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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24

eleven states which produced the
highest percentage of men physical
ly fit for army service.
A compilation shows that Arkan.
sas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas
Colorado, Arizona, Iowa, North and
South Dakota, Pennsylvania and Vir-
giania furnished the highest per
cent of perfect manhood in the first
million men to go into service. Only
three tenths of one per cent of the
men in these states were unfit for
service.
Six of these eleven states are in
the West. One is in the Eastern
section of the country, and four are
in the South and Southwest-that IS
below the Mason and Dixon line.
The compilation would indicate that
the physically fit come from no par
ticlar section of the country. The
far west states are among those
which had the highest percentage of
unfit, while the record of physically
fit in those states east of the river,
taken as whole, was not extremely
high, though few were in the lowest
class.
Prohibition does not seem to have
affected the number of physically
fit to any great extent. Pennsyl-
vania and Louisiana, states which
until very recently were extremely
wet, have high percentages Of ply
steal fitness. The other states in the
eleven are dry, but numerous other
dry states-Georgia, Maine, Wash
ington and Montana among them,
have high percentages of unfit.
On a whole the showing is remark
able. Even in those states where
the percentage of unfit was highest,
the figures range but from 1873 to
3.39 per cent. This, according to the
standards by which the first million
men were judged, shows that all over
these United States, the young men
are in splendid physical shape. The
percentage of perfect physical men
in European countries where the
standards are much lower, is not
nearly SO great.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
TWO GERMAN VIEWS.

While President Ebert of Germany,
in remarkably sane speech for Il
German, was exhorting his country
men to help rebuild their Fatherland,
Baron Haddenhausen, German diplo.
mat at Buenos Aires was giving out
a statement of the old German
junker type. Germany will never
pay the indemnity" says Hadden-
hansen at Buenos Aires. "The time
will come when Germany will regain
her old place of supremacy"
While he was saying this Ebert at
Weimar was admitting defeat, de-
claring that the end had come for the
old dynasty and the old state form
and pleading for his fellow citizens
Ito lead Germany back, in work and
order, to a rebirth of the Father
land.
The two statements indicate what
"a big difference of opinion there is
in Germany today on the future of
their homeland and the part she must
play in the new world. Fortunately,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24

! those who side with Ebert seem. tc
be in the majority, and if they main
tain their control, it may be possible
for Germany to rebuild herself and
once more become a member of the
family of nations, living in peace
with her brothers. Germany can
never do this if men of the ilk of
Haddenhausen shape her future. For
there is no supremacy for Germany
such as she sought. If Germany is
supreme in Europe in the future,
that high place must be gained by
peaceful means.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
DICkMAN'S MEMORY.

General Dickman has remark
able memory or he is over confident.
He says that he was through the Big
Bend district in 1885 and remembers
all the strategic points thoroughly
and is familiar with the territory.
That was nearly 35 years ago.
There are very few men who can
recall the Typographical features of
a country after an absence of So
years. Residents of a town can re-
member where the old tavern stood
and where the log building that was
the home of the First Methodist
church was, but that is because they
have lived close by and watched the
changes and have been constantly re-
minded of them.
If General Dickman's memory is as
remarkable as his quoted statement
would seem to indicate, he is in the
wrong profession. He should be
writing books of "reminiscences and
selling them to the men he used to
know. He surely can remember the
names of many people he has met,
and if they are dead, he can go to
their children and peddle his tale,
saying that it twas your fathers
dying wish that this be perpetuatcd
in printed FORM"
That is "racket" that has been
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
Froug Style Show
Here September 10

The second annual fall style show
of the Froug store will be held this
year at the tabernacle at Tenth and
Main. The show will be held Sep
TENDER 10. No admission will be
charged but admission will be gained
by tickets obtained at the Froug
store. The show last year was held
for two days at the store, but the
facilities for handling the large
crowds were not the best, thus de-
termining the decision to hold the
show this year at the tabernacle.
Special stage settings and music
will be features together with five
living models.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
Germany Returns
French Material

Paris, Aug. 23.-Germany, accord
ing to reports reaching the bureau
of industrial reconstruction, has re-
turned to France $4,000 tons of ma
terial taken during the war. A SIM
liar quantity is being loaded for ship
ment
Three hundred thousand pieces of
French machinery, it is said, already
have been identified in Germany.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
To Raise $12O,OOO
Here for Baptists

jefferson county's quota in the big
drive to raise $3,265,000 for the Bap-
fist church in Arkansas will be $lZo,-
900, word from Conway yesterday
said.
Contributions will be sought on
five pledges with annual payments.
The date for the opening OF the cam
paign has not yet been announced.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
Subscription Rates
"THE PROPAGANDAVIkI."

Within these last few months the
United States has developed form
of pestilence that is about as bad as
our much abused bolsheviki.
These are our propagandists. We
have them in large numbers and
within the last few months from
offices in Washington and New York
they have been flooding the country
with pamphlets, booklets, advertise
ments and publicity matter, each en-
deayoring to influence the public to
advocate government action on varl-
Gus subjects.
If we followed the advice Of all of
these bureaus and induced our gov
eminent to do as they wish, we would
soon have the following local and ma
tional matters of moment on our
hands.
A war with Japan TO protect our
Pacific interests and to keep Cali
fornia free from coolies.
A war with Mexico to protect oil
and mining interests which are
American and British owned and to
keep Germany from getting hold
on the hot tamale republic.
A war with England to set Ireland
free.
An army in Ireland to keep the
Irish from overrunning British inter-
ests.
Food commissions in Jugo-Slavia,
Czecho-Slavia Poland and all the
new nations to feed an indefinite
lass of hungry people and to help
American business men sell big lot
of foods at high price.
A large army in the United States
and a strong militaristic policy.
A small army in the United States
and policy opposed to militarism.
Strict laws against regulating the
packing industry and preventing
them from usurping the business OF
grocers and others.
No laws regulating the packing in
dustry and allowing them to go into
any business they choose.
Laws guaranteeing owners of rail
road securities a profit of six per
cent.
Laws turning railroad profits over
to the brotherhoods.
A six-hour day.
A four-hour day.
These are but a few. Then there
are the smaller propaganda schemes.
These are operated by the prohib'-
tionists, the liquor interests, the
anti-tobacco cranks, churches, mer-
chants, farmers, Boy Scouts and
others. BY each of these we are
urged to be in favor of something, or
to do something or not to do some
thing.
Some of this propaganda may get
results. Most of it, of course, Will
not. The big point about it is that
it is a nuisance. 1t wastes paper
and ink, it keeps hundreds of people
busy who might be working in the
wheat fields, the mines or picking
cotton. It keeps the high cost OF
living up, and worst of all it cutters
up the mails.
Just now we need the mails for the
army bacon and beans our people are
buying. Soon We'll need our mails
for garden seed and the congressional
record and the letters that were SEM
to France and will be coming back
The propagandists ought to bs
regulated; or they should have
strike and get "tied-up." Anything
to put stop to their garruilty.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
NEW CLEBURNE SHERIFF..

Little Rock, Aug. Ex-Governor
Brough yesterday appointed Emmett
Baldridge of Pearson. sheriff Of Gle
burne county, to succeed j. W. Duke,
resigned. The appointment was
made on the recommendation of Sher-
ia Duke and a number of Governor
Brough's friends. Mr.. Baldrldge
made the race in the last election
against Mr.. Duke and was de1eateo
by only SO votes. He is 4 farmer,
81 years old.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
Use Gasoline to
Balk BlOOdhOunds

Tucker, Aug: 23.-Lawrence Philpln
and Irwin Wheeler, convicts have es-
capped from the state farm, it was an
nounced today. The two men soaked
their shoes in gasoline and made it
impossible for the bloodhounds to trail
| them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24

Governor Brough is eminently cor
rect in deciding that the state shall
pay for the special session if one is
held. Private interests never should
pay for legislation affecting any po-
litical unit.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
VISITING COLORADO.

Colorado Springs, Col, Aug. 23.-
Among Arkansas tourists here this
season are A. N. Tindall and Mr.. and
Mrs. O. NJ. Young, all of Stuttgart.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24

Pretty tough on new England
golfers when a 17-year old Georgia
"cracker" and man from way out
west in Pittsburg fight it out for the
championship of the United States.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24

worked to financial success by men
with much morse memories than Gen.
eral Dickman.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
INVESTIGATE STATE WATER.

Little Rock, Aug. 23.-The United
States Public Health Service has sent
S. Pincus, sanitary engineer, to
cooperate with the state in an in
vestigation of Arkansas water sup
ply.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
Member of Associated Press

The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24

The Newspaper Enterprise Associa-
tion's News Features are carried ex-
clusively by this paper in Pine Bluff.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24

When the attention Of The Graphic
is called to any misstatement Of facts,
or to any error concerning any man
or thing, correction will cheerfully be
made.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
PLAN PROFITEER LAW.

Little Rock, Aug. 23.-Gov. C. H.
Brough today named a committee to
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24

Every little town in Arkansas has
an aero business all it's own.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
ARKANSAS MEN FIT.

Il is interesting and gratifying to
note that Arkansas was among the
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24

CO mn il ,s" r furnishing p,,s
t to 'es s0YTs sa and 'l p, :,
81 submitted to tb proposed N
the Legislature 'e Special \
str 9"s 10 Of vs the leader. + J,
of thirty-five ' vesr. vassn
the boy orator "a '9 Of 4, !
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24

Entered at Postoffice at Pine Bluff,
Ark, as Second Class Mail Matter
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
Daily Graphic
Published by the
ADAMS PRINTING co.

Issued Every Morning Except Monday
Corner Main and Barraque.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22

in glass of Coca-Cola, than there
is in a cup of coffee. Then why
not attack coffee too. Why discrimi-
nate? Almost everybody drinks cof-
fee, and we have never heard of the
asylum being filled with coffee drink
ers nor jails with coffee drinkers, or
Coca-Cola drinkers. If we may ac-
cept the verdict of chemists, Coca
Cola and coffee are on a parity. To-
bacco is far worse than either. We
witnessed the injection of little
nicotine from tobacco into dog, and
it killed the dog too dead to skin.
Aside from its injurious effects, to-
bacco is positively filthy. 1t does not
look like any decent man would use
the filthy weed, but we do. We could
go on indefinitely, but this is suffi-
cient to allow Brother Rucker to un-
derstand our position. We are not
fishing for minnows, like Coca-Cola.
We prefer to tackle the big fish,
Commerce News.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22
SAME WEAK SPOT IN
TWO BIGGEST NATIONS

San Francisco, August 20.-World
Trade Club of San Francisco is re-
ceiving daily a large number of let
tiers from English-speaking people all
over the world, pledging support to
the campaign for world wide adop-
ton of the metric units meter-liter-
gram.
A Lieutenant-C Colonel in the British
army who is still stationed in France
has written World Trade Club as fol-
lows:
"You may be amused at the follow
ing story of a conversation of mine
with two officers of the U. S. Ameri-
can Ordinance Department with whom
made dear friends. / said: There
is one thing about the United States
which, when / realized it, filled me
with horror and contempt This
made them sit up and wonder what l
was getting at. However, they quite
politely asked me what it was, without
knocking me down. ! replied: You
use to your disgrace the same CHASTITY
weights and measures as we do
Another typical letter comes from
the pastor of a large London church.
He says of the metric system: II am
convinced that it's exclusive use would
create a greater unity among the
worlds nations, both commercially
and socially, and would therefore be
potent means of the continuation
Of peace. Therefore, | hope that your
efforts to this end will be repaid with
success"
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22
A NERVOUS
BREAKDOWN
Miss Kelly Tells How Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Restored
Her Health.

Newark, N. J.-"For about three
wears | suffered from nervous break
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22
Your Blood Needs
z Z 70 q
NOTICE

/ have received blanks under the
new pension law. All of the class OF
Ex-Confederate Soldiers who have
been barred from receiving pensions
on account of the property qualifica-
tons are now eligible, and all widows
of soldiers who were married previous
to January 1, 1881, may now apply.
All applicants must have been resi-
dents of Georgia on Nov. a, 1908,
must prove six months service in Con-
federate or State Troops, and show
an honorable discharge. This can be
proven by one witness, when he knows
all the facts. When you come to
make your application, come pre-
pared to complete the same. All ap-
plications must be completed and in
my office not later than Oct. 25, next
to participate in 1920 pension.
Don't wait until the last.
This August 18th, 1919.
J. M. Gam.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22
MADE HELPLESS
BY RHEUMATISM
EIRON DID TITS ksaiseky sssusnaa Msss
eOod Than AnJ Othsg nedielas.

Eight years ago ] was down vita
rheumatism" writes N. J. HutcNersoa,
Of Tomkinsvflls. Ky. Il was halviesa
for three months, unable to even iced
myself. Doctors doctossd nae and not
up. but have had bad health ever saaea,
with soreness and weakness across nay
back and IA my arms end lAea. I final
~ took Ziron. and Il has aaaa me
more good than any medicine Z have
ever taken, and I intenA 70 taxa more
Of It. for & 10 the best msdloias S~eg
used. have found 4 just what e Il
recommended to be. and ana ready %
tell other suffering peopas that &gSGa
helped me. and anxious 70 apeAh 0
word Of praise for It."
Ziron acts on the blood and has been
found Of great value In Rhanms4ism,
Indigestion, Ansmia and General
Weakness. Ziron puts iron into the
blood, and from 10 needed By your exe.
tenn to make you stroag and healthy.
Ask your druggist about the guaran.
tee on the frat bottle.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22
500 Reward, 500

The readers of this paper win be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
Influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease. giving the
patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing it's
work. The proprietors have so much
faith in the curative powers OF Halls
Catarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address 7: J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo.
Ohio. Sold by all Druggist. 75c.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22
ANSWERING JOHN
(From Commerce News)

(From Commerce News)
We copy herewith, an editorial that
appeared in recent issue of the AL
pharetta Free Press as follows:
"In last weeks paper we repro
duced an editorial, John and George
from the Commerce News and gave
notice that we would answer it this
week.
Editor John Shannon, of the Com
merce News, has long been known
as bright newspaper man and a
spicy writer, and his blows on an
evil in his town or section have often
been felt to the extinction of the
evil.
"Judge John Ross, of Winder, has
informed John Shannon that Coca
Cola is filling thousands of towns with
nervous wrecks and dead weights in
the business world. Shannon does
not deny this, but counters by saying
that he has more important business
for the present. This is not the BIZ
BILE standard for a Christian editor.
Where, in the Holy Book, can we find
line which says overlook one of
the worst evils of the day in order
to go bravely against another evil?
at requires no courage NOW to
fight whiskey-everybody's doing it.
Even the politicians are against whis-
key, and are asking for Office be-
cause they are against it. Some of
them formerly were soaked with the
stuff Time was when we could not
get one of them to open his mouth
against demon rum, just as today we
can hardly get politician to open
his mouth against the demon Coca
Cola, which is doing in Georgia a
thousand times more harm than whis-
key. Even the preachers seem afraid
to tackle the Giant. If you push
one of them he will dodge or use a
blanket expression something like
this: 4 am against all these soft
drinks So that, if you drink lem
onade, or a health-giving grape juice,
or eat an ice cream which is made
of natures. own food, eggs and milk,
you will place yourself in the same
class with those who take that cursed
stuff commonly referred to as the
DOPE which Judge John Ross de-
scribes as being worse than opium,
and we agree with him.
every well informed, intelligent
man in Georgia knows that this stuff
is habit-forming drug and that it is
holding in its grip thousands of men,
women and children. In this state
it is destroying the nerves of tens
of thousands, and it ought to be pro-
hibited by law, just as opium is pro-
hibited In cities there are Coca
Cola dispensing places to which thou
sands of young women flock like the
buns used to flock to the barrooms.
They are slaves to the habit. They
cannot quit it because they have not
the will power to do it.
"The Free Press believes the very
existence of the race is threatened
by this damnable stuff, and every
newspaper and every preacher in the
land ought to cry out against it. All
this sole drink talk about Coca-Cola
being an innocent little drink, similar
to coffee, is false and deceitful. 1t
is a monster that is gnawing at the
vitals of our best homes, and we
ought to go after it with our pitch
forks.
"God alone knows why all the
preachers have not denounced this
evil. They seem to be afraid of it.
Over at Cumming last month the
Methodist people in their district
meeting, demanded that the Metho-
dist Publishing House at Nashville
refuse to publish Coca-Cola adver-
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22
1.-THE SALT OF THE EARTH"

Where would any town or county
be without few public-spirited men
and women to keep certain things to
the fore? Conyers and Rockdale
have a few men and women who work
year in and year out at this and that,
always something for the public well
fare; as a usual thing they get little
encouragement and few thanks, but
hey go on-and right there is the
salt test. The real honest-to-good-
ness public-spirited man or woman
goes straight ahead in spite of every
thing.-Conyers Times.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22

uOWA 1AAA 6OS ~
weak / could hardly
stand, and had head
aches every day. !
tried everything l
could think of and
was under a ply
sician's care for two
years. A girl friend
had used Lydia E.
Pinkh ans Vege-
table Compound and
she told me about
it. From the first
day I took itIbegan
to feel better and
now | am well and
able to do most any
kline of work. I
have been recon-
mending the Com
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22

pound ever since and give you my per
mission to publish this letter. Miss
FLO KELLY 476 So. 18th ST., Newark,
N. ].
The reason this famous root and herb
remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, was so successful IN MISS
Kelly's case was because it went to the
root of her trouble, restored her to
normal healthy condition and as aresuit
Nr nervousness disappeared.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22

Charity's argument is short, but il
has a long reach.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22

A humorist says the joke that ISM
private is no laughing matter.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22

If a boy doesn't like his mother
he is hopeless case.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22

The dog who speaks with it's tail is
something of wag.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22

A woman's conscience is almost
as elastic as her tongue.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-22

All work and no plagiarism is apt
to make dull sermon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-27
PLATTEVILLE.
The Journal says:

The Journal says:
Mrs. AL. Pitts was taken seriously
i'll last week with appendicitis, at the
home of her sister near Muscoda. DR..
Cunningham was called there Friday
evening and operated on her She is
improving nicely now and will soon
be able to be brought home.
Mr.. Crawford and daughter Of
Portland, Ore, are visiting at the
Strong and Cuff homes. They made
the trip here by automobile and had
an exceedingly pleasant journey They
motored with relatives here, to Au-
rora, Ill, for visit with the Strong
family there.
Mrs. Annie Reiser has been expect
ing for several months the personal
effects Of her son Bert, who died in
France Nov. 81 of cerebral meningit-
is. They arrived last week and aside
from the official notification Of his
death and burial place, is is all the
message she has had from any mem
Der of the army, notwithstanding the
fact that letters were written to the
Commanding officer of the company.
the chaplain of the company the Red
Cross in France and the war depart
ment in America. She has never re-