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The evening world., 1920-08-03
UNCOMMON SENSE
BY John Blake


LEARN THE TRADE OF OPPORTUNITY BUILDING.
schools Neither you find any treatses 1t in the
library But be learned just the same and the
who learns It will himself lot of wage slavery by
and by.
This trade is Opportunity Building.
We prosper fail according to opportunities To
opportunities ready made F. o. b. at doors
wise enough go and take them the rest of
life is easy.
But opportunities thus to few. And while those
few waiting for them the wolf growing the door and
and then stepping into the pantry to of
the food supply,
But opportunities are not all ready made. They
be buit-buit at home with tools AID
and your brain. And homemade opportunitieslike
home made pie-surpass all other varieties
E. H.~Harrman made his opportunity a rail-
road builder
Interested In railroads. though knowing nothing of their
practical operation, he himself the task of learning
In order try the experiments his brain suggested
he had to get control of railroad.
That not easy, but he did It, Once in control he
convinced the world that he knew how the oppor
tunty he had made.
Napoleon made his opportunity-though he built
opportunity that he unable to handle it when
II fully constructed.
Your opportunity may not be great these But
you make If go about it, And in most the
self-made opportunity is the only a has
Study this trade. 1t is difficult and complicated one
taught any of the colleges But is we'll worth
ing though you have to spend ten twenty thirty
years of your life at the task
For without opportunity you will ,be just of the
binary And If you wait for opportunity knock, even
your door, the grim likely to find you still
waiting when he comes to you from world where
opportunity builders have taken most of the prizes
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and the long trip home midst the crowds and the
heat Is forgotten.
BY Thursday or Friday plans are made for the
next weekend. BY Saturday afternoon or Sunday
these plans go into effect, and by II O'Clock Sunday
evening the subway is filled with crowd that is so
very, very tired and so Overwhelmingly sleepy that
It just simply cannot stay awake until it reaches
home stations.
After all, people do survive these strenuous one
day vacations for which they are physically unpre-
pared Probably they are all the better for having
enjoyed-and suffered from-them.
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ONE MORE JOB AT ALBANY.

IT HE longer special session of the Legislature is
delayed the more evident becomes the need
Business continues to pile up. The session prom
ises to be important and may demand considerable
time.
It is significant that most Of the imperative bust
ness is not new II is work which the regular seS-
sion neglected or did in slipshod fashion.
A case in point is the pending proposal Of the
New York Telephone Company for increased rates.
Under the law as il stands the company may i'm
pose and collect higher dolls subject to eventual re-
vision by the Public Service Commission But the
commission cannot suspend the rates until it can
discover whether they are reasonable. Telephone
patrons have no safeguard against illegitimate
charges during the period in which the commission
is investigating.
Last winter bill to correct this abuse failed of
passage. In special session measure Of such OBJ
vious justice would have such public support that
legislators would not dare to sidetrack it.
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TEST BY DISCRETION.

JUDGE MlNTYRE yesterday charged two Grand
J Juries wltythe duty Of finding some remedy
for the prevailing carnival OF reckless motor driving
and automobile homicide,
Judge Mcintyre recommends Jail sentences Instead
OF fines which twill not deter speed manIacs"
This recommendation Is valid, but does not cover
the ground, according to Chief Magistrate McAdoo
whose experience leads him 10 believe that neither
jail sentences nor fines will serve as preventive
The only feasible plan Is revocation of the driving
licenses of those who show disregard for public
safety
Drivers "ndes the age OF discretion" are a
menace, Judge Mcintyre believes, Perhaps this In
dhates essential agreement with Justice MAdoo. In
all probability It would not be difflct to prove that
few of the speeders have arrived at The age of dis
creton," even though they may be gray-halred\
Absolute age Is relatively unImporant, Dscre-
ton Is vital On this basis the Legislature has every
reason to provide statute empowering Magistrates
10 suspend or revoke the driving license of any per
son who proves indScree
No lobby of thel Automobile industry should have
power to prevent enactment of such law at the
next session of II Legislature.
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RESTRICTING THE "OBS."

= MEXICAN political discussion has always
"A proved vehtable gold mine for lexitog
nphers.
1t is scarcely an exaggeration to say that we need
new dictionary after each campaign.
Scores Of words in common use are of political
ancestry Candidates and parisans are prone to
coin new words and phrases, to develop new mean
ings for words in common use. In the heat of the
campaign Nhese are fused into the language and he
come part of the national tongue.
The present campaign is no exception.
"Normalcy," which Candidate Harding used in
his acceptance Speech Is the best example so far.
The dictionary labels the word as "obs" but II is
rapidly losing that label Editors and speakers are
using il without quotation marks. Senator Harding
has revived II, even though there may not yet be
complete agreement as to the precise definition Of
the tenn
In the next editions Of the dictionary the "obs"
label will be obsolete. Normally will be in good
standing as a resurected word Perhaps as good
guess as any is that the definition Is likely to relate
"nomalcy" to the act of retrospection, of looking
backward to the good old days.
Perhaps II is typical Of the difference between
the men, that where Roosevelt was distinguished
for his readiness to coin new words, Harding is
turning to the obsolete list for means Of expression
But It is well to warn the Republican candidate
that he is getting out of his period. Most of the
words marked "ots" in the dictionary went out of
current use long before the era of Mark Hanna and
William Mckinley.
photographers are nothing # not conservative
and rarely write the obituary of word unless It has
been dead for more than twenty-for years.
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THE wEARIEST CROWDS,

c UBWAY crowds vary from hour to hour and
~ from day 10 day.
Once each week In summer the underground
trains carry one certain sort Of crowd That Is seen
at no other time Of the week or season Of the year.
Sunday evening from about ~ until midnight
we see the wearest crowds. Not even the shopping
crowds Of the holiday rush hours are more thor
oughly exhausted.
Young folks, old folks and families with children
sink into the seats with sigh, or stand first on one
foot and then on the other.
Sunburned, dusty footsore, whnkled, hot-and
oh, so tired-they are returning from beaches and
excursions, summer picnics and steamer rides, the
country and the resorts.
'I'm Just about dead" and "Pn neOy 10 that
again" is the tenor Of the song the crowd would
whisper if II had the necessary ambltion-whlch II
hasn't
Tired and sleepy they are-too tired and sleepy
10 be ready for work the next day-but work they
must.
However II Is a healthful WEAKNESS. After a
good night Of sleep Monday the unpleasant features
Of The outing tend to disappear from memory, The
JOYS Of Re early hours Of the day are lived over
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"Wat'SaFact''
BY Albert P. SouthDick
| Copyright. 1890. By The Prsss Publishing Co
THE New York Evening World

In 1859, Innocent XII, who has
been called the Protestant Pope,
died on Aug, ~.
Delaney Street New York CITY.
recalls the name of Lieut.. Gov
James De Lancey the original
builder and owner of the house
that afterward became Faunce's
Tavern, at Pearl and Broad Streets
He gave the city its first town clock
The De Lancey family played an
important part in New YorIt's his
tory for long period. Their farm
covering about 100 blocks Of he
present New York City, extended
from Division Street to stanton ana
from the Bowery to the Bast River,
Minetta Street New York Citv
derives its name from Dutch
word meaning little one"-that is
tho small creek, to distinguish II
from a larger one that was near.
The section OF New York civ
near Convent and Amsterdam Ave.
nues' between lSSth and i45th
streets, was originally owned bv
Alexander Hamilton, He built a
house there In 1902, naming n The
Grange in honor of his uncIe,s
estate in Scotland, He nlaDsa5
thirteen trees in a semiclroIe 10
represent the original States
Perry Street commemorate IN
name OF Commodore oliver H.
Perry, the naval victor in the ps5t,e
e Lake. @SeA. sept IA IaIS
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A TANGLED WEB.

It HIS country had no alternative but to expert
ment with increased rates for the railroads.
Whether the new rates will prove an unmixed
blessing even to the railroads is open to question.
Not even the shrewdeSt and wisest students of
transportation affairs can hazard more than good
guess as to the final effect of the higher schedules
Railroad rates and their interrelatlons form one
of the deepest puzzles of modern civilization. The
average reader has small conception of the fractional
freight margins on which many great industrial OPP
erations rest.
As a comparatively simple example, take the New
England boot and shoe industry.
1t has been able to compete with the manufac-
turers of the Mississippi Valley in supplying shoes
to that region. Superior organization, experience,
a great overturn of goods, &C., have enabled the
Eastern manufacturers to pay freight on Western
hides and return the finished products by freight.
Whether they can continue to do so in face of a
higher rate remains to be seem
The railroads themselves are In the dark as to
possible effects. They have observed the effect of
higher fares on street railways frequently resulting
in lowered receipts. The Boston elevated lines are
a conspicuous example.
Certain materials such as ore and sand could be
hauled only at low rate. At high rate the rail
roads could not get the business because the COM
modtes would not be worth hauling
The railroads could afford to haul these low-rate
commodities at bare fraction more than the actual
cost of operation This tiny fraction helped to keep
equipment busy and to reduce by small margin
the inevitable heavy overhead which had to be
divided among commodities which could bear a
heavier freight rate.
This was the reason for the classification" of
freight II was economically sound.
Higher freight rates will disturb the balance be-
tween the railroads and other modes of transporta-
tion such as the coastwise shipping, The canal and
lake traffic and-the present great rival In short
haul traffic--the motor truck.
: 1t Is conceivable that railroads may lose an ap-
probable share of the tonnage they have handled,
and loss of tonnage means loss Of earning power,
Each alteration of freight rates means rearrange-
ment Of jObbng centres In the Nation. The lobbers'
business, Is governed by very slight dfferentlas In
freight, time and overhead, few cents change In
freight charges may wipe out all the advantage OF
superior organization and business sense
The whole question Is one Of unbelievable com,
plexlty Those best versed IN the subject best ap-
preciate how little they knoY Of the matter,
The Interstate Commerce Commission orders are
subject to modification as the need appears,
The Commissioners and The railroad managers
can but walt and see, and remedy defects as they
appear with maximum Of Justice to all concerned.
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Inmates lllOs mysdif, we were com
peeled to pay from is to rs cents.
II this Is the proposed bus system,
please give us cars with a Inlfo0n
fare instead OF getting stuck up and
robbed by bus drivers. Let us hear
from a few more suckers like myself;
perhaps then we may accidentally get
proper relief by our wonderful city
ofilclaAs. Thanking You for this,
JAMES HARRIS.
Brooklyn. July 30, 1890.
The y. n. r.
TO TIE EIftnr Of Tue Evening WoTh
This morning 1 had tho misfortune
to travel on the Broadway IL" OF the
70. r. T. road. There being a fire on
the Williamsburg Bridge | and hun
dreds OF others were told to get OF at
Marcy Avenue Station. Wh0ro tho
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Prohibit MarrIaEeI

To he Editor Of The EVuniuu World
In hts letter criticislng recent
Evening World editoriS, Mr., Wood OF
the Anti-Saloon League points out
chat tho prohibition of marriage TO
cure divorce Ia not a parallel cast
with the prohibition of drink 20 cure
drunkennessI but II would DO para
llel case with the prohibition OF mar
riage to cure polygamy,
Let us then take Mr., Wood at his
word. and admit cheerfully the at
curaoy of his logicl and ask him,
since the latter cases ara parallel
why not make tho remedies parallel
alsSf Why not abolish marriage by
means OF a Federal statute, and thus
automatically do away with all this
naughty polygamY that Is undeEmln-
ing the Nation1 the Anti-PolYgamy
League would make a tine name toI
the wives OF a modern Solomon,
EDWARD OSTROM, JR.
Pompton Lakes, N, j. July "a, 1890
The evening world., 1920-08-03

ticket agent handed us transfers and
We proceeded on our trip VIA trolley
to Delaney Street Here we got off
with the expectation OF getting an
other transfer to the trains, but were
told by brass button special that
unless We paid another fare we
would have TO hoof IT,"
How does the b. n. t. get that way 4?
Are they 30 low financially that this is
their only means To raise funds? II
they expect the passengers to pay an
other fare for every block fre, or any
other accident which Is their fault, It
sure would pay them 10 have an acct
dent like this a few times a month.
This idea ought to be worth some
thing TO them. LOUIS MILLER.
III. sheffieid Avenue. Brooklyn, N, Y.
JShvf ~ 1a3a
The evening world., 1920-08-03

Writing 10 the editor Of the Tribune Mr..
R. ". Anderson of Pittsburgh comments on
The Evening World slogan contest ana sug-
gOsts, 7 voted for Wilson: I'm cured"
The slogan editor regrets that no IL unable
TO consider the award OF prize 20 a reader
who submits hAs effort IN 20 roundabout a
fashion.
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"HardIaE Accepts"
To do Biioor q Tue ETsulas VOID;

To tlle Bltor d TIE Evouing World
have read your editorial in Fridays,
Judy 20, issue, Harding Accepts"
aud / must confess, as an intelligent
Democrat, that II Is a disgrace TO our
marty and does us more injury than
good. You know as well as / DO. or
any Democrat OF intelligence, that To
Impartially consider IL, Mr.. Harding
wishes FOR n return to the Copsittu-
lion ana 10 tie 6aat tEadatioaAAA,f tha
The evening world., 1920-08-03

Chelsea village.
10 tho Dditos Of The nyuhing WORTH
Az you have published the sur
roundingB OF the Chelsea Village, /
wish 10 place before you something
that might interest you in regard to
old Greenwich Village. Boys, four
years ago. on my trip 10 Panama Ca
nal, stopped at the Colon Sporting
Club t9 see the bouts. To my SUR
prise 4 saw an Old Ninth Warden,
owen Hernon, IN the ring. with Pana-
mn Joe Cans and Kid Norfolk rs
seconds fighting George Massall
twenty rounds. Hernon, who was
ftfty years old, surprised every one by
his oleverneRs and gameneBs, and
fought until he had five ribs broken
and was stopped by the police. THIS
IL only one of the game men from the
old Ninth Ward,
70. J. PERKINS.
New York, July 81, 1890
The evening world., 1920-08-03

10 the Aiitor q IaIe EWuinE World
Allow me, who has never registered
n kick through any Newspaper, pro-
test against the highway robbery syB-
TEN Of Mr., Hylan's bus systom II
was my misfortune to get wedS
into one OF his buses on Thursday
burg Bridge fire. On this bus was
a large sigfJ"b cents" but when / got
- Hnooklsa With some naore unGas-
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"Unoommon sense"

To tss Editor Of Tue Evening World
Your article IN to-day's World oY
John Blake on why Refuse Promo
uon7" sounds good in some oases. but
not in all.
How would that notice look hung
up ON the wall of a firm In whose
employment am az tho present
timer
This concern mad a bookkeeper, one
OF the best IN his line, by name OF Mr.,
B., who, after thirty-Bix years OF
honest and energetic work, was LAID
off 80 that a cheaper and younger
man could fin his place, suppose
this Ia not the only firm whore such
stunts arc pulled off,
WORLD READER.
New York. July 26, 1920.
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FROM EVENING WORLD READERS

you
thd the a hundredf
satisfaction
TO say much IN a Ie0 tOords. me o be briet
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Brooklyn, July %, 1890.
He Finds the Timex Coed.
, a.. Mite, - IN. Vav,-ntpv Vkbo-hA.

He Finds the Timex Coed.
To tals BlitnE OF Tho BVGlng Worh
Please lot 'Iceland" look this over,
He says mo paid $50 for "A suit and
so for shoes, on, yes, he did,
The trouble with some Of these let
ter writer's is they CAN'T Vhelp but
show on. earn $50 per weeaI, pay
a good rent, buy $50 suits, So shoes,
keep q wife and boy we'll dressed and
well fed and we'll satisfied with life.
And the hest part of II is, l am saw
ing money! not much, but saving,
Just the same, SELRAY,
Brooklyn, July 80, 1870.
The evening world., 1920-08-03

Fathers OF the Republic" from which
Tor the past ten or twelve years we
have been drifting. as'Mr. Cox him
self knows better than either you "r l.
And, honest as he 10. he will agree
with me that you deliberately ted an
untruth whom you say he (Mr. Hard
ing) merely continues the wicked, ma
hcious, ahameful campaign OF deccp-
ton which HIS masters OF the Sena-
torial oligarchy have waged for moro
than a year" and a malicious nnis-
representation when you assert non
esty and truth are not in HIM"
To change The fourth paragraph IN
that article and make II agree with
my contention, It should reads If this
editorial (of platttude upon platttude)
can awaken any enthusiasm among
your readers II must DO accepted an
tribute 20 your skill as a falslf!er OF
sef-evident truthbLa and that honesty
and truth are not in you" and that
you should not cr1ticise under "the
mask OF Hypocrisy" but in q mandy,
open, fair, square and rust manner,
HENRY PERCY,
Crescent Beach. Conn, July ~, 1870.
Docs Any Reader Know the
AnHwoTf
To tho IOhit1H 0f The Evuning World
Will yoH kindly advise a constant
reader of your payer the definition OF
the phrase subject 70 tariff regu-
lations,"
The reason ASK ls that am a
traveller on the N, Y, N, II. and H. II,
II, from this city to Now Haven, and
nine times out of ten there arc in
sufficient accommodations regarding
| 10 -
OF tho trains why they do not put on
more oarH and they state that Ia all
the cars are permitted to carry, II
such 10 the fact should there not be
some means by which moro trains
should DO run or passengers told
when they are purchasing tickets the
possibility of having 20 stand from
New York to New Haven, q trip of
about two hours, which Is absolutely
exhaustive during this hot weather?
O, II, PALMER
RrooItlNyn niIy "a 1890
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-12-23
g.. A. HARRISON,
Notice Of the Intention of the
Board of Supervisors of Rankin
County. MisSiSsinni. In Receive

Notice Of the Intention of the
Board of Supervisors of Rankin
County, Mississippi, to Receive
Proposals from the Banks for
the Privilege of Keeping the
County Funds, or any part there
of, as County Depository, for
the Year 1921.
Notice is hereby given that UNI
der the provisions of Chapter 1874,
Of the Laws of 1912, and amend
ments thereto, the Board of Super
visors of Rankin County, Miss
issippi, will, on the 1st Monday in
January, 1921, receive such pro
pOsals as the banks in Rankin
County, or either of them, may
make for the privilege of keeping
the county funds, or any part
thereof, and the securitv propos-
ed, as county depository, for the
year 1921, beginning on the 1st
Monday in January, 1921, and
continuing for one year thereaf,
ter, and until new arrangements
shall be made.
This the 10th day Of December,
1920. S. ID. DONNELL,
Cleerk of the Board of Supervi-
sors of Rankin County, Miss.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-12-23
GOSHEN SPRINGS

Mr.. Malcolm Parrot and wife
have come to spend Christmas
with Mrs. Parrot at this place.
Mrs. r. N Sheffield and chill
dren are spending the week with
Mrs. Tabb at Madison.
Mr.. ]. D. Barksdale transacted
business in Brandon Friday.
Misses Eula and Lola Anderson
visited their brother, Edd Ander-
son, Monday.
Mrs. Leon Baker returned home
from Oakridge, Saturday to spend
Christmas with homefolks.
Mr.. John Slade of Leesburg was
a visitor here Monday
Miss Ruby Barksdale is at home
to spend Christmas.
5 Mrs. S. 7. Faulkenberry return
ed home Sunday from a visit to
her daughter, Mrs. G. L. Long.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Speer
made a business trip to Canton
Saturday.
Messrs J. B. Williamson and
Hemby White of Fannin visited
our community Sunday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-12-23
Notice of Trustee's. Sale.

March 3rd, 1915, M. A. Baker
executed to me .as trustee a GER
tain deed Of trust to secure an i'm
sdebtedness therein mentioned to
B. p. Knight, President of Board
Of Supervisors of Rankin County,
Mississippi, due and payable in
'instal lments, as therein set out,
all Of which are now past due and
payable, and which said deed of
trust is. recorded in Book a, at
page 1872, thereof in the -Chancery
Clerks office of Rankin County,
Mississippi.
The property mentioned in said
deed Of trust IS situated in Ran
kin County, Mississippi, and de-
scribed as follows, to-wit:
Northwest Quarter of Section
IL, Township 6, North of Range
4, East.
Default was made in the pay
Inent Of the said indebtedness and
being requested to so do, I will on
Monday, the 3rd day Of January,
1921, in front of the south door of
the county court house in Bran
don, Rankin County, Mississippi,
within legal hours, offer for sale
and will sell, for cash, at public
auction to the highest and best
bidder, all of the above described
land, to satisfy the said -indebt-
;edness named in the said deed of
trust.
The title to the said land is be-
ieved to be good but / will. con-
vey only such title as is vested in
me as trustee, aforesaid.
Done, this the 9th day of De-
cember, 1920.
w. E. MCINTYRE, Trustee,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-12-23
GUIDE

We still have few hopes of
pretty weather for Christmas re-
CARELESS of what Mr.. Weatherman
says.
A real interesting Basket ball
game was played at G. H. S. De-
cember 10, in which Guide, won
the championship over Lodabar.
Mr.. Floyde Sowelle, of Clinton
College is at home to spend the
Christmas holidays. s.
Miss Louise Stingily of Pela-
hatchie was the attractive guest
of Miss Blanche Thomas, Sunday.
Mr.. Virgil and Winfry Rhodes
are also at home for the Christ
mas holidays.
Miss Inez Robbins, was a jack
son visitor, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Adams Jr.,
of Rankin spent Sunday with her
father, Mr.. E. w. Rhodes, Jr.
Miss Beatrice Payne spent the
weekend at Rankin the guest of
Miss Mabel Adams.
Mrs. Sue Thomas has as her
guest her sister, Mrs. Harper of
Dry Creek.
Mr.. Tate Lindsey of Clarksburg
was a recent Guide visitor.
Mrs. Cooper received the mes
sage Monday of the death of her
cousin, Mrs. Claud Sarver.
Mrs. Tom Rhodes Sr, was in
jackson, shopping, Saturday.
Mr.. w. H. Baskerville and fam
lily motored to Jackson Saturday.
We are very proud to see Mrs.
]. D. Jordon back in the store as
she has been confined to her bed
for several weeks.
The. G. H. S. doors WILDE closed
Thursday at noon not to be OPEN
ed until after Christmas holidays
have been pleasantly spent.