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    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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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