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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-22
DEPUTY SHERIFF. KILLED

Los ANGELES. Cal. Aug. 81
Deputy Sheriff Kelly. OF Oxnard. was
shot and killed and Sheriff McMar-
tin. % Ventura. was probably fatally
wounded in a gun battle with a Mex
lean desperate at Owensmouth. at
noon Sunday.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-22

The once feared love-apple has be
come q vegetable OF infinite useful
ness 10 the culinary world. and lucky
are they who have tomatoes growing
I'm their own garden The early ones
may appear I'm salad. then stewed, in
SCUM. fried. stuffed and baked then
they are listed for conservation for
the winter supply closet. One gar
dener. Just before frost. pulls vines
and all and takes them into the eel
lar. where the last red ones fully
rtpen. and the green ones continue
10 improve until the vines die down,
thus furnishing salad material, green
ones TO fry. and late piccahli by the
time winter sets in.
SavOry Salad.
Peel six good sized. even-shaped
tomatoes and cut them in medium
slices. Open and drain a box of filet
OF herring. then lay the fish in a
marinade of French dressing, 70
which add the juice of an onion. a
bay leaf and four cloves. Let stand
half an hour. drain again. and then
put two strips between two slices of
tomato. sandwich fashion, dip the
sandwich into mayounaise, and lay
on lettuce leaves Garuish with a
stuffed olive on each sandwich.
Fried Green Tomatoes.
Wash. then slice. six good sized
and shaped green tomatoes. and let
stand in saIted water for half an
hour Drain dip IN beaten egg. then
fine crumbs. and fry in hot vegetable
fat or oil Serve on toast rounds with
a good ripe tomatoe sauce poured
over them
Baked Tomatoes
Hollow out the stem end OF six
firm. large tomatoes. set on a but
tered baking pan. then stuff them.
The stufing IS made Of a small cup
ful OF faxed cold boiled fish, a quar-
ter OF a cupful OF crumbs. pepper.
salt. a lump OF soft butter. a grated
onion. a teaspoOnful OF sugar. a ia
blespoonful OF chopped celery and
half a saltspoonful Of cayenne. Nix
well. and stun the tomatoes. put a
lump OF soft butter on TOP Of each.
and bake ten 20 fifteen minutes. ac-
Spanish Pickle.
Chop fifty ripe tomatoes. twenty
cry. and ten ripe peppers. after re-
moving the seed cone. Chop all fine.
then put into the preserving kettle
with two quarts OF cider vinegar. two
pounds Of brown sugar. table
spoonful each Of Glove. cinnamon
and allspice. two teaspoonfuIs OF
powdered ginger, a saltspoonful u
cayenne anc half a cupful OF salt.
Hea through then boil gently and
steadily and stir very often as the
mass cooks down. Three 20 four
hours viii be required 10 cook the
pickle. When done turn into a crock
and let stand for three days. Then
taste. and II more seasoning Is re-
qUired reheat and add what is
needed. Stir carefully, as the mass
is heavy and burns readily. The ao-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-22
FOUR MIN KILLED.

CUMBERLAND, Nd, Aug. 21.-
Four men were killed IN a cavein Of
a water and sewer main under con-
struction here Sunday.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27
OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

In an address in Philadelphia, Col. Hanford
,MacNider, national commander, gave the
American Legion as a body both timely
warning and advice. The legion had not
quite been accepted "by the American people,
he said. <'They like us, but-expresses the
nation as whole" The remark, from any
other source might have sounded unfriendly.
Coming from Col. MacNider, it was by itself
wholesome sermon.
1t is as an organization not as men who
saw service in the war, that the American
Legion has failed to he accepted ty the Amer
lean people in the way it's leaders would like
On too many occasions and in too many local
tiles the American Legion has gone outside
it's rightful field and entered upon activities
from which it would better have abstained
One thing that the legion needs for it's own
good, in order to respected, is to teach it's
members to respect the rights of others and
to train them in self-discipline for the re-
straint of the more headstrong and unruly
legionaries.-New York World (Dem)s
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27
4 Roof on the Earth?
1HE celebrated British scientist
lecturer, Professor J. A. Fleming, now

lecturer, Professor J. A. Fleming, now
adds theory to our terrestrial appur-
tenances which, if it b. true, indicates roof
to the earth, though the professor prefers to
call it Gigantic speaking-tube" which con-
veys wireless messages to unbelievable dis
tances-haf arou ID the earth, at times, with
a puZzling strength to the waves at the re-
ceiving station. 1t has been noted that the
power of the vibrations at the vast distances
frequently is thousands, and even millions, of
times greater than could be accounted for,
figuring their force at projection and their
expected diminution while bending them
selves around the earth.
All large radio stations on this side of the
world now are able to communicate with the
Antipoues, it is said, but with variable sue
cess and power.
DR.. Fleming explains this extreme long
distance communication by Conducting
layer" that floats about one hundred miles
abov'. the earth surface in the upper re-
gions of the atmosphere, which at that altitude
l.. composed mainly of the light gases, hydro
gen and hefium.
Electrified dust from the sum- is what
Nr. Fleming propounds as a pc ssible constit-
uent o. this roof for the earth, and he adj
duces, photographs purporting to be of cleo
trical dust clouds in the at of departure.
His explanation of the action of this roof
on the wireless waves is: "This layer or
screen completely envelopes the earth and as
the wireless ayes move outwards and strike
it, they are reflected and guided between it
and the earth surface in sort of gigantic
speaking tube through which man can
whisper his radio secrets to the AntipCdes,
without being overheard by listeners on other
planets."'
This is indeed comforting. 1t might be
"n:tened i'm on some of our radio conversa-
tons. y
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27

This is the first public admission of a high
official Of the organization that the legion is
in bad. 1t reminds us of the statement of
Woodrow Wilson, quoted by Tumulty, that he
would like to be loved by the people-but
This "but' in MacNider's statement must have
some intelligent explanation. Why is it?
There is only one that occurs to us and only
one that will occur to anybody else. 1t is be-
cause Of the insolence and arrogance display
ed by this organized officer aristocracy in set
ting itself up as a fourth department of the
government. It's bullying of public meet
ings, it's attempt to define educational stan
dard in the schools, its malice against politi-
cal prisoners, and general assumption of power
in civil, social and other matters are respon-
sible for that significant "but."
The statement of MacNider is the first in
timation we have had from this source that
the legion itself recognizes that it has won
widespread antagonism because of its &C
tivities. AS the war recedes into the back
ground that "but'' will assume Large proper
tions.-New York Call (Soc).
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27
THE HUSBAND TRAINER

Experience teaches him that the best OF
women are full of whims and prejud1ces, ana
have tLeir little ways, and that they can De
cajoled into doing things that no human
force could drive them into doing
Also experience teaches him that no man
can be both bond and free, and that when
once a fellow slips his neck into the matri-
1Aonial yoke, it is there for keeps, and that
his wisest policy is to- find some simple do
nestle remedy that will take the sting out
o. the CALLED places, and to acquire dexter
ity in avoiding the rough places as much as
may be.
All of this mans first wife teaches him
She is the trainer who domesticates the villa
man she has caught, and trains him, hgura-
lively speaking, to jump through the hoop,
and roll over, and play dead, and eat out OF
her hand.
No widower who marries imagines that he
| i getting pin feathered angel. He KNOWS
| he is getting a very human woman with tears
ana temperament, but he gets along with her
peaceably because he has learned to call MS
Wife's temper nerves, and when to reason
with her, and when to shut the door softly
Lehind him, and fade away until she mas
had time to get over her tantrum.
The second time man enters the matrl-
monial fold he goes not in as laundering
fool, with no chart or compass to guild him.
He has working specification of the femln-
inc character. He KNOWS CnaC the SdlVe-
spreader is more potent than the hammer
with women. He knows that you can kiss
woman's eyes shut SO that she will be as
blind as a bat, and that as long as man
tells his wife that she is the most beautiful
| creature in the world, and grows younger
every day, he Cal break every law of Goa
and man ind she will never find it OUT or
she wont believe it if she does find it out ,
| People often comment on the fact that men
are more generous to their second wives than
to their first. 1t merely means that they
have found out that matrimony is just one
bill after anot1 er, and are no longer shocked
by the upkeep of home.
Then, too, a mans goodness towards his
second wife is often the expression of his re-
morse over the way he treated his first wife.
He did not intend to be cruel to his first wife,
but when she was gone he realized how
much of tenderness, how much Of affection,
he might have shown her and never did, and
it makes him very considerate to the next
woman whose happiness he takes into his
hands.
Undoubtedly the first wife is a missionary
who goes before, and makes smooth the way
of the second wife. OF his first wife every
man may truly say with Kipling's hero,
| 'And I learned about womeR from her.
| Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler syndi-
cate, Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27
The Gun That She11ed Paris

A FTER an interval or three years, some q
n the facts have been made public, con
cerning the long-range gun with which
the Germans bombarded Paris from dis
lance Of about eighty miles, "for the moral
effect'-a quaint peryersion of the world s
normal meaning
1t was gun of naval type, manned by a
naval personnel, it is said. And it was sim
ply a gun of vast range, gained not by a
series of exploding shells, each projecting Il
smaller contained in it-as wildly suggested
at the time-but an abnormally long-barreled
gun firing an abnormally large charge of ex-
plosive. That is, the explosive charge was
| u sproportionate to the weight OF the pro-
jectile.
The customary weight OF the explosive is
one third that of the projectile. The charge
for tie super-gun was twice the weight of the
projectile. This necessitated tremendous
ignition CHAMBER, several times the circum-
ference of the shell, as in the modern high
power small arms-only more so.
The gun was calculated TO fire at an eleva-
ton of forty-five degrees, sticking up out of
the surrounding forest like stalk of gigan-
tic asparagus The extreme height of the
trajectory-forty kilometres, or twenty-eght
miles-aided in gaining range for the shell
by carrying it into the realms of thin and
light atmosphere, which retarded its passage
far less than the air nearer the earth. The
power-chargts or cartridges were three or
four times as long as the projectile, and twice
Tie l0uSCu VI Hail. 1ue oAp1OStV6 lOICS Was
so severe that the life of one Of these guns
several, were made-was not more than one
hundred rounds.
The barrel stood up better, and after the
ignition chamber had been damaged to the
uanger point by the explosions the barrel was
shipped back to the factory for new cham
Der.
AS ballstical feat, the long-range bonn
bardment of Paris was notable. But the
actual damage vas small, and the hoped-for
moral effect failed to unsettle the gallant
Parisians, or tie French people, or their
army,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27
On Driving A,0ay Friends
TO anyone knowing the A, B, G of inter-
| national politics. it would anpear plain

national politics, it would appear plain
that if America set out on course in
ferentially suggested by the noisy opponents OF
tn. conference at Washington, the inevitable
result would be herding of England ana
Japan, il not of others, into an alliance which
by no stretch of the magination could be re-
,rdLd as friendly to America. Bluntly, it
would be an alliance against America, and
America would be to blame.
The most obstreperous of the Four-Power
pacts opponents, and opponents to any kind
of agreement among the nations represented
in the Arms Conference, stand fol the greatest
possible navy; as near an overwhelming sea-
over as possible; and a devil-take E. he-hind-
most attitude toward both Great Britain an
Japan. This would simply drive tho1e coun-
tries into an alliance against the United
States.
Certainly more sensible than that would be
some kind of working agreement between
tie United States and Great Britain, even if
not an alliance.
Englishmen and Americans are practical
They realize that if either nation sets out to
rule the world as a dominant power, it will
come to a calamitous showdown of finances,
or possibly of arms.
Friendship betwee, the United States and
Great Britain is a matter greatly to be desir-
ed, apart from any sentimental reasons. And
it is no part of wisdom for chauvanists tC
urge course that will force England into an
alliance with any other nation-especially
with Japan.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27
DOROTHY DIX TALKS

~ NE of the interesting p lzzles of life is
why second marriages are nearly al
~ ways happier than first marriages.
Widows and widowers when they remarry
seem to know how to get along together In
peace and amity, and you seldom hear OF
them figuring in the divorce court. Yet, by
all the canons of romance, the first marriage
should be the ideal one, for it is the real1za-
ton of loves young dream. and clothed in
romance, as middle aged marriage never is
A first marriage is summons to sit at
the head of the banquet table of love, and
partake Of ambrosia and nectar. A second
marriage is a scrapped up meal Of rehashed
affections, and warmed over emotions, yet,
nevertheless, as a general thing the second
marriage brings people more real content
ment, and comes nearer to realizing their
| ideal of domestic bliss than the first did.
| This mystery has just been explained by
| the action of a man in England who, at the
end of his second wifes funeral, laid a
wreath on his first wife's grave, on which
was this inscription:
"To Jennie, in grateful remembrance of
he. husbands happy life with her which en-
abled him to enjoy such subsequent happi-
ness with her equally loving successor
There you have the explanation Of the sue
cessful second marriage! The first wife
trains a man for the wife who comes after
her. She breaks him in to matrimony, and
lucky is the lady who can step into another
womans old matrimonial shoes instead of
having to go through the painful process Of
suppling up stiff and stubborn masculine
temperament and shaping it to domestic
needs.
This is no reflection on men. Practically
every man-ha honest and honorable inten-
lions toward his wife when he marries her.
He intends to be good husband and to
make her happy, but he doesn't know how to
do it, He has had no experience Of matri-
mony, or with women. He is laundering
amateur, and with the best will in the world
he makes fatal mistakes.
Also he enters matrimony under three IL
1usions. One is that after woman is mar
ried she becomes prosaic creature who is
content to stay at home, and wrestle with the
high cost of living, and who never cares to
lie made love to, or amused, or jollied. The
second illusion is that family can be run
or 2ix, and requires very little money The
third illusion is that man can just annex
wife to the balance of his life, and does
not have to make any changes in his own
mode of existence.
H, first marriage knocks all of these de-
lusions into cooked hat, but before that is
done, the family circle has become a dark
and bloody battle ground over which he and
his wife have fought, times without number.
The results are that the man finds out that
even with the thriftiest of management,
supporting a family is of the mos. expensive
luxuries in which man can indulge.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF
y BABES

Eva, aged five was listing in the coun-
try, and, seeing lot of sheep and lambs
for the first time, exclaimed: ooh, mamma,
just look at the cute little lambs, and
they're such good limitations, too. They look
just like my toy lamb and lave the same
kind of hair on"
Robert, aged three, had a slight differ
ence of opinion with his grandfather, and
forgetting his usual respectful manner, he
exclaimed: "Gwanpa, I dess I'll have to box
your ears!'
"Well, WELL" gravely retorted the old gen.
tleman, "then I shall not bring You a birth
day present"
"Oh," quickly replied the little fellow.
CPS not going to box them till after that"
Nettie (aged ive)-Our family is awfully
exclusive Is yours?
Elizabeth Gagged four)-No, indeed! We
haven't anything to be ashamed of.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27
THE ArIANrA TR1.WEEKLY JouRNAL

be required to overcome this difficulty. 1t is
gratifying to observe that the bankers gen.
orally are more favorably inclined toward cat
tie loans
An advantage offered by dairy cattle is the
fact that as a rule they begin to bring re-
turns-to pay for Reconsideration the first,
whereas with feeder cattle it is incumbent
upon the farmer to carry them through the
fattening period. OF course, the question Of
feed is not a problem, but the question of
ready money-cash-dur the fattening
period; ready money for many things, is a
problem, an. this is met by the steady re-
turn from the dairy cow.
A good dairy COW will pay for herself in
Ight months, they say at Selma, and they
know all about dairy cattle there.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
OITESTIONG

1. OF what color are the flowers of the
larkspur plant?
2. What is he line, either above or below
the staff in written music, called?
3. What is the soft-shelled turtle called
4. What underworld stream of classic
mythology produced forgetfulness when its
waters were imbibed?
5. Which state has the greater population,
Arizona or New Mexico?
5. Which is the larger city, Denver or New
Orleans?
ANSWERS
1, blue; 2, ledger line; 3, 1eatherback; 4,
Lethe; 5, New Mexico; g. New Orleans;
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27
McCUFFEY'S READER
By, DR.. Frank Crane

Some time ago there was a news item to
the effect that Henry Ford was scooping
around Cincinnati looking for McGuffey's
First Reader.
Mr. Ford said that McGuffeys readers
were the source from which he cleaned the
greater part of his education. And now he
claims to be the proud owner of the whole
series from the First to the Seventh.
When he went into big book store and
asked for McGuffeys First Reader, the clerk
said, eve sold the last one twenty-five years
ago." and referred him to the American BOOK
company, which used to publish the McGuf-
fey series and might possibly have one left.
Ford plodded over to the American Book
company's quarters, where the general man
ager received him and informed him that
there are only three unsold McGuffey' S
First Readers in existence. We have two here
and one in New York. I would hate to part
with one of them"
After establishing his identity, however,
and arguing Bit Mr.. Ford was able to
capture copy of the book he desired.
This exploit will be read by a good many
thousand people in this country with peculiar
interest particularly those who are on the
shady side of fifty and who received their
education in the public schools.
The writer of this speaks from first-hand
experience, but ne makes the SJdIeHleHC Ih1I
a good part of the mental furniture OF these
persons is due to McGuffey's Readers.
You may talk all you please about the In
fluence of Thomas Jefferson, or Poe, or
Hawthorne or any other of the men of let
ters, or of propaganda Of former time. None
of them equals McGuffey.
For the simple reason that he it was who
had a great part in shaping the minds OF
the little boys and girls in school fifty years
ago.
Napoleon is reported to have said that If
he could write the songs of the people ne
did not care who made their laws.
With even more force it might be SAID
that the man who composes the Second,
Third, and Fourth Readers of the public
schools does most to shape the nations OF
the coming generation.
It is common ambition to desire to in
f1uence ones fellowmen. The popular novel
! lists, the editor of a newspaper, the maya
zine writer, the preacher, the statesman, and
the holder of high office, each has his throne
of power. Each does something toward con-
trolling the Zeitgest
But he who selects the first impressions
| that are going to be made upon the minds
| of children in and under their teens, is more
powerful than ALL
While this is a self-evident truth, it is one
| that we continually neglect and overlook.
If we would spend half the energy in
choosing the reading matter for public school
children which we spend in disseminating
heated propaganda, we should be far more
successful.
Copyright. 1921 by Frank Crane.)