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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20
Pope Converted.

The Vatican Is u most earnest adj
vooate OF the covenant OF the league
of nations. On March l6, President
Wilson conferred with the Vatican at
Rome. The pope, among other things,
said, referring to the league of ma.
tions President Wilson nut the mai
ter so clearly that my doubts began Ia
melt and before our interview closed
| agreed with him on the main lines
of his plan,
miraculous conversion Of the deem
traditional wisdom OF the holy see. The
great pontlfical diRnitary gives no ran
dom interviews, Neither can we he.
lieve both the presidents visit and the
interview were not for a preooneeiyed
purpose.
THE controversy over Flume and the
resulting troubles recall the, belief
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20
WALSH
SAYS:

SAYS;
Now is the Summer of our discomfort
made glorious Spring-in a walsh"
feather weight coat and trousers.
For your summer resort-we partic-
ularly recommend a Walsh tailored,
silk finished, tropical, imported mo-
hair.
Always pleased to show you. Delivery
within a week if desired.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20

New line of creepers Just
received, for little folks of
6 months to 2 years; made
of fine Bingham in solid col
ors and checks; superior
values at $500 each.
Baby bath towels, made
of best grade Terry cloth,
with borders embroidered in
pink and white; also solid
blue and pink; Soc each.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-12
WORK OF MONKS IN EXILE
Congregation Of Armenian Christians
Has Diffused knowledge Of coun-
try's Language and Literature.

The Mechitarist monks are a small
congregation of Armenian Christians
who were exiled from their native land
at the beginning of the eighteenth cen
fury. The church in Armenia had long
been divided into bitterly hostile camps
over the question of the nature Of
Christ, and when the Mechitarists en-
tered into communion with the Church
of Rome in 1712 the Armenian patri-
arch succeeded In driving them from
the country. They took up their resi-
dence in the Morea, but they had again
TO flee before the advance of the con-
quering Turk, and in 1715 they estab-
lished themselves in Venice, on the
Island of San Lazzaro. Here they set
up a printing press and gathered to-
gether large and valuable library of
oriental works. Their name is de-
rived from Mechtar da Petro, who
founded religious society at Constan-
tlnople about the year 1700, and who
aimed at uplifting the intellectual and
spiritual conditions of his countrymen,
and at diffusing a knowledge of the
old Armenian language and literature.
The colony of exiles during their so
journ in Venice has printed most of
the classic writings in Armenian lit
erature and translated the works OF
Euseblus, Philo and other writer's.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-12
Geography sixty Years Old.

The rapid development of geography
as a college study, since its first APP
pearance in university curriculum,
about half a century ago, is discussed
by Prof. r. H. Whitbeck Of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, in a recent ar
ticle on Geography in American and
European Universities" published in
the Journal of Geography. He points
out the following interesting facts:
In 1860 Harvard and Princeton
were the only American universities
offering courses in geography.
Cornell and University of Wiscon-
sin introduced the subject in 1868
and Yale followed in 1872. In 1900
only IL American universities taught
the subject, but by 1910 thirty-one
universities were offering a variety
Of 142 courses.
With 704 students enrolled in geog-
raphy, the University of Wisconsin
led all others in 1910. With 1,069 en-
rolled in 1917, it led all others except
the University of Pennsylvania. II
now offers seven courses In physical
and economic geography, climatology
and other phases of the subject.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-12
Discard London Town Houses.

For hundreds of years members of
England's wealthy class have main
tanned their splendid town houses in
London. But today, with the perfect
ing of the automobile and the in
creased convenience of apartment and
hotel, there is growing tendency to
break with tradition and maintain only
the country home. This fashionable
hack-to-the-land movement Is expected
to have royal sanction, too, as the king
and queen will use beautiful old Wind
sor castle % miles from London this
season. much more Than Buckingham
palace. In the city Popular Mcchnn-
les Magazine.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-12
BORAH URGES CONGRESS
TO ENACT CERTAIN LAWS

Calling on congress to turn it's at
tention to the immediate needs of
the American people, Senator Borah,
at the opening of congress last week,
outlined in a formal statement pro-
gram for the present session:
Passage of bill to declare peace;
legislation to bring order out of
chaos in our transportation system;
laws to enforce governmental econ
omy and check extravaganza, which
he characterized as incredible; a
check on profiteering; return of
American troops from Russia; and a
restoration Of the peace-time powers
of the government in distinction
from the wartime powers being
maintained, were the principal meas
ures. Senator Borah advocated.
A declaration of peace, Senator
Borah declared, was desirable more
for psychological reasons than any
thing else," adding that 1.-The advo-
Gates of the league continue to harp
on the proposition that, we are tech
nically still at war in order to disturb
business and keep it restless and un-
settled"
"One of the greatest and best rail-
road systems in the world has been
wrecked through incompetency and
politics." Senator Borah's statement
charged, and in his attack on govern
mental expenditures, he declared
that the people are literally being
taxed into bolshevism.'
Referring to former Secretary Nc
Adoo's recent statements regarding
profits of coal operators, Senator
Borah declared the profits were per-
mitted under the orders of the ad-
ministration of which Mr.. McAdoo
was a member and that profiteering
Is "just as rampant now as it was
during the war in certain lines of in
dustry."
"The most fragrant and unconscion-
able profiteering that the country
has experienced, he said, twas that
permitted or actually ordered by the
government"
Legislation passed for carrying on
the war, Senator Borah charged, is
being maintained "for the purpose OF
depressing our own people," the
great majority of whom he said he
believed were loyal to American in.
stitutions.
Declaring there were more sena.
tors now opposed to the league il
nations than at any time previous
Senator Borah predicted it was pos.
sible "but by no means certain" thai
theatreaty could pass with the foreign
relations committee reservations
Nothing less, he predicted, would
ever pass the senate.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-12
EXTRACTION OF PHOsPHATE
BRINGS UP NEW PROBLEM

Proposals of the Western Phos-
phate Mining aand Manufacturing
company will require Idaho shortly
to establish a definite policy on the
subject of mining encroachments up
on state lands.
The western concern, a Salt Lake
company operates e mino on property
adjacent to a section of state school
land in Bear Lake county. The mine
tunnel, gradually being extended
along vein of phosphate rock, will
presently be under the school land.
and, for some distance, as it contin-
ues to be driven, the tunnel will ira
verso this land
The company is not interested in
the surface of the ground and will
lnjure the land in no way whatever.
But, since ownership of land extends
down to the center of the earth theo-
retically, the company has asked tc
lease the land, or to secure mineral
rights on it, or otherwise to obtain
tho right to continue it's tunnels
under it,
Under its proposed arrangement
the state land will be available for
leasing as grazing land, even during
mining operations, and might, under
roper conditions, be made productive
az farm land. But neither of these
uses concern the mining company.
1t proposes only to tunnel across un-
derground.
The company was recently request
ed to explain the situation in detail
and this explanation was received
Friday by /. H. Nash. state land com
missioner, who has turned the ques-
tion over to the state mining inspect
or, Robert, N. Bell.
The land department will decide
the question from land administra-
,tion standpoint, the mining inspector
will handle it from an engineering
standpoint, and the attorney general
will take up, the legal questions in
volyed. . From, the three decisions a
. new state policy will be formed.
! Boise Statesman.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-12
Sung by Request.

They were having a company sing
in "Y" building. The song leader,
lieutenant, asked If there was any
particular song the men wished 10
sing.
The company funny boy, thinking to
produce laugh, yells out Lets sing
Molly, get the hammer, there's a fly
on baby's head"
Every WELL" said the lieutenant
suppose you come up and sing it q
few times, so that we may learn it,
And, amid jeers of his companions
he was forced to get up before the
company and sing that single line
over and over again. making up the
tune as he went.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-12
Bit the Bones.

Charley, the cook, has a mania for
shooting craps" One day he missed
his dice, and having always worn d
smile, 1t was at once noted that there
was something wrong, because he was
all gloom and had solemn look like
one who had come to great grief. We
had hash for supper. The bugler, hav-
ing heaping mess kit full of hash,
was making great progress when all
Of a sudden he bit into something hard
or to eat than hash. Charley is once
more wearing his smile of content
ne nj. being satisfied now with him
nlf and the world.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-12
Splendid Cough Meuicine

AS feel that every family should
know what a splendid medicine
q Chamheriainssq Cough Remedy is, I
am only too pleased to relate my ex.
perience and only wish that l had
known of its merits years ago."
writes Mrs. Clay Fry, Ferguson
Station, Mo. II give 1t to my child
rem when they show the slightest
sign of being croupy, and when ]
have a cough or cold ON the lungs a
very few doses will relieve me, and
by taking 1t for a few days 1 soon
get rid of the cold.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-12
Chamberlain's Tablets

These tablets are intended espec.-
ally for indigestion and constipa-
ton. They tone up the stomach and
enable it to perform it's functions
naturally. They act gently on the
liver and bowels, thereby restoring
tho stomach and bowels to a healthy
condition. When you feel dull, stup-
i'd and cohstipated give chem a trial
You are certain TO be pleased with
their effect.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-12
Germany From the Clouds.
Eddie" Rickenbacker Is quoted {

17uUIe HNICheHUdVheT IS QuOleu db
saying:
Germany looks rather peaceful
from above and there seems to be little
disturbing them back ways from the
lines. That is where an airman's
point of view Is defective. The Ger
man hills and fields look as soft as
ours. Probably they are. which is
not very soft. Any field covered with
grass always looks soft and you think
1t would make a fine landing place.
When you get down lower and are
forced to land on any old field that
happens to be under you, some time
when you're enpanne you learn differ.
emily"
The courier-index., 1919-05-02
Men Wanted For
 Duty ODerseGs

A member of the Little Rock re- cruiting district will be in Marianna, May and for the purpose of advertising and obtaining appli cants for the army for service in any arm of the service, from one to three years enlistment periods. "A man must be between the ages of Is and 40 in order to be eligible for enlistment.
 All accepted applicants for the army will be given transportation to Little Rock, and subsequently, for warded to Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, for enlistment, and from there they are assigned to various desti- nations as desired by them.
 Any information desired may be had by consulting the man on re- cruiting duty at the post office.
The courier-index., 1919-05-02
STATEMENT TO THE PUBLIC

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The courier-index., 1919-05-02
Can't Keep Hogs Here
 During the Summer

Mayor J. M. Johnston and Dr. E. D. Wall, city health officer, have issued orders that parties residing within the city limits are forbidden to keep hogs on their premises from April i to November l. This order is issued in accordance with an or dinance passed several years ago but which has not been enforced for some time. The purpose of this sanitary regulation needs no expla- nation. It is physically impossible to make a decent citizen out of a hog or to maintain hog pen with out creating offensive odors and an unsanitary condition that is harmful to the public health. You may manicure your hogs every morning, curry them dozen times day, dip them in strong solution of carbol- ic acid or other approved disinfec- tant, and he remains a hog just the same, with all the objectionable odoriferousness that is inseparably associated with the swine family. Hence, there is but one sane and
 
 banish His Porkship from the city's confines during the summer months. Last year and during the previous years the atmosphere was impreg- mated with strong suspicion that animated packing house products were thriving in Marianna. This year the city authorities are de- termined that this nuisance shall not disturb the olfactory sense. Mayor Johnston and pr. Wall have given owners of hogs ten days in which to remove the porkers or dis pose of them by sale. They suggest it is not necessary to sacrifice the price in disposing of hogs. Those 1 who desire to sell and who cannot get the market price for their hogs are asked to take the matter up with the mayor or city health officer and they will assist in disposing of the animals at fair market price.
The courier-index., 1919-05-02
Germans had Harsh
 Terms If They Won

Paris, April 29.-The terms Math- ias Erzberger was in favor of im- posing upon the allies if Germany had been victorious as set forth Tn memorandum written by him in 1914, are outlined by Geneva dispatch to the Journal, having been received at Geneva from the private secretary of the late Kurt Eisner, the former Bavarian premier.
 Germany in the first place can not tolerate the presence on her frontiers of so-called neutral states insufficiently strong to preserve their neutrality or which do not want to remain neutral" said Erz- berger.
 "Her second aim must be to free herself from the insupportable lead ing strings of England on all ques- tions of world policy. In the third place, she must break up the Rus sian colossus.
 Consequently, Germany must have sovereignty, not only over Bel gium, but the French coast from Dunkirk to Boulogne and the pos session of the channel islands. She must also take the mines in French Lorraine and crease an African German empire by annexing the Belgian and French Congoes, Brit ish Nigeria, Dahomey and the French west coast.
 ''In fixing indemnities the actual capacity of a state at the moment should not be considered. Besides a large immediate payment, annual installments spread over long per- Tod could be arranged. France would be helped in making them by decreasing her budget of naval and military appropriations, the reduc- tions to be imposed m the peace treaty being such as would enable her to send substantial sums to Germany. Indemnities should pro- vide for the repayment of the full costs of the war and the damages of war, notably in East Prussia, the
The courier-index., 1919-05-02
SWEET POTATO
 MEN ORGANIZE
w, w. GYPSUM HEADS GROWERS WHO SUBSCRIBE FOR $lo,o0o STOCK-WILL ERECT LARGE WAREHOUSE.

The sweet potato industry in this section of Lee county received a big impetus last week when seven growers perfected an organization to be known as the Marianna Sweet Potato Growers Association, with paid up capital of S10,000, and with the following well known growers as stockholders and off, cers: W. w. Chisum, president; !; Geo. W. Greenhaw, vice president: 1: Andrew Nixon, secretary-treasurer; E. J. Beazley, IT,, Dick Hardin, John Jacks and Ira Petty. The company has applied to the secretary of state for articles of incorporation.
 MT. Chisum, the president of the company, stated yesterday the or ganization would erect a storage warehouse 40 by 100 feet on a lot on the south end of Liberty street. The building will be constructed ac- cording to approved government plans and will be used for the stor- age of the potatoes grown by the members of the association and those purchased from other growers in this territory. The purpose of the company is not only to care for the crops grown by the members but to furnish cash market for any and all farmers who have a surplus of sweet potatoes. Heretofore a large part of the sweet potato crop here has gone to waste because there have been no facilities for storing and caring for the potatoes. Many farmers raise more than they need for home consumption and usually place their surplus on the local market at time when the market is glutted. As a result they sell for less than cost of produc- tion, which loss the farmer must take or permit his surplus potatoes to rot. With the organization of this company and the construction of adequate storage facilities the potatoes will bring the regular market prices. The building will have a storage capacity of 15,50O bushels.
 The members of the association will this year plant approximately 150 acres in sweet potatoes. Will Chisum and Andrew Nixon will plant 45 acres; George Greenhaw
The courier-index., 1919-05-02
ANOTHER LIGHT
 PLANT COMING
HOWEVER, IT WILL BE A PRI- vATELY OWNED INSTITUTION AND WILL SUPPLY ONLY } PLACES OF BUSINESS.

Thoroughly disgusted and com- pletely exasperated over the miser- able service furnished by the Arkan- sas Light and Power Plant, three business institutions here have plac- ed an order for Standard Jupiter electric light system that will in the future furnish lights for M. D. Dag gett's Drug Store, Hawkins Pool and Billiard Hall and lights and power for the Majestic Theatre, owned by T. k. Hobbs. These gen. tlemen have been contemplating the installation of a small plant Tor several months, but were induced to hold of until it could be definite ly ascertained whether or not the Arkansas Light and Power Company intended to put the service here on its feet. Messrs. Daggett, Hawkins and Hobbs, as we'll as many others in the city, are convinced there will never be any permanent im- provement in the light and power plant here as long as it controlled by the Arkansas Light and Power Company, hence their decision to install a plant of their own and cut loose from the company. The three institutions named pay the Arkan- sas Light and Power Company more than a hundred dollars month for the promise of lights and power. They estimate their losses in the course of year, due to suspended service, is equal to the amount of their light and power bills. By the installation of private plant they feel certain these losses will be re- trieved and that they will get bet ter service at a lower cost than they are now paying the company
The courier-index., 1919-05-02
WILL IMPROVE
 WATER SYSTEM
CITY AUTHORITIES PLAN EX- PENDITURE OF $3,0oO AT ONCE-TO LATER ENLARGE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.

Mayor J. M. Johnston and mem- bers of the water and light commit tee, acting with s. s. McGill, super intendent of the water plant, have had a complete inventory made Of the physical condition of the wells, machinery, and reservoir and stand pipe with view to making several needed improvements in order that the supply of water may be aug mented and the capacity of the plant increased to meet the demands of the consumers. At meeting of the city council several weeks ago steps were taken for the formation of a new improvement district to embrace practically all the terri tory in the corporate limits, the purpose being to issue bonds, re- fund the outstanding indebtedness, reconstruct the water plant and ex- tend the mains to sections of the city not now served by the system. 1t is estimated that the total cost of these contemplated improvements will be $4O,00O. It is understood the sewer commissioners will begin the formation of plans to extend the sewer district to the same territory covered by the enlarged water dis trict. C
 But pending the outcome of the movement to enlarge the water dis trict, the city authorities have de cided to make some improvements on the plant at once. A new reser- voir will be constructed, the stand pipe will be repaired, the old reser- voir will be overhauled and the boil CT and engine will be put in good condition. The pumping service given by the Arkansas Light and Power Company is so unsatisfactory that it is practically certain the city will have to cut loose from the power plant and maintain separ- ate equipment for pumping water The city officials are determined that Marianna's water supply shall be pure and wholesome and furnish ed in sufficient quantities to meet all the demands of the consumers, be. |Nsides maintaining an adequate re- serve for protection against fire.
The courier-index., 1919-05-02
JEWISH RELIEF DRIVE

The American Jewish Relief Com- mittee is carrying on a campaign for the raising of funds to alleviate the suffering among the Jewish peoples in the various war zones. In Arkansas it has been decided to make campaign from May 19 to 26, inclusive. Ike Kempner of Little Rock is state chairman, and Jacob Shaul of Marianna has been named chairman for Lee county. MT. Shaul hopes to have the hearty cooperation of the public spirited citizens of Marianna and Lee coun- ty in this worthy movement and during the drive period from May 19 to 26, he expects to raise sub stantial sum for the relief of the stricken Jewich people in the war zones.