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The March Change.

The exchange of letters between
President Wilson and President-elect
Harding relative to the luncheon at
the White House on the 4th of March
illustrates the delicate situation that
prevails on that day, when the official
occupancy Of the Executive Mansion
changes. When the inaugural party
leaves for the White House one per-
son is its official inmate. At IL o'clock
he ceases and another takes his place.
On the return from the Capitol the
former occupant, if he enters the
doors. is merely guest where he but
an hour or so earlier has been host.
In this instance, as in the past, the
retiring President must make the
plans for the welcoming and the COM
fort of his successor. Mr.. Wilson and
Mr.. Harding have exchanged the cour.
tesles OF the occasion in a happy man.
ner. This correspondence, turning
merely on the matter of a luncheon,
contains the vital principle Of the
American system Of government, a
peaceful transfer of authority from
one executive to another in obedience
to the popular expression Of will. Not
even in 1877. when party feeling ran
high and sense Of wrong prevailed on
the part of many Of the people, was
there any serious thought Of inter-
fering with the mandate Of election.
The revolution" is accomplished in
November and recorded formally in
February. The transfer in March fol-
lows as inevitably and precisely as
the coming Of the seasons.
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terminal problem. with its railroad
stations scattered widely and almost
all Of them shabby and inefficient and
in some respects dangerous.
These conditions result in most
cases from the jealousies of the rail-
ness to consolidate. In other cases
the psysical conditions preclude con-
solidation of the tracks. In some in
stances the cost of consolidation and
concentration is prohibitive. In
Cleveland the Union Terminal will
cost. it is stated, 100000 900, but if
six railroads use it the cost to each in
ratio will be $4,000, 900, which is not
a large price to pay for modern. well
equipped, efficient terminal.
New York has now two large termi-
nails, we'll planned and built and To-
Gated. A considerable part of the traf-
fic, however, is handled from the far
side of the North river by means Of
ferries and tunnels. Owing to the
CONSTRUCTED area Of Manhattan this
arrangement may have to continue.
Not all cities are as we'll situated as
Washington in respect to accommo-
dating the flow of traffic All who
use the Union station here should ap-
preciate this advantage and be glad
of the fact that the National Capital,
despite long delays, was one of the
first American cities to put it's rail-
road equipment on the basis of the
highest public convenience.
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The Bryan Platform.

It is hardly likely that Mr.. Bryan
will limit himself in the matter VI
blanks for the next democratic pat
form. The twenty-five he has just
offered are probably all he has ready
at present. AS others occur to MIN
between now and convention time ne
will bring them forward.
There is the railroad question. Mt.
Bryan was among the first OF 'he
politicians advocating government
ownership and operation of raliroao
properties. 1t required strong pres
sure to prevent him from urging that
proposition on the convention "nich
gave him his third nomination. lie
does not mention the matter now.
Will he do SO later?
He sprang into leadership on the
money question. His proposition Tor
free silver coinage at sixteen TO one
staggered the business world, and de-
feated him in his first campaign. He
would not. of course, renew that now.
But the worlds finances are in such
a disordered state, the very disorder
may intrigue him and draw from him
some suggestion about re-establish-
ing credits and separating the chaff
from the wheat in the circulation that
has grown out of the war.
Before the time even of his ma
tional leadership he was an enthu-
siast on the subject of tariff for
revenue only. The tariff is up again,
and the democrats are dividing. Pro-
lection has invaded the ranks OF the
low tariff men Mr.. Bryan used to
lead. Has he himself kept the faith?
Is he as earnest as ever in his op-
position to protection? He does not
mention the subject in his latest pro-
nunciamento.
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PadereWski.

1gnace Jan Paderewski says that
music is closed chapter in his life.
He has not played the piano since the
night of May 9, 1917, and at present
he does not think he will return to it.
He may compose again, but he feels
that he must now have long rest
from public performances.
Nobody will begrudge Paderewski
his long rest, but everybody will hope
that when he has recupeNted from
the fatigue of his tremendous patri-
otto efforts during the past four years
he will resume his work in public.
which gives such great pleasure and
is source of inspiration to many.
A singer may lose his voice and be
compelled to retire from concert and
operate work. But an instrumental
musician is not under the same strain
or exposed to the same risk. True.
his fingers may lose their agility and
strength and fiexibility to some ex-
tent. but he can still give great pleas.
ure and do highly artistic work de.
spite his years. Some of the most
famous pianists in the world have
played wonderfully after they have
passed into what is sometimes IN.
kindly called old age.
Paderewski is now in his sixty-fi first
year. and so there is good margin
OF time within which he may have
his rest and then return to charm the
public. Politics will probably never
call him again. He rendered invalu.
able services to his country. He held
Poland in line for independence at
the critical time. and though later he
lost his grip on the troubled situation
he had laid the foundation for stable
state. Poland owes him much and
the public owes him much also. The
present hope is that he will put the
public still further in his debt.
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ory only blacker; the same dread
only, when one permits ones mind to
contemplate what a war Of the future
would be, more dreadful; the same
preparations, only more extensive.
And the significance of what the
world has just experienced growing
DINNER as men and women who but
three years since were engaged in a
war to stop all war settle back to the
old fatalistic policy of permitting
events to take their course.
The destinies of civilization are in
the hands of the men and women of
today. They can make of them what
they will. SO the responsibility for
what shall be in the future is theirs.
Wars. made. can be prevented
by man. But to prevent war the men
and women of the world, remember
ing what war means and visioning
the possibility of an era of assured
peace, must will to do so. They must
impress their wills upon those respon-
sible for their governmental affairs,
and must stand firm and devoted be-
hind the leaders who shall rise in
response to that demand. If. and
only if, they can be aroused to do this
thing. war, with its every attendant
barrier to the progress of mankind,
can be abolished. If. and surely if,
the opportunity which is the worlds
today be permitted to pass unseized.
and the nations, which are the peo-
pie, revert to the policies which pre-
ceded 1914. a war which will repeat
and multiply the horrors just en-
dured is as inevitable as the judgment
of God
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The Responsibility of Nations.

The world war is but little more
than two years old if one may figure
the war to have ended with the armi-
stice. Technically, of course, the end
is not yet, as far as America is con-
cerned. But to all intents and pur-
poses two years have passed in which
the world has been afforded an op-
portunity to show that the lesson
taught by this tragedy and horror
had sunk home, and that it proposed
to profit thereby. Today. looking
back over these two years, the thought
full citizen owes it to himself to reach
a decision as to whether full advan-
tage has been taken of that oppor-
tunity. Doing so, incredible though
it may seem, he must arrive at the
conclusion that. far from taking full
advantage thereof, the world has been
drifting back toward that pre-war
state Of mind and trend Of activity
which history has shown US led, with
inevitable momentum, to the spring
Of 1914 and the succeeding debacle
The period intervening between the
Franco-Prussian war and the world
war was marked with a tragic old
world psychology. Mems minds were
shadowed by the memory of the for
mer and the dread of the latter strug-
gle, and human activity In Europe
in every phase, whether national or
international. social or economic, or
intellectual, was motivated and form
ed principally by that memory and
that dread. The result of that psy.
chology was assured. The great war
came and civilization was dragged to
the brink of the pit. Today, contem-
plating these facts, men cannot but
pause to ask themselves wherein the
psychology toward which the world
is today tending differs from that of
Europe from 1870 to 1914. and why
the outcome Of such psychology can
be expected to be other than a repe-
tition Of the horrors through which
we have just passed. The same men,
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Nailed

It has required no very long time to
nail the falsehood. industriously cir
culated by men who still persist in
ba ting President Wilson. to the effec
that he. the President. had while at
the Versailles conference promised
that the United States would cancel
the debt owed her by the allies.
Washington officials who best know
the circumstances united in declaring
that at no time did Mr.. Wilson ever
| look favorably upon the plan of wip-
| ing out the debts, and does not today
AS matter of cold fact, all the cor
irespondence between the British chan
cellor of the exchequer and the Sec
| retary of the Treasury Of the United
| States goes to show that this govern
ment has steadily refused to enter
tain the proposition.
! Furthermore. we are told in a dis
match from st. Augustine that Thomas
| w. Lamont, who acted as financial ad-
wiser to the Americans at the peace
conference. told Preside mt elect Hard
| ing that President Wilson made no
commitments, direct or remote, al
Versailles. regarding cancellation Of
allied debts.
| But the most conclusive proof of al,
| is the ftct that the President has in nc
Congress that cancellation of the
| loans would be advisable. The coun-
try knows by this time that If Wood
row Wilson wanted a thing done he
was certainly not backward in max
| ing that desire known.--Boston Post
| independent democratic).
! 1t looks as though about the only
| thing some of us saved since the
armistice is aylight.-Columbia Is.
c. Record.
/ One kind of superma is the fellow
| who makes his wife's relatives re-
gard him with awe.-Toledo Blade,
yale and Oxford to Engage in
| Telegraph Rife Match."-Headline'
| More shots "heard round the world"
Providence Journal.
Scientists have found glue in salted
| seal fiippers So that's what makes
the animal stick to the rocks
| Seattle Times.
The people of Europe are ready TO
disarm. according to former Ambas.
sador Henry White. Ready to dis
arm whom?-Nashville Tennessean.
Nothing remarkable about "a
straight airplane flight to Cuba" but
straight" fight back would be
] Atlanta Constitution.
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The New York Democracy.

Leading democrats in New York
are talking reorganization for state
purposes. The party cut sorry fig
ure last November. Over a million
plurality was cast for the republican
national ticket, while Gov. Smith was
defeated for reelection by some eighty
thousand votes.
And yet New York at San Fran
cisco had taken leading part.
Charles F. Murphy had been a boomer
for Gov. Cox, and had brought home
with him the nomination of Franklin
D. Roosevelt for Vice President.
All in vain. Neither upstate nor
downstate could be stirred for any
thing or anybody bearing the demo
cratic label. The republicans had a
walkaway, even in the big town.
1t is denied that this movement is
aimed at Tammany Hall. And why
should it be? Where everybody fail
ed-and everybody of democratic
turn did fail-why attempt to hold
any particular organization, even
Tammany, to account?
The mayoralty race in Greater New
York next fall promises to be as ex-
citing as any Of recent years. If the
republicans, or the republicans and
the independents acting together. win
that. Tammany will suffer heavily.
With the republicans in control in
both Washington and AIbany should
they also come into control in Greater
New York. Tammany will not have
where to lay it's head. And with Tam
many on its uppers, the New York
democracy will be in forlorn, not to
say deplorable, condition.
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Precautionary Measures.

Il understand that the boys in
Crimson Gulch have organized a iazz
band"
Well replied Cactus Joe. I'VE call
it a jazz band for self protection, so
that nobody will feel at liberty to get
irritated and throw things when we
play out Of tune"
That old motto, Business before
pleasure said Jud Tunkins. .n,e.rs
nothing more than in this world Won,
can't enjoy yourself unless you've got
the price"
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| Keep Going to Jail
By Volt Mason,

Il am weary and detected; there is sorrow in
my craw; every hour / am inspected by the
minions of the law. They inspect me when
Pm going, they inspect me when come, see
ing that I've not been slowing in my clothes
illicit rum. They inspect my books and papers,
and my ink and sealing wax, making sure
I've played no capers with the well-known
income tax. Oh, they pinch me every morn
a solemn warning when do not get fine"
Read why Walt Mason asks for Laws As
simple as the Ten Commandments.
In HEARS7.S for MARCH
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Everybody hopes Caruso will re-
cover. With extraordinary vocal ca.
pabilities he combines a. graceful art
and a sincere. genial personality. In
addition to winning admiration Caruso
has accomplished the still more diff.
cult task Of winning affection.
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Henry Ford declares that his peace
ship has given him some ideas. AS
he explains them it will be known
whether that famous boat carried a
cargo of psychological explosives.
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John Philip Sousa Is going to write
a book. Since Paderewski went into
politics there is no reason why our own
Sousa should not go into literature.
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The republican party has always
been noted for harmony, but a few
OF the prominent members appear in.
clfned at present to introduce a few
measures of jazz.
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Limitations.

Are you an expert in finance?"
WELL" replied Senator Sorghum.
II can figure out how to nav all
kinds Of national debts, but I alwavs
have to call an expert in to help me
figure my income tax or an expensa
account"
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Youth and Maturity.

Willie has a pair of skates,
A new snow shovel I possess.
/ hope that the climatic Fates
Bar all Of them from business.
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Col. Bryan continues to claim
enough headline attention to demon
by any form Of political sleeping sick
ness.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHII4ANDER JOHNSON.
Old Times.


Old-time folks
Seem good to me,
With the jokes
An jubilee.
Simple songs
An simple ways
My heart longs
For old-time days.
Old-time friends
And old-time fights,
Memory lends
The rainbow lights.
Now and then
Across the past
Old-time men
Seem best. at last.
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A national committee Craftsmanship
is often a matter of long discussion
It cannot be decided In twenty.four
hours by landslide.
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The inclination of retiring states
men to write books promises publish.
ers an unlimited supply of raw ma.
terial.
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A number Of prominent republicans
are evidently giving grateful consid.
GRAFTON to intimations that it is not
necessary to be in the cabinet in order
to offer advice.
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Game laws are bringing fiocks of
ducks here. Politics does the same,
many Of them lingering as lame ducks.
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Negotiations show Germany as be-
ing no less alert to reconstrue than
to reconstruct.
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The Man Who Shot the Fox
By Sir Gilbert K. Chesterton

Is son under obligation to right the wrongs
of his father? Suppose you discovered the
fortune your father left you belonged, morally,
if not legally, to another. Would you-if you
were Sir Arthur-pass on the title to whole
village for the sake of the honor of the family?
Would you, if you were Martin Irving, live in
distress, alone with his black joke Of right?
In HEARSTS for MARCH
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A Touch OF Authoritv

"You claim to be an optimist?"
Il do" replied the Photographer
when I tell man to smile, he in.
variably does his best"
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SnOw-Blind
By Arthur St,-inger

Sightless, she awakened-in the bleak outpost
of Alba Laird, outlawed bootlegger One
hand pulled away her hat-another her great
coat-more long coppery fingers tore away her
waist. Then came her beseeching cry thru
the tumult of drunken laughter. How far
could that cry go back thru the years? Could
it awaken the sleeping ghosts of degraded
mans youth? Does call of race ever die?
Arthur Stringer gives answer in Snow-Blind.
In HEARsrS for MARCH
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Gently, aud one was presented 10 Mr..
Mckenzie. The stock is so rotten thai
Il may be picked to pieces with the
fingers. When Terry q Paine made
Mr. Mckenzie an offer for his place OF
business IN Duluth he accepted. and
forgot about the gun which was dis
played IN the front window. lie now
claims the gun. aud Terry & Paine de-
clare that 1t Is theirs. and that they
too. prize Il highly. Mr.. Mckenzie has
been elven to understand he can re,
cover the gun by paying stir price
for L., but he says he win try legal
remedy to regain possession OF the
relic. Il was a Hudson Bay gun and OF
English manufacture.
The story, briefly told. OF the battle
between the employees OF the rival fur
companies Is as follows; Word reach
cd Fort Frances that large fleet OF
canoes, heavily laden with firs was
comiug down the river. Both OF the
FUR companies heard the news at about
the same time. and each fitted out an
expedition 20 proceed up the river and
meet the indians. carrying with them
presents and words OF kindly greeting.
'all calculated to win the good will 0f
the Indians and help the business IN
sight
The rival expeditions started up the
river In canoes at about the same
time, and before they had proceeded
Jar got into q sight II Is related by
oldtimers who have heard the story
from others. since passed away. that
the men became absorbed III the fight
and allowed their canoes to drift so
near the falls that they could not save
themselves. In consequence they we're
carried over and drowned or dashed
TO death on the rocks,
The gun which Mr. Mckenzie and
Terry p3-paine claim was one that
went over the falls with the rival ex-
petitions which exterminated each
other.
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Topics Of the Day.

From the way his ghost bshagea,
! John Barleycorn died with his boats
on, Washington Post
Evidently Germany would rather
lie out of fine bed that she has made
than lie in Norfolk yirginian-Pi-
lo;
Mr.. Ford doesn't approve OF self
starters, which Is probably why he is
so down on the jews New York
World
You viii remember that there was
no talk about Ford needing money I'M
III he began to ran a newspaper
Buffalo News.
Ii they work as hard on the Job as
they do TO get II, government service
VITA soon be 100 per cent. efficient
Washington Post
( What a pity the phrase-malser who
said that the art OF conversation Is
dead" couldn't have lived 20 hear the
Germans talk about thar indemnity.
Columbia Record.
The appropriation for the Agrioul-
tural Department has been cut over
/ Si0,O00,0OO below last year Wo must
/ have a nuyy.-Farm, Stock, and Home
tMinneapolisD
Turkey may be the sick man %
Europe. but we notice that the 2s5.-
900 bottles Of champagne that were
exported from France last year wert
sent TO America for medicinal Itt-
poses New York World.
1 Aud II BergdoIl had gone over when
fihe others did. he might have been
home by now Richmond News.i.nau-
T er
Tirr' Il "a danger that the UAi'ei
States Will become isolated. Tho ma
migrants VIII find us Toledo Blade
Independence ~ women vii hr
complete when they assert the - s1i
I 10 make their fashions thet1se'yrs
Albany Journal
/ Tho retailer says he can't replace
I the goods ht the pyice be Is Offering
than Why doesn't the wholesaler bny
IMP these stueke2 Dayton News
-=~-
The former Kaiser says his people
deserted him and God "a the same
time Il sounds impossible Cleveland
New.
One o. tho big business worries
these days is whether we're going %
RET that ninety days from the banker
or from the Judge Manila Bulletin
Won Tirpitz. once head OF the Ger.
man Navy says the British Grand
Fleet won the war Perhaps II wasn't
90 much that the British Fleet wor
the war as that the German sab laat
it-Seattle TiEes
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more thap one hundred yenrs u was
lpsi wah many other guns Of the same
Kind. aud many lives we're sacrificed
during 4 desperate eight ~ Fort Franz
COS ahout 1900, between employees OF
rival ronganies the hudson Bay aud
the American Fur Companies, The
ktory ot the battle is almost tradl-
tion now, though some records re'at-
ing 10 Il Were destroyed az the dime
the Hudson Bay post ~ Fort Frances
was burned a year ago.
Two Of the guns were recovered re-
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rInln n,n An 0ld shetgan

legal controversy Tor The posses.
sion 0f an ancient dnable-harreled
tiiHl lock shotgun b "a prospect Ia
Duluth. MINI
The sun was owned and Is stu
Ciailaod ~ lloy Mckenzie, once fam-
Gus 40 Duluth'a giant policeman, he
bsitsg seven feet one and a hall inches
tali hut Terry A. Paine dispute his
cialm 20 the gun The gun had lain a
the bottom nf the Rainy River, al the
foot Of the Calls at Fort Frances. for
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H'he uuaorslgned VII sch II public
sale on the premises of DE- Preston.
w Manchester, 90
SATURDAY. MARCH egth. 1924
q o'clock. The following articles
SIX HEAD or HORSES Black
Mare, years old. work aHyWhtf,
hitched. any woman can drive her.
weighs 1900 MS: Black Horse. weighs
1900 lbs, work anywhere hitehed. 5
years old. Grey Mare. : years old.
work ia All harness. Brown Mare, Z
years old. good on-side worker and
driver. black Horse. good of-sile
worker and driver; BLACK Mare, N
Side worKer and driver, F1VE MILK
COWS some VIII be fresh by day of
sale, and some IN April good bred
ilhlfHR. Will DO fresh "a April. o. s.
g. SOW and seven PIGS, 4 sHoATs,
2-hofBe wagon and bed. buggy. spring
wagon, harness, halters, housings, coli
lars, brides. check lines. riding saddle
and Birdie and other articles
Terms of Sale AL sums Of g5 aud
under, cash; on all sums over IS, a
credit Of months will be given, o.,
not, with approved security, bearing
interest from day OF sale.
EDWARD &. sTEGRR.
Henry Gentzler. auctioneer.
y, Y, Wantz, CLERK. marls
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The Administration circles were
given another jolt Wednesday when
President Harding reappointed three
Democrats as assistant secretarieS Of
the Treasury. For a time there was
much excited comment at Washington
over what seemed to be an Incompre-
hensibIe policy on the part Of Mr.
Harding to keep IN office high ofIicipls
OF the Democratic administration.
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| EMPLOY 4 C0ALHAN As WOUu
Any OHER SPECIALIST.
uIoIlingwhfh).

n tell him what ! want done, and
leave II to him m he doesn't make
good. get another one as would
hire another specialist" Looks rea-
sonable. doesn't Il
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One 1919 Ford Light Delivery

price right to quick buyer.
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Reese. Md
mar 18-2t