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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-28
REPORT PROvEE UNTRUE;
 NERVOUS REGISTRATION
 HAS NOT OVERCOME ELKS

The report that several of the Elks who have been chosen to take prominent parts in the minstrel show had broken down from over study was denied yesterday by Mir. Clint Draper, the director of the show. "It is true," said MT. Drap- CT, that "Windy" Baker and w. s. Turner have heavy parts in the show but they are not light-weights and they are standing the strain remarkably we'll. Both have think ing parts" and also have shown a desire to talk out in meeting" and to make attempts at dancing, but 1 am confident we shall be able to control them. Leo M. Andrews has shown slight symptoms of brain flag, due to the long hours spent on endman's part, but we have him on a bran-mash diet and expect him to be in the pink of condition by Monday night. Simon Bloom too, shows a slight nervous ness. and claims he sees minstrel shows in his sleep, but that will wear off all right in about month. The rest of the troupe seem to have normal pulses and hearty ap- petites and the show looks like ready money"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-28
Patriotism And
 Charity Taught

The ritual of the Elks teaches patriotism above everything else unless it is charity, which is per haps the foundation ctone of the order. At every meeting of an Elk lodge, the order is draped with the American flag, and newly mi tiated members are admonished to love, respect and defend it. This ritualistic teaching is not of recent origin, but is of nearly fifty years standing.
 The leaders of the Elks arc among the leaders of the country in commercial, political and patrio tic work. They have placed the Order in the front rank among
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-28
Absent Brothers

We would be lacking in the spirit we represent, diG we not muse for a brief while to remem- Iber our absent brethren-.hose who have passed into the great beyond, to that bourne from which no traveller returneth." How we miss them. Each year more candles are snuffed, more stars burst into being at the annual Lodge of Sorrow of Uniontown 370. Again and again, the broth CTS gather to do the last sad, beautiful duty toward an Elk who has passed in to the eternal feed ing ground.
 Again and again, they solemnly tread the walks of the city of the dead, there tenderly committing a casket of clay into the fast en- braces of Mother Earth, giving back earth to earth. dust to dust, ashes to ashes, and sorrowfuliy turn again to the activities of life, leaving the brother to the last long sleep, awaiting the sound of the trumpet that shall cal the dead to life again.
 Our rooster of dead grows as the years advance. And yet, thus it is throughout all walks of life. Men lives his allotted time, is here for but a little time. as time is counted in the centuries that have gone, and is gathered home to his fathers. None may escape. Not one may stay when the hand of death beckons. 'Tis the unchangeable fate of mankind, of all life, of all things perishable and what is there in mortality that is imperishable? Death has his own time.
 And so, lowing to the inevit- able, yet holding in ever tender remembrances the good qualities the brotherly love and the sweet communion of those gone before, and forgetting forever the fault 5 that may have been theirs while here, and possessin~ the know ledge, as we do, thaA n a little while we, too, mus go as they have gone, we pause iu our mirth- ful moments and tenderly and lovingly pay this tribute to thelr memory. May they rest in peace. A young fellow, who was off on a jaunt out West, fell into hard luck and had to pawn one of his suits. Just before starting for home he managed to get it out again. When he reached home his mother, while unpacking his trunk came across the coat with the pawnbrokers' tag on it. f
 "John," she inquired. "what ic this tag on your coat?"
 John, not wishing to have his mother know of his temporary em- barrassment, said:
 "Oh, I was at dance anc checked my coat"
 Soon she came across the trous- CTS with the same kind of tag on them.
 "John,' she demanded, "what kind of a dance was that ?"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-28
Are AIl EIks

It is not fact which an Elk parades but it is nevertheless true that all but a few of the governors of state in the American Union are members of the order, four fifths of the members of congress (the house and senate) are mem bers, and most of the cabinet, and other high officials in Washington are in the order. Ex-Presdent Taft himself belongs. The order includes in it's membership lA every community the best citizeas and especially young men who are progressive, militant, and always in the forefront in community affairs.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-28
Elks Backed the
 Salvation Army
fContinued from Page Six) ,onov as they handed over to us!" What The Elks Can Do.
rlKs BOOSTER EDITION

{ r. isn't a new thing for the Elks 4o turn in and help in an emer, sency oy c either. Back in 1906 when .ha s'T news of the disaster in San TMrancisco M was flashed over the ,,;res Bob" Brown, of Louis Vile. Vile was grand exalted ruler of tha % order. He caught the first trsin t,. for Chicago, wiring Fred Robinson, then as as now grand sec retarv, to have five thousands dol lars in cash and tickets on the Overland Limited ready for him. Robinson gave him ten thousand, and Brown beat all records in reaching the coast.
 More money. in cash, kept coni- ;ng to him. He stayed out there ', for f weeks, and for a time the Elks were we the only people who had any cash at all for relief work-the hanks being closed.
 Brown tells one story of that time. He and lot of other relief workers, representing various or oanizations, went into little town on the peninsula that had been left an utter wreck. Brown spoke last at a meeting that was organized.
 aThe others passed around slips on which people could write down what they needed" Brown says Ut was fine-and it was all they could do. But when it came my turn I opened a satchel l had and slapped down five thousand dollars in bills.
 Here's what the Elks can do, MT. Mayor!" I said. "We happen to have the cash. Go to it!" The Elks contributed and sent in four hundred carloads of food to San Francisco. And they raised so much money that Brown couldn't spend it all, and out of the surplus fund was established that the l Elks have used ever since to give quick relief in case of disaster.
 They helped in the same way at the time of the Dayton floods in 1912, and after the forest fires in Minnesota last autumn.
 And at last Christmas no sol dier's children lacked Christmas cheer. House-to-house investiga- tions by the local lodges of the Elks took care of that. Christmas had been great Elk time always, Every lodge has sent members around, hunting up kids Santa Claus was pretty sure to overlook. And on Christmas morning there'd be basket, with dolls and sleds and oranges and candy. After Christmas there would be, as a rule, too, more permanent help Something to insure the future. But the Elks think kids ought to lave a good time Christmas, and hang the expense!
 Don't you rather like these Elks?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-28
Womanlike, Eh?

Old Bumpus was puzzled. Wo- men were queer, there was no doubt of it.
 "Oh, dear! I wish we had big, lovely house."
 What for?' said old Bumpus, juct to humor her.
 "Td like to give a party" she answered.
 Have you such crowd of friends it would give you pleasure to invite ?"
 "Y-yes. But such lot that it would be heavenly not to invite!" said his wife.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-28

those institutions that stan genuine Americanicm, and cially those which stand, mo- the order of their doing, bu
 the cardinal principle of doiA mediately whatever is to b. either for the country or f
 individual in distress.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-28

Judge-What are the pri charged with?
 Policeman-They are cou. golfers who got into a scral a ctroke, your honor. Judge-Send for the cou. terpreter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-28

Ex-Private I Ones: DGl talk near French :?
 Ex-Private s. Mith: 1 thin French would describe it bet
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-28

Arthur L. Wilson, the nimble footed and golden throated endman and vocalist, who will tell you about the return of Alexander and his band to Dixie-Land. Arthur sings with that joyous abandon that is characteristic of the carefree mem bers of the colored race.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-10-08
BLIGHTED POPULATIONS


The war, people say, is over, but the
results of the war are not yet realized.
They go far beyond the material de-
VISITATION, tn loss of life, and the
wreckage of bodies. The Professor
tells of the Joy in Lille when the AL
lies entered it. The people, then for
getting their hardships, were wild
with Enthusiasm; they seemed brim-
ming over with hope and new energy
but it was only momentary. out
burst. They had suffered too much
and too long-they could not hold
that spiritual pitch Their great fac
tories are now idle because the ma
chinery stolen by the Germans has
not been yet returned to them. This
coupled with poor transport in France
prevents them getting raw material
and there are other causes for idle
metaphysical and mental. He says
that Lille is a city of sick children;
many of them are suffering from con-
sumption, ricketts, and all manner of
diseases as the heritage Of four years
of undernournishment There is a
whole generation stunted and Grip
pied and what of the heritage that
generation will leave to the next?
More than that the mind of the people
are sick, the war seems to have
changed the men who fought in it OF
suffered by it. These men demand
thigh wages or willn OF work at all;
they are looking out for any way Of
pleasure they may find, and have nc
thrift; there are crimes of violence il
dark streets at night. In Lille as ir
Amiens there is much drunkenness
There is no sort of revival of the nor
NAL life. r
i So the blight Of an evil PrussiaI
war has fallen upon the osul of PEG
pie who we're farmerly noted. for SO
briefly, thrift and industry. II ha
J fallen upon people by the millions il
| many nations, who can recetaoine (To
many nations. Who can reckon tn
sum of. it or see to the end Of it.
) Sincerely, w. s. B.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-10-08
TODAY's EVENTS

Two hundred and fiftieth anniver-
sary of the death of Rembrandt, the
great painter.
Fiftieth anniversary Of the death Of
Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president
Of the United States.
Centenary of the birth of Alexander
Gregg, first bishop Of the Episcopal
diocese of Texas.
At sunset tonight begins the cele-
bration of "Succoth," or the feast of
the tabernacles an autumn harvest
festival celebrated by the Jews from
earliest times.
The first meeting of the Interna-
tional Law Association held since
1913 is to begin its sessions at Plym-
outh, England, today, with Lord
Reading presiding.
Eighty airplanes are to participate
in a transcontinental race arranged
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-10-08
baptisms 1O,496, additions to the

.baptisms 10,496, additions to the
churches by letter and otherwise,
1,7O3, total additions to the churches,
12,1ss, volunteers to the ministry or
mission work 1,727, personal workers
conferences held AT, addresses and
conferences on home missions 179,
and shop and factory meetings 312..
The aim set for the current year is
100 workers and 100000 souls won to
Christ.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-10-08
EVANGELlSTIC FORCES
OBTAIN LARGE RESULTS

While the influenza epidemic, which
forced many churches to close their
doors for number of weeks during
last fall and winter, greatly inter
ferred with the work of the Depart
ment of Evangelism of the Home Mis-
sion Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention, large results were OBJ
tanned last year. The number o.
workers was %, the services con
Quoted 6,327, sermons and addresse!
s,915, professed conversions 12,767
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-10-08

The triennial general convention Of
the Protestant Episcopal church,
which begins its sessions in Detroit
today, will face the most vital prob
lens for the future Of religion and
the social and economic lite of the
| world that have even come before the
general convention in the 1870 years OF
its history.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-10-08

In Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, in
connection with the convention Of
War Mothers, a national memorial
grove is to be planted today in men,
DRY of all Americans who were lost
in the world war.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-10-08
CONVENTIONS OPENING TODAY

Louisville-America Fisheries So
ciety.
Detroit - Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States.
Portland, Ore. Pacific Logging
Congress.
Washington, D. C.-Society of
Descendants of Henry Walcott.
New York-National Association OF
Box Manufacturers
Wisconsin Library AS
sociation.
Decatur, Ill.-Illinois Association
of Elks.
Alton, Ill.-Illinois Federation Of
Music Clubs.
Rochester-New York State Histor-
ical Association.
Medford, Ore. Oregon Congress OF
Mothers.
Columbus, Ohio branch OF
American Legion.
Montpelier, Vt.--Vermont Teach.
ers' Association.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-10-08

by the U. S. Army, and scheduled to
start simultaneously today from Miu-
cola, l.. l., and San Francisco.
Dominion society is interested in
the wedding at Toronto today Of Miss
Enid Hendrie, daughter Of the Lieu
tenant Governor of Ontario and Lady
Hendrie, to Col. Hugh owen, Of Mon
treal.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-29
BANDITS RETURN
KIDNAPPED BOY
Ransom Paid on Advice of
Mexico Which Promises
To Reimburse Father.

Philip Thompson. the 14-year-old son
of John West Thompson. an American
citizen. has been returned to his pa
rents by the Mexican bandits who
kidnapped him. The kidnapping took
place last Thursday within thirty
miles of Mexico City where Thomp-
son has a large ranch. the boy being
held for 1,5Oo pesos ransom.
The unusual feature OF the case is
that the Mexican foreign Office sug-
gested to Thompson that he pay the
ransom. and informed him that it
would reimburse him. The State De-
partment's announcement OF the re-
turn of young Thompson said:
"A dispatch from the American
Embassy at Mexico City announced
the release was effected by the pay
ment of the 1900 pesos demanded. the
foreign Office of Mexico recommend
ing payment of this ransonm for fear
the bandits might murder Thompson.
The foreign office has agreed to re-
fund the amount of the ransom ana
to take measures for capture and
punishment of the bandits
The Washington herald., 1919-07-29
FIGHTS TO SAVE
SHELL SHOCKED
Representative Ch argos
Battle Victims Are Now
Held In Madhouses.

Using reported conditions at St
Elizabeth's - the Government Insane
Asylum here-as a pivot, Representa-
tivt Carl W. Ricketts, Cohio) arnounc-
ed last n,sht ne wculd insist that
Congress appropriate money to prop
erly care for Americas sheIl-shocked
troops, instead of forcing them to
suffer among lunatics."
Representative Ricketts, yesterday
afternoon introduced a resolution ask
ing an investigation Of reports that
shell-shocked soldiers who passed
through q veritable hell on the bat
tlefelds OF France" are now being
treated in insane asylums In various
States. He said that he had made
personal tour through St. Eliza
oeth's in Anacostia, and that he was
now determined to fight this issue
and force a showdown in Congress
The bill was referred to the Military
Affairs Committee
Mr.. Ricketts, said last night he was
originally impelled to introduce the
resolution after he had received a
petition bearing 500 names from New
Straitsville. Ohio. which is in his
Congressional district.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-29
ESCAPE INJURY
IN PLANE CRASH
Passenger-Ls'len Airship
Turns TuttIe During
2,O00-foot Volplane.

Carrying twelve passengers, a
large Handley-Page bombing ma
chine, twin-motored. was forced by
engine trouble to make a precipit-
Gus descent from a 2ooo-foot aIti-
tude into the field of E. NJ. PenninE-
ton. a farmer. living three miles out
of Kinsale, Va, which is about
eighty miles from Washington.
In landing the huge airship turn
ed turtle, and although her passen-
gers were badly shaken. none, so far
as has been determined. sustained
any serious injury.
Lieut.. Robert H. Sells, the pilot,
was returning from Washington to
Hampton. Va. from whence he had
set out on a return trip. In coming
here he covered the distance from
Hampton, Va, about 40 miles air
line. in 100 minutes.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-29
CHILD'S SLAYER
STILL MENACED
Mobs Clamor for Prisoner
Who Admits Staying
6-Year-Old Girl.

Chicago. July 2S.-Thomas Fitz-
gerald. confessed slayer of 6-year-old
Janet Wilkinson. was formally
charged with murder today.
Slightly stopped. spectacled and as
cetic appearing, Fitzgerald coldly told
the court he had nothing to say. He
was held without bail for the grand
jury.
Contrasted with FitzgeraId's COOL
ness was the rage of Janet's father.
Throughout the arraignment he strug-
gIed with two detectives, arguing with
them in undertones- He appeared
ready to spring upon the man who for
five days held him in a torment of
suspense while an entire city hunted
the lost girl.
How Chicago was stirred was in
dicated by the crowds collecting
wherever Fitzgerald was scheduled to
appear. Outside the coroner's office
q mob collected, yelling Bring him
out. don't try him, give him to us!''
Let's hang him.
Crowds gathered also in the county
building and at the police station
where he was held.
A heavy guard surrounded the con-
fessed slayer, escortinG him from cell
and jur. room BY back ways.
Tie city couEcil began immediate
consideration Of an ordinance to make
uorons harmless.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-29
WI BRANDS JAPAN'S
PROMISES INSINCERE

Declaring that American public
opinion should be forewarned of the
intentions OF Japan with regard to
Shantung. DR.. c. T. WI, one Of the
Chinese delegates to the Peace Con-
ference, said last night that the
United States should not be deceived
by grandiloquent statements from
Japan that she would return Kiao-
chow to China within one year or a
less period.
What China wants" he said. fs
not the shell. but the substance
Japan may say that she is going
TO return kiaochow within a year,
and that the sovereignty of the
Shantung province will be once
more vested in China, but that will
be mockery as long as Japan re-
tains her economic concessions and
control of the railroads."
The Washington herald., 1919-07-29
CHILD MURDERER
Gets ONE YEAR
Mrs. Dunn Sentenced to
Prison After Pleading
Guilty to Manslaughter.

Pittsfeld. Mass, July 2S-The trial
Of Mrs. Gladys c. Dunn for the shoot
ing Of her S-year-old boy was brought
10 an abrupt close today when. sob
htng, the mother Unexpectedly plerd-
I'd guilty to manslaughter and was
sentenced to one year at hard labor
at the Pittsfield House Of Correction.
Soon after the court convened to-
DAY John Noxen. Mrs. Dunn's attor-
ney. announced Mrs. Dunn desired to
change her plea OF not guilty OF sec
ond degree murder. on which charge
she was being tried, to one Of guilty
of manslaughter.
me trial had progressed three DAYS,
and the defense had pleaded hat
Mrs. Dunn was insane when she s,ot
her little boy.
trembling and ashen, Mrs. Dunn
To-Day was led to the petitioners
place
In voice that scarcely could he
heard at the opposite end Of the
court the pretty young mother said
Yes-I plead guilty to mar,
slaughter"
She seemed on the verge of COL
iapsins and swayed slightly. Her
husband rushed to her side and led
her to a chair
Justice Brown. in pronouncinr
sentence. said:
In view of what I believe the
aetendant has suffered and what
she VIII suffer. the court is dis
posed to leniency. Nothing that
could impose probably could add TO
the torture she has already suffered
rhe court thereby accepts the nIea
OF guilty to manslaughter and sen-
fences the defendant to one wear in
the Fittsfeld House of Correction"
Mrs. Dunn is the wife Of Allan q
Dunn. former magazine editor and
novelist
The Washington herald., 1919-07-29
D. C. PROFITEERS
ARE INCREASING
COST OF FOOD
So Say Experts at Senate
Probe Who Are Unable
To Designate Guilty.
IU. S. CLERKS SUFFERERS
Ball Charges Wholesalers
And Retailers Have Con-
sumers Powerless.
IU. S. CLERKS SUFFERERS

Conn airing notes with Eve govern
mental experts, members Of the Senate
subcommittee investigating the high
cost Of living in the District yester-
day. considerably strengthened the ar
ray of facts they are gathering with
the object Of eliminating the profiteer
Senator l. H. Ball. presided at the
meeting yesterday afternoon in the alb
sence Of Senator Sherman. Senator
Arthur Capper was the only other
member of the committee present
Senator Capper quizzed each of the
experts and clarified many of the
views held by the committee members.
DR.. Royal Meeker. commissioner Of
labor statistics. held the floor for the
greater portion of the hour and a half
session He was followed, in turn, by
DR.. w. B. Moser, of the reclassifica-
ton commission, Lieut.. Col Thomas
W. Miller. former Representative from
Delaware, w. Y. Durand. of the Fed
eral Trade Commission, and n. w
Barrett. formerly of the Federal Trade
Commission
That profiteering in the District
is growing every day was asserted
by the experts but they were un-
able to give any specific advice as
to just how the profiteer works,
who he is and in what manner he
can be put under the governmental
thumb.
DR.. Meeker dwelt on the fact that
the District particularly suffers by
profiteering because the majority
OF the population consists of govI
ernment clerks whose salaries do
not keep pace with the soaring
foodstuff prices.
The belief was expressed by SEN
ator Ball that inasmuch as there
was an enormous demand for food
stuffs in the District the retailers
and wholesalers had the consumer
in their power and were charging
whatever they pleased.
Senator Ball announced that he
hoped to call another meeting We'd
nesday.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-29
HOGAN REFUTED
BY UNTERMEyER
Attorney Also Denies He
Was Go-Between in Offer
To Riggs Bank.

Testifying in behalf of John Skel-
ton Williams, Comptroller of the
Currency. yesterday. Samuel Inter-
myer, a New York attorney, who
was counsel for Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo in the civil suit
brought by the Riggs National Bank.
vigorously refuted testimony given
by Frank ]. Hogan. counsel of the
Riggs National Bank.
He corroborated Mr.. williams
denial that he had represented the
Comptroller in proposition to
Hogan for renewal of the Riggs
charter on the condition that the
bank officers resign.
Mr.. Williams spent much time on
the stand. himself. yesterday. The
hearing will be resumed this morn
ing.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-29
-Four Regiments MobiII.ed,

The militiamen of four regiments
were ordered mobilized and gather
ed at the armories awaiting orders
from Gov. Lowden.
Following the attack by the
negroes on the armory on the South
side, in which four men were killed
and ten wounded. 500 policemen
were rushed to the scene with or
ders to shoot to kill
Adjt Gen. Frank S. Dickson, in
command Of the Illinois National
Guard, reached here tonight from
Springfield. He took personal
charge of the affected area
In the vicinity of Thirty-hfth and
State streets, the heart Of the black
belt" the most serious problem con-
fronted the authorities. More than
2.5oo negroes. many Of them stock
yard workers, congregated- threaten
ing TO move against the whites. Two
blocks distant a mob Of fully Zcco
white men gathered. ready to repel
an attack or launch an assault II "a