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McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-08-11
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications. as they cannot reach
10 only one way to cure catarrhal deafness.
and that Is by constitutional remedy.
Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining of
the Eustachian Tube When this tube is
infamed you have a rumbling sound
imperfect hearing, and when 1t Is entirely
closed. Deafness Is the result Unless the
inflammation can be reduced and this tube
restored to its normal condition hearing
will be destroyed forever. Many cases of
deafness are caused by catarrh, which Is
an infiamed condition of the mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure acts thru the
blood ON the mucous surfaces of the sys-
tenn.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot
be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Circulars
free. All Druggists Use.
+. ]. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-08-11

Legal blanks of all kinds for sale at
this Office, i
The Washington times., 1916-03-10
'IRON-RIDER' FEATURES
ALL-STORY WEEKLY
Frank L. Packard Furnishes Thrills
in His Latest Offering.

Frank l.. Packard. creator OF Tho
Miracle Man." Beloved Traitor" and
other stories OF universal favor, is the
feature author in the current All-story
Weekly.
Packard this time writes of Larry
Lannigan. a hero In THE Iron-Rider.'
who is not afraid to ride on anything
that runs on iron rails from the Presi-
dents special TO a hand-car hurtling
down the side OF a mountain.
The story pulsates with action and
Packard furnishes many narrowing ca
periences through which the red-blooded
Lannigan must pass.
A new author to AI-Story Weekly
readers Is introduced In John. Charles
Rcecham, who takes his auditors to thot
South Asian country, where love finds
its haEpiest of locales.
A rafting good story of the sea 10 con-
tributed by Charley Wood under the
title "One Painted Battle" and Frank
Condor introduces another story about
tina, lovable cow-puncher. Shorty Kill
gour."
A vivid story Of the Southwest is Jen-
me Harris divers contribution, and
Achmed Abdullah again writes one OF
those startling yarns OF darkest Africa.
, The usual high STANDARD In short
, stories and verse prevails again In this
weeks "All-Story Weekly"
The Washington times., 1916-03-10

good fiction, to the layman's mind,
is to read fiction. The reader who
abstains from the current output OF
fiction is missing some Of the most
progressive thought in economic,
sociological, and religious lines. Just
now fiction contains a higher by
product of philosophy than ever be-
fore. Romantic fiction, which reached
its height only a decade ago, has
been superseded by novels about
things that concern the most import
ant human relations.
1t is gratifying to see Libraries
trying to afford budding engineers,
mechanics, farmers, and architects
all the literature they can collect and
catalogue on these subjects. But, af-
ter all, libraries are not vocational
schools entirely, and can well afford
to foster the love for good fiction.
The effort Of librarians to dictate
what the public shall read has not in
fluenced the public much, and has
hurt the libraries a great deal.
The Washington times., 1916-03-10
AFTER VILLA, ACTION

Villa led or sent his bandits across
our boundary to shoot up an Ameri-
can town with a single purpose. 1t
was to draw our troops over the bor-
der and create a situation in which
we should be compelled to interven-
ton, arousing the Mexican people to
Villas cause. We need not play his
game for him; but we do need to get
him and his kind hanged for the OUT
laws they are.
Carranza cannot do the job. Law
and order in Mexico cannot depend
upon the weak and helpless Car
rama. So we must do something.
We cannot permit Mexican bandits
! in the train Of Villa or Of anybody
else to murder our men and women
on our own soil-and If we don't do
something there will be more of
these raids, with greater slaughter
of our people.
There are two things we can do
We can tell Carranza that we will
assist him to run down all the out
laws that are near enough the
American line to make trouble on
our territory. We can tell him thai
if he invites us to assist him we will
do so in behalf of his government
and in the name Of his authority, but
that if he does not invite US, we shall
assist him, nevertheless, to that very
end.
We can tell him this with friendly
but firm assurance that we mean tc
get action Immediately. Then, with
or without his invitation, we can act
The United States Government
would better begin now.
The Washington times., 1916-03-10
FICTION IN THE LIBRARIES

Every now and then some library
lays stress on the fact that it's fic-
ton circulation has fallen off, while
non-fction works have grown more
popular. It seems to be taken for
granted that he who runs should
know why such consummation is
to be wished for.
1t is refreshing to note that the
New Jersey Library Association has
gone on record as favoring promi-
nent place for novels on library
shelves. In most libraries fiction is
kept carefully concealed, and has to
be sought for, while non-fiction slaps
one in the face as he enters the
library. Other willy schemes to in
veigle the public to read anything
but fiction are devised, such as per-
hitting two non-iction books " one
novel, and placing tariff on the new
novels.
In the face of this we hear the
Ilibral ians decrying the fact that the
movies" have diverted children from
books to motion pictures. We heal
them demanding that better supper
be given to fiction writers Of the frs
rank.
The only way to form u taste 70
The Washington times., 1916-03-10
THERE ARE NO NEUTRALs LRPT

So far as concerns the effects Of
the war on the peoples of the world,
it may fairly be said there are no
neutrals left. 1t reaches to all con-
tinents, climes, governments, peoples.
The other day the Peruvian diplo-
matte representation in Washington
was withdrawn because Peru could
not afford to maintain it. Switzer-
land is in a condition of economic
depression that, not being Offset by
the feverish activity that war in
spires, is in many ways worse than
the condition of the warning nations.
Spain has, Communicated supplies
Of wheat in the governments name,
In order to establish control and pre-
vent undue initiation Of prices. Por-
tugal has been drawn into the war,
Greece might better be in it, Rou-
mania is reported suffering in many
ways. Brazil comes forward with a
reminder that Germany owes heI
$25, 000, 900 for coffee and that not a
mark of it can be collected; it is
seriously proposed to seize the in
termed German ships in Brazilian
ports. No country is safe, untrou'
bled, or confident. The war. drags
its way along, and the greatest of its
horrors is now being enacted arounC
Verdun, with no greater result il
prospect than a wearing down Of
both sides.
We were told at the beginning thai
q few months would measure il
sspan, because exhaustion would over
take the fighting nations. More like
ly, it appears now, it will first over
take the nations that are not at war
The Washington times., 1916-03-10

rights whatever Great Britain may
be doing to Germany. American
rights are American rights whatever
Germany may be doing to Great
Britain. That is the answer which
Secretary Lansing has to make to the
Berlin plea of justification delivered
through Ambassador Bernstorf.
That is the answer which he will
have to make to any other foreign
government which proposes to us
that il somebody kicks it on the
shins Il must be permitted, by way
of reprisal, to kick us in the face. It
is the answer which the United
States Government and the American
people will have to make as long as
they keep the Stars and Stripes
flying.
The Washington times., 1916-03-10
BRRLIN'S PLEA OF GUILTY

Secretary Lansing's course is made
very. plain by the confession to W of
The Berlin foreign Office. In its re-
sumed argument on the new doc
trine of armed merchantmen Berlin
does not plead innocence; Berlin ac-
knowledges guilt, but puts in plea
of mitigating circumstances because
of melted crime.
This is so because when Berlin de-
clares that the German submarines
will abandon lawlessness if Great
Britain will abandon lawlessness,
Berlin, admitting the German wrong,
throws up the whole German case
DO far as concerns the United States.
Grant, for the sake Of argument,
that Great Britain is violating
against German rights any law or
all laws. What has that to do with
our rights? Absolutely nothing.
II there is a burglar at large that
fact does not justify another man in
declaring that he must have the
right to be an unhindered burglar as
long as the other one is loose. If a
cattle thief is driving off the live
stock of one particular man, he can
not set up the claim that this wrong
against him gives Nm license to
drive off the cattle of third man.
What Great Britain does to Ger
many or what Germany does t.
Great Britain, if nobody else is made
to suffer, is matter between Great
Britain and Germany. They ma!
settle it between themselves. Blu
what Germany does to the United
States because of grievance agains
Great Britain or what Great Britain
does to the United States because O
q grievance against Germany is |
separate and distinct issue. Neithe
Of them can settle a thing like tina
with anybody but the United States
Because the German burglar is il
the British house or the British bur
glar is in the German house, W
should not invite either the one O
the other to break into the America
house.
American right. are America
The Washington times., 1916-03-10

Mere figures about the number OF
soreign-born citizens CT this country
do not show much. They cannot in
dicate how many Of these residents
stilI cling to Old World customs and
tongues, or how many have devel-
leped into fine, outstanding Ameri-
cans.
But more illuminating is a report
Of the American Association Of For
eign Language Newspapers, incor-
porated in New York, made up OF
761 newspapers, printed in twenty
eight different languages. A few OF
these members are in Canada, but
most of them are in this country.
Nor does this body include news
papers printed in German, for they
flock by themselves in an organiza-
ton of their own. Some Of the tabu-
lation is surprising. 1t makes one
think, for example, to know that 153
fiourishing publications are printed
in Italian, nine in Japanese, and that
such little known tongues as the Let
fish, the Lithuanian, and the Slovenic
are represented.
Investments in these papers, it is
estimated, aggregate $37,O00,000
and these papers spend about $14,-
100000 a year for paper and other
supplies. These figures are illumi-
mating in showing the influence these
napers WELD.
The Washington times., 1916-03-10
CHILDREN AND ThR STAGE

Efforts to "uplift" the stage usual
ly are ludicrous or futile. The thea
ter now, as always, is a place for
amusement and recreation. Efforts
to usurp this purpose, and make it
place for preachments, for historical
study, or for anything else than its
normal function, are apt to fail.
Those who would improve the form
of recreation offered are beginning
to start at the right end, with the
patrons and not those who run the
theaters. The most sane experiment
in that direction is being worked out
in Columbus, Ohio, by a newspaper
man, ]. Clarence Sullivan. and in a
lesser way in many cities.
Mr.. Sullivan's effort centers about
a children's playhouse. There chill
dren are taught love Of the stage
and knowledge of the best in its
offerings, by being allowed to act in
plays of their own choosing. Older
folks are encouraged to write plays
in which the children act.
Unlike other experiments Of the
sort, the best of the youthful actors
are not picked and gradually allowed
to be the "whole show" The plays
are given for the enjoyment of the
children, and the largest number of
children possible are encouraged to
take part. Often a number of casts
are trained for the same play, to
give every child chance. Thus these
children gain a love for, and knowl'
edge Of, the stage which will make
them supporters of the best in drama
when they grow older.
The method employed in Columbus
is suggestive of a change in the liter
AIRY, debating, and intellectual activi
ties of schools similar to that which
has come over athletics. Instead Of
picking a few bright children to bC
in it's theatricals, and a few brigh
pupils to be in it's debates, and few
bright pupils to get out a schoo
paper, the way in which all pupil
may be made to serve and benefit il
these fields, is found by the Colum
bus experiment.
The Washington times., 1916-03-10

The early scenes are laid in Kief. Rus
STA. and then are transferred to New
York.
Richard Butler, former member of
the Poll Players, will be seen Monday
in "A Mans Making" a V, l.. $. T..
feature, supported by Rosetta Bricc.
Tuesdays feature is the World Film
production, Loves Crucible," starring
Frances Nelson.
Wednesday is Triangle day, and the
Fine Arts feature, Martyrs of the
Alamo" will be supplemented by the
Keystone comedy, Her Painted Hero"
Thursday Maclyn ArbuclSle will be seen
In the Paramount feature, The Reform
Candidate" with Myrtle Stedr-Sp in the
principal feminine role.
The Equitable feature. THE Clarion
by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Is scheduled
for Friday. with Carlyle Blackwell tho
featured player. Saturday the TRAN
gle-kRy Bee feature, The Disciple, y
with William S. Hart, will be shown,
followed by the Keystone comedy,
Saved by Wireless"
The Washington times., 1916-03-10
COMING EVENTS ON
CAPITALS PROGRAM
Today's Amusements - Schedule
for Tomorrow.
Today.

illustrated address. Spain" Mrs. Harriet
Chalmers Adams, before National Geo
graphic Society. New Masonic Temple. 4:S
Lecture. "iife saving and Rescue Work in
Our Mines Prof. Albert II. Fay. HAM
I line NJ. r. Church, p, m
Recital Fritz kreisler. New National. 40
y. nj.
Address. The Development of the Move
IRent> for the Wider Use OF the School
Plant" + J. Ward before meeting OF the
Home and School Association OF Eastern
High School. ip school, p. m.
Concert, photograph. Home Club s:i5 p. m.
Meeting, Brookland Citizens Association.
Lord Memorial Hall. p. m.
Debate, University OF Pittsburgh and George
Washington University. auditorium Public
Meeting SsSry' Board of Trade. New willard. $
y. Ia.
Exhibition Of photographs OF Grand Canyon
and other scenes. IL. 7. Cowling. before
meeting OF Federal Photographic Society.
auditorium new National Museum. S:l5 p.
m.
Address, Educational Facilities for AssIm-
ilAtion,' DIR. Ill, II. Wheaton, MCMAHON
Hall, Catholic University. p. M.
Mardi Gras entertainment, 10 raise funds Tor
modern building for eolored woman's
branch OF the Y. W. c. A.. Convention
Masonic-st. Johns Lodge. No. Il: Capitol
No. II; Mt Pleasant, No, 10, Royal Areh
| Masons; Takoma. No, r. Eastern star.
Odd Fellows--Phoenix, No, S; Central. TO
| /; Metropolis, No. IL; Dorcas, No. 4; Martina
| Washington No. 3. Rebekahs.
| National Union-National Council. Mchh-
| lev Council Georgetown Council.
| Socialist party-Local Central Washington
The Washington times., 1916-03-10
THE ROOSEVELT STATEMENT

Colonel Roosevelt's thoroughly
characteristic statement, issued from
Port of Spain, Tripidad, will be sub
jected to various interpretations, as
men may wish to read differing
meanings into it. But in fact its
real meaning to the American nation
is not hard to understand.
More and more, day by day, the
country is looking to Roosevelt as
the one man competent to provide it
the right leadership in the present
juncture. There can be no doubt OF
this; it is the testimony Of all
parties, sections, factions; Of admir-
ers and detractors, Of friends and
enemies alike.
Colonel Roosevelt doesn't intend to
be the nominee Of a faction merely.
He doesn't want to be the President
Of a part of this country. He thinks
the country needs leadership that
can draw it together in noble unity
Of idealistic purpose, and hold it in
that unity. He warns it that if it
shall submit to his leadership it
will have need for a mood with
something Of the heroic" in it. No
need to conjecture what he means by
that. He means that he believes he
shall submit to his leadership il
needs; he is not willing to try to
lead unless assured that the country
will follow. If he is to be Presi-
dent, then, he demands that he be
made President on terms that will
squarely and unqualifedly commit
/ the nation to the policy of vigor an6
action for which he would stand.
Who can survey the development:
that have marked recent months II
the worlds experience, and doubt
that this country is drawing nearer
and nearer a crisis in which it will
need all the experience, skill, devo
ton, and vigor that can be command
ed for its leadership? But yester
day the thirteenth nation was for
mally dragooned into the war; ant
on that very same day our relation
with Mexico reached the most crit
cal point since the downfall Of Diaz
This present week has seen the ex
posture of another alien plot to con
troll this country from within, b,
manipulation of its politics and leg
islation in the interest of a foreigl
power. Turn where one may, it need
only clear vision and intellectual hon
esty to see and understand that tn
country is drifting, not navigating
its craft under power and firm guild
ance. How long and how far ma
the ship of state thus drift withou
disaster?
There is no other man who's
method of dealing with such crisi
can be so nearly guessed by the ma
: ton as that of Theodore Roosevelt
Details, methods, steps in the pre-
cedure, we need not conjecture; bu
of one thing everybody can be ce,
tain: that if Roosevelt were Pres
= dent in such time there would be n
: danger of sacrificing the nations
, self-respect, the national interest
= the national ideals. There would b
strength instead of weakness, vigc
: instead of vacillation, fixed ideals il
stead of shifting expediency. If ii
= country wants these things, it know
S it can get them with Roosevelt LEAF
t ership. Colonel Roosevelt has mac
!, plain that he does not want to serN
!, unless the country wants his kind I
e service.
!. Every hour is bringing the nj
:, tional mind nearer to acceptance I
g that service, with full understands
r IF xuhof n Y,oaana
The Washington times., 1916-03-10
DR.. Abbott to Lecture
On Following the Sum-

Following tho Sun" is the subject
Of an illustrated lecture which will DC
delivered by DR.. Charles G. Abbott, Of
the Astro Physical Observatory, before
the March meeting Of the New Hamp.
shire Association.
The meeting will be held In the w. G..
T. u. Hall, 500 Sixth street northwest,
Monday night at 8 o'clock.
A piano duet will be given by Messrs.
Keyser and Whitaker.
The Washington times., 1916-03-10
Lectures on Work of
Interior Department

Stephen T. Mather. assistant secretary,
lectuTed on the work OF the Interior De
partment last night before a meeting
OF Branch IS. National League Of Gov
crnment Employees, at Masonic Temple,
Anacostia-
Branch IS, of the league is composed
largely of workers at the Government
Hospital for the Insane.
The Washington times., 1916-03-10
COURT ASKS PUBLIC
TQF|X BOYS FUTURE
Love, Law, Humanity in Prob
lem Of Whether He Shall Be
White or CoIored.

PHILADELPHIA. March 1O.-To de-
eide whether a thirteen-year-old boy
shall grow to manhood, perhaps wed
and raise a family. as n negro or a
white man, II the problem that is con-
fronting Judge Raymond MacNehle. or
the Juvenile court, and officials of va
rious charitable organizations.
That Is the great question for an an
swer to which Judge MacNeille appealed
TO the public. but there are others in tire
case which touch not so much upon JUS
tice and the law as upon love and hu-
manity.
ness has been forgotten and who Is now
spected mother Of a family. be called
upon to confess publicly the transgres-
sion OF her youth, and admit the paren-
tage OF the boy?
Shall the boy now be taken from his
negro foster parents. who have bestowed
every affection upon him. and come TO
look upon him as son?
Deserted BY Man.
Thirteen years ago. deserted by the
man who had promised to wed her. a
young girl gave birth to boy in the
Philadelphia Hospital.
AS is so frequently true In cases OF
! this nature, she would not return to
her home. and, with small baby To
| care for. was handicapped In her effort
to rehabilitate herself, until negro
woman, whom she met in the hospital
! agreed to take the child.
The real mother gradually drifted
away from Philadelphia, went to a
| Southern State. married and is living
with her husband and children In hap
I piness. In the meantime the negro
woman also married. and, as the years
passed by, she and her husband begar
| to regard the boy that was committed
to her care as their own child. They
are fairly prosperous and were able t.
| give the boy a good home.
Played 1ruant.
Several months ago the boy played
truant from school and was brought be
fore the juvenile court. His clear com
plexion aroused the suspicious of thu
court officers and an investigation de
| veloped the truth.
| Correspondence with the mothe
brought assurances that the boys faith
er was a white man, but she could no
vouch for his ancestry.
Now the law of roversion frequentl.
betrays the mixture or race and an
cestry, and II is to protect the lad
potential children and to insure his owI
future happiness thar Judge MacNeill
is asking for suggestions as to the de
cision, the humane decision, not tn
legal, in the case.
The Washington times., 1916-03-10
To Discuss Wider Use
Of the School Building

Prof. Edward J. Ward. OF the United
States Bureau of EDUCATION. will be the
principal speaker at the meeting of the
Home and School Association OF the
Eastern High School at the school build
ing at 8 o'clock tonight
Prof. Ward will discuss THE Develop
ment of the Movement for the Wider
Use OF the School Building" This
movement which began In New York
about thirty years ago, is one In which
Prof. Ward has been an active worker
for the past ten years.