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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-23

in 1871. He is = Mason. He was
born in Warren county. Ohio, near
Springsboro. January -. 1891. He
moved to Sulliv- county in 1896 and
received his education at Miami Uni
versity and Wabash College. but left
school before graduating. He was
married to Sarah Fillmore Dunn Of
this union nine children were born.
He lost two sons in the Civil war
members Of the 4th and z3rd Iowa
infantry. His living children are Mrs.
Daniel 8. Wideman. ElDorado. Kan:
Miss Laura M. Gordon Mrs. Emma
E. Badger. Mrs. Alice Kalb. all of
Eureka. Kans.: Mrs. HypatiA B.. Hart,
johnson. Denver. Colo. He has nine
living grandchildren. twenty great
grandchildren and four g~reat-great-
grandchildren. State Senator Gordon
A. Badger of Eureka is q great-grand-
son.
School teaching was Mr.. Gordon's
first occupation at Monmouth. Ill.
He studied law and in 1914 was adj
mitted to the bar.
and Cass counties. Indiana, in the
constitutional convention Of 1850. he
was a resident of Kokomo. In 1853
he moved overland to a farm near
Red Oak. Ia He was elected to the
Iowa legislature in 1862. After the
close of the Civil war he moved to
near Pleasant Hill. Two years later
he moved to Kansas.
MI. Gordon has lived in the lift
time Of every president except Wash
inRton and has voted at every presi-
Dental election in eighty years. ex-
cept one. MI. Gordon still has most
Of his natural teeth and has put on
glasses only q few years ago.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-23
Only Liping Grandfather Of Civil
War Veteran Has Refused to Worry
During His One Hundred One Years

Eureka Kan. ian 21.-One year
PAST the century mark and still physi-
c11n n mentally alert and taking
Uset interest in politics and current
eveuts il George A Gordon OF this
.toS1
III. extreme g has brought Mr..
Gordon a number of distinctions.
Members Of his family claim that he
u the only grandfather of a Civil war
veteran o living: that he is tho
last surviving member of the Indiana
State Constitutional convention of
1850. and he is one of few. if not
the only man, living today who heard
revolutionary war stories from his
grandfather who took art In it JAM
uary. % is Mr.. Gordon's 101st birth
day.
!. Cumberland. Pa. vas a soldier in the
American Revolution" related Mr..
Gordon recently. "It was my great
uncle, William Armstrong. who cap
tured the six Hessians and took them
into WashingtOn's camp, and said in
reply to the generals question as to
how he captured them: Faith. I sur
rounded them!" I recall az a boy
hearing my grandfather tell of this
and other incidents of the Revolution
AIRY war"
He Avoids Worry
The attainment Of an extreme old
age is a matter Of much satisfaction
to this centenarian. because earlier in
. life-7S years ago to be exact--Ar.
" Gordon was in i'll health. He was
compelled to give up the practice Of
law on which he vas Just embarking'
at Newton. Ill. An overland trip to
T~exAs-during which he had typical
experiences Of the wild west" such
as getting caught in a buffalo stam-
pede and being chased by Indians
improved his health so that he de-
cided to take up farming.
II attribute my longevity largely to
my temperate habits and an active
outdoor life," said Mr.. Gordon. "Also
to the fact that I always have made
it i point to keep out Of debt and
avoid worrying"
Mr.. Gordon has never. used tobacco
or Intoxicating liquors. He always has
been q great reader and has taken an
active part in political campaign
though he never has been a candidate
for public Office. AS a rule he looks
upon the of the age with APP
proval.
Raps Short Skirts
.But there are some present day
systems Of which I do not approve"
he asserted emphatically. II refer to
style of women's dress-short skirts.
low 3necked dresses: also this obbed
hair fad. Perhaps more than any
thing else I deplore the growing lack
of observation Of the Sabbath day.
That. grieyes me-"
Nj. Gordon united with the church
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-23
The country must be saved at

toni ( The country must be saved at
The, Grand Forts delegation wal
largely the personal property Of Geo.
II. Walsh. OF the difteen delegates
he controlled twelve, j. H. 'Bosard,
W. G. Woodruff and myself being the
possible insurgents. When the dele
cation was elected in the county con-
yention Walsh controlled absolutely,
but believing that I would be good"
if thus ) honored. he conceded me a
place on the delegation. The full dele
Ratsttdtnt asasW as follows: Geo. HIS
'Waish.taA.ssCs Hurst. Martin S%ullivanss
F.. D.. Hughes. L. p. Goodhue. Rich
ard Forrest. VIC. Williams. M. Loi-
land. d. c. Alton. W. G. woodruff,
John Fadden. ST.. M. w. Scott, j. H.
Bosard, Geo. B.. Winship and Paul G..
johnson.
. =
Promptly at IL o'clock on the 9Th
day of September. Chairman Walsh
called the convention to order. and
the struggle for supremacy did not
cease until late the night Of the sth,
when John B.. Raymond was nomi-
mated b. ~coalition of the Pettigrew
and Black Hills forces with the Ray
mond contingent. which included a
nearly solid north. except a few dele
Eafe1 from Burleigh and Pembina
counties. For two days a pretty par-i
HaInentary fight ensued. e motion
was8contested and every Known rule
Of parliamentary procedure was re-
sorted to to gain positions OF van
taEe.,. The contest over the report Of
the committee On credentials. of
which F. d. Hughes was chairman,
was long and bitter. Finally the Pet
f{DNAUS fnntS1n ir{~nN ry{th fhA Dow
mond progressives. and the Hand.
Ordway and Alex. Hughes forces were
placed in the minority. After the re-
port was adopted the running was
comparatively. easy for Mr.. Raymond.
sPettierew, early in the contest fore
saw his downfall. and in order to de-
feat and humiliate his personal as
Hand Ordway crowd. he withdrew
his name as q candidate and threw
his full strength to Raymond. This
finale took place in the afternoon of
the sth, after four days and nights
Of strenuous and desperate work on
tho part of all the leading factions.
The long session Of h first polit-
icAl convention held at Grand Forks
gave the young city some promi-
nence and tho citizens amusement
! and diversion. but 1t turned out to be
Ia poor investment. The expense far
exceeded the estimates, and when all
the bills yer audited there was a
shortage In the treasury Of nearly
81. 1000. Tho generous hospitality Of
tho city. in many instances. vas great
~ abused by delegates. many going
sp far al to trade for booze the free
meal tickets given them by the en-
tertAinment committee. After the
departure Of the delegates the people
were sore and disguised. and persist
ent a. we'll as persuasive efforts were
required by tho committee to raise
money enough to the deficit.
OF course. later in h season. the
! full Republican ticket was elected.
and the business of politics was only
~passively active until the next bien-
ni2l ~conclave took place.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-23
Royal Arch Masons
Arriving In Fargo

Fargo, N. d., Jan. 23.-Grand lodge
officers, members Of standing commit
tees, past grand high priests and rep
r~esentatives from each Of the 81 con-
stituent chapters in the state began
arriving in Fargo today for the 33rd
annual convocation Of the grand
chapter of the Royal Arch Masons Of
North Dakota which opens its two
day sessions in the Masonic temple
Tuesday, January "a. George +. Duis
of Grand Forks. grand high priest,
will preside.
The sixth annual assembly of the
grand council of Royal and Select
Masters will open it's sessions on
Thursday, January rs. Walter l..
Stockwell, grand master and general
grand. marshal of the Royal Inc Sc
lect Masters, will preside.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-23
ADVERTISEMENT.
Talk Of HIGH Cost Of
Medicine

Although ! paid only $500 for 2
bottles of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy
I Wouldn't take 500 for what 2 doses
have done Tor me. Ny partner also
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now. We both suffered from indiges-
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Intestinal tract and allays the tnflam-
nation which causes practically all
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. One dose Will
coHvtn61aMs1tsS1nOney refunded.-A At
druggists everywhere.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-23
Skull And Crossbones
&. Suggested AS Emblem
OF Moonshiine Peddlers

Louisville. Ky.-The face on the
barroom floor should be q skull. with
crossbones under it. these days" de-
clares George H. Blincoe. federal pro-
hibit'on agent.
Death turks in white corn liquor,''
he " ut all contains fusel OIL. one
Of the most deadly poison. First
run moonshine is rank poison vet the
moonshiner who makes the stuff
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PAGE SEVEN

first shots 1t is called BY the leg1t1.
ma g uisssller. doesn't trouble hiIn1el4
to dist,ll II. aRnin. but soi1s Il q Il -
for a~'nkin~ Durposes.1
Double distillation and axeing IN
scha~ral rarrels for 1t least four years
IL necessary TO femove the fusel oil.
Mr.. Blincoe says.
'.No moonshine I have ever seen in
my experiences a. . prohibition en-
forcement officer has been AEed. The
b0otleggers' motto gems 81 be full
speed ahead, and eve safety hrSt.
The Phoenicians invented the rsan-
ulfncture OF glass, and they also were
the first to make purple ana me
linen.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-23
Facts you should know
when you buy a car

The question of greatest Importance is not
what you will be allowed for your old car but
the price you pay for the new car and the value
received.
' \
You are money out if allowed 500 more for
your old car, yet have to pay a $3.50 higher list
price for a new car when the comparative value
is not there.
A purchasers loss is only postponed when
trading allowances are made above a used
cars real value. The deal that may. appear
most satisfactory to YOUR the beginning may
prove to be the most expensive in the end.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-23

No one receives anything gratuitously in this
world-don't be rnisled by false allowances.
We believe that any sales policy which encour-
ages the giving of fictitious values for used
cars is an injustice to the public. We wish to
establish definitely the fact that the Buick
Motor Company has never followed this
policy-rather has always based the price of
came down correspondingly reduced the prices
of its cars to the public without any camou-
fage whatsoever:
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

ingly something real about life.
Some American managers this year
have made the reputation of Mr.
Milne, deft and delightful English
playwright with whom Mr.. Wilde's
work in this volume can aptly be
compared. But the latter is still
waiting for a commercial production.
1t is not, after all, our careless friends
who have elbowed us out of our
house-as Kipling long ago wrote of
the American spirit-it is the Ameri-
can spirit itself. which in wanting
the best the world affords has no use
for homespun. Those people who
complain in a superior manner that
American plays are inferior are like
the banker who thought his daugh-
ter ought to play better, though he
refused to be disturbed by her prac-
ticing. ALGERNON TASSIN.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

little theaters have raked twenty
five centuries of the worlds dra-
matte harvest, most of them have
had no time to develop an American
d-amatist.
A happy exception to their indif-
ference to native material is Mr.
Percival Wilde. His plays all reveal
the peculiar and essential quality of
the playwright. He sees the mo-
ment, cuts out the unnecessary,
epitomizes the situation into pointed
yet natural dialogue and conducts it
to completion-all so well that you
see no strings working. His stuff has
fiber; his handling, distinction. Yet
how many persons who read this
review have ever been allowed to see
a play of his? Here is Mr.. Wilde in
lighter vein with eight comedies, and
each one says whimsically or charm
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

religious communities, the formation
of-new sees, the regulation of Chris
tan life. frustrating attempts to in
ject foreign influence into the Amer
lean Church and keeping Catholics
clear of foreign entanglements. and
in accustoming them to live entirely
in accord with the institutions and
spirit of American life. And in all
OF this, except when it was vitally
necessary for the best interests of
Church and country, he never put
himself forward-a shining example
of this being his attitude as revealed
in the famous Carroll Wharton con-
troversy in 17S4-17S5.
Side by side with the biographical
part of the narrative goes accounts
of American life in Colonial and Rev
olutionary times that are of absorb
ing interest, the founding of George
town College, the coming of the vari-
Gus religious orders to America and
their development, the establishment
OF the four suffragan sees, the rise
of educational and charitable insti-
tutions, and particularly valuable
chapter entitled Critical Essays on
the Sources that is immensely val
liable to historical studerns. 1t will
be interesting to readers to know
that Prof. Guilday received his de-
gree of "Docteur es sciences, morales
ct historiques' in the last class grad
uated at Louvain before the Ger
mans destroyed that university in
1914.
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New Fiction
Continued from Preceding Page.

cure the desired happy climax. But
both the young man and the neces-
sary girl are very pleasingly done;
lively and endowed with genuinely
human characteristics. The proposal
scene is distinctly above the average
of such affairs, which is almost
enough to lift the story out of the
commonplace, all by itself.
The author has an excellent man.
ner, and the book gives one the i'm
preston that if she can discipline
herself to it she might do work of
high order. She has been a war cor
respondent and has attracted some
attention byher articles and sketches
in various periodicals. In spite of its
obvious shortcomings this novel is
very well worth while
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

RUSSIANS ABROAD AND OTHER
STORIES. By Margaret Mayo. Bos-
ton; The Stratford Company.
"HIS volume is made up of one
long novelette, and three
short sketches. The title story
deals with the serio-comic adven-
lures of a Russian family in their
wanderings about Europe, in Ger
many, Italy and the Riviera, with a
thin thread of a love story. 1t is
rather a series of detached pictures,
episodes of mildly humorous char
acter, than continuous narrative.
1t involves an extensive menagerie
of odd folk, including an English
governess who drinks too much and
several eccentric wandering Amer
tcans.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
! Play Book and Some Modern Plays

THE EXEMPLARY THEATER. BY
Harley Granville-Barker Little,
Brown C Co.
THE DETOUR. BY Owen Davis. Lit
tie, Brown & Co.
THE SHIP BY ST. John Ervine. The
Macmillan Company.
LITTLE THEATER CLASSICS. BY
Samuel A. Eliot, Jr. Little. Brown
& Co.
EIGHT COMEDIES FOR LITTLE
THEATERS. By Percival Wilde.
Little, Brown & Co.
RR. LLE-BARKER'S
VJ book is plea for the rec
ognition of the theater as
an educational force. Dramatic art,
he says, is the working out, though
in terms of makebelieve, of the self
recognition of society, and play DING
is a social act The theater there
fore is vast opportunity for civili-
zatf6n, and it has hitherto been
missed. His exemplary theater would
serve as a school of civilization and
would formally educate the play
wright, the actor and the audience.
1t would not be a school for children;
they would much better be in real
school with their other teachers
The first purpose of this theater is
to bring about a collaboration be-
tween audience and actors and play
wright. The intelligent connection
between the three parties has been
wantonly broken, and formal study
of play and acting as art vehicles is
necessary before it can be built up
again. 1t is with the plan and ad-
ministration of such a theater that
the author chiefly concerns himself.
More thought has gone into this
book than into its making. The
writing has considerable indirectness
and discursiveness, even verbosity
and roughness. Mr.. Granville-Bar-
ker is one of the few discerning
minds of the contemporary theater.
His>scheme may strike you as mere
iy a counsel of perfection or not, but
you will certainly agree with his
conclusions about the current stage.
The art of the theater, he says, is
hafnpered by the conditions of a
badly organized trade. He feels that
auditorium or satisfactorily work
+ ing stage. The long run has de-
stroyed the art of acting; but even
when it is recovered the art of the
theater will always be handicapped
by the dramas exploitation of the
human personality until some salts
factory means be found to detach the
actor from himself. Why should the
art of acting, he asks pertinently
thrive more upon fecklessness than
any otner human activity? An un-
doubted impoverishment of English
acting, ,he says, has accompanied an
undoubted enrichment of English
drama. Although associated in
American minds with the new art
in the theater, he rightly feels that
of late years much undue emphasis
has been laid upon stage decoration
More money is thrown away yearly
iniLondon and in New York in theat-
rical speculation than would suffice
10 endow a dozen genuine theaters,
and he says that most of ii goes in
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

DROF. GUILDAY'S critical biog-
raphy of John Carroll. the
first Bishop of the Catholic
Church in America, is so many
sided it is not too much TO say of
the work that it is one of the most
distinguished contributions of Amer
lean scholarship to the Colonial and
Revolutionary periods of our history.
In the forty years which have
elapsed since John Culinary Shea's
famous life of Archbishop Carroll
was written historical scholarship
has made long advances, and many
documents have been made available
by Prof. Guilday that were not within
the compass of Shea's resources,
and this biography profits thereby to
the extent that points which for
merly could only be presented as
more or less in question are now pos
sible of adequate discussion.
One of the impressions crea.ed by
the reading of this life is that Theo-
dore Roosevelt would have liked
John Carroll wholeheartedly, since
Carroll was so intensely an Ameri
can. Leaving Maryland, where he
was born in 1875, as a lad of 13, he
left a country that was not kind to
Catholics and went to the English
Jesuit College at st. Omer, France,
in the company of his cousin, the
famous Charles Carroll of Carroll
ton, becoming Jesuit priest in 1863.
After the suppression of the Jesuits
he returned to Maryland. a weary,
discouraged man of 40, seeing little
light for the future, owing TO his
anomalous position due to the sup
preston. But almost Immediately
he was called to the service of his
country as member of commits
sion, headed by Benjamin Franklin,
that went to Canada 10 seek the
friendship of that country to the
cause of the Revolution a mission
that was compliment to his learn
ing and his Church. He was ap-
pointed Prefect-Apostolic of the
Church in the Thirteen Original
States in 1884. first Bishop of Balti-
more in 1889, was made Archbishop
in 1908, and died in Baltimore in
1915. ION the threshold of his
eighty-first year"
Archbishop Carroll's Americanism
was put to severe test in the trou-
bles between the end of thesRevolu-
ton and the coming of the Consti-
tuition. An intrigue in France to
iiiNt IL loitiSHeT fildue BISHOP over
the Church in America was fought
by Carroll with extraordinary skill
and resourcefulness, and he won the
battle. Moreover, he succeeded in
persuading the authorities to allow
the American priests to elect their
own Bishop. an effort that required
even more tact than his first en-
gagement with Europe, the winning
of which was an even greater COM
pliment to his ability to present af-
fairs in this country in their true
light than in the matter of the cleo
tion of a Bishop. John Carroll was
great letter writer; not in the sense
of charm, but in his ability to mar
shall facts and to present them in
his cause with irresistible logic and
conviction.
But the tale OF his efforts does
not stop with establishing the Cath
Ollie hierarchy. The policy he con-
oeived for his Church i'm America en-
braced not only the ecclesiastical
aspects but also those connected
with education, seminary training.
the introduction and expansion of
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
An American Bishop

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN
CARROLL BY Peter Guilday. The
Encyclopedia Press.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

Comes near being a clas-
sic of New England country
life. The NeU York Tri-
bune.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

Possesses inspirationaI
qualities which Main Street
conspicuously lacked. The
NelU York Herald.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-05

'hs people are In advance an the time Of those who
should be the leaders. The people are literally
fcretns aeiicn from those VINO should. see tAr
enoagh IN ADVANCE 70 pfesent fhings before the
psepie teef M btneh b. the need Thpsart ii dshn.
itety before he horse alE6 Tie tine
La4ders have always appeared "a time tot tna
faaete and So patience must IL employed ID await
their e6niiht3 but half theNntest, the business. d
the general situatlo1 rs Seausedysby recognition Oh
the part Of the people 81 evils and needs, and the
lack OF theae who are big enough to plan for full
fnlment and correction, and 10 1tfd In the accom-.
pllShment. OF the things that need to be done.
The leaders desired must s+iAs from the ranks
OF the present generation which 10 facing different
outlook from that Of the preceding one America
has numbers Of Oraidy, capable men vino have
theft heads turned IN the right direction. but
their feet are still planted upon d foundation
build in the past, much OF which will; not answer
for TO-DAY. Togundetstand the present means that
a man must be Of the present, nay, he mastsb be al
50 largely Of the future too. The world Is shedding
a cocoon right now. 1t is not the world ii was
twenty-five years ago. Neither mentally, %physicat-
y, Spiritually. It lisa new world and 1t needs new,
leadership.
H HE.L fa.NEE
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-05
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