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the homh papbr H,e First Prise Kmy on Thin Sub? <kj#ct by a. Kansas Oirl An essay content on "The Homo jpaper and th? Community" was re cently conducted by Sam Rlden iour, editor of Th? Coats (Kens.) ?our?nt, end th? judge# awarded tho prise to the following essay, submitted by Cfecil Hem. it# fifteen. The history of newspapers begin ii> Germany. The name of the first paper was the Frankfurter Journal* weekly publication sterted by Bm me in MW5, end ever since thet first paper we? published they have in creased in importance and have been an important fagtQr in the advance ?teat of clvtfiaetfon. In feet, th? growth in sentiment favpreble to ?oi* general reading i* noticeable in all countries *here civilisetion and society mak? any pretense of pro gressive development- However, it {* anly in th0 Pe?t few years that prac tically all the p?opl? read newspa pers. We ftpd that Wherever news papers er? not read that the advene* ed state of development from ?very standpoint is about the sain? that it was 4,000 years ago. For instance, the farmers of JBible lands re rising the same kind of implements in pur suit of agriculture, as they did in the beginning. We also learn that very few news paper^ if any, ere read by thesg farmers. We even learn through Dr. William fc. Herms, professor of parasitology of the University of California, that the natives on the Fanning group 0* isUnds of the South Sees were recently shown their ilrst mirror, and ettiep photographs tf them were taken they ofton fail ed to recognize themselves. Their ?wn faces apparently are strange to them when they would look into th? aiirror. We also learn that there io ?'9 fprm literature whatever. We ahoulf* be thankful that we are. in a cieffced end Christian land and an intelligent community, within the center of whfch is established a home paper known as the Coats Courant. Th? development qf a community de pends much upon the character uf the newspaper. A newspaper must stand for something. If it stands for business alone, the .community and even the world will know it. If it stands for character and principle, ?or purity hi public and private life/ for honest and fairness in our rela tions with our fellow men, the news paper is an educating power for good in all that makes. |nen and women better. ? The greatest purpose or? art of journalism* is, first in obtaining all fegitimate news, all news to be stated with fairness^ and correctness. There should be in addition to this, a sound moral forcS underlying all the edi torial comment?a principle that sever forget the goOd old flag, the symbol of government that stands for equality, fraternity and liberty. Much depends on the editor, for all the editor is, so is the paper. If an ?ditor is., indifferent as to. whether the world grows better, his peper must reflect'that spirit^ If he has faith in humanity, in the p?wer of human love to make this life look bright and cheerful, his editorials will reflect that faith. Primarily, the publication of a newspaper is a business enterprise; The greatest advantage and benefit that a newspaper is to a community is the bringing of the people closer together from a business standpoint, in the way of advertisements, espe cially in a farming and stockraising community. If a farmer has grain or seed of any kind for sale, he can, through the advertising columns of a newspaper with a good chculation, reach more people at ?- less cost tha.i ?n any other way, and so -^vith the stock raiser. A community newspaper is the medium through whichK intelligence becomes widespread. Th? moral char* ucter of American newspapers con tinues to improve. ^ When we read in our oWn com munity newspaper the work that is being done in our schools from an educational standpoint, and about-our hurches from a spiritual standpoint, it causes us to pause and think upon the grever affairs of life, and it thereby makes better boys and tfirls, as well as better men and wo men. Now, with all^ things consider ed, that which constitutes a good community, we, as- a community, may be thankful that we have such a pa per to guide us in the higher ideals of life. Not To Be Prosecuted New Orleans, Jan. 8.?Nellie Daw-, son Wright, 17 year old bandit's wi dow, arrested in Jacksonville, Fla, a week ago, with approximately' $10,000 of the loot stolen from a local 'bank by her husband, William Wright, killed in Mobile, will fioLbe prosecuted and will be permitted to for her home in Dos Moines, District Attorney Marr nifht. RHixHng Headaches 'For about twenty yoara." ra Mr. P. A. Walko*. * w?H r* eitixen of Nowburg, "on* of our family rente ir cold*, bilioittnea*, ?o?r and indication. I ru aubjoct to needachM when my liver would got out of pi#r. I would h?M fceedo?boo auvi couldn't ?t<K^ about my work, r >Y* . ^ . -? - V". ..?"-;?5 ThetM's P her, . . mid pat I might try to follow direction*, i wma nauseated 2m%fg&?3 ?.d in mtSSlm arrtatly Improved Mid week she wa# ufc'" - Try BlacV^Draurfht. Itewto only one ctat a do?e. Sold fvtoywhtri,; ifettfl a V Your Income Tax Yqur incomte 'tax for the yei^r 1924 is leBH, in proportion to Jr&ur in come, than Was the tax for 1923. A rate reduction, however, is not tho only benefit afforded by the revenue act of 1924. Increase in the exempt tion for married persons, a 26 per cent reduction on "earned income," and other changes in revenue legis lation are of immediate interest to every taxpayer. The revenue act of 1924 requires that returns be filed by every single person net inofomu for 1924 was j $1,000 or more, or whose gross in come "was $5,000 or more, and by every married couple whose aggre gate net income was $2,600 or more, or whose aggregate gross income was $6,000 or more. ? Last year, returns were required of married couples whose aggregate net income was $2,0Q0 or more. Husband and wife, living together, may include^ the in come of each in a, single joint re turn, or each may file a separate return showing the income of each. Net income' is gross incoma less .certain specified reductibns for busi ness expenses, losses, bad debts, con tributions, etc. The period for filing returns is from January 1 to March 1\ 1926. The return, accompanied by at least one-fourth of th* amount of taxjue^ must be filed with the collector of in ternal revenue for the district in which the taxpayer haa<his letfal residence or has his principal place of business. Large Bear Killed Lenoir, tf. C., Jan. 7.?Reports have reached here of the killing , of a two hundred and fifty pound bear sev eral days ago- in the nati?n*l forest near Edgemont. This ft the first bear bagged 8Q i&X this. Reason by the hunting parties who (have scoured this area. It has be#n during the past three years ohty that bears have returnel to this section Big lumber__miUs. and fires kept them run out for a dozen years. Since the government has bought a large , area hero and has kept the fire opt, allowing refor esting to ,take its course a nupiber of bears have been seen. Many of the citizens llvipg i** the vicinity do not want the bears killedr?^Tfiey want them and all other' game, protected for a few years and given a chance to increase in numbers. Some local persons, however, and hunters from (elsewhere come in and make it pret ty hard for any game to exist. Abbeville Bank Closes Abbeville, Jan. 8,?By order of the directors, the National Bank of Abbeville cl&sed its doors today. De cision was 'reached after several ]|f|>e depositors had withdrawn their deposits folhjwhtg unfavorable ru mors, J. Allen Smith, president of the bank, stated. Business was suspended, in order that all depositors would be placed on an equal footing, the president said. The condition of ' the bank he added, will guarantee full payment of every deposit and the cl(yring ir expected to be only temporary. The comptroller of the crifrency has been notified and the bank ex aminer is expected to arrive soon. The national bank was the oldest in thfe county and hid capital stock *of 2 i KANSAS GOVERNOR IN BAD To Be Arretted With Son on Charge of Bribing. L- Topeka, Kan., Jan. iL* Warrants will bo sworn out here tomorrow charging Governor Jonathan M. Davis and his son, Russell G. Davis, 28, with soliciting and accepting a bribe of $1,260 in payment for a par don issued Fred W. Pollman, it was nnounced late today h^ Tinkham Veale, county attorney of Shawnee county. Agreement was reached at a con ference of county and State officers this afternoon that charges will be preferred and a warrant served on the governor and his son before toe inauguration exercises tomorrow when Governor Davis yields his chair as axecutive. The accusation will be based, Veale said, on an alleged payment of $1,260 to. the younger Davis by Tollman, convicted forger, wlg^l formerly was president of the County Bank at LaCygne, Kansas. The money was said to have boon exchanged last Friday in a Topei? 1 hotel, when Kussell delivered a pa&| don, xigned by his father, to Pollman, la^er returning the money when ' was confronted1 by witnesses who had "listened in" on the transaction by a telephonic arrangement. Mr. Veale said that the county Sheriff would serve the warrants im mediately, the governor and his sod would be given a preliminary hear-' ing and placed under bond. The pros-, ecution then would fall to Paul Heinz, county attorney-elect.' No officers were consulted or testi mony taken today. Thd^harges |werd 'j based on accounts of the episode pub-. lished In the news?*?*?, but, Mr. Veale said that Pollman would re-' turn to testify for the state. Pollman now is in Missouri, he said. The Aling of formal charges will be the first step locking toward prtis?I ecution of the governor or his soil since Friday's expose of the alleged pardon sale. Friday, afternoon young Davis, ac- j codring to his own story yesterday,. tn?V "tfrft mn?oy In hi* rnnm in the executive mansion and returned to the hotel with the pardon which his father declared he already had de cided to sign. Confronted there by tollman and a group of newspaper men and officials of the state and federal governments, he banded back the money, went back to his home and related the affair to his father. Honor Roll Lugoff School* * I Grade 8.?Alie Branham. Grade 7.?Nellie Watts, Mary Lee Ward, Claude Amnions, H. A. Rabon, Grade 0.?Helen Roseboro. Grade 4,?James Ward, Catherine Jones. Grade 2.?Myriine Ellis, Lois Mason. Grade 1?Emerson Branham, Annie Bell Ellid, Vivian 'Lee, Ttuhy Rabon. 1 Two million golf clubs are made in the IJaited States annually. TALK OF I UK SBA Half Starved Crew Adrift For Days Requeued by Freighter. <V New York, Jan. 12.?Seventeen half starved men made port today with a story of hardships such as few sailormei\ live to toll. They wero the captain and crew of the Portu guese windjammer Manuel Caragol, which went down with A hold full of bones last Saturday morning after eighty days of battle against gales that beset her from the time she left Rio dp Janeiro until the battered hulk was sighted by the Shipping Board freighter Kenowis. Her master, Joseph Mogano, was taken off the Kenowis en a stretcher. In agony from three broken ribs suf fered when he rescued a seaman from being washed overboard, Mogano three times tried to kill himself in his cabin, but members of the crelv saved him each time. His last attempt was when his crew was removed frohi the Caragol to the Kenowis. In structed to burn his ship because she was a menace to navigation, the mas ter sought to make the defeated four master his funeral pyre, but was forcibly removed. The Caragol left Rio October IB for Philadelphia with a cargo of bones to be used for fertilizer. Within twenty-four hours she ran into a suc cession of squalls which increased in fury as she bravely continued on her way. Her g)ight grew worse arid worse, the storms opening up seams in her, through which %the water poured. The crew threw loose cement into her hold, but succeeded only in clogg-ing the pumps. A few days before Christmas a gale stripped every shred of sail from her foreniuists and the Caragol drifted. On December 26 the coal gave out and the men burned parts of the deck. On New Year's Day each was rationed to one sea biscuit a day. On January 7 the lookout saw the smoke of a ship on the horilon. The meiL^went on the knees on the decks and prayed. I'he stetifner sailed-on. ..For three more day* and nights the Caragol drifted heipletfsly. Once the ffulf stream carried her to within fifty miles of New York. But another gale whipped out of the North Atlantic and tossed her back to a point 190 miles southeast of the Nantucket Light, where the lookout of the Kenowis, herself blown 700 miles off her course by a gale, made out her distress lights through a driving rain. Sixteen Dead on Highways. Columbia, Jan. 10.?The mortality record for state highways reached a new high level la*^ month when six teen persons, three more than the highest number previously reported, were killed, according to the monthly apoident report of the highway de partment whifch has just been made public here. ..The comptroller of_ the .currency on Saturday sent out a call for the condition <>f national banks on De r camber JUL. * DAVI8 DBFIBS'KMRMIKS Quits Office Asserting* Innocence of Crime. Topeka, Kun., Jan. 1 ij.?-Jonathan M. Davis, "dirt farmer" governor Of Kansas, stepped out of office today at the end of a turbulent, two year term and a few hours after his arrest on charge of accepting a $1,260 bribo for a pardon. Jointly charged with the retired executive is his son, Hussell G. Davis, 38, who was caught in the act of re ceiving the money and delivering the pardon to Fred W. Ppllman, former banker and convicted forger, Both were released on bond of $1,000. Their preliminary hearing was'set for Jan uary 28. Governor Davis militantly met the issue. He went to court to face the accusation, made bond, wrote a let ter to the presiding officers of the legislature demanding "a full and complete investigation" of his clem ency record and then carried througii his part in the inauguration cere monies, turning over his office to the incoming governor, Ben S. Paulen, re publican. "I stand before you today, the only governor of Kansas ever placed under arrest while in office," Governor Davis told the inaugural crowd that packed the city auditorium. "I have committed no crime. I have not violated the oath, of office 1 took two years ago, have neither solicited n9r accepted a bribe. Throughout my official conduct I have lent an ear to the poor and the down trodden. The greater portion of the paroles granted have b$en cases in which the imprisonment of a man was causing others to suffer even more than himself. "A great newspaper in search of prestige and influence has sought to besmirch me. They have invaded the sanctity of my home and sought to' solicit the effort* of criminals and j those of low character. The people of Kansas will resent mu h attempts.'' The audience applauded Ion# and loud an the governor finished hi.s ad dress with a word of hearty welcome to his successor. The charges against Governor Davis Mini bin son were filed by Tink ham Veale, retiring county attorney for Shawnee county when the court of Topeka opened thin morning. Paul Heinz, the new county attorney, wilt prosecute the case. , Learning of the issuance of war rants shortly after 10 o'clock, Gov ernor Davis and his son went to the court house And were met by a crowd of prominent business men and poli ticians eager to vign their bonds. In cluded in the six men who went on the bonds was J. U. Burrow, head of the largest banking institution in the cit yaiul a republican leader. Davis is a democrat. Governor Davis said he?uxpected to go to his Bourbon county farm to re main until January U3, the date of the preliminary hearing. It indicated tho defense at the preliminary hear ing will move to quash tho case. County Attorney Veale said the pros ecution expects to present Pollman as the principal state witness. The United States government pro poses tha tthe $110,000 to be paid by the Persian government, for the ex pense of sending the American bat- 1 tleship to Persia to bring home the body of Consul Imbrie, who wadlmir dered by the Persian mob, bo utilised for the education of the Persian stu dents at institutions of higher learn ing in the United States. ; ?? ? * When a sewer pipe in Canton, Mis souri, became clogged, * snapping turtle was sent through the pipe with a light rope attached to his body. A ' heavier rope wias then put through and the pipe cleaned out. I'.l ' - ??C 4- , ^i>V . . . y,"' x ?- - ?p_ ?. -i. ? , .?s r-. ? 7 ?.. .. _ , . ^T_Tl* *v ? ??? -p y ; ii c%3dSptV ? ?$*?'*&? Tf -i?- " ? v- ^v".jpsswmp.* ?^.wy ?.. ?? ? r. -?> X This bank seeks to justify its right to be here just as every individual shoulH to justify his existence, by doing its share toward promoting the prosperity and happiness of the people. - __ CONDENSED FROM^R^WT TO i^B^COMPTROLIiR^F THE CURRENCY . i.' * "?;/ j* . <3 ? RESOURCES Loan* and Diocounts 506,250.05 United States Bonds 79,851.13 Other Bonds and Stocks 25,038.50 Banking House and Furniture and Fifctur** 33,820.28 Real ?state, other than Bank 5,860.15 Cash in vault and due by Banks 1 and U. S. Treasurer 73,460.88 Other Assets 3,741.94 Total _...... $728,040.93 LIABILITIES Capital Stock P*tf In $ 7$,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits 35,493.15 Circulating Notes 49,200.00 I>epo?H? 868,534.06 Reserve Fund 2,813.72 Bills Payable NONE ? yiM- i f - Total $728,040.93 STRENGTH, STABILITY AND SAFETY eHplg*l I it i r-? ? v~