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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-06-01
THE .JEFFERSONIAN

W 1l0u l. was III 10AStS Ill 1JOt, the CONDUCTOR
put me out Of the car which had been reserved
for the exclusive use of negroes.
The conductor did right, for the law re-
quired it.
10 say that State has no power over a
private school, is sheer nonsense.
The State has soverelg On power over every
body, everywhere within her jurisdiction; and
that power has no limits save those set in the
Constitution of the United States and of the
State itself.
To declare it against public policy for white
men and women to teach black schools, uio-
zates no Constitutional limitation.
Not to SAGE his giasard, can Judge gibbs
cite any principle Of constitutional 1aaU that is
ri0zated By the Florida statute.
The legislative branch Of the State govern
ment has just as much right and power to say
who shall teach school, as it. has to say who
shall practise medicine, sell drugs, and ped
die merchandise
The State could go farther: it could require
every teacher to take out a State-license, Just
as license is required in the case of a lawyer,
and in the case Of man who wants to marry.
The decision of Judge Gibbs disposes Of the
St. Augustine warrants, / suppose; but the
whole question can be opened and carried to
the Supreme Court, if the Protestants will
Sue out q qcr5t to eni0in the Mans, the priests,
and Bishop Cmzey FROM MAINTAINING
THE La " DEFTING SCHOOL.
An in junction. as in the case of public
nuisance will test the constitutionality of the
statute, and if the lower court decides against
the States, an appeal can be taken to the SUI
perior Court
60 70 IT, GUARDIANS OFLIBERTY!
Don't allow Curley, O'Brien and the
Knights Of Columbus to run over you.
Make fight, on the ciuI side Of the Court.
Whether it is the duty of Governor Park
Trammell and his very capable Attorney
General to make this fight on lawless Roman
ism. is not for me to say.
In his labored opinion, Judge Gibbs holds
that the State does have the power to forbid
whites to teach negro public schools.
According to this leaLy logic, the State can
regulate Smith and his child in one school,
but not in another
If Smith and his child choose a p1.ivate
school, he and his child cease to be subject to
the States sovereign power.
That's the sort of reasoning Judge adopts
when he is making law, instead Of enforc-
ing it.
Judge Gibbs also held, that the Legisla-
ture meant to say public school, when it said
School; thus he initiates the Jesuitized U. S.
Supreme Court, when it cancelled the Anti
Trust law by interpolating a word which
Congress refused to anSert.
Judge Gibbs also held that the statute con-
flcted with the United States Constitution,
in that it Disseminated against the race and
color Of the teacher.
But, if the learned judge is right about
that, how could the State keep negro teachers
out of the white public schools?
The United States Constitution does not
draw any distinction between public and
private schools, and Judge Gibbs admits in
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-06-01
Some More Judge-Made Law.
Florida Denied the Riqht
TO LegiSIate.

OF the Supreme Court of North Carolina,
recently made an address on the subject Of
judge made law
Chief Justice Clark is one of the ablest
lawyers in the land, and his heart is ALWAYS
with the people.
If such man were in the United States
Senate, he would be a power for good
The most recent case Of Judge made law
has been inflicted upon Florida by a circuit
potentate named Gibbs
This judicial legislator holds that the SOW
erelgn State of Florida has no jurisdiction
over private schools
Oh that Chief Justice John Marshall had
studied under Gibbs!
Oh that Daniel Webster could have been
tutored by Gibbs!
Judge Cooley missed it awfully, in compil-
ing his Constitutional Limitations, when he
failed to collaborate with Gibbs.
AS jubilantly reported by the aw-defying
Catholics Of St. Augustine, this marvellous
Judge ''ruzed that the State had no power
ove, p1Tyate schoozs'
Bless the rams horn that rent the walls of
Jericho!
That rams horn was nothing to compare
with Gibbs.
Balaams ass was not a circumstance TO
Gibbs
The foolish virgin was an Aspasa, in com
parison with Gibbs
The State has no power over private
schools!
Lord! Lord! whittier are we drifting. and
what's to become Of us?
I'm getting real uneasy for fear some lack
ass on the bench will decide that the State
has no power over a private bar-room, spri-
vate gambling hell, private brothel, pri-
yate whiskey-s still, private counterfeiter's
establishment, private chain-gang and
private boarding-house
No p0acer Deer q pirate school?
Then the teacher might be dissemination
OF athelsm communism, anarchisn free love,
and any other gospel destructive to the pupils
and to the State
According to this bewildering Judge Gibbs,
any sort of immoral or illegal, or debasing
instruction can be injected into the body
polite, provided the school is pirate.
Has the State no right Of self-protection?
Has the State no sovereign power to decide
WHAT'S for and against. public policy?
Has the State no right to regulate all mat
tiers concerning her domestic welfare?
In Georgia, the State does not allow me to
sell my own seed cotton, between suns; it's
against public policy. No man may lawfully
sell his own gasoline at night; it's against
public policy.
Private homes are quarantined and schools
closed as a matter of public policy, to prevent
the spread of contagious disease.
Private boarding houses, private locker
clubs, private gaming rooms, private assigna-
ton houses are all amenable to State law.
Down at Miami, they have been applying
some very strenuous-and much needed-law
to private road-houses; those unmtigated
pests wherein so many girls end their JOY
rides by landing in hell.
But it seems that the State has no power
over private schools.
Tho covoroirn- Stota cannot cav thot II ;c
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-06-01

Bethany, by Thos E. Watson. A Romance
of the Civil War, with vivid pen pictures of
plantation life. before the war. Bound in
cloth Price, $1.0o, postpaid. The Jetferso-
MAN Publishing Company, Thomson, Ga.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04

Mr.. o. A. Luckett. State Tax Com
missioner, was in our town to day
and while here interviewed and had
a conference with the assessor, Mr..
Pugh and the Board Of Supervisors
of the County OH the question of the
Equalization law and its workings
and the great benefit which Will
necessarily follow to the State froma
due enforcement of it and a hearty
corporation of the several Boards
and Assessors Of the various coun-
ties in trying to carry it out. MI
Luckett had with him several copies
of the law, which was read to the
Board by Mr.. Wadsworth their Atty
He then went into detail and min
ute explanation of the law and was
assured by the Board and the Asses
sor that they would endeavor hon
estly to carry it out in spirit and
letter, Hon. j. M. Wadsworth the
County Atty for the Board was pres
ent and all joined in expressing the
belief, that the law had n good pur-
pose and that good results would
follow in honestly and conscien-
tioasly carrying it ont.
We have heard of a number of ex
pressions from the people of the City
and County and all of it was of a
laudatory character. as to the bene-
fits which would flow from this con-
structive piece of legislation. 1t is
the intention of Mr.. Luckett later to
make another visit to our County
and to address our people at length
on the operation of this law and the
expectations of the State Tax Board
as to the beneficial results, due by
an honest enforcement of it, in the
several counties of the state. Mr..
Luckett presented to the Board the
report of the Auditor of Public ac-
counts and read from that report,
showing the great inequality of as
sessments in the different Counties
of the State. A casual inspection
of that report. will demonstrate to
any right thinking mind, the great
and urgent necessity of such law
The last Legislature passed a number
of good and wholesome laws but
none in our opinion will compare
with House Bill 1896 in far reaching
results to our people.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04

The Hope, Dixon and 9th
er communities OF the coun-
ty are trying to organize "
seperate taxing district to
supplement- the salaries o.
their toachers and also to
extend the length OF school
terms. Under a law passed
in 1914, the majority OF the
taxpayers in any IL square
miles of territory can have
the Board of Supervisors
levy all extra tax up to five
mills for school purposes.
This is a good law and EN-
ables any wide awake and
progressive community an
OppOfUunlby OF increasing
their educational facilities,
Like Uhe Agricultural High
School, we favor any meas
ure or means of help ing us
educationally. We hope
those progressive commune
tiles will succeed in their eff
orts for if there is any form
of taxation we can afford it
is to further our education-
al advantages. We need it,
the result of the last election
shows it.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04
VENADLE WITH WILSON

Reprinting Dispatch editor
ial which comments on the stand
Representative w. w. Nenable
has taken with the president. the
Vicksburg Herald says;
"This is a clear and a timely
tribute and statement of the
truth. Representative Venable
has again distinguished himself as
Il new member by saying the
right thing at the right time.
The angles of his defense of the
President are, consciously or
unconsciously," exactly aimed
to repeal and refute the points
of Senator Varda mans attack
upon the ultimatum to Germany.
The issue joined prompts the
remark that if the Mississippi
Democrats approve the Presi-
dents stand on the submarine
question, they should in duty
bound and as Democrats with
the courage Of their convictions
hold up his hands. This duty
can only be manifested in a
straight forward becoming way
by sending delegates to the St.
LoDis convention who come out
in the open and defend Mr.. Will
son from slurring attacks Of mall
contents and fault finders"
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04

All persons now on the
pension roll will be required
under the law passed by the
last Legislature to make
new applications for pension
Blanks therefor will be furn-
ished ~ the clerk, The
object and purpose of this
law is to purge the roll of all
unworthy pensioners, and
thereby give more money
to the deserving ones.
$45, 600 for 1916 and $475,
90 for 1917 were appropri-
ated for the old soldiers.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04
NOTICE CREDITORS

Letters Of Administration were
granted TO the undersigned in the
estate Of D. E. Wood, deceased, on
the 10th day April 1916 and bond has
been given as required by law. Now
this is to notify all creditors Of the
said D. e. Wood deceased, to present
their claims against the said estate
within one year from this date and
have said claims probated and regis
tered by the clerk. A failure to pro-
bate and register any claim against
said estate within one year from this
date Will operate as bar to the
same,
Witness my hand this May 2nd
1915. Al. J.. Yates, Administrators
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04
MAMIE SPIVEY.

Mrs. Mamie Stribling, wife of
Mr.. Samuel FL. Spivey, and
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Tyler
z. Jay, was born Jan. 8, 1872
and on April goth. 10 P. M. 1916
left this sin cursed earth for the
sinless abode of the righteous.
Age Al years, 8 months, IL days.
When a little girl Mamie pro-
fessed faith in Christ atan evang-
elistic meeting held at Waldo by
Rev. J. G. Boydston, and united
with the Woodland congrega.
tion of the Cumberland PresbS-
-terian Church.
Sept. "a, 1905, she married
Mr.. Sam Spivey. To them were
born five childred, four daught-
ers and one son, four still sur
vive, and one daughter preceded
the mother to heaven.
Mrs Spivey was a worthy
Christian, a faithful wife, kind
and affectionate mother, a pleas
ant and accommodating neigh
Dor. Her departure was unex-
pected and shock to us all.
Very suddenly the heart ceased
TO Eeat, the summons had come
calling her to her eternal home,
and Mamie, saved soul, re-
1 deemed with the precious blood
of Christ, and cleansed from all
sin by his blood, ascended into
heaven. @
Dear children, Sibyl, Mollie,
Johnnie, Jewel, your mother is
not dead.
Only her body is dead, bu'
your mother still lives, is now d
conscious soul, thinking, acting,
seeing and enjoying amid the
splendor and glory Of our heaven
ly Fathers house in which are
many mansions. To the believer
in Jesus there is no death. Je-
sus says, "Whosoever llveth and
believeth in me shall never die I
Jesus has abolished death and
! thrown light upon life and in
1 corruption through the gospel.
TO the believer in Jesus Deaths
stripped of its sting. Jesus has
deprived death of its power over
/ the saved soul. He would not
have those who believe in him
to fear the death of the body,
that is, the separation of soul
and body, nor to cling ignobly
to the life here. For the saved
soul TO be absent from the body
is to be present with the Lord.
Paul says, "We are confident,
say, and we'll pleased rather Ia
be absent from the body, and
present with the Lord" Though
Christ does not exempt the body
from death yet he has, through
the gospel, poured flood ol
light upon the permanent glori.
fled state of believers which il
exempted from decay. Inheaven
there shall be no more death,
Children, take your mothers
Savior to be your Savior.
]. +. Mcdonald.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04

Democrats OF the county
should not fail to meet at
their voting places Saturday
May 9Th at 10 A. M. and
elect delegates to the Coun
ty Convention that meets
lat the courthouse on Mon
day May 18th. A new Ex-
ecutive Committee will be
elected and delegates to the
State Convention to be held
at Jackson on May 18th.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04
piles Cured IN & to II DAYS

Your druggist will refund money n PAz0
OINTMENT fails to cure any case 6fsItch1MR,
Blind, Beeding or Protruding Piles IN 6toz4 days.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04


but the life of the bonds
were too long, he did not
want to incur a debt his
children would have to pay.
Poor fellow, he did not know
what he was voting for or
against. He did not know
theBoard had the right to
retire the bonds anytime al.
ter five years if they saw fit.
He will know better next
time and will vote for the
bonds.
We heard a man say the
other day he would have
voted for the bond issue if
he had had any assurance
the school would not be 10
Gated at Philadelphia.
May the Lord have mercy
on one SO narrow he would
cast his vote against an in
stitntion primarily for the
good OF our country boys
and girls, because he was
afraid some place would Sc
cure the location over ALL
other We would have vot
ed for it if we had known
it was going to be placed in
yonr back yard. What has
Philadelphia done to win
the displeasure of this man?
Town and country should
be as two big brothers, the
success or failure of either is
to a large extent dependent
upon each other. w hat
would our county be with
out our county capital, on
the other hand what would
our town be without the
country support? The in
terest of one is the interest
of the other. The town is
what you have made it, SO
per cent of us were once your
neighbors on the adjoining
red hill. Ii we are not what
we ought to be, you are re
sponsible, we are part of
you and you have the priv
ilege of making another
town if this one is so far
short Of your ideal.
Your case is not hopeless
The light of common sense
may yet enable us to better
understand each other thus
bringing us nearer together
and helping US to carry out
the biblcal injunction to,
"Love thy neighbor as thy
SELF.
We heard a man say the
other day he would b ave
voted for the bond issue,
but they never taught any
thing higher than the 9Th
grade that was high enough
for any boy or girl to go
aid they could g tthatmuch
in our public schools.
Poor ignorant fool, your
own three days OF sc hooling
has been wasted. There is
no nope for d beam Of in
telligence to ever creep into
your Uranium and open
your eyes to the neeils Of
your children in this day
of education, science aud
invention. You are hope
1.,sc sua oivn van mn as lost
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04

Buy your farm implements of
Spivey Ross Hdw. Go.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04

A new lot of fishing poles inst
arrived. Spivey-Ross Hdw. Co.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04

Judge Niles has said the
new whiskey law is goodlaW.
Now be content with your
half gallon per month.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04

Entered at the post office at i'hila-
delphfa, Miss, as second class mail
matter.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1916-05-04

navIg0rating to the Pale and Sickly
The Old standard general strengthening tonic,
GRDVE,8 TA6TEL ESS chill TOMS, drives out
f~rn. true tonic. For adults aud chjtsren. sc
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-17
GENERAL FUNSTON IS TOLD
OF ALLEGED MEXICAN PLOT
NEW REVOLUTION is SAID TO RE
Neutrality-suspicious. DE
CI.ARED INVOLVED

WASHINGTON, Fen 1.-THE war
department sent Generai Funston un-
official information today about plans
for a new Mexican uprising as report
ed maturing in the United Stateg It
declared the conspiracy hal rea he'd
a definite stage Munitions already
have been smuggled across the border
into Mexico The conspirators expect
To slip across in small parties from 4
number Of points The plottcrs in
cllude many Cientificos and few viz
l.stas.
headquarters Of the plotters were
Sod to be in Los Angeles. FL Paso,
San Antonio and New orleans 1t is
unknown whether the threatened rev.
olution is connected with the reported
plot to blow up the oattlesnip Ken.
tdcky at Vera Cruz recently.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-17
is NOW UNLAWFUL TO TAKE
LIQUOR TO PUBLIC PLACE

Hereafter no person carrying or
having in his possession any liquor in
any public place, public gathering or
place open to the public. An amend
ment to the prohibition ordinance
making the above provisions, was
passed by the council last evening
with an emergency clause attached
that it would go into effect at once.
The original ordinance simply pro-
hibited the carrying Of liquor into a
public gathering and this language
proved snag to the city officials the
very first time an arrest was made
under the prohibition ordinance. 4
young man was charged with carry
ing liquor into local pool hall and
was arrested when he offered a spec.
ial officer a drink However, the Of
ficials were not certain that a pool
hall could be construed as a public
gathering" hence the amendment
which will eliminate such doubt in
future cases.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-17
First Round in
Whiskey Fight is
Won by Mountain
STATE WILL FILE APPEAL FROM
DECISION OF THE JUSTICE
COURT.

Walter Mountain YESTERDAY after
noon won the first round of his fight
to retain the 50 galion barrel OF
whiskey seized recently BY Sheriff
Taylor when he raided the roomtng
house of Mrs. James Harris He
made showing of ownership yester-
day afternoon which Justice OF the
Peace Parkes considered sufficient to
entitle him to retain the liquor His
ruling was made accordingly but to-
day the district attorney requested
that the liquor be held for ten days
longer to give the state time to file
an appeal in the circuit court.
Mr. Mountain testified that he pur-
chased the barrel OF whiskey for his
own private use and stored it at the
rooming house. Mrs. Harris. who is
his mother-in-law. testified that
Mountain brought the liquor there
about the middle of December and
left it while he was absent on a
honeymoon trip. W G. Bogert. for
mer salOonman and employer OF
Mountain. testified tha, during De
~ot''NDA hS PuA Athdaeu three barrels OF
whiskey two for himself and one FOR
Mountain. The state put DEPUTY
Sheriff A Blakely on the stand and
he testified 10 finding the liquor in
the store room of the lodging house.
covered by a mattress Deputy Dis
trict Attorney R. l. Keator contandeI
that the conditions unGer which e.
was found constituted a violation uf
the state prohibition law, J. r Ra-
ley, who appeared for Mountain. con.
tested this view
number OF prominent ". G.. r T.
workers were present and it is said
after the hearing expressed their dis,
approval of the decision to the jt,tic.
of the peace
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-17
Jerry Stone Dies
After Prominent
Career in County
WELL KNOWN FARMER WAS pro
NEER. HAVING CROSSED
PLAINS IN 1863.

Death last evening brought to an
end the career Of Jerry Stone, promi-
nent for many years in this county as
d farmer and for his interest in pub
lie affairs He died az $50 at his
home IN Adams following an Illness
of several weeks from stomach trou-
Bile The funeral arrangements are
not fully made yet
Deceased was born near Charleston
Illinois June IL, 1854, and was thus
nearly G2 years old with his parents
brothers and sisters, he crossed the
plains In an immigrant train to Butte
county, California. in 1868. and the
following year moved TO the william
cite valley near Subllmity and Silver
ton. Some years later Mr.. stone came
with his parents to Walla Walla where
his father died and was buried in the
old Whitman buriai grounds, In
1874 Mr.. stone came TO Umatilla
county taking up land near Athena
then Centeryille) and ever since he
had farmed in the vicinity Of Athena
and Adams
He was one Of the company Of yoll-
unteers in the Battle Of Willow
Springs in this county, fought through
the Indian uprising Of 1876. He rep
resented Umatilla county in the legis-
lature Of 1898, having been elected on
the democratic ticket.
Deceased ie grrvi,o, ~ 1,f. ,,.i1.,,.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-17
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS WILL
HOLD PARADE TOMORROW
DIFFERENT MERCHANTS WILL BIZ
REPRESENTED as PART OF
THE CARNIVAL.

The parade of the high school boys
representing different merchants in
the town. which is part of the high
school carnival, will take place to-
morrow at $50 o'clock on Main
street
This morning the poys basketball
tcam Of the high school left on their
annual invasion of the cities over the
Blue mountains. While the boys are
over they will play La Grande, Wal
Iowa and Enterprise They will re.
turn on Sunday The boys making
the trip are Emil Siebert, Ned Fow-
Ter, Ernest Boylen. Wesley Minis,
Charles Gordon, John snyder and
Raymond Wilkes. Coach Rice accom-
panied the boys.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-17

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-WIlIiam
Barnes is reported to have launched
a move to stop Roosevelt and Hughes
booms in New York, Following the de-
weat Of yesterday to obtain an
endorsement Of Root at the state con-
vention. Though satisfied the Root
candidacy is practically dead, Barnes
plans to kin Roosevelt and Hughes
chances of capturing the New York
delegation. He will organize Root
delegations elsewhere which cannot
be stampeded either for Roosevelt or
Hughes. He hopes to swing the dele
gates to the strongest conservatives al
Chicago.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-17
n, P. BRIDGE AT LAMAR IS
DAMAGED; ROAD IS TIED UP

WALLA WALLA, Wash, Feb. IL.
With the Touchet river on another
rampage, totally unexpected here, as
it was believed the hign water in all
streams hereabouts was subsiding. the
Northern Pacific bridge at Lamar
was badly damaged by flood waters
Yesterday and no trains were able to
run over that line between here and
Pasco. The result was the cancella-
tion Of the evening train from here to
Pasco and the routing of the train
from Pasco here by way Of Walluh
over the O-W. r. & y. line. It did
not arrive until late in the night
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-17

Arrangements viii probably be made
to ring d ourtew bell Il, 9 o'clock each
evening.
The strict enforcement Of the muz-
zling ordinance is considered a neces-
sity by the city officials while there
remains indications that there is still
danger from rabies. While some dogs
are permitted to roam unmuzzled
there is danger both 70 humans and
to the dogs that are muzied
The police this morning killed the
Spitz belonging to NJ r. Chessman.
It had been bitten ten days ago BIZ
the Wilkes dog just before the latter
was shot and had since been closeIJ
watched. This morning It showed
symptoms of rabies and the police
We're notified Officer Harry Ed
wards shot the animal