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Rippling RhymesBy WALT MASONPENALTIES:OF PROGRESSOnce Funktown was a quiet place, inhabited by slothful scouts; the boosters had . not learned., to chose through village streets with pepful shouts. It was a town that seemed asleep, It had. the quiet some desire, and everything you thought was cheap. and everything you’d rent or hire. The taxes were extremely low, the burden was but light and small, although we murmured] in our woe that it was wrong to tax at alL A man who had ten thousand bones was counted wealthy, then and there; and he could drive hi* team of roans and look much like a millionaire. But all the old boys Lwi died in time, and younger men now have their say; they Ilf hold that lassitude’s a crime, and pep’s the watchwordP of the day; It's truly strange how Punktowu grows since she from her trance awoke; and higher still taxation goes, until the taxes .leave-; tis broke. They're busy paving all the streets, improving all the public ways, and every day a fellow meets demands for coin he cannot raise. They're cutting-down obnoxious hills, they're grading alleys here and there; the voter has to pay the bills, and rends his clothes and tears his hair.The rents have risen so the gent who can’t a proper house provide, must rear his children in a tent, or underneath n, bridge reside. A few sad knockers wall and weep, the forward march gives them a pain; they’d see the town go back to sleep, but all their weeping is in vain. The saws resound, the hammers swing, there’s something doing in our grad, and It is ourajtq smile and sing, and pay our taxes and be glad.(Copyr)ght, Ita, ift atorg* UumFt .COFFEVVILLE OBJECTS. •Hugh Vowel] in The CaKeyvlUo Journal: In proposing a toast to Kansas and more especially to her United States senators, The Emporia Gazette paraphrases Daniel Webster's encomium on Massachusetts as follows, to-v.it; Kansas—there she stands. * yv-To which we object for the good end sufficient reason that Kant as doesn’t stand. She moves—forward. The words are all right as appliedFATHER AND DAUGHTER.A fitting social climax to the annual gathering of the state encampment of the. G. A. R., was the dinner at the Broadview last night’ given by the Daughters of the' Union Veterans to the old soldiers. Alter all in his declining years it is a man's daughter who understand*, the daughter who shields protects, the daughter whoto Massachusetts, but for the author ’ mothers man as he sloughs off man-of ‘'What’s the Matter With Kansas” to say this state stands'iai almost as big a mistake as he made when hi5 first political masterpiece was written. The only trouble, with Kansas when The Gazette was coin-plaining so eloquently and so .erroneously was that she was moving too fast!The Gazette didn't know it then, but took a tumble later on laid sicked Kansas on. The Empory editor led the Square Dealers! ind the Male Moose to heights and depths that would have seemed dizzy indeed to the old Pops, of the nineties! Which is mentioned here to refute the base insinuation that Kansas stands. She doesn't. .-.She e, ] moves ever and always. True,- part ;y i of the time she moves through mud, but she moves. In fact we may say she moves all ways and aiways. .WHEAT.Never before since the war' has wheat been so cheap In England as it is today, Liverpool has nearly three times the ordinary supply on hand. And every day ships of wheal will come into the Liverpool harbor from Argentine, from- the Unit-.hood, going down the slope to the sunset and becomes as a little child, ready for the Kingdom of God.” The Daughters of the Union Veterans at their dinner last night were acting a typical woman's part, a part as old as the race and as dear as sheltering love.THE FLOWER SHOW.The prettiest thing that happens in tills town is the spring flower show. The two garden clubs have united and will make it belter than it has ever been before. Here is one of the things that Uie town should support and support by the heartiest cooperation. Everyone has some sort of flower lex his yurd iris, peonies, roses, poppies, columbine, delphinium, phlox. Gather them up, tske them down, show them off. They will combine to make a beautiful show. This town is made by everyone putting his best foot forward and the flower show la a grand place for our forward moving feet.Civil War Veteran Dies.Dr. Jamas Lewis Ottcvman, 81, ot HVIIL Kansas City, Kan., a Civil wav vet-ed Btato;Trmn:'Caanftm.~-Trmt ;gtu£ ^raUrWho had.come. lo Emporia for!nii3 forcing down the price.'I* ] The lowered price of wheat will n i effect the politics of the world. The n j farmer has a fight cn his hands. ^ j He will demand some sort ot pro-j tcction for his great industry, even ,r,as the steel master and the great textile miU-owncr demand government protection for their Industry. I Cheaper bread for Europe may d | mean a political upheaval in Amcr-..; ica. The sign points to trouble.sc They Fat at Restaurants,U, I Emporia is a convention city [S where the hotels get all the adicr-^ tiring and the restaurants pci the majority of tlie business. Strange as it may seem, the persons who '• come to Emporia for conventions apparently do not cat at Uiu hotel• where they make their liradquar-j ter s. This was especially noticeable ’ at the G. A, R, convention tills• week. Wednesday noon the lobby ! cf the Broadview hotel was packed; with visiting Civil war veterans and 1 members of their affiliated orgr.n-' iza lions, but the diningroom,1 ,1a cent to the lobby, was onlylined.; -Delegates to conventions anpar-1 cnily want to get out of thc'con-! icntion building when the meetings | r.re dismissed for luncheon or din-1 iicr. Emporia restaurants In the ' . central part of town have been crowded at every meal hour.,r j Muny of the delegates are early- risers. One Emporia clerk, who hi* i Ltcii accustomed to ordering ins- roll and coffee about 3 o’clock every e morning, went to his favorite rcs-j tourant Wednesday only to I earnthat the delegates already had cat-y • cn every roll in the house.Continue Revival Meetings.Revival meetings still are in pro-grcss at the Church of Christ, ; Fourth and Merchant, C. L. V/il-* kcrson, evangelist from Springfield.* Mo., is preaching and Judson , Woodbrldge is conducting the song s] service. Wednesday evening the _; evangelist preached on Friendship „ with the Lord.” He said in par!;‘‘There are five Bible words that have similar significance. These words are reconciliation, religion, redemption, atonement and regeneration. Reconciliation suggests i friendship. In a Bible sense the -, agencies in reconciliation arc God. -1 Christ. Apostles and man. The t; terms of friendship have hern . j stated. It is the duty of man to I: yield to them.' Tonight’s subject will be “The Df-THE ODYSSEY OF YOUNG BILL.W. L, White went io Europe third class—which means steerage on the French liner He de France. He paid 1182 for his round trip ticket. He is now living in a fishing village on the Mediterranean at a boarding house for $1.60 a day. He went to investigate the cost of traveling for the average man. Here is his first letter after landing:Half way across the Atlantic, the S. S. ‘Tie de France” strains visibly through heavy seas and under gray skies. A brisk wind, its rawness somewhat tempered by the gulf stream, cuts diagonally across her bows, producing a spritely little cross-swell which emptied'one third of the chair* for luncheon an hour ago. Long and slender, her trim lines built for speed rather than stability, tliis flagship of the French Line is not notably comfortable in. a heavy sea. Turbines force her 41,-000 tons of dead weight,—which includes 600 first cl»53 passengers, 250 second, 360 third and sonic 900 of the crew,—through the big Atlantia combers wtth a boring, rotary moll-n.The smoking room, in which I am writing is wcU toward the bow ot the boat and rises and falls with the comber.*? some eight or 10 feet in. n cycle of about as many seconds, clutching oddly at the pit oi the stomach. Across the room sits n lR-tle girl who finished Wisconsin university last January and Is going to have a look at Europe with her brother. Her head, framed in a bit expensively twisted felt which Madison avenue shops have the af-frontery to sell -for hats this season. Is buried in French In 12 Easy Lessons,” and pale lingers libld ft Pftrtlculftrly villainous brand of French clgarct. Steadily wc rise and fall as though our ship were some microscopic animalcule riding the breast of a despondently sighing monster. Emptying its lungs completely in a paroxysm of inconsoluble grief, tlic monster lets us drop some 20 feet. “Twelve Easy Lessons slips gently to (he table where its leaves flutter aimlessly: the clg-nret squirms free, lights on the mahogany surface, and begins a rolling little dance of its own to the motion of the boat, but the Ml tic girl from Wisconsin heeds neither.he Is staring off through the ship's lml] in the general direction of Iceland. and her lips show an ominous blue under the scarlet of lipstick.The decision comes abruptly; ft flit of tlia skirt, a gasp of despair,flash of white knee and she is gone, clattering down the writhing stairs nnd along the squirming companion way to her cabin. The French rigaret continues its impudent dance of triumph until n passing steward, with a tray, of hair empty beer steins, drops it hissing into one cl the glasses-in one corner of the room a group of half a dozen young French sailors, bent over beer mugs and two chcckbrt«m.rd»r grin symp? thctlcaUy. at the sudden exit. Some 20 df them comprise the crew of the “Douce Marie” a French fishing vessel whichthe annual encampment of- the Grand Army of the Republic, wasfrund dead at 3:30 o’clock Wedncs- ............ ...c'.ny afternoon in his room at the,burned off tlic coast of Ncwfaund-Mit-Way hotel. Coroner C. E. Part-!lahd two weeks ngo. They are on ridgee believes that Ottcrman -died] I heir way back to St. Mulo. their of heart trouble about 6 o'cldck passage twirl by the insurance com-Wedneaday morning. pany, after a week in Boston andDr. OHerman attended the annual a day in New York.Campfire meeting Tuesday evening Did they llkts Boston? Oil very at the Lowiher Junior high school. much—a fine town, much like Brest and went lo his room at U o’clock Tnly htoger. nnd they learned F,ng-Tucsrtay night, according to friends . fcsh. You have French Pnpcur’’— who were with him. Post associates. that Is Enellsli. is it not, M'sicur? from Kansas City missed him in the' Did they like New York? A shrug, parade Wednesday morning and at It Is very like the pictures, but too either meetings Wednesday after- big. Too much noisn. so I hat one. noon. A search for him led to tlic. cannot sleep. How did their snip! hotel, where he was found dead lti-catch fire? Oh nn accident M'sicur,his bed,. Indications were that he died during the night, for he was. in night Rothes when found A ’card acl-crldcnL very sad. Wc left St. Halo in March, 20 of us on the ‘’Douce Marie” for tlic Grand Banks cf Newfoundland. Every year wedressed to his wife. Mrs. James E. ITO there for cod. Six hundred C Herman, GOG Tauromee avenue, j leagues of f tlic coast of Newfound* Kansas City, Kan., evidently wrlt-lDnd the Dottce Marie” caught fire, ten the night before but dated Mny For three hours we fought it with lb, was found on a Liable in the' buckets.—then we took to tin* boats, room. On the card he told his wife j 1 he sea was calm. and. rowing, we that he had been lading fine and|fitood bv. The fire burst out on that ho was enjoying the convcn-; fieci:, climbed her mo six. caught lion. . 11 he big sail, and gilded each sparDr. O Herman had retired from , as wc wale bed .—such a sad sight,— his medical practice several years s •' terrible. M’sicur. Lower she sets'go nud in recent years had been I'f-d as it grew darker, nt ft o’clock the mainmast leaned over and foil hissing Into ihe sea. nnd at 10 tho 1 Douce Marie raised her stern high into the air and sank. The first mate he cried,—he had sailed oniti the real estate business in Kansas City,He was born March 15. 1818 in Taunium. Pa. He served in Pennsylvania division No. 1513 in the ... . ______Civil war. Ho was attending the, I he Douce Marie for 15 ye.captain said nothing.Emporia pnrftf ________.........her or the Burnside ]»st. No. 1, or ■ watched. A terrible lass for l;lmr the G. A, R.» Kansas City. Kan. |l-oor man. But lie said it was all Funeral services and burial will ■ right, that we had done nil we could t;c In Kansas CJty, Kan.. Friday af- with the buckets, ternoon. Members of the Burnside “Then. Just ofte; . post will accompany the body to J'ie' had gone down,Kansas City this afternoon. Dr. Ot- lights of i\ ship, and lerman is survived by his widow.Get Ready for Convention.• The Emporia Business and Pro- ton. nnd they took fessional Women’s club has received , week we wii: be outline of tentative plans for ! where we all I lye. the annua] convention of the Kim- '“Then. Just after the ’Douce Ma-saw t he j put outil-:titern on an oar and waved It. it i a Scandinavian tramp cargo! the ’Svemka' bound for Bos-!aboard. Next; back in Si. M.-do,IThe Captain says he has some jsox Federation of Business and Pro- money left from the insurance and torsional Women's Clubs which will U*e first mate also has saved many ■ meet June 2, 3 and 4 nt Eli is. Con- thousand francs, co together they : mention headquarters will be at thc.^Ul Dny a new boat So good as: Cottage Inn hotel and meetings will • lt;be ‘Douce Marie’? Probably not,! be, held in Memorial halt, and the! M’sicur. They do not build ships j Methodist church. Delegates will trim, so fast as her any more.' register Sunday and will attend a ! She was the fastest fishing craft In 1 vesper service and reception Sunday ! Brittany and could beat any of them ; evening, following :i muUcal tea in to the Grand Banks by two days, the afternoon. The convention will!Rut with Uie money they will get! be called lo order at 8 o'clock Mon- good, seaworthy craft, and next' day morning, following a 7 o’clock * year we will again be off Newfound-! breakfast. Vocational luncheons Dr.d, following tho cod. it jLUHitfiii-M suujcci Will be “The Di- ?11 bC scrvc^l®t noon Monday with ; |vine and Human Cooperate in Sal- I-!? 'vo”!fn dK1°ed into salesman-! i have been analyzing the smell* valion. Services begin at 8 o’- , merchants, and proies- which i?i in the smoking room and'sional and ^cretarlnl groups. A corridors of the third class quar-j shopping tour wlli close the Monday'tors; given a few Imported iiigrcdl-i afternoon ««sion and a rosctime ciUs. wlih the proper lighting rl-, 5™“,*. f fieri™ 'l O'clock feet*, and 1 think I could reproduce' evening with Georgia A. r. in Emporia in all its overnow j ring 0„v Jp,rc,1lt;!eil(t' brcstdlng. r.lmy. Here is my receipt; take one!■ Tons Do.no* ,vhfnroch on ’'Sex S c.“.lmin*!c !”.“5 r'att rY™ch d«5r *«*. wwH»fc:|1 Questionnaires and the Sixth Commandment.” Special musical numbers will be given.j Churr.h Service Tonight.11. ,A mid-week service will be heldp.lory. Here is my receipt; take one! f,m.ont(m ... 111 UK '::in TTonch cigar smoke, sweetish: I• at- 9:30 o'clock, me part rancid machine oil from-Tuesdays program will open with a Die ventilators; a whiff of stale7 o clock breakfast in Memorial hall ;lt; u ppumc. a trace o! v.-^t collie ‘and the convention picture will be dog. jtwt a dash ■ or decaying ba-■ - ( ^Kcn Jwrorc the 9 o'clock scwlmi.|nxna-prrl nnd the contents ri one’Lc-ran C.ub to Elect. i Memorial services will be conducted :er.yirk polish baby, stir wiUi a j'nw ‘^ Members of the Logan Avenue I Tuesday morning and officers will up-and-down moUott1 umil the;lity center will hold their i to elected in the afternoon. Plans lumps are rtbwolvrd, and serve con- i, dinner Friday evening at: for the national convention to be '-rantly. day and night for •*lt;x dav* !, 'I15 Lo^!i Avenue schoolhoiisc. Of- ] held on Mackinac Island will be riw- has been with us for «0 ions that rtnlt;i 3 s!,orl I c:,£K!rt the clarinS session of the [ run used to it and would hesitate' J convention, Tuesday evening, ■ lt;o say anything hasty about so triedi program will be given.JUSTICE TO ML GANNETT.Recently The Gazette congratulated the people of the southwest on the Jact that The Kansas City Star is a free newspaper, by calling attention to the fact that when the bidding for The Star occurred, one of the bidders was financed by the International Paper company, which is in turn financed by the great power trust interests of the cast.Frank E. Gannett, of the Gannett newspapers, of Rochester, writes to The Gazette to say that when he was bidding on The Kansas City Star, he was not being financed by and bad no connection whatever with Ore International Paper company. Mr. Gannett’* word cannot be questioned. A* an evidence of his good faith, he has recently paid, off his indebtedness on certain others of his newspapers to the international Paper company;- and is now a free man, as he probably was all the time. Ha could not realize how the public would regard a newspaper man who is financed by the International Paper company which was owned by the power trust. Mr. Gannett’s professional Integrity and business stanninj are irreproachable.And yet, wc who know the old Star, who loved the old Colonel, its founder, cannot help being glad that those who were trained in Hie Star’s tradition, who held In their hearts the ideals which he Implanted there, still own nnd control The Star, and make it the great free newspaper of the Missouri valley, outstanding, impregnable, beloved. .Men and women in their forties and fifties in this section have learned to read from The Star like a primer, end have grown Into life with It, have accepted its ideal* and are proud of its achievements. Its freedom, of course^ is a necessary part of Tlie Star’s character. But upon that freedom it has built so much Intelligence nnd courage, nnd so kindly an attitude toward life that any change in its bent anti diicc- j tlon would be a shock to the middle west.AMERICA AWHEEL.Tlic publication from the United fjtatw department of Commerce nt Washington, devoted to a discussion of “Recent Changes in tlic Uni Led States.” puls tlie number ot automobiles at 25 million. Other statisticians disagree with this. A careful computation recently made by a number of competent statisticians indicates that the actual number of passenger automobiles In the United Stales, .at tho end of 1928, would not greatly exceed 1ft million.But that is a big figure. II probably will go to 20 million this year, laid If Wtnttid the trucks ami tfnwqj‘! va would probably have enough r-io Lor vehicles lo take every man. woman and child in the United State* on u Joy ride at the same time. And as a matter of fact, probably every Inhabitant of this country who in able-bodied takes lux dally ride,The use of automobiles Is universal. Who can.’’ said Stalin, head of Hit; Russian government, to Tvy Lee, hi'fiii of public!tv for tlic Standard oil. make headway in propaganda against 20 miillcm automobile.-.? Twenty million automobiles: electricity in 17 million hunits; with nearly Tour million children in high school; nml more than a million S'cung men and women in college creates an impregnable barrier against Communism. This barrier is stouter than all Hie (Meuse societies, all the red bailing organizations In 11 a? world.A middle class h the guarantee , ar.aln.st Bolshevism. And when you carry more than a bill Urn and n half tons of dor lies tie freight every year over our American railroads and waterways, ii. is evidence of *he distribution of the things of this world to the jicnplc of this country so nearly equitable, that Lliej Bolshevist seed fall* on barren j ground.This country is still the land of! ’he irce. ITHE SPANKING.The other tiny The Gaze lie gave the town kids ft red spanking and j «ct them down on 11. for cheering!, and cat erwaul lug *l the state music j contest when ihP Emporia team* j appeared. The press of the slate j wax surprised. Tli” Leaven wo r Mi | Times astounded at tiic nerve of It !. and tiit* cr.teemed Arkansas City I Traveler was shocker I, “indeed. dc- 1 flares the editor or The Traveler: J“To suy we are shocked is to put h mildly. Emporia that kind of ;• own! Emporia the golden-haired *1' boy among Knru.ar muni rips lit iivj! Enworia the neat of all culture, j the center at Oxonolah learning, ( ihrj nc plus ultra and the slue qua } non. to say nolhing of NaLura lo . fcce. e pot tnmpi; la stauijia, lt;uj the 1 r us twor t h y ol d \! i lt;■ w u r us t ■;! is us! j Emporia, that InspLri-s the use or ]■ foreign termi tjf which one knows nothing. We hud thought Mint Mil* i' youth nf Em (Kirin ibtcncd with rapt expression (. Bach. Brahms ! and llcrt I io vcn; Mini k riir,cu.w«i ! with cquej solemnl* v the sym- ■ phonic? of Schubert and the ph,;!- I twophirs of Kant, is 1: that all ' these years we have been dujK-d? ! Can k bo that the youth of Em- ■ porU is like the youth of every : other city in Kaiuvu? Yea. even of Arkansas City?Wc!i—that's about I he of It. ! The difference In youth : irgi*Iy ,i : J r?a»U’r ?f manner?. M-irmrr.* are ■ ‘ i-kin deep, end when O ycsin,-;1J folks forget their minners :t u. !h-.-!. redly i-Ocmn duly of The O.ireMe in loco parentis to tan their sk*n ' and mmd their manner*ar.d true a r..:'.i;nnion. We 1: when I. ^one. —W. L, W’.uc.
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Emporia Weekly Gazette
Emporia, Kansas, US
Thu, May 23, 1929
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