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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-24

in being asked to join in the confer
cncc.
Mr.. Thornton attended the meeting.
which lasted the best part of two
days, without lctup. except a brief
respite for lunch. both days in MIR
Hays office.
other cities Larger.
In addition to Richmond. the other
cities represented. were New York
Chicago. Philadelphia. Boston St
Louis. baltimore, Washington. Mil
waukcc. Cleveland ANA Detroit
senator Townsend. chairman OF the
Senate PoSt-pii!cc Committee. and
congressman StccnorSOn. chairman
of the House Post Office Committee:
First Assistant PostmaStcr-Gencr
Rooms, and Fourth Assistant Post
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-24
Appoint Suffolk Woman
Registrar Of End Ward

SUFFOLK, VA, April 23.--Mrs.
Emmett j. Riddick. II pretty
young married woman of Suf-
folk. was today appointed by the
City Electoral Board as registrar
OF the Second Ward
When the Old registrar. T.. G..
Privott, died some weeks ago, no
applicants OF the male persuasion
applied and the Electoral Board
WAS asked by the women voters
OF the ward to. appoint Mrs. Rid
dick. who today consented to fill
the office.
She viii keep the books at her
home in the Second Ward and
says she is fully informed on the
nature of her work.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-24

master-Gencral Billany. were also at
PENDANTS at the gathering.
y general discussion of changes
and improvements looking toward the
Improvement OF the service was held
EpCh postmaster present was given
IN" opportunity to express III.
Ll,nuilnunl ON I,arn n Col :
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-24

Az soon nS the doors open to-
mOrrOw morning nj S:aO we nrc
going To plnce ON sale almost
two thousand hISh-grndc Enr-
mchtS--homr new purchasrs-
others broken nssortmrnts TAX
en- from our higher priced see
ton and radically reduced
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-24

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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-29
TRIAL BY JURY

Daily reports of the difficulties Of securing
panel in the Pope murder trial at Jacksonville
suggest that it is about time for Florida to lead the
way in breaking loose from the mouldy traditions
which surround the sacred institution of trial by
jury Weeks are often consumed in the examina-
ton of veniremen They are asked innumerable
fool questions by both sides. Any person who
has any knowledge of the case, who reads the
newspapers, forms opinions or has ideas about
public affairs is vigorously excluded. The net
suit of the long efforts to s out the unacceptable
jurors is almost invariably the selection of the
twelve most unfit men that could be found
Theoretically, the jury system is right. Prison
ers should have fair trials. Men who have already
unaIterably formed their opinion have no business
to sit in judgment. Yet for all that panel of
twelve intelligent, capable, fair-mnded men, Sc
lected at random on the basis of their general fit
ness would be more likely to find just and true
verdict than twelve of the kind usually picked out
by the process of elimination.
The notion that because man happens to have
heard something of a case, and naturally formed
an opinion regarding it, he cannot sit unbiased
umpire is not sound. Most men are honest and
fair in their judgment. If they have made up
opinions adverse to the prisoner it is because the
facts as they have appeared are adverse Should
a new state of facts develop in the trial. the In
telligcnt, quick-witted and decisive man is more
likely to change his mind and give the prisoner
justice than the torpid, neutral sort of fellow who
constitutes the ideal juryman
Much time and money could be saved. and the
cause Of justice promoted by drastic revision of
the jury laws, even to the extent of having stand
ing body of twelve capable men TO pass on all
criminal charges.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-29
TIE. AMERICAN RACE.

In most of the gush-for it is nothing else
which ave hear nowadays about 100 per cent
Americanism. there is the underlying assumption
that there is an American race-that is, type Of
the human family peculiar to this country.
Unfortunately for u.s. but fortunately for the
genus homo as whole there is no such thing. The
most that we can Justly claim is that we are the
progenitors and remote ancestors of the American
race which, Judging the future by the past, will
be in its lusty adolescence about one thousand
years hence
All races of which We have any knowledge
sprang from the union of other races. The Briton
of today for instance, is not Norman, nor an
Angle, nor a Saxon though the time was when
these races occupied the British isle and maintained
their racial characteristics as distinctly as the
English, the Germans, the Scandinavians and the
Latins do at this time in America. 1t took ages
for the offspring of this triple union to grow to
maturity, but, when it did, the result was race
far superior to any of its parents.
So in this country the American race when it
arrives will be the noble member of the human
FAMILY because the DeT DlOod IN The world Will
flow in its veins The contention of eugeniss that
the crossing of races produces degeneration rather
than progress has motif particle of support in
human history, always assuming that the cross is
between equas-not M cessariy equals in culture
but in racial potentialites The American race
will be 100 per cent white 1t will amalgamate
the blood of Anglo-Saxons, Scotch, Irish, Ger
mans, Scandinavians. French, Italians. Spanish,
Savs, and others in less degree. Its ancestors will
be the aristocrats of the human tribe today; and
we have a right to expect that it wll/be as far
superior to present races as they are to the half
forgotten tribes which united to give them sep
arate existence.
We are living for posterity. 1t is not ourselves
nor cur todays and tomorrows that count Nature
cares little what becomes of us individually. Our
racial bcastings are cosmic jokes. But as the
stock from which the great human tribe of the
future is to spring Nature is watching over us with
more than molherly care.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-29
THE ACCIDENT

Oh. jings, how sick driver feels, when he
looks down and sees voter tangled in his wheels
with mangled hat and knees, He looks down
through remorseful tears, and sheds magenta
sweat and though he live hundred years. he
never will forget. At most times he's thought
full cuss who scans the road with care, as he
propels his foaming bus adown the thoroughfare
But now a neighbor with him rides, and he would
show her speed, and open wide the throttle Slides
and she saws wood, indeed. She madly rips
around curve, and there the voter stands; it is
too late, alas, to swerve, and on his frame she
lands. The poor pedestrian lies fiat upon the
dusty lea the ruins of his Sunday hat are pitiful
to see. The crown is denied here and there
the brm is badly torn, and never, on a Sabbath
fair, can it again be worn. The voter borne upon
a door, is taken to the town. and babbles of the
hat he wore, when he was stricken down Oh
never may You know the pain of such scene, I
pray, and never may your gilded vain run down
some hapless jay. Leave black remorse to t'othor
chaps. nor know the pangs they feel, and never
let your caution lapse when you are at the Wheel
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-29
4 TURKISH LEGEND

(Thomas Bailey Aldrich) aa
A certain Pasha, dead five thousand
years, .. ~.
Once from his harem fled in sudden
tears. ptt
l-to
And had this sentence Ger the city's
gate f4up
Deeply engraved, "Only God is great
So these four words above the city's
noise
Hung like the accents of an angels
voice.
And ever more from the high barbi-
can,
Saluted each returning caravan.
Lost in the city's glory. Every gust
Lifts, with dead leaves, the unknown
Pashas dust.
And all is fuin-save one wrinkled
gate
Wherein is written, only God is
great"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-29
BELIEVING THOROUGHLY IN PUBLICITY
(kissimmee Valley Gazette.)

(hlSSlmmee valley GaZette)
Voting One-mill levy for publicity purposes
Lakeland will have close to $4,000 with which to
present to the world the advantages to be found
in that ctiy-and the full levy of that city reached
the total of "a mills. Kissimmee decided upon a
three-fourths mill levy for the same purpose
but lower valuations will raise considerably less
money-while the total levy was 2S mills The
higher levy of Kissimmee caused because of
necessity to care for Indebtedness already oc-
Cured. OsceOa county made but a half-mill levy
for publicity purposes-the mlage having been
considered heavy and the reduction being made
to carry out a system of conservatism, it was
felt that was sorely necessary
The publicity fund is always a necessity-and
has been made legal by legislative enactment
Every state in the union enjoys it-and every
county makes use of it. If the advantages of
county or city to be set forth before the
world it is necessary that the entire people pay
them prorata-and such result can be reached
only by direct tax. Otherwise the efforts to bet
ter conditions and to increase the popularity
would fall upon the few in place of the many
And once the fund has been declared there is
opportunity to use it to advantage-and it should
be used
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-29
As Others See 1t
TOURIST AUTO CAMPS
Pensacola News.l

pensacola News.) '
An automobile tourist driving east from Salt
Lake City, tells an Ohio newspaper: "All along
the way, until we struck this section found
public camping grounds in the towns, maintained
by the municipalities equipped with cook stoves,
free fuel, electric lights and shower baths
wonder why you don't have public camping
grounds like that out here"
The West has been very quick to see and sup
ply the need of camping facilities for this new
mode of travel but other sections have been
strangely slow about it. town here and there
has established camping grounds though seldom
so we'll equipped as those of the West. In many
places private individuals have provided camps
or cabins, for whose a charge is made For
the most part, there is no provision whatever
for the motor tourist in most states except that
of the regular hotels which does not appeal to
those who like camping
Eventually there will be adequate, comfortable
municipal camps everywhere. Cities and towns
will be driven to It, for self-protection if for no
other reason, as the tide of travelling campers
swells. community cannot have strangers
camping Unfortunately all the place 1t
is much better, from the standpoint of order and
sanitation to centralize and regulate the camping
But the western cities have found it really
pays to furnish such facilities. Travellers need
supplies, and have money to spend They add
to the citys business If they well treated
they go away singing its praises throughout the
land-and that is excellent advertising.
1t is no more than fair that moderate charge
be made for the use of public camping place
but few western cities are disposed to insist
that And in offering free shelter, fuel and light
they are really reviving of the Oldest and
finest of human Institutions communal hospital
ty Our western civilization at last shows itself
as generous as the Orient, which has always held
the entertainment of strangers sacred duty
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-29
CUPIDITY OR STUPIDITY

s. Almost anybody will tell you that Henry Ford
is very common sort Of fellow His education is
poor His methods are not particularly brilliant
+ He has discovered nothing new.
- All of this may be So There is an old German
.proverb that Among the blind the one-eyed man
lis king" Henry Ford owes his prominence to the
stupidity of his rivals rather than to any superior
merit of his own.
Because while the subject is painfuI-possibly
not even pote-lhe big outstanding fact in Amer
lean business is the monumental dullness of its
captains of industry And the greatest Of the serv-
ices performed by the Detroit Aiycr maker is the
furnishing of standard Of comparison with regard
to business methods.
In practically every ether linc-sec, lumber
railroading, provisions-thc motto of The master
is all the traffic will bear" Play safe A sucker
the line is worth Two in the pond. Make all
next will take care of itself.
a hundred years ago British economists OK
peseA the fs - CT this doctrinc-so that every
body saw it y pit the business men. They didn't
nor have their successors in this country, with the
solitary exception of Henry. Ford, who probably
never read text book on economics in his life
They proved, by sound argument-at that time
specific data was not at hand, that small profits,
strict economy in business. rapid turn-overs and
high wages not only promoted individual success
but insured the prosperity Of the country. Then,
they died and waited hundred years for man
10 arise who would accept their doctrine in practice
as well as in theory.
That is all the mystery there is about Henry
Fords success 1t explains why the only railroad
in America that confesses to being prosperous is
the one Ford owns.
If the lumber trade in this country were man
aged according to those principles, the nation
would be experiencing great building BOOM If
the metal trades were run that way, hardware
would be back at pre-war levels and the railroads
would be replacing their worn out rails If the
roads were SO conducted freight and passenger
rates would be about one-half of what thew now
are, commerce would be active, and the pitiful
spectacle of the holders Of twenty billion dollars
worth of productive property standing before the
national capitol with hands out like blind beggars,
would be avoided. If the financial system of
the country were run according TO those rules, we
should be circulating dollars worth hundred cents
in gold, instead of promises to pay worth one thing
today and another tomorrow, and used, like the
little ball in the shell game to skin the public.
If the private business of the nation as a whole
were run the Ford way, there would be no army
If upap,,,lo,,aJ IL. =
public; and if the public business Of the nation
were run that way, there would be no mountain Of
taxation crushing the life out of the people.
I For all that, Ford is not genius That is the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-29

encouraging thing about it. He merely has a
fair amount of common sense which he uses in his
business All that is really necessary to right the
situation is to take the stuffed prophets out of the
temple of industry and put lot of ordinary men
in their places.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-29

Poke Eazley appeared at his front
yard gate last evening in such sober
condition the dogs liked to of bit him
If people along the rural mail
routes were placed in alphabetical or
der it would be lot easier on the
mail carrier.
There is so much interest this sum-
mer in moonshine stills the proprie-
tor of the one on Gander Creek has
decided to SET aside Tuesdays and
Friday of each week as visiting days
for the public.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-29

Overseer Volivia of Zion City claims
bald pates are the noblest works of
creation, never being seen in insane
asylums.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-29

Every week for the next is years,
VIM. Gibson, an accountant of Brook
Ign, N. Y, must report to probation
officer.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-11
WANTS u. S. DEBTS
CLEARED RAPIDLY

The goal of the present Repub-
lican Congress, to pay off the ma
tional debt with the exception of the
longtime bonds in less period than
it took after the civil war, was an
nounced yesterday by Representa-
tive Henry w. Watson, member of
the House Ways and Means COM
mittee
Two means of Accomplishment
were cited by Watson, real economy
and Judicious drafting of the new
tariff bill.
During the period of seven years
tariff doors have been OPEN" said
Watson, save during the period of
the war, imports have increased
steadily so that in the last calendar
year they amounted to nearly S6,-
O0o,00O,o0O. This influx of foreign
made goods is not only crippling our
markets for home production, but is
stopping the most valuable source
of revenue. A new tarifr measure
should be placed upon our statute
books at an early date. 1t has been
suggested as an emergency measure
that Congress re-enact the Payne
Aldrich bill, in order to temporarily
stabilize our markets and give pro-
lection to domestic production"
The Washington herald., 1921-01-11
MNEW ATTRACTIONSSAS
MlAT THE TdEATERNSs
keiths-yaudeviIIe.

All the honors go to the hicks"
IN the laughing handicap run at
Aeiths this week. Charles With
ers, in a town opry house" COM
edy, and Ida May Chadwick, the
calico cut-up, demonstrated anew
mat ruralisms are the champion
examination proVokers. = Still, the
country folks didn't have the whole
moor. Eria Shields, a finished ac-
tress to her dainty hnger-tips, made
a better Englishman than most
Inespians Of the stronger sex. And
me Magleys contributed a dancing
turn Of whirlwind grace.
For PHYS Sake" with Charles
"ithers, introduces the dark viii
lain. the beautiful heroine, and the
manly hero, under the management
OF Cy Splivens, the village mag
nate, who is his own manager, box
once man, usher and props"
While a bucket of paste and a rick
ETY. ladder lead to the high Cor
hSrdO spots" there is much genu-
We humor that does not depend on
falls.
Ballyhoo funmaking leads up to
really puzzling mindreading stunt
IN Behind the Grand Stand" with
harry and Anna Sharrock. The
Sharrocks have been here before,
and were greeted with a round of
applause that would have been well
come at the end of many turns.
The PicCadilly Johnny" the Lun-
non bobby and the typical British
wasteT" are all portrayed by Ella
Shields with a paradoxical virility
and charm If all actresses were
as Intelligent and we'll versed in
technique as Miss Shields there
would be a dearth Of the long, in
slpid spaces that now abound in
theater programs.
Young Miss Ida May Chadwick
Is a fearful study in rural enfant
terribility, if We may be permitted
the term. Aided and abetted by her
fond papa, she acts up" all over
the stage. For grace and suavity
OF performance the Magley dancing
Is in a high class, despite the fact
that all OF their steps are of the
Jazz order. Betty Donn sings a
number of the current songs and a
bit of opera She is well supported
by Robert Berne, a sulky-eyed, stub
born Chinned youth, who knows
how to draw the last drop of har-
mOny from a violin. He wears a
fantastic costume that might have
been designed by Maxfeld Parrish.
Charles F. Semon apparently thinks
that no one can see a joke unless
1t is accompanied by a howl re-
sembling that of a starving timber
wolf. But he garnered a goodly
amount of applause, which he de-
served after his fearful vocal ef-
forts. Smoke and soap and gas
bubbles float all about in the offer
ing Of Ollie Young and April.
NJ H.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-11
LOUISE FAZENDA.
MOVIE STAR, HERE

Louise Fazenda, the famous Mack
Sennett comedy star, who re-
Gently arrived in New York from
California, is making a tour of va
rious cities OF the East and Wash
ington has been included in her itin-
erary. She will appear in person
Theater, where she will address the
audience at and o'clock this aft
ernoon and at 1880 and $3.50 o'clock
tonight.
During her short stay in Wash
ington, Miss FaZenda will be the
guest OF Lawrence Beatus, manager
Of Loew's Palace Theater. She will
occupy a suite at the Raleigh during
her stay and this afternoon she will
be taken for an extensive sight-see-
ing tour Of the city, following a
luncheon at which she will be the
guest of honor.
Louise FaZenda is one of the most
popular of all screen comedy stars
in America. She has appeared in
practically every Mack Sennett COM
edy of note for the past five years
and it was her own work which con-
tributed so materially to the success
Of Mack Sennett's recent fve-reel
comedy masterpiece. Down on the
Farm"
Although usually seen on the
screen in a comedy garb of the most
freakIsh character, Louise Fazenda
in private is girl of striking beauty
and the most pronounced personal
charm
The Washington herald., 1921-01-11
M'ADOO BELIEVED
TOSEEK CONTROL
Party Men Here Say Speech
On Jackson Day Was
Opening Gun.

william G. McAdoo's speech be-
fore the Jackson Day dinner of Cal
ifornia Democrats at Los Angeles
in which he suggested a business
manager for the Democratic organi-
zation-a job requiring all Of one
mans time-was the opening gun
in a McAdoo fight for control OF the
party, according to leaders here.
1t means that the McAdoo Demo-
Gratis have not abandoned their plan
to Oust George White from the ma
tionaI Craftsmanship OF the party and
to put in his place a McAdoo man
like Daniel l. Roper" said a promi-
nert Democrat who is aligned with
the Cox faction of the party.
And that points to only one thing
-McAdoo for Presidential nomtna-
ton in 1924" he added. The Nc
Adoo followers have never aban-
doned the theory that their loss OF
control of the party resulting in
the nomination of Gov. Cox was a
mishap due to the division OF forces
with McAdoo and Palmer as can
didates for the nomination"
At the conclusion of the Cox cam
paiEn the McAdoo leaders started
the agitation for a new national
chairman of the Democratic com
mittee. The movement grew to
such an extent that Gov. Cox was
forced to ask Chairman White, who
really wanted to quit the job, to
refuse to resign. Gov. Cox felt that
immediate reorganization of the
committee would constitute party
repudiation of his candidacy and
The Washington herald., 1921-01-11
Social Calendar
Today.


Daughters OF the American
Revolution. a ball.
The Minister OF Poland and
Princess Lubomirska. a dinner.
Mrs. Marshall Field. dinner
dance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas B. Hutch
inson. 4 dinner.
Mrs. Ennalls Waggaman. at
home.
Congressional Club. buffet
luncheon.
Miss Josephine Bridget, a
luncheon.
The Ambassador OF Great Brit
ain and Lady Geddes, a dinner.
Wedding, Miss Katherine
Smyth and Charles Ward Bur
CESS.
Col. and Mrs. J. B. Gowen. de-
but tea for Miss Dorothy Gowen.
Representative and Mrs. James
r. Mann, a dinner.
Wedding, Miss Rosamond
Starr and John w. Belt.
Spanish American Athenaeum,
monthly meeting.
Mrs. A. Mitchell Palmer, at
home.
National Library for the Blind.
card party.
National women's party, card
party.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert McKen-
zie, a dinner.
Thursday, January Is.
The Ambassador OF France
and Nine. Jusserand. a dinner.
Mrs Victor Kaufman, at
home.
Wedding, Miss Mabelle Venitia
Carr and Maury Middleton.
Mrs. T. Septimus. a luncheon.