence. A returned English traveller says the reason the U. S. folks don’t cotton to the English is.—the English can get a drink, at home, and the U. 8. natives can't. Mr. Wilson’s Man-Friday, Baruch “sees early drop in the cost of living.’’ A few interested ones would like to see a dropping of Baruch from his place of power. Mr. Guffey, of Pennsylvania, a Wilsonian Democrat, beseeches mercy and a sola word to, Mr, Carranza, of Mexico, P. 8. Mr. Gulley owns some oil wells in Mex. It will almost pay a man to take a trip abroad; in London a Member of Parliament has opened a shop, where lie is selling good suits of clothes'at $9.50 per suit. And it is now shown that the high cost of sugar was due solely to the fact that Mr. Milson refused to heed the advice of his own appointed Sugar Equalization Board. Drat that man, any way. The retiring president of Cornell University, declares that a man loses his usefulness, after more than twenty-five years in any office. Good thing , ,i . ■ , , , , , «-* . |. 1 $ ♦ $ $ __ Well Mr. Milson -an certainly . boa.-t that he has had the most "Retire-mest Gab,in any Ad ministration ever had The sumving member of the second ( Monet should form a society-and it would lie most exclusive, at that. If Mr. IViIson's physicians permit him t.< i see half the cartoons, and about half the adverse ici.-m of the papers, agazines and books, here and abroad, then it's dollar? to doughnuts that the doctors will be on the job fur some time yet. The Washington ( D. (’.) IV-1 should have a whole corner in the Hall of lame: it is ing a "condensed time table of all the to all the principal eitie-." and the Average Per son can have a look at it, and then know when the train leaves. * It's enough to make a mule laugh, to read of the surprise of these federal grand juries, who find "wheat manipulators have been by hoarding huge quantities of wheat:” and then — gain to i ad that a drive is to be made to re uce the price of food." Where do they get that stuff ? And why docsn t the Federal put a stop t the farce—and the murderous pri ees of foodstuffs? Maybe, as Earl Grey states, the British Col t) - nies are "free communities, independent ns re gards their own affairs." but when it would esinc* to votes concern!ntr the British Empire, atn with a spoonful of sense would know those voi S would lie east solidly 1 >r Great P>r.t : n. And tlio-a votes would swamp the single a to i f the l T . S. A. hi tile League of Nations. THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA. Editor’s Column A facetious drummer, “going out on the road’’ and leaving a new baby at home, telegraphed his wife: "What have you for breakfast and how's the baby?" and the wife, in an equally happy frame of economy, wired back: “Buckwheat cakes and the measles.” So, to those of you who have been bombarding us with cards, letters and telegrams, if you had worded your inquiry as the drummer did, as to what was the matter and how was the Chief, T would have wired back: "Broken machinery and the flu.” We have had a seige—in fact a double barrelled seige, and the health of the editor-in Chief, T. E. W.. Was of course the greatest worry of all. Though he had taken the greatest pre cautions, the flu "got him*', and it got him bad; ‘ was threatened with pleuresy, and it took care¬ n ful doctoring to get him by the threat. Of course, while it was about it. Old Man t rouble got in plenty; the machinery of the plant also suffered from the intense cold, and visions of what might have been, had we kept on running an engine with a fractured pulley, have haunted my sleep. I have referred to the fact that we wore not only in a small town, but on the outer edge of it, and we have spent enough to be income-taxed, in long distance culls, telegrams, and hurry-up letters, for the new pulley. It is frozen up, somewhere between Atlanta and Detroit, Michigan; just when it will get here, we don't know—neither does the man we ordered it from, Last week's paper was on the press, when the pulley absolutely refused to pull; we sent for one of the best machinists we could get in town, and when he had gone into a trance (for which we pay so much per hour), he stated it as hi? solemn opinion that, if we continued to work that there pulley, it might bust through the roof, and ag'n it mightn't; if it didn't, then it would bust through the flat bed press, or it might go the other way and kill a ,perf mly good linotype operator—a splendid young chap who came through the War without a scrap h. and the only operator we have —so we deeid i not to take any chances. Then we did the next best t dug; sent the ready-made sterotyped mats to Augusta, and had the paper run off there. So—save your stamps and my time, and your delayed paper will get to you as soon as Mr. Bur¬ leson's men will get it going. The Chief is better, and has begun to write, but next week's paper will also’be delayed; we feel that after that, plain sailing will be ahead. The M. E. would like to take a day or two off, and be sick herself, but she hasn’t the time in sight. «• The lists continue to reflect the increasing in¬ terest of the people, in conditions as they are. One of the interesting features of today was, a long distance call from the Chairman of the Na¬ tional Committee for the State of Georgia, saying a petition.had been received -with more than the necessary number of signers—to induce Mr. Wat sou to permit his name to go on the ticket in the forthcoming Presidential primary in the State of Georgia. Put Mr. Watson isn't in line for any oilier; he i convinced that his work is doing the work he is < loing. and he will stay at the helm of u . Sentinel. Here are the names of the club senders; and will you see that man Whitten again? Isn't he a wonder? And some of the others are also repeat¬ ing. Mr. Bond is one of the oldest -and best — of our old time friends, and while he i? past sev enty years, he continues to preach lorn Watson, as does also Mr. Jim Hill, whose neighbors ~ tell it on him that he sits in front of his shop with a long h?Hcled 0 ano. an d hauls in passers by with the - Sav . have von rend this week's Sentinel, why ( j, m q vou snhseribe? I'll take your sub." and h e' usuallv avts- it. From Georgia: five cadi: J. M. Bagwell, R. W. Braddy. S.'.V Moore, If. S. MeGahee. S. M. Ih-ck. G. V. W'inn. J. W. Ilol olin. J. A. Faster ■I. S. Collins. J. K. Bradbury, W. F. Meek. I*. S. Collins, L. A. Brake. J. N. Clark. B. F. Lee. S; W. G. Rodgers.. 7: G. IV. Mc¬ Neil. 7:11. N. Sorrow. 10; J. IV. Perkins. fi: R. 11. Sivells 7: and Mr. Whitten with another 9; T. M Wright 7: R B. Gaston, 10; 1Y. T. Chastain, q. w P> Nance 0 II. L. Galloway, S. C., 5o Phillip Weinreich, Kansas, 5; A. A. Brown. Ala., 5; T. IS. Moselcv, Ala., 5: Lev Moore, Oklahoma, 5; IV; A. Wilson, Ga.. 7: L. IV. Williamson, 11. Georgia: ('. J. X. Clark, ti; B. F. Ix'e, 5; II. X. Sorrow. 10: IV. G, Rodgers. 11: J. N. Perkins. <>: <;. \\\ McNeil, s. Alabama, T. B. Moseley, 5. _____ The fact that President Barrett, of the Far ( nion declares all the farmers will oppose || ( , om . „ s u possible candidate for the Presidency, should carry some weight. Hoover caused the average farmer more loss in some of his fool rulings, than they will ever forget -or get over. In proposing in resume relations with the German Universities, the New York Herald call timelv attention to the fact that: the itiunv pro¬ fessors of German birth in this country at the ( mtbroak of the War. were among the first to re n ounce their allegiance to this country “with in suits and jeers." Germany is a long way from be¬ ing a humbled or a ruined nation FREEDOMS VANGUARD (By Grover C. Edmondson.) I take this opportunity to have a heart-to heart talk with the readers and suporters of The Columbia Sentinel. For no word act or deed of mine in the inter¬ est of liberty and justice have I charged or re¬ ceived financial consideration, large or small. My interest in this growing publication is because I know it to be the mouthpiece of Free <lnnes Vanguard. The little vanguard blazed the trail for great and lasting reforms—reforms in the interest of Liberty and Justice—beginning with the Ocala platform. Times were hot then: partisan politics never grew warmer in the history of this Republic. The meanest political slanders were circulated concern? >»g ‘be little vanguard: their principles were de nounced by an ever subsidized press: their leaders were held in hatred and contempt: many of the bravest were foully murdered, but. their banners were not dipped before the enemy; no, not once, did they cringe before the emny. A brave and fearless leader had tendered hi services to this little vanguard. This leader was from the common people; he knew and understood their thoughets and their hardships, and the leader, just as the multitude, thought these hardships were the natural results of abuses in government. Your leader was one of the great lawyers of the day, not even Toombs or Hill, in thir palmiest days, ever excelled Watson at the bar: he sacri¬ ficed a rich law practice to blaze the way for these reforms. He never asked a dollar for himself. He willingly sacrificed his seat in Congress in or¬ der to serve his people; I say he sacrificed it lie cause Mr. Wjitson could have remained in Con¬ gress throughout his life if he. had consented to serve there as a democrat. With his talent, his capacity to do things, his ability to meet any man on any field, he could have surrendered those God given instruments to corporation kings, as Joe Bailey did, and as many others do now, and all the powers of earth could not have removed him from Congress. But his sympathies were enlisted with the poor and the opressed of tliis great country and nothing could induce him to desert his people. Many, many a time did the enemy assail him and many a time it looked as though the enemy’s ad vantage through susidized newspapers would grind him to the dust. In the darkest hours of the storm not a single cloud of despair spread over his countenance. His answer would be: "Our cause is just, and we Shall never be abandoned by heaven while we show ourselves worthy of its aid and protection.” Noble words of a noble man! The fight was won, and the reforms, one bv one, found a place on the statute books of the Na¬ tion. When W. J. Bryan was speaking for an open saloon, Walsi n wrote into party platforms de mauds for pjrohibition. When Woodrow Wilson was writing books about th<' glories attached to the burials of Amer¬ icans in England, Watson was preaching Ameri¬ canism from every stump. Mr. Watson never expressed a desire to he b;;p J in England. I! oodr< to HV/sew did. After being defrauded out of a seat in Coir gr<ss. he picked up an idle pen and wrote books wl orein he preached the gospel of the poor; his words found readers everywhere, and in foreign la ini-, they were read by older heads and taught in public schrols to the young. In order to reach the people he launched the Jeffs. weekly and monthly periodicals, 1 nt i the.-e he put ten or twelve years of his life and fifty thousand dollars. He continued to preach the gospel of the poor. Hailed into court by the irisblieus Knights of Columbus, he preachd the same gospel before a jury of twelve men, resulting in hi? vindication. Wherever and whenever assailed, indifferent to time or occasion. Mr. Watson preached that gospel of the poor and it never failed to win in an open contest, before impartial men and women. During the Underwood-Wilson campaign in Georgia, 1 went to Atlanta to appear before the Court of Appeals, accompanied by a brother law¬ yer from Quitman. I supported Underwood in that campaign and my brother attorney supported Wilson. Prof. Wilson was to speak in Atlanta that night and my brother attorney prevailed upon me to go with him to hear Wilson. Returning home the next morning we learned that Candidate Wilson's private car was attached to our train, the candidate enrout? to Macon, Ga. My friend suggested that we ramble back to (he private apartments of Candidate Wilson arid take a sniff or two of royalty. The train stopped at some town for the candidate to be seen by the multi¬ tude about the depot and when the train departed a citizen of that town jumped into Mr. Wilson's ear to have, a chat with the two-headed calf. This Wilson enthusiast reported that Georgia looked doubtful for Wilson because of Tom Watson Whereupon Mr. Wilson remarked: "It is strange that such a pernicious influence cannot be removed from Georgia.” It ss earnestly requested that all Setters, money orders and business communications be addressed The Columbia Seniinel P. O. Box 393 Thomson Georgia In 1917, when President Wilson had asked and received from Congress unlimited war powers, lie found his opportunity to remove from Georgia, “the pernicious influence'’ of Tom Watson. He scrapped into junk the Watson publica¬ tions and thought he had silenced that “pernicious influence’’, forever. Truth crushed to earth has a strange way of coming back to life. After being kicked and cuffed about Georgia, while attempting to make public speeches against the Wilson programme, I found myself railroaded into the army and shipped to France in a cattle boat. One morning the mail brought me a letter from Thomsen. Ga. I discovered the contents to.be a note from Mr. Watson and a copy of The Columbia Sentinel. Among other items he said he enclosed the paper to which he contributed articles, and at the bottom of the note these words: “Everything about the place mutely reminds me of my children.” In spite of the destruction of his two papers by an administration personally hostile to Me. Wilts on, and despite the loss of his children, this great and noble champion of the poor could not be idle when the enemies of Freedom and Justieq were at work in these United States. The Columbia Sentinel gives the common peo¬ ple of this country the opportunity to receive the benefit of Mr. Watson’s high ability as a statesman. His circle of readers should be increased to the high-water mark. That can he done provided those friends of the cause of Freedom and Justice are willing to give a few moments of their time, I appeal to those friends to spare no effort. If this great nation is to be saved from the fate planned for it by the enemies within the gatef not a moment can be lost without hastening the destroy t day when organized wealth will the libew ties handed us by the triumph at Bennington and the glory of Saratoga’s field. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Would Swap His Hat— If He Had To—For The Sentinel. Dear Sir: T am snding you our greetings bjj a renewal of our sniscription to The Sentinel. W>(| have become so much attached to your weekly ts* sues (the only news) that if we had to do without our hat, or the Columbia Sentinel we'd just g« bareheaded, and read the news. Just a short lis$ from Union Point this time, others will follows, Some are secret disciples of Tom Watson, too stub* born to own it, but always glad to borrow out} paper. (Why ?) With the greatest issues t.hej World lias ever faced pending, and new- oness coming, we need the fearless counsel of the great¬ est statesman and commoner in America to tell ns about it, and Tom will do that through this cam¬ paign—von bet! Enter our names carefully, an<J let "er roll. Ga. A. P. Rainwater. One of Our Lady Friends Write Us. Dear Sir: Here comes another club; we jusfi can't do without The Sentinel, it is the only paper that we can get any truth from. I just can’t sea why the people can't wake up before they fall oxer that great precipice. We came to Thomson the 5th of September, and consider it a red letter day in our lives. Hurrah for Tom Watson and Grover Edmondson. May God spare you many years to tight our battles. We don't, want to miss a copy of The Sentinel. With sineerest regards from (la. Mrs. J. E. Miller. My, my: the new Secretary of State is a “Wet." He and a friend got mad in a New York club when they couldn't get a drink, and the friend gave a dinner to the Secretary in Washing¬ ton, to make up—for the lack of the drink. “THE TRUTH ABOUT MEXICO T * You won't find it in the Capitalist Press. You won't find it in many Radical * papers either, for they have not access to % the sources of information. But you will find it in CALF'S < Journal of Revolutionary Communism which is published in Mexico City by Linn A. E. Gale, American Editor who went to Mexico becouse he didn't believe the, recent war was waged for democracy. Some of Gale's articles have been: “The Communist * Party of Mexico, “Who is Financing Diaz * and Villa?", “An Open Letter to the Devil,” “The Mexican I. W. IV.”, etc. GALE'S costs $2. a year and 20c a * copy, American money. No free samples. * Remit by bank draft on New York or per¬ ■r sonal check. GALE’S 1 P. O. Box 518, Mexico, D. F... Mexico
