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PAGE FOUR
TIMES EDITORIALS
Let the Truth Prevail!
Where America Must Stand
We don't think much of the occasional warlike
editorial we see which declares that our excursion
into Mexico should be followed by the subjugation
of the Mexicans and the annexation of their country.
We don't think that the few editors in the UTiited
States wlio are taking that tack have properly
gauged the opinion of the American people.
Public opinion, ai we read it, very largely endorse*
the attitude of President Wilson iv this matter. We
have a police fab in Mexico. OUT army is down there
to punish Villa and his gang of desperadics, to clean
up the ruffians who are making life miserable and
dangerous in northern Mexico and over the border
iv our own homes, and to put an end to the situation
which lias been a thorn in the flesh of both republics
- Mexico and the United States.
WE AXE GOING TO CARKY IT THROUGH
TO THE END. Our countrymen expect that a
thorough job shall be done, DOME WHAT MAY.
We hope there will be no interference. IJut no
matter —interference will be brushed aside with i
hand as harty and as heavy as the hand that will
wipe, out the Villa bandits.
Other Mexicans should understand this from the
start and stand aside. If they don't, all the. worse
for the Mexicans.
The American people do not hanked to conquer
their fellow men in the sister republic. They prefer
to see them free and independent. We don't want to
seise their territory. The greed for the sunny lands
Read Their Views
We would urge that every rotor read carefully tlie
views of the various candidates as sot fortli in the
series of question! and answers now appearing fan
The Time*
Iv the first plane, the mwen made by the various
aspirants for scats in the council arc a fairly true in
nex of how they may he expected to act if elected. 1Q
the second place the symposium of ideas on the vari
ous important issues is interesting reading, and in
structive as well.
The candidates have put in a good deal of thought
on the various .subjects, and the suggestions they
make are worth every citizen's study.
The questions regarding franchises, part of them
printed yesterday and the remainder today, bring
out answers which show an overwhelming sentiment
for making the T. It. & I\ franchises expire together, l
for making it easily possible for the city to take over
the lines at the end of the franchise period, if it de-!
sires to do so, and present a number of interesting
ideas on what compensation should be made by the
company for franchise extensions and what conipen
sation should be made by the city for the company's
property. •
We would suggest that voters cut out these articles
and file them away. After election it will be well to
have them handy to check up the actions of whatever
pair of candidates may be chosen.
In presenting the questions and answers, The
Times has been scrupulously careful to handle them
in a fair manner. The answers have been .summar
ized impartially when summarized at all, and printed
in full when summarizing would not present the
candidate's ideas adequately. rHie candidates have
been listed in their alphabetical order, and no pref
erence of any sort has been shown any candidate to
ward whom The Times might be suspected of having
a leaning, nor any injustice done any candidate
whom we are opposing.
The Times wants to serve its readers, as we have
said before, as a true public forum in this matter, and
any campaigning we do for or against anybody will
be done independently.
The Movie Editorial
Pfctognph is the name applied by one of the Uurgfl
film producers to a new type of educational picture
which is being shown now at the Colonial theater.
Talking about it in terms of our own business, we
would call it a movie editorial.
Motion picture fans (to continue the parallel be
tween the film theater and the newspaper) for some
time have been familiar with the news film, the
Novel-a-Wcck film, the human interest story film,
the cartoon film, the travel story film and .several
other types which might be compared to various
newspaper features.
Now the Paramount house has added the editorial.
This week's "column" makes an interesting and in
structive plea for better babies, preaches a pre
paredness sermon, gives the women folks some first -
class hints on styles and presents a psychology tesf
for the edification of the audience.
This innovation opens a vista of interesting possi
bilities of film development
and the rich mines of Mexico may tickle the gizzards
of the rich monopolists and the Hearsts but no such
greed animates the mass of us.
President Wilson has tiled up public opinion
about right. Hut he lias not been unmindful of a
higher consideration—the place of the United States
as a world power. He SHOW! that if the United
States goes into a great war to conquer Mexico and
annex the country, we shall not only take upon our
sell a task that will eat up millions of dollars and
isnuff out the lives of hundreds of thousands of
American soldiers, but that we shall thereby build up
a great wall between this nation and the rest of the
world. We will be so busy whipping Mexicans, so
utterly unable to do anything else, that we will lose
our voice in the great international game that is
being played and will be played stronger still when
the day of days—the peace day —dawns across the
Atlantic
The nations of Europe now understand that we
are determined to have our say, that we propose to
be taken into strict account in international affairs.
To ensure prosperity for our people we shall demand
a front position in the great commercial game that
is coming after this war. Foreign commerce we
must have on an ever increasing scale. Our trade
will decrease rather than increase unless our inter
national position is absolutely insured.
We cannot allow our attention to be distracted by
the glitter of an annexation argument.
ffE CANNOT AFFORD IT.
Our Two Senators
Several times during the present session of eon
gross we have had occasion to call attention v to the
contrast between the conduct of the two Washington
senators.
Today notice the vote on the Tillman bill providing
for a $11,000,000 government-owned armor plant.
Poindexter voted yesterday for the bill, helping to
roll up the majority that pasted it. Jones stood with
Penrose, Lippitt, Lodge and the other armor* trust
senators.
This is one of the chief preparedness bills of the
session, a bill which is designed to take private profit
out of national preparedness!
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MANSWERSi
g BY CYNTHIA GREY E~
■ 11 11:11 I! II HIM! II II III! II HUB
Q. —A young lady viaitlng here allowed me to call on her
frequently, breaking other engagements to make one with me.
But when I visited her in her town she showed very little inter
est In me. When here she professed to love me, but there, when
I accused her of caring more for another fellow, she said she
liked us both. What I would like to know is which one she
loved? MAX.
A.—l'i<>!>;<l>l> Mie loves neither of you. What is more, she
doesn't s-'em to be intensely ■ >■• •-* •—i ■.I in anyone. Do not force the
issue. Itetter flevot<> your attention to some friend here and forget
the girl in the other town.
Q. —Please tell me at what time postal sub-stations are sup
posed to close? A certain station has repeatedly refused to ac
cept registered letter*, although it was a half hour before their
advertised closing time. ENQUIRER.
A.—l'oHtal regulations require sub-stations to keep open from
8:00 to StSS, i"ii ninny stations <!,. not close promptly at that hour.
The reason your ii-uisi^ i • -.l mail was refused nan probably this: The
lime uli'-n ihi- la.i collection of re<icistei'e<l mail is niado varies „i
the different sub-station*. This is reasonable, Mince the wagon can
not ! '.- at inoie than one place nt the same time. If a letter for regis
try is offered after tlie last collection has been made, the clerk can
not l>e held responsible for it.
Miss Grey maintains office hours each Wednes
day from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m. when she is pleased to
meet any Times reader. On other days she replies
to questions only by mail or through her column.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
THE T^OOMA TUBS
OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE
(&abird<£ab
Trying to guoss wlio it Is when
the telephone rings gives most
women a lot of enjoyable excite
ment.
• • •
PAMII-Y OK WHAT?
Notice: I understand there
are a few old, long-tongued, tat
tling women and some half raised
men, telling that I have deserted
my family and run off with an
other woman. I want to say it is
a lie and the people that are
talking tins are more apt to rt«
that than I am. I have not de
serted my family nor never will.
You can find me at the Hampton
and Ail. 11 livery burn at all times.
—Adv. In the Kennett (Mo.)
Democrat.
• • •
LOOKING IIIICM OVER
Mrs. .Margaret Sweet and
daughter, (Catherine, attended
the style show at the Auditorium,
Chicago, Thursday, and enjoyed
it very much as four hundred
styles of both men and women
were shown from the age of three
upward.—Kankakee (111) Repub
lican.
• • •
HOW TO RK A SOLDIER
Lesson No. I—Bravery
The first thing a soldier must
learn is to be brave. Soldiers who
Confessions ofaWfe
JUST U IIIKI: I STAND
in nminiir to dick
I don't just quite understand it,
little book, but Jim comes over
here almost every night with Dick
and they both try their best to
rtici-r me up. It makes me feel as
though they know something
al>out me that I do not.
"I'm going to be devilish lone
some when you take Dick away
from me, Margie," he said last
night.
are not brave get themselves
chased by the enemy, which is
humiliating and hard on the feet.
There are many ways to learn
bravery. One of the most effec
tive is to talk back to a large
policeman. If you get away with
It, the experience will give you
self-coufldence, which Is the first
step toward barvery. If you don't
get away with it, try it all over
again ou another policeman—
when you get out of the hospital.
(To be continued.)
Maloney—-Shure, a man can
Kit no peace nowadays, not even
in his own house.
Casey—Ain't thot rolght! Last
winter me darter ripped up the
parlor carpet an' buttered the
floor for il.im hi . an' this year
slip's swiped all me socks to make
into stocking- caps an' flooded
the kitchen six inches dape for a
sktttin' rink. —Puck.
Justice Frank
Graham's Idea of
A SOFT SNAP
TJTNKiNG ORP6R-5 FOR
FOOTBALL NO^F.oUAKud
fifX a cness Tt>oRNAN\eKI"H
'It doesn't look as though I
"was going to take him away very
soon, Jim. Every time I mention
being moved to my home, the
powers that be recommend that I
remain here a little longer. You
haven't fixed It up with the doc
tors, have \you, so that you and
Dick can live together a little
longer?"
Jtin laughed, and Dick ex
claimed, "I should say not."
Poor old Dick! Isn't It queer,
(Gosh! What Can a Poor Kid Do?)
little book, how we label people in
our own mtndi. Some people ttke
Aunt Mary and Mrs. Selwln are
always "dear" to me, I never
think of them without that pre
fix. I never thought of Eleanor
Fairlow without the word "fasci
nating" bobbing up and settling It
self before her name. I always
think of Eleine as "sweet," of
Mollie as "charming," of Donna
Tenney as "brilliant," of Annie as
"sensible," of Jim as "faithful,"
of Pat as "patient," of Mary as
"true blue," and of Bill Tenney as
"fickle."
Sometimes I change some of
these adjectives, hut in my mind
all my friends and acquaintances
are card-Indexed with a word or
two that simply describes them to I
me. Dick in the first years of our
marriage was "dearest," then he!
I became "thoughtless." Kor a timel
il never spoke to him—never;
[called his name — that the word
"cruel" did not come into my ■
I mind, and after that the word
"false" used to make me shudder,
for months whenever my lips,
framed his name. Yet Mich is the
: queer quirk of a woman's love,
i There, I have written the word
j "love," but I am not sure that I j
I love Dick any more, at least I am
I very sure I do not love him in the
' way that 1 used to do. I nevei
think of him now that the words
("Poor old Dick" do not end with
a sigh.
Poor old Dick! He certainly
i lias grown old, and while perhaps
his friends are congratulating him
on his better financial success, he
is poor. Already his hair has be
glin to whiten at the temples.
When I noticed It the other day 1
really think it hurt me more to
think that I did not want to run |
I my fingers through it and kiss the
, gray locks any more. All it meant
to me was poor old Dick.
In one of John Galsworthy's j
books he remarks of a woman of
the streetß, "She expected to find i
the joy of life and instead shej
only found the life of joy, which
is a very different thing"—li
think men can find out this is so|
as well as women. 1 know that:
Dick has done so.
For him as well as for me illu
sion has fled. 1 am satisfied he
blames himself for lileanor Fair-j
low's death and my dreary out- ,
look on life. He has plunged into
work, and like many another man!
he is trying to forget his follies
in the fever and stress of busi
ness.
Just now lie Is doing penance
as vigorously as a flagellant, and
while his outside garments are in:
the latest and smartest fauhion.j
yet his soul is feeling the rough j
galling of a faliric that hurts more]
than sackcloth doe 3 the flesh, and
his heart instead of his head is
covered with the ashes of lost de
sire. Poor old Dick! 1 want to he
your friend, and yet all desire to i
be your sweetheart and your wife
has fled!
Poor old Dick, I am realy sor
rier for you than for myself, for|
you have to fight two devils. Re-j
morse and Regret, and I havej
only one. I only regret that I!
married you without knowing'
more about your life and your,
loves.
And yet—oh, little book, It It I
bo hard to be honest with one-|
self. I was him about to put
down here that if 1 had known |
about Eleanor Falrlow I never
would have married Dick; but;
even as my pen was poised to j
write the words I knew I waß|
lying to myself. I know that I j
would have married him had all
tiie women In the world stood in i
I line and said that he belonged to
I each one of them.
Oh, little book, those early
I days of living and loving were
glorious beyond bellof.
Time, place or circumstance
cannot take them from me.
(Continued Tomorrow.
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