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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08
SMUT! SMUT! SMUT

Amateur journalism in the George Washington
University has become so snappy that the faculty
has been obliged to suppress "The Ghost" the
college magazine The complaint was that the
literary material drawn upon by the student ed
itors related too intimately to lingerie and I'M
clad young ladies.
One of the peculiar phases Of the publishing
business for the last few years has been COM
Imercializing printed smut.
In the years preceding the war there were a
few newspapers of abandoned and malignant
heart and still fewer magazines which made a
speciality Of printing obscene pictures and walow-
ing in the filth of suggestive printed matter.
Most of these have now passed; even the yell
low newspapers have moved in the direction of
reform; but the evil niche has been filled by an
unclean outburst of little pocket-sized magazines
which are, in effect, a monthly collection of filthy
and suggestive jokes. 1t costs nothing to print
them and the pioneers at least made lot of
money from the publication Of this garbage.
Unhapply, these bad-smelling little sheets
found large circulation among the college boys
and the "Ghost" has been one of the results. Col
ege boys, ere this, have told naughty stories ;
but the idea of putting them in print is a new
departure.
Except for the fact that it creates an embar-
RAISING situation there is doubtless very little to-
be said about it. The papers of the type of these
smut panderers will die natural death from
their own foulness. 1t is so easy to start them
that the market is becoming flooded with their
kind. The inevitable result of course, will be
that one will choke the other.
The serious phase is that the situation calls
for some kind of censorship and censorship is al
dangerous sea upon which to embark-especiall
when it is censorship of the press. But when al
nice young man of our city calls upon a nice
young lady of our city and they sit by the fire
and spend an evening reading the 'Whiz Bang
Garbage Can" it is time something were done toI
arouse sumbering morals. Maybe such filth will
do no harm. We hope it will not. But it can do
no good.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08
NOT A NEW TRICK
no good

Thieves in Saint Louis, who stole preachers
IsilVerWare, did not do new trick. You remenl-
Der how Jean Vatican arose in the night and made
off with silver belonging to his benefactor, Bishop
Charles Francois Bienvenu Myriel, as related by
Victor Hugo in Lies Miserables."
And you remember, when the convict was try
ing to tell the aged bishop who he was, the bishop
said: "Why should you tell me your name?
When you entered the door, you had name
which / knew; you are my brother"
Then, when Jean Vatican arose in the middle
of the night and stole the bishops silver and
fled with it, and was arrested and brought back
to the bishops house, the first thing he heard
the priest say was: "Ah there you are. / am
glad to see you. Why, | gave you the candle
sticks, too, which are also silver, and will fetch
you two hundred francs. Why did you not take
them away with the rest of the plate"
The gendarmes oosed their hold of Jean Val
JEAN who tottered back. Then the bishop said to
him: Jean Vatican, my brother, you no longer
belong to evil, but to good have bought your
soul of you l withdraw it from black thoughts
and the spirit of perdition, and give it to God"
All readers of LES Miserables" remember the
rest of the story. How Jean Vatican reformed,
became a devout Christian, and devoted the rest
of his life to deeds of benevolence.
Jean Vatican is the most sublime character
in fiction We once heard a learned minister and
lecturer say that if he should be so fortunate as
to reach heaven, he would be disappointed if
Jean Vatican were not there Out of the magma
ton of Victor Hugo came this wonderful charac-
ter and the greatest novelist that ever lived made
Jean Vatican real so life-like, so pulsating
with goodness and virtue, that it seems as if he
must have lived, and that as Hugo says, when
Jean Vatican died. an immense angel stood just
outside in the shadow waiting to receive his
soul
AS we have said before on this page, the Holy
Bible is the best book in the world. les Miser-
ableS" is the next.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08
LETTING OFF STEAM

One must look elsewhere than at Washington
to discover why British and French statesmen
have been putting dashes of tabasco in their talk
of late The disarmament between the two coun-
tries which has made some of their spokesman
verge on outbursts has really little to do with the
submarine question. The spat with which Bal
four and one of the French representatives en-
livened the arms conference doesn't mean that
the Entente Cordale has been broken. 1t does,
however, show that it has been subjected to some
strain. The tension is due not so much to differ
ences of opinion concerning Germany as to a
conflict of ideas over ways in which things should
be managed in the Near East.
For some months now French writer's have
been hitting at the British policy in that sti-far-
from-peaceful quarter. They have regretted that
Lloyd George has seemed to uphold the restored
Constantine, brother-n-aw of the ex-Kaiser, in
his dreams of reviving the Greek-Byzantine En-
pre- Not so would Disraeli have acted, they say,
He would not have encouraged religious war
on the plateaus of Anatolia between the Christian
invaders and Mohammedan Turks is the plant of
one writer. The French have shown no sympathy
for Greek aspirations they look upon them as
fraught with danger to the peace of Europe
They rejoiced when the Nationalist party recent
ly checked the Constantine forces near the holy
city of Angora. France is very jealous of her
influence in the Near East and the attitude of
the British authorities at Constantinople has
aroused her ire. She sees in it an attempt to
weaken the hold of the Quai d'Orsay. This is
why some steam has been let off by statesmen of
both nations in Washington, Paris and London,
but we may look for all to be amicable again. The
two great countries which held together against
Germany will not let Greece or Turkey split them.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08
STATS DIARY

Friday-They was man cum to
are door at are house today and
wanted to sell pa sum hare tonic &
he sed he CESS he woodent take none.
Ma sed Go on ahed and get sum. Pa
he LATED and sed Well you no they
say you cant have hare and branes
both. Ma winked at me e. sed to
him. Well they's no use in you a
going without both when you got a
chance for a bargain like this /. But
something spoilt the sail.
Sat.-Last day of Xmas Vacation.
Wish they was few more Chris
masses dureing the skool term. was
tawking to Jane today & told her
just in Fun that they was a Girl at
the Pitcher show smiled at me las
mite She sed That's nothing the LIST
time ! seen you | LATED out loud.
She acks very tickle at times.
Sunday-Pa and me went to chirch
vile ma staid at home to get din
ner but she got to reading Society
Novel by sum Author and let the
meat skorch & when we set down pa
was mad & Disguised e. grouchy and
etc. & he sed This stuff amt fit for
Dunky to eat. & got up frum the
Table. Ma just LATED & sed. Well
you'll half to go somewheres else
then CESS if you are hungry.
Monday-Back to skool Days agen.
Teacher was teaching about wirds
like doesn't and hasn't & isn't and etc.
and she asst Jake to name Sen
tence useing the wird Doesn't. He
sed-My ma sent me to the grocery
to get doesn't of eggs. Poor Jake
had to miss good Boxing match
with buds new gloves. acct. of his
Ignorance.
Tuesday-We to a lecture on
Probishun with ma - pa tonite. &
the speaker was tawking about the
Country before and after takeing
Probishun. He scion the / hand
we have got Poverty, crime, Desease
and Drunkenness while-and he struck
out his other hand & KEEP on con-
tinueing-on the other hand what
have we got. And ole Pigiron Mike
yelled so evry cud hear plain.
Warts. Ole Uigiron doesn't no we
have got Probishun pa says.
Wednesday-Mrs. Smith had me to
go by her some meat & when de-
livered it she Gave me a peace of
Cake & / sed Thank you and she sed
Don't mention it & | sed No ma'am
| wont. / diddent even tell Jake.
Thursday-Pa says the DR.. pre-
scribed sum real beer for Mr.. Jones
witch is sick on Main st. And the
funny part pa says is that he got
sick frum drinking home Brew witch
he had mad ehisself.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08
FAIRY STORY ISLANDS

Since Magellan fought his way into the sea
which he named the Pacific there has always been
a halo of romance about the islands of the great
ocean. And yet, too, they have seemed fairy
lands forlorn. Now the four great powers of the
world have taken them under their protection
with the hope that they may be spared forever
from the blight of war 1t is probable that Am
orleans will give a good deal more consideration
to these islands in the future than they have done
in the past. When hitherto they have been mem
toned the ordinary man has visualized as best he
might Samoa which he connects vaguely with
Robert Louis Stevenson and the story of a great
hurricane and the MargueSas, lately brought to
this countrys attention through the writings of
former San Francisco newspaper man; and of
course, the Hawaiian Islands which Mark Twain
praised so highly and where that early globe
trotter, Capt Cook, met his death at the hands
of the savages. As Senator Lodge, in presenting
the Horsepower treaty TO the conference at Wash
ngton, happily said, there still fingers about these
islands the charm so compelling and fascinating
which an undiscovered country has for the sons
of men who are weary of the main-traveled roads
and the trampled highways of trade and COM
merce which cover the surface of the patient
earth. Japan itself, one of the treaty powers. is
composed of more than 1000 islands, the arch
ipelago containing more than the Philippine group
over which flies the Stars and Stripes
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08
LISTERS STAND

One thousand years before Christ
Ulster was a separate kingdom; for
1900 years after Christ there were
kings in Ulster. Has not that province
then as much right to set up claim
for separate existence as the rest of
Ireland? One does not say it is wise
for it to do so; in fact, it is highly
desirable that the whole of the En-
erald Isle be embraced in the Irish
Free State. Attention is called to
listers earlier history merely to
show that there is another side to the
question which some of our friends
have been so ardently arguing on 1.-THE
trouble page" 1t has been proved
in the past that the Irishmen cannot
be coarced. The men of Ulster pos
sess the same spirit as the others in
the island. They cannot be brought
into subsection by physical force but
they may be persuaded in other ways.
1t has been suggested that there
should be in Ireland central parlia
ment, corresponding in a way to the
United States Congress, and that
there should be provincial parlia-
ments, just as there are separate leg
islatures in each of the forty-eight
States. This compromise seems to
have a good deal to commend it but
there are not wanting those who urge
Sir James Craig and the Northern
Parliament to have nothing to do
with it. The die-hards are always
with us. SO far Ulster stands with
the irreconcilables. She says she
Twill retain her British citizenship
and refuse to subordinate herself to
the Sim Fem government"
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08
THE JUMPING OFF PLACE

One importance of Newfoundland is its
position. st. Johns, the chief port
and capital of the country, is 1000 miles nearer
to England than is New York. I'm fact, it is only
1860 miles from the coast of Ireland, so greatly
does the Atlantic shrink off the coast of New
That is why this unique country has had the
distinction of receiving the first transatlantic
wireless message at St. Johns in 1901, and also
why the first nonstop transatlantic airplane
flight started from the same vicinity
The Cape Race light is the first greeting from
America 30 ships on the northern route from
Europe, and it is the last TO fash GodSpeed to
eastbound vessels
tween America and Europe
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08

The New York zoo is being enriched by the
arrival of a family of five gorlas taken in Cen
trail Africa. The group is led by a seven-foot
male weighing $50 pounds. It is predicted that
within year the whole family viii be voting the
socialist ticket.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08
Ii ALL DEPENDS

"Can woman come back?" is
question in a contemporary. 1t prob
ably all depends on where she has
been.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08

John Nanamaker has given away one of the
secrets Of his success. He says that in duh times
merchants ought to advertise more than ever.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Dispatch is authorized to announce
E THOS. B. CARROLL

of Oktibbeha County, candidate to succeed himself
as Judge Of the Sixteenth Judicial District of Mississippi
consisting of the counties OF Lowndes, Clay oktppeha'
Noxubee and Kemper subject to the will of the Dem
ocratic voters of said district
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08

Those who have seen Babe Ruth in vaudeville
are OF the opinion that Judge Lands did not fine
him enough.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08

The Dispatch is authorized to
MAYOR A. Y. GLOVER
as candidate to succeed himself the chief executive
officer of the City of Columbus subject to the will Of the
voters at the next municipal election.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08

The other day dog overturned an automobile.
Many human has tried the trick and failed.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-08

Read the Dispatch want-Ads.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-08-17
Drys Want 1S,Miile Sea Limit.

Washington Aug. 12.-The an
ti-saloon league is working to
have the jurisdictional limits of
the United States extended to
eighteen miles out at sea instead
Of the three miles, as at present, it
was announced by Wayne b.
Wheeler, chief counsel for the
league.
Wheeler said the present 3
mile limit was proving entirely
ineffective in prohibiting liquor
smuggling and that there was
ample authority and preceden.
in international law for estab.
fishing protective "---not eek
elusive /" = jurisdiction within
the l8-mile limit He quoted Z
supreme court opinion which, he
stated, backed up this assertion,
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-08-17
German-Made Goods Flood Mexi
can Market.

FL Paso, Tex. August H.
German goods particularly house
hold articles and toys, are flood
ing Mexican markets, and are
making it difficult for American
drummers to dispose of their
wares, according to Ell Paso mer-
chants. The influx of German
made articles already has Grip
pied trade from stores in Ell
Paso, as well as from other
towns on the American side, from
which importing of American
goods has ben carried on.
Stringent efforts are being
made to meet the competition, ac-
cording to officials of large mer-
chandising firms in FL Paso.
One of the methods employed to
solve the problem is the building
of warehouses and shipping OF
German-made goods through the
United States, direct to Juarez.
Direct shipment Of the materials
to Juarez avoids payment of the
American duty. In this way FL
Paso merchants can compete with
merchants in Mexican cities who
have been getting German-made
goods direct.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-08-17
ORDER OF PUBLICATION,

| ty. Missouri, August 5. 1922. In Va.
sation. For October Term, 1922.
Edward G. McAllister and Christina
McAllister, Plaintiffs
The Unknown consorts. heirs. devi.
sees. donees. alienees. immediate,
mesne or remote, voluntary or in
Richey. A. H. Manner, Luther Shobe.
NJ. B. France. w. D. Morrill, and
George Sears, each deceased. De-
PENDANTS.
The State of Missouri to the above
named or described defendants. Greet
ings:
You are hereby notified that an ac-
ton has been commenced against you
in the Circuit Court OF. the county of
Bates. in the State of Missouri. af-
fecting the title to the following de-
scribed lands and tenemtnts. to-wit:
ner of section Thirty-four thence
east 3 chains and II links. thence
south 10 chains and links:
thence thence west chains and - links:
links to beginning: also the
Northeast quarter of section 80
Except the town of Altoona as
shown shown BY BY, the plat; a Baptist
Township 49, Range 80. Bates
which said action is returnabie on
court to be held at the court house
of the city of Butler in the county
and state aforesaid on the End day of
October. 1922. when and where you
may appear and answer or otherwise
defend such action otherwise plain
tiffs' petition will be taken as con-
fessed and judgment rendered accord! !.
ingly.
c. c. SWARENS.
Clerk.
Attest: a true copy of the record.
tSeaD c. G. SWARENS.
44-4t Circuit Clerk.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-08-17
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

State of Missouri, County of Bates, 3.
In the Circuit Court OF Bates Coun-
ty, Mo. October Term. 1922. In Va
George W. Dixon and Ethel Miller
Plaintiffs.
vs.
Short. Elsie stubbs. Edward Ben
nett, Pearl Jones, Ruby Freeman.
Gladys McClelland, Gertrude Nc
Clelland and Percy McClelland. De-
PENDANTS
Now at this day come the plaintiffs
herein, by their attorneys and file
their petition alleging, among other
things that defendants Emma Nance
McClelland, Gertrude McClelland and
Percy McClelland are nonresidents of
the State of Missouri.
Whereupon. it is ordered by the
ants be notified by publication that
plaintiffs have commenced suit
against them IN this court. the OBJ
iect and general nature of which is
said court for. the sale and partition
of the following described real estate
in Bates County. Missouri, to-wit:
The The, !, Sou Southeast quarter Of the
one. Township Forty. Range
Thirty-one, except IL acres Off
the east side thereof
and division of the net proceeds of
such sale between the plaintiffs and
defendants in accordance with their
rights and interests there
in as may be found by the court, and
that unless the said defendants be
and appear at this court, at the next |
term thereof to be begun and holden |!
at the court house in the city of But |
Ter in said county. on the first Mon |
lay of October. 1922, and on or before !
he first day of said term. answer or |
dead to the petition in said cause, /
he same will be taken as confessed
md judgment will be rendered ac-
'ordingly.
{. e. SWARENS,
Circuit Clerk
\ true copy from the Record.
Witness my hand. and seal
(SeaD of the Circuit Court of
Bates County, this Sth day
of August. 1922.
c. c. SWARENS
AIT Circuit Clerk
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-08-17

state OF MiSSUurl. county OF Bates, 81
In the Circuit Court, october Term,
1922. In Naca..on June T., 1922.
Jessie Briggs. Plaintiff
VS..
john. Harry Briggs. Defendant.
Now at this day comes the plaintiff
herein. by her attorneys and files her
petition and affidavit, alleging. among
other things that Defendant John
Harry Briggs is a nonresident of the
state of Missouri
Clerk in vacation that said Defend
ant be notified by publication that
against him in this Court. the object
and general nature of which Is to OBJ
tain a judgment and decree of divorce
founded upon the following allega-
tions: That defendant although an
able bodied man, has wholly failed
and refused to support piaintiff and
their children for more than one year
last past and that defendant is now
and that unless the said John Harry
Briggs be and appear at this Court.
at the next term thereof. to be begun
and holden at the Court House in
the first Monday of october. 1922 and
on or before the first day of said
Term. answer or plead to the Petit
ton in said cause, the same will be
be rendered accordingly.
And il Is Further ordered. that q
copy hereof be published. according
to law, in The Butler Weekly Times,
q newspaper published In said County
of Bates. for four weeks successive
~, published at least once a week, the
last insertion to be at least fifteen
days before the first day of said next
october Term of this Court.
c. c.. SWARENS,
Circuit Clei k.
BY Lewis Swarens. Deputy.
A true copy from the record.
witness my hand. and seal
{Seal) OF the Circuit Court of
Bates County. this 18th day
of August. 1922.
G. c. SWARENS.
Circuit Clerk.
as.lt Lewis Swarens. d. e.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-08-17

Bates County Circuit Court Record
August .. 1922. In Vacation. + /
ellison White, and the Unknown chill
dren Of Gibson White. and the un-
known cons"rts heirs, deVisees
or remote voluntary or Involuntary
grantees of Martin White, Eliza
beth j. Redmon, Branham Hill, MIL
Jesse schiel. Mary n. Cheatham,
nlcna lena X. c"mmins. William {.
Cummins. 1ames F. Whits. Rhody ).
Nes.ey " hi,e. Griffin, White. Jill
son G. White, Gibson White. Gibson
q. White. Martha t. Slayback.
George w. Redmon. John w. Red
mon. Mary NJ. Cheatham. Francis \
j rinlhle. Lanes NJ White -Ennch =
- White VIM. NJ White. Alfred !
White, Sarah e. Lafollett Mary Z
White, each deceased. and Jitso. q.
White and ellison q. White. il liN-
ing and Dora Harshaw, Dereadant,.
The State of Missouri to the above
named or described defendants.
Greetings.
ton has been commenced against you
in the Circuit Court of the county III
Bates. in the state of Missouri affect
ing the title to the following de-
The Southwest quarter of section
is and the Northwest quarter Of
the Northwest quarter OF the
southeast quarter of section is.
all in Township 40 Range 30. ais"
The east half of the southeast
quarter and the southeast quarter
of the northeast quarter OF sec
ton Is in township 40 range 80,
Bates County. Missouri.
which said action is returnabie on the
first day of the next term of said
court to be held at the court house
in the city of Butler in the county
and state aforesaid, on the End day
Of October, 1922, when and where YOU
,"av appear and answer or otherwise
defend such action; otherwise plain
tffs petition will be taken as con-
fessed and Judgment rendered accord
ingly.
Clerk.
Attest: 4 true copy of the record.
tSeaD c. G. SWARENS
4s-4t Circuit Clerk
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-08-17
Road Funds Due Counties.

jefferson City, Aug. 9.-There
is $8S0,332 yet due the various
counties in the state from the
Mccullough Morgan road law for
improvements of the highways.
The engineers of the highway
commission today made full es-
innate of all due under the old
law and which the counties are
now entitled to draw. Some of
the counties have drawn all that
is coming to them and others
have very small amounts due
Under this law Bates county
has $4,000 to its credit still unex-
pended.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-08-17

Thomas H. Fisher, secretary OF
the Democratic state committee,
issued a call Friday for a meet
ing of the state committee in Jef-
ferson City August II, to fix a
place for holding the party con-
vention September II. The date
Of the convention is fixed by law.