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feller encouraged his Imagination by remarking that he would be glad when
lie got back home so he could treat. When the automobile stopped in front of
the Itockefeller home, Mr. Rockefeller called one of his servants, saying:
“John, get a pitcher and go up to the spring and get us a glass of that pure,
cord water.”
The barber nearly collapsed. Of course, he drank the water, but no one
enjoyed the joke more than Mr. Rockefeller. It was one of his pet stories
on the golf links after that.
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MRS. REED SMOOT
Mrs. Reed Smoot, wife of Senator
Smoot of Utah, is pre-eminently a
home-loving woman. “The woman,
as executive head of the home,” Mrs.
Smoot says, “has it in her power to
exert a more tremendous influence
on the future in this country through
this one medium than ever before in
history.
“The woman who builds up a hap
py home, brings her children into the
world, rears them with love and ten
derness and gives to the world noble
women and courageous men to carry
on its work has done the greatest work
a human being could do. Growing
with one’s children —making compan
ions and friends of them —instilling in
them a love of the wholesomeness of
home —these are requirements that a
mother must live up to.”
Mrs. Smoot is proud of her chil
dren, and says she wishes that every
other woman was just as happy as
she is. She is very bright and an able lieutenant for her distinguished
husband, but paramount to everything else are her borne and children.
OAKEY AND THE BALD HEADS
toned during the weary days of this long session to many demagogic speeches
and wearisome orations. The closing days of this session have been prolific
of that kind of statesmanship.
“This afternoon, while meditating upon the issues of this important cam
paign, it occurred to me that in at least one great issue the Republican party
is badly handicapped. The party has not taken the Bald Head Club of Amer
ica into its confidence, and a formidable rival threatens the organization.
“Bald heads, look out! For your reputation for brains, humor, and state
craft will be obliterated from the national scene unless you bestir yourselves
in the cumpaign of the future. It is not for you to waste your time in idle
recriminations at this slight upon the club, but to strive in noble emulation.”
I ROU MANIA’S STRONG MAN
Tlie strong man of Roumania is
its minister of war, Take Jonescu.
Among his people he holds a place
similar to that of Venizelos among
the Greeks; he is one cf them and they
trust him.
He has been the most courted states
man in Europe lately. He w r as the
hope of the allies and the fear of the
Germans.
The most prominent characteris
tics of this interesting man are his
magnetism and personal charm. He
has loyalty, principle, energy, as well
as the opportunism and “realism” of
Venizelos. He knows national charac
ter. He can conform to its idiosyncra
sies.
The great Roumanian lawyer, al
though in receipt of huge fees, takes
up the cases of the impoverished with
out a retainer. At the opening of his
career he refused a government post
that he might practice in the courts.
lie lias figured in the most important as well as in the most sensational eases
without adding to his wealth. His income from his profession is astonishingly
small for one who ranks among the great lawyers of Europe. It is true that
he has private means that render him independent.
The hobby of Take Jonescu is art and, if we may accept current gossip,
he has thrown away much money on the education of promising young met
V who at Rome or Paris turned out idlers or dilettanti.
“No one but John D. Rockefeller
could have gotten away with a joke
like that,” seriously declares the Ger
man barber at Tarrytown who shaves
the oil man. While he is not express
ing his feelings out loud, at the same
time when anyone asks him how he
likes to take a drink with Mr. Rocke
feller his actions are more eloquent
than words.
After the barber had shaved him
one warm afternoon, Mr. Rockefeller
invited him to take an automobile ride.
They went to Mamaroneck and Mr.
Rockefeller asked the barber if he
would like a drink. The barber as
sured Mr. Rockefeller that he would
be delighted.
“Well, you wait till we get back to
the house,” the barber was told. “I've
got a fine cold drink back there for
you.”
All the way home the barber had
visions of a cold bottle, and Mr. Rocke-
When is a man really bald?
Why, when he has a bald spot, of
course, but then comes the question
that the Bald Head Club of America
tried to solve. How large must the
diameter of that spot be before the
man is bald? The answer of the club
is four inches.
The head of this organization
which has declared a relentless war
on all hair restorers is Congressman
P. Davis Oakey of Hartford. Conn.
Mr. Oakey is proud of liis eligibility
to the club, and has made many boasts
of it. He wms moved to utterance re
cently in the house cloakroom when he
saw a grave menace staring him in the
face—or on the bald spot.
It was a group of Republican bald
heads who listened to the Impassioned
defense of the liberties of the balds,
which the president of the Bald Head
Club of America gave.
“Gentlemen,” he began, “I have lis-
jarg
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE HEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs.
Washington
The enormous extent of recent gains
in the export trade of the United
States is disclosed in statistics issued
lby the department of commerce. To
tal exports to the various countries
for the first eight months of the cal
endar year were in many cases mil
lions of dollars greater than those of
| the entire fiscal year of 1914.
The Japanese emperor has requested
Lieutenant General Count Seiki Terau
chi, former minister of war and also
formerly resident general in Korea, to
organize a' cabinet in succession to
the ministry of Marquis Okuma.
It is announced in Washington that
the new Japanese premier is an ad
herent of the “no-party” form of gov
ernment. He is a member of the old
school, and fears the two-party idea
would be undesirably progressive.
The remarkable statement is given
out at the agricultural department
that a Canada farmer reaped a yield
of 52 bushels to the acre on a thou
sand acre farm. This remarkable
production was harvested in Alberta,
and takes the record from Whitman
county, Washington, U. S. A.
Major General Hugh L. Scott, chief
of staff of the army, is undergoing
treatment in a hospital for chronic
stomach trouble.
President Wilson is away on a va
cation in the middle West, and re
ports are to the effect that he is re
ceiving an ovation all along his way.
it is announced in Washington that
Premier Count Okuma of Japan has
resigned. His resignation had been
expected.
The department of agriculture will
give a final estimate on the total cot
ton crop December 11.
This year’s cotton crop will be ap
proximately 11,637,000 equivalent 500-
pound bales, and prices are already
shooting sky-high.
Storms and insect damage have
wrought havoc with the cotton crop
this year and caused a loss of almost
three million bales throughout the
growing season.
Cotton this year was planted on the
fourth largest acreage ever recorded —
355,994,000 acres—but storms and
floods destroyed so many acres that
the crop will be one of the smallest
in many years.
The indications are that this year’s
cotton crop will yield only 156,3 pounds
to the acre. This is due in part to the
boll weevil, but, for the most part,
to unseasonable weather. -*
if there is an early killing frost,
there will be much more damage to
the cotton crop in the Carolinas and
northern Georgia.
More than six hundred witnesses
have been summoned before the Char
leston, W. Va., grand jury as a result
of what the authorities claim to be
unusual activity on the part of the
bootleggers in Kanawha county. One
hundred violators of the prohibition
law r have been held by the Charleston
police court to await the action of the
present grand jury, while nearly as
many more are being held in magis
trates’ courts.
Mayor Thompson of Chicago has no
tified city council that the five thou
sand policemen now employed are not
sufficient to guard Chicago and asks
for 1,000 additional men.
The effect of the milk famine is felt
in New York City as the result of
a deadlock between dairymen and dis
tributors over the price the former
shall receive for their product.
European War
Great Britain is in urgent need of
men for her armies and also for her
munition factories. There is urgent
need of fresh supplies of men for the
armies and munitions factories in or
der to “maintain British forces in the
field at the number already fixed for
them and at the same to maintain
the supply of munitions essential for
their equipment and proper utiliza
tion.”
In the move to gete more men for
the British army no exemption will
be granted certain classes heretofore
exempt, and there will be a more gen
eral dilution of skilled labor in muni
tions factories with women and other
workers heretofore untrained.
In Britain the authorities have un
der consideration the extended use of
women in order to release men of mili
tary age now employed in the govern
ment offices.
On the eastern front in Dobrudja,
the Roumanian war office reports
that Roumanian attacks continue vio
lently over the whole front.
The Bulgarian war office places the
number of Roumanians who have in
vaded Bulgaria at several battalions,
and says measures have been taken
to beat back this force.
Violent fighting has been in prog
ress in Russia, west of Lutsk, and in
Galicia, in the region of the Zlota
Lipa river, is the news emanating
from French sources.
Another Zeppelin raid against Lon
don and the east coast of England was
made. The airship was brought down
in flames north of London while great
crowds sheered the spectacle, the flare
being visible from a long distance.
The comment in the United States
concerning the possible effect of the
commercial measures contemplated by
the recent Paris economic conference
of the entente allies, leads Lord Rob
ert Cecil, minister of war trade of the
British empire, to declare that wholly
wrong conclusions have been dfrawn
from them, especially with regard to
those conclusions attributing any at
tempt to exclude or discriminate
against the United States with the
entente allies after the war.
The British steamer, Hawkhead, at
anchor in Hampton Roads, oft Sewall’s
Point, was run down and sunk by the
Chesapeake Steamship company’s bay
line steamer City of Norfolk, outward
bound from Norfolk, Va., for Balti
more, with a number of passengers.
The collision occurred during a fog.
Turning against the Roumanians,
who had been advancing steadily in
eastern Transylvania, Austro-Hungari
ans and German troops have defeated
the invaders decisively along a fifty
mile front. North of Gogaras at the
junction of the Homorod and Alt riv
ers, near Reps, the Roumanians are
in retreat, pursued by the Teutonic
troops.
In Dobrudja heavy fighting contin
ues along the line south of the Con
stanza-Bucharest railway, with Buch
arest recording progress for the Rus
sians and Roumanians in the center
and on their left wing.
Berlin reports that all Russian at
tacks west of Lutsk have been repuls
ed with heavy casualties.
The fighting along the sputhwestern
front, having reached another of its
periodic climaxes, has turned in fa
vor of the Russians, yielding them a
large number of prisoners, and Lem
berg is threatened again, this time
from two directions —along the main
railway from Brody to Lemberg and
from Brzezany.
Mexican News
Reports that Mexican bandits had
again appeared in the valley of the
Rio Grande, caused a general tighten
ing of the armed forces protecting that
section.
A detachment of Oklahoma infan
trymen was sent out from San Bonito
in pursuit of men believed to be Mex
ican outlaws. It is reported that one
United States soldier was killed, but
there is no confirmation of the report.
Strong protests have been made
to the United States state department
by the British and French embassies
against the action of the Carranza gov
ernment in Mexico in seizing the as
sets of British and French banking
institutions in the Mexican capital.
Members of the Mexican-American
joint commission have resumed their
consideration of Mexican affairs at At
lantic City, N. J., with a view to find
ing a basis for an agreement on bor
der control.
A delegation representing the more
important mining interests of Mexico
appeared before the commission rep
resenting the United States and Mex
ico, sitting at Atlantic City, N. J., in
support of their contention that con
ditions in Mexico are such as to make
it practically impossible to resume
mining operations at this time. #
Domestic
The auxiliary cruiser, Dixie, which
went aground near Thimble Shoals
light, Chesapeake bay, during a very
heavy fog, was floated by two navy
tugs.
With four persons under arrest and
the police drag-net closing about four
others in connection with the hold-up
and murder at Hammonton, N. J., the
authorities declare that Millie de Mar
co, 19 years of age, of Philadelphia,
Pa., one of the prisoners, probably en
gineered the plot.
The business section of Gainesville,
Ga., w'as terrorized when Private J. C.
Grant, troop F, National Guard, es
caped from the armory, where he had
been detained as a deserter from a
mobilization camp of the National
Guard, and ran amuck through the
streets, emptying two army pistols at
pedestrians as he ran.
Dr. Richard C. Flower, known all
over the country for his stock selling
operations, from which he is credited
with having netted more than a mil
lion dollars, dropped dead in a Ho
boken, N. J., theater. He was a son
of a country clergymen, and had tried
most everything to make money with
no success till he began his stock-sell
ing move.
Two persons w’ere killed and thirty
badly hurt at Cleveland, Ohio, in a
collision between two street cars on
the West Third street bridge. The
force of the impact caused the bridge
to collapse and the cars fell thirty
feet to the railroad tracks and came
near rolling into the Cuyahoga river.
The great American relief cam
paign to be undertaken for the Bel
gian sufferers has been launched by
the American Committee for Armen
ian and Syrian Relief. It is seated
that there are one million starving,
and a $5,000,000 contribution is asked
of the American public.
Thirteen persons were killed and
more than twenty-five injured, several
probably fatally, when a switch engine
pushing two freight cars crashed into
a crow'ded trolley car on the east
side of Detroit, Mich.
Mitchell Lingo of Trinity, near
Fredericksburg, Md., claims to have
the champion egg layer of the world
in a two-year-old hen. The hen has
laid in the same spot in the barn all
year, and Lingo, backed by officials
of the town, states that she laid 365
eggs last year. The hen is a Rhode
Island Red.
Organization of the Chinese-Ameri
can Exchange company, a shipping
corporation which proposes to inaug
urate a general mercantile trade be
tween China and American ports on
the gulf, south Atlantic and Pacific,
is announced in Washington.
MANY SHIPS SUNK
OFF 11. S. COAST
German Submarines Play Havoc Will?
Neutral Shipping In American
Territorial Waters
PASSENGERS ARE RESCUED
U. S. Destroyers Pick Up Distresi
Signals And Save People Who
Left Doomed Vessels
Boston. —The submarine arm of the
imperial German navy ravaged ship
ping off the eastern coast of the Unit
ed States.
Four British, one Dutch and one
Norwegian steamers were sent to the
bcttom or left crippled derelicts off
Nantucket shoals.
Under the light of the Hunter's
moon, the destroyer flotilla of the
United States Atlantic fleet picked up
passengers and crews of the destroyed
vessels and brought them into New
port, R. I.
So far as known, there was no loss
cf life, though the crew of the Brit
ish steamer Kingston had not been
accounted for. A submarine held up
the American steamer Kansas, bound
from New York for Genoa with steel
for the Italian government, but, later
on establishing her identity, allowed
her to proceed. The Kansas came into
Boston harbor for her usual call here.
The hostile submarine is believed to
be the U-53, which paid a call to
Newport and disappeared at sunset.
Some naval men, however, declare
that at least two submarines are op
erating close to the American shore,
though outside the three-mile limit.
The sensation created when the U-53
quietly slipped into Newport harbor
and as quietly slipped away three
hours later, was less than the shock
in shipping circles when wireless re
ports of submarine attacks began to
come into the naval radia stations
just before noon. Within a few
minutes the air -was literally charged
with electricity, as wireless messages
of warning were broadcasted along the
coast.
The submarine, or submarines, had
taken a position drectly in the steam
er lanes when they could hardly miss
anything bound in for New York or
bound east from that port.
Nine Vessels Reported Sunk
Newport, R. I.—The executive offi
cer of the destroyer Ericson, returning
from the scene of the German subma
rine activities off Nantuckett, report
ed that nine ships had been sunk and
that three submarines were operating
off the coast. This information, he
said, he had on the authority of the
captain of the Nantucket Shoals light
ship.
Three British cruisers arrived off
Nantucket Island at 2:40 o’clock in the
morning.
Radio messages in code were con
stantly exchanged by the vessels.
Other cruisers of the allied naval
forces were expected in the same wa
ters soon.
Washington Deeply Concerned
Washington.—Submarine warfare at
the very doors of the United States
with all its spectacular features does
not necessarily portend further com
plications with Germany so long as it
is carried on within the limitations of
international law.
That is the view of official Washing
ton on the record of one day’s opera
tions in which none of the ships de
stroyed appears to have been attack
ed without warning or without proper
measures having been taken for safe
ty of those aboard.
Academically, at least, in interna
tional law, an allied ship destroyed by
a German submarine just outside the
3-mile limit and in sight of American
shores, is no different than a ship de
stroyed in the Arctic ocean, provided
its destruction is accomplished in ac
cordance with the laws of nations and
humanity.
But despite the fact that it seems to
make little difference on which partic
ular part of the high seas Germany
prosecutes her newest submarine cam
paign, officials and diplomats see a
situation filled with so many possibili
ties that it is almost impossible to
enumerate them so long as commerce
in and out of American ports is men
aced.
Many Passengers Rescued
Newport, R. I. —Four destroyers of
the American flotilla came into the
harbor here bringing 216 persons res
cued from the ship sunk cff Nan
tucket October 8 by a German subma
rine. The Ericsson, one of the de
stroyers to arrive, brouhgt 81; the
Drayton, 68; the Benham, 36, and the
Jenkins, 31.
Thirty-five women and ten children
are among those on the Ericsson. The
information came by wireless in ad
vance of the actual docking of the
destroyers.
No Order In Letter Brought By U-Boat
Washington—No official communi
cation from the German government
was in the dispatch sent to Count von
Bernstorff by Lieut. Capt. Hans Rose,
commander of the German submarine
U-53. The dispatch, which arrived at
the embassy, consisted of a persona!
communication, in plain German, re
garding payment for some supplies the
commander of the submarine thought
he might secure in Newport. There
was said to be no information in it
regarding the intentions of the_ com
mander.
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