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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08

Moving pictures are a marvel to the
South Sea islanders, according to a
recently returned visitor to that por
ton of the globe. The tragic part Of
the film is too much for the natives,
he said, and there is so much weep
ing and groaning that a man has to
go W in the gallery and tell them
that it will all come out all right In
tie end, Thus assured, the audience
proceeds to wipe up and watch for
further developments, and when the
heroine is rescued and the villain is
thwarted. pandemonium breaks loose
for the people not only shout, bat
dance with joy.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08
Sound and Light as Power

Starting, steering and stopping 4
model auto by blowing an ordinarv
police whistle, an English scientist RI.
Gently gave a striking demonstration
OF the possibilities of distant contrul
of machinery. The performance /.
the subject of an illustrated article +.
the Popular Mechanics Magazine m.
little electrically driven car, nth 4.
manikin passengers, started forv.ca
at the first blast Of sound. AnntAre
note from the whistle turned =
around and third stopped II L =
starting place. By blowing whtue1U
OF varying tones, a series a una1i
electric lamps were selectiyely ifsHe-0
Control by light rays was iiluees-ss
Dy the ringing q 4 gong eoonece-9 ~
light sensitive cells when tanlE 49,.
minator Of a hand lamp v.s slIs;7SSs
upon them, thereby rpdne1Ie
electrical rssistancA
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08
incredible Names.

Speaking of Cumbersome" names
stray Stories tells of one Arthur Pep
per of Liverpool. England. who be-
slowed upon his infant daughter q
name that comprised every letter In
the alphabet, running from Anna to
Yetty Zeno.
1t seems surprising that the names
of Dickens characters, odd though
they We're should be found in real life ;
for 1t was from life that many OF
them were taken. Some, as is known,
were copied from the names Of signs
over business places; but that was not
the novelist's only source Of selection.
John Forster, his biographer, found
among his papers a carefully drawn
list Of names, with the sources from
which he obtained them. Some OF the
names are too extravagant for any
thing but reality; Jolly Stick, Bill
Marigold, George AIuzzle, william
Why, Robert Gospel, Robin Scrubban
Sarah Goldsacks. Catherine Two, 90.
pin DoomsdAy, Z Rosett4 Dusk al
ea1ly 0im1lsee-Yeo1A1 CGuan1s
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08
Willed EYerYthinn AWAY

A lawyer il Chicago was retained
by contractor to draw up his will.
The task was accomplished apparent
ly to the satisfaction of the client;
the lawyers fee was paid. and the lat
ter supposed, of course, that the mat
ter had been concluded. To his great
surprise, therefore, he received an
other call from his client the next
day, who expressed his conviction that
the affair had not been properly ad-
justed.
"Why, what's the trouble?" asked
the legal light.
Trouble enough" said the man. 81
didn't sleep the whole night through
for thinkin' of that will! You've fixed
it so I've not left myself a chair to sit
on !"-Philadelphia Ledger.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08

| couldn't rest well at night and was
just liteless.
II heard of Cardui and after reading
decided | had some female trouble that
was pulling me down. sent for Cardui
and began it. >.
''ln a very short while after began the
Cardui Home Treatment | saw an i'm
provement and it wasn't long until was
all right-good appetite, splendid rest.
and much, stronger so that easily did Inv
house work.
''Later took bottle OF Cardui as
tonic. | can recommend Cardui and glad
ly do so, for if more women knew. il
would save great deal Of worry and
sickness"
The enthusiastic praise of thousands O,
other women who have found Cardu;
helpful should convince you that il is
worth trying. All druggists sell it.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08
Famous Conservatory Qstls

The celebrated horticultural cUnse4R.
atory on the ducal estates ut Chats-
worth hall, near Manchester, England,
collapsed recently-as surely destroyed
by the World war as any Fre0ch q
Belgium structure On the western
front, says Popular Mechanics Maya
zine. The glass house was erected In
1S36-40, and served as Z model for he
great Crystal palace still to be seea
near London. 1t was itself Of NO mean
size, measuring, as it did, at feet lsnS,
LIB feet wide and 81 feet high. Fer
ty thousand panes of glass fuFme1 ~
arching walls and roof.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08

Individuals are just as distinct and
different each from the other as one
kind Of matter differs from another.
They have different uses and differ
ent applications.
To attempt to drive q nail with q
sponge would be just ~ fruitlesa, II
not ~ destructive, as - ~ to wash
q window with q hammer.
To try to make a boy M lov0s M
chanics and wants to Study machinery
into professor of Greok b - misap-
ply his talents and dinlaisA ~ a.
cheney.
Don't plan too rnueA ~ ~ eA1E
dren.
Let them have ! nttls q tAsaf ~
way IN following their iaeinatisas -
to what they shall he anA -.
Remember that you canaet ~ ~
= = ~ srsa man what Cd A1m1G1
GEose - ITO him.-4. 4 VnD0
1 -
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08
Comparisons Are Sometimes odious.

Johnny was attending his first
grade school, after graduating from
kindergarten. where he greatly adored
his teacher, a pretty young woman in
her teens. His mother noticed his
lack Of enthusiasm In his new studies,
and that he never mentioned his
teacher.
Finally, one night when she was
putting him to bed, she asked ::
Johnny, don't you like your new
teacher?"
"Oh, like her well enough" he re
Piled, "but, mother, she looks just like
a potato chip"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08

All European references to the ME
u spectacles before the year 1910 are
uuoioos. Pliny's description of Nero
looking at the gladiatoria combats
through an emerald means at best on
y iorsnette, or most probably a re-
nectine mirror. Roger Bacon in 1915
seems to have known Of magnifying
lenses, which soon became common
enough, but the probable inventor Of
spectacles, as such was a Florentine
worthy on whose tombstone in the
cnurch OF Santa Croce was the inscrip-
uon:
here IL Salvino d'Armato degii.
Arman 81 r1orence, the inventor a,
eoceoeto 49, Uu11n s1aazs
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08
Progressed BY Slow Stages.

Thirty years ago the men of Hart
shay, hamlet of Derbyshire, England
were accustomed to meet at a bridge
on the edge of the town, where they
would read the papers and discuss
events. This was all right in summer
time, but i'll the winter it was differ
ent and they would occasionally ad-
journ to a sheltered spot under the
bridge. From this they moved into 6
vacated pigsty and later annexed an
other pigSty. This rude building was
improved by their OWL efforts until it
was fairly comfortable place From
this humble origin there is now a
rather pretentious library, with the
best papers and magazines and q
stock of good books.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08
Not Exactly Church hlv.aA

Reverent Catholics Of DunkirA ~
demanding an investigation why ~
Dunkirk cathedral chimes, instead u
playing the Angelus, are now calling
he faithful to worship ~ exhilafat-
ng jazz tunes, with fox trOt music ~
. dominating.
Fox trotting ID not especially Faa
,ant In Dunkirk, but the eAthedrnl ~
niger must havs had ~ vuat1on r
Paris. for, according T. - osegonasd
listeners, he has been playi1
Y with . pure Hontnakt1o tQno4 -
alGA 49, ~ w. - !;
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08

"Your wife used to object to year
smoking"
Yes" replied Mr.. Meekton. Thai
was before Henrietta became so IN
terested in great public questions
Now she has me light a pipe now
and then so that when she makes a
speech she won't mind the cigarette
smoke in the audience"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-08
Pscl<s Of Diamonds.

During the year 1919 South Africa
exported 1,124 pounds Of diamonds.
This quantity represented just about
125 quarts.
This vast quantity Of precious stones
reduced to terms Of bushels would
equal trifle less than four, or what
would Be two ordinary grain bags
full q them Naturally the stsnes In
seae nsbse q ysry lasUs
- r. naIlu nlIGn1
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-07-01

my own, was at stake. There was
only one way to answer this SANDER
and remove this stain, and that was
to- submit to the ordeal through which
] have passed.
In the Hall of Representatives, in
the Capital City, before the full
membership of the Board of Trustees
,of the University and Colleges and
any citizens who might care to hear
the evidence, with full opportunity
given this Professor to press his
charges, l answered fully and COM
pletely every charge made. At no
time during the trying ordeal was I
cast down. Cheerfully l submitted
to this test of my character. Con-
fscious of the rectitude Of my conduct
through the many years of my service
to you. l had from the beginning not
the slightest doubt Of the result. /
knew a just God would not permit
the efforts to ruin me to succeed.
The stain has been removed from the
proud e%scutcheon of the University.
My name is as free from faint as it
Was before the foul calumny was
heaped upon it. Gods hand has
guided. sustained, and cOmforted me
through it all.
l have an abiding faith in all fair
minded, justice-loving Mississippians
that my work in the future will no,
be impeded or circumscribed because
willingly and even cheerfully in the
sight of God and man, l met the su.
preme test of my fitness for the higl
position l hold.
To the scores Of friends who at
tended the hearing and to those VIII,
have sent me messages of comfor
and good cheer, l tender the pro
found gratitude of my family ant
myself.
/ shall continue in the future as il
the past to walk among you, seekin,
to do my full part to promote
through my work as an educator, tn
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-07-01
CHANCELLOR POWERS SPEAKS
OUT AFTER VINDlCATION

To The People of Mississippi:
When the papers carried the news
that charges rejecting upon my
character were to be made by a Uni
versity Professor, l promised to
answer every charge that might be
made. l have kept this promise in
letter and in spirit.
I went into the school-room when
"A lad of eighteen years and walked
among children, seeking to teach and
inspire them to become high-minded,
Christian men and women. At the
age of thirty-eight years, after TWEEN
'ty years of service as a teacher in
the public Schools l was promoted
to the office Of State Superintendent
of Public Education, where | had
the honor and privilege of admins
tering the educational affairs of the
State over a period of nearly eight
years. Seven years ago l came to
1.-THE exalted position / now occupy
If there had been, through all these
years, thirty-four in number, &
breath of suspicion against my char
acter as a man, | would never have
been called to the responsible posi-
tons l have filled.
l am fifty-two years of age. M
life has been an open book to m!
fellow-citizens. After / had reached
this ripe age, a University Professor
LR. w. Rogers, sought, as you hav,
seen, to ruin my career and blast m,
reputation. On more than one oc
'casion, a compromise was attempte,
to keep any charges against me from
being made public and to hush then
up. l scorned these efforts. TIL
venerable University Of Mississippi
seeker after the highest ideals, eS
ponent Of all that is clean and noble
was being slan1ered through it
Head. Its good name, linked wit
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-07-01
THE RIPLEY SENTINEL BEATS THE AIR.

The Ripley Sentinel vainly beats the air and fans itself al
on 5a u1e "a "a flame because OF several editorials by Us !" - 's,'s'
Personally we have a high regard for Bro. Anderson, who
edits the Ripley paper. He is a first rate fellow about most
things, but when it comes to politics, it appears that there IS
his opportunities in Mississippi. He resides among a great
people Peep s:+. He . has had had the very b best ssS opP port R;nd a 5S generous generous
to him, yet in spite of it all he Wobbles on the gudge eGins ana, IL
ltically, that he should not do and leaves undone many that he
pooned him, as well as several other blind followers of Senator
Kea5nsy: -.
appointment by Gov. Lee NJ. Russell of Rev. 7. NJ. Brownlee to
be a member Of the State Pardoning Board. Had we been talk
ing to Mr.. Brownlee in person, we would have said the same
thing to him. We have a high regard for him and he is our
It is not often that Bro. Anderson and his political associates
get the opportunity to hide behind the clerical garb Of a leading
minister, hence, we suppose he is hardly to blame for making
the best use of this opportunity possible. He had best use this
opportunity well, for he will not have another soon. The
preachers are not with them.
The Ripley ssd r next 3 ADDRESSES Dc esssa himself msafai to s our sE rsteTt thsf
1T appears that Governor Russell did not deliver the diplomas.
We based what we said on statements made to us by students
did make a prediploma delivery talk-the Governor tries to
talk frequently it seems at places where he is not WantedLbut ut
the departments who handed the diplomas to the students.
A.. & NJ. College towards Gov. Russell, it might be we'll for our
Ripley friend to devote a little time to the underlying causes of
ernor in effgy?
sn, Bro B a AHdsffsGn sd 1ags at our on do door the b Ses eeo3sai for FRED d
says that Sullens was "no doubt inspired by the Grenada paper
s sHa I rspss Of ff the Sefkk a 5a Rf' aSmin its psE5 as APPALLING spe IF t iset I fs
Vile slanderers"? Awful words. To We tents. oh, Israel?
a column and a half Of its editorial space to a defense and ex-
PLANTATION of what we said. 1t lays itself open to the
ial sins of Gov. Russell. 1t has undertaken a huge task; it has
We hope our Ripley Brother will take US seriously when we
say that 1T is too hot, and we have too many other things to do
August, 1922, is too far of. to be waxing warm now about What
might take place. Our injunction to our Ripley namesake is:
RESTRAIN your lmpetuosty; you will be in the attitude of the
man who ploughed up several snakes at one time soon enough.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-07-01

Little Billy Mcneil had the mis-
fortune to fall off his kiddie car
Thursday and break his arm.
Mrs. A. j. Thomson was a visitor
in Oakland this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. T.. W. Goodwin, of
Cascilla. were visitors here last week.
Mr.. Knott Rice, of the delta was
u visitor here this week.
Lewis Aldridge is spending a few
weeks with his sister, Mrs. T. W.
Goodwin.
Mrs. F. Il. Lickfold spent Thurs
day with Mrs. W.. E. Smith.
j. A. Martin, Jr., Of Clarksdale,
visited home folks here this week.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-07-01

We have never been one of those who believed in the inds
crlmlnate issuance of bonds. Indeed the country seems to have
been going at a reckless rate in the bond issue business, and
what applies to bonds will apply to many other phases of our
economic life.
But every proposition should stand or fall on its own merits
The people of district five, this county, are to vote Saturday,
July Z, on the issuance of 4O,OOO.O0 in bonds for permanent
road building. Our Judgment is that the people of that district
Will be in their own light if they do not vote for the bonds.
The country is in the midst of a road building spirit. The
balance of the county is investing heavily in permanent road
building. The State Highway Commissioners are very, very
anxious to get a road connecting northeast Mississippi with the
delta. Unqueslonably a permanent highway running from
northeast Mississippi is coming to Grenada. West through the
county from Grenada is the natural route for the road, and it
seems to US that 1t amounts to a great deal to every part of dis
'trlct D to have this road, which is to make into the delta, to ira
verse that beat. TaNahatchie county has already let the con-
tract to the county line above OXberry, and in addition to con-
Meeting with the Tanahatchie road, another permanent high
way will be built towards Greenwood. Regardless of what may
or may not be done with the money from the bonds, the most
direct line from Holcomb to Greenwood1s only a matter of a
short time.
One of the very important things in connection with the pro-
posed bond issue is that the Federal Government is to put up
94O,000!O0 or an equal amount. Taking the proposition in ali
OF It's angles, we can hardly see how the man or woman who
thinks ahead can fail to vote for the bond issue.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-07-01
welfare Of our great State.
Very respectfully and gratefully
yours,
j. N. POWERS.


Mr.. r. 3. Thomson was a bust
ness visitor in Grenada Tuesday.
Terrell and Fountain B~arksdale
in Grenada Tuesday.
DdrcIay Coats returned Thursday
from a VISIT In Tatum.
Mrs. J. M. Talbert is spending the
weekend with relatives here.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-07-01
JUST IN PASSING.

just in passing we will observe that we note in the daily
press that Gov: Russell is going to the Mississippi coast where
ne can enjoy the balmy breezes of the Gulf and where he ex-
poets to remain until October l. We have been under the i'm
PreSsion that the people elected their chief executive to live in
jackson, but we assume that the Governor has got so ornate
since his elevation to office and the raising of his salary ten
thousand dollars, that he finds the heat of Jackson to Cypress
I've. therefore We shall not be surprised to see emanating from
the Governors office when the legislature meets again a recon-
mendation that another executive mansion be built upon the
coast.
Since Charley Harris has directed Fred Sullens' attention to
the opportunity he let slip when he failed to utilize the April
overflow Of Town Creek to get the ban on liquor Gifted, we
shall not be surprised to see Fred undertake to divert the waters
Of some other stream into the creek in order to accomplish his
Bacchailian designs, and if Fred puts the plot through, we think
Charley Harris will be standing close by.
Peas, corn, potatoes. good hogs, mich cows and plenty of
chickens serve a sa key to unlock our financial problems.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-02
BY Victor S. Yarros

Spinoza says in one of his essays
or ethics that we ought to endeavor
to understand human nature, and
neither groan nor exult over it. This
wise admonition may be commended
particularly to those little self-com-
placent groups which call themselves
the intelligencia," word borrowed
from the Russian--or "the intellect
uals." These little and lin their own
eyes, highly important groups are di-
vided into many schools of opinion,
and seldom, if ever, agree upon any
question, but they are the leadership
of organized labor, especially organ
lied labor in America.
Few of them have ever seen the in
side of factory, shop, mine, mill or
other industrial establishment Few
of them know what manual labor is,
what the average wage-earner thinks
or wants, and the mental moral at
mosphere in which such wage work
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-02

worthy of trade union and labor sup
port in city, state and national poll
ties are as rule more liberal, more
humane, more progressive, than the
men who pretend that their general
Americanism precludes their cooper
alton with, or championship of, the
cause for evidence that the American
Federation of Labor has advised vot-
ing for reactionaries, jingoes, dema-
gogues or schemers who professed
friendship for labor.
The last charge of the carping in
tellectuals against the present lead
ers of the American labor movement
thus falls to the ground. 1t is hollow
and pointless.
1t does not matter much what the
self-tyled intellectuals say in their
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-02
The InteLLectuaLs" and
The Labor Movement

er lives and moves. The last thing
to occur to them is the need of hon
est, humble, unprecedented study of
the ideas and sentiments of the toll
ing masses. They groan or they ex-
ult, but they never seek to under
stand. They have what they cali
ideals and policies, evolved chiefly
out OF their inner consciousness, or
derived from books of older and more
academic "intellectuals," and if the
facts of life and of human nature in
action seem to contradict those ideals
and policies, why, so much the worse
for the facts and the actualities. The
intelligencia does not have to test its
ideas; it is infallible and cannot go
wrong.
Now, some years ago one of the
cleverest of the British, or Irish, in
tellectuals, G. B. Shaw, made vain
appeal to the intelligencia of the
united kingdom to get together and
construct positive platform that
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-02

should appeal to all the advanced lib
eral and radical schools of thought.
The appeal proved vain, as he, in
deed, knew it would. Under the tyr
annical and cruel czars of Russia, it
is true, the intelligencia was for
time more than a name; it really
stood for something, and it was unit
ed, or all but united. This was be-
cause the issues in Russia at that
time were simple. An intelligent and
high-minded man or woman could not
be other than a revolutionist, a po-
litical and social radical But in
free, democratic and progressive
country there is no monopoly of in
telligence, or of education, and there
is no group in the least entitled to
pose as the intelligencia. Moreover,
in free, democratic and progressive
country opinions necessarily diverge
more widely than in country in
which discussion is forbidden or ham
pered by censors. Ultimately free
discussion does lead to agreement, but
only on fundamentals Men differ, but
they may agree to disagree on sec
ondary issues and to work together
for common ends.
There are in America certain diet
tante radicals who Judge everybody
and everything from some doctrinaire
point Of view without having any
qualifications for Judging anybody or
anything outside their own limited ex-
perience. They do not know their own
country; they do not understand the
temper of their own people; they
claim to speak for millions upon mil
lions of men and women whose lives
they have never studied and whose
struggles they have never shared.
These arrogant and futile "intel-
lectuals" are particularly fond of lay
ing down obited dicta for the benefit
Of organized labor, and of railing at
or frowning upon those representa-
tives and leaders of labor whom the
rank and file see fit to elect, and re-
elect year after year to carry out the
policies and to carry on the education
al work which the generality Of the
union workers believe in, sympathize
with and recognize as rejecting their
own rooted ideas and deepest senti-
ments.
The American Federation Of Labor
is the especial noir of these very 'su-
perior" outside circles and self-ap-
pointed guides. There is nothing in or
about the federation that pleases
them. They do not like its officers
and directors; they do not approve
of it's platform; they attack it's meth
DDS; they quarrel with its basic prin-
ciples, it's structure and form. They
have never tried organization them
selves for any sublunar purpose, but
they are prepared to teach millions of
hard-headed and disciplined men and
women-disciplined by life and by
work-how to organize and what to
do in and with their organizations.
Thus, we are solemnly told, "trade
unionism is played out" and only re-
actionaries and obscurantists, still per-
versely adhere to that form of labor
organization. Industrial organiza-
ton. Industrial organization" the
one big union idea, is the thing-the
modern, up-to-the-minute thing. Well,
if that were true, who, pray, would be
apt to discover it? Surely, the men
and women who for many years and
decades have formed and served labor
unions, worked in and for them, won