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The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1919-05-31
OSCAR JOHNSTON ATTACKS THE
STATE TAX RAISING" BOARD.

In his speech at Carthage, Oscar
Johnston, candidate for Governor,
paid his respects to the Tax Commits
sion law, showing that the Tax Cop-
mission is unable to enforce its own
orders, having been turned down in
the courts; that it is without pow
er, except such as it assumes, and
where contests have been made the
commission has lost out.
Mr.. Johnston thinks the next legis-
lature should repeal the Tax Commits
sion, and in this The Clarion-Ledger
fully agrees with the distinguished
candidate, and is confident the peo-
pie of the State want the law abol-
Ished, it being quite as unpopular as
was the fish and game law, another OF
the Bilbo measures that went down
under the execration of the people OF
Mississippi.
In this connection, the Clarion-Led-
ger reprints that portion of its re
porter's account of Mr.. Johnston'S 5
speech at Carthage, as follows:
''He showed that the State Tax
Commission was uttely devoid of
power and recited the fact that the
people of Washington county had fl
ed affidavits with their board of su-
pervisors of the county that their pro-
perty was assessed at it's actual value
and that the board had so found
and that when the State Tax Com
mission attempted to make the board
ot Supervisors carry out its order to
raise the assessmen- :; III Was|i: Stnn
county that the Board of Supervisors
refused to do so, and the State Tax
Commission went into the courts with
the matter, lost out and withdrew
their suit. That the people of every
county in the State could have done
the same thing and defeated the State
Tax Commission in it's efforts to
raise their property where it was as
sessed too high. He advocated the
absolute abolishment of the State Tax
Commission and the saving to the peo-
pie of the salaries and EXPENSES of
the useless adjuncts to the Governors
Office, which were without power to
fuction."
The above should be printed by
every paper in the State that is op-
posed to the Tax Commission law.
Members of the Legislature should be
interviewed as to their standing on
this law, and those who favor retain
ing it on the statute books should be
left at home.
This should be made the para
mount question of the campaign, and
it is hoped the people of the State will
speak out freely on the subject and
ascertain how candidates for the
Legislature, both Senate and House,
stand before deciding to support
Observation-Disclosures.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1919-05-31
RESULT OF SALVATION ARMY DRIVE
IN PEARL RIVER SECTION.
Logfown, Pearlington and Westonia Con-
tribute LiberafIy to Cause.

Logtown, Miss, May 81, 1919.
Editor Echo: s am not given to
messing over folks a bit, but, where
justice demands so should be.
I was sentenced to be boss driver
for Salvation Army for this district
iii and for this drive. The people of
Logtown, Pearlington and Westonia
gave me S237.50 1.-TWO Hundred and
Thirty Seven Dollars and Fifty
Cents.) The III. Weston Company
gave $4,000 and one hundred and
one hundred and twenty three indi-
viduals gave me st37.5O, making an
average of fraction over $1.00 Civ
Ell by each.
If any place Of similar size can beat
this I will add $500 more to same
fund. l wish to saeak with all the
honesty of my scal of our working
boys. Listeni Not one but what
gave me from SO cents to S1.00-boys
under sixteen yeas of age.
May the loyaltyo of the American
people never wane, but increase.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1919-05-31
jim ELMER. CANDIDATE FOR
DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

The Biloxi Herald of recent date
carried the following article in re-
ference to Hon. J. c. Elmer, the pres
ent district attorney, who is can
didate for reelection, and whose
formal announcement appears in an
other column of The Echo. The arti-
Gle is interesting in reference to Mr..
Elmer and will be read by the read
RS of this papr over the county and
district wherever circulated.
The Biloxi Herald says:
.''Mr. Elmer was born and bred in
Biloxi and is now thirty-fve years
old. He was educated in the public
schools of Biloxi and in the Poplar
vile High School, the academic de-
partment of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute at Auburn, and took a law
course in the University of Mississip-
pi and the University of Virginia.
Mr.. Elmer was admitted to the bar
at Gulfport in 1906, and was elected
police Justice of the city of Biloxi in
1906, and was reelected in 1908 and
again in 1910. He was elected sher-
if and tax-collector of Harrison
county in 1912 and served the full
term until 1916 Upon the resigna-
ton in 1917 of District Attorney E.
J. Ford in this district, Mr.. Elmer
was appointed to succeed him, and
has served continuously since. Not
having been elected to this Office, he
believed that this period of proba-
ton not only fits him for it, but en-
titles him to a full term elected by
the people whom he has served.
ho Ixv
known and called wherever he is
known because of his excellent good
nature and friendliness will give any
opponent a strong race; though as
stated above he has no opponent at
this time and it is possible that 9TH
er lawyers who had an ambition to
| fill this Office have decided that he is
entitled to at least one elective term,
and it may be that he will have no
opposition whatever IN which case he
would consider his nomination and
election a gracious compliment which
he would very greatly appreciate; /;
and there are undoubtedly many peo-
ple in the the district who will be
glad to pay him this compliment and
| impose In him this trust aside from
| the very popular vote he will receive
among his boyhood and manhood
friends and associates in Harrison
county,
The above appeared in the Herald
some time sine. Candidates that
have announced since are Messrs. G.
l.. Waller, r. C. Cowan, Harold w.
Gautier. This statement is made IN
! fairness to the ether candidates and
| with no intention Of disparaging Mr.,
Elner.-Edito Eeha.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1919-05-31
(. c. Initiation at Jackson Sunday
Exemplification of 4th Degree.

Knights of Columbus from all parts
of Mississippi will go to Jackson on
Sunday, July 6, to receive the fourth
degree, the highest of that order.
A committee of the Jackson
Knights of Columbus organization is
visiting councils in various towns of
the State in the interest of the forth
coming fourth degree class, which
will be the second to be organized in
Mississippi.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1919-05-31
GEA & WALLER
ATTOlNEYS-AT-LAV

Will practice in al civil matters in
all State Courts ard In all matter
in the General Courts Of Missis-
xippi.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1919-05-31
Senator Pat Harrison Opposes Both
Beer and Wine.

Washington, May 20.-Senator
Pat Harrison of Mississippi today de-
clared that he will not follow the adj
vice of the President in the matter
of removing the ban on beer and
wines. His comment on the Prcsi-
dents message is as follows:
"The message carries with it the
Presidents usual and constant SYM
palmetto interest in labor. /. is no.
litically adroit and will challenge
the Republican majority in Con-
z ,ess TO make good its boas.tl inter
ested in the great work of reconstruc-
tior shall not vote, as suggested I y
tn, President to lift the ban on WING g
and beer. l am opposed t., ard
shall not vote for any measure that
viii continue the sale of mtoXicat-
ing any kind of liquor and / do not
believe that beer and wines should
be made exceptions"
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1919-05-31

ments were then served, after which
Miss Alice Fountain rendered several
beautiful selections on the piano and
Miss Edna Simmons effectively sang
several songs.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1919-05-31
MISS LOUISE ARMSTRONG,
TEACHER OF VIOLIN,

4 limited number of pupils win be
taken mornings and evenings. Spe-
cial attention given to beginners.
BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1919-05-31
FOR SALE.

Five-passenger Buick Automobile;
perfect condition. Hogs, sheep and
roats. Address; Briede Place, cor
rer Conrad Avenue and Beach Front.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
RESERVE ]. 5. CANAL
 HARB0R DEFENSES

PARIS, March 1.-(Associated Press) Marshal Foch presented today to the council of the great powers the mili- tary terms to be incorporated in the peace treaty. These will be considered Monday with the naval terms already
 The military terms provide for the disarmament of Germany down to 70 divisions of 10000 men each. including 15 divisions of infantry and five of cavalry. Severe restrictions are placed on the manufacture of all classes of war materials and the military, and commercial use of the airplane is linn tied to the minimup.
 Beyond Marshal Foch's presentation of the terms today they were not dis cussed.
 The naral terms now before the council provide not only for the com aetc suppression ol GermanT's sub marine equipment, but also for the cimiI,s ton of all submarine war by a!! nations throughout the world. thus ending tine use of the submarine in nlHal Gsn fare.
 The provision for dismantling the fertilization of I.egolarG and Kiel canal has boen- made tie subject of reservation by Admiral Benson, repre- senting the United States, whereby this shall not be a precedent applicable to American canal and harbor defenses, such as Hell Gate, Cape Cod Canal and others.
 The proposal for the destruction of the large German warships is approved in the report by the British and Amcri- can naval authorities but inc French
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
BLASTED HOPES MAKE
 BOSCHES SEEM SULLEN
New York Timesl

Several of the correspondents who are accompanying the armies of occu- patton into German territory express a mingling of surprise with something very much like resentment at what they have repeatedly called the "sul- len" behavior of the greater part of the German population. That the cor respondents should have this feeling seems strange, when the question is considered from across the sea, and the answer of the German in Bitburg, when asked why the people there treated the invaders as they did-"Well you don't expect us to shout about it, do ?'-seems at first 10 be an en- tirely natural and adequate one.
 The reason why it does not seem so to the correspondents is, probably, that they who have lived for months, and some of them for years, amid the frightful desolation of Eastern France and of Belgium cannot help comparing the present condition of these Germans with the one which their armies have imposed on others. That comparison made, the impulse is to expect the Ger mans to regard themselves as the fa- vOrites of fortune and to find fault with them for not doing it. It is logical enough. in its way, to do that, and quite understandable, but the conclu- sion is fallacious because the compari- son which the Germans make is not between themselves and the French or Belgian who have been under the Ger man harrow. but between themselves in their present helplessness and hu- initiation and themselves in the days when their trusted war lords promised speedy domination over all the world.
 That they are merely "sullen"-thai they are content with turning their faces away from the alien troops shows how thorough is their apprecia- tion of the fact that they are a beaten people and that submission to the in exitable is all that is left as the out come of their colossal expectations.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
HEIRS OF ENGINEER
 TO RECEIVE S15.OOO

DOUGLAS. Ariz., March 1.-Fiftesn
 thousand dollars indemnity for the death of Robert H. Harrington. an engi-
 neer of the Fl Paso and Southwestern railroad, in April, 1911, was paid by the United States treasury department to his heirs this week. according to ad- vices received here today. Harrington was struck in the head by a stray bull let and instantly killed in the cab of his engine in Douglas, in the course of hostilities in Agua Prieta, Mexico. The heirs are an aged mother, resid- ing in Arkansas; George Harrington of Seattle Washington; and Joseph liar rington of Atlanta, Georgia, brothers. The army appropriation bill approved last July provided for the payment of
 the amount awarded, both for death and injury. but owing to the commission
 of the words ''or injured" from the final draft, only indemnity for those killed
 here and in Fl Paso was provided for at that time. A resolution to correcs the commission and secure payment for
 those injured already has been adopted by the senate and reported back to the | house.
 The amount of claims remaining un- paid is s71,o00
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
NJ COAL IN THE TOWN WHEN BILLIONS IF TONS IN VICINITY

HOI-BROOk, AriZ., March With literally billions of tons of coal within less than hundred miles, the coal dealers of the town of Holbrook were for many of the coldest days this win ter entirely out of that commodity. The word billions is used advisedly. for a U. $. government geologist (Marius R. Campbell, in Bulletin 431 of the T.. $ Geological survey) is authority for the statement that in the Black Mesa coal field, on the Hopi Indian reservation north of Holbrook, there is a total of upwards of 14,000,0 ,0o0, 000 tons of coal.
 This, of course, cannot be exploited at present, but there is a coal field close to the Apache Railway which will doubtless be opened up within the next few months. The Apache Railway which runs from Holbrook 70 miles south. is now nearly completed and trains will be running on regular sched ule in about q month. It was built pri- marily to open up for exploitation what 1 is said to be the largest belt of stand ing timber in the United States, but it also runs close to this coal field, which has hitherto been undeveloped for want | of transportation facilities.
 A group of capitalists is now figlir- ' ing on opening up these coal deposits | and their plans not only contemplate ! placing the best of the product on the market for fuel purposes, but includes the erection of an immense plant for | generating electric power. As the poor est of the coal-what is known as mine run'-is good enough for the ! power generating plant, it is figured that the cost of the electricity will be very low. second only to that generated | by water power.
 It is expected that a ready market for this power, at price which will pay big percentage of profit on the investment. will be found in the diff ferent mining camps to the south and west, and also in a number of sizeable communities along the line Of the Apache Railway clear to Holbrook. The big and prosperous camps of Globe and
 Miami could be reached with a trans mission line about a miles in length ! Clifton, to the southeast, is also prob ably close enough to make it a com mercial proposition to send a wire in ] there.
 The department of the interior. in ! 1910. withdrew the most of this coal 1 field from entry. but previous to that time there had been a number of sec tions located. and these will furnish
 sufficient coal for the time being al [ least
 The government Bulletin 431 con
 tains a preliminary report by Dr. Her
 bert F. Gregory and Marius F. Camp bell, which says of the coal in the Blacl
 Mesa field: ''Its quality is equal to il
 not better than that of the coal mined
 at Gallup The Indians have beer
 mining this coal for years as they
 needed it, and the government schools at Keams Canyon and Tuba are sup. piled from mines close by.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
j. 8. BROWN RETURNs-J.

]. B. BROWN RETURNS-J. B. Brown. who was carrier for The Re- publican in 1908 and 1904. has returned Co this city. He is Co be in charge of the Phoenix branch agency of the Tinted States Tire and Rubber com- pany.
 NEWS8oY IS RUN OVER-George Passey, newsboy was run down by a Buick motor car driven by pr. Ham, nett, yesterday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock, on the corner Of First and Adams streets. He was taken to the Sisters hospital, where at a late hour last night he was resting quietly. No bones were broken. Young Passey was -dn down when he was crossing the street. He had to swing out into the path of the traffic Co avoid a motor car thnt had been carelessiy parked in the middle of the sidewalk.
 ?. n. S. BEATS FLAGSTAFF-The Phoeni- high school basketball team defeated Flagstaff normal by the score of 3I. to 34 in a game played at Flag staff last night. The second team of the local high school defeated the Tem- pc high school team in this city last nigt by the score of 55 10 30. The girls team of the Phoenix high school were defeated by the girls team of Tempe high school by the score of 15 to 26. Both home games were played at the Y. M. C. A.
 Use The Republican Classified Pages for Results-Read for Profit.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
CONTAINED EVERY WORD
lPhiladelphia Pnblic Ledgerl

iPUlldOslDnld PnDIic LeQger1
 Apropos of the death of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Twitchell Of Hartford. friend of Mark Twain and original of Harris in the latter "A Tramp Abroad" Dr. F. r. Parkin said the other day:
 Some years ago Dr. J. NJ. Buckley. the noted Methodist editor took some of his clerical brethren severely to task for their tendency to draw on the ideas and even the language of Joseph Parker without due acknowledgment
 While the discussion was at it's height Mark Twain attended Joe Twitchel's church and heard one of the latters finest efforts.
 After the sermon he came forward grasped the preachers hand and said. Joe. that was Q good sermon, but I have q book at home that contains every word Of it.
 Doctor Twitchell was taken aback- and then he waxed indignant.
 eff you co- show me the book. rd certainly like to see it,' he reioined T gave a great deal of brain sweat to that sermon
 ''The next day Mark Twain sent him a copy of Webster's Unabridged Die tionary."
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
CHINESE STORE NAM
 |S ROBBED 0F s300

Gin Book Hay. proprietor of a small store at 213 South Seventeenth street was robbed of about $500 in cash late last night when two Mexicans entered his establishment and at the point of their guns bound and gagged him and his clerk.
 Another Mexican, a confederate of the two robbers, stayed on guard at the outside of the store. After securely tying and gagging the two Chinamen the MeMcans took all the available cash and disappeared. Customers en- tering the store later discovered the bound and helpless men.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
WANT ROOSEVELT
 PICTURE ON BONDS

Continued from Page one) were being held in abeyance until pairs could be arranged for absent senators, and some agreement reached with ad- ministration leaders regarding a time for calling it up.
 Senator Gay of Louisiana announced that he would vote for the compromise resolution, and advocates of the mea- sure said his vote would give them the necessary two- thirds majority.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02

Continued from Page One) be the impression of the treasury de- pertinent that when this congress ad- journs there will never be another"
 Senator Shoot of Utah deplored the demand for nasty enactment of the bill.
 Tt could not pass in this form if it were not in the closing days of the session, and recognize that no amend ment is to be allowed he said. There is no need to discuss its details. Whats theuse when we know what's be- fore us?''
 Especial criticism was given by Mr. Shoot to the powers of fixing interest rates given the secretary of the treasury.
 The Utah senator predicted that this years expenditures would be s20,00o, O0O, ,000. and also that there would be great delay in payment of allied loans. Senator Thomas of Colorado, demo- crat. interjected the prediction that the money never would be repaid, declaring Great Britain still had outstanding debts contracted in prosecuting the revolutionary war.
 w. W. Asks s5,ooo,ooo? Discussing the financial condition Of 1 the country, Senator Smoot said the government was behind four months Tn l it's payments to the railroads and that creditors of the roads were carrying { them" for millions of dollars because the accounts were not paid. 1 Announcement that he would vote against the bill was made by Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, republican who declared it was being forced through "at the point of the bayonet"
 Referring to a newspaper article . which said that President Wilson had urged enactment at this session of a bill, prepared at his rvquest by the state department, and introduced in the house, to appropriate s5,0O0,000 to meet the expenses of his European trip, Sen ator Penrose asked democratic Leader Martin if 1t was planned to pass it be- fore adjournment.
 No communication has reached thl appropriations committee regardin- that bill.' replied Senator Martin. ''l know nothing about it except what see in the public press
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
NOT YOU ARE A PUMPKIN

Warren is past years old. and his mother was reading him a story from a childs magazine about little pumpkin that drowned and frowned until it was wrinkled and worthless.
 You can sec" she said at the end of the story, that it does not pay to frown and be sour at any time about anything"
 It certainly don't pay if you are a pumpkin said the young hopeful Indianapolis News.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
OLD DOMINION CUTS WAGES

GLOBE Ariz., March 1.-The Old Dominion company posted notices this afternoon announcing a further reduc- ton in wages of twenty-five cents per day. This will make the wages of the miners and muckers s4.90. The average prices of copper for the month of February was 1876 per pound, which called for reduction of fifty cents per day, but the operators decided, in view of the living costs, to reduce wages only 25 cents. Little comment is heard among the employees, as the men have been expecting the cut for some time.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02

still make reservations against the destruction of these ships.
 The supreme council is expected 10 pass on this and other naval and mili- tarY schedules Monday.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
Recesses at Midniaht

WASHINGTON, March 1.-After be- ing in session continuously for mor- than twelve hours, the house recessed just before midnight under an agree- ment to meet tomorrow at II o'clock Memorial services for Representative William P. Borland of Missouri, who died recently in Europe will be held the first ho.r and then the house will take up the conference on the hospital bill
Arizona republican., 1919-03-02

IF YOU MISS YOUR PAPER
 City subscribers who do not re- ceive The Arizona Republican promptly should telephone the cir eulstion department, phone 433f, before 8 o'clock in the morning and copy will be immediats,y sent tnens.zzs .s.aa 5.