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Presidential Outlook The fundamental problem which American statescra t has now to meet, is that of social justice. The American people fought and made enormous sacrifices to make this country and the world safe for de mocracy. But they had not gone very far before they saw that Kaiserism is not the only foe from which democracy is in danger. Tbey also saw that there is the power of selfish wealth and of mon eyed aristocracy, which makes the world unsafe for democracy. They turned first attention to the most immediate and pressing danger, Chat created by the Prussian auto cracy; Now to finish the job, it is necessary also to meet the dangers that grow out of the selfish and un democratic use of wealth. Oue thing ruDS into the other, and it is all a battle for political rights aod social justice. The Kaiser and his wicked associates might be de stroyed, and the world remain ex ceedingly undemocratic and repre sentative of social advance and buman progress. The democratic forces of the world have therefore attacked the powers of selfish privilege in the same spirit with which they attack ed the Kaiser. Although in this country the masses enjoy the privi leges of political democracy, too of ten tbey are robbed of its fruits by the manipulations of wealth and by unscrupulous politicians. Industrial democracy does not yet exist on any considerable scale. The management of the treat industries is too autocratic. The workers have their great share in the creation of those industries ss well as capital. The hearty co operation of the workers is essential to their success. The workers should have something to say about their management. This is the most pressing of the great new problems which the war has brought home to the American people. What is the attitude of the two great parties at this parting of the ways? Country Town Gossip Some people express dislike of life in country towns, on the ground that there is too much small and petty gossip. They think people show too much curiosity in regard to the affairs of their neighbors. So people usually go to the other extreme of moving to 6ome large city, where they may live for years without any neighbor speaking to them. They may fall sick and no one call to inquire or offer to lend a hand. About that time they be gin to wish they were back in the gossiping country, where those curious neighbors would tumble over each other to offer services. The trouble with these people is that they are too sensitive or to se cretive. They ought to realize that the people of a country town are or should be close neighbors to each other, practically members of one big family. It is a perfectly nor mal thing for people to be interest ed in the things the community family is doing. If they go off for a little trip and carefully conceal their destination. neighbors with sporting blood and a normal desire for information naturally speculate on where they ate going. If before they go, they take pains to band a simple and modest little item to the newspaper tne tning is printed, everyone knows it, and there is no reason for gossip about it. Nothing is so interesting in the world as buman life. You can find the satisfaction of character just as well in a prairie village as in a metropolitan theater. The people ho have generous and kindly nat ures do not come in for criticism ThnKP whn are cold and selfish and aloof, or who are egotistical and un scrupulous, are the ones that suffer The gossip is no doubt helpful to mem in correcting iucsc luuua. At Palmyra Today Friday of this week is old settlers day. With the other interesting en tertainment that will be had there comes to Palmyra and the people of Marion county a treat in way of a visit by Gov. Gardner who will address the old settlers. With him will be John M. Malaog, Sea State Highway Commission, and Senator Frisbie McCullough who will talk on good roads. These gentlemen have been connected with the construc tion of good roads and are in touch with the work and its effects. They know how to provide for building good roads and they know the effects of good roads on a communi ty. Their talks will be interesting and educating. They will be pre pared to tell us just what we want to know concerning the construction of good roads. Our people are all open to conviction. They want a good thing if it is a good thing and with the pending bond issue on hand we were never before more eager to hear good road talks than now. Let everyone be present at the fair grounds Friday afternoon to hear these gentlemen. Marion County Herald. Coal opeiators are complaining that there is to be a great scarcity of labor at the mines this fall. Hun dreds of foreign laborers are prepar ing to return, or have already re turned to their former countries and expect to remain there. Sever al causes are given for this exodus. During the war the men made un precedented wages but they com plain that they are now only given w ork a few days in the week. They also complain at the very high cost of living and the high taxes they must pay. One particularly sore spot is prohibition. All their lives they have been used to drinking wine and beer and would rather eave the country than give up the habit. Every returning foreigner is taking back with him a goodly sum of money. Paris girls of the younger set a score of them and all pretty are reverting to mermaids, says The Mercury, and on these hot after noons hie toHenning's ford for their daily swim. Things are not as they used to be, and it is no uncommon sight in the residence sections of the town to see a bevy of bareleg ged beauties, capes thrown over their bathing suits, real 'daughters of the gods,' tripping to ahd from the river. Bob Allen is just back in Down ing from a visit to North Dakota. He reports to The News that the S tate is full of wheat, oats, barley. grasshoppers and I. W W. agitators, The wheat, oats and barley he found to be good, the grasshoppers bad a nd the agitators rotten. He thinks it is a coming country, bnt found t hat be could see too much of it at one time to suit a Missourian. noting tnat about z,UUU persons have applied for jobs under the compensation act, 'The Columbia Missourian concludes that there is no closed season for pie hunting in Missouri. Mrs P. B. Dunn Sr. and daughter Miss Clara have been recent guest of P. B. Dunn Jr. and family at Shelbyville Miss Vivian Botkins returned home Monday after a visit with her uncle, J. W. Botkins and family of Shelbina. Mrs. Dyer, daughter and son, of Beloit, Kansas came Monday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. S. B Thiehoff. Mrs. Frances Bridwell and daugh ter are visiting her sister, Mrs. A S. Hill at Shelbyville. Go to Miss. Belle- Johnson for high-grade enlargements. Mrs. C. S. Jackson was a visitor in Quincy Monday. ft Net Contents 15luid Drachm 1 "iir-nnnr.-aPER CENT- AVeclablePrcparatiMferAs-: F !!... .TViu4 for Result tingtheStotnaclis andBwdsrfj ! TheretyPromo'tinerf neltterOplttm.MorpMnen Mineral. NoTKAhw" AhclpfulRcmcdyJf Constipation anaDrr-1 and FcverlshnessaoU- resultinjthercfrorajf--iy pM-SimaeSinatoir mas new Exact Copy of Wrapper. ABOUT TOE CHURCHES nteresting items About the Different Denominations. METHODIST Regular services as follows: Sunday School at 9:30 a. tn. Preaching at 10:45 a. m. Senior League at 7:00 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wedaes Pay evening at 8:00. There will be morning services tit the Methodist Church at 10:45 We will join with the other churches in -the evening in the union meet iDg at the park. H. C. Bolen, Pastor CHRISTIAN CHURCii Bible School 9:45 a. m. Morning Sermon by the pastor, at 1100 a m. Subject, The Light of the World " No evening service irfthe cfcuich in order that the congregation may all join in the Union Meeting in the Park at 8 o'clock. Union Services at the park Sun day evening at 8 o'ciock Rev. J C. Cook will preach the sermon. Mary Alice Roland Mrs. Mary Alice Roland passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Kendrick of Hassard 'Mon uay evening July ji. iyiy alter a several weeks illness. Mary Alice Robinson was born in Kalis Lounty near bpalding Springs August 15, 1853 and would of been 66 years old next month She was married to 12. B. Roland July 26, 1880 he having passed a way May 19, 1918. funeral arrangements have not been made yet owing to the arrival of her daughter, from Washington but it will probable be 'held Satur day or Sunday at the borne of her daughter Mrs. John Kendrick of Hassard. The remains will be laid to rest by the side of her husband in St. Judes cemetery. She is sur vived by seven children, three sons and four daughter. E. A Roland of Litchville, Ark., W, R, aod Tom Ro land of Withers Mill. Mo.. Mrs J. B Boarman Chesaw. Wash . Mrs John I Kendrick of Hassard. Mo. Miss Fannie and Mrs. John Ficken both of Hannibal. Tunis Noland and family, of Chil licoibe, III; are visitiog at the home of his brother, Dr. C A. Noland and wife Kli. :l . . fTi..:jii..t-l flllill IB " i t 1 Rf 0) k For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signatured of In Use For Over Thirty Years Election Postponed At a meeting of the Marion Coun ty Good Roads Association held in this oitv, yesterday afternoon, it was the sense of the meeting' that the road-bond election be postponed. This was made necessary from the fact that the amount of bonds to be voted had been based on the assess ment of 1917, and the law is that the basis should be on the assess ment of 1916. It will therefore necessary to make the amount $1, 350.000 insteid of $1,500,000. New petitions will be circulated and presented to the court August 4th, with the recommendation that the election be held Tuesday, September 2nd. Palmyra Spectator. Mrs. Berta Shoemaker and daugh ter, Alice Virginia and Miss Evelyn Jackson are spending this week' at Spalding Springs. Mrs. Ed Thomas and children re turned home from Shelbina, Tues day after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Wood. Mrs. Mary Thiehoff, of Hunnewell came Wednesday for Ovisit with her son, S. B. Thiehoff and wife. . C. S. Jackson went to Texas Monday fur a stay of about ten days, on business. Miss Daisy Huston is visiting and Bertha Alexan- Misses Maude der near Ash. Dale Wilson attended the Cen- tennial celebration at Palmyra Wednesday. John Abbott of business visitor in Uuincy was a this city Tues day. Wrestling; Match! Opera House I. Young Owen, of Hannibal comes to Monroe City recom mended as one of the bes little men in the game, having won several matches in Iowa, Illinois, and in this territory. Cordon's weight, 137 Owen's weight. 138 0 f Tourist's Experience Many people take a summer va cation by jgoing on a sight seeing, tour to some interesting section of the country. Let no one think he is going to get any vacation rest out of it. He will probably return much more weary than he started. Yet anyone who takes such a trip usually feels that his labor is well repaid He is cheered for many days by the memories of beautiful country or fine cities be Das seen, tie nas met interesting people, talked upon new subjects and got different points of view. He returns a broader American citizen. He begins to see that his own state and section does not con tain all the wisdom and, virtue, and that people with a somewhat differ ent inheritance have their own points of view which have some de gree of wisdom. Also he gets ideas of civic ad vantage. He learns bow different towns solved their community probl ems- and have put through pro gressive measures. He begins to see how bis borne town might take some advance step, solve old prob- ems, and build new institutions. Most men get ideas helpful to - their business by travelling. Tbey are inspired with the swing of the giant stride that Twentieth Century America is taking. They have seen big things accomplished, they have - more faith in their own ability to do big things. They have a definite idea in many details as to how oth er people and other sections have achieved successes. So the returned tourists may talk: so fast about what be has seen that his neighbors weary of his conver- tion. He may have a fiat pocket book, but his head is bulging with ideas. Anyway he' is the possessor of an experience worth all it cost. But whatever the glories be has seen, be almost invariably comes back with the feeling that the good old home town of Monroe City is the best place yet French Orphans The children of France have not yet emerged from the shadow of the war. With peace assured, and happier future opening before them, it becomes Increasingly evi dent that the child life of France has suffered a shock from which it s difficult to rally; while the birth rate has dropped to 8 to each 1,009 population. The Fatherless Children of France. an American organization co-oper ating with a similar one in Paris of which Marshal Joffre is the head,. reports that of the children receiv ing American aid to the extent of 10 cents a day under its plan of se curing American godmothers for the little French war waifs, its rec ords show an average of 700 chil dren's deaths per month since the armistice. The help of the Ameri can godmothers came too late to save these undernourished nerve shocked little ones. Mrs. Walter S. Brewster of Chi cago, vice-chairman of the Father less Children of France, has been appointed chairman of a campaign to secure American aid for the 60,000 little war orphans whose names were on the lists of the or ganization as "unadopted" before the signing of the armistice. Ten cents will care for a child for an en tire day; $3.00 for a month; while for $36 50. a year the donor may select a child from the lists at the organization's headquarters and be placed in correspondence with it To adopt a child or make a dona tion write for information to Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Room 634. 410 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. - Mrs. Frances Penn returned home Tuesday after a several days visit with her niece, Mrs. J F. Harrison in Shelbina. She .also visited Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Penn in Shelby ville. , .