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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
eome Mar TO Aid Air FLIGHT

Rome Commander John H. Tow
ers. formerly of Rome, has been re-
lieved from duty with the naval bureau
of operations, and has been detailed
by the secretary of the navy TO assist
in formulating plans for the first trans
Atlantic fight in an airplane, accord
ing to advices received from Washing
ton.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
stupendous Debt piled on Germany

Weimar-The German people gen
orally do not yet understand clearly
the financial situation in which the war
has left them and they are too optimis-
tic. declared Doctor Schiller, the min
lister of finance, addressing the Ger
man national assembly. He appar-
emily astonished the house when he
cave the statistics to show that the
war had cost one hundred and sixty
one billion marks.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
e.o,es aurned In lafayette Fire

Lafayette, Fire early in the morn
inc destroyed the store OF 7, J, Nash
also that occupied by Fox Brothers.
Nothing was saved of the entire stock
A high wind was blowing, and il seem
ed for time that the entire block
would be burned. but heroic work saw
cd adjoining buildings.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
Military Trial For George crawleS

Atlanta Following conference
between the district attorney and
Glenn Young, the captor of George and
Decatur Crawley and Blaine Stewart,
who was taken single-handed about
fifteen miles from Alcoa, Tenn, and
about forty-five miles from Knoxville,
it was decided that George Crawley
be delivered to the military authori-
ties to be tried on the charge of de-
sorting from the army and for the muir
der Of United States Marshal Ben
F. Dixon, which occurred in Unior
county.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
state Fair Lost Money

Macon.-The 1918 Georgia State
fair sustained loss of $4,000, accord
ing to officials of the association, and
this will have to be made good by the
business men of Macon before another
fair is held
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
New Hotel For Augusta

Augusta.-A new 100-room hotel
next to the Union Station, involving
improvements costing 100000; new
clothing house on Broad street, cost
ing $4,000. and new garage, cost
ing $4,000, are principal items in con-
struction announcements in a large
amount which were announced in Au-
gusta.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
MAY Convicted; Gets Eighteen Years

Bainhrldge,--The jury in the case
of H. II. May, charged with murder,
brought in verdict of manslaughter.
May, who formerly was cashier of the
Citizens Bank of cambridge, was tried
on charge of murder of H. s. Rich
ardson, an architect and contractor
Judge Harren sentenced May TO serve
eighteen years in the penitentiary.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
CONGRESS HAS ENTERED
THE FINAL FORTNIGHT
OF SIXTY-FIFTH SESSION
EarIy Extra Session Believed To BE
nevitabIe-Night Sessions OF
House Ordered

Washington.-The Sixty-ffth con-
gress has entered upon the final fort
night of it's existence with hope Of
passing all of the almost unprecedent-
ed mass of pending legislation virtu-
ally abandoned by most leaders. Night
sessions of the senate and house until
March 4 have been ordered, but the
belief is growing that an early extra
session of the new congress will be
necessary for the enactment of some
of the annual appropriation measures.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
Phone order Blow At state Rights


Atlanta. -Characterizing the action
Of Postmaster General Burleson in in
creasing and fixing intrastate tele-
phone rates as a stroke at the very
foundation OF state sovereignty which
deprives the respective states of the
Union OF the exercise Of the police
power, which is lodged exclusively in
them, and not in the federal govern
ment, the Georgia railroad commission
made drastic protest TO Postmaster
General Burleson against the power
he has assumed. The commission also
expressed the hope that Mr. Burle-
son would not further exercise the
authority that he now exercises, be-
lieving that such action on his part
is a dangerous usurpation and fur
Their stated that I'VE view with appre-
hension the infringement of the pc
lice powers OF the states by the fed
eral government. under a democratic
administration"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

Atlanta.-The state of Georgia mas
received from the federal government
= check for SS,1s4,S2 TO reimburse the
state for paying the electric light bins
Of Georgia National Guardsmen ON
the Mexican border in 1916.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
seahoard Elrc less st.sOo, OOo

Savannah.-W. ]. Harahan, federal
manager of the Seaboard Air Line
railroad, who was in Savannah, gave
out a statement that the roads losses
in the fire recently will not exceed a
million and half dollars.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
200 savannah Trolley Workers Strike

Savananhr-C Conductors and motor
men of the Savannah Electric compa-
nv. about 200 in number, struck. The
carmen claim that the company has
refused to receive a committee of the
Savannah Trades and Labor assem-
bly,. r. G. Carroll, acting manager of
the company, stated that the carmen
had presented to the company a con
tract that he could not accede to.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
Quite So.

"Why is married man like an UNI
brelIa?"
II suppose it is because he is al
ways being shut up when he is in the
house."
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21
ceoroia Cities Get Building Funds

!. Ceoroia Cities Get buUuIHy U'US
Atlanta Georgia cities included IN
the public buildings bill introduced in
the house of congress and the sums
carried for each are: Savannah $685.
Oo0 Monroe $4,000 Rossville $4,000,
Winder $4,000, Thomaston, $4,000
shasta $4,000. Miller $4,000, Jesup So
ooo Macon slsO,OOO, Dawson $4,000
West Point $4,000. Sandersville $780,
GOO Fort Valley $4,000, Waynesboro
$40 1000. Ashburn s5.o0o, Baxley $1,000,
Cairo Sc .OOO, Biakely $4,000, Commerce
$4,000. Hawkinsville $4,000 and Jack
son $4,000.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

Children tell everything they know,
but there are old folks who have never
outgrown the habit.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

Far-sightedness is largely matter
of careful planning.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-02-21

When Baby IL TeethinR
GROVES BABY BOWEL MEDICINE will correct
the Stomach and Bowel troubles Perfectly harm
lesa Bee directions on the bottle.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
n SYMPTOM And THE DISEASE

The reapporionment stencil is growing worse. By next Friday,
when the measure is to come up in the House once more on reconsidera-
ton it bids fair to be nauseatng.
The latest scheme of the Oahu political gang to get the bill through
is to bride Kauai at auis expense. Maui alone is to provide the two
additional members in the House that Oahu wants in her scheme of
control. Kauai will retain her four representatives, while Maui will
be cut down from six to four.
The 1910 census figures indicate that Maui should lose one del
egate to Oahu, and that Kauai should lose one, and it is upon these
census figures that the Organic Act specifies reapporionments shall be
made. But on a pretended estimate of the present population, Kauai
is declared to have gained and Maui lost. Hence the scheme to buy
Kauais support t a bill that bids fair to otherwise be lost.
What other promises may have been made in order to effect this
unholy alliance is not yet apparent 1t is reasonable to suppose there
will be other inducements offered to still closer bind the Garden Island
to Oahu if the latter is to profit in full by the alliance.
1t is gratifying to note that a few of Oahus representatives cannot
stomach this dirty program. Representative A. Lewis, Jr, w T. Raw
And so the scheme fell down on its first attempt.
OF course the requirement of the Organic Act in the matter of re-
apportionment has been ignored by each legislature since 1910. There
is no valid excuse for this. But it does indicate clearly that there is
something radically wrong in the requirement which, by the time of the
1920 census will probably put Honolulu in absolute numerical control
of the legislature and consequently of the territory. The fact that
county government was ever established, and from the further fact that
the old centralized government of Hawaii is the anhthess of the Am
erican ideal, indicates that it was never the intention of the Congress
that Honolulu should politically control the entire group.
What are we going to do about it?
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
THE DEMAND FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT

"The county is gradually making its way to self-government. The
territory is afraid of self-government Anything which leads to self
government for the city and county of Honolulu is a good thing"
fore the Honolulu chamber of Commerce. He was speaking on the
matter of legislation designed to give Honolulu greater freedom in the
matter of her own finances.
Honolulu, as Judge Dole says, wants self-government.
Maui wants home rule.
Hawaii and Kauai also, presumably, want more self-deermnation.
Yet what is the situation? Honolulu has a number of bills intro
duced or planned, designed to make her more independent of the terri
tory in the matter of her finances. She is afraid that the outside is
lands will oppose her in this for various reasons, largely selfish.
Each of the other counties, however, have their own pet measures
and grievances, and each fears that Honolulu will block their desires.
1t does not seem to have dawned upon our legslators-in fact
upon Island people generaly-that while we are introducing resolutions
asking the Congress for statehood, there is not a state in the union that
has any such worn-out system of paternahsic government as we have.
There is no state that tries to run the affairs O. its counties and
towns through its Legislature as we do.
There lis no state in which the cities and even important towns and
o. the state as the state itself is independent of the federal government
There is not a state out of the total 4S in which the heads of the
state departments are called upon to administer the laws in the different
counties as is done in Hawaii.
And yet we think we're up and comm and perfectly ready for
statehood! It's a joke.
And the joke is that we are SO compacent over the matter. We
may knOW that our government is not just up to standard, but we offer
the same old excuse that we drag forward for everything-"Oh, but
our conditions are so differentW
The truth is that we are not so different as we persuade ourselves
we are. We are simply, as Judge Dole says, afraid of new things.
The systems of state government were not worked out in a day
and they are being constantly altered to meet changed conditions
But the one thing that is established everywhere, and that shows
no sign of being changed, is the universal policy of sefrule in state
subdivisions.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
WE ALL WANT 1T, BUT

If Honolulu wants self government, why shouldn't she have it!
What difference does it make to Maui?
Why must Honolulu pull strings and make bargains in a legislature
on the matter of taxing herself to build her own public roads IT to ex-
tend her waterworks system? Or why should she have to ask the rest
of the territory when she needs a janior and messenger for the Homo
lulu police court, whether she may have one, and also what salary she
may pay?
What business is it of Mauis whether the capital city has a NUM-
cipal market, or whether her street car company is trying to steal a
charter extension or not?
Or why, on the other hand, should Honolulu, through her legisla-
tive delegation, tell us Maumtes how much ne shall pay u police
force? Or our supervisors? Or our county officials or road laborers
Why should territorial officials dictate and interfere in the collecting
and spending of Maui tax money for Maui needs?
Why, in short, should the other parts of the territory have any
thing whatever to say with what Maui people do or don't do so long
as it does not affect them?
The counties used to be governed entirely from Honolulu. We now
have self-govemment in part. No one would go back to the old
system. But why should we stop where we are?
The reapportionment matter would largely settle itself were we
10 adopt a modern system of government.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
PROF. VAUGHAN MCAUGHEY

1t is doubtful if Governor Mccarthy could have found among
educators in the Islands a man or woman better fitted for head of the
public school department than the man he has selected-Prot. Vaughan
McCaughey.
Mr.. McCaughey is one of the most progressive, enthusiastic and
energetic of teachers as proven by his work of the past 10 years in the
Islands. The only doubt as to his fitness for the position is his youth
Che is but 80, and his lack of business experience. These things may
indeed, prove assets rather than liabilities.
Yet the job of superintendent OF public instruction is more that of an
executive than of an educational expert; Of a diplomat rather than of
a pedagogue. Mr.. M~cCaughey's friends believe he has these qualica-
tions.
He has the advantage of a pleasing personality and of being uni
versally well liked in the Territory. The belief that he is practical"
has also made for him a strong claim on public confidence, which will
be strengthened by a confession of faith" which he has made since his
appointment was announced. Under the tte-"The Business of the
Schools, he says
The business of the schools is to educate children III terms of the
essential facts of life, and to fit them, just as far as is feasible, for the
practical demands of Everyday existence.
The business of the schools is to Gdvdnce, not to ELIMINATE
children The schools should encourage children, IN every aOOy to go
on TO the completion of their common school education. The schools
should not discourage children by excessive academic examinations or
severe bedantc tests. These latter practices, carried TO excess, tend
TO force large Numbers of boys and girls out of school brematurely
uohere they are of little 0ane to themselves, their parents, or their en-
PoyeyS
Most children, of any race, or in any land, are bound to be hand
0OrkeyS. Their education should enable them to lie Efficient, hdbby
setfreSbectinq Haes as such. This does not mean the creation of a
PrusSiqniSed beaSanhy,-butal and only haH-hnnan. 1t means the
training of boys and girls uAo FIRST or ALL can earn a haimg, oho
can pay their udy and 0oO can contribute to the basic industries of
their home.
Every child must haze poi or bread or rice; the ice-cream cones,
cheUing gum, and SOdd-Wdtr come later. Much public education
throughout the 0ond, has failed III part because it has put the soda
uaer ahead of substantial food.
The business Of the schools is to teach first and omH the essentials,
the language, history and government of the american PEOPLE; brac-
hcaI arithmetic for practical daily life; and the ability to read nh4i-
gently an american book or newspaper.
ging not by "gnm-ShOe" methods; not by exaggerated emphasis upon
petty childish errors; but by friendly, warDt-heated persistent stress
upon the big, Vit0l practical human needs of our boys and girls:
There is just one crop in Hawai more IMPORTANT than the sugar
CROP and that is boy. and girls.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
WHAT CAN WE EXPECT?

The House committee on territories of the United States Congress
held a hearing February l9, on the matter of boundaries and rights of
way in connection with the Hawaii National Park. For an hour or
two the members floundered around in a maze of things none of them
knew anything very definite about. DR.. Mather, director of national
parks, a man thoroughly interested and who was before the commit
tee in an effort to help make HawaiIs parks a real asset to the Islands
and to the nation, was also present, but he also was handicapped from
lack of any frsthand knowledge.
Former Land Commissioner B. G. Rivenburgh, who happened to
be in Washington on personal business at the time, was the only man
from the Islands present, and on invitation, he helped to put the COM
mittee straight on a number of points. But not a single accredited
representative of Hawaii was present.
What must the officials in Washington think of Hawaii when ap-
parently we have not enough interest in our own affairs to have some
one present on such occasions who can speak with authority and knowl-
edge? If this were an exceptional case it might be overlooked, but it
is apparently the regular thing. And yet we wonder that Hawaii is
forgotten in Washington time after time.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
LET'S MAKE h Il

The present legislature should not adjourn without taking steps
to put Hawaii on a modern footing. 1t will require a general over
hauling of our Organic Act to do it. 1t will require care and time but
it is not too soon to begin.
This legislature should make provision for the appointment of a
commission of competent men to be charged with the formulating of the
changes needed and to draft the necessary amendments in form to be
acted upon at the next session.
These amendments should make it necessary for Honolulu, at least,
to have a real city charter, and it should seek to free to the utmost the
rest of the territory from control by Honolulu.
All this is something that is bound to come in time if Hawaii is
to hold any claim whatever of being a modern, self-governing communi-
V. Why then should we continue to drift? Why not make a start
NOW?
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
TEACHERS VINO CANNOT BE TRUSTED

1t is passing strange that the board of public instruction is employ
ing teachers who cannot, as Superintendent Kinney testified before an
educational committee of the legislature, be trusted in money matters.
The matter came up in connection with a proposal that the board of
education supply school books to pupils at cost, a plan which Mr.. Kn-
ney does not favor.
School teachers are supposed to be persons of somewhat more
than the average standard of morality. That there are some whom
the department could not trust to keep a simple set of accounts, and q
collect and remit the money for books sold to children, is really amaz-
ing.
1t is high time that salaries raised if the board is in such straits
for teachers that it is forced to employ teachers that it cannot trs
to handle a few dollars.
And yet parents are expected to enrust their children to suct
personsl
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
HOT TIME IN HOUSE ON SUFFRAGE BILL
(Rv The Associated Press)

HONOLULU. March 12-The house today, voting II to H.
adopted the majority committees report on the suffrage Dill giving
women the ballot Immediately. Opposing the bill, Representative Jar
ret said he believed he could still win with his pebscte measure. The
vote today passed the bill on second reading.
During the recess, Just before noon, the house was IN an uproar,
spectators crowding the floors and women lobbiests button-hoEng
solons.
Representative da Silva and Senator Desha got into an argument
and almost came to blows, Desha saying that da Silva didn't have any
regard for womans rights, which statement da Silva hoty resented
Friends quoted them.
Previously Kai and Desha had had a wrange, kai apparently
favornp the pebicite plan. The vote was taken this afternoon.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14

There is hope for the future when the castiron prejudice existing
in royal circles can be beaten down IS it was yesterday when Princess
Patricia married a very gallant British naval officer. A little new
blood is needed in the veins of all of the regning and recently reign
ing royal families OF Europe. There was too much inbreedng in the
past to allow Of a good type OF men and women being developed
Elo Post-Herald.
The best hope for the future lies in what has happened to most
Of the reigning families in Europe in the past few years.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-14
KUHIO BACK WITH NOTHING O laval
Ipu Iho Assnciatad Pressl

HONOLULU, March 12-Kuto who returned today from Wash
ington said that Hawaii can expect no aid from congress for harbor
projects. He believes the port district plan offers the solution of the
problem.
He will ask the legislature to turn over the aquarium to the federal
government, thus making lit a national institution.
Kuhio says that Taft stands a good chance of being the next pres
ident and that sentiment is turning his way since Roosevelt died.
The extra half million dollars for Honoulus federal building fail
ed to pass the senate, Kuhio deeply depores, as he also does the failure
of the appropriation for HHo harbor. To have insisted, he declares
would have jeopardzed the important Kauai, Hawaii harbor item, &C
cording to Hawaiis friends in the senate.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
Federal Employees Ask
Hays to Aid Pay Raise
COLLECTIVE Barga ming and Equal.
iiy for Women ON Program
Of Stril eless Union

Federal Employees Union No. 4. q
non str ke or anlZation which is said to
comprise about 5000 government work
RS in New York alone. made public
yes' rday schedu e of "requests re-
arding pay increases, collective bar
aiming and equal OPP r'uaiy for
women. Which has been subm tied for
Endorsement to Wi Hays, chairman
At the r publican National Committee.
~ other prominent Republicans The
cihoule comprises the legislative PRO
ram Of the National A socation of
+ deras Employees, OF which Union No.
is part
Protection of the right of organiza-
ion f,r collective effort is REQUEST No.
l. Immediate passage of the No an
minimum wage bill By the Senate is
'equest No. 2. But pending readjust-
ment under the provisions of that
measure, the association wants a fiat
increase Of $3.50 year for all Federal
emp oyees receiving 81 500 a year or
!ess, $3.50 for those receiving between
s. 500 and $4,000, and $3.50 for tho g
n tn grades between s. 500 and s 700.
Other requests are for rec assitica-
lion Of the civil service reorganiza ION
4 the Civil Service Commission to pro
vide tor. representation Of the men and
women emp. .oyees, immediate enact
m mt of the Sterling-Leh bach civil
ervlce retire ment measure, and 4 law
providing for uniform cave. overtime
cay and Saturday half ho days through
out the YEAR
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
Raid Causes $5O,455
Suit Against Legion Post
Spec,dl Correspnnde on cs

CINCINNATI. Dec 10 The Robert
Bentley pest of the American Legion.
in suit sled here to-day, ls as cd to
pa 0,155 damages as a result of a
ia d made by onetime service men on
the Socia ist party headquarters on
November IS.
The suit. which reveals the ex stence
of branch of the Communist Labor
party iN Cincinnati, the American
version of the Russian Soviet idea. was
brought by Miss Lotta Burke, acting
for The party Forty-e ght members
of the legion are named in the pcti-
ton. Few of those med took part in
the raid or were pres mt, according to
officers of the Bentley pos.
Onet me officers in the lis, include
a general, colonel. m .jors captains
lieutenants, sergeants, corporals and
priyates.
II So Burke charges members of the
egon broke into the building and
impaired the value" of a typewriter.
records, literat't~n pamphlets, leaflets
and other art She ALLEGES the
police are now terrified and over
awcd to arrest lie defendants or to
protect the property and persons Of the
member0of said local."