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A Fish Story That's True.
Last Thursday Bill, M!eldichael and
Ed. Jenkins of Wti}gh'atm Junction,
went fishing oil? Kincardine. Their
luck was ex'ceedin'gly goode.for they
caught on a troll a 10-pprovundi lake
,trout. They also caught two smaller
Ash but this 10 -pound daddy was
sure a dandy.-1Wingham Advance-
Trnnes.
Can You Better This One?
Mr. T. R. Rennett pulled a stock
.of red elgeer from the ditch near his
home. It measures 41 inches not in-
cluding the root. This is indeed a
large growth for clover and we won -
c• -•••der if any of our readers have seen
' clover of this height ;berfore.—Wing-
lsam Advance -Times.
Successful in Examinations.,
Congratulations are due Mr. J. A
Munro, Wroxeter, who successfully
passed his final examinations, Facul-
ty of Medicine, at the University of
Toronto; also to Mr. W. G. Robin-
son, Belgrave, who passed the fifth
year examinations of the same fag-
mlty.—iWingham Advance -Times.•
Death of Mrs. William Oakley.
After an illness extending eve:
the past four years from acute
rheumatism there passed away at
her haute,- Brussels North, on Men -
day, '.rune 24th, Katherine 'Reichert,
widow of the. late William Oakley,
an the age of 66 years, 2 months
and 18 days. Deceased was born in
Waterloo township and was married
to heralarte pfartner in life .49 years
ago, Mr. Oakley having predeceased
her seventeen years ago. Of three
sons born, one son, Oscar,' died i{r
Ifi;,itcherier 14 years ago; Alvin anti
Carl William^, of Brussels, survive.
The funeral took place -on Thursday
afternoon. Rev. Mr: Moore, pastor
of the Presbyterian church, had
charge of the serviees. Interment
was made in Brussels cemetery. To
the bereav'ed ones the sympathy of
the community goes out in the loss
of their loved one.—Brussels Post.
'Saturday Night's Storm.
Many telephones and radios in the
east, portion' of the town were put
out of commission in the storm on
Saturday night. The tower of the
C.N.R. station was struck and some
shingles ripped off. Mrs. McIlwain's
house on Newgate street was struck
•' „ d some damage done including the
,,Fetting out of 'commission of the rad-
, Mr. Willis' place on South street
lso *as struck., The storm was not
e° t"'ong • in duration but the lightning
and thunde were severe. Some flood-
ed, Cellars lso ;are reported.—Gode-
rich Star.
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Kinloss M n Will Recover.
George Brook§ Oef the second con-
cession of Kinloa, was brought to
the Goderioh Hosipital Monday night
following an accident near Lugknow,
iny,'Whieh he suffered head injuries
.ank.hints .to his back, and it is ex-
peeted he will recover. Brooks was
driving west on the second conces •
sion when he collided with a car driv-
en 'by Richard Lucas,' of Markdale.
proceeding north on the liiglaway.
Dr. 'WI. V. Jdhnstondef Luclo.deas,.was
called and found Brooks': eendition sc
serious 'that he was • xeiho'ved,`. to
Goderich Hospital,,4' Both ears were
badly'damaged: Qenstable 'McClevir,
of Walkerton investigated.- Gode-
rich Star. •
'Had •Leg Amputated.
Many friends regretted to learn
that art amputation of 'the left leg
$•tad been found necessary in the case
of Elmer • Wells, who returned from
Detroit the early part of the month.
Mr. Wells is reported to be doing as
-well as can be expected.—Goderich
Star.
600 Applicants for Blyth Schools.
As , a means of determining the
,prevailing salaries of teachers
'throughout the Province, the school
board of Blyth asked all the teachers
to hand in their resignations and ad-
vertised for applications far the vac-
ancies. For some time the board had
been under criticism as to the salar-
ies paid and this, it is believed,
prompted the action that was taken.
'Over 600 applications were received
and upwards of one hundred appli'-
cants personally interviewed mem-
bers of the board. The general run
.of talaries asked for assistants rang"--
ed from $700 to $900 and for • the
priri„ipalship from $850 to .$1100.
The board unani'miously selected Mr.
Harry Shackleton, of Dungannon, as
principal .of the public school at the
lsalary of $1,000. Miss McNair and
Miss Edgar, last year's teachers,
were re-engaged at salaries of $800.
.Aa principal of • the continuation
school Mr. N. Garrett was re-engag-
ed at $1,500. Mr. Shackleton is a
son-in-law of 'Mr. T. G. Allen, of
OGederie.h.—Goderich Signal.
To Enter Missionary Work.
Miss E. Ricker, of the Collegiate
-Staff,, has resigned and goes to To-
ronto to spend a year in special pre -
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(FLYPADS
\ deREAD DIRECTIONS
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ee-ds y�FOLLOW THEM
;.-4-;1) EXACTLY
'Each pad iw tl i141, :ttlll day and
every d
3ada i' +f► illke=
10 CENTS P It PAC"
at Druggists, Grocers, General Stores.
WHY PAY MORE?
•1'H18 WILSON PLY PAD CO., Hamilton, Ont,
pa'ration for 'missionary' work; having
been . accepted for mission work in
the United Church .of Canada, Miss
Ricker will be much missed in Wes-
leyeWillis church, where she has bee:i
active in the 4unday school and work
amongst the young people.—Clinton
News -Record.
Russel -Taylor.
quiet wedding was- solemnized
at the rectory In Millbank on Wed-
nesda,y of last week at noon when
l ss Thelon Mae, daughter of Mr
nk Taylor, a towee, was united
in marriage with Mr. Reginald Earl
'Russell, only son of Mr. David Rus-
sell and the late Mrs.' Russell. The.
ceremony was -- perforated by Rev;
Borden Cunningham, 'brother=in-law
of the groom. The •bride wore a gown
of yellow georgette with yellow hat,
gloves, 'shoes and hose to match and
carried a 'bouquet' of roses. Mr. and
MPs. Russell left on a motor trip for
•Toronto, Brockville and along the
St. ,Lawrencea, l'he bride travelled
in a dress of green crepe with sated
and green hat, sand shoes, etc. Beta
the bride end groom are very -popular
amongst the young people of Exeter
and will have 'the best wv�irshes of
many.,, friends for their, fufiure wel-
fare. On their return to town they
will reside on Williams street.•=-•Exe,
ter Times=Advocate.
McKILLOP
Native of McKillop Dies in La
Crosse, Wis.—The La Grosse Tribune
of recent date refers to the death of
Dr: Edward E. Evans, a former well
known resident of McKillop, as' fele
lows: "'De. Edward E. Evans, .121.
South Thirteenth street, pioneer reel--
dent of La Crosse and one of "'t'he
foremost surgeons of the northw'esst,
passed away at a local hospital at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning, June 1,
after an illness of more than three
years when he suffered .a paralytic
stroke. Announcement of 'his death
was received with deepest regret by
his many friends, and citizens with
whom he came in• contact during his
long life of activity in . La Crosse.
While he had been in poor health
since 'December, 1928, when he re-
tired from active practice, his con-
dition was not considered serious
until aboult a month ago, "' since
which time .he was conned to the
hospital. 'Dr. Edward E. Evans was
born . in Seaforth, Ontario, Canada,
March '7, 1860, the son of Joseph and.
Doyle Evans. After receiving his
school education he took up the study
of medicine, graduating from the To-
ronto University in 1883. He then.
entered McGill University from'
which he graduated. in 1887,. re-
ceiving a gold medal for the highest
record attained by any • medical stu-
dent, which record he held for 'fif-
teen years' He was a post -graduate
and later studied in Europe from
from New York Polyclinic in 1890
1806 -to 1898 and again in 1914; In
1888 he came to. America and located
in La Crosse, where ''he took up the
practice of medicine, and shortly af-
terward began specializing in general
surgery. Art : that time the Marine
hospital, operated by 'the Franciscan
Sisters, was the only hospital in the
city and much of the surgical work
was done in private homes. Later
Dr. Evans ,became connected with St.
Francis hospital and was chief of.
the staff of 'surgeons at that insti-
tution until his retirement. He was
actively interested in the National
Catholic Hospital Association since
its organization and was associate
editor of Hospital Progress, . the of-
ficial publication of that association
until 1927. Dr. Evans practiced in
La Crosse alone until 1908 when he
became associated with Dr. M. W.
Dvorak. After the death• of the lat-
ter Dr. •W.. E. Bannen became associ-
ated with Dr. Evans, and in 1914 Dr.
M. A. McCarty was added to the
clinic and in 1924 Drs. Edward Jr.,
and James became associated with
the firm. -Dr. Evans took an active
interest in education and, public
health in the city. He was instru-
mental in the establishment of the
'health department in La Crosse and
was appointed as one of the members
of the first board of health with a
full time health commissioner. He
was a member of the board of educa-
tion for a number of years, taking
much interest in health problems i
the public schools. He was a mem
bet- of the American Medical associa-
tion, Wisconsin State Medical Society,
mice -president of the Western Surgi-
cal Assec'iation, a charter member
from 'Wisconsin of the Fellow of
American College Surgeons. At the
outbreak of the world war he became
chairman of the Wisconsin state cam.
md'ttee for classification of hospitals,
medical m'em'ber 1 of the state and
"county council of Defense and chair-
man of the district advisory draft
board, Bering beyond the draft aga
he enlisted in the American Red
Gross, serving as captain of a French
operating team behifi.d Chateau
Thierry at the time 'of the allied
counter defensive in June, 1918. Ile
served in the army overseas for six
months. Among many of his other
activities Dr. Evans was foreign
medical representative of McGill Un•
'iversi'ty, regent, of the Wisconsin
University from. 1902 to 1913 and a
member of the Knights o'f Columbus.
He was author of numerous articles
fon surgery in various medical jour-
nn1 . Dr" Evans was united in mar -
triage to' Sarah Thompson int this •city
in 1892. ,Surviving are hit wife and
five children, Dr. James and Jessie,
orf La Crosse; Dr. Ed'wVvard T. and Ar-
thur, of !Minneapolis, Minn., Dr. Jo-
seph, of Montreal, Canada, and nine
grandchildren. He also leaves two
brothers and one sister, Dr. Robert
Evans, of Fotlt Dodge, Iowa, and
Frank and: Mrs. Kate Canning, of Is -
lingttom, Ontario."
The Ladies' Aid of Duff's Church
was held at the hence ,pf Mrs. W. J.
Beattie, when they packed a 'bale. A
short meeting • was held afterwards
A. delicious lunch was served, The
next meeting will be held at the home
of 'Miss Lizzie Henderson with the
Balby Band ip charge.
Is Solace, � vee Ie .�
('Continued fro* Owl)
The pr, leka ngy correspondoh
Presents i most difficult; is Many,
sided; is- in neeastteable in stops.
Never having been in like position,
it is not only 'probable but certain,
that I do not comprehend the vast -
nese of the issue involved. Were I
similarly situated, perhaps these
storms and sheeted troubles that bend
this man to the.. earth would, have
beaten my spirit to the very ground.
Nevertheless, lean but encourage the
hope that ,l should. 'lye supported by
mly confidence in the ultiihaate ..tri-
umph of right and the 'beneifieence of
hod, who is surrounded with clouds
and darkness often, bat who stands
within the shadow, keeping watch
over his own. Because I have • not
suffered as muct as my friend, who
writes me, r have great ' hesitancy
in trying to fulfil his request. But
since he has urged his need, I an-
swer that for ,the present he has
taken . my eyes away from the Im-
perial Conference and the results
that might .be forthcoming, •from the
hardship ,and trouble of many, from'
my own blunders, mistakes and 'the
consequent result* which been one
.down 'heavily, aztd' has focalized mV
thought. upon a man of sixty, grey,
furrowed with care, standing with hie
back to the wall. And I ant asking
myself this question; Will, this man
show his generation how to meet and
defy eventswhile he flings out this
challenge to poverty, ill -health, sor-
row, loneliness, heartbreak? "Here I
.stand with soul unconquerable. Do
your • worst! But remember that
though all things fail, I will not
fear." What if God and events have
chosen you as an example? What if
Paul's greatest opportunity came in
the chance to be victorious over
mobs, stones; hunger,. dungeon, the
headmen's axe? What if the mar
tyrdom was 'Abraham' Lincoln's great-.
est good fortune? When the Jap-
-mese Commander wanted one hun-
dred men to make, a death charge,
the regiment volunteered', counting
it an honor and entering into com-
petition for challenging death...
The narme of Paul to -day is a name
to be conjured with. What if on
confronting Nero's dungeon, he had
considered the problem whether "sui-
cide was not justifiable." What if
he had asked the question that you
have asked me. "May I not lay
down these burdens that I never for
myself took up?" What if he'had
gone into the presence of the Mas-
ter bearing -the stain of cowardice?
No, a thousand times no!, • You did
not choose life for yourself, but God
chose it for you. And for you, per-
chance, as with your Master, you
will forget the 'mount of Transfigura-
tion, where success dwelt in the joy
of victory oeeI your Calvary.
'When long time has passed, per-
haps you will be grateful for the ex-.
trema§. involved in going from man,
sion to flat, and'from position to the
ranks. If men are here to gather
gold, then you have failed. If men
are here to build character, then your
troubles may spring out of the lov-
ing kindness of tlhe•'Creator. It may
be that the world is a, school and a
workshop, and events are teachers.
If
.so, to -marrow you will be grateful
for what to -day you exclaim ,against.
In the West the fermiers have had
reason to complain of the drouth.
The soil was 'parched; the'wind blew;
the dust was piled in .batiks . like
snow and there ' was no .crop, but
there havebeen times .when the op-
posite has been the trouble. The skies
have been too propitious, the clouds
too generous, and so the wheat grew
rank and soft and froze before it
ripened. Then the only hope was a
long drought, a furnace-like summer,
,to expel all the moisture from •the
soil so that the sunbeams could re-
vitalize the cells of the earth out• of
which spring the golden sheaves. For
it is a strange fact that when the sun
has lifted the waving grain, that
grain casts a heavy shadow over tha
soil and robs it of the sun it needs.
And perhaps your prosperity has pro-
duced "material things that stood be-
tween your soul and your God. If
so, no matter what treasure your
hands held, you life was poor.
You say you are now where you
began in youth, with $500 a year.
Emerson did his best work on -$500
a year, when money did not go much
farther than it does to -day. So did
John Bunyan and Milton and Dante.
Not one of the Apostles had a tentii
as much. The men that have made ,-Most Noted Spree
liberty, wrought reforms, the old
masters, the great poets, the mar- In New York History
tyre, would have counted themselves
happy to have had proofs that you
have full power to assert your man-
hood and say, "I know how to be
full and how to be hungry; how to
Abe abased and how to abound, how to
lead and how to follow. Everywhere
and in all things I can conquer
through him who strengthened mel'
Remember the end is not far elf.
Travellers about tell meathey notice
that in nearing the shore the storms
increase.- On the 'voyage books,
games, conversation, have their uses,
but when the Captain announces,
'SLand Ahead," the voyager puts a-
way his 'bdotes• and his amusements.
Perchance these duties, offices and
games for the 'bz+ief life voyage are
now to be folded up because you have
outgrown them. What if the earth
be removed? God still lives; hope
thou in Him) He shall yetave
thee. For in God, not in thins, ig•
the strength of thy life; Shall it.'be
defeat or triumph?
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ease ng Oanat dW besats. Day'.` by
coy your r r4; sa dbodily rest ejeete
• tofial' rhfousilt jkr, ilnt7s ofl blond ,'w'
' ill einneB eters �•.,,�l et and se iifse en,
Refeifte, nay )a:1r ,changes as great
i.,00,0 rp teat., or 30 pinta 'a min-
: p,'te.
The huroin maeltiee, unlike other
an
machtintets; .rga 'atl debt for' its. fuel
(o?ty/gen) and `flay -it back later. A
track man iaie ran his 100 yards in
ten seam/4 by bSreaking down glyco-
gen or sugar into lactic acid; he may
then spend the next' half hour -get-
ting-oxygen. enough to burn up the
acid, 'thereby recleging his" muscles
with glycogen, and* all set for the
"quarter
The amount of 'work which the
heart does in one day is equivalent
to the additional energy expended by
a man climbing halfway up Pike's
Peak or shoveling 26 tons of coal_ up
•a three foot incline; or it may he ex-
pressed as the equivalent of • lifting
half a pound 40 inches high with
each beat. Under normal conditions,
approximately eight pints of blood
are passing through the heart every
minute. During, violent exercise all
the blood in the rbody (eight pints)
goes through' the heart in about 12
seconds. • Under ordinary pressure
the blood courses 'through 'the ves-
sels at the rate of 207 yards a min-
ute, seven miles an hour, 16$ miles
a day, and 01,320 .miles a year, as
the heart beats 50 million times;
Thie is even More remarkable when
we recall that all, this work is be-
ing done by so =tall an organ as
the heart, which weighs but ten ounc-
es.
Now.let us consider the 'part play-
ed 'by the blood vessels. Hardening
of these vessels almost always caus-
es high blood pressure. It may be
said in general that there ire four
factors that cause this hardening:
(1) the normal wear and tear of life;
(2) acute infections (venereal dis-
eaees, tuberculosis); (3) intoxica-
tions (alcohol, tobacco), and (4) per-
sonal habits (worry, overwork, over-
eating.
The normal blood pressure varies
with the individual. Every person
has two blood pressures, a high and
a low. In a normal_ young man the
higher, or what is termed the sys-
tolic, pressure, is 'between 110 and
120 mm. of mercury; this means that
immediately after .,the heart con-
tracts it has 'to overcome a pressure
equal to between 110 and 120 mm.
of mercury. While the heart is re-
laxing and filling up there naturally
still exists a certain amount of pres-
sure. This is the lower, or diastolic,
pressure, and is normally about 80.
A good rule to keep in mind is esti=
mating normal pressure in this: A
normal' person 20 years old has a
systolic pressure of aparomiately
120. For .each incz4ease of one year
the pressure goes ,up half a milli -
.meter. • 'For exarieple, a person 40
yea's old should have a blood pres-
sure of 130' mm.,
Dr. Eli Moschowitz says, of the
type of individual who gets prema-
ture high blood pressure: "Physical-
ly they are soft -muscled, pudy, non=
thletic, overweight They do no;;
lay. Many of such individuals be-
long to the class of the successful, if
by 'success' one refers to the a.ecum •
ulation of wealth or,,power. One can
• readily grasp why such individual.
'are successful, for they•,throw every-
thing in life aside, especially play,
that does not directly contribute to
their purpose." .
The treatment of high blood pres-
sure varies considerably. The prob-
lem of diet is a story in itself. It
has been said that after the age of
40 there is "death in the - pot.'.' One
main cause of rising. blood pressure
in middle age„is overeating. • The ex-
press engine capable -of running from
50 to 60 miles an hour, 'if stoked
for that purpose and then put into
the station -yard to "shunt" empty
cars, will go to pieces very soon. Yet
that is what many of us do with ear
engines. We run the eengi to ;,t Ou
miles en hour and supply fuel for
' 715.
The blood pressure is a • ba'umeter-
To the patient it is merely a number -
of it is "a little high or a little low,"
but to the physician it is a !aio a re-
liable report from the various s:a-
tions that the patient posses.,r•r, An
early rise tells the physicia;i teat u
storm is coming; it is up to him to
find •.ut what station it is headed
for, anti then try to pr<<,_•r: disaster
How's Your Blood
Pressure?
The stud of theblood
y pressure is
interesting to all, whether sick or
well; rich or 'poor. Blood pressure is
as liable to wide and sudden varia-
tions as are the figures on the stock
exchange and, like the latter, by
marked change may ruin any of us
for life at the most unexpected time.
Statistics show that approximately
one in five adults have high blood
pressure, and the number is ineteas-
ing because the average expectant•~
of life is increasing.
The heart beats on an average of
72 times a. minute-, and in that time,
puts out about two gallons of blood.
The time required for a drop of blood
to make a complete circuit of the
A
What may be called the most sen-
sational bust, binge, or bender ac-
cording to the refinement of th
speaker, that ever agitated the reit-
ed States and mead reverhrrat'',ns
even in Canada 'vas that in whiter
John Bartholomeunr Gough engetgecd
in he 1845. That it should he recall-
ed more than three-quarters of ;:
century' later by Beverley Smith in
the New Yorker is sufficient proof of
its colossal nature. In the matter of
money spent, property destroyed and
rash engagements made, the spree
of Gough was insignificant compar-
ed with hundreds of thousands of
others. What made it unique was
the character of the carouser, for Mr.
Gough was then the most famous of
living temperance orators, perhaps
the most famous who ever lived. His
fall was like that of Lucifer. We
are happy to record that unlike Luci-
fer he was able to rise again, and
that his later fame probably trans-
cended his earlier. He was a brand
twice plucked from the burning, and
the experience of 1845 made him an
even more relentless and 'effective
coastigator of the rum demon.
Gough happened to 'be in New
Yoik to make plans for a lecture
tour. He arrived on September 5th,
and made arrangements to meet his
wife in Albany on September 3rd,
'thence to accompany her to Montreal
on lecture business... He arrived in
New York but he did not arrive in
Albany. His wife, alarmed, returned
to New York and conferred with pro-
hibition leaders, wino were equally
alt a loss. Then the news filtered
into the newspapers that Mr. Gough
had disappeared.: It was hinted that
there had been foul play the
players being the rum interests,
The police searched, Rivers were
dragged, prayers were offered. Then
one day a newspaper announced that.
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All Kinds—Every Size
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Receipt -Stamps
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Name Stamps
Date Stamps
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Buy them at The E xpositor
Office. They cost very little.
it had discovered Mr. Gough and re-
turned him to his family. The late:-
fact
ate_fact that he had been found in a
house on Walker Street was sugges-
tive, for, at that time Walker Street
had some such reputation as Peal
Street had in Toronto forty years
ago. These brief announcements
merely inflamed public curiosity and
soon all the city papers were vieing
with each other in the publication
of news and theories of disappear-"
ance and emergence..
The Herald used the incident as
proof of the folly of prohibition as
compared with wise temperance. The
Tribune, an admirer of Gough, sug-
gested that the 'Herald was written
and edited by drunkards, and pub-
lished in the interests of other
drunkards. A confession of Gough's
was published and repudiated. At
the end of a week's fierce debate the
people were little wiser than at the
beginning. In the meantime Gough,
who undoubtedly had been one mag-
nificent bender, was slowly and pain-
fully recovering, and it was 17 days
before he was able to issue a state-
ment 'of what had taken place. It
ran to 2,000 words and was publish-
ed by all She newspapers. It ap
pears that Gough met a stranger on
the street and was invited by him to
drink a glass of soda water. He ben-
evolently consented and went into a
store where he ordered a raspberry
syrup. He. had no sooner swallowed
this noxious draught than he felt a
queer, sensation, but one, alas, with
which he had once been fondly fam-
iliar. He felt, in short, like a man
who has had a .good shot. •
We suspect that he had a couple
more and our suspicion is .based on
the old principle that while one
drink is enough, and two es to"
much, three is not nearly enough.
So the next thing he remembered
was going into a grocery store and
ordering brandy. He wandered a•
bout, in and out of places that dis-
pensed the fiery waters, and eveiftu -
ally wound up in the house or.
Walker S'teet. But he defended the
inmates of the house to whom he re-
ferred affectionately as The Little
Girl, The Widow, The *other and
the Orphan Girl, a nomenclature
plainly' hinting at a raspberry syrup
origin. These all treated him with
the utmost respect and made no ov-
ertures at variance with their angelic
titles. It is true that a woman came
forward and testified that Mr. Gough
had accosted her on the street, ask-
ing permission to tie her shoe lace,
a hellish liberty to take in those
days. But even this was ameliorat-
ed by the fact that he spoke court-
eously and lifted his hat while mak-
ing his base proposal.
But Gough's own` statement was,
not permitted to clear the matter.
up. The ungodly snickered; the
judicious- grieved. The cause of pro-
hibition -had undoubtedly received a
black eye. In the end a committee
of his church in Boston went to
New Yolk to investigate fully. Ir.
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the end it exonerated Gongh, though
it suggested that a man of more
worldly wisdom would have.. hesi-
tate(' before drinking raspberry
syrup with a stranger. " It also point-
ed out that as Gough was a reform-
ed drunkard the taste of the unfa•
miliar beverage must have fanned
into sudden flames the ashes of old
desire with the result that the ex-
horter was temporarily engulfed in
the conflagration. This seems alto-
gether probable. Gough had been a
drunkard, with the unstable emotion-
alism which the turn connotes, and,
when in a mad moment he attempted
to fuse the two. personalities he
surely started something.
U. S. Soldiers Lobby
Hapleessly For Bonus
What is called the Bonus Expedi-
tionary Force is converging on Wash-
ington for the purpose of bringing
to bear upon Congress sufficient pres-
stire to extort a vote of about 82,-
000,000,000 which will be distributed
among former members of the Amer-
ican expeditionary force. The ad-
vance guard has already reached the
capital, and the former doughboy;.
are living in tents under a kind of
military discipline imposed• upon
them by old top sergeants and a few
commissioned officers. Other thou-
sapds are travelling in groups or
scores or hundreds from distant para
of the country. They expect to put
nn the greatest lohhy campaign since
the palmy days of the Anti -Saloon
League for they are in deadly earn-
est, The prospect seems to be that
they will lose. 'But in a sense they
have nothing ,to lose. Almost with-
out exception they are jobless. One
man interviewed by a eorrespondent
of the New York Herald Tribune was•
typical. He said he was a bridge
worker, but had not worked for a
year and that there is not a railway
bridge 'bung constructed in the
United States. At home he got no
more than food and shelter. On the
way to Washington he got no less,
and at Washington he has a chance,
or thinks he has a chance, of legisla-
tion that will give him some security
upon wrhich he can borrow a few hun-
dred dollars when he goes back.
These American legionnaires come
from all parts of the country and as
soon as they arrive they are instruct-
ed in the art of lobbying. They go
to the Capitol not in gangs but in
groups of three or four, and there
they loiter about until they get a
chance of speaking to the represen-
tative of l; he disttiet where they live.
They do not trouble with general
canvassing, but merely make them' -
seines known to their represertative
and ask him, to sign the petition to
hang the matter of the bonus be -
for Congress. They will Point to
the argument ,that the United States
has not two billion dollar's to spare
for the soldiers, it hoe been able
4o lend some $18,000,000,000 abroad,
though the faot does not occur. to
.them that this ..may be one of the
reasons Uncle Sam is pretty nearly
broke at this time. They will argue.
that sooner or later the money they
now demand .will come to them, and
that in any event none of it will
go out of the country but • merely
ul
circate there, thus stimulating
trade.
Their arguments, of course, are, full
of holes. But so are their boots.
If these amen are not desperate then
they are next door to it. But their
spokesmen make it clear that , they
are not Communists nor do they in-
tend to suggest any general change
ie. Government. They merely want
their dough. Once they have it
the country can proceed as before.
The men are urged to behave like
gentlemen, and now and again when
one of them gets tough or unruly
he is tossed out of the camp. There
is also an intelligence ,system among
them, and Hnen who voice radical
sentiments are either cautioned or
expelled, .for the soldiers know that
nothing is more likely to defeat them
than to have the Communist label
attached to them. As a matter of
fact their demand is considerhd hard-
ly less than Communistic by all the
Onaneial interests of the country,
which agree that to float a bond
issue of from two to five billion
dollars would just' about bankrupt
the United States and put hack for
years the financial recovery of the
nation. But, as we have said, the
doughboys are out of work and pret-
ty nearly desperate. You can't blame
them for trying.
1Vfiost of them are in the same
plight as were Gen. POxey's army of '
a generation ago. They have been
fed on the wayside by the people
whose homes they passed, and have
been directed to municipal camps at
night by the local police. Now and
again they have been hurried across
a state by military trucks• at the
order of the governor. In Washing-
ton the chief of police is ts-ying to
have them fed, for they seem to be
helpless themselves. On tele march
to the Capitol some of them .have
fallen out when the prospect of jobs
offered. How the others will get
home if the bonus raid faits can only
be surmised. It seems probable that
Congress may vote money for return
transportation. 'In many a constitu-
ency the vote of the returned soldier ..
will turn the election and congress-
men, while they may be frightened
at the prospect of voting for a bond
awe of billions, will alko be chary
.about needlessly offending the le-
gionnaire vote.
Last Fail President Hoover attend-
ed the American Legiott convention
in Detroit and made a strong and
succesful appeal against the banns.
Bet things have a,not improved with
the ex -soldiers since theft., and it is
questionable if he would have be
successful -to -day in a similar appe
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