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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-12
CHILD
/ MUSICAL PRODIGY
At Age of Three Years. Grace
Castagnetta Appears IN
First Concert.

NEW YORK. June ia l0-year-
% musical prodigy lives in Wood
dee. y. J.. Just across tho Hud-
n The child IS Grace sharp cas-
"a gnetta. daughter of American
sbarents Despite her extraordinary
Sialent for music. Grace is very hu-
Iman little girl with every normal
I characteristic OF hundreds OF other
American children.
At the age of Is months Grace
found her way 90 the piano. AZ first
she just liked the sound 0t the sep-
arate notes that her baby fingers
Aouches as they tralied over the
aetty keyboard Very soon She dis
vered the beauty that lies % the
tving OF chords. And ~ that ten
age. without knowledge OF
ic. Tor her parents could not
the piano. the child worked OUT
herself her own idea Of music.
or ear delicately attuned 20 har-
#nony. the baby was able 20 harmon
= in one octave
A. the age of three little Grace was
paying in concert She had but 70
shear a SONG once and she could re-
produce 10 on the piano. and oIlen
improvise upon &c. making the rem
\ difion doubsv beautiful and twice as
Aintricate. More than that. she cou4a
@transpose the piece into any key re-
Suuestcd. though she knew nothing OF
eys
Il when che was seven years old
Srace attracted the attention OK Dr.
IS J. Elsenheimer. who save her her
drrt lessons. The lessons have con-
\ ued now for three years IN which
me she has given three recitals OF
Ter own. At each recital the little
rttst rendered works Of ,he masters.
IN as selections frim List, Greig
dist Debussy. MacDowell and
Eumann. sonatas from Beethoven,
tarlatti and Mozart. as well as
}ach's English Suites.
Grace attends public school every
lay and stands as high in her studies
s she does in the pursuit Of music.
he attends Sunday school In fact
n has not missed Sunday school in
years.
Those who have heard the youth
ful artist believe her inordinate pow
Il rs OF improvisation. coupled with
Yher natural incunations for music
&wiu place her yet among the Amer
acan master virtuosos.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-12
"SCATTERGOoD BAINEs."

THE best way 20 make money is
to let smarter folks n you be make
it for you" is the belief OF David
Harum's Yankee prototype. who is
the hero Of Clarence Burlington
Kelland's new book, "ScattergoOd
Baines." recently published by the
Harpers. Never was in all New
England. a fatter, shrewder. more
imperturbable trader than Scatter
good. He sold horse blankets and
kitchen stoves and penny whistles,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-12

under the instruction Of Leopold
Godowsky. celebrated pianist and
pedagOgue. Glasses under his per
sonal direction Will De held from
June Is 10 July Is. Mrs. Harring-
ton expects to receive private in
struction in lessons Of one hour each
during the course OF lessons.
Victor dealers report record sales
OF Moonlight and "Toddle." val
kyriess'" played by the Philadelphia
Symphony orchestra was success
ful sic armenia d--dU'o shdlr en-
full seller among classical features
rs was Last Rose OF Summer"
violin number played by Mischa e.
man.
Good Okeh records were do You
Ever Think OF Ne. 2 vocal number
and Nesting Time. an instrupe1-
tai selection. Included IN the sale
OF Okeh were a number OF MCCor-
mack records which always are fav-
orites amoung photograph record
purchasers
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-12

Cradle Song and Bohemian Girl. >"
Mrs. Emma Harrington. 107 f.
Stull, piano teacher, has been en-
rolled in the Master Glass for plan
lists TO be conducted for four weeks
at the Fine Arts building, Chicago,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-12

At the Brunswick shop last week
two new popular records. Yankee"
and "Pining' proved favorite sell
ers while the classical numbers were
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
Which Is to Be Believed?
From the oglethorpe County Echo.

| There are several schools of advisers OF cot
ton growers, and the growers non-plussedness
as to which to follow are as dense as is their
/ difidence as to what to plant and how much
! this year.
One of these schools persstenty holds that
we have now on hand two. years supply OF
cotton, and therefore to produce any more at
all this year will be only adding to the already
excessive surplus above demand and conse-
uuently still lower prices for the staple this
fall.
Another school holds as persistently that
there is no surplus, only few thousand
bales at most, of really spinable cotton, and
that if the grower can only be protected from
the wanton gamblers in the staple big prices
should be quoted for what the growers have
on hand and good prices obtained tor an
average crop this year.
Included in both of these schools are men
high up in such offices as should give them
opportunity to know the facts, and whose po-
sitionS should be guarantee that they would
give only true facts to the farmers and the
public.
But where there is such wide divergence Of
statements somebody necessarily must have
wrong conception of the true state OF affairs
as to the amount of cotton on hand, or else
they are not very conscientious III stating the
facts.
Even figures and data obtained and given
out by governmental officials whose specific
duty it is to gather information as to crops OF
the country are juggled by the adherents of
each school to substantiate their assertions.
From this it would seem that the farmers can
not safely rely upon such official informa-
ton as they are being taxed to have furnished
them.
And with it all the farmers are having their
quandaries as to what and how to plant in
tensiied rather than relieved
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
Be Loval to Your Town.

If you have made up your mind to live in
a town then stand up for it, and il you
know positively that it is no good then 81
lence is golden. Do all you can to help
along every man who is engaged i'll legiti-
mate business Do not send away for every
thing nice you want, and still expect the
home men to keep a stock to suit the whims
of one or two customers. The success OF
your fellow townsmen will be your success.
Marietta Journal.
Our Marietta contemporary is right. Here
in Dawson too many of our own people are
buying their goods in other towns. Not only
that, but they further show their disloyalty by
openly critcising their home town and home
merchants. II these people cannot buy in
Dawson what they want they are as much
or more. to blame as the home merchants, who
cannot afford to carry stocks OF high class
and expensive goods when people here crank
up their fivvers and speed elsewhere to do
their trading. If these critics of the home mer-
chants would be loyal to their town and its
best interest they will turn over a new leai
and keep the money at home. If they will
not they should at least have enough pride
and enough interest in their town to keep
silent.
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
Clean-Up Week.

The annual cleanup week in Dawson has
been announced for next week 1t will mear
that the fire hazard has been reduced, and the
town made more heathfuL. Rubbish provides
breeding places for disease germs, and feeds
the flames when fires start
But why should cleanup week be nee
essary? No such period of intensive colec-
ton Of waste stuff would be needed if citizens
kept their premises in the condition in which
they should be kept. Cleanup week is con-
fesson that for ffty-one weeks out Of fifty
two we don't clean up. 1t means that only
once a year do we give to our surroundings
the attention they should have all the year
around.
If every day were cleanup day there would
be no great piles of useless plunder to be
carted away to the dumps. If every day were
cleanup day the city would be cleared of
rubbish and kept clear of it. The work of the
street cleaning department would be made
easier, and it would be done better than it
can be done under present circumstances.
1t is comforting to know that the city will
be cleaner than it is, and it would be more
comforting if we were sure everybody would
decide to keep it as clean as possible all the
time.
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
The First Person.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.


Why should any man alive strut and swell
with satisfaction because OF any doing OF his
| own? He cannot go many blocks along
| street without passing meeting his betterS.
Some plain man he would not look at-slm-
| Pile humble, reticent-has performed deeds
without a trumpet and with no bruting OF
his name, and the deeds were more deserv-
ing ofeprase than anything the egoist mar
rates of himself.
Familiarity, the adage tells us, breeds con-
tempt. How is it, then, that we live in this
! close and continuous society OF ourselves and
will find ourselves 1ikable characters? Know
ing who we are, how can we pretend to su-
perior virtue? How can we hold our heads
on high above our fellows and call ourselves
holier than those who never advertise their
merit?
II a man tells the truth about himself for
the sake of proving human fellowship in er-
ror-if he confesses his own mortal weak
ness for the comfort of fallible others-if he
sets forth the CirCumstantal biography to
help and to lift those that are down, what
he speaks or writes of himself does not incur
the reproach of immodest parade or fatuous
exhibition. If he utters his story with the
purpose of an auto-coronaton i'll glory he
offers an odious spectacle which the rest of
US shun as we would the pestilence.
When two egotists meet the encounter is
comedy or tragedy, as it is viewed. Each
wants to talk of himself; each resents the
role of listener. The complete egotist thinks
no conversation good unless it is virtually his
monologue. He cannot bear to have his hear
er disagree. No trait is more displeasing to
him, however, than his mock modesty He
wants praise greedily, but when you feed it
to him he puts it by with smirking self
depreciation that he does not for a moment
mean For he has very pretty opinion of
all his fancied aptitudes and accomplishments,
and he does not intend to have the picture
damaged in transit through a world of harsh
and jarring contacts
If man thinks in terms OF the first per-
not by merit, but by the angle of the elbow
which is his habitual angle Of approach. When
he has violently broken into the place he
chooses he cares nothing for the rest. He
does not ask what becomes of those who had
not the strength nor the voice to assert them
selves. II they perish what is that to him?
The fttest survive and he represents the
! fittest.
But it is not those who fight for their own
promotion and care nothing for the racial ad-
vance who are the loved and honored of
mankind.
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
Fliyyers and Flowers.

The Savannah Press brings another indict-
ment against the fivver besides harboring
rum-runners and contraband on the country
roads 1t is conveying from the cities Sunday
afternoons automobile parties who strip the
countryside Of flowers. This thing" says
our contemporary "of picking flowers ought
to be stopped Flowers that are not wild are
private property and are just as sacred as a
mans shirt or his cow Flowers that are wild
still belong to the man on whose land they
grow In a larger sense they belong to the
whole people for the Identification Of the
world in which they live" When the tourist
fares abroad in his hivver on an afternoon
in the spring time he is not be deferred by
consideration of the public veal.
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
"Hell-and-Marias.' -

| At last government printers have been al
work on something the public is eager to OBJ
tain, the report of the testimony offered the
congressional war investigating committee by
General Dawes, of Chicago. FOR the general
voluble and volatile in his testimony, swore
like trooper as he strobe up and down the
room voicing various "cuss" words in regu-
lar man fashion. "Damns" and "Hel1-and-Ma
rlas" fell from the generals lips with fuency
that passed many an amateurs understanding.
SO now the congressional library is being be-
sieged by persons throughout the country
who want to read the full report and get all
the profane words the general employed.
1t is agreed by congressional authorities
that General Dawes is the author of the best
seller on which government printers yet have
worked. Dignifed members of the senate,
many of whom are known to be more or less
proficient in the use of words from a brim-
stone vocabulary, are as hot as any after
copies of the Dawes testimony. And they
were by no means alone in making applica-
tions for copies, long since exhausted by the
deluge of demands. Now, it appears, new
edition OF this lurid pamphlet may be neces-
sary to satisfy this odd craving of the Ameri-
can public. Who knows but that an enter
prising phonograph company may offer the
general vast sums to make records of his
volcanic swearing?
But the story has its denoument. The public
that wanted to know how we'll General Dawes
could swear gets stung swiftly and deeply. An
official blue pencil took out every damn" and
every Hell and Maria" the general uttered!
Now it is certain that General Dawes will be
asked to make those records
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
Foods and Eating.

The present-day discussion of the sorts of
imperfect foods the people eat ought to get
results though it will not Half the ills to
which flesh is heir are chargeable to improper
foods and the manner in which they are pre-
pared Modern cookery has refined the food
elements out of much the people eat. White
-four has been worked into many a black
shroud There never was any bread more
Wholesome than that made from the old fash
ioned whole wheat burr flour. 1t was golden
and faky and digestble. 1t had an odor that
appealed to the smell and taste that appeal
ed to the palate. But it did not appeal to the
eye, and was put into the discard. Now peo-
pie eat white bread from roller processed
wheat and eat their bran as they take cas-
carets There is neither iron nor food value III
the denatured product of the bakery. Corn
bread, if made at all, is concocted from corn
-four instead of corn meal. 1t is baked ac-
cording to domestic science recipes and con-
tains ingredients unknown to the women who
once made from coarse corn meal the best
food human beings could eat.
The skins of the apples and potatoes are
dumped into the garbage can and the essen
tial food elements of both potatoes and apples
are reduced. No wonder hogs thrive on the
garbage of the city 1t contains the best food
elements the stores supply. Too much cook
ing is done in paper bags and too much food
is served from tin cans. The kitchen session
is limited to fifteen minutes when it should eX-
tend over an hour.
Appetites have been perverted In the cities
the average business man eats one meal day
in a public eating house. Foods that other
wise would be appetizing are drenched i'll Z
French concoction called dressing that has nc
food value, is repugnant to any except the
perverted palate and destroys the flavor OF the
food on which it is spread. The appetite o
those who eat these preparations is perverted
1t is not satisfied with the simple the whole
some, the healthy. Hence, it rejects the peel
ings of baked potatoes and prefers a soggy pi
crust to bread which is made from the mos
digestb1e portion of the wheat berry .Ih
average individual abuses his appetite will
indigestib1e foods because they appeal to hi
eve. and swallows his double dose Of digestive
medicine with the last mouthful OF his meal
Man is merely digestive apparatus to whicl
locomotive machinery is attached He is de
stroying the digestive apparatus by eating onl.
the foods which satisfy his diseased appett
and fill his protesting stomach.
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
A Farce or a Fact1

| "Is prohibition a farce or a fact" The in
quiry is made by a writer in the Phil
adelphia Public Ledger. 1t appears to be
his conclusion that it is a farce, and that
it has been made a farce by so-called good
citizens who evade it or defy it, or who &C
quiesce in its evasion or defiance. He points
out that bootlegging, both of high and low
degree, has become large business. 1t is a
considerable industry along both the Canadian
and Mexican borders. Smuggling from Eu-
rope is common. In one section in New York
city 3o3 saloons are running openly At Mi
ami Fla, northern millionaire's private car
was found to have ffty-three cases of whisky
aboard. In restaurants and hotels liquor is
available for those who want it. Bootlegging
agents journey from office to office taking or
ders and deliver purchases to any address.
Men who would be insulted if they were call
ed bad citizens buy liquor from illicit dealers
and are not ashamed of it. Men boast of the
liquor they have in their cellars. Moonshining
lis a common practice everywhere
This Philadelphian says it is unquestionable
that there is less drunkenness under prohibi-
ton than formerly, but asserts that disrespect
for lava disrespect amounting to absolute
lawlessness-has been developed that never
before was so manifest. Hundreds OF thous-
ands if not millions of persons fout the pro-
hbtion law, and their contempt for it does
not seem to offend other millions who would
be shocked ii they were held up to public re-
proach as sympathizers with and supporters
Of laWbreakers.
1t is the so-called good citizen, in his
opinion, who are responsible for the general
contempt in which the prohibition law is held.
1t is their willingness to evade the law and
their Indifference to evasion of it that has
made the law so ineffective. So long as they
preserve this attitude toward prohibition it
will be a farce, and it will not be a fact until
they make it a fact.
The existence of this state of mind toward
the prohibition law has an important infu-
ence in determining the state of the public
mind toward all law and the enforcement of
all law. One law cannot be held in contempt
and defantly disregarded without creating
contempt for all law. Looseness in the en-
forcement of one law lessons respect for all
law.
The good citizen who has encouraged the
breakdown of the prohibition law and who
has made jest of that law cannot escape his
share OF the responsibility for the crime wave
that lately has engufed the country-of the
reign of lawlessness that has imperiled life
and property and brought the institutions OF
the law into disrepute If the good citizen
has freedom to choose the laws that he will
obey, if he can adjust his obedience to law
10 his own personal convenience why should
not those who are not recognized good
citizens enjoy equal freedom?
Is any one a good citizen who encourages
the evasion of any law, or who conspires to
defeat the purpose Of any law?
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
WORK AND MEN.

William Howard Taft
on man. Had he been able to live without it
his development would have been hopeless
Look at the races to whom life is easy, where
Nature is most luxuriant and productive
where, there being no cold no clothes are
needed and where food can be gathered with
out the planting or cultivation They are the
weakest of Gods creatures and no progress
can be expected of them. The stronger races
are those who have much to do to live. Work
has made them
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
SHEEP RAISING DEMONSTRATION

From the Macon Telegraph
The news that Georgia is to have dem
onstration in sheep raising under genuine
western methods and under personal direction
OF one OF the country's biggest sheep men,
J. A. Delfelder, of Wyoming, is indeed graft
flying at time when the farmers OF this state
should be looking about for additional sources
of revenue. There was time when Georgia's
hills and plains were dotted with sheep, and
probably no small part of the states early
prosperity can be attributed to sheep raising.
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
JUST PICKED EN- OFF.

From the St Mary Southeast Georgian.
|. F. Arrows method is not the same as
the Pied Piper's, but vies in results. One day
recently he killed seven rats and six the day
following. Since Christmas he has killed IS to
100. He did it with his little rife, standing at
the back door of his store and shooting them
as they came out from under his barn for a
drink OF wafer
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12

Reported aspirations of William Jennings
Bryan to the presidency again have been dis
spated by the commoner himself, who eX-
planned that he said with the women voting
| would have been elected" not would be-"
1t was just little matter of the quotation
having the wrong Coniugation.
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12

Slason Thompson, railway statistician, es-
Inmates that 81 cents OF every dollar of rail
road revenue in 1920 went to labor. In 1921
the labor cost has advanced to as high as 90
cents. Labors direct share in railway revenues
was less than Al per cent in 1916.
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
SENSIBLE LEGISLATOR.

From the ST. Paul Pioneer Press.
Legislators who complain their salary is
not sufficient to support them during the ses-
sion might follow the example of the Wis
Consin man at a recent session. He STAYED
at Madison until his salary was exhausted and
then quit and went home If all should do
that it might relieve the people of much
needless legislation.
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12

The Wrigley building, built out of the
profits of chewing gum at cost of $3,500000,
is Chicago's highest building, rising thirty
five stories from the street level. 1t represents
the accumulated power of small profits much
the same way the Gambler building in Atlanta
does
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12

People outside OF the newspaper business
should not be surprised that President Hard
ing's recollection of that pied form is so vivid.
A pied form in newspaper office is a trage-
dy-the sum OF all tragedies
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12

Some who went on strike to have their
wages keep pace with the rising cost OF living
now contemplate going on strike to prevent
their wages from following the falling scale
of prices.
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12

The Chicago News defines prudes as fe
males who are always on the lookout 1oi
temptations to resist.
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12
Congess--Free Seeds.
From the Jacksonville Metropolis.

No member of congress ever won a friend
or even vote with a package of garden
seed 1t isn't an effective method of gaining
favor, that's all The house of representatives
ought to be cognizant of this fact; members
| of this body know that when election time
rolls around it is necessary for them to back
track home and take the stump to get re-
elected. "You sent me a package OF tomato
seed and | am going to vote for you. They
would not come up, but that's not your fault, !"
is remark that no congressman can boast
of having heard during his political career.
If not for this, what is the idea for the dis
tribution of these seed? No citizen receives
enough to be of any service to him, and, too,
he has learned by experience that the seeds
he purchases oftentimes have a greater in
clination to sprout than those he receives
free.
The department of agriculture estimated
that $239,000 would provide the necessary
quantity of seeds required in this general
scattering over the nation. The house of rep
resentatives voted it down. and then second
thought appropriated $360,000 for this pur
pose.
Is this a form of economy the American
people are to expect? Is this the same con-
gress that on policy of strict economy ar
gued so bitterly over the appropriation of
few thousand dollars for inaugural purposes?
Indeed, it is.
Congress might make this free seeds dis
tribution more beneficial by authorizing its
members to locate the owners of canary birds
in each of their districts, and then sending
all seeds to these constituents, and of course
being sure that all packages contain bird seeds.
By doing this each recipient will be directly
benefited Under the present plan this is not
true.
The Dawson news., 1921-04-12

Considering the impossible situation into
which Mr., McAdoo got the railroads, the
Manufacturers Record contends that it does
not make any difference to anyone what Mr..
McAdoo thinks about the present railroad
situation.