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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-10-07
He Didn't Like the Name.

Harry had worn trousers for the
first time on his third birthday.
The next morning his mother called
him: Come, Harry, let mother dress
you"
He replied: "Oh. mother, don't
dress me. Please pants me"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-10-07
WOULD GET JOBS FOR MEN
State President of Oregon Women's
Auxiliary Plans to Gust Women
Who Do Not Need Work.
A movement to GUST from employ
ment all married women who are not

forced by neces-
sity to work has
been started by
Mrs. w. A. EiverS,
Portland, Ore, re-
Gently reelected
state president Of
the Oregon de-
partment of the
Women's Auxil-
larry, the Ameri-
can Legion.
Mrs. Eiver s
znaaEc from first
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-10-07
Many Physicians Volunteer.

Four hundred and fifty physicians
who are members of a post of the
American Legion in New York city
have volunteered their services in the
reconstruction work of World war
veterans.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-10-07

tween the aver
age hard-boiled
city editor and
the average soft
boiled reporter
suffers a relapse
in the strange
case of Mr.. and
Mrs. Oh a r ! e s
Reavis, members
OF Rainier-Noble
post. the Ameri-
can Legion, and
its Women's aux.
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A Zeal Treat

Mrs. Chatterton-The dentist is only
going TO take an impression of my
new plates. You won't have TO go
with me. I don't need your help
Her Husband-But. dearie. I do so
want to see you with your moutt fun
OF plaster sitting IN silence Tor ten
minutes.
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police force. for
mer private and
top sergeant of
the Three Hun
bred and Twelfth
infantry. \. f. F..
now a member of
the General La
fayette Z ollie e
po I. American
Legion. in New
York City. Patrol
man Piazza. John
L., wears the Dis
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recruiting officers
during the war.
So they enlisted
him and sent him
to a chilly berth
in faraxay 81
IBERIA. He wealth
cred nine months
of it to make it a
good bargain.
Mr.. Lamb was
living a life of re-
ii = e IN e n ( on q
farm near Worth
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-10-07
How Ex-service Men Have Scattered

An indication of how men who
served with the American forces dur
ing the World war have scattered TO
distant corners OF the globe is given
in a report from South Dakota that
the soldiers bonus board has received
applications from ex-service men liv-
ing in Africa, South America, China,
Alaska, Japan and several European
countries. The bocrd is verifying
claims of applicants through the 5S
foreign posts Of the American Legion.
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nc FamlIY @.
is your ambition2"

What is your ambition
ITO be rich enough 10 own an auto
mobile of my own
But you already own a CARP
y know that, but you don't know
how tired I've grown of having 70
argue with the wife and the dauEh-
ter and the son every time ] want TO
use it."
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Modern c., Pronress-

Say what you want 10 about the
modern girl, her costumes and her
manners she has at least emancipated
herself from the cIinging-vine stage of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Free Press.
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For cheaper Shoes

Chemists think they know how 70
reduce the price Of shoes. Here's hop
ing success for this proposed alliance
Of science and diug.-BOstOn
Transcript.
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objection to Classic DANCING.

Jud Tunkins says he doesn't like.
amateur classic dancing because 1t
reminds him OF the way summer
boarders act of an evening when Tie
mosquitoes are bad
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-10-07
Post 70 Give Musical Comedies.

To make certain that their town
will be "alive" this winter. the Amer
lean Legion post of Hutchinson. Mimi.
has contracted for three musical COM
edies to be stsged there during the
cold months.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-10-07
EoR SIMMER COLDS

Use Vacher-BaIm; it relieves at
once If we have no agent where you
live, write to Z. v. Vacher, Inc. New
Orleans. acknowledgements
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INDIAN, LEGION POST BOSS
Elias Wesley and Sixteen Washington
Buddies Also Control Town of
White Swan.

Where his fathers once tried TO resist
the civilization of the white man. Elias
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WAS 81 WHEN HE ENLISTED
Former Train Dispatcher Did Good
Service for Uncle Sam-An En-
thusiastic Legion Man.

Sixty-two years young he was. II. E.
Lamb, Worthington, Mimi. told the
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-10-07
THEY'RE GOOD LEGION MEN"
Washington State Newspaper Pair
are Members of the Ex-Service
Mems Organizations.

The time honored tradition OF
violent feeling supposed to exist be-
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-10-07
Che.
American
Z. Legion
Copy for This Department Supplied by
the American Legion News Service-D
LEGION MAN is LIFE SAVER
John L. Piazza, Officer 4o44, New York
Police Force, Well Deserves
His Medals.

Saving lives is almost a specially
with officer 1914 of the New York
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GRAND OLD MAN. OF 18TH
Kansas Editor Recently Received Dis
tinguished Service Cross for
Naor in Action.

A newspaper editor who left off lam
bastinr the Germans in his columns
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delphia.-Charlie Blount was
tried before Judge East OF the criminal
court on a charge of manslaughter A
special venire had been summoned.
The jury was out most of the day but
could not agree. The last ballot stood
four for conviction and eight for ac-
quittal. Charlie Blount killed DR.. J..
F. Jackson at Stallo, just north of Phil
adelphia several months ago, according
to the indictment.
The New York herald., 1921-05-23
Mennonites Will Try Mexico.

The Mennonites of Manitoba and
Saskatchewan, western Canada, 10000
to 10000 in number, will soon begin
an exodus to Mexico. They have had
the removal from Canada under con-
iideration for more than year, but
they have experienced difficulty In find
ing an acceptable site on which TO re-
establish their colonies. The Mennon-
ties are the largest international body
opposed to war from religious convic-
tions and ever since the world war
they have been engaged In controver-
sizes with Canadian authorities the eff
feet Of which, they fearr will be to
force them to forego the privileges
which they have enjoyed in the matter
Of the education of their children and
exemption from military service.
This exodus Is one Of the largest
mass movements formed and impelled
through religious motives or beliefs
to take place on this continent. The
only one which may be considered as
equalllng 1t In the number concerned
Is the flight Of the Mormons from
Nauvoo, Illinois, to the shore Of Great
Salt Lake seventy-fye years ago. Pre-
vIous small movements OF religious
colonlsts were those Of Quakers of
Pennsylvania and of Shaker commu-
nitles of this State to Ohio and the
formation of settlements In the Miami
valley. Another exodus In the seven
teenth century was that Of Purltans
Of Connecticut towns TO New Jersey.
There were two OF these early par
ties, each numbering thirty persons,
INIT they were directed by RoBERT
TREAT and they founded the prosper
Gus settlement which afterward be-
came Newark.
An interesting feature Of the pres.
ent exodus OF the Mennonites is the
contrast which 1T presents to the Jour-
ney OF the Mormons from Illinois to
Utah. The Mormons left Nauvoo TO
escape the violent antagonism Of their
neighbors In the Mississippi valley
early In 1916 Winter found them
spread out In small companies across
Iowa. They had made little progress
and they had suffered from hunger
and hardship. They had able leaders
who kept up the emigrants' spirits by
The New York herald., 1921-05-23
Reclining Chairs Wanted.
They Are Needed by Service Men
Who Are Poison Gas Victims.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: There
are at present more than seventy former
service men who are patients at Seton
Hospital. Riverdale avenue. The Bronx.
They are boys who are poison gas VIC
Tins of tho Argonne. Soissons and the
Hindenburg line, and they are In various
stages OF tuberculosis.
They are as courageous in fighting
tuberculosis as they were in fighting for
liberty and humanity. They need en-
tcrtainment and automobile rides, which
the hospital cannot provide. And they
would welcome and appreciate easy rc-
clining canvas chairs with footrests
which they could use on tho vcranda
or lawn. A few have such chairs. but
all should have them.
The members Of the Patriotic Service
Society, OF which c. s. Wood OF 523
West 12lst street is president, has se-
cured two dozen OF these special chairs
az a cost of So each. including transpor-
tation, which will be given to the boys.
VIII other organizations or individuals
help In this worthy cause?
MARJORIE MARSHALL
NEW YoRK. May 81.
The New York herald., 1921-05-23

appreciate the wellnigh impenetrable
barrier 1t constitutes, The greatest
menace present in the devastated area
OF forest, the area which runs from
Clallam Bay on the north to Gray
Harbor on the south, is as a fire.
trap, and every precaution is being
taken TO prevent the start of fire
which would inevitably spread to ad-
joining territory on which billions of
feet OF the finest Douglas fir and other
valuable timber are growing. Special
appropriations have been voted by the
United States and State governments
to meet this emergency.
AS lightning is credited with kin
ding at least one half of our forest
fires the chance of avoiding a confla-
grafton which would be without paral-
lei in the history OF the country is
none too good and the matter is of the
gravest concern to those with property
IN the threatened territory.
The New York herald., 1921-05-23
Reporter Franklin K. Lane.
An Incident in the Lives OF Two Call
fOrnia Journalists.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Among
the various forms OF death he had W.T.
messed Franklin X. Lane mentioned in
the remarkable letter he wrote when
he faced death: II once saw man
hanged"
was a member OF the Official COM
m,ttce which received Mr.. Wilson In the
reception room of the Union railway sta
tion In Washington upon his arrival there
for his frst inauguration as President.
Standing In the line OF committeeman In
the order some master OF ceremonies
had placed us became aware that the
man at my elbow was amiably regard
ing me, and after seemingly becoming
satisfied that his conjecture regarding
my identity was right no said:
Il wonder IL you would recognize my
back IL / turned 1t toward you. You
used IL as n desk to write your notes
OF a hanging In the San Francisco county
jail twenty years ago"
"Then YOU are Frank Lane" ] said.
We had not met since the time when,
as San Francisco reporters, we were
assigned to report for our respective
papers the nnal chapter Al sehsa
tional murder story.
At that time I was nerve hardened.
For some reason which has caused much
self-examination city editors early elected
TO make me tho hanging story specialist.
When I casually used the back OF the
reporter standing between mo and the
sallows in that San Francisco Jail as a
convenient desk for my note paper was
working on my seventh hanging story,
but 1t was Lanes first.
The jail was at the foot OF Telegraph
HIN, celebrated by San Francisco poets
from Hart TO Irwin, and after the exc
cutlon the reporters gathered for lunch
in little Spanish restaurant, ono Of
many foreign places Of the kind on the
slope Of the hill. There Lane said that
The New York herald., 1921-05-23

pistol. His watch and chain were
taken from him, but the highwaymen
gave back to him his carfare and
his latchkey.
Judge HALL has reduced the SEN
tence passed on this man TO five years
in a reformatory, but this should not
end the matter. If there is in this
country an organization for the relief
Of soldiers and their dependents which
Is worth its salt the case of this un-
fortunate ex-soldler will have lmme-
diate attention; his family will be
cared for; the employers who do not
hire ex-soldiers Will be attended TO-,
and man who has been most un-
justly used will get chance to live
for the country he offered to die for.
The New York herald., 1921-05-23
Words That White Fought.

1t is century ago to-day that
RICHARD GRANT WHITE was born.
1t was fifty years ago that his words
and Their Uses" was published. OF
all his works this collection or
WHITES contributions to the GALAXY
on the subject Of correct English may
live longest. He struck hard blow
against the evils that were creeping,
in his day, into the language. No
single writer since has hit harder.
WHITE knew, and said, that Eng
lish was being corrupted not by the
ignorant but by the half educated.
The man who said caption" when
he meant heading; balance" when
he meant "rest" or remainder" !;
"apt" or Calculated" when he meant
"likely"; "citizen" when he meant
any man, possibly an alien; "defal-
cation" when he. meant default;
patron" when he meant customer
there was the guilty fellow.
Thanks to WHITE and his sympa-
thizers, caption" in the false sense
is now almost the exclusive property
of the motion picture business. Citi-
zens are called by that name only
when their political rights are re-
ferred to. Fewer merchants speak
Of their customers as patrons" +"
depot" in the sense of station" has
been pulled down. Persons send
money instead of 'remitting" It..
Thanks to WHITE, the sample room"
vanished even before the arrival Of
the Eighteenth Amendment. 'Trans-
pire," which was WHITES most alb
horred word when 1t was misused in
the sense Of happen" is now used
correctly when 1t is heard at all.
There are words, however, which
persist in spite Of WHITES lashing.
The outrageous "decimation," In the
sense of great slaughter, popped up
frequently in the war, and now the
Standard Dictionary accepts this def
milton as one "in popular USE" Sec
tion" has defied the onslaught Of the
purists. WHITE referred to it as ian
unpleasant Americanlsm for neigh
borhood, vicinity, quarter or region,
but 1t has no such basic faults as
"decimate." "Sectionalism" Is a word
which has no familiar synonym.
WHITE had healthy dislike of
squeamish cant. He regretted that
the honest word "smock" had been
succeeded in turn by "shift" and "che-
mise" and that the last named was
pronounced "shlmmy." He wondered
whether the granddaughters Of the
shrinking ladies Of his day would per-
sist in attempting further to disguise
the name of shirt. "Shimmy" is still
with us, but as the name of peculiar
dance. As for WHITES fears about
this generations squeapishness, 1t IS
unnecessary to dwell on the self-evi-
dent. Limb" the use Of which In
stead of '.leg" caused WHITE to
write a spirited page, is now applied
only to trees.
The New York herald., 1921-05-23

the hope OF finding a happy end TO
their journey. Some Of the men
worked for Iowa farmers. More than
500 OF them volunteered for service in
the United States army in the Mex
lean war and turned over to their CO.
religionists the full amount OF the
bounty which they received.
The pioneer band which was sent on
ahead caught sight of Great Salt Lake
in July, 1647, but 1t was not until
1S4S that the parties which had been
left behind finally reached the prom
ised land. Hundreds made the long
journey pulling handcarts containing
their possessions and young children;
and many who started did not survive
the journey.
The Mennonites will have no sucn
trials and hardships. 1t is reported
that they win spend more than
81 900, 900 in railroad fares; they Will
carry with them their live stock, farm
eQulpueuL dHu AOuSChoiu SooS' s
they will travel In their long north TO
south journey by special trains. NOT
only will they have comfort and ease
from Canada to Mexico, but they VIII
have at hand those things most neces-
sary to meet the demands OF their
newly established colonies and to TOD
pioneering Of It's hardships.
The rushes to the California gold
fields in 40 and to the Klondyke half
century later were the expression OF
individual enterprise, as have been
the historic migrations to settle on
new lands opened for private owner
ship by the Government. None OF the
transfers of Indian tribes, of which a
great number have been made by the
United States, Is in the same class
with this Mennonite movement.
Modern transportation has made
such an accomplishment possible. 1t
can add an exodus Of religionists to
its triumphs in increasing the worlds
plea sure, business and commerce.
The New York herald., 1921-05-23
"Deburau" Stays at Home.

Mr.. BELAsCo has been compelled,
much against his desire, to abandon
his plans to take his interesting and
successful production "Deburau" on
tour next fall. He has counted the
cost Of high railroad transportation
charges, high baggage transfer
charges, high wages for stage me-
chanics, high salaries for musicians
and actors, and he has calculated the
possible receipts, counting every house
in which the play could be presented
as sold to capacity.
The maximum box Office takings
under such improbably prosperous
conditions would not pay the cost Of
the proposed tour. Mr.. BELAsco would
be glad to put the play on the road If
he had chance to break even on the
venture, but even the most altruistic
artist cannot be expected deliberately
to seek a deficiency.
The abandonment Of the tour Is an
intellectual and social misfortune to
thousands Of Americans who, because
Of it, will be deprived of the oppor-
tunity to see "Deburau." 1t is a
money misfortune for the railroads,
for the baggage transfer companies,
for the workers in theatres, who will
not be paid the money they hoped to
get out Of Mr.. BELAsco's enterprise.
1t will be a money misfortune for
scores and hundreds Of persons who
never heard Of the play, for money
which Mr.. BELAsCo would have put in
circulation and which would have
come to them in stimulated business
had the charges been right will be
withheld from circulation because the
charges are wrong.
There has never been case more
illuminative of the paralyzing effect
Of inordinate charges than this case
Of Mr.. BELAsco's "Deburau."
The New York herald., 1921-05-23
Doubts of q Scholar.
Mr.. Edison's Purpose Puzzles q
Writer of Cyclop@dias.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: With the
books before them the reporters did
fairly well in answering Mr.. Edison's
questions, but with no book I note sew
eral errors.
Australia is i've or six times larger
than Greenland.
Spitsbergen-not with z-is not of
the coast OF Norway, but far north Of
that coast in the Arctic.
II bituminous coal contains little gas.
why do gas works all use 1t when they
wish to make coal gas?
Labrador Is not q part Of Canada,
but Is a continental coastal strip north
east OF Quebec and belonging to New
foCndland
Surely the Missouri Mississippi is longer
than the Amazon. though the latter car
ries more water.
without a book can answer practi-
cally all of Mr.. Edison's questions, but
what on earth Is the good Of such
knowledge? I don't suppose Mr.. Edison
would pay me SIS week even IL he
wished cyclopadia writer's. of whom I
am one. I don't see what Mr.. Edison
wants of such mental equipment.
RICHARD p. READ.
NEW YORK. May 81.
The New York herald., 1921-05-23
A Twelve Word Calendar.
Vermont Way Of Determining the
Day Any Date Fell On.

To THH NEW YORK 4IERALp: The fol-
lowing simple method of finding the
day OF tho week for any date in a
month. when the first day OF January
is known, has been handed down among
US for two centuries.
Supposing that tho new year begins
on Wednesday. we place that day oppo-
site the letter A, with tho following
days opposite the next six letters, AMI
with Tuesday opposite G. The frst days
Of the stwelve months are opposite the
initials of this sentence. AT Dover dwell
George Brown. Esq, good Carlos Finch
and David Friar."
For the ordinary year the initial days
Of tho months, as above. are wednes-
day, Saturday, Saturday. Tuesday,
Thursday. Sunday. Tuesday, Friday.
Monday. wednesday. Saturday and
Monday.
As tho first, eighth. fifteenth. twenty
second and the twenty-ninth day In each
month are on the same day OF the week
II follows that the FIRST of December and
the twenty-ninth fall on + and the
thirty-nrst on A. The nrst and last day
Of each year. excepting leap year, fall
on the same day of the week. For leap
year use the seven letters beginning A
with the week day that stood originally
for B on New Years Day.
A for this year falls on Saturday. AZ
does December 81.
EDWARD II. WILLIAMS. Jr.
WEsTERpALE. VT. May ID.
The New York herald., 1921-05-23
"High Hearts,"

High hearts !. I fell TO musing on
the phrase
or those that / had known and OF their
ways.
on. not SO few they seemed had earned
this namel
Yet none that knew best knew over
Fame.
was this their virtue or their fault7--
found
The thought Of them could make my own
heart boundi
And well guessed. because OF what they
A radiant throb from them may strike
And quickening trouble prove to souls
TIL these their right to plenal life assert
They bear themselves not always
'ioftiy-
High hearts so careless of insignia be !
But when a running fire from heaven
Rallies and frees q fame within them
pent
Then do they lay about them. to oon-
sumo
Some wrong which In Gods world must
have no room:
This being done. they, gently. will retire
Like a sheath'd sword their anger's use
full fire.
OF those well have known-hfgh hearts
and blest
Some have been young and richly were
OF Joy in battle-drunken to tho fray!
Their need was swift. But all as stanch
were they
Who. sombrely. and In their half spent
day
No challenge f1inging-stood but to de-
fend
Where they had pledged their vows. to
, the worlds end
But highest of high hearts that ! have
Were oldened hearts in breach OF battle
thrown
(Heaven being near them they stood not
alone ID:
These. having saved the day for loves.
could brave
Injurious ones. and from their hates
Then, quite forget, where others but for
gavei
High hearts-frorn out their own ex-
haustless store
Have lent to me a heart, unknown be-
fore,
Greatly to struggle. but to keep no
OF those that most stirred mine. most
beat no more:
Yet, thence Is miracle: the missioned air
Caught up their latest throbbing--forth
to bear
For me live vibration everywhere;
Even as light is, unabated, lent
From orbed fires long since In heaven
spent!
EDITH M. THOMAS.
The New York herald., 1921-05-23
Stupendous Timber Loss.

BY utilizing airplanes In its sur
vey of the devastated areas the ma
tlonal Forest Service has been able to
make comprehensive report on the
damage caused to timber in the 0lym-
pic peninsula, Washington State, by
the severe wind storm OF January 20.
The tornado swept a district ninety
miles long and from twenty TO thirty
miles wide. The damage was pro-
nounced the heaviest In the history OF
the country, estimates OF the loss run
ming as high as 5000, 100000 feet. The
only way a survey Of the region
could be made by experts was
by alrplane The flights were under
taken recently, army officers serving
as pilots. The estimate OF the for
esters based on observations from the
air is that 6,750,Ooo,o00 board feet Of
lumber were destroyed. The storm
jumped in characteristic fashion and
left many spots unaffected.
District Forester GEORGE III. CECIL Of
Portland, Oregon, was one Of the off,
clal inspectors, and 1t Is his opinion
that only 75o0o0,000 board feet were
lost on national forest lands, while the
losses on State and Indian reserva-
iions and private holdings will reach
G,OO0.0 100000 feet.
IL was at first hoped that some Of
this timber could be salyaged, but the
prospect for this is not good because
OF lack or transportation facilities.
Only those who have seen wind
thrown timber Of immense size can