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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-15
W MORE RIOTERS TO
Be TRIED AT HELENA

HELENA, Ark, Nov. 15. (Spl,)-Ed
Ware, negro. who had been sought by
authorities all over the country and
arrested several days ago at New Or
leans, will go On trial next Monday for
first degree murder in connection with
the insurrection at Elaine and Hoop
Spur early in October. He was brought
here from New orleans and placed in
jail Wednesday, Richard Mcfarland,
another negro, was brought with him,
and II is understood his case will also
come before the courts Monday for
trial as a participant in the race trouble.
The specific charge on which War;
will be tried will be for the killing Of
James Tappan and Clinton Lee, two
Helena boys, who were members of the
sheTiff's posse at the outbreak of the
trouble. 1t is understood the negro
win deny his guilt, The court granted
Wares request for the privilege Of Sc
curing his own counsel when the Judge
selected two local attorneys to defend
him.
Ware admits he was secretary of the
Hoop Spur lodge, and was present at
the meeting on the night of the shoot
ing at the church when w. A. Adkins
was killed and Deputy Charles Pratt
was severely wounded. He further ad-
mitted his presence the following day
during the battle. at Hoop Spur and
that he was armed with a high power
cd rifle.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-15

Three shaving conveniences are com
pactly arranged in a small cylindrical
aluminium case which is described in the
December Popular Mechanics Magazine,
A talcum powder can, fitted with a per-
forated cover, telescopes into a tubu-
lar receptacle which serves as a brush
handle and as a container for shaving
cream
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-15
HAYNES OUTPUT|N
1920 To Be HALF
Open HALF CLOSED

FIFTY per cent Of the automobiles pro-
uuceu hext year by the Haynes Autnno-
PIE company, Kokomo, Ind, will he
closed styles, according to plans now he
lng formulated. The other so per cent
VIII consist OF open models, This eonnl
division in the production of the onen
ana closed styles by a motor car institu-
tlon or the size and ealiber Of Tho
tiaynes company is believed to be with
out precedent in the automobile world
according to Thomas Il. Stratton, of the
Stratton Auto company, local Haynes
distributors
Not only is it a departure from the
older division of production, but II aIso
Is tremendously significant In that ID
marks the beginning OF a new era n thn
automobile history Of the country-an
era in which the closed car, long in the
minority, will hold sway as the popular
iavorite OF b automobile buying pub
Heretofore, open cars were manufac-
tured In greater quantities than closed
styles. Gradually, however. the closed
cars nave been growing in favor until
now II Is predicted that in time there
VIII be more closed cars seen on the
roads than open styles.
one needs but to turn to the evolu-
ton OF the street car to see an analo-
gous situation" states Mr.. A, G., Seiber-
ling, vlce-president and general mana
ger of the Haynes company. "Prac-
tically. all Of the earlier street cars were
open cars. Then came q period in which
we had summer cars and winter cars,
Today practically all street cars are
closed styles, with window rrangemen
whereby they may be transformed into
open, airy vehicles during the summer
months. The open street car is a thing
OF the past.
"A similar evolution seems to be TAX
ing place with the automobile. We find
today more closed cars in use than ever
before, and little by little the production
of the closed styles is creeping up on
that of the open ones.
the reason for this is that the auto
mobile purchasing public is realizing
more and more the all season value and
usefulness Of the closed car. In cold and
inclement weather 1T can be used as
readily and as conveniently as under
ideal motoring conditions. In warmer
weather, by lowering the glasses, the
closed car ha the same advantages as
the open car. The people are becoming
educated to these facts and are demand
ing closed cars. For that reason we are
now planning to divide our production
equally next year between the open and
closed car styles
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-15
TRI-STATE NEWS.
FEW Miners WORK
IN DISTRICT 10
Some Miners Await End of
Washington Conference Be-
fore Entering Mines.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 15.-The
situation In the Kentucky Tennessee
coal fields Is practically unchanged.
possibly fewer men working than had
begun on the previous day. The ex-
PLANTATION Of the miners most f~reuuent-
" heard Is that the order resembling
the strike call did not bear the official
seal OF the United Mine Workers of
America. In some places the men de-
clare they will not return 10 the mines
until the outcome OF the Washington
conference is known.
Operators who have been preparing
each morning to resume work are firing
OF tho expense involved with no pro-
duction to offset Il and there is talk
that many OF the mines after Monday
may suspend until further notice un-
less the miners show a willingness to
dig coal.
ments under which the miners are
working are wiped out that Il may be
the beginning Of a long and bitter strug-
gle In this field, the outcome Of which
none can forecast. Meetings held by
the miners In various camps Thursday
night resulted in a vose TO return to
work only at Oneida, Tenn, where
three local unions said to be from 900
to 400 strong had decided TO enter the
mines Monday morning.
Union officials say they have given
out the order resembling the strike and
d they can not force the men to
work II they do not see fit, also they
freely admit the men resent the fact
that the operators In this district did
not go to Washington and 1t is be-
lieved little surprise would be felt IL
the entire district again is idle Mon
day instead Of more mines working.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-15
YAZOO BANKS WIN BACK
TAX SUITS IN COURT

YAZoo CITY, Miss, Nov. is. (Spl.)-
Yazoo City's three banks won a legal
victory In circuit court now in session
In this county yesterday in the mat
ter of back taxes for which the state
IL suing and which are said to amount
to more than Si00. 900. The suit has
been brought by Stokes " Robinson,
state revenue agent, and the Bank Of
Yazoo city, the Citizens bank and Trust
company, and the Delta Bank and Trust
company are involved.
At the direction Of the state revenue
agent the county assessor raised the
assessment of the three banks to what
the state revenue agent claims to have
been their proper valuation for the
years 1910 to 1915, inclusive. The in
creased assessment means a very con-
siderable sum and the banks objected
to the assessment. The Yazoo county
board Of supervisors declined to approve
the increased assessment and the suit
was brought by the state revenue agent
TO enforce the payment OF the back
taxes.
Competent attorneys represented each
side in the controversy, n local peo-
| pie were much Interested In the out
come OF the case. The decision In the
circuit court dismisses the case, but
II is expected the state will appeal
from the local decision.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-15
NAVY CLUB WANTS
EVERY COB TO JOIN

Plans for a membership campaign in
which the Navy club hopes to secure
as members every former sailor IL
Memphis were laid Friday night at a.
meeting held at Chamber Of Commerce.
C.. II, Poland was ramed chairman Of
a committee to shortly open this drive,
], l.. Orr. who WAS instrumental In
forming the club, says he hopes every
COB here win uphold the traditions OF
the navy and that the first thing the
sea fighters can do in this direction is
to join the Navy club, Orr predicts that
the local organization will be on a a
with any in the country,
The team system to secure members
was adopted and the following teams
and chairmen were designated: Star
board, manned by j. Eddie Traylor.
Port, manned by A. (Swedel Calston,
Afterguards, manned by +. c. Frazier.
Each team will enlist as many mem
bers as possible and the winning team
at the close OF the campaign will be
given q trophy,
Chief Cox, OF the local recruiting sta
toned, Joined the club Friday night and
paid dues for one year, He informed
the meeting that the NC-4 would re-
turn TO Memphis Nov, IS, II was
unanimously decided 10 entertain mem
hers, Of the seaplane's crew while the
giant flying boat was In Memphis.
Plaas for this win be decided on later.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-15
BRUNSWICK LEVEE
IS NOW ASSURED
Thousands of Acres of Arabic
Land Will Be Above
High Water.

fAZOO CITY. Miss. Nov. Is. (SpL)
The building Of the Brunswick leyee.
raising thousands OF acres of swamp
lands in Mlssissippi's richest delta sec
o to an arabic height, now seems an
assured fact The proposition now has
the Endorsement OF both the present
ieVee boards in the district, of every
county in the district, OF the engineers
OF the boards and OF federal engineers
VINO nave viewed it, and the two levee
poarus nave concurred in the framing
o. a bill which win be introduced into
me next session of the Mississippi leg
STATURE with hardly a chance Of failure.
1 n Yazoo- Mississippi delta Ieyee
board was the last to take action on
me matter of the forming OF the new
district and a special meeting OF that
BOARD was held at Clarksdale Tuesday
u TINS week for the purpose OF con-
sldertng the proposition. Every mem
per q the board, with one exception,
tosetner with large delegations from
Nicksburg and from ~lssaduena' War
rem washington and Yazoo counties.
the president Of the board of Missis-
slppl leNee commissioners, WI Thomn-
son, who Is the chief engineer OF that
poaru. and a number OF others were
Some objections were found to a hin
which has been prepared and. which
was submitted on the occasion, and a
m was appointed to confer with
a = committee OF the lower leyee
board and these committees prepared
me bill which received the Endorsement
OF the body.
When the proposition Of the building
o. the Brunswick levee was last sub.
United TO the legislature, It became
entangied with the matter OF the form
lhs OF the new county OF Humphreys
its defeat. So far as is known now
the last opposition to the forming Of
the district has been cleared away and
me matter is sure to be passed by the
next legislature Of this state. Engineers
estimate that the new nigh water level
sIter me leyee has been built, will be
from TWO and a half 70 five feet
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-15
KNOXVILLE PRISONER IS
HELD AT ASHEVILLE, N. c.

KNOXVILLE. Tenn, Nov. 15.-A man
believed to be Worth White, convicted
OF murder OF Sam Greer. in Blount
county, who escaped from the Knox
county Jail Aug. 81, the night 1t was
stormed in an effort to lynch Maurice
Mayes. is being held at Asheville, N. C.
According TO Information received
williams, was arrested on the charge
OF forging checks, and was identified
by reward posters bearing his picture.
1t was alleged that White bought a
farm from Greer and gave him a bogus
check In payment for same. White
claims no paid cash. White claims
Greer was accidentally killed while rab-
bit hunting.
White had worked in a lumber camp
near Asheville and Sheriff Cate has
just returned from that section In
search OF him.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-15
BACK TO BUNTYN
FOR JOHN CORBETT

John Corbett, who was defeated in
the recent election for tax assessor BY
T. q. Scarborough. and who moved into
the city from Buntyn in order to be-
come a candidate, has moved back to
Buntyn since his defeat.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-15
PHYSICIAN ESCAPES
DEATH THREE TIMES

BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss. Nov. Is.
'Spl)-Dr. Hubert Carter, of this place,
now on the city health force, OF Mem
pms, has just had three narrow escapes
IRON a tragic death in one day.
Dr' Carter was standing near a
heavy. gate which collapsed suddenly
and almost caught him under its heavy
weight. He escaped by leaping into a
not to kill him with their kicking. The
gate cut n of his shoulders as il
crashed to the ground. On the same
evening while driving in his automo-
bile, another car ran into his machine,
making an ugly cut on DIR. Carter's
face and wounding him in one of his
knees.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29

out on May first. and also those that
will be mailed on June first, for
which no funds have been or will
be available until the deficiency bill
makes the trip to Paris and receives
the signature of our absent Execu-
tive.
Included in the bill also is an
item of $3,o0o.eoo for overdue Civil
War pensions that have been allow
ed to lapse because of the Presi-
dents refusal to put our legislative
machinery in operation. 1t is safe
to say that nearly all of the old
soldiers on the Federal pension roll
depend on their quarterly pension
checks for their very existence. and
there is no doubt that much real
suffering has been caused by the
delay in receiving them when due.
The alacrity with which the matter
was taken up by the new Republican
Congress. and efforts made to pro-
vide funds to meet the situation. is
testimony to the efficiency with
which the Nations needs will be
met henceforth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
HarpeStS Rule the World

cades of recurrent famine, with
wheat up 200 per cent above Eliza
bethan prices and wages of labor
only thirty-two per cent higher, We
of to-day know very we'll that such
conditions could not possibly have
failed to lend important impetus to
the political uprising.
Originally promoted, like the Rus
sian Revolution of 12S years later,
by political idealists, the French
Revolution passed quickly into the
hands of reckless fanatics, and one
of the reasons now admitted for
that unhappy circumstance lay in
the harvests of the period. The win
ter which introduced 1889, the Sc
verest in forty years. had ruined the
French crops and confronted a
while population with famine. In a
single province 10000 laborers were
thrown out of work; the same con-
ditions existed elsewhere in agri-
cultural France; with the result that
desperate peasants f1ocked from all
quarters of the country to Paris,
where they could at least live on the
scanty rations doled out by the gov
ernment. On the eve of July IA, the
anniversary of which France still
celebrates, the contemporary his
torians tell US that every bakery in
the city was surrounded by a crowd
clamoring for its meager allotment
of black and bitter bread. We are
able to judge, from present-day ex-
periences, just what effect such a
situation had and must have had
in turning over control of the Rev
olution from the philosophers to the
rchists.-Alexander Dana Noyes
in ''The Financial Situation" in the
June Scribner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
MADOO'S CHEAP TALK
By BRIGGS

[From the Albany IN. " Journal
William G.. McAdoo, former secre-
tary of the treasury, former director
OF railroads, and at present reputed
to be the occupant of lucrative
position in the movie business. in
Jected cheap ard foolish partisan
talk into an address which he de-
livered at conference of collectors
and appraisers of customs in the
New ork custom house.
After he had devoted some time to
defense OF his administration of the
railroads. he exclaimed:
Il say to you Democrats-and If
there are any Republicans here, to
them also-that there is no cause to
become indignant because a Demo-
cessful war"
Doubtless those words in print
brought a crooked smile to the faces
of many Americans, because they
know the fact TO be that the people
of the United States waged success
full warfare, in spite of a Democratic
administration which kept us out
of the war" and left us unprepared
during a period in which clear
visioned Americans saw that we
must enter the war ard therefore
ought to be very busy with prepara-
tions; an administration whose ap-
pointed public informant. George
Creel, expressed qualification over
our unpreparedness at the time when
at last the existence of a state of war
was recognized by the Congress.
ContiEuing in the strain of soap
box stump speaker, Mr.. McAdoo
asked, preposterously: Did the Re-
publicans want Germany to win be-
cause the administration was Demo-
crater"
Such a question reveals the plea
yune mind of Mr.. McAdoo. 1t can
not be a reflection upon the patriot
ism of the Republicans. Republi-
cans, ard doubtless many patriotic
Democrats, feared that Germany
might win. or at least that the war
might be greatly prolonged, because
the administration is in such ways
Democratic as Mr.. Wilson and his
associates have made it.
And Mr.. McAdoo declared that
just where the people stand will be
seen when 1920 comes around"
1t will be seen again. 1t was
| seer last November when the people
in response to the demand made by
Mr.. McAdoo's father-in-law. that
only Democrats be elected to the
Congress, a Republican Congress
was elected to take the place of the
Democratic one.
Mr.. McAdoo has been suspected
of harboring designs upon the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination. in
1920. He is placing on exhibition
his unfitness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
"FAIR PLAY?"
IHarveY,s WeeklY.l !

"If the American Democracy ac-
tually accepts the present terms of
peace as it's own" said the Herr
President Ebert, speaking for the
Hun, to the Associated Press corre-
spondent, lit becomes an accomplice
and abettor of political blackmail-
ers; it surrenders the traditional
American principle of fair play and
craftsmanship"
The Hun, this perjured violator of
the most solemn pledges; this ravish-
er of girls and kindergarten chill
dren; this wholesale murderer of
aged men, of priests at the altar and
of women with babies in their arms;
this creature who at the point of the
bayonet drove off tens of thousands
of men to slavery and of women to
enforced debasement; this common
thief and incendiary; this dynamiter
of hospitals wherein lay the sick, the
MANNED and the dying; this skulk-
ing assassin of the high seas; this
international brigand who in cold
blood and of calculated purpose
made a shamble of the world to
crafty his beastly greed for plunder
and power-this unspeakable Cali
bSth VI isAIiOASf IOW T0HucEcQ
potent, has the unspeakable effront-
cry to whine about American flair
play" and American sportsman
ship" He has not had fair play. That
much may be granted. Had he had
fair play, his own country would
have been laid waste with fire and
sword the horrors upon horrors
which he heaped upon every land
which his cave-dweller barbarians
swarmed over would have been Wis
tied upon his own country. In the
very nature OF things, he could not
and cannot have fair play. Fair play
for the Hun means another Hun
horde to see that it is administered.
And in all the world, where. outside
of the Huns own borders, could such
a horde of gorillas be recruited? No,
there can not be fair play for the
Hun. Mankind has not sunk low
enough to infiict 1t.
And this welcher. this snivellipg
loser in the game of butchery and
arson to which he challenged the
world. has now the stupefying in
science to swagger and buster about
"sportsmanship!" Far be it from us
to say that this is the limit of Hun
blackguardism. 1t probably isn't.
Hun blackguardism has no limit.
The only limit reached in this last
specimen is the limit of the imagina-
ton to conceive higher fight of in
science or a lower depth OF barbar-
| ian infamy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
NAKED MANGLED PEACE

tThe following quotation from
Shakespeare seems timely. although
historically 1t dates back to the
fourteenth century. The play is
Henry "" The kings of France
and England are assembled to settle
the peace, following a war that has
been waged on French soil. The
Duke of Burgundy, who has brought
the royal persons together in an
apartment of Charles Wis palace,
is talking.1
Since then my office hath so far
prevail'd
That, face to face and royal eye
to eye,
You have congreeted, let it not dis
grace me,
If I demand before this royal view,
What rub or what impediment
there is,
Why that the naked. poor and
mangled Peace,
Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and
joyful births.
Should not in this best garden of
the world,
Our fertile France, put up her love-
ly visage? +
Alas! she hath from France too long
been chas'd,
And all her husbandry doth lie on
heaps,
Corrupting in its own fertility.
Her vine, the merry cheerer of the
heart,
Unpruned dies; her hedges even
pleach'd,
Like prisoners wildly overgrown
with hair,
Put forth disorder'd twigs; her fall
The darnel. hemIock, and rank fu-
mitory
Doth root upon, while that the
coulter rusts
That should deracinate such saw
agery;
The even mead. that erst brought
sweeuy forth
The freckled cowslip. burnet and
green clover.
Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected.
rank,
Conceives by idleness and nothing
teens
But hateful docks, rough thistles,
kecksies, burs,
Losing both beauty and utility.
And as our vineyards, fallows,
meads and hedges,
Defective in their natures, grow to
wildness,
Even so our houses and ourselves
and children
Have lost, or do not learn for want
of time,
The sciences that should become our
country;
But grow like savages-as soldiers
will,
That nothing do but mediate on
blood
To swearing and stern looks, diff
fus'd attire,
And every thing that seems un-
natural.
Which to reduce into our former
You are assembled; and my speech
entreats
That may know the let why gentle
Should not expel these inconveni-
ences,
And bless Us with her former
qualities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
Commissioner SddIer's Task
philadelphia Bulletin.J

HilduSlpnld bulleun.
Lewis S. Sadler, State Highway
Commissioner. has held that office
for only four months, but within
that short time he has been giving
a good account of himself as
pusher and administrator.
Already he has done much to for
mulate an intelligent policy of high
way construction in Pennsylvania,
and he is steadily and even rapidly
producing an effective spirit of CO.
operation in the initial steps for its
contamination.
No such task as has been commit
ted to his hands in the prospective
expenditure of the fifty million dol
lars for State roads to the end that,
IL possible, the entire purpose may
be accomplished in the course of the
next four years. has ever before
been projected in this Common
wealth.
Commissioner Sadler has succeed
ed at the start in gaining public
confidence in it, as an undertaking
iDtelligently planned. and if it shall
be carried out in the spirit in which
it has been begun. Pennsylvania will
have the best State highway system
in the Union by 1923.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
tn HE outlook for the American
harvest has held a place of the

TN HE outlook for the American
harvest has held a place of the
very highest Importance in the
financial mind this spring; and for
more than one reason. BY a very
remarkable conjuncture of events. 1t
may be said that the promise of our
wheat crop-for which the govern
ment's official forecast is unques-
tionably the most remarkable in our
history-is itself an event not only
in American finance but in Euro
pean politics. This statement calls
for explanation. To many readers
of seasons news, the story of
agricultural vicissitudes, of food
production. importation, and expor-
tation, is technical and tedious. 1t
can be so, however, only because of
ignorance regarding the frequent
and dramatic reaction of the grain
trade on the course of history.
The influence at various critical
periods of the past, which harvest
results have exerted even on the
larger movement of political events.
has received only grudging recogni-
ton from the historians; yet there
have been many celebrated episodes
whose history could not be written
completely without taking account
of such influences. Few people as
sociate questions of agricultural
scarcity and agricultural prices with
the English Revolution of 1910, for
instance, and the subsequent down.
fall of Charles the First. Neverthe-
less, when patient Investigators have
established the fact that the con-
vening of the Long Parliament had
been preceded by two or three de-