The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-10-02

Under the heading Something
Doing Every Minute" the Com
mercial Appeal of yesterday gives
the following brief summary of
what is going on in this big, busy
country of ours:
There is something doing every
minute in the United States. The
president is circulating in the
west with an objective in the east.
A caravan of newspaper men are
with him.
Senator Johnson has been kick
ing up the dust in the "Non-parti-
san Northwest"
Senator Jim Reed is making his
59th speech against the league of
nations. Spectators in the gallery
in the Senate are applauding and
kissing. The sacrosanct Lodge
does not object. The applauding
and the kissing are from his crew
of elegants.
Gen. Pershing is receiving con-
gratulations. He has not yet de-
clined the crown offered to him on
the Lupercal, because there is no
Lupercal in this land. Silver and
gold are too high and labor is too
costly to make a crown. Pershing
is a wise man, and knows that this
is no day for Caesars and scepter
swingers Besides the Marc An
thonies have not> yet recovered
from their summer engagements
on the chatauqua platforms.
Cardinal Mercier has come over
to express his gratitude to the
people of the United States for
keeping his beloved Belgians from
starving. NJ
The heroic king and queen of
the Belgians are on the high seas
with the nose of their ship point
ed towards America. The high
society folks of New York, whose
grandfathers and grandmothers
ran the grand ferry boats, bought
and sold ill-smelling hides or
drove hogs in Tennessee, are in a
flutter of excitement because they
are soon to be in the atmosphere
Of royalty.
The young Prince of Wales is
up in Canada and in a few weeks
he will be in Washington visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson.
Saturday evening Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilson will be in Memphis to
greet the unterrified from Tenn
essee, Arkansas and Mississippi,
and there are a few flutters just
now as to who will and who will
not be in the presidential entour.
age on the occasion of the coming.
North of Mason and Dixon's
line 100000 or 100000 men are on
a strike because steel trusts will
not recognize them as they pass
by.
Out in Oklohoma the people ran
the mayor and other officials out
Of town and otherwise cavorted
until the militia came.
Texas is Boosting of having en-
tertained the biggest hurricane
that exer swept out Of the Gulf of
Mexico. All the printing presses
in Texas are running overtime e.
hitting stock certificates in oil
companies whose wells are "about
to come in"
New York City job printers,
pressmen and stereotypers are
fighting among themselves and
the various publications are not
getting out. Some of these men
tai brain stiflers might we'll stay
out. -
Edward w. Box, editor of the
Ladies Home Journal for 80
years, who would not permit the
pages of that publication to be
stained by the word d., has re-
signed.
The picture shows are busily
following up every c0nvulsion.
The New York actors have
struck and won, and the proprie-
tors have raised the price of tick
cts in order to recoup.
Cotton is going up and down.
England is failing apd this serves
England as a tariff.
Hogs have declined several
cents a pound, and so have cattle.
Breakfast bacon is still high and
shoes are higher.
Merchants are having MAKEUP
instead of mark-down sales.
Coal miners want to work 30
hours a week and draw wages for
eight hours a day.
Everybody wants something for
nothing, and everybody wants to
earn his bread in the sweat of
some one else's face.
In Memphis the courts have
twenty-one capital cases on the
calendars.
In Kentucky there is a fierce