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2 THE COL UMB IA S ENTINEL . Issued Every Monday at Thomson, Ga. Entered in Post Office at Thaihson, 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. THOS. E. WATSON, Editor. ALICE LOUISE LYTLE. Managing Editor. Thomson, Georgia, May 8, 1922. When you want vour paper changed, give both the old and the new address. The change cannot be made without botli addresses. Isn’t it most time somebody throught to, put the Ku Klnx “in the movies?” * * * # Spring gardening and the circus ' take about all the time the fanner has now. * * % * The Secret. Treaty has bobbed up in Ge¬ noa, as it did at Versailles and at the Disar¬ mament Conference in Washington. Food business is reviving, says expert in food stuff's. But it is a safe bet that there art still many who have not benefitted by actual eats, in the revival. # * * * Elinor Glynn, the author, says the only two interests in life ai’e “women and fight ing.” That explains why so many men marry, and thus combine the two. Oh well: mebbe the times are not so hard as we thought; the Government, has felt able to buy a new yacht for the Chief Executive, at the “neat sum” of $48,000. » * * * The super-butcher of the Russians prefers to be called “Ataman of the Cossacks,” wlaie! will probably cause liis fellow butchers to saj “ataboy Semenolf.” * r # ft “England keeps United States dark on debt prog'am” says newspaper headline. Am. the other countries are also keeping U. S. dark—about payments of the same. «■ * ft A humane London preacher goes on re¬ cord as willing to condone sleeping in his church, if the sleepers won’t snore, and in¬ terrupt tlie n rmon. • • * • Cyclones, frosts, rains and general up heave ’s will also probably be laid to the Re publican Administration in those Western States which are suffering from them. ft ft ft ft It’s a queer thing to note: the man who went “Over There,” and has a nice job now doesn’t think the Bonus is necessary—and says so. But, if he lost his job, and his buddy got it, wouldn’t there be a change of heart. ft ft ft ft The gust of air that was seen going up from the House of Representatives, sighs represent¬ ed the aggregate of the of relief sent up by Congressmen: T,hey had just learned that the F>ee Seed Bill had passed the Senate. ft ft * ft The sleep of many a Senator and Con¬ gressman is disturbed rnd troubled, by the ap¬ proach of the time, when The Peepul will have to be told \v. they did it. And this covers every step, from voting for undesira¬ bles, to opposing the Soldiers’ Bonus. * * « w The champion hard-luck story comes from a eollege town; two young chaps, having dates with their “sweeties,” sent their evening suits to the tailor. Tailor didn’t appear at shop when the young chaps did: they broke in, and the police locked them up. ** ft ft * Prohibition, lynehmgs, politics and flap¬ pers are some of the best bets so-called preach¬ ers have in their bags-o’-tricks, to keep them¬ selves before the people. If a revival among the preachers could be started and the sense, tional ones weeded out, it would be a fine 9 thing for the Gospel. ft * # ft A private letter from a traveller in Ger¬ many, states that the people there are “taking life very easily, not worrying over anything, and simply waiting for the United States to do whatever is to he done, requiring effort.” 4nd news from other sections of “war-torn Europe”, —at! shows the resolving same beatific state of mind of which is into a “Let Sam dr U” attitude Lhai will cost us much to maintain. A. L. L. THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA. A WOMAN’S UNOFFICIAL VIEW OF WASHINGTON. Life in Washington for the past two weeks has simply been one convention “for *been women only” after another. There have re¬ ligious, patriotic, political and relief conven¬ tions, until the hotel men even, are satisfied. Of course the convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution has been the most important, the most largely attended, and the most impressive of any listed, and it was esti¬ mated that 27,000 were in line as delegates and alternates, when their processions started for the tomb of the Unknown soldier, to lay thereon a wreath from the Order. Next to conventions, the tiling that lias called for most attention, to one accustomed to note the ways of the folk at the Capital, Is the tremendous amount of propaganda that can be circulated, on short notice, in any quantity, and for any length of time. This war-worn word covers, like charity, a multitude of sins, and a short resume of some of the methods and objects may be of interest. Wo have, here in Washington, a hospital known as Walter Reed; it is tilled with the most pitiable wrecks of the A Vo rid War, that it would be possible to get together, at any time or place. Some of the wrecks are mere torsos—no Tegs, no arms, and when shell shook has also been their lot—not much wit It is only fair to say that every tiling that can be done, is done for these chaps. Washington itself considers Walter Reed an institution that calls for some attention, from every one and flowers, fruits, books, pictures, games, amusement f every sort from theatres to an tomobile rides are provided for the men wlu will probably live at that place, until they “Go West. f I It takes a lot of money to keep Waltei Reed going; there are still many things need ed, which the Government hopes to provide, and which the people themselves are willing to give. These men were our men- are still our men, and there are hundreds like them scattered in every hospital in the country, some waiting for llio funds which will give them training, artificial limbs, or permanent hospital homes where they may he eared for. At present Congress does not see its way clear to donate any more money, and the pop¬ ple are bled white—hut that doesn’t alter the professional propagandist from harrowing the feelings of all who look and listen to their 4 l appeals.” ARE WOMEN CONSISTE NT---IN ITICS ? The past three weeks in the Nation’s capi tal, and the adjoining city of Baltimore, wit nessed gatherings of women that stand out as unique in the wonderful history that women today are writing. ' In Washington, the Daughters of the American Revolution—that is, women who are actually lineal dependents of those pioneers who fought the first wars on the soil of tlie United States—gathered in vast numbers, to elect their officers for the coming terms of office. The building in which their meeting was held, is unique, in that it was built by women, for the purpose of liouseing, principally, the meetings of the Order, for preserving records and historic documents, and also as a place where other patriotic meetings might be staged—as witness the meetings of the Peace Conference, all of which were held in Conti¬ nental Hall. The meeting was a splendid success; there were receptions, trips to the many points of historic interest, and even the children die a wonderful part toward the success, in the splendid pageant they staged. Throughout the entire session, there was not a thing to mar the carefully laid plans o< the splendid women who had it in charge. In Baltinmre, the same week, there was a gathering of “Pan-American 41011100 ”—which meant women from every American country— the United States, of North America, the coun¬ tries of South America, and a representation of Great Britain, and all the colonies of the S uited States. Lady Astor—-born a Laughorn of Vir¬ ginia, and married to the son of an American man who gave up his country because the wife of his elder brother had more social promi nance, than did the mother of Lady “ Nancy’s > ■ husband. There was no other reason ever ad vanced for the elder Astor expatriating him self, and his road to the peerage was a rocky one. ITad it not been for the frte- Iship of the then Prince of Wales, aiVi'v, id King Edward VI. there might have been no Lord Astor, and of course, no Viscountess Astor, M. P., to ‘urn the li*ads of the American women with hysteria. the But Lady Astor was asked to attend Pan-American Congress of Women; it was said frequently, in the daily press, that her in¬ vitation teas based fin the achievements of her entrance to Parliament, and the work she had These appeals must cost an immense sum of money, first and last. The devisor of the appeal must be paid; the slides in the moving pictures are hired; I sat through ten minutes of harrowing scenes in a Russian hospital, and* saw wrecks like those at Walter lice* hobbling about on crutches, being fed wit In wooden spoons by blind soldiers, because the fed ones bad no arms with which to feed them selves. And the propagandist reaped, proba¬ bly hundreds of dollars, every time these pic¬ tures were shown. \Ye have been accosted by every bill board that could hold a flaming litli ograph, and our feelings torn at sight, of the living skeleton of a child, inkily asking that we fill its howl with money—or mush. We have had come to us through the mails, propaganda on elegant stationery, which should fells us in elegant English food that our sleei be troubled, and our tasteless, un¬ til we had sent feather beds and. eanued soup to Armenia, Jerusalem, Russia and any other place that the propagandist has been paid to include in his itinery. We were listeners when the Senate passed tlie bill appropriating the money necessary to buy those thousands of bushels of Western wheat, at the behest of Mr. Hoover, this year, to send to Russia. When the wheat was bought and paid for, the propagandists evi dentiy lost interest, as it was shipped on ves¬ sels whose draft would not permit them to en¬ ter the harbors to which it was to he sent, and last accounts were to the effect that thousands of bushels of it had rotted, while waiting for the red tape to be cut, and the wheat gotten out of the hold, and given to the people for whom it had been bought:—and who were pro bably keeping alive by tightening their waist bands a notch or two more. The women in the field of the propagan¬ dists have the men beaten every way from Hie start, and a few laps for good measure, A woman heads nearly every one of the appeals for everything, ami now tlint the political situ¬ ation lias become critical, they are visible with the naked eye, in every movement that means political activity. It is not likely that Washington has 'ver had, at one time, as many really clever women as are now openly mentioned as pulling politi eal strings. The concerted effort to “bring hack Wood row Wilson” is sponsored by women of Demo done for women generally, since. That was very fine, and it is to be hoped that Lady As tor thoroughly appreciates the very great honor shown her. It is said that, since her activities in Par liament began, Lady Astor, M. P., has been a most independent voter and speaker; that she lias ignored partisan rules and moss-grown customs, when they seemed to her to interfere with the things needed in the Way of legisla tion. And here let it be said, the man or wom an who tries to kick over—or under—the es¬ tablished rules of any thing English, has a job ahead, and deserves the plaudits of the universe if they succeed. And that’s that. In our own “House of Commons,” which we call the United States House of Representa¬ tives, we also have one woman member; she did not win her place through the aid of a titled husband, an enormous fortune, nor any great political influence; she was simply a kindly, motherly, far-seeing middle-aged wom¬ an, who had looked at life from many angles, and most of them hard; she was entitled to sit in Continental Hall with that other body of women—the Daughters of the American Rev lution, and her fore bears not only taught the Indians of their day Christianity, but taught them how to be useful citizens. When the fore-bears of Miss Alice Rob¬ ertson were living and working in Georgia— making Christians and citizens out'of the In¬ dians, the As tors had not yet left Holland. When the draft was sweeping the whole country, taking the men and boys from homes, Alice” farms, faetoi’ies and professions, “Miss was conducting a little restaurant in her home town; perhaps the big heart of her ached when she saw some of these boys, leaving home for the first time, waiting between trains, be¬ fore 'taking up a life of which they knew noth¬ ing, and whose end could be but one thing— war in a strange country. Just how many free meals Miss Robertson gave to these chaps, will not be known unless the Recording Angel keeps track of all the free sandwiches and bowls of hot soup am hot coffee, and stews; but of the words of help and comfort, of the words of cheer that she passed down the line—surely the Book wil' have record of these, and since Miss Robert¬ son has been in Washington more than one chap who served “Over There,” has stopped by long enough to greet her, and recall the eratic families, and these movements are so clevely arranged, they are actually gaining ground. The fact that Woodrow Wilson himself ife so seldom seen; that all his communications with the outside world are in the form of let¬ ters or through a third party, doesn’t seem to disconcert the women at the head of the move¬ ment, and now that Mrs. Wilson is to “head the line” at a very important social function staged by the Democratic National Women’s Committee, the ball may be considered as fairly started. Just what it is going to lead to, remains to be seen, but this much is certain: women have taken to politics like ducks to water, and they are going to he felt—whether for good or evil, depends on your own party affiliation. Personally, I am in doubt as to their real¬ ly accomplishing anything. It has been my getod fortune to meet many of the highly spoken ones,•and4o study them at close range; ! do not claim for myself, any great depth of thinking capacity; if you give me a problem, and plenty of time and room, I can usually skatc round the edges of the ultimate answer; . but the ladies I have talked with seem to me to be so hazy as to just what they are after, and so uncertain as to what the}’' will do when they find out; they cling to so many of the old argu¬ ments that Congress has finally disposed of, I could only feel that they were being made to mark time until they were to be used finally, as exalted lobbyists of a very dangerous sort, or kept in a good lmmor by the men members of the party, until it would be time to vote them. T may be all wrong, but this is the feeling T have, after a day spent in meeting women, sitting in the gallery, listening to wlmt others have to say, and summing up for myself. We are, as a sex, especially suspeetible to flattery; to he taken into the confidence of brainy men, and to he told collectively, that we can helm has turned Jhe heads of many to the extent that their thinking is clogged. Maybe, as usual, 1 shall call down the wrath of some who know better than I, the meaning of all I.'have sketched. Ki:‘ to rum it seems that the men still hold the veins, and use the woman only to further those aims, while giving them little of their own to tie to. ' A. L. L. other days. , Just as Lady A star has dared to do what seemed right to her, so has Miss Robertson dared, But the women of her section have not invited her to sit in at any conventions; they ' have not asked that she be included in the gathering of “representative” women, which took women with less than five generations of citizenship behind them. The women who engineered the Pan American Conference, and invited the dele¬ gates, slapped in the face the one woman in the United States Congress, because she had dared to do her own thinking, and vote on at least two issues, as her conscience dictated. Here I will have to be a bit personal: while I have had the very great pleasure of meeting Miss Robertson frequently; while I have seen her in the House; while I have not always agreed with her—and did not agree with her when she voted against the Bonus— I do agree that she had the same right to hold the opinions she did, that I had to hold to mine. The displeasures of the women of Miss Robertson's bailiwick, and of the other ad¬ vanced women who are headed for God-knows where, is based 011 Miss Robertson’s vote and speeches against the so-called “Maternity Bill.” If you ask twenty women just what this Bill is, they will give, in the concrete, such evasive and garbled answers, it doesn’t take long to realizp that few of them really knew what the Bill stood for. Briefly it was this: that the average wom¬ an, preparing to become a mother, did not know how to treat herself nor her unborn child; that the future of the country depended upon the physical fitness- of the coming gen¬ erations; that it was the duty of the Govern¬ ment to take charge of the potential mother, surround her with what the scientific experts said was necessary, and have the child born under the improved conditions thus estab¬ lished. We might take this for an example: a young eouple, poor in money, but living de¬ cently, were to become parents; the prospec¬ tive mother must report her condition to a bureau established for that purpose; she would be visited by a trained nurse, in the pay of the governmental bureau, who would report the surroundings and the physical condition of tha (Continued on Page Three.)
