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The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
DOORS CLOSED
TO HUN TRADE
Importers of German
Specialties Warned
They Are Subject To
Prosecution BY En-
envy Trade Act.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. hopes
of reconquering Americans markets
received another blow last week.
Users Of dyes, chemicals, fertilizers
and other products originated by Ger
man science were notified by the
Alien Property Custodian that inn
portations from Germany hereafter
would be subject to prosecution as
infringement of patents licensed I'M
der the trading with the enemy act
for use by American manufacturers.
Possibility Of dumping of great
surplus stocks which Germans was
reported to have accumulated with
the intention of under selling and
perhaps sitting the infant American
industries in the same lines thus has
been blocked eifectuaily before ship
ments could begin.
Government officials regarded the
decision as far-reaching Importance
TO business in this country.
Severay hundred patents registered
in this country by Germans, the most
important covering the manufacture
of dyes and drugs, for which this
country has been virtually depend
ent ON Germany, have been licensed
for use by Americans and new names
substituted for the foreign designa-
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
AUTO RENTERS
Must Pay Special Tax.

The Act approved February 2ith,
1919. imposes special tax on per
sons carrying on the business OF
operating or renting passenger auto
mobiles for hire. This tax applies to
every automobile owner or operator
who accepts pay or who has at any
time since January list, 1919, accept
ed pay for carrying passengers, or
who does or has since January LIST,
hired or rented passenger automo-
bile to any person.
The annual rate is $1,000 for each
car having "a seating capacity Of more
than two and not more than seven,
and $1,000 for each car having "A seat
ing capacity Of more than seven
The law became effective january | ST
1919. and those who did bushnell in
that month must pay $500 or $1,000
for each car according to seating
capacity. Those who begun business
in February must pay sl.l7 or $s.34 d:
IN March S3.3i or S6.6s; in April.
$3.50 or $500: in May sl.67 or s3.34
and in June 50 cents or S1.6s accord
ing to seating capacity. Beginning
July LIST tax must be paid for a full
year to the following June 80.
Interested parties should apply to
Collector John W Hughes at Danvillc
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03

1909 the acreage was 20,229. Later
statistics fer the State are not avail
able; but there has been very large
increase since chat time. Especially
Is this true for the limestone lands Of
northern Kentucky in the region Of
Pendioton County where sweet clover
Ars prepared the way for alfalfa. In
1915 here were 10000 acres report
o,j for the county"
This new circular gives the reader
the very latest information concern
ing the growing and harvesting Of
this most valuable hay crop. The
farmer, who is thinking of sowing
some alfalfa in the near future,
should write at once to the College
Of Agriculture at Lexington and ask
for Circular No. 90
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
From Coffin To
Frying Pan.

At the Cluny Museum in Paris is
very interesting relic. On day few
years ago. the curator of the museum
happened to visit small restaurant
in the suburb of Saint Denis, where a
single apartment served as both din
ing room and kitchen. While waiting
70 be served, the curator noticed a
frying pan of unusual appearance
hanging on the wall. He took il down.
and with a magnifyiRg glass was able
TO make out part of an inscription
which interested him so greatly that
he bought the cooking utensil. When
carefully cleaned the pan was found
TO bear the arms Of France and Ma
vsrre surrounded by the chain Of st.
Louis and the cord Of the order of
Saint Esprit. Ii also contained the
following inscription: Here lies the
magnificent Prince, King Louis XIV,
King Of France and Navarro. Requies-
cat in pace" 1t was indeed the plate
that had been fastened to the coffin
Of Louis XIV. When the burial
vaslts, of the royal family in the
cathedral at Saint Denis were rifed
by the populace in 1893, it had been
wrenched frsm the coffin. So little
apparently was it esteemed by its
possessor that it was fitted with a han
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03

Ky. for application blanks so that
they may escape the penalty for de-
linquency which will accrue when his
force begins a canvas Of the district,
which will be within the next few
days.
The new law also imposes a tx Of
Ave per cent on the amount for candy
manufactured and sold in this dis
trict, on and after February 25th.
The tax on sales made from February
25th to 28th inclusive must DC Re-
ported and paid within the month Of
March. the tax On sales IN sJoss-
quent months must b. reported an
paid in the month following that H.
which the sales were made.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
City And Town
Organizations.

Under the direction of the State
Campaign organization and the dis
trict chairmen and assistants, the
campaign to raise S2Os,OOO in Ken
lucky during the week of April I'll
for the relief Of Jewish Sufferers in
the war stricken districts of Eastern
Europe, is being carried into the
smallest civic units through organiza-
tons in cities and towns.
Cities already organized with their
chairmen are ouisville-Harry
Bloom, Lexington-M. Kaufman,
Danville-Hyman Pushin, Elizabeth
town-Louis Goldnamer. assistant, ID.
NJ. Cooper; Covington-Nathan Ros-
enbery. Paducah-Louis Rubel and
W. F. Bradshaw. Jr., Bowling Green
Sam Pushin, Princeton-R. NJ.
Pool, Winchester-Lee Brumfield and
Judge J. n. Benton, Mt. Sterling
Sod Newmeyer, William Shire
and |. l.. Price, Richmond-Rev.O O.
o. Green, who is also Chairman for
Madison County, Versailles, A. l..
Greenebaum, Georgetown-Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Marks, Hopkinsville-H. NJ.
Frankel, chairman and George W.
Crenshaw, Vice Chairman, Frankfort
Charles F. Strassner.
The organization is being rapidly
pushed in other cities and towns in all
sections of the State.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
Alfalfa Had Hard Fight

Alfalfa has had long hard fight
to gain place on the American
farm. In 1898 George Washington
had quite a field Of alfalfa at Mt.
Vernon. His success in growing
"lucerne", as he called il in his dairy,
was not great because his soil was
deficient in lime.
The growing of this wonderful
legume has increased tremendously
in Kentucky in the past twenty years.
Circular No. 20, Alfalfa" has the
following to say concerning the acre
age in this State.
"ln 1899 the census report gave
SOS acres Of alfalfa for Kentucky In
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
Dream Has Physical Basis.

The failing from a height" dream
a.. - physical basis for scientists
G.ye shown that this form of night
..ggr invariably occurs during the first
Gov minutes after falling asleep. II
ia suggested by the general muscular
r"iaxntion that takes place when we
settle down. A change Of position of
even n fraction Of an inch. or the least
.-itle slip of the muscles. is sufficient to
convey the idea Of fall to the brain.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
Well, She ls, Isn't She7

Poor man! He can spend a full day
making himself look pretty and no.
body notices him. while wee slip of
girl can come out just any old way
and the entire populaee will say. "Ain't
she sweetT'-South Charleston Sem
.tinel.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03

Dorotby's mother was getting her TO
repeat the Lords prayer. and all went
well until near the end "And deliver
us from evil" said her mother. "And
deliver us from measles" repeated
Dorothy.-Boston Transcript.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
Sure Siqn.

Said the head barber Gall BARRIERS
ICING head one. strictly speaking).
Il can always tell man vino is used to
shaving himself by the way he tries to
Puff out his checks in iicklsh places"
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
Eirct Impressions,

Mrs. McPhcrson-Can ye lend me
n bowl. Mrs. McNeish? widna jist
like our new lodger to take his par
rith fra the pot for the first day
or two.-E.Xchange
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
CONSTIPATION IN PIGS

DO not let your pigs become con-
stipatcd, their liver inactive. II you
do. they will be an easy prey to dis
ease. Give them h. A. THOMAS
HOG POWDER. the ideal laxative
tonic and worm eXpeller.
W. A. DICKERSON.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-14

christened the MASSACHUS-
ETTS has been awarded to the
Newport News Ship Building
Company. The contract cells for
completion in forty two months.
It's displacement will be forty
three thousand tons, its length
over all six hundred and eighty
four feet, its guaranteed. spead
twenty three knots and its armas
ment twelve sixteen inch guns and
six teen six inch guns.
PARIS: Secretary Lansing the
Secretary of State has left Paris
to return to the United States. 1t
is believed the Under Secretary Of
State, Folk, will relieve him at
Paris. In the meantime Colonial
House will manage American affa-
irs at the French Capital.
RIO DE JANEIRO: The Anti
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-14
July IA. 1919.

July "A, 1919.
LONDON: The R-34, British
dirigible, landed safely at Fulham
at seven two on today Greenwich
time. The time consumed in MAX
ing the trip was three days two
hours and six minutes. w. w.
Brallestine, the Englishmen who
though "a member of the crew that
prepared the big ship for the
ocean voyage had to be left behind
on account of WEIGHT and had
hidden place himself until six
hours out. Illness drove him from
his holding place. He was not
taken in the return trip and will
have to return by more approved
forms of travel.
WASHINGTON: The contract
for the construction Of battleship
number fifty three which will be
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-14

pink, white and blue setting
forth a certain bit of news that
to a man who knew his old job
was buried as far as he was con-
|cerned, sounded like an invita-
ton to heaven.
These were the leaflets of the
Federal Board for Vocational
Education, getting it across to
the men who were wounded in
France, that the United States
was offering to reeducate them
for a new work, and that there
was a new work which they could
do.
These leaflets were really the
tickets to future success. Frank
Egot in touch with the Board as
soon as he could, and all during
his convalescence, his trip across
on the transport and his journey
home, there wasn't a day when
one Of those leaflets didn't come
out for an assurance of his good
fortune.
The vocational adviser at one
of the District offices looked up
one morning to see the most
eager young Italian that it had
been his good luck to meet.
There wasn't much time to
wonder what he wanted.
II want to learn to work.
What can a man with an arm
gone do?"
Then the adviser began to tell
him, and when the adviser finis-
lhes saying what a man with an
arm can do, the questioner al
ways wants to know what he
can't, and that's usually nothing
THAT he has a will to.
Frank told about his past ex-
lperience as q stone mason, and
THE Federal Board using this
dead job as a foundation, began
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-14
Disabled Soldiers>Studen
Organize

The Gamma Sigma Alpha
Government Students Associa-
tion) at the State College Of
Iowa, located at Ames has over
| fifty members all discharged
disabled soldiers. The president
of the club lost his left arm at
Chateau Thierry, but he gained
| a lot of experience and is using
lit for the good Of his fellow
students. The Alvoko Club is
made up Of Federal Board stu
dents at the State Agricultural
College at Ft. Collins, Colorado.
There are twenty members in
this club. Other such organi-
zations are to be found in other
institutions where disabled men
are being trained
When a man with a handicap
begins to look out Tor "the other
fellow" real progress has been
made in his own case.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-14
President Wilson and
the Electric Railways

President Wilson has appointed a
Federal Commission to study the con-
ditions of the Electric Railways of
the United States. The Commission
was authorized by the president after
he had received this statmeent from
Secretary of Commerce, William G.
Redfeld and Secretary of Labor, Will
liam B. Wilson,
s'The Electric Railway problem, to
which your attention has been called
on several occasions, has recently
assumed such serious national pro-
portions as to warrant the prompt
attention Of the Federal Government.
About fifty or more urban systems,
representing a considerable percent
age of the total electric railway mi
leage of the country, are in the hands
of receivers. The communities affect
ed are among the most important:
New York, Providence, Buffalo
New Orleans, Denver, st. Louis, Bir-
mingham, Montgomery, Pittsburgh
Memphis, Ft. Wayne, Des Moines, st
Paul, Spokane, Chattanooga. ,..
"Other systems are on the verge
If insolvency, for the industry as 6
continued shrinkage in the value Of
whole is virtually bankrupt. The
hundreds of millions of electric rail.
way. securities held by savings banks
national banks, life insurance compa-
aies and by the public at large, threa.
Gems to embarrass the nations indus
5ry's buying power, which is said tx
rank third in magnitude, involves ths
unsettlement of collateral industries
NATURALLY entailing labor dislocatiol
that will affect hundreds of thou
sands Of employees"
The seriousness of the Electric Rail
way situation prompted the Presiden
to act quickly, authorizing the com
mission by cable.
Porto Rico Railway Light ant
Power Co.,
San Juan wouldn't be San Juai
without the street cars. Advt
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-14

message. cabled to Congress,
writes of the export business with
the same feeling that he might
display in the case of a long-lOst
brother.
Now also comes the talk of gov
erment assistance for the export
business; government subsidy of
the merchant marine; the protec-
ton of the dye stuffs and other
industries against the nightmare
OF German competition; embar-
goes, together with various other
measures designed to stimulate"
and encourage" legitimate bus
mess. This was exactly what
Germany did before the war. This
was exactly what Germany did
before the war. This was the
cause of fierce denunciation by the
spokesman of an administration
that is now backing similar mea-
sures for the United States.
When fundamental changes come
in economic life, the political life
of this and of every other nation
must respond, as the signal light
responds to the switch-rod. At
some stage in it's development,
every capitalist country reaches
that point century ago;
the point where it cannot consume
it's own surplus. Great Britain
Germany came to it fifty years
later. The United States has
passed it today. Henceforth, so
long as it depends upon the cap
italist system, the United States
must be an exporter of food and
capital; a contender for foreign
markets; an economic imperialist
nation.
1t was economic necessity"
that drove Germany into the fatal
paths of economic Imperialism.
That same economic necessity has
now taken United States. The
papers reflect lit public men.
reflect ii; the government reflects
it, and the business aoorEd i0es
it.
Any man who seeks political pre-
ferment in the United States from
this time forward, must get right
with exports, unless he happens
to belong to that economic faith
that holds to the view that the
worker should receive the full
product of his labor.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-14
WATT FOR
THEEVIDENCE

THE EVIDENCE at Mayagiiez, in which theater
ing like fifteen minutes with the
loss Of many human lives, impression that the
was due to accident pure and simple We couldn't
for moment admit the existence Of any human being
anxious become famous like Erostrato by setting fire to
house full Of nocen people, and to intention on the
part of the to sell cinderS at high price to the
srace people, the building not covered by fire any
other Insurance. and had been the time for carrying out
jobs of this kind is not at all when there many peo
pie around that the danger to be caught is not entirely
eminated No, there could not have been malicious in
tention in that ugly affair.
However people got excited in Mayaguez (Which is
only too natural considering the number of victims sacr
feed particularly chidren), and some explanation was
waited The result that the old keeper of the cne
was reduced prison and there he has been for several
lack Of sufficient evidence.
But as Justice Emilio del Toro of the Supreme Court,
said yesterday, when granting the appeal OF habeas
corpus M does not definitely sets the principle that the
man detained is innocent not but simply whether there
"are not sufficient proofs to justify his detention
for further investigation by the Public Prosecutor but
simply recognizes the right of citizen No one can be
reduced to prison in Porto Rico except for committing
"a crime and the evidence thereof must be sufficient at
"thet time the arrest is made"
Of course Attorney Acosta Quinero must have had at
his disposal at the time the arrest of Bourbon order
ed sufficient evidence to justify the detention Of Bourbon
for several weeks. People at MayageZ may be justified
exhibiting their emotions in of the terrible cir
cumstances of the case but Judges above the exctabe
citizen proper temperament is OF the first
requisites for the administration of the Law No doubt
Attorney Acosta Quintero has been fully justified
in keeping this suspect in Jail for such long time and
developments in the future will perhaps show why
the Attorneys procedure We should have confidence in
our Judges; let's wait and see.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-14
Educate the Foreign~born

come citizens of this Nation is
the public school.
That is the reason the Natura-
lization Bureau of the United
States Department of Labor Sc
lected the public schools of the
country to conduct its courses in
citizenship training among the
foreign-born. In every commu-
nifty of the land the Bureau has
arranged with public school Of
ficials to open their classes to
suit the convenience of these
foreign-born petitioners for citi-
zenship. And there are thou
sands that can be Awakened to
the patriotic spirit necessary in
good citizens by the teaching of
those chosen by the people.
Left to their own conceptions
of America, gained through the
inspiration of the enemies of
order, these thousands can be
made a public menace.
Hence the Government and
the public schools are links in
the chain of reason to check the
waves of wrong thinking that
are wont to~sweep the world in
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-14

Education is truly the bulw-
ark of liberty if it is the right
kind of education. That which
is supervised and guided by the
public schools of this Nation can
be relied upon to uphold the ira
ditions, the institutions and the
Government of this country.
knowledge of our country and
our people gained from our pu-
bile schools is sound, and the
men, women and children who
have absorbed that knowledge
are not easily shaken from their
convictions or swept off their
feet by the hurrah of various So
called political PHILOSOPHERS.
They are rightthinking be-
cause their education is founded
in right thinking, their training
has been orderly, their discipline
proper, their ideas of life liberal.
To the public school system
may be traced the solid charac-
ter of this Government.
Therefore, the natural agency
to direct the education of the
foreign-born who desire to be-
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-14
Get Right Exports

While the war was still young.
President Wilson reiterated one
charge against the German Go
vernment-it had not left competi-
ton free. In other countries, bus
mess stood on stfeet, but in Ger
many business was fostered and
thus given an unfair advantage
through government subsidy. II
was thus that Germany had soap
tured" her foreign markets.
Secretary Bryan had made the
position of the Administration
clear on the question of "dolla1
diplomacy. The same attitude
was maintained throughout the
Mexican crisis, when the Govern
ment refused to make itself res
pOnsible for the protection of Anne
rican investors. The United Sta
tes was to be a 'Efree nation" of
free business men.
Meanwhile a wonderful thing
has happened: Overnight the
United States stepped into the
forefront of the commercial ma
tions of the world. The total ex-
ports of the United States, up to
1910, never exceeded two billion
dollars "a year. From 1911 to
1915 they rose slowly to 2,769 mi
lions dollars (1915). The next
year they went over four billions.
The year following, they passed 6
billions. During the ten months
of the present fiscal year exports
were 1902, 100000. The total for
the twelve months lending June
81 will probably go well over be-
yOnd the seven billion mark.
An economic miracle has ocur-
red. America, the importer, has
become America, the exporter.
American, the lender. American
goods supply the world. Amer
lican credit finances Europe.
Upon the heels Of this economic
transformation follows a political
right-abouttface as complete as
any that is recorded in modern
history. Secretary Redfield pu-
blicly accepts and adopts Josehp
Chamberlain's position on the
protection of foreign investments !;
The State Department permits an
American banker (Thomas w.
Lamont, of the Morgan firm) to
head a committee organized for
the purpose of making loans to
China, and the President, in his
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-14
ITALIAN PATIENCE AND AMERICAN
GRIT SENDS WOUNDED NAN
TOWARDS SUCCESS

Washington, July 10.-That
"men may rise on stepping sto-
mes of their dead selves to higher
things" is proved by the case of
"a young Italian boy who was
wounded in the battle of Cha
teau Thierry.
Frank was a sergeant in the
American army, and he was as
proud Of his position as any Cen
eral- (and after all, they were
both doing the same thing -serv
ing their country. He had the
same love for America that eve
ry man has who realizes her op-
portunities and her freedom, but
perhaps he had a keener appre-
citation of the value of these
things, because he had come over
here to gain them.
During some of the hottest
fire of Chateau Thierry he was
hit by a piece of shell in the
Iarm, and was carried to the base
hospital, fully conscious, and
with a pretty good notion that
The was coming out of this situa-
tion with one arm Somewhere
in France. He guessed right
too. With all the wonderful
surgery of the war, there are
times when nothing can save q
shattered arm, and this was one
lof them.
Those are long days in the
hospitals. You get to the place
where you are through with
sleeping and lying quiet for 9
while and you begin to want so
|mething to do, and something to
Tread even if it's only an adver-
Itisement, or a clipping from So
lme newspaper that talks En-
| fylliish gfylliisshEl. During one Of those hunts
flor entertainment, Frank ran
across 4 number Of little leaflets,
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-14

Itempests of mans fury in injus-
tice and nurtured by violence.
The Bureau of Naturalization is
the anochor which keeps the
chain tight and holds the ship of
state firm against the storms
that lash about it.
This Bureau is the friend of
the foreignborn, for it provides
the opportunity for him to learn
the truth about his adopted
country, by arranging for open
ing the schools to him, by super
vising his training, by guiding
him along the right path to good
citizenship. :
The benefits of this great un-
dertaking of the Naturalization
Bureau are more than national ;
they are universal.
Rousing the slumbering mind
to right action, marshaling its
awakened strength against false
doctrines of government, are
functions of the educator that
should be supported by every ci-
tizen and by all the moral force
of the Nations Organized La
Dor.