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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-23
TEACHERS
ON A LARK
Big Times Ahead For Visiting
PedagOgues Last Of
Week.
PROF. FOSTER TO SET PACE
Very Few Dull Moments From
The Time The TisitOrS
Reach Town.

keacn Town.
Prof. L. E. Foster. the president.
has arranged great program for
the teachers association this week.
which begins Friday and lasts two
days. Features will be:
A banquet for 500 will be served
Friday night.
An automobile trip to some of the
county Schools.
A reception by the High School
pupils.
Three sessions daily with many
notable speakers.
THE PROGRAM.
Music-High School Orchestra
Welcome Address,. T. Hanbery.
Response-Supt. G. W. Curry,
Morganfeld.
A play, Mother Goose" West
Side School.
Announcement and Registration.
NOON.
Friday 1870 p. m.
Music.
The visiting nurse ip the commu-
nity-Miss Emma Hunt
Rip Van Wrinkle Mclean School.
Why Have Schools?-Dr. w. A.
Garfield. Danville. KY.
Music
Preparedness DIR. C. E. McDougle,
Richmond.
Education for Larger Service
Prof. McHenry Rhodes. Frankfort,
KY.
Music.
friday Evening 1880.
Vocal Solo-Mrs. L. E. Foster.
Address-Dr. C. A. McMurray,
Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn.
Vocal Solo-Miss Nell Espie.
Friday 1000 p. M.
Banquet for visitors given by the
Hopkinsville Business Mems Assccia
ton and the teachers of Christian
county at the Armory.
Music-High School Orchestra.
Toastmaster-Pres. L. E. Foster
Shooting Ideas Chas. M. Meach
am.
Love-making-Prof. j. S. Dickey
Bowling Green.
A Jolly Funeral-Dr. Jos. Sever
ance. Franksort, Ky.
Tombstone Literature-Dr. j. N
Jessup.
Everyday Fictions-T. C. Under
wood.
Saturday 900 a. m.
Music. Trombone Solo-Prof c
| w. Henry, Msryville, Tenn.
Rheinlander Folk Dance-Virgini
st. School. -
The centralized School-Prof. c
w. Henry.
A message from the next X Z
A. President-T. w. Vinson, Louis
vile.
The Country School of Tomorroz
Prof +. J. Coates, Frankfort.
Report of Committees.
Election of Officers.
Saturday 1880 p. m.
Reception to Visitors by Higl
School Pupils.
Automobile ride into country.
Ample arrangements have beel
made to accommodate all visitors
either in hotels or private boarding
! houses at rates from Sl.O0 to $2.2
per day.
All day meetings will be held a
the Mclean School auditorium.
The lecture on Friday evening vii
be given at the Ninth Street Chris
tian church.
The banquet will be at the Armory
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
Our Padded Newspapers.
(Gamaliel Bradford, in the Nortf
 American Review.)

(Gamaliel Bradford, in the North
 American Review)
 It is well known that Journalism encourages superfciality, but perhaps few appreciate to how great an ex- tent. Journalism creates superficial readers. Unfortunately. the immense growth of modern knowledge in all branches makes an intelligent super ficiality a necessary requisite of edu- cation. The man who reads line for line and word for word is in these days stranded on desert island. Everybody must make a dart for use- ful information and snatch it where he can. But sound mental discipline requires that this versatility should be tempered by certain amount of slow steady, thoughtful, drudging ap- plication. Now the newspapers and current magazines do not encourage this-they do not even admit of it. Who would plod through a page of a great daily? Who could? Instead, We are trained to run diagonally from top to bottom between two mouthfuls, or in the midst of an inquiry as to the neighbours baby. Nothing takes our attention but what is thrown at it; nothing really stim- ulates our thought but a leaded head line or a staring picture.
 But here is d strange thing: You would think this wild hurry of writ CTS and readers would at least foster one of the chief literary merits brevity. Quite the contrary. Our newspapers are one of the wonders of the world for size-and padding. Why it is that when most of us want to read only the headlines, and should apparently be satisfied with headlines and nothing else, every newspaper is stuffed with column after column of amplification which seems to add little to the few essen- tial words printed at the top? The reason is obvious. It is precisely be- cause we have acquired such a happy facility in the art of skipping that we are perpetually invited to skip like little lambs. I want to satiate myself with baseball, you with the cotton-market, Jones with politics. Mrs. Jones with murder. We can each - us make perfect brevity of the others interests. But brevity for. the paper as whole would be quite out of the question.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
PROTECTING THE PRESJDENT

Sunday while President Wilson and his fiancee were attending church in Baltimore, the Monumental City. the secret service men were forced to ar
 rest a particularly peculiar individual Who found especial delight in doggine dlans of the President saw something supremely suspicious in the actions of this man and so they forthwith cast hlm in jail from whence he was liberated, after it had been duly es- abolished that he was harmless in clvlduaL someone who probably wanted to get the presidents auto graph to a book, or donation for some relief fund. But, withal, it was a good thing that the man was ap- prehended. He had no business to follow the President in such fashion sls to prove embarrassing to the cnurch-going party, or to arouse suspicion as to his intentions And even if the secret service men did make a mistake and lay hands on a harmless creature, it were better that this happened than that they allowed him to carry out his maneuverings, or to prove himself later a fiend. It has been just fourteen years ago that the United States was plunged in sorrow because the secret service nien at Buffalo allowed a stranger, carrying a revolver covered with a handkerchief, to approach the late
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
Republican And Kingdom.

Poland carried out the dream of many doctrinaires in many ages, for she was republic and kingdom at the same time, says a writer in The Manchester Guardian" She would have nothing of divine rights or of heredity. The sons of a noble held noble rank as families. but they had no claim on their fathers dignities. Every nobleman had a clear right to elect the King. and could stand for the post himself, but in actual prac- tice the election generally fell to some prince from outside, chiefly be- cause election depended on two fac tors-force and money.
 In the eighteenth century the Po- fish noble was in the position of the Norman lords in England; in the eleventh he was constantly at odds with the king, he tyrannized over the nation, and as he was generally hard up his vote was for sale when it came to electing a new king. 1t was in this way that the House of SaNony reached the throne through Angus tus the Elector, who bought half the voters and used his army to talk to the other half. But the transaction gave no shadow of a right to the elect ed Kings decendants.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
The "Highbrows.
Dayton News.)

Henry Seidel Canby, in Harper's Magazine, finds fault with Americans because they have made an epithet out of the word "highbrow" He says that when any one is dubbed a "highbrow," his influence for good is gone; that the American public scorns anything which the so-called "highbrow'' may say or do. and that it has come to mean, in the minds of many persons, a man who is cranky or Unbalanced or who is inn practicable.
 And the critic is right to some extent. There is a sort of stigma at tached to the word as it is found in every day use. When one cannot find fault with a prominent man upon any firmer ground, he calls him a high brow" and lets it go at that, know ing full well that many of his hearers will at once assume that the person thus mathematical is wholly i'm practicable. Then, some believe that a "highbrow' is a fellow who runs around and meddles in other peoples affairs-a sort of trouble-maker who 1 is displeased with the ways of the world and who would bring heaven 1 to earth long before we are ready 1 for heaven. So it is, in a sense, un- | fortunate that the term should have | fallen to such low estate.
 l Every person who has ever under | taken to help mankind has encounter | ed opposition. Mankind, it seems, re- sents being helped. It would much prefer to help itself. So when a lit- tie band of unselfish women under take to make a little brighter the lot of the working girl, they are branded as "highbrows," and their efforts ridiculed. When a man gives a sum of money to build a playground, or to beautify a park, somebody says the people do not need any such att tention from the "highbrows." And thus are many unselfish aims of we'll intentioned people rendered impotent. imDOtent.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
D. MCMILLAN ' IDs-201-2o3 MAIN STREET

of his act as the maddest, widest flight ever seen on this continent"
 The appealing feature of this feat was the risk of it. It would have surprised no one had his ride turned out to be. the ride of death. One may almost imagine that there were people in the audience, women as well as men, who experienced a feel ing of sharp disappointment that it did not turn out to be the ride of death. No such enormous crowd of people could have been teased tS.- gether by an automobile race in which was limited to a rate which insured safety to the drivers. They were after the thrill which comes from danger and only that thrill would be completely satisfying which ended in tragedy. The race proved nothing of value to the manufactur@ CTS of automobiles unless the free ad- vertisement the winning machr1e gained may be counted something or importance to the human race. When the thousands who watched the fa@ nous airman, Beachy, do his stunts in midair, turning four times over and then indulging in spiral gymnastics. were bewitched with the terrible danger of it all. and realizing that in all probability the day would come when the flight would be the flight of death, may have resented the post ponement of the sad event for the secret enjoyment of others. His performance proved nothing of value to the science of flying, while it did take from the government a teacher of air-iying whose services were needed. .~ss sl
 It is a misapplication of terms to call mad automobile racing and mad air flights sporting events. They are nothing of the sort. They are shock ing challenges to the god of chance to do his worse. and sooner or later he responds with a fearful affirmative. There are elements of danger in all major sports, but their popularity does not depend upon the danger ele- ments being supreme. Events which depend for thrill upon the nearest possible approach to death by the act- ors in them represent the degeneracy which overtakes sports and makes madness of if.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
Brave Little Serbia.
Bridgeport Farmer.)

Not to Belgium, but to Serbia, must be conceded the glory of having made the most successful defense against the aggressions of powerful foes, that the world has been since Holland de- tended against Spain, centuries ago.
 At the opening of the war Belgium had a larger population than Serbia, though a somewhat smaller army. But the unorganized population of Belgium, available for military duty was about. 400, ,000 as against 60,O00.
 Belgium, despite a brave resistance, was soon overwhelmed, while Serbia has until this time kept its territory free, driving the Austrians out soon after they crossed the Serbian from tiers.
 The Germans having now gained a foothold, aiding the Austrians, will have the aid of Bulgaria and there is every likelihood that this little country will be devastated as Belgium was.
 Serbias apparent military superior ity over Belgium may be attributed to several causes. Belgium was opposed tC a German, and Austria to an Aus trian foe. Serbia had more notice and more time to prepare. Perhaps the chief reason is that Serbia had but just concluded a war, and had raised up a veteran soldiery, with experi- erced officers and equipment adequate to her needs, which Belgium lacked.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12


 President Mckinley. At this particu- lar time, when all the world seems to have grievance against some thing Or individual, it is time that better protection be thrown around the chief executive of the land. Past events have shown to what means men will resort to accomplish their ends. Hap oily the era of bomb throwing is over, the day of blowing up ships and factories has passed. But those things have at least served as warn ings, and a man in public life is al ways at the mercy of the rabble. Understanding all this, the men of the secret service did we'll in blocking the Baltimore stranger in his endeavor to get too near the President. When the seas are troubled it is well to keep a sharp lookout.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
\ Plagued Industry.
(New York Sum-


 Conservation of natural resources is adorable when exploited to exploit a conservationist, but abominable if applied to keep an honest industry from bankruptcy.
 It is stated from good authority that there is invested in the lumber industry in this country $2, 2,250, ,000,0 900, and that when prosperous it gave em- ployment to 100000 wage earners. The industry languished, failed to re- turn profits, because of low prices caused by overproduction. Those having capital invested proposed an agreement to conserve the forests and were threatened with jail if they did so; that kind of conservation being a com bination in restraint of trade. An investor in the plagued industry there fore remarked: If we conserve the forest we go to jail if We do not we go into bankruptcy"
 The Federal Trade Commission, it is reported, has been so moved by the spectacle of innocent but bewildered citizens facing jail or bankruptcy that it contemplates asking Congress to modify the Sherman act enough to permit mbermen to earn a living without horrid visions of prison cells for so doing. This seems reactionary. even unredfieldian.
 Once upon a time a distracted con- stituent exclaimed to Congressman
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12

he insisted on taking a drink from the bottle of whiskey. But of course I'll pay you,' said he, and gave the other man a quarter of a dollar. E.
 The train rolled on and atC1eve-. land the second man in turn found himself in dire need of a drink s So he took a drink from the bottle flor his present necessity and. reifnbnfsed his companion with a quarter of a dollar. The same quarter. The jour ney progressed, and at Chicago the man who had first helped himself to a drink took another and again paid his companion a quarter; the same quarter. Proceeding, at St. Louis the alternate took another drink and reimbursed his fellow traveller with a quarter, the same quarter. And so they went on, solvent and moder- ately stimulated, and when they reached San Francisco at leat each of them had received total payment of several dollars in cash and all his own money was intact in his pocket.
 But all the whiskey was gone.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
German Finance Illustrated. (Manche ester Herald.)

As conceived and thought out by the German mind, postulating Ger man invincibility in every respect, the three billion dollar loan is un- questionably an imposing event, says the New York Evening Sun. And if Germans are satisfied why should anybody else show any concern? Con- fidence in German soundness in all things in part of the great destiny of being a German.
 It was a banker in New York who told story the other day which he ventured to call parable of Teu- tonic finance. There were two men in New York;" said he, "who were going to San Francisco Now you can buy whiskey in New York for a dol lar a bottle. But it costs $1O fn San Francisco, where all commo odity prices range higher. So the two men determined to do stroke of business, and therefore they bought a bottle of Whiskey in New York to sell in San Francisco. They started together on their journey and travel ed uneventfully till they arrived at Buffalo. At that point one of the men developed thirst and in spite of the remonstrances of his partner
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
The Country Girl. (Meriden ,JOurnal1

Tt is time that the country girl were getting her share of attention in the effort to advance the conditions of rural life" This is the announcement of one of those critics of rural con- ditions who exist in such large num- bers in the large cities, whose self complacency is equalled only by their ignorance of everything rural, and whose condescension is almost as ir- r:tating as their assumption of super icrity-if such thing can be imagined, declares the Rochester Herald.
 The particular spe cImen of the ob- noxious species whose words we have quoted finds that the country girl has been terribly neglected in the scope of the rural uplift. Only think of it, state universities send out scores of lecturers to men, but none to women. rop-demonstration cars do not contain a single exhibit to show the country girl ''the real possi- bilities of enriching her home" Isn't it shameful?
 Naturally. it would never occur to q critic of this type that there might De a reason for such significant omiS- sions, and that this reason might be the ability of the country girl to carve cut her own career without the help of busybodies masquerading as up- filters The fact of the matter is that the typical country girl needs assist ance in directing her mental ener- gies about as much as a German busi- ness man needs a training in eff cipDCV.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
Tho Human Equation"
(Meriden Record.)

Peace has settled over the mining properties in the state of Colorado as a result of the broadmindedness, the lberallty, the moral courage, the democracy, of> this single man. As we said when we received our first impression of the young mans visit to the mining camps, which was pleasant one, there is nothing more important in safeguarding the rela- tlons Of employer and employed than the utilization of the human equa- tlon. It is capable of wonders. It is when the human equation is elim- mated, and substitute force intro duced, that trouble comes. The younger Rockefeller has taught other trustees of great accumulations a needed lesson. He has made good.- New Haven Journal-Courier.
 It will be interestinf to see how potent will be MT. Rockefeller's in fuenCe when he comes to justify his altruism to those men whose money is tied up in the Colorado mining properties and who will demand their dividends no matter what becomes of the human forces who have hereto fore utilized the natural elements so that big dividends were possible.
 MT. Rockefeller has "seen the wheels go round' The trustees have seen only the product of the revolving process. It remains to be seen whether they can be convinced that the personal equation" is big enough +factor to be cultivated. If they can once be persuaded that con- sideration of a man will bring them in as great returns, as their attention to a human machine, it is possible MT. Rockefeller will not have difficulty in convincing his friends of the material benefit to be derived from the new scheme. "2-' ..t@
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
INTESTINAL INDIGESTION

Some people think that the entire pros cess of digestion takes place in the stom. sch.
 There is intestinal digestion and there is intestinal indigestion also and the late ter is usually associated with constipa- tion. Sometimes it is the cause, soms- times the effect.
 Harsh, strong purgatives that clear the tntestines quickly leave the delicate mem 5ranes iniiamed and dry, usually in a worse condition than before. 1t was to avoid just this that Pinklets, the new laxative, were devised. They are dainty, lugar-coated granules and they act gently with no gripping.
 Write the Dr. Williams Medicine Co.,, Schenectady, N. Y, for free sample or .,et a fllli-size 25-cent bottle of Pinklete- ron your own druggist.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
Horrid Brute.
(Youth's Companion.)

Mrs Enderly, wife of Judge Ender- ly of a small Missouri town, com plained one day that she had acci- dentally swallowed a button which she was holding in her mouth pre- paratory to attacking to some gar ment.
 As the lady was rather given 10 making great ado over trivial mis- haps, and as the judge was much pre- occupied, he did not pay much heed. Soon after, however, finding her in tears, he made kindly inquiry as to their cause.
 It's your heartless in-indifference to anything that h-happens to me" sobbed the aggrieved little woman. "I d-didn't suppose you'd w-worry much because I swallowed a button, but I d-did think you might have taken enough interest in it to inquire w what kind of b-button it was"
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
Kentucky Editors.
(Russell Springs Advance.)

We have another member to the Advance office. The editor and Miss Eva Scales having unitel in the holy bonds of matrimony Sunday. There fore we are asking for few days va- cation so as to move ourselves and get to housekeeping the last Of the week, but after we get on our feet the Advance down to two pages this week, btu after We get on our feet again we will giv you an eight page paper as before
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
(From the Fulton Wireless.) )

This will be our only editorial this week. We hope our readers will be able to live until next week without any more of our artless prattle. The candidates wanted so much space this week that We have no room for our own writings. And we needed the candidates money to make up for $25 We lost last week. Hoping you are enjoying the same blessed privilege, we remain yours truly at regular rates.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
Snort.
CNew Haven Journal-Courier.>

INtW I1dNtII JUUIIIdI-N-DUTItT.
 Our readers have doubtless read the account of the automobile race at the new speedway at Sheepshead Bay. The winner of the race travelled at an average speed of 1O2.60 miles an hour At the close of the race the driver. overcome by the roar of his machine. was unable to hear for several min utes and acted otherwise like a de- ranged man. One observer speaks
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
-.-. "-'--s4 . = INDIAN SUMMER.

ben, at noon, the sun bursts in, all it's glory and sends scamp away those chilly breezes that he early morning air, therej are of us, especially at this tme
 he year, who perk up and wax
 tent anent the 1ltranscendental
 es of Indian Summer. And al if the younger generation prate
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12

John J. Fitzgerald concerning a pro- posed law: "All we ask for is law that will be just, fair, wise, impar- tial. rs.f " Well" responded MT. Fitzgerald, prehaps I can induce Congress to compromise on that basis"
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12

The invasion of Greek territory in the fifteenth month of the war by soldiers of France and England makes light reading matter in spite of the indignation of Berlin. It may be sus- pected that the violation of neutrality was not a surprise to the authorities at Athens-New York Sun.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12

With the United States treasury rapidly approaching bankruptcy Tn spite of burdensome. income and spe- cial taxes, and with the certainty or our markets being flooded with cheap goods immediately after the ending of the war, it is obvious to all but the most bigoted that a restoration of protection is imperatively neces- sary.-Kingston Freeman.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12

There are any number of business men who could cut the red tape which binds this city if the people of the city wanted them to cut it. The real work of the city if done by one of the detested corporations would be cleaned up thoroughly every night for half the cost.-Brooklyn Eagle. Apparently The Eagle is out of sym pathy with our young reformers. Given the condition here so allur- ingly pictured, they would have to cease ''uplifting' and go to york; New York Herald.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Nevertheless, the vail of the Chi cago packers over the seizure Of thelr shipments leaves the average Amer ican consumer nmOved.-P1ttsburg Dispatch.