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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1923)
[HE COLUMBIA SENTINEL Issued Every Monday at Thomson, Ga ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Owner and Publisher, Successor 11» THOS. E. WATSON, FOUNDER. entered in Post Office at Thomson, Ga., as Second Class Matter, Under Act of March 3, 1897. •IBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR ; when sent in dabs oi five $5.00. GATES TO NEWSDEALERS-Three cents each, cash to accompany order. Thomson address of The Columbia Sentinel P. 0. Box 393. GROVER C. EDMONDSON, Editor. Thomson, Georgia, July 23, 1923. Physicians in Saxony are to he paid for heir services in rye—in the grain, not , in ottles. Great Britain says she doesn’t believe Ger¬ many is unable to pay her bills, and asks for i. Board to be appointed, ’nother lot of fat ob$ for the needy. * # * # Now that plain, common worms have dared o invade the sacred golf links of a Jersey inh, it is possible that a war on all worms in eneral will be started. Z * * * The.se Bostonians arc not so cold as they have been painted: here’s another up there being fined and everything, for mg the wife of an armv officer. * * Germans in the Ruhr district are adopting Ku Klux Klan methods of dealing with their countrymen who insist on having profiteering dealings with the French. i* # # * Another new infant industry fostered by Uncle Sam. Healthy specimens of bed bugs ire needed at the Vienna station of the in ecticide experimental department. # # * # Between the fatalities of the air men, aud hose of the pedestrians in cities who are run town by automobiiists, it would seem that neither the air nor terra firm a are safe— much. if poor old Doe Cook had confined his ef¬ forts to Arctic explorations, he would have saved himself a sight of worry. He’s about to he jailed again—this time for fake oil schemes. AVith the Republicans of flic Northern States welcoming the influx of negroes from the South, the Democratic politicians efforts to get the ban on immigration lifted, shows where their hope lies. It is quite likely a breath-smelling com¬ mittee will he appointed, if that rule goes through whereby all members of the Georgia Legislature are to he made to tell whether or not they drink ‘Dicker. ’ ’ Others than Georgians should be interested in-the stupendous Memorial Georgia. now under way on Stone Mountain, in When completed, party lines will he forgotten, in the pride the Xatimi will fee) at its completion and art Alter hacking the last Western prize tight for all lie w as worth, the sporty president of a Texas hank has been obliged to close the bank’s doors. Which shows that handling oth er people's in one) is risky- for the other poo pic. Here’s the “banguppest” motto that ev¬ er emanated from the brain of a politician— and its author is trying to break into the U. S. Senate from Minnesota: ”1 don’t believe in bring too definite on issues,” which is why the l . S. is where it is, on most of the matters it is facing. The investigation or what ever it is called, now on in Haris to determine the future of Germany, i> wearing out the men on the Gourds . 111 <I is not doing a tiling toward solv¬ ing the problems. Cuiio, General Degoutte, “resident I’oinenre, and Diuinier Baldwin are II showing signs of the terrible* strain, and .ie end is nowhere in sight. hi the death «.f Robert Lovoinan, whose ot ms have delighted many, Georgia loses one hose <wi'i>| songs were a jov. In person, he a- the •mbodimeni of what lie sang, and bite lie could never be classed as “great”, e was that, rarer combination, sweet singer, nd lovable man. lie was a Jew, with all the owe of expression which his race is gifted ith, and his poems will be prized us the ears go by. Tr.2 COLUMBIA SfNTlNEt. T .UVSON, GUCRHA. Shall J. J. Brown Silence The Columbia Sentinel? The clipping here re-produced, is taker, from The McDuffie Progress of July 3. 1933. FOR LEAVE TO SELL Georgia, McDuffie County. To Whom it May Concern: Notice is hereby given, that B. ,1. Ste¬ vens, J. H. Cartledge and E. .1, Forrester, as executors of the estate of Thos. E. Mbit son, deceased, having applied to me by pe¬ tition for leave to sell the real estate, bank stock, newspaper, newspaper machin¬ ery and equipment of said Thos. E. Wat¬ son, deceased, and that an order was made thereon at the July term, 192J, for citation, and that citation issue; all the heirs at law and creditors of the said Tlios. E. Watson, deceased, will take notice that 1 will pass upon said application at the August Term 1928 of the Court of Ordinary of McDuffie county; and that unless cause is shown to the contrary, at said time, said leave will he granted. This the 2nd day of July, 1928. G. W. LOKBY, B. J. STEVENS, Attorney for Applicants. The “newspaper” referred to is The Co¬ lumbia Sentinel. When the late Thos. E. Watson, in 1918, his was suffering from the shock of the death did of last remaining child—“J. D.” he have the relief he lmd had in other crieises— that of turning to his work, editing his period¬ icals, and writing hooks. His health had been shattered by other blows less than a year previous: the great World War was on in 1917, and Mr. Watson had been bitterly opposed to the conscription of American men and boys, for service in for "'-n, ] ‘V believed, and wrote, that there u ; ouI ' be sufficient volunteers, should danger j t>u dus countiy, to serve as defenses abroad, and lor t hese expressions his maguili «*ent business, “the Jeffersonian Publishing Company” was crushed. Hi August of this year—1917, his only daughter died; the destruction of his followed, and then his health began to fail, With Mrs. Watson, 1 went with Mr. son to their Florida home, in the hope, that winter there would restore his nerves, renew his interest in life, and when we returned to Georgia, there would he some for him to resume his writings—if not papers and magazines, then the revisions of Diose hooks lie had written, and perhaps a tin 0 "t 1 he Story ot the South and West. Lip ',). D. eame to 1* lorida, was iaken uitl 1 an acute attack ot an old eomplauit aud died from the effects of the . >peration nooessa ry at a moment ’s notice. It was a broken- hearted man and woman who came hack willi the son’s body, and noi thei ever recovered rom that shock. In the effort to relieve the melancholy, I induced Mr. Watson to contribute weekly odi toruus to a little paper published in the ad joining county Known as the Columbia Sen tV L. tV H. Mil.ci, original!) wa ' s from . a >' 0UM South K " lfm Carolina; named lie was, at that time, a great admirer of Mr. atson, thought him the highest and ot the orators and statesmen then living, and was proud to can-) the weekly editorials. I personally made the trip to Harlem, < olumlniv County, where the little paper was published each week, and when the old J soman readers received a paper carrying editmials ot 1 lies. L. Watson, it soon became apparent that there was still alive, the old mi ling for the brilliant editor. The office of The Columbia Sentinel Harlem was that of tin* usual country weekly paper; we had still the wonderfully j Rant ot the old Jeffersonian Company, in I liomson, and as Mr. Watson had bought much of the machinery and equipment for sale for taxes, we began operations for Columbia Sentinel in the old plant, using old machinery again, and watching the take renewed interest in life and events. MR. MILLER GOES TO COLLEGE. Mr. Miller had long nursed an ambition to be a lawyer, hut lie had not Die means to to college; he had been struggling hard to Ins little paper a success, and when it was laken over, by bill of sale which 1 now lio expressed the hope that he would soon be able to lay down the work of the paper, and take up the study of law. Mr. Watson appreciated the ambition of the young man, and he paid him, outright, for the paper, making an agreement between him se If and myself, by which we were to operate the paper, under the old name of The Columbia Sentinel. Mr. Miller went to Mercer; the Chief set tied down to writing! 1 staid on the job as Gen oral Utility, and we gathered a crew of faithful people as one could wish. We had stormy times, editorially, but nev era worn over the tmauciul part 1 was ours. rn, he campaign tor uoimri.o,-Senator, ., . u, wind, our ( net and Air. Hardw.ek hgured, was one ot 1m most interestu.g mid exciting periods I have ever lived through and it was t ie ins had cut nikou part m wit. iff, wise, clever guidance of our late co-worker, “J. D. i» But I followed his plans; I secured tlie registered voting lists for every district in Georgia, and in that campaign we sent out, from this little office in Thomson over 7b,000 papers some weeks of the ettm pnign. Mr. Edmondson now tlie editor of The Sentinel, was with the Chief in the thick of the battle, and there is nothing he and i prize as we do this tribute in the. issue of November K, from the Chief: WHAT WE OJVE TO MRS. A. L. LYTLE During the whole of this year, The Sen¬ tinel has been making its light, almost sin¬ gle handed, against the .Bottomless Bit League. Not entirely recovered from the ner¬ vous prostration which Overcame me in Florida, there have been times when 1 could not do mv part for the paper. Who kept it going? Mrs. Lytle did. When 1 was on the road, making speech¬ es at twenty-odd places, who kept; the pa¬ per alive ? Mrs. Lytle did. No one else could have done it. Site bps been. my indispensihle helper on this paper, as . ho was when The Jef¬ fersonian was permitted to exist. During my own campaign, she and Gro¬ ver Edmondson flooded the State With extras: during Mr. Hardwick’s maud campaign, she and Grover mailed out 5,000 letters to my most active friends J ' throughout the Mate. Of the issue that “went after” Walker, Mrs. Lytle used, for Mr. Hardwick, 175, 01)0 copies. Nobody has done more to win tile great battle, than has this wonderfully capable woman. I owe her this tribute! And Mr. Hardwick feels the same way about it. While she is a member of tny family, and always will be, it is not just for me to re¬ frain from a public acknowledgement, of her worth, both to me and to the cause. As to Grover—you’ll hear from him, after awhile. A LONG SKIP TO THE NEXT EPISODE. When we went to Washington with the to keep in touch with all that was of im portanoe, for the paper, we worked as hard as wo had in Thomson; lie was gratified beyond exjiression at the continued growth of the pa )»el*. and as many of vou know, dictated its last editorial, less than forty-eight hours before bis There were many things being brought to his attention that disturbed him, in regard to the political conditions of Georgia, but he felt that lie would again take up the dropped threads, when he came home for the long va cation, and we were all hopeful that Congress would soon close, as his health had begun to show the strain of the long hot summer, the loug sessions, and the recurrent attacks of asthma from which ho had long suffered. His death is too poignant, even at this time for me to more than refer to it The indignity which the Roman Catholic assistant Sergeant-at-arms tried to put over, is almost too painful a subject, but von his friends, know that his body 'only came home in state befitting him—not as a Senator, but as one of the biggest nnv State ever sent -to the United States Senate. In my desire to rid Georgia of the which was sapping it 1 had consistently ton of the abuses which were permitted’ in present management of our State there Department. ! called attention to the fact was an open market, and a keen demand, good prices for the products of the farm in which Georgia excelled. 1 look up with the head of the Market reau in Washington, the possibility of a space in the city market there to display sell the Georgia yam. 1 was given a space, well placed, and then 1 tried to get ' Personally, called‘the from the office of Senator Wat I Department of Wicubure the Washington. official Talking the matter over' to whom 1 had been referred stated the need of Georgia to have these products on the Georgia market, and was told bv this gentleman that no longer had a rep reset,tatire oi the Federal Department of A a riniltnre, and that it teas on the report of the «//'•»/ who had been in Gron/ia, that he teas transferred to Font!, Carolina. THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION OF V DATE I DO NOT RECALL COVERED THIS ITEM MENTIONING THE WORDING OF REPORT OF THE FEDERAL AGENT THAT GEORGIA DID NOT HAVE \ HE FARM ENT OF AGRICULTURE BUT DID HAVE A POLITICAL MACHINE , 1 do , not , recall the .. wording exact of this item appealing m he Constitution, Imt it > or *‘ the conversation winch 1 had had with the federal official over the telephone. So -when the body of Senator Watson was being lowered in the grave, the question hi the mind of ,T. J. Brown, Com of Agriculture of Georgia was: what to do about silencing The Sentinel, and getting rid of Mrs, Lytle, THE CONFERENCE IN THE CEMETERY. Mr. E. H. Miller, the former owner of The Sentinel had, by this time, graduated from Mt feer and come back to Thomson, was a wit¬ ness at the burial of our Chief—not so much as a mourner, but as a lawyer, and a guano in¬ spector, with his new Chief, J. J. Brown. In one of our warm campaigns while Mr. Miller was with The Sentinel, lie had resigned this job. but either thought better of it, and remained, or else was made to feel that he could stay on the paper and in the Department of Agriculture too even if there were some sen timents published in the paper that were not pleasant. So when J. J‘, Brown worried at the mode of executing his wishes in regard to The Sen¬ tinel and Mrs. Lytle, Mr. Miller evolved the brilliant plan of putting in a claim for money owed him by Mr. Watson; this was a perfectly safe thing to do. Mr. Watson was dead; rip one had ever accused him* of owing a bill, or violating a contract, and Mr. Miller put in his claim. Tlie 4 I mourners” (?) from Atlanta all leader went back; their active, aggressive, fearless was dead, and they might now start anything in perfect safety. The injunction was granted; I had not a dollar of money, nor an inch of property to borrow money on; I was as penniless after my fourteen years’ service with the Chief as I was when I came to him. But the injunction might be raised with the aid of a good lawyer, some money and a lot of talk. Mr. Miller “consented” to receive $500. as his share for having branded Thos. E. Wat¬ son, dead, as a liar and a thief. And it cost $800. lawyer’s fee to have this brought about—but it was money well spent, if it will wake ttye friends of fair play to this, the latest and last effort of the Hierarchy of the Agriculture Department of J. J. Brown and the State of Georgia. 1 refer to the clipping with which I started this article. One of the highest officials of J. J. Brown reported in Atlanta, during the week of July 9, that every effort had been made to induce Mrs. Lytle to stop her unwarranted attacks on Mr. Brown dud the Department, and as she was deaf to all pleas, the paper would be sold. 1 was in Atlanta when this pleasing bit of finesse was started, and on my return to Thomson, 1 found that the preliminary stops had bee taken. Mr. B. J. Stevens is one of the lawyers rep resenting the estate of the late Senator Wat son. Hi.s partner is Mr. E. H. Miller, the man whom the Chief started on his career in Mer¬ cer, and who afterward got the $500. for claim¬ ing that lie had never been paid for his share of the paper. My claim of one half interest in the paper, as co-partner with the late Chief, is “not to he allowed,’ 1 ’ according to Mr. Stevens. 1 have no money for lawyers, but there are still some men, in the practise of law who will work, and wait for their pay. FREEDOM FRFFflfll/k or OF PRESS PBF « IN IW GEORGIA. rPAnriA Have you seen anv adverse critiesm in any 01 ' H>e daily of Georgia, of J. J. Brown papers aml bis ”political machine” ? Vou have not, and you would be amazed if . vou could talk with the officials I have talked with, and note their absolute fear of this man was made by Thos. E. Watson, and who squirmed from under, every time he was need ed 111 a crisis by Mr. Watson. Gan you believe that a Representative in State Legislature could make a speech, filing 'urn of this attention Department, to the need and while for an his investiga remarks were greeted with enthusiasm by his eol not have a word of it appear in any 0 *’ Die Atlanta papers? This happened last week; Bannister of Thomau County was the speaker, and not a s * n *J e word of his speech, and of course no comment, appeared in a single daily paper, 111 • Ah,Jer J . 1 . 1 ®-’ 6 bounty, vvas a >’ dlln who « wrote man runmn me several g a paper let ters ( ; omm, “ ,ltni h' on and commending the ex- 1 'T aa trying to make of this Agricultural 1 ? r y; 110 re l ,roducetl aeveral °f my arti <>leK , * u , 0ls . ,. llltIe , T ^ u *!iey stopped. us now 011 the- pay-roll of the Agricul tu ,. epartment, and his little paper is the UKUH , P'A-iueuu, local squib class of the aver¬ 11 .“A country paper. 1 f, ‘ •> oh ol 0,1 mspeetor seems to bo the . ,M?t Urown has offer, I,' to and the u'?w , 1S jfB ors are also on Ag o ultmal Department, as inspectors, . So ,K ' !unv ea, ‘ not j (!el ! hat Georgin is ■ peinnt . the . only tree, independent li ttat k f? ^arles«ly pa- 1 7, a ' -thj« incubus m1 *T , , « making, to die. W atsoiiism meant more than just fighting: *„ mt . a „t going after those who had failed to keep the faith with the people; those who had forgottei, that public office was a public trust; au d with the farmers in worse shape than they have been since the Civil War—and J J * (Continued on Page Three.), . jt ’
