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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND’ABROAD
EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parts Of The
Globe And Told In Short
Paragraphs .
Foreign—
A violent earthquake preceded by
heavy rumbling haH been felt at Sira
cusa, Italy. The first tremor came at
midnight and was followed by two ad
ditional disturbances at brief intervals.
Religious zealots who started, a few
years ago, in London, England, to com
pile "the great handwritten Bible” are
growing tired of their task. "It has
beon an incredibly difficult task. The
response has been utterly half-hearted,”
says Rev. H. A. Powell, secretary of the
moment, and he has sent out an appeal
for 5,000 volunteers to assist in the ven
ture.
Search for the 237 passengers of the
Mossamedes, a Portugere mail steam
er, who abandoned the vessel off Cape
Frio, southwest of Africa, a few days
ago and put out in small boats is aj>-
parently in vain, according to a Daily
Express Dispatch from Cape Town.
W. G. Ross, president of the As
bestos Corporation of Canada, appeal
ed to Attorney General Tatshereaus
for protection, asserting that strikers
at the company’s pits in Thetford
mines, after attacking the offices and
driving forty constables put of town,
were threatening to dynamite public
buildings and mine structures.
Germany has opened her doors to
American tourists. The government
rescinded the order which prevented
pleasure seekers, and certain classes
of business men from visiting the coun
try.
Admiral Von Tirpitz, "father of Ger
many’s U-Boat warfare,’* in an address
before the patriotic societies, Hanover,
Germany, stated the resistance to the
French in the Ruhr should be carried
on energetically. He declared that in
his opinion it was unwise to make ad
vances to England for mediation, sug
gesting that Britain may take the in
itiative if the present German attitude
Irt the Ruhr was maintained.
The French have absolved them
selves from blame in the killing of 14
German workers outside the Krupp
Plant, Essen. Military investigators
are understood to have placed respon
sibility on the shoulders of six com
munists, members of the general
workers’ council, who blew factory
whistles when the soldiers entered and
thus caused the street riot that ended
in French rifle shots.
The communist congress adjourned
after approving without change Leon
Trotzky’s plan to take over the heavy
industries. The congress also approv
ed Commissar Stalin’s recommenda
tion with regard to nationalities, Pre
mier Lenine’s scheme for control of
state apparatus and M. Kameneff’s pro
posal for the substitution of a partly
monetary tax for the present peasant
levy.
Petrograd’s Catholic churches re
main closed, but hundreds of parish
ioners daily crowd the small apart
ments of the priests to pray and to
hear mass, much as did the first Chris
tians in the catacombs of old Rome.
Safeguarding of the legitimate na
tional interests of the United States
and of the principle of commercial op
portunity for all nations was officially
set forth as the guiding rule of the
American representatives when the
Near East peace conference resumed
its labors In an endeavor to restore
P"ace between the allied powers and
Turkey, and between Greece and Tur
key.
Ismet Pasha, Turkish representative,
L- attempting to prevent the Near East
ern peace conference, which was re
sumed at Lausanne recently, from dis
cussing the Chester agreement under
which American capitalists have been
granted rich concessions in Turkey.
Washington—
Investigation of alleged booze frauds
Involving huge quantities of liquor aud
more than SIOO,OOO in “fixing” fees has
led department of justice agents to
start a nation-wide search for Gaston
B. Means, central figure in several
episodes of international prominence.
Fear of violating the spirit of the
naval limitation treaty has led this gov
ernment to abandon its plans for in
creasing the gun range of American
battleships.
Supporting President Harding in his
contention that the United States
should participate in the permanent
court of international justice, Elihu
Root, told the American Society of In
ternational Law that the question to
the senate was really only a question
pf moral support.
Prohibition troubles, from bootleg
ging to allegations of bribery, accumu
lated here and engaged the attention
of high officials of at least three fed
eral agencies, the treasury and justice
departments and prohibition enforce
ment headquarters. There were indi
cations that facts developed from the
several investigations in progress
might ultimately come before Presi
dent Harding for action.
The American consulate at Vladivo
stok through which the United States
lifts maintained official representation
in soviet Russia has been ordered
closed. Consul S. Pinkley Tuck and
Vice Consuls Charles H. Stephen,
Frederick S. Pray and Edward S.
Thomas will proceed to Tokio, Japan,
as soon as affairs at Vladivostok are
terminated and will await there for
new assignments to be made by the
state department.
Participation by the United States In
the world court as proposed by the ad
ministration, President Harding declar
ed in New York City at the annual
luncheon of members of the Associated
Press, would be in “harmony with par
ty platform pledges, candidatorial prom
ises and American aspirations” and
would not he an entry into the league
of nations "by the side door, the back
door or the cellar door.”
Domestic—
The largest upstream tow in the
history of the Mississippi river barge
linv left Noiv Orleans, La., for Cairo
and Memphis in charge of the towboat
Cairo. The tow consisted of five
barges carrying 7,460 tons of miscel
laneous freight.
Conflicting statements were made
on the result of the first day of the
strike called by the I. W. W. Marino
Transport Workers’ union at New
York.
It’s now not fair to hit anyone who
tells you your brains are in your feet
The possible passing of bumps, the old
standbys of the phrenologist, as reput
ed indications of one’s character or
one’s most propitious mission in life,
was heralded at Chicago with the an
nouncement that the human mind was
as likely to be scattered anwyhere else
in the human body as under the skull.
The high cost of sugar lumps has
some compensation for the toiler.
Eighteen hundred employees of the
Federal Sugar Refining company, Yon
kers, N. Y., were granted unasked for
wage increases of $4 a week.
Across American breakfast tables
and not on the Sahara desert are to
he found the greatest shieks in the
world. So declared two Cleveland
women, Mrs. Edna Bruce Perkins and
Mrs. Charlotte H. Jordan, just return
ed from touring the African wastes.
“Having observed and always be
lieved that charitable bequests afford
the testator a means of gratifying his
vanity at the expense of his heirs, 1
make none.” This clause in the will
of Stuyvesant Fish explained why the
financier left his $2,600,000 estate to
his three children and nothing to char
ity.
The minister of foreign relations and
minister of the interior of Honduras
wired to Honduras Consul Rodrigerua
at Los Angeles, official confirmation of
the arrest of Clara Phillips and two
other persons at Tegucigalpa. The
message urged him to act officially
for his government in rushing through
extradition proceedings.
The hearing on the government’s ap
plication for a temporary injunction re
straining the New York Coffee and Su
gar Exchange from further trading in
raw sugar futures, unless backed by
actual ownership, or control of the
commodity, will be heard in New York
, City before the four judges of the
United States court of appeals, United
States Attorney Hayward announces.
Events leading up to the escape of
Gerald Chapman, Broadway mail ban
dit, from St. Mary’s hospital at Athens,
Ga., where he was undergoing treat
ment for wounds received, at the hands
of a posse, after he fled, March 28,
I lrom the federal penitentiary at At
lanta. were detailed in New York City
by Miss Coralea Ramey, night nurse at
the Athens hospital. She identified Sll
verstein and Didato, stating they were
her as "Cohen” and “Krause,”
respectively. She confessed that she
met them as per agreement at a plate
of entertainment in Athens, but that
she had nothing whatever to do with
j the escape of Chapman.
Hostilities ove/ tho control of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan endtd
at Atlanta, Ga., with the signing of
an armistice between the opposing fac
tions, under the terms of which the
klcncilium, or supreme council of fif
teen men, assumes full charge of the
organization. Col. William J. Simmons,
j emperor, and Dr. H. W. Evans, imperial
wizard, will retain their present olfices.
; Evans will be subject to the kloncilium
and Simmons will have full authority
to organize the woman’s organization
The discovery of a shortage of ap
proximately eight hundred thousand
dollars resulted in th<* closing of the
City bank, at New York City, and the
j issuance of warrants for the arrest of
Thomas Baird, cashier, and William H.
1 8011, assistant cashier.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA.
ROAD *
BUILDING
ROAD CLASSIFICATION URGED
Necessary In Order to Carry on Suc
cessfully Highway Program in
This Country.
That a public road-building policy re
quiring road classification according to
function as well as responsibility for
construction und maintenance is neces
sary In order to carry on successfully
a good roads program In this country,
Is the gist of a treatise issued recently
by the Nebraska department of public
tvorks, on “How to Get Good Roads.”
The classification policy, the Nebruska
officials point out, has been found upon
adoption übroad to be a highly suc
cessful one for highway Improvement.
"That which has secured roads over
seas,” says the bulletin, “should secure
them here. First: There is the country
road. Its primary function is to serve
county needs. While Its function is
vital —linking farm and market —Its
use Is nearly local. The county,
therefore, should assume responsibility
for it. It should be built and cared for
by the county funds. Exception should
be made of certain roads In the coun
ties whose function places them In an
other class —that of state or federal
roads. Second: There is the state
highway, the aggregate of which con
stitutes the stute highway system.
These are the roads which, while serv
ing local needs In the counties, have
for their primary function highway
service to the state as a whole. The
system Is usually planned to connect
the county seats, and all these and the
various sections of the state and the
state capital. The state, therefore,
should assume responsibility for these
roads. They should be built and cared
for through state taxation. Exception
should be made of certain roads In the
state whose function places them In a
third class, that of national roads.
Third: There is the national highway,
the aggregate of which will constitute
the system of national highways.
These are roads which, while serving
county needs, state needs and Inter
state needs, have for their primary
function highway service to the coun
try as a whole.”
PACIFIC COAST IS BUILDING
Oregon Has Spent $57,000,000 In Five
Years on Construction of Im
proved Roads.
In five years Oregon has spent $57,-
000,000 in road building. How’s that
for a population of only 800,000? No
other state in the Union probably
comes anywhere near such a per capita
expenditure for good roads. Other
Pacific states also are energetically
constructing the very finest paved
highways. Oregon’s roads have cost
$30,000 a mile, exclusive of bridges.
The result Is that you can now drive
hundreds of miles north and south on
roads the equal of any that New York,
Chicago or any other large city can
boast. Also, it will very shortly be
possible to motor clear through the
state of Oregon to the Idaho border
line, a distance equal to the total
length of England.
I noticed, too, a great many substan
tial roads in many Farts of the west
ern half of the country. Good roads
always go hand-in-hand with a high
state of civilization. If the Romans
needed good roads in their day, how
much does this far-flung continent need
them today? Next to necessary expen
ditures for up-to-date sanitation no
district can invest a generous amount
of money more wisely than in con
structing first-class roads, now so nec
essary for expeditious transportation
of products and so conducive to the
development of desirable social inter
course. without which we can never
hope to have our agricultural resources
adequately developed.
Yes, the West is on the right track.
—B. C. Forbes in Forbes Magazine.
PROPER SERVICE FROM DRAG
Work Should Be D.one After a Rain
While Earth Is Still Soft but
Not Sticky.
To secure results from the use ot
the road drag, It must be operated
over the ordinary dirt highway at
such a time as the earth is in proper
condition to give best returns for the
labor and effort expended. It Is not
unusual to see men dragging a road
when the latter is so dry as to make
the effort one of scraping rather than
dragging. Highways should be
dragged while the earth Is still soft
after a rain, yet not soft enough to
stick to the drag. The surface which
results upon drying Is one which sheds
water readily on the next rain if a
proper slope to the road is left. An
experienced worker will accomplish
this by always pushing a little earth
toward the center of the highway a/
he operates the drag.
IF SICK TODAY!
TAKENOCALOMEL
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Salivating, Dangerous Calomel and Doesn't Upset
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I discovered a vegetable compound
that does the work of dangerous, sick
ening calomel and I want every reader
of this paper to buy a bottle for a few
cents and if it doesn’t straighten you
up better and quicker than salivating
calomel just go back to the store and
get your money back.
I guarantee that one spoonful of
Dodson’s Liver Tone will put your
sluggish liver to work and clean your
thirty feet of bowels of the sour bile
and constipation poison which is clog
ging your system aud making you feel
miserable.
I guarantee that one spoonful of this
harmless liquid liver medicine will re
lieve the headache, biliousness, coated
_ Marshall, Mo.
Dear Sir:
I have used Mrs. Winslow’s Syrup for many >
years for my three babies and it has proved suc
cessful. One of my babies had colic and I gave
him Mrs. Winslow’s Syrup. It certainly was fine,
for it cured him. Yours truly,
(Name on request)
Diarrhoea, colic, flatulency and constipation are quickly
overcome by this safe, pleasant, efficient remedy. Guaran
teed non-narcotic, non-alcoholic. Formula on every label.
MRS. WINSLOW’S SYRUP
The Infanta * and Children's Regulator
At All Druggists. Write for free booklet of Utters from mothers.
ANGLO-AMERICAN DRUG CO.. 215-217 Fulton St., N,w York
General Selling Agents: Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Inc.,
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One can of Giant Lye will turn
the trick. You’ll use your waste
fats so the lye is the only cost.
You’ll find the job so easy you’ll
wonder why you hadn’t done it long
ago. You’ll find the soap better than
much you buy, and you’ll know it’s
pure. One can of Giant Lye makes
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soft soap. Can you beat it for econ
omy? Full directions on each^can.
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tongue, ague, malaria, sour stomach
or any other distress caused by a tor
pid liver as quickly as a dose of vile,
nauseating calomel, besides it will not
make you sick or keep you from a
day’s work.
Calomel is poison—it’s mercury—lt
attacks the bones, often causing
rheumatism. Calomel is dangerous. It
sickens —while my Dodson’s Liver
Tone is safe, pleasant and harmless.
Eat anything afterwards, because it
cannot salivate. Give it to the children
because it doesn’t upset the stomach
or shock the liver. Take a spoonful
tonight and wake up feeling fine and
ready for a full day’s work.
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poem. Editor—Evidently. I see that
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