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The National leader., 1922-07-01

be more charitable to believe that it
is the former and refer that we'll
known capitali tic daily to the Sec
ond verse of the thirty eighth chapter
of Job:
"Who is this that darkeneth counsel
BY words without knowledge?
Is it that, or is the World playing
the cuttlefish game? When the cut
tlefish gets in danger it emits a dark
fluid that clouds the waters and ena-
bles it to escape from it's enemy. Is
this the game the World is playing I?
Referring to the amendment pro-
pose to the McCumber soldiers COM
pensation act, on June Is the World
carries the following editorial:
WHEN MONEY 1T WANTED, PRINT IT.
Senator Ladds amendment to the Nc
Cumber bonus bill meets the problem of
viding that it be printed. This is sim
pie and practical suggestion. The govern
ment possesses printing presses and paper
that is needed. nothing stands in the way
Of running of two or three billion dol
&c al has1 this
tiles.
Specifically Mr.. Ladd desires to manu-
out the country the sum of $4,000 100000
would not cause imitation Of credits be.
it into circulation among the people"
He says nothing about imitation of the
but points out that ad the notes
at par. Doubtless they would circulate
at par, wherever par was by the time his
United States States has has gone Sas through e' good s
deal of grief lately trying to squeeze
wartime values down to a pre-war nor
maley. Mr.. Ladd invites US to go through
In Russia it is the current practice, US
Mr. Ladd may have heard, to print rubles
whenever the government is short of cash.
roughly the difference between that sys-
tenn and sound finance.
This editorial seems to express the
fear that there will be an imitation of
currency, and intimates that such is
the danger of my proposed amend
ment. Let us see about it.
FEARS SHORTAGE
OF CURRENCY
think the past two years have
proven that a dearth of currency is
more to be feared than a reasonable
oversupply. The World should know
that the process Of "drastic deflation'
had for it's object, not only the defa-
tion of currency, but defation of cred.
its and a destruction of property
values in possession of the people
generally. The defation of currency
could have been accomplished by
"the system" in 80 days. It was 8
process that reduced bank credits that
were outstanding to an amount ap.
proximating fifty billions of dollars
down to figure approximating TWEEN.
ty-eight billions of dollars.
When less than five billions of dol
lars Of these credits were paid the
currency could have been and doubt.
less was contracted far below the ac
tual requirements of the nation. But
the high priests of finance, whose sys.
tenn the World would defend, were moi
content. They must squeeze every
thing else from the people. So OF
they went with their game. Debts
had to be paid and there was no money
in circulation with which to pay
them. Naturally, the prices for basic
products tumbled rapidly. The labor
ing man and producer soon felt tht
force of the system. When money
was no longer available debts had tt
be paid with property and property
values tumbled and the money baron.
The New York herald., 1922-11-16
The Adventures of Tish
byMary Roberts Rine1art
Also in early numbers stories by:

Ben Ames Williams
Sam Hellnlan
Sophie Kerr
Hugh MacNair Kahler
Thomas Beer
Hal G. Evarts
Philip Gibbs
Earl Derr Biggersj
The New York herald., 1922-11-16
Alice Duer Miller
J.P. Marquand
Julian Street
Hugh Wiley
George Weston
Tristrain Upper
John Taintor Foote
Lucy Stone Ierrill

SATURDAY EVENING Posi- stories are never contracted
for never taken on name. They selected merit and
are the best work of known and unknown authors. This
year we shall present at least twenty writer's. Our
Names are almost invariably first made in THE SATURDAY
EVENING POST Every story must be part Of that greater
story that runs in the magazine from week week and
from year year, portrayng the character, the sug-
qes the failures and the achievements of the American
people. The Editors realize that great circulation is not
only great opportunity, but great responsibility.
The New York herald., 1922-11-16
The CONCIERGE L
and the King
by George Pattnllo

One Of a timely series Of On Again, of
Again, KingAgain short stories dealing with
the mishaps Of an ex-king and how the Fan
faron, the concierge and Bill the motion
picture man forwarded his ambition.
The Washington times., 1922-02-23
TO MAKE YOU SMILE

Mrs Homer dn need of cookl-Have you a
letter Of recommendation from your last
ployer? .. ",..
Applcant-No ma'am.
why did you leave your last placer"
Because the husband and wife were always
quarreling."
Indeed! And what were they always quarreling
About the way their meals were cooked"
A man, whose family pride was more marked
than his love for music, asked friend to come
and hear his daughter sing. After she had fin.
ished, the proud father said to his friend WELL
how do you like TT What do you think Of her
execution2" II,
The reply came swiftly. I'm in favor Of It."
Mrs. Greames-It Ia so trying My husband Is
always late. I've been waiting for him since
z o'clock, and now II In nearly g."
Walter-What time did you arrange to meet
him7 I'D.
AT o'clock" ........
Proprty, Mantle stage is about to be up
lifted, Bill"
Electrician--what do you mean?
This here prop-nst Tor that there farce-comedy
company In the offing doesn't call for q bed In
any way, shape. or formr
The Washington times., 1922-02-23
DIARY MAIDS
BY BUGS" BAER. |
ocpyrishs. 1879. b. Str Company.

ENGLAND is famous for
bar maids. Also diary
maids.
MARGoT ASQUITH is
AVA most prominent diary
mad. Can't tell whether
she Is any good at bar
ma.dIng until she tries her
hand at it.
CHE is now talking be-
~ tween syllables all over
America. Her gossip tour
includes Boston, Detroit,
Chicago and other unfortI-
fed towns lying defenseless
an her path.
CANT see how woman
~ who chirps so much can
get time to listen, but Mar.
got always has her GOSSIP
grabbers unfurled to whis-
perIng breezes.
WHEN she gets through
F" with America she will
diary US. That means we go
into book form. That's all
right. Books are no good
except for borrowing.
That's America.
NAME OF book. My Inn
~ pressions of America.
Price Of book. Five dollars.
Well, that's five We'll save.
Reason for book. None.
DEMAND for book. Same
~ as weather. Zero.
DIARY will be vest pocket
~ edition. II will be popu-
lar in summer when we
don't wear vests.
MIGHT come in handy at
AVA that. When children
won't go to bed, threaten
to show 'em Marquis diary.
EoRTUNATELY. there is
nothing an my m Gus
about Margot. She signs
her name to everything she
writes. We don't like anon
ymous letters ever since
we started getting 'em
from Income Tax collector.
Some were not only anony-
nous but almost threaten
ing.
FLY-LEAF Of book viii
naturally be sheet of
Tanglefoot.
nONT know how book
~ will be hound. But we
hope II will be bound like
Margot.
KoMEwARD,
The Washington times., 1922-02-23
Justice for Mexico
vITIZENS of Mexico who attempt to overthrow the
existing government by force are warned by Presi-


l existing government by force are warned by Pres
~ dent Obregon what to expect
Execution of three revolutoniss after courtmartia
and the of eight others afford notice that the Mex
lean Executive has decided to be firm.
The pity of it is that while these probable dupes of
conspng American interests meet the fate which society
Justly prescrbes for unsuccessful instruction, the arch
potters this side of the border left free to
new victims.
With revolutions in Mexico originating solely in Mex
leo the American Government and people could lawfully
have nothing to do.
But when indications of American origin notorious,
when proofs of this profered to the Congress by
responsible persons with petition for thorough investi
CATION, then naction by Government takes dis
tressing appearance.
In common justice and good neighboriness, not to
speak Of the material advantages which would to
both parties the Obregon government ought to be recog
nized by the Government of the United States and thus
enabled continue freely its fine work for paccaon
and progress.
But in any event the Matching of revolutionary
spiracies American soil against this neighbor
should be stopped summarily
Failure to recognize may be of Judgment only,
but failure to enforce the law of neutrality would be
default in honor
The Washington times., 1922-02-23
HUMAN
william AthertOn Du Puy-

Pack in the DAYS when Woodrow Wilson was
lust returned from Paris and was fighting hard
for the ratification of the Versailles treaty
John ". Garner, of Texas, during an illness OF
Claude Kitchen. OF North Carolina, the Demo
cratic leader in the House, used to go over to
the White House to confer with the President.
On one such occasion Mr.. Wilson said to Mr..
Garner that a belief in predestination, in accord
ance with the tenets Of the Presbyterian Church,
had helped him greatly in meeting the situa-
lions that had arisen in his great emergency.
Mr.. Garner, who comes from Uvalde, down
among the chaparral, did not quite follow, but
his reply appealed to the everpresent sense
of hun,or of the scholarly President, and better
relations thereafter existed.
. 81 was born down the Red River" said
Mr. Garner, land grew up entirely surrounded
by negroes am sort Of superstitious myself"
Twenty-Five years ago. NJ. o. Eldridge, of
the American Automobile Association. told me
there were just four automobiles in the United
States.
Ten years ago there were 100000 machines.
all passenger cars. Today there are 100000
motor vehicles, 100000 of them trucks. chill
dren of a single decade.
sThe railroads of the nation, its most out
standing assets, tracks, terminals, rolling stock
and everything are worth $4,000. 5000
The automobile industry. the cars in existence.
the garages that house them $50 fast has the
baby grownl, likewise represent wealth of
$4,000. 100000.
George Wharton Pepper, new Senator from
Pennsylvania, is past fifty years of age. but is
probably the huskiest and most athletic man
OF his years In public life.
Not longer ago than last summer his office
staff in Philadelphia organized q baseball team
which, after due practice. challenged similar
crack organisation in that city.
The game staged on Saturday after
noon and George Wharton Pepper himself caught
behind the bat for the full nine innings to the
twirling of one Of his young clerks. who had the
speed Of an embryo Walter Johnson.
Copyright 1872
The Washington times., 1922-02-23
British Desperate in India

TT has taken the British some
time to discover, or to admit,
q that they are not wanted in
India. Officially they cling to the
face-saving hypothesis that the
uprising of the natives, led by
Gandhi, is simply a passing fer
ment due to ignorance, but pri-
vately they are frightened as
never before.
Never heretofore has the Anglo
Indian mind doubted the power
of bullets and bayonets to main
tain British supremacy, therefore
in previous uprisings it has re-
manned calm. Today it is be-
coming hysterical.
Not only do the British CORE
spondents in India clamor franti-
cally for severer repression, but
they are discussing at length the
conjectural disasters which would
follow British election, bag and
baggage.
This open reckoning with the
possibility Of defeat is a new and
we suspect an ominous fact.
The Washington times., 1922-02-23
We'd Pay 1t
Only a Year
THE OPPONENTS of the sales
tax are trying to defeat it by

WA NV ~ 10 w NS~~~ - -
= Misrepresentation.
They have to admit that the
country demands bonus legisla-
ton.
They have to admit that the
money for the bonus must be paid
out of current Federal income, not
out of bond issue.
They can offer no substitute for
the general sales tax which the
President recommends as a means
Of raising the necessary revenue.
They are unable to deny that
the public will hardly feel the 11a
per cent sales tax, which will raise
the 400 million needed for the
first year bonus payments.
Then what do they still have to
offer as objection to the sales tax
and the bonusi
Just this. They say: eyes, but
this is only the first 400 million.
You will be paying for twenty
years"
Nonsense. III
The maximum amount that
would be paid the soldiers if all
Of them chose the insurance op-
ton, running for twenty years, is
five thousand million, because.
compound interest is added for
twenty years.
The maximum if all soldiers
chose the cash option is one thou
sand five hundred millions.
The actual amount would be be-
tween those limits, say about three
thousand millions.
How long need we pay sales
taxi
One year.
BY next year our foreign debt
will be funded and, unless our
Legislators desert their country, at
least England will be paying the
overdue interest on the debt she
owes u.s.
Her overdue interest now
amounts to 5000, 100000.
England's payment Of this
$6OO,O00,000 would take. care of
the bonus the second year.
By that time the other countries
should be able to start paying.
Altogether they owe us over SILL
600, 100000.
The sales tax for bonus pur-
poses in all likelihood will be
needed only year.
So it isn't true that you will be
eternally taxed to pay this very
modest soldiers bonus. You are
taxed one year.
After that time the bonus will
be paid by some one else.
1t will be paid by those nations
whom our soldiers went over and
saved from humiliation.
The first year the bonus will be
an expression of our gratitude to
our soldiers.
After that it will be an ex-
preston of the incalculable in
debtedness which the allied ma
tons feel toward those who stood
between them and defeat.
The Washington times., 1922-02-23
"DOn't Live in a Suit
Cnse'''

IoHN FRANCIS JONES, born in Petersburg Va, is
the porter the first Pullman that leaves Lake
wood, N. j.. bright and early in the morning.
He's good porter, industrious citizen. His phi
losophy is sound. Hear it,
"Well, the house I own in Jersey City isn't quite
paid for, but am past what they call 'the danger
mark 1t cost me $1,000 eight years ago. It's worth
more than twice that Yes, SIR you feel better,
you are BETTER and white folks think more Of you >
when you your own house and pay taxes. This
here living in dress suit don't get you any
where"
Some Of the "white folks" might think that over, and
not mere little white gentlemen that live in dress suit
cases, but far up the top that make it diff
cult possible for the little to get out of the dress
suit and into home of his own.
John Francis Jones says, "People think Of You
when you pay taxes and do your share to keep things
aping
So they do probably What is far more important:
The citizen thinks more about his Government takes
more interest in it, palues its stability more highly when
he is taxpayer, and the roof that covers him.
The biggest men, who have climbed the top want to
stay there keep what they have and get more find
nothing better in the way of SAFETY AND INSUR-
ANCE than increasing the number of those that
out of dress suit and into house that they
Instead OF gra1tlng on everything tnat goes INTO
house. from the cement in the cellar floor to the tub in
the bathroom it would be good thing business would
make as cheap possible the BUILDING of homes and
as numerous as possible the OWNERS of them.
This applies especially to modest houses that cost from
S., 1000 down. r..-.
If those that control would allow it to take
as much interest in its citizens IN PEACE it
takes the citizens of other countries IN WAR; millions
of Americans would move out of dress suit into
home of their own .'
What you suppose could be done in the Of home
building with forty fifty of the two hundred billion
dollars that this country turned in the of
the wari
If the thing can be done in war; why not in peacei
France and Sweden the two most stable and really
conservative countries in the world the safest in the long
run for the investment of big capital In Sweden and in
France PEOPLE DO NOT LIVE IN SUIT CASES.
More than six millions of French people owners
of French soil And when you read the history of Charles
the Twelfth admring the terrific courage with which he
fought marching through Russia and her vast armies
with only twelve thousand men, remember that every
of those twelve thousand owned his own home in
Sweden and intended to get back to it.
A safe government is one that means something to
majority of the men governed. Let the majority
part of the country and ysu may forget the muchds
cussed dangerous discomfort"
The Washington times., 1922-02-23
SMILES
UOMEWARD.

Where Is Philadelphia7"
asks Margot Asquith, the
English woman. Right where
II was when the Liberty. Bell
spoke, Margot.
Some Germans are demand.
ing the liberation Of the ex.
crown prince. In other words,
they seek the freedom Of the
cheese.
Scientist has discovered
that tho shape of the head
affects the voice. Maybe that
n why 30 many vocalists sing
fiat.
The Washington times., 1922-02-23
Denaturing
Our History
THE exposures by the Hearst
newspapers of the conspiracy


secretly to alter United
States school histories, so as to
promote British : American
union, have amazed and aroused
the people of the entire nation.
Patriotic societies in many States
are insisting that the Anglicized
texts be thrown out of the public
schools.
The newspapers which promptly
sought to belittle and ridicule the
charges that our school histories
were being edited by British
propagandists no longer attempt
defense except by indirection.
They dare not defend, for the
issue is clean-cut between Ameri-
canization and Briticization of
the school children of the United
States. .,.
The public school is the foun-
tain-head of future citizenship.
History teaching is the chief
source of patriotic spirit and pur-
pose. The pathway Of a nation 8
destiny starts at the schoolhouse.
A nations history is to it's own
people an essential force for ma
tional pride, morale and sOlidar-
ity.
No. modern nation has more
stoutly builded its history to these
ends than has Great Britain. This
is her right, and no complaint is
lodged against British history
even of the American Revolu-
tion-in its place; but its place
is not in the public schools Of the
United States.
The proved fact is that native
isnobbery has warmly seconded
!; British prejudice and intrigue in
! q movement to reduce American
heroes, ideals and achievements
into objects of contempt to our
own children.
The shown result, like the de-
\ sign, has been to denature Ameri-
J can school history of its most in
+ spiriting examples, sacrifices,
( slogans, victories and natal prin-
1 oiples, while exalting England as
! the Mother of Liberty, of whom
America is an undeveloped step
child.
The few remaining defenders of
\ the attempt to de-Americanize
d our school histories dare not now
3 face the clean-cut issue. They
turn in every direction but toward
the now established fact that in
recent alterations of a dozen or
more text books our nations
heroic characters are shamefully
DETAINED, the just causes Of the
American Revolution and War of
1912 misrepresented, the basic
principles of the Republic dis
torted, and innumerable inspiring
episodes in our history belittled
or entirely omitted-all in the
professed interest of Anglo-Amer-
lean amity.
Every true American naturally
resents and resists the teachings
! in these books to our children that
"The President of the Continental
Congress and first signer Of the
Declaration of Independence was
q smuggler," with no other men
ton of Hancock from cover to
cover; that Jefferson was "deserv-
ing of a halter" and that Hamil-
ton declared that "the people are
q great beast"
Nine revisionists give nine diff
ferent sets of causes Of the Ameri-
can Revolution, every one conflict
ing with the others and every one
in irreconcilable contradiction to
The Washington times., 1922-02-23
We TOWNE GOSSIP
Copyright. Is2f.)
X. G. B.

LOUISVILLE, KY.
Dear X. C. B.-The boy who delivers my
paper puts it just where l asked him to and has
never missed day. 1t never happened before,
and wrote to the paper and told them and
praised the boy That was some weeks ago, and
now find that they never told the little fellow
about my letter. 1t makes me mad, and, l ask
you am unreasonable? A. F. j.
The Washington times., 1922-02-23

THAT THE end and
aim.
D D .
OF ALL endeavor.
. . .
UNCONSCIOUSLY
OR consciously.
IS TO earn the praise
y
OF THOSE we serve.
.
AND IF we fail.
TO GIVE this praise.
WHERE 1T is earned.
. y .
IT'S JUST as bad.
AS THOUGH we
failed.
~ . .
TO PAY in coin.
= .
THAT WHICH we
owe.
TO THOSE who
serve.
AND WHOEVER it
was. Il
TO WHOM you
wrote.
OR YOUR carrier
boy.
a . .
COMMITTED THE
crime.
- . =
OF HOLDING out.
ON THE pay
envelope.
OF TIE little boy.
AND IF I was the kid.
I'D GET a new boss.
.
FOR IT'S just as
important.
. .
TO HAVE a good
boss.
AS TO have a good
bow
The Washington times., 1922-02-23

you, am / unreasonable
DEAR A. +. j.
EVEN ON news
papers.
THERE ARE some
men. y
WHO HAVE a theory.
THAT WORDS of
praise.
ARE INCLINED to
spoil.
INSTEAD OF help.
AND THEY'RE all
wrong.
AND 1T doesn't
matter.
IF THE praise be said,
OF THE little fellow.
WHO CARRIES the
paper.
OR THE older one.
WHO WRITES for it.
AND ABOUT your
boy.
I'LL MAKE q bet.
IF YOU sent word.
HE MISSED your
house.
ON HIS daily round.
1T WOULDN'T be
long.
AND HE'D hear Of it.
AND IT'S quite too
bad.
THAT THIS is so.
AND QUITE too bad.
THAT THERE are
folks.
WHO DON'T under
stand.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-22
Ripping Rhymes
BySWalt Mason

I often wonder where he is, James
Bulger, once my bosom friend; along
the highway he may whiZ, or through
the solemn forest wend. No matter
where he may have trekked, through
palaces or Bedouin tents, he yet at
times must recollect that he still owes
me fifty cents. Perhaps he fees in
frenzied haste before a wild mid-ocean
gale; perhaps he's in some arctic waste
with polar bears upon his trail. l pic
ture him in camp asleep, when stars
peep through the cloudy rents, and
when he wakes l see him weep be-
cause he owes me fifty cents. No man
can have a tranquil mind, or know the
peace that does not fade, if he has
left some debts behind, the debts he
knows he should have paid. The mem
DRY will haunt him still when he com
munes with other gents; and when he
sleeps upon the hill, his dreams will
be of fifty cents. care not for that
ancient loan, four bits won't make or
break a man; but BulgeT's soul must
creak and groan whene'er my name he
haps to scan. He's lost the peace that
is sublime, his halidom is full of dents,
his fame is furnished for all time be
cause he owes me fifty cents.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-22

nation and of equipping it adequately against the
Germans Wherever he was scheduled tor speak,
thousands were turned away long before he ap-
peared on the platform. His appeals aroused
England as the words of no other man could do
When the war was over, England was at his
feet He had attained popularity such as is
given to few men to possess. He was acclaimed
a super-man.
But of what satisfaction are the plaudits Of
the populace, the honors of grateful country, if
foul heart besmirches the very acts that earn
the appreciation and approval of your fellow
men? Bottomly held his prestige only for few
hectic months until one disclosure of his crooked
dealings followed another in quick succession.
Then came his trial, the verdict, and his dis
grace.
Strange that Bottomly should have stopped
to criminal methods He had fought his way up
ward against great odds. Fortune had not been
kind to him in his early days. Every step in his
progress came after laborious effort. He had
determination and will power. But.his character
lacked stability honor, uprightness.
He might have been chronicled among Eng
lands great men as a reward for his war work
had he possessed those moral qualities which
characterize the truly great AS it was ne rose
to fall, suddenly and abruptly into the pit of his
own digging.