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The Era-leader., 1919-08-14

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The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-24
ENGLAND'S LABOR CONDITION

Labor conditions in England and in America are alike
in character but very different in degree America was
at year and half, England over four years. So
many conditions that exist in the America of today
greatly intensified in England.
All the labor and all the capital in England that could
be diverted from the necessities of life swung
to munition work. shpbuding and the production of ev
cry essential for the army and the navy.
Now the great body of labor is dissatisfied with the
accept any prospect of lesser wages and capitalists are
timid.
The suggestion is made that labor itself should take
some Of the abandoned muton plants and run the the
government furnishing the capital to ret and adapt them
to other production and to them after such rettng
1t is proposed that the trade unions should undertake the
task.
It is admirable opportunity to test the practical
working of combination between the government and
the workers. doing away with capitalists and middle
men. The government would ensure supply of raw ma
terials, and all products would go to the workers.
We hope that the plan may be tried out.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-24

The fish again are in the brook, from distant waters
or herring When spring arrives always feel an idotlc
longing to go abroad with rod and reel where other
sports are throngng My wife remarks To streamlets
shore beg that you won't beat it, CO. buy canned salmon
OF the store and stav at home and eat it. You're always
grouchy as bear when you home from angling
the way you around and swear sets all my nerves
a-jangling" know she's right the fishing game ought
to cali halt on I'll duplicate the fame OF good old
Izaak Walton Twere better far to plant spuds or
prune the growing carrot gather up nay winter duds
and store them in the garre And yet the mighty urge
feel would make the deadest sWab str III nave TO Try
to catch an eel dolphin or lobster ought to trim
that stately tree whose life is plainly falling but OH the
brook is calling me- and must catch graylng ought
to grind the reapng hook and toll like thrifty brothers
and others So I'll forsake the growing green's and leave
the rhubarb dying and go and catch some canned sar
dimes, or break fishpole trying
Copyright by George Matthew Adams
The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-24
EDITORIAIS.
LAND FOR THE DOUGHBOYS

Homesteads, with buildings and equipment to make
them ready for immediate occupancy, will be provided
for soldiers and sailors who wish to engage in farming
if bill proposed by the Secretary of the Interior is not
defeated by Republicans in the next Congress- was
like measure in the last
Secretary Lanes plan is to purchase lands in all Sec
ons of the country to ubdvde the tracts thus acqur
ed to build each parcel house and barn. and put the
ing grazing the character of the SOIL the climate
and other factors dictate.
These settlements will not be scattered haphazard
but will be established as communities that the home
steaders may have the advantages of churches schools
telephones, transportation and markets. The Government
will allow the soldiers and sailors maximum of forty
years In which to pay for their land and homes Money
will be advanced also for the purchase of machinery
equipment and livestock These loans will be for short
period Interest at rate of not more than per cent
will be charged by the Government
:, With the appropriation of $1OOOOOOOO which the
bib will authorize the Interior Department estimates 25
The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-24

Copyright by George Matthew Adams
The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-24

From exchanges in their reports of deeds and doc-
ents recorded The Oasis gathers that many returning
soldiers having recorded their certificates of dis
charge from military service 1t is most conmendabe
idea In the mutations of time such instruments become
lost destroyed other mshaps, and then when they
be needed long years after they cannot be replaced
without deal of trouble With record at the county
seat a certified copy is readily obtainabe.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-24
S1,, 9emoRR"% RRs,s H'Irs Bie TheMake Believe Wife

600 homesteads ranging in from to 100
be purchased and developed The task Of preparing the
land for cultivation, it is expected will afford employment
delayed by the Republican buster, which killed the ap
propatio along with many other popular and salutay
measures
The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-24

In motoring down one Of Denve1's streets at 12O
miles an hour, while 10000 people lined the curbngs
Ralph de Palma gave fresh indications of two things that
and that day is fast approaching when he will ride
behind brass band that isn't going four miles an
hour.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-24

"We will accept advertising from draft evaders
and firms that profteer, announced Southern weekly
contemporary "A statement signed by three reputable
citizens that any merchant who draft evader
unduy rising prices, will be sufficient for us to refuse
that merchants account Needless to say the columns
were full Of ads!
The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-24

I'VE fought for democracy and whatwe got pro-
hibtion and influenza" was the scathng comment of
returning doughboy transport when zone Of the
elect was endeavoring to edify the rank and file with
homily upo ntheir duties citizens when they should
have shed the uniform and "become as other men,"
The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-24

One who has bet and lost can see very readily how
wrong it is to gamble.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-24

If you want to read good, independent, fearless
paper that is for the truth the holy truth and moth
ing but the truth subscribe for The Oasis Delivered to
ysur home daily, except Monday for Is cents month
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
LIQUOR CAPTURES
FEW, BUT LIQUOR
STILL PLENTIFUL
Blockade Runners May Have
Become Wiser Or Officers
Less Active Since Webster
Was Killed.

Is Memphis suffering from a shortage
Of s%pirituous liquors or are the whisky
runners so alert thai they are escap-
ing the officers whose duty it is to
prevent the importation Of contraband
goods?
These questions and others have been
asked repeatedly during recent weeks
because of the fact that no captures Of
so-called whisky have been made. The
forces of the United States marshal
nave captured two=small boatloads Of
liquor in tie past three months Sand
comparatively little has been captured
by state and city officers.
The theory that Memphis might per-
maps be suffering from a drought seems
TO be controVerted by recent events.
During the early hours OF Wednesday
morning a joyride eliminating in one
death, had its inception, according TO
NJ of the survivors, in the purchase Of
half a man' or a half pint of whisky.
II is apparent that a man with an in
Gination for a drink and a roll of suf-
iicient size can procure 1t. However,
quality has changed more in a month
thar current prices have.
This leaves " possibilities to ac-
count for the failure Of officers of the
law to confiscate whisky. The first Of
these is that the whisky-runners
through long experience have become so
expert In lodging the officers that their
capture is an exceedingly difficult mat
ter, Men who are experienced agree
that the law violator who does not
leave IA Clew is a rare individual; Oh
the contrary the y~iolator in nine cases
out Of 10 will make some move that
will betray him and lead TO Ing arrest.
Tho other possibility Is that the Of
ftCeFs assigned to the work of Captur-
ing the whisky smugglers are not suffi-
GENTLY active, The task that an Off
Ger faces in experimenting a boat or
automobile laden with whisky is in
deed a difficult one. as any officer en-
gagged in that work will admit. But
these Captures have been made in the
past and doubtless will be made in the
future and there are few, If any, Off
GERS who will not admit that u%ntiring
efforts and clear thinking will bring re-
suits.
Just which of the three theories men
cannot be stated but the fact remains
that whisky Is to be obtained in Mem
phis and a woefully small amount has
been confiscated during recent weeks
and during this time O.. r. Webster
deputy United States marshal, recog'
nized as one of the most active Off
GERS in this city against bootleggers
and whisky-runners, has been killed
Webster was shot dow in the hear
of the city in a gunfight with a rec
ognized leader of the Bookkeeping fra
ternity when Webster resented taunt'
hurled at him by members of the bant
of aw Violators.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
TO CHANGE
GOLD TIME 26
Farmers Like Old Plan-New
York Re Enacts Light
Saving Pan.

Devotees Of the plan Of early RISING
properly called the daylight saving plan
may well enjoy themselves during the
next 10 days for at the end of that
period the daylight saving law will
breathe its last and the good Ole u, s
A. will operate once more on a time
schedule regulated by the sun and
common custom.
During the war emergency the day
light saving plan was .inaugurated by
an act of congress for the purpose of
adding an extra hour of daylight To
the end of the day in order that wal
gardens might receive the attention
which they justly deserved.
City jewellers throughout the length
and breadth of the nation welcomed
the new order of things for they were
enabled to spend an hour of daylight
at home after. the toll and strife of
the day. Farmers, however. who since
time immemorial have toiled from sun
rise to sunset, declared that the law
was a hindrance instead of being a
help to them and. with the conclusion
of the late lamented unpleasantness
across the pond a lively fight looking
to the repeal of the measure ensued.
Residents Of the rural districts APP
parently welded more influence over
an undemocratjc congress than did
Woodrow Wilson, for the daylight saw
ing law was repealed over the veto
of the president and on Oct, 26 set to
revert to the old schedule.
But little old New York was not
to be deprived of its extra hour for
frolic along the great white way,
Within the past few days n local ordi-
nance has been adopted in New York
under the terms of which he daylight
saving plan will be put into operation
again in the spring of 1920.
Other cities may follow with similar
action-Who knows?
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
Disappearance OF
3-Year-O Old Child
Still Is MysterA

HAMMONTON, N. j., Oct. 16.-After
a weeks search and the Investigation
Of a score of supposed clews. the mys-
terry surrounding the Disappearance
from his home here last Wednesday Of
three-year-old Billy Danzev apparently
was no nearer solution today than the
day he disappeared. Wv
A letter received by the boys mother
gave the authorities another possible
clew to work on today. The letter was
postmarked Newark, N. j.. and signed
with the initials ~. P. c." 1t appar-
emily was in the handwriting of A
woman. and in it the writer admitted
KIDNAPPING the child, but said that a
mistake had been made in getting the
wrong kid"
But the letter added, 'as I never
can get an opportunity Of getting the
White boy | am going TO hold on to
this boy. He is a wonderful little char
and | already love him. When you re.
ceive this I'll be close to the Mississippi
river and in five days I'll have him
west of the Rockies"
The White boy" referred to in the
letter Is supposed by those working on
the case to mean the son OF e.. II,
White, a member of the city council.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
COTTON DELEGATES
HEADED THIS WAY
$500
Will Spend Thursday in Delta
and Friday as Guests of
Memphis.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 16.-Mem-
phis entertains more than 300 delegates
to the world cotton conference here Fri
day and Saturday.
Thursday S25 foreign representatives
and Eastern spinners had registered fol-
the special train leaving the city at
midnight Thursday for Scott, Miss, and
thence to Memphis.
The greater part of Friday will be
spent at Scott, where the delegates will
be the guests Of l.. X. Salisbury. Mr.,
Salisbury was head of the Memphis del
egation to the convention and conducted
one OF theN livest headquarters of the
conference in the st. Charles hotel.
The special trains for Memphis will
leave New Orleans at midnight Thurs
day, after the banquets, which will con-
clude the conference sessions here,
There will be lunch served at the
Country club in Memphis and the guests
will then be divided into groups for
most.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
ON CLEMENCEAU
CABINET REVEALED

PARIS, Oct. ia final effort of the
opposit'nn to overthrow the Clemenceau
cabinet before the coming parliamentary
elections bring in a new parliament and
a new ministry in France will be made
1t is said. The subject at issue is the
order in which the coming elections are
to be held. The proposal Of the gov
eminent to hold the elections for mem
bers of the chamber of deputies first,
these to be followed by the elections of
municipal officials and then of members
OF the French senate, has been rejected
by the electoral committee of the cham
Der of deputies and the committee in
his report. to be debated this after
noon will ask the chamber to give
precedence to the municipal elections.
Premier Clemenceau is expected to
demand a vote of confidence on the
adoption of the government plan. The
socialists ia the chamber, 1t is under
stood, favor the government, plan, thus
greatly weakenening the strength of the
opposition to Clemenceau on this point.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
EXHIBIT POSTPONED.

RIPLEY. Miss, Oct. IS. CSpl.)-Tip-
pah county exhibit day, which was
to have been held under the direction
Of Miss Sarah Craig and w. r. Pol
lard, county agents, in Ripley Tues
day, has been postponed until Satur-
day, Oct. is, on account Of the rainy
weather. Canning, poultry. live stock
and AGRICULTURAL exhibits win be made,
Several hundred dollars have been do
mated by the business men Of this sec
ton and will be- awarded TO the win
ners in each department. Judges from
the Mississippi A. and NJ. college are
expected to be present
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
mrs. MYRTLE ELLIS
REALLY mrs. DURHAM

The body of Mrs, Myrtle Durham,
known in Memphis as Myrtle Ellis, who
was killed early Wednesday morning
when an automobile plunged into "A
ditch on the Horn Lake road, Is being
held at the Thompson Bros. undertaking
parlors pending word from relatives at
Jonesboro, Ark. The remains VIII he
forwarded to Jonesboro probably Thurs
day night,
Information from Jonesboro is to the
effect. that the accident victim WINS
~estranged from her husband several
months ago. She Is said to have three
children, ranging in age from 6 20 II
years.
+. W. Chase, 40 years old, Gilbert
avenue, and J. f.. Crawford, 2S years
old. Latham street, who were held by
Sheriff Perry, have been released from
blame for the woman's death. Chase,
said to have been the driver Of the car,
is charged with operating the aulomo~
bile while under +he Influence of liquor,
He gave bond for $3.50 and was released,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
PMPLY? WELL,DONTB
People Notice 1t. Drive Them
OFF with DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets

Apimply face will not embarrass you
much longer if you get a package of
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets. The skin
should begin to clear after you have
taken the tablets a few nights.
Cleanse the blood, bowels and liver
with DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the
successful substitute for calomel; there's
no sickness or pain after taking them.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do that
which calomel does, and just as effec-
lively, but their action is gentle and
safe instead of severe and irritating.
No n who takes Olive Tablets is
ever cursed with a dark brown TASTE"
a bad breath, a dull, ~listless, mo good"
feeling, constipation, torpid Liver, bad
disposition or pimply face.
Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable
compound mixed with olive oil; you will
know them by their olive color.
DR.. Edwards spent years among pa
tents afflicted with liver and bowel
complaints, and Olive Tablets are the
immensely effective result. Take one or
two nightly for a week. See how much
better you feel and look. l0c and 25c.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
STRANDED,

ORLEANS, Mass. Oct. l6.-A steam
er believed to be a freighter from Nova
Scotia hound for New York, became
stranded on "A sandbar near United
States coast guard station No. 40 last
night. The station crew after reach
ing the vessel in the heavy fog re-
manned aboard.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
OIL MAGNATES OFF TO
SEE SINKING OF WELL

John Sneed Williams. president; w.
II, Godbey, Jr., secretary and treas
urer, and George Mahan, trustee, Of
Thursday for the Texas oil fields TO
witness the ~"spudding in Of the COM
pany's first well at BurkbUrnett. The
company was financed almost entirely
with local capital through the efforts
Of A. NJ. Keisker. formerly on the ed.
torial staffs Of Memphis newspapers,
who went TO Texas several years ago,
Keisker Is vice president Of the com
pany.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
The Materials

lIatters' Plush, Lyons
Velvet, Saltz Velvet,
Iibeline Plush, Cheney
Velvet. Beaver, Panne
Velvet, Velour, Nelvctte
and combination.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16

BEAD News Scimitar Wants.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
DOG MAKES
TERRIBLE MISTAKE
=
Not Reader Of Darwin, Takes
Monkey for Cat-Pete
Loses Wad,
BY RoR hILpEeRANp.

In these days of nature taking,
Liberty with truth we're taking;
IT'S a comfort, never stale,
To fear a trustful, truthsome tale.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
The Colors

The COIOrS
az k, Brown,
Navy, Sapphire, Pea
cock, Taupe, Beaver,
Purple, Sand and
combinations.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16

TO Hear a trustful, truthsome tale.
This story Is about Pete Sailors, and
the most wonderful fighting dog that
ever chased the CANNES Of Binghamton
"a dog thai never was licked In fair
fight-until there came der tag" as
the Hun characterized the day when he
could dominate the civilized world.
Albert Payson Terhune and his collies
to the contrary-Molic Elliott Seawell
and Black Beauty" Notwithstanding
the animal kingdom, as applied to dogs
n horses, contains members that
never would do for a regular setto for
a Saturday night stud poker game.
They have too much Imagination. The
psychology which follows defeat is too
deep-seated in their brute consciences,
Now, Pete's Bulge-a white bulldog.
afraid of neither man nor devil Of he
came in the form of another dog-or a
cat, and this latter was a pet aVersionl
did not stop his meteOriC career until
the figuratiNe, sCalps Of all the Bing-
hamton dogs hung at his tigurative belt.
Pete picked up the wagered coin On Il
number of matches. His white comet
was a killer, literally. When he en-
tered the happy hunting grounds that
contains so many pit bulls, and other
lion-hearted> CANNES, the mortality
record he caused occupied n full pag
possibly two, IN the book Of judgment.
Pete Warned Italian,
Therein is recorded his downfaii-tihat
aversion, and "A distinct lack of rdIra
ton as to natural history
An Italian organ grinder showed up
IN ~Binghamton one day, He had his
crank-cased producer Of alleged music
monkey. loup-tailed Xizened. faced and
trained,
Pete and the negro trainer. Lem.
brought 1he L,ii,dny tnto IL" a-nn,nn,ii
circle which listened to The ravonins
discords of the hand organ. They
Darwinian theory as he tucked the men.
MES into his pockets.
pete ana Tenn yyotcbad col,,I, d.,
| not so with the bulldog II was hcro
that his lack az natural history intcro.
fered with his progress Ia a noin, whero
he would become the Jeffries Of the
Western Tennessee dogs W.
The ferocious canine battler became
| imbued with Tho idea that the rnonLny
was a cat II became an ohSosuionn
with him, as ne tupged At he Len sh
| which Lem held in strong CRASH '
pete. Knowing the dog pr]or1ivitv for
mortal combat warned itbc 11taIamn
warned in pigeon italian if there 10
such a thing existing, ."
rhn,Ionme Nnons4.I
Ohdllenge ACcepCeu.
The Italian could urdorstora uo,hi.u
/ but monLpv inc lie notii,o ,oaii.s
| and tho coiIectiGn' T-bio NM opmsue'
| nlishment Iing,istic ard ei nT'J @1to,nI
| him NOT ono Viii in ,,,%,rIa,, "5Qeu
| pete Rut Ionn could nndnrnt o, ~,
smattoriro ~ %Italiann IL "' tai n
III eays etftbe dng ioosar 'o'a iete'
pete didn,t bnIie"n his oor, n.u, ,,u
| opain =" be dc"na nded as Th , Ash MN
| tie same '"' result was
0r,,,rn Lta, oa.om .at
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
The Styles

Knox Blocks, Sailors, Mush-
rooms, Back Rolls, Side Rolls,
Tams, Poke Bonnets, Droop-
ing Brims, Chin Chin Sailors,
Jockey Shapes and endless va
riety of novelties.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-16
o. ks PEACE TREATY.

MONTEV1DE0. Oct. 16.--The uru.
guayan house of representatives has
voted approval Of the treaty Of peace
between the allied and associated ma
tons and Germany.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-02-27
Physicians Are Still Hunting for
a Preventive.
U. 8. Laboratory Director Says No
Cure for BafilIno Disease
10 Known.

New York-Considerir that the In
surance companies Of the United
States lost about $13O,OOO,OOO during
the three months last year when the
influenza epidemic was at its height
1t was but natural that when the Asso-
citation Of Life Insurance Medical d.
rectors met in annual convention IN
Newark the physicians and public
health authorities should concern
themselves almost exclusively to the
search for some preventive measure
which would preclude another outbreak
Of the plague.
And vet, although 1t was shown that
about 100000 people in the world
perished from it, 400 900 of whom were
Americans, all the medical experts ad-
mitted that the disease was completely
baffling. Said DR.. g. w. Mccoy. d.
rector Of the hygienic laboratory Of the
public health service in Washington.
.aThere is no serum that know OF
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-02-27
SUPERSTITION HARD TO DOWN
Quaint Belief In References to Wed
ding Customs That Prevail In This
and Other Countries.

There are more superstitiOns In ref
erence to the marriage ceremony than
In reference to any other In common
life. They refer to such matters a.
the clothes to be worn by the bride. to
the year, month and day of the we'd
ding. In Sweden 1t is believed that IL
Il girl Is fond of cats she will not be an
old maid. We.shOuld expect the ObpO-
site.
One of our proverbs says that 1t Is
Ill luck for bride to see her face In a
glass by candle. Another that we'd
ding feast postponed BODIES bad luck.
Bees must be told of wedding and
get some of the cake. The pins used
In the dress of the bride ut her we'd
ding must be all thrown away; II re-
tained by the bridesmaids they will not
marry before Whitsuntide. A girl
must beware of being three times .
bridesmaid, for she never will be .
bride.
1t augurs Ill for a wedding II bride
does not weep profusely. No witch
can shed more than three tears, and
those from her left eye only. A copi.
Gus flood of tears gives assurance to
the husband that the lady has not
plighted her troth to satan and Is NO
witch.-Philadelph Inquirer.