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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-07-11
DECENTRALIZATION RIFE
IN The POSTAL SERVICE
congressman Flooded With Letters
Demanding Resignation of
BurlesOn.

hlnSton-Complete demOraliZa-
ton of the postal service under the
direction of Postmaster General Bur
Lesson is becoming so apparent to
members of Congress that it is not
unlikely that after the return of the
President pressure will be brought to
bear upon him even by Democrats to
remove this member of his Cabinet
from office.
Congressional mail is filled with an
tagonism. Complaints, protests, CON
formations and even imprecations are
made. All classes of patrons of the
postofilce are heard from. The hum
blest individual as we'll as the largest
business enterprise has been disas-
trously affected. Postmasters at small
offices are driven to their wits end in
making apologies for the service and
the administration they are ashamed
of, and Representative and Senators
have been apprised of this. In some
cases the poor service and its causes
are so apparent and impossible of jus
tification that postmasters have re-
signed in disgust, tired of handing out
explanations which fail to explain or
satisfy.
Complaints have often come from
patrons at offices where the depart
ment only pretends to furnish a suf-
| ficient number of employees to serve
the public and long lines of people
| are at the window they desire to use.
The clerk is often at another window
| doing something else he has been told
| to do The cause is said to be that
the addition of the parcels post, with
its burdensome labor, the multiplicity
| of conflicting orders from the central
department, the frequent notifications
of rules that follow changes of system
and the numerous reports made to
headquarters, all tend to keep the of
| fee force jumping from one thing tC
another while waiting public won
ders at the penuriousness of Uncle
Sam and the reason for it all. AL
this in the Congressional mail
In the big cities where the mail is
delivered from house to house by car
riers, the dweller is given by the de-
partment to understand that more eff
cient service can be rendered by few
err carriers. Two or three deliveries
day will require less shoe leather
than four. Perhaps the busy maj
should not be annoyed with so mucl
mail service. The same kind of logi'
is said by numerous correspondents t
apply to the farmer the newspape
and the periodical. Rural free de
livery routes have been reorganized
reconstructed, relocated redfstricte
and revamped in style to stifie eff
: fcient service. The conclusion ha
become general that the department
is run for the department and not 70
the public. Hence the louder volum
of Congressional protest,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-07-11
WHICH Is THE MOST
GENEROUS MONTH !

A battle of the months has just
opened in Chicago, Illinois. Mrs Wal
ter s. Brewster, vTce-Chairman of
The Fatherless Children of France,
nationally known for her war activi-
ties, and recently appointed to find
American godmothers and godfathers,
ut 10 cents day, for 100000 little
French war waits, started the contest
by asking warm-hearted men and wo-
men to donate $500 in the name of
their birthday month"; sum which
would care for little war orphan for
thirty whole days.
AS the returns come into the offices
at Room 634, 40 South Michigan
Avenue, Chicago, score is kept and
daily announcements made as to tn
standing of the different months. Up
to date, August--Mrs. Browster's owr
months in the lead, but July il!
stealing up on it,
Each little French war orphan re-
ceives tiny pension of 10 cents .
day from the French Government and
THE Fatherless Children of France, i"
an American organization co-operat-
ing with a similar one in France, of
which, Marshal Joffre is the head
seeks to provide an additional 10
cents day to keep the little soul and
body together, feeling that these little
war orphans are truly wards of a
world made safe through their faith,
er's sacrifices.
Groups of the ~ months are being
formed from the individuals sendins
in birthday month donations, and a
child assigned to each group as its
godchild, who will write regularly
and think with gratitude of those who
| have made its sad little life happy
| again. These birthday groups are
being organized in many citnes, ant
if group lacks one or two months
Of completing its circle. Mrs. Brew
ster will furnish these members from
headquarters.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-07-11

"oh who are they?" cried Dolly,
almost frightened.
"Those are Indians" said the Fairy.
Don't be afraid of them. They Will
not hurt you. They are dancing the
Harvest Dance. Sometimes they call
II the Corn Dance. Long years ago
there were many Indians in this coun-
try. They had dances of dierent kinds.
In the fall, when the corn was all
gathered, they would dance to show
how glad they were that they could
have plenty of food for the winter. The
women - they are called squaws -
dried the corn and then ground it up
into meal"
81 didn't know there were any In
dams in our garden" said Dolly
"They are only in the dewdrop,
said the Faiary. 81 just wanted you
know why it is called Indian corn.
The Indians had a funny way OF
knowing when to plant their corn in
the spring. They said-'We plant 1t
when the oak leaves are as large as
SQUIRRELS ears That means you must
not put the grains in the ground too
soon. They should be planted about
May OF June. Some vegetables, you
know, can be planted as early as
March. The radish is one. But then
you can keep on planting radlshes and
gather one crop after another
1.-THE Potato Fairy told me just how
to plant potatoes. Next year | shall be
big enough to have a garden and
should like to know that the different
kinds of seeds like"
well, I'll tell you how corn likes te
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-07-11
GREAT DISTRESS
IS NOW REPORTED
THROUGH armenia
Geat Suffering From Lack Of Food
CrOwding Forced by Guards ut
Turkish Boundary.

The following graphic description
of conditions IN Armenia is from prl-
vate letter written home by a mem
Der of the American commission for
relief in the Near East:
Karaklis, April II, 1919.
] don't believe you can find this
place on a map, but it is about 20
miles due south of Tifiis and 40 miles
due east of Alexandropol. 1t is in the
present republic of Armenia, which is
really Russian Armenia. 1t is my sta
ton, permanently, for the present.
And it is my town, for l am the only
American within 40 miles. They drop
ped me here on the Sth to take charge
of the whole relief work in a district
about 80 miles long and some 20 miles
wide.
/ found three centers already or
ganized under an Armenian who
Speaks English more or less and is
pretty good organizer. In these three
centers there are about $4,000 re-
fugees, absolutely destitute. They have
no money and there is no work for
them for the natives are in almost as
bad a fix as they. They are clothed,
more or less, in the most variegated
patchworks of rags. Their food con-
sists entirely of the -four and rice we
give them and the weeds that they
pick on the hillsides and boil. We
give them one-quarter pound of -four
and one-quarter pound of rice day,
except when the -four gives out, and
then we give them one-half pound of
rice. That is the best we can do for
them. They boil the rice with weeds
and with the -four they mix hot water,
making a thin paste which they eat
/ with no seasoning whatever 1t is more
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-07-11

Public health is one line, of national
defense. The gospel of good health is
being preached by/Red Cross nurses
from Chautauqua pltforms in Ohio
Indiana and Kentucky. During July
and August hundreds of people will be
urged to take the Red Cross courses
In Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick
so that girls and women everywhere
may have elementary training as a
defense against future epidemies.
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n. Stsr;e4 I he 0e4saLssPe >1cea
PART II. THE VERY TALL FAIRY.

be planted" said the Fairy.
"In the first place the ground must
be plowed. l hardly think you could
do that, but l will tell you so il any
one asks you, you can know what to
say. Then the ground must be mdae
into good food for the seeds. People
buy what they call FERTILIZER for
that. Can you remember such long
word?"
"Ill try" said Dolly.
"Then the corn must be planted in
rows about feet apart. notice that
the corn in your garden is put in just
right. In big field it can be planted
in long rows, but in smaller garden
like this 1t is best to have it in kind
of block. 70 usee, there is fine yell
low powder that grows on the corn
tassels. 1t must fall on the silk of the
young ears so they will have plenty of
grains on them. Unless the stalks are
near enough together this powder is
wasted and then there Is no good
corn"
"Is the corn silk like your hair?''
asked Dolly.
Yes, just like it."
81 think it is lovely" said the little
girl.
THANK you very much. Well, when
you get the first roasting ears from
your corn do you think you can re
member all | have told your
81 think can, said Dolly. "And !
shall never forget those funny Indians
Just to think how many wonderful
things there in garden. How. glad
| am that l can see the Dewdrop Fair
! ies."
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-07-11

economical and also more possible
than making bread. had some of the
stuff the other day, only mine, being
especially elaborate, was covered with
"oil", which seems to be rancid, melt
ed, sleeps butter. That is the near
est thing to butter there is and costs
60 rubles ($3) a pound!
The natives are no more fortunate,
There are $4,000 natives in this part of
my district and they are in desperate
need of food. Even the rich go hun
cry, because there is nothing to be
had, hardly, and what little there is
costs outrageous prices. The ruble is
worth now about five cents, but that
doesn't at all represent its purchasing
power. Bread used to cost three to
Ave kopek 600 kopeks equal one ru-
ble) Now it is two to five rubles a
pound. Imagine paying % cents for
one pound of bread! Honey (Which,
by the way, is excellent) is 25 rubles a
pound. In Tifis paid $l.45 for cup
of cocoa and an ordinary piece of cake
so cents for three fried eggs, and
saw pair of boots, much like those |
paid $3.50 for in the States, which
were priced at $40.
Just at present there is desperate
need of seed in this district for unless
the farmers get their fields planted
pretty quick there will be another
winter of starvation. And every day
all day long, pitiful stream of hun
CRY humanity passes through our Of
flee. You ought to see, or rather you
ought not to see, the suffering that is
indelibly stamped on their pinched
faces. They live in the most miser-
able novels or dugouts, or n the open
air, and yet they have the courage tc
try to keep their habitations clean
Practically every family mourns al
! least one, more often three or foul
persons massacred or died of starva
ton. Alexandropol 40 miles west o.
here, Is a city of 10000. There arr
in addition $4,000 refugees there now
| A month ago they were drying on thu
streets at the rate of 200 day,
h-fiaafirO ?(cHi$Iemothe0O1 fig CMl
You ask why this is? Because Tur
kish Armenia, where all these peopl
belong is either entirely vacant, o
else inhabited by Turks and Tartars
All the Armenians are either in thi
section or else near Aleppo, in Syria
Now they are trying to return home
but they, are met by guards at tn
Turkish boundary and turned bach
So they keep piling up in this regio
by thousands. When peace comes an
the region Is settled by an arme
force they can return, but by that tim
seed-time will be past and there will
be no harvest In the fall, for you ma,
be sure the Turk will not leave an.
fiourishing crops In Armenia when h,
goes. Oh, for a couple of American
armies to police the Turks out of Ar
menia now and establish some sort o
! protection until things are settled!
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-07-11

The Public Ledger is authorized to
announce DR.. w. S. YAZELL as a can
didate for the Republican nomination
for Representative from Mason Coun-
ty in the General Assembly of the
State of Kentucky at the August Pri-
mary 1919.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-07-11
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Public Ledger is authorized to
announce Mr.. c. Calvert Early as
for Representative from Ma
son county, Subject to the action of
the Democratic voters at the August
primary, 1919.
, 1919-02-27
new AUTOMOBILE
FUEL IS WANTED
Something Must Be Found Within
the Next Twenty Years to
Supplant Gasoline.
SUPPLY NEARLY EXHAUSTED
Germany Has Demonstrated POSSIBLE.
ity of Driving Motor Vehicles With
Benzole-New carburetor Must
Be Devised.

At the present rate of consumption
the motor car demand for gasoline can
hardly be supplied for another 20
years.
When we think of power we are apt
to think of steam engines and of coal
shoveled by grimy stokers into fiery
furnaces. Few realize that our gaso-
line engines, those that are used on
the farm and on the water as well as
on the road, generate more than twice
the power of all our steam plants. Our
pleasure cars alone drive us through
the country at a staggering total ex-
penditure of S5,0o0,OOO horse power.
If all the gasoline engines in the coun-
try were to run every day for only
ten hours a day, u gasoline supply
would be exhausted in a month.
Germany Uses BenzoIe.
1t is abundantly evident that within
the next decade a new fuel must be
found for the motor car. Germany
has demonstrated the possibility of
driving motor vehicles with benzole,
a by-product obtained in the manufac-
ture of coke. But since benzole is not
produced in sufficiently large quanti-
ties and since, moreover, it is required
in the manufacture of explosives, dyes
and chemicals, it is not likely to take
the place of gasoline.
Kerosene must drive the motor car
of tomorrow. Unfortunately, it does
not vaporize so readily as gasoline.
Nor can it be efficiently utilized for
road locomotion in engines that now
consume gasoline. New feeding de-
vices must be invented; a new, simple
type of carburetor must be devised !;
a new kind of engine must be created.
All this motor car manufacturers have
~foreseen. For many months their re-
search engineers have been at work.
When the price of gasoline reaches
go cents or more a gallon the kerosene
motor a will appear.
Crude Oil %DwindIing.
Since the crude oil supply of the
world is steadily dwindling, the inven'
ton of a satisfactory kerosene engine
must inevitably prove but a makeshift
which will tide us over for a decade OF
two. What then? Either the alcoho
engine or the electric storage battery
will be intensively developed for me
chanical propulsion.
, 1919-02-27

A simple but rich-looking toilette is
among the new displays of suits and
dresses for spring, but with all its
simplicity 1t reveals two original and
very effective style features that are
noteworthy. The first of these appears
In the combination of two very differ
ent satins., The plain skirt is made of
n of those heavy, lustrous, supple
weaves, much used for separate and
sport skirts, and the smart and rather
elaborate coat is fashioned from n
heavy satin such as we have been ia
miliar with for years. There is no
rivalry between these two dissimilar
satins, but it Is unusual to see them
used together. Just how successfully
they may be associated appears in the
suit for spring shown above.
This is a formal suit that will hold
its own for afternoon or restaurants
dinner wear, and prove useful for 9TH
er very different occasions. The skirt
and coat may part company-the skirt
serving with various blouses for any
smart, informal dress, and the coal do
ing its efficient part with u cloth skirt
Or one-piece dress in lighter fabrics,
merely as a coat. 1t proves to be an
, 1919-02-27
AUTOMOBILE STUCK IN MUD
Instead of Jamming Down AcceIerator
Shift Into Low INT Give Wheels
Chance to Catch.

1t is a natural impulse when the
car stalls in soft going to jam down
the accelerator to get all possible pow
er from the motor. But if the car has
stalled because the e wheels cannot
take hold in soft mud and are slipping
around, this is moi the best way out.
The whirling wheels simply dig down
deeper. 1t is better, after shifting into
low, TO let the motor run at compare
lively low speed and edge the clutch in
gently. This will give the rear wheels
a better chance to take hold. Often
one can get out better under these cor
ditions If there is n load in the rear
seat.
If the wheels continue to slip at
slow speed, 1t becomes necessary to tie
ropes about the rear wheels or to
throw straw or brush under them.
With a light car one can often help it
forward by placing M end of a stout
plank or pole under the rear axle and
with the leverage thus gained lift it
forward while another applies the
power OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
, 1919-02-27

interesting garment with details of cut
and decoration that bespeak consider
able effort on the part of its designer.
The body of the coat is merely a
blouse opening at the front to the
waistline and closed there in the man.
ner of a surplice. 1t has a rolled col
lar, faced with or having an over
collar of white satin. The sleeves are
gathered into a very deep and eccen-
trio cuff of satin, with three satin-cov-
cred buttons as a finish. The picture
describes 1t better han words can.
The skirt of the coat is rounded at the
fronts and laid in two deep inverted
plaits at each side. These form point
ed panels over the hips that widen
from the waistline to the bottom. The
panels are decorated with embroidery
In two colors, one of them the same
as that of the coat and n of them a
light, contrasting color. The girdle is
shaped with points outstanding at each
side, over the underarm seam.
The front and back of the coat are
prettily finished with narrow silk braid
in parallel rows, starting at the waist
line and terminating in little satin-cov-
cred buttons at each side.
, 1919-02-27
SYRUP

Why use ordinary cough remedies
when Boschee's Syrup has been used
so successfully for fifty-one years in
all parts of the United States for
coughs, bronchitis, colds settled in the
throat, especially lung troubles? It
gives the patient a good nights rest,
free from coughing, with easy expec-
toration in the morning, gives nature
a chance to soothe the infiamed parts,
throw off the disease. helping the pa
tient to regain his health. Made in
America and sold for more than half
q century.-AdY. .lL ~. -Iu-
, 1919-02-27
SMALL BOY STEALS A HITCH
Youngsters May Be Kept off Spare
Tire Holder by Use of Strip
of Spiked Metal.

The cry of our childhood, "whip be-
hind! !" is out of date, but the need for
a substitute is very much here. Boys
have a trick of stealing rides on the
spare tire holder, when it is in the
rear of the car; this is bad for the tire
holder, and it may be much worse for
the boy if he happens to fall off at the
wrong time. A strip of spiked metal
material, such as frequently adorns
park ratings and similar places, may
make the tire holder too uncomfortable
a seat even for the ambitious small
boy intent on stealing u hitch.
, 1919-02-27

Simply attach the cutting machine to
the automobile, and let the car pull
the cutter across the ice.
Lest the a skid on the slippery
ice, the two back tires should be re-
moved and iron rims with spikes on
them substituted. AS an extra precau-
ton, put chains on your front wheels.
One man runs the automobile and
the other guides the machine. If your
friend is good natured, let him trot De-
hind with the cutter handle in his
hand. If he is not, do it yourself and
let him run the car.
Provided one has the facilities, 1t is
quite possible for two men, one au-
tomobile, and a cutting machine to do
the work of many ice cutters.-Pop-
ular Science Monthly.
, 1919-02-27

About this time jewellers In the
northern states begin to watch for the
first robins, and others of the early
signs that spring is or the way. Long
before the hardy and daring red-brenst
pipes his cheerful prophecy of sum-
mer, the first spring millinery has
enchanted us with the same prophecy.
It is made for those who leave the
lands of snow to Journey to lands of
sun, but they are not the only people
interested in 1t. Spring hats are al
Turing In midwinter and some of them
find their way TO heads that have no
thought of j%ourneying South. The
spring styles are tried out on southern
tourists and the fashions c~rystalized
by the hats worn at the famous winter
resorts.
Here are three of the new patterns
that are destined to make successes
in all localities, first because of their
excellence, and next. because they are
not unusual, but beautiful and becom-
ing shapes that with little modifica-
lions, are worn every year.
AT the top of the group there Is
a little demI-season hat of ribbon and
straw OF the sort that makes its ap-
pearance in January for the benefit of
tourists. II the weather Is at all ia
vorable 1t goes strong in northern, as
well as southern attitudes. 1t is of
black lisere-a highly lustrous straw
and narrow grosgrain ribbon. A
broad quill OF glycerined ostrich trails
out from the side crow and defes
, 1919-02-27
SWAMP ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre-eminent as a medicine for
.ursble ailments of the kidneys, liver and
bladder.
DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the
upon thousands of distressing cases.
Swamp-Root makes friends quickly be-
cause its mild and immediate effect is soon
realized in most cases. 1t is a gentle,
healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at all
drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medi-
I'm and large.
However, if you wish to test this great
preparation send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer
& Co, Binghamton, N. Y, for a sample
bottle. When writing be sure and men.
ton this paper.-Adv.'
, 1919-02-27
TRACING A LEAK OF VALVES
Packing Very Frequently Becomes
Soft and Trouble FoIIows-Ex-
anime All Gaskets.

In overhead valve engines, where
the valves are carried in removable
cages, gaskets r used to give a tight
joint when the cage is screwed in
place. This packing very frequently
becomes soft and the result is a leak
around the valve. which may be diff
cult to locate unless one is aware of
this likelihood. Similarly in multi
cylinder engines the gaskets used at
the point where the intake manifold
joins the different cylinders should
be carefully examined whenever the
manifold is taken off, as leaks are
likely to develop here.
, 1919-02-27
Neek!y Health Talks
ACID IN THE SYSTEM
BY LEE H. SMITH, NJ. D.

Uric acid is now generally recog-
liZed as the cause Of more diseases
han was heretofore believed. When
he kidneys are out of order uric acid
accumulates within the body in super
abundance. The disordered kidneys
10 not filter the poisons out of the
blood, as they ought to do, and so the
,5oisons remain ir the blood and float
around until they find a place to
.odge, in form of urate salts. The
thing to remember is that you may
nave rheumatism in any part of the
oody-you may have pains anywhere
your back may ache and your head
may be dizzy-but the trouble is not
where the pain appears.
The trouble is in the kidneys, and
what is the first thing to do? You must
ret that excess uric acid out of your sys-
.em, which can be done by taking Anuric
Tablets, the splendid remedy which DR..
Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y, has put on sale
n the drug stores at a low price. Anuric
Tablets (made double strength, when
taken into the system as medicine, have
the peculiar power of dissolving the uric
acid deposited there. Drop a bit of sugar
or salt into hot water, and it will disap-
pear. In precisely the same way do these
Anuric Tablets dissolve uric acid. OF
course, after Kidding the system of uric
acid, it may return again unless you eat
the right foods and live the right kind OF
life, but DR.. Pierce will advise you fully
on proper food and correct living If you
write and ask him. He makes no charge
for such advice. Take Anuric Tablets to-
day, by all means, and get that uric acid
out of your system. Don't, don't, don't,
put the matter of.