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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22

The American people will rejoice that President Wilson
has decided to attend the peace conference.
Perhaps there is not much that he can accomplish by his
presence that he could not do from Washington, but there is no
doubt that he will lend weight and wisdom to the discussion
around the conference table.
But it is not Of these things that the American people are
thinking. Regardless of the fact that no other president has
ever taken such a trip, they want him to go, They want him
to see and feel the gratitude of the nations as no other man in
history has ever experienced it.
They care nothing about the precedent that forbds the
president from leaving the shores Of his country, any more than
they care for the precedent that the presidents messages should
be transmitted by messenger and read to the congress by the
clerk.
President Wilson is entitled to enjoy to the fullest the SEN
sation that comes to one entitled to receive the plaudits of the
world, The American people, in honoring Woodrow Wilson
with the highest office in the gift of the nation, feel that he has
still something coming to him that other presidents have not
enjoyed.
We predict that the presidents visit to France will be one
continued ovation; that thousands will contend for the privilege
of shaking his hand, and that many thousands will surge and
pack the streets Of Paris at the sight Of him.
Perhaps there will be a grand procession. He cannot escape
the honors that a visiting head Of a nation is entitled to receive.
These are small matters. They are formalties. The American
people want the plain people Of France, if there are any such
persons, to get an intimate view of the president, They want
him to walk through the streets there as he does in Washington
and mingle with the crowds OF everyday people. The American
people want the people of France to meet a real democrat.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
The Public Be SeYUed

Dear X. c. B.: After a busy day at
the office / look forward to a plain fam
lily dinner, my pipe and a book. And
l get home and find my dress clothes
and she tells me we have been invited
to a banquet and she has accepted. 1
protest in vain. At the dinner l meet
a lot OF people whom / never met be-
fore and hope I may never meet again.
What am going to do about It?
25S Broadway. New York,
MY DEAR Fred.
IN THE first place.
YOU MADE a mistake.
WHEN YOU picked out your wife.
YOU SHOULD have found one.
WHOM YOU could frlghten.
LIKE I did-NoT.
AND THEN train her,
NOT TO talk at breakfast.
UNLESS Yog start it.
AND MAKE her understand.
THAT THE primary object.
OF A WELL ordered home.
is TO provide a place.
WHERE A man may go.
AND REST in comfort.
WHEN THERE'S no other place.
THAT HE wants to 60 to.
JUST AT the time.
AND HAVE it understood.
THAT BECAUSE you're married.
1T DOESN'T mean.
THAT YOU'RE giving up your free
TO DO whatever you like.
AND HAVE it understood.
YOU WON'T go anywhere
YOU DON'T want to go.
AND IF you don't like her friends.
YOU WON'T have them around.
AND KEEP at her like that.
FOR A month or two.
AND SHE'LL quiet down.
AND WEAR house slippers.
sSs
so AS not to disturb you,
AND SHE'LL always whisper.
AND SHE'LL give you the cream.
OFF THE top Of the bottle.
AND USE the milk herself.
AND SHE won't eat white meat.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
ABOUT COTTON.

To The News Scimitar:
| wish to congratulate you upon two
recent editorials. both Of which are
splendid. ! refer to one under the cap
tion, Thine to Return to Democratic
Form of Government in America" n
to another under the caption Of sit
uation in Cotton" These are both vital
questions at present and are SO splen-
didly presented lin the two editorials
that ! am constrained to congratulate
you for having written them, Anent
the Cotton situation" l take the lib
erty OF appending a clipping. from the
news section of your paper OF the same
date as the cotton editorial. This item
gives a slight insight as to the causes
Of the present manipulated decline.
or rather points out why 1t was safe
to manipulate" the market downward
at this time. ,
1t is pretty generally understood
among the cotton traders that but for
the conditions as outlined in this news
item there would have already been a
big advance. The truth Is almost APP
parent that the Japanese cotton spin
ners would gladly purchase a big block
Of cotton at fancy prices and in com
petition with the world IL permitted
TO do so-feeling sure of her cheap
labor and ability to keep down manu-
| featuring costs sufficiently to resell the
manufactured product at a good profit
in competition with American and Eng
fish spinners In either America or Eu-
ropean markets (under present war
price profiteering on the part of those
interests). However, the war board in
terfered with the laps plan to buy up
cotton on the excuse that "ou allies
(Japan being one) must have an equit-
able division Of the available cotton.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
Just a Moment
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER.
Compiled by John G, ouInIus, the
Sunshine Man,

Experience worketh hope."-Rom.
". 4.
And SO, my Father, the world is not
such a bad place after all. 1t looks
gloomier at the entering than at the
ending gate. Reveal to me the ro-
toll, the power from the west gate Of
the temple-the gate near the setting
sun. l have looked long enough from
the east-the delusive light of morning.
/ have been seeking a heaven beyond
experience, and the chords of my harp
to a nobler Strain when experience it
self worketh hope,-Matheson.
Psalm evil, 33-43. "He turneth =
the dry ground into water springs"
This is one Of the miracles of grace.
The good Lord makes a dry experience
the fountain of blessing. ] pass into an
apparently waste place and ! find riches
Of consolation. Even In 'the valley Of
the shadow" I come upon green pas
lures and still waters" | find flow
ers in the ruts of the hardest roads II
l am in the way Of Gods command
ments," Gods providence is the pioneer
feet have gone before" What shall
need is already foreseen, and foresight
with the Lord means forethought and
| provision. Every hour gives h loyal
| disciples surprises Of grace.
Let me therefore not fear when the
| path of duty turns into the wilderness.
The wilderness is as habitable with God
as the crowded city, nj in His fellow
| ship my bread and water are sure. The
| Lord has strange mama for the chill
| dren Of disappointment, and He makes
water to "gush forth from the rock"
Duty can lead me nowhere without
Him, and His provision is abundant
| both in 1.-The thirsty desert and the
dewy mead" There will be a spring
at the foot of every hill, and I shall
| find titles of peace in the lonely val
| ley OF humiliation.
DAYTON, Ohio.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22

woman who has only too much time tc
count her heart beats, and take the
temperature Of her affections.
In the reaction that comes when she
discovers that she doesn't feel toward
her husband just exactly as she felt
toward her sweetheart she Is very apt
to conclude hat she does not love him
and that she has made a mistake In
marrying him. She is not wise enough
to know that her love has merely en-
tered upon another phase, and that she
really cares more for the mar than be-
lore she, married him, only she cares
differently.
NO n can go on p~erpetually thrill
Ing over another person any more thar
they could live on hors d. oeuvres. A
months diet would sicken one beyond
endurance. It's only plain, substantial
roast beef and potatoes upon which we
can make our daily diet and keep our
health. And II is only the calm, stead
fast affection that has neither romance
nor thrills to It which a bring us last
ing happiness.
The perfect flower Of domestic love is
friendship. When husband and wife are
chums, when they are interested in the
same things, and striving together for
the same end; when they trust each
other, and when each is appreciative of
what the other does for him or her,
they can snap their fingers at romance,
They have between them the bone
that endures, and that grows stronger
as the years go by. Neither age, nor
fat, nor loss OF beauty, shall weaken
their attraction for each other, nor shall
sirens prevail against 1t.
When a man has got In his wife a
friend who Is loyal and faithful and
understanding, and when a woman has
got in her husband a friend whose hand
Is always in her hand, and to whom she
can tell every thought of her soul, Sc
cure Of sympathy and comprehension,
they have got something that IL SO
much better han their calf love that II
Is not to be mentioned in the same
connection, They have got the warm
garment OF love itself instead OF a flut-
tering rag OF
And the pity of this Is that so many
women do not find it out until It Is toe
late.
Copyright, 1918. by the Wheeler Syn.
dictate. Incl
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
New. .s r .. "' ~as' Twice Told Tales
News OF Memphis
10 Years Ago.
NOVEMBER u. 1908.

The mint at Philadelphia is turning
out $5S, 900 daily in gold coins to meet
the demands for the pieces as Christ
mas presents.
Gen. Antoine Simon, or Haiti, the
only West indian republic, has started
a revolution against president Nord
Alexis,
The official vote of Tennessee in the
recent presidential erection is: Bryan,
3 1888; Taft, 100, 1903; Bryan's plurality,
1920.
With appropriate exercises and musi-
cal programs, practically every church
in Memphis will observe THANKSGIVING
on next Thursday, Nov. 26.
The first reports of riots in China
under the regime OF Prince Pu vi, aged
3, have reached the state department
from the Yangste river.
The ships of the Atlantic fleet have
completed their usual fall practice with
splendid craftsmanship.
Carrie Nation, ensconced on her farm
in Boone county, ARK, will soon begin
a lecture tour with How I Smashed,
Why 1 Smashed and Why You Should
Smash"
Dan ]. Reeder, well-known Y. M. c.
A. athlete, was elected last night to
the office of city clerk OF Lenox.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
NOVEMBER ~, 1898.

Col. and Mrs. j.. K. Barclay, of
Jackson, Tenn, are in Memphis visit
ing their son, Mark T. Barclay, Hill
street.
The United States mas dispatched
Minister Willis to the Hawaiian islands
to study conditions there relative to
the proposed annexation.
The benefit entertainment for the
burned Lyceum theater given last night
Melted a substantial sum for Manager
Mahoney.
The ladies Of Memphis tomorrow will
inaugurate a chrysanthemum display
and salesroom at the new Auditorium.
The excursion steamer Golden Gate
is laid up for repairs and will come
out next spring practically a new boat,
Mrs. L. Jacobson and daughter, Jua-
nita, have returned from an extensive
trip which included the Worlds fair,
New York and Chesapeake bay.
William McKinley's boom for the
coming presidential race is rapidly as
Stunning national proportions.
Miss Eloise Duncan and Raymond
Thiersson were marred last night by
Rev. McHugh and left for a short bridal
trip.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
HIM.

Included among the passengers on
board a ship crossing the Atlantic re-
Gently was a man who suffered. one
day he went up to the captain of the
ship to speak to him.
'S-s-s-s-s-s," suffered the man.
"Oh, / can't be bothered" said the
captain, angrily; go to somebody else"
The man tried to speak to everybody
on board the ship, but none could wait
to hear what he had to say. AT last
he came to the captain again..
Look here" said the captain, Il can
tell you what to do when you want to
say anything; you should sing it." Then
suddenly, in a tragic voice, the man
commenced to sing:
Should aud acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
The blooming cooks fell overheard and
is 20 miles behind"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
PUBLIC DISCUSSION

Also the excuse Of seeing that low
grades were taken care Of wal used.
In other words, some board or set Of
men are seeing to 1t that there Is no
competition among the spot buyers Of
cotton for %spinners and also are see
ing to 1t that Japanese do not accumu
late sufficient raw cotton to menace
the war profits of the spinners Of other
countries. Now, I do not charge that
have been worked for their favor
probably they do not know 1t mot be-
Ing familiar with the situation and
having so much else to attend to-.
They very likely do not know what
enormous profits American spinners
are making at present-they most
probably do not know that cheaper
cotton for those spinners will mean
still bigger profits to them and not
reduced cost on shirts and other prod
ucts to the consumers-for a long
port control-the distribution OF raw
cotton through a board Of control, etc,
the embargo on shipping owe railroads,
etc, all operate to prevent competition
among the buyers and spinners for
raw cotton. There is no incentive to
bid for cotton II you are to be allotted
just so much anyway, n your com
| petitor can have only so much, ever
though he bought up all of it. etc.
The Southern congressman have the
coon" freed Q. K.-if they can bring
him down. We will soon see a fair
price prevailing for cotton and a ris-
ing market Zone liable to blow off the
roof II unfettered competition Is al
lowed to o~perate). Yours. etc.
L. B. LESTER.
Batesville. Miss.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
THEN HE STOPPED.

The recruits we're very keen.
One man especially did everything with
energy, The order was given to march,
The enthusiastic one, who was in the
front rank, set off with a will.
He strobe out, arms swinging, head
erect and eyes strictly In front, new
noticing that he had left his comrades
behind.
The drill sergeant swallowed hard
then called sweetly: Say! You, Wher
you get there, send us a picture post.
rnrNNt
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
WISE YOUTH.

My boy Bonnie Is lazy, but | must
say he Is smart" said the musician,
lis he going to follow III your foot
steps,"
every time there Is a parade. Bonnie
is learning the harp, so they will have
to let him sit down"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
GOOD REASON.

"Is that your mule you've got there,
Sam?' queried the contractor.
''Yas, sab"
What's he kicking so, forT
Jus cause he's my mule, l reckon,
sab"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
ROWLING

In all the years that Belgium suffered, and through all the
oppression endured by the people of Northern France, Serbia
Rumania and Poland, there was not as much complaint as there
has been from the Germans in the past two weeks.
The heroism of the peoples oppressed, starved, driven into
slavery and tortured is one of the high lights of the war. The
cry of the Germans, sent out the day after the armistice, and
increasing in volume with each passing day, gives an index to
the character of the German.
We have never believed that a brutal nature could he
courageous, and the crude forms of punishment inflicted bv the
Germans upon their helpless victims made it all the more certain
that the Germans would cry out in despair when the tables
turned.
sary first to ascertain if they need to be fed or to have their
fears Gained.
Failing themselves to strike terror into the hearts Of their
adversaries, they have fallen victim to the Authorization that thev
are about to famsh or be DESTROYED. The real exnysr,tion :
the broad yellow streak by which the German NAV be identified
When President Wilson walks into the allied neace com.
CHS ne will be the most imposing figure in all the world And
he is a product OF democracy in a free country. Ilovd Ceorcc
will probably rank next and he comes from the second greet.
est democracy in the world.
Three American women supplied the soldiers in France with
10000 ~doughnuts a day for several days in succession. How
did they find holes to put in so many?
No doubt the former kaiser is secretly strafing the man who
wrote the play: lie Medecin Malgte Lui." 1t seems to have nu
the idea into Foch's head.
Anyhow Col. Ed House is not numbering the cables with
his deliverances.
Gun-toting nations must also surrender their arms to tn,
sheriff.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22

Three American women supplied the soldiers in France with
10000 ~doughnuts a day for several days in succession How
did they find holes to put in so many?
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22

you there in overalls!" shouted the
cross-examining lawyer, How much
are you paid for untruths?"
Less than you are" retorted the
witness, ''or you'd be in overalls. too"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22

No doubt the former kaiser is secretly strafing the man who
wrote the play; lie Medec'n Malgfe Lui" 1t seems to have put
the idea into Foch's head.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22
(REe.U.sRET. 6FE


WHEN YOU have chicken.
AND WILL lie and tell you.
SHE DOESN'T like it.
AND AFTER a while.
YOU'LL GET so you'll hate her.
AND HER spirit will be coma
AND NOBODY will like her.
EXCEPT THE hired girl.
AND SHE'LL be sorry for her.
AND YOU won't get n invitations
TO GO anywhere.
AND IT'LL get on your nerves.
AND YOU'LL grow desperate.
AND THEN one day.
YOU'LL TELEPHONE you wife.
TO COME downtown for dinner.
AND YOU'RE going to the theatsN
AND SHE'LL look so happy.
AND SO very beautiful.
AND SO much like the girl.
THAT YOU one time married.
THAT AFTER you get home.
YOU'LL TAKE her in your arms.
AND ASK her to forgive you.
AND SHE will.
AND IF I were you, Fred.
I'D LET her book me.
FOR AN occasional banouet
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22

Anyhow Col. Ed House is not numbering the cables with
his deliverances.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-22

Gun-toting nations must also surrender their arms to the
sheriff.
The herald., 1918-03-14

the liberties that forahers; able
defend defend
all the Speaker
this this
where the legislators take
referendum the people The against the e
resolution votes to deny the and the their right
The truth about alcohol rapidly and nations
under the alcoholic Alcohol has the
chooform and ether actually into the nerve n
serves putting which
frs but when the follows
craving for relief by the substance that
disturbance This directly with the amount anu
OF the drinking The poisoning attack of alcohol specially
corex cerebrum-the of brain-where resides
inhibition will partial which
activities otherwise
but to imagine that stimulated is y
paralyzed This inhibition the will po~
place Thus little less after each drink he t
1t should be a Americans
government shows indications attitude toward
need
sections of the passed. we
liquor for nearly onehaf tne
liquor upon the finances Of the Liquor has the
hold upon the throat of today that slavery had
mas not permitted the cotton planter deposit his
but 1t has done everything place MS
bond and on these warrants financial advances.
The herald., 1918-03-14
The Dream
Farm
By Victor Redclife

(Copyright. 1917. Western Newspaper Union.)
Lessons on the base drum" read
the sign in the window of the little
cottage where Barnaby Glinn lodged
and boarded. 1t had hung there for
over two years and was faded and
nskew, for the cord supporting it to
tack had become old and frayed.
No one ever came to take lessons
and paSserS-by smiled at the time-wOrn
legend. How could there be any les
sons necessary to learn to pound a
sheet of sheepskin with padded club.
Where was the harmony or expression
as in reed or string instruments? Why,
Barnaby belonged to band and was
its most poorly paid member. Any
body could drum.
"But l am an expert" insisted poor
Barnaby. Expression, why, the drum
has been the first token of civilization
with the worlds widest tribes. 1t is
full of wonderful possibilities of imi-
tation, thunder roaring waves, the
booming guns of battle, the tramp of
armies. Muffle 1t, and who could not
shed tears as it accompanies solemn
death march? But the drum is under
rated, and | am moderated. Hence,
if l can ever save a few thousand,
TheOdOsia will be waiting for me, and
we will go to live on sung little farm
by the sea, where nature bOOms out
the true drum note among the mighty
breakers"
But the saving of the few thousands
was a slow progress, and for bare
bread and butter, Barnaby was COM
PEELED to brandish the drumstick year
after year. Then, too, work was not
regular Talking machines and cleo
trio pianos had cut in on the band line,
and the little group to which Barnaby
belonged got only occasional and irreg-
ular calls.
There were six In what was left of
the band, and the sextette were on
board of train bound for a particu-
larry low-down road settlement, TWEEN
The herald., 1918-03-14

o
peto getting regardless OF un
suffered
fcent interest to nothing OF lifting the moT
scramble 10 Duiu up ois 'ouH was 'f " - ' part The rN
bles.
better found that a
other the
thew are doing help themselves
During all been busy studying rh,
at
truth
methods
farmer and banker
always
had
multiplied
trying help the farmer Increase
he balance
Of main normal conditions
This spirit cooperation becoming universal Pb
beginning realize
nartv that extends the various interests cunt
restrictive
in We
laws must not cripple must keep n
prosperity line of business reaches into and benefits
lineso of business"
The herald., 1918-03-14


neacabie industrious lawabdng citizens should be deprived
is known and peaabe
largely OF foreign birth
habit beredy tradition
the and prosperity arises
coincident
beyond all doubt 1t in mind that the only ground
OF exercised Danish
such preservation and protection
the public the public morals
ds1e
fermened This
and there imperative
police it, while it does not
be linked cndmnm
With Iouor and arbitrary
injustice to hundreds OF Thousands
good citizens cherished privilege by OF local sell
local option
Thomas Jefferson said
a 1t is prohibition of Its use tho
of
whiskey Wine the only antdds
beer do cut loose from liquor
together in defeat to rise again ANY way M
neither
largely their capital and give
ployment many link them with liquor makers
The herald., 1918-03-14
WISE AND OTHERWISE

An old bachelor says the best pet
dogs come in glass.
Don't worry. You will always look
good to your friends.
II man has a good memory he
knows when to forget.
Men who do the most work don't al
ways do the best work.
A woman seldom attempts to hide
her jealousy under q bushel.
The herald., 1918-03-14
CLEARING House for Babies

A clearing house for babies has
been established in New York. This
bureau, which is run under the aus
pices Of the public charities depart
ment, examines children which may
be committed to the city's care, and
determines to which institute in the
city 1t should be sent.
The herald., 1918-03-14
Bio Profit in One Hoo.

Lindale, Ga.-Charles Guyton, a
farmer, bought hog last September
for SIS. He slaughtered the animal
the other day and sold it for 80 cents
a pound. The hog weighed 900 pounds,
dressed, and brought s27O, a net profit
of S245.
The herald., 1918-03-14
GAS SHE IS SPOKE"

Some queer sentences turned out BY
the pupils of the Methodist Girls
school at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
When the form of verb is changed
1t is called congregation.
The prime meridian is called the
eternal date line.
Gibraltar Is the keynote in the Medi.
terranean.