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, 1919-09-22

lnlO preparing Tor the enc OF the WO"ld
they ought 10 make use Of something
more plausible.
Some OF our newspapers are now pub
lishing, IN more detail. a similar prophecy
by PROT. Albert F. Porta, noted sun
scot forester and discJ erer of Portals
weather laws. '"prof." t'orta refers
TO the very unusual position in which
the planets Of our solar system will he
gathered tow ard the end of next Decem-
Der. He says that six of the planets,
namely Mercury, lFRnus, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn and NeptuAe, will all be in con-
junction, on the Same side of the sun,
and be grouped together in the greatest
league Of planets ever known in the an
nails of astronomy" And in addition,
the remaining planet, Uranus, will be in
opposition, on the other side Of the sun,
and will aggravate the situate on ny pull
ing in the opposite direction,
PROF" Porta says that ever where
two planets are in such a position as to
cause a united pull on the sun they will
produce moderate,siz sunspots, and
that the combination of the seven planets
asst will occur in December will cause
the hugest sunspot on record" This
article by the @Sprofessor" declares ::
The suhspoj will be visible to
to the naked eye, and since men first
began 70 make records of events no sun
spot has been large enough to be seer
without the aid of Instruments"
This statement is false, and it is itself
enough to throw Pro" Porta out Of
court as a witness who doesn't know
what he is talking abont. 1t is not at
all Unprecedented to see sunsDots with
the naked eye. The Pathfinder doesn't
pretend to antedate recorded history,
but it told at the time about a sunSpot
that was thus seen with the naked eye
only as far back as Feb. 4, zoos.
The only instrument" needed for OBJ
serving a big sunspot is a piece of we'll
smoked glass. The glass doesn't magni-
fly the spot at all-the only purpose of it
being to protect your eye from the light
of the sun, which would probably ruin
your sight if your eye was not thus
screened.
Prof" Porta goes on to say that this
gigantic sunspot will cast such a baneful
spell on our planet that the disturbance
will be without precedent or PARALLEL.
There will be hurricanes, lightning,
colossal rains, earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions. to say nothing of floods and
fearful cold. He tells everybody to
"be warned in advance"-though we
don't know what they are going to 90
about it, as the League of nations cove
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nantkincludes no mandate" over the sun
or the other planets.
Tremendous things are going to hap
pen from Dec. II to Dec. 20 and after
wards" he says. This is a safe predic-
ton, as tremendous things" are always
happening. 1t would be foolish to assert
that there will be no abnormal conditions
IN the months that are just ahead. Every
one knows that for the last several years
eli natic conditions have been visibly be-
low par. Summers have been cold; win
Ter before last was a record. breaker for
cold and last winter was a recOrd-breaker
for warmth. Just recently various sec
tons of the country have been visited by
the heaviest down pours of rain known
for a long period of years.
1t is no secrett that the sun is abnormal
ly disturbed, and we know that at such
times the earth eXIelierces extreme
storms, auroras, earthquakes and other
manifestations. Sir William Herschel
was the first astronomer to make much
of a study of sunspots. He concluded
that they came and went in periods or
cycles, and he ever went so far as to try
to show that periods of great sunspOt
activity correspondent with high bread
prices. His idea was that sunspots pro-
duce abnormal weather and that this
tends to reduce the crops and thus
raise the cost Of living.
The world is now experiencing the
highest living cost ever nown, and this
is also a time of sunspot activity. 1t
may possibly be true that the high
prices are stimulated partly by the, dis
turbance of the sun. 1t may even be
true that the war itself is an indirect re-
suit of this same force, which irritates
the nerves of men and makes then
want to do violence. " The statistics pro&e
that heat waves are accompanied BY
crime waves.
What causes the sunspots is not
known, and there is where Prof..
Portals conclusion are unwarranted. 1t
may be that they are produced by the
influence Of the planets, but that is by
no means proved; it is merely a guess.
Hence the claim that the earth is to suf-
fer any unprecedented disaster next
December is not based on science or
exact knowledge. If the planets react
on the sun it is not yet a proved fact.
People who are sincere in wanting to
prepare themselves for the end of the
world or the coming of the Lord should
not wait till such things are predicted
but should do the one obvious thing
, 1919-09-22
Idc 81. CKOIX AVIS
is printed and published daily Sundays
and Holidays e1cepted) By G. JohGnsen
at the AVlS Office.
TERMS--4O cents monthly IN advance,
3 cents per single copy.
Entered as secORd-cJass matter MGg

Entered as SecORd-cLdss matter Mdg
26h 1917 at the Post Office at Christian
$ted, st. CrojG, Y. I. of the U. S. A.. um-
der tie Act of March 8. 1879.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24
The Presidents Tour.

For several months the President s
opponents have had sort of open
season" of criticism of him and his
policies and proposals. While he was
busy in the solution of the worlds
biggest problem large number OF
his fellow countrymen were engaged
in the easiest OF all tasks-finding
fault So mean and petty and spite
full has been some of this -carping
that one can hardly escape believing
its authors would have found as
much satisfaction in his failure Gf he
had failed) as other more patriotic
Americans have derived fffofft hrs suc=
cesses.
But few weeks hence the Presi-
dent is to tour the country and meet
friends and foes face to face and give
the American people an account of
his stewardship. He will at the same
time doubtless afford them some Tin
Outstanding of the tremendous diff
culties that confronted him in the
Peace Conference and submit to them
the greatest of all modern achieve
lnents in statesmanship-the League
of Nations.
Those who have misunderstood,
those who have judged hastily and
those who have been misled will
have the truth from the ' President s
lips, and will be convinced. Only the
partisan and the narrow traditional
isl may be expected to remain proof
against facts and reason.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

1t is with great deal of regre
that we find that we have not thu
space in this issue to give free pub
licity to the little matter of six OF
seven columns of dope sent us by
Henry Ford's publicity bureau
While we fully recognize the obliga-
ton OF the country weekly to give
freely of its space to the worthy and
the needy we can not do so In his
case this week and fear we never can.
True, we realize that this is a harsh,
cold blooded attitude for an opulent
country publisher to assume towards
a poor devil whose net profits only
amount to about thirty million dol
lars per year, but we have shut out
from our heart the sentiment which
would impell us to forget our own
selfish interests and desires and
freely give our stock in trade to mo-
tor car manufacturers whose meagrc
incomes forbid them paying for the
publicity so necessary to their peace
of mind. Of course, at some time in
the future after our new policy OF
business ruthlessness has made 1t
possible for us to have some of the
iuxuries of life such as beet steak
once a week, a new dress for the
ihissus every two or three years and
a new coat of paint for the old flivver
we may again become philanthropists
and revert back to our old liberal
policy.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24
Pinchot on G. o. p. Bosses.

If any further evidence were need.
ed as to the predictions and affilia-
tons of the bosses" in the Repub-
lican party than is supplied by their
own records, Clifford Pinchot, pro-
gressive Republican and close friend
OF the late President Roosevelt, sup
plies it. In recent speech before
the Republican Presidential Club at
Cambridge, Mass, Pinchot said of
the q. q. z. leaders:
The reactionaries are enemies OF
the people, for they are owned and
controlled by the special interests
which keep the cost of living high
and continually drive it higher.
Crane, Harding, Watson and their
like, and Penrose, the flower Of the
flock, are the little brothers of the
profiteers. They believe in money
first and human welfare, if at all, at
terward. Without such men as these
the great monopolies could never
have been formed"
AT another point in his speech,
Pinchot said:
How far these men have misread
the signs Of the times is almost in
credible. For example, during the
sessions of the Republican National
Committee in Chicago last March.
the man most discussed as candi-
date for the Presidency was Jim
Watson of Indiana, candidate who
would be little more acceptable to the
average Republican voter than John
u. Rockefeller or Penrose himself. /
was there. and / know"
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24
WILL RATIFY THE LEAGUE

1t is dawning OIL the Republican.
that they made terrible error wher
they tried to make political issue o.
the League of Nations and the Peace
Treaty and they are now busily en-
gagged in getting out from under will
due regard for saving their respect
i've faces while doing so.
No trout fisherman ever more III
dustriously changed his flies in the
hope OF strike while whipping a
stream than have these Republican
leaders leaped from issue to issue III
the hopes of finding something in
the League of Nations that would
provoke rise in public opinion
against it, and they have had fish
erman's luck
Notwithstanding that they have
cast out the peace pact and the
League of Nations bit by bit and
viewed with alarm" each word and
line, no answering strike in public
opinion has awarded their industry
so far as fish in their political basket
is concerned, and they seem to have
about made up their minds to call it
off-with reservations-which it is
safe to predict will not be made.
OF course a strong effort will be
made in the Senate to down the
League. Some of the Senators have
gone too far to lay down now with
out at least showing their teeth, but
the most of them are seeing the light
-a sfd are more OF Tess gracefully bow
ing to the inevitable.
There is no doubt whatever on the
sentiment OF the American people
toward the League. Its benefits
toward humanity if successful in its
workings are too Obvious and, the
possibilities OF danger or disaster are
much too remote for the American
people to refuse to at least give it a
trial. Another thing, it comes to us
pretty highly recommended by at
least one gentleman who has been
SO consistently right on so many
great issues that we are willing to
take his judgment ON this PROPOSE
ton, in which we have everything to
gain, if it be success, and nothing
to lose in the event it should not
work out as anticipated.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24
~ ::~ Walker Ckibben'S


declaring that the League of Nations
is not a partisan or political issue.
The next day he is attacked by SEN
ators Borah, Poindexter and others,
who tell him that if the G. 0. P.
hasn't the backbone to make it a
party issue, they will establish a
party next year to make it party
issue.
The Massachusetts, Senator will
need enough oil to pour on the tur-
bulent waters within the next year
to send the price soaring to new
heights.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

Possibility of the House taking a
recess of few weeks, starting about
August I, was considered last week
by the Republican steering commit
tee. 1t was the opinion that pressing
legislation would be disposed of by
that time which would give an oppor-
tunity for a recess pending consider
ction of the Peace Treaty BY the Sem
ate.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

The trial Of tWenty-eight men un-
der Indictment for the killing of
Frank Foukal, a white farmer, who
was shot to death in cell in the
Baldwin county, Alabama Jail last
month. where he was held on MUIR
der charge, was brought to an abrupt
conclusion Friday when confessions
of guilt were accepted from all but
two of the defendants.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

The German assembly has adopted
bill placing maternity under the
care of the state. The mother Of an
illegitimate child will officially be
designated as "frau," The same edu-
cational and social opportunities
should be provided by legislation for
illeeitimate as legitimate children.
Likewise it was decided that large
families were entitled to state assist
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

A complaint that the big Chicago
packers are seeking to control the
coffee market and are crowding the
coffee roasters and wholesalers out
OF the business was contained in .
letter received at the office of the
United States District Attorney at
Chicago. The letter was signed by
individuals who are heads of large
Chicago wholesale grocery firms and
coffee dealers. s
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

John D. Rockefeller has presented
hospital to the City of New York,
to be placed on Warwick Farm, for
nierly city home for inebriates, but
which is to be turned into home for
drug addicts. The building was
erected during the war at a cost of
$780, 1000 as war demonstration hos
pitai.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24
GENERAL NOTES

The British admiralty has placed
contracts for salvage of the German
war ships sunk by their crews in
Scapa Flow, it was learned. 1t was
said that satisfactory results" were
expected.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

DIR. Charles R. Kruger and party
of Chicago, travelling by motor car
from Chicago to California, were at
tackled by band of timber wolves
Thursday night on the Trans-C Con-
tinental Highway, east of Flagstaff,
Ariz. They killed three Of the, AMI
mails with their revolvers and wound
ed five others before the band was
driven off. 81 W. ~
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

PIE A cigarct thrown by boys into a pile
of oily waste resulted in a $4,000
fire late Thursday at Toledo, o., in a
downtown garage. Thirty-eight au-
tomobiles were destroyed. A
crippled woman and her baby were
rescued from the home over the ga
rage by firerhen. Both were uncon-
scious.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

BY vote of los to 1873 the House
Friday voted to strike from the re-
modelled Agricultural Appropriation
Bill the daylight saving rider which
caused President Wilson to veto the
original bill.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

Now that the "Progressives" in
Congress have been crossed with Re-
publicans there ought to be name
for the hybrid product. ~Reprogres-
sives" is offered as a suggestion. 1t
has the merit of being different by
only one letter from "Retrogres-
siyes,"
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

James r. Nugent, Democratic cans
didate for governor of New Jersey.
is making his campaign as an anti
prohibitionist and an anti-woman suf-
fragist. He at least has the courage
Of his convictions.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

Reducing appropriations fer the
Army and the Navy as q text tor
political speeches may prove UNI
pleasant for Republicans in the next
campaign. Thousands of soldiers
who are deprived of their comforts
by this hypocritical economy" will
be home to vote in 1920.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

Postmaster General Burleson FRI
day reduced the postage rate on air
plane mail to cents an ounce, the
regular rate for first class mail mat
ter, and placed the air mail service
on the same footing with other means
of mail transportation.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

The same Senators who only few
short weeks ago bitterly opposed the
League of Nations because as they
said il would bind the United States
to the protection of the Hottentots
and Hindoos are now weeping great
briny gobs of crocodile tears for fear
the Shantung Chinese will not be
protected.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

Sheriff Harston believes Dallas,
Texas, has been dining on mule
meat. He found one man actually
cooking a hybrid steak, he declares,
and believes markets may have been
supplied with it.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

Republican leaders in Congress be-
gan by promising economy" but
they are wasting much time and
language in their opposition to the
League, of Nations-and time, at
least is valuable.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

Progressive" Republicans in the
Senate are for Hiram Johnson for
President. If they wage as sturdy a
fight for Hiram for the Presidency as
they did against the standpat bosses
IN the organization of the Senate,
Hiram will do we'll.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

oners," for which campaign has
been under way several months, is
yet in prospect. The cases of the
three. the most prominent persons
convicted under the Espionage Act.
are being considered on their individ-
ual merits, the Attorney General said.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

The pan German newspaper
Deutsche Zeitung, is raving over tho
report that 1870 soldiers of the
American army of occupation had ap.
piled for permission to marry Ger,
man girls. The newspaper denownces
German girls who would reach Out
their hands to the murderers Of their
brothers"
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

Chairman Hays of the Republican
National Committee informs this
world that his party ''has carried the
flag and made the music for the
Union" Yes, the G. 0. P. has pa
raded with the flag for long time
and has furnished some music full Of
discords.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

After months control of legisla-
ton, the only good measures the Re.
publicans in Congress have passed
are those which their filibuster pre-
vented the Democrats from enacting
in the last session.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

! The Philippine Legislature pur-
poses the enactment Of 1 prohibition
measure for the Islands II the event
Il Is held than the national prohibis
ton amendment recently ratified %
the United States does not apply te
the Philippines.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-24

Twenty-one men were killed and =
score injured in gas explosion q
the mine Of the Taxewell Wreck Coal
Company 1t Kimball, West Virginia,
Friday at noon. More than 100 men
were working in the mine at the time.
Seven bQdies had been recovered up
to $50 o'clock this afternoon. Res
cue parties are diggipg for u bodies
buried under wreckage at the mouth
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-26

county, voted for bonds for permanent
roads and school improvements by a
majority today the result of the cleo
ton called to authorize an issue of
100000 tonight is in doubt. A light
er vote than was anticipated was So
in the two country precincts erort-
ing and it will require an official con-
solidation tomorrow to determine the
result. The vote in Fitzgerald was
742 for bonds and 46 against Co
carry bonds require 100 votes. Under
normal conditions the precincts not
heard from poll more than enough
votes to give the bond issue the need
ed majority.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-26
PRESS AGENTlNG

From the Moultrie Observer.
Every newspaper in the country is
disguised with the press agent seek
ing to get publicity via the free space
route There has been a lot of this
stuff for years. Generally it was work
ed along with politics shows, deve-
lopment, etc, and there was the
shadow of reward held up before the
publisher.
With the coming of the war the
press agenting business began to
grow like Jonah's gourd, and unlike
the gourd it has failed to die down as
rapidly as it grew up.
Each days mail brings to the news
paper office a quantity of the promo
tion dope with the implied hope that
the news editors will be caught hard
up for something to publish and will
give space to it as filters.
The agent sending out the matter is
we'll paid and he pays rent for an ex-
pensive office, buys nice stationery
and pays for H. and pays the postage
on the mail Everything is paid ex-
cept the newspapers that are expect
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-26

ed to publish the stuff. They are not
paid and offered no pay. AS mat
ter of fact only one one-hundredth
part of the matter is published at all.
Most OF it goes headlong into the
waste basket without being read or
even opened.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-26
GUANo AND CHILDREN

From Macon Telegraph:
Florida is a state Of complete emit.
ties and surprising outcropping. No
state has people more backward than
some sections of our neighbors to the
South can produce, and yet no state
in the Union is more ambitiously
thinking about progressive and adj
vanced craftsmanship than Florida.
At the same time it is in many re-
spects politically darkest America.
The commonwealth that but year
or so ago electrified nation and
brought the gesture of despair to its
neighbors by electing Sidney j. Cats
governor on a platform which mainly
rested on his own assertion that the
Pope was about to move the Vatican
to Jacksonville because its climate
was similar to that of Rome and
p0pes never live anywhere but on
salubr:ous peninsuias and that the
Floridians needed Cats in office to
see that Rome transplanted didn't
seize the reins of Florida govern
ment-t this same state of Florida has
now passed a measure to pension
mothers with children in school. This
same State Of Florida that for years