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LOCAL POPULARITY AND CAMPAIGN OF
WANT ADS SENDS WOMAN TO CONGRESS

ternafion9i affairs she answered
frankly What do know about
recognising Russia Aheolutelv moth
F. ing. / cant be examined IN r,4rfttsry
! tactics until have had little tram
lng | will 90 into the trenches when
me tire comes for that and | de-
NoutiH nope 1 will be prepared. n,
you know how I feel a bout all these
foreign questions Don't frouhIe
trouble until trouble troubles vou."
MISS Robertson was opposed tn the
ieaGnue of nations idea She saws she
is TOO completely American to toler
ate ~. She was asked about her vote
IN the event Of question Of war de-
| veloping
I'd vote for war. and wouldn't do
any whimperins or whispering shout
II: either" she flashed, 'Th. mistake
or this country was that At did not
sooner than IL did"
Because MISS Robertson has never
married is no sign she is man
hater In fact. she saws she ALWAYS
has gotten along better with men
than with women. TIN going 10 hava
a man for a secretary in Washing
! ton. she says. 'ThercU r. lot
of questions about my districts h4si.
ness that folks would rather talk
over with man. so I'll have a man
representative with me.
I've always done mans work.
carried a mans burden and have TO
pay the bills" she continued II be-
lieve that must be why never want
ed to see suffrage for women The
sunragists used to have great deal
TO say about taxation without repre-
sentation. That's all nonsense. for
when it comes TO money matters
wise her. The only woman IN the
United States who ever handled all
her financial affairs without male
assistance was Hetty Green. and she
wasn't a woman-she was a freak
Have you any particular meas asuroa
you will work for in Congress" was
a logical question.
"Tll work for the interests OF the
women and children, the soldiers and
the Indians" she answered. Il real
ly haven't given much thought 70
what I would do when went to
Washington. because everybody told
me / didn't have chance to get
there. Above everything else. l viii
work for the soldiers. 1t makes my
blood boil to think that there is not
one bed for a sick or injured soldier
in Oklahoma. The last Congress ap-
priated $46,00o.000 for hospital care.
Thousands OF soldiers in the state
need attention and treatment. II they
get so much as an examination. they
have to go clear to Houston. Tex.
It's the worst thing l know OF. 1t
is a disgrace to the state OF Okla
homa"
Miss Robertson did little active
campaigning in the ordinary mean
ing OF the word. She made few
speeches and none Of them were set
addresses. She did q lot OF visiting.
talking politics with every man and
woman she met, and depended upon
quaint system Of want ad political
advertising. absolutely original. to
win. In agate type in the classified
columns of the daily papers in her
district. Miss Robertson had pub
lished her own writings. little para
graphs in a reminiscent vein. re-
calling old incidents in which she
had a part. Her personally written
small-type advertising had distinct
appeal. and II was known weeks be-
fore her election that persons were
turning to the classified pages to
read what the woman candidate bad
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ing letter To a bishop caught rcd
handed at the board. Mas II secmly.
said this godlY one, TO sport away
thy evening amidst tho vanity OF
chess lt would he easy. by the
way. TO take exception with the
bishop for his phrascoloey--chcss
playing has never seemed like sport
ing away the time to most Of us But
hat is not the pointD EXcommuni-
cations were issued At and loft be
cause of chess. Ana 81. Louis Of
France had a deadly system OF fines.
Something of the black magic idea
clings. Charles Morphy went insane.
AS have some other players. There ~
something about the game which
seems to an ignorant hut observing
eye to pull out a mans mind along
a single thread and connect II up
with some other thing which most
people have no knowledge of--some
philosophic. religious. psychic. mystic
thing which is too close to reality Ia
be borne by any human brain.
And now this little Samuel has been
touched by it. picked out for some
reason to be one of the worlds un-
canny players of the game. How he
does il nobody can know. Maeter-
linck would say that II is psychic. in
the same way he explains the mathe-
matical calculations of the horses OF
Elberfeld. In A hotel room with too
little space and too many people and
the gas from the flashlights choking
up the throat. this bit of drama. this
fragment of the early life of a world
famous and unexplained chess player.
is being staged. Only years can tell
how little Samuel will get along For
the present one can only hope that
they will soon get him, as his mana
ger says, TO the residential district.
where he can cycle
He was fddling with his special liiae
! hoxlike chess board is his visitors
| filed out--workinG relentlessly with
| the red and white men on the check
cred black and white boa rd, jam
/ ming them down unmercifully and
4 with incredible Swiftness onto the
| little points which stick mp for the
! purpose. His mother leaned her head
| back against the wall 10 get a little
sleep.
tCopyrisht 1aenb
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There's a reason.


He didn't look like a bolshevist. at
mond on a little finger and another in
his tie-silver card case.
But in his monologue to an acquaint-
ance he had met in a car seat, he Wis
ioned red flags and yellow thoughts
set in brimstonish language that you
might denature into something like
this:
"Bolshevism is all right and is bound
to rule in the long run. Look into 1t
have that blanked war to free the
earth Of rulers and to kill Off titled
pinheads. AS to all that blanked
bunk about shelled cities and monu-
Iments-what do we care about Eu
ropes blanked past? What we have
future. root out the money bosses and
give the laboring man the right to say
whether he shall work or take his lei
sure like any other freeman who
wouldn't give hill of beans for all
the blankety-blank cathedrals you
could shake a stick at except for the
money they would bring, This own
ing Of property is a rotten spot in our
social system-that's why I've sold
PUT the money in certificates-been
baching in q little apartment since
got rid of the house. much more COM
Portable and less expensive. with coal
and servant hire what it is. Put in an
evening with me and We'll talk this
movement over-just phone and I'll
Rave a couple of fellows in for little
game"
He passed over a card. from the sill
yer case. and pretty soon afterward
audience chuckled as he glimpsed the
address and in an absent minded way
let the thing drop on the seat beside
him. Anybody could tell he had no
idea Of accepting the invitation. Then
he left the car-and that would be
all there was to tell except that
You know how women are? A pry-
| ing sort of an old girl who had been
listening in from the seat behind must
| and habitation Of a bolshevist person
who had no use for history. civiliza-
tion or any o fthe conventionalities Of
| life, for she leaned over and swiped
THAT card and read a name that
, But. as dear Romeo says: What's
tin a name?'
Still. it might sort Of interest you to
know that it had a figure "3" tag
| Red at the end of il to show that he
had inherited it from his grandfather
lana tndt ne was pdcHihS IL In one
Of the most imposing apartment
houses on the heights of Vanity Fair.
X \
HERE IL another little free hand
/ drawing taken from life:
Two young officers. each wearing
service bars. were dining the other
| evening in an Avenue restaurant
| Alone at another table sat a young
c.ixa4I~ Eba. for some reason had
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ME- Persian poet Ftrdusi in his
historical poem "Shahnama"
tells of how shatrani. or chess,
was introduced into Persia by
am ba asadors from the sovereign of
Hind, or India. coming to Chosroes I
lAnushirivan. the Persian sovereign,
with chessboard. demanding that he
reveal for them the secret Of chess or
else pay tribute to their king. That
was in the sixth century A. D., and the
secret is not yet revealed. Up on the
fifth floor of "a New sYork hotel just
now Is a little bit of boy. not quite
nine years old. who has the secret
hidden somewhere in himself. But
there's little use Of going to him for
lit: he does not know il and he cannot
|dering visitor can get of him is the
privilege Of seeing him and being for
la little while in that apartment where
he and his father and his mother and
his manager and his visitors and all
the flashlight men are gathered. of
lcogitating silently upon it all. and Of
Wondering still more.
Samuel Rzeszewski. the infinitesimal
Polish Jew who can beat all the ex-
perts of Europe. playing as many as
ltwenty-one games at once. seeing or
Iblindfolded. as the case maybe, is a
small child for his age. though build
ell well and firmly. He was hunched
on chair in a disconsolate little heap
the other day. a quiet. serious, tired
looking little boy with brown hair
and blue eyes and slightly Semitic
profile. tan cloth suit Of very Eng
lish. somewhat Eton. cut; wide white e
collar, tan cloth cap ever ready to his
hand except when his restless little
fingers were on the checkered board,
thick gray golf stockings. and stout,
small tan boots.
The hashlight man was about to
pose him for a pseudo-game with a
nent. His middle-aged father, the
linen merchant Of Lodz. hovered
about. gray whiskers covering a great
deal of his kind. anxious but jovial
face. and a shiny little black skull
cap on his head. His mother. done up
In a gray sweater" sat wearily on the
side of a bed. looking baff1ed. con-
fused and uncertain as to just what
all this was about. His manager.
Charles Azenberg. who had brought
this highly organized party from
Europe. looked resigned. as II the sad
him.
There Is no good asking him any
thing about the way he plays, the
way he feels about it or how he does
1t. ne said. He does not know. He
does not think Of it at all. When he
is through his game that's all. He
never will talk Of It,"
AS Samuel has no English outside
Of few chess terms. there was no Use
trying. And the child was much too
tired and restless and excited. any
way. to be approached. He jerked
away wildly from a proffered hand
and raced around the room.
He is quick to pick up every
thing" the manager went on. but not
abnormal or unnatural in any way ex-
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VI of this greatest union of
~ " states the world has ever
known select from among
their fellows the one they deem best
fitted to be chief executive of the
greatest civic trust in all creation.
here Is what Uncle Sam gives to the
President. thus honored among men:
\ salary of s75.O a year.
Another $4,000 for travelling ex-
penses.
\ home on which the attention of
the world is focused.
Furnishings and maintenance, COM
plstc FOR this house.
\ private room in the Capitol build
iur.
y flock of the finest automobiles
American factories can produce. and
an electric car for the first lady of
the Land
y private detective force
y force of about fifty policemen TO
guard the house and grounds.
y uTiVate art gallery.
y historic library.
y srorr of greenhouses to keep the
V '7:'r House decorated and provide
PANTS and blooms for dinners and
receptions.
y private yacht.
y private train-whenever the
President wants it.
The best brass band in the world.
a flag that no one else may use.
A personal physician.
Naval and military personal aids.
A social secretary for the Lmistress
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The State of BaIIybunion.

MISS MoLLIE CARROLL. the &C.
AVA tress. said at a dinner party the
other day:
Poor Ireland! know an Irish
boy named Mike Shane who immi.
grated into America last month,
When he reached here the immi-
grafton officer started to question
him.
".where do you come from" he
says.
".I come from Ballybunion.' says
Mike.
'Ballybunion.' says the immi.
grafton oficer. And what state ID
Ballybunion in?'
Faith. sorr. says Mike, she's ID
migrated"
horrible state. That's why I i'm
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Gus patriot. She jumped into the
woman's work of the world war with
all the fervor that marked her activ-
ity in the Spanish American brush.
She led the Red Cross work of Mus
kogee. Her cafeteria was the sol
dier's resting place. No boy in kahki
ever went through Muskogee hungry.
Alice Robertson's scouts were out
with the basket to see that the boys
were taken care of.
How do you account for your cleo
tion?" Miss Robertson was asked.
II regard my election as direct
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answer to prayers. God helping me
and giving me strength. ! am going
to try and make good. and / am sure
will. with SO many good women
praying for me-
Have you any platform?
Yes. a very definite one she an
swered. First. / am Christian !;
second. I am an American. and third.
I am a republican. and a standpatter,
too"
What do you think about interna-
tional affairs?"
why, / don't know much about in
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supplied for th' orrcspondents Of
the nation newspapers and for mem
bers nj Congress Tho President can
also have copies Of his speeches
hound at the government printing of.
fec.
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Presidents reading a daily newspa-
per made of clippings. SO that the
chief executive may keep in touch
out having to search a number Of
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make n speech or send a message to
congress ne can send the manuscript
10 the government printing Office.
where it is printed in rush time and
as many copies as may be desired are
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newspapers for these particular items
employees as the yellow Journal" al
though there is nothing yellow
about Il.
Whenever the President is going to
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Z 7 OU may tell how a bolshevist
" looks. but. naturally. You
mustn't quote his cussings.
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Samuel Rzeszewski.
Barely Nine Years
Old, Has Beaten
Many of Europe $
NJ asters Of til e
Game, But He Can
not Tell the Age
long Secret of His
Power.
BY JULES NORTHERN.

TINE Persian poet Firdusi in his
historical poem "Shahnama"
tells of how shatrani. or chess,
WAS trod need into Peraia NV
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UNCLE SAM TREATS HIS PRESIDENTS
IN MANNER BETTING HIGH POSITION
SALARY of $4,000 Year and $4,000 for Travelling Expenses The
n America With Furnishings and Of
and Detective Force-A Train
NeeThese Many Other

WHEN the sovereign voters"
W. of this greatest union Of
~ " states the world has ever
L,oun select from among
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Copyright. 1920
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-04-29
THE BRANDON NEWS, BRANDON, MISS

&C and before they have had time
to get onto their feet and view the
situation they ere confronted with
a strike that has paralyzed al
most the. entire system. tied up
business and produced a condi-
ton that is unwarrented. The
strikers do not have the sympa-
thy of anyone; but, on the con-
trary, are receiving the just con-
demnation of an outraged public
Even the officials of the railroad
workers organizations are plead.
ing with the men to returns to
thei rjobs. The situation is view.
ed In the light of hold-up which
the American people will not
stand, and if the workers persist
in their designs there may be q
season of unpleasantness thai
may terminate in drastic meas.
ures to- put an end to the tieing uI
of the whole industrial system o1
the country by "a comparatively
small minority Of workers, who
could settle their differences
without resorting to the methods
of the hold-up man or bandit.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-04-29
ONE BIT OF GLOOM.

We are not one of those doleful
pessimisits who foresee ruin, rev.
olution and anarchy as the unes-
capable end of the present unrest
and economic unbalancement in
this country. We have faith e.
nough in American initiative, in
dustry, pluck and common sense
to believe that we shall escape
the worst of the horrors which the
pessimilsts are picturing as the
fate of America and all the world,
and that in the end we as ma
ton will be better off for the I'M
comfortable experiences we are
undergoing and have yet tomeet.
But optimistic as we are as to
the ultimate outcome, there is one
phase of present conditions which
gives us uneasiness, and of which
it seems the country at large does
not yet realize the potential Sc
robustness. We refer to the de
creased production Of food. Over
alls clubs may bring down the
high cost of clothing, but what
shall it profit a man if he be able
to buy fine clothes for song, yet
suffer the pangs of an empty
stomach? We fear the peak"
has not yet reached in the cost of
food products-that food is going
to be increasingly higher in cost
and scarcer in quantity. There
may be artificialty in the high
prices of many other products,
but food rs still governed largely
by the old law of supply and de-
mand, and shortage of production
portends high and still higher
prices for a. long time to come.
High prices are bad enough, but
that is not the worst of it. Unless
there is a change for the better
very soon in farm conditions, pro-
ductl0n Will be so greatly decreaS-
ed as to make food alarmly short
in this country, as it is already in
the world at large.
There is a worldwide shortage
of wheat, in face Of which the
American crop will be smaller
than in many years. The Ameri-
can farmer is cutting down his
acreage, not from choice but from
He cannot compete
with the inflated wages paid in /
the cities, and the farm hands
have deserted and are deserving
in squads and regiments. With
out abor crops cannot be produc-I
ed, and the inevitable conse-
quence is shortage, high prices
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-04-29


This is an era of drives"
Every week produces a new one,
and now it is drive to put an
end to the activities of four lot
terry companies, whose illegal
practices have been carried on so
openly as to attract the attention
Of the authorities. The movement
for suppression begun in Colum-
bus, Ohio, on Sunday, with the
seizure OF $4,000 worth Of tickets
and Eke arrest of fourteen men, a
beginning that will make the VEN
ders of those contraband tickets
more wary in the future. In the
eyes of the law there is a very
perceptible difference between a
lottery run by an individual, a
foreign corporation or as an aux
iliary OF a church fair. Law is
law, but there seems to be a dis
tinctlon without material differ
ence in the moral. Which is right
and which is wrong?
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-04-29

w. Coward's place in Beat Nos.
Bids to be received to furnish
Supervisors District No. 2 with
20 mules, more or less, suitable
for road work to be sound and
first class and submitted for the
inspection and approval of the
Board-also 6 western wheelers.
Be it ordered by the Board of
Supervisors that no vehicle with
load of more than 1000 pounds,
including the weight of the vehi-
Gle shall travel upon any public
road of Rankin County; this order
to tax effect and be in force when
published for three consecutive
weeks in a newspaper published
in the County.
According to plans and specifi-
cations now on file in the chan
Gerry clerks office.
S. D. DONNELL,
Clerk of the Board.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-04-29
NOTICE

Sealed bids will be received by
the undersigned clerk of the
board of supervisors up until Il
noon on the first Monday in May
1920, for the following, the board
reserving the right to reject any
or all bids:
Feed and supplies for the coun.
ty home and the various road dis
tricts of the county.
For bridge at Will Stems place
in Beat No. /.
Sell one or two more mules be-
longing to District 8; and said
board to buy one or more mules,
weighing not less than 1000
pounds each.
For bridges in Beat No. 4,-Pro-
ject No. 5-build 4 or more bridg-
es between w. H. Baskerville
place and Scott County linz ON
East & West Highway.
For Lumber building bridges.
For lumber building bridges in
Beat No. A, East & West Highway.
Repairing & Building Bridges :
Repair bridge across Wildcat
Greek near Joe Williams place
in Beat, No. S; and also building
bridge across Clear Greek near G..
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-04-29
NOTICE OF ELECTION TO BE
HELD IN SHILOH SCHOOL DIS
TRICT. ON RQND ISSIIE-


Notice is hereby given that on
the 1st., day Of May, 1920, at
the Tabernacle, on the Shiloh
Camp Ground, in the Shiloh
School District, in Rankin County,
Mississippi, am election will be
held to determine whether maj
GRITTY of the qualified electors in
the said district, vote for the issu-
ance of Two Thousand Five Hun
dred Dollars, in bonds for the
said district, under the provisions
Of Chapter 172 Of the Laws of
1918, and Chapter 200 of the Laws
of 1913, of the Mississippi Legis-
lature, said bonds to bear interest
at the rate, not to exceed six per
cent, per annum, payable semi
annually, and to mature in serial.
Said bonds to be sold and pro-
ceeds used for repairing, erecting
and equiping school buildings for
the said district, as provided for
in said Chapter 172.
MARVIN CARTER,
IRWIN WARREN,
T. w. BROWN.
Election Commissioners, for said
School District
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-04-29
NOTICE OF REGISTRATION

Under and by virtue of the Laws
of the State Of Mississippi, Section
4122, Code 1906, the undersigned
ALP, Code 1906, the undersigned
Registratar of Rankin County,
Mississippi, will visit the follow
ing precincts or by authorized
deputies and register all qualified
voters who have become of age or
changed their precincts since last
registration or otherwise entitled
to register, on the following
dates:
Steens Creek, Monday May, 18th
1920
Plain, Tuesday, May 18th 1920.
Cleary, Wednesday, May 10th
1920.
Whites, Thursday May, goth
1920.
Mt. Creek, Friday, May 9th
1920.
Star, Monday, May, Oath 1920.
Dry Greek, Tuesday, May 25th
1920.
Pearson, Monday, May 31st
1920.
Holbrook, Tuesday June LIST
1920.
Oakdale, Wednesday, June End
1920.
Fannin, Thursday, June 3rd
1920.
Pisgah, Tuesday June 9th 1920.
Red Oak, Wednesday June 9th
1920.
Gross Roads, Thursday June
10th 1920.
Shiloh, Friday June 18th 1920.
Antioch, Wednesday June 10th
1920. ~
Clear Creek, Thursday June
18th 1920.
Cato, Friday June 18th 1920.
Dobson, Wednesday June 23rd
1920.
Pelahatchie, Thursday June
Oath 1920.
D. P. GAYDEN, Registrar.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-04-29

and much suffering. The alarm
many times, but without much i'm
preston apparently having been
made on the minds of city people.
They will realize the force of the
warnings more clearly next fall
and winter when food is higher
than ever before and hard to get
at any price.
In the meantime it behooves
every town dweller who has q
garden spot, however tiny, to
work it to the limit. The exercise
will be good for him, and the har-
vest, though small, may be a God
send to him when the pinch
C0YnaC
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-04-29

recorded in Minute Book No.
at page 167, thereof, in the Chan
Gerry Clerks Office of the sale
county and state, I, will as specia
commissioner, on the 3rd., day Of
May, 1920, at the front door Of the
courthouse, in Brandon sale
county and state, within lega,
hours, to the highest and best bid,
der, for cash, at public auction
offer for sale and will sell, the
following described land, situated
in Rankin County, Mississippi, to.
w.t.
Lots Nos. 2 and 3, in Section 81
Township 6, North of Range 2,
east.
The said land is sold for parti-
ton in the above styled cause, and
although I believe the title good,
| will convey only such title as is
vested in me as special commits
sioner, aforesaid.
Witnessed, this the 8th., day of
April, 1920.
H. H. BULLOCK, Special Com
missioner.
w. E. MCINTYRE, Solicitor.
With the Sick Man of Europe
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-04-29

The great railroad strike seems
to be melting in the heat of public
Indignation. It is not fathered by
the Unions or the Unions officials
but seems to be an unauthorized
act of individuals to extort 2
higher wage from the railroads
at time when they are seemingly
helpless. The companies have re-
ceived their roads from the gov
eminent crippled and disorganlz
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-04-29

Ford for president" is again
being agitated. But Uncle Henry
will be wise to stick to flivver
building, in which he excels. It's
a rough road to Washington, and
Ford would find his tires punct-
ured before he got cranked up for
the start.