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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1922)
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL. Issued Everv Monday at Thomson, Ga. Entered in Post Office at Thomson, Ga., as Second Class Matter, Under Act of March 3, 1897. SUBSCRIPTION S 2 T 0 O 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, July 3, 1922. When you want your paper changed, give both the old and the new address. The change cannot be made without both addresses. To add to Russia’s run of bad luck, her Ambassador to this country has been wished on her. # # # * A scientist is urging monkey blood for men. Man}* of the .old chaps sc(m to have already been inoculated. All the Congressmen and Senators who are asking for another term, beg their friends to “say it with votes.’’ e » * » Some of the Senators whose photographs have been published by the papers, have libel suits ready to hand. * # * # The mo.-t popular Senator in Washington, is the one wild has mint juleps and a shady piazza to offer his guests. Latest fax returns in the District of Co¬ lumbia show the population at 70,000 mark. And not a vote among them! Realism, has reached its zenith: a marble bust of Our Own Ambassador Harvey is com¬ plete—eye glasses ’neverything. * # * * Some scientists have just “found some in¬ visible sun-spots,” which makes it,-possibly to think come of the women we see. are invisibly dressed. Dry spell discourages tree planters in Utah, says headline. ’Snothing 1 the dry spell in oth¬ er circles has encouraged fjie still settlers and home brewers. The favorite physician among women now, is the one who will insist that Friend Wife be given a trip to the country—or mountains, with all the necessary scenery in the way of clothing. • * «* » The “Lower House” of Congress has, de¬ termined to pack its tin dishes and go home for a spell. Whether or not all of those who are “running ag’in” will come hack, remains to be scon. Tacks, as tacks, are al! right, but when they arc pari of the dough the baker sends in for bread, ir isn’t to be wondered that a suit should follow. Man in Washington thinks so—and it was his bread. Canada seems to he having a hard time to keep undesirable aliens from settling in too great numbers, within her borders, Which shows that Canada is learning her lesson from the United States, in time. No matter how much 1 rish-Americans, and American-!risk may sympathize with |ho Irish in Ireland, the shooting of a man to death, from the rear, on h!s own door step, will make much of that sympathy run cold. If tlio Powers that guide the fortunes of the Disivict of Columbia would make laws for tiic traffic li at would be based on common sense, there would be fewer fatalitii One way streets” should have one class of traffic. Now that women arc to retain their native citizenship- no matter into what country they may marry, it won’t he long before leave will he granted >11 to also retain their maiden name. One is just as logical as the other. Georgia ••me of the richest States in the Union, wasn’t particularly commended at the recent Veteran's Re-union in Richmond, for Lor treatment of the. Confederate Veterans, Florida pays her Vets a monthly pension of $25, cash. Georgia pay-, irregularly, as she can. $100, a year, and it is proposed to lessen Is Southern sentiment only a dream? A.L.L. Trie COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA. VIEWING WASHINGTON FROM THE SIDE LINES - ' BY ALICE LOUISE LYTLE. Insomnia is a horrible visitation, but if you have become used to it, you may develop a phi¬ losophy that enables you to hold to your reason, while the world about, you is asleep. If you live in a crowded, noisy city—as we are doing at present, you begin to wonder at the various night-noises you hear, when the clock’s hands have travelled past midnight, and there are still people abroad. So—while I have been suffering one of the attacks in more than-usual severity, I have de¬ veloped the philosophy I recommended to oth¬ ers. You can toll the theatre crowds as they comp to the hotels in the block: comment on the play, the actors, the supper afterwards, and the “ good-nights ” as the groups break up, help to p s fifteen or twenty minutes. Then the rare sound of a horse’s hoofs clop-clopping on the asphalt, sets you to won¬ dering what sort of vehicle will heave in sight; some times it is one of those little carriages of a other day—now used only by honev-moonors and sight seers to the capital, and in one in¬ stance the occupants were two gentlemen who seemed lost to the world, and who were ev¬ idently in no hurry to get to where they origi¬ nally thought they were going. Comes then an ambulance; though the streets are empty, the demon driver seems to think it necessary to raise as much racket as though the streets were crowded, and traffic difficult. One’s mind immediately follows the ambulance, and usually the picture is as grewsome as one’s state of mind can paint. Then, along comes the inevitable joy-riding hunch; it isn’t always their own automobile they are in, and from the sound of the voices, {lie boot-leggers have had the party before they passed; 1 never could understand just how a “ribald jest” sounded, but from the laughter, I imagine some of that brand is let loose. The voices are mixed—men’s and women’s, and the hootch evidently was proportioned the same way. Early in the morning a negro boy about six¬ teen goes by, whistling; it may he his whis¬ tle would have a disturbing influence on me, if I. slept as the rest of the world is doing when he passes, but [ enjoy it, and from the time he conies within earshot until he passes, I hear al least two of the newest song-hits, well rendered. The market wagons and the milk wagons begin to pass, just before dawn. I have tried in vain to see the drivers of the market wagons, but they are invisible; the horses go at a steady walk, never deviate from it as long as I can hear them, and are evidently so well trained, the MY “AGGRESSIVE AND RESTLESS SEX.” Last week’s papers were filled with items in which women were doing—or preparing to Go—things that were nothing short of revolu¬ tionary. One of the most pleasing items to note was that in which it was stated that a woman’s or¬ ganization had been formed, which was to de¬ mand of the United States Congress, better laws, and an enforcement of many laws that were now ignored. To do this, the women would, of course, have to co-operate with the men—and their chances of succeeding are high, because of this co-oper¬ ation. Other items were to the effect that women were campaigning in several States, for seats in the Senate and in Congress; several of the ladies were basing their claims on the relation¬ ship they bore the former holders of the offices —some of whom wore removed by death The idea of perpetuating a family in office —on the crown-prince plan, seems to he grow ing; it is in the memory of all of us, what Indig nation was expressed, when Mr. MeAdoo was spoken of as the “successor” to his father-in law, Mr. Wilson; the American people did not tako to that idea at all, and while it is whispered that Mr. MeAdoo is now grooming himself, in California, with an eye to Presidency^ announcing ns Deir-> ratic candidate for the it will be "on his own 1 1 and not with the halo of success- 1011 . dust how a woman could consider herself qualified to run for Congress, because she hap¬ pened to he connected by marriage or birth with a former incumbent in the office, is another of the new lines of feminine reasoning that I am unable to cope with. But at least two widows and one daughter are basing their claims on that. In one State, a man and his wife ran in tin primary for the same office; f have not kept up with the race, but think the wife won. Tn another, a lady is running against a per fectly good Congressman, and when interro gated on some very important pending legis I lation—which she would have to take up as soou driver has a nap before he reaches the market. Great baskets of farm produce are tied on the sides and back; the market opens at day break, and it is possible the wagons leave the farms at sunset the day before. Then the milk bottles begin to jingle as the milkman carries his bottles from house to house, One of the hotels near us must use many bottles, as they bang and clamp on the way to the eleva¬ tor in. the sidewalk. Then the “empties” are brought back, and this particular dairy loses much profit in “breakage.” All of which develops a good brand of phi¬ losophy—making one feel that sleeplessnesss isn’t the worst thing on earth; having a job that compels one to*get up before night has passed, beats it. The signs of weariness are visible on more than one Senatorial brow, but the end is not yet in sight. Wrangles over this-and-that take both time and temper tolls, and they are not at all rare. Summer suits are in evidence, and more than one manly form is draped in the cool palm beach, or the richer pongee, with the accom¬ panying white shoes and Panama hats. If you think the wearers are indifferent to the effect, watch them when they get near a glass. The flapper who is powdering her nose at all times, has nothing on some of the Senators when they pass a glass—the effect in each instance being to make the passing world look once again at the perfect picture. The open-air restaurant is again being op¬ erated ; on a balcony outside the Senate corri¬ dor some small tables have been arranged, over¬ looking a most pleasing picture—the gardens of the Capitol. The favored few who dine hero must gain from eating under such ideal aus¬ pices. The hotels are crowded, for this is the sea¬ son of the Personally Conducted Tourist, the excursionist, and the Newly Weds; these latter are spotted at once; their trusting and innocent admiration of each other, and afterward their appreciation of the scenery, are too palpable for any but the hardest-hearted to ignore. She, of course, is always arrayed in the Very Latest—whether that was taken from one of the style books, or invented by the Home Dressmaker. Shoes, hats, suit radiate new¬ ness, and He is not a step behind in sartorial array. New shoes that shine and squeek—and which must be agony to wear on the long walk¬ ing trips they take, are as much a sign as the as she made here race, she declared she had given it no thought, for lack of time. That shows about the average of the femi¬ nine mind, in the making. It is true there are ex¬ ceptions—where women have advanced most rapidly, and are capable of handling all the big questions, as well as a man; but it would be folly to say all of the women who have offered for public office, are iu this class. Just now there arc many most important public questions which will have to bo settled; with the voto of women looming now as a most tremendous asset, those questions will be settled by ballot, and it is going to take much earnest study on our part, to grasp the importance and value of the measures, and vote for their pas¬ sage. In the Senate there have been several pro lin>inary skirmishes on the worn-to-a-frazzle Soldiers’ Bonus. Eor myself, noting the conditions of so many of those chaps who came back from “Over There”—minus in nearly every ease some of Hie attributes that made them 100 per eent cannon food, I am willing to gb almost any length, to make their conditions easier, and ro move from them any stigma that could he eon at rued as charitable. Senator Watson has shown, in more than one speech, that Lafayette, George Washington and other famous soldiers, received a bonus in some shape from their grateful peoples. Their fights were for their homes, their peoples; our men fought a German officers’ war, and gave all they had, because they had to, not because their heart was in it. It is folly now to say the late war was one that America had to go into; it is just as im¬ possible to conceive Germans invading this country five years ago, as it is impossible to conceive it gow. The war with Germany and the rest of Eu¬ rope had been brewing for many years—in fact since the last European war. All the yiiffie we had to listen to about “making the world safe for Democracy” was literally translated into making it safe for the huge businesses, who other visible ones. But—bless their hearts! What is a corn or two to the fact that We saw where Dolly Madi¬ son lived, and Mount Vernon, and the White House, and maybe a glimpse of its gracious Lady; and Congress in session, and a word may be with the Representative or Senator from Our District. All of this is to go down in the little Bride’s memory book, while the Bridegroom’s part will always be to remember the cost. Some of the easing places are recovering much of their supposedly lost glory, now that the populace that “eats out” either carries its own hootch, or gets along without it. There is one place on the Avenue, really should be known as “At the Sign of the Lobster,” because of the image of that favored crustacean on its outer wall, where one may get a meal that carries one hack to the days of before-the-last-war. A “Business Man’s Lunch,” at which many others than those specified eat, is served in splendid style, for 75 cents. In the old days, “B. P.”, beer used to be served with it, and now you can get what looks like beer, with it, but it was odd to note tl^at most of the men drank either butter-milk, or one of the iced drinks—iced coffee being a groat favorite. This last named may not be so well known, and it should be more popular in the South than it is. Served with whipped cream in a tall glass, it is decidedly one of the coolest looking beverages served. The swimming season is on; at the Tidal Basin the usual beach has been made ready, and here the whites and “coloreds” may he found bathing in great numbers. A 11 effort has been made to separate the two races, but it doesn't seem to have thoroughly succeeded, Some startling styles in bathing suits are to be seen there, and added to what wo see in the theatres during the winter, very little is left to the imag¬ ination of what “the human form divine” is, in the “altogether.” Automobiles are here by the thousands; there isn’t a bureau of any Department in the Government service that hasn’t a line of ma¬ chines of every make, waiting for their owners; the fool law which is still effective, gives some of the Department workers an hour more of af¬ ternoon—which they very reluctantly took from their preferred hour in the morning. The parks, play grounds, tennis courts, golf links, riding paths are crowded every minute after three thirty, by these workers. A healthier, happier, better-dressed lot of people could never be met anywhere, and life to most of them seems to be very interesting. A. L. L, profit always by war. The conditions that those United States has had to face, since this last war, is a condi¬ tion that will leave its mark for many years to come. There are, in political office now, men who would welcome any excuse, at any timo, for an¬ other war. It is these men that the women of the country must make a study of. When the time eomes for a show-down, it will be known that many a man who kept his seat in either House of Congress, did so by the grace of the ignorance of his constituents, and his own ability as a truth-slayer. Now that there are to be no more “secret covenants, se¬ cretly arrived at,” and we are assured a free press with the free speech that is part of our birthright, the women voters of the country will be the means of cleaning out the old abuses and . compelling a new deal—and a decent deal, at t hat. it is a deplorable fact that the city dwellers, generally, aro the ones whoso votes are decis¬ ive; they, as a rule, do not pay the taxes the av¬ erage country family pay; they have all the ad¬ vantages and none of the disadvantages of the country people; and yet, the country poople show the greatest indifference—especially the country women, to making the effort to regis¬ ter, and vote. If careful study on the part of the women will become a part of their daily life, by the time another primary rolls round, there will be a wonderful story to tell at the ballot box. In the South we need changes more than any other section. Graft, indifference, the insolence of the long-time office holder, coupled with,the dras¬ tic efforts the War visited us with, make it im¬ perative that tlip Southern women takes up in earnest, the clear understanding of the ballot and its effects. Intelligence is always necessary for any new movement, but it will not be impossible for every woman who can read and write to devel¬ op the intelligence needed, if she has the in terest, to show her how clearly her duty lies, in helping her part of the South. A. L. L.
