The Cordova daily times., 1922-01-13
LAST YEAR WAS GOOD YEAR, IF
 YOU LIKED IT
WOMEN'S STYLES, LITERATURE, SCIENCE, PROHIBITION AND CRIME MADE BIG STRIDES IN YEAR JUST ENDED

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-Despite the statement of Henry Ford that history is all bushwah. the year just ended saw some big strides made in many ways.
 In women's styles. the abbreviated skirt, female cigarettes bare knees and wishbones and roll-top stockings came. saw, conquered and went out again. Due to the high cost of liv- ing skirts will be worn longer from now on.
 Literature didn't get very far. The Anti-Saloon League issued a pam- phlet entitled. "The Yonkers Plan" which detailed mopping-up methods, but bootleggers thought it was joke book: dramatic critics declared Babe Ruth bad actor and censured Judge Landis for not increasing his fine; book reviewers declared the first hun dred pages of "The Outline of His tory" were the hardest: H. I. Menck- an declined to write book on the benefits of prohibition; Congressman Herrick. of Oklahoma. started a beauty contest, winning great ap- plause as statesman: President Harding was awarded the aluminium pickle dish as champion infinitive- splitter: Babe Ruth started writing for the newspapers: Babe Ruth stopped writing for the newspapers.
 In science an inmate of Oshkosh invented an elliptical umbrella, with the handles on one side; New Yorker invented one-man cockroach trap: Kansas City man invented double breasted sock; Edison invent ed a questionnaire; Germany discov- cred synthetic gold, but France sees it as monarchist plot; genius dis covered method of feeding glass of gin to William Jennings Bryan; Lon- don rooster got his six instincts mixed and laid eggs; another genius invented an alarm clock that wouldn't ring.
 As regards prohibition. moonshin- CTS and bootleggers unanimously agreed it is great success and viz orously opposed repeal of the Eigh- teenth Amendment
 Business--very little.
 The political situation has been in teresting Lloyd George decided to attend the Washington conference; :; then he decided he would not; changed his mind, and vice versa; Irish won their freedom, but refused to stop fighting until brick manufacturers sign an armistic; Doctor Crafts said war is all Sherman said it was and advocated Nineteenth Amendment to prohibit ice cream sodas; Tumulty wrote one or dozen books about Wilson.
 Crime had a gala years. The Anti Saloon League decreed possession of cloves, merited capital punishment. Oklahoma woman found murder best vehicle for getting into the movies. In sports there wasn't very much doing All American sport writers picked All-American teams; bootleg gers won thousands of running con- tests with the dry law; Dempsey staged vaudeville act with Georges Carpenter, a Frenchman, at Jersey Citq, July ?; a man lost his eye wait ing for l flapper to get on a street car.
 There wasn't much doing in music, either. Richard Strauss. the Austrian composer. announced he wrote his best piece while waiting for his wife to dress, but failed to explain what he did with the rest of the four h"u"e: c'rousel owners and organ p"inders installed new editions of '"The Last Rose of Summer" and Alice Ben Bolt"
 Looking backward, it wasn't such bad year