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The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-04
LAND TENURE IN ARKANSAS
 SUBJECT OF NEW BULLETIN

Fayetteville, Oct. 2.-"Arkansas owes it to herself and to the nation in these tremendously important days of reconstruction, to inaugurate and fol- low out constructive policy with re- ference to it's land, whether forest area, power sites, mineral resources, or farm lands," states Dr. E. G. Nourse, formerly professor of eco monies and sociology in the Univer- sity of Arkansas, in bulletin just published by the University on "A Preliminary Survey of Land Tenure in Arkansas"
 "There are problems a-plenty- problems of old plantation days and problems of new pioneer development, They should be met as promptly as possible by a constructive policy which will mean in some cases legis- lative action; but practical measures will be safe and helpful only in pro- portion as they are based upon search ing study of the specific problems which confront us"
 The bulletin takes up the questions of soils, climate and crops, govern ment and state lands, private owner ship, tenancy and other problems of vital interest to all citizens of the  state, and especially to farmers. Copies may be obtained upon applica- tion to the president University of Fayetteville.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-04
FOR DRIVE FOR
 ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL

Little Rock, Oct. 1.-The organiza- ton for the campaign that is to be made Oct. 20-27 for the Roosevelt Memorial is making progress. Maj. Henry Fredeman, the state campaign director, reports that complete township and county organization is being formed. Especial appeals are being made to all classes and condi- tions of citizens. The school boys and girls are expected to do their share, as Theodore Roosevelt was the hero of millions of American boys and girls and will always be en- shrined in the hearts of American youth"
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-04
POPE COUNTY TO ERECT
 MEMORIAL TO SOLDIERS

Little Rock, Oct. 4.-Robert A. Ragsdale of Russellville, president of the Pope County Memorial Associa- tion, has advised Adjt. Gen. England that a county drive will be made the week of Oct. 18th for the purpose of raising $50,OOO to erect a memorial building for the soldiers of the great war from Pope county. The list of names. will be inscribed on the marble walls and there will be individual tab let's for those who made hte supreme sacrifice.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-04
ENGLISH STRIKE
 AT ACUTE PERIOD
Railroad Situation Reaches the Gravest Crisis in History of the Country-Appeal for For nation of Guards.

London, Oct. 3.-After seven days the railroad strike situation tonight became the gravest in the history of any labor crisis of the British empire in the present generation. All efforts of the Transport Workers Federation to find bridge to enable rneewal of negotiations between the govern ment and the National Union of Rail- waymen failed.
 Premier Lloyd George insists the men must resume work before nego- tiations can be re-opened. Many tele- grams were received at the local head quarters of the National Union from provincial branches today urging that the premier's ultimatum be accepted, but it was said by leaders of the or ganization that the governments or der withholding the mems pay for the last week they worked had precluded resumption.
 Responsibility for withholding the mems wages is assumed by the gov ernment in statement issued from Downing street last night. It reads as follows:
 "The members of the National Union of Railwaymen broke their con- tracts and stopped work without no tice in complete disregard of the effect their action would have on the per sons and property of ordinary citizens in their charge. They inflicted dam age on innumerable people, left food upon which the public depended for subsistence to go to waste, put vast numbers to great expense by leaving them stranded without conveyances and inflicted great losses upon many by preventing them from reaching destinations. The damages to which they are liable in law are vastly greater than the amount now being withheld.
 "If any early resumption of work occurs, different considerations may arise. In the meantime, the country is still subject to exampled injury by, the railwaymen's action and, in these circumstances, the government would not be justified in handing over to the strikers sum which would be used for prolonging struggle undertaken without any consideration for the welfare of the public and which is endangering the whole life of the nation"
 London, Oct. 3.-The home office has issued an appeal for the forma- tion throughout the country of "citi- zen guards" to assist the police and
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testimony from negroes as well as white persons.
 A statement issued late today over the signatures of officials and promi- nent citizens expressed the opinion normal conditions would be resumed after today.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-04
177.7S MILES HIGHWAYS
 SURVEYED IN SEPTEMBER

Little Rock, Oct. 4.-During the month of September the State High way Department completed the sur- veys of 177.78 miles of new highway.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-04

The number of negroes known to have been killed remained, officially, tonight at fourteen, although state ments made by prisoners today that eighteen of their number had been killed previous to last night would bring the total to twenty y-six, ac- counting for possible Implications. Seven are reported wounded. Figures tonight on the> white casualties showed total of five dead and six wounded, the latter including a sol dier wounded today and removed to a Helena hospital.
 Helena, Ark, Oct. 3.--While the situation in Helena is almost normal tonight and virtual calm prevails in the southern part of the county which has been practically zone of negro insurrection since Tuesday night, spo- radio clashes have taken place in the last twenty-four hours.
 Three negroes are reported to have been killed today in addition to two killed by soldiers near Elaine last night. Another negro is reported to have been wounded by machine gun fire. Rounding up of negroes by the federal troops sent into the section continues.
 Investigation of the disorders was begun today by committee of sev- en" appointed by the civil authorities of the county with the approval of Governor Charles Trough. The com mittee is working in cooperation with the military authorities and will take
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-04
VIRTUAL CALM
 REIGNS AT ELAINE
Sporadic Clashes However Have Been Reported in the Last Few Hours-More Negroes Are Killed.

Elaine, Ark, Oct. 3.-With the ar rest today of Ed Hicks, said to have been a ring leader of the organization believed by officials to have been largely responsible for the recent race disturbance in Phillips county, civil and military officials tonght express ed the opinion that at least one of the sources of the rioting of the past two days had been definitely eliminated.
 Hicks is said to have admitted that he had been president of the "Pro- gressive Farmers and Household Union of America" the title of an organization under which the negroes had banded themselves. Other ne- groes taken today made similar state ments although literature seized by military authorities showed the sig nature of "T. L. Duger, Winchester, Ark" sss sss it's it's head. Other prisoners are credited with having declared that Ed Baker, another negro under arrest, was the secretary of the or ganization and military authorities declared that they had other leaders in Frank and Will Hicks and Frank Moore.
 These officials stated they had been advised that man known as Frank L. Will of Winchester, was an or ganizer for the union
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-04

special constables in protecting peace ful citizens and for the maintenance of supplies of food and other neces- saries of life.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-10-04

London, Oct. 3.-The home office has issued an appeal for the forma- ton throughout the country of "citi- zen guards" to assist the police and
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-02

itics. He evidently is a chip OF the old
block.
II think it a very good move, indeed,
He is the sort of man we need in po-
litical life. approve of any young man
of fortune entering politics as ca
reer."
Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt has been
discussed in New York as a possible
candidate for president of the board OF
aldermen next fall. He has not made
known his intentions in regard to this
possible start of his political career. He
announced that he intended to follow
his fathers footsteps and enter politics,
but that It was too soon for him to
pick his initial goal.
Not Seeking once
He added he was announcing his
hat was in the ring" only because he
intended to retire from business and
considered some explanation necessary.
His present activities, he said. were con-
fined to organization in this country of
the World War Veterans Association.
In making known his intention to re-
tire from business, Lieutenant Colonel
Roosevelt said he desired to devote him
self TO public life" by which he said
he meant entering politics"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-02

Sizes 8 to s years. Of new
stripe-and-plaip color combina-
tions, and of practical plain-color
fabrics.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-02
!, NOREG WOULD Be ANNEXED
Shipyard Workers Village Offer.
ed as Bargain" to Gloucester

Every citizen in Gloucester today re-
ceiyed a letter from the housing depart
ment of the Emergency Fleet Corpora
tion exploiting the advantages that
ewould accrue to their city by the an
nexation of the village of Noreg
This campaign of education has been
started by the corporation in an effort
to have the people of Gloucester demand
the purchase ani annexation Of Noreg
at the meeting of the City Council TO
decide the question tomorrow evening.
The Council had decided favorably on
this move last August, but because of
governmental delays the deal could not
be consummated then, and the attitude
OF the body Is now reported as being
opposed to the transaction.
The letter emphasizes that there are
500 houses, which were built for the
workers at the Pusey & Jones shipyard,
located In Noreg; that the government
spent nearly S3.000.000 in constructing
the village. AND that 1t will now be po9-
1900 900. ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-02
ROBINS COMMENDS
ROOSEVELT'S STAND
T. r., Junior, Expects to Fol.
low in Footsteps of Late
President

"a chip of the old block was the
comment today of Thomas Robins on
the entrance Of Lieutenant Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., into politics.
Mr. Robins, who was leader in the
Progressive party, was one of the late
President Roosevelt's most intimate
friends.
II have not seen Lieutenant Colonel
Roosevelt for some years." said Mr..
Robins, mot since the summer before
he entered the army. read with in
terest that he had announced that he
would give up business and go into pol
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-02
CAPT. CUPID SNUBBED BY MARS
Atlantic City Girl Must Wait
''for the Good of the Service"

Owing TO unexpected orders, which
will detain him for eight months with
the army of occupation in Germany. the
marriage of Miss Louise Il. Keugh, s
Montpelier avenue, Atlantic City, and
James K. Messenger of Flushing, l..
l., has been postponed until Mr.. Meis-
sengers release from service.
Miss keugh received u telegram last
night from her flance's mother, inform
ing her that his services would be ro-
quired until late in the fall on con-
struction work In the war area. Mr..
Messenger Is u surveyor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-02
Camden Woman Struck by Auto

Mrs. w. Balwin. Twenty-ninth and
High streets. Camden, was cut and
bruised severely about the face. arms
and body today when struck by an auto
mobile at Fifth and Market streets.
Camden. Mrs Balwin was waiting for
u trolley car when she was hit. The
Moorestown, n. J. The police say the
occurrence was accidental and released
Evans in his own recogniZance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-02
Concert 10 Benefit Sailors

Members of the Matinee Musical
Club and pupils of the National School
Of Elocution and oratory will take part
in a concert to be given in the Presser
Building this afternoon for the benefit
OF the sailors free reading room, 322
South Front street. The Entertainment
Mill BE given under the auapicea OF the
n:i1 I4it,idsincn' aid Society is All or
sssaS sss ''s' s s| s[5sl 's sEs' ''h ys MH'''c's
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-02

And have most plentiful supply navy serge
$3.50 and $780, Of mixed chevos $3.50 and duck
$1.75. & stree,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-02
In the LOwer-Priced Millinery Section

So Floor street West
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would sink beneath the surface. 1t
was a one-man affair propelled by
oars which worked in watertight
sockets.
David Bushnell. an American, built
submersible boat that he called the
Turtle in l772. 1t carried but one
man also, but 1t was worked by
screw. The Turtle figured in Revo-
lutionary history; one Ezra Lee used
it to attack under water the British
frlgate Eagle, lying off Staten Island,
in 1775. He was frightened off while
he was aflixing a torpedo to the fri
gate under water and made his escape.
The torpedo exploded and frightened
the British, but did no damage other
wise.
FuIton's Submarine.
The inventor of the steamboat. Rob
ert Fulton, had submarine ideas, and
taking them to France he obtained an
interview with Napoleon Bonaparte, In
which he obtained his interest. Later
an appropriation was made, and the
Nautilus, a submersible worked by
| hand power, built and launched Ia tho
Seine. 1t couldn't be controlled and
Napoleon disguised because with It
/ he could not creep alongside of British
shipping and destroy 1t, dismissed Full
/ ton as a hare Drained fool.
/ To John p. Holland, who built the
! Fenian Ram In the early SOS, belongs
the credit of bringing the submarine to
its present state. In 1890 he built the
Holland, fitting II with a gasolene en-
CINE for surface travelling and a stor-
age battery for propelling It under
water. But Simon Lake of Detroit
built the first submarine with a ship
shape hull and equipped it like hy-
droplane Since 1868 the French have
been experimenting with submersibles
and II was late in the nineteenth CEN
fury that Germany started 10 add them
IN her warlike equipment. The
Krupps, TO whom she gave the work
turned out the U-9 and the U-l6, each
l42 feet in length. These early sub
mersibles had a surface displacement
of 2S5 tons and n submarine displace-
ment of 800 tons. The final form OF
the submersible made in Germany was
the double hull cigar shaped bow ano
, stern, able to resist an enormous by
drostatic pressure.
During this worldwide activity or IN
, vention New York, In the memory Of
: the semi-centenarian, sometimes ad-
: vanced and sometimes refrigerated
} This sort OF indecision It Is which ha'
made the inhabitants Of other Amer
e can cities proclaim It In their civic
4 envy an overGroWn village. II Is true
- that in unimportant details the me-
5 tropolis sometimes Jagged. For In
stance, Boston and Chicago we're get
I ting their mornings milk in glass bot
a ties some time before New York's OLE
= fashioned milkman, who sold loose
milk. had gone the way Of antiques
Il He was coming q mornings to th0s
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established. was set up in Boston. To-
day the American Bell Telephone Com
pany, which is practically in control
of the worlds telephone business. has
in this country alone hundreds Of thou
sands OF miles in use.
AT this time. about 1888, Edison,
the king of electricity. sat for his
photograph in Falk's gallery at 94s
Broadway The photographers had a
keenly intelligent and scientifically di-
rected mind. and out of the conversa-
ton he held with the inventor there
came TO the studio little phonograph
provided with a few cylindrical rec
ords on wax, and Falk was instructed
how to make new ones. For time
tho photograph business lansuished in
the absorbed attention this new toy
demanded and received.
II was an excellent place for getting
and recording voices, this Photographic
studio, then the most fashionable and
celebrated in the country. Every
great actor, singer and statesman
would be apt to sit for a portrait
there at one time or other. and It is
possible Edison had reflected on the
peculiarly valuable publicity this
would gain for his photograph. II
he did the event proved him right
Ocean Rivalry.
Among other celebrated persons who
made records for Falk and Edison In
what would now be thought a very
crude way was the divine Adelina
Patti. And on the day the diva sang
few bars to the accompaniment OF
the studio piano who should be in the
next room, eagerly straining his ears
to hear. but one of the present forty
year old grist, at that time a callow
youth in the last stages OF high school.
The Patti record, unfortunately, met
with injury or destruction in a short
time (before the diva left the coun-
try). but It was impossible to get her
to come back and make another. The
wax cylinders. so perishable and sub
tect 10 accident, were soon to be dis
carded and replaced in time by the
diamond disk, but Mr.. Falk is said TO
have several famous records, made on
the former In these early monograph
days. in his private collection.
A few years before the monograph
made its entry the North German Lloyd
Line was running few small steam
ers across the Atlantic In what ap-
peared to be hopeless rivalry 70 the es-
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were hoping TO hear before they
reached Rome of the success of that
gentleman's negotiations with our
Government. TINS was the beginning
Of the machine gun for the perfection
of which many clever inventors were
toiling. The Hartford inventor, who
gave his name to the first one in gen.
eral use the Calling gun, won out.
From the Calling gun to the Lewis
gun in use by the British and Ameri-
can armies, took thirty years.
Recent history has brought to any
kind of warlike inventions a universal
interest. The submarine boat, the tank
the armored automobile, the torpedo,
smokeless powder. poisonous gas and
the masks that are worn to render 1t
innocuous, are some OF these. They
do not, indeed. date from the world
war but long before, and many of
them are gifts, blessed or cursed. as
one looks upon them, OF the last forty
years as regards their present develop
ment Poisonous gas in war has been
known since four centuries before
Christ, and experiments with cotton
rags soaked in acids and afterward
washed in clear water TO produce an
explosive which gives out no smoke
are old but, of course, they do not GO
back like Greek FIRE, TO the date OF the
Peloponnesion wars
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From the first horseless carriage in
vented by queer genius in Kokomo,
Ind. to the present highly advanced
motor machine needs no review, but
people who remember when 1t was
first seen on the streets of New York
are hurt il you call them old for they
are as alive and as active now as
they were then. It's first reception
was not hospitable-passenge were
afraid of It, The forty-year- re-
calls with a smile the thrilling story
related to him at an evening party
by a lady who had dared the dangers
OF one of the first taxis. Her driver
did not know very well how to handle
the machine and when 1t arrived at
the door OF the house he could not
stop It to permit her to alight. He
drove past the door, turned round
and tried again, but still the thing
would not stop. When this had &C.
CURED six times and again the taxi
was approaching the desired door the
lady gathered her courage and her
skirts in her hand. opened the door
and leaped out while the weird vehicle
was still in motion.
The beginnings OF the submarine
were attended with almost as much
I derision as those of the dying ma
chine or aeroplane. Inventive minds
were working on It frbm the seven
teenth century. In Holland In 1924
DIR. Cornelius Van Dribble built q
wooden shell, decked 1t over and COW
cred It with leather. aiterward fittine
1t with adjustable weishtN 90 that Il
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Life In the Ago of Busties.
At about this period also (when
Daniel Deronda" was the much
talked OF serial novel; the first arc
lamps we're erected on tall poles and
had their little day Cor night OF splut-
tering and knocking and making more
weird noises than they made light.
Then the beautiful marble palace OF
A. T. Stewart still stood at the corner
oH Thrty-fourth street and Fifth ave
nue. and the private house OF the re-
Gently deceased Waldorf Aston occu-
pied a s!te which now makes part or
the Waldorf storia Hotel. It was
the day of hustles and big balloon"
sleeves for thG women and shirts with
separate cuffs for men. A decade was
to pass before some tailoring genius
found out that it was a good idea 10
build a coat shirt-that is, one which
buttoued down the front. all the way
and a man felt safe 10 comb his hair
before he put II on.
Life in these good old days. these
brave old days. wasn't half bad, and
New Workers as a class are not TO be
blamed for hesitating to adopt new
ways. The people" as Is we'll known,
never invent anything, and most OF
them have 10 be forced into using new
ideas and new coRtrivRnces that their
smarter brethren may try to put over
on them. This hesitanCy works fairly
well in q large community. Model
cities are not necessarily the most
agreeable 10 I've in. and II we were al
/ forced to adopt the total Of inventions
/ that are hled IN month in the Patent
| Office few OF us would ever attain the
/ dignfied age Of fifty years.
( Anyway we progress; in a crab
like way, perhaps, but still we do
progress Nothing and nobody is sta e
| tiUnaTy, not even Mrs Grundy. Tha:
person, since she was introduced to
the world in an early English play
has gone along changing with the rest
OF us. Establish a system OF ethics,
however different, and she changes
with II and compels one to follow Il
Once she calmly viewed the actions OF
gentlemen who drank themselves un
Ger the dinner table. now she aims n
rut out of the pale the bold man who
dares to take a cocktail before din,
ner. This is progress. And VINO shat,
say that New Workers. born in the
year OF our centennial who change
their habits as frequently at least as
they change their houses have not
shown wonderful fortitude In accept
ing as parts OF their daily lives tn,
J gifts Of forty yearAS y
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Most Marvellous Products of
GeniusEvOlved SinCeMOve-
ment Was Started 40 Years
Ago to Close the Patent
Office in Belief Everything
Had Been Invented
By WILLIS STEEL.

the days OF Jake Sharp, and he used
to sing "a little later) with the other
kids, wait Till the Clouds Roll by,
Janey!" He rode on a velocipede be-
fore the sissy safety came into
vogue; with his first savings he
bought share or two in the Biograph
Company and for long time thought
he had lost his money. He saw tho
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Crawford and his bride. Mary Lee,
daughter OF Robert E. Lee, and our
Consul to Lisbon, were fellow passen-
gers. The conversations OF this group,
to which he was welcomed frequently,
turned to the invention OF a gun which
should IRE a dozen bullets in success
sion with one loading. It had been
worked out by the noveiIst's father-in-
law and the youthful bride and groom