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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-18
HOME DEMONSTRATION
BY NEGROES CONTINUES

CONWAY, Ark, July 1S. tSpl.)-
Negroes of the county have made up a
fund which will enable the negro home
demonstration agent to continue work
until Dec. /. Federal funds for the
continuance of the agents work were
exhausted on June 80, and a county
meeting was called to make good the
deficit.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-18
G AIDS SOLDIERS.

CONWAY, Ark, July IS, (Spl.)-
Blanks for use of soldiers and sailors
in making application for additional
travel Jay have been secured by the
American legion here, and will be dis
tributed among the former service men.
Many Faulkner men discharged at a
great distance from home have been
unable to secure the extra pay not
having blank forms, and the legion at
once relieved the situation by securing
a large supply.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-18
MUNITIONS DUMP BLOWS
UP, SEVERAL KILLED

PARIS. July ia number OF per
sons were killed or injured yesterday
when a large munitions dump was
blown up at lie Bourget, seven miles
northeast Of Paris. Seven buildings
were destroyed by the conclusion and
sheds on the aviation field collapsed and
took fire causing injury to a number
Of soldiers and civilian employees.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-18
TO BUILD NEW ROAD.

HUNTSVILLE. Ala, July IS. (Spl.)-
first-class road to connect the pike
systems of Jackson and Madison coun-
ties will be constructed between Gurley
and Paint Rock with money to be sub
in Huntsville and Gurley, The
new road will make the route complete
between Huntsville and Scottsboro, and
when more improvements are
made east Of S~cottsboro, there will be a
good road from here all the way to
Chattanooga.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-18
WILL REVIEW TROOPS.

WASHINGTON, July 1s,-Czecho-
Slovak troops numbering 1,0S6, who
we're invalided from Siberian fighting
and started back home across the
United States, will parade down Penn
~sylvania avenue late today and be re-
viewed by President Wilson from a
stand in front Of the White House.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-18
MAN FREED OF MURDER
CHARGE, BUT HELD INSANE

BAY MINETTE, Ala, July 1S.--Wal-
ter Bishop was declared not guilty by
reason of insanity" by a jury here last
night. He vas charged with first de-
Of Frank Foukal to death in jail here,
June %,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-18
TWO TENNESSEE BOYS
WIN MEDALS: ONE DEAD

WASHINGTON, y July Is. Dis
tinguished service crosses have been
awarded Lieut.. Herbert J. Jones, de-
ceased), Dresden. Tenn, and Private
Walter Potter, Dayton, Tenn 1t was
announced today.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-18

When Baby 1s TeethIne
GROVES BABY BOWEL MEDICINE
will correct the Stomach and Bowel
troubles. Perfectly, harmless. See di-
on the bottle. Price SOC. adv.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-18

Grow Much Stronger Mentally and Physically, when
their Blood is Clear and Rich.
Poisons in the Blood, caused by waste matter or
malarial germs, make the body and mind dull and
weak, a condition ordinarily called Laziness.
These impurities in the Blood make folks pale, sickly
and easily chilled. =
Thin, Weak Blood does not supply the necessary
nourishment and warmth to make strong bodies,
powerful minds, bright eyes and good compilations.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06

the Voice of Missions and J. Q. john
son TO the daily papers.
The bishop introduced TO the con-
ference Rev. R. G. Ransom, editor Of
the A. M, u. Quarterly Review, and DR..
O. w. Allen, OF the Southern Christian
Recorder; Rev, T. W, Coffee, ID, Of
Birmingham, Ala, and Rev Il. l.. Lu-
non. Of Edmondson, Ark.
One of the main features of the pro-
gram of this conference will be the
election of delegates to the general
conference which will sit In st. Louis,
Mo-, next year, Probably six or seven
will be elected. The election will take
place probably Friday, after the com
mittees have finished their work on
the financial, spiritual and numerical
work of the conference.
Many visiting ministers are present
Rev, j, J. Morant from Jackson, Miss
Or. A. n, Hin, of Pine Bluff Ark; ,JS.A.
Jones', G., T.. jackson, r. w Gardner
and T. y, Edwards. OF Nashville, we're
present az the opening session.
Wednesday nights welcome addresses
were made by Dr. Il. wilkins and DR..
A. M. Townsend. Response on behalf
Of conference by Or. Noah w. Will
liams,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06
PUBLISHES WAY TO
PROLONG MANS LIFE

LONDON, Nov. 6. (By the Associat.
ed Press, DIR. Josiah oldtield, known
internationally as a physician and a
writer, has published a prescription for
keeping old age at bay According to
him, It is not a question of an opera.
ton. but daily diet, which includes
dandelion leaves, fowls eggs, grapes,
lettuce, COWS milk, watercress honey
and salads (uncooked)
"Old age" he says, SIS largely caused
by deposit In the blood vessels and
cells OF the body of waste matter. 50
by adopting n part frutarian diet, n
man, however old, may become young
again, because every cell In the body
will be replaced by new young cells
DR.. Oldfield considers a normal per-
son rightly fed should live from 90 to
105 years of age.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06
NeW Mobile Officials
wiz Hare To Fight
To Secure offices

MOBILE, Ala. Nov. 7--Mayor. elect
Alex Hancock and ten city commission
ers, elected Monday under a recent leg
lsiative act, providing an enlarged city
commission for Mobile. were today pre-.
pairing to appear at the city hall and
demand their offices, following the dec
laration Of the three present city conn
missioners that they did not intend va
eating their offices. Tho formal de-
mand for possession Of the reins Of the
city government win he refused 1t ~
announced and then will follow legal
battle in order to determine whether the
old or the new commission shall rule
the city's affairs
The present city commissioners take
the position that the Craft enlarged
commission government act, under
which the election of Monday was held
Is invalid end declare that they will not
vacate their offices because the newly
elected officials were named under a
Legislative act which they claim Is In
violation of the state constitution.
This morning Mayor elect Hancock
and tho ten commissioners appeared be.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06
LEGION WILL CELEBRATE
ARMISTICE ANNIVERSARY

Nov. II, armistiee day and American
Legion day as well, will BIO celebrated
in Memphis by post Of the legion With
musical program and an address by
a prominent speaker, yet TO be named.
The affair will be held In the rooms
Of the War Camp Community center 6
Friends Of the legion, their wives, sis.
ters and sweethearts, to say nothing Of
ditto Of the legionaires themselves, will
attend and also viii participate In the
program
Among those who will take part are
Mrs. Mark Brown, vocalist, and Mrs
Aida BLACK, virtuoso, extraordinary on
the lkiilaln
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06
River Bulletin.

HFI9e. --FaH.
The river at Memphis win probably
reach stage between ~ and "a feet
on this rise.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06

familiar song sung by Methodists ey-
efyWnere at the opening of conferences,
and Are We Yet Alive and See Each
Others Face, The conference sang
this song with great spirit, as this "a
the first conference in two years. being
prevented from meeting last year by
reason Of the influenza epidemic.
Rev, s. d. Hayes led In prayer. The
annual sermon was preached by Rev.
Jesse W. Thompson, OF Arlington.
The speaker took for his theme 1.-THE
Advancing Glory of God" his text was
Eek. 1872.
The bishop organized the conference.
Rev. w. A. Smith was elected secre :
tary, Rev. t. c. Mucherson recording
secretary Rev, T, j. Young statistical
secretary
Reporters we're elected for the yari-
Gus church periodicals--Rev. A. c.
Smith 70 the Christian Recorder, Rev.
I. j. valentine TO the Southern Chris
tan Recorder, Rev. 8. d. Hayes to
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06
WILL NOT ASK MEXICO
TO REFUND RANSOM

WASHINGTON, Nov. s,---Mexico will
not be asked by the American govern
ment to refund the $4,000 ransom
money which counsel for William O.
Jenkins, American consular agent at
Puebis, paid bandits for the release OF
Mr.. Jenkins. This announcement was
made today at the state department,
Officials said tharo was no warrant
in interna tional law for such a claim
and that they could not conceive OF the
American government paying ransom
In the event citizen OF a foreign ooun-
try should ba~ kidnapped In the United
States and held for ransom,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06
Important!

We direct particular attention to the
$3.50 group of hats, which consists
mostly of fur hats, made of rich quail
ity pelts, in mole, squirrel, kolinsky,
Hudson seal, ETC.; combined with bro
cades and fashioned in a manner that
will appeal to the woman looking for
something out of the ordinary There S
so much of interest in this sale that no
woman with a millinery want to fill
can afford to miss it. On sale Friday
at $50 o'clock.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06

fore the probate Judge of Mobile county
and qualified for office, following the
refusal Of present city officials to swear
them in. They visited the city hall IN
o body today and demanded their of
fees, then instituted custer proceed
ings.
A long legal battle IL expected for
possession of the rclns OF Mobiles gov
eminent, Meanwhile police officers are
guarding the city building the present
commissioners declaring they asked for
the officers ITO prevent violence"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06
Tailored, Trimmed and
Semi-Dress

The importance Of this event can only be measured
in one of our previous "Fiskhat' sales. This season
it considerable more Importance due to the greatly inc
prevailed throughout the season.
The assortment presents large and varied style select
semidress hats. Small, medium and large hand-ma
quality Panne and Lyons silk velvet also large show
particularly noteworthy of every woman's attention
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06
EXPLORERS LEAVE.

NAPLES, Nov. 0. (By the Associat ted
his party, who will make an effort TO
discover tho sources OF the Webi She
bell river which flows from Abyssinia
through italian Samaliand into The In
dian ocean, have left here for Mega.
discho
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06

nose running: relieves headache, dull
ness. feperisrness, sneesing, soreness,
stiffness.
"Papes Cold Compound" Is the quick
est, unrest relief known and costs only
few cents at drug stores II acts
without assistance. Tastes nice Con
tains no uuinine Insist on Pape'sl
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06

Don't stay stuifed-up, Quit blowing
and spufflingl a dose OF "psre's Cold
Compound taken every two hours until
three doses are taken usually breaks
up a cold and ends all grippe misery,
Tho first dose opens cloRged-up nos.
trils and air passages Of head; stops
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06
CONFERENCE MEETS
IN ANNUAL SESSION
Many Prominent Leaders At,
tend Negro Methodist AS
sembly in Avery Chapel.

The orty-fourth session Of the West
Tennessee annual conference was called
to order in Avery chapel at 10 o'clock
wednesday morning by Bishop B. r.
Lee. DR.. C. IL. Shelto announced the
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06
IN REGULAR LIVERY.

Ono thing certain--if We ever Eet
abie to own a limousine car we will
have a ilyerled driver u We have 20
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06
DISCOUNT RATE RAISED.

LONDON, NOV. e,--The rate OF dis
count Of the Bank of England was
raised from 5 to 8 per cent today.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
The Victorious Dead

Peace? | recall an acre OF the dead
Marked with the only sign on
earth that saves,
The wings of death were hurrylnS
overhead,
The loose earth shook on those
unquiet graves.
For the deep gunpits, with quick
stabs of flame,
Made their own thunders of the
sunlit air;
Yet-as / read the crosses, name
by name, .
Rank after rank seemed that
peace was there.
Sunlight and peace-a peace too
deep for thought,
The peace of tides that underlle
our strife,
The peace with which the moving
heavens are fraught,
The peace that is our everlasting
life.
The loose earth shook. The very
hills were stirred.
The silence of the dead was all 1
heard.
A little while we may not see their
eyes,
Or touch their hands, for they
are far too near;
But, soul to soul, the life that
never dies
Speaks to the life that waits ITS
freedom here.
They have made their land one liv-
ing shrine. Their words
Are breathed in dew and white
ness from the bough;
And, where the May tree shakes
with song of birds,
Their young unwhispered joys are
singing now.
By meadow and mountain, river
and hawthorn brake,
In sacramental peace, from sea to
sea,
The land they loved grows lovelier
for their sake,
Shines with their hope, enshrines
their memory,
Communes with heaven again,
and makes us whole,
Through mans new faith in
mans immortal soul.
Alfred Noyes in the Golden Peace
Number of the London Mail
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
THINKING AMONG THE GUNS
A Cergymans Conversion to Universal Military
BY The Thomas Travis, D.
The who carried the first American

only do a big mans work in this
crisis, but could have done also if
necessary, the clergyman's work
too.
While the clergyman the "best
educated" man of the lot was alb
solutely at sea as to the basic prin-
cipals of the big job in front of us
and able to comprehend barely
enough of the practical tactics to
make the plan of action intelligible
these men could follow the whole
scheme, know the why and where
fore of every position and move of
the great game. Even the great
moral and religious issues were
grasped as clearly and firmly by
these as by him. In other words,
the scholar" of the group, though
just as eager to do his bit as any
of the others, could fill only rela-
lively unimportant gaps in this big
job, while the half educated" lads
could do the important tasks, and
if need be, do even when partly dis
abled, all that the clergyman was
doing-and do it as a side issue.
(To be Continucd.)
Copyright by National Service with
the International Military Digest.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. Max C. Want, of
Reading, has suggested that
churches establish membership de-
grees.
-Prothonotary w. B. Kirker, of
Allegheny county, is seriously i'll.
w. A. Destine, new head of
Bucks county motorists, is crusad-
ing against toll roads.
Chaplain James r. Dalling has
returned to Northumberland after
service in France.
Justice John K. Kephart de-
livered the welcome home address
at Colver.
Ernest T. Trigg, head of the
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce,
is active in moves to speed up ex-
press claims.
Frederick Hall, of Pittsburgh,
will head the anti-Bolshevik moYe-
ments of the Security League lin
Eastern Pennsylvania counties.
Director C. B. Pritchard, of the
Pittsburgh Department of Safety,
has headed movement to halt sale
of firearms.
Congressman George P. Dar-
row is heading a committee to have
President Wilson address the
knights Templars in Philadelphia
this fall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
Going to the Country"

tFrom the Detroit Free Press.
A great many people profess an af-
fection for Nature who have never
met the dame and know nothing
about her or her ways. Most of our
lives are spent in looking at the
procession. Take it away and the
zest of living is gone. The average
individual wants to see something
going on, but it must be the human
''go on"-the external and eterna!
stimulation afforded by the march of
events. Anything else is stagnation.
Sick people like nature-bound IN
cloth. Their taste calls for formed
gardens and shaven lawns. They
call it going to the country" to ride,
muffled in wells, in a motor car on
a concrete road at thirty miles an
hour.
To those accustomed to city noise
and hustle, three days of country
quiet develops Inconsistencies. A la
mentable lack of mental resources,
when thrown upon themselves.
comes to view. A very short shelf
would hold all the books written
these days by men who live what
they write. Who writes of nature
and describes country life is a
Pharisee. The real nature lover is
as rare as men like John Burroughs
and Enos Mills. Country people do
not appreciate their environments,
otherwise they would not be so ready
to give up the plenty and privacy or
the home acres for a 30-foot lot
and dinky porch on village street
and a daily trip to the store Tor
| two quarts of potatoes and box OF
! berries.
Farmers are great despoilers of
beauty. A tree is cut because its
roots exhaust the SOIL they choose a
shadeless site for the new house, and
perhaps plant trees, awaiting their
| growth, when we'll grown forest
trees are reasonably near. Trees
along the highway are trimmed to
resemble feather busters, and all
low growing bushes uprooted as un-
slightly.
For a days real country pleasure
if you like that sort of thing
| lock the car in the garage, ind II
possible that all but obsolete vehicle
known as a phaeton, coerce no.
too ambitious nag between the shafts
and go forth to explore. Turn from
main travelled roads down the first
shaded, lonely way that invites, ano
note Natures unstudied beauty. See
how she garlands fence with bit
tersweets, festons a young tree witt
q wild grape vine, or fringe a marsh
with rope mallows. The homely bu
picturesque rail fence, the squlrrefs
highway and haunt of bush and blrc
has been replaced by more moderr
substitute, but the fields and mus pc
yond are the same. Samuel johnson
regarded one green field as like any
other green field, but there is
difference to eyes that have rea
vision.
Part of the joy of such pilgrim
age is the association recalled; one
landscape calls to mind others Ike
it or in contrast. Recollections
which Thoreau said were as "intan
gible and indescribable as the tint:
of morning and evening"" are the
true harvest of life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
MISTAKES

From the Johnstown Tribune.l
We all make mistakes, humankind
is not perfect. 1t is small wonder
Secretary of War Baker makes mis-
takes. He was drafted from the
ranks of pacifists to his present high
place. His predecessor, Lindley Gar
rison, was altogether too much in
favor of preparedness. The pacifist
wing of the Democracy, then close
to the ear of the President, demand
cd the Garrison scalp--and they
were given it. Triumphantly tho
paciiists sported about, gloating over
the going of Garrison and the COM
ing of Baker. II we recall correct
y, there was blazoned about by
Dacifst newspapers that one of the
Raker children-bess his or her
hcart-eXclaimed, Now we will havo
no war, papa will see to that"
Tho Secretary of War SAYS that
tho selection and maintenance of GER
:ain Southern military camps was u
mistake" in fact, a series of mis-
!1kes, and that he is. to a certain ex-
tent, responsible. Mr.. Baker had
supervisory power. He had tho
power to veto any selection. I.
viii he admitted that terrific pres
sure was brought to bear in locat-
ing the camps. Thrifty gentlemen
had friends who had lands for sale.
politicians from the South are adepA
at getting things for their districts.
The war was regarded by some OF
these gentlemen as party asset. In
aecd, the great struggle was regard
% by some gentlemen as q personal
political asset.
Secretary Baker generously come.
Toward and admits his mistakes"
RecogniZlns his pacifist profession.
NOBODY would be soLunkind as to say
nc should have been able to manag,
Tho war Department. in war timo
without making mistakes" A pa
'iiist supervising rough soldiers and
called upon to approve strategic tac-
t'os of armies in the field, is supposed
10 make mistakes. But, in simple.
ordinary, real estate speculations wo
might expect so astute a lawyer AZ
secretary Baker to avoid mistakes
a lot of persons would have cues
Joned the establishment of camps
costing millions of dollars III Georgia
ana Mississippi while there existed
Ill other States fully equipped camps,
prepared for emergencies.
low many goats" arc demanded
Tor the administration? Is it pos
slble the Secretary OF War proposes
TO immediate himself on the altar OF
party and to sacrifice himself that
Il party leader may place all the
blame on others?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
EUROPE'S NEED OURS TOO

"HOMAS w. LAMONT, just re-
turned from Europe where he
had exceptional advantages for
observation, gives it as his opinion
that the greatest need abroad is
trained young. men.
No doubt of it-and it is Amer
ica's greatest need, too, not only
from the standpoint of the Nation
but from that of the individual AS
well.
We seem to have remembered very
clearly, indeed, that "the laborer
is worthy of his hire" but we have
forgotten that he is not worth more
than his hire; in other words, that
there is a limitation to his earn
ing capacity. But there is, and no
law, decree or decision by any man
or body of men can make it other
wise.
The man who sells a pound of
coffee gets more for it than the man
who sells only half pound. hight,
you say, he delivered twice as much.
The farmer who cultivates twen-
ty acres earns more than his
neighbor who works only half as
much. Altogether proper, you say,
for he has worked twice as hard.
But the unframed or the lazy
man cannot quite understand why
he should not be paid as much as
his comrade who has trained his
mind or who works twice as hard.
Always and ever, so long as the
world stands, the trained man, the
industrious man, will be paid more
than his unframed or his lazy fellow
workman. Once suspend that law
and the whole of civilization would
go to ruin. Why? For the reason
that if men are not paid according
to their earning capacity and if all
men are placed on an equality of
wage, the result would be to en-
courage the lazy man and discour-
age the industrious man to the point
that shortly nobody would be work.
ing more than an hour or so a day
and their production would not
keep the world alive.
Yes, the greatest need of the day
is trained young men-not trained
in technical and professional lines
alone, but trained in the gospel of
hard work. trained to believe tha t
production should govern pay.
that one should give an honest
days toll for an honest days pay,
trained in the rudiments of busi-
ness, in honesty, fair play and an
! intense desire to succeed by indi-
vidual worth alone.