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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

The report of n medical expert that
devotion TO the ouija board is increas-
ing insanity merely emphasizes the
sinister pathological aspect Of super
stltion.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

There must be something feminine
about the labor group that glorifies the
bolsheviLi. inasmuch as the bolsheviki
promise labor nothing but ensavement
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

One advantage In buying potatoes by
the pound is that their price per bushel
thus remains mercifully hidden from
you.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

The supposed new comet discovered
ut Nice turns out TO be an old one
Perhaps. ms harbingers of war. the
comet force is running short and has
10 work on repeated shifts.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

IL the railroads ask Al per cent
freight raise TO take care Of the wage
advance. the pu3'ic will-Oh well,
you've heard Ii all before
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

Now that trade has been reopened
the best thing Russia can import from
America Is a constitution and bill o.
rights.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

So far as Martens Is concerned the
soviet government Is a success. There
never appears 10 be n moment when
he IS not enjoying himself.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

The king Of Belgium is going to
cross the Atlantic again. but this time
he will visit the United States OF Bra
I'll. He seems partial TO nations whose
name begins that way.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

There's one consolation, the modern
names given some diseases and the In
struments 10 detect and measure them
are really the worst part of Ii.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

Bolshevism cannot improve with
age.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

One good thrashing would teach the
bolshevtsts lesson and drive them
back to the holes from which they
came.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

Whether the excess profits tax is the
cause or excuse for high prices makes
little change in the rough current Of
the consumers agitated life.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

What the nation needs Is fewer men
with something up their sleeves and
more with sleeves rolled up their arms
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

Have you dropped in on a sugar
dealer OF late and found him singing
sweet and low?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

The pedestrian has no rights that
the reckless motor driver will respect.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

but Ii Is often dangerous, as romance
is likely To be.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

You cannot interest man in poll
tics when his collar is wilted ind per-
SEPARATION dampens his brow
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

What quiet campaign Ii would be
IL IL were not for people who are eat
ing corn on the cob.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

The return of warm weather enables
one TO keep his mind off the hole
where the coal pile ought TO be.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

The overall fad has been succeeded
by the none-at-all craze.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

The world Is facing n dark outlook
Even brunettes are again 10 become
the fashion.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

bridegroom suicide.
Invariably the opinion of his bachelor
friends.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

Avoid the tempting country pump
and spring IL you would escape
typhoid.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

War calls for war substitutes, but II
calls principally for a substitute for
war.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

Lemons are reported as cheap. at
present particularly political lemons.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

1t Is pity that the man with time to
kill cannot make it ragtime
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

Bay rum still leads In the race of
toilet water drinks.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

Poland fears not only the soviet
armies. but the theories they feed on.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

Always remember that your healtl
Is about your greatest asst.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15
Valuable knowledge.

Valuable knowledge.
$50 you have become convinced that
a boy really learns something Of value
at college?"
'You bet. Why. my boy came home
last month. and he had learned to play
poker SO well thai he's already got all
my cash and mortgage on the store"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

The rent profteer has no conscience.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14
THE HALL OF pIsFAME

From the New York Tribune.
Since the conscientious ObjcctorS are TO
have dinner in their honor, why not
monument as we'll? Various plans will be
presented. We suggest Hall OF pisfame
as the most comprehensive and fitting me-
mortal.
The great hall could contain the name OF
every objcctor whom Mr.. Baker treated with
such special courtesy. The white feather
would offer natural theme in the archi :.
tectural detail: the color scheme would, OF
course, be yellow. Among the mural dccora- :
tions would be n picture Of young Mr.. Berg
doll digging for treasure in the hills Of
we forget just where; but the bcnignant
smile of warm hearted Mr.. Baker would be
presiding over the occasion. Those partic-
ulary precious young gentlemen who got not
only courtesy but clothes and cash from Mr..
Baker upon their discharge could be shown
marching away In pride. We could not
dream Of insulting Mr.. Rintelcn by including
him In n slackers mcmorial--hc was spy
who did his job we'll But the extraordinary
kindness and gentlcness granted him by the
administration suggests that a small bust of
him might be included as an example of Mr..
Bakers alert efforts to save the enemy from
needless Inconvenience.
The main statuary should be simple. At
one end we see Mr.. Baker in marble, dove
alightcd upon either shoulder, and gesture
Of polite rebuke directed toward IL cannon s
mouth at his feet Facing him. and at some
distance, II statue of a crippled soldier still
waiting for his vocational training would be
ample.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14
TROUBLES OF VOLSTEADERS

VOC would have to go far to find a more
i difficult and trying task than that which
the federal government has allotted to agents
charged with the practical enforcement Of
the dry laws. There is good ground for the
recent assertion of one such officer that only
the hardest Of NOlstcadcrs can survive for
long with steady nerves. good health and a
normal code of ethics.
A dry agent arrested for drunkenness is
described in the news reports as having bcCn
Severely ccnsurpd by Magistrate Carney"
Naturally, prohibition agent wnyCring
drunk is n spectacle to move any magistrate
to sounding rlolu"nc". But who will find
hooch proof agents for the government?
The agents have to drink a lot of evidence
II they do not wish to be- laughed out of court
by shrewd attorneys for the bootlcggorS. who
have n habit of asking how they knew that
the stuff they saw in the bottles wasn't tea.
y The experience of tn" enforcement men
proves Conclusivrly that tho liquor traffic
will have to be regulated at the sourCc--at
the bonded warehouses;. in the wholesale
markets at the diStilcries and among the
moonshncrs-- rather than only in tn" places
where the small retailers thrive and flourish.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14
A DREAMER COMES HOME

DLITIfE and swrctly vocal as a robin of
ID spring Washington u. VandcrIip
landed in New York with the famous Satchpl
filled with Russian concessions. To the
dazcd reporters he told all
Lcnines sovictS need locomotives. motor
cars. farm implements. medical supplies.
shoes and manufactured articles Of all sorts
They want to buy $4,000 600 600 worth of
these things in IN" United Statrs--with
the money Of American investors Mr. Van
derlip has undertaken to get the money to
gethcr And as security III" Sovirl> have.
so to speak hooked largo part uf ice
bound Siberia to tho imaginative American
With the Goa, and ores and oils to be OBJ
tanned there. NandCrlr hoprs to return
enormous profits to investors in his scheme.
1t sounds well enough until Mr. Wander.
lip talks in specific terms. Lond"n he OBJ
serves. Is noisier with talk of revolution than
Moscow. Bolshrvism has been a failure.
A republican form of government will fol
low the Red regime and with it will runr-
what do you suppose: Nationalizcd iniUS-
tries and nationalizcd resources We have
Mr.. vanderip's word for that And We
are TO suppose that the tender hearted Rus.
SLAMS when they seize md natiOnali2c all
other sources of supply in Russia will per-
nit vanderlip and his associates to 60 on
dixs.ng riches out Of Siberia in return for
goods that by that time will bc worn out and
forrottpn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14
A CHILD PRODIGY

.NLIVE SCIIREINER, who has just died.
~ was not exploited as child PRODIGY
when her STORY Of an African Farm was
published more than twenty five wears ago
Yet she was much more of a prodigy than
those to whom the attention of the world
has been directed in recent months.
The book which gave her fame is not an
.infaptile tale of adventur" nor is il the rc
actions of a youthful mind to the wonders
and mystery Of nature 1t is the story Of
IN. development Of soul and it, cmanci
nation from the trammeIS Of an ancient
theory of mans origin and destiny. And
a was written when Miss Schreincr was
about eighteen years old. II she had been
twenty Ave or thirty her achievement would
ave been less remarkable, though it would
.uuu then have been worthy Of the attention
Saich Il received and is still receiving
er IA girl. the daughter Of a missionary
N South Africa, to write in that faraway
region a book which commanded the atten-
ton and respect of mature men and women
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14
PERILs OF WHooPINo COUGH

TAR. FUFBU SII'S warning against the
~ perils Of whOoping cough is timely Few
parents realize the serious nature of the
disease, and they allow their afflicted children
to go about tho streets and oven to the
movie shows. Yet they would not think Of
permitting child with scarlet fever to
p,ingle with other children, if they knew it
had the disease.
4 WhoopinG cough. however. kills moro
children than scarlet fcvr2. Or Furbush
says that during the last three years there
have been four times MS many deaths from
II In this city as from scarlet fever.
1t is a duty which parents owe to their
neighbors. as well as 10 their own children,
to prevent children with 'whooping cough
from mixing with other "hildr"u
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

to the Sixty ninth street terminal, the yearly
patronage would probably increase to 3O,-
OOO, 900 and Mr.. Mitten's estimate Of rolling
stock would be no more than sufficient.
An extra charge for transfer or ex-
change from feeding surface lines would
probably alter all these figures.
Therefore, for the city to issue an order
for car construction without definitely
knowing the operating conditions would be
foolish.
lease would unlock these riddles. But
the manufacture of such key waits upon
adjustment of claims by the city and the
transit company. The municipality Is rightly
chary of authorizing burdcnsomc concessions.
The annals Of Philadelphia transit are
darkcncd by such surrcndcrs. some of which
are responsible for the present thorns in
the path of improvement. Chief among
them Is the pyramding of the T.. X. T. fixed
charges by the underlying companies, which
charges have to be met before the manage
ment can obtain the dimmCst view of profit.
To accept offhand the conditions outlined
by Mr. Mittcn is to rush into obligations
that cannot be too carefully analyzed
Enabling legislation rendering the way of
lease makers easier would undoubtedly be
step forward. Harrisburg can contribute
potently to an untangng of many existing
snarlS. In his year Of administration Mayor
Moore. beset by problems of monumental
proportions, has enunCiated no definite
transit policy. Sooner or later one must be
forthcoming.
Naturally. compromises must be employed
to destroy the deadlock. Unless each inter
cstcd party recognizes this fact Philadelphia
will continue to have an elevated railway
three -fourths completed and o north south
subway consisting of an expensive station
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadephans Subjects They
Kno,U Best

TO come downtown and to leave the stores at
different hours from those persons who daily
come to work and leave their places of bust
ness at the same time. There is no reason
why the housewife cannot pick her time and
in the afternoon when all the clerks and
salespeoplc and the other thousands in Offices
are leaving work to go home.
I'VE aim to be as courteous as possible to
the Christmas crowds and to their credit
be it said that they are the happiest and
easiest to get along with crowds of the
year. Every one Is jolly and It is too bad
when social pariahs. men who live by taking
from others. are able to destroy this happi
ness which is In the very air by theft and
crime. Unfortunate 1t is. too, when through
carcessness some child becomes lost to al
anguished mother or when a wife or mother
is run down on the street By reckless drivers
ut is up to every one to do his part to
help himself"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14
What Do You Kno,U?


l. Name two families which gave to the
United States more than one President
each.
noted?
3. on what river is the csty OF Cork
situated?
4. What Is tho meaning of the word elee-
mosynary?
8. How often does the century plant bloom /?
g. What planet is surrounded by luminous
rings?
Z Who IL the present secretary of labor?
g. Where did the original Philistines live?
8. Who was John Sleeper Clarke?
TO- What IL Cassava?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

/. Bunyans Pilgrims Progress" and Sir
Walter Raleigh's incompleted History
OF the World" were written in prison
@ A heptarchy Is government by seven
rulers.
3. A coati Is an American carnivorous ami
NAL resembling ciVet or raCcoon. IL
has long flexible snout,
4, Morbidezza In painting Is lifelike deli
cacy In flesh tints.
g. Bcnares, on the Ganges, Is the especially
sacred citv OF India
g. The moraine Is the sandy deposit and
debris carried down by glacier.
Z James Role IL the present lord mayor
of London,
g. Mr.. is an abbreviation of mister. a cor
ruptiol OF master,
8. Arizona u the most recent state In the
American Union. 1t was admitted on
February IA. 1919.
10. The middle name Of II. q. Wells Is
George.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

skilled in dialectics and learned in matters
of philosophy and religion is much more re.
markable than for Daisy Ashford to reveal
a Chid's views of life in "The Young Wis.,
tiers" The one Is serious contribution to
the thought of the time. The other is mere
burlesque, amusing for few months. to be
forgotten when some other novelty appears.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

The Civic Club. in line with it's plan
to think up something that will benefit the
city, il now studying street paving. Spite
of harsh criticisms of certain philosophical
highway inspectors, good intentions are ex-
ceilcnt paving material when mixed with
something concrete.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

A Bloomsburg Pa. farmer IL said to
have huskcd corn for thirty minutes at the
rate of two bushels Minute. The husky
farmer, says the husky-cr-cOrrespond
sometimes had eight ears in the air at once,
Two Of them-long ones-were perhaps the
ears Of the vcracious scribe. F
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

1t Is suggested that n fund be created
for sick. wounded and disabled soldiers from
voluntary contributions from recipients of
the New York state soldiers bonus who are
not in financial need; an excellent sugges-
ti0n, as far Ns 1t goes bur n roundabout
and Indifferent way Of YerfJruins u I,auI.pst
duty. ...... ae
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

Millerand has abolished the kiss in
France AZ a part Of ceremonial affairs such
as besto' ling the Ribbon of Honor; rcaliza-
ton at last that u kiss with two mustaches
has altogether too much salt for any egg.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

The shock coming to Calvin Coolidge
when he goes house hunting in Washington
may cause contrite Uncle Sam to realize
that If he must bury man he ought at least
to provide him with tomb.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

The public will look with more favor on
"more liberal credits for farmers when the
money il needed for work to be done rather
than to tide them over until they can get
higher prices for stored wheat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

II the United States Senate (unexpect-
edly) passes the Johnson immigration bill
perhaps the unemployed in the cities will 20
to work on the farms. And perhaps not.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

Ambrose Sherman, a local fireman, who
four times gave his blood to save the life of
others, is dead as result of his self
sacrifice but the lesson OF unselfshncSs he
taught still lives.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

Perhaps more sympathy would now he
extended to western farmers, who face loss
through falling wheat prices, If we hadn't
been treated to 50 many stories Of agricnI,
tural prosperity during the last couple of
years. Why squeal over a lean year after
so many fat ones?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

In the matter of the p. r. Il. under
lying companies, though the Superior Court
makes distinctions they do not appear to
have settled differences.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

II debate between a girls team and
boys team doesn't end In a victory for the
girls it isn't fair and that's all there is
about it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

Our firm conviction Is that the Mayor
would rather be right than Presidents ad-
wiser.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

The man who pays five cents apiece for
stewed prunes deserves to cat 'em.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

Publication now confirms the general
opinion that Bismarck's opinion of Kaiser
Wilhelm was unfit for publication.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

Uncle Sans insistence on the equal
rights Of all nations will insure every dog
having his day on the Island of zap.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

Outlining Harding's policy is still
Washington's favorite indoor sport.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

The Great American Hen apparently
has not yet learned that prices are coming
down.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

John Bull sometimes has the notion that
he could bottle the spirit OF unrest IL 1t
wasn't for the Cork.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

Add Jay Walking-Every time we ex-
pect j. Frost to strike his gait j. Pluvius
comes ambling along.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

Viscount Ishii, who says Japan cannot
stop building warships until America sets the
example. should remember what happens to
people who live beyond their meanG.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

Who wants one hundred dollars? asks
our Limerick sharp. Lets answer him with
another: Who doesn't?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

What the Frankford "L" problem ap-
pears to need is an uncommon deviser of
ways and means to get speedy action.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

There are thirty thousand busy little
nav envelope handlers in Washington who
are unaltcrably opposed to tax revision
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

The middle ground between the pro-
lcagucrs and the bitter cnders that Senator
Harding IN seeking may prove a quagmire.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14
HOG ISLAND


MO MORE tn" stretching incandcsccnt
~ blaze,
burning silver arc across the might.
Tall dNrricks idle through unchanging davs
With naught but memories Of the snIonJii
fight
One fancips il these idle ways could droor,
They'd yearn for eager artisans who
swirlpd
About the shaping huIIs, toilng stroor,
Who flung their answer half across tbo
world
To-day their ships are on the misty lanes
on the dim Orkncys and at SingnDore
Stcaming to Rio through the tropic rains
Or slipping past some ustraasan shore
Across the lonely flats the tall WAYS loom
Dull timbers etched against the sunset
skies;
A steamers siren cuts the deepening gloom
While through the roadside weeds the
night wind Sighs.
Thomas j. Murray in the N. Y. Tribune.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14
SHORT CUTS

Rhetoric Is seldom a peace maker.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

MIR. SCHWAB is n. sort of modern
1fl Napoleon. This comparison contcm-
plates his power to make Industrial marShals
and steel kings of his associates and sub.
ordinate
Napoleon made marshals Of France on
the field; Schwab made them out of the
mill yards, rolling mills and heating de-
partmcnts Of his industrial empire.
All of his licutcnantS are hand rickcd
All of them came up from the lowest rungs
of the ladder
Here's another one:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-14

In tho meantime work upon the Frank.
ford II" has proceeded and, considering
the rmbarrassments Of the war period.
progrcSs has not been dScrcdit0blr The
structure is completed from Calowhill street
Ia Bridge street, Frankford About 60 per
cent Of the Who'll" trackage exists. but the
rails nrc not yet placed in condition for
service The ontirc equipment, every fea
ture Of it--Signal apparatus, power sub
stations. cnrs--is lacking.
oddly enough tn" money TO finish the line
is available covered by bonds Rnt there
is no connection between tho elevated and
philadcIphia' s sole subway, and no prcsCrip.
tion has been made about the route or plnn
of operation.
II the service il to stop at Arch street it
is clear that Mr.. Mitten'S program of 100
cars is excessive II is estimated that the
Fronkford line in the isolated state would
carry about 10000. ono passengers yearly
and that sufficient accommodation could be
found in thirty or forty carr.
II the acutcly desirable thing is done and
the cars are run through from Bridge street