Moberly Weekly Monitor (Newspaper) - September 14, 1922, Moberly, Missouri MOBERLY WEEKLY MONITOR Published by the Moberly Index Printing Co C Van as mail matter at the postoffice at Moberly Missouri July 8 1930 under Act of March 3 1873 SUBSCRIPTION RATES in Advance Outside Randolph in Missouri per year THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR The real New Year for multitudes of children and young people is not January 1 but the day when school or college be gins This is the time for their new resolves of effort One of the big problems of successful school management is to keep the classes working together and prevent the slower pupils from falling behind Where some drag the work of the group must suffer The bright students become tired of the slow progress and may put their surplus energy into mis chief The capable teacher devotes her earnest effort to ex plain away the difficulties that perplex the more sluggish minds Parents are in these times and hate fo see their children fall back Some who have not fully kept up attend study camps in while others are given make up at under a tutor or parental instruction Many chil who have required this special attention have so prof by tho effort that thereafter they should keep up Yet complaints arc often heard that the schools drive their young people too hard A nervous child who is doing the best he can but is worrying about his work is evidently getting wrong It will do some of these no harm to drop bade a year and they should not feel any disgrace in it Other children be able to do their work all right ii they would play games and exercise in the open air all they can instead of spending spare hours in aimless loafing A child with a good vigorous body can usually do the work of the ordinary school course The offers its best wishes for the new year of school and hopes that the teachers will receive hearty home sup Portland that the pupils will find the satisfaction that comes from well learned lessons Women are learning to smoke but they are still poor spitters AMERICAN CALLS ON CALIF Globetrotter Walks Barefooted From Seattle Wash to Bagdad By Associated Press BAGDAD Sept Martinet an American who hails from Seattle Wash and who claims to have tramped bare footed over half arrived in Bagdad today shoeless as well as pen With long hair hanging over his to protect it from heat mid cold j a beard that has not seen shears for Iwo long years a kit weighing about 20 pounds flung across his back and a sign pinned across his breast to proclaim to the world that he is a globetrotter Martinet presented him self toKing and told the fol lowing story in the weather is hard on straw hats white shoes o Many a man who lives on easy street visits street to liis sorrow Some never take the first think and thereby escape habit People who pay for electric light a lot more of it they keep clean i v i j i i Ji T i T used o ho m the wood A Rood many good drinkers get aged in the wood of my profession as a cab inet maker and feeling that around the world would benefit my health I set out from my home on April 19 1920 encumbered by very of things material Walking on an average of 34 miles a day and resting at several places I reached New foui months later and managed to get i passage across the Atlantic reaching Southampton in the middle of Sep tember After a tramp to London I embarked for From Antwerp I worked my through tho devastated regions ti Paris In Paris I tried lo sell postcards representing myself m t of a globetrotter nut the French police mistook me for a and drove me away Quitting Paris I tramped ti Harve and thence to Nice Fron Nice I crossed to Switzerland am gradually worked my way down to Brindisi Leaving the Italian port J crossed to Albania and thence t Greece Taking a boat I crossed tc Egypt reaching Cairo in last year After roaming about Egypt 1 struck towards Palestine and then U Damascus where I joined a caravan crossing the desert to Bagdad in 21 days Martinet is about 45 years of age He plans lo go next to Basra then to Bombay to Japan China and Sai Francisco Emir who displayed great I interest in Mr Martinet presentee i him with a check for Genius rarely makes money for its possessor but it frc GU develops something that makes money for millions Mit Day While In 0 t A poor boy went to New York a few years ago and now owes which shows that all you need to get ahead in the East is brains and hard work Associated Press LONDON Sept the pre cautions taken to guard crowned heads who from time to time have visited London paled into cance compared with those taken to l 4 41 i onnn n t i protect the French premier but the is only so the Democrats can find recently to do his The results of the election in Maine will furnish comfort to both parties The leans carried tho state as usual fort and hope in the reduced majority A great brain specialist who lias learned all about the me of brain is dead He perhaps didnt know any more about the nature oC the intellectual force that op orates the machinery of the brain than any one else That is a intellectual force and emotion and instinct that plays so great a part of human activities It has been estimated that about nine tenths of the human activities are directed by emotion and instinct If that is so we are not so far removed from animal after all best to try to j make Germany pay up it is said 1 they were due to the he left Paris that he had been mark ed down for murder by the German plotters who killed Dr Rathenau Nearly 100 detectives were detailed to guard M including mystery to all of us And who of us can draw the line between jsent over jy the Paris suret the of Londons Scotland Yard Day night watch was kept over him The hotel at which he stopped was surround el by police Several detectives were sia at the hotel as guests the bet ter to look out for any characters who might try to ap proach him Even the preparation ot his meals was superintended by chefs who were brought over from Paris Most laws have teeth enough but they often lack the kind of prosecuting officers that make them bite Q Tho Wisconsin vote may indicate that tho people of When the time came to leave the slate would rather have Senator La in it homo Washinton each morning for iho confor once f Street he was ac Q I companied downstairs from his suite Good live slock continues to get more valuable as well scd the as v i IT i T many as eight or more detectives and escorted He was sim versatile A remarkable cow was advertised in an ox recently as follows For Sale good cow giving milk also chickens and fresh eggs o nothing like an honest announcement A Kansas preacher at the Sunday morning service made this announce ment Brethren the janitor and myself will hold our reg ular weekly prayer meeting Wednesday night o The law provides that car drivers having glaring lights shall dim them when about to meet another car from the op direction How many do it It is sometimes absolute ly impossible to see anything in the face of glaring lights and a failure to reduce them may result in a serious collision A surprising number do not comply with the law requiring lights and run without lights This is also dangerous especially to the car without them who surrounded him V him to his motor car ply rushed into the automobile and at once the streets through which he wasto journey were cleared as if by masic and speed limitations were ig nored During the French premiers stay detectives scoured Soho and other haunts of anarchists or Communists listening and searching for any word or move that might denote a con against M safety Perhaps he himself had nothing to do with it but such extraordinary pre cautions certainly the im pression that while in he was in deadly fear of his life DR LEUSLEY IS SUED Mrs Martha M Steele Holds Physician Responsible For Husbands Death From Smallpox CHARGES QUARANTINE ORDINANCE VIOLATED Two startling suits were filed this morning for trial in Circuit Court as the result of the smallpox epidemic which struck Moberly in the fall and winter of 1921 They arc filed by Mrs Francis and Dr M E is the defendant Mrs Steele charges tho physician with responsibility for the death of her husband Francis and for her own illness with smallpox Both of the suits are in three counts with damages asked on each count it is alleged Doctor Leusley was negligent in fail ing to diagnose the case properly pronouncing it to be vaccinia a non contagious disease She further states that she was asked to nurse the child after being assured the di sease was not and that she would bo in no danger therefrom The third count is that an ordinance of the City of Motherly was violated when the attending physician failed to quarantine the case Based On Childs Both suits grow out of the small pox epidemic in Moberly a year ago and directly out of the illness and death of Margaret Snodgrass the in fant daughter of Mr and Mrs C C Snodgrass who live on East Log street in Mrs Steele stales that she with her husband and family lived with her father in the neighborhood where the child was sick Mrs fa i ther was at that time a Baptist niin ister in charge of the Carpenter Street Baptist Church It was the custom 01 the plain tiff and her father says the petition to make inquiry concerning the con dition of any and a 11 persons within his pastoral who was sick to render such assistance to them as they might be able to The plaintiff how ever was in no sense a or skilled in any manner whatsoever in the science of medicine and knew nothing of the disease of smallpox or Us symptoms No Warning Signs That it was not known or under stood in said neighborhood that said child was suffering from said disease that plaintiff did not know said child was suffering from said disease that said childs ailment had not been re ported as a case of smallpox that no placard or other sign of warning had been placed on the home where said child was announcing and giving no tice of the presence of any other contagious disease or any suspicion or probability of the same The petition alleges that Doctor Leusley was called by the parents on or abou the day of December and that lie assumed complete and absolute charge of said case and remained in charge of said case until said child died on December 25 Mrs Steele declares that when she was called as a nurse the physician assured her that she would not be subjecting herself to any danger of contagion by coming to the home where the child was sick She assist ed in nursing the chMd some two or three hours until the child died Was Sick for Two Months It is asserted that she contracted the disease here and was confined to her home for two months suffering intense agony physical pain and mental anguish that her Mood and physical system were filled and contaminated with said discase that her face and body were covered with sores and eruptions which arc inci dent to said disease That as t result of said disease her health has been permanently impaired and injured and her face and body have been permanently marked with scars left by said sores and eruptions She further asserts that the body of Margaret Snodgrass was covered vith a mass of sores and eruptions and that said child was suffering from smallpox in its most malignant and aggravated form and in its last stage The allegations in the second case are similar the Francis having contracted the disease and died HERE AND THERE Telephone service is very sensitive to Storms and sleet dday calls The rail and coal strikes caused many additional long distance calls and thus caused more work lor the telephone operator Thus answered Mrs Al baugh chief operator at a private ex change which is said to be the larg est user of telephones in Cleveland to the query as to whether telephone service was affected by events The work of the operator in the private branch telephone exchange is exacting and difficult yet it holds a strange Jure said Mrs Albaugh Somehow theres a real pleasure 5 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14 1922 Government Plans to Cut and Sell Trees in Great Untouch ed Malheur National Forest WILL REPLANT AREA AS IT IS CUT OVER in making the automatic response to the little white light but the big thing is the personal element being a part of a big institution and working with big people San Angela in Wes Texan with 12500 inhabitants and covering ccv cn and onehalf square miles has The Associated Press WASHINGTON Sept 12 untouched The pine the honor of being the livestock capital of the southwest and now its citizens declare they have ad led that of the wool and mo hair producing center in the world According to statistics more of these products were chipped last year from San han any oner shipping point in the world The town is in tlie heart of the cat tle country and on the border line be tween agriculture and sheep jast great tract of timber in the United States and the last frontier of settlement are about to pass Behind the announcement of the Forest Service regarding the proposed sale of timber in the Malheur Na tional Forest Oregon says a state ment by the National Lumber Manu Association lumbermen sec the last opportunity for their trade to deal initially with a virgin pine forest of great extent and the last oppor for the settler to take posses sion of a region now remote from railways and markets and virtually unused agriculturally The opening for sale of of the Bear Valley unit of the Malheur National Forest says the statement affects 890000000 feet of Hie great Blue Mountains forests now and means the beginning of the lumbering of fe entire forest with its ONLY CITIZENS TO HAVE VOTE Constitutional Convention May Place Other Restrictions on Suffrage t A I V t I I V V I t I i V I I t raising While surrounding territory feet of tim to be the home of her To the tions it will be necessary to build about 80 miles of main line railway besides tap lines which will open for settlement an agricultural country with area of 10000 square miles While this ancient forest is doom ed the terms are such that the suc of its posterity is se cure Though now offered for sale by the Forest Service is suf only to keep a moderate sized mill running continuously for twenty years the Service will at the end of that time open up another unit and eventually 7000000000 feet of tim ber will be available It is reckoned that by the time the last unit is cut over the first one will be ready foi cutting again The agricultural development to ensue upon I he lumbering activities which will employ hundreds of men and the necessary railway building also will demonstrate the policy of using the national forests as an ad of the general progress and wel fare of adjacent regions According to the forecast of the Forest Service there will be at least one logging and lumbering unit that will never have lo move on to find new forests at least one sawmill town which will never die for lack of material for its industries home of large cattle and sherp ranches its once op en range is giving way to farms Tom Green county included in San An gelos territory boasts of morc of running water than any county south of the line For more I han a month workmen have been chipping and drilling solid cement in the no Id of the steamer Samuel Mitchell formed when water entered the hold and solidified its car go of cement The steamer was taken to Detroit after the recks at the en trance to St Marys river during a fog July 2 When the vessel struck a hole was torn in its side and a quan tity of water rushed in hardening the cement Owners oi the steamer estimate the cost of unloading the and making necessary repairs will reach a otal of morc Iran Municipal officials of Detroit los cd morc than 50 blocks of the cily in various resident sections to and have handed them over to the children as playgrounds for the sum mer To make the streets even more en the first hydrants were so equipped the was turned on an ideal shower was afforded MAy MAKE ALL VOTERS REGISTER JEFFERSON CITY Sept 11 Nearly two days of debate by the constitutional convention a proposed section for the new con which the convention is pre paring for submission to the people of the state resulted last Thursday afternoon in the adoption of the sec tion with amendments which pro vides that the pro vide for the registration of all voters in cities and counties having a lation of more than 100000 tants and in cities having a popula tion exceeding 10000 inhabitants lo in counties having less than 100000 inhabitants and in cities hav ing a population exceeding 10000 in habitants located in counties having less than 00000 inhabitants Pro of the section declared it may Three of the men were wash ul off curtail dishonest election practices the deck out the fourth clung to the h in The convention then proceeded to submarines periscope The L the debate of u section providing for rinc rose again quickly tins an ue rf was rescued Two ot the men in cnc may water including the son of Admiral ol absent from were caught in wash or qualified absentee elcc of the battleship and within tlie state to vote at gcn cd The other man was picked up by era or elections The section GAVE LIVES FOR Two Swedish Sailors Arc Sacrificed to Save Submarine Crew STOCKHOLM Sept men were drowned from a submarine under singular circumstances during the recent Swedish costal fleet ma They were really sacrificed to ensurethe safety of the whole crew The submarine Illern it appears fired a torpedo at a movable target and then came to the surface m or der to sec the effect produced Four of the crew came on deck but trouble suddenly occurred in the bal last tanks and the commander im mediately closed the hatch anJ sub merged leaving the four to their own resources a naval cutter It is reported that the entire crew of the submarine would probably have been lost if the commander had failed to submerge immediately the trouble was discovered ATTORNEYS CHOSEN FOR SMALLPOX CASE Edmund Burke is the through whom Mrs Martha M Steele filed her suit against Dr M K Leus ley charging him with responsibility for the death of her husband and her own illness in the smallpox epidemic a year ago Doctor Leusley has retained Aus tin and W I was one framed by A If Harrison attorney of Mo as a substitue for one proposed by the committee on suffrage and elections Several sections which ore the same as those included in the consti of 1875 were adopted W T Johnson of Kansas City Mo proposed near the end of the days I session a section of the constitution which if adopted would provide for compulsory voting in the state In support of his proposal Mr Johnson declared that be consid ered as well as a privilege and urged that a penalty be fixed up on those who failed their right of suffrage The proposition T a3 his up for discussion the following morning JEFFERSON CITY i Sept LJ Only citizens of the United Stiles over the age of will have the right to vote in Missouri the the new Constitution as provided by the report of the Com on Suffrage and Elections and adopted by the convention The change from the old provision is that foreigners who have taken out only their first not be allowed to vote They must fully naturalized citizens of the United States which means at least five residence and reside in the state a year Idiots and insane persons are added to the list of inel while a specific provision gives the right of suffrage lo inmates of soldiers and sailors homes Provision is made by report for the opening of ballots in grand jury investigations and in the trial of all cases cither civil or crim inal in which the violation of any of the election laws including elections for the nomination of candidates for any office is under investigation or at issue Under the present Consti the ballot box can only be op ened in case of a contested election Another provision of the report as amended by the Convention makes ifc mandatory on the legislature pro vide for Registration of voters in all cities and counties having a popula tion of 100000 or more and in all cities of 10000 or more in counties having a population of less than 100000 The committee report mode it optional with the legislature for registration in the smaller and many hours were spent in discus sion and several amendments and were offered and voted down but the provisions in brief as stated here were finally adopted by the committee of the whole The section will still be open to amend nient when it conies up for final vote in the convention The section of theold Constitution has been changed re serving the mandatory provision to apply io those engaged In military service nd making it permissible for the legislature to provide the same privilege to other absentees but lim iting it to those within the state The literacy test proposed by the committee qualifying the right to vote met with much opposition and probably not be adopted unless sonic plan is proposed that will in sure to every person in the white or negro an opportunity to learn to read and write the English language It was pointed out that there were hundreds living in scu tered and sparsely settled localities who did not now enjoy the privilege especially negro families nor allow ed to go to any hut schools for own race and these not available The proposal for a modification of the present statewide open primary which the committee reported as a separate or alternative proposition was still to be settled as the week drew to a close While many arc op posed to the primary system as it is at present operating opposition is so marked that the convention seems disposed to move slowly in providing marked changes For most part the committee report has stood the test of a weeks and with but small changes will probably be approved by the of the whole The principal changes from the report were made on the absent voter and and in dealing with illegal voting ARMSTRONG NEWS A rood rain fell Saturday night which was much needed James Preston is remodeling his on North street which much to its appearance Henry Basket and family last week with his uncle Henry Tuy ior children her attended the For est Green fair Friday and Saturday Mr and Mrs Hull and little daughter Jane went to New Frank lin Saturday to visit with Mr Hulls parents Mrs Belle Denny went to Excelsior Springs Thursday to spend several weeks The Rev C L Donis was again sent to fill the pulpit at the Metho dist church here His congregation is much pleased
