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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1923)
I THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL Issued Every Monday at Thomson, Ga I r ALICE l.OCftSE LYTLE, Oivnei r*ut>IIshep. S.jc-fMor to THOS. E. WATSON, rains, dew. ftnterstf in Yofct (Office at Thomson, Ga., Second Gist* Matter, Under Act of I March S, 1897. __ SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR ; when sent in clubs wduui <>[ five $5.00. T RATES TO NEWSDEALERS-Thrce cents each, cash to accompany order. —.] — GROVER C. EDMONDSON. Editor. Thomson address of The Colombia Sentinel p ' °' *“ 39 "' Thomson, Georgia, October 22, 1923. Despite the efforts of the operators to curtail the supply, coal is going down, and a drop of $2 was made last week. Nothing daunted by previous experiences. Mr. Eugene Debs has already cast his hat into the. presidential ring of 1924. # ** # * And back to “prohibition.” In New York they are padlocking the saloon doors as the only way in which to keep the thirsty out. Is it a slam on our so-called higher civiliza¬ tion or what, when statistics show that 89 out of the criminal guilty of homicide, escapes pun¬ ishment ? It has gotten to such a keen stage of business rivalry the New York bootleggers are killing «ach other when one finds the other on his "territory.” English authors “seek inspiration in the Unit¬ ed States,” we are told by cable. But when they carry it home, it is in the shape of pounds, shill¬ ings and pjence * * * Ain't “prohibition” wonderful? Newspaper t headline states that “Dartmouth Seniors fly the dry banner,” .and call on the undergraduates to “abandon” Intoxicating liquors. Senator Underwood doesn’t seem to appeal to all of Alabama as a Favorite Son in the presiden¬ tial possibilities. Senator Tom Heflin has run truer to the form of real Democracy in the Sen¬ ate, than .Senator Underwood. Well, one ignorant Congressman did this: he has compelled the waiters to translate the food stuffs into English; thus, said Congressman will ! no longer pay e fancy price for fried liver— I when lw orders it under tlib French name. I Those poor women who try to buy beauty cer¬ tainly hit the rocks, occasionally. One of her i in having her straight locks curled, lost all the locks and is now suing the curler for enough money to buy some adjustable hair. T! e bays of the year go to “Babe” Ruth, who \ has shown what a man can do, even when he had so nearly reached the bottom of the moral slide as Ruth had. His come-back is due to the ; faith of a good wife, in large measure. The latest “poison death mystery” in New Yo -k has proven as big a dub as though the “victim” were a poor woman, instead of an heir¬ ess to millions. And some other thrill will have to be provide! for the front pages of the “yel¬ lows.” _ oi - the ,, , badly ,, needed , , reforms in , Juris ' ne our p. .(donee Is a special chamber wnere sensaGonal unorew A ’gw •>« trteu. * flora is :<tih a great percentage of decent peep)* who are .nauseated every time a mass like the Stokes affair get a tho prominence it does. * * * Tammany Hal! is worried: pitiful pleadings on the part o f Big Chief Murphy prove it, and he warns the good and faithful that they need all the votes 10 be rounded up at the elections. And in the mean time, the basilisk eye of Mr. William Randolph Hoarst to keep watch and tab on the efforts of Mr. M ;rphy. • «r <* •**•< — . ffec much prosperity mg a ■,«*». .»>• .oft Ihe huge V” IS ' ! ‘ : T : 1 ; 'b ,e r,i the 1 nitccl .--mu: tor nquor has paid off Cue public debts of ° L ’ '■ Dom.nion r < ikcs rf and Great Brit - ain is nov >i ‘ op im:re o air of ~ e’ice. The ;sf ' urn is a a on o part of some of !• ' ana ha: powers to insist on a lecogoiii'M by Ihe Mo.hm ' ountry of < anada s increased p” W»ri'y and growing polities! power — A '• v ,! ,l '' •“* n! ro 1 ii-rayci’s ' , (•: o.-.l i vnt i in effort i < i on ' get t' an . •da’s feet back on the ground. THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL. THOMSON, GEORGIA. S Don ’ f the Women of Ge r gia Come to the Rescue of Governor Walker? The women of the big cities Oi Georgia using a lot of space in the daily papers telling their determination to take an active part m politics in the State. If ever a time was needed for them to do soma thing other than talk, that time Is here, and now. In the matter of taxes, the women of every faiQily and in every community are the ones who feel most keenly the drain on thp family purse. It is the women who have to save, econ ornise, make a dollar stretch until the ends r over last year's hats and clothes; cut a •r= , and make •O the old Q Idren. „ —- ...._____ ... - This has been woman’s job for many years; hard times and good, the bug of economy has so deeply bitten some of us, that we are lost unless vo have a baskot full of stockings to darn, and a nag filled with stuff to be mended. When hard seasons come, the basket and the bag are office. He had seen things he knew needed Chang ing, and needed improving, and to the naked eye it looked to be a simple matter to take from hers and put yonder where so badly needed. Many years of extravagant operation of the States finances: the growing demand of the schools; the higher- cost of everything needed for the Vets, the States institutions at Mtlledgc ville and other places, drained the Treasury almost dry. The one big asset the State had claimed—the railroad whose income was to be sacredly devoted to certain things, was pawned to pay up arrears, and for five years there will be no income from this, the principal of ihe loan having been cx pended in These payments. The new law under which automobile fags were sold—charging-a rate according to the horse power of the automobile—has netted the State something over two million dollars, I think—I am not sure. The added tax on gaso¬ line will also add hugely to the State’s funds, hut there will still lie a deficit, and the frantic efforts of the Governor to evolve a painless tax system will come to nothing, if the poor are to be taxed in any additional way. If the club women of the State will get started, there will be an upheaval which will simplify matters greatly for Governor Walker, add tax money to the State which has been Successfully hidden for years, and put the Veterans and the schools out of the beggar class. The man who loans money on mortgages r able to pay a tax for this privilege much better than the man who has to borrow on his proper¬ ty—the mortgagor. The man who has invested in “gilt edged” securities must have plenty of money, or he would not be able to invest, JVhy not make him pay a tax on this money he hr.s so safely hidden away ? We have had rings talked around 'his tax question, and Governor Walker is sh wing signs of the st ain it lu • become. Women, in this advanced age, are becoming logical. If they will take bis matter up, have some of their legislators dm 1 '! the bills no wary to cover these items, the State will benefit end the tministi ation of Governor Walker will be re¬ lieved of it. outstanding failure. In every big city in the State there are con¬ cerns wh< simply operate branches of their busi¬ ness; this is true of the large insurance com¬ panies. It would bo hard to know just what volume of money these take from the State. Ii is true they pay rentals, or taxes in the form of property owned by them. But what are they taxed for the sums they send from the State? A sales tax is Senator Reed Smoot’s idea of raising taxes when needed, but the poo- old “ultimate consumer” pays (hat. The middle¬ man, the man he buys from, all would suffer, but the manufacturer would not be touched, u.u less his sales were curtailed. Years ago when the Spanish American War tax was put on tobacco, the manufacturers made i the little bags of tobacco smaller; they are still that size, though the tax was remitted years a{ r a This is the way the manufacturer gener ally gets out from under, and he will keep on I doing it. Bis Business has CC keen eye for pennies; and j now it will be a go< r~, women of the | State to get posted on the ways a really pain i less-to-the-poor tax system can be evolved in Georgia, and the hidden wealth, the wealth that slips out via the mails, can be halted long enough to he tagged and taxed, it Tribute fo Georgia s Tire Department. While 1 was in Atlanta last week, atterU the inquisition, 1 learned a bit of news that interesting from two angles: my brother was identified with the Automobile I’rotective Association at the time of his death in Louis, had written me of the hard mattc-r it wa at times to rcoovei veil tract u: stolen biles. Then this episode in the cilice of IIo;., S. G. McLendon. Secretary of Stair was the other angle. A ai;;:g man came to i!h: Sec: ru.ki’ for a tug—the t bird for tin; same car, tie., others having been stolen. The Secretary told him it was unusual to give more than two tags for the same car, as duplicates, but the young man's business was that of insurance agent for the State-at-large, and a tag was essential. It was sold him, with provisios, and the two stol wi 11 ultimately be traced and recovered, The young man said that part of his business was automobile insurance, and so fine a system of tag recording and listing of engine numbers were j n offect in Georgia, his company secured ; )et( , jr resu it s | n this State than in any of the ot hor twenty-one States in the Southeast, in ^eir territory. Mr. McLendon then pointed to a telegram w hieh had just, come in; an inquiry from St. p au j t Missouri, asked for the identification of a car which had been taken from a bootlegger, the ,. ar having a Georgia tag. Reference to the records identified the tag as coming from a Ford owned by a man in Way crtjss, Georgia, and the engine number of the car given—not a Ford car—proved it to be the property of an Atlanta doctor, whose car had beer, stolen two weeks before! ■-- Wheels With in Wheels in Geo r Political Mac hine > Interesting data has been released to the daily press of the State to the effect that Mr. George Carswell is entertaining ambitions to become the Governor of Georgia. That’s a bit of news which would have vastly interested the late Senator Thos. E. Watson, and it is quite likely he would have said many things in regard to rt. Mr. Carswell is the gentleman, you will recall, who bossed the job of burning the ballots sev¬ eral years ago in his county, when the race for Congress between the late Senator and the present Congressman, Carl Vinson, was so close that it needed only the majority which it was known existed in Mr. Carswell’s district, to send Mr. Watson to Congress. Mr. Carswell has been asked several times regarding this episode, and hd has never been very emphatic in his denial of his participation in this bit of Wilkinson county history., Mr. Carswell is president of the Georgia State Senate He makes a very good presiding officer. Mr. Carswell is a very close friend of J. J. Brown. Judge Lankford—a very nice man, personally, and a regular Jonathon when it comes to stick¬ ing to his friends— -has been for years a close friend of Mr. Carswell. Judge Lankford presided at the recent inves¬ tigation of the Department of Agriculture, and there is no doubt but it was borne most strongly in on him that the Department, as a machine for politics, was a most wonderfully operated affair. Judge. Lankford, we are told, is to manage the campaign of Mr. Carswell. The machine- of J. J. Brown will, of course, be deeply grateful to every member of the investigating committee for its complimentary attitude to every wheel of thit department. So—with Mr. Carswell as a candidate, man¬ aged by Judge Lankford, and sponsored by the J. J. Brown political machine, it would seem to be a loss of time to hold an election. Cowan Favors Hunnicutt For Commissioner. Dear Grover:—I grieved no little over the statement that the Sentinel would be discontin¬ ued and did not know that it was still “on the job,” and “carrying on” as per usual until f reached Ashburn on last Sunday night and saw a copy of said paper lying on the desk of my friend, Rev. J. J. Williams, and you cannot realize how I rejoiced to know that we had not lost the oniy source of information concerning the cor¬ rupt politicians of Sta + e and Nation. Tired from a long, hot dusty ride from A!> lanta that day did not prevent me from reading the three copies I had missed. I suppose I could have bought the paper in Atlanta, I guess they still sell them on the streets, but I was sure it had been discontinued, so did not call for it and heard no one call it out on the streets. I do not take it, being on the road nn.si all the time, but buy it wherever 1 am the las! of the week, and even when I am Imre V comes on the street a day before I can get it through the mail, so I am always so anxious to get. it 1 buy it on sight. ( Well I have been around over the State quire a lot and want to tell you that the people have I enough of J. J. Brown. I never knew any public man that the people as a whole, ana i have talk ed to editors, business men, professional men ( ! and farmers, were as disgusted with as they are with the big monumental humbug. Jay Jay 1 Brown The are (tstomlnK , „„ t ktaj ■ yaft *»,?%£ wry hear!-beat is, and has always been, in ihe interest, of the farmer, whose fa*her before him lid more for Agriculture in Georgia Han am¬ man: that is saying a lot, but one of the men who L a member of the State Agricultural So J ciety raid built to me his tha* he ought for to have a mdnu to memory what he did for • Ur wtria Agriculture, liwniicn:. the man to whom I refer G. F. the Editor of the Southern ' ''ultlvator. worthy of noble Sire, the Dr. a co-.i a 1. lh ik vm. ,1 ho wrote “Agriculture for the ccr.nw-H hcin-W,'* one of the best hooks t ever read on the subject. Now is the opportunity for the farmers of Georgia to put a MAN of their own in this re sponsible position, whose Record is clean and one who has never been a partisan politician, but busy going over the State trying to encour age the farmers to raise hogs, cattle, grain and grasses. * who in I hope my friends over the State are favor of Mr. G. ’ - Ilimnieut for Commissioner, and how anybody -ould vote for Brown with his Record against Hunnicut, I can’t conceive, will do all they can to get the people to take an active interest in every county to line up the farmers for Mr. Hunnicut, as well as the mer- j chants, business men and every one who be- 1 Sieves in an economical and practical business administration of said Department. lix. S. J. COWAN, C *-””*•'* Fsfijny UUlIvu HfillciSTWn VII Thffliks ft THe FdffierS• * In Monday’s Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, Edi¬ tor James A. Hollomon talked to the people re¬ garding their tax problems, and his talk made interesting reading. I’ve said many a time that Robert Small is j the best news-gatherer at the national capital, when Jim Hollomon is in the State of Georgia. When Jim is in Washington, it’s different. And when Jim writes on the subject of taxes, , he rings the bell, but when he dips in to Consti¬ tutional Law. he goes astray every once in a j while. For instance, read: Taxes! Every dollar that comes into Georgia every year for cotton is paid out in taxes. And cotton is not only the major money crop, but brings more than $100,000,000 in cash into Georgia yearly in spite of the boll weevil; and yet—a sum equal to every cent is paid out in taxes. The Lord knows if it had not been for the wisdom of the fathers in putting a five-mill limitation to the state’s ad valorem rate— writing it into the fundamental law so that it would take a constitutional amendment adopted by the people to change it—the tax burdens upon Georgia would be infinitely greater than they are today. The fathers said you shall go so far and no further. Thank God for the fathers! I only wish they had barricaded the peo¬ ple against sky-rocketing county and muni¬ cipal rates at the same time. The five-mill limitation was not written into the State’s Constitution by “the fathers.” Mr. Iloliomon’s “Thank God for the fathers >> missed the mark by thirty-seven years.. The five-mill limitation was the work of Governor John M. Slaton’s administration, and I remem¬ ber the facts well. I was, at the time, a mem¬ ber of . the House from the County of Brooks, and I voted for the five-mill limitation. I am,: therefore, one of “the fathers.” Don’t you know j that it will churn Jim’s insides to confess his error and acknowledge his indebtedness to Yours Truly? “Thank God for the fathers!” What he says in regard to Governor Walker’s Extraordinary Tax Commission is the opinion of three-fourths of our people. Clifford Walker would have discovered this fact, and saved him¬ self much trouble, if he had gone to the people of the farms and small towns instead of the tax dodgers of the big cities. ! I quote from “Just in Passing; * The tax commission appointed by Gover¬ ! nor Walker is composed of sofiie of the ablest and soundest men in Georgia. They have labored unselfishly and earn¬ estly and impartially and sincerely in their tasks of trying to find out what the people of this state want in the way of tax reform, if anything. They visited a half dozen big cities, and spent a couple of hours in the town of j Dawson. They heard the tax views of possibly one hundred people all told. ■ There are three, million people in Georgia. To say in advance that what this commis¬ sion will propose will be the wishes of the people of Georgia would be a most ridiculous statement. Perhaps it may be; perhaps it may not be. Several things are certain to any one who moves among the people and is in touch with ! them— 1 They are not in favor of any scheme to increase taxes. They are not in favor of throwing the taxing power ad libitum into the annual leg-' isiatures. They are not in favor of letring down the bars of constitutional limitation. They are not in favor of penalizing thrift. I They are not in favor of creating a heavier state’ income without a proper disbursing system— I But—and now listen again— They are in favor of reducing taxes by a wider distribution. ! hey are in favor of better schools and be'ter institutional maintenances through mere:;red economies, and the wiping out of wastes and extravagances. > ! hey arc in favor of a different grade of politics from what we have in Georgia to¬ day, under which its investments in govern mm! services mede by-the taxpayers are administereo. - v 4
