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Pocahontas star herald., 1924-01-18

AIr. and Mrs II. G. McNabb tran
sacted business in PocahOntas last
Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Birchett Of Elnora
visited her mother, Mrs. VIII Duncan,
last Thursday and Friday.
Miss GwindOline Hord was not able
to return to school at POcahontas this
week on account Of illness.
We are glad to have another new
pupil in our school. Miss Clara Lem
mons, formerly Of Shannon District.
LOrine Bryant, who is student in
the Pocahontas school, is detained at
home this week on account of the ill
ness Of her mother.
The Misses Evalina and Elizabeth
Weiscnhach recently entertained the
ncighbOrhOOd young folks in honor Of
the birthday Of their brother. Alfred
Geraldine Bryant is recovering nice
ly from a recent Illness with pneu-
monia. Dr. Pace, who has been treat
ing her, pronounces her ont Of danger.
= Fay Spikes returned to Pocahontas
on last Sunday afternoon where she is
attending school, having spent the lat
ter part Of the week with homefOlks
and friends.
The school at this place is progress
ing nicely with an enrolment of thirty
pupils Work has been resumed with
new scholars and renewed interest
since the holiday vacation.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-01-18
MANSON

James Beaver and family visited at
shannon Sunday.
Miss TrcSsclln Brown visited Miss
Critic Brown Sunday.
A fine baby girl was born to Mr.. and
Mrs John Porter Friday.
Geo. Purdy was looking after bust
ness in pocahontaS Friday
Arthur Shride was visiting at this
place again Sunday afternoon.
J. W. Brown. our road overscer, is
having some work done on our road.
Tom Melton aud wife visited rela-
ives at Shurum Saturday night and
sunday.
The singing given at the home of
jess Brown Sunday night was enjoyed
by all present.
Mr. and Mrs. W. l. Doyle visited
relatives at Walnut Ridge Saturday
night aud Sunday.
Miss Gladys PoiudcNtcr of Lester.
vile visited Misses Birdie and Vida
Elliott Tuesday night.
l.. l.. Stacy and family, who have
moved to the Charley Swlnney place
at shannon, were visl ing relatives at
this place sunday.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-01-18
BROCKETT

Charlie West has gone to Oklahoma.
Fred Spikes visited vernic Bryant
last Sunday.
Mrs. Belle Bryant is right sick at
this writing.
Esiel Eddugs has moved on Mrs.
Mollie Calfrcy's farm.
Floyd Brantlcy attended Sunday
school at Stokes last Sunday.
G. &. Sage Of PocahOntas visited at
{. Skiles' home last Sunday.
Claud Davis and family moved to
the J, W. Spikes farm last week.
Clara Lcmmons was the Sunday
evening guest of Naomi Brantley.
Farmers are marketing their late
cotton and beginning to talk of the 1924
crop.
Mrs. Mollic CafTrey is recovering
from Il reccn. illness of several days
duration.
Il. +. SisSon and Tony Holmes of
holland visited our school last Friday
afternoon.
II. G., McNuhb is completing his new
barn replacing the one he formerly
lost by fire.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Lemmons have
recently moved into our community
from shannon.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-01-18
RAYENDEN SPRINGS

Arthur Lane, who is employed by
the Mo. Pac. at HOxie, is at home for
II few days.
Dolph Kellett has rented his farm
to Mr.. Jean Ward, who will move out
and take charge soon.
Geo. Marriott and wife of Hadkin
were down last Monday and while here
bought load of fencing wire.
Ed Davis, who moved from here over
year ago to Black river bottoms, has
returned. Just like they all do.
Bob Smith of PocahOntas, probable
candidate for sheriff, was business
visitor in our town last Friday.
Mrs. Curtis Higginbotham lef; last
Friday for visit with her sister
Mrs. Burley Carter, near JOnesbOro.
There are several automobiles out
of commission since the first of the
year. Wonder what is the matter.
Esq. $. X. Childers, farmer ant
'possum hunter from down on Jane'
Creek. was transacting business here
last Monday.
John Jackson and John Stanlield o.
Oconee were here the latter part o.
last week with wagon load of turkeys
which they sold to local merchants.
Lige CawthOrn of Easy Greek wal
in town one day last week and tells III
that he will move soon to the Bay
He has rented his farm to Roy Kel
lett.
Charley Robertson and JEFF Stubble
field Of Dalton stopped here awhile
last Friday while en- route home from
Ravenden where they had been with
load of cotton.
Rev. Dr. Tibbles of Imboden was
called here last Monday to conduct
the funeral of Aunt Eliza Beck, who
died at the home of der daughter, Mrs
John Lane, last Sunday evening. Rev
Bradford of this place assisted in the
ceremonies. The funeral was held al
the Baptist church. A large crowd OF
relatives and friends were present and
quite number of them accompanied
the remains to the James cemetery
where she was laid to rest. The en-
tire community are in sympathy with
the bereaved ones.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-01-18
MAYNARD

Our cotton gins are still running.
Mrs. Buel Lofts has been i'll for
some time.
Here's hoping that this cold weather
will Kill out the boil weevil.
Mrs. Robert Anderson has been
ather sick the past week.
The Widow Myrick has moved to
our little town from Albertha.
Both of our schools are getting down
TO work again after the holidays.
Tom johnson took another fine bunch
of hogs to the st. Louis market this
week.
A new daughter arrived at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Abbott Sunday
morning.
The pie supper at the NJ. z. $. was
well attended, Notwithstanding the bad
weather.
Miss Peston entertained the Junior
Il. Y. Z. L. Saturday afternoon. The
children report having had a very nice
time.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-01-18

Measles are nearly a thing of the
past in Maynard. The epidemic has
about passed.
The Junior class at the Academy
entertained the Seniors Saturday night
with reception.
Melvin Roberts and wife are visit
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. $. e.
Roberts this week.
Prof. Mock and County Demon
strator Smith were visiting the schools
/ here one day last week.
Helen Zelma and Austin Crismon OF
Attica spent the day in Maynard Sun
day and their grandmother went home
/ with them for visit.
Mrs. Vernon Spencer has received
the sad news of the death Of her
father Uncle George Gibson, which oc-
CURED Saturday night.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-01-18
SHANNON

Mrs. Roy Ward spent last Sunday
with Mrs. Sol Ingram.
Carl Ward and family visited at
Jack lngram's last Sunday.
Newell Jack and wife are helproud
parents Of a new baby girl.
Mrs. Jim Bigger visited at Joe
Browns last Thursday night.
Mr. aud Mrs. Pat Ingram visited at
Roy Wards last Sunday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Haynes visited
Ira Clark aud wife last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs clyde Rose visited
Frank Carroll and family last sun
day.
Jim Brycr and family Of Manson
visited Harvey Holder and family last
Sunday.
School is progressing nicely with
Mr.. Lawhon and Miss Lillian Mays as
teachers.
Cold weather now but maybe it will
freeze some Of the boil weevils. We
hope so anyway.
Duke Haynes and family and John
Brown and family spent last sunday
at the home Of j. h. Wornen. al
We had wedding in our comni initI |
one day last week, the contrakba
parties being Tom Allphin and Ma
Hogan.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-01-18
RICHWOODS

Mrs. Wesley Brown taught our school
last Monday for Miss Stout.
Otis Tinker and wife were In Wal.
nut Ridge Saturday shopping.
Guy Floyd's little daughter of Old
Walnut Ridge has the measles.
A very interesting program was
rendered at the school last Friday.
Miss Hudson and Miss Childers
visited at the Joblin school Friday.
Gale Dillport and family visited Mr..
and Mrs. Douglas at Pocahontas Sun
day.
Miss Leila Camp of near Water Val
ley is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Ella Har-
vester, this week.
Clarence Morris and family report
that they have had the influenza for
the past two weeks.
Little Miss Ryburn, who attends
school here, spent Saturday and Sun
day at home with her parents.
1t is understood that Frank ThOmp.
son will move to the Joe Tillman place
and farm this year for Z. Il. Eskridge.
Uncle Ike Woodbridge and family
left last week for SikestOn, Mo-, where
they will make their future home.
They will I've greatly missed
II. II. King has just returned from
Rector where he has been attending
the bedside Of his sick baby, who has
been sick the past month. lie reports
it not able to bring home yet.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-01-18

Myrt Bennett, who went to n hos
pital in Memphis several weeks ago
for an operation. came home Sunday
much improved
Tom Holt lost a new automatic shot
gun in Black river while he and a
party of friends were duck hunting
one day last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
DRAFTING OUR AMBASSADORS.

It is pertinent query Glenn Shaver puts to the Republican administration when he asks why seventeen. of our ann bassadors and ministers to foreign gov ernments have been summoned back to the United States to work for the Cool idge candidacy. These men not only re- ceive salaries ranging from five thousand to seventeen thousand dollars year, in addition to certain allowances, but their services abroad are presumably of great value to our foreign commerce and our foreign relations. It would be interest ing to know if the expense of their trip home, the salary charge for the period of their vacation, and the loss to American interests abroad are included in the cam paign expenditures of the Republican party. Obviously they are not included. The question as to the integrity and off cial uprightness of such an expedient may we'll be left to the voters. Only, 1t IS im- portant that the voters know about 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
INNEGATION

Along with the brand of Diluted Dem- ocracy among some claiming to be Demo- crats, now. comes the policy of Demo- cratic Negation from the party head in Alabama. $H. ts
 MT. R. B. Evins, the chairman of the state Democratic Executive Committee, silent until the Minor case had reached a post mortem stage, now says MT. Mi nor shouldn't have done it,l and really should retire from the ticket! "
 No word of vigor; no expression of condemnation; no repudiation of these who bore the party from within when carrying its standard; no, nothing at all when any or all of these would have been of effect and value in party pres ervation.a ....f'.. ...
 Falling on the side of line or plane opposite to an arbitrary line," says Web ster of negative position. And Dickens has the view that it is something be- tween an affirmative bow and a mega tive shake." We think either aptly fits the case of the state chairman set to guard the integrity of the Democratic party in Alabama. .r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
Forum Of The People
School Girl Ask Amendment Support.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 In behalf of the boys and girls of Mobile county, 1 am writing to ask your aid in our hour of need
 On November 4, the voters all over the state will go to the polls and vote on an amendment to the Constitution that will give to each county the power to levy and collect a two-mill tax for the support of the schools, if it wishes.
 For fifteen years, the taxpayers of our county have willingly paid this tax. They are justly proud of the schools which this revenue has made possible. Now we are very much concerned to find that our twO-mill tax is not constitutionally legal. Unless this amendment passes, our schools will suffer greatly. The proposed amendment will not increase the taxes of any taxpayer in the state.
 Will you please use your influence in every way to secure the passage of this amendment For the sake of children of Mobile county, l am confident that you will do your utmost
 LILLIAN REESE
 Grade IA, Oakdale School Mobile. Ala, Oct. "A, 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
THE STATE AMENDMENTS.

While the people of Alabama are vot- ing for president, their attention will also be directed to seven proposed amend mentj to the state constitution, all of which deserve popular endorsement. All but one of these amendments is for the purpose of permitting countries and com munites to undertake public improve ments of various kinds, mainly schools and highways. Surely no good reason could offer itself to the people of Ala bama for refusing to authorize localities to be as progressive as they severally see fit. For example, the communities of Thorsby, Piedmont, Greenville, Roanoke, Greensboro, Calera, Florala, Opp, Ever green, Fayette and Clio ask permission to tax themselves one-half of one per cent. additional for such public benefits as are not possible with their present reve- nues. Walker county wants to be au- thorzed to tax itself additionally for roads and bridges. Three school districts in Lawrence county likewise pray for the power to increase their revenues for edu- cational betterments.
 Three amendments affect Mobile coun- ty, one of them being the authorization of further bonding margin for the build ing of roads and bridges, including a highway connecting between Mobile and Baldwin counties across the Mobile Delta The other asks constitutional validation of school tax that has already long been in force, but the constitutionality of whic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
DAVIS WRITES 4 BRIEF

young man convinced these friends that Wan did not kill the undersecretary. They con- tributed money for the court expenses and as a last resort appealed to John w. Davis to take a hand in the case. Mir. Davis agreed to do so provided the records of the case were such as to convince him that the Chinaman had been refused substantial just ice at the trial. A pile of court papers were sent to the Davis office and then, shortly aft erward, Mir. Davis sailed for Europe.
 The little group seeking to help Wan then decided that the great lawses -MAs Ab< busy to trouble with the thankless task of pleading for condemned alien who lay m jail and without funds. They gave up hope of hearing anything from Mir. Davis. But when the latter returned from his trip abroad there came from him brief drawn up over his signature The Supreme Court at Wash ington read the. brief and. heard the argu- ment by counseF interested with MT. Davis in Vans case, and the court held the con- fession to have been unlawfuliy submitted to the jury, ordering a new trial. sf9
 The history of this incident, which comes to light with the handing down of the de- cision by the court at Washington, gives an excellent light on the Davis idea of lawyers duty. It is his theory that an attorney mas no more right to refuse to help client m legitimate need of help than doctor or a minister has the right to pass by on the other side under like circumstances. And so it comes about that he had plenty of time to nush to one side for the moment the affairs of big business in Wall Street in order to give aid to a Chinaman who was in jail con Semned as murderer and without cent to offer as retaner.-Dallas News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
WHY BRITISH PEOPLE VOTE HEAVILY

DRITISH votes in the last two general
 H elections amounted to ss per cent of SIas the less than % per cent of the population is sui ficiently. interested to designate tenant for the White House every four years. The non partisan committee which recently made an effort to round up our stacker vote, with no conspicious results, to judge from the regis tration in New York City, may be interested to hear of one reason and one remedy. The reason is lack of popular interest in the cleo ton game and the remedy is a strong infusion of rowdyism after the British model It needs no detailed augmentation to prove that there is much less fun in round of golf than in heckling Lady Astor. This "hire a half'
 ideal of ours is fatal to robust interest in the operations of democracy. There IS com paratively little recreation in listening to a campaign speaker with whom you heartily agree and with whom no one in the gallery disagrees on pain of being hustled out by the cops A strong injection of cowbells, tin trumpets and rattIes is bound to stimulate recruiting among our tagging twenty-five
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02

millions.
 Evidence of the deleterious effect of the punishment of rough stuff from our politics is to be found in The New Republic analysis of the decline of the voting habit, commented upon elsewhere on this page some time ago. Forty years ago 80 per cent of the qualified voters went to the polls. Today it is about 50 per cent But this has been precisely the period during which the exercise of the fran chise has been made safe for democracy. The old red fire and brass band parade has dis appeared. Broken electioneering heads have become extinct. The gorilla" who frightened citizens away from the polls has in turn been frightened away, and the colonizer who used to register for the citizen has struck his tent like the Arab. But the result has been sterilization in more than one sense. With nothing to prevent him from registering and casting his ballot, the sturdy American cau5en has lost interest Restore to him the priyis lege of getting his hat knocked over ms eyes in defense of his inalienable right and he will begin to take notice. The motto, then l: "Rowdy elections !"-Nwe York Times. &
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02

THE New York Times tells the story
 of Chinese client of John W. Davis
 which will some day find its way into the hands of a master writer of fiction. But the facts will scarcely need his touch to make them the plot of an absorbing tale.
 To begin with, Ziang Sung Wan was student at Columbia and friend of Dr. Ben Sen Wu. Dr. Ben Sen Wu was an under secretary to an educational mission rep resenting the Chinese government. One day he was found murdered, together with two of his secretaries. Wan was encountered by a neighbor as the student was coming out of the Wu residence. That and Vans con fession of the murder obtained his conviction.
 There are other details, such as Vans premonition of evil upon seeing jewel which he associated with superstition in his fam fly, and such as Vans brother having pre- sented forged check purporting to be signed by Dr. Wu, and so on. Vans brother claimed strangers had given him the check and asked him to cash it for them, and when the bank declined he returned it to them. There were other circumstances which appeared to clear the brother and he was allowed to go, but the police took Wan himself and subjected him to the third degree for eleven days, all lowing him no sleep. The detectives them selves were worn out at it and worked in relays, constantly arguing with him and questioning him. At the time he was ill with stomach disorder, and there is the hint in the account that bodily torture was also resorted to. In the end Wan signed the con- fession to the murder.
 Penniless and in strange land, Wan was not without friends. The fact that he had been intimate with Dr. Wu and that Dr. Wu had repeatedly shown kindness to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02

l
 out regard to the pledge of the president; Or he did both, made political ges-
 ture combined with terrific administra- l tive confusion.
 Although supporting the Republican ticket, the Kansas City Star is disposed to view the episode philosophically and to glean~ whatever wheat it may there from. The Star especially notes "the disparity in the taxes paid by persons ot supposedly large incomes. One person may pay tax of half a million and an other reputed to be equally wealthy may pay tax of five thousand dollars A man on a moderate salary may pay as much as capitalist. In very many and conspicuous cases low in- come tax payment by multimillionaire is due to the fact that the income is de- rived from tax-free securities. This is grossly unfair The capitalist, with his fortune already made, is permitted to run to cover and escape taxation. The man who is actively engaged in building a business of importance to the community | is heavily penalized by the govern ment." From which it may be inferred that there may be some virtue in the publicity, after all.
 The Wilmington Every Evening of Delaware finds that "Mr. Mellon and his associates in the treasury partment are delighted It is fine campaign strategy. The tax lists reveal that MT. Coolidge s return is approximately six thousand dol lars, while MT. Davis pays $84,000. We do not say that the publication of the | lists is intended to be sinister; but we wonder whether in the end it will not serve as a boomerang to MT. Mellon and his friends; for MT. Mellon, himself, has return of more than one million-and some folks will want to know how much of his wealth came from his tariff-pro- tected aluminium business"
 After asserting that "the press is well within it's right in this matter" of pub fishing the tax lists, the Springfield Re- publican takes the treasury department to task for it's equivocating attitude "A reasonable explanation of the treas ury's performance is that the officials are trying to make the press the goat in case the income taxpayers become indig- nant over the unwelcome publicity thrust upon them. The treasury has been re- luctant to obey the Norris provision of the law, but having no alternative to obedience, the department throws out the suggestion that printing names is very different from making them avail able for public inspection and that, there fore, the wicked newspapers must bear the blame for whatever publicity follows
 It is quite evident that the treasury has stirred up quite a muss without al the same time itself escaping suspicion of either having played politics or else of having indiscreetly subjected the lists to inspection without seeking the usual legal opinion regarding it's interpreta. ton. It reflects no credit upon Mir. Mel Ions judgment in either event.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
THE GASOLINE TAX.

The total net revenue from gasoline taxes in Alabama distributed among the sixty-seven counties is $1,599, ,S96.59, for the fiscal year just closed. Although this money is to be used for road pur- poses, it is obvious that each county,s share for the year, namely, $23,S71.53, is not an imposing sum. It is doubtful if there will De permanent visible evidence of it's expenditure in counties. On the other hand, a million and half dollars additional to the state highway fund would have been possible of expenditure in tangible and appreciable manner. Each county would in the long run bene-- fit more from state administration Of the fund than from it's dispersion among the counties, for local application.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
OUR MURDERS ARE OUR BUSINESS

 of Britain in Ireland, of France is in the Ruhr-these things greatly concern and dis tress us. As the perfect exampler of civill- zation, we rise to cry shame upon them.
 But let there be a massacre at Herrin, A klan murder at Mer Rouge, n gang mnr- der in New York-let there be twenty-eight murders a day the country over-and we re- fuse to be stirred: We encourage murder by the wholesale issue of firearms. Under the nresent dispensation the Government is n part to most of the murders committed in the United States. For nobody was ever shot by anybody who didn't have a gun And guns mostly are issued on Government permits There are prohibitions on liquor but no prohibition on firearms. Congress refuses to consider the idea of such q prohi- bition. q
 Besides, our murders are nobody's busi- ness but our own.-Buffalo Evening News. ,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02

Speaking of murders in this country, the Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator observes:
 ''Ihe United States has legislated against the manufacture and sale of intoxicants 1t has so restricted the sale of poisons that com paratively few murders of this type are in cluded in the gruesome, annual police list. It is now bending it's energies toward the eradl- cation of the drug evil But the sale or firearms is practically unrestricted - and here, unquestionably, one has the answer to the riddle of twenty eight murders a day. The revolver is the great killer"
 This being held up in foreign country as horrible example is disturbing to our national pride. In our fine moments we look upon all the rest of the world as more or less benighted. Our Congress is quick to oe- velop spirit of righteous indignation over CT the trend of affairs abroad. The acton oh Belgium in the Congo. of Japan in Korea