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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-03-12

Oh Flu, Oh Flu!
Thour't nearly thru
We little rue
To say adieu
To thee oh Flu
Tax reports too
With absolutely no apologies
to Bill or any other of those
benighted hasbeens.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19

WHEN Roosevelt and Taft rode
w up Pennsylvania avenue on
March 4, 1909, 1t was the first time
since Jackson and Van Buren, had
passed that way side by side, more
than 70 years before, that a retiring
president would not have preferred an
other seat mate and successor than the
one whom the fortunes of politics
had thrust upon him.
Roosevelt alone selected his success
or.
Naturally, everyone assumed that we
were to have a Roosevelt admin
istration by another name, and it was
expected In the campaign that the
ex-president would not go farther
away from the White House than
Oyster Bay. Instead, he plunged into
the depths of Africa.
The fate of William Howard Taft
would be pathetic if he himself had
not met it and borne it with a smile.
He was ADLER, more upright, more
Independent than some far more sue
cessful presidents. But by bent and
training he was a judge. and the
White House is no place for judge.
AS lawgiver and governor Of
Manila, Taft had won the confidence
of his oriental subjects, and rather
than desert his post, before his task
was finished, he sacrificed the dearest
ambition of his life. In a year and
a half Roosevelt had him In his cab
met as secretary of war-and soon
had him in his eye for the presidency.
Roosevelt had the weakness Of his
strength. He thought he was strong
enough to make a president. But
real presidents are born, not made.
The moment Roosevelt was gone
the standpatters, the reactionary
forces, emerged from their seven and
one-half years in the cyclone cellar
The moment the political broncho felt
the tenderfoot On its back, 1t bucked
and threw Taft from the seat Of leader
ship. The next thing the rank and
file of Republicans knew, the party
was slipping back into the old ru'
| from which Roosevelt had jerked Il
when first he laid upon it his master
full hand.
But the people refused to go back
Eight months after Taft's Inaugural
ton, the election of 1909 sounded
clear warning of the disaster tina
overwhelmed the party in the congress
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19
BANDITS LOOT UTAH BANK.
Rifle Deposit Boxes of Bank at St.
George, Taking $4,000.

st. George, Utah.-Sometime Satur'
day night burglars entered the Bank
of st. George, opened safety deposit
boxes and tried to force the vault and
escaped with Liberty bonds and securi'
ties estimated hastily, it is said, at
$1,000.
Entrance was gained by cutting wire
from a rear screen and jumping
through a transom.
Some residents of the city, aroused
during the night, have reported to the
authorities that they saw two men
leave the bank premises and go west
in a Ford touring car at an early hour
Sunday morning.
Further west on the road which goes
to Caliente, others reported that the
car contained but one man. Search
ers who who out for some distance
along the road in an automobile found
papers and non-negotiable securities
which had apparently been thrown
from the fleeing car.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19

n New York.--A paper-clogged fIue,
which caused smoke to fill the Cath,
.arine theater, motion picture house
LIN the east side Italian quarter, raised
"a cry of fire late Sunday and in the
&ensuing panic six tots, between the
ages of to 10 years, were trampled
Ito DEATH Twelve others were serious
Fly injured.
The little theater was crowded to
scapacity. Children filled most of the
300 seats, for the hero of the picture
was an Italian lad who rose from
humble surroundings like theirs to
riches and fame. The youngsters were
absorbed in the progress of the screen
hero, when smoke began to seep
through the cracks of the theater
floor.
my God, it's a fire" This shout
came from an elderly woman who
gathered little one under her arm
| and ran for the nearest exit. Immedi-
ately loud walls arose, children be
gan to cry. They jumped from their
seats, jammed the aisles and fought
for passage. The lights flickered out.
Youthful cries attracted many resi-
dents of the Italian neighborhoOd
\ Camille Bruille, who sells bananas
from a push cart on the Bowery, dart
ed into the theater and attempted tc
shout down the cries. Failing, he car
ried more than fifteen tots to safety
then collapsed, overcome by smoke.
Some one sounded a fire alarm
Many were overcome by Smoke, bu
soon revived.
Frantic women and men, learning o
the disaster, crowded before the little
theater, at this time guarded by police
and sought news of their children.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19

s,onal election of 1910, and which all
Int destroyed it in the presidential
election of 1912.
According to a story that was told
of Taft. a curious stranger asked a
gatekeeper at the Union station in
washington where he would stand the
host chance of seeing the presi-
SoDt In the few spare hours that he
had between trains. Right where
Won are" was the reply. Hes al
ways either taking train or getting
off of one"
Taft was the first president to draw
+ho present salary of $4,000. Con-
gress had also adopted, two years De-
Fore he came In, the custom of allow
inp $4,000 yearly for the travelling
oxnanses of the president, and he De
came the great presidential traveller
making record of 10000 miles IN
four wears, as he went ABOUT 1ne,
country appealing for reversal Oh
ths verdict against his administrator
Tn vain he strove to turn back the tue
which only sported with him.
After having elected him by LOO
oon plurality, the people parted with
re. more IN sorrow than In anger
r,sar ana not question that he was 8
.aoS nres,dent, but that is a secondary
Consideration. A president must "
srst Of ala q politician and ieaue1'
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19

dement's of almost every president
while he remains the central figure Of
partisan strife. "a statesman is a
politician who is dead" said Thomas
B. Reed.
In this age Of ours, when men are
going to school to learn business and
farming and all manner of vocations,
it was natural that there should appear
In the White House man like Wood
row Wilson, who had learned politics
in the classroom rather than in the
wardroom. The eighth of our Virginia
born presidents-in reality he is not
a Virginian, but the son of an Ohio
clergyman and of an English mother
was a student or teacher of the sci
ence, or rather the art of governing for
80 years before he held a political
office.
That fact was left out of their reck-
oning by the Democratic bosses Of cor
rupt, machine-ruled New Jersey when
they summoned the president of Prince
| ton university from the golf links one
afternoon in the fall Of 1910 to receive
the nomination for governor. When
| this supposed novice in politics de-
| clared, as he fioundered through what,
as he had to own up, was his first po-
litical speech, that if elected governor
he would govern, the politicians nudged
one another and laughed in their
sleeves at the idea of professor try
ing to run their machine. They laugh
ed out loud when they saw him actual
ly sit down in the governors chair and
begin to play politics out of a book.
OF all things, it was book which he
himself had written in his youthful
school days merely as thesis for his
Ph,D. at Johns Hopkins. The young
graduate-student made the discovery
that our Constitution created a vac
uum. which the bosses had rushed in
to fill.
! Alas, popular leadership is neither
n science nor an art that can be taught
out of a book.
Where other leaders of our democ'
jracy have appealed to the. emotions, he
Is one of the least electric, least dra'
matte of our presidents, with no anec'
dotes to popularize him, with no leg
ends of his youth or myths about his
political career to yitalize him to the
general Imagination. He owes his va
rfous successes at the polls to the colo
llogic Of the political situation and little
to his popularity. His academic aloof
ness from politics. at time when pol
iticiuns had fallen into disfavor, made
him the available man Tor governor In
: 1910. As a candidate for president, h,
: ran a poor second to Champ Clark IL
; the popular primaries of 1912. He wa
: nominated at Baltimore only after 4
, ballots, and then only as result o
Bryan's overthrow of the steam roller
And he was elected by the division o
{ the Republicans between Roosevelt ant
Taft. though he received smaller vot
, than the Democrats had polled II
three past elections
1t is the tragedy Of Woodrow WI
i sons nature that when the element
!. were mixed in him, magnetism was de
! MED him, that lodestone which draw
! the hearts of men. The head has bee
, the powerhouse of his leadership.
Copyright. 1890 by James Morgan)
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19

NEITHER Woodrow Wilson nor
~ his administration has yet pass
ed into history, whose judgment on
them 1t would be folly to try to fore
tell. Nevertheless, much of the record
Of the presidency is made up and
closed, and may be summarized at
least, although 1t is perhaps foolhardy
to venture into the flames of passions
that blind men alike to the merits and
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19
Widow and Son Held for Murder.

Springfield, Mo.-Mrs, Mary McCor-
mick, widow of John Mccormick
farmer, whose body was found in an
abandoned well near Monnett, Mo-, ana
their 15-year-old son, Sheridan are
held in Jail at Cassville on indictments
charging first-degree murder.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19
soolaIlst. Win send peIeaates.

Chicago.-The Socialist party OF the
United States has announced 1t would
send a delegate to the internationai
conference ut Berne, Switzerland, call
ed by the Socialist parties of England,
Germany and Switzerland.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19
Joy for Edward.

Mary Louise, seeing little Edward
with five bright pennies in his hand,
put her chubby arms around his neck
and said: Lets play house"
Smiling her very sweetest, she said:
Now, I'll be the mamma, and you be
the papa, and we'll play this is your
pay day."
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19
Discuss HOUSING Problem.

Omaha.-Business men testitylng
before United States Senator W. ID.
Calder of New York, chairman of the
senate committee on reconstruction,
expressed the opinion that housing
conditions here would improve If more
money were available for loans.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19
Eruptions of the Skin
Cause TOrturOus Itching

orders, because it is such a thor
oughly satisfactory blood purifier.
It cleanses the blood of all tmpurl-
ties, and thus counteracts the ef-
fects of the germs that attack the
skin
Begin taking SIS. today, and II
Won will write a complete history
of your case, our medical adviser
will give you expert advice without
charge. Address Chief Medical Ad-
wiser, 158 Swift Laboratory, ATTAIN
Ia, Ga.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19
Volcano in Action.

San Salvador.-The volcano lzalco'
in Salvador is throwing out torrents
of lava, but no seismic disturbances
are accompanying the eruptions. Great
quantities of smoke and ashes also
are issuing from the crater of San
Miguel, another Salvadorean volcano.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19

II you are afflicted with any
form of skin disorder, you are well
acquainted with the flaming, burn
ing itching that these diseases pro-
duce.
skin diseases are caused by an
fmpurity or disorder in the blood,
and there is no real and genuine
relief within your reach until such
impurities are removed.
SIS. has given great satisfac-
ton in the treatment Of these dis
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19
Santa Claus Ship for oaImatia.

Washington.-A Santa Claus ship Is
going from America to Dalmatia. 1t
will be furnished by the navy depart
ment and the cargo which is to de-
light the kiddies of the Asiatic sea
country will be supplied by the Amer
lean Junior Red Cross.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19

Boston.-Because of the fuel short
age, naval vessels equipped with OIL
burning engines were ordered on Fri
day to reduce their speed. Economy
in consumption was enjoined in the
order by Secretary Daniels as recelv-
ed here.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19
sovlet Eorees Make Gain.

Paris.-The Russian soviet FORCES
have won control of the Isthmus Oh
Perekop, leading to the Crimean pen
Ursula and the situation of Generai
Baron Wrangel. the anti-holsheVlk
commander in the Crimea, is bad,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19
Appalling Thought.

What a miserable old world this
would be If retribution were dealt out
to each of US according to our fool
deserts.-Hamilton Herald.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19

Nothing so upsets the even tenor of
a woman's ways as the insinuation
that her hat isn't on straight.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-11-19
MOVIE PATRONS ARE
TRAMP Pied TODEATH
FALSE FIRE CRY COSTS SIX LIVES
IN EAST SIDE THEATRE
INtNEW YORK.

paper.cIogged Flue Causes Smoke to
Fill the Playhouse, Children Being
Crushed Under Foot by Stronger
Ones Who Rush From Building.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-02-05

EENSsEa.se y = ,AsfbtN
What did they DO to help the
president OF the United states during
b war !? What did they do to en-
courage the mothers who. gave their
to their country? What did they
do to help the boys whoswent over to
France to die, II need be, for their
country? There never4Mas q word
of sympathy flor the mothers. never
q wordSo o. sympathy or c6fIinendAtion
for the boys whoSswents: to tho front"
He declared that the league lead
ers, through their SocialisttcSs propa-
ganda, were undermining the very
things to which we point with pride.
He closed with aspleA to unite the
forces SO that they could redeem the
state. All men have a duty to per-
form, he said. and they should per-
form it thoroughly. He urged them
to forget personal prejudices and diff
ferences and get together In the fight
to rid tho state Of Townleyism.
The report and Recommendations OF
the executive committee follow:
Statement OF Executive Committee.
Consistent with our duties Is
members Of the state executive COM
mfttee of the Independent Voters
association we feel that a brief state
AlA011e " lIto dI sLne ANNUAL
meeting may be in order.
When the Independent Voters'
association was launched asa state
wide organization At Bismarck on
January 90. 1919. the organization
had but little back OF it, or in 1t, ex-
cept a determination to build an or
g~anization that should become q fac
tor in the task of preserving in our
state the heritage which has been
handed down to us from u fore.
fathers. a.
The founders Of the I. v. A. re.
garded the following fundamentals
as cornerstones of popular govern.
on which to build an organization.
Principles Of i. v. A.
There must be individual honesty
and integrity in public and private
life.
There must be political liberty
with a system of elections that would
give every one the right to cas- his
ballot without fear of punishment al
the hands OF enemies, or fear Of los.
ing favors from friends.
The individual should have tn.
right to acquire own and operate
property as ones private belonging
according to merit and capacity, ant
to enjoy the pleasures and comfort
of life according to ones own thrift
diligence and, desires
Methods now employed in tn.
manufacture, production and distr1
button of the necessities of life shoult
be improved on and not upset.
The Christian religion with it
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-02-05
y. A. MEMBERS
Plan STATES ATT: s
REDEMPTION
tcontinued from Pare ~.


~. a. were all to the good" ana that
&ney would do the state and the ma
ION a service in rescuing the state
AIoHl the Socialistic group which has
a1neG control Of the state machinery
and spread its insidious doctrine ~
Socialism"
n ms response, Vice President Mel
son spoke OF the fact that the. mem.
toers OF the Independent Voters asso-
raation were OF the common men OF
shegstate, the men who had settled and
lNereloped tho state. He said that
FNnat they did in this convention
YOU'D ne a mighty force for good
throughout North Dakota a..
Redeem State.
\, Your deliberations here today will
ne 2 great factor" he said, "in what
We are doing to redeem the state
T.. lie congratulated the city OF Grand
prks upon the fact that It was rep
ssented at the state legislature by
Two such men as O.. B. Burtncss and
=. X. T. O'Connor. He paid q high
tribute to both men for their work
IN the legislature, and said they made
u record. that every one in the state
sis proud Of.
He said the Independent Voters
lthe state. was Interested in every
movement that would aid the farmer
9fand enhance the value Of state and
produce greater returns from the soil.
kHe spoke of the first Nonpartisan
league meeting he attended. It was
an the early days Of the organization,
,tand he realized from the start. that il
himply was an organization to put
GLASS against class. They pretended
no Infer the fo rr,nru rnlfoP <u--~
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-02-05
Renews Fight Against
Waste OF Paper By
Federal Government

Washington. Feb. 5.-Renewing
his charges of an enormous waste Of
print, paper by. executive departments
of the federal government, Senator
Smoot told the senate today that
from July l.. 1915. to last July IS. 3d.
144.362 copies Of speeches made, by
cabinet officials and other persons
were printed and distributed through
the mails at a total cost of $442,00O.
Senator Smoot said this not only was
a waste Of paper, but an "abuse of
the public's money" and a wicked
practice" that should be stopped i'm
mediately in view of the serious print
paper situation.
The treasury department alone. he
said, had 25.066, 900 copies of speech
es, requiring 1886 pounds of pa
per, printed and distributed. while
the railroad administration had g.
O55.5oo copies of speeches made by
William G. McAdoo while director
genera Of railroads. and other per
sons, printed. one million copies OFF,
speech made by Mr.. McAdoo at AT
toona, Pa: in 1918 were printed and
distributed, Senator Smoot charged,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-02-05
ARE ON
TRIAL in HUNGARY
(By The Associated Press>

Budapest Saturday. Jan. 31.-The
trial of a large number of t%errorists
will begin on Monday. Count Apron
vi. head Of the Hungarian peace dele
cation, when asked if there vas any
persecution of communists, replied:
Il have implicit confidence in the
judges, who are moving SO slowly
that there have been only 27 execuc
tons SO far for murder, which is a
small number when it is remembered
that the communists killed several
thousand persons. Nobody is being
arrested for opinions, but for acts.
Hungary is in a. state Of self-de
Tense against the red terror, just as
America. which is >deporting Bolshev-
lists. With the semi-Bolshevik goy-
ernments at Vienna and Prague, and
also agents coming in from Russia.
all preparing to .subvert the peace Of
Europe, we are bound to be careful"
The correspondent was allowed to
visit the prison in which than
1000 persons r locked up, awaiting
trial.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-02-05
WISCONSIN NAN
GOES 40 MILES
Z.
FOR | MORE ! TANLAC'
Gains Thirty Pounds And
Feels Twenty Years
Al Younger, Now.

Yes, sir. I have come forty miles
today Just specially to get Tanlac, and
II It was necessary I would 60 even
farther than that was the remark
able statement made by Carl Sweno.
who lives on Route No. 4, White
Water, Wis, when he called at the
Central Drug Co.. in Milwaukee, a few
II was so bad off before I COM
mencedM taking Tanlac." continued
Mr.. Sweno, ''that I lost fifteen
pounds in two weeks time and was
almost q complete nervous and physi-
cal wreck, but now my troubles have
all left me-. / have gained thirty
pounds in weight and am feeling fine
as q fiddle. 1t was q year ago that
my stomach went back on me and
since that time I suffered all the
agony that goes with Indigestion,
rheumatism, nervousness, backache
and sleeplessness. My appetite was
next to nothing. and when ] did force
down a little something I had a burn
ing like a fire in my chest and stom-
ach. I was so choked up 1 had to
fight for air and I had severe cramps
and. pains in my stomach. l had
through my whole body.
{Faal my joints would get stiff, especial
lNssfrom my hips down. and the pains
were so awful in my shoulders I could.
not raise my arm above my head.
The muscles in my legs cramped up
into knots and / had to sleep on my
back, for if l lay son one side my leg
would go to sleep. l had awful pains
across my back and if I stopped over
it was agony to try to straighten up
again. Some nights I did not sleep a
wink. but would roll and toss and
finally get out Of bed and walk the
floor. Every morning 1 had a a
taste in my mouth and my tongue was
coated all the time. 1 had such Sc
we're headache spells l thought my
head would split open, and 7 would
get SO dizzy I could hardly stand up.
Twas so nervous I shook like a leaf,
AndesI lightweight until I was as weak
as asrag. a.
%''That was the awful condition I
was in when / commenced taking
Tanlac. but now it seems like a. dream
that all my troubles have completely
disappeared and I am enjoying per-
feet health. Eat? Why I eat like a
afterwards with indigestion in any
form. All traces OF the rheumatism
have left me, the pains in my back
have gone n I am as active as Lever
was before. I don't know what it is
to ever have a headache or dizzy
spell. my nerves are as steady as a
clock and at night, 1 sleep like a log.
AS 1 said before I have gained thirty
pounds in weight and can do as hard
a days work as any a 1 feel
twenty years younger and ] will praise
Tanlac the longest day / live"
Tanlac is sold in Grand Forks by
Vold's Drug Store and the leading
druggist in every town.-Adv.