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pUBLIC SERVICE.
By E. L. RAINEY
AMERICANS IN PARIS
NoT ENVIOUS on.:FRIE*I‘)DS
BACK HOME. WINE AN
LIQUOR PLENTIFUL. y
PARIS.—With Christmas presents
pought at 17 francs for th.é dollar, :l}d
with prospects of cocktails .and then
dinner accompanied by white .wmes,
red wines, cham?agfle and l}quorsfi
Americans in Paris are not envious o
%ricnds and relatives back home this
vuletide seasofl.
" The warm, damp wea}her was not
ike holiday time in the United States,
put there was plenty ?f holly and mis
tletoe in the show windows and ven
dors sold little Christmas trees on ev
; corner. g
”"yhlo entire American colony turned
out determined to remain all night for
the first time since the big French
holiday, July 14. Since then the cafes
and restaurants have been closing at
12:30 o’clock. ) LG e
Christmas eve mght, everything ran
full blast till 8 or 9 o’clock Christmas
morning, and certain Montematre and
Latin quartier resorts kept going right
through Christmas day.
A Night of Festivities.
Every table in the leading cafes and
restaurants had been reser‘:(';» _for
weeks and as a result all the dji?.s
arranged to stay .open ah; L 'f‘
serving cocktails in the lobbies awn
fovers and “having dancing on the
e
St;fitr the cocktail hour the leading
American bars—Claridge’s, Maxim’s,
the Chatham, Henry’s and Ciro’s—
were jammed with Americans and
Enelishmen toasting the holiday. El
Manos bar raffled a live goose, which
had been strutting around the cafe for
a fortnight making friends .and cus
tomers. Before the lucky number was
drawn it was agreed by the ticket
holders that the pet goose would not
be killed. A former American soldier
won it. He marched home leading
the tame goose by a string, to. the
amusement of the boulevard crowds.
Lew Hausser’s place raffiled a live
pig which had been on exhibition in
the cafe, and turkeys were raffled in
other places. s
Nobody ate early dinner, because
they were waiting for special
suppers to be served at midnight, cost
ing from 100 to 500 francs a plate
without champagne.
Since nobody bothered about dinner,
it prolonged the cocktail hour danger
ously late, and only the fact that the
revelers -had to go home and dress in
dinner clothes for the midnight sup
pers saved many of them from keeling
over before the real merriment began,
Daring Costumes Worn. * ;
The uniniated who dressed early, in
tending to put in their time solidly
from 6 o’clock until midnight drinking
to the health of their friends here and
in the United States found themselves
deserted at 9 o’clock when the cafes
were emptied to prepare the table
decorations for supper.
Old timers declared that no such
display of jewels, gowns and furs had
ever heen seen before when the fash
ionables began piling out of their
limousines in front of the leading res
taurants.
Although fashion experts announced
this winter's styles were less auda
cious than last year’s, mare man had
a hard time figuring out the statement,
as the sleeveless and backless gowns
were cut low in front and undef® the
arms, and with short skirts they seem
ed as daring as anything seen last year.
Christmas presents were brought
out this evening, running almost ex
clusively to square or oblong dia
monds, emeralds and shallow-cut
mounteed platinum and- saphire
brooches, eight or ten inches long.
Great ropes of pearls around necks
;l'!ll(d tiwsted many times around waists
ike bracelets were features, together
l“’)lllm]ronental headdresses and jeweled
CS.
The newest footgear is composed
:Itlglr]elyyog high heels studded with
o (:'»I(l“lj(inwlt;] ‘leather straps holding
Bk’ and place, all garnished with
and revealing the foot.
Harding Urged to Quit
"
(XY ®
The “Little Charmer
Head of Anti-Cigarette League Writes
Letter to President-Elecg
TOPEKA, Kan—Miss Lucy Page
Gaston, of Chicago, superintendent of
the International Anti-Cigarette
League, announced tonight she had
Sent a letter to President-elect Hard
ing him not to use cigarettes.
The letter follows in part:
“In a meeting of the newly organ
zied board of the Kansas Anti-Cigar
ette League the question was discuss
ed as to influence, especially upon the
youth, cigarettes in the white house
are likely to have.
“As you might expect, there were
those present who valiantly defended
You from the charge that you are a
friend of the ‘little charmer.’ In re
turning to ‘normaley,” to invoke a word
of your own, is it not the part of wis
dom to take the stand ‘the war is over
and the cigarette ig again a poison?’
“The Uniteq States has had no
Smoking president since McKinle):.
Roosevelt ang Taft and Wilson have
clear recorqs, Is not this a question
01 grave importance "
COTTON MILLS TO PAY
A MILLION IN DIVIDENDS
Greenville, g, C., Textile Plants Show
Substantia] Profits For Year. 3
GREENVILLE, g C.—Approxi-
Mately a Inillion dollars in dividends
Will be paiqd January 1 to stockholders
by twenty cotton mill corporations of
Greenvilh; county, according to lnfm:-
Mation obtained today from the vari-
OUS institutions, The mills have an
oueTegate capitalization of about $30,-
000,000,
THE DAWSON NEWS
Horses Have Tree
In Boston Christmas
BOSTON.—At a Christmas tree
set up in postoffice square draught
horsés of the business district. gath
ered around for gifts today. From
the . tfee they nibbled apples and
sugar lumps and from feed bags ate
their fill of sugared corn on the cob,
carrots and oats, The Massachu
setts Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, which arranged
the horses’ Christmas tree, provid
ed also for the drivers, serving
sandwiches, doughnuts and coffee.
'BOW OUT OF LEGS,
i \ S VERY HAPPY
ACTRESS SPENT CHRISTMAS
~ IN HOSPITAL BED, BUT IT
DIDN'T WORRY HER.
CHICAGO, Ill.—Ruth Gordon, the
“baby talk lady” in Booth Tarking
ton’s “Seventeen,” spent Christmas in
bed with her legs in casts—but it was
her happiest Christmas, she said Sat
urday night.
“I have always worried because my
legs were bowed,” she said. “It inter
fé%ed with my acting. Whenever I
was trying to act I was thinking
about how to pose on the stage so
» - the audience would be watching
‘»o and not my bow legs.”
Fath ‘= had her legs broken
by Dr. g " Ryerson and set in
casts so that ' 'would be straight.
“Dr. Ryerson urst refused the oper
ation,” she said. “He said my legs
were healthy and he wasn’t perform
ing operations fo* looks. Finally I
convinced him it was necessary for
my success as an actress to have
straight limbs.
“When I went on the operating ta
ble I was smiling and happy as I
could be. I wasn’t a bit worried. The
doctor felt my pulse and all he said
was, ‘O, God!
- “He thought it would be going
about a mile a minute and instead of
that it was normal.” ’
Miss Gordon’s husband, George
Kelley, has been at his wife’s bedside
since the operation was performed and
was with her all Christmas day.
“Of course he was awfully nice to
me on Christmas,” she said, “and gave
me lots of presents, but the thing that
made me happiest on this Christmas
was that I knew they would be
straight,” she said. g
- ~DIVIDED ON TARIFF
FIVE UNDER LEADERSHIP OF
MR. CRISP VOTE FOR BILL
TO HELP FARMERS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A curious
feature of the democratic vote in the
house on the emergency tariff bill
which the republicans had thrown into
congress as an apple of discord was
the manner in which the delegations
of adjoining states, similarly affected
by the tariff proposed, differed in their
courses with regard to the bill.
Georgia’s delegation divided almost
evenly on the Forney bill. Seven of
her members (Messrs. Overstreet,
Larsen, Vinson, Upshaw, Wise, Brand
and Bell) voted against the measure,
while 5, under the leadership of Rep
resentative Crisp of the ways and
means committee, voted in the affirma
tive. The four who joined Mr. Crisp
in supporting the measure were
Messrs. Lankford, Lee, Park and
Wright. The South Carolina delega
tion voted solidly against the bill.
Southern democrats who voted
against the bill took the ground that
they could not sacrifice their party
principles to a temptation of apparent
expediency thrust upon them. Their
colleagues who voted for the bill gen
erally did so on the ground that an un
usual condition exists and that some
thing having the effect of an embargo
is necessary to protect agricultural in
terests from ruin.
There was only one vote for the bill
in Alabama, that of Representative
Steagall, of Ozark, but the Florida
delegation divided evenly, Messrs.
Clark and Smithwick being recorded
as for the bill and Messrs. Sears and
Drane being down against it. Texas
cast seven votes for the measures and
ten against.
In many of these cases there was no
good reason why the state lines should
ave had any influence. Delegations,
however, have a tendency to act to
gether, individually, if that phrase can
be understood. Otherwise it would
be hard to explain how there was but
one vote for the Fordney bill in North
Carolina, while ony one democrat in
Virginia voted against it.
PLANS FOR HUGE, 64,000 ACRE FARM
BEING DEVELOPED BY KANSAS EDITOR
Great Agricultural Project Would Be
Managed and Operated Same as
$ Big Corporation Plant.
A great farm, 100 square miles, 64,-
000 acres in one big tract, managed
and operated in the same way a big
corporation operates its plant, is being
planned by T. A. McNeal, of Topeka,
Kan., editor of the Kansas Farmer and
Mail Breeze.
_Mr. McNeal has had the Kansas ag
ricultural college working on his plans
and developing details. The plant
would require more than $12,000,000
to purchasé the land, erect the build
ings, purchase the equipment and get
the property “in shape for the estab
lishment of the colony.
Besides the farm, the plan contem
plates a packing plant, a creamery and
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1921
STRIKE BY FARMERS
STAGNATES MILLIONS
WHEAT, COTTON AND TOBAC
CO GROWERS HOLDING OUT
AGAINST LOW MARKET.
LINCOLN, Neb.—Seventy per cent
of Nebraska's wheat crop of 60,000,000
bushels is still held on the farms al
most entirely because of the low prices.
In forty-two counties of the staie the
farmers have organized and pledged
themselves to hold their wheat until
the price reaches $3 a bushel.
70 Per Cent Not Yet Moved.
Bismarck, N. D.—Statistics of the
commissioner of agriculture and labor
show that 80 per cent of the 1920
wheat crop of North Dakota, estimat
ed at 65,692,000 bushels, was in the
state on November 1. Elevator men
report small receipts since then.
Governor Lynn J. Frazier is trying
to get the farmers to dispose of some
of their products to ease the financial
situation in the state.
A special committee formed of state
officers and banking officials has come
to the conclusion that marketing of the
products at the rate of not less than
10 per cent each month is necessary.
Organizers of the National Wheat
Grawers Association who are touring
the state declare that the farmers are
holding tight to their grain.
The faiure to market crops has fallen
heavily on the country banks and mer
chants. There has been a wave of bank
failures, running up to twenty-three.
Corn Cheaper Fuel Than Coal
Topeka, Kan.—Millions of bushels
of wheat and corn are lying in the
fields of western Kansas and several
millions of bushels of corn is yet to be
husked. Elevator men estimate that
the farmers are holding 50,000,000
bushels of wheat because of the prices
and about the same amount of corn.
Twenty per cent of this wheat was
grown and harvested last year.
Reports from western counties say
that farmers are burning corn for fuel
because it is cheaper than coal at $l2
and $l4 a ton.
Moving te Cut Cotton Crop.
Memphis, Tenn.—There is so much
unmarketable cotton in the south that
the cotton convention held here re
<ently asked congress to have a census
taken to get the figures. The big thing
dene at the convention was to pledge
the entire south to produce but one
half the cotton that was raised this
year. Under this movement no farm
er shall plant to cotton more than one
third of his lands under actual culti
vatiom -, -
. These restrictions will be enforced
through credit restrictions and by de
nial of credit to any farmer who re
fuses to join the movement.
Tobacco Situation in Chaos. -
Louisville, Kentucky.—The tobacco
situation in Kentucky is in a state of
chaos. With prices on the few loose
leaf floors that have opened averaging
less than one-half of those paid for the
corresponding period last season the
growers, in addition to planning a cut
out of the 1921 crop, are forming as
sociations to prize the present crop
and hold for better prices.
The Biirley crop probably will ex
ceed 250,000,000 pounds.
Some of last year’s crop in the
Owensboro, Henderson and Hopkins
ville districts has not yet been sold.
DOUGHERTY CITIZEN WENT
TO TOWN AND GOT SHAVE
BEFORE SHOOTING SELF.
ALBANY, Ga—John H. Slappey,
one of the best known citizens of
Dougherty county, ended his life with
a pistol shot at his home two miles
southwest of Albany on Wednesday
morning. 5 -
The act seems to have been care
fully prepared for, or such is the im
pression gained by members of the
family and intimate friends. This
morning Mr. Slappey drove into town,
attended to some matters of business,
went to a barber shop and was shaved,
then returned to his home. i
Entering his room, he sat down in
a chair before the fire, placed his pis
tol against the right side of his head
and fired. The ball passed entirely
through, causing a wound which re
sulted in death in a short time.
When members of the household en
tered the room on hearing the shot
they found Mr. Slappey sitting in his
chair and the weapon, still clasped
in his right hand, lying on his lap.
It is believed that despondency re
sulting from impaired health was re
sponsible for Mr. Slappey’s suicide. '
[a flour mill, so that all the foodstuffs
’which the farm produced could be
‘manufactured on the farm and the
surplus sold.
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Smallpox Has Appeared
"~ In a Number of Counties
The Disease Seems to Be Spreading
Throughout This Section.
Smallpox has appeared in a number
of countics in this section, and there
is fear it will become generally preva
lent before the end of the winter.
In Sumter county a negro on a
farm near Americus has a well-devel
that he was exposed to the malady be
oped case of the disease, and he states
-£UNOd JIBMI}S WO} PRAoW 3y 10}
DIVORCES MANY
Traveling Salesmen Keep Courts
Busy While Farmers Show Low
Average, Says N. Y. Professor.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—One out of
nine traveling salesmen_in the Unit
ed States gets divorced, said Prof.
Rudolph Binder, head of the depart
ment of sociology at New York
university, in an interview on Sun
day as against one out of ninety
two farmers. As to the geographic
distribution of divorce, the west leads
all other sections in the number of
divorces, while the north central,
south Atlantic and north Atlantic
districts follow in the order men
tioned. Japan grants a greater num
ber of divorces than any other na
tion in the world. Childless couples
are divorced more frequently than
those having children.
“There has been a perceptible
increase in the marriage rate in the
United States,” said Prof. Binder.
“In the year 1890 316 per 10,000
were married; in 1900 the figures
were 361 per 10,000, and the figures
have been steadily mounting. That
is especially true among the young
er set.”
A WARNING TQ THE LOAFERS
WHITE AND BLACK THAT
THIEVING ‘MUST STOP.
COLUMBUS.—White-robed figures
paraded some of the streets of the city
tonight scattering warning circulars to
the loafers and undesirable class of
citizens.
Many negroes fled in terror, seeking
cover in the dark sections of the city.
The notice read:
“Warning, undesirable, both white
and black, we are after you. We know
you—take warning—this loafing and
thieving and prowling around has got
to stop. KU KLUX.”
BUT LITTLE AID IS PROMISED
HIM IN EFFORT TO ROUT
PROPAGANDISTS.
Senator Thomas, of Colorado, would
rout the lobbyists and propagandists
from the capitol so that congressmen
can work. He said that the lobbies are
interfering with thy orderly conduct of
the house and senate.
A poll ‘of the members of the pres
ent congress who were re-elected in
November, however, shows that Mr.
Thomas will stand almost alone if he
attempts to start a fight on the four
great lobbies now entrenched in Wash
ington—the Anti-Saloon League, the
Internatignal Reform Bureau, now
launching a moral crusade to make the
United States a sinless nation by law,
the organized farmers, and the com
bination of women’s organizations.
There is promise of strong support for
a movement to break the growing
tariff lobby,” but that also has many
friends with the new leaders of con
gress. -
Women Most Persistent Lobbyists.
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
for the Anti-Saloon League, said he
holds himself and his organization
ready for a congressional inquiry at a
moment’s notice, but-he does not ex
pect a show-down. He is going ahead
‘with his program of legislation, and
will also take a hand in the naming of
prohibition enforcement administrative
agents.
The most persistent lobby is that of
the organized women,. who are de
manding action on the Sheppard-Tow
ner maternity bill. Congress is em
barrassed over this lobby, for it isi
open, above-board and daring. |
THIS SUM IS $420,914,192 LESS
THAN ASKED FOR. NOTHING
FOR PROHIBITION.
The sundry civil bill, carrying a to
tal of $383,611,292, or $420,914,192 less
than was asked by the government de
partments, has been reported by the
house appropriations committee. It
was the first of the big supply meas
ures for the next fiscal year to be com
pleted and its total was $52,237,514 less
than the amount appropriated for sim
ilar purposes this year. |
5 Pre-War Basis Sought. |
Indicating a desire to put govern—i
ment expenditures on a pre-war basis
the committee, first taking care of men
‘disabled by war, set aside only $160,-
611,292 for actual sundry civil expens
es of the government.
The largest single reduction, $147,-
000,000, applies to the shipping board
emergency fleet corporation, the bill
providing that this organization shall
be supported entirely out of various
sources of income.
Request from the department of
justice for $300,000 for enforcement of
the national prohibition act was elim
inated entirely. The sum of $15,000
was appropriated, however, for sup
pressing liquor traffic in Alaska.
The bill was reported without ap
propriation for the completion of the
dam and other projects of the Muscle ]
Shoals nitrate plant in Alabama. Ten |
million dollars was asked for that pur-’
pose.
~ VACANT FARM HOUSES.
Vacant farm houses in Ohio increas
ed last year from 18,000 to 29,000, a
gain of 61 per cent.
MOUNTAINS IN ANDES
RANGE SUNK BY QUAKE
'AVERAGE DROP OF 160 FEET
~ IN RECENT DISTURBANCE.
SMALL_RIVER DISAPPEARS.
LONCOCHE.—A two-days’ tour of
the scene of the recent earthquakes
produced ample evidence that the seis
mic disturbance of December 8 and 9
was one of the most stupendous phe
nomena of nature that the world has
seen in recent years. It was caused
by a settling of the Andes mountains
and was accompanied by violent erup
tions from the two volcanoes and a
slight disturbance at a third.
Large mountains in the Andes
range sank an average of 160 feet,
producing an earthquake much strong
er in violence than that which de
stroyed a part of Valparaiso in 1906.
‘The center of the disturbance was
latitude 39.20 and longitude 71.47 and
on both sides of the lower Francura
river. An area miles in extent in this
’valley sank from one to three feet. The
trees growing there were not damaged,
but the buildings were destroyed.
Mountains Sink 50 Yards,
A mountain two miles long, between
the LaFenco and Palhuin rivers, sank
apparently fifty yards, and it is now
possible to see peaks beyond it, which
were formerly hidden. The Francura
river was formerly a swift stream flow
ing between high banks, but now the
banks are almost level with the river
and the current is sluggish. One of the
river’s arms, which was a mile long
and 200 feet wide, dropped fifteen feet,
but otherwise it does not appear to
have changed. Residents of the valley
pointed out fifteen mountains which
have dropped a sufficient distance to
disclose peaks that had been hidden
from sight.
The river Turbio, five miles long
and 300 feet wide, has completely dis
appeared, leaving a dry canyon and
no trace of it has yet been found. This
phenomenon was accompanied by vio
lent earthquakes along a line between
the Vilirica and Llaima volcanoes, both
of which erupted flames for five days.
Peculiar Vertical Shock.
The most severe shock was felt on
midnight of December 8, and was
characterized by a violent, twisting
motion which broke the legs from
beds. This shock was also vertical and
it bounced wooden houses off their
foundation posts, dropping them three
feet to one side. More solid founda
tions were pushed several inches out
of alignment. The first shock was fol
lowed by 194 other sharp ones, during
the following *“twenty-four hours. Ac
companying them were noises similar
}to the roar of trains. The noises came
alternately from the direction of the
three volcanoes Villarica, Lliama and
Lanin, while the first two mountains
kept up a continual cannonading and
at the same time lighted up the sur
rounding country by shooting bright
ly colored flames more than 1,000 feet
into the air. :
CUTHBERT BOY SHOT
BY BROTHER DIES
THAD AND I—2—(;-12 STANDFORD
HUNTING RABBITS WHEN
FORMER WAS KILLED.
i CUTHBERT, Ga—A shocking ac
cident occurred on the outskirts of the
city Tuesday morning, resulting in the
killing of Mr. Thad Stanford by his
brother, Roe. The two brothers, with
another companion, were out rabbit
hunting, and expecting to “jump” a
!rabbit each cocked his gun and walked
in open order formation. Roe, en
countering some obstacle, was forced
to the rear of his brother, Thad, with
out the knowledge of the latter.” The
rabbit being flushed, Thad suddenly
backed against the cocked gun in the
hands of his brother Roe, when the
same was discharged at close range,
the Joad penetrating the small of his
‘back. The dead boy was struck by
the end of the barrel, so the whole
load, wadding and bits of his clothing
were driven into his body, practically
tearing to pieces one of his lungs.
Thad fe!ll unconscious, his compan
jon holding him in his arms until his
brother ran to the nearest phone to
summon medical assistance and notify
his father. N 4
Assistance soon came, but the young
man died at 11 o’clock, never having
regained consciousness. He was tge
son of Editor James B. Stanford, of
the Liberal-Enterprise. The parents
of the deceased are heart-broken, as is
also the brother.
Thad Stanford was at home for the
Christmas holidays, being a pupil at
Norman Park Institute. He has spent
his life here, and was popular with
Cuthbert people.
SEEKS HONEY MINE IN TEXAS CAVE;
GEORGIAN ON TRAIL OF GREAT HIVE
iOne Hundred Billion Pounds Said to
| Be Hanging From Roof in
| Unknown Cavern.
Visions of great wealth have result
ed in E. B. Rees, of Atlanta, Ga., trav
eling to Texas for the purpose of lo
cating the ‘“biggest bee hive in the
world.” Rees read in a magazine of a
“honey mine,” which is said to be lo
cated near Menard, Tex: He has been
unable to find any man who can di
rect him to the “hive,” which was re
ported to be in_.a cave formed by a
limestone rock bluff, where 100,000,-
000,000 pounds of honey are hanging
from the roof.
No one has been able to gather the
honey. If Rees can-find the “hive,” he
proposes that the company he repre
sents build a refinery and extract the
honey. Rees has a magazine clipping
Nakedness Censors Are_
Appointed By Zionists
Two censors, armed with one
dozen woolen shawls, have been
appointed by Wilbur Glenn Voliva,
overseer of Zion, 111,, to enforce an
order against the wearing of low
neck dresses in the Zion taberna
cle. The censors are to place a
shawl around any woman who vio
lates the order, conduct her from
the tabernacle and surrender her
to a waiting policeman...
A sign has been posted across
the front of the tabernacle warning
Zion women against wearing dress
es without collars, skirts more than
three inches above the ankle, open
work stockings, thin sleeves or
transparent blouses.
PLANS BIG CUT IN ESTIMATES
OF HEADS OF ARMY AND
NAVY DEPARTMENTS.
Estimates for expenditures of the
United States army and navy during
the next fiscal year totaling $1,350,-
000,000 will be®reduced to a total ex
ceeding $750,000,000, -‘according to
members of congress who carry the
responsibility for appropriations.
Navy to Be Heavy Loser.
With respect to the navy alone, the
best friends of. that fighting branch
who favor a large navy are authority
for the statement that the recommen
dations of Secretary Daniels for ap
propriations aggregating $658,500,000
are out of all reason when compared
with the actual needs.
It is practically certain already that
no capital ships will be authorized this
year in addition to the present build
ing program, but auxiliaries necessary
to round out the fleet will be author
ized.
Criticise Daniel’s Plan.
The indication is that Mr. Daniels’
recommendation for the authorization
of another three year program of con
struction, involving the building of 88
additional warships, will be thrown
aside by the naval committees of con
gress and ethe general board of the
navy asked to suggest those auxiliary
ships needed to round out the fleet
now in commission and under con
struction. .
Mr. Daniels’ suggestion of a brand
new building program, involving con
struction expenditures amounting to
hundreds of millions of dollars for
completion, is particularly criticised by
lmembers of congress who have stud
ied the status of the fleet now under
’construction. They say these ships
cannot be commissioned inside two or
‘three years, hence they protest against
new authorizations in view of the war
debt and the call for reduction in taxes
and general readjustment of the na
tion’s finances.
VERDUN, FAMOUS BAT
TLE GROUND, SACRED
BODIES OF mo MEN WHO
FELL ON BLOODY SECTOR *
NOT YET RECOVERED. |
France is applying itself to the work
of réconstruction as best it can, but
un'foreseen difficulties are being met.
In the Verdun district, where devas
tation was greater than in any other
part of France, there are insuperable
obstacles to rebuilding. .
On a stretch of battle ground, holed
with craters and strewn with bodies
and shells of all sorts, stood 22 villages.
There are few vestiges of them, and
they will not be rebuilt for the reason
that it will take years to rid the land
of the war wreckage, human and ma
terial. g
Nearly a Million Men Fell
Eight hundred* thousand men, half
of them Frenchmen, fell on this
ground, and in two years 90,000 bodies
have been recovered. Only a fourth of
them have been identified. For the
present, therefore, the land is regarded
as sacred, and it has been decided to
leave it as it is. In ten years, perhaps,
it may be made into pasture land, with
here and there woods of fir trees. -
~ln addition to the decision not to re
‘build these 22 villages which have dis
appeared, there is what is called 2
“dark red zone,” of which the famous |
Mort Homme is typical. Nothing can
be dome with this. There is also a
“pink zone,” formed by Bethincourt,
Chattancourt and Esnes, which, it is
hoped, can be reconstructed.
The inhabitants of the demolished
villages will be expropriated. Their
land, houses and furniture will be paid
for at three times their value in 1914,
and they can go wherever they please.
'which says in part: B
~ “The biggest bee hive in the world
is located in Texas. It's a cave which
contains acres and acres of space and
acres and acres of honeycomb filled
with luscious honey. It also has mil
lions and millions of little honey ma
kers—so many millions of them that
their droning can be heard several hun
dred feet from the entrance of the big
cave. ,
“Those who are familiar with the
cave declared there are now at least
300 acres of honey hanging from the
roof. They gggre that this would
weigh 100,000,000,000 pounds, and at
50 cents a pound would be worth $50,-
000,000,000, They also figure that if
a way could be found to rob the hive
annually at least $1,000,000,000 worth
of honey could be taken from it every
year. i
THERE’S SUCCESS
~ AND HAPPINESS
IN CO-OPERATION.
VOL. 39.—NOQ. 18
TEST OF LABOR UNIONS;
Prwiew)
ARE THREATENED BY LOWER
- WAGES AND OPEN SHOP.
LEADERS PROFITEERING..
Theé foundations of American organ
'ize labor are being subjected to the
'most severe straius they have under
| gone in many years. Curtailment -of
’industry, flat wage reductions, nation
lwide propaganda designed to restore
| the open shop, and direct and effective
;efforts by big steel interests to force
open shop policies in construction
work involving fabricated steel are
some of the developments of recent
weeks that are putting amalgamated
'workers to the supreme test.
~ These startling developments have
aroused labor. Samuel Gompers, vet
eran president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, stated recently that
the workers must accept the challenge.
“They can not drive back the Amer
ican labor movement,” Gompers de
clared. “Those fighting us represent a
new awakening of the old idea of mas
ter and servant. In reply, we challenge
them on the principles of sovereignty
and manhood.”
Labor Leaders Profiteering.
Besides these developments, officials
of the federation fear an adverse de
cision of the United States supreme
court on the Hartford valley (Ark.)
miners’ strike suit, which involves the
question of whether labor organiza
tions come under the jurisdiction of
the Sherman anti-trust law, as it pro
vides for damages ‘from action in re
straint of trade. * :
The federation also is alarmed over
startling disclosures in the investiga
tion of the “building trust” in New
York. Evidence has been revealed in
dicating that labor leaders themselves
were profiteering on organizd labor
at the expense of contractors and the
public.
Think Wilson Would Veto.
There is no great fear among labor
leaders as a result of the senate’s ac
tion on the passage of the anti-strike
clause in the Poindexter bill. They be
lieve it will be defeated upon promised
reconsideration, and that, even if it
went to the president, it would be ve
toed. In the steel industry movement
and in the possibility of an adverse de
cision on the Arkansas case labor lead
ers are distinggly concerned, however.
The steel interests not only affect a
huge bulk of workers, but in driving
to force open-shop policies on con
struction work average approximately
$l5 a week less than they received un
der the union scale during the last
year. Virtually all.of the workers af
‘fected are either on strike against the
proposed piece work system or have
been locked out by the manufacturers.
Wages Must Come Down. -
Textile workers will be compelled to
work for considerably less money, fol
lowing the decision of the operators
‘that wages must come down because
of the stagnant market and the refusal
of the retailers to buy at present prices.
While upwards of 125,000 textile work
ers in Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode
Island debated what course of action
they would follow regarding wage re
duction of 22%4 per cent, announced
by the mill owners in those states, of
cials of large plants in New Hamp
shire, employing about 25,000 opera
tives, announced similar wage cuts,
Union representatives decline to dis
cuss the situation, but from nearly ev
ery section of New England comes
word that special meetingsagave been
called, at which delegates will vote
whether or not to accept these reduc
tions. ;
Chicago W ould Forbid
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W omen “ Ambushing Ears
“Cootie Garages” and “Sickle Hooks”
Under Debate; Aldermen Decide
Not to “Monkey.” ¢
{ CHICAGO.—Puffs that girls wear
{over their ears and ‘“sickle hooks,” the
| stifly-plastered curl of hair drawn
laround the temples, are engaging the
serious attention of Chicago aldermen.
Alderman Timothy A. Hogan start
ed the trouble. He is strong for an.
ordinance ‘forbidding women abushing
their ears. 4
“A law on this subject is absolute
ly necessary,” says Hogan._ “Girls can
not hear the honk of a motor horn. I
have no doubt a large percentage of
automobile accidents are due to the
i present style of hair dressing.”
I* Alderman A. J. Fisher agreed on
'this point, but wanted to go further
'and forbid the wearing of “sickle
hooks” on the forehead. Other coun
cil members told of seeing flappers
calmly crossing the street amidst dash
‘ing automobiles and trucks, powder
ing their noses and utterly oblivious
of the perils on all sides or the blister
‘ing profanity of truck drivers. ~—+
“I think we are stepping out of our -
sphere,” said Alderman John C. Horn. .
“An%way, I'm for the women, no mat- -
ter how they wear their hair. :
. “Yes, you fellows better lay off that
stuff of trying to tell the women what
to wear. Eddie Murphy introduced a
bill in the legislature against hobble
skirts. The women ran him ragged
and bowlegged. It's dynamite to tell
women what they shall or shall not do.
Don’t monkey with it.”
CRIMEA CAN BOAST OF
BAREFOOT MILLIONAIRES
Shoes Cost Fifty Thousand Rubles the
| _Pair in That Country.
; BERNE.—Barefooted millionaires
are reported prevalent in the Crimea,
according to a letter of a Swiss woman,
qucting prices in depreciated Russian
rubles. :
The income of peasants is great be
cause the land there is productive and
a pound ofw.wheat sells, roughly, at
1,000 rubles. =«Ow the expense side of
the ledger shoes €ost 50,000 rubles and
a suit of clothes;200,000. Farm a
borers get 10,660 !’?b‘k.i a dafy. bk