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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
REPEAL 1T

No NOR vicious piece Of legislation has been enacted in
years than the utilities act placing the authority for the regula-
ton Of rates and quality of service of public service corpora
tons in the hands Of a state utilities commission.
Ct was this commission that increased the street car fare
it is this commission that will pass upon the application Of the
gas and electric company for an increase in its rates; it is this
commission that eventually must determine what rates may be
charged by telephone companies.
The talk Of an extraordinary session Of the legislature per-
sists. In the event it is called by Gov. Roberts we hope he will
incorporate in the call the repeal Of the act creating the utilities
commission. 1t has served no useful purpose. 1t has permitted
the public service corporations to abrogate contracts and violate
agreements entered into by the people and the corporations.
A lot Of our present ills are attributable to the disposition
of the government, national, state and municipal, to disregard
the rights of the people, and leave them without voice or power
in the regulation Of their own affairs.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
PUNISH THE GUILTY

The American people will manifest in every possible way
their resentment against the brutal and inhunan punishment
administered to American soldiers confined in prison camps.
In the first place the punishment has been out of proportion
to the seriousness OF the offense, and no doubt many OF the men
any intentional wrong. 1t seems that the very men to whom the
greatest leniency should be shown are the shining marks for the
severest and most undeserved Punishment.
Among the number that suffered at the hands N the Ameri-
can officers was a soldier, scarcely more than a boy, who, for
some minor infracdon of discipline, was sent to prison. He
escaped, joined the ARM OF one of our allies, and won the
French croix de guerre. While on leave he was recognized,
returned to prison and subjected to ~indignities that not even the
Germans would have heaped upon an enemy prisoner.
The amazing feature of the revelation is that only a few
subordinate officers have been court-martialed for cruelty to
prisoners. The most celebrated is the famous Hard Boiled
Smith, a lieutenant. Smith claims he was carrying out orders,
and the sergeants and others under him claim they were carry
ing out his orders. None Of the officers higher up have sf-
fered inconvenience for the cruelty administered by officers
under their jurisdiction, Some Of them were visitors to- the
prison farms, but failed to discover anything that was d Election
able to their idea of proper discipline.
smith asked the congressional committee before which he
testified to investigate other prisons, and assured the committee
that it would find the one in his charge a model of leniencv by
comparison. The committee should make a thorough investiga
ton OF all prisons, and the inmates should be encouraged tc
testify freely. The entire system should be developed ant
exposed. The American people resent bitterly the tactic,
employed by the men who felt that they were performing
/ patriotic service in breaking the spirit of the men. 9
The responsibility does not rest with a few of the type o
Hard Boiled and it is as much a crime against the sense o
justice for the guilty officers to escape as it was to administer
such ~unheard-of punishment to the prisoners.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
WINONA PEOPLE ARE
BOOSTING GOOD ROADS

WINoNA, Miss, Aug. At is evil
dent that good roads are as important
to the people Of the state as good rail-
roads, which fact has focused the at
tention of the people of Mississippi
upt) the good roads Of the state which
are now under construction, as we'll as
a number that have not been surveyed
or laid out.
II is proposed for the last chief link
to start at Columbus, running west In
an alT vt an air line passing through
StarRvine, West Point, Eupdra, Win
ona, North Carrollton. Malmaison,
Greenwood and on to Greenville, and
later on to Texarkana, Ark, there to
connect with the Bankhead highway
leading through Memphis. Tenn, ia
Birmingham, Ala. The link when com
pleted will give us good road connec-
tons on the east~with Starkville, Co
lumbus, West l0int, Gulfport and
Nashville, and on the west with North
Carrollton, Greenwood, Greenville, Tex.
arkana, then over the Bankhead high.
way to Hot Springs, Little Rock, Mem
| phis, Nashville and Birmingham.
DR.. j. f. Dean. of Carroliton. ha.
advocated this route for some TIM
| from Columbus to Greenville. Walker
Wood, of this city, Is working on plant
for a good roads convention to be helt
at Winona In the near future to star
a concerted action in favor of this pro
posed link.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
The Public Be SerUed
Closed Shop Does
Not Mean More Pay,
States TerLisner

The building trades Or CLOSED
shop card win not force higher figures
on buildings, according to H. g. Terlis-
ner. business manager Of the Building
Trades council. "At this moment
said Mr.. Terlisner Monday, mo wage
increase is expected, except in two in
stances, the bricklayers and hodcar-
riers. Their request was introduced
before the first OF August.
IAN the building trades card win DO
is to make a building either all union
or all nonunion.
I'VE anticipate very little trouble az
the gentlemen on the other side are as
much interested in having peace ana
stability as we are. At the present mo-
ment our unions are growing by leaps
and bounds far above our most SAN
guine expectations. In n year there
will not be a n|onunion craftsman OF
any kind In Memphis. In two years
all labor in the United States will be
organized. 1t would be we'll IL the gem
tlemen of the other side would recog-
nize the signs of the times.
There is no way to stop the or
ors died, labor would organize any
how" continued Mr.. Terlisner. The
future belongs to organized labor ana
to oppose ii would be as futile as to
try to sweep back the tides of the sea
Poets, inventors, writer's, teachers,
all who do useful lapoF, belGng IN the
ranks of the workers. All will even
tually organize and affiliate with the
olher teilers.'
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
DESCRIBE ELABORATE
PLANS AT LIVERPOOL

LONDON, Aug. 4.-The elaborate
military preparations to protect the
city and port of Liverpool are thus
described by the correspondent OF the
Daily Mail at that city under date OF
Sunday:
Soldiers, each carrying a hundred
rounds of ammunition, guard the pub
lie buildings. Four tanks are on the
square outside st. Georges hall. The
square is filled with motor wagons and
~ambulances. and there is a strong
guard on duty. Hundreds of soldiers
are on the stems leading up to the
hall, It resembles a scene when the
British had taken oyer a French town
during the war.
Several thousand troops are quar-
tered in various parts Of the city, Gen.
Snow. commanding the western dis
tfict, has arrived TO take hold OF the
situation. Off the port at the request
of the authorities are the battleship
Valiant and two destroyers,"
A strike Of one Of the branches OF
the Associated Locomotive Engineers,
involving 600 men, failed to entirely tie
up the Southwestern railway this morn
ing. The strike was called soon after
midnight. The superintendent OF the
Southwestern stated today that the
majority Of the steam trains a left
Waterloo station and that the entire
electric service was operating.
The company later made an an
nouncement that train service" may
be considerably restricted and trains
are being run as engines a be founc
for them.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
JURY TO
PROBE RACE WAR
Work of Naming Jurors to
Hear Gases of Men Held
Under Way.

CHICAGO, Aug. AFTER the calmest
night in the black belt for more than
a week, work was begun today of Sc
Letting a grand jury before which will
come the cases of white men and ne
groes who are accused OF participation
In the race riots which caused the death
Of 20 negroes and 10 whites, n the
injury TO hundreds.
The coroner has fixed the number of
dead at SO and the city health com
missioner has found that sos people
injured in the riots were treated in
hospitals. lie expressed the opinion.
however. that perhaps 400 or more who
were injured in the riots never re-
ported at hospitals and consequently
the total number Of injured will neveI
be known officially.
With the exception of an attack or
Capt, A. R. W%ehrheim, Fourth reserve
miiitlaf who was fired on and stabbed
by three negroes, and the forming OF
q white mob In the stockyards district
early Sunday, no outbreak of conse-
quence has occurred since Thursday
The captain was severely wounded but
will recover, Six hundred whites were
dispersed only after a machine CUR
mounted on an automobile had appeared
and inilitiamen with fixed bayonets ha5
| prepared to charge them.
While police were slowly being with.
drawn from the negro district, and
the bars were let down for whites ii
that section yesterday, the sheriff was
swearing In former soldiers as specia
deputies and expected to have between
1000 and 1000 on duty in the riot zones
today,
1t has definitely decided that negroe:
will not be re-employed at the stock.
yards until I'll feeling between whites
and blacks has subsidized.
Two fires, one in a garage and on,
In a house vacated by negroes, boil
in the black at n possibly of In
cendiary origin, broke out last nigh
but the damage was not great.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
British Pageant
MemOrtGLizes War
Deeds Of Fleet

LONDON, Aug. 1.-The important
role ~ yed by the British sea services
during the great war was commence
rated today by a naval pageant on the
Thames, the day marking the fifth an
niversary Of the historic mobilization Of
the British fleet, Plans for the event
while giving recognition to the allied
and associated powers, laid stress on
the fact that this a a purely British
occasion and the Union Jack and the
banners Of st. George. st, Patrick, st.
Andrew and st, David predomlnated In
the decorations along the riverside,
Tower bridge was the point selected
for the start OF the ive-mile procession.
Owing to the fact that the space be-
tween the Thames bridges in somewhat
limited, II was impossible to include
large vessels In the pageant but the
procession lost nothing OF interest be-
cause of this.
Days when the Thames was the
kings highway" and when the people
OF London used boats just as their
descendants of today use taxicabs were
recalled by the appearance Of King
| Georges royal barge. This craft was
built more than goo years ago for Queer
Mary and King William and was richly
| ornamented with crimson and gold.
In planning the celebration efforts
were made to symbolic the develop
ment of Great Britain's naval power and
typify the connection between the navy
and the mercantile marine.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
CHURCHVILLE NEGROES
HEAT M OF MOB

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, Aug. ~
Churchville, a suburb occupied entirely
by negroes, was in a ferment Sunday
night over reports which have gained
circulation that they are to be attacked
by a mob of whites some time before
morning.
Few Of the hundreds Of negroes LIVING
in the affected section went to theft
beds but gathered in groups and excit-
as can be ascertained there vas moi
the least foundation. for the wild re.
ports which are probably the outgrowtf
OF recent race troubles at Chicago and
| Washingt n,
Excited negroes have appealed to the
hut no attention has been given these
requests, possibility of trouble beine
| secuted by the officers.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
.CLEMENCEAU EXPLAINS
STEPS ALLIES WILL TAKE

COPENHAGEN. Aug, A.-Premicr
Clenlenceau, president or the peace con-
ference, replying to a wireless message
from the Italian military mission AT
Budapest, declares that the supreme
council OF the peace conference does
not intend to interfere In the Internal
policy OF the Hungarian government and
adds that Rumania VIII be asked to
halt her forces on the line which has
been reached and will not be asked to
withdraw her troops to the line fixed
on June 10 until the new government
at Budapest has strictly confirmed the
conditions OF the armlstice between
Hungary and the allied powers, ac-
cordlng to a Vienna dispatch received
here.
The Italian commander, Y is said.
has sent q reply to NJ. Clemenceau
stating that the new government Is
prepared to fulfill the armistlce oondi-
lions as speedily as possible and that
IL requests the alliedI and associated
| powers TO lend support by each power
sending one regiment to Budapest. II
Is suggested that this be done In sucf
a manner that the movement OF troops
| should not partake of the nature OIL
Intervention. but would be more Q
| voluntary demonstration.
A Budapest dispatch received here
| reports that the Rumanian commander
has notified the hungarian militar,
authorities that a Rumanian commits,
| sion is on its way to Budapest to ne
| ~rottate an armistiCe.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
MRS. WILLIAMS GIVES
PRIZES TO RED CROSS

YAZOO CITY, Miss, Aug. 4. (Spl)-
Mrs. John Sharp Williams, OF Benton.
this county, has distributed to five OF
the Mississippi Red Cross chapters 800
each of the $500 which came to Missis-
sippi as a portion of the $40, 900 Nobel
peace prize awarded to the late Col
Theodore Roosevelt and donated to the
war work Of various kinds by the bene-
ficiary.
The $500 fund which was set aside fol
work in Mississippi a placed in the
hands of Mrs. Williams, who immediate
ly decided to use 1t in the home servio'
to the families Of soldiers by turning ]
over to the stated Red Cross chapters
where she thought the amount woul(
do the greatest good. One hundred dol
lars of the money went to the Hind'
| county chapter.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
BAPTIST LECTURER AND
NOTED WRITER DEAD

KANSAS CITY, %Aug. 4.--Rev. viii
liam G. Archer, lecturer and writer and
a member Of the ministerial alliarteh Of
New York city, died here yesterday at
the home Of his daughter Mrs. Will
liam M. Campbell.
He had been prominent in Baptist
missionary work In the Middle West
for nearly 90 years. He was born in
Newcastle, Ireland, rs years ago. He
has hade charge Of churches in New
York, Washington Denver and cities
In Kansas, Colorado and Illinois.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
SUNDAY CLOSING WILL
NOT HURT CIGAR TRADE

The Sunday closing Of United Cigar
stores, inaugurated in Memphis last
Sunday, Is bound to mean some finan-
cial loss where there are soda fountains
in the stores, but the plan will work
out to the satisfaction of all - time, l..
y. Lubbering, district sales manager of
the stores, said Monday, II 40 not be-
lleve we will lose anything On the cigar
trade" he said. Our customers will
buy enough cigars and tobacco on Sat
urday to tide them over Sunday when
they know that we will not be open
Sunday"
Later on the Saturday business of the
stores will he increased by bargain Of
fers OF different kinds, Mr., Lubbering
said.
United Cigar stores have been closing
their stores in various places on Sun
day for years, but the practice has just
been started in the South.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
IOBlON COUNTY HOLDS
SHORT PRIMARY ELECTION

UNION CITY, Tenn, Aug. 4. (Spl)-
The county primary Saturday for sher-
if, trustee and assessor resulted as
follows:
For sheriff-Watt Cherry, a returned
soldier, won over his opponent, t. z,
Noah, by Sc votes.
For trustee, Armour Ratliff, who just
| got home from hospital in France 9
lacerated by a bursting shell, was
nominated over seven candidates by q
large majority-500 votes at least.
For county tax assession Will Noaf
seems to lead his opponent, ]. H, Robey,
by a small majority, though both claim
| the nomination,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
COURT TO BE ASKED
FOR MONUMENT FUND

BRoOKHAVEN.. Miss, Aug. A. (Spll
A. M. Summers. of the
Sylvester .Gwin camp of Confederate
Veterans, as called a meeting OF the
camp at the courthouse In B~rookhaven
for Wednesday, Aug. 6, for the pur-
pose OF appearing before the board OF
supervisors of the county and present.
ing a petition for an appropriation by
the county to assist in the erection OF
mittees appointed by the Brookhaven
camps Of the United Daughters Of the
Confederacy and Sons of Veterans will
meet with the veterans. Ind assist An
presenting the claims FOR the mont
p,ent to the hoard.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
BAvARlAN COMMUNIST
CHIEF NABBED IN PARIS

BERLIN, Aug. 4. (By the Associated
Press DIR. Max Levien, Bavarian
communist leader has been arrested by
Italian patrols in the Brenner pass
while trying to make his { cape into
Italy.
A dispatch from Berne early in July
said the Swiss police had been advised
from Germany that Or. Levien had
been arrested at Wiesbaden, Levien
fled from Munich early In May and
The Bavarian government offered a re-
ward of 80, 900 marks for his capture.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
Charge
LIVERPOOL CROWD

LIVERPOOL, Aug. ERiotous crowds
we're driven from the streets Of this
city this morning by troops charging
with fixed bayonets. The rioters filled
the streets during the night and It was
not until daybreak that the soldiers
we're ordered to charge. The cruiser
Valiant and two destroyers have moved
docks.
The employees OF bus and tramway
lines failed to report for work this
morning. No notice Of a strike had
been given but II is not believed that
pathy with the p~ollcemen's' strike.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
MAKES TROUBLE
FOR BOSTON Man

who e; Claims q: meS 10 be a newspaper writer wr !
and who now resides in Highland
Heights with ,his wife and four chill
dren, was arrested late Saturday by
Detectives Hagen and Griffin, charging
him with being implicated in the theft
OF an automobile.
three months ago on O charge of hav-
ing forged checks In Holvoke, Mass,
but was released on a habcas corpus
a~rannndipC
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
CoWARDLY

About the most puerle and nauseating spectacle that has
come to our attention is that Of the Chicago Tribune. that vigor-
Gus, violent, persistent and uncompromsing assailant Of the
South, in its spineess, characteress and altogether inconclusive
comment upon the fighting between the whites and negroes in
Chicago. Never lacking a remedy, often suggesting federal
intervention, describing the South as a country of savages, and
denouncing this section in its entirety for every isolated case of
mob violence, the strongest word the Tribune can say of the
racial warfare in Chicago, in sight of the Tribune building, and
inspired by Tribune propaganda, is What Are We Going To Do
About IT." Why not apply some of the remedies so frequently
and venomously suggested for the South?
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
YAz00 COUNTY AGENT.
v FINE GOLD WATCH

YAzOO CITY. Miss, Aug. T. tSpl)-
w. r. Ritch, county agent Of Yazoo
county, on the last day of the session
Of the farm demonstration agents OF
Mississippi at the A. & M. college the
past week, was presented with q hand
some gold watch and chain by the 9TH
err agents present as a token Of I'll lr
regard for him and for the work he IL
accomplishing, not only for Yazoo coun-
ty, but forl the entire state Of Missis-
sippi as well. He has taken an active
lead In the state In cooperative ship
ping, SOY bean culture n in lamb club
work. originating the latter idea, which
ID proving very attractive to the boys
and girls OF the state as well as very
profitable.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
KUN REACHES VIENNA
AND WILL BE INTERNED

COPENHAGEN, Aug. 4.-Bela Kun,
deposed Hungarian soviet leader, has
arrived in Vienna where he Will be
put in an interment camp, according
10 a dispatch from Vienna received
here,
Thor Szamuely, who recently was
reported with two others to have upset
the Bella Kun government and to have
assumed a dictatorship, either shot and
killed himself or was shot down by
gendarmes who stopped him at the
frontier, according to dispatches from
Berlin and Vienna. Szamuely was said
to have been carrying a large amount
Of money.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04

RIPLEY. Miss, Aug. 4. Tsp. )-Large
crowds are attending the series Of in
spirational addresses and concerts being
given by the chautauqua people here
for three days. Aug. l, 2 and 4. On
Sunday DR., Hutehins, of Detroit, Mich.
one Of the lecturers on the program,
held union services at the tent, and his
sermon-lecture on "The Making Of q
Man" was said by many to be the best
address ever delivered In Ripley.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
LODGE OF SORROW.

RIPLEY, Miss, Aug 4. (Spl)-The
Ripley Masonic lndge will hold a lodge
Of sorrow at the grave Of Capt. A. G,
Rucker in the Rucker cemetery, a few
miles north Of here o. sunday, Aug, 10,
at 3 o'clock pm, Capt. Rucker died on
Jan. Q. 1919. at the & of 96 years,
and was the oldest white man in Tip
nah county It the time Of his death.
He served as captain In the Civil wal
was a leading Mason and was prominent
In county affairs, having held several
offices nf trust.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
APPEAL o MEXICO.

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 4. CBy the AS
ISOLATED Press,)-Mexican political lead
ers who. throughout the war, e~spoused
the allied cause, at a banquet yesterday
voiced the plea, of the proally Mexican
faction that in view of attempts to
bring about foreign Intervention in Mex
lean affairs the world powers should APP
ply the same principles regarding the
rights Of small nations to Mexico that
they fought for during the world war.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04

ct was the big, expensive, shiny cars that more ofep rolled
by with just one or two occupants. The little fellows, the prole-
tariat, overlooked even to the running board. Smiles, grinS,
laughter; bright flashes OF repartee; sunshine and the picnic
atmosphere. You found them on Michigan avenue this morn
ing,e says the Chicago News in telling how the autoists helped
the pedestrians to get toNwork during the street car strike. 1t
is much the same everywhere with the big, expensive cars and
the little fellows, 1t is the same spirit that causes the rich to
build a wall around his spacions premises and the poor to make
a commons for the children out Of their little yards.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04

The prediction made by some of the medical men that there
will be a recurrence of the Spanish influenza this year has
aroused considerable apprehension. Some parents have decided
not to send their children away to college this fall, as they want
to be near them and nurse them through their approaching
illness. This is the sheerest sort of buncombe. No one knows
what nature of maladies we shall be afflicted with or how serious
it will be, but the prospect is that we shall continue to stay
we'll, suffer, die or get well in about the same ratio as in the
past, unless we are unduly excited or alarmed, in which event
there will be a higher mortality rate.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
MUSICAL NORMAL CLOSES.

RIPLEY, Miss, Aug. a. (Spl,)-Prof.
L. D. Morris, one of the foremost sing
ers, composers and song book publish
ers of the South. will close his 20-day
musical normal at Finger, in this coun-
ty, on Tuesday, Aug. 5. An interesting
musical program will be given by Prof.
Morris class on Monday night, Aug. 4.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
HOGS BRING N

NEwBERN, Tenn, Aug, 4. (Spl.)-
Ben. f. Fuller and Ben Fumbanks have
shipped 10 the National Stockyards
at East st. Louis, H.. 1875 head of hogs
from the Newborn markets. The hogs
averaged l65 pounds each. which topped
the market at 22 cents a pound. The
Newbern territory has increased the
growing OF cattle and hogs 50 per cen
for the past year, Sam Fowlkes, an
other farmer, shipped 10 head the