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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
TOY MAKERS
TO RETAIN THEIR TRADE

CHICAGO, May 20.-Toy m%anufactur-
ers Of America who found their OPP
p%0rtunity when war shut off imports,
believe they are now sufficiently in
trenched to retain the business Illus
gained. They even expect to do some
exporting when shipping facilities are
available.
The toy makers are holding a fair
here, with Christmas goods spread over
several floors of a big downtown hotel.
1t was SAID that scores of buyers who
recently made the usual annual pill
grimage to the French and English
fairs, with a look into the general Eu-
ropean market, returned virtually emp
ty-handed, more than ever convinced
Of the economy and efficiency of the
American market. To compete with
the cheap labor of Europe and Japan,
Americans have had to offer induce
ments other than price, such as in
genious m~echanisms, durability and
educational value. The Japanese can
uudeTsell them 80 per cent, II is said,
on ornaments for the Christmas tree,
but the Americans have perfected tim
sci, wreathes and colored globes that
are expected to hold the market be-
cause they are practically in~destructi-
BILE and are fire-proof.
In the higher priced mechanical toys
America has always led, and had even
been an exporter. This trade of course,
will remain, dealers say. Immense
quantities of uolls formerly came from
Germany, and bisque heads are still
imported from France. but to all in
tents and purposes America is now
manufacturing dolls, the traders
averred The Germans ured to dress
their dolls in their own conception OF
the styles OF the countries to which
they were to be exported" said the
dealer. The result was often funny.
Since America entered the doll business
the play babies have been gowned in
faithful reproductions Of what we have
seen on Fifth avenue"
Airplanes and tanks figure largely in
the novelties. One Of the toy planes
Is said to fly 200 yards. under its W
power derived from a spring. Another
Is fitted with an electric motor which,
attached to a light-socket by a wire,
will float about the room for hours.
Some Of the toy tanks, too, are very
practical climbers Of obstacles. An
other novelty is a ferryboat On wheels,
When the boat butts its prov against
a wall a mechanism turns it about for
the return trip. For the girls there
is a doll that walks and talks.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
DEBT
AIDS PROSPERITY

CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 2I,-American
farmers have awakened to h fact that
debt may mean increased prosperity.
according to Ralph Van Vechten, vice
president Of the Continental and Com
mercial bank, who declared upon his
return from a trip through the West
that bankers report a pronounced in
crease In principal payments on farm
mortgages with, however. a large vol
ume of new business. The tendency of
me FARMER Is TO pay off the old mort
gage obligations even when he is buy
ing new land, and nan farmers are
turning the earnings of these great
crop years into farms of their own,
recent survey of farm wealth in
warren county, Iowa, showed that after
deducting operating expense and s per
cent interest on the capital invested in
me farm the average owner received
s2l2 as pay for his years labor, whereas
the average tenant farmer, after de-
Quoting operating expenses and rent
PAID to the owner received S725 for his
labor. The higher priced the land the
more OF II Is operated by tenants, At
the same time the average size of farms
In Iowa has increased. while the crop
returns have doubled in a short period.
Iowa agricultural returns now run over
a billion dollars annually, and the per-
capita wealth OF the state Is the great
est III the country, yet there is marke
increase in farm debt. due to a recog-
milton on the part of the farmer that
increased production for a correspond
Ing profit requires new capital as much
In agriculture as In manufacturing.
Aenophon CaPerno, agricultural engi-
neer and efficiency expert. declares that
the trouble IN the United States has
been that there is not enough debt on
American ~farrIs,' Railroads with an in
vestment OF SIS 900, 000, 900 are mort
gagged to $11, 600. 200, 900, or nearly so.
per cent, but this Indebtedness means
new equipment. enlarged service.
greater efficiency inc more income,
Similarly m~ortgaged farms are more
valuable than the un~mortgaged because
their average of acreage under cultiva-
ton is greater, their yield larger, their
equipment better and their assessment
higher.
This is literally true In Iowa, where
in some townships 80 per cent of the
farms have electric lighting and power
and all the conVeniences of a modern
city. and where farm values are most
Independent of production for the rea-
son that until recent wartime prices
the margin of profit was not in farm
ing but in ownership of land. Iowa
farmers are buying more and more land,
not because corn Is at present worth
Wis a bushel as against rs cents in
normal times, but because they recog-
niZe their return eventually will come
from land ownership.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
Locus Lyceum

Five feature acts Of vaudeville and
Mary Ptckford In her new comedy,
capt Kidd, Jr," are Offered Centen-
NAL visitors AZ Loew's Lyceum for the
first half, which closes Wednesday
night. The feature act il the oxford
Trio, o~riginators Of basketball on
wheels, There IL much comedy I'm the
act, and plenty Of excitement, when
the one or the other tries to make the
goal h referee Is a dainty miss. who
understands the game to the last de-
tail.
Lieut., Jack Merlin, who did his bit
although he never had the opportunity
10 go abroad, Is a master Of wiZardTy,
doing some clever card tricks, and
proves he is the wrong sort Of chap
10 sit IN with at poker.
Fannie Van and Annie Morris appear
in a comedy under the title Of Hired
and Fired. These two are the best
entertainers In their line, with a line
OF patter II comedy that Is right up
TO the minute.
Austen Goetz and Fay Duffy are a
musical comedy pair, originators OF all
their mirth and melody, and Lang and
shaw, a pair Of young dsndies. who
offer a review Of the latest melodies
coined on tin pan alley.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
HINDU CASTE BREAKS
8. BEFORE MODERN LIFE

NEW YORK. May 81. (Spl)-The
age-old system In India by which "A
member OF m one OF the 1884 castles
composing any Hindu community must
marry within his own caste promises
to be broken up through the efforts OF
young Hindu radicals and Christian
missionaries. The latter have won the
radicals owe to their way Of thinking
and they have combined TO urge the
passage of the Hindu i~ntercaste mar
risge bin recently introduced into the
~Niceroy's council by the Hon. V. y.
Patel, Word to this effect was today
received at the headquarters OF the
Methodist Episcopal centenary move
ment from S. W, Clemes, Of the Meerut
conference, northern India. He writes
that all OF India Is tremendously worked
up over this issue.
Heretofore the Hindu law has pro-
hibited marriage between the castles, .
restriction which has directly fostered
immortality n race deterioration. In
a BrRhmin community a man can not
look outside his own caste for a wife.
even though all the women be already
married or though there are twice as
many men as women II he ignores the
law his marriage is considered Illegal.
He Is socially ostracized by law.
Christian leaders were the first TO
realize the evils OF this cAst-Iron rule
and have used their influence TO bring
about the change. Now the progressive
wing Of Hinduism is following demo-
cratic Christian leadership and present
ing petitions TO the council for the pass
age Of the bill.
Attempts to reiuvenate Hinduism by
pushing social reforms advocated by
Christian leaders Is common among the
progressive Hindu group. composed OF
young university graduates. The or
thodoX Hindu, on the other hand, ia
firmly set against any change In the
existing social order and bitterly on.
poses the proposed marriage bill He
regards the customs imposed by the
caste system as sacred and immutable,
and denies the right OF a political body
TO alter them by legislation.
That reactionary Hinduism no longer
satisfies young India is shown by The
report of Methodist missionaries Who
last year refused baptism to $50, 900
people - Hindus and Mohammedans-
for lack OF missionary supervision and
teachers, The bishop of Madras states
that 1t is possible with adequate sun
port to Christianite a million outcastes
a year A huge sum will be appropri-
ated out of the $l05. 000, 900 Methodist
centenary fund for medical, educational
and religious work In India,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
ARCTIC SWIMMERS.

Donald b. Macmillan. in his recently
published book, -Four Years In the
White North, writes with much in
terest of the pleasure he gained from
the summers spent in the arctic re-
gions. Another long, delightful arctic
summer was here" he says, with its
manifold opportunities for work. and
work with distinct pleasure. Always
the day was too short and the period
OF sleep too early. So much to do
and so little time in which to do II.
What fun high up on the cliffs, crawl
ing and creeping on the narrow lodges,
often with body pressed tightly against
the face Of the rock, hunting for the
eggs OF the white %gyrfalcon, the raven
and the big burgomaster gull. And what
a swish Of diving white bodies and
extended wings as one approached nest
n eggs and young. -Four Years in
the White North published by Harper
q Bros. is a record Of the Crocker
Land expedition, which was headed by
the author, In II he has blended i'm
pOrtant facts with details OF unusual
universal interest
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
RUSSIA HAS MADE BIG
WAR UPON BOLSHEVISM

LONDON, May 81. Correspondence
OF the Associated Press )--Fresh from
Odessa. an Englishman whom the cor
respondent met at the British foreign
office, has given TO the Associated
Press the first complete account that
has reached London Of one of the most
remarkable developments of the strug-
gle against Bolshevism. 1t ~ the story
of the volunteer army, organized by
Gen. Alexieff and now commanded by
Gen. DenIkine. which in a year has
grown from a handful of homeless men,
devoid of equipment and supplies. into
n military force which has r~econquered
IA large portion of Southern and South
eastern Russia, suppressed the disrup-
tive elements In the region occupied
and set up n working civil government,
mo one over here" said the trav-
eler, seems to realize that in the
south OF Russia there Is small force
OF men which, under the banner Of
the volunteer army and In the cause
Of united free Russia, has made against
overwhelming numbers Of the red ter
ror' a most gallant stand"
The ~oluntee army, he continued,
has beer recruited from several classes
and from every part OF Russia. Fight
Ing against great odds, II has paid a
big price, Twice II has met defeat in
campaigns on the river Kuban, and Its
losses included its leaders, Alexieff,
Korniloff and Markoff, and 30, 900 VOL
unteers and Cossacks.
The army" he said, had whole bat
talions formed OF officers, The first
Korniloff regiment. now reduced to less
than 500 fighters. has had passing
through Its ranks more than 5000 men.
The Regiment of Death has lost 5000
over a similar period.
ITO me-, an observer, it has been
a miracle how the volunteers army eve
got any recruits. There was no coer-
cion. The recruits came voluntarily,
knowing that their lot was most likely
to be n wooden cross or the life Of a
cripple,
To-day the volunteer army has cleared
the great belt OF Russia by its own
efforts and the help OF its ~neighbors,
the Don Cossacks. and holds the terri
tory stretching from the Black sea TO
the Caspian"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
Here's Where You'll Find Plenty to Amuse You
LeUity LeUee

There is no doubt that Dixie's great
est birthday is being celebrated To the
limit on the Front street midway show
Erounds, for II "Leyity Levee' extended
an the way 10 Helena II possibly might
contain the crowds, for all the Workman
IS tented theaters have never before
experienced such an overflow OF bust
ness, I'M Workman is a household
name at all the biggest state fairs and
celebrations. He has brought 60 cars
81 amusement paraphernalia and nearly
SVo people TO the Memphis Centennial
not small undertaking.
The levee midway is~One massed ag-
gregation Of shows and none will be
found more interesting and pleasing TO
the children particularly han the bon
Carlos pony, dog and monkey circus
where all these trained animals play
a complete farce comedy without hu-
man aid or correction.
One of the best high-class vaudeville
and spectacular programs is to be seen
at the Joyland Follies, while Stella and
her diving girls are IN a separate thea
ter nearby offering a distinct series
Of water acts Of real merit, accom-
panied by the original New orleans Jazz
band TO add the proper melody TO the
daring and thrilling efforts Of the skill
mi m
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
Arenic Jubilee

The spectator can hardly avoid a
strange sinking sensation while gazing
at the pretty omar girls. who are
being whirled around In midair sus-
pended by the teeth. II takes lots Of
nerve 90 attempt such a feat. for the
slightest relaxation ~ the jaw at such
a great height would result Ia serious
consequences, IL not death.
These girls make repeated Hscensions,
each time changing their costumes, so
that the effect u their flights through
the air varies with each style OF dress.
In connection with the unique revolving
apparatus employed they also show
themselves TO be capable equiibrists,
using swinging ladders.
In the persistent eIiort TO secure
novel features this act by the omar
girls furnishes the sensation for spec
This is for the person with faded
tastes, looking for a new surprise, for
he viii surely get II here,
The omar sisters are one Of the eN-
traordinary features to appear In the
great arenic jubilee Of the Centennial
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
AWARD
TO ITALY MEANS
UNITED KINGDOM
Italian Speaking Population of
Austrian Dominion Will Be
Free to Cooperate With
Brethren in Peninsula,

ROME, May q tspl)-The de-
clsion OF the statesmen at Versailles
to award Trentino and certain other
territory formerly under Austro- Hun
garian domination to Italy means that
the Misunderstanding race is at last to
DO united.
The Italy with which the younger
generation Of these times has been
familiar Is of comparatively recent
growth, only some fifty to sixty years
ago matters were very different from
what they are today, and at the be-
ginning Of the last century Italy pre-
sented the extraordinary picture OF n
number OF separate states, only a
geographical expression" as IL was
contemptuously termed by Metternich,
the arChpriest Of reaction In Europe
during the early nineteenth century.
Italy was partly under foreign domin-
alton, partly under the rule of local
dynasts who, with the exception OF
the House OF Savoy, had no sympathy
with Ideas Of poular freedom or nation
al unity.
The outstanding feature of Italian
history during the later middle age
was the steady disappearance of civic
freedom and the formation OF despot-
lcally governed states, generally under
foreign influence. In the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries this influence was
spanish, in the eighteenth and nine
teenth, Austrian, Whether Spanish or
Austrian, II was always exercised on
the side OF repression and reaction.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
Y. NJ. c. A. WORKS HARD
FOR YANKS IN SIBERIA

.OMSK, Siberia, May 2l.-~E. T. Head.
of Davenport. Iowa, who is in charge
q the western district Of the American
Young Mems Christian association WORK
In siberia, has returned to Omsk after
a visit to the battle front and reports
that the Y. NJ c A Ia doing every
thing possible to tighten the hardships
Of the soldiers Two American secreta-
ries are working, he reports, at the
fighting line, They are II, l.. Tinkham,
Of Pennsylvania, who Is at Cfa, and
G, W, Riley. recently graduated from
Northwestern university at Chicago,
who has a club ear farther north on the
line. Mr.. Riley brought the first Y. NJ.
c, A. supply train out OF V~ladivostok,
Twenty five American secretaries are
now serving in the western Siberia
zone and have organized 20 canteens,
A general supply department Is nov,
being organized for the local purchase
OF butter, cheese and general dairy
products for which Siberia is famous
but which the soldiers have difficulty
In obtaining.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
POSSESSION OF LIQUOR
FELONY IN MICHIGAN

LANSING. Mich, May 2l.-Mere
possession Of liquor in Michigan now
is a felony under the latest prohibition
law, which state authorities character
iZe as the most drastic ever enacted
by any state. The statute, intended
to remedy defects In former prohibit
ton laws, prohibits sale, shipment, de-
livery, or possession Of any intoxicating
liquor, and fixes the penalty at six
months to W years Imprisonment with
a maximum fine Of $1,000. The law
does not apply to druggists and others
specifically exempted.
The law supercedes measures passed
after Michigan went into the dry"
column In 1917, and goes On the statute
books just II months after prohibition
leCame effective. In a contest result
ing from confiscation by state authori-
ties OF a quantity OF liquor, the Mich
igan supreme court declared invalid the
search and seizure section of the Da-
mon law. Then followed a near flood
OF liquor into Michigan from adioin-
ing wet" territory. State authorities
were powerlcss to stop the wholesale
importations unless the liquor was in
plain view as 1t crossed the border. Fin
ally, by invoking federal aid under the
Webb Kenyon law, %forbidding the i'm
tory, and using he Injunction to pre-
vent railroads transporting liquor into
the state the flood was checked.
Under the new law all property rights
In liquor or in containers used in its
connection and vehicles used to handle
II, are abolished. Search OF person,
containers, vehicles or buildings ex-
cept private residences, may be made
on suspicion and without warrant. A
mans home, however, is inviolate and
may not be searched without warrant,
which must be supported by sworn evil
dence. Vehicles and containers used
in transporting liquor may be contis-
Gated. The law defines az Intoxicating
liquor any liquid which the dealer must
pay a federal liquor dealers tax to
sell. Under this mead toilet, medicinal
and antiseptic preparations, flavoring
extracts and patent and proprietary
medicines may not he manufactured,
sold or possessed within the state, II
coming under the head of articles re-
curing such tax.
Physicians may, under strict regula-
ton Of the new law, prescribe liquor
not to exceed eight ounces and clergy
men may secure it for sacramento
purposes through application to the
food and drug department for permits.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
Majestic No. 2

There nave been thousands Of brides
this year-beaUtiful ones, too-but II is
certain hat there has been no luvelieT
n than that exquisite hit Of feminini-
ty, Marion Davies. In her latest Select
picture. Getting Mary Married" the
star is the essence OF all that is young.
beautiful and charming.
In her white satin wedding dress and
tiara Of pearls from which floats a
handsome lace veil, beautiful Marion
Davies looks like a delicate. gorgeous
Fly. After having been swayed and
buffeted by the wind for many months,
she basks al last in the warm sunshine
and finds happiness in her flowing veil
which she knows means refuge IN the
arms Of the man she loves, who is
now to become her husband. A more
lovely and exquisite girl never en-
HANGED a wedding dress than this beau
titul select Ctar, who is seen in Get
ting Mary Married at Majestic No. =
today and Thursday.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
Napoleon Conquers Italy,

This state OF things was ended by
the wars Of the French revolution, The
moribund republics Of Venice and Genoa
were destroyed for ever, and by 1906
all Italy, except the islands of Sicily
and Sardinia, "A under the rule OF
Napoleon, The Napoleonic government
was hard, but 1t was a vast improve
ment upon anything which had pre-
coded II. Italians became accustomed
to regarding their country as n national
entity, and this feeling was assisted
by the recollection OF campaigns in
distant regions In which Italian sol
diers had borne an honorable part.
An this was swept away In 1915
1915. Savoy, Piedmont, Genoa and
Sardinia were united under the House
Of Savoy, The south returned to the
cruel and corrupt rule Of the Bour-
bons OF Naples. L%ombardy and Ven
Ice fell under Austrian rule, which was
so brutal that the whole country was
In a state of disaffcctlon. Parma,
Modena, Tuscany and Lucca were
handed over to Austrian princes and
princesses, while the center OF the
peninsula fell once more under the weak
and ill-orgauiged government OF the
vatican. The unsuccessful uprising OF
1850 added to the evils under which
italy suffered, The Austrian rule in
the north rivalled In brutality that OF
Ferdinand Of Naples, King Bomba."
in the SOUTH prescription and perse-
cution reigned everywhere.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
AMERICAN MONETARY
HABITS TO Be STUDIED

WASHINGTON. May 2l.-Monetafy
habits Of groups Of people In various
Industries and e%mpioyments are the
subject Of study by the National War
Saving organization with a view Of
determining the hest places and the
best times 70 SILL savings stamps, This
Is prompted by the reversal Of last
years policy OF giving All agency to
practically every store which would
handle the stamps and adoption of a
new plan TO select carefully q few
stores as agencies on condition that
these make active efforts to push the
sale OF the stamps. Thus the organisa-
ton hopes TO make the agenoy priv
ilege a real distinction In each COM
munlty,
To this end, the war savings or
ganization has undertaken to answer
such questions as these:
Are people IN a certain industry or
loeality most likely to buy stamps from
their grocery stores or from a drug
store which Is open at night?
Are restaurants and candy stores eff
fective agencies?
What sort OF store In a small city
Is most likely TO attract buyers after
the postoffice is elosed7
q II department stores are made agen-
cies to reach women, in what depart
ment ar In what aisle location should
the stam-selling booth be located2
What sort Of stores are best thrift
stamp agencies for children?
What kind Of down town stores are
best agents for men.
ut IL realized, Of course" says a
war savings statement, that banks,
building loan associations, and such
agencies to which people naturally &c
with money are excellent sales agents.
and school houses are admirable selling
points for children. But the savings
directors want to make certain that
adults In residential and industrial
neighborhoods can secure stamps con
veniently at the hours best suited to
them and In connection with their usual
trading activities.
The number and location Of agen-
cies per thousand population Is being
carefully considered as the treasury
does not wish to split up the stamp
business to such an extent that the
business OF each agency will be too
small to be Of any advertising benefit
to the agent.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-21
Locus Princess

Charles Ray, one Of the most popular
Of film stars and always to be counted
upon 70 win out BEFORE the i've reels
are ended, viii be featured at Loew's
Princess Wednesday and Thursday in
his new Western play. The sherifrs
Son Mr., Ray gives one OF his best
creations, a young man who has in
herited a great fear from his mother,
and who makes the great fight to
win his courage and manhood. That
the girl he loves comes to him in the
winning accentuates the constructive
side Of the story.
The story was written by William
Mcleod Raine and the scenario was
the work Of J. @. Hawks. The leading
woman in Seena owen, A Montgomery
F1agg comedy, "One Every Minute
Is added.