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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-01-19
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-01-19
BELONGS TO WEST
Eastern Writer'S Definition CT
''sNho.e Wheat" Humor.
Types Of Character and ArtIess HIlar-
Ity Unlike Anything Put Forward
..hxnS 1ropean Writers.

fake. as a hint of local character,
newspapers you read as the train
sses Kansas. In the Kansas City
you learn Of Mrs. Tennal Of
sabetha. who 'hates to drive with the
hood off the jitney. It embarrasses
lie to expose the inner working Of the
machine. The insides of jitney al
ways remind me of the signs Of the
zodiac. They ought to be covered up"
Also of Salina man who went
into hardware store and asked for a
package Of small tacks. How small?"
asked the salesman 1.-THE smallest you
have.r But the salesman said he didn't
have that size.
Will Whites Emporia Gazette mem
lions member of the Emporia Coun-
try club whose thoughts were so far
from business that he wrote check
for .sfore" dollars, and of Wichita
editor who "has taken to a bombproof
to mediate on the frailty of fortune.
One of his reporters wrote: Miss
Higgins after her graduation will de-
vote some time to the study and culti-
walton of voice. She has given her
friends much pleasure along that line
in the last two years Which was all
right except that the elder Higgins is
a dead shot, and the printer set 1t
vice instead of voice."
The Wichita Eagle tells of can over
healthy young lady observed Friday
afternoon walking toward the scales
in front of Jack Spine's clothing store
She raised one foot cautiously ard set
it on the platform. The indicator
glided swiftly around to 125 pounds.
With an air of disappointment the
young lady walked swiftly away. evil
IDENTIFY thinking one foot enough to
weigh at time"
do not know that these Items
clipped at random from papers actual
IN resd as we were crossing Kansas
Kin mean anything to anybody else
~ that they prove" anything at all,
writes Arthur Ruhl in Harper's Maya
zine. TO me there is a certain art
less hilarity about this kind Of humor.
a kind of whole-wheat flavor, that is
distinctly American and more often
found in Kansas, let US say. than on
the island of Manhattan.
A Russian or French Journalist
wouldn't have joked in just that way.
and one trouble with some Of our
younger iconoclasts is that in rebelling
against Puritanism and sentimentality
,sfhey sometimes seem to lose their
Americanism without successfully be-
eoming anything else.
When ThOreau rebelled against con-
rentionality he became more Ameri-
can than ever. He dug himself in on
the shores OF Walden pond and defied
rhe liniversa/ and the result was the
vorld made and still makes a path
h his door.
But when some Of our present.day
riters rebel against convention they
EN- to pull their roots out Of our
hIl and to make themselves merely
into rather nnhousebroken and sopho-
rboric Frenchmen-and If French.
man is anything, he is grown up!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-01-19
When Truth was Better Than Fiction.

The family objected to nineteen
year-old Emily having John for beau,
and she resorted to strategy. The other
evening when John brought her home
she decided to say nothing of 1t and
keep peace in the family. But her
mother began questioning her about
the party. etc., at the breakfast table.
She ended the quiz with this ques-
ton, "Who brought you home, dearr
II came in taxi" was the answer.
Silence for few minutes and then
her older sister burst Into tears. ooh.
Emily" she sobbed, Il didn't think a
sister Of mipe would ever stoop 50 low
as to kiss q strange taxi driver good
nighf.n
Then was when the truth was told
and the whole family, deciding It was
I beAer than fiction. made no more OBJ
~ nps to John. Exchange:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-01-19
I Fierce Competition.

"Yoyf competitor across the way IL
selling a great many Wonder cars"
'I'h put crlmp In his business. /"
said the dealer in Wizard cars. ''Tve
got my wrecker out now dragging q
disabled Wonder car around town.
That ought to shake public confidence
little."-Birmingham Ags-Hefald.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-01-19
A conoenlal Role.

"What like about this actor is his
ability to sink his identity In the
part"
"He's playing hard drinker."
That's just the point"
HE ought to be able to play that
part well. He's been rehearsing it
for 20 Observation-Disclosures Age
Herald.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-01-19

Tommyg-"P why is money
called dhst?" Tommy's Pop
suppose because SO many people are
blinded 4 It. my son.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-01-19

A man Of steel may show HIS tenn
per. and an iron will may get rusty.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-01-19

eFear will cause q woman to changsA
color, even though it may merely bel
the fear OF not wearing Just fha'
proper shade.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-01-19

When a woman contends that her
face Is her fortune she naturally
admires her own cheek.
Evening star., 1923-12-30
u. S. Presents Three
Buffalo to Mexico

American buffalo are again to live
where the buffalo was first discovered
by white men some 400 years ago.
The gift from the United States Of
three buffalo to the government Of
Mexico recalls the discovery and early
history of these big game animals.
The gift is made from the herd main
tanned by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture on the Wichita
game preserve, Oklahoma, to the ZOO
logical park in the City Of Mexico,
almost on the very spot where the
When Cortez entered Montezuma's
capital. on the present site of the
CITY Of Mexico, some 400 years ago,
the biological survey points out,
white men had their first view Of the
bunalo. A herd was maintained in
the menagerie OF the emperor. This
was In 1921, when buffalo roamed in
millions over the timberlands Of
northern Mexico and the great plains
the present en- sos;s wsstern United States
who flrst described Montexuma's $
menagerie, declared that the greatest
rarity in the collection was the
Mexican bull" which had crooked
camel and its neck covered with hair
like the lion. 1t was in these terms
that he pictured the American buffalo
or bison.
AS a manifestation Of good will to-
ward our southern neighbors a gift
Of three buffalo was rendered the
Mexican government by the United
States Department Of Agriculture and
the New York Geological Society. De-
tails Of shipment were intrusted to
DR.. w. T. Hornaday, director Of the
New York Geological Park. and Prof.
A. l. Herrera, in charge Of the ZOO
logical work Of the Mexican govern
uaent
Evening star., 1923-12-30
HOLDS CANCER UNSOLVED
PROBLEM OF MEDICINE
Expert Declares Surgery Is Main Remedy
,e, Holds Cleanliness and Simple
&. Living as Preventives.

and certainly does not replace sur
gerry"
you say that cancer can be pre-.
vented. How can that be done?"
Simple Living Important.
by cleanliness and simple living.
| said DR.. Wood. with a very emphatic
gesture. Cancer is not a germ dis.
ease. It is caused by constant irrita.
| tion Of some part Of the body. mos,
| commonly Of the mouth or stomach
| monest causes is lack of proper at.
tention after childbirth. If the peo-
pie generally would follow few
simple rules of hygiene I am con.
vinced that there would be a very
great diminution In the actual num-
falling off In the number of deaths
from the disease"
I asked DR.. Wood to formulate
| these rules. which he did:
Keep the body scrupulously clean
with special attention to the mouth
and teeth.
Never neglect a cut, burn, bruise
or any similar slight injury.
Avoid Spiced Food In Advice
Avoid highly spiced foods and any
food that is very hot or very cold.
IF a sore develops on any part OF
your body which does not heal quick
ly consult competent physician,
and II 1t proves to be cancerous have
it cut out Immediately.
Men and women about the age of
nfty who begin to lose weight and
develop signs Of amemia should lose
no time in having an examinat ton
made to determine whether a cancer
Is developing In the stomach
III you think You have the symp-
toms OF a cancer, do not worry but
Immediately, see good physician who
Will cure the worry by showing you
that you have no cancer. 1t is better
to worry, however than to NEGLECT a
cancer, because no one dies Of worry
and many die Of neglected cancer"
Says Symptoms Are indefinite.
| asked DR.. Wood II there were any
characteristic symptoms which preceded
a cancer.
NO" he replied, cat least none that
we have thus far been able to deter
mine. An important thing to remember
about this disease Is that 1t very rarely
develops In persons under forty This
Is practically disease confined to mid
die life and in the great majority of
cases appears between the ages OF
forty five and sixty-five."
There is a popular idea" I sug-
gested, that certain articles OF food
predispose toward cancer"
Rubbish" said DR.. Wood. There
is not the slightest evidence that diet
has anything to do with cancer, except
to the extent that have mentioned
In regard to highly seasoned fooo
which irritates the stomach. The best
proof that diet has nothing to do with
1t is the fact that cancer is Just as
prevalent among the rice eaters of
india as among the meat eaters Of
America and northern Europe. Some
people also have an idea that cancer is
disease Of civilization. There is no
vestige Of truth in that Cancer is
not only common to people Of all races.
but is found among lower animals as
well. 1t is a universal plague"
Are foreign countries making any
leap
mo. 1t is common battle for man.
kind in which the medical profession
OF all countries Is presenting a united
front. 1t is not a question Of trying to
outstrip one another, but a common
cause in which we are all giving our
best for the sake OF humanitvs'
Evening star., 1923-12-30
Air Mail Aid Sought.

With the air mail service already
equipped with seventy-nine airplanes
in flying condition Congress will be
urged at this session to give ma
terial announcement toward de-
velopment Of the service.
Operation Of the air mail service
during the last fiscal year was con-
fined to one transcontinental route
from New York to San Francisco.
with landing fields at New York.
Bellefonte, Pal. Cleveland. Bryan.
Ohio; Chicago, Iowa City, Omaha,
North Plate. Cheyenne, Rawlfns,
Rock Springs, Wyo.; Salt Lake City,
Elko, New; Reno and San Francisco.
The total length of the route Is
$3.50 miles.
The appropriation for the year for
the service was $1,900,000; the ex-
penditures were $1.774,151.85.
During the year a total of 1903, ,028
miles were flown by air mail planes.
carrying an estimated total Of ST.
S75,S40 pieces Of drst-class mail. "A
performances percentage OF 96.72 WIS
made for the years operatton.
Evening star., 1923-12-30
BY HERBERT COREY.
tf ELLON says"
!" That is one phras
rarely heard In Washing

ri ELLON says"
i" That is one phrase
! rarely heard In Washing
| ton. Mellon does not say.
lie writes letters. He issues COM
| muniques. He is the most extraor-
| dinary man in public office today. He
has nothing to sell. He is not try
ing to put over his policies or his
personality on the public. He is es-
sentially a buyer. His motto is, pre-
sumably. caveat emptor-"let the
buyer beware"
The public knew next to nothing
about Andrew w. Mellon when Presi-
dent Harding made him Secretary of
the United States Treasury. Bank
ers knew that he is one of the great
bankers of the world and one of the
four richest men in the United States.
A few others knew that his home
| is in Pittsburgh. That is about all
that is known about Andrew w. Mel
Ion today. except that books of ref
erence give his age as sixty eight
and the newspapers tell that he is
slender, gray and apparently dlffident.
Congress Not Used to His Sort,
Congress knows more about him
and wishes it didn't. If contest of
unpopularsty We're to be held on the
Hill, which is Washington vernacular
for the Capitol, the devil and the
kaiser might run first and second,
but A. w. Mellon would certainly
ha fvl
used to the sort of man he has proved
to be in Office. He does not argue, he
does not shake hands. he does not
make speeches. He writes letters.
And they are terrible.
Taxes should be reduced" Is the
burden Of his lay. "They can DE re-
duced. This is what should be done"
His attitude is wholly that of a
banker. He does not discuss rights
votes or office-getting. Bankers rare
ly do. When they invest in the bonds
OF foreign railroads they do not ask
whether the poor heathen will be
made better and brighter by the vi
sion Of moEul locomotives hauling
freight cars upgrade. They ask
whether the roads will pay. As Mel
Ion sees his present job 1t Is to get
the business affairs OF tho American
people back on q buiness basis. If
congress, WHICH mas lno power, pre-
fers to increase taxation rather than
reduce It. that is Congresss own re-
sponsibility. But SO long as he has
the letter writing privilege Congress
cannot say 1t was not warned.
Was Misunderxtood mt First.
When he first came to Washington
to take charge OF the Treasury he
was misunderstood. The reporters
who called on him brought out the
word that he is diffident. If Mellon
is difndent, then Napoleon was an
evangelist. He is not talkativs or
jolly. He has a way Of looking out
OF the window when he is being
talked to. and he seems a bit fraii
and a bit oversupplied with nerves,
but he Is not dff1dent. There is not
a man in the world OF whom Andrew
w. Mellon Is afraid on matters OF
finance. One assumes that he Is onlS
interested in matters Of finance. His
other interests are not obtrusive
The Treasury Offices open at 9 o'clock.
He Is always on time. except when
he Is ahead Of time. At first he used
to beat the colored messenger to the
door. During busy seasons he still does.
He handles matters of billions as ex-
pertly as some men do hand balls.
Evening star., 1923-12-30
Chinese Pounds
Great Industry

A Chinese laundryman, who for
several years had q little shop In
New England, has cut the United
States off from what naturally would
have been an important market for
hosiery and other knit goods. In
dustry in China, supplying stockings
70 some 400,000.000 pairs Of feet and
shirts to as many backs. This indus-
try has been growing for twenty
years, since the Chinese laundryman n
picked up a smatterine knowiedre
OF the knitting industry in New Eng
land: A prominent technical man In
the knit goods industry describes the
mills In China as a purely Ameri-
can institution" because ''95 per cent
OF their equipment was brought from
America" One Of these mills alone
Is turning out 1000 dozen pairs of
stockings per day.
Evening star., 1923-12-30
By EDWARD r. ROBERTS,

~ ANCER:-The one great un-
A>5 solved problem Of medicine.
~ That Is the way the great
plague Of humanity Is char
acterized by DR.. Francis Carter Wood,
head Of the Institute of Cancer Re-
search. Columbia University. and one
or the worlds greatest authorities on
the dreaded disease which, in the
United States alone, takes an annual
toll of more than 100000 lives.
According to the records, between
10000 and $4,000 Americans die yearly
from cancer. But DIR. Wood points
out this number Is considerably be-
low the actual ghastly total. as in
fourteen states. equal to half Of the
country IN area. there are no reliable
records of causes Of death. In addi-
tion, he believes that a large number
or cancer deaths are attributed to
other causes through incompetent or
careless diagnosis by doctors. For
these reasons DR.. Wood believes that
- the total cancer deaths are at least
$4,000 per year and may even be
higher.
Finds No Medicinal Cure.
What hope can medical science offer
OF freeing US from this scourge?" was
the question 1 asked DR.. Wood to an
swer.
IF you mean by hope" he replied,
what prospect is there for a medicinal
cure of this disease would have to
tell you that at present there is none.
Cancer is our one great unsolved
problem and we may as we'll admit
frankly that we have thus far made
little progress toward its solution"
So This Tin.,I,s is rather s gloomy outlook for
may be gloomy replied DR..
Wood. but that cannot justify me in
raising false hopes and concealing the
DO you mean that cancer victims
must abandon hope?"
Surgery Regarded Best Remedy.
"By no means. l said that I saw
no immediate prospect Of a medicinal
cure for cancer, but there is remedy
which can save many thousands Of
lives that are being lost today If the
victims would only learn to avail
themselves of 1T in time. I refer to
surgery. More than that, I believe
that cancer can in some measure be
prevented. but that is something the
people must do for themselves. Doc
tors cannot do it,"
What can surgery do?'
IF a cancer is cut out as soon as
1t appears patient has an excellent
chance of living out his normal life.
Surgery is the only really effective
weapon which We have today, and
where II fails 1t is usually due to the
fact that the victim of the disease has
delayed too long"
What about radium?
Radium Seldom Cures.
"Radium and x-rays are very use
ful in treatment. and no doubt In
many cases aid in retarding the tu-
mors growth, but they cure but few
cancers. OF course, we still know
very little about either radtum or
Array, but we are making steady
progress in investigation, and there
IS always a possibility that they may
nave greater curative value than is
apparent today. However. as far as
our present knowledge goes. can
only repeat that radium is not a sat-
Isfactory cure for all kinds of cancer
Evening star., 1923-12-30

Every minute of his day is occupied
with appointments of various but al
ways financial kinds These appoint
ments often run through until midnight.
Almost every proposition has to do with
the spending of public money. Gen
orally speaking, Melons answer is
No.
No man so completely foreign to the
life. manner OF thought and shibbo-
leths of statesmen ever came to Wash
ington, perhaps When the first re-
porter came to talk with him he was
quite frank. He wanted to know
Evening star., 1923-12-30

and Creeks and from these confer
ences will emerge something concrete
in so far as Queen Marie's plans for
the Balkan confederation are con-
cerned.
Naturally the activities of the Ru-
Danian queen are keenly speculated
upon in France, where the idea of
the little entente was born and the
execution Of which brought about the
union of the Francophile group of
smaller nations in southeastern
Europe. Already France has aided
Rumania, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia
and has been diligently striving to
gain a firmer grip within Greece.
The French have not watched the
growth of British influences in Greece
with complacency and it is declared
that through the royal houses Eng
land has gained in proponderant in
fuence in Greece. 1t is frankly ad-
mitted in Paris that France probably
could make greater headway with a
Grecian republic, as the fathers Of
tho republican move in Greece are
known to be Francophile in char
actor.
where Does Queen Stand9
One question arising to perplex
many Of the statesmen Of Europe is
whether Queen Marie, British by
birth and sympathy, Is not really en-
deavoring to undermine French in
fiuence over the little entente and
through a Balkan confederation, act
Ing on its own, promoting British
influence in southeastern Europe.
None Of the Balkan nations to date
have been, by their own efforts, able
to negotiate the treacherous shoals
arising from the war and as a con-
sequence have turned to the larger
powers for aid. France has been the
first to gain advantage in this way,
and there is serious question that her
influence can be minimized at any
juncture, even though the smaller
nations, through Queen Marie's plan,
lend themselves to a. Balkan confed-
Grafton.
That Queen Marie's plans in so far as
Greece Is concerned may receive a
setback is indicated by the French
Czechslovakia treaty drafted in
Paris during the past week. Unques-
tionably Czechoslovakia will be first
violinist for Frances eastern Euro
pean political orchestra and with
Prague's influence paramount there
is doubt that the French grip, polit-
ically and. financially. easily can be
loosened.
But If Queen Marie is working sole
ly for the interest of the Balkans and
is not working for the indirect inter-
est of Britain, she may win her bat
tie yet. but with the tacit support of
the French, who may. through Ru-
mania and Jugoslavia, seek to domi-
nate Greece, even with restored
royal house, one known in the past
to be sympathetic to Britain.
whatever the result, whatever the
present negotiation and diplomatic
maneuyering, Queen Marie still will
remain one OF the outstanding nE-
ures In after-the-war reconstruction
Of political and economic life through
out southeastern Europe.
Evening star., 1923-12-30
THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

The king will open parliament on Janu-
ary Is. The conservatives approached the
liberals with suggestion of common
action to forestall labor government.
whether through a conservative govern
ment (under Lord Balfour, say) with liberal
support liberal government with con-
servative support-a near coalition, it
were. But the liberal leaders turned deaf ears
and thereto shifted unpleasantly. mo coali-
tton. no understandings for u.s." say Messieurs
Lloyd George and Asquith, but freedom un-
compromised and unfettered. For 1t is we
who really control the situation. The days
of the present government are of course.
numbered" To be sure, though they will
make no commitments, the liberal chiefs have
intimated that II the labor party will shelve
their capital levy and naturalization pro-
posals they may expect liberal "acquiesence'
in a moderate progressive program. But the
labor chiefs appear to be pledged to non
compromise. They. too. for freedom.
uncompromised and unfettered." There is
little doubt that they will succeed to the
government and they are practically com
their extreme and distinctive proposals. Then,
defeated. they would ask II for dissolution
to be the most favorable circumstances.
Al but the king is ,nS not obligated l ed to grant
seem to think he would call on Mr. Asauith
to form government am Would usi such a gov
Der of conservatives. anxious to escape a
worse thing? Apparently the liberal big
government to furnish that which is most
The victory Of the swaraj 9home rule)
party in the recent elections in the Province
of Bengal. India, has created a situation M ,; ex-
party leaders. of whom c. r. Das. Gandhi's
right-hand man. is chief refuses to form a
British authorities of conditions practically
importing notification of the British rule.
ssy aaorf o a By o be
sive and provincial autonomy but they do not
stop there They demand natSna1 S home R,tia fuie
policy for India contemplates ultimate home
rule In the fullest sense. but by successive
frst Of these stages is the diarchy system.
The non-co-operationists are not content to
wait. They threaten to make the diarchy
impossible by refusing to vote the budget.
GERMANY.
Henry NJ. Robinson, president of the First
National Bank of Los Angeles. has Been in
vited by the reparations commission to be
member OF the committee which, under the
commissions auspices. will seek to ascertain
the amounts and whereabouts of expat1iated
German assets.
The German fiscal and financial situation
has been remarkably eased by the renten-
mark issues. Printing Of the old mark ceased.
the the pound rs sterling % has re- remained thereabout 1t
for some weeks. The government has been
covering its revenue deficits Iats,, with renten-
hausted and it is thought that its rentenmarks
in hand VIII be gone by the end of January
Then. unless proper security can be found for
fresh rentenmark issues, imitation must re-
commence.
HUNGARY.
plan for the fiscal and financial rehabili-
tation Of Hungary has been adopted by the
council Of the league Of nations and has been