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Mouthpiece of Patience Worth
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Expresses Disbelief in Practi
cally Old Workings of Spirit
ualism.
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Maiden of Olden Times Tells of
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Making Barricades Against
Indians in Early Days.
By MARGERY REX.
Written Especially for International
News Bervice.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Six years ago
e St Louis woman, Mrs. John H.
Currdn, became the mortal mouth
priece of a departed spirit. Patience
‘Worth by name, and since then con
tinued inspiring messages from this
. departed soul have startled skeptics
and puzzled scientists. Mrs. Cur
ran is at present in New York City
and can speak for herself and for
Patience Worth.
Wondering what this woman, so
remarkably gifted, would have to say
about spiritualistic * phenomena, we
went a-questioning. And, stangely
enough, Mrs, Curran expressed dis
belief in practically all of the work
ings of spiritualism as we know it
today.
‘d think at the present time, when
£0 many men have been lost to the
world as a result of war, that there
is bound to be great interest in spirit
ualism,” said Mrs. Curran.
COMMUNION WITH DEAD.
“When people are dmven to des
peration through their agony over
the loss of loved ones, they want com
munion with the departed sgpirits.
They do not need to try to. establish
this communication by spiritualism
when they can have commiunion with
the dead through their own ~buccaes.
“I take no ipterest in cults that
dlaim to'give*us-intércourse with the
dead, "y £ 3 :
“God doesn’t let people peddle in
formation about the beyond.
“Yet-there is a lot we can't discard
without investigation,, They claim—
the scientists-—that 1 have a ‘se¢ nd
personaliy.) They want to ‘cure’ me.
Dr. Morton Prince came to sée me in
St. Louis and saild he would 'byp
notize me gnd rid me of this ‘second
self. ‘No'you won't) I said. ‘l"won't
be rid of Patience. I don’t want to
be cured. 3
“In al! the stories’ I have heard
that purpert to be from authentic
spirits, messages clash continually.
One says one thing and another fpir‘t‘
consulted says another.
CHARGE FOR MESSAGES.
“Patience Bass in - her 'writing:
‘Any one who peddles information
about the bcyond is like a fool shak
ing the fool’s rod in the gates of
heaven.’ .
“If mediumship {8 what it claims
to be, I say 'let its exponents give
their messages fGr nothing. =
“Now, I believe that be:ween souls
.on earth and those ‘over there’ there
is a beat, a pulse or a throb, justias
between the two instruments of -
wireléss. Patience Bays that ‘world
is rocking 'with the voices of those
‘over there.’
“The spiritualism that preys on a
soul in sorrow is a sad spectacle. If
you get a message give it. 1 won't
listen to spiritua'lsts or scientists
who want to divert m. from Patience
Worth., She is a great powenr for good
and has made many friends in this
world. ¢ l
“For six years I have stood against'
the critics. A psychologist came out
to St .Louis to give mentality tests to
gchool children. He wanted to tryl
out Patience, I sat at the ouia bo&rd.]
;{( tried to fool her, but she fooled
im.
SPIRIT OF 1650 GIRL.
“He put a pencil in his right hand,
changed it to his left, asking: “What
have I in my right hand?” The un
thinking would naturally say ‘a pen
¢il! Patience said, ‘i bit of dirt in
your right hand’ is. hand was
rather soiled.” ‘
By the fireside in her home glx!
vears ago Mrs. Qurran placed a ouija
board in h.r lap, “Just for syn,” and
the pepcil moved rapidly, the spirit
of a girl of 1650 announced hersélf
casual'y at first, a bit pettishly later
when she was not received or recog
nized guickly enough, saying througn
the ouija:
“Many moons ago I lived-—again I
come. Patience Worth is my name,
1f thou shalt live on so shall 1. I
make my bread by thy hearth. Now
the time for work is past”-—this mes.
sage came of an evening it will be
remembered—“ Let tabby drowse and
blink its wisdom to the firelog.”
STRANGE POWER,
Mrs, Curran today of the strange
power that came to her at St. Louis
In the little “crooked house” where
ghe lives, Her girt, her power, her
gecond personality, may be a dream
state of inherited memories, Mrs.
Curran says a theosophist would call
it a striking example of & rein
carnated spirit,
Patience is supposed to have been
a maiden of Dorsetshire, Hngland,
who lived. about 1650. She was a
weaver's daughter, an only child, She
says “my thumb is thick from twist
ing flax,” and speaks of delivering
fine linés to the “castle folk,” Her
tather left to come to America and
after the death of her mother Pa
tience decided to follew him to the
New World, At that time she was a
woman of 38, and remembers of “tying
hrongs for the barrieades against the
Indians.” She tells of “loading guns
with epitballe.” Her new home was
in the vicinity of Martha's Vineyard
snd Nantucket. -
Must Have a Better
Division of Profits
Here, Says Hoover
Sees Cure for World Ills jn Maximum ]f‘roduc-j
tign, Obtained by Representation of All 3
Elements of Industry. %
By HERBERT HOOVER. ;
' Former United 3tates Fooa ©om
missioner, who, before he recently
returned frém abroad, was designated
as the most powerful individual in
Europe. Thisg article was written for
the nation’s business official organ of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States.
My colleagues and I have occupied
a unique position in intimate wit
ness of the social currents that have
surged back and forward across Eu
rope.
The enemy collapsed not only from
military and naval defeat, but from
total economic exhaustion. . In this
race to economic chags the Kuro
pean allies were not far behind.
During the period since the armis
tice we have witnessed social and
political revolution among one-third
of the civilized world, and we see the
remainder in great social tribulation.
Nog contemporary ean properly
judge or' balance the relative voluime
of great currents of social agitation.
Yet practical statesmanship requires
that within our abilities a constant.
acecounting should be taken of the
tangible reshits of these forces
abroad, if the development of our
liberal finstitutions and pregress of
orderly, government is to. be’ main
tained and revolution avoided.
LONG ACCUMULATING.
This cataclysm of social change in
Eurgpe is the result of the long ac
cumulation of social as well as polit
ical wrongs. It is no sudden after
thought of the war. |
It is the demand for a better divi
sion’ of the wealth from- industrial
ism, and this time the agitation arises
mainly from the urban papulations.
These vast masses of humanity
have long been groping for the!
method of nearer equality of oppor
tunity and better distributiom of the
results of industrial production.
These attempts have in recent years
been dominated by Marxian Social
ism, developed in different . degrees
of intensity, .
We require only a superficial sur
vey to see that the outstanding and
startling economic phenomenon of
Europe today is its demoralized in
dustrial produetion. Of the 450,000,
000 people in Europe, a rough esti
mate would indicate that they are at
least 100,000,000 greater than could
be supported on the basis of produc
tion, which has Mflr before reached
so low an ebb. or to the war this
population managed to produce from
year to year but a trifling margin of
commodities over the necessary con
sumption and to exchange for sup
plies from abroad.
Both the pre-war and the war im
pulses have now been lost, and the
productivity of BEurope has steadily
deereased since the armistice.
It is true that some of this diminu
tién' in production has been cen
tributed to by other factors, but
in. the larger degree the cause of
this ate[wy decrease “of productiv
ity, ‘with its ‘shortage of necessary
supplies and its rising cost of living,
must be sought in the social fer
ment.’ In this ferment the advocates
of Socialism or communism have
claimed to alone speak for the down
trodden, to alone bespeak human
sympathy, and to alone present rem
edies, to be the single voice of liber
alism.
We may examine these phenomena
a little more closely. In Russia we
have a great country in which the
population, with the exception of a
emall minority, were comparatively
well fed, warmly clothed and warmly
housed. They were subject to the
worst of political tyranny gwere delib
erately gteeped in ignorance and sup
erstition, yet their productivity was
sufficient to enable them to provide
these primary comforts and to export
more foodstuffs than the United
States. i
Socialism was brought in overnight
at the hands of a small minority,
and this tyranny of minority, more
terrible even than the old, has now
had nearly two years in which to ef
fect the conversion of the wicked
competitive system into the elysium
of communisng
Today two-thirds of the railways
and three-fourths of the rolling stock
that they control are out of opera
tion. The whole population is with
ont any normal comforts of life and
plunged into the most grievous fam
ine of countries. The people are dy
ing at the rate of hundreds of thou
sands monthly from starvation and
disease. The capital city has dimin
ished in population from nearly 2,-
\OOO.OOO to less than 600,000. Prices
have risen to fantastic levels,
RADICAL CHANGE IN IDEALS.
1f we éxamine the recent proclama
tions of the grange we find a radieal
change in the economic and social
ideals, They have established a dif
ferent wage In an attempt to stimu
late exertion and ambitioy of skilled
labor, !
They have established a state sav
ings bank, ih order to stimuMte pro
duction through making provision for
family and old age. They are offering
fabulous salaries for men capable of
directing the large agencies of pro
duction. In fact, while in the midst
of flowery verbal endeavor to main
tain that they are still Socialists,
they are endeavoring to restore indi
vidual ownership of property and of
the results of labor,
The very high priest of Socialism
is today vainly endeavoring to save
his people from thegr total destruec
tion by summoning back the forces
of production. .
We could take another example in
the efforts of Bela Kun and his col
leagues in Budapest, The distinction
between the situationr and Russia {8
that they were dealing with a popu
lation of much higher intelligence, of
much higher average education, and
it rsquir& but three months for the
working people ‘:ludapeet to realize
the fearful abysSnto which they haa
been plunged. It was solely due to
i the efforts of the trade unions in
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Buglapest that the bolshevists were
thrown, out of Hungary. 3
Elsewhere in Europe Socialism has
proceeded through established insti
tutions and we may shortly examine
the results here also.
INDUSTRIES WERE-SOCIALIZED.
During the war large measures
were taken on both sides of the front
to secure the mobilization of produc
tion and distribution to its maximum
use in the struggle. There was effec
tive socialization of vast sections of
industry.
The only partial success of, these
measures-in war wag dug to the great
patriotic impulse of war. Those who
conducted these large operations
were men whose initiative and ca
pacity had been selected by the com
petitive system. These war im
pulses have been lost, and these or
ganizations with constantly decreas
ing efficiency even in war now face
disaster from within and with re
duced productivity. All these de
creases have immediate results in a
rising' cost of living or the necessity
of governments to subsidize commod
ities. such as bread.
-There'is no better example of this
than the coal industry of Europe, and
even omitting Russia, this production
has-fallen from a rate of 600,000,000
tons per annum at the armistice to
a rate of 450,000,000 tons recently.
The coal industry is in modern life
the very life blood of the State, and
its production today is at such an
ebb as to jeopardize the entire social
fabric. 1 am convinced that the
greatest pfoportion of European lead
ers of Socialism today to some ex
tent realize this bankruptey and are
today endeavoring to cover a retreat
with loud complaints as to the failure
from other causes. Nevertheless, the
realization itself is bringing the turn
of the tide, ‘and through it Europe is
on the road to economic recovery-—if
she gets peack.
My emphatic conclusion from all
these observation is, therefore, that
Socialism as a philosophy of possible
human application is bankrupt.
Although Socialism ‘'has now proved
itself with rivers of blood and suffer
ing to be an economic and spiritual
fallacy and to have wrecked itself on
the rock of production. I believe it
was necessary for the world to have
had this demonstration.
Bankruptey of the Socialist idea,
however, does not relieve us from the
necessity of finding a solution to the
primary question which underlies all
this discontent. That primary ques
tion is the better *division of the
products of industry and the steady
development of higher productivity.
This bfi\kruptcy of the Sacialist
idea should, if reaction is to be pre
vented, return the guardianship of
this problem from the radical world
to the liberal world of moderate men,
working upon the safe foundation of.
expewence.
The paramount busines of every
American today is finding a solution
to these issues, but this gsolution must
be found by Americans, in a practical
American way, based upon American
ideas, on American philosophy of life.
A maximum production can only be
obtained under conditions that pro
tect and stimulate the physical and
intellectual well-being of the pro
ducer. We shall never remedy justi
fiable discontent until we eradicate
the misery which the ruthlesshess of
individualism has imposed upon a
minority.
If | were thinking aloud, | would
say at once that this maximum pro
duction can not be obtained without
giving a voice in the administraton
of production to all sections of the
commf ty concerned in the specific
problem; that it can not be obtained
by the domination of any one ele
ment.
We have in the United States a
‘better division of wealth and a
greater equality of oportunity than
‘any other nation in the world. We
‘have reason for discontent in the
fact that our industrial development
has outrun our social progress, and
we have reason to hasten those
measures that lead to larger justice
in distribution of these profits,
‘!larger representation of all elements
of the community in the control of
) the agencies.
Our sister civilzation in Europe is
today recovering from a great {ll
ness. The many new democracies
that we have inspired are serving
for our ideals. We alone have the
‘oconomlc and moral reserve with
'which to carry our neighbor back to
strength. To do this is also true
Americanism,
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Janitor Strike Looms in
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Chicago by January 1,
(By Universal Service.)
CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-—~With a janitors’
strike secheduled for January 1, tnnunlu\
akrg- conjuring up A pleture something llke |
this: ‘
The alarm clock ring—4:3o a, m, ’Phq‘
head of the family continues to #mnore,
Friend wife, nwakg¢ned, shakes him, He
wakes up slowly, #its up in bed, rubs his |
eyen. |
“Brererer, It's cold!’ and he disappear |
under the blankets again. ‘
“Father, get up,” remonstrates his wife,
“Today im your turn on the furtace, you
know.” ‘
Father arises grumpily, saying things
not printable, as_ he gropes .for the light
ewitch and his clothes in the cold, dark
ropm, He hastily drags on his garments
and shivering, ducks for the stairs to the
basement to make up the apartment build.
ing fires. Meanwhile, son John is dress
ing for his chores of corrying down the
garbage and sweeping the porches.
Old Tolstoi Estate Is
Now a Junior Republic
(By Universal Service.)
MOSCOW, Dec. 8.--Krasnaya Pollana,
the former estate of Count Tolstoi, has
heen gonverted into a Sfunior republie on
the woviet plan by Lenin, who is re
ported to be giving personal ‘atteption
to the health and educetion of %60 chil
dren, the rons and daughters of workers
on the estate. ‘The whoie scheme (s under
the supervision of Tatiana, Tolstoi's daugh.
ter, and Vassili Tschertkof, the dead suge's
most intimate friend.
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ATLANTA,. GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, ‘1919.
Committee of 200 Is Named to
Receive Army Commander on
Arrival From Columbus.
A. E. F. Leader to Make Three
Public Appearances Here. Will
March in Parade in His Honor.
More than 200 leading citibens of|
Atlanta were names) by Mayor James
L. Key.Caturday as members of a re
ception committee to meet Gen. John
J. Pershing and participate in the
program of entertainment prepared
for him during his stay in the city.!
They will greet General Perishing on
his arrival here at 7:50 o'clock Wed
nesday night on a special train from
Columbus,. {
With the exception of a few detailsl
which will be worked out a meeting
of the eecutive committee at 10:30
o'clock Monday morning all is in
readiness for he reception to the army
commander. Mrs. Samuel H. Inman,
general chairman and Earl H. Cone,
chairman of the executive, have pre
pared a program which has been ap
proved by General Pershing's staff.
General Pershing will make three
public appearance in Atlanta. His
first appearance will begat the din
ner to be tendered him ‘)y the Elks
at the Elks’ home on Ellis street
Wednesdap night. The dinner will be
followed by a reception, which will be
open te the public, and by a dance.
PERSHING TO PARADE. 1
The second appearance of General
Pershing will be in a parade which
will leave the Georgian Terrace Ho
tel at 11:30 o’clock Thursday morning
and proceed through Peachtree,
Whitehall and Lee streets to" Fort!
McPherson., |
His third.appearance will be at the
‘dinner which will be given in his
‘honor at the Piedmont Driving Club
at 7 o'clock Thursday night. Judge
Price Gilbert will! prqsida as t(mst-l
master, Mayor: Key wwill deliver the,
address of welcome and = Genperal
Pershing will deliver an address on
'the work of the Georgia troops in
'the war. ‘ ‘ l
During his stay in Atlanta General
Pershing will make an inspection of
Camp Gordon T)mrmy"momin}r, will
visit Fort McPherson. and talk %o’
wounded . soldiérs '!’hnrsdafy after- .
noon, will be ‘the guest of Colonel
Bratton at a luncheon at Fort Mc-
Pherson Thursday after the parade
and will make an inspection of Camp
Jesup. Vi * '
Just before the.parade leaves the
Georglan Terrace.oz Thursday morn
ing ,the sOverseas Club will present
‘General ng with.a flag. which
will be attached te his automobile. |
! V‘ETQ TO. LINE STREETS. i
As theg parn.}flc _goes through the
heart ‘of the city the streets will be
lined = with "Eonfedqrate Veterans,
members of the + American Legion,
who will be stationed at Five Points,
Clvic organizations, woman's clubs,
city and county officiols, delegations
from colleges and untversities in
Atlanta and school children from all
the institutions in the city, .
Members of the executive commit
tee who will meet Monday morning
are Mrs. Samuel H. Tnman, general
chairman, Earl H. Cone, chairman ex
ecutive ~ committee, ¥red Houser
secretary executive committee, Gen
W. P. Richardson, Camp Gordon,
Col. James Blyth, Capt. R. A. }Nll
lard, Camp Gordon, Gen. J. Van Holt
Nash,' Mrs. John W. Grant, Mrs. Al
bert E. Thornton, Henry Robertson,
‘Mrs. James L. Dickey, Basil Stock
ride, State commander American Le
gion, W. R. C. Smith, J. P. Allen,
‘John E. Murphy, J. 8. Cohen, W. W,
Orr and J. Epps Brown. > 1
General W. P. Richardson submit
‘ted a tentative draft of the program
to members of General Pershing's
staff at Camp Lee, Va. and received
‘word that the program was perfectly
satisfactory to General Pershing. ‘
. Arrangements have been made to
‘nnd a delegation composed of citi
zens and army officers to Columbus
‘tn meet General Pershing and to ac
company him to Atlanta on his spe
clal’ train. |
l ELKS NAME COMMITTEE.
. During his stay in Atlanta General
'Pershing will be a guest of the Geor
'glan Terrace Hotel. A special hotel
‘committeo, and a committe of Elks
ware announced at the same time as
the names of the citizens committee
'were made public. The hotel commite
‘tee* was named by Mrs. Inman. The
Elks committee was named by John
McClelland, exalted rulter, and the
citizens committee. was named by
Mayor Key. All three commitiees
lwpm announced Saturday by Fred
'Houser, secretary of the executive
committee,
Members of the various posts of
the American Legion have ben called
to meet at 10:30 o'clock Thursday,
Decemebr 11 in the assembly room
of the Chamber of Commerce to pre
pare for the reception and parade to
be given General John J. Pershing.
The call was issued by Basil Stock
ride, State commander,
It is planned to form the members
in marching order and proceed to
Five Points where they will review
the Pershing parade in mass forma
tion All members were urged In the
call to be present on time. The mem
bers will wear a brassard on their
coats,
Vigiting members of the legion are
asked to joint with the members of
the local posts in the review of the
Pershing parade,
Names of the committe members
as announced by Secretary Houser
follow: 3
Mayor Key appointed the follow
ing citizens’ reception committee to
Continued on Page 2, Column 5.
Georgia Now Above $10,000,000
and Has Greatest Excess of
Any State Over Quota.
Final Effort Made to Bring
South’s Total Above SIOO,-
000,000 by*Sunday Night.
| By LOUIE D. NEWTON.
'Publicity Director, Georgia Baptists
‘ Campaign. b
The victory'os Georgia in the Bap
tist $76,000,000 campaign has set the
South on edge and the other States
join this State in trying to carry the
‘final total to above $100,000,000 by
Sunday night. Georgia is now above
$10,000,000 and has the grea‘est ex
cess over her original quota of any
' State in the South,
I Southern Baptists are bringing to
a close the greatest financial cam
paign ever launched by any denomi
nation: in the United States. And the
leaders in every State are -delighted
to be able to emphasize the state
ment that throughout ‘he entire cam
paign period, beginning ‘last July,
there has always been a clear note
sounded that the raising of the money
in this campaign was the smallest
phase of its real purpose.
In Atlanta last May the Southern
Baptist convention voted unanimous
ly to put on a great campaign that
would embody a}l the interests of the
denomination except the local church
, expenses and the pastor's salary. This
jaction of the convention did not come
as a result of any man or any set of
men planning for the campaign be
fore the meeting, but it seemed, veri
tably, to be an illustration of God
having pu‘ it into the hearts of all
| the people to undertake a movement
lunder the leadership of His spirit.
Every delegate voted for the motion
and every delegate went home under
the spell of a greater day for South
| ern Baptists.
| SEVENTEEN STATES.
! It was some time before the plans
were worked out. None felt like tak.
| ing the lead because none had any
I definite suggestions. But in the days
! that followed there were earnest con
ferences and finally the campaign
was officially launched about the first
,of July., The seventeen States of the
. Southern Baptist convention were
‘represented by a commissioner from
each State and this campaign com
mission was asked to select a leader.
The commission by States follows:
[ George- W, Truett, chairman, Tex
as; H. L. Winburn, Arkansas; J. E.
, Dillars, Alabama; John E. Briggs,
District of Columbia; W. A, Hobson,
Klorida; F..C. McConnell, Georgia; E.
' W, Reeder, Illinois; George E. Hays,
Kentucky; M. K. Dodd, Louisiana;
Joshua Levering, Maryland; W. A.
Hewitt, Mississippi; K. W. Stephens,
Missouri; J. W. Brunner, New Mex
ico; C.J. Hunter, North Carolina; E.
L. Compers, Oklahoma; J. H. Ander
son, Tennessee; C. B. Bobo, South
Carolina; George W, McDaniel, Vir
ginia, !
The commission met and selected
Dr. L. R. Secarborough as director for
' the South. Doctor Scarborough is
president of the Southwestern Bap
tist Seminary at Fort Worth, Texas,
and he did not see how he could leave
his work. But -there was one strik
ing appeal made from the beginning
of the campaign that moved him. It
was the statement that every one
should do what he was asked ‘o do
if the movement could hope to suc
ceed. And so Doctor Scarborough
did accept and got the consent of
his trustees to be away. Dr. J. B,
Gambrell took charge of the seminary
in his absence,
The headquarters were quickly lo
cated at Nashville, Tenn. Associates
for Dotor Scarborough were selected
and in a few days tbe machinery for
the South was beginning.to move,
i Each State secretary of missiong was
'n‘revd upon as the logical man to di
rect his State and the plan was fol
i lowed in every State. He gathered
| about him assoclates to "handle the
! campaign and by July 15 the States
‘were ready to begin wotk,
GEORGIA ORGANIZATION.
Georgia was one of the first States
to set up her organization. Dr. Arch
C. Cree, the secretary of the Georgla
Baptist Mission Board, turned all of
his energy to the great task and in
les sthan three days he had his State
headquarters office open with his men
selected for this work. The directors
for the W. M. U, work were asked to
be the State directors for the women
and children in the campaign. Mrs,
Kate C. Wakefleld, the secretary in
Georgia, jJoined Doctor Cree in get
ting Georgla ready and within a few
dayg she had the women of the State
selecting their association leaders.
John W. Jenkins was selected as
director of organization for Geargia.
Mr, Jenkins was at the time con
;nwtml with the University of Geor
gla, He has rendered a fine service
to his demomination in this office,
Ely R. Callaway of LaGrange was
made associate State director, Dr. W,
H. Major, pastor of the Capitol Ave
nue Church of Atlanta, was asked to
be chairman of the speakers’ burean,
L. D, Newton of Mercer Urifversity
was drafted as director of publicity.
An advisory committee was ap
pointed, composed of Dr. R. W,
Weaver, president of Mercer Univer
s".y. Dr. B. J, W. Graham, editor of
the Christian Index; Dr. John G. Har
rison, secretary of the education
board; Dr. J. M. Long, supérintendent
of the Georgia Baptist Hospital;, T.
| B, Scoggins, manager of g¢he Georgla
| Baptist Orphans’ Home; Mre, Kate
Ic. Wakefield, John W. Jenkins, Dr.
!Arch C. Cree and Louie D. Newton,
B e e g » ‘
| Continued on Page 2, Column 3.
Sews Buttons for&Te_c"h Boys
Girl Brings Home to the Lonely
Hostess of the Home Room of the RN
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sewing on buttons for student.
any féllow who wants to drop in for
a cup. }
In other words she gives the llttlei
touch of “home” that means so-mueb‘
to the lonely student. i |
This new work s an experiment
of the national council and is being
tried in four colleges to see how suc
cessful it will be and what need
there is for this type of work. The
national councii has established
these hostesses at the University of
Southern Calitornia, the University
of Ilinols, Cornell Uuniversity and
Georgla Tech |
The primary object is to look after:
tihe littl: wants of the rehabilitalion
students at the universities, but to
do all that ls possible for the other
siudents also, There wre 150 rehabili
tated sold.ers at Tech this year,
who are especially welcomed in the
rome room ot the Y by the hostess.
That does not mean that she neglects
any student who comes to her for
assistance, for she is always de
lighted to help them all.
Miss Lester's home i# in Thomas
ville, Ga. In February, 1918, she
went overseas for the Y. M. C. A.
where she was put in charge of all
the Y. M. C. A huts in thé Issoudon
area, as directer. This was the
largest training field for aviators in
France., The position assigned Miss
Lester was one of the five most im
portant positions in the Y. M, C. A.
abroad.
After the armistice Miss Lester
served with the army of occupation
in Germany, being stationed with
‘the Eighteenth Field Artillery of the
Third Division. She returned from
abroad in September, 1819,
Woman Loses $4,000
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Earnings to Bandits
87T, LOUIB, Dec. 6.—A man and woman
fiem‘rihed as ‘well -dressed” overpowared
nd robbea Mrs. Clara Dwyer, propristress
of & rooming house, on the third floor of
her home, the :nan holding her to the
floor by kneeling on her chest, while the
woman toek froin her ears cdlamonl eunls
rings which she says are wortn_ $4,000 and
a purse containing §22, Mrs, Dwyer told
the police, The couple escaped in an auto
moblle. '
Mrs. Dwyer said the couple left thelr
machine and told her they had been sent
by & “Bir. Meyer to look st 4 room.
Before she could switch on the lights the
man hooked his arm around her throat
' from behind and bore her to che f'nu. and
knelt upon her chest while the wonian res
moved the earrings. Mrs. Dwyer wore a
brooch which sire suys is worth SSOO which
the robbers overlooked.
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Fogmen With Lamps
To Pilot London Busses
LONDON, Deeo. 6-Fogmen have been
revived ns a london institutfon. .. To pres
vent eollisions, men armed with powerful
acetylene lamps will pilot autobus drivers
through congested distriéts during every
fog, day or night. The fogs eften are
g 0 thick In daytime that wvision is lhnfted
to Jess than 20 feet. Accidents result,
The fogmen recall London's eighteenth
century “linkboys,” who for a fee some
timey {nrc|bl‘}' extracted at some dark
gorner piloted home baffled Londoners
from their evening at the coffe shop.
Sheriff Declares Loot
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Paid Poker Debt te #iim
BIOUX CITY, lowa, Dec. §.-~Bheriff Ea
ward ¥ Dover of Turner County, buith
Dakota, on tria]l in Federal Court =' Rioux
falls befors Judge Wade of lowa Oity rur
participating in the fruits of an r¥press
robbery to the extent of SSOO, testifieq the
S6OO in question was given him »y the
confessed thief to pay & poker delt,
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FERGUS FALLS. Minn., Dec. 6.—
Minnesota produced this year the
largest crop of corn in the hluory‘
of the State, and a commercial value
far above the average is indicated in
the government crop report made
public by Paul H. Kirk, Minnesota
field agent. The average yield is for
ty bushels, which gives a preliminary
production of 118,800,000 bushels.
In 1918 the final yield was 110,000,000
bushels., The report indicates. the
quality of the crop is nearly perfect,
being 97 per cent of normal
Mr, Kirk, commenting on this re
port for Minnesota, says: “Prac
tically every acre of corn matured
this year, even in the northern tier
of eounties, On account of continued
high water in the southwestern part
of the State, with the exceptions of
Pipestone and Rock Counties, and
floods which entirely destroyed some
of the acreage planged in the terri
tory tributary to the Minnesota
River, and other fields being too wet
to be thoroughly cultivated, the
yields for the State and for the
territories affected have been re
duced, It is estimated that about 71
per cent of this years crop of corn
was harvested for grain.
“In other words, there will be about
87.000,000 bushels of commercial corn
raised this year. Of the total 2.970,-
000 acres planted approximately
2,117,000 acres were “harvested for
grain; 386,000 acres for silage; 324,000
acres for fodder; 139,000 acregy were
hogged off, and the remaining 3,000
acres were devoted to commercial
sweet corn and popcorn, mostly the
former,
“The agricultural crop of potatoes
this year in Minnesota is consider
ably below that of last year. The
crop in the southern and southwest
ern parts of the State were badly
damaged by continued wet weather
and too much heat. The crop in the
Red River Valley and in the north
ern and eastern sections of the State,
though spotted, ls very satisfactory.
The yleld this year is 87 bushels
compared to 112 bushels for 1918,
The preliminary production for this
year 18 placed at 26,883,000 bushels,
compared to the final estimate In
1918 of 32,760,000 bushels. The qual
ity of the crop is very good, being
free from disease, -
“While all of the flax in this State
matured without frost damage, there
was considerable damage by «grass
hoppers both before and after har
vest. especially in the western part
of the State. In fact, the plague was
g 0 bad in certain areas that some
fields were not cut. However, in the
central and sputheastern part of the
State, where; after all, there is a con
siderable acreage. the yield was on
the average a 'trifle over ten bushels
par acre. The State vield this year i=
placed at nine hushels, compared to
10.4 bushels last year. The total
pre'im‘nary production is placed at
2,727,000 bushels, compared to 3,120,-
000 bushels, the final for 1918
SECOND
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Alabama Senator Has Pledges
Sufficient to Make Him Floor
Leader Over Hitchcock.
Rumors of Disaffection Between:”
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President and Nebraskan Said.,
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To Be Unfounded. i
By GEORGE H. MANNING.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—Every
indication points to the election of
Senator Oscar W. Underwood of
Alaoama be Democratic floor leader
;\ the Senate to succeed the late
nator Thomas' 8, Martin of Vir=
ginia.,
The contest is between Senator
Underwood and Senator Gilbert M,
Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking
member of the Foreign “Reiations
Committee, who has bren leading
the President’s fight for ratiflcatiorl‘
of the peace treaty, Though names
of other senators are mentiohed for
sthe place it is only in a complimeén~
tary sort of way, and the real fight
is bitween the Nebraskan and the
Alabamian. e
Senator Underwood's friends were
very busy campaigning for him dur
ing the short Senate recess and now
have the pledges of more than &#
majority of the Democratic senators
to support Underwood. They appear®
quite confident of victory. ;
The Hitchcock supporters are. stil
working hard, however, and have n
given up the fight, They do not ap
pear so confidant as the Underwoo
men. ¢
| TO HOLD CAUCUS, :
~ The new floor leader of the Sens
ate Democrats will be chosen at a
caucus of the members to be held
in‘perhaps a week or ten days’ T
Ordinarily the Steering Committea |
of the Senate Democrats wonld first
g 0 over the situation and perhaps
make a recommendation to the cau
cus that would have considerable
weight., But that is out of the ques~
tion in this instance, because both
Senators Hitchcock and Underwood
are members of the Steering Com
mittee.
Only the absence of several Demo~
cratic senators from the West pre
vents the holding of the caucus at
once for the choosing of the new
floor leader. If the caucus was held,
now there would be no doubt of Un
derwood’'s election. All the Southern
Democrats are on hand and lined up
for Underwood. The Hitchcoek
forces expect to have the backing of .
'ulmost all, if not the solid strength
of the Western Democrats, '
WILSON NEUTRAL.
Despite the numerous reports of
disaffection betwecn President Wil
son and Senator Hitchcock it can be
stated with authority that the closest
friendship exists between them and
that the President holds a deep grati
tude for S.nator Hitchcock for the
fight the Nebraskan made in the
Senate for ratification of the treaty
in a way desired by the Presidenw
Much of the support of Senator
Underwood for the lead.rship by
senators outside the “solid South”™
comes from their recognition of his
pronounced ability as a parliamens=
tarian, and knowledge of the work=-
imgs of the federal departments and
‘the Senate and House.
' As chairman of the Ways and
'Means Committee and floor leader
of the Democrats in the House from
11912 to 1917 Senator Underwood
‘made a most enviable record for
getting things done expeditiously.
If Senator Underwood is elected
Democratic floor leader, as he most
certainly will be, he will have ac
complished a most unusual thing-—
that of being floor leader in thd
‘House and Senate, all within two
years. The case of Henry Clay, who
was first floor leader in the Hou j
and later in the Senate, Is the ofi ‘,
other instance that could be r k
today by the oldest members of
Congress, i
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Tax Drop Impossible, j
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Is View of Senators
(By International News Bgrvieo.r
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Reduction
of income, excess profits and other |
war time taxes is considered impos
sible by Senate leaders. ]
Senator Watson, Republican, of In=
diana, in charge of financial legisla~ §
tion during the absence of Senator
| Fenrose from Washington, sald to- |
' day demands for large appropriations
make reductions of taxes impossiblé,
Revision of the war time taxes to
remove the levy on soft drinks, beer |
substitutes and other articles geners |
ally used by the general public will |
'be given serious consideration by the
committee. 3 &
The revenue derived from '&h
source amounts to more than $185.4"
000 000, Measures covering the
peal of taxes on these minor luxur,
have passed the House, During
special session the Senate committiee
refused to take up the measures.
Manna Is Now Regular
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Article of Import Trade
NEW YOREK, Dec. 6. —Strange to num)‘!&f
upon a quotation about meni*i in News ot
the drug and chemieal trades? The ~biisd
dren of Israel, we know, were sayed lron;
slarvation in the desert by it. It Tell fro
heaven, was small like corlaalir seod Ans
tasted like wafers made with honey. Hows
ever, the actual manna of trade todaw
comes from Inclsions in Bouth lumw‘
l trees, and it is now reported to have 1
quotcd higher than previously in the pei=
‘war\' market, The demand has the
of Jate, cepecially for small flake manfig ™
| wifloli 18 the better quality, coming Lrone .
the part of the stem of the tree. "