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The commonwealth., 1921-12-09
TIE MhIT. ORDER BUSINESS

One of the largest mail order
houses in the country employees a
STAFF to. read and study the local
newspapers published in the
small towns. Whenever a com
munitT Is found IN which the To-
cal merchants are not steady and
liberal advertisers. the mail or
der house puts OIL catalogue
callpai2n The mail order hous-
es get their business from locayi
ties IN which there are no live
merchants.
The trath IS that local mer-
chants themselves are largely to
blame for the success Of the mail
order houses. The local mer.
The commonwealth., 1921-12-09

Buy her copy Of f'Pride Of
the Kitchen,'' the cook book publish
ed by Clarksville Literary Club. This
book will be on sale within few days.
Wait for it, 12-9-3t.
The commonwealth., 1921-12-09

Buy her copy Of ''Pride Of
the Kitchen,'' the cook book publish
ed by Clarksville Literary Club. This
book will be on sale within a few days.
Wait for it. 12-8-3t.
The commonwealth., 1921-12-09

FOR SALE-1OO YOUNG FIG TREES,
this week only, for .25 cents each.
Large and luscious variety. Phone
3002, James & John G. Smith 12-6-4t
The commonwealth., 1921-12-09
NOTICE REGARDING TAXES

For the information Of the tax pay.
ers the Mayor wishes to state that this
The commonwealth., 1921-12-09

Losr-BAR PEN, SET WITH
Pearls. Return to Mrs n. A. Rid
dick and receive reward. Lost about
one month ago 1o-7.t. +.
The commonwealth., 1921-12-09

final notice is for 1920 taxes past Que
While the 1921 taxes are due, this no
tice does not apply 20 them.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16

Betty Blythe, now creating
the great role Of the Queen
of Sheba for a William Fox
spectacle. She recently won
attention in the chief role Of
"Nomads of the North,
is a graduate of the Uni
versi,y of Southern Cali
fornia, and studied for opera
in Paris. Appeared in seve-
raj musical and dramatic
productions for Oliver
Morosco on the stage.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16

Lady Diana Ma ners,
celebrated English beauty,
wearing an embroidered
shawl sent her by the Shah
OF Persia as ian expression
OF admiration for the most
beautiful woman Of the
worlds greatest empire"
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-01-19
+ BACK HURTS lJSE:
SALTS FOR KIDNEYS
Iat lem meat II Kidneys feel Ike lead
q bladder bothers yoQ--f ieat
terms uric acid.

75oa5 folks forget that the kidnare.
htae the bowels get sluggish and clorTod
end nas1 Il flushing occasionally, else we
have naci.acae and dull misery in the
Ela1eF region, severe headaches, rheu-
s51.o g~.l yes, TORPID liver, acid stomach,
gae", aea9 e4.4 Gil sorts OF bladder dis.
or ri
}oU cimplv must keep your kidncrs
o"a#c tad clean, and the moment YOU
ia.l IA ache o. pain in the kidney
REGION 1t alpGt four ounces of Jad
''...6 from any good drug store here
taAa "a 'espoonfEl Ia q glass Of water
i..gsn breakfast Ter few days ana
Sour G14aEs viii thea act fine. THIS
famous alta is made ircn The acid of
FraHe8 @-4 lemon nice, combined with
lit-ia. and "a harmless tn flush clcgrel
t#G0Ea AID Fti2riate them to normal
s.Fity. 1t also uutralizas the acids
%a ta ns.ao SO q NJ longer irr!tatcs.
@at8 a-g Bladder disorders.
Ill. aar5 is harmless. iaeypens;ve.
makes g delightful elfervoscent l.thia.
Tatc- drink aich cveIybod, should take
uow and Ten to keep their kidneys clean.
ills avoiding setious complications.
u .ayru local druggist saws be
81 IS s5sT Of III salts 10 iol.a who believe
81 5T1r1.1lr 8 lsdaey trouble WHO It is
pG5y tEo4gls.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
Playing the Old Game

"To speak of Polish militarism
and imperialism." says Mr.. Pade-
rewski, ''is absurd" He might we'll
wonder why he should have to speak
of it. Sympathy with the aspirations
of Poland for liberty has long been
an American tradition. Why should
the achievement of that liberty be
made the occasion for reproaches?
Even the pacifists and pro-Germans
who are Safeguarding all the nat
ural friends Of America cannot be-
lieve that Poland has become a men,
ace to the peace of the world. She
has everything to gain by peace and
everything to lose by war. She has
fought for her national security and
nothing more. We're those who seek
to preempt for themselves the name
of liberal sincere, they would join in
applauding her.
But. they are not sincere. Mill
tarism and Imperialism mean only
one thing in their mouths. They are
stock words in their vocabulary of
abuse for all who stand in the way
of the restoration of Germany to
''the place in the sun" from which
she strove to thrust the rest of the
world. 1t seems to them a clever
device to transfer the epithets prop
erly applied to Germany to those
who frustrate German purposes.
,Poland's offending is her desire to
have her own back again. Germany
would keep by hook or crook the ter
ritory she stole. The Silesian
"plebiscite" Is a chance she could
hardly have expected. So her Amer
lean friends denounce Poland be-
cause Germany is deliberately trying
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
Plugging Up a Hole

The only fly in the ointment of
jubilation over the passage Of the
Collins ordinance exempting new
housing construction from local tax
alton is the possibility that the
courts may find an invalidating
flaw in the ordinance.
When the Legislature devolves
the tax levying power the courts,
for obvious reasons, strictly con-
strue the grant. 1t is held by some
lawyers that all local body may do
when given, for example, permission
to exempt from taxation is to re-
enact the state law.
But in the Collins ordinance some
thing more than this--or rather less
than this-is done. 1t is provided
that exemption shall apply only to
5000 per house or per apartment.
This is to safeguard the exemption
from abuse, but specific authority
to est 5lish this safeguard does not
appear in the Lockwood law. So it
is conceivable that the selfish in
terests unfriendly to the Collins
ordinance may attack it in the
courts.
Ths defedt, II It be a defect, can
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
improvements

That progress is being made in
improving the Knight-Adler traction
bill is shown by the rewriting of the
provision relating to the proposed
commissions control over fares.
AS the bill was introduced it
seemed to imply that the commits
sion would be required either to
lower or to raise fares. The third
possibility (that they may be left
as they are) is now recognized, and
III addition the burden of proof to
justify increases is laid on the
carriers.
The public is glad to note that
the Sinai theory concerning the bill
namely, that it is perfect as writ
tents no longer officially enter
tanned, if ever it was. In many re-
spects the bill can be amended with
out defeating it's essential objects.
1t is not too much to expect that be-
fore long there will be realization
of the unwisdom Of the absence Of
provision requiring the commits
SIGN after maturing its plan to re-
port back its scheme for legislative
or gubernatorial approval. Being
unwilling to .devolve any of it's
power on the city. the Legislature
would be going far to devolve all
its power on three men, with au-
thority with them to sign, seal and
deliver without approval hundreds
of millions Of public property.
Even an urchin shrinks from pro-
Tosals to trade sight unseen.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
Secret Presidential Agreements

The Evening Post, seeking to ex-
cuse President Wilson with respect
to the Belgian disclosure, is scarcely
fair to it's readers in its references
to The Tribune. The circumstance
stressed by as and spoken of as
amazing was that the President kept
an agreement he had signed in his
secret portfolio and communicated
nothing to Congress, which, in any
view of the case, had a right to be
informed.
1t is no reply to this to say that
the agreement in regard to Belgium
was talked about in the press. Many
things are matters of gossip and
surnlise in the press which turn out
70 be untrue. The text Of the agree
nlent was withheld, as our contem-
porary is aware, and it will not deny
1t was deliberately withheld. Some
Wall Street circles seem to- have
known why Belgium's bonds were
exceptionally good, but elsewhere
there was ignorance, or at least
little clearness of understanding.
Technically, President may
have the right to enter into signed
agreements with representatives of
foreign governments obligating
him to bring pressure on Congress,
and it may not be impeachable to
keep the matter dark for nearly two
years. AS to these things we ven-
ture no opinion. But it is not
American practice. In the matter
Of the French insurance treaty the
President himself recognized the
rropriety Of prompt publication.
A President when engaged in ne
gotiation is not a private person.
He is an agent, an agent of the ma
ton, and as such bound to report
his acts to his principal. He is not
a. liberty to make agreements that
come close to being treaties and
which are accepted abroad as in
some way committing the nation
without at least asking promptly for
confirmation Of his acts. This Bel
gian incident shows In striking
way the esteem in which President
Wilson holds the checks Of our con-
stitutional system and the per-
sistency Of his error that in for
e:gn affairs he alone is the govern
ment. We cannot believe our neigh
Dor, in it's cooler moments, will up
Eold this doctrine.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
The Art of Reading

1t is not new idea and it is
certainly not a difficult or comnlex
one. But it has been a good while
forgotten and it is refreshing to
find it coming to the front again on
the banner of this leader and that,
SIR Arthur Quiller-C Couch devotes
his entire new volume, On the Art
OF Reading, to .t--lecturing to the
students of Cambridge University
IN form, but in fact addressing old
and young everywhere. In brief,
the suggestion Is that great books
should be read, not studied, dissected
or read about.
One of Sir Arthur's lectures is
specifically on reading to children.
he describes in detail just how he
would teach English to children
reading them a passage from the
tempest" for example, reading it
through in all it's magic and charm
without stopping even to explain
the hard words, letting nothing get
between Shakespeare and the child
IN short. This direct contact with
the great masters should be the
main object of literary study, he
argues. Anything that aids it is
good; anything that weakens IT,
dulls it, is bad. And what is true
CT children is not less true of stu
dents in Cambridge, he makes clear
We have all turned too much to the
second hand culture and in conse-
quence lost the only thing worth
While In great books, the great and
memorable words in them.
We wish that Sir Arthur could
witness Il story hour in a New York
public library. The children's H.
brary is a relatively new develop
ment III this country. 1t is unknown
in England as yet, we believe. AS
matter Of fact, the story hour at
tempts to do exactly what Sir
Arthur urges, and to do it in
the same limpid, direct fashion,
ulysses, Robin Hood, Mowgli, live
before the children as their creators
conceived them.
There is in the current Atlantic
plea that runs along the same
path. A Chicago business man.
Edward Yeomans, urges literature
upon the schools in exactly the
same spirit. Incidentally he makes
point touching the old-fashioned
Bible teaching Of the PRESBYTERIAN
type we'll worth needing. He con-
cedes the terror and dullness and
austerities Of the Westminster
Shorter Catechism. But as compen-
sation he presents the Bible stories
that wonderful procession Of fig
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
''Near War" on the Isthmus

The warlike friction which has
arisen between Panama and Costa
,8ica is due to long delays in the en-
forcement of an arbitration award.
President Loubct Of France was
chosen as umpire in dispute over
the boundary line between Costa
Rica and Colombia and gave a de-
cision in September, 1900.
The revised line was not accept
able to Panama, which shortly after
seeded from Colombia and became
an independent state. Costa Rica
agreed to let Chief Justice
White of our Supreme Court inter-
pref the Loubet decision. But his
solution also offended the Pana-
manians. A status quo line has
been in force for many years Costa
Rlca has now occupied territory on
the Pacific side awarded to her by
Ioubet, but the Panamanians charge
that she is unwilling to evacuate ter
fitory on the Atlantic side which
should go to them.
The northernmost part Of Pana-
ma is largely a wilderness, without
roads and easily accessible only
along the rivers which flow into the
Pacific and the Atlantic. Neither
claimant Is able to develop it eco
nomically. Neither can occupy 1t
in a military sense except in the
most shadowy way. War, therefore,
of which there is some talk in Pan
sma, would be only a gesture It
would be NEAR war" Panama has
no army and cannot attack the
Costa Rican coast. The United States
would not permit Costa Rican op-
erations against Panama City or
Colon, even if Costa Rica were in a
position to attempt them.
The deadlock which has existed
for twenty years need not be
broken by force. Further negotia-
ton, on an appeal to this country,
which guaranteed the territorial in
tegrity of Panama as it existed
after the Loubet award, is the rea-
sonable way out. Central Ameri-
can boundaries have always been ILL.,
defined. Costa Rica has sensibly
submitted her northern line to arbi-
tration as we'll as her southern.
Slight territorial readjustments in
the wild mountain regions which
cover the narrowing continent
north Of the isthmus are of minor
consequence. They are not worth
lighting about, especially since
neither contestant could hope by
desultory fighting to do much more
than continue the present status of
the disputed territory as No Mans
Land.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
When Doctors Disagree

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May not say" in regard to
Dr.. Copeland's claim that repeal of
the so-called "daylight-saving law"
will cause the death of great num-
bers' of people, that Dr. Kennicott,
of main Street." Gopher Prairie, be-
lieves that the adoption of the daylight
saving" delusion. with its consequent
change Of hours for sending children 20
bed and rising in the morning, so
worked upon their sensitive nerves as
to encourage, if it did not cause, the
scourge of infantile paralysis which
invaded the country Just about the
same time that the war measure" law
was adopted7 Anyhow, one seems quite
az sensible as the other NJ. H.R.
St Argustins, Fla, Feb ce. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01

ures passing colossal against the
glowing sky, on the rim of that
Oriental world from whence came
the very breath OF our spiritual
life" He continues:
"ln after years they tower up and
constitute a sort of mountain range
running across the green plains of
early youth. And you never get out
of sight Of them; they tower higher
as you go on. Children who have
30 not appropriated these stories MS in
tegral parts Of their lives are likely
to suffer from the lack Of that lumi-
nous and stately background which
l compare with mountain range,
and behind which, as we proceed in
land, is tho immortal sea that
brought us hither."
He cites the list, Esau, Samson
(thc Playboy of the Eastern World)
the massive Noah, Solomon the in
comparable, and so on. All these
the child brought up on the Bible got
exactly as Sir Arthur pleads all
literature should be got-directly,
in the words of the great masters
who wrote the King James text. The
writer in the Atlantic pictures a
scene very like that Of story hour
in children's library and urges it
upon our schools in place of the dry,
analytical study Of classics which
too often prevails. The book is the
thing-not the subjunctive mood, or
trick Of style, or an obsolete word
that matters little one way or an
other. The testimony is growing
stronger every day. Almost it seems
as if the art Of reading was we'll on
the road toward triumphant re-
turn to our schools and homes.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
to retain Polish Silcsia by packing

to retain Polish Silcsia by packing
the jury.
1t is a repetition Of the old tactics
in the case of France. She, too, is
militaristic and imperialistic be-
cause she does not trust her enemy
to the point of leaving the Rhine
unguarded, because she does not pro-
pose to see Germany rise again on
her own ruins. Such definition of
militarism and imperialism may sat-
isfy the intelligentsia, even the
White House. Are the American
people credulous enough to be de-
ceived by it?
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
Senator Chamberlain
4 Sketch Of His Career and Appreciation by Former
Oregonian Who Has Knopn Him for Thirty Years
Copyright. 1924. Now York Tribune Ins

to the major work he stood for and ac-
complished in the Senate. Conspicuous
among the acts of his first term was his
refusal to turn recreant to his party's
political platform pledge to safeguard
and foster the rights of American coast
wise shipping passing through the Pan
anna Canal. The snap of the party whip
had no terror for his independent spirit,
nor was he swerved from duty as he
understood it to a betrayal of his con-
stituents by the nebulous meaning con-
veyed in those veiled vagaries about
even greater delicacy and nearer con-
sequence" But it was in January, 1918.
that Senator Chamberlain rendered his
most signal service to his country. when
he awakened the people by sounding
clarion call to duty for our national de-
fense. Before the National Security
League in New York at that time he
fearlessly proclaimed that "the military
establishment Of America has fallen
down" and the reason it fell, he added.
was because of ineAiciency in every
bureau and department of the govern
ment of the United States A sensa-
tional utterancc to be made in war time
by the chairman of the Senate Military
Affairs Committee, but how we'll it
served the pressing need Of the hourl
If there is one man above all others
who clearly is entitled to credit for
speeding up the prosecution of the World
War for us, his identity must be ap-
parent to all. If there is a man in our
national life to-day who because of his
independence Of thought and action.
rugged honesty Of purpose and refresh
ing candor of expression most clearly
resembles those other two truly great
Americans of our time of the same type.
who served in a larger sphere-Grover
Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt-thc
distinction easily falls to George Cham.
berlain. When it came to the consid-
Grafton of the Treaty of Versailles it is
quite true that the Senator proved a
gutter (to one at leasO, but, be it said
to Senator Chamberlains everlasting
credit. he didn't quit until, with the aid
OF his voice and VOTE it became manifest
to all mankind that American national
independence never unreseryedly would
be hypothecated to any international
committee.
Some one may ask, What manner of
man is Chamberlain? And why the re-
markabe hold he has had upan Orego-
mans who know him best? The explana-
tion is simple. There is no can't or hum
bug about him. Ruggedness Of character,
steadfast courage of his convictions,
energy plus, and the hoops-of- steel va
riety of loyalty to his friends are among
his sterling qualities.
WILLIAM E. PULLIAM.
New York, Feb. "a, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-01
A Larger Milk Market
No Attempt to Control Prices by tho
Dairymens League
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Edgar Boody says in letter
IN your issue of February "a: "Thers
is one fatal defect in the pooling plan
Of the Dairymen's ague-namely, it
does not contemplate control Of pro-
duction. No pool can possibly control
prices if the output is unlimited, be-
csuse the moment production exceeds
demand at any price either the price
must fall or else some Of the producs
Will not be sold.'
Under the pooling plan the league
will not attempt in any way to control
the production Of milk. Last spring
New York City dealer posted notices
on an upstate milk plant urging farm
CTS to reduce their production, and he
found himself instantly under Federal
Investigation. The league will do moth
ing whatever that can be construed as
an attempt to reduce the milk supplyin in
order to enhance prices.
The leagues plan does not contem-
plate any attempt to control prices. 1t
provides an unrestricted market fer
r,ilk. The market cannot be interfcsed
with if farmer owned plants are kept
open all the time to afford an outlet
for milk which the farmer produces.
Prices will be regulated solely by the
law Of supply and demand. II
the price is sufficiently high to en-
courage production farmers will buy
more cows and will feed more genor-
ously the cows they already have. IL
.hc price is too low to make milk pro-
duction pay they will 90 exactly what
they have always done-get rid Of
their cows.
In its plan for collective marketing
the league proposes, among other sensl-
Bile, businesslike things. to try to OBJ
tain larger markets for milk than now
are enjoyed by farmers. This can De
accomplished by an intelligent educa-
tional campaign to increase milk con-
sumption.
According to the Department of
~ Ssl' S4'p VIC Pti Ndp1lh tOllcAis p-iSA -
milk in New York City Is somewhere
around half pint day. Think Of ii.
About teacupful a day. Food experts
and dietitians tell US that no child un-
der the age of twelve should have less
than quart a day Il the Child is 70
be guaranteed tnat opportunity for
physical development to which every
cnild is entitled. They tell us that no
adult should have less than pint
day if the adult is to have that protec-
ton against disease and an insurance
policy for health to which each adult
.s entitled
The Dairymen's League is doing, ana
long has been doing, exactly the thing
which Mr. Boody says it should do
that is, educate the farmer TO dispose
Of his Improbable cows. The league
stands for scientific dairying ard IS
constantly preaching the doctrine o.
economic and more efficient methods n
milk production. FRED A. HOAR.
Editorial Staff, Dairymen's League
News.
New York. Feb. 27, 1921.