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The Hope pioneer., 1922-06-29

Cleanliness about the stable and In
dairy products Is tie only
aahaguard against injection.
The Hope pioneer., 1922-06-29

Says Sam: Nobody knows the Joy
Of loafing like the man who work, foI
1t.
The Hope pioneer., 1922-06-29

The piano needs airing just as much
as the bedroom; open it up OCCASION
ally.
The Hope pioneer., 1922-06-29

Fashions in sin seem to change, but
the good old qualities Of loyalty, kind
ness, truth, and service are always in
style with the best folks.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
THE devil, for instance, Nigh

THE devil. for instance, might
l. have been a very useful
and entertaining fellow IL peo-
pie had not got to taking him
too seriously.
II you don't believe in him.
he Is quite instructive: II you
do believe in him, he may scare
you out Of your wits.
There's a good deal Of cheap
sentiment wasted over the sup
posed tragedy Of telling chill
dren there Is no Santa Claus.
As a matter Of fact, they don't
care whether he is real or not.
IL only everybody will play he
is real.
What upsets children Is the
chuckle-headed adult who does
not see that white magic, which
nobody IL stupid enough to think
real. but which all agree to pre-.
tend IL real. is fun.
The trouble with our earnest
forefathers who hanged witches
and burned men for bargaining
with Satan was that they could
not take a joke. and the Judges
and priests believed In the
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
a StrdU
For TUO>

THERE is an old song about
"The prettiest girl / ever saw
j sat slipping cider through a
straw" When the song ends, the
prettiest girl and the man singing
the song are "cheek by cheek and
jaw by jaw, slipping cider through
a straw"
That seems innocent enough in a
song. But here comes Louis King,
a writer, suing Louis Paterson,
wealthy real estater, for $50, 1000,
because Mr.. Paterson and Mrs.
King drank soda water from the
same straw.
This is mentioned on account Of
the song, not on account of the
divorce, which is ordinary enough.
1t is curious that men, rushing for
divorce, never seem to ask them
selves whether their own negligence
has contributed to the difficulty.
Husbands in the rush of life
neglect little thoughtful courtesies,
then get angry when the Mr..
Paterson of the occasion offers the
hospitality of his soda water straw.
If you don't want others to attend
to it, YOU attend to it.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
WAYSIDE WISDOM
tCopyright 1s22D
S. E. Kiser --

A Death Rate That Never Declines.
THE foolish people never seem TO learn
l. BY hearing of the fate Of other fools;
Unwise men still are spending all they earn.
The reckless 60 on fooiing with edged
tools;
The foolish driver cannot learn 70 wait,
But tries to beat the engine to the gate.
WHENEVER ponies run there's some one
Walk. Walk. sadly sadly home"ard when the rae
We hear of some one every day or two
Who played unwisely with a rusty gun;
Men keep on taking rsedicine at night,
And, after it's too late, turn on the light.
Still, LIS, swimmers mn like to show how brave
BY taking chances that they need not
take;
The stranger with the sporty.looking car
Finds girls who venture for adven-
ture's sake;
Men still establish lovenests here and there.
And think their wives will never know or
care.
YOUNG spectators cannot seem to learn
That miracles are seldom brought
about; 49,.
They keep right on expecting to return
The stolen cash before they get found
out,
And every little while some foolish cove
Hides all his hard-earned savings in a stove.
THE foolish will not learn by being told,
l. The foo,ishness, It seems, Is never
checked:
The fortune teller's palm Is crossed with
~ gold,
The scolding woman's happiness Is
wrecked;
II all the fools gained wisdom bit by bit
The devil soon would close his place and
cult.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17

ALLY more people see that
continuance of the railroads
II under private ownership is
costing the nation more than it is
worth.
1t means high rates to meet ever
increasing debts.
Because special interests cannot
agree over division Of the revenues,
it means frequent, vexatious, costly
and at times intolerable tieups,
threatening the nations very life.
1t, therefore, raises anew and
with increased emphasis the ques-
ton whether, instead of seeking
further to sustain this inefficient
system by recurring doses Of Gov
ernment aid it would not be cheaper
to do NOW what all see must be
done EVENTUALLY; namely,
take the railroads over into Gov
ernment ownership.
The only apparent alternative
is to try again limited Federal
control, for the period of the pres
ent emergency.
Practically that would mean an
other fattening of the railroads out
of Government funds, the benefit
going to private ownership as soon
as Federal control had ceased.
A better way to invite periodic
break-downs in service could not
be devised.
If one truth is clearer than an
other it is that public utilitie can
not be successfully regulated in the
public interest while privately
owned.
We see that truth demonstrated
today throughout New York State,
where private interest has captured
the regulating agency and is as
sessing great overcharges upon the
people. 1t is plain wherever privi-
lege exists.
Banker control of transport
means continuous strife to depress
wages and increase rates.
It's natural aim is to exploit, not
to serve, the people.
Pursuit of that aim fills our
politics with poisons and our ma
tional future with needless menace
and alarms.
Why, then, defer the inevitable
solutionf
As between poulticing a cancer
and cutting it out, common sense
ought not to find choice difficult.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
WHEN STRIKES
ARE IN BLOOM
BY BUGS" BAER
Copyright. 1922. By star Company.

ENCOURAGED by his success
~ In arbitrating coal strike, Mr..
Harding has gone out and bought
himself one oil stove.
THERE hasn't been enough
i coal manicured this summer IN
our popular cinder resorts TO Doll
dew on gnat's wings.
DRESIDENT wrote to coal
L dukes offering to settle their
famine business.
THEY sent his letter back
l. marked Opened by Mistake.
THEN he sent them beauti-
L full postcard. They chased
that home again marked Opened
by Mistake.
INDUSTRIAL conditions at
standstill. l must get those
wheels moving, thought Prssi-
dent, as he scratched his head.
WE must have heat this Win
w ter. We can't all be Eski.
mos and janitors.
CITIZEN seen with lump Of
~ coal this winter will be ar
rested for abduction.
TOAL ,BARONS listen to men
with respect in their earmuffs.
MINERS are willing to arbi-
AVA trate, but owners have iron
ears like municipal statues in
Potomac Park.
DAILROADS in bad shape, too.
~ Employees are walking out
in sympathy with passengers.
EIRST thing we know, pastry
II mechanics will be striking for
minute hands on hour clocks.
NOBODY seems willing to
~ listen to reason. They don't
know what they want and they're
determined that nobody else will
know It, either. a
VOU might think that being
i President is sweet job, but
who wants to be Chief Target
in largest complaint department
in world7 .se
MILL trade this unanimous
" office for Job as swimming
instructor In dry well.
THANK our patched Constitu-
i ton, I've only got two mors
years Of rejected suggestions In
this place.
ONLY consolation I've got is
" that I didn't vote for myself.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
Who Offers
More ?.

4 STRIP of concrete eighteen
~ inches wide by one and one
IA half inches thick, laid around
our globe, would measure the con-
tents of the Wilson Dam, on the
Tennessee River, at Muscle Shoals,
Ala.
That dam, as large as any ever
built, would, if completed-it is
only one-third finished-yield l.
100000 horsepower of hydro
electric energy at the rivers flood
or 100000 horsepower at mean
flow-more power than Americans
now get at Niagara.
The United States started upon
this project during the war. to Sc
cure nitrate for munitions, but has
since declined to complete it.
Henry Ford has offered to lease
the Wilson and a supplementary
dam if the United States would
finish them and. to repay in 100
years their total cost, together
with the cost Of the power houses
and installed machinery. .
He also has offered to pay $5,-
100000 for the nitrate and auxil-
iary plants, to study the best proc
esses of making commercial fer
tilizer and to sell the fertilizer at a
net profit of never more than 8
per cent.
In time Of war he would turn
the whole enterprise over to the
Government.
This is the offer which, Senator
Harreld of Oklahoma has just de-
nounced as "unconscionable."
But since it was made public,
more than year ago, nobody has
surpassed it.
The only serious alternative has
been Senator Norris suggestion
that the Government itself finish
the plant and make a fertilizer.
That would be desirable, but no
one knows better than Senator
Norris that it isn't probable.
Meanwhile, the vast millions al
ready spent by our Government on
Muscle Shoals are doing nobody
any good.
We need cheap fertilizer, cheap
water power, and the assurance of
abundant nitrates in case we get
into another war.
If Ford's offer isn't enough,
who offers moref
Ford has named a way. Let
his critics propose better, or
subside.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17

TT Is commonly assumed that
i the Martian, II he exists at
al, has a much older civiliza-
ton than our own. The basis
for this assumption is the neb-
ular hypothesis. according to
which the various planets
were thrown off in succession
from the mass Of world-stuff
which contracted as 1t cooled.
with the sun at Its center. On
this thesis the outer planets
would obviously be older and
Mars would presumably have
been far ahead OF us in de-
veloping q living population.
We might fairly expect our
elder planetary brother to take
the initiative In sending sig
nails to the earth. Radio, which
10 new with us. may be an old,
old story with the Martians.
Quite possibly they have been
patiently waiting thousands OF
years for US to become intelli-
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
SignaLs From, Mars
BY Henry Smith Williams.

1T is reported that Senator
= Marconi. when in this coun-
try recently learned the origin
Of certain puzzling radio sig
nails of extraordinary wave
length that had come to him
in his floating laboratory" the
yacht Electra. The newspapers
have referred now and again to
the reception Of these extra.
ordinary signals by Marconi. and
have quoted him as saying that
they must have come from some
non-terrestrial source-conceiv-
ably from Mars, but more
probably from the sun.
1t now appears that they really
came from Schenectady, where
DIR. Langmuir, Of the General
Electric Company, was expert
menting with the production Of
radio waves Of exceptional
length. 1t was interesting, in
deed. that Marconi should have
detected these waves, but the
public at large will experience
a sense Of disappointment at
finding that so promising a sig
nah had so prosaic an origin.
Better luck next time, must be
the motto.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
TIL E. SPECTATOR
White Magic and Black

WHITE magic is magic you
" recognize as magic. and
hence don't believe in; black
magic is magic you do believe
In.
Both are lies. you might say,
IL by lie you mean a statement
that does not correspond with
fact. L....
But what is a fact?
Are there not spirit facts,
shades. hues, giimpses. sugges-
tions and overtones. that play
around the head Of every ac-
tuality, and are as real as It?
And are not the joys and
griefs Of our days made up
mostly Of such shades and col
orings? Is 1t not the temper
Of the family more than the
quality OF the pancakes that
makes the breakfast an occa-
sion?
But white magic. as I was
saying. Is magic you enjoy but
don't believe. ,"
"A thing is not a lie. at least
\ harmful lie. unless somebody
believes 1t. 80.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17

THE child Is afraid Of his
= dreams when his fancies
have become facts to him. which
they should not.
A nightmare terrorizes US
because we think 1t Is a fact
the half-paralyzed brain con-
fuses what 1t imagines with
what is. And that Is what turns
white magic black.
Our fancies, when they seem
real, are malignant. for We can
not manage them; they manage
US.
The world has suffered a deal
from stolid folk who do not un.
derstand how to appreciate and
use myth, tradition and poetry.
They have caused better and
simpler souls anguish by taking
the creatures Of white magic Sc.
riously. Hence the ages of
superstition, which were ages of
cruelty.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
What About Coal?

ARAYORS of all American cities
nv ought to be interested in
xVx this:
The mayor Of Montreal, saying
that citizens, and especially the
poor, should not be left without
coal, requests the city council to
buy coal, and store it away, no mat
ter if the city must lose money. It
is also especially suggested that
representatives be sent to the
United States ITO buy any coal
that could be found"
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
SAP and SALT
by Bert Nfoecs-

tco7yrisht. 1898, BY Premier syudIsats, fasJ
Lovo is watsrj money is oil, they won't rnix,
II you are proud Of your business don't
conceal itj advertise,
OF laborf ...| ." q
Recognising the truth js RiRetenths Of the
hattie In overcoming difficulties.
Life and hash are both all right 20 ieag as
you don't see what goes into them,
Hes Heck says, ''Ths best sympathy 10 the
kind that takes the shape Of cash"
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
We TOWNE GOSSIP
u Copyright 1922. By Star Company.
BY X. G. B:

Dear K. c. B.-The other day q friend OF
mine and l went to an amusement park. We
met two girls who were real nirts and took
them to dinner and danced and had q pretty
good time. When took my girl home recog.
nized the house In which she lived. She told
me her name and she was the sixteen-year-old
sister of a very close man friend Of mine
You can imagine was somewhat shocked and
/ bade her goodnight hurriedly Don't you
think girl like this ought to be given q good
spanking? s L. r.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
Insect Breeding Spots

best way to eliminate mosdui.
tees. therefore, 10 to clean up
these foul brs edins spots.
The house ny breeds mostly
In garbage piles and stables, II
is said that this insect 10 rapidly
becoming less numerous. espe-
ciaily In, large cities. owing to
the elimination of stables
The Washington times., 1922-08-17

TALK about Nero fiddling while
Rome burned! European CIV
i ilization may be in the throes
Of dissolution, even the Unite 1
States-industrially at least-is in
rather volcanic condition. But
John Salary Sumner is busy prov
ing to an amused public that to
the pure all things are impure.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17

MOSQUITOES are not long
N distance travellers, When
they invade yeur home, yeu can
count on the fact that there is a
breeding place net far away,
They breed In stagnant water,
In tin cans, pals, cutters, mud
puddies, and anywhere that
water is allowed to stand. The
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
Here's Bumpers!

THINE was ere America woes
began, when our boundless,
i bountiful acres maintained
every man, woman and child in
this broad land. But with the
growth of our population in num-
bers and kinds, and with the ad-
vent of the era of machinery, has
come an enormous diversification
of concerns and pursuits. To our
still fundamental agricultural in
terests we have added vast and
varied manufactures, the produc-
tion of great treasure ip raw mate
rials and the development of world.
wide commerce.
The announcement of bumper
crops Of farm products, totaling in
value. over seven thousand millions
Of dollars, is nevertheless a most
gratifying addition to our national
wealth.
One could wish that our country
had already advanced so far to-
ward a scientific and just organ
ization of its economic life that the
producers Of our farm products re-
ceived adequate return for their
produce, and that we, the people,
did not have to pay all kinds Of
tribute to the many middlemen
who intervene between the hand
Of the farmer and the mouth of
the ultimate consumer.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17

IF the Marian exists, and IL
he has a radio system that
can reach the earth. he should
have no difficulty in revealing
himself to US. Nothing more
would be necessary than to
send a series OF signals at
fixed intervals. I for ex.
ample, he were to make two
signals, then after an inter-
val two more. and after
double interval. four signals,
we should know that he was
poving that he could add two
and two.
Similarly It has been sug.
gested that the Martians
might make signs by digging
long canals, such as those that
some astronomers think they
have observed. Nature, II is
noted. favors curves rather
than straight lines. II you
were to find four or five trees
growing by themselves in a
straight line, you would know
that they had been planted by
an intelligent being. There
are no straight rivers nor per-
fectly straight coast lines In
Natures plan. So II It could
be shown that there are long
straight canals on Mars, that
would be accepted as evidence
of the presence Of intelligent
beings there.
And that Ia doubtless the
chief reason why the results
Of observation Of Mars with
the worlds greatest telescope
at Mount Wilson are awaited
with universal interest.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
DO YOU KNOW

The phrase. "Mr. Speaker
where an, i att" was spoken
by James u, Cebb, Tuskegee,
Ala, in 1891, Speaker Of the
Heuss, Thomas b, Reed, replied,
~ doB't know, ] have been
trying for q isng time to find
cut Just where the gentleman
is at" .
Accerdins to the Shoe and
Leather Reporter there are S.
Isa. 900 cattle In the country at
present.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
spooks even more than the
wretches they punished.

XXTHEN Peter Pan comes for
w ward to the front of the
stage and asks us in the audi.
ence IL we do not believe In
fairies, we all shout aye"
But we don't believe In them.
II we did we should be fright.
ened and enslaved In our minds.
We believe in pretending we be-
lieve in them. That is, we be-
lieve in being child-like enough
to use the imagination's count
ers in our game Of life as well
as actual bones and buttons.
White magic is the way man
kind takes to express its per.
ception of the deeper loveliness
and subtler truth Of things.
When the poet says little fairies
are dancing in the moonlight in
the wood. and that the bluebells
are ringing on their flower
stems and they hear the silver
music that Pan pipes in the
rushes. dryads are shifting in
and out among the trees and
nymphs are sporting in the river
and fountain, he Is merely ex-
pressing a more evanescent and
tender appreciation than we
common mortals can see. Chill
dren and child hearts under
stand.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17

gent enough to answer their
signals. More than likely they
prosecuted their Calico for
teaching that Mars is not the
center of the universe while
our ancestors were still in the
tree.tops, and their last WILL
lam J. Bryan. fatuously deny.
ing the simple truths of evo-
luton, may have passed from
the scene long before we were
intelligent enough to give any
thought at all to our origin.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17

drens game. "Mumbls-the-pes," another
designation for the game, derives its
name from the fact that the loser must
draw a peg from the ground with his
teeth after Il has been driven In by the
The Washington times., 1922-08-17

George Washington Parke .Custis. tho
grandson Of Martha Washington and
adopted son of George Washington. di.
rected In, his will that his executors
manumit tfree) all his slaves within five
years following his death. and this was
accordingly done.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
Here and There

winner. The game consists OF q specified
number OF plays performed with jack.
knife, %. .r.t.
The original "miequsnt Old Man" was
the name first given By Milton 10
lsocrates, .s
Monkey bread comes from a native tree
of tropical Africa and the hast Indies.
It's more common name is adansonia. The
fruit Of this tree 10 about the size OF q
citroH, and the bruised leaves are often
mixed with the food Of Inhabitants Of
tropical Africa for their medicinal value.
The Washington times., 1922-08-17

CAN'T HEAR IT, EITHER.
JaIz 10 said to have a soothing effect on
nervous and worried people. When they hear
the jazz We suppose they can't think Of any
thing else, ''.r
The Washington times., 1922-08-17
Better Use the Knife

n ALLY more people see that
continuance of the railroads
- under private ownership is
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-23

Hedge Posts for Sale-Have a
fine lot of 9-foot hedge corner
posts and some 7-foot line posts
for sale.
ID. f.. Brakeman,
Phone 475 Butler, Mo.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-23
G. E. Godfrey Dead.

Clifton f. Godfrey, son of Mr..
and Mrs. S. f.. Godfrey, of east
of this city died at the home of
Mrs. Smith on Fast Fl. Scott
street Sunday evening, Novem-
Der Is. Death was caused by
peritOnitis following an opera
ton for appendicitis. He had
been working on a farm in Iowa
hut on account If sickness re-
turned to Butler last week when
his ailnsent was diagnosed as APP
pendicitis and an operation was
at once performed, but the dis
ease had progressed too far and
death resulted.
Funeral services conducted by
Rev. Brammer of the Baptist
church were held Monday and in
termenf made in the Radford
cemetery, near Spruce.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-23
Summit Deepwater

Henry Winters purchases A
new wagon.
George Reynolds was county
seat visitor Thursday.
W. p. Fritts and family went
to Butler Wednesday.
No school was held the latter
part of the week on account OF
the teachers examination.
Chester Mcdaniel and family
called on W. p. Fritts Satui day
night.
Mrs. Reynolds returned Fri
cay FROM California where she
has been visiting the past few
weeks with relatives.
Jim Gordon's sale, which, WAS
held Tuesday was WI attended
and things sold at ! goo! prize.
An airplsne hea}esl sons'' b,
east went over Tue sdsy. We
wonder how longIit will be until
they are as eomn}bn rs Fords.
MkklE.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-23
Bates County Students at
Warrensburg.

Warrcnsburg. Nov. -10.-Bates
County students at the State
TcachrrS' College are: u
Butlrr-Leo Dcerwcster. y. l..
Fowler, Julia Clement, Regina
Staplcton.
Rich LIilI-Edith Crabb. Flor
cnce Crabb, Frances Plury.
Adrian--.]ocic Pedro, John
Davidson.
The extension work done by
the State Teachers College is
being carried on this year on an
cvcn larger scale than usual.
Twelve members Of the faculty
are giving courses i'll nearby
towns for the benefit of teachers
and others interested i'll college
work. Regular credit is given
by the institution for courses
taken in this work. Professor W.
". Parker, Head of the English
Department is conducting a class
at Butler, DR.. q. ". Stevens,
Head of the Department OF BIZ
ology, gives courses at Rich Hill
and Amsterdam, and Miss HAITI
of the Home Economics Depart
mcnt reports that great deal OF
interest is being shown in the
millinery classes which she IS
conducting at Adrian. Three
hundred students are now en-
rolled in extension classes.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-23
CORTLAND and Atilol.

Mrs. Irene Gray is wor'i;na Tor
Mrs. Stark>.
Lawrence Turner a"! Harold
Simms Of .Drlmolr, k"n."@ were
visiting friends in the" mrigknrr-
hood Wednesday.
Mrs. Henry Herman spent
several days last week iii kansaS
City.
Mrs. Jesse Beatty and children
Winnifrcd aud Robc:' ar, visit
ing relatives in lola, Kansas.
Il. II. IIagcrman, Of kansa'
City spent Saturday and Sunday
at his farm here.
There was no school the last OF
the week as the teacher, Miss
Grace Berry, attended the teach
er'S meeting in Kansas City.
Tie G.. &. Club surprised its
two brides, Mrs. Herman Hen
drich and Mrs. Howard Jones,
last week at the home of Mrs.
Chick and presented each of them
with an aluminium kettle. The
afternoon was pleasantly spent
visiting. Cocoa and cookies
were served by Mrs. Chick and
daughter and Mrs. Beatty.