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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25
KENYON BILL WOULD
BENEFIT THOUSANDS


The Kenyon Bill, which would
practically double the number of per-
sons receiving training under the
Federal Board for Vocational Educa-
ton and cut away some of the red
tape which has hampered the training
of the disabled, has been unanimous
ly passed by the United States Sen
ate. Early action is expected in the
House of Representatives, where it
has been introduced by Representa-
tive Fess of Ohio.
The claims of approximately half
of the 1880 disabled men h had
registered for training with the Fed
eral Board up to December / were
~disapproved, chiefly because of the
ruling that a disability rating of ten
percent was a prerequisite for train
ing. The Kenyon Bill would remove
this restriction, enabling the Federal
Board to give training to all veterans
vacationally disabled, regardless of
disability.
If the measure becomes a law, it
will also extend the privileges of vo-
cattOnal training to American dis
abled in Allied Armies during the war
upon h same basis as soldiers dis
abled in the American Army, and to
the widows and children of men who
died in service. Widows, not remar-
ried, would be entitled to enter train
ing at any time until 1925 and chill
dren at any time between the ages
of fourteen and eighteen. 1t is esti-
mated that 10000 widows and an
equal number Of children would be
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25
OCEAN ACROBATICS
PLEASE VIOLA DANA

A thoroughly enjoyable course ir
ocean acrobatics formed part of the
daily routine of petite Viola Dana in
the work of the filming of her Ia
test starring picture, .'The Offshore
Pirate" Metro special, adapted from
F. Scott Fitzgerald's delightful story
which appeared in The Saturday Eve
ming Post.
Practically all Of the story is laid
on one of the palatial yachts that
serve to ornament the seaboards and
lend attractiveness to the famous
watering places. The story called for
plenty of aquatic action as the hero
inc is supposed to do some spectacu-
lar diving from the deck of the yacht
and also from high cliffs.
This sort of action appealed to Miss
Dana, who is as much at home on the
water as she is when driving her high
powered car or doing stunts with an
aeroplane. So just to be sure that
there would be no necessity of having
to go through the many retakes Miss
Dana had her own personal rehear--
sails every morning and Director Dali
las M. Fitzgerald and the members of
the company were unanimous in their
opinion that never had any ~rehearsals
been enjoyed so greatly.
"The Offshore Pirate" was seem
ario by Waldemar Young and photo
graphed by John Arnold, who has
been cameraman for Miss Dana for
the last four years. Al Kelley was
assistant director.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25
DISTRICT U NEWS

Whine Ellis has filed complaint in
the district court for divorce from his
wife, Ruth Ellis.
They have two children, Harold Ell
lis, age 8 years and Donald age Is.
He charges cruel and inhuman
treatment. The plaintiff and defend
ant were intermarried at Kendrick,
Idaho about May 16, 1917.
Ruth Tribble has filed suit for d.
vorce against her husband, Richard E.
Tribble.
The plaintiff and defendant were
intermarried at Occur d'Alene, Idaho,
July 8, 1912.
They have one child, George l..
Tribble age five months. Charges
are cruel and inhuman treatment.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25
GRADUATE NURSE is
HONORED AT GRITMAN'S

At affair of unusual interest was
given at the Gritman hospital one
evening last week, when Miss Effit
Storey completed her course in the
hospital as a trained nurse. The re-
ception room was beautifully deco
rated in pink and white, while pink
carnations and daffodils seemed to
have grown from every nook and cor
ner. The program consisted of an
instrumental solo by Mrs. J. A. Ber-
an, an original poem by Miss Hulda
johnson, solo by Mrs. Bert Martin,
an essay by Miss Rega Weigan.
After the program the guests re-
tired to the dining room, here the
color scheme Of pink and white was
carried out; the pink and white lights
seemed to reflect an added beauty to
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25
eligible. They would get compensa-
ton of $50 a month while training.
Tho Konvon hill alco would nrovide


ton of $50 a month while training.
The Kenyon bill also would provide
Government medical treatment to stu
dents who require it while undergo
ing training, a privilege now denied
by a bothersome technicality which
has worked much hardship, and it
would provide the payment of 500
a month, plus allowances for de-
pendants, to all men undergoing
training. This payment would uper-
sede the present method under which
are paid graduated amounts theoretic-
ally based On the cost of living in the
community in which the students re-
sides. The latter method, prescribed
by a joker in the Civil Sundry Bill of
1920, necessitated a nationwide in
vestigation of living costs by the Fed
eral Board last summer and caused
much confusion and dissatisfaction.
The Kenyon Bill has the distinction
of being the first ex-sOldier bill to
pass either house of Congress this
session. Its passage was asked by
the second national convention of The
American Legion.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25

yeah" said Bowery Bill, late of the
fighting Irish, 81 guess l got a charm
ed life all right. Went through the
war without a scratch and amt been
murdered once't since'et | got back to
New York.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25
The Dollar. Line

Chairman Fordney of the House
Ways and Means Committee, sponsor,
of the pending veterans conpensa-
ton bill, says that most of the oppo-
sition to the measure comes from men
who are paying taxes on incomes of
more than $50, 900 a year.
This statement is only confirmatory
of what veterans have suspected. The
shots of patriotic sophistry tired
against the compensation proposal
come only from thinly-held outposts.
The zeal are e~ntrenched in
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25

AS we are not a cigarette user, and
as we don't reason with that high
intellect of a Moscow brother who ac-
knowledged hat although he knew
nothing about the matter, he knew it
was bad, we don't pretend to say
whether the cigarette law in Idaho
should or should not be passed. We
do however puzzle our ivory dome
over the future. If booze peddlers
are called boot-leggers, what in
thunder will the new criminal be call
ed, who will give o the high sign,
lead you through a dark alley to his
cache and mutter between his teeth
"Dromedaries 40c per drag?"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25
Murderer Found Guilty

South Bend, Wash.-By A. P.)-J.
Fred WEIGH, found guilty here today
of murder in the first degree in con-
n~ection with the explosion of the
dredge Beaver near here December
16, with the loss of four lives. (Welch
was convicted of blowing up the
dredge on which was a girl with
whom he was infatuated, her father
and two other men, all of whom were
k1lled-Ed).
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25
Illinois Bonus Vote is Key
For Congress-


The returns of the statewide refer
endum or the question of national
and state compensation which has
been completed by the department of
Illinois Of the American Legion
brings out the following facts: SO
per cent of the ex-service men in that
| state are in favor of a state bonus
of $500 for each month Of service.
Is per cent favor taking their amour
in the form of adjusted service GER
tificates. 13 per CEN want aid in the
purchasing Of a home. 10 per cent
needed assistance in obtaining an
education. 8 per cen want aid in
buying a farm. 81 per cen want
their bonus in the form of cash. AL
most all of those wanting cash are
disabled men. This information
proves that it will be just opposite to
what the opponents OF the bill stated,
namely that almost all of the ex-ser-
vice men would want cash.
Details Wanted
The dusky warrior stuck his head
from the dugOut entrance at II A. M.
on the 18th and hailed a white nom
com.
How come it am so gutter" he de-
manded. "Where-at am all de pOOf-
pools and wow-wows all SO sud-
dent?s
WARS over-Armistice signed
come on out"
"Nossuh," answered the colored
boy decidedly. "Ain't goin' nary step
till All finds oat which side won" :
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25

deeper positions along a dollar and
cents line, in front of which they
have been industriously placing legis-
lative barbed wire in anticipation Of
the battles to come. Along that line
are the ~pillboxes of profiteers.
One may at least concede the cour-
age of a man who states frankly that
he opposes payment to service men
because it will cost him $4,000. But
who will concede anything to such a
man, enriched by war industries, who
PIRATES of putting a price on patriot
ism as he labors to deny just com
pensation to men who served their
country for $50 a month?
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25

the rooms On the tables were huge
baskets of pink carnations. DR.. and
Mrs. Gritman as of yore were most
gracious host and hostess. Mesdames
Warren Truitt and F. L. Barrows pre-
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25

WANTED-A music teacher, must be
able to know and teach me the
Star Spangled Banner. See NJ. P.
Bailey. 1S7K
WANTED-A copy of the song called
the Star Spangled Banner or a pho
nograph record of the same. Call
M. p. Bailey. SSH
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25

The meeting last Thursday night,
February II, was not up to expecta-
ton. The boys who were in charge OF
the feed which was given after the
meeting expected a large number and
prepared accordinly. The outcome
was, all kinds of 'slum'' and dish
water" left over. This was delivered
to people who made good use of it.
What's the matter? When a feed
won't get you fellows out, what will?
We need every member out for the
meeting, March 3rd. We are plan
ming on a great many things. First
the organization of. a women's auxil-
larry. Quite a few of the fair sex have
inquired about it. Then we are go
ing to give one of the biggest and
best dances eve given in Moscow or
March 18th. Then there is a Better
American" campaign coming up and
talk of a smoker and a thousand
other things. Next Thursday night,
March 3rd. Remember that date and
come out to the meeting.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25

Ii you were a married mar you will
find hat the moths get in and eat out
the heels and toes of socks while they
are being worm. A dash of black shoe
ulster applied where the flesh shows
will remedy this.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25

sided at the tables. At the conclu-
sion DR.. Gritman presented Miss
Storey with her diploma. She also
received many costly presents and
beautiful flowers.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-25
They Say That

10 Cne EulIOf. Grdln LOOK d stump,
steel got a bump, wool they are CIV
ing away. 1T is rumored around that
one-eighth cent a pound is all big
Five" profit today. Rents have gone
down all yer town, Goa is so cheap
it's a crime. Gas is SO low Diapers
say SOY that an egg can be boiled for
a dime. "Oh, please buy a bale," was
the Southerners' wall a year or two
back, if I'm right. Now they've got
so much jack, that to dodge irccme
tax, they burn up their surplls at
night. The boarding house prune will
be extinct soon, and found only at
millionaire's mess. Ladies' overall
club gave the stores such a rub that
200 will now buy a dress. With wages
so high that they reach the blue sky,
I've a Packard for each of my boys.
I'm a luxury slave, unable to save,
why, my bonus won't buy baby's toys!
They say it's a sin, the silk shirts /
work in. ! shouldn't be dressed up
that way. | hear it, | read it, but
damned if | believe it. l live ON a
crippled bucks pay.
BUDDIE
Muskegon, Mich.
According to the recent statement
of the Supreme Secretary of the
Knights of Columbus, their free en-
ployment agencies have obtained po-
sitions for 543, 900 World War Veter-
ans. No man was placed in a posi-
ton which paid less than $500 per
week, the statement says.
Three years ago every outfit was
yelping who won the war;, The
question today is 'Who is going TO
win the next one?' The present
fight between the air service and the
navy is getting interesting. In as to
the relative worth of aircraft and
ships, high naval officers recently dis
closed that a bomb weighing 1900
pounds and loaded with T. N. T. had
been exploded recently on the old
battleship Indiana without destroying
any of the vessel below it's protective
deck. This seems to prove that there
isn't much to a recent statement by
Brig. General VIM. Mitchell of the
Army Air Service hat the battleship
is as helpless against the airplane as
armored knight was when fire
arms were brought against him.
On the grounds that it would set a
bad precedent, the Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr.. Houston, has expressed
his disapproval of a bill pending in
Congress for the payment of $4,000 /.
war risk insurance to the heirs of the 8
our ex-service men who were killed
)y the i. w. w. at the Armistice Day t
at Centralia, Wash, in 1919. {
yeah" said Bowery Bill, late of the s
lighting Irish, Il guess I got a charm Z
ID life all right. Went through the
var without a scratch and amt been
murdered once't since'et l got back to
Jew York.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-04
THE KU KLUX KHAN.
(Thomasville Times-Enterprise.

(Thomasville Times Enterprise.)
The Ku Klux Khan is causing no
end of discussion in the state at the
present time, which is reflected from
statements and discussions coming
from more or less prejudiced sources
North of the Mason and Dixon line,
where they consider it nothing more
than an official intimidator or lash by
which unlawful acts may be commit
ted against the person and property
of the black race.
We are not prepared to say what
the order is or whose sympathies and
interests it may have aroused in this
state or any other. We are convinced
that it was not conceived with any
idea of contributing to the unlawful
ness of the present time. If it is
based on pricinples which its head
says are embodied in its constitution
or bylaws, by whatever name they
may be known, it deserves no such
condemnation. 1t is endeavoring to
promote law and order rather than
to tear it down.
But on the other hand it is quite
true that the name and the institu-
ton it symbolizes or perpetuates has
long since gone and with it the need
therefor. AS a real Ku Klux Khan
it is not necessary and therefore
superfluous and dangerous. With a
modern adaptation of the principles
that actuated that first organization
and a desire to promote the princi-
Piles only in a lawful manner it might
prove valuable rather than a men,
ace.
There are dangers lurking around
however, and the misuse of the term
may bring condemnation on the or
der, undeserved but still contribut-
ing to its general reputation. There
is no need of hoods and masks in this
day and time unless they cover
something that the world has no bust
ness knowing. Illegal acts are not
things that the world should not
know. Why the secrecy or masks
or whatever are used we never imag
ined and it is perhaps by reason of
this feature and phase that it is meet
ing with so much general discussion,
a lot of which has been entirely I'M
favorable from bipartisan sources.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-04
PRESTON

PRESTON, Feb. 4.-Little Coye
Russell has been dangerously i'll with
pneumonia for some few days, but
she has taken turn to get well, we
think.
Willis Ball has been i'll with pneu-
monia, but is improving steadily now
Foreman W. S. Bell and his work
men are making steady progress on
the new school building. He reports
that the building will soon be COM
plete.
Preston High schools literary So
cieties are doing excellent work, es-
pecially in debating. Each Friday
afternoon is given over to the work
of the literary societies.
The school has an athletic asso
citation of boys which was organized
Nov. 10, 1920. The students prac-
ticed athletics a good deal just be,
fore Christmas, but they have prac-
'ticed very little since moving into
the new school building. However,
there are some reasons for their fail
ure to practice. The athletic ground
is not yet clear of bushes, scraps of
plank and other types of trash; and,
too, the weather has not been fav-
orable to athletic practice.
Principal R. W. James has recently
completed census of the children in
Preston Consolidated school district.
He reports that there are 220 child
rem in the district between the ages
of 6 and IS years A few of these
children are not in the school now
but it is hoped they will all enter
soon. There are some students com.
ing from other districts to the school.
All are welcome.
Some of the students from the
ninth, tenth and eleventh grades are
preparing to give a play in the near
future. The play is a good one and
the boys and girls are preparing t.
act the parts we'll.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-04
Dr.. Barton's Daily Talk
"THE WEIGHT OF PERSONALITY"
BY DR.. VILLA Nj E. BARTON

ed the lever of their personality I'M
der the inert mass of tradition and
prejudice and tyranny, and the world
moved.
Plato and Shakespeare and Milton
found each Of them a precarious
place to stand, and they poised their
weight where it lifted the load that
lay upon the heart of the centuries.
The scales tell very little about
the weight of a man. At sea level
they tell one story and on the noun
tain-top quite another; and it causes
the weight to change if he remove or
put on his overcoat. What kind of
measure shall we invent to show the
lifting power of this man, whether at
sea level, or on the mountain-top as
he sits or stands with his skilled
hands on the machinery that operates
steam-shovel?
We cannot weigh men as we weigh
coal or sand. Personality is a thing
of weight which no scales can meas
ure.
1t is the right of every man to find
the lever and the place to stand on
means of which he can weigh his fun
moral value. The power to influence
other men, the power to change or
control events, the power to lift and
build, 81 the priceless possession Of
personality
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-04
HIDING UNDER WATSON.
(Cordele Dispatch. }


$50 far as the people of Georgia
are concerned, l am not alarmed
as to what will be their attitude to-
ward the Ku Klux Khan and toward
the editor whose name appears at the
masthead of the Enquirer-Sun. If I
recall correctly it was the same man
who waged such bitter and relent-
less war on Thos Z. Watson a few
years ago, yet the people Of Geor-
gia do not seem to have agreed with
him in his estimate of Mr.. Watson.
l doubt not they will regard with
as little consideration his attacks on
US as they regarded his victriolic at
tack on Mr.. Watson"
These are the words of Col. Will
liam ]. Simmons, Imperial high stan
dard bearer for the secret order of
the Ku Klux Klan. 1t smacks of an
effort to get under the long flaps
of Tom Watson's coat tail with this
movement. 1t smacks that much of
an effort which will fall-but even
under the coat tail of Tom Watson,
none but the moonshiner, the night
rider, the man with the bull dog pis-
toll, could ever see the need of any
thing that looks like revival of
the Ku Klux Khan in the South.
We are ready to pay proper tribute
to the men who had to live by the Ku
Klux Khan methods in the recon-
struction because they were heroes.
They preserved our government to
US, and they made our civilization
in the South severe. We love and
revere them for it. They were the
Ku Klux of another day and another
time.
We believe we can see in the as
sertion of the imperial wizard of the
new order of the Ku Klux Khan an
effort to tie himself to a very dan
gerous element. We know who they
are. We believe it will be easy to
lead some Georgia to believe that
night riders are again necessary. We
do not argue that the published mo-
tive of the new secret order is any
thing like that, but we do believe agi-
tation now or at any time in the fu-
ture will make night riding lawless-
ness possible. The revival of any
kind of that lawlessness which was
necessary in the days of the recon
struction will take the name of the
Ku Klux and with it will go the re-
spect for the law which people here
j II 4
as fully and wholly necessary.
If the imperial wizard could i'm
press all of Watson's followers in
Georgia that the new Ku Klux Khan
was necessary, he might put it over.
Law abiding, self-resepcting people
better leave off that kind of proceed
ure, Watson or no Watson. 1t makes
little difference which way politics go
in comparison with the losses we will
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-04
Rhymes From The Muckalee
COMPARE THYsELF WITH JOB.

Remember in these trying times story of old Job,
Whose known land that specks this mundane globe
high with could his wealth.
And than this there Mrs job happy heirs and health
And word opinion among the largest and the least
That Job far the greatest in all the
Thered been iE land of w to upset status
But the there Job financial blow.
He lost his and his mules his and his cattle
wrought masterpiece and chae
Not thing left to Job, except his spouse and cares
angry winds blew far away the last of his heirs
When he had drained the bitter of troubles and of tolls
found his body botched complete with bsters and with bos
My modern brother maybe think your luck is tough
have much sell that won't bring price enough
But take little squirt Job his fix with thine.
He and so you justify your whine
reinquished his despite his and friends
And his fortune smiles before the drama ends
in the final shown before the curtain falls
that Job had within his stable walls
there health and wealth. Fortune did send it;
three daughters fair spend it.
"A G. Sucrema.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-04
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS;
TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY
(From the Morning Times-Record-
C-A..I... 1A11A

(From the Morning Times-Record-
err, Saturday, Feb. 4, 1919
Mayor Mathis sat in police court
on the case of three unarmed Grip
pies who had been arrested in the
midst of battle royal.
The High school commemorated
the birth of Sidney Lanier yester.
day. Miss Mary Fort read an orig
inal paper on "The Character and
Works of Lanier." Miss Mildred
Lide gave a humorous selection. Rev.
R. L. Bivins, of the Furlow Lawn
Baptist church, delivered talk.
Americas has a population of
3,488 white citizens and 4,574 col
ored, according to the report of the
census department, the total being
8,062.
All clothing at half price. $50
suits and coats SIS, said an ad of the
Rylander Shoe Co., SIS suits and
coats, $780,"
Americas nine near-beer dealers
have all paid their annual state IL
cense tax for the current year and
Ordinary Cobb yesterday RENTED
$4,000 to the. state treasurer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-04
TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY
monday morning, February 4,
1901, no paper issued)
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY

THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Americas Daily Times,
Wednesday, Feb. a, 1919
Col. W. A. Dodson is on a visit
to Hawkinsville.
Hon. Robt. Patton .Sss Schley, was
among the visitors to Americas yes
terday.
Col. E. H. Cults attended court in
Abbeville Monday.
Miss Bee Clegg will return today
from Hawkinsville where she has
been visiting.
Mrs. Fred Arthur, of Shellman,
we'll known to Americas people as
Miss Leila Mclaughlin, is visiting
friends and relatives here.
Col. C w. Hancock is in Abbeville
in the interest of the Americas Build
ing Loan Association.
C. F. Harmon, one of the con-
tractors of the Savannah. Americas
and Montgomery, reached the city
yesterday. He says the road is COM
rleted to the Chattahoochee river on
the Georgia side.
The board of directors of the Am