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Is It true that the Chinese keep cattle but do not eat butter? 2. Have the ,farmers made large profits during the period of high ' prices? 3. Where did the weed known as devil’s paintbrush come from? 4. Please suggest some Indian names for farms. 5. How many Americans received the Croix de Guerre? 6. Has any college provided defi nitely for the education 'Of women voters? 7. If the man nominated for presi dent died November 1, how would a successor be named? 8. How can ,one acquire a Rhodes scholarship and just what is it worth ? 9. A man in a lecture used the ex pression, “Where the Whangdoodle crieth for his first born.” Where can this phrase be found and what is a whangdoodlje? What is meant by the term, “Mississippi Bubble?” Questions Answered 1. Q —Why is snow white? A. The whiteness of snow results from the fact that the snow crystals are so minute that each cell of the retina of the eye receives a general impression produced by the combina tion of different wave lengths reflect ed from innumerable tiny facets. 2. Q. —"What w’as gold used for when first discovered? A. The gold mined by the ancients was used for practically the same purpose as today, with the exception of coinage. The metal was used temples and also for personal adorn ment. In Rome, statues of the emper ors were very often made entirely of gold. 3. Q. —I wish to make a cement re taining wall near my house, and wish to have it match in color as nearly SAVANNAH PLANS ROYAL WELCOME FORTHESHRINERS SAVANNAH, Ga„ Dec. 11.—An nouncement that the 1921 annual convention of the Mystic Order of the Shrine wtll be held in this city has aroused tremendous enthusiasm not only among the Shrlners of Alee temple, located here, but through out Georgia Shrinedom. The an nouncement was made yesterday in Los Angeles, Cal., by Imperial Po tentate Ellis E. Garretson. It had (.been planned to hold the convention in Atlantic City, N. J., but for reasons which have not been made public, the big assembly has been changed to Savannah and the date fixed for May instead of June. The exact date will be announced later. Os particular interest in connec tion with the Shrine convention is the fact that Ernest A. Cutts, of Sa vannah, will be elected imperial po tentate at th.e coming assembly in May. He is now deputy imperial po tentate and according to the estab lished custbrrj of the order, will be elevated to the post of imperial poten tate with the retirement of Mr. Gar retson, the incumbent. It is believ ed that Imperial Potentate Garret son, in settiiag the annual conven tion for this city, took cognizance of the fact tiiat Mr. Cutts would be elected to the highest Shrine office at the 1921 convention, and in con sideration of this fact, made it pos sible for Mr. Cutts to be elevated in his home city. There are 8,500 Shriners In the state of Geongia, while the state has three temples—Yaarab, in Atlanta; Al Sihah, in Macon, and Alee, in this City. The last annual convention to be held in Georgia was in 1914, when Atlanta, entertained the Shrin ers with an elaborate program. The city of' Savannah has made a determined light to get the 1921 convention, raising a fund of SIOO,- 000 td be used in entertaining the Shriners and the thousands of visi tors who will be attracted here by the big gathering. A publicity cam paign has been waged throughout the country in the effort to land the convention and the announcement from Imperial Potentate Garretson was received here' with intense sat isfaction. Alee temple, has a membership of more than 4,0*00 and embraces prac tically all of southeast and south central Georgia. It is exceeded in size, only by Yaarab temple in At lanta. Alee is 24 years old and is \ headed by Potentate S. N. Freeman, ' judge of the. civil division of the \ city court. '■ Mayor Murray Stewart, who was named chairman of a committee con sisting of the heads of the various organizations to make plans for the convention, has called a meeting of his committee for this afternoon. Pre liminary plans will be discussed. The mayor is very enthusiastic over the prospect of having the an nual meeting of the, Shriners come here. He plans to make Bull street a playground for the Shriners. He says a street dance for 100,000 people could be staged on this street. S. Brown, cf Pittsburg, imperial treasurer of the Shrine, was in Savannah yesterday. He is favor ably impressed with the city. Father’s Expression Was Realistic Ardent Suitor—“ Were 1 a poet 1 could not express wbat I think of your beau tiful hair and ruby lips.” Eavesdropping Brother—“ Leave that to dad. He expressed himself when he found her peroxide bottle and lip •tick,’’ THW MTAHTA TRT-WEWICLT JOTTRNAIi. as possible. What will make the ce ment brown? A. Burnt umber. In the proportion of four pounds to the bag of cement, will produce a chocolate brown. 4. Q. —Can you advise me how to remove the frosting from an electric light bulb? A. The bureau of standards says that after the frosting of an electric light bulb is ground Into the glass there is no way of removing same? 5. Q. —Which earthquake or erup tion since 1900 has resulted in the greatest loss of life? A. The earthquake of Sicily and Calabria In 1908, caused the largest number of deaths, this being 76,483. In number of lives lost, the erruptlon of Mont Pelee In 1902 holds second place, when the total was 30,000. 6. Q. —Is there a difference between liquor and liqueur? A. Alcoholic liquors include fer mented liquors and wines, malt liquors and distilled liquors. A liqueur, pronounced with the accent on the last syllable, is a name given to an alcoholic preparation which Is flavored or perfumed and sweetened. 7. Qi —Why is there a space left between the rails of a railroad? A. It is necessary to leave a spqce to allow for the contraction and ex pansion of the steel due to climatic changes. 8. Q. —Who discovered the Ha waiian Islands? A. These islands webe discovered in 1778 by Captain Cook, who was killed by the natives in February, 1779. 9. Q. —Are there many manufac turing establishments in the District of Columbia? A. The census bureau says that in 1919 there were 592 manufacturing concerns in the district. 10. Q. —Does the United States use more Christmas trees than any other country? A. The department of agriculture says that our annual consumption of evergreen trees at Christmas time, which amounts to nearly five million, is as great as the combined number used in England, Scotland and Wales. It is also about 25 per cent more than the consumption of such trees by Germany. NEED IN EUROPE IS STRESSED BY RELIEF DIRECTOR BY EDWAED PBICE BEI.X. (Special Cable to the Chicago Daily News loreign Service, by Leased Wire to The Atlanta Journal.) (Copyright, 1920.) 'LONDON, England, Dec. 11.—W. L. Brown, director for Europe for the activities of the American relief ad ministration’s European children’s fund, with headquarters in London, said today: "Information from our missions in Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czecho slovakia and Germany indicate that the approaching winter will be a des perate one. None of these countries will be able to get along without outside assistance. The situation in Austria and Poland is especially ba<X and that in Hungary is not much bet ter. To provide for the minimum food requirements these countries must buy in the outside markets in spite of their depreciated currency which will impose an enormous bur den on them. “Polish marks are now approxi mately 500 to the sl, Austrian and Hungarian crowns about 600 and Czecho-Slovakian crowns almost 100. Tne German mark is around seventy to the sl. Austria is in a worse plight than ever before. The gov ernments slight food program cov ers only January and even this the authorities cannot carry out. Al ready they must leave wheat flour out of the bread ration. A pair of shoes cost one-third of an average month’s salary and it takes the sal ary for two months to buy a suit of clothes. The American fund for European children is keeping 300,- 000 children in Austria going with one full meal ration a day, but the number of deaths of the aged is appalling. "Hungary, once rich in cereals for export, now has not enough for her self and lack of coal is shutting down factories, schools and public institutions. Hungary faces the hardest winter in her history. In the Polish territory, which was re cently fought over the farmers lost on an average of 60 per cent of their crops and live stock and are facing a catastrophe. , “Germany must buy a couple of million tons of food in foreign mar kets. The rationed bread is bad and the suffering among the middle classes is great. Czecho-Slovakia is short of certain food essentials which she must buy in the world markets. The American Quakers who are feeding 500,000 children in Ger many, find that the need is so great that they are trying to increase their program 50 per cent and feel that it should be doubled. "The European children’s fund of the American relief administration Is furnishing one meal a day to about 3,000,000 children in these countries and is distributing large quantities of clothing. It also has warehouses in all the countries named by which persons in the United States can supply friends with staple foods through food drafts. The early set ting in of cold weather, coupled with the continued scarcity of food and faulty means of distribution, indi cate that the approaching winter will see the need of the fullest em ployment of every relief agency if the people are to be tided over. “I was struck by the headlines in a London newspaper of a New York dispatch, which said the United States was being invaded by paupers and that plans were being made for the exclusion of immigrants. The dispatch stated that 75,000 aliens had landed in New York alone recently and that the public as well as the immigration authorities were alarm ed. This fact alone justifies the American efforts to help sustain the people of central Europe until they FINDS “LOST TRIBE OF CHINA” - s j I ’l** “ "~ V - ' rS-f ~ 4-- Jral •' . •’ ’ ■■■"" : "Mm ■" ■••■••• ■■■ ’ " I A- ' • 4ai Hi 7 - 1® - ’■"••• tr Fz':! V f&ik Miss Ursula Wilder, who was in the party of Americans who dis- covered the Lqst Tribe of China. Ineet is two of the Chinese girls TO PUNISH MAN WHO JILTED GIRL, . CAUSING SUICIDE NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Friends of Miss Betty Tevis, beautiful Ken tulky girl, today planned revenge on the man who was responsible for her suicide. Miss Tevis shot herself just after answering a telephone call at the home of her sister, Mrs. Joseph T. Talbert, widow of a New York banker. Friends of the girl, whose family is one of the most prominent in Kentucky, investigated the whole af fair and today declared they were convinced she killed herself because she had been jilted. They ascertain ed that she had planned to elope with a man of the "lounge lizard” type whom she met at the St. Regis hotel, and who thought she was wealthy. He wired to Richmond, Ky„ her home and found that she was not the heiress he had sup posed. Thereupon, these friends say, he telephone her and broke the en gagement. The law can’t touch him, Miss Tevis’ friends say, but they can, and they intend to so. The man in question, whose name is withheld by the family, faces the prospect of being severely beaten and chased out of this part of the country, Miss Tevis’ friends said. Bands Will Play as Tax Payers in Cleveland Walk to Windows CLEVELAND. Dec. 11.—Tax-pay ing is to be made a pleasure in Cleveland. County Treasurer John J. Boyle announced today that he would make the opening day of the collection season, December 15. a pleasant ceremony by having a band on hand to play the tax-payers to the win dows. The band will be on the job every day until the several million dollars in taxes is collected, Boyle said, according to present plans. “Paying taxes is not a popular indoor sport,” said Boyle, ‘and a little music will help make it easier.” What the tax-payers want to know is whether they will be taxed for their own fiddling. Seagoing Bungalows Start Towards Europe ROCKAWAY. N. Y.. Dec. 11.— The seagoing bungalow has been discovered. High tides attacked three of the underslung dwellings early *today and when neighbors awoke they saw the ■ trio making good heiadway nor’east by east, bound in the gen eral direction of Europe. They were unoccupied. can take care of thetmselves. It would thus be going to the source to cure the evil, for if conditions in their own countries could be made tolerable the people would have less desire to emigrate.” HON. E. B. LEWIS, OF MONTEZUMA, KILLS HIMSELF MONTEZUMA, Ga„ Dec. 11.—Hon. E. B. Lewis, one of Montezuma’s prominent citizens and bankers, as well as former congressman from the Third congressional district, shot and killed himself Friday afternoon about 5 o’clock in the private office of his bank here. The suicide of Mr. Lewis has caused widespread sorrow through out this community. There was no indication that he contemplated the act. His financial affairs were in the best of shape, while his health was apparently perfect. Besides being president of the Lewis corporation, Mr. Lewis was also an extensive farmer and fruit grower. He leaves a wife, two broth ers, Minor Lewis, of Montezuma, and John Lewis, of Valdosta, and two daughters, Mrs. W. H. McKenzie, of Montezuma, and Mrs. Springer Will ingham, of Macon. County officials stated that the acts of the former congressman during the lagt few days were like those of an insane man. The investigation shows trat on entering his private office Mr. Lewis found Joe Collins, of Montezuma, awaiting a conference. The banker informed Collins that he was "in no frame of mind to talk business,” and, according to Collins, the bank er said “get out, as I intend to com mit suicide.” Collins said he stepped to the cashier’s office and informed Thomas Marshall, Jr., the cashier, of the conversation. The latter went to the banker’s private office and asked, he said, if he had been called. He received the same command as was given to Collins, and had hardly turned his back when the shot was heard. There were two letters found on the banker’s desk, one being ad dressed to the banker’s brother. Minor Lewis, of this city, and an other to the banker’s wife. Neither j of the letters was made public. The Lewis banking institutions have had no financial difficulties, and banking friends of the former con gressman say that both are sbund. This family has operated banks in Georgia for years, at Hawkinsville and Montezuma, and none has ever experienced financial trouble. J. F. Lewis, a brother, receiver for the Georgia and Florida rail road, came here from Valdosta Thursday night in response to a mes sage that the former congressman was on the verge of a nervous col lapse. Work to Begin on New LaGrange Hotel LAGRANGE, Ga., Dec. 11.—In formation has been given out by E. R. Callaway, president the new hotel company, that contracts will be let and work begun shortly after the first of the year. This project, for which $343,600 has already been sub scribed and a $32,000 lot purchased, has been delayed for some months on account of the high prices of ma terial and labor. It is confidently felt that after the turn of the year materials and labor prices will have reached such a point that going for ward with this much needed improve ment in LaGrange will be justified. $2,500 REWARD IS PAID TWO FOR MAKING ARREST KANSAS CITY. Mo. —Here’s a corker of a detective story, fellows. And it’s true! It’s still happening, and nobody knows how It’s going to end, or whether the villain is really the villain, or anything; but it's got a soldier-horse-doctor hero, and a man-hunt with bloodhounds and air planes, and more thrills than a Bill Hart movie. It’s like this, so far, though there may be a new chapter before you have finished reading: Florence Barton. Kansas City so ciety girl, and Howard Winter, her fiance, driving near Hillcrest Coun try club on the night of October 2, were shot by one of three men in another automobile. Winter was slightly wounded. Miss Barton died on the way to a hospital. Private detectives and the city force were put on the job of finding ti\e murderer. After a month’s chase through Arizona and California. Denzel Chester, 27, blacksmith, was arrested jn Great Falls, Mont., where he was lured to a rooming house by letters signed with the name of a woman whose love letters had been found among his belongings. On the train, Chester was put in a stateroom. E. E. Beasley, police detective, sat in the room with him. Outside sat two detectives from a private agency. Beasley afterward said Chester’s handcuffs had been le moved to let him eat lunch and shave, and because he was treating him well to get him to answer ques tions. Suddenly, as the train pulled out of Broken Bow., Neb., there was a crash of glass, a volley of shots, and Beasley dashed out of the stateroom, shouting: “My God! Dennie’s jump ed out of the window!” The train was stopped, but of Chester, who was supposed to have dived through two heavy panes of glass, there was no trace save a hat with a bullet hole in it. Followed then a man-hunt that the whole middle west will always remember. It was freezing weather and Chester was hatless and coat less. Bloodhounds were put on the trail. Officers' took trains in all directions. Miss. Barton’s two brothers and Win ton scoured the country in automo biles. John Hagan, superintendent of the detective agency, hovered over the region in an airplane. Rewards totaling $10,700 had been offered. But the prairie seemed to have opened and swallowed Dennie (Jh.cs tor. Almost exhausted. Barton, Hagan and a deputy sheriff named Ham mond got a fresh tip, November 19, that Chester was near Oconto, Ne braska. It was 3 o’clock in the morning, but out they went again. And just then arrived the hero, Dr. Martin Hanson, over six feet tall, 34 years old, a first lieutenant in the veterinary corps during the war. He had been treating a sick horse all night, and he volunteered to help in the search. About noon, Hanson and Ham mond, driving together, met a man in khaki unionails. “How far to Oconto?” asked Han son, jumping out. “Oh, five or six miles,” replied the man. Hanson’s revolver was already against his stomach. “Hands up,” he ordered, and they went up. It was Denzel Chester. In the Broken Bow jail, late that afternoon. Chester tore strips from his blanket. knotted them abo.ut his throat, and had almost strangled himself before he was found. Early next morning, despite the guard watching him, he sud denly stood up on his cot and dived headlong to the cement floor. And here, instead of ending, be gins the really puzzling part of Chester’s adventures. Between attempts at' suicide, he has lain limp, apparently helpless and absolutely speechless, staring at the ceiling or the light. Exam inations by many doctors, including a neurologist and an X-ray expert, fail to show any injury from his attempts at suicide, or any reason why he could not speak or walk if he wishes. The doctors believe he is shamming. He was carried to the train shackled on a stretcher. In Kansas City he is in a steel room in a hospital, under heavy guard. After a long period here of helplessness, Chester made a third attempt a' suicide. He tried to butt out his brains on the bars of his cell when the guard looked away. Meanwhile, many things have been going on. It is whispered that money without limit will be avail able in the dark places of Kansas City’s dens and dives, to help Ches ter. A police investigation of the es cape has resulted in the dropping of Beasley from the city force, the rev ocation of the commissions of the private agency, and political semi upheaval. Hanson and Hammond have re ceived the $2,500 reward offered by the Law Enforcement league for his recapture. The rest is contingent upon conviction. Rival Hobo Leaders Bury Hatchet and Will ‘Work Together’ TOLEDO, 0.. Dec. 11. —War clouds which hovered over the camps of two rival hobo organizations were dispelled today when James Eads How, founder of the International Brotherhood Welfare association, and Gus Gramer, grand dictator of the Social Order of HoboOs, shook hands and agreed “to work in har mony together forever for the good of all hoboes in general.” How announced today that as the result of his convention here the brotherhood has obtained a nine room house which has been con verted into "a home for hoboes,” to Jo& used also as an “employment bu reau.” The convention came to a close today after sessions covering a pe riod of two weeks. The two fac tions clashed early in the conven tion. Gramer asserting that How’s organization was “usurping the rights of the regular hoboes?” TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1020. A REMARKABLE BIT OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Edgar H. Orr, official photographer of the Atlanta Movie Exposition last week. The top picture is of Miss Willie May Carson, moving picture actress, who is shown “photographing herself” in the studio of Carl Roundtree, well-known Atlanta motion picture pho tographer. At the bottom is Miss Helen Gardner, motion picture actress, an attractive figure at the exposition last week. Here she is wearing one of the famous “vampire” gowns so often seen in her pictures.—Photo by Edgar H. Orr. P'..- S I . i W > lir '• * t !■ i Jff 111 ’h ' •P| • ’ .3 w. *' vW* ’’ '•I i Uh IB’ - ••• b :H| I? mt J*. WPP I?.:’S w /Z 4 I"' • I WIL SHHb PRAISE IS GIVEN COTTON MEETING AT MEMPHIS M J. J. Brown, commissioner of agri culture, and L. B. Jackson, director of the state bureau of markets, re turned from Memphis Friday with a very enthusiastic account of the cotton belt mass meeting held in that city on Tuesday and Wednesday for the purpose of launching a movement to reduce cotton acreage in 1921. “It was the largest meeting in at tendance. and the most effective in the ways and means devised, that has ever been held in the south',” said Commissioner Brown. i “The attendance was larger at the I close of the meeting than it was at Ithe beginning. The central commit tee appointed to keep the movement I going with Memphis as headquarters I announced that they needed $10,060 for necessary expenses. The money was raised in a few minutes.”. This is not the first cotton acre age reduction movement to be launch ed in the south, as Commissioner Brown pointed out, but it differs from the others in this respect— that the bankers are going to take the lead and regulate farmers’ cred its according to whether or not they cut down their acreage. The plan adopted by the Memphis conference, Commissioner Brown fur ther stated, is practically identical with the plan that had already been put underway by the bankers of Georgia. The main outlines of the plan are as follows: 1. Appointment of a banker in each congressional district to or ganize the counties in this terri tory. 2. Appointment of < committee of three bankers, three farmers and two merchants in each county, to make a thorough canvass of the county, supported by--.a committee of three in each militia district. 3. Signing of cotton acreage re duction pledge by bankers, mer chants and farmers. 4. Publication of the signers as a county honor roll in all county news papers. 5. Making a list of all farmers refusing to sign the acreage reduc tion pledge, and furnishing this list to bankers and merchants, who will be expected to deny credit to such farmers. Throughout the cotton states the above plan of action will be fol lowed. Every banker, every mer chant and every farmer in the south will have the matter brought to his attention. It will be the most far-reaching and effective or ganization yet perfected in an acre age reduction movement. The pledge of the farmer provides for the planting of not more than one-third of his cultivated land in cotton. This was thought better than a pledge based upon a farmers’ cotton acreage in 1920, for the rea son that many (farmers in 1920 re duced their cotton acreage and turn ed their attention to different crops, while others increased their acre age. Careful calculations made by the committee of farmers, merchants, bankers, commissioners of agricul ture and other well-posted rnen at the Memphis meeting, convinced them that a limitation of cotton to one third of the cultivated lands of the south next year would cut the crop at least 50 per, cent. The banker’s* pledge indorses the cotton acreage reduction movement and commits the banker to the fol- i lowing: “In furtherance of the purpose of ' the plan I hereby agree and solemn- ; ly promise that I will confine credit i extension to farmers and merchants subscribing to the said plan and pledging themselves to such acreage reduction, and deny credit facilities to all others refusing to so pledge their support. I further agree to assist in the thorough organization of my country and will use my in fluence to make the movement a success.” The campaign among the bankers of Georgia will be in charge of J W. Vaughan, a prominent Carters ville banker and vice chairman or the agricultural committee of the Gedrgia Bankers’ association, which went on record several weeks ago in favor of the reduction of cotton acreage next year. The state department of agricul ture and the state bureau of markets will co-operate with the bankers and assist in every possible way to ob tain a 100 per cent enrollment of Georgia farmers. An Important Letter TAMPA, FLA, —“My mother has always been a firm advocate of Doctor Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, as it has served many a good purpose in her experience with V V J corrected. All women, especially mothers, cannot make a mistake in using the ‘Favorite Prescription.’ ” —Mrs. LAVINA DEESON, 1307 Tampa Street. z Doctor Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a remedy that any ailing woman can safely take because it is pre pared from roots, does not contain alcohol or narcotics. Its ingredients are printed on wrapper. 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Armament Changed For Ten Scout Cruisers ■WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Impor-' tant changes have been made in armament of the ten scout cruis ers now under construction forth» navy. The vessels will carry twelve instead of eight six-inch rifles with the four additional guns mounted forward and aft on twin mounts. The change will increase displace ment to 7,500 tons and cut down the speed of the ships from 35 to 33.7 knots, it was said today at ths navy department. They will be equal to, if not superior, to the light cruisers of any other navy in fight ing power. It was added, and their official designation already has been changed from scout to light cruisers. The first of the type, the Omaha, will be launched at Takotna, Wash ington, soon. The others are the Cincinnati, Milwaukee. Raleigh, Do- Burglars Drill Safe But Get Nothing GRIFFIN, Ga., Dec. 11.—Burglars entered the hardware store of Per son’s & Hammond Wednesday night, j effecting an entrance through the skylight and scaling the wall by means of a water pipe. They drilled six holes in the safe but for some reason they failed to make an explosion. The store is situated on Hill street, in the heart of the city, but they were not de tected and the entrance was not known until the next morning. Outside of the damage done to ths safe, there was no loss so far as the owners know. Milwaukee Jurors Ask Dry Law Appeal MILWAUKEE. Wis., Dec. 11.— Wisconsin congressmen and senators have been sent copies of a resolution asking repeal or modification of ths present prohibition law, ft was learn ed today in connection with the com pletion of an investigation of the il legal liquor traffic in Wisconsin by the federal grand jury. The resolu tion was signed by all the members of the grand jury. it. I, too, have used it to the best of advan tage for woman’s trou bles, and when my own daughter reaches womanhood I will give it to her, so firm is my conviction of its many ! virtues. The purpose 1 of my using it, was for irregularity. My physi cal condition was very much run-down did not care much to stii about or work. I took the medicine right along without missing a dose until my gen eral troubles were all