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The Butler weekly times., 1913-01-16
GOV. MAJOR TAKES The OATH
MISSOURI EXECUTIVE FORMALLY
lNAUGURATED.
Twelve Hundred People Crowded Into
Hall of House of Representatives
to See Ceremony.

Jefferson City. Jan. l4.-Elliott w
Major was inausurated governor Of
Missouri for a term of four years in
the presence of as many persons as
could crowd into the hall OF the house
OF representatives. Instead of 500
people, as the arrangements commit
tee originally intended to have admit.
ted. 1,200 were present The crowd
was all that the room would hold.
Never has there been such demand
for tickets. The pressure was some
what lifted because of the fact that
the special train bearing the st. Louis
delegation was held in that city TWEEN
ty-tive or thirty minutes in order that
Dave Francis, coming from Wash
ington, could make connection with it
The st. Louis crowd, or what few OF
them could get in after they got here
only saw the tall end of the cere
monies.
Kansas City supplied the noise fol
the inauguration. Captain Boyer's bat
terry B fired the salute, Harry kellys
band supplied the music and the most
enthusiastic shouters and the livest
wires generally were the members OF
the Kansas City delegation, who goi
N early and occupied choice seats.
Chief Justice Henry Lamm of the
court administered the oath
of Office. After the governor was
sworn in the oath was administered tc
'he other state officers: w. R. Paint
n, lieutenant governor; John M. Bar
<er. attorney general; Edwin P. Deal
state treasurer; John P. Gordon, state
auditor, and Cornelius Roach. secre
ary of state
After the oaths We're administered
Governor Major delivered his inaugu
al address.
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KILLED FOR SLAPPING A BOY
A Man OF Festus, NO., Held for Shoot
ing Marshal Of Crystal
City.

st. Louis, Jan. 14.-David Dees. Jr.,
young saloon keeper of Festus. Mo-.
~ miles south of St. Louis, is held
under $4,000 bond for shooting and
Killing George Barton, town marshal
OF Crystal City, near Festus, because
Barton slapped Dees' 16-year-old broth.
er. The shooting took place in Dees'
saloon. Immediately after the tragedy.
David Dees, Sr, railroad condnctor
locked the doors of the saloon and did
not permit any of the witnesses TO
leave until the coroner had arrived and
neld an inquest. The inquest lasted
nearly all day Sunday. The coroner,s
verdict was premeditated homicide
The Butler weekly times., 1913-01-16
The Church With a Welcome.

Rev. Claude S. Handy will preach
both morning and evening next Sun
day. His morning topic will be,
pulpit, Press and Pew" The even
ing address will have for subject,
"The Palace of Forgetfulness." Our
pastor has been assisting Rev. DR..
Harvey Jones, pastor of First M. E.
church, Joplin, in meetings for the
past two weeks. He will be back in
full force with his genial manner and
vigorous presentation of the Gospel
for next Sundays service. Seats,
smiles and handshakes all free at the
Ohio street M. E. church.
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, must be fair AMI just. both to FMnlnve,
and employee Committees Appodnted
by the last Legislature have lnvesti
gated the sahsect aAa no doubt are
now ready to enact a proper law upon
this subject.
COURT PROCDDURE-The Judic
larry Committee in both branches OF
this Assembly should seriously con-
slider the question of enacting legisla.
ton which will simplify court pro-
cedure, really tend to bring about
an earlier determination of litigation
and reduce the cost in both civil and
criminal cases to the minimum.
PARDON BOARD.-There should
be Board of Pardons consisting of
three members. whose duties should
be to consider the applicants for
executive clemency, and make recon-
ence thereto. and to, on their own
account, grant paroles.
! HOME RlLE.-One of the vexing
! problems confronting every executive
| is the administration of affairs in the
large cities by and through the police
and excise officers appointed by the
governor.
Il believe in the doctrine of local
solf-government. The enactment of
home rule legislation, however, is a
subject for the legislature a1ne. I
shall not attempt to hamper it's legis-
lation by advocating any specific kind
Of home rule. can only say that
whatever reasonable legislation meets
with the approval of the legislature
upon the subject will meet with my
approval.
"PRIMARY ELECTIONS. - The
state primary law affords an ample
opportunity for everyone to cast his
ballot for those whom he may wish
as party nominees. | am strong ad-
vocate of the state primary law be- |
real rule of the people. There are |
several minor administrative defects
in the law which should be perfected.
1t should further be made a felony
for any person or persons to print
circulate or use copy or
a facsimile Of any primary ticket. or
any part Thereof, prior to or on primary
election day, to the end that combina-
tions and slate-making may be pre-
vented.
INSURANCE RATES--I would
recommend that this legislature ap-
point a committee to investigate the
policy and labors Of the Insurance De-
oartment under the new law, and in
'eference to the matters in conten-
ion. and report back to the body.
hat such action may be taken by the
legislature, if necessary, as will bring
lbout the establishment of reasonable
insurance rates.
CLAW ENFORCEMENT.--The laws
enacted by the legislature should be
enforced, and where an
'fficial enjoined. with this duty will
ully fails or refuses to act he should
'e removed from office, and adequate
provisions should be made for such
emoval for such failures
"The law enacted in 1907 upon this
ubject is imperfect and inefficient, t
nd should be so amended as to make C.
le procedure simple. plain and effec- Il
We.
II have now addressed myself t.
oecifically to all the platform utter t.
Ices, and will later call the attention b
the legislature again to some of e
WI t@ II
public interest, in special messages, Il
nd where | can treat the principles il
I'D necessities for legislation more
lily" 81
NJ
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Gave Life to Save Her Plano.

Bnymer, Mo-, Jan. I.-Mrs. Mich.
ael Loretto, wife Of . farmer living
near Braymer. died from burns 70.
ceived when her home was destroyed.
She was helping her husband to move
out . piano whsa her caotAss caught
arA
The Butler weekly times., 1913-01-16
GOVERNOR MAJOR
IS FOR REFORM
The Inaugural Address Of Missouri's
New Executive.
FOR A UTILITIES COMMISSION
Home Rule for Larger Cities CT the
State and Rural High Schools
Are Among the Reforms
Advocated.

Jefferson City.-After being sworr
In as governor of Missouri in the
temporary capitol building Elliott w
Major delivered his inaugural address
to large and appreciative audience
made up of people from every part oil
the state. He said in part:
This is a proud moment indeed
and why should it not be so? Stand
ing at the meridian of life, flushed
with its activities, it's hopes ard its
joys, | am honOred with the highest
Office within the gift CT the people OF
this great state.
"ln taking the Office of chief eNecu-
tive, | realize the responsibilities |
assume and the interests of great mo-
ment committed to my keeping. In
meeting the duties, however, | have
before me the record made by a long
line of illustrious sons whose public
service adds luster to the e'2ry of the
commonwealth
"As vlain Missourian. reared in
the simplicity of country life, eypc"i-
enced in the affairs of the state.
shall earnestly devote every energy to
the service Of the people
in this new edifice we begin a new
administration and a new chapter.
History, in the coming years. will
state the fact that took the oath of
office in the temporary new capitol
building May this building simple
and clean :. s it is. he emhlematic of 2
clean public service. Let no act OF
ours tarnish these chambers above
which now foats the emblem of our
country, ana let us here dedicate and
christen them in the purity of Off
cial life.
Give lis good, clean, wholesome.
progress and constructive legislation
commensurate with the times and
adequate to meet the reasonable ex-
pectancy of the people and the period
In the language of Mr.. Beecher, "A
law is valuable not because it is law,
but because there is right in it,
There are many questions of i'm |
portance which must be considered |
~ you III ing IOIWdTu llo pro-
gressive spirit and in meeting the
pledges to the people, to which, in
this address. wish to call your atten-
ton specifically.
EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS. -
In order that the educational inter.
ests of Missouri may be advanced, this
legislature should create an educa-
tional commission. consisting of three
or five members, appointed by the
governor. to serve without pay, but
whose expenses should be paid out of
the general revenue fund. This is nec-
essary, to the end we may have one
certain body whose duty it is to aid
he educational department in keep
ng pace with the educational necessi-
les of the times. Let the commission
study the problems and have its 3,
recommendations ready chat we have
he most intelligent legislative action.
'The legislature should also provide p,
m adequate system Of rural high !
ch0ols, In the maintenance Of which I
be state should contribute its Just I
art. u
Having established the rural high 4
chools. the law should provide that n
be high school graduates in both the
ural and city schools who attain q n
ertain Grade should be given . Ger II
Mn class certificate to teach without \
n examination-thus providing re q
The Butler weekly times., 1913-01-16
Newspaper Men His Guests

Jenerson City, Mo-, Jan. 13.-Goy.
ernor Hadley entertained the newspa.
per representatives at Jefferson civ
at dinner at the mansion, this beine
MS farewell function of this kind
There were eighteen or twenty guests
present.
The Butler weekly times., 1913-01-16
A Salesman Caught on Ice

st. Joseph. Mo-, Jan. Hilary
Johnson, a salesman, who ATTEMPTED
to cross the Missouri river on the ice,
was rescued at midnight by members
OF the fire department after he had
been adrift on an ice foe about three
hours.
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'%1,,,'zen
OuptA
N@toAio>s&

When woman suffering from some form of feminine
disorder told that operation is necessary it of course
frightens her.
The very thought of the hospital operating table and the
surgeons knife strikes her heart and WONDER
quite true that of these troubles may reach stage
where operation is the only resource but thousands Of
women have avoided the necessity of operation by taking
attesed by the grateful letters they write after their
health has been restored.
Tb..a T,uo W..... De-. 0- rl..
The Butler weekly times., 1913-01-16

Cary Mane'I feel it all Of
what Pnkhams
Sewers
l found myself a terrible
had and in
soreness could scarcely saghten health with
times My back ached had both
appetite and lifted chair
could then would hemorhag Ihada
could
get around 1t seemed almost i'm
thought would E.
better until submitted BILE
ton commenced taking Lydia enjoying health
Pnkhams of
like
palms, slept we'll,
ite and fat and could do almost Wyona St. Charlotte,
Now answer this question you Why should wo-
submit surgical operation without first giving Lyda
E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound trial? You know that
it has saved many othes-hy should fail in your case
For 80 years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable G1S%@6sA
Compound has kENNNK1
male ills No sick with ailments IN ~ ~&A\M
does Justice herself if she " L. p
medicine made nd herbs, II ~ . III
has ntOh II ~ q II
@IDWrite LYDIA EPINKHAM MEDICINE co. C\ \-x33 ~
~ (CONFIDENTIAL) LYNN, MASS, advice. MN sA%&M
Your letter will be opened read and CN11NI
by woman and held in strict confidence. STSI$TS2:S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-19
Sympathy for Criminals

Some people to whom the Thax case
is the most interesting thing In the
world consider 1t a good guess that the
New Hampshire governor will not hon
or the request for eXtradition RImor
has 1t that Jerome eonfesses. by his ac-
tion. to some mis- givings about the re-
suit and hopes to get the Duchess
county grand jury to indict Thaw oul
some new charge for which he can be
brought back into the state. The jury
refused to find an indictment for con-
spiracy, but conceivably might see
their way clear to bring In eruc bill
charging him with assaulting the hos
pital gate keeper or some other offens =
against the peace and dignity of the
state, says the Rochester Post EN- press.
One reason why there is in this coun-
try, as there was in Canada, 4 senti-
ment sympathetic with this criminal is
the tendency of certain classes to re-
joice whenever any malefartor can
Tick the law" 1t may be that the be-
wildering multitude of statutes making
penal offenses of hosts of acts which
do not of themselves involve moral
turpitude has contributed to bring the
administration of Justice into disrepute
Or 1t may be that Americans less re-
stricted than some other peoples by
usage and tradition. demand mere lati-
tude in matters of personal conduct
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immigrant is not likely to devote much
attention, and, consequently, it devolves
upon the governments of both nations
concerned to see to 1t that as moral and
spiritual forces win mans way in mod
ern times. instead of the sword as In times
of old. the nation must give attention to
education, and do something to prepare
the Oriental immigrant for amicable In
tercourse with the people to whom he is
sent.
In a community like Japan. where En-
glish is taught in all the secondary and
higher schools, much is being done In
the direction indicated; but unhappiy this
does not much affect the class of people
usually comprising those migrating to
Englishspealdng countries. Until Anglo
Saxon ideals of religion. morality and
general civilization are brought formally
to the attention OF the masses, the ten
dency to mix will not receive the inn
petus that it should But Japan is APP
preaching nearer to Anglo-Saxon ideals
than any other Oriental country, and the
government is doing more to render It's
subjects agreeable visitors to other coun-
tries than other countries are doing to
welcome the Japanese immigrant
When Japan and China are given the
same chance-yes and India, too-as the
European immigrant, men of Oriental
lineage Will also be found at the top, to
the glory and greatness of American civ
ilization For the present, however. 1t is
paramount that the two countries should
devote more attention to the cultivation
Of common Ideal of religion, morality
and citizenship.
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man first appeared will probably remain
mystery; but anthropologists are pretty
we'll agreed that it was somewhere in
Central Asia. Naturally enough, in the
same cradle where the human race was
born, civilization also began to dawn.
Though immigration was Oriental in its
origin, it was universal in its sweep.
Wherever tribes assimilated and formed
nuclei of subsequent nations, new cur
rents of emigrations began, sometimes
united with the flood from home and as
often eontending with it; but all being
borne even farther eastward and west
ward. Not fnfrequently each successive
wave proved more overwhelming than the
last, swallowing or obliterating all before
it; but at last in certain reginos, the gath
ering nuclei were in themselves so power
full as to form a flood, receiving all SUBJ
sequent waves of migration as tributary
to themselves. The most prolific and
powerful center appears to have been the
region between India and the Mediter-
ranean. From this course issued those
Aryan ancestors that Went to tne making
of the best of Europe and Asia
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Trend of Immigration

Naturally the two main trends of early
immigration were directly eastward and
westward, for vast and shoreless ocean
set a limit to every movement SOUTH and
the impossible TIimalayan barriers re-
stricted the northward march of the hu-
man multitudes. In time, however as con-
gestion gathered force, even the less hab-
liable regions were forced open, and Arc
tic SHOWS, as we'll as distant. islands of
the Pacific began to sustain portions of
the human race.
Somewhere in the unknown past certain
of the tribes yelling up from the Indian
plains began to form nuclei in Northeast
Asia, and finally developed into the pow
erful MongOloid race that formed China.
But one land could not contain them, and
the new race swept on, absorbing all
weaker tribes by the way, creating such
dominant races as the Yamato that made
Japan, and the others which went to make
Corea. As the Yamato began to encroach
upon the earlier tribes that had found
their way to the isles of the rising sun,
other tribes from the islands of the Pa
cffic We're drawn into the current of mi
grafton created, and went to strengthen
the dominating clan forming practically
new race no longer mongoloid. The
primitive migration that at first from
Central Asia had sunk down into and
blackened Africa, now began to turn back
and to fringe the whole of the South Pa
cific coast with a darker progeny, which
finally found its way to Malaysia, the
East indies, Polynesia and even the
shores of Nippon. However, all African
blood became so diluted and modified in
Its age journey eastward that 1t is
now scarcely recognizable save in the
more remote island races Of the south
Tn the race concentrating in the Nippon
archipelago there was more of the origi-
nal Aryan than In most of those migrat-
Ing eastward. which accounted for the
strong physical and intellectual qualities
of the Yamato, enabling that race to
dominate in time the sunrise land, alb
sorbing all inferior tribes Under their
famous leader and first Emperor, Jimmu
Tenno, more than 250o years ago, the
Yamato formed the first united empire In
the far east The polygenetic nature Of
their racial origin naturally resulted In
the survival of clans among the people;
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Dread of Orientals

The fact Is not to be ignored, however,
taht good many whose opinions are not
to be despised, although they take this
view of the future. are nevertheless ap-
prehensive that the attempt to welcome
and absorb immigration. If not controlled
to moderation, may result at last. If not
in being absorbed. yet in some untoward
international collision. Stress is laid
upon the fact that only has the main
stream of immigration been Oriental, but
the nations proving unequal to receiving
1t. have always been received by it, and
overwhelmed. India failed to assmilate
the flood pouring in from Arabia, and be-
came overrun. and the Arabs in turn gave
way to the British. China alone succeeded
in keeping out the eastward wave of I'm
migration, and as a penalty became stag
nant and sterile for centuries. Every
tribe of the sunrise islands had in time
to bow before the onsweeping hordes of
the Yamato. The records of Egypt. Asia
and other buried nations show that their
funeral rites were performed by the peo-
pie they refused to welcome and assimi-
late. Thus through all history as we'll as
biology, natural selection enforces itself.
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are more resentfuI at interference
restraint of any kind and are =
disposed therefore to flout and
the law. Certain Ii Is. at any rate.
our laws and courts are less eff1d
to punish crime than those of ary
er civilized land.
We have in the United States a
5000 murders a year, 10 times =
in proportion to population than
England and 10 times more thaf
the Dominion of Canada OF &
5000 murderers something like 100]
judicially executed. How many cf|
crimianls get long-term sentences 4
isc no precise information at hand,
that an immense proportion of q
get off with short terms or no td
Is undoubted. Yet as compared
England, for example, our judicial
chinery is exceedingly elaborato.
we have 500 judges of one kind orl
other in New York state alone, VI
England has only SO.
Reforms in our judicial procei
are becoming Imperative, and the
sensus of men who have given thoi
to the problem is that the nunl3eI
appeals from verdict or dsciI
should be limited and that technical
rors in a process or procee-Ing shI
not be sufficient ground for carrj
the case up. Othef notifications ofI
present system are suggested. SomI
them meritorious. but these OF n
selves would be far reaching inl
feet.
The first judge and jury arc as il
ly to do justice in a case as the seI
or as whole bench of Judges; i
perhaps the habitual, prompt.
swefving. unreviawable administrsI
of justice would not only deter crI
but would educate the people to grI
er respect for the law. The real cI
of American sympathy with criu1iI
may be found in a lessened high re
for right, justice. morals and the
| Commandments.
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and these clans had their respective daim-
yo, much like petty kings. This clan ten
dency,. so persistent in Japanese history,
is but an echo of the nations divergency
of origin; and the subsequent appearance
of feudalism was still further affirmation
of the divided ancestry of the clans.
similar feature is observable in British
history, where the nation in Norman
times could look back at an ancestry so
mixed as to comprise the blood of Kelts,
Gaeis, Britons, Angles. Jutes, Saxons,
Frisians, Danes, Norsemen and Normans,
not to say anything of other Teutonis
elements and dilutions from Gaul and
Spain. But Just as this mixture of
races conspired TO strengthen the British
against all comers, and form one of the
greatest of races in history, so the man
fold mixture of races going to form the
clans of Nippon have resulted in one
OF the foremost peoples of the east. Now
the Yamato did for Nippon what the
Normans did for England-they forced
the original elements to blend, producing
an invulnerable race. Thus both Great
Britain and Japan owe their strength and
position to immigration. an immigra-
ton that in its primal origin was Orien-
tai.
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Immigration IS THE
MODERN PHRASEFOR
OLDEST MOVEMENT
One of Earliest Impulses.
Term Is Oriental in
It's Origin
THE QUESTION is AS
OLD AS MAN HIMSELF
Power to Assimilate Civilizations of
East and West Will Be the Test
of Greatness of Nation
q in the Future

Toxic. October IS. : (special.) : The
very modern sound to Anglo-Saxon ears,
and yet it is older than the Anglo-saxon
race; as old as man himself. Oriental
immigration began with sthe origin of
man; for man began in the Orient, and
he no sooner began than he began to mi
CRATE. Indeed, immigration seems to have
been one of the earliest and most per-
sistent impulses.
The exact spot on Oriental soil where
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-19
A NOTRE DAME LAD
APPEAL

To all knowing sufferers OF rheumatism. vi
muscular or OF the Joints. sciatica. iumbasos.
ache. pains in the kidneys or neuralgia pains. te|
to her for a homo treatment which has rspt
cured all Of these tortures. She feels It her al
send it to all sufferers FREE. You cure yolrl
home as thousands will testify--uo change Of d
being necessarye This simple discovery banishe|
acid from the blood, loosens the stiffcned joints
flies the blood. and brghtens the eyes. giving els
and tone to the whole system. II the above mi
you. for proof address
Mrs. NJ Summers. Box r. Notre Dame Ind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-19
The Russian State Department inquiry
sgnfed editor
will acceptable TO

and all who fail to abide by its too often
whimsical choice, must expect to pass
away. Failure to survive fortunately
does not in this case necessarily mean an
inhalation; for when the greater over
comes the lesser all that is worth sur
vival in the subject nation will become
absorbed by the conqueror and go to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-19
Ii Makes a difference

From the st. Louis Republic.
How tall Is Grace?"
Five foot three
BE accurate, now. Is that with
high heels on or in her tango pump