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2 THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL. Issued Every Monday at Thomson, Ga. Entered in Post Office at Thomson, Ga., as Second Class Matter, Under Act of March 3, 1897. SUBSCRirriON $27oTf T E^TEAR ;^hen sent in clubs 6f 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, Aug. 28, 1922. When you want your paper changed, give both the old and the new address. The change cannot be made without both addresses. Jus 1 what are the clans fighting for-or about in Ireland now? # # * Ireland’s latest, “civil ? 7 war seems to be hardest, on the eivilirn . Russia seems able to start everything hut a stable form of democratic government, If Mr. Hoover has any substitutes for coal this winter, he ought to spring them now. * * * * A “liquor riot” in Celtic Park ran true to form: a policeman, two men and a girl were shot. Even pugilism isn’t as safe as it used to be: a pugilist has just died in New York, after a “successful” bout. # # * * Fashion item for men: vests are to be lower this winter, to enable the wearing of “picturesque, flowing ties. Now that the Muscle Shoals matter is off his mind, Mr. Ford will be able to give his presidential aspirations some attention. # The Strike situation in Massachusetts is f fitting so keen, the editors are beginning to ave fist fights among themselves. * # * * * The Greeks and the Turks are still fight¬ ing in spite of all the peace and uplift flop doodle that has been running in the papers. Senator Townsend's proposed i i scientific tariff” sounds good, hut who ever heard of two scientists agreeing any better than two Senators ? A hearse on the road from New York City to a Long Island village, was stopped seven times by prohibition agents and searched for liquor. * # # # Senator Stanley of Kentucky thinks there is too much “bureauocracy” in our govern¬ ment—which same has also been called ( ( too much business in politics.” Classing a Dutch profiteer with bandits and hanging all of them, is one of the recent, symptoms Russia showed of'looking at things from an independent viewpoint. To make it easier for the “ultimate con¬ sumer,” a New York importer tells just, how much alcohol lias been taken from his liquids. And grain alcohol is still obtainable. As usual, the latest lady-murderess is “young and beautiful,” and the lady whose brains she beat out with a hammer was also y. and b. Hard job ahead for the jury. Other than asking a judge to imprison him for life, a New York woman didn’t want a thing done to her husband. She had caught him stealing clothes “for the other woman.” The British Prime Minister and the French Premier arc to meet, “to discuss moratorium for Germany.” They will doubtless also hand the F. S. some free advice in re refunding the Allies debts. Being written from New England which is Republican -by inheritance—this question is asked seriously: Why the almost total by the N. E. Press, of Mr. Harding as a didate in 1924? A labor organization is “urging labor into politics.” Won't it hurt Mr. Gompers to have any one doubt that labor has not largely been a matter of politi s for some years past? A. L. THE COLUMBIA SFNTTMFL. TfiOM^V, CCC 'CIA. Political Notes From a Woman’s Viewpoint. We have been told “There comes a time in the life of man,” which is meant to make him realize he is to take hold of the oppor¬ tunity offered, and make the most of it. ' The past four or five years have seen changes in the political make-up of this coun¬ try, which makes the old saw particularly ap¬ plicable to women. The time is here, and filled with opportunities, and women must take advantage oi it, for the bettering of the conditions they and theirs have lived under so long. Naturally my mind turns more k> the needs of the Georgia women—the women of my own home State; I am more familiar with the conditions, and most familiar with the political abuses that have held sway for so long. Georgia has always been a Democratic State; she has been as loyal and faithful as a State could be—until the reign of Wilsonism split it wide, and there were white men who dared—and when you say this, in a Southern Democratic State, you say a lot—who dared cast a ballot for a Republican nominee for President. During the World War we had a lot of words coined to suit the upheaval; “camou¬ flage,” “doing your bit;” “carrying on,” and last and greatest, “propaganda.” If you ever expressed a word of sympathy for the German people who were being sacrificed by a power mad Emperor, you were “spreading German propaganda.” If y6u were dissatisfied at the ultimatums of an equally power-mad Presi¬ dent, you were also spreading propaganda of another sort. The word stuck, and it is a good time to lung it into action, and let some of the care¬ less and indifferent note what an abundance of Wilsonism propaganda there is now being used in many of the daily papers. We were, as a people thoroughly “fed up” on the crown prince idea, when we had the in¬ timate view we did of German royalty; while the Germans had Evidently been no more sat¬ isfied with their form of government—speak¬ ing always of the Germans as a people, and not of the Prussianized nobility which could not live and fatten under any other form of government—it wasn’t our business to aid them to change it, once we had nearly gone dead broke in “making the world safe” for the biggest bunch of grafters ever produced by any country; and the home of every one of those grafters was, The United States of America. After the Liberty Bonds had been sold; and the railroads turned back to the railroad companies; and sugar back on the ta¬ ble of the common people; and our country tilled with wrecks of men who had been drafted into foreign service, in foreign countries; and the high-cost-of-every thing had begun to get down a bit; and our Congress realized that it, had been bunked thoroughly—and often, under the Wilson regime, the people themselves be¬ gan to do some thinking without the fear of Mr. Hoover and Mr. Wilson paralysing their brains. Time, as it usually does if given a chance, brought back sense, and it was the open sea¬ son for balloting for a new President. By that time there had been a well organized move¬ ment to put forward the crown prince idea, in the form of the son-in-law of Mr. Wilson; the idea didn’t take, and the rest is history. Mr. Harding had a hard job ahead, when lie took hold, and it has not become easier as the months rolled by; this article is not in¬ tended to criticize the present Administration, but to re-introduce our old friend, Propaganda. The effort to “bring back Wilsonism”; to make our people take note of the effort to re¬ vive the Wilsonian dream of a League of Na¬ tions; the press-agenting that is placing Mr. McAdoo, the son-in-law of Mr, Wilson, as a possible torch bearer for his august father-in law, is one of the easily-read signs of the times. The Democratic donkey is being used as one of the supporters of the McAdoo boom— which seems to have been launched again, too early. In States where primaries are still to be held, or where they were recently held, the Wilsonian cult was used—and at least once, disastrously; Senator Reed won out, in spite of Mr. Wilson’s advice to the people of Mis¬ souri, and the women of the State blind fol lowers of Mr. Wilson; returns seem to indi cate that former Senator Vardanian, of Mis= sissippi is not so fortunate—he will lose in the because of the letters Mr. Wilson had written against him, to the people of.Mis sissippi. It is a new phase in our history, when an ex-President whoso policies were repudiated by so tremendous a majority, could dictate to | States as to whom they should send to the 1 United States Senate, and have the based on nothing stronger than personal d's | like. The pity of it is, the women are the j who are fostering this new phase, and the behest of the discredited Mr. Wilson. Just why is Mr. Wilson being so carefully; kept in the public mind! The most charitable person on earth could not say Mr. Wilson was a well man; he has been aided in getting up from his seat when he visits the theater; he is aided to his car, and into it. Physical in firmity is always to be deplored—but we all know that mental activity in the sick, is un¬ usual. Who is doing the letter writing and the talking for Mr. Wilson, and to what end? The Conference ended at Genoa was a dismal failure—not only because the United States was not officially represented, but be¬ cause the dream, and is really being regarded for what it is—the surety of the United States promising to finance those countries which will engage in war, in the future; said finance to include arms, men and cash. You women of Georgia: do you know that this propaganda is creeping in the politics of the State? Did you know that there are ef forts made to revive Wilsonism,, with its at¬ tendant horrors of Leagues of Nations and all that stood for? Georgia will nev6r be a Republican State; she will roll up gratifying Democratic majori¬ ties in the presidential primaries and elections to come, when the candidates are really men who bear the old Democratic standards; there are several such men in the Senate now—meh who have served there for term after term and who have been honored by their States, with other offices. Some months ago I referred to the dedi¬ cation of a building here in Washington, which was to house a purely feminine political party. I have always regretted the name, “Woman’s National Party,” because that would indicate a separation of the women from the men— and it will only be by co-operation of the men and the women, that better political conditions will ensue. I was asked to aid in presenting to the Georgia Legislature, a “Blanket Bill,” which was to bring about radical changes, and also make for radical confusion. I pointed out to some of the drafters of the bill that no Southern State would adopt it, because of the conditions which exist in the South, in the matter of the negro voters—men •and women. My objections were over ruled; the Bill asked that all women in the State be eligible for any office that was elective; that women rank equally as guardians of minors, that married women control their own proper¬ ty, and the weak place in the Bill was its first clause. Every city, North and South has its pro¬ fessionally immoral women; as there was to be no discrimination, this in itself would keep many from voting for it; then in the South, we have the immoral woman plus the negro woman, and this made an added difficulty in the consideration of the Bill. I suggested the modifications, especially in these two particulars, and I do not know in just what form the Bill finally appeared be¬ fore the Georgia Legislature; it may not have come up at all, but there is need of many changes in our attitude to women, in the State. No married woman owning property should be compelled to give an accounting to her hus¬ band, for the proceeds of that property either as rents or from sales; women should be per¬ mitted to be guardians of minors, on an equal footing with men, and I think they are in Georgia, but they were not in Louisiana, until part of the Blanket Bill had been adopted. We will have to study conditions in each State, before we can demand changes as dras¬ tic as the Blanket Bill devised, and this is the phase of polities that will cause so many wom¬ en to drop out, or lose their interest. Nationally, there are too many women’s parties; there are at least two factions of Dem¬ ocratic women, and they are no more capable of working together than two strange cats arc of eating from the same dish. The House of Representatives is again in session; they have started recessing before they have started to work, ami this will give the members time to look over the accumulated correspondence, and those who still have pri¬ maries to face will be able to strengthen weak places in their fences. There is a tinge of sadness about some o f the members who have already seen the result of the primaries, and their step is not as light nor their interest as keen, as before their de fen I ■ It’s a racking existence—this having to go up for election every two years, and it is too bad there is no way of making the terms of the Congressmen longer—or putting in effect the Recall, and vote them back home, when they fall down ou their promises. A. L. L. (Advertisement.) TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA The Followingi Reply of Mr. Blalock to Mr. Brown’s Suggestion of a Joint Debate Explains Itself. August 17th, 1922. Honorable J. J. Brown, My deaT sir . Your invitation to meet you in joint debate at points to be designated in the several Congressional districts, ig respectfully declined. My observation tor many years has been that joint debates between candidates for political offices change few, if any veftes, and serve almost without exception to emphasize factional political bitterness and strife. In order that there may be no misunderstanding, however, as to precisely what I have said in my various addresses, I have set forth, and reiterate the following charges: (1) . That an economical, business-like adminis¬ tration of the Department of Agriculture, on your part, would have saved the taxpayers of Georgia at least two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) per an¬ num, with much more efficient service. (2) . That when the legislature passed a resolu¬ tion, requiring you to jsubmit a list of employees, giv¬ ing their names, salaries, and expense accounts, you employed an Auditor to make this list, at an expense to the State of three hundred and fifty dollars ($350.), when one of your book-keepers should have furnished this information; (3) . That you employed a State Senator, who was Chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the Senate, at a salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum and expenses; (4) . That the Chairman of the Agricultural Com¬ mittee of the House of Representatives, has two broth¬ ers-in-law on your payroll, as well as himself; (5) . That you appointed an Assistant Clem of the House of Representatives at a salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum, and expenses; (6) . That during the month of July, 1922, you paid your fertilizer inspectors in salaries and expenses, the amount of three thousand, three hundred nine dollars and twelve cents ($3,309.12), when there was practically no fertilizer to inspect. (7) . That five members of your family are on your payroll, beginning with yourself, at a salary of five thousand dollars $5,000.00) per annum and ex 1 - penses; one son, BEE INSPECTOR, at one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800.00) per annum, and ex¬ penses; another son, a student at Tech High School, at a salary of four hundred eighty dollars ($480.00) per annum; still another son, at a salary of .one hundred thirty-five dollars ($135.00) per month; also a nephew, who is recorded as drawing a salary of two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400.00) per annum; (8) . That you have six negro porters on your payroll, drawing as high as eighty-five dollars ($85.00) per month salary, when the other departments in the State Capital pay their negro porters only fifty dollars ($50,00) per month; (9) . That a number of your oil inspectors, after a conference in Atlanta, sent out a notice, calling upon all employees of your department, to send a check for five per cent (5 per ct.) of their salaries for one year, as a campaign fund; (10) . That you sent out a letter to your inspec¬ tors to "see” their Representatives and Senators be¬ fore they left home for the Capitol, as it meant some¬ thing to them personally; * (11) . That of five hundred eighty (580) em ployeer approximately seventy (70) of them are from, Atlanta; (12) . That your advice to the farmers of the State of Georgia in 1920 to hold their cotton for above forty cents (40c) has cost the farmers of Geor¬ gia many millions of dollars. I note in your letter your statement that you ''emphatically and bitterly” deny these charges. I am not to blame either for your emphasis or your bitter¬ ness. The charges I have made in my speeches are true, if the statement furnished by you under a resolu¬ tion of the House of Representatives, is correct and to be relied upon. Respectfully, A. O. BLALOCK. BOOKS BY THOS E. WATSON ON SALE AT THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA. THE STORY OF FRANCE; IIVOLS. Regarded as standard authority in France; has been translated Into French, and used as text book in French colleges. $6.00 per set. Delivered. NAPOLEON; I VOL. Richly llluOrated; also used as a standard work by the French schools. $3.00, delivered. LIEE AND TIMES OK THOMAS JEFFERSON. Illustrated, and written in the interesting style which this author’s books follow. $1.50, delivered BETHANY. The only novel Mr. Watson wrote; covering several years of the period of the Civil War, and afterward. 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