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The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-21
EDITORIALS.
TAKING A CHANCE

NEARLY everything of vital consequence in this
world was accomplished by men who were willing to
take chance. All advances in science of govern
ment in development of invention in commercial ex-
pansion, in scientific mining in extraction of values
from minerals, were made by men who were willing
to risk things. Of course the money chanced would
have been safer put into town property and increased
in value by slow growth of population suggested
recently by contemporary; but even at that their
town lots would not have increased in value very
greatly had not someone else come along willing to
take risks and develop such enterprises make pos
sible growth of towns
When men put money into development of a
mine, they taking chance-whether it be an
iron mine, copper mine, tin mine silver mine
gold mine. But the world must have all those
metas-and many others-and somebody must risk
to get them Without them there would be very lit
tie doing
When men put money into project for develop
ment and utilization of petroleum by drilling for OIL
they are taking chances. But the world must have
gasoline benzine, aniline dyes and crude petroleum
for internal combustion engines and the power they
produce, with many other things that byproducts
OF the oil Industry and somebody must take risks by
drilling down into the bowels of the Earth to find it.
And when oil is developed in great commercial GUAM
titles there towns built in the field wherein ground
that once went begging at one dollar per acre is
divided into lots which sell for thousands of dollars
per front foot Had not drilers for oil taken chance
there would have been chance at all for the lot
buyer who sat tight and became rich upon results
brought about by success of those who did take
chances Without the risk there would have been no
oil we without the oil well there would have been
no town. Without the town the fellow sitting tight
upon the town lot would have had nothing to sit tight
upon At least not there, in that town. But the same
law holds good everywhere. 1t is who take risks,
make opportunities, who give impetus to industrial
and commercial development which are the very
mainsprings of town building
And even the fellow who sits tight upon town
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-21

UNCLE SANS as slick as wax is and he's in a
class alone; when he asks me for my taxes, dig up
without groan; oh, l dig the hard-earned money!
put in sack of gunny and with smile serene and
sunny carry him the buck and bone. And I'd do it
still more gayly if he didn't waste it SO; people tell
me, hourly, daily, that our Uncle burns the dough;
he blows in the precious roubles like a drunkard
blowing bubbles, caring little for the troubles that
their earning made us know. 1t is wrong, 0 Uncle
Sammy, all our struggles to forget for the dollars
cold and clammy we have earned in toll and sweat
you are welcome, when you need 'em, in the sacred
Of freedom, but yourealy shouldn't feed em to
the cows, already yet We have earned them at the
forges we have earned them pitching hay; we have
earned them digging gorges in the hard, unyielding
clay; we have earned them digging 'taters, we have
earned them steering freighters and it jars us to our
CATERS when you throw the scads away. Uncle, let
there be an ending to the carnival of waste quit this
jamboree of spending, quit it all, with seemly haste;
save the taxes and the wages, that on the SHIN
ing pages of the works of future sages your redemp-
ton may be traced
Copyright by George Matthew Adams
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-21

q = y y y ~ ~ ~ ~ "
. EDITORIAL NOTES
> o o o o o G
BAPTIST preachers are threatening to 60 on
strike They say $500 per annum (the average
nua stipenD is II sufficient for leading sinners
to repentance by the water route.
A GENIUS is a man who when he accidentally
says good thing can make his hearers believe it
Intentional.
-O
HE hath tied knot with his tongue that he can
not unite with all his teeth.
HE who cannot ride gentle horse must not at q
tempt to break wild colt.
THE lamb has no choice when in the Jaws of
wolf.
-O-
IT'S hard to swim against the stream and it =
takes strong man to do it.
1T is hard for anyone else to please the man
who is well pleased with himself.
-O-
WHAT awful change is must be for the ice
man when he dies.
MOST people like to be called bad in laughing
sort Of way.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-21

Guaranteed Electric Irons at 81. rs;
Russell Electric & Machine Company,
"33 Morley Avenue. 8:21 If
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-21

Nogales Arzopa Sunday Morning, September 21, 1919
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13
'HOLD-UP MAN
TRIES SUICIDE
After Demanding $150,009
of Teller of Bank in Heart .
of Washington, D. C..

Washington, Aug. ia hold-u
man entering the banking room of
the Munsey Trust company in the
heart of the Pennsylvania avenue
section today, pointed two pistols al
a teller. demanded $l50.000. and then
after firing one shot at clerk, turned
a pistol on himself. attempting sui
eide. He shot himself in the jaw and
was taken to hospital.
Two money orders. issued at De-
fiance, o.. were found in the hold-up
mans clothing. When he demanded
the money the teller first made a
show of counting bills, then dropped
behind his counter as the robber fred
bullet that pierced the coat OF a
clerk near by. The bullet the robber
intended for himself went through
his jaw and then shattered a plate
glass window. The scene of the at
tempted robbery was within 500 feet
of police headquarters.
The man told the police his name
was John Z. Fetzer, of Defiance, O.,
and that his uncle, Charles Fetzer,
at the same address, could tell why
''he couldn't get ahead" The man is
a mechanic, "a years old. He came
here today from New York.
The man told the police he picked
out Washington because he UNDER
stood there was plenty of money in
the capital and that a hold-upu was
easy. The hospital physicians said he
probably would recover. He said he
had been in Detroit hos
pital suffering from an electric shock.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13
M'KELLAR DECLARES BILL
ON STORAGE HAS TEETH
Explains It's Purposes Prior to
His Speech on Cold
Storage.

Washington, Aug. 13.-(Special.)- -
Preparatory to making speech in
the senate today on cold storage,
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar ap-
peared before the house committee
on agriculture, which is conducting
hearings as regards practical cold
storage legislation. He told the COM
mittee that his cold storage bill is
constitutional, has teeth in it and
would be effective in relieving the
high cost of living. He explained
that his bill is based on testimony
given at hearings conducted years
ago by Senator Hepburn, at which
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley and other food
experts testified regarding cold stor-
age conditions and abuses, demand
ing legislative correction. Senator
Mcclellan explained that the consti-
tutionality Of his bill finds its foun-
datioh In the interstate commerce
statute. and said that number of
experts on constitutional law had so
declared.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13
Sims FOR OWNERSHIP
BY TRIPARTTTE PLAN
Tennessean Does Not Regard
Operation During War
a Fair Test.

Washington. Aug. 13.-(Special)-
Representative Sims has come out
for government ownership of rail-
roads. He introduced the Plum bill
in the house, but he said he did it
by request. just as he would intro
duce any bill offered by a citizen of
the United States. At the Trinity
Civic forum Representative Sims
stated that the previous control of
the roads was not government own
ership, but merely wartime control.
Representative Sims also declared
that control by the government would
do away with indiscrininate taxa
tion of the states on railroad prop
erty A plan for payment of the
roads was also proposed, in which
sinking fund established from earn
ings would give the desired financial
necessities,
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13
ALL HOUSEWIVES HERE
ARE CALLED TO MEET
General Gathering Announced
for Courthouse Friday
Afternoon.
COMMITTEE IN SESSION
Food Probers Appointed by
Mayor Chambliss Hold
Conference,
COMMITTEE IN SESSION

A mass meeting of all housewives
OF Chattanooga and suburbs has been
called for Friday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock in the courthouse auditorium.
The object of the meeting is to give
the women an opportunity to discuss
the high cost of living problem.
The mass meeting was decided
upon at a meeting Wednesday morn
ing of the committee composed of j.
II. Anderson, Mrs. ]. L. Meek and c.
S. Petersen, appointed by Mayor A. w.
Chambliss to investigate the prices of
various food commodities in this city
and audit the books of local grocers.
The mass meeting has been called
by Mrs. Mary Giles Howard, presi-
dent of the Woman's council organi-
zation. of Chattanooga, and the ar
rangements are in the hands of Mrs.
Meek. The housewives are requested
to bring with them to the meeting,
their grocery bills for the week be-
ginning Aug. 4, and ending Saturday,
Aug. 9. From these bills the COM
mittee will be able to gain some idea
as to Just how the prices have been
running at the different stores and
markets in the city. Only the prices
on such commodities as coffee, -four,
sugar, potatoes, corn. beans and and
other staple articles are wanted.
Auditor C. S. Petersen, as a mem
Der of the mayors committee, will
have on hand at the meeting a ledger
which will contain the names Of the
grocery stores. together with list of
the staple foodstuffs. The prices
brought in by the women will all be
recorded in this record and gone over
by the special food committee. The
results will not be announced at the
Friday meeting. but will be given
out later after Mr.. Petersen has had
plenty of time to get the figures to-
tailed and the record completed.
Mayor to Talk.
Mayor A. w. Chamblss will be
present and deliver talk on the high
cost of living problem. Emil Wass-
man, as commissioner in charge Of
the markethouse, will also be invited
to attend the meeting.
1t is possible that the Woman's
council. of which Mrs. Howard is
president, will take the food problem
up and II so, 1t will be OF a great deal
of assistance to the city officials in
trying to look into the reports that
have been so general relative to local
dealers profiteering.
The main object In having the
housewives bring their grocery bills
with them at the meeting Friday as
out at the meeting of the food
Wednesday, is to see
or not there is a uniformity
If prices.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13
CONGRESS SPEEDS UP
FOOD LEGISLATION
Way Goodykoontz Sees Sit
uation of High Cost of
Living.

Washington, Aug. 13.-Congress to-
! day was preparing to speed up its
| Legislative program designed to bring
down the high cost of living. In re-
| sponse to demands not only from the
| people at large but from members of
congress themselves. the committees
before which various bills are pend
ing today had decided to grant no
protracted hearings.
1T is a time for action, not for
investigation" declared Represent
ative Goodykoontz, of West Virginia,
who has introduced in the house a
resolution demanding that the house
judiciary committee report forthwith
bills Furnishing profiteers, whether
manufacturers. wholesalers. jobhers
or retailers, and providing a plan for
reducing the money in circulation so
as to restore its value to the dollar
and prevent additional trouble be-
cause of imitation.
The agriculture committee today
received the Gard bill introduced in
the house yesterday. which provides
for "necessaries control act" which
brings under control of the federal
government foods and foodstuffs
feed, clothing, fuel. shoes and other
necessities; provides drastic penal
ties for profiteering. hoar,iing and
speculating. and otherwise regulates
trading in necessities, in accordance
with the recommendations made 10
congress by President Wilson.
1t is believed by members OF The
committee that the Gard bill. cou-
pied with the proposed cold storage
legislation, covers fairly completely
about all PROPOSALS that could be
made by the committee to the house
by way of remedy for existing condl-
tlons, and they are prepared to rush
action on these measures.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13
GOVERNMENT
CUTTING PRICES
Sweeping Reductions on Army
Surplus Foods to Be Sold
Direct to Public.
IPoSToFFICES ARE TO AID
First Come, First Served, "
to Be Uncle Sans Motto
as Dealer.

Washington, Aug. 13.-U. n. 81
The government made its first move
today in it's campaign of competition
with commercial food dealers.
Sweeping reductions in the prices
of army surplus foods to be sold di-
rect to the American public begin
ming Aug. 1S were announced by the
war department in a revision down.
ward of its original quotations. This
move by the war department fol-
lowed reduction of prices by COM
announced that the army surplus
would be put on sale. When the war
department heard of these reductions,
it announced that the army prices
would be cut and that this revision
downward would be continued.
At the same time Postmaster Cen
eral Burleson sent the following no
tice to postmastera in connection
with the sale of the food, which will
begin Aug. Is and end Aug. 20:
Il. Patrons will find the price lists
posted in the lobbies of postoffices
and substations.
"2. Prices quoted are the cost of
the articles, to which will be added
the cost of postage. Information as
to the amount of postage on any or
der will be supplied by the carriers
or postmasters.
"3. The amount of the order and
the amount of the postage must be
paid in advance.
"a. Patrons may deliver their or
ders in writing to the postmaster or
to the city and rural carriers, to-
gether with the cash.
"5. Orders will be billed in the
order of their receipt. First come,
first served.
"6. A number of consumers may
join in a single order.
a. The postmaster will promptly
refund the amount paid should there
be a shortage of any item as ordered
by the customer.
IS. Any article that is damaged
or spoiled will be replaced by the
authorities upon affidavit by
the consumer, signed by the postmas-
ter.
80. Bulky supplies, such as flour
and rice in bags, must be ordered in
the original container. 1t is not prac-
ticable to furnish a part of a bag of
-four or rice"
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13
REDS ABANDON
CITY IN UKRAINE
Withdrawal Indicates Success
of RumanianS and Anti
BOISheviki.

London, Aug. 13.-The city of VIM
nitza- in the Ukraine. IT'S miles
southwest of Kiev, has been aban-
doned by the bolsheviki according to
wireless message from Moscow. In
Volhynia, antibolshevik forces have
occupied the railway center of Lutsk
southwest of Kovel.
The bolshevik wireless message
reads:
'In the direction of Zhmerinka, we
have abandoned Vinnitza. The en-
emy has occupied Lutsk."
Withdrawal of the bolsheviki from
Vinnitza' indicates the Rumanians
and antibolsheviki have forced the
bolsheviki to retire from the line of
the River Dniester, in northeastern
Bessarabia.
BolshevIks Lose Fortress.
Vienna, Aug. l3.-The fortress of
Dubno in southeastern Volhynia has
been captured from the bolshevik forces
by the Ukrainian army. according to
ukrainian official reports received here
today
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13
THREE WOMEN REGISTER
Many Mountain Voters Have Not
Turned Out Yet.


Up to 5 o'clock Tuesday there had
been eight to register at the Look
out mountain registration booths in
the school building or city hall Out
c: this number there were three
women.
The voters on the mountain have
peen in the habit Of registering at
the incline station, which recently
burned down. Therefore it is not
generally known on the mountain
lust where the registration is being
conducted. While the school build
ing which is also known as the town
hall, is not perhaps as conveniently
located as the car station was, it is
just a few minutes walk from the
car line, and is right on Bragg ave-
nue., the main road.
The three women on the mountain
who had registered are Mrs. James
Fl. Anderson, daughter of Mrs. Newell
Sanders; Mrs. J. B. Linn, who Is as
sisting in conducting the registration;
and Mrs. Winnie Balzer. In all there
are about 300 voters on Lookout
mountain
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13
GOES ON SPECIAL MISSION

NAL Gen. Harbord Leaves for Trans
Is3a Caucasla.
Paris, Aug. 13.-(A. P.)-Maj, Gen.
James G. Harbord. chief of staff of the
American expeditionary forces. will
leave Paris soon at the head OF a mis-
sion which will visit Armenia and
Trans Caucasia, under instructions
from President Wilson. transmitted
retary OF state, to investigate condi-
rIons there from a military standpoint.
I Gen. ITarhortls mission Is Distinct and
hpart from any other now in these
toahtries. He will especially inquire
into conditions in the new Armenian
epublic and bv personn' investigation
bn the ground obtain complete infor-
lna ton indicating what questions would
be involved IN taxing over and admin
|stering that country. He also will ver-
fy sucn existing information as there
8 regarding the Armenian republic and
|other parts OF Trans Caucasus
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13
ALL FUTURE SESSIONS
ON TREATY EXECUTIVE
NV John EDWIN NENIN'l

Washington, Aug. 1S.LQ. N.
S.)-There will be no addl-
tional public hearings by the
senate foreign relations COM
mittee on the Versailles peace
treaty. The committee, COM
mencing tomorrow, will hold
executive sessions on the
treaty. Every effort will be
made to expedite action on It,
but a lengthy discussion is
certain. When the treaty was
first read by Chairman Lodge,
so soon as a disputed section
was reached the senator op-
posing gave notice of a reser-
walton, and the section was
passed One senator has en-
tered more than 100 objections.
All will have to be threshed
out before the treaty can be
voted on in committee and
either favorably or unfavorably
reported to the whole senate.
The feeling among the SEN
ators is growing very bitter
since President Wilson refused
to send the Bliss letter oppos-
ing the Shantung settlement
and the minutes of the league
of nations committee meet
ings to the senate.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13
DEBATE
GROWS BITTER
congressman Indulge in Wig
orous Partisan Blows
and Personalities.

Washington, Aug. 13.--(A. P)--De'
bate on the league of nations reached
ont from the senate to the house to-
day. Representative Hedin, demo-
crat, Alabama, in attacking republi-
can opposition to the league, told the
republicans IL they permitted "a few
members of their party to block or
defeat it there will not be enough or
you here next year to wad shot
gun"
Republican opposition came princi-
pally from states which lead in the
manufacture of munitions, Repre-
sentative Hef1in charged.
At a stormy session today the sem
ate foreign relations committee
agreed to expedite consideration of
the peace treaty. Rereading Of dis
puted sections and the consideration
Of possible amendments will begin
tomorrow.
Senator Hitchcock, Nebraska,
ranking democrat of the committee,
was understood to have told the COM
mittee that unless there was early
committee action an attempt might
be made to force vote on the treaty
in the senate.
Chairman Lodge and others were
understood to have expressed assent
to the proposal to hasten the COM
consideration, but Senator
Fall, republican, New Mexico, was
said to have taken the position that
any precipitate action would be i'm
practical.
During a later debate which
was in executive session, il was
reported members had a bitter
argument, Senator Fall, republi-
can, declaring that Senator
Hitchcock and others had ques-
toned the motives of the republi-
cans and made unfair reflections
on the committees course. Som
ator Hitchcock told the commit
tee that there was an increasing
demand in the senate and
throughout the country that the
reaty be disposed Of and he
expressed the belief that vir-
tually every senator already had
made up his mind how he would
vote.
Senator Fall gave it as his opinion |
hat to hasten ratification would be |
lnwise, as settlements to which the |
United States would be asked to as
tent still were to be determined in !
'ther treaties not yet in the hands
If the senate.
The discussion in the committee
vas interpreted as related to the in
istence for action by the group of
epublican senator's who have agreed
II a reservation program which they
'elieve will have the ultimate assent
+ the democratic leaders. They also
xpect that in their plan they will
ave the cooperation also Of Chair
nan Lodge.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13

The writ OF attachment states that
the eggs had been ''stored and
boarded for the purpose of unlaw-
fully and unreasonably increasing the
price thereof in violation OF the act
Of congress, approved Aug. 10, 1917"
A motion for judgment of con-
demnation and an order of sale for
the seized eggs In conformance with
the above mentioned act, will be made
In federal court here at o'clock,
Sept. IL, 1919. and notice is given In
the attachment TO all persons claim
ing the $500 cases of eggs. or any
right, title or interest in them, and to
all concerns, corporations or persons
having or pretending to have any
right, title, claim or interest in the
storage of them, to be present when
federal court opens on that day.
Officials OF the. Atlantic Ice e. Coal
corporation admitted that the eggs
were stored for Morris & Co., of
Chicago, but stated that there was
nothing extraordinary about the mat
ter since eggs were stored each year
In the same manner by large pack
ers. The majority of eggs in the con-
signment seized this morning were
placed in storage in July, they said.
The action this morning by federal
authorities is only the first move by
them to uncover food boarding here.
1t Is declared Other concerns which
are reported to have in store large
quantities of foodstuffs will also be
attached soon, 1t is declared.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-13
Wider Powers for Prosecution of
Food PrOfiteers Asked of Congress
Attorney General Favors $1,000 Fne$ Prosecute
H. of l. Drive Asked by and Labor Deparmen

Washington Aug. lSWider for the prosecution of
food profters asked from congress today by
Palmer, who submitted to Senator Gronna of North Dakota
chairman of the agriculture committee of the senate draft of
amendments the food control bill aimed to give him wider
thority.
Extension of the act apply to wearing apparel and the
which food feeds and fertilizers sold urged
by the attorney He also asked for the punishment by
fine of than SIS Imprisonment of than two
years. BOTH for those who restrict the production of food Un
der the of the food control it there
provisions which prohibit restriction of food produ
by manipulation of transportation markets other
The contends that there of h.
under the present BILL however, and hence his requ
a amendment Fs3
Appropriations aggregang nearly 81 900 900 with to
help carry the presidents suggestions for reducing
of living asked of congress today by the and
labor departments.