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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-03
Commodities All Firm.

Many shrewd observers gave credit
for the bullish attitude of traders to
the fact that grains I'M provisions and
most every other staple of commodity
were firm and tending to higher levels.
The sudden crash in speculative prices
for grains and provisions a effect Tor
a brief time on cotton. but the ease
with which they recovered, which was
due largely to the failure Of cash mar
kets. to weaken, merely emphasized a.
similar situation in cotton. The theory
of many people is that cotton Is one or
the staples which is being affected by
the money initiation and it's decreased
purchasing power and 1t is not likely 70
assume a counter trend until there Is
more definite assurance OF a Dig crop,
Conditions surrounding the start lor
the new crop are assuming more IN
%portance. There is still nothing dell
mite as to acreage, but the tendency, is
TO reduce expectations as to what de-
crease will be. Several private guesses
were given out. the figures ranging
was admitted they were subject to al
iteration later. In some quarters dis
position was shown to regard these ~
ures as bearish, in that the south mas
been working on a basis for a cut OF
much more thar that. That the ad-
vance in prices has become a factor in
lessening the amount of reduction is
perhaps true, but On the other hand
there has been nothing to encourage
altering plans to raise as much 1000
and feed as possible.
Weather conditions were mixed, but
as a whole were probably favorable;
The cool spell over the dld
some harm, but rains in the western
belt where needed to bring up cotton
served as a partial offset. Moderate
rains in other sections also were bene-
fetal, although interrupting planting for
a brief time. The weather summary
for the week ending Tuesday had goou
and bad features, but the rains relieved
some of the latter, which encourages
the idea that the belt in the main is
holding its own. One of the factors In
.ducing profit taking on the bulges IN
8 the market was the feeling that the
/ start is not a bad one. although per-
haps still a week or SO later tina aV-
'erage. :.
The immediate trend Of prices is
probably going to be determined largely
BY the sort Of weather the South has
There is quite a lot of bullish FEELING
based on the probability of good de-
nland for spots, especially from the
countries now cut off by the absence
.lof a treaty of peace. But the discount.
ling process has been ample for a great
deal of this, especially as 1t remains
To be seen how much buying this VIII
bring and how anxious they will be to
do It. After prices have advanced az
much as they have within the past sew
'eral weeks it will be risky to continue
10 play the bull side merely on antici-
pated business. Many traders have rea-
son for remembering that promised re-
yival of demand is not always a safe
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-03
Memphis District
Weather Bulletin
Memphis, Tenn, May 8, 1919.

The river in the Memphis district will
.hange but little during the next two
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-03
MEMPHIS COTTON.

Memphis cotton closed steady and
unchanged. Middling, '2S,00c. Sales 1,400
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-03
BY GEORGE


Values in the cotton market were
well sustained during the past few
lays, although net changes were small.
There was a bulge early in the week,
followed by a reaction Of v e S. a
bale, then recovery to nearly as high
as prices a been earlier. The gen.
eral state Of the market was healthy
and the absence Of anything suggesting
manipulation contributed to the conf
dence In the stability of values.
In New York contracts closed the
period Is points up to 3 off, while New
Orleans left off is up to is down. In
the spot department changes were ais
irregular. middling uplands ranging at
the close from 81 to 20 cents, or SO
points higher to Is lower than a week
previous. Steadiness in the spot de-
partment constituted the main bulwark
of the bull side.
The peace situation was given close
attention. but there were 10 develop
ments in Paris to occasion any spe-
cial activity by either side. Subsidence
of fears as to the effect of Italy's atti-
tude contributed to the feeling of OPP
timism, as it was one of the conse-
quences Of the announced determine
ton of the other representatives to go
ahead and act without her. Somehow
there was a more hopeful feeling as to
early signatures for the peace docu-
ment, which was to some extent slim
ulated by apparent progress Of affairs
to a more stable condition in Germany
herself. All of this served to encour-
age business activity and preparations
for taking care of what is offered.
In the spot department there was
nothing but strength, and the firm at
titude of holders was a powerful influ-
ence on the contract department. The
new contract, which was designed to
bring futures and spots closer together
and keep them hat way, is seemingly
with being in a measure responsible
for the ready reflection in prices Of
what is being lone in spots. There
were no notices of intention to make
any delivery on May contracts, which
added to the concern Of shorts, who
recognize that the man who al con
troll of the spot supply is having things
his own way for the time being.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
Sn1ithGeLd NeuUs

sMITHFIELD. Aug. ga fare
well testimonial will be given on Sun.
day evening in the second ward tab.
csernacle in honor Of Miss Edna Pet.
erson who leaves for the Eastern
states mission September 9Th.
A testimonial was given on sun
day last in honor of Miss Lulu Ros-
kelley who leaves the first of the
week to labor in the California mis-
sion field. A purse of money was
presented to Miss Roskelley.
Vernon, the son of Mr.. and Mrs
George Done who was operated upon
at Logan the first Of the week is
reported on the improve.
Mr.. Walter Romney. Maurice Site
fel, Gilbert Moyle, Leiutenants vii.
ford Romney, Jack Harrington, Eu-
gene Sloan, fitzgerald and Attorney
Clegg all visited the Romney family
on their way to Yellowstone park.
Mr.. John Buxton and daughter
Laura of briggs, Idaho, are visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. George Toolson..
Mrs. Mary Hale of Blackfoot, Ida
no, Is visiting with her sisters prior
to Miss Edna Peterson's departure
for the mission field.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry o. Hansen had the misfortune
to fall and break his arm while
wrestling with playmate.
Miss Olga Larsen is at home again
after pleasant visit at Richfield
and Salt Lake City.
Messrs and Mesdames ]. J. Meikle,
Joseph Meikle, Mrs. Foster Gordon,
Mrs, Margaret HadfieId, Mrs. Mag
gle Bingham and children, Mrs. Jas
Meikle and Joseph s. Mccain attend.
ed the funeral OF Miss Gwen Thomas
at Preston last Sunday.
The most notable social event or
the week was the bundle shower Civ
en- in honor of Miss Mary Toolson
at her home. Miss Toolson will be
married next week to Mr.. Horne Of
Tremonton.
The Misses Connie Miles and Thel-
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02

tons, labor agitation and high cost of
living to further its socialistic plans for
class control Of government in the inter-
est of privileged few at expence of the
general taxpayer
There is no attempt made to lower the
cost of living for the consumer but mere
ly to increase profits of purchaser by hav-
ing the state furnish large part OF the
business machinery necessary for handl-
ing farm crops.
The direct result of it's activities will
be greatly increased taxation burdens
and multiply state government overhead
expense.
The farmers of North Dakota will
charge just as much for hogs and just as
much for grain in addition to receiving
special privileges from state, not granted
to other lines of industry.
The public, or the down trodden mass
es as the league leaders like to call them
will pay just as much for bacon, flour
and eggs in North Dakota as elsewhere,
and in addition they will dig up the mil
lions in taxes necessary to maintain a
class controlled state government. 9th
er states can afford to tread easy on this
proposition.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
THE PRESIDENT TO BLAME

President Wilson is undoubtedly to
blame for the fact that the situation is so
critical. All his attention has been given
to rearranging the world, while he has
let the weeds that tend most to destroy
it grow up under his very feet. 1t is a
good lesson. The first qualifications of
sound League of Nations is that the ma
tons that form it be sound themselves.
But the President let interior problems
go until they have engulfed us-even as
he did in 1916, when the Brotherhoods
presented their demands. Now, as then,
if he had given his valuable attention to
the problem six months before, it would
not have become acute. Such last minute
situations as the present ones, backed up
by threats of force and direct action"
bring but temporary and unsatisfactory
results. Boston Transcript.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02

ma Corbett are entertaining at a
bundle shower today in honor of
Mrs. vern Hadfield Quincy who was
married last week to Glen Quincy of
Logan.
Mrs. George Toolson is visiting
with her daughter Mrs. Harl Smith
at Oakley. Idaho.
The Misses Pearl, Carrie and Cora
Olson, Rachel Noble, Lila Thornley,.
Mary Toolson and Annie White at
tended a party at Richmond on We'd
nesday evening given by Miss Abbie
Hendricks.
DR.. G.. L. Rees purchased the
new residence of Demar Merrill and
,Demar Merrill will move his fam
lily to Idaho Falls.
Miss Mary Haden of Washington,
ID. c., was the guest of Miss Mar
garet Romney the past week.
The Melodyland Jazz band of
Seattle will play for dance in the
Union hall on Tuesday, September
End.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester Low have
returned from the Yellowstone park
They report most enjoyable trip
and have much to tell Of interesting
sights, incidents, etc.
Mr.. Leland Woodland received an
honorable discharge from overseas
service and arrived home last week.
Miss Ada Munk of Montpelier and
Miss Lapriele Perkins OF Bennington
Idaho, are spending the week at the
Collett hotel.
Prof. and Mrs. George Thomas OF
Rigby, Idaho, spent the week here
with relatives and friends.
Mr.. Sern Seeley arrived home on
Sunday evening from submarine base
New London. Conn. having received
an honorable discharge.
Miss Margaret Brabben of winni-
peg. Canada, was the guest Of Mrs.
William Kirk the past week.
)s\-
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
FAMILY AFFRONT

The Rock Island union relates that
niece of Postmaster General Burleson was
a candidate for the position of postmaster
at Lockhart, Texas, which position had
been held by Mr.. Burleson's nephew and
by his brother, but that the Civil Service
Commission refused to nominate the
niece for the position because there were
others who stood higher in the competi-
tive test This refusal, the Union intim-
ates, caused Burleson to induce the
President to call for the resignation of H.
w. Craven, one of the members of the
commission. Thus, apparently, the coun-
try gets the long desired information as
to the reason why the President made his
surprising demand for the resignation.
A commission of any kind that will not
do the bidding of an administration that is
not only partisan but personal will not
last long.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
CAN'T DELEGATE WAR POWER

1t is an axiom of mathematics that
part cannot be greater than the whole.
1t is law of universal recognition that
no agent can delegate power greater than
his own. 1t requires the vote of the two
houses of Congress to declare war. The
Senate alone could not do it. How, then,
can the Senate ratify treaty which del
egates to league of nations the power
to say when the United tSates shall go to
war? 1t simply cannot be done. A part
of Congress cannot delegate power which
only the whole of Congress possesses.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02

A Republican want add pays.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
Jack Scores.

The whims of will-makers are many
and curious but for the pure sarcasm
commend us to the British sailor who
requested his executors to pay his wife
one shilling. wherewIth TO buy hazel
nuts, as she had always preferred
cracking nuts to mending his stock
ings.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
TRAVELLING Finaers.

Typlsts' fingers are the most amaz-
Ing travellers in creation, and are cap
able of going tremendous distances
without the fatigue that would come
to the feet and legs in performing
similar journey. In ordinary type
writing the hand may travel, accord
ing to an expert, 10000 miles year
aud not indicate any impairment in
efficiency. This refers, of course to
the average typist In an Office.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
BACON, FLOUR AND EGGS IN
NORTH DAKOTA

The Nonpartisan league now has full
control of North Dakota, lock, stock and
barrel.
1t is quietly carrying on its organize
ton plans in other states from Nebraska
TO Nevada and Washington.
The league capitalizes unsettled condi-
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
on, for an Accident.

Some dlplomatists seem to achieve
great success simply by sitting tight
and letting matters take their own
course, something after the manner Of
the Arkansas farmer who retired in
disgust. saying he believed he could
make more money by accident than
he could by farming.-Kansas City
Star.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
THE "DUMB' PLAN. OF CONTROL

The so-called Plumb plan or what may
be more appropriately be called the
"dumb" plan for railroad control, is as
brazen in point Of selfishness as it is stu
pid in point of acumen.
In one breath we are told that the rail-
roads Should be run for service and not
for profit, and in the very next breath
that "the profits should be divided among
the employees, the operators and the pub
lic."
In other words the brotherhoods de-
mand that the public put up $20,000,000,-
600 and buy the railroads and in turn
the brotherhoods will "put up" one-third
of the directors and condescendingly take
one-third Of the profits in addition to
their wages, one sided bargain to say
the least.
What would happen to the public, the
railroads, the revenue, the rates and the
service after that, is not vouchsafed but
it is easy to guess.
1t would be just as reasonable for the
packing house employees, for the miners,
for employees in the factories and work
shops and on the farms of this country
to demand that the public put up the mon
ey, buy the packing houses, mines, factor
les and farms of the United States and
socialize or bolshevize them, as for rail
road men to ask that this be done for
them. 4s3
The public already owns the postoffices
and postal service and why not the post
masters, postal clerks, mail carriers and
other attaches or employees of the postal
department band themselves together
and demand that they be allowed to name
one-third of the directors" of that de-
partment, and grab one third of the prof
its in addition to their wages What is
the difference between this and the
"dumb" plan?
The public is not going to be caught in
any such trap. If the time shall come wiion
the people desire to exercise ownership
and control of the railroads they will en-
ter upon a plan with intent of full control
and there will no more partnership than
there is about ownership and operation
of the postal system. Until such time the
people will continue the exercise Of their
sovereign right to regulate and control
railroad service for the public good.
The distinguishing aspects of the
dumb" plan are selfishness stupidity,
and impudence.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
WILSON SETTLED 1T

Those Democratic papers that evaded
the Shantung question by saying that
President Wilson disapproved the terms
on that subject but was helpless must now
feel embarrassment by the admission that
the whole question was put up to Wilson
to decide. What will they say?
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
A HEALTHY SIGN

Press dispatches convey the informa-
ton that hardly at any other period in
our history has there been such demand
for portraits of George Washington. This
is encouraging, for it betokens an abiding
faith in the wisdom of the father of his
country. If President Wilson decides to
conduct rummage sale of Washington
portraits now hanging in the White
House, he will find many active bidders.
n N n
What the American people need right
now is to go to work, to produce, to save
dollars. Work will solve our difficulties,
and keep us out of lot of hocus-poc
to boot. What America and the world
requires from all of us just now is pro-
duction, But too many do not care for
so dull business. They would rather
reform everybody else, regulate every
body else's habits, prescribe rules for So
ciety in general and hand down moral
decisions for all to obey. They burn to
establish a moral autocracy, themselves
constituting Minneapolis Journal.
N N N
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02

Don't suffer- A tiny bottle OF
Freezone costs but few cents at any
drug store. Apply few drops on the
eorns, calluses and "hard skin" on bot
tom OF feet, then lift them Off.
When Freezone removes corns from the
toes or calluses from the bottom OF feet,
the skin beneath is left pink and healthy
and never sore, tender or irritated.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02
IT DOES

Woodrow Wilson: II cannot imagine a
public man with a conscience having a
secret that he would keep from the peo-
pie about their own affairs"
Then does it follow that a public man
who keeps public affairs secret has no
conscience?
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-07

ing brush or rubbish, where in most
cases water is not available, an or
ganized neighborhood fire company
equipped with chemical cart would
be Of the greatest utility.
The Office of farm management of
the United States department of agri-
culture has FOR some time urged the
use of chemical apparatus as more
effective than water against fires on
the farm, especially where kerosene,
gasoline or other oil is involved, and
as an indispensable reinforcement to
the use of water in all cases. That is
secured in the California plan together
with an even more effective thing. the
organization of the men of the COM
munity in such way that they can
make their efforts almost Immediately
effective against any fire.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-07
Specializing Often Wins.

Many persons do not market by par
eel post because they do not have IA
large variety of produce or because
their supply is available only part OF
the year. While it is true that con-
tinuous supply of number of products
is more satisfactory to customers, such
a supply is not absolutely necessary
in order to establish parcel post
trade.
Many persons have secured custom
ers by specializing in one or two kinds
of produce, such as butter or eggs,
which can be supplied during the en-
tire year, and then these customers
have offered an outlet for other com.
modities which can be furnished only
occasionally or for produce which is
rarely to be had in city markets. In
most of these cases ii was necessary
only to send letter or card to salts
fed regular customers asking them II
they wished to obtain certain kinds OF
produce that were for sale at that
time.
Such letters tend to keep up per
sonal relationship between the pro
Queer and his customers which makes
it easier to keep up business relations
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-07
Agonies of Suspense Reflected ir
Face of Each One That Has Son
With Army.

The late Robert ]. Burdette of the
Burlington HawlSeye, and of beloved
memory, was soldier in the Civil war.
The following beautiful and touching
tribute to mothers of that period is
from his pen:
when was there a generation since
boys were born that women did not go
to war? Never a bayonet lungeu into
the breast of a soldier that it had not
already cooled its wrath in the heart
of mother. While the soldier has
fought through one battle, the mother
has wandered over a score of slaugh-
ter fields looking for his mangled body.
He sings and plays the rough game of
out-of-doors men in camp for a month
and then goes out to fight one little
skirmish. But every day and night
the mother has walked through
hundred alarms that never were.
She has watched on the lonely picket
post. She has passed the sentry seat
before his tent. She has prayed be-
side him while he slept. The throbs of
her heart have been the beads of her
rosary. What does a soldier know
about war? l went into the army a
light-hearted boy. / had the rollicking
time of my life. and l came home an
athlete. And my mother-her brown
hair silvered with my soldering, held
me In her arms and counted the years
of her longing and watching with
kisses. When she lifted her dear face
| saw the story of my marches and
battles written there in lines of an
guish. If mother should write her
story after the war. she would pluck
a white hair from her temple and dir
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-07
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senting Lincoln as boy in rough and
rural dress, reading from a book.
There are innumerable bustS of Lin
coin, some of them made from casts
during Hfe One of the most famous
of these buSts, however, is by wom-
an who had never seen the original. 1t
is the work of Mrs Emma Cadwalader
Guild She had fashioned the heads
of kings and queens in Europe. but
her most ambitious work was of him
whom she had come TO reverence as
the savior of her own country.
Art has not fashioned all the monu-
ments to Abraham Lincoln. At the
Cumberland Gap. in the Tennessee
mountains, is the Lincoln Memorial
university, erected by Gen. O. o. How
ard. It was designed to edncate the
mo beers, WHOM Lincolnt so bved-
Near Leadvflle. Colo. is n tall peak.
over 1900 feet above the level of the
sea, named Mount Lincoln. Through
out the West are many counties and
towns named for the emancipation.
Perhaps the most famous and en-
during monument erected by human
hands to the memory of the war pres
dent, however, is the capital of Ne
braska, Lincoln, one of the beautiful
and growing cities of the great West.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-07
Meeting Labor Demand.

Although the largest acreage on
record was planted In 1918 by Ameri-
can farmers. the great crops of the
year We're harvested under difficulties
not appreciably greater than those in
normal times, says the annual report
of the secretary of agriculture.
"The department of agriculture con-
tinued throughout the year to give
earnest attention to the securing and
mobilization of an adequate supply of
farm labor the report states. at
maintained It's representatives, sta
| toned in eacn state in the spring of
| 1917, and perfected its own organiza-
ton, enlisting the more active CO.
| operation of the county agents and
other extension workers.
at more fully co-ordinated its activ-
flies with the department of labor, n
representative OF the department of
agriculture having been designated n
member of the war labor policies
board which was created by the presi-
dent. 1t has also aided the war de-
partment in connection with the clas-
sification of agricultural registrants.
| Special efforts were made. beginning
early in the year, to Impress upon the
residents of urban communities the
necessity of aiding farmers in the
planting and harvesting of their crops.
THE response to appeals along this
| line was generous. In Kansas. for ex-
ample, where the situation was espe-
cially difficult, the reports indicate
that more than $4,000 workers were
supplied to farmers to assist In the
wheat harvest. The potato crop In
two counties in Texas was saved
through the aid of the business men IN
the local communities, and in Illinois
$4,000 workers were registered fol
harvest work
Many other examples could be cited
the secretary says.