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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-12-06
MIssOURIAN KILLS OFFICER.
ASSOCIATED Negro Press)

(AssOciated Negro Press.)
New York, N. Y, Dec. 6.-John ]
Mccormick, 81, policeman for only
twenty days, was shot and killed
last night by William Sanford, Ne
gro musician, in Harlem. Mccormick
attempted to arrest Sanford after he
had shot his wife, Eta Sanford was
caught by other policemen and lock
ed up, charged with murder.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-12-06
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Scalp Troubles?

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and Scalp Specialists with a repu-
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New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

part Of the tonnage, of the Ameri-
can government?"
Naming about dozen steamship
lines that are already operating
from American to German ports, the
article adds:
"a study of the ships being
operated to Germany by the lines
named shows that they are sailing
under many flags. Some of the
vessels are the property of the
United States Shipping Board and
were among those built to overcome
the menace of the German U-boats.
Others are privately owned under
the American flag, and the others
include ships Of Swedish, Norwegian,
Spanish and even Japanese registry.
BY far the greater part. however,
are Shipping Board vessels.
"There is no belief, however, in
shipping circles that all Of the lines
enumerated, or even any sizable pro-
portion Of them, are working in the
interests Of Germany"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
One Oysters Breakfast

"THE London Daily Mail" tells
l. the story Of a fish merchant,
John Symonds, Of Marine Parade,
Great Yarmouth, who on opening his
premises one morning recently
found that an oyster had trapped
and killed a fair sized mouse:
"The oyster was on the top Of a
large hamper. The mouse had ap-
parently touched the oyster, which,
closing instantly, squeezed the naouse's
head and neck quite fat. When Mr..
Symonds took up the oyster, the mouse
dropped out.
"By touching the shells of several!
live oysters, he yesterday showed how
they close. The oyster with wide open
she'll. he said, is dead, and has no
power to close. While the oyster is
alive, it can bring together it's shells
quickly enough to catch anythir " try
ing to snatch . dainty meal"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

sea, Of Andersonville, have been
wont to look on it as one of ter
rlble straightforward it was.
But Russia alone lost more than
three times as many men in the late
war as were lost by both the North
and the South in the Civil War.
Germany lost more than three
times as many.
France lost nearly three times
as many.
Great Britain lost nearly twice
as many.
austria lost nearly twice as
many.
$50 great has been the develop-
ment in the engines Of death that it
is almost impossible to conceive the
increase Of fatalities in the late war
as compared with previous wars.
There were sixty-nine years Of
war among the various nations in
the 1T years prior to 1910.
"As nearly as can be learned,
5,098,097 men lost their lives in
those wars.
"That would mean 1885 lives lost
year, or about 200 day.
"In the late war there were 200
men killed an hour, about 4,SO0 for
every day Of the war; total Of
7,45O,20O, according to the best avail
able figures. That would be about
1,750,000 year.
"ln money cost of previous wars
the French-English War, 1893
1915, comes first, with its tax of
s6.250, 100000"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Hyphenated Shipping
Is an AmercanCerman Merchant Marine in the Making?

production to replace the vessels
sunk in her illegal sea warfare, there
are those who believe she is planning
to become the owner of an amount
estimated at, at least, 100000 gross
tons. None of this tonnage flies
the German flag; it is problematical
when it will do 50, but it is pointed
out that this is a mere matter of
detail if the vessels are to be oper-
ated by or in behalf of Hamburg
and Bremen capital"
In England, "The Rudder" points
out, the charge Of German penetra-
ton has been made in it's most un-
qualified form. In a recent issue
"The Syren and Shipping," of Lon
don, states:
"The secret German feet is over
100000 tons, and to-day it flies the
American flag. AS regards vessels
transferred during the war to neu-
trails, these transfers have not been
recognized, and some of the ships
have already been handed over. AS
regards shipbuilding enterprises, it
is true that Germany acquired or
started dozen or so neutral yards,
but in every case the German inter-
est was forced out and in some cases
the yards were shut up. The only
doubtful yards left are in the United
States"
"That Germany has a secret feet
of 100000 tons that to-day flies the
American flag is much more
sweeping estimate than any that
has yet been made in this country"
says "The Rudder." 'It even ex-
ceeds the total tonnage of all the
vessels now operating from Ameri-
can to German ports, and by no
means all Of these are under Ameri-
can registry. And Of those that are,
the bulk are the property of the
United States Shipping Board. Is
it to be assumed rom the statement
of the British publication that Ger
many controls the tonnage, or any
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Wagir'g The Fight
On Lady Nicotine

OF the most popular slogans raised at
all the relief meetings. But if the drive
against tobacco is now on as a post
war campaign there is nothing like
having it out in the open with the
issue frankly joined"
"The New York World" which
fought prohibition from the start of
the agitation, even in this early
stage CT the nationwide canapaign
against Lady Nicotine regards the
issue as serious enough to imperil
the tobacco user. Says this paper:
THAT tobacco would next receive
the attentions of the forces of right
eousness was to be expected. once
alcohol had been put under ban. Is
not tobacco the twin evil Of self-in-
dulgence? Yet it is disconcerting to
have the day of its Punishment fixed
and advertised in advance. On March
70, 1924, occurs the fiftieth anniversary
OF the Woman's Christian Temperanco
Union, and what more appropriate Gel
ebration Of the jubilee could be de-
vlsed than to make it the occasion for
demanding that Congress submit to
the states constitutional amendment
prohibiting the growing, manufacture,
sale and use Of tobacco?
School children now recite pieces
against the filthy weed extracted from
". c. T. U. pamphlets, ana one choice
selection, entitled Not Fit To Be
Kissed contains the verse:
~ want to kiss papa, love him 80
we'll,
But kisses don't taste good which have
such q smell.
It's nasty to smoke and eat 'bacco and
spit,
And the kisses amt good and amt
sweet, not Bit
Can the most hardened smoker re-
main proof against. this rebuke? Little
Robert Reed never brought such an
Indictment against tobacco. He mere
ly recited that it fouls the mouth and
soils the clothes And makes a chimney
Of the nose
But campaign engineered by the
w. G. +. u, probably assured Of the
cooperation OF the Anti-Saloon League
and insidiously introduced in the
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

4 ONE comparative figures which
90 force realization of the mag
~ nitudc Of the world war just
ended are given in current
issue Of Henry Ford's -"Dearborn
independent" from which is quoted
There were nineteen major wars
fought in the world in the III years
from 1893 to 1910. The late war
cost so per cent moro in lives and
lost 700 per cent moro in money
spent than the whole nineteen other
wars put together.
"The most costly in lives of the
previous wars was that between
England and France, l793-1S15, a
total of 100000 men having per-
ished
"NeXt came the war Of 1896,
IN which England, France, Sardinia,
Turkey, Austria and Russia fought;
609,797 men were killed.
"The more recent war between
Russia and Japan came third, claim
ing the lives Of $4,000 men.
"1n our own War Of the Rebellion
both sides together lost 494, 400
men, ranking fourth in loss of life
in the great wars previous to the
late one.
I'm the struggle between France
and Germany, so disastrous to
France and which played very i'm
portant part in the recent peace
settlement, 311, 900 lives were lost.
I'VE Americans who remember or
have read Of the War of the Re-
bellion, of Gettysburg, of Pickett's
charge, of Sherman's march to the
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

i for moral and physical
A uplift, having achieved
for 1920 constitutional
prohibition Of the manufacture and
sale Of liquors after many years of
persistent effort, have launched a
definite campaign against the mau-
ufacture, sale and use of tobacco
IN all its forms. There is nothing
new in the fact that the campaign
has been launched, but the attitude
Of newspapers hitherto Indifferent
or opposed to such q movement as
that put forward by the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union re-
Gently is Of considerable interest.
This attitude is expressed in edi-
torials.
"And so now it's to be tobaccon'
exclaims "The Philadelphia Public
Ledger" which paper gives in to
the uplift forces as follows:
"Those who complained that prohibi
tlon was sprung on the country un-
awares, despite the fact that the cam
paign Of the various anti-liquor or
CARNATIONS had been open and above
board for a generation or more, can
have no such excuse if the movement
now reported to be under way to ban
tobacco rs filthy weed, injurious to
health and an enemy Of civilization
ever gets beyond the academic field Of
discussion. Forewarned Is forearmed.
And tho Philadelphian who has smoked
out the latest example Of sumptuary
intolerance will unquestionably come
IN for commentator in that his per-
sistent refusal to be put off the track
hnally resulted in victory for him in
the case Of foolish publication that
had no right to be a textbook in the
public schools. But this textbook is onlv
the beginning of crusade that derives
at present from Kansas and Illinois
and does aim to have anti-tohacco laws
passed in every commonwealth. Hos
tiiity to tobacco, it is true, suffered an
eclipse during the war, when Smokes
for the soldiers and sailoxs' was one
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
OF many months ago spec
ulation was rife as to the
part the United States was
7 OF ONLY in neutral coun-
tries, but right here in the
United States as we'll, Ger


i y United States as we'll, Ger
many is now declared to be
acquiring secret control Of vessels
for foreign trade, says an article on
"Hyphenated Shipping" by Henry
G. Wiltbank, in the September issue
of "The Eudder." Stripped by the
peace treaty Of every occan-going
ship under her own registry, Ger
many, it IS stated, is seeking through
clandestine interests in American
shipyards to have tonnage built in
this country that will aid her in her
efforts TO recover her lost maritime
power.
'Is secret American German
merchant marine in the mahng?"
asks "The Rudder."
SIS German gold, through the old,
secret channels, even now finding it's
way into supposedly 100 per cent
American enterprises?
"Are ships to-day plying from
American to German ports in the
secret interest of German concerns?
HAS Germany renewed her pre-
war methods of commercial penetra-
ton through secret absorption Of q
share Of American tonnage?
'These are some of the questions
that are being asked to-day in
American shipping circles. That
there is reason for asking them is
indicated by ad~ices from Paris,
Rotterdam and even from Berlin
itself. And there are many who be-
lieve that the Hamburg American
and North German Lloyd lines are
securing new f1eets to enable them
- Begin the battle for the restora-
tion Of their pre-war prestige.
"While Germany by the terms Of
the peace treaty has been stripped
Of every ton of ocean shipping in
her possession and must even turn
over the vessels under construction
on hs9 ways and for five years give
y la4HS percentage Of her annual
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

OF many months ago spec
~ ulation was rife as to the
- part the United States was
to play in world shipping.
Regardless of the fact that 1880, 900
dead weight tons Of bottoms had
come into possession of this govern
nent through construction and req
usition during the war and after
the signing of the armistice last No.
vember, there existed much doubt,
even in shipping circles, that there
was any permanency in the nations
greatly expanded commerce incident
TO the war.
That we have a shipping board is
quite we'll known, and that it is q
very important adjunct of the coun-
try's commercial life is likewise real
ized. But there are few outside
the personnel of the great transport
tation companies who realize fully
that the wartime hope of America
for a great merchant marine has
actually become a fact!
From commerce carried on be-
fore the war almost solely through
foreign vessels to the establishment
cf sixty-two lines, spreading like a
.isherman's net over the face Of the
earth, and the operation on these in
tcrnational lanes of 829 ships-this
is the record breaking trade achieve
nent of the country's business vigor.
The American merchant marine
is as completely unit as is the
United States Navy itself. 1t re-
cruits it's seanen and trains and
places it's officers quite as does the
navy. 1t even has social service
bureau, headed by Alice S. Howard,
the original purpose Of which was to
engage in welfare work among mer-
chant marine apprentices at stations
and on ships established by the
United States Shipping Board Re-
crulting Service.
Within eighteen months, however.
from the time the social service bu-
reau was established, to the present
time, the purpose and work of the
organization has become something
like that of the army and navy's big
auxiliary, the Red Cross. 1t reaches
out to foreign ports OF the one hand
and to tho homes Of Americas mer-
chant mariners on the other. It's
aid is not confined to men of any
particular rating. 1t extends to all
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
)ur Merchant Marine Is Now Positive Fat

schools cannot bat be taken ..,,,..
ly. American smokers have r,..:s1, .sa',
due warning that they are to BE- u''ea 1--we
feed to mako a holiday for . saef'.
regulatory organization, and .b,v .S.'l rl
tako heed. There are prec.d.,.. .'''
show that what might once bav. l. 70
dismissed as foolish dream ~ ~ .ssa
Legislation may become a factn
But "The Baltimore News" !, ~
of many that eyince little Avmn.s.
for this newest propaganda ~:
paper foresees reversion f. D..
tan days:
"The country is in the .hro.. =.
periodic uplift, but even in ON, w.,
ened condition it is very don,..~,
whether the W. c. T. U. will ba s,I
to send old Nick OTeen dow, ..'
toboggan of which John Barlsr..
has just reached the bottom. u.
long, long lane that has no tprn;,.
and there is much to be done in cor
nection with the obseques Of ri.
Gambrinus before the weed nsn.,
after DR.. Nicot is relegated n -.
limbo OF the things which are t.hn.
"There is nothing new in tho =.
tempt TO Danish the use of tobs,.,
The Social History OF Smoking, .
most fascinating little book. il A.
thority for the information tina. ~.
course Of the smoker in England u..
besct by the most extraordjns,,
series Of periods of absolute freedon
and stern restriction. Not only n.
use of tobacco itself, but also n.
various forms Of its use, a. times n.
came respectable Or beyond the pals
The cigarette, for instance, would mn
be tolerated, while the pipe was cult.
au fait. Then the pipe would fall IN.
to disrepute and the cigar would b.
permissible. Following these an Az.
would come in which only the tssin,
of snuff would be allowed.
But now, it would seem, the Who'll.
vast power of intensely moral Or
CARNATIONS is to be focused upon ii.
pernicious weed.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Wartime Hopes and Prophecies
Have Been More Than
Realized

Americans who serve on merchant
ships, from master to coal passer.
The development Of this social
service is coincident with the great
strides made in creating the ship
ping organism, the arteries and
veins of which set up relation with
the outside world entirely new in
character and Importance.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
THESE, and a lot moro of

THESE, and q lot moro of
tho same sort, are the
boys a0ho hare put the Amer
acam merchant marine on the
map. They haWe answered,
aclth typical American yigor,
the question of not so long
ago: What part are we going
to play in the drama of aoorld
commerce? Hero we see O
ho71dful of merchant mari
'aers holding forth goyzy
aboard ship. In tho loauer
right-ha1,d eo,ner the meav re-
craeit IS seen Just nr7ivimg.
And the lady-a0eU, she isn't
ecactly q mariner herself, but
she's chief of tho Social Ser
rlce Bureau IL Mrs. Hen1y
HoaOard, Of Boston.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

4 HE nations radical forces
4 for moral and physical
L. uplift, having achieved
for 1920 constitutional
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Some War Fig mres

& ONE comparative figures which
- force realization Of the mag
. nitudc Of the world war just
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-04-08
WOMAN SHOT IN STRIKE
RIOT IN LAWRENCE

Lawrence, Mass, April Riot
ing marked by promiscuous firing by
strike sympathizers and police opened
the tenth week of the textile strike
here today. The outbreak occurred
in the vicinity of the Everett mills
shortly before o'clock, u few hours
after the city had been stirred by
the explosion of a bomb IN q tene-
ment house i'll the same neighbor-
hood, Eearly reports indicated that
10 one was wounded by the shooting
although several rioters and police
men were injured by sticks, stones ard
clubs.
A second riot occurred tonight, in
which a woman was shot in the leg
and four arrests were made. The
trouble was some distance from any
mill, and resulted, from the efforts of
the police to arrest a woman on a
charge Of having thrown a stone at a
mill worker.
Mrs. Carmella Bedreo of Methuen
was shot in the leg as she was carry
ing her husbands supper into his
store. Strikers declared that the po-
lice fired the shot, but the latter main
tained that they did not use their re-
volvers. Pasquale Gearrusdo, a strik =
er, was arrested on the charge of fir
| ing his revolver at. an Csfcer who was
| chasing another man Ior throwing
stones at the police.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-04-08
OPPOSED TO CLEMENCY
FOR EUGENE v, pEBS

Washington, April Attorney Gen
eral Palmer announced in a statement
tonight that he would oppose strong
ly any effort to obtain executive Glenn
ency for Eugene V. Debs, the socialist
leader, sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment for violation of the es-
pionage act.
Mr.. Palmer said he believed his duty
in the Debs case to be clear and was
convinced that he would be doing a
grievous wrong TO the country and
striking d blow at law enforcement
should he adopt any course which
would interfere with the normal ad-
ministration of Justice in this case
In the statement the attorney gen
eral says:
"Debs was convicted not because of
his political or economic views, but
because he plainly violated the law of
the land
ON June is, 1918, during the most
critical period of the war, Debs made
4 speech at Canton. Ohio, in which he
urged that wage earners refrain from
giving any aid to the American nation
in the war, asserting that the war was
brought on and conducted solely in the
interest of capitalists, told his audi
ence that they needed to know that
they We're fit for something better
| than slavery and cannon fodder held
up TO admiration as martyrs to the
cause of Ia Dor a number OF persons
who had been convicted for violating
the draft act and UISeu wage earnerj
to stand together as a class to pre-
! ven the success OF our country in the
| war.
In his address 10 the jury Debs
said I have been accused Of Obstruct-
! ing the war. ! admit it Gentlemen, |
abhor war. | would oppose the war
| if | stood alone.
"FollOwing the action of the ST.
prene court. the defendant has lndulg-
ed in violent public criticism of the
American courts of justice and prac-
tically defied the power of the gov
ernment TO administer the law again st
him. In public speech made at
Cleveland, March y, he said, With
every drop in my veins | despise their
| law and I defy them A few days ago
he declared that if an attempt is made
to imprlsoH him he will have a gen
eral strike called III support Of his at
tjtude
In this instance my duty is clear
Respect for the law and our :nsti-
tutions is the basis upon which every
application for executive cicmency
must rest. Open defiance OF the law
| an dthreat OF force 10 obstruct its
| orderly administration call for only
one answer. The law must be re-
spected and obeyed. To make sure OF
! that, il must be enforced
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-04-08
FLARES TO BE FACTORS IN
TRANS S-ATLANTIC FLIGHT

Washington, April Flame and
smoke flares developed during the war
and improved recently by chemical ex-
.perts Of he army will be factors in the
trans Atlantic fight to be undertaken
next month by naval seaplanes. BY
dropping these flares at intervals the
aviators will be able to determine the
drift of their planes in the cross winds
and make the corrections necessary to
keep them on their course
Commander J. H. Towers, in charge
of preparations for the fight. explain
ed today that the flares would be in
the shape of bombs which. upon strik-
ing the water, would give off flame and
distances at night and the other by
day. The flares would remain virtual
ly stationary on the water and thereby
indicate the angle at which the ma
chimes We're being driven from a
straight line.
This is only one of the many details
which officers in charge of the plans
for the fight have had to work out.
Special devices have been necessary in
each case and this in a measure ac-
counts for the length Of time consumed
in making ready for the start
Numerous experiments with the
planes themselves also nave been nee
essary. None of the three of the n. c.
type thus far completed is ready for
the start of the overseas voyage and
officers today said that consequently
they had not even undertaken to Sc
lect a tentative date for leaving Rock
away Beach, Long Island. on the 200
mile fight to the jumping Off place
| in Newfoundland.