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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-29
Copyright, 1920. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
BY HOWARD r, GARIS.

Are you going to be very busy to-
day, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Nurse Jane
one morning, as she came out of the
kitchen of the hollow stump bungalow
with dab of flour on the end of her
nose.
why, not specially so, answered the
rabbit gentleman. IF | have even one
small adventure | shall count myself
lucky. But you are baking something
see, Nurse Jane, and | also smell"
You are right" answered the musk
rat lady housekeeper. How did you
know?'
II saw the dab of flour on the end
of your nose" laughed Uncle Wiggily
and l also smell something baking in
the oven. So, what with your nose and
my nose, | guess we are going to have
something good for supper"
IF you call cookies good, you are,
spoke Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy. And that 5
what l came to see you about. | have
made the cookies and they are baking
in the oven. | guess you smell them
Now, Mrs. Stubtail the lady bear, just
telephoned, asking me to come over to
look at new honey ColOred dress She
has bought ! want u go, but can
trust YOU to take the cookies out OF
the oven when they are baked?"
You cam said Uncle Wiggily, with
low and polite bow of his tall silk
oven. You may depend on me"
Don't leave them in the oven too
long, or they'll be burned hard and
black" went on Nurse Jane. They'll
be ready in twenty minutes"
Skip along" laughed the bunny. Go
look at Mrs. Stubtairs dress and leave
the cookies to me"
SO Nurse Jane skipped along and
Uncle Wiggily laid aside a book he was
reading, on how to make pink noses
twinkle faster, and he went out in the
kitchen to be ready to take the cookies
out of the oven when the time came
But while Uncle Wiggily was waiting
along came Baby Bunty, the little rab-
bit girl. Baby Bunty was dragging
after her a doll carriage, and it was
going bumpity-bump on the path near
the hollow stump bungalow. And Baby
Bunny looked sad.
Wiggily. and why does your doll car
riage make such funny noise, Baby
BuntyP
Because all the wheels are broken "
said the little bunny child, who once
lived in a hollow stump. II let Jimmie
Wibblewobble, the boy duck, take my
doll carriage to bring a piece Of ice
home from the cave Of Mr.. Whitewash,
the polar bear gentleman, and Jimmie
ran into a lamp post and broke all the
wheels"
That's too bad" said Uncle Wiggily.
But that isn't the worst" went on
Baby Bunty My carriage goes along
so bumpity bump now that it jiggles
my doll, Matilda Cora Janet Huckle-
berry Hummingbird, and she wakes up
every time | get her to sleep. II | only
had some nice round wheels for the
carriage, such as l had before Jimmie
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-29
Public Discussion
.-sSsS:Ns soc o@seS:ss es3<3sSs<sao%>ast
. AGAINST THE LEAGUE.

To The News Sclmitar:
viii first tell you who ! am
| am Confederate veteran. | will be
81, October "a. next. | was at Green's
rendered to Gen. Sherman, the house
| burner.
l am lifelong Democrat. voted
| for John c. Breckenridge. my first
vote for president.
! am a strict prohibitionist. was
clerk Of my church until my health
failed about five years ago; adjutant
to j. NJ Simonton camp 6O2. at Nettle-
ton, MISS, pension commissioner OF my
district tNo. - until failure Of my
health forced me TO resign those posi-
tons,
l will now tell you some things am
opposed to.
/ am opposed to the league Of ma
lions, with or without reservations.
take George Washington's solemn ad-
vice 70 his people rather than Wilson's
President Wilson debating to Gov,
Cox will beat the Democratic party
in November. That is my prediction.
| think Wilson is very unsafe man
to follow, l am heartily opposed to
the country for military purposes. 1t
will cultivate a warlike disposition in
the minds OF all classes.
The league of nations should have
been left to the people, Give the peo-
pie chance to vote for or against n
league OF nations. That should have
been done before the November cleo
ton.
| know men who say they will not
vote for Cox because he Is in favor OF
league with reservations We simply
don't want a league under any circum-
stances, We simply want the United
States 10 stay at home and let all other
nations do the same thing.
r. II. ROGERS, SR.
Plantersville. Miss.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-29
| \ VNCLE WlGGILYgEI 2,XSS7
BEDTINlE STORY
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE COOKIES.

Wibblewobbe broke them off, could
ride Henrietta Humdlnger Hobbleskirt
and she wouldn't wake up"
II thought you said your dolls
name was Matilda Cora Janet Huckle-
berry Hummingbird," spoke Uncle Wig
gily
That's one of her Names" said Baby
Bunty. And another is Susan Ann
ArabeIla Lollypop Skipgabber But, no
matter what her name is, she wakes
up because I have no wheels on her
carriage and it goes bumpity- bump all
the while"
That's too bad" said Uncle Wig
gly. Il wonder-oh, there they GO!
they're burning! On; oh. l forgot all
about 'em!" he cried as he ran toward
the kitchen
Forgot what?' asked Baby Bunty
Nurse James cookies that was to
take from the oven when they were
baked" cried Uncle Wiggily ii forgot
all about them. Oh, my goodness me
salies alive and some carraway seeds"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-29
Scylla and Charybdis,

Between scylla and Charybdls the
channel of safety is wider than proph-
cts of evil like to believe. and all a
pilot had TO do in order to navigate II
with safety was to keep down his
nervous apprehenslons and steer a
middle course
Scylla was the n-Americanlzed
league of nations, the super-state, the
unlimited liability contract, the alliance
without reservations which was to COM
init this country to European entangle-
ments, and to make our peace and
make our war for us without giving
us a chance to decide for ourselves.
Charybdis was the policy Of isolation,
which declared that though we had
won a war for Europe we still had
no interest in the terms OF the peace
or in the keeping of that peace, and
wanted no kind OF agreement or under
standing with Europe whatsoever.
Democratic sirens stood on scylla
and tried to inviegle the simple
mariners Of San Francisco and the
skipper of Dayton to wreck the ship
on their rock.
Republican charmers took their harps
in hand and sang sweet lullables from
Charybdis whose master strain was to
strand the ship on their No Man $
land Of splendid isolation.
The Democratic vessel Is past the
narrows and about TO emerge into the
broader stretches where the going is
easy, but the Republican barge Is
laundering on Charybdis
In coming out for the rejection Of
the league Of nations altogether and the
making OF peace by a Knox resolution.
the Republican candidate alicnated the
support Of great many good Republic
ans who wanted the peace treaty as
they had many times declared in the
senatorial debates but wanted Il with
the Lodge reservations.
Among these Republicans was ex-
President Taft only the day before
Senator Harding's speech OF acccptancs
Mr. Taft declared in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger that he doubted not the
senator would follow the course which
his votes in the senate give MS reason
10 think he will take. and propose
Immediately upon his election 10 send
the treaty back to the senate 10 he
ratified with the old Republican rcscr-
Vations.
with Mr.. Taft are Senators Lonroot.
Kenyon. Nelson and many others who
want the treaty with the Lodge rescr-
vations, There were only Il bitter.
enders" on the Republican side in the
senate who advocated the absolute re-
lection of the treaty.
Senator Johnson was one of the Il, and
II is probably his word OF warning to
the Republican candidate that accom- 70
plished the latter's conversion to the
no-treaty school since the era Of tho
senatorial debates The specter Of the
California apostasy In 1915 is one that
will not down in the eyes OF any can
didating Republican
The complete rejection OF all that
the peace conference accomplished at
Paris is the counsel Of desperation, and
the sort Of thing that moderate minded
America detests, The peace OF Paris
was a good peace. An inseparable
part Of 1t is the league Of nations, which
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-29
Pensions and Bonuses.

The Worlds Work in the course Of
an article in a recent issue had this to
say:
AN veterans Of the Civil war are
now drawing annual bonuses or service
pensions"
The magazine now comes out with
correction to the effect that it should
have said. An veterans are entitled
TO draw" Its attention has been called
to It's mistake by the receipt Of a great
many letters Of protest from Civil war
veterans who have steadfastly refused
to take the money offered them under
the law by the federal government
Fifteen or twenty years ago there APP
peared in the outlook short story
which made a great impression on
many readers. 1t was entitled The
Death Of John Smith" or whatever the
party's name may have been. 1t was
the story of veteran Of the Grand
Army of the Republic who had never
accepted the pension annually offered
him. II was his pride not to do so.
He had served his country for motives
other than the money he might get
out OF her, and he would not consent
10 seem to call these motives in ques-
ton. But he got into a tight place
financially. he lost sleep, he thought
finally he went up and got his PEN
sion. That was the death OF the John
Smith that had been.
There are not only veterans Of the
Civil war who decline TO touch pension
money but there are thousands and per-
haps millions OF veterans Of the recent
war. both North and South. who de-
cline 10 trifle with the idea OF a bonus
to be doled out by the government as
tip for the super quality OF their
services.
Accompanying some of the letters OF
the veterans who wrote protestingly TO
the Worlds Work were lists of the de-
scendaHts OF these proud old men, TO
the second, third and even fourth gem
GRAFTON, who had fought against Ger
many. and had come out of the war
10 fight against the notion of a service
bonus.
The people who agitated for the bo-
nus were naturally noisier than those
who opposed 1t. They represented In
part only the real wish of the ex-sol-
diers for whom they assumed the man
date. They were either the misguided
friends of the soldier, or else they were
political personages who had axes to
grind But sufficient opposition on the
part Of the soldiers themselves made
itself heard at washington to reinforce
the patriotic DIRECTORS sitting In con-
gressional seats.
To the eternal honor of America, the
bonus bill met Its fate.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-29
TwiceTold ales
JULY 90, 1895.
Ten Years Ago Today In Memphis.

Revolution swaycd Cuba today. An
tonic Maceo at the head of 5000 in
surgents, attacked Ji Guiana
Six democratic COunCilmen OF To-
ronto, ont We're dismissed today for
falling to obey the order of the mayor
Cries for help We're heard on the
lake shore at Chicago, when a terrific
gale tossed Lake Michigan. A tug and
lfeboats sent out failed to discover the
source of the cries.
The negro population OF Memphis was
stirred today by the abduction of Title
Morgan, negro woman, by a negro man
at Keel and Main. Title disappeared
rs though the earth had opened and
taken her.
Albert Williams and Jake Cohen today
were exempted from the payment OF
ptddlers license by the county court,
The report Of the turnpike committee
was turned down by the squires.
Jimmy Cox, police turnkey, was pro-
noted by Chief Davis to the position
Of detective. Tom Clancy was named
on the police force.
Mrs j. Harvey Mathes returned to-
day from Atlanta, where she had been
visiting.
Mayor Clapp delivered an ultimatum
to bakers who have been n the habit
Of selling bread on Sundays. The jolt
was delivered in city court.
Jessie Long and Rev. j. o. Dawson
we're married at the Court Street Cum
bcrland Presbyterian church by Rev.
Hugh Spencer Williams.
Capt Simon Greene today got a COM
mission from Gov. Turney, naming him
as commissioner Of registration, TO sue
coed Fred r. Jones, resigned.
John u. Rockefeller. who was gar
nisheed In Cleveland, Ohio, a few days
ago for $425, 900, filed his answer in
Cleveland court today. The garnish-
ment suit was brought by steel com
pany.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-29
Case Of the Home Brewers

No one knows whether the internal
revenue bureau had the benefit OF COM
petent legal counsel the other day be-
fore declaring that the home brewers
would not be disturbed In their prac-
tees under the national prohibition act
The layman unlearned in the law can
not but think that someone has blum
dered This is n very sad conclusion.
but the law Is the law,
The national prohibition act deals
with the subject of intoxicating drinks,
which II dcnominates indiscrimlnately
as liquors" This term does not stop
at whisky and distilled products; II is
declared in so many words to apply to
beer wine and other matted or vinous
products.
The special distinction Of the prohi-
bition act is that ii does not leave It
to the courts to decide as n question
of fact what constitutes an intoxi-
eating liquor, 1t defines such liquor
as one containing 'one-half OF one per
centum Of alcohol by volume" This
seemed quite unreasonable to many peo-
Pile who could carry much bigger per-
centage Of alcohol in their liquor with
ease and grace; but the supreme court
upheld the law.
Home brew. call It by what name we
please, is OF the wine family. Wine used
to mean only the juice OF the grape.
but the dictionaries all give a much
more general meaning to include the
fermented juice OF any fruit used for a
beverage. This takes care Of the de-
lectable product of the apple, the wild
grape, the raisin. the prune. the poke
berry and the raspberry, They are all
"vinous products"
vinous products are all right under
the law as long as they keep under
one half OF one per cent, but the home
brewer ordinarily does not consider his
as satisfactory under that condition.
That Is not at all the theory OF home
brew.
Previously the internal revenue bu-
reau has ruled against home brew hav-
ing a legal excess of alcohol as against
all other such forms of vinous prod
uct, Now the bureau reverses itself.
There Is a little clause stuck almost
out of sight IN one OF tho wearisome
provisions Of the prohibition act that
seems to contain a sort Of an invita-
ton to the home brewers 10 brew their
utmost Section 20 Of Title II reads
thus:
THE penalties provided in this act
against the manufacture OF liquor with
out a permit shall not apply to a per-
son for manufacturing Misunderstanding
cider and fruit juices exclusively for use
In his own home"
That clause looks like a joker. The
prohibition leaders may have thought
they could make that much OF a conces-
sion without damaging their cause. 1t
uses a new term-cider and fruit Juices,
as II II were a new subject.
II may have been felt IL would be
going to extremes TO invade tho privacy
of mans home. about which the old
fashioned idea persists that It L. his
castle So long as his cider and fruit
Juice was Misunderstanding in the liberal
sense and consumed on his own prem
ises. they decided to leave him alone.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-29


for me concerning "the sets"
Why not start a set of your own? Re
the leader, organizer and the whole
thing. Put up strong talk about the
requirements of those eligible to join
and it will not be long until you are
the envied of all girls, Life is bluff
with many and my observation is that
the biggest buffer is often the prize
winner Let the boy know that you
like him and enjoy being with him and
l expect he will ask you for that date"
Dear Mrs. Thompson.-We are two
girls who come to you for advice for
friend who is not treated at home
as she should be. She has a mother,
father and several small sisters and
brothers. She works all the time and
never sees any of her money. Do you
think It Is right for her not to spend
It as she wishes? She Is 10 years Of
never let her 90 out driving at night
or daytime with nice boys? Do you
think she should not allow her to have
girl friends II they are the right klnd2
She and her mother never agree on
any sublct. Should she stay there or
do If she leaves home and where would
you advise her to go?
PEGGY AND RAT EYES.
No doubt this mother is far wiser
imam ner daughter, lnOuBn some OF
the daughters do not think so. My adj
vice is, unless you can help matters
at her home, to. let the girl and her
affairs alone. A mother certainly has
her daughters interest more at heart
than any one else in the world and the
lie it, She is wise to prohibit her
daughter taking rides at night with
boys and ! admire her for 1t. You
girls are young and do not know the
g., - ~
mother does You can have but one
mother and those who have lost theirs
are like ships without sails. None can
take a mothers place l do not advise
her to leave home, but to find COM
panions who will not encourage her
her home life You are not having a
good influence over her so l trust you
will cease interfering with her affairs
Immediately.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-29
COWBOY SONG.

Inc plains were broad and flower filled
ana he'er rancher's fence was nigh,
ana men were rough and sturdy willed
But ready for a friend to die
Youth was badge worn carelesslv
When | came out to the West countrie.
The dust hung heavy on the trails.
Where horsemen guarded thirsty
herds;
The white clouds drifted by like sails,
High DER the silent, preylng birds
That poised above the prairie sea,
When | came out to the West countrie.
The cowtowns blinked at us O. nights.
When We rode in with ribald song,
And there were revelings and fights,
And many a fearless man and strong
For coffin snapped his saddle tree
when l came out to the West countrie.
The trails are gone. the headboards too:
Few are the riders that survive.
But memories of that saddle crew
In song and story long shall thrive.
Give me horse. 'twiXt knee and knee,
And let me ride DER my West countriei
Arthur Chapman, in Lesie's.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-29

has the job OF supervising some Of the
long time details Of the contract the
signatories entered into In signing the
peace.
Senator Harding has been claiming
all along that he intended to see that
the league Of nations question was the
paramount" issue in this campaign.
When Gov Cox in his public state
ments placed himself squarely on the
nonpartisan middle ground OF Ameri-
cRnism. the senator had to 60 far
afeld 10 keep his paramount Issue.
He went farther than the rank and
file will care TO follow.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-29
JOHNSON STARTS FUND.

To The News Scimitar;
without taking any part whatever in
the local labor controversy having
been out of the city at the time and
in the condolences of neither side, |
can not help but realize that when
the history of this affair Is written il
will be found that we citizens of Mem
phls have been for many months get
ting our fife protection too cheap, jus.
as year or more we got the CduCa-
ton Of our children too cheap; in the
latter case at the expense Of the teach
ers in the former case TT the expense
Of the firenen.
We humber citizens can not settle
this difference. that must be left to
those in authority on each side. but
we can very easily show the world that
we have no desire to take advantage
OF the teChniCalities Of the laws to es-
cape proper payment or proper taxa
ton, which are to all intents and pur-
poses the same, for proper public ser
vices by subscribing In proportion to
the fire protection we have received
sums which collectively viii warrant
the payment to firemen, whomeVer they
may be, say from August next, an ad-
ditional sum making up total of "A
fair monthly wage
My residence Is out Of the city. hut
| have modest laboratory which has
received fire protection. hence ask
permission from YOU to SuN nribe to-
ward such a fund and such purp0s"
the modest sum Of $40 and in
close my check herewith for this amount
hoping that many other citizens Will
be similarly aCtuatcd for the good and
the fair reputation " the ci'v Worry
respectfully LEHMAN JOHNSON
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-29

FORREST PARK.


To The News scimitar:
The great writer, Victor Hugo, the
man who sounded the depths of hu-
| man needs, who listened to the call
of the soul. says: 1.-The soul has greater
need of the ideal than OF the real. 1t
. by the real We exist by the ideal We
| live Would you realize the differ
| ence? Animals exist, man lives"
Man must have a soul responding to
the voice OF profound sentiment, and
how, unless he Is taught can he pos
| sess this jewel? II through sacrifice
We give an outward sign of an inward
grace Of purest sentiment and then
see this sacred memory dragged in
the dust. do we not hear the sobbing
voice OF the past vibrating in the heart,
a protest of the soul?
Do not mutilate Forrest park. Its
beauty Is a gem OF our commercial city
We, as a municipality, do not indulge
In very much sentiment
Seven hundred L. D. c. hold out
faithful, busy hands, asking that no
market mar the outline OF this park.
Grandmothers, mothers, sisters, wives,
this concession.
We have awarded 100 scholarships the
past year, representing 100000, and 1t
Is useless to go over the sums raised
during the late war to expedite as
sistance in all directions.
them as good as new for the needy,
saved and purchased shoes and all
manner of garments, denied ourselves
to give coal. groceries, assist in rents,
giving thousands and thousands of acts
of assistance to those who held out
empty hands.
Have we, as women, right to ask
this gift of Memphis?
In this beautiful park stands the
statue of our immortal hero, General
Forrest He sleeps under this MEM
orial, his faithful wife by his side.
Let us keep Forrest park, every inch
Of 1t as It now stands, an inspiration
for Memphis and the children of this
city. Do not tear down, but extend
the souls activities, for we need the
grace OF the ideal.
(Signed) Mrs. Ernest Walworth,
President General Cheatham Chapter;
Mrs. Mary Forrest Bradley, President
General Forrest Chapter; Mrs. W. c..
Schwalmeyer, President OF Sarah Law
Chapter; Mrs. A. Z. Kelly, President
Mary Latham Chapter; Mrs. G. b.
Brown, Acting President Of J, Harvey
Mathes Chapter; Miss Lille Clack,
President Braxton Bragg Chapter;
Mrs ]. M. Hines, Chairman Children's
Auxiliary of Mary Latham Chapter;
Mrs NJ. L. Vesey. Chairman Children's
Auxiliary Of General Cheatham Chap
ter.