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SATURDAY, AVGUST 18, 1917.
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ESTABLISHED MAY, 190a
IELLS TO RING-
THE SOCIALIST
IN TROUBLE
POPE PROPOSES
PEACE PLAN
DIVORCE MILL
NO EASY JOB
TAKES TOLL
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1 Nlll "1 W , H
' cficrtjfbctc !t.i.f -to do with
Mcfixsc Ikli Foe r. dry Co, of
-A.Lco4i.iiL D. IX. will e&ciitc at
.V icixi:afT ctrtrwcle of the btll, the
v nbch will se ar.ocr.cM ut er.
tit J wia nsff at tse variTOi cunoy
txea cxr i 7 . R1-
a! S r cu which if cille4 the ""Arui
rcrnti:?! Trinity and
-j. Jr tbe ehrrch belli fisgir. at d:?cftnt
t:cr cf week Lfi will be tomcthtr.jj new,
triTt. ycthaf. sooetKInj; worth while- la
1 rt riircruJ the ChrbtUn Sciecec Monttor
-iri rf t-ct: ar.i give satsse tr.terr!irj: h:-
-cvtrn;r; tr.rm. wr.ic pernaf r.a oeen
I: wli that "the rtoTovil n-t for-
tht the bc.il ol a
:vvirt! th-'at J be rerje to pe roticc
ca?hn nhm an air raid wa in
r:; rr"tr,4 how rrcatly the bell
r! ir.ta the bcVrtcr.4 of puhlic ff-v-f
when th-re wou!J. of cotsme.
-l it- Then? woId
fc-e jr.ttr.c to hacUCot- I
ri the b:. lr warn the fne
rc a a
trr" Jiff
r r; far it mcc;4
n the
ri ? r
thrjrM to occur let
r.e
three hundred eiff
rtxl cr.:t:'- before tht tsme,
rii -y-- tit d the we 14. Eietr
i uhrre ! in bv the fir.nj- cf
the
bellt
of a
ton
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tht
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a4 be- fcfIiet!
i' w, -.-.: r.-.ft crror-er;i wnc jfi
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r-.rtftrrr. ei weft, crrth. a4
SO
r a fcree ther. So faHy,
..cetwjtteror
;te5 t
rr.rit .own the trel.r cl a
;.v.f4 tnwp. arvi 4!. em craim. to ir.ell
rn ca; ".ijrrJ ear.ron ar,4 fh;iin them into
tr at 1 them in the urr;mef rtc4t.
"Then. aa;r. tell er.:crei. at exxty turn.
the hfe rf t!
town cr the country tie.
'r were, f -r ir. ttar.ee. a!
one ttrr.e. in I xc
1 bV. at the hartrt bell. ar.4 the
! Z t.!. which cattr! Uhcfer to their
y--4. the 'elf ar.ir.c t ell. which f.ied the hewfi
rr -rrr.r'tr.r er leairjr crl rfeantRjr. that
iiser
hos!l
hatr
an unfair aian:ai:c
Then there wat the famou
e
whkh cxc rotice that the lord
, f
ra:-f 01 en wa ready foe hit tena
the:
a 'market bell." a signal.
if!
davs. for el!;r. to !egin: whi!f.
a:"
i- 1 cstt fcr.own el a;, tr.rre wat, 01 course.
f;?f-nr. whch t t;tl rung from several
:-r-ers in F;:lan-L Thoc who know
:: remember the familiar twmn ef
"Z : tot stroke at o o'clock, whkh i
a.il fee the clstirg ef tht college gate.
"V. the multiplication of clock and
however, the value cf the bell to mark
f'-: ef daily life ha been greatly rr-i;.-f.
4-! wherr ell ctm survive, they
.f-?Tle a tntercviir.g survival, and have
- -r crated in hae ar.v real significance.
i tra ::;y riowtsg it own
fT;t. in
England, at any rate, and
m, mm .
Vi.- iff,' .
urn l.-. one torches upon
r-
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a-.':r: art. Thu. a paten! roll of
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r-.e c.f rm the Trethrm of the
V.V!:r:er, Si are appointed to
h-:: there, ii the privi.ege and
. v
4 $
That carrict cr.c
J
nner!h Century, an! I
i". c-" b i that t nT kn
how far
wn It
that at no: ing after
re e: uz er? cr.urcn icwriv-
k . .
' f?-i a: the 5;tth Century
;!!) rtncTf s begin to conceit
ter.tfr-.th Century, however.
V!
i L That wa the time cf th-e
1 'r
ar.i the Ancient So-
. .allfd frrm their
;-4ct :e
r- If-:.
"t the . belts at 5t. Mar-
a- I the ,5'0iety cf ljondon
t:rre. tf. when Fabian
l-e rf the 'jvxiftr cf lx-
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a h.4d. in to Ccm-
'h t. c- r':-rrr.: to the victor cf
! ?": rc;'y th-C Af.Ckn! So-
'C- Yr;:h are ::11 in exbtence.
.-.:p
seme cf the
1 B IP
:urfd.
m m
larr-ar. trt such matters.
it
a m :rry. wh:lt it
phras-
car?? 1 i-.-! etr"rt. t?
trth'e b-tb and $!ed
e-.y a few, cenvrys, cf
ur.:r::;atf i. Fortuna:e-
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things, ara izu-
3Jr. Hoover propoiet the first thing, to regu
late the rncc of wheat. He intends to make
rrJIIert produce their froducflow enough to in
txre cheaper Sour to the consumer. He find
from firure that he can do this. That is the
fint thane to be regulated in the food world.
nut he win be up against it. He will find that
bi money will be ipent to discredit him; he
will find that the farmer bn't Retting too much
for wheat or that the honest miller iinrfug
injr the public. He will simply find that the re
tailer who goet through the hinds of commis
sion, men and jobber! and speculator h the
man charging the price, and if it is decided that
the retailer it too high he will quit the business
and the famUhed customer will not know
where to gej. hii daily bread.
The meat question it the same thing. The
man who grow the animal doesn't get too
much. la thb town beef retails for thirty cents
and the batcher who sells it pays eighteen
cents wholesale for the hind quarter and he
mutt Ioc the bone and fat, or a great deal of it.
Thirty cent it quite a price to pay for a beef
steak, compared at least to the ten and fifteen
cent steak of other and happier days, but when
yoa find that the wholesaler ha had to do with
it; that the railroad company has had to haul
it a thoutand miles in iced cars: that the re
tailer must pay hi licence and lite what else
can ytu etrect? Not hi nr. And to on down
the line. The honest farmer holds you up
puts an arbitrary price on what he, sells. If he
gte out in the winter and traps a hundred
rahbit he will charge vou twice as much at he
did fne years ago, and the bloomin rabbits
r.eter cot htm a cent and not a penny more
than they di4 when meat was cheap but he
understand t.
With full and absolute authority to control
igm4 prices we do not doubt that Mr. Hoover,
acting for the iVrident. will bring down the
Mice cf flour, and h miv fx !! in tirint
I bread back to the five cnl loaf. Hut we doubt
I St. Haur wiltbe cheaper, but speculators will
j tll control wheat, and if wheat goes to two
I fifty a buhel. which it can without any real
reason for it, flour and bread will at the same
time go up. Each community has a differ en!
rrorocl:on confronting it. In the price ofjotl.
the regulators hare put U rp OTer hundred
$tml and tbcjbfriutttY consumer,"" the man
who buy t it and burn it, cues the retail deal
er, but the retail dealer it not to blame. The
mine owner say he can't get cart he waits
until a community ts shortof coal, and any
old ricc goes. We wish for Mr. Hoover all
kind of tucces. We want to help him in
bootinx hit chore we don't want to -hrow
any cm tie on his track but if he succeeds,
notwithstanding Congre ha given the Presi
dent absolute power to proceed, we will be
turpriKd. In other words the route between
the producer and consumer i too long. There
are too many stop over stations and at each
station stand a ticket laker who must have hit
hare of the profit. If the covernment could
send stuff from the mine or the mill to the con
sumer then we could sec how .Mr. Hoover
authority would help out. He could say the
price could be onlyso much hut he can 1 say
that if Tom. Dick and Harry handle it the la'
borer is not worthy of his hire.
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The Divorce Milt
A glance over the court calendar shows that
the idea of true love bn't all that it should be.
Th r I
lite first
and the man and wife don t agree.
cat tried in court yesterday wa a divorce
cac. and several other are on the docket. To
the credit of the black man be it aid he doesn't
eek a many divorce at hi white brother.
Thr divorce court always bothered us we
have insisted aiid shall forever Insist that un
lev it i for infidelity a divorce it not neces
sary. When two people conclude they can't
agree they commence pulling in opposite di
rections and each one goes hell bent for de
struction of the marriage lien, rAnd there is
no doubt but what there should be a national
divorce law, a good one, and then when a cou
ple of wild cat figure on hametsing for life
ma) be they would gt slow. But to know that
divorce can be secured at easily a putting on
an old shoe well, the man with, the nerve is
willing to take a riik. Divorced people should
be shunned unlet they had a mighty good rea
tcn for making fool of themselves. This for
the protection of society.
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And they think by September first hundreds
of thousand cf soldier will be ready to start
to France.
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The latest new from Georgia is that Tom
Wa! is still in crupt.kn and the officers of
the law haven't caged him.
mate knowledge as to how they are achieved
Is not" necessary to their appreciation, and. if
a man hket the sound of bells, it will make lit
tle dtfferer.ee lit htm whether a 'peal it in pro
cess cf 'development, or merely a touch.
Around Greembcro we have the Sabbath
bells; the Wednesday night prayer meeting
bells; the old court house bell for town meet
tr i and courts; the fire bell and the chime of
the Greenibero L n and Trust Company. But
it wouldn't hurt to have bells ringing- oftener
juit to break tie ccrxtony.
The socialist doesn't mean to get into trou
ble, with hia" mouth but he often does. It
has been his habit tolaihout against the gov
ernment; to insist tthat the wrongs of man
kind be righted, and he often goes too far. Sev
eral of these people have been in jail charged
with seditious utterances,' and it is hard for
them to see why they can't epjoy "free speech"
which they claim the:cnitution -vouchsafes
them. But when they get. into prison and
wait their trials they perhaps have better op
portunity to study conditions. The Appeal to
Reason has been hushed several publications
that hae gone bcyondhe dead line have been,
put out of businest, ami the socialist, while
thinking he has rights, a wise man if he holds
his yawp. ,,,, " -, :: '
In thr.se times cverv, citizen enjoying protec
tion under the nag is supposed to be lovai. The
President is given authority to uphold the law,
ana tne law, in lime pi war, is aincreni man
at other times. In fact the editor of any news-
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oaoer can co only so far, and to co further
than prudence dictates is to get his foot in a
bear trap. If a man doesn't like what is going
on in mis country 11 up 10 mm 10 nine 10
Germany. There is where he belongs, and he
should be promptly hanged if he undertakes by
word or deed to give aid or comfort to the
enemy. Hancing it what will stop a great
deal of wild talk.
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Only One Or Two.
Wc dare say that a hundred citizens have
hastened to congratulate The Record because
of its protest against Doc Summers putting up
a thousand dollars and escaping the roads after
he had been found guiltv of manslaughter. We
shall atways insist that -no man has a right to
purchase immunity. The law found the man
guilty. The jury said, he was guilty of man
slaughter and the Judge sentenced him to pris-
. . .
on. i ncn ne comes up wnn a tnousana nonarr
and our. Governor accepts the money for the
state and says the purposes of the law have
been met. Jn other words the criminal with a
thousand dollars can buu.his way oul cf .the
f.ilmliirt. wrf With nr mnn
na sJLsctram .id juripeft W-?ob mi r that this
i altogether wrong. , It doesn't make any dif
ference about the guilt or innocence of Sum
mers, If he wasn't guilty he should not pay
one red cent. He should go free. If guiltv,
however, as found, then he should not be al
lowed to purchase his freedom. That is fhe pro
position and no honest man can say we are
wrong. Either one thing or the other let him
go free with no string to it or let him serve his
time. Xo man can say that freedom can be
deliberately purchased by counting , out so
many dollars.
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To The Springs.
Again the heated season it on and Mr. and
Mr. Goomcwhere are packing their trunks
and preparing the notice for the papers which
will readJ ,
"Mr. and Mrs. Go somewhere will leave the
10th instant for a four weeks sojourn at
Soakittoem Springs, in order to escape the
heated term. Colonel Go somewhere says that
life is short at best and if he can stand off
his grocer why not get away? Why stay at
home all summer when you can get out and
have a good time? The Colonel is essentially
fisiht. Upon the return of this popular couple
j,rSt Go somewhere will give a delightful pink
tea to her many friend complimentary to
Mis May Comingfromsomewhere, who ac
companies her from the Springs.
And thus life runs in its mad, wild way.
The summer doen't last long, and the years
frolic on. Here it is the middle of 1917 and
it won't be long Just about a few minutes
and November, with the first breath of winter
lightly in the air. Go somewhere if you have
the price. Get away from it. It will do you
good, and you will find that life holds many
pleasures that you can't get out of it if you
stick to the old beaten track. Step off the
path and pluck a little wild flower here and
there.
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Still Making Raids.
Germany every once inawhile sends a fleet of
air craft over England and drops down bombs
on innocent men, women and children, and
thit only prolongs the war. If Germany really
means anything by all these peace insinuations
she has proceeded the wrong ivay. The French,
we note, have recently sought reprisal for air1
raid by rcsorting to the same line of conduct,
and after all it seems that anything il fair in
war. But the allies ai more numerous than
the German and every time an air fleet de
liberately kills women and children by drop
ping bombs upoahem, just that much deeper
becomes the hatred of the civilized world to
ward the hunted Nation, "All is fair in war
and love long ago became a universal adage
but it isn't. It int fair for any nation to de
liberately murder women and children who are
forced to be at a certain place. They are help
less and innocent, and the Nation that resorts'
to this kind of warfare will never succeed. It
is impossible.
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The man who has a wife arid child appears
to be much in evidence right cow.
It was nothing to occasion surprise when we
yesterday read that the Pope had submitted a
peace proposition to all the warring countries.
In fact the Pope has had on his peacfe cap for
some time, and what he handed out was only
in "due course" and will be read by the differ
ent powers, and parsed up with the declaration
that his suggestions cannot be taken or con
sidered seriously. The Pope gives down his
plan and it is approaching what might happen.
Xot that his proposal would in any way meet
the demands of the allies because the allies
propose to do more for Germany than the
Pope imagines. The Pope rather favors Ger
many, viewed from an ally stand-point, and
in the final adjudication of the case Germany
is not going to be favored. The Pppe must
understand that already the blood and treas
1 .- - .
ure spent, has been because Germany made it
necessary. She was the aggressor in war and
has become a demon in practice. She has for
feited all rights of recognition in anything ap
proaching a settlement on terms even remote
ly suggesting consideration of her. She must
be annihilated. She must be put entirely out
of business, and those who win the battle will
suggest the terms of peace.
Germany has forfeited all rights. This must
be understood, and Germany, in a peace con
ference will only be consiedred in the past
tense. However the. note of the I'ope is worth
while. It suggests that there is something
in the air. It suggests that such a thing as
peace- is in sight, some day, and every time
peace is talked it hastens the day that peace
will come. When the Pope suggests the re
turn to Germany of her colonies he suggests
unthinkable things. Nothing will be returned
to her, and from her, will be taken all that she
has. The German Empire; once so strong and,
haughty will be, reduced o. practically a coun
try town, so "far as power, is concerned:. She
has Own-ntrtn"e -ui4las'.fthf.: mixst-g-"ia.-
thc whirlwind. I he. Pope understands .that
his good book says "Bles5cd are the peace
makers for they shall see God" but when he
comes to make peace what he wants to bring
with him is a coffin for Germany and the
allies will then perhaps submit to a Christian
burial, but that is about all. America is going
into the struggle, five million' strong, if neces
sary, and she is not gofng in to stop the war
she is going in to subdue and annihilate Ger
many. That is what wc arc in this war for
to secure for all the world freedom, and to
simply set Germany up again with her lost
possession restored and her treasury simply
touched for the restoration of countries she
has devastated will not do. Too late to talk
of that. Germany must surrender she must
stand palsied and humble and exhausted be
fore the world powers which will subdue her,
and she may get a chance to run a country (
store but no longer will she remain auto
cratic and defiant. Her tail feathers are al
ready missing and the beloved Pope can try
again.
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The joy riders are asked to curtail mileage
and go slower. The government says the na
tion needs gasoline, and if the joy rider doesn t
divide the loaf Uncle Sam is liable to take it all
away from him.
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A Cigar Centre.
With the announcement, made some three
weeks ago, that the Lango cigar company was
enlarging its capacity; with the good news
that the El Rces-So Cigar company must soon
build another building, all of us who have
been watching these "infant industries" grow
to man's estate should rejoice. There are other
smaller cigar factories here to say nothing S.
the big one that makes cigars for a nation.
The two most prominent local companies, the
EI-Rccs-So and Lango hae forged ahca' to
beat the band in the last few. years. John
Rccs started out with one cigar maker and
today employs hundreds of working people
sells his cigar everywhere in tht country and
can hardly keep up with orders, and the Lango
comes along and extends its territory and its
business. Greensboro has long talked of fac
tories and here are two local concerns which
have gone ahead without blare of trumpets
simply had men at the head of 'them who
knew how to do things and have done Ihem.
..The El-Rees-bo cigar is best known because
longer on the market, and the chances are that
it will develop into a national institution. The
Lango comes along and will make a place for
itself, and Greensboro is to be congratulated
and Greensboro should smoke the home pro
duction. o
The first rose of August fared pretty badly..
Too much real hot weather and then the rains
too heavy. But the October roses, in this coun
try, those growing in the open are always the
fjC3t and therefore we await October with
some impatience.
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If China goes to war, the question is: Where
vfill she go?
In looking over the court calendar each term-; .-,:
it is a matter of regret that Guilford county -
makes too many applications for divorce. And; ; w
in each divorce case there is always a new
settincr. Infidelity is often incidentally charg-fc ;
"ed. but it appears to be for other reasons that:
most divorces are sought. There is talk, and , :y;
we have talked it, that there sliould be a na-! : ..
tional divorce law; that there should be cer- '?
tain dead lines and if a man or woman went . ; t
beyond them, a divorce would naturally fol- :
low. However it is perhaps Jiard to see .why. a.; . . t
divorce law that" would apply to one condi--. ;
tion should apply to another! :,They have de- :.J
grees of murder and there should be degrees ;
of neglect and condition's "should always guide ,
the court or .the jury in deciding whither or " .
not a separation would be a. good thing- for. .
Society, for the community, for those vitally. - . ,
and directly interested If a man comes in
and asks for a divorce from h?s wife on the
grounds of infidelity, and he1. can prove it, " !
naturally enough he should have", a divorce,
and "the Good Book says he should lve i tJ; .:S
But for a woman to come into court, and ask ."
for . a divorce when there are children in the; ' s :
family little tots who are entitled to the. pro-; -tection
of both father, and mother, and ' her
charge is lat the husband does not support
her; or that'he is a drunkard; or that he now, .
and then in sportive glee tosses a cuspidore or ; t
a coffee-pot at her head she should not be '
granted a divorce. And she sliould know be- L'
fore she marries the beast tkat she couldn't get " f
a divorce, and if both of them knew that7 they . j
were yoked for life unless there was some real i '
reason, you wouldn't see so many divorces ,
dreamed about. '"'-v'
It has gotten to be that a jealous woman
imagines her husband is flirting wi(h a whole v
regiment of pretty girls-merely a ' dream :
nursed into an actuality so far as she is con- :.
cerned, and feeling that way about it she pro-' -ceeds
to make herself so diabolically enter-- 'v
taining that the' husband may, and with justi vi n
fication, break a-few pieces , of furniture ' arid -4-
do a little cussing in, the loud pedal. The mere r.v
fact that because the husband hasn't (been all
the woman,-expected, hini to; be; because ;lie -.
&1cjL161 nqeaVi ji .nptvhe4d eat. -she -dreamed, u"'
she saw when he Was" just across the drug-, V V
store table making pretty dabs at the vanilla
ice cream and. she -was looking at him with v
eyes of wondrous blue and , trying' to discern
why heaven had sent her such, a man', is no - '
reason why she should undertake : to reform ,
him or have him made over. She can go to '
the hand-me-down clothier, and if , the trouser, " . '
loons are too short in the,-limbs ;. or if the coat - - j
needs a little lengthening here or a little short ' . . '
ening there, the President of the Pressing
Club will see that that is done but the
hubby is built just so and, no furbisher can '
change the cut of , the jib as designed by the. v:
Creator. It is up. to her to study the wealcV '
spots; to see where he is deficient andnaker
due allowance remembering betimes that'she-i.
is not the same darling peach she looked to 'V'"
be in the happy courting days the. days when
she powdered her lily-white Jace-and spent ' - v
steen hours fixing her golden .hair. She. must . - '
not forget that in those wooing days; those
sun-kissed and balmy days of June it always . ; ,
took her an hour to "fix. up" in order, to! ook - "
her very best before she appeared in the par- '
lor to exclaim "My dear George" and there
is a whole lot of difference .in' her" appearance -: . 5 ;
when she gets up In the; morning "in these lat- :
ter days after the romanceis eroded and, slips ; .
herself into an old cast-off dress ; doesn't take .' '
time to comb her frazzled hair and goes down - ' ,
stairs to spank one of the children who has
L upset the coffee potjust 'about as; breakfast .
was ready to be announced. He' comes down V
and. beholds her ip her kitchen attire and he ""'
fails to see even the semblance the beauti- "
ful doll that looked to the stars and sighed '-'
arid dreamed and talked rr love and a cottkge
in the old days. Realism ' calisnf, my masters -is
sterner stuff-than caror.icls and,marsh-mal- '.
lows. So they quarrel -and finally the first
thirig that pops into thehead of the rhaddesf -
one of the twain' is the divorce couft-faneb" f ,!
then all the hatred and; malice ...that' evil' j
genius ever drearned is conjured . up and,re-v ' -
tailed to the crowd that always goes ; .to see : V k
this kind of soiled linen laundered iri puWic',5::-r.
However, perhaps as long as -the; "Heart" Has
passions, apd as long as life hai woes". yo;i -will
see"sotno fellow drive in' the. court room .
and ask t1 judge to unharness . Him. :Ahdv 1
along, will come, the woman with her tale of v- f "-
woe and insist that she be separated from thes . -' . '-t j
Beast in' pa,nts whom, she' once. loVed and f orp jv, ' . 1
Whom' she has lost all regard. Arid-Society, '-'. 1
that masCed and double-faced old ftaiid, says V ' 'i '.
it is better so and the' divorce is granted be-:-lvA;1 . 1
cause. laws are written governing such Cases',.
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The City Commissioners find much trouble-V-'V
in satisfying all the people, -and just what all ' ' '" ;
the people 'are going to say,atout the. new or-, V
dinance concerning, cars' on. Elm street isa;' ,
question. Makes it bad for the car owner arid r 'r.
he often thinks he owns the earth and; the , '
fulness thereof. '
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A Japanese mission, is expected tc do things i
iri this country; and : we regret to 'note that; .
Kisser Hobson isn't' on the. eajtertainrient com;
mittee. J . ' ' ; hlT
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