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The spectator., 1922-06-16

ever goes still more deeply into Autocratic programs. Listen! It means a super-state and County series of Institutions of learning" /" under the manage ment of State School dignltaries. You pay the bill; that is all you do. or can do! Do you get that? You. the people, are simply hog tiedl Do you see into that? Do you see into that? Read the pro- posed amendment Number l4l Get your paper! But, listen; for the support of these superunits, the Legislature is to levy with out limit property taxes on the people: they have no more say about it than a blind boy at the movies! But that is not the worst, yet. Added to such un- limited taxes, the legislature is to appropriate the income from the public school fund; and on top of all listen! the legislature is to levy per capita tax? On whom and to what limit? A per capita |
 tax is head tax; it is to be sad. died on every inhabitant, go read the thing. on every inhabi- tant Tn the State. over the age of 2l years this means on men, women. girls and young men, if over Fl years of age. If they have property. they pay that tax to boot. See? Both of these taxes. the property tax and the per capita tax, are unlimited! Go read the miserable German product during the the palmy days of the Kaiser Nothing like 1t was every passed in free State, south of Mason and Dixon line. But there is still some more. If you don't believe me, get the paper. find this amendment and read it for yourself. have no ax to grind. You are to vote on this miserable thing, and mean that the people who pay the taxes, whose backs bend under the weight of government. shall know of it's efforts to hog tie them. It eff c ct ually strikes down the initiative and referen- dunn. If the thing shall be adopted. away goes the right of the people to say a word about their schools! My guess is that this proposition is daddyed by some high ups in the College and School circles. They have grown tired waiting for the people them. selves to vote higher and higher taxes; while they squander and squander them. I love the free school. Do not let any of these fellows call me "a back number. ," l am up- to-date!
 Also "up-to- snuff;;" as some body will see before this thing gets much older, and I do not mean that the people be fooled.
The spectator., 1922-06-16

Bro. Joe Owens of Meg will preach at Saleeta Grove Satur- day night, June r, and Sunday morning and night. June Is.
 Everybody cordially invited.
The spectator., 1922-06-16
Common Sense does the work.
 W. l.. Haskew.

Mrs. M. B. Conatser.
 Mrs. Geo. Fleeman of Hope is visiting her parents, Mir. and Mrs. J. E. Bryan.
 25c of Common Sense will save you S25. W. l.. Haskew
 A fine lot of china and glass ware at Arlington and Jeffers,
 Mrs. W. H. Kennon and sons have gone to Columbus, Ga, where she will spend the summer with her parents and other rela. tiyes.
 Mrs. T. c. Moore left Tuesday for Van Buren after a visit there with her son, Nelson she will go to Tulsa to visit her other two sons, Roy and Hayden.
 Have you any Common Sense? Only 9 cents per box.
 W. l.. HaskeW.
 Mrs. Arthur Richie and child ren left Tuesday for Oklahoma. They will probably go on to Texas for a visit with relatives. Joe Parkinson went to Jethro Saturday to visit at Mrs. Sam Patrick s homeandsent word in to his mother to send d truck after him that he had pair of goats, 2 pair of pigs. a pair of cows. chickens and gui Il ca g. Every bo5y fixes Joe and it Is like the m to fit him up with every thing he wants.
 Fisk Tires are better and cost less at w. L. Haskew's.
 Wm Quaile and family have opened their summer home at Manitou.
 Full dinner sets, choice selec- ton of glass dishes at Arlington and Jeffers.
 L. P. Jacobs and family Dr. and Mrs. Henry Stroupe visited Ozark and Mulberry last Sunday
 Paris Express.
 T. J. Parkinson has returned from an outing out about White Rock in the Shores neighbor- hood.
 The cheapest auto case known is the Fisk Red Top. For sale by W, l.. Haskew.
 MT. and Mrs. E. Presson, l.. N. Dodgin were Ft. Smith visit ors Thursday.
 'Buddie" Warner is convales- cent from an attact of malariaI fever.
 John William and Montague Adams returned Thursday from few days visit with relatives in Ft. Smith. Ralph Johnson came with them.
 The best Oil Cook Stove known today is the Knoxall WickIess and kerogas. They consume less Oll and produce more heat and costs less than any other make See them at w. l. Haskew s Cash Hardware Store.
 Mrs. Elvis Armstrong return ed to her home at Stlgler to day The following gentlemen, showed the good neigh bor Spirit i'll helping Charley Williams work out his crop, last week, s while he was taking treat ment for a dog bite that was pronounced to have rabies. They are Messrs Allen. Al Null lens, Bud and George Hutchen- son, Add Hawkins, Claude lief. fers. Jonathan Williams, Jim Trip. c. c, Manon, Waldo Trot- ter, Lee Kirksey and Ed. Gage.
 John Council came over from Branch Thursday morning to take his Mother, Mrs. A. E. Council, home with him for a visit at Douglass Councils home.
 Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dowdle and children motored from Little Rock Thursday and spent the night with her mother, Mrs. Nancy Parks. at Mrs. T. M David sons home leaving for their home early Friday mol ming.
 George Turner came in on the 7:l5 train yesterday morning and went out to his farm at Cass.
 Sam Tompkins and family spent a most pleasant day Sun day patching tires between here and Fort Smith. They started for picnic. but it was a pick, tacks. The degenerates, who have been putting tacks on the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-18
TALK OF A GERMAN LOAN

A MONTH or more ago it was pointed
"A out in these columns that the
collapse of the whole present system Of
government in Germany was regarded
by all well-informed statesmen as a
probability of the present year. Now
the White House, Lloyd George, Bonar
Law and others appear in the open with
expressions Of similar view.
What Europe breads is not the fall
of the German Republic but the conse-
oucnces of that fall Because of the
humliations and failures of the last few
wears the moderate element in Germany
has lost prestige. If it loses hold it
will be followed either by Government
of radicals or a revived Junker mill
tarism. Since neither of these elements
knows what reason or justice means
there arises the prospect of new up
heaval at the heart of the old world.
That is why loan such as might aid the
republic to survive is being talked Of
among other people who seek to avert
a fresh cataclysm.
The declaration that Mr.. Harding is
disposed to seek and publish the truth
about Germany's ability to pay all the
reparations demanded by France is
highly significant. By bringing to light
the truth about the situation that has
created something like general paralysis
in Europe and opened the way. for
another war the President could do a
priceless service to mankind in this hour.
The truth about France and Germany
would be quite as useful as the proposed
loan in stabilizng Europe and clearing
the political air.
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Answers IN SATURDAYS Quiz

!. The Menai Straits is a channel betWees.
the Island OF Anglesey and NortnWssHs
Wales. spanned by famous tupu"'
bridge. .
;. Lundy's Lane Is the name Of batiis
fought near DrummCndsville OntaI,v
between the British and the Americsns
N 1914, 1t was virtually oraN"
.. Justices John II. Clarke and William a.. ~
Day recently resigned from the Su'
preme Court of the United states. =,
4. Madrepore is any branch reef coral ,p ~
perforate stone coral. 1t Is aiso oss u,s
name Of the animal which produces
nadreDoro coral. A.,
3. Opossums and kangaroos belong 10 !n9 !'9
order of marsupials, pouch-carr''"h
animals. A..
G. Cleopatra, Queen OF Egypt was OF tns
Greek race, n member OF the fan,oTT, n,
'tolemy family, who became rulers, y,n'' !"
Egypt after the breakup Of the I''
pire Of Alexander the Great ,, an.
I. tontine Is II collective form CT !te !te,snh a
>nuity, the individuar profits OF WnISs inrs
increase as the number OF surNhh,%S
diminishes, the final survivor tah''is
the whole. The subject of tontin,es ~
treated at some length in "The W,oIIs
hsSo'ry Boz" by r. l.. stevenso" anu "
S, Herman Sudermann, the distinguissh,ssSS "a
German ,dramatist. wrote the p,a. pr.
'lIeimat,,"' known, in the English 't''
8. The word soughing may be pronoeIes'
surfing Sowing or sooch,nsS, cb a
10. A bezonian is a raw recruit a wre.om, eranrn
Gnnxs psosne L. dsriysa raarsit t'Gm from ,"s sbsss
need, The word is effectively usee !,is,ry ~
Shakespeare in the demand ~ 'llsims wins
w" Part VI, "Undcr which h'S
bezonian? Speak or die"
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FRIENDS OF THE LAW

CENTURIES ago there was an age in
- China-the golden age of Chinese
culture it was-when any one who dis
obeyed the laws Of a community was
likely to suffer social ostraciSm for bad
manners. Laws were few and police
men were few in the China of those days.
They were not necessary. Only men Of
the lowest class who were not ashamed
to be viewed as idlers and non producers
could be induced to be become police
men. To this day Chinese traditions are
unfriendly to the police, who in most
cities are drawn from the lowest social
levels They are supposed to be the
symbols and unpleasant reminders of
social error and an imperfect civIiza-
tion.
Now. the undergraduates of Wesleyan
University at Middlctown, Conn. who
have voluntarily pledged themselves to
avoid strong drinl; to demonstrate their
respect for the Volstcad Law, reveal a
tendency of mind suggestive of classical
and Spartan standards. They are like
the automobile drivers in various parts
Of the country who pledge themselves in
church to obey the speed laws. But such
examples may be misleading. They sug-
gest, for one thing, an admitted and
general failure of the police system.
And, since nincty-nine men out of every
hundred will make no pledges, the fail
ure of the police system in it's relation
to motor laws and liquor will continue
to worry all people in authority A day
may come when, like the Chinese Of old,
we shall be ashamed to break law or
to appear in any way anti-socal. 1t is
no more than honest to admit that as a
people we still have long way to go,
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of internal insurrection as shortcuts to
power.
The result is domestic confusion of the
most ruinous kind. In former Austrian
Poland, where the comparatively mild
Hapsburg rule permitted the develop
ment of education and of orderly habits
of thinking, some hope for a leavening
OF civilized processes may be found. But
Warsaw, where false national egoism is
exploited to extremes and where Russo
phobia is, not unnaturally, intense, re-
CARDS the influence of Cracow with
marked distrust. The Teutonic culture
of that city is suspect almost as bitterly
as are remnants of the old Slavic power.
Narutowcz was a liberal and under
his regime a distinct contrast to the
1orid despotism of Pilsudski the dictator
and provisional president was pre-
dicted. In the loss Of the new executive,
really the first under the modern con-
stitution, ugly analogies to the Rathenau
tragedy in Germany may be traced.
Reaction throughout continental Europe
is fast blighting the earnest efforts of
sane and conscientious patriotic re-
formers
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THE ABSENT QUALITY

STRANGELY enough, the world seems
~ to be settling into state Of mind
which permits it to accept wearily and
without question tho promises and
threats of 'another war" Say over and
over again that a thing must be-and
it will be.
1t is to the credit Of the Federation
of Churches that it continues to insist
upon and labor for peace among nations.
"By patience, tolerance, love and tender
ness" says a current prorouncement
from the Federation, war can be pre-
vented These arc great and potent
qualities OF mind. But mention ought
to be made of still another end even
rarer quality that would be even more
forceful as a preventive of var
That is simple common sense.
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THE MINORITY CHECK

THE increase Of Democratic members in
the new Legislature provides an
obvious opportunity for rcvitalizing the
minority party which in this State has
so often failed to exemplify the check
and balance theory Of government.
To Offset the rcprchensible and com
mon practice of trading and OF under
hand subscrvicncc to the dominant
political power in the Commonwealth,
Austin f. Mccullough, Democratic
State Chairman, has taken steps to form
4 nucleus of organization ThTty-four
of the forty-one Democrats Of the House
and three of the six in the Senate. who
attended meeting in Harrisburg, have
been urged to act as militant minority
in the coming session.
If the movement is sincerely supported
1t can hardly fail to exercise a beneficial
effect upon legislative action. This is
not because Of any special virtue in
partisan Democracy, but because Of the
very papable truth that consistent OPP
position, if intelligent, is capable of be-
coming tonic force in the American
system Of government.
A genuine rivalry of parties would
unquestionably be healthy condition in
Pennsylvania, just as in the Southern
states an effective Republican minority
would serve to offset those elements of
political corruption inevitably consequent
upon a monopoly Of authority and prvi-
lepe
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in one term President Harding will have
been responsible for the nomination Of
more than half of the members of the
highest tribunal in the republic.
While the average age of the court
is never low, what passes for youth in
the Supreme Court is becoming factor
of considerable significance. The "new
blood" at present includes Taft, Suther-
land and, it may be added, Butler. The
infusion will be increased when Pitney's
successor is named
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BUTLER IS APPROVED

Cutting solemnly in a long-distance
~ review of the life, character, exploits
and tendencies of Pierce Butler, the St.
Paul lawyer whom Mr.. Harding selected
as successos on the Supreme Bench to
Justice Day, the Subcommittee of the
Senate judiciary Committee decided that
he will do. This judgment doubtless will
be ratified without delay by the parent
committee and the Senate itself.
The uproar that followed the nomina-
tion of Mr.. Butler by the President
seems now to have spent itself. What
appeared like the beginning of another
political storm was nothing but sum-
mer shower of radical tears. None of
the people who hurried to indict Butler
in print appeared to recite their COM
plants in the Senate. Not a witness
appeared for the progressive or radical
side of national opinion.
Mr.. Butler was opposed because he
has been for long time leader of
counsel for some of the most powerful
gas, electric and railway corporations in
his part of the country. He fought the
Minnesota Railway Rate Law for the
Northwestern lines and won in the lower
courts before he lost finally in the Su-
preme Court of the United States. He
led various gas and power companies in
legal battles for increased rates. 1t has
been charged, but not proved, that he
had most to do with persuading the In
terstate Commerce Commission to per-
nit valuation of S19,O0O,0O0,OO0 for
American railroad property, figure
which, though it is thought by many eX-
perts to be far too high, is the basis of
current traffic rates. He appeared as
counsel for groups actively opposed to
the Non-Partisan League--a fact which
rankles in the minds of many aggressive
progressives in the Northwest-and he
is conservative of the bluff, husky and
processing type.
1t is argued by Mr.. Buffers friends
that his experience with corporations
will be to his advantage and the advan-
tage of the country after he is elevated
to the Supreme Bench. The radicals in
reply to this called attention to Buffers
record as regent of the University of
Minnesota. He was the voice and the
mind of the board, and he caused to be
dismissed without a hearing two faculty
men of prominence who were supposed
to hold too liberal views on the war and
the economic system in the United
States.
1t must be that the radical element in
and out Of Washington, having taken
time to think again Of the general charge
against the prospective Justice, felt that
no really serious implication could be es-
tablished from their argument Senator
Shipstead was the head and front Of
their anti-Butler movement. When he
called for his witnesses he got no an
swer. None was present. When the
call was issued for those who were to
testify in Buffers behalf there was
silence. No one had appeared. The
hearing went, as You might say, by de-
fault. Was it their own charges or the
Nations interests that the radicals didn't
take seriously?
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.ANARCHIC POLAND

THE inheritance of that politica. in
capacity which wrecked Poland in the
eighteenth century may bc traced
through the turbulent conditions in that
country today, resulting in the assassina-
tion Of President Gabriel Narutowicz.
after a forty-eight- tenure of office.
Recent visitors to Warsaw have pre-
dicted the lamentable retrogression of
a nation, which ought to be among the
leaders Of continental Europe, into
state Of anarchy. Political passions have
been int1amed to degree subversive Of
order or of respect for the elementary
principles Of democratic government
The reaction from a century of foreign
oppression, Prusslan, Russian and, to a
less extent, Austrian, prepared the way
for military adventurers of the Korfanty
type and for the chauvnist Pilsudski.
Throughout their history the brilliant
possibilities Of the Poles have been offset
by political perversitics Of the most de-
structve kind Probably the most ineffi-
cient government ever devised was that
of Poland under the old constitution.
under which any member of the Diet
enjoyed the right of free" veto against
any measure proposed.
While in theory the present govern
ment is based upon the accepted minis
terial system, the unhealthy traditions
of the preparation days are tumultu-
ously preserved in bewildcring welter
of parties and opinions whose spokesmcn
have not hesitated to adept the methods
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Santa Claus

!" give is h"tcr than receive"
love never let's the children gricvc."
on what lot of kindly saws
~" gathered round dear Santa Claus,
And what lot of kindly ginks
Are nr" proud to do tn" things he thinks
IN" M letter. men, hardworking guys,
rhn W d" nTlnS the Kids the things they prize
,,n ~" Sni"EglrIs, cntcrprising queens, '"e
Who find the dope for Christmas ,oo,oa
Mnd o. the chaps who earn tho rocks
INA mat h'E tn" things for little socks.
,MNN'h SANTA from the North Pole stor,s
we wear h.s irappinss in our hearts,
q
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-18
A TRANSFORMED TRIBUNAL

E'EW Presidents have been privileged to
fix the complexion of the Supreme
Court of the United States so compre-
hensively as has Mr.. Harding.
Not only did the appointment of
Chief Justice fall to his lot, but two
designations from the bench, those of
Day and Clarke, occurred almost stimuli
taneously, and there is now another
vacancy caused by the retirement of
Justice Pitney, incapacitated by i'll
health. Oliver Wendell Holmes is an
octogenarian whose surrender of the
judicial robes is predicted.
II is reasonable to suppose that even
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What DO You KnOW?
QUIZ

|. What is the meaning Of the wcFd
Alaska?
;. Who was Albertus Magnusc
3. When and where was the expression New
World first applied to America
T. What is the right of angary"
;. What Is the meaning Of yule?
t. Into what ocean does the Niger RiVe'
flow?
:. When was Tweed the hess OF Tammay.
y. VINO was the first aviator to cross ln7
English Channel?
,. How did the name Tivol come TO "
associated with theatres. gardens ana
places of amusement?
10. What kind OF an animal is a serVal'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-18

Warden Of Sing Sing has opened cafe.
tcria for uninvitcd guests. Unwilling guests
VIII. as ever. receive first at.cntion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-18

The Senate has adopted the Camper
resolution calling for data regarding excess
earnings of railroads. h, railroad men see
II. this may resemble chapter on "Snakcs
in Ireland
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-18

Chief of the Federal narcotic squad
says the drug addict is disappearing. But
1t may be merely round the corner.
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Efforts to dislodGc Lodge may not be
successful, but they contribute nothing TO
the peace Of mind of the Massachusetts,
Senator.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-18

One thing that commends the shin
subsidy to many is the fcrvent heat with
which La Toilette opposes it,
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Added to the tcrrors Of the third degree
is the fact that conviction for perjury may
await one who slccumbs to it.
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Letter carriers are beginning to feel the
weight of Santa Claus pack.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-18

The burning question of the day con-
tlnues to be, "Have you any coal:"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-18

Government crop reports show that
norn is still King but his first name is not
Barley.
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There are those who think the immigra.
ton law and the Nolstead law should swap
their percentages.
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Somebody should send the Moscow
Soviet a copy Of the Suns Santa Claus
editorial.
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A pedestrian has no rights q traffic con
feels bound to respect.
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The, light cruiser, building program is
making light of the limitation of armament
conference
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Daugherty's enemies might have hal
better luck if they had let him alone.
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SHORT CUTS

Even when debts are Cancelled somebody
has to pay them.
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Speaking of collapses, just watch he
| Christmas poCketbook.
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Increasing Earning Power

"As the course in the high school busi-
ness training is now organized, the boys
and girls of the city are assured that with
each years advance in the high school
Iifc there will be an increasing earning
mower through the additional training aud
cJcation which is there secured. and at the
game time the hoy or the girl who finishes