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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
RELIEF FOR COAL
CAR SHORTAGE
OFFICIAL OF RAILROAD ADMINS
TRATION HAS CONFERENCE
WITH a COMMITTEE.
AGREE ON A DEFINITE PLAN
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Will
Receive $50 Cars Daily From
Other Roads to Relieve
Present Shortage.

| Washington-As the result of the
conference participated in by A. G.
| Guthheim. head of the car service sec
ton of the railroad administration, a
committee OF nine representing the
coal operators of Tennessee and Ken
lucky and senators form six southern
states, Kentucky. Tennessee, Georgia,
Florida and North and South Carolina,
and by Mr.. Gutheim and w. L. Ma
pother of the Louisville & Nashville
railroad, the railroad administration Of
ficial assured the senators and the rep
resentatives of the coal operators that
he and Mr.. Mapothe had arrived at
plan, which, they believe, promises i'm
mediate and substantial relief from the
acute shortage of cars on the Louis
vile & Nashville railroad, which has
threatened to result in a coal famine
throughout the coming south during
the coming winter. The orders to
carry out this plan were put into eff
feet by the railroad administration.
The plan agreed upon for relieving
the coal car shortage in Kentucky and
Tennessee provides that $50 cars from
roads in the eastern region and 270
cars form OI0eF TOdUS III the SOuIueTN
region shall be turned over to the
Louisville & Nashville railroad by the
administration daily during ten days
this not to include cars returned tc
the l.. & ~. for other cars taken from
it. This will bring 4.500 additional coal
cars to the L. & n. road and Mr.. Guth
helm assured the senators and coal OBJ
orators that the railroad administra
ton viii do everything possible to
equalize the distribution of the coai
car supply from now on.
The coal operators decided to &C
ept for trial the arrangements made
BY Mr.. Guthheim and Mr.. Mapother
but insisted that beside the remedy
the alleged discrimination agains
them, they should receive the differ
ence between the percentage of car
which the Kentucky and Tennessee
fields have received during the las
several months and the much highe
percentage of cars received in tn
other coal fields during that period
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
ROAD
Bull DING
BOND ISSUE IS BIG PROBLEM
Best Means TO Pull Counties Out Of
Land of Mud-Make All Improve
ments Permanent.

The biggest single issue before the
people today is good roads; biggest
not alone of itself. but biggest be-
cause the prompt and satisfactory so
tuition of a permanent road system in
every state will help to solve a half
dozen fundamental problems and In
directly affect for good. as well as in
dollars and cents. almost every phase
of farm, social and industrial life in
the state. We cannot expect to have
a real system Of roads unless IL is
based on large units and this is best
accomplished by accepting the county
and state basis with few experienced
and responsible men in charge in each
case. We must have roads that begin
and end somewhere.
Many counties are presenting to the
taxpayers the question of bond issue
for the improvement of their high
ways. The bond issue for a public
Improvement should be governed by
the same considerations which govern
a bond issue by. any business organize
ton. When a manufacturing concern
issues bonds, the money raised is
placed in permanent improvements in
the plant which will last far beyond
the life of the bonds, or else no in
weston would purchase the securities.
Bonds for municipal purposes or for
public improvements are not always
subjected TO this acid test, and in
stances are numerous in this country
where bonds for twenty years have
been issued for the construction of
public roads. where the type of roads
built with the proceeds of the bond
issue could not possibly last more than
ten years, and even then expensive
maintenance is continually necessary.
In some instances history shows that
during the life of such bond issue
the original road has been worn out
and rebuilt with a different material,
and with the proceeds of subsequent
bond issues as many as three times,
and still the original bonds are a liza
bility on the community.
Bond issues for better roads are the
best means to pull counties out Of the
Land of Mud. But it must be certain
that the road improvements will last
the life of the bonds. This can be as
sured by securing expert and unpreju-
diced engineering advice on the best
kind of roads for the soil. The bank
er can perform yeoman service IN this
connection.
In the state of Iowa the man who be-
gan with nothing and now owns a $780,
600 farm. believes in paying as he goes
when building a road, but he will bOr-
row money from an insurance company
with which to buy more land, and he
has not yet seen that when he builds
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
BIG DETERIORATION COTTON
Reports From All Sections Show There
Has Been Big Slump in the
Past Month.

Memphis--Reports by correspond
ents of the Commercial Appeal indi
cate that the condition of the cotton
crop at September %, 1919, was 80 !
per cent of a normal, indicating a yield
of 104S2 600 bales.
This compares with a condlolon of
62.6 per cent at August 20 and alloV
80 per cent for acreage abandonment.
which estimate relating to acreage was
announced in our report for the end
june period.
It also compares with an end-S'ep-
TENDER condition of ST. per cent last
year and 10-year average condition
department of Agriculture figuresr
at September %, of 63.5 per cent of a
normal.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03

ABANDoNS SPEAKING TRIP AND
RETURNS TO WASHINGTON
TO SEEK REST.
ON ADVICE OF PHYSICIAN
Indigestion and Slight Cold, Coupled
With Strenuousness of Trip. Make
Necessary Cancellation OF
All engagements

Kansas City. Mo.-President Wilson
passed through this city on his way TO
Washington. having abandoned his tour
and cancelled all speaking engage
ments on advice OF his physician. He
is suffering from nervous exhaustion
and intestinal disorder His condition
was such that Admiral Cary T. Gray
son his personal physician, ordered his
| immediate return TO Washington and
the cancellation of the remaining en-
gagements in his nationwide tour on
behalf of the. peace treaty and the
| league OF nations covenant
The president has been on the verge
of a serious sickness for the past
week. The strain of the trip Slapped
at his reserve strength and made in
roads to the extent that tonight he is
a weak man. 4 bulletin ON his condi2
ton was issued by Or. Grayson, and is
as follows:
president Wilson's condition is due
to Overwork. The trouble dates back
to an attack of influenza last April i'm
Paris. from which he has never en-
tirely recovered. The presidents ac-
tivities on this trip have oXertaSed bis
strength and he is suffering from ner-
vous exhaustion. His condition is not
alarming. but it win be necessary for
his recovery that he have a rest and
quiet for considerable time
Joesph P. Tumulty. secretary to the
president. also issued the following
statement
Upon the advice of Rear Admiral
Grayson. the presidents physician. It
has become necessary to cancel all
the presidents engagements for the
immediate future"
Unless the president takes a decided
turn toward the better he will be IN
able to go to New York TO welcome
the king and queen of Belgium to the
United States; he will not be present
at the forthcoming industrial confer
ence in Washington between capital
and labor. which will proceed at all
events: he will not be able to attend
the sessions of the international labor
conference which convenes at the cap
ital the last of October; he will have
to forego entertaining either the
prince of Wales or Cardinal MERCER
of Belgium, and he Will be compelled
TO leave the fortunes of his fight for
the ratification of the peace treaty
and the league of nations covenants
in the hands of his Heutenants in the
senate
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
ITALIANS ARE MUCH WORRIED
Situation At Fiume Perplexing To ital
ian Government Which Fears
Use of Force.

Rome-Ca binet ministers do nc
conceal the enormous gravity of the
situation and the serious difficult,
not to say the impossibility. Of findin
a satisfactory solution to the FUN
-roblem. They do not want to Us
force against Capt D'Annunzio. wis
ing to avoid fratricidal conflict, and
: said this hesitation may be partl
due to the fact that troops ordere
against the poets forces might refuse
70 obey orders.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
ROME DENIES THE REPORT
Claim Made That President Wilson
Has Not Demanded Retire
ment From Fiume.

Rome-The Stefani Agency. the
iemi-official Italian news agency. de-
les President Wilson has demanded
the expulsion of Gabrielle D'Annunzio
rom Fiume or threatened an economic
blockade of Italy.
The news agency adds that Presi-
dent Wilson sent two dispatches, one
Of them reaching the American delega-
ion in Paris Thursday morning and
he other arrived il Rome Friday
morning Both of them were without
menace, according to the news agency
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
PRISON HORRORS" OF ARMY
Congressional Committee Returns
From France With Gloomy Re
port On Prison Conditions

New Bringing a report OF
outrageous cruelties perpetrated on
American soldiers" in prisons Of the
American Expeditionary Forces in
France, the congressional committee
sent overseas to investigate tales of
army prison horrors" arrived here
on the transport Agamemnon from
Brest. The party was compose% Of
Representatives Royal c. Johnson Of
South Dakota. chairman; Oscar T.
Bland. Indiana, and Henry d. Flood
Virginia.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03

n concrete bridge with one years
tax money, he has made a Christmas
present OF that bridge TO posterity for
the next one hundred years. He says
that thirty-year paved roads are i'm
possible because $4,000 per mile is
too much to pay out of one years tax
money, and it has not occurred TO him
that there will still be taxpayers when
he is dead and gone, who will be using
that road, and by rights should have
TO pay some of it--Wallace's Farmer.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03

Eagle River. Mich.-To cheat the
graveyard" of Lake Superior of furth-
er victims after taking toll of Great
Lakes shipping for nearly century
the United States government has just
completed construction of a light sta
ton aid to marines five miles east of
this point.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
MARINES LAID IN DAlMaTiA
.merica's Fighting Sailors Land From
Torpedo Boat Destroyer and
All Is Well.

Copenhagen. American marines
uded from a torpedo boat destroyer
, compel the Italians to evacuate
rau. Dalmatia. according to a dis
'atch received here from Spalato, a
ort distance east of Trau. The dis
atch adds that the Italians left after
e Inhabitants fired on them and that
ugo-Slav troops took over the towr
rom the Americans.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
ITALIAN POETGETS REGULARS
Reported That Troops of Italian Army
Are Going Over To D'Annun-
zio at Fiume.

Fiume.-Four companies of Italian
infantry guarding the armistice line
went over to Capt. d'Annunzios force
The conservative figures place the
number of troops at Fiume at 5000,
consisting of infantry, cavalry, artil-
lery, aviators, marines and sailors
Two brigades can be formed from
these forces
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03

Natchez.-A meeting of all the moth
ers, wives and sisters of men who were
in military service from Natchez and
Adams county has been called for the
purpose OF organizing a local branch
of the War Mothers of America
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
COST OF VARIOUS HIGHWAYS
Macadam Road Is Most Expensive, But
When Built Is Satisfactory and
Permanent.

Dirt roads are ordinarily surfaced
with sand, mixed with clay or with
gravel, or brick, or crushed stone, con-
crete or other like material. The grav-
ell road will cost from 1900 to $500
a mile-the difference in cost depend
ing upon the accessibility of gravel.
The macadamized road costs from 81.
600 to $4,000 per mile. Ii is the most
expensive, but when well built is both
satisfactory and permanent.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
To Attend Labor Congress.

Buenos Aires.-Governors OF the
Spanish provinces OF Saragossa, IA
mora. Toledo and the Canary Islands
will attend the internatioHal labor
congress at Washington as colleagues
Of Representatives Of Spanish work
ingmen ard employers. according TO
a Madrid dispatch.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
HENNNN CONDENSED NNXxNy
Happenings Over
| Commonwealth
as Cleaned from
| Various Places

jackson, Miss.-In response to a call
to Kinds county farmers who are cot
ton seed producers by Blake B. Wig
gins, a well-known and prominent
farmer, a gathering was held at the
county courthouse to take some action
by which they may protect themselves
from what they consider to be cotton
seed profiteers.
Jackson.-Miss Mabel l.. Stire, Sec
rotary manager of the Mississippi
State fair, accompanied by Mrs. King,
assistant secretary, are prepared to
leave on an extended tour of fairs and
expositions in different parts of the
south.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Nav Be Feud Outbreak.

Lexin gton, Ky.-As the result of
an assassination in Breathitt county,
he bloody Spicer-Noble feud is ex
pected 10 be re-opened. Already it
Is reported that the two factions are
practically in an armed camp ready
or trouble.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Want Truth in Advertisina.

New Orleans.-Truth and honesty in
advertising and elimination of unde.
sirable methods in business promotion
was the theme of the general session
here OF the annual convention of the
Associate Advertising Clubs of the
World
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Valley Association 70 Meet.

Memphis, Tenn.-The first general
convention OF Zone No. 2, Mississippi
Valley Association. viii be held in
Memphis on Thursday Oct. 23, attend
ed by many men prominent through
out the valley az capitalists, engineers
and economists.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Table Re.otut on,

Washington-The house foreign az
fairs committee tabled a resolution b
? an~ese tative Hustled. republican, O.
New York, proposing that the house.
go on record as disappearing the u.s.
of American military or naval forces
at Fiume.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03

London. Industrial stagnation
threatens the United Kingdom All
hopes for an immediate settlement
are blasted by the obstinate refusal
both of the railroad workers and the
government to get together.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
"Fluv vii; Be Less severe.

Cleveland, O.-Predicting the retur
Of the influenza epidemic this white
physicians and surgeons attending
annual national convention of the P
Rho Sigma fraternity declared tn
country is prepared to fight it e
ever before, Many of the 203 del
~ates. representing every state il n
Union. and parts of Canada belle
the epidemic viii, be much less sever
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Asked to Withdraw Opposition.

Washington--Sena Johnson, Cal
ifornia, is asked in a telegram signed
by judges. state officials and business
men of California to withdraw his op.
position to ratification of the peace
treaty.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03

washington.-Battle deaths in the
American army on al. fronts, includ
ing Russia and Servia, to lag Sept
were anno-nced by the war depart
ment at 50,327. while deaths from dis
ease, accidents and other causes to
tailed $685.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Ship Kentucky Tobacco.

Mobile, Ala-Eisht hundred and
5rty-oae hogsheads of tobacco, valued
{ s24S.000, are included in the cargo
the British steams zip Metonian in
obile port Tie tobacco was shipped
ON Henderson. Ky, and is consigned
, Liverpool firms.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03

hington.-Francisco Villa, gen
erali--chief' of the revolutionary
forces in Mexico. in a manifesto fcl
he nation copy of which has jus,
reached Washington, assails President
Carranza as "a traitor
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Catholic Convention.

Washington.-Nor than 69a bishop.
and other prelates of tie Roman Ca
tloHc church, representing every SEE
ion of the country. were on hand (.
attend the opening session At Catholi
university OF the conference calIei +
Cardinal Gibbons.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Essential Foundation.

Permanent foundations, having uni
form bearing quality. are essential to
all types of engineering structures.
Roads are no exception.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03

Washington.-The house interstate
commerce committee completed IT'S
two-months' hearings on tie railroad
reorganization program with the Sc
lection Of a subcommittee TO frame q
bill
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Must Euacuate Lithuania.

Paris.-The supreme council de
cfded to serd the German government.
through Marshal Foch. note demand
ing t2e evacuation of Lithuania by
German troops under drastic penalties
for noncompliance
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
URUGUAY Favors LEAGUE,

New York.-Iruguay is strongly il
avor OF the league Of nations. accord.
.ag to j. Y. Acevedo, Uruguayan min
ster to the United States, who ar
ed here from France
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
pea,e Army Would BE Bio.

shington-UnIess the league of
inioas is formed the peace time army
{ sos. 600 proposed by the war de-
rtnent viii be only child's play. the
.ouse military committee was told by
oecretary Baker.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Draft Fire Fidhters.

Los Angeles.-Several hundred men
were drafted to fight fires on the Los
Angeles national forest The fire has
burned over 100000 acres of tim beI
and its front is 80 miles long
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Steamer lowed To Port.

Key West.-The steamer Lake Wi
nona, which went aground during the
gulf hurricane off Tortugas, was
towed into port.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
A New Departure

Chicago--A recruiting campaign to
add 1000 men to the Goth United
States infantry. now in progress. is
to be the first time a regular army
unit ever has been given permission
to recruit its own men.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
British Release Nail.

Washington.-Th British govern
ment has decided TO release at on
a great quantity OF package mail hel,
up in England during the war.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Would Continue Service

Washington.-Co OF ship
ping service on inland waterways pro
yided by the government during the
war was proposed in a bill introduced
by Senator Ransdell, of Louisiana.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Retire Liberty Bonds.

Neutrality-suspicious. a billion dol
lars worth of Liberty bonds have been
retired and paid off by the government
with loans returned by the allied gov.
ernments and certain taxes which were
lid in bonds themselves
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Rock Hill Strike over.

Columbia S. C.-Announcement was
made from Rock Hill that the strike
OF employees of the Aragon and Arcade
mills. which has been in effect for
more than several weeks. was settled
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
American Relief Arrives.

shington.-American relief has
arrived at Kishineff. Russia only after
4 series of perilous adventures in
which bandits attempted to blow w
the relief train.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
praftees Out Nov L

Washington-An drafted soldiers in
the American army will be returned
from Europe by the end of October,
Adjt. Gen. P. c. Harris told the house
military committee.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
p.priv.a Of soe;a, Benefits.

People who are forced to live In
bad road districts are deprived of easy
social communication, and are more
or less strangers to their neighbors
and the great outside world.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Break in Relations Denied.

Paris.-Members of the Dutch lega
ton in this city emphatically deny
the reported break In diplomatic rela-
tions between Belgium and Holland
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03

Rome.-Premier Nitti was given a
vote of confidence by the chamber of
deputies. which continued in session
all night The government received
POS votes to 40
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03

May Fly To South America.
Washington=A flight 10 Brazil viii
; UNDER ken by naval airplanes.
roBably in the spring.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
New Ambassador Arrives.

hington.-Viscount Grey, the
new British ambassador to the United
States, has arrived from New Yorl.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Emma Goldman Free.

Jefferson City, Mo.-Emma Gold
man. who has been In the Missouri
state penitentiary for violation OF the
espionage act, was released and left
tor New York.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Try DRAINING Wet Place.

Did you ever try draining that aw-
full wet place in the road? Try it
some time-once viii be enough.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-03
Don't Build on Paper.

II you want that road you're going
to build to be of any value, build il
on the ground-not on paper.