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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1919-11-21

Gold or silver brocade and monkey
fur are responsible for many odd and
beautiful fancies in the realm oC
dress accessories. They are very wen
launched on career that promises to
90 on aspiring and climbing until 4
blossoms out at the winter resorts n
the most imposing Of fashion paradaa
There Ii fondness for glitter every
where-the fashion world has turnsA
Its back upon all that IL sedate or -
we're In styles wherever there II any
chance to be gay or splendid. Two
piece and three-piece sets give IN
sorts Of opportunity for using thess
spirited elements Of the styles.
Monkey fur and silver brocsde make
the handsome turban and shopplnn
bag shown 1t the left Of the I've
matched sets illustrated here. The fur
makes q distinctive millinery tim
ming and takes the place Of herou
aierettes. which are not worn b
American women with sense of Ioys
atty to the laws. II makes -
sort Of fringe also, used 70 many waSn
on hats and gowns. The thrteplooo
set. at the right Of the Sicturs utiIlsss
plain and gold bFocadfd black 49,
ribbon IN an assembly Of lat 49,
and bag that u n the clas Of <lotno3
for formal dress.
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a DISGRACE TO THE AMERICAN
ARMY

The Americah people who ind 1t
difficult to believe that the cruelties
ascribed to the Germans in theiE
treatment of prisoners of war were
equalled if not surpassed by officers
of the United States army and their
subordinates in charge Of American
soldiers held in disciplinary barracks
but such is the truth fully corrobO-
rated.
Testimony presented to sub-com-
mittee Of congress in Castle VIII
liams Governors Island and not by
convicts alone, is an unbroken record
of brutality and haartLesSness extend
ing from prison sergeants and lieu
teuants, who confess their Offenses,
all the way UP to officers Of high
rank Soldiers under discipline were
not only beaten s. MANNED, starved
and denied medical attendance; they
we're robbed of all their possessions,
and complaints or requests for tber-
alton in order to fight resulted in
nothing but added hardship
If these barbarities were due to in
attention on the part Of commanders
they would be inegcusabIe. Perpe-
trated as there is reason to believe,
with their knowledge, and in the cas-
es of some Of them by their orders,
they involve guilt, the infamy OF
which is aggravated by the fact that
no attempt was made to bring any
but subordinate offenders to justice.
Although similar scandals have
smirched the honor of the army in
times past. this is the worst and most
far-reaching.
Fortunately the Inquiry now in
progress is under the direction ot
Representative Royal c. Johnson of
South Dakota. who rendered valiant
service overseas. With his knowf.
edge of conditions it should be posi-.
BILE very soon to fix the responsibility
for these outrages where it belongs.
No rank is so high and no influence
is 50 powerful as to shield men who
have disgraced their country and
their uniform.-WOrld.
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TIE sourH IN TIE SENATE

The people in Florida feel a par
donable pride in the fact that among
the senator's from the south no one
! has taken more energetic. practical
and statesmanlike position with re-
spect to the great pieces of construct
i've legislation. heretofore enacted and
now under consideration, than Sena.
tor Duncan u. Fletcher.
He is in the prime Of life. II excel,
lent health perfectly eQuipoised in
compartment, courteous always ana
attentive to every detail Of the bus.
ness presented by his constituents.
While he has been properly accorded
the horior of inspiring and taking 4
leading part in great pieces of con
structivd legislation like the federal
farm loan act, and the act creating
the United States Shipping Board,
yet in all the trying times of actual
war he and lis well equipped office
force have given prompt attention 20
the tens Of thousands of communica-
tons ard requests coming from Flor
ida. from. mothers and fathers and
wives and sisters and brothers and
friends of Florida soldiers in the ser
vice in this country and abroad.
The record he has made will re-
ceive the recognition and assure his
reelection. If the record is question
ed or attacked by any of those aspir
ing to this office. it will be defended
on the stunip in style which will
delight the electorate of this. state
for Senator Fletcher in a fight is a
fighter Of the first order. The coun.
try at large concurs in our estimate
that Florida ia the person of Fletcher
has furnished one of the south's most
distinguished senators
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The newspapers in his district are
giving George H. Wilder but little en-
enlargement in his race for congress
against Herbert J. Drane. But one
can never tell. Who believed that
Drane had a look-in against Spark
man, the then chairman of the rivers
and harbors committee? One can
never tell what chute the average vot.
er is going 60 take Even so amiable
a gentleman as Richard H Edmouds
is led away from righteousness by the
Lodges and Borahs. and we met a
man yesterday of actual voting age
who commended that the league OF IA.
tions was antagonistic to the Chris
tian religion
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Tor for Labor, for the producer Or for
the CONSUMER until peace is estab-
LIished and the serious work Of liqui-
dating the colossal losses Of this war
.can begin. All that is elementary.
The most important thing that has
been put into cold storage IN the
United States is uot meat or butter
or poultry or eggs but the treaty Of
peace
If the American people ever expect
to get their affairs in order AMI take
up the business Of reconstruction.
they must begin first with the sena-
-torial obstrtctionists who ire today
the gravest menace 70 world peace
The power is in the senate and the
responsibility is with the senate.
Every day IT delays action brings
this country ana brings al Europe
nearer to the crater OF q social and
economic volcano
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BIRDS OF EVIL OMEN

One hundred and forty years ago
the nation had it's calamity hoWlers
They predicted that. the nation would
be short lived. There has never
been a day nor an hour that the
prophets of evil-like Poe's Raven
have not sung their dolefuI ditties
Grave responsibilities are ahead OF
us but grave as they are they will
be met
We have a war debt of $4,000, 900,
600.
1t will be paid.
The republic faces a glorious future
Out of the disturbances there will is
sue tranquility, like burst Of sun
shine after the storm.
The rights of the people will be
protected
Democracy, because right, will tri
umph over wrong and the dove of
peace, because of the league Of ma
tions, will spread her wings over the
whole earth.
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VOICE OF T-E PEOPLE,

1t is favorite charge % democrat
is papers. lacking more convincing
argument, that the democratic papers
that oppose the league Of nations.
are really at heart republicans. They
follow it up BY intimating or infer.
ring that the only opposition 70 the
league comes from republican sour
ces. They deny that there are any
democrats opposed % IT,
That is about as far As their in
formation and knowledge go. But
they are way beside the facts when
they make the assertion Miami
Herald.
In former days it was a favorite
saying of the republican party that
all democrats were not horse thieves
but that all horse thieves were demo-
Gratis. Some very good democrats are
opposed to the league OF nations but
they are very few and far between.
Up this way one cannot put hi, hand
on one who was q Stacker duri1g the
war, one who was hostile 70 Wilson
and his administration. one who il
now in sympathy with the Appeal to
Reason. who is a follower Of the Men
ace and Tom Watson who is not dead
tO-rights against the league Of ma
tons
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THE souTH IN CONGRESS

81 believe in the United States gov
eminent, her history, her institutions,
and her people. Knowing the glory
fof her past, I have implicit faith in
her future. Never defeated in a con-
test of arms, hope she may never
be defeated in the more glorious con
tests OF peace. We have as herit-
age the finest form Of government
that was ever fashioned by human i'll
telligence on this or any other CONT
nent, polished albeit and made more
perfect by the growth and experience
Iof just, fair-minded, and generous
people Added to this we have the
greatest resources any nation has
ever possessed. We have mastered
the machinery of production as no
other nation has ever mastered it. 1t
is equally important to master the
machinery of distribution.
81 know not whether triumph or
despair. awaits us in the infinite sea
of the future; I know not what in
ventions or discoveries the genius Of
man may conceive. The beginnings
of wonderful garment have been
past know not in what form it may
be finished; but I do know that if our
people are given the unhindered OPP
portunity to which their institutions,
their sacrifices, and their industry en-
title them the nations future will be
triumphankiy secure" (Applause) -
Marvin Jones Of Texas, in Congress
sional Record.
The above is a sample extract of
the way members of congress FROM
the south address themselves to their
feIIow-memBers and to their constitu-
ents at home.
When one picks UP Congressional
Record and 4glances over its pages
and his eye falls on one of the many
speeches it contains he does not have
to read the headlines to find out what
section the author halls trom-the
speech tells the story.
Begin anywhere; in the middle or
at the close, and if it breathes a spir-
it of tolerance and optimism; if it
abounds in patriotic ardor if it is
proud Of our achievements; if it ex-
ats the heroisn1 of our soldiers, if it
pays tribute to Che man in the White
House and eulogizes the accomplish
ments Of his cabinet, one may put It
down. for 3 fact that the author is
from the south and is q member Of
the democratic party.
If, on the other hand, the speech
is fault-hnding; If it is picking flaws
here and there; il it forecasts dis.
NAL future; if it rninimizes our activi-
Ties: if it says that we are going on
the rocks; if it is abusive and scold-
ing: if it is hectoring the president;
if it is doing what it can and all It
can to embarrass him in bis efforts
to bring about the peace of the world
and for the United States TO become
the beacon light of the nations, one
has not to look for the headlines to
ascertain its author, for he knows at
once that be halls from beyond Dixie
and belongs to the remnant of an ex-
piring, party which has outljved it's
usefulness and is now ft only to be
laid quietly to rest.
The republican party, nurtured SO
long on the milk of petty sectional
ism, is not big enough nor broad
enough to deal in world-mOvements.
It's mission has been to belittle the
south, and it knows no other platform.
A stream cannot rise above its
source. IL
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-15

The most humiliating thing about
the Austrian situation is the tolerant,
almost benevolent way in which the
allies are now treating Austria. 1t
is proof positive of Austria's utter
helplessness. If there was anything
left of that much offending country in
the way of population, wealth. ambi-
ton or military strength the allies
would be squeezing the life out OF it.
It's like being kind to a wicked. bro
ken old mau with the death rattle
in his throat.-GreenvilIe News.
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IN MAsSAC+UsETT

For instance the state democratic
committee of Massachusetts, recently
adopted a resolution expressing it's
unalterable opposition to the attempt
of England and her allies to force
upon the American people "a sO-caIled
covenant of league OF nations. =
Miami Herald.
Massachusetts has for so long time
been under the domination and con.
troll of the Lodges and the Weeks
that democracy is but memory
there. Massachusetts, is Joined to her
idols and should be let alone
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SENATORIAL SABOTAGE

There can be no settled conditions
here or elsewhere until the treaty Of
peace is out of the way and the work
of liquidating the war has become
the chief concern of our government
and the other governments of the
world Until then business will in
evitably remain speculative and sway
this way and that again, with heavy
losses or heavy gains as it may
chance, and the consumer must take
care of both the gains and the loss
es There can be no peace prices so
long as our whole financial and econ
Iomical system is on a war basis
From President Wilson's Address to
Congress.
This is a profound statement Of fun
damental facts. Much is only emphas-
lied by the indignant protests of the
obstructionists in the senate The
armistice with Germany was signed
nine months ago tomorrow, and peace
has not yet been proclaimed. AS the
president we'll describes the situa
ton, there is neither peace nor
war" We are all compelled to live
in an economic No Mans Land, and
adjust our existence to the daily she'll
fire of food profiteers and wage prof
iteers.
The senate committee on foreign
relations has had the treaty of peace
under consideration for a full month,
yet it is still holding hearings which
resemble nothing else. so much as the
inquisitions of a country Justice Of
the peace. It has had access to the
original covenant of the league Of
nations for nearly five months and
the revised official text for more than
half Of that time, Yet it is not ready
to report and is holding up the peace
Of the whole world.
While Great Britain and Germany
have ratified, practically everybody
else is waiting I'd see what the Uni
ted States does, and nobody knows
what the United States will do. be-
cause Senator Lodge and his repub-
lican associates do not know them
selves. Their one definite aim is to
make changes that can be used as a
campaign issue In 1920, but as to
what those changes should be there
are hardly FIVE Of the fOrty-nine re-
publican senator's who can agree. In
the meantime they are leaving this
country, as well as the rest of the
world a prey to every form of econ
omic discomfort and economic disOr-
der.
This exploit in senatorial sabotage
is costing the American people mil
lions of dollars a day Neither fnau
cial nor industrial stability is pos
sible while the issue of peace is
ClOuded in doubt and uncertainty.
We send Debs to Jail, and yet all the
injury that DebS ever wrought. al
the damage that all the Industrial
Workers Of the World have ever ac-
complished, all the harm done by the
bolshevist agitators in the country.
is insignificant compared vita the
damage for which Henry Cabot Lodge
and his associates in the senate are
responsible.
Congress may legislate until it is
exhausted and the president may
prosecute food trofiteers until the
court calendars are clogged but
there will be no stability for capital
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-15

Both the democratic administration
and the republican congress were stu
pidly belated in paying serious atten.
ton to the question Of the high coat
of living although there Is political dy-
Mantle in the belly OF il. The senate
could see nothing but the question OF
how to side swipe the league Of ma
tons; the house had actually decided
to take a vacation OF Ave weeks -
Springfield Republican
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The New York Times complains
that Intellectual and intolerant repub-
lican leadership il the house is lead.
ing the republicaa party straight TO.
ward disaster. Read the record left
by Thad Stevens. Ben Wade, and the
early founders of the party. and it
VIII be ascertained tnat it was born Of
intolerance and purtured on it-so
now can it escape it, "As the twig
is bent the ttree i; inclined
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-15

Geo II. Wilder of Hillsborough
county, is to run against Herbert
Drane for congresSa Someone has
been giving George bad advice
Florida Advocate. and Judge H. c.
Gordon of Tampa has thrown his hat
into the congressional ring also.
Nothing seems to abate the hunger
for office. ~
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If Ocala were to elect Roman
Catholic mayor. or send one to con
gress, or make O9e governor, we
would be told by sqne that the Cath
Ollie church had gane into politics
but the same rule goes not seem to
apply if we were I'd elect a Baptist
or a Methodist. or 2 Presbyterian, or
an Episcopalian, to those several
places. Why not?
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Napoleon is said 10 have said that
fame is getting your name spelled
wrong in a bulletta. and the esteem.
ed Times pleasantly refers to lex.
Senator William p Chandler OF Yer.
mont."-World. And one of the lead,
ing publications of Florida says that
it has been one hundred years since
the Philadelphia Centennial Exp6si.
ton.
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Those DIRECTORS to the league of ia
tions. inside and outside of congress-
not only would want "our daily
bread" in the Lords Prayer changed
to meal tickets" but would substi
tute a buzzard for the dove Of peace
if by SO doing it would be painful to
the president.
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RACE RIOTS

1t is becoming more and more evi.
dent that the white and colored peo-
pie are not living in harmony in Chi
cago, and that the tendency toward
Cancellation is not sufficient to bridge
the chasm.
Riots are Increasing in violence
and frequency not alone because of
neigtborhood friction, but because Of
conflicts in interests which are extern
siOns OF neighborhood life, such as at
bathing beaches and on street cars.
The issue Isl Beginning to be sharp
ly drawn, The colored people do not
seem disposed TO recede from what
they consider a. just position in the
community and the whites seem de-
termined not to give way as they con-
ceive it, before a generation of col
ored people into neighborhoods which
heretofore have been restricted to
white population.
The colOred people insist upon just
and equal advantages White people
take the positions that the 'encroach-
ment" of negroes is not just to them
because depreciation Of property val
ues always follows.
Regardless of the validity of the
claims Of the whites, it is matter of
fact that these claims exist The
whites do resent the appearance of
colored people in white neighborhoods
and this resentment does, whether
Justly or not, work change in neigh.
borhoOd feeling and in property val
ues. We may as. well look the facts
sauarely in the face and we ask the
coiored people to consider them.
If the whites and colored cannot
refrain from riots and bloodshed and
interminable violence on the bathing
beaches, how long will it be before
this question is asked Shall there be
separate bathing beaches for the
whites and colored?
If the races cannot get along in
certain neighbOrhoOds without fights
and brawls and police interference,
how long will it be before segrega-
tlon will be the only means of pre-
venting daily murders and perhaps a
recurrence, on scale vastly enIarg-
ed, of the East st. Louis disaster?
If a colored person cannot enter a
street car without this being the sig.
nal for shooting and furore how long
will it be before public policy and the
protection of life and property makes
necessary another system of trans
portation?
It is obvious that these questions
will arouse complaint in persons who
would like to see the races get TO-
gether on a thoughtful basis and who
consider equality the keynote Of
American institutions. There is no
dispute of the colOred mans plea for
Justice and equality. The question
is as to the disposition Of the fact.
Public policy has first call; this
goes for all races and creeds in the
population. Public policy requires
that life and liberty and the pursuit Of
happiness be maintained. II the rae.
es are always at swords points and
individuals of each continually being
sacrificed to the violent feeling which
exists and which it is no use to deny,
does it follow that somewhere there
must be a rule OF conduct Chicago
Tribune, Rep.
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The weeds must 60. They are a
menace to health, and they are ugly.
-Times-UniOn. Providing they are
decaying weeds A growing weed is
not menace to health and it is not
always ugly
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-15

Some of the south's chickens have
gone north to roost. and are creating
somewhat of a disturbance in the
coop
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-15

The Tampa Tribune says that the
day of the soap box orator l. over.
It's nice to be an optimist. but IL looks
to us as if the soap boxers we're just
coming into their own The Tribune
had no reporter at the Oxford pic
mic. 1t was very much like the soap
box orator is still with ia.
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The democratic forests are full Of
a fine growth of well seasoned pres
idential timber. Baker and Lansing,
or Lansing and Baker sounds mighty
good to us. And McAdoo will do, too
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-15

Good old Bob Davis says that the
Gainesville Sun stands for the league
of nations. We have never wavered.
We do not propose to do so. 1t says
the "old guard" never surrenders.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-15

Senator Fletcher: eve might,
ne says. afford to spend million
dollars an hour again, but no nation
can afford to sacrifice its best and
bravest young men,"
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Newspapers must be mOney-mak-
ers in Tampa The Times Is giving
away $4,000 in prizes but adding up
the prices of the various prizes our
mathematician makes the sum total
over 100000 II wa had that much
money to give away W. wouldn't
want any contests.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-15

What the world needs more than
anything else in order to reduce prices
is increased production. One reason
why everything costs SO much is that
everything, in the broad sense. is
scarce.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-15

The grave has its virtues all
It's own. 1t buries every error it
covers every defect-it siIencos crit.
cism-it eXtinguishes resentment.
From its peaceful bosom spring none
but passionate regrets and tender rec.
objections.
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The state seems to have some
"shreds" of state rights" left down
Miami way. A Judge down there has
nullified the prohibition law. e...
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st. Petersburg il not the only
Sunshine City" -
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-15

Armour is in Florida, Swift is in
Florida, and now Morris & Co., are
invading Florida
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-15

Living in a glass house, will the
Chicago Tribune continue to throw
briCkbats?
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-15

Woodrow Wilson: Last in war, first
in peace, and always in the hearts
of his countrymen.
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Entered as second class matter
the postoffce at Ocala. Fla, unde
Acts OF Congress- regulating secor
mail matter.
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Wilder for congress. Cats for the
senate. Sufferin' Wildcats! ~