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ITHAOA JOUKNALrNEWS, THTHISDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1U20. FbUR This Day In Ithaca's History. August 20, 18K0 40 Years Aro. The new trunk line of the New York, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Is to run through this county. The hoopsklrt continues to grow.

The ordinance relative to compelling people to cut the yrt growing on the walk or street Jn front of their residences should be forced without further dallying. Even on some of the principal utreeti a few blocks from the center of town the crop of weeds Is so rank thit Ithaca Journal -News Published ITHACA JOURNAL-NEWS, INC. FRANK K. GANNETT. President JOHN W.

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Totofflce as Second Class Postal Matter HIFMRFR OF THE ASSOCTATKT) PRESS 1 ti pr liVxrluslvelv entitled to the use for riihliirt herein. 3 The Journal-News is a merrher of the Audit Bureau of It Is with difficulty that pedestrians can pass along without havlnj I PLATFORM AND nilHOX According to a Washington dispatch to the World "a member of the President's cabinet" has framed and sent to Kie governor of every state, for introduction into the legislature, a bill making a legislator whose vote upon any measure Is "in violation of any principle or policies set forth or declared tor in the party platform upon which he is elected" guilty of a felony. If convicted he is to be confined "in the penitentiary for any "term not to exceed 10 years, and in addition thereto shall forfeit his righto as a citizen to vote." If suck a bill has been prepared by a member of the cabinet he has taken a solemnly and delightfully humorous way of focusing public attention upon the interminable scrap-bag nd omnium-gathering platforms that have too long been the political fashion and are growing more and more Intolerably superfluous. To assume that this mass of policies calculated for all attitudes is, in every Jot and tittle, a law to t'ae party that puts it forth, and that any legislator voting against any bill not consonant with some statement in the long beadroll of bids for votes shall lan-guish. In a' prison cell.

Is a delicious stroke of satire. Probably the war was afraid to suggest that August 28, 1900 20 Years AffO. In the second of a series of races held Saturday for a grand prize offered by the Cayuga Lake Yacht Club of Cayuga, the boat Chonon-dote, owned by Norman and Morris Halliday of this city, carried off first honors. State fair week. The 5:21 Lehigh Valley train pulled, out with four vetertrn aboard the special coach bound for Chicago.

About 200 people came to this city from Towanda, yesterday on a Lehigh excursion. It Look Like a Fight! Fight! Fight! 'Till Election Night! IF, ifs J. Plfflngton Baze, it costs 115,000,000 to be elected president, he will be contented with running for constable In the Town of Venice Center. Jake Baze, aged eight, asserts the chap is a fool Who can hardly wait for the opening of school. WE HAVE GOT A LOT of FAMOUS thls-and-thats in our Col-yum Morgue that hare simply got to be turned loose.

No time like the present, s0 here goes the whole shebang: Famous Tales. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 rent and transportation cause considerable differences in the response of retail prices in different sections of the country. Thus the labor department's bulletin itself estimates that while average family expenditure for food decreased in 17 cities of the United States between June 15 and July 15, it increased in 32. Total average family expenditure in July decreased only one per cent, or less in such places as St. Paul and Detroit, but it was cut down four to six per cent, in Kansas City, Louisville, and Portland, Oregon.

The question is still discussed whether prices may not suddenly rise again, when the usually active autumn purchases of the public begin; but the best business judgment seems to answer in the negative. No doubt there is a limit to the duration of the "consumer's strike," even in such articles as shoes and clothing. But the scarcity of credit, especially when asked for by speculative merchants and producers who would like to hold goods back from market, will be at least as great in the autumn as in midsummer. Such curtailment of production as has actually occurred (at the textile mills, for instance) is notoriously offset by the great amount of merchandise which has been thrown back into the hands of middlemen or producers because of inability of retailers to dispose of it at the old high prices. The fall of more than 20 per cent, in the price of cotton has apparently put a barrier against increase in the finished merchandise; the Journal of Commerce, in its review of the dry goods market, goes so far as to say that experienced business men do not look for return of the old prices for a long time, "perhaps never again in this generation." Behind these home considerations, and perhaps providing the main explanation for the fact that the fall in prices since last winter has been worldwide, stands the fact, of which too little account has yet been made, of the great decline in ocean freight rates.

With the world's tonnage of all types of ships now far in excess of the pre-war total, and with commercial communications which had for years been partly or wholly blocked reopened to international trade, the influence both on supplies of goods and on cost of delivery at market cannot fail to remain effective. New York Evening Post. "rhA deaf and desnerate head" of 19th Amendment Self-Executing, Taft Holds; No State Legislation Needed To Give Women Ballot of Normandy; Rtorv Telling out of school. of woe. A likely the platform-breaker should be visited state with something lingering, like boiling oil.

Of course it would be difficult for a member of a legislature to vote at all if he had to wade through the vast waste and muddle of his platform to find out whether he was about to commit a felony. Sometimes pledges made for political purposes in a platform have had to be broken in the public "interest. Presidents have urged and congress aas consented to the violation of "party pledges;" and almost every platform crowded with that can't Famous Trails There's a Long, Long a-Wind- ing. of the Lonesome Pine Indian Lou Smith's Fox 's End. be carried out and that nobody ex Justice to alL" Rural Population Decline.

For an object lesson of the way the farm sections of the country. In lVlO Wayne County had a PoPation of 50,179 in 1920 this had fallen to 48,827. a loss of 1,325. But this does not give the full meas ure of the decrease of rural population. During the 10-year interval the seven incorporated villages of the county registered a gain of 1 931 So the net loss in the rural sections was 1,325 plus 1,931, or 3,256 This is almost 10 per cent of the 1910 total of these sections, which footed 33,015.

This situation prevails all over the State of New York and a large part of the United States The rural sections have not merel faUed to gain as fast as the cities. They have sustained an actual loss the number of inhabitants. No wonder it is hard to secure enough farm heThis year the crops have been abundant. But how will it be in a bad crop year? If the draining of the farms by the cities keeps up where are we going to come out; Will not the city dwellers have to pay in increased prices for their privilege, until a balance is gradually re-established? The farm worker may have had a hard lot in the past but it looks as if his position were bound to keep on improving at the expense of those who have disdained farm labor and crowded into the cities. Famous Cents.

Dollars and rifugal. er rush. Imeter. Three war tax. Famous Marks.

et. to vote may be granted to otheri it is easy to cee that under some circumstances it may operate ai the immediate source of a right to vote. In all cases when the former slave-holding statei had not removed from their constitutions the words 'white man' aa a qualification for voting, this pro-vision did, in effect, confer on him the right to vote, because being paramount to the eUte lav and a part of the state law, it annulled the discriminating word white, and thus left him In the enjoyment of the same right as white persons, and such would be the effect of any future constitutional provisions of a state which should give the right of voting exclusively to white people whether they be men or women. In such cases this Fifteenth Amendment does, proprlo vigore, substantially confer on the negro the right to vote, and Congress has the power to protect and enforce the right. It follows from this authorltatfa construction of the Fifteenth Amend ment that the Nineteenth Amendment as passed does not need any if.

firmative action by the states to women the right to vote at once. It is self-executing. It by its own fore amends every election law it evj Curb The easy German Land Stock Famotu Lakes. of Killarney. pects to be carried out.

The length and verbosity of party platforms are deplorable; but the voters, most of them unequal to the task of penetrating these Jungles of words, find out by their own instinct what vlie cardinal policies and promises are. On them or on one of them the result of the election usually depends. A platform ought to be short, clear, definite. It ought to be possible when one party is victorious and the other defeated to tell exactly on what the people "Iiave pronounced Judgment. Thus responsibility would be established.

The party managers and platform makers prefer to befog the public as much as possible. Even if this "member of the President's cabinet" be an allegory from the Potomac, the thrust the monstrous balloons sent up into t'-ie inane by political parties every year and every four years, is commendable. It Is good to tell the truth laughingly. The satirist may have had a subsidiary object, too. Gravely pretending to manufacture a new felony, he may be g'bing at the modern mania for inventing and punishing new offenses.

New York A Movie Invasion. Finger By WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. (Copyright, 1920, Public Ledger Co.) The Nineteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which has now been adopted by the affirmative vote of the Legislature of Tennessee as the 36th state to ratify it, reads as follows: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." This Is called the "AnthoTiy" amendment, because first framed and introduced into Congress more than 40 years ago at the instance of Susan B. Anthony, one of the leading advocate0 of woman suffrage. The suffrage amendment was drawn in the exact form, mutalis mutandis, of the Fifteenth Amendment, which reads as follows: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shan not be denied or abridged by" the United States or by any state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude." Both amendments contain as a second section the following: "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." It was very wMse in the framers of the Anthony amendment to follow in exact words the Fifteenth Amendment, because the latter amendment has been construed by the Supreme Court in several cases, and its effect upon etate legislation as to elections and electors has been made clear beyond dispute.

The Supreme Court has affirmed that women have always been citizens of the United States if born or naturalized in the United States and that the Fourteenth Amendment merely confirmed this; but the Court denied that citizenship of the United States carried with it the right to vote. The Court expressed the unanimous opinion that the Constitution did not confer the right of suffrage upon any one and that the constitution and laws of the several states which committed that important trust to men alone were not trout (very scarce). Famous Ways. of the world. Back and Sit Down.

Go Cellar farer. and Means. Water s. Path Broad state so as to include in the state electorate women as well as ma where only men were given the right to vote before. Of course a woman cannot vote, who, if she had been i man, could not have voted under the laws of the state where she lives.

She must in all respects have the qualifications which men voters must have under the electlos law; but If she fulfills these requirements, she can vote and the state cannot prevent her doing, and no delay of the ctate in recognizing or acting on the ne amendment can prejudice her right to vote. Election officers of the state who impede or deny htr rtgM to vote expose themselves to prosecution under status, whether federal or state-enacted, to protect citizens in their lawful right to vote. It may well be that the doubling of the number of voters in every state by this amendment will require for the convenience of voters amendments to the election laws of the Ftates; but such inconvenience cannot be made any excuse for preventing women from exercising the franchise. Although "there are no British films being shown in this country at the present moment," a correspondent of the London Times eggs his countrymen on to a campaign of invasion and conquest. "There is something going wrong with the American industry financially." Popular taste is advancing.

"Those who have made millions are getting out of the way because the public is beginning to ask what they deem to b.e too much for them." The correspondent frankly admits that in England there are no actors, and especially no actresses, of the 'first rank; that the directors are repressed as artists; that the studios are ramshackle and poverty-stricken, the resources for lighting inadequate and the creation of the background mostly an obvious fake. Yet, with the pluck which has so often won out in British trade, he exhorts his countrymen to get into the field which Americans "who have made millions" are getting out of. He wants them to supply the demand for novelty which our leading producers "deem too much for them." One sentence in the indictment of our movie directors ha3 a stimulating sound. They "talk in millions and think in nickels." Even a casual acquaintance with "movie palaces" reveals a lack of all the more strenuous endeavors of creative intellect. One goes with hope from Charles to Mary and Doug, then back again to Charlie, with a hope that lingers still; and yet, with all the admirable low living, there is really no perceptibly Emersonian high thinking.

When it comes to supplying this lack, however, our English critic speaks with a dubious accent. He tells his countrymen about Pollyanna, who, when she had broken her leg, thanked God that it wasn't her neck and he seems to think that the novelty which our moviexmil- JUST READ WHAT UK SAYS! Governor Cox's acceptance speech: To the careful reader, it is neither inspiring nor convincing. Its chief defect is in its general tone. The speech is not the dignified utterance one would naturally expect from an aspirant to an office so exalted as the presidency. There is much of merit and thoughts and suggestions of good purpose in the Governor's speech, but the speech as a whole, as we have stated, is marred by its tone.

We sincerely hope that every one of our patrons will give it careful reading. Marion, Ohio, Star (Senator Harding's paper). Senator Harding's acceptance speech: We hope the speech will be widely read In America. In no better way can.tfie people of the nation be afforded an opportunity to study the candidate and observe more clearly how completely Senator Harding is out of harmony with progressive thought in this country. Dayton, Ohio.

News (Governor Cox's paper). It held that the Fifteenth Amendment did not confer the right of suff Spending. The Country Gentleman says it is "going to keep on using argument and ridicule, even abuse if necessary, until signs of an abatement in this national insanity begin to show themselves and until the tide sets somewhat strongly in the direction of industry and thrift which are the only virtues which can pull us out of the hole we are in." One of its points is that "granted we have earned a good time, we have earned a good many things that we cannot get and cannot afford to have, and this is no time to cash in on our personal privileges." This is good sense. There are times when people are building up a new business or reorganizing an old one when, no matter how hard they work or how much they earn, theoretically or in cash, everything must go "into the business." Only the most closely reckoned living expenses can be taken out for current use. Everything else must go toward the basic needs of getting the business on its feet, or a crash will follow.

The nation is in such a period of its growth. The war disorganized our whole business, national and individual As a nation and as individuals, we are running behind where we ought to be at this time. If we spend everything we make as we go along we shall never catch up. But if we work as hard as we can, earn as much as we can and spend as little as we can, the saving difference between our earning and spending will soon fill up the hole and put us where we ought to be. Then, and not now, we can afford to cash in.

LOOKS LIKE a real old-fashioned campaign after all. Mud-slinging has already commenced. The Skeleton of Prohibit Ion. (Fulton correspondence in the Richmond (Va.) Planet.) 11:30 a. m.

our pastor, the Rev. C. A. Cobbs, preached a very Interesting sermon, subject "Dry Bones." Still, stills F. G.

it would appear that some of our local grocers didn't have the crust to keep on charging 16 cents for a loaf of bread. Random Shots. Another good rule for the heated term is not to let other people's political views pester you, however much yours may pester them. Houston Post. There is such a thing as a perfect husband, a perfect day and a perfect 3 6.

but there is no perfect ice man. Toledo Blade. Now and then a woman reconciled to everybody forgetting her birthdays except her husband. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

And sometimes when a woman's face is her fortune her feet are her misfortune. Dallas News. Some of the June brides report that on account of the high cost of rents, this thing of living with father and mother is not as onerous as it seemed to be. Los Angeles Times. Xo Cliane for Him.

(Boston Transcript.) In spite of the advanced prices the barber was blue, and the razor he was rage on any one, that it merely prevented the states or the United States from giving preference, in this particular, to one citizen of the United States over anotner on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. In subsequent cases, however, where It was contended in view of this principle that Congress could not protect the right to vote of negroes by penal legislation, the Court amplified and explained Its previous ruling, in the language of Mr. Justice Miller, as follows: While it Is quite true as was said by this court. In U. S.

vs. Reese, 92 U. S. 218, that this article (the Fifteenth Amendment) gives no affirmative right to vote and is designed primarily to prevent discrimination against him whenever the right CHICHESTER PILLS Grow Your Hair GET THIS FREE If roe hT rUcdrnff. or if too i kir Wfintnf cui, or if you have a bmld spot, yon ttiatLa know that legions of persons hire oTerroa thesa troubles through a geouine Isdltsj recipe, which will be mailsd you fret viU p-oof box of the wondarf ally ffiemriosi olil ment.

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Take trier. Bur of rtror Irrit. A.kfarriII-CirE8.TElta DUkuKD II A NO FILLS, foi 8 ywn known Best, Stfatt. Alwcjn RelltMt SOLD gY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE nonaires are stumped to produce is more of the same "optimism and faith." Americans are "childlike in their love of home life and primi tive in their sentiment." The British producer should "appeal to all that is simplest and best wielding seemed to share his discour The Decline In Prices. ana ciean in tne hearts of both nations." There is to be "no labor trouble story" and, alas for our Emersonian hopes (Ralph Waldo, not Anita and John), there is to be "no high brow junk, as they say here." The story that is wanted is the, story that "uplifts morally," but by no means cerebrally.

The American world loves to weep gently;" but it indulges this gentle love onlv after if i full "that there is a smile waiting behind each agement. "I've Just about decided to open a butcher shop," he said, reaching for the powdered astringent. "And will you close this one?" his victim gasped feebly. Dry Days. Whatever else may happen Now that our country's dry.

The sailor still will have his port, The farmer have his rye. The cotton still will have its gin. The sea coast still its bar. And each of us will have a bier, No matter where we are. Exchange.

Four years from now they'll nominate a man who never smoked in the parlor and smelled up the lace curtains. GOOGIE. The department of labor, in its preliminary report on the movement of wholesale prices in July, shows that the general average decreased something over two and one-half per cent. Reducing the aggregate of prices for the same articles in 1913 to 100 as a basis, the figure works out at 262 for July, as against 269 in June and 272 in May. This general average does not, however, tell the whole story.

In several groups of commodities, such as metals, fuel, lumber, and house-furnishing goods, prices either yielded only in a trifling degree or else advanced. But cloths and clothing, which were averaged at 356 last March and at 335 in June, were down to 317 in July, and food, which was 279 in June, is scheduled for July at 268. In order to understand fully the existing status, these figures of the labor bureau for July should be supplemented by comparison with wholesale prices in August; these show for the month to date such changes as a decline in cotton from 40 to 33 Vs cents per pound, in print cloths from 13 to 12 Vi cents per yard, in sugar from 21 to 17V cents a pound, in coffee from 10 cents to seven, and in flour from $13.75 to $13 per barrel. It is a matter of very general comment and complaint that retail prices have not declined in the full measure of the fall in the wholesale markets. This may, however, be a somewhat hasty conclusion.

There has certainly been a fall in retail prices for such necessaries as food, clothing, and shoes. In the two last-named articles, one has only to watch the windows of very numerous small shops, both in the uptown and downtown districts. With these kinds of goods, however, as indeed with food, it is still essential to look for the establishments which have made the reduction. There are still plenty of retail merchants who are holding closely to their old Schedules, even whpn pnmnHtnrs nn a guip. oan it oe tnat our invaders, while talking of the millions to be made here, have adopted our national habit of thinking in small change? In the correspondence which these letters have engendered Anthony Charles Keith offers one real idea.

American life, in spite of our hundred milions, presents only "an everlasting sameness." Whether you go North South, East or West, you find the selfsame boots on the men," the selfsame "bows on the children's heads." iL.Eve" Americans must be getting tired of this. England is perhaps similarly drab, but it commands a wealth of local color in closely neighboring countries- France, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Balkans, Egypt. a 1 1 wen an English producer stages an Arab fight he resorts to broken-down cab horses and badly disguised supers, which he deploys on the Blackpool sands. At the same or less expense he could go to the African desert, hire Arabs and camels, and pull off his a.tmo,sePhere that would strike even the California climate booster dumb Let England abandon all hope of cockney-izing Pollyanna and give us the color and life of Europe at its best. There is sound merchandising that and sound art.

There may still be an English movie invasion unless our novelty-seeking directors beat them on their own ground. New York Times. BUG-OLOGY What do you call them? Bedbu (Clmex lectularlue). Th origin of the name bedbug ia unknown, but 1 supposed to be naturally suggested as It la descriptive. There are many local names tor theae parasites, as for llluatra- they called Chinches.

from Baltimore cornea the name 'Mahogany Flat." In New Tors they are styled as "Red Coata," around Pittsburgh they are called "Pesky Devils," In Cincinnati and the South "Night-riders, in St. Louis and Chicago 1st riot Crimson Ramblers," the great West "Plltruas" V1'1. bedbug haa no teeth, but they get there Just the same." la correct. Instead of teeth they possess Piercing and suckling beak to draw and rob you of your blood for their own body. Bedbugs, no matter what you may call them, or where they came from, aclence JJ2f wa? t0 rtd them win use fauhfiillv V.

i I FAIR WEEK BARGAINS A Surprise in Every Store! evils Quietua D. A J5c package makes one quart, enough to kill a million JF9i nM. ante or eootlea. wen. U.

Will nOl Injure bedding, and each package contains fPf; nv "EPi.1 to nbl you to get them rg-to-get-at-plaeas. Impossible for Pesky Deviia to exlat where D. Q. Be sure you get yours block away are offering the same goods at How will Mexican newspaper correspondents earn a living if Villa really reforms? Louisville. Post.

CTJCes. urthermore, the matter of rlftM nv.