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The Jasper weekly courier., 1922-04-14
COMMENDABLE DESIRE

A LITTLE girl sees doll, and in
stantly there comes a yearning
In her heart 10 clasp the doll to her
breast and call IL her own.
She raises her delighted face to.her
mother and stretches out her chubby
hands in pleadings that cannot be de-
MED.
A boy Graves a knife, and he holds
to his wish until he gets it gratified.
Then he proceeds bOy-fashion to nick
things. which he has been forbidden
TO cut and finally gashes his finger
AS the girl and the boy grow older
their desires undergo radical change.
With accumulated experience and
knowledge, they seek more substantial
possessions, good opinions. or a par
ticular place In the world where they
may become conspicuous and power
full.
And thus all through life their de-
Sires grow, assume new forms, urge
them forward or backward, mold their
their destiny.
The desire TO do good Is the most
ennObling thought man or woman can
possibly have.
1t is the only desire that does not
warp the soul with selfshness or de-
stroy faith.
To build up images and to yearn
for things which can be of no perma-
nent use to us or TO our fellow beings,
Is but waste of energy which ought
to be put to better use.
President Harding longs to bring
peace TO the world.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1922-04-14

South Bend. Ind.-"I had become all
rundown, very weak and nervous. and
was so poorly that could not do any OF
my work, but after taking DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription / regained nv
strength and never felt better in nv
life. 1t completely restored me 10
health. had practically no suffering
and my baby was very strong and
healthy. | know 'Favorite Prescrip-
ton TO be the best medicine a woman
can take during expectancy and after.
ward for strength and health. Mrs.
{. l.. Scott, 401 +. Sample St.
The use of Dr. Pierces Favorite
Prescription has made many women
happy by making them healthy. Get
1t at once from your nearest druggist
In either liquid or tablet form.
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THE ROMANCE OF WORDS
"MISS SSIPPIn
THOUGH every school child

THOUGH every school child
= knows that Mississippi means
The Father of Waters" the
fact that the word was original
ly spelled "Meche Sepe" is ap-
parent only from a study Of
the Indian source. And even
this is only an approximation
of the way the phrase should
be written, for the Algonquins
had no written language which
could be transplanted literally
into English letters.
The first form in which we
find the name of the river is
'Miche Sepe," suggested by Ton
ii and slightly closer to the
present spelling. Father Laval
still further m0dernized it into
Michispi, which another priest,
Father Labatt, sOftened into
Misisipi. Since then, the only
changes have been to overload
the word with cOnsOnants. Mar
quette added the first IS" and
some other explorer the second.
making it "Mississipi'-the form
In which it is used in France to
this day, with only one ''p." The
man who added the other has
never been discovered. but he
must have been an American
for, at the time of Louisiana
Purchase. the name was gen
orally spelled in the colony
with a single ''p."
(Copyright.)
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Baked Oyster Plant.

Select several large roots of satisfy,
scrape and wash as usual. dropping
into cold water with a little vinegar
10 keep them from diScoloring. Place
well brushed with olive oil on the
rack in the oven and bake until done.
turning occasionally. Put into n hot
dish and pour over them a white
sauce made by cooking two table
spoonfulS each Of butter and flour to-
gether with one cupful OF milk. Cover
with buttered crumbs and bake In
tie oven until the crumbs are well
Drowned. Grated cheese may be
sprinkled over the dish if desired.
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cheese finely grated, two tablespoon
fuls of fine sifted crumbs three table
spOonfuls of flour, blended smooth
with an equal quantity of cream and
stirred into the slightly beaten yolks
OF two eggs. Season with One-half
teaspoonful of salt. a little pepper
and a few pincheS of poultry dressing.
Blend the whole well together and
add the Stifily beaten whites of the
eggs. The batter should be rather
stiff. Place at once in creased indi-
vidual molds. or paper cases. filling
them two-thirds full and bake in a
hot oven until well puffed up This
amount should make eight souffles.
N,u hlaz weaQ
Copyright. 1922. Western Newspaper Union.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1922-04-14
Uncommon Sense
By JOHN BLAKE
THE SQUARE DEAL

EOR n good many thousand years
leaders of thought and morals have
been trying 10 establish the square
deal on the face of this earth.
The Golden Rule is cider than the
Scriptures. Efforts to make men do
as they would be done by date back 10
Confucius.
Up 10 the last reports. none or these
efforts had altogether succeeded.
There is still cheating and lying and
stealing and injustice in the world.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1922-04-14

Men like to be laughed at for their
wit. but not for their folly.
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Death only a matter of short time.
Don't wait until pains and aches
become incurable diseases. Avoid
painful consequences by taking
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SORRY HE GAVE BOY RIFLE
Why Fond Uncle Has Grave Doubts
Concerning the Future Of His
Small Nephew.

Do the child's toys make the manf
Uncle Ed, who is proud Of bright
eyed Bobby, his brothers fOur-year-
old son, before Christmas hoped they
did Now he hopes they don't.
When Uncle Ed was a boy he
played with a rifle The toy, he al
ways confides to himself, was the
foundation of his winning a sharp
shooters badge In the army. That
was the main reason that he gave
Bobby an air rifle for Christmas last
year.
Ed, since then, has imagined Bobby
shOuldering the weapon" and play
ing soldier. He learned his mistake
yesterday when he visited his broth
er's home, because Bobby met him at
the door, pointed the rifle at his face
and commanded
'Stick 'um up. Stick 'um up"
"Why didn't ! give him a BibleT'
Ed mOurnS now.
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WHAT TO EAT

T TITLE cakes that are nice for
- children'S parties are:
Come-Agains.
Sift two cupfulS of flour with one
half teaspOonful OF salt and two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. Add one
cupful of chopped raisins and pecans,
equal parts of each, and one cupful Of
brown sugar. Beat one egg, add one
half cupful of milk and stir into this
the dry ingredients. Lastly. stir in
two tableSpoonfulS of butter. Drop
by spoonfuls on a CREASED baking
sheet, sift over them a mixture of
cinnamon and sugar and bake In a
QUICK oven.
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Sweet penper soufs,es

Cut out the seeds and membranes
frorn four sweet peppers and parboil.
Put throu n the meat chopper. mix
with two tablespoonfuls OF sharp hard
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Mothers Cook Book |


To friendships of the yester year.
That time has proven choicely true
Thou wouldst not have me hold less dear
While / invite thy friendships. new.
Caroline Sumner.
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The New York herald., 1922-02-26

of the grand total-and many more who
cannot be accounted for-are in the tribu-
tary industries.
1t is estimated that $4,000 workers in
iron and steel-from the mines to the
tempered product-are engaged in con-
tributing basic material for the finished
automobile. Five thousand more are min
ing and making aluminium bases for en-.
gines and parts; at least 5000 copper
brass and tin workers are contributors to
the manufactures and assembling plants.
Timber workers, from woodcutters to
mill hands and deliverymen--20,000 of
them-are working to pay their annual
tribute to the motor car industry. The
startling estimate that 20 per cent of all
plate glass workers are engaged in making
windshields brings their number up to
about 21,000
Eight thousand tannery workers send
their product to automobile factories. Fiji
teen thousand textile workers contribute
fabrics for tops, upholstery, lining and
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imitation leather seats. Something like
$1,000 men work in oil refineries, at the
wells and in distribution and sale-all in
the interest of automobile fuels and lubri-
cants, for 81 per cent of all essential oil
produced is consumed by the motor vehicle
We have not the presumption to try to
estimate the numbers who are engaged
in telling timbers in the forests to go into
automobile manufacture, nor those en-
ployed on cattle and sheep ranches who
may be given definite share in the max
ing of cars nor those who pick cotton for
top and tire fabrics There are other re-
lated industries on which no figures are
obtainable-glue and curled hair, for ex-
ample.
But we almost forgot the paper industry.
1t is estimated that per cent. of all paper
makers contribute solely to automobile
factories. That means that 5,40O workers
in paper mills contribute to a part of the
automobile which is seldom seen and never
recognized as Just paper.
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is the glass works. From the rubber plan
tation grows the tire root, and that is a
big one. The cotton fields, sheep ranches
and cattle ranches contribute textiles and
leather used in the automobile. Cotton
also has an important part in the making
of tires. The sheep ranches shoot off into
textile mills and wool combing industries
The cattle ranches give occupation to glue
makers and curled hair makers; curled
hair is necessary to comfort and glue to
safety.
The mines furnish three roots-the root
we call the chemical makers, the one we
define as the copper, aluminium, zinc and
lead smeters and the third one the iron
and steel mills. From the forests come the
saw and planning mills. Then there are
two surface roots-parts makers and ac-
cessory makers.
All these roots converge at the base of
the trunk of the automobile tree. All to-
gether they form that part of it known as
raw and fabricated materials Then,
higher up on the trunk is the label, Auto
mobile and Trunk Manufacturers" There
is branch which runs off from the tree
at that point and that is the branch Of
motor car users.
Another branch is formed by the car
distributors. The continuation of the main
body of the tree is made up of dealers, and
at the top of the tree are three limbs
repair shops, garages and gasoline supply
stations. Then there is a fourth little
branch, which is automobile supply houses.
A few more than ten million automo
biles and trucks are in the United States.
That includes motor buses too. For these
ten million there are 100000 professional
chauffeurs and drivers.
Employed in the actual manufacture of
tires and trucks, in all the factories in the
country, there are about 256000 men, con.
ssting of laborers, skilled and unskilled
clerical employees and executives. Also
there are about 100000 automobile and
truck statesmen and dealers, concerned
only with the complete product. Engaged
exclusively in the manufacture OF acces.
sories are 250,000 and an equal number
are engaged in selling accessories, apart
from those in garages and automobile re.
tail houses who sell accessories and parts
as side lines. There are 100000 garage
owners and employees; $4,000 jobbers
The tire industry alone is one OF the
first ranking ones of the country. In Il
are engaged $4,000 in connection with
manufacturing, and to sell their product
10000 dealers and statesmen are kept al
work. We already have amassed a total
Of 2,571,OOO workers given occupation be-
cause of the automobile industry. The rest
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Bird Lovers hunt Old Friends mBronx Park.

youkeep your eyes open, you may by lucky
chance see-a flock of pine sskins OF the
commoner tree sparrows. Downy wood
peckers are chummy with the chickadees
and nuthatches
This winter has brought to the park a
comparatively infrequent visitor, the log
gerhead shrike He has been seen with
small birds in his claws, and the bird low
ers hope his killings have been chiefly con-
fined to the English sparrows. He is a
handsome chap, but betrays his ways in
his hawklike beak.
No matter how cold the day you will
hear the CHEEKY note of the chickadees.
Nothing seems to prevent them from find
ing the world about right. They are the
embodiment of all that has been written
about the friendly birds. They are fear
less tiny mites, and it is not at all uncom-
mon for one to light on the hand Of one
who will stand very still and hold some
thing out that looks worth eating The
nuthatches are shier.
Among the little group that follow the
paths in The Bronx none is more faithful
than the middle aged man whom you will
see there at all seasons OF the year He
Is always among the first to discover old
friends and is looked upon as the one to
consult as to the newest bird migrants.
He is known to all the park employees.
One Of the park scientists is very often his
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- ONSIDER the automobile industry!
It and its tributaries give employ
- ment to 2.739,70O people in the
United States. That is between and 8
per cent. Of the total population of the
country. Moreover, it is somewhat made
quate az an approximation. It is almost
impossible to make an accurate estimate
for it is almost impossible to make a thor
ough enough research to include every con-
tributing factor.
In the second reader at school we read
a story which began: "Do you know who
brought your cup of coffee to you this
morning at breakfast?" Then the story
proceeded to tell of the Brazilians who
went out and picked the coffee berries, and
Of the men apd women who shelled the
beans and packed them, and then of those
who drove the wagons to the warehouse in
Rio, agd of others who put the coffee
aboard a ship bound for a North American
port. Then it told of the unloading and
the grinding and the great activity of
many people in getting coffee finally to
your grocer, who sold it to you.
At the end you were just little ashamed
for having caused so much trouble. But If
you had been little older you would have
looked at it in different light; you would
have been glad that your little cup of coffee
had given employment to such a great
number of people, thereby having enabled
them to earn money to buy food to take
with their beverage
The automobile is like coffee. II you
ride in one you probably never put on the
brakes to think how much labor has been
used to make it-and what a variety Of
labor and material. And so you never
think what great thing you did for the
working people when you bought your
car; nor how much bread you put in the
mouths OF workers. Perhaps your pur-
chase went little way toward enabling
scores OF men 70 buy cars for themselves.
Therefore, consider the automobile In
dustry! Cons.1c- II as a tree Imagine q
tree, called arbitrarily the tree of the
motor industry:
The soil that nurtures the automobile
tree Is made up OF oil wells, sand pits, rub
ber plantations, cotton fields, sheep ranches
cattle ranches, mines and forests. And
from the divers sorts OF soil do the roots
of the industry achieve their natures.
From the oil wells grows the root which
is known as the oil refinery The root
which takes its growth from the sand pits
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suggestion the Cumberland husky thought,
so he set about to collect team. Among
the big burly fellows whom he solicited
was John Edgerton. Edgerton had no
knowledge of football but he was too timid
to confess his ignorance and he therefore
gave his consent.
The day came and the assembled team
boarded the Tennessee Central morning
train from Lebanon to Nashville. On the
way down Edgerton went bashfully to the
arbitrary captain and asked him what he
was to do. He was told that he was to
play guard and that his only duty would
be to knock the man in front of him down
every time signals were called. He asked
no more questions.
Edgerton took his place in the line his
mind fixed on one big thing. On the first
play he sprawled his opponent so hard that
a new one came in to confront him. He
heard cheering from the sidelines and was
pleased. Throughout the game he did his
duty and three men felt the power of his
awkward strength. He followed the prog
ress Of the struggling teams dazedly; and
every time he heard a volume of cheers
he vaguely knew that his work was being
taken into account.
At the end of the game he trotted off the
field. He was curious to know the score
YHow much did we beat 'em?" he asked
the captain.
BEAT them? Why, they beat us 40 to
nothing" the captain said.
Edgerton entered into the spirit of things
at Vanderbilt. He tried first for the foot
ball team. The first day on the field when
his coach was trying to teach him the art
of tackling Edgerton hit his instructor
with such force that the squad was with
out head coach for week. But it had
a powerful lineman, and in the four sue
ceeding years Edgerton was the greatest
football player in the South.
Through most of the five years at Van
derbilt he was working his own way. There
was the opportunity of waiting on the
tables in the West Side row dormitories
and Edgerton did that for his meals. In
1902 he took his B. A. degree, and in 1903
his NJ A. His last year he was unani-
mously elected bachelor of ugliness, an
honorary degree which still exists to be
bestowed upon the most popular student
The next year he taught in Castle Heights
School at Lebanon and the following in
Memphis University School at Memphis.
He was cofounder with Colonel J. G.
Harry of Columbia Military Academy at
Columbia, Tenn, in 1905, and was coprin-
cipal with him for seven years. In 1912
he returned to Lebanon and became presi-
dent and general manager lof the Lebanon
Woolen Mills, in straits at the time. He
brought it to a sound footing within two
years.
Tennessee had come to fair recogni-
tion of his ability before America entered
the war. He was given a great deal of
work to do then. He was a member of the
Federal Fuel Administration for Tennes-
see, of the State War Savings Campaign
Executive Committee; chairman of the
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

companion on his walks. and many OF the
plants have become as familiar to him as
the birds.
The Bronx bird lovers do not call them
selves a club, but they exchange fNendly
greetings and compare notes at every op-
portunity. Some good samaritans among
the bird friends have been putting seed on
the walks and tied chunks of suet on the
bushes for the winter birds, and these have
been welcome to many of the little people
when other food has been hard to get. The
chickadees have enjoyed the free lunch in
relays.
Two robins were noticed in the park
during December and for time there was
a catbird. Much to the sorrow of those
who had seen him was the finding OF only
a few lovely blue-gray feathers near the
spot where he had been observed-the
victim no doubt, of predatory cat or pos
sibly hawk. It is when the snow is on
the ground that the song sparrows and
other seed eating birds most need friend,
and many of our winter birds have hard
time then.
Before we know IL the grackles will be-
creaking in the trees and the song spar
rows singing from every bush. And brother
robin will take up his old job Of pulling
worms out of the lawns and waking us at
dawn to call: "Dearie, dearie, hurry up.
hurry up, hurry up, hurry, deariei"
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War Resources Committee for Tennessee
and of its United War Work Campaign,
which raised the largest amount of monev
ever raised in the State for philanthropic
purpose He made speeches all over the
State for war causes and at the same time
kept his mills busy making army blankets.
Then he was elected president of the
Tennessee Association of Manufacturers.
He Immediately proceeded to take action
for legislative provision for the industry
of the State, and Tennessee manufactures
are protected now as they have never been
guarded before He is sti1l head of this
organization:
Now he is in addition to being president
of the Tennessee and National Manufac-
turers Associations director of the Ma.
tional Industrial Council of New York,
president of the Lebanon Woolen Mills,
treasurer and member of the executive
committee and director of the Interna-
tional Church Film Corporation, vice-pres
ident and director and member of the ex
ecutive committee Of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company, Nashville; general treas
urer and manager of the Fifty Million Dol
lars Centenary Fund of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. In addition he
holds official functions in many other or
ganizations-business, fraternal and relig-
ious. He is trustee of Vanderbilt Uni
versity.
1t was little more than year ago that
he was elected president of the National
Association of Manufacturers. His in
augural speech was pronounced the most
amazing one ever heard at such confer
ence 1t was time when much palaver
was the vogue in all circles and those who
had preceded him on the floor had talked
at great length in efforts to answer hos
tile accusation to the effect that the as
sociation had been organized for legisla-
tive lobbying.
"My friends" the new president began
(and fnished), "I want to say frankly
that I am not so deeply concerned about
ing their rights.
"The thing that giUeS me most concern
is that they should perform their. obIgd-
tions."
That short and pointed speech inspired
tremendous ovation.
Herbert Hoover sat at the same table
and watched the new president of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
throughout the meeting.
few weeks later the new Secretary of
Commerce and President Harding called
Edgerton out of the South and asked him
for his plans. He told them the same
thing he had told the manufacturers.
eve manufacturers want nothing for
ourselves except the biggest possible chance
to serve this Government and the Ameri-
can people. We are not concerned about
our rights but our duties"
This has been but portion of the story
Of the life of John Edgerton. Much which
might have been of interest has not been
touched upon. Much is yet to be written
for he is young and his future is long. In
evitably he will do greater things.
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LII winter there is devoted little
~ band of bird lovers who find >the
Botanical Garden in Bronx Park
hunting place for old favorites and also
place where there is always the possibility
of seeing some rare and unexpected winter
visitant.
The favorite walk begins at the stone
bridge, known as Bowlder Bridge. At either
end are good places for observation and
it is an unusual day that patience is not
rewarded by the note or sight Of some win
ter favorite. You are sure to hear the
CHEEKY call of the little black capped chick.
adee, and nearly as sure to hear the
"yank, yank" of the white breasted nuthatch.
With them likely you will find the brown
creeper, industriously hunting grubs in the
bark OF the trees as he walks around the
limbs digging his sharp probe into the
crevices. On the hillside will come the
raucous mocking call of the bluejay and
you may catch q glimpse of his brilliant
plumage. High over head flies old Mr..
Black Grow cawing.
After you cross the bridge turn to the
northward and follow the river up 10 the
willows. Here you will find the song SPAR
rows that are spending the winter with us,
and the white throated sparrows and jincos
that love the cold weather. With these, Il