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Douglas Island news., 1919-07-11

For d man who is supposed to be a pillar of the church and am all-round godly nan. the action of William Jennings Bryan n riding a two-humped camel in the dry ,aradc on July list, does not savor of real
 hristanity. It looks more like rubbing
 in. Think of the feeling of celebrant rho had seen the passing of the old times .nd who was still shaky from his tussle while seeing the last of old J B. Imagine is feelings upon looking mp the street and ceing the 'peerless one, long locks, flow ug tie. wide hat and Prince Albert coat, stride that stRnge two-hmped beast Is not likely that the fellow who had been ,ut the night before might attempt to limb a telephone pole to escape that beast md the rest of the procession of pink liz ,rds and horned hippopotam and boa con .trictors that he would logically conclude night be following. For such am advocate lr peace on earth, we would say that Will fam Jennings Bryan has an awful streak 3f cruelty in him.
Douglas Island news., 1919-07-11

fleets of battleships and cruisers to protect them, in watching their property, people would think lot more of them
 A new invention during the late war is called smoke screen, It was used to shield the movements of battle ships when they were lodging submarines There are lots of ways of applying the smoke screen and the screen might in this case be made out of hot air.
Douglas Island news., 1919-07-11

Since the power has been given to the Allies to try the kaiser for his crimes there seems to be a note of dissent creeping in as to the matter Lloyd George has an- nomccd that he will be imprisoned in the Tower of London and tried in London. The dissenting voice says not to try him at all for fear of making a martyr out of him. American papers say the best thing to do with him and the clown quince is just to set them afoot on some nice barren island and forget all about them. This would per haps be the happiest solution of the whole matter for everyone except the two con- cemed
Douglas Island news., 1919-07-11
REPAIRING STREETS

Street Commissioner Grant hos been doing considerable work thN week on tho city streets. Tho plank ing in many places bas rottcd and it ia Ac commissioners job Go TO- place thls
Douglas Island news., 1919-07-11
DITCH TENDER

Tom Tracy is working on Che Troafwon ditch doing repair work. Tom Is tho one who sow tho wolves iast season on Che ditch while om- ploycd there. and Douglas folks are anxious to hoar what other part Of Tho monagcrlc he win pee this year.
Douglas Island news., 1919-07-11

President Wilson is back on the job again at Washington, D. C., after having seen the peace of the world established nj Europe Now the big fight will start in the U. s. A. between the President and the Senate
Douglas Island news., 1919-07-11

Job Printing at Che News office.
Douglas Island news., 1919-07-11

Job Printing at the Nowa office.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19
OUR COLORED CITIZENS

All members of Pride of Mason
Lodge No. 70 are requested to be pres
ent tonight at 1880 o'clock. Special
business to be transacted.
All members of the Home Committee
will meet tonight at 1880 at Brother
Braxton's room.
MRS. NJ. ]. PATTON, Chairman
The Civic Improvement Club and
Bethel Sewing Circle will hold a joint
meeting Tuesday afternoon at o'clock
at the home of Mrs. NJ. ]. Patton to
devise plans to entertain the State
Federation of Colored Womens Clubs
which meets here in November.
Sunday was a great day for Scott NJ.
E. Church. The days services were
begun with a lively Sunday School.
Each child present pledged themselves
to do their part to help the Sunday
School raise its one-eighth of the Cen
tenary quota.
At IL o'clock services there was a
pleasing audience out to hear Rev
Penn preach one of his soul-stirring
sermons, which was greatly enjoyed
by all.
The 3 o'clock services were the
GROWING feature of the day. DR.. Will
liam Pickens, Dean of Morgan College
Baltimore, Md, was present and deliv-
cred an excellent address on the Cen
tenary, picturing to us what the fash
| light of this great war has revealed to
the world. DR.. Pickens is classed as
one of the greatest orators OF our race
and those who were absent certainly
missed treat.
| AT this meeting our Centenary Drive
came off and in very short time Scott
NJ. E. Church had gone lover the top
having subscribed $3.50 her quota be-
ing $500. 1t might be well to add that
5000 of this amount was laid on the
table in cash. Already $4,000 has
been subscribed in this District Of
which Rev. Penn is Campaign Man
ager but so far Scott Church is in the
lead.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19
Band STAND TO Be
ERECTED At ONCE
Local Contractors Are Awarded Con.
tract For the Erection Of Beautl.
full Band Stand In Market
Street at Once.

The Public Buildings committee Of
City Council and the managing COM
mittee of the Mayvllle Boys Band held
meeting on Sunday when they went
over the various bids filed for the erec-
ton Of a band stand In Market street
for the use of the Maysville Boys
Band and the contract for the work
was awarded to Messrs. Harding &
Simons.
II Is understood that work will be-
gin on the stand Immediately and that
the contractors hope to have It COM
pleted before many weeks so that the
band will begin Its street concerts in
the very near future.
The stand will be one of the most at
tractive conceivable. 1t will be two
stories high with a cloak room on the
first floor and the stand proper on the
second The stand will be large
enough to accommodate band of fifty
pieces comfortably. The stand will be
equipped with electric lights and will
be a great credit to the city and COM
munity.
Managers Of the band say that just
as soon as the stand is erected there
will be two concerts each week on the
band stand. One will be given on Sat-
urday for the benefit of the country
people and one some evening during
the week for the benefit of the city
people.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19
llLlrERACY CAMPAIGN
WIlL,OPEN June 18th
Former Mason County Teacher Is
Chosen Assistant Campaign
Director.

Plans for the annual illiteracy CAM
paign have been formulated by the
Kentucky Illiteracy Commission. The
campaign will open June IS with the
institute Of county illiteracy agents
who will be instructed In the work OF
teaching adult iliterates and organic
ing moonlight schools. The field force
will consist Of 100 or more agents
and will 20 into various counties July
/.
e. l.. Dix, member of the faculty of
Berea College and former principal of
the Mayslick High School, who was
with the commission last summer, has
received leave of absence to become
assistant manager Of the campaign
and will take up his duties June /.
The speakers campaign will be con-
Quoted during the week of July 20 and
the best of Kentuckys platform speak
ers will traverse the state urging that
every adult illterate be taught to read
and write.
The various branches of the cam
paign will have separate chairmen.
State Banking Commissioner George
G. Spear has been appointed chairman
Of the bankers campaign and will di-
rect the bankers of the state in an eff
fort to have all taught to read and
write who are accustomed to making
their marks on checks or notes.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19
RESOURCES OF AS STATE
BANKS TOTAL $221,041,S72

Frankfort, KY, May 1S.-Total re-
sources of the 445 state banks and
trust companies April 10, 1919, the
date banks, were 1921, O41,S72,51 and
total deposits $17S,593.73761.
The total resources of the state
banks as of April, 1918, were $780,
100, 4592S and the total deposits $146,-
O70,1277S. The increase in resources
for the year was $34,941,41S.2S and the
increase in deposits s32,52S, 6O9.SS.
When the state banking department
was created in 1912 total resources of
banks we're s11O,O96, 1928 and total
deposits s73,O4O,497.O4. The last re-
port of state banks shows that the re-
sources and DEPOSITS have more than
doubled during the seven years the
banking department has been in exist
ence.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19
MISS MAPLE

(The following poem by Eleanor
Duncan Wood (Mrs. C. L. Wood of
this city appears in the May 9Th edi-
ton for the Youths Companion):
Have you heard of the envious Maple
Tree?
Dame Nature dressed her most charm
ingly.
Her gown was green with touch of
gold,
But she never ceased to pine and scold
All through the summer, as through
the spring,
She walled, "This dress is an ugly
thing!
l want bright garments to rustic in.
Green's terribly hard on a sallow
skin"
Dame Nature nodded, Have your de-
sire"
She famed in red like a mounting fire.
But do you think she was pleased? Not
she!
"These crude, raw colors are not for
my tastes are simple, and my delight
would be in shimmering robe of
white"
Her leaves to the bare earth fluttered
down;
And the snowfakes wove her an err
mine gown.
But when she saw serself shining fair
She tore her twigs, since she had nc
hair.
20 cruel mocker, behold my plight!
/ look like a tombstone in all this
white"
But Natures patience had worn away
81 could never please you one single
day;
So, miss, from now till the bluebirds
call
Just see how you like no dress at all.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19

Master Commissioner A. G. Sulser
left this morning for Paducah to at
tend the annual Knights Templar Con-
claya
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19

The attendance Secretary was too
busy yesterday with the Methodist
Centenary to get a complete report.
We are just giving those who were
interested sufficiently to phone their
attendance. However, the Centenary
drive will be over by next Sunday af-
ter which the secretary expects to go
after every school in the city and
county for a full report. 1t is very
gratifying to see the attendance keep
up so we'll. Some very efficient work
is being done. Maysville's schools are
in better working order now than for
many years. A continuation Of such
efforts will put Maysville on the Sun
day School map. Lets "go to it."
Those Methodists round at the
Third Street NJ E. Church were GER
tainly happy last evening. After
months of preparation, praying, read
ing, exhorting, Minute Men speeches,
and in every conceivable way that the
membership could be educated up to
the point of climax, the drive was
made. With a budget of $4,471 per
year for five years to raise, the load
appeared almost insurmountable. But
under the leadership and inspiration
of two such men as the pastor, Rev
Peters and Rev. F. w. Harrop the
three teams went to the task. Wher
the reports were made last evening il
was seen that so far as solicitations
had been made, and counting on those
not seen who were absent from thu
city, the church will ego over the top
nicely.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19

Berlin, May 19.-President Ebert, in
addressing demonstration here, yes
terday, said that Germany would "nev-
er sign the peace terms" The dem
onstration was held in the Lustgarten
and was attended by a great crowd
President Ebert described the peace
terms as "the product of the enemys
revengeful hysteria," and added:
Foreign countries will not permit the
prescription Of Germany. They will
raise their voices with us that this
peace Of enslavement, which we will
never sign, shall not come to pass"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19
WILL ATTEMPT ENCAMPMENT

DR.. ]. A. Dodson, W. r. Smith and
George Schwartz leave this week for
Providence, KY, to attend the annual
meeting of the Grand Encampment l.
o. o. F. as delegates from the local
order. They will be Joined at Provi-
dence by H. l.. Walsh, who is now in
French Lick, Ind, and who will 20 d.
rect to Providence from that place.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19
CITY TAX SUPERVISORS
AGAIN AT WORK

The City Board of Tax Supervisors
met again Monday morning in the
city section of the Court House to COM
plete their equalization of the citys
tax assessment. Those whose taxes
have been increased will be given no.
tice to appear before the board to pre-
sent reasons why they should not be
increased and 1t is thought that this
work will be completed this week.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19

Mr.. John p. Cochran of Cleveland
Ohio, is visiting his parents, Mr.. Rob-
ert A. Cochran of West Second street.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19
GERMANY WILL NOT
SIGN SAYS EBERT

London, May 10. - The Socialist
newspaper Vorwaerts of Berlin states
that the National Assembly Peace
committee has decided that the treaty
shall not be signed.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Perry and son, Mr..
Waldo Perry, of Cincinnati, are here
having accompanied the body of Mrs.
John Anderson here for burial.
The Monticellonian., 1919-05-09

The American public are tired of patriot IsTn now that the war Is over. The only thing that will appeal 10 them $ cold blooded bust- ness proposition. :"
 Al right. Let's see what kind of cold bloodsd proposition this is
 Sizty-fTe thousand Americans went to France and invested" all they had in Liberty and were killed before their dividends came due
 THAT was @oold-blooded business propo- sition
 Two million other Americans went to France. too. and willingly offered to get in on the same investment And they knew they'd never clip 2 coupon
 THAT was a ~cold-blooded business propo- sitions
The Monticellonian., 1919-05-09

Thirty million other Americans here at home got in that investment saved and went without things for year and half to do it.
 THAT was a "cod-blooded business propo- sition.s
 Well-we've still got job to finish. And were still Americans Do you believe we're not going to do 1t in the old American way?
 The only business proposition we're inter- ested in just now is the proposition to the job through right-to fnsh-With whatever American dollars and whatever American energy 1t may take.
 That may be "cold-blooded business prop ositon."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-26
The PictorialLaureate of
Aviation in French Art

Lieutenant Henri Fares paintings of
battles in the air were shown first in
New York, when they were brought 20
this country last year. but they are
welcome on second visit. They have
just been placed on exhibition again
at the Anderson Galleries, where they
will be on view for three weeks, the
proceeds of the exhibition going to the
Fatherless Children of France. They
return to us after having rendered
good service to the patriotic funds for
which they have been displayed
throughout the country under the aus
pieces of the French Military Mission
They have merits which the public has
appreciated, and the painter in his ad
dresses has only enhanced interest in
his work and in his noble cause. He is
an artist and, even more, historian:
The fascination of this collection Of
pictures lies less in matters of tech
nique. of aesthetic charm. than in the
amazing vividness with which it places
before US some of the strangest phe-
nomena of the war
We say "strangest" because while
we have grown accustomed enough to
the aeroplane to take the spectacle of
a fight over New York almost as q
matter Of course, there is still some
thing very nearly incredible about the
dramas depicted by Lieutenant Fare.
These paintings are souvenirs OF
actual experience, they are the work
OF man who learned to make the air
something like his natural element.
and he gives his scenes the color and
movement of new world. The flying
machine as he draws it is machine
going day by day about portentousLy
romantic and picturesque business. 1t
is more than strange, it is eerie, but
what makes the pictures remarkable
is their fusion of this bizarre element
with an atmosphere of compelling
truth We have seen aviation studies
that reminded one of nothing so much
as of the tour de force. Lieutenant
Fare impresses US not as man OF
imagination or of pictorial audaclty,
but as realist of the utmost SINGER
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-26

Continued on page tlceipe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-26
The AFFAIRS OF THE AMERICAN ARTIST

produce an easel picture. Another art
ist has explained that he found it more
profitable to leave it to dealer to
handle" all his works. From rea-
sons of this kind the Academy shows
have for years been weakened. The
absentee has largely been re-
sponsible. But the jury also has to
bear part of the blame. point which
Mr.. Low confirms in his allusion to
the generosity of the Academy" and "a
most lenient standard" He has him
self been known to shock his col
leagues by declaring, with his belief
in the honesty and liberality of juries,
conviction that they are not always
governed by intelligence. That is the
cold truth. The Academy is undoubt-
eddy there. to recognize budding talent.
But that is only one of its functions.
1t is even more important that it
should weed out merely stupid pic
lures, that it should keep down. at any
rate, the mediocre material which, as
we have said, smothers the representa-
tive works. In the maintenance of
higher standard lies the solution of
the problem.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-26

as to the Academy's function If that
junction was to register the state Of
American art, why did it so often fail
to do this in a clear and Interesting
manner? The explanation was haz-
arced that representative works were
smothered in q mass Of mediocre mate
rial. A leading Academician. Mr.. VIII
II. Low. took up the theme. BY an
accident his letter was mislaid and
only the other day came to hand. But
Its interest has not faded. 1t is surely
desirable to know the Academic point
Of view as we'll as the non-Academic.
and especially at this time should the
following communication be welcomes:
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There is a moral to be drawn
from the article by MIR Royal Cor
tlssoz entitled "Ihe Academy RI
vailed by Thirty Artists" which the
author seems TO nave neglected to
make clear. Though Mr. CoYtissoz
is too honest critic to DIN in the
chorus OF Misrepresentation which
constitutes the chief activity of
minor critics Of our local press. he
questions why the Academy SO often
fails in its function Of registering
the state Of our current art in as
chosen canvases now on exhibition
al the Macbeth gallery succeeds in
doing.
The answer would appear to be
obvious, since the thirty painters
under consideration are virtually all
members Of the Academy Of Design,
whose membership would permit the
multiplication Of exhibits to about
ten times this number were it pos
sble to hold an Academy exhibition
without any outside representation
whatsoever-an exhibition whose
merit, venture to say, would sur
prise our public and probably silence
much of the adverse criticism to
which its successive exhibitions are
now SUBJ ected. 1t is the abstention
Of the members themselves from its
exhibitions that is the weakest link
in the chain OF American art which
the Academy has welded together
during the many years Of its exist
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-26

ence! Granting that all the artists
thus associated who are now active
IN their profession are not of equal
merit, and that all have not achieved
full confirmation from the public of
the honor of the choice bestowed
uDon them by the members of their
own profession, it would be difficult
to scan the rolls of Academy mem
bership and find a notable name in
American art lacking, as it would be
for lesser number. more conversant
with the inner life of our art, to find
among those elected at any period in
the history of the Academy any one
whose distinction was not justified
by the technical and artistic merit
OF his work.
To organize and hold an exhibition
to which none but work by members
would be admitted would put by tenn
porarily one of the chief purposes of
the Academy, the early recognition
of talent outside its ranks, since in
every exhibition about two-thirds of
the work shown is contributed by
'outsiders" This element of it's &C
tivity might be easily suspended in
one Of the two exhibitions held year
~. if by this time the generosity of
the Academy in maintaining for the
past ninety years an exhibition, open
to all, Of merit established by q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-26

member of the jury Of selection for
the forthcoming exhibition as to the
quality of the work sent in this year,
ne shook his head doubtfully. but his
expression changed as he said, I'VE
have not looked over the 'exempts'
yet, and of course it is these which
bring up the lizard of the whole
show The 'exemlts" are the works
by members whose contributions are
not submitted to the jury, a privilege
which IN their extreme liberaiity
some of the beneficiaries of the rule
would see abolished, forgetful of the
lowering of the standard which
would ensue if artists of we'll estab-
Jeopardize their hard-won position
by submission of their work to
jury which, however liberal, however
honest, is yet to be burdened with
the weight of fallibility that is never
altogether absent from contempo-
raneous Judgment.
such an lll-judged movement would
tend to weaken the exhibitions which,
from too loosely established stand
ards have less than their possible
merit already. Al present, owing to
the limited facilities which the me-
tropolis of our country affords for
the exhibition of current art, about
three hundred and fifty works over
crowd the galleries whore the Acad-
envy exhibits. Automatically the
number of doubtful works would be
eliminated by an exhibition restrict
ed to the works of its members. The
experiment should be tried. for 10
any one conversant with the status
Of our art no such exposition Of its
merits has ever been made An ex-
hibition like that at the Macbeth GAL
lery could, by few substitutions, be
gathered from almost any exhibition
of the Academy and gain in i'm
portance, as does the exhibition in
question, by spaced hanging and
proper surroundings.
1t is well known fact that the
exhibitions in other cities, which our
critics so frequently praise at the
expense of our Academy exhibitions,
make most effectual use of these last
by choosing their more important
pictures, almost without exception,
from the works by members of the
Academy.
The obvious moral of all this would
be to bring together restricted ex-
hibition of this character, without a
jury of selection, for which the eX-
enpt privilege OF the members and
association of the Academy provides,
and if it be rash to calculate, by the
tenfold multiplication of thirty.
mathematical certainty of superior
ity to any exhibition we have ever
seen of American art to the exact
degree Of the sum, it is quite within
reason to assert that its artistic re-
suit would surprise even those who
consider that they have an exact
knowledge OF the status of our
American art. WILL II. LOW
Lawrence Park, Bronxville, n. y.
Greater solidarity on the part of the
Academicians, which Mr.. Low urges,
would undoubtedly be beneficial. In
season and out OF season we have
pleaded for it. When we have asked
a distinguished Academician why he
had no painting in the exhibition of
the moment. he has replied that he was
too busy on & mural decoration 10