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SENTINEL.
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Second Class Matter, Under Act of
March 3, 1897.
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Thomson address of The Columbia Sentinel
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TIIOS. E. WATSON, Editor.
ALICE LOUISE LYTLE. Managing Editor.
Thomson, Georgia, July 25, 1921.
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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.
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“Five admit dry charges” says headline;
as they were all drunk charges, how come
they to he named “dry”!
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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.
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Highbrow declares “conversation between
that two people is not always confessive.” Huh!
man never heard two women conversing
in a beauty parlor.
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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
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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. ' *
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. , , *
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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
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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'.
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