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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-23

WOOD FOR SALE-Cut in blocks to
burn in heater or CRATE; ;cheaper
than coal. Guaranteed to burn good
Phone 1872, ]. H. Blackburn. 3-2-tf
FOR SALE-Fresh mich cow. Mr..
G. M. Flynn, Phone $50. 20-2t
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12
rrvH MONTHS AFTERwARD.

Five months ago Miss Amanda Will
son. highly respected young woman
Of tins community. was killed on the
kennstt turnpike by a motorist who
WAS driving his car rapidly on the
wrong side of the road. After strik-
lnw Miss Wilson the driver continued
hlr way, not even stopping to ascer-
tain what injury he may have caused.
Tn" constabulary authorities admit
that they have failed utterly to even
secure a trace Of the guilty person, so
tonight the formal inquest will be held
Thla cass should serve Az an object
lesson 10 all motorists and TO the
constab abulary as well. Miss Wilson
would possibly be living today il some
driver had had the sense to keep his
machine on the right side OF the road.
she might be living today if some
motorcycle officer had seen that driver
violating the law. and had forced him
~ to the right side Of the road before
lhe accident happened But post
0ortem criticism avails little now.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12

student who has Htudied ancient his
tories. languages. and fiteratsfss fire.
uuentiy waits until he is middle aged
before he establishes the relation Of
other periods To his own. He finds the
bridge himself. If he finds it at all. He
spent his college. days in collecting in
formation which he has not applied.
although 1t may be just as important
edge In science.
We are certain that the study of
current events could be given more at
tention than it receives IN many
schools, and could increase the value
of the college graduate as a citizen.
There could be developed a mental
quality which is necessary TO the
forming of intelligent opinion, the
qeaiity of consecutiveness in obserya-
ton of events. Lack of this quality
in the reading of many Americans
produces strange opinions totally un-
substantiated by the sequence of facts
in the case.
The sense of continuity and con-
secutiveness protects a person from
the assumption that today had no
yesterday. A great deal of dangerous
optimism has no other foothoid than
this assumption. II is an optimism
which confronts realities with ideas.
The individual considers himself 100
important to permit the continued op-
Grafton of forces which have operated
consistently in the past. 1t is the most
natural piece of human egotism for
the individual to believe that his en-
trance into the world changed il.
No one should be better equipped
with ideas of continuity than a person
who has been through colls ge, but II
ais studies have separated the present
from the pastshe will learn that they
are connected only by knocking about
n the world for which he was being
prepared, and he may never fully
learn.
If education is to fit person to live
In the present ii is part of its duty to
teach what the present is.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12
THOUGHTS OF A
BOSTON TERRIER

I'D like TO know what's coming off
today I've had bath and rub and
now my masters wife has just put
my best studded collar on me. Won
der if it's my birthday.
The phone bells been ringing Tot
today and l heard Mrs. Woods talking
to some people about me. She told
enc of them that | was a very well
trained dog. It's good thing she's
forgotten the time ] chewed up her
good shoes--but l was awful young
then.
Now she's bringing man and
little boy in to look at me. Say-I've
made a hit with that kid Guess I'll
roll over and play with him.
More people-two ladies this time
They're very pleasant, but they don't
look as though they cared much for
playing tag.
What do You think of that? The
little boys father has bought me and
I'm going home with them Do you
know what's happened? I've been ad-
vertised for sale in the classified COL
umns of the Every Evening-that's
what brought all those phone calls
and these people
Bow Gr-r-r-r-ff." (Meauing: /
might have known that
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12

report emphasizes the fsct that tbs
promotion Of seIf-hclp IL la Itself In.
adequate even 10 approximate The
need. Tuberculosis In rife la the war;
ious universities and physical debility
resulting from profractcd hsrdships
and under nourishmsnt makes manual
work before and after college hours
extremely dangerous for many of The
students The method of self help.
again. cannot be applied properly 10
meet the needs of mort n the So
called foreign students" In whose as
sistance the Federation ~ actively en-
gagged. These foreign students, -
whom Thousands are now scattered
over Central Europe. are one result,
Of the reformation Of the map of
Europe and the Russian Revolutlon.
There are Hungarlsns who have fed
from provinces annexed to Iioumania.
AuFtrianr who have a from prOVin-
ces annexed u Hungary. Germans
from provinces annexed 20 Poland,
Georgians cut OF from home ~ the
Soviet occupation ~ their country.
and everywhere Russian student
y fugees. These men and women we're
friendless. homeless and in many
c,.ses were progressively drifting near
pr starvation until the organization ~
relief work In their behalf. should
this relief work be discontinued now
they would very shortly BE- in az rad
condition ss ever.
The Significance ~ the work Ia a.
Illustrated BY quoting a letter from iDr.
Friedrich Hertz. Of the Austrian T,e-
partment Of State:
Thousands Of young people are
being saved through your work from
extreme m ry which otherwise would
probably break their mental ard
moTti energy" he writes. "ff they
succumb. This would mean thc dis
appearance u forces Indispensable FOR
any reconstructio.. IN our country. ~
would lead % tremendous hreak-
down of culture and civilization In
Austria which would react on other
countries"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12
THE COLLEGE MAN
From the Chicago Tribune.

The Review of Reviews canvassed
undergraduate knowledge OF current
events by sending questions to 1880
students, and found that the correct
ness in answers averaged only "A per
cent. The conclusion was that the
college man, and woman. does not
know much about the world today.
one student replied that Lloyd
George was the king of Ireland, an
other that Samuel Gompers was a
poet, another that Charles Il. Hughes
was Woodrow wilson's private secre-
tary. etc. The investigators came to
dismayed conclusion.
They might not be quite so dismayed
if they reflected that the collegian is
not without sense of humor. and that
he does not risk his degree on the
questions he answers for outside
canvassers who want TO prove his in
teiiigence The reply that Lloyd
George was king of Ireland lacked
something in seriousness. We'd guess
that the boys name was Ryan. Col
lege men frequently receive these
probes into their attics With levity.
They have some fun in joshing the
investigators, and do not care whether
they register the college masses as
illiterate or not.
In spite of this drawback to the
effectiveness OF the questioning, we
probability that the college student is
not as much ia touch with the world
as he might be to his own advantage
and to the advantage of the country.
The factors involved make that prob
able, and middle aged men who reeol-
iect their own academic interests re-
member that their chief involvement.
In college DAYS, with the outside world
was found in the sporting and
dramatic columns of the newspaper.
The American college has beer. a
cloister. II was more neany cioistertl
when the emphasis was on what the
college authorities called the elassica,
course. Science has a contact with
the world today which the study Of
languages, literature, and art did not
have.
The student studying the humani-
/ ties and the arts was not brought int
current events. partly because his in
I structor as a rule lived in cloistef
himself, and partly because the stu
dent In his pre-occupations had m
taste for the events of his day. II,
might either cultivate, or be cultivated
into, an attitude of disdain. A student
who is being told that Addison was tho
great master of English has indiffer-
ence If not contempt. for the moderns
1t is a natural consequences Of certain
methods Of instruction, but that does
not prove that the methods are WISE
] In the teaching of mathematics now
/ the tendency If not the practice is te
make direct application. A student
! figures his problems in the terms Of
| life az IL a practical question con-
| fronted him, as it will when heead-
justs himself 10 the facts of living
/ The various sciences are not ne
auired TO assert their practically. but
the humanities and arts not only are
required to DO so but they have failed
| in doing it. The result is that the
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12

than that. reciprocal trade with all
the nations must be encouraged II we
arc to have domestic prosperity.
'''The Fordney bill violates these
principles. II It becomes a law the
massca must pay higher prices for
every necessary Of life. Already the
cost OF living has begun to rise again.
High tariff and high taxes are pro-
ducing their inevitable result.
THE first thing we have to learn IL
that prosperity is international and
that 1t cannot be secured in Ameri-
ca through political or economic iso-
lation. 1t cannot be repeated too
often that civilized society MS now
organized has forced an interdepend-
ence OF nations as never before In
human history. and that no great
nation like America. with its pre-
ponderant flnancial power and it's
excess OF production over consump~
tion, can live apart or curb or cease
intercourse with other nations with
out bringing disaster upon ITSELF
II Mr.. McAdoo's conclusions are
corrcct--and they have not been dis
puted by the Administration or any
one connected with it--then the Re-
publican party, by it's policy OF iso-
lation, is aiding in the present financial
depression. But Mr.. McAdoo has
said nothing new. He has merely
placed in attractive phraseology the
thoughts which have been embodied
In almost every unclaimed newspaper
and non-partizan commercial journal
in the United States in the past six
months. Economic facts cannot be
camoufiaged for long. And the public,
which has been fooled by sophistr-r
at times, cannot be continually fooled.
The inevitable reaction TO bungling
rule VIII come. Nothing changes a
mans political principles so much az
an empty stomach and ragged panta-
looms.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12
rux WORLDS THEATRE.
GOLD PLATR.

with ave million persons out of
work In this country, many of them
sursrinr acutely. Il would have been
the height Of ill-taste for President
Harding to have acquiesced in the
xuiear desire of the. Atlantic City
hoicl manager who Sunday insisted
that the chief Executive eat from
pieics ~ gold. Mr.. Harding vetoed
such evident bad taste by writing TO
the head waiter a note which de-
sllned the use of the gold service. He
stated that he desired to be fur
nlshra with the tools 10 which 1 am
Aecu~tomed"
ME-. Harding may not be the great
est living man from an intellectual
standpoint. hut more than once he
has demonstrated that he possesses
sound Common sense. He exercised
that common SENSE Sunday In a man.
r~f which i~ pleasing to all citizens
who realize that such o~tentatious dis
r,av ss the hotel man desired 70 make
en- hh behalf only adds to the fire of
discons~ut In this Country. The man
who ~rcnsored that gold plate idea
fnay know the hotel business from
tho European angle. but he evidently
has much to learn about the heart Of
America
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12
THE CHESTER DISASTER.

We Americans always lock the
stable door after the horse has been
stolen. Following the Iroquois the
atre fire in Chicago. which took a
heavy death toll. every municipality
In the country passed stringent laws
which forced theatrical managers to
make their theatres comparatively
safe. After the burning Of the excur-
sion steamer General slocum in New
York harbor we issued regulations
which forced steamboat owners to re-
gard the lives of their passengers.
Now that "a persons were instantly
killed in Chester, Pa, when portion
OF a bridge broke and plunged them
into the water beneath, we presume
that many cities will have their
bridges inspected, and made safe.
Engineers who inspected the break
in the Chester bridge yesterday say
that faulty bit of repair work. per-
formed Il years ago, caused the acei-
dent. Ten months ago county em-
ployes made an inspection of this
bridge, and publicly pronounced 1t o.
X. 1t is said. however, that the faulty
construction could not have been
found unless portion OF the bridge
plankfng had been torn away. and Of
course that was not done when that
extent this eliminates from blame the
authorities who made the last in
spection. But what of the men who
passed on the repair work done 10
years ago7 Why did they o. X. work
which engineers say was not good,
and which WAS proved bad Saturday
night when ii caused the death OF "a
persons? Who are those men7 Arc
they living now? IL 50, what have
they TO say?
Nothing of course will come from
such inquiry, as the mistakes of yes
terday can seldom be placed directly
on the shoulders OF any one man.
Time offers too many opportunities for
the guilty ones to escape all censure.
But this catastrophe serves notice on
all municipalities that il Is better to
look to the safety OF public structures
before an accident happens.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12
ANTI.RAMwAy ARGUMENTS.

The chairman of the Kansas Public
Service Committee argued before the
Interstate Commerce Commission last
week that rates were too high because
nineteen Western railways had profits
in 1920 5f sesT.ss4,4To The Presi-
dent of one of the roads wonders what
these impossible figures mean. and
stirrnises that the billion profits was
the addition OF their profit and loss
credits, accumulated over a period OF
fifty years.
The same authority asserted that the
railways juggled their accounts so as
10 conceal 5000. 900 900. But the ac-
counts are kept on the forms supplied
by the Interstate Commission, and tho
thing approaches the impossible. II
Is uulte impossible that the railways
have that amount OF cash. even II IL
Is in the accounts. Part Of il is ac-
crupd depreciation, a real thing, which
the railways must use earnings to
make good, and cannot touch for
disldendN Operating reserves and cor
porate surplus are items which serve
20 balance the books, but on which
the railways will never grow fat.
Arguments like this react against the
arguers among the well informed. and
the Interstate Commerce Commission
In particularly we'll informed. But the
railway President does well TO chal-
lenge the assertion because much
Western opinion is based on other
similar statements hardly less extrav-
agant and mistaken. No class of
Americans has profited more by the
railways than the farmers. and yet no
class is more hostile TO the railways.
or iess persuaded by the facts.-New
York Times.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12
THE sPEEDERs TOLL.

Twelve thousand persons were kill
ed In automobile accidents last year.
according to figures complied by the
Insurance Press. while the number OF
nonfataliy injured reached the incredl-
BILE total OF 1.boo.odo. The shock nf
such acountinse loses it's impact be-
cause the killing and manning arr
spread over wide spaces OF time and
place. Nevertheless the appalling
aggregate exceeds Some OF historv's
decisive wars In point OF fatalities and
mutilation. II Is liability which a
world Mt peace cannot Indefinitely
tolerate
The toll ir intolerable because II Ia
largely avoidable. Speed In the Moloch
for whom this feast of blood is spread.
Eliminate the sneeder and the auto
mobiles casualties would be few. Law
cannot do II, though the rigid enforce
ment OF reasonable regulations would
be of great help. The insurance com.
nanics could powerfully assist by re-
fusing to insure the willful speed fienI
a. the incompetent & ut he is. Infor-
tunately the losses occasioned by auto.
mobile accidents are not borne by the
insurance companies. but by their
policy holders. So long as the burden
can thus be handed down no assistance
may be looked for from that source.
Many ordinances fixing speed limits
are worse than useless. They are not
enforced. or enforceable. As such
they are mischievous; they encourage
speeding. Such ordinances should be
repealed. New ordinances should be
written, honest in their limitations.
with severe penalties for their viola
tiop. and those ordinances should be
enforced literallys-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12
THE MIRROR OF
PUBLIC OPINION

uiation of the United stntcs Is 4.000.-
900 In exeers OF the rural population.
and that the cities are increasing In
population seven ana one-half times
aH fast as the rura1 Districts.
We are being informed from many
sources Just about now thdt there are
more than 100000 unemployed In
this country
And yet figures Just made public by
the census bureau Indicate That never
I'm the history OF the world has life
been 40 agreeable OH the farms from
which everyone seems to tiee and to
which the unemployed seem so loath
to return or to GO.
In 1920, the census bureau informs
us. 3o.7 per cent of all farms in the
United States had Automobiles, the
number of cars being 2.ias.51g.
Telephones were reported on 2.b0s.-
oo2 farms. while running water was 20
he Ind In sa4.oss farnhouses and gas
or electric-llght In 452.s0a.
Besides all this. of course, there are
better roads than rural Inhabitants
ever before dreamed of. There are
the great mail-order houses from
which any sort Of device can be easily
secured. There ls the parcel post.
the graphophone, the tractor and a
host Of labor saving convenlences. And
few are the farms in this country
more than few miles from some
town or village where movies are
TO be seen.
With the many new comforts and
pleasures of country life. why do so
many unemployed men still refuse to
return to itY The man who can
answer that question properly VIII ba
comforting benefit ON the natlon.
Baltimore Sun.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12
rApoo,s VIEWS.

Many persons believe that William
G. McAdoo was the brainest man who
sat in Mr.. Wilson's cabinet, with the
possible exception of Mr.. Garrison.
who was the first secretary OF war in
the Wilson Administration. Mr.. Nc
Adoo has the ability to express clearly
and forcibly his opinion of our nation
al life, an opinion which in the past
has generally been correct. The
speech which he made at Newton,
Kansas, day ago was SO practical
we are going to quote bit of it here
for the benefit of our readers who may
not have read any portion of it when
reported over the wires:
by non-co-operation with the
forty-four nations now bound to-
gether In a League for the purpose
of preserving the peace of the world
through arbitration ia international
disputes and for the purpose of cut
ting down naval and military arrna-
ments which are crushing the life and
property out of peoples everywhere.
by putting into effect a tariff so high
that it. will restrict our foreign trade
and in large measures destroy the in
evitable result, will be inevitable dis
aster.
Already we are feeling the effects
The gravest business depression in
our history is upon US and it will
grow more acute as the policies of
international isolation are further de-
veloped and enforced.
: 'tour domestic policies are a corol-
larry of the foreign policies. Excess
sive military and naval expenditures
are continued because we must pre-
pare to fight the world in order to
remain isolated
Our new high tariff is, in effect.
a declaration of economic warfare~on
the rest of the world and start
toward physical war.
THE promised reduction in taxes
cannot be made because the principal
part of our tax load is due to the
war we have already fought and to
the preparations We are already r-ak-
ing for the next war.
"It is discouraging fact that after
thirty years of the Sherman Anti
Trust Law and in spite OF all the
other laws since passed to prevent or
curb trusts and monopolies, we have
in America today the greatest and
greediest monopolies that have ever
been organized. Opening our mar
kets TO a reasonable amount of
healthful foreign competition is a
better regulator Of monopolies than
all of our antitrust laws, but more
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12
JUST FOLKS
SYMPATHY.
BY Edgar A. Guest.

Queerest side o. grief an care
Is can face my own an bear,
Without whimpering too much,
All feel of sorrows touch:
But TO see friend forlorn.
Sufferin' hurts which / have borne,
Griefs which i know all about.
Somehow seems to knock me out.
can stand to what is mine
An not grunble much or whine,
can take what comes 70 me
An soldier try to be:
But to see grim sorrow strike
At the folks / love an like.
Though ! know il has to be,
Takes the good right out o. me.
Words don't come in times like that,
An the finest speech seems fat,
An / murmur Let me do
Something that will comfort you.''
But they stammer out somehow
There is nothing. nothing now
An it's true, because / know,
have answered friends just SO.
Hardest griefs to bear are those
Which a friend you're fond Of knows
can stand my touch of grief
An find strength in my belief;
But TO see another share
Sorrows hour an have to bear
Griefs which ] know all about,
Somehow seems to knock me out.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12
SCHOOL OPENS.

The fall session OF the public schools
h~san favorably today. More than
twenty-one thousand children were
enrolled. $500 of them being in the
high ~chools. The limited school
facilities pointed to severe conges-
ton. bat this was avoided by the fore
thought of Superintendent David A.
Ward. who had planned in advance
for tu-s such an emergency. and took
care of Il.
The citizens Of Wilmington who are
Interested in the school system, cs-
recisiiy parents. are pleased at the
presence Of Mr.. Ward, who in the
short time that ne has been here has
demonstrated that he is a school ex-
~~u'ive of rare ability. The able
manner In which he has taken charge
Of hts duties demonstrates that he
knows has business well.
No one viii deny that our physical
reh'eoi plant is very inadequate. 1t
f""k no formal survey of the proper
ties 10 convince us OF that. But until
That can be remedied-and remedied
u must be--it at least IL a consola~
tion to know that we have a splen-
Did corps OF teachers under an eff
eient superintendent who have the
best interests of the children at heart.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-12
THE EVENING SMILE.
Low PRICE COTTON.

"well. Old Niger. cotton has gone
to the dogs"
"Yassuh. Boss, dat's what I heard .
And you don't make a nickel this
year.
"Nossuh, I 'spect not"
And I've lost what mohey and
grub 1 furnished YOU"
INF mighty 'fraid you is, white
Folks"
Well, confound your picture, IL
don't seem to worry you any"
"bawd, Boss. don't you know there
amt a bit OF use i'm the world i'm me
and YOU both worrying about the
same thing 7'--I.ife.
Isl Willow, who married the widow
they said had sweet temper and lots
of money. is goin' to sue for a divorce. /"
"on what grounds" Mistaken identi-
ty."-New York Sun.
''If YOU hate the movies. why do YOU
go to them so much ?" Its the only
way I cAh stop the other members of
the family from telling the plots the
next day.r--Idfe.