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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-20
,ElI:kI|EVNCLE WlGGITX IE IN 81
BEDTINAE STONY


called. May have some ,,,,,,,
lady housekeeper. DO you mean some
of the cherry pie I've Just baked?'
Yes, and also some of the big, broad
leaves from your rubber plant went
on the rabbit gentleman. Il want to
make a springing jump board for Jim
ME the duck"
You can't make a spring board out
of cherry pie-the idea" laughed Nurse
Jane
Il wasn't going to. | was going to
eat the pie and make the spring board
out of leaves from the rubber plant
they'll stretch and spring" said the
bunny. -,
Uncle Wiggily took lot of the big
long, thick leaves from the rubber
plant, and tied them together, Then
he cut them into something almost the
shape of a board Putting this on his
shoulder, he started back through the
woods.
you're forgetting the cherry pie"
cried Nurse Jane after him. Take some
for the duck and frog boys, too
SO Uncle Wigglly did, and how his
pink nose did twinkle, for he loved
cherry pie, And, when he reached the
edge of the duck pond ocean, | wish
you could have seen Jimmie and Bully
and Bawly. They tried to make their
noses twinkle, too. but not being pink,
they couldn't However. they could eat
cherry pie, and. when they got through,
they were pink all over, where tho
juice had run down, SO that was all
right. -, -.
leaf spring board in place, and when
Jimmie ran out on the end, and
bounced up and down, he sprang so
high he nearly touched the sky, and
almost didn't come down until Fourth
Of July. But at last he splashed into
the water and he cried:
oh. that's dandy jump board,
Then Bully and Bawly tried 1t, and
they leaped off, those frog boys did,
and they Nurned somersauts and pep
persaults and did mustard and vinegar
and horse radish jumps, and they had
great fun. SO the rubber plant made
The hest spring board that heart could
wish for, and, being STREET hy It didn't
break And once the old Skeeslcks tried
10 slide on It, but he bounded up ana
then he bounded down and then
splashed into the water and he cried:
"Gurgle' Urele' Coop and he.
sneezed forty 'leven times. Then he
didn't bother that rubber spring boaru
any more. and the animal boys thanked
Uncle WigEly and had lots Of fun.
And. II water doesn't run out OF the
gold fish bowl and chase the pussy
eats tail around the corner. III tell
you next about Uncle Wiggily and the
race.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-20
News of Memphis
10 Years Ago.

AUGUST 20, 1910.
Miss Louise Wilson left today for
Wisconsin, where she will spend the
remainder of the summer with rela-
tives and friends.
Mrs. F, Fern Curry returned to Mem
phis today after delightful visit with
friends in Kansas City.
Miss Earline Long has as her guest
Miss Frances Leiper, of Little Rock,
whom she visited during the summer
Miss Inez Meehan today returned TO
her home in Cairo, Ill, after visit
Of several days with Miss Winifred
Haynes, who accompanied her to Cairo
on brief visit.
Miss Elizabeth Staico returned home
today, after visit OF several weeks
with friends in Mississippi
Misses Estelle and Dorothy Lake are
spending the summer al Holland, Mich,
Prof and Mrs. G. II. Pfaff left today
for visit of several weeks with friends
in Northern cities.
Little Miss Irene Walsh left this
morning for Chicago, where she will
visit her grandmother.
Mrs. S. e. Barnette and daughter,
Miss Wayne. are visiting with friends
and relatives in Denver and other West
ern cities.
Mrs, $. E, Bailey left this afternoon
to be the guesct of friends in New
York for two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs John S. Williams and
little son are snending the summer at
Port Colburne Canada.
Mrs Mary Carlin, accompanied by her
daughters. Misses Sadie and Mary. and
Miss Katie May Carlin, left this after
noon for six weeks visit with friends
in Northern cities.
Mrs. J. w Ware and son, Warren,
are visiting with friends and relatives
in Chicago and other Northern points.
Mrs J. Mccarthy, of earthly, Mo-, is
the guest of Mrs. Ryan on McLemore
avenue.
Miss Thel Shumard left today for
Chicago, where she will spend the re-
mainder of the summer
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-20
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
YOUR HEART IN YOUR JOB.
BY DOROTHY DIX,
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
Copyright, 1920 by The Wheeler Syndicate Incl

nut 1t does. A pessimistic, uninter-
ested, weary unto dea tn Of this sort Of
thing person is a kind of lightning rod
That runs his own electric currents of
hope and enthusiasm into the ground.
end no business man can afford to have
her around him. And he won't.
Apply the enthusiasm test to your
own experience. Suppose you want to
buy hat. You go into millinery shop
and languid young person comes for
ward, somthering yawn behind her
hand, and looking as II she hated you
for disturbing her medtations by your
ill-timed desire for new headgear She
brings you the first two or three hats
she can lay her hands upon, without
even looking at the shape of your face,
and your complexion, to see the style
that will suit you, then she caps them,
hit or miss, on your head, and it's up
to you to take or leave them.
That girl couldn't sell you a hat in
million years. The one who gets your
money is the clerk who is on her tip
toes, who regards hat as the noblest
work of art, and herself as a sort of
miracle worker who makes homely pe0-
pie pretty by putting the right sort Of
lids on them, who fluffs your hair, and
holds the mirror this way and that and
is so enthusiastic about the hat she is
trying to sell you, that she actually
you buy it, nobody will be able to tell
you and Lillian Russell apart.
Put your heart into your work, daugh
ter. Get so interested in what you are
doing. that it won't be work any more.
1t will be play. You know the allure
Of the game consists in putting your
skill OF head and hand against some
opponent, or some adverse conditions.
Take that sporting spirit with you to
business. Match your cleVerness in
selling against the customers doubt
fulness about buying. Make bet with
the dictionary that 1t can't down you
on spelling. Break the speed limit with
your typewriter, Go exploring into the
history of every article your firm sells,
and the routes they travel to get to
their destinations.
Business Is the big game OF the world,
and it's fascinating thing to have
even the smallest part in it, II girls
only would realize it,
Put your heart In your work. daugh-
ter Don't let your job be side inter
est. something you think about when
you are not thinking about clothes ana
dances and the movies and whether Bob
will come around tonight or not, but
let your work be your chief interest.
Lie down and rise up with the thought
of it, Eat and sleep and drink the
thing you are trying to do, and your
successor is assured and your pay en-
velope will grow fat.
Put your heart in your work, for
where your heart is, there Is your
treasure also,
You bet it is. In business.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-20
The Usual Legislative Scandal

4 good sized scandal seems to have
developed In the Tennessee legislature
as result OF the fight over the suf-
frage question. There is usually scan
dial In the Tennessee legislst ure when
the vote Is close on any measure in
which a great number Of people are In
terested
The incident which has been given
much publicity probably does not differ
materially from other incidents that
have not been made public. Exposures
Of this kind are rare, as neither side to
u controversy Of such magnitude is
usually in position to point an accus-
ing finger at it's adversary.
BY no means all members Of the legis-
laturc who act QueerIy or reverse them
selves Mt the eleventh hour are guilty
Of yielding to pernicious influences, 1t
is simply the normal operation OF the
mind of the average Tennessee lcgisla-
tor.
Representative ode, Of Benton coun-
ty, is an honorable man. Yet, after
helping TO draw the resolution to post
pune NbHNihNt ANAbli w eAAAAah' "AlN ~
boring until late hour at night with
the antisuffraEists, he arose in hts
place the following morning and made
speech and cast his vote against the
resolution he had helped to draw. Every
one accepted in good faith Representa-
tive Odle's explanation that he had rc-
read the state Democratic platform and
convinced himself that it was not in
violation Of his oath Of office to vote
for ratification.
Charges are now made that Repre-
sentative Burn, the youngest member Of
the house. Il Republican from East Ten
nessee. was offered a substantial reward
by Representative Joe Hanover. and
that he did change hts vote and his
former position on the suffrage ques-
ton. OF course Mir. Hanover did not
pay Mr.. Burn any money, nor is It
probable that Mr.. Hanover promised
Mr.. Burn any money. Legislators do
not bride one another Such charges
are contrary to all precedent
We can imagine the sensation that
possessed Mr., r, X Riddick, who went
to the legislature at the reques, OF the
suffragists OF Shelby county to fight for
their cause. in the midst OF these
charges and countor-charEos Perhaps
Mr. Riddick understands by Tins time
II he did not before. the purpose of
those who were responsible for taking
from him the title Of leader and placing
the management in hands that know
how to get results.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-20
What's In a Name?
BY MILDRED MARSHALL
SELMA.

,Convrirbt 1ooo h., 49, u,.o.,.- g..
dit,t IL tne ""ee'e' syn
u'n'e' l"o''
women Selma IS a favorite in feminine
oI'rn'iaturt' IL Is an old kettle name,
meaning iair' ana named the beauti-
t ,u! "HuEhltrS OF ireland and Scotland
loT generation after generation. FL
nganE J. spread over the border into
EHg'ahu ana was stralShlWay adopted
as VA, l1ual laNoflte.
INC hloi' records a Selmat. which
may pc taken as identical with Selma,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-20

A young girl who Is just starting out
to earn her own bread and butter, AND
cake, asks me if | can tell her how
to succeed
Surely daughter, Just put your heart
in your work. Love your job. Go al
it with enthusiasm, and you can not
fail
Enthusiasm is as contagious as the
measles, and If you have bad case of
it, other people will catch it from you
and break out in a rash of faith in
you and assistance to you.
You can only interest others in the
thing in which you are interested your
self. You can only convince others of
the worth of the thing in which you
believe with all your soul Even God
only helps those who help themselves.
A woman. who is the highest paid
saleswoman in the country, once told
me that when she first started out as
a very young and inexperienced travel
ing saleswoman, that she was trying to
sell a big bill of goods to a particularly
hard sheled and grumpy merchant. She
wasn't making much Roadway, until a
man, sitting near and watching her eff
forts, put in word that turned the
scale for her and captured a splendid
order.
When she later tried to thank the
man who had come to her rescue, he
waved her aside.
"Oh,' he said, Everybody VIII help
person who is as much interested
in her work as you are"
And that's the whole Of the law and
the prophets, as regards success, daugh-
ter. Everybody will give you boost
up the ladder, II they see you are dead
bent on climbing to the top, but no
enc will shove you up IL you sit down at
the bottom of it, and look as If you
didn't care whether you moved up OF
down, or had any interest in ladders,
anyhow.
You are starting out as a stenogra-
phcr. You are a little slow. You make
a good many mistakes. Your spelling
isn't as dependable as it should be.
If you are lackadaisiCal and bored look
ing, and dawdle around with the air of
an early Christian mar@r because you
have to work at all, YOU will be fired
at the frs slackening Of business, or
shelVcd to some obscure place where
your inefficency will do the least harm.
and you will never sec any higher, or
get any better pay,
But IL you go at your job with en-
thusiasm, il YOU let your employer see
that your very soul Is concentrated on
pot hooks and typewriters. and that
your every thought is concerned with
attaining the highest efficiency in your
work, he will be patient with your mis-
takes, he will take the time and trouble
to teach you business methods, and he
Will put YOU in the line of promotion
II is YOUR attitude toward your work
that counts. II may seem to you not
to matter whether you are interested,
or bored stiff by the dictation you take
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-20
Bridgeport S Way.

The publtc-spiritcd city Of Bridge
port. Connecticut, has found and put
into operation a way Of relieving the
shortage in housing accommodation
Believing that the shortage WAS due
to the fact that building for rental pur-
poses did not offer sufficient induce
mcnts as an investment to attract the
money Of the strictly business men,
Bridgeport assembled 50 OF i's leading
citizens in the name Of public 'ntcr-
prise and formed the Bridgeport Hous-
ing company
This company invested a million dol
lars in the construction Of homes and
apartments. These they rented out a,
SIS to SIS each They built them taste
fully. using the designs OF good arcm-
tects. making them tight, sanitary
roomy and attractive They did not
refuse to rent them out to families with
small children.
II a party wants to buy, the Bridge
port company arrapges that too They
require 10 per cent down, and ono per
cent for each month thereafter through
II years and seven months.
The Bridgeport people have supplied
In this way homes for 1859 families
In a years time. These families are
naturally welded to Bridgeport by this
time. They and their postertty unto the
third and fourA generations will prob
ably remain Bridgeportcrs.
The forward looking citizens Of
Bridgeport are content with a SIX per
cent investment. when there are other
considerations on the side, such rs
making homes for the homeless and
adding new stars to Rridgeport's crown.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-20
Fit to Fight.

The enemies OF Tom Watson. of
let well enough alone. In the contest
for delegates to the national Democratic
convention Watsons candidates re-
celved plurality Of the votes. Gen.
Palmer's candidates for delegates were
second and Senator Hoke Smiths can
dldates were third Watson even car
ried a plurality OF the counties but
tho state committee. which was hostile
to Watson and Smith, seated the Palmer
delegates. This helped Watson more
than It hurt him with the people of
Georgia because they felt that he did
not get a square deal. Had he and his
delegates gone TO the national convcn.
ton they would have exerted small in
fluence and so far as the nomination
and platform were concerned would not
have been a factor
Watson has now entered campo On
for the senate for vindicatlon. It is
| doubtful II the people OF Georgia are in
terested to the extent OF desiring to
send him 10 the senate but a few more
affairs like the ono enacted In Buford,
Ca, Wednesday, may send him there,
It is not many years since distin-
guished Misslssippan was nominated
for governor as result Of being beaten
over the head with a pistol.
The dispatches say that Watson had
retired and was disturbed by the noise
made by a number of gentlemen gam.
bling in tho lobby OF the hotel, not far
from his room.
II seems he threw book or some
other dangerous missile unfamiliar TO
the people OF Georgia. at his disturhers.
| Thereupon officers entered his room
aud arrested him, and clad in night
garments appropriate for Georgia
populitc. he gave fight and uttered Ian.
guage more expressive than parlia-
mentary
The officers. as usual. won the bout
and Watson was taken 10 jail where
he spent the night In solitude and re-
Election upon the best means OF con-
vertInE the affair TO his political ad-
vantage
So vel satisfied was he with the In
glorious outcome that he decided to
cancel his speaking engagements for
week and rest upon the laurels that
so unexpectedly had come to him,
\ few more incidents OF that kind by
the opposition perhaps will be sufficient
TO give him the nomination. for as We
read between Il Q lines he was clad not
In the regulation pajamas, which would
have been sufficient to damn him In
the esteem of the average Georgia
voter but in the habiliments OF free
and untrammeled PopulIte.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-20
The Garbage Question,

AS the head of the city government
Mayor Paine can not afford 20 permit
The collection OF garbage from the front
walk to continue,
Commissioner Allen believed, and un-
fortunately still believes, that the De-
troit system is satisfactory to Mem.
phis.
II there Is a statute requiring the
city TO enforce certain laws, the mayor
and commissioners must observe the
law regardless of the sentiment Of tho
people, In question involving the H.
nances Of the city, the amount NJ taxes
necessary or the proper conduct OF its
affairs and other matters OF a like ma
ture, the public must yield to the judg
msnt OF the mayor and commissioners
But in the matter OF garbage coli
lection. where there is no principle In
yolved but the question Is simply one
OF policy. II Is equally incumbent upon
the administration TO yield TO the judg'
ment Of the taxpayers.
Commissioner Alien at ono time gave
as an excuse for abandoning backdoor
anu DaGkNdIu NullGtNANht "a hAff'o'N
strike OF the negro drivers OF garbage
wagons The city does not always sur
render to strikers, and II is not fair to
compare the attitude OF Commissioner
Allen and his negro garbage collectors
with the attitude OF Commissioner Ed
gar and the striking firemen. But II
Commissioner Allen felt that he should
yield to the demands OF his drivers, GER
tatniy he should feel an obligation to
yield TO the unanimous verdict OF the
housekeepers OF Memphis.
No administration ever started un-
der more suspicious circumstances, This
people feel kindly toward the admins
tfation. They have faith In the honesty
and integrity OF the mayor and the com
misaioners.
Their advent into office was heraldel
as the dawnlng OF better day for
No one desires return to factionaiism
and dlssension.
The mistake the administration is
likely to make Is in carrying business
methods too far into political govern
ment. The mayor and the commits
sioners are business men, Business
men are accustomed 10 have their own
way in their affairs The city govern
inentls the peoples business and should
De conducted not only In the public
interest, but as far as possible in sc-
eordance with the wishes OF the people
themselves
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-20
The Next Senate.

Nobody knows what will be the pre-
valling complexion OF the next senate,
but II is certain that the two leading
types OF beauty viii be represented
there In very nearly equal numbers.
Thirty-four seats are 10 be filled In
the approaching elections, Many Of the
present incumbents win have a hard
time succeeding themselves. Some of
them are as follows; Senator wads-
worth Of New York. the overwhelming
choice of his party in the primaries the
other day but as outspoken an opponent
OF woman suffrage as there is, and
therefore marked down for political ex-
tinction; Senator Dillingham; Of Yer
mont, who Is thought 10 be back OF the
refusal of Gov. Clement OF that state
TO call special session OF the legls-
lature TO ratify the suffrage amend
ment; Senator Cummins Of Iowa.
one of the ablest members OF the
senate. and a real financial expert.
who called down the abiding wrath Of
the labor forces by the terms OF the
railroad bill he fathered. and Senator
fsetd smoot of Utah, who has gotten
in wrong with the Mormon church. OF
which he is a member.
These are all Republicans but some
Democrats also are in unstable equilib-
rum.
The Republican majority in the last
senate was always most precarious
They had to depend on La Toilette and
Truman NewberTy, OF whom the former
Is the most disgruntled partisan living
and the latter is under federal sentence
for corrupt practices in his campaign
against Henry Ford. They were very
careful to invoke tive laws delays to
keep from having to replace Newberry
before the last session was up
Ex-Presdent Taft has come out for
Harding because, as he thinks, the
Democratic candidate. while occupying
a more sensible position than the Re
publican in wanting TO 60 into the pres.
ent league Of nations with reservations,
could never persuade the stalwart Re
publican senators TO back him up and
give the two thirds vote necessary to
ratification.
Ex-Candidate Bryan does not sec any
use lining up with either candidate
because he is sure that neither would
control two-thirds majority In the
senate. and therefore nothing will ever
be ratified. This Is neat retort to the
ex-presidents position It does not
seem to have occurred TO the latter that
n Democratic minority might block rat
ificstion OF Harding's peace as easily
as the Republicans blocked Wilson'S
The solemn referendum so much de-
sired in the days OF the late obstrepcr-
Gus senate is being conducted, but 1t Is
not binding on anybody Tho senate's
personnel can not possibly be so much
altered as TO assure the people that
their will on the treaty or the treaty
substitutes can be carried out. The
leopard can not change his spots. nor
the Republican senator, nor the Demo
cratic.
The treaty having been carried along
into politics. we are not In the Vast
optimistic az to it's either being set.
tied ouslde Of politics, or OF getting
clear decision within politics. II may
hang over TIL the millennium dawns.
The best hope in sight is for the party
leaders In the Interest Of the country
and of the breaking heart Of the world
at large. TO endesvor to tie their sena-
torlal candidates in advanced with a
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-20
4e%aS&t44A&&@1%%@443~
" PREACHER WRITES OF
HENRY LoE6'S KINDNESS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,

70 The News Sclmitar.
II seems that am getting somewhat
acquainted with you tWish was But
! write TO thank you for your kind
interest in me. The last letter I wrote
YOU, which was only a short time ago,
YOU were kind enough Ia show to Mr.
Loeb, Of the Loeb laundry, ana while
had no thought that anything more
would ever come of the letter, 1t was
an ineXpressihle surprise to me when
! received notice from Mr. Loeb that
ne had renewed my subscription TO YOUR
good and valuable paper.
so ] viii get to read your editorials
a while longer through the kindness
OF MIR. Loeb and yourself But Mr.
Loeb remembered me also with nice
parcel post package, which my good
old wife and | appreciated more than |
IAN ;ell in words And the letter which
Mr Loeb wrote to me | shall keep 10
the end Of the hast nay
However, | was away from home un
in the mountains assisting in revival
meeting when these valuablcs came
TO me. So when | got home somewhat
Worn in body ! found my good old
sweetheart rejoicing in the kindness Of
Yourself and MIR Loeb.
We have spent our life twife and II
working for God bur through hardship
and poverty we are about worked down
But there is mansion already COM
pleted and waiting for us just little
farther on down the road, and not far
either almost IN sight
somehow ! have u peculiarly deep
sense OF appreciation for Mr.. Loebs
kindness because Of the fact that he,
as he says, Is a jew. God bless him.
feel sure | win meet him in glory.
! have been preaching over since | was
l6 years old and have always preached
ana worked among the poor and have
laFa.. -
he rich when | get upstairs among the
stars, where God lives, and the angels
sing
Yes, ! have an inheritance up there,
and to add In the story OF it will be
the meeting of kind friends. some Of
whom ! have never met i'm this world
Again thanking you for your kindness
| beg to remain. your friend aud
brother, REV. w. u ELLIS
Swifton, Ark.