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I'nto him thai :::iuth the or. the
one chc.k offer aito t!:' other; and
1 im that taheth awty thy cloke for
bid not that lie t:i";e thy coat also.
Luke C:29.
You don't have to cross the river
now to get married.
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A very important thing going on
now i? spring; clothes.
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Whatever may be said of McAdoo
i he never tricked Davis.
All this water in flood'i-d
conies from the FDring.
livers
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YVbv is it moths seldom mke the!
Nothing draws forth good as much
' as to know good is expected of us.
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mistake of eating a patch?
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j In the future we will be careful
I about what we want. We are so
Wouldn't it be niee if we were an , likely to get it.
nice as we wish our friends were?
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Legislators who enn legislate and
won't legislate should be made tc
legislate.
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To the member? of the legislature:
Adjourn and go home and attend to
your spring work.
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If sh had had a wreath of arbu
tus yesterday March might easily
impersonated May.
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A cantor is one who cants. But a
canf r who can cant and wont cant
can't be made to cant.
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We still maintain almost any man
can make a success if he has enough
chances to practice on.
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There are about 5.000 different
languages in the world, all of them
being spoken by money.
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Scuth America is showing prog
r ss. Chile has just deported five
former government officials.
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A foreigner admits he paid $500
to be smuggled into .America. We
admit he got a good bargain.
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Tleent discoveries indicates the
Indian built up a great civilization
before realizing it wasn't much use.
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If wo work here as well as we can,
we shall be equipped to begin work
ther at the other end of the
bridge.
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Dawes is the first vice president
this country ever had who swore
himself into office.
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Another sure sign of spring is
when you wonder if you hear a saw
mill or a mosquito.
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As long as their are bitter jeal
ousies in the democratic party, we
cannot expect success.
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Scientists say they can overcome
war as they have disease. The two
are just about the same.
Never let a seed store cheat you.
If you are buying wheat there are
55 0,000 seeds in a bushel.
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The fifth annual announcement of
the death of jazz has been made by
the New York Music League.
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A .Boston doctor has an apparatus
to sober up drunks. But drunks may
claim that's a waste of bootleg.
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That Just because you have no an
cestor worth bragging about is no
reason why your descendant's should
not have any.
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The trouble with the bungalow ia.
there isn't any attic to put father's
old fishing hat in and the crayon
portraits of the family ancestors.
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The president will devote a long
vacation from the cares of the con-
gressional session to a study of the
I problem of government. All things
The flapper is passe. Now she is are rciative even vacations.
the bungalow crirl. She has shingles
on the top, paint cn the sides and
nothing in the attic.
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We ?re abov.t to witness the an
nual struggle fcr supremacy b-tween
the perfume on the lady and the per
fume on the flowers.
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With the resigation of Rush L.
Holland the last of the Daugherty
clique disappears from the depart
ment of justice. Attorney General
Sargent is off to a good start.
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American cities can't seat all their
Bf"Tir(-1 rhillren savj n tioth- ftr-m
The Russell Sage Foundation op-' If gach gcbool wouM buiM 8Qme gort
poes child marriages. We trust par- of & rQof Qver Us tadium the prob.
errs will place this fact in evidence WQU,d be solved for yearg to
before children threatening main
mcny.
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come.
Grayheads may ponder the p"ob-j
leni of the influence of the sex ele-
ment on juries, but a 16-year-old;
girl defendant in a murder case :
hopes for an all-male panel.
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You handle nothing well, when
your're angry. Neither i3 there any
butter for your parsnip in being able
to boast of the cute smart-alec
things you said to somebody in an
argument.
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Two million years hence, says a
zoologist, man will have a huge, I Mussolini is ill and some Italians
dome-shapped head, and hardly any- j surest that a triumvirate should
thing else. And another scientist ' take over the government. Moral:
sa-s that the human brain is grow-;. You should so live and think that
ine smaller. If vou'll just average i when 'ou are 111 lt wi take at leaEt
th-?e two statements, vou'll get near : thrce men to fiil J"our Pce. If a
enough to the truth for all practical . triumvirate should be appointed to
purposes.
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carry on Mussolini's work the inci
dent would represent the greatest
Let tne wise men scoff. Let the compliment yet paid tne dictator.
doubters doubt. The proof of the :o:
pudding is in the realization of Its Enpland clings to her laur-
correctness. The groundhog taretoia " .f,- , -
a
sr-rinsr. Erero. the pro
prophet to be respected. He must'opped a nve nonar go.a piece in
be without honor even in Ms , e pmie at "iuu, ""'"s
i a penny. The following day he
It really isn't hard to explain the
frequentcy with which public men
call newspaper reporters liars. The
whole trouble lies in the great dif
ference between the written and the
spoken word. Perhaps you have ob
served it. The ordinary conversa
tion, printed verbatim would be dis
owned by the talkers. People speak
one language and write another.
Without the connivance of the re
porters, few spellbinders could sur
vive their own assaults of the Eng
lish language. If a reporter has a
grudge against public men and wants
to get even with them, he has no
better way of avenging himself than
printing one of his enemy's speeches
without changing a single sentence
or word.
There are exceptions to this rule,
but most men who bear the name of
being good speakers, were "made" by
reporters.
This is all more or less true, but
it doesn't explain what we started
out to explain, which is the frequen
cy with which public men repudiate
statements attributed to them by
newspapers. They don't do this to
get reporters in trouble. Sometimes
they are quite sincere in their belief
that they have been misquoted. They
start out to make a speech and from
that time on they are the victims of
their audiences. Some theme upon
which they have intended to touch
lightly strikea a responsive chord
and the orator automatically changes
his plans, harking back again and
again to the subject which seems to
be popular.
Hypnotized by his own eloquence,
he says things in the heat of the mo
ment which sound fine. His hearers
applaud and he goes home in a fine
glow. The next day he picks up the
paper and is shocked and dismayed to
see himself misquoted, as having
said things which he knows are un
wise, no matter how fine they may
have sounded. Then he turns to his
notes, and proves to himself that the
objectionable statements were not a
part of his speech, as he had outlined
it.
By that time he is convinced that
he has been misquoted and unjustly
treated. When the time arrives for
him to repudiate the remarks attrib
uted to him, he honestly believes
that he has been made the victim of
a deliberate attempt . to Injure him.
So he has- no compunction about
branding the report as false and the
reporter as either inaccurate or crim
inal. In 9 9 cases out of every 100 it is
the speaker and not the reporter,
who is mistaken. No good reporter
ever deliberately misquotes a man.
In no other profession In the world
is accuracy so essential, or so scrup
ulously observed, as among newspa
per reporters.
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HELPING COMPETITORS
Cal's official residence is no longer
m eariv spring and th-re is an early . a
tho prrnmli, ia a there. A man iu Middletown, Conn ,
not
own country.
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'went to the church treasurer and i
i i
Cross-word puzzles have caused j ciaimed it. l ne cnurcn cierh. was
the dust to be wiped from diction-j in favor of keeping the $5, anyhow,
arics and this book now occupies a : but the treasurer gave it back to its.
prominent place upon the center ta- owner, who was so gratified that he
ble of the average American home. gave the oficial a quarter "for your'
A plan that would cause the Bible to j honesty." If that bird ever gets to j
be brought forth and read more of-! heaven there will be an epidemic of:
ten would no doubt prove of benefit. I apoplexy among the angels. j
The world no doubt needs more of! :o:
th brand of religion that was dis- The democratic party lacks aj
posed some fifty years ago. whole lot of being dead. The prin-
:o: ciples of the party were not made to j
New postal law increases the rate j die. We have not forgotten tne cte
of souvenir and all other private j feat of Horace Greeley ia 1872. Then
mailing cards from one card to two
cents, beginning April 15. Informa
tion reaching postal authorities is
that many business firms who hore-
a howl went up that the party was
dead. At the next election in 1874
the country went democratic in a
whoop and the democrats had a big
Although the Dawes plan has been
in effective operation enly a few
months the backfire from it is al"
ready heard in this country. Ameri
can business and industrial inter
ests supported enthusiastically and
generously the German loan floated
here as an effective part of the plan.
They appreciated fully that one-half
of the world could net enjoy sus
tained prosperity if the other half
were prostrate. They were easily
convinced that the way to help them
selves was to help German'.
Today some of them are so sure
already they are meeting German
goods in competition in expert mar
kets and finding themselves at a dis
advantage; not so much as a result
of lower price offers by German, how
ever, as because of the long term
credits German merchants are able
to extend solely as a result of recent
borrowings in this country. The
American loan, in other words, has
fortified German industry so well fi
nancially that it is better able to ex
tend credits than are many of its
American competitors who subscrib
ed to the loan. It is getting busi
ness at their expense.
That is but one of the many un
pleasant effects of the reconstruction
in Europe which will appear during
.he next decade or two. The burden
it debt and reparations payment in
evitably will weigh heavily upon the
nations committed to such payments,
but the nations standing to receive
them will also feel the adverse ef
fects of these international, commer
cial and industrial adjustments.
Before the war obligations are fin
ally paid much serious consideration
will be given to the question of
whether in the end their collection
was worth while
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tnfnre have made their own Drivate i malorirv in congress. And in 1&76, ;
mailing cards will buy one cent post-j you remember the fraud played on!
als, print their advertisements there-j Samuel J. Tilden, who was fairly i
on and thus escape an extra cent cn j elected president. Oh, no, don't think:
postage. In view of this fact, it is , for a moment the democratic party is (
stated, the government print shop is dead or that it will ever die. It has
making ready to turn out extra mil-' gone through too many hard fights to .
lions of postal cards to meet the ex- die now. Democracy is bound to eur-'
pected increase in demand. vive forever and erer. !
Young McClintock was left an or
phan in Chicago with a couple of
million dollars which made it cer
tain enough that he would die
young. If you know anything about
Chicago you will understand that
the state is trying to find out how,
not why, he died.
Wheat prices
tendency.
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1:00 P. EOT.
We are stocked with used cars and they n
Spring Housecleaning. Between 50 and 60
under the hammer to the highest bidder.
move. This is our big
ood used cars to be sold
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The cars to be sold include 35 Ford Cars and Trucks, one Oakland,
one Elgin, two Chevrolets, two Overlamls, one Dort, one Buick, two
Oldsmobiles and several others.
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Also one For dson tractor, one Oliver plow, one horse drawn plow, one
tractor binder hitch, one tractor steering device, new Oliver cultipack
er, one pair Oliver breaker bottoms for tractor plow, one Amsco cul
tivator, one motorcycle, side car, one truck body and many smaller
articles. Also team of mules and other live stock together with a few
odd tires. This will be a sale well worth attending.
You Buy Them 'at
Your
own
Unusual Liberal Offer
Anyone having: a car they wish to sell may
sell it at this sale FREE OF CHARGE and
have the proceeds applied on the purchase
price of a New. Ford Car or Truck.
$19 Gasoline Book
FREE
To the person who pays the most money
for a Car or Truck at this Auction Sale.
Terms One-Half Cash, Convenient Terms on Balance!
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EX YO.UNQ, Auctioneer
