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Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1919-03-28
Farmer Goes Miles
To Tell OF Relief
Vinson Lived On Milk And Eggs
For Months-Takes Tanlac
And Gains Is Pounds.

VHlSOu Lived On MILK AND ERRS
For Months-Takes Tanlac
And Gains Is Pounds.
"Ihave come twenty-six miles to
tell you what Tanlac has done for
me" said Joe M. Vinson, a we'll
known farmer of Love, Miss, while
in Memphis recently.
Three years ago." he continued,
my stomach got all out of order, |
co"ldn't digest a thing and for eight
months lived on buttermilk and
the white of eggs. was too nervous
to sleep we'll. gas on my stomach
made me miserable, | had spells of
dizziness, would almost faint and
could hardly get my breath. had
splitting headaches and was so biliou
that would often vomit.
Since taking Tanlac my health
is as good as anybody's and I feel
like new man. l eat anything /
want, sleep like rock, all the mis-
cry and swelling has gone from my
stomach, I have gained fifteen pound
and can do hard days work. |
wouldn't be in the same fix was
before taking Tanlac for my farm
and the stock thrown in"
Tanlac is sold in Sylvia by the
Sylvia Pharmacy, in Erastus by M
L. Coggins, in Glenville by W. M.
Fowler, and by all good druggists.
Messrs. Holt and Sisk of the
branch house of the Ford Motor
o., of Charlotte, N. C. were in the
city this week on business with
u. S. Hiedon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
AGUINALDO AT FIFTY

THE change in his political principles
l. does not constitute the only reason
why Emilio Aguinaldo would certainly
disdain a revolution if he saw one brew
ing. Rich men abhor disturbances, and
Aguinado is rich. At the age Of fifty
the eX-chioftain is large landholder and
the vice president of two big cocoanut oil
concerns.
Possibly he regards his adventures Of
the days when he was lodging Funston,
only to be Cornered at last, in the light of
mere youthful esCapades. He beholds his
native land as in no need Of agitators,
and as selfgoverning country with in
dependence at the end of the rainbow.
His story is but another oYemplar of
the conspicuous Anglo-Saxon ability for
winning over foes. Joseph E. Johnston
broke bread with the Union leaders after
the Civil War. Wheeler and Fitzhugh
Lee served under the Union flag Britain
can point particularly to Botha and
SHUTS. The latter is magnificent
figure. Aguinado. of course, cannot ap-
proach his measurements. The Filipino
was a willy general. but no statesman.
Honorable citizenship is evidently the
height of his political ambitions in his
comfortable middle age.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

time after time, as it was proved In this
city, that inefficient management is a
principal cause of low earning power on
trolley lines.
Every utilities commission should have
the power to appoint board of inquiry
when utilities corporations ask higher
rates-for trolley rides or gas or cleo
tricity or water. Nowadays the commits
sions are almost always content to ac-
cept the arguments Of lawyers skilled in
the arts of bewilderment. The lawyer
who can tire out utilities commission or
outwit it, rather than engineers capable
of assessing the possibilities of transport
lines, is left to decide how much street.
car riders should pay for the service
rendered them. This, too, is in the only
country that boasts of its efficiency
In the end, however, the street-car com
panes themselves must take their own
case to the vast jury of their riders. They
will have to clean house They will have
to show the public that they know how to
be square and that they have learned
their lessons. No institution that en-
joyed public confidence was ever threat
ened with the bankruptcy that Mr. Pardee
and the others talked of in Washington.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
UNCLE SAM, PRICE BOOSTER?

THE war is over. The interest which
l. the government manifested in the
everyday troubles of the people through
agencies like the food administration, the
war labor board and the fuel controllers
is no more.
What then is the explanation of the
ardent efforts of some Of the Washington
departments to protect the interests of
the cattlemen and meat packers by
elaborate schemes to stimulate food ex-
ports with a view to maintaining prices
What has earned for the cattle raisers
and the packers group immunity from
the law of supply and demand?
In Italy, in France and in England the
governments are working overtime to
bring living costs down. The government
at Washington, through new devices of
finance intended to cause vast exports of
American meat and grain, seem actually
working in effect to keep prices up.
1t was known that food spectators
looked for a killing when the war ended
and the American food surpluses were
released for Germany. 1t is a bit strange
to believe the American Government de-
partments are aiding at the ceremony.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
CHARITY WITHOUT BUNK"

APART from the intrinsic worth of the
"A work it performs, the Society for
Organizing Charity commends itself to
public Endorsement in its announced re-
lection of drives" "whirlwind cam
paigns," minute men" and sensational
sentimental advertising on behalf of its
treasury.
Like most really useful organizations,
the society performs its functions with
quiet, self-respecting, businesslike dis
patch. The value of its efficient service
admits of no question.
For proper administration about 500
600 more month is needed. Philadel-
phians who are now asked to come to its
assistance may be assured that their
money will be intelligently spent and that
poor relief will be directed in the way
that it will do the most good.
The society has long justified its ex-
istence. The public should now insure its
continuance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
HANDS ACROSS THE SKIES

sn'ANNUNZIO, stormy petrol of Ital-
~ ian letters, singer of the new ma
tionslism, voice of the war party in his
native land, is to fly from Rome to
Tokio-if he can.
There are implications in this an
nouncement that have nothing to do with
the science of aviation.
Since the armistice was signed it has
been plain that airships are following the
lines over which international sympathies
are expected to flow most warmly. The
British dirigible in New York, the other
British dirigible that is to cruise over
India, our own air flights to England
represented important experiments in the
advanced science of fight. But the effect
Of such approaches on national psychol-
ogy is we'll understood.
There were high words of greeting,
generous assurances and the dominant
suggestion of invisible bonds between
people who have been shaking hands with
each otheg over the wastes Of the sea,
TherX are many other places than
Tekis<. 4 which D'Annunzio might AZ,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
INQUIRY AFTER THE TRAGEDY

THREE Investigations into the tragedy
l. of the burap warehouse on American
street are under way. But neither the
fire marshal the coroner nor the build
ing inspectors, who are all at work. can
do more than reveal the pitiless logic of
cause and effect. No inquiry, however
vigorous, can restore the six sacrificed
lives. This exhibition Of energy is made
on a delayed schedule.
Rigid inspection of the structure and
of the conditions under which the Potash
Brothers conducted their business place
should have been followed long ago by
orders compelling observance of the laws.
That the firm was notified to remove all
bagging from the building back in
March WIS insufficient surveillance. The
case should have been pursued until the
explicit instructions had been carried out.
Investigation after the fatality is a
common American practice. Lessons are
solemnly read from the event and then
forgotten. Immediately after the 1ro-
quois fire the regulations about crowding
the corridors in theatres were drastically
enforced. Later the same old season of
laxity set in.
The system of building inspection is
designed precisely to prevent such catas-
trophies as that of the decaying ware
house. Methods that are easy-going or
superficial are certain eventually to bear
tragic fruit. Every one knows what the
price of safety is.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
POSTWAR FIRST AID

THE government owes it to the dis
l. abled coldiers to train them in the art
of self-support. An excellent plan has
been perfected and it is in operation.
The sundry civil appropriation bill,
passed by the present Congress. placed
such restrictions upon the expenditure of
money set apart for the work that the
work could not he done.
The President has. therefore, sent the
bill back to the Capitol with his disap-
proval and request that it be changed
to permit the work to go on. His objec-
tions have made it apparent to Congress
that the bill should be revised The
committee has already modified it in
accordance with the Presidents sugges.
tions
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
HE'D BE A JlTNEY SENATOR

uENRY FORD never heard of Benedict
IL Arnold. He thinks an idealst is a
man who helps another to make a profit.
He says that the War of 1912 was a revo-
luton. He thinks that General Pershing
has ended all war.
These are a few samples from the tes-
timony offered by him in his libel suit
against the Chicago Tribune.
This is the same Henry Ford President
Wilson thought fitted to represent Michi-
gan in the United States Senate, and who
is now contesting the scat of the candi-
date who received the certificate of cleo
tiOO
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
PEACE

DEACE has come to the Flemish hills,
l. And the sunny slopes of fair Lorraine
Peace in the very air that spills
Ger the greening slopes of vine and grain.
Peace has come to the wales of France;
Peace to the smiling English lanes;
Peace where the golden sunbeams dance
Ger Italy's hills and woods and plains.
Peace in the vagrant winds that stray;
Peace in the heart Of everything;
Gone are the fears of yesterday,
Death has fed on the breeze's wing.
Blaine G. Biglcr.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
Situations Wanted

WHEN we are in search of an innocent
w smile and don't know just where to get
It we love to turn to the advertising pages OF
the English newspapers. There is just
enough difference in the English and Ameri-
can LIMOGES to make many announcements
that are usual enough to British eyes seem
admirably humorous to us.
One of the first things one notices in the
English Situations Wanted" is the number
of those who advertise themselves very hum
bly as Persons" middle Aged Person re-
quires post Housekeeper to lady or gentle
man: no wash" Situation Wanted by a
resnectable Person as Working Housekeep-
err 1t appears that in English want ads a
Person is always a female. Perhaps Per
son is a female no longer In the first parox- =
vsms of youth for we note these insertions
WANTED. SUPERIOR PERSON, about 45
wears" and Respectable Elderly Person
Wanted as Caretaker for small country
house"
In contrast to these unassuming folk are
those who insist on calling themselves Ladies.
."Thoroughly domesticated, capable Lady de-
sires Position as Lady Housekeeper to gen
teman of good manners and clean habits,
Widowers are much preferred as employers
by this class of applicant. For instance
"WIDOW seeks post as LADY HOUSE
KEEPER to gentleman (widower pre-
ferredl." Somehow it seems little heart
less to prefer widower. One wonders
whether these ladies scan the death notices
| daily and note with secret satisfaction any
newcomer to the ranks of bereavement.
There is a sage knowledge Of human per
| plexities displayed in the following want;
NURSE. to take major part in care o.
| twin babies must be patient and energetic
small hopse maid kept; undsniable refer.
| sncea required: wages f3s per annnms
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
What Do You Kno,U?

QUIZ
1. Who is the new German minister to The
new Austria?
Q. What is the fastest speed ever made BY
an ocean passenger liner?
8. Where is the island of Yap?
4. Who is Raisuli?
s. In what novel is the circumlocution OF.
fee described?
6. Who was Claude A. Debussy?
Z. What is the literal meaning of the word
mediocre?
s. What is a solecism?
o. What American statesman was known
as "Old Bullion?
10. What is the salary of the chief justice
of the United States?
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. Three marshals of France appeared In
,he Bastille Day parade in Paris on
July IA. They were Joffre, Petain
and Foch.
o. Tellurians are inhabitants of the earth.
3. A tup is a male sheep. ~
a Many East Indians and Burmese are
betel nut chewers.
< The word bigot is of debatable origin.
Derivations from Visigoth and the
Spanish word "bigot," mustache,
have both been suggested.
q Calgary is the capital of Alberta,
Canada.
7.yAlphonse Daudet wrote the famous
short story classic of French patrio-
tism, 'The Siege of Berlin"
The Eiffel Tower is 9S4 feet high. The
Washington Monument is 500 D.
high.
0. Mayhem is manning person by d.
priving him of the use of any of his
members which are necessary for him
In defending himself or annoying his
adversary.
~ The Agreat British, drive against Gers
maDy in 1913 was Launched on
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

His announcement at Ehis particular mo-
ment will have as much significance IN
foreign capitals as a diplomatic note. A
good part of Europe will wonder whether
there are statesmen in Italy who hope to
obtain from Japan the sort of co-opera-
ton which the Allies denied 1taly's rep
resentatives at Paris. And hat in all
probability is precisely what D'Annunzio
wants Europe to do.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
Martyrs Of State

The commission that is
Martyrs Of State tc investigate charges
Of extortion m a d
against Squire Thomas, or Haverford, will
have to define the acts that constitute spoon
ing. 1t will have about as easy time as the
prohibition committee in Congress which will
soon attempt to define for the world the pre-
else physical conditions which indicate alco-
holiC intoxicatiOn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

One young woman lost her purse con
tanning three thousand dollars worth Of
Jewels on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City,
and another young woman found it and re,
turned it to her. Yet some senator's scotf at
idealism
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
The Raw Material

Little Jenny, aged three years, asked her
brother for glass of water. He drank out
of it before handing it to her. Much in
censed, she said to him:
Hasn't you been told ladies first ?"
yes" said little Billy, ,'but you amt
a lady.
Jenny, Indignantly:
JBut I am what ladies Is made off,
B}timore Sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

TINE night is now upon us and the noe
l. turnal folk come abroad. the nighthawk
flying hther and thither with shril cry high
above the trees until long after twilight The
owls come later in the year with their answer
ing hoots now so near that you may hear
the feathery rattle in the throat and again
diminished to an echo afar off on the hills.
The whippoorwills are the busiest of noe
turnal songsters, reiterating their lamenta a.
tions about the hagellation of poor will
doubtless only too well deserved. in con
tinuous chorus on warm nights, all the timo
that the dew is falling, and sleeping off tbs
effects of their musical debauch all day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

The converting billboard men, who have
proclaimed the policy of treating all criticism
of their performances with consideration,
might well tip off spokesmen of both parties
in Washington.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

Now that the Presi-
Hope Long Deferred? dent has saved the
daylight saving law
we hope that a little Of what has been saved
may filter into the minds of the congressman
who voted for the repeater.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

In the midst of ratification wrangles and
all the ills which now seem to weigh upon US
so heavily, it is well to remember that just
one year ago tomorrow Ludendorff took his
Steve Brodie-with reverse consequences.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

Even If Henry Ford wins nothing from
his suit but the knowledge that Benedic
Arnold was not writer but a wronger, h
will have gained something.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

The American people are less inclined
TO favor a swing around the circle than a
vigorous straight line approach to the ques
tinnable peace points.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

The German nobility is not to be abol-
ished, but everybody is to be made as good
as a noble. Thus does German ingenuity
find a way out.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

Ten cents a cup for coffee in the chain
restaurants is now the price. But wasn't
the five cent cup of coffee to displace the
five-ce glass of beer? Something must
have gone wrong.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
Plot for Short. Story Writers

PERSONAL--The Young Man who left
his residence on Sunday, Feb. II, about
o'clock to get a Cigar, will find letter
in Bloods Despatch for him-Puolic Led
ger, March J. 1861.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

"New York Can't Have Thaw" says a
headline. There are some advantages in
being frozen out, after all.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

1t Ia now up to indefatigable Pollyanna
to point out the decrease of seasickness in
consequence of the shipping strike.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

Berlin has been struck by suicide wave
There will be no great grief in the world il,
as it recedes, it hits Amerongen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

The Senate foreign relations committee
Is wasting time drafting resolutions asking
treaty, when it could invite him to its com
mittee room, where he could tell all about It.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

It seems to us that greater ignorance re-
sides in the lawyer who thinks that anything
can be proved by asking what a ''ballyho' is
than. in the victim who attempts to define it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

Speaking of that ignorant idealist,' it's
mighty easy to prove any one ignorant by
asking him questions that do not relate to
his particular line of work.
One industrious man armed with an ency-
clopedia can buffalo the world. Just ask the
Omizeditor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

The "wets" cannot complain of lack of
co operation by the weatherman, anyway.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
Hush

What would we say
Hush. if one of the cities in
one of the new Ger
man republics were to report scenes as
frankly suggestive of political jobbery and
decadence as that which was staged in the
Offices Of the new board of registration?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

Leading a double life has a way of lead
ing to no life at all
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

The New York Ship
Preparedness ward, "a m d n. has
launched its sixteenth
torpedoboat destroyer. While we trust in
the covenant, it is we'll to keep on wetting our
peace preservers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
Employment for DISCHARGED Soldiers

WANTED. for public house, respectable
General to assist in bar good wages
ref. req Ostrich Hotel, Heaton Park-The
Manchester Guardian.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17
Bob Pulls One


Bob Maxwell tractored up to the managing
EDITORS desk Yesterday with mild man
nered stranger in tow.
Say" quoth he to the managing editor
''here's a young man who wants to get into
the newspaper game. Maybe you have some
kind of a job he can grab off,"
The managing editor began to wonder how
he could let the applicant down easily. Man
aging editors have many troubles, and re-
quests for jobs are among them.
"Has he had any experience?' he said.
"Only in Chicago" said Bob deprecat-
inely, "He worked on the Chicago Tribune
for while. But he's ambitious and willing
to learn
I'm sorry" said the managing ed, who
is A humane man and hates to be cruel, but
I'm afraid" -,
maybe I'd better introduce him." said
Bob. Meet Ring Lardner.'
"In dear provincial 1885," sings vachel
Lindsay in this weeks New Republic,
Ingersoli was named along with Cain
Voltaire, Appolyon and Thomas Paine
Robert Elsnore riled the piouS brain
We suppose the fact that Vachel was only
nine years old at that time accounts for the
two misspellings.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

A reporter expresses surprise at finding
eopy Of Paradise Lost" in the reading room
of the Bartenders' Union, on North Broad
street.
II seems to us that that Is exactly the book
ons would expect 70 end there those days,
SOCRATES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

Careful reading of the Congressional Rec
ord introduces us to great many lynchings
Of the English language, but there is one
abominable expression that not even con
gress. zen have yet commtted-'at that
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17

Here and elsewhere-and especially in
Camden and in other parts of New
Jersey where the question of trolley fares
Is painful md acute-no public service
commission is justified In granting the
privilege of higher rates to street rail-
w(ys until board of operating experts
inauires deeply into the methods of the
coi,paAy n question. II has been proved
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-11
ROMANCE IN A GARDEN
nils Nelly Of NJ Orleans" Revlves
Olden Sentiment

Romance in walled garden" is
what Mis- Nelly of N Orleans shows
at the Broad, where Mrs. Fiskc begins
her last week Monday. AS the guardian
spirit of romance, Nelly Daventry un-
locks this rusty gate, and in the moon
light of Mardi Gras, "when all the
world is just eighteen" the story of
the play unfolds. Having gone away to
live in Paris some twenty years before,
after she had been Tilted at the altar
BY handsome but jealous Creole, Mis-
Nelly returns to N'0rleans to take a
hand in another romance. Her niece
and the son of her former lover are de-
termined to marry, but the boys father
still smarting under the memory of his
experiences with Mis- Nelly, is deter
mined to prevent it. To adjust the echo
of her own romance, Miss Nelly devotcs
her still youthful spirits and her alert
mind. First she fools him into think
ing she is a rheumatic old lady, and
irritatingly querulous. Then she revives
scene of twenty years before, care
fully staging it in the old garden, with
its Mardi Gras lights, mysterious re-
cesses and honeysuckles.