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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

Mrs. Elizabeth Moore of Ken
nebec hill is suffering with severe
cold. Mrs Blanche Greer of East
Bloom is assisting in her care.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

Everything for your Christmas
Package 9es-Seals, tags, stickerse
cards, tinsel cord and ribbons, crepe
and tissue paper in colors. The
Stanbery Pharmacy.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

While hunting the first Of the
week, Mr.. Vernon Crawford suffer
ed an injury to his eye, when the
discharge from a 20 calibre gun
backfred, the powder burning him.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

DR.. Lee Humphrey returned home
late Wednesday evening from Co
lumbus, where he attended a meet
ing of the state medical board,
which conducted state examinations
this week.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

At the present low prices on liv-
ing room suites, you can afford to
buy one for the whole family to
enjoy. A bridge lamp free with ev
cry suite during December.-Mil-
ler's.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

Atty and Mrs. Clair Young and
little son returned Wednesday from
a visit with Caldwell relatives, The
child who has been i'll with heavy
cold, is improved.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

Mr. s. r. McElbiney Of Malta,
who has been in poor health for
more than. year, had a severe at
tack ok stomach trouble, Sunday.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08
HANDKERCHIEFS

Fine Handkerchiefs in variety of beautiful
coloTed designs An especially welcome gift.
We showing splendid assortment both
boxed and separate.
Boxed, at :. Soc 75c and ST 90
Separate, at. =. . sc, 1Oc, 15c and 25c
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

The daughter Of Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence EveIand of Malta has
been i'll with grip. The oldest
daughter Of Mr. and Mrs L. E. Orth
Of this place, is also i'll with the
same trouble
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

A good assortment purses, bill
folds, card cases, gents sets, key
cadys.IThe Stanbery Pharmacy.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

Get your free coupons on the dolls
and boats with every 25c purchase.
The Stanbery Pharmacy.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

The finest line of mattresses We
have ever shown, and we can fit any
size bed at the prices you can afford
to pay How about new sleeping
equipment? Springs are cheaper
Miller's.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

Don't Miss Seeing our window
display of dolls and speed boats. -
The Stanbery Pharmacy.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

Eaton Crane and pike Stationery
25e to $3.-The Stanbery Phar-
macy.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

David, little son of Mr.. and Mrs.
David Lowe, has been i'll with stom-
ach and bowel trouble.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08
LOCAL NEWS

Good Chocolate Creams, / lb, for
10c.-M Burke.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

Mrs. Jabez Mcdaniel Of this place
who was taken suddenly quito ill.,
Tuesday, is much improved.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

Modern Reprint Novels now 800,
were $2.50. The Stanbery Phar-
macy.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

Good Chocolate Creams, lb. for
10c.-M. Burke.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-08

Now is the time to order your
personal stationery for Christmas.
THE Stanbery Pharmacy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
ROOSEVELT AND SALES TAX

President-Elect Roosevelt showed courage and
wisdom in heading off the latest drive for gen.
eral sales tax There are other and better ways to
balance the federal budget, including an extension
Of the excise or nuisance taxes if necessary.
From the beginning this newspaper has pointed
out why the general sales tax should be used, If 1t
all only as a last resort. The general sales tax is
vicious because it is indirect and invisible because
it rests heaviest on those least able to pay and
because once installed, it is almost impossible TO
get rid of.
General sales tax propaganda has distorted the
issue The issue is not ap unbalanced budget versus
a sales tax The proposed sales tax would raise only
about as much as the proposed beer tax-between
two and three hundred million dollars
And that proposed sales tax revenue is much less
than the amount which could be saved from veteran
expenditures without hardship to any man injured
in The war.
Additional economies in the army and navy, in
prohibition enforcement and in subsidies should be
made before there is resort to more general tax
alton especially to the unfair and perncious gen.
eral sales tax.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
EXPENSIVE ECONOMY

Economies proposed in the annual forest service
appropriation as foolish some of the expendi-
lures the government proposes to make in 1894
The Presidents budget recommended cutting al
most every activity of the department which guards
our most valuable natural resource. The house APP
preparations committee has carried the folly even
further, with cuts.
The result may be crushing loss to the nation
in destruction Of timber by fire and by insect pests
and plant diseases. We viii feel this loss increas-
ingy over period Of many years, just as we will
see the results of undernourishment now in the lives
Of the entire next generation.
1t costs comparatively little to maintain roads
and telephone lines and lookout stations to guard
our tooscanty forests against fire. guarding thus at
the same time, the agricultural lands below them,
dependent the forests for stored water supplies:
guarding at the time cities in danger from
flood, ifsthere are tree roots to hold back rains
that fall too fast
1t costs little to eradicate pests that destroy trees
more slowly, but just as fatally.
And the money spent on these tasks has in the
past provided work, saving thousands of men from
want.
President-Elect Roosevelt has stressed the i'm
portance of this matter many times His party now
in control of the house Of representatives, should
provide him with funds for carrying out his excellent
program for protection of forests
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
BILL. THE MIGRATE

You should know about Bill Plummer, southern
Maryland's absentee master bootlegger. For his is
a story with a moral
1t seems that Bill got his start in big way by
tipping the "federals" whenever a newcomer invaded
his baiiwick So helpful did he become to Uncle
sam that he was granted sort of unofficial GER
tificate of public necessity and convenience.
The peculiar relations between Bill and our gov
eminent at Washington were described by Deputy
Prohibition Administrator William I. Blanford Of
the District of Columbia to Judge Chestnut in Bal
timore. The conversation, as reported, follows:
Judge Chestnut-What do you know about this
man Plummer?
Mr. Blanford-I know he's a notorious bootlegger.
He's the best informer I've got.
Judge-How many times has he assisted your
Mr.. Blanford-About twenty times. He always
asks for liquor but he never gets any.
Judge-Why should he keep on asking for liquor
If he never gets any?
Mr.. Blanford-well, the truth is, Bill Plummer
IS the king Of the bootleggers in Calvert county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
THE LAME DUCK SPECTACLE

If an all-wise Providence had tried to give the
American people a direct objectIesSon concerning
the necessity of eliminating lame ducks" from their
government it hardly could have devised better
one than we have been witnessing in Washington
recently.
In the first place, we have had holdover con-
gress oundering desperately in an effort to straight
en- out the prohibition issuea job which important
and pressing but which surely is the province of the
men chosen at the last election.
Second, we have the dsmaying muddle over the
war debts The President and the President-elect
can not agree and the most vital part of foreign
relations program must mark time for several
months
Basicay, these troubles are the fault of the sys-
tenn and not of the men involved. And luckily we
have chance, in the pending lame duck" amend
ment to bring the system up to date.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
Making q Match

LIVERY one uses matches, but
IL in all probability no one but
a practicing chemist knows what
materials compose the head of an
ordinary match. DR.. Ehrenfeld
tells us, but he also reveals some
interesting facts about the match
stick.
To keep away from chemistry
as long as possible, let us begin
by examining the tail end of the
match rather than the head end"
he writes. "It is either a silver
Of wood or a strip of paper.
Though we are not able to see
it, this strip of paper or stick of
wood has been soaked in solu-
ton of a chemical so that after
the flame dies down, the coal goes
out quickly and does not continue
to glow.
AS we travel along the match
nearer to the head, we find layer
Of paraf1n. When the match was
being made, after it had been i'm
mersed in solution Of the chem
zeal which prevents Smoldering,
it was dipped part way down into
a pan Of melted paraffin.
This paraffin serves to keep
the match af1ame, much as the
kindling supports the fire until
the log catches.
Nov We arrive at the head of
the match, and what do we find
there? A mixture, made UP of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
THURSDAY. DEC. %. 1892.
THE END OF A SPREE
"a sCRIPPs-HOWARD NEwspAprRA

Official announcement that renewal Of fighting
in Nicaragua will not change the plan to withdraw
American marines Jan 2 will be welcome news
to American taxpayers and to the Latin Americans
who fear Yankee Imperialism
For twenty years-except for few months in
lo25-26-our marines have been in that independent
country virtual duty, without any declara-
ton of war by congress. Sometimes they have fought
with the existing Ncaraguan government, some
times against.
dozen different pretexts have served as excuses
for sending and keeping the marines where they
had no business to be. They we're supposed to pro-
tect American property in a country where there
little American property and that property in
little danger.
They were supposed to prevent change of gov
eminent by revolution, though their own country
born in revolution. They supposed to
guarantee honest elections in foreign country
while dishonest elections were being held in more
than one city and state of their own country.
The financial cost of this adventure runs into
millions of dollars Several hundred Nicaraguans,
including women and children in bombed villages,
have been killed. and the Marines in turn, have lost
1873 officers and men in the last occupation alone.
But the cost extends beyond dollars and lives
1t has caused Americans once sensitive to the rights
and liberties of small and defenseless nations to be-
come callous to military Intervention abroad.
1t has spread hatred Of the United States
throughout Latin America at time when real
friends Of the United States abroad few and far
between and when we are in need of friendly ma
lions on our flank. 1t has lost us foreign trade at
a time of closed factories and bread lines
Now that the occupation is about over we can
rejoice in the policy which is bringing troops
home. Unfortunately, however, the evil nations do
lives after them. 1t will take long time to regain
the confidence and respect which we as nation lost
in our role of Caribbean bully.
But we can at least make this the end of a dis
graceful chapter in our history-not merely another
withdrawal as in 1925, prelude to another pretext
for intervention.
Even after the marines are out Of Nicaragua,
they will remain in Haiti. There will be test for
President Elect Roosevelt who, as assistant secre
tary Of the navy under Wilson, was partly respon-
sible for our Haitian Imperialism.
Perhaps he has learned the cost of imperialism
since those days. We hope SO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29

XXTE are hearing much about
ability to pay" as the proper
basis on which to revise interna-
tional debts
Naturally enough, the idea ap-
pealS to debtor nations in tenn
porary distress. It also appeals
to private creditors who believe
their claims would be made more
secure by reduction or removal of
public obligations. Finally, it ap-
peals to those idealists who want
to be on the side of the angels.
There is no getting around the
fact that actual ability to pay
determines what will be paid, but
that is not the essence Of this new
and startling proposition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
Common Things Count
BY DAVID DIETz

GAIT and sugar are more i'm
~ portant items of diet than
caviar or anchoVies. A man can
live without an automobile, but
not without air and water. Thus,
it will be seen that, when all is
said and done, the common things
are the most important things in
life.
DR.. Louis Ehrenfeld, curator of
chemistry in the Museum of Sci
ence and Industry of Chicago,
tells us about some of these things
in 1.-THE Story of Common Things"
published by Minton, Balch & Co.
at $3.50.
The book undertakes to tell
something about chemistry as it is
revealed in the simple everyday
things of life. It is valuable for
a boy or man interested in know
ing more about the world around
him.
We frequently think of the
chemists contributions to modern
life in terms Of his most complex
and spectacular discoveries and
inventions, synthetic dyes, high
explosives and the like.
But DR.. Ehrenfeld points out
that his most important contri-
buttons have been common things,
things so common that we take
them for granted, forgetting that
they did not always exist, that
some one had to think of them,
design them and perfect them.
Among these common things
which he describes for us are
matches, paper, glass and soap.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

C1ANTA CLAUS is the worlds incest fat man; but
~ then, practically all fat men are nice. They
have furnished so much laughter, good humor and
fun for mankind that it seems little tough that
they should be subjected even occasionally to friend
ly ridicule.
AS citizens they may be complacent, but they
are not often troublesome, as prison statistics will
prove.
But let the thing that women do not sufficiently
consider is that they make the best husbands.
Although they are not strikingly handsome bride
grooms their wearing qualities will outlast those of
the pretty boys 100 to 1. They may not look like
fashion plates nor care for personal sartorial ee-
gance but, as readily can be SEEM this leaves the
wife to uphold the family dress standards. and show
me woman that hates that job
fat man nearly always is -humored. He
laughs easily, and is not addicted to suspicion
consumed by the vehement flame of jealousy. He
seldom is implacable IN anger. He is coaxed easily
and can be relied upon to meet the enemy half way
after marital battles
MOT being fond of strenuous exercise and pre-
ferring serenity and comfort he is beguiled
easily into the chimney at eventide and his
wife need not fear the loneliness of golf widowhood
He does not hold grudges He seldom is stingy
and never misery and as he likes good food you
can make your financial touches with comparative
ease by the simple expedient of having an extra
tasty dainty for his enjoyment
But the greatest talking points so far as the fat
mans matrimonial merits are concerned is this
other women will not be so quick TO run after him.
Unless, of course. he has pile of money and in
such case nothing in trousers is safe
But, while the sirens are on their regular BEATS
they always make first for the slim, elegant Jimmy
Walker type with perennially pressed pants, while
your precious dumping can walk the earth I'M
hampered and unframed
Now this may not be such an inducement to
the girls. but when you get along toward 40 it is
an important item.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
Every Day Religion
: BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

DAVID HARUM had his own
~ version of the Golden Rule:
Do unto others as they would do
unto you and do it first. Of
course he was talking of horse
trading, and in such a duel of wits
one must watch out, else he will
get the worst of it.
Horse-trading aside, it is not
bad rule, unless we assume that
what others intend to do to us
always is bad. Other men some
times must intend to do us good,
and if we do it first, we beat them
to it.
To a famous English missionary,
Gandhi gave his version of the
Golden Rule: Be what you want
other people to be and be it first.
The mahatma went on to remark
that the great difficulty with west
erners is that they start doing be-
fore being.
It would have been little less
polite, no doubt, but none the less
true, if he had said that the chief
trouble with us is that we start
talking before either being or do
ing.
We can say about ourselves
what Gandhi would be too polite
to say of us, which is that, UNI
consciously perhaps, our tendency
is to put fine talking in place of
fine living. For example, we say
fine things about the fatherhood
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
Questions and
Answers

A41O w Cl > . .
Q-Quote the shortest verse in
the Bible?
A-Jesus wept. John 11:35.
Q-Is Russia in Europe or in
Asia?
At lies partly in both CONT
nents.
Q-Name the founder of kin
dergartens and give the deriva-
ton of the name?
Friedrich F'roheI established
the first Kindergarten in 1910 in
the village of Blankenburg, in the
Thuringian forest in Germany.
The name is derived from the
German kinder" meaning chill
dren, ard "garten," meaning gar
den.
GLOW many continents are
there?
A-The earth sometimes is
divided into two continents, east
ern and western; sometimes into
four, Africa, Asia, Europe and the
American continent being eMumer-
ated separately; sometimes into
five, Australia being reckoned as
a continent; but usually into six,
North and South America being
counted separately, and, since 1909,
the land about the south pole
called the Antarctic, or AuStral
continent, has been counted as the
seventh.
Q-What is the average height
Of American men and women?
Amen about feet inches,
and women feet 4 inches. These
averages are based on measure
meints made by United States
public health service of large
number of industrial workers.
Q-Give the value of tooth
brushes manufactured in the
United States in 1881?
A-$5, 850,259
Q-Please define the political
term carpetbagger?
A-That epithet was applied to
northern men who settled in
southern states at the close of the
Civil war, whose only assets on
arrival were contained in a car
pet bag, and who sought to exploit
the south to their advantage.
Q-Do American citizens require
passports when making a round.
the-world cruise?
AVoc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
Progress Made in Vitamin Study

This is the third of six articles by
DR.. FiShbein reviewing the progress of
medica lscience in 1882.
TINE year 1882 has not seen the
l. discovery Of any new vitamins,
but it had seen the development
of more knowledge concerning the
vitamins already available, and
the correction of certain beliefs
formerly held concerning some of
them.
Vitamin B now definitely is
recognized as composed of two
parts, sometimes renamed F and
G, but which also are called 81
and b. The first of these is con-
cerned with the condition called
polyneuritis, or beriberi, and the
other with pellagra.
Vitamin D has now been made
available not only in cod liver oil
and through use of ultra violet
rays on the body, but by the addi-
ton of vitamin D concentrates to
all sorts of food, and by irradia-
ton Of various types Of food, to
permit them to develop the vita
min ID.
A further step has been the de-
velopment Of additional vitauain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29

of God, the brotherhood of Man,
and the Golden Rule, and then
we exploit or snub, or, at best,
patronize men of other races, in
GLIDING Gandhi himself, as if &C
tually mistaking fine phrases for
realities.
MY interest now, however, is in
1V1 still another reading of the
Golden Rule by Felix Adler, one
of the noblest and wisest teachers
of our generation. He sums up
his teaching in this rule of ethical
living: SO to act as to bring to
light the intrinsic value of others,
and by so doing to bring it into
power in oneself. 1t is in some re-
spects new principle, as he sug-
gests, and one which deserves a
long and deep bordering.
For one thing, it saves us from
thinking too much about our
selves, and sets us looking for
what is intrinsically noble, valu-
able and lovely in our fellows. 1t
implies a faith in such value,
even when it is hidden, and such
faith helps to create or at least to
bring out, the thing it believes in.
Also, it makes the latent good in
others, not our own whims or
even wishes, the test of our serv-
ice. as well as our own path to
the good life.
copyright. 1888. United Features
Syndicate)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
Compelled to Advance
NNoRE than one Individual. en-

MORE than one individual, en-
Iva terprise and nation has in
creased its earning power simply
and solely because it had to.
Meeting obligations, ultimately,
If not on time, has helped us all
to accomplish more than we
thought we could.
Let the thought that people can
get out of meeting their obliga-
tions by pleading inability to pay
take root in this world, and we
have started a force which will
not only destroy credit, but lead
to a disastrous letdown in en-
ergy.
We are spending far too much
time on excuses and aibiS, on
thinking up ways of not doing
what we could and should, on
being sorry for ourselves and
weeping over spilled milk.
Every one admits that the world
needs restoration of confidence
more than anything else, but how
can that be brought about by
arbitrarily reducing or canceling
obligations without first exhaust
ing every possibility of meeting
them?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
The Amateurs Brief Reign

UI at any rate the business of brewing exciting
~ 1t uses time and
the business has to go back to professional hands
The commuter particular inspted in his lonely
pioneer possibilities of
stead OF having merely wife he
nome ne has the fascination with pots and
and mixtures. 800 20 W
Even the parental pride grower in the early spring
haroy matches the enthusiasm
maturity. 7 - eN'1 u
shreWd housewife prohibition
mas been godsend against
lion Oh he Voad act The old idea of what
Is proper and fitting cones
MAKE peer may be taught in time even to nenar
Mleupon ne may be told up prepare his own
another milestone emancipation of woman will
have been passed. u "Oi"H VIII
by Tmes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
Can't Forecast Future

TAKE the United States during
Il the depression of 1873, for
instance, and what body of ex-
perts would have forecast her
ability to raise thirty billion dol
lars in 1918?
You can count the cash in a
mans pocket, add up what he
owes, and tell how much he is
able to pay right then. You can
take nations income and ex-
penses and tell how much it will
have left, or be in the hole, at
the end of a given year. But
you can't do either and tell how
the ledger will look fifty, fifteen
or even five years later.
Ability to pay" is a constantly
changing factor, If it weren't,
life would be hopeless.
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell
was hooking telephone stock at 25
cents a share, with few buyers.
Now look at the great corpora
ton which grew out of his inven-
ton and effort.