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East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1919-12-19

M a S8unders was appointed bY
the Board to make settlement on
all matters due Okribbeha county
by LII. A. Smith. former Justice of
the peace, with instruction to file
necessary suit aud take such other
steps necessary for the collection
of aIl accounts due the county BY
said FL, A, ST ith.
ordered that r, L Carpenter be
authorized to spend not exceeding
$500 on ToIsoa bottom on Rober,
son Rold, to be paid out Of Beat
5 road fund.
j. d. Hartness was employer TO
build and repair the link of road
beginning at Jerry Doss's corner
on Artesia road and ending al
Northern border OF DR.. A. H, Rice
Hartness to receive 5000 for same
when work is complete according
to contract and specifications.
The plumbing by Ii. u. Butts
In the public closets Of courthouse
being defective and incomplete The
same was rejected by the Board
aud Sheriff, K q Bridges aud
Geo McInvale be appointed to In.
spect said plumbing and determine
what is necessary to complete said
plumbing and to notify II 9 Butts
to remedy same and upon failure
or refusal the committee will have
necessary work done and the cost
OF same be deducted from amount
claimed by H, q, Butts.
The officers and members of the
Board were allowed their mileage
4 d perdiem amounting TO $3.50.
D. ". 0uT1Aw,
President
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1919-12-19

The bond Of W. W. Hastings
Sheriff and Tax Collector was fixed
at $780, 100000.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1919-12-19
PROCEEDINGS BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS
December Term.

Starkville, Miss, Dec 10, 1919.
The Board met this day pursu.
ant to adjournment. All members
and officers present.
The following accounts We're
allowed,
J Ii johnson, repng bridge. A 800
z A Ollie, bridge work.. rs 0
Q A Ollie, insp concrete a.. IL 90
j l. Nicely and g MoCiieght were
appointed 10 inspect public road on
West side of q, b, Thompson's place
and report needed changes to prevent
Ell oachment Of Sand Greek, The nec-
cessary changes were recommended and
Thompson be- allowed $4,000 for the
lunl necessary fur tha roul
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Pre- sidentiaL 7irnbe r

Civilian, Allen White. in The E1nporin GAZETTE,
The other evening in Emporia mild
hammered, soft-voiced man stood before
dinner company Of two hundred and talked
IN an engaging conversational tone for an
hour about the war, about the bows whom
he had trained, about what he had seen in
short visit to the battle lines and about
the meaning of the war to mankind He
did not use figure of speech he made no
impassioned gesture; he did not lift his
tones once to the oratorical pitch
Yet his auditors listened and applauded
and stood on their feet and clamored for
more. 1t was beautiful tribute they made
to the sincerity of the man, to his funda-
mental honesty of soul. And for a week
now the people of Emporia have had one
rather fixed idea; and that is that Leonard
Wood, major general of the American army.
is OF Presidential size and would make an
ideal Republican candidate.
He stands for the best traditions of the
Republican party. He represents all that
is forward moving and intelligent in the
party. He has demonstrated during thi.
war by his splendid efficiency, by his fine
patience under genuine grievance and
by his moral courage in a time of duress
that they also serve who only stand and
wait. Above all, the country during the
four years of reconstruction Following the
return of our armies from France will need
a calm head, man who can stand the
hlngs and arrows of all fortune, who can
indeed stand and wait, and labor while he
waits.
General Wood is that kind of man. He
has had exceptional training for the high
office of President. He has the kind of iron
IN his blood that makes fine administrators
He has clean record in private and in
public life. He will make an acceptable
candidate and great President. Kansas
could be for him without contest
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
That Moral Equivalent

+, tits, of course, preposterous. A nation
that in a year and half sent two million
soldiers overseas cannot prevent little
harbor strike of a few thousand men
from threatening our greatest city with
starvation. Something ought to be done.
Something may be done. Tie public will;
ultimately become supreme in the matter
of such necessities. In the mean time
and for goodness knows how long, we
shall mudde ahead, pickering, incon-
venienced, worrying.
We are reminded of those rainbow
chasers who saw complete reformation
of our social and industrial life to result
from the war. Men could be got to sac
rifice money, positions, lives, to the COM
mon good in the event of war Even
strikes in war time could be prevented
one way or another. All that was neces-
carry over into peace time this same
altruistic readiness to sacrifice all for the
common good.
Exactly. That Is all that is necessary.
But how? War gives just that noble,
altruistic motive which is lacking in
peace time. William James speculated
at length upon a possible moral equiva-
lent for war. He thought it might be
discovered. Perhaps it will. But that
day has yet to come. Meantime we are
witnessing, inevitably, that slump in
altruism, in devotion to- the common well
fare, which invariably follows war. We
are going back to peace and selishness
whether we like the coupling of the ideas
or not
That is the fact, but let US not be too
quick with our blame. Our altruism de-
clines for lack of clear, stirring, un-
ambiguous way of expressing it. We re-
tain something from the splendid deeds
and emotions of war, surely. If way
still Offered, if that moral equivalent
could only be found and presented to u.s.
there would be no question of slump.
We should go on being as fine and coura-
geous and unselfsh as war makes us. 1t
is life that is at fault, not We. Or we
are at fault only as we let life remain
unchanged, unprogressing, only if we
sink back into our strikes and chickering's
and peace pettinesses without making
every last effort to avoid them-unless
we search increasingly for that long
sought moral equivalent!
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
The Proposed Secretary of Railways

The proposal of the Railway Execu-
tives' Committee for the creation of a
Cabinet officer with charge over the rail
way systems of the country contemplates
radical departure in the conception of
government. 1t is true that the courts.
and latterly the Interstate Commerce
Commission, have had considerable
supervisory powers. But the courts and
the Commerce. Commission as we'll, have
been more OR less permanent bodies and
to large extent free from political bias
and political influences. The proposed
new Cabinet officer would tend to be like
other Cabinet officers-generally men of
political rather than business training.
We should have to consider that with
the varying fortunes of politics we
might expect men Of sudden views and
impulses, like Postmaster General Burle-
son, or--to confine the illustration to the
present Cabinet---men of the type of Nc
Adoo or Lane.
IT may be that present-day develop
ments force such departure. This is a
time OF radical proposals, up to direct
government ownership and operation. 1t
may be that the railway executives were
induced to make their present proposal
as compromise. Consideration of this or
any similar plan may well go back to the
fundamental policies Of this government
through more than century. That is, a
policy Of minimum Of governmental in
reference in business and in commercial
affairs and maximum opportunity for
individual initiative and enterprise, con-
sjstcnt always with prevailing estimates
of public safety and public welfare.
Much Of the existing feeling against the
railways II residnum from Indignation
against practices on the part Of the rail-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
The Mote in Philadelphia's Eye

Mr.. Edward w. Box, editor of The
Ladies Home JOURNAL, should, in the
next day or two, get cablegram some
what like this:
"See Matthew seventh chapter, third
verse.
(Signed) "THE CITY OF LONDON"
Mr.. Box was in London last spring as
one of a number of American editors in
vited to get at first hand the English
point of view. One evening he took
walk all by himself and returned in
state of mind which caused him to give
out an interview in which he expressed
horror at the moral condition of London.
England kept its temper admirably. Only
one writer limited, very guardedly, that
reports reaching England were that con-
ditions were not Of the best in Philadel-
phia. Now comes this dispatch from
Washington
Secretary Daniels wrote Mayor Smith
of Philadelphia to-day that unless the
municipal authorities Immediately i'm
prove vice conditions in Philadelphia
steps will be taken by the government
TO give the needed protection to the
thousands of young men in uniform who
must either visit Philadelphia or be de-
MED the liberty which ought to be given
them"
Possibly if the editor of The Ladies'
Home Journal had taken an evening
walk in Philadelphia before going to
London he might have remembered the
verse about the mote and the beam and
not given out that interview in London.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Snowflakes

George f. Burke in The Columbus Dispatchl
Study the flakes; get out of doors and
allow them to alight upon your sleeve.
Take magnifying glass and look at them.
They are beauties-six- pointed beauties: no
two alike, but all of them six-pointed.
And when the snow comes in drifts and
swirls about the face of the earth. and
drifts into every nook and Granny, look at
it, Behold not an enemy, but a friend.
See how nature has woven a blanket for her
little children. Comprehend, if YOU can.
the infinite patience that so devised it that
these little particles should fall SILENTLY
until they formed great sheet to cover the
reglon-a wavy, warpy garment of purity
to shut out the north wind, the biting
tongue that would lap up the tender, grow
ing plants of the earth. There is no more
wonderful thing than the snow--and no
more kindlier thing; nor anything more
universal over the face of the earth De-
splse not the snow, nor complain about it;
let it kiss your cheek in affection
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11

roads and great corporations which no
one any longer defends and of which
there is now little reason to fear re-
turn
1t is not amiss to recall that under this
large general programme there has been
built up the greatest industrial nation,
and with it the finest, most extensive and
efficient railway system in the world. In
the last few years the railways have
been sadly handicapped from the feud
that arose between them and the Inter-
state Commerce Commission. Yet even
under this handicap they have accom-
plished most remarkable results, at a
minimum of cost.
In recent years we have witnessed the
steady growth of the political power of
labor unions, and we have within brief
space seen them able practically to COM
pei an increase of wages upon the threat
of utter disruption of the business of the
country. This is a clear political fact.
1t must be dealt with in some way But
it would seem as if the safer path might
be in the direction of investing perma-
nent body with greater authority and re-
sponsibility rather than to create a sin
gle administrative official, member of a
political administration changing each
four or eight years, inevitably swayed
by political interests and inevitably, at
times, by purely political motives.
If it be objected that one body cannot
properly exercise both judicial and ex-
ecutive functions, the answer is that ex-
ective functions could be delegated.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
A Soldier Protests Hearst

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following is an extract from
letter of an officer who, when the armistce
was signed, had been at the front for three
months:
"a great deal of indignation was aroused
here few days ago by the statement in
the papers that Hearst had been named by
Mayor Hylan rs chairman of the reception
committee for the homecoming Of the SOL
diers. That beats anything done yet in the
old country! Both Hylan and Hearst must
be looking for reception Of bottles and
rotten eggs.
"rhat sort Of talk goes the wrong way.
1t isn't true, lis it?D L.,
New York, Jan. ., 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t seems to me the fittest memorial
to Colonel Roosevelt will be to establish an
Order of Better Americans.
To this end, waste no penny, no breath,
no ounce of driving force in bronze or
marble; rather gather all into funds of
thought, feeling and money, devoted to that
single end. Let the gathering be nation
wide--from Sandy Hook to the Golden
Gate, from far Alaska to Porto Rico.
There cannot be too much money, but it
must be for investment, not for outright
spending. Only the income should be used.
Uses multiply, but the one which think
would be closest the dead mans heart
would be the Amercanzation of for
eign element, either present or future. This
not through costly colleges, but in simple
neighborhood cassrooms, where the first
essential would be the teaching of our Ian
guage. After that lucid grounding in our
elementary laws, followed by suffrage lore
and the whole duty of citizens. M. NJ. w.
New York, Jan. 8, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Why Is a Cob {?

Our few words upon lime-juicers have
stirred the salt ocean to their depths
not with respect to the new science ad-
vanced, but in the matter of deep sea
lingo. We shallfnot attempt conclusions
or fine distinctions. But from the wealth
of advice and material at our elbow we
present few conspicuous generaliza-
tions; and we do so with full apprecia-
tion of our fallibility and trusting con-
fidence in the good nature of all wind
TANNERS, lime-juicers and gobs.
Lime -juicer" is the more elegant
word, and it refers to either ship or
sailor as you will--of the British navy
For general use between decks "limey"
has been developed--morc often of a
British sailor than his ship, we gather
This is American navy slang In the
English tongue "fatfoot" is the word
when it is not "matlow." THE former
comes from the bare feet, no doubt; the
latter is an obvious result of the Gross
Channel entente.
Now, for our own sailormen: Jackie"
10 Vic poeC pledSdlCTy, anu NOW IL
would make sailor swear had not Sec
retary Daniels purified the navy of all
that sort Of thing! The sailors them
selves invented "gob," perhaps as a
masculine antidotc to take the curse off
"jackie." Whence came the word? No
body has answered so far, and we await
to hear from the thousand-odd navy men
from all parts of the globe who we're
personally present when the word was
coined "Doughboy" has been through
similar experience, SO why not "gob"?
When the greenhorn arrives at the
naval training station he is "boots," for
the clear reason that he brings rubber
boots with him as part of his equipment
"Boots" is sea talk for "rookie," ap-
parently. Presently he loses his boots
like a good sailor, and thereupon he be-
comes that greatest of all distinguished
heroes "gob."
But why or how? No researcher has
thus far answered. "Limey" for Brit
ish sailor is crystal clear. Must our
"gobs" be clouded in relative mystery?
Not if we know our correspondents, we
hope and confidently trust.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Epitaph

Under the a0ide and starry sky
Dig the grare and let me lie.
Glad did liue, a'ad gladly die.
And | laid me doaUn aOith acil.
THIS be the uerse you grace for me ::
"Here he hes mhere he longed
to be-; =
Home IS the sailor, home from the
sea,
And the hunter home from the
hill."
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: | think if every community would
raise endowments and establish a hospital
or hospitals in their vicinity having rooms
as we'll as endowments labelled after our
ex-President no better monument could be
raised to a man who admired real but quiet
appreciation. In this way his name would
be commemorated in every part of this
vast nation. E. A.~HALL.
ST. James's Rectory, Fort Edward, N. Y,
Jan. 8, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: In view of Theodore Roosevelt's in
terest in the conservation of our forests
and all wild life generally, what more fit
ting memorial to him could we have than q
Roosevelt National Park" the land for
which had been purchased, re-forested and
otherwise developed with funds raised by
popular subscription This park might, ap-
propriately, contain school of forestry,
game preserves, etc. ARTHUR c. NASH.
New York, Jan. s, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
The Scoundrel Club to Date

The following additional citizens have
recently become eligible to the Honorable
Scoundrel Club, composed of those char
acterized by the Mayor as "profteers, "
"human hyenas" and "scoundrels" be-
cause they refused to sit with William
Randolph Hearst on committee to well
come returning soldiers:
AHLsTROM, C. F.
BARD, ALBERT S.
BRENT. HENRY KELLY
BUTLER. WILLIAM ALLEN.
CAMP, CHARLES MARTIN.
CHAPLIN, STEWART.
COHEN. EX-JUDGE WILLIAM N
BUTTON. JOHN II.
ELLIMAN, DOUGLAS L.
ESCHER, HENRY
FIELD FRANK HARVEY
FLEMING. MATTHEW c.
GRAY, HENRY G.
HAMMOND. MAJOR GRAEME M
HAMMOND. II. P.
HIGBEE. ROBERT w.
HUGHES. CHARLES EVANS.
JOHNSON. r. NJ
KNOX, ARTHUR
KURTZ, IRWIN
LEAVITT JOHN BROOKS.
LEWIS. WILLIAM L.
LITTLE, ROBERT FORSYTH
LLOYD, FRANCIS G..
MACY, NELSON
MAHAN, LYLE EVANS.
MILLER RUDOLPH P.
MORGAN, J. p.
MYERS. JOHN CALDWELL.
.PINCHOT MRS. CLIFFORD
RANSOM, ALBERT W.
SAMN1IS ELMER G.
TACK. AUGUSTUS VINCENT
TIPLINC, CHARLES A.
TOWNE. CHARLES HANSON.
VAN DYKE. HENRY
VERDERY. MARION J.
WALLACE EDWARD
WHITE, ALEXANDER NJ
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM H.
WILLS, DAVID
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Poland Not "Rapacious y

Mr.. ". o. Gorski, swifer Of the fol-
losving letter, speaks for that seefiom Of
the Poles Of Ne7v York qvho accept the
Polish programme qvhich is being formu-
lated BY Ignace Padereqrski
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Theodore Roosevelt never fnched
when it came to standing up and being
counted in behalf of the principles of jus
tice, fair play and square dealing-to
friend foe alike-at all times. This
being fact, would it be out of place for
me to make suggestion with regard to an
everlasting memorial for Theodore Roose-
welt that symbols of these principles be
grouped in some manner or form around a
statue Of Theodore Roosevelt to show what
he stood for in life and to keep it constant
ly before the people Such memorials could
be placed in Boston, New York, Phladel-
phia. Washington, Baltimore, Chicago,
Pittsburgh, San Francisco, New Orleans, St
Louis and all other large cities at not a
very great cost to each.
FREDERIC, G. W. SIGRIST.
New York, Jan. s, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11

against each other or against their
governments.
President Wilson has been making a
novel experiment.. There are elements
of danger in innovations. A real peace
must be based on concord. 1t is certain
to be hindered by needlessly engender
ing divisions and irritations.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Thoughts on Roosevelt Memorial

7HE TRIBUNE has received so many letters Nth refer
to fitting memorial to Theodore Roosevelt that
space does not permit publishing all of them
Uory of mention that among those far received the
kea10te for plan Amercunotiou
of foreign born czes plea that made IN Colonel
Roosevelts last public utteYunce.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
An Oversight
fEranl The I,.,

From The Indianapolis Nsags}
OF course, in warning as against repesss
ing mistakes of the past Senator chsnines,s
lain ovcrlooks the Tact that we aren't g0'pe|
20 have any more wars, 81
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
What's Bred in the Bone
fFrom The ph0aaeiph;a rno.,r,,,

FROM The Philadelphia fneuirer)
One of the exKaiser's sons has, it is said.
taken Job with an automobile company.
II it is as chauffeur we would advise per-
sons riding with him to keep sharp watch
OH the meter.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: If his birthplace was purchased and
a collection of all his works-speeches, etc.,
everything pertaining to his life-be gath
cred there and left open to the public, it
would be a fitting memorial to Americas
greatest citizen. MRS. INR. KIMBALL.
New York, Jan. 10, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
New York, Jan. s, 1919.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: Colonel Roosevelt will forever be-
known as the exempliiier of what we call
"Amcricanism." Prominently he was an
American but New York gave him to the
nation Now, without interfering with any
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11

"Keepin' few thousand troops in
Russia" says Uncle Abimelech b.
gardus, of Preakness, N. j., "is like
tryin' to get rid of a hornet nest by
pokin it oncet in so often. Either burn
the dinged thing out or leave it alone. I
say" +. f. V.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
THE CRIPPLED CAMEL

TIE camel is the beast, | think.
That goes week without a drink,
But still he's always in the dumps
Because his backbone has the mumps.
ISOULT
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
After

After
l watch the Christmas trees go by
With rubbish in the rain;
Eyes shut, 1 see them stand where they
Will never stand again,
Upon hillside beautiful
In sunlight, shining plain.
/ watch the Christmas trees go by
With rubbish in the rain
Il. V.
The Liberty motor, Billikens believes
has been excelled by the present Ger
man government, which, he asserts
Judging by reports from Berlin, must
have 2t4OO r. p. m.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11

To the Editor of The Tribune.
CIR: Theodore Roosevelt was~a lover OF
~ the great outdoors, of nature, exercise
and sports. I suggest that we take this as
one of our reasons for making our me-
mortal universal service to mankind
throuahout the United States by having
Roosevelt Day. Disturb business as little
as possible by appointing Saturday in the
summer. They are now quite generally
half holidays throughout the country. This
would make q perpetual memorial, with the
opportunity for all of us to follow some of
Theodore Rooseveit's teachings. The first
Saturday in. August, equidstant from In
dependence Day and Labor Day, or if labor
should deem Theodore Roosevelt to have
been sufficiently its champion to wish to
do him an added honor the Saturday before
Labor Day could be made Roosevelt Day,
giving three days in succession in the
summer for recreation in the great out
doors, something that / believe would have
had Theodore Roosevelt's most hearty ap-
proval. KARL B. SACKMANN.
Brooklyn, Jan. 10, 1919
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; | speak for others as we'll as for
myself in expressing the hope that me-
mortal to Theodore Roosevelt may take the
form that will carry forward his work of
enlightenment as to the duties and privi-
leges of American citizenship. Why cannot
nationwide association be formed with
this aim in view? Such association
might have an administrative building as
a concrete memorial, but the end to be
sought should be found in the activities
and fellowship of the living members. No
more fitting memorial could be found for
Theodore Roosevelt than one which would
promote responsibility and fellowship in
our citizenship. S. NJ N.
New York, Jan 9, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
THE WONDERS OF MAKEUP

LOST-Small cnameled lady's watch, be-
tween Amsterdam and Columbus Avs.-Th>
Timrs