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THE ADAIR COUNTY NEWS
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Truths Spoken in Jest.
The trouble with most of the
advice is that it has generally
been offered at the wrong time.
A man can insist that wealth
is a burden and yet break his
back holding on to his share.
One charitable act will occa
sionally cause a man to pat him
self on the back for many
months.
Some good people enjoy tell
ing bad news.
Gallons of trouble may come
out of a pint flask.
About the only satisfactory
substitute for wisdom is silence
To err is human; to forgive
may be a brand Lof diplomacy.
There is a much better market
for good mules than there is for
bad men.
If a man could read his own
biography it would probably sur
prise him more than any one
else,
Our idea of a hustler is a man
who can work as fast all day as
he cnn dress in a cold room in
the morning.
When a fool hen takes a notion
to sit she doesn't care a rap
whether there are any eggs in
the nest or not. Lazy men are
built on the same plan.
Many a smart kid who has
ruled his mother found it a dif
ferent proposition to govern a
wife.
We always like to quote threat
ening Scripture when it applies
to the other chap.
In these days of enterprise it
is better to get room on the
ground floor than at the top,
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COMMISSIONER'S SALE.
ADAIR CIRCUIT COURT
OF KENTUCKY.
Lula Leach &c Plff )
George O. Hancock &c Df t. )
By virtue of a Judgment and Order
of Sale of Adair Circuit Court, ren
dered at the May term, thereof, 1915,
in the above cause, I shall proceed to
offer for sale at the court house door
in Columbia, Ky, to the highest bid
der, at public auction, on Monday, the
5th day of July, 1915, at one o'clock p.
p. or thereabout (being County
Court,) upon a credit of six months,
the following described property, to
wit: Three certain tracts of land sit
uated in Adair county, Ky., on the
waters of Casey's Creek, and all ad
joining each other.
The first tract contains 79 acres.
The second tract contains 25 acres
more or less.
The third tract contains 100 acres
more or less.
The Judgment and order of sale are
referred to for better description
which is of record in the office of the
olerkofthe Adair Circuit Court in
Order Book No. 14, Page 353.
For the purchase price the pur
chaser, with approved surety or secu
rities, must execute bond, bearing le
gal interest from the day of sale until
paid and having the force and effect
of a Judgment. Bidders will be pre
pared to comply promptly with these
terms
W, A. Coffey, Master Commissioner.
WHY SHOULD
WOMEN VOTE?
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE FROM THE
VIEWPOINT OF LEADING
J FARMERS.
Why should women vote? That is
the question that is ringing from
ocean to ocean and reverberating from
the Canadian boundary to the Mexi
can border. It is the mission of a
newpaper to give the news and the
action -of the Texas Farmers' Union
in opposing woman's suffrage when
that question was recently before th8
Texas legislature is significant as
representing the attitude of the or
ganized plowmen. We reproduce in
part the argument presented by Hon.
W. D. Lewis, president of the Texas
Farmers' Union, in opposing the bill:
"It is gratifying to note that it is
not the farmer's wife who is clamoring
for the ballot She is too busy
trying to make happier homes, mold
ing the minds of future citizens and
sharing with her husband the cares
of life to indulge in political gossip.
The ballot will give her no relief from
drudgery, give no assistance in cloth
ing the children or bring to the home
additional comforts, conveniences or
opportunities in life. It is, as a rule,
the city woman promoted to idleness
by prosperity, who is leading the suf
fragette movement.
"From many standpoints, perhaps
a woman lias as much right to vote
as a man. So has she as much right
to plow as a man; she has as much
right to work in a factory as a man;
she has as much right to shoulder a
musket as a man, but we would rather
she would net do so from choice
and we regret that necessity ofttimes
compels her to earn a living by en
gaging in gainful occupations. We do
not consider misfortune a qualifica
tion for suffrage or a business acci
dent a reason for granting franchise.
We are opposed to woman at the
ballot box the same as we are op
posed to woman in the field, in the
factory or in the army and for the
self-same reasons. We had rather
see her plant flowers than sow wheat;
gather bouquets than pick cotton and
rear children than raise political is
sues, although she may have as much
right to do one as the other.
Opposed to Unsexing Humanity.
"Sex qualification for suffrage may
have its apparent inconsistencies. No
general rule adjusts itself perfectly
to all conditions. It is a favorite ar
gument advanced by the proponents of
woman's suffrage that many cultivated
and noble women are far more capa
ble of intelligently exercising sov
ereignty than a worthless negro, but
the South never was anxious for
negro suffrage, and while culture and
refinement, and even morality, are
desirable virtues, they are not the
only qualifications for franchise.
"The primary, Inherent and insep
arable fitness for suffrage is support
ing a family. The plow handle, the
forge and the struggle for bread af
ford experience necessary to properly
mark the ballot. Government is a
great big business and civilization
from the very beginning assigned
"woman the home and man the busi
ness affairs of life.
"There has been much freakish leg
islation enacted during the past de
cade that no doubt appeals to woman's
love for the ridiculous, but to under
take to unsex the human race by law
is the height of legislative folly and
a tragedy to mankind.
"We are opposed to the equal rights
of woman we want her to ever re
main our superior. We consider
woman's desire to seek man's level
the yellow peril of Twentieth Century
civilization.
"Woman is the medium through
which angels whisper their messages
to mankind; it is her hand that plants
thoughts in the intellectual vineyard;
'It is through her heart that hope, love
and sympathy overflow and bless man
kind. Christ the liberator of woman
kind was satisfied to teach the lessons
of life and He was a man. He chose
to rule over human hearts and re
fused worldly power and men followed
after Him, women washed His feet,
little children climbed upon His knees
and the Ruler of the universe said
that in Him He was well pleased.
Can woman find a higher calling?"
the passions of the peoplerbut tEey
can't put brick and mortar together.
We need builders.
Let those who hunger and thirst for
power understand that the highest
glory of a statesman 1b to construct,
and that it is better for a man that he
should build a public highway than
that he should become Governor of a
state, and that he start a plow than
that he become the author of a law.
The true test of statesmanship Is the
plow and the hammer, so let those
who would govern, first build.
A DIVINE COVENANT.
God Almighty gave Eve to Adam
with the pledge that she would be his
helpmeet and with this order of com
panionship, civilization has towered
to its greatest heights. In this rela
tionship, God has blessed woman and
man has honored her and after four
thousand years of progress, she now
proposes to provoke God to decoy
man by asking for suffrage, thereby
by amending an agreement to which
she was not a party.
Woman, remember that the Israelite
scorned a divine covenant, and as a
result , wandered forty years in the
wilderness without God. Likewise
man should remember that it is a
dangerous thing to debase woman by
law. Rome tried lowering woman's
standard and an outraged civilization
tore the clothes off the backs df the
human race and turned them out to
roam in the world naked and unashamed.
DARIUS
The neigh of a horse made Darius
King of Persia, the six contending
powers for the throne agreeing among
themselves that the one whose horse
should neigh first should possess the
kingdom. This ancient method of
settling disputes among politicians
could be revived with profit today.
If our partisan factions and petty pol
iticians could only settle their dis
putes by the neigh of a horse, the
bark of a dog or the bray of a donkey,
it would be a great blessing and would
give our citizens a better opportunity
to pursue the vocations of industry
free from political strife.
Let those who pick political plums
by raising rows and who flash swords
dripping in the blood of industry un
derstand that they cannot turn the
public forum into a political arena and
by a clash of personal aspirations
still the hammer and stop the plow
and that their quarrels must be settled
in the back alleys of civilization.
A Girl's Influence.
THEMISTOCLES
When Themistocles was asked by
his' host at a dinner party to enter
tain the guests by playing the lute, he
replied that he could not play the
fiddle, but that he could make a small
town a great city. We have in this
nation many politicians who are good
"fiddlers," but they cannot make a
small town a great city. We are over
run with orators who can play upon
I am one of those who believe
in boys and girls being friends
and companions. I think it an
excellent thing for them to grow
up together. But when they do
not meet in such a nice and
friendly way it riuts a great deal
of responsibility upon each. A
girl has a great influence over a
boy, and every girl should real
ize that fact and she should al
ways try to use it in the best
way. She should never say or do
anything that will lessen a boy's
respect for her. Not only should
girls treat their boy friends kind
ly, but they should be as thought-
i
f ul of their brothers.
Just think one minute and ask
yourself, do you ever dispute
with them? Do you ever make
fun or criticise them? Are you
gentle and sweet in all your
ways with them? Are you think
ing of little things to do that will
please them?
If you do not you do not love
them enough, for it is in this way
that sisterly love is manifested.
You are responsible for your
brother's morals, "also for his
manners. If you laugh loudly
and use slang so will they. If
you are indifferent and rude
they are apt to be the same,
If you do not lead a ' true and
KNOW THY COUNTRY
X
III Telegraph and Telephone
Our transportation facilities are the
most perfect product of this great com
mercial age and the telegraph and tel
ephone systems of this nation crown
the industrial achievements of the
whole world. These twin messengers
of modern civilization, born in the
skies, stand today the most faithful and
efficient public servants that ever
toiled for the human race.
They are of American nativity and
while warm from the mind of the in
ventive genius have, under American
supervision, spun a net-work of wires
across the earth and under the seas.
Telegraphy, in its early youth, mas
tered the known world and the tele
phone has already conquered the
earth's surface, and now stands at the
seashore ready to leap across the
ocean.
No industry in the history of the
world has ever made such rapid strides
in development and usefulness, and
none has ever exerted a more powerful
influence upon the civilization of its
day than the Telegraph and Telephone.
Their achievement demonstrates the
supremacy of two distinct types of
American genius Invention and organ
ization. The industry was peculiarly fortun
ate in having powerful inventive intel
lect at its source and tremendous
minds to direct its organization and
growth. It is the most perfect fruit
of the tree of American industry and
when compared with its European con
temporaries, it thrills every patriotic
American with pride.
Ambitious youth can find no more in
spiring company than the fellowship
of the giant intellects that constructed
this marvelous industry and a journey
along the pathway of its development,
illuminated at every mile-post of its
progress by the lightning-flashes of
brilliant minds, will be taken at a very
early date.
A brief statistical reTiew of the in
dustry brings out its growth and mag
nitude in a most convincing and un
forgetable manner.
The telephone service of the United.
States is the most popular and efficient
and its rates are the cheapest of the
telephone systems of the world.
We are the greatest talkers on earth.
We send 60 per cent of our communi
cations over the telephone. The world
has about 15,000,000 telephones and of
this number the United States has ap
proximately 9,540,000, Europe 4,020,000
and other countries 1,300,000. Accord
ing to the latest world telephone cen
sus, the total telephone investment Is
$1,900,000,000 and of this amount $1,
095,000,000 was credited to the United
States, $636,000,000 in Europe and
$175,000,000 in other countries. The
annual telephone conversations total
24,600,000,000 divided as follows: Unit
ed States 15,600,000,000; Europe 6,800,
000,000, and other countries 2,200,000,
000. The total world wire telephone
mileage is 33,262,000 miles divided as
follows: United States 20,248,000, Eu
rope 10,335,000, and other countries
2,679,000. About six per cent of
the world's population and sixty-one
per cent of the telephone wire mile
age is in the United States. j
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
II L. E. Johnson
On Two-Cent Passenger Rates
The farmers of
this nation are
vitally interested
in railroad rates
and equity be
tween passenger
and freight rates
is especially im
portant to the
man who follows
the plow for the
farmer travels
very little but he
is a heavy con
tributor to the
freight revenues.
Some of the
states have a tvv;o cent passenger rate
and whatever loss is incurred Is recov
ered through freight revenue. The jus
tice of such a procedure was recently
passed upon by the Supreme Court
of West Virginia and the decision is
so far-reaching that w,e have asked
L. E. Johnson, president of the Nor
folk and Western Railway whose road
contested the case to briefly review
the suit. .Mr. Johnson said in part:
"Some ten years ago, passenger
fares were fixed by the legislatures
of a large number of states at two
cents a mile. As a basis for such
economic legislation, no examination
was made of the cost of doing, the
business so regulated, nor was any
attention given to the fact whether
such a rate would yield to the rail
way companies an adequate or any
net return upon the capital invested
in conducting this class of business.
"Such a law was passed in West
Virginia in 1907. The Norfolk and
Western Railway Company put the
rate into effect and maintained it for
two years. Its accounting during
these two years showed that two
cents a mile per passenger barely
paid the out-of-pocket cost and noth
ing was left to pay any return on
capital invested. It sought relief from
the courts. Expert accountants for
both the State and the Railway Com
pany testified that the claims of the
railroad were sustained by the facts.
Two cents did not pay the cost of
carrying a passenger a mile. The
State, however, contended that the
railroad was earning enough surplus
on its state freight business to give a
fair return upon the capital used in
its passenger as well as its freight
business. For the purposes of the
case, the railroad did not deny this,
but held to its contention that the
State could not segregate its pas
senger business for rate fixing with
out allowing a rate that would be
sufficient to pay the cost of doing
business and enough to give some
return upon the capital invested in
doing the business regulated. This
was the issue presented to the Su
preme Court. Its decision responds
to -the judgment of the fair-minded
sentiment of the country. The Su
preme Court says that, even though,
a railroad earns a surplus on a par
ticular commodity by charging rea
sonable rates, that affords no reason
for compelling it to haul another's
person or property for less than cost.
The surplus from a reasonable rate
properly belongs to the railway com
pany. If the surplus is earned from
an unreasonable rate then that rate
should be reduced. The State may
not even up by requiring the railroad
to carry other traffic for nothing or
for less than cost.
The decision is a wholesome one
and demonstrates that the ordinary
rules of fair dealing apply to railway
companies. The fact that one makes
a surplus on his wheat crop would
never be urged as a reason for com
pelling him to sell his cotton at less
than cost. It would not satisfy the
man who wanted bread to be told
that its high price enabled the cotton
manufacturer to get his raw product -for
less than cost. In this case the
court reaffirmed the homely maxim
that each tub must stand upon its
own bottom."
noble christian life neither will
they be apt to. If your standard
of morals is not high your broth
er will measure all other girls
by you, the girl he knows b est.
One of the worst things that
can befall a boy is for him to
lose his respect for women.
A girl must be thoughtful and
unselfish to win her brother's
affections.
The girls who are true, kind
and lovely are more than repaid
for any sacrifice they may make,
for I think there is nothing
greater than lovely, manly brothers.
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