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SECTION TWO, PAGES 1 TO 8 ; x r I * * - GEORGE W. PRICE, Editor and Publisher. TRUTH IS THE WEAPON WITH WHICH WE FIGHT. Subscription, $2.00 per Year, In \dvance. Single Copy, 5c. VoL 46. Oxford, Lafayette County, Miss., Thursday, August 10. 1922 No. 39. An Open Letter To Miss Belle Kearney Prof. R. E. L. Sutherland Asks Her to Give Details on Book Charges. The following open letter has been written by Prof. R. E. L. Suther land, secretary” of the Mississippi Uniform School Book Commission, to Mass Belle Kearney, candidate for the United States Senate. Jackson, Miss., July 31, 1922. Miss Belle Kearney, Flora, Miss. Dear Miss Kearney: In the Commercial-Appeal, dated July 14, we notice the following ac- j count of your speech at Houston Miss.: “Miss Kearney still declares that the people of Mississippi are not getting their just desters in the v matter of the price of text books for the children and maintains that tlTere is graft as she has declared before.” Please let us know at once if you made the above statement. If you are making such charges before the people of Mississippi, you evidently have facts and proof to substanti ate you. We therefore consider it} your moral duty to give these facts t ________________ ______ to the public so the guilty parties may be prosecuted by the law. If it is true that you are making these charges against the text-book com-> mission, or if you question the good intentions of the commission, we ask you to plfease answer the following questions: 1. Who is guilty of graft in con nection with the 1920 text-book adop tion? From whom did you obtain your information ? 8. Have you examined the con tracts made by this commission? 4. Mississippi pays less for gram mar school books than does Ala bama, North Carolina, or South Carolina, which states adopted books about the time we did. Do you know the reason for this fact? 5. Mississippi pays more for grammar school books than does Tennessee, which state adopted books one year before we did. Do you know the reason for this fact? 6. Have you made any effort to obtain the facts in this matter from the records, or from any member of the text-book commission? You will note that the text-book adoption of 1920 had nothing to do with high school books. If you will I inform yourself with an open mind, i as we believe you will do, we feel sure that you will correct any er roneous statement you may have made. The people want the truth and they should have it. Miss Kearney, the Text Book Commission was appointed accord ing to law and it did it work as the law directs. It is composed of nine citizens of the state who are not only responsible for their acts, but each has a character and a rep' utation which no one has a right to slander by false accusation either direct or by innuendo. In the light of your superior intelligence and high sense of justice, we are unable to be lieve that you would make statements 'which you do not know of your own knowledge to be true. Now the records of this adoption are public and will speak for them selves. The bids are on file at the state capitol and will show that the cheapest books were adopted in ev ery case where it was possible to get suitable books. The books will have to stand on their own merits. We have leters of approval from a large number of the leading schools stat ing that these books are much better than the old ones, and are giving uni versal satisfaction. In as much as this matter has al ready had considerable publicity and since all the people should be in terested in the facts, we are giving copy of this letter to the press. We want you to know that this letter is written in the spirit of justice, not only to the commission, but to the people, and to you. Ytmrs respectfully, R. E. L. SUTHERLAND, Sec. Text-Book Commission. .• -i ' ] Forty Guardsmen Are Sworn in as Deputy Marshals. West Point, Miss., Aug. 7.—In i response to a call made upon them by the United States marshal for vol unteers to do guard duty about Mobile ;& Ohio Railroad property in Meridian, 20 members of National Guard Co. E of Ethel, in charge of Capt. A. J. j Johnson, and 20 members of a Hous- j ton company passed through West j Point tonight. It is understood that the Mobile & Ohio plans to reopen their Meridian j shops tomorrow morning and that the volunteers, together with others who have been sworn is as deputy mar shals, will protect the railroad against a recurrence of such a scene as was enacted a couple of weeks ago j in Meridian when Inspector Vic and j Engineers Cummings, Drago and Haynes were mistreated. At the same • time private guards employed by the railroad were ganged and threatened ; with death if they continued on duty, i resulting in their dismissal by the railroad company to prevent blood-; shed and rioting. I Kk M9BB • -■ Alive and Kicking” ; And Over 4 Years Old! i No claim of ours of Gould i power, (jjould endurance, or I Gould economy could com ] pare with the wonderful records of Gould Batteries established by Gould owners in the recent Gould contest. Hundreds of Gould Bat teries, with their famous Dreadnaught Plates, showed i an average life of 4 years, 1 I month. Think of the supei^service the "tv: Gould Dreadnaught Battery will j give with its acid-resisting Dread \ naught Armored Separators! i ■\ 666 quickly relieves Colds, Con stipation, Biliousness and Head aches. A Fine Tonic. j VOTE FOR ! I f A. C. AQderson Of Ripley, Tippah County, Mississippi I FOR CONGRESS j SECOND DISTRICT } j Election August 15th. 1922 { f » * • ? ! —--- r t • * I i \ «1 i ,, ii 1 . ° ll | m ALBERT C. ANDERSON Ripley, Miss. Born and Reared on a Tippah County Farm. Son of a Confederate Veteran. Served 12 years in Mississippi Legislature. Four years as President Pro Tern State Senate. Delegate to Baltimore Convention, 1912. Editor and Publisher Ripley Sentinel 18 years. President Mississippi Press Asociation, 1912. Member Mississippi Centennial Commission 1916-1920. In Perfect Health and a Hard Wqrker. •1 < I Wants to Represent YOU in Congress. 4 • * * I ' \ Less Shortening 4fn y^INE baking demands fine flour. 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