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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-03-18

Fire, Wind and Lightning lnsur-
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THOMAS ii WO0DFORD & BRYAN
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-03-18
RELIGIOUS.


At the Methodint church next
Sunday the Sunday school will meet
at $3.50 a. m. At 10:45 a. m. the
pastor, Rev. C. H. Greer, will preach
on 1.-THE Key to the Windows OF
Heaven and at 1880 p. m. he will
discuss 1.-The Menace of the Movies,
or Childhood Sacrificed to Nam
mon" The Epworth League Will
meet at GAS p. m. The prayer meet
ing will be held on Wednesday even
ing at 1880. Everybody most cor
daily welcomed to all services.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-03-18

Director of Laboratories
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
TIE WAR TIME SPENDING
DRUNK Is OVER

That excellent newspaper. the Mil
waukce Journal, quotes the manager
Of one Of the largest corporations in
,Nat city es sayirP that one of our
troubles at present is tho inability of
business. and the public in general to
get away from the war time idea that
expenses don't matter. That idea was
the outgrowth OF our one purpose
to win the war as quickly as possible
and save lives. 1t was a race between
dollars and lives, and dollars did not
count.
Now times have changed; but the
war time method of thinking is hard
to shake off. The manager in ques-
ton gives every individual. whether
his income is from profits, wages or
salary, something to Chew on" when
he says:
We've got to get that idea out Of
our heads. Mark you, l don't mean
that we can slow down. We've all
got TO buckle in and work harder
than ever-to make business good
again and to pay off our enormous
national debt.
During the war my office went on
telegraph and long distance phone
basis. I'm having an awful time get
ting that idea out OF their heads.
When they want a pencil their first
thought still is TO wire for 1t.
We've got to get rid OF that idea
and go back to the old-time way OF
doing things on an economical basis
back to postage stamp instead OF a
telegram schedule. Expenses have
| got to be pared TO the core. The in
| dividual and business that cconomize
are the only ones that can survive
The wartime spending drunk is over
This is the cold gray dawn OF the
/ morning after"
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
THAT CIIAsTENED SENATE

II required a dispatch from Wash
ington to explain how and why it is
that the senators refuse to discuss in
any way the question OF German
reparations, for that dispatch ex-
plains that the silence is in pursuance
of a virtual agreement" between the
president and the members Of the
foreign relations committee to per-
NIT him to work out his foreign poll
icy without suggestion or criticism
from the senate" II this is true, it
would show that senators have taken
to heart the admoniticn in the presi-
dents message. This was most
suavcly and gently given, but was
nevertheless unmistakable. Mr.. Hard 70
ing spoke Of the need of avoiding the
other extreme, equally Objectionable. "
OF assumption by the senate Of "the
| function Of the executive"
A first and plain result OF this was
the denaturing Of the Knox resolu
/ ton. All the declarations of policy
were stricken out Of it. A still more
grateful result would be a period OF
/ complete senatorial silence about for
eign affairs. 1t certainly would mean
a real change. No more round robins.
notifying other nations that the SEN
| ate, not the president. would settle
| their international business for them.
| No more resolutions with sixteen
setting forth the international princi-
Piles with which senators were fairly
bursting. No more speeches for nine
times the space that mortal man calls
day, instructing and correcting Europ-
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
NOW STAY CLEANED UP!

Last week St. Joseph had its annual
"clean up" the entire week being de-
voted by the citizens TO getting the
city in a cleanly condition in which
efforts tho sanitary authorities pro-
nounce it the best job ever done here.
Now that this has been done. it
should be kept that way. Down at
Washington they have discovered the
potent fact that to make a city really
beautiful and desirable to reside in,
all the dirty corners must be kept
frightened up, which means cleaned
up and the rubbish hauled away or
burned. The Washington slogan Is:
"A more beautiful Washington; your
job and mine" What applies to
Washington in this regard equally
applies to st. Joseph, where it is your
job and mine" to keep busy before
the warm weather sets in and see that
our home town" shines and radiates
health and consequent happiness.
which never can be true If sanitation
is neglected.
The laws of the city provide that
rubbish must be cared for by the
owners or tenants of a building; that
properly covered garbage cans must
be installed and used. To neglect
this plain provision OF the law means,
If complaint is made and conviction
had. a fine. Any citizen who has
neighbors who neglect st. Joseph's
sanitary rules should make It his bus
iness to report to the health office
the neglect. 1t is then the duty of
the health department to act immed-
lately.
Don't forget that it is your job and
mine"
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

They asked for no popular referen-
DUN, They did not wait for mass
meetings to tell them what to do.
Charged by the constitution with the
duty of CONDUCTING the foreign affairs
OF the United states, they acted
promptly on their own best judgment.
And they did not hesitate to say what
this government" would and would
not do.
Tho only reason for emphasizing
this aspect of the matter at present
is that the past two years saw such
a challenging of the constitutional
power of the president of the United
States that public opinion may have
been misled. 1t is not necessary 10
dwoll upon the bitter attacks upon
President Wilson for asserting pre-
cisely those prerogatiyes OF his office
which President Harding now assumes
as a matter of course. What right.
it was ignorantly demanded, had Mr..
"hSoh W ldy uO"h tetihs " bST-
many? For him to declare in his own
person what positions this govern
ment" would take was affirmed to be
sheer effrontery and usurpation. But
now that those gusts OF partisan vio-
lence have blown themselves out. 1t is
clear that the correct constitutional
practice was followed by President
Wilson. Proof Of this for even the
most obdurate republicans has been
furnished by the course of President
Harding. He grasps the rudder just
as his predecessor did.
Even IL we did not approve the
answer to Germany made by the ad-
ministration, we should have to up
hold the right and duty Of the presi-
dent to send IT. He Is simply COM
PEELED to act in such matters accord
ing to his own informatio and con-
victions. There is no other way. He
cannot delegate his powers. Right or
wrong. decisions in the management
Of our diplomatic intercourse with
other nations must be made by him
and given out In his name. This was
never seriously questioned until the
furious hatred of Mr.. Wilson led some
rash public men and editors to ques-
ton and denounce everything that he
did. Now they will accept with great
calmness and satisfaction from Presl-
dent Harding the same exercise of
the presidential power that, in Mr..
Wilson. made their eyes bloodshot and
caused their mouths to foam.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

can and Asiatic statesmen. a senate
silent about foreign affairs? 1t seems
too good to be true-almost con-
tradiction in terms. Yet within the
past two weeks the senators have be-
como noticeably more rcticent.
By what magic arts have the sec
retary Of state and the president be-
guiled the senate into this new sub
dued and chastencd attitude? Tho
republican steam roller has started" "
exclaimed Senator Brandegce. All.
but nothing can be imagined so rude
and violent under this administration!
What has started is, not a steam roll
Ter, but a band wagon. with rubber
tires and soft cushions on the seats
for the passengers. To climb aboard
and rest while and keep still--that
is the invitation which the republican
senators are meekly accepting.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
or Course the wilsonitc Won

Two farmers living near Mound
City had an argument the other day.
One said he never sole hushel OF
corn under the Wilson at1nfnistra lion
for less than 70 cents per bushel and
that he sold some as high as s2.23.
The other farmer. who voted for a
change last fall. offered to bet the
other farmer $25 that he had sold
corn at less than that figure. They
put up the money and went to tho
place where tho Wilson booster sold
his corn and the Wilson booster won
the wager. We do not know what
this rock-ribbed Wilson Democrat
farmer thinks OF S5c corn, but he says
he knows there are many who would
vote tomorrow for a change from the
present to anything.-Craig Leader.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
TO CUT OUT UNNECESSARY
COSTS"


One Of the professors of Harvard
who answers to the euphonious cog
nomen Of Felix Frankfurter, told the
Consumers League of Massa chusetts
in a recent address that the unneces-
sary whims of women about their
clothing increase the labor of making
garments by about so per cent and
he advocated simpler styles for wom-
en- as a measure OF economy.
No doubt what he said is true, but
the professor might have gone fur
ther. He could have pointed to un-
necessary expenses OF many kinds in
volved in the production OF innumer-
able things that men make. Who
knows how many millions the United
States sinks every year in unnecessary
architectural ornament? Billions
could be saved by standardiziDg
buildings and by cutting out every
thing used in their construction ex-
cept what serves a definite practical
end. Ever since the invention of
printing, men have been spending
great sums for the labor involved in
making the lines in a column all of
the same length. Some of that ex-
pense was saved by the invention OF
typesetting machines. but it still costs
money.
Even the humble and entirely prac-
tical tools used in shops and on the
farms have something added to them
for the sake of looks. The farmer
wants his red plow with black stripes
on it, and his ak when he takes it
from the store must be brightly pol
ished. Many millions are spent for
the production of colors when one or
! a few Colors would serve.
But it would be a bold economist
who would recommend the abolition
/ of all this expense. Millions of peo-
pie have no way to live unless they
! supply the demand for things that
! the world could forego without giving
| up any necessity. Moreover there are
people who think that the desire OF
mankind to have things look well is
a fundamental fact in human nature
| and just as necessary to a normally
Perhaps they are right about it,
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
NO SMOKING IN BUSINESS HOURS

II you step into almost any st. JOS
eph business house, especially IL you
go back to the office. you will find
men smoking while at their work.
This is likewise true OF almost any
city at the persent time. but 1t was
not thus some years ago.
Now the business man with a GUS
toner in his office hands over fra
grant Key West and says: Have a
cigar while we are talking it over
but fifty years ago even in advanced
New York. there was no such thing
as smoking in business hours.
mo man who was known to smoke
cigar in the streets or at his office
in business hours could have obtained
discount at any bank in the CITY,"
says Charles II. Haswer in his
"Reminiscences OF an Octogenarian. y
And he tells us that September 2l
1928. the Advocate. a leading New
York newspaper published, with
grave reflections on the state OF the
times, the fact that a y0lng man had
actually been seen smoking in the
streets at o'clock in the morning.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
APPLY THIS TO ST. JOSEPH

Not long ago there was large
business concern, which had a great
number Of stockholders. These stock
holders became dissatisfied with the
general manager. So far as manage
ment OF the company's business was
concerned he was a pretty good man
ager Under him the business pros
percd and his company had a good
name in the commercial world.
But the general manager was
roughneck in n manner Of speaking.
He sat at his desk in his shirt sleeves
in warm weather. Even worse. he
chewcd tobacco. and once in a while
he even missed the rim of the big
brass cuspidor that stood by his desk.
On Sundays he frequently defied con-
vontion by going fishing.
These things came to be excessively
annoying to some of the stockholders.
particularly to those who believed
man ought to disguise his breath with
cloves after taking a drink. SO they
| fired the old general manager and
hired a new one. lie didn't know
anything about the business, but the
stockholders said: "He doesn't need
to. il his moral character is good"
The now general manager was
everything the old one was not. He
put on a clean collar every morning
/ attended church twice on Sunday and
wouldn't talk business with a man
whose breath smelled as il he had
been eating garlic and Iimburger
cheese.
Although he ran his job like his
Sunday school class, somehow the
business failed to prosper under him.
| Discord developed among the en-
! plOyes, the quality of the goods the
company manufactured detcriorated,
customers Of long standing quit buy
ing and the ledger balances were
written In red ink.
As the time drew near when the
new general managers contract was
| about to expire there arose n loud
/ clamor among the stockholders for
/ return of the old one, albeit some OF
| them still declared they would rather
! suffer loss OF business than have the
general offices reeking with tobacco
smoke.
The new general manager himself
went before the board and insisted
that he ought to be retained in his
job.
"No man." ne said has ever dared
to breathe a word against my char
acter, My wife will tell you that /
am a good provlder and my children
do not play marbles for keeps"
Put" cried the stockholders, "you
don't know anything about the bust.
ness. You haven't learned anything
and trade is going to wrack and ruin
undor you"
The odd feature of the situation is
that the new general manager couldn't
understand why they didn't want tc
keep him any longer.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
Want Ten Million More

The first announcement made by
Mayor Kiel after his election to a
third term In st. Louis. is st. Louis
must issue $4,000, 900 more bonds.
with which to place the neglected
streets in safe condition. Overbur-
dened as the city is with taxation.
higher than in any other part of the
state. the prospects for more debt
and higher taxes must not be very
pleasing. 1t is getting so real estate
down there is a liability instead of an
asset.-Boonville Advertiser.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

or course those hundred and fifty
jitneys now plying between the busi-
ness center and the stock yards are
not wearing out that 100000 worth
OF paving that the street railway paid
for repaving its part of South Sixth
street, oh moi and further-how
much are they going TO pay toward
repairing it when the present surface
wears out? Not one penny--for if
they wanted to. they have nothing to
pay with-and don't intend to.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
Even If You Hold Your Nose

We do not know whether it will be
good or bad for the Democratic party
to refer the partisan bills of the Re-
publicans to the people Neither does
any one else know. But we do know
that when the Democrats first talked
about referring these bills Mr.. Hyde
and his cohorts said. I'VE welcome the
test by the people. We wana taIem to
refer them" And now Hyde and his
"buddies" are yelling their heads off
and talking about creating new laws
to keep the Democrats from referring
their partisan bills. That does not
look good. Something is rotten some-
where and you can smell It even
though your nose be completely stop
ped with cold. and that is enough for
us. We say If Hyde don't want them
referred II is to the best interests OF
the Democratic party to refer them.
Milan Standard.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

that brings It prominently to the
front, that being that it encourages to
optimism.
1t is n fact that us humans like
asparagus very much--even il we en-
deavor to slaughter each stalk as soon
as it reaches the proper height.
The most amazing thing about this
vegetable. is its perfect good nature,
good cheer and healthy impervious-
ness to weather conditions.
1t comes up in the spring after a
warm day or two, and looks around
as much as to say, "well. what cheer.
boys? Has Jack Frost beat it?"
Generally Jack Frost hasn't-and
slips into the bed with his hob-nailed
shoes on. and spoils everything three
or four times over.
But Mister Asparagus doesn't care.
He starts from long way down in
the soil. and when they knock off his
head. he pulls that well known "hy-
dra" stunt. and comes up for more.
He not only keeps coming-but the
more you or Jack Frost knock him
down. the more Of him bob up to give
battle.
We wish we had the pep Of an as
parsgus root. 1t is inspiring.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

The bluff about pushing through
bond issues at the present time, is
about as wise as the German attempt
to evade the reparations bill This is
no time to vote bonds-when there is
no money to float them--and espec-
tally bonds that are but the outgrowth
OF politicians desires to perpetuate
themselves in office. The people of
st. Joseph have had a sufficiency Of
drives put over on them the past
fall and present spring.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
We Hope This Is Ttne

The chairman of the board of the
Union Pacific Railway company.
Judge Robert s. Lovett. after a trip
OF inspection which took him as far
as the Pacific coast said: Il predict
that business will be good after July
and continue so through the re-
mainder of the year because of the
prospects of good crops throughout
the West. The acreage is large and
well up to expectations. Farmers lost
great deal of money on last years
crop, and many still are holding their
grain in the expectation of realizing
better prices. es."-Savannah Reporter.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

The Globe-Democrat says Republic
can National Committeeman Babler
recently visited the White House with
other Missourians, and the president
did not speak to him. We can't think
our president quite so impolite and
discourteous. II the Globe-Democrat
keeps up this fighting on Babler its
readers will soon discover the paper
is more of club than a newspaper.
1t is not always so. even though II
may in the great G-D.-Boonville
Advertiser.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

1t has often been said that nothing
is more certain than death and taxes.
We would not dispute the correctness
OF that old saying. but it occurs to us
that under the recently inaugurated
Hyde system of government in Mis-
souri, many people will find it per-
picking problem TO decide which OF
the above referred to certainties is
most to be dreaded; especially will it
be so when tax-paying time begins to
draw near.--Linneus Bulletin.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
HYde,s Enmons Taxation

Governor Hyde is in fair way TO
bankrupt the state. The Legislature
appropriated 27 millions for the ad .
ministration expense budget. and
looking backward only IS millions Is
the most that has before been ap-
propriated by the Legislature. This
will result in greatly increased tax
alton over the state.-Howell County
Gazette.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

The county Democratic committee
after going carefully over the situa-
ton have decided that this county
shall have chance to vote on the
referendum proposition. 1t is the
duty of every democrat in the county
to look into the matter carefully. and
then either sign the petitions or help
to further the project in other ways
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
The Difference As Il Appears

A Toxic dispatch says tho japanese
government has decided. in principle,
upon the evacuation OF Siberia. The
difference, it may be pointed out, be-
tween evacuation in principle and
evacuation, is occupation.-Kansa
City Post.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

Postmaster-Gener Hays has set a
wise example by holding all of his
conferences in the open. His office
has no private room--and therefore
the public will get better service-for
there will be no star-chamber ses-
sions to cause trouble.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

By all means let there be band con-
certs in the St. Joseph parks this
summer. The high salaried class who
spent money like drunken sailors
when the war was on. and saved
none for a rainy day. will be much in
evidence this year, and a free band
concert will be about the only place
Of amusement that they will have.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

1t is the hardest thing in the world
to convince the farmer who brings
his cattle to the st. Joseph market
and gets cents a pound for them,
that he should pay 2S and 80 cents a
pound for the same beef when he
calls at a local market a day or two
later-but that is just the case.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
Tho stars UsnnI Tactics

The Kansas City star, which cx-
hausted every effort TO elect Harding
president. is now roasting him to a
finish. The Star wanted to name tho
district attorney at Kansas City and
being refused that privilege. conclud-
ed Harding a poor president We are
hearing the Star the second time it
speaks.-Fayette Advertiser.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

The decision OF the federal supreme
court in the Newberry case throws
down the bars to INSCRIPTIONS poll
ticians who would ask for federal
elective office in future. for it virtual
ly says that the amount of money
spent cuts no figure-as the corrupt
practice act does not touch the fed
eral office.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

Have you noticed that the festive
stick-up artist is not half so frisky in
st. Joseph since couple of them
have been bowled over by good shots?
There is nothing that will stop them
quiclker-than hot lead.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

OF course we should fall over one
another TO acquire a "whole passer'
of public utilities, for they all pay so
well. Omaha was asked this week to
vote on 100000 more bonds to keep
the city owned gas plant out of the
mud
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

The people were just simply crazy
for a change-so they voted the re-
publican ticket last fall. Now all of
us are simply crazy for a change-in
weather observer Belden's brand Of
weather-and we move that the
change desired be given with the
same alacrity that the people voted
for the gop ticket.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

The Buchanan county farmer who
has had an 80 per cent tax increase
given him by the gop legislature. will
OF course appreciate the fact that
there is only $4,000, 900 now In the
state treasury-and his taxes still
mounting.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
HARDING But EXERCISED HIS
RIGHT

Regarding the reply sent from
Washington to the German govern
ment. one fact should not be over
looked, The decision was made by
the secretary Of state and the presi-
dent on their own responsibility. They
did not cast themselves upon the for
eign relations committee OF the SEN
ate. They did not canvass congress.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
Hope He VIII Have Smooth Sailing

PRESIDENT Harding has many of the
characteristics of former President
Mckinley, and has the love and con-
fidence Of Congress, and it appears
he will have smooth sailing and his
policies will all be endorsed. 1t is
not possible for him not to make mis-
takes. but still we must work with
him and aid and encourage him in
his every effort to do right and good.
His responsibilities are tremendous.
and all true Americans wish his ad-
ministration to be a successful one
Boonville Advertiser.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

The Illinois cops have spiked" fu-
ture hopes of democrats of that state
to so to congress by redistricting the
state so that the twenty-seven dis
tricts are solidly republican. Twas
ever thus.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07

We will be one OF good sized mob
to call on weather prophet Belden and
give him what he really deserves for
the execrable brand of weather he
has been issuing tc this section for
the past few weeks.