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Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29

surrounded by rich and palatial man
sions of milhonaires, but it has on
its shores many camps such as the
Y. NJ. c. A., the Eleanor Camp, the
Olivet Camp, Conference Point Camp,
and the Holiday Home; in all of
which young life is gathered by the
hupdreds every year and in the vaca-
ton period is taught the useful lessons
Of the forest, the birds, the water, as
well as the other lessons of citizen
ship and world-service. My deep re-
greet is that the opportunities for va
cation do not com to all and that
many who need it most are too often
the ones who taste the least of its
benefits.
Speaking of the Y. NJ. C. A., re-
minds me of the vesper service we at
tended on Sunday evening at that
camp. The speaker of the evening is
the secretary of the rural work of the
Y. M, c. A., and brought to US the
call of the country lads and opened
before. US the splendid possibilities
which are wrapped up within the boys
who are being reared in our country
districts. They make now, as they
have ever made "a large part of the
material Of our leadership and we
do we'll to see that the country home,
the country school, and The country
church are kept at the highest point
of efficiency in the work of fashioning
these future leaders upon the proper
pattern of Righteousness and religion.
We can't last long if faith leaves our
f~iresides, and the school becomes a
mere dispenser of theory, and the
church loses its divine message of
guidance, hope, and duty.
My second contention is that one
of the happiest things in a real vaca-
ton is the element of friendship. /
sometimes enjoy being by myself, but
| would not want a vacation all in
solitary" 1t would be dull after the
first day,and became unbearable l
fear after the second. But here | am
with the blessing of good wholesome
companionship. My host knows good
books, and we discuss our favorite
authors as we take our morning
troll, and we deal in gentle quip or
jest as we go about the elementary
luties which fall to u lot. ! am the
water boy" Of our cottage, so that
three times a day ! am under the duty
Of seeing that water is brought from
a spfing nearby, for the tables.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29

The only drawback in this Is that
one is liable to become INDECENT under
such light tasks. Still I hope l may
not fall entirely from the grace Of
useful industry. Perhaps when |
come home Mrs. Wallace will help
me in the realization of this piOus-
expression. When it comes to sum-
ming up the advantages in friendships
bulk | am constrained to say with
David, How great is the sum of
them"
| claim the best and richest exper-
fences possible in the realm Of friend
ship, and l pray that upon everyone
in this charmed circle of good will the
best blessings of bur Heavenly Friend
may fall.
Sunday morning after the worship
WI were pleased to greet one of our
Mexico girls, Miss Lucille Duncan.
She is enjoying her vacation at one of
the recreation camps here. I think
n or two more of our Mexico people
people are coming here next month.
For weather, sport, refreshment
and rest, Lake Geneva stands well in
the front rank of vacation play
grounds, and will continue to hold a
large place as more and more the call
of the woods and water is heard by
tired people.
Cordially yours
ADDISON A. WALLACE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29
BURIED At CONCORD


Hundreds of persons attended the
burial Sunday in the Concord ceme-
terry of Corporal George Robert Nc
Donald "a Galloway County soldier
who died in France. Reverends Wood
and Stormont of Auxvasse conducted
- veky impressive service, paying
tributes to the heroism of young Nc
Donald.
The body of Mcdonald arrived Sat
urday in Auxvasse from Rhenon,
France, where it had been buried.
An account of the burial in France
is told in the following letter which
Mrs. Mcdonald, the boys mother, re-
ceived from a Red Cross nurse who
attended him in France.
we buried him in the afternoon Of
December 80 in the little American
cemetery near the French village Of
Rehnon, not far from Brest. On the
way there the chaplain told me he
Ithad been with Corporal Mcdonald
the night before and they had talked
a long time. He said the boy talked
about his mother and his only long
ing was to see her again, and wanted
her to know that aside from that
longing, he died happily.
'The road to the cemetery is n
Of the most picturesque l have ever
seem. II runs along by the edge of
the water most of the way and is
lined with quaint French houses and
beautiful green hedges all in yellow
flower and low stone walls over
grown with moss and ivy. 1t winds
up and up until at last one comes to
the place where all our American
heroes who have died here are bur-
led It is separated by a stone wall
from a French cemetery and I am
told that French girls and ome
bring fresh flowers almost every day
to lay on the graves of u boys. I
wandered about a little while among
the white wooden crosses and l found
a beautiful wreath of artificial flow
rs with the inscription in French in
silver letters: Homage Of the viii
lage of Rehnon to the American SOL
diers-dead for France
After the casket had been lower
cd into the grave the chaplin con-
Quoted the burial service and offered
a wonderfully beautiful prayer that
God might comfort you in your sor-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29

College Camp, Wisconsin,
July IA, 1920.
Editor Mexico Ledger,
Mexico, Mo.
My Dear MITCHELL .
Recently on rising to respond to a
call for an after dinner speech, | said
had nothing to say. A friend butted
in with this remark, "Then sit down."
That was both diseoncerting and sup
e%rfluous; for il l had nothing to say
| should he allowed to say it to the
best Of my ability like all other after
dinner speakers do. AID anyway an
audience should be allowed the priv
lIcge Of sounding the emptiness of an
ocean Of words without some SMART
n telling it that said ocean was
empty of ideas, Nothing is more i'm
polite or joy-killing than to have
some fellow pas by as you fish and
below out to you there amt no fish
in there"
| am not going to disappoint any
body hy saying there is not going to
be anything in this letter. I rather
prefer to let the reading public fish
for any elusive idea that may hide
itself under this flow of ink.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29

Mrs. w. F. Whitney has accom-
panied Mrs: William Steuck and son
to New York where she will spend
the summer at the Steuck cottage on
Long Island Sound.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29
7 EXTINCTION
G SINGLE REGISTER y
- FURNACE / Y

The Lexington Single Register Furnace will provide twice
as much heat a. the largest heating stove. besides giving acir-
cuaton of air. 1t requires less attention and is easier 10 OPP
crate. Tho draft is regulated by hampers with chains running
to the living room. Simply shake down the ashes i'll the
morning, fill the fire pot with coal and the furnace does the
rest. -
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29

It is reported here that C. C. Fow-
les, Of this city is managing Judge
Priests campaign for U. S. Senator
in South Missouri.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29

l He is clean Demqcst has a clean record performed an efficient service as As
Sstant oecreary O. State at Washington tor three and half years during the
Var under President Woodrow Wilson, Heis an able and fearless champion Of
the l. o. Nahons-m tact made the first speech in Missouri for it. Longs
candidacy has been endorsed by Democratic leaders and Democratic newspapers in
eyerys section the state They look upon him as the logical candidate and de-
clare ne can lead our ticket to victory in November
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29

A Hudson touring car driven by
Miss Neva Rockwell Of Benton City
ran into a Ford car belonging to A.
L. Kredel Sunday afternoon in front
of the ]. W. Dry residence on East
Promenade street. A wheel of the
Ford was broken. the bumper smash
ed, and one fender badly bent. The
Ford was parked zeal the curbing at
the time of the accident.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29

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First Aid. MAZDA First Aid kit, for
their use while hiking.
Office Hours: 8 to 10 A. N, every
dag, s A. NJ. 10 S P. NJ. Saturday, ct
the Community Room.
coRINNE MARLEY.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29

ThLONCAN WIN" slogan has gained great momentum during IL; last few weeks and
aemso have been nmNym adopted in every county
This advertisement was inserted by the Audran County friends Of: Mr.. Long
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29

The friends OF the Democratic Administration in every section IF the Stat
conclusion that Long should be united upon for the Democratic nomination
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-29
DR.. Wallace
Is Water Boy
At-Lake Geneva
but Mexico Pastor Still. Has Time
To Enjoy All The Pleasures Of :
Wisconsin Resort.

College Camp, Wisconsin,
The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
Arts Club Shows Water Colors
Mrs. Chase's Exhibit Attracts

Members of the Arts Club of Washing
ton art. unanimous in praising an exhibi-
ton of water, color paintings and sketches
by Mrs. V. o. Chase which has been on
view in the second floor salons at 2oI7 I
street northwest for more than a week and
will continue hung until next Thursday.
Mrs. Chase's work is well-known to
Washington art-lovers and has been favor
ably noted in more than one showing in
New York and other cities. Several of
the aquarelles in the Arts Club group have
been awarded medals and honorable men
tions prior to this time.
pleasant contrast to the grey outdoors
OF late autumn is afforded by Mrs. Chase's
pieces. Colors, brilliant but well-blent,
are her hobby and most of her motifs are
of the light and air. Many of the pieces
show an inspiration similar to that of the
Provincetown School. and though Mrs.
Chase is not identified with that Bohemian
colony which gave the summer shores of
Massachusetts, new fame with flaming
brushes. she found as brilliant scenes in
the neighborhood of Gloucester.
Her water colors now on exhibit date
back two years though the majority were
done on tour last summer to Gloucester
and also to Chester Springs, Pa. Several
subjects nearer home attracted her eye, as
well, and Ellicott City, Nd, and Alexan-
dria, Va, are represented, the former in
The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
Describes An Entry
Into Picturesque Fee

wv E had not advanced half a mile to-
" wards the city when we were sur
rounded by throng. of Moors and Arabs
come from Fee and from the country
round, on foot and on horseback, on mules
and on donkeys, two and two, like the
ancient Numidians, so eager to see us that
the soldiers of our escort sare obliged to
make use of the butt-end of their muskets
to keep them from pressing upon U.S. The
ground being low, the city, whose cas-
tellated wallis we had seen from the camp,
remains for some time hidden. Then all-at
once it reappears, and between us and the
crimson mass, like myriad of lilies and
,roses trembling in the breeze. The city
/vanishes again, and again appears, but
much nearer this time; and between us and
it, the people, the army, the court, and
pomp and splendor and oddity that are be-
yond my powers of description.
1t is now more than half-an-hour that
we have been proceeding between the two
lines of soldiers, and some one has counted
more than four thousand. On one side is
drawn out the cavalry; on the other
nameless and Heterogeneous mass of men
and boys, dressed in divers uniforms or
rather fragments of uniforms, some with
arms and some without, cloaked and un-
cloaked, with uncovered heads, or heads
bound with a shapeless rag, shirtless for
the most part; faces from the desert, from
the coast, from the mountains; shaven
heads, and heads ornamented with long
braids. = And behind them, on the ris-
ing ground that borders the way, an innu-
merable throng of veiled women, scream
ing and gesticuiating. in wonder, anger, or
pleasure, and holding up their children to
see US.
We approached the walls at a point
with battlements. A band bursts into
music, and at the same moment all the
drums and trumpets rend the air with a
mighty crash. Then our ranks are broken
The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
An Office Holders Trials

Vice Chairman Huston Thompson, of the
Federal Trade Commission, a Princeton
graduate, who still remains in the public
service because he thinks he ought to
though many classmates who started in
public life with him have resigned to take
large salaries much exceeding his own, has
been talking about "The Public Man and
His Problems" 1t is interesting to see
him stressing the same point that Senator
Thomas, of Colorado, recently made in a
similar frank talk Both Senator Thomas
and Mr.. Thompson are alarmed at the
growing power of the groups" that now
have their official headquarters in the
Capital, and with whom the official has to
deal instead of with the people. They
are usually producers, claimants for the
right of their special class to get more
favors. But consumers show no such de-
fensive organization. They have no such
army of propagandists. Consciously or
unwittingly therefore the official finds it
more and more difficult to think of the well
fare of the unorsnized many, surrounded
as he is by the atmosphere created by the
champions of the organized few. The vet
eran lawmaker of the House, Uncle Joe
Cannon is on record as admitting the same
difficulty for the lawmaker of today that
Senator Thomas and Mr. Thompson de-
scribe Nominal power still rests with the
peoples representatives. Actual power
is passing to an aggregation of competing
class groups.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
Colors

two old mill house scenes and the latter
IN Church Lane" an unconventional
but charming panel
Mrs. Chase's exhibit comprises land
scapes, interiors, a few still-life studies and
portraits and nude, her first venture in
life work, she says. The light touch lies
over all, though deal of whimsicaIity pre-
walls in the pictures of tumbledown barns
and other rural scenes. Her work is uni
tormly excellent, testimony of her years
OF study with nationally-known masters.
In the water color group some of the
best works are Margaret and Lola" where
the unconscious pose of two young art
students loses nothing in grace; "Ginny
Boats" and Three Little Maids" repre-
sentations of the staunch smacks in which
the North Shore fishermen venture forth;
Red Barn." tone-study; Summer Morn
ing, Miss W." distinctive bust; THE
Ballet Girl" an odd pose suggesting the
contortion of arduous drill in the green
room, and "Rapp's Corner" late after
noon view where the tints of approaching
storm clouds are cleverly caught.
A vivid gold and striking shade of
green-blue are repeatedly employed in these
works.
Mrs. Chase's skill with the sketching
pencil, charcoal stick and wash are shown
in the 2o-odd productions in these mediums
completing the showing.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
Sonnet
Ry SHAKESPEARE

Full many a glorious morning have seen
Flattef the mountain tops with sovereign
eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows
green,
Gliding pale streams with heavenly al
chemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the foriorn world his visage
hide,
Even 80 my sun one early morn did shine
With aI-triumphant splendor on my brow;
But out, alackl he was but one hour mine,
The region cloud hath masl'd him from
me now.
Yet him for this my love no Whit dis
daineth;
Suns of the world may stain when
heavens sun spstaineth.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
General MarBoroush Churchill

Cenevan dove cotes seem to have been
futtered good deal by the arrival of Gen.
Marlborough Churchill, L. S. A, an expert
in getting intelligence, thanks to his train
ing during the war. 1t is high-sounding
militant name he has, and that may have
something to do with the commotion he
has created But he really is not so martial
as his name would imply. He had Chris
tian clergyman for a father and a Scotch
American, pious mother; and the environ
ment in which he grew up in Andover,
Mass, was the farthest removed from
bellicoseness, except for fights over theol-
ogy, and it had plenty of those, in one OF
which his father, John w. Churchill, was
involved. Young Churchill's path first be-
gan to divcrge from the traditional Andover
program of living when he chose to go TO
West Point instead of going TO Yale or TO
Harvard. He is where he is now because
of that divergence. No doubt at the time
ie caused the town gossips TO talk. 1t would
have been natural for him to have been a
preacher like his father, or a shrewd busi-
ness man like his grandfather, Donald. But
Andover is proud of him now. He is new
sort of bird to have originated in an aviary
filed with pedagogues, theologues and re-
tired spinters of both sexes.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
Epiphanys Coming Rector.

The city as we'll as the Protestant
Episcopal Church is to be congratulated
on the choice of new rector which the
congregation has made Fortunately there
is no doubt of the acceptance of the call
by Rev. DR.. James E. Freeman, of Mime
apolis, who, for ten years, has had a COM
manding place in the civic as well as the
church life of that fine city He is a live
wire citizen as well as sensible and pro-
gressive cleric, with combined preaching
and administrative power In the higher
administrative circles of the Protestant
Episcopal Church he has won a command
ing place, and for any development of the
City OF Washington as the natural admin
lstrative capital of that church he will
prove to be an influential advocate.
Community interests draw on his svn,-
Pathies and enlist his labors He knows
the value of journalism as a vehicle of
power for an ethical and spiritual teacher.
and he uses it steadily to reach the large
audience OF his fellow citizens. He has q
business-like mind and uses it for creat;oo
OF efficiency in church and in state. He
breaches on contemporaneous history. and
opens his church to experts able to discuss
burning issues of the day. national and in
ternational. Music and architecture mean
much to him as accessories to ritual and
homiletics. When he speaks it is with no
indecision or equivocation. His concep-
ton of the church is not controlled by ira
dition so much as it is by vital needs of
the time. He does not fight over issues
dividing the "schoolmen," but against evils
that imperil living men, He is not a radi-
cal, but neither is he moss-back.
When man of this sort comes 70
new city of abode and work, the city's as
sets increase visibly.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
Eleetioneered d With Chalk.

The use of chalk instead of printed notices
for advertisement and political propaganda
has ancient precedent, as the "graffit" of
Pompeii attest. There we find in red let
ters painted on the walls that "the BARRIERS
wish to have Trebius as aedile" or that
"the fruit sellers, with one accord, support
the candidacy of Holconius Priscus for the
'duumvirate"
These ancient canvassers struck per
sonal note which is seldom paralle1ed even
in Presidential election. Witness the fol-
lowing: ..Claudium iivir animula facit"'
("His little sweetheart is doing her best to
get Claudius elected ,duumvir. )-From the
Manchester Guardian.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
Scotsman Helping
To Rebuild Zion
American Poet Champions
VenizeLos- s--Andooer Proud
of Gen. Churchill
By GEORGE PERRY MORRIS.

CIR AUCKLAND CEDDEs. the Brit
>ish Ambassador, is not the first mar
~ OF his clan who has attracted the
attention of Americans. For years we'll
informed city and town planners of the
country and the dreamers Of urban Utooias
have known of Sir Patrick Ceddes- and
not a few Of them have met him. for he has
come and gone among US in quiet WAYS.
without much publicity. Americans who
admire him are deeply interested in the Sc
lection OF this beauty-loving Scot as adviser
OF the British High Commissioner in PaIes-
tine, Sir Herbert Samuel This English
Jew, upon whom has .devolved the great
task OF protecting and guiding the new
Palestinian state, is determined that the
cities OF Jerusalem, Jafa, Haifa and Tibe-
rus, as well as the smaller communities ef
the Promised Land, shall be planned cities
hereafter and not aggregations of promis-
cuous growth. Sir Patrick Ceddes already
having planned the building of the great
Hebrew University which is to stand on
the Mount of Olives, has been commits
stoned to supervise all this urban and town
planning. Indeed, he already has begun his
work in and about Haifa and Tiberius. The
case is one of unusual significance Geddes
IN some respects is the worlds greatest
technical expert in urban planning, as well
as man of lofty visions. Great Britain
used him in replanning Bombay and Delhi
Now he is to help make a New Jerusalem
AS has been said before, "the Scotch are a
great people"
The Washington herald., 1920-12-05

up, and there is a general rush and confu-
sion of. magistrates, courtiers, ministers,
generals, officials and slaves; our escort is
scattered, our servants dispersed, and we
ourselves divided from each other. There
is torrent of turbans and horses rolling
and twisting about us with irresistible i'm
petus; confusion of colors, phantasma-
goria of faces - = Passing in at the gate,
we expect to see the houses of the city, but
are still between castellated walls and tow
ers. = . We pass another gate, and find
ourselves at last in street with houses on
each side.
Ny memory here becomes confused
We passed, l remember, through some de-
serted streets bordered by tall houses
and in about half-an-hour, after threading a
labyrinth of steep and narrow alleys where
we were obliged to go in single file, we
reached little door, where some scarlet
soldiers presented arms, and we entered
our own house. 1t was delicious sensa-
8 ton.
The house was a princely mansion in the
pu1est Moorish style, with small garden
shaded by parallel rows OF orange and
lemon trees From the garden you en-.
tered the interior court by low door, ana
thence into a corridor large enough only
for one person to pass. Around the court
were twelve white pilasters, joined by as
MANY arches of horseshoe form, which
supported an arched gallery furnished with
a wooden balustrade. The pavement OF
the court, gallery, and chambers was one
snlendid mosaic of little squares OF enamel
Of brilliant oolors; the arches were painted
in arabesque; the balustrSde carved IN deh-
cate open work; the whole building oe-
s;gned with a grace and harmony worthy
of the architects of the Alhsmbra, In the
middle of the court there was fountain5
and another one with three Jets OF water
was carved and ornamented niche in the
wall. A large Moorish lantern depended
from. every arch. One wing. OF the edihee
extended along one Se s,de OF Of tbsse a1ebe
painted in arabesque, in front of which a
third fountain sparkled. There were other
little courts, and corridors. and chambers,
and the innumerable reeesses, of an Orr
entail house. s-"Moroeco: LIS People
and Places" by Edmondo de Amicis.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
Venizelos Championed by American
Poet

Edith NJ. Thomas, a classicist among our
singers, If We have one who stands out pre-
eminent has written an open Letter to
Athens" in verse form In II she Is more
concrete and political than she usually Is
Her temper is critical She is an zdmirer
of Venizelos, the modern "Aristides the
Just" She, out OF her knowledge of Greek
history, reminds the HeIlenes of today how
often IN the past their fathers committed
evil IN reaction against the good If the
poem serves to attract more attention than
has been customary TO the woman who
penned it, il will be well for. her and for
the credit of American literary criticism
We have no man or woman singing today
who so well reflects the best feeling of the
older cultural ideal and who rs so superior
to all the retrospective, erotic, distintegrzt-
ing tempers of the hour. You feel that she
has her roots in a past full of noble ideals
OF religion, human conduct and national
aims. Our only fear is that the self-z1ed
Cretan statesman, If he sees the poem, will
not duly rate the compliment paid him, by
having such a singer summons Athens 20
the bar of history.