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Pronunciation of Houston"

Hon. David Franklin Houston, Sec
rotary of Agriculture in President
Wilson's cabinet, has been named for
Secretary of Treasury to succeed Sec
retary Carter Glass, who has been ap-
pointed United States Senator from
Virginia.
1t may be information to all
readers to know that Secretary Hous-
toms name is pronounced as though
it was spelled "Hewston." This pro
nunciation also prevails with the
Houston family of Delaware County,
Pa, and is followed in respect Of the
CITY of Houston, Texas.
But in Delaware, where the Houston
family has long held prominent place,
and where there is a town OF that
name, we call it, and in better accord
with the photography, we contend,
"Howston." ,.,.
But. "Hewston" or "Howston," it is
a good name, and Secretary Houston
is an excellent and most promising
public official.
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Bourgeois French Pay Tribute to
Wilson IA 10

Paris, Jan. 3O.7AA public celebration
of the League of Nations was held to-
day in the Sorbonne, presided over by
President Poincare.
Paul Deschanel, the President-elect;
Leon Bourgeois, Albert Thomas, for
mer Premier Ribot and Andre Hon
norat, Minister of Public instruction,
occupied places of honor.
Recruiting the development of the
idea carried out by the League, M.
Bourgeois, who was the French mem
Der of the commission which drafted
the League covenant, said:
president Wilson, by his messages
and his personal efforts, offered the
means of realizing this idea in a great
international convention. Whatever
defects there may be in it, the COM
pact of April %, 1919, has sealed be-
tween the free peoples a solemn agree
ment for the union of all for the safety
and independence of ALL" H41h
M. Bourgeois referred to the first
meeting of the League on January 16;
where, he said, there were found MISS
ing only the representatives of the
United States of America, "for the
adherence of which in the near
future we are all waiting and hoping"
Mr.. Thomas pointed to the interna-
tional labor conference as concrete
evidence of the value of the Leagues
existence.
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Old Newspaper Man Dies

Thomas F.. Fitzgerald, veteran news
paperman and publisher, died on Friday
afternoon at his home in Trenton, after
an illness of about three weeks. Mr..
Fitzgerald, who was rs years old, had
been in declining health for some time
past. His illness finally developed in
to a complication of diseases and
RAPIDLY became more critical until his
death. Mr.. Fitzgerald's life closed just
after he had placed in the hands of the
printer the forty-fourth edition of the
New Jersey Legislative Manual, the
preparation of which has occupied his
attention for several months.
The death of Mr.. Fitz gerald removes
from the newspaper field of New Jer-
sew a prominent and unique figure.
Both i IN age and years of service, he
was the dean of the legislative corre-
spondents of the State. His active
journalistic experience covered a period
of nearly half a century and his SER
vices in this field, both as a c~orrespon-
dent and a publisher, were notable.
In 1879 he issued the first NUMBER
of the New Jersey Legislative Manual
which he improved from year to year
until it has become a text book OF IN
calnlable value as an author1tatlVe
source of information in all matters re-
lating to State and county government
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Hoover On Socialism

Herbert c.. Hoover has had unex-
ampled opportunities or studying the
varieties of economic reorganization
which have been tested in Central
Europe in recent months, and he has
a keen mental apparatus for examin-
ing and %appraising them. More than
ordinary interest therefore attaches
to such statements as come from this
man of many deeds and few words.
He says:
"The various sorts of Socialism are
based on one primary conception. That
is that the productivity of the human
being can be maintained under the i'm
pulse of altruism, and the selection of
the particular human for his most pro-
ductive performance can be made by
some superimposed bureaucracy. My
conclusion is that Socialism, as a phil
osophy of human application, has al
ready bankrupted itself. 1t has proved
itself, with rivers of blood and suffer-
ing, to be an economic and spiritual
fallacy. l believe it was necessary for
the world to have this demonstration.
But it is not necessary that we of the
United States, now that we have wit
messed these results, plunge u own
population into these miseries and into
a laboratory for experiment in foreign
social diseases.
Bankruptcy of the Socialist idea
does not relieve us from the necessity
of finding a solution to the primary
question which underlies discomfort
the better division of the products of
industry and the steady development
of higher productivity. The solution
must be found by Americans, in a
practical American way, based upon
ideas, on American philoso-
ply of life. 1t must be founded IN our
national instincts and upon the normal
development of our national institu-
lions.
at must be founded, too, upon the
fundamental fact that every section of
this nation, the farmer, the industrial
worker, the professional man, the en-
ployer, all are absolutely i%nterdepen-
dent upon each other in this task of
its results. A maximum production
can be obtained only under conditions
that protect the physical and intel
lectual well-being' of the producer"
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An Honest Warning

A warning against buying liquors
from speakeasies or any other source
now is being given general circulation
While the warning deals specifically
with the illegality of such purchases.
it also calls attention to the grave
dangers in drinking the stuff.
"The last liquor legally distilled in
this country was distilled on Septem-
Der 9Th, 1917" says the report
Liquor made previous to that date
must havel been pretty well consumed
or exported by now, outside of what
is owned in private dwellings.
Liquor sold surreptitiously in vio-
lation of the law, therefore, is likely
to be either raw alcohol or composed
of poisons like wood alcohol. Any
drink sold by a speakeasy is likely to
be a pretty dangerous drink.
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Treaty Not Americanized, But
HyDheniZed

Most of the treaty-rippers at wash
inoton say that their only purpose IS
to Americanize the document. A more
candid confession would be that they
hope to hyphenize it.
Practically every amendment or res
~ervation thus far proposed is intended
to deprive the executive department. OF
control of our diplomatic affairs and
lodge it in Congress. 1t is to be re-
membered that the League OF Nations
IS already in existence and that If we
are to become a member under the
limitations imposed by the Senate our
foreign relations will be governed
LARGELY bv the new order imposed by
tbe covenant. The Senate would
have us meet this situation with our
representatives abroad shackled as
thew never have been before.
The Lodge reservations provide thai
with the United States a doubling ano
irresolute member of the league Its
agents are ~powerless to act IN many
resnects without the direct permission
of Congress. One of their most con
temptible provisions is that they can
NOT incur a small financial obligation
without the approval of Congress
This means, of course, that every
Question under consideration by thu
league must be threshed out III con
press before the United States cal
vote thereon, and that means clearl!
enough that every international ar
rangement will be discussed here VIZ
a view to its effect upon some prancl
of the foreign vote.
A more perfect plan to keep aliv
the alien sympathy of our dlverslhe'
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NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE
Summary of bills introduced in the
Senate and House to date:
CENATE

SENATE
No. 81, by Mr.. Allen. Designed to
make New Jersey hunting seasons for
migratory birds, uniform with the
United States regulations. excepting for
w~oodcock. Codiies Fish and Gam
laws.
No. 32, by Mr.. Allen. Amends act
for drainage of meadowland by incIud-
ing township committeeman in board
for jurisdiction over work. Amends
original act passed November "a, 1892.
No. 35. Permits manufacture of
liquors containing 5 per centum of al
cohol by weight, for medicinal or other
han beverage purposes under permit
of county clerk.
No. SO. Increases to SIG, 900 the salary
of the Chancellor and the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court, and grants
SIS, 900 yearly to the Associate Justices
of the Supreme Court.
| No. 81. Prohibits in the manufacture
sf beer, such substitutes as may be OBJ
tanned for grain, hops, or malt, and
prohibits adulteration by grape, sugar,
glucose, etc.
No. 80. Provides for enforcement by
New Jersey of the Eighteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution, and provides
a fine of 800 for first conviction, for
selling or transporting liquor within
the State; $500 for second offense, or
Imprisonment not to exceed three
months. Defines intoxicating liquor as
those containing more than 4 per cent
an of alcohol.
Increases from 81 to $3.50 resident
50 to SO the licenses for non-residents.
No. Al. Provides for appointment by
Governor of Board of Examiners to Ii
cense BARRIERS.
No. 40. Authorizes municipal gov
eminent boards to divide municipality
into districts to regulate location of in
dustries therein.
No. As. Places closed season of three
years for quail.
No. 46, by Mr.. White. Makes mis-
demeanor the operation of coin-vending
machines, telephone boxes, etc., and
also makes misdemeanor the manu-
such receptacles.
No. AZ. Fixes annual license fee of
81 for persons engaged in business of
trapping fur-bearing animals
No. 40. Permits taking of suckers
and carp thru ice with nets under SUI
pervision of Fish and Game Warden
No. SO. Requires licensing of cats at
fee of $1.15. Statute is sought by Au-
dubon Society to protect wild fife-
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HOUSE

No. SO. To permit the retirement of
janitorial employees of boards of edu-
cation, upon reaching the age of sixty
years and having been continuously
employed for twenty years in such
service.
No. 81. Amends the procedure act in
criminal cases (Revision of 1888 re-
garding service of a copy of Indictment
and list of the jury and witnesses on
the defendant prior to trial.
No. 38. Regulating fishing with gill
nets in the waters of the Delaware
river and the bay, so as to catch young
croakers destroy oysters.
No. 80. Prevents the dismissal from
office for political reasons, of the Sec
rotary and other clerical assistants of
the board of county taxation.
No. Al. Amendment to the jury law.
1t increases the per diem rate of jurors
from 50 to SO.
No. A. Amends the Civil Service
law to include the Motor Vehicle In
spector; the fish and game wardens and
the district court clerks.
No. As. Supplement to the Election
law, to avoid a possible confusion which
WOulu nave I Chdi5C houoO ~
house to personal registration.
No. 4G. Provides for the extension
of the term of assessors until July LIST
in order to simplify the process of ap-
peal.
No. 4S. Terminates the terms of
office of the present Public Utility
Commissioners ten days after the bill
becomes a law.
No. 40. Creates an elective Board of
Public Utility Commissioners, to take
effect January 1st, 1921. Commissioners
must be thirty years of age and over.
Term, three years. Board to consist of
three members.
No. so. Provides for a temporary
Board of Public Utility Commissioners
to consist of three members, who shall
hold office until their successors are
elected by the people. The Governor
shall make the appointment.
No. 81. Provides for the creation of
a commission to value the property of
public utility corporations, including
the ascertaining of the facts as to the
alleged existence of "watered" stocks
and bonds.
No. So. Amendment to the laws for
the protection of civil rights. 1t
broadens the scope of the law.
No. 54. Amendment to the Public
Schoo law. Its purpose is to increase
the educational requirements. 1t
changes the law to read seven instead
of five years schooling before an officer
is authorized to issue a certificate for
the pupil to go to work.
No. 81. The object is to pay a gra-
tuity to each soldier, sailor, marine
member of the Army, Nurse Corps and
the American Red Cross. 1t has a ref
erendum.
No. So. That NJ person shall sell
feed for cattle in bags to which there
is attache a tag by means of wire, OIL
other metal attachments.
No. SO. 1t gives to tax collectors al
additional method of enforcing IN
payment of benefit assessments Levied
by law.
A. ]. r. No. 1. Authorizing the ap
pointment of a commission to fully in
vestigate the question of a proper ia:
upon and the proper control OF al
motor vehicles licensed by the State
1t carries an appropriation of S2,4O0.
A. C. R. No. l. Ratification of tn
Woman's Suffrage amendment.
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Not liking the idea that New Jersey
proposes to take over many miles of
improved roads and thus curtail the
duties of the county supervisors, the
latter held a meeting in Trenton re-
Gently, and protested the movement.
They formed a permanent organiza-
ton to look after the matter. AS
some of the supervisors have had their
salaries increased beyond what some
people think the work theyhdo is worth
it seems odd they shq protest
against having less to d nth more
pay. But that seems tol khe order
of the day.
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ponulation could not be devised.
Every dispute about boundaries, ports,
navigation, commerce, manufactures,
reparations, self-determination, anna
ments and the like, no matter how
triAing, must be passed upon by Con-
gress, and no American can serve
abroad on any commission except IN
pursuance of an act by Congress.
If Senator Lodge has his way the
President is to be stripped of his con-
stitutional right to direct the foreign
affairs of the country, and hyphenized
politics is to be erected into a perma-
nent institution.-New York World.
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We appear to be the only people on
earth VINO enjoy the rare distinction
of being able to put the finishing
touches to the great war and then can
not make peace after it is done.
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When Penns Groves child's welfare
station is established more a afford
to have babies, since the State pays
for it. If welfare nurses, why not
welfare mothers and fathers paid by
the State.
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Senator Allen, of Salem County,
placed himself on record as being in
favor of woman suffrage when he
voted for the Mackey resolution in the
Senate on Monday night. The resolu-
ton provides for ratification of the wo-
man suffrage amendment. to the Fed
cral Constitution and was carried by
a vote Of 10 to 2.
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The reuniting of the two branches
of the Methodist Church, which be-
came divided over the slavery ques-
ton in 1916, is a happy indication that
the Civil War is gradually nearing its
end. The split came because a bishop
married a wife who had fallen heir to
a slave.
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Ut th6&ufc,o41"ere IN 1aVOf OF Cne
treaty and the League of Nations and
522 were against them, or more than
20 to /.
There were 10,251 in favor of the
treaty without reservations that re-
quire the acceptance of other powers
to 654 against.
Those in favor of the Lodge reser-
walton which require acceptance OF
other powers numbered 757 to 9,67O
against.
Those who were in favor of the
United States assuming the normal
obligations required by Article III OF
the League of Nations Covenant num-
bered 1878 to 681 against.
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Lodge AS A Cd

1t is almost 100 yeae 1assa'
chusetts has had a p S moi
her time come again VIII
can forget the brief mo.
ment when MI. Rd It to
make Mr.. Lodge Is
The ~unfeeling Rel htior
gave no ear to thi The
suspicious hour ID ano
no compromise! eaty
and up with Lo( aust
be a hermit nj ing
watchwords of ted
under this g pus
leadership risi as
clear as moo is
the inevitabl .
-
The Bal t In
fuential Id its
readers t Treaty,
1t receive
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-25
keyboard Touches
Passing al the Trickstcr.
ny FRANK II. BROOKS.

II Is sometimes NECESSARY to adop, Tho a-ro,
Of the sun,s to get full ana quick understand
or born every minute" expresses more In the
sense in which / is used ;han could possibly
, he the ease II the c"ncer,jon were phrnscd in
underworld is less frequent than formerly
iluntly. going back 10 the expression. a sucker
Is not born every minute in this rirnc. TIL. bic
pecunt !ons ~ today are practiccd by those who
are equal in the game. or. one swndler sue
ceeds over one who is his superior in shrewd-
man or several engage in big transaction
with others both sides know that there is more
n ninc cases ,"Ci OF ten the defeated remain
silent tec&us" the unsuccessful know they tried
70 do 10 the winners what tho winners did TO
day is ha-d trap. The l.ttie swindicr is more
APT 10 uAd:rest innate the countrymnn's smart
mess than the big swindlcr IS to underestimate
II he exists, comes into the city with a largely
ae:eiopcd bump OF caution. II anything. he is
,oaaH ny thrcc-card gam" the incident would
nc worth = column in the morning paper. The
Slarper who used 10 make big liauls in that
way arc SO seldom as 10 he rarely
.hisiii clothes arc not apt 10 prompt the
Sharpe 70 try his tricks t:ilorInudc suits
The latter arc more easily hnmboozlcd If they
are looking for easy money than the man who
has the appearance OF gail. You have. 10 show
INC Gully or today before he puts rs fingers in
pside themselves on knowing what is n r:dAc
thing. who arc more easily persuaded to-iako a
nter in foundry feather stock" than tho man
a smart Neck Of he city TO bite :, ra;tai; file
ny !ai't representations than it is to induce
one Who IS mistaken for smoker" to sample
q naccc or restaurant ne. The cheap skin.
Samc man knows all this. 10 has quit the
Toad or has Quit iisi,ms for gudscons. He has
stIH' ana he looks FOR il among others wh1.
are rs s!'lrp as he Is lis cheap tricks and the
days when the sucker biz once he ouIt. ' Never YER
again for him, the city sucker never got enough.
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Health Talks by Dr.. VIM. Brady
TIC High Cost or Slcknes.-yJ1L
ENtraHagnnt Mouth Toilet.
Copyright. 1870. by National Hcwspapee S.rvie.

-, The most competent dental authorities assure
os m theTo is no need OF using any chemical
aSd s0me Of them ieea that tho habtnai use
septes to destroy tho cca the an1
Grnnse Of the mouth and thus open tho Way for
WIZ Which is too often ignored or rorEotten even
d. u.s. harm nano IS o 5n g germ in the
ne structure the tissues OF the mouth that
not Heees saF US p nX hnn Tners to
The eayitS o Ssr tns by means ansee
nia, remedy presccd BY doctor or acme spe TO
say tho least 10 make habltua,e NJ to
teeth S"''S'p''e~ Interpretations for cleaning tho
of tno a0 a my e sSe,h highS
Ing the hardest thing nst-bofore wouId sacri
plain 0a SOAP o. mS e ! saa sda Gs my part
aH's e @aa o shTo osH M,n the
arc largely soap anywiS '''' :fo''' l'''s''s
When sou decide TO- call q doctor to attend
some enc in your family you naturally want
can find. liow about the care Of yor icc yG9
feel fec sHu Sc r. in for The 1arsan dentists: YOU
sood dentistry? Do YOU imagine that YOU save
anything ,ara by skimpins this important mat
IN Ntarly every, town, nowadays has good dom
Without that Wholly persan e ronanSs
w ~ is Indispensable in safe dentistry or in
telis you about himself nor do they piacc comb IL
i ms own name; Why should this wise prccau.
tia. the dental work. which seems so chcaS
n "S !YYb i Tie fc Kind Of work hSh stofs up
ri ai E Srs OF systemic His in later years
hu: i icas, in The lonc r n9nilTN x
i% whose health is Of no import;;nc cmic
bargain dentistry. ~ 't' ~
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Voice of the People
81, Eettsrs must give the name nnd nddres. Of
~. mrme.. Name VIII not be published II writer
Surprising Ignorance.

90 me Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Associated Press reports OF Tho mas.
Mcck convey the news that some oc the Euro.
p'ah freliicrs, notably Nitti, OF rtalv rxr-css
t 10 az President Wilson's a;tcmni TO
,h me policy or program to ic pursued bv
re ententc allies with reference to the Control
o. inc seaport OF Fiumc and The Ndria-ic nrri,
~ MN IN European affairs. in the llrh; Of his
c*it!'raic! rs to the execution of Inc !. I'M <
q ne Versailles world peace ,caruc .rc,t,.
HothinS could do our president -rcntc- in i,s j..
.ic, man thiS hasclcSs charge that bctrays an
ptiihG ne ignorance on tho par; Of ,h.s. Euro.
n'nh n'eh-ihuck- -InucnS concerning the ma d.
iui" o, our government. in that they do no,
poWCE. uhdcrl our Constitution 10 either ar-
ccpt or reject a treaty submitted 70 il 6v our.
tt.ct magistrate. az he IS compelled taf do by
tnat provision OF our nationa! organic, law ,bn.
inc president ca only make treaties with for
eoSa nations by and With the advice and con
-, Wis" i,f, has done the bes, in his powcA and
~. that ono !norta! man could do to obtain
raiiication of tho world peace leayu,! treaty b.
cSt!E anu !nSessantiy 10 effect this darling OH
!cci OF mis- heart mako him an invaljd
from some time in last September until This
month. ''' ''''"
-Nny rcproach ot President who stands
iacl.e prihcepS Snong contemporary states
mon Q. INC entire carth,~ for and OH account
81 me remissncss of our government in refer
rSatE or Versailles, exhibits gross and sur
prisi.s ignorance on the part OF his caIumna
TORS and puts cenSurc where properly belongs
only INC highest tncom!um.
, w. ID. PATTERSON
iioWarls'iic, Va, February 80. 1920