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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-27
STATS DIARY

FRIDAY-The teacher was tawk
ing about preserving are forests g. sh'
asst the kids in the class if we new 81
any BUDDY witch had done sum thing
to preserve are forests a. woodses a
the trees and etc. & Blisters held uI
II hand and when she asst him Who
and What he replied & sed he had a
unkel witch shot woodpecker last
week.
SATURDAY-m was reading in
the noospaper and she sed to pa What
wood you call man who deceived
his Wife for 20 yrs. & pa sed ]
wood call him the Eighth wonder Of
/ the wirld.
SUNDAY-Pa got Ennouncemint
that his Ant & Unkel was to Sele-
brate there 50st wedding Anniversary
today and he made the Remark that
/ Of them must Of had lovely Dis
position to keep togather that long a
Time.
MONDAY-Got my report card &
Hesitated little about showing it toI
the Foxes at home for fear it mite
spoil there ewing. it did. All so mine
to. Ma tawked for about hour and
then she sed to me You don't seem
to worry much about yure poor grad
es. sed it wassent no use of her &
me both Worrying about the same
thing. Ennyhow it wasn't the Grade
witch | was worrying about
TUESDAY-Pa asst Joe Mills what
was the reason of the Scar on his four
he'd & Joe sed it was caused by a
stiff neck & pit asst why & Joe sed he
was unable to jerk his head when al
Saucer was coming his direction las
mite down at his house.
WEDNESDAY-Pa went hunting
for rabbets today so ma sent me down
town this evning for sum beef stake.
got to playing with Pug & ole Miss
Painter butts in & sed | better hike
on Home or / wood be too late for
Supper but l told her not to wirry as
| had it under my arm.
THURSDAY-Jake & me chased a
black & white fabbet for bout 10
miles tonite and finally Ketched it but
we discovered it was a Pole cat. After
we got it. l CESS | wont half to go
to skool tomorro. Or if | do | bet !
get sent Home.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-27

The slow-motion camera is being developed to
the point of perfection. Pictures can be taken
at the rate of 200 a second and then projected at
desired speed that enables the spectator to fol-
low every motion. For educational purposes this
will prove invaluable The language of the eye
is universal. All peppers look pretty much alike.
With the aid of a moving picture western cow
boy can show maiden of Madagascar how to
snare broncho All the arts can be demonstrat-
ed. Surgical operations can be shown so deber-
ately as to explain themselves. Lessons may be
made simple and attractive The motion camera
"Opens wonderful world to the young of all races.
The projection room is apt to be the schoolhouse
of the future
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-27
ENGLISH RENAIssANCE

The king must have been counting
out his money. In his message at the
opening Of Parliament King George
of England says that for the first
time in several seasons the year will
end without a deficit in the national
budget. England has also announced
a purpose to pay S250,O00,0O0 a year
on her obligations to this country. If
England could settle the Irish ques-
ton. the problem Of the unemployed,
the unrest Of India and few other
things the nation would be in most
hopeful shape You can't spoil an
Englishman with hardships.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-27
First State Bank

COLUMBUS. MISS.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-27

With almost every family in America keeping
ia chariot the problem of upkeep sometimes cuts
into the bill of fare. There lot of folks who
buy gasoline on Sunday and bean soup the rest of
the week. In the meantime folks are forgetting
how to walk. First thing we know they will for
get how to work and then the country will be
going backward. 1t might be well to put on the
brakes now.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-27

Some of these days when we have nothing else
particularly on hand, we propose entering the
Audrey Munson's perfect-man contest We hope
this will not scare off any Of the other proposed
competitors.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-27

Just to look at stout lady lolling in a limousine
you would never guess that she used to push a
baby buggy.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-27

The Bank that Says Thank Yen"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21

taught until we can place them in the Alba
Man schools, and cafeteria dining room
where hot luncheons are served. There is one
inflexble rule: No child can continue to come
inside the gates unless he is clean and free
from vermin.
Personally I needed encouragement in be-
ing hard-hearted. 1t was like entering a be-
siegcd castle to go through the gates into the
clean, happy place inside the walls Every
morning, and all day long, the street was a
mass Of waing women and beseeching hands.
Kel Ndoya, the old Albanian who guards the
gates and looks imperial in his tight, black
braided white trousers, scarlet-lined blue coat,
barbaric sash and embroidered waistcoat,
could not awe into silence the heartbreaking
prayers that followed me.
owe asking more than human beings
can do" I said, weakening. "rhese people
have no homes, they sleep in wretched heaps
in stables and dirty barracks, they have no
soap, no changes of clothes. They can't keep
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21

enough garments to clothe him.. After that,
we left the responsibility upon his guardian.
He could come back every day so long as he
was clean. The weather was clear and hot,
and when the rivers dried there was water
in the wells.
my little one is hungry and there is no
food in my house. For the love of God give
him food. You will be doing great charity
to give him only piece Of bread" mother
said to me one day outside the gates. She
had with her the boy we had sent out that
afternoon. turned back his shirt collar and
showed her why we had done it.
eve are not here to do great charity
1 said sternly. "We are here to show you
how to live clearly and without lice.'
'fBut why do you wish the lice to leave my
SOM" she demanded, Indignantly. Lice will
leave only dead body. 1t is healthy to have
them
But the insistence of hungry child, backed
by the rule that cost so much on both sides
of our walls, was stronger than the habits Of
a lifetime in the shadow of the war. The next
morning her son, scrubbed and strutting, was
back on the playground.
The development Of the Childrens Clearing
good to see them revive, stand upright
and begin to thrive, like wilted plants given
water. Cleanliness, one meal day. and grad
ually healing scaps and sores, gave them back
their sturdiness and self-respect You recog-
nized newcomers by the look in their eyes,
the refugee look that shows spiritual harm
terrible than the breaking Of the body.
In week it began to fade; in two weeks It
shadow; in month it was gone. Yet
these children went back every night to the
earthen-ioored novels packed with refugees,
where, with rags for q bed and an old oil-can
for water, they fought alone their battles for
cleanliness.
Our infexible rule had been an experiment.
There were times when felt it must fail, tina.
it could not possibly succeed against the odds.
We were cheered when the children began to
show passion for being clean and horror
of vern1in that exceeded ours. For familiarity
had quite lost Every Friday morning we
held inspection; three hundred children passed
anxiously and gravely under the exploring
hands of the interpreter, and black social dis
grace fell upon the unhappy one whose cloth
ing showed the slightest trace Of the typhus
carriers. He was sent through the gates into
exile he had no luncheon next day and no
part in the Saturday games. And the trium-
plant day came when among the three hun
dren there were only three who were not
clean and clothed in spotless white undergar-
ments.
The walking club was an outgrowth Of the
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taking each other as refugees into already
crowded rooms, and sharing the same class
work in the schools.
There were ten of these schools, part of the
young national school SYSTEM and teaching
about twelve hundred children. These chill
dren were as we'll fed and cared for as could
be expected in q country so weakened by
twelve years of war. The greatest need for
help was among the children of the streets,
too hungry, ragged or diseased to go to school,
These children, among whom there were about
500 orphans in the city, were mainly
refugees from the borders from Kossova,
held by Serbia, and from the poverty-devas-
tated mountain villages. They slept in the
street or in novels, their rags swarmed with
lice, and nearly all Of them had favus Of
milder scalp diseases.
The problem was to utilize our not very
large resources Of relief materials and medi-
cal supplies as to return these children to
school and society crippled as little as possible
by the mental and physical wounds of refugee
life. The first temptation was to open an
asylum for them, home where at least some
of them could be fed, sheltered, clothed anL
educated
But the effect Of war is after all, merely
an acute accentuation of the permanent evils
of society. Stripped to the bare essential. the
problem poverty. These children had
nothing, but, destitute of everything that
maintains life, they were still part of the So
cial structure. TO take few of them out Of
it, into an environment, however excellent
that was essentially artificial, would be- felt,
less solution Of the problem than an avoid
ance of it. They must have help, but wanted
to give it to them in way that would re-
establish them in their own social structure
instead of taking them out Of it,
We began by opening, in spite of incredible
difficulties and with material brought across
Europe, over the Adriatc and up from Du-
razzo by motor truck, little house where
thirty children Of school age could be bathed
fed and taken care Of while their widowed
mothers were working--or looking for work
When we opened the gates on the first morn
ing fifty children crowded the narrow, stone
walled street; next day there were fifty more
With much pressure the institution did not
much grow as burst from it's small plant
In June, 1920, we moyed to a beautiful, large
house whose surrounding walls inclose a bic
garden and playground We were just in time
to receive the masses of refugee children who
poured down into the city before the Serbian
invasion from the north
We named the place the Children's Clear
ing House. 1t is open all day, but we keep
no child over night. There are baths, dis
pensary, school rooms where the children are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21

Miss Cleveland's work in Albania, tho most
primitive and tribal of all European countries,
has been perhaps the most interesting and
picturesque experience which any American
girl has had in Europe. During her twelve
months In this isolated country which the
natives call "Shpniya," she has learned to
speak eight of the native dialects, and has
been oficially adopted" by most Of the i'm
port4n4 tribes
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themselves clean. We are brutes to demand
it, 1t would be different if they even under
stood what mean, but they don't know
what cleanliness is. They never have been
clean"
1t was the nurse in the eiispensary who
stitfened my morale at such times. She had
the blessed inhesibility of her profession.
Nonsense" she said. 'If they don't know
let them learn. They don't have to have soap
and hot water to get rid Of lice. They can
wash their clothes in the Kiri River; it's full
of water. If they haven't complete change
Of clothes let them wash their garments one
at time. Any be clean, with de-
termination enough"
We had our side the strong family feel
ing of the Albanian people. Every child had
at least dstantly related cousin, an older
sister, an uncle or a godfather who wanted
the child to have the American food. Every
child who came to gates was taken in,
bathcd, treated at the dispensary and given
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21
By Elizabeth Cleveland
SCUTARI. Albania.

SCUIAN AtOU7ttt,
r ESTERDAY 1t was necessary for me
to make trip to the north, on
the edge Of the tribal lines Of the
Kastrati. At military headquarters
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-24

were given by club women, and Sena-
tor Peterson explained the need q the
cooperation Of the women from the
standpoint Of . senator. "Make up
your mind that a bill is right and then
lombard your senator's and represen-
tatives with letters asking support"
Senator Peterson advised.
Mrs. Geo. Allen of Rochester, state
president of the federated clubs, pre-
sided at all meetings on Friday. Sat-
urday the meetings were more of a
social nature. Out-of-town guests
were taken sightseeing by auto dur
ing the morning. A reception was
held from II to 1, after which was the
luncheon or mid-winter breakfast, as
it is always called. The spacious
ball room was unable to accommodate
the guests and the adjoining rooms
had to be thrown open. More than
600 were present. The speakers in
cluded Mrs. T. G. Winter Of Minneap
oils, the federated clubs national pres
ident; Governor Preus, Mrs. Geo.
Plummer of Chicago, and others Of
note.
Princeton has two federated clubs
the Civic Betterment club and the
Women's Study club.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-24
Campaign for Purebreds.

A variety Of methods are being en-
ployed to carry on the better-sires
campaign which the United States de-
partment of agriculture has been Wig
orously promoting in all parts Of the
country. In Steuben county, Ind, a
livestock survey was taken as the
first step in this campaign. Under the
leadership of T. A. Parker, the county
agent, the county was partially orga-
nizcd by sections and returns were
secured from 600 farms, representing
one-half Of the total number in the
area. AS the reports were made from
farms in all parts of the county the
percentages may be taken as an ave-
rage.
The figures show that of the bulls
kept 81 per cent were purebreds, 80
per cent grades, and 40 per cent
scrubs; of the boars kept 26 per cent
were purebreds, 80 per cent grades,
and "a per cent scrubs; and of the
rams AZ per cent were purebreds, 36
per cent grades and 22 per cent scrubs.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-24

than $40, 900, after paying the in
terest charges. Therefore, the stock
holders not only failed to have any
earnings on their investment but were
compelled to stand this deficit.
ION account Of these conditions and
because the commission, by its order,
made final disposition Of the entire
rate investigation, as we'll as our re-
quest for emergency relief, we were
compelled to resort to the courts, not
only for relief to ourselves financially,
but to enable US to properly protect
the telephone service Of the public in
this state"
Mr.. Thorpe produced figures show
ing that the net loss at the Princeton
exchange alone was $2,295.3O for the
year 1920.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-24
President Bells Statement.

Upon request of Harry Thorpe, man.
ager Of the Northwestern Bell Tele-
phone company's exchanges for this
district, the Union publishes the state
ment of President Bell regarding the
filing of an application in the United
States district court for relief:
"On February 9, 1921, the Minneso-
ia railroad and warehouse commission
issued an order denying any financial
relief to the Northwestern Bell Tele-
phone company, thus closing finally
the hearing started with it's order
dated September "a, 1918, making no
finding except that the present rates
are reasonable for the service furn-
ished.
pursuant to order of the commits
sion, on it's own motion to investigate
our telephone rates, charges and prac-
tees, the Northwestern company has
spent in the last three years approx
mately 100000 in making inventory
and appraisal of it's property in the
state of Minnesota and in making and
presenting to the commission COM
plete records of all of its operations,
earnings, expenses and justification of
it's various rules and regulations now
in effect.
I'm it's order the commission makes
no finding as to whether or not the
company is receiving sufficient reve-
nue. to properly operate and maintain
its plants and make a fair return to
the investors in the business. At the
time the commission Used this order
there was before it in the record, and
verified by its own employees, the
facts which showed conclusively that
the company was not receiving ade-
quatc or reasonable revenues.
"The interstate operations of the
company in Minnesota during the year
1920 resulted in net deficit of more
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-24
Federation of WOmen's Clubs.

The Minnesota Federation of Wo-
mems clubs held it's annual mid-win-
ter meeting in Minneapolis on Friday
and Saturday of last week. These
meetings alternate between the twin
cities, and this year the fifth district
clubs, which comprise all the federat-
ed clubs in Minneapolis, were the hos
tesses to all out-of-town club members.
These meetings offer a splendid op-
portunity for the club members in
small towns to get in personal touch
with all the interests and activities of
club affairs.
The fifth district members proved
themselves most hospitable, leaving
nothing undone to make the meetings
both profitable and pleasurable to all
their guests. The meetings were held
in the new Curtiss hotel, which is so
admirably adapted for such purposes.
The Friday morning session was
held primarily for the benefit of coun-
ty secretaries and club presidents of
federated clubs, but large number
in addition to these were present. It
was quite informal. The state chair
men Of the different departments of
club work gave suggestions for pro-
grams.
Friday afternoon was the legislative
session and was given over to the
explanation and discussion Of all the
bills before our legislature in which
the women are particularly interested.
A number Of most interesting, talks
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-24
Framing the Tonnage Tax.

Attorney General Hilton's opinion
sustaining the validity of pending ton
mage tax bills has tendency to clear
the atmosphere. When the highest
legal officer Of the state, who will be
responsible for defending the enacted
measure in the courts, is willing tc
take the responsibility Of approving
the bill, the legislature need not be
worried longer over questions of con.
stitutionality.
At the same time there is wisdom in
the suggestion of constitutional
amendment as follow up measure, to
be submitted to the people at the 1922
election. Should any state court hold
against the bill passed this winter,
the people by putting it in the consti-
tuition, could cure any defects seen by
the court.
There is no need, however, of enact
ing long statute into the constitu-
ton. It is pity that the fundamental
law Of the state had to be loaded up
with the verbose and detailed road
law, known as the Babcock amend
ment. The tonnage tax amendment,
if one is submitted, should merely con-
vey the power to the legislature to
impose tonnage tax, and require set
ting aside certain portion of it into
a permanent trust fund.
Now that the attorney general has
declared for a supertax all the pend
ing bills, with their lieu tax provisions,
require redrafting, and the logical
solution is a committee bill.
One suggestion-it is better to go a
little slow at first. The tonnage tax
rate will not be settled finally until
the law has been given trial and has
demonstrated how it works. It is bet
ter to start with a moderate rate than
to penalize an industry too heavily
for that would react on the deyclop.
ment of the state.
! The attorney general proposes to
deduct ad valorcm taxes from mine
earnings before assessing the tax
That makes less difference than ii
seems. It relieves the companies only
to the extent of five per cent, or what
ever the rate may be, of the taxes
they now pay. Instead they are to
pay similar percentage on all net
profits from mining. This is super
tax, an added burden, and it should
be imposed with. care and discretion
Minneapolis Journal.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-24
The Quality of Mercy.

One of the most dramatic moments
in John Drinkwater's abraham Lin
coin" occurs when a youthful yankee
soldier, condemned to death for sleep
ing on post, is brought face to face
with his commander-in-chief. Tension
is high for a moment, and is relieved
in fine burst when Lincoln remarks
casually, "Well, you're not going to be
shot," The young soldier goes back
to his regiment-the time is the eve Of
Lees surrender-the next morning
word comes that he has fallen fighting
in the last action of the civil war.
The real story Of the man whose
birthday we celebrate at this season
contains at least one incident fully RS
powerful as this-a stranger-than-
fiction episode that Mr.. Drinkwater, il
he knew of it, must have considered
almost too dramatic in itself to in
corporate into his own drama. A SOL
der in his teens was condemned to
death for this same offense of Sleep
ing on post and the sentence was sus-
pended by Lincoln. The boys body
was found on the field of Fredericks-
burg after the battle. Next his heart
was a picture Of his pardoner. On the
back was written: "God bless Presi-
dent Lincoln.
A hasty glance over the long list Of
kilograms that were dispatched from
the white house between 1861 and 1865
discloses so many messages beginning
with the formula, Suspend order fo1
execution of Privt. Blank" that the
reader is apt to jump at the unjusti-
fed conclusion that Lincoln had littls
to do but ride roughshod through the
articles Of war on mistaken career
of mercy. But closer inspection OF
these kilograms shows that. almost
without exception they had reference
to soldiers Of from sixteen to nineteen
who were charged with desertion o,
sleeping on post. Usually their par
don was the making of them, as it was
of the lad who fell at fredericksburg
The evidence fails to show that q
single spy was ever pardoned. The
spy, engaged in the most per;lous
traffic Of the war, knew beforehand
the penalty to which he was exposing
himself if captured. He took sport
ing chance, and if fate was agains:
him he abided by fate. But spies We're
never boys in their teens.
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!. 49, -
Twenty three per cent 81 the poultry
was Of pure breeding, the remainder
being mixed stock. With these fig
ures at hand the general livestock as
ISOLATION Of the county began pure
bred-sires campaign, using posters and
literature supplied by the United
States department Of agriculture and
holding local meetings at which talks
showing the value Of purebred sires
were given.
The Mile Laos County Stock Breed
ers' association has made remarkable
strides during the past year in the in
PRODUCTION of purebred sires and the
organization is rapidly growing.
Cause for Action.
Mr.. D.-"Listen, my dear, what on
earth did I do at meal time that made
you so angry?"
Mrs. D.-"You disgraccd me! When
the charlotte russo was passed around,
you tried to blow the foam off,"