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THE STATESMAN
HURSI
Defectives Secure
EDITORIAL
TWO BILLS AND
director of negro economics
“A ROMAN
Haul Made Today
VETOES ONE:
In other
on negro economics and employment.
REASONS
38
the
Governor Hobby today signed
Exclusive
as the inoral law. Among other things not but prove interesting.
Inmate is Dead
Wooldridge by
Resolution
Past Week
SHOE CO.
610 CONGRESS AVE.
jection may very likely be shared by many other
are always in need of labor and who find it d:ffi
Tomorrow
win
A WOMAN ’S TESTIMONY
MORTUARY.
MRS. AGNES ROSE BOEHME.
Personals
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MARRIGE LI ENSIS.
RIAL ESTATE TH ANSFERS.
FIFTY-THIRD DISTRICT COURT.
Seventeen New
and
Members Join
required to re;
not
he
influenza to tl
Lion’s Club
Past Week
L,
ASTHMA
/INSTANTLY RELIEVED WITH
Teterm2.
OR MONEY REFUNDED ASK ANY ORSGISI
t _ .
if
ASTHMADOR
Following Fight
With His Mates
Longhorns Will
PlayS.M.U.on
Clark Field
Modern Praetorians
Council No. 2 Installs
Officers With Program
eult to pay union wages or adopt union time scales.
Congressman Blanton contends that the statute
creating the Department of Labor decreed that it
was to function in the interest of all wage-earners.
The language of the statute seems to bear him out.
But it would hardly be surprising to discover
that the department is very friendly toward or-
that
will-
DAILY HEALTH TALK
GOING BACK TO NATURE
Lemon Juice is
Skin Beautifier,
Also a Whitener
'i
J. W. McCutcheon of Taylor is reg-
istered at the Avenue Hotel.'
Austin screens, with the result
Charley is back this week in a
lion dollar production.
The Lions Club does things.
Concho River Rises
4 Feet at San Angelo
made at the special session of the Leg-
islature and in the meantime he urges
co-operation of physicians of the State
in gathering data on the sleeping sick-
ness
WIDELY KNOWN
SCHOOL MAN TO
SPEAK TONIGHT
Reei
pieture
ert Ha
COURTHOUSE
PROCEEDINGS
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JUST A FEW FACTS.
CHAILIE
ix “SH
CR
want the clothing-
but an inspection"
M. M. Reese of Marlin, well known
here, is registered at the Avenue Ho-
tel today.
I
CuticuraSoap
----anC Ointment for----
Skin Troubles
Colored Asylum Navy Gets Four Council Honors
Inmate is Dead Austin Men In Wooldridge by
An Appreeia
men, particularly the farmers of this section who
] GOVERNOR SIGIS Austin
Many Articles In Big
AS drugzinta: 8
rt sleeping sickness or
1 State Health Depart-
B. M. Await of Dallas is a business
visitor in Austin and stopping at the
Avenue Hotel.
they would I
all of It—back.
I
The Longhorn baseball team
The Seotmasters Association of
Austin will I have its regular meeting
this afternoon at headquarters.
The fire company made a needless
run to Second and Colorado Streets
yesterday evening about 6 o’clock, al-
though whoever turned in the alarm
evidently feared danger from fire. The
firemen found a few spinach crates in
/lames. “Only this and nothing more.”
Additional Cases Of
Illness Are Reported
MT
whieh
mlay ■
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1919.
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vided by Nature to overcome consi
pation. and he had these vegetablei
collected and made up of Mayapple
leaves of Aloe, root of Jalap, Into nttu
white sugar-coated pills, that ho calle
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pelleta. Yoi
must understand that when your in
testinen are stopped up, potsons ant
Captain J. H. Rogers left today for
El Paso, where he will attend a term
of the United States District Court.
of the "haul" can
Not. perhaps, because
Charles‘F. Adkins and wife to A. M.
Roman, lot 22 in College Court, wun
improvements: consideration. $4369.
Dated March 31,1919.
BY DR. W. LUCAS.
People get sick because they gi
away from Nature, and the only was
to get well is to go back. something
grows out of the ground in the form
of vegetation to cure • almost ever
ill. Some of these vegetable Erowt
are understood by man, and some art
not. Animals, it would seem. know
what to do when they are sicK bet-
ter than men and women. ODserver
have noted thet a sick horse, dog 0!
cat will stop eating feed and scel
out some vegetable growth in the
field or yard, which, when found ane
eaten. often restores appetite an
health. Haven't you seen these an!
mala do this very thing yourself?
Dr. Pierce of Buffalo, N. X. lon
promise, according to report, for in a
few minutes he seized a mop and hit
another of the colored inmates who
ha assisted in confining him, accord-
ing to an eye witness. One of the at-
tendants rushed up and grappled with
him, throwing him to the ground and
several of the inmates ran up and
E PAGE FOUR
is a negro; Dr.
Spring
Models
When you look at the
new presentation of Dil-
lingham’s Footwear for
Spring you are going to
be impressed with the
smart styles—the loveli-
■ess of our large variety
of strictly authentic mod-
els of what is really cor-
rect for women who cart*.
However, so that our
Shoes are correct in every
sense, we show a wide
range of prices—
$6, $7, $8 and
Up to $12.50
DILLINGHAM
V. Lampson, vice president or
Ed Granger (colore), an inmate of
the State Lunatic Asylum, near Hyde
Park, died last night as a result of an
altercation with some of the other in-
mates early in the afternoon.
At noon Granger began making
trouble by throwing bread around the
dining hall, it was stated. He refused
to stop and was locked up in a cell
Upon his promise to be “good'' he was
later released. He did not keep his
jumped on him with their feet. An-
other attendant came to the rescue and
order was restored. Granger was
badly bruised and cut about the head
and face and was removed to the hos-
pital. where his injuries were dressed.
About 6 o’clock in the evening he
ded and the attending physician
ascribed the probable cause to the
bursting of a blood vessel in his brain.
Judge Matt M. Johnson held the in-
aquest and after hearing the evidence
concern ingthe case rendered a verdict
that the man was killed as the result
of injuries inflicted by two or more of
the inmates, who were exonerated of
any blame for the occurrence. The
blame was laid upon the authorities
of the institution.
Judge Johnson said the occurrence
was only the third or fourth that had
called him out there since he has held
office and stated that the order in the
asylum is unusually good for such an
institution.
Telegraphic advices to the district
water engineer of the United States
geological survey was to the effect that
a four-foot rise was coming down
the Concho river at Han Angelo. Ths
strearr flows into the Colorado.
TWRN’TY-SIX’TH DISTRICT COURT
reception by the Lions, who The business meeting which fol-
and bugle corps play ed so well -that
many persons thought thes 132d Field
Artillery Regiment had arrived
was parading.
decayed matter are imprisoned ii
your system, and these are carried b
the blood throughout your body. Thu
does yor" head ache, you get dizz}
you can t sleep, your skin may bre
out, your appetite declines, you Ge
tired and despondent. As a matter o
fact, you may get sick all over. Don*
you see how useless all this sufferi
is? All that is often needed is a fel
of Dr. Pierce’s Pleamnt Pellets, wlc
he has placed in all drug stores fo
your convenience and health. Tn
them by all means. They are prob
ably the very thing you need riK!
■WK <
Hix additional cases of sleeping sick-
ness in Texas have been reported to
the State Health Department. Five
were reported from Galveston, where
they had come from different parts
of the State. and one came from Nolan
County. Seven cases have been re-
ported thus far
Physicians, under the law. are nob
A jury is being selected to try the
case of Cal Bonner vs. K. C. Clinger
Mrs. Ettie Warren, a farmer’s wife
of Emmittsburg, Md., openly declares
how she has found health through
reading a newspaer advertisement of
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com-
pound. So great is her relief after
fifteen years of suffering that she
asks to have this information pub-
lished.—Adv.
Haynes, a university man.” He said further that
The High School cadet, corps under
Captain Ray Holder and, Captain
Lochwitsky paraded up , the avenue
this morning and had a picture made
in front of the Capitol. The drum
from the Lions Club to the good roada
meeting in Mineral Wells. This was
done with much enthusiasm and the
presideht, J. H. Tobin, will represent
the Lions at the forthcoming conven-
tion.
You have noticed, no doubt , that
Charlie Chaplin is back?
Well, the Lions brought him to
Austin admirers.
About two weeks ago a committee
was appointed to find out why Charley
Chaplin was not seen any more on
lowed the luncheon was presided over
by President John H. Tobin. Occa-
sion was taken by D. F. Colp to call
for the vice president . to take the
chair, that he might call down the
Seventeen new members have been
•■rolled in the Lions Club during the
paat -month, according to the report
made at the meeting of the club at
luucheon at the Cactus Tea Room
Charlie
a,doughbo
visualised
"Sholder
tyre at th
day .also
The Irr
against b
meg grat
of havoc
venient F
of the rat
as a prot
to catch
get his fil
when he
is fastene
soap traj
accessorie
are put,
the first
f erent the
were mar
A phon
possible r
that thee
war, and
bursting
is not cc
ume of t<
fire. A t
and he <
the phon
from dro
sleep wit
An egg
a multitu
ment foi
The naval recruiting office accepted
four men from Austin during the past
week. Among these was James
Tousely, who was enlisted as- an ap-
prentice seaman. He had been over-
seas with the army for seven months,
and had only been home for four
days, when he decided to go with the
navy.
The other recruits are: Ben Mel-
lendez, Vivian B. Farwell and Robert
E. ’Maddox. All were sent as appren-
tice seamen.
W. A. Harper states that he is fall-
ing behind in his quota of recruits
for the hospital corps. He wants to
secure at least one each week. and
says that special advantages of pay
and training aare offered just now
in this service.
declared the new members were all
"good ones."
They are:
Judge Nelson Philips, Chief Justice
Supreme Court.
Judge Leon Bonfield, Associate Jus-
tice state Court.
Dr. C. W. Goddard of State Health
Department.
J. W. Baker. State Treasurer,
Bruce Bryant, Superintendent Pub-
lic Buildings and Grounds.
Dr. W. A. Hamlett, pastor of First
Baptist Church.
C. L. Carter, agent for the Overland.
Lee Costley, real estate agent and
loan®.
W, H. Dodson of the Quality Mills.
W K. Hitzgerald, auditor of the
Railroad Commission.
O. G. Hotheinz, real estate agent.
H. B Lee, coffee roaster.
A. W. McDonald, agent Remington
typewriter.
Judge Dave Pickle. County Judge
W M Seymour, steward Country
Club.
A. K. Hancock, electrical supplies.
bill providing for ths establishment
of an industrial welfare commission
to regulate the employment of women
and miners and to establish a mini-
mum wage for them.
Duties of Board.
The commission is to be composed
of the head of the bureau of labor
statistics, the representative of em-
ployers of labor on the industrial ac-
cident board and the State Superin-
tendent .of Public Instruction. It shall
be the duty of the commission to in-
vestigate conditions under which wom-
en and children under 15 years of ase
work in various industries and at a
public hearing to establish as a min-
imum a wage adequate to supply em-
ployes with cost of proper living. No
order of tle commission shall become
effective until Nov. 1, 1919.
Important Bills. Signed.
The bill prohibiting the granting of
injunctions to stop drilling for min-
erals upon land adjacent to that of
party seeking injunction also was
signed.
Vetoes for Correction.
The Governor vetoed the bill pro-
posing more rigid rstrictions around
livestock commission merchants. He
says the measure in its present shape
would work a hardship upon legiti-
mate firms and that he will submit
the issue at the special session in or-
der that defects in the. present bill
may be remedied.
Many women, use just the juice of
lemons to bleach or whiten the skin,
but pure lemon juice la acid, therefore
irritating, and should be mixed with]
orchard white. I
At the cost of a small jar of ordinary!
-old cream one can prepare a full quar-
ter pint of the most wonderful lemon
•kin softener and complexion beaut!-I
fier, by squeezing the juice of two
Cresh lemons into a bottle containing
three ounces of orchard white. Care
should be taken to strain the juice
through a fine cloth so no lemon pulpl
gete in, then this lotion will keep fresh]
for months. Every woman knows that
lemon juice is used to bleach and re-
move such blemishes as freckles sal]
owness and tan, and is the ideal skin]
softener, smoothener and beautifier. I
Just try it! Get three ounces of]
orchard white at any pharmacy and
make up a quarter pint of this sweet-
ly fragrant lemon lotion and massage
it daily into the face, neck, arms and
hands. It should naturally help to
bring back to any ekin the whiteness,
the sweet fresh news and flexibility of
which it has been robbed by careless-
nes or trying atmopheric conditions. I
this director is “adviser to the secretary of labor
the American Federation of Teachers,
is a guest in Austin today and will
speak at the Junior High School at 8
o’cloc kthisevening. His address woll
be expressly to the school teachers
of the city .but anyone elese who is
Interested is welcome to attend.
Dr. Lampson’s address will be rela-
tive to organization among teachers.
He has been making addresses recently
in the various cities of the state and
has a message of much interest to
his hearers.
I have •<
have Been i
not a churc
than any I e
art that air
standing, it
ful.
Reluctant
Griffith’s a
Los Angeles
Romance of
to see the
for I had n
priety.
The inter
constructed
down flow
The pews
having ser
many timet
•imply and
a one as I
that day I
la a little
to one side
that had a
a brave, stt
choir, two
seated neai
I bad see
Mr Griffit!
ing and ta
Mr. Griffit
the story
part with a
ing sanctu
often visit<
the "set’’ t
Over the
They entei
spirit of pe
estness see
room.
Then the
o fhe mil
seemed so
Griffith st
words be *
I stayed
acene was
it was Ian
can only d<
certainly 1
Griffith w
Robert Ha
playing th
. beautiful, 1
There wee
players wl
_ tears in ml
When th
a then we Ci
. umphant
noble wort
of what W
l saw tei
w wonderful
। rusader.
That wi
[ forget tha
- of what ar
L fith’s art
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be the 8
Theater Co
president Among other arraignment!
Mr. C’olp spoke of the many meetings
Mr. Tobin had been holding in the
county lately, which caused his stay- muuenza,"a.mne "’■** he2n.pepa w
ln« out late o’ nights. For this he mens but State Health Offcer C. W
moved th.it John H. ’Tobin be "pen- foddard says etforts to. have these
allzed" by being appointed delegate two. diseaes made repcrfable..wil! be
gnniz.it ion programs. Considering that Secretary
William B. Wilson was for eight years international
secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of
America and that, according to the Congressional
Directory, he “has taken an active part in trades-
union affairs from early manhood. As a matter of
fact. Secretary Wilson became a member of the
United Mine Workers in 1873, just 21 years after
he was born in Scotland.
Considering also that the chief clerk of the De-
partment of Labor is Samual J. Gompers, son of
the president of the American Federation of Labor.
The younger Gompers has served in the depart-
ment as long as Mr. Wilson himself, having entered
it as “Chief of the division of publications and
supplies.” •
Mrs. Jennie Mills is in receipt of
some photographs from her youngest
son, Harry Southgate, who is in the
artillery with the army of occupa-
tion.
found, hewever, were four pistol,
sevena flashlights, a quantity of Sil-,
verwar, spoons, knives and fork® suf-,
ficient to supply a large baaquet, nap-,
kins, tablecloths, shirts, handerchiefs, 11
thirty silver and leather purses, ninel
pairs of glasses, mostly of the nose,
ilesign, two overcoats, one bein al
dandy, comparatively new, two good
Iath robes, one diamond ring, five I
others with different kinds of set-
tings, etc., etc., ad infinitum.
Believe Arrest Is Important.
The city detectives who ot in the
good work this morning are of the
opinion that the cohsiderable number :
of thefts that have been going on in ।
the vicinity of the State University
will stop short of. Many items are be-
lieved to have come from that partic-
ular section of the city, while some
are thought to have been taken from
some of the rooms in the university
buildings.
“Chloroform Pump.”
An apparatus was exhibited by De-
tective Stubbs which works something
on the order of a pump with which
a bicycle tire is tilled with air. He
stated that this piece of mechanism
was for spraying chloroorm into
roms where those using it may think
it necessary in order not to awake the
sleepers afterward. Indeed, a motley
array of article® of all descriptions
and kinds were lying in the office of
the chief of police when viewed short-
ly after noon. People who have been
missing things from their homes
might do well to call by the city hall
and ascertain if their goods are there.
Special to The Statesman. |
—ROCKDALE, Texas, April 3.— Mrs
Agnes Roso Boehme died Friday
March 28, at the home of her adopted
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Helmek:
of this city. I
Mrs. Boehme was born in Milani
County on June 1. 1817, and is sur
vived by a husband and three children]
The body was laid to rest in the
family burial ground at Gay Hill. I
for breach of contract. The plaintitt
alleges that the defendant tailed to -•wont. nr,
furnish him with the necessary tools, since found the herbsandroot5.Pr
etc., for worikng the farm of the de-
fondant.
Newspeers in Munich must hereafter belong to
their employes, to the city or to the State. If any
of them have Bourgeois opinions they “will not
A resolution which recited the long
services of Mayor A. P. Wooldridge
to the city* of Austin was introduced
this morning at* the meeting of the
city council by Commissioner E. C-
Bartholomew. Commissioner P. W.
Powell presided over the meeting tor
a while, and both he and Commis-
sioner Bartholomew made speeches
following the reading of the resolu-
tion.
A provision of the resolution called
for a change in the name of the Dam
boulevard to Wooldridge avenue. The
vote was unanimous in favor of the
adoption of the resolution. It was par-
ticularly appropriate that these two
commissioners should have this part
in the tribute to the service Mayor
Wooldridge has rendered the city. They
have both served with him for ten
years in the council and with him
they- will retire from office after ths
present term expires.
writes: “I was suffering for eight
years from pain in the back and could
not do any of my work, bt since I
have taken Foley Kidney Pills I can
do.,,all of my work,” Foley Kidney
Pills have given relief to thousands
who suffered from Riney or bladder
trouble. Try them. Sold everywhere.
, Adv.
MUNICH'S FREE PRESS.”
words, be is not connected with the employment
service, unless incidentally, although carried on its
salary estimate. • '
To quote Densmore exactly:
“That (the salary item) is carried now and has
been carried all the time on our payroll as some
other items have; that is Dr. Haynes in the Secre-
tary » office. He is director of negro economics in
the Department of Labor and paid from our appro-
priation. ” '
Mr. Densmore said further: “We have a good
many negro officers and negro field officers.
We presume this Dr. Haynes is the man referred
to by Mr. Kirby at New Orleans. According to the
Associated Press, Mr. Kirby said that when asked
by the Federal Department of Labor to advise
with their representatives relative to conditions in
his section, he expressed his willingness to advise
with the white agents of the department. “But,”
he said, “when it became a question of going into
conference with the black official handling the col-
ored economics, I declined."
On March 4 Congressman Thomas L. Blanton,
who is fairly well acquainted in Austin, had read
into the Congressional Record this item’from the
Denison Labor Journal of February 22:
“Colored women form newest Denison Union.
“Friday night of last week Miss Myrtle Berry,
organizer for the Texas Federation of Labor, ad-
dressed quite a number of colored women at Tabo-
rian Park hall and succeeded in organizing a culi-
nary and domestic union among them, with a mem-
bership of about 33 members. They seemed very
much pleased with Miss Berry’s address, as she
made it very plain to them that they were in need
of an organization.” .
Congressman Blanton also read into the Record
a telegram sent by him to the San Antonio Express
in which he charged that men in the Federal serv-
ice were unionizing negroes in the cities.
Perhaps Mr. Kirby objects to this. Perhaps he
is not enthused over such efforts as “making it very
plain” to cooks and other negro domestics “that
SUFFERED FOR EIGHT YEARS
Rheumatic pains, lame trick, sore
muscles and stiff joints most frequent-
ly can be traced to overworked, weak
or disordered kidneys. Daisy Bell, R.
F. D. 3. Box 234, Savannah, Ga.,
Reuben T. Trtinez and Ester
Laughon.
J. Medlock and May Kauffman.
The case of Eva Lyons vs Mattie
Lovingood for 110.000 damages for
alienation of the affections of her hus-
band, is still on trial. The defense
placed four or five witnesses on the
stand this morning, among" them a
Mrs. Thompson and Mary Scott. The
deefndant herself took the stend and
is still testifying this afternoon. There
will be several other wtnesses for
the deefne, and the taking of testi-
mony will probably continue through-
out tomorrow.
have the right to make political utterances.”
This is as much as to say that whether the
papers choose syndicalism or State Socialism they
will get State Socialism. If a paper is given to its
employes and those employes hold anti-Socialistic
opinions, the paper will not be allowed to com-
ment on political matters.
Napoleon went fairly far in censorship of the
French press—so far that he gave journalism a
great setback—but .not this far. The New Free-
dom—the communistic, Sparticidal freedom — has
the old autocracy distanced in disciplining the
press. "
Mark Twain is the writer who has
told us of the “ounce nt rated” busi-
ness man, but if appearance® as re-
ported by the police department prove
correct that department haa line of
the moat "concentrated'' lifter of
things in general who has graced the
city jail for some time past.
Stray Shoes Were Found.
About 8 o’clock this morning a tel-
ephone message reached police head-
quarters from the home of Mrs. Hop-
kins, 2302 Guadalupe Street, statinz
that a pair of men’s shoe® had been
found under a window, evidently left
there by some one who had intended
to burglarize the house, and who had
been frightened away by the milk man
when he came about 5 o'clock this
morning.
Trail Taken Up.
Cite Detectives Nitschke, Stubbs and
Colley repaired to the acme imme-
diately and took charge of the foot-
wear. Then began a "bloodhound"
chase by wily oficers. They followed
the sock-prints to 404 West Twenty-
third Street. The prints were lost at
the rear door of that place and the
officers entered. There they foun
John Russell, colored, together with
his wife and a brother-in-law, Fred
Yell, as he gav his name, and both
of the men were- arrested and locked
in the city bastile. Yell, who returned
from France, it is said, in February,
was still wearing his full overseas
uniform.
A Medley of Article#.
The trio of officers ’ mentioned
searched the premises at 108 Ea-
Twenty-fifth Street and found bo
many and such a varied array of ar-
ticles that a full list would be as long
meet the S. M, U. team on Clark Field
for a two - game series Friday and
Saturday, beginning at 4 p. m. The
game with Southwestern in George-
town was postponed until May 5 on
account of the rain.
The Dallas boys who play hereto-
morrow usually have a fairly goo
team and it should bring forth the
beat basebail effort that Billy Disch
can produce to put thia series behind
the team as victories.
they are in need of an organization.” But his ob-
Theme members were all given a
in connection with the spp.ch of John H. Kirby
at New Orleans Wednesdrg’a few facts of record
may be interesting.
Mr. Kirby spoke of the Federal Department of
Labor sending “black and white” emissaries to
organze the labor of the South — black labor as
well as white.
In the debate in Congress over the appropria-
tion asked for the U. S. Employment Service the
payroll of that service's administrative officers was
produced and read into the “Congressional Rec-
ord.'’ Incidentally this salary list totaled $861,214.
It included these items:
“Director, negro economics, $4,380; assistant di-
rector, negro economics, $1,740; supervisor of negro
economics (2), $1,740 (for each), $3,480 (for
both).”
Director Densmore of the employment service
Mid, in answer to Congressman Byrnes, that the J
guz, THE RAISING OF THE BANNER.
Fbro serve under leaders who seem without
fixed and confident purpose; to be led forward,
then backward, then to one side and finally
parched off the field; to see their objectives with-
in grasp and then be led away from them; to have
puany commanders shouting to them, each calling a
different way--
i This would cause any body of soldiers to fret,
jo be puzzled, and anxious.
: It is not remarkable that such leadership in the
field of polities has proved irksome to many meu
land that thousands of voters are “fed up” on
following the ensigns of expediency.
And they are “fed up.” He who doubts may
talk with the farmer of the cotton situation, with
the business man of the government’s handling of
ahe railroads, with the lawyers of any one of half
X dozen isms sponsored by high public officials,
Dr with anybody, anywhere, of the Burlesonization
■of the wire lines.
The raising of the banner of principle on the
ypolitical battlefield will cause many troubled
hearts to leap with new strength. Many eyes will
test gratefully upon it which have been tired by
attaining after the erratic emblems we now are
prying to follow.
;> That banner will be raised because the people
wil-hve it so. They will not commit direction
of public affairs to any party of uncertain purpose
or doubtful principles. They will not permit the
politicians to make the platform of their domi-
nant party a crazy-quilt of fads and fancies.
♦ An alignment on fundamentals is imperative
and political leaders who do not realize this will
find themselves divested of their leadership.
Another one of those mighty “tides”—we have
heard much of several lately—is running. It is
stronger than the tide of proscription or the tide
o£ radicalism. It is different, too, for it never
ebbs very long in this country and the country
is safest when it rises highest. It is the tide of
'American sanity.
! “The Democratic party is dead,” declares one
writer. And another says there is no party in
this country adhering to Jefferson’s doctrines.
These statements, however nearly they approach
a truth, obscure a greater truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once criticised the Dem-
ocratic party on the alleged ground that its lead-
ers were not so safe as the Republican leaders,
but, he added, its principles were so greatly to
be preferred to those of any other party that all
men of thought and genius would he attracted
to it. Whether there is, officially a Democratic
party any longer or pot, there is a body of Demo-
crats in this country, stronger than the following
of any political organization. Some of them are
"collar-Democrats" and some are not, but all are
believers in Jeffersonian principles.
It is this Democratic majority which wil hail
the raising of the ever-victorious banner — the
banner of principle in politics and sanity in state-
craft—and will follow it to a new victory, a vie-
tory which will bring metnal rest as well as politi-
cal peace, freeing from anxiety the great numbc r
of American lovers of Constitutional government
who now watch the strange and often alarming
antics of party leaders and ask themselves daily:
“What next!”
Officers were installed by Council
No. 2 of the Modern Order of Prae-
torians last Wednesday evening at the
auditorium in the Wks’ building.
After the installation ceremony an
entertainment program was given
consisting of the following:
“Dolly Hong,” Miss Page Marie
Moore.
"America, My Country,” recitation,
Miss Agnes Nemir.
I’ve Got the Mumps," pianologue.
Miss Dorothy Dumars.
Selected solo, T. L. Bradley.
Hawaiian dance in ostume. Miss
Helen Odell and Miss Corinne John-
son.
Mrs. L. E. Krebs was presented with
a silver mesh wrist bag in apprecia-
tion of her care for influenza victims
during the epidemic. Refreshments
were served and dancing enjoyed after
the program. •
The officers installed were the same
as those printed in these columns sev-
eral days ago.
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