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Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

ent congress gre totally incompetent to have a voice in the adjustment of national affairs. We however. will find some use for them, and at the same time will attend to those two United States senators from Connecticut and others of like calibre, and endeayor to impress upon what intellect they have the fact that they have no right to express opinions contrary to ours. Then our troubles will be over and the country will be saved.
 ONE OF US. Eagleville, June s. 1919.
 Some poets are always amusing, but not necessarily funny.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

severe tests General Pershing call ed for 12 of these weapons as soon as they could be produced. Orders were placed for 61 additional guns of this size. but none had been turn ed ont by the time the armistice was signed and the work of mounting them was never undertaken.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

With the passage or the woman suffrage bill by the senate the fight can be said to be more than half won but there will be increased activity now that the matter is to so before the state legislatures.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

It is gratifying response that is being made in the Y. M. C. A. cam paign. and that is as it should be for Norwich has reason to be proud of the work of this institution and should be eager to see it continued even on a larger scale
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

The central powers want a long time to think over the treaty terms but they should remember that Serbia was allowed only 24 hours to think over the ultimatum at the opening of the war.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

What a lot of sa,tsraction those people are getting who only a short time ago were declaring that they would never utter a complaint if we could only get some summer weather"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

When Berlin appeals to the tourists to visit that city because it has been left untouched as the result of the war, it should realize that that is what makes it less attractive at this time.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

The American troops are leaving northern Russia when the climatic conditions are at the best but the idea of getting home is of far more consequence to them.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

If this weather continues there are more than the iccmen going to worry as to whether the supply of frozen water is going to be sufficient to go through
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

There is an excellent chance now for the secret service that did such good work during the war to gain new laurels by running down the bomb throwers.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

This is the kind of June that makes the proprietors at summer re- sorts smile and get ready for & big and profitable season.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

The man on the corner says: Snap ing ones head to fit a straw hat is one Of the ordeals Of the season.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07

The fact that Mexico denies that it wants to join the league of nations will cause no one to spend any sleepless nights.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

t is quite evident that it is useless to expect the president home until he gets here.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1919-04-26

Your dollars in Liberty Bonds always available
for immediate use, because any bank will lend YOU
money on the bonds or help you to sell them.
There's another advantage, too, over gold dollars in
cash box. Dollars put aside in Liberty Bonds
not merely dollars saved and lying idle against the day
of need They invested dollars drawing interest
day and night weekdays and Sundays. They're the
sO1l VI SOAdCu AOS1u ulse SIO"o ny 1loCA.
True you can't build up that family gold reserve"
by Just wishing for it. But little sacrifice your
part will do it.
You'll never have better chance. Itisn't likely now
that the is over that the Government will ever
again issue bonds with high interest and in
every way so attractive investnent-not, at
least in YOUR lifetime
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1919-04-26


Liberty The United
has failed bonds their full face value One
dollars gold thousand dollars gold, but
dollars will be thousand dollars
godwh n
havep paidy many n
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1919-04-26
fvp11 had a I 1ollcand
Dollars in Gold 81


VERY likely you haven't. Few of us have But
Y you'd like to have it-no question about that
1t would give you pretty comfortable feeling, if
there were sickness in the family, to know that
thousand dollars in good hard gold was right where
you could get at it-or if something went wrong in
your business or if you chance to use few
hundred to advantage
After ALL it's something every family ought to have,
gold reserve" for energences-and the bigger it is
the better
That's just what Liberty Bonds are your emergency
fund. In gold too, because the bonds are payable
by the United States Treasury in gold when they
become due And they far safer and easier to take
of than actual gold dollars hidden away in a
cash box.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1919-04-26

ROSEDALE
The VALLEY BANK E. r. CHANEY
cHANEY DRUG co. EDDIE STEELE
w. E. SMITH w.rmr, ~
GEORGE MCGEE -....
L. c. BROWN = ~ -'S
FIRST NATIONAL BANK In L. D. Ao"iN
j. w. MCCLELLAN J. E. DATTEL
I. D. ALLDREDGE A. D. LINNELL
!. MOSTKoFF J. M. McBRooM
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1919-04-26

w. T. BURT
M. NEMET'Z
r. S. MCKNIGHT
M. REVITCH
w. II. ARNOLD
NJ. SCHEFF
j. H. OWEN
w. Z. LIGON
d. F. GALLOWAY
S, H. ROTCHILD
2. H. KEY
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12
DOOMED TO FAILURE

T'HE fallacy in the whole plan Of the
Big Four" brotherhoods lies in the
assumption that a great railroad system
can be run and expanded without great
constructive genius, and that great con-
structive genius will work without adc-
quate incentive.
1t was the brain of ]. J. Hill that con-
ceivcd and built the Great Northern sys-
tenn and developed the Northwest. The
opportunity was there, but Hill saw it
and had the nerve to take risks in order
to prove that his faith in the future of
the district was we'll founded.
There are just as efficient conductors
and engineers and firemen working on
the road as when he laid the first rails,
but they could not have built up the
system.
There is in every city score of large
business enterprises which existed first
in the brain of one man. The employees
whom he has called to his assistance
could not have developed the business,
though some of them think that they
should control it and tell the directing
brain what he should do.
And there is in every city one or more
great enterprises built up by the genius
of a single man which have gone to ruin
when that man died.
Men of ordinary ability are for sale;
but the constructive genius never sells
himself. He commands the services of
others and builds on the foundations
which are embedded in his own will and
in his own determination to put the thing
across.
The world is full of wrecks of big en-
terprises, the inheritors of which,
whether they were the heirs of the
founder or the subordinates who took it
over at his DEATH were too little to
carry on
There may be railroad geniuses in the
brotherhood, but they are not in sight,
and the chances are all against the sue
cess of their plan, even if it were advis-
able for other reasons.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12
Member of the Associated Press
Philadelphia, Tuesday, August -. 1919
BAH! BAH! BAH!

A MANS meditated words, especially
"A when they have been arranged neatly
end to end in black and white, often be-
come a sort of mirror in which he is able
to see the character of his own mind
clearly revealed for the first time
"Public sentiment" said Uncle Dave
Lane a day or two ago. Bah" Then
he was speaking like our sturdy old rela-
tive of an earlier day. What changed
uncle, who has hastened to imply that
he didn't mean it, is that there may be
something, after all, in this thing that
people call public sentiment. Is Uncle
Lane on the eve of compromises with an
ancient enemy now deemed worthy Of
some slight honor?
A good many people arc looking over
your uncle's shoulder these days. If they
aren't any more favorably impressed
than Uncle Dave himself by what they
see in the glass, then hard days are
surely ahead for the kind of things he
represents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12
JUST POLITICS

GOVERNOR SPROUL says that he
~ cannot understand why a man like
Amber should have been appointed in
surance commissioner, a man with no
knowledge of insurance; and he cannot
see how the North Penn Bank continued
to do business without the banking COM
missioner learning of its insolvency.
But the Governor knows as we'll as
every one else that Amber was ap-
pointed for purely political reasons and
that Banking Commissioner Smith was
removed by Governor Brumbaugh to
make room for Lafean because Smith
would not consent to have the polti-
clans play ducks and brakes in his de-
partment
1t was under Lafcan's administration
that the crookedness went on in the
bank and it was Amber himself who put
100000 in insurance deposits in a little
neighborhood bank with which he was
doing personal business.
If Governor Brumbaugh had not
played politics with these great state
Offices there might have been a different
story to tell about the North Penn Bank.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12
THE TOLL OF THE DEATH TRAPS

RAlLWA4 crossings at grade are mur-
~ derous. Investigations of the trage-
dies of SaybrOok, Pa, and Stratford,
N. j., in which a total of seven lives were
lost on Sunday, may or may not reveal
recklessness on the part of some of the
principals involved. Verdicts of this sort
however, are cruelty futile and are no
guarantee whatever against recurrence
of such tragedies. Everybody knows
that upon the existence of the grade
crossing itself the real blame must be
lodged.
Human life is insecure while such
menaces to it endure. Great Britain in
the early days of her railroading abol-
ished the level intersection of highways
and rail lines, and to large extent they
have been removed in western CONT
mental Europe. American laws have
been gentle with such nuisanccs, although
of recent years the railroads themselves
have done much tunneling and bridging
in the interest of public security.
But even the reduced peril is intoler-
able. There should be no more sanction
for grade crossing than there is for an
unsafe bridge span, a theatre with insult
hcient exits or a rickety building. This
is the piteousIy monotonous "lesson" of
Sundays slaughter and of the long line
of sickening accidents to which it be-
longs. Complete abolition of the death
traps is the only means of rightly heed
ing the tragic instruction.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12
NEAR-PREsIDeNTs IN ECLIPSE

LNVENTS of the past week would have
~ made likely presidential candidates
seem rarer than ever~-if that were pos
sible. The advantages of the Washington
situation at the moment would be all with
any leader who could demonstrate an
ability to grapple successfully with a
frst-class dilemma.
Congress, facing an economic crisis,
has proved that it is without leaders. 1t
is, in the vivid phrase of Mr.. Gilbert,
covering it's eyes with its hands in the
presence of an unusual conditions. Gronna.
Hi Johnson, Lodge, Knox in the Senate
and Mondell in the House have taken to
cover. They will not do. The opportunity
anne for a display of talent, courage
.hnd foresight and they let it pass. There
rs no obtrusive presidential timber in
Congress.
4 Al man who could nave shared the re-
spongibilities of the hour with Mr.. Wilson
or one who could have actually chal-
Ieneed the Presidents leadership in this
instance and proposed plan of his own
a. meet domestic issues that have = be
met at 5ncs might have found himself
made FAMOUS overnight. Congressman
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12
What Do You KnorU?


SOlE
1. Who is the new head of the government
in hungary: Q
=. What was the real name of "Stonewall"
Jackson?
g. What is II paynim?
t. Over what country did Britain win Ger
man recognition for her protectorate in
exchange for the loss of llelgoland%
). What is a patio?
6. What is the name of the present Prince
of Wales?
Z. Who was Light Horse Harry?
s. What is the largest planet in the solar
system?
o. What are the colors of the Rumanian
flag?
10. Who wrote tS opera II Pagliacci'? 20.
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
/ j. Edward Addcks was a gas magnate
and millionaire politician who vainly
pndeavored to win the senatorship
from Delaware. He died last week.
=. DR.. Samuel Johnson declared that the
second marriage of a widower illus
trated "the triumph of hope over ex->
perience."
3. Charles Mason and jeremiah Dixon, ap-
Penn. established the Mason and Dixon
line between Pennsylvania and Mary
land.
4. The accent in the word gondola falls on
the first syllable
: Alcwives are small fish of the herring
family used in the preparation of fer
tlizer.
6. Delaware is the Diamond state.
~ n
mony means nourishment.
s. Bravura is brilliant or ambitious exc
cution, forced displaya passages Of
music requiring exceptional powers.
0. Bulwer. Lytton wrote the historical
novel The Last of the Barons."
10. Carl Marx, the German Socialist phi-
losopher, was born ia 1918 and disd
IN 1888.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

and senators without exception refused
to share the burden that is Mr.. Wilson's.
And so, while they have left the President
to take the risks alone, so they have also
insured to him the undivided prestige that
naturally would follow on a successful
solution of the economic tangle which is
making living costs unbearable for the
peOplc
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

a South Scavilc ~
4 Mystery Solved j., woman has cap
turcd and killed
chicken thief resembling a grounding. but
twice the size. with the feet of an opossum.
the tail of a coon. the head of a squirrel and
the fur of a mink. Nobody knows what it
is. but we venture the opinion that it is
silly season cuss escaped from a synthetic
II. r. mcnagcrc.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

The head of the Atlantic Deeper Wa
tcrways Association, having taken a header
into deeper waters, is apparently feeling the
better for his plunge. and, what is more,
is getting along swimmingIy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

The men with training are the men
who win" says David Lane. Trite; true
but, like the peace treaty, subject to reser-
yations. The Hun soldiery were well
trained and see what happened 2 them
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

Add Heroes-Brakeman Edward Robin
son. whose bravery and presence of mind
prevented runaway freight cars from crash
ing into a crowd at Palmer street and
FrankfOrd avenue ON Sunday
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

Villa stock is down again. The Mcxi-
can embassy says that NiIlista hordes have
been completely dispersed, But the trouble
is that even when this persistent bandit is
killed he won't stay dead.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

way that young girls used to in the good
old days of three piece bathing suits
We observe that for the noucc there is
no shop on Chestnut street offering Il vast
and instantaneous fortune in oil stocks or
kerosene heaters or asbestos mining. and
we arc quite disconsolatc. For while we
never expect to make fortune in any of
these ways, it is always pleasant TO watch
Industrious individuals going through the
motions of trying to tempt us.
It's quaint that Henry Ford, the pacihst,
has given birth to the most aggressive,
boodthirSty and reckless race of human
beings ever known-thc people who drive
hivvcrs.
We have always lcarnod to be a poet.
1t has just occurred to us that we have
sadly impedcd that ambition by writing
quite number of poems
What has happened to Colonel House?
Has he got hay fever: 1t seems to US
that he is just the kind of chap who would
be likely to have it.
1t begins to look as though George Crccl
has an affinity for trouble. He has gone
and written II book. and chosen for his
topic the world affords \ nations relent-
less photographers are girding themselves to
smite him. quip and thigh. 1t seems too
bad. George had just begun to fade so
nicely into the background.
Cary Gruyson and Warren Prrshing are
almost the only others in great place who
haven't announced that they have a book
under way. And we sometimes have fears
about Cary.
There is one feature about prohibition
/ that doesn't seem to have been remarked
upon There are not nearly so many gen
temen in the cafes who rise to UTTER about
midnight, that they are old soldiers.
The real reason for the postpOnrmrnt of
| the Presidents western trip was that it
was positively necessary to have the hrim
| of his silk hat strengthened with little
| strip of sheet metal. Nothing wears out
| a hat brim like so much dofliug.
| We feel certain that the beautiful Miss
Tallulah Bankhead will be a success on
| the stage She understands the technique
we'll enough to have her first professional
| portrait taken showing Que shoulder strap
| slipped down just little bit from its ivory
nesting place.
Social Chat
| Mr.. B. Leonard and Mr.. p Cline renewed
a congenal acquaintance at Shibe Park.
|
| Wharton SNorlI had a poem in the New
| Republic Loud cheers for the local laureate
| is our friendly .utterance.
Guy Wheeler dropped in at our cavern and
discourse was held concerning matters and
| things.
| DrS A. S. w. Rosenbach, the learned biblio-
| phile journeyed to Corson's Inlet for little
| fishing reporter for the Chatting Dish
who sleuthed him the train regrets tc
| report that the best-Ifad man in America
was seen devouring motion-picture maga,
zine,
Jim Shields tells us that the district at
torneys Office is very busy these days. Coco
work, we opine.
| Bill Sykes, the genial cartoonst has bought
a Bangkok straw hat and Bob Maxwell, tn,
De Quincy of the sporting office, wears 1
Shantung suit. Things are booming in tn,
Orient, and Shantung factories are workml
overtime to catch up after filling the very
large order.
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12
THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY

nEW from the mountains o. morn distilled
- on the shores of the sunset;
CLEANS the glory of Greece, gliding our
ultimate cline:
Slow. sweet pipnss of Pan, quick blasts of
Athenian onset
Tears for the mighty dead coursng in
cadence sublime.
Flashes of fiery love, fond gimpscs of family
faces:
Groans of human despair, hymns of celes-
tial care,
Clashes of fate and change glad flights of the
FaunS and the Graces;
Glorious, laughter lit jewels of wisdom
and wit.
Alfred Pcrccval Graves. in The Bookman.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

Perhaps it was a sheep like public sem
timeht Uncle Dave had in mind when he
said. "Baa :" Or is it possible that Mary's
little lamb is wandering in the Lane?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

The inference is, of course, that II. C
J.. will shrink with alarm at the first in
dication of piticsS publicity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

Melba attributes her success to common
sense. hard work and attention to health.
To which may be added. in the lady's case,
an exceptionally fine voice.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

Young Roosevelt in his desire to follow
in his fathers footsteps is of necessity
making big strides.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

Secretary Lansing is at his best il
"carefulIy prepared statements"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

The man who snecrs at public sentimen
has grown either CallOus or foolish.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

Every unguarded railroad crossing is al
evidence of criminal carelessness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

\ New York newspaper is running a
series of letters under the mead Of ''Fe-
males and Eoolshness." If it is ALTERATION
they are after why not next run Males and
MulishncS8"?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

The prohibitionist is the guy who took
the gin out OF ginger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12
RCmcInhcr. snY
Resignation and
Resignation

"RCmcmbcr." says Re
Resignation and ccivcr I.indlcy NJ
Resignation Garrison, discussing a
phase of the Brooklyn
street ear strike II can leave my job as
receiver just as left my job in Washing
ton as secretary of war; There is. a gen
tlcman in Washington today who might
have proftcd by Mr.. Garrison's definition of
resignation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

There Is considerable scum on the top
of Budapest's boiling pot
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

to have government restrictio is removed
from wheat prices in order that the rate
may soar when the markets of the world
are finally opened. No better illustration
of the abnormal tendencies of the time is
conceivable.
What is needed, therefore, in America,
as well as restrictive legislation and gov
crnmcnt pressure to break up the rings
of food gamblers, is revival of sanity
and a return to the simpler virtues of
restraint modesty, common sense and
thrift that were among our losses in the
war.
Some measure of immediate relief may
be brought about by a re-establishcd
food administration system, with the
licenses and penalties that may be in
Stitutcd without further legislation at
the will Of the President. But there still
will remain the whole aching problem Of
Europe. Nations that we helped to save
from destruction cannot now be left to
starve or die of cold. Until Europe re-
covers the world supply of commodities
viii havs to be spread far and thin. 1t
is the duty of Congress to see that gam
bers dc not profit by the present cmCr-
gency. That is the best that Congress
can do. The rest lies with the people,
who must realize that the war is still
on, that it will be on for year or more
and that they will have to go slow, avoid
waste and live more simply until civili-
Zation RECEIVERS its balance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

We have always Acarned to be a poet.
1t has just occurred to us that we have
sadly impedcd that ambition by writing
quite a number of poems.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-12

is quaint that Henry Ford, the pacihst,
has given birth TO the most aggressive,
bloodthrSty and reckless race of human
fivvcrs.