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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-31
Wool
Sales Big Success
In West Tennessee

Cooperative wool sales held In West
Tennessee this week proved pretty
t6lerably successful" II. q. Pate, mar
kct director for the Chamber Of Com
merce farm bureau, stated Friday on
his return from attendance at several
Of the sales More than 5000 pounds Of
wool was sold at Paris. he said, and all
of the clear brought 57l5 cents a
pound the light hurry" around So
cents a pound. and none less than 40
cents a hound.
The biggest cooperative wool sale
ever held IN West Tennessee was con-
Quoted at Trenton with the sale of
1000 to II 900 pounds by 30 TO 40 farm
crs. Some tub-washed wool in this sale
brought 20 cents, while two lots of
clear brought bs and 5S1a cents per
pound The average for all Of this large
lot was over 80 cents.
About 1000 pounds Of wool was sold
In Kenton Thursday, and sales were
held Friday In jackson and Lexington.
The county agents and the co-opera-
tive wool associations In West Tennes-
see are already making plans for a
large circuit Of sales next season, said
Mr., Pate, II. S. Nichols, district farm
demonstration agent for West Tennes-
sec, who ~ working on the plans, hopes
TO start the circuit earlier In the spring
of 1920, and have 100, 600 pounds Of wool
for sale. lie expects to get the buy
ers for the big Eastern mills down to
mako the circuit.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-31
':FreckLes" Is
First Film at
Locus Princess
Elsie Ferguson, Enid Bennett
and VIM. S. Hart Included
on Weeks Bill.

"ErccLlos - ,i,t,ro .
"'' p'e'ur'%ea from the novel
ny Gene Stratton Porter and featuring
Jack Pickford and Louise Huff will he
the first or ,ho uooL,a a.tnan,An.a -,
'"o wen "t''"'tiohs AT
LoeW \ lFlhcess, This comedy Of the
giant timber forests viii be shown Sun
day and Monday rho .,a., -
freckles deals with the experiences
Of "A One-armed waif, who becomes a
watchman T., L,n
" '''''oe' camp ana mas
most exciting adventures. He meets and
loves a girl and when he tries ia hal
the operations of a band Of thieves he
Is all but murdered. The snpport Is
excellent. Loew's current vents Is add.
ed for Sunday and an L-Ko comedy
Let Fido DO It," Is shown FOR Mon.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-31
'.MudtOWn Vaudeville"
Tops NeW Orpheum Bill

Eight acts Of stellar vaudeville and
two feature pictures will be the offer
ing of the Orpheum for the week begin
ming with the Monday matinee.
The vaudeville for the first half Of
the week. Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday, will be headed by Blanche and
Jimmie Creighton offering Midtown
Vaudeville Opening with = vodle
number that starts their Midtown
Vaudeville" off hilariously. they go into
a comedy dance, using the old. long
forgotten but happy entertaining rs
sence Cl Old Virginia" A retreshingly
funny dialogue follows that gives an
insight to a discussion, the subject of
which is the doings of the neighbors.
Miss Creighton follows with a song
that causes the old settler tc make
many caustic remarks as to her ability
as a vocalist, A steel guitar imitation
OF Jimmie n a dance by Blanche with
Jimmie playing the fiddle brings the
act to a close
krayona, American artist. assisted
by Miss Florence Weston, will present
his combination electrical drawing and
explosive offering, featuring the U. S.
$. Tennessee in action and introducing
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-31
"A Night In Venice" Is
NeW HeGdLiner Al Locus
ID. W. Griffith's SuperfIm Girl Who Stayed
Home" Is Also Feature of Bill.

A vaudeville bill which gives promise
Of being well balanced and entertain
ing from beginning to end and which
has "A Night in Venice" as the head
liner, presented by the Bernevici
brothers, win begin a four-day stay at
Loews Lyceum Sunday afternoon. The
bill has another distinct feature, thus
being the presentation Of n, W. Crit
itthss newest superfilm, The Girl Who
stayed At Home" featuring several
new stars and telling one of the pref
TEST stories he has ever filmed,
The BernevlCi brothers IN presenting
"A Night In Venice CARRY a big
special setting showing the cana s.,
the %gondolas, and the various chang
ing lights always seen on the canals OF
Venice. They finish with the latest
syneopation and jazz, that are right
up to the minute.
Lieut., Harry Berry and his sister. in
their impromptu review, are one Of the
added attractions. Their patter and
songs are generally eXtemporaneous
n a feature OF the act Is a Irritation
number.
Tom Scott, the Dixie Boy. and Ada
Christy, the Yankee girl, who win be
remembered as ~delighting last season,
viii return by popular request, and
viii present their dainty sktt entitled
Caught in a Storm"
A juggler that keeps the audience
laughing, Is Frank Hartley, the young
Englishman touring this country for
the first time, Browning and Davis
are darktown funsters, who present
original talk and songs,
The Girl Who Stayed At Home is "A
delightful story, the theme for which
could easily be applied TO the millions
Of American girls who We're left be-
hind when the boys vent over there.
Just how the girl met her sweetheart
n the results after his absence, form
a most pleasant romance.
Five all-star acts Will he presented
the last portion OF the week beginning
Thursday afternoon. Two features will
be OF especial note on the bill, these
helng Julian Hall, the Jazz boy, who
~ifnpersonates Charlie Chaplin In Il most
humorous way and whose songs are
tull of pep and appropriations, and the
kluting's Animals, featuring the jump
ing eats.
Others on the bill viii include the
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-31
POULTRY CAMPAIGN FOR
1920 BEING PLANNED

and community egg circles for the sea-
son of 1920 will be conducted In Dyer
county by Miss Meta McFee, of Dyers-
burg, and in Madison county by Miss
Bertha Corbett, Joe Mette. poultry
director for the Chamber of Commerce
farm bureau, stated Friday. The two
directors " home demonstration work
have been in the city to confer with
MFR, Mette on their plans, The cam
paigns will be staged late in July when
The rural schools nnen.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-31

y: griffith pictures in bold relic. the answer to the question, "what DID
~ poF- He takes you into he very souls of the girls who stayed at
home In France and In America.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-31

Ncrvclles in an artistic aerial act;
H'nkel and Mae in q comedy with
nCs emitted Catching a Car" and
Gertrude Long and Spencer Wade In
a piar"'""''" and English comedy fea-
turo. "Raiuhows
The feature film will present pretty
Dorothy Dalton IN "E|xtravagance." a
thrilling drama Of a woman's eXtrava-
gancc and the many situations II led
her into, Ioew's News Weekly and
other short features will be added.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-31

Erayona's mechanical device, cam
nCnading by wireless.
Helen Rinehart and Erminie Duff.
the Girls Of '61," have an offering 81
songs and dances of the olden DAYS.
and the Powells are tight wire artistsi
The feature picture for the first hall
viii he Violet Palmer, Gareth' Hughes
ard Paul Everton in Ginger" the
story Of three men and a girl. The
three men are all in love with the girl.
whose pet rame is Ginger"
The vaudeville for the last half Of
the week. Thursday, Friday, Saturday
and SUNDAY; 'yill present Jaquelin
Tallman and VIM. Craig & Co, in
Number. Please" a long distance toll
of laughter, with song and dance.
Blanche Boyd. the chameleon comedi-
enne. Spencer and Wilson, in Putting
It over" and the Hodge Podge sextet
a whirligig Of words and music.
The feature picture will be EVELYN
Greeley in Phil-For-Short," a delight
ful, unusual and wholly fascinating pro-
duction.
Road NeUc Ceimitor Uoo+e
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-31
YANK DIES IN E

GREENFIELD. O., May Sf.-One SOL
der was killed and four others injured
when Baltimore & Ohio westbound train
No. 3, bearing Arizona and New Mexico
troops from overseas, was wrecked four
miles west OF here late yesterday. Tho
troops we're en- route to Fort Worth,
Tex, for discharge
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-31
BREAKING UP Of
AUSTRIAN NATION
BIG WAR RESULT
CONTINUED IRON First Page.)

hhNHa oAOEF
conference is struggling with the con
iilctlng national aspirations of the in
habitants of the old empire with the
full realization that even were insoluble
chronological complexities satisfactorily
adjusted, economic problems even more
serious for the future would remain,
1t is nc little operation to divide
ESQ, 600 square miles of territory and
81 600, 900 people belonging to at least
a dozen races in such fashion as TO
satisfy the people thus separated and
preserve for all of them some sem
blance of economic possibility in the
future, In the old Austro- Hungarian
empire there were Germans, Magyars,
~Rumanians, Italians, Czechs, Slovaks,
Poles, Slovines, Croats, Jews. In the
long course Of its history the Hapshurg
dynasty had acquired territory in ali
directions. Inhabited by a population
incapable of fusion, and these popula-
lions through centuries OF oppression
had acquired anitAosities and hostilities
indescriba hlV acute.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-31
New States Formed.

When Austria Hungary fell there
were Immediately formed a certain
number of states. In the north the
Poles in Ga'icia made common cause
with their brethren in Russia. The
Czechs of Austria Joined hands with
the Slovaks of Hungary; Serbs. Croats
and Slovines united with the Serbs to
the south; Italy laid hands upon her
lost provinces; Rumanla a little less
promptly occupied Pennsylvania, Buco-
VIVA and other regions inhabited by
Rumanians,
Thereupon there arose and endures
almost an indesCribable chaos of new
questions, Poles and Czecho-S lovaks
dispute the possession of the region of
Teschen; Poles and Ukrainians both
claim Lemherg and East Galicia; the
Germans of Bohemia demand separa-
ton from the Czechs! Rumanians and
tkrainians are at odds over Bucovina:
Czecho-SlovakS and Ukrainians over the
Slav regions Of Northeast Hungary;
Serbs and Rumanians are duarreling
over Western Banat; Serbs-that is,
Jugo-~S laVs-and Italians are at dag
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23

unalterably opposed to sending our
boys to Europe to mix in their quar-
rels, or for any other purpose, unless
Congress in each instance shall direct,
and 1 am strongly in favor of the i'm
mediate return of our troops from
Europe and Siberia. The recent send
ing of American troops to help pre-
serve order in Silesia, during the tax
ing of the plebiscite there, is without
authority. That sort of work ought
to be left to the people of Europe
We should get out of Europe and stay
out; then lend our influence in a
League of Nations, established after
our rights, institutions and principles
shall have been fully protected, to the
maintenance of the peace of the
world, not to participating in every
quarrel that may rise among the petty
nations of Europe Senator Capper's
Washington Comment.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23
INCONSISTENCY

The theory of the socialist is that
under his system we would have a
more truly democratic government
than we have now had. But when the
socialists come into actual authority
and can frame system exactly to
their liking they put greater power
into the hands of one man than the
rankest standpatter or all the con-
servatives ever suggested or dreamed.
North Dakota right now is furn-
ishing a good example. The Social
lists there under the name of the
Non-Partisan League, elected their
governor and large majority of both
houses of the legislature. Among 9th
er things they proceeded at once to
do was to make the governor chair
man of every important state commits
sion with power of veto over all the
other members thereof. This puts
into the hands of one man therefore
complete control of the state to a
degree that is not possible anywhere
else in the Union. Governor Frazier
seems perfectly willing to exercise
the enormous responsibility thus
placed in his hands and the State of
North Dakota is certainly getting a
one man government right up to the
handle-in the name of the people
Pratt (Kan.) Republican.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23

The rate is good for all four meetings
of the Association, but is operative
for Topeka and Wichita from points
where the one-way fare is $1,000 or
less, for Pittsburg from points where
the one-way fare is $500 or less, and
for Salina from points where the one
way fare is $500 or less. In order to
obtain the rate it will be necessary for
Association members to obtain from
the local railway agent a certificate,
and have this certificate signed by one
OF the Secretary's assistants who are
as follows: Topeka, Mrs. F. L. Pinet;
Pittsbdrg, L. A. Guthridge; Wichita,
r. M. Crum; Salina, Lee Harrison. 1t
will also be necessary to have the GER
tifcate validated by one of the Rail-
way Administrations joint agents,
who are: Topeka, Ticket Agent C. R.
I. and P. R. R; Pittsburg, Ticket
Agent, K. C. Southern R. R.; Wichita,
Ticket Agent, Mo. Pac. R R.; Salina.
Ticket Agent, C.. R. I. and Pac. r. R.
Under this rate both the going and
the return trip must be made over
one route.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23
Our Dangerous Meddling

The biggest thing in the Peace
Treaty and the League of Nations
discussion is the determination of the
Senate that American boys may not
be sent to Europe to settle boundary
disputes and fight in every quarrel in
which those nations may become en-
broiled- That is the reason the Sem
ate viii not consent to the ratification
Of the treaty without reservations.
The Senate was stirred greatly by the
landing of troops in Dalmatia and f.se
danger that this country might be-
come involved in war, either with
Italy or the new kingdom OF the
Croats, Serbs and Slovenes, common
ly referred to as Jugo-Slayia. I am
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23

The World has just lost one CT its
best advertisers. Don't know for sure
just why he quit, but will tell the
story and then you can guess as well
as l.
Two or three weeks ago we pub
lished an article the advertiser didn't
like. He sent US word that if we did
MT stop publishing such articles, he
would withdraw his support" Since,
so far as we know, that was the first
time we ever had published "such
article" and there might never be oc-
casion to publish another, we didn't
think the threat needed any answer.
But this week he offered US a big ad,
provided we would publish it at the
contract rate, claiming that since he
was steady advertiser he should be
favored in that way. He was inform
ed that we would very much like to
have the business and that we fully
appreciated his generous patronage in
the past, but that we did not feel at
liberty to grant him lower rate than
we charge other Ottawa business men.
Any of them are invited to sign a
yearly contract and thus obtain the
lowest possible rate, but we have re-
fused to lower the rate without con-
tract, even for our best friends, and
we could not make an exception in
his case. Well, he'd quit US then.
His ad is not in this paper. He did
MT quit because the ad was not a pay
ing investment. Why did he quit ?
We have an idea that if he reads this,
he'll be rather ashamed to answer that
question, because he's one of the best
fellows in Ottawa, and we are sure he
would not Intentionally do anything
"small." World, Ottawa, Kansas.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23
Too Much for Her

Unobserved and unannounced, the
president of church society entered
the composing room of a newspaper
just in time to hear these words issue
from the mouth of the boss printer:
Chilly, go to the devil and tell him
to finish that murder he began this
m 0rning. Then kill William J.
Bryan's youngest grandchild, and
dump the Sweet Angel of Mercy in
to the hell-box. Then make up that
Naughty Partisan Actress and lock
up The Lady in Her Boudoir.' "
Horrifed, the good woman fed, and
now her children wonder why they
are not allowed to play with the print
er's youngsters.-Ph Public
Ledger.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23

Storage
Jack Frost soon will kill most of the
tender garden crops, even in the
South, and home gardeners have been
advised not to delay in caring for
vegetables now in the garden.
a storage cellar or outdoor pit is,
of course, the most desirable place to
store vegetables, but not every home
gardener has storage cellar or pit at
his disposal and some simple and in
expensive method must be provided.
A very effective storage, recommend
ed by the United States Department
of Agriculture, may be made by par
tally burying a wooden box or a large
barrel on its side in a well-drained
spot in the garden. Irish potatoes,
carrots, parsnips, satisfy, turnips,
beets, and winter radishes can be
stored in this manner. Cabbage, as
rule, can be stored to best advantage
by burying it in the ground, while Gel
cry an be placed in a trench and CO.
vered with boards and straw or leaves,
with an outer layer of soil to keep
out frost. Sweet potatoes should al
ways be stored in warm, dry place,
such as room over the kitchen where
there will be plenty of both heat and
ventilation.
If no cellar or storage pit is avail
able, a temporary storage should be
provided at once and the various
vegetables that are adapted to stor-
age, should be cared for before it gets
cold enough to injure them. Full in
formation regarding the storage of
garden vegetables is contained in the
Department of Agriculture Farmers
Bulletin No. 879, "Home Storage of
Vegetables" which will be sent free
on application. The horticultural de-
partments of the State agricultural
colleges also have valuable bulletins
and circulars on the home storage of
vegetables
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23
Newspaper Borromers

The Muskogee Phoenix has the fol-
lowing to say about newspaper Dor
rowers, and in some instances justi-
fies the practice of borrowing, which
as a real matter of fact is justifiable
only in rare cases Most of the non
paying readers of country weeklies
are amply able to subscribe, but re-
fuse to do so perhaps because they
don't like the editor or other personal
or political reason, but have no con-
scientious scruple about reading it
each week. The Phoenix says:
"a newspaper publisher whose
sheet had quite poor subscription
list used TO justify the value of mis- adj
vertising space on the ground that a
great many people borrowed the pa
per and so read it without paying for
it..
The number of people who habit
ually borrow newspapers is large.
Some men make it an excuse to drop
into a store where local paper is ly-
ing around the counter, and they care
fully peruse it. The clerks are onto
the game and smoker little. But as
the man may be a good customer, they
are glad to pass the paper on.
Many papers go the rounds of
several families. The old folks will
read it, then pass it on to their mar
ried children, or give it to the hired
mans family or the next door neigh
Dor.
NOW as far as the leader goes, that
is all kindliness of heart. But it does
not solve the problem of producing a
newspaper in a country town that
shall adequately represent the COM
munity, and which shall be able to
make clean circulation statement,
based on the actual extent to which it
is read. 1t is not a subject that needs
more extended treatment. But per-
haps some people seeing this sugges-
ton, may realize that they have not
done quite their share in supporting
one of the towns institutions -
Tines-Star, Coweta, Okla.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23
An Advertiser Quits

The ordinary reader has no idea of
the pressure that is sometimes
brought to bear upon the publisher of
small weekly paper by the advertis-
ers. A big newspaper can generally
say what it pleases without consulting
the advertisers, but in a town like OF
tawa there are always some advertis-
ers who think that because they "sup-
port" the paper it is their privilege to
tell the editor what he may say or not
say, and also what his business poll
cies 'must" be.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23
Autocracy in North Dakota

Under the North Dakota plan the
state will absolutely control all in
dustry, commerce, enterprise and in
itiative. Nothing which opposes the
non-partisan league will be permitted
to stand. As an instance-the state
government of North Dakota selects
one newspaper in each county as the
only one in which public notices and
legal notices can be published. This
is already operating to drive out of
business all the press which refused
to bow to the Townley will. It will
enable the non-partisan leaguers to
feed their propaganda to North Dako-
ia people and force them to swallow
it. 1t is easy to see how completely
the opposition to non-partisan league
principles will be throttled:-Red
Lodge, Mont, Picket Journal.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23
Nineveh,s Pathetic Ruins.

Past AIosuI the river Tigris rolls its
ancient, almost legendary, waters and
opposite on the left bank, the dream
of antiquity continues uRdisturbed
There in the blazing sun or in the
shimmering Persian moonlight, lie the
ruins of Nineveh, the last and greatest
capital of the Assyrian empire. The
wall of the disappeared city still stands
to Il height of 30 feet and is u miles
in circumference. Close by the bank
of the river are the still imposing re-
mains of two citadeIs.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23
Banks See Danger

AS was pointed out at the recent
American Bankers Association con-
vention at St. Louis, bankers can do
all that is possible for the government
to do in relieving shortage of dwell
ings and small improved farms.
Agitation for amortizing real estate
loans was started by committee of
A. B. c. in 1911. This committee al
so started the ill-starred rural credits
movement that went wild from being
misunderstood and not generally sup
ported by bankers. Eight years af-
ter, the association appointed another
amortization committee.
If the association had never paused
there might not have been a federal
farm loan act, nor a North Dakota
public bank, nor laws in Maine and
Oklahoma for lending school and pub
lie funds in risky ways, nor eonstitu-
tional amendments proposed in North
Dakota, California, Kansas, Missouri,
and Texas, for using cash and credit
of the state for farm mortgaging.
Banks are at last awakening to the
dangers of continued encroachment
of state and federal competition which
cripples the banking industry and in
creases taxes by issuance of hundreds
OF millions of tax-exempting bonds
If the socialistic policy tending to
federalize the banking industry is
continued, every citizen in the coun-
try will soon be paying taxes to cover
interest on bond issues and overhead
charges to furnish borrowers money
at less than cost.
Progressive banks are aiming to fill
the field more completely than ever.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23

The Sentinel, Of Avon, Illinois,
very truthfully says that a newspaper
is in no sense a child of charity. 1t
earns twice over every dollar it re-
ceives, and it is second to no enter
prise in contributing to the upbuild
of a community. Its patrons reap far
more benefits from its pages than its
publishers, and in calling for the sup
port of the community in which it is
published, it asks for no more than in
all fairness belongs to it, though, gen.
orally it receives less.