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STAR THE MILAN STANDARD, MILAN, MO. Thursday, February 9, 1921. THE MILAN STANDARD OLDEST PAPER IN SULLI- SOURI PRE SUBSORIPTON PRICE VAN COUNTY $2.00 THE YEAR T. A. DODGE Published Every Thursday Editor and Proprietor at Milan, the County Seat.

THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN NORTH MISSOURI Read our Washington letter on page 7. It is good. Who was it said: "When thieves fall out, honest men get their dues?" Governor Hyde, Auditor Hackman, State Senator Hiram Loyd are throwing "bouquets" at each other. We are wondering whether they DO or DO NOT understand each other? "Thou cans't not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me." So says Macbeth. We might all learn a lesson from the humble little postage stamp.

It sticks to one thing until it GETS THERE. A plain lisle or cotton stocking that is paid for looks far better to us than the silk pair that milady wears that she has RUN HER FACE to get. Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that can stand Wood alcohol is not altogether to be blamed for the fools drinking it. How about the wooden heads? Seven more new subscribers this week. Why say more? They are all doing it.

Missouri is certainly Hyde bound. Wonder what "Artful Art" is doing with all these taxes he is collecting? Can you see any improvement in old Missouri? Auditor Hackman, Republican, has felt the iron heel of Czar Hyde. Hop to it! When thieves fall out honest men get their dues. If they both tell all they know about each other Jesse James' career would look pale by the side of it. In Novinger they dug up enough evidence to arrest and place under bond the cashier of the defunct bank.

Do you suppose the reason for no arrests in Milan is because we have no miners and picks to dig up the evidence with? The Legion boys need not be uneasy. The Republicans will pass the bonus bill before it is time for the boys to again vote. It is the only thing they have left in the way of a "vote getter" to offer the boys. And will they "fall" for it? Hollywood, California, don't only bask in the sunlight, but in the limelight, as well. Fatty Arbuckle and Virginia Rapp are not the only fools that could not stand prosperity.

The movie director, Taylor, who was mysteriously murdered in his apartment a few days ago, evidently got what he deserved judging from his checkered career. Little Mary Miles Minter, a cute little movie star, said "she just couldn't believe it that Mr. Taylor was so good she could only compare him to God." Why don't Mary's mother turn her up and spank her. My Gawd! It is more than passing strange that Boies Penrose should leave in safety deposit box more than two hundred thousand dollar's in currency of large denominations, and not even the rule that the memory of the dead should not be outraged by unkind statements can prevent the presumption that Mr. Penrose was attempting to conceal the source of this great fund.

He was the accepted and acknowledged agent of great financial interests in politics and in Congress. If his service had been merely altruistic he would probably have died a poor man. As it is, he appears to have reaped a harvest that in itself is an adequate commentary upon the life and political morals of the man who garnered it -Missouri State Journal. The grand jury at St. Louis recommends that we have "more bank examiners," after looking over the lay of the Night and Day bank at that place and finding out how rotten it was conducted.

Yes, that would be bank examiners," just a few more spokes to "Art Hyde's" political wheel. "More bank examiners?" Bah! What we need is the ones that we have got to REALLY EXAMINE ALL banks and turn in the shaky ones. regardless of who it hurts -banks in rural communities are decreasing and we don't need more examiners, but WE ONEED really CAPABLE men who can qualify to fill these positions and not put men in to merely pay political debts. Ah, you soldier lads, that voted for Harding and Hyde- you feel proud? If you get your bonus or if you don't you are damned if you do and you are damned if you don't. If you get one YOU will pay for it yourself with a special tax on the things you have to buy.

For instance--a tax-on every documentary stamp and the soldier has to make an affidavit every time he turns around--that alone will pay the bonus. No tax on what the rich use, but on tobacco, cigarettes and documentary stamps, the things you use. Any time the soldier, or any one else that is poor, ever hears of the G. 0. P.

passing any bill that will really benefit the masses please some of you tell us about it. And in the meantime we are so poor we can't pay the soldier their bonus, but we can cancel billions of honest debts that Europe owes us so the loans to the rich man will be secure. The young voter is being told these days by the "old-line" Republican. that "the many faults of our government lies with the men elected, and not with the party." In other words, when the young man asks one of the old hide-bound Republicans what is the matter, they answer by telling him that "we made a mistake in electing Harding and Hyde; they were the wrong men, etc." But that is not true. The mistake is in the principles of the old Republican party.

Their principles are wrong; their ideas are wrong, because it is a party dominated and run by the rich and the aristocratic neople of the country. It is a party that has always wrecked the poor to salvage the rich and this is the first time in the history of the world when the Republican party HAS BEEN FORCED TO SHOW ITS HAND TO THE PEOPLE. Boys, don't let the hard-boiled, one-idea Republican deceive you. for YOURSELF and you will never, no never, vote the Think Republican ticket. And Boise Penrose, the standpat Republican's idol, has been "found wanting." In his safety deposit box was found more than $260,000 in bills of large denominations.

No one knows where this great amount of wealth came from; no taxes were being paid on it and evidently Mr. Penrose was concealing the fact that he had it in his "strong box" for the reason that he did not want anyone to know anything about it. And so it goes all up and down the line. Every day there is revealed to the public eye somewhere, someplace, someone prominent in the Republican party who has gone wrong and betrayed the trust of the people. And the longer we live the more we will continue to find that the old gop leaders and their principles were corrupt and ruinous to this country.

How many times has Penrose's gifted and silver voice reverberated in the halls of the Senate accusing the Democrats of dishonesty and telling how loyal and faithful were the members on side of the house to the people and the country. And yet, when he his died, they found two hundred thousand dollars hid away in his safety deposit box in Washington. THAT IS MORE CASH MONEY THAN IS IN ALL LOOKING BA TEN YEARS AGO Miss Roxana Jones, county supt. schools, offered a prize, of $5.00 to given for the best essay on The first prize went to the Green school and Milan won second prize. G.

E. Anderson, wife and Miss Catherine, moved from Unionville to Milan. Uncle Dennis Ryan celebrated 80th birthday with a fine dinner his home in Milan. Married, Floyd Neeley and Miss Edna Clark, both of near Milan. Anna Willis was suing the village of Browning for damages sustained by falling through a defective walk.

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Married, Augustus Hoselton and Miss Mary Banner, at the home of John Somerville and wife. Died, Nancy J. Webb, wife of Matt Webb, she was 60 years old. Married, John W. Neff and Miss Lilly Nix, both of Osgood.

Died, Mrs. Mary E. Chenoweth, aged 60 years, of cancer, at her home in Milan. Married, Lester Fusselman and Miss Bertha Shaw, at the home of the bride. of Died, Mrs.

Julia I. Ford, aged 34, be at her home in Milan of pneumonia. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Died, Edward Braden, at his home at Greencastle, of heart disease. Carl M. Crumpacker, oldest son of D.

H. Crumpacker, was killed in a railroad accident at Lafayette, Ind. Wm. McClanahan was appointed public administrator for Sullivan county. Married, John R.

Wilhite and Miss Cassie Swiggy and James S. Guffey and Miss Fannie Swiggy. The brides were sisters. The double wedding occurred at the home of their parents, Bart Swiggy and wife, of near Green City. Shelby Bros.

store at Winigan was robbed of a large amount of goods. Will Swink made a complete confession turning state's evidence and implicating Geo. and Ben Mofftt, Fin Moffitt, John and Ed. Greenstreet. They were arrested and bound over to the circuit court.

Thieves entered the home of R. B. Ash and stole a shot bag containing $25.15. OF THE BANKS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTY OF SULLIVAN COMBINED. It does not listen good, does it? I AM YOUR TOWN Make of me what you will- I shall reflect you as clearly as throws back a candle beam.

If I am pleasing to the eye of the stranger within my gates; such a sight as, having seen me, he will remember me all his days as of beauty, the credit is yours. Ambition and opportunity call some of my sons and daughters tasks and mighty privileges, to my greater honor and to my good far places, but it is not chiefly these who are my strength. My in those who remain, who are content with what I ca noffer them, what they can offer me. It was the greatest of all Romans who said: be first in a little Iberian village than be second in Rome." I am more than wood and brick and stone, more even than blood-I am the composite soul of all who call me Home. I am your Legion Weekly.

PAYING, FOR THE BONUS. Secretary Mellon's tax plan for a soldier bonus looks to us like a "powerful slick" scheme to make the veteran pay his own Tobacco, postage stamp tax, and documentary stamps--these are recommended as the only available source of revenue. Of course the veterans don't smoke all the tobacco that is consumed in the country, but they kept plenty of factories going during the war and there has been no observable decline in consumption since the armistice. As for postage stamps, thing of the returns if all the soldiers have to pay a one cent tax on every letter they write to the Veterans' Bureau, or to their congressmen trying to get the bureau to answer their letters. And a documntary stamp would include a tax on affidavits, presumably.

A tax on the affidavits required before a man can get his compensation claim acted upon would pretty nearly pay the bonus, all by itself. As a substitute, we suggest that the members of congress pay a tax on every speech they mail out on a government frank. That would pay the bonus and retire the wor debt on the Louis Star (Independent). DON'T THINK IN WASHINGTON. Prof.

Lugo Brentano writes learnedly on "Why the White Race Has Triumphed; What Its Future Will Be." He says "idealist tolerance" made the white races what they are. Not at all. The white races started in the north; that is why they are white. No tropical sun to color them. Foggy, cold northwestern Europe bred them.

The snow kept them indoors in winter. They had to talk, associate with their own wives and children, and THINK. That is what made them world conquerors THINKING. Their darker brothers, farther south, never locked in with their own wives, plucking fruit and flowers in the open, all year round, never were FORCED to think, therefore never thought much. Today some of the darker races, notably the brown Japanese, are doing as much thinking as the white races- considerably more of it than some white people are doing in Washington.

Look out for Louis Star. SENATOR SPENCER REPLIES. Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, who recently regaled an audience in St. Louis with a flattering eulogy of Senator Spencer's staunch stand for prohibition, should by all means read a copy of the telegram sent by that statesman to the board of aldermen here in reply to a resolution passed by that body asking for an amendment to the Volstead act permitting the manufacture and sale of light wines and beers.

If Mr. Wheeler, after perusing that Delphic effusion, is still convinced that Spencer is for prohibition or for anything at all, he assuredly is endowed with Sibylline powers. The senator is willing to have the Volstead act amended "if," he approves of the resolution passed by the aldermen, "but," he is against "white mule," but "on the other hand," in fact, he is willing to do anything that will jeopardize his standing neither with the wets nor the drys. The hypocrisy and political opportunism of Spencer has become SO pathetically obvious--not only on the wet and dry issue, but on every other matter before congress about which there is a sharp difference of opinion that it is surprising that he can make a speech in Missouri without being drowned in derisive laughter. And Missouri is to be afflicted with five more years of Louis Star (Independent).

WAR DEBT REFERENDUM STARTED BY SENATOR SPENCER. Senator Spencer is mailing, to every banker in Missouri a questionnaire on the proposed refunding of foreign debts to the United States owed to us in war loans by Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy, and totaling some $11,000,000,000, with interest. There is now pending before the senate a house bill which has to do with the refunding of debts, which foreign governments owe to us, says Spencer in his The bill provides for a commission of five persons, consisting of the secretary of the treasury and four others, to be selected by the president, by and with the advice of the senate. This commission is given the power, subject to the approval of the president, to refund, convert, or extend the payment of the principal or interest, or both, of the obligations of foreign governments to the NEET'S SPOTTED POLANDS AT AUCTION! Friday, February 24, 1922, at Browning, Mo. FIFTY-TWO-HEAD-FIFTY-TWO TWO This offering consists of tried sows, fall yearlings, spring gilts and two September boars.

Our herd is now headed by "Master Carmine," the highest priced boar out of the highest priced litter sold at auction last fall, and he is ably assisted by our other herd boars that make a real battery. The sows are not fat but in good farrowing condition. Some of the breeds most noted blood lines are represented in this offering. If you are in the market for some good breeding stock, don't fail to attend this sale. Sale will be held at Browning, in heated sale pavillion regardless of weather.

If interested, come. 5-2 W. S. NEET SONS, Humphreys, Mo. Col.

P. M. Gross and Ass'ts. Clerk: E. C.

Bailey. United States, and the commission is given considerable latitude to deal with the matter in such form and with a mirror if I am a thing to high repute in strength is and with "Better flesh and such terms, conditions, dates of maturity and rates of interest, and with such security, if any, as shall be deemed for the best interest of the United States of America, and to adjust and settle all claims not presented by bonds or obligations which the United States has, with a provision that no bond or obligation which may be taken shall run for a longer time than June 15, 1927, and it is proposed to add a provision to the effect that the interest shall not be less than the highest interest which the United States was required to pay on its own obligation. The bill distinctly provides that there shall not be any cancellation of any part of such indebtedness. I shall be very glad to have your judgment about this matter. The debts due the United States in principal and interest, Spencer states, are: Great Britain, France, 527.47; Italy, Belgium, 997.55.

In addition there is due $715,636,476.25 from other nations on account of war supplies and other grain we have Courier. This same man, Spencer, is a member of the party that passed the "Sales Tax Bill" where an extra tax is to be paid on all tobaccos, cigarettes, beer and wines, if we have beer and wines. In other words, he wants the United States to refund all indebtedness the foreign countries owe the United States and then tax the soldier boys and the rest of the poor in this country to pay off our indebtedness. Now, boys; what is the matter with making those European countries pay us what they owe us? If they will pay their war debts we can pay the soldier bonus and give them a pension and never miss it when we pay it. A lot of you boys voted the Republican ticket- voted for what Senator Spencer and President Harding is now advocating.

You no doubt voted for that in good faith. You now know you have been deceived and have a chance from now on to GET RIGHT and join the party you know stands for your principles; stands for you and what you advocate. Cut loose from the tricky politicians; the office seekers; the rich and the aristocratic and join the party of the common people and who are for the common cause of humanity. The Republican party is the RICH MAN'S PARTY- THE PARTY THAT BELIEVES IN SPECIAL PRIVILEGES. The Democratic party is the POOR MAN'S PARTY-THE PARTY THAT BELIEVES IN EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL, SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE.

IT IS NOT THE MAN, IT IS THE PARTY AND ITS PLATFORM, AND DO NOT TRY TO DECEIVE YOURSELF BY LAYING IT ON THE MAN. THE PRINCIPLES AND PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS LAID DOWN TO EVERY REPUBLICAN IN THE U. S. BY THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION, AND YOU CAN NOT LAY THE WRONGS DONE BY THE PARTY TO AN INDIVIDUAL, NO MATTER IN WHICH STATE HE LIVES, OR WHAT OFFICE HE HOLDS! If you will let that soak in, your political troubles will be over now and forever after. WHEN YOU DON'T ADVERTISE NOBODY KNOWS THAT YOU ARE DOING BUSINESS.

AND IT WON'T BE LONG BEFORE YOU'LL NOT KNOW IT -Newspaperdom. BRED SOW SALE -AtHUMPHREYS, FEBRUARY 25TH. 30 Head of Pure Bred Poland China Sows 30 These sows are sired by Victory Bond, King Joe, The Benefactor and B. Buster; out of dams by Cook's Liberty Bond, Long Boy, Surprise Prospect, King Joe and Long Wonder, 2d. These sows are bred mostly to farrow in March to The Aviator and a good son of The Rainbow.

The offering consists of tried sows, fall yearlings and spring gilts. Special Attraction! I will sell Orange Boy, bred sow that was the best sow sold at M. A. Dowling's sale last year. This is one of the very best sows in Missouri.

TERMS: Six months time on approved notes bearing 8 per cent interest from date. Two per cent off for cash. Sale will begin immediately after the arrival of the east bound train. Jas. C.

Thornburg Lee Clapp and A. T. Whitney, Auctioncers..