Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 167, 22 May 1920 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1920.

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? BY THEIR EDITOR

KANSAS CITY. Mo. Pioneering ' tlays of journalism in the West -were recalled here recently -with the retirement of. Celbe . C. Cline, managing

editor of the Kansas City Journal. Mr. CJine began his newspaper career in 1881 as a "printer's devil" on the 'Democrat of Leadville, Col. When the big "rush" to the Cherokee strip opened in 1890 he was an experienced editor, and he set out for ;. the Indian Territory from his parents Miome In Kansas in a prairie schooner $ carrying a complete printing plant. Mr. 11ne recounted his experiences at a farewell banquet In his honor. ,The voyaging editor set stakes at Wmd Creek, unloaded his printing preps and got out what he declares was the first paper published in the Indian Territory, carrying an account of the race for land. His editorial office and a saloon, Mr. Cllne says, were the first two business establishments to spring up In Pond Creek. In the rush of events the editor found himself elected the first mayor of Pond Creek. He. was elected by a majority of twenty-one over his opponent, who was also his boon companion. Serious problems soon confronted the fledging municipality. Fights With Railroad. "The Rock Island, running north and , south, divided Pond Creek into two towns." Mr. Cline said. "The town on the west side of the tracks that was the 'outside' wanted to be the county tat. It effected a separate organization and a separate railroad station and brought pressure to bear on the i lallroad not to stop Its trains at 'our station. So we passed an ordinance making It an offense for trains to run through Pond Creek at a greater speed than six miles an hour. "Of course the ordinance was Ignored, so we got together and set up 845 feet of the railroad track on edge

like a picket fence. The engineer of the first train to come alone after that eeemed to be possessed with the notion that if he put on speed he could flatten that track-fence down and go over it. For his efforts he piled his cattle train in the ditch. We arrested the crew for exceeding the speed limit." Mr. Cline told of pleading with a crowd of 3,000 for law and order and of advising them to release the cattle from the wrecked cars, which was done. The following day, he said, 100 railroad police descended upon Pond Creek. Another Ordinance Passed. Plainly another ordinance was necessary, he continued, so one was forthcoming forbidding railroad police to carry arms farther than 100 feet from the railroad track. The "restaurant" was more than 100 feet from the track, and when the railroad officers vent to eat. a deputized crowd swooped down on them, captured their -Stacked arms and. at the order of the mayor, arrested every man. In 1894 Pond Creek had to find a new mayor, for Mr. Cline came to Kansas City, where he did most of his subsequent newspaper work. He was managing editor of the Journal for eleven years, retiring May 1. In leaving the newspaper business, Mr. Cline is following a desire he has had for a dozen years, to devote himself to fruit farming. He has a farm at Anderson, Mo.

Five Minutes with Our Presidents

By JAMES MORGAN

XXIX THE FIRST PRESIDENT BY SUCCESSION

tlonal convention, 'which nominated him for vice president. Nevertheles he agreed with the Whigs only in opposing Jackson and Van Buren. In the North, they were for protection and internal improvements; in the South, they were for the Union above all else, and Tyler was dead set against each of those policies. Thurlow Weed and the Whig politicians understood this perfectly. To distract the North from the slavery question they nominated the log cabin hero and to attract the slave-holding South they nominated with him a disciple of Calhoun. With a ticket facing both ways, they adopted no platform and stood for nothing except vote catching. The 6cheme worked to perfection at the polls. But in the hour of its triumph the Whig president died and his Democratic running mate was in the white bouse. That unforeseen even served the Whigs right. They had set out to fool the people and in the end they themselves were worse fooled. All they wanted was Tippecanoe, but they got Tyler, too.

JOHN TYLER

Greatness and the presidency found John Tyler down on one knee, playing "knucks" with his boys In a pathway of his dooryard in Williamsburg, that stately old vice regal village of colonial Virginia. He had not even heard that Harrison was ill, until destiny, without steam, wire or rail to carry it, sped to him from Washington by boat and buggy with the news that the

, president had been dead a day and jthat the empty presidential chair was awaiting the vice president. Rising from his game of marbles, ithe first problem that confronted this 1 : ,1 . . . ,

yicoiueui uy succession, was io get money enough to take him to the capital. He promptly received the offer of a loan from a money lender of the

I neighborhood. But since that thrifty

man had coldly refused to take a similar chance on him a few months before, the favor was declined now, and personal friends supplied the needed amount to convey to the white house this port of fortune. It was the first time that a vice president had been called upon to discharge the one duty which gives that office its only excuse for existence to fill a vacancy in the presidency. People had all but forgotten the purpose for which the place was created. If those who had nominated Tyler had given a thought to the possibility of his succeeding to the chief magistracy, he would have been about the last man they would have chosen for the emergency. Tyler belongs among the third or fourth-rate presidents. Although a clean-handed, " kindly mart of good presence and polished manners, he was a mediocre country lawyer and a

narrow-minded politician, with a gift for getting offices that he had no gift

for filling. Graduating at 16

1790 March 29, John Tyler born in Charles City, Charles City County, Va. 1806 Graduated from William and Mary. 18-11-16 Member of legislature. 1815-21 Member of congress. 1823-25-rM ember of legislature. 1825-27 Governor of Virginia. 1827-36 United States senator. 1840 Elected vice president. 1841 April 6, became tenth president, aged 51.

Anaesthetics Discovered By Accident in Most Cases (Boston Globe) In 1844. Horace Wells, dentist, Hartford, Conn., attended a lecture by Colton on nitrous oxid gas. In illustrat

ing the lecture gas was administered to one of the audience, who became unconscious. This led Wells to believe that it might be employed to render painless the extraction of teeth.

He tried it on himself and found that it was so. During the same year William Morton, a Boston dentist, heard that sulphuric ether could be inhaled in small quantities to produce unconsciousness. Accordingly, he experi

mented. He was insensible for eight minutes. On recovering he concluded

that ether might be employed successfully In surgical work. On October 16, 1846, Morton administered ether to a patient in the Massachusetts General Hospital In Boston. It was in November, 18V7, that Simpson, famous Scottish scientist of Edinburgh, resolved to try personally the inhalation of chloroform. Sitting with his friends, Duncan and Keith, around a dinner table, he proposed that they inhale chloroform. Each consented to the test. First, their minds were livened; then they fell into a deep stupor. Simpson, recovering first, found Duncan snoring on the floor and Keith, half-sensible, struggling to regain the chair from which he had fallen. Guthrie, of Sacketts Harbor, N. Y.; Soubieran, of France, and Leiblg, of Germany, announced the discovery of chloroform almost simultaneously in 1831. The power of ether to produce insensibility was known as far back as 1823, but no practical application was made of it until Morton and Wells exemplified it. Morton secured patents, both in this country and in England, but never was able to protect them. A bill making an appropriation for the first discoverer of anesthesia brought several times before congress, never was passed.

head the ticket with a shining leader and line up the rabble behind. In England, on the contrary, they vote for one candidate at a timenow a member of parliament and then the borough councilor, who Is equivalent to our alderman. The voters' interest is centered on one officer. If the outgoing borough councilor has failed to give satisfaction and runs again, speaking from the tail of a furniture van, interest may be centered on him so Intensely that the voters will pelt him with paper sacks filled with flour which is a feature of the British system that I do not admire. The British look at their politics through the big end of the telescope and get a clear focus. We look at ours through the little end, so that men and issues are too remote to be distinguished.

The Horse and the Candle We just happened to be reading an article concerning a 200-horse power airplane motor, and the pages of said article were illuminated by a 16-candle power electric lamp which hung above the desk. The motor is all right, and so is the lamp but we are interested in the power. 1 1TC3 While the faithful old hore is raiv-

idly going Into the discard as a hauler of heavy loads, his snocessor, the mo-' tor truck, is measured by his pulling' capacity and probably will continue! to be measured by that scale for cen-i turtes. And the electric lamp, by It a tmyl "night light" or a tremendous glaring affair for street Illuminating, Is I measured by what the antedated tallow candle used to be able to do. Very. -few citizens use candles nowadays, and yet this flickering wick Is the standard for great electric institutions all over the world. . A horse or a candle ' should feel justly. proud that such wonderful advancement in the art of power is yet . measured by them.

ONE CANDIDATE AT A TIME

I like the British way of voting for I

one candidate at a time. Our elections, national and local, involve a ! long list of candidates. In the excite- j ment of voting for headliners like ( president, governor or mayor, we j elect the wrong dog catcher. It is a I scheme that enables politicians to

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William and Mary, the only college besides Harvard to be the alma mater of three presidents, he was elected to the Virginia legislature at 21, while his father was serving as governor. ; At 26 he went to congress; at 35 he' was chosen to the governorship and at 37 he entered the senate, to which he was re-elected for a second term. ; His record of statesmanship in! those various posts need not detain j the reader a moment. It is a blank

page, as with so many of our facile vote getters and place hunters. But for the accident of another's death, Tyler's name would have been buried with his dust in the oblivion of the

grave. A Jacksonian Democrat at first,; Tyler followed John C. Calhoun offi into nullification and to extremes onj the dogma of States' rights and thei protection of slavery. Rather than

obey the instructinos of the Virginia legislature that he should vote to expunge the censure which the senate

had passed upon Jackson, he broke with the Democrats, resigned the sen-i

atorship and reappeared in the state legislature as a Whig member. He

from was also a delegate to the Whig na-

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Rid of Signature's Scrawl

(Boston Transcript. In connection with the recent news report that a train was wrecked because of a station master's poor penmanship, it Is timely to call attention to a happy practice which has come into use. At the end of typewritten business letters lately, one often comes across the scribbled signature, below which the typist has translated the sign manual in clear print. This saves the need of deciphering, and is a practice which might well have a wide vogue. As a matter of fact, few people sign their names legibly. With a great many there is a positive tric'.f or affectation of illegibility. It is a relic of 1he old idea that, to forestall forgery, there should be something peculiar, very individual, even cryptic, about a formal signature. Such signatures are purely cabalistic; they are all right, no doubt, if you are Horace Greeley or Rudyard Kipling or the treasurer of the United States, or somebody exceedingly widely known, but they are a nuisance to the world & you are obscure. But the signatures of many people are illegible for a very different reason from this the reason that people have to sign their names a great many times and ept hored and wearv. or

very hasty, in doing it, and conpe-

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