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New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Runania

majority forms . very small part of
the whole.
"The exact figures for the banat as
whole are difficult to ascertain with ac-
curacy, but 900 Rumanians, I65, 900
Germans, $1,000 Serbs and few thou
sand Magyars Is as near an estimate as
it has been possible to make. AS any
conceivable frontier would include a
fair proportion Of alien population,
some compromise Of nationalist senti.
ment must be the solution. 1t is clear
ly case in which the fullest political
freedom and citizenship must be fur
nisAed to any section Of the population
whose racial aspirations 1t is impossi-
BILE to satisfy. In some compromise Of
this sort, with economic facilities, we
must hope for an amicable solution.
"The third district claimed by Ru-
mania is that Of Transylvania, to the
to now under Magyar rule It is an
important territory already surrounded
on three sides by Rumsria and princi-
pally Rumanian in population, but here,
too, there is large alien population
in this case entirely German and Mag
var. Some sort Of political autonomy
would be more feasible here, IS the
Germans and Magyars are in much
larger numbers and in more compact
geographical groups. It will perhaps
be more difficult for those who have
been declared enemies during the war
to settle down amicably under Ru-
manian rule, but for one group to be
under the government of the other is
geographically unavoidable. This scat
tering and intermixing of nations has
been one Of the disastrous conse-
quences Of imperialist violence Is it
too much to hope that in the future.
under free and enlightened conditions,
this very intermixture may prove a
source of better international under
standing and sympathy?
For two or more separate races and
languages to live side by side, under
the same government and with mutual
advantage, is in itself, each time it is
achieved, a step toward that sinking
of national barriers in the greater
boundaries OF international cooperation
to which we all look forward as the
only final safeguard against future
wars.
"A survey Of these problems enforce )
one of the lessons of the war; it is de-
sirable that the whole of Southeastern
Europe should become single eco
nomic unit. Some progress toward this
ideal will be effected by the arrange
ments now in contemplation for secur-
ing freedom of transit and the inter
naturalization of ports"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

telephone, and 1t appeared that they
had been utilized and used for every
conceivable purpose.
A year ago, however, Lieutenant
Farre conceived the idea that the plane
could be used for the gathering Of
material for his art subjects. Hence
followed from his brush the marvellous
pictures of the aeroplanes in action, In
battle, with beautiful sky setting and
backgrounds. Lieutenant Farre gath
cred his inspirations while in fight,
oftentimes taking notes in color of the
unfolding sky beauty. The final draw
ing and painting we're then done and
completed after returning to earth.
Ensign Goodwin, who Is the editor
and cartoonist Of "Navy Life" believed
that the experiment Of Lieutenant
Farre Of gathering material from the
sky could be carried further. He be-
lieved that actual drawing could be
done in the plane itself while in the
air, and on the afternoon Of January
Is, 1919, Mr.. Goodwin went into the
sky to add another chapter to the his
tory Of aviation and art by drawing to
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Carpets

CARrErs are garments worn by
~ fieers. The immedesty OF nude
floors Is seldom tolerated anywhere
except in hailreems, where they pass
annetieed In the genera! .heteregeneity
Of nakedhess. When carpet gets into
eociety Il is called rug. II Il is an
expensive rug Il is called Oriental.
Oriental rugs ere made in Connect
cut, in advertisements and in hosts
stories. Rugs, like other sartorial
members of society, do not entirely
cover the wearer. The rug is cus
decollete, so that It shows part OF the
floor. Many floors are very daring in
this respect and would be proper OBJ
jectives for purity crusades. Probably
reformers have overlooked this field,
because the floors which offend the
most are those which are the most
highly polished. Old-fashioned car
pets completely cover prudish floors.
Floors which have no particular
charms to display generally wear the
old-fashioned garb. Tacks are used
instead Of safety-pins in dressing
floors. Carpets are laid with tacks and
profanity. When father puts down
carpet he wears out his knees, his pa
tience and his vocabulary. Rugs are
put down with roll. The heavier and
richer thew are the larger the roll
must be.-Stuart w. Knight, in Judge.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

wv OuClOOk, Ernest damlln
Abbott observes
"My American training will not al
low me to spend two hours in the mid
die Of the day and another hour or two
in the evening merely eating. So when
go to the sign Of the Two White
Tables carry with mo pocketful Of
French newspapers. call them news
papers, though they have very little
news. Tho Frenchman doesn't want a
newspaper such as we want; he wants
what he gets-a journal.
"The Paris journal is q little thing
Of = couple Of pages, or at most four.
These journals are not newspapers;
they arc opinion papers. A letter from
America tells me that the papers an
nounce in the front headlines that
President Wilson had four olives with
his tea, and inside announce that the
peace conference is in existence and
taking nourishment.' French journals
omit reference to the olives, and, in
stead Of making announcements as to
what nourishment the peace conference
10 taking, devote column or two to a
discussion Of what kind of nourishment
the conference ought to take.
"The French choose their journals as
they select their food-chacun 4 sor
gout. And there is journal for every
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Superchild
An article by Edward Sapir in 1.-THE Pagan"

with a buzzing swarm Of questions,
counter questions, tests of your We
racity. I have tried it, to my sorrow.
Only those who live much with chill
dren and are fated to be in some sort
their mentors can know the torture of
an epforced rectitude Of thought and
habit, the torture Of surveillance bv
eyes and ears and wits that have no
childish respect for authority. 1t is
only when we pass into university life
and allow our minds to be bombarded
by Gvelter of professional opinions
that we completely lose our critical
acumen. We escape from the result
ing confusion by adopting the tire
some pose Of catholicity Of taste, toll
erance. Now, children are never toler
ant. They persecute you relentlessly
for every lapse from orthodoxy. They
are bent on wedding out heresies with
the remorselessness of an inquisition.
That is why find it we'll, in these cir
cumstances, to retire sometimes to the
recesses of the woods or the SUBMITS
OF mountains to rest my nerves and
mind with prayer and solitude and
breathing
There are still other aspects of su-
perman Psychology that children share.
They are, for one thing, completely
lacking in sentiment. They know that
they are loved; they frequently take
the most cynical advantage of this
love that parents and aunts squander
on them; they may even pretend, for
quite utilitarian purposes, to recipro-
cate 1t, but have yet to find a child,
normal child, that would waste q
moment on the mere etfusion of emo
ton. Vast is the physical and mental
energy of the child Ga typical twenty
four hours worth would carry me
through week of strenuous TOLD, so
wanton an infringement upon the
economy Of effort would seem to him
nothing less than betrayal of the
fundamental principles of conduct.
Hence to love children is the most
excellent schooling in the true art of
love- Here you must be content to
give all and receive nothing in return.
And should you venture to chide an
urchin for not paying you back what
you have so lavishly expended on him,
you would be-and deservedly-stared
at with wide open eyes of amazement,
or despised with smirk. or even
scowled at with frank dislike. Beware
of sentimentalizing with children. 1t
is suicidal.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Yes, Cruelty

But l have as yet omitted to men,
tion perhaps the most striking quality
OF childhood, 1t takes various forms.
1t appears as ruthlessness, pugnaeity.
cruelty, Yes, cruelty, Every child is
helpless Nero A little boy will,
with the utmost sangfroid, suepest
that his baby aster be thrown into
the fufnaee-think of the Carthagini-
ans Offering up their habea as a burnt
Offering to Meleeh, and amiie with
fieadish (fond mothers say inneeent
glee, Now he kaews we'll enough what
such maftyfdom would mean. for he
himself screams with the bloodcurd-
ling animus of forty warning Indians
should you but hold his finger within
an inch of the gently flaming fire.
place. And often have observed such
boy sticking safety pins-unclasped
ones-into various exposed or unex-
posed portions of his sisters bodv.
But, lest you wrongly infer that we
deal here with some british instinct
Of the male, I must add that have
caught little girls slyly tweaking their
elder brothers ears and legs, acts
which were most brazenly denied when
the resulting shrieks led to the hum
ing UP of evidence. This cruelty. +
feel convinced, is the most fundamen-
tai of all the child's admirable traits.
Perhaps it is an anticipatory self
defence, a girding Of the loins for
future combat.
There are other interesting and in
structive things that l might say
about children, but the anatomy of
childhood is too vast an undertaking
for our scanty time and space. The
child Is clearly but sort Of unre-
deemed promise of the superman-
mysterious, scornful, critical, unsenti-
mental, cruel. Hence he is so fasci-
mating. But he is also helpless, being
very little. He is like danger safely
locked up. And that Is why we love
him and find him so entrancingly beau
tiful
have often been told by graybeard-
ed scientists that the child repeats in
himself the history Of the race. I
know nothing about that, but I do
know that the race would do very we'll
to unroll itself back into the child.
If we could unite the splendid un-
spoiled personality of the child with
the mere knowledge Of ripper years we
would indeed have the ideal superman
that poets and philosophers have
dreamed of.
And now we may better understand
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

ME possibility Of art in the air
is no dream of the theorist, but
- proved reality by the adven-
turous accomplishment of En-
sign Adolph 0. Goodwin, U. S. N. r. F..
who has succeeded thoroughly in finish
ing to completion twelve separate pen
and ink drawings while in flight. In the
course of the great war the scope Of
the aeroplane has increased manv
hundredfold. Scarcely more than an
experiment in 1914, its possibilities as
weapon Of warfare were not fullv
recognized until versatile Frenchmen.
courageous Britishers and daredevil
fanks began inventing marvellous
acrobatics, which they have perform ed
with ease and safety With the advent
OF Liberty motors so perfect has be-
come the planes operation that it
was thought to have reached it's zenith
OF uses and efficiency. There were
passenger machines, freight machines
and mail cars. They converscd with
the ground by wireless telegraph and
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

the meaning Of that enigmatical child
likeness that the greatest men so often
manifest. Such men have simply not
lost their childish strength as they
matured. But as for US men of base
metal, we have allowed the rugged
man in us-the child-to be swathed
and contorted by the tightly wrapped
bands OF social convention, expedient
law and religious hypocrisy. If you
would look at the unspoiled man in
you, observe child. 1t is fascinat-
ing game.
All scientific hypotheses are subject
to serious revision. More often than
not they are devourcd by the Meme 81 8
Of other hypothesis. Hence do not
feel unduly apologetic about this ex-
cursus into the obscure realms Of child
psychology. Should patient research
ever reveal the existence in the child
Of qualities that belle his affinity to
the superman--and there are those
who claim to have discovered such
qualities--I shall without further ado,
as benefits tho temper of patient
researcher, cancel my unsentimental
analysis. Should it really appear that
there Is nothing strange and uncanny
about tho child, that his scornfulness
and hypercritical tendency are but the
misinterpretations Of an unworthy OBJ
server. and that. IL the child seema
unsentimental and cruel. dt Is only In
order to chnsten another's egotism
should gladly recant. / should re.
cant to the extent Of preparing n SEN
timental analysis Of "rhc Child as
| pfavfhinvU
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

editorials to news; that they want their
food not raw, but cooked; and that they
expect their favorite editorial out
ragged by the censorship; and they ex-
press their astonishment that the
French press should be allowed to make
some Of the statements that appear on
their pages"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

rs THERE anything on earth quite
40 entrancingly beautiful as lit
tie ch.ld-a wee child Of three or
four-one such human miniature
as ha. just learned ths use Of words
hnt not as yet the use Of silence?
There are other things Of more pas
s;ona.e loveliness. Of more transcend
ing beauty, but nothing, I fancy, ap-
breaches the child in its own peculiar
-here Of beauty; a beauty at once
,uaint and cool and wild, and Of alarm
ing mystery.
II is, above all. the mysteriousness
If children that makes them SO fasci-
mating What disquieting thing it is
20 realize that parents know unknown
elders more intimately, with pro-
founder mutual understanding, than
thew know their own children, the
little creatures they daily jounce on
their knees or lift to ceiling. 1t would
seem that life invests US all alike with
the regalia and secret signs of a
subtle freemasonry binding soul to
soul. and that this aerial fabric has
not had time to weave itself in the
psychic spaces separating child from
parent. Children are like islets clus-
iering about the mainland. The sands
sf experience gradually choke up the
channel. leaving the islets accreted to
he shore. By that time-saddest and
I most wistful of life's tricks-children
are too old, too worldly wise, to re-
member their earlier babblinc selves.
There is only snowy continuity be-
tween early child life and the later
span Of elf-consciousness. What
bridging memories persist are vague
thu AuseeliAg uHcoorOlnated gIlmmerS
that are flung out from an opaque
darkness. 1t does no violence to this
claim of the mysteriousnes Of child
hood to admit that you may make a
child's acquaintance in a few mo-
ments, provided, be it understood,
there cling not to you some diabolical
quality that the child has sensed.
This amiable accessibility of children
proves nothing, for even cats, most
sphinx-like of beings, may permit
courteous advances. 1t is different
with babies, who belong to another
species altogether, They are more
mysterious than eats or children,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
They Condescend

Yen must not misjudge the readi-
aess with which children take You into
their confidence, There il here no
question Of hail-fellew-well-met de-
aiesssey, You, In your eeneeit. may
Interpret 1t an aueh. but thu ehila's
altitude resembles rather the con.
/ ascending aifahility with which eeg.
ala democratic moaarehs have been
Known to endear themselves to the
hearts of their subjects. The distance
I u beth cases is too great for any real
aisanderstandings on the score of
status. Have you ever noticed the
subtle scorn, half thankful and half
hcredulous, with which the little
sFrant accepts your proffered infor-
BATON? You do we'll to give him what
ne requires, he seems to say,~but how
much to him is all your wisdom but
the merest matter of coursel Age gives
yol q surface advantage, and that is
fA No need for you to swell your
eaest. So might one regard the learn
Ing Of dictionary, profting from its
admirable erudition with ill-concealed
Contempt, extracting such sustenance
IS one may wish from so vast q noun
: 'sin OF pedantry. How like a king
mat, having summoned his ministers
Of state and mulcted them for law and
gossip and statistics wherewith to rule
DE realm, dismisses them with q grand
gesture compounded Of thankfulnes IS
! aac raillery! (But let me say, in truth,
ny understanding of the ways Of roy
81! may be far from just; yet, had
! X pleased Fate to seat me on a throne,
'0cn gesture would I have used.)
10 not for a moment imagine that
'aildren accept your facts, morality
s''ne'ic Judgments, without the most
.s0fous, the most searching criticism.
ioa must prove your case, or you are
a''a suspect. Your contributions to
no*isdge must fit in most tightly
'''a their theory of things that they
ave builded themselves. Each new
wa Is eagerly grasped by the ten
>esss Of their minds, turned over and
"ef so that from no possible angle
~~y light fail to be thrown thereon
@asined and finally accepted or re-
'sc'ed- Try to make even mildly con-
''<oictory statements to child. be
sg nours-days-removed, and be-
1''o the little Socrates have at you
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

"But \ have no speaking part"
"Ehl I"
"In the play have nothing to say"
"What Of that7 Many men have won
fame by not saying anything Louis
Vile Courier-Journal.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

why don't you give your wife an,
allowance7" "I did once. but she spent
it before I could borrow it back
Boston Transcript.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Smiles

Dora-Agnes married self-made
man. didn't she?
Ethel-Yes, but she has compelled
him to make extensive alterations.-
Tit Bits.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

"Even when q man realizes his
hopes" said Uncle Eben, che generally
wishes he had hoped foh sumpin' else"
Washington Star.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

7R1TlNG from Paris to "The
I Outlook" Ernest Hamlin
Abbo+< obeor,,o,.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04
Purchases Brett Property.

Mrs. w. A. Morris has purchased
he pretty home of H B.. Brett, in
Woodlawn, for $500. We regret to
announce that Mr.. Brett and his fam
lily will leave Mexico. They will likely
spend the winter in the South later de-
on their permanent home.
Mrs. Brett, as Miss Julia Arnold was
one of Mexico's most popular young
women and Mr.. Brett, since coming to
Mexico, has made a host of friends.
The Ledger joins with their many Mex
leo friends in regretting their dparr-
ure and wishing them much success
and happiness in their NV home.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04
PLANS FOR CONVENTION.
HopewelI Church Will be Scene of
Sunday School Convention.

The citizens Of Thompson are plan
ming a warm welcome for the dele
Gates Of the Seventh Annual Audraln
County Sunday School Convention to
1n held there Friday and Saturday,
September 18th and 18th. Officials Of
he county organization have
ced that the speakers to be present
will have splendid messages, which
'hould be heard by everyone inter
ested in Sunday School work. Among
the prominent speakers to be present
are: Sterling l.. Williams Of Kansas
City; head of the Young Peoples
Sunday School work in Missouri, and
Miss Harriet E. Beard of St. Louis,
head of the State Superintendent of
the Young Peoples Division.
The county convention this year
will be the best ever, according to
President C. NJ. Fox, who urges every
Sunday School in the county to send
as many delegates as possible.
The entertainment at Thompson
will be we'll worth while. Frank Jessie
is chairman of all the committees. The
entertainment and Registration Com
mittee is composed of Mrs. George
Meyers, Mrs. Claude Sansberry and
Mss Leila Davis; Publicity, Willard
Thompson, Hester Thompson and
lugcnia Scott; building and Exhibit
1ommiteee, j. P. Davenport, Roy
Jessie and Mamie Scott.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04
HEDGEDALE ITEMS.

Mrs. Pat Beckman and little daugh-
ter, Dorothy, returned home Monday
after a weeks visit with relatives in
Kansas. - Louis Kircher sold his
Ford and bought a Nash car. Ed
mond Witchie spent the weekend in
st. Louis visiting relatives, The
men of the ncighborhOOd finished
tearing down Littleby church this
week and will begin digging the base
ment. Carrie McGee purchased a
new Chevrolet car this week. - Mr.,
and Mrs. Frank Erdel, Jr,. spent Sun
day with George Gardner and family
of Moline. - Frank Skelly and fam
lily and James Supple and family OF
Laddonia were guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04
CHAIRMAN ELECTED.
5Irs. J.. r. Durkee Chosen to Fill Out
Rev. Atkins Term.

The Audrain Chapter of the Amer
can Red Cross electd Mrs, j. E. Dur
kee Of this city, to fill out the unex-
jrcd term of the Rev. II. p. Atkins, as
chairman of the executive committee
at a meeting held Wednesday after
moor at 800 o'clock.
The Audrain chapter will maintain
"ooms through the winter it is thought.
lust where they will be is not yet
known btu work rooms in the business
Part of town will be secured.
Other minor business was transac-
ted.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04

]. R. Shook Sunday. - Frank Braden
spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs.
Tom Seal. - Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Shook and Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Hin
ton of Mexico visited at Mr.. Louis
Kircher's Sunday. - Mr.. Tom Della
porte of Laddonia visited Littleby Sum
day school Sunday morning. - Edgar
Lee and family motored through and
spent Thursday with Roy Barley ana
family. - Mr.. and Mrs. Carrie MCGEE
and son, Oren Clay, spent Sunday in
Paris.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04
Attend Craig Reunion.

Several Mexico people went to the
Craig reunion Wednesday which is
held yearly in Galloway county. A.
mong those from this city were Mr..
and Mrs. Thad Threlkeld and daugll-
ter, Evelyn Threlkeld, Mr.. and Ms.
Jim Johnson, Mrs. Frances Jackson,
Miss Marcena Johnson and Tine Cave.
A large number of people were expect
e dto be at the meeting as it is an af-
fair known all over the state.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04
HOLD REUNION HERE.
Held in Honor of Mrs. Mary Gilbert's
seth Birthday.

A family reunion was held in This
city Tuesday in honor of the sofa
birthday Of Mrs. Mary Gilbert, of Cal
laway county, who was the guest Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Adams, of tiis
city. A sumptuous dinner was served
the visitors by Mrs, Adams.
Mrs. Gilbcrt's sisters present were:
Mrs. Dial Hunter, Montgomery City;
Mrs, Frank Hamilton, Mrs. Louis KID
well, Mrs. Joe McCue, all of Auxvasse;
and Mrs. John Yates, of Williamsburg
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04

Other guests were: Mrs. Mollie Kid
we'll, Auxvasse; Mrs. Lucy Kidwell,
Mrs. Harron White Mrs. John Mar
tin and Mrs. Mollie Kidwell, all of
Montgomery City. Everyone present
enjoyed a delightful time. Mrs. Gil
bert received the congratulations of her
relatives and friends. She is a pioneer
Missouri woman of the finest type.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04
To Go to Smith,

Miss Ruth Cauthorn and Miss India
Johnson wilt leave September 18th for
Smith College in the East where they
will attend school. Miss Cauthorn has
attended Hardin for the last two years
where she was very popular. Miss
johnson has been attending Smith
the past two years.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04

CARROLLTON, Mo-, September 5.
M. j. Fuch of Iowa is expected here
this week to assume his duties as coun-
ty farm agent for Carroll County. He
is a graduate Of Ames Of Iowa.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04
CHURCH
NEWS

Littleby Baptist Church.

Rev. G. E. Benson of Ashland, Mo ,
will assist US in special meetings be-
ginning Monday night, Sept. 9Th. Rev.
Benson is a full graduate of our Sem
mary in Louisville, with several years
successful experience and work as
pastor and evangelist. Services every
evening next week at 8 p, m.
All are urged to attend.
C. ARLIN HEYDON, Pastor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04
Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

Business meeting next Friday night.
Worship with preaching morning ard
evening next Sunday.
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
All are cordially invited.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04

Mrs. Champ Clark, who has been
visiting for two weeks, passed through
this city Wednesday on her way to
Bowling Green.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04

W. f.. Kendall, of Durant, Okla
homa, and j. r. Kendall, of San An
tonic, Texas, are visitors Of their
sister. Mrs. j. II. Lane Of this city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-09-04

Mrs. George Will Robertson and
small son, are home from a pleasant
visit in st. Joseph, Bonneville and
Bunceton.