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The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
GERMANS, WOULD
 CONE ID MEXICO
Anticipating Restrictions by United States May Flood Southern Repub- lie and Then Filter Across" B0r-
 der-To Escape War Debt.

Berlin, April Thousands and thousands of Germans are preparing to emigrate to Mexico.
 From there they expect to filter all thru America.
 President Carranza has but to let down the bars and 6,o0O,000 will flood his country, the secretary of the Mex ican consulate in Berlin says. His office has been swamped with Ger mans who want to get into America.
 Germans anticipate restrictions on immigration by the United States which will act heavily on the people of the powers that fought the allies. They expect still stronger bars. to their entry into Canada.
 There are millions of Germans who see greater opportunity in American institutions than in soviet Germany or any other kind of Germany with trade restrictions set up by the pow CTS and huge war debt to be paid.
 These Germans are determined to get out of the homeland as soon as they can. They believe they can easily make their way across the border from Mexico into the United State, those who do not find oppor- tunity in Mexico.
 South America and Mexico are the only doors of opportunity open to the German emigrant.
 Germany's best skilled and best trained technical experts see small chance for development at home. And there are thousands of these men.
 The best brains of Germany were kept behind the fighting lines in the workshops and the experiment sta- tions and the government depart ments. These men see no more .fu- ture for them than for the least com petent workmen if sovietism becomes the government of Germany.
 The propect isn't pleasing the Ger man industrial magnates who hope to retain their works and make Germany great manufacturing center again under competitive industrial sys- tenn. They are doing all they can to hold these men.
 "We are miles ahead of other coun- tries in technical edueation," says one of the leaders, "but if our trained men slip away from us, before our country settles down, the loss will be one it will take years to repair"
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
2OOO VICTIMS
 .Of THE BOLSHIv|KI
In and Near Town of Osa Murders of Civilians by the Wholesale Have Been mmitted-Denuded
 of Males.

Omsk, April 16.-Indisputable evil dence of the massacre by the Bolshe- iki of more than 2,000 civilians in and near the town of Osa has been ob- tained by Messrs. Simmonds and Em- erson and Dr. Rudolph Teusler of the America Red Cross, who have just returned from Perm, Osa and other occupied territory. Approximately 500 persons were killed at Osa and l,500 in the surrounding districts.
 Osa, which had a population of 10,- 900, was so denuded of males by the Bolsheviki that General Casagrande, upon the occupation of the town, was obliged to telegraph to Yekaterin- burg for men to administer civic af- fairs.
 In addition to securing verbal and documentary evidence the American Red Cross officials witnessed the ex- huming of scores of victims from trnches, where they were buried sometimes several feet deep in graves revealed by the digging of dogs. The murders were without provocation and the victims were largely of the thrifty and intelligent classes.
 The body of woman was exhumed and identified in the presence of the Americans as the wife of a general, thru jewels sewed in the lining of her clothing, of which relatives were aware. Another woman was com pelled to fetch a lamp and gaze upon her murdered sons for the amusement of the slayers.
 The Soviets called meeting and prepared a list of those to die. The houses of those prescribed were .vis- ited by squads, the doors smashed in, and the victims dragged to the edge of the town and forced to dig their own graves. Those resisting were shot in the streets.
 A survivor said that he had seen men thrown into a pit and buried alive. This testimony has been con- firmed by bodies exhumed, the clench- ed hands of which were clinging to the mud at the bottom of the pit.
 The only spark of humanity dis coverable was that in confscating the belongings of the residents, in some instances where there was a family of small children, the family was per- mitted to retain one COW out of sev- eral. Occasionally peasant was all lowed to keep the worst horse.
 The Bolshevik attitude toward the church was uncompromising. Priests were hunted unmercifully.
 In the Perm district everything of value was stolen from the churches. In some places the schools continue, but religious teaching is barred.
 Careful inquiry, the American ob- servers say, showed that there was nothing constructive in any town un- der Bolsheviki control Money and property were requisitioned and ex- travagantly dissapated by individu- als without accounting.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
SOLDIERS MAY HAVE UNIFORMS
If Have Turned Them in May Secure
 by Application.
Special to The Star.

Special to The Star.
 Little Rock, April 16.-It is official ly announced that any enlisted man who served in the United States Ar my during the present war, honorably discharged or furloughed to the Re- serve, since April 6, 1917, who has re- stored to the government uniform, ar- ticles of clothing and equipment, or to whom for any reason such articles were never issued, may make ap- plication for such articles to the Do- mestie Distribution Branch, Office of the Director of Storage, Washington, D. C., whereupon similar clothing and uniform in kind and value as nearly as possible, will be restored to him. Officers and enlisted men who have returned the gas mask and helmet may also get them.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
COOPERATIVE HOG SHIPPING.
First Car Sent From Mena Under Di.
 rectiOn of Extension Forces.

The first car of hogs shipped from Polk county under the cooperative plan worked out by the State Bureau of Marketing, was started to the Kan sas City market Wednesday,. The plan has been worked out by J. Hol- lister Tull, head of the Bureau of Marketing, but the shipment from Mena was made by his assistant, T. Roy Reid, cooperating with O. l.. Henderson, county agent.
 Sixty-four head of nice, smooth, eorn-fed hogs were in the shipment and they were contributed by the fol- lowing: H. L. Tennison, 35 head; John Dupree, 16 head; Math Sim mons, 4 head; W. Thompson and J. F. Averitt, 8 head each; w. E. Watkins & Bro, 2, and D. M. Watkins, l.. Each owners hogs were marked, and he will be paid what the animal brings on the market, less the trans portation charges.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
Corp. Hubert Knight at Home.

Corp. Hubert M. Knight, son of Mir. and Mrs. c. w. Knight, reached Mena Friday afternoon from Camp Jack son, s. C., where he was mustered out of the service on Wednesday, aft CT having been in overseas service since April last year. He reached Charleston, s. C., on Sunday, April 13 on the return trip. Up to the sign ing of the armistice, Corp. Knight was in Company G of the 116th En- gineers, and he was then transferred to the Motor Transport Department and stationed in the fingers district, where he was chief mechanic in tour ing car department.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
ELM SPRINGS VAT DYNAMITED.
Fifth in County Blown Up-Blood
 Hounds Tried Again,

Hounds Tried Again.
 The Elm Springs dipping vat in the Foran Gap country, northeast of Mena, was dynamited about o'clock Saturday morning, making the fifth vat blown up within the last two weeks. Sheriff J. A. Thornton and Grady Hand, the latter in charge of tick eradication work in Polk county, upon being notified of the occurrence, arranged at once to give the blood hounds another chance to catch the guilty parties. Ben Walker, owner of the hounds arrived late Saturday from Fort Smith, and in company of Sheriff Thornton went to the site of the vat. In the meantime guards had been placed around the grounds to prevent the obliteration of tracks.
 As Saturday was the regular dip ping date there, Mir. Hand went to the neighborhood early that morning to arrange with Supervisor E. T. Embry for the patrons to go elsewhere for clippings.
 Inspector Hand has been authorized by the State Board of Control to offer reward of $100 for the arrest and conviction of any person implicated in the dynamiting of the Polk county vats, and it is expected that amount will be brought up to $500 by Polk county citizens.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
MIXES THOUGHT WITH WORK.
Gravette Farmer Increased Wheat
 Yield From 1 to g Bushels.

Peter MeWilliam, in from Golden Acres farm Friday, was accompanied by w. H. Dow of Gravette, who is visiting Mir. and Mrs. MeWilliam. Mir. Dow IS a successful farmer and out of his experience he has contributed some helpful articles to the press of the state Mir. Dow says he has been living on the same farm for 20 years, hut for a long time he worked without thinking, and after mixing some thought with his work he succeeded in ra' Using the yield of wheat from 4 Co 23 bushels per acre Other pro- duction on his farm increased in like manner after he began to think, he say
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
Potato Association Buys Building.

Stockholders of the Mena Potato Warehouse Association at meeting Friday afternoon, approved the action of the directors in purchasing the Thacker building on Sherwood ave nue. The structure will be rear ranged for the curing and storing of 5weet potatoes. It was thought bes- Q buy this building. instead of at
 empting to build new one, be
 euse of the difficulty of getting a suitable site.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24

drinks, which we won't have to pay after July 1, anyway, because there amt goin' to be no alcoholic drinks, and the taxes on cigars, cigarattes and tobacco, which every user has been paying since the law took effect.
 Not to speak of the income, excess profits and war profits taxes, theater taxes and various others which we are all paying Uncle Sam to help pay for the war.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
Win Teach at Hatfield.

Miss Berlah Neal has been en- piioyed as one of the teachers in the Hatfield school for the coming year. Sue is at present conducting kim derearten in Mena with an enrolment of l6 pupils.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24

pad breath. bitter taste. dizziness '~d 2 general "no account feeling is
 su~e si0n or torpid liver. HERBTNE the medicine needed. It makes the ''~er nctfve. vitalizes the blood, repu-
 .e Inc bowels and restores a fine so"''r~ of ener0v and cheerfu'ness. Price s60c. Sold by Jackson Drug Co. Adv.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
DIVORCE CASES IN THE LEAD.
April Term of Chancery Court Came
 to Close Thursday.

Chancellor Jas. D. Shaver Thursday concluded the work of the April ses- sion of the Polk Chaneery court, hay- ing been in session since Monday. There was quite heavy docket, but none of the cases consumed much time, very few witnesses being used, and little time being taken by at torneys for argument. There were a number of foreclosure and confrma- tion cases, but the divorce cases were in the lead. Among this latter class were the following, with the finding of the court:
 w. w. Thetford vs. Hattie Thet- ford, decree for plaintiff on the ground of desertion.
 B. H. Lance vs. Inez Lance, decree for the plaintiff on the ground of in- dignities to person.
 Irwin Philpot vs. Audie Philpot, de- cree for the plaintiff on the ground of adultery.
 Bessie Parkinson vs. Floyd Parkin- son, decree for plaintiff on the ground of cruel treatment.
 Annie Watson vs. J. M. Watson, decree for plaintiff on the ground of desertion.
 Lizzie Mccoy vs. ". M. Mccoy, de- cree for plaintiff on the ground of de- sertion and maiden name restored.
 David L. Blanchard vs. Ethel Blan- chard, decree for plaintiff on the ground of desertion.
 John W. Hammock vs. Zertie Ham, mock, decree for plaintiff for deser- tion.
 Plies Cured fn to 14 Days
 -uaslsts refund money If PAZ0 OINTMENT fail
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The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24

Black Minorcas, the Iong-b ie q
 strain; hens weigh seven pounds. Eggs. 15 for $2.00. postpaid. c. E. Mallon. ws-ses. Ark.~--Adv. 11-7s
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
ELIZABETH FORD. (By Wallace Irwin)

And taught her 10 hep, hep, hep A cute little jimmy, all noisy and tinny, But full of American pep. Recruited into the Corps she was She came of her own accord. We flew at her spanker the globe and
 the anchor And named her Elizabeth Ford. Cute little 'Lizabeth, Dear little Liz
 abeth, Bonnie Elizabeth Fordi She was short and squat, but her nose
 was sot For the Hindenburg line-0 Lordl She hated Hun like a son-of-a-gun, The Kaiser she plumb abhorred, Did chunky Elizabeth, Hunky Eliza
 beth, Spunky Elizabeth Ford. We took her along on our hike, we did, And wonderful boat was she, She'd carry physicians, food and mu-
 nitions, Generals, water or tea. She could climb bank like first
 rate tank And deliver the goods aboard When we touch our steel Kellies to
 "Semper Fidelis," Remember Elizabeth Ford. Cute little Lizabeth, dear little Liz
 abeth, pour;a Erl;1ahatt Lo~I She took her rests in machine gun
 nests And on bullet-swept roads she
 chored. Where the Devil Hounds were first on
 the grounds Of section of France restored Why, there was Elizabeth, Chunky
 Elizabeth, Spunky Elizabeth Fordl But twas on the day of those murder
 woods Which the Yankees pronounce Bel
 loo; We were sent to knock silly the hopes
 of Prince Willie And turn lem around d. q. We prayed for munitions and cleared
 our throats With a waterless click-Good Lord When out of a crater with bent radi-
 ator Climbed faithful Elizabeth Fordl Cute little 'Lizabeth, dear little Liz
 abeth, Bonnie Elizabeth Ford. With a cylinder-skip she had made
 the trip, Water and cartridge-stored. With her hood a wreck and broken
 neck She cracked like broken board. Hunky Elizabeth, Chunky Elizabeth, Spunky Elizabeth Ford. When they lowed her out of town
 next day, Said Corporal Bill, Look therel I know of one hero who shouldn't
 draw zero When they're passin' the Croix de
 0utEISs Who fed the guns that's startin' the
 Huns Plumb back to Canal du Nord '" So his Cross--and he'd won itl-he
 tied to the bonnet Of faithful Elizabeth Ford. w- i-v-~E IVY ErcsF--N-~- Cute little Elizabeth, dear little Liz
 abeth, Bonnie Elizabeth Fordl Where shrapnel has mauled her we've
 now overhauled her, Her wheels and her gears restored. Her records clean, she's true Marine And we're sending the Dutch War
 Lord A note by Elizabeth, Chunky Eliza
 beth, Spunkv Elizabeth Fordi Ixv 04afH
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
LUXURY TAX IS
 LEVIED ON THESE

: After May you'll pay 10 per
 : cent tax on all these articles cost
 : ing more than the amount named: : Picture frames-$10. : Trunks--$50. Travelling bags-S25. {: Hand bags, purses-$7.50. : Portable lamps-$25.
 : Lamp shades-S25.
 Umbrellas, parasols- Fans-$1. : Smoking jackets-$7.50. i: Mems fancy waistcoats- :: Women's hats-$15. : Mems and boys hats-S5. : Mems and boys caps-$2.
 : Boots, shoes, pumps, slippers : s10. : Neckties and neckwear-S2 : Mems and misses silk hosiery : s1. : Women's and misses silk hos : iery-$2. : Mems shirts-$3.
 l: Pajamas, nightgowns, under : wear-$5.
 !: Kimonas, petticoats, waists !: $15.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
HELPING U. s. PAY FOR THE WAR COST
When You Buy Soda, Ice Cream and Other "Luxuries" You Must Have Extra Pennies to Meet the De-
 mand-The Things Taxed.

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The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
pues Cured Iu 6 to i4 Days

-uaslsts refund money If PAZ0 OINTMENT fail -r,r.s n'eedira 0r crsvrudine Pile
The Winslow mail., 1919-05-16
Filipino Working Girl.

At Bokod a Filipino girl with two
years training can earn 25 cents a
day weaving pillow covers, table run
ners, or dress material, says the Chris
tian Herald. The food she eats costs
% cents day. She not only earns
money for herself and family in addi-
tion to taking complete academic
course, but one-half the proceeds from
her labor turned into the school fund,
has already provided the school with
a fine phonograph, good collection of
records, and the instruments for a ten
piece stringed orchestra, which turns
out music that would compare well
with the best that graduates from a
New England finishing school could do.
The Winslow mail., 1919-05-16
BIG WATERFALL IN ICELAND
Dettifoss Most Striking, Larger Than
Any in Europe-Scenic Wonder of
the Frigid Country.

Dettifoss, by far the most striking
than any in Europe, is well worth a
visit, but 1t involves some very long
rides. The writer says the Christian
Science Monitor, starting from the
northern part of Husavik, took over
two days to reach it, stopping at night
at two farmhouses on the way, and
making a detOur to see the wonderful
volcanic valley of Ashbyrgl. The jour
ney westward to Myvatn from the fall
over desert land, occupied about ten
hours.
The fall lies on the Jokullsa, a gla-
cial river that rises In the Vatnajo-
kull range In the south, and flowing
northward, falls into the Arctic sea.
Parallel to the river lies a deep rift
like dried-up river bed; and this has
to be crossed before the traveller can
stand on the brink of the chasm where
the river takes its leap 200 feet down.
There is curious crack in mid-stream
and over it the sundered waters are
hurled in wild confusion, again min
Cling and losing themselves in clouds
of spray. The columnar basalt on the
far side can be discerned through the
mist, every pillar tipped with moss,
while the near side is also green and
velvety. The walls of the ravine be-
ing perpendicular, to descend is i'm
possible, and the binding spray pre-
vents long stay near the fall, which
Is best seen at a point lower down
the river. The upper fall quarter
of an hours walk higher up, with fif-
teen feet of drop, seems mere cas-
cade after the principal one.
The whole region bears witness to
the "strife of nature" On the far
side of the river stretches a desert
marked with dull red cinder heaps,
and crater vents like huge black caul-
drons, snow-capped hills closing In the
weird landscape. From the cavernous
depths in the foreground rises the
ceaseless moan of the waterfall, so re-
mote from human habitation, and i'm
pressive in its loneliness.
The Winslow mail., 1919-05-16
Curing Elephants Cold.

A circus man, caught in the act of
curing an elephant of cold, was dared
to take his own medicine. He decline, d
but invited the interviewer to return
the next day and see the elephant
cured. And the next day, sure enough,
was the treatment? Nothing compli-
Gated at all. The keeper placed a
bucket of boiling hot vinegar in a bag
and then tied the latter snugly about
the indisposed animals trunk so that
he was compelled to inhale the bene-
fetal fumes whether he wished to or
not. ,''
The Winslow mail., 1919-05-16
First Use of Jinqo.

George Jacob Holyoake, the apostle
of cooperation, was the first to make
use of the nickname jingo In refer
ence to wrong kind of patriotism In
letter which he wrote about the Dis
raelian Chauvinists in 1878, observes
the Argonaut. Nobody yet knows for
certain where the word came from, or
what was it's original meaning. Mot
teux, in his seventeenth century trans
lation of Rabelais, gave par Dieu" as
''by Jingo;" it is some peoples opin-
ion that Jingo is the Basque for God
and that the word made it's way into
the English language through the
medium of Basque sailors.
The Winslow mail., 1919-05-16
ENGLISH HELD MANY FEASTS
Oyster Festival, White Bait Dinner,
Fish Pie and Sausage Repasts,
Among Former Celebrations.


There is scarcely an old city or vii
lage in England that formerly did not
have an annual banquet of some sort
designed to advertise the particular
products for which the place is fam
ous,. observes a correspondent. Col
chester had it's annual oyster feast
which was given every October, usu
ally at the beginning of the month
But that was a comparatively modern
festival Much more ancient was the
yearly white bait dinner at Greenwich
which at one time was almost as great
a social event as the dinner given by
the lord mayor of London.
The fish pie dinner at Gorleston
near Yarmouth, had as it's guests each
year 65 fishermen, with the vicar at
the head Of the table. The number at
the table was strictly limited to s.
except the vicar, and was never more
OF less. At Yarmouth, the home OF
the far-famed Yarmouth bloater, the
annual herring dinner was quite an
event. The menu consisted entirely OF
herring of all ages from infant sprats
to grandfather herring, prepared in
many different ways. Peterborough
sausage dinner was given every year
by the mayor and corporation of the
town, and every variety of sausage
known was served to the guests. An
other famous "feed" was the venison
dinner given at Farnham by the bishop
Of Winchester.
The Winslow mail., 1919-05-16
Children and Fairies.

To the children fairies stand for all
the wonderful and unpredietable possi-
bilities Of life. for all the magic of it,
its charm of unexpectedness, says the
Atlantic Monthly. A child is bit puz-
zled by the inevitable; in the fairy
world it does not exist. In that world
he slips away from the world of grown
ups. with its endless consequences re-
morselessly bounding the gay, ire
sponsible little child doings. He loves
the grownups and it is not from them
that he wishes to escape, but from
their world, their difficult, unyielding
world.
The Winslow mail., 1919-05-16
The Tuna Angler.

Southern California, and Santa Cata-
lima island in particular, has produced
two game fishes pre-eminent in the an
mails Of the worlds sport, says the
American Angler. One is the leaping
tuna; the other the swordfish. The
tuna Is game for the well-conditioneC
athlete. The man who takes a large
one with the rod must be an athlete.
He must be ready for a continuous
round Of from one to four hours,
keyed up to the highest excitement,
as if he gives in and tries to rest the
tuna rests twice as fast.
To obtain the full enjoyment of tuna
angling the rod should be of 16 ounces,
the line No. 81 and the fish should not
weigh more than 200 pounds.
The Winslow mail., 1919-05-16
BraziIians Are Courteous.

Brazilians are among the most
suavely courteous and conSiderate
people In the world. Etiquette is 8
matter of great formality. Acquaint
ances raise their hats to one another
in passing, no matter how often they
may meet in the course of day. A
crowded street car is full of murmured
apologies from those getting on anG
off. The Brazilians pride themselves
on having inherited the finest tradi
tions of manners and artistic feeling
from the Latin nations of southern
Europe. Courteous, temperamental
and courageous, the typical Brazilian
is quick to resent any encroachment
on his rights and slow to abandon the
fight to maintain them.