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too bad. But that ieggy. bed
roomy, syeiashy stuff is all they
wantT'
When you see q picture that
seems to you untrue. filled with
those subtly suggested immoral.
tiles that are infinitely worse for
your daughter than a good healthy
dose of Tess" or Adam Beds,"
then note the producers name.
KILL THE FILTHY MOVIE.
In q few weeks you win see an
other film Of the sort. and you will
very probably find the same pro-
ducer's name on Il. a, Three months
later you can say with certainty:
We don't allow the children to
see the x-and films: no, not
entirely because they are 30 filthy,
but because they are not true.
I'VE don't want Peggy to feel
that her husband must buy her
favors with diamond bracelets. and
must build her q room that Is a
cross between the Alhambra and
the Ritz. to prove his love.
And we don't want Jim to be-
lieve that every time his wife IL
five minutes late for dinner It
means that she has been driving
In the Park with q Russian i'm.
prcssartol"
Tell your neighbors this: tell
them that you are noticing the
sort Of films the different houses
produce. Not an army of banners
could be 30 powerful as this simple
little movement could be, in a hun
dred-in three-of our villages and
towns!
Don't always trust i censor.
Some of the censors will let all
sorts of unclean absurdities es-
cape while vigorously forbiddins q
sight of the frothy sewing that
means the new baby. Be your own
Judge in this, as in everything that
gravely affects your children.
And don't distrust the smallness
OF your influence az opposed to the
widespread power Of the silly
movie. Study. as an Illustration.
the beginning Of the woman suf-
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tisnt to produce more thyroxin or
pltuitrin or sdrenalin or what not,
or else administering them to him
a. thyroxin Is at present admin.
istsred in cases Of msxoedemA.
Yet there is not the blightest In.
dics ton in the reports OF the work
Of our prison medical officers hat
one OF them has ever hea = Of
these discoveries, or regards a con.
vict as anything more Interesting
scientifically than a malingerjng
rascal.
II will be seen that I am pre-.
pared to go to lengths which still
seem fantastic 90 to the possibility
Of changing q criminal into an
honest man. But I cannot add too
emphatically that the people who
imagine that criminals can be re.
formed by setting chaplains to
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This queer tree Ia q species OF
the acacia, and Is really entitled 20
be classed as n wonder among plant
life. It grows to a height OF about
six feet. and when full grown
closes its leaves together each day
at sunset. the closed leaves re.
sembling plgtails.
After the tree has thus prepared
itself for a nights rest, 30 10 spePk,
II touched, the whole thing will
flutter or quake as II aEitated at
being disturbed. The oftener the
foliage is molested the more VIC.
lent becomes the nervousness of
the branches and leaves. which ut
length emit q sickening odor. This.
IL inhaled any length Of time, will
cause violent headache.
For lack OF a better name the
strange tree or bush has been
dubbed "the angry tree"
Inquiry among ranchers and
other dwellers among the noun.
tain Businesses thereabouts brought
the information that this angry
tree" Is found almost exclusively
in higher attitudes; that II bears
a seed more generally barren tkan
prolific, for few people. in atte,nLt.
ing to grow the tree from seed hive
been successful. In spots where
the peculiar tree is found Il has
been noted that instead Of 1nul:i.
plying even reasonably fast, Only
the addition Of a very few new
plants show up season after sea.
son.
In the high attitudes OF the
Rocky Mountains there are not
many species of insect life, and
while sumac, scrub oak, aspen and
other native bushes and trees are
often attacked by insects-such NJ
these as there are--the "angiy
tree" is never bothered; at least its
leaves show no sign OF ever hav.
Ing been touched by anything more
than the winds, shifting sands ana
gravel.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

In Texas today the people
are not satisfied with the pros.
pect Of knowing that murderer
and ravisher will be electro
cuted inside a Jail If a jury can
resist the defense put up by
his lawyer. They tear him from
the hands Of the sheriff; pour
lampoil over him, and burn him
alive.
Now the burning Of human
beings is not only an expression
Of outraged public morality; It
is also a sport for which a taste
can be acquired much more
easily and rapidly than a taste
for coursing hares. Just as
taste for drink can be acquired
from brandy and cocktails more
easily and rapidly than from
beer or sauterne. Lynching
mobs begin with negro ravish-
ers and murderers; but they
presently 60 to any sort Of
delinquent, provided he Is black.
Later on, as white man will
burn as amusingly as a black one
and a white woman react 10 tar.
ring and feathering as thrillingly
as a negress, the color line is ef.
faced by what Hrotesses to be a
rising wave on virtuous indigna.
ton, but is in fact an epidemic OF
Sadism. The defenders of the
British penal system take advan.
tage of 1t to assure us that II
they did not torment and ruin q
boy guilty Of sleeping In the open
air, the British public would rise
and tear that boy limb from limb.
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THE "ANGRY TREE"
NEVER BOTHERED
BY INSECT LIFE

TT has often been said that there
Is nothing new under the
SUM-" and perhaps the saying
is true; but just the same queer
things, new or old, are occasionally
found, and II remained for tho
writer to stumble accidentally upon
a tree In northwestern Idaho two
years ago that Is entitled to some
degree OF respect. for 1t commands
Il.
We had been trout fishing and
night overlook us high UP in the
mountains. As the air wss too
cold for outdoor sleeping. we
staked O tent near some bushes
and small trees. throwing one end
Of the covering over one Ct the
bushes to use II for a support.
Immediately the little tree begah 20
sharply twitch It's branches. which
action caused some surprise, an3
we curiously sought the cause, be.
lieving at first that some larre
bird or animal was responsible for
the movement. No living thiLe
was discovered.
The twttching OF the tree con.
tinued and at last q sickening odor
filled the atmosphere, SO pre-
nounced that It drove the weary
campers to a more friendly locs'
ton.
Later, curiosity led to an invcs.
tisation. One Of the trees was
pulled up and cast aside. and I'm
mediately upon being taken from
the soil It's pigtail.like leaves open.
ed, and for quite a while continued
to nervously quake. The quai:ing
finally ceased and the foliage hunr
limp and apparently witherec.
Next morning the little tree was
placed back In the ground again.
a little water was applied to the
roots, and amazingly soon tna
thing resumed . half.norma, con.
dition.
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Morbid Hero Worship.

Now the reply to such q plea,
from the point OF view Of civilized
law, cannot be too sweeping. The
government which cannot re-
strain a mob from taking the law
into It's own hands is no govern.
ment at all. II Landru can 60 to
the guillotlne unmolested in
France. and his British proto.
type who drowned all his wives
IN their baths can be peaceably
hanged in England. Texas can
protect its criminals by simply
bringing its civilization up to the
French and British level.
But, indeed, the besettins sin
OF the mob is a morbid hero
worship OF great criminals rath.
er than ferocious adherence
of them. In any case nobody will
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phrase. And Four. and Seven, and
Fifteen. listening respectfully. are
influenced forevermore.
Words are edged tools; the wom-
an who uses them carelessly IL d
murderer. Mothers are apt to say
despondently that the children 60
their own ways and won't pay any
attention to warnings. But as a
matter Of fact. most parents have
by their own Inconsistencies lost all
claim to ohildren's respect long be.
fore they are old enough to assert
their Independence.
And that brings me to the
movies.
MOVIES HERE TO STAY. ,
The movies have come to stay,
with everything else that amuses
and delights weary and despond-
ent world. They have come, like
the circus, like concerts and thea.
ters. like books and newspapers, to
fill a deep human need--the need
to forget ones individual troubles
in the study Of imaginary prob
lens, loves and hates. beauty and
pain.
We may not 90 on attending
them every night; that phase will,
perhaps, pass as the bicycle and
the dance crases have passed and
as the radio fever will pass. But
there will always be dan.ins and
bicycles, and there will always be
movies.
And the movies producers are
faced with Q tremendous problem.
They want to know what sort OF
pictures people really like. They
viii give American mothers and
fathers whatever they demand.
But do American mothers and
fathers realize that there are big
movie producers who are deliber-
ately feeding the lowest appetites
Of their children, who will not
produce a film unless It contains
a certain amount OF salacious de-
tail. and a certain other amount
Of fantastic and unnatural stim.
ulusf
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Innocent Suffer.

How, then, does the case stand
with your inourabls pathological
case Of crime? II you treat the
life Of the criminal as sacred. you
find yourself not only taking his
life, but sacrificing the lives Of
innocent men and women TO keep
him locked up. There 10 no sort
of sense or humanity in such q
course. The moment We face Il
frankly we are driven to the con.
clusion that the community has
q right to put q price on the right
to live In Il.
That price must be sufficient
self-control to live without vast.
ing and destroying the lives OF
others, whether by direct attack
like a tiger. parasitic exploitation
like a leech. or having 20 he held
in q leash with another person at
the end Of II
Persons lacking such se1f-controi
have, In America, been thrust out
into the sagebrush to wander there
until they die OF thirst, q cruel and
cowardly way OF killing them. The
English people could drive them
into the sea, IL they were equally
reckless. This dread Of clean and
wilful killing leads 20 far more
cruel evasions of blood feuds and
blood money and purposeiy sxag-
serated inculcations Of the COM
mandment Thou shalt not KILL"
II has never been possible 70
obey It. either with men or with
animals: and the attempts to
keep the letter Of II have led 20
burying vestal virgins and nuns
alive. crushing men to death In
the press yard, handing heretics
over to the secular arm, and the
like, instead Of killing them
humanely and without any eva.
sion OF the heavy responsibility
involved. 1t was horrible thing
TO build a vestal virgin into q
wall with food and water enough
for a day; but to build her into
a prison for years as we do with
Just enough loathsome food 10
prevent her from dying Is more
than horrible; Il fs diabolical. II
no better alt, natives to death
can be found thsns these, then
who will not vote for death II
people are o. 20 live, let thtm
live under decent human condi.
tions. II they are not fit 20 live.
kill them In decent, human way.
Is 1t any wonder that scuhe OF
us are driven TO prescribe the
lethal chamber as the solution
for the hard cases which are At
present made the sHorlse for
dragging all the other oSses down
TO their level, and the only one
that will create = sense OF full
social responsibility IN modern
populatonsT
(Anoi her srtIcle by George
Bernard shaw Will appear next
Sundsyl
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Pleasure In Torture.

They are INDUCED and spared
to the extreme limit OF endur-
ance; but in the end they have
to be deprived of their liberty in
some way. The positive ones en-
Joy no such tolerance. Unless they
are physically restrained they
break peoples bones, knock out
their eyes, rupture their organs,
or kill them.
Then there are the cruel peo-
pie not necessarily unable to con.
troll their tempers, nor fraudulent,
nor In any other way disqualified
for ordinary social activity or
liberty: possibly even with conspio.
uous virtues. But by q horrible
involution, they lust after the spec.
tacle OF suffering, mental and ply.
sicsl, as normal men lust after
love.
Torture IL to them q pleasure,
except when II 10 inflicted on
themselves. In scores OF ways,
from the habitusl utterance of
wounding speeches and the con.
triving Of sly injuries and hu.
miliations for which they cannot
be brought to book legally TO
thrashing their wives and children,
or as bachelors, paying prostitutes
OF the harder sort to submit to
flogsings. they seek the satisfac-
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BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.
Copyright, 1922, by Universal s

WE that of the three official objects of our
w prison system-vengeance, deterrence, and
reformation of the criminal-only one is
achieved and that is the which is nakedy abomin.
able. But there is plea for it which must be taken
into account, and which brings to the root of the
matter in our characters. 1t is said and it is in
certain degree true, that if the Government does
lawfully organize and regulate popular vengeance the
populace will rise up and execute this vengeance law
lessly for itself The standard defense of the Inqusi-
ton is that without it herecs life would have been
safe.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
Incorrigible Villains.

Now. you cannot get rid Of
these monsters by simply cata-
loguing them as subthyroidies
and superadrenals or the like. At
present you torment them for a
fixed period. at the end Of which
they are set free to resume their
operations with a savage grudge
against the community which has
tormented them.
That is stupid. Nothing 10
gained by furnishing people who
cannot help themselves. and on
whom deterrence IL thrown away.
Releasing them Is like releasing
the tigers from their cages to find
their next meal in the nearest
children's playground.
The mosst obvious course is to
kill them. Some Of the popular
objections to this may be consid-
cred for a moment. Death, It Is
said, IL irrevocsble; and. after all,
they may turn out to be inno-
cent. But really you cannot
handle criminals on the assump-
ton that they may be innocent.
You are not supposed 70 handle
them at all until YOU have con.
vinced yourself by an elaborate
trial that they are guilty.
Besides, imprisonment 10 AZ
irrevocable ss hanging. Each IL
a method OF taking q criminals
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Guards suffer in body and min
from their employment: and II
IL be true. as our examination
seems to prove. that they are do
ing no good to society. but very
active harm, their lives are wasted
more completely than tnoss Of the
criminals: for most criminals are
discharged after a few weeks or
months; but the guard never es-
capes until he Is superannuated,
by which time he is an older E;lol-
bird than any lifer in the cells.
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assumption of responsibility. And
when we think of what our respon-
sibility 10, ever-present and 50 often
unconscious, to children, to each
other. and to the world, we may
well stand aghast. .
You and I, are what our auots
and uncles, and teachers and neigh,
bors. and the policeman on the
block, and the cross postmaster.
and the weak.minded janitress
have made us. More than all. we
are what our fathers and mother%
have made US. t I,
We borrow nervousness from one
person. arrogance from another.
our ideal Of womanliness from
third. II father thought Dickens
was the greatest writer in the
world and mother said ca.ually
one winter night that she never
could read Shakespeare but loved
Walter Scott. then you and grew
up thinking Shakespeare unread,
able. and Scott great, and Dickens
the greatest of them all,
And so 1t is with our views Of the
shoes we wear, the pudding sauce
we eat. the Declaration of Indend-
ence and the choice between PAN
sizes and violets.
GLIB PHRASES.
" father-who was a coiner Of
phra ses-used to be rather severe
upon the persons he described as
belonging. where medicine was con-
cerned, to the school OF 'a-doctor-
told-grandrna.'
"A doctor told Grandma to feed
a cold-a doctor told Grandma to
put cobweb on a cut-a doctor told
Grandma not to open the windows
at night"'
Think of that mythical Doctors
esponsibility-and think Of Grand.
mas!
1t scares us. And yet you and
l are influencing the minds about
us as casually, as carelessly, as
ignorantly as ever Grandma did.
We toss off an opinion--we con-
denim some country-with a glib
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
WRITER
BLAMES
LAXTTY
GERS will re-
spond Readily to De-
nands of Parents,
Says Famous Wom-
an Writer.
r T'S one of the most besuti
ful things In the world"

rs one OF the most Desuti
ful things In the world"
said my aunt, Indignantly
and firmly. ... .
This was thirty years ago. and I
was a very small girl. My aunt
and / were looking at a certain
wall decoration known as Lin
cruster Walton" had said, with
all the arrogance Of nine or ten
years, that thought 1t was ugly.
''Ugiy?" my aunt echoed, an.
noyed. "It's one Of the most beau
tiful and expensive things in the
worldr'
Perhaps she thought so, per
haps she didn't. I never thought
20.
And yet. to this day. when meet
this particular ornamentation IN
apartment house Railways or one
Of the smaller restaurants, some
automatic reaction takes place in
my brain, and say to myself:
"Lincruster Walton. It's one Of
the most beautiful and expensive
things in the worldp'
In other words. my aunt hal
creased a little line in my brain.
Perhaps was in a particularly e.
ceptive mood just then, perhaps
realized then. as now, that I know
nothing Of interior decorating. But
the crease was there, to bias my
judgment forevermore.
Such a speech as that, coming
from a real grown.up young lady,
TO the admiring heart of Ten, Is the
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

Do you know that this Is being
done exactly as cooking is done,
for a growing appetite. and from
q set recipe?
And DO you know why?
II IL because, walking home
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

yawning and sleepy in the cool
evening air. you and the children's
father content yourself with say
ing:
"It was sort OF silly. wasn't Il?
I think that part Of having her
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
KATHLEEN NORRIS
SAYS

Do American faith
ers and mothers real
ize that there are big
nioUie producers DkO
are deliberately feed
ing the Lopest dppe-
tites of their chill
dren, Uh0 DiH not
produce a film unless
it contains a certain
amount of saIaciOus
detail and a certain
other amount of fan
tasfic and unnatural
stimuLus?
Do you knOU that
this is being done er-
actIy as cooking Is
done, for grolCing
appetite, and from a
eof ro~Sno7
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

And do you knop uIty?
1t is because, lnalking home yaloning and
sIeepy in the cool evening air, you content your
self With saying: at lras sort of silly, Wasnt
H?"
Don't aIuays trust a censor. Some of the
censors lDiH let all sorts of uncleun dbsurdities
escape phile vigorously forbidding sight of
the frothy selUing that means the neIU baby.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

This the fourth of series articles BY Sha,
IN phich he condemns attitude Endorsement Of
modern methods Of punishment Other articles ~
follow.
The Washington times., 1922-06-04
FAULT is
AT HOME,
SHE SAYS
"Don't Always Trust
the Censor" Warns
Kathleen Norris i'm
Woman . to Woman
Talk.

frage movement, and the co-opera-
tive movement with something
less than twenty people, and some
thing less than five dollars in CAPT
ment.
Or. II you live near. 90 down.
town In New York and look at the
tallest building in the worid--built
by one mans brain, and q million
mons five and ten cent pieces!
wonder what the neighbors
said to Woodwork when he said
that a shop OF small things. with
no bookkeeping. no credit and no
deliveries, might bs made to pay7
OF course they said;
do you mean that you. alone,
In this enormous world, are going
to try to make people think that
they can carry packages. and pay
cash! Come down to earth
Or remember one New England
woman, the mother of small child
rem, with no money and no influ.
ence, who burned and ragged. as
she set tables and made beds. over
the cruelty OF slavery.
All she did was write .Undis
Toms Cabin"
Copyright, 1924. by The Republic
gyndioate)
The Washington times., 1922-06-04

This IL one Of series Of Woman
to Woman Talks on present day
family and social problems that
Mrs. Norris, Americas best loved
and most popular woman writer.
is writing especially for this news
paper. Another talk viii be Print.
ed next Sunday.
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1922-11-01

Mrs. Lurena Sheperd and Miss Jes-
sic Sheperd were. weekend visitors
in Knoxville.
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1922-11-01

IN her hr4 performance only once, and then
for an encore. did she play composition
.Pcnned 10y an American composer. The critics
Icbrlsed her
We know what European music IS they
said. We came to get yo,.. ucssagr. We
came to rejoice over the harve.' 4. eur crop
OF culture Give US not that r5.s S ours
give Us that which is yours"
Amerca.is deyeloprng.an architecture as dis
tinct and as secure as that OF Ancicat Greece
Or Rome. One d oGr greatest scrp,ors found
his art on the parched plains of Uth One of
our greatest painters came from a little town
hidden IN the foothills Of the Adroudacks. tie
has pictured for the future historian the ro-
nance 81 the opening Vest
l>alenry the master artist of short-st3rv
Writing IN The English language, found lis III.
ton ~ the ranch life of Texas
When $1,000 prize was recently offered
for the best contributed movie scenario. it went
to an Unknown writer from Apalachicola a
small town with a big name Brains are found
on Nam Street as well as on Broadway
The phonograph the Nadio and the moving
picture screens are building, not ~,nly apprecia,
ton, but the creative genius to winch apprecia-
ton responds
We need no longer look east for the finer
things That east is looking westward ior hat
which-we have to give
We are ripening crop of culture lust as
surely as we are ripening crop Of corn.
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1922-11-01
NUMBER As
ANOTHER Bic 6,jI
N PRIGE 6F CARS

According 10 a statemtnt JUST re-
sued by Enscl B. FSd, President al
the Ford Motor Co, Detroit, gen
eral reduction of $50 a ear has beer
made in The prices of Ford Mode.
81" Cars and the Ford 0ne.Tou
Truck, effective Octobe, lyth
"The revision in prices" gaid Mr.
Ford, "is The result OF the inrrtased
volume Of business which our eumpa-
ny has enjoyed during the present
year, and also, to the foct that VI,
now own and operate r.any Of sur
own sources Of raw material. wkict.
enables us to continue lncrea: 'h2 the
quality of our produl- and at the.
same time keep the price so ioy tha7
Ford cars arc in reach of everyb oCk.
Our production for 1922 is ahesdy
in excess Of a million which hga
been an important factor N bring.
ing down costs. Our present 5aiIh
output is averaging better thaa 5,lAS
Cars and Trucks, which means conn
pete Ford Gar or Truck ryerv So.
seconds Of each eight-hogr wcr Sins
day 1t is in anticipa ion # Ehis
continued demand that price, ,Jusf-
Tents are again being made IN or.
der to keep in effect the policy ogs
selling Ford products at the lowest
price consistent with quality
Quality, as usual" said NJ. 'oTd,
will continue to be prime .onsia
Grafton in the building Of Ford Cazz
| As our business has increased VIZ
have constantly increased our : zip
ment and manufacturing facilities
so that this price reduction nEsraT,
reflects the progressive metheds
which comes as "a result Of iu.rease4
volume
This reduction, which is the sixtEs
since March 1920 brings the arice as
the Ford Touring Car from $s75, shz.
price in effect early in 1929. 30 hhe-
present extremely low level Of SOS
which is nearly 80 per senl les1
Corresponding reductions have neeR
made on all other types
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1922-11-01

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