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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-30

At the meeting of the Woman's
Home and Foreign Missionary Society
of the State Street United Evangelical
church. held Thursday afternoon at the
church, the members pieced quilts and
sewed carpet rags following the bust
ness session. Mrs. Isaac Drury was
the hostess for the meeting and served
refreshments, assisted by Mrs. C.
Shipman.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-30

\ c. C. Eldridge. formerly Of this city,
but now Of Belvidere. ILL.,, was in the
city today visiting with his mother,
Mrs. Harriet r. Beebe. Mr. Eldridge
will leave tonight or Saturday for
Omaha and Denver on a business trip.
Mrs. Eldridge expects to come to the
city to visit next month.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-30

Bring watches in. Hodges.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
"55tAM1LvNG ? MI LIKE" SAYS CHINATOWN

visited by the press, and his speech
was, to all purposes. swallowed.
, Pursuing business upon the en-
battled corner Of Mott and Pell
streets and himself at one time the
centra! figure of a swift moving
tragedy Sam Kee has come to be-
lieve that silence is golden, which.
with the silver he takes IN for press
ing and stitching, contributes very
fair living.
Sans numerous companions, who
occupied all the hooks and crannies
in the Kee pressing parlors. lmi-
tated their leader in the matter of
being Of sudden utterly unable to
comprehend the English language
that is, all with the exception of
one who smoked, in a paper holder
a cigarette which contributed even
more than it's share to the SYM
postum Of odors that is no small
part Of Mott Streets personality.
"Shantung, shantung. No like"
he said.
But that was all he said. He
concluded so abruptly that were
gambling still permitted in China
town under a policemans nose it
would have been wager of sorts
that significant glance from Sam
had no little to do with this hasty
verbal eclipse.
The cashier at the Port Arthur
is thin, sleek-haired Chinese boy,
with the gravest of airs.
Japan will never be satisfied
with Shantung. After Shantung
will come Kiangsu-and after that,
what? You cannot make China
man believe that Japan is sincere
when she says she will, after sew
eral years, give up Shantung. That
is not her plan. Look at Corea.
Japan wishes to expand, and she can
do this most easily at the expense
of China. The Chinese people have
looked with great love upon the
United States, and that love is
taught in our schools. But we hate
Japan and always shall. We are
not ready to defend ourselves
against this aggression. But there
will come a day."
Let it by no means be imagined
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
How Simple.

Many numbeg-names would be
abbreviated in conversation. Often
only one number need be men.
toned, either the size-number or
the location-number.
How many hundred million times
a year do we write New York
City" Chicago" "Philadelphia," on
envelopes, etc? For these we could
write /, 2 and 5, thus:
John Jones,
SO W. 45th St,
For rural addresses the size-num.
bers should be omitted and the
location number magnifed 100
times, which would define an ad-
dress within one-seventh of 4 mile,
or 25O yards, thus:
John Jones,
+ 2236 22Sj
n. J.
(the "R' indicating q rural adj
dress).
Each Of these rural location units
would be 1900 of a degree, or one
fifth of minute. The govern
ment might erect signs to indicate
rural location points where neces-
sary.
The numeric name idea has many
other possibilities.
When nation joins nation on the
floor of the great House Of Man, men
must fit themselves to become clti-
zens of the world. They must know
facts.
Democracy cannot endure without
wide diffusion of knowledge.
Men are paying toll to ignorance
We can remove this camoutiage noW'
Let America lead the way in this, as
in SO many other advances Of CIVIL
zation.
The world is going to move as II
has never moved before. Les
America prepare to play her part
in the titanic world affairs OF the
future. Democracy Will need this
light.
Ninety per cent OF humanity Is
and for a long time will be, IN the
jungle swafnps Of poverty. Come
on, efficiency engineers. Let's ge'
down to business and apply "AmerF
can methods"
Speed and precision throusn
Standardization and systemI
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Once on q Time

So far as it's quondam self is
concerned Chinatown has fallen, for
no longer does it surreptitiously
bristle with arsenals, nor do the
high pitched monotone threats of
war break out upon the night. There
was time when all the raids of the
relentless police could not stop gam
bling, for when the instruments of
play were seized the slant-cved
Oriental rugged up a board and
raced cockroaches and bet upon
the race. "Chuck" Connors and his
numerous henchmen smoked opium
in open places and for commercial
gain, but now the pipe is inhaled
behind the closed shutter. Even the
joss house, where the gods of all
desire sit inscrutably upon their
pedestals, is a tenpenny show oper-
atcd for the entertainment of the
tourist.
Chinatown, which was a Bedlam
Of "Agh ollahs" which is the near
est English approach to the Chinese
for fight; which was by turn the
swashbuckler or the Elusive play
boy, has turned conservative and
now presents slattern succession of
fish shops and eating houses, of
novelty stores and pinchbeck estab-
hshments. The romance Of China
town dates always backward; her
pulse is apparently normal.
And yet
Back of his inscrutable exterior
and of his overpowering distaste to
hold converse with the "foreigner''
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Meaningless Words

Thus children and immigrants
(all future citizens) would not have
TO memorlze positions Of towns by
associating meaningless words with
certain spots on a map.
They could not read newspapers
for one year without learning the
exact size and relative location Of
the 200 largest cities of North
America. Every newspaper would
teach geography.
A knowledge Of the population
and location Of important centres
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21


U tieth century idea. Why
-~~- not give every city, towr
and village in NORTH
America (and later in the whole
worldly an official nunber-name ir
addition to it's present word-name
this number-name to be made I'D Of
slze-number and a location-num.
ber, to be written thus:
Size Number location
(According to Number
Population Northwest
Minneapolis 49,. 18 95 so
and by abbreviation, through con-
slant use, thus:
Dubuque ... $50 277o
Several towns might have the
same location-number, but each
town would have different size
number to distinguish it from all
others.
These numbcr-names would tell
at glance the two most important
facts about a town.
The present word-names (Ben-
der, Canajoharie, Wynot, etc.) tell
nothing to traveller or a news
paper reader or office worker 900
miles away. Even with a good map
one frequently finds it difficult to
locate places mentioned in the
news.
These number-names would also
Indicate the approximate distance
between points mentioned. They
would DO away with difficulty in
spelling and pronunciation-"Wi-
pers" for Ypres, etc. Words are
national, figures International
How many Americans know the
proper pronunciation of Des Moines.
Sioux City, Los Angeles, to say
nothing of foreign names like
Przemysl and Buenos Ayres? How
many know the size and relative
location Of Dubuque?
Newspapers could quickly spread
knowledge Of the system by putting
the number-name Of a place after
its word-name in the dating of dis
patches. They could also use the
number-name to avoid monotonous
repetition of the word-name. 4
knowledge of the exact location of
places mentioned would add inter-
est to the story.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

never be one who gushes for the
benefit Of the press.
On Pell Street the experience
was similar. AS far down as Del
monlco's Shantung brought the
Chnaman up with start. On the
second floor Of a building adjoin-
ing the "House of Five Entrances
two slant-eyed cooks were discov-
cred compounding a chop sucy, as
it were.
What do you think of the Shan
tung agreement"
"Shantung? No like"
Nothing could induce these cooks
to go further. "No like" it was and
''no like it stayed. The proposed
I neutral zone or the sanctuary gwen
the resting place of the great Con-
fucius mattered not. "No like" ex-
pressed the unalterable opinion of
the compounders of chop suey.
1t was so often the case that
casual visitor to Chinatown seek
ing a political opinion may depart
with the idea that a great many of
the Cinnamon therein residing have
about as much knowledge of the
specific provisions Of the Shantung
agreement as a Michigan peach
grower has Of the complete history
of the Seminole Indians.
Yet that is beyond the mark. SEN
timept may exist without complete
understanding, and in the case of
Chinatown and Shantung that senti-
ment already has crystallized into
decision.
But that there shall be under
standing there has been placed
against blank wall on Doyers
Street bulletin board, and here in
sizable letters Of Chinese design the
latest news upon the Shantung stu
alton is posted. The Chinaman
shuffling along this once bloody
sector pauses to read, and the day
when the Senate submitted an
amendment upon this provision was
notable in the history of Chinatown.
Shantung has become a shibboleth.
Shantung, which lies hard by the
noiling waters of the Yellow Sea,
where the sun comes up gloriously;
Shantung, where stands the lofty
T'ai-shan where Confucius and
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
BY Louis Lee Arms

" r OW Is the winter of discon-
~ tent in Chinatown. Perox-
ide Nelly. the Opium Cat,
Sam Kee. the waddlinp
Celestial and the image Of TAI PAX
Kun Sing (Greas White and Golden
Starr, could he but speak. nave but
ono expression for the Shantung
provision Of the treaty.
"No like!"
Where Mott Street slides into the
Bowery, where Pell busters into
Mott, and along the bloody angle of
Doyers Street, once impregnated
with the necessary accoutrements for
tong war. such as steel armor
jackets, headsman's axes and Amer
ican made revolvers, Cinnamon
shuttle or swarm, with hearts mex
pressibly sad. I
The Japanese are coming to Shan
tung, home Of noble Confucius {;
province rich beyond the dreams Of
Choy San, the god Of wealth; pict-
uresque as celestial vista. Indeed,
Japan is there; Japan, whose heart
is cold as the crystal moon, whose
ambitions are like the rising tide
No like.
To be sure, Chinatown is not what
it once was. There has been an evo-
luton Of perspective along Mott
Street. Long ago gradual spiritual
change set in, partly as a conces-
sion to the police, which reached
its topmost peak when Tom Lee
died in bed. Tom Lee was head of
the formidable On Leong Tong, gun
fighter and gambler, whose name
was anathema to the rival Hip
Sings, so much so that it could be
translated into terms of finance, for
$4,000 was the price offered for
Tom Lees head. Yet Tom Lee sur
vived, with bodyguard of twenty
four Canton stalwarts, who carried
automatics up their silken sleeves,
and laid himself down to die only at
the ripe age of seventy-six years,
each expiring breath a testimonial
to that vast psychic Transformation
hitherto alluded to, or reproach to
the Indifferent craftsmanship of the
Hip Sings.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

towns into classes, $4,000 to TO-
600 population, 10000 to 5000
population, etc, leaving a gap be-
tween the size-numbers of each
class, SO that the size-number would
tell the approximate population.
Thus if there were 229 cities of
over $4,000 population, start the
next group (25,O00 to 10000 at
250 instead of 23O.
10 obtain location
A.-The North number:
Multiply the number of degrees
north of the equator by three. Ct
have tried multiplying by two and
by four and find that one gives too
large and the other too small a unit
for best results. Moreover, degrees
are divided into six parts on most
maps, which makes it easier with
thirds than with quarters.)
With this unit no location number
could be more than fifteen miles
distant from its location point.
New York's latitude is about
10 2-3 degrees. Multiply by three
and we get l22 For local mot in
ternationaD use this can be short
oned to 22.
B.-The West-number:
Similarly, multiply degrees west
Of Greenwich (London) by three.
New York's west longitude is
about "A degrees. This gives 222,
abbreviated %. Put the West-num-
Der after the North-number and we
have 22-22, which could be written
2222. Prefix New York's size
number and we get the complete
number-name-1, ,2222. For inter
national use this would be |. 122222
Cor |, 22-222).
London's number-name would be
l, 10000, abbreviated |, $500.
Havre's number-name would be
$4,000, abbreviated 1900.
Three times $50 degrees gives
l0oo. The extra 80 units would be
skipped over in the Pacific Ocean.
between Honolulu and New Zea-
land, so that point one degree east
Of Greenwich would have an East
number of 997. Hamburg would be
l6O-97O, or 6070. EAST longitude.
10 degrees. Multiply the 10 by 8
and subtract from 10000 :
South Of the equator:
Multiply degrees south by 3 and
subtract from 600. A point 10 de-
grees south would have a South
number Of $40, abbreviated 70.
No point north of the equator
would have a North-number of $40.
the highest North-number being
270. The lowest South-number
would be $50. Between 270 and
$50 there would be neither North
nor South-numbers,
In figuring distances between a
South-number and O North-nunber
add 600 to the North-number.
Notice how easy 1t would be to
figure mentally the Approximate
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

that this speech was made with that
easy continuity with which it is
herewith presented. Each sentence
required an interval of one or two
minutes deepest thought. The
words-in. broken English-were
uttered with the soiemnity of city
magistrate passing sentence upon
a speedster. The Chinaman will
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

the heart OF the CelcStlal IS mex
pressiblv sad which Is but another
way Of saying that he If being con
sumed by an internal fire.
Snantung has passed the stage OF
a treaty concomitant. It is now q
| fighting word.
II the sentiment Of new China
town that looks further than tong
| wars and gala feasts may be taken
to indicate that which is in the
hearts Of their countrymen across
the sea, then that day when Japan
sets sanctioned foot in Shantune
will mark the beginning Of a new
war.
Seething
Chinatown, outwardly placid
playing the theatrical part assigned
by the owners Of sightseeing buses
is seething internally. The mention
of Shantung lends fire to a furtive
eye and loosens sealed lips. An in
stance Of this:
The writer visited the shop of
Kwong Sun Chong, on Mott Street,
and explained with all the difficulties
that might be expected where Eng
lish is little needed and less learned
that he wished a few expressions
on the Shantung agreement.
These were given willingly and
translated by one who SPOKE Eng
lish after a fashion. One said it
meant fight. Another said: 81 wish
l could write English, 1 would tell
the whole story for YOU" Again
Japan may get it, but she can't
hold it," Another expressed the
hope that the United States would
defeat the treaty.
While this was going on an aged
Chinaman in Oriental dress shutfled
into the shop. News travels on in
visible wings in Mott Street. He
raped the counter smartly, deliv-
cred himself of a staccato-like ut
terance and marched off.
He is seventy-tive years DID,"
said the Chinese boy who was act
ing as interpreter. "Hc says we will
sacrifice the whole nation for the
peninsula"
This patriarch is accounted some
thing of a political authority and a
philosopher in Chinatown. On any
question in which the welfare of the
Chinese nation is at stake, his word
is representative.
He had marched off, but he stood
conveniently. in the doorway, his
ear cooked to the conversation
within and his head nodding appro-
baton of the severe defeat that
Japan was sustaining across a
wooden counter. One Chinese boy
declared that he had gone overseas
for the United States and would
go over another sea for China. This
was met with such a round of looks
that personally the writer was in
some doubt whether the bystanders
were approving these brave words
or the gentleman was kidding. At
any rate, the patriarch who stood
IN the doorway bowed with great
dignity rs we left and seemed salts
fled that nothing had been left un-
done under the circumstances
All that is Chinese on Mott
Street, and everything is Chinese
up to PelI Street with the single
exception of an American-run barber
shop which bears the name-mark
the word-of The Senate, was like
that, only it so happened that while
Shantung soccasloned black looks
and numerous grunts, from Sam
hec, the tailor, to the pretentious
Port Arthur Cafe, nowhere was this
treaty provision belabored with so
much clarity as in the Chinese now
city shop.
Sam kee, the waddling tailor,
was stricken suddenly dumb when
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

distance between two location
points after little experience
The following location-numbcrs
are easy to remember:
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

Menicus went into noble sol;tra.
and to which thousands of cb;n.
men make pilgrimage each vear.
Shantung, with its green valleys ava
stately mountains, where the wis
and the fox and the wild boar roa.
and song birds are a-wing; Shan
tung, where the oak-fed silkworm.
yield thcis chifu, or pongee. and
where the worms make a deljgbtfrI
delicacy.
Here. the Chinaman says. is ~.
limited wealth, from the coal nro,
critics to the wax trees, the varDisb
trees and the priced castor Gil plan.
And Of this they are to be deprived
SOL Out
So far as Japan is concerned
rather strained neutrality has
reached the borders of hostility ..
least commercially The noveltv
shops along Mott Street heretofore
have carried japanese goods tbs.
the tourist might procure a repre.
sentative oriental purchase. Now
an inquiry after japanese goods in.
variably develops the shift answer.
"Jipnese goods sol out No lin
nese. Solly."
Into a new Chinatown, with set.la-
ment houses on Mott Street and
rescue missions on Doyers, there has
come a new hate. Of an eveninr
the soapbox orator mounts a dais
and expatiates upon the unwisdom
of the treaty. There is never lack
Of enthusiasm.
If Shantung is lost there will bs
no happiness at the Feast Of the
Lanterns or the Feast Of the Dragon
Boat. Incense will be burned as If
for the dead, and mayhap the slant
eyed Oriental will don his mourning
white.
That which means so m1ch is now
in the process of parliamentary de.
bate and that is why Chinatown is
filled with gloomy foreboding and
the memories of many, many IN
continent wrongs never set right
That, too, IS why Peroxide Nelly,
the Opium Cat; Sam Kee. the wad-
ding Celestial, and the image Of Tai
PAX Kun Sing (the heathen) are
inexpressibly sad.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Here 8 o. Neav Hursch: Why Not
Ciue Your I0avr1 o. Number?

is an essential, vital part Of mans
education. When the average pupil
closes his geography book for the
last time does he know that Con
stantinople, Chicago, Vladivostok
and Rome are all in approximately
the same latitude? Every news
paper using this system would teach
such facts.
1T this meant a saving of only
ten school hours a student it would
mean 1,000,0 100000 hours O. gen
GRAFTON in the United States alone
And the whole world is going to be
Interested in commercial geography
as 1t never was before!
Visualize it. Time that might be
spent on arithmetic, science, his
tory, stenography, manual trades,
enjoyable athletics-wasted. Spent
in useless drudgery, Chinese fash
ion! Children's brains burdened
crammed, dulled instead Of de-
veloped. Let's be sane,
How 1t Works
This is how the system works
TO obtain size-numbers divide the
world into about nine parts, say as
follows: North America, South
America, Australia, Africa, Europe
(except Russia), Russia (both in
Europe and in Asia), China and
Japan, India, Indo-China, etc; Asia
Minor, Arabia, Persia, etc.
1t matters very little how these
divisions are made. Parts of a d.
vision may be widely separated;
need not be contiguous; need not be
under one government; cooperation
of all governments not necessary.
The purpose of the partition is to
enable the system to be established
gradually, piece by piece; also to
reduce the unwieldiness of the
size-numbers and give them more
interesting significance.
Then list the municipalities in
each of these districts according to
their population and number them
according to their rank on the list
No two places in the same divi-
sion would have the same size
number.
According to the last United
States census there were about
1000 incorporated places of over
$500 population and about 10000
places of under $500
Thus In the North American divi-
sion the size-numbers would not run
above 10000, even for very small
places. They would not run above
four figures (9,999) for villages Of
over 1000 population.
Change the size-numbers everv
ten or twenty years (after census
taking). If the order Of size
number did not change much it
would not be necessary to alter the
size-number.
The location-numbers would never
vary.
1t would ba we'll To divide +ha
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
By II. kirkwood

e VI ERE'S a brand new twen-
tieth century idea. Why
A not give every city, town
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1919-03-22
SHERIFF SALE.
SHERIFF SALE.
H. N. PHARR
vs.. No. 750l
ESTATE JOSEPH J. SMITH, DE-
nVz 0Efn
H. N. PHARR

W.. No. 1901
ESTATE JOSEPH J. SMITH, DE-
CEASED.
10Th Judicial District Court, State Of Lou
isiana, Parish of Iberia.
Notice 10 hereby given that BY virtue
of an order of Seizure and Sale, issued
out of the above entitled and numbered
cause and to me directed, /, T. A. Landry,
Sheriff, duly sworn and qualified in ana
for the Parish of iberia, La, have seized
and will offef for sale and will sell at
public Auction FOR CASH to the last
and. highest bidder, ut the front door Of
the Court House, in the City OF New
iberia. La, between legal sale hours on
SATURDAY, MARCH aoth, 1919
the following described property, towN:
= That certain tract of land togsthse wan
all the buildings and improvement
thereon, and thereunto belonging, and oil
thereof, situated in iberia
Parish. La, containing forty-six super.
fc;al srpents more Or less, and bounded
North BY Grand Marias Canal. Souts
AID East by lands Of Donation Domingss'
md West BY lands Of Ernsst Landry.
To psy and satisfy the sum OF Eigs-
teen Hundred and Forty Dollars with .
per cent. interest per annum from jan.
3rd. 1918 until paid, with ten Per esat'
attorneys fees on the principal and an
t.,sst and the cost of these proceedings.
Given officially this 21st day OF FEB.
~ ' p A. LANDRY, Sheriff.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1919-03-22
Notice Of Hon,ologation.
Succession Of Euxebe Provost ant
bic wife, Anastasie Bodin,
both deceased.

A--- mo. ZlOf.
18th Judicial District Court, State
/. of Louisiana, Parish of Iberia.
Whereas, Ademar Provost, d
resident of the Parish Of Iberia,
Administrator Of the above en-
titled and numbered Succession
has fled in this Honorable Court
his final account as administrators
Of said Estate, together with his
petition praying that the same DC
homologated and approved.
Notice il therefore hereby Civ
en- to all whom it doth or may
concern to show cause. if any they
have. within ten days from the
first publication hereof, why the
prayer Of petitioner should not
be granted.
Witness the Honorable James
Simon, Judge Of our said Court.
this 28th day Of February, "A. D.,
1919.
]. A. GONSOULIN,
Clerk Of Court, Iberia Parish.
e. s. Broussard, Atty.