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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-07-07
YATESyILLE

The protracted drought was broken
by fine rain last Saturday for which
everybody is thankful.
The stock trading around here still
continues and Edmond johnson Is one
of our leading stock merchants.
We have had fine weather for hay
making for the last several days and
farmers have improved the time.
Just a few days ago ]. w. Elkins
and his hands completed the stacking
OF boss crop Of wheat, 1t is consid-
cred the best. and is about the only
wheat that is in this particular part
OF the neighborhood. -......s.- -.
Ben F. Bentley is down the river on
business. ...... .....
Bascom Thaeker has the boss crop
Of corn OF this section. .,.......
Quite a number of our neighbor boys
went tC ball game on East Fork
Sunday. ~"
Born, on June 28, to Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Johnson, a bouncing boy.
John Compton, Jake Neal and Bas-
com Shortridge OF the att section were
through here on Friday OF last week.
Worth Blankenship has contract
OF hauling crushed stone from Fullers
station 10 Wherever II is needed for
the construction of culverts on the
new road. 49,. ~
Albert Hammonds, Jr., OF Tuscola
passed through here enroute to Louisa
on business one day last week.
powerful cut has been made thru
the Low gap near Anna Cooksey's by
the road construction company, deep
cut making the road at that point
fill Is being mode on each side of the
practically level. The fiji on the side
next TO Blaine creek will extend to
the end OF the new bridge.
E. G. Rupe, one Of Gait Forks wide
awake stock merchants, passed thru
here one day last week with nice
drove OF cattle that he had bought
across the river among the West Vir-
ginia hills.
Bristo Roberts IL at Bowling Green
where he has employment in an oil
field while his wife and children are
spending a few weeks at the home OF
Reuben Roberts on the Deep Hole
Branch. COUNTRY GREENHORN.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-07-07
IRONTON, O.

A church festival was held at the
home of Mrs. T. II. Perkins with a
large crowd attending. ..
We are sorry 10 hear Of Permella
Hays barn being burned down.
Thomas Hays OF Torrent, KY, is
spending the Fourth with his mother
Mrs. Lucy A. Hays. ... ~
Miss Ruby Townsend OF Scioto Fur
mace. Ohio, and her father, Mr.. Chas,
Townsend, are the guests OF T. II.
Perkins. ..... a.. ...
" 7. II. Perkins and son, Clayton. and
Miss CANINE Hays and Miss Lucy
Webb motored to GallIpolis, O., Sun
day. -
Edgar and David Boggs OF Wurt-
land, Ky, are spending the Fourth
with his cousins, Clayton and Arley
Perkins.
William Webb Is getting along nice
ly and is home for a short visit.
Thomas Hays was visiting his sis
ter. Miss Anna Z. Hays Of Hunting
ton. w. Va, Monday.
Mrs. John Hays and son OF Hicks
vile, KY, were visiting relatives al
this place last week. .. f..
Let US hear from Hicksville and
Jattie soon. MAGGIE & JIGGS.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-07-07
TWIN BRANCH

Our Sunday school is progressing
nicely with much interest shown.
Ivory lobe left Saturday for Hunt
inRton. w. Va, where she will visit
her sister Mrs. Wilbur Marcum-
Elisha lobe made business trip to
Kermit, W. Va, last week.
Roscoe Prince was calling here re-
Gently. ... ...
Mrs, Pearl Jobe, Hattie and Ivory
lobe were the evening guests Of Mrs
Birdie Adams Friday
Cecil Adams was the week end
guest OF his wife and baby here.
Herman Webb was In LouIsa Mon
day.
James Diamond was shopping here
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. z. Wheeler OF Hunts
villa Ala, are expected to visit here
soon. SMILES.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-07-07
BLAINE

Several from this place attended
church at Brushy Sunday. ...
Charley Griffith is very Ill with ty-
phoid fever.
Pauline Mars spent Saturday night
with Blanche Williams.
Ruth Edwards was the Saturday
night guest OF LYDIA Osborn.
Miss Cretie Holbrook attended church
ut Brushy Sunday. .:....
Grover Lowe was visiting at Blaine
Sunday. ... ...
Misses Elizabeth and Spray Berry
were the Sunday dinner guests OF Miss
Elva Edwards. ..a ,.,..." to-.
Miss Anna Young and brother pass
ed down our creek Saturday.
Miss Ethel Miles is very sick at this
writing. SMILES.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-07-07
HICKSVILLE

In reply to "Old Lem Jucklens," we
bitterly deny what Old Lem said a.
bout the woman who threw her cane
away being dangerously Ill, for it is
false. She was seen about quarter
of mile from home. A person who
is dangerously i'll is more likely to be
at home than to be out travelling with
out cane.
Old Lem must have a heptachord
the way he has been writing false to
the paper,
The Bible says, Let your light so
shine before men that they may see
your good works and glorify your
Father which is in heaven"
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-07-07
CADMUS

Sunday school every Sunday at 1880
at this place,
Adam Shortridge is on the sick list,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ekers of Pres
tonsburg have returned home after
few days visiting friends at this place.
Miss Opal Riley was calling on Miss
Cassie Chadwick last Thursday.
Miss Louisa Shortridge was the
Sunday night guest of Miss Anna
Gaines.
Charles Ekers and wife of Wayland
are visiting the latter's parents.
A word TO "old Lem Jucklens." If he
will just study a moment why should
he be writing about the divine heal
ing" We have no right to critise any
one.
Do as you wish to be done by and
you will always do right unto others.
LONESOME JIM.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-18

Therc was on this very ship, also
sailing away 10 Europe to help settle
the war. % member Of the appointed
Peace Commission, the Presidents
Secretary Of state, Mr.. Lansing. who
was also. walking tho deck. OF tho
George Washington and thinking
about the coming conference. And
we find him conndIng some of those
thoughts secretly 10 his dairy soon
after his arrival in Paris:
The more think about the Presi-
denis declaration as TO the right OF
clf-detcrmination,' the more corr
vinccd I am Of the danger OF putting
such ideas into the minds or cer-
tain races. II is bound to be the
basis Of Impossible demands on the
Peace Congress and create trouble
In many lands. . -
The phrase is simply loaded with
dynamite. what calamity
thnt that the phrase was ever ut
tered! What misery II VIII causc'
Considered alone. indeed, as Mr.
Lansing considers II Cfor his imogina.
tion never lifted 10 the idea OF new
and effective world association OF nm
tions). it was indeed q phrase fun OF
dynamite. An arid-mindod, timid
conservative man, ~ made him shivcr
His vision was one OF safety rather
than OF service
But, dynamite or no dynamite. the
President believed 60 tho very root,
of his being In the right Of people,
/ to control their own Government
and order their own nves-snd hs
set Il forth with blazing power ant
directness. If tho American docirin,
endangered the old order Of tho
world, then there must be nev
J order.
Opposition TO tho Wilson Ideals.
There woro also groups Of Anierl
cans. with their leadership IN th,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-18
"Sclf- Determination, Misused.

he feels these great forces of human
ity growing stronger and stronger"
"Self- DISCRIMINATORY Misused.
1t is unfortunate at Paris that the
phrase "self-dotermination" became
kind of shibboleth of the peace. a
mystic formula, Tor it represents only
half OF the program of the Presi-
dent. 1t was so easy to cry for
rights; so difficult, especially at that
moment when the fears and hatreds
of the war We're still so acute, TO
ask the nations to assume the OBJ
legations OF n new association. 1t
was left for President Wilson. at
times almost alone, to support the
other and equally essential half of his
program; and this he did to the bit
ter end. For he saw that it was fu-
tile to hope for the realization of the
one without the other.
There can be no doubt that the
President had put into eloquent
words what America meant in its
highest aspirations TO the great
masses of her own people and to
this is not the place to argue IT,
as to how far the rich and powerful
America OF 1917 and 1918 accepted the
fun implication of these principles.
Did America really believe in apply
ing to other countries the principles
which had made her free and great, ,
Did she believe they could be ap-
Piled?
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-18

statesmen Will henceforth' ignore at
their peril"
Here he was only reiterating what
had been fought for and laid down
in the greatest American documents:
the Virginia Bill of Rights, the Dec
laration,of Independence. the Consti-
tuition.
"A~people has a right TO do any
thing they please with their own
country and their own Government, .
said>the Virginia Bill of Rights.
Governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed" said
the Declaration Of independence
1--WE, the people," said the Constitu-
ton, do ordain and estalish the
Constitution" NJ
But the idea OF government by
consent of the governed" was no
more American than the idea OF as
ISOLATION for mutual protection which
lies at the root OF the entire Amer
ican systen-'to form" in tho words
of the Constitution, "a more perfect
union, establish justice, insure do
mestic tranquility, provide for the
common defense" Our whole Federal
system has here its roots.
Thus it was the glowing idea of
the Declaration of Independence,
government by the consent of the
governed" that Wilson put into the
first principle of his program: it was
the wise craftsmanship of the Con-
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-18

Senate, who were bitterly opposed to
the second principle, the League OF
Nations. They were against assum-
ing international obligations, or TAX
ing any essential part I'm a new
world association. They represented
n kind OF States rights party in
international affairs;f they were
jealous of American rights. fearful
of even hint OF new world fedora
ton. In response to these elements
Of opposition who believe still in an
Isolated America, an America de-
voted TO IT'S own selfish development.
the President set forth an ardent
vision Of America as a powerful
State committed. not TO its own az
Srandizement, but TO the service OF
the world. Here he rose TO his
greatest heights OF prophetic elo-
quence. The vision he had OF An,eri-
ca was a world away from the
German idea Of a State seeking only
its own safety and its own welfare
1t was vision OF great States, like
the greatest men, seeking not their
own ends, but serving humanity
and Of a new order of international
relationships founded upon thls
spirit.
We may say his vision unwar-
ranted, Impractical" vet there
was, and it must be set forth by the
historian as n profund element IN
shaping the course OF America az
Paris.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-18
Wilson Led American Peace Argosy to Conference

stlthtlon that hc hoped TO initiate. 70
far MS It was possible 10 do under
widely different and more difficult
conditions. IN the second half OF his
program.
AS he declared in his address to
the Senate OF Jan. %, 1911: "Thesc
are American principles, American
policies. We could stand for no oth-
crs. And they arc also the principles
and policies OF forward looking men
and women everywhere, OF every
modern nation, OF every enlightened
community. They are tho principles
Of mankind and must prevail
Ills faith In these American prin-
ciplcs was rooted IN the deepest soil
Of his intense, bard-knit. lonely, pas
sionately determined nature. All llis
+, life long he has been student OF
American history, the American Con-
stitution, American ideals. lie has
been student especially Of the
heroic period or the nation and OF
the principles upon which Il was
4 founded. The titles or his earlier
books express these deep interests
Life OF George Washington" Ills
tory Of the United States" Con
gressionnl Government" +" "The state,
constitutional Government in the
! United states"
The President had come OF a stool,
the scoth and scotch-frish-- which
Is not only deeply religious. but also
pnsslonatcly devoted 60 tho ideals Of
freedom. IL was almost as religion.
faith That lie had graspcd and accept.
ed the fundamental American doc.
trincs. "Eevry man, he said In ~
address Nov. 8, 1916. who has read
and studied the great annals OF thi,
country may feel his blood warm M
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-18

However. he may have been Mt
tackled by opponents OF either Of
these principles, tho President never
Mt any time thought OF them as
separate; he always, both In speech
and action, linked them together.
Hc put his program IN nutshell
in his Mount Vernon speech July
1, 1918:
"rbesc great objects (of the pcace)
cnn be put In n single sentence. What
we seek is the reign Of law, based
upon the consent Of the governed,
and sustained by the organized opln-
ion OF mankind
In the principles therefore, which
he laid down In 1olT-1a1s, Wilson
brought nothing new or original 10
the world. They had long been tho
common coin OF American oratory
They were. indeed, far older than
America; they had been often upon
the lips of reformers and prophetic
statesmen OF other nations. They
had found expression I'm the most
distinctive OF American poetry, 13m.
crson and Whitman. Lincoln had af-
( iirmed the vital idea in his phase
government for the people. by the
people. for the people,
/ over and over again the President
set forth tho vital idea OF 'self-de
termination
People he said. "are not TO b,
bartcred about from sovereignty tt
sovoreirnty-as IL thcy we're mer,
chattels and pawus of a game"
Every territorial settlement IN
volvcd In this war must be made II
the interest and for the benefit o
the populations concerned"
SELF determination - is ~
imperative principle OF action whicl
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-18

schemes OF tho assembled representa-
tives." Above all there must be an
organization. league OF nations. 10
Kivo obth security and elasticity to
tho settlements. and to make easier
alterations In them after the time OF
present passion had subsidized.
lie thought that tho Gcrmnn coll
onics should be declared the common
property or tho League OF Nations
and administered by small nations.
Tho resources OF each colony should
be available TO all members OF the
League, and in this and other mat
ters involving international rcla-
tions tho world would be lntolorablc
II only arrangement cnsued; that
this was n peace conference in which
arrangements could not be made IN
the old style. And the problem OF
tho conference.-the referred particu-
larly TO the q,fcAtion OF German
acknowledgements not be 1uft .'in
purely political hands" but must be
studied by commissions. lie made n
frank appeal TO tho experts there FOR
their cooperation during the confer
cnce.
+ rTell me what is right" he said
and I'll fight for it; give me q
guaranteed position"
He also showed that he was under
no illusions as to tho fight that was
coming. Anticipating the dlfficultic,
OF the conference IN view OF the sug.
gestion he had made respecting tho
desires OF tho people Of tho worlc
Tor a new order. he remarked. III
1t won't work, It must be mado C
work" because tho world was faced
by a task oe terrible proportions and
only tho adoption OF a cleansing
process would regcnerato It.
The poison OF Bolshevism, he said
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-18

During the ordeal OF tho war and
the even greater ordcral Of t,c
Peace Conference II was with The
thought Of the sroat American
statesmen who founded tho nation
and Of tho principles they cnun-
cistcd that he constantly fortified
his spirit. As he said in ono ~ his
speeches during tho srduous West
ern trip Ia Scp'cmber, 19i9--his
final hopeless appeal 10 the people
Just before his breakdown.
first generation that so thoroughly
set up this great Government, the
generation Of Washington. fiamii.
ton, Jefferson and the Adamsce--.f
can fancy their looking on with
sort Of enraptured arnazement that
tho American spirit should make a
conquest OF the world"
II he had felt tho problems or the
peace. as he must have felt them
there on the chip, as merely his
own he must have been utterly
daunted. but he felt them as Ameri-
cas- and he ftlt America behind
him.
/ Confidence in the Allied Nations.
Ho had also another strong war
rant for his confidence. This lay
in the almost universal acceptance
Of the American principles by the
nations OF tho world. especially by
the liberal and labor groups OF the
allied nations. They were agreed
TO, signed and scaled, at the err
Inistice.
Such mighty hold indeed had
tho American idea taken upon tho
world that u became tho best or
politics FOR tho statesmen Of the
allied nations 20 play. Lloyd
Georges statement OF war aims in
January, 1918, significantly before
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-18

sue shortly tho dcstinics OF Eu-
ropo one would desire to see rcycner-
ated."
We knew how deeply the consider
alton of these appeals struck home to
tho President there on tho George
Washington and how clearly he
scnsed even then what might be the
result at Paris, for We have n report
of what he said one eevninE, while
walking the deck, TO one OF his
friends, Mr.. Crccl.
''Tt is TO America that tho whole
world turns today. not only with
its wrongs. but with its hopes ana
grievances. The hungry expect us TO
feed them. tho rooflcss look to us for
shelter, tho sick OF heart ane body
depend upon us for cure. All OK these
expectations have in them tho quail
ity of terrible urgency. There must
be no delay. Yet you know
and I know, that thcsc ancient
wrongs these present unhappinosscs
are not TO be renedied in "a day or
with a wave OF the hand. What l
seem 10 scc--with all my heart l
hope that am vrong-----is n tragedy
OF disappointment"
But even the access that he had "a
the acute demands as set forth in
these documents could not at that
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-18
Above, last page of the Egyp-
tian appeal to Wilson, of De-
ccmber 10, 1918.

In the opinion Of all sen. the one vAs raised
the 1ats vsr from the ylans Of national sa1susiss
Into th plane Of tAssltsn and aaks st q eenaiet
And a struggle for !ustics, for rishSsousrsss for
Liberty sn for nethtns Else. say then that
this VIII stvs delight t. all OF good viii to
NOV sAat you have not etsrsesrasd slteAtsd the
rspysssntativS OF the neral order.
feel that have only asksd -su ts
40 What yeu hays alrss4y dstsrninsd In ysur heart
to DO. but which felt It was nsvsrths1sss ny su.
~ TO Put before ya.
A.. ~ dear VI. President, With s.ntt.
nsnts Of the highsst sstssn.
Very sincerely Yours,
G 0~rLe AIS-,t-
archbishop OF Altiaers.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-18

the Trade Union Conference in
London contains many of the same
proposals for settlements as those
laid down by President Wilson in
his earlier addresses. With charsc-
teristic ardor Lloyd George not only
accepts what he perceives to be the
winning keynote OF the coming set
Elements, self determination, but
impulsively rides the logic Of the
principle into jungles where the
President never ventured. He de-
clares in his speech to the workers
that "the consent OF the governed
must be the basis Of any territorial
settlement IN this war" and then
asserts thai even the African ma
tives OF the German colonies are
competent to decide their own po-
litical fate.
One OF the fine figures at Paris.
a gentleman and a scholar, though
not a strong leader, was Orlando.
Premier Of Italy. No man there
better understood the Presidents
real sage--though he was later
TO oppose bitterly the Presidents
program.
Il was the thought OF great
nation, the most powerful in the
whole world, acting in the service
OF humanity, to protect the weak,
10 raise up the oppressed and down
trodden, to bring justice into the
world-it was this that raised those
mighty shouting crowds in Rome
and Paris and London. II was this
that, as Count Czernin said, open
ed up a world OF hope to a world
OF misery.
The League OF Nations was a
logical consequence Of the Presl-
dent idea Of service as a national
duty. The nations OF the world
should be bound together in spirit
Of service ito each other-servicc OF
the great TO the small, OF the rich
to the undeveloped, service OF those
experienced in freedom 70 the po-
iiticelly backward. Ir autocrscy was
10 be ovcrthrovn and many new
and weak 6enocracies were 70 come
into being. It was necessary that
there should be a strong League of
Nations. not only to preserve future
war but 10 protect these new ua-
tons until they could establish
themselves firmly.
On Dec. - the George Washing
ton arrived IN Brest, and on the
18th the President rode down the
Champs Elysees with tho President
OF France-a popular reception of
vast pioporuons. 'Vive pAmeri-
que,' Vive 10 President cried the
multitude. Over the street where
the procession passed hung a great
nanner bearing the words Honor
TO Wilson the just
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-18
Wireless direct appeal from the
German people, dated Novem-
Der %, 1918.

time, one is sure. have revealed TO
him the obstinacy with which these
problems would present themselves
at the coming conference. So much
was hidden from America because
OF her lack OF knowledge OF European
affairs, the power OF European ira
ditions, the urgency of European
need. She was handicapped in ways
she did not know by years OF pride
full isolation, and self-susiciency. But
the President. even at this time, saw
the possibility Of a tragedy of dis
appointment"
What was. it then--what faith.
what warrant OF strength, what deep
source OF confidence, did he have in
confronting such a situation?
A Meeting On the Presidents Ship.
Three days before tho George
Washington sailed into Brest IIar-
bor in a blaze OF glory the President
called together a group of the dele
cation for a conference. There were
two members Of tile peace commits
sion itself on the ship. Secretary
Lansing and MIR. White Colonel
House and General Bliss being all
ready in Europe), but the great body
Of the delegation was made up Of
seographers, historians, economists
and others upon whom the President
was TO depend for the basic facts
TO be used in the coming discussions.
We have no record of this meet
ing in the ornate cabin of the George
Washington save notes made at the
time by DR.. Isaiah Bowman (Which
he had intrusted to me); but these
notes show plainly enough what lay
in the Presidents mind at the time.
and what he proposed TO do. Con-
densed TO its essentials, the President
said that the American delegation
would be the only people at the con-
ference with a disinterested point OF
view. 1T was supremely necessary
to follow the opinions of mankind
and to express the will OF the people
rather than that Of their leaders at
the conference and that the deci-
sions must rest upon this opinion OF
mankind and ''not upon the previous
determinations and diplomatic