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The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03
"srANplNe BY PRESIDENT

The Republican senatorial and con-
gressional campaign opened with the
slogan. "Stand by the President"
On Wednesday, September 20, an
opportunity came to the Republican
members of the senate to obey this
slogan. 1t came on the proposal to
override President ,Harding's veto of
the soldiers bonus bill.
Instead of standing by the presi-
dent as the Republican national COM
mittee and Republican leaders have
been demanding, the following Re-
publican senators deserted the presi-
dent and voted to override his veto
Brandegee, Connecticut; Bursum,
New Mexico; Capper, Kansas; Colt,
Rhode Island; Cummins, Iowa; Cur
tbs, Kansas; Gooding, Idaho; McCor-
mick, Illinois; McCumber, North Da-
kota; Mclean, Connecticut; McNary,
Oregno; Nicholson, Colorado; Nor
beck, South Dakota; Oddie, Nevada; !;
Hale, Maine; Harreld, Oklahoma I;
Jones, Washington; Kellogg. MINES
ota; LaFollette, Wisconsin; Lenroot,
Wisconsin; Lodge, Massachusetts,;
Rawson, Iowa; Shortridge, California; ;
Stanfield, Oregon; Sutherland, West
Virginia; Townsend, Michigan; Wat
son, Indiana.
In addition to the above Republi-
can senators who deserted the presi-
dent on his first veto were Poindex-
ter. Washington; Willis, Ohio; John
son, California; Spencer, Missouri; /;
Norris, Nebraska, and Ladd, North
Dakota, who we're not present but
paired to override the veto.
From these lists of "deserters"
should be taken the names of LaFol-
lette of Wisconsin; Ladd, of North
Dakota. and Norris, Of Nebraska,
who have not been urging anyone to
'stand by the president"--thati is to
say. anyone could hear them.
1t should be noted also that Sena-
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03

also of high schools and colleges.
Believeing that sick body makes a
sick mind, attention will be called on
Saturday, December 9, to physician
education, the need of Fairgrounds,
and the great out of doors, the coun-
trys ned in developing our forests,
the conservation of our soil and play.
grounds for every community. Each
of the days during the week will be
special ones for visiting the schols.
The United States Bureau of Educa-
tion will provide motion picture
slides in theaters throughout the land
each day, calling attention to the sub
jects as they arrive, and urging every
citizen to visit the schools of his
community
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03

ing unswept for days and unscrub-
bed for weeks. Bath rooms and toll
cts were found, the investigators de-
clared, in a filthy condition There
were complaints of eggs being served
that were aged and unfit to eat. The
patients were found compelled to eat
from the one choice of meats and
vegetables offered, and if they did
not like it to go hungry. The inves-
tigators visited the office of the resi-
dent physician, they say, and were
promised that the conditions would
be Immediately remedied. Reports
from Fort Wayne, however, are to the
effect that no change has been made,
and the officials in charge have
voiced indignation because they de-
clared the investigators "sneaked" in
to the hospital to survey the condi-
tions alleged, although they entered
as all visitors are permitted to do.
and visited the resident physician,
telling of the things they had found,
after going over the hospital. Most
of the veteran patients are Indiana
and Ohio boys, and they asserted a
number had left the institution rather
than suffer the conditions longer
The American Legion cites the con-
ditions of the Irene Byron institution
as another argument against the
contact hospital system the govern
ment has maintained, particularly as
to the tuberculosis and mental cases
of veterans. The legion has been
fighting, in it's program of looking
after the care of the disabled, for
government hospitals sufficient in
number and adequate in facilities for
the expert care of all the disabled,
so that they may as quickly as possi-
BILE be restored to civil life. The in
vestigators declared the institution
near Fort Wayne one of the most
glaring examples of neglect, and lack
of sympathy for the former service
men, who made sacrifice of health in
the war, that have been brought to
the legion's attention.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03

Startling reports concerning condi-
tions at the Irene Byron Hospital,
! near Fort Wayne, where the govern
ment has "farmed" out a number OF
world war veterans suffering with
tuberculosis, have stirred the Ameri
can Legion to action, it has become
known. The reports have caused an
investigation by representatives OF
national headquarters, the Indiana
department, and the rehabilitation
committee of the American Legion,
who visited the hospital following
complaints from former service men
who are patients there. The Irene
Byron institution is a county hospi-
tai where those with sufficeitn means
are allowed to pay for treatment, and
those without means are cared for
free. The government, with 33 pa
tients there at the time the investi-
cation was made, pays the county
1925 a day for each patient. The
hospital, the investigators reported,
is ideally located, and constructed
along the lines of the latest thought
for effective treatment. The investi-
gators asserted, however, that they
found the building where the veter-
ans were cared for very dirty, and
conditions prevailing there were
shocking. One man was found dy-
ing, with flies swarming over him and
no attendants to brush them away,
as he was too weak to do. Another
man had died In the same bed short
ly before, the Investigators were told,
after lying for three days virtually
uncared for during the day, the VIC
tim of swarms of flies. He had been
moved, it was charged, into a small
room in his last moments, the doors
and windows being closed in spite of
the heat to keep his coughing and
death agony from disturbing Others,
though terminal rooms" where he
might have been sent were vacant,
and American Legion Auxiliary Wis
itors had urgently recommended that
he be carried to one Of these rooms.
Clouds of dust blew into the building
for the patients to breathe, from out
side where an excavation was being
filled. and from the inside where
workmen were tearing out walls for
improvements. Patients told of neg
lect. of their sputum cups being left
to run out on the floor, of floors go
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03

tor Truman H. Newberry, of Michi-
gan, displayed his gratitude by stand
ing by the president, just as the pres
ident stood by him in his time of
trial
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03

900 visitors will attend the national
gathering as a result of the fare re-
duction. Several thousand legion
naires are also expected to take ad
vantages of the fifty per cent reduc-
ton granted on all vessels of the
United States Shipping Board.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03

A railroad rate of one fare for the
round trip will prevail for delegates
and visitors to the American Legion
national convention in New Orleans,
October 1929. the convention commit
tee has been davised by e. A. Sim
mon. chairman Of the legion's nation
al transportation committee. The
rate has ben accepted as Official by
Hanford MacNider. legion national
commander. The reduced fare, which
will be eeective on all railroads, will
apply to members of the American
Legion and its Auxiliary. widows of
deceased members of the legion and
to delegates to the convention of the
lnterallied Veterans Federation which
will be held the week before the le-
gion gathering. Legion convention
officials estimate that a crowd OF l00..
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03
Go5S OF GLOOM

Men, here is a description of the
new hose the girls are gonna wear:
Venetian blonde and antelope are
new shades in hosiery. They are very
sheer, and usually have open-work
clocks" And to think they are plan
ming to hide things like them under
long skirts!!!!! Oh, cruel, cruel
fashions! !!-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03

Louis Mohr, I'll Tenth street, Sioux
City. Iowa, requested the American
Legion to help find his brother, Wal
ter Mohr, an ex-service man. Mohr
was working on a county road crew
in North Dakota in the fall of 1921
and was last heard from in Septem-
ber, 1921. He has dark red hair, is
five feet six inches tall. weighs 155
pounds, one finger of right hand is
deformed and he is 35 years old. His
mother who lives at McLain, Neb., is
worried over his long absence.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03

One man claims that fortune once
knocked at his door when he was
away and ever since has sent his
daughter, Miss Fortune.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03

Mrs. H. E. Wrights, Of Lake Sam
ish, Wash, sister of John Albert
Boggs, has requested the American
Legion to help find him. Property is
involved, the letter states. Boggs en-.
listed in 1918 and was in Company C,
replacement troop, at Camp Grant,
being discharged at Portland, Ore.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03

David Lloyd George, British prem
ier, may be visitor to the American
Legion national convention in New
Orleans, October 1920, if the politi-
cal situation in England will permit
his absence from the country. The
premier has received a special and
urgent invitation from the legion to
be its guest at the fourth annual con-
Yention and he has indicated that he
would accept unless prevented by ur-
gent affairs of state. The invitation
was extended through r. e. Condor,
of New York, who has just returned
from London. Before his return to
the United States. Mr.. Condony also
visited Paris, where he met repre-
sentatives of sevne veterans organi.
cations from seven allied countries.
These bodies are members OF the In
terallied Veterans Federation. Each
of them will send five delegates to
New Orleans for the annual conven-
tion of the organization, October 13
and IA.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03

mother VINO lives at McLaln, NeD., is
worried over his long absence.
Mrs. Fl. E. Wrights, of Lake Sam
ish, Wash, sister of John Albert
Boggs, has requested the American
Legion to help find him. Property is
involved, the letter states. Boggs en-.
listed in 1918 and was in Company c,
replacement troop, at Camp Grant,
being discharged at Portland, Ore.
American Educational Week has
been set for December 8 to 9, inclu-
sive, it has been announced by Gar
land w. Powell, assistant national
director of Americanism for the
American Legion, which inaugurated
the movement last year and is receiv-
ing cooperation of the United States
Bureau of Education and the Nation
al Education Association. The ain
nouncement followed conference
between President Harding, Powell
and John j. Tigert, United States
commissioner of education. PrPesi-
dent Harding, in promising his full
support, said he will issue a presiden-
tial proclamation which is to be fol-
lowed by similar ones from govern
ors and mayors. The week will be
observed on a larger and broader
scale than last year, the National Ed
ucation Association and the United
States Bureau of Education cooper.
ating with the American Legion. In
vitations also have been issued for
the cooperation of all national or
ganizations engaged in educational
work, the chambers of commerce,
clubs and civic societies. The state
and county superintendents of public
schools will be requested through the
United States Bureau of Education
to devote the week to the American
Legion's program, which will begin
on Sunday, December 8, when minis
ters of all denominations will be urg-
ed to preach sermons either morning
or evening on the benefits of educa-
tion. Mass meetings also will be held
throughout the country, at which the
speakers supplied by the American
Legion will give addresses on the sub
ject. A national drive will be made
Monday, December 4, with the slogan
Americans all by 1927" to help i'm
migrants become Americans. and to
start their education in the duties of
citizenship. The next day, Tuesday,
will be devoted to patriotism, with
the subjects of universal" use of the
English language in the United
States. music as a nation builder
"the flag. the emblem of freedom"
and "the citizens duty to vote" be-
ing emphasized. Better paid teach
ers, more school house and schools
influence on the coming generation
will receive attention Wednesday, De-
cember 6. The next day, Thursday,
will be devoted to the cure OF litter
acy. The American Legion will en-
deavor to have every citizen adopt an
illiterate to the end that illiteracy
will be wiped out in thsi country by
1927. II will be the citizens duty to
teach the illiterate to read and write,
sending the name to the American
Legion for systematic follow-up edu-
work in Americanism. This
day will be a declaration of war 90
Mr.. Powell said. I'VE
must not be content to teach every
one to read aud write. but immediate
Iy follow il up by instilling loyalty to
ideals" An equal oppor'
tunity for all in education will be
urged Friday. December s. A nation
wide study will be made of rural and
clay schools in comparative way,
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-03
American Legion News

Fay Keiser and Happy Littleton
will stage a 15-round decision light
for the American Legion middle
weight championship during the le-
gion national convention, October 16-
20, convention headquarters has an
nounoed. They will fight at 160
pounds. Keiser fought Bob Martin,
A. E. F.. heavyweight champion, for
the title at the Olympic games in
Paris and gave the champion a close
run for the belt. He has since de-
feated Martin at Boston and is con-
sidered a prominent contender for the
heavyweight title of the world. He
has also beaten Herman Miller and
Ray Mcmillan. Keiser has an envi-
able war record. AS first sergeant he
led his company over the top at Mont
faucon and was wounded in the
shoulder shortly after going into ac-
tion. He refused to return for first
aid and stayed with his company, ap-
plying for treatment only after his
company had attained it's objective
late in the evening. Littleton's war
record is also good He served four
years in the navy as a first class sea-
man. He was on the battleship Lou
isiana and served on two mine sweep
ers in the North Sea. While IN the
navy Littleton defeated Howard
Trembly, Atlantic fleet heavyweight
champion. During the last two years
he has fought Joe Chip, Battling Or
tega, Billy Shade, Bob Roper and
Chuck Virgins. The bout will be
staged October 16, the first day of the
legion convention, in the Louisiana
auditorium under the management
of Al Pilsbury, local fight promoter.
Forty typewriters will be provided
for newspaper men covering" the
American Legion national conven-
tion, October 1920, by the Reming-
ton Typewriter Company the conven-
tion publicity committee has been ad-
vised. Twenty-Five machines will be
placed in convention hall for use of
scribes filing their articles by tele-
graph during convention proceedings.
Ten typewriters will go to the press
room at the Grunewald Hotel to be
used for morning newspapers and by
magazine writer's. American Legion
Auxiliary convention headquarters at
the Knights of Columbus hall will be
equipped with five typewriters for
correspondents attending the conven-
tion,
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
UNIVERSITY NEWS

Maj. Joseph Passenger is spending
the weekend at Westphalia with his par.
ents.
Miss Eugenia Smith, a student in the
University. left for her home in Centralia
this morning.
Privates Steve Husev and A Blot will
leave in few days for Camp Knox for
summer training.
Duncan left today for Fort Smelling, Min
nesota where they will report June IA
for summer camp.
Miss Opal Roberts, a student in the
University, went to her home in Halls
vile this morning for the weekend.
Maj. Oliver S. Wood and Capt. John
P. Lake will leave the first of the week
in their cars for Fort Smelling, Minn.,
where they will enter summer camp.
Miss Ruby Engle Of New London, who
has been teaching for more than three
years in Rails county, Missouri, arrived
in Columbia last week. She is going to
enter the School of Education of the
University.
William NJ. Nolen, associate editor Of
the Semi-Weekly News of Monroe City.
came TO Columbia last night to spend
the weekend. Mr.. Nolen expects to en-
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
HdHSniH

Coleby Quisenberry transacted bust
ness in Columbia Thursday.
! DIR. and Mrs. c. B. Lawrence went to
Moberly last Wednesday on business.
c. <. Pulls is having his house paint
ed. A few days ago he put on a new
roof
Mr.. Bay Of Columbia has been en-
ployed TO teach Room Two of our grade
school.
The walls Of the new store buildings
are finished and the roofs are rapidly 60
ing up.
Fred H. Roberts, Chester White hog
specialist, was in Ceniralia on business
Thursday.
P. S. Quinn was in Hallsville last
Thursday located the lines for the Bank
Of Hallsville. -
c. W. Chandler has sold his dray bust
ness TO Charlie Fulkerson. Mr.. Fulker.
soon took possession June l.
Miss Georgia Robinson, who taught
Room Two of our grade school last year,
contemplates taking a rest next year.
Hulett Cooper expects to take the ex-
animation which determines the Boone
county representative at the State Fair.
Mrs. G. ID. Edwards of Columbia ac-
companied her husband to Hallsville last
Sunday when he preached his farewell
sermon at Red Top.
The Bank of Hallsville is preparing to
build an additional room on its building.
Some of the material is already on the
ground and the work is to begin right
away.
Prof. A. W. Hayes, who taught in our
high school last year, has accepted po.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
Among the People of This Vicinity

sition as principal of the high school al
Middle Grove in Monroe county.
Mrs. E. A. Jones and Mrs. Hendrix are
training the children for a Children
Day program to be given at the Metho,
dist Church, June IL.
Little Harold Bruce, son OF Luther
Bruce of Kansas City. came home with
his aunt, Mrs. Tom Strange, last Satur-
day, for a vacation on the farm.
Misses Bessie Lee and Lillian Nichols
returned home last Tuesday evening from
Fayette. where they have been attending
Howard Payne College the past year.
Professor DeVolld. who taught in the
high school here year before last, does
not expect to teach next year but expects
to attend school at the Kirksyille State
Teachers College.
Miss Ruby Dill Hulett, who taught
school the past year at Braymer. Mo-,
came home last Wednesday. She expects
10 spend a week with home folks then go
10 Mississippi to visit her sister, Mrs.
Davies.
A man giving the name of Thomas,
who came here few weeks ago as repre-
sentative Of a picture company and who
with his wife and child moved out to
A. j. Woods place, has gone. He took
his wife and child with him.
Mr.. Locke and Mr.. Corl, representa-
tives of the Missouri Utilities Co. Of Mex
leo, we're here last Monday afternoon
and had meeting with fifteen or twenty
of our business men and explained pro-
position of their company to supply
Hallsville with an electric current.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Roberts went to
Columbia last Tuesday evening. When
they we're ready to come home a hard
rain had made it impossible for the car,
so they drove out to Mrs. Roberts SIS
ter, Mrs. Searcy Dysart, and spent the
night and came home on the early train
Wednesday morning.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
No., to visi, her mother who is

ginsville, Mo-, to visit her mother who is
i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Johnston, who
have been visiting friends here, returned
to their home in Kansas City this. morn.
ing.
|. Mrs. Carrie B. Miller and her daugh.
ter, Virginia, went to Maryville this
morning to visit her daughter, Mrs. A.
r. Martin.
Miss Mary Stausifer, who has been
attending Christian College Homecoming.
left for her home in Litch6eld, Ill.,, this
morning.
Mrs. H. E. Wick and small children,
Mary Ragland and Harry, Jr., went to
Mexico this morning where they will
visit DR.. and Mrs. X. r. Bragg.
Mrs. L. NJ. Proctor and daughter
Helen. left for their home in Independ
ence today. Mrs. Proctor was here to
attend the Stephens Commencement ex-
ercises.
A. L. Ferguson Of the Virginia Phar-
macy went to Oiterville, No., yesterday
to visit relatives and see about his chick.
en- ranch there. Mrs. Ferguson has been
visiting in Ottevile since Sunday. They
will go to Sedalia for a short visit and
return to Columbia Sunday.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE

Miss Imogene Outright went to Cen
tralia today.
Miss Ruth Selby went to Kansas City
this morning.
Mr.. S. Fl. Logsdon went to Centralia
this morning.
Waldo Proctor went to St. Louis on
business this morning.
Mrs. Ida L. Erect, of Christian Col.
lege, went tp Maryville today.
H. E. Mathies went to Moberly this
morning to spend the weekend.
Miss Doris Browning left for Slater
this morning to spend the week end.
DIR. and Mrs. Edwin Linton left this
morning for Woods Hole, Mass, where
they will spend the summer.
Mrs. Ida L. Erect, who has been at.
tending Christian College Homecoming,
left for Maryville this morning.
Mrs. L. B. Stevinson, who has been
visiting her parents in Edwardsville, ILL.,.
returned to Columbia Thursday.
Mrs. George r. Bates and son Robert
left this morning to visit relatives in
Shelbina and Honeywell for two weeks.
Mrs. Belle Maxwell of the Dumas
Apartments left this morning for Hig.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY
SCHOOL BODY TO CONVENE
Delegates From Columbia Churches
to Meet in Kansas City
June 21 to 27.

The International Sunday School Con.
vention will be held in Kansas City June
q TO n inclusive. Delegates are ex.
pected from every state and province Of
the United States and Canada, and from
Mexico, Central America and the West
Indies, and visitors from all over the
world, Frank VI. Robinson, Secretary of
the Convention Bureau, announced to-
day. The general idea of the convention
is to place the teaching Of Christian eth
les on a parity with preaching, with the
objective of universal religious instruc-
tion for the children TO stop the growth
Of exotic religious ignorance.
About 5000 delegates have reported
but the features of the meeting are ex-
pec,ed to draw al least $4,000 spectators
during the week. The Convention will
be a huge religious advertisement deco
rated with an adult chorus of 500 voices,
conducted by John r. Jones, the choral
leader who made $4,000 soldiers sing
simultaneously at Camp Sherman, dur
ing the war. There will also be two
pageants, or dramaiizations, requiring
GOO players, staged by DIR. II. Augustine
Smith in Convention Hall.
The meeting will be interdominational,
with the proponents of social Christianity
TO the fore. The leaders will be educat.
ors, publicists, editors, writers, social
servitors and/ religious workers rather
than ministers and they will represent
the many denominations. The speakers
include Wayne B. Wheeler, general coun.
sci Of the Anti-saloon League; Raymond
Robins, who demands the outlawry of
war; Roger W. Babson. the publicist and
statistician; William Jennings Bryan;
Houston Quin, the Bible class teacher
mayor of Louisville; Miss Margaret Slat-
tery, the writer for girls; Theo G. Soares.
professor of the department Of religion,
University of Chicago and DIR. H. Angus.
tine Smith of Boston, Mass, the cham
pion Of the new religious music
Columbia will be represented by dele
gates from the various churches. Pro-
fessor B. F. Hoffman will go as the rep
resentative of the Boone County Sunday
School Convention. Miss Freda Pape
will go as delegate from the Baptist
Church, and Miss Ida Bohannan and
Professor P. II. Ross will represent the
Methodist Church. The Christian
Church will send Mrs. Willard Ridings.
Miss Harriet Wright. and Miss Anne
Fleming. The delegates chosen to rep
resent the calvary Episcopal were mostly
students in the University and it is not
finally known whether they will attend
the Convention Other churches will an
nounce their delegates later.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
SHAKESPEARE ALL WRONG
1T Blesseth Him Who Gives" But
Not Who Took.
WRONG

By United Press.
LONDON, June "A book.maker, fined
in local police court for street betting,
owed his fall to his own honesty and his
betrayers charitableness. A Kensington
woman saw from a window a shabbily
dressed man standing at the street corner.
Occasionally passerby would stop and