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POR VICE-PRESIDENT
CHARLES W. BRVAN.
I WHEN STATE EMPLOYES STRIKE.
p}" Premier Edouard Harriot of France, in
experiencing the uncertainty and anxiety
f. that must be the part of every governmen
; tal official who is railed to power by a
~ coalition or a coaliscing of different groups
f or of blocs. These coalitions, such as
[x are now in power in France, Great Britain
' and Germany in one respect resemble the
£ block houses that the children build. Re
tt move one of the blocks and the entire
if structure falls. It is a precarious exis
f* tence for any politician to depend upon
ranch coalitions for his permanent footing
I and support.
f Now the employes hired and paid by the
* French government want to force Pre
; raier Herriot out of power. The Unified
$ Socialists, a very important group in the
| formation of the present coalition, have
* assured the State employes that they will
i stand by them. The protesting employes
> of the State have dgne some rioting, in
| which they have insulted the Premier and
p made life for him very inconvenient.
£ Out of every ten men in France there is
| one employe paid and aided by the State,
j. This is a slightly higher rate than prevails
| in the United States, where every citizen
i. out of twelve is supported by some salary
; paid by the government.
In France there is a very small mi
j nority of royalists. Their anti-government
> propaganda is interesting. One naturally
; wonders, in the complete triumph of de
mocracy, What argument the royalists
would find against it. How would they
' say that it is badT The propaganda of the
; French royalists is illuminating and in
structing. They assail democracy, because
under it, they say the number of function
uries and officials 'undergo a process of
; multiplication.
This multiplying of officials result in
I the creation of a governmental pay roll,
I which bears the names of many useless
I officials, who draw pay from the central
1 government. They are not only a drain
!■" upon the national treasury, the royalists
> say, and the public business is muddled
l rad confused by State employes who are
put on the «pay roll because of their po
1 litlcal influence.
B For several years the government em
ployea of France have endeavored to or
ganise themselves after the style of trade
unions, with the direct purpose of increas
, ing their pay. The government previous
to the one established by Premier Her
riot, were opposed to the organization • of
State employes. The Herriot government
changed this policy and authorized the
•employes to oiganize along industrial
lines.
W: Wnen they organized the • employes
quickly applied the methods of collective'
bargaining. They had not received pay
.commensurate with the increases that pri
vate labor had won for itself during the
reconstruction period. They demanded a
readjustment of the scale now in effect.
The smallest increase multiplied by sever
al hundred thousand employes makes a •
bewildering total. As finally tabulated,
the demands of the various groups of t'.tate
j employes reached 300,000,000 francs. But
France has not been able to make her bud
get balance since the war. It fails to bal
ance annually by 150,000,000 francs. If
the new demands are added the annual
• deficit will be of considerable proportions,
s The Premier in his election campaign nad
i promised his help in removing the income
1 tax. On the contrary he would be forced
| to add to it. If he did this, it would cer
J tainly bring about his defeat.
J:' But if he refuses the demand of the
1 State employes he faces disaster. He can
t- count upon his own faction or bloc stard
t ing by him under any and all circum
stances. But that is all. Poincare’s con
I servative party would leave off supporting
" the government if he increased the income
t^c, but would support him in refusing the
; demand of the State employes for n.oro
money. No wonder the Premier is anxious
and confused.
f His overthrow would be a real disaster
, td'Europe. Since he assumed office, Eu
l rope has made more progress towards
peace than it had in the previous five years
; due to his sincere desire for pacifism ard
his efforts to induce the government of
France to pursue a policy of pacification.
| To remove either MacDonald or Herriot
would be to endanger all that has been
accomplished since the Dawes plan was
conceived.
She party of the folks needs money.
J All lexical, Arthur Brisbane is phoney.
, He aaaMMas that he will vote for Cool
Idg*.
Tom Marshall, described by a facetious
’ reporter, as “war-tins® Vice-President of
the United States,'’ has opened law of
fices in lull—opiHi. But &a states that
he will not resume the practice of law
until he gets a client. That is always the
,.b«pt practice.
HEARING from him hrrr again.
, Wi hop* that if, or whan, iho proposed
Child' Labor Amendment is ratified, the
Forty in Power at the tine will not for
got to reward in'tome adequate way, the
professional workers whose propaganda
alone keeps alive popular interest in the
subject.
xhe officers and employes of the Nation
al Child Labor Conunittea are diligent and
energetic. Apparently they are giving
their undivided time .to creating opinion
favorable to the proposed amendment. We
know of nothing else that any of them
are doing at the moment. Hence we think
that when Uie Time Comes those who have
sacrificed so^much for the Cause should
bo duly rewarded.
If the amendment is ratified, Congress
will immediately crest/ a prosperous bu
reau and charge it with the duty of admin
istration. That trill call for many trained
workers. It is only fair that those who
caused adoption of the amendment sho^d
get the offices. This would be in line
with long established custom, if not with
the lively expectations of those now in
the employ of the National Child Labor
Committee.
. All of which is suggested by the receipt
of another letter from Miss Jean Mac
Alpine Heer, of the /‘Department of Pub
lic Information,” of the National Child La
bor Committee. It was only last week, we
believe, that we carried one of Miss Heer’s
characteristically reassuring letters. Since
then we have seen similar communications
from Miss Heer in other newspapers of
the country. Now we receive another,
quite as reassuring as the first, quite as
polite, and even briefer than the other.
This engaging, industrious lady writes:
,„^e have your editorial of September
17th on the subject of the Federal Child
l*bor Amendment and do not hesitate to
■•y that we agree with your view that
work of certain kinds la the best thing
for young persons. We are sorry that
this belief should have led you to take
stand against the Child Labor Amend
ment. for the friends of the amendment
are not seeking to prevent all children
under 18 from working. They believe
that It Is perfectly allowable. In fact,
that It Is often benefiolal, for children
under 18 to work. They do not wish chil
dren to grow up In Idleness and Irre
sponsibility. The friends of the amend
. ment are sane men and women, and are
anxious that the future citizens of our
country should have some useful occu
pation and should grow up to be respon
sible men and women. We are sure no
body really believes that all the Senators
and Congressmen who voted for the
anfendment are so foolish as to seek to
prevent the youth of our nation from
earning their living at some useful oc
cupation.
« *>ns iiBccBBdry 10 use me pnrase
"all persons under 18 years” In order to
establish a definite limit to the power
of Congress. The limit of 18 years was
agreed upon. Inasmuch as It Is obviously
necessary that children under 18 be
prohibited from entering Into certain
occupations that are dangerous to them,
and that the hours of labor for children
over 14 be limited so that no child under
IS will work longer than 8 hours a day
In those occupations In which It Is gen
erally agreed It la safe for them to be
employed.
The letter is, as we said, jeassuring in
spirit and purpose, but not satisfying in
details. We feel impel'ed to say that our
genial correspondent probably is in no po
sition to state with conviction just what
Congress will do about child labor, once
blanket authority is given it to make the
sky the limit.
We do know that Congress has made a
desperate effort to enforce the spirit and
letter of every Constitutional amendment
ratified sinoe 1865. There is no exception
to the rule, and we invite Miss Heer and
associates to study the history of each
of these amendments. Congress went the
•imit of insult and outrage to enforce the
14th and 15th amendments, only to be de
feated in the end by the resolute resistance
of nearly half the country, and the final
awakening of conscience in the civilized
leaders of the Republican party.
Nothing that we can think of has been
left undone by Congress to provide enforc
ing machinery for the 16th, 17th, 18th and
19th amendments. The income tax amend
ment has been an increasing source of ir
ritation to the people. It has put their
substance at the mercy of a hrfndful of
politicians in Washington, who for the
most part are afraid to call their sou's
their own, lest the professional lobbyists
and pap-suckers hard by overhear the Big
Talk, and order the politicians to their
rooms, where bread and water will be
served them till the politicians repent and
apologize.
xuc intuiue aiaciiument nas Deen the
means of robbing industry of its fruits
and discouraging investment in legitimate
enterprise. It has increased the power of
Congress to destroy both private property
and persona* liberty.
At most any time after the 15th of next
March—owing to a clause in the latest
revenue <bill—we can walk into the post
office at New York and ascertain the size
of Miss Heer’s income, and if we wish pub
lish it in the paper, but we shall forbear. If
Dr. Love joy, general secretary of the Child
Labor Committee, should appear before
the revenue officers to protest one of their
rulings touching his income and exemp
tions, his protest must be made in public;
but we shall not be present., It will be
more interesting to remain in Montgomery
and study local income reports.
Yet under modern conditions, we accept
the theory of the income tax as just. We
but protest the excesses of the “friends”
of the amendment and cite them for Miss
Heer’s benefit.
other late amendments? Has Conoalo
Has Congress left anything undone
that it could have done to give force to the
other late amendments? Has Congress
been moderate and self-restrained, or has
it gone as far as the letter of the Con
it gone as far as the letter of the Consti
tution would permit?
df this newest amendment is for the ben
efit of 14 and 16 year old children, and
not for 18 year old children, why doesn't
it say so? If only “certain kinds” of oc- j
cupations are to be denied the young, why 1
doesn’t the amendment specify them? Why
doesn’t the amendment put some restric
tions upon the power of Congress to deal
with the labor of persons under 18? It j
does not do that. On the contrary, Con- ;
gress is given the power to regulate or j
prohibit the labor of persons under 18. j
Miss Heer also has more confidence in
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the sanity of tfco poopla b«.hind this meas
ure than we have. Besides, as we have
said before the amendment isn't neces
sary. The evil it would treat can be, and
is being, treated by the States, though
some of them probably have notsyet gone
as far as they should, or will
THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OP
^ MONEY.
When American civilisation, has time to
halt in its- determined advance to wealth
and power, we may like some of the old
er countries, develop poets and artists who
will sing of the heroes of their own pecul
iar culture, even as the older poets havo
done. If America ever raises up an epic
poet, he will find ready for his genius the
accumulation of Jay Gould’s fortune and
its dispersal by the members of his own
family, particularly his children. The ac
quisition of his fortune was a drama; its
dispersal was a tragedy.
Jay Gould died thirty-two years ago,
or in 1892. The traditions that cluster
about his memory yet endure. He was
the protagonist of the era that preceded
this. He was the most ruthless and re
sourceful speculator that ever entered Wall
. Street. In this age we read of Black Fri
day only in books and reminiscent news
paper articles, but it was a financial calam
ity which ruined many men and which
shook our financial system to its founda
tions. It was the culmination of that “get
rich' quick” era which followed the civil
war in the North. And Jay Gould was
at least partly responsible for Black Fri
day. He was then the strongest man in
Wall Street, and he was not particular
or scrupulous as to his methods. Those
who opposed him had to go down crushed.
He brooked no competitor nor opponent.
He was familiar with all the weapons used
by a man growing rapidly rich: the lob
bies maintained at Albany and Washing
ton, the control of newspapers and politics,
the wrecking of a railroad which he want
ed and whieh he could not buy at his own
price. Within twenty years after his death
the railroads of the country were paying
off the debts of resentment at the meth
ods of Gould, and they have not fully fin
ished paying yet. And Wall Street hay
not yet emerged from the cloud of dis
respect and dislike into which it was
plunged by the methods of Jay Gould and
his associates.
•lay Gould was an impoverished clerk
who came to New York from up-state New
York, with the determination to become
a rich man. He attained that ambition
to such an extent that his name became
synonymous with wealth.
His estate was appraised at $82,000,000.
He also had another ambition. He want
ed his wealth to remain in the hands of
his family and to remain one of the largest
of American fortunes. In this ambition
to govern his family after death and to
make his children successful men and
women after his death, he failed. Like so
man^ Other men before him and after him,
ha was not able to Iffibue his children with
his own spirit. He created a trust for
the management of his large family for
tune and it is now revealed by court pro
ceedings that most of the enormous estate
has been dissipated already by his chil
dren. There was none of them qualified
to succeed him and none had his gifts.
The suit on trial this week is to require
a settlement of the affairs of the estate.
Lorenzo Semple, who wai born and reared
In Montgomery, and who is * member of
the firm of Coudert Brothers, of New
York, testified that he was called upon
to manage the affairs of the youngest
daughter who was Countess De Castallane
and Duchess De Talleyrand. She was Anna
Gould and had an expensive taste for
French noblemen. After her second
marriage, and largely as a result of her
first marriage, she became deeply involved
in debt. When her lawyers intervened she
owed $5,500,000 and had many mortgages
on the castles and chateaus which she had
purchased. She had a sixth interest in the
estate of which she and her noble hus
bands were doing what they could to make
ducks and drakes. The lawyers were able
to pay off these debts from the income and
the principal of her share in the festate.
vieorge uouia naa more power as trut
♦ee of the estate, than any of the other
five members of the family. He grew up
under the eye and under the guidance of
his father, but he did not inherit any of
the gifts of his father. He never became
1 an outstanding figure in financial circles
and many of the valuable railroad prop
erties which his .ather had either built
up or wrested from the hands of other fi
nancial buccaneers slipped from his hands
As a matter of fact he is charged in the
legal proceedings with losing much of
the family's money.
Helen Gould, the older daughter, was
quiet and had expensive tastes which dif
fered from those of .her younger sister
She was pious and helpful and she indulged
in philanthropies on a large scale. At the
hearing she testified that she had given
many millions to philanthropies.
The other brothers, Frank, Howard and
Edgar, were given to making sensational
and expensive marriages. There are many
divorces in the family history and many
financial settlements. None of them ap
peared to be gifted with business ability
and none took the trouble to acquire a
business training. There is on record a
letter from Helen appealing to the trustee
to make a place for and to give a job to
Frank. '
If the disembodied spirit of Jay Gould
could look down upon the family squabble
he would probably consider that his life
was a failure. And he might reverse his
conviction that the amassing of a fortune
. was the most worthy object in life.
Walter Johnson and his mighty team
mates deserve a vote of thanks from the
people of the country. They are first to
distract attention of the residents of Wash
ington from the kingdom of politics.
That lift* prisoner in Massachusetts_we
mean in the Massachusetts Penitentiary—
which is about as bad—who has made a
million in speculation, did not speculate, wfe
hope our young men will take notice, until
his board and clothing were assured for
life.—Houston Post-Dispatch.
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The Passing Throng
By attic ua waruLEM.
C*x CiUttt htrilwl
(■canto Trrlam Mnn.
Dr. William Cox, president of Cox Col*
lore, spent Saturday In Montgomery, and
made the suggestion that Alabama farmers
experiment some with tobaoco raising. It
la the opinion of Dr. Cox that tobacco soil
abounds In Alabama and that the raising of
tobacco can be made profitable on lands
suitably for that purpose. Dr. Cox points
to the success of Georgia tobacco raisers
as proving that tobacco oan be made a good
money crop. The Institution ' over which
Dr. Cox presides owns large acreage In Bui*
lock county, and Dr. 'Cox .proposes to try
out tobacco In that county another year.
"Money crops are what the farmers need."
said Dr. Cox. "Of course, cotton Is the great
money crop, but there Is no reason why the
farmers should not make several money
crops. Tobacco has been found .to be a
good money crop. Tobacco heeds a certain
type of soil and I am satisfied Alabama has
tobacco soil just as other states have. I
shall try raising tobacco ovsr In Bullock
county next year In a small way. Of
course tobacco raising nqust be started In
a small way. We must go slow until we
find out (he proper way to cultivate tobac
co, When we find the soil and have gained
the experience, we can go Into tobacco rais
ing on a larger scale."
On five hundred acres of land in Bullock
county last year. Dr. Cox produced (00
bales of cotton. He took measures to com.
bat the boll weevil.
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Elbert Holt Lenka Forward
To Scottish Rite Re-Vnton.
Elbert Holt, secretary, la looking forward
to one of the greatest reunions the Scottish
Rite Masons of the Valley of Montgomery
have had In years. The reunion will be held
In Montgomery October 20-24, Inclusive, and
will be at the Masonic Temple. Mr. Holt has
had printed the program for the reunion,
and it ha* been forwarded to the members.
The program contains some Interesting ar
ticles which will be read with Interest by
Masons who receive the program.
"We expect to have a big, reunion,” said
Secretary Holt. "We look forward to one
of the largest classes In some time. Of
course we always hope for the ‘biggest’ re
union each time, but somehow I believe this
one will not disappoint us In that respect.”
For the Information of Scottish Rite Ma
sons, Mr. Holt said "Dues for 1924 are now
due and should be forwarded to the secretary
before the date of the reunion for under
our statutes, no on* can visit and partici
pate In the work of the Rite unless he has
a card showing payment of dues in the
bodies, or body, to which he belongs ”
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dadge Teasley Is Opposed
To Severaaee Tax Idea.
Judge Charles Teasley, State Senator'from
Montgomery, does not think well of the
severance tax Idea. Judge Teasley has giv
en a great deal of study to the taxing ques
tion and he doubts the wisdom of the sever
ance tax on Alabama products when other
states surrounding have no such tax. He
points out that Alabama products of the
mines, etc., come Into competition with the
same sort of products from other states that
do ifot have a severance tax and that the
Alabama producer would be at a disadvan
tage in selling an Alabama product If he had
to pay a tax on It when the producer In an
other state did not.
"The severance tax would be harmful to
Alabama, in my Judgment," said Judge Teas
ley. “If we had a mine or forest product
which was solely an Alabama product, then
a severance tax could not interfere with
that article. But our lumber and our coal
and our marble and our sand and our grav
el has to meet the competition of the same
products from other states. If we add to our
cost of production a severance tax, which
Is nothing more than a production tax, we
could not sell our products outside of Ala
bama In competition with products from
other states. It would 'simply add to the
cost of what Alabamians are paying for
these things."
It Is Judge Teasley’s Idea that an equita
ble assessment Is what Is needed In Ala
bama. Tie says the natural growth In values
of the state Is enough'and that Instead of
Increased taxes, there should be a cut In the
expensee of running the government. Judge
Teasley does not look with favor on too
many boards and bureaus.
* • •
Habit Goes Long Way la
Determining What We Do.
Habit Is probably the greatest single fac
tor In the lives of men and women. This
Is the opinion of Douglas Goode, assistant
postmaster. Mr. Goode was soliloquising
on the effect of habit on the lives of men and
women Saturday. He used examples In his
own life to show what habit did for him.
He pointed to things other people do to
show that habit Is one of the guiding hands
of man's action.
“You know,” said Mr. Goode, "back In the
old days when Montgomery was In the South
ern League, I was a baseball bug. I could
hardly wait for the time to ball play In the
afternoon. I was there every day. But now
I am out of the habit and never think of It.
I doubt If I would ever form the habit
again. And four or five years ago I decided
one morning to attend the First Baptist
men's class. When I was a boy I used to
go regularly to Sunday school, but some
how got out of the habit of going to Sun
day .school, though I did attend church. I
went one morning to Sunday school and I
liked It so well I went again and again and
I have missed but two or three Sundays in
four years. I have formed the habit and It
Is a good habit. Formerly I did not see how
I could get up In time to make It to Sunday
school, but after I started, It was easy. And
so It goes with everybody. .You can form
good habits or bad habits and whichever
you form, you will find It quite hard to
change your habits. This being the case, It
might be well to form good habits."
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Surveying of Routes for
Ronds Goes Forward Rapidly.
Captain L, G. Smith, who has charge of the
■work of location of the roads in Alabama
for the State Highway Commission, admits
that his department is kept busy. There are
si* surveying parties in the field In Ala
bama right now and work is progressing as
fast as it can be pushed. People who are
disposed to kick about the amount of sur
veying necessary for the establishment of
roads might learn something of the diffi
culties In a talk with Captain Smith. Roads
are not located as railways are. In every
case, at least, two routes have to be surveyed
and sometimes three for every road finally
located.
•'It is but natural for people to differ as
to the feasibility and practicability of a road
route.” said Captain Smith. “For instance,
it Is decided to build a road in a county
from point A to point It. Immediately the
citizens living between these two points
begin to differ among themselves as to which
partlculhr route between the two points is
the most feasible. Everybody, naturally,
wants to be on the route, or as close to the
route a» possible. So we have to make two
surveys and sometimes three.- Then when
the contesting delegations come before the
commission, that body hns the engineering
data on each route between the two points
and can decide the case as the Judgment of
the commission dictates. On the other* hand.
If you were going to locate a railroad be
tween point 'A and point B, the engineer
would come back and report a certain route
the most feasible as to distance and terrain
and cost of construction and that route would
be immediately selected. But of course this
cannot be done with roads because every
one is entitled to hearing because It Is the
people's money that Is being spent."
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Nightshirts Made at
jVIght Negro's Explanation.
Even if Bayes and Speck, blackface come
dians on Manager W. A. Doster's vaudeville
bill this week, had nothing else to recom
mend them, they rulled a good Joke which
has tickled Montgomerians. Here It is but
not told like the blackface boys do it. It
concerns a conversation between two ne
groes. one of whom worked in a shirt fac
tory:
Sambo—“Hello, dere. Dusty.”
DuBty—"Hello, dar. Sambo."
Sambo—"Whar you wukklng now. Dusty?"
Dusty—"I'se wukklng in de shirt fac
tory."
Sambo—"Wukklng In de shirt factory?
Den whut fur you doln here In de streets dis
afternoon?"
Dusty—"Well, you see. Sambo, dey's wuk
klng on night-shirts at de factory dis
week."
THE PHILANTHROPISTS.
Wife (with first checking account)—"Oh.
John, the bank sent me back all the checks
I paid bills with last month .so I haven't
spent anything!”—American l.eglon Week
ly.
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Juniper Tree 3,000 Years
Old in Utah
' Wl»*t la believed to ba tha oldaat Juniper
|f** Jj tha world la bow bains protected by
"°t**t Service, United States Depart
°* Aariculture, aecordlnc to word re
wired from- the Cache National Forest In
Northern Utlh. ,
A careful examination of the tree by aclen
tlats ahowe the ace of the tree to be not
less than 1,000 years, thus placlnc this tree
on a par with some of the blc hardwood
trass la California, Which hare so often
I ®een spoken of as the “oldest llrlnc thlncs
onearth."
. Jm determlnlnc the ace of the tree many
latereatlnc factors were disclosed. The di
ameter, breast helcht. la feet, < Inches and
the heleht Is 41 feet. Only a few hundred '
years aco the tree was crowtnc as rapidly
as at any time dorlnc Its life. A section
of the heartwood shows that 100 years were
required for the first two Inches of crowth,
thus Indlcatlnc that tha tree’s struccle for
existence was made under adrerse condi
tions. Later the tree' was crowlnc at the
rate of I Inches erery 00 years, a remarka
ble fact conslderlnc Its location and ace.
The location of this need Juniper la near
the main Locan Canyon Hlchway and will
be seen by thousands of tourists each year. ■
The Forest Service has .erected a slcn near
the tree clvlnc the Interestlnc facts about
the ace-old veteran and warnlnc acalnst
Its defacement or molestation In any way.—
Newark News.
SCIENTIFIC DEVOTION. "
D«tn Mildly Drakta lM-Tcar-OU Mr-'
■utchlaR Tala.
The editor of the Medical Journal and
Record caste mild doubts on a body-snatch
lag tale a century old. According to Dr.
Cobb In , the Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal, his grandfather, Archelaus O.
Smith, was so keenly Interesed In his cases
that hfe never let slip an opportunity of
securing a post-mortem examination. Says
Dr. Cobb.
"One of his patients, 'In spile of all he
could So, wasted away and finally died.’ He
was determined to learn the cause of death,
but an autopsy wad refused, so after the
funeral he went at night to the cemetery
and brought the body back to his barn,
where he made the examination and then
prepared and mounted the skeleton, which
was thereafter kept In a closet off hie study.
Years later this skeleton was accidentally
recognised by a suspicious relative who
based the Identification on the fillings of
the teeth.
"Dr. Smith was brought to trial. When It
was proved that the grave In tru'h had been
robbed, he was so fearful of conviction that
he had horses stationed every five miles In
order to make an escape oveg the Cana
dian border. But the lawyers succeeded In
discrediting the witness who Identified the
skeleton—he became confused and said the
telltale fillings were on the right insload of
the left side of the laws. Thus I'r. Smith
was acquitted and did not have to make use
of his plans of escape.
"To the average and. Indeed to the great
majority of medical students," says the
editor, ‘such eagerness for autopsies must
seem abnormal and certainly ,s extraordi
nary; but there have been such enthusiastic
seekers after truth. We do not like to
question the accuracy of the story by sug
gesting that dental fillings must have been
rare a hundred years ago, but, after all,
their rarity may argue for the truthfulness
of the tale Inasmuch as they would have
served better by way of Identification than
In the present day, when they aiie so com
mon.
"It Is a good story, and we like to believe
there were such diggers after knowledge
among the bodysnatchers. They set us a
shining, If unlawful, example; but there Is
little danger that any of us would be so
daring as to follow It. Fortunately we
live In a day when Vagtomlcal and patho
logical material Is obtained more readily
and without breaking the laws."
SUSPECTED.
A country school board was visiting a
school and the principal was putting his
pupils through their paces.
“Who signed Magna Charts, RobertT" he
asked, turning to one boy.
"Please sir, ‘twasn't me," whimpered the
yougster.
The teacher with disgust told him to take
bis seat; but a member on the board was not
satisfied, so he saM: "Call the boy back; I
don't like his manner. I believe he did do
It."—E. W. Howe’s Monthly.
OBVIOUS.
Lawyer—"And may I ask why you want
a divorce?”
Fair Client (astonished)—"Certainly. It's
because I’m married."—American Legion
Weekly.
COMING! WIZARD OF FINANCE.
Mother—"I gave you a penny yesterday to
be good and today you are as bad as you
can' be."
Small Son—“Yes, I'm trying to show you'
that you got your money's worth yester
day."—Chicago Tribune.
THE GREAT DIFFERENCE.
"What Is your Idea of a demagog?”
"A good spellbinder,”, answered Senator
Sorghum. "whose views don’t agree with
mine."—Washington Star.
PRECISELY.
“How would you elaslfy a telephone
girl? Is hers a business or a profession?”
"Neither. It's a calling!”—London Mall.
THEY KNEW.
Mother—"What do you mean by putting
your thumb to your nose and wriggling your
fingers at those little boys?”
Willie—"Don’t you worry, ma—they know
what I mean."—American Legion Weekly.
linu nADII,
The Prince of Wales, when he conies this
way next month, will be masquerading as
“Lord Renfrew,” which may kid the public
for a time, but everybody will recognize his
peculiar style once he alights from a horse.
—Buffalo Express.
SLOWING IP.
It Jias been observed that most American
visitors t^ke off their hats when riding on
the Wembley switchback. One of them
states that they are so used to real hustling
that they absent-mindely Imagine they are
attending a funeral.—London Opinion.
UNFILLED STEEL ORDERS.
Unfilled steel orders of the United States
Steel Corporation on Jun* 30 totaled 3,202,
606 tons, a decrease of 365,684 tons, com
pared with the end of the previous month._
Exchange.
THE CHEERY HEART.
Let poets sing their litle song,
And gaily smite their lyre.
Give me the man who whistles while
.He’s putting on a tire.
—Mount Union Dynamo.
THE WORST OF IT.
The Girl—“Oh, don’t some people get of
fensive when they own a car?”
The Man—“Well, some certainly do get a
habit of running other people down."—Syd
ney Bulletin.
THAT WAS THE PLAN.
Judge’Tm surprised at your going to law
over a pig. Why don’t you settle It out of }
court?”
“We was goln’ to settle it out of court,
your honor, only a cop come and pulled us
apart.”—Team Work.
A PROBLEM SOLVED.
Poet (In despair)—“Wife, the wolf Is at !
the door. What shall we do?"
Wife—"Shh! Go down to the first floor, |
lasso him with your belt and we’ll cook him j
for tea.”—Sydney Bulletin.
DESERVES A TRIAL. *
The receiver used by Mr. Pierce Is located i
in an exceptionally bad spot, close to a large |
electric power house. He employs an aerial
consisting of two wives, each fifty feet
long, running north and south, with the
lead in from the northern end.—From a ra
dio story In the New York Evening Journal.
It Is estimated the hand-shaking from one i
election would milk every cow in the United i
States twice.—Wichita Beacon.
CHAMBER OF HORRORS.
A society lady, who has taken a new house j
in London, says that in one room 'she will
hang pictures of modern artists. Now wo
know where to threaten to shut up children
when they are naughty.—The Humorist i
(London.) ,
'AT, SlrTaUBEB 28, 1924
[Today 25 Years Ago]
(*>'*a* *h* Aifnttni File*. Ityt M, 1M.)
Colonal R. F. LI(oi, th* popular Mid *ff|
°f. ‘V Court, wm in
hi* otfle* yeeterday afternoon. having re
turned In th* morning from an ab**ne* of
leveral wteka la th* mountain*, and mor*
recently- In th* Baat H* I* In yoodheeJth
and la ready for th* dntl** of hi* of fie*.
* • *
Mr. and Mr*. 8. Sahl* and daughter Ml**
J***a, and Mr. 8. Brlyman of Montgomery.
*p*nt laat Sunday In th* elty, Tinting th*
family of Mr. M. M. Cohn. * *
, * * *
> Mr*. J. L. 8tak*l*y r*tvrn*d laat w**k
from Montgomery, whir* *h* ha* b**n vt*
ltln* her daughter.—Union Springe Herald.
***»• 9- J. Baldwin and* Ml** Rob«rt* Mi
trunk Cay* yon* to Atlanta.
* * *
Ml** Lucy Cobb* la In <New York.
* * *
• Mlw* Bra Randolph, who baa b**n In N*w
York *om* week*, will return tomorrow.
Northcliffe and Conrad
OAPB TOWN.—An Interesting reminis
cence of Joseph Conrad and Lord Northcliffe
was given to me by W. L. R. Haclead, lit
erary editor of London.
"W was difficult, indeed,'* he said, “to get
him to write for newspaper publication, but
1 was fortunate In being able to secure va
rious contributions from his pen. For one
of these I was able to send him a check for
that must represent something like high
water mark In the matter of payment for
a single newspaper article about 1,600 Words
In length.
"It happened In this way. In April, 1111,
I succeeded In getting Conrad to agree to
write an article In praise of the manner In
which i the British mercafttlls marine had
'carried on' during the war. This was for
publication In the London Dally Mall, and
the price asked for by Conrad's literary ag
ent was 60 guineas, a figure which seemed
to me to be quite absurdly low.
"I showed a proof of the article to Lord
Northcliffe at lunch on the day before it was
due to appei1.
“ ‘jhis,* said Lord Northcliffe, Ms wonder
ful stuff, wonderful. How much are you
paying for ItT*
" 'Fifty guineas,' I replied.
" 'Your price', said he quickly, 'or hist*
" ‘It’s his price,’ said I, ‘or rather his
agent’s. It surprised me.’
Dlls’! Know His Own Yalae.
" You think It too low?* said he.
" 'Well,1 said I, ‘I think he doesn’t know
his own value.’
" ‘Of course, he doesn’t,’ said he. ‘It’s an
absurd price. Such a charming fellow, too.
Give him a hundred guineas for It, and tell
him how much I like his article.’
" ’I'll write* to him,’ I said.
" 'No,' said Northcliffe, suddenly, 'I've
changed my jnind. He shall have 250 guin
eas for It, and I’ll get you to send him a
telegram in my name. Write to him in these
words:
" 'Dear Master: * .The price you ask for
charming article is absurd. I would not
think of paying less than 260 guineas for
anything which you might care to write.'
" 'Sign my name to It,' Northcliffe con
tinued, 'and when you get back to the of
fice make the cashier give you the check
and have It sent to him at once.’
“ 'And I sap,’ he added, and the well known
mischievous tone came into his voice and
the familiar grin came over his face, ‘when
all that has been done, I want you to see
those Scotsmen ofhmlne (this was a refer
ence to the Scottish directors on the board
whose mission it was to keep an eye on
finance) and tell them exactly what has
liappened. I f
" ‘And when you tell them Just watch their
faces and let me know what they looked
like when you told them’."—Correspondence
Chicago Tribune. '
The Serpent’s Tooth
Jean Agassiz, the famous Swiss-American
naturalist, was In the habit of keeping
strange pete In strange places. One morn
ing Mrs. Agassiz arose and proceeded, ac
cording to custom, to put on her stockings
and shoes.
At a certain stage of this process a little
scream attracted Mr. Agassiz's attention,
and, not having yet risen, he leaned forward
anxiously upon his elbow, inquiring what
was the matter. "Why, a little snake has
lust crawled out of my boot!" cried she.
'Only one, my dear?” Interrupted the pro
fessor. calmly lying down 'again. "There
should have been three."
He had put them there to keep them warm.
—John o’ London's Weekly.
A FOHEPAI1GH VETERAN.
It Was Ed Weldon Who Drove the Forty
Eight Horses.
ro the New York Herald Tribune:
Some time ago there was a discussion
among the old-time circus correspondents of
'The Herald" as to who could recall the
name of the performer In the old Adam
Forepaugih circus who drove the forty-eight
horses. I met him quite by accident last
Saturday, while my boy was exercising his
pony.
Toward evening an elderly gentleman
walked toward us on his way to work and
congratulated the boy on the nice animal
he possessed; he said he had seen It many
times on his way to and from work and he
was always a great admirer of horses, he
could not resist the temptation to go out
of his way to stroke the pet. He was a
very interesting and happy fellow and the
hoys soon became engaged In a lengthy
conversation with him. Without any boast
he quietly Informed us that he was the
fellow who drove forty-eight horses In the
hid Adam Forepaugh circus, and then told
some Interesting tales of circus life.
His name Is Ed Weldon, he is slxty-nlne
years of age and stated that he joined the
circus when a lad, and at nineteen years of
age began to drive horses. He is very
modest about his skill as a driver and told
us that "You only need to be careful about
Ihe straps; keep the reins straight and don't
ret them mlxe< up and you're all right." He
Irove forty-eight hdVses. four abreast, In
Ihe street parades—C. D. M„ Elizabeth, N J
Sept., 1924.
THE CHANGEABLE CHURCHILLS.
Nearly twenty’yean* after hla desertion of
!he Tory party. Winston Churchill returns
to the fold as a candidate for Parliament In \
the next election. Thus he displays again •
that temperament of the Churchill family i
which refuses to be restrained by a partlc-i
liar party label. Thus he sustains his rep-T
jtatlon as the enfant terrible of British pol
itics, which applies equally well to the
'ounder of his house, John Churchill, first
[Juke of Marlborough, and to his own sire,
Ijord Randolph Spencer Churchill.
To James II the first duke owed his pre
ferment in recognition of his military gen
us. Yet at the crucial moment Marlborough
losbrted his sovereign and stole over In the
tight to Join the forces of William of Or
inge. Scarcely had the new king ascended
he throne however, than Marlborough was
■ uspected of treason and thrown Into the
ower. Evidence was produced to show that
te was In communication with the king
whom he had previously deserted. In the
course of his brilliant campaigns on the
Continent, while the world rang with his
victories at Blenheim, Ramlllles and Mal
Jlaquet, there was always present a suspi
cion that he was not above dealing secretly
with the enemy. Nor was his dynamic wife,
*arah Jennings, less blind to party loyalty,
’orsaking the Tories^Jor the Whigs when
t suited her purposfe.
Something of the same swift-moving char
icter is to be seen In the career of Lord
Randolph Churchill. Although a professed
fory, his genius was directed toward an st
ack upon the leaders on the front beigphes.
m attack no less vitriolic than that against
Gladstone. Ha was the founder of the so
alled "Tory Democracy" In opposition to
he older and more conservative members
>f the party. Elevated to the Cabinet as
’hancellor of the Exchequer, friction with
lls colleagues soon led to his resignation,
which practically closed his Parliamentary
Viewing Winston Churchill's career as
["ory. Liberal. Independent and then Tory
igain, the conclusion must be reached that
here is much In heredity.—Baltimore Eve
ling Sun.
Suspender sales are on the Increase. The
intlonal safety-first movement Is having
ome effect,—South Bend Tribune.
Maybe the world Is getting better, but
'Ifty years ago there weren't such things
is LaFollette and static.—Little Rock Demo
rat.