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The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
Telephone Rates
Cut to Pre-War
Schedule in Pa

HARRISBURG, Dec. 1.-The Pub
lie Service Commission has refused
the application of the Bell Telephone
company for permission to keep the
federal rates in effect after Dec. /
The company is ordered to return to
the rates fixed by the commission for
service in Pennsylvania in 1917. These
will expire April ]. $50 The sub.
scribers will benefit to tte extent of
20 per cent.
The commission in its decision says
It was a wise provision in the public
service law that contemplated "three
years repose" following orders for
utility companies rates and service
and that the evidence as to the lnan-
cial condition and prospective reve.
nues submitted by the company in the
light of prevailing circumstances is
"not sufficient to convince the com.
mission of the necessity of the in
crease prayed for nor of the business
or reasonableness o. :ne proposal t,
advance the applicants rates above
those which were in effect prior to
the period of federal control"
The decision says it "would not be
warranted in basing a conclusion or
the conjecture that higher cost Of
operation and service than those which
have already been reached will be
the experience of the company. Tc
so decide would in a sense foreclose
the rights of the rate-paying public. y
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
Southern Industries Ordered
on Wartime Fuel Basis Today

lie. This program becomes effective
at noon Monday, December /, 1919,
throughout the territory under the
jurisdiction of this committee Tex
eept the state of Virginia, where the
fuel situation is administered largely
by the Pocahontas regional coal COM
mittee.) In this territory are the
states of North Carolina, South Car
olina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia.
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana east of the Mississippi river.
Order Mandatory.
"The committee recognizes that
mandatory restrictions are unneces-
sary so far as the vast majority of
citizens at the head of business and
industry are concerned. But, in fair
ness, to that majority, all consumers
must be required to conform to the
equations now imposed, The com.
mittee is calling upon governors of
states, mayors of cities, sheriffs, and
Ill other public officers 70 lend sup
port to enforcement where enforce
ment may be necessary. The fuel
administration is exercising its au-
thority through the director-general
of railroads and his representatives,
consequently each railroad officer OF
gent, in delivering and policing the
use of coal, under the direction of
It's superior, is acting as represen-
tative of the United States fuel ad-
mini8trator. Municipal and county
officers are asked particularly to CO.
operate directly with these agents and
officers.
"In case of refusal to comply with
these regulations. coal supplies or elec-
tric current will be cut off and where
it appears that violation of law is
Involved federal district attorneys will
be asked to act.
(Signed.)
Regional Coal Committee,
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
us. Money to Help
Restore Austria

LONDON. Dec. 1.-The United
States has been called upon to sub
scribe large share of the interna-
tional credit necessary for the eco-
nomic restoration of Austria, Premier
Lloyd George told the House of Com
mons Saturday.
urgent representations have ac-
cordingly been made to the United
States government in this case" he
added, saying that the condition of
Austria was such as to require i'm
mediate action.
The refusal of the United States
Senate to ratify the peace treaty has
not changed the stipulation contained
in the covenant that President Will
son should call the first meeting of
the League of Nations, the premier
stated.
In reply to questions, Lloyd-George
denied that he made any pledge to
President Wilson at Paris that he
would endeavor to settle the Irish
question. He stated that the alliance
between France, Great Britain and
the United States, providing for the
defense of France in case of wanton
attack, was dependent upon ratifca-
ton by the United States, It was q
question entirely separate from the
disposition of the peace treaty.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
Robbers Stage
Show for Gagged
Night Watchner

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. Robbers
blew the safe Of Hayden Brothers
store, one of the largest retail houses
here, at midnight Saturday after they
had bound and gagged two watchmen
and escaped with $4,000 in cash, Sc
curities and other valuables.
After satisfying their monetary de-
sires. the thieves feasted on Clutch
lunch" from the grocery department.
sang and danced for their captives for
three hours, paid each 500 "for his
trouble" and departed at daylight.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
Prairie Fires
Set Off Shells

LAON, France-(By Mail.) United
Press. Though the war is over, res
idents of the devastated districts oi
France are daily fleeing from bursts
of shell and shrapnel.
The new menace is caused by the
small grass and swamp fires which
are following an unusually dry period
in Northern France, which frequently
set off the shells that have been piled
up to be hauled away and exploded
in some safe place.
Major H. C. Greene, of Boston
Mass, had a thrilling ride and mar
rowly escaped hail of shrapnel on
his way from St. Quentin to Laon this
week as result of one of these fires
A French woman working in field
near Bouconville was painfully gassed
and considerable property damage was
done.
In the vast, desolate fields, thou
sands Of unexploded shells have been
picked up by German prisoners and
though there are details hauling them
away and setting item off in remote
valleys every day, there are still long
ranks of them everywhere. Sparks
from locomotives and from small fires
where battlefield rubbish is being
burned, occasionally set fire to patch
cs of dry weeds and the accidental
bursts are numerous. Roads passing
places where shells are being set off
are guarded but it is from the acci-
dental blasts that the danger comes.
Major Greene, was driving along a
road to one of the villages where he
has committee at work, when small
prairie fire reached stray shells just
over a hill near the road. A frag-
ment whizzed near his head. He put
on full speed but several other ex-
plosions followed quickly and one
piece of shrarnel tore through the top
Of his automobile. When he reached
safety he made a circuit of the dis
trict and warned the residents not to
enter the road until the grass fire
had burned out.
The French woman who was gassed
was almost a quarter of mile away
from the bursting shell, but in val
'ey. She was rushed to one of the
Red Cross stations and was found to
be painfully burned but not internal
ly injured. Residents of the Aisne
district are depending upon the early
arrival of the fall rains to end this
danger. which has been the most Sc
rious faced since the work of recon
struction began.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
Deputy U. S. MarshalsWill Place 134
Persons Under Arrest Today, Who
We're Indicted With Senator Newberry

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Dec. 1-(By United Press. Dep
uty United States marshas sent out today to arrest 194
persons indicted with Senator Truman Newbery by the Federal
grand jury charges of conspiracy corrupt electorate in
the 1918 elections.
Newberry charged with perjury addition to conspiracy
1t alleged he filed false campaign statement to the
senate.
Their trials will start early in January.
1t is alleged that nearly million dollars spent by New
berry in the campaign United States election laws allow only
$4,000.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
Regular Sessions of House and Senate
Called to Order at Noon Today

WASHINGTON, Dec by United ess.)-The regular
session of the House called order promptly at to-
day. Speaker Get and about $50 members being present
minute before noon.
The Senate adjourned shortly after convenng motion of
Senator Lodge In accordance with the Senates traditions
Senator Cummins said he would insist beginning the dis
cusson of railroad legislation.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
Rioting Breaks Out in West Virginia
Between Sympathizers of Striking
Steel Workers and Deputy Sheriffs

WHEELING, w. Va, Dec. 1.-(By United Press)-A de-
mand for troops made by Prosecutor Hao of Marshall
County following riong at Benwood early today when
killed. another fatally wounded and several slightly
wounded in revolver battle between alleged strike sympa-
thizers and deputy sheriffs.
The officers claim the strikers precipated the battle when
they tried to stop other steel workers from returning to their
jobs at the National Tube company plant.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
Uncon6rmed Report Is Current in
El Paso That American Consul Agent
Has Been Released From Prison

Ell PASO, Tex Dec, 1.-(By United Press Report that
W. O. Jenkins had been released from the Pueba Jail was
currency here today by Mexican Consul Garcia and Vice
Consul Sandoval but not vouched for by them
is said it heard at Juarez and traced back Chhua
hua City, but its confirmation reported is believed by
U. S. army headquarters here.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
WEATHER FORECAST

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The fol-
lowing weather forecast has been
send out from Washington for the
period of December 1st to December
9Th, inclusive for the Ohio Valley
and Tennessee:
Fair first half. with temperatures
below normal early days. Some pros
pect of occasional rains second half
nearly normal temperatures.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec Far
reaching restrictions OF coal consump-
ton throughout the southern region
of the United States rauroad admin
istration were issued here last night
by the regional coal committee. The
orders effective at noon Monday, De-
cember l, provide chiefly that;
Stores and office buildings may use
heat, light and power only between
9 a. m. and p. M, drug stores for
selling drugs only are excepted,
Theaters, moving picture shows and
other public places may use heat, light
or power only between p. m. and
1890 p, M
Industries, except public utilities
and plants engaged in continuous
processes that cannot be interrupted.
may be operated only as hours week.
No ornamental lights, white way or
other unnecessary street lights, out
line lighting, electric signs or illumi-
mated billboards are to be operated.
The committee is acting under the
wartime powers of the United States
fuel administration and it announced
that "in cases of refusal to comply
with these regulations coal supplies or
electric current will be cut off and
where it appears that violation of
law is involved federal district attor-
neys will be asked to act"
All territory east of the Mississippi
and south of the Ohio and Potomac
rivers, except Virginia and West Viz
ginia, is affected by the order which
committee members said was made
imperative because Of the continued
strike of soft coal miners. This an
nouncement to the public, which
shows certain other exceptions in ad-
dition to those for drug stores. fol,
lows:
Text of Order.
Immediate and sharp curtailment
Of the use of fuel by consumers in
the first five classes of the fuel ad-
niristration's preference list has be.
come necessary. Coal production con.
tinues below the actual daily require
ments of these classes, and it now is
imperative that steps pe taken to pre-.
vent suffering in homes and the shut.
ting down of public institutions and
utilities, upon which safety and com.
fort of all communities depend.
Therefore. the southern regional
coal committees, exercising the auth
ority of the United States fuel admin.
istrator under the Lever act, and un
der proclamations of the president Of
the United States has determined upor
a program of curtailment designed tc
conserve the rapidly diminishing stock
of coal with the least possible incon,
venience and discomfort to the pub
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
Ex-Service Men
Offer to Dig Coal
in Kansas Mines

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. t.-Three
hundred volunteers have offered to
dig coal in Kansas. Most Of these are
ex-service men. Both Governor Allen
and Adjutant General Charles | Mar
tin have APPEALED especially for men
hardened to outdoor life for the stren-
uous work.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
Children Born in u. S. of Parents
Ineligible to Citizenship May Be Denied
Citizenship Amendment Constitution

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-(By United Press. AN amend.
men to the constitution which will deny citizenship of children
born in the United States of parents of ineligible citizenship
will be proposed shortly by Senator Jones Washington it
announced today.
This amendment is aimed principally at the japanese and
Chinese children born in this country American citizens under
the Constitution.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
Chairman Porter, of House Foreign
Relations Committee, and Secretary
Lane to Confer on Mexican Situation

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-(By United Press chairman
Porter the House Foreign Relations Committee will confer
with Secretary Lansing the Mexican situation late today
He will ask the Secretary of State out of line of government
negotiations and stated he would the department of
the House support action that may be taken safeguard
American interests in Mexico
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01

The circumstances of any solar
eclipse are repeated almost exactly
in period of 6585 days and 8 hours,
or approximately 18 years.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01

Greek residents of the Island of
Patmos live mostly by fishing for
sponges.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01

Much Of the so-ealled kid leather
is an imitation made from the skins
Of rats or dogs.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01

Offers in China and India are
taught to catch fish and to drive them
into nets.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01

The stride of an ostrich running at
full speed measures as much as %
feet.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-01
Requests for Appropriations Totaling
$5OO,OOO, 900 Are Laid Before Congress

WASHINGTON, Dec 1.-(By United Press Requests for
appropriations totang nearly half billion dollars laid
before Congress- which opened regular session today
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

courage is the keeping out of it. Con-
slider how much is done for the young
people so long as they don't marry, DO
the fruitful results Of million dollar
drives" aid in the establishment of these
supposedly desirable little individual cen
tres of sweetness and light? Nay, verify,
all the resources of these excellent insti-
tutions-gymnasia classes, comfortable
and inexpensive lodgings, entertainments
all are directed toward keeping young
men and maidens content in their state
of single blessedness, assuaging their
probable loneliness, in ministering to
their comfort, aiding them TO find en-
ployment and generally keeping them out
of mischief Worthy as the organizations
are, one marvels that instead of travel
ling on parallel tracks, as it were, that
never meet these organizations do not try
converging once in a while, joining forces
and putting some of their energy in
aiding the young folk in their care to go
and do likewise-join hands and fort
unes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
The Woman Buyers Mecca-The Bush

woman buyer from the department store
or specially shop in the South or the
West who makes a semi-annual pilgrim
age for the purpose of repenishing her
stock was obliged to trudge from one
dingy downtown building to another, in
all kinds of weather, to see the samples
of the different manufacturers of the line
of goods in which she was interested
AS her stay in New York was limited
she worked under pressure the entire
time in order that she might cover the
ground thoroughly. She rose at an early
hour and was outside the door of the first
sample room when it was opened after a
strenuous morning she snatched a bit of
luncheon at the nearest restaurant and
resumed her weary pilgrimage from
sample room to sample room until closing
time after which she returned to her
hotel footsorc and weary, with but one
desire in the whole wide world--to get
something to cat and tumble into bed.
This went Ola day after day until her
orders for the coming season were all
placed and she was ready to turn her
face homeward.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

maiden are taught to think long time
before rashly joining their fortunes. And
instead of facilitating in any way the
establishment of simple homes it seems as
if many of us were far more busy in pro-
viding substitutes. These, like the food
substitutes on which we have the last
year been exercising our digestions, may
be possible, but still not so good as real
butter, made with real cream, and meat
and eggs, and other forms of honest-to-
God fare Neighborhood houses and COM
munity centres are excellent, do worthy
work and have their place They may be
necessary even as substitutes for home
as the food substitutes were necessary
in war time. But even they are not wholly
satisfying as steady diet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Photos by Brown Bros

of a professional hairdresser and mani
curist, and have her shoes polished
After completing her toilet she seats
herself at one of the convenient little
writing tables which are scattered
throughout the room and writes her
daily report to her employers.
If she has no engagement for the even
ing she makes herself quite at home and
prepares to spend a quiet, restful even
ing in the club. She dimes in the grill
room without feeling the least bit I'M
comfortable because she is woman
alone, and then she looks in at the ex-
hibition room, where an exhibit of the
products and manufactures of the Unit
ed States of Colombia is being shown
for the enlightenment of those who are
interested in South American trade.
From this she goes on to the library to
study a little on the subject of wool, for
she is buying woolen goods for the first
time.
The library is big, comfortable room,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Applauding the Home and
Promoting the Club

theoretically, the Home IL an admirable
institution. A really beautiful one is held
10 be the nobiest work Of our civilization.
Clergy Of all denominations would spell
home, az it were, with capital II, and
are ready with sincere praise for the
American home-wheneye they can find
it. doubt If there is a single philan
thropjc organization for the uplift Of
young men or young women that is not
ready 10 shower encomiums on the home
and consider the establishment Of one 81
the best solution Of the life problems Of
those they arc busicd In upIifting--in
theory, that il,
But in practice what they really en-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
BY FRANCES DUNCAN MANNING

Is not probable that Uncle Sam
will consider for moment the prop
ositlon Of other one-time belligerent
countries whose governments, alarmed at
the defamation of their people and the
decline of the birthrate, are considering
how this same birthrate may be "iacked
up" The secondary marriages" will not
be thought Of, nor even the suggestion of
the French government to young widows
and spinsters that they consider the ne
cessity Of the state and serve their coun-
try by becoming meres sans epour. That
form Of patriotism is too inconvenient
socially, to say the least But if Uncle
Sam Is really interested in furtherinp
mat ancient and honorable institution. the
American Home, it is possible that he
may do something toward stopping the
present substituting of spinsterhood and
bachelorhood and do what he can toward
reducing the present penalization of mar
riage.
or course, even now bold spirits will
essay what Arnold Bennett calls the
Great Adventure" even while looking
squarely at the obstacles and difficulties
by which the supposedly blessed state is
beset. The rash will continue to marry
the girls Of heir choice without consider
ing the consequences. But the conse-
1tJpUcoS ay envirt,c
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

infants wear for department store in
Harrisburg OR Des Moines She enters
the Gothic lobby of the building and APP
proaches the information desk at the
further end, where she signs her name in
the register, with that Of the firm which
she represents. This makes her a mem
Der of the international Buyers Club,
whose quarters occupy the three lower
floors of the building
A great deal of time is saved bv the
tact that she may obtain complete data
In regard to the details of each manu-
facturer's line from the merchandise in
formation service at this same desk, so
that when she leaves the elevator on the
infants wear floor she knows pretty well
just what she wants to see and where
she is to find it. The floor is divided into
dozens OF little compartments which are
used as sample rooms. Here she finds
the same salespeople with whom she was
IN the habit of dealing in the old down
town rooms and she feels at home at once
The new goods are displayed under the
best possible conditions; the light is far
better than it ever could have been in the
old showrooms downtown; the walls and
woodwork are plain and painted in a soft
neutral gray which makes a most at
tractive background for the dainty little
gowns and bonnets and knitted goods,
and there arc plenty Of comfy little
chairs which one can draw up to the
tables to examine the stock
AS there are already thirty three
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
A Real Home
Has No Substitute

Those of us who were fortunate enough
to have had in childhood real homes-to
which, as children, one could invite the
other kiddies and have joyous and occa-
sionally boisterous merrymakings; where
the home itself was tiny, we'll organized
community, with work and play for each,
and where the father as we'll as the
mother was central figure and an essen
tial factor-those of us who have expe-
rienced this are very sure that we shall
never find more satisfying substitute,
nothing that will serve so well as re-
turn to it.
After all, it is the only real place for
childhood to develop as it might. ANY
one at all familiar with the problems
offered by juvenile, or for that matter
adult, delinquents knows that rarely has
there been for any of these the safe back
ground and starting place of Joyous
home life. A happy childhood is an al
most certain prophylactic for all sorts of
social disorders. Almost invariably. when
one hnds man or woman unhappy. dis
contented, generally at odds with life and
with the belligerent ana suspicious atti-
tude toward his fellows of hunted
cat on backyard fence. there is In the