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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
PROF. M, L. FITZPATRICK
Appointed Director of
Pratt Experiment Farms

Prof. M. l.. Fitzpatrick, formerly poul-
try extension specialist of Ohio State
University, special poultry investigat'
or of the United States Department
of Agriculture, instructor in poultry
husbandry at Pennsylvania State Col
lege, is eminently qualified to direct
the highly important poultry breeding
and experimental work carried on at
the great establishment conducted by
the Pratt Food Co., at Morton, Pa, for
the solving of practical problems and
the continuous testing of their COM
plete line of poultry preparations.
The uniformly high quality and ef-
tleiency of Pratt Poultry Regulator,
Pratts Baby Chick Food, Pratts Roup
Remedy, and other Pratts poultry ne
cessities have long been proverbial
among experienced poultry keepers.
The fact that man of the wide ex-
pcrience. the scientific and practical
skill and the character of Prof. Kill
patrick will have charge of the contin-
uOus tests of these goods is an added
guarantee that the long-established
high standard of quality will be main
tanned.
Get free poultry literature from
Pratts dealer near you.
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game thoroughly and that at least 100
of them can play It WELL This, he
says, "is due to the higher plane upon
which baseball has been put in the last
ten years"
1t is due even more, perhaps to the
fact that physical education for wo.
men and girls has become SO firmly
established in the land. There was a
time when high school girls played on.
ly "indoor baseball" But that soon
became too tame, and the real game
with the real sporting phrascology was
demanded.
Baseball, basketball, hockey and a
lot of other strenuous games are play
I'd by girls in highschool, young wo-
men in college and in the Y. NJ. C. A.
gymnasiums. 1t hasn't hurt the games
a bit, and it has been fine for the girls.
They have derived from these games
the same physical and mental benefits
formerly granted only to American
boys and men.
There is little danger that women
will ever seek to break into the pro
fessional field. Males therefore may
heartily rejoice that their best girls
now will watch the favorite game from
, the grand stand without taking all the
joy out of life by their inane ques
tions.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Sealed proposals will be received by the
Board of Education of Clinton Township,
Knox County, Ohio, until l2'oo O'clock
noon, Eastern standard Time, the Zoth
day of March, 1919.
The above proposal shall be for the FUR
nishing of the necessary Labor ana Ma,
terials necessary for the erection and
completion OF Alterations and Additions
to a brick school building in accordance
with the Plans and Specifications as pre-
pared for same by Fred ID. Jacobs, Archi-
tect Marion, Ohio, and which are now on
file with the Clerk of the Board of Edu-
cation, Mr.. IL. q. Richards, II. +. y. No
s, Mt. Vernon, Ohio and also at the Of
flee of the architect
such Plans are ON file for the purpose
of public inspection at any time during
ordinary business hours until the date for
receiving bids.
Upon application to the Architect, pkinS
and specifications viii be furnished upon
conditions to be stipulated by the Archi-
tect
Requests for information desired by any
bidder, II addressed to the architect, viii
be given attention and copies of such
win pc given to all bidders.
Sub-contractors and material mea de-
string IL list of the contractors iiSur-
ing on the work or any General Contract
or desiring list of the sub-eon,ractors
,will be given such information upon ap-
plication to the architect.
Each proposal must contain the full
name of every person Interested in same
and must be submitted on blank forms,
,WncIl Iofl1S VIII ne IuTnlSneu upon up-
plcation 10 the architect.
Bids viii he received as follows:
I Bids for material and labor must be
separately stated.
bids viii be received for the general
lconstruction of the work according To law,
excepting heating and vcntiluting.
| The Board of Education reserves the
right to accept separate bids or complete
bids according to the state Laws of Ohio.
Each proposal must he accompanied
with II certified check or bond in the
amount of ono Hundred Dollars t$l000O)
AZ a guarantee that If successful the con
into contract and commence actual
work within ten days from date ordered
To do SO by the Board of Education or
the architect.
Should any bid he rejected. the above
bond or certified check will he returned
forthwith To the bidder. The bond or GER
titled check of the successful bidder will
be returned under proper execution of the
SIGNING of contract and giving bond for
the faithful execution of the work bid
upon. The successful bidder for any part
ha satisfactory bond, which bond shall
he approved by the attorney for the
Board OFFS Education.
|, This bond shall be equal to twenty-five
percent 60 pcrcentD of the contract price
conditioned upon the faithful performance
or the contract and fun payment by said
contractor for all materials and labor us-
Ell IN the building under his contract,
same To be IN strict accordance with
thc laws existing In the State of Ohio.
i'iis 10 be opened and read publicly at
me school house ON Newark road, Clu-
ton towLship Knox county, Ohio. ls:OO
o'clock, noon. to 500 O'clock u. M, East
| 1919 ~
Tho right is reserved to reject any or
! all bids
II. q. RICHARDS,
| Clerk Board of Education.
l 3-Iiisi sSsW
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
FREEING THE RIVERS

Germany demanded freedom of the
seas" and the seas are being made
free in n sense that the sea-assassins
never dreamed of. They will be free
hereafter not merely for Germans, but
for all Notwithstanding tho Ger.
mans, AZ long Az they are good.
More than that. even the rivers are
to he free. The peace conference Is
taking the Huns nj their word with n
vengeance, There is going to be more
waterway freedom hereafter than ever
before in history, and the Huns them
selves are to be unwilling contributors
to H.
The Rhine itself Is to be made per.
manently free to the commerce of all
nations. instead of remaining Il Ger
man river" The Danube il being in
tcrnationalizcd too So are the Dar.
danelles and the Bosporus, as every.
body knows. And the process Is being
applied now to the Kiel Canal, which
has been hitherto the private property
of Germany, reserved for the exclusive
use of the German fleet In itS maraud-
ing expeditions against peaceful neigh.
bors.
This Observation-Disclosures will be ear.
ried out under the jurisdiction of the
League of Nations. II IL an appropri.
ate task Tor that body, and one of the
big duties justilying It's creation.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
FAcT--NOT A THEORY

Many people seem to regard the
League of Nations question as purely
theoretical. They think of a concert
or combination of powers as a future
possibility, which we can take or leave
as wo please.
AS matter of fact, it is the most
practical and immediate question in
the world. 1t is literally "a condition
and not theory that confronts u.s."
We have a concert of nations We
have on international combination or
federation. We have, if you please,
League of Nations. We had to or.
ganize one to win this war. 1t was
in existence before the United States
it to make it .iit instrument of vic
tory.
The Allies have been and are n
League Of Nations. They are more
than that--they are THE League of
Nations. This league has been work
ing while people talked. It is still
working. 1t is engaged today, through
its representatives at Paris in making
peace with the Germanic powers and
! rewriting international law. And in
cidentally il is preparing for the con
tinuation of it's work by giving itself
formal constitution and a new name,
and modifying its powers somewhat,
according to its judgment of the prob
able requirements of peace.
It is not a question, therefore,
whether we shall form Il league. 1t is
first of all question whether or not
have.
DO the American people want this
present league unscrambled, after
some sort of peace has been patched
up with Germany, Austria, Bulgaria
and Turkey? They do not. They
want the powers that won the war
10 stay on the job and keep the war
won by enforcing all the peace terms
lind giving the new, free nations a
fair chance to live.
The only real question, then, is ms
; TO the precise form that this present
! league shall take And there Is prob.
ably less choice in that than most
people have supposed
II we were building Il league out
of thin air, to start in the indefinite
future, we could build all sorts of i'm
pressionistic structures. But here is
hard fact to deal with. The states
men are limited by the necessity of
fitting constitution to this organiza.
tion that is already running, and to
make IL fit so we'll that there will be
no pause nor break, but the one regime
will merge easily and instantly into
tho other, carrying on and fulfilling
its task.
II all those who speak about the
league, pro and con, would recognize
this fact. great deal of confusion
and misunderstanding would he avoid
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
OILERS SHOULD BE WATCHED

Carefully kept statistics have proved
in one of the large eastern cities that
the work or fight order" in force dur
ing the war reduced crime about so
per cent.
Eighty-fve per cent of the smaller
crimes and felonies in most localities
are committed by youths, only Is per
cent being the work of professional
criminals. Most of the So per cent
are committed by the loafing class and
the corner gang. 1t was the routing
out of these boys and putting them to
work which made the reduction in
criminal cases.
Just now it would be little hard to
operate fairly a policy calling for eth
er a steady job or punishment. But
it is possible in every community to
check corner loafng, and gang spots
known to the police should be watched
with exceeding care, for the times are
full of crimc-breeding agencies.
A registeration system for loiterers
would be good thing at any time.i 1t
is not hard to distinguish between
the man who wants work and cannot
find it and the man who wants to
know where il is so he can dodge it.
Fer the protection of the honest, EN-.
ployed and unemployed, the idlers
should be watched now as never be.
| fore. Hl
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
WINTERMUTE FUNERAL
HELD in THIS CITY

Mr.. Wilbur Wintermute and Mr..
George Wintermute left Monday for
Philadelphia, called there by the death
of their mother Mrs. Frances Winter
mute, who died Sunday morning after
short illness of heart trouble.
The deceased was So years of age,
and leaves besides her two sons, vii,
bur Wintermute and George Winter.
mute, q son, Richard Wintermute, and
a daughter, Mrs. j. NJ Claypool of
this city and Mrs. G. E. Griffith of
Philadelphia.
The body will be brought here today
for funeral service and burial.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
WOMEN AND BASEBALL

Among the ancient jokes about wo-
men which are passing into the dis.
card is the one about the sweet young
thing who doesn't understand the
game, billy" Evans, for many years
Il major league umpire, is authority
for this statement. llo has recently
been acting as physical director for
500 working girls, lie says that every.
one of those girls understands the
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
SHOW WILL
Be HELD IN CITY HALL

The next poultry show'of the Knox
County Pet Stock and Poultry asso.
citation will be held in the auditorium
of the city hall. A resolution to this
effect was adopted by the city council
at its meeting last night after Mr..
II. l.. Carr and G. c. Williams of the
Poultry association asked the council
for permission to use the room for
their next show. The exhibition will
probably be held in January.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
BIG SIGN FALLS
THROUGH WINDOW

Tho strong wind Monday night caus.
cd the clock sign, ut the Frank l..
Young jewclry store, on South Main
street to be loosened from its fasten.
ings. The sign fell, completely crush
ing the plate glass window in the front
OF the Sore.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
THE WRONG KIND OF FUN

Not long ago a boy of eighteen at
tempted to commit suicide because
people laughed at him on account of
his stammering. 1t seems that one of
the principal sources of his unhappi-
ness was a neighbOring child who per-
sistently sung Beautiful K-k-katie,' y
the stammering song now enjoying an
undeserved popularity.
The story is a pitiful one, but un.
fortunately it is not uncommon except
as to the length to which the afflicted
child was driven.
Stammering is truly cruel thing.
IL is rooted in an unconscious self.
consciousness difficult to eradicate
Mimicry is one of the worst things for
it.
No song or story should be printed
or repeated which has for its subject
this most mortifying trouble, nor in
fact any human aflliction.
A moments thought will convince
even the most shallow of what his per
sonal feelings would be, were he the
victim of an impediment of body or
speech which set him apart from his
fellows. Human kindness as well as
medical sense demands that people
refrain from using in song or story
such things as humorous subjects.
Children, too, should be brought up to
grief by such unkindncss, but that
they often do .irrcmcdiable harm.
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when 1t is circulated with deliberate
purpose by alien interests.
Prompt steps should be taken
against it by congress and the depart.
ment of justice. A certain amount of
control can be exercised through the
postofiice. Beyond that, it may be nee
essary to place bookstores under sup
ervision, until such time as the peril
shall be past.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

The more one sees of Republican
tactics In Congress the iirmer one $
belief that President Wilson was right
when he appealed TO the country last
fall to give him Democratic support
in congress. Republican senator's and
congressman are proving that their
purpose is not to uphold his hands,
but to tic them. IA
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
RESUMES POSITION

Miss Julia Murphy. who has been
seriously i'll with influenza for several
weeks ut her home ON North Gather.
me street was ablo to resume her
position ut the Woolson department
store Tuesday morning.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

Somebody who got excited the other
day about the reported button fam.
inc" went investigating, and counted
1876 buttons on one woman's dress.
Nothing in it! Meaning not the dress,
but the famine.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
AN APPRECIATION

We want To thank our peighbors
for their generous help on last Sunday
afternoon, when our barn burned.
Their kindness is greatly appreciated
and will always be remembered,
ks l. s. BRADDOCK AND FAMILY.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

Senators who have bound them
selves to defeat President Wilson's
plan for II League of Nations seeming.
ly want to pcrpctuatc the plague of
tions-internationa bloodshed
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

1t viii take more than thirty-nino
senators to step the worlds progress
toward the abolition OF wars and the
guarantee of peace.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

Berlin had II tremendous growth for
several years, but 1t is beginning to
look as If she will not show much of
II gain in population when the next
census is taken.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
LEWIS WRIGHT HAS
STROKE OF PARALYSIS

Clerk of Courts Guy Taylor received
word from Newark Tuesday morning
that his grandfather, Lewis Wright,
had sustained stroke of paralysis
Monday and that his condition was
quite serious.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

From Washington comes the sug.
gestion that Senators Pomereno and
Harding, the former who has declar-
cd for the league of nations and the
latter against. debate the issue over
the Buckeye state. Ohioans would be
glad of this opportunity to show how
they feel about it and the result
would not be gratifying to Republican
leaders who seem, in their frenzy to
get real issue on which to stand,
to have seized upon the league rs
their one and only hope.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

Governor Cox Is seeing to it that
the Ohio soldiers landing in New York
will be well received and entertained
and that place is provided where
relatives and friends may meet the
returning heroes. The Governor has
announced his intention of going to
New York to meet the 37th division,
"Ohio's own.'
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

Looks as il when this cruel war is
over in Europe it will he just begin.
ming in America.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

Russian Cossacks are threatening
to protest against interfcrences by
Americans. Anything against which
Cossacks protest must be good.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

A bonedry bill has been defeated in
the Indiana legislature, but n lot of
lndianians will continue to be thirsty.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

The difference between Il Sparticidc
and bolshevic is that the Sparticide
may have had bath, at least once.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

We suppose the golf clubs will quit
awarding cups to champion players
after the first of July.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

The IIohcnzollerns are not disturbed
by II scarcity of buttons, They're used
to 1t. They never had their share.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

The Ohio Legislature wants to ad-
journ on April II. Judging by past
performance of this body II will be
here until the snow flies II anything
Is accomplished.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
MccAlLA HAS FLU

Wilson McC,lla is quite i'll at his
home on East Pleasant street with the
influenza.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

Under the caption, "The Dcclara-
tion of 1919, the Marion Star, Sena-
tor Harding's newspaper, says "Ther-
ompylae had its messenger of defeat
the league of nations had thirty
nine. They precede the president Of
the peace, conference" We grant
that thirty-nine have sent such q
message to- the conference but that
the great message of 100,000.O0O Am.
crican citizens, which Woodrow vii.
son carried with him to Paris rather
overshadows tho Obstructionist meth
eds of the thirty-nine.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

Senator P0indexter may soon be eX'
pccted to flop from his opposition
to the league OF nations. He is hear
ing from the folks back home and
Opportunity Miles" has always had
the reputation of keeping his car close
to the ground.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21
POLITICAL DOPE in
THE BUCKEYE STATE

COLUMBUS, March 9-(SpeciaD-
No more characteristic bit of legisla-
ton could emanate from the present
Republican legislature than the Miller
bill, requiring senate confirmation of
appointments to the industrial COM
mission. Rushed through, without
hearings or the ordinary consideration
given even to minor measures, 1t de-
velops that this bill, unless vetoed by
the Governor, will repeal the work
mems compensation system of the
state. In the bungling of the meas
ure., which was put through solely
for political purposes, the bill pro-
vides for the repeal of the original
sections which it sought to have
changed.
This is the work of a legislature
that has been in session since the first
of January and has accomplished
nothing. The bill is aimed at ]. d.
Clark of Dayton whose term expires
in June, the Republican politicians
hoping thereby to prevent Clark's con.
firmation and to gain control of the
commission in the event of the cleo
tion of Republican governor two
years hence. The far.fetched nature
of the political play is evidence of the
way the Republicans are playing the
game these days and the necessity for
Democratic alertness becomes more
apparent.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-03-21

The last stand of the Progressive
Republicans in the National House
of Representatives to prevent the
Mann Cannon reactionary controlled
committees from being confirmed by
the party caucus makes good Demo
cratic thunder. Progressive leaders
are exposing the war records of the
new committee heads, showing that
practically every one of them took
the pacifist side in some of the i'm.
portant war measures. The seniority
rule, which they promised in the last
campaign to abolish, puts these reac.
tiOnaries I'm the saddle and their grip
is too firm for their more progressive
members to break. The reign of
standpatism in both House and Senate
will be absolute.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-06-13
OFF THE WIRES

A COMMUNIST coup by the Austrians.
In conjunction with the Hungarian
reds, has been planned for June Is. ac-
cording 10 Information from Vienna.
1t is announced Adjt. Mace. a French
army aviator, has been killed while per-
forming acrobatic stunts in the air.
Advices received from. China show
there has been serious spread OF anti
Japanese propaganda, especially IN
Shanghai, Kangkow and Canton. with
indications that 1t may develop into
general 'antiloreign movement.
eral Burleson and President Newcomb
Carlton, of the Western Union Tele-
graph company, as princes OF DOL
shevism were passed at mass meet
ing of striking members OF the Com
mercial Telegraphers' union In the DIS
trlct of Columbia. t
Paul A. Newman, head OF the Broad
street brokerage firm OF Paul A. New
man & Co, of New York, was indicted
by the grand jury in connection with
his promotion OF the stock of the Range
Burnett Oil company.
The Bulgarian minister, stephan
Panaretoff, in an official statement re-
flutes the charges that fifteen tons Of
medicinal opium which recently arrived
in New York was loot from the Serbian
poppy fields now being placed on the
American market.
Stockholders of the General Motoi
corporation, at a meeting in Whining
ton, Del, gave vote Of approval to the
action Of the directors in increasing the
capital stock of the corporation from
| 1870, O00, 900 to 81. 900. 900, 900.
Al the request OF the department OF
agriculture. the war department has or
dered returned from France large
quantity of engineering equipment fol
distribution to the states for use in the
construction and maintenance of fedora
aid highways.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-06-13
PROPOSE MONUMENT
In HONOR BOB TAYLOR
KNOXVILLE T. p. A. STARTS
CAMPAIGN.
He Preached Mans Humanity
TO Man and Lived Life Z
of Patriot.

Knoxville, June rS.-(Special.)-
A monument to the memory Of the
beloved Robert Love Taylor, late
United States senator from Tonnes
see, may be erected. Funds for that
purpose are being raised, the move
ment being started by Post &c" T. p.
A., of Knoxville.
Announcements are being sent to
persons in all parts Of Tennessee.
These announcements, which are
neatly gotten up, bear the picture of
Senator Taylor on the first page. On
the inside of the folder Is this ap-
peal:
ITO the friends OF the late Senator
Robert L. Taylor:
"The travelling men of Tennessee,
through the Travellers Protective as
ISOLATION, have undertaken the work
of soliciting contributions for a
monument to the late Senator Rob-
ert Love Taylor. As he preached
mans humanity to man, and lived
the life OF true patriot, ever seek
ing to do something for others. scat
tering sunshine along the way. and
willing at all times to lend help
ing hand that others might be made
happy, we feel that a monument to
his memory from loving friends, to
be placed over his grave in Old
Gray cemetery, at Knoxville, would