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The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-11-12

MIR. and Mrs. Walter Webber and
son visited friends in Akron over
Sunday.
Mr.. Ralph Snedden is in Bridgeport,
Conn.,, on business.
Miss Pauline Shepard of Cleveland
is spending the week with Medina
relatives. IL
Mr.. and Mrs A.A.Young Of Cleve-
land spent the weekend with the
formers mother, Mrs. Helen Young.
Mrs. Eta Mann of Lester, Mass,
arrived in Medina last lweek, where
she win spend the winter. Mrs.
Mann is cousin of H. C. and w. w.
Broadway. y
Mrs. Wakefield Walker and Miss
Dorothy Hollis of Painesville spent
Saturday and Sunday with Miss
Mayme Broadway.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Severcool Of
Toledo were guests of DR.. and Mrs
H. S., Orr over Sunday, who enter
tanned at dinner at lie Tavern, lie;
roy, in their honor Sunday.
Mrs. ]. T. Ainsworth and Mr.. and
Mrs. E. T. Clark will spend Satur-
day with Mr.. and Mrs. George
Swartz in Wooster.
MI and Mrs. A. D. Aylard and
Mr. and Mrs. C.. IL Wall will leave
on November "a, for Florida.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-11-12
PERSONALS

Miss Mildred Crfssick of Akron will
spend the weekend, with her mother,
Mrs. Addie CTissick.
Mrs. George Dunan and sons of
Bradentown, Fla, who have been
visiting her mother, Mrs. Addie
Crissick, returned home Thursday.
Mr.. B. Hendrickson will leave
Saturday for two weeks visit in
Campbellsville, Ky.
Mr.. A. D. lAylard and Mr. &C, ".
Spahr attended a telephone meeting
IN Cleveland Tuesday.
Mr.. Willis Todd Of Cleveland spent
the weekend with Medina friends.
Mr.. G.. G. Tollafeld returned from
Guatemala, Monday, where he has
been the past six weeks in the in
terests Of the Root Co.
Mrs. ]. T. Calvert will leave today
for Kansas City, where she viii join
Mr.. Calvert and go to Los Angeles
for the winter.
Mrs. C. II. Griesingef is spending
the week with her sister, Miss Anna
Shepard, in Cleveland.
Attorney Arthur YanEpp, wife and
daughter Frances left Thursday Of
this week for Florida. W
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-11-12

northeastern counties much land has
been withdrawn from farming by the
expansion of cities and industrial cent
ers. In western Ohio, however, the
decrease in number of farms has been
accompanied by an increase in the av-
erage size of the farms. Increase in
the size Of farms accounts for the
larger part of the decrease in number.
"This big increase in farm output per
man has been made possible only by
drainage, rotation, and other practic-
es which have increased the yields anu
by the adoption of labor saving ma
chihery and practices. Where the far
mer of 20 years ago drove two hors-
.es hitched to single plow, the farmer
of today drives four horses or trac-
tor hitched to a>gang plow. Certain
ly in the face Of this progress, the
Ohio farmer can hardly be justly ac-
cused of ineficiency.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-11-12
CENSUS PROVES BUCKEYE
FARMERS ARE EFFICIENT

"Ohio farmers are rapidly increas-
ing their efficiency, according to re-
Gently issued census figures. Despite
the fact there are 1886 fewer farms
in Ohie now than 10 years ago the
the yields and production per man
have increased. In eastern Ohio
counties the smaller number Of farms
has been partly due to the decrease in
area farmed, "says,J. /. Falconer, head
!of The Department of Rnral Economies
of the Ohio State University, "Somc
sof the less productive land has been
Thrown out Of cultivation. Nm the
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
When Bernstorff Was Happy

The billets- -doux between Bern
storff and Bethmann and Jagow, now
published, show how close in 1916
the President came to being the
agent to launch a mediation offer
whose success would have meant a
German victory.
Colonel House, Bernstorff reported,
urged the German program, and the
President held back merely because
he feared American public opinion
and that the Entente Allies would
not accept. The President is pre-
sented as favoring, so far as he was
personally concerned, a negotiated
peace, which, of course, would have
been German peace Organs close
to the Administration guessed" cor
rectly in 1916 when they loudly
backed up Bernstorff's policy.
In the fall of 1916 the President,
as we know from other evidence, was
indifferent to the broader issues of
the war-regarded it seemingly as
only European dog fight which did
not concern democracy or civiliza-
ton. So, probably, Bernstorff's dis
patches give a reasonably correct
picture Of the state Of opinion of the
Administration. Especially inter
esting is the gleeful statement of
Bernstorff, dated December a, 1916,
"All influential persons here now
won for actor" that is, for action
pleasing to Germany.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Foreign Service Reforms

Representative Rogers, of Massa-
chusctts, has been working on a
scheme for reorganizing the diplo-
matte and consular services. One of
his suggestions is the fusion of the
diplomatic and the consular corps
At present these two branches of the
foreign service are kept distinct
Mr.. Rogers believes that by merging
them the range of selection for the
more important posts would be help
fully broadencd and that talent and
experience could be better utilized.
In many Of the European services
transfers from consular to diplo
matte work are common. A former
German Ambassador TO the United
States. Baron Speck Won Sternburg,
had been serving as consul general
in Calcutta. Prior to that he had
been a secretary Of legation and en-
bassv. The better consular posts in
the United States service carry
larVcr salaries than are paid TO
djplonatic secretaries. In a few
cascs our ministers have also acted
az consuls general. And occasion
ally consul general has served as
dio]omatic agent. But these we're
only temporary conjunctIons. Ac-
cordinV TO Mr.. Kogers's plan, ex-
char1cs would be general. This
could be easily accomplished by abol~
iahIng the grades of secretaries OF
a..,.+S<v,~~rd RiyfuN tha
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Inert Courts
pOrance
e Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Victor Berger and Rose Pastor
Stokes, having both been duly con-
victed and sentenced for violations of
the provisions of the espionage act,
why is it that they are not now i'm
INJURED in their proper habitat in cells
Of penitential silence, where they will
be deprived of an audience and cannot
longer weary a patient public with
their vocal outpourings?
1t Is said that they are out on bail,
pending appeal to the higher courts
But why in cases involving seditious
activities should not all such appeals
be pushed ahead-be given precedence
over other cases in the docket? If
this were done we should not now ex-
perience the disgust and humiliation
of having Berger continue to run for
Congress and make his defiant utter
ances. Neither should we hear that
another Convict at-large" is contem-
plating, or being urged by others Of
her ilk, to become candidate for
lcKlSiaLlVe O1UCc~-tne ndtuIhIlZtu huS
sian Bolshevist. Rose Pastor Stokes.
If the Supreme Court deemed it desir-
able to advance the Goldman and Berk-
mann appeals ahead of other antece-
dent appeals on the docket, why should
not the Same action be taken with re-
gard TO tho odious, nauscating Berger
and the foolish, ranting Rose Pastor
Stokes?
Surely matters affecting our national
safety and security might better take
precedence over the question of 2.1o
beer. Is it going to require special
enactment OF Congress TO bulge the
courts out Of their drowsy, ponderous
inertia? Surely the stress of gather-
ing peril should suffice to push them
into action without the added urge OF
special legislation.
AUGUSTUSs ssHAMMO.
Hail. Imxr. m a016i
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
"Nullifying' Article 227

dispatches from Washington in.
dlcate that Administration officials
are pleased at Hollands refusal tc
surrender the ex-kaiser. These
dispatches harmonized with The
" or'd's statement that by one of the
Allcs at least Hollands action will
be accepted as happy escape from
new complications" Which "ally"
Is meant? Apparently the United
States, IN spite of President Wilson'S
metlculous distinctions between "al
lies and associates"
President Wilson and Secretary
Lansing attached their names to the
Versailles treaty. The President,
aided By The EIorld, has been stand
ing out against any amendment or
modification of that instrument. He
committed the United States, as far
as ne could, to d trial of the ex-
halSer for supreme offense
against international morality and
the sanctity of treaties.' A court
has been provided to judge the cul-
pl4t. The nations which ratified the
treaty are obligated to see that this
court performs its function.
AS Clemenceau said in the letter
demanding Williams delivery: THE
powers believe it their duty to in
sure the execution of Article 227
without allowing themselves to be
stopped by arguments"
Is Article 227 to be permitted to
lapse simply because of Hollands
objection to surrendering an inter
national criminal? At the first test
Of the potency of the treaty many
who have been declaring it perfect
and not subject to alteration of any
kind turn away from it with a smile
of contempt Why punish the ex-
Kaiser? The World argues. Alfred
G. Gardiner writes in The London
Daily Neacs:: Nor is it public opin-
ion to-day much exercised about
any trial at all. 1t is content to let
the wretched man be forgotten"
This is queer talk from people
who object to American reservations
before ratification as "nullffying"
the treaty. Is Article 227 to be
'nullified" by the powers which have
put the instrument into effect, with
the enthusiastic approval of some of
the treaty's most ardent advocates?
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
incumbents rank as consuls or CON-
suls general.

incumbents rank as consuls or CON-
suls general.
What is most needed in the for-
elgn service is permanent tenure
and promotion under the merit svs-
tenn. Mr.. Rogers wants to create p
training school from which students
would be graduated into the foreiqn
service as vice-consuls. Under the
Roosevelt and Taft administrations
eHorts were made to create a perma-
nent diplomatic and consular corn,
at least in the grades up to min
lster. But Mr.. Bryan's spoils pol
ICY of removals and appointments
wrecked the good work accomplished
If we want to build up a competent
service fresh start will have to be
made.
Mr.. Rogers and the House Com
mittee on Foreign Relations are on
the right track To get good diplo
mats and consuls a real and pernra
nent career must be offered them.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

betterments and equipment purchased
during the period Of government con-
troll by the United States Railroad Ad-
and charged up to the rail
roads. The railroads have been unable,
for the greater part, to finance these ex-
penditures, since during the war they
could not enter the field in competition
with the government. and also, because
OF uncertainties facing them, they have
not had the necessary credit. 1t is to
the interest of the public that all the
money they can now realize, from the
sales Of stocks and notes should be ap-
piled to the benefit of the public
through additional facilities, and the
money due the government should be
refunded, falling due, say, in equal in
stallments, beginning in ten years and
ending twenty years hence, the govern
ment to accept secured notes of the
railroads at reasonable rate of inter
est
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Carvings of Cathay

fFrom The Nesc Republsc)
A Ii the world was near to-day
The waves were carvings of Cathay
Thrown and broken at my feet,
And these old desert-sands were sweet
With dead pagodas. buried tiles
And ocean grass for miles and miles
Every little tuft of green
Was brush stroke on screen.
Mounds and dunes made a redoub,
For keeping all the Tartars out.
And temple could was dim
On the seas imperial rim.
This, the ocean I was on.
Confucius witnessed from T'ai-Shan.
The knees of Buddha made the sign
OF calm that ! composed with mine.
And as many as the sands
Were Kwan-Yin's s mercies and her hands
could hear dragon whelp
Mewing in a maze of kelp,
Gulls, with turnings, flashes, flares,
Filled the wind like paper prayers.
And Gaping me- like Him, from sun.
The snails of thought crawled. one by
one. WITTER BYNNER.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Sick Thoughts

From Lond and Wdter)
WHEN Sickness claims me with its
clsmmy hand
So all my world shrinks to a narrow
room,
Those feet-foot hounds once restive to
command
Lie sullen- cared beneath their Mas
ter's gloom;
Brooding dispirited on coursinss past.
They feel no shame their languid
muscles whip
To see bright hours unhecded slipping
fast
Into oblivion, and beyond their grip.
My hounds, that once scorned weariness
or sleep,
Leapt at a flower. and bayed at every
tree;
Whose throats were bells melodious 10
upkeep
Praises of Sheila ringing ccaselessly.
Now miseraby are dumb, and do not
stir
Even at the presence and cool touch OF
her. EDGELL REDWOOD.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
A Week of Verse
The Death of tho Ch;ldr-r

mo Death OF tho Children
So"'"e sn a Workhostse Firs, Christmas.
1889
From Tho EuolisA Rcvss,e,
ID CHILDREN, Death IN kindness
bade you rise,
And quit the game, while life WAS VET
but play;
Inoush sad to us the closing winter
day
That Quench'd the gleam Of laughter in
your eyes.
What though the anguish Of the d,ead
surprise
Marr'd the young faces when at rest
they lay?
One moment summ'd the sorrow-lader
way
We weary DER in growing old and wise.
Mourn not the children. If we needs
must mourn,
Be it for those their loss leaves DESC
late,
While death withholds his oft en-
treated boon
And should they sorrow that, by toll
unworn,
Their dear ones rest so early. and
kind fate
Spares them the heat and burden Of
the noon?
GEORGE GIssING.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
No New Detection

( he eight Senators who sought
Senator Lodge to tell him that if
yielded a word or a comma Of
majority reservations they would
k:nt his "surrender' are reported
Z have beer the following: Borah.
Esndegee. Johnson, Knox, McCor-
ii, PoindeXter, Moses and Sher-
b.
In November all of these voted
rinst ratification - opposed the
Es:y, no matter what reservations,
sng or mild, were attached. So
ator Lodge is threatened with no
detection. The fact that but
it appeared when the summons
e to join in the protest, whereas
Eneen Republicans were Of the
sItalion Of Death" two months
suggests a falling off in the
|Eber OF treaty killers. So there
80 need for Senator Lodge to be
Eorized.
Eot counting the irreconcilable
Eeen, forty-one voted for the
Ety with reservations in Novem-
If the forty-one hold firm and
many as thirteen additional
bocrats conclude to shake off
Ete House domination the treaty
ratified. Senators Borah and
|sson can then hire a hall and
as much as they please. And
ny considerable number of Demo-
PIC Senator's come over it is GER
+ that the number will be more
]. thirteen. So a few more de-
aons on the Republican side
I'd do little harm.
.ae country is becoming rapidly
Pied or the basis of ratification
+ reservations not differing much
a those sponsored by Senator
f;se, and the time has come for
Senate to act along these lines.
the eight do as they please and
TIE long controversy.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Small Rate Increase Enough

Capital is attracted by the net rev
enues of the railroad after the pavmen
OF operating charges and taxes, for it
Is out of what is thus left that the re-
turns on investments are made. These
earnings are not a large part of the
whole amount paid by the people for
freight charges and fares, even in good
years hardly more than 20 per cent Of
the operating revenues and a rela-
lively small increase in the operatinp
revenues from freight and passenger,
mail, express and other kinds of trans
portatlon will make railroad attrac-
tive to the investor, where it has not
been SO before, and this in turn means
good service to the people along it's
lines, who have not had adequate serv-
ice heretofore
Assuming, then, that the Congress,
studying this question, will realize that
its one great purpose should be to en-
able the railroads TO secure through
the sales Of stock or other securities
the billions of dollars necessary to give
an adequate public service-just as
necessary as it Is to keep the men on
the line-what, then, should the Con-
gress do to meet the situation?
The House and Senate bills, now
irf conference, without amendment are
quite inadequate.
These things need to be done:
l. Either restore that provision of the
House bill which was eliminated on the
floor of the House and which provided
that the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion must take into consideration in
connection with the making Of rates
the interest Of the public, the shippers.
the reasonable cost of maintenance and
operation (includng the wages Of
labor, depreciation and taxes) and
fair return upon the value of the
property used, or make provision for a
section of the Interstate Commerce
Commission or Federal transportation
board which shall have as its obligation
the duty of ascertaining and reporting
to the Interstate Commerce Commission
the financial and earning condition of
all the railroads of the country from
time to time, with statement as to
what changes in revenues are necessary
to keep them in condition to render an
adequate public service, and bind the
rate controlling section Of the commits
sion to observe such mandate.
Where Bills Fail
The House bill as 1t now is ignores
the catching Of the dollar in behalf Of
the railroad service to the public, while
the Senate bill, recognizing the need to
attract the investors dollar, makes a
provision which Is unfortunately i'm
practicable in application and not ade-
quate to meet the conditions
2. The railroads owe the government
large sums of mos~sy for additions and
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

A columnist in The Globe prints
somebody's list of the thirteen great
est living American poets, and then
remarks:
Are most Of these names. not to
mention their muses., familiar to any
outside of a tiny coterie of readers
tiny, that is, compared to the audi.
ence of Longfellow. Whittier and
other old d-fashoned makers of verses
whom it is fashionable to-day to
sneer at? SO far as an outsider can
make out. the greatest living Ameri-
can poets of 1920 write for and are
admired by the intelligentsia, real
and sham, alone
Well agree to the tinlness of the
coterie that reads modern verse, but
we must beg to doubt the size of the
"audience" of Longfellow, Whittier
and company, or of any other poets
that ever sang. There is, Of course,
the acquaintance with certain honor
able stand-bys gained by children in
readers-"The Barefoot Boy '"Bala-
clava," "Thanatopsis," "Horatius," >"
and so on. If that counts, then, Of
course, we are wrong. But this COM
pulsory sampling Of a few isolated
stanzas is pretty thin stuff to quail
ify anybody for an audience" Yet,
as matter of fact, right there is
the beginning and end of poetry
reading for nine out of ten people
1t seems to US that here is another
case where most people have been
hoodwinking themselves about the
character and extent of popular
taste and information. Why not
face the fact that reading any kind
of writing more than headlines is
confined to a small percentage of
humans, and that Of this, real read
ing public only yet smaller num-
Der read poetry? A lot of people
have superficial patter of names
and secondhand information. But
reading, the actual reading, of verse,
whether the verse is Shakespeare
sonnets or Longfellow's "Lost Youth"
or Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon
River" is a highly exceptional habit.
Exceptional, and therefore negli-
eble and unimportant? Not at ALL
The poetry readers are the flower of
the flock, we are inclined to think
They crop up where you least expect
them-the appetite bears little rela-
tion to such factors as education or
uplift or the long face. 1magina--
tion is the secret, we like to think
(being poetry readers ourselves)
but objections may be filed to this
guess, and proof or disproof is i'm
possible. All we insist upon is that
the poetry public, small as it is, be-
longs far up in that aristocracy of
brains and hearts and temperaments
which no amount of political democ-
racy has either greatly enlarged or
the least reduced in rank or i'm
pOrtance
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Dstanced by the British

announcement IS made of the
sng Of an air route through
cs from Cairo to the Cape.
Fsuy the British engineers com
id work that in its own way
Hepoch- making as was the open
IT the first American transcon-
sal railroad. The dream of
Rhodes has now been realized,
II a form amended in the spirit
Us twentieth century.
~ entire route, from the capital
Egypt to Cape Town, covers d
aace Of about 3,400 miles, and
undivided, for the purpose Of
- and the building Of landing
a. into three sections. After
inclusion Of the arrnistice with
|e? no time was lost in organ
NE three parties TO which the
Rctlons of the work were in
40 In December, 1918, the
20 left their bases. They had 70
with enormous hardships,
WITH African terrain and eli
White ants and tsetse-Aics and
~ difficulties. The completion
'S'' ~ork on schedule time testi-
y 'aeir Yalor and ability.
"a become 4 commonplace to
Aas The year 1919 marks the
Asi Of The ar, with the two
S@ae crossinqs, the American
continental eivhs and Captain
S'aita's aerial journey from
u Australia. With the
q the trans-African line
: 'he last, bpt 5y NJ means the
I" taese accomplishments.
). oesore Governor Smiths
a'h e'mmission this weck, Lieu
oro*n, after tour Of our
~a''eai industry, testified wc
"' produce seven thousand
s nurlnY The corninv year If
). strange turn of fortune
"'o'o be a demand for that
Our magnificent aeronau-
machinery, built up through
ss'ty Of war, IL practically
haapfacturers d. ,a want,
+ - "'sy reed, any subaldy. What
. need is a sane program Of
ss IN she form of orderv for
ss,s1 aezpeFateiy aeedcd ny the
mo sssps necessary to aid
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
A Certain One Who Died

From A,nslec's)
WHAT ways withdraw you now, De-
w lightful One,
What cloudy uplands that were dark
before,
Forget their darknesses forevermore,
Seeing you there, still radiant from the
sun?
Down what old, grievous byroads do
you run,
Your gayety more deTt than any
spring.
To turn them April for the grace you
bring,
Your hair to light their long oblivion
Surely to-day that brooding silence
breaks
For speech that WAS a thin and silver
bell,
Nor will those quenchless stillnesses
dispel
Your laughter and the music that it
makes.
I had imagined Death tho last, dark
star!
How shall I think Of these things
where you are7
DAVID MORTON.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

'hem during the period that will
eiapse before commercial aviation
reaches self-supporting basis are
an appropriation for army air
planes and the enactment of the law
20 establish a separate department
0l aeronautlcs. Will Congress act?
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Stars
From Toddy)

TN THE sharp splendor Of star
We know what timeless souls we are.
And apprehend the uncharted seas
Where throng our gilded argosies.
Freighted with heavy bales Of sense
We SAIL not knowing why, nor whence,
Nor whittier; ever thrustng on
Against huge seas, eloof, alone.
WILLIAM x.ssAN SEYMOUR
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
How Kind Is Sleep

F T0nl o-d1p)
HOW kind Is sleep, how merciful;
i l. That I last night have seeh
The happy birds with bosoms pressed
Against the leaves so green.
Sweet sleep, that made my mind forget
Ny love had gone away;
And nevermore I'd touch her soft,
Warm body, night or day.
So, every night deceived By sleep.
Let me on roses lie;
And leave the thorns of Truth for day,
To pierce me till die
". II. DAVIES,
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

per cent instead Of 8 per cent, they
then, with credit once established, have
actually less need for earnings than
they had before.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
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rsrnss si.h sssotu.~ 81. ltA-io- II dissatis,ac.
i. ,s.ry 10 iHs Case Ths TRiBUNe guarantee
4 y, tsrr neasi back urcn request. No red tape
!. tg,ssss NJ make sooo promotiy II ths
rrs.1isr ss.s not.