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THAT MUCH IN COMMON
Two enterprising men took a movie exhibiting outfit to the New
Hebrides Islands in the South Seas.
Motion pictures are exhibited in the far corners of the world.
But here they had not been shown before.
The two set up an iron house and installed their machine with
she idea of astonishing the natives at a dollar a head, thereby making
a fortune.
What happened?
" | Were the natives astonished?
They were notl
"he few who came the first night were not in the least im
f. They looked at the pictures with a vast calm, and sized the
thing up concisely and disinterestedly as “something b’long
men!”
n a month the promters gave it up, bankrupt.
America still contains persons, very superior according to their
estimate, who have no interest in motion pictures. Their es
ite of the movies is "something b’lohg low-brow.”
In their disdain for what diverts the millions they have at least
iat much in common with the natives of the New Hebrides!
TURKEY DIES HARD
The Sick Man of Europe is hard to kill. He has been dying for
centuries; but he isn’t dead yet. The allies are discovering it is one
thing to kill him by ink on a peace treaty, and another thing to pre
vent the corpse from jumping out of his paper coffin and escaping
the grave diggers.
The Turks refuse to be parties to the League of Nations man
dates. If the mandatory powers want to retain their holdings in Asia
Minor must fight the Sick Man. But the people of Great Britain,
’ France and Italy do not want a new war.
Greece has offered to fight the allie’s battles in Turkey for them.
The supreme council of the allies has' decided to let Greece do the
fighting up to a certain line, which would keep the Greeks out of Con
stantinople. In return Greece gets Smyrna. The allies themselves will
take care of the. fighting, if any is to be done, in and near the Turkish
capital.
The supreme council evidently believes Turkey will accept peace
treaty terms if she is backed against the wall in Constantinople.
96 WORDS
"He multiplieth words without knowledge,’’ said Job.
And yet Job, champion goat loser of antiquity, never suffered
the supreme affliction of campaign platforms.
Tested by real documents here is the score:
The Ten Commandments—297 words.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Speech—266 words.
Declaration of Independence—l32l words.
Sermon on the Mount—243s words.
G. O. P. Chicago Platform—6396 words.
Pope—poet—had it right:
**Words are like leaves and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found."
P. S.—There are only 96 words in this editorial, including the
. postscript.
TAMMANY’S CHIEF
Charles F. Murphy has been indicted.
He is the leader of Tammany Hall, largest of Democratic party
organization.
He is accused of having defrauded the United States government!
by falsifying his income tax returns.
This is a serious charge.
Until it is removed by acquittal in federal court there is no place
small enough for Boss Charles Murphy in the Democratic party, or
any other party. As long as this cloud hangs over Murphy he has no
» reason to expect other Democrats to listen to his counsel in the matter
of writing the party’s platform, or selecting the party’s candidates.
It will be a feather in the Democratic convention’s hat if it asks
Charley Murphy to remain on the outside until the court decides
whether his place is in or out of the penitentiary
HURRAH FOR ROBERTS!
Governor Roberts of Tennessee is calling his state's Legislature
into special session to act upon the suffrage amendment.
This is a fine example of doing the right thing at the right time.
The governor is doing this now so the women of all states may
vote at the November election.
Why not send your congratulations to this governor, and ask
him to pass them along to the members of the legislature? This will
help put suffrage across. And it is letting a governor know that Am
erican citizens appreciate service, quick service, service the people
want.
A Sumter county citizen who was feeling down in the mouth
a few weeks ago made a wager that fewer bales of cotton would be
produced in this county this year than last, when the total was be
tween I 5,000 and I 6,000. Last week he took a long auto trip through
out this section and came home bent on hedging that bet. He says
we’ll raise more bales than last year. And there is going to be a bet
ter price.
They’re off at San Francisco.
Well, if they nominate Cox. Ohio will have a lead pipe cinch on
the presidency.
Can’t hope to put government ,on a sound basis while so much
energy is wasted in horn tooting. #
Campaign expenses will not be complete unless they include
Penrose’s long distance telephone bill.
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AUNT AMANDIE AT THE
DEMOCRATIC CONVENSHUN
The First Lady of Pohunk Writes Back Home What She Sees and
Hears in the Convention City; Has Lickorish Lights, Green
Soap and Everything at the Ho-tel—But Forgets to Tip The
Porter.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 28.
Mistress Miranthy Ann,
Pohunk, U. S. A.
Dear Miranthy:—
Here I am at last, in San Fran
cisco, Californy, at the Democratic
National Convenshun. I’m gettin’ set
tled down in the most wonderfulest
ho-tel departments I ever seen, with
licorish lighs a-ponpin out on all
sides a’ the walls, an’ hot water
streamin' into the wash bowl, jus’
eny time you turn on the spiget—
besides havin’ a perticuler life-size
pusonal, pearly-white bath tub, all
my own, with six towels an’ green
soap in fancy paper throw’d in.
But lansakes, honey, I ain’t found
out how I arriv yit. What with my
new sachel a-bustin’ wide open jus’
as I was about to climb off’n the cars
an' me almost a-fallin’ inta the arms
of a chocolate colored gintieman with
a red hat, who said he otta carry my
duds as fer as the front door, enyway
ta he’p me out—well, say!
I told him it was awful nice of
him ta be so friendly when I didn’t
have no relatives in town. An' I can’t
figger out yit why it was he looked
so horrible indifferent an’ sarcastical
when I took them bundles fr an him
an’ told him much obliged three
times, in my very best Pohunk per
liteness.
Right after I left him, I almost
run over another awful friendly pus
son who was wearin’ a policeman’s
badge and a sailor-officer’s cap. An’
grabbin’ my valables, like the man I
jus’ left, he «ays, awful curtious, “I
kin jus’ run you up to your hotel in
no time, well as not.”
He was so awful considerin’ an’
respectful I jus’ un an’ tells him to
go ahead, me not knowin where he
might be a-takin’ a strange lone wo
man, way out in Californy.
But I kinda felt it cornin' on when
I met that there assistful colored gin
tilman at the train steps, that this
here San Francisco is an awful
friendly city. So I ups an’ hoists my
self into a black box arrangement on
rubber wheels, an’ a place in front
for the man with the perliceman’s
badge, an’ we was off.
Oh, Miranthy, I can’t tell you how
glad I was to git out agin, after that
second gintiemen had drove me round
an over the cobbliest streets I ever
hope to see, and landed me fer $1
an’ no change at my hotel door. An'
us almost running smack into a Ford
car on rout.
I can’t never hope to know how he
found out what was my pertickler
place of residents, but I’ve already
com’ to the conclusion the Californy
neople are awful handy with their
heads.
But to resoom and continue —
This here lovely, outwes’ city is
surrounded on most every side bv
w >ter. An’ I can't understand a-tall
w v y it is I have heard so many sensi
bl’-lookin’ me:, whit wen noshin
jo, alar in groups in the hotel race -
th r hall, askin each other >f they
thought this here was as dry a town
Mamie E. Cassady, D. C.
Marcia C. Ramsey, D. C.
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a s it was cracke up to be, or whether
they wasn’t any chance to get some
thin’ wet. An’ what each thot about
the other’s ideas on whether us Dem
crats was a-goin’ ta do anythin’ at
this convenshun about gettin’ it.
Landsakes ain’t there wet water to
burn evervwheres you turn?
Well, honey, I sure was lucky ta
be born and raised a Democrat, or I
never would have persuaded Cousin
by-Marriage-on-Father’s-side Joshuie,
to have fetched me along to thi s most
wonderful nahul gatherin’ of all the
smartest statesmen in the wmrld.
Even if 1 did have ta travel alone a
day behind Joshiue, account of he’s
a delegate an’ supposin’ 1 don't get
ta see him, near enough to whistle,
till after it’s all over but the shout
in’.
Why honey, it’s a chanc’t of a life
time for us women folks—an’ me in
pertickler.
So long, Miranthy. This first let
ter hag been kinder long but they’s
so much to tell. I’ll write you about
the convenshun an’ this here lovely
city when I get a chanct. Mebbe to
morrow. An’ about what us Demo
crats thinks of the Republicans, an'
about us women, an’ the candidates
which I hear is some several.
With love to all,
AUNT AMANDIE.
P. S. I just opened this letter up
again to say they’s a band a’ men
agoin’ down the street a -dayin’ that
ole toon Joshuie used to sing.
Seems like the chorus was “How
dry I am. How dry I am.” I can’t re
member no more of the words.
P. S. S. I expec’ ta be here a week
or so an’ I reckin I’ll have a lot a’
things to tell you.
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SUCH IS LIFE
/ In London Where Our Movies s
Turn Things Topsy Turvy s
< IT’S A BALLY, BLOOMING,
BLINKING SHAME!
/"\H golly! Oh golly!
Another transatlantic panic!
Every European bad habit is di
rectly traceable to American lax
ness.
Hero’s the outburst of “P. B.”
in the London Daily Mail:
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“It’s reported in the trusted daily
■ papers that our darling little child
ren, bless their hearts, are enamored
by the glamor of the substitute for
grammar which the transatlantic
movie show imparts.
“In the titles of the Fairbanks-
Chaplin pictures there’s a certain
brutal punch and vulgar tang, and
the hapless little beggars (they’re all
cinema first-nighters) are becoming
too adept in Yankee slang.
» » »
“It is harmful to the adolescent
Briton to observe a giddy youth up
on a screen who bestows his hard
earned thick ’uns on the women he
calls chickens, over whom he says
he’s wild instead of keen.
“Little children quickly catch
these horrid phrases, never think
ing how debased it is and wrong
for the lady with the poodle not
to call out ‘Toodle-oodle!’ when
she waves her hand at parting, but
‘So long!’
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“How it pains the proper British
parent when his son and heir, a toppy
little chap, quarreling with his
brother Willie, rather than re
mark ‘You silly!’ substitutes the aw
ful expletive ‘You sap!’
“How the loving mother shudders
in amazement when her daughter,
with disgusting Yankee pep, does not
say, ‘My word, old topper, you will
come a blooming cropper,’ but ob
serves with blunt directness ‘Watch
yer step!’
“And tjie elegant, soft-spoken
Mayfair nursemaid, how she suf
fers when the children in her care,
as they munch their morning kip
pers, speak of kids instead of nip
pers, and when meaning Oh, go on!’
say ‘Get the air!’
• * •
“We should really ask our motion
picture magnates if they won’t put
more refinement in their game. In
troducing slang expressions in his
majesty’s possessions is a blighted,
bally, blooming, blinking shame.
“P. B.”
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| OwarltfitiadJtQiO ly the
THE BOOK OF ANN
The Weak Double the Responsibili
ties of the Strong
Not even the shadow of a prison
could keep Ann from falling asleep.
She slumbered as quietly as an inno
cent child while I remained awake all
night. I was weary and wretched. I
needed to forget the woes of the day.
My irritation increased, my insomnia
thrived on the idea that Ann could
evade her desperate dilemma by doz
ing comfortably while I remained
painfully awake to W’orry about her
and to plan for her.
It was unfair. Ann had created a
tremendously serious situation and
had assumed that she could rely upon
me to get her out of it!
“Unfair —but human,” was my bit
ter comment as I turned my pillow
over for the hundredth time. In al
most every family some weak, selfish
unthinking member doubles the re
sponsibilities of the strong. Thus the
weak rule the strong, thrive like par
asites on the energy of others, and
hamper the advancement of the fit
test members of society.
I have always tried to do my fair
share in carrying the family burdens
but I must confess that I do not like
to be hampered by persons who say
“I never thought,” as Ann does. I
don’t like to bother with other peo
ple’s affairs as Ann expects me to
do. I don’t like to run things as I
must in Ann’s case.
And I do like to be left alone to
carry out my personal undertakings
according to my own methods. Nev
ertheless Ann, whom I had known
scarcely a month, was spoiling my
nights as well as my days. I com
plained bitterly to myself as I count
ed the soft chiming of my boudoir
elock.
That Ann could sleep at all shock
ed me very much. I had read once
upon a time that the remorsp of a
red-handed murderer is seldom so
great as to spoil his sleep. And so I
concluded that Ann’s peaceful slum
ber did not prove her innocence.
What if it only proved that she was
a creature born without a conscience?
Whenever I wrenched my thoughts
from Ann I fell into still deeper de
spondency. No matter how the mur
der case developed. Daddy Lorimer,
must not hear that any suspicion
was attached to Jim’s new wife. In
quiries would surely be made when
the authorities learned that Ives and
Mrs. Jimmy Lorimer had been good
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friends. Daddy must never hear about
them.
I needed my husband but I couldn’t
wire him to come home. I couldn’t
risk telegraphing him the least hint
of Ann’s connection with the murder
case. Os course the police were watch
ing all the wires.
I heard the clock strike six before
I had formed a skeleton of a plan to
shield Ann. For shield her I ipust
until Bob came to take the burcen
of all decisions .from my shoulders.
Having a husband certainly weakens
a woman’s judgment. I did not know
whether it wag right or wrong for me
to save Ann from the prosecuting
attorney. My husband would have to
decide that.
The thing was too big for me to
handle. My head was aching. Only the
coming of dawn forced me to make
a compromise decision. I would study
the morning accounts of the pro
ceedings in the Ives murder case and
carry on according to whatever hunch
I gathered from the papers.
If no one else was suspected or
charged with being the man’s mur
derer, the outlook for Ann might be
dark. Silence about Ann might well
.indicate grave suspicion of her.
Then it would be my duty to go to
the authorities at once and convince
them that the Hon. Jomes D. Lori
mer must not be distressed by any in
quiries they might wish to make. One
of his lawyers would have to be trust
ed with the unfortunate story until
Bob came home to manage the’case.
The only comfort I had was the
peace which had been restored be
tween Bob and me. Only one night
had passed since Bob had seen Claude
Ives bending close to me. But in the
short intervening hours Ives had been
slain and Ann was brushing the edge
of a horrid scandal. And I understood
for the first time in my life how one
“can live years in a day.”
I will be absent from
my office until July I,
1920.
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