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1t does not take a miscroscope nor
a spy glass or any other kind of a
magnifier to prove this assertion.
Neither does 1t take an inspection of
the statements of the three banks of
the county. Anyone who knows the
"ins and outs" can just look around
and see 1.-THE purchasing of many
new cars by both town and county
people-the improvements being
made and the exchange and pur-
chase of real estate all prove the
statement without figures, and all
this too Notwithstanding the stag
gering amounts that have gone out
Of the county for Liberty Bonds and
numberless patriotic war aids.
But right here are the figures
which put clincher on any ar
gument to the contrary-it's the
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1919-04-05

Candidate cards are good invest
ment for any candidate. They help
the candidate Introduce himself
and keep his name before the voter
after be has gone
The Leader can furnish them In
small Or large amounts.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1919-04-05
AMONG TIL E
CANDIDATES
OF INTEREST 20
THE VOTERS AND
GENERAL PUBLIC
F. Eugene Montgomery for ChanOery
Clerk.

F. Eugene Montgomery for Chancery
Clerk.
To the People of Lincoln County,:
/ am today announcing myself as
a candidate for the most important
office of Chancery Clerk, subject to
the action of the Democratic primar-
les to be held next August.
In making my announcement / de-
sire the people to know who am,
where ! am from, and what stand
for.
/ have no relatives to whom rcan
point you and boast of their official
record; but do cherish the fact that
one of the greatest young men Lin
coin county has ever produced. the
late ]. Morris Montgomery, was a
double first cousin Of mine, and no
one could be prouder Of their rela-
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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1919-04-05
BUSINESS IS GOOD AND PEOPLE HAVE
PLENTY MONEY 50, ,l5s. 1874 ON DEPOSIT

IT REALLY DOES NOT TAKE FIGURES TO PROVE IT-AN
OBSERVER CAN SEE TT-PURCHASERS OF PROPER
TX AND CARS NUMEROUS-A FLOURIsHING CON-
DTTIoN IN BROOKHAvEN AND LINCOLN COUNTY
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1919-04-05

There's no getting around !
this fact Business is good !
and money is plentiful in I
Lincoln County.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1919-04-05

LETTER TO LINCOLN COUNTY
PUBLICITY DIRECTOR
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

Immediately to other positions.
When Congress failed to appro-
pirate sufficient money for the wom-
ems division to continue about 200
of the 500 Offices in all sections of
the country were continued by out
side support. During the confer
ence of governors called by the
Secretary of Labor few weeks ago
the provision for continuing the
women's division was supported by
thirty chief executives of the
states.
One of the chief points to be
made, it is said, in the hearings be-
fore the Congressional committee
concerning the need for such a
women's division is that the working
and professional woman is unor-
gained. This fact places woman on
her own resources when she loses
her job.
The Women's Trade Union League
is among the most ardent support
ers Of the bills to continue the
woman's division and the entire
employment service. The league
says that only a governmental SER
vice can be regarded as being au-
thoritative enough to safeguard
women workers against exploitation
and the expense of private fee
charging agencies. The Labor De-
partment gives figures to sshow
that in New York City alone the
private fee-charging agencies made
$6,000,000 a year from the appli-
cants seeking jobs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
The Fourteen Points Are
Merely Scraps of Paper

Moreover, if President Wilson is
satisfied that his fourteen points"
have been carried out, Miss MacAr-
thur is not. Her second great OBJ
lection to the treaty is that the ar
mlstlce was agreed upon under the
fourteen points and that the peace
treaty has done away with them.
We of the British Labor party"
said Miss Macarthur, "believed in
President Wilson's fourteen points.
What are the fourteen points now?
Nothing but scraps of paper
When the first point went, all went.
Our boys went out to fight be-
cause Germany had made a 'scra 0
OF paper of her treaty with Bel
gum: The armistice was signed on
the basis of Mr.. Wilson's fourteen
points. Shal, we lower ourselves to
the same morale as the Germans
and make scrap of paper out of
them, too?
open covenants openly arrived
at" said Miss Macarthur. Where
are they? That was a democratic
sentiment, but if the four men who
made the peace treaty had been,
each one. the angel Gabriel persona
tied, they could not have given US a
democratic peace by such methods.
This is a secret treaty. 1t is
merely another Holy Alliance. It
creates change in the balance of
power, but there can be nothing
stable based upon a balance of
power.
What do the present arrange
ments give US? In the last ANALYSIS
we shall be the losers. They lift
the military yoke from Germany, it
is true. And how? BY placing it
upon our own shoulders. Our own
boys will find themselves saddled
with the thing they went out to
fight.
Il have no sentimentality over
the Germans. am thinking of the
welfare of my own country. love
my country's honor and feel that
the peace arrived at in this treaty
is not peace with honor. pray
for peace that shall keep US from
another war. You Americans are a
happy people. You have not felt
the war the way we have. have
mad to rush into the yard many
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
English Woman Labor Leader =
Speaks Against Peace Treaty
Mary Macarthur Makes Farewell Address After
Six Months Tour of This
Country
BY Hannah Mitchell

times to save my child from the
bombs of ali air raid. | have seer
the sufferings in England and have
suffered along with all of my people.
1t is for my child and all children
that | wAnt to see q peace brought
about that will endure"
Miss Macarthur is the widow Of
W. {. Anderson. lately a member of
Parliament. She herself was the
first woman to run for Parliament
Her address Thursday night was
her farewell speech in America,
arrangements having been made for
her to sail for home Monday in
response to cahlegrams from the
British Labor party.
"Upheaval is coming in England"
said Miss Macarthur. but wheth-
er it is to be industrial or political
is not clear. The Labor party
wishes that it take political form.
We feel that the laboring people in
all countries should have more of a
voice in government, voice that is
recognized.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
Number of Women Officials
Increases in Suffrage States
Our New Citizens Appear Chiefly as School SUI.
perintendents, Auditors and
Treasurers
NTATISTICS of women in local
Offices throuUho,,+ tho co,,r+r,,

TATISTICS of women in local
- offices throughout the country,
compiled by the National
American Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton, show rather conclusively that
women are attracted principally to
the public educational positions. The
effect of suffrage on employment of
women as public officials is full of
interest and answers with facts a
query that has often been raised as
to what effect the vote will have in
multiplying women officeseekers
and officeholders.
Kansas, this year the banner
state for women officeholders, has
sixty-two women county school
superintendent (more than half)
fifty-one registers of deeds, thirty
district clerks, twenty-five county
treasurers, eleven county clerks and
no less than six probate judges, a
total of not far from 200.
The rosters of seven other equal
suffrage states show smattering of
women local officials. AS in former
years, county superintendent of edu-
cation is the favorite Office for
women in all states. Taking the old
est first, Wyoming shows all but one
(unless NJ. A Erickson is woman)
of the county uperintendents of
schools to be women. Jessie E.
Jacobson is prosecuting attorney of
Platte County and there are sixteen
clerks, court clerks and treasurers.
Colorado, the next oldest suf-
frage state, shows fifty-four out Of
sixty-three county superintendent
of schools to be women and twenty
other county officials, including the
judge of Uinta County.
In Idaho thirty-five out of forty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
When Patriotism and
Truth Conflict

81 feel that before | go back TO
England | must say what think.
No patriotism should stand in the
way of saying what feel is the
truth. That sentiment which / saw
in Western newspaper, Right or
wrong, my country" is shameful.
The evil of war is that it destroys
the soul of people and peoples"
Nearly three thousand persons at.
tended the meeting of the Women's
international League. They were
enthusiastic over the English
woman. Her personality, her vigor
and depth moved them. whatever
their type and convictions. They ap-
plauded the things she said, partly
because her magnetism and SIM
cerity carried them along and partly
because the things she said sounded
revolutionary.
The Englishwoman was morn
personal than any of the other
speakers. The war had not been a
theory or chimera TO her. She
did not have the three thousand
miles away" viewpoint which char
acterlzed many in the audience.
Her face and words bore the in,-
print Of enc who had lived the war,
not talked about it,
Miss Macarthur is Of the statu-
esque blond English type. She has
a face full of TENDERNESS and feel.
ing. On her trip to America she
has been accompanied by her four
yearold daughter, Nancy. a curly
headed person not in the least inn
pressed by the people who have
courted her mothers time and
ideas
To be franz, the only grown-up yis-
tors Nancy particularly notices are
those whom she can divert from
her mothers conversation by max
ing impish and fascinating faces.
The faces" are delightful. Her
nurse is much perturbed by them.
but Miss NacArthur seems utterly
oblivious of her little daughter'x
capers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
Training Women Speakers
At Republican Headquarters

a SPEAKERS bureau on a
~ small scale, with every pros
pect of charging along
Wholesale lines, opened at Republ-
Qan headquarters here recently,
when Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore
chairman Of the Women's Execu-
tive Committee of the Republican
State Committee, began the work
of training speakers to address
political gatherings of men and
women.
Among the early recruits were
Mrs. Anna G. Dewitt, Of Kings
Mrs. Nathan Glauber and Mrs. A.
II. Gleason, of New York, and Mrs.
William H. Ives, the executive sec
rotary of the committee. The chair
man, Mrs. Livermore, is called upon
to speak so frequently this summer
that she sometimes fills two engage
ments in one evening.
Republican activities have been
started by the women in southeast
ern New York. Mrs. William Boyce
mn
Thompson, Of Westchester, is chair
man of the finance committee of the
Women's Committee, which includes
Mrs. 'Charles S. Whitman, New
York; Mrs. Anna G. Dewitt, Kings.
and Mrs. J. Sloat Fassett, of Che
mung. Other members will be added
later.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

one school superintendent are
women. After them treasurers
show the greatest preponderance CT
women, twenty-one; with a county
commissioner, four county clerks
and one sheriff.
Women like to be auditors in
Washington; this Office, after that
of school superintendent, Of which
eighteen out of thirty-nine are
women, showing the greatest num-
Der of women's names (thirteen)
Twenty women serve as clerk,
treasurer or assessor.
The complete list of county off
GERS for Oregon is not available, but
this state has seven women school
superintendent out of thirty-six,
a smaller proportion than most
equal suffrage states. Oregon has
also woman county judge.
Unless E. D. Milliken and L. T.
Irvine are women, they are the two
men among the forty-three county
superintendent of schools in Mon
tana. Besides this, women hold only
thirteen local Offices in this state.
In Nevada the list of county su-
perintendents of schools does not
appear in the roster, and aside from
membership in school boards, only
six women hold county Offices.
In Michigan, which won full suf-
frage only last November, the pre-
ponderance of women in the public
education system has increased, as
in all other equal suffrage states.
Before Michigan was enfranchised
there were fourteen women school
commissioners. The number has this
year gone up to twentythree, an
advance of more than 60 per cent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
Recent Happenings in the World of Women
Suffrage House at
Capital Passes Into
History

WASHINGTON, June IA
~ Headquarters of the Ma
w tional American Woman Suf-
frage Association here will be closed
July /. The state ratification work
for the Federal suffrage amendment
will be directed from New York, the
original headqua tiers of the organ
ization.
The great suffrage house, 1926
Rhode Island Avenue, has been one
of the capitals show places in the
last few years. Sentiment and his
toric significance are associated with
it in the minds Of women who have
been in Washington for any length
of time. Senator'S and Representa-
tives have attended the meetings
there, many of them speaking on the
legislation neares. their hearts; girl
war workers have danced in it's wide
halls many evenings that would
otherwise have been long and lonely;
Cabinet officers wives and women of
the diplomatic corps have received
and poured tea at the numerous so
cial affairs held in the handsome old
house. Jeanette Rankin, the first
woman elected to the United States
Congress, made her first speech in
Washington from the balcony of the
suffrage headquarters, overlooking
Rhode Island Avenue.
The jubilee celebration held last
Tuesday to celebrate the passage of
the Federal amendment was the cul-
mination of a series of social activi-
ties in the suffrage house. It was to
furnish an appropriate background
for suffrage work that the house was
leased.
The house was in charge of the
Congressional committee Of the suf-
frage association of which Mrs.
Maud Wood Park was chairman.
While they were serving on the
women's committee of the Council of
National Defence, Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, president of the suffrage
organization, and DR.. Anna Howard
Shaw, honorary president, lived at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
Other Speakers at
The Mass Meeting

Another one of the delegates 20
the recent conference in Zurich
who spoke Thursday night was Mrs
Marion B. Cothren
THE distressing stories or ruro-
pean conditions" said Mrs. Cothren,
carried added weight as coming.
from delegates representing SO many.
countries. America has no idea how,
radical great masses of the popula.
ton outside Russia and Germany
are becoming. The twenty-five won1-
en- attending the conference from
America would undoubtedly not be
called conservatives in this country.
However, at the conference their at
titudc was so mild. as compa red
with that of the others. that thew
were called the conservatives of the
conference
Oswald Garrison Willard and Dud-
ley Field Malone also addressed the
meeting Thursday night. Mr.. VIII
lard described his Impressions of
conditions in Europe. He told of the
second revolution in Bavaria and Of
the food problems at that time. The
sufferings from starvation ia Mu-
mich, in Dresden. the horrors he
witnessed, were part of Mr.. Wizards
address. The suffering in European
countries is caused by the block
ade. according TO Mr.. Willard, and
the responsibility rests with the
peace conference at Paris
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
W OMEN who have been known
w on two continents as paci-
fists met under the auspices

w on two continents as paci-
fists met under the auspices
of the Women's Interna-
tional League on Thursday night at
the Pennsylvania Hotel to open a
campaign for the rejection Of the
peace treaty and the league CT ma
tons by Congress. The leaders of
the meeting had been delegates to
the conference at Zurich of the In
ternational Committee of Women
for Permanent Peace, which was
attended by 1875 women from fifteen
different countries.
The real message of Mary Mac
Arthur in this her farewell address
to Americans was almost lost in
the fireworks of the Dudley Field
Malone part of the programme. To
any audience, whether of parlor
Bolsheviks or old-fashioned Metho-
dists, Miss Macarthur would have
carried an appeal, because of her
own deep conviction and belief in
her message.
Miss Mac Arthur, representing the
British Labor party, told of their be-
lief in President Wilson. She said
that the one man her party had be-
lleved was upholding their princi-
plies six months ago was President
Wilson. She then went on to ex-
press the disappointment she and the
party had experienced in the Presi-
dent since the making of the peace
covenant.
She does not believe in the peace
treaty nor the league of nations,
and in denouncing them she said
that she expressed the feeling of
laboring people of England. Miss
Macarthur said that she had not
seen copy of the peace treaty and
admitted that her objections to it
were based partly upon resentment
toward the secret way in which the
treaty had been made and partly
because Of the sweeping terms i'm
posed upon Germany, according to
reports she had had from the Eng
lish Labor party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

the headquarters on Rhode Island
Avenue. In times of suffrage stress,
When the amendment was up for con-
sideration in the House or the SEN
ate, women from all parts of the
country sought the suffrage house in
Washington. At such times the fine
oId house was as crowded as col
iege doruitory in prom week.
Makeshift beds were put up and
suEragists slept six in a room. OF
course, these times were rare.
Regrets at the passing Of the suf-
rage house in Washington centre
around the fact that the Susan B.
anthony room, the shrine of suf-
1raglsts, will have 10 be dismantled.
Il contained the little table upon
which the original declaration of
rights was written at Seneca Falls,
n. T., in l84s. A. portrait of Miss
Ahsnony, bits Of interesting things
connected with her life, library on
woman suffrage and biographies of
eaufagists were a part Of the room.
Al the furnishings will be sent to
VI. Shaw for further disposal.
me last Of the reconstruction
.a'hs gwen at suffrage headquarters
.~.s spring will be held June 10.
conservation IN the topic, and SEN
s.ois, Reed, smoot and Key Pittman
WI be the speakers.
Representatives from the follow
~ organizations and many others
~ oesn heard at these forums:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
A Woman to Direct
Employment of
Other Women
wv AsHINGTON, June IA
w Creation of the position of

w 4 essa51ss o. H.. ' ss.;s,' a:: Of
Assistant Director General
of the United States Employment
Service for woman, who will have
charge of the securing of employ
ment for women, is one of the feat
ures of the Nolan and Kenyon bills
introduced into Congress to make
that service permanent. This will
be one of the few executive positions
for a. woman made statutory bv
Uncle Sam. The present head of
the Women's Division of the United
States Employment Service is Mrs.
Margaretta Neale, and her Office is
practically that of Assistant Direc-
tor General.
Under the law now in force there
is no compulsion to name a woman
at the head Of the women's divi-
sion. The Nolan bill has been intro
duced in the House and the KENYON
bill in the Senate making this pro-
vision. The salary for the woman
executive is to be fixed at $4,000
year. An appropriation of $4,000, 1000
is asked to put into effect the Fed
eral-state system of employment
service as it has been in operation
during the last ten months of the
war. The bills have been turned
over to the House committees on
Education and Labor, respectively.
Hearings on the question are to
be held within the next ten DAYS it
is thought. The testimony to be
produced in behalf of the women's
division of the service will deal
largely with results ACCOMPLISHED
from the time it was organized. on
January 3, 1918, until the day of
the armistice, November II, 1918.
1t will be shown that prior to this
time there were only nine Federal
and forty-six state and municipal
employment Offices existing for wom-
en-. The placements for those
women who did apply were usually
limited to domestic and low-paid
clerical work. By the time of the
armlstice, the Offices of employment
for women had been increased ia
400, and there had been established
executive supervision by women.
After the Women's Division of the
United States Employment Service
began to operate war workers were
recruited and all types of women
labor were handled-farm, profess
slonal. industrial and clerical work
ers. The placements increased about
ten times-from 5000 to 10000
women. Following the armistice
many war workers were transferred.
without loss of time or money.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

American Federation Of Labor, Ma
tional Grange, National Voters
League, General Federation of
Women's Clubs, National Society of
the Daughters Of the American Rev
olution, National Chamber of Com
mercc, National Popular Govern
ment League, Anti-Saloon League,
National Education Association,
United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, Consumers League, Women's
Trade Union League, National Coun-
Gil Of Women, National Board of
Farm Organization and Congress of
Mothers and Parents Teachers AS
ISOLATION.
The Congressional committee, the
presiding hostesses of the suffrage
house, was composed of Mrs. Maud
Wood Park, Miss Marjorie Shuler,
Mrs. Helen Gardener, Mrs. Minnie
Fisher Cunningham and Miss Mabel
Willard. Miss Caroline Reilly, sec
rotary to DR.. Shaw, was named sec
rotary of the committee after the
rehabilitation of the women's COM
mittcc of the Council Of National
Defence. Mrs. Louise Walker was
house manager.
New York now becomes again the
centre OF suffrage activities. The
Washington suffrage house will pass
into history with one great suffrage
victory and many smaller items of
women's history locked within its
stone walls.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-12-24
IN MEMORiUM

In sad but loving remembrance o.
-ur dear daughter, Olive Pear
Brannon, who departed this life one
month ago today, November "a.
he q Is are long slnce you left me
And the nights are so lonely and
dreary
But my horne YOU'D be full OF life
and
Light If you were only here witt
me tonight
She met her Saviour on the stand
When angels took he. by The hand
Alona, or TO, she is not alone
For Jesus claims her as his owD
Keep her Jesus IN thy keeping
Til I reach that heavenly share
Then. oh, Master, LEI me have her
To love and keep her as before
Her darling voice grew weak and
feebe
She no more on earth could sing
Eat size faialy VIII 1ered Blessed
Jesus
#th lie angels viii sing.
re- By her mother and father.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-12-24
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