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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-10-07
Birthday Party

Master B. Powell Mason, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Mason, enter
tanned his young friends with a
birthday party Saturday afternoon
at his home ON West Main street
Games of all kinds we're played OH
the lawn and ice cream and cake
in the greatest abundance were
served. Baskets Of candy and Hal
lowe'en caps we're given as souve-
Mrs of this happy occasion. About
fifty children enjoyed B. Powell's
hospitality and the party was voted
great success.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-10-07
Employees Entertain

The employees of the local Cumber-
land Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany and several invited guests en-
tertained with party at Ringo's
Hall Thursday evening. Those in at
tendance were: Misses Margaret
Leach, Elizabeth Gaitskill, Matte
Gaitskill, Elizabeth Johnson, Mae
Mccormick, Elenore Frisbie, Frances
Leach, Sallie Howard, Pauline
Frisbie, Sletha Leach, Mrs. R..
Gaitskill, Mrs. Mable Baber Mrs.
c.. Frisbie, Messrs. Fl. C. Frisbie,
Leonard Mcnamara, Forum Frisbie,
Everett Morgan, James Lane, John
T. Lane, Richard Fugate, Matt Hay
don, Phil Hollearn, Joe Holleam,
John Hedrick, Vernon Johnson,
James Becraft and Chillson Leach.
The employees have formed So
cial organization and an entertain
ment of some sort will be given each
month. The club was formed at the
suggestion of the company as a
means of promoting a greater con-
geniality among its members.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-10-07
BIRTHS

Born to the wife Of George Staple
ton Sunday at the Clark County
Hospital a daughter. Mrs. Stapleton
was formerly Miss Mary Lyle Duty,
of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Miller Hoffman
are receiving congratulations from
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-10-07
PERSONALS


Miss Maude Capps spent Sun
day in Lexington.
w. c. Tabor, of Rothwell, was in
the city Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Moore have re-
turned from Lexington.
Mrs. Jennie Thompson was sum-
moned to LaGrange Friday.
Mrs. Howard Canaan visited friends
in Lexington the past week.
Judge Edward C. Orear, of Frank
fort, was here on business last week.
Mrs. John NJ Barnes and Mrs. j..
Clay Cooper have returned from
Washington.
Miss Alice Campbell, Of Chicago,
formerly of this city, is visiting
friends here.
Mrs. Homer Hawkins, of Glasgow,
Mo-, is the guest of Mrs. George
Anderson, Sr
Mrs. A. G. Wherry,4 Of Liberty,
Mo-, is the guest of Mrs. ]. W. Ma
son and family. 1000 .es- y
Cooper Williams, Of Frenchburg,
passed through this city Monday en-
route to Frankfort.
Mrs. John Stofer and Miss Agnes
Stofer have returned from a stay in
New York and Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Oldham, of
Nicholasville, spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Oldham.
Mrs. G. M. Fishback and Miss
Fishback, of Versailles, are guests
Of DIR. and Mrs. M. V. p. Yeaman.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Apperson
and daughter, of Greensboro, are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. W. P. APP
person.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Rice, of Elyria,
Ohio, have returned to their home
after a visit to Mr.. and Mrs. G. D.
Sullivan.
Mrs. E. L. Brockway is in Jack
sonville, H., having been called there
by the illness Of her mother, Mrs.
John d.. Carter
Lester Lee, J. p. Highland, Will
Highland and Arch Prewitt are at
tending the automobile races in Gin
cinnati this week.
Mrs. Mary Parker, accompanied
by her sister, Miss Matte Payne,
who is in poor health, are at Ashe-
vile, N. c., for few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren ID. Hart
sock, of Huntington, who have been
guests of Allen PrewItt, are now in
Winchester for a short stay.
Mrs. w. ii. Leonard, of Florida, is
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. w. I. Ty-
Ter. Mrs. Leonard was formerly Miss
June Anderson, of this county.
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lexington, are visiting relatves ami
friends here.
Miss Mary Willie Guthrie is visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. Hugh Mahan in
Jessamine county.
Mrs. G. G. Turner, of Frankfort.
is the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Charles ID. Grubbs.
Mrs. Ewing A. Flyrn has returned
to her home in Cynthiana, after a
visit to friends here.
Miss Lola Lawrence, OF New York,
5 the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. +. Lawrence.
Miss Henrietta Coleman left yes
to-day for Tallahassee, Fla, where
she will re-enter Florida University.
Rev. J. T. McGarvey, president
of Hazel Green College, spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. w. N.
Scobee.
Mrs. J. w. Hedden, ST., left yes
tcrday for Jellico, Tenn, to be the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. T. B.
Arthur.
Mrs. S. X. Baird, of As,ievi:la, ard
Mrs. Charles Temple, of Winchester,
are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert
Triplett.
Mrs. B. F, Dorsey has returned
from a visit to Paris and Ewing. She
was accompanied home by Mrs. j.
g. Hanly.
Tom Weldon, of Augusta, and Ma
jor Shinkle, of Cincinnati, were here
last week in the interest of Lorillard
Tobacco Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Beall Hadden,
Miss Katherine MADDEN and Harry
Hunt are attending the Trots in Lex
ington today. ~
Mrs. T. w. Fleming, of Fort Scott,
Kansas, has returned home after a
visit to the family of her brother, J.
W. Stephens.
M. v. Bates, of the firm of M.
V. Bates & Son, Means, KY, was
in the city Monday buying stock,
Mr.. Bates was accompanied by his
wife.
Mr.. w. O. Bach, of Frenchburg,
who is largely interested in oil de-
velopments in Menefee county,
passed through the city Monday en-
route to Frankfort.
DR.. w. ID. Weed, of Washington,
d c, has been the guest of Mrs.
Margaret A. Gaitskill. DR.. Weed has
just been released from the army,
where he served in the Medical
Corps.
Colonel and Mrs. Harry Mckee
and their four sons, of Chicago,
have been guests Of Judge H. Clay
Mckee and other relatives here. Col
onel Mckee is manager Of the Chi
cago Ice Plant.
III. G. Enoch, Robert M. Barnes,
Capt. G. H. Petry, Ollie M. McCor-
mick, DIR. C. w. Harris, C. T. Hazel
rigg and DR.. c. w. Compton are
spending two weeks at their camp
ou OuiubtIiuuu IllNcT.
Mrs. T. G. Denton arrived yester-
day from Lexington to be the guest
of Mrs. j. III. Henry. Mrs. Denton
will leave December LIST to spend the
winter in Rosenberg, Texas, with her
niece, Mrs william Clayton.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Anderson
and children, of BeattyvilIe, have
been guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George
ST., in the county. Mr..
Anderson will shortly return to
Beattyville, while Mrs. Anderson
win remain in Mt, Sterling and enter
their children in school here. They
have taken apartments with Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Fl. Knox for the winter.
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their friends over the arrival of a
fine son at their home Wednesday,
Jouett Miller.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-10-07

Mrs. John Taul and Mrs. A. c.
Edsall we're guests of Mrs. J. C.
Voolfolk at Lexington, and Mrs.
Frank Mccormick at Winchester
several days the past week.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-10-07

Mrs. Frances Lyddane has re-
turned to her home in Winchester.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-10-07

Pure pork sausage, ground daily.
Wilson Meat Market.
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The Advocate for printing
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-01
THE N E

There is less of zest in the American peace commits
.sioners in Europe. Even the president has been gradually
quieting down, after his great visits to Paris, London and
Rome. Those who read between the lines may gather the
fact that while they are willing to honor the president of the
American republic, they are not yet persuaded to settle their
own affairs in Europe along the lines laid down in America
and America at home, we believe, is glad that this is not
going to be done. We do not want to be the dictator or even
the arbiter in these matters, for duties would devOlve on us
from such roles that we really do not cOvet. If we were
given our way over there then we would have to keep that
way open indefinitely and we would become the worlds
superpOliceman after having aspired to be the worlds great
est altruist and idealist.
We continue to believe-and this is an interesting faith
at hOme-that the less we interfere the easier our own way
will be in the future. OF course this does not mean that we
do not want the European peace to be a righteous one. We
want to see substantial justice done and when that is done
we will be satisfied. If at any time we have believed that
the world could be regenerated after this war, we have
largely been disillusioned. We do not see nations chastised
by suffering, but nations streaked with the lunacies of a new
radicalism. There may be years and decades of turbulence
in certain parts, of the world while the nations are in the
processes of readjustment. And while our guiding hand may
be reached out to some of them, it would be the policy of
idiocy for us to undertake to discipline them all or measure
ably to regulate their affairs.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-01
THE Y. NJ. C. A.. HAS DEFICIT

According to a statement made by John r. Mott, the ~ M.
C. A. is not rolling in wealth, as a result of the last drlVe'
when $203 100000 was subscribed By the middle of January
only $45,OO0OOO of the subscriptions had been paid by the SUD-
scribers and the seven organizations participating In the pro
ceeds had received each 20 per cent of the total, which means
$20OOO,O0O for the Y. M. G. A. and 100000 for the knlghtS(
of Columbus. The Y. M. C. A. has a deficit left over and In
spite of the twenty millions there is a new deficit OF about
five millions on which interest is being paid So far as max
ing money out of the canteens, which it operated for the army,
the contrary is true. They have lost money in doing tnat
work for the government, and up to Oct. 81 last such losses
in France amounted to 100000 francs, equivalent to half a
million dollars.
What effect the unfortunate situation will have on the
payment of the remaining subscriptions made in the last
drive is not indicated. The fact that less than a fourth OF 1t
was paid up to the middle of the present month would seem
to indicate that there may be a great many lapses. The sub
scriptions were made under the urgency and even threats OF
the war service and many were made under some sort OF
moral suasion. Some subscribers may have lost interest In
their subscriptions, and to collect from them may not be easy
since many of the subscriptions are in very small amounts and
by men and women and even children, against whom the law
could hardly be invoked. The chances are that the total OF
.$2O3, 100000 will never be paid, and the amount may fall far
short.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-01
THE WAYS OF THE DEVIL

"God ended the war in His own good time" is the quoted
statement of a distinguished clergyman. But why rob Foch
and the allied armies of the credit of ending it? The kaiser
long lived under the deusion that God caused the war to
come to glorify His later chosen people, the Germans. But
the war began because God still permits, as in the days of
Job, the devil to go to and fro in the earth, and up and
down in it, and in 1914 the devil had assumed the form OF
Wilhelm, the man with the withered arm and soul. And
when Fochs army was strong enough he was put down and
out. There is no use for dragging heaven into the wrong
and foolish things that men do on this earth. If God wanted
to teach the nations humility, it would not be necessary to
have ten millions killed and to make millions of women
heartbroken and children helpless orphans. God does not
move in that sort of a mysterious way, but men do, and some
day when they are in better understanding with the AL
mighty men will not do such things-and that will be the
millennium. which none of us will live to see on this earth.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-01
SELF-DETERMINATION

Victor Berger, the convicted congressman-elect, insists
that the people of his Milwaukee district are entitled to the
are. If they want to elect a man who says. that this govern>
ment is wrong and that Germany is right, why, then that II
their right.
Perhaps we need a redefinition of this doctrine of self
determination. 1t is one of the glitering generalities of the
war period. Some one thought of it and thousands have been
repeating it, and there has grown up around the phrase the
atmosphere of sacred and inaienable rights.
But twO-thirds of the ideas gathered around the phrase
are decisions. Self-determination can be carried out to the
absurd. All life is a series of compromises with environ
ments. Each one of us must give up something in order to
live with our %neighbors. Self-determination is not a finality
with any of us. No one of us has a right to do as he may
determine for himself. We cannot do as we please and we
cannot set up what pleases us. We have to take into con-
sideratiOn what others around us please. And an over
whelming majority of those in Bergers district voted against
him. He won by a plurality, not a majority.
A district in Wisconsin cannot set up its own ideals of
government within Wisconsin, neither can that state do so
within the United States. Two generations ago we had a
great war in this country over this ~new-styled doctrine of
self determination. A statesman named Douglas called it
squatter sovereignty-the squatters were settlers in the ter
ritories and he held that they could set up such a govern
ment as pleased them.
The whole south practiced self determination to the ex-
tent of drawing up articles OF secession which brought on a
four years war, at the end of which it was proved that they
could not determine for themselves.
And so it is not a new idea, but a very old one that has
now been invoked for all sorts of secessions and little gov
If we follow this out we shall have the earth
covered with little racial groups and little language and da-
lect groups until the whole world will be topsy turvy again.
We will have the confusion of Babel worse COMPOUNDED.
A greater and a better doctrine is that of unificatiOn of
peoples within given areas. In the United States, for in
stance, we must be willing to drop our petty racial lines and
languages to conform to the whole people. We shall fare
better with one language and one form of government.
We need to give this doctrine of Standardization a
great deal of rest-at least we need to re-eXamine it care
fully before we go on talking about it as something Of uni
versal application.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-01
THE REAL FREEDOM OF SPEECH

The Springfield Republican rightfully says that freedom
of speech in Germany is not indicated by the recent crh-
cisms of the kaiser in the newspapers of Berlin. The real
test is in the altitude that the newspapers dare TO assume
toward the existing government. No one in Berlin may care any
more about what is said about the dead duck who used to be
the All Highest to them. But do the papers dare to crltlclse
the fellows who are now in power? Yes, that is the test.
And it is The test in any country. When a people no longer
dare to criticise their own rulers, then the evil days are upon
them. Free discussion of the acts of any governing body IS
the only possible national safeguard of the liberties OF speech
And there has been more of this kind of freedom In Eng
land. even during the war, than in any other nation on earth,
more than there was even in the United States. The British
have a way of emphasizing their own freedom and they are
selom interfered with.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-01
CONGRESSIONAL GOVERNMENT"

The funny man who writes a column for the Chicago
Tribune has been reading a book that Woodrow Wilson pub
lished in the days of his college professorship on Congress
sional Government" In those days the professor believed
that this was a country governed by congress and not by an
executive in the exercise of an autocratic power. And these
are some of the passages i'm the book that the funny man has
brought to light:
I'm many cases the president may not W. know what the
senates objections we're. He is made to approach that body
as a servant comforting with his master. His only power of COM
peling compliance o n the part of the senate lies in his initiative
in negotiation which affords him a chance to get the country
intos such scrapes, o pledged in the view of the world, to GER
tain curses of action that the senate hestates to bring about
the appearance of dshonor which would follow a refusal to
ratify rash promises or to support the indscreet threats of the
department of state"
And this:
1.-THE senate always has the last word"
And this:
"our government differs from the other governments of
the world. other executives lead; Our executive obeys"
These passages are highly Illuminating. We believe that
the conclusions that Professor Wilson reached are more con-
elusive than the ones he has since tried to put into effect in
the White House.
Mr.. Wilson changed his mind when he became the ma
TONS chief executive, and he tried to make the presidency
the real ruling power. He has treated congress as a body
subservient to him and he has not hesitated to use any and
all means to bring about that condition of things. He has
lectured congress after the manner of a school master, and
when scolding was not enough he has belittled congress be-
fore the country and invoked against 1t, when and Where he
could, the popular i'll will.
And we, the people, cannot say that we have not con-
lributed toward these ends. But nevertheless it is not a good
sign in our government to see a congress made less than what
it was intended to be when the constitution of the United
States was framed. If the president of the republic may safely
contravene the spirit or the plain intent of that instru-
ment. to what goal are we drifting? Since he has himself
told us how the president may have his own way by getting
the country into such scrapes," and $50 pledged in the view of
the world that congress would hesitate to bring about the
appearance of dishonor by refusing ITO ratify rash promises
or support the indiscreet threats" of the president through
the department of state can we not better understand his atti-
tude toward the l%aw-making branch of the government?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-01

Sir Horace Plunkett, the noted Irish leader, is on his
way to the United States. He is coming here to see what
can be done in Ireland. He says that President Wilson repA
resents more Irishmen at the peace table than Lloyd Georges
which is to say there are more Irishmen in America than
there are in Ireland. But is Sir Horace quite sure that those
who live in America are not Americans? We have been
hyphens in this country, and one kind of a hyphen
is but little better than another.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-01

According to reports, the government spent thirty mil
lions of dollars to advertise the Liberty loans. Advertising
was necessary, but the newspapers which gave their space
free did more effective work than was accomplished with
the millions that were spent for official literature, including
Autographs in such abundance that in every city tons Of
them were allowed to remain undistributed.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-01

Being the guest of kings costs money, it seems. 1t is
WHISPERED that the president had to leave from ten to TWEEN
ity thousand in "tips" at the royal palaces. Those are said
Ito be the minimums for "ruling sovereigns,' and as such the
was received. To give such amounts at least three
times over would almost use up the presidential salary.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-10-17
BUMPER CROPS RAISED
 THIS YEAR IN PANAMA

M. E. Summers, in charge of the Alaska weather service. who returned from an inspection of special and cooperative stations of the weather bureau in the upper Yukon, Panama and Copper River valleys, reports having established two new stations for the recording of daily weather conditions. one in the KaGtishna TO- zion and the other in the coal region south of Ncnana.
 Mir. Summers reports the Panama valley as producing bumper crops this year. not only of vegetables of all kinds but also Of wheat barley. oats and hay. In his opinion one cf the remarkable examples of the agri- cultural possibilities of that region was a9O acre oat field, mature and in shock, that will thresh TO bushels to the acre. The popular conception
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-10-17

of the requirements for successful farming i1 that region k that only on lov-lying level land, but that un- dcucath the top soil the ground is porpctuany frozen. The farmers are a so demonstrating that good crops can he grown on northern slopes as well. one such crop this season be- irr fine field of wheat that hat fully matwod
 The first killing frost this season in the Interior valleys occurred on September |, five days later than last year
 With the introduction of a flour mill and the use of siloS to furni11 succulcnt winter feed for catt!c,' Mr. Summers thinks there will be no fur thcr need of the residents of Fair banks and the creeks paying cxor- bitant prices for butter, canned mil, and beef, for those food products can then ho produced at home.
 lir. Summers came out over the Richardson road, reaching the coa,, at Valdez instead of Cordova. IIo reports the weather almost ideal dur- ing the journey. most of the trip in  the auto being made without@n owe To
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-10-17

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 When commenced taking Tanlac, 70 continued lIr. Parker, "l had been n bad health for four years. and hadn' t been able Co hit lick of work for ov- cr three months. | had been sufferin~ from stomach trouble during all tn time, and I had reached the poi. where everything I ate would give ne indigestion and cause gas to form so bad that 1 would be in misery for hours at a time | just got weaker all the time, and finally got to where ! was hardly able Co go at all. Then, last January, had severe attack of the Flu and after getting over that, my stomach was in worse condition than ever, and l also found my kid- ncyS were in bad condition. l suffer- cd SO much With pains in my back that | could hardly sleep at all, and could not turn over in bed without some assistance. The different medi- cineS and treatment l had didn't do me any good at all, and l finally had to give up work altogether. and had giv- cn up all hope of ever getting we'll again,
 "Wcll l decided to make one more effort and give Tanlac a trial. l had read so much about the good it was doing others who suffered as I did, and | saw no reason why it should not help me just as it had these other pco- pie. Why, it turned out to be the very thing needed, and I commenced to pick up right away, and just continu- ed to improve until all my troubles were overcome I have been in perfect health ever since, and am now as well and hearty as any man. I went back to work and have been steady at it until now. and I am taking a vacation during the rainy season. never have the least sign of stomach trouble any more, and my kidneys seem to be in perfect condition Tanlac is a wonder rul medicine and I praise it every where l go."
 TANLAC is sold in Seward by the Seward Drug Company. (adv)