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...Quitman's reaction to her crusade has ranged from the lethargic to the down right hostile. Lawyer Stanley Bennett, whose two cows grazed on the courthouse lawn, protested that the milk and butter milk produced thereon was vital to the health of Quitman's widows and orphans...
Miss Edna shut him up with a front-page editorial headed "Buttermilk Bennett." Last fortnight Brooks County, of which Quitman is the county seat, was at last persuaded: it passed a law requiring cattle to be fenced. Said Editor Daniel, in quiet triumph: "The farmers are boycotting us now, but they'll get over it." Despite this thumping victory, Miss Edna could not afford to relax. For months she has watched the draft creep up on 50% of her composing-room staff, healthy Frank Ramew, 26 (Frank's father, J. H., is the staff's other half...
Chapin, and she held her own with col leagues like Irvin S. Cobb. But small-town journalism was in her blood. She went back to Quitman, married the Free Press's Editor Royal Daniel,* took up the fight for tolerance and decency and such progressive steps as the removal of hitching-racks from Quitman's streets...
During World War I, when she was subbing as the editor for her husband, a Quitman clergyman used his churchly influence to wheedle a local grocer out of more than his Hooverized share of flour. The news leaked, and Quitman's food administrator cracked down on the parson. The scandal rocked the town. A Quitman banker, chief elder of the church, ordered Miss Edna to write an editorial denouncing the food administrator. She laughed him out of her office. Next day came word that the bank was going to foreclose a loan on the Free Press. When this news...
Miss Edna's editorials are read and quoted far from Quitman. Sometimes she chooses national topics: "Arthur Krock in the New York Times was lamenting that we had lost the freedom of the press for the duration of the war. He'd better be concerned about what we did with the freedom of the press when we had it." But mostly her thoughts and her words are of Quitman and Brooks County...