The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-16
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 The esteemed chattan s ga Times has ventured to criticise The New York Sun on very important matter. Re- gently Tom Watson. who is Hoke Smiths right-hand man in Georgia gu bernatorial politics. had scome re- marks about the ''doodles" Tn Georgia politics, having reference to Hoke's opponents and especially to the sup porters of Clark Howell. Thereupon comes the Sun and sails in with vir- tual plea of ignorance as to what doodle is. It refersto"Yankce-dood ..cock "a doodle and "hunkey-doodle. but confesses it's inability to see how any of them connect with the special Georgia citizens against whom Watson turns his blunderbuss. This Ignorance, real or assumed. gives The Times an opening and it takes advantage of 1t in this manner:
 The Sun editor obviously was never boy down in the sand rows of Georgia, or he would have known without all was not joking but was. using a. home- ly figure known and esteemed at least by the Georgia voter for whose poiiti. s s ns as ~as wff of se Everything except obviously to .'doo- sbiid shes lore ns "f this % sect,cnNand that em ''doodie' as bug which bores for it. self home in sd the srDunak mark ifavips tse pscs of his entrance. It is over this littis sand dune that the boy or girl throuGSs ,,o iSs the folded hand az 2 trumpet paca calls ssns sns come to bread aud butter" Clearly corporatiops in Georgia are ealing ,1 in turnt that Mr. Watson and MT; smith are playing their usual role Q.
 sep'. ans tryns t2 the fG9 ites as hdood1eb" This explanaticn ought to complete the sum s,d or nss ns suns knowledss sta6cs nnG shrow rven its hsod for nation as to the character or thc Georgia Eubernatorial campaign.
 Perhaps it isn't surprising that Ene Sun is ignorant on this matter. Ine dictionaries. so far as we are aware hays no reference to actual doooies' and we can hardly expect a great me- tropolitan newspaper to have knowl- edge of what the books ignore or al best wrongly define. If the manutac- turers of dictionaries would spend some little time down here any rural Alabama boy would not only tell nm what a doodle is, but would point out its home and teach him the art or calling it out. The Alabama boy, even in our cities, who doesn't know what a doodle is has been sadly neglected in his education. No doubt Tom watson has called up scores of them In his boyhood days, and when he used the expression he did it as though all the people knew what he meant. When he compared Howelrs followers to doodies, because they come out when called. he doubtless, thought he was making a bulfs-eye.
 But painful as 1t is, we feel con- strained to correct The Times to a certain extent. When it refers to tle doodle as "a bug which bores for itself home in the ground, leaving tee of sand to mark the place of its en- trance" it describes something that no child in this section would recog- nize. The doodle as we know it down here, does not leave a tee or mound of earth around or above its hole, but exactly .the reverse. By a movement peculiar to its family, 1t bores a cir cular depression in the sand, which Is exactly an inverted cone. as accu-
 rately formed as if 1t had been formed by an artist, and at the bottom of this hole 1t hides itself just beneath the sand. If an ant, for example. ventures
 over the edge of this depression the loose sand gives way and the unhap- py insect goes to- the bottom, where one hirt of the doodle's tall takes the ant under the sand to become food for the wise and sly doodle-bug. Any one who desires to see how the little fellow obtains his meals has only to quietly drop an ant or other very small insect on the inclined side of the hole and see how quickly and neat ly it will disappear when 1t reaches the bottom. g,
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