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The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20
Sixth District Baptist Visitors.

The Sixth District meeting in the
interest of the Baptist rs Million
Campaign was not as largely attend
ed as was anticipated last Friday at
the Baptist Church.
Mrs. Ayen, president of the State
w. M. u, was gratified to meet the
organizers of the twelve counties
composing the district with one ex-
ception, the missing county being
Lincoln, which is as yet without a
leader for the w. M. u, in the rs
Million Campaign.
DR.. Allen Fort, an orator and pas
tor of repute, from Nashville, spoke
on Friday evening. DR.. j. B. Law
renee, of Jackson gave a splendid adj
dress in the afternoon as did also
Mrs. Aven I'd the women. Mr.. N. T.
Tull, another State worker was also
present.
Among visitors were DR.. w. A.
Borunl and Miss Allen, Of Natchez;
Rev. Garrett, of Lumberton; Rev.
and Mrs. Posey and son, of Fayette;
Rev. and Mrs. Mcleod, of Woodville; /;
Mrs. Toier, Mrs. Aycock, Judge Jack
son. of Liberty; Rev ]. B. Quin and
Miss Rhymes Of TylertoWn; DR.. and
Mrs. James May, of Port Gibson;
Prof. Patterson, Of Starkville; Rev.
Theo. Withheld Of McComb and 9TH
ers.
The visitors were entertained In
Brookhayen homes opened, to them.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20
To The People Of Lincoln County

/ am indeed thankful for the splen-
did vote that the good people Of Lin
coin County gave me in the First
Primary election. / shall feel very
grateful to the people if they shall
see fit to elect me County Treasurer
in the Second primary. May l not
with propriety mention just a few
things favorable to my candidacy? /
know Mr.. Greer is in bad physical
condition. But for many years of
his life he was hale and hearty and
capable Of working and accumulat-
ing something of this worlds goods.
Golden opportunity has come his way
in days agone. He has grown boy
and girl that pay him the tribute
of their unselfish love and who, am
sure, are ever ready and willing to
make life pleasant and comfortable
for him in his days Of affiiction. My
life from birth to the present time
has been made sad and gloomy be-
cause Of the fact that / have been
blind all the days of my life. Ny
father and mother have long since
past from earthly scenes. have no
wife, no son, no daughter, and no
near relatives to comfort and aid me,
as walk ever In the night. / appeal
TO you in the name Of right and JUS
tice and sympathy to make my life
somewhat enjoyable for at least four
years. II you will do this, / shall
ever feel very grateful to you. Very
sincerely,
q. N. tPoleyl CASE
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20
Brookhayen School Of Music
Opens September First.

Mrs. J. II. WiIloughby, Mrs. An
thony Staffier and Miss Belle Bowen
who are the regularly elected teach
ers of vocal and piano music Of the
Brookhaven Public School, have or
ganized the Brookhaven School OF
Music, and will teach their classes
at Mrs. Staffler's residence across the
street from the school, beginning
with the opening Of the session. Sep
tember first. Pupils. will be allowed
to take their music lessons at the
Staffler residence during regular
school hours.
Mrs. Willoughby, Mrs. Staffler and
Miss Bowen, all experienced and sue
cessful teachers Of music, and widely
known in this section propose to
serve the community as they have
heretofore In efficient instruction un-
der environment more advantageous
than formerly.
The most advanced methods will
be used in the School Of Music.
Applications for place on the roll
of atudents are now In order. Hours
VIII be ~ heretofore,
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20
l. . & . = : = : : . = = : : : :
l. THE ISSUE is PLAIN IN THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR
- : 80 : : = + : +

Editors Leader
1t is just a plain open and shut
game-this race for the Governors 8
office.
There is really but one issue, now
being proved by the delta papers in
calling on their people in the north
ern counties to vote for Oscar John
ston for the sole and only reason that
they expect him to destroy the State
Tax Commission-the commission
that raised the delta lands 800 per
cent in some instances.
These papers do not say or even
intimate that this raise was not
right, honest and just but they want
Johnston put in so that their added
assessments may be reduced by their
champion. If he is elected it means
that the hill counties of the state
will have their taxes increased and
will be paying a burden that Is just
ly due to be borne by some other
section.
The issue is plain, Mr.. Voter. It
is not matter of partisanship at all
not whether you were for Longino,
for Collins, or whether you are a
Vardaman man or against him. 1t is
just a matter of whether you will
vote for the right in this tax COM
mission matter. BY SO doing you
are protecting yourself against high
er taxes-and we all know that they
are already high enough in this Sec
tion.
Let us just see what counties have
had their taxes increased or decreas-
ed by the work o. the State Tax Com
mission:-
Using round numbers, here's par
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20
THE EDUCATION OF JOHN BRADY
Compulsory Education Would Have
Saved This Man, Life in the
Penitentiary.

jackson, Miss.-When we are con-
sidering the ill-patd Mississippi
teacher, and the neglected :. rural
child-when we seem to near the
dawn of a day when teachers will be
paid a living wage, when rural
schools will be well equipped, and
when they will have eight month
terms, and our children will have the
opportunities afforded by good city
schools, we cannot avoid the ques-
tion as to what is our duty toward
the children who cannot use the pub
lie school.
John Brady, in the Mississippi
State Penitentiary for life, has just
escaped hanging for killing his faith
er-in-law, because he is feeble-mind-
ed. Would good schools in Jasper
county and a real compulsory edu-
cation law, when Brady was boy,
have changed his condition? Not in
the least. The testimony of those
who were boys with him is that he
went to school several terms. The
teachers recognized that they could
not cultivate the arid soil of his
mind, and so they let him play. In
this case law which compelled his
attendance at school would have
simply brought an intolerable nui-
sance to the school. 1t is most i'm
portant for the public welfare that
we have good schools and that we
compel our children to attend them.
But 1t is just as important for the
public welfare that we have a state
colony for the John Bradys SO they
will not clog the machinery of the
public school. Brady could not have
merited passing to the third grade
II he had been compelled to go to
school until he was twenty years of
age. Meanwhile If he had been COM
PEELED to go to the public school
eight years he would have taxed
teachers energy and patience more
than would dozen normal children
through the same eight years. To
compel him to try to learn to read
and write and figure is a gross in
justice to the ether children. to the
teacher, and to the feeble minded
child.
Such mental interiors are not in
sane. They simply lack wits and ca
pacity to learn. Brady has learned
quite a bit about human nature and
human relations, but his mental cal
iber is very limited and no amount
of education could have raised him
above the six year level of intelli-
gence. In State Colony for the
feebleminded, Brady and his likes
could not interfere with the educa-
ton of our children. They would be
prevented from their crimes and inn
moralities, and also from becoming
fathers and mothers of large num-
bers of other feeble-minded to clut-
ter UP our communities, our schools,
and our other socially constructive
i work.
The unregulated propagation of
the mentally unit is subversive Of
the very purpose for which educa-
tion exists. A State Colony of the
Predetermined is the necessary COM
plement to better schools and COM
lpulsory education law. In our pub
lie welfare work in Mississippi the
GRADUAL elimination of the unfit goes
hand in hand with the better train
ling of our fit citizens Of tomorrow.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20
Death Of ThOs. A. Holiday.

The gentleman whose name heads
this article was the revered father
of Mr.. w. w. Holiday, of New Or
leans, formerly Brookhaven resi-
dent. Mr.. Holiday was, also, the
grandfather Of the late Mrs. Kate
Higdon Hobbs and. Of Mines, Meade
Mathis and Myra PowelI,so Brook
haven.
Mr.. Holiday was born in Copiah
county October 25. 1882. His wife
was Miss Nancy Ellis whom he mar
ried when twenty-one years Of age.
Eleven children blessed this union,
only four Of whom survive to mourn
the death Of their father who lived
so long. Mr.. Holiday was ruggedly
honest. He was industrious, quiet in
his habits and a good citizen. He
was almost blind In his last days and
his health was feeble. We hope he
has found the spring Of perpetual
youth in the world to which his spir-
| 1t has fed.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20

Is everything quiet" Mr.. Bren-
nan?
Mrs. ]. H. Willoughby is expected
back from Detroit this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Kees and
child are again located in Brookha-
ven.
DR.. George Leavell was a guest of
the L. H. Baggett home while in our
city.
Miss Mabel Brewer was in Brook
haven Sunday. looking improved in
health.
Miss Alma Weathersby, Of Crystal
Springs. is q guest of the B. 7. Hobbs
home.
Mr.. David Q. Byrd has gone down
to McComb to spend q season with
his brother.
Mrs. Sidney Penn and children are
visiting with Mrs. Penn's relatives
at Virgins.
Mrs. Pinkie Phillips returned Sun
day from Magnolia where she has
been on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Crawford, of
jackson, are guests in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Palmer.
Miss Boykin, teacher Of Expression
at Whitworth, is in our city and is
at the home of Mrs. ]. A. Hobbs.
Four young ladies. graduates of
Whitworth College, will teach in the
Fernwood school the ensuing term.
Little Miss Kathryn Brennan had
the misfortune to fall from a see
saw and sprained her ankle severe
ly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Tanner and FAM
lily have been visiting relatives in
Claiborne county, returning yester-
day.
DR.. B. G. Lowrey was in our city
last Saturday en- route to Grange
Hall in the interest of the Baptist
colleges of the state.
A six-gallon Holstein is the pride
OF Miss Belle Bowen to whom the
cow was presented by her. brother
in-law, Mr.. D. T. Cushing.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20

Any Mississippi merchants who
want to spend thousand dollars on
a trip to Europe to study trade con-
dItions can be appointed member
|of the Southern Trade Commission
now being formed to 80 abroad for
that purpose. Governor Bilbo in an
open letter to Mississippians states
that the Southern Commercial Con-
gress desires to send the Commission
that he Is anxious for the State to
send q delegation and win be pleas
ed to hear BY letter or telegraph
from any who want to 60. The party
Is dile to sail from New York Sep
tember g. The Governor thinks the
State would benefit from reprosenla~
ton on this trip and hopes that sew.
erai leading Mlssisalppianf wlll Yola
unteeF II mpke 1t
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20
DR.. George Leavell's Lecture.

DR.. George Leavell who left his ma
tive state of Mississippi, to become q
Medical Missionary to China seven
years ago, recently returned; and
with the purpose of arousing interest
in growing Baptist hospital on for
eign soil has been speaking almost
every day for six weeks past in this
country.
BY invitation of Mrs. w. H. Nor
gan, president of the Brookhayen w.
M. S., DR.. Leavell came to our city
and before a large audience Monday
evening told Of the cause he has SER
we'd in China. *
DR.. Leavell's address was replete
with human interest and his unusu-
al sincerity and simple aeceptation of
Gods word in his work under har-
rowing circumstances deeply inn
pressed his. hearers. Heathenism Is
crying out, through its awful suffer
ing and ignorance and superstition,
for Christian doctors.
DR.. Leavell has been the best g.
quipped physician in a province OF
eight million people and this does
not mean he is very well equipped
as to modern scientific aids to prac-
tice.
The cause needs money and others,
like DR.. Leavell. willing to give life
at its best where 1t is needed most.
The w. M. u, and guests were
gratifed at the success Of their even
ing. Mrs. o. N. Arlington supervis-
ed the music presenting program
that appealed strongly to the people
AN orchestra introduced the pro-
gram and played throughout the re-
ception. Exquisite decorations were
used both in the auditorium and sub
story, where punch was served. Ev-
erywhere 1t was evident that the w
M. s.. sought to do honor to the SER
vice Of DR.. Leavell whose presence
among the people here was SO great
~ appreciated.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20

Some people who have
never had the pleas
ure of passing thru the ma
trimOniaI trance of love and
sentiment, proposing and a
real honeymoon, sometimes
advertise in a newspaper for
a husband or wife. Frequent
ly they get results. 1t pays
to advertise, but you cannot
buy love or friendship over.
the bargain counter. 1t is
priceless. We advertise and
are getting results. Always
give good values and sell
what we advertise. C. B.
Perkins Hardware Store.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20
Foreign Coin Being Passed.

Some of our local merchants are
suffering from flood of foreign coin
which some of the soldiers brought
back from Europe. The coins are in
pieces about the size of half dollars
and quarter dollars, but are far less
valuable. They are both French and
British. No doubt some of the re-
turned soldiers think they are having
a deal of fun at the expense Of the
credulity of the country merchant,
but other people are likely to share
the fate of the merchants unless they
are very careful.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20

While laudable service should be
considered when you are voting for a
candidate, so should the unworthy
or despicable attitude of q man to-
ward HIS state, county or city gov
Iernment, especially il he has already
served In office and has not measur-
led up: or has been guilty while in
office OF infringement OF the law or
has shown more favor to law-break-
ers than 1delity to the demands upon
him officially. Mem OF honor and
courage, fearless In the discharge OF
duty are the king we need In office.
Il you want good government vote
for clean men.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20
Public Should be Care
full in Addressing Mail

There has been good deal Of COM
plant in regard to deliveries Of mail
at the Post Office. The Leader is
requested to ask that addresses
boxes. streets, rural routes.-be
written plainly on envelopes and
packages. There have been changes
Of employees at the Postoffice; men
and women who are not familiar
with our population that changes,
too. So help Uncle Sam by writ
ing addresses carefully.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20

Shriners took possession OF Jack
son last Thursday and the red fez
adorned the streets OF the Capital
City. a large class was initiated In
to the mysteries Of the Order.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20
: Solomon was the

@S@A~SAe
wisest of all men. He
built temples of the best
stone and cedar wood; he
supported and lived peaceful
ly with 700 wives and there
is no record of a single di-
vOrce suit. Our modern laws
and high cost of living viii
not permit any man to have
more than one wife. BE
as wise as Solomon. Per.
petuate your name by
using the best. We sell
the very best Portland
Cement, LOngview Lime,
English Fire Brick, Sash
Doors, Galvanized Roofing
and the famous Vulcanite
Roofing, at C. B. Perkins
Hardware Store.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20

Most get-rich-Quick schemes have
one failing, No subscriber is enttt-
led to more than one guess.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20

Read The Leader and keep up
what y coins On II town and spunty.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20

Use Good Paper When
You Write?
We Can Print Anything
and DO II Rtsht.
Phone u for Ipb Printing,
The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-08-20
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Local News Items

Observation-Disclosures
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-11-29

Observation-Disclosures have been
appointed BY the county chairman on
the sale Of Christmas seals in hide
pendence county. ana the seals dis
tributed to the workers.
Little Rock-The deer apo turkey
season has opened IN Arkansas
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-11-29
JUST PARAGRAPHS.

Russellville. President Hugh Crits
Of the Second District Agricultural
school has received notice from tho
vocational training department that
SO additional disabled soldiers have
been assigned to the RussellviIe
school for schooling and vocational
training.
Newport forty-first annual
state convention of the Arkansas
Woman's Christrian Temperance IN
ion convened in this city recently.
Mrs. Minnie o. Rutherford-FulIer of
Magazine, as president presided, and
sill officers Of the society responded
to roll call
Representative of the
Ozark counties of Arkansas and Mis-
souri, will meet in Joplin, Mo-, No
vember rs to consider plans for ma
tional advertising campaign of the
Ozark region as a health and pleasure
resort country.
Little Rock.-Two additional in
fantry companies of the Arkansas
National Guard probably will be or
gained soon at Hot Springs and Ark
adelphia. it was said at the office
OF Lloyd England.
Fayetteville.-The quarterly inspec-
ton Of the Cadet Battalion, Univer-
sity OF Arkansas, was made Novem-
Der II by Mai. w. G. Jones, assistant
to the district military inspector, with
station at Austin, Tex.
springdale.-The Rev. eileen Tenn
pie. who is walking from Seattle.
Wash, to Jacksonville. Fla. preached
here He left Seattle Is months ago,
and expects to reach Jacksonville in
six months.
Jonesboro. = T. J. Parker Of Little
Rock was elected secretary Of the
Jonesboro Chamber Of Commerce OF
this city for three years. The Cham
her Of Commerce has not had per-
manent secretary since the resigna-
lion Of Luther Ellison last March
Pine Bluff-R. Canadian, member
Of the First Baptist Church Of Pine
Bluff, has subscribed $4,000 10 the
Baptist $75,O00,000 campaign. This
Is to be paid il installments Of $1,000
year Tor five years The quota for
this church is approximately 500, 900.
Magnolia Jordan jameson, negro.
80 years old, who shot and killed
Sheriff q. 2. Greer OF this county, was
lynched, being burned on the public
square
HentonTiIle.--Mike Lindsey, the son
Of Frank Lindsey Of the Beattle
neishborhood. has been awarded the
French croix de Cuerre.
Mena.--0ne.lourth acre Of ground
planted "a sweet potatoes By 81 H
9liEe. POLK county fruck gardner.
gaided l0t busheis
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-11-29
ARKANSAS BAPTIST
STATE CONVENTION
LITTLE ROCK SCENE OF MEET
lNe-WANT ENFORCEMENT OF
PROHIBITION Law
DR.. |. E. BARTON PRESIDENT
Geo. w. Puryear and Allen Winham
Chosen as Vice Presidents, }. A.
Brown Elected Secrsrary--Dr.
J. P. Runyan Is Treasurer.

Little Rock. ~ At the opening SEES
sion of the Arkansas Baptist State
Convention the Committee on Temp-
erance urged a tightening of the
lines on bootleggers and moonshin-
ers, alleging that men engaged in
making and selling liquor have been
openly defiant of the law
DR.. L. E. Barton was reelected
president Of the convention; George
W. Puryear, Jonesboro, and Allen
Winham, Texarkana, vice presidents;
]. A. Brown, Texarkana, secretary;
DR.. j. P. Runyan, Little Rock, treas
urer; H. G. Pugh, Little Rock, audi
tor.
1t was reported that Fl new pas
tors have been enrolled during the
past year.
The Committee on Sabbath Obser-
vance reported that in many cases
the significance Of the Sabbath has
been lost sight of. The report on the
Baptist Advance, the official publica-
ton, showed an increase in circula-
ton from 5000 to $4,000 during the
year
J. r. Moseley, Sunday school secre-
tary, reported the organization Of
ISIS Baptist Young Peoples Union;
1875 teachers training classes con-
Quoted during the year; $50 lectures
delivered and 500 diplomas awarded.
The annual sermon was preached
by the Rev. B. v. Ferguson Of Fort
Smith. His subject was "some Things
Involved in the Mind Of Christ"
The report Of schools and colleges,
read by Rev. C. E. Dickens, includes
the Ouachita College report, showing
an attendance of 3O2 so far this year
-1S7 boys and 1855 girls The insti-
ton now has 35 ministerial students,
against 25 last year More than so
applications from girls have been re-
iected for want Of accommodations.
+ On account of the crowded condition
in Arkadelphia it is impossible to &C
commodate many boys.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-11-29

Russellville.-The Second District
Agricultural school has set a new
high record for attendance, the en-
rollment being 312. All rooms in the
dormitories are filled and some of the
vocational training students are be-
ing placed in rooms out in town.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Barrett, aged
40, dropped dead on the street here.
AS Mr. Barrett fell he exclaimed that
he had been poisoned, but upon inves-
LEGATION two packages of heart tablets.
a bottle of paregoric and several pack
ages Of asperin were found upon him.
Van Buren.-G. T. Cazort of Har-
oldton, one Of the wealthiest planters
of this section. brought 500 bales Of
cotton into Van Buren, at the rate OF
50 bales per day. The cotton had
been stored on the Cazort place since
1917.
Little Rock.-SeveraI landowners OF
jefferson county appeared before the
State Tax Commission and protested
against an increase In the valuation
on real estate. which the commits.
has intimated viii be made.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-11-29
Marine corps Drum .Honored.

Glory was not won by men alone oEft,
the battle fields Of the WORLD war,
says the Popular Mechanics Magazine.
To illustrate, there is the bass drum
which returned from France recently
with regiment of the marine corps,
decorated with wound stripe and
four service chevrons. These marks
of honor were painted on one head Of
the instrument, as shown ia a photo
graph illustrating the article. The
wound stripe was considered appro-
pirate after the drum had been dam
aged by bursting shell.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-11-29
Always q silver LInIno.

Robert had lost penny. His moth
sr tried to show him the value Of the
penny BY telling him that car fare is
seven cents, and If she only had six
cents and could not find the LOST cent,
she would have to walk. and not take
the car. After thinking a while. he
said; But mother you could buy an
ice cream cone then, and then you
could eat it while you were walking,
and that would make the walk pleas
ant.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-11-29

Some one went BY our house in a
car and spoke to my little sister, who
was in the yard. She did not recognize
the person at the time, but later found
out it was an acquaintance and said
4 knew it was Eva. just knew Il
was her tune" Cmeaning her voIcel ~
Exchange.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-11-29

Mabel ]. Gray, an attractive young
business woman of Tonopah, New, is;
probably the only woman president Of
mining company. She is shown here
at work on one Of her claims. Mrs.
Gray wears a mans clothing while on
her prospecting and mining trips, and
she is a familiar figure in this garb on
the streets of Tonopah.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-05-16
YANKs LIKE HUN POLICE LIDS
Soldiers Rush German Policemen
When They Don Their Pre-
p -~.s.&': war Helmets.

, $ ". o. q,
+ sParis,--When German officials in
the cities occupied by the Americans
issued orders for policemen to don
their prewar uniforms they didn't real
lie, what an attraction boche helmets
have for Yankees. -, 4. -s 80 :, T.
German policemen were rushed all
along the Rhine by Americans who
couldn't resist the temptation 10 cap
tire helmets from the heads of live
Germans. AS consequence of the
,onslaughts made upon the policemen
American officers asked German Off
Gals to discontinue the use OF helmets.
Ordinary caps are far less attractive
than helmets as targets for sllowballs
and peaceful German policemen are
now able to walk their beats in safety
and quiet. :. - ii % - !.