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Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1921-12-22

A Christmas Suppose

f0t11 Il would not change the
WI children's Christmas. I
But suppose all the !,
grown-up people were to say to
one another: This year, In
stead of my giving you a pres
ent and your giving me a pres
ent, let us club together and ,
give our present to some poor
child who will not have any
Christmas. There are hundreds
of them somewhere. Or, If we
do not know of such child, let
us give our present to hospital
for children, a home for crippled
children, for incurables, for the
aged, the blind, the feeble-mind-
ed" This to be, Of course, In
addition to what we usually give
to charities at this season. Why
could we not try this as an ex- ,
pertinent, and see what the re-
suit would bef-Christlan Reg
lister.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1921-12-22

the wide rlDDOn
which tied them
together.
This year. q
silk umbrella is
to be disguised as
a dachshund by
first wrapping 1t
In strong paper
and then twisting
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1921-12-22

attached u one
end. Thig viii
wave" nest
effectively : from
the Oh ristma as
tree.
A bottle Of
cologne 10 made
into q dell. 4
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1921-12-22
CHRISTMAS FOR THE BABIRo.

Never deny the babies their Christ
mas 1t is the shining seal set upon
a year of happiness. Let them believe
In Santa Claus, or st. Nicholas, o.
kriss Kringle, or whatever name the
jolly Dutch saint bears In your region.
Marion Harland.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1921-12-22

dozen henstitcheA
handks r chiefs
tumbled out. zach
handkerchief haa
first been rolled In
a small cardboard
and then wrappsd
In notified papG.
A rl0aA mssems
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1921-12-22

FOR Thoroughbred
Rhode Island Red and White
Leghorn chickens For futher
information call. write or see
Mrs. G. Lee McGlaseon, Gaines
boro, Tenn. If you want laying
chickens there Is no better.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1921-12-22
Fun With
Christmas Parcels

lK Asst year we had much msss
,un over the Christmas tFss
~ than ever before bseanss
A0 each parcel was wrapDed h
such q way that Il was ~
possible to guess what II ee0tainss.
To stimulate the childrsa's iAss-
nuity. prize of q box Of candy was -.
fered to the member Of the family
who displayed the greatest clevsrns<s
In wrapping gifts. This was won b.
eight-year-Old Jack. BE hung . string
Of remarkably lifelike sausagss upes
the tree, as an offering to his mother.
When the strings were united halka-
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1921-12-22
HOME MADE

making many Christmas presents
this Year,"
"Yes. tie much cheaper than buy.
Ing them"
, 1921-07-12

try has more than doubled; the wealth has been null
tipIied ten fold; the railroad mileage has been quad
rupIed, many Of the cities Of the west which were OF
small consequence in 1880 are now eenters OF great
industrial and commercial Importance numbering
their Inhabitants by the hundreds Of thousands Mr.
Elliott further said:
with this mas come increased comfort. convent
ence and luxury for the people; many inventions have
produced improved health, and sanitary living eondi-
tons as we'll Great attention has been gwen TO
charitable and educational work And yet, some
human relations are not right. We are in turmoil
when we should be 3 happy nation working together
for the good Of all. There is a spirit of unrest, OF
discontent, of extravaganza, of idleness, OF expected
perfection and impotence when We should remember
that perfection and success are not Immediately with
in ones grasp. What are called radicalism, So
cialism, soyietism and bolshevism are advocated, and
too many people who should know better lend a re-
eeptive ear to those foolish yet dangerous doctrines
and thus encourage the ignorant, the thoughtless and
TIE wicked"
Because Of the tendency to "hy to evils We know
not Of" the more thoughtful and far-seeing people
should ineuleate in the minds of the young I, hold
steadfastly to the everyday principles of hard work,
patience, courage, thrift and consideration Cor the
other fellow, rather than to follow off after the false
gods and faIlaeious theories that promise large and
produce nothing in the end. There is much in the
good citizen standing up and being counted.
, 1921-07-12

Frontier committee. which special
fres in buckers. viii be able to To-
cate one. and bring Il TO halter SUIT
fcientiy long for De Peyster to
clneh a cowboy saddle amidships
and climb aboard. What will hap
pen thereafter. De Peyster admits
he is unable to forecast. but he i'm
AGNES 1t viii be pregnant Of that
excitement which his spirit Graves
The estate which De Peyster say
be Is 10 inherit when he becomes
"a years Of age Che now Is ,sl Is
not 4 great deal from his view
point. being only something be-
tween s,o.ooo.oeo and sac. 900 900
but he's looking forward with an
joyment regardless. TO spendlng
wen such an insignificant amount
The $780, 900 which he managed TO
set rid Of so expeditiousiy that his
guardian's feelings were outraged
came from a trust fund left by his
mother who was wealthy In her
own right.
Just when De Peyster will scat
ter tho $50 bills representing the
accumulated of his spurued allow
anee no has not decided. Cheyenne
viii await the event with hreathless
expectation. n large proportion Of
tho population meanwhile practic-
ing assidiously the art Of appear
ing like a needy person.
, 1921-07-12
HEIR TURNS UP NOSE AT
$3.50 WEEKLY
PLANS TO SCATTER BILLS

CHEYENNE. July 1i.-If Nor
timer ~ De Peyster. Otherwise tha
millionaire adventurer.- does as
SAYS he intends to do there'u Be q
riot In Cheyenne soma midnight
soon. For. says De Peystsr. prompt
ly at the strike OF midnight. he
proposed to walk put Of the Ptsins
hotel with 50 so bis In hand pre-
sent a bill TO cara OF the first SO
needy persons he encounters II is
improbable hat 10 needy parsons
could be located in prosperous
Cheyenne with search warrants,
but Is Is more probable that when
young Mr.. De Peystor sallies forth
from the Plains at the witching
hour Of midnight. to perform bis
announced philanthropby. he'll he
be confronted by an army Of needy
forrevenua-only as far as tho aye
can reach, which Is a right eousid-
cradle distance In modsrnly llumi-
mated Cheyenne, even at midnight
The mdney which De Peyster
proposes TO distribute so prodigally
is the accumulation Of his allow.
ance from the estate OF his late
father. a multi-millionatre Of New
York City. De Peyster is peevish
at the guardian OF his fathers mil
lions for calling him a spendthr1ft.
a ~ne'srdo-well and several othar
things merely because he ran
through 100000 in a few months
and therefore declines to use per
sonally a cent Of the $3.50 weakly
which the guardian transmits to
him. No sir. young Mr.. De Peyeter
proposes 10 show his contempt for
tho guardian by giving the niggard-
ly weekly stipend away. and mean
while to do what the guardian sar-
~casticaily told him he was In ca-
pable OF doing-earn his living. He
wants a Job-a real. honest-to-
ment associated with it-and that's
why he is in Cheyenne.
The job which young De Pey-
ster has picked out for himself is
riding a bucking aIrplane during
the Frontier Days celebration the
last week OF July. He's going to
see James II. Walton. chairman Of
the Frontier committee. about the
job In a day or two. Meanwhile
he's stopping at the Plains. the
city's leading hotel. and proposes
to stop there until after Frontier
days He's strapped-he admits
that-because of his refusal to
touch the allowance from his
fathers estate, and a person Imam
cialiy embarrassed has no business
stopping at the Plains. but that
doesn't appear to be worrying De
Peyster, so confident Is he that the
Frontier committee will reward
him with unstinted largess for rid
ing a bucking airplane.
De Peyster ~confesses he never en-
countered a bucking airplane. nor
has he ever met anybody else who
~professed TO have seer an atrpiane
OF that disposition and those pro-
clivities, either running wild or in
captivity. but he has faith that the
, 1921-07-12
THE GAME OF ADVERTISING.

advertising is a game" as viewed by the New
York Mail. Business is its stake. No other game
has greater zest or importance. Too many business
men play it carelessly. Competition is the great in
structor. RuH your eyes over the advertisements of
today and you will find them showing a skill and in
genuity well deserving the name of art. The titles
read like news heads and have the appeal of news.
The copy is terse and readable. 1t tells people I'M
mistakably how they can economic; where they can
buy the best goods for the least money and with the
least inconvenience to themselves. Everyone wants
20 economize now. The advertisement which does not
promise economy might as well not be written.
W see a iudicious use of space and appropriate
ness of display that makes each modern good adver-
tisement a classic. II one should compare them with
those that were set a few years ago he would be sur
prised at the improvement.
"And yet there are sovenly advertisements still
advertisements which merely take room and exhibit
The backwardness of those who pay for them.
THE best skill in any game is only attained by
trained experts. Others may have good ideas and
flashes OF luck. But only the expert knows how to
use good ideas for the maximum of result without
relying on luck"
, 1921-07-12
THE GOOD CITIZENS EXAMPLE.

Howard Elliott, chairman of the board of the
Northern Pacific railway, addressing a Harvard re-
union concentrating the fortieth anniversary of his
graduation said this: Every patriotic person should
90 ms part to eounteraet foolish talk and ~insiduous
influences, and should stand up and be counted This
is good doctrine and fit to take its place with that
lately enunciated by John T. Adams, the recently
elected chairman of the Republican national commit
tee who said; Politics is the art and science of gov
eminent. In a republic like ours it is the noblest oc.
eupatlon OF ciezenship and he who withholds himself
from its activities is q peace-time Stacker"
1t would hot be commended that the citizen cf sound
principles and good purposes who remains inactive in
forming public opinion and shaping public policies is
oy any means a bad citizen but he is far from being
a good citizen and a dutiful citizen and as Mr.. Adj.
ans puts it is "a peace-time Stacker"
1t VIII be readily noticed that Socialists, Bolshevists
l. ". W, and the like are not inactive. They are
propaeaAdlsts and work in season and out Of season
10 secure converts to their ranks, and their purposes
ere lar from good purposes. They are not afraid to
stand up and be counted" "
MT Elliott pointed out that the United States tas
maue marvellous development in the forty years since
ee received his diploma. The population of the coun-
, 1921-07-12

The hope Of the country for the real enforcement
of economy seems TO be in Director Of the Budget
Dawes. He is coming to be regarded as the watchdog
of the treasury. We only hope his powers are suf-
fcient to enable him to justify the confidence the peo-
pie have in him.
Save Secretary Mellon Of the treasury, who has
constantly and persistently preached the necessity for
economy, the executive departments which spend so
large a share of the peoples money, have shown no
lively interest in reducing and saving. Congress has
not the slightest idea on the subject and still goes on
its way as if the country were made of money and its
principal business was to devise ways to expend it.
There will have to be an awakening at Washington
and considerable more sincerity shown if the admin
istration hopes to even hold the stauchest Republicans
in line.
The Republican party is in perfect good faith with
The people in the pledges 1t has made them; and if
the leaders chosen to redeem those pledges do not
show greater capacity in performance, then they are
unworthy and may expect criticism and even ~repudia-
ton. We hope it does not come to any such pass.
We trust the governmental machine will finally be
,ulled out of the mire whee the previous administra-
ton left it practically stalled. We hope the presi-
dents plans of efficiency may be fully realized and
that some real benefits may come through the budget
plan of expenditures.
, 1921-07-12
THE OLD SPIRIT RISES.

The spirit of '76 was shown the other day in De-
troit when a group of delegates from the convention
OF disabled war veterans invaded the Socialist ma
tional convention and served notice that the overseas
men were ready and anxious to fight again, if need
be, in the maintenance of American principles of
government, and that they viewed with small patti
ence the continued plotting and conspiring of Social
lists, and their ik against the government that they
the veterans served, and which had but recently been
big enough and great enough to save the world from
destruction.
1t is not only well that Socialists have learned the
attitude Of the fighting Yanks, but all other breeds of
discomfort may take notice and be governed in the
exercise ct their constitutional rights and keep strict
" within these rights in both speech and action.
, 1921-07-12
ONCE WILD AND wooILY.

The east still expects the west to provide the
thrills, the new and strange things in life. We have
been doing this for quite some years, and while most
of them seem commonplace TO us, in the older and
more staid sections they excite wonder. The Phila.
delphia Record thus speaks of western Wyoming:
Out of what was once the widest and woolliest
part OF the west comes a strange story. About a year
ago. it will be remembered, the town of Jackson
wyoming, came under ~petticoat government. The
women, newly epfranchised, won all the offices. Now
there has Just been a special election to decide the
question of dividing Lincoln county. The result shows
the divisionists have won by 700 majority, and the
town of jackson has been chosen as county seat for
the new Teton county. This new county takes in
much of the famous Jackson's Hole country, once the
resort Of the bad men of the old west. The gentle
nand that rocks the cradle may govern where the
uigger-hnger was once supreme"
, 1921-07-12
A NOISE.

Every evening, at precisely 8 o'clock, a large wide
uouthed steam whistle, Of great lung capacity, con-
nected with the boilers of the Natrona Power COM
pany, is turned loose upon a defenseless public and
everybody within a radius of ten or a dozen blocks
must suffer pandemonium for a period of from three
to five minutes. The purpose for which this whistle is
blown, is immaterial. 1t is a public annoyance ana
should be suppressed. There is nothing in the rights
and franchise granted this company by the people OF
Casper that ~contemplates this ear-spitting racket at
8 o'clock in the evening or at any other TINA Of day.
Here is exactly what this internal noise does to the
public: Disturbs every public gathering in the city, sus-
ponds all public and private business, endangers the
lives of every hospital patient and every sick person
within the hearing of the diabolical screech, awakens
every baby that tired mothers have patiently charmed
to rest, browns all conversation, everywhere, until the
din subsidies.
There is nothing that the blowing of this whistle sig
nifes that cannot be accomplished by another means,
of less heatheuish accent and discomfort and annoy
ance TO the people.
Will the Natrona Power company suppress this big
noise and small town practice, or must some sufferer
be encouraged to mount the boiler house at the power
plant and with = underground sledge hammer paralyZe
the vocal chords of that hideous soloist?
Possibly, instead of encouraging violence in the
matter, some city department, having jurisdiction
over whistles and public nuisances, could open diplo-
matte representations with the Natrona Power COM
pany and paint out to that concern its total lack of
consideration for the rights, privileges and enjoy
ments of honest and orderly hoseholders within the
zone of a~udibility of its said raucous steam whistle,
and thereby induce it to abate the annoyance?
The desira6ility of such action on the part of our
city authorities may be accepted without argument.
, 1921-07-12
SUGAR AS A PROPHET.

"Sugar may be a prophet among the prices" oh
serves the Lawrence Telegram. "a year ago it was
selling for rs cents a pound retail and the talk was
quite general that it would go to 40 or 80 cents a
pound before it would go below 20 cents a pound.
"Many a thrifty housewife and equally thrifty hus-
band of such a wife FASTENED to buy a hundred pound
bag of sugar at 20 cents a pound in order to be pro.
vided with 25-cent sugar for a few months longer,
fearing the advent of 20 cents a pound for sugar.
Some Of them had part of that ascent sugar when
the price of it had dropped below 10 cents a pound.
And it didn't take it long to drop below 10 cents
a pound when the %tumbling in sugar prices began.
Now it can be had for seven or even less than seven
cents a pound retail with the tendency towards even
lower prices.
"Those who thought a year ago that they would
never live to see the day when sugar would again be
selling in the markets of the United States at the
famous rate of twenty pounds for a dollar may not
have to wait many days before they see enterprising
groeers advertising that old time price for a 2O-pound
bag Of sugar.
"As the sugar prices slid off from the after-the-
war peak until they have reached pre-war levels many
people all over this country must be asking them
selves If sugar was a sort of pioneer in the return of
the prices OF the necessaries of life to normally?
rs 1t simply showing the way that hard coal prices
and the price of tenements must travel?
If 1t were not for the monopoly in hard coal held
by certain Pennsylvania barons it is certain that hard
coal prices would be following the lead of sugar prices
even if they did not fall so fast or so far as sugar
prices have fallen.
Rents, too, must some of these days indulge in a
little retrogression."
, 1921-07-12
RunaUay Truck
Performs Feat
That SaUes Life

CHEYENNE. July 1.-The fact
that his truck. out Of contrnl and
running amuck. carcened at IN anSie
Of IS degrees after hurdlinE a slnch
curb probably saved the life Of Henry
Hoffman. veteran mail carrier. The
truck after ieaping the curb. passed
between w massive trees growing
close together. crashed through a
board fence and came TO a stop
against a three-foot embankment-
Hoffman was ~uninjured- Subsequent
measurements established that there
was not sufficient room between the
trees for the truck TO have passed
had II not been Tilted virtually on
edge.
, 1921-07-12

new writer's were brimfui OF three
IDEAS. The first "a that, the hu-
man race having reached a degree
OF maturity which qualities II TO look
the facts Of lie straight in the face,
an attitude OF realism Is not merely
possible but imperative For. in the
walls Of mans earthly house the most
alarming cracks VI appealing and
the old business OF nicely papering
over these cracks. bids fair 10 land
him in disaster.
The second idea was hat the rce
, 1921-07-12
BEATING BACK.

1t is reported that farmers of the west are able to
secure al the competent help they need for harvest
ing their crops at IS a day, whereas last year thew
were compelled to pay from IS to SO for help of in
oiHerent character. And it is further reported that
mere are but 500 idle farms in New England this
season compared with 1000 last year. 1t is apparent
that the farming industry is resuming its old stride
ana taxing Its Ole position in the economic life of the
nation not from special privileges extended BY q
penencent government as many have demanded, but
oy the operations of the law of supply and demand
ana ny the courage, thrift and wisdom of the farm
, 1921-07-12
THINK o 1T

1t is said that Germany is sweeping the seas clear,
OF British composition in world trade. She recently
underbid British competitors by so per cent on ST.
4vo'ooo worth of contracts in Palestine and India
where England is supposed to be in control of things.
me American manufacturer may ask himself What
VIII happen to his industry if our protective tariff wall
shal not be raised sufficiently TO keep out the de-
structive German competition.
, 1921-07-12
Newer Ideas

newer Ioe2A
Felix Grendon. professc- of fitera-
ture at the college Of the City OF New
York. and distinguished author him
self. IN a scholarly article on The
New Spirit in Literature" published
in the July Forum. remarks;
Men began 10 suspect that the hui
man mind had been developed for a
purpose nobler than that expressed
IN tho Injunction to eat drink. be
merry. snd otherwise TO gamble with
death. But what purpose1
This question. a profoundly re
ligious question. was the cue for the
modern author to step upon the scene
and syeep away the old literature OF
sweetmeats, roses. and wine. The
, 1921-07-12

must cease 70 sacrifice the new ana
sinuous rhythms Of life 70 the so.
Journalism perpetuated By class va.
fare
sThe third idea was that n Is The
only earthly being that can. 10 soms
extent. forecast his own future"
, 1921-07-12

A woman Of san Rafael. Calf
wants a divorce because, as she al.
IeEes. her husband has taken but
three baths during their four ye,<
nf weddAd Life.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-30

time and only for amusement. The
other has Intellectual. moral and eco
nomic values good for all time to
come.
'"Cne tabernacle and local expenses
and the salaries Of Mr.. Sundays help
ers cost the community seven or eight
thousand dollars and they gave Mr..
Sunday, personally, draft for sl3.lsO,
buts Newcastle never made an in
vestment that produced such imme-
date and wonderful returns, touching
all lines of life. as this revival, the
greatest since Simon Peter preached
the first full gospel sermon in Jeru-
salem, nineteen centuries ago.
mir. Sunday is opposed to the or
ganic and perfect unity for when
Jesus prayed, as recorded in the
seventeenth OF John and is distinctly
in favor of denominations, and yet
he will not enter a community, where
he has not the hearty and united sup
port OF all the evangelical churches.
If any critic desires to harmonize
these paradoxical positions, he has my
permission to undertake the task.
THE campaign was in truth an un-
answerable argument in favor oil
unity. For six weeks we practsed
il. No man sought to build up his
own denomination. Party lines were
forgotten and we only knew the line
between the church and the world
between the saved and NE unsaved'
sinners We're not asked TO join sect
but to accept the Lord Jesus Christ
The results would have been other
wise impossible Undoubtedly such
campaigns help TO hasten the giau
consummation for which the ages
have waited, which prophets have
foreseen and of which poets nave
sung; for which the good have long
ed and labored and martyrs have oied
and died: for which angels have pray
ed and the infinite God has wrought
the 'rne far off divine event to "hich
the whole creation moves