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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
CAPT. MALLORY

Old age and failing health Invested the announcement of the
death Of Capt. ". B. Mallory of the shock that comes to a com.
munity when one OF its Oldest and best citizens passes awav
But the sense OF overwhelming and irreparable loss is in no
measure minimzcd by this fact. Capt. Mallory was more than
an individual lie was an institution. His name stood for all
that was upright, honest and charitabe-a name So interviewer
with the history and development of the city in the past that it
will be forever one and inseparable with its growth and progress
in the future. Had he left behind no heritage other than a large
family Of strong sons and noble daughters, his life would have
been a ~benedetion to the community; but he did more than
that: he left an example of success founded upon the bedrock
OF integrity, of courage to stand for that which is good and ia
condemn that which is evil. He stood for everything worth
while in the community.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
COLUMBUS TEACHERS
GET Is PER CENT RAISE

COLUMBUS, Miss, June 9. (Spl)-
At a recent meeting OF the board Of
trustees OF the local public schools,
teachers for the ensuing session were
elected and an increase of is per cent
in salaries granted. BY granting this
raise the local board placed itself In
line with other similar bodies through
out the state and, in fact, with depart
ments of education in practically every
state throughout the country. The ad-
dition to the pay Of the pedagogues
will not only place them in a position
to meet the increased cost In living,
hut win enable them to devote the sum-
mer to taking special courses at yari-
ous institutions, which will naturally
equip them for better and more en-
thusiastic work.
Prof. j. c. Meadows, the superin-
tendent, will take a curse at Colum-
bia university, while a number of the
other teachers will attend summer
schools in various sections of the coun-
apU
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
EPW0RTH LEAGUE
COUNCIL TO MEET

Tho regular council meeting OF the
City Epworth League union will be held
$50 o'clock. All tho officers OF the
union and the presidents OF the differ
ent leagues are urged to be present.
Thu chairmen and the members of the
committees that have been appointed
to arrange the program for the annual
Epworth League convention to be held
at the First Methodist church June ~
10, are asked TO attend the council
meeting.
Final plans for the convention will be
outlined Friday evening, when the City
Epworth League union meets at the
mississippi Avenue church. A large at
tenaance from all the leagues in the
city Ia desired Friday evening.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
KEE WANTS DAMAGES

Declaring that the motorman on a
Vance avenue line threw him off the
front end OF the car and abused him
when he tried to board the car, being
unable to get on at the rear, w, r.
Kee Monday filed suit against the
Memphis street Railway company, ask
ing damages In the sum OF IS, 900.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
UNIT BACK

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. June g.
The first units of the Slst or wild cat
division, composed of national army
troops from North Carolina. South Car
oiina and Florida, to return home from
France, arrived here today on the bat
tleship Minnesota. It. was the 31sth
field artillery, complete. The Minnesota
was one of four vessels to arrive to-
day with troops. the others being the
Susquehanna, Freedom and H~oustanic,
The transports brought q total Of about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-06
sANDRA's WEDDING EVE.

The night before my wedding I sat
long at my window. / had read of
brides spending the early hours of the
last night in their homes in that way.
But in the stories it was always moon
light, and the scent of flowers was in
the air. But it was awfully dark that
night, only a faint vague light from a
few pale stars Illuminated the dark
ness, accentuating the gloom. There
asleep in my chair. When 1 awoke
was shivering with cold. 1 crept
hastily into bed, and pulled the clothes
over my head for warmth. mumbled
a prayer and went Immediately to
sleep. 1 did not once think of my
wedding day. or OF Everett Graham
the man was to marry.
My wedding dress was laid out on
the bed in the spare" room as we
called the guest chamber. The rest of
new trunk father had given me, my
initials on the end. rs. c." Sandra
Graham. 1t seemed so queer to have
it done before 1 had any right to the
name.
Everett had urged mother not to
bother much about clothes. as he
would get me whatever 1 needed in
New York. But mother had provided
me with a plentiful outfit of needful
things. and several simple but good
q,
and she told father when they thought
1 wasn't around that she didn't pro-
pose to let her daughter go to any man
without enough good clothing.
We weren't to have a large wedding
Just few of my friends and relatives.
Everett said. he hadn't any relatives
Twin near and they were only distant
cousins at that. He would only ask
couple of the men in the branch office
in our town.
You will meet my friends when we
get settled" he had said when / de-
INJURED because he would invite no
one. He also objected to sending out
invitations. I'VE will send announce
ments after we al. married. end give
our home address. You write your
own friends informal notes. 1t is quite
the thing to do, so don't look so disap-
pointed" he had tweaked my ear while
he talked. 1 wished he had kissed me
instead.
The morning of my wedding day 1
awoke feeling that something was
going to happen. Then all suddenly
realized that it was my wedding day.
that by the time the sun had set L
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-06

Yestidday ma was fixing up my
bewro draws. and she sed, Benny, the
very ideer, heers that nee pair of wife
pants that your grandfather gave you
and you've never worn them once, I
declare Id forgotten all about them
no wonder, stuck out of site under all
these clothes.
WITCH had stuck them there on ac-
count of not wunting to ware them,
and ma sed, Ill put them heer on the
chair and you can start wearing them
this very eevning.
Aw, ma, G, gosh, sed, I don't wunt
to ware them, they're too sissey, only
sissies ware wife pants, and ma sed
Sutch nonsents. well you'll ware them
until you get them derty, anyway.
Aw heck, all rite, 1 sed. Having a
CRATE ideer. And put them on and
ate suppir in them and went out to
play with the fellows. and wen I went
in agen on account of ma calling me
to go to bed, my pants was so derty
nobody couldn't hardly of told wat
color they was wen they started, ma
saying, Benny Potts, never saw sutch
a site, you go rite up in the setting
room and show them to your father
Witch 1 did. ma coming up with me
and saying, Did you ever see sutch a
site, Willyum FL told him he had to
ware them till they got derty. and now
of done it on purpose, deelibritly-
No nam, no sir, it was axsident
sed.
An axsident, they look like foot
marks, sed pop, and I sed, Yes sir,
that's wat they are, the fellows was
trying to see how, neer they could
come to my pants with their feet with
out axuilly touching them. and some of
them touched them by axsident.
o see. and who invited them to
try? sed pop
I did, L sed, and pop sed, That
makes it an axsident, and how about
the big mud stane on the sect. was
that an axsident too? and sed, Yes,
sir, 1 shut my eyes and put my hands
under my neez and told Pubs Simkins
and Ed Wernick they could pick me
up and set me down wherever they
wunted to, and they set me down in
mud puddle by axsident.
Did you know you were in the nay
berhood of a mud puddle? sed pop,
and sed Yes, sir. but didn't know how
deep
That makes it an axsident, sed pop.
And he took off one slipper and gave
me bangs with it on the mud stane.
saying, Take these to bed with you,
they're all axsidents.
WITCH / did.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-06

United States commerce, in the fiscal
year which ended with June, broke
the record" in many particulars. Both
imports and exports were the largest
in the history OF our foreign trade.
and the grand total for the first time
crossed the 100000 900 line; the
Favorable trade balance" exceeded
that OF any earlier year; and the clos
ing month. June, wound up the spec
tacular record with total trade of
S1.211,2S2.45O. an average of nearly
$5O.0O0.0OO a day in the twenty-six
business days of the month, The value
OF the merchandise forming the for
eign commerce OF the United States in
the fiscal year 1919 was one-half as
large as that forming the entire inter-
national trade of the world in the year
preceding the war.
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given to our memories something
sweet, with a touch OF reverence.
Maeterlinck recently wrote: The
more we see of beautiful things. tile
better fitted we become to perform
good actions. II our inner Lire Is to
thrive, we need a magnificent store
of wond erful spells"
We should court our memories. set
them about us, and ask them to re-
cite anew their "olden. golden" mean
ings-
So many of us tread upon the edge
Of our days, instead of taking the mid
die path which leads toward rising
suns and rainbowed twilights where
are the images OF our sweetened
memories, lighted by our hopes and
our dearest desires-with our fears
forever sealed. never TO be opened IL
we will let faith guide.
Let US today so construct and build
and serve that every succeeding to-
morrow may have its sweetened MEM
cries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-06
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
December and May.

A woman who is fair and forty asks
my advice about marrying a youth
who is twenty years her junior, and
who, she assures me. loves her for her
self alone. and is entirely uninfluenced
by her ample fortune.
Personally, my opinion is that young
husbands are too much trouble. They
are not worth the price one has to pay
for them.
Granting the right of every woman
to indulge her own taste in matri-
mony-no matter how bizarre-still, a
lady wedding a man twenty years her
Junior is always a spectacle of such
rash and reckless daring that it is
bound to challenge the attention of
the thoughtful.
She takes upon her poor. stopped,
middle aged shoulders all of the null
titudinous burdens of matrimony that
ordinary women have to bear. and
then some. She adds plus to all the
doubts and difficulties of the husband
problem.
To begin with, It is much easier, as
everybody knows. to catch a husband
than it is to keep him after you get
him. These are animals you can
never be sure that you have thoroly
domesticated until after they are dead.
Men belong to this genus. and ladies
past forty seldom have the magnetic
personality, the alertness of move
ment, and the gay spirits that lit them
to be husband tanners.
If the wife who undertakes to keep
a husband fascinated with her and
nailed to his own fireside. has her job
cut out for her, even when time fights
on her side. the woman who has
twenty years arrayed against her, has
task that makes the labor of Her
cules look like child's play.
Aside from the task of keeping the
young husband from getting lost
strayed, or stolen, and satisfied to bear
his mama company instead of run
ming off 10 play with the other kids,
one is appalled, at the very thought of
the burdens that the elderly wife of
a young man assumes. Chief among
these is the curse OF perpetual youth
can never grow old, She doesn't dare
to. She is doomed to a sort of canned
girlhood.
The privilege of growing old. with
all its perquisites. is one that we do
not sufficiently appreciate. From this
blessing the old wife of the young
man is forever debarred.
She can never hope to enjoy that
luxurious Indian summer which is the
most delightful season of woman's
life, when she let's out her stays.
smashes her hair dye bottles, pitches
her rouge pot out of the window and
abandons herself to being frankly
middle aged. and gray haired, and fat.
and no better looking than God made
her, or younger than the record in the
family Bible.
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1t is proposed that the government,
take over the business of supplying the
people with flour at a price below that
now being charged by the millers. If
the government will let the wheat crop
go on the market urder the law of
supply and demand the price of flour
will come down without federal inter-
ference. If anybody else had to pay
the farmers S2.26 a bushel for their
crop the government would insist that
he should sell his wheat for what 1t
was worth, not for what he could ex-
act. But when the government has
bought the wheat it insists that so as
to get rid OF it at a profit it must exact
from American consumers famine
prices. 1t insists that with this arti-
ficiai basis of wheat putting corn on
a similar basis of 50 the American
people must make a profit for the
United States treasury. altho this very
wheat profit compels the American
people to pay billions of dollars more
for their other food.
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ing classes in English, and supplying
teachers to visit immigrant families,
food centers are to be established dis
playing up-to-date methods of con-
servation and food economy. The
Chamber is already bringing its in
fence to bear on housing problems.
This is one which vitality affects all
business W o m n - probably to a
greater degree than 1t does any other
class. A business woman can rarely
afford to rent a house in which to
live. or even a large apartment, and
the only alternative is a room in a
boarding house. The one-room and
bath apartment is still so scarce, in
spite of the tremendous demand for
it, that 1t is beyond the income of the
average business woman. The erec-
ton of apartment houses, of the one
room-and-bath variety, is being strong
ly urged by the Chamber; also. apart
ment houses of the dorInitory type,
making 1t possible for a group of
women to live in home surroundings
thru the hiring of one housekeeper
and a maid, or thru a cooperative
kitchen.
The rural woman is going to be a
special subject of consideration on the
part of the Woman's Chamber of Com
merce. She is usually an excellent
business woman, but gets smaller re-
turns for her skill and resourcefulness
than any other class. The women of
the cities are now coming to- her res
cue. They are going to bring their
pressure to bear on the mems cham
Der of commerce to get labor-saving
devices established in farm kitchens, a
system OF motor trucks operating be-
tween the cities and farms. and books
and Victrola records circulating in the
isolated rural districts where women
often go insane from loneliness.
1t may be hard to see how all of
these activities are related to the eco
nomic independence and glory of wo
men, but the Woman's Chamber of
Commerce assures US that they are.
For women are just awakening to the
fact that in this-a mans world-ev-
erything is based upon the production
of goods. There are still great many
who do not realize the need for eco
nomic reforms. These must be en-
couraged, guided and educated. Wo-
men can't become capitalists, investors,
manufa cturers and business geniuses
in a day, but the Woman's Chamber
of Commerce is going to try to make
the struggle as short as possible.
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SANDRA THE JEALOUS
Blu JANE PHELPS

should be Mrs. Graham" instead of
Sandra Courtney. 1 ran to the window
and pulled up the blind. 1t was a
wonderful morning. The air was crisp
and cold and the sun shone gloriously.
felt happy. that all was going to be
well with me.
Happy is the bride the sun
shines on even If she is lazyi" 1t
was Rose Grandon's knocking voice:
She caught me in her arms ana
whirled me around the room until We
were both GREATNESS. Get into your
clothes, lazy bones. I've come to have
breakfast with Sandra Courtney"
We cried a little at the idea of
Sandra Courtney's last breakfast, but
mine were not unhappy tears. We
had a real jolly breakfast, altho l
caught mother wiping her eyes behind
the coffee urn. The morning just dis
appeared, as Rose said, it went so fast.
At IL o'clock Everett came. He
blush horribly, and giving Toodles and
Buster such wicked joy that L blushed
again at their giggles-
Everett brought me the loveliest
string of pearls. Not a long string.
neither were the pearls very large,
cy, and perfectly matched.
Il am afraid you will spoil the
child" mother said in her quiet tones.
Everett only laughed in a way he had,
ana fastened them ABOUT my neck.
IT wonder If they were his first
wife's," Toodles whispered to Rose,
and she told him to keep quiet. and
not say such things. But had over
heard, and it sort of spoiled my pleas
ure in my gift. Yet as looked at the
dainty, absolutely new case in which
they came. 1 felt sure Everett had
bought them for me.
1t seemed to me that 1 was hear
ing many things that day which were
not intended for my ears.
"She has been pettied all her life,
father" it was mother talking, and
1 shameiessly listened. MI Ora
ham is a cold, undemonstrative man,
1 feel anxious about her"
"Oh, he'll be demonstrative enough
when they are alone. l believe he will
make Sandra a good husband. But
men of his age aren't apt to gush in
public you know"
Someway this conversation made me
uneasy. Was Everett 'cold," and
wouldn't he pet and love me?
should be almost afraid of a man, a
husband who would not be loving
towards me.
(Tomorrow-The wedding and honey
mOOn.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-06
FEDERAL Loan sYsTENIs.

First came the Federal Reserve sys-
TEN, then the Federal Farm Loan sys-
tenn. and now we have in prospect the
Federal Home Loan system.
Senator Calder's bill. now in the
hands of the banking and currency
committee. presents a number of fea-
lures similar to the bill creating the
Farm Loan system. There is. for in
stance, the familiar tax exemption
feature. the division OF the whole coun-
try into districts. the creation of a
with provisions for the necessary ma
chinery to conduct the organization;
and. whereas, under the Farm Loan
act, it requires an association of farm
ers to negotiate loans. under the pro-
posed bill building associations would
occupy the same position. AS a mat
ter of fact. a home loan bank could be
started only by an association of build
ing associations.
Associations would be allowed to
borrow up to 60 per cent of mortgage
assets, but the mortgages pledged
would have to amount to rs per cent
more than the loan, and no mortgage
could be pledged unless the appraised
value of the property was at least 80
per cent more than the amount OF the
mortgage. Just as the Federal Re-
serve system is a bank for banks. the
Home Loan system would be a bank
for building associations. Moreover.
these banks would be repositories for
the government and for member as
sociations, and stock holdings would be
limited to such associations.
1t seems to be a copy of the idea
back OF the Farm Loan Bank system,
to use the American investment
market for the selling of securities to
finance the requirements of home
buyers at a low rate of interest render
ed possible by the tax exempt feature.
II real estate mortgages were ex-
empt from taxation. as they should be.
there wouldsbe no necessity for Farm
Loan banks or for Home Loan banks
The farmer and the home builder
could borrow in the open market at a
lower rate than is obtainable thru the
Farm Loan banks or would be obtain
able under the Home Loan system and
without the red tape.
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output. Those which were engaged in
purely war production and were run
ming at topnotch speed and capacity
have fallen back to their normal out
put or less. but this readjustment has
taken place with a remarkably small
amount of disturbance in the business
world. Conspicuous in the correspond
ence to the Continental and Com
mercial National bank, in response to
inquiries regarding business conditions.
1t reports, is the unanimity OF optim-
ism. Business men, more generally
than ever before. report confidence
in continued Industrial activity and in
expanding foreign trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-06
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Discoveries.

Discoveries.
To skin beets without bleeding put
them into cold water as soon as
cooked. Then with the hand gently
draw OFF the skin. 1t will come off
without trouble and the beet will re-
tain its color.
Keep a cover or a plate over the
pan when frying onions. They will
cook more quickly and have a better
flavor.
II your family drink sugar in the
tea put a lump in the teapot when
making the tea and you can dispense
with one teaspoonful of tea in meas
uring.
For cleaning mahogany furniture
and removing the white spots caused
by dampness, gently rub with a soft
linen sloth dipped into olive oil.
1t is said you can polish boots
quickly and beautifully by rubbing
them with a piece of orange. Let the
juice dry in, then polish with soft
brush.
If unpleasant doors from cooking
linger in the house, put five drops OF
oil of lavender into a pan of boiling
water. Let this boil for five minutes
and the rooms will smell sweet and
clean.
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Now That Peace Has Come.

Now That Peace Has Come.
Knitting will be done exclusively by
the knitting factories.
The price of food will be-the price
of food
Somebody will remember that the
tariff has been sadly neglected and
our infant industries will yowl and
have to be walked with.
The English brickyards will have to
put up barbed wire to prevent raids
by the suffragets.
Wrist-watch manufacturing COM
panies will declare their final dividend
and go out Of business.
The boll-weevii will regain its old
place in the affections of the Ameri-
can reading public.
A man may be able to walk into a
meat market without having the same
feeling he has when he climbs into a
dentists chair, and then, again, he
may not
Housekeeping may again become a
vocation.
"Once there was a man who de-
ceived his wife" Is the. way one maya
zine story starts.
We read no farther Judging by
the opening sentence. the whole story
is manifestly impossible.
Let the Weddings Bells Ring Out.
want to inform you and the uni
verse that Miss Quennie Livere of
Ashe street, Flushing, is engaged TO
marry Mr.. Sidney Germs of Third ave-
nue., New York City.-Roxstone.
Poets never really starve to death
they live and suffer.