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2 SENTINEL. Issued Every Monday at Thomson, Ga. Entered in Post Office at Thomson, Ga., as Second Class Matter, Under Act of March 3, 1897. 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. TIIOS. E. WATSON, Editor. ALICE LOUISE LYTLE. Managing Editor. Thomson, Georgia, July 25, 1921. When you want your paper changed, give both the old and the new address. The change cannot be made without both addresses. The jinx 13 still hangs on. as the thief who was caught with thirteen cabbages will tell the world. Many a wily Congressman saw to it that his fences were strengthened, in his Fourth of July orations. # • • • “Five admit dry charges” says headline; as they were all drunk charges, how come they to he named “dry”! * ¥ * * Something we will put off worrying about till the mercury drops: coal production has fallen below its quota for the first week in July. From their demonstrations against anti¬ tobacco and anti-cocktail crusades we must ad¬ mit that the ladies are taking their nevj privi¬ leges seriously. * # • • Highbrow declares “conversation between that two people is not always confessive.” Huh! man never heard two women conversing in a beauty parlor. # # # * President Harding nailed down a lot of women votes when he declared that . * women are most charming at forty,”-—and me,mine self—I'm for him. Japan wants amity, says headline; and she wants Yap, and she wants recognition on several other’ matters—and by and large, Japan wants too much. Lovers beware! A Frenchman with noth¬ ing better to do has invented a metal boot, said to look very “classy,” and not to ho told from the leather make, “until felt. y y Now tli: ‘ we have glorified the slacker prize-fighter, let’s call off the hunt for other slackers, and spend the money on disabled men who fought -‘to the utmost” in the World’s War. J ; Another nature-story-wrecker: English la¬ dy opened an egg, species common lien, and found in the yolk, a fish hook. Which should prove for all time that some lions are am¬ phibious. A • • • % Making hootch is a had business any way you put it, as a Baltimore man will affirm. He had a batch on cooking, and the smoke called out the fire department, who raided the still and confiscated the “lieker. ' * # i* * «*s Whenever you see the big stores frenzily advising you to “buy now and save later,” you can be assured a drop in prices has been seen by the wily store keepers, and they are the one who mean to do the saving. The American Legion says it is not in pol¬ ities, but it swings a wicked lot of resolutions looses whenever any one attacks Ireland, the Roman Catholics or anything else the Legion doesn’t like, that is said by a politician. # * # # Granting that it is impossible for any of the foreign nations to pay their debts to the United States, would seem to be a very strong argument in fax or of monetizing the Bonds bought by our people to raise that money. # # * * Judging from the bottles—48,000 of them —the recent fistfest at Jersey City was not a “dry” affair at all. The bottles were picked up by a junk man who paid $50. for the priv¬ ilege of cleaning up under the grand stand after the fight. • • # • When a convicted negro murderer, in Geor¬ gia, can secure seven commutations of his sentence to hang, it doesn’t, look as though the Georgia negro had such a bad show, after all, does it? And his crime was the murder of a negro woman at that. , , * rm THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GA. A WOMAN’S UNOFFICIAL VIEW OF WASHINGTON. BY THE MANAGING EDITOR. When I first began doing really serious newspaper work, down in Brunswick, Georgia, 30m * >' ears a £°> there were man Y of the un ' known traits of my own sex that T I saw then for the first time. Brunswick is on the sea, and is a beautiful place at which to hold summer conventions, and has always been popular for these gath¬ erings—at one time or another having enter¬ tained about every Secret Oi’der and patriotic gathering that has the convention habit. In those lean days, the matter of clothes wasn’t a very important thing to me, because I didn’t have any “flossy” dresses, and the ones I wore didn’t attract much attention. I cite this, because I want to show what a very great part of a woman’s life clothes are made to play important roles in. There was a very exclusive social club of young men, and their first dance of the year was what placed a girl for the coming social season; if the girl had one or more “bids” to that opening dance, she was sure to be socially popular—and being socially popular is all there is to a young girl’s life in a little town like Brunswick, Georgia. One of the young men who was an im¬ portant official in this social club, asked me if I would attend the affair, and give the club a “good write up”; not being of the socially elect, I knew the invitation was based on pure¬ ly commercial lines, and said I would be glad to go. and to whom should 1 look for the for mgl invitation—which it would he necessary for me to have to get a look-in at the dancers. And the young man gave me what is known now as the “once over”, and said; “I didn’t mean for you to go into the ball room; I thought you might stand on the pi azza and look in the windows; you know you could get i very good view of everything there, and see what the girls were wearing, and I should think that would do. f I My vocabulary hadn’t enlarged then, as it has since, and 1 know I didn’t say very much —but I didn’t give the “write up”. T knew there were a good many -of the girls and women at the dance who would have liked to read my description of their gowns, in my paper the next day, but none of them saw their way to getting me a regular invitation, and that was the very first good wop I received, from both sexes, because of the lack of joyful raiment. Since then, I have not suffered from any lack of the things a woman likes to have —and 1 have enjoyed every year the gathering together of the things I have wanted, and 1 know there is a vast difference in the treat¬ ment accorded me when I lay aside the work¬ ing uniform and don a “gown,” and when I look as though life was more a matter of passing time, than of gathering information. All of which loads to this: For the past month, the lobbies in both Houses of Congress have been thronged with women, dressed in the heighth of.fashion; striking women—that all men and most women turn to look at. Few of these women look like the sort who held little children in their arms, or who would help in the learning of lessons, or who sat up with the little ones while they wore sick and fretful, or who knew much about balanced food values or the thousand tilings the real mother knows how to do. These women were lobbyists—some of them professionals, paid as any other “hired woman” is paid, and some of them were lob¬ byists because they had first become suffra¬ gettes, and knew this was the “regular” way to put things over—by besoming the men who were to be cajoled into voting for whatever bill these women lobbyists were interested in at this particular time. To refer again to my Brunswick expe¬ riences in my profession: at one time there was held a convention of one of the so-called patriotic orders of women; it was a conven¬ tion national in its scope, and I had known be¬ forehand that a very strong effort was to be made to dislodge the woman who had been so arbitrary a head for several terms; there were a number of Southern women in the order, and several of them were probable candidates for the head place. Among the would-be candidates was a woman whom 1 had known when she lived in Brunswick; it isn’t necessary to say more than that she did not know me, when she lived there; her life was laid in different channels, and her coming back to her old home was in great triumph. 1 was shocked out of my usual calm to ceive a call over the telephone from her, wtiich she called me by name, and that I come to her hotel to see her. (For benefit of the innocent, I will say here that call came to me at my desk in the office.) At this time I did not know much the lady’s hopes for the high office, hut I not go to see her until the opening of the vention, and when she saw me she ed me with gushful greetings. More than that: she sent one after of the ladies of the convention to shako baud, tell me what a splendid paper I ft * editing, and incidentally mention the many fine and remarkable traits the former Bruns¬ wick sufficient lady possessed—traits make her the leading which figure alone in were to the association. And that was my first introduction to a woman lobbyist, and I am frank to say they were splendid workers. And the lady got elected. Here in Washington, multiply that old Brunswick lobby of women by five hundred; dress them even more elegantly; paint them a lot more vividly; curl their hair and then feathers even more, and give them a flow of language and gush that would sweep the Ship of State from its moorings, and you will begin to realize what the poor Congressmen and Senators are up against; remember also that none of the Senators or Congressmen are listed as violent woman-haters, and the result won’t be so hard to foresee. The efforts of these women lobbyists to put over the Sheppard Maternity Bill consti¬ tuted some of the very best work in lobbying that has ever been witnessed in the Capitol; there were some women of every age—and- all of them good looking; every Senator was be seiged; his office, Bis hotel, and messages to him when he was on the floor of the Senate even. When we have a trial by jury, it is a well understood part of the law that the jury is not to discuss with any one outside the jury box, the case then on trial; each man lias gone into the case, when accepted as a juror, i with a mind unbiased, a mind open to reason, a mind willing to give the reasonable doubt, and a mind that is his to make up. He is protected from intimidation from either side, and his verdict when finally rendered, if lie has acted squarely up to his juror’s oath is an honest one. To me, it seems the Senators of our Unit¬ ed States compose the highest jury on earth; they go into office with one of the most im¬ posing and solemn oaths ever written; they have laid before them the problems affecting millions of peoples, and their verdict is final— for all the people. Women have pretended that their primary reason for suffrage was to cleanse politics of all that has made it the putrid mess it is—but they go into the getting of votes, with the same tactics—plus all the feminine wiles, that the ward heelers of New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis have been using for ages. Prohibition and woman suffrage owe their place in the Amendments to the Constitution, to the women lobbyists. It, is safe to say that not one out of a thousand women—speaking nationally—were interested in these move¬ ments, and it is safe to assert that many won- 'obyists who helped put them over, rca 'erstood what they were working for. instead of “prohibition,” “temper¬ ance” had been striven for, the results in many ways would have been better—but it is too late to discuss that now. Suffrage is making it possible for women to be quoted in newspapers as saying Hint “in a few years, the husband of the family will share equally with the wife in the care of the family; lie will help do the housework, and sewing and other so-called feminine work will he done, by the men.” When that time comes, I hope the daisies and things will have been waving over my last bed, for “quite some time.” Suffrage is what is trying to put over such hills as the Sheppard Bill, wluclron Hie surface is “A BILL For the public protection of maternity and infancy and providing a method of cooperation between the Govern¬ ment of the United States and the sev¬ eral States.— ? ? Tn a magazine devoted to “Uplift Work, »y there were many items that sickened one, when the first shock of reading had passed. One of them stated that a juvenile court, in at least one large city, found it necessary to enlarge its working force; the cases of juvenile delin¬ quents that came before it had grown in number, and in horror. Two reasons wore given: since prohibi¬ tion, the great mass of foreigners who had always been accustomed to “beer and light wines.” were using the substitutes, and the im¬ morality had grown so tremendously that “out of one hundred eases of girls before the Court, less than twenty per cent were virgins, and the ages were from eleven to sixteen. > 1 The fact that “hard times” had driven a great many of the mothers to work, was also cited ns a reason for the great immorality. The children were left alone, and it was a simple matter for the girl children to fall vic¬ tim to the human wretches who seem ever to be on the lookout for such victims. Suffrage is going to make more women leave the job at home, for the job somewhere else; and the men, relieved of the respoasibil- ities of “providing” for their families, are’ not going It to gain' anything in manliness. is quite likely they will crochet ajacf knit, trim hats, make baby caps, learn tof make fudge and rice pudding in the. home, and altogether revolutionize domestic matters to the extent that keeping the baby in the in* cubator in the winter, and in the ice box in th$ summer, will be strictly father’s job. The women lobbyists, graduates of the suf" frage school, are making all this possible, and they seem to be a healthy looking lot. But don’t think for a moment that tKd suffragettes have not found a solution to thef problem of the babies; they are hanking on tha' fact that there will always be a few of the old fashioned women left, who will bear the ba* bies—and then the Sheppard Bill provides fo£ the attention to these mothers and their babies^, which will be necessary to keep the race going, It is a singular and significant fact that all these new highfalutin’ movements, begin with: the city women; in their calculations, thd they country didn’t women are as much ignored as though! exist—and yet it will be on thd country women that the dependence of the. 1 nation for clean, healthy American stock will rest, and to their credit he it said—theflj have never failed the nation in this or any ofa* er need. l Mr. Sheppard proposes to have boar|tf& and committees, and public nurses, and spectors, and certified milk, and bureaus off officials, for these babies that are to be bprtf ihiS by mothers not too busy to attend to important detail. The nurses and the doeftori# b?Nj are to go round and inspect the mothers^ fore the babies come, and the babies and thljl mothers in masse. If, the doctors Schmalzweri^i and tha' nurses don’t like the way Mrs. or Mrs. Popopolaudillos, or Mrs. Swokodfinski are attending to their children then the babies will be put under the guidance and direction of Hie bureaus and their boards and nurses. ;] Simple, isn’t it? 1! And you could not make a suffragette utJ* derstand, if you talked till the crack of doom, that the influx of foreign dregs is what is fill* ing the juvenile courts, filling the delinquent! schools, filling the reformatories, filling the hospitals with syphilitics, filling the grave¬ yards with little children and babies, filling the insane asylums, and making the United States a blot on the map in more than one card index of statistics. Mr. Harding said not long ago that there was too much business in politics, and too much politics in business. He might go further and sav there was too much paternalism in this government, and the sooner we got rid of it, the better and the healthier we would be. We are placing a premium on poverty, and dirt, and earelesseness and making it easier for the lazy woman and the indifferent hus¬ band to beget children who will never risef above the strata they were, born to, when wef tgke from the parents the responsibility ofi looking after their own. i No woman sympathises more with tha prospective mother, and would help the actual mother more than I would, but at the same! time I would resent the Nation stepping in and trying to take from the municipality, the responsibilities that belong to the municipality. Let us look after the living we have with! us; let ns see to it that each municipality takes care of its own—and makes each indi¬ vidual family lake care of its own—under mu¬ nicipal instruction, if need be, but as individ¬ uals, and not as massed dependents. When women lobbyists are made to uso as assets, their gifts of purely feminine attri¬ butes, to put over such bills as the Sheppard bill, that is the answer to any question we might ask, as to the desirability of those bills. It is quite true that hog serum has been made almost a specialty by more than one State, but it is also true that the man who uses the hog serum takes pretty good care of his family; there are cases of distress afid need in many country sections, but no section will more bitterly light against such measures as the Sheppard Visiting Bill proposes than these country people. nurses, and community nurses are splendid things, but they will take no such enormous sum—and will do far better work—than the highly financed city bureaus, tlmt will be overrun by the foreigners—on whom the cities seem to depend almost entirely for their labor. overworked The new word “normalcy” of is likely to be as many tlie war-time words, but we have more need of normalcy in our family life, than in anything one can see with the naked eye. Let the women get hack to it—and let the men also follow. If the vote is to do anything to help, let’s have the vote, but let’s remember that a home without a vote is of little consequence, com¬ pared to a vote without a home. A. L. L'. . IMPROVER FARMS FOR SALE. Terms: One, two, five and ten.year*. *t -43 .. F. F. DOLLAR, Whig ham, Ga. ’ . ■*'
