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THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1926.
The Polk County News ?
Published Weekly by The News Publishing Company .
LOUIS LEHMAN, Editor
*3 it?*i i at th j p >st > fije at Try >n, M. C, as second class mail matter under
act of Congress j
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REDUCING THE" COST Or IjOCAL GOVERNMENT
Mark Twain is credited with the remark that tihere Is a
great deal said about the weather but very little |done about it.
Is not this applicable to the cost of local and state government? I
Economy in federal administration wilW hot alone bring the
maximumcof satisfaction to a tax-ridden people. Aftfer all, the
greatest cost cf government is local, and it is straining penniesj and
swallowing' dollars to sit idly by and think that the mere |
reducticn ol' national expenditures by congressional ajnd parlia-j
montary action will turn the trick for prosperity. ;
Local and state governments are awakening t6 find inequali-j .
tic- an.; extravagance, and no one doubts that they exist. The
Sta.e lax Commission in Indiana has made a decided decrease m
state ex, enses. T. e members of that commission study the lax ?
probWi in its reliction to the cost of government^ and then the j
necessary machinery is set in motion to correct thej evils and
repair the leaks.
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THE GREAT OPEN SPACES
People who live on the farms and in the towns and villages
hear as strange language the appeals for better housing facilities ^
and living conditions for those in the tenement-crowded cities,
fiuman emotions are set afire by the stories of children who i
cari i, KlnHp nf crass or hear the song of a bird. | t
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One-third of life finds its sustenance in the three substantial
of food, clothing and shelter. Another third is found in the social
and spiritual contacts that mean kindness, worship, sympathy
and love. The third is traceable to the beauties of nature, to
brooks and lakes and sunshine, to forest, mountain and plain, to
tides and sunsets; while labor and industry mingle in all.
It is unfortunate than many men, women and children do
not receive even sufficient of the sub^tntials and are scarcely
one-third living. Yet the world has such, and it is the business
of society to provide opportunities for more abundant lives for its
kindred whose souls are hungry no less than theih bodies.
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SCRIPPS WAS CONSISTENT j
Nearly three years before his death, Edward W. Scripps, one [
of the great figures in American journalism, gave orders that in
the event of his passing body be buried in the sea without i
communicating with his relatives. Whyj not? Sqripps love^I the
sea, and spent a greater portion of his retired life in cruising its 1
waters. Many people dislike the idea of a watery grave because
it can not afterward be identified. Yet whatever this or any 1
other man may have accomplished will be marked by the retords'
of achievement left, not by a shallow tomb of engraving on atone. |
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NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF GOOD ROADS - Illinois
now leads all other states injts 5,000 mites of per~
^ ^Jo iirVkY-v Airat* + r\ rlt?i trn
Liiaiiuiiu Ljpc |;avcu luauo, aim anj vjiic *>nu u iv-u w u*i?v
through the soft soil 01* sticky clay of that state in the old days ,
knows how badly the paved highways were needed. Truly, no
section of the country can boast of absolute immunity from
rescue by chains or mule teams at times when the weather man
does his stuff. But all hail to Illinois! There is system 1;o its
system.
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HOOVERIZFNG MOTOR TRAFFIC I
If Herbert Hoover succeeds in establishing uniformity in 1
state vehicle laws and local ordinances affecting motor traffic he
will have done the country a vast amount of gdod. Let's make
the nation safe for tourists and all the rest. People shy at traveling
in strange jurisdictions where traffic regulations are probably
directly opposite from those they have been accustomed
to at home. '
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FEEL YOUR OWN TULL
A boy was flying a kite. Another boy was watching him.
Both saw the kite, but only one was enjoying its flying. The boy a
that held the string got the real thrill. It's no fun fishing unless s
you can hold the pole. It's no lasting satisfaction seeing the
other fellow's shoulder galled against the wheel. You may
chuckle in the end, but the real benefit is not in inherited wealth;
it's in the dollar that you helped to earn and the town you helped y
to build. j
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UP JUMPS DEMPSEY 1
In the eyes of sportsmen and lovers of the manly art of
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tnump ana De mumpea, jacK uempsey may.yet redeem hiiftself.
His lack of performance in several ways in the recent past caused
the public to believe that he was a sport slacker. But now he has a
broken all precedent by putting up a cool quarter of a million to
profhote his own fight with Harry Wills on Labor Day. According
to his promoter, the campion will fight solely on a percentage p
basis and without guarantee. Though he expects to clear a
million, even those who would not care to see the match must f
admit that Jack has some sporting blood left, which will tell, even
among prize fighters.
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BOOST TRYON
111 fares the town that does not advertise.
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Co-operation is born of understanding one another's
problems.
Some fellows think of community work as the ardent union ?
man who refused to blow the quitting whistle because the blast c
^econdsoverthehour.
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'THE POLK COljNTY NEW*!
THE POLK COUNTY NEWsl WEEKLY
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The New Occupa
m * nr om1 iha Oiric Wnrp 9. Onlv Real Victors
i!i.V UHVI WiV >-? ** ? ? w- ? ? ? ? v
in the World War
By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, in Designer Magazh e.
LET US consider the home, particularly the American home, of
this new decade. IVherein does it differ from the lame home
twenty, thirty, forty years ago?
The answer is obviously in machinery, convenience, laborlaving
comf emancipating luxuriea. The thing which 1 his decade
a doing fo . in America at least, is physical in its outwird eipresiion.
Mac . e liberating the physical body of women fr>m the toil
hat their mothers and grandmothers had to^know. The houn of service
lot merely for women in industry, which have Been steadily decreasing
'or two decades, but for women in the home, are growing sho "ter all the
ime. Wires and tubes are bringing service which once was bai ik-breaking
ind knuckle-racking and eye-straining upon the mother anil wife and
lister. The modern home is designed with wisdom and Uvu. Women
ire l>eing physically emancipated today. But emancipated fer what?
No one who looks at the world can doubt seriously thit the new
iberty is in many cases transgressed by considerable abuse of license.
Smoking among women ia a gesture with which they indicate their freedom.
The cigarette, the occasional more or leea surreptition i d?n, the
latchkey te sister's bachelor-girl apartment* are the-overflowing froth
jpon the brimming cup of women's freedom. It is thus that woman
icoffs cynically at her past. Soon the froth will dissolve and the cup wi 1
jrim without it.
For woman ia coming into a new relationship in western life. With
physical emancipation she is getting wider spiritual latitude than she evir
ltd before. She is seeing, examining, questioning, challenging the goo|d
ind evil of the world. And if she blinks and gigflea and ia a bit frivoous,
it is passing hysteria which will aoon leave her ealm and unafraid,
maba^hed and free.
The war, so far as boundaries are concerned, M far as indemnities
ind reparations go, has left victor and vanquished unaatiMled. Tie
irrnies of men on both sides were the loaers. Mother and the girls weia
the only real victors in this wa Thev came out freer thaa they want in.
'As the Result of the Commercial Application oi
Scientific Inventions
Mj ALDOU8 MUILEY, in Vanity Fair (Maw Tart).
Tht really great aimpliioatioM of our mtnUl lifa,.it ia laaartad, h*M
baaa brought about "a* tha reault of tha oosmarcial applies iaa af aeianlife
inventiona." Tha raamlta of thia axcaaaiva facilitation ua, flrat, aa
strophy of the artistic, musical and dramatic facaltiaa of ties a who aacejit
their: amuaemenU ready aaade; and, aacoad, an incraaaa af boredom.
There ia nothing nowadaya corresponding ta tha paaaaat urt, tha fall:songa,
tha traditional plaja and nununixiga ad tha paat. Tha talaot which
produced these things lias latent; ready-made ataadardiaad ?atartainmutt
has eWectivaly prevaatad it from expreeling itself. Bat rs dj-auii ait
can -ever be aa completely sahafying ta a ama aa tha art hi aaakea himself.
'Hie cinema, the gramophone, tha wirelaaa art dietnaohaaa; bad
th?v do rnibit^ to setiafy man's daaira for eelf-eametaaeu
Any merchant who does a credit business will tell you thi.1
long toward the last is when the debtors put most stall in intalments.
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Farm relief will come as soon as the farms relea
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People who can't read are not much worse off than those
fho don't.
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The door that is hardest to keep the wolf from is the one tc
he sedan.
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A California man fatined whenhe saw a $100 bill. But the
ill was for groceries.
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The four corners of the earth are those on rubber, coffee,
luminum and the grain market.
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If judges' salaries were raised they would at least look
leasanter while sitting on the bench.
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Music is the universal language, which probably accounts
or the rattles and squeaks of the fliwer car.
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"Wonder what the man who names Pullman csrs callg his
hildren?" Columbia Record. Probablv iuat nlainiHinora
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General Pershing traveled all the way from South America
The straw that broke the camel's back may be ii 1 your matress/.
It may tickle you to lie on it, but may also be the means
f losing your chance for success by sleeping overtur e.
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A great automobile factory in Detroit has abolished "coeerences."
Here is a lesson for everyone. What the whole
ountry needs is less conferences, investigations and i >ropagandc,
nd more facts, convictions and action.
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Q. L. Oettls, publicity agent for
South Africa In the United 8tatee,
photographed In Waehlngton Juet after
ha had called at the White Houae wHh
Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador,
and told the President a lot about the
advantages and merlta of South Afrlea.
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The 1928 automobile lq reported remarkable
for changed lines. An owner
who got into the 1926 license-tag
line says It was about the same as
i last year's.
When the first organised govern>
ment was founded Is not knowp. All
that can be said with certainty Is that
the following day a cry went up far
tax relief.
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" Poultry experts are trying to get the t
egg production of hens up to an cm
a day. It would seem to be no mere ,
than fair to give a hen at leant oaa
day off a week,
, When a man complains that he doea
not get enough exercise In the winter
It is not safe to conclude that be li (
i longing for another heavy snowfall ae
that he may clean off bis sidewalk.
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Experiments Conducted in the laboratory
of the University of Illinois |
, have produced a one-eyed flsh. This
certainly represents progress If soma
other use' has been found for the fish's
other eye.
Trotsky Is one of the few people t
who have found advantage In going i
from America to Russia. He can t
print what he likes. This was not
' the case when he was a contributing
; editor In the Bronx
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Sir George Buchanan, mlnlatar of
health In England, who haa been In
Waehlngtpn ae the gueet of thmUnlted
Statee eurgeon general, Hugh 8. Gumming.
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8LEEP
It has been said that sleep cures
rore nerve-disorders than all the
rugs prescribed by science, to which
tatement most educated physicians
willingly subscribe. Normal sleep Is
otti nreventive and curative for dis
ressing states of the nervous system.
>rug B?feep is never natural?nor is the
tupor caused by over-feeding. Ftor
est effects, sleep should be indulged
t night.
Observe the new-born babe who
leeps most of his time, except when
roused to take nourishment; he is
luilding a nervous system for many
ears of active service. Hia food conains
the necessary ingredients, readyirepared
for his appropriation; being
oo feeble to take exercise, his sole
lusiness and occupation are the buildng
of the rudimental nerves along
vith the "temple" in which they are
omfortably housed. Sleep is the ideal
sonditlon wherein Nature may >acomplish
her wonderful ends. Your
rakeful, peevish, restless babe is gong
wrong?and will develop Into a
lervous, rritable, unhappy and defecive
youth, unless his course is corected
by the capable nurse or physl:ian
in charge. The adult is, in great
neasure, subject to the same physiooglc
law.
Sleep is the faithful chaperon of
he nervous system, exerting her
dgllance as long during life as her
equirements are respected. Her ap>roach
is gentle?her touch sublime.
!.nd, what more delightful than her
>anorama of bewitching dreams? She
s the guardian angel of the voyager
Iko QOQ nt utronnnnfi offnrt To Icr.
tore her wilfully and reep&tedly 1b fo
>e forsaker by her?In which event,
he penalty 1b sure, for only the
>ended knee and the tear of penitence
:an Induce her faltering return.
Next Week:
"THE SIMPLE LIFE"
firte MB" A MO?9 IN THEr
WINTER?DONT HAVE
MYSTERIOUS
Nurse?"Did the doctor take your
emperature?"
Patient?"Yee, and I can't find my
vatch, either!"
ALL THAT MATTERED
Mother?"Tommy! Don't eat 'bo
last! I knew a little boy who died
Defore 'be had eaten half of his ice
;ream!"
"What happened to the other
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AN OB8ERVINQ PA8TOR
A clerygaman says that women
ire allowed too mnch latitude in the
natter of dree a. How about longitude,
reverend?''
EA8IE8T WAY OUT
One Laborer?"Oiminy Crlpes, I'm
lick of work!"
"Well, ain't I^been^Teiiin' you, all
his time ta loin de union?"
ASK DAD HE KNOWS I
Woman would make good In coniress,
Judging from the way they inroduce
bills into the house.
NOT 80 DUMB
Boss?"You've got a big nerve aayng
I've got to take you into partner*
hip."
Go-better-youth?"Not at all! I'm
:olng to marry your daughter I"
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NOT 80 CURIOUS AFTER ALL
Women are supposed to have more
uriosity than men, but so tar none
f them have tried to see the North
'ole
MEANS JHE 8AME
Man dashing up?"Your wife has
roke her leg!"
Professor of Kngliwh ? "My dear
lan, you should say, "has broken.'"
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Professor's Wife ? "Say, Ichabod,
rho is this Violet Ray I hear you
tfking so much about la your sleep?"
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NON SICA OCtts-.^H
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And
it. Wilson ihsmam/^H
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Exam'n.i .in atom.
leutral b dy around ?fl
ither bodi>- as it
around our sun.
times in .1 second
Atoms. '' whici p;H
millions i . one corntt^^H
without . titt c^H
systems.
Our sun and its
one aton. .n our unuea^^^
verse in m is orta'xn^^N
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space aven;
traveling
miles a second, it
hundred million yeaniS
the telescopic maie oij^B
/JNo wonder it sagslntbfl
Father's house are tnuj^B
With common sense Stgfl
says to the Countess Cufl
on it."
Strong - minded Aamfl
were indignant becaas^B
was admitted here rd^^B
whereas the Countess O^B
shut out. These
elopement shocked ctirjH
ties. The <;, :ble-s?ra^M
^oo much I r oureiean-sB
minded woint n. V
Observe the prwer fH
even when it isn't v-nfH
ing. The countess iaal
Island with a contract iM
the stage at a h:gk fl
wouldn't have got tit H
assistance of Uncle Sail
Professor Ruber teirnH
Association for
Science that. "Viewedifl
angle there are no cstlH
cent men or women' H
. the human race is 7^BB
mined by the cbromortB
the egg cell.'*
With complete retwM
sor Raber. after insi*<!^^B
sianand American dirofttM
you think those egg
well enough. from lit
Pottp har til (b.-f modilBH
An Englishman has
I London to (.'ape Towii^B
I nearly S.oOu miles, in
| At the . tie
I San Fran .
I take about thirty
I York to Chi lew
J That speed :
I stop flights ,
I be made within tw?-:7l^M
I Washing':. a.;tlan-"'^M
jCoolidge's order,
(closed the M.iicaD
I San Diego and the
I Tla Juana at 6 P ?
J hours are wt the beS*^B
/the dive ii:h.ibitaBt{ "l!^H
I Tla Jliana ownefl
Ihouses and similar -J
of them United Stata6^?
I way. peti;a Freed'11
I cancel his m
I President Conlldge
I cold Vermont ear H
I Frnmeut Bank'^^M
The origin of
Tkrtadneed <
I th? Bank <lagl*?' V
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finitely est.bll^* m
Kansae City S!"r. JM
Economist race*
as far as May K
Pitt Induce! P?r|18,y?
cash payment* ?'
moved Oil ray ? dr* ifl
toon, which *ho*?
on a chest label"
being savagely * r,:<H
But, it is s^ |d(t?
made use of n?
1695, a medal!!*'. ^
mum ?
cists of a seated, Jf
the head uncover**
one hand and H "p (tl(l
throughout r"firP '
years It has rent
the same.