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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10

The west leads the nation in per
capita auto ownership, according to
figures compiled by the bureau of pub
ncity of the Omaha Chamber of Com
merce. The first nin1 states are west
Of the Mississippi, viz: Nebraska
California, Iowa, South Dakota. Mon
tana, Kansas. North Dakota, Arizona
Minnesota. Michigan. in tenth place,
Is the leading state east of the Missis-
sippi In Nebraska there is an auto
TO every IS people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10

student of economic questions.
who has been considering government
ownership of public utilities, has found
twenty-seven reasons against it, the
last of the list being that it breeds
urOfa nitv"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10

Fifty years ago this year the National
Womans Suffrage association, the first
national organization of women,
formed iq New York City by Susan b.
Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10

1910. by the Wheeler Syndi-
cate. Incl
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15

left the army-the war being fought
and won-and quietly resumed his
place as a common policeman pound
ing a beat in Cardiff. The chairman
of the municipal bench made a point
of saying he was glad to see him back,
and even went so far as to congratu-
late Constable Ritchings publicly upon
his military record. In fact, 1t seems
there was a sort Of ceremony Of well
come.
So the lieutenant colonel with four
years Of active military service to his
credit and field rank, won at the 'front.'
displaying the ability to command
$1,000 and odd men, modestly under
took to take charge once more Of
casual drunks and disorderlies In that
busy Welsh mining town.
Somebody wrote an indignant letter
to a London paper about 1t, otherwise
apparently the incident would have
passed if not unnoticed, at least as not
more than ordinarily noticeable. AS
consequence the Watch Committee OF
Cardiff, equivalent to our police COM
missioner, took the ex-lieutenant COL
onel off his beat, and gave him a JOB
of training the police awkward squad
of recruits in the proper bearing and
behavior of a constable. The lord
mayor when pressed for information
whether there was any intention OF
appointing the distinguished officer to
a higher and more responsible position
on the force went to the length OF ad-
mitting that he thought he might say
all the members Of the Watch Com
mittee were sympathetic with this
idea, and that he had no doubt that
when the opportunity occurred Colonel
or Constable Ritchings would be given
a chance such as he deserved.
It was also said in authoritative
quarters Ito quote the British press
account) that Lieut.. Col Ritchings
himself recognized as. every right
thinking man would that he had a
moral obligation to return to the Car
diff police force for the reason that
the ratepayers had been contributing
during his absence to the support OF
his dependents at home. New York
Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15
TURKISH ATROCITIES.
Greek People Subjected to Most Terri
bile Cruelties.

Bile CrueltleS.
Charges that Turkish officials de-
cimated the Greek, population along
the Black Sea Coast, 250,000 men. wo-
men and children living between Sinop
and Ordu, without the shedding of
blood, but by "parboiling" the victims
in a Turkish bath and turning them
out half clad to die OF pneumonia or
other ills in the snow Of an Anatolian
winter are made in a letter from DIR.
George E. White, representative OF the
American Committee for Relief in the
Near East, made public recently.
The worst of the crimes laid to the
Turks. according to DR., White were
committed In the Winter OF 1916 and
1917 when orders were issued for the
deportation of the Greeks along the
Black Sea Coast. The people, he
wrote, were crowded into the steam
rooms of the baths in Chodum under
the pretense of sanitary regulations"
and after being tortured for hours
were turned out of doors into snow
almost knec-dcep, and without lodging
or food Their garments. which had
been taken from them for fumiSation,
were lost, ruined or stolen. Most of
the victims, ill-clad and shivering,
contracted tuberculosis and other pull
monary diseases and died in swarms'
on the way to exile, the letter declared.
DR.. White said that in the prov
incc of Rafra. where there were more
than 10000 village Greeks, now less
than $4,000 survive and every Greek
settlement has been burned. The num-
Der of orphans, including some Armen-
ian and Turkish children. in the entire
district, it was said aggregated 10000.
Since the armistice the doctor wrote
many of the deportees have been re-
turned to their ruined homes.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15

bareback that put his nephew on the
throne Of France. 1t was to Ma
poleon III, that Queen Victoria pre-
sented, Londwood,' where Napoleon
lived and died while at st. Helena.
Geographically st. Helena Is pc
culiarly fitted for an island prison.
It's volcanic formation accounts for
a half circle Of mountains which
permit only one landing place, that
at the islands single port and city,
Jamestown Uninhabited when discov-
cred ten years after Columbus sailed
for America, the island was settled
by British, Dutch and Portuguese.
In the days Of sailing vessels and be-
fore the Suez canal was opened the
islanders thrived by providing sup
plies for passing vessels. With the
passing of this market for their
meats and vegetables, the islands
principal industries waned and the
inhabitants dwindled until there are
now only about $500 persons, as
compared with twice that many resi-
dents thirty years ago. The island
belongs to Great Britain and is ad-
ministered directly by the-erown."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15
COLONEL BECOMES CONSTABLE,
Arthur Ritchinss Is Again A Cop In
His Little Welsh Town.

Everybody has heard of the Eng
lishman who went into the war a
private soldier and came out Briga-
dier general. A case even more re-
markable, however, Is reported from
Cardiff. Wales. end has C. eated some
thing more than local stir-though
Cardiff itself appears to have taken the
matter with entire calmness.
Before the war Arthur Ritchings
was police constable in the town. He
enlisted in the army in 1914 and serv-
ed in the ranks in that critical year
and the two years following. In No
vember, 1917, he was promoted second
lieutenant on the field, by February,
-91S, he was a captain. a little later
he was major. and the enl Of the war
found him a lieutenant colonel. In
that time he had been six times
wounded, he had won the decoration
Of Chevalier Of the Legion Of Honor,
the Croix de Guerre with palms, and
the military cross, having been men,
toned three times in dispatches and
having proved himself a gallant SOL
dier and able officer.
Not long ago Lieut., Col, Ritchings
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15

the British Isles, for 1t Is situated or
the same submarine ridge, stretching
from southeast to northwest across the
North Atlantic" says the bulletin
which is based on a communication
from Jon Stefansson.
Iceland is not a bleak, arctic region,
embedded in thick-ribbed ice, though
its northernmost peninsula, Rifstangi.
projects a mile north of the Arctic
circle.
No country on earth Of equal size
contains 80 varied and wonderful
phenomena. The glaciers of Switzer-
land; the fjords, salmon rivers, and
midnight sun Of Norway; the Volcano
es, grottoes, and solfataras Of Italy, on
grander scale; the mineral springs
of Germany; the geysers of New Zea-
land; the largest waterfall, next to
Niagara, in the world-all are here.
Nowhere has nature been so spend
thrift in giving a geological lesson to
man. If there be sermons in stones,
volumes lie unread here. Here we see
her titanic forces at work building up
country. Nowhere is 1t possible to
study so well the geological conditions
prevailing toward the close Of the
Glacial Epoch in Europe.
Iceland has another and greater
claim to ones interest It is, as Will
liam Norris said, the Greece Of the
North 1t produced in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries a literature un-
paralleled after Rome before the gold
en- age of England and France, in
character drawing, in passionate
dramatic power, in severe. noble SIM
plicity, in grim humor. All the
characters Of the Sagas live and move
today Every hill and headland and
valley in the island is full Of their
presence. The Icelander of today
knows them by heart. It Is as II
every Englishman, from pauper to
king, knew Shakespeare's historical
plays and could retell them more or
less in his or her own words. It has
kept the national spirit alive through
evil times. 1t has preserved the langu-
age almost untouched by time and
foreign intercourse.
yet this literary people still live in
pastoral and Homeric civilization.
which Is a modern lesson of the health.
fulness of human life lived in close
contact with the free, wild life Of ma
ture, such as would have delighted the
heart Of Rousseau or Thoreau.
For four hundred years Iceland was
an aristocratic republic, ruled by the
great families Of the early settlers,
among whom was a Morse queen of
Dublin. A fourteen days open air
parliament of all Iceland met annually
in June at Thingvellir. and the speak
er Of the law Qog-soguman) used to
recite from memory the whole Of the
unwritten. elaborate laws Of the coun-
try to the assembly. In 1262-1264 Ice
land was united to Norway, and in 1880
with Norway to Denmark. The Danlsf,
rule ruined the island economically
but since the granting Of self govern
ment and the establishment Of the
old parliament, in 1874, at Reykjavik,
great progress has been made"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15

Avenue, conducted exclusively for COL
ored men.
The Provident Hospital is the lead
ing institution of it's kind in the Unit
ed States. With the Nathan NJ. Freer
$4,000 home for nurses, the plant rep
resents an investment of $125,000, and
is free of debt. Its affairs are conducted
exclusively by negroes, and about one
third of the sufferers cared for there
are charity patients. Money for the
establishment of this institution was
given by Philip D. Armour, Marshall
Field, and George NJ. Pullman. deceas-
ed, and H. H. Kohlsaat, a retired
newspaper publisher.
Negro Institutions.
The Y. NJ. c. A. establishment cost
$1S5, 900. 1t has more than $500 men,
bers, and $50 young men live in its
dormitories. The negroes have their
own stores and theatres. and there Is
a bank conducted by a negro and
patronized almost exclusively by men,
bers of his race. Many newspapers are
published by and for negroes in Chi
cago. Some are local, but others have
national circulation. The Defender,
published by R. S. Abbott, has the
largest circulation Of its kind in the
United States.
In Chicago, as elsewhere, negro
families of the better class have always
been ambitious to get into better homes
and better surroundings. This has
been one of the chief causes of COM
plant. The entrance Of colored resi-
dents into highclass white neighbor-
hoods has always been met with pro-
tests, and sometimes with threats.
Sometimes real estate operators were
back of these invasions. They hoped
to profit by affecting real estate value.
A study of the negro housing prob
lem in Chicago made by the Chicago
School of Civics and Philanthropy re-
vealed that colored tenants paid dis
proportionately higher rent for their
apartments, which, as rule, were in
poorer repair than those Of their i'm
migrant neighbors.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS
Big Idea Now Being Asitated in Con.
qress.


Establishment Of department of
federal highways and definite trunk
line roads across the United States,
together with an appropriation Of ST.
zoe, 100000 for the work are the chief
provisions of bill introduced in con-
gress recently by Representative Os-
born of California
She measure, which Is urged by the
Los Angeles Chamber Of Commerce,
differs to some extent from the Town
send bill, which provides for federal
highway commission. Mr.. Osborns bill
definitely states the number of trunk
lines to be established, specifically
names the officers and their salaries,
and increases the appropriation cover
ing seven years from $45,000,000 to
LOO, 100000. 1t also grants the power
to appropriate highways anywhere in
the United States by condemnation so
that the federal government will not
be dependent upon the individual
states for assistance in development
Oh the highways.
The department of federal highways,
rs proposed, will have a secretary with
cabinet ranking. Not less than three
main line roads from the Atlantic
ocean to the Pacific ocean, and not less
than four main truck line roads from
the northern to the southern boundary
of the United States, are provided for.
The plan includes also not less than
two main truck line roads in each
state, together with intersecting roads
connecting the entire national high
way system.
An appropriation Of s1OO,OOO,O00 is
advocated Immediately, with $200,000,-
900 per year for the seven succeeding
fiscal years.
The system will not include any
highway in a place having a population
of 5000 or more except where the
houses are more than 200 feet apart.
The construction, maintenance, repair
and improvements, together with the
selection of these highways, will be
the duty of the secretary of the de-
partment.
Provision is made so that any lands
in the United States may be appro-
priated as right Of way for the high
way, either by contract or condemna-
ton. The secretary of war is author
lied to turn over such equipment as
may be necessary for construction and
maintenance.
The bill also includes amendments
for the federal road act, one of which
strikes out the maximum of $4,000
which is allowed per mile for payment
of roads and which would leave the
act without a definite maximum sum
specified. Bond issues may be made
under the provisions each year for
the amount Of the appropriation.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15
SOVEREIGN
Tonic for Ever
Builds Up Rundown Systems.

When your health has been under
minded by worry and overwork, when
your vitality is lowered, when you
have that don't care a rap" feeling.
when your nerves are depressed, when
your work appears too much for you.
you are then in a rundown condition.
Your system must be upheld by an
active tonic. You will find 1t in Sover.
eisn Tonic for Men, which gives new
strength and ambition-the very help
you need.
Sovereign Tonic for Men is a real
restoration, a blood maker and a nerve
builder.
When your blood Is impoverished
through the want of Iron, which pro-
duces rich red blood and changes food
into Giving tissue"-you will find the
remedy in Sovereign Tonic. Each tab
let contains 1 grain Of PREPARED
IRON with other blood and nerve pro-
ducts. You will be surprised and de-
lighted with the new strength and vim
Sovereign Tonic gives you.
You will begin to feel the efficacy Of
the Sovereign Tonic after the first dose.
Don't hesitate If you belong to the
Army Of "Hasbeens." Try Sovereign
Remedy without delay and become
once more a happy. contented member
Of society. receiving the full benefits of
what is your just rights In the battle
Of life.
Sovereign Tonic for Men will do moro
to brighten the world. to dispel gloom,
to make happy homes than all the me-
dicines that have been compounded.
Your druggist sells 1t or can get It
for you. Always in stock at The York
Drug Store. Price 31.00.
Sent by mail or receipt of price.
Sovereign Remedy Co.
1915 Filbert St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15
ICELAND

Illuminating Sketch Dealing With The
"Greece Of The North"
In connection with the rec ignition
Of the full sovereignty Of Iceland, re-
Gently accorded by Denmark, by which
the island enters the Danish federation
on equal terms with Denmark, the
National Geographic Soc,.ty has is
sued from its headquarters the fol-
lowing bulletin:
Geographically and gaologically
Iceland Is q part ola continuation OF
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15

trict. There are other colored sections
in the city, two on the south side and
one on the west side, but they are
restricted in area.
Advantages Of Negroes.
For years negroes lived in Chicago
without friction and without disturb
ances of any kind. Leaders of the race
held positions of trust. Thousands of
them bought homes. Many of them
achieved success as lawyers, physi-
clans, and in business. Their children
went to the public schools with white
children. There was no segregation.
Some negroes held public office, both
elective and appointive. Twelve negroes
have served in the Illinois state legis-
lature,
IL has been said that churches prob
ably WELD more power among negroes
than with any other single class in the
United States. The colored people in
Chicago have sixty churches, which
had a membership in 1916 of 31,S7O.
Their membership is probably much
larger now. They are financially pros
porous and most of the. larger ones
maintain employment agencies. Many
OF them conduct day nurseries where
children are cared for while their
mothers work.
| Chicago has two institutions con-
Quoted by colored people for members
of their own race, which are models of
their kind. One is the Provident Hos
; pital. at 16 West Thirty-sixth street,
which has figured prominently in the
days news concerning the rioting.
The other is the Wabash Avenue de-
partment of the Young Mems Christian
Association, at s,76a South Wabash
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15

The Two Essentials.-"Tommy,
asked the Sunday-school teacher, who
had been giving a lesson on baptism,
can you tell me the two things nee
essary to baptism"
"Yes'm," Tommy answered imme-
diately: water and a baby"
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-14
Miss Mildred Hale left this morn

Miss Mildred Hale left this morn ing on a weeks visit with friends at Blevins.
 R. Lee Mccain returned yesterday from a few days business trip to Phoenix, Ariz.
 Mrs. O. G. Wynn and children went out to Blevins this morning on a few days visit with relatives.
 Dale Wilson, Jr., returned to Hot Springs last night after a couple of days visit in the city with home folks.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-14

O. G. Wynn is spending the day at Arcadia attending to business mat ters.
 Joe Hamilton is spending the day in Little Rock attending to business matters.
 Mrs. J. A. White returned this morning from six weeks stay at Mineral Wells, Texas, for the benefit of her health. We are glad to state that Mrs. White is greatly improved.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-14
Rev. Stanley T. Baugh of BeVi

Rev. Stanley T. Baugh of Bladl was a visitor to the city this moni
 Mrs. P. c. Hamilton returned to ' home at Philadelphia this mori] after a visit in the city with frai
 Harry Lambert,a we'll known you man of Bodcaw, has accepted px tion as deputy county clerk, mi County Clerk Howell Herring.
 Hemstitching Machine now install at my home. Work promptly neatly done. Price 10c per yard. h w. R. White, IT,, phone No. 57.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-14
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

Miss Jerre Johnson is visiting friends in DeQueen. J. w. Patterson of Hope, was a visitor in Prescott last night.
 A bright, new dime is only Roy,n 10 cents-and so is BEVO
 everywhere.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-14

Monuments and tombstones made in Prescott. You can save agents com mission by calling on us before you buy. We can save you money on any, thing in our line. Patronize home in- dustry. Prescott Marble & Granite Works, W. H. McBryde, prop. 13dS
 Call Star Pressing Shop when you want quick service. All work guar anteed. Phone 268. 13d3
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-24

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-24

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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-09-22
GRAND FORKS HERALD-FALL FASHION EDITION

afEfNf91~As .r tHr~ .A=Lshn ~
;eG, with..outer Earrnen&A such -
Aprons, sSWeSters and house dresses.
Beautiful materials for. the adults
md child's dresses. in woods. silks.
figured and lowered georgettcs arc
being shown. while IN unusual varie-
II Of dainty blouseS r proving to be
OF hosiery, silk, wool and lysle. have
Just arrived; and dainty accessories,
in the way Of. handkerchiefs,, collars
and lingerie appeal&to the good dress
Bydars millinery department offer
some distinctive models in the early
fall. and winter styles. Several at
|tractive feather hats In glossy browns
and blacks are on display, and beau
ttfnl. veIvets, soft, comfortable felts
and coy wooden tams are inviting to
the purchaser Of the winter ward
robe -
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-09-22
BYDALS' SHOW:
. PLEASING Line
Stock In Dry-G Goods And
Women's And Ctildren's
Garments Is Complete

During the years which Bydars de-
partment store has served this COM
munity. it has gained for itself a repu-
tation which stands for quality and
economy in buying. An exceptionally
pleasing and well flled line Of goods
is now ready to be distributed to the
buyer who avAils himself Of the OPP
p~ortunity to take this advantage.
A complete line Of merchandise for
women and children is now available
from the new fall shipments, which
are arriving daily. Muslins and fan-
nels fllSthes shelves from which it IS
easy to select quality and pattern to
suit the needs Of the home dresser
and home keeper. A general stock
of wool underwear and flannel gar
ments r attracting the careful buy