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2 fHE COLUMBIA SENTINEL Issued Every Monday at Thomson, Ga ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Owner and Publl*her. Successor to THOS. E. WATSON, FOUNDER. Entered in Post Office at Thomson, Ga., as Second Class Matter, Under Act of March 3, 1897. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR ; when sent in clubs ci li\e 55.00. 1ATES TO NEWSDEALERS-Three cents each, cash to accon pany order. rtomson address of The Columbia Sentinel P. 0. Box 393. GROVER C. EDMONDSON, Editor. Thomson, Georgia, June 11, 1923. Another of the “Original Little Eva” has u>t died at the over ripe age of 84. Even hoot-legging costs more, and each ' iegger ” has to have a “fixer”—hence the ■mice in the near-hootch prices. The most unkindest cut’of all was for lebruic friends of the North to not only •cuss” Henry Ford, but to say he financially hacked the K. K. Iv. I iie official electin' executioner of „ Sing . Snig has just died, leaving the “Lay sum ot -70,000. It isn l exactly tainted inonev, mt \ve wouldn’t want any of it. Nice jury, that, in Long Island. It gave a girl fat damages for being jilted, when she old them of the fruit cake Mother had made, and the Hope Chest, ’neverything. * * *» * The Bootlegger’s Crew is a motley lot. Sing Ho! and a cargo of rum! <'he Volstead Act may lie only a blot— But the worst is yet to come! The Mayor of New York has reached the op of paternalism: lie lias issued a ukase to the effect that now’s the time to buy coal. And nost of us are worrying about paying for the oe. The Republicans, in addition to the usual things to worry over in a campaign year, will have the Court of Nations and the ever-present laiiff to disturb their rest and upset their )ets. New York politicians seem to be fright¬ fully afraid of the Ivu KTux Klan, but the alreadv,” Knights of Columbus of will are “something put in New else and course stay ‘ York. As was to he expected, Tammany Hall, in New York, is greatly interested in the repeal of the Prohibition Act. Beer, whiskey and wines were too good assets for Tammany ever to be able to get on without them. New scheme being developed b> our Labor Commissioner Davis, to slop “leaks” in immi gration law is to be tried out. A simple way would be to insist that the ticket agents on the other side issue no more tickets. DeValera, the Irish idol of other days, is at least a good quitter: lie sends out a notice to his old followers to lay down their arms. And he very nearly had to lay down his head for keeps before he got this thought. * ■■*** A Dutch motor-car maker from Holland is coming to this country to turn out tin cars cheaper than Our Own Henry. And it should be remembered that ‘‘In making a bargain, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little, and taking too much,” That lady who pounded out, with a ham¬ mer, the brains of anothei lady, has been brought ed back to is this country; ami she is peev¬ ; says .-lie going to light and prove that she lias been “unjustly convicted, I I Wonder what sort of verdict an all-woman jury would hai> rendered? Detroit used to be famous for its beer; will now go down to posterity for defying high fonts, no-ohiidren wanted landlords, and go ing to live in tenls. Colonies are being laid ut on river trouts to which bus lines run, and n which the babies wifi probably thrive as hey never would in siuffy apartment houses owned by stony-hearted landlords. A few more Congressmen like Judge Charles Brand ol‘ the Eighth Congressional District of fidity ieoi'gia, of would the Congress, leaven a Judge great deal Brand’s of the stu resolti ion, offered at the recent convention of Bank era relative to tile removal of the tax on uu arsenic and its constituents means that the, Judge will “follo.w up” when Congress meets, THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA. Old Methods And New Times . Alicefjgguisc Lytle. The magazine “Current Opinion > * for June, has a page of what might well he term¬ ed literary salad, so many different items making up the quotations—all of them inter¬ esting, and all of them from authorieies. Pertaining specially to things feminine are these: i t Girls are lovely naturally, and it is their rigid to be lovely, no matter whether they work or play, compete with men or stay protected in homes. 1 am glad wo¬ men are more eager to preserve their personal beauty than they used to be. To preserve the attractiveness and freshness of youth as long as possible is the duty of every woman.— Dowager Queen Alexan¬ dria, of England, “Bringing up a family is a full-time job—an overtime one if the family is large —and no working-class mother can com¬ bine it properly with wage-earning.”— Mrs. David Lloyd-Ucurge. “Women lack decision. They waste their time waiting for someone to tell them what to do. We as, a sex lack system. W e do not work in an orderly way even in our homes. Women in business are gen¬ erally affected by a nervous timidity which handicaps them and to which their failures must generally be laid.”— Josephine Wright Chapman, New York Architect. The first item is particularly interesting, that the Queen Mother, Alexandria, was at one time a very great belle, and has preserved nmc ]j 0 f [ )er feminine charm—by the aid of imany { beauty secrets, of course—and w j ia ,.]iarin in gills means. It is doubtful if any English queen has held sway with the people for as long a lime, as lias Alexandra, and there has never been anything political about her influence. She has been all woman, a wonderful mother, and on this has her popu larity rested. The next item is also from an English woman, the wife of “that little Welshman,” Lloyd George. It lias not been from experi ence that Mrs. George lias made her deduction, being the mother of only one child, a daughter, But she has been a comrade-at-arms with her hursband, and her observations have been founded on close association with the families especially, of the Welsh miners. Large fami lies are the rule with those people, and their poverty has made it almost necessary for the women to work as long as they can, and as soon as they can, after the birth of their children, and before. The last—and the most stinging item of the lot, is from an American woman, a woman following the profession which last week I said I preferred next to my own, and she scores us fairly, because she lias probably had to meet more women in her business than either of the other two whom I have quoted. To 1)0 charming, is of course the duty of all of us; if we cannot be as charming as we would like to be, then we should he as charm¬ ing as we can be; we can overdo it, as we can overdo anything, but the fact is patent, it is the charming woman and girl who can go farthest on life’s road, making friends, hold¬ ing them, and radiating a joy that makes life brighter for all who come in contact with her. So—we grant that charm which from beauty—or which we always connect with beauty, is an essential. Then: the care of the family is the moth¬ er’s job, and to it she must bring so much • strength, judgment and wisdom, there is none left for those outside affairs, which, after all, really seem so much blah-blah, when all is said—and planted. Overtime and underpay are the chief fac¬ tors in the mother’s life, but there isn’t a business with a salary attached, which pays flic ultimate dividend that the mother who has stayed on the job, receives in her old age, when pensions or bank dividends are the “re¬ wards” of the successful business woman. Now for the last—and most drastic of all the quotations: “We, as a sex, lack system”; we do, and there isn’t any way to get around that statement if we face facts squarely. Have you ever “sat iu” on a gathering composed only of womenf I have, and I have the keenest and deepest admiration for many of the women who compose bodies, then* have been conversations in which I also “sat in”, emanating from the mouths of the most brilliant of those women, and despair at the futility of so much of the energetic effort on the part of so many of the women, when system would have solved all the problems. Conceit—plain, unaforiic’ minine con eeit, is at the bottom of so much of the lost motion evidenced at these gatherings. There are always one or two women in any who want what the actor-folk call i i the spot ilglit”. They want to he quoted, referred consulted and given credit for everything starts in the body which the yare a part of. I knew a woman once who was, by acei dent, a member of a prominent family. There a day when limelightthough the family, through tragedy, was mud; in the this had never been an intimate part ut the she literally camped at the telephone, and her anguish and was front indescribable bi'll when at the the samej tele- j phone the door rang time. There were other members of the family who were better able to give the data required; whose intelligence was of a higher order and who knew what should be done, in the tragic emergency, but it was the first time in her life that unlimited publicity might be hers, and the resultant blah-blah that emanated from her, was a shock to many of the prominent peo pic who were seeking information. This is a concrete example of what is re pcated in every gathering where women meet; there is enought to be done to have every in telligent woman take part, but the lack of; system—and a natural timidity on the part of so many—enables the blatant sisterhood to “hog the spotlight” and retard much that might go successfully forward. New times, and the new methods with them, are what we need. The un attached woman; the woman with no home-ties, no children or old folk to need her; the woman whose home is simply who rev i or her trunk is education, parked for the time and being; breeding the woman whose birth fit her for work that is to be done—there are plenty of these women, and theirs should be the job of helping in the work the men need help for. Me—imnesclf—am perfectly satisfied with the job I have; maybe 1 am developing into a common scold, but if 1 am, then 1 have other women in business in the same class. We see so much of what is going on: we newspaper women, especially see under the skin of so many women who take the newspaper route to exploit themselves, and ignore utterly, the other women who have given them the chance to get their places in the sun. To the ((notation of Josephine Chapman Wright, 1 would add Ibis: we, as women, do not play fair; to that nervous timidity she defers to, 1 would add feminine jealousy—and Ibe combination makes a rotten mess, If we are too timid, ourselves, to finish what we have started, few of us are big enough t° ask another woman to finish it. in the big things which women have taken 011 , and become part of, few of the prominent women will take another woman along, step *\ v stop. I have listened to speeches by women 1 know, in which they talked for an hour or more of what they personally had accomplish ed, and in my minds’s eve I would see groups of other women, working just as hard as the 01) e who was talking, but, to whom no mede of praise was given for what had been uccom plished. All these arc the old feminine methods; they belong with the Medici reign, which poisoned all that stood in the way of Medici advancement. We still use the poisoned tongue; we don’t let the achievbents of a woman decide her place for her, if we do not like her. So—it would seem that our -development isn’t just wliat most of us thought it, and we need the newer methods, for these new times. Where the American Catholics Are Making their Fatal Mistake (Continued from Page One.) What need was there oi this . new ,, . secret society ? Did they not already have enough secret orders? Before the Civil War, we were not threat -j cued by any such speeches as those of nor by any such secret hands of traitors the 4th degree Knights of Columbus. 1 H hy are we menaced by them now? (5.) There are nearly 1,500,000 school- to' children in America that are not allowed go to school with non-Catholic Americans. The parents of these children are threat¬ ened by such Roman prelates as Archbishop Messmer with excommunication and hell-fire, if they send their children to the same schools where your children and mine go. Before the Civil War, we had no such ap¬ palling condition as this. We had no million and a half of Ameri .cun children separated from all the.others, and taught Why to do hate all have others as “heretics. • y we that danger-breeding 0011 - dition of things now? WHY HAVE THE LEADERS OF THE CHURCH BECOME BOLD ENOUOH TO DECLARE WAR ON OUR SCHOOLSf ( 6 .) All over this Union, the Roman Church is enforcing a foreign I nv which annuls our homo made law. All on r this Union the priests of this foreign potentate are putting his law on marriage, on top of our law. Catholics who are citizens of Georgia, and; obeying who are exercising the rights of eilizens, are a foreign law which violates Georgia law. Although these Georgia Catholics are Imrn hold and offices, vote they at elections, traitorously serve on juries,! the Italian Pope, in the are obeying Men who matter of marriage, law, are legally married, under Geor gia are told by the traitor priests, that they are living in adultery, and they are made desert their wives and children. That kind of tieason was never hoard of' this country, before the Civil Wax*., In fact, it began in 1908, with Pope’s publication annulling oChis ^the infamous Ne temere decree, American law of marriage. brought that for The priests never before eign law into this Union, and used it to break up happy homes, doing it nowt Why are they foreign church is waging ( 7 .) The sys tematic war upon our constitutional rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press, Before the Civil War, some of the most powerful papers and books were published against Popery, Elliott, Dwight, Carroll, Hogan, Kirwan, Clmiiquy, Maria Monk, and scores of others published fearful arraignments of the popish system, showing how it uses the name of re ligion to gain political power, wordly posses-, sions and the use of women, These books halted the progress of this terrible foreign church—this conglomeration of Italian secret societies whose American lay men have no idea of wliat it really is, what it really does, and what it really aims at. I repeat it—the average American Cathlie has no conception of the terrible inner secrets and purposes "of the Italian secret societies who control the Roman Catholic Church, The Civil War caused most of the anti Papal books to be forgotten. Then came mil¬ lions of Catholic immigrants, from Ireland, Poland, Hungary, Italy; and we suddenly woke up one fine morning and found that the Pope, through Tammany Hall and the Roman Catho¬ lic Boss, was in control of the Democratic Party. . Cleveland, and We saw it elect Grover we were so glad to have a Democratic President that we didn’t attach much significance to the Catholic part of it—until we saw Cleveland coquetting with the Pope and receiving an Ambassador from a foreign church. Afterwards, we saw liow the Pope reward¬ ed Taft for his Philippine surrender, by throw¬ ing the Catholic vote to the Republicans; and then after Taft had been squeezed into a juiceless state, we saw the same Catholic vote go to Wilson. the And Philippine now we see Bryan Taft, trying by to deliver¬ out-do surrender of ing the negroes of St. Domingo into the hands of the Irish Catholics of New York City—the Sullivans, big and little. These things have given birth to a host of papers and books that are fighting Popery. The Jeffersonian started the ball, sever years ago, and now the mails are loaded with American literature against the foreign poten¬ tate who is trying to govern this country through priests. his impudent, immoral, and treason¬ ous Again, the advance of Popery is being halted by this American literature, and this time the leaders of the foreign church are seeking to save themselves by putting a stoflf to the literature. They are demanding control of our mails, so that they can throw out anything and every¬ thing which tells the truth on Popery. They never tried that before the Civil War: why are they doing it, now? A Roman Catholic Congressman from Mas¬ sachusetts —James Galiivan—has introduced a bill to close the mails against publications which are “a inflection on any form of reli¬ gious worship. Could you imagine anybody but a rank and intollerant Papist 1 trying 6 to make a law of that ‘ ()rt , Think of excluding frotp the mails every Protestant sermon that “reflects” on Popery! if Congress were to knuckle to the foreign Italian hierarchy to that extent, am] strike down the freedom of the press, there is 110 how swiftly this country might plunge into another Civil War. I do not believe our people will stand for much more governmental betrayal of their in¬ terests, in these underground dealings with Rome. In their blind folly, arrogance, presumptu¬ ousness, and aggressiveness, the leaders of this foreign church are courting trouble. The sending of an Ambassador to the Ital¬ ian Pope, lias inflamed the great masses of England against the Redmond-Asquith ad¬ ministration; and already the Protestant As¬ sociations have begun to fight back. 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