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important bill that the present Republican Congress
has passed in the three and half months of the
extra session?
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o EDITORIAL NOTES
|.
SOME people do not believe in footing their
horns, but even more averse to having them
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A rubber washba'in folds into a
package, which may be carried in the
vest pocket
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Apache Girls
Make Flight
With Parker
Daughters Of Doctor "SIip
Ono 0ver'' on Nasty
Military AviatorS,

Misses Ethyl and Opal Beueler Of
Apache, Okla. slipped one over" on
their aviator friends this morning
when they made a trip with Billy
Parker in his airplane over Oklahoma
City. Both the sisters were delighted
over the thrills.
They live near Fort Sill, they ex-
planned and the desire to fly had its
origin in the stories aviator friends
told them and from watching the
stunts in the air by the many army
machines up constantly near Apache.
Despite the pleadngs of the girls,
none OF the aviators At the fort would
ever consent to take them along for
4 ride but they found the realization
OF their desires in Billy Parker and
his machine,
I'VE we're not the least bit afraid"
they exclaimed after being safe on
the ground at the end of hali-hour
in the air. ITS the most fun but
the descent is the only nervous feat
ure about a ride" said Opal.
They are the daughters of DR., and
Mrs. J. II. Beucltr OF Apache
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over the cherries Let them stand un-
I'll thoroughly picked
Real eats served real quick--lhe
Skivin Grill. (Adv)
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Pre-" today that he intends 10 make
A trip 20 the United States soon.
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"SWAT The FLY"
IS SLOW WORK
"Fly Rid" Kills Them BY the Thou
sands in a Few Minutes

When your house is full Of file, they
crawl over your kitchen and dining
rom, sticking to your food, sting and
annoy you and in this way carry and
communicate many dangerous dis
eases Swatting one fly at time Is a
long and tedious job. Better fan about,
a spoonful Of FLY RlD' into the air
Of each room This is harmle" and
fine insect powder Famed into the
air II comes in contact with thousands
OF flies. In a few minutes they fall
dead and can he easily swept up
FLY RID" is harmless TO humans
but death to flies, 1t comes in handy
packages at about ten or twenty-iive
cents at drug and grocery stores.
Manufacturers of RAT RID"
ROACH RID" ANT RID FLEA
RID" (Adv.)
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RED CROSS DISTRICT
GIVEN NEW MANAGER

Alfred Fairbank, acting manager OF
the Southwestern division Of the Red
Cross, with headquarters at st. Louis
has been appointed manager OF the
division to succeed George w, Sim
mons. Announcement of the appoint
mem was received here today by wire,
after the action had been taken at
ST. Louis conference Yesterday. Mr..
Simmons served as ~<anager Of this
district throughout the war The new
manager served as director of the
civilian relief department.
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usually large and that It |, fine time
TO introduce this new dellcacy The
picked cherries are said to be better
than olives IN many ways.
This is the way Miss Ross says
they are made leave the stems on
the cherries, and use only the big, red
fruit Pack in a large jar Pour on a
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Frank p. Walsh and other representa-
tivcs OF Irish Americans.
The statement from the Irish office
says that the Walsh report contain,
gross exaggera,ions and statements
that are utterly untrue Some OF these
statements, i, adds, are gross fabri-
cations.
DUBLIN. June 1.-THE reply Of
the government to the charges IN IN,
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tablespoon Of salt Tor each quart OF
chrrics, Prepare solution OF two
cups OF vinegar, one half cup OF water
and one-halt cup OF sugar and pour
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PICKLED CHERRIES
LATEST DELICACY

Cherry pickles are new substitute
for olives just discovered by Miss Ita
Ross, county home demonstration
agent. Miss Ross says that the cherry
harvest this year nromscS 10 be IN
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BRITAIN OFFICIALLY
DENIES IRISH CHARGE

LONDON, June 1.-THE Irish of
flee today issued categorical denial
OF the charges contained in the report
on conditions IN Ireland made BY
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CAPTAIN ALC0CK PLANS
TO VISIT AMERICA

LONDON, June 10 Monday.--Capt
John Alcock, who with Lieut. Arthur
w. Brown, completed on Sunday a
transatlantic flight from Newfound-
land TO Ireland. told the Associated
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report of Frank p Walsh and other
IriSh-Americans on conditions in Ire
land, is being printed and will he pub
lished tomorrow. The Irish executive
makes absolute denial Of the charges
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-25
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow'S Article
BT Mrs. WILSON WOODROW,
The world famous writer on vital subjects.

Red tape! It Is the god OF petty, me-
TEDIOUS minds, and the greatest foe
to real efficiency,
There must always be system, Of
course, a method in doing things; else
the result is hopeless confusion. But
when the way Of doing a thing Is made
more important than the thing Itself.
II generally ends In never being done
at all.
One could write reams upon the In
justice, the damage. the actual loss
which ensues both In business n gov
eminent from the clogging, hampering
effect Of rigid observance OF rule: but
II was all done years ago when Charles
Dickens In his novel, Bleak House,
made his pitiIess exposure Of red-tape
and thereby threw a monkey
wrench into the low-moving wheels Of
the British chancery courts.
Apparently, another Dickens and an
other Bleak House" is needed for GER
tain Of our own public agencies, II the
following letter Is n criterion, The
writer signs it. "A Mother of -Four
Children" and says:
Left an orphan at the age OF IS,
| was thrown upon the world to do the
best / could. and since | had not much
education and no friends, | naturally
had a pretty hard road to travel.
IT was married at 10 and made a
very bad bargain Of It, my husband be.
ing q slave to liquor and taking most
Of his earnings for his own pleasure.
Had | been a different sort Of woman
I might easily have followed his ex-
ample; but thanks to a strong will !
never fell for II.
Il have brought four children into
the world. The eldest. a girl, was taken
sick with rheumatism at the age OF
fourteen and has never been cured. /
was unable TO stay at home and nurse
her, as ] had to go to work to make
both ends meet: 20 she had to do the
best she could for herself. and the
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-25

result is that today she is a serious
physical wreck.
''On top Of this misfortune, my hus-
band was taken III with tuberculosis as
a consequence OF dissipation, and after
several years OF invalidism he died,
II must truthfully admit that his
death was n relief. 1t freed me OF a
heavy burden, and | could also feel that
at last he was safe. ! faced life with
more content than | had known for
years, Nevertheless, was still con-
MY daughter will never be able to
work at anything unless she can be
cured, and | have also had to endure
a heavy disappointment In regard to
my son The two eldest are both
working, but II had been my hearts
desire to give one Of them at least n
good education and / did manage to
let him have n veal of high school
trailing. II was my hope that he could
finish the course but things did not
work out as | had planned, so had to
withdraw him from school and put him
to earning money.
you see, | had figured that as a
widow, and as the mother OF two chill
dren OF school age, | was entitled to a
mothers pension. and this would have
helped me out materially. But the Of
fetal who Investigated the case Insisted
that | should send the boys to work and
let them attend night school. l was
afraid to do this but tried II out with
the Oldest boy, and he became so
anemic as q result that the doctor or
dered me to stop his night school, say
Ing that a growing boy who was con-
fined In an office all day must have
his evenings for recreation.
II was also told by the investigator
that, because | myself worked, | was
not entitled to the pension. They never
took II into consideration that my
daughter filled my place at home. Al
though she needs treatment and rest,
she does all the cooking. gets the boys
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THE NEWS SCIMITAR DAILY COMIC PAGE
MAGAZINE FEATURES
GVNCMW IGGILX al
6BEDTIME ST0RY 4!
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE sNOWFLAKEs.

shook the feathers out OF one old case
into a new one, she handed the old case
or cloth bag to Uncle Wiggiiy.
Tho bunny took the bags u in the
yard and laid them In n pile.
I'm wait until ! get them all together
before | shake them" he said. If
feathers are going 10 make me sneeze ]
may as we'll do all my a-ker-chootns
and ker-snitzioing at the same time"
So the bunny piled the old pillow
bags in a heap-the pillow bags with a
lot Of loose. white feathers still stick
ing inside them--and waited for Nurse
Jane to come down,
81 want her to see how well l car
shake feathers the bunny said.
He was sitting on a bench In the sun,
getting warm, for 1t was a cold day,
when all Of a sudden, the bad old ba-
boon jumped over the fence, and shook
his paw at the bunny.
Now I've got your chartered the
baboon whose nose was blue. You
away from the Pipsisewah and the
Skeezicks. You won't get away from
met and again he shook his fist at the
rabbit gentleman.
What are you going to do to me7'
asked Uncle Wiggily.
The ideal As If you didn't know
howled the bah, as | call him for short.
4 Ah Val " NohO 81 ~ "a bSh1 80
your ears!' and for the third time he
shook his paw-fist at the bunny. This
made Uncle Wiggily feel rather pro-
voked, to say the least.
Look here!" cried the bunny. why
are o always shaking you fist at
me! I'll shake something at you, that's
what l will" And, catching up some
Of the pillow bags, Uncle Wiggily be-
gan to shake them.
Right On the balloons face he shook
them. Out flew a lot Of loose feathers,
And the more Uncle Wiggily shook the
pillow slips the more feathers flew out.
"Oh, it's showing! It's showing NOV
flakesl' cried the bah. at just can't
stand a now storm! Oh, l made a mis-
takel never should be out in the
snow!'
And the bah began to run away. And
Just then a feather got up Uncle Wig
gilys nose and he sneezed ker-choo
and ker-snitzio and the baboon cried:
"Oh, he's catching cold, and Ill catch
on account OF the snow fakes" and
he didn't hurt the bunny at all.
Uncle Wiggilv laughed. twinkled his
pink nose, sneezed ker-choo and kerr
snitzio nee or twice and finished
shaking his feathers out.
IT'S a good thing feathers look like
snow flakes or l might not have any
souse by now!" said the bunny. And ]
suppose that Is true. Anyhow, II the
inside door knob doesn't turn a somer-
sault and try to crawl through the key
hole TO go to the movies alone, I'll tell
you next about Uncle Wiggily's bear
bags.
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EAR95IL;s@s H0[1|lMN1[EZE rob-

Dear Mrs. Thompson am 20. For
the past six years | have received the
attentions OF a man 81. Although he
works for a railroad company and lives
In a town some miles distant from
my home, he calls at least one night
a week. He seldom takes me anywhere
and hardly ever buys me the simplest
present, still l am sureShe likes me, but
fully believe he Is trying to persuade
himself not to marry me. lie Is alb
solutely spoiled by a mother who
humors his every within and Is horri-
bly, set in his ways and wears his hair
all wrong, but ! love him. .
Z He makes me 80 angry sometimes |
can scarcely see and i swear to myself
[ will never see him again n then,
when he calls, either in person or over
the phone, ] am honestly glad to hear
from him, and yet l hate myself Tor
Il. He is utterly selfish and Is even
now contemplating whether he really
wants to marry me, whether marriage
will be worth anything to him or not.
| know IL, Never one does he con-
slider me, or whether 1t would bring
me contentment or happiness. | know
all of this and yet Ms l said before,
Now the thing Is this, / mean to
marry him and ! mean for him to
propose and | mean TO make him into
a domestic animal that will be very
agreeable. Please advise me. For his
SAKE | have given up many beaux and
now at last | mean to get something
out of 1t. He can well afford to give
me a simple home and furnish 1t &C
cordingiy and although II is a selfish
love, / know he does care for me, Please
answer soon. A..
II seems to me there is a little hard
Readiness on both sides Of the family.
Still it's nice to know what you want,
and 20 after 1t In a mean-to-get-it
fashion. From your letter l gather you
want an idea as to how to make your
friend propose. l would suggest that
you get careless about being at home
when he calls. Run over to a neigh
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or small sister receive him. Get rather
concerned about some line Of work.
Say a lot about women wasting their
tint simDiy In homes. Read Bernard
Shaw, II he's the kind Of man he
sounds like he will be Mortified. Tease,
fuss, talk wild and woolly and say a
lot OF truths about Yourself, the man
things, under cover OF joking. !
think he will propose.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Which is bet
ter for the skin In winter, cold or warm
water? What will keep the face and
hands from chapping? MAUDE.
Lukewarm water is best always.
Camphor ice will prevent %chapping. APP
gives them a fresh, bright, healthy
color.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: | am a young
man aged IS and | love a girl aged
rs. Although ] am aware Of the DIFF
ferences In our ages ] can't make up
my mind to give the girl up, still we
are not engaged. According to my
friends, l am crazy to think Of marry
ing the lady. all because Of her age.
Possessed OF an excellent position and
easily able to provide for two, | am
anxious to marry, although ! know ]
am too young. Won't you please as
sist me-? BOB.
Love comes only once to the average
person. II you know your feeling for
the girl to be that Of love, why miss
the opportunity OF marrying her be-
cause OF a few misery little years? You
say you are able to support her and
your letter shows that you are neither
lacking In education nor sense, SO why
wait several years and have her just
grow older? r hen, too, something
might happen and you might miss your
chance OF having the cheer and happi-
ness that love marriages really bring.
Early marriages are especially to be
recommended for boys, as II gives them
"a much better outlook on Efe and a 100
per cent better chance to make some-
thing Of themselves that the wasted
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out to work, sends the little fellow of
to school and keeps u six rooms thor
oughly clean and In order. She man
ages the house just as | would and
does 1t well.
to live In the country, the quiet and
change Of scene would do her a world
OF good, but In my present financial
circumstances that Is impossible. I
have taken several examinations for
better positions where | could get more
money, but owing to my lack Of early
education, | am unable to land.
so you see, ] have always had a
good many obstacles to overcome. But
am game. | want to do the very
best / can for my four children, and
some day. perhaps, when the boys can
earn more money, we shall be able to
buy our own little house on monthly in
stallments.
II don't worry much about the boys.
A boy can always manage to get along.
But my daughter Is always on my mind.
| can't help wondering what would be-
come OF her II anything should happen
to me, for when a girl isn't well, no.
body viii concern themselves about her.
II don't see how any mother could
forget her duty toward her children.
| do everything | possibly can for mine,
and II bothers me dreadfully II there
Is anything hat ought to be done n
| find myself unable to do II on ae-
count of the high cost of living. But
| will live in the hope that conditions
will change and make times easier for
all Of u.s."
TIC the ordinary person, this brave.
hard working. self-sacrificing mother
would seem the very sort OF q subject
that the mothers pension law was
framed to assist. She is doing her very
best to bring up her children as intel
ligent, capable citizens n is thereby
doing the greatest service TO the state.
But the red tape artist al only
see that her case fails to comply with {
the regulations Of Glass A, Subdivision
/, and. withholding the relief deserved
by her. gives it probably to sonleone
far less worthy.
The crying need of the world today
sense.
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Copyright, 1919, by Mcclure Newspap
Syndicate.)

NCopyFignt, 1919, by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.O
BY HOWARD r. GARlS.
You had better not go out today,
Uncle Wiggily,' said Nurse Jane Fuzzy
WuzZy, as the muskrat lady gave the
bunny gentleman his breakfast in the
hollow stump bungalow one morning.
Why not?" asked Mr., L~ongears, as
he spread some carrot butter on his
pancake and %sprinkled maple sugar
Old Pipsisewah or the worse Skeezicks
prowlihg around this morning?"
No, ! didn't exactly see them" an
sWered Nurse Jane, but L think we are
going to have a snow storm, and |
wouldn't like to have you go out and
be caught in it,"
Uncle Wiggily went to the window
and looked at the sky. 1t was covered
with clouds, and it did seem as If there
might be a storm. Especially as Jack
Frost had been skipping around the
night before, freezing the duck pond so
the Wibblewobble children couldn't
swim,
Il guess I'll stay home" said Uncle
Wiggily. Not that I'm afraid Of a
storm, only you haven't finished knit
ting my red mittens, Nurse Jane, and /
don't want to be out when it SHOWS I'M
less l have them"
TN finish knitting your mittens to-
day., said the muskrat lady, I'm glad
you 0Soke Of them"
And, since I'm going 10 stay home,"
went on Uncle Wiggily, may | not do
something to help you. Nurse Jane?"
That is very kind Of you spoke the
muskrat lady. I'm going to make over
some feather pillows, and you might
help me at that-if you don't mind
sneezing,
IF l don't mind s~neezingr' cried the
bunny, making his pink nose twinkle
like a pineable ice cream cone. What
do you Mountaineering"
We'll, when | make over the pillows
for the beds nearly always some
feathers fly out" said Miss Fuzzy
Wuzzy, and you know, as we'll as l do,
that a feather up your nose makes
you sneeze."
S II doesI' laughed Uncle Wiggily.
and
he sneezed then and there.
Why, even thinking of a feather up
my nose makes. me-ker-snitzfo-
sneeze-a-ker-choo!H went on the
bunny laughing.
"Well, l won't talk any more about
it," said Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy. 'Ill go up
stairs, rip open the pillows and put the
feathers into new cloth cases. I'll hand
you down the old cases"
And what shall | do with them"
asked the bunny,
Shake them out in the yard to loosen
tie old feathers that may stick 10
them" said Nurse Jane, After that
I'll wash the pillow cases, and we'll use
them next year"
So Nurse Jane went upstairs TO
change the pillows, and, as fast as she
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Read News scimitar Wants.
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NEW WINDSHIELDS.

An automobile. windshield designed to
exclude rain, snow and drafts, without
obstructing the drivers view. even by
glass, is shown and described in the
December Popular Mechanics Maya
zine. Three panes of glass are used.
Two of these are pivoted, in a slanting
frame, while a third is installed at the
bottom OF a vertical frame back Of the
other. The frames meet at the front
Of the roof. and are approximately 10
inches apart on the cowl. BY pushing
forward the front panes until their
edges are separated about W inches
a vision slit on a level with the eyes
of the person at the wheel is provided,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-25
UNUSUAL MIRAGE.

An unusual and curious modification
Of the familiar highway mirage, caused
by a layer OF heated air, Is reported
from the Sacramento valley, where the
Pacific highway is of glistening cement.
AT 3 o'clock on a recent night the lights
of an automobile were seen to rise over
other pair of lights. nearer but less
bright seemed to be turned on. Tho
more distant lights gradually overlook
the nearer, and merged with them, and
an instant later a single a passed the
observers.-From the December Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
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years OF ~frivolity and wild cat sowing
does. You should really feel fortunate
that a girl Of 26 looks favorably upon
you-that is II she be sensible and
high minded.
To Mary Jane; Do not marry n
mar who Ia addicted to drink. II 1t Is
his habit to indulge In liquors before
marriage 1t will not be your good for
tune to break up the affair afterward.
To Estelle: Yes, Write the letter,
make II pleasant and cheerful and then
Just walt until you hear, The boy
see, turned the world topsy-turvy, and
the boys who have returned are so rest
less they're almost crazy. Give them
a few more months and | think they'll
settle down. You understand, don't
your that it's not exactly their fault
they Just picked VI, and went into the
thing expecting to die, and finding It all
over--the fighting, | mean-they can't
get accustomed to the idea of settling
back into the routine Of former days.
It's very much like putting b tramp to
hoeing a garden, for ono having seen
the great space out In the world, they
dislike being cooped up In such a wee
portion.
To X. II. G.: | am sorry, but no let
ter from you ever reached me. What
you need is a change Of enc for two
weeks or a month. Why not tell your
father you are restless and would like
to visit some city and work for that
length OF time In a store similar to the
one you two own Say that o will
pick up some ideas that will be useful
to your own store and that the chang.
will benefit you. Visit the city. Spend
the first day at a hotel and look up
boarding houses; next secure a Job and
work for two weeks or a month. BY
then you will know whether or not you
like to be away from father and hons
and he also will learn to manage the
store without you. II the trial works
out we'll and you wish TO remain In the
city, visit home and see how dad makes
IL without you. Fate will work II out
for you-ali that Is necessary Is that
you give her q chance.
Read News Scimitar Wants.
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aA# 49, .I-E HL
AND WENT into a room.
WHERE THE maid was working.
AND l followed it in.
AND TT dropped the slipper.
AT THE foot of a girl.
WHO SAT in a chair.
AND SHE looked at me.
AND LAUGHED right out.
AND THEN she stopped.
AND sCoLDED the dog.
AND AFTER that.
l BEGGED her pardon.
FOR ENTERING SO.
AND EXPLAINED to her.
THAT HER pilfering dog.
HAD BEEN in our room.
y
AND THE slipper it had.
BELONGED TO me,
AND WHY / did IT.
I'LL NEVER know.
BUT I stood right there.
AND TOLD her the story.
OF WEDDING Bells"
AND SUGGESTED to her.
THAT THE little white dog.
MIGHT HAVE come to me.
AS A messenger.
FROM CUPID'S realm,
AND SHE laughed some more.
ANDJUMPED down from her chair
AND EXPLAINED at length.
SHE COULDN'T marry me.
BECAUSE NEXT door to them.
THERE LIVED a little boy.
F . Q b y fE f
WHOM SHE'D promised to marry.
G A, y
WHEN SHE should gro up.
BUT ANY way,
WE HAD a party together.
AT THE soda fountain place.
IT.
AND SHE has promised.
THAT IF anything happens.
TO THE little boy.
SHE'LL BE glad to marry me.
| THANK you.