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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. -Gladstone.
AT CHICAGO
Dispatches from Chicago are to the effect that the cocksureness
, . h has obsessed our Republican brethren for some time in contem-
HX ou“ok°”r .He fall campaign at 1920 ha. given way lo
P . nal fear as the convention opens; that chaos has displaced order,
that the party is without competent leadership, and with bitter strife
the party ranks, nobody seems to know where he is at. The
Republican cry, “We can win with anybody this year, s^ em J. to b
filUng with rather a hollow sound just now. following the d.sclos,
ures ft Washington during the probe of campaign expenditures, and
the well known “Grand Old Party" realizes that it will have to watch
its step if it is not to throw away entirely its chances which every
server must admit are at least fairly goo t is year. Great
These are serious times. Parties and opinions are d.vided. Great
; ssues involving the future not.only of our own country but of the
world are involved. Serious minded people have given a great dea
of thought to these questions, and in thousands of tnstances _ n ° l
going to let their convictions of right and wrong on them be in
enced by party consideration —particularly m the North.
But what the South is most interested in at Chicago is that th
Republican party shall nominate its very best and ablest man—its
greatest American* If that is done, and the Democrats do hkew.se at
San Francisco, the average citizen can rest fairly comfortable in the
thought that the nation will be reasonably safe after November, n
matter who wins.
THE REAL RUSSIA.
Perhaps the best effort, up to now, to give America a picture
of 1920 Russia was a series of dispatches to the New J) ork World,
the late winter, from its staff correspondent, Lincoln Lyre.
But Eyre started wrong. He interviewed Lenin and Trotsky.
He was carefully guided over a stage set for his benefit. He showed
terrible difficulties—with Bolshevism gradually overcoming them.
He painted a grim, dark picture—with the sun struggling through the
< oud Herbert Duckworth’s cable, printed in Sunday s Times-Recorder
is different. Duckworth pried his own way into Russia unheralded,
unguided. He sought truth in the highways and byways. Compare
these reports:
EYREThe BoUheviki are turning to the gigantic task of re
building Russia's shattered economic system, per railroads in partic
ular.
DUCKWORTH —The big stores and shops are all closed. Only 2
per cent of the cotton mills are working at all. Railroads are utterly
demoralized. “The Bolshevists are good destroyers, but poor builders.”
» » »
EYREWith the recent abolition of the death penalty, the Red
terror, long since bleached to a pale pink, came to a definite end.
DUCKWORTH —I asked a Moscow Russian, “What keeps .the
Bolshevist* going?” “Like czar,” he replied brokenly, “Terror.” On
slightest suspicion men are flung into prison. I was told there are
60,000 in Moscow jails—not capitalists but workers.
EYREThe peasant, 20 miles outside of Moscow, is living better
than he has ever lived before in all the history of the Russian empire.
He has more food than he can eat, more clothes than he can wear, more
money than he can spend.
DUCKWORTH —Near Tosno 1 asked a farmer with a family of
six how they managed to live. “We live on a half pound of black bread
daily,” he said, “except some days when there is no bread.”
• * *
EYRE—Politically, the power of the Soviets has never been great
er than it is today. (Feb. 25, 1920.) y
DUCKWORTH —Ninety per cent of the Russian people are sick of
the experiment. When the counter revolution comes there will be ter
rible bloodshed. (May 30, 1920.)
* * *
Eyre was personally conducted.
Duckworth crawled in under a barbed-wire fence seeking the
truth.
And Duckworth says:
“There is no liberty, no food, no clothing, no happiness—only
nisery and starvation!’
Its other name is Bolshevism.
WHAT YOUR CONGRESS DID:
National transportation act, which turned the railroads back to
private owners March I.
Resolution declaring peace with Germany and Austria; vetoed.
1 Budget system; vetoed.
Water power bill, providing for the building of dams on water
ways, and using water falls to develop power by private enterprise.
Coal and oil land leasing bill.
Fess bill for rehabilitation of persons injured in industry.
Civil service retirement bill, pensioning employes of I 5 years’
service at ages ranging from 65 to 70, deducting 2 1-2 per cent of
salaries for pension fund, maximum pension not to exceed $720 a
year.
Appropriation bills.
Army reorganization bill without compulsory training.
WHAT CONGRESS DIDN’T DO:
Didn't ratify the peace treaty.
Failed to formulate any policy of reconstruction, as recommend
ed by President Wilson. £
Passed no legislation to curb profiteers and reduce living costs.
Failed to pass the Kenyon-Kendricks-Gronna bill to regulate the
packers.
Failed to pass any soldiers’ land settlement legislation: the cash
bonus likewise failing.
Refused to accept a mandate for Armenia, although the Con
gress expressed sympathy for that country.
Failed to pass the Sheppard-Towner maternity bill to save
23,000 mothers and 300,000 infants who needlessly die annually.
Failed to pass the “Blue Sky" law, to protect the public against
the selling of worthless stocks.
In A Campaign Year
BY O. B. JOYFUL
(Latest Dispatches From the New
Third Party Convention)
Hon. Tom Duff practically cinch
ed the vice-presidential nomination
by treating the entire delegation from
the state of Drought to a bottle of
ginger ale he keeps concealed under
the flower pot in his front hall. This
is the most persuasive argument Mr.
Duff has found in his campaign.
Oh, yes, there are plenty of favor
ite sons. Nearly every state has at
least one but this
convention has a
favorite father.
Freckles, that no
ted comic kid,
came to bat to
day with the sug
gestion that the
convention name
his old man, pic
t u r e herewith
presented. Mr.
McGoosey has
never dabbled
b-f
much in politics, but once he was on
Gives
Health Advice
Written by Experts Under Direc
tion of Dr. Rupert Blue, U. S.
Public Health Service.
A WORD TO PARENTS.
Twenty-five new babies for every
1,000 people is what the stork may
be expected to bring to this town this
year. Perhaps a little arrival is ex
pected in your home in the near fu
ture; perhaps he came a few weeks
ago. In either case, just a remind
er of an important duty you owe the
little one—make sure that his birth
is properly recorded with the author
ities. Here are some of the reasons
why births should be recorded:
1— To establish identity.
2To prove nationality.
3To prove legitimacy.
4 To show when the child has the
right to enter school.
STo show when the child has the
right to seek employment under
the child-labor law.
610 establish the right of inheri
■ tance to property.
7To establish liability t military
duty, as well as exemption there
from.
8— To establish the right tQ vote.
9To qualify to hold title to, and
to buy or sell real estate.
10— To establish the right to hold
public office.
11— To prove the age at which the
marriage contract may be en
tered into.
12— To make possible statistical stu
dies of health conditions.
The United States Public Health
Service has just published a little
pamphlet for expectant mothers. You
can obtain a copy free of charge by
addressing the Information Editor,
United States Public Health Service,
Washington, D. C. Ask for pamphlet
entitled “Motherhood.”
Q. My daughter has asked me
some questions that I find it rather
difficult to answer and also whether
she should be told anything about
sex. She is 15 years old. Can yojf
give me some information on the sub
ject, or suggest the names of so<ie
books I might read? i
A. Unless you are able to answer
the questions your daughter askrf she
will most certainly ask some one/else,
who may not hesitate to anfcwer.
Write the Information United
States Public Health Service, ''Wash
ington, D. C„ for pamphlets “D” and
“E,” that will make the matter quite
clear .
— . '
THE MOSQUITO
IS DEADLY
Disease Carrying Insects Every
where a Danger
Mosquitoes have always been with
us but their true character has only
been recognized a short time. They
are carriers of Malaria germs and
other deadly diseases. Dr. Carroll, a
government investigator in Cuba, says
“Natural yellow fever is transmitted
by the mosquito and always and only
by the mosquito.”
The mosquito bite is often as dead
ly as a rattlesnake’s.
By every method known to man
kind both thj national and local
health services are trying to extermi
nate. the mosquito. But this will
never be.
We must protect ourselves against
i this pest, by proper screening and the
[ use of TORMENT. TORMENT is a
gaseous vapor in which no mosquito
or fly can live. It is death to in
sects.
Torment is sold by druggists, gen
eral stores and dealers everywhere.
Manufactured by G. B. Williams
Company, Quitman, Ga., exclusively.
| Small in cost but large in results
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1 the school board. He will accept if
w nominated.
Otto Auto probably will be chair
man of the resolutions committee.
n He has several
n planks to incor
f I porate into the
platform, con
structing paved
roads everywhere
j free gasoline,
I placing an import
; embargo upon
tacks, tin cans
I and glass. Also he
would pass a law
prohibiting pedes
trians from
crossing the street. “Let ’em stay on
i the side where they are,” is his slo
' gan. Also, he wants the convention
■ to adopt the flivver as the official
1 emblem.
' 1
5 • The dark horse candidate I was
• ! telling you about is the Hon. Santa*
I z
1 -w
xiri r lo zl 4 L.
i withdrew from the race throwing his
. strength to Mr. Santa Glaus. You
’ can see how there could be'no chance
I for General Apathv once Santa
i Claus got going.
LETTERS FROM
THE PEOPLE
Editor Times-Recorder:— Much
has been, and is being said in regard
to methods of raising sufficient funds
to pay a justly needed increase in
salary for the teachers of the local
public schools.
The B. R., T. resolution published
in yesterday’s paper contains some
good suggestions, but in my opinion
■ are at fault in that they do not
carry the suggestion that the entire
j tax digest be published each year.
C Publicity is a cure for all ills when
jj properly applied and it can ba applied
- to the raising of the tax valuations
- with a greater abuncTance of “re
s | turns” than any other business.
-I It is of course plain that every
j man’s neighbor knows about what he
i; is worth, but under the present sys-
- tern he is not going to the clerk to
s; find if his neighbor returned his prop-
I erty at full valuation. The publica
tion of the tax digest each year
would enable all to see just what is
being done by each man without the
3 trouble and time it is now necessary
to expend.
3 This, I believe, would bring in
r more money than any head tax plan
that could be devised and would
• place the burden of *-he taxes where
it belongs, on thos who are enriched
7 by the enhanced property values of
-a growing, intelligent community.
M.
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, i Is it hard for you to feel like your
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, I tion to go about the duties of the
I day?
’ j If you were told by your best
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i you could be “made over” or it would
s I not cost you a cent wouldn’t you run
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Lt would.
T Well —here’s our proposition: Take I
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', and if you do not benefit by the one
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j Thousands of bottles have been
1 j sold on this proposition and we have
ji our first man to ask for his money
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5 “Flu” or colds leave your system
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i in a congested state they cannot per
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waste matter from the system.
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PHONE 892
V 123 Cotton Ave
NOTH' '..
This is to notify the public that
I will contin*ue my agency of the
Mutual Life Insurance Co., at 118
Windsor t venue, in the same man
ner as I have represented this grand
old company for the past twenty
five years. Respectfully,
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One child, infant. Address A. B.
C. Care Times-Recorder. Refer
ences Exchanged.
NEYSA McMEIN MAKES TRIP TO
FARM OF MARK HANNA’S DAUGHTER
She Found and Sketched Mrs. Medill McCormick on her 2000 acre Country Place Near Byron, 111.,
America’s Famous Magazine Cover Creator Learned that the Daughter of Mark .? S p W °
Prime Interests—Politics and Farming—and Divides Her Time Between the Two. Mrs. Me or
mick is Given Credit for Much of her Senator Husband s Political Success and for Having . ccom
plished Much for the Cause of Suffrage.
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Claus! Get that?
If the kids could
vote it’d be all
over but the
shouting. But at
that the old gen
tleman is a like
ly candidate. Al
ready he has the
entire delegation
from the states
of Happiness, Joy
and Merriment.
General Apathy
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ts HUNT’S Salve fails in the
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BRADLEY HOGG
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