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DAILY DEMOCRAT LEADS ALL OTHERS FOLLOW GEO JFOSTER CO PROPRIETORS EANDY EAaANDY CANDY Buy your Candy of us we will make it right before your eyes on and after Saturday noon a good suggestion we think dont buy old candy Get it hot when youcan We give a ticket with every pound and you may get the Beautiful China Dinner Set And the Influence It Wields Over the Nations Affairs FIELD OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Made Up of Worlds Brightest Literary Talent NEW YoRK Dec 20Oratory by gifted orators men prominent in pub lic and commercial life was the order of the evening at the American commerce banquet held at Delmonicos tonight The subject Our Merchant Marine was handled in a masterly manner by Hon Williamm P Frye The American Business Man by General Horace Por ter and American Commerce by Hon Don M Dickinsen in a speech bristling with interesting statistics General Charles H Taylor of the Boston Globe responded to the toastThe American Newspaper General Taylor spoke in part as follows A New Englander well may respond to this toast without apology since the first eat journalist of America Benjamin grranklin was born and baptized only around the cormer
The True Democrat ELRIE ROtINSON MR8 MAY E ROBINSON Editors Official Journal of the Parish of West Fellciana the Towns of Bayou Sara and St Franclsville and of the School Board We also own and publish the Felici ana Record a weekly newspaper for the town of Jackson La Advertisers will do well to get joint rates for both papers Entered at the Post Office at 8t Francleville La as secondclass mail Subscription 150 a Year in Advance Saturday October 30 1915 A THOUSAND YOUNG DEMOCRATS A movement is on foot to call a mass meeting of a thousand young Demo crats five hundred from the city and the same number from the country to declare their support of Mr John M Parker and a business administration The term young Democrats is one to conjure with as for example in the triumphs of the Young Mens Demo cratic Association in New Orleans years ago and it is this recollection which has probably inspired the pres ent call But any young Democrats who may respond should consider carefully sev eral vital points Briefly these are that by Mr Parkers own request the moment they do respond they cease to be Democrats
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES The contents of the New England Magazine for November are a3 follows Sherburne Farms by Henry L Hazel ton When Me and Ed Got Religion by Fred W Shibley Isaiah Thomas the Patriot Printer by Frank R Batcliel der A Political Conspiracy by Epes W tSargent Ye Ancient Inns of Boston Town by Frederick W Norcross Self ishness by Charles H Town An Archi tect of the Old School by Henry T Bailey Manda a story by Jeannette Pemberton WashingtonGreene Cor respondence A Castle in Spain by Frederic lteddale Is there a decadence of New England Agriculture by Charles S Phelps The English Com monwealth by Burdett Hart For seventyfive years The Youths Companion has been published every week as a family paper In these sev entyfive years the papers constancy to a high standard has won the confidence of the American people It has kept pace with the growth of the country Its stories its special articles its edito rials its selections represent all that is best in American life For 1002 the foremost men and women of the Eng lishspeaking world have been enlisted as contributors The work of an un precedented number of
WALDO DISTRICT LODGE IOG T A most interesting and profitable session of the Waldo District Lodge was held with Belfast Lodge No 30 Saturday June 17th The meeting was called to order at 11 a m by District Chief Templar Tolman H Fernald and the following officers responded to the roll District Vice Templar Mabel Rose District Secretary Elizabeth L Brackett District Superintendent J T Ella Pillsbury District Sentinel I W Cottrell The appointments for vacancies were as follows District Counselor E R Knowlton District Treasurer Emma I Huxford Chap lain Lora Maxcy Past District Chief T M J Dow Marshal I W Cottrell Deputy Marshal Minnie L Knowlton Guard Lewis Godding The degree was conferred upon eight condidates During the noon recess dinner was served by the local lodge in the con venient dining room adjoining the hall The afternoon session convened at l oclock when the reports of officers and committees were received The state of the order in the county was given by the secretary as materially unchanged but that new interest was being manifested in some localities The address ot the District Chief Tem plar was able and exhaustive and by unanimous vote was ordered to
I amactt 1 Newspapermen Who Cover Foreign Embassies in Search of Information on War MovesHow News Is Received and Handed OutWireless Messages to Ambassadors Sometimes T ransmitted More Speedily Than Ordinary News Matter on Account of Rigid Censorship in Europe fP f3 ASHINGTON ha f an aual zone o iLTjf I European war T V fltf I is true that n Im I hostile armies op VQ I erate therein anc I that the zone ii Vf I as yct free rori I y I the shriek ol I shells and the bel aV azr V V guns but there it an alert and active corps of war cor respondents operating in this territory and it is through their activitiei that many important messages having to do with the checkerboard movei upon the war ground across the Atlantic have been given to the public some times many hours in advance of th censored and obstructed message which too often snails its way over th commercial cables Washingtons war zone is widelj scattered It is comprised of manj bits of property which in the eyes ol international law if not in the sighi of astute and literal geographers an really bits
Stye IGextttgfmt Ahuerltaer Fighting Communism The John Birch Society Is Not The Answer A number of readers have asked about the John Birch Society an organization in the national limelight because of its announced intention of impeaching United Spates Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren It is reported to he a semisecret society organized on a nationwide basis with the avowed purpose of fighting Communism The Blue Book of the Birch Society says it is a monolithic body which will operate under completely authoritative levels at all times It regards the present republican form of government in the United States as being inefficient in combating Communism and regards democracy in government or organization as a deceptive phrase a weapon of dema goguery and a perrennial fraud The Attorney General of the United States about ten days ago responded to questions about the society by saying he thought it more humorous than any thing else and that it probably did more harm than good In Mississippi last week the or ganization was again spotlighted when William T Clark a Jackson businessman described as head of the John Birch Society of Jackson spear headed a campaign to oust the Rev Edward H
i t i THE GRENADA SENTINEL VOLUME LXVII GRENADA MISS FRIDAY AUGUST 29 1919 REAL VALUE __ OF rniINTPY JrJT LUUli 1 1 I ___ NFWCPAPFP JlL IT Ul til ull c Prc or f Journalism Oho State University On Com irumty Publications At a recent conference of the cor respondents and special writers of the Westerville Public Opinion held there O C Hopper professor of pournal isro at Ohio State university at Cal umbus gave a talk on the 4 Real vilue o the Country Paper pftfr Hooper said Th re is all this world no great or opportunity for service than that of the newspaper Czars emperors saltans and other alsolute monarchy have beer driven from their thrones A few kings may linger for spectacu lar or sentimental reasons but they will have no other meaning in human affairs The reign of the oeople has come Government is to be hereafter A It public opinion and there is no maker of public opinion like the news paper It is in the power of the news paper to exalt or to degrade public opinion to promote or retard the good in the world They could never destroy it for
MONTANA WOMEN IN THE WEEKS NEWS Mary Stewart former Dean of Women at the University of Mon tana is at present a patient in a sanitarium in California suffering from a nervous breakdown Besides being one of the leading educators of the state she was an active worker in the suffrage campaign and in re ply to greetings sent her by a com mittee of her coworkers at the last meeting of the Good Government or ganizations she responded in her happy manner And something more Intimate and affectionate if it were consistent with this official acknowledgement of your happy and kindly remem brance of me I thought of you all at your an nual meeting of your happy and busy activity and longed to be with you and it was good to know that you too thought of me Some things are too deep for felictious phrases and perhaps what I would say to you is one of them but you will believe me always loyally and lovingly one of Montanas citizens May whatever you do prosper and may I sometime be so happy as to again be able to help the good work on its way to a
Case presented for argument in the New York Court of Appeals on January 24, 1860. cf. p. 15. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.