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Pocahontas star herald., 1924-09-18
CLEARYIEW

Ralph Smelling is making hay this
week.
Rev. II. II. Blount preached at
Clearview Sunday.
Rev. S. d. Poe filled his appointment
at Johnson Sunday,
Cloe Wilson is in southeast Missouri
ON business trip this week.
Everybody in this community is busy
making sorghum and preparing for
cotton picking.
II II. Blount and wife and James
Wheeler and wife attended church at
Shiloh Sunday night.
Alex Goodman has sold his mule
team, wagon and harness and bought
fine new buggy and fine driving
mare.
The Sunday school and prayer meet
ing here every Sunday is drawing good
crowds and is doing well. Come and
help us.
A protracted meeting opened at
shiloh the second Sunday and will con-
tinue for two weeks under the leader
ship of Bro. Allison and Bro. Hodge.
The good people Of Clearview church
have gone down in their pockets and
raised a fund with which they have
recovered and refnished the church
house.
Six men and twenty hounds from
this community went fox hunting the
other night, but you can guess the re-
suits. Old Reynard is sly guy-he
was somewhere else.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-09-18
ALBERTHA

Uncle Dock Davis was reported on
the sick list Monday.
o. r. Rapert and wife had bust
ness at Maynard Monday.
]. II. Daniels of Biggers was here
Monday looking for a sorghum maker.
We understand that the state road
work has been discontinued for the
remainder of this year.
Rev. Dave Culver of Maynard fill
ed his appointment at Davis Sunday
and left another one for the next
second Sunday.
Il. L. Bakers son, Bob, who is in
hospital at Memphis, writes that he
is getting along fine. We hope that
he will be home soon.
County Agent Smith and Mr.. ]. ID.
Wells Of PocahOntas were here Satur-
day night with the farmers picture
show. The show was fine, and they
also made us a fine talk on farming.
W. J. Luter straddled his saddle
horse Sunday morning and headed for
Biggers on a prospecting tour. On his
was he persuaded this pencil pusher
to accompany him, so we landed in
town about ten O'Clock and ran upon
the biggest watermelon we ever saw.
1t was grown by Elmer Luter and
weighed over 80 pounds. With the
exception of watermelons we could not
see that the Bay folks had us beat
very much on crops.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-09-18
CEDAR RIDGE

our school is progressing nicely with
Miss Mary Pettljohn as teacher.
Miss Belle Scott returned home Sun.
day after spending two weeks with
her brother at Birdell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Cox spent several
days with his brother in the bottoms
recently.
Miss Ola Willis returned home Sun.
day after spending two weeks with
relatives at Dalton.
Miss Edna Cox spent Wednesday
afternoon with Miss Jennie Scott.
Ira Tyler has been sick but is better
at this writing.
saturday night and Sunday we viii
nave preaching here Evcrybody come
out and hear the new preacher.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-09-18
FOR SALE

Good boxing lumber II foot and
shorter for $1,000. II and 10 foot for
$1,000 per thousand. The vail-Donald-
son Go. 5-tf.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-09-18

Peach tree borers probably die of
fright when they, see paradichlorben-
zene coming toward them.
Evening star., 1924-08-07
Little American Sympathy
For Criticism of Olympics

cannot compete in athletics without
rousing disastrous i'll feeling, we
may as well give up all hope of ac-
cord in graver matters. The only
answer to the attitude of the crowd
at Colombes is continued participa-
ton with unaltered equanimity."
The New York Herald Tribune hopes
Americans will not share in such
pessimism,'' because the games were
not held in Utopia. There were
bound to be d:sagreeable incidents
in the keen athletic rivalry of many
nations, but these were small in num-
Der compared with the friendly CON
be childish to give up the Olympic
games because the art of losing has
not been acquired perfectly In
truth. the New York Times is con-
fident "the success of the Olympic
games has been such that the real
question is. not whether they should
be discontinued. but how they can be
expanded" -
On the other hand the Buffalo News
believes that after Z. the Paris
Olympcs it may we'll be debated
whether 1t is wise to continue the
games" for disturbances such as
marked the contest there are likely
to culminate in open expressions of
national hostility. The peace of the
world is of too much concern to
leopard, it in the name of inter
national sport"
Evening star., 1924-08-07
Davis and Gompers.

Publication of the correspondence
between William B. Wilson, former
Secretary of Labor, and Samuel
'Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, shows the part
ing of two old friends on a political
question. 1t was Mr.. Gompers, if
memory is not faulty, who obtained
for Mr.. Wilson appointment as Sec
retary of Labor in 1913. Now Mr..
Wilson has come forward as petitioner
for the Endorsement of Mr.. Davis by
organized labor as a Democratic can.
didate for President. Mr.. Gompers re.
plies in declination, on the ground
that Mr.. Davis record is not salts
Z factory to labor.
1nasmuch as the American Fedora
ton of Labor has already acted,
through its executive council, on this
matter Of Endorsement, interest chiefly
centers in the disclosure by Mr..
Gompers that the Democratic candi-
date sought an interview with him
shortly after the nomination, and
failing to effect conference, owing
to conflicts of engagements, sought
the submission of statement of
questions in which labor is chiefly in
terested. Mr.. Gompers declined to
submit such questions, which would
Evening star., 1924-08-07
Hot-Weather Advice.

The Weather Bureau gives some
encouragement in its forecast, though
there is nothing in the report to in
dicate that earmuffs will be needed.
Yesterday the weather made d record
in Washington, the mercury going to
higher point than at any time since
one torrid day in 1918. Several per-
sons Frustrated by heat were taken
TO hospitals, and no doubt there were
a number of representations which
will not get into the official reports.
There was suffering among great
number of persons and discomfort to
a majority of the people of the city.
Such weather will come TO the best
regulated city now and then. and we
must do as we'll as we can under the
conditions.
Years ago when such oppressive
weather would come upon us there
vice, and much of it was good. 1t is
we'll to recall some of the things we
did to keep comfortable before nearly
everybody had an automobile in which
one could go to the country and per-
haps stir up a 20-miIe breeze, and be-
fore so many of us could get away
from work and home to rest in the
White Mountains, Green Mountains
and the Blue Mountains.
We can mitigate present conditions
by not overworking and by not fret
ting" We should wear the lightest
clothing on the street and not so much
about the house. We should avoid
exertion. We should keep out of the
sun as much as we can. We ought to
be abstemious in food. We should eat
less and of lighter food than at other
times. We should drink water freely
and be liberal in the use of cold wa
ter externally. Above all, the use of
things containing alcohol is to be
avoided. 1t used to be said that most
persons who suffered sunstroke, or
heat prostration,'' as it is called now,
were habitually hard drinkers, or peo-
pie who had sought to keep cool by
drinking cold beer and iced alcoholic
drinks. We used to find it advisable
not to drink much ice water. Plenty
of cool water was allowed to be good,
and big draughts of ice water were
inveighed against. At home we should
keep the awnings down, the blinds
drawn and the windows closed. We
have electric fans now. and they will
keep the air moving. One of the old.
time bits of advice was to keep a
calm mind and refuse worry.
Evening star., 1924-08-07

not be fully submitted to other can
didates for the presidency. Nothing
further was heard from Mr.. Davis on
this score. :.
Thus ii would appear that about d
week after he was nominated Mr..
Davis tried to get in touch with Mr..
Gompers, and, falling. later sought to
elicit from him "a summary of the Ia
hor program. A deduction is obvious
that Mr.. Davis was seeking the sup
port of organized labor. AS candi-
date he was obligated to look to all
possible sources of support. Mr..
Gompers stands conspicuously as the
principal American labor leader. as
head OF the largest organization. II
is natural that he should seek a con-
ference with him, but Mr.. Gompers
was i'll at the time and the interview
could not be arranged. This was not
a diplomatic illness; it was genuine,
and probably if it had not prevailed d
would have been had.
NOulu Sucn conference nave eI-
fected any difference in the attitude
of organized labor as represented by
the federation toward the candidates?
1t is doubtful. For Mr.. Gompers, in
his letter to Mr.. Wilson. shows why.
from his point of view. Mr.. Davis is
not acceptable to labor. 1t would have
been interesting, however, to know
what sort of an agenda, to give it a
title, Mr.. Gompers would
have submitted to. the Democratic
candidate and how far the latter
would have been able to answer it
satisfactorily.
The incident is chiefly of record
value. 1t shows that MIR. Davis held
out an olive branch and that 1t was
rejected The action of the fedora.
tion at Atlantic City was the formal
public refusal.
Evening star., 1924-08-07
Great Britain and Russia.

After an announcement that nego-
tiations between the Russian mission
and the London government had
failed came suddenly the statement
by Arthur Ponsonby in the House Of
Commons that final settlement with
the Soviet representatives had been
reached and the two treaties had been
general. This sudden last-minute sue.
cess caused surprise in London, as
elsewhere. 1t does not necessarily
follow, however, that the treaties
which have been negotiated and the
later agreements that will be effected
through the work of commission on
confiscated property will meet parlia.
mentary approval. Indeed, yesterday,
when Ponsonby told the House he
was greeted with ironical jeers and
many expressions Of dissent. both
with the procedure itself and with
the result.
Undoubtedly, however, the confer.
ence at London will be hailed in Rus.
sia as tantamount to full recogni-
ton of the Soviet government, and
much capital will be made of it. The
fact that Great Britain has conferred
and reached an agreement with the
Soviet will be held up to the United
States as an evidence that the gov
ernment at Moscow is a going con.
Germ. virtually admitted to the family
of nations. The London negotiations
may later give serious trouble to the
British government, but the outcome
is for the present all to the good for
Moscow.
Evening star., 1924-08-07

escaped injury, though their planes
have been destroyed. Four planes
started. with eight men, and now two
are returning, with four men.
From day to day the weather con.
ditions are being watched. in the hope
of a clearance of the dangerous. fogs
and freeing of the ice. Scout ships
and relief ships are on station to give
aid in case of mishap- Only a rela.
lively short distance remains for the
last dash home. Any hour may bring
word that start from Iceland
had been made. and then, II good for.
tune continues. the progress south to
the continent and over land to Wash
ington will be in order.
So while Washington awaits their
coming it feels somewhat solaced for
the delay in the thought that some
people at least are cool these days.
Evening star., 1924-08-07

Inc plugs in the wash bowls dis
appeared about the same time and
other removable or unscrewable fix
ture has been removed, leaving only
the bare room, bed, table, chairs and
wardrobe. The advertised hot water
runs only semi-occasionaily.
ROOD charges. except for the table
d'hote dinner at SIPS, are skied to a
point to make an American boniface
green with envy. A pot of tea with
good butter and miserable bread costs
sl:5o. A modest meal of steak. po-
tatoes, salad. so-called coffee and a
small bottle of the most inexpensive
Russian wine costs 81. The arriving
stranger sometimes yields to the
suggestion of the restaurant manager
the only individual in the restau-
rant who speaks anything but Rus.
sian--and orders caviar or some Of
the delicacies Of the season displayed
at the buffet. Usually only once. He
finds that a portion of fresh radishes
costs from 81 to $3.50 small fresh
caviar is well above the New York
or Philadelphia price.
Tipping Abolished-But Lives.
But tips have been abolished in
Bolshevia. Shortly before my arrival
in Russia last Winter the hotel and
restaurant workers associations
solemnly resolved that acceptance OF
tips was unworthy of the status of
enfranchised labor and abolished and
inferred the institution. The tip,
however, refused to stay dead and
buried
A few weeks after my arrival the
servants were posting in the rooms a
table of rules for guests In three IAN
guages-one of these the antt-tipping g
rule-and the hoor waiter who tack
out and remark: That only refers
to tips under a ruble. We are glad
to take anything from five rubles
($2.50) up" And in other restaurants
1t is quite customary to have the
waiter say when making change for
the bill: Shall / take out so and so
much for the tip?" or. less crudely, Il
haven't quite enough change. men
tioning an amount corresponding 10
a 10 to Is per cent tip. The hotel serv-
that they had to have tips because,
despite all the preachments about the
dignity of labor and the prices charg-
ed by the Foreign Once Hotel Bu-
reau. they were not paid living
wage.
Moscow used to be a good hotel
town, with al least two de luxe hotels
OF international rank and all mod
ern comforts and conveniences, ana
flock of smaller hotels in which even
the spoiled American tourist could
find himself very decently put up.
But all these good hotels have been
nationalized and converted into quar-
ters for higher Soviet officials. who
are able therein to test out in luxury
the orthodox Bolshevist theories
about the breakup of the home and
family life in communal houses. with
communal kitchens and dining rooms
and education and rearing OF the
children in communal Institutions.
Hugo SHINES tried to get con-
cession from the Russian government
to erect and run good modern hotel
in Moscow, but foreign office influence
for it's hotel monopoly was too strong
even for the all-powerful SHINES
When, if ever, Russia is really open
ed up commercially and the hoped
for development of foreign trade and
concessions sets in, the absence of
hotel accommodation in Moscow will
be one of the big handicaps to COM
mercial progress.
Copyright. 1924. by Public Ledger co..
Evening star., 1924-08-07
The Flyers and the Ice.

Disappointment over the delay of
the round.worid aviators, who are now
waiting in. Iceland for favorable con.
ditions for. continuation of their
fight to Greenland, will, on the part
of Washingtonians, be tempered with
a feeling of envy. To think that these
airmen are actually blocked by ice!
To think that they are afraid of run
ming into foes and bergs! 1t is enough
to make half the denizens of the Capi.
tai take to the air, IL planes could be
found, and soar, away. to those lands
of joy.
But probably the airmen are not
appreciative of the ice. They would
like some. of the heat that Washington
is now experiencing to melt the bergs
and foes and clear their way to the
promise land of safe arrival. They
have progressed wonderfully SO far,
with but two mishaps-one in Alaska
and one in the North Atlantic. In
each case the flyers themselves, have
Evening star., 1924-08-07
Ware the Mothers
Of Baby Cat Birds

To the Editor OF The Star:
/ take this means of warning the
walking public in this city of the
fierce fighters which may be encoun-
tered occasionally on the streets these
Summer days. For fierceness and In
tensity in fighting, they run the
.apaehes of Paris close second. A
few days ago I was walking in a.
northwest suburb which used to be
way out in the country. but is now
only middlfng far out since the city
mas expanded.
My attention was attracted by a
baby catbird on the ground which
was trying to fly. He was SO cunning
with his little bobbed-off tail, but was
not making much progress as an avi-
ator. L stopped to talk to him to cheer
him up as he seemed to be alone, and
youth and innocence always touch my
heart
He evidently did not care to have
''po white folks" that he didn't know
talk to him, because he gave a few
little baby chirps and suddenly out of
the thin air his mother came dashing
at my face like a comet; inherit the
characterfstics of - the giants from
whom / descended, but size meant
uOIuin8 10 tHdt ilrSDTaHQ or a cat
bird mother. She. dashed. at my face
and only my large hat kept my eyes
from getting pecked. we read In the
gospel OF "one putting a thousand
to fight and two ten thousand" Since
my encounter with that mother bird
believe 1t. She was fury personified
and utterly fearless 49,
Discretion being the better part of
vaior, I hastily took my departure.
with her sQuawi<ing raucously at my
heels, from the range of her keen eve.
IN the future | shall have nothing TO
say to baby birds meet on the road
sides in the morning. -
ISABEL MELLEN.
Evening star., 1924-08-07

Criticism of the Olympic games by
British newspapers on the ground
that the result has been injurious to
sport and international amity is view
ed by most American editors as en-
tirely unwarranted. and due to exag-
geration- of the seriousness of dis
turbances created by overzealous
partisans among the spectators at the
games.
so far as the American team is
concerned there is no evidence that
it is bringing home any unpleasant
recollections," declares the Steatle
Times, which feels that III the
European audiences could witness a
few Of our base ball games. when
umpires and visiting teams are ROUND
ly denounced in a spirit of good-na
tured partisanship, little importance
would be attached to the expressions
of an Olympic audience" The games
furnish America every four wears an
opportunity to show the rest of the
world the kind of people we breed,
the Detroit News points out. In
stead of causing international strife,
as the London press fears, these con-
tests work in favor of peace" this
American victory in the games cures
the world of the impression of our
folly and ineptitude which II gains
from our election campaigns; 1t is
gests, that nearly all this criticism
comes from London, where France
has not been in high favor for the
last two, years." and the anti-French
feeling may have caused the British
press to magnify both the seriousness
and Importance of the incidents at
the Olympic games
X ~ -
To conclude that the games create
positively bad spirit, the St. Paul
Pioneer Press insists lis to despair
toe easily OF realizing what was one
of the very objects of the revival of
the games-the athletes must try
again. 1t may take time, continues
the Chicago Tribune, ito extinguish
all the national antipathies in a
peaceful league of sports" but pos
sibly the comfy of athIstes Will teach
nation to take licking at foot ball
without starting a massacre" If the
Olympic games are to be, made en-,
duringly popular. the New York Sun
claims they must be made very SIM
ple," which may be accomplished by
cutting down in the kinds of sport,
both"
- 4 probable cause of the discord,
the Christian Science Monitor holds.
is that "the competitive side of the
games. is being stressed altogether
out of, proportion to what was in
tended when they were revived" but
80 long as the pronunciation of the
ideal OF true sportsmanship- is the
dominating motive of the games,
nothing but, good 1t would seem cam
eventaate from them" Wherever
there rs athletic rivalry. the Wor-
-cester Telegram is sure Unpleasant
incidents will happen once in awhile.
no matter how friendly the. rivals
may be-" as shown every year on
college and professional j fields In
America but nobody except a few
learned extremists wants to abolish
foot ball or professional base ball"
'..$ X X X f-g
!. As the Nes--.York World puts 1t:
There is no question of withdrawing.
The, London Times gives counsel of
despair. II the nations of the earth
Evening star., 1924-08-07
SHOOTING STARS.
BIZ PHrLANDER JOHNSON.
Reprehensibility.

ncpIcHcllSiDfuty.
MY memory is very bad
Said Hezekiah Bings.s -~-
ignoring in manner sad
The more important things.
1t won't retain the counsel wise
That might assist me best.
But cherishes,. to my surprise,
Each idle song or jest. -
ut overlooks events so great
- In history's affairs,
But never let's me miss a date
Which iollity prepares. y =.
1t has a fancy for the glad, -.
But shuns the serious things.
My memory Is very bad"
Said Hezekiah Bings ,.'
Evening star., 1924-08-07
ARTICLE ".

The Kremlin. has ceased to be the
mecca for the stranger in Moscow.
In the old days every new arrival
made 4 beeline to see the crenelated
and lowered walls of the hoary old
MOSCOW citadel, heart of Russian
history. Now he usually devotes his
nrst day In Moscow to an endeavor
TO get room at the Hotel Savoy, the
highest priced hostelry in the world,
considering accommodations. and a
boishevist diplomatic institution. run
by the. Soviet foreign Office for it's
own financial benefit and the accom-
modation OF the stranger within the
gates.
he Is attracted by the promise of
rooms with running hot and cold
water. telephone and good dining
room service and by the certitude, of
nlmseif shortly after his arrival. that
Ine other so-called hotels in the
Bolshevist capital would have been
round too primitive for the back
WOODS American village q quarter of
a century ago.
into the Savoy. and considers himself
among the highly fortunate IL he Is
aoie TO secure even the smallest
single room without bath at the mini
mum rate Of IS day plus taxes of
from Is to 90 per cent. From this
minimum the rates mount as the
sparks ny upward, the half dozen
rooms with bath Of which the Savoy
proudly boasts being held at fabulous
charges. possible only to representa- :
.tiyes of American oil and other
wealthy syndicates seeking con-
our Government. deviser of the
justly noted passport gouge, which
makes The American traveller abroad ID
pay $l0 every time he crosses one of
the muititudinous European frontiers
in order that our State Department
may collect similar fee from the
foreigners visiting our shores, has
missed another money-making oppor-
tunity for the State Department by
railing TO go into the hotel business
Tor visiting foreigners at Washington.
Most OF Furnishinss Missing.
The Bolshevist diplomats, however,
miss no bets. They have taken over
the Savoy Hotel. the famous Guest
House" once the home of a Moscow
millionaire, on the Sophie Quay, and
two or three smaller hotels, and are
running a hotel syndicate with a
tight monopoly on all accommoda-
tions for visiting foreigners. The
Savoy. as explained above. is the first
goal of all foreigners and is always
full. Guests who complain of out
rageous rates or missing facilities
are invited to go farther and fare
worse. AS the bourgeois visitor to
Moscow cannot get a furnished room
without paying premium of from
800 to 5000. he usually submits to
the hotel gouge.
Furnishings, comforts and convent
ences at this Soviet hostelry are of a
sketchy character. Curtains. for in
stance, disappeared from the window S
some time during the era of the
Bolshevist upheaval and never have
been replaced. Their absence is per-
haps not so seriously noticed during
the Winter. when the nights are long
and dark but during the Summer
when the sun almost never goes to
bed and it is broad daylight the clock
around. except for two hours, of semi
twilight at midnight, sleeping be-
comes rather difficult.
Evening star., 1924-08-07

A public always willing to be in
structed or entertained is still waiting
for some utterance from Leopold or
Loeb that will indicate the extraor-
binary mentality so freely ascribed
to them. Many boys pass school ex-
aminations successfully without being
heard from afterward. A good school
record is a favorable start, but it
cannot be accepted as complete
achievement.
Evening star., 1924-08-07

New York journalism should take
an opportunity to explain some time
why one or two musical shows sue.
ceed in gathering all the incidental
stage publicity when a dancer or
show girl becomes involved in per-
Sonal tragedy.