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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1923)
w Ttf Living Knights Up Of To Columbus Their Oath. Are (Continued from Page One.) the incident across the front page of its May 31st, edition. Is that “tolerance?” There is this distinction to be drawn be¬ tween the oath of a Klansman and that of a Ivnight of Columbus: The Klansman swears loyalty to the Amer¬ ican government, and to Protestant princi¬ ples. The Knight of Columbus member takes an oath of allegiance to a foreigner —the Italian Pope— and the laics of the Roman Catholic Church; he is the subject of a foreigner. He can’t be 100 per cent American. The Klans¬ man IS THAT VERY THING, 100 PER CENT AMERICAN. “Department of AOriculture Huge Po¬ litical Machine n Says Gov . Hardwick. Atlanta, June 4.—Georgia is a “dumping ground” for inferior gasoline, is the opinion of Governor Hardwick who will urge in his message to the General Assembly that the sys¬ tem of State oil inspection be changed so that a few men may perform the duties now per¬ formed by a large corps of inspectors. The Governor’s legislative message will be featured by an attack on the oil inspection system and the Georgia oil inspection laws, and it is understood that he will urge that a combustion test be substituted for the present specific gravity test. Such a tesi, it is said, is believed by the Governor to afford a remedy that will ailow the present corps of oil in¬ spectors to be greatly reduced. The governor will charge that the specific gravity iiv. test now employed tt in Georgia has been discarded by the jt United u i on States i ^ and by many State Governments, and tie will declare tieudte that mat the me combustion tomuusuon test lent will win better ouici protect The tilt) specific public gravity against. Ulterior it is gasoline. stated, i test, s the .v approved i method „ ■ ct ic tar v testing *■ i kerosene, i tmt i has long since been abandoned for ascertain ing the quality and merit of gasoline. It is understood that Gov. Hardwick, m rCcomnicndiiig radical changes /r in the oil in spectlOll >• ... Stem 4 Will -n the pxeseilt , , 8 ) . score . of inspection by the Department of He is also expected to take the Department of Agriculture to task with the charge 9 it us 6tat ed, hded that the Department as at present consti and managed is a huge political machine, > largely concerned with perpetuating its officers in power. It is said that Gov. Hardwick plans to tell The Legislature that the Department of Agri¬ culture now employs approximately 500 persons including nearly 200 oil inspectors and 50 fertilizer inspectors. In a recent statement concerning his department, Commissioner Brown asserted that his corps of fertilizer in¬ spectors is very much inadequate to meet the demands of Georgia farmers. It is understood that Gov. Hardwick plans to tell the legislature that oil inspection cost approximately $100,000 each year»and fertili¬ zer inspections about half that amount. He will urge that in a spirit of retrenchment these inspections be made more economical by amending the law and employing fewer in¬ spectors. In addition to his recommendation respect¬ ing oil and fertilizer inspections, it is said the Governor will urge a general reorganization of the Department of Agriculture and a mate viaV reduction in the appropriations it receives from the Legislature. This will deveoj) a light on this question, as Commissioner Brown, in a statement last week, announced that the bud¬ get commission was preparing to slash Ills ap¬ propriations, asserting that he needed all pos¬ sible funds. LETTERS TO EDITOR A GEORGIA PAPER PAYS DESERVED TRIBUTE Tu MRS. THOS. E. WATSON. ' The death ot Mrs. Georgia Watson, widow of the late Senator Thomas E. Watson, a tewr days ago, brought to a close a life that had seen much sorrow in Its last. days. Mrs. Watson had stood by the graves of her two children and a little later was called to mourn the death of her husband. Left alone in the world, with all she held dear on “the other side of the border”, Bhe doubtless looked upon death as Burns called it, as the “dearest friend. J ” She was a Tory fine character and was greatly beloved by all Who knew her. A TRIBUTE TO MRS. THOS. E. WATSON FROM CALIFORNIA. Dear Mrs. Lytle: I sympathize with you and all ■' In your present bereavement. It Is additionally hard to bear following the loss of our dear Chief. Two noble souls—a loss the world can ill afford. A sweeter woman never blessed a home and suU , fered the loss of her loved ones, in such rapid suc tesslon, with greater courage and peaceful resignation than Mrs. Watson. ! She was a flower of the Old 8 outh; a God-ordained member of the nobility of womanhood. n California. Sincerely yours, J. DECKER. Help boost the circulation of one of the most in¬ dependent weekly papers In Georgia, and you will soon know as much about yourstate and national govern¬ ment as the men who rule you don't, want you to know. 91-50 a year. $ 1.00 cipbtmonths, or $!.00 a year In dubs of not less than five. • — Xhe C bhjffik ll Seotlttil, Thomson,' Ga, u■ ■‘ H X m n o r c S 2 > in M % H % m r* H x O 2 C/1 o 2 O m O 05 o > “THIS COUNTRY HAS PRODUCED BUT ONE LIN COLN, ONE ROOSEVEUT AND ONE WATSON,’’ SAYS \YM. M. HAIRSTON. Editor The Sentinel: Mr. Mason very kindly hand ed me yesterday a copy of The Columbia Sentinel that is being so ably ed'ted by yourself and Mrs. Alice : Louise Lytle. As a paragrapher, I do not believe Mrs. Lytle has an equal on the Georgia press. 1 hope 'that; you and she will keep the fires burning bright and that your brilliant rays will emit the light to' every nook qnd corner of our common country. j | Of course you , are following in the wake of a and mighty at. least intellect, as much a cyclopic, unique stormy Abrliam petrel—inimitable Lincoln. This| j as country one Watson. has produced As historian, hut one the Lincoln,' world has one ’Roosevelt, pro-! j never d’uced a better one than Mr. Watson. 1 doubt very ! much if it has ever duplicated him. j His mind was a superb prodigy; always when and with wherever the gigantic I met Mr. mountains, Watson with I associated the majestic his trees, name j j with the great blue sky. The thrill that the sparkling' scintillations of his pen would create, whenever read- j ing those tremendous educational articles, was simply j | indescribable. j And you can imagine that last fall when I was sitting in a hotel in Hastings, Nebr., and when the) evening paper was delivered, purchasing one, the first j thing I saw in large headlines across the front .page | were these startling words: “Senator Thomas E. son died this morning.’’ My grief at.the moment over- j came me. I was so anxious that Mr. Watson get at.j least six years in the United States Senate so that he i could this old take a hand in helping to lift up and rejuvenate | run down world of ours. You are face'to face with great responsibilities, as n! j 1 have just said, you are following in the path of world intellect, a man whose topographical po#ers j | were world wide, whose simple delineations were plain enough for the average child to grasp, whose torren ait! pen brought the farmer to his feet and put in mo¬ tion his little mental motor. Mr. Watson’s speeches and articles were educa¬ tional, free from junk, direct and to the point. He hated ambiguities and camouflaging had no place in his curriculum. He wanted the truth to go into every home; he was anxious that, the voter absorb it be fore going to the ballot box; he believed in all his great mind and soul in the constitutional and un alienable rights of the masses; he was their untiring, unpurchasatle, ever faithful aud winning friend. The malignities, vituperations and misrepresen¬ tations of the ungenerous and unmanly assailant lies, buried beneath the towering debris of oblivion, the brilliancy, the eloquence aud the indestructible merit of Mr. WatSon’s genius will be an effulgent star in the canopy of the nation’s brightest galaxy. Accept this bit of advice from your friend. With the armor of truth girdled about you, go forth to tell it without fear ot affection; be neither inspired by hatred nor disposition to covet favor. Toll the truth because we never needed it more than now. Pay ab no attention to the failing of the chips; direct your great batteries against Uu, election or “one gal ius” intellects to “two gaiius" positions. school chunt and life long friend of Mr. Wat son wrote me the other day from Washington City. tUa: Mr. Watson told him that you came the nearest of anticipating his mind and naturally outlining it in hU owtl style of anyone living. This is a marvelous com piiment and 1 am sure that you will appreciate it. I was tilled with great joy at hearing it, and l am proud *• ToHiSW cHi^hing to d 0 in Georgia, there is lots of Chaff in our wheat. Oar public ser I dom an V 3 t . ai ihoy ! e not wnl ?, s be conscientious somewhat as emboldened they should since be. Wat No s on’s passage into the great beyond, but there are lots Of good people who approve your course, not because conducted upon tbe broad Democratic basis so cor 7j^ ‘ a y Jma in ^ ' l,nciatod by Thoma:: WJl. Jefferson. M. HAIRSTON. Tlie man who keeps posted on his Senators, Con¬ gressmen and Representatives is the man who ran talk intelligently of political matters. .The Sentinel will keep you posted. Send in a sub for a year, or eight months or four months, and you will learn a iot. The*Columbja Sentinel, Thomson, Ga THE BOND ISSUE IS ALWAYS A POPULAR MOVE— FOR SOME. Dsar Editor: According to newspaper reports there was staged at Amerieu. on May -Ji, a kind of “Ring around Rosy.” 'The thought of levying a seventy-four million dol¬ lar bend ik.sue on the people of Georgia seems to have been the inspiring motive fof the gathering together of the hungriest lot of office holding taxeaters that ever assembled in Georgia. Before our little midget Governor elect gets into the Governor’s chair he, according to newspaper re¬ ports, undertakes to become a fixer for all political offices in Georgia, even the United States senatership, the election to which office doer, not come off until Sep tember, lft24, does not escape this little midget Gov ernor-eiect. After being touted up by those office holders who are trying to get through a seventy-four million dollar bond issue to be levied on the taxpayers of Georgia, this little midget Governor-elect seems to forget all about the reform issues on which he happens to slip into the Governor’s office—and he brings politics into the front. Perhaps tnis is done to becloud the issues, which he promised to advocate before the next Legis¬ lature to fritter away its time and not pass any legis¬ lation worth while—and especially not to pass any¬ thing that will tax invisible wealth, or disturb the School Book Trust. Newspaper reports say that this little Midget Governor-elect told the people that he intended t 0 re tire after the expiration of the time he may remain in the Governor's office. He must be contemplating get ting bond through issue and the lie proposed think seventy-four if the million dollar! may people authorize a . seventy-four million dollar bond issue during his term that will be all he 1 ever care for, wish or desire. The tax payers of Georgia will never tax them¬ selves seventy-four millions of dollars just to bring harmony among tax eating office holders, and a few newspapers and Bankers who intend to- handle these bonds. Seventy-four millions of dollars in bonds could make severfU millionaires in Georgia many times over. Public office should be a public trust, and not a private snap. Georgia, E. 0. FULLER, A four mouths reading of The Columbia Sentinel « 1 U keep you wise along many national and state lines. Four months, Fifty cents. The Columbia Sentinel, Thomson. Ga. TO PROTECT- COTTON IN THE HANDS OF FACTORS. Editor The Sentinel : The wholesale theft of cotton by the firm of cotton factors in Augusta, the extent of which has not yet been made public,, is certainly without a parallel in the history of Georg’,-> for its audacity, and should prove a warning to out farmers to be very careful bow they place their cotton in the hands of cotton factorm When cotton factors, with an utter disregard for the laws of the land and seemingly a contempt for any court of justice, can dispose of cotton without the knowledge and consent of the owner and appropriate the proceeds to their own use,-it becomes an assured fact that the farmer who piaeps uis cotton in their hands under the present method of doing business, is absolutely at the mercy of the. cotton factor—with' no protection whatever. It is therfore in order for our representatives at the next session of the General Assembly, to enact remedial legislation that will safeguard the interest of the farmer, by requiring a bond for every cotton fac¬ tor doing business in the State of Georgia; *and the creation of a board of examiners, making it a felony for any cotton factor to have on hand at any time an amount of cotton in excess of his bond. In' no against' other way can the interest of the farmer be protected cotton thelts aud cotton iailures. Georgia. J, P. WILSON. A FOLKS! HERE'S A LETTER WORTH READING! ! Hear Editor: Please find enclosed 110.00 Cash- \ ier t ’ s check tor which please send Id sub. . me that } may sell or give them away, as I don’t bclieyC I could do a better missionary work than to distribute The Columbia Sentinel all over the U. S. A. because 1 don’t see how any honest man can condemn it,! it stands for Justice to everybody. That, is, the why only the want-it-all they crowd .has always fought, it; it is| paper want crushed. They have never I been able to buy it. Thank God, the old Chief, Tfios. I j E. Watson, the people’s friend, planted the everlasting principles that those heartless and soulless, merciless! ami ungodly monarch can never destroy, Grover, l! can read it in you: you and T. E. W. are brothers in j principles. People, don’t be deceived by those traitors j w &0 are walking around saying. “Grover \r not the ma 1 ' “ The 0 «t Sentinel. Tom Watson Any was.” That is their hammer to! Onel y and that. Watson sane is still man talking can read The Sen- i see and writing i through Grover C. Edmondson. j Subscribe for The Sentinel and read it, for it is! tbe only paper that gives the facts as they are to the | common class of people, 1 would be glaq to write a long letter but space will , not permit. Hurrah for Roy E. Davis, of Vaid dosta. and Will H. Stanford, and lots of others. Peo let’s talk our convictions. We don't want advice from A1 Smith nor W. P. G. Harding, and other trai tors *° °ttr Constitution. Yours for American principles, Georgia. , B. L DAVIS, urx OUR ruaderc nunne "l' 1 .*' tuk write to! RE I.EbENTATIA E LINDER, . » Editor The Sentinel: As a member of the . Legislature . , . from , .teff-Davis . introducing Constitutional County, I am thinking of! n. amendmen' to change the! name of Bulloch County to Watson. Write me your ideas about, this. Address letter to Dublin. Ga. Dublin. Yours truly, Ga. T. M. LINDER A dollar comes hard these days, we know, but in tested in an eight months' subscription to e live fear less, independent paper like The Columbia Sentinel, makes you see wlier your State ought to save money. The Columbia Sentinel, Thomson, (in. DO NOT. BE DISCOURAGED Pitts’ Antiseptic Invigorator Will Aid You to Glowing Health and Vigorous Vitality. Read the Startling Testimonials of the Merits of This Marvelous Preparation. 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