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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1923)
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL Issued Every Monday at Thomson, Ga ALICE LOUISE LYTLE. Owner and Publisher. Successor (o THOS. E. WATSON, FOUNDER. Entered in Post Office at Thomson, Ga., as Second Class Matter, Under Act of March 3, 1897. SUBSCRIPTION 11.50 PER YEAR ; when sent in clubs of five $5.00. RATES TO NEWSDEALERS-Three cents each, cash to accompany order. Thomson address of The Columbia Sentinel P. 0. Box 393, GROVER C. EDMONDSON, Editor. Thomson, Georgia, April 9, 1923. This is the season when the Man with a Hoe. gits first whack at the Early Worm for his fishing expeditions. # * * • Tt isn't safe to “sass” a policeman, in any wav: man in Savannah tried to do it over the tob nhono, and was fined $200. for his temper. * # # # * Mr. Daugherty seems to be in bad for spili¬ Bry¬ ng Presidential beans.too soon. And Mr. an intimates that his beans were also exposed sooner than he wanted them to be. H # # # It happened in Pennsylvania—though Legislature not in Phiiad;lphia; Member of State introduced Bill to prohibit automobiles from going hvire than thirty miles an hour. # * * • Some whales near the three ipile—booze limit off Gape May. New .Tersely are so playful they are upsetting boats there. Maybe they arc sampling the samples of the booze boats. * • • * • Those prisoners in the Georgia jail who look out the windows and see “a winding river, a sloping lawn and a swimming pool” may truly sing; “Home aint nothing like this!” n * * # Bobbed hair and gold teeth make it possi¬ ble for irate parents to trace a runaway daugh¬ ter. Three cheers and a hot biscuit for those new brands, both of which should be out-lawed. Something to worry about: Zanzibar’s clove crop was bigger than ever—and no do maud .for the pungent article in the II. S. more has caused tW clove raisers much ai|t S“ ish - • • The kindly law has thrown another protee tive arm around the helpless married men: they can no longer be sued for breach of prom¬ ise by designing women, even if Friend \\ ife is willing. Persia is rapidly becoming used from to the ways of olher nations. Her royalties the operation of the oil fields—said operators be¬ ing largely Americans—netted the country $ 3 , 000 , 000 . Even 'burglars are more hard-hearted than they used to be; some of the gentry held up a lady; she showed them an empty pocket hut they insisted she take off her stockings. And they got tho wad. Senators residing in Washington are ex¬ ercised at the ‘threat to widen some of the streets, at the expense of Senatorial lawns. Well, as long as the widening doesn't take in the Senatorial cellars--why should they worry. These spring winds are bad—for the man with a flask on his hip. One of him was arrest cd when the before-mentioned wind blew said man’s coat-tails up, and the bottle was revealed to the gaze of a prohibition officer—who “seen his duty and Gone it.” One way to help pay for the up keep of automobiles, is to have an accident insurance policy covering: fingers smashed in shutting automobile doors; broken arms caused by cranking ears; and for injuries while being "jolted” when riding. One insurance company paid three thousand claims covered by these. . win tuple .. . slioitnge . •' *D h ' d'u icd.son is a of voung women clerks ami stenographers, as J ,.,,1 ’ ' 11 ‘ | 1 ».. ||. UolP.ro 111 New York is: so many o[ the girls . have , .level ul icd llltn '‘be;l lit I ill modes” and ” women o story , dnd , i * kill1 i, • 11 <>11, iy ilio ' iun an* . »oing . as |>or police 11 report>. The Georgia Legislature is again In bo asked to make tin* Gubernatorial term out* of foilr years; and biennial sessions of tin* Legislature are also to lie made possible, l it less each of these measures are backed tip the Initiative, Referendum and Recall, the State had better leave bad enough alone. THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, 1 THOMSON, GEORGIA. IDEAS FROM A WOULD-BE FARMERETTE. Alice Louise Lytle. / Far be it from the mind of this humble ag¬ riculturist to even make believe to know even the “lower case” a. b. c. of farming, but ob¬ servation, and the possession of 100 acres of land, make one do some thinking along the line of can-do of farming. Georgia, In the Cotton Belt of in the Peach Belt, where nothing but hope and mortgages relieve the monotony of droughts and sand flies, the farmer lias beeirwondering and bow come, every time he finals bills due no money. In other words, the farmers of the State of Georgia, with the exception always of those wealthy and fortunate sons who have banks or other businesses on the side, have seen their debts grow like their taxes, every year, and have not been able eiftton to figure out how they can continue to raise and get past the Poor Farm or the Home for the Homeless and not have to stop off’for a stay. Cotton is the most fascinating and the most heart-breaking crop there is. It makes a man rich, and it beggars him; it flourishes- like the proverbial green bay tree, or it withers and is devoured by the tilings that will let other things alone. When il is a Success, it is such a whale of a success that every body gets drunk, and goes out on a rampage of buying. When we have a good crop and a high price for it, in Georgia, the manufacturers of brass beds, near maliogonv furniture, grandfather clocks with 'a whole set of chimes; phonographs, self-play in pianos, parlor lamps, silk dresses, silk stock iugs, sporty suits for men with seventeen flaps for pockets, and so on, draw big sighs of re¬ lief and stock up, knowing the failing of the cotton planter to get the best—and plenty of it for bis home folks. The negroes of our country places also get drunk—not only with the buying mania, but with anything that comes in a bottle and that can giv. a “kick”; this includes .Inmaeia gin¬ ger, patent medicines and any grade of whiskey that is called such. Ho—it looks as though cotton was the only thing that really gave back anything worth while for its cultivation. If wc had had a man at the head of our-De partment of Agriculture in Georgia; a man who could see further along than the time when he would “run again”; if brains had been mixed with bis political ambitions; if lie had remembered liis own lean and hungry days on the farm; if he had really loved the farmer because he was a farmer, and not .because lie was only a voter—then we would have bad a fytate of affairs in the Cotton Belt of Georgia that would have enabled those farmers to have weathered the stress ami storms 'of the lust five years, and there would be something else other thauj mortgaged and deserted farms, in the Cotton Beit. We all know that, in a cotton country, cot¬ ton is the money crop in'normal times. But we also know that with the”boll weevil, plus the exorbitant prices of fertilizer—without which cotton can not lie raised, there’ were other things that could take the place of the cotton until the visitation of the weevil had passed, and the guano people had been brought to their senses, and placet! their product on a reason¬ able basis. But, so busy had our Commissioner of Ag¬ riculture been, in the State of Georgia, he had little time to devote to this side of the ques¬ tion; so little time, in fact, as to disgust the Federal Agent from Washington, who wrote to the Department ther'e that “Georgia has no Agricultural Department; it has only a political machine. i j And the Federal Agent was sent iin to South Carolina, and our Commissioner of Ag¬ riculture of the State ($f Georgia continued to “build” his political machine, and boast of Well—folkk must eat, just as they must wear clothes, and there is cotton enough on hand to keep most of us from going naked, but there is never enough food on hand to feed all : of us, all the time. So—raising food stuff, especially meat, is the next best bet for the farmer who has been feeding the weevils and the mortgages for so long, Milk is also a good thing to look to—and its by-product, butter, when properly made and marketed, is a money crop that should not run second to cotton. But pork is a steady seller, if properly fed and properly marketted, and the fact that a dairyman,, iii'the State of Wisconsin—a State noted for its creameries—should find that his pork out-valued his dairy, is an item worth Hiking in to. * This i n « man's mail If I, m ne was was Peter I t il l ]) UOSR rtV Ie- . lie lived at I Ol’tage, Wisconsin, and he had a lim’d (l |‘ t wen tv three Holstein cows and a herd of urt .,, v , In 11)22 he took , the , . lor . the hot herd prize t) f cows and the best individual cow; he had re i , ,• • , • • only , Uy-product., , . mining as a ||js dairy as first. j Bi |>,5 t; When lie cheeked Up ],; Ins i business ,, tor r 1922, Ills books sllOWlied an income from his dairy of $2,3(55.32 while bis sows netted him *1 “c' Jt’uvltll 1 "’' • “Wlmt mail lias done, man can do!” The sows were pure bred; the iiian- was situated so that lie had to have jfienty of feed fm bis herd of <iair> COWS, and Jit* was of imur-se devoting Ins entire time to that uusiness. OF COURSE WE SENT THE PHOTOGRAPH. Dear Editor: Am sending you a club of five, all new subs and will apreciate it so much if you will send me one of our Chief’- hotos. 1 am thankful you and Mrs. Lytle have the courage to carry on the good work. 1 believe, just as our Chief would have it. Your edito¬ rials are worth the price of the paper each week. I am an old man but hope to be able to send in another rlub next- month, Thanking you in advance for tho photo, 1 remain, VISSELL. Georgia. T. J. SOUTHERN WELDING COMPANY Telephone 1332 553 Broad.St., Augusta, Ga. ELECTRIC AND ACETYLENE WELDINS OF ALL KINDS. Welding outfits and supplies for sale, the best at * lowest price. FOR SALE Petty’s Tcole Cotton Seed $2.00 bushel f. o. b. Fort Valley, Ga. , 2t GEO. H. SLAPPEY. PORTO RICO potato plants State Inspected. 500 $1.00; 1.000, $1.50 post paid. By express, $1.25 per thousand. Over 10.000. $1.00 per tousand. MAJOR CROWS PLANT FARMS, Flowery Branch, Ga. POTATO AND TOMATO PLANTS Leading varieties, $1.25 thousand, Can ship a million per day. SEXTON PLANT CO.. VALDOSTA, GA. SWEET POTATO PLANTS. For sale about April 10th to June 1st, Porto Rico and Southern Yam varieties, $1.50 per M by Parcels Post prepaid anvwhere in Georgia. if J. L. CROW, AMBOY, GA. FOR SALE The automobile in which the late Senator Thos. E. Watson made his last campaign. This car Is a 7 passenger 1921 model Apperson; In it Mr. Watson cov¬ ered the entire State in hip whirlwind campaign for Cnited States Senator. The car was taken to Washing¬ ton, D. .0., when the Senator went there. In it, he took his last drive, when he left, his sick bed to attend the Senate for the last time, Friday, September 2?, 1922. The car is now at Thomson. Georgia. Address: Mrs. Thos. K. Watson, Thomson, Ga. NOTICE. I have a twelve room house, six fire places, ar¬ ranged for three families, among good homes, on car A n one Woi; k of fit® largest school in Atlanta, in two blocks of Carnegie library, gas and water in the house, w... trade this place, for a farm. Address: Dr. John T. Patterson, 694 East Fair St., Atlanta, Ga. 35c GETS THE HOTTEST DEMOCRATIC PAPER IN THE UNITED STATES 1 year, or 4 years for $1.00. We preach real DEMOC¬ RACY—the Jeffersonian, Jackson, Tom Watson type. THE HORNET is a clapper to a liberty bell, the whole truth in a nut shell. It makes the blind see and chases republicans up a castus tree. Gets the profi¬ teers’ goat and puts afl the enemies of the people in the same boat. Try our political pun; we make tho rascals run. Address, THE HORNET, Mocksville, N. Cf I do not think, cotton seed is fed much to the dairy l ards in the North, and demonstra¬ tors have told me that the butter from ocws fed entirely—-or mostly on cotton seed, is not so good as that produced from cows fed on other or mixed foods; I am not an expert, and do not know about this. 1 do know that, in the Cotton Belt of Geor¬ gia we can raise good corn and plenty of it; wc can also raise the smaller grains, and al¬ falfa. This would seem to be an ideal food combination for anything, and hogs would thrive, as well as cows. .1 am open to conviction after argument. Is there anything wrong in the stand that 1 take—that we could raise every mortgage and relieve every farmer from debt, if the real money crops were shown him, and he was put in the way of getting stock? That is what a Department of Agriculture is supposed to be for. . True—it won’t put much money into the Fertilizer Trust, but it will put money where it is scarcer—and needed more; in the hands of the farmer of Georgia. Good stock is essential; we have an Agri¬ cultural College in Georgia which has had some wonderful stock; just how the farmers can get it, 1 don’t know. \ ' But anyway; it is “me for the pigs.” I’ve only gotten four, but I am high in hope that by next year 1 will be able to tell you that I paid my debts and raised my spirits by the four, which 1 am feeding on mixed food, and coax¬ ing along the way a proper pig should go. Incidentally il may interest you to know that 1 shall get only one bale of cotton off 100 acres of land, and that I have had to ad¬ vance so far, nearly $100. to assure me that 1 will get that bale, besides making repairs and paying taxes on the 100 acres. And I had mule that 1 paid $125. for, that 1 had to sell ft»r $22.50, because the corn to feed it through the winter would cost as much as J had originally paid for the mule. To me, this looks very much like a good ar¬ gument for raising pigs, lots of them, and plenty of food for them, with maybe a cow or two on the side. I may bo wrong, but I deviate from the usual course of my sect”, by again assuring you that 1 am open to argument and conviction. A. L. L. CARROLL COUNTY TIMES RAPS JOSEPHINE BROWN. Georgia's Commissioner of Agriculture evidently has a very peculiar conception of the duties of a Com¬ missioner of Agriculture as well as a most reckless abandon in the expenditure of the peoples money. We have always supposed that the primary pur¬ poses of a, • I'ommhwgnwr’ V»s Jo foster and develop the agriculturalrvesourtes of the State; and "agriculture ’ practiced we have at'fays thought, meant rjjal "dirt-, farming" as bwCarroil county farmers. Now j®it what Georgia’s Commissioner, Hon. 3. J. Brown, may he doing in other parts of Georgia, along these lines we do not know; whether it be much or little; but we do know that he is not worth a "tinkers dam" in this section of the State, that is here in Car roll county. Yes, it is true that lie weekly sends some hun¬ dred copies of his weekly market bulletins, 90 per cent of which are thrown away, unopened and unread. Just why the Commissioner should be permitted to thus waste the money of the people in publishing and distributing these utterly worthless bulletins; and we are assured that if the people of the State only knew how wasteful and how utterly useless this, ex¬ penditure was they would en masse demand that it should he stopped. There is absolutely no excuse for expending .he people's money to publish this bulletin to give free advertising to a few people who should pay for their own publicity. A most casual examination of the character of the "ads" that appear weekly, will ccm vince any one of the worthlessness, for agricultural purposes of the articles advertised. For the most pari, they do not, even remotely per¬ tain to real agriculture; and besides no one, relatively, reads them. In so far as Carroll County is concerned we have no idea that one out of each 500 farmers ever has used this bulletin for advertising or reads them for bargains. It is no part of the duty of the State or its officers to conduct an advertising agency, An agency that competes with every legitimate newspaper in the State and to tha* extent destroys its business. However if the Bulletin was all and more, that its most enthusiastic {fiend, if it ha3 such, claims for it, then its publication is little short of robbery of the people of their money. The editor of the Times was permitted to look over the official record this -week of weekly cost of the pub¬ lishing of this monstrosity and he saw that the weekly cost exceeds six hundred dollars, and as much as six hundred and fifty. There are fifty-two weeks in a year, thuS 52 times $tP)0. amounts to $21,200 per year and we seriously question whether the sum of all the items sold by these ads it 1 the bulletin during the entire year equal that amount. We are sure that the Slate would better buy these things and throw them away, than to go to the expense of publishing and distributing the bulletin. We hope that our representatives, Messrs. I. H. P. Beck and John R. Spence, will insist upon a most rigid and thorough investigation of the office and doings of the Commissioner, Mr. J. J. Brown, and secure the en¬ actment. of statutes as will curh effectually the reckless extravagance of (ommissionr Brown.—Carroll County Times. Dll. DAMS TESTIFIES TO HON. J. J. HOLLOWAY'S EFFICIENCY AND HONESTY: Dear Editor: It is with pleasure that 1 congratn !n(r , vou on the way you expose such hypocrites as Jo sepbfne Brown and Andy Soule. .). .1. lirown is raking ^ K ' ^ ,; iic to build his political machine and he • on't lt ’“ ep ft ma " tl,at he cannot get to do hi*bidding, if lie wanted an holiest efficient man for State Oil Inspector **«* ton Id not have fqunil one better qualified for that ; sethei in the m old , r Populist 0 °T,t£, ,o, I’.trty w J 30 lf years “ ago, S,00(I and to j | fought Chief. for those great principles that our lamented i Senator Watson, fought and (lied for. The Dnie hug come when the common people mud vote together and put honest men at the head of all offices in Georgia and such.men as you Mr. Edmondson, the 'Urottic can do it if the people win get behind 50u ancl a0 ,lleir part. And when we elect a man and he won’t do what he said, he would, do him as we did Toni Hardwick and Hugh Dot-Fay. v>ilh be8t ' vitilie8 ’ ’ 1 You'f very truly, Georgia. \V". K DAVIS. Take advantage ofibt, "Club Card," at $1.00 eaciu No club smaller tuaaiive. ALL ABOARD WINTER EXCURSION FARES AND ALL YEAR TOURIST FARES TO Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, British Columbia, Califoria. Florida, Georgia, Havana, Kentucky, Lou jftiann, Mistjssippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina? Tennessee, Tevas^ Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Via GEORGIA RAILROAD ‘ . ATLANTA & WEST POINT R. R., WESTERN RAILWAY OF ALABAMA. ) Liberal time limit and stop-over privileges.. .For further information apply to .;.'i J. P. BILLUPS, G. P. A., 714 Healey Building, Atlanta, Ga. AVery Limited Number of the Books Written by THOS. E. WATSON Are On Sale at The Office of THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL To be sold only at retail THE FIRST GROUP IN UNIFORM CLOTH RINDING; GILT TOPS; GILT LETTERED: Story of France; a VOL,........ . > . $ 6.00 Napoleon; (Illustrated)........ . . . 3.00 Bethany; a novel of the Old South (Illustrated) ..................... 2.00 Life and Times of Thos. Jefferson...... (Illustrated) ....................... 1.50 Life and Times of Andrew Jackson (very small number) Illustrated............ 1.00 GROUP TWO; PAPER BOUND; RICH IN HIS TURK’ VALUE; CONTAINING SOME OF THE CHOICEST OF THE*LATE SENATOR WATSON’S EARLIER WORK. The Roman Catholic. Hierarchy; (illustrated) ............. 8 .75 Proso Miscellanies, Illustrated...... .50 Socialists and SOCIALISM......... :.25 The fallen) House of Hapsburg (the recently ..............•......... .25 Ancient Civilization— covering the ‘‘Dark Ages" in Europe................ . . 25. • The .Massacre of St. Bartholomew... .25 . . GROUP THREE; comprising some of the best of the late Senator Watson’s work on the Roman Catholic Hierarchy: each Ten Cents per ropy: Maria Monk; What Goes on in tile Nunneries’’ Ropery, in it. Relation to Civil and Religious Liberty; A Short History of Papacy and the Ropes; Ancient Raganism and Modern Roman Catholicism the Santo; Roman Catholics Falsi iying History. This ill be the only opportunity the friends ol ihe late Senator will I\ave to se¬ cure these boohs. The Sentinel Is hand'lno them lor Mrs. Watson. Address all orders to THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL BOX 393 THOMSON, GA.
