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PAGE «—THE FORT WORTH PRESS—MARCH 16, 19*7
The Fort Worth Press
Published Dully, Except Sunday, at FHth apd Jones Streets,
Fort Worth, Texas
M. It. TOOMEH,
Editor
RALPH D. HENDERSON
ItusliiesN Manager
Entered ss secoud-clsss mall mstter, October 8.
19*1, st the poatofflce st Fort Worth. Texas. City
delivery, 10 cents s week. By mall In Texas. 45
cents per month; 91.25 lor three months; 56 tor
one year.
TRACY
Making Poison Gas.
Libelling God.
A New ‘Kultur.'
Good for Us.
BY M. E. TRACY.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Boast not thyself of to-
xTL morrow; thou knowest not what a day may bring
forth.—Proverbs 37:1.
* * •
It will come to pass that every braggart shall be found
an ass.—Shakespeare.
Unconstitutional
’'pO SAVE an Indiana county judge from impeachment
a- by the State Senate, the claim has been set up that
the State’s impeachment law is somehow unconstitutional.
The judge apparently hopes to fight it out on that line.
It would be strange if he didn’t.
“Unconstitutional!” Sometimes the first cry of a de-
fendant in court; nearly always at the last.
What does it mean; this: The constitutionally em-
powered law-making body enacts a law. The Governor
■>igns it, if a state law; the President if an act of Con-
gress. That makes it a law, you would say. But only
provisionally. It is a law until somebody is caught under
it, somebody with funds enough to engage in long litiga-
tion. Then it—the law—is put on trial before a judge, or
an ascending series of judges, who undertake to say
whether or not the Legislature or Congress had a right,
under the Constitution, to pass the law; Often the judges
decide that the law is not a law.
The Constitution of the United States and the Con-
stitutions of the various states give the lawmakers the
absolute right to enact laws. They likewise give the na-
tional and state executives the absolute right to veto laws
after they have been enacted. The Constitutions do not,
however, give the courts any specific right to say when
laws are constitutional or unconstitutional. The courts
have taken that right for themselves.
For long years they have been doing this and now their
usurped power goes practically unchallenged.
We stew a good deal about court delays. We say our
system of jurisprudence is hopelessly incompetent because
of these delays.
Is there any other single practice that contributes more
to delay 'than that of allowing the courts to pass on the
constitutionality of statutes, enacted by the lawmaking
branch of the government?
It is the fashion of jurists to declare that English
justice is more swift than American justice. In England
the courts do not assume to say whether a law is con-
stitutional or not. Any law enacted by Parliament is
constitutional. Under the plain reading of the United
States constitution that is true of laws enacted by Con-
gress.
coo.
But beginning back in John Marshall’s time, the United
States courts have been superior to the United States
constitution and the state courts have been superior to the
state constitutions. We have judge-made law—and end-
less delays—in consequence.
What You’ve Missed—Maybe
LTON. BROOKS FLETCHER of Ohio broadcasting:
n “If you’ve missed being in a petting party, you have
missed one of the finest things in the world. It is a
manifestation of the divine urge . . . and there’s not
much difference in the generations.”
Hon. Fletcher should elucidate, evidently being fully
posted by experience. First thing, what is a petting party,
of what does it consist, and what is the proper procedure
to make it the finest thing in the world?
Above all else, what is the “divine urge” and how does
a fellow recognize it? Maybe, this finest thing in the
world hasn’t changed much, thru the generations, but at
least one of the previous generations missed the divinity
of the urge, altogether.
There was that night when the moon missed the deep
shadow on the front gate, along about 1 a. m. Martha
was only about half petted, when one observed, close at
hand, her parent, Blacksmith Bill Stonebreaker, former
boxing partner of the lamented John L. Sullivan. Manifes-
tations of urge were large and prompt, but a fellow simply
couldn’t realize the "divine” in it, while passing thru an
acre of gooseberry bushes and an undersized hole in an
Osage orange hedge.
Verily, Hon. Fletcher should give details and specifica-
tions as to environment, in respect of his discovery of
“the finest thing in the world.”—R. L. P.
rOE PONDELIK, football star, who married the beauty
“Miss Chicago,” now complains that his wife wouldn’t
cook. And anybody could have' told him that beauty and
cooking never harmonize.
TT is a good thing to have a
foreigner come over here ami
size ns up from the standpoint
of an observer.
People who talk with and
among themselves are apt to
grow too Introspective, too
critical of their own shortcom-
ings and too blue with regard
to the future.
It is my own impression that
we are developing something
new and distinct in this coun-
try, not only in a racial, but in
an intellectual way.
The way this country has ab-
sorbed and assimilated people
of varied ancestry is the most
remarkable aspect of Its devel-
opment.
Out of the inciting pot there
is coming a homogeneous proj-
ect.
Whether for better or for
worse, it will not be many gen-
erations before this country can
claim to have created a new
and powerful civilization.
XTjW YORK'S mayor, Walker, holds that intoxication is
lN an accident. Sort of an over-estimate of capacity,
probably.
Doc Sees Prospects In Mineral Wells
A FTER having been told so much lately that I was crazy, I came
A to the conclusion last night that there might be something to it.
So I set out for Mlnernl Wells, where they are celebrating Crazy
Week. But Crazy Week over there does not neces-
sarily mean that the folks are crazy. Not at ail.
They are celebrating the opening of their fine, new
Crazy Hotel. And the structure is a credit to any
city thrice the size of Mineral Wells.
While in the city noted for Its mineral waters, I
saw several fountains in the new hotel where folk*
i were imbibing most freely. Not knowing what It
‘was all about, I thought I would walk over and par-
take. Soon I found out It was nothing more than
tlie water from the famous wells.
I at once got in touch with the management of
the new hotel and attempted to make arrangements to install a
mm her of Conner* Compound stations, believing they would come
m handy, especially If the West Texas Cham tier of Commerce decid-
'd to hold another convention in that city. I wa* informed that my
buntains were not wanted.
Not to be outdone, I shall go back to Mineral Wells in a few day*
md open several Corn Compound filling stations on prominent eor-
lers in the business district.
I "hall also look over sites in the mountains sunnundlng the city,
or the purpose of erecting a laboratory In order that I might save
he e\pence of shipping of compound to the resort city.
While in Mineral Wells I was tho guest of the Klwnnl* Club of
oi i Worth, v. liich hud charge of a program given at n dinner ty
he Mineral Wells Kiwanlans DR. B. U. 1* CONNER.
DOC CONNER
TpUROPEAN bartenders, meet-
■Lf ing In Vienna for their an-
nual cocktail mixing bout, sent
Wayne B. Wheeler and Andrew
Volstead a telegram of appre-
ciation for all these two distin-
guished advocates of prohibi-
tion have done to boost the
European liquor trade.
This is just one more Joke
that Illustrates how closely hu-
mor and pnthos are related. It
wouldn't seein half so funny
but for the tragic background.
American travelers are mak-
ing Europeans rich for the
sake of booze. Also there are
more of them going to Europe
und to other places where booze
can be had. than there would be
were it not for prohibition.
A Canadian province is pre-
paring to enact special liquor
permits to travelers from this
country in order to attract their
patronage.
If the rest of the world
doesn't go prohibition, which is
too absurd to think of. wo shall
spend a constantly increasing
amount of money for transpor-
tation to other lands and con-
tribute a bigger share to their
support.
What is worse, we shall prove
our contempt for law and make
ourselves ridiculous in the eyes
of people, who, tho they might
not pretend to such ideals, ere
more consistent In what they
preach and practice.
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YlflllLE other nations trifle
»» with disarmament by
agreeing to sink useless ships,
Russia makes poison gas.
Her motives may be brutal,
but iter intentions are beyond
dispute.
Whether considered from the
angle of war or peace, poison
gas has become an all-impor-
tant factor.
Disarmament can neither he
honest nor effective unless It
includes poison gas.
No more can preparedness be
adequate or dependable.
Command of the battle field
has been taken over by the
chemists. Future wars will be
determined In the laboratory,
not the arsenal.
This scrapping of dread-
naughts is but a pretense by
which to sop our consciences
and soothe the taxpayer.
riRNEST V. STERRY of To-
-Li ronto has been convicted of
libeling God, which relieves us
ot feeling small when an Eng-
lishman mentions the Scopes
case.
Sterry made an ass of him-
self for no better reason than a
desire to appear smart. He
poked fun at the Deity in a way
that was gratuitously offensive
to most people. When haled
into court, he said that it wa*
the Jewish, not the Christian
God he had ridiculed, which
was childish if not cowardly.
VTO matter how silly Sterry
I ’ acted, the law outdid him.
If God is all the Canadian
judge claimed in charging the
jury, He needs no defense at a
human bar of justice.
Making The Fort Worth Press
Chief of the World’s Greatest Press Service
Today we meet Karl Blckel, president of the
United Press Association, that world-wide news
gathering and disseminating service—
Which Is known in every country under the
sun.
Whose news is printed In 17 different lan-
guages in 87 countries
haw is law, however, and if
people don’t want it enforced,
they should repeal It.
Sterry was clearly guilty un-
der an ancient statute.
The fact that the statute was
ancient means nothing, since it
is still on tlie books.
I-aw Joes not die of old age.
If we could only get that idea
into our heads, we would have
accomplished something of
real value.
A law can be forgotten or
disregarded, but it does not be-
come inoperative until repealed.
The jury had no choice in
Sterry's case but to eonvict
him.
of the world.
Which maintains a
staff of correspondents
that numbers into the
thousands, located at
every point on the
globe where there may
be news.
That has more than
93.000 miles of leased
wires in North Amer-
ica that connect hun-
dreds of United Press
newspapers for the
gathering and distri-
bution of news.
The United Press
staff writers ars in
contact with every con-
ceivable news source.
They regularly meet
presidents, premiers
and potentates. They
must be the first on the
scene of a catastrophe.
Karl A. Bickei is a
tall, slender, immacu-
lately clothed man,
possessed ot a pair ot
piercing eyes, Btern
features that frequent-
ly relax into broad
smiles—n man whose
name is known to
practically every news-
paperman in this coun-
try and many others.
Bickel's rise to one
of the most important
positions in world
journalism has been
sapid.
He is president of
the greatest news serv-
ice in* the world at 4 4,
the man at the wheel
for a vast organization
which gathers, edits
and distributes news to
The Fort Worth Press
and more than 1100
other newspapers.
It is thru this great,
organization which
Karl A. Blckel directs
that readers of The
Fort Worth Press have
the benefit of a light-
ning-like contact with
important news events
anywhere in the world,
ties of Texas and from
the remote parts of the
Orient.
by day or by
AJAX RHE1NHARDT, the
German producer, finds a
new "kultur” developing In
America, which lie predicts will
one day overshadow that ot
Europe.
He senses the spirit of ear-
nestness among tho American
people that, is sadly lacking in
the Old World.
Instead of seeing jazz as a
flareback of the jungle, he
views It as a natural expres-
sion of the lowest stratum of
society.
Such a view is comforting,
to say the least.
Some of our native critics
prefer (o be far less optimistic.
nighty
Blckel was born at Geneseo, 111., in 1882, '
He started his career of Journalism as a report-
er for the Davenport. Ia., Times.
From the Davenport Times, Bickei went to
Leland Stanford Jr. University, helping to pay
his expenses by corresponding for San Francisco
papers. /
Then In 1907 he Joined, for a time, the newly
formed United Press Association as bureau man-
ager at Portland, Ore.
It was here that Bickei, later to he president
of the “U. P.," caught the vision whicli had in-
spired the founders of this news-gathering or-
ganization. the vision of a world-wide, independ-
ent. unbiased news service, free of governmental,
political or business Interests.
Subsequently Blckel published a newspaper
at Grand Junction, Colo., hut in 1913 again
Joined the United Press, this time as business
representative in the central division, with head-
quarters at Chicago.
In J917 he was removed to New York and be-
came business manager, and thereafter general
news manager and then general manager.
In 1923 Bickei was elected president of the
United Press, succeeding W. W. Hawkins.
And now a little more*about the United Press
service.
Back of the news you read each day in The
Press, back of the editors and printers and press-
men. is a vast machine of men and wires whicli
annihilates distance.
KARL A. BICKEI,.
I
TJUREAUS in every
•D important news
center of the United
States are operated un-
der the direction of
United Press staff men,
and are responsible for
the collection of all
news within their terri-
tories, and for the dis-
tribution of all general
news to the newspa-
pers within their Juris-
dictions.
Similarly, United
Press bureaus are
maintained In all for-
eign capitals, maintain-
ing direct contact for
The Press, thru trained
American newspaper-
men with important
events In every land.
Not only In the Unit-
ed States is The Press,
thru the United Press,
linked with the most
representative newspa-
pers, but the most suc-
cessful of* the great
newspapers of Asia and
South America like-
wise look to the United
Press for their news.
South America's great-
est newspaper. La I’ren-
sa of Buenos Aires, re
lies exclusively on the
United Press.
European newspa-
pers. such as the Vien-
na Neue Frele Presse,
the Frankfort Zeltung,
La Vanguardia ot Bar-
celona. the Paris Her-
ald-Tribune. receive
United Press. And thru
the British United
Press the London Dally
Mail, with the world's
greatest dally circula-
tion of more than 2,-
000,000 copies, tlie
Daily Express. the
Morning News, the
Westminster Gazette,
are connected with the
United Press system.
In Japan the Osaka Mainirhl and Tokyo
Nichi Nlctii, leading Japanese dallies, take
United Press; as do seven newspapers In Manila,
and more than 30 In China. Leased wires and
submarine cables to Havana newspapers are
maintained by the United Press.
And yet. this vast organization was horn only
in 1907. It was the result of a combination of
three smaller news agencies, under the direction
of E. W. Scripps, who was inspired by the ideal
of forming a thoroly Independent, a fair and un-
biased service of world news for American news-
papers. Until that time, a large part of the out-
side news supplied to American newspapers had
been under the direction of an organization al-
lied with tlie subsidized agencies of Europe.
Many foreign countries still maintain these
agencies, paid by their governments to dissemi-
nate thruout the world news favorable to the
various nations under which they operate.
The United Press has no alliance for inter-
change of news with any subsidized agency, nor
with any organization seeking favorable publici-
ty for any governmental, political or financial
cause.
Tlie credit-line "Ily United Press,” which you
see in The Press, stands for truth, for accuracy
of detail, and for speed—it is an indicator of
the very latest information available about any
given subject.
Thursday we shall meet the three men who
supply The Press with capital news, botli nation-
al and state—C. J. Lllley and Kenneth Watson
In Washington and Gordon Shearer In Austin.
Dawes More Modern, But Senate Prefers Norris
BY RODNEY III TUBER
NEA Service Writer.
TI7ASHINGTON, March 1G. —
VV Now that the
the Senate gener-
ally admits tlvr.t it is suffering
from an organic ailment, some-
times called a filibuster, it will
have to decide whether to take
treatment from Dr. Dawe or Dr.
Norris.
Following the adjournment
of Congress, sine die, after the
patient's infirmity had been
plainly exposed to the public
gaze and after even the patient
had admitted that something
apparently was wrong, the loud-
est recommendations were for
the Dawes treatment.
Outside experts seem to be in
more or less accord that Dr.
Dawes will get tho caso and
that he will prescribe rigorous
treatment which tlie patient
will follow religiously, even tho
it kills him.
But your correspondent, be-
ing acquainted witli the patient,
bags to suggest that the case is
more likely to go to Dr. Norris,
the old family doctor.
Of course there is no question
about the diagnosis. The trou-
ble is tlint the poor fellow, on
the most embarrassing occa-
sions, sometimes completely
loses control of his tongue. He
Jabbers of this, that and tho
other things, all day and gill
night, and for the painful dura-
tion of this malady—the medi-
cal term for whicli is filibuster
—ho is unable to move hand or
foot. And by the time he gets
over it, ho frequently finds that
he has let tils business affairs
go all to pot and that people
are laughing at him.
Tips of the
Tongue
ATI!. JUSTICE AVORY: "If
1V1 history Is to be made of the
title-tattle of the Upper Tooting
tea tables, it might be better
that hltory should not be writ-
ten at all."
Clarence Kelland: "Strange
emotions are to be found in
crowded cities, but go to your
little village if you would com-
prehend how puzzling, how
contradictory, how deep and
black and turgid nicy run the
stream ot human nature.”
XTOW the objection to Dr.
Is Charles O. Dawes is that ho
favors a "kill or cure'' method.
The patient would he forcibly
gagged.
Dr. Dawes is oue of these
smart, dapper young city fel-
lows, and lias been i;i town only
a couple of years. Recently
quite a few folks have come to
the conclusion that he has a
distinct edge on the old-fashiou-
ed general practitioner, Dr.
George W. Norris.
Bui some of tlie old-timers
arc suspicious of his new-fan-
gled ways. They say the patient
was gagged with three or four
clotures tills spring and now
look at him. Worse than ever!
Dr. Norris, on the other hand,
has grown up with the town.
He came here goodness knows
howf many years ago from Ne-
braska and has built up a good,
solid practice. He lias treated
tlie patient In question for va-
rious illnesses In tne past and
tlie patient survived. He Is kind
und gentle and abhors tlie rough
stuff to which Dr. Dawes is ad-
dicted. He calls a common cold
a cold, instead of coryza, he
hasn't Invented any new di-
seases, and his fees are moder-
ate.
Neither does he violate the
ethics of tlie profesion by pub-
licly advertising himself and his
cures as Dr. Dawes has done
ever since his arrival here.
By passing the Norris meas-
ure, the Senate has indicated
that it knows what is good for
it and that it prefers tlie Nor-
ris medicine. The trouble is
that the chief pharmacists of
the House of Representatives
drug store have refused thus
far to mix tho dose, although
most congressmen favor it.
Nevertheless, tho patient is
hardly likely just now to desert
tlie old family doctor Just so
that he can be gagged or have
his tongue amputated. Some
day the House will mix and de-
liver the medicine, whereas tlie
Dawes cure, he suspects, Is
worse than the disease.
Old Gold
7I7HAT Dr. Norris says Is that
VV If tho patient were taught
to realize that nothing was to
be gained by his incessant ton-
gue-clacking, he wouldn't have
any more of those spells. He
has proposed, in constitutional
amendment .passed three times
by the Senate, to abolish tho
short session and bring In a
new Congress on the January
after its election.' He points
out that a case of filibuster Is
quite harmle's to the pat ent
except during a short session,
JOHN ANDERSON my jo,
u John,
When we were first sequent
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonnie brow was brent;
But now your brow is bald,
John,
Your locks are like tlie snow;
But blessings on your frosty
pow,
John Anderson, my Jo.
John Anderson my Jo, John,
We clanib the hill theglther,
And mony a canty day, John,
We've hnd wi’ ane anlther;
Now we maun totter down,
John,
But hand in hand we'll go,
And sleep theglther at the foot,
John Anderson, my Jo.
—Robert Burns: John Ander-
son.
* HOY KNOWS WHEN
"Yes, it Is really remarkable.
Clifford seems to eat twice as
much chicken when we have
visitors.”
"And why is that. Clifford?"
" ’Cause that's the only time
we have it."—Kansas City Star.
SHE ASSURES HIM
"I hope I can alwys make you
happy.”
"Your face —I'll always have
something to laugh at,”—De-
troit News
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"IN NEW YOKE"
One of the Fascinating Indoor
Sports of Manhattan
It puts The Press office Just three minutes
from London or Paris or Buenos Aires; 10
minutes from Tokyo or Peking; three seconds
from San Francisco and Washington.
United Press news to The Press pours Into
this office from every corner of the world; from
the smaller coinmunl-
RY GILBERT SWAN.
XTEW YORK, March lti.—One
J-x of the fascinating Indoor
sports ot Manhattan is watch-
ing the ever-increasing flash of
new names Into prominence and
wondering front whence they
came.
Invariably each has a ro-
mance, written ofttlmes In
terms of struggling and, again,
saturated with fictional flavor.
• • •
VTOT long ago the eritics be-
lx gan to sing the praises of
Frank Wilson, a negro actor,
who appeared In the obscure lit-
tle Provlnceton Playhouse,
wherein E^igene O'Neill got his
start. No one seemed to know
where or how he had been dis-
covered, or where he had been
hiding. “The Emperor Jones,"
the drama in which Wilson ap-
peared, dealt with the Negro.
Investigation showed that for
years he has been a‘mall car-
rier in Harlem, struggling to
become an actor and a writer.
Several plays are in his trunk
and his status as ap actor is
established.
ter the diplomatic offices of hii
homeland within a year or so
Uncertain of the sale of his iw
portations and needing mone;
for his studies, he has workei
as an elevator boy for mori
than a year.
0N
m
Broadway there are
many tales as there are not
•hies heading the casts. ThU ion Tuesd
season it has been Lee Tracy
who barnstormed the vaudevllli
belts in song and dance acts casket of
JN a building on Madison Ave-
1 nue there is a Czecho-Slova-
kian elevator man. The other
day a young lady of my ac-
quaintance happened to men-
tion, while riding down to
lunch, that she needed a cos-
tume for a fancy dress ball.
The elevator man. overhear-
ing her remarks, casually ask-
ed If she had seen his exhibition
of costumes in a lending art
gallery.
Her inquiries revealed the
fact that the elevator fnan has
one of the finest collections of
Czech blouses and costumes now
to be found in America. He
has been attending night school
at Columbia and expects to en-
carved trails tt) the agents' of
lices and was finally accident
ally discovered because of thi
unusual demands’ of a dramat
ic role. Success and fame came
overnight and, no doubt, willlorchid and
linger with him for many a were in th«|
month.
rpHE other Sunday afternoon
-l at a tea 1 met a Russian,
whose skin showed the leather-
ing of many suns. His conver-
sation was of art and of artists,
for be is an expert on the etch-
ings of a celebrated Englishman
and has been handling a big
American collection.
Suddenly someone chanced to
mention Mongolia In connection
with the Chinese rebellion. At
once he was off on a strange
Conradian tale of a hunt in
mountain fastnesses between
Russia and Mongolia. Firteen
years ago he had been a great
explorer for the old Russian
government, plunging into ev
ery part of the world for mu-
seum trophies.
—
Honoriul
f New Yol
gleston of|
Miss Emr
Mrs. E. H|
Avenue, en
room
The’
tl|
'la lif
orchid and
quets of sit
ing shape!
round thl
site ca mill I
Lards h( Id|
Mem . w.
gleston, 8a]
Br„ Elton
man Tayloifl
Peeples amf
OUCH fictional adventures lie
O about every corner in New
York, and the people are as va
rled as those who appear in the
above few paragraphs. A cer-
tain word, a casually dropped
remark or the mention of a
place and up bobs a romance.
tained wltll
ternoon foil
an tho occ|
birthday,
;randraotli4
;ree, 2G01
Games al
:ertainmcnt|
i prize in
Re fresh ns
lone Grisha
arey, Cumaf
<inimonds,
Merle Roil
Kranks, Vil
Ftyae FrJ
Charles La
i’alon Eddif
ind grandfa
or the occl
Those asl
were Mmesl
Eddlngl
Kranks, J.
Bilbrey.
BY ARTHUR N. PACK
rmiilrnl Amrrtian Nature AimkIkIIis.
J'LL have to confess that I
1 have always liked the grass-
hopper. There is a cheerfulness
and a sprightliness and a cer-
tain punch about him that
makes one feel as though he is
a "go-getter."
So it was with something of
a shock that I found that lie Is
absolutely a gentleman without
cluyacter. I am not saying that
he lias a had character, hut
there is nothing good to be said
of him.
In the first place he is like a
lot of people, always bustling
around making a lot ot noise
und fuss and appearing to be
doing a lot of work, and abso-
lutely doing nothing for the bet-
terment of himself or of any-
one else. He is a glutton and
eats most anything that grows
In the field or garden, and does
great damage to crops, goug-
ing out big holes in leaves and
stems of plants with his power-
ful Jaws.
Does he during the season of (n
plenty lay aside anything for
the time when famine may
overtake him? Not he, nor
does he do any useful work: be
hops around merrily "singing"
away lustily. This "song" Is
produced by rubbing his front
wings against his body.
Did you ever see baby grass-
hoppers? They look something
like large ants at first, and it is
two whole weeks before they
have wings. Tlie mother grass-
hopper lays her eggs sometimes
as deep as four Inches In the
earth. She does this by mesns
of her ovi-poster, a drlll-llke
organ.
Another queer quirk about a
grasshopper Is that It hears
with Its legs; that Is, 1U ears
are on its front legs. The only
good he seems to be to anything
Is as a diet for more useful and
diligent living things.
HONORS
Mrs. Wll
HONOR stl
Members
Methodist (J
:lety honortl
surprise hi
the chunf
Ileeoratiol
st Patrick |
rake, made]
itrong and
rocks and
Ing a queaq
centerpiece
was served
chicken sal«i
Mrs. And I
lent of soml
Frank Lukel
Ion talk to [
[rariously r|
Mrs. R. Tl
Lucian Wat|
of the affair
The Thurl
sill meet w|
trand. 1401 \
1 p. m..
Luncheon
’ ffOMAX’8 YTEWPOner*
Do Men Seek Own Extermination?
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
AT O S T of us believe in mod-
iVl ern educational methods.
We are in favor of Innovations
and no longer ttiink that only
the three R's are essential to the
culture of our children.
Also we have outgrown the
childish Idea that the boys shall
haw tlie best of the education-
al opportunities. Our girls now
have as many scholastic priv-
ileges as their brothers.
They go to college, where
they study languages, law, po-
litical economy, philosophy, sci-
ence, architecture and astron-
omy. They go to business
classes, where they learn book-
keeping, typewriting, shorthand.
They go to agricultural schools,
where they learn cooking and
sewing, where they are taught
dairying, to tend pigs, and to
plow a straight furrow.
And we rejoice that this is
so and that our educational in-
stitutions have come to believe
In a variety of subjects and to
give our daughters the chance
to take up any line of work
they choose,
But we arc ready to stop
right here. Concern for the
good of the country, the com-
ing generations and the safety
of the home make it imperative
that we protest one recent addi-
tion to tlie college curriculum.
When we read that the co-ed
rifle team of George Washing-
ton University recently won the
national title, we feel that per-*
haps we are going a bit too far
when it come* to educating the
girls.
YOUR
ISCOI
LOOK
Hurry, Mo
•oug fr
lit
Give “C8
If
TTtOR all over the land, nnder
a the sly pretext of taking on
an education, the girls are or-
ganized Into rifle teams and
taught by men until some of
them are such experts that they
can hit the bull'e eye every
time. Heaven jR00* know* what
this may portend.
With the season perpetually
open on husbands, It seems
passing strange that ao many
men will advocate and aid In
the arming of school girls—po-
tential wives.
Do they hold their own lives
of such small account that they
seek their certain destruction
by equipping and actually teach-
ing the girls to shoot straight?
In times gone by, firearms
were considered reasonably safe
In the hands of trembling fe-
male. However, with women
becoming expert shots, what is
to prevent the total extermina-
tion of the males? What hope
can that man have who le thrust r"
by matrimonial fate into the
home where a crack rlflewom-
an presides over the kitchen No matter
range? » sentle, the
We always thought man had waj'8 should h
a minimum of sense. Now we ^
know “• half sick, isn'
acting
MOST ANYTHING
A WORH FROM JOSH WISE.
Th' game th't looks easiest Is
th' one tli't catches th’ most
saps.
# How different from the good
old days when the actors had to
be protected from the audl
encea.
Ocean City. N. J., pastor says
he will tell the Grand Jury the
names of all the bootleggers In
his congregation. Instead or
telling the Grand Jury he
should make everybody happy
by telling the congregation.
Spread a little sunshine as you
travel, brother.
A guy I hate *
Is Alec Muir;
He says .that spring
Is here for sure.
Book Just off the publisher’s
press is to be seld for $10,000
a copy. One good thing about
a hook costing that much mon-
ey Is that you never forget to
whom you loaned it.
Senator Dill of Washington
has married a $5,000,000 heir-
ess. This shows how a man Can
overcome all the handicaps of a
had environment and rise In the
world.
New York Supreme Court
Justice holds that audiences
must be protected from actors.
Lady who wrote "Green
Thursday" has now written i
“Black April.’’ Her next story]
will be entitled “Blue 1927.”
Washington dispatch say*
the president wants to find an
altitude In the West that will ]
assure coolness next summer.
He needn't bother about alti-
tude. If he wants coolness, 1*4 ]
him find a fanner,
Trinity College professor says
this Idea that the bee Is a great
worker Is all wrong and that
ns a matter of fact he Is a great
loafer and works only when he
has to. Well, anyway, you
can't say the bee spends most
of his time playing bridge whls*
or golf.
naturs
woe If the ton
Is a sure sign
ah, liver and
|witli waste. W
everlsh, stoui
|or has stoma
lore throat,
Iteaspoon of
|rup," and In
:onstlpated |
'ood und soui
ut of the lit
;rlping. and y<
ul child agair
Mothers can
mg this harm
ive," because
leanse the lit
loweis and sw
ind they dear
aste. Full di
ihildren of
;rown-ups prlr
Beware of
|rups. Ask yo
lOttie of "Cali
hen see that
•California Fig
Adv.
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