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Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
Rorld Peace Requires
corresponding Preparedness

each other, and who have no ground
for hating each other, killing and
wounding each other by every horrid
means that fiendish ingenuity can dis
cover or invent. And that at the be-
hest of few money-mad votaries of
Mammon, who coin into bloody dollars
to fill their Golfers, the blood of the
youth of the land, and the sweat, tears
and blood of women and little children.
Father, Mother, you have a voice.
Use it against war and war-makers.
You have the ballot. Use it to destroy
war, as you have destroyed the liquor
traffic of this nation. Teach your
children the real cause of war and its
horrid reality. Have constructive
program for instilling into the minds
of the youth the truth regarding war.
Strip it of all the tnsel, the glamour
and glitter; the halo of false glory
thrown around it by the minions of
Mammon, and let it stand out in all
its horrid and revolving reality. There
are more pages of history devoted to
war than to the arts and peace, and
the heroes of every nation are the war
riors, as in the jungles of any savage
land, The difference between the war
riors of the savage tribes of the earth
and those of so-called Christian (?)
civilization is one of method. The saw
age brains his enemy with war club
! or pierces him through with a spear.
His methods are crude compared with
civilized (?) man, who kills with COM
iplicated machinery and with lightning
rapidity But the hero is the man who
| is most proficient in the art of killing.
And these heroes are held up as OBJ
jects of worship and as worthy exam
pies for the rising generation. All
this must be changed, if the world is
ever TO have peace. The warrior must
be tabooed, and no longer held up for
emulation by the young. The school
books must be rewritten. There must
be new ideals implanted in the minds
of the young. Let parents and educa-
tors see to it that the change be made
in the school books. Let voters see
that peace advocates are placed in
the offices of responsibility and trust.
Let readers of newspapers boycott the
jingo press, and take only such papers
as advocate peace and are active par
Elephants in the constructive program.
Let church members insist on having
pastors who are not recruiting agents
for the war-lords, but who earnestly
teach the ethics of the Man of Naz-
areth, the Prince of Peace.
C. Snow.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
President Andrew Jackson
Fought Money Imperialism

The condition of the American col
onies two hundred years ago is vivid
y described by Ridpath as follows;
"The blessings of the free common
wealth were realized in full measure.
almost unbroken peace reigned; the
farmer reaped his field with confidence
and hope, the mechanic made glad his
shop with anecdote and song, want was
unknown,and pauperism unheard of,
wealth was little cared for, and crime
was of rare occurrence.
"At that time there was not mile
of railroad in the world, there were no
banks or money power to levy tribute,
no trusts, monopolies, or corporations.
The land was free to those who needed
to use it. The farmer used crude, in
expensive tools, reaped his grain with
hand sickle and threshed it with a
hand flaiI. He kept sheep. The wom-
en- spun and wove the wool into cloth.
The tailor went from house to house
and made mems clothes, the women
made their own and those for the chill
dren. The shoemaker did likewise,
Their wants were few and easily sat-
isfied, and they were comparatively a
contented and happy people. No poor
and no very rich.
Is there a country now in any part
of the so-called civilized world of
which the historian could truthfully
similarly write2
Shortly after the period mentioned,
men in Great Britain began to learn
of the prosperity of the people in these
colonies, and that there was an oppor-
tunity for exploitation. Some procur-
ed grants Of land and other concessions
from the British Government, Others
brought money or sent their agents to
the colonies to start banking and spec
ulative pursuits.
For the sake of comparison, let us
skip about 100 years, remembering
that in the meantime the colonies had
successfully thrown off the British rule
and established the United States of
America as a republic.
In the year 1914 the government of
the United States granted a charter
to the United States Bank, in which the
government had shares, to entitIe it to
two directors. The funds Of the gov
eminent were deposited in this bank.
In order that the people may get an
understanding of the character of that
institution. we will let President An
drew Jackson have the floor to expose
some of the Vaccinations of its direc-
: tors.
with the view ~of inducing the
bond holders not to come forward for
payment for one or more years after
the government should give notice for
their payment, and thus enable the
bank during that time to use public
moneys set apart for the payment of
these bonds. an agent was dispatched
to England secretly to negotiate with
the holders of the public debt in Eu-
rope, and induce them to hold back
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25

their claim during which time the bank
expected to retain the use of the five
million dollars of the public money set
apart by the government for the pay
ment of that debt. In this scheme the
bank was practically successful.
"The fact that the bank controls,
and in some cases substantially owns
some of the leading newspapers of the
country, the fact is clearly established
that editors to whom it loaned extrav-
agant sums on unusual time and nor
NAL security have turned out to be in
solvent, and some without any security
have been heedlessly granted loans.
These newspapers have published
that the Treasury was bankrupt and
the bank was sustaining it, when for
many years there has not been less
than six million dollars Of public mon
ey in the bank. The bank has through
its organs openly assailed the credit Of
the Government when it had SO much
of the public money which it was then
using for its own profits. The fact
has been recently disclosed that an un--
limited discretion has been and is now
vested in the president of the Bank to,
expend its funds in payment for pre-,
pairing and circulating articles and
purchasing pamphlets and newspapers
calculated to operate, influence and
sway the elections and secure a re-
newal of its charter. In November,
1880, an article was published in the
American Quarterly Review, contain
ing favorable notices of the Bank, and
suggesting the expediency of giving it.
(the Magazine) a wider circulation at
the expense of the Bank, and the board
passed the following resolution:
Resolved, that the President be
authorized to take such measures in
regard to the circulation of said arti-
Gle as he may deem for the best inter-
est of the Bank.
The expenditures under this and
other resolutions during the years 1881
and 1892 were about eighty thousand
dollars. The Bank is thus converted
into vast electioneering engine, which
means to embroil the country in dead
ly feuds and extends its corruptions
through all the ramifications of soci-
ETY.. and publications have been pre-
pared and extensively circulated con-
tanning the grossest invectives against
the officers of the Government (the
two directors).
with these facts before us, can
we be surprised at the torrent of abuse
poured out against all who are sup
I posed to stand in the way of the cupid
ity or ambition of this Bank. Nor
can we be surprised at the sudden and
unexpected changes of opinion in ref
erence to newspapers in favor of an
institution which has millions to law
ish and avows its determination not
to spare its means to accomplish its
purpose"
| A warm August day IS as natural as
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25

9 truly as there can be no
nt preparation. so there can
lee re without preparation.
ords Of Henry Ford in the
Independent will bear repe-
and over again. and should
by other papers and given
place, until the truth of the
IS brought home to tbs minds
heople of the nation and the
no. len, where and by whom sh9l
h,ilv fation for peace begin? The
ap5 gin IS NOW; now when this
sbl;sb;d spending ninety-three per
Il sofis entire revenue on war, while
tIfoe, are groaning under the bur-
a 4axation that mounts higher
an, aer, while the basic industries
8 si. iculture and stock-raising are
az Now, when the militarists are
l. chaa king TO plunge the world into
ma,e war that will complete the
cons the world.
II lace to begin preparation for
shi4 in the MIND Of every father
81 her who would weep to see a
pand duhful son, just entering
81 co4slhood, torn from their embrace
ale Dayerted into a trained human
drfif and later made into food for
iocs on a foreign battlefield; and
1ev Y the behest of the votaries Of
|ob " 0n who seek gain and glory
char ng their fellow creatures. In
i cotrfIND. mother; you who wenI
Il ar the verge of the Valley oi
ould do give life to that boy whom
havelle as only a mother can love:
sf would weep to know that the
eve lpon which you have bestowed
IS sny kisses were torn away by a
One ia those eyes that have looked
II. oerly and mquiringly into youl
nd e torn from their sockets BY
triF she'll, or forever darkened by
|iome then in your MIND resolve
much 4)W as you read these lines, tc
aot N ar on war. Learn who are the
esirabs .ers. 1t was said by one oI
ing s. love of money is the rooi
up gii. War is one of those evils
fbeorf ) attended by all the Other
the D II. Ford further says; The
n Inc 10 not know the truth about
trac tracts, about war profits, anc
blace nection of government employ.
nshad. private business, about the
of Foup that really ran things
10 cple don't know any of the
: afthend no government has evel
ce II let them know There are
to making money out of war to.
Of ions are being minted Out
F ind suffering this very min
ips {
are h En- Of the glamor, the glitter,
have nalo Of + glory placed upon
-bo fo hand Of avarice. and wal
snccsl th IN all its inherent hideous-
& n foe to all the higher aspira-
zed mankind; the curse of the
ade IS a foe to all real progress,
ial is roots deep down in the soil
) sess and self aggrandisement.
Hers men and boys, strangers to
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25
NOTICE

delivery 1921 general line of nursery stock including all the
Fruit and Nut Trees Grape Vines Berry Plants Ornamental Towering
Roses, Hedge Plants, Etc
and sell will be guaranteed Clean healthy stock covered by
ing inspection large thrifty and plants, If
your locality leave the selection will send
viii produce heavy crops of fine fruit kinds best for locality and SOIL
and order early when the order. We
anything you plant Sock suited for commercial orchard planting
do have representative your locality write
ponb and ambitious counySFitAN BFS Nursery
hester Tenn k-424
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25

The viciousness of laws and the in-
justice of governments, flowing from
cupidity and ignorance, have become
the causes of the misfortunes of ma
tions, and the subversions of states.
= Volney's ruins of Empires.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25

The man who can think and contin-
ues in a given direction. accomplishes
the purpose identified with his thou~331lt.
He commands fortune. He und,g-
stands the secret Of achievement.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25

A warm August day Is as natural as
a cold December day.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-08-25

Sunday, Aug. 2l.-This was a real
day tor me again; for | had promised
some of our distant neighbors to show
them some of our land that was for
sale. Ole and |. with three girls, took
my Lizzie and started out for our
destination via the short route; but.
as the Anacoco bridge below the Da-
Wis school Is being repaired, we were
forced to make long detour to reach
our destination. which we did and To-
Gated two neighbors on so acres each
OF land. used to enjoy these long
walks through the timber and over
logs and small streams up hills and
down through little valleys, but | must
be getting lazy; for, after a trip over
few hundred acres of land, | am all
ways glad to let Lizzie" do nv walk
ing. We came upon some more exceIl-
ent hardwood timber that belongs TO
US, which we had never seen before
We have lots of it that | have not
been over Remember, we have twen-
ty thousand acres of land here, and if
you know how much | acre is, you can
imagine why a "broken-down Grip"
doesn't see it all. The question arises
again, what do we want with so much
land9 The answer IS to give a home
to thousands of workers who will be
driven back to the land very shortly.
| wonder if you are one of them? If
SO, why wait until you are financially
up against it" and then be forced to
come. Why not be volunteer Coop
orator and help US do the job that you
know must be done9 Can the workers
81 "a ga nien itks ana boys.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-22


could not be made for the usual
concert -eries at the park this year
and when the Elk management be-
came assured that there was nc
hope for such concert, it was au-
thorized by the band to arrange for
a program
Program Sunday afternoon, be-
ginning at O'Clock. will be as fol-
lows:
March, Proclamation" (Hughes. }
Overture. "Lustspiel." (Keler
Bela.)
Popular, Some Little Bird" (Mc-
Phail and Van Alstyne)-Paul r.
Richie. whistler.
Waltz, Where the Lazy Missis-
sipi Flows" CDeFreyne.)
Cornet solo, my Regards" Lew
ellynJ-Ralph Ostrom.
Alice Blue Gown" request
(Tierney).
University of Pennsylvania
Band" march, (Seitz.)
Gavotte, First Heart Throbs, 3"
(EiienbergD
Wang Wang Blues" (Mueller
Johnson)
March, Guiding Star" (SterbuitZ}
At Forest Park.
Contracts have been signed for
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-22
ELKS BAND TO
GIVE CONCERT
IN LONG VIEW
v,.xvreund Chosen for Sax Artists
Public Program; First Park
Entertainment

program for the Rock Island
r,ts s-xophone band concert lin
Long View park next Sunday after
aeon was announced today. The
..,d will be at the Eighteenth ave-
rne play ground instead of the band
s,and. this arrangement having been
ssrided upon to accommodate the
s-ovds which are expected to rival
~ attendance at the Watch Tower
sayiier in the season, when the Sax
tsnd attracted a 1921 record-break-
;ne audience. Albert Hoeischer, di-
rsetor. will lead at the park con-
cert.
New numbers will be instroddced
at this program, the first public en-
,ertainment in Long View of the
season. Satisfactory contracts
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-22

and Mrs. NJ. @. McCune. at Davton
Ohio.
MT. and Mrs. c. ]. Genster and
FAMILY have returned from a two
weeks outing at the Wisconsin
Dells.
Auctioneer and Mrs. L. P. Smith
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-22
SATURDAY. July =.

Down the river to Fsirport ebut
no stop). leaving Davenport at $50
and Rock Island p m. returning
at D. m. New super-steamer
Washington. Adults SO cents. chill
dreD 80 cents advertisement
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-22

the bands appearance at Forest
park. Davenport, Sunday, Aug. T.
Two concerts will be given, after
noon and evening.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-22
NOTICE.

Ida Van Assefe having left my
home, notice Is hereby given TO the
public that I will not be responsible
for her debts.
REM VAN ASSEFE.
Dated July 1s. 1921.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-22

Citric acid and lemon oil are two
of the most important by-products
OF the lemon industry.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-22
SHEFFIELD
(Special Correspordence.)

shese'''s III I-iv 2i-Miss
Frances McCune has returned from
a.. S--.~-4s-~,t ,4sII ~'llA ner DroLh-
er,' and sister-in-law, Lieutenant
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-22

OF Manlius are moving into their
new bungalow in Sheffield this
week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-24
TO PLAY HERE
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Worlds
Premier Pianist, Is Dated.
Two of Holland Concert Series
at the High School.

1t has been announced by Ralph
Holland, manager of the Holland
Concert series that the concert fea-
turing Vasa Prihoda, scheduled for
February. 1s, Will be given on that
date in the high school auditorium.
It had been previously announced that
this concert, one of the chief ones
of the Holland series, was to be can
ceiled. The concert will be given at
the high school auditorium instead of
at the city auditorium because of a
conflicting engagement of the latter
for another entertainment for that
night.
In conjunction with this announce
ment, Holland adds that q. second
concert has been scheduled for the
peka appearance of Sergei Rachman-
inoff. the great Russian pianist. Rach-
mammoth is now acclaimed by the au-
thorities on music as the greatest
pianist after Paderewski. Rachman-
inoff is one of the greatest admirers
of Mac Dowell, the American COM
poser and always includes one of the
Americans compositions in his pro-
grams.
These two concerts are to be fol-
lowe in the early spring by two extra
numbers presented here by the Hol-
land series management. They are
both to be held in the city auditorium
on the dates originally set, there being
no change in regard to these numbers.
The first of the extra numbers will
be the second Topeka appearance of
The Kouns Sisters, both Topeka girls
and well known here. The second of
the spring concerts will be the APP
pearance here of Fritz KreisIer,
worlds premier violinst. He is now
being asked to include in his Topeka
program THE Humoresque." Kreis-
ler's rendition of this selection is
regarded as responsible for the wide
spread popularity of the number which
tho written many years ago, has al
ways been considered as piano num-
Der and not a very entertaining one
at that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-24
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the columns of
THE Topeka STATE JOURNAL
December "a, 1896.

Albert Patch and Cyrus Wolfe are re-
spectively conductor and motorman on the
West Sixth street and South Topeka line
of the city railway and are popular men
with the passengers who ride on that line.
This morning both men received each a -
pound turkey and two quarts of cranberry
sauce as Christmas gift from Eugene
Hagan.
Joab Mulvane has made a personal con-
tribution of $25 to the public library fund
of the city of Hutchinson. Mr.. Mulvane
represents the Mulvane salt interested III
Hutchinson. and is interested in all i'm
portant enterprises Of the city.
Miss Nettie Ware and Mr.. Eugene Ware
will give a party Saturday evening at their
home.
Mr.. Theodore Poeh1er of Lawrence will at
tend the Leap Year party to be given by
the Douze Whist club, New Years eve.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Blood Smith will
go to New York Tuesday. Mrs. F. M.
Clark will return with them and be the
guest of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Frank Lewis
for several weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-24
College Girl Tries Hard
At CZerking in a Store
During Christmas Rush
1t Seemed Her That Everyone in Topeka Passed Her
Counter-All Looking for Something, They
Didn't Know What.

strains from the Victrola at the chill
dren's record counter of 30 Lazy Mary
Will You Get Up. Will You Get Up
filled the store. Angelina resolved that
if she wasn't up by Christmas, she'd
put a stick of dynamite under her.
Business man enters. Where are
the Christmas cards?" Back by the
girl with the red MILDLY on"
RED WHAT on?'
A youth came in whose stationery
vocabulary was limited to school tab
let's.
Here's a good box of suede paper"
well. sell it to the Swedes, then.
want American paper"
Angelina learned it was quite q
faux pas to show be-ropged, be-jew-
velopes. She always wanted on
veiopes. And plain everyday people
would laugh in your face if you tried
to show them envelopes. Just plain
envelopes if you please
Men Easy to wait On.
When men approached the counter
the clerks always breathed a prayer
something that didn't look cheap.
They never questioned the price and
nine times out of ten took the first
thing they were shown. It's the wom-
en- that haggle over the cost and want
to be shown the entire stock.
81 want something for my brothers
wife in Chicago. They just have every
thing that money can buy-beautiful
linen, adorable luncheon sets-aH en-
broidered-the loveliest towels you
could imagine and well-just every
thing. 1 don't know what to send
them unless it would be handkerchiefs
or stationery"
Angelina employed her most engage
ing smile and professional manner
zone never gets too much sta
tionery We have such good as
sortment. too"
She showed her practically every
box in the store, hunted in the stock
in the basement for a particular kind
and by skillful manipulations got sew
eral boxes out of the window, only to
be rewarded with
We'll, I guess I'll get them hand
kerchiefs''
A frivolous, brainless little society
Can you tell me if you have the
book called The Red Boat p"
Il don't think we have anything by
that name"
Maybe it was The Scarlet Canoe
or-or-oh, 1 know now! It was the
Ruby Yacht
Another customer asked for the
Last Days of Pompeii''
Il wanted to give it to my brother
for Christmas and I thought I'd get it
early so I could read it before I gave
it to him. Have you ever read it?
What happened to that fellow. Pom
pei, in his last days. anyhow?''
And so on and on until the jingling
of old Santa's sIeighbells could be
heard in the distance.
After her weeks experience An
gelina has come to the conclusion
that there is no study in the college
curriculum more interesting than the
study of human nature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-24
OUT ON AN XMAS PAROLE
Bandit Given Clemency at Ifeaven-
worth Has Spent 20 Years in Cell.


Leavenworth. Kan, Dec. 24.-Eddic
Estin, SO years old. convicted bandit.
who has spent more than twenty years
of his life in prisons, has been re-
leased from the state penitentiary at
Lansing on a Christmas parole, it was
learned here To-Day.
He was arrested in January, 1900. in
Topeka, Kan, on a charge of breaking
into store in Marshall county. He
was taken to Marysville. where he
was held in jail more than six months
awaiting trial He escaped but was
apprehended in Morris county, after
J. o. Roberts, member of a posse pur-
suing Estill, and a companion had
been killed in a gun battle at Dunlap,
near Council Grove
EstiII was sentenced to serve a year
and hang During that year. Estill,
according to his own statement. ''suf-
fered the fortunes of hell and a thou
sand Deaths" The capital punishment
order never was signed and Estill,
with Ben Cravens. a notorious bandit
now said to- be confined in the fed
eral penitentiary here under an as
sumed name, staged a sensational es-
cape from the state penal institution.
Estill carved a gun out of wood,
wrapped it with tinfoil, and forced
guards to permit him, Cravens and
another prisoner. who was shot and
killed, to leave the prison mine. Es-
till and CraVens esca ped. E5stiII was
captured in Illinois following a train
robbery, in which he is alleged to have
taken a prominent part. He was con-
victed and sentenced to the Illinois
state penitentiary at Joliet where he
served several years. Upon his identi
fication. he was pardoned and returned
to the Kansas penitentiarX,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-24
ATTENTION PAINTERS

Local union No. SO will hold i'm
portant meeting Monday night, De-
cembee rs. Please be on hand.
c. G. DODDS,
ADV. Recording See'y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-24
MAURICE M'AULIFFE QUITS
Leaves Chieftaincy of Farmers Union
as Result of Disagreement.

Salina, Dec. 24.-Maurice McAuliffe
has resigned as state president of the
Farmers union, effective immediate
~, according to announcement made
Tromble, vice president, takes office
as president and also editor of the
Farmers union publication.
Differences arising over editorial
policies of the paper caused the board
of directors to cancel Mr.. McAuliffe's
contract as editor of the Farmers
Union, according to the announce
ment.
Mr.. Tromble will serve until the an
nual meeting January IS.