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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-05
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Mr.. and Mrs. Adworth Lewis have
Just received the following letter from
their son, A. W, Lewis, Jr., now In
France with the A. %. r..
Downfront,, France, Jan. 10, 10.
Dear Dad.
Received your letter some time ago
but didn't answer for we were en-
route to seaport to prepare to sail
for home. But some way or other we
could not get transportation and here
we are In this country yet. But still |
may be in the States by the time you
get this letter, in fact hope SO. The
latest reports arc that we leave here
for sea port this week but you can
never tell in the army when you are
to move. Well would promise you
that | would come home as soon as
am mustered out but as the govern
ment sends us back to our drafting
point will have to go there first. But
will come home Immediately after 60
ing to G. R. / passed through the
town in which Pud was located but
did not see him as we only had few
moments there, but received letter
from him a few weeks ago and he is
o. k. He is in st. Pierre and 1t is
quite city. States that he Is well
and is to go home soon. Would loye
very much to be there when he comes
We have seen but very little cold
weather so far as the weather is very
much like Florida here in this local
ity. am just dying to get home for
| am tired of this country. | will have
every so many things to tell YOU when
I get home. I am glad it is all over
and happy to know that was lucky
enough to five through It. would
not take anything for my experience
but don't want to ever go through it
again.
Well | hope you are we'll and also
mother. Tell her that | am going to
eat her out of house and everything
else when | get there.
I think | will be citizen by March
and then will soon be classed as an
old veteran, ha ha. Continue to write
me old timer for like your letters.
Love to everyone. Yours LOVINGLY
= AID. JR.
349th f. A. Battery E.
American E. Forces.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-05
SOME ONE MUST PAY!

Stretching from Switzerland the lie hundreds and thou
square miles of territory where rests the blight of war Here
hundreds happy people lived and abored amidst
smiling fields and pleasant towns regions in which 100000 dead
sleep sleep the midst of desoaton beyond human words
to describe
is in the dead cities the dead villages Of North
ern France that seek evidence of what this German thing
has meant must estimate of that account which
mains settled writes Frank Smmond who has just passed
over the of the conflict to the peace conference
gone He has vanished out of the trenches
of the of the region he has wasted His have
gone him. but the real inhabitants have yet begun to
AS consequence from Ypres the border of the Disc above
Noyon than hundred miles longitude and from dozen to
so miles in latitude there the most appalling desert OF which
she conceve few German prisoners cleaning debris
important highways few British soldiers standing
guard material and for the rest land where three millions
of French Bgns lived FIVE years ago. just nothing like the
buildings all How tn the peace makers at Paris to set
motion the machinery itself all bemade which will bring the
old inhabitants back to the German desert which like the Great
American of the last century, separates two smiling rgions
How the millions of little people with their oks and their farm
implements be reurnedY How the Germans who did this to
undo it,
Simmonds further pictures the terrible of DISSOLUTION
yOnd the the land sweed in all
directions monotonous waste without without single
vvng habation without obstacle interrupt the vsonnot
desert with clean sand but waste which everything spoke of
decay following death For nearly twenty miles either direction
this desert extended Eastward against the horizon the skee
BourOn Woods where the first battle OF Cambria
and lost 1917 Westward Arra behind the slope the city
of thousand bombardmens gone dust and ashes Here
where there had been smiling villages fertile fields and happy
pie nothing but desolation tragic beyond expression.
And all this the wreck of battles 1t nothing of
the In January 1917 lndenbug had said We shall
treat twenty miles, wasting the country to create desert front
of u.s. Thus shall allied attack while settle with
Russia
And with German thorougns the thing DONE The people
marched off Belgium be fed by american relief MISSIONS
to die The villages destroyed the roads Mined living
down every nanmate thing blown up So the German
desert created and with millions
exploded Shells the debris of late battles with helmets
grenad region where every heap of ruins deadly peril where
the pillow must reopen burrows among live Shells
For all this must pay, matter of punishment
this another must order that this part of Ger
plan not prevail that this much civilization may
perish, that this corner of France may not die.
Will the League of Nations point way down the right road
to restitution, reparation and restorationY
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-05
WANTED
Boy to work in Ledger Office.

S2oOO WILL BUY IA ACRES OF
ground II miles from Maysville on
good turnpike with a 4.room house,
o'bent tobacco barn, about 500 tobac.
co sticks, Corn Crib, Smoke House
and Milk House. 4 acres Of this
ground is North Fork bottoms and at
the'present prices will produce more
than $1,000 worth Of tobacco this year.
NJ. F. COUGHLIN
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-05
THE LONG HOURS

The longest hours of life Just
full in the grasp of suspense When you worry
any other time about loved exposed danger you
know not Of
More than two million mothers America know this Every
Of them went through that experience many
times during the period of Uncle Sans participation world
for each of them had his countrys
constantly exposed the dangers accident or enemy
attack Every hour he carrying his life in his hand and for
thousands of them ended only when boy brought
yellow envelope the door bearing dreadful
his fate.
This everyday occurrence throughout country for
many months 1t the fate The grim played
no favorites, would again
And that it is that peace welngh assured
for all time who left to enjoy the fruits of the most ter
rife sacrifice the world has known miss no step the
march of duty.
We must remember the long hours of agony these mothers
endured We must remember the sacrifices these fighters
price pd And when becomes merely matter of dol
lars with cherfy do part We must not hesitate
lag attempt evasion for of sayathom have
paid in full.
We must through; do individual share: we
must help Uncle Sam finish the job and finish right and when he
The demand for Presidents promises greater than the
supply but undoubtedly the shortage Europe becomes too acute
Of ward communteemn will agree to help out any suffer-
ing naion.-Indianapolis News
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Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-27
Mexico's Delay Of
 Reply is Vicious !
Designed to Aid 'sRevolution- ists", They Believe, to Be Active In the United States.

Washington,.No Nov. 26- Some of- ficials. expressed belief today that the Mexican governments delay in re- plying to the American note, sent more than week ago, demanding release of William O. Jenkins, con sular agent at Puebla, was part of deliberate plan to still further an tagonize' the United States:
 This belief was based largely upon official information from Mexico City that officials there were endcavoriug to spread the report that this coun- and that by holding up the reply the ''revolutionists."
 Mexican agents in the United States, the advices said, had been sending home highly colored and wildly ex- aggerated reports concerning do- nestle conditions, the steel and coal strikes being cited as glaring evi- dence of industrial unrest.
 There was no report, from the em- bassy at the Mexican capital to add anything to those received hereto fore, all of which showed that Jenkins was still held in the penitentiary on charges of having been implicated with the bandits who took $150,000 from him after he had Been kidnap- ped. One despatch from Mexico City said the Mexican senate had decided to ask President Carranza for ful. information on the Jenkis case, and this was taken to mean that no reply might be expected until the senate had given 1t some consideration.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-27
MINERS, SURROUNDED BY
 TROOPS, VOTE TO WORK

Sheridan, Wyo., Nov. 26.-United States soldiers today enforced an in depreciation of the mandam'< order recently issued at Indianapolis to en- force striking miners in this district t6 return to work The soldiers, under command of Major Warren Dean, act ing by virtue of a proclamation issued by Brigadier General D. A. Poore, placing the state under military con- trol. swept down upon the mining town of Carneyville and with bayonets fixed surrounded the hall wherein many Of the strikers had congregated. The soldiers made house to house search for additional miners, and then Major Dean called meeting of the local union.
 The union officials presided at the meeting. After it had been explained by Major Dean that he thought the miners, most of whom had previously expressed a desire to return to work, were violating the federal courts man. damus. the union officials called for a vote on the question of returning to work Friday morning. The men pres ent decided unanimously to return to work.
 A list of 72 names, mainly of radi- calls, among the miners in the district, had been given to Major Dean. and 5 of those named were arrested by the detachment of the Fifteenth cavalry and taken to Fort Mckenzie.
 Officials who had been observant of conditions in the coal fields of this dis trict stated tonight that they believed the strike trouble is ended and that normal production will be coming from the mines very shortly.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-27
THE AMERICAN WOMANS PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
By HELEN ROWLAND

Thee Benign Spirit Thanksgiving the blessings Nine 1 Hundred Nineteen thank homecoming thank Thee that bon to live and share this wonrous Age or atcess Opportunity this Age Of Miracles this of precedend behods
 
 F thank of every of gateway and happiness is flung wide when portunies for splendid attainment or myo effort. Most of a thank this Golden Land of Promise this Land freedom This Land where the the 
 Where the Where Where the may employer tomorrow Where the penness alien wealthy citizen of Where
  the college professor And where the 
 Where all the may day become thank Thee, for heritage o America! THANK Thee for American ideals, eclipse A and which at this guiding inspiration American enthusiasm and the T N T American energy.
 thank of success and the American slogat Prosperity
 
 which has of by his side in marriage life way which the American woman has risen to meet the responsibilities for her glorious sacrifices in and her glorious  common sens. will beat it's wings in v and dscontent shall fall n ewind I~
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Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-27
SELLING. ALL INToxIcANTS OPENLY IN NEW, ORLEANS
Federal Judge Declared War Time Prohibition UnconstitutionaI-Ru So Great For Straight Liquor" That Mixed Drinks Were unobtainable- Profiteerina SqueIehed.

New Orleans, La. Nov. 26-Whiskey, beer, wines and in fact every drink usually found in the old days in a well stocked bar. was sold openly over the counter in New Orleans tonight after Federal Judge Foster had declared war time prohibition unconstitutional
 Less than an hour after Judge Foster had enjoined federal authorities from interfering with the sale of bonded whiskies in compliance with the petit ton of the Herman Leiser Liquor Com pany, bar rooms were serving liquor in steadily varied assortments.
 Mixed drinks were unobtainable dur ing the day because of the rush for Straight liquor. Later, however, it was possible to obtain practically all of the widely known drinks. for many years peculiar to New Orleans. French restaurants served claret with dinners, adding the touch which chefs and managers of the establishments al- ways have claimed was necessary for the proper appreciation of their meals.
 Judge Foster in granting the injunc- tion, ruled that the world war came to an official end when congress adjourn ed recently without rejecting the peace treaty with Germany. He maintained that when President Wilson vetoed the Volstead war time prohibition enforce ment bill October 2S, the president de- clared the army and navy forces de- mobilized.
 Judge Foster formerly held that PIE per cent, beer was non-intoxicating District Attorney Mooney, upor | learning of reports that saloon keepers | had agreed to make a flat charge o1 | fifty cents per drink for whiskey, an nounced that should they combine te charge high prices for drinks they would be prosecuted for profiteering
 Whiskey sold in most places a twenty-five cents a drink, about hal the size formerly sold. Higher grade whiskies served in old style glasse!
 sold from S5 to 50 cents. Bottled whiskies bonded, were to be had at al
 average of six dollars quart somc
 places, however, being without othe | than the cheaper grades. Wines wer' procurable at an average of about g per cent over former prices.
 l At all of the downtown saloon. crowds remained until closing time Taxicab companies reported an ol, time rush of customers to the road houses and cafes at the lake resorts.
 Stocks sufficient to last until Jan uary 16, should the supreme court rul that wartime prohibition was uncon stitutional, were reported by whole salers. Practically none of the liquo
 in warehouses here was exported
 Thousands of out of town visitor here for the racing season. which open tomorrow, were among the crowds a
 the bar rooms and at the bottled good
 shops.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-27
GENERAL PERSHlNC'S
 TOUR OF INSPECTION

Washington. Nov. 26.-The itinerary of General Pershing's inspection tour of cantonments and posts issued here today, shows the trip will cover com pletly the manufacturing and training machinery erected during the months of war. in, support of the American expeditionafy forces. More than one hundred camps. aviation fields and munition plants will be visited in order that General Pershing may be able to recommend to Secretary Baker a com prehensive plan for maintaining ade- quate facilities to back up military establishment.
 Leaving Washington on the night of Dec. 3, General Pershing and his of fcial suite will visit Camp Lee, Va, IS the initial stop. and then move through the southeastern department. Plants and stations in the central de- pertinent are next in line.
 The holidays will be spent by Gen eral Pershing with his son and his sis ters at Lincoln. NeD.s i now start be- inS made about Jan. ,,
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-27
OVERCOMING OF PUBLIC
 SERVICE MOTOR VEHICLES

Hartford, Conn.,, Nov. Robbins B. Stoeckel, commissioner of motor vehicles, has sent to inspectors and police departments letters in which he says his office has , received many complaints from various sections of the state relative to overlooking of public service motor vehicles. He says:
 The law plainly specifies that any public service motor vehicle may carry two persons in excess of the seating capacity. Overlooking is dangerous. Therefore the policy of enforcement should be strict and overlooking should be stopped forthwith. If there Is sufficient demand on the part of people desiring to be carried so that 1t becomes necessary, more public ser vice motor vehicles can be registered and regular schedules provided, and 1t is undoubtedly a fact that. this result will take place just as soon as the public service motor vehicle owners become convinced that they are not going to be allowed to overload.'
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-27


  mist of morning before the high They of Americ thank jaed and in all hngshe finest of manhood wod
  love motherhood and ar those things which hold most dvney eAmerca pluck proportion her inherent
  
 the American Marriage founded Ameri tons the American Ho of which stand shining monuments Q ando OPPORTUNITY!
 Spirit of Liberty and Justice thank Thee first and witness this unparalleled of all the prejudces of aside! with life, ideas, and vouchsafed responsibility and servisg those the older world who have fought and suffered by her
  the thinker, alike high small alike this with life with possibility and ripe with opportunity holds out he
 come Work hope aspire-and which nothing which thou win nothing which accomplish! "come I thee. as have need loyalty! centers
  banks and homes skyscrapershese the need thee. and call to the overfowing with rich of intelligence of ability of ambition of aspiration come All Success is within grasp! Day of Big Chance!
 "come T. thy Country work pros perity!" AMEN
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-27
PROFITS OF 6lTUMlNoUs COAL
 MINES 100 TO 150 PER CENT.

Washington, Nov. 26.-Bituninous coal mines east of the Mississippi river in 1917 made what might be termed fabulous profits" the general average being from 100 to 150 per cent. on in- vested capital, according to a state ment issued tonight by Secretary Glass, based on data furnished by ex- perts of the internal revenue bureau.
 Coal operators generally in the United States fin the years 1914 and 1915 lost money when normal deple- ton and depreciation are taken into consideration" the statement said.
 What is meant by this is that proper item in fixing costs is depreciation of plant and depletion of the cost or value or the coal fin the ground.
 Tn the latter part of 1916 all coal companies in the United States, save those in the extreme west, began mak- ing money with the result that the operations for the year 1916 generally snow profit of from 10 to 35 per cent, on capital invested.
 east of the Mississippi river made what might be termed fabulous profits, the general average being from 100 to 15U per cent. on invested capital, the range being from 15 to 800 per cent. Tn 1918 conditions were not so good in the Appalachian and central com petitive districts. profits generally be- ing reduced 25 to 20 per cent. less thar for the preceding year. the range being from i5 to 900 per cent on invested capital. In the west conditions in 1915 were better than in 1917. the profits ir \ the Rocky mountain districts ranging as high as 400 per cent. on invested capital.
 Unofficial figures for 1919, incon- plete, of course indicate that profits oi the operators are less than for 1918 some of the operators claiming to have | actually lost money"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-27
TERRIFIC STORM SWEEPING
 OVER LAKE SUPERIOR

Sault Ste Marie. Mich, Nov. 2s.-A terrific storm over Lake Superior to- day forced coast guards to abandon the search for the crew of the Mtron, lost Saturday. and sent practically ali shipping into shelter. Searchers de- clared upon return here that had the sixteen men survived in the non- sink able Lfeboats since the Myron went down, they could not have lived through the fury of last nights gale. accompanied by mountainous waves and near-zero temperature.
 Marine men expressed fears for any vessels that may have been unable to lay up before the blizzard broke Early tonight, however. no vessel had reported mishap. The three steamers grounded at Pipe Island Shoals. Whlteflsh Point and Cedar Point Reef were unable to clear today because of the storm
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-27
Disbursements For
 Russian Federation
Include $40O to Martens " On Sale of His Piano and $25 to Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes.

New York, Nov. 26.-Checks total- ling several thousand dollars, disburs- ed by pr. Michael Misleg, treasurer Of the Russian Federation, since Lud- wiz c. A. K. Martens established his Russian sotiet embassy here, were introduced into evidence at today's hearing of the joint legislative com mittee Investigating BolsheVist ac- tivities in New York. Efforts to learn the source Of radical funds and where and for what they are spent occupied virtually the entire session.
 Examination of Martens was sus- pended at his request until December 4, to give him time to consult his lawyers. This action followed a clash between committee members and Dudley Field Malone, former col lector of the port of New York, who committee record a vigorous denunci- ation of Attorney General Newton's conduct of the investigation yesterday when Malone was mentioned as hay ing accepted a S1,000 counsel fee from the soviet bureau.
 Checks issued by Dr. Misleg both as treasurer of the Russian federation and of the Novi Mir, a Russian lang uage Communist paper, included one for $500 paid by the federation to the Communist party at Chicago; $1,009 for rental of Madison Square Garden for a radical mass meeting to pro- test the blockade of Soviet Russia; $400 to Martens. lon the sale of his piano.; $25 each to Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes and DB Maximillian Cohen, editor of the Communist World, "t1 carry on socialist work" and $120 tC s Stocklitzky for maintenance of the | Chicago office of tue Russian fedora 1 ton.
 The source of his funds was mem 1 bership dues in the federation an. money earned by Novi Mir, Dr. Mis- leg testied. The federation main tained a fund to furnish bail and pay counsel fees for it's members arrest ed and charged with treason, anarch. and similar acts which did no i please the authorities" he said, add
 ing that Russian federation members
 in Bayonne, \. J., were out on bal
 furnished by the federatio.
 Misleg admitted that hn knew Leol Trotzky, though he said he had no
 seen him or communicated with hin | since he left New York for Russia He said he had known Martens fo nearly three years and had loaned
 him $2,50O
 Misleg said he would like to see tn people of the United States adopt Ih 1 soviet form of government as health fer" than the present one.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-27
ew York, Nov. 26-Letters show

New York, Nov. 26-Letters show ing a sympathetic attitude on the part of Frederick C. Howe formerly commissioner of immigration at Ellis Island, toward radicals who had been ordered deported were read toay at an inquiry by the House immigration committee. They were produced after testimony by Byron H. Uhl. now act ing commissioner at the island, that conditions under Howe's regime tend ed to make the island a forum of Bolshevism, baWdy house and 8 gambling house.
 The correspondence, taken by tine committee from files at the island, in cluded letters written by Howe to George Andreytchine, a radical whose deportation order was cancelled; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor; one recieved by him from Emm Goldman, and one from Dante Barton, vice chairman of tn committee on industri- al relations to Miss Helen Marot i'll care of The Masses, a radical New ! York publication.
 1 Miss Goldman urged Howe not to send to sure death" in France, Jo- seph Goldberg, white shaver and a 1 friend of defendants in Los Angeles dynamiting cases . Official records read by the committee showed Gold berg had bee allowed 10 go to spain at his own expense after being ord- cred deported.
 Andreytchine, an I. W. W. rioter wrote Howe upon cancellation of an order of deportation:
 T have no words tc thank you for your appreciation and support
 Yours as ever for the emancipation of mankind"
 Tn reply Howe wrote: q was inn mensely gratified to receive your let ter advising me that Acting Secretary Densmore had cancelled your order for deportation"
 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn wrote Howe
 in regard to Andreytchine: T count you among the first to see that thi:
 young rebel is not sent to certain Edeath."
 f Howe wrote to Louis F. Post, as
 sistant secretary of labor, in regard
 to the Andreytelline case:
 'The young man is a clean, whole
 some, nice looking fellow. and Mrs. J ! $, Cram has telephoned me severa I times about him. ~..---.,4-.--~,-,e- Il A letter from Dante Barton to Hel
 en Marot in regard to AndreytchinS