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®ie EnmmsuiHr Herald
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Curtains for Alfalfa Bill
What sent Gov. “Alfalfa Bill’* Murray's tax schemes
to defeat if we read the result aright was the same force
in human nature that swept a labor government out of
power in Great Britain what unhorsed former Mayor
Thompson of Chicago and what promised well for the
future welfare and tranquility of nations and peoples.
That is the tendency of people in times of stress to
turn from the radical the experimental panaceas nos-
trums cure-alls. It is the impulse to find refuge in the
safe and long-tried things a returning to the stronghold
of conservatism a getting back to the explored and tested
paths.
The voters of Oklahoma may have paid little atten-
tion to the intrinsic merits of the different specific rem-
edies Gov. Murray offered them. They probably labeled
'ike whole lot a set of uncertain experiments and decided
tney’d rather get back to the quinine though it is bitter
and the sassafras tea though it is trite.
This tendency of people to react to such conditions as
the nation has gone through is a bulw’ar kof protection. It
is a line of defense for the integrity of a government.
The people of Texas may be said to have gone for
refuge to the sheltering stronghold of conservative policy.
Socialistic theories of a decade ago have been stamped
out. Officials have been chosen with a view’ of solidity
and staunchness rather than as the theorists of a vision-
ary utopia.
In state and nation it may be expected this trend of
mass thought back toward the solid reality and safe de-
pendability of proven formula and conservative leader-
ship will continue for a time.
Inequalities
The governors of Texas and attorneys general are
paid $4000 a year and are required to give their full time
to the state’s business.
Certain other officials paid by the state notably dis-
trict attorneys throughout the 120-odd districts are paid
$4000 a year apiece but allowed by lack of either legal
or ethical restrictions to engage in private employment
while holding office.
Some of the district attorneys in Texas have larger
staffs of assistants than has the attorney general. The
assistants are paid from the state treasury the same as
the governor and attorney general. These assistants
with full sanction of law and precedent have the privilege
of devoting part of their time to private employment.
In theory the state pays for the full time of both of-
ficials and assistants. If their official duties occupy all
their time the state has a right to expect full-time ser-
vice. If not there is room for trimming the list.
This applies equally to all upon the public payroll
whatever their type of official service.
Purchase of Whisky Not a Legitimate Expense
Davis G. Lorraine a wealthy Californian and Texan
manufacturer and oil machinery inventor was sent to
trial in Los Angeles for making false income tax returns.
He was convicted on two counts and fined $15000 by
Federal Judge Paul J. McCormick. Lorraine was con-
victed after a bookkeeper testified that the accused had
listed large sums for traveling expenses allegedly to pur-
chase liquor.
Judge McCormick held that it was legitimate for
business men to include on their tax statements items for
hotel entertainments and other promotional activities
but when the money is expended for intoxicating liquors
it is not proper to place it on the tax returns.
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New York
Letter
NEW YORK—For a few brief
weeks In the holiday season. Man-
hattan goes in for marionettes in
a large way.
Legions of puppeteers open shop
in a dozen sections of the city and
oldsters start thtnking up “circus
excuses” for taking the children
The range of puppet shows is from
the naively histone to the ultimate
in modernism. From “Winnie the
Pooh" to “Hansel ar.d Gretel” they
come trouping Into town.
Down in the Italian quarter a
marionette show manages to keep
going through a considerable sec-
tion of the year. Life-sized figures
are used end the plays presented
are often as ancient as the nation
from which they are imported
One leading department store
keeps a costly puppet show going
in its window's during the Christ-
mas shopping season. It is inva-
riably designed by Tony Sarg. who
also sends several puppet troupes
out on the road and the building
and upkeep runs into the tens of
thousands.
And I’m told that th« puppet
vogue has be^n spreading over the
country. Better artists than one
finds in the theater can usually be
discovered tinkering with the sets
and costumes largely because
imagination and ingenuity are al-
lowed wide latitude. Cleveland and
Chicago have boasted of two parti-
cularly famou experimentors in
puppetry: Raymond O'Neil who
once presented serious dramas on
midget scale and Ella Van Volken-
burg. who pioneered in Chicago
but later moved westward. The
Cleveland Play House continued
however to lead in experimenta-
tion and at one time the schools
of that city were using more
marionettes in classroom work
than any other in the country.
t workrooms and studio® of
Tony Sarg are but a few doors
from my Manhattan dwelling
place. From the exterior the house
is Just another stone from residence
Once the door is opened a world
of wonderland opens with it.
Droll woden heads lie about on
tables and floors; miniature thea-
ters and settings are being set up;
students are in other rooms learn-
ing to manipulate strings: gay bits
of doll costume are scattered about
workrooms; rehearsals ere under
way; designs are being executed
for future productions: discarded
Punches and Judys. pirate* from
Treasure Island and gnome* from
Rip Van Winkle and dozens of
assorted figurines are to be dis-
covered after a bit of searching.
Just a few steps away from an
elevated platform this touch of
magic in th? big town becomes all
the more unreal.
• • •
And small wonder that the quaint
wooden figures seem never to lose
their charm for they have been a
plaything of the ages.
Marionettes appear and reappear
through ancient Egypt and India;
their tiny footprints cross the
classic periods of Greece and
Rome; they are. perhaps our 'j'dest
and most historic actors. The myth-
haunted banks of the Ganges were
seemingly the birthplace. One of
the earliest Indian folk tales con-
cerns the love of the god Siva for a
puppet. Researchers .have come
upon a puppet play written in
Sanskrit
Puppets of ivory and wood have
been found in tombs at Thebes
and Memphis Before the Pharaohs
they appear to have been used to
strike terror among primitive peo-
ple.
And. like the circus we hard-
boiled New Yorkers are always
Tickled when we hear they're com-
ing again.
LAZY FELLOWS
Tree-frogs sometimes borrow
tlie insect-catching leaves of a
southern species of pitcher plant
and use them to catch insects for
their own purpose.
ACH! IS IT TRIE?
It Is reported that cocoa is suc-
ceeding b^er as the national drink
of Germany. Con*umption of beer
is 38 per cent b-low the figure for
1913. while cocoa is up 70 per cent
over the same figure.
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The
Once Over
Bf H. I PHILLIPS
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' POST-XMAS PATHETIC CASES
Shed a tear
For Donald Darrow;
He gave his son
A bow and arrow-
• • •
The object of this ditty is
Emanuel K. Dumm:
He bought his boy the pity is.
A bugle And a drum
He might hAve stoo: the conse-
quence
And not have been so blue.
But Santa gave in moment dense
The boy upstairs one too!
• • •
Shot this wife
Is apt to die:
She gave her man
A Christmas tie!
• • •
P Carroway Grout is a physical
wreck
And mentally shattered aa well;
A nervous decline he a unable to
check—
He'll have to rest up for a spell
• • • j
Tile day before Christmas the man
was okay—
His gifts to his boys laid him
low:
He tried to repair all their toys
the next day
And help make their choo-choo
trains go!
• • •
Here lies' Winston Wallace Weiful-
He gave his little son a rifle;
i He rests beneath this stone «o new-
And so do All the neighbors too.
• • •
James Blotz once held his son's
respect
And admiration too;
The lad was certain. I expect.
His pop all things could do.
! But now dad's simply straw and
bricks—
Devoid of any brain;
He failed when asked to try snd
fix
A toy electrio train-
• • •
For Prentice Bums.
The city mourns:
He has six sons—
They all got horns!
• • •
NO NOVELTY
“Did you see Santa Claus?" ask-
ed the benevolent old lady as she
patted Little Wingate on the h»ad
Christmas morning.
•Sure" replied the dear li-tlt
fellow’ who had been through the
shopping district several times
with his mother “I saw all of
'em."
m * *
THE BIG PARADE
Another Christmas day has fled;
Away its spirit drifts—
So to the stores with aching head
To change those Christmas gifts!
00m
Miss Helen Ilicks famous golf
star had an autoist arrested for
ramming her car the other day.
What she resented was the fellow
didn't even signal to go through.
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NEW YEARS CARD FOR AN
OFFIC E WORKER
Oh. postal-package window man
Our New Years best to vou!
Nobody on the outside can
Quite know what you've been
through.
Here's wishing you a year of ease
In deepest slumber tossd.
With no dames chirping. ‘ Weigh
this please!’’
And ‘What'll this one cost?”
0 0 0
BANG! AND ANOTHER COPY
READER BIT THE Dl'ST!
From New York comes much
talk of Joan Bennett and the
dapper Mayor Jimmy Walker. Al-1
most every day she is reported
seen with that eligible bachelor."
—Detroit News.
Daily Health
Talk
I Tetanus u> world wide It was
I particularly serious during the
! World War wher. soldiers m the
trenches had their wounds con-
taminated by the soil because
tetanus usually occurs as a result
of wound infection For this very
reason men are more often infect-
ed than women. Most of the cases
in this country occur among young
childrrn during the summer
months.
The disease is not a common dis-
ease. but it is an extremely fatal
disease unless it is nroperly treat-
ed Whenever a wound is con-
taminated with animal manure
with soil or with street dust the
possibility of infection with the
germ of tetanus exists. From four
days to three weeks after the
germs are deposited in the tisanes
they develop the poisons that pro-
duce the symptoms These symp-
toms include of course not only
the spasm of the jaws which ii
called lockjaw but also the nerve
irritations convulsions and tox-
emia that are characteristic.
The person who has the disease
is not himself infectious to other
people except when wounds which
thev have may come In contact
with the discharges from his
wounds.
One of the most common causes
of lockjaw is the Fourth of Julv
Injun* in connection with which
clothing and soil are blown into
the skin and tissue by explosions
of firearms and fireworks When
a person is wounded under cir-
cumstances that involve soiling of
the wound all of the foreign mate- I
rial should be removed as early a*
possible from the wound. It should
then be thoroughly cleaned and
disinfected with the anolication
of suitable antiseptic substances.
Immediately thereafter one or
preferably two injections of 1000
units of tetanus antitoxin should ■
b» administered by the physician
because the value of the antitoxin
in the presence of this condition
has be»n well established. It is
far easier to prevent tetanus than
to cure It.
Notwithstanding the fact that
many thousands of dollars have
been spent In research for the
causative organism of measles this
has not yet been discovered The
general Impression prevails that it .
Is so small that it will ness through j
the ©ores of a clay filter there- 1
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fore belonging to the class of filter-
able viruses.
The symptoms of measles are
now known to practically everyone
They include fever running of the
nose and throat reddening of the
eyes a cough and the appearance
of white spots on the lining mem-
brane of the mouth. Because many
children seem to recover easily
from measles parents have been
inclined to treat the condition
lightly. Indeed there are some who
think that every child has to have
the disease and that therefore
careful control is unnecessary. This
opinion is certainly not warranted
by the facts.
The child who has been In con-
tact with other children having
measles is likely to develop the dis-
ease from eight to 10 days after
exposure and may as a result.
have complications which lead to'
serious injur}' if not to death.
Measles seldom occur in a child
under six months of age. because
apparently the mother transmits to
the child some of her own Im-
munity. provided she lias had the
disease ar.d sscovered. The disease
occurs most commonly in children
from five to nine and from 10 to
14 years of age
All races sre attacked by the dis-
ease. but apparently negroes and
Indians die more frequently than
whites perhaps because of their
living conditions and perhaps be-
cause the medical and nursing care
given to them is not as adequate
as that administered to most white
children.
A dual-control motorcycle has
been perfected in Germany for in-
struction of new riders.
LAW NEVER FORGETS
CHAMPAIGN. 111. —Last April the
home ol D. E Williamson was raid-
ed and a quantity of liquor seized.
Williamson was not arrested and
he went to California where he
completed a course of Instruction in
radio work. He recently returned
here to make use of his knowledge
He paid a visit to the sheriff to see
how he stood. He found his standing
not so good for he received a sen-
tence of 90 days m jail.
A WOMANS WEAPONS
“England should make more use of
her water power."
“Tell my wife that. She knows
all about it."
"Is she an engineer?"
“No. but she gets what she wants
from me by her tears."—Deutsche
Illustricrte. Berlin.
TODAY 13 TUB
Anniversary
START RAILWAY CONTROL
On Dec. 28. 1917 the United
State* government assumed con-
trol of all railroad* In the country.
Secretary* of the Treasury Wil-
liam O. McAdoo was appointed by
President Wilson as director gen-
eral.
President Wilson declared: "Tltla
is a war of resources no less than
men perhaps even more than men.
and it is necessary for the com-
plete mobilisation of our resource*
that the transportation *y sterna of
the country should be organised
and controlled under a single au-
thority and a simplified method of
co-ordination which haw not prov-
ed possible under private manage-
ment. and oontrol **
Padua. Italy wa* bombarded
from the air and 13 periona were
killed and 60 injured
French troops repulsed a sur-
prise attack by Germans near Velio
on the western front.
British repulsed Turkish attack*
north and northwest of Jerusalem
and advanced two and one-half
miles on a 90-mlle front.
Barbs _I
A hundred thousand In India
have vowed to stop paying rent. A
couple million In America haven't
had to vow.
• • •
And. while women as motorist*
have become experts doctors are
still practicing.
• • •
Probably the reason we can't get
out of this depression is every ex-
pert's got the who.e thing tn a nut-
aheU.
• • •
Josephus Daniels to the contrary
this is no age of special privilege.
One man can starve as well as an-
other.
• • m
British farmers say it doesn't pay
to raise crops so they live on their
savings. But American farmers are
still coming a cropper.
• • •
A duck In Los Angeles Is trvlng to
hatch an ostrich eag That* cer-
tainly a big undertaking.
• • «
And while all the.w* negotiations
are going on. Manchuria wait* with
bated breath. Well she* sure to
catch what Sherman said war wa*.
• • •
And. bated or not. there's many
a diplomatic fish in the Pacific each
with his own line.
• • •
Mae West recently antes*ed for
staging a naughtv show said she
was just a campfire girl. Merely a
flame waiting to get out.
• • .
A woman s face »savs an ad> 1*
I still her fortune And in spite of tha
depression interest is still high.
ML KINDS a
BY KAY CLEAVER STRAHAN oSSfe
DEGIN HERE TODAY
ANNE. CECILY and MART*
FRANCE* FENWICK lira with
tnrir grandparents once nrallly
ton du Impoverished that Anne's
and Cecily’s earnings support tho
household. Tho slaters hnv* bees
orphaned since childhood- Tho
grandparents are known respec-
tively as “ROSALIE* and -GRAND"
and tkey Insist on keeping tip pre-
tenses of tkelr former wealth.
Anne 2S. and Cecily. 22. do sec-
retarial work and Mary-Frances
15. Is still la school. When the
story opens Anne tins been e ■ - |
gaged to PHILIP FCROVIL voang |
lawyer for eight years. They can
not marry hernnse Anne knows
her sisters and grandparents de-
pend on her to manage their home
Cecily brings HARRY McKEEL
home to dinner with her. She la
falling la love with him. Mary-
Frances and her friend. ERMIN-
TR! DE. arc evelted nhoot the ar-
rival of a stock company actor
known aa EARL DE ARMOTNT.
They meet him on the street and
he sneaks to them. Alary-Franees
l« thrilled agrees to meet him
that nlaht after the performance
She tells him she I* 1M. falls to
note tho cheapness of hla love-
making and after tkat first meet-
ing promises to see him ngola.
Neat morning Phil telephones
Anne he In coming tn taka her
down town In hla car.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XVII
^LMOST at once before be had
turned the car from the tree-
lined driveway Into the street. Phil
eald. “Ann. when are we going to
be married?”
Ann. still too happy to be both-
ered. said “Ob Phil!” and patted
his arm.
“I mean it.” he Insisted. “When?"
"Oh. Phil” Ann responded but
less happily.
"Ever?”
"Now dear.” she reproached with
no happiness at alL
"Seriously Ann. 1 was thinking
last night. What ara we waiting
for? For your grandparents to die?”
“How can you!” Ann protested.
"That Is a terrible thing to say.”
"Not at all. We all die. Why
evade the statement? But with the
care Mr. and Mrs. Fenwick take of
themselves they may live for 10—
20 years yet. You and 1 are almost
SO years old. Twenty or 10 years
from now would make a late be-
ginning for us. wouldn't It?"
“I don't know why you want to
act like this this morning.” Ann
said and added. “I was so happy."
“Yes dear but don’t you see—*
"No. Not this morning. 1 was
■o happy.”
“Why should facing a fact make
you unhappy?”
“I don't know. But It does Talk
lng about people dying and so on
I’d felt that we were making sort
of a fresh start this morning—
maybe.”
“We are. dear" he told her. “That
Is what I want to do. 1 want to
make a fresh start toward some
definite goal. I want to get out
and get you out of this atmosphere
of steamy vague sentimental optl- j
mlsm. I'm sorry if I shocked you. ]
or hurt you by talking about the
death of your grandparents. It
wasn't necessary for me to say that
because tbat isn’t what we are wait-
ing for—is It? At least 1 hope it
isn't. Still there must be a point
somewhere that we can place and
say 'When that happens we can
marry.’ 1 want to see it we can
place tbat point."
Ann sighed and shook her bead
a little.
"Suppose." Phil went on. "that we
say we are waiting until 1 can make
enough money to contribute the1
same amount that you are now pay 1
ing in to the household. That would
mean an extra hundred a month1
wouldn’t it? And that isn't impos-
sible. is it?"
"No." said Ann. •'Yes.” said Ann.
"Meaning?” he questioned pardon
ably.
SHE evaded “There's your mo-
ther too.’’
"Whst 1 send to mother Is con-
sidered as a part of my own present
living expenses. I'll have to be sure
of enough over and above my ttv
lng expenses to take care of your
part of the expenses in your bouse- i
hold. When I reach that point
shall we say. we can be married
and will be?**
“There'd be two of us then" she
said. "Now you have only your
own expenses. Besides It isn't just
the money you know.”
**1 knew you'd say that. If I bad
-•» extra hundred a month right
now you wouldn't marry me would
you?**
“You aren't fair PhiL You Just
aren't fair. How could I go off and
leave Cecily with the entire respon-
sibility of the house and Grand and
Rosalie and Mary-Frances? You
know as well as I do that the only
way in the world Cissy and I man
age to keep going at all—to have
any good times or leisure or to
keep our jobs for that matter—is
by taking turns with the work and
sharing it and the responsibilities
Suppose Cissy bad been alone last
winter when Grand was ill? As it
Is. with the two of us working as
bard as we can things get away
ahead of us.
“Just keeping that big bouse and
getting the meals and doing the
ironing from the wet wash and
everything is a full-sized job for
one person. Cissy couldn't take
that all over and keep her office po-
sition. She isn't strong enough.
No one woman would be. And she
is so young. You used to say one
reason you loved me was because I
had a sense of honor and fairness
but you don’t seem to feel that way
any more.”
“Yes. I do. That’a that. then. A
hundred isn't sufficient How much
shall we have to add to the bun
dred to get a competent woman to
do the housework?'*
“I don’t know."
"Fifty dollars? Sixty? Another
hundred?"
Ann looked out ot the window.
"1 was so happy." she said.
"Why were you Ann?"
"I don’t know. 1 can’t Imagine. ”
"Because you were being fair to
Cecily r
"You have no right to blame
Cissy for everything."
"I'm cot blamiog Cissy tor any-
thing. I'm not really blaming you.
either. Ann for thinking always
about being fair to Cissy and never
thinking about being fatr to me.'
"That Isn’t true."
• • •
DHIL shrugged. “Isn’t It? Well.
* where were we? An extra huu
dred a month on top ot the first
hundred. Two hundred then more
than i am making now—or the in
terest on 140000—and v« chn be
married?”
“1 won't talk that way! You—
you're loving me. not buying me.
And my family isn't looking for
some outsider to support them and
we don't want charity."
"Outsider is right" said Pbil.
"Calling me up and pretending
you wanted to take me to the office
and wanted to see me. and so sweet
and—and—all you wanted was to
quarrel and quarrel and worry me
and make me unhappy.”
-No. Ana. 1 am very tired of
quarreling.”
-Well you always start it. just
the same.”
-If that is trus. 1 am sorry" he
said with no trace of penitence.
“If you loved me. you'd wish to
help me and make me happy and
not worry me. If you loved me—'”
“1 shouldn’t wish to marry you?
I'd be content to wait and wait ss
we have been waiting year after
year until wa re both old and worn
out and have no hope of establish
ing a family of our own nor a life
of your own? Cecily will marry
one of these fine days. 1 shan't
blame her; but I tell you. the will
And then where ahall we be? Sunk
deeper than we are now. it that’s
possible. We aren't children. Ann.
nor morons. We have to think of
some way out of this. Soon. We’ll
wor!: It out together dear. Will
you r>o with me in that? Will you
try to find some way out for us?
I’ve waited you koow; and I can
wait But I am through and fed up
with this waiting polnUesaly—end-
lessly.”
Ann said. -What has happened
to make you get this way—Just
this morning?”
-I have been this way.' * he an-
swered “for eight years.”
-Oh. no. you haven’t You weren't
even through school eight years
ago. You speak as It you were the
only one who had waited. I've
been wall lug. too. A* long as it
was 1. waiting for you. eterytblng
was all right."
"Fair enough." be accepted. "But
for t&e past three years at least—
and It la more like four—I've been
making plenty of money for tba
two of ua to lire on—carefully but
not meanly. 1 am only 30 years
old—"
"A minute ago 30 was old and
worn out.”
"—and not so many men of 30
who have had no outside help at
all. could marry support their
mothers and keep another large
family besides.
• • •
4NN looked at him. They bad
-*■ stopped at a red signal light
so be could look at ber.
“No Ann." be said quickly. "It
is only that you put mo on the de-
fensive. 1 didn't say 1 was support
ing your family nor that I’d be
allowed * do so. 1 said that 1
couldn’t. .«ed that not many men of
my age could—and that is ail I
did say.”
"Not quite all. You said that 1
was old and worn out and that you
were tired of waiting for me end
fed up with It and wouldn't wait
any longer."
The green light glowed and the
Dell rang. Philip shot tho car ahead
too fast. They whizzed by the next
corner and the nett. At the third
corner Ann said. “Didn’t you?"
**I didn’t and you know 1 didn't.
If you loved me you'd be as eager
as 1 am to lind some way out of
this for us."
"I don t love you—when you act
this way" Ann said.
"Ann. do you care to marry met
Or don't you? Answer that—Just
Yea.' or No.' *
-Yea. tut—”
"Here la another plan. then. Let’s
be married soon—some time this
month. You keep your position.
We ll find s pleasant apartment and
take Mary France* to live with ua.
She’ll be better off without all that
diversified discipline. She’ll be s
lot better off In many ways alons
with ua. I’ll bring you to the offles
every morning and call for yon
every evening. It will cut out tbs
slaving drudgery of that house foe
you. No—please wait until I've fin*
ished. Cissy can find an apartment
—get a place to board something of
the sort She'll be marrying before
long. We’ll take the money that
you earn and add a little to it. If
necessary and pay for room and
board for the old people In some
comfortable place—with a family
you know. £act I've one piacs la
mind: good pleasant people and an
attractive home. Tbey are up
against It right now and are talking
about ‘paying gueata.’ Just as soon
as my practice Increase* you can
quit work. Will you think about
that Ann?"
(To Be Continued)
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