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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
fresh pork? The appraisers are there now, and are worokins on this problem.
 MUCH IMMORALITY


 MUCH IMMORTALITY
 But these discrepancies sink into insig- nificance, said the governor. in com par son with the evidences of immortality pc nitted on the big farm with the full I Knowledge and consent of the supe-iu ;endent. It is an. established fact that scores Of negro women of Vilest reputa ] ton from Ciarl5sdale. Greenwood, Green vile and other neighborhlng cities were permitted to come on the farm nearly every Saturday night and remain over Sunday for the use of the conSicts The V omen were let into the upper stories of the cages, or they were housed in old buildinge nearby that bad been fitted up with stalls and rough cots for their ac- commodation. and there they were per mitted to remain for weeks at a time, be- ing fed out of the state smokehouses and sribs. A considerable number of the con victs, the governor says are now suf- fering from yenereal diseases contracted in thss way.
 On this same Parchman farm the fe- mae conVicts are kept. All of them are negroes but one. While woman, who was recently sent Up for murder They have quarters of their own, far removed from the men. and vet they have been permitted to mingle. and in consequence | thereof there will soon be one or more babies to look after
 Governor Biibo states that he never dreamed any such deplorable conditions existed on the farms. He was prepared to find evidences of mismauagement, but never had any idea the convcts were be- ing debauched with the knowledge and consent of the superintendent. He charges that the farm is not being improved as it should be. Ir fact, he says the all-cot- ton system year in and year out is inn DoveriShing the land, He planes the management for the'r failure not to pro- duce all that is needed to feed the con- victs, as the law requires instead of de. voting so many acres to cotton just to
 make good showing in dollars and cents 1 for the state treasury. He declares that the all-cotton system is going to be changed by the new superintendent, and the state farms made self sustaining. A full and complete investigation is go- ing to be made, and responsibility for conditions existing on the convict farms established, regardlesS of who getes hurt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
FOR MERIToRIous CONDUCT

When a Mississippi convict does something out of the ordinary-puts out fire, prevents the escape of an
 other convict, or kills another convict who is raising a rough house, he is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
WANT A COTTON CLASSJFIER

The board of trustees of the peni- tentiary have lost their cotton class fer. and do not know where to find another. The expert who has been classifying Mississippi's convict raised cotton the past several years, has re- signed to accept a place with a New York firm of cotton buyers, and there is not another to be had it is said. The trustees pay 20 cents per bale for classifying, and the crop generally amounts to 5000 or 1000 bales. Between seasons the classifier can do other work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
SCHOOL GARDEN ARMIES

Miss Jennie Bdrkes. ass stant re sional director United States school garden army for Alabama and Mississippi has been in Jack son, making arrangements to put through the government plans for making good gardeners of the sch3o chill dren. She has just returned from' Wash ington where she attended a conference of all directors and assistants in the United States, and there the plans were laid for determined campaign. Two or three Mississippi towns have already or ganized an army, and the boys and girls are at work. They made successful gar dens at Gufport, Biloxi, Laurel and other towns last year. and scores will join the movement this year if Miss Burkes has her way about it.. The idea is to in- stall paid teachers in gardening in every city and town of any importance-iust a is done in the eastern states and as has been done for years. thus teaching the children something of agriculture that is practical and profitable. This is but an- other of Uncle Sams plans for winning the war and helping to feed Europe.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-27
TAKE NEW STEPS
 TO REDUCE H. C.L.
War Department Announces a Plan to Open Number of Re- tail Stores-Clothing To Be Sold.

Washington, Aug. 26. - Further steps to bring down soaring prices were taken today by the government, the war department announcing plans for opening retail stores in a number of >cities through which surplus house hold commodities and clothing will be made available to consumers through out the country.
 Meantime, congressional commit tees continued consideration of legis- lation designed to reduce the high cost of living. This included amend ments to the food control act to pun ish profiteering and hoarding; bills to regulate cold storage and appro- priations for the federal trade com mission to investigate storage and give the information to the public. Through the retail stores to be opened by the war department, the cts, gloves, tobacco, soap and other household commodities will be sold. Consumers in the large cities where the stores will be operated will be able to purchase over the counter but the stocks also will be made available to persons in other communities through the parcel post
 Price lists are being prepared and these will be furnished to all post offices for the convenience of the public. While no announcement has yet been made, it is expected that the prices, like those on the foodstuffs inow being disposed of, will be con- siderably below the prevailing mar ket.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-27
WITNESS ASSAILS
 TRADE COMMITTEE
Packer Representative Declares Reports Useless For Legisla- tion-TheOries of Members Declared UnsOund.

Washington, Aug. 26.-Reports of the federal trade committee on the five large packers and their alleged control of the industry are "absolute- ly useless as basis for passing legis- lation," L. D. H. Weld, representative of Swift and Company, assured the Senate agriculture committee today. Summing up his, two day argument against federal regulation of the in dustry as proposed in the Kenyon and Kendrick bills, he challenged the truth of the commissions findings in half dozen particulars, and ended by assailing the commission itself. Don't you resent having this sort of evidence put before you?" he asked the committee members. "Do you think you ought to allow govern ment bureau to make this unjustifed assault on a useful and necessary in dustry?"
 MT. Weld said he had demonstrated | before the committee that the five packers far from controlling 25 per cent of the wholesale grocery busi- ness, did less than per cent of it; that they did not control prices either for live stock or meats, that their profits were as moderate if not lower than the profits of any other indus try; and that in nunberless details, las to capital investment, operations in England, Hive stock pools," the. committee, and especially Commis- sioner w. B. Colver, who opened the hearings, had dealt in statements misrepresentation insinuations and inaccuracies.
 "What possible motive can a public body have for doing the sort of thing you say the commission has done 2" Senator Harrison, Democrat. Missis- sippi, asked.
 ''I prefer not to go into personali ties" MT. Weld replied, "but theories of members of the commission on economic subjects are not what I call sound. There isn't business man on the committee. Principally they are newspaper men,"
 Several other opponents of the reg ulation legislation were heard during the day, and the federal trade com- mittee made public a report recom- mending that operation of refrigera- tor cars and of cars used in meat transportation be declared govern ment monopoly.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-27
committee were inclined to give the government chance to make good in the campaign against high prices.
PRESCOTT HIGH SCHOOL
 APPROVED BY ALL COLLEGES

No doubt it will be interesting to patrons of the Prescott schools to know that our high school is enc of only seventeen high schools in the state that are approved by all col leges and universities of the South. This means that a pupil can take a statement of his credits from our school to any college or university in the United States and get credit with out examination, since all other asso- citations reciprocate with the South ern. Efficiency of teachers, arrange ment of work and courses of study, and standards of scholarship of pupils are some of the requirements.
 Only the larger cities of the state and two or three towns the size of Prescott are on the list. A number of towns larger than Prescott are not on the list. The money spent per child in the towns of our size on the list will exceed ours great deal. The school board is to be complimented for such a showing.
 Little Rock, Aug. 12, 1919. Mr. c. M. Hirst,
 Prescott, Arkansas.
 My Dear Friend:-
 Enclosed you will find list of the schools in Arkansas that are accredit- ed by the commission of secondary schools in the Southern states. All the colleges and universities of Ar kansas have recognized this list.
 With best wishes, l am
 Yours very truly,
 A. B. Hill,
 State High School Inspector.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-27
were destroyed.

Mrs. w. K. Buchanan is spending the afternoon in Texarkana.
 Ceicle Gee is spending this after qoon on business down at Hope.
 Wanted-500 men women and children to haul to the Camp Ground. Will Mitchell-phone 136 or 260. d6
 Mrs. Ella Hubbard is visiting rela- tives and friends in Hope this after noon.
 Messrs. Dan Pittman, Chas. Lan- easter are down at Texarkana this afternoon.
 Fred Fuller, deputy circuit clerk, went to Hope at noon today to attend to business affairs.
 J. T. McGough, Emmet route num- Der two, was attending to business in the city this morning
 c. N. Autry, one of Prescott's real estate men, is out after a ten days illness. Mir. Autry had severe at tack of malarial fever.
 T. J. Halliburton returned this morning from New York, Chicago and other points where he had been at tending meeting of the life insur- ance agents of the Merchants Life Company.
 BeUO Ice cold-now 1oc every
 where.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-27
|SHOPMEN TO VOTE WAGE PROPOSE
Immediate Vote to Be Taken
 will Decide Action on Presi-
 dent Wilson's Statement Committee in Session.

Washington, Aug. 26.-Railroad .hopmen throughout the United states will begin voting immediately on whether they will accept the wage nrouosals made yesterday by Presi- dent Wilson and Director General Hines or go out on strike to enforce |their demands for a general advance |in pay.
 0n the outcome of the balloting hinges industrial peace on the gov ernment controlled railroads. If the |5oOOOO shopmen decide to accede to President Wilson's decision that there shall be no general wage advances |until the government shows what can be done to control the rising cost of living, sufficient time to effect some change in the previous levels, prob ablv will elapse before other unions press their demands for more money.
 What action the government may be expected to take in the event of a Eote by the shopmen to strike for bn immediate increase in wages, which President Wilson has said would have
 disastrous effect on efforts to bring flown prices, has not been discussed, Indeed, if it had been considered.
 Indicative of the determination of Director General Hines and the rail- load administration to deal fairly with all classes of employees, the di- Fector general today instructed the board of railway wages to consider promptly any demands that might be nade and to report recommendations my class will not be made until it las been proved that the present level f prices is permanent. In that case, 10th the president and MT. Hines lave given assurance that railroad gofkers would receive early readjust- bent of their wages.
 The taking of a strike vote ordi- arily requires about three weeks. In he present instances it is believed he vote may be completed earlier as pstructions were given by the inter ational officers to the unions to sum bon meetings if necessary and to Ptegraph the result of the balloting
 Announcing that they had refused be proposal of the director general, De committee of 100, representing De shopmen mdae public letter sent
 the various locals calling for a
 sslon several hours today, debate
 coming bitter at times, it was said,
 E more radical of the members re-
 andlng strike to compel more
 oney. In the letter, however, was
 en a suggestion that some of the
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-27
AS THE FOUNDATION
 so IS THE STRUCTURE

Built upon a solid basis. an edifice possesses stability that defes storms and the raging of the ele- mepts.
 A Life started and trained in Thrift, forethought and wise saving. lays the foundation of character that can know and grasp opportunities that can meet life's emergencies with that calm strength borne only from the knowledge that # is Mas ter of every situation. sounu Investment lays a sound founa7 ton. Futures best base IS U. s. Government securities.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-27
BIG OFFICE BUILDING
 AT LITTLE ROCK BURNED

Special to The News.
 Little Rock, Aug. 27.-The Masonic Temple burned this morning. The Exchange National Bank, the Masonic Grand Lodge bodies, and many offices were destroyed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-22
SOAP AND WATER
CONQUERS TYPHUS
With American Energy, 1t Is
Found to Be the Best
Remedy

Belgrade, Serbia, Oct. 22.-Ameri-
can physicians and Red Cross work
ers conquered the typhus epidemic
in Serbia by using soap, scrubbing
brushes, kerosene. disinfectants and
delousing machines, says Lieutenant
Colonel Edgar Erskine, Hume, of
Frankfort, KY, director of the
American Red Cross here.
I'VE went into the homes of peo-
pie and carried the patients out"
said Colonel Hume. "At times they
were reluctant to leave and we had
a hard task overcoming theft fatal
ism. Often we had to use force.
We cleanesd them, scrubbed them
and literally turned the hose on
them.
Until an effective serum is found
the most potent agent in combating
the disease is soap and water. Mix
this with American energy and en-
thusiasm and you, have a combina-
ton that will check, if not overcome,
any disease that has its origin in dirt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-22
SAYS VIENNA IS
DYING TO MUSIC
Austrian Capital Is Victim of
Fast Spenders, Writer
Declares

Berlin, Oct. 22.-Vienna, ever a
gay city, is now more specifically
gay than ever, owing to the Illicit
traders who have profited by the
war and now are spending their ill
gotten gains, writes newspaper cor
respondent from the American capi-
tai. Vienna, says one of these writ
ers, is dying to music" lie de-
scribed the people as starved and
morally degenerate Describing
the scenes in the dance halls and
pavilions and gambling rooms, the
writer says that nearly all the peo-
pie demonstrate a desperate demand
for youth and enjoyment and adds
that this sickly whirl of enjoym ent
bordering on elf-destruction" pro-
duces frightful effect on the sober
minded people of the city.
Public amusements are provided
in the Pleasure Park and Schoen-
brunn, where are given plays for
children, fireworks, alphine dances,
Tyrolese clog dances by Berchtes-
gaden peasants, acts from Iphegenie
and band concerts.
One writer says that all of this
striving for amusement is only q
mask for perpleXity and inability to
return to older and saner life Or evil
dence of heedlessness and indiffer-
ence.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-22
Finds 10000 Pounds
of Sugar Stored Away

New York, Oct. 22.-Food Ad-
ministrator Arthur Williams found
10000 pounds of sugar In an up
town warehouse, which he ordered
placed on the market ut current
rates.
Williams also unearthed two cases
of sugar proflteering. One was n
case in which retail grocers charged
that a wholesaler and retailer had
been selling sugar for 20 cents a
pound. This grocer, according to
complaints, refused to sell sugar to
the trade and has been selling 1t
himself in combination with other
comm odities.
The second case was a downtown
wholesale house which is charged
with having sold 5000 pounds of
sugar to soda water manufacturers
in Brooklyn for $1,000, in which a
chauffeur was the "go between" In
one deal, it was discovered, 500
pounds of sugar were sold for $9S.70,
and the seller refused to deliver the
sugar unless the purchasers took
brown sugar in combination. This
deal netted the seller % cents
pound for the sugar.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-22
COMES TO RESCUE
OF ERZBERGER
Berlin Paper Tells Why the
Money Scheme Was
Abandoned

Berlin, oct. 22.-Finance Minis
ter Erzberger has been so assailed
since, under fire, he withdrew his
plan of calling in all paper money,
stamping it, and issuing it again,
that the Berlin Political News
Agency comes to his rescue with its
explanation of why the scheme was
abandoned.
The plan, says the news agency,
involved the surrender of about 4O,-
000,000.0O0 marks worth of notes
of all denominations, and of course
was aimed at Turing out of thelr
hiding places the sums that mad
been saved up and put into the
stocking"
The task of enforcing and con-
Quoting the surrender and the physi-
cal work of stamping each of sev-
eral millions or billions of bills meant
a great deal of work for which men
were not obtainable.
More important perhaps was the
further fact that for a quick re-
distribution of the money large
army of guards would be necessary
to escort the new cash to every ham
let and small town in Germany. 1t
would be impossible to send the
money in any other way, and even
under guard there was danger.
The agency cites the temptation
which great masses of money being
transported freely about Germany,
even under guard, would be to the
Sparatcaists and the Communists, not
to speak of the average German
with his greatly decreased morale
since the war and the revolution.
The stamping of money and Sc
curities therefore can be considered
as done away with, says the agency.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-22
British Army Cultivates
Soil During the War

London, Oct. %. The British
army was doing something other than
fight in the last year of the war. &C
cording to the Army Agricultural Com
mittee report made public to-day. It
cultivated 6,658 acres of land in the
country occupied by the home forces
alone, and made profit of about $50
an acre
In France thousands of acres were
cultivated by the soldiers, and vege-
tables worth no less than $2,5O0,000
were produced.
BY irrigation the army in Mesapo-
tamia became self-supporting so far as
vegetables were concerned and the
grain crop was valued at $15,000,-
600.
The Saloniki army also was busy
crltivating the soil back or irs lines
ana in addition to harvesting crops
worth some 100000 saved $1,000 tons
Of ships which would otherwise nave
been used to carry supplies to that
farof front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-22
Burton Makes Address
to Toxic Bankers

Toxic, Oct. %. - Former United
States Senator Theodore L. Burton, of
Ohio, told the Japanese financiers in a
speech he delivered recently at a ban
quet rendered to him at the Bankers
Club, that what the United States
most desired was that Japan SHOULD
ID everything possible to promote
peace among the nations and avoid
that spirit of imperialism which has
so disturbed the world.
What America asks of Japan in
the Orient" he added. lis fair field
fer competition in trade and no policy
Of aggression toward other countries.
We only ask that no political control or
special privileges shall excrude as
from entry to the ports and TO the
trade OF the Orient"
Speaking of the future relations o.
Japan and America, Mr.. Burton said,
every interest points to amfty. rather
thnn discord"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-22
Presidents of Three
Cossack States Give
Dinner to Americans

Ekatcrinodar Russia, Oct. %. -
The presidents of the three Cossack
states of Terek, Kuban and the Don
gave It dinner to Americans who re-
Gently brought into the Caucasus three
trainloads of 1O3 freight cars in all of
American goods consigned to tine Red
Cross. Each of the three presidents re-
fcrred to Russia's ambition to become
Il federation of states patterned after
the American union. THE United
States of Russia" was a favorite
toast
The supplies are for the hospitals
and asylums to the three Cossack
states and for the Volunteer Army.
The territory of the Cossacks, par
ticularly the remote regions among the
mountains have been shut off from
the world market for the past three
years by the Turks on one side and
the Bolsheviki on the other.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-22
Three Boys Start West
to Slay a Few Indians

Pittsburgh. Oct. %. = firing of
life. in the East, where there are
no Indians to shoot, three New
York newsboys, Frank Cioffi, IL
years. old, and his brother, Daniel,
and Robert Curtin, 10 years old, de-
cided to go West and become cow
boys. They boarded train for st.
Louis at the Pennsylvania station
in New York, and secreting them
selves under a berth in one of the
coaches started on the first leg of
their journey to the plains.
This morning a negro porter who
was making up the berths discov-
cred them. Their parents have been
notified.
The boys said that they had seen
"Bill' Hart in the movies" shooting
Indians and that they wanted to try
heir own hands at the sport
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-22
House Cheers Clark
as 1920 Candidate
By Associafcd Press.

Washington, Oct. %. = Champ
Clark was cheered in the House of
Representatives yesterday when he
indicated he might be candidate
for the Presidency.
Mr.. Clark was opposing provi-
sion in the budget bill which retires
the director of the budget at 70
years, and was pointing out that
many noted men did remarkable
work after that age.
I'VE are now discussing sending
a youth of 60 years to the White
House." Representative Hulings, of
Pennsylvania interrupted him to say,
60 being Mr.. Clark's age.
I'm willing" Mr.. Clark replied.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-22
Fortunes in Furs
Brought From North

Nome, Alaska, Oct. 22.-Fortunes
in furs were brought out of the far
north this summer by the few trad
ing schooners that braved the I'M
usual heavy Arctic Ocean ice and
worked their way along the northern
rim OF the continent to Banks Land
and Herschel Island and back
again.
Over 2,500 furs were stored on
Banks Land alone waiting the boats,
according to reports brought here
For two years the ice has prevented
boats from reaching the sro. and as
result. the trappers on the island
have been piling up what Nome men
said was the greatest cargo ever
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-22

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