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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
FEVER|SH
CHILD IS BILIOUS
OR @CONST|PATED
Look, Mother! If Tongue Is
Coated Give California
Syrup of Figs"

Every mother realizes, after giving her
children California Syrup of Figs" that
this is their Ideal laxative, because tley
love It's pleasant taste and it tloroughlv
cleansps the teqder little stomach, liver
and bowels without gripping.
Whom cross, irritable, feverish or breath
is bad. stomach sour. look Mt the tongue.
mother. II coated. give y tcaspoonf1l Of
this harmless fruit laxative" and in A
few hours all the fonl constituted waste,
sour bile aud undlgested food passes ont
of the bowels, and You have u well plsy.
ful child again. When It's little system
Is full of cold, throat sore, has stomach.
nche. diarrhoea. INDIGESTION. collc-re.
member. a cood inside rIea nsing' should
olWavs I've the first treatment given.
Millions " mothers keen 'Californin
Syrup Of Figs" handy: they know a tea
snoonfnl today savcs y sict child tonor.
row. Ask your druggist for a bot
tie of California Svrnn Of Figs" which
has directions for babies. children Of all
aces and grownups printed on the bottle.
Beware OF counterfeits sold hers SO don't
be fooled. Get the genuine. made nv
''California Fig Syrup compan ny" adv
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
OFFICERS RAID STILLS
NEAR HUNTSVILLE, ALA.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala, Jan. 90. (Spl.)
Revenue raiders from this city Sat
urday made successful raids in widely
separated localities. On the Tennessee
river south of here a large Illicit cop
per still was captured and the alleged
owner, J. B. Tolbert, of Hillsboro, was
brought in as a prisoner. Tolbert Is
charged with making stills as well as
making whisky. The other raid was
made near Ellwood. Tenn, where a
large double wooden still was in opera
ton when the officers arrived The
operators, three in number. escaped.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
MISSISSIPPI AIRMAN
IS HURT AT FORT SILL

BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss, Jan. 20.
(Spl.)-Lieut, J. c. FAINT. Jr.. Of this
county, who Is still on military duty at
Fort Sill. Okla. has met with a very
serious motorcycle accident, one of his
shoulders being badly crushed and the
impact Of the fall rendering him UNI
conscious for four hours,
Lieut.. FAINT, who is the son OF Hon.
John c. FAINT. a prominent Tippah
county politician, was confined to the
military hospital for several days from
the accident, but recent reports from
him to his father Indicate his speedy
recovery.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
SOUTHERN FAIR MEN
DEMAND RACING BILL

NASHVILLE. Tenn, Jan. 90. (Spl)-
Tennes ee II likely 90 nave ,acuIg,
minus the betting, except the pari-
mutuel system, II the solons will heed
the appeal OF the thoroughbred stock
breeders Of the state and the pleas of
the Southern Fair men now In session
here, Two years ago Senator Frank
y. Fuller, secretary of the Tri-Statc
fair at Memphis and president Of the
Southern Fair association, introduced
a bin to legalize racing In the state
under certain restrictions, but the bill
failed.
This year 1t is proposed TO ask the
legislature to pass a measure that will
put the racing game, without the bet
ting evil, back on its feet and Incl
dentally place Tennessee again at the
top OF the thoroughbred stock breeding
states, where 1t rlghtfully belongs.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
FLU HOLDS NATCHEZ.

NATCHEY Miss. Jan. 20, (Spl.)-
The spread Of Influenza In Natchez and
vicinity continues unchecked. TWO
school and the cathedral high school,
are closed on account Of the iIlucss Of
teachers, and il is announced by NJ. G
Montgomery. county superintendent OF
education. that several of the county
schools have been closed for the same
reason. The present attack OF influ-
enza appears to be milder than the
first, and very few cases OF pneumonia
have resulted from 1t
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
PLANS MONUMENT.

BRISTOL, Tenn, Jan. 20. (Spl)-
That Bristol should erect a modern
hospital as a memorial to her boys
who participated in the recent world
war, is the general opinion OF the busi-
has been appointed by the chamber of
commerce to investigate the project
and make a report. 1t is believed here
that the movement will met with favor,
not only from the standpoint that It
would be q fitting memorial to the
city's soldiers and sailors, but also
for the reason that the city has needed
adequate hospital facilities for several
unlrG
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
TO PUT
UP SUM OF $4,000

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 20. CSpl)
The Presbyterian synod Of Tennessee
will be expected to raise a quota of
approximately 1853 600 in the New Era
movement, announces Rev. Roy f., Vale,
DID, chairman of the synod commit
tee on the movement. DR.. Vale ex-
poets to appoint a chairman to direct
the campaign in each Of the nine Pres
byteries of the state 70 He will also
call a conference of officials of the New
Era movement to be held in Nashville
soon
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
BRISTOL BARYTlC PLANT
TO BE SOLD TUESDAY

BRISTOL. Tenn, Jan. 20. (Spl)-The
Bristol barytic plant, located near the
city, will be sold next Tuesday at pub
lie autcoin. This plant has been idle
for the past several years and the
aggregate amount of Indebtedness
against the property is 1928. 900. The
plant contains several buildings, "a
acres of land and machinery. 1t Is
understood that a company will bid
on the plant and probably purchase IT
and convert 1t into some kind Of a
manufacturing plant.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
OUTPUT
INCREASES AT NATCHEz

NATCHEZ, Miss, Jan. 20. (Spl)-
Wallace II. Ratcliff, census enumerator
for Adams county, states that the num-
Der of bales Of cotton ginned the past
season is 1896, against 1900 the pre-
vious season. 1t is expected that the
total ginning for the season will be
$500 bales. Mr.. Ratcliff says that most
of the cotton in Adams county was
picked early and that the growers
prices. 1t is expected that a much
larger acreage than last year will be
put in cotton this year, although win
ter rains have retarded blowing and
there has been but little preparation Of
land,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
PALESTINE THROWN OPEN
TO AMERICAN TRADE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Palestine.
with trade routes reaching out by rail
and across Persia, was thrown
open again to American export and i'm
port under an order today by the war
trade board, The official announce
ment specifies that portion of Pales-
tine and Syria which lies south of the
line from AleXandretta TO Aleppo, in
elusive, and west Of he Hejaz rail-
way.
All import restrictions on Egyptian
cotton also have been removed, it was
announced, and it is no longer a re-
%quirement that the bill of lading be
Endorsed by the Textile alliance, in
corporated.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
Habitual Constipation Cured

'LAX-FOS WITH PEPSTN" is a spe-
cially prepared Tonic Laxative for Ia
bitual Constipation. 1t relieves prompt
ly but should be taken regularly for II
to 81 days to induce regular action, 1t
Stimulates and Regulates. Very Pleas
ant to Take. SOC per bottle. adv.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
Pen-0-Trate Sa|ve

is enclosed with every bottle of HAYES HEAL
ING HONEY. This is the only cough syrup on the
market with which this additional treatment is
given. The Salve is also very valuable as a Germi-
eide for the Nose and Throat. You get both
remedies for the price of one. 35c.
Sold by all Druggists. If your Druggist should not
have it in stock, he will order it from his nearest
Wholesale Druggist.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
DETECTIVE IVY RESIGNS.

City Detective A. S. Ivy, former
United States deputy marshal, has re-
signed from the local department to
accept the position of chief Of police
at Greenville, Miss, Commissioner Miller
received the resignation Saturday at
noon. Ivy will leave in a few days for
GreenVille.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-20
A Cough That Lasts
and will not yield to ordinary remedies
must have special treatment.
Hayes
Healing Honey
Stops The Tickle
Heals The Throat
Cures The Cough
IL. .e.zA... - 49,. -.zA->- e N~.LL.

wonderfully effective in the treatmen of Coughs.
but if the Cough is deep-seated and the Head or
Chest is sore, a penetrating salve should be
applied. This greatly helps any cough syrup in
curing Coughs and Colds.
A free box of
New-York tribune., 1919-07-02
Meek America

1t was Mr.. Kiplng's conception of
America that we were wild and reck-
less breed of lawbreakers. Our ma
tional spirit he pictured as making the
American "hout the law he makes" And
that has been a popular view among
Americans. Lynching, smuggling, tax
dodging-the list of our lawless sins has
been long and has occasioned perennial
essays upon "lawless America.'
Yet if all of this is true, how about
the great drouth and it's calm acceptance
by an infuriated proletariat that was to
march upon the Capitol and raise hob
generally? How about conscrption, i'm
posed with less mental preparation than
in any other English-speaking country
and accepted with grin, as matter of
course? Americans may be lawless, but
they seem to know when the time has
line. The spirit Of martyrdom is not
part of the ordinary American soul.
These facts do not make out the Ameri-
can much of a hero. On the face they
suggest plain cowardice--whicht the facts
of certain A. f. f. incontnently con-
tradict. SO we must look deeper for the
explanation. "Torpid' is another bilious
adjective which critics sometimes seek to
pin on Americans. But, again, The facts
of national industry and invention, to
say nothing of war making, fatty oppose
it. No, we are inclined to the view that
there is strain of fatalism, plus sense
of humor, in American character that
makes for cheerful resignation in the
face Of the inescapable "Wot a woil =
"What's the use?' and "Where 10 we 20
from here?" are its axoms. If it is the
game, or if there is a chance, an Ameri-
can will fight on indefinitely if not ex-
actly with the celebrated English bull
dog grip at least with the shiftier, quite
as effective attack of a bull terrier But
the immolating spirit of sacrifice, the
Blind fury Of martyrdom, is not for him
The American grin has the whole OK
PLANTATION summed up in its straight,
watchful, cheerful lines. 1t is calm,
yes, and good humored But it is not
soft, and don't tell it to the marines if
you think it is meek
New-York tribune., 1919-07-02

duce armaments, but merely to consider
recommending reduction at some future
time. But even the power to recommend
is limited by Article Y, which says
Except whore otherwise expressly pro-
vded in this covenant or by the terms
of the present treaty, decisions at any
meeting of the assembly or Of the council
shall require the agreement of all the
members Of the league represented at the
meeting"
So to get recommendation started,
there must first be unanimous action.
But nothing then is settled. The home
governments merely pledge themselves
and consider in turn the recommended
plan. Nations may now limit armaments
by common agreement. So the league
creates no new method
1t seems wise, if the covenant is to be
ratified, to present it as it is The more
it is described as it is not, the poorer,
will be the chance of acceptance.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-02
Dying Petrograd
By Maxim Gorky
Translated from editorial in his Pftrograa nezssbat<,

The bread baked out of straw flour, the
heads Of herring and similar articles of
food hurt more than they help.
Hunger in Petrograd is increasing at
frightful speed. Daily people are
found in the streets who have fallen in
faint from Weakness Here a driver
falls to the pavement, there a major
general, here an officer who is selling
newspapers, there seamstress.
More horrible, however, than the
physical hunger is the ever growing men,
tai exhaustion. Physicians are lately
drawing attention to the alarming
decline in weight of people who do in
tellectual labor This class Of men need
thousand calories of food a day less
than the man doing hard physical labor,
but it is just among them that the loss
IN weight is becoming alarming Ply
sicians are warning that these men are
rapidly reaching a stage when all their
mental energies will be exhausted
Petrograd is dying as a city; it is also
dying as the centre Of intellectual life.
In this process Of dying there shows it
self an almost grewsome submissiveness
to fate, the typically Russian passive
relation to life.
Something must be done to stem this
process Of physical and psychical disso-
luton of the intellectuals We must re-
member that they are the brains of The
country and we were never in greater
need Of brains than we are to-day.
The intellectual forces Of Petrograd
must organize at once to protect them
selves against the threatened extinction
by hunger and nervous breakdown.
They must cease to be apathetc and
passive toward themselves, their ex-
istence or nOn-eXistence
AS we are proceeding along the road
TO freedom we must not lose all thought
or care for our fellow humans.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-02

into being when the treaty with Ger
many is ratified. The United States will
enter the league when it approves the
German treaty. Only in case the Turk
ish and Bulgarian treaties are made
with the league, and not with the bellig-
erents who conquered Germanys two
southern allies, can the United States
have legitimate part in making them.
The work Of the United States at the
present peace conference of belligerents
will be finished when the treaties with
Austria and Hungary are signed. More
over, this country cannot enter the
league until the conditions qualifying our
entrance are determined by the action
of the Senate and the President
Our legal relation to Turkey and Bull
garia is still that of neutral. If we
want to make peace with these nations
we ought first to go to war with them.
Will the President now ask CONGRESS- to
declare war in order to regularize Amer
ican participation in the peace negota-
tiOnS?
New-York tribune., 1919-07-02
Germany's State of Mind

The common reaction in Germany to
the peace treaty is one Of bitterness and
revolt But in that chorus there are a
few -pessimistic notes. Premier
Bauer says, for instance: "We intend
to live up to the terms of the treaty to
the limit of our strength
What is Bauer's method? He gives
partial answer: "Only communal and
national cooperation can make that pos
sible. We are going about it slowly and
scientifically, with we'll thought out
plans
That is Germany's only hope of re-
cuperation. 1t is also the only hope Of
a successful working out of the Allied
reparations scheme. Germany has
boasted of her science and her power
Of organization. Will she now employ
them ''to the limit in squaring her obh-
cations to the rest of the world?
New-York tribune., 1919-07-02
Roosevelt Mountain
(From the Roosevelt Memorial! Association

ASSOC1QttOu)
TNHE South Dakota peak which is to be
4 named Mount Theodore Roosevelt on
the Fourth Of July is now known as
Sheep Mountain, or Round Top. 1t is a de
tached eminence with an elevation of 1000
feet, the highest of the Black Hills, three
miles from Deadwood, fifteen miles from
Wyoming and thirty-five miles from the
Montana state line 1t is in the Black
Hills forest reserve, and will be the centre
of bird and game refuge also dedicated
to the memory of the exPresident
All that section of the country has been
intimately associated with various periods
in the life Of Colonel Roosevelt. The peak
which is to bear his name overlooks the
foothills and valleys Of the northern Black
Hills, where the Colonel hunted buffalo In
sight from its summit are his cattle range
and his trail to Deadwood as we'll as sec
tions of Wyoming and Montana where he
traled cattle in his cowboy days. Glimpses
Of the Belle Fourche, the Redwater and
other streams flowing down the valleys at
tract the spectator The peak and the
territory around it are now embraced in
the Belle Fourche irrigation project which
NOlOHel NOOSeNclC advocated Wncn floSl-
dent. This is making an arid prairie over
into fertile farming country.
The people of Deadwood are now build
ing at the summit of the mountain a cairn
fifty feet high of houlders of native granite
7. A. Brown, Of Spearfsh, of the
ColonePs associates Of years ago, has OBJ
tanned permission Of the local commit
tee to place in this monument a stone
with the cattle brands of his old friend
chiselled thereon. The dedication Of this
monument will take place Independence
Day, when tablet inscribed "In memory
of Theodore Roosevelt, the American viii
be fastened to one Of the boulders. The
Governor of South Dakota is expected to
preside at the ceremony. General Leonard
Wood will make address, and there will
be present state officials Of Wyoming,
Montana, Nebraska and South Dakota.
An automobile road is now being built
to the top of the mountain from Deadwood.
new bride path along a beautiful little
creek will also give access to the mountain
top and the memorial cairn.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-02
Ertinguishcd Universities

And all this is done in the name Of democ-
racyit would be more appropriate to call
it demagogy-without considering the opin
ions Of the professors and other academic
persons
AS result of the bounding of the pro-
fessors who did not wish to submit to such
orders and also owing to other hardships.
| can state with ass slranco that the uni
versities in Petrograd, Moscow and Kazan
have suspended their normal work and most
of the professors are gone The same is true
about the Agricultural College at Petroerad
and the Moscow Agricultural Institute.
The professors who sided with the Bolsbe-
wiki are extremely few professor OF Law
Raisner and Professor of Finances Pokrov-
sky. The overwhelming majority await with
great eagerness the day of liberation from
the Bolshevk yoke If they stay at all i
IS because they have no choice. or in a good
many cases because they have hopes of saw
ing the institution
1t was in such condition that the reccntlv
opened University of Perm was found when
the town of Perm was taken by General Kol
chak's army. There was no end Of rejoicing
and exultation on the part Of all the pro-
fessors at their delverance from the clutches
of the Boshcviki N ROROD1N
Professor OF Petrograd Agricultural Col
ege.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-02
The Lottery Germ
Ctro,n Forbcs's Ncoo-;,,,

Ctfom F0rbcs'S NGDQzineD
If the oil germ has taken possession OF
your blood and you simply must buy oil
shares, do not try to make yourself believe
that you are investing, but admit frankly
to yourself that you are indulging in a
gamble as uncertain as a horse race or a
lottery. In other words, do not put anv
money into any Of these new and alluring
OIL shares unless you are prepared to lose
every penny of il. 1t is human nature to
want to get something for nothing. Usually
when we try this we get something we hadn't
expected This Will be the experience Of
the great majority OF those who are scra,n.
bling to buy unknown oil stocks to-day. In
every lottery there are Il few prize winners.
the other tickets become worth only the naner
they are printed on. so will it be with tho
oil lottery which is now raging
New-York tribune., 1919-07-02
Dragging In Wall Street

Senator Borah is at pains to say there
was no impropriety in Mr.. Lamont's
handing an advance copy Of the peace
treaty to Mr.. Dawson, nor in Mr. Davi-
sons letting Mr.. Root show it to Senator
Lodge. He comedies, moreover, that "big
business has as much right to labor for
the covenant as he to oppose it.
Then why mention big business and
Wall Street? 1t is true a pamphlet of
Mr.. Taft's organization played up the
alleged fact that "big busness' is for
the covenant, saying the opposition "is
confined to small business men whose
horizon is restricted by their own front
door" But Senator Borah is seasoned
enough in politics to be aware of what
a literary or press agent may sometimes
do when turned loose, and he should
rather sympathize with MIR. Taft.
The covenant is too important to be
befogged by demagogic attempts to
arouse prejudice by listing it's adherents
and its opponents. Senator Borah may
we'll allow Nh Tafts organization and
The World a monopoly of cheapness and
partisanship and confine himself to the
merits of the questions at issue. A
debate which should be serious already
has been too much confused by irrele-
vaOciec
New-York tribune., 1919-07-02
Making Peace With Non-Enemies

These are days Of strange conceptions
them is the proposal that the United
States shall participate in making peace
with Turkey and Bulgaria--states with
which we have never been at war.
Congress was willing in 1917 to de-
clare war on Turkey and Bulgaria, but
was restrained from doing so by the Ad
ministration. The situation created by
failure to declare war was a paradoXical
one. Turkey and Bulgaria were allies
of Germany and Austria -Hungary-our
enemies, By our policy they were left
in the twilight zone, between neutrals and
bcligerents, between friends and foes
Diplomatic relations with Turkey were
suspended. But similar relations with
Bulgaria were maintained, Bulgaria
being allowed to keep minister in
Washington. The provost marshal gen
eral, in administering the draft law, was
obliged to define the status Of Turkey
and Bulgaria as best he could. He
divided the aliens registered under the
CCiiSNI iDt4'N az 4iAS' ''Oi Nteio9N7-- al
lied, neutral, enemy and "a!licd with the
enemy" Turks and Bulgarians fell in
to the last class.
American troops did not fight against
Turkey or Bulgaria. Our treaties Of
amity with these two countries are Still
in force. We did not participate in the
armistices which ended hostilitics be
tween them and the Entente powers
Yet The Tribunc's dispatches from Paris
reported the other day that the United
States twill be patty to both the Turk
ish and Bulgarian treaties"
It is explained that America viii be
entitled 10 make and sign peace treaties
with states with which she never was at
war because the treaties VIII contain
drafts of the covenant Of the league Of
natons Ths is no explanation at all.
The Turkish and bulgarian treaties will
not confer ncmDcrship in the league Of
nations On those two countries. They
will not confer membership on the United
states. The league Of nations will come
New-York tribune., 1919-07-02
What an American Consul Saw

The detailed statement of John "A.
Embry, the American Consul at Omsk,
tells the sickening story of what hap
pened in Western Siberia and Eastern
Russia during the period Of Bolshevik
rule.
Men and women were dubbed to
death; public places of cities became
shambles; self-appointed committees,
without semblance of trial, sent firing
squads to murderous work; jails were
opened and their criminal inmates in
vited to Join the Red Guards, and were
turned loose to murder, to rape and
loot. Such is the testimony, not of an
irresponsible person, but Of an official
witness Of the highest character.
The revolving practices, it is worth
while to remember, although weakly de-
MED by American apologists for Boil
shevism, are not denied by Leninc him
self. His letter to American working
men contains a defiant admission and
justification. He wrote
"When the workers and laboring
peasants took hold Of the powers of
state it became our duty to quell the re
sstance of the exploiting class. We are
proud that have done it. We only
regret that we did not do it at the be-
ginning with sufficient irmness and de-
cision.
The formula is simple one Any
persons, whether Socialist or Liberal, who
do not instantly obey Lenine are ipso
focto counter revolutonaries and sup
porters of the exploiting class. XIII
them, torture them. terrorize their
friends and relatives.
The time approaches when it will not
be easy to believe Of any American de-
fender of Bolshevism that he is a victim
Of honest ignorance. The evidence be-
comes too overwhelming to admit that
the apologists for Lenine are sincere.