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THE COL UMB IA S ENTINEL .
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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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THOS. E. WATSON, Editor.
ALICE LOUISE LYTLE. Managing Editor.
Thomson, Georgia, May 8, 1922.
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botli addresses.
Isn’t it most time somebody throught to,
put the Ku Klnx “in the movies?”
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Spring gardening and the circus ' take
about all the time the fanner has now.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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