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New Britain herald., 1920-11-24

cast of stars and the support includes Frances Raymond, Emmett King, Robert Dunbar, Jack Underhill and Fife Conley.
 Kathryn Adams is the slender. beautiful blond actress who played the leading role with William Farnum in Riders of the Purple Sage" She was Frank Keenan's leading woman in The Silver King"
New Britain herald., 1920-11-24
SCANDAL OF pIEasuRE-

Iloyt's musical revue concludes its third bill tonight with the presenta- ton of the musical comedy. The Scandal of Pleasure"
 Tho Innocent Princess Is the final offering of Hoyt's revue and it will he given Thursday. Friday and Saturday. The management promises that this revue will prove very ap- pealtng entertainment especially for
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-30
Age
By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

TT is only as we recognize the Min
l ute upon Minute, Hour upon Hour,
Day upon Day, philosophy Of Time
that we are able to enter into the seri-
Gus lesson that Age has for us all. For
Age has no philosophy excepting the
philosophy of accomplishment, as 1t
natures. Even as you think. you Age.
And yet in Aging you are liable to real
lie the full meaning Of every breath
that you Breathe and Of every single
Effort you make.
In the Sunset is reviewed the glory
Of the day.
Age is Experience-crystallized Age
Ia Initiative-worked out. Age Is the
Dream-come true. Age is the Tree
full grown. Age Is the Business Sue
cessful--a power In its area. What you
are Is the sum of your days In Age
Averaged.
In your Success is reflected the prod
uct Of every one Of your hours.
Age is not the mere piling up OF
years, for many man Is old at thirty,
and many a man is young at eighty.
For Youth is as elastic as Age, and
Age is as elastic as Youth. Let the
Experience of Age ever be teacher to
YOU. Let it Admonish as well as En-
courage you.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-30

1t was Colonel Ryan's plan that
each of the twenty volunteers should
organize a squad Of fifty helpers,
chosen from the population to assist
in the work of cleaning up the hos
pitfalls and publicc institutions and
running the disinfecting plants. AS
soon as the delousers were set up
and a warehouse, with stocks of
blankets, clothing, mattresses and
medical supplies established, volun-
teer helpers we're called. Not a per-
son responded. The townspeople
were afraid to enter the hospitals.
The Red Cross men set to work
unaided, to clean out one hospital
The sick were carried to the cleans
ing plant and bathed, while their
clothing was disinfected. Meanwhile
all the pestilential bedding of the
institution was tossed out of the win
dows and the entire place scrubbed
from top to bottom. When the hos
pital was cleaned up and fresh bed
ding installed the patients were
brought back.
The townspeople, struck by the in
dustry and efficiency with which
the Americans went to work in face
of what appeared insuperable diff
culties, began to come forward.
Within the week twenty full Squads
of fifty men each were recruited.
Day and night they toiled, attacking
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-30

the disease at its root, burning ev-
cry possible breeding place for the
vermin which carried the plague.
Meantime the strictest quarantine
barrier was frightened around the
plague center. No train could enter
or leave Narva without permission.
No person could leave the town with
out a Red Cross bill of health.
Three weeks of Red Cross regime
brought the daily death rate from
seven per cent to a fraction of one
per cent. At the end of this short
period of strenuous labor the cpl
demic was completely under control.
Today the country is practically free
frow all infection
1t took twenty Americans backed
by the implicit confidence of the
government three weeks to do what
the entire EsthOnian nation ha re-
garded as an impossibility. In the
process four Americans were attack
ed by the disease. Two died and two
are now recovering. The two who
paid the price of their devotion with
their lives are Lieutenants Clifford
A. Blanton of Chattanooga, Tenn,
and George w. Winfield of Highland
Falls, N. Y.
Their funeral was the occasion for
national demonstration of graft
tude on the part of the Esthonians
Twenty-seven men were required to
bear the floral tributes to the grave
side. The members of the govern
ment were present, and full military
honors were rendered by detach-
ment from the Esthonian army. Hun
dreds of townspeople followed the
funeral cortege and stood bareheaded
for an hour in the rain while the
last honors were rendered.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-30

the continent
At this juncture the American Red
Cross came to the rescue. Adequate
disinfecting and delousing plants
were rushed from Paris to Reval at
the urgent request of Lieutenant
Colonel Ryan. The commissioner OBJ
tanned full authority form the Estho-
MAN government to control all traf-
fic of every kind to and from the in
fected areas and to take every other
measure deemed necessary to met
tn situation.
Volunteers were called upon to go
into the plague zone at the risk OF
their lives, and take up the program
of preventive sanitation mapped out
by the commissioner. Every member
of the commission volunteered.
Twenty officers were selected. They
were Immediately sent to Narva to
set up the delousing plants and begin
the fight on typhus.
When they arrived they found the
city Frustrated with fear. Nearly
every local doctor and nurse was
dead. The survivors, seized with
panic, had fled, leaving the stricken
patients to care for themselves. The
hospitals were found in an unspeak-
able state of filth, sick and conval-
escent lying in heaps on the floors,
some wrapped in blankets, >others in
bundles of rags, still others with no
covering whatever, shivering in the
intense cold.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-30
FAVOR TO KINGS IRKS SWISS
Waiver of Customs Rules at Frontier
Sharply Criticized by
Newspapers.

Geneva, Switzerland.-An order Is
sued to the troops and customs officials
guarding the Swiss-Gerinan frontier
that If the former kings of Bavaria and
Wuerttemberg and the former grand
duke of Baden desire to enter Switzer-
land with their suites all frontier for
malities must be waived in their favor
Is causing considerable discussion In
the Swiss newspapers. The order says
the former monarchs and the onetime
grand duke may come into Switzerland
without being subjected to the usual
procedure at the frontier.
One Of the newspapers in criticizing
the order asks whether the Swiss gov
eminent Is democratic or monarchistic.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-30
Just Folks
By EDGAR A. GUEST
A LONGED.FOR JOY.

do not envy millionaires
The many things that they can do,
Though endless bank accounts are
theirs,
And mine last week overdrew.
| do not sit around and sigh
And wall in sorrows gloomy way
That they have things cannot buy
| don't want all their joys today.
| would not look on life as grim
Because own no gilt-edged stocks.
But confess, l envy him
Who buys his golf balls by the box.
would not be a millionaire
To deck myself with diamond rings
And have expensive clothes to wear
And luxuries that money brings.
I'm satisfied to plod along
And count the cost of what ! get;
A toiler In the larger tlrong
I'm quite content to be. and yet
Whenever wealthy men | see,
And at our club they move in 1ocks,
Dne of the few I'd like to be
Who buy their golf balls by the box
, new ball. smooth and shining white
To me is a seventy-five-cent treat;
When | indulge in such delight
must cut down on what ] eat,
And olhy now and then dare
TO put new ball into play.
But he who Is a millionaire
May start fresh one every day.
I'd be monarch. crowned and
throned,
And count myself secure from
shocks,
II ever coin enough | owned
To buy my golf balls by the box.
copyright by Edgar A. Guest|
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-30

cases of typhus in Esthonia and the
entire country was IN a panic Of
despair.
The daily death rate was seven
persons out of every hundred in the
infected Districts and the epidemic
was gaining foothold everywhere,
when the American Red Cross COM
mission under Lieutenant Colonel
Edward w. Ryan of Scranton, Pa,
stepped into the breach.
The EsthOnians had fought the
disease with no knowledge of how to
proceed. Instead of eradicating filth
and establishing quarantine ring
about the infected points they con-
fined their efforts to providing hos
pitalization for the sick. Nothing
was done to check the spread of con-
tagion, and, as the epidemic grew in
proportions, Esthonia was seized with
black despair to such an extent that
merchants closed their shops and
farmers refused to till their fields,
all believing they must fall victims
to the disease and that there was no
further object in maintaining COM
merce and industry.
Meanwhile diplomatic representa-
tives at Reval we're appealing to
their countries for help, representing
the grave danger that the epidemic
might work southwark to Poland and
East Prussia and thence sweep east
and west until ii had OVERWHELMED
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-30
TYPKUS PLAGUE
BEING OVERCOME
Red Cross Workers Save
Many Lives in
E.sthonia
(By Universal Service)

PARIS.-How a little band of
twenty devoted Americans, members
of the American Red Cross commits
sion to the Baltic states, saved prob
ably thousands of lives in Europe
from the menace of a terrible typhus
epidemic, has just been learned here
in detail The information comes
from prominent American business
man, who recently travelled through
the Baltic territories and inspected
infinitely the conditions in Esthonia,
where Red Cross workers recently
delivered the country from the grip
of typhus.
When the forces of General Yude-
mitch retreated from Esthonia they
brought with them the typhus infec-
ton. The plague spread with alarm
ing rapidly, raging most violently
in the city of Narva. Within few
weeks there were fifteen thousand
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-30
BenefIcent Work of the "Flu."

Jackson, O--Thirteen years ago
Charles Holcomb lost his speech dur
ing an illness. He was drafted for
service in the war but because he was
dumb was rejected. Some weeks ago
he became a victim of influenza. He
has now recovered. and finds that the
"1u' brought back his speech. When
he told his mother he was able to talk,
she suffered nervous prostration from
the shock,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-30
Eloury Faces.

when was kid we used to throw
-four. You could see faces full OF
-four"
IF you jedge by -four on the race
responded old Uncle Pennywise, my
nieces think life Is perpetual Hal
lowe'en."-Mutual Magazine.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-30
The Way IL Goes.

Farmer Brown-What's your son HI
ram doing in the big city these days!
Farmer Green-Studying for doc
tor.
Farmer BrOwn--What's the matter
Doctor too lazy to study himseIff
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-11-27
NO USE TO FORCE MATTERS

There are a great number OF sup
posedly smart men who are Of Demo-
cratic persuasion. who are cluttering
up the public press, with schemes and
appeals for the Reorganization" OF
the Democratic party.
This Is wholly uncalled for and
premature-for time and events will
be the best guides. In this connec-
tion the World Herald Of Omaha, GER
tainly makes one sound remark when
it says that '1f the party is to be re-
organized the work must be done by
those who belong to It," This Is
doubtless intended primarily for that
eminent citizen of Nebraska whose
heart lay in the grave along with
prohibition all during the campaign
and from whom nothing was heard
except a doleful sound from the
tombs until after the election was
over. Then he lifted his sunk head,
rubbed his hands briskly. and began
to tell the democrats what to do. One
thing they will do II they are wise,
and that Is to warn Mr.. Bryan to do
his boring from without. not within.
The chief hopo Of the party must
llo in the coming to the front Of men
who have both character and sagacity.
They must know how to bide their
time, yet also how to seize every Of
fercd opportunity. Many inviting
openings are sure to be given by the
dangerously swollen republican ma
jority. The hour will come when. if
democratic leaders did not exist, it
would be necessary to invent them.
But there is no use in trying to force
matters. When the man needed ap-
pears we shall know him. And then
the repair Of the party machinery
will follow naturally. When the born
reorganizer arrives it is no longer
needful to talk OF reorganization.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-11-27

to no ovractoao. THO administration,
in undertaking tbc barcu,o,r task or
.ropy.r-ipr this rrc,t rcrpbli, from, n
.pgacc f,ct,rv T., n war r,.torv called
the host busiposs obility of tbo co,n-
f,.y Fl, its ia--,,j ,,,. ,.,r,, l,r,,, ma.
i,rity off mon &, r,rral ,yoro r.rubri-
cans ,rba,. ,,crc tho opts,,,di,g
leaders Of IN, financial industrial
nrn f., smear ,5,,, with ,,f.,b q, ts,r
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-11-27
THE REASON PRICES ARE FALL
ING


There are those who can see calam-
lty In the drop in the prices OF things
to eat and to wear to levels within
reach Of 90 per cent Of the people
but these few cannot see very much
beyond the end OF their noses. You
may not have realized it. but for the
last eight months there has been in
progress the greatest silent boycott in
the history OF American business 1t
was not organized, but the public in
this country is most sagacious and
most forceful when 1t acts on a com
mon impulse. That is why our de-
mocracy is safe and will endure. II
takes some time for the people to
make up their minds. but when they
do they move along common-sense
lines with a force that is irresistible.
They patiently endured the exac-
tions of the profiteors during the war
for patriotism's sake, though they
had their suspicious all tho while
After the armistice was signed they
held their peace so that the process
OF readjustment might be unhamper-
ed, but when they saw that the banks
were discouraging production by high
! discount rates and prohibitive
premium on the commercial dollar
and that the law of supply and de-
mand was being held in suspense by
artificial methods they suddenly de-
clded to cut off the demand. And
they did 1t effectively.
That IS why you have seen so many
tailors standing idly in their doorways
with a begunlng look on their faces
like that Of a Baxter street barker;
that is why the cobbler has been
working all hours or the night while
the shoe man has had his hands in
his own pockets instead OF yours
That is why the fur man and the
jeweler and the silk shirt manufac-
turer have been crying panic when
there Is no panic except the shiveT
in his own boots.
The public has picked up its old
muzzle loader. and II the retailers are
wise they'll do like Davy Crockett's
coon:
Don't shoot, Mr.. Crockett" said
this wise one. "I'll come down"
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-11-27
A CRIME TO BE PRESIDENT

Is it after all a crime to be the
president Of the United States?
For eight years past Woodrow VIII
son has been president-he now sits
In the White House broken and weary,
his work reyiled and his character
subjected 10 the most venomous Of
attacks. Again it may be asked. Is
it after all a crime to be PRESIDENT
The sum ard substance OF all evi-
dence indicates that It is. Tho man
who has just been elected. promptly
as no takes the inauguration oath.
will become a maligned and despised
figure.
The history OF the presidents Of
the United States testifies TO the
startling conclusion that in the eyes
Of contemporaries the president is al
ways contemplate man. more sin
ming than sinned against.
The men who have reached what
should be the pinnacle of honor have
always been condemned and excori-
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-11-27
But KEEPS Up GASOLINE PRICE

You probably have noticed that the
Uncle Jawn DIS Standard Oil Co. has
little surplus Of $3.50. 900. 900 ready
to turn over to the stockholders-but
note what it is doing.
Had 1t distributed this amount as
a dividend to the stockholders in the
usual way. It would be subject to fed
eral taxation. the rate being very high
in the case of those with large hold
ings. But It distributes it in the form
OF an untaxed stock dividend. which
gives the stockholders one and one
half shares for each share he now
owns. or $3.50, 900. 900 par value in all.
Gasoline now sells for 2Sh cents a
gallon. lubricsting oils at a great ad-
vance over even war prices and pc
troleum products of all sorts at a
high figure. Are these prices due,
as is alleged. to a petroleum scarcity
or to the fact that the STANDARD Oil
Co. can use the money!
This stock dividend indicates that
when almost everything else Is com
ing down Standard Oil products can
bear material reductions.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-11-27

from the senatorial censors, who were
fixtures OF the front porch during the
campaign. his uttcranccs since the
election have been increasingly mill
tariatic.
We need not dwell upon the bad
taste OF presidcnt-eiect continuing
to radiculo and deny. as he did at
Brownsville on Armistice day. the no
BILE sentiment that we went to war to
make the W0S2d safe for democracy.
That is a brutal disclaimer of an ideal
which our own people win some day
have to consider in all its bearings.
What will give the statesmen and
people OF the world most concern is
the needless emphasis he places upon
our readiness to fight for our rights"
president who made light of "democ-
raCy. humanity. Righteousness and un-
failing justice"-the terms are his
own--and gloried only in narrow ma
tionality and our ability to assert H.
anywhere with the strong arm. The
proclamation of this sordid doctrine
was left to a man chosen for the
chief magistracy by the largest ma
iority ever given in this country, aud
who will take office controlled, as
there is reason to believe. by interests
having definite programs upon which
he only generalizes.
Senator Harding talks as the Prus-
SLAMS talked at The Hague peace con-
ferences in 1899 and 1907; as the
kaiser talked in July. 1914. when war
was afoot; as the pan Germans talk
today. Obligations OF any kind are
to him vexatious and un-American.
We must be wholly free, he says, es-
pecially to fight. All our predatory
elements will agree with him. Those
who want war with Japan. war with
Mexico. war with England. will ap-
plaud every word.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-11-27

About two-thirds of the white end
OF the Republican party in st. Louis
seems to be now engaged In seeking
some means to keep the black end Of
the party in that city from serving
in the state legislature-in other
words-in trying to keep the negro
elected to the legislature from taking
his seat-for the taking of which
spells so much trouble In future for
the cops who were ready to promise
the colored man and brother any old
thing just so he delivered the colored
vote.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-11-27
How About St Louis?

Those who supported Mr.. Hyde for
governor are looking to him to clean
up Kansas City, and there is no de-
nying the need for 1t. but when DEM
ocratic Kansas City is cleaned up we
are going to soc what he means to
do In Republican st. Louis, where the
need for reform Is equally insistent.
If there is to be a house cleaning"
as certain gentlemen promised in the
campaign days, let it not be confined
to any one spot in the state.-Glas-
gov Missourian.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-11-27
Retail Prices Should Drop

Last Tuesday the lowest price since
1915 was paid for live stock in Kan
sas City. hogs ranging from s11.S5 to
$3.50 to $40. Buying of feeders was
estimated to have dropped 40 per
cent A frightened money market was
blamed for this situation. Stock ex-
change men declared, that on a basis
of prices now being paid for live
stock, meat at retail should be 80 per
cent lower. Similar decreases in live
stock were also shown at Chicago.
st. Louis and elsewhere.-Glasgow
Missourian.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-11-27

ated in the bitterest fashion. Their
private lives have been the food and
, drink OF scandal-mongers; their mo-
tivcs in performing their duties have
been suspected.
Washington. rcvercd as the father
Of our country, was the target of the
most scurrilous attacks. Lincoln.
loved Of all men in 1920, was a flond
in 1865. scorncd by his own cabinet,
branded as a traitor and an autocrat,
he was finally murdered by IAN avon-
ger Of the people"
Lincoln's Gettysburg speech, impec-
| cable in its English and lofty in its
sentiment, was termed by n news
paper of that time a partisan politi-
cal preachment.
The daily life of president is that
OF a slave Goaded by a lash. lie is
sought by thousands upon thousands
of office-huntcrs, hangers-on, curious
ones, cranks. Upon his shoulders is
the sickenlng responsibility for for
eign and domestic policies, aims and
troubles. lie is daily pressed for So
lutions OF grave and intricate prob
lens. He must entertain, be enter
tained. make speeches. pardon con-
victs and grant favors.
His person is surrounded by guards
Nth Itnf 10 20 .y,gr h Niv,N
wherever he goes. In order to be
alone he must elude these men. and
by doing so lays himself open to the
possibility OF assassination.
Mr.. Wilson has lived thus for eight
, years. His problems in particular
have been cosmic In their scope
From the moment he was elected in
| 1912 his fortune has been 20 treat the
most delicate matters of state. Labor
troubles, the Mexican situation. the
agonizing period between 1914 and
1917, the momentous decision of
April. 1917, and the arduous months
in Paris at the peace conference were
his lot.
When tho major work was done he
returned to America and found him
self criticised and repudiated. The
peace treaty, the fruit OF the war. was
rejected. Mr.. Wilson's pledged word
to our allies In war that we should
cooperate with them In peace has
not been fulfilled. During the presi-
Dental campaign he has been de-
nounced and cursed as wicked man.
The next president will not escape.
He, too, must run the scorching
gauntlet OF abuse for the next four
years. The crime OF being president
will be impressed upon him each
passing day. He will be treated as a
felon rather than as an honorable
man.
And whether he retires quietly like
George Washington, is brutally killed
like Lincoln. Garfield and Mckinley
or must be put In an invalid's litter
like Woodrow Wilson, he will realize
that the honor and glory Of the presi-
dency is a fiction which is recognized
only by posterity.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-11-27
What You Want-or Can Buy

Mrs. Blanch Taylor. wife of Rolla
Taylor, marketed twelve turkeys
Monday to Marion Spencer. Marion
paid her 81 cents a pound for them
and the twelve netted her $3.50.
ing us about it and had the nerve to
ask us If we wanted to buy a turkey
for Thanksgiving. We long ago
learned that 1t is not always what
you WANT to buy. but what you
CAN buy. We guess we will have to
Standard.