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THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL
Issued Every Monday at Thomson, Ga
THOS. E. WATSON,
FOUNDER.
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Second Class-Matter, Under Act of
March 3, 1897.
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Thomson address of The Columbia Sentinel
P. 0. Box 393.
GROVER C. EDMONDSON, Editor.
ALICE LOUISE LYTLE. Managing Editor.
Thomson, Georgia, Dec. 11, 1922.
It doesn’t take long- for the “radicals”
to be classed as “regulars,” in these hectic
political days.
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The bajid-that-used-to-rock-the-eradle is
now pulling political wires and dropping bal¬
lots in the box.
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Among other things we don’t like Mexi¬
cans for is: some of lliem gather fly eggs, on a
lake down there, and eat them.
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An Atlanta (Georgia) banker says: “The
recovery of the South is no miracle.” Nope;
the miracle is the banker’s vision.
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Making a reckless automobilist attend the
funeral of his victim, is another thing Cleve¬
land, Ohio, has become famous for.
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Queer what a lot of fun the British press
is getting out of the failure of the United
states to collect its European war loans.
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That supposed danger of the Ku Klux
Klan in Louisiana, was, like Mark Twain’s
premature death notice—greatly exaggerated.
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“Turkey for the Turks,” is all right for
slogan, over there; but we wish some one had
adopted “Turkey for Us,” at Thanksgiving.
Miss Pappajudge, of oO 3 ■ was
burt by an automobile; her paoa n als O prob¬
ably for. judge the amount of damages to be asked
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The quickest action recorded in Washing¬
ton last week, was that occuring in the Veter¬
an’s Bureau, when a soldier with leprosy ap¬
plied for aid. He got it.
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We often wondered what some cars did
when we were in them: news item states that
“driver was hurt when car umps curb,” and
I wo guess that is it.
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, Now T that real , dirt fatmers” „
are
fually in the United States Senate, the need
lor Senatorial iarm blocs will no longer exist.
Reuben will tell it direct.
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n the . hotel keeper,
mayor and town mar
shal t of Gallatin, Missouri, all “shot
were,
by bandits, who also got away with $ 4 , 000
cash. Maybe they were peeved at the hotel
keeper’s bill.
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Tammany support in Rhode Island, for a
man who ran as Senator from that State, is
another of the peculiar kinks in this year’s
campaign. And they do say, Tammany has
“organized” Rhode Island from stem to stern.
It we have lo stand for many more of
these, .. ioreign „ .
emissaries telling us what to do
in regard to the League of Nations, we will
soon have an intimate feeling of the emotions
nf the heathen, when we send them our nus
nonaries.
\ judge , with .
1 Congo more than the usual
; nounf ot sense,, says these “triangle” mari
‘I a 'airs must he broken up. If the judge
ouhl make all three of the triangle live to
■ ’diei lor about a year—the cure would he
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1 lie , lady . member ot Congress,
Mrs. JIuck,
who was appointed to fill the unexpired term
< ' her late father, Congressman Mason of
1 hums will ho succeeded next March by a
mVi'.i i° s °" Wf,s VU 'pealed, n n ‘""lar and the
,u ‘ ‘ ' " s Ib'riolore. I
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'UiVU:: 'FI" who...
t in. ,1, nee i> still mta< t—says < apital
u ! t h(v welcomed m Itussiu. Hut he ran
jcarcelv be expected to forget the time the
I nitcd States slammed its .doors to the Rus
- an capital asking for admittance, for Aineri
can goods.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA.
A WORD or two about the movies.”
If you have been sick, and suffered a lot
in other ways, you are more than apt to wel
come any form of diversion that will not call
for much mental effort, and it was because I
had been sick, and had suffered in other ways,
that 1 was “induced” to go to a picture
There was a large, fat, expressionless man
who evidently was the star of the
1 thought I knew what woman’s vanity meant,
but never had I seen such eye-rolling, such
“majestic” stalking; such posing, such kissing
of a heroine, with her back to the folks looking
on, but his “full face” smirking—but I’ll do
something descriptive! to the type-writer if I try to get
fcoy more
Any way; the fat one was supposed to lie
a sheriff; he was pictured on about five bun
dred feet of film, with what looked like two
flower pots full of growing stuff, in his arms;
the Bad Man broke loose in a saloon, (but all
I could see were bottles with straws in them,)
and the fat sheriff walked up to the Bad Man,
and told him—with not a shift of the flower
pots, to drop the gun. Maybe the Bad Man
thought the flower pots were new kind of
weapons, for he dropped the gun, and got off,
but in some way got back, and shot the place
full of holes.
This must all have happened B. P.
There was a dying man; an adopted daugh
ter of the dying man; a funny little man la
belled “Doctor,” but he can play clown parts,
I’ll bet. K ,
The villain was a State Senator (1 know
a couple of these myself); he had a son with
an undershot jaw, and a blood shot eye, and
a bad manner generally.
There was a newspaper ruan who owned
the paper; he liked the ladies, and his opin¬
ions were for sale, for a consideration—usual¬
ly a lot of it, too. This newspaper man
“stood in” with the State Senator, because of
a very pretty daughter the Senator had, and
with whom the Sheriff was also in love.
“The opposition” wanted the sheriff to
run against the State Senator, and he was a
regular Barkis for willingness.
The Bad Man killed the adopted daughter;
when, how or why, we never were told, but
there was certainly some excitement after that.
The Sheriff gpt after him; he swain down
the thing they float logs to the mill in—flume,
I think they called it; he went into dark cav¬
erns, he shot under water—wonderful guns
those movie people have--and finally he
Emerged to the men waiting on the bank,
dragging the Bad Man by the hair. Of course
they were all wet and messed up, but that did¬
n’t matter.
The State Senator was building a hospital
—in order to get more votes and keep 1 he peo¬
ple from finding out how much money lie was
making by being at the capital; the Sheriff
took the wet Bad Man there, and as soon as
the Senator heard of it he wired him—phoned
him 1 mean, to get out and take his criminal
with him, or there would be murder done.
There was a “perfectly elegant” picture
of the sheriff—full face and life size—standing
in front of the telephone in the hospital; there
was another full face—seated at a desk—
where he was trying to puzzle out why things
thusly; there was another—full hack—
as he stood at the head of the stairs when the
Beautiful Heroine conies to see him; there was
another of him as he tried to get; the foolish
nurse to stay on the job and nurse the Bad
Man, who had been put to bed evidently in all
his wet clothes—but 1 he nurse was obdurate,
and took her hat and coat and heat it down
stairs.
Then there wasi another picture of the fat
sheriff as he tried to tell the beautiful girl how
much lie loved her—he must have been telling
her that, but we couldn’t see how she took it,
as her back, as per usual, was toward us, but
his eyes were constantly rolling to Heaven, as
he made his vows.
In the meantime, the Bad Man, bereft of
NATIONAL LEGISLATION IN THE IVIAKINGL
* By Fred Pace.
V aslungton, rii 1 ). f. In a conversation with
—
a high salaried employe of the Republican Na
tional Committee he said to ine that, if Presi
dent Harding did not put his Ship Suhsidv
through he would go down into history as
weakest occupant the White House ever
It reminded one of the old bromide: “It’li
be hell if he do, and Hell if he don’t.”
Anyway, the Administration is saving all
of its cards with this end in view.
The passage of the bill by the House
to be expected. The Western Republican
hers of the House do not show 11 same
pendeuce as their hrotlnvi iu the Senate.
I hen again, under the 1 les of the
In hmitntinn of doWo.ie nnauiKia i )v -
1 vote, which, of course, is impossi le in the
I lio ])rosoi )1 rules of 1 l»o Senate provide
that debate may be limited with the approval
of two-thirds of the members voting.
A majority of the Senate is undoubtedly
in favor of the passage of the subsidy accord
| ing to tin* current polls that have been taken.
nurse and licker, was having some wonderful
fits in bed; ft must have cost the movie people
a lot to pay for the bed linen and things these
Bad Men mess up, when they are dragged
and dirty, to clean hospital beds, after shoot
nice little Adopted Daughters.
Well, any way, the State Senator was
worried; his son was getting drunk;
the Bad Man was getting worse; Daughter
was getting more and more in love with the
fat sheriff, and the mob was finely getting
restless at the lack of action on the part of
the sheriff.
So—the drunken son of the State Senator
climbs on the har—even if it was A. P. (After
Prohibition), and urges them to “do their
duty like men.” Which prompts all of the!
mob that could get a running start to get un-!
der way for the hospital, where the poor old
Bad Man was still having fits, and the daughter.! Sheriff
was still kissing the State Senator’s
The little clown doctor beat the mob to
the hospital; but he couldn’t get in a word to
the affectionate pair, edgeways; the mob ar
rived, they heat at the doors, the beautiful Bad! j
Daughter vanished, ditto the doctor, the
Man gave one last kick to the bed clothes and
rolled his eyes horribly, and the Sheriff got
another full length, shooting with both hands,
at the mob that was heating in the papier!
mache doors of the hospital. !
I don’t know how it ended; I shut my
eyes until the picture showing the trained
elephant and the educated baboon and the I
trained leo-oards came on
But 1 made a vow, and that was: never
again will I waste niv precious eve sight look
ing at such drivel as that T have tried to dc
S(>r ij )0
T do not ask: < i What is the matter with
the movies?” !
What 1 ask is: “What is the matter with
the people who make it pos ible for such hunk 1
as this to he run, in citv after citv, dav after
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day in our country?”
I have no quarrel with the amusement
that means a great deal to a great many peo¬
ple, but T wonder why any one ever objected
to the old time “Dime Novels,” and
plots, when things like this which T have tried;
to describe will fill picture theatres for hours
and hours, days at a time.
What a pity there are not some of the real
producers, with money enough to take a chance
at giving us Shakespearean plays, in this in¬
teresting form—for I regard this as one of
the most interesting forms of drama.
There are so many wonderful classic
plays that would appeal to a public not vet !
drawn to the picture houses, by the offerings
of the class named.
It lias been said—-and I firmly believe
with good reason—that few of the more promi¬
nent women connected with the moving pic¬
ture industry as “actresses” have a very high
order of intelligence. ■
This should include the men; the efforts
some of the prominent have made to be
seriously show that the people themselves
ject to the class of stuff they are obliged to j
give.
Senseless risk; living in air plain s; leap- 1
mg Imv trom I'nmi one mw. tiaiu triin to anotiiei, ilnlmi- doing ‘‘vlimt,”' stunts
that once were only shown at a circus—all this
tends to lower the standard of what might
.one of the most wonderful agencies in educat
ing our young. Ulld our Ignorant, to an appro
ciation of what is really fine and good in
'
drama. j
Reform is a word most of us get red-eved,
at; bu 1 there need he no use ot tins word, li
the people who finance these wonderful pic
ture dramas, will educate the people who pay
to see them, by giving pictured plays that
least have the saving grace of intelligence
them.
I’ll finance a petition to the .extent of a
dollar, if any one will start one to the manu¬
facturers of the pictured drama.
A. L. L.
But when it comes to getting two-thirds to
vote for a limitation of debate that is an ou
tirely different matter.
Under the rules of the Senate a member
speak not more than twice on each le-is- 1
day on the same matter. Uf course he
Senate may recess instead of adjourn, and
tend one legislative day over several weeks,
was done when the Fordney-MeCumber
hilt was under consideration, ' hut that will not
Members matters greatly.
are permitted to offer an un
number of amendments to bills,
each one may speak twice on the same amend
nient, so between the Democrats who are op
tiie bill and the
ris opposition, filibusters from Filihusterville
llw; Me, of Man* willjmibal.ly a n-lvo .itl
tins supreme effort ot Mr. Harding’s gone to
iiaught.
The Administration, it is thought, would
not Sixty-ninth object particularly to an extra session of
the Congress, if the ship
bill does not go through, but one without the
subsidy, which seems the best bet now, will
mean a thorny legislative trail for Mr. Hard¬
ing- kept
The Dyer anti-lynching bill was not
before the Senate long. While ....... Senators
Shortridge, Lodge- and Sutherland were anx
for its passage, a solid Democratic oppo
sition of both Southern and Northern mem
bers waged a successful filibuster against it.
The Democrats had the support of
Senator Borah and also unexpectedly that of
Senator Wadsworth in fighting this” bill,
Mr. Brewfon's Booklet On Some
Famous Watson Law Cases.
]» T b.» booklet'i'‘Tire , , , , , ifp , m Tree m Tom Watson’
. Gff on le
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bar, has placed on the market, a sketch is giv
eu n ! or< „,, 10 , cases ,, le , te . ena or ,
8 ?“ had f takt ' n P art 111 than of hls llfe S ener *
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11< T v0 ume e l n Gies
oi V , , , o Senator . , friends, . because ..
y i um > le s o
i le prominence given the case,-, at lie line,
aXJ ^ s / 10a ’ l<mi Matson, the lawvor, m a
11108 111 ^wate the light. of U-t, - or
unng campaign w “® n
. repudiated \\ ilsomsm and sent .lr.
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son to the Uaite d b Jf tos ^ nate > Mr - Brewton
TT as a.reporter tor ff the Atlanta A Geoigian, an
Mi'- M atson remarked, on his visit to At an a
to /?' us s Pf akai !? eiigagement at the giea
uuditonum, , that Mi. Brewton s fuend y a i
? ude m reporting his campaign, had been o
va,ue -
following that . , Mr. r Brewton _
campaign,
wrote to Senator Watson for data dealing
W1 * 1 ' ls in mder cases and sidelights on
! 118 I K)lltlcal . activities, . for the purpose of wnt
mg a magazine sketch for one of the Metro
ffoBtan publications. ,
►Senator Watson s death was announced
from W ashington before Mr. Brewton complet
ed ,ns magazine . articles, and he decided to
Preserve the material furnished him by the
late Senator by putting it in “The True Tom
M atson. 9 »
it is not a biography, and the author does
not claim that it is a life-sketch of the McDuffie
It is a splendid review of Iris career as
lawyer, orator, statesman, historian, and pa
tnoi.
The Sage Publishing Company of Atlanta,
are agents l'or the booklet.
These perfect ladies that blow out the life
spark of their best “gentlemen-friends,” and
then thank the jury for its kindness, telling
said jury that the rest of their life (the lady’s)
life will be spent “in forgetting,” certainly
arranged things first, to keep the gentleman
from remembering,
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The only safe way to play bootlegging,
with the hope of ultimate pardon, is to have
a large family; several persons accused of
infraction of our law have been pardoned
they bad families ranging from a wife
six children, to the woman with eleven
childvon—and no husband.
^ r" gets tj-ie hottest democratic paper
iV IX THE UNITED $l 0 o. We STATES preach 1 real year, demoo or i
vears ror .
racy— the Jeffersonian, Jackson. Tom Watson type.
HORNET is a clapper to a liberty boll, the whole
Ee.‘reiwSLfw a “caS™ “tree*!® Gets*thT pry¬
teers’ goat and puts all the enemies of the people in
the SRmt bo “ t Try our political pun; we make the
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1. President, Harding’s policies.
U. The General Financial Situation.
i :i. Treatment of Soldiers.
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I THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, Thomson, Ga,
