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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-03-17
DELIGHT IN GUESTS
Pleasing Trait Of HousehSld Hen
in Palestine.
presence OF Company to Dinner 0,
Taken as CompIiment-Nsti alive
Woman's Amusing Comics
sion Of Vanity.

Palestine Is one place In the world
which has no Servant problem" ac-
cording to Miss Evangeline Metheny
or Beaver Falls. Pa. just returned
from Red Cross service In the Holy
Land.
The servants in Palestine" says
Miss Metheny, who has lived there
most of her life, are different set
entirely from the servants we have
here in America. They make their
services personal; their interest In
their employers affairs is personal,
whereas the American servant regards
II impersonally.
house servants that there would be
ten people In for dinner. they would
be delighted. 1t would be a matter OF
personal pride with them that their
dinner was the best to be had. and
their service, too. They would be-
happy NJ the thought OF working for
q mistress who had % many friends
that she could set together ten at one
time. There would be no sulky looks
or actions at the extra work; every
servant would cooperate and the din
ner would go or grandly.
Here the mention OF an extra guest
or two creates 4 feeling OF resent
ment. I know people who do not dare
to invite a dinner guest until they
have obtained permission from their
cooks. Cooks In Palestine consider
extra guests compliment to their
art. The servants in Palestine would
ten times rather work for Americans
than for the native population. The
reason Is not alone that we will pay
higher wageS-we treat them better.
For one thing. American women do
not swear nj them. and native women
do. They call down every kind OF
curse on the servants eyes, and his
children. and his grandchildron; they
say the most untransla table things as
. matter OF course, 1t Is not In the
least unusual II Is quite au falt, for
an Arab woman TO swear so.'
Servants in Palestine may be differ
eat. but woman ia woman tho world
ever, Miss Metheny says with Kiplins'
AAS Whit lilNt
-Once In a railroad train.- she sayI
I wAs sitting In the sans eonpart
nent with an old native WOMAN In
ne Bast there arc separate carriages
Ter Rsa and women. fn our coach
thsrs was a particularly pretty girl
and from time to Tina q young Eng
hsh Or American man passed through.
watching her. Ny sA woman was
klseling on the scat with her shoes
a. praying. In order to pray toward
Mecca she had to knoei crosswiss sn
the Narrow seat, and the rite Of
banptlE her head On the floor ssv-
eral tunes In each prayer was an
aOsAatfc feat under such cireuus-
saaAcsA Avsry time = young maH
saas tnts the carriage she had 10
struGGle for balance while she pulled
her veil down over her face. Finally
she spoke to enc my SON. she said.
do you not know that you have no
right In here with the protected ones"
(womsa)i
He apolosi7ed and she raised her
veil when he went out.
You know" she said to me In Ara
bic, III 7 had any teeth left I would
not pull down my veil. only do 1t
that people will think there is nice
face behind It."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-03-17
Tho Poets Corner.

visitor-Who caused that unsIghtly
fence to b put up In this beautiful
ncighbOrhoodf
"Oh. that is the home Of John
Sweetsinger. the famous portrayer Of
the poetry Of child life, author Of
Songs Of CHILDHOOD and 'Prattling
Voices ut Twilight" He had the fence
built to keep out the neighborS chill
dren."-Life.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-03-17
Ia Practice.

IT zee your wife has one of those
hobhle skirts
'She was early In the game. I'm go
ing to make some money this sum-
mer."
"How?"
"Rv taking her around the picnic cir
cult She ought 70 win first coin In
any sack race for ladies."-LOuisville
Courier-Journal
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-03-17
A Surmise.

whats the hubbub In the inside Of
fce?"
The old man is savage today and
the fool Office boy let In an agent with
Life Of Cromwell"
"Wellr"
81 suppose he is selling his life
dearly."-Louisville Courier Journal.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-03-17
West virginia's New Officials.

Epharim Franklin Morgan. Governor,
born Al Folksbure, Marion county. this
State on January 10. 1869. He was ed
ucated in the public schools. Fairmont
Normal School and the State UNIVERSITY.
He taught in the public schools in Mar
ION county for nine years Governor
Morgan graduated in the law depart,
ment of the University in 1897. He
engaged in the practice of law at Fair.
mont in 1893. From 1907 to 1918 he
was Judge of the intermediate court of
Marion county. At the expiration Of his
term he resumed the practice of law
He was appointed a member OF the
Public Service Commission BY Cover
nor H. u. Hatfield for a term of four
wears beginning June |, 1913. He be-
came chairman of the commission on
June |, 1916, and held that position I'M
I'll in 1919, when he became a candi-
date for the gubernational nomination
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-03-17

(. T. England, Attorney General, born
and reared on farm in Jackson oun-
~. He was educated in the public
schools Of that and Mercer county,
working during the summer months.
He entered Concord Normal School and
later entered the Southern Normal Uni
versity. Huntington. Tenn, from which
he graduated in 1898 with L. L. B. and
2 S degrees. He practiccd law in Wy
Inming and later in Logan county. He
vas elected to the State Senate in 1908
md reelected in 1912. He served as
president during the latter term Elect
q Acknowledgement in 1916 and re-
elected in 1920.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-03-17
Evolution.

do you believe In the theory Of
svolutionT
4 wouldn't vent.~s to contradict
IL" replied young Mrs. Torkins.
"Charlev heor - always telling about
animnls 'h"' 81 I; "a race horses and
finish as . >.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-03-17

Houston Golf Young, secretary of
State, born on farm near Clarksburg,
Harrison county on October 10, 1892.
He was educated in the schools and at
Fairmont Normal. He engaged in bus
mess AZ Clarksburg and on March 4,
1917, he began his first term as Secre-
tary of State. He was reelected on
November ,, 1920, for another four
year term, beginning March 4, 1921.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-18
NEGRO EQUALITY

When the President said in his
speech at Birmingham, whether you
like it or not, if our Democracy is not
lie, you must stand for the political
and economic equality of the races"
he was uttering sentiment which will
sooner or later have deeper effect in
the north than in the south, and he
was undertaking the old and impossi-
BILE task of measuring unlike things
with the same yardstick.
OF course the real purpose of the
speech was political; he expressed the
desire that the white people of the
south would divide up on economic
lines and forget the race question
which is nothing but the old, old eff
fort to break the solid south. Even
Lincoln dreamed of it, and every Re-
publican president since hes tried his
hand at tall in vain. The President
also urged the negroes to divide their
ranks on political notwithstanding
all the time they would not do it. He
knew that those who take sufficient
interest or pride in their new found
rites to vote, still vote more than SO
per cent for the candidates bearing
the Republican label.
Conditions in the Southern states
demonstrate two things; first, that
the southern white people are not GO
ing to have white equality of any kind
between the races; they could not
have it if they wished, and they will
never wish it. The differences, social
ly, economically and ethnically are
fundamentally ineradicable; they go
back to creations dawn and to the
Creator; they have always existed and
always will. The ipse dixit of Pres
ident uttered, talked of for a while
and is forgotten, while the old-age
fundamental obstacles remain. In
Egypt, before the Exodus even, an
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-18
WHO WOULD HE
SOAK FOR TAXES?

Senator LaFollette's a clever man
but when he talks of taxing ALL
WEALTH in America to the limit, he
goes quite distance.
The nations total wealth is estimat-
ed at about three hundred billions
$4,000, 000,0 00,000) in round numbers.
In this sum are reckoned city houses
and lots, farm, clothing, stock, crops,
bridges, public buildings, as we'll as
stocks, bonds, factories, railroads and
cash.
Take the farm item alone. Ten mil
lion odd farms and their buildings,
stock, machinery and crops alone fig
ure up to we'll over one-third of our
total wealth of three hundred billions.
More than ten million houses and lots
in cities and towns will carry the
farm one-third to considerably over
one-half of our wealth. Then add the
value of all national, state, county and
municipal public buildings and public
works in America and all the public
lands, and you account for at least
two-thirds-if not three-fourths-of
the nations wealth of three hundred
billions.
Now, does Senator LaFollette mean
to tell US that he would hoist taxes to
the sky on the farms, town and city
homes, the crops, the food and the
clothing of the people? Would he
make the people pay huge taxes to the
government on the peoples public
buildings, public works and public
lands?
Or does he really mean that he
would pick out the millionaires, the
railroads and the big manufacturers
and soak them?
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-18
GOOD HAS SHAME BEATEN
TEN THOUSAND TINES

A publisher, about to sell the writ
'ings of noted American scolder, in
book form, advertises its contents as
"the shame Of the world" In other
words, it is deemed attractive, for
money-making purposes, to blazon ov-
er the country the fact that the world
has shame.
What's the matter with us Twenti-
eth Gentry folk anyway? Why is it
that so many of us Americans are al
ways knocking something, always
looking for the bad in anything, al
ways ready to believe that wrongs are
advancing on US, always suspicicning
some abomination or otter?
The SHANE of the world, forsooth!
Most certainly there is shame in the
world-always has been and always
will be as long as it is inhabiatcd by
human people. But there is ten thou
sand times more chastity, ten thou
sand times more good on this earth
than there is shame, and there always
will be-BECAUSE THIS EARTH is
INHABITED BY DECENT HUMAN
PEOPLE.
Rules are made to have exceptions,
There is no rule where there is no eX-
ception. The human heart in the mass
is sound and moral and lovable. In
only the exceptional human is the
heart shameful. And that's all there
is to it.
Habit does a lot of things. Habit
will even change the heart. If it is
going to be habit with the masses Of
US to look for shame, cussedness and
general infamy, we may be sure that
the filth will cling to US and it may
even turn into a cancer affecting the
whole.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-18
BUILDING A CYCLONE CELLAR

The Republican congressional redis-
tricting bill is a curiosity. It has all
the appearance Of move on the part
of frightened politicians to save as
much as possible out of the wreck
they see coming. At least two Con-
gressmen, Shelton and Millspaugh,
are to be thrown into the political
ash-heap, in order that the remainder
may have chance to save their skins.
Millspaugh is placed in a district that
will be at least ten thousand demo-
cratic and Shelton is paired with Ros-
coe Patterson, the big breeze from
Springfield. Skeletons fate is settled.
Kansas City's democratic wards. as
far as possible, are separated from
the rest of the city and landed in a
big democratic district. with Platte,
Clinton, Clay and Ray. Saline county
is attached to district that runs to
the Iowa line, taking in such repub-
lean strongholds as Mercer, Putnam
and Adair. Howard county is depos-
tied in district that very much re-
sembles the Northeast district of
1872. And so on. The measure is OPP
emily and candidly partisan-a gerry
mander without disguise, and such a
gerrymander as would put the most
expert district-makers on the Demo-
cratic side in times gone by look like
amateurs.
This legislation is proposed by a
political party that promised in its
platform last year to bring about "a
fair redistricting, upon a population,
not a partisan basis" AS fulfill
ment of this pledge, it is greater
travesty than either the judicial or
senatorial measures, heretofore at
tempted by the Governor and cola
borers. But what are promises. when
disaster impends.
Another striking feature of this re-
markable bill is that each majority
member of the committee that franz
ed it is located in district that is Re-
publican, presumptively. Can it be
that these statesmen are preparing to
descend upon tie unsuspecting new
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-18

fledged Representatives at Washing
ton, and deprive them even of that
which they do now possess? Anyway,
the committee that worked out the
bill is composed of nine possible candi-
dates for Congress. Could patriotic
cal be more clearly manifested?
Why all this haste about this bill?
Congress has not passed reappor-
tionment act, and none can tell when
it will pass. Maybe it is to obviate
calling another extra sesSion--that
this is to be the last--poa-i-tive-ly
Anyway, the bill submitted is a work
of art, which will command the uni
versal admiration of all professional
political yeggmen everywhere.--State
Journal.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-18

In addition to her dairy, she operates
two general farms. Mrs. Brown has
had an active part in national affairs.
Mrs. John c. Ketcham also brings to
the committee wealth of experience.
She was for years closely associated
with her husband in his work as Mas
ter of the Michigan State Grange. For
the first two years she was a member
Of the executive committee of Michi-
gan Farm Bureau Federation. At
present Mrs. Ketcham holds a number
of important offices.
A woman with the title Of Assistant
Secretary will head the new depart
ment. The committee will also devel-
OPP a program of work for women
members of the farm bureau. This
program of work will probably be
largely concerned with the improve
ment of the social side of farm life. 1t
will have to do with the establishment
of community centers, the rural
church, boys and girls clubs, consol-
idated schools, etc.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-18

well identified with farm bureau or
farm organization work. Mrs. Brig
den is known throughout New York
for her active labor in developing the
home bureau. She is president Of the
Cortland county home bureau and
president of the state federation of
home bureaus.
Mrs. Vera B. Schuttler, chairman oil
the committee, has played an import
ant part in the organization and de-
velopment of the farm bureau in Mis-
souri,. She has served as a member of
the executive committee of the st.
Francois County Farm Bureau, a
member of the executive committee
of the Missouri Farm Bureau, Fedora
ton, voting director in the American
Farm Bureau Federation, member of
the committee on relations to the Col
lege of Agriculture and Secretary of
the Farm Bureau Roads Convention.
Mrs. Izetta Brown is the owner and
manager of dairy of pure bred Hol-
stems and Jerseys in West Virginia.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-18
THE HEADSMAN
STALKS BEHIND

From speech by Seneator A. 0.
Stanley:
For thirty years and more the
Democratic party, in victory and IN
defeat, has maintained, and truly
maintained, that it was the champion
of the great masses of the American
people. From the days of Thomas
jefferson. come what would, it has
stood four-square to every wind that
blew for equal rights to all and spe-
cial privileges to none.
The Republican party has denied
that it was the servant and the cham
pion of a protected and selected
class. For years it has stood as the
champion of industry and Of business.
There was some excuse for that sort
of stand. Now, naked and exposed,
it stands as the champion Of privilege
and plumber, of profteering, and of the
profiteer, and wi en- they are reminded
of the folly and the wickedness of
such course, we are cavalierly sold,
"Well, we carried the country by T.
100000"
"Whom the gods would destroy,
they first make mad" This is not the
first time the champions of justice ev-
er met defeat. They met it before
there was a Republican party, and
they will live probably to meet it after
that organization has gone to de-
served oblivion; but never in all the
checkered history Of privilege, never
in all The black annals of legislation
for the privilege and pampered class,
has anybody ever before stood for the
exemption of inordinate profits at a
time when the protiteer is destroying
the happiness and imperiling the Sc
curity of the nation. 1t was bad
enough during the war Now, when
an attempt is being made to readjust
conditions, with 100000 men out of
employment, with 100000 agricul-
turists producing at loss, with dis
content ami disaster and poverty and
idleness and unrequited toll every
where, we find few thousand men
yet piling up their une; rned millions
yet adding profit upon profit, 10 per
cent, 30 per cent, 4 Hundred per cent
a thousand per cent; upon what? Up
on food that the hungry can not OBJ
tain, upon clothing that the naked can
not wear, upon shoes that the bare
foot can not obtain. and upon homes
that the homeless can not enter. &c
on with your wild propaganda. Go on
with your shameless proposal. In the
Language of the great cardinal, walk
blindfold on; behind thee stalks the
headsman."
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-18

country will wait breathlessly to see
if any of his vacancies in the cadet
corps at West Point and Annapolis
will be filled with negro boys. Polit-
ical sincerity, like charity, should be-
gin at home; and Marion, Ohio, yearns
for a negro postmaster.
Before the Armaments Conference
begins the President will have time to
go to California and respect the Bir-
mingham speech, merely substituting
the word Japanese" for the word
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-18
by Robert Fuller, Special Core
Snondent.l

by Robert Fuller, Special Core
spondent.)
Chicago, Nov 14.-The newest
thing in the Farm Bureau movement
is a woman's department which shall,
just as nearly as possible, represent
the great and important congregation
Of farm women in the country.
President Howard of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, has APP
pointed committee of four women to
work out the details of the women's
farm bureau department and they will
no doubt present an outline of plan
shortly.
The committee consists of Mrs. Vera
Busick Schuttler, Missouri; Mrs. John
c. Ketcham, Michigan; Mrs. Izetta
Brown, West Virginia, and Mrs. A. E.
Brigden, New York.
The personnel of the committee was
chosen by President Howard from a
long list of names of women already
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-11-18

the consequent injury. Evidence of
this is already manifest-that the
same method will be adopted. 1t is
most plain in the elemental cry for
harmony. Here is heard the siren
voice of the enemy as Of old. But it
is not a clarion call; it doesn't ring
true. Genuine democracy would be
inveighed to its death.
There is no other way for the party
to attain success, for it to win, except
that it deserve to win. Bryan grew
majestic at Chicago, in 1896, to tell
you this. He turned pale, came to
have power which made strong men
feel strange, at st. Louis to remind
you so. He let you have your own
way and you will have to answer for
the dawn and keep vigil after the eve
ming twilight. The exploiters, every
beneficiary of corrupt government is
going to be busy and keenly observant
as never before. The creatures of
capital to whom the government, as it
is now, will be giving the fullest
measure of protection, are going to at
tempt to name TIE candidate foz every
office-they, though never Democrats,
are going to take part whether sue
cessful or otherwise, in every nomina-
ton made by Democrats.
Why? Because they will be fearful
of losing the precious advantage
gained, ca
The whole of the expenditures in
Cured by the operation of the gov
eminent will have been sGddled on the
people who toll and produce, and these
insatiate sucking calves-wolves that
are fattened by the processes which
drain the worthy millions for their
like-hibernating existence-these &C.
topus-natured mavericks are going to
leave no effort undone to keep the
burden where they have placed it.
The Democratic party is going to
be attacked through tie reactionaries,
the same route the capitalists have al
ways employed-its present weakness
what you did during that period-for
its woes and agonies you will have to
answer to God. At San Francisco,
! then impossible to remain silent long
err, he roared at you the impending
danger, but as set as Gibraltar in your
determination to heed the commands
of the traitors you pitched the party
to their slaughter pen. You know the
result. Now, who was right at that
time, Bryan or his enemies?
Anyone who is not Democrat, the
Democratic party doesn't need; there
is no emergency for harmony. Any.
one who is a Democrat, no power or
earth can drive him from the fold
The duty which devolves on all who
will give their service to democracy
lies in the utilizing Of every ounce Of
their strength and ability that judg,
ment directs, in assisting to nominate
only candidates who will cause the
Democrats to deserve to take over the
functions of government Stilwell
Standard.