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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18

"Cheer-o, old DEAR" remarked the um
brella to the macintosh, we're having ,
perfectly dripping time"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18

The song writer who warbled of white
wings that never grow weary" wasn't ac-
quainted with street cleaning department
Immediately after a blizzard.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18
MIR. WILSON has

MIR. w IL s N has
A'A lost suddenly and
utterly the politicians
power to do the right
thing in the right way.
w h en- he does the
right thing, ,as in let
ting Mr.. Lansing 60, he
does 1t in the wrong
o.n:~ns, ,oonor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18

Dame Rumor appears to be doing the
usual amount of lying in Washington.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18

FiuTne

1t is all very well to
Fiume berate Mr.. Wilson for
his firm opposition to
the new allied policy in the Adriatic. Yet
it is well to remember that a vast and in
creasing mass of intelligent opinion in Eu-
rope is also opposed to this policy and that
it is forcing the various premiers themselves
to better way of thought and action.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18

Anyhow, Sir Thomas Upton has a
stranglehold on the title of Chronic Op-
timist.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18

II the President really has threatened to
withdraw the treaty and makes good his
threat, what a lot of time Senator Lodge
will have wasted!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18

There is an ever-increasing disposition
throughout the world to put the kaiser away
and forget him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18

that betrays an excessive and highly irri-
tated ego.
For more than year, since the letter ask
ing for Democratic Congress as personal
right, he has done a long succession OF
wrong things.
1t is not merely that majority of the
country no longer likes his acts and speeches.
But what he does and says sounds harsh
and arbitrary.
Two years ago the whole world applauded'
Now no one applauds.
Once he seemed the greatest politician IN
the country now he seems the worst.
q g q
A VIRTUE went out of him when the public
"A began to withdraw its favor.
The thing started when he dealt with the
Germans alone at the time of their request
for an armstice, treating the peace of the
world as if it were his personal concern and
leaving the nations which had done most of
the fighting in the war out of his reckoning.
That and the request for a Democratic
Congress made the people feel that he had
grown too autocratic.
"Too GARRY" was what the cracker bar
rel oracles called him.
When the people became critical the quail
ity of inevitability which had seemed to be
his since our entrance into the war mys-
teriously went.
He blundered, he fumbled, he hesitated, he
lost his temper. His confidence was gone.
He went to Europe and paid Europe too
much for his League of Nations.
Coming back, he stiffened up as reaction
from the concessions he had just made and
became ridiculously obstinate in his relations
with the Senate,
And finally resentful that his authority is
slipping away, he dismisses as a usurper a
man who has never known that his soul was
his own!
H1HE power of a man like Wilson comes
L from the people in ways which we do not
mean when we use that set phrase.
Such a man, like the hero of the Greek
fable whose strength ebbed when his feet
were off the ground, is only strong when his
contact with the people is firm and secure
When they are with him he has all the
confidence in the world.
When they are not, he is thinking all the
time of what the people will say about what
he is doing.
He is seeking to regain their favor.
Or he is angry at their desertion of him.
His power is gone.
He is IKE great DaSeDali player when his
confidence leaves him. He fuses with his
bat, he fidgets with his uniform, is'mad at
his luck and "pops up" or fans OUT
The most supremely confident man in the
world is now only an obstinate man.
The man who did the right thing with
inevitable ease is now neither inevitable nor
easy.
And all that happened was that the public
| withdrew from him its favor.
q g g
| CPEAKING of the fall of Clemenceau, the
~ London Nation says: "The underlying
| fact is some undefnable instructive jealousy
of greatness. The average Frenchman feels
as the average Athenian used to feel, that
| a strong leader, even in a democracy, is DO :
tentially a tyrant
. And it goes on to say that it was this
jealousy of greatness which led to the arrest
and long Imprisonment without trial on
charges which seem trifling of Caillaux, To
| the murder of Jaures and the aequittai Of
his slayer and to the defeat of Clemenceau
for the presidency.
4
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Philadelphia, Wednesday. February ls. 1920
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Presidents Lost PoIUers
Pedagogue to Aut0crdt
Autocrat to BurgIer
People Source of Strength
Lost Without Confidence
HOp CLenlenceau Fell

Conditions in the United States more re-
semble those of France.
Our great are short lived.
We can point to no Gladstones and Sails
burys enjoying power all their days. A man
is President, possessing greater power and
authority than any one else in the world,
for at most eight years, and then he goes.
His power goes with him.
And maybe it is largely taken away from
him even before his eight years are up, and
he spends the last year or two of his term
fioundering about unhappily in Office, angry
at the jealousy and ungratefulness of a
democracy which withdraws its support at
critical moment when its support seems to
him most needed and most deserved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18

The cold wave wabbled bit, but it may
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18
Mystery

Influenza is indeed
Mystery wicked malady. II
completely missed Am
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18

OUR system makes scant use of great men.
" The only place where a long career. is
possible is in Congress.
And Congress has little Importance in our
government.
Executive service is short.
And party leadership cannot last unless it
is leadership of party permanently out Of
power, for leadership of the party in power
goes to the presidency.
Ours is government of ordinary men.
We depend upon the great Office of the
presidency to make an ordinary man tenn
porarily great.
AS for the too great man, we resolutely set
our face against him. He cannot serve more
than two terms in the presidency.
And even in Office he may find his powers
suddenly sapped by having the whole people
withdraw their favor from him as they have
done from Mr.. Wilson.
What France does with scandal OF an
assassin's bullet, we do as we have done in
the case of Mr.. Wilson when he became, as
the voice of the people said ''too carry"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18
A FoUR-YEAR PROGRAM
FOR PHILADELPHIA

Things on Which the People Expect the
New Administration TO concen-
trate Its Attention
The DelaaVare river bridge.
A drydock big enough to accommodate
the largest ships.
Development of the rapid transit sys-
tenn.
A convention hall.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the auater supply.
Homes enough to accommodate the
population.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-18
FROM DAY TO DAY
THE English system

THE English system
L makes for the per-
manency of great men.
1.-THE normal condi-
tion in English politics
is," says the Nation,
"the long duel between
two permanent captains
of two perm a n e II t
eleypnaD
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1920-11-04
Loo al and
Person |
:. News Of a Week as Told
~ by the Banner Reporters
-.Eovenihef-r-r-r.

-Novemhef-r-r-r.
-" Scarlet and gold the leaves are
turning
The first installment of the Ban
ner's new serial story appears on page
five. Read it.
-AIiddling cotton was Il quarter cent
up in Shreveport yesterday-quoted at
1914 cents IL pound.
Mrs. Ruth Larkin, after spending
about two weeks in Benton with rela-
tives and old friends. left Tuesday for
her home in Dallas. Texas
MIR. and Mrs. Y. V. Wilmington
moved Friday of last week. into the
cottage which they purchased from
Mrs. Cynthia Rogers some weeks ago.
Mrs. w. l.. Keith returned to Ben
ton Monday. after an absence of about
a month. spent ut Goodwill, Webster
Parish. with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Sam Brunson.
MIR. L. |. Hanks writes us to say
Please change the address of my
Banner from Dixie to BOssier City. as
| am no longer resident of Dixie ant
am again living in Rossier.' There are
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many old friends in the parish to wei
come you back, Frank.

many old friends in the parish to vel
come you back, Frank.
From all accounts the public roads
are drying out exceptionally fast.
An occasional band Of mallard
ducks is to he seen winging its way
southwark.
MIR. ]. A. Knight. residing some
miles out from plain Dealing. While
here yesterday called by to renew his
subscription.
~ friend in passing yesterday re-
ported that Mrs. T. ]. Holiday. Of
Plain Dealing. was taken to Shreveport
some days ago and yesterday morning
was operated OH for gladstone. Her
condition ut this time is not known.
The illness of Mr.. Ben Haygood.
of Dixie, from an attack of swamp
fever. was mentioned in tlris depart
ment of the Banner last week. We
were told Yesterday that he is steadily
improving and it is expected that he
will soon he fully restored to health.
-"One more rainy spell like that
| just experienced and the cotton still in
! the fields won't be worth picking. es-
| pecially at present prices" said pro
sresSive farmer OH the streets OF Ben
ton Tuesday evening. About all cotton
in the hills. we think. has been picked
/ Int there is considerable still unpicked
in the bottoms.
-One day the latter part Of last
week deputy Sheriff job Wilson JAILED
| Minnow Dawson and Buster Green
two local negroes. who We're arrested
| near BosSier City. They are charged
with having stolen ii pistol out OF Ill
automobile belonging to Il shreveport
fireman who was visiting Oh the Bos
sier side of the river.
Mr.. l.. Sllackelford and family. wh'
came to the parish from Oklahoma, AM
Tho have for the past nine years re
sided at Midway. are selling out pre-
paratory to moving lack to that state
It will perhaps he Il month or so befor
they leave They will locate ut Still
water. PAYNE County. where they nav
relatives residing. Mr. Shackelford an
his son. Jim, were visitors III Bento
.. yesterday.
Mr.. w. c. Rurt returned home on
,, day last week from a weeks visit 0
, the Mississippi River front in .Arkal
.. sas. While away he secured the col
J tract to construct Il ievee near Arkill
!. sas City-about a three months jo'
} He and his associates IouglaS Bul
& Ruchanan) have the contract to el
} large IA SiX-mile stretch of Mississippi
River levee lying il few miles north {
, Arkansas City. They have machil
I lusy Mt the work, but even at that
} Is thought it will take fully two yea
( to complete the job. Also the firm hi
, IL machine ut work OH IL big dredgil
4 contract in South Louisiana. and
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1920-11-04
Shifting Gears.

Automobiles. as l; rule. have four
gear shifts-low. intermediate. high.
and reverse Experience has shown
skillful driver makes use of them as
occasion demands Tile easiest and
fastest running Is done when the gears
are in high. and when the going Is
good and the road is clear it ought to
be used. But frequently the car has to
be slowed down for the development Of
greater pulling power Or to adoid dam
ger; and sometimes it actually Inns to
back up. We speak Of this merely to
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will likely take about two years to
complete it.
Another white frost was to be seen
yesterday morning.
-Messrs J. T. Creswell and Ben j.
Vaughan. of Shreveport, We're among
the business visitors in Benton this
forenoon.
AS Monday and Tuesday were legal
holidays. MIR. W. -. Smith. cashier at
the Bank of Benton. spent the greater
part of the two days in seeing the
sights of Shreveport.
Misses Eva Hoffpauir and Alma
Byrd. former students in Benton High
School. but now in NatcllitocheS at
tending the State Normal School. are
expected home tomorrow for weekend
visits at their respective homes-nes,l
Rocky Mount and near this place.
A caller Tuesday was Mr.. J. Il.
| iyey. who came home one day last
week to attend the State Fair and t.
| vote in the presidential election. His
| employment, and that of our old friend
| Mr.. Adger Logan, is still with the
| Southern Engineering Company. They
are still located at Clarksdale Miss.
| Miss Edwena Cushnan. of Batoi
Rouge. left Yesterday after Il shnr
| stay in Benton as il guest or Miss AM.
| Davidson, one of the teachers in Ben
! Lal, IAay,i i,
now stopping with Mr.. and Mrs. J. J
Rogard. Mrs. Cynthia Rogers. viii
whom she was boarding. having nioyet
to Shreveport.
We had hoped that we might lool
up our Democratic rooster to-day. brusl
| AWAY the accumulation of dust of sew
eral years and let him crow through
the columns of the Banner. But til
returns are all the other way--damit-
and tie old rooster is still lying aroun
in his olscurity-we don't know jus
where. and don't care. DAMMIT.
Mrs. l.. NJ. Wallace came in Frida
of last week from Sherman. Texa:
where she spent about four months d
. the home Of her daughter. Mrs. w.
Gibson. and is now stopping at til
home of her youngest son. Mr.. r.
Wallace Mrs Wallace was accomp;
2 MED ~ Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson, who wi
! spend about four months here and els
: where in the parish with relatives al
: in visiting old friends.
If we ali get busy and pull togetht
. why can't we build new Methods
{ Church here i'll Benton? DO YOU CO..
: slider our present church. with its leal
i roof and otherwise dilapidated cond
ton, fit place in which to worship
| Would you wish to live i'll a home til;
I was in il like poor state of repai
Who is it that is acting unf;tir by tho
who have long ago subscribed to Il
g fund for new church and paid
I their subscriptions.
Work is still actively under W;
Oh the 41a mile ungraded stretch
) the Benton-A Arkansas Highway lyil
3 between Benton and Dixie Cross Roai
3 t'ulverts are not to he used ut Il
Z three branch crossing Oh the rOa
8 Bridges to lie constructed entirely
: oak timbers of 10 by 10 inch dime
. siolls and Is and Is feet in length "
9 be put it Mr.. G. l.. Peace. residing
. Dixie Cross Roads. is now cutting t
= il timhe.s, the order calling for
. total Oh 5000 feet.
. - Additional paragraphs writ
. for this department are to be fou
. on page one
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ret il starting loint fer saying that il
wise man will not Keep his energies
keyed mp to the highest pitcl, Ill the
tinl,--he will use cpliifiien SENSE and
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-04-26
SAGE TEA DARKENS
HAIR TO ANY SHADE
Don't Stay Gray! Here's an
Oud- Time Recipe that Any
body can Apply.

The use of Sage and Sulphur for re-
storing faded, gray hair to its natural
color dates back to grandmother's
time. She used it to keep her hair
beautifully dark, glossy and attrac-
tive Whenever her hair took on that
dull. faded or streaked appearance,
this simple mixture was applied with
wunc erful effect. ~
But brewing at home Is mussy and
out Of date. Nowadays by asking at
any drug store for bottle of ''Wyeth's =
Sage and sulphur Compound yol
will get this famous old preparation.
improved by the addition Of other in
gradients, which can be depended up
on to restore natural color and beauty
to the hair.
A well-known downtown druggist
says it darkens the hair SO naturally
and evenly that nobody can tell 1T has
been applied. You simply dampen n
sponge or soft brush with it and draw
this through your. hair, taking one
strand at time. BY morning the
isray hair disappears, and after an
other application or two, it becomes
beautifully dark and glossy.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-04-26

iay carnival Mt Franklin Field here
neNt Friday and Saturday. More
than 500 schools and colleges of the
nation will be represented. besides
the combined track and field team
from oxford and Cambridge univer-
sites OF Egland.
Established in 1895 with com petit
sion among a limited number of in
stitutions, the yenrly games Il have
grown in scope and popularity until
today the Penn. Relays stand ou
the greatest track and field meet in
the world with the possible exception
of the olympic games. The contests
are officially accepted hs the open
ing of the collegiate athletic season
and the entries have increased in late
years until two days are required to
complete a program which is run off
with clock-like regularity.
From time 10 time additional
championship relays have been added
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-04-26

Wntil at present there are six open
events with score or more of divi-
sion contests for schools and colleges.
No more than SIS teams are entered
for the 90 open championship relays
next week. These represent colleges
and universities from every part of the
United States.
For ,the'second time in, the history of
'she relays a foreign team. of collegi-
ans will compete. in the combined OK
ford d-cambridge quartet which is to
run against Americas best in the
two mile championship. Each of the
four English half milers is star run
ner over the $50 yards course, The
Alce is expected to develop the same
sensational result as was the case
when Oxford's four competed in 1914
and won by n scant two inches from
PENNSYLVANIA at the end of n thrill
ing four-mile contest.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-04-26
Alta TODAY

Upstairs" GoIdwyn's latest release,
starring Mabel Normand, comes to the
Alta beginning Sunday.
Miss Normand never has had bet
ter vehicle for her peculiar talents
than in this story by Perley Poore
sheean. she plays Elsie MacFarlan ]
in the down stairs of great, pala-
tial hotel: a slavey always anxious to
get "upstairs,' where the music and
the laughter and wine are. But ap-
parefltly she is always to stay below
and suffer callings-down from the
brutal chef who dominates the kitch-
en-.
There is lnumor enough in her deal
ings with that individual and her at
tempts to play when she should be
working. But'the real humor of the
piece Is seen when she is prOvidentially
lifted upwards by bell-boy who is a
in Disguise. In passing 1t
may be noted that his sole reason for
donning a role was to become nc
quainted with Elsie. whom he had seen
peeking through doorway.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-04-26
CANADA AND SWEDEN IN.
FIGHT FOR PUCK HONOR
(By Associated Press.)

ANTWERP, April 26.--Canada de-
feated the United States 2 to o.. in a
hard-fought hockey game last night
and today will play Sweden in the fin
ais for the Olympic championship.
1t was not until late in the second
half that the Canadians were able to
score against the Americans, who
strove yainly all through. the game to
penetrate Canada's defense. 1t was
lightning hockey throughout but the
Americans were outplayed. The
Canadians expect an easy victory to-
day.
Frederiokson penetrated the Ameri-
can defense after a. long skate in the
tenth minute OF the, second half and
scored. In the fifteenth minute
Johaansen also scored.
Both the Canadian goals were shot
from scrimmages and after hard fight
ing.
Swedes Defeat French
The Swedish hockey team defeated
the French team in the Olympic
hockey competitions here Sunday aft
ernoon. The score was: Sweden 4;
France o.
The Swedes, by their victory. WOE
the right to compete in the finals. The
game was the hardest fought and
most evenly matched. yet played.
The Swedes were unable to score in
the first fifteen minutes of play but
Immediately thereafter made two
goals in rapid succession. It was the
same story in the second half. the
Swedes scoring their remaining two
goals in the last remaining three
minutes of play.
One of the French players had a
long black beard but was spry on his
feet, as was also another Frenchman
who was rniddle-aged and bald-head-
cd.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-04-26
AT THE THEATRES
What the playhouse managers
have 70 tell you about present
and coming attractions.
REDS NEW
PICTURE HAS FINE
CAST OF PLAYERS
Lila Lee and Others Appear In "Haw-
thorne of the U. S. A." Coming Here

| 1t is not often that a motion pic
trtre has in its cast two recognized
stars. I'm Hawthorne of the U. S. A.
the film attraction at the Arcade
Theatre Sunday and Monday the role
of the hero is played by Wallace Reid.
while Lila Lee appears in the chief
feminine part. As this pair of favor
ties were not enough, the rest of the
coinpa ny has been selected exclusively
from prominent screen players. Theo-
dore Roberts plays the role of a Unit
ed States Senator and Harrison For.
who has been leading man for Mar
gurite Clark and other feminine stars.
Is Wallace Reids partner in adventure.
Such sterling character actors as Tully
Marshall. Edwin Stevens. Charles Ogle
and Guy Oliver also appear.
The picture was adapted from
James y. Fagans' well known stage
play of the same name, in. which
Fairbanks. once starred in the
Igimate. 1t concerns the experience
IF a pair of improvident American
aw clerks touring Europe in Git
ley'' when they break the bank at
Monte Carlo and invade an obscure
title revolution torn kingdom.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-04-26
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Sc, ,000-10 room rooming house COM
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