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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27

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A QUIET PLACE.
(By Wireless from a Longsdnce Departed Poet)
If you're seeking a quiet secuson
Far, far from the conflict of arms,
Removed from the constant confusion
OF wars ever-sounding alarms;
If weary of slaughter and pinage,
Join is in or placid old village,
The place has a number Of charms.
We get no peace notes from the kaiser;
We worry no whit about food;
We know how to swat the meat mser;
The gay profiteer is subdued.
Our methods of punishment differ
From yours, being suer and sitter,
Though folk with ideals call us crude.
We pity the poor earthly duffer
Who's worried DER blasts from the pole
Because of a shortage of coal.
Apartments we live in are heated.
It's quiet down here in (deleted),
But great for repose Of the soul.
Butcher Bill must pay his butcher bill.
A want ad says: Observation-Disclosures lady wants situation
as housekeeper.
A refreshing change-some ladies' are SO underlined.
The American soldiers in France desire to be known Is Yanks.
But the boches still object to the idea of posing as the yankees.
IN LINE.
I stood in line to join, and now
stand in line for mess;
I stand in line for everything
l get, almost, guess.
And when I do go back again.
When Old Bills dream has burst,
I'll stand in line to kiss my girl
Perhaps, and that is worst.
... -spker, France.
The good old American morale seems to hitting on all IL cylinders.
A man goes into a restaurant for a meal now with the same feel.
ing in his heart that he used to have when he accompanied his wife
to an automobile showroom.
Irwin Cobb has returned from Europe, preceded by his own per-
sonal, wellknown western front.
A MEMORY.
WANTED-Young man who can speak German to canvass for a
popular household appliance,
So far as the Turks are concerned, there is n argument. They
will get theirs anyway.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27
DOROTHY DIX'S.T TALK
WHY THEY ARE NOT POPULAR.
BY DOROTHY DIX,
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

A young man. who evidently stands
well with himself, wants to know why
he fails to make a hit with the fair sex.
lie says that In looks, education, moral
character and business position he Is
far superior to the man whom he sees
girls going crazy about, but that for
some reason. unknown to him, young
women hang out no flags of welcome
at his approach. And the information
he's requesting on the subject Is In
teresting.
OF our there are a million differ
ent reasons why a nan may fail to
fire the tickle feminine fancy, Gener-
ally speaking, however, when girls
turn their thumbs down when a man
enters the social arena 1t Is for one Of
two causes, 1t Is either because he has
nothing to say for himself, or because
he says too much for himself. And
both are fatal.
Girls want nothing to do with the
men who has no conversational re-
sources, who sit up as dumb and un-
responsive as n store dummy, and who
entertain him. A pleasant evening is n
matter Of give and take In talk. The
Conversations ball must be kept In the
air by being nimbly tossed from hand
to hand, and II tho man refuses to play
the game and expects a girl to be suf-
llCieltlY eApoIt dS u Jukkler " Keep IL
going by her own unRided efforts, he
very soon YEA his welcome out, for
the young woman doesn't see any rea-
son why she should exhaust herself
making a holiday for him,
He adds nothing to the brightness
and cheer Of her young life, while as
for anything more serious-good night!
She cant see herself spending the bal
ance OF her existence with a dummy for
company.
Girls also loathe the mar who never
fits In with other people, who gets Into
arguments on every subject from pol
tiles to pie, and who sits up and sulks
II anybody else happens to drop In
when he Is making a call Having to
keep a grouchy husbands fur rubbed
the right way is a hard enough Job for
a wife. heaven knows. It's one that q
sensible girl refuses to undertake for a
beau. There are easier ways to earn
your candy and theater tickets.
But II girls are made tired by the
silent, sulky man who has nothing to
say for himself, they are bored to eI-
t~inction by the man whose sole topic
Of conversation Is himself. There Is
many a man whose idea OF giving a
girl a real treat liz to favor her with a
two-hour m%onologue about his business,
his automobile, the people he works
with, what he said TO tho boss n what
tho boss said to him, what he eats for
dinner, M the kind OF clothes he
wears.
Nothing but the love that passes al
understanding enables any OF us to en-.
dure the braying OF the s~elf-centered
ass, so when n man asks a girl who
cares nothing on earth for him to lis
ten to him give himself the glad hand
he Is demanding more than flesh and
blood car bear,
Besides. q girl feels that II anyone Is
going TO he talked about she Is the
one. She Ia 30 much more interesting
at least to herself. So II a man wants
to be persona grata to women. let hin
put the soft pedal on his wi exploits
Anyway, until after the girl has sale
yes" Under the hynotism OF love 8
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27
nj MS Twice Told Tales
News OF Memphis
Is Years Ago.
NOVEMBER 27, 1893.

NOVEMBER 27, 1898.
Miss Mary Solari, noted Memphis
artist, has returned from Chicago,
where, she exhibited her work at the
Worlds fair.
Messrs. LaHache, Napoleon Hill and
Randolph are hustling subscriptions to
furnish the new Cossitt library with
books,
Mrs. M. E. Carter entertained the
Rubenstein club Monday afternoon in
addition to the regular program.
The 10th anniversary Of British
Evacuation day" was celebrated today
by New Workers, who unveiled the
monument to the martyred Capt.
Nathan Hale at the exact spot where
the revolutionary hero was executed by
the English,
Thursday evening at $50 O'Clock
Lewis Baker and Miss Beulah Jackson
will be married at the residence of the
brides parents on Fourth street.
Cotton seed has settled down to its
opening prices, $12 per ton by rail or
wagon and $11 by river,
The Manola-Mason company will,
open at the Grand Opera house next
week.
Miss Mary A. Gardner, of Memphis,
won the first prize at the Columbian
exposition for ornamental fish scale
work,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27

woman will stand for the personal
"reminiscences Of when a man was a
small freckle-faced boy with pale green
warts on his hands. But not before.
fail to make a hit with girls Is be-
cause they are SO sloppy and slovenly
In dress. A man may have all the Vir-
tues under the sun and nave them neu-
trallzed In a woman's eyes by a grimy
collar and straggly hair, and hands
that needed the attention of a manicure.
Abstractly, the girl might appreciate
the mans fine qualities Of soul. but she
would physically revolt against his In
cleanliness and she'd be ashamed to be
seen In his company, That would set
tie 1t, for the only man that q woman
OF and wants to flaunt In the faces OF
her friends, She may have Il maternal
tenderness and pity for the man she
has to apologize for, but she feels none
of that triumphant. glorytng love that
thrills her when the man she has set
her heart upon can hold his own in any
company.
Women spend most OF their time and
thoughts on clothes, and in keeping
themselves dainty in person. This be-
Ing true, and a matter Of common
knowledge, 1t Is strange that men have
never realized how much stress women
put on a mans appearance, and how re-
pulsive he Is to them u%nshaven, and
with spotty clothes that look as If they
had been slept In.
Girls do not like the man who Ia
either too Indifferent or too ignorant
to pay them the little courtesies that
are sweet to a woman They do not
like to dance with the man who tram
pies all over their feet and who tears
their frocks. They do not like to go
! to the theater with a mar who hasn't
enough sense to pick out good seats,
They loathe going to a restaurant with
u man who cant select a nice meal,
and who gets into a row with the walter
over the check.
And they set the man down as a
social deadbeat who visits in their
homes, who accepts their invitation to
dinners, teas and suppers and who
makes no return, who never takes them
anywhere. who never sends books,
flowers or candy or remembers an an
niversary.
Girls aren't hard to please. Goodness
knows, In the present scarcity OF men
they don't look a gift horse closely
enough In the mouth, and a man must
surely be an also al II he can't win
out with the fair sex.
Copyright, 1918, by the Wheeler Syn
dictate, lnc.)
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27
The Public Be SerUed

IN OUR neighbOrhOod.
WHERE WE had the block party.
AND THE money was lost.
AND WE had to get more.
AND WHEN the band arrived.
1T WAS an hour late.
AND JOAN of Arc,
AND MRS. George Washington.
AND GEORGE.
AND SOME colonial ladies.
WERE STANDING around.
IN THE grandest clothes.
THAT WE hired.
AND IF it rained'
AND THEY were wet.
WE'D LOSE our deposit.
AND ANYWAY.
THE BAND got there.
AND WE had the parade.
AND GOT to the platform.
AND THE Episcopal minister.
WHO WAS to pray,
FORGOT TO show up.
AND I was chairman,
AND found a neighbor.
BY THE name of Flanagan.
WHO is a Presbyterian.
AND is. a good man.
AS PREsBYTER1ANs go.
AND HE prayed.
AND FOR an amateur.
HE Dip very we'll
AND WE all heard him.
AND AFTER that.
WE HAD the ceremony.
OF RAISING the flag.
WITH IT'S hundred stars,
AND IT was very beautiful.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27
GOOD

DR., Llewellyn Rainey, director of the
overseas war library, was entertained
at dinner by a group or Johns Hopkins
students on the eve Of his departure
for the front.
A very rich young sportsman, afflict-
ed with the malady known as swelled
head, said to DR.. Rainey during the fish
course:
I'm going to volunteer, doc, but l
can't decide whether to take up the
cavalry or the aviation wing, Which
do you adviser"
"The aviation, most decidedly" DR..
Rainey replied.
The young sportsman smiled.
"Ah, you've seen me fly, have your"
he said. u
No said DR.. Rainey; i've seen
you ride"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27

Troubles do not come singly to England. No sooner is the
fighting over than a parliamentary election IS on.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27
POOR ECHOl

He had been getting on very we'll, and
his drive from the third had landed in
a deep bunker. He disappeared down
the hole in pursuit OF tho ball. and his
caddle, though he could not see him,
plainly heard him strike eight times,
Finally he landed on the green and
holed out in two more.
How many strokes does that make
for this hole, SIR" queried the caddie.
Seven" came the unabashed reply.
But | heard you take eight In the
bunker, sir" said the caddie.
There was dead silence for a moment,
then came the answer:
That may be, but you know there's
a most Internal echo down there"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27
PUBLIC DISCUSSION
OVER THE TOP.

To The News Scimitar:
The united war work campaign is
over and Tennessee, as usual, has won
distinctive honors. We were one of the
very first states to go lover the top"
and our percentage Of oversubscription
is among the first. l want to take oc-
casion to congratulate you and to thank
you heartily, both for myself personally
and for the organization In Tennessee,
for the very generous assistance you
gave on this notable occasion, and for
the large part you took In bringing
know that we realize fully the value of
your assistance, and that we shall not
forget that you helped so greatly to
make easier the common task, Sincere
ly yours, J, Z. EDGERTON,
State Chairman
Lebanon, Tenn, Nov. %. 1918.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27
MISREPRESENTATION

IhG should be held In The city of Winston-S aNm, FORSYTH count N c. A
year by President Wilson to his fellow ccuntymen OF the crime Of Bnchms
courthouse.
In n other document of recent date has the unspeakabe dishonor revealed
In hnchinS been more adequately set forth than in this product of the pesi
dents PEN
their arhartsm on the ground that he W as a unsympatheuc Northener, void
Of understanding o. their peculiar problem, for the reaso that President Wilson
has reqnenty been reclaimed a southerner within the boundaries OF their state
Thus begins the preamble of an indictment brought against
all the people of the South by the New York Sun, for a lynching
that did not occur. Its vtriolic frenzy is not the least abated
by the knowledge that three or four OF those who prevented the
lynching were themselves killed and others wounded, while the
man sought for attacking a woman escaped unscathed.
Rejoicing, as the Sun undoubtedly does, in the escape Of the
criminal, as we'll as in his crime, il seems blinded to the fact
that the people it describes as "barbarans" actually prevented
at the cost OF their own lives, that which the Sun accuses them
of doing.
The Sun might as reasonably have classcd all negroes with
the assalant as to have classed all white people OF the South
with the would-be lynchers. Such papers and such articles con-
tribute nothing 10 the solution Of the problems that all we'll
wishers for both races are earnestly seeking 10 find II is doubt
tul II they have any such intention, but the misrepresentation is
too patent 10 be effective.
Troubles do no, come sngly to England. No sooner is the
fighting over than a parliamentary election IS on.
Iron crosses are no, listed IN the marle. reports but they
are worth something by the pound
The immigration laws osnno, be TOO s,lc, against coolies
both f~oreign-born and homebred
The Turkish trade has followed the pusslan pronuncia-
mento into innocuous desuetude.
No sooner do we get through fighting than we mus, begin
feeding the Huns.
Now that his dream Of conques, ID o.er the kaiser may
sleep sounder,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27

Ltsu@S no 70 mo wv
coAEtoEN3 WORKERS. WV
GAG RItSS 10 ThtSG GAQ'
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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27

The Turkish trade has followed the Prussian pronunc
lento into innocuous desuetude.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27
Gaze. U.S.P PAT, 0FT.1
81 K.c.B.

AND AS i. arose.
WITH LIGHTS shining on it.
THE BAND was playing.
THE NATIONAL anthem.
AND SOME Of the mothers.
WHO WATCHED it go up.
HAD TEARS in their eyes.
AND WE all Of us cheered.
AND WHERE the flag hangs.
IS ACROSS to a church
FROM 4 fire escape.
ON THE house where I live.
AND BECAUSE I was chairman.
THEY LEAVE it to me.
TO UNTANGLE the flag.
AND I'll get it undone.
AND THE wind will come up.
AND THROW it around.
LIKE WILL Rogers lassO.
AND TIE it in knots.
AND I'll have to go out.
ON THE fire escape.
AND IT makes me sick.
TO LOOK down on the street.
AND THE neighbors say.
THAT IT must hang there.
TILL THE boys come home.
AND IT'S driving me mad.
AND IF they don't hurry UP.
THEY'LL FIND me out there.
SOME BRIGHT, sunny morning.
TIED UP in a knot.
IN THE folds of the flag.
AND ANYWAY.
IT'S THE very last war.
I'M GOING to be in.
IF THEY have block parties.
l THANK you.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-23
MELROSE

This vicinity received a fine show
er Of rain last Friday afternoon, that
cooled Mother Earth.
u. Pierson and sons were haying
south Of Melrose last Thursday when
fire came through, supposed to have
caught from n drill rig, and burned
over two hundred acres of hay land.
Mr.. McBee had a nice team tied to
wagon on the meadow when the fire
came through and was badly burned
before help could reach them.
Hermie Sartin, of Picher, was visit
ing his aunt, Mrs. G. H. Filby last
Saturday night.
AL Lovejoy with a crew of hands
is baling about ninety acres of hay
this week.
Lester Stebbins will thrash wheat
on the farm of his Father, four miles
east of Melrose on Tuesday of this
week.
Geo. Pierson and family attended
Sunday School at Pleasant Hill Sun
day.
This vicinity was surprised to hear
of a wedding that occurred Sunday
at about Z o'clock p. M, at the home
of Rev. E. Tarr. Mrs. Mary Baugh-
man, of Miami, Okla, and Mr.. Robert
Hicknite, of Oklahoma City, Okla,
were united in the holy bonds of mat
rmony by Rev. E. Tarr, in the pres
ence of Mrs. Tar, and G. H. Filby and
wife. They will make their home at
present at Stebbins, in the residence
of G. H. Filby. Mr.. Hicknite has been
driller at Bulger's lease for several
months and seems to have the talent
of good mechanic.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-23

to such person n copy Of this ordi-
nance together with serially number
ed circular of instructions, obtainable
from the city physician and approved
by the State Board of Health, entitled
instructions for Preventing the
Transmission of Gonorrhoea Tor
Syphilis)" and to report such fact in
writing in the report required to be
made of such cases.
Section 4. CHANGE OF PHYSl-
CLAN TO BE REPORTED TO PLY
SICIAN FIRST CONSULTED
When a person applies to physician
or other person for treatment of a
venereal disease, it shall be the duty
of the physician or person consulted
to INQUIRE of and ascertain from the
person seeking treatment whether
such person has heretofore consulted
with or been treated by any other ply
Sician or person, and if so, to ascer-
tain the name and address of the ply
sician or person last consulted. 1t
shall be the duty Of the applicant for
treatment to furnish this information
and refusal to do so, or falsely
stating the name and address OF such
physician or person consulted shall be
deemed violation of this ordinance.
1t shall be the duty of the physician
whom the applicant seeks to and does
consult or employ to notify the physi-
clan last consulted or employed of the
change of advisors, such notification
to be made upon form furnished for
that purpose by the city physician.
Should the physician or person pre-
viously consulted fail to receive such
notice within ten days after the last
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-23
ORDINANCE NO. 2Os
AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING
VENERAL DISEASES, REGULA.
TING PERSONS HAVING THE
SAME, AND PROVIDING FOR
THE SUPPRESSION THEREOF.

BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE MAY
OR AND COUNCILMEN OF THE
CITY OF BAXTER SPRINGS, KAS.
Section /. VENERAL DISEASES
DANGEROUS TO PUBLIC HEALTH
Syphilis, gonococcus infection and
chancroid, hereinafter designated ven.
eral diseases, are hereby recognized
and declared to be contagious and IN
fectious, communicable and dangerous
to the public health. ,or.
Section 2. VENERAL DISEASES
TO BE Observation-Disclosures, each
and every physician or other practi-
tioner of the healing art practicing in
the city of Baxter Springs, Kansas,
or any superintendent or manager OF
a hospital or dispensary, or any 9TH
er person who treats or examines any
person suffering from or afflicted
with a veneral disease in any OF lts
stages or manifestations, shall report
to the city physician the existence oil
such disease.
All such reports shall be made in
writing within fOrty-eight hours after
diagnosis, on blank forms provided by
the State Board of Health and obtain,
able from the city physician, ana
shall give the number of the case
which number shall correspond with
the serial number of the circular OF
instructions given to the patient, the
name and address of the patient as
hereinafter required; the type and
stage of such disease; the color, the
sex, the marital state, and the cccu-
nation of the person affected with the
disease; and q statement as to wheth-
er or not the nature of the occupation
or place of employment of the person
afflicted with such disease makes him
or her a menace to the health OF any
other person or persons; PROVIDED,
that whenever the person making the
report will assume full responsibility
for such conduct of the person a1llct-
ed with q veneral disease as Will pre-
vent the transmission OF same 10 0tn,
ers, nothing in this paragraph snall
be construed to require the reporting
of the name and address Of the person
afflicted with q venereal disease. In
the event that the person making the
report is unwilling to assume such re-
sponsibility or shall know or suspect
that a person having q venereal dls-
ease is SO conducting, or about TO con
duct himself or herself in such man
ner as to expose other persons to sueh
injection, he shall then report the
name and address Of such afflicted
neraon. together with such other es-
sentiai facts as maybe required by the
city physician. n.,o,,e .rr1 IcTED
,,,ST1 O OvENEREAL DISEASES TO
RE GIVEN A CIRULAR OF IN
FnRMATION-It shall be the duty
Of each and every physician or other other
DractitiOner NJ Of the healing art Prac-
Ksnsss % or any other person who VS. VS.
its. attends, advises prOtessSl:ona1liOyr, S:Sa1 ~
InSTossseribes ISos for or renders medleal, ,.S5 oI
surgical assistance to, or is cons consH,sSu h.y
for medical advice by any person n%s I.;,,e
ing 3 venreal disease, to al once s''
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-23

arnearance of such venereally diseas-
ed person, it shall be the duty of such
physician to report to the city physlI-
clan the name and address of such
venereally diseased person.
Section 5. PROTECTION OF
OTHERS FROM INFECTION BY
VENEREALLY DISEASED PER
SONS-Upon receipt of a report Of a
case of venereal disease it shall be the
duty of the city physician to institute
such measures for the protection OF
other "nrsons from infection by such
venereally diseased person as said
city physician is already empowered
70 use to prevent the spread of other
contagious, infectious or cOmmuni-
cable diseases.
Section 6. REPORTS TO BE CON-
FIDENTIAI-All information and
reports concerning persons infected
with venereal diseases shall be con-
fidential and shall be inaccessible to
the public except insofar as publicity
may attend the performance Of the
duty imposed upon the city physician
by this ordinance and the rules of the
State Board of Health and Laws Of
the State of Kansas.
Section Z. SUSPECTED CASES
TO BE INVESTIGATED-In all sus-
pected cases of venereal diseases in
the infectious stages, the city physi-
clan shall Immediately use every
available means to determine whether
the person or persons so suspected Of
being infected are suffering from said
diseases or any of them, and when
ever said diseases are found to exist,
the city physician shall, whenever
possible, ascertain the sources of such
infection. In such investigation, the
city physician is hereby vested with
full powers of inspection, examination,
isolation and disinfectiOn of all per-
sons, places and things as provided
herein.
Section 8. POWERS AND DUTIES
OF CITY PHYSIClAN-It is hereby
made the duty of the city physician
and he is hereby directed and empOw-
cred: (a) To make examinations of
persons reasonably suspected of hav-
ing syphilis in the infectious stages,
or gonOcOccus infection. Owing to the
prevalence of such diseases among
prostitutes, all prostitutes may be
considered within the above class.
(b) To isolate persons infected
with any of said diseases whenever
isolation is necessary to protect the
public health. In establishing isOla-
ton, the city physician shall define
the limits OF the area in which the
persons reasonably suspected or
known to have syphilis or gOnOcOccus
infection and his or her immediate at
tendant are to be isolated, and no per-
son, other than the attending physi-
clan, shall enter or leave the area Of
isolation without the permission Of the
city physician.
lei In making examinations and
inspections of women for the purpose
of ascertaining the existence Of
syphilis or gonocOccus infection, to APP
point women physicians for said pur-
pose where the services Of a woman
physician are requested or demanded
By the person examined.
(dl In case Of quarantine or is
lation, not TO terminate said quaran-
tine or isolation until the cases have
become non-infectious.
(e) Cases Of gOnococcus infection
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-23

Mrs. j. w. Bradford has just re-
ceived a card from her son, Dewey
Manis, who is in France, telling her
that he was wounded on June 18th,
the second day of the Marine drive.
He had sustained q fractured arm.
The card was written on July End.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-23

Miss Mabel Rummell has accepted
position in the Baxter National
Bank and commenced work Wednes-
day.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-23

Ed Polster left Wednesday on a
business trip to. ChetOpa, Melrose,
Peoria and several other nearby
towns. He expects to be gone two or
three days. i