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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-06-19

He said that he had not sesGA Peabod$
Baynes on that road the day the
money was lost but had only heard
that he was there. He knew now that
he couldn't have been there. Gosh
talmightyi as your uncle used to
say when there was nothing else to be
said"
1t touched me to the soul--this long.
delayed vindication Of my beloved
Uncle Peabody.
The senator ate supper with MS and
sent his hired man out for his horse
end buggy. When he had put on his
overcoat and was about to go he
turned to my uncle and said:
Peabody Baynes, IL have had amy
success In the world 1t Is because ]
have had the exalted honor and con.
sclousness that represented men like
you."
| He left us and we sat down BY the
glowing candles. Soon told them what
Ramsey had done. There was mo
ment of silence. Uncle Peabody rose
and went TO the water pail for drink
Bart, believe. I'll plant corn or
that ten-arce lot next sprlng-darnet
IL / don't" he said as he returned I,
his chair.
| None of us ever spoke of the matte
again. to my knowledge.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-06-19

Lawrence Kellie tells OF an amusing
experience he had over the song.
douglas Gordon" He was intro
duced one evening to gentleman
whose name he did not cntch. II have
no desire to meet you. Mr.. Kellie."
said the stranger. Kellie naturally
looked a little astonished, but said
nothing. 'In fact" the other went ON.
II hate the very sound Of your name.
For months past my mother has been
worried by the receipt Of telegrams
and letters Of coincidence on my behalf.
and the thing Is beginning to get mo
notonous." ""Tm sorry" said KellIe. but
what's that got to do with mel" "well
III tell YOU" said the other. my
names Douglas Gordon. and everybody
imagines that your confounded song
refers to me-" And with that he turned
on his heel and went
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-06-19
Much suxz; Little Honey.

MUCH euxxs INso U0Hey'
"Many q man dat's AZ busy ~ Z
bee." said Uncle Eben, "usss ny all hia
time buzxin' an don't make ~ ho0e2f
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-06-19

WhiShs "hcu "O WcEc oeuteu III tne
wagon.
zone of the best in my life," I an
swered with Joy In my heart the like
Of which l have rarely known in these
many years that have come to me.
We rode on In silence with the calls
Of the swamp robin and the hermit
thrush ringing In our ears as the night
fell.
"It's good time to think. and there
we take different roads," said my
friend. "You will turn into the future
and I into the past"
"Ive been thinking about your
uncle" he said by and by. "Ie is one
Of the greatest men ! have ever known.
You knew Of that foolish gossip about
him-didn't your
EYES," answered.
swell. now. he's gone about his busi-
ness the same as ever and showed by
his life that It couldn't be true. Not q
word out Of hirhl But Dave Ramsey
fell sick-down on the fiat last winter
BY and by his children were crying for
bread and the poormaster was going
to take charge of them. Well, who
should turn up there. just in the mich
OF dine. but Della and Peabody
Baynes. They fed those children all
winter and kept them In clothes SO
that they could 60 to school. The
strange thing about 1t IL this: It waa
Dave Ramsey who really started that
story. He got up In church the Other
night and confessed his crime. Hii
consc3ence wouldn't let him keep Il
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-06-19

Of water In sight while the music Of
the hounds voice came family to our
ears from the distant forest.
"Oh, I've been dreaming of this for
n long tlme," said the senator as he
leaned back against a tree and fllled
his lungs and looked out upon the wa
ter, green with lily pads along the
edge and flecked with the last Of the
white blossoms. II believe you want
to leave this lovely country"
II am waiting for the cali to CO."
swell. I'm inclined to think you arc
the kind of man who ought to co." he
answered almost sadly. "You are
needed. ! have been waiting until we
should meet to congratulate you on
your behavior at Cobleskill. ! think
you have the right spirit-that is the
all-important matter. You will en-
counter strange company in the game
of politics, Let me tell you story"
He told me many stories Of his life
In Washington. interrupted by sound
like that Of approaching footsteps. We
ceased talking and presently flock
Of partridges came near US. pacing
along over the mat Of leaves in lei
surely fashion. We sat perfectly still
A young cock bird with his beautiful
run standing ont, like the hair on the
back Of . frightened dog. strobe
toward ~ with a comic threat In his
manner. It seemed aS II he were OF
half mind to knock ~ into the river
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-06-26
THE
SPOILERS"
e Big Reels)

A story Of plot aud coun.
ter-plOt In the Alaskan
gold fields A pulsating
drama Of an enduring love
In the far Northlhnd. The
most soul-stirrtng drama
nf American life.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-06-26
WAR LABOR BOARD
WINDS UP ACTIVITY
raj. work Preparatory to Rein;
TormnlIy Dissolved hy President;
Ia Hear no New Cases
60 TO LABOR DEPARTMENT
Recommendations Made That Duties
BE Taken over by Cabinet ON
Ger. Many Cases Heard

WASHINGTON, Juno 3T--Tho
,.t..l. war labor board today
,a.,I fs activities preparatory 10
,... dissolution hy the president
81. new cases viii ho heard nor
nov. l0pnr1ri0ns received, hut pres.
,-. ,aufroyorsics Jointly submitted
,...U cannot bc concluded prioy TO
r... .n. Will bee assigned 20 the Joint
,......lu ur q section of ihc board
fm u position
L. announcing conclusion OF ne ar-
,#... IUr board said ii had recon-
rlr.,I that with the approval Of
H.. president. AN administration 1u-
,, 400 connection with unfinished
,.... ana an records and fl,cs ot the
...rf Doc transferred o. the depart
r.rrt OF gNur. Members uf the
,.rI pcuding final dissolution viii
b. Al Inc call Of the president
conclusion Of the boards acuviucs
,..r.. inr passing OF one ~ The gov
,rmtnuI agencies created during
r, ,If to further production OF war
ut''Ur.H
Tho board was organized under "a
rr...HUrlutI proclamation with foI
mo. pr, idcu, Tlft ana Frank =
walsh uf Kansas city us Joint chair
mon and with live members repre-
,.rlug labor. 1--WE employers repre-
s,.lulCB and two mem hers aclug
,rr fnc public Mr. Walsh resigned
.aar 1frcr tho signing OF the armis-
r.s and was succeeded by Basil NJ.
MAJ. uf Washington.
mruE tho year which ended May
Al ,Na board received 1916 cases.
MAJ awards In 4t2 cases. dismissed
g.. for various causes. referred dlo
az q a a
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-06-26
Charlie Chaplin MSunnyside"
slna conlnune week

elisa today denied tho report that
German army officers had been re-
signing as q protest against the ao-
cepilnCe OF tho peace terms Never
theless. u ls said tho regular army
oft0.rr wall oppose vigorously the
surrender ~ their former leaders
The situation created hy their ni.
uiude has become acute already md
those In touch Ush mo situation fear
'hat ~ may result ln serious com.
plicauons both for re cabinet aud
FOR The nation
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-06-26

TTIUITN TTWIIH N'TI.II1
HERlIN. June 25 Major voi
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-06-26

ENperimentcrs in Europe have
found hat Stag from garbage IN
generating plants Is an excellent sub.
Biitute for gravcI for mixing with ro-
ment In the manufacture OF con
crete
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24
SCHOOLS AND FREE SPEECH

WHAT the teachers themselves like to
W call intellectual insurgency is no new
thing in the schools There always have
been restless and dissatisfied minds in
| every faculty and the war served to in
crease their numbers.
Teachers recognize the need for new
definitions to reveal the underlying
causes of war and to make way to the
social and economic peace that must pre-
cede any final settlement of the worlds
troubles. They are irked by the copy
book Journalism and the neatly restricted
virtues of the accepted teaching code.
They represent a phenomenon that
always leaves boards Of education foun-
dering at loss.
In Washington recently a teacher in
one of the grammar schools was harshly
disciplined for trying to explain the eco
nomic theory of bolshevism in answer to
a question from her class. The resolu-
tion Just introduced at the American
Federation of Labor convention by
Charles B. Stihlman of Chicago, in be-
half of the federated teachers is direct
result of that incident. AS a demand for
free speech in the schools, made with the
full moral support of organized labor, it
suggests the form which the school rebel
lion ultimately will assume. Teachers
demand a right to teach as they think, to
express opinions and convictions, to speak
their minds and tell what they believe to
be the truth. This sounds infinitely fair
and logical-until you think twice.
A teacher in a school has peculiar re-
sponsibilities. Those who talk from pull
pits or in newspapers or in books or from
platforms address themselves to discrmi-
mating minds. Their audiences are quail
fed to pass judgment, to accept or re-
iect novel principles, to weigh and
analyze and to think for themselves in
an emergency. But class of children is
expected to take the word of the teacher
without question and it usually does so.
The teacher of such a class may be de-
,uded or dazzled by new belief or fasci-
mated by a thoroughly invalid but out
wardly attractive theory of art, econom-
les or politics and, under rule of abso-
lutely free speech, become hindrance
rather than help to society.
certainly LueIt SllOdlu pC io iCSIlISIlOll
Of free speech in the schools or anywhere
else. But the teachers themselves should
he the first to subject themselves to
rigorous censorship when debatable is
sues of moment are up for discussion.
The schools are established to find and
teach the truth and not to promulgate
individual opinions and prejudices. In
times like these the truth is pretty hard
to recognize and it will not do to have
its counterfeit inflicted upon pupils in
! American class rooms. School boards
and college directors are wrong-minded
often enough in their conflict with teach
ers. But teachers themselves, when fired
by deluded sense of intellectual omnpo-
tence, know how to be wrong minded too.
The faculty members who have clamored
most violently for free speech seem most
often to use it in expounding perilous
half knowledge which hides rather than
reveals the truth which their charges
| seek
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24

GOVERNOR SPROUTS plan for an IN
~ vestigation of Warden NcKenty's
administration at the Eastern Pcnitcn-
tiary viii have one rcgrcttaDle effect if
It revivcs the half-barbarous spirits Of
those solid old cynics who, because they
are incapable of distinguishing between
crime and misfortune, have always op-
posed schemes of prison reform. Such
as these will have an interval of trium-
phant self-satisfaction if it can be proved
that man who fought hard and Sue
cessfully for the rehabilitation of crimi-
mails was otherwise at fault or even over
kind.
Warden McKenty established a con-
structive code at the penitentiary. The
public will depend upon the Governor to
see that the warden and the system he
represents are not unnecessarily dis
credited The community would benefit
least of all by great institution so ad-
mnistered as to make criminals more
criminal than they ordinarily would be.
The faults of the parole system are
widely advertised. The great good ac-
complished by that same system is little
known or understood Warden McKcnty
seemed fitted by training, temperament
and experience for the post he holds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24
SUFFRAGE IN PENNSYLVANIA

TT is worth observing that, though the
suffrage fight is nearing a successful
close in Pennsylvania, the women who
have led it most ably have yet to make
any statement of aims or purposes in
relation to the political system widely
advertised as an affiction of the CITY and
the state.
Such silence as the suffragists have
maintained may indicate sound political
sense, since you do not make war upon
the men whose aid you may need. How
far into the future will the suffrage
leaders carry the spirit of compromise
They face extraordinary opportunities in
Pennsylvania.
Elsewhere. in regions where the vote
h q novelty for women, issues that have
30 be voted on, are nebulous. as a rule,
VI oi sort likely to inspire differences
of rational opinion. Here in this state
5 the case is different.
Political methods are slipahod or
frankly corrupt, Political idealism is at
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24
CONSTRUCTIVE REFORM

THE Rev. Samuel Zane Batten, of the
= Baptist social service department, is
constructive reformer. He sees in the
passing of the saloon the necessity for
the establishment of rest rooms and COM
fort stations. He realizes that there may
be delay before municipalities tackle and
solve the problem and he suggests that
the Y. NJ. c. A, the Y. W. C. A. and SINH
lar organizations take up the work.
Incidentally, it may be noted, the Sal
walton Army has already begun. 1t has
established what the service men call
"beer gardens" and plans to buy saloons.
1t may be added that constructive work
of this kind will do more to put the final
"kibosh" on John Barleycorn than all the
private 'law-enforcement" organizations
in the country.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24
OUT AND DOWN!

MR.. ROOTS letter to Senator Lodge,
A'A the eloquent silence of Senator Knox
and the air of pous acceptance that pre-
walls among the Republican shepherds on
the Senate floor plainly indicate new
beginning in the league -of-nations de-
bate and the approach of an interval of
ordered thought. The air is clearer. The
covenant will be accepted with reserva-
tions of one sort or another. The thing
Is done.
But what of the crank and file that
fought so loudly behind the senator from
Massachusetts Mr.. Lodge las slipped
tumbling into a new Out and Down Club
Borah has lost his fight against the
league of nations and he has lost his
fight against Penrose, and he has dropped
about a mile in the estimation of his
cherished West.
Sherman, the Vardaman of the Repub-
lican party, is swiftly on his way to the
twilight made for all Vardamans. They
leave only disagreeable echoes and tons
of the Congressional Record-and they
were going to fight the world!
The Out and Down Club will grow
swiftly from now on. Colorel Harvey
may lead the morning hate song of the
editorial section. The club will not be
a pleasant thing to see. 1t will be po-
litical Gehenna, filled with noisy men
walking in circles and fighting the
shadows of their OWE fears. Penrose and
Knox escaped at the very door. Freling-
huySen and Edge are tottprinp even now
on the dreadful threshold.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24

all these were unnecessary, not to say vain.
The tree had been planted and futtered its
gay little leaves ironically at its would be
sponsors.
And where are the photogra piers % lE.'
mented the unhappy secretary in a voice OF
agony.
Behind Harry Cassidy's little Toulouse the
conspirators were lurking But the wanton
breeze blew out shred of Mr.. Cattell's
comely whisker and
THE WANTON they were discovered,
BREEZE They were hailed ferth
and the really humr-
Gus part of the exercises began. This c3p !.
sisted in thoroughly delightful address 4
Mr. Cattell, the guest Of honor. In sptef
the fact that he had gone without tifin M
Cattell was at his sparkling best. Over u
solemnity Of the occasion he cast the nd
low enchantment of his whim. few std
tistics, deftly insinuated here and there, cs5
an air of authority upon his discourse. JoIh
Befel, not quite certain whether the speak,
was in Jape or. earnest produced a notebodI
and began to stenograph, SO that he migl
ponder the matter at leisure later on. Ovd
these toll worn men, saddened by their em
bittered career, Mr.. Cattell cast the healin
drug of his extravagant mrth. Little n
little few shrill and tentative squeaks bextI
to mount from his hearers. John Bed
recognized wheeze that be had heard b,
fore and put away his notebook. 1t WI
unanimously agreed tAt if Mr.. Cattell. I'D
proceeded a little longer the chestnut trs
itself would have blossomed in unison.
But the sweet things of life are over
soon! Soon they were all streaming back
Girard avenue car. Tom DAILY new
looked so handsome as when he stood by III
conductor paying the fares for the crowd.
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24

low ebb. The influence which vast
body of enlightened voters could exert at
the polls would be instantly felt. The
women of Pennsylvania, once they have
the franchise, could profoundly affect
the whole course of affairs in the state
and in every city. The issues before
them are clear-cut and distinct.
If they are disinterested, their disn-
terestedness will be clearly evident at
the outset and their failure will be great.
Pennsylvania, rather than any other
state, may yet be the proving ground Of
the newest of accepted political doc
trines
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

HhsWcTs 10 resterodys 0uix
1. The prohibition constitutional amend
ment goes into effect on January II
1920. J. ) .
.. Franz Schubert composed the "Unfl|
ished Symphony"
3. A soutane is a priests cassock.
4. The Jura mountains, part of the AlpiI
system, are in eastern France aI|
western and northern Switzerland.
s. John Fitch was an American inventoI
who constructed steamboat, whi@
was launched on the Delaware a1|
made several trips on the river in 178l
6. The character of Quilp occurs in Dicl5
ens's novel, 'The Old Curiosity Shop. |
7. Albert Cuyp was a noted Dutch lard
scape painter. His dates are 1605
1901.
s. A treaty now in the Senate provides th(
the United States shall pay S25, ,O00I
900 to the republic of Colombia IN ~
tlement of the Panama dispute.
0, The Geological Survey gives the folIou|
ing six classifications to coal : Anthrd
cite, semianthracite, semibituminouI
bituminous, sub bituminous and lignitI
10. The most active volcano In Unlt}
States territory Is Kilauea In the islslI
Of Hawaii.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24
PRESS HUMORISTS SURVIVE
DIFFICULT ORDEAL
Harry Cassidy Lures Two Aboard Float
ing Coffin, Without Success
cATTELL EGUILE
Enchanting Discourse Wrinss Smiles
From Hardened Faces

Tn SPITE of the presence of IA number of
L professional drolls Penn Treaty Park yes
terday afternoon was an amusing place.
When Mr. f. J. Cat
HARRY CASSIDY tell, the city statisti-
is DISAPPOINTED clan and author of
that delightful work
of humor. THE Paper and Pulp Trade of
the World" dashed up at p. M, having
gone without his lunch in order to arrive
on time, no one was on hand save Harry
Cassidy, the park superintendent, and a re-
porter from the Chatting Dish. Harry Cas-
sidy was in a high state of excitement owing
to the rumor having gone forth that num-
Der of really eminent humorists, such as
Bill Sykes, Goldberg, Briggs and Fontaine
Fox, were to be present. When it was ex-
planned to him that those coming were not
cartoonists but only writer's he was sadly
chagrined and was with difficulty restrained
from hurling into the limpid river the
sapling chestnut tree (or cdstdnea Ameri-
canal which the humorists were to plant in
honor of their craft.
Mr.. Cattell and the Chatting Dish repre-
sentative sat harmoniousy on "A bench for
some time, but still the wags did not arrive.
The idea occurred to
MIR. CATTELL them that it would be
AND THE DISH, merry Thought to
CONSPIRE plant the tree without
TOGETHER waiting for the merry
andrews. For two
such sprightly young men to think was to
act. A spade was procured and they set to
work. In minute or two the tender young
thing was safely imbedded in the soil and
n paper cartouche attached bearing the fol-
lowing tender ukase;
At least one icheese
Is straighttoay granted,
For 10, the trees
Already planted
This is our hodr:
II you dem,ur it,
Like your oiOn Jokes
Just disinter ~
Mr., Cattell patted the innocent young
limbs of the castdned with affectionate re-
card .You, my DEAR he said, Twill see
a crop of nuts much quicker than most young
| trees of your species"
The sound of embittered wrangling was
| hoard in the ofing, and at one side of the
| mark appeared Berton Braley, poet and
press agent for the
ARRIVAL OF Finnish commercial
THE POET FINN commissioner, W h @
~. was quarreling with
him taxi driver. II don't see why high
class mechanic should demean himself by
demanding a tip" he said. II gave the
man his exact fare. 1t seems to me that a
nan makes himself lackey when he asks
tor a tin" Wearing the orange and blue
r;hbon Of the press humorists, Berton was
iootinr uncommonly thrifty and Joined the
tbrong of two on an empty bench.
BY this time knot of reporters and pho
tographers had assembled and Harry Gas
siSy was more convinced than ever that
4 something reall
HARRY CASSIDY worth while was going
OFFERS 10 be pulled off. But
PASTIME still n e huiporists
had not appeared, and
4 In his character Of host Harry felt that he
!, must Offer some entertainment and merri-
! ment. Would you like to 90 over ths
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24

The refusal of the Entente to recall or
amend the treaty clauses fastening the
blame for the war upon Germany or
exemptng her criminal officials from
trial was the only logical course to take
in these circumstances. The surrender of
tho empire, which makes yesterday for
ever memorable, could not be otherwise
than unreserved if justice as mankind
perceives It is to have validity on earth.
The treaty sanctions it as do few other
paCts in human annals It's indictment of
sheer fragrant evil, the safeguards which
the Indispensable league of nations cove
nant provides against its recurrence as
a national policy, the vindication of right
fortifying the documents financial and
territorial adjustments are all Of such
unwonted proportions that the absence Of
spectacular revelry over the close Of the
greatest war ever fought is easily
explcable.
The depth of feeling which the event
sounds is not externally translatable.
But it will grow and grow as the new
era, rid of the intolerable German men
ace. takes on substance and beauty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24
He Serves Them
Well

The languid young
He Serves Them men with woeful eyes
Well whom you see wan
dering abstractedly
about the hotels are members of the Ameri.
can Press Humorists' Association, meeting
here to discuss next winters styles in jokes,
but shaken and tremulous with dread--a
secret dread-that the kaiser may actually
be hanged. *.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24
What Do You KnotU?
QUIZ

I. Who is the new premier of Germany?
2. In what group of islands is Scapa Fleu
3. Who wrote "Endymion"?
4. What is the British pronunciation
Northanger Abbey?
5. How many justices compose the. Unit
States Supreme Court?
6. What famous ride took place in come
tion with the signing of the Declarati,
Of Independence?
Z. What ID a davit?
8. What is the highest denomination I
which silver certificate paper money
issued in the United States?
0. Who is the present shah of Persia?
10. What is the astronomical sign for 4
sun?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-24
Practice

1t is difficult to under
Practice stand why the British
should manifest, sur
prise at the manner in which the Germans
sank their interned ships. The Huns were
ever expert at sending down unarmed and
upnrotected vessels.