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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1923)
HE COLUMBIA SENTINEL issued Every Monday at Thomson, Ga At-ICE LOUISE LYTLE, Owner anti FublUher. / I Successor to / THOS. E. WATSON, FOUNDER. i ntered in Post Office at Thomson, Ga., as Second Class Matter, Under Act of March 3, 1897. { IBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR ; when sent in clubs, ol live 15.00. I \TES TO NEWSDEALERS—Three cents each, cash to accompany order. Thomson address of The Columbia Sentinel P. 0. Box 393. GROVER C. EDMONDSON, Edrtw. '~" V‘ Thomson, Georgia, July 16, 1923. The pocket book limit and the three mile iXf nit are'all that keep some men sober. **■ 4< fk # ;'f ’g so hot in the East, a. peace pact has again been signed between Turkey and Greece. # * * • This is as good time as any for Mother to i sist on the eight-hour working day—with Line off whenever she needs it. * # * * Mr. Bok says “give the world work and 1 ere will be peace.” Nope; if it has the work j. will fight over Dio wages to be paid. ' *. * r * Uncle Sam feels the ^ame way about pro¬ hibition that the owner o*f a new car does: the upkeep costs more than the original price. Copeland is . another Senator with , Scnator < i eye to the votes ot the future: says he: tea coffee, as stimulants, are in the same class v-ith beer. . . . Staging “petting parties roads, ’ in automobiles, is another In the day time, on busy form of bad taste our young people should be warned against. rved Oklahoma produced and a Congresswoman calls attention to who f one term, now a L.xteen year old girl who will also serve fine ' I'ffi—in prison, as a bigamist. Striking brick layers are to be “drafted” 1 the building war now going on in New York. J » s they are to get $12. a day, no expressions t sympathy are needed. A Florida deputy sheriff has died—a vic¬ tim evidence—and to duty. He bought some boot-leg juice as then drank it. Many beautiful floral tributes at funeral. » • • • Score one for Ireland: the judiciary there refuse to have the Richard Croker will case reopened; dirty say they of have had enough of the linen washing the Croker familw • * # * Average housewives will long for the adop¬ tion of that Washing! on, D. C., law which pro¬ hibits the use of cracked or chipped dishes. Maybe cooks and “hired girls’” might be made Id observe it. The ladies of Paris, weaving the thin stoek- 5 lgs of fashion, have solved the problem of rirt by dusting “golden powder on the ankles, which gleam through the silken mesh as though encased in gold.” i A New York church is to bold “spj Dual istic clinics for the treatment of nervous dis orders.” Listening to some of the preacher healers will probably keep the line of up to a high mark. * * » # M oman dress expert advises other women to “dress for their husbands.*’ Most of them do, hut they never can make Friend Husband understand that said dressing always costs more than the Dress Exp rf figures it will cost. New Lastle. j ennsylvama . deserves notice for having marted movement to fine and others w.io make unnecessary noises at night, thereby disturbing residents who still oldrasinonod enough to want to sleep at In the steel nulls or I’ensylvania . the no g’’oes who nave been Hooking there are being r r ” e *‘ Giey do not become as skilled ’■ *f. ybers there as is do . m tne ’’race immigrants troubles ’ from with Europe, the im grants. It used to be only gun powder wounds that used Fourth of-July casualties: now sr oh- la.'mly risk their necks in automobiles -■ the Glorious Day, and the rust, doesn’t Worry at all, aa to the mode of eelebrfiA'ng, THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA. A Visit To The State Capital. r In some things, Georgia is rather lucky; the late change of officials for the State pnt in offiee some splendid men—men who go to their new j daces with more zeal than the for-re -only \\ office holder possesses. hen the Pension Department was turned over to Major Charles E. McGregor, for first time in bis life the Major held a public office. An lionest-to-goodness Major in the Confederate Army, it stands to reason he wall Veterans, than a man who never saw service, have more sympathy and interest in the old and for this office The there other wall be nothing but smooth sailing. members of the pension office are interesting, too. !n 8 w eefed chair, the assistant to Major McGregor carries on the routine office work as cheerily and as well as though he were of able to walk and mingle with the balance the Capi tol officials—and Sam Askew asks no pity be¬ cause of bis affliction. He and the Major have been friends for years—and both of them have been the devoted friends of the late Sen ator Tbos. E. MTason. The third member of the Pension office Mrs. Lindsey, the widow of a former Commissioner, and this little official family ‘ gets along so well, their offices are a sort of gathering place for various and sundry pil¬ grims who go to the State Capitol on more or less important errands. But the State School Superintendent was the one I was thinking of specially, because I knew him long ago, and saw him take hold of a situation that was chaotic, ami evolve a per¬ fect system of public schools, in Glynn County. Prof: Ballard is, to hegin with, the sort of man who would tackle a hard job, and get the best of it because of its difficulties. He does SWWSrtLTi? record shows for itself. Then, he is a Mason of high degree, and that stands for some thing, too. In a short interview with Professor Bal¬ lard on my visit to the State Capital last week, we naturally referred to other days, and the work he had accomplished in Glynn Coun ty was ro f erre d to by me, in the conversation, Xaturally this led to the work ahead of him as gt a t e Superintendent, and it is good to note that he looks forward to many improvements in the public school system of the State, with special stress laid on the country schools. Professor Parks, who was State Superin¬ tendeufc for the interim between the term of Profes$(fr Brittain and the elective term of Professor Rallartk, had outlined to me some p i ans f or t] u . betterment of the public schools 0 f the State which I referred to last week; it is splendid to note that Professor Ballard in tenas jo work on these same lines, and the improvement^ will soon lake concrete usual form. All of thiR leads up do the thing,* M oney. The State of Georgia appropriates a lot of money for its schools, but it. will have to ap¬ propriate a lot more before the blot of illitera¬ cy is lessened or wiped out. There are so many efforts being made to' lessen this stain, and one of the finest is that which has been carried on by Miss Martha Berry in her schools at Mount Berry, Georgia. Starting her school Miss for mountain boys and girls in 1902, Berry “carried on” with little notice from the outside, and no help from anyone. These girls and boys would have been absolutely unschooled, had it not been for the idea of Miss Berry to teach them, interest others if she could, and send out in the world, young men and women who would raise the standard of living in their communities to the standard of the more fortunate centres. The work has been hard, and many times Miss Berry must have felt like giving up, but her results have been so glorious, she has little trouble in interestfig those who learn of the unique features of the Berry Schools. Under Professor Ballard’s plans for the future, the State will consolidate the rural fehools, open schools in isolated sections, and the saving to the taxpayers will be enormous, ^hile the benefits to the children will be bo prophecy, That there was so great need for schools such as Miss Berry established, was the fault of out* system of school supervision, and Pro¬ lessor Ballard will, if given the proper sup port, establish our school system on a basis that will make the illiteracy Of Georgia rarer as the years pass, Governor Walker is settling down to l\is job, but he looks a bit weary. He is trying to evolve a system of taxation which will be to the tax-payer but beneficial to the State. Taking over an office like his must lie much like moving into a new house with a lot of the furniture of the former owner still on hand. One doesn’t like to throw the furni tore out until one sees what may be gotten in its place, and the work of straig! 1 ruing out and working at the same Bine. I hard pob. Before the new Governor bus gotten CO III fort ably seated, rumors of his successor arc rumoring; one of the strongest whispers con¬ cern quite a young man —r lawyer and at present speaker of the House, Honorable I’ocil Neill, If presiding over, the House a energy and pep are preparations for a Gov then the Honorable Cecil is doing some strenuous It training. was my unexpected privilege to see the wrUngs Of the House from the Speakers stand, and I was almost too overwhelmed to “sense” all of what I saw. The two lady members—Bibb’s and Ful ton’s, respectively—were on the job; former Governor Gilchrist of Florida was a guest at j j the teresting same speech time I was, the and tax he question, had a most in on the problem lmd been answered in Florida —bv taxing the “unseen” or “invisible” wealth. To be “given the freedom of the House” and of the Senate was a very great honor—one J never dreamed would be shown me, and i could only bow my thanks to the Assembly, when I was introduced from the stand of the Speaker. whole, looks typically The Body, as a Georgian—earnest, hard-working and anxious 1" face the business which called them to At lanta. Many bills had been, introduced, and many move wore to be introduced, but the mill had just begun to grind, and nothing lias, as yet, been accomplished, Another honor the placing . , given me was Ol name on the State Democrat ie Committee, which I served once betoie. I have been given the place made vacant bv the death of ’ \r,-a Tln.u Id Writ-arm ,1', This looks , like V lot of „ I ,,, , but , ' it means a , that mv work will be, if possible, even more earnest than it has been ill the past, tor those tilings publicity, which mean information publicity for that which needs 1 *,’ where that rnav , be . tor the ot „ those ,, who . need it, given got'u and the hope that we may bitter help, even ill-a small <!«grae, to purify aid conditions in tin State tor 'that much-harassed class, the far mers of Georgia Geo ^' a Assembly Honors Thos. E. Watson. A RESOLUTION. WHEREAS, The people of Georgia have ever shown appreciation of the lives and work of her noble sons and have shown a spirit of recognizing the devotion and integrity of those whose lives have been spent in the service of the people without regard to past differences and political divisions, and WHEREAS, The people of the State of Georgia and of the United States have suffered the loss ol a great patriot and tearless leader in the death of our former junior Senator from Georgia, Honorable Thomas. E. Watson, W T1TFD17WU1V I 11LKLI OIiTj ore I>Ij rn 11 rmctni ,. KD T 1)V , the members of the House, the Senate concur of five members be a,,. pointed — three by the Speaker, and two bv the President of the Senate, to draft appropriate 1 esollltions on tile life oi Mr. \\ at son. and propose to the- people of Georgia and of country at lame ' a 1 suitable buI, »oie memnrinl lmmoiial i„ U$ l,ia Ills • memory, and , present same to these Bodies adoption. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that General Assent-lily be adjourned over Thufs day, July fifth, out of respect to his memory. Congressman Charles H. Brand’s Able , Speech on Cuban Controversy. The proposition involved in this revolution is a matter of interest to every member of this as well as to the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank and the state composing the Sixth district. Besides, it touches. lit a sense, the Interest of all the people of the cotton growing states, particularly the man who "follow ; plow and bends over the hoe.’’ Most of the people who are backing the of the Boston hank to establish an agency at Cuba more or less callous and indifferent to the farming classes of our section of the country. This may be duo largely to the fact that they know nothing about their troubles. One has to live here with these people, move among them, see and talk with them, in order know their suffering and hardships, and particularly the sacrifices they have endured since 192(4 and are enduring. ft I hope a hotter and happier day is If so, will be largely due to a proper of the system by the Federal*Reserve Board in Wash-' Ingtmi. 1 have neve, fought the Federal Reserve System: as a member of Congress, in or out of it, and yet 1 1 have arraigned the board, probably the first member or : Congress to do so, fo-r the deflation policy it adopted; in 1920, which virtually destroyed the cotton grower, and most everybody c 1 :e dependent upon him. 'fho member banks of this district are not chargeable this. Tlie Atla ta Federal Reserve Bank didn’t do it. According to information that has come before the Banking and Currency Committee of the House of Representatives, the Sixth District Federal Reserve Bank has been administered more wisely, oapnoajicaily, satisfactorily, and in tiro interest of the member banks and the people generally, than any other Federal R" serve Bank in the United States. 1 say this much in behalf of Governor Welborn and his cabinet and all those charged with the responsibility of administering the bank’s affairs. This policy origi¬ nated at headquarters and Governor W. P. li. ing, more Ilian any other human being, is for'H. More values were destroyed by this which was promulgated sudden’, and secretly, than the calamity which followed Sherman’s "March to the Sea." Men suicided all over this country on account it: thousands went into bankruptcy; men, women, and children of both races have gone half clothed and liun-i gry; people are suffering from the effects of this policy get! now and it will be many years, if ever, before they over it. The master mind of the Federal Reserve even now is trying to manipulate the policies of the! board. He is trying to put over a proposition on the. Atlanta lank which is outrageous, and to be plain about it. 1 am afraid be is going to do it. Go*, nor Wellborn and Governor Harding are both from the same state, botli from the South, and yet Governor Harding Is trying to lake away from the Atlanta bank the right to establish a branch agency i.i Cuba and to give the Boston bank this priviloc . when ho was a member of the Federal Reserve he advocated an expenditure of $400,000 for the pur po^e of erecting a building in Jacksonville to help pedite and carry on the business of the Atlanta with Cuba, Besides, the Atlanta bank filed application with the Federal Reserve Board to establish this agency two years before the Boston bank did. Everybody under¬ stood he was favorable to this proposition when he was a posing member it of the when board, he knows and yet he is persistently op¬ now the agenov rightly bp- longs to us and not to Boston The Cuban business be¬ longs to the Atlanta bank and I contend It }s unreason¬ able. unfair, and unjust for Governor Harding, ag the instrument of the Boston bank, to try to take this busi¬ ness away from the Atlanta bank. Another phase of thi3 question is more important than the establishment of the Cuban agency. It raises the question whether or not, occupying the office of Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank oE Boston at a salary of $50,000 per annum, he will still be permitted to dictate the policies of the Federal Reserve Board. The abseni mem ter. no longer officially -connected with the board, is reaching across the states, with the back of his hand turned against his own people, in his mili¬ tant efforts against, the interest of the people and the member banks of the system in the Sixth district. The questlou arises, has Governor Harding such an influence over the Federal Reserve Board as to -control its poli¬ cies? When President Harding declined to reappoint Governor Harding a member of the Federal Reserve Board the country thought that his influence with the board terminated. What does the Boston bank and Governor Harding mean anyway? What is behind the curtain? Who is playitig lh'- game in Washington behind the scenes in Boston? What, has the Boston bank got in mind? Do they want to manipulate the price of tobacco in Cuba? Are they -interested in the sugar speculators down there and the sugar profiteers here? If so, Gov¬ ernor Harding should be remiuded that lie is playing with human life and the comforts and necessities of the men, women and little children of this section of our country. Governor Harding should not. forget that he was a party to the policy adopted in 1920, which decreased the price of cotton from 40c and 50c to 10c per pound. \ have nothing against Governor Harding personally. iVttion with the Federal Reserve Board in Washington and its affairs was ended by his failure to be reap pointed, and it_ought to be permanently ended on ac count of the disaster Visited upon this country three years ago. Secretary Wallace testified before our committee ,, 0 f the products of the farmer or decrease them when it saw fit to do so. Governor Harding was present when thl ? statement was made. Mr. Wallace is a Republican and a very high class man. I myself asked him Do you mean to say that the Federal Reserve Board can, ''’y a certain policy which it might adopt, run the price « S“ff “ ""'AM! 11 a "” “ c Governor Harding denied this statement vehem ently. This testimony confirmed my conviction that the members of the Federal Reserve Board held the p.ower of li'e and death over all the people, and for one 1 am against Governor Harding having anything to do With the establishment of this bank in Cuba or having any hing to do with dictating the policy of the Federal Reserve Board. If the board has the pow'er to- run up the price of sugar and other essentials of life, or run down the price of cotton, the men who compose it ought to have the interest of the people of the South at heart, and partic¬ ularly the laboring men and the poor people of the pation at large. SEND NO MONTY Cabbage aim Tomato Plants. $1.23; Strawberry plants $3.<!0 thousand. All kinds fruit trees $2.00 doz¬ en. Shipped C. O. D. and charges. SEXTON PLANT COMPANY. ROYSTON, GA VALDOSTA, GA. atlaxta and west t*oi\t rail road company th k western railway of a Bahama „ ‘ V ’ ’ Wcek WoeX-end , and „ nri summer excursion fares are now in effect to this famous summer resort. A delightful place 1° s i >e " d Hie week-end or several weeks. i" ihSIl £%£&? ft u : ons of this Hotel may dress 7n their rooms and go ofthn* w^x-c/a^iioTh'^u’" 8 tl>e same conyon,ences Following rites are quoted by the Oceanic Hotel hich inciutie n’.eals and the privilege of serf bathing: * fooms witho »t » a th.....$4.00 and $4.50 F «r dav. rooms with bath... .. $5.00 and $3.00 ner dav Double rooms without bath... .$s.oo and $9 oo per d-A rooms With bath. .. .$10.00 and $11.00 per dav undor twe!ve years.. . . .....$0.00 per day For further Information write to the undw-signe-i J. 1\ BILLUPS, General Passenger Agent ATLANTA, GA. 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Be sure to ask for Pitts’ Antiseptic Invigorator by its full name and do not accept any substitute, for Pitts’ Antiseptic Invigorator is guaranteed to help you or the druggist will promptly refuna your money after you have taken a bottle according to directions. Purchase Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator at your Druggist or send $1.00 to l)r. C. Gibson, Thomson, Ga., and it will be sent by mail. Wholesaled by Lamar A- Rankin Drug Co., Atlanta, Ga., and Augusta Drug Co., Augusta, Ua. GROVER c. EDMONDSON, Attorney at Law Will engage in general practice of law in Geor¬ gia Courls—Slate and Federal. Office and Residence No. 219 Lumpkin St., Thomson. Georgia. The Coin mb in Sentinel looks for no political jobs; asks no -favors. It’s worth fifty cents for a four mouths trial—see it it isn’t. THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL. Thomson. Ga.
