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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-21
A DAILY MESSAGE
eY DR.. WILLIAM &. BARTON
EooLs ANp ANGELs.


Fools rush in where angels fear TO
tread"
/ The more ] mediate upon this wise
iaphorism, the more respect I have for
the fools.
i The angels are conservative; the
world has added much to its wisdom
by the enterprise Of fools.
| We shah wait long if we stand still
luntil the tasks Of the world are per-
formed by perfect men.
/ While the angels are huddled to-
gether in celestial convention. deplor-
ling the situation which confronts the
moral universe, and agreeing that
something ought to be done, and
mourning because there is no one
worthy to do it, great causes hang
trembling in the balance Then along
comes a fool and throws his sword
into the scale and something happens
Columbus was a fool or a fanatic or
something Of the sort, and had his
sailors succeeded in turning him back
or in capturing his ship under his
heel his name might have come down
70 us as one in a long list of very
foolish men
When cautious and conservative and
sensible man hesitate. and know MOI
how swift the shadow moves upon the
dial, then some fool rushes in, and
turns the hour glass upside down, and
the world starts anew.
Fools are made to do the work
which the angels see needs to be done
but are too conservative to do.
Sinners sometimes perform the good
work which the saints have long neg
Elected. Let him that is without sin or
folly cast the first stone at them.
For myself, I intend to stand among
those wise men who acknowledge the
sagacity of fools. I admire the men
who for the sake of the good which
all men acknowledged, hut which the
wise could not find a way to perform,
dared the reproach of folly for the
display of the greater wisdom. Among
them are the Adventures, the in
yentors, the martyrs. and also, now
and then, some millionaires.
Not all the great fortunes were made
by sitting tight and cutting coupons.
Among the rich whom all admire are
"a few brave fools who happened to
guess correctly.
admire the angels. But the angels
themselves We're less safely protected
but for the temerity of the fools.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-21
Common Sense Ways to
Keep Well
BY DR.. r. n. BISHOP
lie THIN PERsoN.

Most people are just as dissatisfied
with their physical proportions as they
are with their lot in life
The fat man or woman wishes to be
thin, the thin one would be fat, the
short one tan, the tall one short, and
so on ad infnitum.
But when you hear a thin person
who is rarely sick, heave a sigh and
wish he were fat, don't waste any
pity on him. Although underweight is
oft times as unhealthy a condition as
overweight, those who have tried every
way possible to gain weight may be
predisposed by heredity to the con-
dition. Usually such persons are in
good bodily health
To stuff themselves with food in an
attempt TO gain weight is very likely
to destroy that good health which they
enjoy and make their condition quite
evidently worse.
There are many thin people, how
ever, who are not hea;thily thin. Such
people should make a whole-hearted
attempt 10 gain weight by living as
healthy life as possible.
Thin people lose heat more readily
than stout people, as they have a
larger percentage of active tissue and
expose more skin surface in proportion
to the body weight.
They require, therefore, an abundant
supply of energy food, or fuel foods,
fats, starch and sugar. Butter and
olive oil are better than other fats
and less likely to disturb the digestion.
Sugar is valuable fuel food but
should not be taken in concentrated
form into an empty stomach.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-21
IT'S ONLY FAIR.


Mother has had heap Of praise
And she deserves 1t, goodness knows,
But ii Is seldom that we gaze
on any poetry-or prose
That spealxe of Dad, so I propose
To make the old mans spirit glad
BY slipping him his dues: here goes,
1 sing a little song to Dad!
Throughout his life he spends his days
In earning cash to spend for hose
And shoes and suits and rent; he pays
And pays and pays, yet seldom shows
Impatience as his burden grows;
He keeps us housed and fed and clad,
In summers heat, In winters SHOWS;
sing a little song to Dadl
lie understands our little ways,
He sympathizes with our woes,
our schemes he aids, our games he
plays,
And deep within his heart there
CLOVIS
A love he doesn't much disclose,
But which outlasts good times and
bad
withstanding all fate's stoutest blows;
sing a little song to Dad!
It's seldom anyone bestows
The praise that father shoald have
had:
But-here's the debt that one man
owes:
sing little song to Dad
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-21
ADVENTURES OF
THE TWINS
IL eREEN sHoEs
~ OLIVE RosERTs BARTON

How quickly the Twins slipped off
their own little stout brown shoes, and
how excitedly they slipped on the
wonderful magical green ones that the
fairy mushroom had brought them.
They knew the power of those wonder
full shoes, how, with just the merest
scrap of a wish. they would carry
their wearers to the ends of the earth.
up to the stars, under the ocean, over
the mountains, and into any part Of
Fairyland. And now they were going
under the earth and into a part of
F'airyland where the Brownies lived.
They were going to help Mr. PIN PIN
to gather up all the things for the
Christmas trees, OF course Mr.. PIN
PIN doesn't trim the trees, but you've
no idea how Santa depends upon him
and the Brownies for help. They get
him all sorts of bright dyes for tree
toys out OF the secret places under the
earth. Sacks full of golden glitter and
Silver sheen, boxing of cleaning green
and blazing blue, cases of ruby-red
and sapphire shine and whole pounds
of glittering, glowing, sparkling, Won
derful white to put over everything!
Now. you know, my dears, how the
good Mr.. Santa gets his wonderful
colors to dye all of his ornaments for
the Christmas trees. From Mr.. PIN
PIN and the Brownies, and who
knoWs2 When you look at Your tree
this year you'n never know but that
Nancy dug up some of the beautiful
blazing blue for the lovely glass BAN
near the bottom, or that Nick helped
Mr.. PIN PIN to find the crystals Of
ruby-red to color the big Cutlery star
at the top.
4 think" said the Mushroom. that
the entrance to the Land OF Under
Meath where PIN PIN reigns is lust
by the lockwood tree. Yes. T remem-
Der perfectly. that's just where il IS
to the left Of those stones.
Ito BE Continuedl
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-21

AFTER international disarmament,
what7" asks the Digest. We would
say local disarmament"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-21
PASSING THE BUCK.

II you want to rise TO the top in
your business or line of work, you must
have the quality of accepting respon-
sibility instead of evading it.
The man with a tendency to pass
the buck usually finds that his ladder
Of success has only one rung.
Business will stand for almost any
thing from man if he has the courage
to say, Yes, that's my fault. But I
won't make the mistake again"
Such man stands out, like shot
gun at a disarmament conference,
among the millions who continually are
evading responsibility = passing the
blame to other people or to existing
conditions.
The evasion Of responsibility seems
to be an almost universal human
falling.
Savages people the earth with evil
spirits to blame things on.
The Chinese for thousands of years
blamed their famines on the gods Of
rain, flood. sun and insect pests. All
this was nothing but self hypnotism-
the rearing of imaginary devils on
whose shoulders blame was piled
Along came American engineers. They
discovered water a few feet under the
surface.
Behold" they said to the Chinese.
"The famine is your own fault Sink
shallow-water wells, irrigate your
fields. and famine will end"
Today we have civilized America,
caught in the simple economic law Of
cause and effect, blaming imaginary
nothings for existing conditions.
Experts delve into the past, find
that prices and production in previous
years moved up and down like the
waves. Hence. they reason, we are not
to blame for conditions; we are just
caught up and carried along by a
natural process.
We have cynics, converted to the
philosophy that there has to be war
in Europe every half century
We have psychiatrists. blaming the
unsettled mental and moral state of
the world on intangible, imaginary
things like the cosmic urge" the
wave of social hysteria," etc.
These gentlemen attract wide follow
ings, forl the world is always on the
eager lookout for anything new on
which it can shoulder the blame in
stead Of people accepting the truth and
taking their own medicine.
This is the truth: That we are mas
ters Of our own destinies-that man is
responsible for mans troubles.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-21

Ultra rapid movies, which show you
fast action slowed down so all details
can be watched. are being used to
show boxers and golfers their defects.
The golfers who cannot understand why
he misses the ball, quickly sees his de-
feet when he watches specially made
ultra pid movie Of himself. Watch
this invention for important discov-
cries. It is mans first success at
eliminating Notwithstanding min-
ute into an hour. Comforting to Elm
stein, who SAYS that time and space
are relative, not actually existing as
fixed units.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-21

II the professor who is counting our
cuss words. win step on someone's
corn, his job will be done.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-21

IN the first 10 months OF this year.
up TO Nov. l, imports of merchandise
into the United States totaled s2,055,
762.5so. That compares with $2.504,-
o21.90S, in the corresponding 10 months
of 1917, when prices were lower.
Something has gone wrong with the
calculations of the men who predicted
that America would become the dump
ing ground for a flood of foreign-made
goods as soon as the war stopped.
Most of the things we fear most never
happen at all
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-21

II you want to live to be- so Old that
no one can raise question about you,
eat solid. substantial food and walk as
much as possible. That is the sensible
formula of f. #. Mekus. celebrating his
10th birthday anniversary at Defiance,
o. His third ingredient is plenty of
pinochle." Any other hobby VIII do.
Takes a hobby to keep the mind and
heart young.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-21

win China be scrapped also?
some Optimists are just too lazy to
kick.
Some Of these song hits should have
missed.
Join the marines and see the mail
robbers.
well. Germany is using her marks
at any rate.
A man is never gone to the devil
until he is dead.
II Is hard to get woman to one Of
these big shoe sales.
These movies with hidden music
believe in safety first.
Most friends are good bookkeepers.
they keep all we lend.
Chicago teamsters are probably
striking for less autos.
20
About the only thing the new Wirth
cabinet passes is crises.
The only arguments some people
listen to are their own.
A soft answer doesn't turn away as
much wrath as q hard look.
Bobbed hair must so; it makes you
lose your hold on woman.
%
II Ford makes cars out of our bat
tleships they might back-fire.
o.
A successful man always runs
things; he never walks them.
When boy says he likes to go to
Ichool it is almost Christmas.
Corn dropped to As cents. Forty
ave cents a bushel. Not gallon.
'Dr. soa-Ka SEE" Chinese minis
ter to United States, is pronounced
doctor
oysters are good during any month
with an "rn unless captured during
month without an r."
After international disarmament,
what7" asks the Digest. We would
say local disarmament"
%
If the professor who is counting our
cuss words. win step on someone's
corn, his job viii be done.
Shaw's saying he never heard Of
Babe Ruth reminds many of Shaws
Ignorance of the Educated"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-21

''This is the bunk. says the sailor.
as he climbs into his hammock.
Easy street didn't get IS name from
the degree OF comfort required to set
there.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-16
DAIRYING IN POLK COUNTY.
V. Abbott Makes Suggestions and
 Asks for More Discussion.

V. Abbott Makes Suggestions and
 Asks for More Discussion.
 To The Mena Star, Mena, Ark
 Some weeks since 1 saw an article in The Weekly on the subject of Dairying, written by some person in or near Mena, and l have been asked to take the subject up and say few words for the cause. My belief IS the dairy business in this part of Arkansas would prove to be the leading factor in the upbuilding of Polk county both financially and progressively. My fifteen years experience on a dairy farm in Wis consin has given me a fairly good idea of some of the essential elements necessary to success. These are feed, water, care and cows. 1 have ex- perimented with many breeds, cross breeds, etc, and have found but few that would not respond at the pail to feed, the principal difference being in the length of the milking period or number of days between drying and freshening, and when first freshen- ing. There seems to be very little QAiA tA Cit%C DttNf ISit CGAcEf1s Nf1tAHHCg D and Aleshires and Holsteins. They often begin milking at from 20 to 30 months of age and give fair amount of milk to within thirty days of being fresh, while the Devens, Red Polls and Shorthorns begin the milking period at thirty-six months. Of course there are exceptions to the rules in the above. My ex- perience leads me to believe that feed is the great factor in the business, and it must be continuous and abund- ant. Another factor is water. Just something that will satisfy the thirst of stock does not fill the requirements in dairying. There must be either ice or good supply cf cold water, not 70 degree water. but down to near 50 degrees or as near it as possible. Milk ough. to be perfectly sweet when separated and cream when tested for the amour. of fat therein
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-16
town better and pleaane1 every dollar spent at home help to make the thing you more valuable
 $ TRADE AT HOME! $ M

famed by propaganda of the worst sort-propaganda scattered broadcast by some of the educated and more in- telligent of their race. Particularly is this so in the cities where the common topic of conversation in the negro set dement's is revenge against the whites for real or imagined wrongs.
 There are more than ten millions of colored people in this country. It is only fair to say that the vast majority of those millions are law abiding, decent people in their walks of life. There is, of course, great ignorance among them, and ignorance is not a good condition when smart agitators work upon it.
 Among ten millions of people any where on earth, there are great num- bers of reckless criminals and desper- ate deeds of negro criminals are in- creasing just as they are increasing among the white. The mass of whites, however, condone no white criminals act. But sad to say, there is much condoneing of negro criminals among the ignorant colored. This support has been largely the cause of the ter rible race riots in certain American cities. And have you noticed that each succeeding race riot is worse than the one before it?
 The race question is the greatest is- sue in this country today. The white people have been longest out of bar barism; it is up to them to begin some thing that will result in the solution of the dangerous situation now existing in our midst.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-16
HIER0GLYPHICS REVEAL SEN
 NACHERIB LIKED HOME BREW

Chicago, June 13.-Going about knocking down other kings cities, when they failed to kiss his feet, {" was one of the playful habits of Sen nacherib, ruler of Egypt. according to cunelform tablets just placed on exhi- bition at the University of Chicago.
 Sennacherib kept a diary" of his playful habits.p The big stone slabs were brought to America recently, with other records of ancient Egypt, by professor James H. Breasted.
 Tn my third campaign l marched against the land of Haiti tPalestine, 1" said Sennacherib in his ''diary.o
 ''The kings of the west land brought rich gifts before me for the fourth time and kissed my feet.
 "Hezekiah, the Judean, who had not submitted to my yoke. besieged and took forty-six of his strong-walled cities. together with countless small cities, by assault of battering rams and siege guns, attack by foot sol diers and by mines and breaches. Il captured some 100000 people small and great, male and female horses, mules, asses, camels, oxen and innumerable sheep.
 "Hezekiah himself l shut up in Jerusalem like caged bird"
 1 Other tablets showed that Seuna. cherib had a Cheops "jazz band .n 4 dromedary "toddle" and desert sshornt
 brew
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-16

In my travels about the county, find that water in shallow wells gets low and warm, but in wells thirty feet deep and mere it is cool and refreshing, so 1 conclude that by going deeper the water can be secured. Having depended almost entirely on the clover (Red and Alsike) for hay in the north, I can hardly convince myself that dairying can be carried on successfully without them, however, 1 believe that they can be grown here in Polk county. as they are growing fine in our garden and have been there several years.
 The idea of shipping cream out of the county to have it worked into butter doesn't strike me very favor ably. Why not do all the work here and ship the finished products
 It appears that there are quite a number of persons in and around Mena interested in this question. Why not get together and see what can be done? We don't need to call in some expert from no one knows where There are in Polk county (iudging from what I hear) men capable of discussing the question thoroly and advising wisely.
 l would like to hear from someone who has experimented with the clovers in this Ozark country.
 V. Abbott. Hatfield Ark Tuna 4 1oo1
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-16
DEADENING TREES
 BY USE OF ARSENIC
Cheaper and Quicker Than the Usua Method, Says Mir. H. Nj.
 CottrelI.

Deadening trees with arsenic is much cheaper and quicker than the usual method, according to H. M. Cot trell, agriculturalist of the Arkansas Profitable Farming Bureau of the Lit tle Rock Board of Commerce.
 To make the test take one pound of powdered arsenic, two pounds of sal soda, and two gallons of water.
 Heat the water to boiling and add the sal soda. Keep the water boiling until the sal soda is dissolved. which will be in few minutes. Add the arsenic to the boiling water. Keen 1t boiling and stir until all the arsenic IS dissolved Be careful not to breathe the steam as it is poisonous As soon as the arsenic is dissolved cool the liquid and place in well stopped jugs labeled 'Poison-Most Dangerous
 "Girdle the tree with one cut all around the trunk, leaving the girdle to form a shallow trough. Imme- diately apply the poison in the open ing, using can with a spout to pre- vent waste. Fill the gash.
 Tn a few days the tree will be dead. In a few weeks the limbs and trunk will become brittle and hiph winds will break them off By spring most of the trees will be so brittle that what is left of them can be re- moved easily. The poison makes the stumps and roots brittle and several planters report that they can be re- moved in half the time that is re- quired to get stumps of the same size weak enough to pull out or blow out when treated in the usual manner.
 "The liquid is deadly poison and livestock must not be allowed to lick the gash into which it is poured.
 "A planter who has deadened large tracts with this poison. substitutes caustic potash for sal soda in the mixture. It is the arsenic that kills, but he has found that the caustic potash makes it penetrate the wood faster. kills the trees quicker and makes the trees and roots become brittle in less time.
 "The poison is effective only when the tree is growing and the movement of sap Is vigorous"
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-16
Americas Most Perfect
 Man Was Born in Mena

Thomas R. Rhea, now resident of Shreveport, and student at Tulane University, New Orleans, has been rated as the finest specimen of physi- cal manhood in the United States.
 During a recent physical examina- ton of students at Tulane, young Rhea averaged 99 per cent, the best average ever made at the New Dr. leans school, and, according to c. A. Hanson, physical culture expert, as near perfect as any human may be. Rhea was measured according to the standardized army method used in of ficer's training camps turnout the great World war. Pete Mailhes, all around athlete and football star, held the former Tulane record with rat in of 9715 per cent.
 This perfect man, who once was babe in arms in Mena, is the son of Kansas City Southern passenger con- ductor. who moved his family to Shreveport when the division changed some years back. Young Rhea is student in mechanical engineering at Tulane. He is 20 years old, six feet tall and weighs 180 pounds.
 Here are some of his measurements: He is 18.2 inches across the shoulders. He has to wear something larger than size Is collar for his neck measures 15.9 inches. When he ex- bands his chest it takes 39.7 inches of tape to circle it, and contracted it takes 36 inches. When he tries he can inhale 345 cubic inches of air, the lung apparatus shows. His right arm measures 13 inches around and his left 13S. His waist is 36 inches in circumference. His right calf meas ures 15.1 inches and his left 15.
 Here's a morsel of comfort for those who do not measure exactly to the above description. Rhea, seven months age;, was not perfect" at all. When he entered the Tulane gymna- sium classes he was rated only SO per cent. He weighed but 165 pounds and his broad shoulders were bnly l4.5 inches across. He coul;l wear a l4l5 collar. His chest was four inches smaller He could blow the lung ma chine to only 2S0 inches. His right arm was whole inch smaller His hips were only 37.3 instead of 39.9 inches.
 But he worke,; in the gymnasium sometimes five times a week, swing ing on the bars, wrestling and tumb- ling on the mats, straining under the weights, often three hours at time. Director Hanson declares it is doubt full if a man anywhere in the country cah beat Rhea's all around average.
 There only are two things neces- sary to be perfect man, according to the director, and these are heighth and health. If man is tall enough he can by consistent work builc up his body as he wishes. The cubic is most men don't wish to. To be perfect specimen by the accepted standards, man must be around six feet two inches tall.p
 Tho not so large a man as Jack Dempsey, Rhea is considered a more perfect specimen of manhood than the heavyweight champion.
 While a resident of Mena yDupg Rhea was known to his boyish friends under the name of Dick" The fam fly lived on Ninfn street, near where Dr. Bogard now lives. and are re- membered by many cf Mena's older residents
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-16
WHY AMERICA FOUGHT
zansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 Exception has been taken to Am bassador Harvey's remark in his re- cent address in London that the Unit ed States entered the war in self de- fense, and not for the general cause of liberty turnout the world.
 The cause America fought for was the cause of liberty and democracy But that cause had been at stake since August, 1914, and for two years and a half America did nothing. What took 1t into the war was the notifi- cation by Germany that it no longer would respect American rights on the high seas, and that it would permit this country to send oniy one ship a week to England, provided it sailed a course prescribed ana was painted with barber pole stripes.
 This attack on the United States, which sought to make this a vassaI nation to Germany was the reason why America fought. Some persons seem to think it is ignoble to admit that country should fight in it's owr defense. Why?