davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Milford chronicle., 1924-12-19

ing Of the schools has already been
furnished by private funds, that 4s
per cent. of the cost of maintaining
and operating our schools last year
was drawn from corporations and
other sources at no expense to our
citizens, that the entire cost of main
tanning the state highways is a bur-
den on the motor vehicle owners
only and that 48 per cent. of the
General Fund of the State is fur
nished each year by corporation tax
also at no burden to our people.
With such a record, it seems that the
citizens of Delaware can well afford
to complete their schools and shoul-
der the burden of the necessary
bonds without further outside assist
ance. 1t would be grossly unfair to
a number of our citizens If we adopt-
ed halfway and timid policy of
rebuilding some of the schools with
out any assurance that others would
be cared for by the State in the
same manner at a very early date.
So. How is the cost of the schooTi
building program related to the total
wealth of the State?
When the people of Delaware are
faced with an issue that requires for
its determination the spending of |
$9,700,0 900, it will seem to many that |
such large sum cannot be consid- |
cred even for a purpose so import |
ant and now necessary as the build |
ing of schools a purpose the end of |
which will have a lasting effect upon |
Delaware and its citizens of the fu-
ture. Without education our chill
dren and our children's children will
fall in the struggle for life and be
by their more fortunate
and sisters of other states;
with education Delaware may con-
tinue to occupy the proud place that
it has maintained in the Union.
1t is idle to think of $1,000, 900
alone, disconnected from the State
itself and the financial resources of
is people. The spending of this
arge sum is beyond the power of
any group of our citizens; it must be
'e!ated to the people and State as a
whole.
Delaware has about two-tenths
- PSA SS4Als u the pOpuldllOn OF
he United States and about two.
enths of 1 per cent. of the wealth.
t has less than one-tenth of l per
ent. of the total area. It's popula-
ion is about 100 to the square mtlel
IS compared to 35.5 in the who'll"
United States. Delaware's total
wealth is rated at over s625,OOO,OOO
# which more than one-half
S2S,OO0, 900, is in real estate and
uildings,' 100000, 900 is in farms :
arm buildings, machinery and live 6
took. If we issue the proposeC e
100000 bonds, this will be lesr g
nan ! per cent. of Delaware wealth 6
orrowed for the purpose of adding s
that wealth $9,70O,OOO of schoo 8
designed to last 40 years &
'Xlstlng school buildings that arc &
lClstactory are valued at 80 Der ,&
ent. of the proposed new buildings 6
nd our new road system has u &
lady cost and is worth $1S,7OO.OOO Is
Twice the amount now underlH
onslderation for school purposes
ld all Of the road money has been &
within the last 10 years s.
that same 10 years the pe1ple ofl b
elaWare have undoubtedly snant &
ore than half this sum or So. 600 &
" Tor the $4,000 motor vehicles &
at are now registered in the State. &
"a ware is not poor; in fact, meas s.
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BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

OOKIN' around, be you, for
something TO give yourself
IL and family the low down on
what this election is all about?
Not that anybody needs to study
a textbook" before he goes to the
polls the first Tuesday after the first
Monday next November. but many
people do want to increase their
knowledge on certain problems
facing the nation today.
1 make no brief in favor OF Will
liam Allen White, editor Of the En-
poria Gazette, from a political stand
point, as this is a book department
l am concerned with Whites latest
publication, politics: The Citizen s
Business" Just released by the
Macmillan Company, publishers,
New York.
This is not a political tract issued
for any one party, but a dignified
and serious study of the political
condition of this country today. You
will not receive a free copy of this
book from any political friend. 1t
will cost you two berries" if you
buy it. The library will have it soon,
of course.
If you want to increase your own
ability to judge issues, men and
party platforms, as well as factors
in our social and political life, then
take a night or two off and read
Politics: The Citizens Business"
In the chapter on our Unwritten
Constitution" you will come in con-
tact with many forces known as I'm
visible Government" L am getting
into no controversy regarding the
issues presented. I am telling you
about a book.
White declares that these forces
of invisible government" discussed
under three heads, have been so de-
velOped so that every branch of the
Government is responsible not to
parties but to the citizen in his or
ganized capacity"
Again he writes: 1.-THE complex
ity of our Government no longer
makes its citizens powerless. But
the Constitution has been supplant-
6Us anu We nave IWO VI SON-
ernment-our political government,
which is supposed to be in the hands
of the majority of the people, and a
group of organized minorities, some
times working together, sometimes
at each others throat, making a
vast, uncontrolled, but tremendously
powerful invisible government-the
Term Defined
White divides this new form of
government" into four heads. The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-14
JOHN II. DA WIS
Born in CIarkSburg w. Va,r in 1873 During Childhood
He Learned Much From His Mother, One of First
Women in South to Receive College Degree,
HIS LIFE STORY

''Neverr'-and he straightway left
| for America.
The person who had the most to
do with making Davis what he Is to-
day-both from the standpoint of he
redity and environment-was his
mother, oldest of the seven children
of William Wilson Kennedy and his
wife, Katherine Esdale Martin Ken
| nedy.
Kennedy, an importer of cabinet
woods, was of Scotch descent; his
wife was the daughter of a southern
dairy farmer, Tobias Martin, who
had married one of the Esdales,
Pennsylvania Quakers.
The Kennedys came to Baltimore
some time before the middle of the
last century and their first child,
christened Anna, was born Nov. "a,
1871, in their home in Camden st.
Neither a Student
AS she grew to womanhood the
girl was given-and acquired by her
own efforts-a remarkable education.
| She was sent to Baltimore City Col
| lege, from which she was graduated
with a B. A. degree-one of the first
| ever awarded TO a woman in the
South. Before completing her col
lege course she could speak French,
/ German and Italian, read Greek and
Latin, play the piano, paint and
write both prose and verse.
| 1t was this women who, disregard
| ing pain. finished her reading of Glib
bons' Decline and Fall of the Ro-
man Empire" before giving birth to
her son.
On Aug. 81, 1862. she was married
to John James Davis, tall and
austere, descended from a long line
of Covenanters.
The wedding took place in Balti-
more, then Davis started off with
his bride toward Clarksturg, where
he maintained what was at that time
not too thrifty law practice.
But as the years wore on John
James Davis law business grew, as
did his influence in the community.
/ He became the Democratic leader of
/ Harrison County and one of the
most powerful political figures in
/ the State.
/ Anna Kennedy Davis divided her
/ time between her studies and the
rearing Of her children. 1t was thus
I that John William DaWS. the boy.
was able to overcome the educational
handicaps of a small mountain town.
Heredity had given Davis an alert
and capable mind. Environment
association with his mother-enabIed
him properly to develop it.
Taught at Home
The groundwork OF his education
was laid long before he entered
school. He learned the Three RS"
in the living room of his own home
When his official education was
/ scheduled to start. he matriculated
at the private school of Richard Craig
/ Later he was transferred to the pri-
vate school of George Young. Both
institutions were in Clarksburg.
/ Under his mothers watchful eye
/ he studied his lessons. 1t was she
who taught him to love the great
sworks Of prose and poetry. Above
all she taught him the brevity which
marks his speeches. a
More Next Issue.
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The Citisen in His Organised Capacity Forces
EUery Branch of Government to Obey, Saws White
Weekly Book ReUieuO-

first is called craft organization. and
includes the American Federation of
Labor, the National Chamber Of
Commerce, the three farm organiza-
tons and the like. The second type
is called protection and has the
services Of the suffragists, the Anti
Saloon League, the League Of
Women Voters and the like. The
third is discussed by White under
the head of the Salesman" and lists
the American Protective Association.
the Non-Partisan League, the Ku-
kluX Khan, Civil Service Reform
League and Tariff Reform League.
The fourth is listed as the lobby
ist,' which to a great extent has
been legislated out OF existence.
Some striking declarations of
White are as follows:
This government of the minori-
ties still uses the Constitutional Gov
eminent of the United States to
effect its various purposes. Parties
are it's tools when they are useful.
but when they get in the way of
the unorganiZed minorities parties
are ignored by this invisible govern
ment.
THE Congress of the United
States and the Legislatures of all
the States are used as Olympic bowls
for these great contests between the
powers OF invisible government. And
the legally constituted members of
government are kicked around,
trampled upon and sometimes
thrown carelessly into the discard
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his comments regarding the party
platforms. He discusses the La Fol-
Ralston and Tom Taggart in this
Ralsto nand Tom Taggart in this
book.
Politics; The Citizens Business.
is book that every voter may read
with interest. The result will be a
more honest conception of what this
campaign is all about.
Remember. please. that this is a
book review. I am tootin' the horn
of no politician.
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|IIuUIIIWII.

chickens, and in harvest time /
worked in the field and helped pick
corn. Sometimes I do chores and
milk. I took the Vegetable Com
pound after my four-months-o old
baby was born. and 1t has always
helped me wonderfully. I believe
there is no better medicine made for
women. and hope every woman
will give it a fair al."-Mrs. Au-
gust r. Wiederhoft. r. No 2, Box
81. Truman, Minnesota
Women suffering from troubles so
common TO their sex should give
Lydia z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound a fair trial.
The Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has relieved women Of
such trouble for the past fifty years.
For sale by druggists everywherc.-
Advertisement.
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carnations throughout the State. II
contains fire prevention statistics OF
various character and articles by
Miller and his deputies.
State fire marshaIs law Is re-
produced along with a catechism on
the law for edif1cation Of the lay
man.
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FIRE WEAR BOOK OUT

Newman T. Miller. State fire
marshal, today issued the first copies
IF the Indiana Fire Prevention Year
Book and Manual for 1924" Rook
was made financially possible by
virtue of advertisements it carries
and was published at no cost to the
State, except postage. The book
will be sent to civil officers. fire
chiefs. schools and other civic or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-14
Lose Your Fat,
Keep Your Health

Superfiuous flesh is not healthy.
Neither is it healthy to diet or exer-
else too much. The simplest method
known for reducing the overfat body
easily and steadily is the MarmOla
Method, tried and endorsed by thou
sands. Marmola Prescription Tablets
contain an exact dose of the famous
MarmOla Prescription These tablets
are sold by druggists the world over at
one dollar for a box. They are pleas
ant to take and leave no wrinkles or
fiabbiness. They are popular because
effective AND convenient Ask your
druggist for them or send price direct
to the MarmOla Co, General MOTORS
Bldg, Detroit, Mich, and procure a
ox-Adyertisement
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-14
Waiting for You

New books of fiction at the
Public Library include: &C."
Hon. Maurice Barring; Coin on
Fourteen" I. S. Cobb; "Pranc-
ing Niger" A. A. r. Firbank;
1.-The Roundup" o. ]. Friend:
King Tommy" J. o. Hannay;
lingo Sandys," e. B. c. Jones;
Green Hat" Dikran Kumyum-
jan; "Hopalong Cassidy Re-
turns" c. E. milford; Trail
Rider" G. w. Ogden; ITEM
peramental People," Mrs. NJ. r
Rinehart: The Innocents," H.
K. Webster; Charts Sees It
Through" Margaret Widdemer;
"Woodsmoke." F.. B. Young.
New books of economies,
psychology, sociology, religion;
and education include: New
Governments OF Central Eu-
rope" NJ. w. Graham; Realities
and Shams." L. P. Jacks;
What Is Your Name2" C. R.
Brown; Christmas Mummings
in jamaica" NJ. w. Beckwith;
Mans Judgment of Death" L.
E. Lawes; Diagnosing the
Rural Church." G. L. Fry;
Making of Man." Sir o. J.
Lodge; Autobiography of a
Tree" Mrs. NJ. o. Smith; Span
tsh, Its Value and Place in
American Education" Ameri-
can Association Of Teachers OF
Spanish; Committee on Infor-
nation.
New books of art. poetry,
and drama include: 1.-THE Gull
tivated Evergreens," edited by
L. H. Bailey; Garden Grace"
Louise a Driscoll; Meet the
Folks" William Herschell: Rep
resentatiVe Continental Dra-
mas edited by NJ. J. Moses.
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times L coudn I
hardly move
around in bed.
My husband got
me Lydia Z.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.
and after taking
1t I was SO much
better I could
do all my work
again. l do my
hOuseWork, have
a garden. raise
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CHAPTER
ri RS. ANNA KENNEDY DAVIS
I'M was reading more hurriedly
than was her wont.

CHAPTER
RS. ANNA KENNEDY DAVIS
.INI was reading more hurriedly
Ell than was her wont.
Student by nature and self-train-
ing, Mrs. Davis was a thorough
reader. She knew not how to skim
through
Yet on this day-Easter Sunday,
April 10. 1S7S-she read in haste.
From time to time her eyes would
leave the printed page, wander
through the open window, pass over
the little town of Clarksburg, and
come at last TO rest on the noun
tains Of West Virginia, shining rich,
dark green in the bright spring sun.
But her reverie would not last
long. Back to the task at hand.
The time was short-she must COM
plete-
The book was Gibbons Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Mrs. Davis reached the closing
words
1t was among the ruins of the
capitol that I first conceived the
exercised nearly twenty years of
my life, and which, however made
quate to my own wishes, I finally
deliver to the curiosity and candor
of the public"
She laid the volume down. Within
the hour John William Davis, her
fifth child and only son, was born.
TIN JOHN W. DAVIS veins
1 runs the blood of the cava-
IL hers, Covenanters an d
Quakers. His ancestors were Welsh,
Scotch, English. Irish and Dutch.
They worked as carpenters, farm
ers. teachers. lawyers and printers.
Some OF them were soldiers. One
great-great-great-g on his
mothers side, one of the Kennedys
fought at the side of Bonnie Prince
Charlie in Scotland.
A t-great-grandfather on his
faher's side, named Steen, emigrated
from Scotland to Ireland There an
attempt was made to force him INTO
the British army. ITO fight against
my adopted Ireland?" said Steer q.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-14
Churchmen to Hear Remy

William H. Remy, Marion County
prosecutor, will speak at Indiana
Baptist convention at Anderson
Wednesday night. Several Indian
apolls Baptists are attending the
convention, which began today. DIR.
E. S. Shoemaker, Indianapolis SUI
perintendent Anti-Saloon League,
will address the convention,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-14
Reveridge to Speak

These speaking dates for former
United States Senator Albert J.
Beveridgs were announced at Re
publican State headquarters today:
South Bend. Oct. 20; La Porte, Oct.
81; Shelbyvllle, Oct. %; North Yer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-14

Girls! Try this! When combing
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While beautifying the hair Dan
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ing each single hair to grow thick,
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cut and dandruff disappears. Get a
hottie of "Dandec:ne" at any drug
or toilet counter and just see how
healthy and youthful your hair APP
pears after this delightful, refreshing
dressing Advertisement
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non, Oct. %; Paon, Oct. "a; Green
castle. Oct. IS; Lebanon. Oct. 81; Ma
rion. Oct. rs; Button and r..
Wayne. Oct. 20; Bloomington, Oct.
81, and Logansport, Nov. /.
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this WOMAN
Relieved FROM
SUFFERING
ByLydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. A Remarkable Story

"I was badly rundown and had
pains In my side and back; some
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A Hard Job

Believe me. It is no easy job to
discuss this book in a department of
review. But 1 am doing it, and 1
hope that nobody will charge me
with favoring any one party or
group of invisible interests.
This book actually gives the read
er a wider viewpoint on political
conditions today. White takes the
conventions of the Republicans and
the Democrats day by day and
traces the various interests at work.
He gives you food for thought on
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- GEORGE E. Erdman, former
Greenburg postmaster, now
resident Of Los Angeles,

A stone shipped from Scotland has
arrived at Button and will be placed
at the grave of Lew Mills. 1t is the
second stone ordered from overseas.
the homeland of the family.
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by the great unlegal forces that
stage the combat
''TFS citizen who desires to return
to the Constitution and its ancient
works and ways. would have to join
a regular society incorporated for
the purpose of returning to the
Constitution.
we could not go back to the Con
stitution if we desired to go. We
must. If we would have a constitu-
tional Government, remake our
Constitution to fit the times. Per
haps the one great need now is to
legaliZe, control and make more ef-
ficient and representative those
loosely formed, irresponsible groups
which do the citizens public bust
ness for him ="
White then traces the power and
methods used by these organizations
during the last Democratic and
Republican conventions as well as
during this very minute Of the cam
Daign.
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HOOSie7 Briefs

TN7ILLIE FENSTEMAKER,
X fish market dealer at
LII Frankfort, uses his re-
frigerator for a barometer. When
ever the ice box 'perspires" it
rains. Never fails" says Fenste-
maker, land I'll bet my last fish
on it."
Ralph Johnson Of Terre Haute
nearly lost the sight Of one eve when
a bird he had caught in the woods
and was carrying home, pecked at
him.
Clarence Williams of Farmland,
was arrested while attending his
daughters funeral. He was alleged
to have been short in his accounts
while administrator for an estate.
Charles Borden of Bloomington
had his right arm nearly severed
when a heavy truck load of glass
overturned and threw the glass
against him.
E1ILFORD and Bedford,
I'M small sons of Donald Up
tergraft, at Button, We're
frightened into Mysteries when
they found a dummy's head in the
wods. 1t even fooled the sheriff
The Newcastle High School paper
thought there was a come back in
it's name. It's been changed from
The Echoe" to 1.-The Phoenix"
Doctors and nurses at Gary were
surprised when a baby girl weigh
ing only two pounds and nine ounces
was born at the Mercy Hospital.
The Upton Daily Times, one of
the oldest newspaper plants in cen
trail Indiana, has been sold to a Dan.
vile Qnd.) firm and will be moved
there.
II GEORGE E. Erdman. former
Greenburg postmaster, now
resident Of Los Angeles,
Cali, has written Charles B. Ev-
ans, county treasurer, as follows:
"Oh Charles, my taxes are due
And you know I've been kind to
you
Now won't you be nice
And take off a slice
Say the 500 or $40 will do"
A stone shipped from Scotland has
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Charles Borden of Bloomington
had his right arm nearly severed
when a heavy truck load of glass
overturned and threw the glass
against him.
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Ralph Johnson of Terre Haute
nearly lost the sight Of one eye when
a bird he had caught in the woods
and was carrying home, pecked at
him.
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Clarence Williams of Farmland
was arrested while attending his
daughters funeral. He was alleged
to have been short in his accounts
while administrator for an estate.
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zILFORD and Bedford,
IMI small sons of Donald Up
- tergraft, at Button, We're
frightened into Mysteries when
they found a dummy's head in the
wods. 1t even fooled the sheriff.
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~ILLIE FENSTEMAKER,
Xxi fish market dealer at
Frankfort, uses his re-
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frigerator for a barometer. When
ever the ice box "perspires" it
rains. Never fails" says Fenste-
maker, land I'll bet my last fish
on it."
Evening star., 1924-12-26

Imitation is f1attery, yet it seldom
fiatters the original.
Evening star., 1924-12-26
4 HELD FOR Wharf
FIRE IN ALEXANDRIA
One of Prisoners, in Confes-
sion, Charges $25, 900 Blaze
Set in CarOuSaI.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. December 20
Four men were under arrest this
morning, charged with arson in con-
nection with the $4,000 fire of
Wednesday night at the Norfolk
Washington steamer wharf here.
Arthur L. King. jr., of Dyke, a
hamlet near this city. signed con-
fession in which he said that he and
Carl Mander, Babe" Mills and Guy
Wood while drunk. set fire to the
structure. Mander, Mills and Woods,
all of Alexandria, denied completely
in the affair following their arrest.
Paul Morton, director of public
safety said he believed the motive
was spite against the Alexandria po-
lice. who have waged relentless war
fare against drunkenness and loaf
ing.
King was arrested near the scene
of the fire with a hobtailed cat un-
der his arm The cat belonged to the
wharf. In his confession, which was
made to the public safety director in
the presence of Police Capt. II. Dur
rcr and Assistant Fire Chief J. NJ.
Duncan, jr., he said he and the other
three men went to the wharf to
spend the evening. and Wood sug-
Ecsted they have a little bonfire. All
four struck matches and touched
them to paper. which was placed IN
different corners of the structure, he
said.