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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-05-30
All Voters Must
Register to Qualify

Under the general registration act
passed over the governors veto by
the 1899 general assembly, every
voter in the city and in the county
must register in order to be eligible
to vote at the November election.
The dates Of registration this year
are July 10 and IL and September s,
the hours being six a. m. to nine
p. m.
The officers will be two judges, a
clerk and a sheriff. These are to be
appointed by the county board Of
election commissioners not later
than June 20, from lists to be fur
nished by the party committees not
later than June Is. The law says:
mo person shall be eligible as an
officer of registration who has COM
mitted a homicide, or who has been
convicted of a felony or is under in
dictment therefor, or who is not
sober, temperate, discreet and of good
character, or who has anything of
value wagered on the result of the
next election, or who is candidate
to be voted for at the next succeed
ing election, and who is not capable
of reading the constitution of the
commonwealth in English and of
writing a plain and legible hand"
See section of the act.
1t is the duty of the registration
clerk to post notices in at least six |
conspicuous places in the precinct |
ten days in advance, giving the time
and place of registration. AS soon
as registration officers receive from |
the sheriff of the county notice of
their appointment they should secure
copy of the registration law and
make themselves thoroughly familiar
with it,
Who May Register-"Said officers
shall register every citizen of the
United States of his or her precinct,
who shall apply to be registered at
the time and place in the manner
required by law, who shall be
twenty-one years of age at the next
election, who has been resident of
the state one year, of the county six
months, and of the precinct in which
such person offers to register, sixty
days next preceding the election"
1t is not necessary that the voter
should be a resident of the precinct
sixty days before he offers to regis
ter If by the November election he
will have been a citizen of the state
one year, of the county six months
and of the precinrt sixty days, he
may register, even though he may
have moved into the precinct the
day before, or even on the day of
registration.
How to Register-The voter must
apply in person. His or her name
will be recorded in book by the
clerk. The voter must then give his
address, street and number If in a
city and postoffice If in the country,
length of residence in state, county
and precinct, color, age, sex, occupa-
ton, party afiiliation. When all of
this is recorded the voter must sign
his name, If he can. II he is unable
to sign, he may make oath to that
fact and the clerk viii sign for him
When all of this is done and attested
by the clerk and sheriff the voter is
duly registered
Within three days after registra
ton the books must be taken to the
county clerks Office, where a cops
of each precinct book is made by the
county court clerk.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-05-30

The New York World will be sur.
prised to hear that the Republicans
OF Oregon have nominated a Ku
Klux candidate for governor in the
recent primaries.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-05-30

Once upon time an editor pub
lished the Ten Commandments.
Every one of his subscribers took II
as personal matter and quit taking
the paper
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-05-30

Trouble is a Splinter that over
takes even those who travel the fast
est clip.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-05-30

The next question to be decided is
who shall play the Irish harp and
who shall play the second fiddle.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-05-30

A doctor says that ''fiapperism is
just the evolt of youth"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-05-30

See The Advocate for printing.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21

America upon which recognition
was contingent Obregon's hands
were therefore tied. But there is
apparently no reason why he cannot
in the near future sign a satisfac-
tory agreement and be practically
assured that it will be approved by
the incoming Congress.
There is no i'll will toward Obre-
gon in this country. His recognition
would meet with general approval
But in order to avoid future misun-
derstandings it is important that
when he is recognized adequate
guarantees be taken that the legiti-
mate interests of Americans and
other foreigners will be safeguard
ed. This is well understood by Presi-
dent Harding and by Mr.. Obregon
1t merely remains to find the most
practical method of adjustment.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
A Curb on Crime

AS long as a professional Grim
inal, released from Sing Sing. could
step off train, proceed to the state
auto license bureau and secure a
permit to operate taxi in New
York there was little assurance of
public safety.
Wise and experienced New York
ers, when they took taxis, made sure
that they were from responsible
companies. Strangers and careless
people took nighthawk machines
and were frequently robbed by the
drivers.
Some Of the gentry from up the
river took out licenses for touring
cars, which gave them unlimited op-
portunity' to commit the sort of
crime that has lately become cpl
demic in New York.
The lie gislature has gone far to-
ward crime prevention in transfer
ring the licensing of taxi drivers to
the police. The police have the rec
ords and the photographs of all ex-
convicts and Of many other profess
sional criminals They can check up
every applicant for taxi or auto
license. If he has bad record his
application will be denied.
This the state bureau could not
do. 1t took the word of the appli-
cant for his character. He got the
license If he had the money to pay
for it. How he used it is matter
Of record.
Chief Magistrate McAdoo has
been largely instrumental in the
passage of this bill and deserves
much Of the credit for it. His con-
tinual agitation for the transfer Of
the license power finally Influenced
the Legislature.
Another measure passed at the
last session requires the giving of
d bond by taxi drivers sufficient to
enable them to pay victims of the
reckless driving in which they too
frequently indulge. This is also a
needed contribution to taxi reform.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
We're Sorry, France, but

The talk was all in the minor kew
on Americas Day" Of Frances Wine
Week-sad reflections of what might
be and is not! Poor France takes
the Eighteenth Amendment hard
The economic arguments were in
teresting. France wants to pay her
Debt to America. She will pay in
the end, but how can she while her
best export is barred by such stub
born affair as the Constitution Of
the United States? What folly, said
a punning delegate, for people who
know the excellence of the French
vintage to prevent the liquidation"
Of the debt and punish themselves in
so doing!
1t is inconceivable to those of
Gallo habit that the bouquet of Bur-
gundy is repugnant to civilized per-
sons. No reluctance was noticed in
the ranks Of the A. E. F. to accept
the finest expressions of the grape,
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
What Readers Are Thinking

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May | add word to the dis
cussion of Paris prices to say that
during stay of four months in 1920
the amount of the luxury tax on
articles | bought in Paris shops was
Invariably remitted as allowed by law
and upon my representation to that ef-
tect, in the case of articles that were
Tor export-~that is, in the case OF
goods that were being taken back with
me to America?
A Frenchman could not have had this
privilege in buying similar articles fo,
use IN his own country, nor is it one
lnat we Americans extend rsciprocally
TO frenchmcn who are our guests.
The luxury tax on my hotel charges
was not subject to like remission. be.
cause the accommodations and food
that were taxed were of course con.
snmed within the country, but these
taxes were always correctly and
separately charged and could rcadil,
have been checked if there had been
any occasion to question them.
| wonder that New Workers are no,
by this time enough accustomed 10
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
Recall on the Rhine

President Harding has called home
the last attachments of the American
Rhine garrison. This force had been
reduced from time to time and would
have been ordered back in it's en-
tirety after the separate peace treaty
with Germany was ratified had not
some of the Allied governments
urged the United States to keep the
Stars and Stripes flying in the Co
blenz area. We stayed OH as a mat
ter of comfy. That this service was
not very deeply appreciated was
shown the other day by the shiver of
CONSERVATION which ran through the
Allied finance minister's conference
when our bill for occupation costs
since the armistice was presented.
The United States held part of
the arnistice zone area under
guaranty Of reimbursement no diff
ferent from the guaranty under
which the British, French, Belgian
and Italian occupation costs are be-
ing liquidated. Germany agreed to
pay us-both in the Versailles treaty
and in the Berlin treaty. I'VE left it
to the Germans to pay us through
the Reparations Commission. Will
the other Allied powers maintain
that they have a right to comman-
deer this sum simply because it is
consigned to US through commits
sion on which we have not always
been represented, but on which we
are still entitled to be represented? :?
No Entente nation can take such a
position after second thought.
Meanwhile, it is best for the United
States to quit the Rhine. The Ameri-
can troops there have made an ad
mirable record for discipline, consid-
Grafton and helpfulness. The inhab-
itants are genuinely sorry to see
them go. They have reflected credit
on American military morale in
peace just as the expeditionary force
in France reflected credit on Ameri
can military morale in war. But re-
call has sounded. Sunny Coblenz,
frowning Ehrenbreitstein, the rush
ing Rhine and the vine-clad Moselle
will hear the Yankee bugles no
longer. The American military mis-
sion in Europe is finished. Only
glorious memories survive-and a
deferred occupation bill.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
Mexican Adjustment

President Harding's correspond
enee with President Obregon of Mex
go indicates increased confidence in
he Mexican government. 1t has
long been recognized that, whatever
the causes, Obregon's administra-
tion has been the most peaceful and
normal since the retirement of Por-
tirlo Diaz. 1t has, of course. evaded
or postponed various important de-
cisiQns and has left not a little to be
desired, Such, for example. is the
failure TO meet the question of for
eien debt and the inability to put
down in black and white assurances
Of protection to foreign interests in
Mexico. But it has established and
maintained order and has shown a
sincere wish to adapt itself to the
accepted practices of international
law.
Qbregon himself has been handi-
capped by the fact that anti-Ameri-
can feeling is still strong in Mexico,
and that to make concessions to the
Nnrtherners is necessarily to incur
the disapproval of an important ele-
ment of Mexicans. Whoever seems
10 favor the Americans is deemed
ufifavorable to the Mexieans.
But recently an influential section
Of the Mexican -aDlic, headed by
Sefior palavicini, the editor of Gel
Universal" one of the leading news
1apers OF Mexico City, has taken the
tsAltude that recognition by America
s Essential and has upbraidcd Obre-
y9a for failing to obtain it. This,
Ned to the fact that a new Con-
jA,eSs will be elected in June, ex-
l6cted to be favorable to Obregon,
considered to be one Of the fac
ors bringing about change. The
resent Congress was absolutely
pposed to ratifying any treaty with
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
The New DISCOVERIES

The report that an expedition
sent out by the explorer Stefansson
has planted the British flag on Wran-
gell Island, off the Siberian coast in
the Arctic Sea, will probably arouse
the indignation Of all good Bolshe-
visits and ti-British. Once claimed
by the United States. the island has
generally been conceded by map
makers to Russia, though it's legal
title has never been definitely set
tied. The fact that it may some day
prove of strategic Importance be-
cause it fanks the approach from the
Bering Strait to the rivers of Rus
sia that flow into the Arctic has
given it value in the eyes of the
Japanese, and explains in part the
desire Of the British to possess it.
Stefansson, although a British
subject, is resident of New York
and a graduate Of various American
universities, including Iowa and
Harvard. 1t is understood that he
sought American aid to help finance
the expedition to Wrangell Island.
and that had he received it he
might have offered the island to the
United States government. But
just as Columbus was turned down
by the Portuguese and finally dis
covered America for the Spaniards,
so Stefansson, denied aid by Ameri-
cans, rediscovered Wrangell Island
for the British. Sebastian Cabot,
scorned in his native Italy, laid
claim to the North Atlantic coast of
America for the English, and Henry
Hudson, an Englishman in charge
Of Dutch ship, claimed New York
for Holland.
The new discoverers, therefore.
are living up to the best traditions
OF their trade. In the present in
stance they have merely acquired
tor the British crown one of the ia
vorlte haunts of the polar bear, de-
scrlbed as consisting largely Of bar
rem rock. The island was ours once
for the possessing, but we failed to
find it sufficiently useful to hold it.
Just what the British will do with
1t remains a mystery.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
Average Common Sense

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; The setting aside by judges of
two verdicts in the Emo case, and the
discussion of the same by Martin w.
Littleton and Montefiore Levy. chair
man of the committee on practice and
procedure Of the New York County
Lawyers Association, recall the con-
troversy which ragged in this country
and abroad in the late zoos as to
whether masses of average men or the
few exceptional individuals of genius
are the most effective exponents Of
progress.
W. Il. Mallock, in his brilliant book
"Aristocracy and Evolution" published
in 1898, made an interesting contribu-
tion to this discussion. He points out
that it is the exceptional man-excen-
tlonal IN intellect, energy and initia-
tlve-who drives society ahead: but If
Is the common mind, ''incalculably wiser
than most individuals who differ from
it." that keeps society on an even keel.
He speaks of the cumulative common
sense of average men" as the "founda-
tion and the justification of trial by
jury-an institution in which, as Sir
Henry Maine has observed, we have the
very abstract and essence of all prac-
ticahle democratic government"
Judges may be more intelligent and
their minds better trained. But un-
less we are willing to undermine
democracy @e should be careful that
in the matter of decisions, whether of
public questions or private disputes in
law courts, a single man should not too
often stand in the way of composite
average wisdom
JOHN EMERY MITCHELL.
New York, March 18, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21

every days news convinces them
that this is not possible.
Mr.. Enright is the police head.
He is or ought to be eager to see
that they are adequately paid. Yet
he is the chief obstacle to uni
versal public opinion in their favor.
If he and the men in the depart
mcnt who uphold his every action
will cease clustering that the crime
wave is a tigmcnt of newspaper
imagination and seek intelligently
to put an end to it there is little
doubt that the men will get the pay
advance which they seek and which
they deserve.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
The Bonus JuggIers

The difference between President
Harding and the House bonus pro-
moters is that he favors a specific
bill or no bill and they favor almost
any old kind of bill with the word
bonus, or its equivalent, in the title.
They want something that looks like
bonus legislation, and the more it
looks Ike it and the less it is like it
the better it suits them. They are
more interested in doing something
for themselves which will pay div
idends at the primaries and the cleo
tfon next fall shan they are in ad-
justed compensation for the soldiers.
The President has a simple and
rational plan. He holds that if a
bonus is to be voted the money to
pay it must also be voted in the
form Of supplementary tax which
will least burden Treasury financing
and least interfere with business re-
adjustment. He says that he will
sign a bonus act coupled with a
sales tax. No sales tax, no bonus
act al this session.
But about the last thing the
bonus proponents want to do is to
risk slissipating an expected profit in
soldier votes from a measure with
a.honus label by antagonizing other
voters who would be asked to pay
the bonus bill out of their own
pockets, According to the strategy
Of .Mr. Fordney and Mr.. Mondell a
bin must be devised which leaves
the tax burden conveniently in the
air and does not deposit it on the
shoulders of some group strong
enough to make trouble for House
Candidates seeking denomination
and reelection This strategy cul-
minated in the loan certificate or
pawnbrokers" measure, which was
attended to make everybody happy
by voting the soldiers due bills and
yet deferring their presentation to
The Treasury.
The President is not sympathetic
with this sort of politico-fnancial
prestidigitation. He looks beyond
next primary day and next election
day He opposes bonus measure
without a specific cash attachment.
He has told the bonus manipulators
that ne will fight it out on this line
Il it takes all summer. The country
viii be with him in fighting it out.
Il the House wants to pass a real
bonus bill it will pass a sales tax
oonqs'biIl. lit passes any other kind
Of bill it viii confess once more that
It's object in all this dodging and
sqpirming is only to ease the strain
Of a political campaign by getting
on the blind side of the soldier
voters.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21


moral support and spiritual ihss'' ~
their efforts to both Mr.. Harding :.
Mr.. Hughes early in January sA1 =
ceived most cordial replies from :"
secretaries. I'm.
desired to have them know ~ =,
this group of people here was 0', ,,.s
them in their work. The
claims" of our prayers perhaps
less practical than the wires - ~.
believe you will agree with ns
they helped. ,r
ROBERT E. MARSHA.
Rector ST. Matthews oa"
Bedford. N. Y, March II, isas'
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
The One Obstacle

The bill increasing the paw OF
policemen and fremen to a maxi
mum of $500 year will be very
generally approved by the public.
Few are the citizens who do not
recognize that the risks involved in
these callings are great and that
the wage in the past has been in
sufficient to compensate for them.
The case of the police, however.
differs in public estimation from
that of the fremen, not because of
any prejudice against the rank and
file, but because the head of the de-
partment has been either unwilling
or unable to repel the greatest
criminal invasion in the history of
the City of New York.
In his attitude toward the crime
situation Mr.. Enright has been sup
ported too often by veterans who
occupy high Office under him. To-
gether they have succeeded in great
ly injuring the cause of the highly
deserving men in the department.
The residents of New York fully
appreciate the fact that they owe
the security of their homes from fire
peril to the fremen. They would
like to feel that they were as secure
from thieves and burglars. But
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
Let the Comptroller Explain

A clear and Ineligible statement
OF the city's finances by the Comp
troiler Is necessary as a reply to the
Meyer committees charges that the
debt limit has been and is being
exceeded by the city administration.
Exceeding the debt limit is a viola
tion of the law 1t involves serious
consequences.
There is, it is true, difference of
opinion as to the definition of the
debt limit. Senator Brown and the
Comptroller disputed violently over
1t at one of the sessions of the Never
committee.
There must, however, be check
on the propensity of the present ad-
ministration to spend money as fast
and as freely as it sees fit, and there
should be an accounting to the citi-
zens of how it is spent, including a
statement Of the Comptroller's rea-
sons for believing that the sums ex-
pended have been kept within the
constitutional limitation.
1t is not likely that Mr.. Craig
and Mr.. Hylan will adopt any of
the suggestions for retrenchment
made by the committee. But they at
least owe as clear a statement of
the city's finances as they are able
to make to the people who elected
them.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
Mark Twain's 5 Yankee
} the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Marjorie" in yesterdays
Tribune seems offended at what she
calls the "distorted' screen version OF
the "Connecticut Yankee" Perhaps il
she were to read Mark Twain's "Conncc-
tlcut Yankee" she would find slang OF
nearly every page, and the yankee" a
very forward sort of fellow
1t would seem that "Marjorie's" sense
of humor, not Mark Twain's book, has
been distorted" II. C. X.
New York, March II, 1922,
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
Are the Wires Down ,

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
oir; Your editorial, Are the Wires
Down y moved me to write to the
New York Senator's to urge ratification
OF the treaties. Those wires" have
been down" in my own case, but /
nave prayed and urged my people to
pray for the guidance of the legisla-
tors OF the nation by Gods spirit in
tms matter, and we prayed constantly
during the conference, / wsota of our
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21

what they experience at home to forego
criticism if they think they have been
occasionally overcharged while abroad
instances of overcharging can always
oe round IN every country, but do not
Know of any reputable Paris hotel that
follows, for instance, the example of
petty eXtortion practiced in the hotel
newstands of New York, where the
management obliges its patrons to be
the victims of so per cent surcharge
on the price Of morning newspaper.
E. A. BALDWIN.
Schenectady, N. Y, March IS, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
By Crantland Rice

"A voice that was softer than
silence"
"As idle as a painted ship upon a
painted ocean"
Fails soft and slow, as snow on
snow"
Might fell, heavy as remembered
sin"
Competitions of this sort, while out
of date, are not ell irely new. One
might cite De Quincey's ex cathedra
dictum in which he pronounced Words
worth as the author of ''the finest in
dependent line in all the records of
verse; But the quoted line is not
merely line-it is two thirds of one
line and all of another. And Words
worth wrote lady of the mere not
lady of the lake"
This competition might easily be ex-
tended to two lines and then on to an
entire verse or an entire poem. The
double line that has been most often
ranked al the top is from Keats:
Magic easements opening on the foam
OF periious seas in faery lands forlorn." !"
For imagery and sheer beauty that
is at least worthy target for some
ambitious discoverer to aim at.
Some years ago certain magazine
editor asked James Whitcomb Rilev
what set of verses he liked best from
all American creations Riley sub
mitted without any qualification,
He'd Nothing but His Violin" by Mary
Kyle Dallas. The first few lines fol-
low:
He'd nothing but his violin.
I'd nothing but my song.
but we were wed when. skies were blue
ana summer days were long.
And when we rested by the hedge
The robins came and told
How they had dared to WOO and win
When early spring was cold
While no less an authority than
Charles Hanson Towne is willing to
cast his vote for the greatest. OF all
single poems in favor of Rosetti's
The Blessed Damozel" And Shelley's
ITO a Skylark' will always find high
ranking when the voting starts.
Henley's "Invictus" is widely known.