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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-22
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS

lbs. 81 a'GG27I;: whI,s gctatoss New York
sTGT so. white potatoes, south Carolina
per bbl.,,-No. !. SIS; No. 9, So so. Sweet po
Cabbage southern. per hamper, sld ,2S
do. do, per crate. 81 .50d2 30; do. Norfolk
low. per crate Si.g5d4,75; do. white. pei
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-22

st. Louis. Mo-, May o2--HOGS- Re
celpts. IL, 500 head Lower. Lights. $50. ;
d2O.hO: pigs, s15.bO a Io.75: butchers. $50. Is
d2o. rs: heavy. $50. $50 2o.15.
CATTLE--Receipts. 5000 head steady.
Native beef steers. s1l.bod lS. so: heifers.
feeders SiOG1a.S so: calves. S775dl5hO
SHEEP-Receipts. 1900 head. Steady.
Lambs, SlS 20 6IlS. so: ewes. Sl36l4.5O.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-22
LIVESTOCK QUOTATIONS.

Chicago, May 22-HoGs-RccciPts 80, 900
head. Market fairly active. mostly 25Gt lOC
bulk. $50. G0W 2O.7N; heavy weight. 500 G5 n
?o.s0 medium weight. $50. 5oq 20. 7a; light
weight $50 .ssG2o.7a light lights. tl9. % @
20 80 heavy packing sows. smooth. $50. IS q
70. 80: packing sows. rough. sl9.73 n 20 -
plRf. SIS. S.5OGDI9AO
CATTLE-Receipts. IA 900 head. Oreninc
slow; early sales Of beef steers and butcher
she stock steady at yesterdays slow time
I bulls strong; calves steady to njC higher
stockers and light feeders steady. Beef
steers. medium and heavy weight. choice and
prime; sI5. .601ls.2S; medium and good,
weight. good and choice. s13, a l6; com.
NOR and medium. .tlCSo1g gis.75 butcher
II 30; Gamers and cutters s6.i0mS.l5; vnei
calves, light and handy weight. sI4 tam
BPS feeder steers. sl0.?5Ill.7H: stocker
steers So 2h n Is so
! SHEEP-Receipts. "a 900 head. Market
slow: spring lambs steady; strictly good Cali
fornia sprinss sls.7S,. Lambs. 81 hounds
down. 12.2hR "a So. s5 pounds un. Sl2.IIn
| 4 IS: culls and common sa1i".7h; snrings
3l6. 75@ 10: ycarlinC wethers. Sl 21m u;
culls and common. s45 O1p.75.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
ORDER KAISER'S BUSTS OUT
German Ministry of Education Directs
Removal From Schoolrooms
of Country.

Coblenz. = According to German
newspapers published in The unoccu-
pied districts beyond the American
bridgehead many schoolmasters dur
ing the revolution removed the busts
of the emperor and the crown prince
which decorated their classroons.
some time afterward the busts were
restored to their places. but recently
the ministry of education has ordered
them down again. There was also n
proposal to change the names of all
streets In Germany named in honor
of royalties. This has been met by the
press with some hilarlty and sugges-
lions that there were more important
topics for discussion just now than
names of streets.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
SCOUT ASLEEP KEPT SECRET.

But, mamma, what did l say2
What did I say?" There was anxi-
ETY. In the boy scouts tones.
The little fellow had Joined the ten
derfoot class of the boy scouts the
night before. and had been cautioned
not to reveal the password Of the
rank, to not even mention 1t "in his
Sleep"
Next morning his mother asked him
what made him SO nervous during his
sleep, telling him he had talked all
night long. according to the story
reaching J. Il. Pershing, scout execu-
tive Of Oklahoma City, cousin Of Gen.
eral Pershing.
When assured that the secret word
was still sacredly kept, he breathed
long sigh and the look Of re-
lief that swept his face was like
hurst Of sunshine after storm.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
PRINCIPLE OF SCOUTING.

Scouting is becoming an important
factor in the successful raising of
boys to manhood. The scout move
ment develops the sense of duty in
the youngster that enables him to
probe within himself for the manly
characteristics. It's man-size job to
he done In mans way, and w. A.
Perry, the editor of Scouting, offers a
few lines on that subject:
II am not interested in scouting in
a high-priced school amid landscape
gardening, and statuary, and drinking
fountains-all made by somebody else
i am interested in forest far from
civilization, where I must either con-
quer nature-or confess myself a
weakling. 1t is fine thing to teach
boys to stand in line with spotless uni
forms and win the applause of crowd
gathered to witness dress parade.
But / would rather develop a boy, so
that he could walk alone into a world
of wickedness, conscious Of the great
laws back of 1t all, with spirit which
would make him forget self and fight
for the right"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
WAS LONG FAMOUS HIGHWAY
Cumberland Pike WeII-Traveled
Road in the Early Days of
the Country.

When the immigrants traversed the
Santa Fe TRAIL when they went over
land to the Golden Gate. when they
traversed the prairies in every direc-
ton, they did not travel in trek carts,
says Dan Beard in Boys Life. They
travelled in what were known as prai-
rie schooners, and the prairie schooner
was a direct descendant of the cones
toga, and the conestoga wagon was the
freight wagon that carried all the
freight over the old Cumberland road.
or the Old Pike, as it was sometimes
called. This was the first good road
from Wheeling. w. Va, to Fort Cum
berland-now Cumberland, Md. pref
ty little town delightfully."- situated on
branch of the Potomac river. There
were two routes TO the Ohio valley,
one over the famous Boone trail to
Cumberland Gap biazed on the trees
in 1IT5. The other route was over the
Braddock road TO the Youghiougheny,
and II was in the general direction Of
this road that the Cumberland pike
was built, a splendid road of stone
covered with gravel that passed over
great arched bridges thrown across
the rayines and water courses. The
Cumberland road was laid out by an
Indian guide and in 1913 II was ac-
knowledged to be the greatest travelled
highway in America
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
United States Producing Arms at
High Speed When Fight
ing Ended.
WORK OF WINNING THE WAR
history OF Rifle Production Shows
Great Record-Many Tanks Under
Construction When Armistice
Came-Pistc.s Efficient.

Washington, e. C.-Machine guns
ana small arms produced by the mil
lions, ammunition turned out by the
billions of rounds and tanks built by
thousands when the armistice ended
nostllitleS, furnish the subject of chap
tiers just made public of the war de-
partment's history of the material"
side of winning the war.
In regard to machine gun production,
about which such hot controversy
waged in congress as a result of the
failure of the American army to adopt
Tor standard general use the Lewis
weapon used successfully abroad. the
report says manufacturing facilities
for machine guns in this country were
much more limited in extent than the
public had any notion of when the
united States entered the war or to-
day, and that there were at the out
break OF the war only two factories
which We're actually producing ma
chine guns in any quantity at all.
Dearth of Aircraft Guns.
The report says there was great
dearth of heavy machine guns for air
craft work, to be synchroniZed with
propellers. The Browning aircraft gun
would have met the requirements, but
1t would be long time before it could
| De produced In quantity. In seeking
stop gap weapon until the Browning
could be ready, the ordnance depart
ment, by zone of those surprising and
almost accidental successes" some
| times encountered, found that a modi-
fed Marlin gun which could be quick
ly produced met all requirements.
The work of the Brownings is de-
clared to have been spectacular as
compared with any existing weapons
OF this character. Up to November II
the production Of Browning rifles was
52.23S, a majority of which were in
France. In addition $4,000 Chauchat
guns had been purchased, so that
enough light automatic rifles were on
hand to supply 100 divisions, or an
army of 100000 men. In the same
time 41,804 heavy Brownings and
enough Vickers guns had been pro-
duced to make, with the HOtchkiss
weapons purchased from the French.
a total Of 54,627 of this type, or
enough to equip 200 divisions, or an
army of 100000.
Other production struggles described
include items varying in size from
trench knives to the 45-ton Mark VIII
tanks of British design, of which 1900
were being constructed in cooperation
with the British and 1,450 additional
wholly by American enterprise.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
TAKE LOOT FROM HUN
tons of chicory, 100000 candles, LOO
tons of soda. 200 dynamos, 1000 farm

tons of chicory. 100000 candles, LOO
tons of soda. 200 dynamos, 1000 farm
implements. 5000 shovels and picks.
In one sale of loot 10000 stoves have
been disposed of, mostly to Belgians
and French.
A cargo of rags was bid up to 1850
II ton before the auctioneer discovered
what the bidders already had learned
that the rags covered a store of
copper.
Here is Just partial list of the arti-
cles seized and now being sold by the
disposing board: Brooms, buckets,
trench mirrors, dried tripe, toilet pa
per, water bottles, hammers, lamps.
pumps, blunderbuses, carbide, beds,
spring mattresses, mousetraps, bells.
rotary pumps, wheelbarrows, harness,
mosquito netting (by the 1000 yards),
churns. Oil. paint, shovels, wire cut
ters, bags, paper string, paper bags,
medical stores, huts. field FORCES. uni
forms, bells. Klaxton horns. gas alarm
sirens.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
Typical Design of Split-Loo Drag

the rungs. these boards should be
about s inches wide and their length
should be slightly less than that of
the runners of the drag
The chain by means of which the
drag is drawn should be about feet
long and its links should be made
of three-eighrhs-inch steel. On light
drags two trace chains may be used
for this purpose.
Many road drags constructed as
above described, without metal-cut.ing
edges or other notifications, have been
very satisfactorily used where the con-
ditions were favorable. 1t is evident,
however. tIat such drags are effective
only on comparatively soft road sur
faces, and to diminish this limitation
and also to increase the life of the
drag II is very desirable to provid'
a metal-cutting edge for the front run
ner. An excellent edge of this kind
may be made from a strip of iron or
steel about une-fourth inch thick and
about four inches wide, and even old
wagon tires or wornout grader blades
have been very satisfactory.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
PLAN TO MAKE A ROAD DRAG
Illustration Shows an Implement
Which is Simple and inexpensive
Tough Wood Best.

trrepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
The accompanying illustration shows
a typical design for road drag which
Is very simple and inexpensive. The
design contemplates the use of an ordi.
nary log of timber, such rs may be
readily obtained in almost every local
ity. The log should be about or s
inches in diameter and from to feet
long, and should preferably be of hard,
tough wood which will not decay very
rapidly when exposed to the weather.
White oak, burr oak, chestnut, cedar
hickory, walnut, or any similar wood
may be satisfactorily used, provided
that it is well seasoned before the
drag is put into use. Railroad ties
have been frequently used for this
purpose and possess the advantage
that they are already cut to about the
right length. In selecting the tie,
however, care should be exercised to
see that 1t is of sound wood and of
the proper size.
The drag is made by splitting or
saving the log into two equal semi
cylinders, which are then framed to-
gether in the manner shown in the
illustration. The better of the two
pieces should form the front runner
of the drag. because it is the one sub
lected to the greater wear. Moreover,
while the front runner should always
be placed with the face forward, it is
.l,f, h., t1,at lts-
may be obtained by having the round
| part of the back runner go forward in
order to increase the smearing action
Of the drag. The two runners are
usually spaced from about 30 inches
| to 81 inches apart and are connected
in ladder fashion by means of cross
stakes or rungs.
The ends of the rungs are ordinarily
| fitted into pinch auger holes, bored in
! the runners, and are securely held In
place by means of end wedges. The
| auger holes are so arranged that the
runners, when framed together, will
be displaced in longitudinal direc
| ton with respect to each other. The
| object of this displacement, or offset
as 1t is usually termed, is to make the
ends of the front and back runners
follow approximately the same line on
the road while the drag is in oper-
| alton. The amount of displacement.
therefore, should depend on the amount
of skew necessary to make the drag
empty itself. But since this skew va
| ries with the condition of the road
| surface, the proper offset to be given
| to runners cannot be definitely fixed.
Under ordinary conditions an offset
| of from about ~ inches to about 16
inches will prove satisfactory.
In order to make it easy for man
to stand upon the drag and to shift his
weight properly when dragging over
hard surface, the drag should be
| provided with two 1-inch boards paral-
| lei to the runners and nailed down to
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
M'ADOO STRONG FOR SCOUTS

The following telegram from former
Secretary of the Treasury w. G. Nc.
Adoo was sent from Santa Barbara,
Cal, to Chief Scout Executive James
II. West of the Boy Scouts of America
New York:
Truly the organized boyhood of
America as constituted in the bow
scouts has rendered an extraordinary
and wonderful service to the country
in connection with the Liberty loan
and War and Thrift Stamps CAM
paigns. In the fourth Liberty loan
campaign am told that the boy scouts
secured subscriptions for $92. 600, 900
representing 100000 subscribers, and
that in the War and Thrift Stamps
campaign they have sold approximate
ly $42, 100000 to 2,156,OOO individuals.
This is an inspiring achievement, and
the Boy Scouts of America have vindi-
Gated by their initiative, patriotism,
energy and courage the highest con-
ceptions of junior American citizen
ship. Give the valiant troops of the
boy scout organization my warm con-
gratulatiOns and best wishes. 1 am
proud of these boys, and the country
is proud of them. There is still vital
work to be done for the country, and
look to the boy scouts to do their part
with the same valor and patriotism
they have exhibited in previous cam
paigns"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
GRIZZLY BEAR FROM ASIA
the Animal Came Here by
Way of Alaska.

The grizzly bear has been known TO
the white race little more than cen
fury Lewis and Clark wrote the first
official accounts of him in 1905 and he
was first discussed publicly in 1914 by
Gov. De Witt Clinton in New York city.
Guthrie's old geography says that he
was named Ursus horribilus by Natur-
ords indicate that the grizzly is Of
Asiatic origin He appears TO have
come into America about Il million
years ago over one of the prehistoric
land bridges that united Alaska and
Asia. Bears and dogs are descendants
from the same parent stock. The griz-
ely bear never eats human flesh, is not
ferocious and fights only in selfde-
Tense. He leads an adventurous life,
is a born explorer and ever has good
wilderness manners-never makes Mt
tacks. The numerous cases In which
the grizzly has been made a pet and
companion of man, where he was
Ihoughtfully, intellgently raised. show
him to be a superior animal, dignitied,
intelligent, loyal and uniformly good
tempered.
Not grizzly exists in any of the
four national parks of California, and
that animal, once so celebrated in that
state, is extinct there. He is also ex-
tinct over the greater portion of the
vast territory which he formerly oc-
cupied. and is verglng on extermna-
ton
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
DISQUIET IS SEEN
AMONG SLOVAKS

Pressburg Slovakia, Bohema.-Gen-
orally speaking, the situation in Sio-
vallia, formerly Il province of Hun
gary, now annexed to Czecho-Slovakia
is not without disquieting features
The honeymoon of the revolution has
passed and some of the establishment
bound to follow the introduction of n
new regime has set in. The Magyars
and the MagyariZed elements have not
as yet been recGnciled to the new re-
CINE, and the peasants have recovered
from their first enthusiasm. A difficult
task of reconciliation remains to be
performed by the Czechs.
The population of Slovakia is made
up of three elements-Slovak intelli-
gencia, which has always been very
strong for the union with Bohemia !;
the Magyars and Magyarized Germans,
and the peasantry. The intelligencia
has been completely satisfied by the
Czecho- Slovak government. The ad-
ministration has been handed over
completely to the very small number
of Slovak doctors, lawyers, authors
and professors that could be mustered
for service.
Magyars Ignored.
Meanwhile the Magyars and Mag
yarized elements have been quite ig-
nored by the government except where
the government could not find Slovak
to fill the job. Intense loyalty to the
old Hungarian rule characterizes these
people. They could be reconciled to
new conditions were they taken into
the Czech administration. But the
government at present prefers to fill
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
WAS TURNING OUT
GUNS BY MILLIONS

On November Il 81 tanks of the
French siN-ton type had been delivered
and by January 81 of this year POI
ot these six We're shipped abroad
Orders for 1000 Mark | light tanks
We're cancelled as were orders for To-
olo three-ton tanks. 10 of which had
been completed ON November IL.
The history of the rifle production
including all of the considerations
which led to the adoption of the stand
ardized British Enfield weapon for.
American use, also is fully outlined
The department states that it sees no
reason now to change its view that the
Mlsest course was that which was fol
lowed. The total rifle production in
the United States from the beginning
OF the war up to November o, 1918.
was 2.5o6,307, of which little more
than 100000 were Springfield rifles.
Pistols of v. S. Type Valuable.
Considerable attention is devoted TO
the production of automatic pistols
and reyolvers for the troops. Euro
pean countries failed to appreciate the
value of a large caliber, hard-hitting
weapon of the American type and the
chief use of pistols and revolvers in
European armies had been as orna-
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28

the vacancies left by the Slovak intel
ligencia with officials from Bohemia
and Moravia. This naturally angers
both the Magyarized element and those
Slovaks who are unfit but would like
to occupy all the Jobs.
A decided sentiment for real local
autonomy is making itself felt. On
the whole, the government may not be
opposed to granting an outspoken de-
mand for home rule in the province.
The peasants do not take much inter
est In theoretical politics. They COM
plain that the republic lasted only
three days. BY this they mean that
they were allowed to plumber the Jews
for only three days in the interval be-
tween the withdrawal of the Hungar-
ians and the arrival of the Czeehs.
During this time the peasants had
a very free hand. There were very
few towns or villages where they did
not completely clean up the Jewish
population, who are the shopkeepers
and small traders. and at times les
sors of estates. Now the peasants have
no longer the Jews to plumber their
interest In the new state has dimin-
ished. They were kept In state of
illiteracy by the Hungarians and
therefore are by no means ripe for
real self-government. However, just
now they are very bitter because they
claim the Czechs take their food sup
plies away.
Bolshevism Not Popular.
Bolshevism has not taken great
grip on the peasantry. Slovakia is
largely an agricultural district and we
know farmers are always the most
conservative element. In the few In
dustrial communities in the more
mountainous north and east certain
amount of unrest has developed. In
Kassav, far eastward, the large mills
| are not working and the food situation
is very bad, as 1t is in most of the in
dustrial districts. Here the workmen
hold meetings and growl in bolshevik
tone. Naturally Kassav is rather near
the Hungarian border. So that boil
SleNlSin tlieTt Woulu De natural. In
the other industrial districts the work
men seem to have taken out their
class-consciousness In making big de-
mands upon their employers. Not I'M
usual was ii for workmen to come TO
their employers and demand that they
receive percentage Of all profits ac-
crued since the wars beginning. With
all this discomfort the food situation
is very much involved.
Generally speaking, Slovakia would
not be the first province to go up in
anarchic flames. For the time being
the bolshevik Overturn in Hungaria
has had indeed a rather quieting eff
feet on Slovakia. The wealthy or
well to do who We're most attached
to their old fatherland now do not
relish the idea of returning to Hun
gary which will take all their property.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28

ments for officers uniforms, it is said.
With the standard army automatic
it is stated, "any average soldier with
average training can hit what he
shoots at. In almost the first skirmish
trench fighting. Such incidents as
that of the single American soldier
who dispersed or killed whole squad
of German bayoneteers which had sur
rounded him struck the enemy with
fear of Yankee prowess with the
pistol"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
BOY SCOUT po,Nos.

A boy scout firemanship examination
was held In Spokane. WASH. and the
rs scouts who took the examination
passed.
As their ''good turn" Troop No. IL
of Toledo, O.. scraped the church free
escape with wire brushes so 1t could
be repainted.
When a Vineland. N. j., milk dealer
offered the boy scouts prize to find
his 1900 missing bottles, one scout
found 80 in one back yard. Eighteen
scouts located 1857 bottles.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
Four Billion Dollars Worth Cap
tured by British.
Immense Amount of Stolen Property
Left Behind In Hurried Ger
man Retreat.

Nnmur. France.-Four billion dol
lars is the most conservative estimate
Of the value of the war loot captured
from the German army by the Brit
,sh because of the haste of the Hun
retreat.
Eight hundred barge loads, each car.
rying 500 tons, and 20,OoO trucks he'o
a part of the treasure.
Soms Of tho loads were coming 10
.,,pn,v the German army. Some were
cargoes taken from the allies ana load.
ed for shipment to Germany But the
latter was the least part One barge
carried 400 tons Of iron bolts. ooo
In one smrll area was seized 3o'ooo
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
The Richt View and the Wrono.

1.-THE man who makes good doesn't
wait for opportunity to knock he has
the door wide Open" says an exchange
That's the right spirit. The other day
we heard chap complaining because
old Opp didn't stick his toe In the door
like book agent.-Boston Transcript
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
Adrift and a Thirst.

water, water everywhere and not
a drop to drink !" exclaimed the an
cient mariner.
ayes" said the sympathetic mer-
maid. "Some anti-prohibitionist seems
to have denatured all the water"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28
MexiCanS Think Rebel
Chief Burst His Coffin

Chautla. MeXico.-Legends al
ready are beginning TO spring up
among the superstitious and tS-
norant regarding Emiliano Zap
alta, the rebel chief who met
death here on April 10. In an
attempt 10 preserve the bandits
body as long AS possible 10 give
the greatest number OF his fol
lowers n chance 20 see it, 1t
VAS packed in ice, In the ab-
sence of embalming fluids. The
ice burst the sides and top of
the flimsy coffin and gave rise
10 superstitious tales that the
"Attila of the South" as Zap
alta was called, was not really
dead. but had burst his coffin
and escaped.