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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25
KNOW HOW TO VOTE?

While apparently in nowise intri-
cate the secret ballot system of vot-
ing which has been operative in
Kentucky for over thirty years
seems not to be understood by many
people. At every election and in
practically every precinct In the
State numbers of ballots are re-
iected and uncounted because of IA
tai defects and this means that the
same number of voters have disfran-
chised themselves through ignorance
of how to vote the ballot properly.
1t might be surmised that such
ballots are cast by the illiterate, but
as a rule this is not. true as the un-
lettered voter usually votes the
straight ticket and stamps his bal
lot under the party device. In most
cases it is the voter who should
know better that hands in the bal
lots that must be thrown out at
every election.
Whenever the experienced cleo
ton officer finds a ballot in the box
perfectly blank and without the
semblance of any mark upon 1t ne
knows that it was put there by
voter of ordinary intelligence that
did not know how to vote and would
have resented any offer to aid him IN
marking the ballot. Not knowing
how to vote, but in order to save his
face this class of voter casts blank
ballot and does it election after
election.
The ''scratcher" often comes to
grief and by disdaining any help
often turns in a spoiled ballot. 1t
very often occurs, too, that he votes
for the very candidate he intended
to vote against All of this comes
from ignorance of the forms of
system that it would seem ought to
be fairly we'll understood after an
experience of over three decades.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25
SPIRIT OF COOPERATION AMONG
KENTUCKIANS

Nothing has been more marked in
Kentucky in the last twenty years
than the growing spirit of co-opera-
ton among the business men in the
smaller cities and towns and this
has aided largely in the development
and progress of the State. Now
every little town has Chamber of
Commerce, a Board of Trade, a
Commercial Club or a Business Mems
Association and many of them keep
a secretary on the job all the time
boosting the town and attracting
additional enterprises.
Before this spirit of cooperation
had little in common and every tub
stood on it's own bottom. Usually it
was the case than that if one mer-
chant" suggested something for the
improvement of the town that the
other knocked it. Organization of a
commercial body furnished the We
hicle for better understanding
and an interchange of ideas that has
been helpful all around and improv-
ed the town.
These business associations in
many cases have obtained the ad-
justment of discriminating freight
rates and the furnishing of better
service by public utility corpora
tions. Also they have made for bet
ter municipal government and a
more economical expenditure of the
tax money.
Kentucky towns have found that
there is nothing that will boost a
town more than a live commercial
organization. 1t is the pep that
has put many of these towns on the
business map. 1t took long time
for them to get it but the Kentucky
small town business men have learn
ed the lesson typified in the motto of
their State.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25
FIVE GENERATIONS MEMBERS

Thomas w. Campbell, of Lexing-
ton, who has recently affiliated with
Dougherty Lodge No. 65 F. & A. M,
of Carlisle, is q descendant of long
line of ancestors who were members
of this lodge.
Governor Thomas Metcalfe, whose
grandson, Thomas M. Campbell, was
the grandfather of Mr.. Campbell,
was a charter member of the Car
Isle lodge and helped to organize it
in 1920. Since then the sons of the
succeeding generations have become
affiliated with the Carlisle lodge
until five in all have become mem
bers. There has never been a time
since the founding of the chapter
when there was not a member of
this family actively associated with
this lodge.
Shortly after the founding of the
chapter, Mr. Metcalfe became gov
ernor of Kentucky, in 1928. At that
time the governors mansion stood
at the intersection of the Carlisle
and Maysville and Lexington pixies
in Nicholas county. This place was
known as the Forest Retreate" and
it was here that the stage coaches
of those days changed horses.
The Campbell chain of ancestors
as members of the order began with
the afiliation of John Preston
Campbell, who married a daughter
of Governor Metcalfe. Mr. Campbell
has in his possession Masonic
emblem made by his grandfather,
Captain Thomas H. Campbell, while
he was in prison during the Civil
War, Captain Campbell, who was a
soldier in the Confederate Army,
was being held a prisoner by, the
Union forces on Johnson Island
under a court martial of death. Ac-
cording to the family history, it was
at this time that he designed the
emblem from piece of hard rubber
and ten cent piece.
When the day came for his exc
cution and he was brought before
the firing squad it is related that
he presented the pin to the Union
officer in charge who happened to
be a Mason, and his execution was
postponed. Later by the aid of this
officer he escaped and returned to
the Confederate Army.
Mr.. Campbell, the latest to be-
come a member of the Carlisle chap
ter, joined the Masonic lodge in
Jamalpur, Behar, India, in 1915.
This branch is known as the lodge
of st. George in the East, and was
organized under the English consti-
tuition. At the beginning of the war
in 1917, Mr.. Campbell returned to
the United States and entered the
American diplomatic service, and
was sent to Colombo, Ceylon, as
American vice consul.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25

Kentucky made some Roadway in
the eradication of illiteracy during
the last decennial census period and
the fact that the State went up a
few notches in the ascending scale
of education in a measure must be
credited to the anti-illiteracy move
ment started ten years ago. The
fight on illiteracy, however, was al
lowed to lag when the Legislature
two years ago failed to make an ap-
preparation to continue the work of
the Kentucky Illiteracy Commits
sion.
1t seems appropriate that offering
such a field for a crusade against il
literacy, Kentucky should have fur
nished the idea that has become the
standard in the war on ignorance.
This was the Moonlight School,
idea originated by Mrs. Cora Wilson
Setwart, of Morehead, dozen years
ago and since adopted by many
JULIET OtdIcS.
Strange as it may appear the anti
illiteracy movement was combated
in some sections where but few of
the people were able to read and
write. On one occasion, Mrs. Stew
art, while on trip to remote Sec
tion was bluntly informed that they
didn't want any iliteratin'" around
there. Like other welfare move
ments it was opposed by some peo-
pie who needed it most.
That it is a difficult matter to
overcome the 'prejudices of the igno-
rant, aptly is illustrated by a story
in which the late Governor Leslie
figured. He was then a candidate
for State Senator and was opposed
by another, who proved better
demagogue. The latter started the
report in a densely ignorant section
of the district, that if Leslie was
elected he intended to pass a law
making the teaching of grammar
compulsory in the public schools.
This was too much for the igno-
rant voters and they administered a
singing rebuke by voting to man
against Mr.. Leslie.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25
GAS FINE A BODY OF MEN AS
EVER FOUGHT

Year by year the rapidly dwind
ling army that followed Gen. John
Morgan in the war between the
States has met at some convenient
spot within Kentucky to fight anew
the old battles around the camp fires
and to swap experiences of the days
that had interviewed since that gal
liant warrior fell on the battlefield
at Greenville, Tenn, in 1864. One
may be sure that the stories of how
the rebel chief kept back an entire
Union army when he made his dash
through the border of Indiana and
Ohio did not lack any details in the
later telling.
For many years these reunions of
Morgan's Men were gala events, at
tracing thousands of visitors. But
time has thinned out the ranks until
only a mere handful gathered at
Lexington to greet each other for
perhaps the last time, and to call
the muster roll of the regiment, to
which few will answer present.
"Morgan's Men" will soon become
a memory only, but it will be a
pleasant memory Of as fine body OF
men as ever fought for what they
deemed right.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25

Street begging is greatly on the
increase in London.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25
ARE BARRIERS BETTER?

For some years barber shops in
Kentucky were under State super
vision. BARRIERS were required to
stand an examination before the
State Board of Barber Examiners ap-
pointed by the Governor and the
shops were obliged to comply with
fixed regulations of sanitation and
service
After being in operation for sew
eral years the law was repealed at
the instance of the BARRIERS who kick
ed at the fee that went to the ex-
aminers and what they regarded as
an unwarranted meddling with their
business. The law had one good eff
feet in that it brought the barber
shops up to a certain standard that
since have been maintained or i'm
proved upon through competition
for the public patronage.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25
Crow Rides With Mailman.

Norwich, N. John Cheeky, rural
mail carrier, has a pet crow named
Jim, which rides with him on his mail
route. The crow has never offered to
fly away and may be seen every day
riding with Sheehy in the latter's auto
mobile.
Often the crow is perched on Shee-
hy's shoulder when he goes to the
post office to make up his mail for de-
livery. The crow was taken out of a
nest and is about two months old.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25

Ter, notorious poacher, also senses
the coming of "elk weather." and he
and a companion leave their cabin for
the open ranges, knowing that the elk
will be easy to trail and kill when
they are handicapped by snow and
hunger. The adventures of the three
elements in the triangle are. then
shown, up to the trailing and killing
of an elk by Biller and Biller's arrest
by the rangers. The story ends with
the statement that the elk can be
protected from pOachers, but that star
walton, the animals other dangerous
foe, can be permanently thwarted
only by the provision of adequate
winter grazing grounds.
The available winter range in the
national forests is far too limited
in area to support the great bands that
migrate from the Yellowstone park.
The greater part of the winter feeding
grounds is, also, not within the nation.
al forests but under private owner
ship. The solution of the elk prob
lem, 1t is said, lies in the purchase
of these private lands either by the
government or by popular subscrip-
ton.
Cold Photography.
when Elk Come Down." was pho
tOgraphed last February in the Abb
saroka national forest, Montana. The
camera work was done with the ther-
mometer twenty and thirty degrees
below zero. There are many scenes
in which the elk appear on the snow
covered mountains Good "close-ups"
Of the animals were obtained by the
use of telephoto lenses.
The picture, two reels in length, will
be distributed and exhibited largely
through the cooperation of organi2a-
lions interested in perpetuating the
elk and other game animals. Prints
may be borrowed from the department,
or may be bought at the manufacture.
ing cost by authorized institutions.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25
U.S.F|LM SHOWS
DANGERS TO ELK
Campaign to Save Majestic Men,
Der of Deer Family From Fate
of the Buffalo.
STARVATION GREATEST FOE
Adequate Winter Grazing Grounds Are
an Absolute Necessity-Winter
Shows Drive Herds Into Forests
Where PoacherS Get Them.

Washington.-The question Of
whether the elk-a noble American
animal and the most majestic of the
deer family-is to follow the buffalo
into near-eXtinction is asked in film
form in new United States Depart
ment of Agriculture motion picture,
when Elk Come Down"
Up in the highlands of Yellowstone
National park dwell the remaining
big herds of this animal. In the park
where they are well protected there
is an abundance of feed in the summer
time. But in the winter, when the big
SHOWS sweep down on the Rockies,
the elk are forced from the mountains
and out of the park, to the lower
levels where there is less snow. In
this annual migration many of the elk
pass into the national forests which
entirely surround the park. Thus
they become a source of concern to
the forest service, which, in co-opera-
ton with the Montana state game
department, is responsible for the new
film.
To Protect the Elk.
The film story opens when a big
snow is due. From a ranger station,
forest rangers and a state game ward
en- start out to protect the elk from
"tOOth hunters" Up in the mountains
six Prong" a great bull elk, shifts
the coming snow and starts to lead his
clan to the lower country. Sam Bill
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25
Two Men First to Climb Mt. Victor;

Two Men First to Climb Mt. Victoria.
Lake Louise, Alberta.-Val A. FIynn
OF st. Louis, noted amateur mountain
climber, and Rudolph Aemer, Swiss
guide, succeeded in climbing the face
OF Mount Victoria in the Selkirk range.
1900 feet. This is the first time this
feat has been performed. Flynn has
tried 1t three times before.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25
The Stork's Mistake.

"Oh. mother" said a little girl ex-
citedly, there's new baby over at
Mrs. Browns; but don't you think the
stork meant it for Miss Jones, who
boards there7 Cause Mrs. Brown has
four children already and Miss Jones
hasn't got q single one."-Boston
Transcript
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-25

King Georges new son-in-law has
quit work; but George hasn't any
more daughters left.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-08
WOODBRIDGE

The Barron Avenue Parent
Teacher Association will meet to-
morrow afternoon at 3:45 o'clock.
Mrs. Helen Ameisen, of Ceilings
wood, helping teacher of Camden
county, also Camden county council
chairman and chairman of educa-
ton in the State Federation, will be
the speaker. Mrs. Albert l.. Gard
ner, of Fords, the newly elected
chairman of Middlesex county. will
also be present. The members of
the No. 1 and No. IL Parent-Teach-
err Association, of the Sewaren His
tory Club and of the Woman's Club
are invited to be present. Many of
the mothers are members of all four
organizations. Irrespective of or
ganization everyone interested will
be welcome.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aston Voorhees, and
children, of Troy, are the guests of
Mr.. Voorhees, parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
D. S. Voorhees,.
Mrs. John Anderson and Miss
Bertha Anderson OF Elizabeth visit
ed relatives in town yesterday.
Miss Victoria Brown was at home
from boarding school over the week
end.
The Salmagundi Society will be
entertained on Tuesday night, No
vember IA, at the home of DR.. n
Mrs. A. M. Muckenfuss.
Mrs. E. H. Boynton has returned
from Atlantic City where she re-
manned a few days after the close of
the Mothers Congress convention.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-08
PLEA FOR ROAD
At SPOTSWO0D
Say Progress of That Section
of County is Up to Board
of Freeh0IderS

SPOTSWOOD. Nov. S:-The fate,
progress and industry of this Dor
ough, as well as other districts from
J~amesburg to South River. is in the
hands of the Board of Freeholders,
according to. claims here, and to
whom an appeal is now being made
to complete the road between Out
calf and Spotswood before the win
ter sets in.
For years residents of this Dor
ough have pleaded for better trans
portation facilities. With only three
trains passing here east and west
wards the residents, most of whom
work in and around Perth Amboy,
are unable to reach their homes
should any one of them miss the 6
o'clock train that leaves Perth Am
boy on the Camden division of the
Pennsylvania railroad. This being
1.-The last train, the unfortunate rural
worker has to remain in the city, or
Enire a taxi at a prohibitive price,
should he have to work later or by
hance miss it.
However, should the Board of
Freeholders complete the road be-
tween Outcalt and Spotswood, the
bus service that is to be resumed
would benefit thousands Of residents
in that part ofNthe county. 1t would
not only open the large markets to
the suburban districts here. but
would enable workers to accept
positions in the outlying factories. A
bus leaving Jamesburg would pass
through Helmetta; thence through
Outcalt. spotswood, Old Bridge to
Tanners Corner in South River,
where the New Brunswick South
Amboy bus line passes every fifteen
minutes, and the Midd1esex trolley
between these two cities runs every
half hour.
Anyone desiring to visit the sew
eral boroughs between South River
and Jamesburg after S or 6 o'clock
at night is unable to return any,
where. unless n has an automo-
bile or hires a conveyance. the fee
of which amounts to a few dollars
a trip from any place in that dis
trtct. The bus service would make
1t easy for visitors or business peo-
pie to come whenever they please
or have to, and know that they can
secure connections in Tanners Cor
ner for Perth Amboy or New Bruins
wick at any time during the day or
night until midnight.
Peter Schweikert declared to a
reporter of the Perth Amboy Even
ing News that the failure of giving
the people a. good road has kept the
thorough from development. The
average worker canno afford to
build his home here without having
facilities of going to or from work,
Mr.. Schweikert said. With plans
to install electricity this fall and a
regular passenger service Spotswood
would see a building boom of DWELL
ers from Perth Amboy. New Bruns-
wick and other cities, he added.
That the large mill occupied until
a short time & by the Blenio Fire
proof Company here is idle, due to
lack of transportation. was intimat-
ed by several former workers of the
plant in a ninterview this morning,
who declared that until the passen-
ger conveyance system for the Dor
ough is solved none of the industries
can exist here.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-08
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CARRYING PLANE
eromari Expects Increase
Carrying Capacity of Mail
Planes by Wing Changes

KEYPORT, Nov. S.-A OH Lib
erty engined plane ordinarily cap
able of carrying 500 pounds of mail
has recently been converted by the
Aeromarine Plane and Motor Com
pany for the United States Air Mail
Service into a ship with a carrying
capacity of 1000 pounds. Aero
nautical experts state that this is
n * the most important develop
ments made recently in weight ear
rying aircraft and will have a EN-
iency to revolutionize the future de-
Gigns of air craft for commercial pur-
poses.
The striking features of this plane
are the Aeromarine Az wings built
to the design of Paul G. thinner
man, engineer of the Aeromarine
Company. These wings were built
and attached to a standard OH air
mail ship No. 299 which had a spe-
cially built fuselage with forty Gu
bic feet of cargo pace.
]. e. Whitbeck, superintendent of
the eastern division of the Air Mail
service, in a statement comm enting
on this remarkable increase in
weight carrying, said that he felt
that the Aeromarine Az wings are
a big development as in them are
combined higher speed and higher
Nfting power, something which aero
nautical designers have been work.
ing on for many years.
He also stated that it was inter-
esting to note that these wings are
not the result of expensive expert
ments. On the contrary, this and
other improvements have been
brought out during regular flying
operations.
The outstanding feature of plane
No. 299, q ship to which these new
wings were attached, is the slow
speed at which it will cruise and
maintain its altitude with 500 pounds
of cargo. 1t has flown at a constant
motor speed of 1915 revolutions per
minute for a period of twenty-five
minutes at an air speed of approx
imatelv 6S miles per hour. This
being done without losing any alti-
tude and with the ship having coed
maneuvering ability at all times.
Mr.. Whitbeck said that he feels
lthat with a new propeller. an air
mail plane, equipped with these new
wings, will be able to cruise at 100
miles an hour.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-08
KEYP0RT WOMAN BADLY
BURNED BY EXPLOSION

KEYPORT. Nov. S.-Mrs. Annie
Gibson is confined to her home on
First street from severe injuries
which she received when in lighting
a gas burner an explosion occurred.
Mrs. Gibson who lives at the home
of j. w. Weseman, was preparing
dinner and had lighted M burner
as she thought and later lighted the
second one.
The first burne rhad evidently not
worked we'll and a was escaping
when she ignited the second match
causing a violent explosion. The
kitchen was wrecked, dishes rboken
and the stove badly demolished.
The oven door blew off striking
Mrs. Gibson directly in the face, in
juring her eye, breaking her nose
and in other ways badly injuring
her.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-08
CLINICS prove
BIC SUCCESS
Anti Tuberculosis Work Re-
port Made for MidIesex
County

The work of the Middlesex County
Anti-Tuberculosis League is greatly
hampered in various districts of the
county. due to the irregular attend
ance of the volunteer physicians, &C.
cording to the monthly report Of
Miss Jane j. Packard, executive
secretary of the league, issued this
morning.
However, the progress of the elm
les is very encouraging. There was
much greater interest in the clinic
held recently at South River, with
DR.. English as attending physician.
Progress is being made in the Perth
Amboy clinic, through the addition
of a nurse to their staff. The Red
Cross nurse in South Amboy is CO.
operating with the league in their
efforts to help mankind.
Lack of time of the superinten-
dent of schools in Perth Amboy
leaves the nutrition program of the
league incomplete. Plans are made
to cooperate with DIR. London, who
will shortly return from New York
where he is conducting a nutrition
program, to force the attention of
the school authorities in forcing e
nutrition clinic in the schools.
The annual meeting of the New
Jersey Tuberculosis League. held re-
Gently in Newark was attended by
DR.. Silk, DR.. Klein, Miss Marie Neil
gen., Miss Packard, Miss Blocker,
Miss Winkler, Miss Denver and Mrs.
Meyer, who have gained a great deal
for their work fro mthe various lee
lures by tuberculosis authorities
At the American Legion parade on
November II, the league will have
a demonstration clinic af1oat. A list
of over $4,000 anne will be mailed
out, with Christmas Seal letters.
Selling campaigns are being institut-
ed for the disposal of the Christmas
seal stamps in stores, homes and in
public places. The Michelin Tire
plant in Midtown is working energet-
ically for the league.
The financial statement of the
league as of November l., shows ST.
031.84 in cash OF hand. There were
AIS calls made from the Office. of
which A were new patients, with
only eight deaths in the list. The
league investigated 543 cases 1t
homes, of which "a were suspicious
and 319 contagious cases. The total
cases handled by the league in Oc-
tober was 1044, an advance of 262
cases over the same month last year.
oTtal amount of cases handled by
league in Perth Amboy last month
was 440.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-08
TO DANCE At WOODBRIDGE

WOODBRIDGE, Nov. S.-The
dance committee of the Y. NJ. and
Y. w. H. A. announced their annual
mid-autumn dance for the night Of
November 80, at the High School
auditorium here. 1t is the aim of
the two bodies % make the dance
one of the most successful in the
history of the local branch of the
organizations.
A dance orchestra, probably from
New York. is to supply the music.
There will be also a committee in
charge of refreshments, so as to
make the event as enjoyable as it
may be desired.