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The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-05-25
!. TISHoMINGo COUNTY. MISSISSIPPI.
SPARKS FROM THE GOSPEL ANVIL.

To obey better than fat
rams
Il believe that God will do nothing for that do
ourselves"
know of no sadder sight than loving God His
pleading with rebelious to Him."
Would God say this Of you: He's back following
after me'?"
Ask yourself this question. sir: Am l disappointment to
Goa'?"
Samuel is not the only preacher who has spent the night
weeping Are you tying the hands of minister onight2
1t only old gave Peter and sheep
ard oxen that made Saul out liar"
Environment is not everything, look at Adam and
You be bigger smaller than
make environment
You can't of small putting him between
Sheets You've got to get him from the inside,
You Find perfect church, sir there are
none If there and could into it?'
Any fool of mob cruelty the Christi 1t living
Father God to raise him from the omb.'
The meanest, inside mil
b ster than the moral man outside the church,
You mighty little sir if hide behind anything
small as hypocrit'
Hypocrits in the church? That's only excused"
Poor old devi He gets stuff he is not guilty
of. If go down am to bame'
It's for take che ok book write
it to Cod AMI then go live like the devil But that Car
onLedger.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-05-25
The Truth About 1t.

The Federal Prohibition Director
for this state announces adyices
from Washington to the effect that
reports to Commissioner Haynes,
covering every section of the coun-
try, including Alaska, Hawaii and
Porto Rico, are uniform in indicat-
ing gratifying progress in the way
Of constructive enforcement of the
18th amendment.
Commissioner Haynes writes that
accumulative evidence entirely and
conclusively disproves recent un-
founded statements of propagandists
designed to deceive the public, but
which, in truth, have steeled the
friends of enforcement to closer CO.
operation and more concerted ac-
tiyities.
The facts are,' says Commits
sioner Haynes, that real liquor
for beverage purposes is practically
unavailable, the bootlegger market
is diminishing daily, because OF
universal fear of their poisonous,
product, the home brew fad is
wanning and moonshiners are on
the run, all brought about by cut
! ting off sources of supply, coopera-
tion on the part of enforcement
agencies of every character, backed
by crystalized public sentiment,
an aroused press and helpful car
toonists, more convictions, by
juries and sterner, sitter sentences
by courts. The action of Chambers
of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis and
similar organizations, and promi-
nent clubs in practically every state
4 is most significant and testifies in
disputably that the people are
emphatic in their desire for strict
enforcement, and it is unnecessary
to state, that when America wills
Americas will prevails.
Perhaps the most encouraging
recent development is the manifes
/ tation of genuine cooperation OF
) the part of the police in larg
/ metropolitan centers. Such power
! ful forces, united in the campaign
, for constructive enforcement, i
most significant.
The 18th amendment is bein,
enforced to greater extent thai
was ever dreamed possible, and i
| is pleasure to command the PRO
gress that is being made in you
state through your excellent corps
|, of enforcement officials"
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-05-25
News Defeae Weakens "Ad-
ministration Bloc in Con-
gresS.

The effect cf Senator News de.
feat in the primaries upon the Hard
ing administration is more or less
obvious. Taken in connection with
the prior defeat of Representative
Copley in Illinois, it constitutes a
terrible warning to the reactiona-
ries. 1t is evidence that the folks
back home are familior with
the empty record of this Republican
congress; that they resent the failure
OF the administration to keep its
election pledges to reduce taxes and
revive industry and business; that
they condemn the seating of New
berry IN a purchased seat in the
senate, and that they are generally
as antagonistic to the administra-
ton as they are to Congress.
1t may be assumed, therefore, that
the slogan, Stand by the Admins
tration' will no longer make the
appeal it has made to the Republi-
cans in the Senate and House who
are candidates for reelection. II
the folks back home won't stand
for the social and political favor
ties of the administration like Sena-
tor New they cannot he expected
to stand for the lesser satillites.
From now on it may be expected
that the administration plans and
policies will create more divisions
among Republicans in both houses
than heretofore. The weak and
wavering will be the first to desert
the administration ship, and after
that it is a matter Of conjecture to
what extent the desertion may 60
1t is an axiom of Congress, "Wher
the water reaches the second deck
follow the rats"
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-05-25

How unfortunate that others do
not see us, as we see ourselves.
There never was human being,
who looked in glass, and failed
to find something frst-class, in his
own face and figure. When Tom
cat sits on the bat k yard fence trilling
one of his heartfelt love songs, he
actually thinks he has the finest
alto voice in the word.-K. Lam
ity's Harpoon.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-05-25
And The Overhead.

Are you sure you have shown
me all the principal parts Of this
CARP asked the fair prospective
purchaser.
Yes, madam, all the main ones
returned the dealer..-
We'll, then, where is the depre-
citation? Tom told me that was
me Of the biggest things about q
car, American Legion Weekly.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-05-25

Remelnber, that advertisements
ordered in this paper and no time
INIT specified will be published
md charged for until ordered
'St
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-05-25
To Our Correspondents.

Be sure and sign your communi
cations EVERY TIME. And re
member that while our paper is
dated Thursday it is printed Wed
nesday and we cannot publish com
muncations that reach US Wednes
day morning.
THE vIDETTE.
Every day is new teacher and
comes with fresh lessons for all wht
are willing to learn.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-05-25

Stop worrying about the sorrows
of yesterday and go after the JOYS of
today.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-05-25

Certified Nancy Hall Sweet Poto-
to Plants. Ready about May 18th.
Place your order early. $500 per
thousand. Special price on large
order. r. H. Garrard and
L. G. Paden.
3ltf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12
Dorothy Dix Tails
why Bachelors Are Bachelors.


He adores women's society. ana is
known as a ladies' man. He is to be
found at pink teas and afternoon re-
lceptions, and invariably adorns the
opera box of the prettiest debEtante of
the season. He is a connoisSaur of
feminine charms. and his dictum set
ties the crown of belledon among rival
beauties.
Much experience in Iove-making
has made him an adept that causes
other men, in contrast to seem mere
bungling amateurs. He can gauge to
a mathematical nicely just the amount
of pressure that should go into a
handclasp, and the proper degree OF
wiStful pathOS to throw into a glance.
He is apparently always on the
verge of proposing, yet he never pro-
poses, and in vain is the net of the
fowler spread before him. He is a fly
bird, and he always flutters away at
the psychological moment.
He loves women, but he loves him
self better, and he has no notion of
spending on the support of wife and
children the money that makes even a
moderately well-off bachelor SO COM
Portable. Even in his moment of dis
gust with the club chef he reflects that
it is better to endure the cooking you
have, than to fly to the housekeeping
you know not of, and SO he stays on
the safe side of the Rubicon.
The man who has old bachelorhood
thrust upon him may belong to one
of two classes. He may belong to
the men who are chronicaI1y in love
with the wrong woman. He may have
always fancied the girl who didn't
fancy him. He may have always met
the only woman he ever could have
loved just after she had gotten en-
gagged, or married, to somebody else.
Luck was against him, poor fellow,
and he was too fine, wanting the best,
to take any of the remnants left on
the shelf.
Beneath the celibacy of the other
old bachelor there is often a story of
heroism that the world never knows.
People only see a withered and dried
up old fellow, fussy about the
draughts, and his corner by the fire,
or rotund old boy, growing garrulous
and bald-headed, and they cannot
know that deep down in the drawer
of a desk that nobody ever associated
with romance there is a withered rose,
and a soiled white glove, and that a
lonely old heart still thrills to the
memory of a love that has been dust
and ashes for forty years.
Or it may be, that there was an old
mother to be supported, or a widowed
sister with little children looking to
him for bread. Duty stood with flam-
ing sword and guarded all the prim-
rose paths, and when the time came
when he was free to marry 1t was too
late. Love had passed him by Old
bachelorhood had been thrust upon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12

here, It isn't much of place, but
it's something to start on and it has
possibilities There's a few hundred
dollars in the bank and I think Wen
buy some chickens and ducks and
maybe a GOVT Dick, this is our
chance to break away! I want to tell
you something, Dick-you and 1 will
never amount to much on the stage
and I'm so heartily sick of tawdry
finery and makeup that the thought
of percale bungalow apron and a
clean washed face seems like heaven
to me And as I look around this
little kitchen Otis going to get an
awful -scrubbing first thing in the
morning) a queer little feeling comes
over me- I don't know what it is,
Dick, but I want you to share it with
me. It's sort of feeling of content,
Dick, knowing this little place is really
my own. and 1 guess maybe. I'd call
it the home-feeling.'
Copyright. 1929, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BIZ LEE PAPE.

We was eating suppir. being roast
beef and mash potatoes and loose
corn in exter saucer, and 1 had 2
helpings of everything and 1 was
thinking about another one, saying
I don't know whether I wunt eny
more meet or not.
Well if you don't know I'm sure I
don't ma sed. Meening I was the
best judg, and I sed, Well watts for
dizzert. Thinking if it wasent some
kind of bum dizzert like rice pudding
or bred pudding Id leeve big space
for it and not eat eny more meet, and
ma sed, Never mind, I hope If you
were out eny ware you wouldent ask
about the dizZert wen you were asked
If you wanted more meet.
Well, maybe Ill just have more
mash potatoes under little gravey,
watts for dizzert? L sed.
Dident jest speek to you on that
subjeck? ma sed.
No man, you sed wen somebody
asked me if wunted more meet.
you dident say mash potatoes, 1 sed-
Well do you wunt enything more
or don't you, for goodniss sakes? ma
sed.
Well. let me see, I'm not sure. 1
sed.
There's nuthi lg Id like better than
to sit heer all day waiting for your
royal anser, ma sed. Meaning she
wouldent, and jest then Nora came in
from the kitchen saying to ma, I'm
afraid the bread pudding is a little
bert mann, in fact half of it is all
black and the rest is kind of brown.
Ill take a little more of every
thing, guess I sed, and ma sed.
You'll do nuthing of the kind, you'll
jest wait for the bred pudding, If
other people can eat it a little brown,
who are you?
Aw heck, I sed. On account of me
not liking bred pudding enyhow, so
wat must it of taisted like bernt, ony
ate a little anyways on account of
not wunting to feel as If had missed
dizzert.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12
Questions ANSWERS

Q. How does a rope cable compare with
a chain cable in strength? A. G.
A Compared with the strength of
hempen cable, a chain cable of one inch
liameter Of rod is equivalent to a hempen
cable of 1O15 inches in circumference
Q. Do gold coins vary in finenessg
a. In the United States gold coins may
vary from 500 to 901 in fineness. A report
of the Assay Commission showed that they
actually varied only from S995 to 900.2
Q. On how many roads has the strike
of the shopmen been settled? A. K.
A. Officers of the unions have been
quoted saying that agreements have
been reached on 1874 railroads. Out of $50
600 striking shopmen about 175.O0O are
back at work.
Q. What did the governor of North
Carolina say TO the governor Of South
Carolina? J. II. 3.
A The historic speech of the governor
OF North Carolina to the governor of
South Carolina when they met on the
stairca Sc Of the "Old White" at Sulphur
Springs is said to have been at is a long
time Between drinks
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question BY writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic
Haskin. Director; Washington. D: c This
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12

While journeying across Kansas re-
Gently. Secretary Herbert Hoover
stoned in Hutchinson long enough TO
drop a few words of announcement
and advice to the farmers Like
majority OF political farmers, the sec
rotary has a panacea for all the farm
er's ills. Mr.. Hoover's cure is diver
sified farming. But like the rest OF
the political farmers, the secretary
oyerlooks the fact that it matters lit
tie what kind OF crop the farmer pro-
duces so long as the purchaser names
the price The day of jubilee for ag-
rfculture will come when the tillers OF
the soil can name their own price for
what they produce ana get it. Most
Of the plans for extending financial
aid to the farmer contemplate load
ing him up with debts from which he
will find it extremely difficult to ex-
tricate himself. He has it in his power
to become a lender of money instead
OF a borrower, and with effective or
ganization nobody can stop him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12
THE NEAR EAST.

The problem of what is known as
the Near East again threatens to set
the nations of Europe by the ears, as
it has done many times before. Ar
thur Moore, writing in Asia Magazine
for January, discusses the existing sit
uation as follows:
The story of the nineteenth CEN
fury, and of the twentieth so far as it
has been unrolled, has produced in
the back of Englishmen's minds @
realization that the Near East has
their domestic public affairs again and
again, and that it is not question safe
to ignore once it becomes acute. 1t
has in its protracted history made and
marred ministers and measures. IL
has altered Irish history and hindered
or fastened social reforms.
From the days when Canning wrote
a punctilious dispatch to Sir Edward
contact with the Turkish fleet, and
then-as legend says-wrote upon the
back of it, go il, Nedi" and thereby
helped to precipitate that gallant ad-
miral into the ''untoward event"
otherwise described as the glorious
victory Of Navarino in 1927. the long
procession of great events has gone on.
There was the Crimean ardor when we
championed the Turks against Rus
STA, repeated in the Dizzy days OF
1873 when Disraeli. dimly preIudins
the later epic when Kitchener i'm
ported them to France, brought Indian
sepoys as far west as Malta and sent
the fleet to the Golden Horn.
In Crimean times the Near East
overthrow the Aberdeen cabinet and
put Palmerston in office. In 1880 it
destroyed DisraeH and swept Glad
stone to power for five years When
he fell. Eastern Rumeila was the first
problem that Lord Salisbury had to
face, and ten years later, in 1886. Lord
Rosebery resigned the leadership OF
the Liberal party and went into a
returned, because of the Near Eastern
question. 1t tested the craftsmanship
of Sir Edward Grey for six years to
prevent the Near East from setting all
Europe ablaze. from the Young Turk
revolution in 1908, thru the Bosnian
crisis in 1903. the 1talO-Turkish war
in 1911 and the Balkan wars OF 1912
and 1913. Finally in 1914 all states
manship failed and the Serbian muir
der of an archduke in the capital OF
Bosnia, the old Mussulnlan Turkish
town of Sera jevo. proved the match
that fired the train.
How that affected all our lives not
to mention the political fortunes of
Mr.. Lloyd George needs no telling
And now once again the eternal Near
Eastern question has taken the stage,
dismissed the greatest Coalition gov
eminent Britain has ever seen,
plunged the country into a genera
election and brought to the front new
groupings and combinations in British
politics which will mark indelibly the
social history of the century
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12

Eastwood
The total annual production is $780,
00O, 900 board feet. The existing sup
plies standing in the shape of bass
wood trees in the United States is esti-
mated at 100000, 900 board feet.
From the 1owly position it occupied
in the estimation of our grandfathers,
it has risen to such a value that the
department of agriculture now is ad-
vising farmers who have unused land
to plant Eastwood as a profitable
forest crop. 1t grows rapidly and is
indigenous over a wide area of the
country.
How industry, aided by investigative
science, has developed this commodity
is repeated in scores of instances in
connection with many other commodi-
ties and every such step forward adds
millions to the total wealth of the
American people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12

Secretary Mellon desires that the is-
suance of tax-exempt securities be
stopped. on the ground that the gov
eminent is being cheated out of its
dues Taxing federal and municipal
bonds would stop their issue or raise
the interest rate. Would anybody in
Topeka buy 5 per cent municipal on
which he would be taxed 3 per cent?
Certainly he would not 1t is appar-
ent. then, that unless public borrow
ing should end, the interest rate would
necessarily advance far enough to in
Guide the taxes and the public, not the
bondholders. would pay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
ON BEING A CHANNEL.


I can see nothing in holding gain.
Rather do see a shriveling soul, be-
reft of friends and richness of expert
ence-lonelier than one cast upon a
desert craving food and full of thirst.
The channel thru which great
ships pass from sea to sea with their
loads of, merchandise and food and
their lists Of passengers, is a most in
spring thing to me.
I am happiest when feel that I
am a channel thru which pass
thoughts, new arrangements of ideas.
and human reflections, that others
may take up and use.
Just imagine what a wonderful
thing for each of us to be--a channel
thru which beautiful thoughts and
sincere appreciations pass, walking.
floating, flying out into the world on
various missions, never ending in their
possibilities for service.
Like a filter, too-even increasing
the value of the things that use us as
a medium, purifying and enriching
everything that comes and goes.
God is a channel-thru whom all
that is beautiful and great and worth
while, passes. Nature is a channel
thru which all the mysteries of our
own makeup finally come in fun
revelation.
You, who so encourage me by read
ing these Talks from day to day, are
channels thru which 1 send much that
others have sent thru me.
Each of us is worked over ex-
ample of some practical fact.
But we have to be put to practical
advantage. The sun doesn't know
or any inanimate thing. But the very
fact that the atmosphere of our love
leaves US the minute we feel 1t, is
sufficient to make us kin to all life
animate and inanimate.
Just to be channel-what a privi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12

trict 1t is the district, by the way, IN
which William Allen White expressed
his sympathy for the striking shop
men. Hoch was reelected by ma
jority of II 900 votes.
We have never been able to make
up our mind as to whether the indus
trial court act is good or bad legisla-
ton What we have made up our
mind about is that the writing-man
who knowingly nisrepresents political
social or economic conditions is a fool.
Your radical is nearly always a fool
And that, ladies and gents, is the
last time we intend to be serious about
anything until the December bills
come in.
One of our fellow middle westernsrs
has written to complain about the
slowness OF Philadelphia. Well. what's
the hurry? Most of those who are in
great haste have nothing to do when
they get there.
Anyway, speaking as one who in
vestigates extensively whenever he has
the leisure to do so, the town is plenty
fast enough for us.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12

It is remarked by Republican lead
ers that eff the Democrats II the SEN
ate baIk the ship aid bill it will mean
that the $s.OOO.0OO, 900 which that
party saddled onto the people of this
country to pay for a merchant ma
rine completed too late to function in
war, and which is now costing $780,
100000 annually to function. will have
been practically thrown away" But
how can the almost certain defeat of
the subsidy bill be laid at the door of
the Democrats? The opposition has
a majority of twenty-four votes. in the
upper house. If the bill be defeated it
will be by the taxpayers and not the
statesmen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12
HEART And HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State Journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: Please sug-
gest some inexpensive Christmas gifts
for girls of the ages of thirteen to fiji
teen. Also suggest some Christmas
gifts for men and women teachers
BLUE EYES.
Fine linen handkerchiefs could be
made with little expense and they
would be appropriate for young girls
and for men and women teachers
You might also string beads for the
young girls. Another thing which
would please a teacher, either man or
woman, is a bowl of narcissus bulbs
in bud. If they are started at once
they ought to be in bud bye Christmas
time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-12

Advocates OF the ship subsidy justify
the measure on the ground that it will
take the government out of the ship
ping business" Apparently it will do
no such thing. The shipping board
has stated that only the best ships will
be sold, and that horde of less valu-
able ships, amounting to from five to
seven million tons, will be left for the
government to operate or dispose of
at further loss. Instead of taking
the government out of the shipping
business. the ship subsidy bill prom
Uses to put the government in deeper