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The Washington times., 1915-05-15
To Discuss Status of
Spanish in America

Dr. Glenn Levin Swiggett, secretary
OF the Pan-American Scientific Con-
gress. will be among the speakers at the
meeting of the Spanish
Athenaeum May 2s. He viii discuss
States"
The Washington times., 1915-05-15
Funerals
Edwin {. Fitz Simons.

Edwin {. FItZ SimOns.
The funeral of Edwin G. F1tz Simons
will be held from the residence. l527
Parl; road northwest to the Church of
the Sacred Heart on Monday morning
at o'clock. IntcrmCnt will be at
Albany, n. Y.
The Washington times., 1915-05-15
Don A. Sanford.

The funeral of Don a. Sanford was
held from the residence. 800 Indiana
avenue northwest this afternoon. In
terment was in Rock Creek Cemetery.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18

Mexican statement. challenging the
consistency of the statement with the
much discussed Indianapolis speech
in which Mr. Wilson said that he had
no disposition to interfere in Mexico
The tone of ChazarO'S note caused
much surprise, as he is supposed to
be a Villa man, and Villa sent a
friendly reply.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
Fortunes Awaiting
Josh Rankin From
His Trained Fishes
LAKES "FULL" OF EN-, BUT HIS
SCHEME NEVER CATCHES
THEM.

Special to The Mems.
Biloxi, Miss, June 1S.-John Ran
kin has scheme by which he expects
a million dollars, more or less. His
plan is to train bass, pickerel muskel-
lunge and other game fish and sell
them to owners of summer resort no.
tells for use in their lakes.
Josh now has a fine bunch of young
fish. He is training them to leap from
the water whenever a boat comes near
and to avoid all hooks and lines. He
turns them loose in the lake and
makes a splash and instantly a dozen
or more will jump out of the water.
After they jump they all rush back to
Josh's place and he feeds them.
Summer resort hotel owners may
put half a dozen or a dozen of these
fish in their lakes and excite interest
in fishing and. if they feed the fish
regularly there is no danger of them
being caught.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18

cinderella" latest Famous Play
Paramount feature, today at the
Lomo. Mary Pickford, the most pop
ular motion picture star in the world,
returns to the screen on the Famous
Players Paramount program, in a
four-part modern and original film
version of the century-old classic Gin
derella." In the fanciful fairy-tale,
arranged from the symbolic story,
Mary Pickford pOrtrays the pathetic
but bewitching little cinder-girl, the
heroine of the world-renOwned and
universally loved tale of the abused
step-sister who was at last rewarded
for her virtue and patience by splen-
did triumph over the naughty sisters
and unkind stepmOther, and crown
ed princess and sovereign of her true
love s-heart
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18

At the Greater Gem today, Jess
Willard, champion heavyweight box
er of the world, will be shown in the
first of the moving pictures to be
shown of him, in drama of the prize
ring, THE Heart Punch" Also there
will be two acts of the thrilling BLACK
Box" story "a Lubin drama, "A De-
cision of the Court" a wild animal
drama, THE Tyrant of the Veldt;
and a comedy, 1.-TWO Hearts; One
Ship" The Greater Gem orchestra
also will render program of popular
and new music.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
YOUNG DAUGHTER DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Nipple Malvani Blakesly To Be Buried
From Late Home This Afternoon.

After an illness of several weeks
originally due to a severe case of the
measles, Nipple Malvani Blakesly. the
nine-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. z. Blakely, died at the home of her
parents shortly after 3:45 o'clock this
morning, at 2O2 Ryan street.
The funeral will be held from the
family residence at 4 o'clock this aft
ernoon. The Rev. (. J. CuTrie will
conduct the services. The interment
will be in the City Cemetery.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
|NT|MATES ENGLAND
IS OPENING MAILS
SWEDEN PROTESTS TO STATE
DEPARTMENT AGAINST AL
LEGGED ACTION.
(BH Associated PreSS.)

Washington, d. c., June 18.--The
Swedish minister to the United States
today officially protested to Secretary
Lansing against mail from the United
States addressed to Sweden being
tempered with, presumably in Eng.
land. The mail, he said, showed evi
dence of having been opened, censor
ed, and on a registered unit, retained
He charges that this is a violation
of the worlds postal convention. Sew
eral similar reports of such interior
ence have been made.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
CRISLER is GOING
TO ATLANTIC CITY
viii Be Delegate to Anti-Saloon
League Convention.

The Rev. Charles w Crisler, pastor
of the Main Street Methodist Church,
today received his appointment as a
the Anti-Saloon League of America. to
be held in Atlantic City. July 60. Mr.
Crisler said today that if his present
plans materialize he will attend the
convention.
He has been interested in the tenn
perance and Anti-Saloon work for
years, and is one of the leaders in the
movement in Mississippi.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
THIRD STATEMENT IS
ISSUED BY Mr.. BRYAN
SAWS UNITED STATES SHOULD
CONTINUE ITS MEDIATION
OFFICERS.
(BV Associated PreSS.)

Washington, d. c., June 1S.-ln the
third of his series of statements on
the European war situation as affect
ing the United States, issued today by
Mr.. Bryan, he again suggests media
ton for the settlement of the conflict.
He said that the United States again
should offer mediation, and if it is
not accepted, it should keep on offer
ing it. He then gave his well known
views of the international arbitration
Commissian.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
TRUCK IN STATE IS
IN GOOD CONDITION
interesting Figures Are Issued by b.
reau of Crop Estimates.

The bureau of crop estimates has
issued some interesting figures, based
on reports from special correspond
ents showing the condition of truck
crops in Mississippi on June l. EST
mates are on a basis of 100 represent
ing normal conditions.
Mississippi crop conditions are est
mated as follows Beans, rs; cabbage
rs; canteloupes, 50; cucumbers, S4i
onions, "a; peas, 70; potatoes, Y; to
matOes, 70; watermelOns, 81.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18

has gone to Washington To complete
taking transcripts of the Confederate
rolls, and while there he will arrange
to secure the list of names of Missis-
sippians who fought in the Mexican
war and th war of 1912.
When the complete rolls of Missis-
sippians who participated in these
conflicts are in the department of ar
chives here they will form an impor-
tant part of the records of the Of
Gees.
DR.. Rowland will be away from the
capital for a week or ten DAYS.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
ELECTION NOTICE.

To the Voters and qualified Electors
of Forrest County, Mississippi, in
the Sth Chancery Court District of
the State of Mississippi:
You are notified that an election will
be held in this county on the 9th day
of July. A. D., 1915, for the purpose
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18

perance Union protested against the
use of wine because Arizona is a pro-
hibition state. The water to be used
will be the first that flowed over the
Roosevelt dam. Governor Hunt made
the final decision today after a confer
ence with the President.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
FOOD SITUATION DESPERATE.
(By Associated PrCSS.)

Washington, d. c., June 1S.-The
food situation at Vera Cruz is so des-
perate that Rear Admiral CapertOn,
fearing food riots, has proposed that
warships be used to transport sup
plies, thus increasing his forces. Of
ficials, however, decided not to send
warships, but will continue to send
transports.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
PYTHIANS HOLD BIG
MEETING; 3 INITIATED

Crescent Lodge, No. AZ, knights oil
Pythias, at one of the biggest meet
ings of the year, held last night in its
quarters in the Citizens Bank build
ing. unfolded to three nOvices the
mysteries of the fraternity. Two were
given the rank of esquire, while
third that OF page.
Two new applications for member
shin were received and filed.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
Wine And Water Christening.

Washington, D. c., June 1S.-The
battleship Arizona to be launched at
the New York Navy Yard tomorrow,
will be christened with both wine and
water The Woman's Christian Tenn
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
TEUTON|C VICTORIES
Continued from Page One.)
Didn't Know Meyer.

Washington, D. c., June 1S.-The
German ambassador today personally
informed Secretary of State Lansing
that neither he nor any member of
the embassy staff knew of a Doctor
Alfred Meyer, said to have been Sc
cretly in this country to buy war am
munitions.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18

New York, June 1S-Gustav Stahl
the affidavit that he saw guns on tn,
Lusitania before she sailed on hel
fatal voyage, was indicted for perjury
by the Federal grand jury today.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
Saws Wilson's Inconsistent.

Washington, D. c., June 1S.-Chaz-
arc, the latest president of the Villa
Zapata coalition government at Mex
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
PREPARE CONFEDERATE ROLLS.

Jackson, Miss June 1S.-Dr. Dunbar
Rowland, director of the Mississippi
department of archives and history
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
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CITY BREVITIES
80 ~>>~ - . . . . . .
d. B. Merkel left today for Daven-
port, Iowa, to spend the summer.

l.. D. P'Pool returned from Meridian
last night, where he has been trans
acting business the past week.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
LEMON WEEK

1c each at S. PeIIigrinrs. Both
phones SO. lb-4t-c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
ONE STREET CAR COMPANY STARTS
 LINE OF NTNEYS One Way of Meeting Con- petition Proves Very
 Satisfactory

The skeptic who in the face of the sud- den vogue of the jitney bus still is throw ing cold water on the enthusiasm Of the 'jitney buzzer," sees his last defenses fall before the fact that the very interests into whose revenue the humble jitney bus makes the biggest inroads accept the bus as an inevitable addition to our modern transportation methods.
 Thus the Virginia Railway and Power company of Richmond, Va, through It's general manager. c. B. Buchanan, instead of combating the jitney craze, as some still persist in calling the new movement, ordered 100 Frisco cars, the first IS or which were shipped April 12, and will be in the jitney service of Richmond. The cars are standard in every way and each will carry four passengers in addition to the driver.
 Horace DeLisser, vice president and general manager of the Frisco Motor com- pany who concluded the deal with the Virginia street car concern, says that these Briscoe cars will operate under guarantee that their gasoline consumption will not exceed gallon for every 70 miles of travel. This, according to DeLisser, IS not a difficult thing, because one Of the strongest selling points on the Frisco IS the unupsual fuel economy of it's French motor.
 The Virginia Street Railway company will build garages for the maintenance or the 100 Briscoes and it is certain that the first 100 will be followed by other cars in the very near future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

PERTINENT FACTS ANDQUESTIONS FOR
 SELLERS OF AUTOS

demand that owners receive proper
 service
 Have you ever stopped to think that a factory willing to consign cars to agents
 do so from necessity, because they must
 do everything and anything to sell their cars9 A good substantial company don
 have to do this kind of business.
 Don't grab off all the territory you can
 get just because in some cases the
 factory grants same. You cannot work
 it. and you know you cannot. Why ask
 it? You tie up territory because the fac
 tory stands by its contract, hnd you do
 not work it. which is of no benefit to
 yourself. excepting few floating orders
 that may be forthcoming and at the
 same time you prevent the factory from
 getting business therefrom. Why not be
 honest and face the matter sduarely.
 asking for only what you can really care for?
 Do you ever say to yourself: Have l conducted this business in a businesslike
 way, making every sale stand by itself,
 and show it's own profit? Some dealers
 think of and talk about the automobile
 business as game" Why should it be
 different from any other business? Why not use the same common sense that has
 been successful in other lines of mer- chandising?
 What about the salesman? Why not
 take a good. honest young man and teach him vour methods. provided he has, in
 addition to natural ability to sell cars,
 the one great fundamental of success that of staying on the job The day of 'ioy riding" and general "hell raising is past. Application now counts most. Hoy does your salesroom look? Pretty good? Why not have it clean and neat and inviting? It counts. Sometimes ladies come to look at cars and a slovenly looking showroom does not appeal to them and frequently spells a prospective sale Keep your repair shop away from your showroom No really fine dealer mixes up his dirty shop with his show room. It's bad business. Think about 1t.
 How do you demonstrate your cars' By pulling off some particular stunt that some competitor does just because he does 1t? Did you ever think the most stunts" are the things that the car is not intended to do and are seldom Ii
 ever required in actual service? This being the case. why do it? It can do the
 car no good and 1t proves nothing. Why
 rot, therefore give dignified, smooth
 demonstration. such as the car Is usually called upon for in service?
 Have you ever stopped to think tha' car is never sold excepting at full price? Order taking by meeting the other fellows idea is not selling your merchan disc. Selling a car Is making prospec want what you have to sell, no matter l what the price is. Isn't that right? l What do you do about trading the uset l car? Do you make wildcat trades Just to meet those of your competitor o what you are told your competitor il
 doing? Don't you know that if half the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
PACKARD MAGAZINE
 TELLS HOW TO PULL OUT OF MUDHOLES

In the April issue of the Packard magazine there appeared a bit of ad- vice to exposition tourists on how to get out of deep mudholes. It has beer used by the Packard engineers in their cross-country testing trips and may save much time and trouble in gong through the gumbo of the western prairies.
 The method is a modification of the Spanish windlass and may be illus trated by using some of the equipment found on an office desk Take a paper weight and visualize 1t as your car en- gulfed in Nebraka mudho1e. Tie a piece of string to 1t and attach the ether end to any fixed object. In the real emergency the fixed object is a dead man consisting of a stick ol timber buried in a long trench dug at right angles to the direction of the pulling effort. At point halfway be- tween the paper weight and the dead man" hold a pencil upright. Now take second pencil and loop your rope around it and turn on the first pencl as windlass. At once you'll find the paper weight moving along just as your car will. It can't help itself. Yor have a long lever and a short bite and the pull is terrific.
 In actual usage two pieces of five foot pipe are substituted for the pen cils. One may be smaller than tho other, so the pair will telescope when not in use. A length of strong lire completes the outfit.
 Caution should be taken when usir 2 the pipes to see that the one which is stood upright is not showed into the ground. It must be free to move along with the winding up of the rope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
New York Overland Dealer Has a Good
 Advertising Sign

When the curtain was raised on tn, 1915 National league season at the Polo grounds. New York, ball fans and play CTS were treated to new one. Out ir left field there flares 40-foot sign pro claiming that the first New York player who hits it with fly ball is to be pre- scented with a new Overland car.
 The Overland dealer in the metropoli, is the man who hit on this plan to stimu late the New York players in ther swat fests." Hit 'er out will be changed from now on to Hit that sign, kid," b, the rabid rooters.
 The distance of the big sign from tht home plate is 394 feet. and there is every likelihood of one of New Yorks big hit ters pulling down the Overland car whcf is offered.
 Before deciding on this move, MT. Sil- yer wrote the baseball writers on the New York dailies asking their advice on the matter, and they are of the opinion thai the offer is a good sporting proposition As one of the scribes puts it: Tt nigh be pulled right off the reel and again i may drag along for quite period"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
REQ MANAGER TELLS. OF SUBSTITUTION HE CONTENDS WITH
Rueschaw Says Some Deal CTS of ReOs Substitute Cheaper Grades of
 Automobiles

We, in the automobile business, have to deal with the problem of substitution in its most aggravated form" says R. C. Rueschaw, sales manager of the Rec Motor Car company, in a letter to the Coxe Motor Sales company here, local agents.
 By that, I mean that we are con- fronted with the evil of substitution not on the part of competitors merely, but right nour own house. as it were. By the very dealers who handle Reo cars in some cases.
 Just at this moment, because of the extraordinary condition that exists as a result of tremendous over-demand for Rec cars, we are wrestling with the substitution problem as never before.
 "One would naturally suppose that tho ideal condition for any manufacturer or dealer, would be an over-demand for his product. But that is not necessarily the case. In fact it may prove a very dan gerous condition. And that is why we are watching it so closely at this time
 You see, it is known everywhere in the trade and among motorists that be- cause of their splendid reputation and their values, we have more orders for Rec fours, sixes and even motor trucks than we can supply at once. Eventually we hope to supply them all, of course.
 Tt would be but natural that dealers handling other and competitive lines of cars, should use that argument to n- duce prospective buyers to accept cars other than Reos. But one unfamiliai with this kaleidoscopic business would hardly expect the very dealers who ham de Reos to do that. Yet it is a fact in several cases.
 Few people realize that because or the fact that this is strictly cash busi- ness it calls for the most careful watch ing from the sales department. Where the watching of credits is the problem in other lines of manufacturing, the watching for changes and substitutons is the important thing in the automobile business. &
 ' '.Tlli explain that in few words. Be- ing cash business, it is fact that, the moment a dealer has taken his car load of automobiles off the sidetrack and
 tContipued on. Page seventeeD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
PRELIMINARY WORK 0N NSHEEPSHEAD BAY ,. SPEEDWAY STARTED Manager Thompson of New York Race Track at
 Work TRACK TO BE BUILT WITH YELLOW PINE Believe Modern Tires Can Stand Ter. rife Pace for Five Hundred Miles on Such a Track-Drivers
 Favor Wood

Things are moving rapidly toward the accomplishment of the Sheepshead Bay Speedway corporation to give to New York the greatest motordrome and arena of sport in the world. Ever ard Thompson. the manager, is already on the job. He has been in conference this week with David Beecroft of the contest board; Alfred Reeves, general manager of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. and 4. c. Batchelder, chairman of the executive committee of the American Automobile association, who will be conspicuous among his advisors as to the motor rac- ing end of the project.
 Immediately following the official announcement of the formation of the Speedway company and the purchase of the Sheepshead Bay track last week from the Coney Island Jockey club. work began. Three hundred men are now engaged in wrecking the present structures to clear the ground for tho building of the new grandstands and the two-mile race course. Motorists and the general public are naturally most interested in the details of the construction of the track itself. which has been designed and will be built by Blaine Fl. Miller, the engineer of the Indianapolis speedway. It will be of wood, a radical departure from the trick surface at Indianapolis and the concrete course at Brooklands.
 Drivers Favor Wood
 "In the first place. says MT. Miller. the drivers favor wood. With such surface they believe that modern tires will carry the racing cars the entire distance of 500-mile race with out change. A concrete surface was first considered, but with the banking of the turns consisting of combina- tion of two curved surfaces it would be impossible to fit a smooth surface free from waves with concrete or any ether street pavement
 As compared with Brookland's rough concrete, Sheepshead's planed boards will be smooth thus obviatirg
 (Continued on Page Seventeen)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

Realize, first that the selling of mo- tor cars is regular business and not a game" a gamble.
 The successful seller of motor cars must be a merchant using systematic business methods to sell his merchan- dist
 No "happy-go-lucky'' or 'hit-or-m miss method can possibly succeed now.
 The same methods, the same conserva- lism, the same hard work. and the keep ing eternally at it. that have made for success in other lines are equally appli- cable to the sale of motor cars.
 Have you the necessary capital to in sure your success?
 If you have not, it is better that you never enter the business, as under the circumstances your venture is fore doomed to failure.
 If you have the necessary capital, the next in order is to get the right com pany to represent Here it is well for you to remember the fact that the right company will always build the right car.
 When you have the right company, stick to it, not for few months, or a
  ness. Don't build up a paying business by spending your money and by hard work only to lose all you have gained by taking up some "1y-by-n;ght' propo- sition that apparently promises a little discount or for other reasons that mo- mentarily appeal to you. The longer you are identified with a certain product, whether it is motor cars or something else, the greater will be your return, if you work. The most requisite things to remember in picking the factory you are to represent, are that they are financially strong beyond question of doubt. and that their product is beyond question. Why not get a special agency rating on the people with whom you are about to do business?
 Concentrate your effort and keep eter- nally at it. This is the day of success for the one idea man, the specialist.
 Don't blame your failure on the fac tory you represent. The success of the sought after cars on the market today, and you will find they are the ones that give the greatest value for the price.
 A manufacturer of this sort does not have to give extra discounts to induce trade, because he cannot do so and keep up his quality. And while we are speak ing of discounts, did you ever think why the manufacturer of motorcars gives the large discount he does? No? Foi | profit of the dealer and for service tc the owners who purchase the manufac- turers' cars. This is why the manufac- | turer the reliable one, has right to