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The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
Historical Significance of the Year 1920

by free men. of rawful age, and Of full
understanding.
And while these irst Americans
were institutlng self-gOvernment on
the American continent a little group
of English humble folk who during
12-year sojourn in Holland. to which
they had fed from Britain to be free
to worship God I'm the manner OF
which their conscience approved. was
already making ready to go to Amer
lea and establish In the new world
a home Of religious freedom.
BY one Of those strange condolences
which sometimes seem to set aside
certain days and endOw them with ira
ditiOnal significance, July 80 and No
,vember IL take on such an endowment.
for July 80 joins Cavalier and Pilgrim
together as twin sources Of that high
inspiration which met In the conven-
ton of the great Constitution, and No
vember IL is not only the anniversary
day Of the MayflOwer compact, the sec
ond assumption by English colOnists
in America of an inalienable right OF
self-government. but is also the memoir
able day Of the beginning Of the arm
istIce which closed the great war, In
which the descendants of Pilgrim and
Cavalier and their Kin across seas
fought and won together.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
Deadlock of Congress Over Free Seeds"

IN THE deadlock between senate and
i house over the agricultural appro-
priations bill one of the items-if not
the chief item-was that for $2So,416
for congressional seed distribution"
Generally speaking. the senate was de-
termIned to abolish this Old-time ap-
preparation and the house was deter
mined to retain II. Yet there were
many senator's for the seeds" and
many representatives against them.
Days and days were spent In debate
on the subject. OF course. many Gu
rious things were said. Here are a
few picked at random from the In
terminable debate:
Senator Gronna. North Dakota
am quite sure that no senator will
contend that a package Of seed car
be sent through the mails for less than
one cent. and 1t costs for Transports
ton alone $1O.0OO.OOO and more.
Representative Langley. Kentucky
Ny observation has been that the men
who talk the loudest and protest the
most against the distribution Of gar
den seeds are the stingiest men in this
house.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
TIME MAKES LITTLE CHANGE
Booth Harrington Relates Aneedote e
Show How Characteristics Pre-
vail to the End.

Novelist Booth Harrington was talk
ing about the cOwardly attack that a
gang Of Germans had made on a soil
tary FreTch officer In the restaurant
Of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin.
"The Germans" he said. were IN
speakable In the beginning. and they
will be unspeakable to the end"
He shOook his head thoughtfully.
people can't change" he said
Henry Labouchere was born fear
less wit, and fearless wit he died. A
few hours before his death, you know
Labouchere's nephew upset a tiny
spirit lamp that was burning by the
bedside. The dying man awoke out
Of a ftful doze and saw the miniature
confagration.
"'Flamesr he said. Not yet.
think
"And he laughed quizzically and
dozed again"
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
WASHINGTON
SIDELIGHTS
Congress- Would Settle Racial Question

commission shall be composed OF three
white men from the South. three white
men from the North, and three col
Ored men.
Sec. 2. That said commission shah
tie appointed by the president OF the
United States, by aud with the advice
and consent Of the senate. and shall
be divided into three groups OF three
men in each group. two white and one
colored: that the term OF the hrst
group shall he for one year, the second
for two years. and the third group
for three years.\
Sec. 3. That the commission snail
have authority to inquire into ana
thoroughly investigate the conditions
surrounding the colOred people In the
United States, ascertain, II possible
the cause of the unrest among them'
and, If there be racial friction. the
cause Of the same, and to suggest such
remedies as they may deem best cal
culateu TO relieve the situation ana to
bring about harmonious relations ne
tween white and colOred Americans.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26

Senator King. Utah. think II Is
most disgraceful performance that we
should appropriate money for this
purpose when we know the object Of
1t and know the misuse of the ap-
preparation.
Senator Kenyon. Iowa. do not be-
lieve there Is anything that has held
up the American congress to so much
ridlcule and contempt as this free-seed
item.
Senator Smith, Georgia. think It
is all right For eight years we have
gone through the farce of striking out
the seed appropriation in the senate
and then yielding to the house.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
MAN IS AFTER INFORMATION
After Listening to Much Sage Advice
Bill Jones Wants One Matter
Cleared Up.

Our friend Bill Jones Is a travelling
man and needs rest. but unfortunate
Iy he doesn't sleep well. He has con-
suited a number of doctors In the vari-
Gus towns he visits. and being sys-
tematic person has made a sort OF
digest of the advice he has received
1t sums up. as follows:
Don't sleep on your left side. as
that creates a pressure on the heart.
Don't sleep on your right side, as
It Interferes with the action Of the
right lung.
Don't sleep on your back, as that Is
bad for the nervous system.
Don't sleep on your stomach, as that
causes a pressure bad for the diges'
ton.
"Don't sleep in a chair, as the body
cannot properly relax.
Bill wants to know If anyone car
tell him how to keep from falling Owe
when he sleeps standing up.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
ZooLAND FOLK.

Mother Hippopotamus, who loved
her baby so and who was such a good
mother, began to think how queer
many Of her neighbors were here IN
the zoo. She was new to the ZOO
that is she had not been in the zoo
such great while md as she thought
of herself as being a queer, big crea-
ture she thought that after all other
animals, too, were queer!
In fact, every one was queer who
wasn't like every one else she decided
and as II was impossible for every one
to be like every one else, practically
every one was queer!
She thought of how other mothers
didn't welcome their babies in the wa
ter when they were born. They put
them in cots or on straw or In feath-
cred nests.
Her baby she had had with her In
the water. There she had told 1t OF
the ways of hippopotamus, there she
had fed and loved and looked after IT.
Certainly there are lot of queer
creatures" she said, land all of them
have such different ways of doing
things"
That's so," said the nilgai. crea-
ture like a big deer. His head was
high in the air and his nose was wet
and his big eyes soft and very lovely.
Now there is the white Hama" he
| said. "She is small, far too small l
think. And then there is a queer crea-
ture in the ZOO named the pelican. de
has long pink beak and food has
long way to go before he can swallow
/ believe that is the way 1t is.
There are the black and white
Ilamas as well as the white ones
They're like big lambs. And there is
small antelope like the gray deer. de
too has to be little different.
"There is a deer in another yard
nearby with his feet on the bars OF
his yard) being stroked by the keeper
He is so tame! And there is the zebrs
and the baby zebra-all striped.
YES" said Mother Hippopotamus
at seems strange to me why they like
those striped suits. They aren't thu
things / like. And In the spring the!
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
The Terrible Euture.

whats the matterf"
sTm terribly worried about the fu-
ture."
why fret about the future7"
Its this way: I'm not making very
much money. I'm just going along the
ordinary way without ptiing up any
thing that looks like fortune"
swell, why worry? You're happy,
aren't your"
eyes, I'm happy enough now, but
twenty or thirty years from now. when
the record OF this age is written what
shall / say to my children when they
ask me what was doing when every
body else was getting richf"
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26

be the leader In new types Of govern
ment will look In vain. When we teach
the laws of property, we teach them as
written In the laws of the land today.
We teach loyalty to authority, to the
government as founded This, IN the
eyes Of many modern educators. makes
US anathema."
No other single institution In this
country has produced so many men
so pre-eminent in single calling. The
list reads like the roll of drums and
the blare of bugles: Grant, Lee. Sher-
man, Sheridan, Albert Sydney JOnn-
ston, StOnewall Jackson. Joe John
ston, George Thomas, George Il. Nc
clellan. Cocktails, Billiard, Liggett'
! Pershing, and 30 on.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26

INTERNATIONAL celebration OF the
/ tercentenary of the Pilgrims. owing
to delays caused by the great war. will
be largely celebrated in 1927 instead
Of 1920. There are, however, many
local celebrations scheduled for the
year. In this connection. an address
to the American people Of the Sui
grave Institution, In association with
long list Of American organizations
and individuals Of prominence, was
read into the Congressional Record BY
Tess of Ohio. This address says, among
other things:
II 80 happens that the year 1920 lie
doubly significant historically, 10 that
300 years ago beginning on the SOtf
of July there was being held In
jamestown, Virginia colony. the first
American legislative assembly. called
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26

shed a great deal of their fur and have
fresh hairs and look all nice and neat
But they never change the stripes.
Never. never.
Now, a sensible thing do, is to
keep Mr.. Hippopotamus away when
I'm looking after my baby and If my
baby is young. He doesn't understand
the big-little-One as l do. And besides
I'm boss, / am. He wouldn't treat the
baby as l would. and so l take charge
of affairs. Many mothers In the an
imal world do this, which is very wise.
But there are other queer zooland
folk. The red fox. wildcat, lynx, the
jackall, who Is something Ike dog
the striped tail dog. the old skunk. the
fishes who eat worms and yet who
aren't birds and have fms instead OF
wingsl My, but they're all a queer
lot. %
YES" continued Mother Hippopota'
mus, "and there Is the Tasmaniar
devil, q little animal who comes from
Tasmania who has a bad-soundine
voice and a very saucy manner. Nc
one will speak to him and call him BY
name, for his name Is so horrible thai
no one will say 1t.
There are the mother snakes whc
leave the daddy snakes to see abou
the children and then leave the chill
dren, for they can't be bothered look
ing after them. They go or to catcf
fish or insects or some food. And th'
little snakes look after themselves
That seems very strange to me"
'Oh," said the nilgai, ut Is
strange world and strange zoo. Their
is the emu, for example, who help
his mate with the children. The
pluck their feathers and try to kee
their queer haystack-looking bodies L
good condition. They sleep like bird
with head under the wing. And the
have two toes where horse woul
have one toe!
There is the curasSow with the ye
low hump and red on his nose, an
who speaks in little sQuealing. chirI
ing voice. There is Mrs. Tiger VIII
has been known to eat her own cal
dren.
There Is the mOnda with the sor
throat who Is being given his FOOD 0
q tube. There is a big tame liar
who Is his neighbor. We're living !
q queer Zoo"
"And I'm as queer as any creatur
In it." laughed Mother HippopOtamu
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
BREAK IN TRAINS SCHEDULE
Fair Driver Of Auto Had Huneh'
and the Sequel Proved She
Was Correct.

Let me recommend a ride in new
car with a woman driver as the best
prescription for a thrill that will last q
lifetime, writes a correspondent. Mine
came when, after reluctantly accept
ing an invitation to ride from friend
who had just received her new ma
chine, we mounted the incline to a
grade crossing in a suburb and started
across the tracks. In the exact mid
die the engine stopped and nothing
we could do had the slightest effect on
II. While working we were ap-
preached by an excited flagman.
"a limited Is due here In two min
utes," he said. "and II never has
stopped at this station"
'"It will today" calmly replied my
friend. And It did, but not before II
had been tagged and the train crew
helped boost us from the rails.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Spencer OF
w Missouri made an address the
other day in support of his bill Is.
4267) for the creation Of a racial COM
mission to promote harmony between
whites and blacks. He read Into It
the text of the bill, Of which the more
important sections are these:
BE it enacted, ETC., That a commits
sion of nine persons, citizens OF the
United States be, and Is hereby Gre
ated to be known and designated as
the commission on the Racial question
in the United States of America. The
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
SHOWED SIGNS OF TIPPLlNG
Hens Behavior Caused English Young
ster TO BE Doubtful Of Good
Character Of Vicinity.

Johnny recently paid his first visit
to his aunt's farm In England. The
little boy had not been there long be-
fore he came running to her in great
excitement.
"Auuty," he exclaimed, with the air
OF one imparting grave news. 81 don't
think this Is a very nice placer
why, what makes you think that,
JohnnyT was her amused reply.
swell, aunty, the public houses
tsaloons) open very early" was the
startling rejoinder. "Nearly all you
hens have the hiccoughs already this
morning"
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
Autos Stomach.

Little Ruth, who was Just four years
old, watched with great interest. The
man at the gasoline filling station was
removing the cushion and filing the
gas tank.
After the cushion was put back and
Ruth had made herself comfortable.
she said: 81 know that you ride on
a horses back, bat never knew that
1 was riding on the automobiles stOm-
ach."
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
Duty OF Happiness.

The girl who Ia unhappy herself In
not likely to make other people happy.
She Is not likely to do any really good
work while downcast and detected.
One Of a girls FIRST duties Ii to learn
to be happy. for on her mastery OF
that lesson her usefulness largely de-
pends.-Girls' Companion.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26

A CANADIAN minister to the United
"A States viii soon be appointed.
Formal announcement Of the purpose
OF Great Britain to place her Canadian
relations with the United States COM
pletely In the hands Of Canada has
been made In a statement read In the
Canadian parliament at Ottawa. and
the British parliament at London, and
made public here through the British
embassy.
Unusual powers are to be conferred
upon the Canadian minister. In the
absence of the British ambassador he
VIII take full charge Of all British dip
Iomatic relations.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
ReetIea. Blood For Wars

DIR. e. Escomel describes in Anales
de la Facultad de Medicina (Lima,
PERU certain psuedo beetles the
blood of which has from time immemo-
rial been used by the natives for
curing warts. Under It these grOwths
turn white, as II cauterized by an
acid.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
Had Many Sleeping Places.

The average man probably sleeps In
100 beds or so during long life
time. A veteran commercial traveller.
whose home is in New York, can af-
ford to smile at this record, for, ne
says, IT calculate that l have slept In
at least 5000 beds during my forty
odd years on the road. and l have
slept we'll in them all"
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
ke.n stennIna AIona.

Keep stepping along" Is q good
slogan for classes Of all grades. II we
can't step a long step. short steps with
determination behind them will accom-
plish the same thing.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26

The trapped animal which sna~s
OF a limb in order to escape y hns
the girl who resorts to falsehood IN Or
der to get out Of o dificslty'
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
Logical.

'The second doctor the Smiths had
was exactly like the first one"
swell, why shouldn't he be the fac
smile for sick family7"
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26

0ranulated Eyeiida. Sites. Innamed Eysa
relieved overnight BY Roman Eye Balsam.
One trial proves liz merit.-Adv.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26
! Owe My Life to PE-RU-NAl

Mr.. McKinley's letter
brings cheer to all who
may be sufferers as he
was. Read it:
81 can honestly say that I owe
my life to Peruna. After some or
the best doctors in the country
gave me up and told me could
not live another month, PeFuna
saved nae. Travelling from town
to town. throughout the country
and having to go into all kinds
of badly heated stores and build
ings, sometimes standing UP for
hours at q time while plying my
trade as auctioneer, II Is only
natural that 1 had colds fire.
auentlyI so when this would
occur / paid little attention to II,
until last December when ] con-
tracted q severe case, which,
through neglect on my part
settled on my lungs. when al
most too late, 1 began d0ctoring,
but, without avail, until I heard
81 Peruna. II cured met so !
cannot praise 1t too highly"
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-26

Teeth are like verbs-regular. irreg-
ular and defective.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-03-11

mitted is that the. whole Countrywide
farmer, the manufacturer, the pro.
ducers of all sections-must enter
equally with the shipping men into the
boosting Of the merchant marine, If We
are to keep 1t going.
It Is pointed out that between three
and four billions are invested in these
ships, and that under proper conditions
shipping securities should be attrac-
tive investments to the people at large,
whereas now they are rarely thought
Of.
As to ways and means Of accomplish:
ing the desired end, the testimony of
practical shipowners has been sought
by the senators. These views have
been placed before the committee in
the concentrated form Of a statement
from the American Steamship Owners
Association, an organization including
virtually all the American firms own
ing seagoipg ships, a few being large
companies, but the great majority be-
ing small. Members of the association
own ships aggregating 2,500,000 tons,
and operate 100000 tons more for
the government, a total six times
greater than the country's deep-water
tonnage before the war.
To Charge or High War Costs.
The views of these shipowners,
whose vessels sail from every port in
the county, were presented by the
president Of their association, H. Fl.
Raymond of New York. Mr.. Raymond
told the senators that as a first step to
keeping the flag on the seas, the gov
eminent must charge off the extra wal
cost Of the new ships, as 1t has charged
on costs on war camps and supplies,
a%eroplanes and naval vessels, and sell
them at a price that will allow them
to be operated on an investment, TOP
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-03-11
INCOME TAX IS
DUE MARCH IS
Penalties for Delay and Failure
to Make Retwns-EarIy
Compliance Urged.

All income tax returns covering the
ysar 1919 must be aled by Monday,
March IL. Each TAXABLE return must
b accompanied BY check or money Or
1os fer the full amount or at least one
quarter Of he amount Of tax due.
Cash payments are accepted only 1t
ths collectors main once; II sent by
mail, they are at the ssndsx's risk.
1es1dents Of North ind South d.
kota should dte their 1stusns with, and
make paymsnt1 Of Income Tax to, J.
". Aee, Aektns Collector Of Internal
Abes6ssa, q d
Thses who must ale returns but
hevo ~ lene 20 are warned that the
soveaue law imposes heavy penalties
~ failure to got returns In on time o.
- MAKE payments on time.
Uayly 1ling and early payments are
uyNl IN order to relieve the internal
No1enpe o0ess % much as possible q
- Osos1oal q ths dnal day, March Ia
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-03-11
women EXCEED MEN
IN JAPANESE FACTORIES
$4,000 Japanese Women Wort
at Average Daily Wage Of Ten
to Twenty Cents for q
Twelve Hour Day.

There are more women In industr,
In Japan than there are men, accord
to q statement recently made BY tn,
War Work Council Of the Young Wo
mems Christian Association.
The world war has brought s6ooot
women and girls into the daily grint
Of industry according to this state
ment; $4,000 Of them little girls undo,
fifteen years Of age who work twelve
hours at a wage Of ten to twenty cent,
q day, that the world may have Sll
dresses and munitions.
In Tokyo alone, q city Of two and
one-half million people. there are 100,
600 women employed in sixty.tws In.
dustrles and businesses varying from
work a. telephone operators, clerks
s~tenographers and bookkeeperD t.
work in silk and other sorts Of fac
tories and domestic WORK.
Each year Thousands OF these wo
msn 20 back to their homes in the
country. broken in health and victim.
Of tuberculosis because Of tho poo,
conditions under which they work and
live. They are housed In dormitorisa
in the factory compound. These dorml.
tories are frequently unsanitary. The
girls work long hours, have no recre.
alton and on finishing their long day
60 Immediately to bed, oftentimes q
bed which 4 girl who works at night
has been sleeping in all day.
A ropt - -. ~ovlA ~>~-a~> o., -
men, the Young Women's Christian
Association plans to build dormitoriea
in manufacturing towns whore grill
may live cheaply under healthfui
physical and social conditions, to send
out secretaries who can introduce rec.
reation into the factory compound and
direct games and social life.
This IL done with the cooperation
Of the factories managers and pro.
prietorA. One Of tho most influential
Of these 70 Mrs. Suzuki, the most
prominent woman manufacturer in
Japan. who 10 owner and manager Of Q
drm which exported 100000 worth
Of bean oil to America last year.
Recently MIRA Suzuki decided to
employ one thousand women in her
ofacea She could not ind enough
we'll trained ones 20 she established
q permanent school where japanese
girls may be trained to enter the bust.
ness world. The greatest danger
ahead Of Japan. she says, u in ita
growing materialism, and Japan'a
greatest need, The development Of hes
women.