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The Brandon news., 1922-08-17
GET TOGETHER

This is no time for internal
strife among the American people,
1t is the time to pull hard and all
together. -.
While we are self-sustaining
nation in every sense of the word,
our prosperity yet depends to a
considerable extent upon con.
ditions that exist in the rest of
the world. We have large for
eiqn trade-or did have-anu
when other countries are financl-
ally down and out our markets
are limited to just that extent.
No one can tell when Europe
will be on it's feet, Or whether it
will ever be SO again.
With such conditions prevail
ing, it becomes more and more
imperative that the people of the
United States cultivate a closer
spirit of cohesion and unity OF
purpose, with the welfare of our
country ais their ultimate goal.
Only such governments as are
strong in right and might will pre-
vail. Others will fall by the way
side, never to rise again in like
form.
Lay aside petty disputes. A
country prospers only as it's peo-
pie work I'M amity to correct
and given purpose.
America must forge ahead.
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17
Extension Service County Agent
and Home Demonstration Work.

Farmers in the browns loam
section should make it a. point to
visit the Raymond Branch Expert
ment Station at this time, if possi-
BILE. They have many interesting
experiments in progress and they
are showing up extremely we'll.
The corn and cotton variety
tests are very interesting, but of
course the amount harvested will
be the true index to the value of
that work. Fertilizer tests are
showing up exceedingly we'll.
Mr.. Anders is attempting to
answer the question as to what is
the time to apply Nitrate of Soda
to corn. He has plats where Nit
rate of Soda was applied as plant
ing time and other plats ranging
Gown to July Is. One thing that
was especially plain is that the
use of Nitrate of Soda is a very
profitable proposition.
Another experiment that should
be interesting is one with sweet
potatoes. Mr.. Anders is attempt
ing to answer the question as to
what is the best seed sweet po-
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17
TAKE 1T SERIOUSLY

Don't ignore the great calamity
cloud that is lowering over Eu-
rope. 1t lis a serious menace, and
only a miracle can prevent the
impending crash.
When a great structure is about
to collapse people do not com.
mand it to stand by word OF
mouth. They bolster it up with
the best means at hand until
permanent repairs can be made.
Europe is in the position OF
the crumbling building: 1t IS
about to collapse for lack of ad-
equate support.
The great need of the old world
is temporary relief. Without it
the governments and people san
not reach the point of permanent
improvement.
The international bankers of
the world have laid down the
terms upon which they will
furnish the finances necessary
for this relief-for readjustment
and reconstruction.
The governments, with one ex-
ception, have indicated their will
Iingness to accept these terms.
France alone remains obdurate
-insanely blind and stubborn
and without French cooperation
nothing can be attained.
The French are holding a two
edged sword over the tiny cord
that binds the. future peace of
the world.
Will they lower it i'm honor, or
will greed, vindictiveness and
stubbornness prevail?
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17
FUNDS ALLOTTED FOR
FOREST AND MORTON
GHWAY-LAST LINK

Funds have been allotted by
the State Highway Commission
for the improvement of the road
between Forest and Morton, long
the impossible barrier in the
Mississippi section of the Dixie
Overland Highway, it has been
announced. With the completion
of this stretch, the worst gap in
the Mississippi link of this High
way, which joins Columbus and
Savannah Georgia. with San
Diego, California, will be COM
pleted.
AS soon as plans can be drawn
up and approved. work will be
started in the construction of this
seven mile stretch, which has
been such a serious obstacle in
one of the most important trunk
highways in Mississippi. This
Highway enters Mississippi at
kewanee, and traverses the heart
of the State. connecting it's three
largest cities. Meridian, Jackson
and Vickshurg From Kewanee to
Meridian the road is completed.
Federal Aid Project 1T, which
begins at the Alabama line, con-
Meeting with a county project at
Russell, which runs ON in to
Meridian. Between Meridian and
Jackson, distance of one hum
dred and twentv-one miles,
twenty-six miles of Federal Aid
road have been completed, and
the additional seven miles viii
bring the total to thirty three.
There are also several county
projects ON the route. and it is
hoped in the near future to con-
hard surfaced highway. From
Jackson to Vicksburg, a distance
of fifty two miles, the highway
is surfaced all the way.
The Dixie-Overland Highway
is one of the most important of
the transcontinental highways,
and it's completion will mean
much to the State and to the
South. The Mississippi section is
one of the most important trunk
highways in Mississippi, it carry
ing an ever increasing volume of
traffic between the cities and the
smaller towns.
If the proposed amendment to
Section ITO of the Mississipnl
Constitution is adopted at the
November elections, this highway
will be taken over for mainte-
nance by the state. as part of the
State Highway System. In this
event, what sections remain un-
surfaced, will be speedily inn
proved, and the highway kept in
a condition allowing traffic DUR
ing the entire three hundred
sixty five days in the wear.
The completion of this highway
carries with it all the benefits
that are derived by a community
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17

We deeply sympathize with
S. H. Abey, owner and editor of
the Crystal Springs Meteor, who
suffered the loss of his entire
plant by fire last Friday. The
Meteor has been a. welcome visit
or to our desk, and we have learn
ed to look forward to its coming
each week.
We understand an entirely new
plant has been ordered, including
a Model IA Linotype and other
latest printing machinery. The
paper will be issued at the plant
of The Courier, Hazlehurst, until
the new equipment arrives.
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17
TUESDAYS PRIMARY

Tuesdays primary resulted in
a close race between Stephens
and Vardaman with Miss Belle
Kearney polling about $4,000
votes in the State. We publish
elsewhere by precincts the com
plete vote of Rankin County. We
are not able to give the complete
vote of the State at the time OF
making up our press but hope to
give a statement in detail in next
weeks paper so that our readers
NAV have exact and accurate in
formation as to the status of the
race. After making inquiry at the
Vardaman headquarters and the
Stephens headquarters and from
all other available sources, we
are inclined to the opinion that
Vardaman is a little in the lead.
The second primary will occur
on September 5, 1922. and it is
reasonable to expect the cam
paign between now and that time
will pick up considerably. There
was good vote polled through
out the State and probably forty
or fifty thousand women voted.
Perhaps one-third of the women
voting for Miss Kearney and the
other two-thirds divided their
votes between Stephens and
Vardaman.
We are not sufficiently posted
on political affairs in Mississippi
to make any forecast as to what
the result will be a. we are new
comers in the newspaper busi-
ness here. However. looking at
it from a disinterested stand
point, it looks to us that the real
question at issue is whether the
people will elect a strong, vigor-
GUS able-bodied man to represent
them in the United States Senate
or whether they will elect man
who is said to be physically and
mentally a man of the past. We
are inclined to the opinion that
the result of the campaign will
depend largely upon the view that
the people take during the next
three weeks as to the physical and
mental condition of one of the
candidates.
In the Congressional race Col
lier won decisively over Howie,
his opponent, and by a margin
which left no doubt in the minds
of all as to the choice of the
masses.
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17

make close study of some
special experiment and see if
their experience cannot assist in
working out some details of just
the subject you expect to try.
AS stated in previous article
published in the Brandon News,
Every farmer in Rankin County
should make a firm resolution to
begin this fall and winter to inn
prove some of the acres on his
farm with view of bringing up
the average of his entire farm
within the next few years.
1t takes a long time to make a
change of any system of farming,
and we will have to undertake, a
venture of this kind with a de-
termination to- continue until we
can have big results.
O. l.. Simmons,
County Agent.
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17

The county paper is an edu-
cational institution and it
should, therefore, be read by
every pupil in the county. Boys
and girls should be trained
early in life to read about things
that are happening today, or,
in other words, to learn history
in the making. The paper
should, therefore, go weekly in
to every school. There should
be a correspondent for the
paper in every school COM
munity. Every county paper can
be made great asset in the
efforts of the citizenship to
bring about better economic,
educational, social and religious
conditions. If the county paper
is not what it should be, the
people of the county should
help to improve it.-W. +. Bond,
State Superintendent of Educa-
ton.
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17
"THE WOMAN VOTER"

The Woman Voter is a new
paper published in Clarksdale
which has just reached our desk.
1t is a neatly printed and ably
edited paper of four six column
pages. Miss Minnie Brewer is the
editor and Halle Moore is busi-
ness manager. The editor of the
Brandon News is personally ac-
Quainted with Miss Brewer, and
we predict a brilliant future for
The Woman Voter under her
guidance.
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17

from any improved road. Social
conditions are bettered in that
consolidated schools, improve
ment of rural mail service, and
community gatherings are made
possible. Farm lands are also
greatly increased in value, and
the decrease in the cost of haul
ing allows the farmer to market
his products in the city at a good
of profit. Improved roads
are rapidly turning the human
tide from the city to the country,
where modern conveniences make
life bearable, and improved high
ways make is possible.
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17
HIGHER PAPER PRICES

All indications point to another
period of inflated newsprint
prices. The manufacturers Of
newsprint claim that the news
papers are running riot in the use
of paper and claim that they will
be unable to keep to their present
production schedule. In this
event the manufacturer will tack
on a few more cents per pound
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17

tato. He has rows grown from
commercial size potatoes out of
large producing hills, other rows
grown from strings of large pro-
ducing hills, still others grown
from the commercial size and the
strings of low producing hills
and others which he used the
strings from the ordinary bank.
He is planning ON carrying this
work on for two or three years
and the result ought to give us
some valuable data as to what is
a good seed potato.
A. C. Spinks,
Agricultural Editor.
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17

First it was secret diplomacy.
and then we had shirt sleeve
diplomacy, and now that the
women are breakino in we pre-
sumo it will be of the bloomer
variety.
Discreet men never tell all they
know 1t would show them up.
With everybody wearino shoes
there seems to be tremendous
demand for bootlegs.
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17
and the publisher will have to

and the publisher will have to
paw the bill.
Publishers throughout the
country are trying to lower the
postal rates and if they succeed
it will stimulate the larger dailies
and magazines to greater activity
in their efforts to gain control
of the country field. In the mean
time the country weekly will con-
tinue to charge "a dollar, or
possibly a. dollar and a half, a
year. A sum barely laroe enough
to paw the cost of newsprint, to
say nothing of postage, labor and
other expenses.
It's a great life-if you don't
weaken.
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17
LOST!

Wrist watch, left in the bath
house at Weille's pond, Thursday,
W." on back Reward offered.
Finder please return to Mrs.
Laura McLaurin, Brandon, Miss.
1tc.
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17
AS THE EDITCR SEES 1T
How much do you know?
Here's a sample

Here's a sample.
Ii you see new building, there
are certain improvements you
could have made had you been the
architect. Or the builder.
The man who lays a new pave
ment doesn't do it just right. You
can point out the defects and tell
him how it should be done.
If the village da%s pcss a new
ordinance you can Tear it to
shreds and lay bare it's glaring
Inconsistencies.
If the school board adopts a
new set of books you know of an
other set that would be far better.
And if the preacher points out
the road to hell you even know
of a short cut to take.
How much do you know, any
way?
1t isn't the wife that so many
men fear. It's what she may fina
out.
And therein lies the fatal mis-
take so many men make-the mis-
take that leads either to life
of unhappneiss or to the divorce
courts.
Husbands and wives should be
perfectly frank with each other,
even though frankness leads to
the bearing of facts that are not
entirely to ones credit.
Frankness is the father of
truth, and the constant employ
ment of truth in little things
leads to greater truths in the big
ones.
Tell it to your wife. If you
can afford to do it she can afford
to hear of it. And she may even
surprise YOU with something in
return
The Brandon news., 1922-08-17
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-15

HE to southern Maryland. There he
fishes as long as he can see to haul
them In.
Next to fishing. motoring is his
favorite recrcation--and he always
Is his own chauffeur.
He doesn't like poker. plays an in
different hand at bridge and thinks
of golf as cow.pasture pool
Why He's Feared
Just why there should be alarm
among high.p.otectionists at McCum-
ber's elevation may not be plain. Fo,
he is an open and avowed high pro-
tectionist.
But McCumber wants protection af-
forded equally to agriculture and in.
dustry. Captains Of industry who have
sought protection for their products
have opposed tariffs on farm products
because thY diserd low food stuffs for
their workers so wages could be kept
low.
THE American market says Nc
Cumber, belongs of right to the Amer.
lean farmer. TO the exclusion of every
other farmer on earth, until farm
ing, taken one year with another, is
made just as profitable measured by
the labor expended as any other great
industry Of the country"
There is the foundation stone upon
which his leadership of the Finance
Committee will rest.
Prosperous farmers. he contends,
are just as essential as prosperous
steel barons or motor magnates.
F'avOrs Soldier Bonus
The fight for a soldiers bonus takes
on renewed interest because of Nc
cumber's elevation.
In the last session he was the lead
ing advocate Of substantial aid
through a bonus to veterans OF the
World War.
As chairman of the Finance Commit
tee McCumber will be able to urge
with greater power his proposals fol
soldier relief and for the financia
arrangements to provide the funds.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-15
NeW Senate Finance Chief
Feared By Wall Street Is
Advocate of Soldier Bonus
by HARRY HUNT

Staif Correspondent Of the ArdInoreite
WASHINGTON.--A farmer boy from
the northwest.
A man whose personal financial in.
terests lie wholly in farm invest
ments.
United states senator whose con
stituents are 30 per cent farmers
with interests exclusively agricultural.
Such is Porter j. McCumber OF
North Dakota, who, by the death Of
Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvan-
la, moves into the craftsmanship OF
the powerful Senate Finance Commit
tee.
Wherefore there is a great to do in
eastern banking circles, business and
political circles. The horrible posi-.
billty of government dominated by
friends of the farmer is discussed on
every side
Just what sort of individual then,
IN this man from the west who causes
such chills OF apprehension along the
spine Of Wall street.
Earmarks Of West
A tall angular westerner, florid and
wind.beaten of face with spatse tawny
hair and high pitched nasal drawl
suggestive OF his Scotch forebears.
A man who. despite his 23 years in
the Senate. still bears the earmarks
of the country school teacher and
small town lawyer.
Careful above the average in his
dress slow and deliberate in speech,
verbose in debate.
Born Ga years ago near Crete Ills,
he moved as child with his parents
to homestead near Rochester, Mimi.
He went to the country school and
later to the Rochester high school.
Then he taught school winters, work.
ing on the farm during vacations,
until he had money enough to enter
the University of Michigan.
Starts Law Practice
Out of college, he set up in the
practice Of law at Rochester, but the
Red River country was just opening
up and he saw prospects of better op-
portunities there. So he hung out his
shingle first at Lisbon, N. D., but
soon transferred H. TO Wahpeton.
In 1885 he became a member of the
territorial houFe Of representatives
then states attorney In 1889 lie won
election to the United States Senate
and has served continuously since.
McCumber scored his first killing
as n senator by getting through the
pure food and drugs act.
AS new senator, he was shelved
on the inconspicious committee on
manufactures. Th02food and drug bill
was referred to this committee with
the idea of shelving 1t. too.
McCumber took his committee work
and the bill seriously. He got so much
general support for the bill stirred up
that there was nothing to do but pass
| II.
McCumber also scored with the first
| prohibition legislation to pass the
federal Congress. He introduced the
| bill prohibiting the sale of liquor in
the capitol an1 on the government re
servations. In passing that Congress
took its first real step toward national
prohibition.
McCumber has one dissipation
fishing, Saturday afternoons he will
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-15
LIFE CAREER MONTH
PLAN OF RINSLAND

This months Is designated as life
Career Month" by Mr.. Rlnsland. direc.
.or Of Research and Vocational Guild
anec in the Ardmore schools. He. has
prepared an outline and other ltera.
turc To help every student in choosing
his or her life work
There arc 10 topics under the outline
Of activities for January. The first
topic Is for the Mothers Clubs and is
on the question: What Part Should
the Parent Play In Determining the
Life Work Of the Chiid." There Is
an excellent list OF vocational books
which will be given to parents at Club
meetings and TO Junior and Senior
High students.
Then. for the third topic. each teach.
cr In Junior and Senior High. win de.
vote two lessons. on January 10th and
2oth. showing the relation OF their
subject 10 the work OF the world; for
for what occupations each subject pre-
pares directly and indirectly.
English teachers viii assign themes
To be written on vocations by all Eng
lish Classes in the High School. Pam.
phlcts containing information on over
a thousand occupations are available.
Another phase will include programs
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-15

ties that are boundess. Not an op-
portunity to make more wealth to
pile up but to distribute some Of the
wealth they have out to the proper
places for it. There are good hard
working farmers out in this country
who have labored and have not been
rewarded. There are families in this
city who are honest and who have
striven as best they know but for
good reasons have not prospered. The
opportunity for every man who can
save a few dollars is here. Quietly
seek out some home that needs your
help and administer to that home.
Pick out a farmer friend and visit
with him. Inspire him. Show him
you are interested and watch with
what better results he will work. Give
him something TO do with. Put a pig
or a COW on his farm. There Is a
wealth that comes from an investment
like that which cannot be measured in
dollars and cents"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-15

estate values coming down, with neces-
sites coming down, labor must see
the inevitable and come down, too. A
large portion of the value of every
commodity consists Of the labor that
goes into II and the labor of handling
1t and commodities cannot recede sat
isfactorily until labor recedes.
"The retailer too must be content
not to sell a commodity for S. when
he can make a reasonable profit on a
less sum.
Economy is another factor that
must enter into the solution. Pur-
chases must be confined to necessities
and not merely to satisfy whimsical
wants. Within the past few years
there has been a remarkable change In
the standard of living Families are
living better now than at any other
period. This high standard of living
cannot go on growing higher ut this
time, there must be recession for q
time. Conservation must prevail. The
man who receives $40 day must save
$3.50; those earning s. must save 81
and those who earn only 81 must
save so cents.
Work and Produce
Work and produce must he the
motto of every man. Work whether
the job suits exactly or not. Work
is the making of a man and the
saving of q country. Europe under
the same circumstances will adjus
more quickly than our own country
because the people work and produc,
with greater regularity and with les'
| friction and delay and we might say
! with greater skill because much of th'
skill that enters into work comes o
patience and contentment and will
/ ingness to work.
1T has not been many days Sine
there was no market for bonds. Blu
that condition is completely changed
The bond houses, many Of them, arr
swept clean. they have nothing to OF
fer. Money is seeking good safe soun,
securities and the safe investmen
that pays per cent now is rapid,
passing. When money begins T.
hunt legitimate investments It Is evi
dence that the sky Is clearing.
County is Fortunate
"There are conditions here that d
not exist in many other places. w
have oil and this commodity produce
a wealth that helps In some way cithe
directly or indirectly every person 0
the community. Carter county
fortunate = in having this wealth Il
addition to the agricultural wealt
possessed by every other community.
There was never better time t
live than right now. Abe man VIII
has forged to the front and don
more than his fellows has opportun