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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1923)
/o/. 41 Poor Georgia! x A member of the Legislature writes me as follows: Dear Grover: there . great question is a upon which we agree, and upon which we can work m team—the State Highway matter. 1 take The Sentinel and enjoy it very muc,L Doubtless you know that 1 have been waging' a fight against the extravagance and graft in the operation of the Highway Department over two years. The big dailies, of the State have not re¬ ported one tenth of the exposures that I made in the sessions of 1921 and 1922. Reporters of the Atlanta papers were paid so much per month by the Highway Department, to write for them and not against them. This state cent can be proyed by official record. In the examination made‘by a stacked committee in 1921 it wag found that a reporter of the Atlan¬ ta Journal had been paid this $125.00 without per month to blow the Department; authority of law. Time and again, as a representative of the people, I have tried to get some of the Dailies to print some facts, hut they refused. Since Oglethorpe first made tracks upon Savannah’s banks, there has never been, in any department of government, as much waste, rot and graft as there has been in the Highway De¬ partment. of Judge Gus Howard, former Judge my circuit, has been employed by a big bond selling company of New York, cement manu¬ facturers, truck manufacturers, and road ma¬ chinery manufacturers Georgia. to put over a big bond issue in We must expose them and lick them to a frazzle. Your paper has always fought this devil¬ ish move and I am glad to see that yon are stille striking them heavy blows. I have been invited to make speeches in three good towns and one principal city on this question at an early date and it is ray pur¬ pose to take some shots at them by speech making some time in the spring. \ In the meantime, some facts should be put before the people—some of their graft meth¬ ods, etc., eet. Crossland, the Federal Engineer, got $15, D00 for putting over the Rock Quarry deal at Elberton at. the stupendous sum of $90,000.00. The cement trust is controlling him and the Highway bis continuous Department, and is still no - protest .fo service made. Your paper reaches the people, the masses in rural dis¬ tricts, who ought to know the facts. I have a bill prepared which I will, intro¬ duce at the first possible opportunity next June to force a. change in operations. I will submit my bill to you for publication and re¬ view, if you wish it. With regards and best Sincerely wishes, yours, • E. H. McMICHAEL'. F Representative-elect Marion Co. Mr. McMichael is rendering the tax-payers of Georgia splendid service by uncovering the eo-called Highway Board, which is, more or leBS, a wing, of the National Auto Trust. The Trust has employed Judge - Gus How¬ ard to persuade Georgia tax-payers that a bond issue amounting to 75 million dollars will not cost onr people a penny. equipped The judge is a good lawyer, and he is well North, to lobby for the rich tax-dodgers oj the who pay no income taxes, and whose interest in the State of Georgia is measured by a Wall Street yard-stick. If & Federal Engineer, operating in con¬ cert with State officials, is permitted to $15,000 such of public funds in one deal, what tcould million men pull down if yon gave them seventy five dollars of State bonds? It costs money to hire big Judges of our high courts—to plead the case before' the bar of public opinion and fore the General Assembly. Of course, Judg< Gils Howard will earn liis fee, and the Trust hopes to pay that fee with your money. The Chicago meeting announced that a campaign would be conducted in Georgia this summer, for “better roads.” Why are those Chicago highbrows inter¬ ested in Georgia’s dirt roads? They own the big factories in the where road-building machinery is manufac¬ tured and a large portion cf this propose' issue of bonds would go to the Trust, for its products. In addition, the local representatives, law¬ yers, lobbyists, newspaper reporters, editors, and Federal and State highway officials would draw salaries, fees, commissions, and other emoluments from this big 75 million dollar pot of road money. By the time the “inter¬ ested parties” reached the dirt roads, there would not -be enough of this mouev to fill one rarity in the highway leading from La Grange to West Point, and nobody knows this better than the. elegant gentleman now the head rf (Continued to P&ge TbceeJ r Y A A % 4 ♦ / 3 ' <s mmt Price $1 *50 Per Year ECCENTRICITIES OF NERVOUS PEOPLE By Thos. E. Watson. wasn’t it . Schopenhauer, the German phi ] 0 sopher, who said that the mental dullness a man could be measured by the amount noise he could endure without protest ? Did no t practically contend that nobody but a very stupid person could he insensible to annoyance 0 f dog-barking, cock-crowing, calf-lowing, pia no-thumping, Possibly and similar afflictions ? the oai philosopher was out of sorts and cross, when he went to extreme above mentioned. .Napoleon could sleep on the battle-field:. and surely Napoleon was not a dull man. Bums composed his best poem during a ride in a thunder-storm—and in Scotland a thunder-clap makes noise. Sir Walter Scott wrote his best books while men of all kinds were building him a great, new house; and (he sound of hammer and saw and chisel is generally considered a So it must be, that the suffering from does not necessarily imply lofty intellect; nor does the fact that the well-fed citizen sleeps soundly all night, while his neighbor’s dog is impartially saluting each star in the with the same monotonous yelp, raise!any pre sumption against the integrity of the mental machine of said somnolent citizen. It isn’t so much a question of brains, as of nerves. Julius Caesar could not hear a rooster crow, without shuddering; but it- isn’t, every fellow who shudders when the rooster crows, that has the head of a Caesar. pain DeQuincey would fall into an agony of when the peacock opened up in tuneful numbers; but it isn’t every objector to fowl yells that could write “The Household Wreck,”-or “The Flight of a Tartar Tribe.” Carlyle, when in Scotland, fretted and fum •ed because the roosters broke upon his medi tat ions; and in London, he complained bitterly of the piano next door; "but it isn’t every one who finds fault, with pianos and chickens that could produce “Sartor Resartus” and “The French Revolution.” I have mv own idea about a man who is not at all put out by the long-continued rawing of a calf, or a cow; but I dare not express that opinion. It would, lose me the good-will of hundreds of people who no more mind the ing of 4 a cow than'they 'do the solo of the factory whistle, or the sou of a buy aspiring to a place in the band. In writing to those of you who intend to “take an interest in politics,” it will be well to offer an intimate view of some of the affairs of the State which affect ‘others than polili cians. Three.years ago, on a visit to the State Sanitarium in Milledgeville, I was struck by the overcrowding of those most unforutnate of all the State’s wards—the insane. It seemed to me I had never seen so many women herded in so small a space, as some of the corridors showed. There was also lack of many of the things which even the indifferent visitor knew were essentials in the handling and the care of these helpless, pitiable people—of whom there are so many, and I talked with some of the officials. Then, I visited the .State Normal School, and had several talks with officials there. La¬ ter I visited one of the District Agricultural Schools, with a view to entering a boy in whom I-was interested, the son of a widow of limited means. I talked there with the late Professor Mer¬ ry, who was then the Head of the school. This gave me an inside view of three of the most important branches of the State’s in¬ stitutions, and in every ease the same com¬ plaint was made: the State did not appropriate enough money to properly operate any of them, and in the matter of the schools, not enough money to take care of the applicants—young men and women who wanted an education that would enable them to teach. Then, 1 went to Atlanta; I visited the of¬ fice of one of the Atlanta daily papers, and 1 told the owner of my visits to the various places 1 have named; I asked him why it was that the sick of the State, and the young of the State could not get wliat the State really owed them. He referred me to a State official, and to him I went next. This official does not care to have his name mentioned,' but lie gave me a little book which showed the appropria¬ tions made by the Legislature, for every pub¬ | lic bureau The HgpajLtiPhDl in the State. of Agriculture, with head- Thomson, Georgia, Monday, Feu. &£- 8 * **23. — The royal stag mav be king of a boundless range of fewest, but he is powerless to escape vermin that burrow between his horns— pestering him every day of his life. Looking out upon the waters of the ocean, you will sec the great sword-fish, a terror of the deep, spring into the air and give himself a convul sive shake; he is trying to throw off the tiny fish, which are to him wliat the ba nacles are ship. It is much the same in human L'e. While Hercules struggles with the monster, the* little crab nibbles his toe. The small tilings vox,! 1 where the large things would but rouse you to j I exertion. in Many quick trifling succession, annoyances, drive coming at j once, or you to a' j frenzy; when, trouble, if they had all been concentrated jin steadied one the boat. your fortitude would have Louis DeMorny, Napoleon, the half-brother of the Emperor was a very great man; he put the stupid Louis Napoleon upon the throne and kept, him there while he lived; yet with all his the nuisance DeMorny did not know how to escape of a flute-player whose room was 1 in earshot of the Duke’s palace. The first Napoleon detested and dreader^ three smaller men—Fouohe, Talleyrand, and Bernadette; yet, with all continental Europe at his feet, this greatest of men did not know how to rid himself of three deadly enemies who were apparently in his power. Similarly afflicted, the English King, Hen rv the Second, cried out in a burst of impotent rage, “Will nobody deliver me of this pestif Monk?”—and three zealous courtiers went Monk straightway with to the church and slew the their swords; whereupon Thomas Beeket, the fractious Monk, became “Saint Thomas of Canterbury”; and the prouud Kim goes peniientially to'the tomb and gets upon his knees, lavs hare his royal back and is re tiibutively scourged bv surviving monks from So it seem that,‘in striving to get free little aggravations, we may easily run into big troubles. " " The antlered stag may roam ever so fast and far, but the phrasite still burrows into his j head. The sword-fish may spring ever so of ten and so high, but, in spite of all his con¬ ? shHties ; , some iff the rainy fii& will Jitthg on. So with us, the small vexations are msep (Continued on Page Two.) Especially To The Women Of Georgia. r Alice Louise quarters in Atlanta, was, according to the lit¬ tle book, the most fortunate of all the bureaus; it got scads of money for its use. and there seemed to be no way to side track some of tha. mone\ for the use of: The State Sanitarium; The State Normal School; The District Agricultural Schools; Nor the remnant of the Veterans of the Confederacy! In other words: the Department of Agri¬ culture of the State, with its headquarters in Atlanta, made its demands on the State Legis¬ lature, and with the present head of it, J. J.' Brown, so firmly entrenched even then—three years ago—that the Legislature did not dare refuse the demands for money to operate what the head of it declared to He “an invincible political machine.” Recently, other States have been showing the operation of political machines which have also been supposed to be invincible, and the Louisville (Kentucky) Times had this to say of one of them: “The most powerfully built political machine seems to carry with it the causes of its own destruction. It has a way of wearing out.” It would seem about time that the Agricul¬ tural Department of the State of Georgia had worn out the patience of the people, when it shall be known what it costs the State—and how little benefit the individuals of the State get from it. Truly it is “a political machine”; it is one of the most highly financed lobbies ever in¬ vented—and the State pays the salary of the lobbyists. It is ancient history, that all efforts to “in¬ vestigate” the inner workings of the Depart¬ ment ImVe amounted to nothing for the reason that, as members of the Legislature were so iiuinly convinced that members of their families would lose certain jobs, they either failed to vote, or they failed to be present when their votes wpuld count. 1 Oar la'te Senator Tims. E. Watson was pledge 1 by what he considered a. sacred prorn (Continued on Page Two.) Issued Weekly The Case Of Mexico. The daily newspapers are trying to pre judiee our people against President Obregon bv telling us that' the Mexican President apologized to the Pope for expelling Filippi and for arresting . score of law-defying Priests and Bishops, Commenting on that Papal lie, the Mexi¬ can News, published by Adolfo do Castro, say?: “Universal Service, with utter disregard for even tl semblance of veracity sent broadcast a message to the effect that President Obrhgon has caused to be trans¬ mitted to the Pope at Romo a sort of an apology for the expulsion of the Apostolic Delegate and that he desired another Delegate foi the Catholics of Mexico. Noth¬ ing could possibly be fa filer from the mind of the Chief Exi utivo of the Mexi¬ can Government. President Obregon is not a man to apologize for least any act in the exercise of his duty and of all, an act touching the violation of the Magna Chart a of Mexico.’'*' President Obregon will not surrender his country to the Pope, who is moving _against Mexico in behalf of American and British ex plotters, who want to capture the natural re- _ sources of our neighbor, Mexico, As all students of history know, the Pope has intermeddled in Mexico for centuries, Let The Sentinel state Mexico’s case, and you will then understand President Obregon’s side of this controversy with the Pope. Just as a few thousan English meat eaters Hold more than three hundred million u «n-meat-eaters in peonage, American and British exploiters, including William Randolph Hearst - want to rule Mexico. For three hundred years preceding 1831, hirelings stationed in Mexico had sent a 5' earl J r average of six million dollars to rffe King of Spain, as his share of the loot. The enormous sums retained by the Spanish Viee ro T s ’for their Share of this loot, have not been set down in lin >' his ‘ m T oi tiu ‘ Mexican nation. The exploiters evidently kept no books, because f hey dld l H,t wa, ‘! th * P. eo P le the ™ rld to lea J! 1 ;} ien , aeu s L‘ dem » 0n ^’ i,ien ,l,r ll "' '■ We do know, from standard works of ..kgsfoVY, that fields tjjy Spaniards and mines, .reed 1 Rie natives to work the the for genera¬ tions, and the poor natives received nothing for their labor. We do know, from the same authorities, that the Spanish Priests, stationed in Mexico by the Pope, received twenty million dollars & year, representing their share of the loot.. Of course, the Priests accounted to the Pope The for his share. * Priests also maintained and operated lotteries, for the purpose of selling to the na¬ tives, and others, old bones, blessed wax can d’ s, charms, erucifixies, medals, ribbons, and other junk handled R- the Roman Catholic Church. Thq Archbishop of Mexico enjoyed a yearly allowance of one hundred thousand dol¬ lars. $40,000. The Bishops received yearly salaries of each. The Pope himself owned fifty millions of dollars worth of property in the City of Mexico. The Hierarchy owned large tracts of property in other cities, and in the rural dis¬ tricts. During the time the Pope operated that oppressive system in Mexico, he did nothing for the natives. They were denied all oppor¬ tunity for attending public schools; in fact, the Pope abolished the public schools and fail¬ ed to establish schools of i.ny sort. The native uprising against the Spaniards succeeded, and the expelled Jesuits went to Europe where they intrigued for intervention. This “intervention” came in the rape of a Hapsbnrg Archduke, backed by the Catholics of France. Our government, refused to take part in this rape of Mexico, and President-Lincoln per¬ mitted General Grant to aid tl 1 Indians by giving them Rifles for their bows and arrows. Later, in 1854, Fcos? lent Lincoln informed Napoleon lit that, his troops'would have to gut, out of Mexico, which act caused the Roman Catholics the world over to heap the very bitterest sort of abuse on Mr. Lincoln. If yon will read the book written by ex-Priest Ch’ini quy, “Fifty Years in the Roman Church,” you will find evidence to support the charge that Roman Catholics murdered Mr. Lincoln and attempted to kill Mr. Seward, because those two officials informed Napoleon thg Third that the United States Government v,• eld enforce llto Monroe Doctrine. Some historians claim that members of the Southern Confederacy plotted against. Mr. Lin¬ coln, and that the as a--in, Booth, was their tool. The very circumstance that both Lincoln v (Continued on Pago Four.), ✓ v No 20
