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Catoctin clarion., 1919-09-04
Ammonia Guns Turned
on "Rum Detectives"

Kennebunk, Me.-Residents Of
York county who have been
shocked by the Introduction of
ammonia pistols into the rum
traffic, Deputy Sheriff Perley d.
Greenleaf of this town being
shot up when he attempted to
hold up touring cross-state
car, are reminded by old-timers
that ammonia Is not new
tangled weapon. He Is not the
first York county officer to be
OverpOwered by these fumes and
turned from his official duties.
The other instances occurred
at Saco, 1t is recalled, when a
raiding officer attempted to
catch a certain drug store with
. the goods. AS the officer en-.
tered through a back window
there was an immediate "gas at
tack" launched In the form of a
bottle of ammonia from handy
shelf in the back shop. II did
It's work effectively, and that
was the end of that raid.
Catoctin clarion., 1919-09-04
Saw Marten Born Thief,

Seward Alaska, - Trappers OF
Alaska declare the marten is a born
thief and to combat its activities the
Alaska legislature will he asked 70 re.
peal the law which forbids catching
martens. Trappers say martens steal
the bait left in traps and are them
selves caught. Then the owner OF the
trap finds he has violated the law.
Catoctin clarion., 1919-09-04
Don't Wait to Do Coca DEEDS.

The good deeds we would do are
Frightened and made more prolific Of
beneficial results If we carry them
)ut while the enthusiasm of our gen.
arous impulse is upon lis. Have we
lot all experienced the warm desire
% succor; postponed to more con-
yenient time (for us)-then dreaded
'or days until we finally drag our
selves to an accomplishment that
makes of kindness a pitiful treadmlll
and bestows no sweet graciousness
lpon the recipient, who innately feels
the irksomeness of our beneficence2
Catoctin clarion., 1919-09-04
Bandit uses Wooden Gun.

Thirty members of the American
club at Aberdeen, Wash, are minus
$780, having been the victims of two
bandits, one of whom welded a
wooden gun covered with tinfOil. After
the club members had been lined up
and their money taken the bandits
fed
Catoctin clarion., 1919-09-04
JaiIer Forgot to Feed Hungry "count."

Sergius Apraxin, claiming to be a
Russian count, was arrested in Santa
Barbara, CAL, and held In Jail four
days without food or water. John
Splitter, night watchman, who made
the arrest, forgot the prisoner was In
jail, and the "count" almost starved
to death.
Catoctin clarion., 1919-09-04

Utah to Enforce Anticigarette Law.
The state agencies of Utah have be-
gun Il vigorous campaign for the en-
forcement of the anticigarette law.
One argument helping to defeat the
drastic cigarette law in the recent ses-
sion of the legislature was that exist
Ing laws were not enforced,
Catoctin clarion., 1919-09-04
Cotton Seized in 1867
Is Paid for by U. S.

Savannah, Ga.-The claim of
the Imperial Importing and E.X-
porting Company of Georgia for
S176,666.6a Cor cotton illegally
seized by the federal govern
ment in 1867 has been paid, i:
developed through the filing of
petition in superior court here
for permission to notify by adj
vcrtiSements stockholders and
others interested.
The money is to be divided
among residents of Alabama.
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North and South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and
Virginia. Lawyers. however, will
get half of the total. The case
reached final decision in federal
courts recently after ten years
of litigation.
Catoctin clarion., 1919-09-04
Value of Silence.

IF a man abuses an enemy, he hurts
himself, and IL he praises him, his
friends say he is a hypocrite. There
seems to be no course more creditable
than the simple course of keeping still.
Topeka Capital.
Catoctin clarion., 1919-09-04
Had a Bad Niuht.

Kansas City, MO.--Mr. Day had a
bad night. He was driver of a livery
motor car with three "fares." Upon
arriving at given address he was re-
peYed Of 81 and his machine,
Catoctin clarion., 1919-09-04

Is the glue on the back OF War Saw
ings Stamps favored with peppermint
or wintergreen? Buy one and nnd
out.
Catoctin clarion., 1919-09-04
The Public Pays.

In the Inst three years the railroad
cmfluyppS have received hundreds of
millio' of dollars i'm wage increa ses
for which the gen. raj public is paying
AS reward for its generosity the
country is to he taken by the throat
and chokcd into sil'n;iSSian if the most
complicated economic issues that have
ever confronted IL are not So lied forth
with. If there is any difference be-
tween that kind of arrogance and the
arrogance of The German general s;aff
in July. 1911, we should like to know
what it is.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
Exchange Editors

James Kelley, the we'll known CHICAGO
newspaper man, makes the interesting
suggestion that an exchange editor svs-
tenn be established between the press Of
the two English-speaking countries. He
thinks it would make for a STRENGTHEN
ing OF sympathetic relations.
But would it? Imagine, for examn]e
Marse Henry Watterson in Manchester
and allowed to do as he pleased with the
readers Of the venerable Guardian. Con-
ceive of Brother Cobb, of The World
telling Lloyd George through The Lon-
don Tsmes exactly how to handle the
Irish problem. What would happen if
Brother Mitchell, Of The Sun, revealed
his utmost thoughts concerning the cove
nant to the subscribers Of The London
DAILY Neaos? How thick the windows Of
Fleet Street are we have no information.
but 1t is matter of common knowledpe
that London cobblestones are large.
The English are an open-minded peo-
pie, but it is doubtful whether, without
preliminary preparation, they could be
trusted not to react violently against an
intrusion of undiluted American Jour-
nalism.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
Hmdenburg as Scapegoat

Field Marshal Hindenburg follows
BethAmann-Hollweg's example in Offering
to shoulder William IFS war responsible
ties He telegraphs the Ebert govern
ment that he was accountable for all de-
clslons and acts at Grand Headquarters
from August 20, 1916, until the signing
of the armistice.
In making this assertion Hindenburg
shows generosity. Technically, he was
the head OF the armies during the period
named. But little concealment has been
made of the fact that early in 1917 his
power passed to Ludendorff, who became
Tor the rest of the war practical mill
tary and political dictator.
Ludendorffs judgment was far less
sound than Hindenburg's, and Germany
suffered from the substitution. But the
formers propensity to take big risks and
engage in showy enterprises made him
more popular with the clique which con-
trolled the Kaiser.
What part Hindenburg had in forcing
the United States into the war and in
planning the 1918 offensives in France is
still uncertain. But it was not decisive
part. Logically, therefore, he Injuries
the kalser's case when he tries to re-
lleve nm OF responsibility for the acts
and policies of the German High Com
mand. If he is accountable for what
others did, William II is similarly ac-
countable. For the latter was ALWAYS
legally and constitutionally the supreme
commander of the armies and the head
OF the state. Hindenburg was respon-
slble to him as "War Lord" to the
same extent to which Ludendorff ;.,,l
others were responsible to Hindenburr.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-07

were difficulties to be overcome. His con-
vlction that he knew everything better
than anybody else went so far that he
personally submitted plans for the con-
struction of an armored cruiser In an
admiralty prize contest"
Traits in the Kaiser's character remi-
niscent of the Bandar-Log, the tribe Of
histrionic monkeys described by Kip
ling, have been noted before, but this is
certainly the first time that a German
admiral has called attention to them.
Yet Herr Foss claims that he formed
his opinion Of the Kaiser as far back
as 1902:
Ever since 1902 regarded the Kaiser
as the most dangerous enemy of the faith
erland, and l have always openly pro-
fessed my conviction. l must protest
against the insinuation that I am simply
administering donkey's kick to the dead
lion"
This, of course, may be true. But it
IS rather strange, to say the least, that
German admiral went about for seven
teen years calling the Kaiser "the most
dangerous enemy Of the fatherland" and
the Kaiser, as we'll as the world at large,
failed to hear about it.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
Peru's Revolution

The political upset in Peru will force
another test Of our State Departments
"house rule forbidding American
revolutions. After Tinoco seized the
Presidency in Costa Rica the State De-
partment refused to recognize his gov
ernment. 1t has persistently declined to
reconsider that refusal. It has stood on
its announcement that the United States
will boycott all Latin-American execu-
tives coming into Office through revolu-
tion.
Such policy is in conflict with Amer
lean precedents-and with international
usage. 1t has been rigidly lived up to,
however, in the case Of Costa Rica. AL
though that republic severed diplomatic
relations with Germany in 1917, she was
excluded from the list of countries en-
titled to representation at the Paris
Peace Conference. She has also been
barred from membership in the league Of
nations.
Peru, too, severed diplomatic relations
with Germany and did considerable
service to the Allies by seizing the Ger
man merchant vessels interned at Callao.
She was represented at Paris and signed
the peace treaty. Will her new revolu-
tionary government now be informed
that it may not deposit ratification of
the treaty and must join Costa Rica,
Mexico and Venezuela in the limbo out
side the league?
1t IS an interesting question. Leguia,
VINO has overthrown Pardo, was a candi-
date for President in the recent election.
he held the Office from 1908 to 1912. He
claims that he received majority vote
at the polls and that Pardo, who SUP
ported the governments candidate
Senor Aspillaga, was preparing to have
him counted out" by the Peruvian Con-
gress. Leguia's supporters in the army
and in the Lima district therefore eject
ed Pardo and installed their own nomi-
nee as Provisional President.
Guillermo Billinghurst was deposed in
1914 by similar uprising in Lima. The
United States overlooked the irregularity
e. the proceeding and recognized Billing
hurst's successor. But that was before
the anti-revolutionary pronouncement
had gone completely into effect.
Leguia may have had the support of
a majority Of the electorate. But his
corp d'~tnt can hardly be distinguished
from other Latin-American revolutions.
He has flatly challenged our State De-
parfmcEts d'ctum, whatever may re the
mssit5 fs his contention that he Is en-
titled TO succeed TO the Presidency at the
c'o9e of Pardo's term. Has the right of
New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
Lest We All FORGET
(From The Indiounnous w.,r.>

(from Ihe Indianapolis NeaUs)
The action Of H. E. Barnard, State Food
and Drug Commissioner and L. N, Hines.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
IN advising purchasers of school sunn]es
throughout the state to take ADVANTAGE of
the opportunity to throw off the German
yoke, particularly as regards chemical appa-
fatus IS commendable as being in harmony
with the avowed policy of the Federal gov
ernment. Every American must know bv
this time that it was though chemical indrs.
tries in this country that the German mill
tarists operated their spy system and ;nci-
dentally built up the fallacious idea that the
world depended on Germany for chemicals,
lhls country has taken over, through the
Amen property Custodian, practically all Of
the German chemical and dye patents owned
and used IN this country before the war
In all, there are about 4,50O of them. affect
ing every phase of American life and
through the fertilizer and dye industries tho
pocketbook of every American citizen
These patents have been sold to the Chem
lcal Foundatlon, an organization of chemists
manufacturers and business men, which will
issue mon exclusive licenses" under the legal
power conferred in the terms of the patents
and it will prosecute persons who at+ernn.
to import infringing products.
If any doubt exists in the minds of ror.o,,.
responsible for the purchase of school sup
pines IN Indiana that the public of the state
will not sanction the purchase of German
supplles' they are at least guilty of having
failed to gauge the intensity of Americas
resentment of the reprehensible use to which
Germany put her chemical business in this
country Furthermore, it Is unfair to tho
students who use the supplies that tbev
should be instructed in an atmosphere ner-
meated with the disproved idea that cbemi-
cally the world is Germany's slave. These
students deserve the best instruction posi-
BILE, and they will not get it IL thew and
their instructors are using German appa-
ratus.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
His Own People

There is long trail leading up to the
summit of Mount Theodore Roosevelt in
the Black Hills, and that assemblage of
loyal friends who made their way to its
top on the Fourth of July, there to dedi-
cate the peak to new memory and
honor, must have been deeply moved.
Here Theodore Roosevelt in his youth
had touched the heart of America. In
this cattle country of the Dakotas, of the
Bad Lands to the north and these hilly
trails to the south, he struck up his un-
faltering friendship with the warmest,
richest stuff Of America.
No more fitting memorial could be de-
vlsed than this natural monument, bound
by memories to the heart of great life,
The suggestion for the whole country is
rich and sound. Memorials, artificial or
natural, are splendid and worth while
only when intimately revelatory of the
man commemorated. Mount Roosevelt.
the Roosevelt highway, Sycamore Hill
by the dedication of such truly Ameri-
can places he can best be revered. After
ward may come the monuments at home
and abroad. The country does we'll to
begin with these intimate Gedications of
Theodore Roosevelt's own beloved land.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
London Romance
tFrom The London Daily Brpress)
breaking is in season.

"The marriage arranged between Captain
X and Miss will not now take place" That
cold print end to romance can be read any
day now in the society columns of the papers.
1t is becoming a habit
Experts who study these matters declare
that the percentage of broken engagements
has never been so high, and they set down
several reasons The main one is:
The great khaki illusion. (a) The woman:
You would not believe how different he
looked in his civilian suit, my dear. I simply
couldn't do it." OBJ The man: "She was
awfully charming as driver in the Women's
Legion, but when l saw her in one of the
new evening gowns-well, it just couldn't
happen"
The house famine is given as another
cause. Two young people who believe them
selves to be twin souls go out and try to find
a future home. 1t is physically impossible
for any persons temper to stand the STRAIN
of present-day house-hunting. They quarre:,
and there is another broken romance
New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
Ruinous Frugality

How shall the American people be
made less frugal? That is the problem
70 which the Department Of Agriculture
now addresses itself most anxiously.
Some people, it says, still believe IN the
food saving signs that have survived the
war. Others are in a feud with the
butchers. The result is that they are
saving too much on their meat bills; that
is. they are eating too little meat; and
if they are not careful they will ruin
the country's cattle industry.
On this page we reprint the depart
ment's extraordinary appeal. 1t comes
from the "Office of Information" and is
signed "Clarence Ousley, Acting Secre-
tary." 1t is an anomalous situation.
says Mr.. Ousley. So it is.
Meat at the butchers is almost too
dear to eat. But meat on the hoof is
relatively so cheap that cattle raisers
threaten to stop growing it. This stu
aLlOn QOeS IlOC dIloc IIOIIl eAIC 6ASSN VI
the packers, as the War Trade Board
would think. The wholesale price Of
meat has fallen concurrently with the
slump that happened in the cattle mar
ket at the end of the war. The packers
have apparently been making a big
profit in hides, but that is another story.
Mainly the situation is accounted for by
Mr.. Ousley in two ways, namely:
First, retail prices have not fallen as
fast as Wholesale prices; and,
Second, the government has not con-
trolled the production, distribution and
sale of meat as it should and as it must
if people wish these things to be
changed.
In the mean time, if people will only
eat more meat perhaps great industry
can be temporarily saved.
Where is that mythical consumer? He
should worry.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
The Sentimental Classicists

A new and interesting angle on the
plea that Greek and Latin teach chill
dren the meaning of English words is
furnished in The Atlantic by Mr.. Fred
eric Irland, who is official reporter Of
debates in the National House of Repre-
sentatives.
Mr.. Irland made a list of thirty-four
non-technical words derived from the
Greek or Latin, and induced the teach
ers in his home high school to try their
fourth-year pupils on the defining of
these words. Here is his announcement
of the result:
"Those who have studied the classics
defined the words very we'll. The stu
dents of English pure and undefled, who
excclled even Shakespeare in that they
knew no Latin and no Greek at all, pre-
sented papers SO extraordinary as to be
beyond belief without the documentary
proof. The first one presented, written
by an American boy who had studied
English eleven years in school, contained
the following amazing definitions:
'<Pompa dancing slipper.
"Gencalogcal-gentle kind.
"Chronic-a record.
"Phosp sphoresccnt-gas gaseous, bubbling.
"Stamina--an excuse.
Cynical-circular.
"Hypocrite-one who talks religion con-
tinually
"Diaphanous-strong headed.
"Hieroglyphic--a hereditary gift.
"Eugenics study of etiquette
Sycophant-one-ey eyed.
Symposium sympathy in verse.
"Phenomena-reasons for not doing
what should have been done.
MISUNDERSTANDING rule.
"Parable-capable of being peeled
"Polynesia-an island in the Indian
Ocean, near Java"
This is a strong p'-ina facie case
based on genuine investigation, and It
is certainly impressive. In fact, it is
almost too impressive. One goes on to
examine Mr.. Irland's list Of words in
detail to see just how colossally ignorant
our high school pupils are-who do not
'ldy Greek and Latin, that is. And here
strange doubts at once obtrude
Ives. The definitions are beauti-
I, I'd unbelievable, genuine "howlers"
q she finest brands. But just how did
Greek and Latin help the students of
those all-helpful tongues to do better?
New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
Gotham Glcanings
GE 5iIz zlEz

House hunting is the order of
the day.
Its a 9-lb girl up at Archie
Roosevelt's.
The Il pass'd off quietly here
and hereabouts.
Frank Case has gone TO SAG
Harbor for the torrid epoch.
doc Spillman is up at Saranac
Lake for the mo. of July.
Jones w. Merscreau is looking
for a place to live, like many others.
Bob Warwick Of here and Chau-
mont, FIR, is out in Hollywood,
Calf, working in the silent drama
Emotion pictures).
7. w. Wilson is on his wav to
Washington, d. c., he having SER
vice chevron now.
Bob Wildhack is still out in
Arizona, where he is getting better
and will go to Los Angeles pretty
soon.
Sam Merwin whom Meredith
Nicholson calls the sage brush of
Concord sent in his substitution TO
The Tribune last wl5.
Geo. NJ. Bailey of Houston
sends his greetings to Old Grant
Rlce. Geo. was one of the founders
Of the Photographers Union.
We'll, if we had of owned a
paper we would not have printed
anything about the fight in Toledo
except the result in Saturdays pa
per. We probably wouldn't own
any paper very long, however.
we were dancing" writes Hibim. "and
the place was crowded. The first time
the heavy couple bumped us | said moth
lng' but the second time l sang out, Hey!
Shlmmy on your own side!'"
NOR must the s-year-old daughter of
fready Steele be ignored. She boasts that
she can shimmy up Il tree unassisted
The chances are that drinking will Sc,
IN again on October l. The breaks even
up. II, as the guzzlers often pointed out.
June mad only 30 days, so, we shatter no
confidence in proclaiming, has September.
AS the custodian Of one Of tho better
known turrets, we are glad that the ex-
halser IS to bc placed in the Tower of
London and not in this Eitfel Of Exoticism
And, in this our most immemorial YEAR
October is likely to bo less lonesome.
+. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
The Royal Coachman
(From The London DAILY Neus,

'Ffom TIC london Daily Nc,cs)
The trouble when Queen Victoria first
travelled by train (seventeen years after
their institution in England, was not who
should follow, but who should go before il.
The chief royal coachman maintained that hs
must ride on the engine, as, though he could
not drive the train, he ought to make pre-
tence Of doing so. Finally it was decided
that ne should go on the pilot engine, which
preceded the royal train. But the smuts
from the engine played such havoc with his
scarlet livery that the proud functionary
abjured the honor afterward
New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
Candidate S With
Horse Sense
(From The Saturday Evening Post)

lFrons The Saturday Evenng Post)
XZOU already aware of persistent
noise. 1t will increase in volume
and pitch for the next twelve
months. 1t is the mentioning of candi-
dates for the Presidential nominations
Some of these mentionings sound to US
like coal scuttle with the tongs and fire
shovel in it falling down the back stairs.
Others strike the ear moro agreeably. 1t
is agreeable, for example, to hear mention
of men like Governor Frank o. Lowden. Of
Illinois, because, though lawyer by pro-
fession, he has spent considerable time in
rather intimate contact with those practical
affairs by which the world gets it's living
We should judge from hearsay and observa-
tion that he would know offhand that for
the purpose of driving industrial machinery
steam is more dependable than wind.
We don't pretend to have followed the
Governors uttcrances with Boswellian ex-
actness, so we speak subject to correction,
but our impression is that he does not re-
gard business as a crime which may be
as good naturedly tolerated when it is in
the small cr petty larceny state but which
requires the sternest repression when it
assumes the larger or homicidal state We
suppose if any one bNgan talking to him
about proletarats and wage slaveres and
plutocracies, what would rise in his mind
would not be page 306 of Karl Marks
Capital" but picture Of an actual Ameri-
can community, with its actual shops and
factories and payrolls and people and bal
lot boxes; and he would want to know ex-
actly what the talker meant by those
mouthy terms as applied to America.
Because of these somewhat sketchy i'm
pressions The mentioning of men like Gov
crnor Lowden is agreeable. You know what
happens when board that has long lain
on the ground is suddenly moved. The
war was a universal mover of lumber.
useful and otherwise; SO in the collective
human mind every solitary bug, from ven
cradle old great grandfather bug down to
the newest hatched. is now up and moving.
bee under the same bonnet, and you have
a bad combination.
We say to both parties: "Trot out your
men Of weight and pose and solid under
standing; men with a grip on those practi-
cal affairs upon whose sane management
not only our bread and butter but our hap
pness, as a matter Of actual experience.
largely depends. We want nothing resem-
bling Bolshevik Utopia, in which theory
fiourishes while the real human beings
hunger and perish. Give us candidates
with horse sense and practical experience"