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The Tupelo journal., 1914-01-30
Mr.. WILSON'S TACT

In his address delivered the
past week before congress Presi-
dent Wilson in a happy frame of
mind and with sincere express
sions of good faith and an intel
ligent Interpretation of the rela-
tons between the government
and business, brought forth ap-
plause from those who have
heretofore been opposed to the
methods advocated by the demo-
cratic party.
No president has had the hap
by faculty of bringing opposing
elements together with such ease
as has been displayed by Presi-
dent Wilson. In the passage Of
the tariff and currency bills, con-
ficting interests were reconciled
and business has been practically
undisturbed by the changes that
have been and will be made un-
der these bills. In speaking to
congress, Mr.. Wilson said:
What we are proposing to do,
therefore, is, happily, not to
hamper or interfere with bust
ness as enlightened business men
prefer to do it, or in any sense
to pat it under the ban. The an
tagonism between business and
government is over. We are
now about to give expression to
the best business judgment of
America to what we know to be
The Tupelo journal., 1914-01-30


The house of representatives
voted down the concurrent reso-
luton submitting an amendment
to the constitution in favor Of
woman's suffrage in the state.
As the referendum is the order
of the day, why not submit the
question of woman's suffrage to
a vote of the women of the state
to determine what per cent of
the fair sex want the ballot.
Won't. some gallant legislator be
gallant enough to introduce such
a resolution?
The Tupelo journal., 1914-01-30

With the endorsement of Sena-
tor Vardaman, President Wilson
has nominated Will S. Vardaman,
of Greenwood, as marshal of the
Northern District and John G.
eastman, editor Of the Vicks-
burg Post, as marshal of the
Southern District Of Mississippi.
There will be no opposition to
their confirmation.
The Tupelo journal., 1914-01-30
Marriages.

Rev. S. D. Shelton officiated at
the following marriages:
Jan. IA, L. A. Barksdale to
Miss Fannie Rose.
Jan. 26. W. B. Corgill to Miss
Sallie McQuinn.
Jan. q, A. j. Wilson to Miss
Tidy Ray.
The Tupelo journal., 1914-01-30
a TWO CENT FARE

A fight is ON in the legislature
between the representatives OF
the people and the railroads over
the question of a two-cent pas
senger rate in this state. The
bill has been introduced in the
House and the usual lobbying is
being done by the railroads to
prevent its passage.
A similar measure was intro
duced in the session of 1908, but
at that time the country was SUI
ferlng from the effects of the
1907 panic and the people gener-
ally were practically Of one mind
against forcing the railroads to
put in a two-cent rate. AS a
compromise the roads agreed to
put on sale a 1000-mile mileage
book for 500, which gave the
man who was able to buy that
much transportation and needed
it two-cent rate. This rate
has been used by all classes who
do much travelling and it is quite
an item to any business to be
able to save one.third the cost OF
travel that is necessary in the
business.
During the six years that have
elapsed there has been a great
increase in the passenger traffic
Of the state and the railroad COM
panies have been forced to put
on additional trains to accommo-
date the increased travel. In
this section all trains are crowd
ed and the increase in travel has
been remarkable.
There is one class, however,
who have not been able to Sc
cure a reduction in rates and con
tinue to pay the full three cent
fare. This man is the one who
himself and family through their
labor support the man who is
able and does buy the 500 mile
age book. Occasionally they
find it necessary to take the
train, or perhaps indulge them
selves n pleasure trips, and
when they do they pay three
cents per mile for the same ac-
c~ommodation that their nelghbor
is furnished at two cents per
mile.
The railroads cry hard times.
but all their employees are paid
good salaries and business is
good, The legislature should
put a stop to this inequality and
pass the bill putting in a two
cent rate.
The increased business should
enable the roads to show greater
profits out of the passenger bus
mess at two cents per mile in the
futu e than they have made in
the past at the rates charged.
The legislature should not be
led by the Juggling of figures
away from their plain duty to
the people.
The Tupelo journal., 1914-01-30

John Strickland Hobson, age
IL years, and Miss Katie Mary
Maxey, age 10, were married
Sunday at Ashland. In after
wears these children will hardly
recall the time when they were
not married.
The Tupelo journal., 1914-01-30
RATES OF

DISPLAY advertisements at rate of
81. 90 per running il ch per month Of
four weeks. Liberia discounts made
on yearly contracts. /.
Notice of meetings of strictly chart
table organizations will be inserted one
time free; all other notices must be
paid for.
The Tupelo journal., 1914-01-30
TUPELO. MISS. JAN. 80. 1917
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR MAYOR.

We are authorized to nnoun D. w
Robins as a candidate for reelection as
Mayor of the City of Tupelo, subject to
the action of the Democratic Primary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
"NIADE IN AMERICAn

THHE "Made-in-America" campaign
is on in earnest. if the pages of
= the current magazines are to
serve as basis for judgment.
Scores of manufacturers of standard
goods-those backed by national ad-
vertising campaigns-bear the label.
Its use bids fair to spread.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
sees q danger in this that is more than
Imaginary. 1t points out the peril of
placing the MADE in America" card
on articles of inferior quality, es-
pecially at a time when we are bidding
for foreign business, and when we de-
sire to make particularly favorable
impression on the export trade.
Unless there is some Limitation on
the use of the label 1t will come to
mean as little as the "Made in Ger
many sign does now. Goods of very
inferior nature are being sold to-day
bearing the mark of the Fatherland.
Tt has ceased to be a badge of merit
and is now merely a tribute to the
untiring energy and versatility OF the
German manufacturer, which is a res
suit scarcely to be desired in our own
case.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
WEDNESDAY EVENING,

craft over London to drop bombs on
the city and timid residents are lying
awake nights a-tremble at the least
sound.
1t is altogether within the range of
possibility that German aggressiveness
may prompt the dispatch of a number
of Zeppelins across the channel, but
such a trip would be exceptionally
hazardous and void of results, so far
as the outcome of the war is con-
cerned. AS Lord Kitchener said in a
recent interview, dropping bombs on a
defenseless city is not war and can
have no effect on the ultimate result
of the conflict. Such a raid as is pro-
posed would be costly in the extreme
and would net the Germans absolutely
nothing. while in all likelihood Eng
land would profit by a rush of new
enlistments.
1t is hardly likely that with an army
in the east and another in the west
facing an enemy that on both sides
has demonstrated that it can fight, the
Kaiser is thinking seriously of an
aerial raid on London. He has more
serious things to think about, no mat
ter how much his love for the daring
and spectacular might prompt him to
give the signal for flight to his airmen
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
NEVER GLOOM NOR GLOAT
Emporia Gazette.


The lola Register seems to wonder
why we did not hoot at the editor of
The Register two years ago for failing
on his election predictions. This office
has no black list. 1t has no men or
measures whom it is for or which 1t is
irrevocably against. We have few
Office rules. and all but one is violated.
and that rule is this: Never crouch
nor gloat over an election. Chiefly
this rule is observed because 1t does no
good. Discussion of an election after
It is over is like complaint about the
weather 1t doesn't get anywhere. An
election is like the weather in this,
that when we find 1t is bad for our
wheat we find it is putting the ground
in fine shape for someone's corn. One
mans meat is another mans poison
sauce for the goose is half a dozen of
the other. and by restoring prosperity
and keeping our printers busy we no.
tice that God tempers the wind to the
shorn Moosei
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09

read in Congress yesterday, is re-
markable in only one respect
that its dominant note is negative
instead of positive. The really import
ant part of 1t lies in what the Presi-
dent proposes not to do, rather than
in any of the several recommends
tions he makes. No legislation regu-
lating business is to be enacted. The
President desires so keenly to make
this point emphatic that he establish
ed a precedent by deviating from the
force 1t upon the attention of his
hearers.
The President says the Democratic
program of legislation with regard to
the regulation of business is now vir-
tually complete" This is a sharp
right-about-face When Congress ad-
journed it was generally understood
that the administration had at least
one railroad regulating measure and
several other bills relating to business
still to be acted upon. This was, how
ever, before the November elections
The entire text of the Presidents mes
sage indicates that he has seen the
handwriting on the wall. Despite the
Democratic claims of endorsement at
the polls President Wilson shows by
the tone of his message that he is
willing to forego many of his pet theo-
ries in the hope of regaining the conf
dence of the public, which he appar-
emily feels that he has lost. This is the
keynote of the whole beautifully writ
ten, artfully phrased document
There is little else worthy. OF note.
AS was to be expected, he endorses his
own water power control and general
conservation measures and repeats
that our duty to the Filipinos lies in
early and complete independence for
the Islands. The President would
turn the Filipinos loose to shift for
themselves as an example OF our un-
selfishness, regardless of the fact that
it would be far easier for us to do
just that than to retain our present
position as guide and mentor to a peo-
pie not yet fully prepared for self
government. The most selfish course
W6 PuIou0 NOuld bO W w do
President Wilson advises.
AS for a government-owned mer-
chant marine. to be operated at a
loss, such as the President recon-
mends, how does this differ in essen
tials from government subsidy, and
how much less permanently beneficial
would it be? What we need is a law
as liberal as those under which the
shipping of England and Germany
sails. That alone will bring many
boats under our flag. Nothing else will
be worth serious consideration.
The message is a model of simple,
forceful English. but it contains moth
ing of particular Importance that he
has not said before, and it does not
measure up to the stirring period in
which it was written. nor does it sound
the keynote of public sentiment and
public aspiration. 1t contains little
that is new and much that may sound
well as the President says it, but that
would not work out in practice as he
anticipates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09

WE NEED 1T
BY Wing Dinger

Gee. but this rain that we have had
Has made the weather very bad;
We've clean forgot the fact that we
For weeks have wanted rain to see;
We're just disgusted with the wet,
Somehow we just seem to forget
That we can't have the rain so fine
And the same time bright sunshine
But we can stand. If we think
That all this rain is just drink
To thirsting plants and grain that will
Our storehouses next summer fill.
It's wet. l know, and we don't like
Along the sloppy streets to hike
And while 1t makes us feel quite sad,
Out in the country folks are glad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
- BOOKS and el
MA + MAGAZINES lA1lM
~ SaUs=5D q mHTE5H

In the midst of the rapidly increas-
ing literature of the war and the con-
troversy that has ragged about the
character and aims of the German
Emperor, it has been strange that no
means have been taken earlier to put
before American readers his own
actual reported public utterances on
his beliefs and policies, which in
various forms. and notably in a COM
plete collection in four volumes pub
lished in Berlin, are open to all Ger
mans.
Professor Christian Gauss of Prince
ton University is preparing a repre-
sentative selections from these
speeches and declarations under the
title of 'The German Emperor as
Shown in His Public Utterances,
which will be without question the
fairest as 1t is one of the most IL
Illustrating presentations of this much
disputed character. In 1t may be
traced with no little clearness the
growth of the Emperors opinions, the
extent to which his ideas have really
gone on the subject of German do
limitations, the course he has taken
with regard to war and peace and his
views of his own office and mission.
The opportunity to judge him by his
own words is not only one to be well
coined by all fair Americans, but of
fers. with the history of the occasions
of these utterances, q book of un-
common interest in itself to every
reader of history.
1t will be published at an early date
by Charles Scribner's Sons.
In Liberal Orthodoxy" DIR. Henry
w. Clark offers historical survey of
the most modern OF all religious
movements. His study covers the
whole of Europe, and gives full cre-
dit to American developments as well.
1t can hardly fail to rank as the most
suggestive volume yet devoted to this
preaching and varied movement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09

n n UGH interest SURROUNDS the
M opening of the stock exchanges
AVA of the country on Saturday.
This interest largely hangs on
whether or not there will be such
rush of foreign owned securities to
market as was anticipated when at the
outbreak of the war the exchanges
were closed. There is no fear OF
panic. That possibility Is eliminated
by the fact that the committees IN
charge will permit no sales below
safe minimum to be announced pre-
vious to the opening.
In other words. holders of securities
must keep them unless they can find
buyers willing to pay not less than the
bottom price fixed by those In au-
thority, and this figure will, in all like
lihood, be what the stock in question
brought on the day the New York ex-
change ceased to do business.
The resumption of stock and bond
dealing ought to have a wide and very
beneficial effect on business in gen
eral. Stagnation naturally follows such
a condition as has prevailed during the
period since the war began. Oppor-
tunity to buy and sell, to turn securi-
ties into ready money or to borrow or
lend on them will doubtless stimulate
business to a degree that will permit
of industrial activities and improve
ments that have been held up by lack
of funds.
The country can get along without
the stock exchanges; that has been
demonstrated. The exchanges can be
operated without danger of panic due
to the hammering down of prices;
that. too, has been demonstrated. So,
with it's possibilities for good unim-
paired and it's chances for evil greatly
reduced, there is no apparent reason
why Wall Street should not be per-
mitted to resume after it's long vaca-
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
DIR. BRUsBAUGHs SPEECH


HE speech of Governor-elect
Martin G. Brumbaugh at the
dinner given in his honor in
Washington Monday night is
just such an address as those VINO
know him best expected him to make.
In some quarters there is some pre-
tense of surprise at the vigor with
which the Governor-elect declared
himself for the enactment into law of
all his prediction pledges, and of his
expressed purpose to "go 1t alone" IL
those to whom he looks to carry out
the party promises perchance should
fail to measure up to what he believes
their full duty.
There is nothing new in this atti-
tude of DIR. Brumbaugh. From the
time he entered the race for the Gov
ernorship he has been absolutely true
to his own convictions. Even in the
heat of as trying a campaign as was
ever waged in Pennsylvania he never
for q moment swerved. He stated his
platform in clear and unmistakable
terms; he repeated it hundreds Of
times over the State in his speech
making, and those who have followed
his career in public life knew that
what he favored as a candidate he
would endeavor to the full extent of
his ability to carry out in office.
There is nothing whatever of the
"woolly lamb" about DR.. Brumbaugh.
He is as fine a type of outstanding
manhood as Pennsylvania has ever
produced, and those who hailed him
at the Washington function the other
night as presidential material spoke
with moro than the laudatory good
fellowship that often accompanies
DostDrandiai oratory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
We'll KNOWN PEOPLE

James A. Farrell, president of the
Steel Corporation, will speak at the
opening of the school named for him
at Sharon.
e. Fl. Haslam, prominent Pitts
burgh steel man, has returend from a
months stay in Europe.
Senator C. w. Sones, of Williams
port, has some of the largest lumber
operations in the State
III. M. Lessig again heads the
Pottstown school board.
-Commissioner n. r. Butler spoke
to Johnstowri sportsmen on the fishery
John Faber Miller the new Mont
gomery county judge. inaugurated his
term by dispensing mercy upon a man
brought before him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
WINTER WORK FOR LABoRERs

WINTER WOhk tOh LABOkERS
-HE announcement that contract
has been let and work is to be
started at once on the grading
of the ground in the lower end
of the city for the new Pennsylvania
Railroad freight station is good news.
This improvement will give employ
ment to scores of men who otherwise
would be idle.
The example of the Pennsylvania
company in this respect should be fol-
lowed by other corporations and by
the city government wherever posi-
BILE. This will be a hard winter at
best. Mills are closed entirely or
working with reduced forces and on
short time. Conditions are better than
they were, perhaps, but not so much
so that there will not be suffering and
hardship among the many who are
out of work and will be for an in
definite period. Any work that must
be done and can be done now as well
as next Spring or summef should be
done.
There is selfish side to this as we'll
as a philanthropic, If that phase must
be considered. Labor is plentiful now
and cheap. Next summer may find
the reverse true. NOW is the time ::
benefit yourself and your less fortu-
nate fellow at the same time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
Getting Dealer
Enthusiasm

Half of the battle in selling
goods is getting the enthusiasm
OF the sales force.
The same rule applies to goods
sold over the retailers counter.
When the retailer is pushing
an article with vim it usually
sells.
National manufacturers are
finding that the surest way to
create dealer enthusiasm is
through newspaper advertising.
When q nationally made ar
ticle OF merit is advertised in
the newspapers. the dealers know
the demand VIII be Immediate
and definite.
They get behind the goods and
increased sales follow.
Manufacturers Interested in
developing business are invited to
address the Bureau of Advertise
ing, American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. World Build
ing, New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
ForeIrn-NTisrious Notn

IFrom the Rochester Herald.
introduction of "heathen savages" in
the European war. AS If they were
any worse than Christian savages."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
ONCE POPULAR SONG
TGallipolis Tribunal

IGaIIipoIis Tribune
A tender old song that everybody
was singing forty years ago has been
recalled by an eastern paper. We
wonder how many of our readers re-
member it. The chorus follows:
ooh, don't be sorrowful, darling
And don't be sorrowful, pray;
For taking the year altogether, my
dear,
There isn't more night than day."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
DO 07oUKNOW;

[From the Telegraph, Dec 0, 1S64.l
Major Morgan Visits
Major Morgan visited the city on
Saturday.
Snow Holds Up Train
Due to the snow, all trains are be-
hind time. Floating ice is going down
the river.
His Pocket Picked
Congressman George r. Miller
had his pocket picked a few days
ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
ANOTHER zEPPELIN SCARE

YER since war was declared there
has been uneasiness in London
0 over the possible invasion of a
German feet of Zeppelins. Just
now the people are in the grip of an
other scare" 1t is declared that the
Kaiser is preparing to send his air
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
AN EVENING THOUGHT

If We abide in me. and my
words abide in you. ask whatso-
ever We will, and it shall be done
unto you.-John 1877.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09

IFTOm the HOUSTON POST
For the benefit of those who make 1t
point to watch the movement of gold
invitation we have received to partici-
pate heavily in the endowment of that
proposed American Christian college in
Egypt has as yet resulted in no reduc-
tion of the bank reserves of Houston.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
LOnger Sneechea. Anvhoxv

IFrOm the New York WOrld
If the same old Theodore Roosevelt
and William Sulzer had taken the time
to attend the Chicago conference of
Progressives, there would have been
more doings to report
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
Cnn,t Think of Any Other Reo.or

From the Kansas City Times.
Tea has been one of the saviours of
mankind" an English doctor says. Per-
haps it's out of gratitude that the Eng
lish drink it for breakfast.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
To Evacuate Petersburg

Headquarters Army of Potomac,
Dec. ,S.-Reports say that Petersburg
will be evacuated soon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
woys Of the RIhuIou.

From the Atchison Globe.1
Drunken men are queer. They either
love each other heartily or knock each
others head Off
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
Too PrOdIraI At the stnrt

IFrom the Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Constantinople press bureau
seems to have exhausted it's supply of
claims.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
Editorial COMMENT
After Him All the Time

LFrom the Columbia State1
Our most prominent bill collectors
warmly subscribe to the theory that it
is not good for man to be alone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
NEWGSf s. R4IlRSF8FtSAe

[From the Telegraph, Dec 0, 1864.l
Sherman Going to Savannah
Augusta, Dec. 9.-It was learned
positively to-day that Sherman's des-
tination Is Savannah. His route to
there is not known.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09

Headquarters Army of Potomac,
Dec. 9.-General Meade has been made
a major general.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. .
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

RESIDENT WILSON'S message,
read in Congress yesterday, is re-
markable in only one respect
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-09
OPENING THE EXCHANGES

N RUCH interest surrounds the
M opening of the stock exchanges
AV : of the country on Saturday.
rrLis i1tarast IarpaIv hangs on