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THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1920
HOMINY CREEK VS. ALASKA
Recently the house of representa
tives of the federal congress was dis
eussing appropriation bills, and the
special item under consideration was
an appropriation of $850,000 for the ex
tension of the airplane mail service
to Alaska. Mr. Quin, a representative
from the state of Mississippi, ad
dressed the house in part as follows:
“I have no patience with this foolish
talk about experimenting up in frozen
Alaska, where' nothing but dogs can
stand the climate, where a fellow has
to be wrapped up in a fur coat, with
boots lined with fur, with a fur cap
and fur eyelashes, to keep him from
freezing to death; and yet this non
sense about sending airplanes up there
to carry the mail, appropriating $850,
•00 for the experiment.
“What I would like to see is for the
postoffice department to extend this
splendid rural free delivery. Let us
get this rural mail out to people who
are not now receiving it. I will vote
to put $S50,000 to experiment further
in carrying the rural mail out into the
woods, so that the farmers can get
their mail. Talk about some man not
being satisfied with getting his mail
vrhere the trains run across the coun
try at fifty and seventy-five miles an
hour, when the man that lives out on
Hominy Creek gets a paper three days
old. Let us expend the money where
it will do some good, where the great
mass of the country, the backbone of
the country live. The farmers only
ask the government to give them sim
ple justice instead of wasting the
money on this airplane business.”
There speaks the true provincial!
Although he has traveled from his na
tive Amite county to Washington—a
tremendous distance to such as he—
his narrow vision can encompass
nothing beyond the confines of Hom
iny Creek and its immediate environ
ment. It seems not at all incongru
ous to this patriot, who seeks only
“simple justice” for his Hominy
Creek constiuents, that while they
are receiving newspapers three days
old, good, red-blooded Americans, pay
ing taxes to the government that pro
vides the mail service, are content to
get a newspaper three weeks, three
months, aye, even a year old, and that
in regions where Uncle Sam has gone
through the farce of establishing post
oiHces.
Senator Benton’s famous remarks in
the senate, when the subject of
building transcontinental railroads was
under discussion, in which he said the
regions which now consist of the great
northwestern states of the Dakotas,
Montana, Idaho, Washington and Ore
gon could never be made fit for the
habitation of others than savages, can
in some measure be pardoned because
of the limited means of knowledge of
those regions in those days. But in
these times, when the government,
scientific societies, commercial bodies
and newspapers and periodicals have
flooded the country for years with in
formation concerning Alaska, it seems
almost imbecile on the part of the
Mississippian to make such a show of
ignorance.
There would be just as much reason
for the delegate from Alaska to rise
in his place in the house and deliver
a tirade in which he declared the state
of Mississippi was fit only for the
habitation of niggers and alligators,
and that the heat and humidity were
such that it was not worth while ex
pending money on a mail service there,
as there is in the remarks of the gen
tleman from Mississippi.
Fancy the spectacle of such a man
ant Congressman Quin in the position
of making laws for others who live
outside the sacred precincts of Hom
imy Creek!
LOTTERY
The legislators who framed the
Alaska primary election law must have
been at one time connected with the
famous “Soapy” Smith gang. The
Louisiana lottery did not have a thing
on the Alaska election business. Every
one who takes a chance on being nomi
nated has to put up from $5 to $40 to
get in the game. If he is nominated
he takes another chance of being
elected. If he is not nominated he
not only loses his chance for election,
but his money as well. If he is elected
he doesn’t get money back, but will
have to work like the deuce to get
enough money ahead to file for an
other nomination. The proposition is
not sporting.
Why not have a regular lottery and
let everyone who puts up some money
take a chance at the pool and cut the
cards to see who gets it? There would
be some incentive to go in the race,
as there would be at least a chance
for the fellow who was not nominated.
But at4 that, by the way the filings
are coming in it is rather a good thing
that a cash deposit is required or there
would be all candidates and no elec
tors at the elections. That cash de
posit has been quite a stumbling block
in the path of some would-be law
makers and office holders.
Personally, we can’t see what any
one with $40 in real cash would want
to run for office for and take a chance
of losing it.—Douglas News.
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Nebraska Has Old Man to Rival Kentucky’s Boast
ESTVILLE, NEBR.—Toni Morris is Westville’s candidate for honor of
being the oldest man in America. John Shell, the Kentucky moun
taineer, is said to be 131. Well, Tom Morris, is only 125, but he is 125—no
guesswork about it. He has the old
TM.< Mw-rr nr family Bible containing the record of
DUU-rfT - his birth on January Id, 1794. And
he has other records and proofs. His
age is not a matter of tradition. It
is an authenticated fact.
The old man is not in good health,
by any means. He is blind. Also,
he is almost deaf. Blindness came
on a couple of years ago. Deafness
is approaching. He has been lame
for something over a hundred years.
He eats five meals every day and
smokes his pipe about sixteen to eighten hours every day. Before the state
went dry he took a drink of whisky whenever he could get it and he com
plains bitterly that a thirst he spent more than a century in working up
cannot be appeased. ‘‘Anything that a fellow’s been doing for a hundred
years or more becomes a habit,” he says.
He was born in Berrew, Montgomeryshire, North Wales. For a hun
dred years he has been a shoemaker. He mended shoes in Scotland in 1810,
when he was sixteen years old. When he came to America in 1871 he’brought
his tools along with him. He had a shoeshop in Streator and Blackstone,
111., and in Harrison county, Mo., before coming to Nebraska, 33 years ago.
More than half a century ago Morris picked up a boy in Scotland and
took care of him. His name was Charles Mytton. xNow Charles Mytton is
taking care of the old man.
Though Loin Morris has seen practically all the great inventions now
in use developed and made practical, he has never learned to read.
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Mrs. Grant Reed has taken over Mrs. J. C.
hunk’s stock of goods, which has been added
to her stock of goods recently removed from
her McCarthy store, and is now open for busi
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