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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-02-24
Fatal Mistake.

(Situation Burglar caught red-hand-
cd arraigned in courtl Woman-"The
sorce O. the fellerl Il pretended to
be my husband and called out: It's all
right, darIin-it's only me- 1t was
the word 'darlin' wot give i'm away"
London Punch.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-02-24
cutlcura soap for the Complexion.

Nothing better than Cuticura Soap
daily and Ointment now and then az
needed to make the complexion clear
scalp clean and hands soft and white
Add to this the fascinating, fragrana
Cuticura Taleum and you have tha
Cutlcura Toilet TriO.-Adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-02-24
whv AGENTS 40 Mad.

Tall Man Ito ticket agent)-DOM's
you ever get tired answering q lot o.
fool questions? 4.
Agent-NO, sir; that's my business
What did you want to known
Tall Man-That's itE-NeW EoYA
Central Magazine.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-02-24

Woman's work is never done-un.
less she gets some other woman to dc
IL
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-02-24
The Fret Consumers Strike.

ADAM don't see the use Of climb"
ing for leaves; let's walt till they fail
New York Herald.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-02-24

man suspects he is wrong a long
Q before he finds out for sure.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-02-24

Each day has its special privileges
as well as special duties.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-02-24
Coatee BIouee.

NUatcc bIUU8g.
Coatee blouse best describes a new
type Of blouse developed In satin and
bead-trlmmed.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-02-24

The size Of trouble depends On
whether 1t is coming or going
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-02-24
Slow Gun.

The five-year-old son Of prominent
advertising man said to his father,
"Papa what is slow gum" His ia
Their replied, "John. don't know what
you mean"
"Oh, yes you do. You told mamma
..r.. that counting was to be the slow gun
tOr4~p1 indianapolis when all those visitors
to pro- ,e here"
ont<4 II dawned on the father that the
child referred to courtesy and "slO-
nss gan" SItAlt.Iql
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-02-24

4 Those Dear Girls.
She says her face is her fortune"
indeed! thought 1t was the COM
xion specialists"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

way and that to the rush Of river tides.
Coming under the Brooklyn Bridge the
man at the wheel steered gingerly and
with caution. He managed to avoid all
the rotten piles with which the landing
is trapped and brought his craft to rest
hole high, having nosed into his pier
with SO light touch that the ferry
house still stood with nothing more than
the slightest Of shudders, and that
might we'll have been from the wind
rather than the gentle impact of the
ferryboat. Following the waterfront a
few blocks we came to the evident site
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

rate, of pilsener. In the right hand Win
dow stands card announcing Business
Mems Lunch" and in the left window
another advertising Meeting Rooms"
Here, if anywhere in Main Street, is the
home of the Thanatopsis Club. Busi-
ness in Main Street must be bad, for
only two merchants were eating the
business mems lunch, which consisted
this time of lamb stew and macaroni.
Trade seemed slightly more brisk in the
Universal than in the Old Homestead
Lunch, only two doors away from the
restaurant. Here was no food, but only
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

back now, for it was noon, high noon, in
Main Street and the Universal Restau-
rant, home of Main Street cosmopolites,
was for the moment the centre of atten-
ton. We hope we know our Sinclair
Lewis we'll enough to record that the
gold 81" in the name of the restaurant
upon the plate glass has disappeared.
The proprietor, perhaps, had been un-
wise enough in moment of generosity
to give some patron or other an inch.
The display in the window included a
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

box Of Corn Flakes, open, but partially
filled: a tomato not more than half red
and &hree buns. Upon the three buns
we counted seven and half raisins.
There were also few flies, and as dis
ciple Of realism we should like to say
how many, but they moved about
enough to make the feat difficult. Amy
estimate would be sheer romancing, for
there was no possible way to avoid
counting some of the flies twice.
Just across. the cobbled street stands
the local representative Of the Ebling
Brig Co., abbreviated thus to save gilt.
The sign continues with the dead and
past promise, probably never very accu-
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

of some other ferry landing now gone
and replaced by the pier of paper COM
pany. We looked up at this point to
orient ourself and there upon the lamp
post of the street which led up from the
river into town we found the name
Main Street"
At first we could not see the street
itself, for passing freight had dropped
a car on the tracks which cut across the
end of the street. But whatever folk
had been down to see the train had gone
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

for the sake Of sentiment than anything
else.
Still, when the boat came in it was
not exactly the sort of ferry to which
one could become attached easily. GER
tainly not on short acquaintance. To us
it presented so vague and mildewed a
personality that we have not even
remembered it's name. Yet there are
elements of danger and excitement
in deep sea voyage upon the
Fulton Street Ferry. The helmsman
needs steady hand, for the piles de-
signed to break the force of miscalcu-
lation in landing hold their places but
sfeebly in the river bed and give now this
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
o'MALLEY, once g. New
4 York reporter, wrote an article

H. recently for The Saturday Eve
ming Post which he called Main Street,
Manhattan" Mr.. O'Maley was indulg
ING in convenient symbolism and was
using his title as base on which to
build an argument that Broadway is
lust as provincial in its psychology as
anv street in Gopher Prairie. All New
York reporters grow cynical about
Broadway when they become middle
aged and retired. That, however, is an
other story. Our case against MIR.
O'Malley rests on the fact that he had
no right to put Main Street in Manhat-
tan. because it isn't there it is in Brook
lyn.
It Is entirely possible that the aver
age passerby would stare curiously at
any visitor who asked him, (Which is
the way to Main Street," The New
Yorker might even grin broadly, secure
in the notion that another traveller from
the Middle West had come to town, but
Main Street exists and is recognized by
the postal authorities at least. Some
years ago, when F.P. "A ran The Gotham
Gazette for The Evening Mail he set
down the number of the newspaper
office as 301 (maybe that isn't the exact
numbero Main Street, jocosely trading
upon the fact that The Mail was on
Broadway. Presently, however. he
found that mail addressed to that point
drifted back to him only after a visit to
some mystical thoroughfare in Brook
lyn. We, too, had heard vaguely of the
existence of such a street, but it was
not within our experience until we
stumbled on it, quite by chance.
Our first discovery in the voyage Of
adventure was the Fulton Street Ferry.
Once upon time this was one of the
busiest of the boat lines to Brooklyn,
but on the morning we wandered in only
two other passengers were waiting IN
the old ferry house, ferry house griz-
zled and decrepit, indeed; ferry house
so beyond hope that cobwebs have set
tied heavily upon the deserted news
stand to which passengers once crowded
to find out what Greeley thought about
Lincoln or to buy the latest issue of
Godey's Ladies' Book. The line has long
since ceased to expect passengers, or to
take any particular pains to welcome
them. From outside, by far the most
imposing entrance was the one plainly
labeled "Oysters and Grabs" The mar
row door marked Passengers was dis
tinctly subsidiary Seemingly oysters
and crabs, more loyal than men, still
cling to the old Fulton Street Ferry line
However, we found none in the waiting
room. The travelling public of three
was not augmented in spite of a wait o1
half an hour or so. The old ticket seller
was unable to give us any assurance o1
the exact time at which boat was te
be expected. The schedule was rather
uncertain, he admitted. Seemingly, The
boats are run every little while, more
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
\ ACCIDENTAL VISIT TO MAIN STREET

a slightly reddish geraniun III the Single
window, but there was, ample evidence
outside of the fare within, for upon
folding blackboard was chalked the fol-
lowing meuu: Split Pea Soup, 10 cents;
Roast Beef, 80 cents; Hamburger Steak,
25 cents; Beef Stew, Is cents; Ham
Croquettes, 80 cents; Baked Beans, ID
cents; Tomato Salad, 80 cents; Pies and
Coffee, s cents; Rice Pudding, cents;
Home Made Cake, 10 cents.
Between the Universal and the Old
Homestead stands the Rose Rlzzeila
Confectionery, mute testimony to the
increasing foreign influence in the COM
munity. Like most of the other build
ings in the block, Rose RiZzella's store
stands in three story frame building.
The window features peanut brittle and
red paper decorations. Across the street
is her rival, The Main Confectionery,
and here we must confess to have al"
lowed the influence of Sinclair Lewis to
abate little. We can't remember for
the life of us what The Main Confection-
cry had to SELL A neighboring building,
however, is more plainly in our memory,
for this is the eyesore of Main Street.
The old frame building has she'd most of
it's shingles and the windows are gone
and replaced by boards. Some day Main
Street is going to do something about
this building 1t might give. the town
bad name.
The National League for Women's
Service Neighborhood House showed
that uplift has come to Main Street.
Carries Campaign has not been without
effect. Skipping again across the street
we come to the Prescription Pharmacy,
which is run under the subtitle of Use
Ex-Lax. In all there are four short
blocks to Main Street, and the upper
half, which approaches the bridge, is
given over to residences. We came on
wash day and one Of the newer resi-
dents, an Italian, was hanging out
clothes boldly on a rudimentary piazza
at the front of the house. Here, too, is
more work for the Main Street uplifters.
Just at the junction where Main
Street gives up the fight and allows Full
ton to snip out it's life is small stand
advertising Coney Island frankfurters,
but this is practically the only mark of
the threatened metropolitan invasion Of
Main Street, which holds to it's old man
ners and landmarks. AS matter of
fact, it has tradition. In the days when
the ferry house was still open, Main
Street was one of the most fourishing
of Brooklyn thoroughfares. 1t came by
its name honestly. Fulton was then
only an upstart rival, but with change
in traffic lines Main Street has been out
distanced. 1t remains street Of little
shops and small and dingy tenements
Coming home over the bridge it was
possible to see the back yards of MAR
Street, but anybody who attempted te
deal with their richness in anything like
true Sinclair Lewis detail would need al
least volume.
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JAPAN'S ACCEPTANCE

one portion of the preliminary acceptance
" given by Japan TO the conference pro-
posal is sufficiently explicit to justify the
reported satisfaction in Washington. The
assent Of the Toxic Government that the
meeting "shall embrace the discussion of the
Pacific and Far Eastern question has been
definitely attained.
Dclicatcly questionable, however, is the
japanese understanding" Of conditions
which Secretary Hughes imposed-condi-
tous which to the Occidental mind seem to
have been stated with commendable clarity.
In the note delivered by the American Charge
d'AfairoS at Toxic on July 2@ hope was
expressed "tA0t the Imperial Government
would NOT press its inquiry as to the nature
and s"or" Of tn" Pacific and Far Eastern
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29
A PLAIN GUM GAME

THE duly qualified appointment by Mayor
l. Moore of a City Architect was opti-
mistically believed to have ended the strange-
hold upon municipal work said to have been
secured by Philip II. Johnson. through
kindness of the late Samuel II. Ashbridgr.
Theoretically. the expectations of reform
were rosy: the results are otherwise. AL
though Mr.. Johnson's historic grip has been
loosened, Mr.. Sinkler, the present City
Architect, has been denied resources by
Council to such an extent that numerous
important plans for public improvements
are in abeyance. These works include
Fairgrounds, the City Hail. annex, fire and
police stations, locker buildings at bathing
beaches, a sewage disposal plant the Ger
mantown Municipal Building and a water
tower for the Belmont pumping station.
There are at present funds TO retain only
four craftsmen in Mr.. Sinklars office.
Council has refused the plea for S12, 600 for
extra help. 1t is a physical impossibility to
clear up the work in hand with anything
like celebrity. AS there are ample appropria-
tiOns for all these constructions once the
plans are made. the situation is one of plain
obstructiOnism.
Councilman Won Tagen scents a Ware
scheme to embarrass the City ArchitCct's 5
office until the municipality will be forced
to call in and remunerate outside designers
The impassc, whatever its underlying cause,
is lamentably suggestive OF the shady tradi-
tiOns attaching TO the city's fashion Of plan.
ming its improvements
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29

thority to deem facts accomplished" 1t
is conceivable that what japan would be
delighted to regard as settled and done with
may be considered a debatable question by
other parties.
1t is, Of course, extremely probable that
the japanese answer was devised in part
with view to home consumption. The
qualms and fears manifested by Toxic fail
to nullify Japans acceptance of call to
conference which will submit Pacific as well
as disarmament problems for adjustment
The Island Empire has agreed to that
program. That is the accomplished fact"
and it's meaning far transcends that of at
tempted provsos and qualifying clauses.
The hesitancy revealed may denote Jap
anese incinations, but nevertheless Toxic
is a pledged partner in the parley. That
meeting has been devised to lay practical
emphasis upon the note Of compromise. It's
success inevitably must be measured by the
degree in which the principle of give and
take Is sensibly asserted
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29
MURKY WHlTEWASH!

TyHE report with which committee in
i Council yesterday presumed to dispose of
the scandal created by reports of solicitation
and bribery involving Councilman Lime
burner, A. b. Schmidt, of the Sears Roe
buck Company, and a scheme for a trolley
line on the Roosevelt boulevard will be
read generally with disgust and derision.
The committee found nothing to suggest
wrongdoing on the part of anybody. 1t
found nothing to reflect on the honor of any
Individual member. Why, then, did it not
do the simple and rational thing and have
Mr.. Schmidt, who set the rumors in cir
culation, return to dispol them? The de.
parture Of Schmidt had a disagrceable
suggestion Of fight.
Councilman Roper was an honorable ox
ception in the committee of investigation.
He not only refused to sign the whtewash
report. He publicly stated his belief that
he and the other members of the COM
mittee were lax and even derelict in their
failure to clear the whole question un while
they were about it.
Mr.. Roper implied that many things which
the public ought to know will never be told.
Some day or other, in another burst Of
frankness, he may tell the people why he
didn't press the business to conclusion,
force light into places where 1t was needed
or, at least, present minority report, as he
had a perfect right to do.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29
POLITICS IN WARD DIVISION

nISSATISFACTION over the commis
~ sion S recommendation for dividing the
Twenty second Ward is not surprising.
Germantown citizens justly complain that
the commission was not impartial As one
member at least was committed to division
of the ward before any testimony was taken.
The Court is asked TO set aside the re-
port and to appoint a new commission 10
consider the matter.
This may be the best way out of the
muddle so far as the Twenty second Ward
is concerned. But it does not touch upon
the larger question of a revision of the ward
boundaries in the whole city
The ward is the basis Of representation
in the political committees, and It Is littlo
more than that at the present time. So
long as there are wards with fewer than
1000 voters along with wards with 5000 and
10000 voters there is no fair representation
Of the voting strength Of the city in the
committees.
This makes it easy for the leaders who
control the little wards to force their will
upon the rest of the city. OF course. the
politicians are opposed to any change which
will decrease their power.
As a matter of fact, the real reason for
dividing the Twenty. second Ward is 70
make a separate ward of that part Of tie
district in which the supporters Of the con.
tractor regime live, so as to strengthen con
tractor control of the Republican CITY
Committee. II this plan were accompanied
by plan to combine two or three Of the
little wards into one there would be some
Justification for it. But the contractor
politicians merely wish to retain all the
Uwer they now have and to increase it aa
N oh as uOSSihln
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29
Ansmers TO Yesterday's Quiz

1. One hundred pounds make qu'h'@% ,u.
2. Santiago de Chile is the capital oi -,
3. Medusa in classical mythology was cut Ton on
of the gorgons. Her head Was Wa three
by Perseus. The gorgons were innks
snake.haired women, wnoee
turned any beholder to stone, us,
4, Laburnums are small trees win p''e"'
yellow flowers su"
g. The expression "innccuous ue..iand
was popularized by Grover Ii'eSsf he
In his message Of March J. ieooo,orIy
wrote, After an existence OF nu"s nnrnus
twenty years of almost hhyoueht
desuetude. these laws are
forth" s -
6. The word gneiss. the name OF a knaa ka or ar
quartz may be pronounced s"''''
T. Esparto ia a kind OF rush imported ii0"'
Spain for paper'making' "a
g. The father of Queen Victoria was Hof ~
ward, Duke of Kent, fourth So"
George III. ,,or
Q. General Mcdowell 'commanded Imeu 0 Ruyr,
Army at the first battle OF pun wv
in 1861. 80,
TO- A tantiyy IL an old English huntins s,sh uh
The word also describes raplu ia ttsr
impetuous movement. In the da ti,s
part OF the seventeenth century NJ
English Tories were sometimes
TantivisA -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29
CONGRESSIONAL DIscoURTEsY

CoNCERNING an uumpcarHuho his
~ toric statement, "this is old news OBJ
erved Mark Twain but there is nothing
lse the matter with it..
And, but for its familiarity and age there
nothing ethicNlIy the matter with the
sentiment, expressed by Senator Jones, of
Washington, in reference to the proposed
'investigation" by FIVE Of his coufrrrcs of
ne American administration Of Haiti and
INTO Domingo. "Somc Senators" asserts
= unterriiad champion Of obvious truths,
n get a nice trip and nothing else will
Q of IT,"
here are forms of courtesy which are
.Asionally due even at the expense Of the
y rities II is unkind, even envious, for
snator Jones TO be so frank. After the
- ssldrpn into which the weather
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29
UNCLE DAVE AT EIGHTY-TWo

TINCLE DAVE LANES characterization
~ of Mayor Moore as "a dead duck"
surprised no one who knows The Sage.
Wasn't Uncle Dave celebrating his birthday
in the historic manner by saying the most
unpleasant thing he could think Of about the
political opponents whom he and his friends
fear most? A man who can be aggressive
at eighty two is not to be sneezed at. Uncle
Dave has an interesting side to his charac-
ter. And what he says of men and politics
and the future doesn't greatly matter We
have heard it all before. 1t is all true--of
the Lanes and their followers. But there
ID an increasing number of people of whom
Il is not true. But The Sage doesn't know
the rising generation. He sees it only
through a mist
Uncle Dave is not a lowbrow He has
read rather widely and he has lived long.
He has the great virtue Of consistency. 1t
is his belief that the average voter is
pretty low sort Of being who, left to himself.
without Wares and Penroses and Lanes to
look after him and lead him by the hand,
would soon run the country TO the dogs.
And he believes, too, that there are few
people gifted with the quality of mind that
enables men to vote and think unselfshIy
and for the good Of the community rather
than for their own immediate profit Like
any good feudalist Uncle Dave regards his
followers with tolerance and even with dis
like. They are the rabble. They are moth
ing but the mechanism with which n leader
works out his own will. Naturally. the
Sage sneers at any movement of reform
based upon a belief in the intelligence and
decency Of the average man.
No. There is no nonsense in your Uncle
Dave. And there is one great virtue in
him. He is not hypocrite. He doesn't
believe in the democratic theory or in the
utility of the ballot. And he never pre-
tended to believe in either.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29

man annually plunges the national capital
the tropic breezes and West Indian trade
winds must inevitably be gracious and re-
freshing.
Critics of the proposed commission should
remember that it's senatorial denunciator
halls from a Northwest Pacific State where
the mercury is habitually we'll hammered
and that fat roll of mileage is at his COM
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29
What Do You Kno,o?


1. Who usually administers the oaT aITTn,ted
Office TO the President OF the
States? d,
2. What is the meaning OF the tern, ,enuS agenuSS
as used in the language OF d'plo"'1.s
8. What does the abbreviation Alta' s's"''
4. Which Is the Crescent City?
g. Who was TX Marvel? ~.
8. What New England State produces Wv
most tobacco?
7. Who was the German Ambassauor rs. a.
the United States immediately pr,
ceding the severance Of diplomauc To-
lations with Germany in lSl''
s. Where and what is Esquimault?
o Under what niece Of Federal Legislation
are the railroads Of the United 9'AV'
now being operated?
10. What Is the original meaning Vi ''
word hppodrome?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29

Federal income tax revenue for 1910,
according to figures just made public, totaled
more than billion and a quarter dollars
quite neat little sum for a vacation trip.
Ostensibly tax on what a man has, it in
eyitably filters down TO tax on what a
man consumes. In this it resembles all other
taxes. The consumer pays every last one
Of 'em, though he doesn't always know il.
The difference between taxes Is that of ease
in collecting, certainty of collection and the
cost of amount collected. The thing that
damns the present income tax is that col
lection is neither easy nor certain, and that
because of the cOmplexity Of its bookkeeping
perhaps the cOstliest possible to devise.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29

Social workers report that bahies IN
tcmpt for daylight saving hours, Let en-
Spt It's their G privilege. Let the fact go on
record that bedtime is dusktime,, as hereto,
fore, and not before dusk; and getting up
time is when they've had all the sleep 'ne'
want, and not before.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29

The agreement between Pennsy shopmen
and officials may not please everybody, but
Mt least 1t Is better that such agreement
should be reached amicably than that the
same agreement should be made after weeks
of uncmployment' and consequent trade
nnrnlYSiS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-29

A sales tax demands your money, put
doesn't take it out Of your pocket when
you re not looking Which would you ratner
do. hand out a dime or lose quarter!