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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18
KEEP IT HANDY

If you paid a specialist $500 for a
prescription. you would not get any
thing that would give quicker relief
for Group, Catarrh. Colds, or Sore
Throat, than VACHER BALM, which
only costs pc in Jars. or tubes.
Write for Samples and Agents
Prices. Beware Of limitations. f. w.
Vacher, Inc, New Orleans. La. Adv.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18
- Have chanuedI

hanged" confessed old
- o. Petunia, land, some
me worse. Anyhow it
=. sterday that the propri-
1sht Place store would
- INTO the back room
4 Eip of something red
aet how if he takes you
~ Il is b'cuz he wants
- oeut how soon you think
-. . q settle that little bill"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18
Wanted Due Credit

$50 you insisted on informing your
entire family that Santa Claus is a
myth"
Yes. 1t seemed TO me about time
was getting personal credit. for being
the chap who pays the bills"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18
nsorts 5aby's Skin

0 5aby's Skin
-. and itching with hot
|6ss soap and touches of
ent. Also make use
Z 9 mat e1quisitely scent
|Soer' cuticura Talcum.
.aalspensable Cuticura
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18
Hunting Trouble.

When a man is looking for trouble
he doesn't have TO go to the dictionary
to find it. he can get it in the tele
nhnua Director
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18
A Doggone Shame.

Il say, Fido, you don't see INTO be
very well satisfied with your dinner,
today"
How could I be when This family
has gone bone dfyf
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18
Restaurant Humor.

This fish is very rich"
Yes. it is well supplied with bOnes."
Boston Transcript.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18

Don't wear your bathing suit to D
New Years party just to show thar
You have one.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18

Groves Tasteless chill Tonic
restores vitality and energy by purifying and an,
ncninR the blood You can soon feel Its Strength
entng Invfgoratins Eject. Price 6Oc.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18

No man can make a fool * himself
all the time. He has 70 sleep Occasion-
ally.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18
In the Urinary Class.

Teacher-Isabelle, to what race does
your mother belong7
Isabelle Jagged e)-Human racsr
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18
AHin.

& 4 Hint.
1 S.~-speaking of conun-
i '.s IN there's a good one:
ser d like a wedding
(ess, Bachelor-oh, I'm
- You give it upY
/ can't be "wed"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18

To keep clean and healthy take Doctor
iElerces Pleasant Pellets. They regulate
liver. bowels ana stomach. Adv
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18

D ....iss.sne. Cleansing.
issIIesAias and HeaIinu
-. Murine for Red
= - hsc5singand Burning
= is s,s Eyes or EyeIids;
= - ~ cscrine or Coli
/ nSssneeu Care. Mi
CO., Chicaro
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

ualism, BUT, as matter of fact, we
simply dotc on harmless conventions.
Why are Americans abroad so readily
detected? Why does the impecunlous
shopkeeper or the persuasive guide
so easily overwhelm our alleged native
shrewdness"? Largely, it is because ne
can capitalize the uniformity OF our
tastes and proclivities.'
If the mode is tight skirts, it Will be
rigidly observed by American femininity
en- masse. When the first Saturday in
May comes around the other sex unani-
mously goes light headed, that is to say,
straw-hatted. If the weatherman Is dis
obliging, so much the worse for his
obstinacy. His bright new Gid" will be
spoiled, that's all.
Should any doubt still exist that
America is not really a melting pot and
productive of an unmistakable type, let
him observe Chestnut street this after
noon after the last halter has shut up
shop. Sartorial Brahminism, the formal
ism of the old regime mandarin, will
gayly triumph there.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
FAIR AND COOLER IN ITALY

DID Premier Orlando know from the
- first that not only Mr.. Wilson, but
all of the Allied representatives, with the
possible exception of Japan, would reso-
lutely oppose his desires for Fiume? If
he did not, he was not qualified for his
tasks at Paris.
The signs and omens of the hour do
not indicate that Orlando acted the anna
teur. Why, then, did he insist upon
creating situation that is changing and
shifting as swiftly as the shadowv work
of a Belasco stage manager? For the
Fiume affair is being adjusted beneath
the surface, and coolness, sotriety and
reason are returning to the Italian
people.
Was Orlando's blaze of wrath simu-
lated? Did the patient and dsillusioned
representatives of other nations at the
Peace Conference know that it was simu-
lated? The Italian statesman knew the
immeasurable peril of an actual break.
But the old diplomatists are being driven
to some queer alternatives in these days
of judgment.
The Italian cabinet and the govern
ment itself have had no sense of too
great stability in recent months. Or
lando's stirring appeal to his countrys
sense of nationalism, the phrases in
which he pictured Italy in state of
heroic solitariness, reacted like magic to
unite factions that were drawing apart
and to bring about a new unity of senti-
ment in the country. He may be par
dorred for playing a daring and pictur-
esque game of domestic politics. But if
he was deliberately fooling his own peo-
pie, what shall we say to gentlemen like
Mr. Lodge, who was taken in as neatly
as the fiery folk who paraded in the
streets of Rome?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
Member of the Associated Press
PhHad.lphia, sslud,y. MAY ,. l9lo
A MoMENToUS LABOR DECISION

MO decision recently made in an Ameri-
can court is 50 momentous as that
by which the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals in Minnes polls has just held
the United Mine Workers of America
financially responsible for damage done
to mines by members of the union dur
ing an interval of disorder in strike.
The decision is long step beyond the
Danbury hatters' case. 1t cannot be car
ried too quickly into the Supreme Court
ffyff fyf a final decision.
/The precedent involved is of universal
Importance in time when conservative
trades unionism is acquiring larger
influence and also larger responsibilities.
The implication of the Minneapolis de-
cision is inspired evidently by the rule of
law which holds business associations
responsible for the acts of their accred
tied agents. Are strikers on rampage
accredited agents of labor union? That
is question which the Supreme Court
will have to decide.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
LONELY WISE MEN

CLEAR thinking ought to be more fash
~ ionable than it is. To think ration
ally, to maintain balanced sense of JUS
tice in the strong winds of emotion that
sweep the world is as difficult as loop
the-loop in an airplane. The earth is
numbered with men who keep their minds
in their pocketbooks. Others inherit
their opinions with their money The
bane of American life is the man who
ms his thinking done under contract by
pArty politicians.
When scholars speak of pure science
they refer to the work of little-known
men whose research and discoveries pro-
vide the basis for every achievement of
the inventors who amaze the world by ap-
plying the principles which other men re-
veal. The devotee of pure science finds his
truths and throws them over his shoulder
to other men and fares on, driven by a
great curiosity and hindered not at al by
any thought of fame or profit.
There is such thing as pure thought.
Very frequently the men who devote
4 themselves to its pursuit are represented
on the programs of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science,
which, virtually unnoticed by many Phila-
delphians, has been establishing, at its
annual meetings here, forum as great
MS any in the world. The Academy is
holding a special session today. Most OF
ps will not have time to give it thought
4 Hasn't Babe Ruth again stirred up wal
+ in the camp of the Boston Red Sox?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
THE DAY WE CELEBRATE

A RECENT English commentator on
American customs exclaimed over
the nature Of the days we celebrate,
Mothers Day considerably surprised
him There is nothing like it elsewhere.
Hut It is not an event to be facetious
about. since the sentiment inspiring it is
.,fyufnerasl-, "Straw Hat Day" is really
tVhat the foreign critic should have noted
with IL innate bewilderment Anal..'s sis
n NJ might have revealed some signifi-
III n }ruths eonceruing American life
Beasl q esiFz ! eatieu q IadiyislS3
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
BOARDWALK-HAVANA ROUTE

COME years ago when the Culebra
~ slides worried the Panama Canal
builders, a fanciful cartoon depicted the
solemn dedication of the waterway, while
a fleet of speedy airplanes were smartiy
flying over the costly breach in the two
continents. The forecast was whimsi-
cally eXtravagant, since, despite the
progress of air navigation, steamships
are unlikely to be superseded for some
time.
Nevertheless, every new commercial
application of flying brings reality more
in touch with imagination. Take, for
instance, the Boardwalk to-Havana"
project. Victor Barranca, fiscal agent
for Cuba, told the Pan-American aero
nautic congress in Atlantic City that an
aerial transport line between Absecon
and the Caribbean metropolis was GER
tain to be established, probably within
ninety days. 1t will take an easy course,
through mild atmospheric currents. The
journey down the coast can be broken at
either Miami or Key West. From either
Of these places to Havana it is safe and
short run.
One cannot help wondering what the
late Henry NJ. Flagler, promoter of the
expensive ocean railway from the Florida
mainland to the Havana ferry slip at
Key West would have thought about all
this. Of course, his great work will be
useful for many years to come. Never
theless, the fact remains that shortly all
that will be necessary in order to take the
swiftest route to Havana will be to fly
off the Boardwalk.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

who commits assault by an explosives
now liable to fine of $500 or to impris-
onment of three years in solitary confne-
ment or to both. If the explosion of the
bomb produces death he is liable to be
hanged. IL he is caught with his bomb
before he throws it he is liable to fine
OF 5000 or one year solitary confinement
in prison or both. If he throws bomb
against the city hall or the state capitol
or the county courthouse he may be
fined $4,000 or imprisoned in solitary con-
finement for ten years.
The law does not call these offenses
scdition. They are common crimes, like
burglary and assault and murder and
arson. No taint Of political persecution
attaches to the code. 1t was adopted in
1860 as the result of the desire of the
state to classify the provisions of its
criminal law and to make them compre-
henslve enough to cover all the offenses
likely to happen in a civilized community.
1t is oil the first Importance that we
should continue to regard arson as arson
and murder as murder. and assault with
could be made in these days, when some
Anticipated extremists are prattling of
revolution by force, than to humor them
by making the oTenses which they glibly
talk OF committing political of enses to be
covered under the term sedtion.
The history of sedition laws in America
is not such as to encourage any level
headed politicians to challenge the fate
which overlook those who secured the
passage of such statutes in the past, in
order to punish their political opponents.
If this were the Russia of the old
regime we might make political offenses
of brutal murder and assault. But this is
free America of the twentieth century,
where the majority rules and where any
change in the government which the ma
jority desires can be brought about by
orderly and well-understood processes
When our lawmakers in Harrisburg
recover from their present panic they
are likely to see the force of these argu-
ments and allow the sedton bill to be
FORGOTTEN,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
SOLITUDE

THERE is the loneliness of peopled places:
= Streets roaring with their human food;
the crowd
That fills bright rooms with billowing sounds
and faces, -. I.....Fs
Like foreign music, overshril and loud
There is the loneliness of one who stands
Fronting the waste under the cold sea-
% light,
A wisp of flesh against the endless sands,
Like lost gull in solitary fight.
Single is all uprising and down lying;
Struggle or fear or silence none may share
Each is alone in bearing, and in dying;
Conquest is uncompanioned as despair.
But have known no loneliness like this,
Locked in your arms and bent beneath your
kiss. .. ..
-Babette Deutsch, in Banners
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

Answers TO resterdays quiz
1. The Tennessee has been ranked as the
greatest battleship ever launched.
2, Jean Jacques Rousseau, famous as a
champion of government by consent OF
the governed, was born in Geneva.
3. Kiao -Chau is on the Shantung peninsula
in northwestern China. ~
4. The authorship of Henry VIII" has
been attributed to Shakespeare and
John Fletcher, aud ''The Two Noble
Kinsmen'' is also said to be the joint
work of the two dramatists.
s. Senator Smoot is from Utah.
6. A fall in temperature may be forecast
when cloudy day clears at sunset.
7. The French expression 'Fumer sans
pipe" which means literally to smoke
without pipe. metaphorically means
to put ones self in an Intellectual rage.
s. A winch is hosting engine or wind
lass also a crank of wheel or axle.
0. The sirocco is the warm wind blowing
from Africa across the Mediterranean
to Italy.
10. The first regular eirplane mail service
"a the world WIS inauspratcd on May
l5, 1918, betwecu Now Aofk and
Washington. {.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

1t is significant that Serbian denounced
Italy s-designs upon Fiume at the meeting of
the Academy of Political and Social Science
yesterday. Somehow we have dim recol-
lection that it was injustice to Serbia which
made civilization go to war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

Admiral Sims has criticized congress
men for not providing enough destroyers.
Maybe they thought that they sufficiently
filled the bill themselves
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
Taft Has Come, Back

A most astonishing thing has happened
Mr. Taft has "come back He stands out
today as one of the greatest of American
leaders. The largest following in the Re,
publican party today is his. He is one of
the very few men of the country who possess
to any great degree the confidence of the
people.-Miwaukee Journal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

What a lot of worry we'd have all been
saved had we known it would take the Ger
mans 100 days to reach Paris!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

Two noted theatrical stars announce
that they will present Shakespeare Eext sea
son. A newcomer TO the bard intends tour
ing IN HamIct.' Il LOOKS as though ciyiIiza !.
ton were seally being revived.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

r. Perhaps it would have been more lccu
rate to describe Count Brockdorff Rantzau,
meeting the Entente peace commissioners, as
pale and feinting.'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

A new day, says Pres
As Sure as Dawn! ident Wilson, is com
ing for labor. And
when it comes there will be bomb fanciers to
strike and agitate and insist that they are
being robbed Of their night.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

Speaking of Victory Notes, the one which
civilization is about to hand to Germany is
interest bearing in all sorts of ways.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

1t is said that Britain will get "the
lions share" if the German feet is dis
tributed. Fundamentally speaking, that is
altogether likely.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
But How About American?

Count Brockdorff- -RantZau, the head of
the German peace mission, prides himself
his ability to speak English.-News
item
81 see you are all dolled up for the peace
foundry said the American reporter to
Brockdorff -Rantzau.
Very possibly said the discreet envoy,
having not the slightest idea what was
meant.
Il have a hunch you're going to get
good bawing out when you sit in at the
baize table Have you had a chance to buzz
Eddie House yet? He's usually the fellow
that has the inside dope
"Conceivaby," emitted the puzzled pleni-
potentiary.
Probably you're on the anxious seat,
hey?"
'Not impossibly.''
DO you expect to pull any sob stuff or
are you going to sign on the dots and beat
it:'
''Das mag sen.''
"Do you think Kaiser Bill is going to get
bumped OFF,
Itch verstehe nicht," shrugged Brock
dorff.
when it comes to a showdown l guess
you II have to come across
I'VE came across the frontier ycsterday,'
said Brockdorf.
II presume you're watching your step
carefully"
I'VE hope that the peace will satisfy all
concerned
Say I think one of those bcllhops is
paging you"
(Curtain)
V w
Referred to the Sporting Department
.Fipally. there is soccer, form of foot
ball quite unknown in the United States. -
II. J.. Mencken, in 1.-THE American Ian
guage'
Ned Muschamp has taken all the trouble
to write us letter to the effect that ''every
big. healthy husky roughneck of man who
wants to have a good cry had better read
X, c. BIS story of the police band that
played in the children's hospital in San
Frisco" Ned, always attentive to detail,
adds that the story is on page III of the May
Hearst's.
We're fond of good cry, so we wish it
had been in almost any other magazine
Wv ..-
We hope the German peace ENJOYS had
sufficient bean to bring pulmotor with them
to Versailles If Brockdorf Rantzau nearly
swooned when delivering his credentials
what will he do when he gets the text Of
that 70,000-word treaty?
V v
OF course we want to see the world made
safe for democracy, but we should be sorry
to see publishers royalties abolished
v v V
Desk Notices
The great and glorious masterpiece of man
is TO know how to live to purpose; all other
things, to reign. to lay up treasure, to build,
are at the most but mere appendices and
| little props. L take delight to see a general
| of an army at the foot of a breach he intends
| presently to assault, giving himself up entire
| and free at dinner, to talk and be merry
with his friends. q. 'Tis for little
i souls that truckle under the weight of af-
| fairs, not TO know how clearly to disengage
themselves .-MONTAIGNE.
| v Wv
Motto for Home Guards when facing Boil
shevik rioters: Don't fire till you see the
| reds of their eyes,
| " Wv
We find, upon questioning many of the
more or less human race, that Americans
All is the Victory Loan poster which has
made the strongest impression. It's cork
III. 49,. Id. i
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

mo fight" by this time, neatly ex-
plains the abbreviaton in st. Johns, n. f.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

After June 30 the government will re.
frain from attacking certain foreshadowed
lawbreskers until it sees the red of their
rycs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
What Do You Know?.
QUIZ

l. What was the full name of Charles
Dickens? ...-
2. When the clouds in the sky look like
fish scales what kind of weather is
indicated?
3. What and where is the Dodecanesis?
4. What is the date set for Mothers Day?
5. Who was Diderot?
g. In what building in Versailles did the
Allied commissioners receive the cre-
dentials Of the German peace delegates?
Z. How many states compose the republic
of Brazil?
s. What animal is emblematic of Rome?
8. What is tontine?
10. What is a proscenium?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

The bomb in bombast is by far the most
prevalent and the least dangerous variety.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
The Old Habit

The navy was Con-
The Old Habit gressed, too il an
pears. Admiral Sims
told us yesterday that though the navy had
been appealing for ten years for an adequate
destroyer force, its requests and pleas were
consistently ignored on Capitol Hill This
is nothing new. Congress ignored requests
for artillery and laughed in glee when the
War and Navy Departments asked money
for airplanes before airplanes became a dom
inant factor in warfare. Ignoring is one Of
the things Congress does best
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03

'Pitiless publicity" appears to be hiding
its light under Partisan hat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Men and Women From Philadelphia
and Its Vicinity Were Discovered
In Porto Rico by the consres.
slonsl Party Which Wis
..-. tied the Island
Washington. ID. c.. May 3.
TAKING a trip to Europe or to any dis

TAKING a trip to Europe or to any dis
= tant point. like the Hawaiian Islands.
Panama or the West Indies, is interesting
because of the surprises one enjoys in meeting
other travellers. There is something worth
while to the student of human nature in a
more intimate knowledge of the millionaire
who is travelling for health or of the man in
the steerage who is travelling from necessity.
The recent journey of members of Congress to
Porto Rico is in point. Uncle Joe Cannon
went along and Kitchin, the Democratic
leader. and while they were attractions-and
so far as Uncle Joe is concerned he always
will be an object of interest to the curious
whenever he goes abroad-every one of the
twenty or more members of the party ran'up
against "some one from home or some one
who knew some one Mt home somewhere
along the way. AS to the OK speaker be-
ginning with New York, where he was
glimpsed by the provncials inside and out
side of the hotels and at the landing places,
there was no place where some IMAM from
the States did not turn up to look him over
and seek the privilege of shaking hands.
This was so in Porto Rico. where he had
been twice before. In every Gown, appar-
entity. some one bobbcd up who knew enough
English to say there goes Uncle Joe
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
THE CHAFFINC DISH
-O'Brien on his list, had also added Scotch
name in honor Of the Scotch Americans

-O'Brien on his list, had also added Scotch
name in honor Of the Scotch Americans.
v v v
Somebody's trying to rush the season. In
the auld lang syne Straw Hat Day didn't t
come until May IS.
V V v
The literature of self deception, which
Is nearly always optimistic and consoatory,
derives its value as defense mechanism.
1t is based on lie. but Is efficacious,
nevertheless.
"All the literary works wherein the
precious and valued things in life are de-
cried, wherein asceticism. death and
celibacy are vaunted, are usually uncon-
sciously insincere."
So says our friend Albert Mordell in
very interesting book whose title we dare
not mention.
To put it in our own artless fashion,
Optimism is deception,
Pessimism insincere;
What sort of litrachoor is left
To revel in, old dear?