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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
SAIUKDAY, MAY IU, 1924 '
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Holding the Centennial Here Will Cost Us
No More Than Holding It Elsewhere.
settle
tests.
Science is only common sense with
its hair combed.
tie vote for the presidency today, the
election would proceed according to
this amendment.
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SUNSHINE PELLETS
BY DR. W. F. THOMSON.
Boiled water is better thah spoiled
health..
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THE WEEKLY NEWS.
Weather, - Remarkable.
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If the radio is not a luxury, the telegraph certainly is not. While
the radio is used extensively for entertainment, more and more is it
being put to other uses. It is taking its place with the newspaper,
and other agencies that disseminate information, ant) thereby con-
tribute to the enlightenment and advancement of the people.
But in a much larger degree does the telegraph enter into that
character of service. By no stretch of the imagination can a telegram
be classed as a luxury. The telegraph is a common medium for the
exchange of information, and to continue a tax on telegrams is no
more consistent than to tax letters over and above the postage.
The tax on telegrams is not only an additional tax on business,
which uses the telegraph extensively, and upon individuals who employ
it for urgent needs such as death messages, but.it imposes a heavy
tax on newspapers which must use it in gathering the world’s news
for the people. The collection and dissemination of news for the
enlightenment of the people of the Nation is surely a public service
of sufficient importance not to be hampered unnecessarily,by special
taxes.
The telegraph tax has been in and out of the bill at Washington
at various times. At last accounts it was out. It ought to stay out.
If it is unfair Jo tax wireless telegraphy, how much more unfair is .it
to tax wire telegraphy, which touches the every-day lives of the people
more directly.
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The desert areus of the United States
nre included within ft great triangle
whose base, 800 miles long, rests upon
the Mexican border in California,
Arzona, New Mexico and Texas, and
whose apex is in North Central Ore.
gon.
Mr. Sam Cross bi being cngradu-
la ted by his admiring trends on ac-
count of breaking out wltlt the measles
and not having to go to kool for a
wile.
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At a committee meeting this week, it was planned to have four-
.minute speeches at the dinner clubs, theatres, and other gathering
’places wherever permission is granted. It is to be hoped there will
be no lack of volunteers for this speaking campaign.
Sixty-two of the one hundred centennial directors have been ’
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PAPER DELIVERY, ,. ,
Subscribers in the city who do not receive their peper by 7 odock in tne
afternoon on week days and by 8 o’clock on Sunday morning will coater •
favor on the management by calling the Circulation Department, phone •
and reporting any irregularity.
For many years a man in Arizona
has been sending me anonymous warn-
ings. The postmark of the town is in-
distinguishable. His latest one reads:
"Watc} out for a dark haired man with
thic)ear lobes. He is after your for-
tune." If this comes to the attention
of "the dark haired man" I just want
him to know that I’ll be perfectly con-
tent with a 10 per cnt refund. I’ve
been needing a toothbrush lately.
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a stranger—he might be her brother.
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MISS B.SHERWW " bury. Conn., then
elected and appointed, and on May 21, just two weeks from now, at the
State meeting in Austin, the directorate of one hundred will be com-
pleted, and they will then begin permanent work, including the
selection of the Exposition City, and our claims should bp ready for
presentation the».
What can Austin clubs and civic organizations do? They can
pass resolutions supporting the plan; they can strongly call attention
of their individual members to .the imgortance of attending the public
meetings, such as the one held last Sunday in the Senate Chamber.
Their membership can become posted in order to be able to answer any
possible objections that might be raised against the practicability of
holding a World’s Fair in Austin.
You may visit famous places
When you're troubled with the gout
But watch your little children
When the measles breaks out.
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success RJLES CALVI THAL
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FEW ‘EXTRACTS AT.RANDPm.
such con-
They pre-
' always thought of you. May I—that is
। —-would you consent—oh, hang it, Mu-
riel, will you be my wife?”
"What ft start you gave me. Clar-
( ence," said Muriel at last. "Do you
( know I thought from your- manner
that you were going to ask me to lend
, you some money?”
The following extract is from the
’ diary of a New England woman who
. lived in the eighteenth century:
; "We had roast pork for dinner, and
the doctor, whol carved, held up a rib
on his fork and said: ’Here, ladies,
' Is what Mother Eve was made of."
i " 'Yes,’ said sister Patty, 'and It is
from very much the same kind of
critter.’ ” • ,
Entered as aecona-class matter at the’postottice at Austin, Texas, under the
Act of Congress'of March 3 1879. _________________
Lota of folks with good intention,
Prefer a cure to sound prevention;
Though they’re offered self protection,
They'd rather dope some dire infection.
HAVe coUD Tkat1
Th<3 SUAEST WAY To _
Succes3 IS To WJORN
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(Special Correspondent to The Austin Statesman.)
Speaking of a fat lady’s appetite,
which is proper: "insatiate" or "I’ll say
she ate"?
The only anonymous letter I ever
wrote was to the lady who is now by
wife. I was 17. It was after a tiff
and I wanted her to have the impres-
sion I was galloping to the bow-wows.
So the letter told how reckless I was
becoming with life and hinted that
drink might be my ruin. The letter
came back addressed to me with this
quotation: "Keep away from those wild
soda water places."
(Copyrighted. 1924, by the Me-
Naught Syndicate, Inc.)
men of the State, including statesmen, historians and business men.
That convention not only developed a great idea from a first crude
conception, but it started the'building of a| World’s Fair, to continue
from six months to a year. It set the machinery in operation, and
raised the money to finance the initiation of the Exposition, $7500
was raised, of which Austin paid $500, and our money is now being
used. The Chamber of Commerce paid this and subsequently paid
over $600 of the expense of holding the convention. We are already
in the work for the benefit of Texas at large and incidentally for
some one city which will be the fortunate site chosen. The organiza-
tion is working every day at headquarters in Dallas.
This Texas World’s Fair is not a dream of a few enthusiasts as
some seer to suppose. It is a fact in the making. The plans include
United States government aid, as all world’s fairs have had, State
Wen the United States was eleven
years old, two men tied’ in a presi-
dential .election. They were Thomas
Jefferson and Aaron Brr. The con-
stitution provided that in such a case
the president should be chosen by the
house of representatives. And so’ the
congressmen elected Jefferson presi-
dent.. Burr, because ho came off sec-
e--ssg-san end best, was vice
There is another religious zealot who
sends me Biblical quotations from time
to time. He addresses me as “Miss."
His last one was Deut. 22:5: "The
woman shall not wear that which per-
taineth unto a man ... for all that
do so are abomination unto th© Lord
thy God."
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An ounce of screen is worth a pound
of quinine.
That cisterns are dirty
We offer thia proof;
That sludge in the bottom.
Comes off of the roof. •
Fable by Leroy Shooster
The Ambitious Crab and the Jelis
Erster .
A small but industrious crab was
wawking sideways on a errand.
"Wy dont you either go folwerds or
backwerds wile your© about -It 7” ed
a Jolies erster with a sneer.
"Wy dont you go eny ways at alz
ansered the crab without stopping, and
the crater meerly blushed.
Proving do your best and dont be
sorry.
two with guests and orators from over the country at large, as was a
first conceived. That was the original suggestion, but after the idea
was launched it grew and broadened and became a proposal to have a
world’s fair in Texas to celebrate one hundred years of achievement
and development on Texas soil.
This change in plans was finally completed and the new idea
developed at the State-wide convention at Austin under call of the
Governor on February 12. That meeting was attended by many leading
. president.
But the fight was
an close and so
intense that our
forefathers figured
out a new way to
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on account of ill
health, positively
refused to be te-
elected. •
, Miss Sherwin was
born in Clevelari,
Ohio, and attende .
public school there?
She was fitted, for
My birth is unspeakable,
An outlaw am I;
A foe to humanity-
For I am the fly.
which made 5 car go at its fastest
speed, and th© first thing Billy knew,
the top of the car- hit the top of the
shaft and he found himself oposite the
uppermost landing.
There was no need for him to get
out on this landing to see th© sur-
rounding country, for he could stand
in the elevator and see all he wished.
And what a scene lay below him and
off to the low hills on the horizon!
As he looked, he saw a whole flock of
airplanes come sailing up over the
hill from the military aviation grounds.
These bird-like machines fascinated
him more than anything else he had
ever seen in his life, for they soared,
dipped, dropped and shot straight
ahead at great speed. He never would
have tired looking at them, he thought,
but just then he heard voices and foot-
steps coming up the stairs that cir-
cled round the elevator shaft. He
knew it was the soldiers after him.
(But the soldiers will have to go
some to catch Billy now that he has
learned to run an elevator.)
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college at a private
< girls* school and
entered Welleslay,
from which she
graduated with a
B. S. degree in 1890.
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at a private school
at Boston, with a year’s study at
Oxford. England; in between the two
positions. Home responsibilities called
her back to Cleveland and she became
interested and a worker in a club of
Bohemian girls and later one of Italian
girls.
She was president of the first Con-
sumers’ League in Cleveland, which
was organized in 1900, and during this-
time the Saturday half holiday was
gained in retail stores. She was also
active in the organization and develop-
ment of many other civic and philan-
thropic organizations. During th© war
Miss Sherwin was first’ chairman of
the women's committee for Council of
National Defense in Cleveland, a mem-
ber of the mayor’s war advisory board,
later becoming chairman of the wo-
men’s committee in the State Council
of National Defense, with headquarters
at Columbus.
Since 1918 Miss Sherwin has been
a trustee of Wellesley College* She
has long been a worker in the interest
of woman suffrage. Her chief recre-
ation is her garden at her summer
home at Willoughby, Ohio, a suburb
of Cleveland.
POLITi&s
BY WILLIAM G.SHEPHERD
Sissity Page
The regular meeting of the Junior
Athaletic and Social Club was held
on Mr. Benny Pottses frunt steps
Wensday aftlrnoon, amung th© sub-
jecks discussed being weather it is a
good thing to try to tell if a book is
eny good by looking at a the pick-
tures ferst before you take It out of the
lyberry, and wich is the most er-
prizing, Mget a splinter going over a
fents or to bump into a tree wife
wawking backwerds.
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was his chance. The door of the eleva-
tor was still open. It took him but a
moment to run to it and enter the
car. It had a.sliding door and Billy
quick as a wink stuck his head against
the door, gave a push, and the door
slid shut. He had done this same
thing many times before with th© old
bam door at home.
The soldiers heard the door shut, and
ran around the tower to try to get to
it before the elevator moved, but they
were too late.
After shutting the door, Billy had
quickly taken th© handle of the lever
in his mouth, given it a pull and the
car shot upward.
Now, not knowing Just how much to
pull it, Billy had pulled It to the limit.
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BY FRANCE TPEGO
•li news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited
and also the local news published herein. All rights of public)
of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
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with suckling babies. Men in cordu-
roys and sashbelts. Men with rings
in their ears.
It is a fusing of all races. Now and
then there is a sagging figure in a
corner whose world has suddenly tele-
scoped. He or she is being turned back
at the very rim of the country from
which so much was expected.
Too, there is always a sprinkling of
those inarticulate tragedies with hearts
of gold who cannot express themselves.
Bewilderment has left them mute. But
as a.rule the immigrants are light-
hearted. They -look ’forward joyously
to being scattered to cabbage farms,
wheat fields or tenement squalor.
At eventide when the sun is bathing
the New York harbor and th© statue
of Liberty is a glinting glow tney dance
and sing. An old man with an ac-
cordian. spangles the drab life of the
island with wheezy tunes. A fiddler
squeaks a folk dance for the children.
The attendants at Ellis Island are
understanding. They know the ten-
sion. They have seen immigrants who
had endured almost a lifetime of slav-
ery arrive and, becoming suddenly
overwhelmed, go stark mad. They are
firm, but sympathetic. They know the
brusque word may stop tears.
Many who arrive and expect to step
off the boat into'the metropolis are
confused over being shunted to the
barrackslike buildings of the island.
They cannot understand English and
they get the idea they are being placed
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The Associated Pres* 1s exclusively entitled to the use for
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The new president of the.eagu® of
Women ’Voters, Miss Belle- Shey?6p
formerly first vice president of
league, is busy these days taking over
the duties aid down by Mrs'. Muif
v Wood Park, who.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People
Shorty Judge smoked 5 cigarette
made out of corn husk last Sattiday
and has bln inezzuring hie height ever
Hints to see If he is getting eny tailer,
being afraid It mite of stumped his
growth Mill more.
Bizniss and Financial. .
Artie Alixander gets 25 cents a week
for taking a cold shower every morn-
ing all winter, but he'is thinking of
raising his price to 30 cents next
winter on account of doing it all
summer for nuthing.
' . Since the Senate has not seen fit to include the 10 per cent radio
tax in the revenue bill, it has new justification for not including the
tax on telegrams in the bill.
If you’ll spend yur quinine money
'for screens you wont have to spend
your screen money for quinine.
There’s a pimple on your chin,
Theodore:
You have picked* it with a pin,
Theodore; .
Just a pimple—then we’re dead— /
Thus, in spite of all that’s said,
Dire infections often spread,
Theodore.
In the first place, a tie vote would
not mean a tie of all voters. For in-
stance, If 15,900,000 Republican votes
were cast and 15,000,000 Democratic,
this would not mean a tie. The tie
would have to come in the vote of the
electoral college. . There ar© 531 elec-
toral votes. A tie'with two candidates,
would-be Impossible, as one candidate
would be bound to secure one vote
more than the other, 531 being indivis-
ible by two.
But 531 is divisible by .three. If three
presidential candidates received 177
electoral votes each, we would have a
tie. Or of a third candidate took away
enough votes to leave the two leading
candidates tied. we would have to turn
to the twelfth amendment for help.
The house of representatives would
be asked to select a president for us.
In the voting of the house, ballots
would be cast by states, each state
being entitled to one vote. If the house
were to divid 21 to 24 and found itself
in a deadlock, it would be. given four
months in which to find a way out.
But if. by March 4, inauguration day,
our congressmen could not elect a
president for us, or a vice president,
then the duty of selecting the head of
the. government would fall onto th©
senate.
It just happens that the vice presi-
dent of the United States’ is the pre-
siding officer of the United States
senate. It would be necessary for the
senate to have a presiding officer. And
so, the constitution.-proviles that, in
case of a deadlock after March 4, the
senate may elect not a president of
the United States, but a vice president.
And this vice president, .chosen by
the senate, would act a president of
the United States until the next elec-
tion day rolled around. He would be
called the president, of course.
Thus, if we had an election day tie,
we might have to go without a vice
president for four years, but we would
not have to go without a president.
Our forefathers so arranged matters
that the White House will never be
empty.
Note: Wt's a keynoter? Mr.
Shepherd whl explain "keynoting".and
those who do it, in. his next "Little
Talk on Big Politics."
TELEPHONES
issired Ada............... Society Editor.....
The Texas State Centennial Exposition is not a simple celebration
with public speaking, parades and band music, to go on for a dayqr in prison.
pared au amend-
ment to -the con-
stitution. No. 12,
which specifically
provided for such
tight pinches.
If, by any chance,
we were to have a
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Ellis Island offers hundreds of daily
dramas. It -is the grist mill of hu-
man hopes for those who tearfully or
joyfully await at the glittering gates
of Manhattan. To every Immigrant
America is the promised land.
You see them walking up and down
in the yards straining their eyes to see
the New York skyline. There are
shawled women whose earthly posses-
sions are encompassed in a shoulder
bag. There are bareheaded women
Muriel, who is a very matter-of-
fact sort of young* person, not long
ago received a proposal of marriage
from a young man whom she had
always looked upon more as a brother
than as lover.
"Muriel,” he began, "youknow I have
always turned to you; that I have
aid, and support by funds contributed from over Texas. We will be
called on for more funds, no matter where the fair is hed. The city
chosen for the site will not finance the fair. If Austin should be
chosen, she will receive enormous benefits, but will pay only her share
of the expense,just as she "will be expected to do and will do, no
matter where it shall be held.
San Antonio, Houston and DaUas'are busy laying plans to capture
the prize. A committee of Austin citizens is very busy trying to enlist
the interest of Austin people to strongly present this city's claims.
They have outlined our campaign, and are proceeding with it partly
at their own cost for expenses, so far, for correspondence and liter-
ature. The Austin Chamber of Commerce has already drawn from its
convention fund all it can spare for this one purpose.
The interest of all the citizens of Austin needs to be aroused to
aid and support this work in order to follow up the expense already
incurred and reap its benefits.
asked with ft grin. —— .
"Nothin'—jest nothin' a tall," the
colored man answered thickly, "Ah
•as only wonderin’* whether Ah had
been bit or* stung."
DINNER STORIES |
The. colored man, passing through
the market, saw a turtle for the first
‘tme, and surveyed it with great in-
terest. The crenel re's hea4 was with-
drawn. but as the investigator fum-
bled about the shell, it shot forward
and nipped his finger. With a howl
of pain, ho stuck /his finger in his
mouth and sucked IL
Bellboys in New York hotels who
know how to get it" are reaping a big
hrvest. A reporter has found fifteen
who own their’homes, have automo-
biles andgatronize the nest tailors.
A Wall Streetbroker whose cash was
on th© wrong SNe of the falling mar-
ket is now head bellboy in one of the
big hotels and he deNares he has made
more money in six Pkonths hopping
bells than he did in tha two years
previous in Wall Street. The bellboy
today is not interested in 25 cents or
dollar tips. He is after tugger game.
He can sell an 38 bottle of Scotch for
320 so long as his supply holds out.
Death lurks In them white spats,
men! A Broadway actor is recovering
from "pneumonia. In an absent minded
moment he left the lambs for the thea-
tre without donning his accustomed
spats. A heavy cold developed into
pneumonia.
Billy was in the elevator going up to
the top of the Eiffel Tower.
They reached the first landing, and
when the man opened the door, Billy,
thinking they were, at the top shot
past.the man before He could stop him.
for he was afraid he; would take him
down before he got ft good view. So
he was dreadfully disappointed when
he found he was only on a landing
and that there were still many more
landings above. The people on this
landing tried to drive Billy back Into
the car so the man could take him
down. But Billy refused to go, and
kept running round and round the en-
closed landing, which was all glassed
in so people would not fall or jump
off. When they cam© too near Billy,
he threatened to hook them, so they
let him alone for fear of being butted
through the glass.
After they stopped chasing him, he
amused himsel by looking out of the
window on the wide panorama
stretched out before him. He was
standing where. if he turned his head,
he could see the door of the elevator
in which he had come up. Hearing
th© latch click, he turned his head
just in time to see the door open and
a couple of soldiers get out with bayo-
nets.
"They have come for me," he
thought. "But I’ll fool them."
They had not seen Billy when they
stepped out of the elevator, but had
Sweet is the rose, but grows upon
a brier;
Sweet Is the juniper, but sharp his
bough;
Sweet is the eglantine, but prlcketh
near;
Sweet- is the fir-bloom, but his
branches rough;
Sweet is the cypress, but his rind is
tough;
Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
Sweet is the broom-flower, but -yet
sour enough;
And sweet is moly, but his roqt Is ill:
So every sweet with sour is tempered
still.
That maketh it be coveted' the more;
For easy things, that may be got at
will.
Most Sorts of men do set but little
store.
Why then should I account of little
pain,
That endless pleasure shall (into me
gain?
—Edmund Spenser.
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