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Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
STEEL WORKERS
UNDER CONTRACT
ORDERED BACK
Agreements Must Be
Held InvioIate, Strike
Committee Rules

YOUNGSTOWN, O., Oct. 3O.-(By
Associated Press. THE national
strike committee at Pittsburg has
endorsed the stand taken by the
Amalgamated Association of Iron
Steel and Tinplate Workers that con-
tracts with the steel plants made be-
fore the strike be held inviolate and
all Amalgamated men have been or
dered to return to work, it was an
nounced today.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
40 Cents Pound For
Cotton In Atlanta

ATLANTA, Oct. 30.-Forty cents
pound was the price paid in Atlanta
yesterday for good middling cotton,
the highest price since the war be-
tween the states.
Cotton has jumped 500 points or
$40 a bale during the last thirty days.
The demand in Atlanta continues
strong with buyers apparently eager
to secure the staple at high prices.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
75C POUND PAID
FOR 800 BALES, IS
HIGH NO. RECORD

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 3O.-(By
Associated Press) price records
for half century or more were
broken on the New Orleans market
today when the first ginnings from
John M. Parker's famous Panther
burn plantation sold at rs cents per
pound. There were eight hundred
sales, the transaction amounting to
$360,OOO.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
Sanitary Sewers For
Two East Side Streets

The city sanitary department to-
day began the laying of sanitary sew
ers on Reese street, extending 500
feet between Crawford and Forsyth
streets, and on Cherry steet, extend
ing 300 feet between Elmo and For
syth on Reese street.
The sewer construction is being
done under the supervision of John
B. Ansley, city engineer.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
.6DEAD, D,l2O HURT;
ENGINEER TRIES
TOO MUCH SPEED

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30 (By As
sociated Press. six dead and about
120 injured, some seriously, is the
known casualty list today resulting
from the wreck of the Southern Pa
cifc "San Joaquin Valley Flyer" late
yesterday, near Acton, few miles
from here.
Officials said the wreck was caused
by the engineer attempting to make
too much speed on a ten degree
curve.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
Miners Lay Blame On Coal
Barons in Final Statement

''The conference of United Mine
Workers, composed Of members Of
the international executive board,
the scale committee Of the central
competitive district and the district
Continued On Page Two.)
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 3O.-Fol-
lowing is the text of the statement
issued here last night by the United
Mine Workers officials following
heir decision to let the strike order
stand;
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Noted Author, Dead

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct 30.-
(By Associated Press.) Mrs. Ella
Nkc eler Wilcox, author ana poetest,
died at her home, "The Bungalow, "
in Branford today.
She had been i'll some months, hav-
ing had a nervous collapse while en-
gagged in war relief work in Eng
and.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
Saturday and Sunday
Catholic Services Here

Services will be held in the Catho-
lie church here Saturday and Sun
day as follows:
Saturday (All Saints Day. Mass
(preceded by 'confessions) 7 o'clock.
Sunday, Mass at q:30.
Evening devotions at 3.
Monday All Souls Day. Masses,
6 80 a. M, Z a. M, 1880 a m.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
Yam Grows In Shape
OF Duck On The Water

A novel freak of nature is Sum
ter county sweet potato which has
grown in the shape Of a swimming
duck. The potato was grown by Lee
nj. Hansford, and is now on display
IN the Chamber Of Commerce head
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
Many Food And Fuel
Arrests Expected Soon

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-(By
Associated Press)- Many new ar
rests in a number of states for vio-
lation of the food and fuel control
law are expected soon by the De-
partment of Justice.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
WASHINGTON. Oct.

WASHINGTON Oct 30.-(By Associated Press. )-Revi
val of the u Fuel Administration deal with the strike
dons Dr. Harry Garfield advised the Presidents
cabinet sitting special consider the today Dr.
GARFIELD held that the of that body
the Railroad Administration, which has full power distribute
coal to essential industries and allocate coal accordance with the
preferential list effect during the coal shortage years
An executive order restoring maximum for coal viii be
issued by President Wilson probably today Officials would
what maximum had been determined upon.
At the conclusion of the special cabinet meeting Attorney General
Palmer announced that the Fuel Administration would
of the handling of coal and he would his authority
Lever to take whatever steps might necessary the
situation
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
TO
.AVERTWALKOUT
ASSERT. MINERS
Fuel Administration To Take Over Handling OF
Fuel, Palmer Announces After Special Cabinet
Meeting -Conhscation Of Fuel In Transit To
Keep Roads Supplied Ordered BY Hines.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 30-(By Associated Press Backed
by the sentiment displayed yesterdays conference the Executive
Board of the United Mine Workers today finish the prepaa
tory work Incidental to the coming strike of the soft coal
1t stated development could the strike.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
LEGION POSI- IN ALAsKA.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct 3d.
Anchorage Post, the farthest north"
branch Of the American Legion, was
organized here recently.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
The Cotton Market

LOCAL SPOTS
Good Middling SO ga cents.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
The Weather Forecast

For Georgia Shower robablY
tonight and Friday
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-02-28
FIND Me A WIFE
is PLEA TO II. S.
EMPLOYMENT MEN

A wife is the latest want which the
women's division Of tile local Office II.
s employment bureau has be- asked
10 supply \ ready made family ANA
i home await the bride-to-be.
one Dan Mendoza, late Of Naples.
sought ont Assistant Director NeoEl
Yesterday ana through his interpreter,
asked for a spouse Nobody comes
TO us for anything VIC can not supply.
least Of all to our woman's division. +"
announced Mr.. keogh. After consulta-
ton the assistant director promised
to let Mendoza know about a suitable
Young woman within the week.
The impatient employer announc-
"a that he had references. five children
and q house ana garden ready and
wished the wife in time to get the JUS
tice of the peace at once.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-02-28
CARPENTERS ARE
NEEDED BY u. S.
AT FAYETTEVILLE

4 big demand for Pensacola cstr-
penters 4 number Of whom arc now
without work, results from the de-
mand ut the government environment
At Fayetteville North Carolina
The cantonment can take care 81
an unlimited number At Il wage cf so
cents an hour for i # hour week
Board may he secured for So OF ST j.
week. according to Examiner McNeir
Of tho - s. Employment Service Car
pcnters VIII be routed via jackson lille
where I large party viii be made up
and transportation from there to Fay
ottevilIe VIII be furnished
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-02-28
NOBODY KNOWS OF
PROPOSED STREET
RAILWAY PROJECT

Neither city officials or the Pensaco-
la Electric Co. have any knowledge OF
the proposed inter urban line, connect
ing New Orleans and Pensacola. ac-
cording TO statemeots made last night
The Chamber of Commerce also has
not been notified of any step in this
direction.
Bay st. Louis, Miss Feb. 27-Dcle-
gates from New Orleans TO Pensacola,
Fla gathered here today to discuss
the municipal owned traction lime
which it is proposed to build from New
Orleans to Mobile and possibly TO PEN
sa cola.
1t is planned TO build a highway up
on which heavy trucks can move and
also an electric line paralclling the
highway. Each city touched Will put
lp its share Of the bonds to pay for
construction. The road - planned
would touch New Orleans. Slidell,
W-ayeland, hay st Louis, Pass Chris
tian. Gulfport, Biloxi Pascagoull,
ocean Springs. Moss Point Mobile
and Pensacola
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-25
w. H. M. u. AT BARRE.
Mrs. w. ]. Van Patten of Burlington
Elected President.

BARRE, Sept. 25.-One hundred and
thirty-four delegates are registered here
to attend the 32d annual meeting of the
Women's Home Missionary union and
the 47th annual meeting of the Women's
Board OF Missions. The morning session
OF the missionary union resulted with
the election of the following officers
President, Mrs. w. J. Van Patten of
Burlington; vice president, Mrs. L. d.
Burditt Of Rutland treasurer, Mrs. Max
l.. Powell of Burlington; secretary of lit
erature, +. l.. Wyman of Manchester.
The county officers elected included
Addison county, Mrs. H. II. Burge of
Shoreham; Bennington county. Mrs A.
\. Smith of North Pownal; and Rutland
county, Mrs. James c. Dunn of Rutland
The afternoon session was given to a
meeting of the Women's Board of Mis-.
sions, the main topic being a discussion
OF their overseas campaign.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-25
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE

Figures
If you know enuff figures you can
start at | and keep on counting till
you get tired or sumbody elts does and
tells you to shut up. The ony figure
less than one is 0, being so mulch less
that nobody don't hardly ever pay eny
attention to it. The more O's you put
in row by themselves, the less use
they are
: Wen people counting backwards
come to 0. they know they either half
to stop counting or start forward agen.
This is its cheef use.
Figures is very useful in helping
people to tell time. Enybody can see
ware the hands of the clock are. but
they cant tell wat they're doing there
unless they know the diffrent figures
A persin that dident know figures could
wawk thru store full of clocks, and
wen he came out he would half to ask
sumbody wat time it was.
If it wasent for figures you would
ent know wat page of book you was
up to. If you subtrack the number you
are up to frum the number on the last
page, the anser will be the number OF
pages you still half to reed in case eny
body asks you.
| Some of the things you do with fig
ures is add, divide, subtrack, multiply
/ carry, make mistakes and forget. Som,
of the best people at figures are tn,
worst at everything elts. This prove,
there's always room for Improvement
Fractions are hard bubble jointeC
figures that its no use trying to do OF
your fingers They arc 81 easv m M L.
mistakes in, its wonder more peepl
don't.
Peoples shapes is also known as thei
figures. Bowleggcd figures are tn
most intristing to look at. the most un
popular TO have, and the most impossi
bic to change.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-25
Ministers to Blame.
bennington Banner.l

The ministers of Brattleboro undertook
TO prevent a Sunday baseball game at
Brattleboro and failed. In the opinion
of The Banner ministers and few Others
to large extent are responsible for the
little attention paid to laws providing for
the observance of Sunday Vermont has
stringent Sunday law, so stringent in
fact that it cannot be enforced. Proscut-
ing officers and police forces have tried
repeatedly to secure convictions under
the Vermont Sunday law and have gener-
ally failed because the law is not backed
by public opinion and juries will not con-
Wet More than 10 years ago an effort
was made in the legislature to change the
Sunday law to something nearer repre-
senting present day sentiment and thus
to make it enforceable. The bill was killed
through the efforts of clerical and ortho-
dox lobby. A few years later similar
effort failed because of similar opposition
The people of Vermont no doubt are over
whelmingly in favor of a reasonable oh.
servance of Sunday but they will not up
hold the old Puritanical law as it is writ
ten in the statute book and the result
is that the time is rapidly approaching
when Sunday will be as completely com
| mercialized here as 1T is in some European
tcountries. When the CLERGY get ready te
permit the Sunday law to be in some de
gree representative of public sentiment
| then and not till then can the law be en-
| forced Undoubtedly when so amended, il
wouldn't stop Sunday baseball or Other
healthy outdoor amusement but it woult
| limit purely selfish commercial enterpris,
i For private gain
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-25
DADDY,)fv[NNQD
FAIRY TALE II
Av kavv Graham honner kXk4
MRS. INDIAN ELEPHANT
-6y Eary Graham l b 8 !,I.ss

Mrs. Indian Elephant performed
many fine tricks. She was great
favorite In the zoo and the children
used to come and see her. Then she
would do her fine tricks and the chill
dren would give her peanuts. They
would give her as many as the keeper
said she could have.
They didn't give any that the keeper
said not TO, for he knew If the ele-
plants had had visitors earlier in the
day who had been feeding them. And
he knew how much elephants should
eat and what they shouldn't eat.
AS the children didn't want to make
the elephants sick they used to ask
the keeper IL they could have anything
to eat that day.
Mrs. Indian Elephant had once been
in circus and the other zoo elephants
had not.
She used to tell the other elephants
the story of her circus days, how she
would go from town TO town and how
she would lead great parades. She
would describe the beautiful lady who
rode on her back In the parade for
the town and the parade for the CIR
Gus.
She would tell how she used to lie
down and wave flags and how she
could pick up the circus man and
carry him about. She used TO tell the
other zoo animals how the people
clapped, how the boys and girls would
| scream with delight.
She had seen so many, many chill
| dren, more than even came to the zoo.
"And it was funny" she used to say.
but / would think TO myself. Now in
this town we're coming to surely there
will be no children
But there always were children. IN
every single town. Yes, friends" Mrs.
! Elephant would say, II have never
been in a town where there are no
children. ] imagine a town must be
very. very rare that has no children,
and ] don't believe there is such a
/ place.
at wouldn't be a place worth visit
ing. 1 know that much. Why, no one
would want to perform in circus If
children weren't there, for children
know enough to appreciate a circus,
and while grown-ups may, too-well.
they don't like to laugh right out loud
just as hard as children do"
But one day Mrs. Indian Elephant
felt quite sad. She had been thinking
of something else and though later on
J she cheered up and forgot about IT
| must tell you what she said.
at does seem a pity" she said sadly.
"What seems pity?' the others
asked her. Tell us, Mrs Indian Ele-
plant. what seems n pity?"
1T seems a pity" said Mrs. Indian
? Elephant, that we aren't appreciated
e THAT Is, we aren't as interesting ss
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-25
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1919
THE STRIKE LEADER.

No matter whether one favors the
United States Steel corporation or its
employees who have gone on a strike
he should know something of the his
tory of William z. Foster, secretary
treasurer of the national committee for
organizing the iron and steel workers
of America. An expose of this man
was made in the house of representa-
tives Tuesday afternoon by Congress
man John G. Cooper, Republican, of
Ohio.
He stated that Mr.. Foster is one of
the editors and publishers of the pam,
phlet Syndicalism, one of the most
dangerous radical publications of the
country. He is writer and advocator
of I. w. Wism and writer for the
paper Solidarity, the eastern organ OF
the l. w. w He also has been very
active /. W. W.. worker in Europe.
Everyone knows what the /. W. w
advocates and what Mr.. Foster must
stand for as one of the leaders of that
organization. He is now conducting
fight for some of the best paid and
most intelligent bodies of labor in this
country, men for whom their employers
have done great deal for their com
fort and happiness. In substituting
for their high wages, regular work
comfortable homes and lawful protec
ton he offers the riotous, destructive
existence of revolutionists.
Here is what Mr.. Foster says in enc
of his I. W. w. articles:
The wages system is the most braze1
| and gigantic robbery ever perpetateC
since the world began. So disastrou'
are it's consequences on the vast armies
| Of slaves within its tolls that it il
| threatening the very existence of so
ciety. If society is even to be perpetu
| ated-to say nothing of being organ
i lied upon an equitable basis-the wage
/ system must be abolished. The thieve
/ at present in control of the industrie
must be stripped of their booty, ano
society SO recognized that every in
4 dividual shall have free excess to tn
i social means of production. This socia
! reorganization will be a revolution.
! In another article, entitled 'Confis
cation Without Remuneration. MI
Foster dismisses as dream the social
st plan of buying the industries ant
says:
1t is idle to even speculate on tn
aroused workers cowardly STOPPING t
|, buy back the industries stolen fror
them. When the psychological momen
arrives, the working class, hungerin
for emancipation, will adopt the onl
method at its disposal, and put an en-
10 capitalism with the general strike.
Can it be that American labor an
American labor organizations are read
to follow such a leadership?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-25

the Mr.. Indian Elephants and we
aren't rs interesting rs the African
elephants but we would like to be
thought so just the same.
Yes, we would like TO be thought
just as interesting. We most certainly
would. And II seems pity that they
don't care for us so much. They
think we're very common aEf usual.
And so we are. But it's pity they
think 1t. yes, it's pts We cont fool
the keepers better"
at Is a pity" said the Miss Indian
Elephants. ut IS great pity" they
said. waving their trunks.
"But It's the TRUTH" said Mr.. Indian
Elephant.
"There. there" said Mrs Indian Ele-
plant, don't rub 1t in."gs.
I'm not rubbing anything in" said
Mr.. Indian Elephant.
81 mean" said Mrs Indian Elephant.
that it's rubbing the truth In when
you say it is the truth and | know II
is but don't like to have people think
so-and yet they do"
"Oh. see," said Mr. Indian Ele-
plant.
THAT'S a fine way of looking at
things" said Mr. African Elephant.
"Now. be kind, be kind" said Mrs.
Indian Elephant, "for you're rare
creature and fine creature and hate
to admit 1t, / do"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-25
Once Victim Of
Rheumatism Tells Story
Saugus Man Writes Enc0ur-
aging Letter to Sufferer
of Rheumatism

The postman handed Mr.. p. w. Tav-
Tor of Summer street, Saugus, Mass.
a letter the other morning addressed in
Strengthening handwriting, hardly
distinguishable. 1t proved to be from
a sufferer of chronic rheumatism who
had heard of Mr.. Taylor's remarkable
recovery from the same disease. and
asking him if Var Ne-Sis was the cause
of his recovery. Mr.. Taylor wrote the
following letter which he asks w. A.
Varney of Lynn, Mass, manufacturer
of Var-Ne-Sis, to publish:
The doctors told me | would never
do another days work, my case of rheu-
matism was so bad, but | have come
back and am able to handle drill with
the best of the boys. l was awful bad,
unable to feed myself or raise nv
hands to my head. / had to crawl up
stairs on my hands and knees. Every
move / made would go through me like
knife. So severe was the pain that
lost weight very rapidly.
"The pain from my hips to my
ankles was unbearable. / was forced
to move carefully or / would bring on
a paroxysm. Treatment failed to help
me, although i was examined by ply
sicians in a large Boston hospital
'Var-Ne-Sis was recommended, and
the reports of what this medicine had
done for others gave me confidence
that it would help me. can't say that
| a few bottles of Var-Ne-Sis cured me.
but by persisting in the treatment /
was able to return to work, and l
haven t a sign or symptom of the dis
ease from that time to this. NY stom-
ach improved shortly after taking Var
Ne-Sis, and l regained my normal
weight of $50 pounds, after losing so
pounds. =
| Every day sufferer of rheumatism
puts off taking Var-Ne-Sis is just one
day more of needless suffering. Get
Var NesSis at any reliable drug store
Fin liquid or tablet form-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-25
In the Days News.

Admiral William S. Benson, who will
be placed on the retired list of the
United States navy today for age. has
been chief of naval operations since
that office was created by congress sew
eral years ago, Next to the secretary
of the navy the post is the highest in
the service. Admiral Benson is a Geor-
gian who entered the naval academy
soon after the close of the civil war.
Since he left Annapolis in the '7os his
service has comprised the customary
routine of alternating sea and shore
duty. Early in his career he partici-
pated in the Greedy relief expedition
In later years he served as first com.
n'ander of the dreadnought Utah, as
chief of staff of the Pacific fleet, and as
commandant of the navy yard at Phil
adelphia. With the death of Admiral
Dewey he became the ranking officer of
the navy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-25
Blue Laws Make Hypocrites.
(Rutland News

If Brattleboro would insist on a strict
observance of the so-called blue laws it
would forthwith become as dead as the
Dead Sea- The pity of it is a good many
puritanical statutes are permitted to clut-
ter up the law books. If every town en-
forced them, they would soon be repealed
The great bulk of people these days have
no notion of enforcing these laws. They
are dead letters, absolutely.
At recent meeting of a religious char
acter held in Vermont one speaker de-
plored the generation as morally bank
rupt" and declared that spirituality was
at the lowest ebb the country had ever
known. We wonder if spirituality is not
sometimes confused with the church going
habit, or creed, or denomination, or form.
Frequently the form is not carefully diff
ferentiated from the substance At any
rate, we take issue absolutely with the
pessimistic deductions.
There are manifold evidences that the
world is better than ever One of the
incidental results of the world war has
been to bring people closer together in
real bonds of mutual helpfulness and
Christian fellowship. People should affil-
late with church organizations, for they
are effective instruments for moral and
spiritual progress, but it cannot be gain
said that whole lot of admirable Chris
tians do not affiliate very actively with
church organizations. The time has gone
by when any persons worth is determined
by the number of pubic religious gath
erings he attends.
One very conscientious church man in
Vermont bewails the fact that the habit
of tilling the soil, tolerated as a war meas
| ure, still continues in many sections. He
| ought to think of the number of things
that man might do infinitely worse than
| blowing, narrowing, hoeing or raking on
Sunday 1t is better to do any one oil
| these things, from a health standpoint
than it is to loll in an automobile and
cover a hundred or two hundred miles a
| day, or even to loaf around the house af
ter the usual extra dinner, and suffer the
just punishments of the inactive gour
| mand.
| If these blue laws were strictly enforced
| in any community, that community would
| become one of the narrow minded hypo
critics to very large extent. A commun
| ty composed of people who will take nc
recreation on Sunday, either in an auto
mobile, in a garden, on a baseball field
or golf course is bound to become a com
munity of unprogressive sluggards, menta
and moral, as well as physical No live
person could live i'll the atmosphere where
| these obsolete statutes were rigidly en-
forced. The fact of it is that these dead
letters should long since have been re
moved from the statute books.
| States Attorney Gibson is to be com
mended, let it be said, for enforcing tn.
laws as he finds them Every other officer
should do the same Then the statutes
would be come SO nauseous to the peopl,
who hypocritically keep them on tn,
books that they would repeal them.