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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
FLOOD OF HUN BANK NOTES
Circulation Increased Nearly Twenty
Times During War.

Amsterdam, Dec. 27.-The circula-
ton of German bank notes increased
during the war from 1915, 100000 to
$500, 100000, according to a state
ment by Herr Simon, Prussian finance
minister, Berlin telegram says.
In Prussia during the period from
April 1 to Oct. 81, 1918, the state ex-
penditures exceeded the income by
$54,500.000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
ELEVEN TRANSPORTS SAIL

Vessels Leave French Ports With
American Troops.
Washington, Dec. 81. - Departure
from France of IL transports, includ-
ing the Mauretania, with more than
5000 men from the Saith infantry Of
the Eighty-seventh division, was an
nounced by the War department.
The Mauretania, sailing Christmas
eve, will reach New York Monday and
most of the men aboard will be sent
to Camp Dix for rehabilitation. Eight
hundred sick and wounded men are on
the Henderson, due at New York Jan.
5, but the other vessels are bringing
only a small number of men.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
HUGE u. S. MERCHANT FLEET
Hurley Wants American Flag to Fly
in Every FOREIGN Port

Paris, Dec. 27.-The American mer-
chant marine flag must fly in every
port Of the world, Edward N. Hurley,
chairman of the American shipping
board, declared in an interview He
announced that the United States will
soon be able to build ships as cheaply
as England.
Mr.. Hurley said: There is no in
tention, however, to utilize American
ships only for American cargoes. We
want our vessels to carry the cargoes
of other nations, and we also want
the ships of other nations to carry
our cargoes."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
Whv. Certainly!

Smartallick was showing off liis
great knowledge to a girl the other
evening.
"Can a person strike without hav~
ing something to strike with?" he
asked.
Certainly" she said, without think
ing.
He gave a conquering smoker.
'What do those laboring men strike
with?" and he snickered again.
"With unanimity," she replied
promptly. and he pulled in his horns.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
WILLING TO ASSIST RUSSIA

But Allies Oppose Further InterVen.
ton at Present.
Paris, Dec. 27.-The Allies have de-
cided against further Intervention in
Russia, at least for the present, ac-
cording to information from official
circles. Great Britain and the United
States, it is represented, while recog-
nizing that Russia should be assisted
in way to permit her to return to
normal conditions, point out that mill
tary Intervention on a large scale
would involve difficulties and danger
of all kinds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
WOULD FIX PRICE OF WHEAT
Legislation to Make Guaranty Effeo-
tive Recommended.

Washington, Dec. 27.-Legislation to
make effective the wheat price guaran-
ty for the 1919 crop and at the same
time safeguard the government against
losses was recommended to congress
by the department of agriculture and
the food administration.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
FRANCE LOST 1,O71,300 MEN
More Than Thirty Thousand Officers
Were Killed.

Paris, Dec. 27-Announcement was
made in the Chamber of Deputies by
M. Abraz, under secretary of state,
that Frances losses in officers and
men killed up to Nov. 1 of the pres
ent year aggregated 1911, 300, divided
as follows: Officers, $1,000, and men,
100000.
The number of dead, prisoners and
men missing was given as 42,600 Off
GERS and 1,7S9,000 men.
The men missing aggregate 5000
officers and $4,000 men.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
PROHIBITION is ATTACKED
Suit Filed to Test Validity of Federal
Amendment.

Cincinnati, Dec. 27.-Arguments in
a suit to enioin Gov. James M. Cox
of Ohio from presenting the prohibi-
ton amendment to the Ohio legisla-
ture for ratification or rejection
were presented in the United
States district court here and at
their conclusion Judge Howard Ho1-
lister announced that he would take
the case under advisement.
The suit was brought by Alfred G.
Erkenbrecker, a Cincinnati real estate
agent, and it marks the preliminary
step taken in court to test the validity
of the federal prohibition amendment
resolution, which carried at the cleo
ton last November.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
DESTROYERS COMING HOME
Ten American War Vessels Set Sail
From Queenstown.

Queenstown, Dec 27.-Ten Ameri-
can destroyers, flying their long
"homeward bound" pennants, steamed
out of the harbor amid the roar of
whistles from shipping.
In the returning flotilla were the de-
stroyers Stockton, Wilkes, Beale, Dun
can, Rowan, Kimberley, Allen, Downes,
Davis and Simpson. They were &C.
companied by the tug Genesee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
HUNGARIANS URGING WAR
Would Begin HostiIlttes Against Poles
ard Czechs.

Washington, Dec. 27.-Strong fac
lions at Budapest are urging Hungary
to war upon the Poles and Czech-Slo-
vaks, according to diplomatic advices
received here.
The report is that new Hungarian
cabinet will be- formed with policy
committed to the absolute protection
Of the former Hungarian frontiers in
the east and north.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
PARLIAMENT IS DISSOLVED
Proclamation May Save Turkish Cab
met From Resiuninn.

Washington, Dec. Dissolution
of the Turkish parliament was pro-
claimed by the minister of the interior.
according to dispatch from Constan-
tinople to the Petit Parisien, reported
to Washington through official chan
neis. 1t had been expected that the
Turkish cabinet would fall, the report
said, but instead the house of deputies
was dissolved by proclamation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02

By treating them with certain gases
a Frenchman has succeeded in keeping
eggs fresh for ten months.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
CLARK MAY BE CANDIDATE
Speaker Rumored Aspirant for Presi-
Dental Nomination,

u6nLIaI NOMINATION..
Washington, Dec. 27.-Friends of
Speaker Clark in Congress said that
the speaker would be candidate for
the Democratic Presidential nomina-
ton in 1920, although no formal an
nouncement Of the subject could be ex-
pected for some time. Mr.. Clark him
self said:
II have no announcement to make
except to say that l know nothing
about it,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
SEVERAL KILLED IN WRECK
Passenger and Freight Trains Collide
i'm Oklahoma.

Oklahoma City, Dec. 27.-Six per.
sons were killed and a number in
jured in a wreck between a st. Louis
and San Francisco passenger train
from this city and a freight train at
Norge, 10 miles southwest of Chick
asha, according to telephone reports
received here.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
Sure.

Author-Can a fellow make any
money by writing?
Editor-Yes, if he writes to the right
one.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
TREASURER PLEADS GUILTY

County Official Admits Withholding
Funds From Successor.
Belleville, ILL.,, Dec. 27-Fred Warn
ing. former treasurer of st. Clair coun-
ty, ILL.,. pleaded guilty in Belleville cir
cult court to Withholding 91,S19.64
from his successor and was sentenced
to an indeterminate term of one to
1G years in Chester penitentiary.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-03
Americanizing the Workers

Regardless of whether the strikers the em- ployers shall win" in the big steel strike holding industrial America in its grip, there may out of country and of all the people. This great program will if realized even in small measure, dwarf the quarres and bickerings the claims and claims of all this great industrial controversy.
 It is the Americanizng of foreign labor which, it is stated is to be the next big plan of the heads of gram, it is pointed out. will be undertaken from entirely philanthropc point of view but it is to be accomplished from a motive of what is denoted intelligent selfishness."
 More than 50 per of the great army of labor in steel production in the United States are ton of these striking aborers if asked today what they striking for, would be able do Instead, it is declared, many believe this strike be the beginning here of bolshevism.
 That the steel companies in not dealing with the foreign element of their labor have been overlooking of the biggest captains in the steel industry. They have permitted the foreign labor exploited they admit. This is of the biggest lessons they have learned in the present strike They expect this pro- gram of Amercanizng their foreign labor bring them large financial in the form of dividends This campaign is to be undertaken just thoroughly and seriously the safety first the welfare, the paygrounds and home building cam psigns.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-03

for the opening of the fair and are coming to Phoenix in greater numbers.
 State fair officials have been over the state in there will be an aggregate attendance of 100000 the fair this year. They warn the citizens of the coming of this crowd of visitors urge them make preparations for the accommodation of them during the days of the fair
 The hotels of Phoenix offer little relief fair visitors, they being already weI-filled with winter visitors. Therefore there is but other of relief and that is for the citizens open their homes for the accommodation of as many visitors possible Unless this is done. they state, Phoenix will be in the position of having invited big party of visitors the fair and then of having denied them place to sleep.
 The chamber of commerce will provide list of residences where visitors may secure rooms during the fair This list will contain usual regular room ing houses, but it must also have listed many dozens and residences where the renting of rooms is not regular business if the visitors are to be adequately cared for
 Phoenix people urged take a lesson from Prescott where during the last Frontier Days ceebra ton the homes of the wealthy as well as of those in moderate circumstances thrown open to roomers The fair commissioners state they have provided great entertainment during week. the people occasion entire success is for the citizens to list their available with the chamber of merce
 Phoenix as host send her many visitors away feeling that they have been well cared for.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-03
OBSERVATIONS

This Bullitt more in the nature of bomb shell
 If Bullitt could reveal so much, think what Col onel House could tell.
 Lansing is a regular statesman after all. Called to answer embarrassing questions, he fishing If Lansing considered the league thoroughly bad" why isn't there vacancy in the cabinet? No one doubts that the world has been arranged according the desires of the big nations" Who started this theory that small nation has any right to desires?
 If Lansing really said that Knox and Lodge were the only men who would understand the treaty have doubt these two will endorse the statement. Levi Smith says the state department advised oil companies pay bandits because there appeared nothing else to do" It later appeared that the oil companies could do the public.
 If a greater voting strength in the league assem- ply gives Britain edge America, there can be no reasonable objection to cutting it down.
 
 The president says the league will be largely a debating society" Must the of everlasting peace be one of everlasting talk?
 We understand why the senate wishes an official body to supervise rentals in the District of Columbia But we wish inform that dignified body that land- lords with brstles their backs are confined 10 Washington D. C.
 Governments failure to sell surplus army food by parcel post may be due to lurd remarks. about army food made by doughboys far removed from mothers table.
 Striking laborers may be handled by the poce striking police by the army; and when all else fails and the universe runs amuck, there is Gompers.
 
 Canada has ratified the treaty. Canada, you will remember, to side more frequently with America than with the mother country
Arizona republican., 1919-10-03
On Board the "Wayfarer,"
 Wednesday

On Board the "Wayfarer,"
 Wednesday Joan dearest:
 I still have a feeling of unreaiity- that all this exciting mefodrama Of Randy and John Herrons meeting is a dream and that I shall wake to find myself still Herron's secretary, work ing like mad. half admiring him, half longing to do some desperate act to throw him off his balance.
 But no. l have done my last service for him. have set my desk in order and the old secretary, Watts, who fell ill at Silversand, has wired he can come back.
 As I sit here writing can hear echoes of the strange affair still going on. Randy and Heron are talking in the office. only it is Randy who is laying down the law, and-miracle of miracles-John Heron who is listen ing and assenting.
 You will agree then" 1 just over heard Heron saying, mot to mention the Ridgeley Lakes land development affair to Mills and the directors"
 Solely on condition that you make a decent repayment from your private funds to the people you robbed, was your Randy's reply.
 Also" Randy continued in a cool, even voice, T insist upon your getting a full retraction and apology from Mills wife for the nasty stories she circulated in Bentsville about Miss Varick Yes, 1 quite under stand it will be hard to get. But get it. John Heron has the reputation of getting whatever he goes after, hasn't he2" Randy mocked
 There was silence. I could see a mental picture Of Heron sitting there, outWardly stolid and serene, but in- wardly fuming and beating his spirit against the bars erected with such amazing suddenness by this obscure young man, Randall Lewis, of Bents- ville"
 He will agree to all of Randy's terms he must. He had one weak link in his armor-and Randy found it. His whole earthly ambition is for power Yet he is wise. He knows a man can not hope for big success with a black chapter in his life like that Ridgeley Lakes affair.
 I see John Heron learning his les son, carefully repairing his mistake and going smoothly on, wary, hard and shrewd, but uccessful-gaining the presidency of the road, but forced to walk the straight and narrow in order to retain his place of power.
 But oh, Joan darling, what of me [ feel smirched and unclean. I never realized the ugly misunderstanding was creating in the dear home town love. I. too was ambitious. Not foi power, dear but for the chance. tC
Arizona republican., 1919-10-03
OBSERVATIONS

Perhaps lot of this radical talk you hear is a reaction from the months when couldn't press an opinion without flirting with jail
 Whenever decides on of action his next task is to convince himself that God is his side
 Just reminder, the Hun republic should adopt a coat of a crutch and wooden leg crossed on yellow field
 It well to hold that Pershmg parade in Wash ington. It gave lot of uniformed chair warmers an opportunity to regular soldiers
 Asked about the threatened strike of steel work CTS, Gary said: "The of boshevism may yet strike us" Inability to the difference between bol- shevsm and strike is reason for bolshevism.
 In effect official demand know Japan's in tentions concerning Shantung is a statement that we consider the first promise lie and would like to have another to back it up.
 Cincinnati Reds the pennant by tactics the opposite of those employed by the other kind of Reds.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-03
Must Care for Guests
inc world.

The hospitality of the city of Phoenix is to be put 70 the test the first week in November
 That is the week of the annual fair, the dates being November :. It is the big occa- sion during the year when Phoenix, the capital city of Arizona and the home of the states big annual industrial and agricultural show and pleasure festival throws open her arms all the people to come and .njoy themselves There have been many big crowds of people in Phoenix during previous state fair weeks ,nd they have had only praise for the city
 But this year it is going to be bigger occasion and a likewise bigger responsibility. Prevalence of he influenza in Arizona well all the coun try last year caused postponement of the fair although all preparations had been made for a big af sar Therefore, the people of Arizona arc more than
Arizona republican., 1919-10-03

serve, to love, to be loved, to have the simple, sweet and lasting things.
 When that joy seemed denied me, I was ambitious for business success. It was all that was left. Old maidship is bad enough, but an old maid with money is treated more like a human being than an old maid who is poor.
 And now, dear, must So back to some grubby old job. Life, in one flash. loses it's color. turns drab again. But before I go back to the boarding house at No. 45 I am to have talk with Randy. I am hungry for news of you, hungry to know more about the darling little house, and your plans and dreams
 "I'll try not to be heartsick, Joan
 You know I love you better than anyone in this whole living world, and your happiness is my happiness. As for Randy, he is too splendid for words How he has grown up, dear, in these
Arizona republican., 1919-10-03
A HOUSE DIVIDED

THESE ARE THE ROOMS that Pugh leased
 THIS IS THE DESK that stood in the rooms that Brumbach leased. THIS IS THE STENO- -DEBONAIRE who swung around on swivel chair in front of the desk that stood in the rooms-same as above-the rooms that Lawyer Struck" leased. THIS IS ATTORNEY EN'RAL JONES who occupied the neutral zones, as well as one of the popular rooms that held the desk with the phone and the chair, along with the steno debonaire, the rooms of which someone'll be heeced, the rooms tha, Lawyer Barnum leased THIS Is JUDGE STANFORD, haggard and worn from hearing orations on rights that were born when parties eontending had rented the rooms that held the desk the phone and the chair-and don't forget Miss De- bonaire - the rooms which bad housed the Attorney Gen, for the rent of which each had to put up his yen.
 THIS IS THE JURY, all tattered and torn, who marked to the judge sn haggard and worn, on the law in the case and their duties as well. if from the dope" they ever could tell just who had the right to the rooms that contained the desk and the chair where the steno had reigned, the rooms that were leased by-did someone ask Who ?"-Why. Struck meyer and Barnum and Brumbach and Pughl
Arizona republican., 1919-10-03
Soldiers Vocational Training

The American Legion, the organization of the service men of the great war has, through the Amer ican Legion Weekly, the official paper of the legion made charges against the federal board vocational training that of character call a full and complete investigation of the administration of the board of the sufficiency of the law creating it. The federal board for vocational training operating under an of congress providing for the training and placing in industry of disabled soldiers.
 The charges made against the board are that it has failed utterly carry the purposes for which it formed; that although there are some 1885 salaried employees connected with organization and millions of dollars its disposal the results of their efforts have been virtually nil. According to figures the American Legion Weekly said to be up to Sep tember f. out of 2SOOoo disabled but 6699 had been placed training that only 3S trained men had been placed in jobs
 It is admitted by the legion's publication that 1641O untraned partially trainec ex-service men the disabled list in employment but 12,S2O of this number secured their own jobs and in no way indebted the efforts of board the weekly states
 Furthermore states the American Legion Weekly the operation of the under which this federal board is being those meager results for it is provided that while disabled training shall receive $s0 per month from the vocational board with further allowances Tor dependents the recipient these allowances orfeits his compensation the risk bureau except in the that such compen- saton be in of the he receives from the board
 If these charges made by the American Legion Weekly entirely correct it would appear that the law has not functioned those responsible for it tended it should
 This no doubt. has been partly due to the cutting down of the appropriation asked for vocational pur- poses. which has greatly field of use fulness Promises had been freely that all dis abled men would be given opportunity for edu- cation but the funds proving insufficient these offers had be revised If the present effort to increase appropriation for vocational training successful the board should be able justify it's existence by the practical results of it's work for the thousands of men who to grasp the promised oppor- tunity make and to keep for themselves place in inc world.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-03
EXCESS BAGGAGE

Officers in the army and navy highly inn portant
 Indeed were the regulations, acts of congress and military code considered final all there is to the army and navy is the officer
 They are decked in fine linen and gilt and rib bons and dress words and on gala days their efful presence lights up the dark side of the like three call fire in butcher shop.
 And if you confer with these gentlemen you will be further grounded in your impression that they not only uphold the service their hands but that the sole trouble with army and navy that efficient ficers, meaning their sort of officers, be had in sufficient quantities.
 Never a word about the buck soldier or the lowly gob
 But if you want to discover the real lad of i'm portance far the folks back home concerned, you want to get acquainted with rank lad, or owy sob.
 Visit any city when the fleet arrives and see who gets the popular applause. It's the gob, the homely, smiling long suffering despised gob
 Officers may come and go in all their glory and the street crowds do not enthuse but let a few com panies of marines march past, or a few dozen gobs go swinging along and cheers burst out like bombs
 And all the officers in the navy could march until their pretty brown boots worn through and mo- body would get hoarse over them.
 The gob and the world knows that he is the i'm portant lad. and that not only is there hundred of him for every officer but that without him there would be navy not if there were a hundred offi- to his solitary.
 Buck private and gob they have a tough time but when they get ashore on leave they get a welcome that for all the slings of outrageous fortune.
 An officer is an officer and presumably, a gen. tleman; gob is a gob and he besides.