The Columbus dispatch., 1921-02-20
VOICE OF THE
PEOPLE
Doctor James w. LipscCmb Replies to
'Blackgum Hall.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Dear Sir; apologize to the citizens
of Lowndes county for even noticing
the article thatnappeared in Fridays
Commercial, headed " Black Gum
Hail." but as | am the head of the
only Organization" mentioned in said
article, and since this sage of "Sage
Grass Farm" buds me as failure at
everything | have ever undertaken, |
feel it my privilege and duty to reply
to this false and malicious attack.
There is a well-knOwn malady, be-
coming more prevalent as civilization
advances, known as Paranoia, chronic
delusional psychosis, accompanied
with hallucinations and more or less
systematized delusions, which, to
make more easily understood, is ex-
pressed by the exaggerated ego; or, in
still more common parlance, old
fashioned case sof "Big Head" The
sufferer knows il all;," he cannot be
taught anything; he struts ike the
peacock; he chaHers like the mag
pie; and, When Filed brays like the
jackass. A Acareful analysis Of his ut
terances discidses the fact that he is
on both sides IN the fence, on top Of
the fence, and under the fence-any-
thing to be attracting attention; while
as to logic And reason, they are not in
his vocabulary z
Take the remarkable article to
which reference has been made.
z He starts out by personal reflec-
ton on himself, and doesn't realize it
at all, but, like those of his type,
glories in it. Think of farmer, who
knows it all, having Eight families" J"
and not one on the farm. Had he
been the farmer he thinks he is, he
would have inculcated in some of his
offspring sufficient knowledge of the
science of agriculture to enable them
to follow in his footsteps.
Then he jumps on his country neigh
Dor for selling the hog that died of
the heat-from that to the butcher
who bought it-from that to the res
taurant, etc, etc.
And now to apply cold logic to the
emanations from this wonderful
mind.
"Let us get to work and see if we
can't get the county and town closer
together on honesty and square deal
ings." With the ink not yet dry on
this sentence, he again moistens his
pen and brings forth, "Did you ever
know any kind of an organization to
be a success when the man at its head
had been a failure at everything he
had undertaken ?"
The Chamber of Commerce is the
only organization mentioned, and | am
it's president, and it is endeavoring as
best it can to bring about the unity of
country and town interests which the
remarkable logician speaks of, yet he
"knocks" it's president in the public
press, speaks of his neighbors and
friends (if he has any as country
jakes," and sows seeds of suspicion
and doubt by saying that we were at
tempting to "gas" our country friends.
When it comes to- "gas," if old
"Black Gum" had been on the firing
line in France, the United States
would have needed no more soldiers.
They would have simply ordered him
to blow his malicious breath, in the
general direction of the German army
and they would have withered and
died, as would every other living
thing, animal and vegetable, Why
don't you try it on the boil weevil,
"Black Gum?"
| regret exceedingly the penning of
this article, but when man jumps
on me, personally, and an organiza-
ton of which | am the head, he need
not expect to go unscathed.
The Chamber of Commerce is doing
its dead level best to help Columbus
and Lowndes county. We are sending
before the people the ablest talent