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The Pensacola journal., 1922-12-24

stores allow for just such emergencies.
He told Papriqua of each package-this was
for his mother that for his sister, the other for
his partner in his engineering business, that for
his suburban aunt, these two for his nieces,
those
Papriqua, nesting down in the seat beside him.
where he couldn't see the flash in her halfcov-
cred eyes, asked:
Where's THE ons?"
How" asked Davisson, turning for a second
from the eyes-front that steering through
gested traffic requires.
There's always one" observed Papriqua, zone
you probably didn't wait until the last to buy"
"Is there?" said Ned, naively. Which one is
that?"
Wife Maybe only the sweetie."
mo such luck" laughel Davisson. What did
you buy yours?"
Haven't any"
Thought you said there was always one"
so did But 'tisnt So"
Him." said Ned, '1ooks as though we're couple
os heart orphans"
Looks that way, all right"
well, I'll tell YOU" suggested he.s Suppose
you and play that we have another"
"How do you mean?" ---
Suppose you let me give you Christmas gift,
aad let you give me one" 49,
tits an idea, at that" admitted Papriaua "If
it's fake, it's double one, and honest enough I
give you a Drass r1ng ana you pay me with coun-
terfeit dollar-that it?
That's way. But suppose you give me
gold ring-with nine thousand genuine diamonds in
it-aHd give you million dollars real money!"
"lm afraid you'd have to give the million
first-ny credit isn't as good you to think"
Your credit is better than You seem to think.
You've got billions in the kind Of gold and diamonds
mean right in your heart, subject to your unin-
dorsed draft. The question is would you trust me
with any part of it while I'm scrabling up my
nrillion?"
considering your potential assets think it
would be sound banking II did. What's a measly
million to man who has Rockefeller fortune and
nobody to give it to or spend It on?"
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

and independence made them such.
They are .he qualities that are need
ed at Washington today quite as
much as they were essential on the
frontier OF two or three generations
past A strong and fearless and ex-
perienced man, even though we deem
him mistaken as to this or that. Is a
better leader to tie to In time of stress
than the mollycoddle who knows not
which way 20 turn. who fears and
hesitates and Is lost.
Not in all the worlds history has
there been a time when able and
qualified leaders were more needed
than now. Everything we have and
love and hope for. whether of ma
terial or spiritual riches. is at stake
in the decisions which must be reach
ed by the present generation. Our
search must be for the ripest wisdom
we can find, for the best attested
strength, to represent us in the posts
where power and responsibility rest.
and all of these attributes are found
in Missourfs great senator, James a.
Reed.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
SECONDS MEAN MICH

The matter Of but a few seconds
may mean much, as for instance that
awful castrophe at Sulphur Springs
where Engineer Glenn OF the Texas
Flyer was given important orders ION
the rum" and while glancing down
at them in his cab. flashed past
block signal set against him, and thus
made possible a rear end collision
that whitfield out three dozen lives and
caused almost innumerable and un-
mentionable injuries and anguish.
Just a few seconds, maybe merely
one. was enough for this hitherto
sterling engine-drivcr to permit his
eyes to leave the path ahead, and even
then to consult orders he probably
deemed Of vital importance. and thus
TO spread a red stain OF grief over a
large portion of the middle west
An "on the run" order is written
on flimsy paper and attached to q
light rattan hoop through which the
engineer or fireman reaches down
from the speeding cab and thrusts his
arm. Such orders are generally Of
the emergency variety. and poor
Glenn doubtless used all speed in see
ing what was contained therein.
While doing so, reports indicate, he
roared past the telltale danger block.
Napoleon employed but a few sec
| onds in deciding those troops upon
the horizon TO be his own reinforce
ments. and on that basis ordered a
charge that put him eventually on st.
IIelena--for they were the enemy.
Seconds are short-but sometimes
mean so very. very much.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
The partv Has Spoken

Missouri Democracy must now unite
to re-elect James A. Reed to the Unit
ed States Senate. We are like Bryan
after his party had turned him down
for Parker in 1900. Bryan had out
lined the things for which he stood.
many of them in conflict wirA sfe
principles on which Parker was seek
ing the presidency, but Bryan declar-
ed himself for Parker for the reason
that he had redcemlng qualities; that
his principles were better than those
advocated by the opposition party.
Thus it is with Jim Reed. Although
some OF his actions have been dis
pleasing to some Missourians, evident
ly the majority see in him things that
overbalance those actions. The party
has spoken, Let us not bolt.-Worth
County Times.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
SENATOR LANES 4. REED

No man ever faced greater odds
than did Senator James A. Reed when
he came home six weeks ago and took
the stump in his own behalf. In his
campaign for denomination he was op-
posed by tho democratic state organl-
zatlon, by the solid metropolitan
press, both democratic and repubH-
can, by the anti-saloon league, by the
womcns organizations, by former
Prcsid 'nt Wilson and his devoted fol-
lowers, and by most Of the eminent
his state. Himself a poor man, he
had as his opponent a man several
times n millionaire, who had the
backing Of the great corporate inter-
csts OF the state. In the rural dis
;ricts he stood condemned for having
refused to follow the leadership OF
President Wilson not alone on the
league Of nations but other issues. At
the beginning Of the primary cam
poign his defeat by a three or four to
one vote was freely predicted,
But Senator Reed did not quail at
tho prospect offered. but came face
to face with our people. They knew
| him os he knew thomas for almost
a third Of a century he had been one
/ Of their fighting leaders. They had
| admired him for his courage, his in
! dependence and his commanding abiI-
/ ity. II is these qualities he displayed
| to admirable advantage in his amaz-
! ing uphill campaign, And the VIC
tory that crowned it may be taken as
a personal triumph, as a tribute to
his rcd-b,oodod qualities. his strong
personality, rather than as verdict
for or against any Of the many issues
that were involved Reed himself was
the paramount issue. and it was Reed
himself that won the fight,
And in this light his denomination
Is an encouraging indication, for it /,
the answer Of old Missouri 10 tn,
prayer. "God give us men!" Certain
Of Reeds convictions may have beer
mistaken ones. but they were his own
Hc stood up and fought for them un
afraid. He has never been hair
splitter or a pussy-footor or q double
dealer. lie IS the sort OF man who, II
other days, would have died at tn
stake for opinions sake rather than
yield or qualify and live.
These are qualities that appeal T.
Americans OF the trans Mississippi
regions, The Sons ANA daughters O
The pioneers whose rugged courag
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

the backs of the consumers of the
United States. IL tho standpatters can
do II. ...,
They have acquired nothing from
political experience. They have learn
ed nothing from economic develop
ments. They assume postwar con-
ditions TO be the same as conditions
before the war. They see as with the
eyes of fifty years ago. They are
ready to go against the stone wall Of
public sentiment just as they did in
1909. They resent all warnings of
conservative political associates, as
the Payne-Aldrich crowd did. even as
to appeals from tho White House,
thirteen years ago. Either they are
iacurably blind, economically and po-
lirically, or they are making a des-
perate attempt to square personal and
party obligations before overwhelmed
by the flood Of public resentment that
is rolling toward them.
Invidious personal attacks upon
opponents, scurrilous remarks about
those who advise them OF the blunder
they are committing. public innuendo
and near slander will not avail them.
They recklossly disregard the repeat
ed cry, Beware. the rapids are below
you!" Nothing is going to stop them
If they can retain the oars to drive
the boat forward. There seems to
be nothing left to their well-inten-
toned advisers except the prayer.
Lord, forgive them. they know not
what they do"
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
TIE WOOL RNT1s SCANDAL

The republican senators are not go
ing to have any investigation of Sena-
tor Bursam Of New Mexico, who says
that he is a sheep owner, but that is
an unimportant matter; OF Senator
Cooding of Idaho who says 1t is poll
ties of senator Warren OF wyoming
whom the late Senator Dolliver char
actcrizcd as the greatest shepherd
since Abraham; or OF Senator STAN
field Of Oregon, described by the con-
grcssional directory as Americas
largest producer Of wool and mutton" +"
or Of the lesser interested lights, but
while the gop senate has STAYED off
this needed investigation the republic
can leaders will fail in their main
purpose.
They will not silence public critl-
cism, they will not conciliate public
opinion and the will not alay public
recruitment by trying to run away
from the truth II would have been
wiser and moro honorable if they had
faced the situation with COURAGE and
gone to the bottom of the scandal
The republican senator's who have
shown courage are the members Of
the wool-growing group. Gooding,
Stansfield & Co. who have taken what
they wanted because they wanted &C.
They intend to get their share of the
tariff plunder whatever happens. For
they know that il the Fordney-Mc-
Cumber bill is enacted the wool rates
will stanA for 2 number of years,
For the senate's refusal to permit
an investigation, the republican party
viii soon he held to answer before
the country. The shameless bargain
ing in duties has been carried through
in full view Of the public. The west
crn wool-growing senators have been
working for their own pockets and
Boosting of 1t, and the republican
leaders have justified them for what
they have done as mon of high in
tcGrity. To expect the American peo-
pie to subscribe to that view amounts
to saying that they knowingly elect
men to public office so that they shall
vote money into their own pockets.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

consumer. to increase the cost of all
fabrics, TO increase the cost of sugar,
to increase cost of gloves and shoes.
to increase the cost OF every dish that
goes on the table. and every utensil
that is used in the kitchen. 1t is
framing tariff bill to unsettle fur
ther the crumbling economic founda-
tions of the world and make II i'm
possible for any foreign country to
pay the debt to the United states that
congress expects in turn to use for
bonus purposes in order to concilate
the soldier vote. 1t is framing a
tariff bill for the benefit of profitcers
under which the American Consum-
er will pay IS into private pockets for
every dollar that goes into the United
states treasury. Yet it is solemnly
investigating the oil interests which
orc suspected of charging too much
fer gasoline.
II the senate believes in its own
tariff schedules it ought to be adopt
ing resolution of thanks to the oil
rofincrs for anticipating the benevo-
lent economic policy of congress. The
more they charge, the more they
mulct their customers, the more close
'y they are i'm harmony with the aims
and objects of the republican party.
They need not be afraid of OVERRIDING
it, because the senate has shown by
its own schedules that the traffic is
capable Of bearing everything that it
has TO bear, and the whittier the con-
sumner Is bled the better it is for his
soul.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
"IsIsINEss As rSrAIr

! That the high protective tariff is
| corruptng as it is economically un-
/ wise, is a settled conviction, and that
/ conviction is further if such thing
/ is possible, strengthened by the ad-
| missions of Senator Smoot while try
ing in the senate to explain away his
now notorious letter respecting the
! sugar schedule.
For unbushing effrontery this ex-
PLANTATION Of one Of the high priests
of protcctionism is certainly unex-
celled in the long and sordid story Of
tariff legislation in the senate.
Il have the sugar schedule in
charge" Mr.. smoot now-when
caught-admits that he wrote in
letter on the subject. "ard will hold it
up until hear from YOU"
For fifty years--whenever friends
Of protection have controlled the gov
ernment-thcre have Invariably been
reaourceful defenders, like the Utah
senator. on guard in the ways and
means committee Of the house or in
| the finance committee of the senate,
10 protect and to perfect this lcgalizcd
scheme Of systematic thievery COM
monty known as a high protective
/ tariff
These watch-dogs Of privilege sleep
with one eye open in the interest Of
q IL
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

ThesSanta Fe strikers did not gain
much public admiration or support
when they left hundreds of people,
men, women and children, marooned
in the Mohave desert with the ther-
mometer at 100. and when appealed
to for help TO bring them in from the
inferno informed the supplicants that
mot damned wheel would turn un-
til the Santa F'e removed the guards
about it's yards"
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
Not Even If "Pants" SAYS SO

Mrs. w. w. Martin of Fayette,
prominent in Missouri Democratic
circles. yesterday was suggested as a
United States senatorial contest in the
November election against Senator
James A. Reed, the Democratic nomi-
nee. and r. r. Brewster. the Republi-
can candidate. The suggestion was
made b. w. d. Vandiver, an ex-repre-
sentative, at a conference of anti
Reed Democrats. Other anti-Reed
forces are fighting the movement to
put an independent candidate in the
field.-Nodaway Democrat Forum.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
"TIIEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY
DOU

The standpat element OF the gop
high tariff bloc in the senate are
standing pat for what a majority of
the people have said in recent years,
and have said repeatedly, they do not
want No amount OF advice or ad-
monition moves them from their fiat
footed stand. None of this years
primary returns causes even a waiver
Of their purpose. As the Payne
Aldrich tariff was forced upon the
country a few years ago, so the Nc
Cumber tariff is to be strapped upon
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
The Women VIII Not .NIi.r

1t is evident that if women want
office, they will be compelled to de-
pend largely upon the votes Of men.
IL women could enter the race with
certainty that large majority OF the
women would be for them becIMse
they We're women, getting office would
be easy; but judged by precedent, the
converse is true. II somehow seems
to be contrary to human nature FOR
women TO go into ecstacies over an
other woman, especially when il tends
to add TO her prominence or increase
the public adulatlon for her. Women
are not worshipers of women az mon
are Of men. A bright woman on the
stump with all the men eNtollmg her
praise and as enthusiastic for her as
they frequently are for a man candi-
date would drive n,ne-tcrths Of tho
women to opposing and crit,cislng her
II Just seems TO be contrary to the or
der of things for women 10 worYhin
women.-Moberly Democrat.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
They Sure WOnId

Senator Nelson. in the robber tariff
measure, suggests. perhaps it would
be the wiser to take our medicine in
silence and turn our heads to Provi-
dence and hope to get relief from that
source" The suggestion Is good. but
it is a ten to one shot that If the raw
ems began carrying mama to our
over-taXed citizens the first Republi-
can Congress meeting after the mira
Gle would put a prohibitive tariff on
manna.-Missouri State Journal.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

The revelations made through the
propaganda he used to help get the
United States into the war with Ger
many, should prove interesting and
OF Americans who gave the lives Of
their sons in the great struggle which
Northcliffe and his 500 secretaries
and 10000 paid propagandists whom
he directed in the mission" to the
United States did so much" to pull
the United States into. After awhile
the people who furnish the cannon
fodder will begin to realize what a
mission" really is.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

If the drys can find any consolation
to them. The returns show that out
of sixteen democratic congressional
nominees in that state as a result Of
the last weeks primary. all Of who
stand to win, but four are dry, the
other twelve being wet. In addition
Senator Pomerene. who was bitterly
fought BY the Anti-Saloon League, was
renominated.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

The Dem ocTatic congressional COM
mittee elected it's delegates to the state
convention Tuesday. The meeting
was harmonious and good men were
selected. Now Is the time for every
REAL Democrat to put his shoulder
to the wheel and elect EVERY can
didate on the ticket by an increased
majority.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
The Gazcttc.s s.cnslb!c Adylee

There has been certain amount OF
growing and some threats from cer-
tain quarters, but they will come to
nothing. Senator Reed has been de-
clared the democratic nominee and as
such will receive the party support.
When you go into a primary and get
licked, take your medicine. If you
can't do that. play the part of a free
lance proper and stay out of the prim-
airy. The Gazette is going to support
Senator Reed.-Platte County Gazette.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

to compensate for great losses in the
war. has great gains to show. having
driven its principal commercial COM
petitor off the sea, destroyed the
naval and military strength of the
only rival It feared, and absorbed most
Of the colonies and territorial possess
sions of that rival into the bargain.
The share of the United States in the
war was pure loss. with no compen-
sating gains and it exactcd no indem-
mites.
Again, Great Britain was in mortal
danger from the war. and tho United
States was not. IL was a war that
Great Britain, through commercial
greed and devious diplomacy, had its
own share in making, while the United
states was innocent of responsibility.
1t was Great Britalns war, it was not
ours-not until the incidents and de-
velopments Of war made it so. Under
the circumstances, the suggestion that
Great Britain be permitted now to
show generosity in its own name but
at our cost seems bit suffish.
In this connection the following on
this question from the New York
World is decidedly pertinent. 1t says:
Morally, the international debts
are by no means on the same level
We take only two instances. Lord
Ia lfniIr that fNtvv,o,,,.t,s Il q,
Great Britain is between six and seven
billion dollars. . He knows perfectly
WELL however, but does not say, that
nearly two-thirds of this mount is
for the indefensible item of pensions
and separation allowances. Lord Bal
four states also that large amounts
of the money borrowed by Great
Britain were loaned to the continental
allies. He does not state that many
of the diplomatic loans were links in
the web of secret diplomatic intrigue
before and after we entered the war,
and that many have been paid not in
cash but in other considerations"
Under the circumstances Senator
Hitchcock states the case moderately
when he tells the New York Times
that 'it will be a very long time be-
fore congress authorizes cancellation
OF the American war debt" and adds
that the proposition would not even
be considered until all other efforts
to restore stable conditions have been
tried and failed.
The first effort that both Great
Britain and the continental allies owe
is to deal fairly and honestly and ac-
cording to the terms of the armistice
with the defeated enemy, by climnat-
ing such "indcfensible items" as the
New York World mentions from their
indemnity demands. It has been the
piling up of such claims against Ger
many that has largely caused the
postwar difficulties of Europe, which
only grow the more serious the longer
an honest revision is delayed.
If the nations of Europe, which are
all on the same fran craft and must
sink or float together can but get to
the point where they are willing to
deal justly and generously with each
other, to stop quarreling and arming
and gouGins and go to work. they will
need have no question as to the dispo-
sltion Of the United States to be both
compassionate and helpful.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
Old "Pants" Is Loose Again

Well, well; we see where Pants
Vandiver. the fellow who franked his
trousers from Washington to his home
for repairs. and also of the Joe Folk
regime, who was one of the leaders to
help wreck the Democratic party
few years ago. has broke into print
again and is asking Democrats to bolt
their ticket There is never no tellin'
what can be dug out of a junk pile
Milan Standard.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
The E,ool PrHgnostIcat0r

This Is cruel. wicked, political
world. We tie our faith to certain
candidates and know CD they will be
elected. And along come the voters
and beats the whole darn smear we
voted for. Then we go home wonder
ing what makes people such damn
fools-and the question is-who was
the fool, you or the people Milan
Standard.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

Three thousand five hundred st.
Joseph people are paying an occupa-
tion tax, that was formerly paid
through the liquor liccnses-and there
are as many drunks hauled before the
police Judge each day as there was
before prohibition PROHIBITED.
There were only % fined Monday for
being drunk on Sunday.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

No one that is now ascertainable,
has nominated Judge Culver of this
city to run against Senator Reed,
neither can Judge Culver or any other
st. Joseph man running ON ANY
SORT OF A TICKET defeat or even
interest Senator Reed in a race. The
Democratic party has spoken and
Senator Reed is it's nominee
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

The death of Lord Northcliffe does
not leave near the awful vacancy that
some newspapers weep so cOpiously
over. The British editor was just
vigorous virlle mortal who owned
couple of newspapers that have a big
circulation and consequently are able
to help mould public opinion.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

with twenty-five drunhs contribut-
ing IS each in Judge Gray's police
court here last Monday morning, 1t is
decidedly notable that prohibition is
prohibiting prohibitively in st. JOS
eph.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
The First Good Use of It

We were going home late the other
night and heard several sharp ex-
plosions 1t turned out to be one Of
our neighbors was hurllng worn-out
electric light bulbs at a quartet OF cats
which We're singing on the back yard
fence.-Nodaway Democrat Forum.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

The English property owners are
selling out on account of the fact that
they cannot stand the high taxes. If
the rate OF increase is kept up here by
continual bond issues, the same con-
dition will soon obtain here.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19
No More Missouri Cop Senators

There is talk of an Independent
Democratic nominee at the coming
fall election but this would only tend
to elect a senator on the Republican
ticket. No good Democrat wants to
see another Republican senator repre-
senting Missouri. Also the Republi-
cans have up a number of referendums
at the coming election that they hope
to carry and thus redistrict the state
in such a way that it will be forever
impossible to carry Missouri for Dem
ocrats. Vote NO on all the referen-
dunn propositions.-Craig Leader.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

Warren S. Stone, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
Is one union official wifb can keep his
head. He has notified the Santa Fe
strikers that they must return. as they
walked out without authority.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-08-19

Six weeks ago there was not even
lone republican in Missouri, but who
was ready to admit that the Demo-
Gratis would carry everything in Mis-
souri, this year. With the way that
acted in the past few days, it is doubt
full If we can carry anything.