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Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-04
Social and Personal

Tulsa, Okla, the wedding to take place
March 8. Miniature brides and grooms,
bearing the names of Miss Bigger and
Mr.. Taylor were given as favors. Miss
Bigger was presented with beautiful
gift.
Out Of town guests present were
Mesdames r. c. Surridge, Lester Glib
son, Ray Bickers, Henry Hill, ]. j.
Sharum, Roy Townsend, Walter Dowell,
Joe Sexton, William Sauers, Fred Dut-
linger, w. II. Menchew and Misses
Magnolia Rogers, Lois Cooper and
Padge Townsend of Walnut Ridge and
Mrs. Gus Grier of Biggers.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-04
MANY THANKS

We will take the privilege Of thank
ing our neighbors and friends through
the Old Reliable for the fruit shower
given us Sunday evening. May Gods
richest blessings rest ON you all is our
prayer. Signed, Elsie Buckley, mother,
brothers and sisters.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-04
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our neighbors
and friends for their kindness shown
us during the illness and death Of our
dear husband and son-in-law. We
viii never forget the kindness of the
shop boys. Signed, Mrs. Esther Kell,
Mr.. Bill Snow, Mrs. Bill Snow.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-04
Buckeye Tire Lost

Lost-One Buckeye tire, tube and
rim, 30x3la, Tuesday, Feb. %, between
Pocahontas and McIlroy's Ferry. Re
ward for return or useful information.
The Overland Garage, J. T. Davis &
Son, Pocahontas. 30-1t
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-04
A TONIC

Groves TasteIess chill Tonic restores
Energy and Vitality by Purifying and
Enrichine the Blood. When you feel its
strengthening. invieorating effect. see how
1t brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will then
appreciate its true tonic value.
Groves Tasteless chill Tonic is simply
Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. SO
pleasant even children like it. The blood
needs QUININE to Purify It and IRON to
Enrich It. Destroys Malarial GERMS and
Grip eerms by IL Strengthening. lnvis6f-
atint Eject co.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-04
Program and Pie Supper

There will be program and pie sup
per at Shiloh school house on Satur-
day night, March 6, beginning at 8
o'clock.
The proceeds of the supper will go
to buy an organ for the church. All
the women and girls bring pies and
men and boys come prepared to buy
them.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-04
SETTING EGGS

Single Comb Rhode Island Red
thoroughbred, Thompson strain. 20
cents per setting, prepaid.
Mrs j. w. Ryburn,
3O-2t. Manson, Ark
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-04
FOR SALE

Corn and 5-year old Percheron
mare for sale. Apply Mrs Inez Wal
dren, Isaac Hurst building, Pocahon-
tas. 30-1t.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-04

President Roosevelt said, Good
crops are of little value TO the farmer
unless they open the door TO good
life on the farm"
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-04
Notice of Commissioners Sale Of Real
Estate

Estate
Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue Of the order and decree
of the Randolph Chancery Court made
and entered of record at its March
1926 term in n cause wherein James
A. Brooks et al were petitioners ex-
parte, the undersigned commissioner
will, on Saturday, March "a, 1926 offer
for sale to the highest bidder on 3
months time at the South Door of the
Court House in the Town of Pocah0n-
tas, Arkansas, the following land In
Randolph County, Arkansas, to-wit {:
Northeast quarter of the Southwest
quarter of Section 80, Township Is
North, Range l East in Randolph
County, Arkansas
The purchaser of said land will be
required to give note with approved
personal security bearing interest at
the rate Of 6 per cent per annum and a
lien will be retained ON said land to
further secure the payment OF said
note.
Witness my hand as Commissioner
on the Bird day of March, 1926.
Ben H. Mays,
Commissioner i'm Chancery.
w. l.. Pope & John i. Bledsoe,
Solicitors for Petitioners. 30-3t.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-04
Borrowed Money"

Borrowed Money" a six-act play
win be presented on Friday night,
March 5, 1926, at the Kozy Theatre,
by the Epworth League of the Peach
Orchard church
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-04

Read the ads. 1t pays.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Is Murder Ever Justified
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

A DOCTOR in Littleton, Col, having reached ad
vanced age and having taken of his daughter all
her life meticulously killed her because she was
without arms and legs and she deaf and dumb.
He did not to leave her charge upon the com
munity
He makes bones about admitting the fact that he
choroformed his daughter his attorneys defend him
his petition holding that the girl without soul and
she reasonable creature.
It is held therefore, that the father not guilty OF the
crime of murder
ago girl was acquitted who slew her husband
because he stricken with fatal disease He asked her
to do it. The court found her guiltless.
This brings up the question to whether have
the right to take human life under circumstances
AS rule it is basic principle of English law that
life should be TAKEN except for
crime The supposition that there is always chance for
the afflicted and have right to take the
matter in hands To put termination to human
life is reserved for the Deity and has no right to
the undertaking.
who try this person. therefore, for killing his
daughter will point decdethe point whether
it advisable jusable to deprive afflicted per-
son of life 1t will look though person who has no arms
legs and who without of speech and hearing
past help and it is mercy to put such one out or
existence.
But it very hard to elevate this single instance into
general law
Meanwhile the elderly father aged seventytwo, will have
the sympathy the public, he doubtless did
what his directed the of this thirty
two-year-od daughter
1t is thing to uphold the law but it should not
restrain from exercising sympathy IN single in
In fact the that its general rules
without exception 1t has courts OF chancery
equity decide such within the nterstces
of the law.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22

Good salesmanship" is the art
of getting a man to want to buy
a marriage license, when he only
dropped in for a couple of kisses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22

any valid relation to what is
true, and that 1t Is often
entirely erroneous. 1t could not
be otherwise, for the majority OF
persons lack the intellectual re-
sources that are necessary to the
solution of ordinary problems.
I'VE have it frtm excellent
authority that 'ninety-six per cent
of the people of the United States
are below the accepted standard
of intelligence If we put aside
false pride and appraise popular
opinion with the -mindedness
with which we are won't to take
up a problem in mathematics or
chemistry, we come face to face
with some very humiliating facts.
Popular opinion is not the
crystalization of independent and
seif-relyine inquiry and medita-
ton; on the contrary it is the
scum of mass reaction.
1T is composed, in large part,
! Of beliefs that cannot endure
casual scrutiny, much less the
rigorous tests of enlightened
criticism. 1t is thick with fossil
lied misconceptions held in sur
pension by stultifying tradition. 1t
contains the emotiOnalisms Of the
neurotic, the prejudices of the
iIliterate, the fantasies of the
feeble minded, and the hallucina-
tiCns of the common drunk.
Does that seem too drastic
statement to you? Then do
little analysis for yourself. How
much sound truth and justice do
you find in Public Opinion con
corning:
Capital Punishment?
Divorces?
The Unwritten Law
Legitimate Children?
The ImpeccAbility Of Mothers?
The Younger Generation?
And any other little matters that
occur to you?
And after all why should you
with your perfectly good brain,
depend on Homo Sapiens, Inc,
to do your thinking for you?
Can't you form your own opin-
ions? Sure you can. Then why
not start right nowP
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22
LANGUAGE AND THE CHILD

shirks this responsibility commits
a great wrong against the child
1t is not only enunciation. and
pronunciation of sounds and
words that are best learned, IL
not exclusively learned, in the
first plastic years, but habits of
speaking also. Try some expert
ments with your telephone, and
study the points of the different
voices. There are some "tele-
phone girls" whose voices. like
those of divas, ought to be a
fortune to their owners.
Clear and clean-cut as the
tones of a perfect bell or of a
masters violin, even the hard
of-hearing can not only hear but
can enjoy, as an aural pleasure,
the hello the number, please,
and the here's your party" that
issue with such delightful ease
and tonal lucidity from the ear
box that one might imagine the
mechanical diaphragm itself to
be pleased with it's part.
But you may also hear a diff
ferent voice, grating sound, 9
tumble of unrecognizable sylla-
bles. If the psychologists are
right these differences have their
origin in the earliest childhood,
and subsequent habit and train
ing have done no more than to
accentuate what was either well
or III begun at the start Of life.
Exquisite Response
remember that when was
about Is, at the Johnstown.
n. Y, academy, there came at
intervals learned man, who
would now, I suppose. be called
nonresident professor" to teach
us the secrets of correct pronun-
citation and enunciation Of Eng
lish vocal sounds. / also recall
that the instruction seemed to
have come TOO late. We all had
our habits of speech already set
tied, had brought them with us
from our homes, and any attempt
to initiate the vocal utterance of
the professor resulted only in
ridicule and laughter.
/ do not mean to affirm that
voice training even as late as
middle life is not effective. 1t
is very effective, but 1t can not
reawaken the exquisite response
to impression that belongs to the
vocal organs Of the child. That
is gone forever, as all Of us who
have learned foreign languages
in school and college are aware.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22


lieve that it is the precious
caution, humor, decency and com
men sense. 1t is the court Of
last appeal in all debates. We
quote it to defend our favorite
prejudices or fads, or to ami
hilate the other fellows.
Is is god to us, this
enormous, shadowy power we
call Public Opinion, and 1t drives
us to as fierce extravaganza
as ever Moloch drove his
worshippers.
I wonder what some visitor
from Mars, unacquainted with
our god, would think OF those
extravagances. How he would
shudder at the cruelty we
perpetrate. tn e ignorance we
perpetuate, the stupidity and
fear and the greed and lust
and Stiffness we Gu ltivate
under the protection of Public
Opinion.
And now at last comes an earth
born human with courage enough
to attack Public Opinion in loud,
rude terms.
He is o. Victor Limerick, NJ.
D., Director of Pharmacology,
Brooklyn Diagnostic Institute,
New York, and he has written
treatise called, THE Psychology
of the Tobaccophobe."
DIR. Limerick doesn't care
whether we smoke or not, but he
objects to the unsCientific theories
which arc generally advanced
as arguments against smoking,
and he has a profound con-
tempt for the methods of Public
Opinion.
He gives the following typical
example OF the formation of
popular prejudice.
THE widespread and seemingly
unyielding prejudice against the
use of tobacco is based on
myth that reminds one of the
history OF the common tomato.
In the sixteenth century the
Spaniards brought the tomato
into Europe and South America,
and 1t became known In Italy as
Pomo del Mort (Moor's Apple).
Similarity of sound made 1t
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22
European Diplomacy
An Editorial in Rhyme
By BERTRAND SHADWELL

With faces schooled to act part,
And lying, practiced an art;
With conscience drugged, and faith asleep,
And secret treaties, hidden deep;
With mean advantage, basely won,
And self respect and honor gone.
With secret doors, and hidden springs,
And spies, and keyhole listenings;
With titled guests, to trap their host
And letters opened in the post;
With forgeries, and sharpers tricks,
And pitch that stains and mud that sticks;
With scraps of paper filled with words,
With braggart tongues, and ratified swords
With batteries, inspired by fear,
And smiles, to mask covert sneer;
With lips which pirate of "God on High
And giant guns, which shake Gods sky;
With poison gas, and peace conclave,
And every man weaponed slave;
And-in the end-a CHASTITY war.
And half the world grave.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22
By Garrett p. Serviss,
Noted Astronomer and Writer on
Scientific Topics of POpu-
lar Interest

Noted Astronomer and Writer on
Scientific Topics of POpu-
lar Interest
NHHERE is statement in the
u address on psychology by DIR.
Cattell, the retiring president of
the American Association for the
Advancement Of Science, which
ought to be taken to heart by
mothers ard fathers who, whether
they will or no, are their chii-
.dren's first and most effective
teachers. DIR. Cattell said:
"A child can learn to pronounce
its own or a foreign language
best at the age of about years;
there is then adrop and after
about IL years he cannot learn
correct enunciation.
Now, the greatest fault in the
talking and speaking OF AmLri-
cans-however it may be abroad
is faulty enunciation of the
vocal sounds that distinguish
language from mere mouth
noises. If the psychologists are
right. the only time to provide
effectively against this is during
Inc FCLS col IIcSL years lhS LAAl0
when parental and home inf.u-
ence are strongest.
The child is naturally an ini-
tator; 1t Initiates without inteu-
ton or reflection by an Impulse
that comes from unconscious re-
action to stimulus; one might say
as stretched harp strings respond
to aerial vibrations. The delicacy
of this response diminishes With
increasing age and increasing
complexity of experience.
If it be true that the chlld's in
herent power Of imitation of vOcaI
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22
LISTEN, WORLD!
By ELSIE ROBINSON

Pomme d'Amour
Uove APPLE In
French, and thus
at once gave rise
to the popular
belief that there
was som ct h In 8
sinisterly danger
GUS about this
vegetable. E V en-
to this day the
tomato is avoid
ed as a poisonous
a n d evil-d o | n g
plant by the peas
ants of several
districts of north
ern France.
He then cites
several other in
stances Of popu-
lar fallacies and
continu es:
at can thus
b e S e e n t h a t
pc pu la r opinion
need not hold
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22

II you want to get along with
the He-sex, never look too closely
at the back Of a small boys neck
after he's washed" it, or at the
logic Of @ mans excuses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22

WE'VE junked
w OIL ID Jupiter
and Mars. Thor
and Osiris have
gone their way.
Pan is a name
for C h il d r e n 5
fairy tales and
Vulcan the title
for a medium
heavy oil.
The gods have
passed out with
the boogie man.
& ut on e re-
mains--The great
god, public opin.
ion.
Up ub tic Opin-
j n" h o W w e
worship at It's
p a & a n 8 h r in e!
Show me the per-
son who doesn t
tire m b | G at its
name.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22

Don't try TO bring a mans love
back--.because, once love has been
conquered, he is the kind Of ex-
champion that never comes
back"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22

sounds Is so far worn out at
the age of IL that 1t can no
longer correctly and uEcon-
sciously reproduce vocal sounds
that are new to it, how great is
the responsibility Of parents for
seeing that during those critical
years it shall hear only good lam
guage. clearly enunciated and
correctly pronounced.
OF course it Is possible only TO
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22

approximate to such an ideal.
But an approximation to a good
thing is better than nothing. It.
is also the first step that counts.
The earliest response to the slim
illus of speech gets the most
lasting hold and develops the
deepest root. This must come
from parents, nurses, and pri-
mary school teachers, in the
order named. The parent who
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22

"A looks to the man who loves
her.
Good salesmanship" is the art
Of getting a man to want to buy
a marriage license, when he only
dropped in for a couple of kisses.
II you want to get along with
the He-sex, never look too closely
at the back of small boys neck
after he's washed" it, or at the
logic OF a mans excuses.
A man doesn't offer to give his
heart to woman, any more-ne
merely lends it to her, like n
library book, for week or 40,
with the date OF return clearly
understood.
1t is "middle-age." when the
love songs in musical comedies
begin 10 seem little longer, and
the love-scenes between the dane
ing little tiresome.
A married woman always
clutches at a compliment, and
carries it home and lays 1t before
her husband as triumphantly as
she would a vindication.
"Irnpetuosity" is what makes a
man want a girl TO answer him
"ail-in "a minute" after he has
kept her waiting for a year, while
he made up his mind to propose.
Domestic responsibilities lie on
some mems shoulders as lightly
as snowflakes and melt in the
warmth Of the first pretext
WOman's smile.
Don't try to bring a mans love
back--.beCause, once love has been
conquered, he is the kind Of ex-
champion that never comes
back"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22

DOCTOR in Littleton, Col, having reached ad
vanced age and having taken of his daughter all
her life, meticulously killed her because she
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22
WHEN DOES
MAN RISE?
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-

DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Is 1t proper for a gentle
man to rise when a lady is being
seated at his table whether or
not the other men do so?
?. Does it make any difference
where the place is? p. G.
Yes, indeed it Is.
2, No.
NEAR MRS. BEECkMAN:
~ When a lady is walking
with gentleman is it proper
for her to smile. back at a
strange man who smiles At her?
TAND r.
Lady, the social goblinsll get
you If you don't watch out!
Better keep your charming smiles
for those to whom you have been
properly introduced" Dent you
think this would be wiser? II
the gentleman with whom you
are walking when YOU smile ~
an unknown man, Is a gentle
man, you will never walk with
him again
Mrs. ReeCkman will be glad to
answer questions on etiquette cub.
mitted by readers).
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-22
MEDTTATIONS
OF A WIFE
By Helen Rowland

We Women
A WOMAN is as young as she
"A looks to the man who loves
New Britain herald., 1926-12-30
RELAT|VITY OPENS
 WAY ID RELIGION
Scientist Finds Theory Aid to
 Understanding God

Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. 30 R - The theory of relativity and the fourth dimension "opens the way to comprehension of God and to : merger of science and religion" Dr. F'ilmer Northrup, professor of philosophy at Yale, believes.
 Science is entirely ineffective in the explanation of the universe" he told the National Student confer- ence. Its bases are mass and en- ergy, both of which are perpetual ly changing.
 "The realist conception of life is equally unsatisfactory. To it the world is only that which the eyes can see, the body feel and the ears hear. It doesn't go beyond the senses.
 "The theory of relativity, dcfin- ing the universe in mathematical terms, does, however, give human- ity weapon with which to solve existence and God in terms that never change.
 Tt places the universe on the basis of pure reason, on the basis by which Plato was able to reach an understanding of life and of God. When people grasp this theory and the fourth dimension. both re- quiring transcendental reasoning, they will have come close to the secret of the universe ..
 Science is only second or third hand knowledge. By reasoning one can get at pure knowledge itself and at God. In the theory of rela- tivity and it's mathematical founda- ton, being pure reason. common understanding of the universe may he reached by both the disciple of science and of religion" he de- clared.
 AS science is taught now no stu- dent can leave a university with his faith in social God still in tact. Present day science leads only to madness"
 Scientific Jottings
 The human soul exists after death, in the opinion of Dr. Heber
New Britain herald., 1926-12-30

D. Curtis. director of the Allegheny observatory, who is attending the annual convention in Philadelphia of the American association for the advancement of science. A lifetime spent in studying astronomy and allied sciences, he said had led him to the belief that the soul, mind or spirit must possess continuity and that such a conclusion was in- evitable.
 Weather Forecasts
 H. T. Osborne, of the Northern Rock Mountain Forest experimen: station. told the scientists that re- liable weather forecasts were lab solutely necessary" if other infor- nation was to be, used most ef1i- ciently in future protection against forest fires.
 The present fire weather re- search and its results are unbal- anced," he said. land will remain so, until more effort is concentrated on weather forecasting for the for ested regions, and until more marked progress is obtained from such investigations"
 Disputes Einstein
 The Einstein theory of light re- fection is disputed by Dr. Charles Lane Poor, physicist and astrono- mer of Columbia university. and pr. R. F. Moulton. professor of dynamic astronomy at the Univer- sity of Chicago. Dr. Poor said that Einstein's theory was mot in ac- cordance with the facts, and Dr. Moulton asserted that it was i'm possible" for Einstein to have spoken with anything resembling He said\there was per centage of error in Einstein's cal culations varying from 50 to 200 per cent.
 Diabetes Theory
 Experiments on rabbits have convinced pr. D. II. Bergey. of the of Pennsylvania, that diabetes is caused by f1ltrable virus, which may be cultivated. This discovery. he said, opened the way for the development of suffi- cient prophylactic and therapeutic measures against the disease.
 'Llghter Stuff" Popular
 College instructors, as we'll as students, think more of the light CT stuff than they do of intellec- tual pursuits in their leisure mo- lnents, Dr. w. c. Trow, University of Michigan, aid recent study had revealed. Statistics, he said, showed that they preferred movies, musical shows, outdoor games anG social gatherings while "off duty