davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1924-04-02

he drove the ball into nearby bunk
er. AS it struck the bunker it took
a reverse English and pumped into
the right hand pocket of Moore s
sweater.
Evening star., 1924-04-02

is that ihe moment they learn how
TO do thing they imme diateIy
eIaggerate IL. The thing is 10
find the right amount of any one
thing and do il. The safest guide
along this line is to try 10 do
whatever it is you seek to accom-
plish along what appears to be the
natural line. The correct golf
swing is n perfectly natural move
nent. Players make il difficult
because they get confused and go
about IL awkwardiy. with all mus
cles pulling against each other in
stead of working together.
Evening star., 1924-04-02

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calf,
April 2.-Glenn (Pop) Warner. for
merly foot ball coach at Pittsburgh,
has taken over the athletic destinies
of Stanford University with the OPEN
ing of spring gridiron practice.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-12-19
THE "SANTA SACK"
GAME FOR KIDDIES

~ ANITA CLAUS is real problem
- to some mothers. Shall their
children be told the truth about
Santa Claus, or snail they think OF
him as sliding down the chimney with
reindeer and sleighf This idea may
help some mother who Ia puzzled over
this question:
Before our little folks were old
enough TO understand about the exist
ence Of Santa Claus, whenever ws
saw picture OF the jolly old man,
we called him Sunny, or Smiling
Santa, because he looked happy. And
he looked happy because he was good
and kind TO everyone. So when the
children quarreled or pouted we would
try to have them smile and look Jolly
like Santa. whose picture we had
among others we referred to, az moral
or myth pictures
AS the children grew to understand
more fully the meaning Of the Christ
mastide we played game, Santa
sack" which meant that If they al
lowed each other or their playmates
TO play with their toys or gave them
OF their apples or cookies they were
playing Santa Claus, because Santa
Claus was unselfish and divided what
ever he had from his sack.
Sometimes when their playmates
came, we would say, You'll want to
play Santa Sack and away they
would skip to distribute their toys like
Santa. They delighted TO play and
be called Santa when they ran sr-
rands, smiled or did something kind
Santa was make-believe creature,
4s characters In poems which we
read to them. such as THE Raggedy
Man" "Children's Hour" Jack
Sprat," "Hiawatha" Anyone who
gave a gift at any time of year was
Santa And whenever Santa Claus
distributed gifts at school or at any
public place, they were delighted that
someone was playing Santa as they
played bear" doctor" or teacher
tn the home with their little friends.
For anyone who is unselfish kind and
cheerful Is to them Santa Claus TO
someone else.
AS they grew older the Santa sack
was woven into lesson story with
the thought that each Of us has some
thing in smiles, kind words and deeds
to give to another all the time For
the real Santa gave much-all he
had-from his sack of treasures In
Bethlehem long ago. SO Santa Claus
means unsel1shness, cheerfulness,
kindness-many things that are worth
while to our children. Gertrude
Walton
GO, 1924 Western Newspaper Union)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-12-19
AUTOMATIC
Train Control Might Have
Saved 113, Commission
Declares

By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. c. = Automatic
train control devices, installation of
which is being fought by the rail-
roads, might have prevented SO acci-
dents and saved the lives of 113 per-
sons in the year ending June 80, the
interstate commerce commission de-
clares in it's annual report.
After reporting progress in the in
stallation of automatic trains control
work the commission says that for the
year ended June 80 100 collisions and
derailments were Investigated, in
which 245 persons were killed and
1901 injured. Of these it finds that
under adequate automatic train con-
troll SO might have been prevented
and that those so were responsible
for the deaths of 113 persons and the
injury of 780.
The railroads, which had rather pay
big dividends than spend part of the
dividend money in safeguarding their
employees and passengers, have been
fighting the installation of automatic
train control devices on the ground of
the expense involved In several in
stances they have been successful in
securing postponements of the dates
on which train control systems must
be installed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-12-19
AUNT LIZZIE ANlN'S
CHRISTMAS LETTER

OW, Ii Aunt Lizzie Ann had
Az only written for Christmas, the
- family agreed as they sat
around the big fire that blazed upon
the open hearth, everything would
have been just perfect. As 1t was.
things were awfully nice and everyone
was having such good time, but
Aunt Lizzie AIMS Christmas letter
had failed to come-the first miss
since they all remembered-an Its
absence cast little cloud over them,
try as they would to hide it.
Aunt Lizzie Ann had always written
the dearest Christmas letter-gifts
she had none to send since Uncle Ed
died several years ago-but always
there had been that wonderful letter,
that breathed 80 deep the very spirit
Of Christmas that 1t had almost be-
come part Of the very time itself for
the Dermott family And although
none Of the family had yet framed the
thought that Aunt Lizzie Ann must be
Ill. or something dreadful must have
happened. 1t lay heavy upon them all.
So wAen George announced that he
was going down to the telegraph Office
to wire they all agreed that II was the
best thing to do.
A soft, powdery snow was falling
as he opened the door TO step without
He had been gone only short time
when shout from him brought them
all to the doorway And there, with
the snowflakes falling around her, was
the dearest little old lady, laden with
bundles, which George tried In vain
to help her with.
"Its Aunt Lizzie Annw they all
cried in unison And sure enough IT
was Aunt Lizzie Ann, coming this
year herself instead Of sending her
usual letter, and she had the dearest
and loveliest gifts for them all.
And when the excitement Of her
coming had died down and they all sat
around the blazing logs again. Aunt
Lizzie Ann explained how she had
been able to come. Uncle Ed had
taken out an endowment policy for her
several years ago; It had now ma
tured and she was free to do the
things she had wanted to for so long
You have been giving to me for so
many years." she said. st makes me
feel real good 10 be able to make
some return at last"
But the family assured her in all
sincerity that Ii was she who had
given the most to them always-for
her wonderful Christmas letter had
helped them more than they could
ever tell her.-Katherine EdelmRn
10. 1924. Western Newspaper Union)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-12-19
RAILROADS SET NEW
RECORD

New York-Earnings of class
railroads in the United States set a
new high record for any month since
the war with October net railroad
operating incomes of $127, 7,105, 100
This is $23,329, 400 more than the
same carriers earned in the cores
ponding month of the previous year
and was more than $1O,000,000 great
er than the record earnings of Sep
tember this year
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-12-19
TOYS Best for Children

Manipulation" toys are best for
children between the ages Of two and
four; dramatic" playthings best be
tween four and six. and construction"
playthings, such as radio outfits,
games or toys that teach the simpler
branches Of exact sciences and those
which exercise and train the hands
and brain in a somewhat advanced
way are best.-Georse Newell Moran
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-12-19
INDEPENDENT VOT-
ERS DREW FROM
REPUBLICANS

Washington.-An analysis of the
vote for the three leading presidential
candidates in the last election in 10
of the largest states indicates that
Senator La Toilette drew slightly
more from the republicans than. from
the democrats. The Wisconsin sena-
tor secured 1872 per cent Of the total
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-12-19

vote in these states, and it would ap-
pear that he drew 7.6 per cent from
the republicans and &C. per cent from
the democrats.
The 10 states are New York, Him
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-12-19

ois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,
Massachusetts, Indiana, New Jersey,
Missouri and Iowa. President Cool
idge received 1891 1858 votes in these
states; Davise, 4,372,625; La Toilette,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-12-19

2,155,459. Four years ago these
states cast 9,sO5,77s for Harding and
4,63l 1926 for Cox. The official figures
for all states have not yet been re-
ceived.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-12-19

Z
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-22
Freedom of the Air

t. REEDOM of the air promises to be as
interesting, If not as trouhlous, an
issue during the neyt few years as
freedom of the seas has been for the last
few centuries. Secretary Hoover, of the de-
partmept of commerce, recently declared at
a hearing before a Congressional committee
that raoio communication lis a public con-
Germ and to be considered from the stand
point OF public interest the same general
principle as other public utilities" 1t is in
conceivable, he said, that the American peo-
pie will suffer this newborn system of
transmission to fall exclusively into the con-
tiou," and that it would be dangerous il
any obtained power Of censorship over
brcadcasting. He seems to have spoken the
Governments mind on the matter. What
ever legislation may be needful to prevent
monopoly of converse in the ether Will be
asked and doubtless will be forthcoming.
Thus are we reminded anew of the far
reaching influence of science and invention
on economic and social relationships, and
hence on political history. The revolutions
brought to pass by the steam engine and
the factory system were no less potent than
those ascribed to French philosophy. That
which changes peoples environment,
bringing new problems as we'll as new OPP
portunites, is certain to affect, and affect
profoundly, their manner of thinking and
to translate itself into their laws. Who
dreamed in the early part of the nine
teenth century that legislation concerning
railways would consume months, indeed
years Of Congress and would be a field for
hard-fought political battles? Who dreamed
a decade ago that We now would be dis
GUESSING the freedom of the air?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-22

O. What speeches did the late President
Harding make on his trip to Alaska? c. Z.
A. President Harding made many eX-
temporaneous short talks, but the set
speeches were the following: The lnterna-
tional Court of Justice, st. Louis Mo-;
Transportation Problem, Kansas City, Mo-;
Agriculture, Hutchinson, kans.; Law En-
forcement, Denver, Col; The Coal Problem.
Cheyenne, Wyo.; Taxation and Expenditure,
Salt Lake City Utah; Cooperation in Pro
duction and Distribution, Idaho Falls
Idaho; Address, Pocatello Idaho; Soclal
Justice, Women and Labor Helena, Mont;
National Business Conditions, Butte, Mont;
Development, Reclamation and Water Uti
lization Spokane, Wash; The Oregon Trail
Meacham, Oregon; immigration and Ameri
canization, Portland, Oregon; The Merchant
Marine Tacoma, Wash; Canadian-Americar
Relations, Vancouver. B. c.. The Territory
of Alaska, Seattle, Wash; Our Foreign Re
lations, San Francisco, Cal.
Q. How long did whaling trips last in
the old whaling days? g. 0. X
A. The old-fashioned whaler often took
three or four years to gather its cargo OF
oil and whalebone
Q. How many elk are there in Yellow
stone Park? H. H.
A, There are over 10000 elk. several
thousand moose, large and increasing
herd of buffaloes, and innumerabe deer
and antelope in this park.
Q, Where is the geographical center of
the United States? G. B. W.
A. 1t is at Fort Riley, Kansas; a monu-
ment marks the exact spot
@. At the time that the United States
was formed, what proportion of the popu-
lation was English? ]. NJ. T.
A. In 1890. the English people in the
United States formed SIS per cent of the
population; Scotch, 60 per cent; Irish, s
per cent; Dutch, per cent; French 0.5
per cent; and German, SIS per cent; all
other OIL per cent The entire population
at that time numbered 2.S10,248.
Q. Is Calvin Coolidge president or acting
president? Q. G. J.
A. He is president of the United States
The constitution provides for this succession
in office.
9. Is there singing fish: r. T. s.
A The sapo, which lives under stones
near the shore is often called the singing
ish on account of a peculiar humming noise
| that is made by its air bladder. Sapo is d
South American name for various toaC
, fishes, especially for the singing variety
which is found along the California coas:,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-22
RAZI, ALBITEGIUS, HUGBALDE
By DR.. Frank Crane

HAVE no idea what those three words
mean.
Razi, Albitegnius, Hugbalde.
That is why they are head Of this ar
ticIe am writing about them, not because
I understand them but because 1 do not.
I suspect they are names, from the places
where 1 found them.
The library of Sainte Genevieye is one
of the largest and handsomest in Paris 1t
stands on the square in the center of which
is the Pantheon, the huge doomed and pill
Jared temple where lie the honored dead of
France. The facade of this library is i'm
posing in it's seven straight lines.
Almost all the ornament of its front con-
sists in names. There must be hundreds Of
them, carved in plain capitals in rows and
columns, a stone roster of the illustrious
literati of all time, all countries.
Some of them l recognize: Pope, Alder
tus, Magnus, Balzac, Sophocles, Diderot, and
Augustin.
But these three to be honest, I never
heard of.
Raj, Albitegnius, Hugbalde.
OF course, / could have consulted the en-
cyclopedia. There stands the al-wise La
rouse row of volumes each day heavy
with the debris of knowledge 1t would be
no trouble at all to look up the three wor
thies and then write about them as If their
names and works had been the diversion of
my infancy.
1t is not that I am morally above such
things, but that not to know them at all ap-
peals to my Imagination.
They represent the great unknown far
more interesting than the great known.
They stand for all those facts 1 have not
yet made mine; those stars whose titles nor
courses I have not yet learned; those flowers
that every spring for centuries have bloom
ed, yet are strangers to me; the living kings
| have not seen, the learned, the beautiful,
the rich, the famous, and the good it has
never been my privilege to meet.
Raj, Albitegnius Hugbalde.
They gloom like three candles before the
vault where lie dead renowns, three stars in
front Of an unaccOuntable galaxy of stars
dim to me as my Tellus is rim to them, these
names significant of the multitude of war
riors, princes queens and grandees who filed
their little world with their fame in their
time and are now known only in strange
lists.
There are two waste baskets into which
most Of the human race are thrown; one is
for those who nameless; the other is for
those who have a name and nothing else.
l have deep longing to know the great
souls of the past and Of the future, as well
as Of the present.
Perhaps in the next world I shall one day
hold consoling and deep discourse with three
men whom l meet by chance travelling a
pleasant wood, and when after our CONVEX
sation is over and we 20 our ways we bid
each other ITO Cod" we shall each give his
name, and they shall say in turn:
Il am Raj"
Il am AIbitegnius"
Il am HugbaIde"
my name was never carved"
Copyright, 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-22
THE COLD SNAP IN MARCH


TOR more than a solid week the weather
II has been severe. If the nights had been
longer it would have been very severe,
hard weather, indeed, for southern climates.
Rain last Sunday was followed by blizzard
weather. Then we had q very unprecedented
experience on Thursday. A drizzing rain in
the afternoon turned to a snowstorm. On
the north side of my dwelling 1 have a small
niazza without a roof. There was no OBJ
struction, and the snow fell straight-and
next morning there were three inches on
the level.
Some snow is still lying about and some
ice. [ found there was a place in the street
with solid, hard ice. The tulips and jonquils
are doing their utmost to bloom-but they
are all pinched and miserable, no doubt, if
they have any feeling on the subject
The farmers used to remark: I'VE will
have peaches if the trees bloom in March,
but none when the trees flower in February"
The middle of March is here, and no blooms
I'D to date on our peach trees. In the year
1S49 we had an April freeze that was record
breaking. There was no Fulton county, and
Decatur was the county site of DeKalb-and
we lived there
We had lovely spring weather for April,
until the blizzard came to US There was
some snow Oath of April, as I recollect),
and then freeze. Everything that had put
forth leaves had them scorched and black
ened. Gardens were all ruined. Even onions
and radishes persisted. OF course there was
no fruit that year-and very little wheat.
In those days we grew wheat on all farms
that were farms No western wheat was
shipped to Georgia, and after the April
freeze biscuit were scarce in even well-to-do
homes, all over Georgia.
My father had big, level wheat field, be-
tween sixty and one hundred acres, and the
wheat was in bloom 1t as high as my
shoulders a girl approaching IA. Not one
bushel did we get from that 1eld-and it
was killed so dead that a single match would
have started a sweeping fire, from end to end.
In 1854 we had a killing frost, May /.
Everything gardens and fruit-were killed.
1t proved to be a drouth year, too-one OF
the worst I can remember in long lifetime.
Spring time will come along-ln due time
but we have had { record March for 1924,
up to date. There are handicaps in many
ways. when the seasons "get on BENDER
Farmers can not prepare for crop. The
plows every one should be turning land, and
the farm help are sitting by the fire, and all
work suspended
The only thing that is rabid is politics.
went down town this morning, despite the
cold and the town was full-candidates and
workers for candidates. These active ctti-
zens can stand whole lot of cold when they
are out hunting votes and influence. Nine
tenths of them will have time to cool off and
complain next week of the weather.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-22
THE THIRD PARTY

-E ARE to have third political party
w in the West--the LaFollette party The
w call is issued While the Worlds War
was in progress it looked for awhile as If
they were either going to deport him, or hang
him on a sour apple tree, from swinging
limb and bref rope; as pacit1st, an1l-War,
politician, and a traitor to his country
But YOU never know-and the last thing
that could have been expected to happen in
1924, was the control of both houses congress,
by faction known as the LaFollette group
but it has arrived!
They have never affiliated with Eugene
Debs. but Mr. Debs polled million votes in
1920 although he was behind Debs in the
Atlanta federal prison He is out, but doubt
to go with the radicals to disguise conhrdl
less feeble, and his following may decide to
go with the radicals" to acquire considera-
ton and avenge Debs.
There is no more a Prohibition candidate.
The 18th Amendment is law, and it is not
likely that Law Enforcement is going to put
out a separate ticket, although Governor
Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, is considered fayo-
able to such movement.
There is no race issue at present, north or
south. The exodus of the colOred people has
done that much for the southland the crowd
that always rode that negro nag in southern
politics will have have to get another ssue
and abate the lurid cry of white supremacy
just before election day. l have lived here
all the time since AppomattoX, and have often
wondered how that issue would reach con-
clusion The negroes went away and wal
have their political troubles lover there"
This Third Party is intended to smash the
Republican party and it will do agood deal
on that line in the Western States, but the
question Of what it will do in Oklahoma and
Texas, worthy Of mention, and Georgia has
some very restless people-seeking whom they
may devour.
1t is by no means certain that the two dom
inant parties hold the insurgents down il
any part of the Union. 1t is an unknown
quantity.
1t will not be possible to know, until the
thing is done and over with-and then what?
In 1884, the Mugwumps split off from the
Republican party and Mr. Blaine would have
come n still on the homestretch but for the
cry of Rum, Romanism and Rebellion at
the eleventh hour. That elected Grover CIeYe-
land to the presidency
In 1916 the women of the Pacific Slope be-
hind President Wilson would keep us out of
war, regardless Of party. In 1920 they voted
down the League of Nations with zeal Sc
SMILING ferocity. You nVer can tell The
Rebellion part of the Mugwump controversy
will have it's inning in 1924. The radicals are
solid for everything that will honor the Union
veterans-as the Confederate veterans control
the Solid South. Do not forget it, they will
battle for Lincoln as the COnferedates battle
for Lee-when the crisis comes. lit will be a
consuming fire when the conflict gets under
way-and may be remarked that the Dixie
senator's who are doing the Cussing for
the LaFoliette crowd, are apt to find bed
fellowship uncomfortable with the insurgents.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-22
Wig SMALLPOX Increases

TVIHY is it that smallpox is on an in
w crease in the United States, some five
hundred cases having been reported
within single week? SO able an authority
as Surgeon General Cumming, of the national
public health service, lays the blame on neg
lect of vaccination Much illness suffering
and expense" Science Service quotes him as
saying would be averted If the well-known
preventive OF the disease were duly employed.
There were very few smallpox cases re-
ported in New England and the Middle At
lantic States, but most OF the other sections
of the country reported more cases than for
the corresponding period last year, and more
than the calculated expectancy" 1t appears
further that typhoid and scarlet fever show
increases.
These facts serve to re-emphasize the vital
Importance of states and counties promot-
ing p1ohc health service. Neglect of vaccina-
ton is owing, for the most part to careless
ness, or to ignorance or to difficulties in
procuring doctor to administe, it. Espe-
cialy is thi, the case in rural districts where
the city custom OF requiring that all school
children be vaccinated has not been estab-
lished. In such circumstances increase of
the malady is nigh inevitable, whereas
due adoption OF preventive measures would