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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1922-01-13

2lst day of December, 1921.
n W. T. TUT, Circuit Clerk
(SEAL) Dec. 20, 1922.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1922-01-13
State Bank Of Dover

&C Dover, State OF missouri, at the
close Of business on the 31st day
of December 1921, published in the
Lexington Intelligencer, a newspa-
per printed and published at Lex
ington, State of Missouri, on the
18th day Of January, 1922.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts, un-
doubtedly good on person.
al or collateral ......~..$75,302 SO
Loans, real estate ...~.-... 1890 90
Overdrafts ...-..-...-. 239
Bonds 1885 q
Real estate banking house) 1888 90
Furniture and fixtures ...-. 1000 90
Due from other banks and
bankers subject to check 1856 SO
Cash items ........ ass Sc
Cash On hand currency, gold,
silver and other coin)...... 1,AS8 "a
Other resources, as follows
Tax receipts ...-..-..-. l,451 %
Total $12O,25O ~
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in..~~...$20,000 90
Surplus fund.-~-- 5000 90
Undivided profits, net..-~.... 1855 Al
Individual deposits subject
to check .....--.-.~~-.... 1854 81
Time certificates of deposit 1928 A
Savings deposits .......... 1,443 so
Bills payable and redis-
counts .........--.-....... 5000 OO
Total $12O,25O q
STATE OF MISSOURI,
COUNTY OF LAFAYETTE-ss.
We, j. 7. Dinwiddie as president,
and w. B. Sydnor, as cashier Of said
bank, each of us, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to
the best Of our knowledge and belief.
]. T. DINWIDDIE,
President.
w. B. SYDNOR,
Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn 10 before me,
this 7th day Of January, A. d. nine
teen hundred and twenty-five.
Witness my hand and notarial seal
on the date last aforesaid. (Commiss-
toned and qualified for q term expir.
ing April 10th, 1929
RUTH LEWIS,
Notary Public.
ltSEAL)
Correct-Attest:
GEO. F. ZEYSING,
FRANK EVANS,
PHILLIP VAIL.
Directors.
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A True Copy From The Record.
Witness my hand and the seal Of
Circuit Court Of Lafayette
County, Missouri, this 21st day Of
December, 1921.
w. 7. TUT, Circuit Clerk
(sEAL) Dec. 20, 1921.
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= True Copy From The Record.
Witness my hand and the seal Of
said Court at my Office Ia the City
Of Lexington, in said County, this the
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W. 7. TUT, Circuit Clerk.

A True Copy From The Record.
Witness my hand and the seal OF
the Circuit Court Of Lafayette County
Missouri, at Office in sand County,
this December 18th, 1921.
w. T. TUT, Circuit Clerk,
(SEAL) Dec. 2S, 1921,
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OUUNIY Of LAFAYETTE-ss,
In the Circuit Court of Lafayette
County, Missouri, February term,
1922, at Lexington, in vacation, De,
cember 21st, 1921.
Robert A. Lindsay Plaintiff
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E WANTED: Live a.
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Notice Of Red Cross Election.

Notice of Red Cross Election.
The annual meeting of the
members of the Lexington
Branch of the Lafayette Chap
ter of the Red Cross Associa-
ton will be held at the Red
Cross Headquarters in Lexing-
ton, Mo-, next Wednesday, jan
uary 10, 1922, from the hours
of 9 a.. m. to 3 p. m, for the pur-
pose of electing an Executive
Committee of seven members.
j. G.. CRENSHAW,
Chairman
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
|BeReasOnabLe
Uith Gernlany
TT is wise to treat your enemy

TT is wise to treat your enemy
generously once you, have de-
. feated him. When Bismarck
had laid Austria low, in 1866, he
refused to make a triumphal en-
trance into Vienna, humiliating to
the Austrians, and he refused to
annex any Austrian territory or
demand a war indemnity.
As a reward, Austria remained
neutral four years later while Bis
marck was crushing France, and
Austria eventually entered into a
formal alliance with Germany,
which served as a balance to the
Franco Russian alliance.
England is trying to help de-
feated Germany to get on her feet.
The immediate reward England
looks for is not political, but eco-
nomic. Germany was her best pre-
war customer and today seventy
million purchasing Germans would
provide work for the jobless mil
lions in British industrial centers.
England wants q restored Ger
many as a purchaser. France, her
people fully employed, fears a re-
stored Germany as a commercial
competitor.
But the main impulse behind
Poincare's relentless persecution
of the fallen Germans has been
the influence Of the French mill
tary party. Baked Of their de-
sire to annex the German Rhine
land as q war prize, they are now
preparing to exact paralyzing penal
ties for the non-fulfillment # i'm
possible reparations demands.
France will not be allowed to
create an empire Of conquest to
dominate and threaten Europe.
Fortunately wiser elements in
France are lifting voices and in
the end will prevail against
policy that would leave France
isolated, every great Power in Eu-
rope and even American opinion
arrayed against her.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
Mr.. Cox IL, Europe

ARR. cox, who ran for Presi-
dent on a league Of nations
Nx platform, and learned some
things in the process, makes a
speech in Geneva, saying he finds
that the league of nations can do
without us.
It can and WILL. And this coun-
try can do very well without the
league of nations.
Mr.. Cox also says that Europe Is
in a state Of deadlock, and IAN un-
prejudiced outside power could end
the deadlock" What he means is
that Europe is in a state of BANK
RUPTCY, and that the financial re-
sources of the United States would
be welcome now, as they were when
we were lending our billions.
The security for those billions,
the good faith of the nations bor-
rowing, seems not to be very good.
We wouldn't get better security for
any other help.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
For SUifter Justice
~ HIEF JUSTICE TAFT. bacl

HIEF JUSTICE TAFT, back
from abroad, recommends
~ that our judicial procedure
be simplified and speeded up along
lines that have been successful in
England. He recommends a COM
mission to prepare judicial pro-
cedure carrying these reforms into
effect.
Shakespeare ranked "the laws
delay" along with "the pangs of
disprized love" as among the
major evils that beset mankind. If
Shakespeare's land, as Mr.. Taft
tells us, has found way to shorten
the laws delay and "to prevent
honest litigants from being de-
feated by technicalities then by
all means let US learn from Eng
land.
But England can teach us a far
more important lesson in reform
Of the Judiciary.
The British Parliament, repre-
senting the will Of the people,
passes a law and that law goes into
effect, No one can gainsay it.
The American Congress, repre-
senting the will of the people,
passes a law and it goes into effect
temporarily. Then the appointed
judges of our Supreme Court, bas-
ing their judgment on some tech
nicality, can annul that law by de-
claring it unconstitutional.
For example, Congress passed a
law taxing exploiters of child labor
so high that they could not afford
to employ children. Some 10000
children were released from fac
tories, mines and quarries.
The Supreme Court declared this
law unconstitutional" an abuse
of the Federal taxing power. The
10000 children were driven back
to work again.
The major reform in judicial pro-
cedure will be to take away the
Supreme Courts super-legislative
power and confine it to its proper
work Of purely judicial interpreta-
ton.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
Mr.. Bryan, High Private
Thank You!
= BVVISVsV = O~s
BY DIR. Charles Fleischer

of experience and the gamut OF
opportunity which have been
Mr.. Bryan's, devoting himself.
in what ought to be his prime,
to fighting Darwinism and the
scientific spirit!
Practically all organized intel.
Iigence now takes the spirit Of
evolution for granted, whatever
can or cannot be proved regard.
ing the descent or ascent Of
man.
II Mr., Bryan prefers to make
a monkey Of himself rather than
admit apish relationship in his
pre-Adamite ancestry. none can
deny him the pleasure Of thus
giving personal proof Of the
Darwinian theory.
Apparently now. In his judg.
ment, mans headpiece has been
misplaced and misused, for the
latest announcement Of this
self-appointed mentor Of his peo-
pie is that we are overestfmat.
ing minds part in life and un.
derestimating the hearts part.
zone Of the chief sins Of the
preseut day is mind worship"
says he. ...
Pity 'tis, 'tisn't true! Without
meaning to lessen the influence
of sentiment and emotion and
even seeing faith, one could
wish that mind were reverenced
more and the light Of intelli-
gence were followed wherever 1t
might lead.
For, in the last analysis, there
is no conflict between mind and
heart. They are friendly rivals
In the search for truth and
check up each others discover
les.
Copyright. 1922. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
What We Que
to Dead Men
m HE telephone is the idea Of a
great man, now dead.

IN HE telephone is the idea of a
great man, now dead.
i The great ideas that in
form the modern world and make
it glorious above preceding eras
are all, with few exceptions, ideas
of dead men.
The thing that characterizes hu-
man beings and makes them diff
ferent from all other animals is
that they can use dead ancestors
ideas. All the dog or the horse
gets from his ancestors is what
heredity has bred in him. But man
gets not only that, but by means
Of books and teaching and institu-
tions he is able to stand upon the
vantage ground of the achievement
of preceding generations.
The beast world goes round and
round like the wheel on a station
ary engine; the human world goes
round and round, but forward like
the wheel on q locomotive.
The man who discovered the
utility Of steam power is dead. Yet
the twentieth century is built upon
his idea.
The man who invented the sew
ing machine is dead. Yet his ma
chine clothes the world.
So also those minds that first
conceived the cotton gin, the print
ing press, antiseptics, the type
writer, the lucifer match, and the
like have all passed away. Yet
those ideas are still vigorous and
ever green.
Men are mortal. Ideas are i'm
mortal.
Men are born, mature and decay.
Ideas continue progressively to ex-
pand. Optimism is not a mere the
ory. It is based upon the cumula-
tive nature of intelligence. 1t is
based upon the fact that each gen.
Grafton does not begin where the
preceding generation began, as do
the bees and the beavers, but that
each generation Of men mounts
higher because it stands upon the
shoulders Of the generation be-
fore it.
This may not be true physio-
logically. The mind Of the Ameri-
can may be no better than the mind
of the Greek was in the slime of
Pericles.
But the mind Of mankind is a
whole lot better.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
When Women Gamble
TT IS said that at Deauville, where
few wise people and many

TT IS said that at Deauville, where
a few wise people and many
i fools get rid Of money, three
women to one man are seen at the
gambling tables. And the women
gamble very high.
This is natural. Gambling, drink
and drugs are more dangerous to
women than to men for the reason
that women, for lack Of experience,
have had no chance to become i'm
mune to them.
In addition they have a more
highly strung, sensitive, nervous or
ganization. Drink, drugs or gam
bling women are much harder to
cure than men. Men have been do
ing the foolish things, gambling and
drinking especially, for tens of
thousands Of years, while they have
held women down to household
slavery. 1t is to be hoped that
women, as a race, will not be com
PEELED, as men have been, to 60
through all kinds Of foolishness in
order to get used to them.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
WAYSIDE WISDOM
THE NEW JOKE ON GEORGE
(CopyrtKht. lsaa.l
BY s. E. Kiser =

"This is the greatest surprise Of my life"
said q prominent educator tUhen he heard
that his toife had gone to Paris and divorced
him.
I ADY, If the yoke is CALLING, and you're
- longing to be free,
There's a way to end the trouble: Take a
trip to gay Paree.
Tell your hubby, when you leave him, to be
careful every night
To clean up things in the kitchen, and
assure him that you'll write.
1t Is needless to permit him to be saddened
or upset;
Let him even at the parting, think you're
still his precious pet.
WHY submit to all the trouble and the
w scandal and the grief
They must bear who ask our judges to
supply them with relief?
1t is needless to be questioned by lawyer
who Is coarse,
Or inquisitive, or heartless, when you're
seeking your divorce.
Take little trip to Paris-its the latest
thing to do;
Hand the French court fifty doIlars and
little parley VOC.
lust tell hubby that the doctor says you
d need a rest and changes;
Show him how to feed the goldfish and
warm up the kitchen range;
Let him think your second cousin In Ver-
mont or Idaho
Wants you for a weekend visit, and you
feel that you must go; ~
Tell him how to fix the bottle for the baby,
If It cries,
And you'll have a good joke on him when
you cable your surprise.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15

N NE" Sia OS6oh WIN ptOoA
"A positive that the sun. not
the earth, Is in the center Of
the solar system. Another
when Newton published his
law of universal gravitation;
and another when he gave to
the world his doctrine of flux-
ions now called a branch OF
calculus. One more when Gill
bert discovered the laws Of
magnets, and another when
Faraday made the capital dis
covery of electric induction a
basic law of nature. This was
followed by the chief discovery
ever made: spectrum analysis.
Then. following fast and
following faster" came dyna-
mos, motors, etc, and all dis
coveries in current and static
electricity. electro.magnetism
and the changes produced by
them in mans existence on
earth. So great were these
that anything greater would
scarcely be noticed in mans
rapid race.
Roentgen or X waves were
generated artificially by dis
charging high potential elec-
tricity in high vacuum tubes.
Then the great discovery was
made in 1896 by NJ. Henri
Becquerel in Paris that a salt
of uranium necessarily issued
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
SAP and SALT
BY Bert Moses

Bert
Copyright, 1922, by Premier Syndicate. Inc)
When you know what enough" of anv.
thing Is you are wise.
The important thing in raising children is
to make them useful.
There is just so much in life, and you can't
get q bit more out Of II.
A tom cat Is the only thing that can take
trouble and get a lot Of Joy out of II.
The 'best society is an arrangement that
the best people refuse to 60 into.
A photographers only problem IL to make
the picture look better than the person.
Her Heck says, "shakespeare made a mis-
take In not runnin' IN n few leg shows"
The Washington times., 1922-08-15

WE ought to think well Of our
" Presidents and be thankful
for them.
They make a better average
of intelligence. morality and
personal caliber than any list Of
an equal number Of any nations
rulers.
BY the same token. we ought
to be thankful that some men
never get nearer the Presidency
than their own ambitions and
defeated party's nomination have
brought them.
A case in point Is william
Jennings Bryan
He Is the nearest approach to
perpetual motion and emotion
at flood which American poll
tics and American oratory have
produced.
A man of undoubted intelli-
gence and.unquestionable moral
ity, his mentality il self.limited
by his wearing of intellectual
binders, and his goodness Is
made obnoxious by the very
cockiness Of his morality.
And his metaphysical philoso-
phy, religion or whatever Mr..
Bryan would call his combative
mediaevalism--it reminds one of
what Josh Billings said of a GER.
tain brand Of preachers, 81 wish
they didn't know so many things
that amt So"
DOUBTLESS Mr.. Bryan means
~ well, but consider our coun-
try's escape from his Presidency
and please believe that a merci-
ful Providence still watches over
our republic.
Think of a man with the range
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
PUBLIC
PRIVACY
By "BUGS" BAER.
cOpyriEht. 1927. By Star Company

OUGHT to be some law per-
" mitting moving picture stars
TO get married without taking
one hundred million people on
their honeymoon.
OTHER people can jump off
" that love, honor and obey
wharf without public paying
any more attention to 'em than
an iron deer does to change in
weather.
PUT instant that Jack reels
- into love with Marilynn,
everybody gets steamed up like
clam at shore dinner.
THEY'VE got to throw church
i wedding open to public
allow smoking in last three
pews and permit baby carriages
and dogs to be parked under
seats.
A FTER ceremony they run
"A souvenir gauntlet OF wasp
eyed spectators who think that
everything is free that amt
nailed down. If It's nailed down
they swipe nails, too.
CTRANGERS throw rice at 'em
- as II they were starving
Chinese. Bride has to kiss de-
pot full Of commuters and bride
groom has to buy his place in
line from ticket spectators.
MARRYING for love in this
1Vl country is scarcer than
raisins in war bread.
THEREFORE,, when two the
L atrical stars flutter down
aisle, Mr.. Public, Mrs. Public
and our little publics think it
Is some publicity stunt that
should be encouraged by pro
rata sympathy and per capita
curiosity multiplied by factory
whistles.
CTARS haven't even consulted
- lawyers and arranged ali.
mony before public is picking
at 'em like sparrows at crows.
They are chaperoned by strang-
ers, escorted by crowds and kissed
by mobs.
GO many strangers visit 'em
~ that they have to exchange
their roadster for Sightseeing
bus. Instead of wedding break
fast Mr.. Star discovers he Is
toastmaster at monster banquet.
RY time that public wearies Of
- this marriage It is slime to
get married again, aud another
sentimental panic is on
A BOUT only thing that will
"A satisfy public Is for stars to
get married by traffic policemen
in City Hall plaza. leave for
victorious honeymoon parade
around Fifth avenue and spend
first year OF housekeeping in
wanamaker's biggest window.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
I Tell 1t to You
By Damon Runyon-

1922. by Star company
; repeat, that's it all even, and
we went on:
And / reekoned Il up, and /
laughed no! hoi
And I said to myself, "Tfs a
fair enough shoW-
Life breaks f1ty-tIty, so
tie all epenw
NAPOLEON. favorite refer
ence Of writers pursuing a
moral, lived q king and died a
bum. as the saying IL.
At the finish. II he had sense
Of philosophy. he balanced II all
up. and found It was all even.
II a man lives half his life IN
triumph and the other half IN
defeat. he has had q fifty.fifty
break from existence. It'sr all
even.
We had a third stanza to
our verses, but after reading
It over we find It really doesn't
sound like much. But We trust
you get our point. It's all even.
What'H I soy ,ohen they call
my name,
And ask for my last 40
countinof
Ho,o do I stand IN the lifetime
game,
And Dhat my last amount
ingf ~
Well, Pve rsckomsd u up-ths
loss and gain,
Laughter and tedrs, sunshine
and rain,
And this the rssuit, I find IN
the main,
Tfs all sveni
Not good. Not bad, but not
good. But It's all even.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15

A LII this toll gradually pre-
"A pared the way for the chief
discovery ever made, that OF
radium. by Madame Curie In
1899. Then a new type of mas
ters Of men arose: Thomson.
Rutherford. Lorentz. Wilson.
Zeeman, Langevin, Langmuir,
Soddy, Ramsay. and others like
them. They stormed the very
buiwarks of nature for hidden
laws.
Other radioactive compounds
and elements were discovered,
such as thorium, sctinium and
emanations. A new science
was rapidly developed. Radio"
is the direct result Of these
years Of toll.
Zeeman detected q shifting
OF spectrum lines in the pas
sage of waves through intense
electromagnetic fields Of force
in space between poles Of pow.
erful magnets. Astronomer
Hale discovered the Zeeman
effect around sun spots. It is
now known that there is
electromagnetic energy on the
suns waves which reach our
earth.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15

The Navy Department says that ships
have been known to roll 4F degrees to so
degrees without capsizing.
The name California" was first ap.
piled to lower California, and probably
was taken from the name Of a fictitious
island abounding In gold and precious
stones. which was described In the Span.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
DO YOU KNOW

The United States Geological
Survey states that the right
bank of a stream is at the right
hand as one goes down stream.
The Bureau OF Internal Reve.
nue. states that there are over
$500, 200, 900 cigarettes smoked
In n month In this country.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
Here and There

ish romance. Las sersas de Esplandian,"
published In 1910.
The Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes is
a region Of volcanic activity near Mt.
Katmai. Alaska.
II has been found that fertile eggs
spoil more readily than infertile eggs.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
BY X. c. B.
I THANK you.

ARE WE RIGHT, GENTLEMEN
Salt water has appeared in several Mex
ican oil wells. And a salty oil WELL we under.
stand. Is Just as valuable as q salted gold
mine.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15

WE tried to put It another
w way in another stanza Of
our verses, but after we got
through with this stanza and
read II over, It sounded like so
much wahoo.
But the proposition IL, we
The Washington times., 1922-08-15

TIME proposition is this:
l. It's all even.
Against the money we've lost
In the money we've won, not
much In either case.
Against our failures In life are
some successes. No man is n
failure in all his days. As a boy
we were the best apple orchard
raider in our district.
It's all even.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
NelU Eras in Science

Edgar Lucien Larkin-
Director of Lowe Observatory.

short rapid waves. At once
the scientific world began what
proved to be long and
arduous series of researches
on these hitherto unknown
radiations.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15

WE started out to write a set
w of verses along the above
linec. but found ourselves limp
ing badly before we had gone
very far.
In other words, Pegasus
pulled up with a bowed tendon.
The Washington times., 1922-08-15
IT'S ALL EVEN.

IT'S ALL EVEN.
Life is a curious game to play,
And curious persons play Il,
But il I should die tonight
I'd suy-
ibid they give me time to
say it,
Life, BY golly, is quite o. X,
When you figure It ap on the
Lifetime play;
Life breaks fIty-fTty-sdy
It's all even!
The Washington times., 1922-08-15

FTER ceremony they run
"A souvenir gauntlet of wasp
eyed spectators who think that
everything is free that amt
nailed down. III It's nailed down
they swipe nails, too.