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IF THE railroad strike comes, how will aviators get back home?
IN UTAH, murderers may be either hanged or shot. Iu Chicago they
may be neither.
A CONGRESSMAN wants the daisy for our national flower. Politi
cians suggest the forget-me-not.
EVEN the weather man can't convince a lot of people that summer
didn't arrive about three weeks ago.
THE BOARD of safety believes the traffic officers should be com
fortable. It is going to allow them to take off their ghirts but not their
coats.
BABE RUTH would please the fans more If he would devote himself
to slugging out home runs instead of wrangling with the umpires.
THOSE city employes arrested for selling street department oil are
not the first political appointees to get in bad as the result of oil deals.
.4 False Economy
When the city administration boasts that it will have $20,000 from the
recreational appropriation by cutting down the number of playgrounds
and playground instructors, and at the same time the mayor offers a s•'
prize for a slogan that will keep children from playing in the streets, it
would seem that the height of false municipal economy had been reached.
The budget provides $117,000 for the recreation department, and of
this amount $30,000 will be spent on the construction and maintenance of
open air theaters in Brookside and Garfield Parks; $21,000 will go for
playgrounds, and the officials hope that $20,000 will be saved as a nest egg
for the public to gaze upon when the ‘'point-with-pride” campaign days
roll around again.
Municipal economy usually is something rare, and when city officials
evince a disposition to retrench it should be encouraged—provided the re
trenchment is effected in the proper manner.
Those of us .who believe that plenty of playgrounds, supervised by
well trained instructors, will do more than all the slogans in the world to
keep children off of the streets, and thus out of the paths of automobiles,
cannot help feeflng this streak of economy would show to better advantage
if directed in other channels. There was no talk about the city hall of
saving when jobs had to be provided for precinct committeemen in order
to influence the selection of a county chairman friendly to administration
interests; in fact, apprehension over Increased costs is the exception,
rdlher than the rule, in official discussions nowadays.
The opening of the playgrounds has been delayed a week after the
close of school because the administration is desirous of saving, and in
the meantime a little boy, playing in the street, was run down and killed
by an automobile. There seems to be no good reason why the recreation
centers could not have opened coincident with the end of school.
Playgrounds will not completely clear the streets of potential victims,
but if the city opens enough of them throughout Indianapolis and places
over them competent supervisors it will have taken a proper step toward
conserving lives and will have demonstrated that it Is keenly alive to the
fact that childish minds can be better guided by trained observers than
if left to the uncertain vagaries of the streets.
Thirty-three playgrounds, which the city proposes to maintain, are
lot enough in the face of a boast that the administration is going to save
$20,000 by denying these youngsters a thing they have a right to expect
nd demand.
Head in the Sand
The wise man learns from his enemies. The late occupant of the Ger
man throne has written his memoirs and has offered them for sale in the
international literary market. French newspapers have unanimously re
solved to boycott the Hohenzollern story. They will refuse to publish a
line about the memoirs and will not even publish the news that they have '
declared a boycott. The French public, therefore, is to be left in the dark j
concerning Wilhelm's defense.
That is bad strategy. Another war involving France may not be far
>ff. Certainly the German people will plot revenge until either they have
tor are convinced the outlook is hopeless. France needs all her wits to
keep disaster away. France must study German psychology as a means j
to self-defense. It is a bad sign that the French newspapers have refused
to permit their readers to study the workings of the mind of William
Hohenzollern. It is comparable to the ostrich which sticks its head under
the sand.
Explicable, of course, is the decision of the newspapers. France has
suffered cruelly because of the war, not . only financially and in human
losses, but also by the curtailment of her nationalistic ambitions. lor the
French people to hate the Germans as they do is Quite natural.
But hatred can become self-destructive. Blind hatred is always a
danger, no less to the hater than to the hated one. It produces violent
prejudices and misconceptions, and, worst of all, it prevents an impartial
study of the enemy.
If Clemenceau were to write his memoirs, you can just bet they would
find avid German readers.
Farmers Turn to Machinery
Farmers are coming more and more to rely upon machinery to per
form the work that once belonged solely to themselves and their horses. Sta
tistics gleaned from the 1920 census Indicate, says the Trade Record of
the National City Bank of New' York, that the automobile and telephone
are now big factors in farm life, not merely as a comfort or convenience,
but as actual aids In business. The number of telephones, by which the
farmer may communicate with his local trade center or with tne great
cities in which the prices and market for his products are determined, is
officially stated at 2,498.493 in 1920, while another authority puts the total
number of phones in all the United States “without regard to ownership”
at the end of 1920 at 13,411,379. which suggests that nearly one-fifth jf the
phones in the United States are'now in the farm home and farm busi
ness service; while 38 per cent of the reporting farms were equipped
with telephone service in 1920.
The automobile statistics show the number of automobiles on farms
in 1920 at 2,146,362, while figures compiled by Automotive Industries put
the total of automobiles in use in all the United States in 1920 at 7,904.090,
suggesting that the farmers owned in that year considerably more than
one-fourth of the automobiles of the country, to say nothing of the 139,000
motor trucks and 246.000 farm tractors reported in operation on the farms
in 1920. Over 30 per cent of the reporting farms in 1920 utilized auto
mobiles.
Still another evidence of the disposition of the farmer to utilize ma
chinery in increasing his business activities is found in the Tact that the
value of his “farm implements and machinery” reported in 1920 was nearly
three times as much as in 1910, five times as much as in 1900 and seven
times as much as in 1890. The official valuation of farm implements and
machinery in 1920 is $3,195,000,000 against $1,265,000,000 in J9lO, $750,-
000,000 in 1900 and $494,000,000 in 1890.
It is not surprising then, in view of the increasing use by the farmer
of these time and labor-saving devices, tne telephone, the automobile, the
motor truck and the farm tractor, coupled with the enormous increase
In his farm implements and machinery, to find that the census reports
the value of horses on farms in 1920 only $1,782,000,000 against $2,084,-
000,000 in 1910, a decrease of 14 per cent in value of horses, while all
other classes of farm animals increased in value in the same period, the
increase in value of sheep being 70 per cent, poultry 141 per cent,
cattle 143 per cent, swine 148 per cent and goats 184 per cent
Laurette Taylor to Make
Screen Debut for Metro
Laurette Taylor will make her debut
In a Metro production of “Peg O' My
Heart," her greatest stage success, and
one of the most popular plays ever to
be presented on the English-speaking
stage.
This was learned this week from the
home offices of the Metro Company in
New York, after the closing of a con
tract between the motion picture com
puny and J. Hartley Manners, author of
“Peg O’ My Heart.”
The picture will go into production
In Los Angeles about July 5. No direc
tor has as yet been chosen, It is under
stood. nor Is tl known to whom will
fall the task of preparing the scenario.
Mr. Manners will be at the Metro stu
dios In the West during the making of
“Peg O' My Heart.” He has volunteered
to aid In any way he can the proper
reproduction in pictures of his tremen
dously popular play. This arrangement
is comparable In a measure to the as
sistance lent the Metro production staff
by Vicente Blasco Ibanez, prior to the
screening by Kex Ingram of Senor
Ibanez's novel, "The Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse."
Miss Taylor's entrance into motion
picture work is In Itself a move of big
import. She is one of the few of the
great American actresses never to have
given an Impersonation before the cam
era. Maude Adams is the only other
of that rank whose name, upon brief
reflection, comes to mind as having
withheld her art from the screen.
Whether Laurette Taylor will continue
to appear In pictures is problematical;
It may be that her enactment of the
title role of “Peg O’ My Heart” is
chiefly for the purpose of perpetuating
her great success and for assurance that
the character of the beloved little Irish
girl shall be as in the original play.
Whatever the motives. It is certain
that “Peg O' My Heart” will be one of
the biggest screen attractions ever pre
sented. The name of the play Is a by
word throughout the English-speaking
world, and the popularity of It no less
Ye TOWNE GOSSIP!
Coryrlaht, 1022, by Star Company
By K. C. B
Dear K. C. B Needless to advise you
I read your column. Your reference to
“Old Home 'Week” up In Orillia. Ontario,
brings to mind the Orillia opera house,
upstairs over the City Council chamber.
Is or was the Mr. Tudhope you mention
the local manager, bill poster or trans
fer man ?
Once I flayed—or appeared—ln Orllllo.
Have they anew hotel yet?
ED WYNN.
“The Perfect Fool.”
New Amsterdam Theater, New York
City.
MY DEAR Ed.
...
WHY YOr neglected.
YOrR HOME address.
WHEN YOr signed your letter.
I CAN’T understand.
AND YOY might have mentioned.
IF YOUR matinees.
• • •
ARE WEDNESDAY or Thursday.
YOU’RE A poor press agen*.
AND BESIDES all that.
YOU SLANDER Orillia.
m m
WHEN YOU make It appear.
• • *
THAT THE opera house.
IS AN attic place.
. .
FOR TOC know very well.
IT’S A regular bouse,
• • •
WITH OPERA chairs.
• • •
AND \A balcony.
AND ALSO a gallery.
FOR I saw It myself.
* •
TWO YEARS ago.
• •
WHEN MY eighty-year uncle.
WITH ALL the strength.
OF HOME town pride.
CI.IMBED IP the stairs
AND I went with him.
THE WHILE he told.
• • •
lIOB' MUCH it cost.
...
AND ALL about It.
* • •
AND THE Mr. Tudhope.
* • *
Tor spf;ak about.
• • *
IS THE leading citizen.
• • •
AND I understand.
* * •
HE HAS a cellar.
• • *
I'NDER HIS house.
• • *
BI T I never saw it.
* > *
THOI'GII I know where it is
* • •
AND IF It happens.
• • •
YOU EVER go back.
I’LL GIVE you a map.
AND YOU might dig into It.
• • *
AND THE nasty crack.
ABOUT THE hotel.
YOU MADE me sick.
* *
FOR I myself.
> • •
HAVE SEEN you eat hash.
. . .
IN A restaurant.
4 • *
I THANK you.
BRINGING UP FATIIER.
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G (C) 1922 By INT’L FcATjag SERVICE. lsC - ~~1 (Tli
INDIANA DAILY TIMES
HE JUGGLES
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Harry Tsuda, Jap Juggler, who is
one of the entertaining features on the
current bill at the Lyric.
Added to this is the eagerness of those
who do not happen to live in New York
or the other big 4 cities of the country,
to see Miss Taylor, and In her most
shining characterization.
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---ON VIEW TODAY.
The following attractions are on view
today • “My Lady's Dress,'” at the Mu
rat: vatidoviHe and movies, at the Lyric
and B Keith’s; musical comedy and
movies, at the Rialto; "The Call of the
Woods,” at the municipal theater at
Brookside Park; “The Barricade,” at
Loews State; “Grand Larceny,” at the
Ohio; “The Good Provider,” at the
Apollo, and “Headin' West,” at the Isis.
Washington Briefs
WASHINGTON, June 22.—Organization
victories in Maine and Minnesota having
I been taken for granted, political Wash
' ington finds its chief interest in the
: nomination of Mrs. Anna I>. Olesen,
the Democratic opponent of Senator
Frank B. Kellogg. Mrs. Olesen is widely
known in the capital. She burst Into the
real limelight at the Jackson Day din
ner of 1920, at which President Wilson
and William J. Bryan partpd over the
League of Nations Issue. Next she was
found in the front of those fighting
for the nomination of William G. Mc-
Adoo. and her seconding speech was one
of the outstanding events of the San
Francisco convention.
When the Tammany Nugcnt-Brennan
forces brought about the nomination of
Governor James M. Cox, Mrs. Olesen was
so chagrined she blurted out tho com
ment ;
“We hnve burled our party In a beer
keg!”
Mrs. Olesen 1s thirty-six years old and
has a daughter fourteen years old.
Slender, with sharp eyes and black hair,
she rises to emotional heights when dis
cussing political questions close, to her
heart. Washington will watch with in
terest her fight for a Senate seat in an
overwhelmingly Republican State.
As if to convince skeptical Washington
the recurrent rumors of setbacks in his
physical condition are without foundation
Woodrow Wilson has taken to riding
with the chauffeur on the front seat of
his automobile during bis almost daily
spins about the streets of the Capital.
Attorney General Daugherty is finding
Administration of the Department of
Justice very much like running a throe
riug circus with half a dozen sideshows
in full blast. He began a cost of liv
ing investigation last fall, which he ex
pected to complete within a month. W hen
lie got started on R he found It a man
size job, and has since been compelled
to extend the time for completion. All
the data collected by the investigators
are now at hand, but Mr. Daugherty is
hard put to find the time to write his
report.
"If I like what I have written when I
read it over,” he said, "the report Is Just
half done. If I don't like it, the report
has rot been started. I have Just diseov
ered that there are more figures in tho
world than I ever dreamed.”
The element which grows sad at any
suggestion of a possible restoration of
full diplomatic relations between the
United States and Mexico, has found
small comfort In its efforts to have the
White House snub Adolfo De La Huerta,
I the Obregon minister of finance, who is
| hiivirig undoubted success with Amer
! lean bankers and investors in New York.
Something akin to panic prevailed in the
ranks of the Mexican baiters when it was
whispered De La Huerta might come to
Washington ami seek an intervelw with
President Harding. Inquiry at the
White House disclosed no appointment
had been sought for the Mexican leader,
but, it was added, the President of the
United States always Is glad to receive
citizens of friendly nations and that a
personal call by De La Huerta would not
complicate the recognition problem.
Without seeking to bring into question
| the policies of either man, comment is
■ growing over tb.e contrast In publicity
methods of John T. Adams, chairman of
ttie Republican national committee, with
those of his predecessor, YVill H. Hays.
Every time Mr. Hays came to town the
news bureaus learned of it through tele
phone calls from the committee's head
quarters. Mr. Adams has been in tho
capital for several weeks engaged In Im
portant political affairs, yet the corre
spondents are obliged to seek him whe.n
they wish to get his views.
j Highways and By-Ways
of Lil’ Or New York
By RAYMOND CARROLL
(Copyright, 1923, by Public Ledger Company.) ——————
NEW YORK, June 22.—Today is a
personal anniversary—the second an
niversary of this syndicated slx-day-a
week New York letter; something that
already has had to bo thought out.
written and sent to the telegraph wire
upon 644 different previous occasions.
There have been times when Us making
assumed the irksome proportions of a
task, but In nine cases out of ten the
telling of people and things In this whale
town of the Western world, has been a
genuine delight and by long odds the
most enjoyable assignment of a quarter
century of newspaper go-getting. And
we know we have tried hard enough to
make It worth at least the telegraph
tolls, particularly for those newspapers
located ns far away as the Pacific Coast.
“One would think you’d reached the
second anniversary of a prison sentence
at Leavenworth,” said our chief when I
hinted that the call of the robin was on
the ear, and the smell of new mown hay
was In the nostrils.
Then It was suggested: “for an an
niversary function you might tell of the
letters of New York City, past and pres
ent—that host of writers who have filled
many a page, many a column and many
a theater with accounts of life fn the
dear old place now peopled by every
race on earth, the I’ropylaea In America.”
Writing about New Y'ork City in one
form or another has heen going on ever
since the handful of Dutch settlers of
New Amsterdam early In the seventeenth
century sent letters back to Old Amster
dam telling of pioneer life around the
bays and channels which have been de
veloped Info a harbor that is one of the
most beautiful, largest and best of the
world's great ports.
I first rend of New York from
Washington Irving's “Knickerbocker's
History of New Y'ork” and firmly be
lieved that somewhere In the tight little
Island could be found fat Dutch burghers
sitting around smoking huge pipes that
curled to their feet. This childhood im
pression was dispelled on a first visit of
a week when I attended Kister & Rial's
music hall, sfTw "Shenandoah” played in
the old academy of music and visited the
Atlantic Gardens In the Bowery, tho
beer-drinking headquarters of hundreds
of portly Germans—but returned to my
home In the United States without hav
ing encountered a single Hollander
whilst In the metropolis.
New Y'ork City has heen the inspira
tion for thousands of short stories and
popular songs, and many hundreds of
books and plays. The plots of the Nick
•Carter blood curdler* were chiefly laid In
the metropolis. O. Henry ought to have
received a subsidy from the elty Govern
ment for the fame which he gave to Man
hattan and Coney Island. Robert Clam
bers. who has done sixty novels, always
gave New Y'ork first place. Arthur Train.
George Bronson Howard, Rupert Hughes.
Roy L. McCardell, Helen Green Van
Campon, .Tames L. For, Theodore
Dreiser. Edith Wharton, Oarett. Chris
Crinkle, Edwin Leverer, Arthur Folweii.
Thomas Janther, Laurence Hutton and
Henry Collins Brown, are but a few of
the modern writers who have done and j
are doing Now York, page by pagp, cover j
to cover.
In poetry, the greatness, and the i
misery of New Y’ork have been sung by
Walt Whitman and H. C Brunner, John
Weaver of Brooklyn Is doing it now,
writing verse that has a gripping
readability. As for the stage George M.
Cohan has playwriften and song written ,
Broadway into the hearts of the world. :
The late Clyde Fitch, and Charles Klein,
pitched many of their best scenes here,
and Theodore Kremcr. Hal Reid and
Owen Davis did thrilling melodramas by
the dozens about New Y'ork.
Rita Johnson Young came back strong
last season with a play of old New York,
and we must not forget It was a visit
to New Y'ork in the “Old Homestead”
that made Denman Thompson, George
Rroadhurst, August Thomas. Byard
Veiller and Eugeno O’Neill owe a play
writing debt to New York flow the
town has managed to hold out under the .
MISS RUTH ROGERS IN SAHARA'S OWN FOLLIES
Jj&mSSfr- Miss Kulh i;... >r- in.! appMur in i
; U 1 ‘ " ZfljH Egyptian Ballet number in th- "TVs
jjy Wlio Kevu-ef Sahara Greftn's Y . pf; k• '
& 1 l ollies. Saturday night at English's
opera house. TV- revue was nr.tf-'n
;■ produced by Fred Myers. while the
f ffra. dances were arranged by Miss Hester O.
Bailey, whose pupils will take part In
the performance. Miss Ilailcy aud Miss
’■* '* * "V Dorothy Ua rot her* also will appear In
’it $ 4 solo dances. Mr. Myers has introduced
Captain Kidd, John B.
sSjlv:!: V':- Corn. the Flapper and others. II!s
daughter. Baby iris Myers, will slug
several numbers. A vaudeville program
scratch of all these pans—rather click
of all these typewriters—is a marvel.
One of the first New Y'ork letter* to
be broadcast over the country was that
done by the late Joseph Howard Jr. It
was a running commentary upon the
stage, politics and personalities. Another
letter-maker was George Alfred Town
send under the nom-de-plume of “Gath,”
but the prize-lejter of them all appears
to have been under the name of “Hol
land.” Both O. O. Mclntyre, who left
Saturday for a week's holiday midst
scenes in Kansas City and myself have
been the recent exponents of the New
York letter cult. “O. 0." says, and I
heartily concur, that the product has
sadly deteriorated in quality within the
last decade. Mclntyre has been writing
his letter for eight years, and he is gray
baired, but his brain is young and his
observations always crisp and lively.
Screenland has taken its lion's share
and New Y’ork has been filmed to death—
“east side, west side and all around the
town.” The latest invasion is now Mn—
Maj. Ross D. YVhytock's fifteen two-reel
dramas which bear the general title,
"Tales of the Henements.” That series
fakes in all phases of life In the big city.
The director, William L. Burt, and his
oast are to be found working down in
the Blums on cne day and on the next
they are “shooting” Fifth avenue.
Brooklyn Bridge and the people who
dwell close to its shadow have come in
for a good deal of attention in these
filmings. Another favorite spot for pic
iurizlng is police headquarters. Park
Row and the inside of a newspaper of
fice are shown in virtually all of these
pictures, for what is being screened Is
supposed to be the notebook of a reporter
—and Major YVhytock's plays the re
porter, a role be most acceptably filled
many years in actual life.
Talking with a motion-picture expert
on production this afternoon he said the
entire American film footage conld be ap
proximated in thirds—one third to action
taking place in New York City, one-third
to YY'estern scenes and one-third to rural
life all over the country. That will give
some idea of the popular taste of the
twenty millions throughout the country
who dally attend the picture houses, for
as nearly as they can the motion picture
graduates try and gage their ou’put to
mee tthe desires of tho public.
New Y'ork City I have found to be a
human Interest spring, continuously bub
bling with life, a spring of unfathomed
depth. It never seems to run dry. YY’e
have the new citizen speaking every
tongue, eager to make his or her place in
Ihe new world. We have the self-satisfied
American of a few generations of trans
planted anc-stry. We have people trying
to hide from -hemgoives and people who
are constantly pushing offensively upon
attention. We have buildings like none
elsewhere In the world, and a network of
tunnels beneath it all. presenting a
labyrinth more confusing than the famed
Catacombs of Rome. It Is the gosh
dingfdcst. greatest and most baffling
town on earth so there! Enough said!
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Fret not thyself because of evildoers,
neither be thou envious against the work
ers of Iniquity. For they shall fioon b*
cut down, and wither as the green her!*.
—PhrLim 37.1-2.
Wlekod thoughts and worthless pf
forts gradually set their mark upon the
face, especially the eyes.—Schopenhauer.
DOES YOUR CHIN YYOBBLE?
ROME, June 22.—Wabbling chins are
a sign of decaying mentality, accor-Jiug
to Italian scientists.
THIRTEEN MAYORS IN ONE FAMILY.
GUILFORD, England, June 22.
Thirteen members of the Smnllpelce
family have heen mayors of Guilford
since 1502.
MISS RUTH ROGERS.
By GEORGE McMANUS.
AGENTS WARN
MERCHANTS TO
AVOID GERMANS
Foreign Industry Conducted
on Speculative Basis, Says
Report to Capital.
WASHINGTON, June 22.—Amefcan
trade agents in Germany have hoisted a
danger signal for American buyers of
German goods. American commercial ex
pert* in Berlin have cabled to YY’ashing
ton warnings that German business and
industry is being conducted upon a pure
ly speculative basis. American buyers
are reminded that German merchants will
decline to guarantee prices for future de
liveries.
Americans returning from the Leipzig
fair have reported that German man
ufacturers generally refused to offer firm
prices, except for goods in limited
quantities aud goods already man
ufactured.
An element of instability in German
manufacturing Is the fact that the Ger
mans make no wage agreements for a
longer period than one month. Exact
knowledge of future German trade values
is impossible because of the prospect
of wage advances from time to time, of
increases In utility rates, which have
failed thus far to cut down heavy de
ficits, and steady advances In prices of
raw materials. Another factor of In
security, according to these expert ob
servations. is the system of levying ex
port supplements. These are designed
to ibring the price of German exports
closer to the price prevailing In the
country Importing German goods.
Shifting prices In Germany, therefore,
and the almost certain prospect that
production costs will rise steadily up to
ward the world level, eventually can be
counted upon by Americans in their
dealings with German traders. Further
uncertainty grows out of the fluctua
tions, and depreciation of the German
mark continues as a disturbing factor.
American importers In some Instances
have reapel large fortunes by taking ad
vantage of the German situation in earlier
periods and buying cheaply and selling
at high profits. German readjustment,
however, has brought such speculation to
the point of serious risk by those who
attempt It, in the opinion of American
observers. It will be especially danger
ous in a financial sense for those who
seek to buy In large quantities.
Unusual Folk
PRYOR, Okla.. June 22—Mrs. M. S.
Edmondson la mother of the Cherokee
on his death re
M , cently. By his will
he devised his es
• tate. running into
t * le millions, to Mrs.
\T®PUL.: Croker. but suit to
set this bequest
5?" • ■ -v aside has been be
’": , gun by children of
his first marriage.
Mrs. Edmondson. Accompanying Mrs.
Edmondson on her trip will be her
daughter, Mrs. R. Bru.ce Garrett, and
Kathleen Garrett, a niece of Mrs. Croker,
CURB SAVAGE DANCES.
MARSEILLES, June 22.—Protests by
religious bodies have resulted In the
Government curbing the Indecent dances
given by natives at the Colonial Ex
position.
DRUG OUTFIT IN CANE.
CHICAGO, June 22.—Federal agents
here arrested a man carrying a cane
containing a long, slender pblal filled
with cocaine.
Miss Ruth Rogers will appear in an
Egyptian Ballet number in the Who’s
YVho Revue of Sahara Grotto's Y'cstpoeket
Follies, Saturday night at English's
opera house. The revue was written and
produced by Fred Myers, while the
dances were arranged by Miss Hester C.
Bailey, whose pupils will take part In
the performance. Miss Bailey and Miss
Dorothy Carothers also will appear In
solo dances. Mr. Myers has Introduced
Captain Kidd, the Cake Hound John B.
Corn, the Flapper and others. His
daughter, Baby Iris Myers, will sing
several numbers. A vaudeville program
also will be given.
JLlv L 22, 1522.
W M ? ay FRED
MYERS.
ALOHA OE!
He’s dead and gone,
Young A1 McGluke;
At early dawn
He plunked his uke.
* * *
AT THE PICNIC, '
“Sambo, what you all eatin’ that trash
for when we'has the big feed in half an
hour?”
“Nigger, I knows ma appetite, and I’m
just teasin’ him so he’ll be rarln’ to go
when the festivities start.” T. H. XL
*
NEXT TO NOTHING.
(From a London Paper.)
A novel feature of the fancy dresg
competition was that no costume
should cost over 2 shillings. The
prize winner was Miss Phyllis Baer
(Eve.)
* * •
WE ARE ADY’ERTISED
BY OUR LOVING FRIENDS.
Dear Sir: I had decided to end it all,
I was so miserable, life was so complex.
I took my gun In hand, then deciding
to pen a note of farewell to my dear
ones, picked up a newspaper to ascer
tain the date when my gaze fell upon
your Follies, the gun slipped from my
nerveless fingers, I read through to tho
end without stopping, 'my breath com
ing in sfcort sobbing gasps; how near
I had come to ruining my life and how
small my troubles seemed after contem
plating the very real suffering, the agony
so modestly depicted therein. I am a
changed man, I shall never cry out
against my lot again. How true is tho
trite old saying that one-half the world
don't know why the other half lives I
'GAUM M. UPPE.
• * •
OI K OYVN HALL OF FAME.
Clay Beard, who lives In Bloomington,
should be awarded the India rubber
razor for having tho toughest crop of
alfalfa to shave. SCOOP,
• • •
DEEP SEA THINKING.
Will you crawl and mooch for a slug of
hooch
And hazard a trip to Jail?
Will you cringe and slink for an outlaw
drink?
Get wisdom, my son, and s&iL
There are ships at sea where the break*
ers be.
Oh. ever so fine and tall!
YVhere you have your swipes ’neath th*
Stars and Stripes.
For the flag flies oxer all.
But perhaps yon stood at Bellean Wood,
Or marched in an older day;
Then you’ll pause to think ere you sip
your drink—
To think of the price you pay.
Not the paltry sum for the good old
rum—
Y'ou've many times that to spare—
But the fighter’s feel for the even deal.
That man and the law play fair.
'nd you’ll say, or should, “If the law is
good
For those who must stay at home.
It applies to me, though I sail the sea
YVith wealth and the time to roam.’*
O. C. A. CHILD.
• * •
THUMBNAIL ESSAYS.
TOBACCO.
This stuff is one of our well known
necessary evils.
It occupies an important place in our
history because It was the odor of burn
ing long green which first attracted
Chris Columbus to what we now know
as America. But for the Indian buck
who was strolling along by the seaside
that morning In 1492. puffing on his
pipe of peace, America might never have
been discovered. Then where should
we have been today?
In early days, one learns by delving
into history books, tobacco leaves were
used as currency. Perhaps this fact
explains the phrase “long green” as wa
use it to lay. One of the earliest pale
faces to take tobacco seriously was Sir
Walter Raleigh, and his love for the
weed almost disrupted England.
Tobacco will grow in most any kind
of soil and the United States ranks
first, both in production and consump
tion. Yankees also hold the distinction
of being able to expectorate the Juice
farther than any other race. The In
dian has been the object of much com
miseration since the white man usurped
his lands. But when one stops to con
sider that the redskin gave us the stuti
from which 5-cent cigars are made, one
can't help feeling that Lo got ample
revenge.
O JOY!
There Is one sight I’d ilke to see.
T'would be on a vessel far out at
seo. The RAILROAD LABOR
BOARD 80 RANK I'd love to see'm
walk the plank.
(Copyright, 1922, by Fred Myers.)
Huge Pike Landed by
West Virginia Fisher
PARKERSBURG. W. Va„ June 22.
Well, now that West Y’irginia's fishing
season Is under way, how la a fifteen*
pounder for a starter?
Harry King of this city Is the hero
of this yarn. Ha landed a wall-eyed
pike of the weight started while fishing
in the Ohio River near here. It was one
of the largest and finest fish of the kind
caught hereabouts In years. King took
it to the local wharfboat, where It was
weighed.
Pike at one time were common in the
Ohio River, but of late years they have
been scarce, especially of the larger size.
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