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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05
BEAUCRATIC PROPAGANDA

That government departments and bureaus are maintaing
q host of press agents, whose publicity methods are too fire.
quently directed not SO much to spreading information of
iunctiOnaries they serve has become notorious.
Much of this output is distributed for newspaper use i'll q
form calculated to conceal its origin. And there are instances
where this reicence is not easily pardoned. A glaring case
mas been brought to the attention of the house Of rep
1esentatives-the distribution of matter from one of the gov
eminent bureaus attacking a member of congress, and
intended for the use of newspapers i'll his district as editorial
comment.
This precious example of the governments literary enter
prise asserted that the congressman named had broken faith
with his constituents in failing to support an appropriation
which the bureau sought. The insidious purpose, of course,
was to discredit the congressman back home, and pave the
way for his defeat. Newspapers receiving the article We're
urged to print it as their own utterance, and expressly
cautioned not to use the name of the official responsible for it.
An editor friendly to the attacked congressman turned
the communication over to him. with the observation: Rather
,nent would use its official press-agent matter to discredit a
member of congress-
Odd, indeed, but probably not without precedent. Out of
the taxes collected from the American people, or the money
borrowed from them, the printing of this stuff was paid for,
as well as the time Of the public servants concerned in its
preparation; and under the governments frank it was dis
tribuled without paying the post office for the service. If
federal offceholders must NEEDLE in politics all over the coun-
try, they ought to have the decency to go about it without
spending money from the public funds-or be put under com
pulsion, by congress, to restrain their pernicious activity.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05
TWO EX-pOST FACTO GERMAN VIEWS

Vol Holweg in his recently printed volumes admits that
in "a general way" he knew about the Serbian ultimatum.
The fact that he did not know all about it is due to the other
fact that the military over-lords were at the time the dictators
in Germany. He says that Won Motke is the man who ordered
the invasion of Belgium to which HOllweg was opposed. he
makes it clear that the military dicators had their way and
that they lorded it even over the kaist".
At the same time Won Bernhardi, the radical military
writer, who before the war preached the moral duty of nakingS
war and who proclaimed that it was Gerulanys duty t. court
downfall if it could not win world domination. lakes 4 some
what different view of the situation in 1914. He says that the
whole trouble was that they delayed the great war too long,
as he had often pointed out. They permitted the other nations
to prepare for a resistance. The Germans should have struck
their blow a year or so earlier and with even more severity
and then they would have won the world domination instead
of the world contempt which they have now garnered. And
he makes it plain that the kaiser was one of the men who
held back. He wanted the victory, but he was afraid of the
consequences. He was Their 9 coward as he has proved him
since.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05
LET THEM PRAY FOR SENSE BACK

The best thing that the Germans can do is to settle down
and take the medicine which they had prepared for others.
They have disturbed the world enough for one set of rowdies.
When they talk of new seeds for new wars being sown by the
allied peace makers they are talking without taking into con-
sideration that the nations which had to put down one of
their wars will see to it that they do not start another. The
next time they will not wait SO long. They will strike before
the Internal machines have been constructed for the blowing
up of peaceful nations. They know, or they ought to know,
that their offending has been not only against their neighbors,
but against all mankind and even against high heaven. They
have been DULLES of the world and if they could have sue
ceeded in their undertaking this would be a different world
today. Let us thank heaven that the danger has been averted
and let there be no decisions on the part of Germany that such
things will be suffered to happen again.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05
T%REACHEROUs NJ

The sinking of the German ships at Scapa Flow, kiel
and Wilhelmshaven is simply the latest proof of the absolute
unrustwOrthiness of the German people. Even the habitual
apologist for our beaten enemy will find it hard to frame an
excuse for this superfluous act of infidelity. 1t merely illus
|trates an inherent national trait-a well nigh incredible
capacity for public dishOnor. How are we to account for it?
For two generations the Germans have been taught that
any act committed in behalf of the state is a moral act, no
matter how it might be considered as between individuals.
Brought up on such teachings, the whole German people have
acquired a morally astigmatized vision. What appears
.atrocious to civilized peoples seems defensible and desirable
to them. They have a strong impulse to treachery, and we
must not forget it.
They signed the peace treaty because they had to, but
they do not intend to abide by it except so far as their craft
and ingenuity prove unequal to the task of evading it. Pre-
mier Bauer says in so many words that they cannot fulfill it.
The Rev. DR.. Baumgarten, professor of practical theology in
the University of Kel, declares, in an article in the Vossiche
Zeitung, that our poor nation at some subsequent period may
disclaim the action Of its present government and leaders Tin
accepting the allies terms) as having been based on erroneous
consideration, and so the decision to be made now would not
remain valid" Was there ever a more brazen and vicious
invitation to a nation to break its solemn word?
The German propaganda of dishOnor and intimidation is
active throughout the world. 1t is busy in this country as
elsewhere. WI must not think that, because the war is over
anC the peace terms have been signed, Germany proposes to
mend her ways. She will difuse her poison to the ends of the
earth. She will plan and plot for another great "day, when
she may be strong enough to overthrow the results of the
Treaty of Versailles. And we must be forever on our guard.
The truth is not in her. She has undergone no moral trans
formation. Her heart and soul are exactly what they were
when she plunged over the border of neutral Belgium five
years ago.
She will keep this treaty only as we force her to do SO.
We may admit her to the league of nations, but she will be
a stealthy plotter nevertheless for her own rehabilitation as
q world. power. How could we expect anything else? The
leopard cannot change his spots, nor can the German nation
suddenly forsake its ways. 1t is not as if a new spiritual
light had flooded Germany. There has been no reformation
in the minds or the hearts of her people. They have only
yielded to superior force, and they are ready at any instant
10 turn their venomous sting upon the rest of the wirld.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05
WHERE THERE is UNANIMITY

BY its resolution requesting the removal of Postmaster
General Burleson, the American Federation of Labor aligned
itself once more with popular sentiment in practically every
section of the country. There are more than lOOOOo,MO of US
and we disagreed sharply as to many things, but Mr.. Burleson
will always have the satisfaction of knowing tina he is one
Of few federal officeholders unanimously chosen for retire
ment-New York World.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05

Sarah Bernhardt thinks that there will be abundaent
and beautiful coverings in all the arts, now that the horrors
of the war are over. She says the reaction is already in evil
stage. The problem plays will be no more seen and a smile
will serve better than q thesis.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05

he would stand or fall with his ministry, headed by the good
Herr Scheidemann, thought better of it and permitted the
ministry to fall all by itself Herr Ebert is apparently be-
ginning to take himself as seriously as the divinely anointed
ruler who preceded him. Wilhelm II. had the notion that a
kaiser was too precious to lose.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05

The Commercial Gable company celebrates its freedom
from government control By announcing a sharp reduction
in rates to the philippines, China and Japan. 1t is disillus-
ioning when a "souness corporation treats people better than
their own government.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05
AND 1T STILL A v

The American flag has passed its i42nd birthday. It is
q long life as flags go today, but Old Glory has passed
through several baptisms of fire and waves today a S proudly
as when it was first unfurled with its thirteen stars and bars.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05

1t is now claimed that Commander Read who pulled OF
that Atlantic victory is the son of a Baptist minister. again
redeeming the good names of ministers sons.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05
TWO-CENT POSTAGE AGAIN

One welcome change scheduled for the near future is
The return to two cent letter postage. We shall all be glad to
be rid of the necessity of affixing three-cent stamps on our
out-of-town letters, and of paying two cents for the privilege
of sending a postal card. The cost of living is still extremely
high, but here we have a slraightout thirty-three and a third
per cent cut in an important item, for which let us be
thankful.
1t was in the early eighties that three-cent postage was
reduced to the familiar two-cent rate of the last generation.
Now we are merely going back to the reform OF that long
ago time. The war being over, there seems no sufficient
reason for maintaining the very considerable burden of three
cent stamps and twO-cent postal cards on the people.
Holders of three-cent stamps, by the way, may exchange
them for twocent stamps without loss within a month from
July first.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05

1t is the business of civilization to force the bearers of
the reid flag to run up the white flag.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05

Corn and also oats are uneven in The fields this year, due
to the wet weather in the earlier weeks of the spring. There
are fields of corn that are almost waist high, while others are
hardly more than ankle high.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05

The whole German navy now appears to be composed of
undersea boats.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
MEXICAN NOTE:
 HAS NOT Y: '
 BEEN RECEIVED
Officials Refuse to Make Amy Comment Before Text is Received

Washington, Dec. 1.-The reply
 of the Mexican government to the
 second American note renewing
 the request for the release or Con-
 snlar Agent Jenkins had not
 reached the state department to-
 night and officials said they had
 not been advised that it had been handed to George Summerlin, the American charge at the Mexican capital.
 Secretary Lansing, who refus- ed to read the text as given out in Mexico City last night and transmitted in an Associated Press dispatch, said he would have no comment to make before the of ficial text had been received.
 Before leaving for the border, where he is to resume the investi- gation into Mexican affairs now being conducted by the senate con- mittee of which he is chairman. Senator Fall, republican, New Mexico, issued a statement de-, claring the American government had started negotiations in the Jenkins case with an ultimatun and had ended up with a final abandonment of it's position.
 He added that in view of the recent events he had no reason to think that anything further would be done by the government Gin the Jenkins case or any other case other than to back-wash our hands in invisible water, roll cur eyes upward and proclaim peace on earth; good will to bandits
 After spending the Christmas holidays at his home, Senator Fall with Senator Smith,. democrat. Arizona. will resume the taking of testimony for the senate com mittee at San Antonio, Tex. He plans to hear there and in Wash ington John Lind, William Bay ard Hale, Duvall West and oth- er special agents who were sent into Mexico by President Wilson. Secretary Lansing and Former Secretary of State William Jen- aings Bryan, together with num- per of other witnesses, also are to oe summoned before the commit tee finally concludes it's investiga- .ion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Miners Will Act
 OH Leaders Decision

Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. IT. John L. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Workers cf America, tonight stated that it had not yet been determined when or where the general convention of the United Mine Workers uf America, to be called soon, would be held. It was decided at the meeting of the general committee of the mine workers here last week, to call such a convention to explain to the 2,100 delegates from the locals the reasons for the action taken by the committee in accepting the presidents proposal for ending the strike.
 Mir Lewis said the question of approval or disapproval of the general committees action would not come before the convention, as the decision reached at Indiana polls last week was final.
 Officials of the United Mine Workers today stated that part of the organization strike benc- fit fund, said to exceed $15,000,- 900 would be used in dispensing Christmas cheer among needy miners families.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
English Cotton
 industry Active;
 Many Become Rich

London, Dec. 17-Lively agita- ton in the Lancashire cotton ;n- dus5ry has been going on for the last three months according to reports reaching the American chamber of London, as syndicates have been buying up cotton mills at huge prices and floating new companies whose shares have been eagerly soatched up.
 In the last three months. SAWS the American chamDer, probably more than 70 mills nave changed hands and torUE z nave been made by owners who previously were men of only moderate finan- cial standing.
 The latest sensation was the 5,o00,000 pound deal, in which a London syndicate recently was re- ported to have purchased the business of Massrs Horrockses, Crewdon and company, the largest company of cotton spin ners and manufacturers in Ian cashire.
 With one exception these flota- tlons are being carried through by Lancashire men. The except ion is the syndicate now negotiat- ing the Horrockses deal.
 The next four or five years says the American chamber are looked forward to as a period of unsurpassed prosperity. The short age of mills and difficulties with regard to the construction and of new ones are cons.d- red to be resnonsible for the un- orecedeated buying of existing 1ndartakings at such huge prices.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Ignorance Behind
 Reds, Says Pershing

Columbus, O., Dec. 17.-Ghn. John J. Pershing was welcomed to Ohio's capital today.
 In his address before the gener- al assembly, General Pershing praised the part Ohio soldiers and the citizens played in the great war; voiced a plea for military training and urged patriotic citi- zens to stand loyalty together against the evil forces of anarchy and bolshevism.
 "The flag of unrest in the coun- try today" he said, "is largely due to ignorance of our American
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
R0bs Memphis Store
 of S13,0O0 Gems

Memphis, Tenn, Dec. IT, Welding a cloth bound hatchet on heavy plate glass window of the JeWelry store of Joseph Myeus, Inc, in the heart of the business section while a number of as- tonlshed pedestrians looked on, an unidentified young white man ear ly tonight broke the window, seiz- ed trays containing diamonds valued at $13,000 and escaped thru an alley. His trail was lost aft CT a chase of about 10 blocks thru the business section, the pursuit being aided by the finding of gems valued at $9,00o dropped by the robber at different points in his flight.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Cotton Spinners
 Plan Organization

London, Dec 7.-Federation 3f master cotton spinners has recom- mended to it's members, who em
 Dloy 150,O00 operatives, grant t9 the operatives of bonus of from one to three pounds per month during the first quarter of the new year. The estimated cost to the federati\ of 1,500,O00 pounds.
 The explanation of this action is that huge profits have been made by the master cototn spinners.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
SENATE WILL
 GET REPORTS
 UPON MEXICO
Information Obtained by Will sons Agents to be
 Submitted

Washington, Dec. 17.-Informa- tion obtained in Mexico and made the basis of reports to President
 Wilson is expected to be given to the senate committee Investigating Mexican affairs by John Lind, Will liam Bayard-H Hale and Dpval West and other special agents sent into that country by the president.
 Besides hearing these former of ficial representatives the commit tee plans to summon Former Sec retary of State William J. Bryan and Secretary Lansing in order that it's record of the relations of the two governments may be made more nearly complete.
 Such reports as the president S personal representatives made to the secretary of state are available in the records of the state depart ment already opened to the com mittee. but since practically the whole of their findings was sub mitted directly to the president only a small part has been made public.
 Mir. Vests testimony may be taken in Texas by Senator Fall of New Mexico, chairman of the committee, but it is probably that the others will be heard here eith- CT by Senator Brandegee, republic an, of Connecticut or by the full committee after the return of Senator Fall and Senator Smith, democrat, of Arizona from tho border
 Senator Fall will leave Wash lngton tonight for his home. He will be joined by Senator Smith and hearings will be resumed at San Antonio, Tex, after Christi mas. Whether Senator Brande- gee will sit with them is unde- termined The committee now has on it's lists of witnesses scores of names of those who are ex- pected to add tehir personal stor ies of conditions to the record al ready made.
 Senators believe the testimony to be taken along the border will serve to support Senator Falls charges that Carranza officials have been directly responsible for many of the Mexican raids across the border and will furnish addi- tlonal evidence on the part of the Mexican government officials have taken in furthering the plans of radicals in the United States.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
P Peace-Time War
 Plans are Urged

Washington, Dec. 17.-Peace- time industrial preparedness for war was recommended by Bernard M. Baruch, former chairman of tn. war industries board, in a repori to President Wilson, submitted to day to congress. Encourage ment by the government of the mining of essential war minerals, the preservation of skeleton muni- ticn plants and the creation of skeleton organization similar to the war industries board were the specific recommendations made by MT. Baruch.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Murguia Pursuing
 the Villa Forces

Eagle Pass, Tex, Dec. 17.-Gen- eral Francisco Murgia, with 1,500 Mexican federal troops, is pursu- ing the Villista forces which re- gently raided Muzquiz, Coahuila according to official reports receiv- ed today by William P. Blocker American consul at Piedras Ne gras, the Mexican town opposite here. The Villistas are reported their flight toward the of Chihuahua. General Murgia's troops were at Monclova today, the report said.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
FIRE AT CLEVELAND.

Cleveland, Dec. 71.-Firemen fought for five hours this morning to save the wholesale clothing dis triet from fire which started in a four-story brick building at St. Clair avenue and West Sixth street, entirely destroying with total loss estimated at $32,50O.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
TRAINS TO MEXICO.

San Antonio, Texas, Dec. IT, Through trains between the city of Mexico and the United States will be started on January 1. ac- cordlng to announcement from officials of the national railways of Mexico to Mexicans in San Antonio.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
OPPOSE RATE RAISE.

Mobile, Ala, Dec. 17.-Banana importers here and at other gulf ports are organizing to oppose be- fore the central freight rates on bananas, which, it is contended, would cost the importers of this city and New Orleans S400,OOO an- the local chamber of com merce announced today
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18

Cannon, it is charged, put. articles melting the coal min Missouri and Kansas to rems strike in defiance of the inius of the federal court at Indiar. during the coal strike.
 Cannon will be arraigned q row before Harry L. Arnold
 ted States commissioner.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
Communist Editor
 Put Under Arrest

P. Cannon, editor of "The Work CTS World said to be a commu- mist paper published here, was ar rested tonight by agents of the de
 partment of justice, charged with conspiracy to violate the Lever act.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
DEFER AIRPLANES.

Washington, Dec. 17.-Actipn on various proposals for a Unit ed Air Service was deferred today until after the Christmas recess by the house military committee.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18

Mrs. Guy Goodman, who has been visiting her parents, MT. and Mrs. w. s. Steed, 422 West Eighth avenue, for two weeks, left for her, home in Teague, Texas, yes terdaN. L..
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
As IntliIanza

Is an exaggerated form of grip LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets should be taken in larger doses than is prescribed for ordi- mar ygrip: A good plan is not to wait until you are sick, but PRE- VENT IF by taking LAXATIVE PROMO QUININE tablets in time.
 Adv.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18
LECT SEN ATE HEAD.

Brussels, Dec 17.-Mr de Fa. voreu of the Catholic party has been elected president of the sen ate.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-18

while the operatives have been barred by agreement from askiog for an advance in wages until next March.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-21
List Of Streets to Be Paved
In Richmond This Year
By speciaI corrsspOndsnt.

BV special correspondents
TOTTE.NVILLE, June 21.-Bor-
ough President Van Name has an
nounced q list of the streets In the
borough to be paved this year and
besides this a large sum Of money has
been set aside for making repairs to
streets where contractors have fail
ed to keep their agreement. The fol-
lowing is the list of the streets to be
paved in the borough:
Richmond Turnpike from Glove
Lake to Manor Road, n from Jew
EFT avenue TO Richmond emu Rich
mond avenue from Richmond Hill
Road to Arthur Kill Road. Forest
Hill Road from Farm Colony Road 10
Rockiand avenue Seaside Boulevard
from Sea avenue TO Camp Warren.
Van Duezr street from Broad street
to Vanderbilt venue. Wave street
from Bay street 70 Staten Island
Rapid Transit Railroad. Burgher ave-
nue. from Castleton avenue TO Cary
avenue. Manor Road from Richmond
Richmond Road from Concord to New
Dorp between and adjoining railroad
In addition to these streets there
will be about 100000 expended in
making repairs TO pavement under
guarantee by contractors WHIT have
failed to keep their agreement. II
is also expected that the Board OF
Estimate and Apportionment will ap-
money for repairing pave
ment adjoining the railroad tracks on
important streets.