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t i V«' AMERICAN HISTORY
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; S July 14
'jt ■the ,oM Continental congress ratified flu; new
CBnstttutlon
as passed last of the alien and sedition
| laws;
A $3,000 pension was voted the widow of Presi
<#tot' lihcoln.
ra B C ongress ordered the Treasury Department to
f X reduce the national debt at least $10,000,000
a4 Month
BIBLE THOUGHT
iVRBt according to the appearance.-—
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■bw f' little do they "i what is, who frame
see
judgments upon that which seems.
k MEW WAR
OILS?
int? jlh^oatrich He is, in many ways, an admirable
,, has a fine physique, is easily
^4 t$iers. 'can gun very fast and has beautiful hardjy
Yet, on the whole he is
sjthat lYbird we in place should of adopt the eagle, him ^ ?f opr
m o tner words, it is not a good plan for
jfly his famous habit of seeking security
ylng the head in the sand and shut
out all unpleasant sights. For when
,o$trich's head is thus buried his posterior
slevated, tempting the fates to apply a
ing |iwat with a barrel stave or boot,
lot Wing ago Rear Admiral Plunkett made
in which he said that this country
Great Britain were drifting toward war.
•st) a cry went up! "Unthinkable!” The
m »»»l I was called many names, of which
•was the mildest, and we all assured
}<§} eiui|speakably <pther that since was with England would
tragic it was, ipso facto, im
le.
fcvdmld be a tragedy, surely. But is it
y% "unthinkable? ”
ifs not. Ludwcll Denny, a level-headed
Hfngton correspondeht who is no more a
William Howard Taft, can think
for one. His recent book, "We Fight
off Oil " ought td be read by all or us who
lafe^bpen putting our heads in the sand.
r dF Mr.. Denny thinks war highly probable.
■iH Hi United States and Great Britain are
now in a great struggle for world
Denny points out the spheres
_
Conflict: Russie, the Near East, Mexico,
Gjfioaabia, thl Venezuela. Standard Oil while is Royal doing
%Hting for the United States,
Df|tch ^hell carries on for the Empire. The
rtm&glc is getting more complicated, more
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iuAither nation could function without oil.
i||i HHscm, ‘■’world's oil supply is limited. Each
from diplomat* and financiers down
0 |*jhe perennial "man in the street, is de
ntthied to have an adequate, unchecked
upbiy. Floods of propaganda are pouring
nikT each side.
4p >Amir, Obviously in such circumstances, Obviously "unthinka
J it is not. we
Utlff do$i drifting toward the brink. Obvi
>u4y ^a(minor squabble over some concession
n-JUoloinbia or Armenia could! touch off a
veiloonflagrat.ion.
, nM|h a war would be a great catastrophe
iSoust be avoided intelligent and it can be, if both
;e an effort to reach an
p compromise. Some method surely
1 found whereby the struggle can be
* Hare is (4» point: if we bury Our heads
e sand and keep crying "Unthinkable!"'
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no Such compromise will be reached. We
will keep on drifting until we drift slquarely
into> war. The only sensible Course is to
face the facts nnd see what can be done about
it.
Copying the ostrich cm: bring only disaster.
We must get together now, before it is
too late.
“Invest In And Around Griffin”
GINKS OF THE GLOSSARY.
Honest, now, if you are reading much,
just what do you think of the Word-juggling
psychologists, the high-brow lexicographers,
and the mysteriously meaningless but highly
suggestive paragraphers of the hard-boiled
dead-lovers type?
Into this first paragraph I have purposely
put sime big, high-souhding words, just for
fun. I like to stand off ahd look at them,
trying to high-hat me. It is to laugh.
From letters 1 have received, from readers
of The News, and from what others of these
readers have said to me, 1 have learned
that many of you are interested in the art
of writing. May I hot, therefore, assume
the teacher’s role^ today, and suggest that
simplicity—clearness—is the most important
element of style. The other two elements
are beauty and force, neither of which is pos
sible unless the thing written is clear enough
to be understood.
In a story I criticised, once upon a time, I
found this sentence: “To my ears the vibrant
sound of Mamma, issuing from the vocal
chords of a keenly attuned human instrument
would be the sweetest of all the rhythmical
combinations of tones.” When 1 had finished
with this sentence, here is what was left:
“The word. 'Mamma,' spoken by my own
baby, would be the sweetst music in the
world.”
Here is another example of the. author s
wordiness: “The exotic hyacinth ahd tulips,
in a bed close by, were emulously exhaling
delicious perfume which was caught in the
breeze and wafted to their sense of smell,
producing in their minds a kindly and warm
ing feeling of listless indolence and dreami
ness.”
Let’s see, now, i fwe can’t make this clearer,
more beautiful and more forceful by using
fewer words: "The fragrance of hyacinths
and tulips, in a bed close by, gave them a
feeling of dreamy indolencce."
Why say, "the fragrance of a flower is
wafted to the sense of smell? Who ever
heard of fragrance appealing to the eyes or the
ears?
Real wisdom usually expresses itself in
simple, every-day, easily-understood language.
The twenty-third Psalm contains I 18 words,
And 95 of them are words of one syllable.
Big words may have a place in polemic argu
ment or controversy, or in scientific termi
nology, but the heart beats and laughs and
sobs; it doesn't oscilate and vibrate jocosely
and ejaculate morosely.
Honest, now—again ■which sounds better:
"Adored and adorable one, the palpitating
engine which drives the life-giving fluid
throughout my anatomy is exalted in your
presence," "Honey, 1 love you?"
-“Invest In And Around Griffin”
WHERE WOMEN BATTLE.
In the great open spaces of the west, ac
cording the movies, "men •»
to are men —
which means that they are verile and husky,
ready to fight at the drop of the hat.
Now comes news from Missoula, Mont,,
which indicates that in the Open spaces women,
too, may be spirited and aggressive.
Two girls, one 16 an the other only 17,
quarreled over the attentions of a man. They
walked down the road in the darkness to
"settle it" with their fists. They fought
for a while, then one girl drew a revolver and
shot thte other dead.
There is something for psychologists and
sociologists to ponder on. A fight over love
is usually an affair between men. What are
we to say when two young grrjs do it? Is
the hardiness of the west more than a mere
tradition after all? ,
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Invest In Around Griffin
If the Smiths do teach the White House
won't the United States be a wonderful
country for the ladies who arc pleasingly
plump?
•Invest In And Around Griffin
Judging by the smile Mrs. A1 Smith has
been wearing in her recent pictures^ A1 prob
ably can throw ashes on the rug at homo
now any time he wants to.
■“Invest In And Around Griffin”——
One of the great advantages of sitting in
the grandstand is that you can tell the play
ers what to do without knowing a thing about
it yourself.
“But I’m beginning to see that $05
a week won’t keep us the style that
Wayvllle has accustomed us,” Rod
said a little more than half serious.
B#rtle Lou came oyer and
straightened his tie.
•Let’s make a budget when we get
back tonight and see,’, she coaxed
“Other young people—married cou
ples—live well in New York. And
I’m sure there aren’t thousands of
men any smarter than you.”
“Rod laughed. "Budget! Know any
more funny Ones?”
“We won't have a party until we
get the furniture paid for,” Bertie
Lou promised pleadingly. "And if
we stay in a hotel Molly will keep
Mi asking us to dinner That means
taking them out to expensive restau
rants in return.”
Rod stooped down and kissed her.
“You know how to get what you
want, don’t you?” he said. “The old
Eve stuff.”
“If you can’t resist me, then I’ll
ask something else,” Bertie Lou said
laughingly, I wish you wouldn't
play poker with Tom. You lose
too much money.”
“I haven’t lost more than $5.”
But that night he had unusually
good luck and won back his five be
fore Bertie came in to watch the
game. ♦
She cable up behind his chair and
looked over his shoulder at the pile
of chips before him. There were 3
number of blue and red ones. She
knew he was winning. Still she tried
to draw him away from the game
Suggested they ought to go.
Rod felt embarassed and looked
sympathetically at the other men.
Bertie Lou ought to know he had to
give them a chance to win thelt
money back. "Pretty soon,” he said
impatiently to'her.
Before the evening was over all
but he regretted his refusal to stop
playing. He had won a rather large
sum. And, to show how he felt
about it, he invited them all out to a
supper club.
“Let’s make It next Thursday,”
Molly suggested. She had a special
reason for setting the date for that
night..
Bertie Lou hit upon the truth
when she said that Molly did not
like her. It would not have trou
bled her, however, had Molly not
wanted to keep up the appearance
of friendship.
Bertie Lou supposed It was for
Rod’s sake. Both the Frasers were
very fond of him. And for that
reason she made no effort to avoid
Molly altogether, though she found
it difficult to keep from offending
her.
“She's a throwback,’ ’she com
mented to Rod. “She doesn’t seem
to know that women can get more
out of life without hyprocrisy. Gol
ly, I do miss the girls at home!”
It would have surprised her to
know the real reason for Molly’s
dislike qf her. It was partly as she
had guessed, her half-jokihg, half
serious remark about living within
Rod’s income. It had irritated
Molly to learn from Tom that Ber
tie Lou would do that of necessity
She felt that Bertie Lou had been
posing as choosing to do so.
But the thing that annoyed her
most, and changed her feeling to
ward Bertie Lou from a negative
.state to an active dislike, was Ber
tie Lou’s-complete refusal to recog
nize her importance as the wife of
Rod’s employer.
Molly was so fond of parade she
was willing to sacrifice her desire
to drop Bertie Lou In order to sat
isfy her ego. She loved to feel that
Bertie Lou must look up to her,
whether she showed it or not. Shi'
would have been happy If she could
have made Bertie Lou trembje.
Bertie Lou didn't see any cause for
being grateful to Molly on Rod's ac
count. If gratitude was due It be
longed to Tom. she felt.
She could see that Molly expected
gratitude and attention, but she
never guessed that her failure to
give thena was Molly’s chief reason
for disliking her. At times she
thought It might be because Molly
had such a strong affection for Lila
that she didn't care for the girl
Rod had married.
Bertie Lou never would have made
a friend of Molly had the choice
been left to her. But she found
It not Impossible to submerge her
criticism of Tom's wife in her old
friendship for him. Tom had been
the big boy that seven-year^bld Ber
tie Lou star-gazed at in school.
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Now she was begining to wonder,
with Molly becoming difficult. If she
hide her opinion of her much
It Irked her to be compelled
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Far from thn city** crowds.
to associate with a woman with
whom she had nothing ih common.
An infrequent hour or two in Way
ville had not mattered, as she said
to Rod. But feeling that she must
continue to see Molly just becaues
Rod worked for her husband wasn’t
the sort of thing, of life. It
a compromise—something Bertie
Lou hated in spite of the fact that
she could, on occasion force herself
to It.
And so, knowing that Molly was
sharpening the axe for her, Bertie
Lou guessed the reason why she sug
gested Thursday as the night to ac
cept Rod's invitation to a supper
club.
Lila would be in New York then!
And Rod. the big gfc&f, tooull be
host to her. Bertie Lou could have
killed somebody that minute. Molly
was getting even now for the many
times Bertie Lou’s wit had left, her
tripping lamely along, vaguely
aware that Bertie Lou was laughing
at her.
Molly saw the storm clouds on
Bertie Lou’s countenance. She
knew she had her on the toasting
fork. Of course she didn’t realize
that Bertie Lou had read her mind
like a full page ad or that she had
n’t any more ammunition to fire.
She decided to shove Bertie Lou a
little closer to the fire.
“If we wait until Thursday Lila
will be here,” she said sweetly. And
was greatly disappointed that Ber
tie Lou showed no surprise. And
with her eyes still on Rod’s bride
she missed Rod’s expression. The
complacency he had shown earlier
in the evening instantly disappear
ed upon his hearing of Lila’s coming
An innocent illusion went with it.
Like Bertie Lou, he thought hj
would escape Lila in New York. But
Bertie Lou had known better for
several days; since she had discov
ered that Molly was antagonistic,
but unwilling to end their camou
flage friendship . . . and that she
was keen for Lila. "Shell delight
in 'throwing us together,” she fore
saw, but she did not mention hef
fears to Rod.
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It came as a shock to him to per
ceive that Lila would loom large
upon his horizon when she visited
the Frasers. Having known it be
forehand Bertie Lou was enable to
recover her composure much too
soon to please Molly.
“That will be great,’ she said plea
santly. “I’m dying to go to a night
club, but It will be more fun to wait
for Lila.”
"Come on, let’s go tonight,” Rod
urged.
“Certainly not.' 'Bertie Lou ob
jected.. "We’ll wait for Lila.”. Mol
ly looked blank enough to bring sat
isfaction to Bfertie Lou for her deci
sion. She wouldn’t have Molly tell
ing Lila they were afraid of her . ..
and she could see that Molly lost a
little of her confidence . . . she
seemed not so sure now that she
could wound Bertie Lou. That
helped.
Bertie Lou had never been to a
night club and she didn't know
what she was doing when she turn
gaily to the others in the com-
pany and asked if they all had next
Thursday free. Very, very fortun
ately she was to learn that they
had not. one couple was going to
Atlantic City for a long week-end.
The other had a dinner engagement
and a theatre afterward,
That left only the Frasers, them
selves and Lila.
Bertie Lou offered Rod a
lipped-kiss that night. He felt guil
ty, so he took o it silently and very
soon pretended to be asleep. What
a dumb’ oyster he’d been to pull thAt
club stuff!
Bertie Lou silently agreed with his
silent opinion of hlmselr. Only she
thaaght iin superlatives. To
fquarrel. o( it would 1 surely precipitate
Their first quarrel.
gulped . , a ..... little over ,. the thought .. ,, of ,
it. Things could never be the same
again if she quarreled with
But why, oh why wouldn't he
playing poker?
The next morning Rod volunteer
ed to wire to her mother about sell
ing the furniture. He wanted to
make amends to Bertie Lou for his'
impulsive generoisity of the night,
before. It wouldn’t be pleasant for
her to have Lila in their party, he’
knew.
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Bertie Lou came out of her gloom
at the prospect of buying new fur-
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ni t«*$ itexl for the Apartment. so* Nice
it been tfe have many thftigs 1
glveft theift When th<& Were tbat
Sfle'telie'Hid ©he Could achieve
« more artistic home by selecting
everything herself.
■“We" won’t wait for the sale of the
old stuff” Rod added. And neither
of them smiled When they spoke of
their furniture as “old. We’ll
probably get about $300 for it. You
can spend that much. But it leaves,
our„ba>nk balance with a very boy
sishl^igtire, indeed,’•'he ended. y»
There happiness was one I.|)lot » pn Bertie
Lou’s when she went ouf
to select the furniture. She needed
a new evening * dress. -Molly had
lifted her pencil-thin eyebrows over
the return appearance of the beige
chiffon-afternoon dress, at evening,
affairs. \ ■,
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She’(j have to buy a new dress
sporty- And- * it ; must be a
good looking one, nothing cheap.
■'But how can J get it?? sjie wprried
Her own money, suoi* as she had
laved before her marriage had all
©e'en spent for linens., and other fur
Aishlngs for the flat’ In Wayvlltt.
“And Rod couldn’t Spare the money
for an expensive gown- Just now.
- She thought of borrowing it from
her father. But her parents’s like
Rod’s had opposed their moving to
tNew York. She hated to confess
they already were running out of
funds. r
' Her problem was solved Tor her
by « salesgirl in a store t where she
bought a pair of gloves. “Charge?"
fee girl said laconically as Bertie
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L. S. Patterson, E. R.
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
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Z, J. L. Dozier, V. C.
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absent mirelediy neglected to
any money,
Charge 1 Why she hadn’t thought
that! She made inquiries and
directed to the credit depart
There she gave the name
Rod’s employer and his address,
as well as their own and was told
the management would communi
cate with her shortly.
(to Be Continued.)
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