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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20

sion and devise his own ways Of kill
ing time,
And, after all, the great adventure
is the quest that ambition leads a man
on, and the most absorbing, and fasci.
mating, and thrilling game in the world
are the moves by which one achieves
success, This great Joy of life the
poor boy knows, the rich boy Is cut
off from knowing, and II is not the
poor boy who Is the loser In real hap
piness. Let mother also consider this,
OF course, there il no reason why
the rich boy should not be as ambitious,
N achieve as much as the poor boy,
Logically he should 40 farther. Only
In real life he hardly eve does. You
could count UP on the fingers Of yonr
two hands almost all OF the men WIZ
are the sons Of rich fathers who have
made great names for themselves In
art, or literature, or music, or financA
| but 1t takes the whole history Of the
world TO record the names Of the great
men In every line who sprang from the
depths of poverty to II place In the sun,
There 10 something deadening IN
riches, Luxury wraps us In a slothful
ease that we have not the courage Il
struggle out Of. Why toll and struggle
and suffer when We don't need toj
What's the use?
But poverty is u spur In our sides
that makes US speed up. The desire
for the luNurieS and comforts that We
can only get by our efforts drives M
on. II rs necessity that is the mother o.
achievement.
Besides this, poverty teaches some.
thing that is not in the books, II Il
the university of hard knocks In which
a man learns TO read the heart OF hi.
fellow man, to know Its nobleness and
its neannCss. ITS craft n guile AM
, its simplicity, and from II he Learnt
tenderness, sympathy and understand
ing, .
That is why genius has nearly al
ways been Graded IN poverty instea'
OF palaces, and why those who can plal
upon our emotions, as upon a harp witt
a thousand Strings, are almost inyart
ably the men Ind women who hav'
known and suffered every hardship
themselves.
SO LET no woman who has a talented
child bemoah herself that its geniu
is being hliRhted by poverty, Povert,
is the forcing house of genius and !
Eer son or daughter really has the dl
vine flame she is giving 1t the ad
vantage that no rich mother could civ
her child. for wealth may smothe
genius. Poverty never can.
Tho mistake that poor mothers max
Is In plying their children for beini
poor and teaching them to pity them
selves and to feel they are handicapped
lust the reverse of this is true. There
fore mothers, stop talking TO your chill
dren about the misfortunes OF poverty
Talk TO them OF the opportunity tina
tho poor hoy has, Cali for them tn
roll OF almost every great Rama Il
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20

AND BEFORE I could climb.
TO THE edge of the veranda.
AND DRIVE them away.
THEY TOOK all of the eggs.
IN THE robins nest.
AND SHOWED them out.
so THEY fell right down.
ON THE floor of the veranda.
AND WERE crushed to death,
AND HAVING performed.
THIS FOUL deed.
THE BAD little wrens,
FLEW BACK to the house.
THAT had given them,
ON THE same geranda.
AND THE mother wren.
WENT INTO the house.
TO HER own little eggs,
WHILE THE husband wren.
FLEW AWAY somewhere.
so THE robins wouldn't know.
AND THE robins came back.
AND THEY'RE out there now,
WHILE I'M writing this.
AND I think they're crying.
BECAUSE THE way they chirp.
1T SOUNDS awfully sad.
AND THEY'VE wasted two weeks
AND THERE'S nothing to do,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20

America and you will see that he or
she was a poor boy or girl, Thus shall
you put courage and heart into your
children and senu them forth to join
that glorious company,
Copyright, 1919, by the Wheeler Syndi :
cate, Inc.)
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MAGAZINE FEATURES
A8VNCi6N IGGHX6 a
6BEDIIME STORY 4


gily to come back. thought Jimmie TO
himself, and he wibbled and wobbled OF
his way, eating the strawberry shoft-
cake lollypop
And. all Of a sudden, Jimmie saw,
just in front Of him, the bad old Pip
sisewah and the Skeezicks. They had
dug a big hole in the road and were
covering 1t with leaves and grass 30 Il
hardly looked like a hole at all.
Il wonder why they are doing that?'
thought Jimmie, as he hid behind a
bush so that Skee and the Pip wouldn't
see him. And a m0ment later he found
"we'il surely catch Uncle wigglly
this time said the Pipsisewah, as he
tapped his ears.
Right YOU are" growled the Skee-
zicks. 1--WE have dug this hole in the
road and so covered II up that he viii
not see It as he comes along in his
auto, He'll run right into the hole ker-
bunkoi Then we'll rush out and grab
him and get all the souse VIZ WANT
Dear me-" thought Jimmie Wibble-
wobble. hidden behind the bushes, with
the red radishes In his pocket, Dear
mel This ia dreadful! How can | let
Uncle Wiggily know the danger he Is
in? ] can't get past the Skee and the
Pip TO warn hint oh, II | only had q
telephone or something like that
Then Jimmie stuck the tip Of one
WINK IN ms POCKET anu rev NV ~
ishes, He took out one, sort OF absent
minded like.
"Radishes are red he thought Red
means danger. II | could tell Uncle
Wiggily of the danger he will get into.
II he comes riding along this road,
could save him. Hal | have 1t. ! can
| throw the radishes from here. where
/ am hidden behind the bush, over
into the road past the hole that is COW
ered with leaves. Uncle Niggily VIII
sec the red radlshes on the road, he'll
know they mean danger, He'll stop ana
then ! can call 70 him about the III
and the Skee. I'll do NJ
with his strong wings Jimmie threw
the radishes far over the heads Of the
Pin and Skee, 10 that the red Vege'
tables fell into the road past the ND
den hole.
Then from where he nestled under
the bush Jimmie watched, He saw
tJncle Wiggiiy come scooting down the
road In his auto. All Of a sudden, JUST
before he was about 10 ride into The
Rrass-eovered hole, the rabbit saw the
radishes In front Of him.
"Hai Jimmle's red radishes,' cried
Uncle Wiggily, Here IN the lhneNN
are red, and red means danger ~
turn around and go back the otheI
So he did, and he didn't fall into the
hole and the Skee and the Pip ,didn
get any souse at all. Then Jimmie rai
back 70 the store and bought some more
radishes, charging them, and later nc
met Uncle Wigglly and told him Wha'
had happened. ,,,
"You are n very smart little duck
aid the rabbit gentleman, Here Is
penny for another lollpop' Ann II
be ample dumping doesn't go sliding
Town hin with the Lemonade 2 gel
nrvt about Uncle Wiggily and the pie
plaut,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20
PIEcING OUT WOOL SUPPLY

All the wool grown in the world
every year., II made only into clothing
for people living outside the tropics,
and not into horse blankets, carpets,
etc, would provide IA ounces per per-
SON That is enough to make one light
weight pair OF bathing trunks extending
from the waist to the knees. Then,
uncle" asked Rollo, where does the
rest of the wool we wear come FRONT
Our coats and ~overcoats and blankets
and wooden stockings? That" replied
his uncle. lis reworked wool, or shod-
dy." But surely, uncle" exclaimed the
boy, I'VE do not wear shoddy, do wei"
mo" said the honest uncle, you and
l do not, but everybody else does
The Little Journal.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20
grHEL LLOYD PATTERSON.

night. At least, for him, love was not
quite 20 blind as II had been, lie did
not see Estrelda az she was ever vet
There would be times and times again
when she would draw him to her once
more with the old, strong spell, But
lust now his vision was a little Clearer,
The soul Of Freddie Mason crept back,
almost afraid to look forth.
And she. poor hlstrelda, did not un'
derstand, of course. She could not
Had she known of NIL this she would
not have been Estrelda. Instead
Hello" she said a night or two
later. Say, Freddie, you look tired,
Are you working awfully hard these
days?"
Perhaps said Freddie, lie had just
come uptown before dinner. He put
away his hat and started toward the
bedroom. His wife looked at him Il
little curiously. 1t occurred to her that
he was really very good looking Then
il occurred TO her, too, that he had not
kissed her IN some time, She looked at
him sharply now, II was her custom 10
let him como to her II he wished to
| caress her. But tonight something
about him prompted her To change her
habit, She arose i%ndolently and rather
awkwardly, ms uSual, He did not seem
to see that she was following him.
Say" she suggested good-naturedly,
Can't you see I'm trying to catch up
with you TO kiss your
are your he said. "Thats-thats
awfullw n!co OF YOU. But IL wouldn't
II | were you, ttll-till ] wash. I'm
Just UP from the office, o know
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20
kCopyright, 1919, by Mcclure News
paper Sy~ndicate.)
az HOWARD 3. eARIs.

OF 6OWAhp ". GAHlos
Once upon q time Mrs. Wibbblewob-
bic, the duck lady, quacked to her little
boy Jimmie and said:
Il wish you'd go TO the one and two-
cent store for me and bricg back some
nice red radishes for your fathers
Sof course IN 90" answered Jimmie
And may have a penny for a lolly-
ooh, I guess so," answered Mrs.
Wtbblewobble, with a laugh that sound
ed like popcorn rolling over a tin dish
lpan, So h ave Jimmie the money
for the radishes and an extra penny
for himself, n the little duck boy
Fstarteda wihbling and webbing on his
way to the store. That was why he
had the name "Wibblewobble, % because
he wibbled and wobbled from side to
side Is he walked.
Now just about this time Uncle Wig
lgily L~ongears, the rabbit gentleman,
was on his way to the store for Nurse
Jane Fuzzy WuzHy, his muskrat lady
ihousekeeper, She wanted n box of pep
per and Uncle Wiggily was going TO
take some of this same pepper for him
self.
oh, no, he wasn't going to eat 1t.
He was just going to sprinkle some
of II on the big bologna sausage tires
of his auto. The wheels went faster
when he %sprinkled pepper on them,
Anu, rs ne fhub hiOnE III MS AUTO
Uncle Wiggily met Jimmie, the boy
Where are you going, JimmioT'
asked Mr.. Longears.
ITO the one and two-cent store 10
get q bunch of red radishes," an
swered the duck boy.
And | am going to the three and
lfour-cent store to get some black pep
per for Nurse Jane and myself" went
on the bunny rabbit gentleman. "F1S
lup, Jimmie, and I'll give you n ride"
Up Jimmie flew to the seat beside
Uncle Wiggily, and soon they were
lgasoiining over the fields and through
the woods.
First they came to the one and two.
cent store, where Jimmie vas to get
the radishes,
I'm leave you here and ride on "a
the pepper store" said Uncle Wiggily,
way back I'll stop and get you"
That will be nice Jimmie quacked
as down he flew, and then Mr., Long
ears skiddled along in lis machine,
IL did not take the 'ttl' duck boy
long to buy a bunch Of Iadishes, and
when he had paid Tor tho1' and put
them Ia his pocket he we1I to ue
candy side OF the store /" LOOK about
lollypops.
There we're some Favored 18th corr
meal. some with oats, others ia bar
ley and some with wheat, all ~ which
Jimmie liked very much.
But here is one that tastes ~ q
strawberry shortcake," said the mon
key doodle gentleman, who kept The
store.
'Tn take that l~ollypop," said Jimmie
and he did. Now IN 90 out and walk
along the road and wait for Uncle Wig
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20
THEY N WE.

A wounded corporal in a hospital told
how, while on patrol duty he a seen
the body Of a noncommissioned French
officer hanging by the feet, his face
mashed In with muskets,
MY mel and | were furious he
said, and made up minds that we'd
do the same thing TO the first German
we taught. That night we found two
Germans hidden in a barn. We fell
on them and then as they were hungry
We Agaye them bread. we could not 10
Witt they did. for we are not Of the
sal e ace."-Eyerybody's MagaElae.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20
Copyright. 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate,)
CHAPTER 1877.
An ENnusR.

Copyright. 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate,)
CHAPTER 1877.
An Excuse. B..
That night-the evening OF the LAY
that Freddie had had tea with Elsa-
beth Deane and her mother--was the
beginning of a pretty bad time for him.
The contrast had been too abfunt--that
was II. He had spent an hour or more
the first since his marriaRe-in Mrs
Deane's comfortable sitting room,
There had been the same atmosphere
OF warmth and charm and triendllness
that he had NO loved an a boy. There
were the pretty chintxes; tha row on
row OF books, and the reflection OF the
brass tea kettle of the fire from the
burning logs la the fireplace, And there
WAS Mrs. Deane, IN the soft gray Of her
house gown; the plain white linen OF the
cuffs drawn close at her pretty wrist
And there was Elizaheth's bent, bronze
head, set eNquisitely pom the beautiful,
slender white OF her throat, II had been
perfect to he back there again!
And then--he had comc-homel The
irony of it-home! That home" for
Freddie should be a tawdry apartment
all too cluttered with the --latest thing
In furniture'' That home for him
should mean a wife with unbrushed
hair, lounging untidily in a solled
! kimono! No wonder Freddie had
dashed forth for n long and lonely walk,
the whole length OF which had been one
fight with the blue devils that hosct
him.
Nor could it end for Freddie that
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az K.c. q.

AND WHO had already.
BECOME EMBRoILED.
IN A domestic scandal.
SAT- AROUND a while,
AND DID a lot Of chirpins'
ON THE branch of a tree.
AND THEN flew owe
TO THE corner of the porch
WHERE WE'D rented a place,
TO A couple Of robins.
WHO HAD laid their eggs.
AND HAD g.arded them carefully.
AND JUST for a moment.
HAD GONE away,
TO GET something to eat,
AND THE bad little wrens.
AS I'VE already said.
FLEW OVER to the place.
usiERE THE robins esss were.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20

HERE / was. =
LIVING IN the country.
AND GETTING all excited.
ABOUT THE lovely birds,
AND BUYING them houses,
AND MAILING them UP.
AND WRITING about them.
AND TALKING about them.
AND GETTING letters about them.
AND BUILDING them baths.
AND BELIEVING in them.
AND ALL at once.
THEY START doing things.
THAT YOU'D never believe.
A LITTLE bird would do.
AND JUST this morning.
ON THE day write this,
THE TWO little wrens.
WE TOOK into our home.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20

BUT TO start in again.
AND / don't know what to do.
. ABOUT THE way the wreps r
' acting.
AND I'D like to ~dispossess them.
BUT ] can't do that.
WHILE THEY'RE Matching out
their eggs.
BUT I'M often them for life.
THE NUMBERING little things.
l THANK you.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20

Hear me when / call, o God of my
righteousness; Thou hast enlarged me
when wal in distress; have mercy
upon me=Psa. w., ].
Tavtau- 0hta
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20
Just a Moment
DAILY STRENGTH AND GREER,
Compiled by John @. oulnius. the
Sunshine Man.

Be strong, all We people OF the land,
saith the Lord, and work; for l am with
you. saith the Lord of hosts.-llaggai
H., I.
Yet the world Is Thy field, Thy garden;
On earth are Thou still at home,
When Thou bendest hither Thy hallow-
Ing eye,
high,
Its dingy ceiling a rainbow dome
Stand ever thus at my w~ide-swung
And toll will be toll no more.
Lucy Larcom.
The situation that has not its duty,
It's ideal. was never yet occupied by
man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable,
hampered, despicahle Actual, wherein
thou even now standest, here or no.
| where Is thy Ideal; work 1t out there
free. Fool! the Ideal Is In myself. the
impeachment, too, is in myself; thy con-
ditlon is but the stuff thou are to shape
that same Ideal out OF; what matters
whether such stuff he of this sort or
that, SO the form thou givest 1t be
heroic, be poetic. o thou that pinest in
the imprisonment of the Actual, and
criest bitterly TO the gods for a king
dom wherein to rule and create, know
this Of a truth; the thing thou seekest
Is already with thee, here or no.
! where" couldst h only seei-Thomas
Carlyle.
Hear me when i call, . God of my
| righteousness; Thou hast enlarged me
| when was in distress; have mercy
| uDon me.-psa. w., !.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-10
WHITE PAPER
Shortage of 1t Makes Publishers
Desperate.
Kansas City Daily Omits
Advertising
TO CONSERVE THE SUPPLY
Frantic Bids Made for Material
Over Country.
'1NOt Possible for Most Papers
To Thrive"
10 CONSERVE THE SUPPLY

The seriousness of the shortage of
white paper stares publishers in the
face more desperately than it did dur
ing the war.
The Chicago Tribune says the situa-
ton is rapidly approaching a stage
which will be fatal to many news
papers.
The Kansas City Star a short time
ago carried the following announce
ment to it's advertisers:
In today's issue of the Star, fifty
colums of advertising-more than
seven pages-were omitted Owing to
the scarcity of white paper and the
burden imposed on the carriers, the
Star must limit its weekday issues to
32 pages and refuse more than one
page to any advertiser"
Sunday the Star printed the fol-
lowing on the subject:
IAN unprecedented emergency has
arisen in the publication of American
newspapers thru the shortage in the
supply of white paper. During the
war the expansion of the paper indus
try ceased. No new mills were con-
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-10
Lloyd George Hints at Peace
Negotiations With Reds.
Anti BOlsheviki Press Rises Up
in Indignation.
"SHAKE HANDS WITH SLAYER"
Even Premier's Champion Ad-
mits Proposal Is Obscure.
London Daily News Urges
Peace on Soviet Terms.

London, Nov. 10.-Premier Lloyd
Georges hint in his Guild Hall speech
Saturday night for an attempt to ne
gotiate peace with the Bolsheviki in
Russia has created a stir. The anti
Bolsheviki press is indignant over the
suggestion. The Daily Mail scouts the
idea as shaking hands with muir
derer." and generally denounces the
suggestion which. it says, caused great
amusement in political circles. The
Telegraph and the Morning Post are
also hostile to the proposal.
Referring to the passage of the
speech dealing with the possibility of
peace with Russia, the Chronicle, spe-
cial champion of the premier, declares
it is mot free from obscurity."
Better Make Peace Now-Ncws.
'Some may see in it, the Chron-
icle continues. "a suggestion of return
ing to the PrinkipO policy; I'VE do not,
however. read it in quite that sense"
The Daily News, which is antagonis-
tic to the premier and strongly in ia
vor of making peace with the Bolshe-
wiki. accuses Mr.. Lloyd George of in
consistency and insincerity in all his
dealings with Russia. The newspaper
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-10
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The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-10
FEELING BLUE?
LIVER
TAKE A CALOTAB
Wonderful How Young and En-
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let.

If you have not tried Calotabs you
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Calotabs are sold only in original,
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cents. At all drugstores.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-10
Pimples and Skin Eruptions
Danger Signs Of Bad Blood

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The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-10
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The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-10

strucied. When the enormous increase
in business set in after the armistice,
reserve stocks of paper were rapidly
exhausted and an acute famine devel-
oped.
-Four years ago newspapers were
paying cents a pound for paper.
(Today's Star contains more than a
pound of paper.) Now they are fran
tically bidding up to cents to obtain
enough to tide them over. Inciden-
tally. of course, the phenomenal in
crease in advertising, which has been
cause of the paper shortage, is not
all grief. With the mounting expense
of doing business. with the advance in
wages and in material of every sort,
the newspapers needed the expansion
in advertising in order to maintain
themselves.
Just now, however, the scarcity In
paper is the pressing and overwhelm-
ing fact in the publishing world.
1.-The Chicago Tribune, for instance,
said editorially yesterday: The news
print paper supply is rapidly approach
ing stage which will be fatal to many
newspapers. The present normal de-
mand is perhaps 25 per cent greater
than the supply and prices are on a
famine basis and going higher At
present rates of advertising it is i'm
possible for most newspapers to make
money
ne WHlle paper requirements OF
The Star-among the largest of any
newspaper in America-are so enor-
nous that they have been met with the
greatest difficulty.
For the last two months there has
not been a day when The Star has
not been compelled to refuse advertis-
ing in order to conserve the paper sup
ply.
THE situation is set forth thus
frankly as the basis for the appeal
The Star reluctantly must make to the
advertiser to cooperate with it in saw
ing paper. 1t hopes. Providence and
the railroads permitting. to take care
of all reasonable requirements. If il
is to do this it must have the assist
ance of the advertiser in rigidly econ
omizing on space, certainly for tho
next six weeks, perhaps for a much
longer period.
This is most unusual request. But
the situation is unusual. The paper
shortage won't last forever. But
while it does last its conditions must
be met"
The Star has recently cut off six
pages from its evening edition. and
has cut its morning edition almost in
two, to conserve paper.