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BOOST THE ABSENT VOTERS BALLOT.

The absent voters ballot has
worked so smoothly, has proved it
self SO convenient and practical and
common sense like In this election
that its use will inevitably be ex-
tended to all those who wish to vote
in advance of election day whether
absent or not.
Why not? Why ask people to
rush and crowd and jam to their
polling; places. men and women, all
on a fixed day, regardless of wind
or rain or sleet or other inconven.
ience when they could just as we'll
have been going to the court house
for a week In advance and leaving
sealed secret ballot to be opened and
counted, on election day.. These
ballots could be counted when the
other votes are counted Just as the
absent voters ballots were counted?
For years if the weather were bad
and the roads impossible on election
day we have called it good demo-
attic weather because We had learned
that thousands in the rural districts
would be prevented from voting.
This was In the days of votes for
men only and the men were sup.
posed In those days to travel or,
horse hack. Now we have the women
with US. God bless them, as the,
politicians always remark and we
travel by motor vehicle or stay
away. Why wait until set day and
take chances on the weather or other
Inconvenience when so simple plan
as the absent voters ballot offers
sane and sensible relief?
Absent from home on election day
for any cause whatever is sufficient
excuse to vote by mail and in ad-
vance OF election day. Absence from
the polls on election day enforced by.
the weather by accident, sick
ness or by press OF other duties dis
franchises a voter as tho he had
served in the penitentiary or had
been born in q foreign land and
could neither read nor write.
All it needs to accept and adopt a
logical. rational reform Is for leg
islator with an idea to display the
courage Of his convictions and then
appeal the the women voters for his
reward. In the near future there will
be an election week prior to an elec-
tion day during which week any and
all who may so desire may go to the
court house, the city hall or the con-
solidated school and deposit their
ballots sealed and certified on the
cover by some official bound by oath
and subject to penalties to preserve
the absolute secrecy Of the ballots in
his care. Then the board of election
auditors will begin to count the bal
lots at noon Of election day and vot-
ing will cease to become the con-
vulsion of Inconvenience, and delay
that 1t has been since the old fash
ioned days Of the town meeting or
mass meeting method Of conducting
public business.
Chinese used wall papers in prehis-
toric times.
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RADIcALIsm THREATENS Ens,ann

Ine English government has
settled its coal strike by some kind
OF q compromise but it has not
settled the cause Of that strike or the
cause %of the railroad strike and It
can not settle those conditions until
there Is some kind OF show down
In ERgland between the socialist
Bolshevfk classes and the loyal citi-
zens OF that country.
The coal strike was not q griev-
ance OF coal miners half so much as
q determination on the part of the
socialists to overpower the govern
ment. They were the instigators of
the railroad strike and they were
disappointed when the citizens
rushed to arms as it were with a
determination to run the trains. This
time they had hoped to paralize the
Hcountry with a combined coal and
railroad strike. take over the govern
ment and install the Russian soviet
in England.
The government in England Is
sorely pressed and beset during these
trying times Of after pains resulting
from the war. The people suffered
much toswin the war and their eco
nomic hardships must be great for
years to come. It is during the dark
hours Of discomfort that the advo-
Gates Of disorder. direct action, anti
capitalist propaganda get in their
work. They have been at it in Eng
land. They very nearly forced the
government to recognize the soviet
government Of Russia and would
have forced Poland into surrender to
the soviet had not France gone to
Poland's aid single handed.
England must have a show down
and knock-down with it's forces of
disorder. It might as well be fought
out In coal strike as in railroad
strike. The majority who constitute
any government must test strength
with the minority classes who seek
the overthrow of majority govern
ment in their selfish class interest.
The purely business controversies
over wages or hours Of work can al
ways be settled b.. arbitration but
the desire Of the radicals to change
established government by direct at
tacks can never be satisfied with less
than blow between the eyes.
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REAL RED BLOOD
Copyright
1920
BY FLORIAN SLAPPEY
As Told to OCTAVUS ROY COHEN

Speakin' of football started
Florian Slappey when Lawyer Evans
Chew, colored attorney par excellence.
interrupted curtly.
"They want nobody speakin' of
football. Mistuh Slappey."
"Yesuh, they was"
"Who?"
Me"
I amt intrusted," snapped the
counsellor in legal affairs.
"You amt intrusted In nothin'
which makes sensel"
Chew stiffened in his chair. "Says
which?"
Says you don't crave to exercise
them things which you has which
other folks calls brains"
you is foolish as you looks, Flo'ian
Slappey. knows all what they is to
know bouten football"
What you know, Lawyer Chew?"
II knows it's a good, red -blooded
spoht, am
Red-blooded is right" grinned
Florian reminiscently. Does you re-
member that game we seen las yeah
Wiggilin' Tripe! but that was
a red-blooded game alright ;"
Lawyer Chew warmed up. "They
ain't no sense to football, nohow. GIFTS
twenty-five men together an let's 'em
kill each other 'thout arrestin' no.
body an 'thout also no cause-not
even a good crap game to git the
fellers intrusted in they wuk. Fool
ishment seems to be bout the on'y
thing football amt nothin' else but"
That's cause you is losin' yo' pep,
Lawyer Chew. Now this heah foot
ball season OF 1920 Is showed a heap
Of things"
Il Graves to know which?"
well, TO- one thing, it shows that
the under dog is gwine have his day
i'm he waits long enough. Mahk,
Lawyer Chew. that they is ben sev'al
big teams-an' even mon that-which
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ELECTION CAN'T BOOM BUSINESS.

The election will not do much to
stop the downward trend Of prices
and that building is slowing down all
over the country owing to tight
money and high cost is the report of
Dun's Review for this week which
says:
Hopes that reviving business will
follow the elections find expression
in some quarters, but the results Of
the balloting are not likely to prompt
a sudden reversal OF consumers
buying disposition, and there is no
general expectation Of any inmed-
late appreciable recovery from the
existing economic depression. While
confusion over the fundamental
causes of the commercial reaction
has not been lacking. political fac
tors do not explain the steadily yield
ing prices of commodities, the in
creasing curtailment Of production,
and the continued spread Of unem-
ployment, and can hardly be singled
out as giving promise of any abrupt
change from this situation. At bot
tom, the business readjustment, as
has been frequently reiterated, is the
inevitable outgrowth Of the great in
flation and overextension Of the war
period and afterward, and the move
ment toward a sounder and more
wholesome basis is not one which can
be swiftly completed, or effected
without some measure of distur-
bance."
AS to curtailment being general in
operations the Review says:
tivities Is now practically country
wide, following an earlier tendency
toward expansion, is evidenced by
special survey Of the situation just
made thru branch offices Of K. G.
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Harding Blood Pure White For 200 Years

Since the days Of secession and
slavery and the white heat Of politi-
cal controversy that brought on the
civil war when whisperings thruout
the slave states cast suspicion upon
the legitimacy Of Abraham Lincoln's
birth there never has boon SO das-
tardly an attack upon an American
candidate for the presidency as the
one made upon Warren G. Harding
in this campaign. TO think that a
man descended from a long line of
Revolutionary War heroes should be
accused falsely of having negro
blood in his veins is almost incon-
ceivable. Democrats of very few
northern states descended to the
crime OF participation In 1t but the
trustees of Wooster College, at
Wooster, Ohio in Harding's home
state, incontinently fired professor
who circulated the charge and thru
out the border states of kentucky.
Tennessee and Missouri where race
feeling Is always high and where
there was danger Of the republicans
capturing a part Of the democratic
solid south the story was peddled
from house to house.
Mr.. Harding has considered the lie
too dirty and too damnable to justi-
fy reply but 1t became too serious
to be ignored and his friends made
reply. Entire front pages of last
Sundays newspapers in eastern and
southern cities were devoted to ex-
posure of the slander.
The story as circulated by the
professor who was fired was to the
effect that Hardings' grandfather
was Amos Harding and that he mar
ried Mary Ann Dixon, a negress. The
story was false in fact and false in
detail for Senator Hardings grand
fathers name was not Amos but
Charles Alexander Harding and
Charles Alexander's wife who was
the grandmother OF Warren G. was
Mary Ann Crawford from an aristo-
cratic Virginia family.
There was an Amos Harding
among Warren G. Hardings ances-
tors. He was not the Senator's
grandfather. however. but his great
grandfather. The name Of his wife
was not Mary Ann Dixon, but Phoebe
Tripp, who belonged to a well known
Colonial family OF Pennsylvania.
Sister Is D. A. n.
Grace M. Pierce. formerly regis
trar-general of the D. A. r. gives the
following sketch OF Warren G. Hard
ing's heroic ancestry:
In the several sketches OF Senator
Harding's ancestry that have been
published from time to time his re-
lationship to the Harding families Of
the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania,
has been emphasized to the exclusion
Of the distinguished services of his
own immediate ancestors. Capt.
Abraham Harding, from whom the
senator is directly descended, served
several years In the state troops from
Orange county, New York, during the
Revolution
Some years later he moved to
Monroe county. New York His son
Amos. with his wife, Phoebe Tripp,
descendant of the well known Tripp
family OF Rhode Island settled in
Richland county, Ohio. where his son
and grandson, the senator's great
grandfather and grandfather, mar
ried. RESPECTIVELY, Elizabeth Madison
and Mary Ann Crawford, descend
ants of well know Virginia families.
On his mothers side the senator
has equally DISTINGUISHED ancestry.
she being the daughter Of Isaac
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out mattresses are too soft for com
fort. The Chinese use low bedsteads,
often elaborately carved, and sup
porting only mats, while the Japanese
use mating couch and wooden
neck rest instead Of pillow. A pc
culiarity of the German bed is it's
shortness; besides that it frequent
ly consists in part Of large down
pillow or upper mattress, which
spreads over the sleeper and usual
ly answers the purpose OF all the
other ordinary bed clothing. The
Italian bed Is much bigger than ours,
especially in the north Of Italy. But
millions Of people in Europe, es-
pecially in Russia, have never slept
in a bed in their lives. being content
with mat or a rug on the floor.
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now has but one daily newspaper,
the Press and Citizen consolidating
under the name Of Press Citizen.
One paper can care. for the needs Of
Iowa City nicely. Under the new sys-
tenn it will be possible for the read
ers to get more efficient service than
is possible where the community un-
Gertakes to support two daily papers.
In this connection it might be inter
esting to remember that Mason City,
Fort Dodge and Marshalltown are all
one newspaper towns"
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Topics of the

Odds Of seven to one on Harding
on the New York stock exchange are
the greatest odds ever offered on any
presidential candidate since 1876.
When the concrete ship Cape Fear
collided with another boat last week
it sank in three minutes. thus adding
one more vindication of the democrat
war administration S ability to guess
wrong.
Superiority OF the soviet govern
ment in Russia to the democrat party
In America is evidenced in the fact
that the soviet can count It's deficit
irto the trillions. That ought to make
a billion look like 80 cents.
Germany still objects to giving up
100000 cows to France and yet that
Is less than per cent OF Germany's
herd and Germany has as many
cows as she had before the war. Ship
ment OF cows from the Y. s. to Eu-
rope mas peSuu.
sss
Again we quote Hoover who said
that the Solemn referendum" was
not as to the league of nations hut
as to the failure Of the democrat
party.
or course the ice man may worry
if this weather continues until jan
tinues but we rejoice with glee at the
thought Of what it is doing to the
coal man.
Explain 1t as best we can the
present period OF the 80 cent dollar
has sent two boys and girls to col
lege where there never was but one
before.
Evidence OF the let-down in bust
ness and curtailed buying by the
public is afforded In the monthly re-
port of Sears. Roebuck s. Co., the bis
Chicago mail order house. Sales dur
ing October were $20.113,426. de-
cline OF 10 per cent from the same
month last year. This is the largest
decline yet shown this year and
brings the increase for the ten
months this year compared with the
similar period last year down to 7.2s
per cent. October was the fourth con-
secutive month to show a decrease
from last year.
The railroads under private con.
troll have gained in efficiency equiv
alent to adding half million freight
cars to their rolling stock. 1t has been
done by moving the cars from 223
miles per car per day to PA and by
increasing the loads from an average
OF 2S.3 tons per car to 2s.6 tons. this
denotes an increased movement OF
22& per cent III freight or an equiyo
ent of 100000 new freight cars l..
service.
] Watchful waiting is about to cease
In the recognition Of the new govern
ment in Mexico. In the meantime I'M
migration figures show that most OF
Mexico has moved into Texas to get
q Job and something to eat.
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registers his name, If you have eyes

registers his name, II you have eyes
to read It!
8. How do squirrels act when
Jumping from heights?
During their descent upon such oc-
casions the squirrels legs are widely
extended, their bodies are broadened,
and fiattened, the tail stiffened and
slightly curved, and curious
tremulous motion runs thru all. 1t is
very obvious that a deliberate at
tempt is made to present the broad
est surface possible to the air, and ]
think a red squirrel might leap from
almost any height to the ground
without serious injury.
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Beds of the Nations,

The English and Americans are the
most luxurious races in the world as
regards sleeping comforts, and after
them the French. Professional travel
.ars of these nations who have oc-
casion to penetrate into Europe gem
orally take their beds with them. The
Chinese and Japanese complain that
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HANDY DIRECTORY
/ -OF THE
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings
.vie;tor. Always Welcoms.

MARSHALL LODGE NO. 1oS, A.
f. A. NJ. Third degree, Friday NOV.
s, 1880 p, M, sharp, Supper served
at $3.50. G. c. Jennings. w. NJ: John
w. Wells, secretary.
sIGNET CHAPTER NO. ss. Royal
Arch, Monday, Nov. s, 1880 O'Clock.
Post Master, Frank T. Nokes, II. ~
John w. Wells. secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL NO.
90, stated assembly; Monday, Oct To-
Business meeting. Carl Shaffner' w.
M. John w. Wells, recorder.
CoNcLAvE ST. ALDEMAR COM
MANDERY NO. 80. Tuesday. NOV.
.. 7.so D. m. order of the Temple
Clyde H. Stewart. commander; Jonn
w. Wells, recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81 Q.
r. 6. Special meeting "Wednesday
evening November 10 at 1880 o'clock
for initiation. Past Matrons will put
on the work. Mrs. w. ]. Richards,
". NJ; Mrs. Archer Walton, secre-
tary.
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Cow Rides on cowcatcher.

Motorists" OF Williamsport. Pa,
waiting at a railroad crossing for
train to pass. found out the reason
why the pilot Of a locomotive is
called cowcatcher. On that part Of
the engine q middle aged COW sat,
taking in the view, if not enjoying
the ride. When the motorists signaled
the engineer the train stopped and
the COW was assisted from her perch,
none the worse for her experience.
When and how she was picked up.
the trainmen did not know.
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Answers TO Yesterdays Question

Answers 20 Yesterdays Questions.
l. Will a phoebe bird pick rasp-
berries?
once saw a phoebe bird swoop
down upon raspberry bush and
carry berry to rail on near
fence, but did not therefore jump to
the conclusion that the phoebe was
a berry eater. What it wanted was
the worm in the berry. How do I
know? Because saw It extract
something from the berry and fly
away.
2. How is the snow natures news
paper?
recently met a business man who
regularly goes camping to the Maine
woods every winter from the delight
he has in VARIOUS signs Of wild life
written upon the snow. His morning
paper, he says. is the sheet Of snow
which he reads in his walk. Every
event is chronicled. every new arrival
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IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

1T is well, that the boom stopped
where it did," says the Davenport
Democrat. Here in eastern Iowa
values were already so we'll estab-
lished that the boom did not touch us
as It did some other parts Of the
state. Our farms are priced pretty
high, but they are worth every cent
of the price,"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reminds
us that "Only one president re-
turned to public life after quitting
his office. John Quincy Adams, re-
firing from the presidency in 1929,
returned to Washington in 1881 as
"a member of the house Of representa-
tives, at, the age Of 81. Friends feared
this step would dim the luster of
his great fame, but his service in
congress only added to his renoWn."
The Mason City Globe Gazette re-
marks that Formerly the police used
to look for the footprints Of the
burglars, and now they look for the
marks Of their automobile tires.'
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald
factiously remarks that 1T should
be hoped that the practice Of shoot
Ing landlords who raise rents will not
become fashionable"
Three horrible examples move the
newton News to remark: "Iowa City
Evening times-Republican., 1920-11-03

Estimates place Utah's, unminea
coal resources at a billion and quar-
ter Of tons.
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1Obn burroughs
, S Nss'tss::: Ns's::

1. VIII brood Of owls keep to-
gether?
2. How does moth first acquire
the use of it's wings?
8. How does the mind affect what
we see?
Evening times-Republican., 1920-11-03

Chinese used wall papers in prehis-
toric times.
Evening times-Republican., 1920-11-03

Three horrible examples move the
Newton News to remark: "Iowa City
New Britain herald., 1920-06-26
INTERNATIoNAL LEAGrE.
CORINTHIANS COMING
Speedy Coiored Team of Hartford VIII
 Oppose Pioneers Ellis Street Grounds
 Tomorrow Afternoon; Fast Game Expected.

The Corinthians of Hartford have been booked by Manager James c Luby, of tho Pioneers. for gamS on the Ellis street dia- mond tomorrow srernoon. The Capital City aggregation is saHi to be of the fastest colored clubs performing in New England The team was scheduled play here three weeks ago, rain causing postpor ment Pans were greatly disa ppointed at the time The management Of th" Corinthians has selected tn" strongest team possible to cure. victory the locals would more than pleas" the Hartford crowd. In the lineup will br the following players:
 Thompson. trst base: Sc.aife. second base {: Glover. third base; Hickman. shortstop. NcCray. left ncld: Davis. centerneId: Brain erd. rRh' field: Dawkins. catcher: Jones pitcher
 The Pioneers will use Palmer on the pitching knoll and Mickey SconAn will be On the receiving end.
New Britain herald., 1920-06-26
ANNEX TO PLAY IN wILLIMANTIc

The Annex baseball team has a hard game ahead Sunday. when il will play the crack American Thread Company team in wiIli- mantle The Thread Company team is of the leading semi-pro teams in the state and a win them would add much to the reputation of the Annex aggregation. Manager McConn has secured the services of Lefty Hayes. who shut out the wilimantic team short time ago and with Captain Marty Holleran behind the bat. the com bination should prove Il hard to beat. The trip will b. made by automobile, Ieav- ing the of Main and Church streets al 1 o'clock sharp
New Britain herald., 1920-06-26

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 Pennington, Conn.
 By my methods all diseases are curabIc including persistent coughs, colds, chest and lung diseases, all ner- vous conditions. skin diseases and lTouDIeS NitH pooltNSiS iio failures in neuritis sciatica or any form of rheumatism.
 Electro Therapy treatments of all forms. Electric Light Baths, Alpine Sun Rays, Ultra Violet Rays, Arc Vio- let Rays and the Masseur Machine treatments are given my patients withou. additional cost. Working people and families are treated until cured for S1.50 per treatment.
New Britain herald., 1920-06-26
HORNSBY FAR AHEAD
CsrdinsTe sisortstop We'll in Lead for the /B Bsetsng Hor~~- in National League
 Carey Best Ba~e-PiIferer.

Chicago. June 26.-St. Louis. which has been clamorfng for baseball distinction for years. is finding soace in the batting per- formances of Sisler and Rogers Hornsby. The latter is in immediate danger of being busted from the batting leadership of the National League. having average Of .as1. Nicholson. of Pittsburgh is trailing him in second place with $50. Roush, of Cincinnati, is third with .337.
 Hornsby and Robertson. of Chicago, giving Cy Williams, of Philadelphia. a close fight for home-run honors. Williams has belted out seven. while Hornsby and Robert have made six each.
 Max Carey. of Pittsburgh, is setting the pace for the base-stealers with a total of 19 Roush of Cincinnati. and Hollocher. of Chi cago. are next in line with 14 each.
 other leading batters: Robertson. Chicago .335: Daubert. Cincinnati .333; Smith, New York. .s3s: FIack. Chicago. 1925: Duncan. Cincinnati. aga: Kelly, New York. .317; Myers Brooklyn. .31T: Young, New York, .31e; Groh. Cincinnati, .3I1.