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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-08-19

TINE between seasons wrap like the
L betweeh-seasons' hat, is an acquist
ton to the wardrobe that proves to be
a very accommodating thing, 1t makes
its appearance at any time Of the year
in weather that demands Il, and
passes under the scrutiny of the crit
ical quite sure of their approval. 1t
Is made to suit weather conditions
rather than seasons.
Midsummer brought in and late sum
mer is approving some very handsome
knitted garments, CupeS and coats,
along with tuXedos and sweater-coatS,
that have promising future. They are
made in many Coors and color com.
binations, and varied as knitted gar
ments can be, by the use of differep
Kinds of stitches in the process Of
making them. Many of the capes srt
accordion plated and many bon
striped and plated For makJ q col
lars, cuffs, borders and all tn mninc,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-08-19
ASPIRIN
Name "Bayer" on Genuine

Warningl Unless you see the name
Slayer" on package or on tablets you
are not getting genuine Aspirin pre-
scribed by physicians for twenty-One
years and proved safe by millions.
Take Aspirin only as told in the Bayer
package for Colds, Headache, Neural
gia, Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache,
LumbagO and for Pain. Handy tin
boxes, of twelve Bayer Tablets of AS
pirin cost few cents. Druggists also
sell larger packages. Aspirin is the
trade mark Of Bayer Manufacture of
Observation-Disclosures Of Salicycacid.--
Advertisement.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-08-19
q
nElukeu Kills 1900 sheep.

Nearly 10000 sheep have been killed
recently In the Vale Of Clwyd, Wales
by a disease kncwp as "huke, " accord
ing to a report 20 the Welsh sgricul-
tural council experts say the point
Of attack is II certain c;ass a. snail
and that better drainage Of tae lana
is the best precautioo aea@nst the
disease
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-08-19
cAsIoura for sore tIsnes.

Soak hSa IDS on retiring in Fle hot slds
of Crts .ura Soap, Dry ant rub in Gu
tfcuts Ointment, Remove SUI plus
Oinis tent with tissue PIPER, IBIS is
only one of the 4llngs Gdticura viii do
if$ Dap, Ointment and Flalcum ere used
hi, all toilet purposes. Advertisement,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-08-19
fasIlN o. FRIED.

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to youy Miss To- style No. nm
nut it right IN ny handbag
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-08-19

1t was a debt case and attorney for
the defendant made an impassioned
plea for his client.
Like Shylock of the Merchant of
Venice, this gasping creditor de-
mands his pound of flesh" he shouted.
Attorney for the plaintiff rose at
once.
who was this merchant of Ennis?"
he demanded. "A little Ennis county
merchant should not be regarded as
an authority in deciding a lawse Tar.
Case dismissed" gaspe9tipping
nett.-Texas NeWsnape-
=, ...---Z6 days when even the phi
55aBher is unable to derive any rea
comfort from his philosophy,
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-12-02
LAND SALE.

Rv virture of deed Of trust OK
ecuted by Pearl R. Stuck and Ern-
est Hicks, dated 18th day OF August
1919. noted in Book "D' and re-
corded in Trust Book ~ page 542
.~545.. in Registers Office at Wart-
burg, in Morgan County, Tennessee
Said deed of trust was to secure the
nayment 10 John II. Hatfield, lrus
tee in the sum OF Fourteen Hundred
(sl4OO. OO) Dollars, evidenced by
three promissory notes as follows ~s;
One note of Five Hundred ($5oOOo)
Dollars, dated August H. 1917
due and payable six months aile1
date: one note of Five Hundred
$500 OO) Dollars dated August H.
1919. due and payable twelve
months after date; one note OF -FOUR
Hundred ($40o.00) Dollars, dated
August II, 1919, due and payable
eighteen months after date, all OF
said notes drawing six per cent
interest, and providing for reason-
able attorneys fee. Default IN the
payment of said notes having been
made. the undersigned Trustee, n.
Giles Carter, at the request OF the
holder of the notes above referred
to will on the 18th day of December
1921, offer for sale and sell said
land herein described at public
Ioutcry, to the highest and best bid,
der, for cash in hand, in bar OF
equity of redemption, homestead
dover and all other rights or exemp,,
tions of any kind, at the South end
Of the Oakdale Bridge across Emory
River. Said sale will be made be-
tween twelve and TWO O'Clock
Said property is-fully described in
said deed of trust as follows:
Being survey 1177' Entry Mum
her 2O7O, Grant Number 26864
granted to James Pagan; lying in
the fork between Big Laurel Branch
and Crab Orchard Creek Beginning
on a Hickory on the North side. O.
Laurel Branch about s poles NORTH
of the upper ford on Laurel Branch
thence due South 80 poles to {
Hickory; thence due East 40 pole
to chestnut; thence South 5O Ess
176 poles to a Black Oak standing
on top of a hill about $50 yard
from Crab Orchard Greek; thenc'
North 80 East 1870 poles to a stalk
near mouth of Big Laurel Branch
thence a direct line to the begin
ming and containing 1870 acres, NOR
or less. Surveyed September LIST
1886.
Witness this the 18th day of Nov
1921.
N. GILES CARTER, Trustee
II Is At.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-12-02
1.5O

Will pay your subscription tor the
Morgan County Pr~ss tor one year.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-14
Science Service
Picked Up Puncture Bur?

Picked Up Puncture Bur?
Experts Are Battling 1t!
So much trouble and destruction
has been wrought by the %puncture
plant of the west and southwest,
that the United States Department
Of Agriculture has taken steps TO
eradicate this new pest.
The puncture plant is a terror TO
motorists and bicyclists. Its burs
when matured. split into five sections
each of which is equipped with a
pair of sharp spines. These burs
are so scattered about On the ground
that one OF their bayonet-hke spurs
always points upward, ready to pene-
trate and puncture a tire that may
pass over it.
The spiny seeds not only puncture
tires, but they are carried in the
tires to new localities where ulti-
mately they locate in the soil and
produce new plants. The plant first
came from Europe in the feeces or
imported sheep. Now these seeds
have been widely distributed through
California and Arizona and have
penetrated into Texas, Kansas. Ar
kansas. Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa and
Illinois.
Tests of the Department OF Agri-
culture include spraying with iron
sulphate and crude oil to ascertain
their effectiveness against this way
side weed. The plant can be con-
troiled on tillable soil by continued
-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-14
THE MONUMENT

The monument in Alpine cemetery which the Perth
Amboy Fire Department unveiled with impressive ceremony
on Wednesday is a credit to the fremen and shows the fra
ternal feeling that exists among the members. The statue
of the fireman is an excellent piece of work. The expression
Is one of determination and sacrifice that is characteristic
Of the volunteer fremen everywhere. 1t is a touching memo
rial to all the members of the department who have answer
ed their last alarm, and a fitting tribute to the heroic deeds
that have been performed.
YThe fremen have worked hard and long to make this
possible. There have been a great many obstacles
.placed in their way but, true to the indominable spirit thai.
'pervades the department., it has finally been accomplished.
Everyone who has assisted in making this monument posi-.
BILE may well feel proud of the part they have played. AS
long as this monument stands Perth Amboy can never forget
the debt it owes to the men who on so many occasions have
irisked their lives, and, in some instances, died in the service
of their city.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-14
THE FaRcIcAL COAL PROBE

The manner in which the coal probe is being conduc-
ted in this city by the Mackay investigating committee shows
what a farce the whole thing is. AS has been repeatedly de-
clared, what the people want today is action, not invesiga-
ton. They have been Investigated to death. All the facts
now being brought out have been shown up many times
before yet nothing is done to remedy the situation. The
people go on paying ~exorbitant prices for coal and the coal
barons wax fat through their gouging processes.
1t seems a pity that anything that means so much to the
people should be used as a football by politicians. The farce
of the whole thing is shown by the fact that the Republicans
first repealed all the laws whereby those found guilty OF
combining to fix prices or regulate trade might be punished,
and then they proceed to hold this investigation knowing
full we'll that even if they find coal dealers in a combination
to control the market and boost prices they can do nothing
to stop them.
Senator Mackay, who heads the investigation, has al
ready admitted his helplessness and has appealed to United
States District Attorney Elmer H. Geran to help him out.
Mr.. Geran was one of the Democratic members of the legs-
lature when Woodrow Wilson was governor at which time
the laws, popularity known as the 'seven sisters" were
passed that made illegal such combinations as the probe is
bringing TO light.
There is not a little irony in the situation whereby SEN
ator Mackay, a Republican, appeals to District Attorney
Geran, a Democrat, to do through the federal courts what a
Democratic administration had made possible to be done
through state courts, but which had been undone by the
Republicans.
incidentally. the touch of local politics that has cropped
out in the probe, as far as this city is concerned, does not
tend to increase confidence in the investigation. Senator
Brown, who has shown the utmost Indifference as far as the
probe is concerned in other places, suddenly became inter
ested in the Perth Amboy situation. It is quite significant
that at the outset former Mayor Frank Dorsey, who is a mem
Der of the opposite faction in the Democratic party from
Senator Brown, was the only coal dealer in this city sub
poenaed up until the last minute before starting the hearing
here. 1t is no secret that Mr.. Dorsey and the faction in the
Democratic party to which he belongs, was opposed to Sena-
tor Brown running for a denomination. Whether Senator
Browns sudden interest in the coal probe and the apparent
attempt to single out the former mayor as a witness here
has any connection with Senator Browns withdrawal from
the senatorial race this year, is left purely to conjecture.
Such speculation, however, has completely over-shadowed
the probe itself. This coupled with the fact that the COM
mittee doing the investigating is powerless to do anything,
anyway, only tends to emphasize the manner in which public
officials are trifing with a serious matter that vitality affects
every citizen, and it is going to affect them more and more
as the cold weather comes on.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-14

Q. The old-timers all say we will
have a hard winter because the
muskrats have heavy pelts. the
squirrels are laying up an unusually
large store of nuts, and ducks have
been seen going South earlier than
usual. Is this true? +. G.. w.
A. The Weather Bureau says that
none of these things is any indication
of how severe the weather will be.
The unusual thickness of the musk
rats fur is probably due to a good
food supply this year. A squirrel
gathers all the tut he can, and the
crop is good in many sections.
Ducks have been unusually album
dant for several past and
hence the early flights have been no.
'ticed more than usual.
Q. Is it>true that longevity runs
in families? l.. II. A.
A. Scientists seem generally
agreed that longevity is inherited
that IS; the son OF a man who lived
to a great age is more apt to live to
a great age than the son of a man
who died early OF natural causes.
Alexander Graham Bell established
this fact by a study of the famous'
Hyde g~enealogy. Another authority
estimates hat so to rs per cent. of
the death rate is due to heredity-
that it, that percentage of deaths are
due to inherited constitutional con-
d~itions, and could not have been
postponed any considerable length
Of time by change OF environmental
conditions.
@. Has anything been done in
California and other sections that
have suffered from earthquakes to
prevent damage from that source?
G. A. l..
A. Recently an effort to survey
the fault lines in the earth, along
which earthquakes occur, from an
aifplane. was made in California
and was partly successful. Exact
knowledge of these fault lines makes
1t possible to avoid placing many
structures where they are in danger.
Building houses of wood rather than
brick is considered the best protec-
ton against earthquakes. Earth
quakes themselves have done little
damage in California. 1t has usually
been a fire or some other catastro-
phe following the earthquake that
did most of the damage.
@. What is the size Of the worlds
wheat crop this year? G.. r. s.
A. The wheat crop of the twenty
chief wheat producing countries for
1921 is estimated by the Depart
ment of Agriculture at 2,461,430,0 600
bushels.
@. Are there any unexplored ISL
ands Left? S. w. l..
A. There are islands which have
not been completely explored. For
example, Carl Lumholtz, the well
known explorer, who is engaged in
organizing an expedition to New
Guinea. an island near Australia,
says thai it offers great possibilities
to exploration. There are believed to
be birds and animals it is unknown
to science and savages who haveT
never seen a white man. =
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-14
MORAL VALUES
BY DR.. w. +. BARTON

Let us not be too much disturbed
about the sag in economic values.
That situation will right itself in
time. Just when prosperity will re-
turn NO man knows, but that it will
return everybody knows.
The more serious sag is in NOR
al values. Hear what Judge Gilbert
H.. Gary said some little time ago.
conditions are abnormal. and
even the minds of thoughtful people
are distorted. This. of course, is a
result of the terrible time we have
just passed through. The exhibitions
of hate, greed, passion and distrust
come from an abnormal condition of
the people. During the war men had
been thinking of power and force.
Decentralization. envy. stupidity, have
developed.
THE capitalist has been using his
wealth unreasonably, if not unfairly,
to increase his fortune. The work.
men have been trying to obtain more
compensation for less service. The
tradesman has been buying at the
lowest possible prices and charging
the highest prices that would be
tolerated.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-14
IS HELD
ENEMY OF MARRIAGE

AS a means of increasing the per-
centage of married college women,
he favors the liberation of woman
from her present unnatural, mas
culine education"
In other words, the bulk of the
blame is placed at the door of CO.
education.
There is much truth in this.
In a co-educational institution
everything is done for and by the
men. In spite of all that can be
said to the contrary, the curses are
arranged for the men.
In many such institutions women
are not welcome in classes with men,
and there is a subtle tendency on
the part of men teachers ~.-ar to
look upon the women in their classes
as a ort of necessary evil or to re-
gard them in a more lenient way
than they ought to be regarded.
In a college for women, however,
the feminine interest is paramount.
In their studies, and in their extra
%curricular activities, the girls can
all concentrate on the real aim of
education for women-which is
greater usefulness. primarily in the
home and in the community.
At Goucher there are few more
popular subjects than the courses on
the Family, Family Hygiene. Child
Psychology, Child Welfare and Nu-
triton and Dietetics.
The president, the vice president
and the treasurer of our alumni as
sociation-all married women with
splendid families-can testify that
there is no career for the college,
trained girl preferable to the career
of home-making.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-14
Daily Letter by Frederic J. Haslin

ognized creed-religious political or
economic-to offer. That is one rea-
sen, of course, why he is accepta-
bic to all classes of men, and is
commended by radical and conser-
vative, capitalist and worker, at the
sane time. Ledoux does not be-
lieve that institutions and politics
are worth worrying about. He be-
lieves that man is capable of a high
or grade of consciousness than most
men have yet attained, and that his
only progress will come from educa-
ton in the broadest sense, which
will help him to come into that con-
seriousness.
Il recognize no sin except the
waste of energy" he explained,
when he was interviewed in his lit
tie hall bedroom at a local hotel.
War-strife and violence of all
kinds, personal and national-he re-
CARDS as waste Of energy. All good
comes from acting upon the motive
of love-from friendly cooperation.
This friendly cooperation will COM
pletely replace strife of all kinds
when the human race has reached
it's real maturity % mind: There
Will be no unemployment for ex-
ample. because unemployment is
obvious and preventable waste of
energy. All life he sees as n vast
stream of immortal energy in which
every individual is capable of func-
tiOning as an harmonious and nee
cssary part. The problem of life is
the proper direction of that stream
OF energy.
In the philosophy which Ledoux
expounds-speaking often in a sort
of blank verse, with his eyes closed
there are traces of primitive
Christianity, of the teachings of
Moses, Mohammed, Buddha, of the
sacred books of the Hindoos, of
Confucius and of the great Ameri-
can poet, Walt Whitman, whose
works LedouX says that he knows
by heart. He does not deny that
his inspiration comes from all or
these. He says that all of the great
religious teachers and the greatest
poets were men who achieved cos
mic consciousness and who tried
to impart it to their fellow men.
That he regards as his mission too,
but he hastens to assure you that he
does not regard himself as either
a prophet or a poet. He seems
eager to escape, the repute of being
one more amateur messiah. He
saws that his words are nothing,
what he does everything. He pro-
poses to preach a gospel by acting
it-by giving the example of a life
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-14

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14-He is
the man who walks the streets with
a white umbrella decorated with
red hearts and the legend lift up
your heart" who puts the une1n-
ployed on the auction block. strip
ped to the waist, ana sells them to
the highest bidder; who gets him.
self onto the first page of news
papers everywhere he goes-a pic
%turesque sentfmentalist and vision
airy with a gift for self-advertising,
you would say.
But when you learn that the same
nan buried himself in obscurity on
the East Side for five years in order
to study the poor, you are inclined
to admit that he must be sincere.
And when you learn that he lived
there on five dollars a week and yet
kept himself in such good health
that he could beat a young athlete
in a two mile foot race, although he
IS forty-seven years old, you have
to admit that he is man of some
practical ability. When you find
in ADDITION that he has at the State
Department an enviable record as a
consul in Prague. Austria, that he
has been a successful efficiency en-
gineer, that he did highly commend
ed work during the var for the War
Camp Community Service and the
Labor Bureau OF the War Depart
ment, and that he has been sue
cessfully employed as a professional
organizer in several other enter
prises, you realize that he cannot
be a visionary in the usual of
the term.
nh ,1rvn4AaYr 80 1t. ~A.zANn1fN~ 10
increased when you learn that he
not only has great influence over
the unemployed workers who are
his special interest but that he also
has the support and friendship of
such men as Arthur Woods of New
York, Mayor Peters of Boston,
Claude Bragdon, the architect, and
many others prominent in official
and professional life. To be able
to reach and impress such a variety
of persons certainly shows an I'M
usual individuality. President Hard
ing, after an interview with him,
told LedouX that he considered his
work the greatest in the world"
Many laugh at this man who merely
hear of his exploits in getting pub
LEFTY, but all seem to feel his force
and earnestness when they meet
him.
A Mystical Philosopher
To this account of his qualities
and achievements 1T must be added
that Urban Ledoux is a protesting
mystic. Indeed. without that knowl-
edge you cannot hope to understand
this strange man, angel of the I'M
employed" who has filled so much
space in the newspapers recently,
and has yet remained personally al
most unknown. Ledoux believes in
a thing which he calls cosmic con-
seriousness. and that is all that he
believes in. He is not a Socialist or
radical of any kind. He has no rec
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-14

devoted to unselfish service.
He has nothing, he says, and he
wants nothing. He gave UP a sue
cessful professional career for his
present work. He wears castoff
clothing given him by friends and
never knows where his mex dollar is
coming from. He has a wife and
three grown children, all of whom
he has taught to support themselves
He does not believes that any one
should be a depndent after child
hood.
Ledoux is perhaps Jul only public
figure who speaks to his interview
ers in a sort OF poetry. For exam
pie this:
He Speaks IN Meter
my mission is to lift UP the
hearts of the down-hearted, and to
bring a greater measure of love and
beauty into the lives of the long
denied. For that purpose I have
become a servant of the servants,
serving the hewers of wood and the
drawers of water-the builders Of
the pyramids"
Whether you like it or not. you
have to admit that it is pretty good
free verse.
Ledoux is a barrel-chested, ath-
letic looking man. with a head of
classical design, and a smile that
never waivers He says that he is
never unhappy because he wants
nothing and so cannot be disap-
pointed. His presence is undeniably
impressive and magnetic. 1t would
be hard for any one to overlook
him or laugh at him. He is widely
read. He is a vegetarian, uses no
tobacco, alcohol or condiments. He
says that he sleeps but two to four
hours a day, and that he has cut his
sleep down gradually from eight
hours, as he has eliminated from his
life the burden of personal desire
and strife. He is a voluminous and
eloquent talker. with a mind of as
tonishing variety. He will tell you
a funny incident, outline a practical
plan for a home for the unemployed
and recite to you his ~poetico-mys-
teal, version of the evolution of life
from the protozoon to cosmic con-
seriousness, all within an hour. What
ever else he may be, he is unique
and interesting.
What has he accomplished? One
thing, undoubtedly. He has brought
home TO Americans the fact of I'M
employment-the misery and waste
of 1t. He has made them see it,
both as a human catastrophe and as
an economic problem, more wildly
than ever before.