The Semi-weekly leader., May 27, 1922, Image 2

About The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941

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Next Day, All Right.
She (during spat)—It’s a story for
you to say 1 grabbed you up quick.
You know very well that when you
proposed I didn’t say “yes” until the
next day..
He—That’s right, you didn’t. I
proposed at 11:5!) p. in. and you ac
cepted me at 12:01 the next morning.
—Boston Transcript.
If you don't like what the future
has In store for you, patronize some
other store.
Nothing troubles some people more
than looking for trouble and not find
ing It.
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Brief and Comprehensive.
Ben Dierks lias an express agency
and transfer business In a village in
Sonoma county, California. Recently
he detailed one of ids teamsters with
a wagon and pair to take a San Fran
cisco man and wife to their country
place a few miles out of town. ' The
bill, as rendered by the teamster,
read: “Haul grip, grub, and people,
three hours, three dollars.”
Quite True.
Howell—"Do you think the wrist
watch has come to stay? Powell—“I
hope not. I want mine to go.”
Her
Experience
“I was never
able to bake a
good cake until
using Royal. 1
find other pow
ders leave a
bitter taste.**
Mrs. C. P.
ROYAL
Baking Powder
Absolutely Pure
Contains No Alum
Leaves No Bitter Taste
Sand for Now Royal Cook Book
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A SENSE OF FAIRNESS
“I should like to subscribe to your
campaign fund," remarked Mr. Dustin
Stax.
“I couldn’t permit such a thing,” re
plied Senator Sorghum. “My sense of
fairness would not tolerate the thought.
The last time you subscribed you put
In only $10,000 and you took down
about a hundred thousand dollars’
worth of personal prestige and gen
eral publicity for your business.”
Working Toward It
“Is your boy making himself useful
on the farm since he got out of col
lege?” • ,
“Not yet,” said Mr. Cobbles, “but
I’ve painted the tractor a bright red,
put a big horn on It, and hung a li
cense tag at the rear, and I’m hoping
that after a while I'll be able to per
suade Sam to drive It occasionally In
Ah, if Mothers Only Could.
Mrs. H. V. G. sends us the follow
ing original and somewhat touching
query by her little son, aged five.
Climbing Into her lap the other eve
dfhg, he said, “Mummy, when I get old,
will I die?”
“Why, yes, dear."
“Well, mummy, won’t you please
keep me new?”
No Secrecy.
“Do you think there are any dip
lomatic secrets?”
“My friends,” replied Senator Sor
ghum, “if you had been around execu
tive sessions and other confidential
gatherings as much as I have you’d
know the number of hours until the
next edition of a newspaper is the
time limit for any kind of a secret.”
Still Climbing.
“Do you regard the Frisbers as so
cially superior?”
“No," said Mr. Grumpson.
“Why not?”
“I’ll illustrate by a figure of speech.
If the peak of society were 20,000 feet
above sea level the Frisbers would
be about 12,000 feet up and short of
breath.”
A BIG UNDERTAKING
Lecturer—Allow me before I close
to repeat the words of the immortal
Webster.
Farmer Wayback—Land sakes,
Marie, let’s git out o’ here. He’s
a-goin, ter start in on the dictionary.
Willing to Risk It.
"If you eat another piece of cake.
"You’ll surely burst.” said mother,
"Then pass the cake and clear the way,”
Responded little brother.
Wisdom.
Teacher—Which one of the five
senses, sight, feeling, hearing, taste or
smell, could you get along best with
out?
Small Boy—Feeling, because when
you get in an accident you won’t get
hurt.
Explained.
“Fifty dollars for six photographs?”
“That’s what I paid.”
“What does the work come in to jus
tify such prices?”
“Well, they look like you and 'then
they don’t look like you. That's where
the $50 comes in.”
The Old Remedy.
“Mrs. Syraes has had to take her
daughter abroad for her nerves. She
inherited her nervousness from her
father.”
“Where did Symes’ mother take him
for his nerves?”
“ A ornou lion 1/tioo ”
Fahrenheit or Centigrade.
Bim—I hear old Joe Goofus passed
away last night.
Bam—Yeh, the poor fellow swal
lowed a thermometer and died by de
grees.—Science and Invention.
Too Complicated.
“Never ask a girl for the makings."
“Why not?”
“Too careless. Get their tobacco all
mixed up with face powder and lip
rouge.”
No Money Value.
“Is your son profiting by his col
lege education?”
“Well," said Mr. Cobbles, “he has
learned how to wear Taney clothes and
do the needful when a jazz orchestra
starts to play, but so far as I know
he’s never been able to cash in on his
accomplishments.”
Then He Fled.
Old Gruff—I understand my daugh
ter Is determined to marry you. I want
to say right here that she’s a fool.
Suitor—Ah 1 Hereditary, I suppose.
Experience Talks.
Wellesley—Why do they say “listen
ers never hear any good of them
selves”?
Shepherd—The man who wrote that
must have been thinking of the times
when his wife said, “Now listen to
me!”—London Answers.
A Matter of Coneequengs.
“Blowhard has a big opinion of him
ecu.
‘tfow big?"
"Well, he's beginning to Imagine
he’s annoyed by camera fiends.”
Finance in Politics.
“What’ll we do about these charges
that yqu are going to have an unlim
ited campaign fund available?”
“Admit them,” replied Senator Sor-i
ghum. “Financial responsibility never
hurt anybody.”
A Roast.
Sklnnem—I always lie awake an
hour or so thinking over the things I
have done during the day.
Sharp—If that Includes the people
you have done during the day, 1 won
der that you can get to sleep at all.
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Peary Memorial Unveiled by 'the Admiral’s Daughter
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Mrs. Edward Stafford, daughter of the late Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, unveiling the memorial to her father,
the discoverer of the North Pole, at Arlington National cemetery. Her brother, Robert E. Peary, stands at the right
of the picture. The memorial stands on a hill opposite the Memorial amphitheater.
Europe Redeems
Printed Money
_ OL_.________
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Hoarded Stocks of Gold and Cur
rency Make Appearance as
Exchange Falls.
MOST VEXED WAR PROBLEM
European Countries Flooded With
Cheap Money When Emergency of
War Compelled Abandonment
of Gold Standard.
Washington.—Students of Interna
tlonal finance and economics are
aware of a new development in con
nection with (he depreciated currencies
of Europe. These currencies have con
stituted one of the most vexed prob
lems brought on by the war.
The need for greatly increased sums
of money, brought about by the war
cost, was met by most of the nations
by the issue of paper currency with
out relation to gold reserve. In nor
mal times the paper currency of a na
tion has a definite gold reserve, gen
erally about 40 per cent. The emer
gency of war caused the abandonment
of this reserve by all belligerent na
tions excepting the United States, be
cause the national treasuries of these
nations lacked adequate gold to main
tain the reserve ratio. In the United
States the treasury and the federal re
serve banks discouraged use of gold
ana goiu ceruncates ror general circu
lation and accumulated the greatest
stock of gold ever assembled In the
history of the world. It was with
drawn gradually from circulation and
piled up in the treasury and the vaults
of the federal reserve banks.
An inevitable result of this policy
was that during the war and following
the armistice the European printing
presses, being definitely cut loose
from the retarding element of a gold
reserve, kept on running at high
speed, turning out reams of paper
money which went Into circulation. It
is a natural rule that the Increase of
the supply of anything makes It cheap
er. This is as true of money ns of
coal or potatoes. The result was that
this plentiful supply of paper money
made money cheap. In other words,
people who had consumable goods to
sell would not exchange them for as
small a quantity of the cheap money
as of the old-fashioned money, hacked
by gold. This meant that prices rose.
The United States experienced infla
tion of currency but of a milder char
acter. The gold standard was not
abandoned here. Prices rose in this
country 100 or 200 per cent in some
cases, but in Europe they rose thou
sands of per cent.
Exchange Hurts Europe.
A further result was that European
money, being cheaper and more plenti
ful than American money, foreign ex
change became unfavorable to Europe.
That Is, European money would not
buy as much here ns American money
would buy in Europe.
There Is a law of economics known
as Gresham’s law, which lays down
the rule that where two kinds of
money are in circulation and one Is
much inferior in value to the other,
the more valuable type will retire.
People who have It, believing it to be
of greater value and therefore more
Worth keeping, will hoard it away.
This was done to a great extent all
over Europe. As the inflation pro
gressed, people who had gold pieces or
silver money or paper money of na
tions in better financial shape than
their own hid this wealth away and
used the more plentiful cheap paper
currency.
The extent to which European In
flation has gone Is notorious. The
European news cables every day say
something of the difficulties being ex
perienced as a result of the Inflation.
The Russian ruble and the German
mark are favorite comic picture and
vaudeville theater jokes because they
have become so cheap. It now costs
more than 100,000 rubles to buy a
meal in Russia.
The (Jerman mark, which In normal
times was worth at what is called the
par of exchange, nearly a quarter In
American money now is so cheapened
that you can buy three marks for an
American penny. The Austrian crown
has been as cheap as 3,000 for $1. A
$10 bill of American money In Russia
would exchange for enough rubles to
make what would have been a Rus
sian fortune before the war.
Trade, especially international
trade, has become very difficult under
these conditions. The problem of re
storing these currencies to something
like normal value has perplexed Euro
pean financiers und economists ever
since the Inflation started. It is one
of the big questions before the Genoa
conference which has been called to
solve European economic and political
problems. The United States declined
art invitation to tills conference, part
ly because of the danger of becoming
involved in so unstable a condition of
affairs as that created by the cheap
currencies.
Development Surprises Experts.
Now, the new development which
has surprised economists in connec
tion with this situation is the discov
ery that there is a tendency on the
part of Europeans to bring about a
hitherto undreamed of method of cor
recting the Inflation. Many plans have
been suggested but none has been
found practical. The new develop
ment is one which, if it continues, will
tend to correct the situation without
the aid of conferences or politicians.
The development is hailed as a re
versal of Gresham’s law. The fact
seems to be that the people of Russia,
Germany and Poland and some of the
other nations having badly depreci
ated currencies have become so dis
gusted with the nuisance of dealing
with cheap money that they are bring
ing out of- hiding their hoards of gold
and' other valuable money. A case
HARDING SPORTS TROPHY
President Harding offered this tro
phy for winter sports and it has been
won this year by Dartmouth college
and is to be presented shortly under
the auspices of the snowbirds of the
Lake Placid club. The cup is the first
trophy ever presented by a president
of the United States to encourage ath
letics.
j Hen Lays Daily
on Kitchen Table
? York, Pa.—A pat Plymouth
t Rock hen, owned by Charles F.
| Laucks of Red Lion, delivers an
| egg each day on the kitchen
| table with more grace and ln
t telligenee than the ordinary
| huckster.
♦ The fowl found the kitchen
| door ajar one morning, slipped
J in, flew upon the table and
t scratching together several
t pieces of paper, deposited a
1 clean white egg, ready for use.
j Since her first effort the door
f has been left open, but when
! Mrs. Laucks forgets to do so, the
t pet cackles for admission. The
t hen has been so regular that
? a small cushion has been placed
i on the table, and each day she
! comes In and deposits an egg.
illustrating this new development re
cently was reported by a British trad
intr firm Tills firm xnlrl n hill nf crnnfis
to a Russian dealer at Rostov. Pay
ment was received in a miscellaneous
assortment of cash. It consisted of
American gold, checks drawn on
American banks, American tiills of ex
change, English currency and checks,
Turkish gold and checks and notes,
French currency and checks and Rus
sian gold rubles. Obviously, with the
exception of i checks, this payment
was made from good money which
doubtless had been hoarded since the
war.
Agents of the American relief ad
ministration in Russia have reported
sindlar instances of people bringing
out gold and other metal money. The
same is true in Poland, Germany and
Austria.
Currency Revolution Seen.
What economists see in this devel
opment Is the possibility of a gradual
revolution in European currencies.
For instance, the Russians have dis
covered that their own rubles are
nearly useless but that they can get
big value for British or American or
other good Inoney. Consequently they
will try to get hold of as much of this
foreign money as possible.
In early days in Europe this same
phenomenon occurred. Money issued
at the great banking centers of Ven
ice, Antwerp and a few other cities
came into general use all over Europe,
displacing cheaper native currencies
because everybody knew It was good
money.
Recently, the United States treasury
removed the ban from the free issue
of gold and gold certificates. It Is
thought possible by economists and
students of International finance that
a good deal of this gold money, known
all over the world as being obtainable,
will reach the countries abroad having
depreciated currency and become pop
ular as a valuable medium of ex
change. This has not been possible
until the last few days because, the
treasury and the federal reserve banks
would not let gold go into general cir
culation, but now it is possible foi
foreign-born Americans to get this
money and send It to their relatives
It is recognized that this process ol
substitution of foreign money for the
depreciated native currencies would
be slow, but some economists believe
that it is a possible but necessarilj
slow solution to the European emer
gency problem.
COPS FIND GUN CHECKROOM
Discover Station Where the Gunmer
of New York Park Their
Artillery.
New York.—The checking business
which has made rapid strides with the
opening of checkrooms for babies anc
parking stations for flappers’ corsets
has been broadened again.
The police announced here that tliej
had discovered a checking station foi
pistols, where members of the under
world may park their artillery wher
they have a few hours of leisure.
Most of the city's gun wielders ap
parently were on the crime path, hovy
ever, ns th" parking station had onlj
two pistols on its shelves. f
FRENCH “TIGER” ENDS GRUDGE
Clemenceau Forgives and Wins Sculp
tor Ke Sent to Prison Many
Years Ago.
Biarritz.—Former Premier Clemen
ceau, after the unveiling of the statue
of King Edward VII of England here
the other day, requested to be In
troduced to the sculptor.
“You have real talent,” the Tiger
said. “Is any of your work in the pub
lic museums?”
“No,”, replied the artist, “but there
is a bust made by me in the collection
at La Sante prison. Owing to my ex
tremist tdeas it is the only museum
ray country ever opened for me. Here
is a photograph of the work in ques
tion.”
Clemenceau took the photograph,
laughed aloud, slapped the sculptor on
the shoulder and snid: “I suppose wi
were a pair of fools then.”
The photograph represented a heat
of Clemenceau sticking on a spear.
Maxlme Real del Sarte, the sculptoi
a militant royalist in his youth, lfad be
come Involved In some public manl
festatlon and Clemenceau, thei
minister of the interior, had him sen
to La Sante for six months.
An electrically operated hedge trim
mer with reciprocating knives hai
been Invented by a Louisiana man.
Lott of Snuff.
Nashville, Tenn.—If anyone believes
the habit of “dipping snuff” no longer
Is in vogue a conversation with L. P.
Brewer, collector of Internal revenue,
will cure hltn of his misapprehension.
Nashville manufacturers for one week
bought $5,000 worth of revenue stamps
to be placed on snuff already sold.
This represents a sole of $50,000 worth
of the goods, according to Brewer.
The Republic of Colombia li is a pop
ulation of 6,000,000.
YAWNED NECK OUT OF PLACE
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Rochester Dentist a Bit Too Strenu
ous in Relaxing Ex
ercise. '
Rochester, N. Y.—Dr. David N. Mar
tin, a local practicing dentist and a
graduate of last year’s class of the
dental school, University of Buffalo,
is recovering from the effects of a dis
located vertebrae In his neck, suffered
1 several days ago wlieti he stretched
himself too strenuously and took at
extra relaxing yawn. Doctor Martli
was treated at a hospital here, bu>
was permitted to go to his home
Doctor Martin, In flexing his muscle:
a few days ago, twisted his head to<
much to one side and In so doing th<
atlas and axis vertebrae moved fron
their natural places, causing the dls
location, according to the record a
i the hospital
I
HAS FIRST WELL
DAY IN 6 YEARS
Huntington Citizen Could Neither
Bleep Nor Eat With Any Sat
isfaction Before He
Got Tanlac.
“Before taking Tanlac I had not
seen a well day In six years,” said
W. It. Peoples, 328 22nd St., Hunting
ton, W. Va.
“It seemed like I had lost my health
for good. I could neither sleep nor
eat with satisfaction. I was badly
run down, nervous, had no appetite
and had to force down every mouthful
I ate. Even then ray food soured. I
would fill up with gas until I had In
tense pains In my stomach and chest.
Headache almost drove me mad, rheu
matism In my arms, shoulder and hips
kept me In pain all the time, and 1
had to force myself to work.
“Tanlac went right after my troubles.
On four bottles I gained ten pounds
and the rheumatism and stomach
trouble soon left me. My wife has
given a statement about the good Tan
lac did her, and I am glad to add my
endorsement of this wonderful medi
cine."
Tanlac Is-sold by all good druggists.
Letting Him In.
claimed the affable old person. “I’d
give a great deal to be able to Join
In your sport.”
“Stick around, grandpop,” said one
Sturdy youngster. "If we knock this
ball through somebody's window we’ll
let you go for It.”—Birmingham Age
Herald.
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Both 8ides.
“She said she Jilted him.”
“And he cays he was lucky to get
off easy.”
YOU CANNOT AFFORD
To let your little hurts and ail
ments get bad.
Keep Vacher-Balm handy for Burns,
Bolls, Cuts, Corns, Plies, or Soreness
anywhere.
Ask your druggist. Avoid Imitations.
—Advertisement.
There Is always some man around
who is willing to second any kind of
motion.
WOMEN IeEP SWAMP-ROOT
Thousands of women have kidney and
bladder trouble and never suspect it.
Women’s complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in a healthy
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gans to become diseased.
Pain in the back, headache, loss of am
bition, nervousness, are often times symp
toms of kidney trouble.
Don’t delay starting treatment. Dr.
Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, a physician’s pre
scription, obtained at any drug store, may
be just the remedy needed to overcome
such conditions.
Get a medium or large size bottle im
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However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cente to Dr.
Kilmer ft Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for e
sample bottle. When writing be sure end
mention this paper.—Advertisement.
It takes a wise man to know the
difference between opportunity and
a gambler’s chance.
A REWARD OF $5,000.00
Would be a small amount to pay
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save your life for a dollar bill would
you hesitate to spend it? You risk
your life everytime you drive your
car in the rain because you can't see
through your windshield. A dollar
bill sent to the Baltimore See-Thru
Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland,
will ensure you having a clear wind
shield for the next three years, as
their preparation is guaranteed to
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Money makes the mare go—or come,
or stey, according to the way it talks
to the jockey.
“Dead Shot," Dr. Peery'e Vermifuge for
Worms and Tapeworm, hae enjoyed popular
approval for 76 yeere. If you cannot obtain
It at your druggist send 60 cents to Wright's
Indian Vegetable Pill Co., S7S Pearl St,.
New York City. Money back If not aatlafled.
—Advertisement.
The man who has more than the
other fellow should do more.
Why Is the hired girl of* foreign
birth called a domestic?
Your
New
Home
should be made
artistic, sanitary
and livable.
These walls should be Alabastined in the latest,
up-to-the-minute nature color tints. Each room should
reflect your own individuality and the treatment
throughout be a complete perfect harmony in colors.
TT»e walls of the old home, whether mansion or cottage, can be
made just as attractive, just as sanitary, through the intelligent use of
Instead of kalsomine or wallpaper
It is absolutely necessary if you expect Alabastine results that
you ask for and secure Alabastine. i
Avoid kalsomines under various names and insist on the package
with the cross and circle prin-ediin red. That is the only way to be
sure you are getting the genuine Alabastine.
Alabastine is easy to (nix and apply, lasting in its results, and
absolutely sanitary.
. Alabastine is a dry powder, put up in five-pound packages, white and beau
tiful tints, ready to mix and use by the addition of cold water, and with full direc
tions on each package. Every package ef genuine
Alabastine has cross and circle printed in red.
Better write us for hand-made color de
signs and special suggestions. Give us your decor
ative problems and let us help you work them out.
Alabastine Company
1655 Grsndville Ave. Grand Rapids. Mich
No work {that you farmers do is too
rough' for clothes made out of Stifel’s
Indigo'Cloth.
All Overalls/Jumpers and Work Clothes
‘made of this cloth last longer, wash bet
‘ ter and keep their “looks.”
I '
See that you get it. Look for this boot shaped
trade mark j s tam ped on the back of the cloth.
I
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Garments sold by dealers everywhere—
We are makers of the cloth only.
J. L. STIFEL & SONS
Indigo Dyers and Printers
Wheeling, W. Vn.
J*0 Church St.. New York. N. Y.
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We ttate it aa our honeat
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