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FARM MONEY BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
SENATOR CAPPER GIVES PLANS
TO AID RECOVERY OF RURAL
PROSPERITY.
FREE SEEDS ARE RESTORED
Capper Places Credit Reform First
In List Os Needs He Urges For
Farmers Os Nation.
Washington.—Another of the annual
supply bills. the agricultural appro
priation, was passed by the senate
recently after it had reversed itself
and restored free seeds item for an
other year. The bill carries approxi
mately 1.'17.250,000, or about a million
and a half more than as passed by the
house.
A half a dozen amendments were
offered by Individual senators which
served to increase the amount of
money set aside for the department
of agriculture. Among the principal
changes made by the senate were In
creases of $500,000 to the million dol
lar appropriation for agricultural ex
tension work through farm agents;
$525,000 ts) the $50,000 appropriation
for the purchase of additional forest
reserves In the Appalachian district,
and $300,000 to $200,000 fund
for eradicating the barberry bush, the
wheat rust pest. An addition of $76,-
000 was made to the appropriation of
$175,000 for fighting the white pine
blister rust, and $20,000 was provid
ed for the extension of the leased wire
market service Into Texas, which ex
pects to use the service in connection
with radio broadcasting, according to
Senator Sheppard, of the state, who
sought the Increase.
An attempt was made by Senator
King, democrat, Utah, to add an
amendment limiting farm bureau
agents to the work of their depart
ments and preventing them from wliut
was described as Interference with
outside enterprises. After a verbal
tilt with Senator McNary, of Oregon,
in charge of the bill, who said that
if such limitation was to be placed
on government officials It should be
made to apply to senators and mem
bers of the house, Mr. King withdrew
the amendment.
MEN MALEFACTORS
GO BACK TO ADAM
HUNTING EXCUSE
Seeker* After Crime-Cause* Are Told
Ey Ten Convicts In One Word,
"Woman.”
Joliet, 111. —Why do men go wrong?
The answer of ten of the most hard
ened convicts in the Illinois stale peni
tentiary to the law enforcement com
mittee of the American Bnr associa
tion. Investigating the causes of the
nationwide crime wave here recent
ly. was —women.
Men serving long sentences for
every major crime on the statute
books were brought into the little
room In the prison to tell their story
to ihe committee.
Man after man was brought in to
tell Ills story; not us a prisoner be
fore a judge, but as man to man. j
Murderers serving life terms, old and |
bent; pickpockets, young and furtive;
swindlers, with still a trace of the
debonair; bunk clerks who embezzled,
one of them a handsome, upstanding
clear-eyed man —they all had the same
tale to tell before they had finished
their recitals—women, good and bad. !
The good women, In the majority
of cases, were their mothers. They I
had died, in three cases, when their
sons, now convicts, were young and
needed them most.
The bad women were the red-lipped,
pleasure-loving girls whom they met
when they were reaching manhood. !
Demnnds for gay night life, the bright
lights of cabarets, fine clothes and
jewels, with the most lavish aflec- j
tlon for the man who spent the most.
Divorcee Gets 2,000,000 Acres Os Land
Oakland. Cal. —Mrs. Klla Douglass,
by securing a final decree of divorce,
won final title to nearly two million
acres of land in Brazil which had been
given her husband, Hugh M. Newell,
alias Douglass, for his services to
Manuel Valdez of the Brazilian army.
Newell is in prison in New York. Mrs.
Douglas and her attorney. Henry Hey- !
nolds, announced they expected to fly
to Brazil to inspect the land.
Winston Caton Die* In Birmingham
Auburn. Ala Noah Winsten Caton.
23. veteran football and track star of
the Alabama Polytechnic institute, died
in a Birmingham hospital the other
day following an operation for acute
appendicitis. Be had been in an un
conscious condition for forty - eight
hours. During the war he served with
the marines. He made a great fight
for his life against insurmountable
odds. He entered Auburn in 1916 and
returned after the armistice was signed
and had been as prominent in athletics
as before.
Famous Aviator Dies From A Fall
London. — Sir Boss Smith, the Aus
tralian aviator, who. with his brother. •
Sir Keith, had planned to start from
Croydon. April 25. on a flight around
the world, was killed when his plane
crashed in a practice flight at Brook
lands the other day. Lieutenant Ben
nett, an engineer, was planning to ac
cotnpanv Sir Koss and his brother on
their around the-world flight He also
was killed. The machine that crashed
was the one in which the Smiths in
tended to use in their flight. They had
been practicing an hour.
JUSTICE DAY MAKES RULING
Ruling Os Supreme Court Say* Dealer
Cannot Be Forced To Observe
Terms Os Contract
Washington.—Contracts of sale mada
by manufacturers, requiring retail deal
ers exclusively to handle their prod
ucts, which may have the effect to
lessen, substantially, competition, were
held by the Supreme court to be in-
I valid.
The opinion was delivered by Jus
tice Day in a case Drought by the
Standard Fashion company, a New
York corporation, against the Ma
grane-Houston company of Boston, and
sought to compel that retail company
to observe the terms of a contract,
which the Supreme court declared was
one of sale and not of agency or joint
venture. Being a contract of sale. Jus
tice Day stated, the only question that
remained for the court to determine
was whether the facts established that
It would substantially lessen competi
tion.
Adopting the findings of the circuit
court of appeals for the first circuit
of the results obtained through the
contract, the Supreme court reached
the conclusion "that the contract, prop
erly Interpreted, with Its restrictive
covenant, brings it fairly within the
section of the Clayton act under con
sideration.” It therefore affirmed the
decision of the circuit court which held
the contract invalid.
After describing minutely the prac
tices of the Standard Fashion com
pany, under the contract, Justice Day
analyzed certain features, pointing out
that “the Clayton act sought to reach
the agreements embraced within Its
sphere in their fncipiency,” and “to
determine their legality by specific
tests of Its own which declare Illegal
contracts for sale made upon the
agreement or understanding that the
purchaser shall not deal In the goods
of a competitor or competitors of the
seller, which "may substantially les
sen competition.
Justice Day stated that the court
did not think that the purpose of the
statute in using the word “may” was
to prohibit “the mere possibility of
the consequences described,” but that
“It was intended to prevent such agree
ments as would under the circumstanc
es disclosed (in the present case)
probably lessen competition or create i
an actual tendency to monopoly.” Con- [
gress by statute did not intend to
reac hevery remote lessening of com
petition," he added, and disclosed this
purpose by providing that the contracts
should lie prohibited when they caused
a "lessening” of competition which
was "substantial.”
Under its contract, the Standard
Fashion company agreed to sell its
standard patterns at a discount of
50 per cent from retail prices and
to allow certain privileges when be
tween certain dates semi - annually it
would receive in exchange at nine
tenths cost discarded patterns. In
July, 1917, the Magrane-Houston com
pany decided to discontinue the sale
of the Standard Fashion company pat
terns and place on sale in its store
patterns of a rival pattern company.
It was to enforce its contract that
the fashion company brought suit.
The decision in the United States
district court for Massachusetts as
| well us for the circuit court of ap
peals were adverse to its conten
tions, those courts ruling that the con
tract was in violation of the Clayton
act and, therefore, not enforceable.
When the case reached the Supreme
court, the federal government inter
vened, filing a brief in which it con
tended for the construction placed up
| on the contract by the lower courts.
"Get Busy On Dam Quickly*” Is Plea
Washington.— Early authorization
by congress for renewing work of con
struction on the Wilson dam at Mus
cle Shoals, Ala., was suggested recent-i
ly by Col. W. J. Barden, array engi- {
noer in ccharge of that project, before !
the senate agriculture committee. Un
less a decision Is made soon, the colo
nel said, the engineers would be un-■
able to begin work this summer and
another year of delay would result, j
Sir Conan Doyle To Lecture In U. S.
Now York—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
creator of the materialistic Sherlock
Holmes, but now a sincere believer in ;
things spiritual, arrived here recently 1
to "raid America. "I propose to make :
a raid on American skepticism,” he j
said, in explaining the purpose of
his proposed lecture tour. "I propose I
; to raid church and laity alike."
Plane Wrecked On First Lap Os Trip
Clarion. Pa. Oapt. Hoald Amundsen,
Arctic explorer, and four flying com
panions narrowly escaped death at Mt
ola. near here, when the monoplane in
which they were going from New
York to Cleveland, the first lap of a
continental journey, turned over when
it was forced down in a field. All oc
cupants were reported slightly scratch
ed and bruised, but otherwise uninjur
ed. Those with Captain Amundsen
ewer H. T Lewis of Bellefonte, Pa.; j
H. U. Cade of New York and E. Ruhl
and J. Ondell.
Finds His Lost Wife In Slain Woman
Washington—Bruce E. Haines' two
year search for his attractive wife is
ended. The woman is dead, said to
have been killed by Dr. Herbert J. Bry
son. whose mother lives here. The
naming of Doctor Bryson in the shoot
ing at Cassville, Pa., served as a clue
for Haines, who is a chauffeur for a lo
cal financier, and he is going to New
York to attend his wife's funeral as
soon as Mrs. Catherine Kerby, mother
of the slain woman, returns to New
I York with the body, which is now at
1 Huntington. Fa.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR. MT. VERNON. GEORGIA.
BIG CONFLAGRATION
IN NORFOLKSUBURB
i i
AREA COVERED BY FLAMES IS
ONE MILE IN LENGTH AND
2 TO 4 BLOCKS WIDE
1
500 FAMILIESME HOMELESS
Two Firemen Injured—Damage Will
Run To Nearly A Million
Dollars, It Is Estimated.
Norfolk, Va.—Berkeley, a suburb of
Norfolk, was swept by fire. More
than one hundred houses covering an
area one mile in length and averag
ing from two to four blocks in width
were destroyed. Five hundred fami
lies are estimated to have been made
homeless. The damage will run to
nearly a million dollars.
The firemen were unable to make
headway, due to lack of water press
ure. Norfolk, Portsmouth, naval base
and South Norfolk fire departments
fought the blaze. Two firemen were
injured.
The Norfolk department called on
the Portsmouth and navy yard fire
forces for assistance. The fire start
ed from a blaze in an abandoned lum
ber yard and a southwest wind carried
sparks which ignited five separate
fires.
A sixth alarm took all remaining ap
paratus from Norfolk, save one en
gine. Assistance was sent from the
naval operating base at Hampton
Hoads.
The blaze originated in the Tunis
lumber mills, on the southern branch
of the Elizabeth river. Mrs. George
Lacey, whose husband is a watchman
at the Tunis docks, discovered the ftfe
from a house boat in which she and
her husband are living. Lacey, being
in, she took him to shore in a row
boat and then turned in an alarm.
Within 50 yards of the dock where
the fire started are the St. Helena Oil
company docks. Three steamers in
the river were burned, catching from
sparks.
The fire quickly spread to the north,
the sparks being carried 100 yards
jor more. Most of the houses in the
path were of wooden construction.
They were dry as tinder and a few
sparks only were required to set them
afire. At one time there were nine
different fires blazing simultaneously.
Although the fire departments, both
civilian and navy, from all the cities
and towns in the vicinity of Berkley,
were called into service, they were
helpless against the spreading flames,
which soon reached Liberty street* one
of the oldest business streets of the
town. One block on Liberty street !
was completely wiped out.
ASLEEP THREE YEARS,
HIS SOLE REMARK WAS
“I AIN’T WHERE I WAS”
Fort Smith, Ark. —Jim Eslinger, who
has been asleep continuously for three
years, died at the county hospital the
other day. Eslinger, for eight years
a county charge, would have been 63
years old June 7. Physicians say he
was not suffering from sleeping sick
ness, but from mental paralysis. He
j apparently was insensible to pain, was
immobile and his eyes were closed. In
March of 1921 Eslinger for a few sec
onds showed signs of awakening, but
he again relapsed into the comatose
state. On July 1, 1921, he opened his
eyes and said; “I ain't where 1 was,”
and soon fell back into a coma. He
was fed with a spoon.
j Grand Opera Will Be A Success
Atlanta, Ga. —Atlanta’s annual grand I
j opera season opens Monday, April |
24, and runs through the week, the ;
tlnal performance being on Saturday 1
j night. Despite the general business j
depression the seat sale to date is |
| well up to that of previous years, and !
I there is every indication that the sea- !
son will be successful one. Out of
j town people have been buying heavily
for the week-end, as they can leave
home Friday and hear LaTravita on
Friday night, Faust Saturday after
: noon, ajid The Love of Three Kings
and L'Oracolo Saturday night, and
get back home Sunday morning. There
are still good seats available for all
! performances.
T. N. T. Explosions Throws Up Rocks
Salt Lake City, Utah.—One and one
half tons of T. N. T. exploded near Hel
per, Ufuh, and three hundred tons of
rook fell upon the town. No fatalities
are reported. The explosion occurred
during blasting operations and dam
aged the business district heavily. A
i hail of stone smashed into the tele- !
phone exchange, destroying a clock be
tween two operators, breaking an arm j
from the chair in which one sat and
carrying away the connection table. I
One rock weighing about five tons,
| buried itself six feet deep in the road j
Announces Candidacy By Megaphone
Raleigh. N. C. —A novel and interest
ing spectacle was witnessed here the
, other day. Marching down the prin
cipal streets of Raleigh, shouting at
, the top of his voice through a mega
. phone—this is the way Philip Rrock
, well chose to announce his candidacy
for the legislature. He is runing on an
anti-high rent platform. “Down with
i high rents:" shouted Brockwell through
• the megaphone, after announcing his
candidacy for the office. His novel
l campaign is being watched by all the
oldUmera.
IRISH LEADER SHOT
AT END OF SPEECH
HEAD OF IRISH PROVISIONAL
GOVERNMENT IS SHOT FROM
AMBUSH
GRIFFITH ISJNDER GUARD
Leader Escapes Unhurt Belfast
Passes Quiet Easter —Griffith
Speaks At Sligo
Dublin. —Michael Collins, head of
the Irish provisional government, was
fired on as he was returning from
mass after a speech. Collins was un
injured and one of the assailants was
captured.
The attempt on the life of Collins
came just as it was believed the Eas
ter holiday would be passed over
quietly. It is now feared that this
I attempted assassination may stir up
new bitter feeling and provoke more
disorders.
The shots were fired at Collins
from ambush.
London. —A dispatch to the Press
association from Garrick-on-Shannon
says Arthur Griffith, guarded by ar
mored cars and Free State troops, re
cently addressed a crowd in Sligo with
out interruption.
There was an exchange of firing
between the opposing forces, the dis
patch adds, and it is reported one re
publican was killed and another repub
lican and one civilian were slightly
wounded.
Belfast.—Notwithstanding wild ru
mors of impending trouble in Belfast
Easter Sunday, not a single casualty
had been reported up to 11 o’clock.
An unusually large number of holdups,
carried out by armed men, took place
in the streets of Belfast, but no big
amounts were secured by the highway
men.
Complete quiet prevailed along the
Fermanagh border.
There was continuous firing in the
north side of Dublin. Considerable
alarm prevailed among the residents
in the neighborhood of the Boardstone
station and Mount Joy prison. Ac
cording to one account received here,
the republicans endeavored to seize
Mount Joy prison, which was guarded
by Irish republican army regulars.
Broadstone is the station from
which Arthur Griffith started for Sligo.
] Mr. Griffith took a bold course. In
stead of smuggling himself into Sligo,
he traveled in state on the Midland
and Great Western railroad with a
guard of honor of Free State troops.
At all the stations crowds waited to
give the Dail Eireann president a
cordial reception. Hand-shaking was
j the order of the day at Mullingar,
while at Longford the local republican
army rendered honors and the inevi
table brass band played national airs.
In an interview at Longford Mr. Grif
fith said he was not afraid to speak
in Sligo, as he knew the people there,
as well as in every county in Ireland,
were behind him. ,
It is reported here that the Kil
mainham prison has been taken over
by the Irish republican army, but the
report does not say whether by fe
publican or regulars. The Kilmain
ham prison is situated near the for
mer residence of the British military
commander in Ireland. It has not
been used for prison purposes in some
time.
Coal Production Sfiows Big Increase
Washington.—Bituminous coal pro
duction in the United States, reduced
by 75 per cent when miners in union
ized fields walked out April 1, is now
showing an appreciable increase, it
is reported by the geological survey.
Non-union fields where operations are
continuing produced 10.752 carloads
April 20, and forged slowly ahead in
each succeeding day until on Thurs
day, April 13, the last day recorded,
when the output was 11,480 cars.
Consumption Os Cotton Increasing
Washington.—Almost 2,000,000 few
er cotton spindles were operated dur
i ing March than in February, the
' monthly cotton report of the census
bureau, issued recently, disclosed. Os
j the increase for the month, 34.000
bales were consumed in cotton grow
; ing states, where consumption was
the largest of any months since the
first quarter of 1917 and amounted to
05 per cent of the total cotton used
in the country during March.
Fatty Draws Record Breaking C r owd
j Rock Hill. S. C. — The police were j
called out on the night of April 15 to
handle crowds seeking to gain en
trance to a local theater showing a
picture of ‘ Fatty” Arbuckle. This was
the first showing in this section of a
, picture made by the fat comedian
1 since his arrest on a charge of caus
ing the death of a motion picture ac
; tress last September. The crowds at-
I tending here established a -record for
. attendance in this city. The popula
tion of Rock Hill is fifteen thou
i sand.
Two Army Flyers Die In Nose Drive
Dallas, Texas.—Capt. G. S. Little and
Pgt. James L. Johnson, army fliers
front Kelly field, San Antonio, were
killed recently when the airplane in
■which they were riding went into a
nose dive at a height of about one
hundred feet and fell. Officers at Love
field who are investigating the acci
dent believe Captain Little was pilot
ing the machine. The accident occur
red near a private landing field and It
is btlieved the aviators intended to
make a landing when the plane drop
ped to the ground.
She Knows
“I am a Domestic Science Graduate
and a chemical student from the
Normal School. After making
the experiment testing various
baking powders 1 never use any
except the Royal” Mrs. J. P.
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BAKING POWDER
Absolutely Pure
Contains No Alum Leaves No Bitter Taste
Send for New Royal Cook Book —lt’* FREE
Royal Baking Powder Co., 130 William St., New York
Beastly.
“What beastly soap this is.”
“Just so. You have the dog soap,
Henry.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
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A Message to People in Poor
Health Who Want
to Be Well
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Don’t continue to be weak, nervous,
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Thousands have been helped back to
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you will accept this truth and act now.
Sold in both liquid and tablet form.
—Advertisement.
Wanted the Accessories.
He (ardently)—l forget everything
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She —That’s the trouble; you forget
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theater tickets.
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“Edith has a remarkably sweet*
voice.”
“She ought to have. It has cost
me about sixty pounds of candy in tha
last six months.”
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Sudden Affliction.
“Madge wants more diamonds, but
her husband won’t hear of it.”
“Stone deaf, eh?”—Boston Tran
script.
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It is a good habit now and again to
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Sometimes the man who knows If
all has to be shown.
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