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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-02

year. This brings total exports since
the first of the season up to 2,617,677
bales, against 2,69S,913 a year ago, a
decrease of only S1,246 bales, whereas
the decrease on November 8 last, ex-
ceeded 100000 bales.
The bear crowd explains the decline
partly by labor trouble, but this, as
we'll as all their propaganda, is of
the most frivolous character and
hasn't the backbone of an eggshell as
compared with the fundamentals I'M
DERIVING the market.
With conditions as bullish as they
are at present, this market easily can
boom to the limits daily for several
weeks, with occasional reactions.
News from all sections of the belt
state that holders of spots are organ,
izing and will not sell until values
have reached at least So cents pound,
good middling Some of the leading
bankers and merchants throughout the
South confidently expect cotton to go
to 40 cents a pound. Now it's up %
the South to get that price and not
let it go to the speculative element
and mills. The latter already is MAX
ing enormous profits, while the former
is getting rich off PAPER CON-
TRACTS, which can not be weaved
into cloth. Some day he'll have to
cover his commitments, and when he
does, there's going to be some brill
liant fireworks.
Friday it was reported by reliable
house in New York that little old Bel
GUM has bought 10000 bales of spot
cotton in that city, the home OF the
cotton gamblers. Several days ago it
Vas reported that Belgian interests
were placing large orders for cotton.
Why shouldn't she? Her textile ma
chinery, according to reliable parties,
has not been demolished and only
awaits raw material to start working
1t. The same applies to all central
Europe. When Germany took Bel
GUM she never dreamed of having to
give her up-that's the reason her ma
chinery wasn't entirely destroyed.
Germany's machinery is sound as
rock and she needs millions of bales
of cotton and probably will be permit
ted to have some when the peace trea-
ty has been signed Linking all de-
mands together. the world today is
short fully 100000 bales of cotton,
but still domestic mills refuse to buy
cotton. hoping to get it at 20 cents
pound. Never! But the shrewd Japs
are taking all they can get and paying
high premiums for it, too. The Amer
leans mills and the bear clique some
day in the not distant future will see
their mistake, and pay dearly for it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-02
Wasn't Talking About His Wife.

$ A Melbourne man was speaking to
friend of his troubles in general,
when he sighed and said: Eyes: the
only girl l really cared for l couldn't
have" What" exclaimed the friend.
THAT doesn't sound very compliment.
tary to your wife, oh" the other
hastened to explain, my wife felt as
badly about it as l did. You see, the
girl wanted two pounds a week and
we couldn't afford to pay more than
thirty shillings."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-02
Make Beautiful Lives.

What beautiful books our lives
would be If all the bindings-as. for
instance-conversation, expressions.
tones of voice and motives, were gen.
ulne, and what beautiful and helpful
lesser editions we could turn out in
the way of children from such homes.
IL may be well in this era of unrest,
doubt and change to remember that the
estimate people place upon our char
acters today and tomorrow is the last
great binding of the volume we will
hand down to observation-disclosures.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-02
Effective Turkoman headnear

The TurkOmans owe much of their
charm to their fantastic headgear.
When they remove them and reveal
the shaved heads and embroidered
skull caps underneath they seem COM
monplace. Yet there are many of the
Older men whose majesty of bearing
is not matter of costume alone. Their
red cotton gowns or khalats give them
a princely stateliness which the trou-
sered Russian with his shirt Topping
lacks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-02
LADIES

When irregular or delayed use
Triumph Pills. Safe and always de-
pendable Not sold at drug stores
Do not experiment with others, save
disappointment. Write for Relic"
and particulars. It's free. Address
National Medical Institute Milwaukee,
Wis. adv
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-19
OBJECT TO SUNDAY
LOAN DEMONSTRATIONS.

WASHINGTON, April 19r-The
treasury department has pulled itself
out of a fight over the observance of
Sunday in demonstrations in the Vic
tory loan campaign. Any controversy
over whether or not the flying circuses
will be permitted or whether motion
pictures promoting bond sales will be
shown, will be left entirely to local
loan committees, 1t is declared today.
Secretary Glass has received
veritahle deluge of kilograms, some
protesting against any kind of demon-
strations on Sundays but more de-
manding no cancellation of flights, tex,
hi"ts. parades, etc, so the treasury
withdrew.
At Butte, Mont, ministerial objec-
ton to Sunday exhibition of allied
airplanes brought an emphatic move
from the union labor contingent.
Leaders of Butte union announced
that If the flying circus was not per-
m:tted to stage its show there Sum
day-that being the only available
date--they would refuse to subscribe
to the loan.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-19
PAsTIME SUNDAY AND MONDAY
SISTER MAKES
BROTHER ENLIST
Canadian Girl Forces Brother TO En-.
list and do ssIIis Bit"

Little Amelia Nobbs became a mar
tyr to the cause OF patriotism while
doing her bit In the Trigangle patrl-
otic drama, For Valour,'' at the Pas
time theatre on Sunday and Monday.
Amelia must have been born under
an unlucky star, for all her fathers
attention was centered upon her
brother. Her father told Amelia that
women were useless for anything but
housework.
But this brave little girl was en-
dowed with a spirit of bravery and
fervor of patriotism that would we'll
have honored many a man. When
Canada was called to give her best
and finest youths for the common
cause. 'Melia was greatly touched 'at
her country's crisis.
1t was then her brother Henry
showed his real makeup by shirking
his duty and becoming a Stacker.
Then 'Melia received the opportunity
she had longed for--the chance to d
her bit: the possibility of serving her
country. And so 1t was that she pre-
vailed upon her brother to enlist.
She tried to make him see his coun-
try's over-powered need for men, and
that it was his duty to volunteer his
services to the land Of his birth. But
Henry was a coward and preferred
to hide behind the skirts of the girl
he loved rather than accept the honor
of fighting for his country.
Chance made Henry a thief. and in
his trouble he came to 'Melia for help.
1t is then that this brave, patriotic
child made her supreme sacrifice and
wrote her name high in the niche of
Canadian patriotic. How 'Melia helped
her brother pay back the money he !
had stolen and made him see 1.-The I
light" are the thrilling and soul-stir-
ring episodes Of this Triangle drama |
For Valour" Winifred Allen is star
red in this production supported by a |
cast including Robert Bathelmas.
Henry Weaver and Mabel Ballin. II
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-19
MCVS1iE lVS ~

she was four years old until she was
nearly fourteen, he declares that 1t IL
tho most difficult thing in the world
for her to address an audience.
Her appearance In New York, Chi
cago and Boston during the past few
months brought thousands to the the
aters at which she appeared and in
each instance she had to fight her
nerves to make her appearance. Miss
Dorothy liz five feet tall, and IL just five
feet of mischief and individuality.
They did not always cali her 1.-The
Little Disturber" around the studio.
II used to be little something else
especially when a director or camera
man was looking for his hat or hav-
ing other trouble which would even
tually betraced to the fact that Miss
G!sh was in the studio.
David Wark Griffith. under WHOSE
direction she created the most famous
girl character in pictures. says Miss
Dorothy is the most irrepressible per-
sonality he ever met When II was
announced that she was to appear in
her own productions he expressed
himself as believing her to be on the
highest OF. the high roads to success.
Battling Jane" Miss Gish's first
Paramount picture. viii be shown at
Alta theater beginning today. 1t is in
every way charming production.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-19

This space donated liy
ALTA THEATRE
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-19
alta SUNDAY AND MONDAY
NEW TOM MOORE PICTURE
ItEPLETE WITH SURPRISES

Tom Moore, now an established
Goldwyn Pictures star. has surprise
production for his thousands of ad-
mirers In Thirty a Week." the Gold
wyn picturlzation Of Thompson Buch-
anan's successful stays play which
comes to the Alta theatre beginning
Sunday
Thirty a Week." brings out, as no
other Tom Moore vehicle has. the
many angles OF the handsome, rollick-
ing Irishman's talents,
IL tells the story Of love finding the
way to bridge the gulf that separates
the strata OF girl OF wealth and So
ciety and that of a stout-hearted
American youth. Dan Murry (Tom
Moore) is a chauffeur for a millionaire
Wall Street operator. whose daughter.
Barbara Wright, is deeply In love with
Dan. despite his lowiy station. Her
parents have arranged for her mar
riage with Freddy Ruyter. a man about
town, but Barbara frowns upon their
scheme. Kpowing Dan loves her but
fears to take the Initiative. Barbara
smooths the way for him and they
later elope.
Angered by the marriage, Barbara s
father has Dan dismissed from several
positions. Ruyter vents his rage in
an even more despicable way. He in
forms Barbara that Dan is untrue to
her--that he has given money. to an
other woman In hmis sight. Barbara
Is heart broken and returns to her
parents. Plans are made for the an
nulment of the marriage The lawyer
investigates and learns that Dan has
given the woman the money to save
the life of her invalid husband. Bar
bara's father hears the facts. thrown
Ruyter out OF his home and Barbara
and Dan go away to live happily ever
after on thirty a week.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-19
ARCADE SUNDAY AND MONDAY
Nr. FAIRBANKS NEW PHOTOPLAY
ONE OF UNUSUAL NOVELTY
Optimism, Humor and Excitement
Happily Blended In Picture, HE
Comes I'm Smiling"

tonHtS Up ouhutnS-
Optimism. humor. excitement and
novelty are the principal features of
Douglas Fairbanks new photoplay.
He comes Up Smiling" which will be
presented at the Arcade theatre next
Sunday and Monday. The farce up
IN which the picture is based, was
highly successful on the stage several
wears ago. but II is said the screen ver-
sion is even more satisfactory to those
who like the ingredients which have
been provided by Mr.. Fairbanks in
his splendid production.
The part OF Jerry. who is known by
the knights Of the Road as "The Wa
'ermelon." IL that of n young man who
has ambition. but who is inclined to
i've a l.fe of vagabondage Lured by
he green wood and an irrestable de-
sire to experience new sensations along
he broad highway. Jerry is a charcter
which stands out distinctly as one of
enjoya bile screen characteriZations.
The picture IL filled with numerous
novel situat' ons and the action is ex-
ceedingly rapid Jerry chases can
ary bird over hill and dale; into
houses and over housetops; he is in
turn chased by n bevy OF bees and he
ioes remarkable stunts in a wild auto
mobile drive across mountain. the
role of the tramp is unique eyen in his
record of unusual character!zations.
Out Mr.. Fairbanks seems thoroughly
Vt home therein.
Marjorie Daw is Mr.. Fairbanks
leading woman and n remarkable list
Of players has been provided TO inter-
bret the other roles. Chief among
.hese are Frank Campeau. Herbert
standing Bull Montana, Jay Dwiggins
md Kathleen Kirkham.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-19
GENERAL PLUMER TO
STOP GERMAN STRIKE

COLOGNE. April 19-In conse-
quence of the spread of the German
strike to the Cologne district. I.ieuten-
ant General Sir Herbert Plumer. in
command of the British forces on thte
Rhine has issued proclamation
ordering the immediate retudn of tho
men to work and threatening the
strongest measures against persons
promoting or countenancing strikes in
the British zone of occupation II
other means of settlement failed,
A squadron of British airplanes flew
over the affected district today,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-19
Alta TODAY.

Dorothy Gish Is Victim OF Stage
Fright.
Dorothy Gsh. whose recent tour OF
The country in behalf of the Thrift
Stamp campaign brought many thou-
sands of dollars to the pledge funds
in every city she visited, is n victim
Of stage fright. so she says Although
she was on the stage from the time
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-19
WILSON INTENDS TO
PROBE COURT MARTIAL

WASHINGTON. April 1s.-wilson
today informed war department Off
cials of his determination to investi-
gate the whole courtmartial system
when he returns to the United States.
He indicated that he will first see
that just sentences are meted out to
all found guilty under the army court
martial system. He is expected to use
his clemency in many cases.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-19
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Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-06
HERE AND THERE.

The woman's section Of the Sas-
katchewan Grain Growers associa-
ton has more than 1000 members.
One hundred trombone players
will lead the singing at the celebra-
ton of the centenary of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church to be held at
Columbus, O., from June 20 to July
T.
The calendar of the Fort Washing
ton Presbyterian church, Broadway
and One Hundred and Forty-seventh
street, New York, has a paragraph
which says: Don't sleep out loud
during the service"
There are no fruit trees to spare
in France and so the California state
commission of agriculture is ship
ping a supply of the useful ladybug
to combat an insect pest which is
ravaging the French orchards.
Roy Fletcher, of Brockton, Miss,
is a clerk working in a store in
Bridgewater. When his carfares
went up to so cents day he bought
a bicycle, and now he makes the To-
mile trip back and forth daily and
puts the half dollar in the bank.
For 90 years after 1888 Brooklyn
Bridge was the sole link, other than
ferries, between Long Island and the
mainland. Sixteen years have seen
the opening of four new bridges and
eight tunnel tubes, with six more of
the latter. in pairs, under construc-
ton,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-06
Tzo~ R4ym
Waste at Wush9ngton

81 regret to say that have no set speech to
make to you. l have declined even to select a
Subject I doubted very much whether
II ought to come to this meeting" These are
the Introductory sentences Of a rambling ad-
dress Of about 10000 words. delivered by D. F.
Houston, secretary of agriculture at the Trans
mississippi Readjustment congress in Omaha
recently.
The preliminary words did not seem to prom
Use much, but Mr.. Houstons effort appears to
have turned out satisfactorily to himself, for he
had the speech printed at government expense,
as Circular 100 of the United States Department
of Agriculture, office of the secretary, meaning
perhaps, that it was the l5Gth speech which he
has delivered and circulated at the expense of
the government.
Various governmental organizations are
loading down the mails with stuff that in the
main has no practical value, and keeping the
government printing establishment busy pro-
ducing tons on tons of matter that goes into
the waste basket This speech of the secretary
of agriculture is specified merely because it is
a conspicuous and fragrant evidence that the top
men are to blame for the abuse.
Is there never to be any economizing in
Washington, in non essentials, to diminish the
immense necessary burden OF taxes that the
public and the industries of the country must
bear, as result of the war:-Kansas City Trib-
une,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-06
QUAINT BITS OF LIFE.

Normally there are $50 births to
70 deaths daily in London.
The word "kaiser" is derived from
the old German "casere," from the
Latin Caesar"
Although ridiculed as a craze it is
a scientific fact that sour milk con-
duces to longevity.
The average man normally con-
sumes about one ton of liquid and
solid food in year.
Scientists say that we are never
nearer death than when we sneeze,
the act causing a momentary con-
vulsion Of the brain.
The Russians appear to be about
the dirtiest folk in Europe, for the
average yearly consumption of soap
for each person is only p little more
than two pounds.
Water is great conductor of
sound. A bell which could be heard
four or five miles on land would, if
submerged and sounded, be heard
60 miles under the sea.
The death of little Prince John of
Wales has called to mind the fact
that John has been an unlucky name
for royalty all through English his
tory. From King John, who lost all
his treasure in the Wash, and died of
a surfeit of lampreys, there has
never been a lucky John.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-06
Prices and Wages ON SRlts

The recent reduction in steel prices agreed
upon between the leading producers and the
government appeared to be considerable and
were expected to stabilize the market for quite
look ahead and start heavy buying move
ment under the leadership of government pur-
chases on railroad and other account. But these
prices at the reduction are still about double the
average for the same products before the war;
and the wages of labor engaged thereon are
also about double.
Presumably the government will abide by its
tacit agreement in the matter and proceed to
buy steel as freely as its railroad fund will per-
nit But private steel-consumers are showing
little disposition to follow. They doubt the per.
manency of any arrangement which leaves at
ter-war prices up 100 per cent from pre-war
prices.
This problem of steel is symbolic of the in
dustrial readjustment problem generally What
should or must be done with steel is what
should or must be done with other production.
If wages are to remain up. prices and the cost
Of living will remain up or production will stop
and the means of living will stop with it. Every
body recognizes this and nobody wants to start
reduction in wages, and least of all the gov
eminent in its present quasi-partnership with
industry.
It is . situation which settles nothing and
upon such basis industry will not be likely to
venture either boldly or broadly.--New York
Worb
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-06
THE KNOW-IT-ALL.

But Yesterday met a man
Who to the lexicon was brother;
In dipping dactyls he could scan
Theocritus, or any other.
He could discourse upon earth's crust,
Or on what made the dodo famous
Than such a dreary y-as-dust
I'd rather be an ignoramus!
He knew by rote each church In Rome,
And he could diagnose conniptions:
He could translate q Chinese tome
Or strange Assyrian inscriptions
He could dilate on surds or tracts,
Or legends from the land OF Shamus;
Than such a facle fund of facts
I'd rather be an ignoramus!
Clearly could he elucidate
The manners of the men OF Media;
All myths and marvels he could state
A peripatetic encyclopedia!
He was authority on war,
Could show how the caveman might
claim US;
Than such knowledge-reservoir
I'd rather be an ignoramus!
He'd prate on Peary and the pole,
Then nimbly leap to the equator;
He'd solved the soul and ''over-soul,"
Was intimate with the Creator
H. to be learned in legal lore
One hour, and issue mandamus!
q rid the world of one more bore,
Then rest content, an ignoramus!
Clinton
CLINTON scoLLA2D. in Life.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-06
Center Shots

Detroit Free Fress: French girls
have captured 1000 Yanks, which il
more than the German army can say,
Washington Post: Oh. yes. the
Huns are demoralized and all that,
but you'll notice that they know how
to agree upon objections to the peace
terms.
Baltimore American: It Is to be
hoped the safe manufacturers soak
the proflteers hard, as they are COM
PEELED to lay in additional ones in
which to store their loot.
Minneapolis Tribune: President
Ebert says Germany will never con-
sent to Poland's having Danzig. The
allies do not expect Germany to con-
sent to anything. They look upon
her as an assenter, without choice.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat: A
modest and truthful man has been
found. Asked in loud and threat
ening tone of voice which side Of
the league of nations controversy he
Endorsed, he meekly replied. II don't
know"
New York World: Fencing In q
fair defendant in court to avoid the
effect on male jurors of her flashing
hosiery" is a protective expedient
that may not b. so necessary when
members of the other sex are repre-
scented in the jury box.
Baltimore American: Germany,
making pacts with the bolsheviki
with one hand while stretching out
the other to the allies for food, is
enthusiastically treacherous. And
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-06
Fixing the Law of the Air.

One of the attractive exercises in the way
OF mental calisthenics just now is to fill the air
with flying machines pleasure-bent, commerce
carriers, the ordinary traffckers of transporta-
ton, and the representatives of mighty govern
ments. All this turns around predictions and
promises made any time since the Wright broth
ers proved that Langley was on the right track.
1t has variation that allures the deeper
thought, that of the law of the air. Centuries
of ground-crawling have served to crystalline
the rule of the road, and equally the seaways
have been plotted, with very definite etiquette
for those who plow the main. In mining law
the rules and rights of property have been car
ried underneath the surface, and learned
treatises Of adit and apex, drift and fault, with
all their colaterals, afford entertainment, in
struction, and sometimes amazement and con-
fusion for those who deve in pursuit of wealth.
Now that man is determined to go aloft new
region is opened for the investigation of the
speculative philosophers. How high does the
right of ownership go? After what form shall
the boundary lines be traced? Is the flying
man trespasser, guest or privileged charac-
ter? As a matter of fact, an ingenious individual
has outlined ffty-fve of these questions to be
settled as preliminary to the general use of air
ways, and we may be sure he has merely opened
the way. Our courts are not likely to decom-
pose for want of incentive to activity, it seems